Hour 1: The Worst Part Of The Life (feat. Christopher Bell)

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Speaker 5 Last night, basketball got off to a fun start.

Speaker 5 Greg Cody inexplicably swaggered in here today on behalf of North Carolina, that poor, downtrodden, sad sack franchise that needs the defense because it is such a great underdog.

Speaker 5 Greg Cody stormed in here today and said, even though he didn't know who San Diego State was,

Speaker 5 North Carolina vindicated after West Virginia's governor came after them.

Speaker 11 They were maligned. They're not that bad.
They're better than West Virginia. And everybody was acting like West Virginia was wronged.
Oh my God.

Speaker 5 That wasn't the game last night. That wasn't the game to be talking about last night.

Speaker 13 Okay, it wasn't because the Alabama State game, the St. Francis Alabama State game, was more exciting.

Speaker 13 However, I do want to just linger on this for a second because it's the fastest that any one of our takes has ever aged well.

Speaker 13 Like, yesterday we were like, oh my God, governor of West Virginia, get over yourself. Like, we're splitting hairs, blah, blah, blah.
This is why North Carolina should be in. This is why they are in.

Speaker 14 Blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 13 Like, five hours later, North Carolina just blows out San Diego State. All of the takes that we had yesterday aged very well.
And I would like to pat ourselves on the back for it.

Speaker 9 That never happened.

Speaker 13 If North Carolina lost,

Speaker 13 Jim, it might be a little tricky today. It might be a little tricky.
We might be walking some things back. But they left no doubt.
They won. We can all move on now.

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Speaker 5 Chris, do you have a stat of the day related to this?

Speaker 16 Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day.

Speaker 16 Start of the day, start of the day.

Speaker 16 Start of the day, start of the day. It is the start of the day.

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Speaker 8 Start of the day.

Speaker 8 It is the start of the day.

Speaker 12 Stat of the day is presented by Miller Light. You will never believe who sent me this stat.
Against San Diego State last night,

Speaker 12 by the way, San Diego State, the team that led the nation in field goal percentage defense, North Carolina became the first team in NCAA history to score

Speaker 12 95 or more points, to shoot 50% or better from the field, to shoot 50% or better from three, to shoot 85% or better from the line, all in one game. North Carolina did this last night.

Speaker 13 Also, North Carolina, West Virginia, excuse me, was complaining so much about this. They didn't even realize their head coach was leaving for another school.

Speaker 13 Darian DeVries got hired by Indiana yesterday. So, really rough.

Speaker 13 Exactly why I said if you're a player on this team, you're like, all right, pump the brakes, hang on a second, because now there's more important things going on, and everyone's been distracted by this stupid tournament.

Speaker 11 I think the governor of West Virginia needs to sign an executive order to prevent that coach from leaving his university. It's an outrage.

Speaker 2 It's a crime.

Speaker 4 Was it this guy that gave you the best hat?

Speaker 6 Yeah, that was him.

Speaker 13 Thank you, Tim. Back to the Alabama State game.
So, Dan, I don't know if you caught this, but the game ended on a Hell Mary pass. It was so cool.

Speaker 13 Alabama State, the player, I think his name's Micah Simpson. He was a middle school quarterback, launches the ball across the court, gets deflected off of a couple Alabama State players.

Speaker 13 One of them gets it, puts in the layup. They win the game.
It was absolutely electric. It was such a fun, like like final four minutes of that game.
And again, March Madness delivers.

Speaker 5 Are you guys ready for what we're about to gorge on this weekend and in coming weekends? Because this has even gotten Tony's attention. Like, Tony, Tony can sit outside.

Speaker 5 Tony can be a little too cool for school on some of our conversations. Like, he's not interested in some of the hockey stuff, doesn't pretends, but is faking it poorly.

Speaker 5 But college basketball, March Madness, has grabbed him by the throat.

Speaker 5 And it starts basically the thing about this that's so great is just hey look sports everywhere morning afternoon and night and there'll be a lot of bad games in there and god almighty everyone's gonna shoot 36

Speaker 18 you've been spoiled by the pros trust me when i tell you this is some of this is gonna be very hard to watch the funny thing is about march madness the individual games of college basketball most of the time kind of suck give me the last five minutes but when you put them all together 64 of them happening within a two-day window all of a sudden it becomes magical Alabama State, who nobody could even tell me what their mascot is, all of a sudden,

Speaker 18 okay, outside of somebody who watched the game,

Speaker 18 they throw a pass, gets bobbled eight times, all of a sudden the layup goes up, everybody's an Alabama State fan.

Speaker 18 Nothing is better, nothing produces more amazing moments with such bad basketball than March Madness.

Speaker 17 It's incredible. I love it.

Speaker 5 It is. It just really is just.

Speaker 13 You really didn't watch the Alabama State game.

Speaker 15 No, No, no, no, but the historian.

Speaker 4 March Madness. You're going to say opposite.
You're going to say opposite white guys?

Speaker 15 You know, white guys bring the magic. Thank you.

Speaker 18 Backdoor cut, Princeton.

Speaker 19 That's a secret sauce of March Madness. It's the white guys with the ill-fitting uniforms against the teams with the good

Speaker 9 and prick.

Speaker 15 Not as many white guys.

Speaker 19 Finally, someone had the balls to say it.

Speaker 12 It's the white guys. The best zone defense you've ever seen.

Speaker 15 Two, three.

Speaker 20 So well coached.

Speaker 17 Backdoor cut.

Speaker 5 Put it on the poll. Shooter.

Speaker 9 Lebatard. They're all shooters, but they never make it.

Speaker 5 Put it on the poll at Lebatard show is the secret sauce to march madness white guys.

Speaker 9 It's a loose ball, get it!

Speaker 17 Admit it.

Speaker 4 Admit it.

Speaker 10 Deep down in your heart, you know.

Speaker 14 All the great moments.

Speaker 20 All of them.

Speaker 9 Not all of them.

Speaker 14 All of them.

Speaker 20 All of them.

Speaker 20 All the memorable upsets.

Speaker 19 It's not true. All the great shots.

Speaker 19 Somewhere there.

Speaker 20 No. Somewhere framing the moment.

Speaker 9 Not true.

Speaker 20 Is a white guy.

Speaker 5 There can be an accent.

Speaker 5 This is not an absolute.

Speaker 4 The whole thing.

Speaker 19 You're fixated on Mellow?

Speaker 9 I'm that McNamara.

Speaker 13 I will say one of my favorite things about March Madness is there's always a main character every year.

Speaker 13 There's always the one guy who gets, like, last year was the, I can't remember his name because the dude from NC Sate?

Speaker 13 No, not him.

Speaker 9 That guy was a, he was a main character.

Speaker 13 He was a main character for sure.

Speaker 4 And that was a great run.

Speaker 13 But no, I think he played for like Grand Canyon. I honestly can't even remember.
But he ended up getting like a wing stop deal.

Speaker 13 And he was just he was the main character for like two weeks and it was wonderful Jack Golke.

Speaker 15 As soon as this

Speaker 13 you're like I can't remember his name.

Speaker 9 That guy got two weeks.

Speaker 15 He's he didn't miss for two weeks.

Speaker 9 It was incredible.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm not as into

Speaker 4 March Madness anymore. It's become apparent to me like once I had a team that was actually good making runs on both ends, on the men's and women's.
And I could say this to the pros too.

Speaker 4 I generally don't, I'm not a a basketball fan, I found out. I'm just like a heat hurricanes fan and without rooting interests there.
And I haven't even filled out a bracket.

Speaker 4 No, like, like we have NASCAR in town. We have the Miami Open in town.

Speaker 4 There's plenty of niche sports that I follow more closely that are going on, like in 20 minutes, there's going to be tennis from Hard Rock Stadium that I'm going to be dialed into.

Speaker 4 So I think my interests have just changed. But I'm in on the white guys.

Speaker 5 Okay, but for the casuals.

Speaker 13 Thanks for letting us know that you don't love Marshmann.

Speaker 4 Love the white guys.

Speaker 4 It's a really hard sport to follow, and I follow a lot of sports. And I think in following all these other sports and with my teams not being good, it's just hard to follow college basketball.

Speaker 5 Not that you ever need to. We got it.
We got it. You are now all about racing.
You're about tennis. You're out on basketball.

Speaker 9 No, I'm in on race as well.

Speaker 5 But on basketball, you seem professional and college. You're out.
Got it. You're in the minority here because this is just a smorgasbord of avalanche of action, is what it is.
It's stakes.

Speaker 5 It's throwing into a washing machine and turning it on the maximum speed. Just here's sports.
And they're going to be a lot of bad games, but they're playing odds on this.

Speaker 5 They're going to dry you in in the last few minutes. And I don't remember that Gretzky guy's name either, but he was kind of bald.
All he did was make jumpers and then signed an NIL deal.

Speaker 5 No, you know who I'm talking about.

Speaker 9 The mail pattern.

Speaker 13 He just said his name and Daniel.

Speaker 9 Daniel was killed out for a while.

Speaker 18 He had more of a Billy Donovan V.

Speaker 9 Yeah. It wasn't balding.

Speaker 17 Like a Norman Osborne.

Speaker 5 He had something. What he had, what he had, whether it's Sam Rockwell or someone else, what he had is hair that made me think he couldn't do that during March Madness.

Speaker 9 I want to be very clear.

Speaker 13 I would play for Oakland.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that was. This is Billy Donovan, right?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I want to be very clear. This is comic book Norman Osborne, not Willem Dafoe Norman Osborne.
For the record.

Speaker 5 There are some sports things that I wanted to get to today, and one of them is Minnesota's out on Aaron Rodgers. So that's the report, right?

Speaker 17 It's a credible report.

Speaker 4 We have credible reporters with different sides to this. So, earlier this morning, there was a Tom Palisero report that said the Vikings are moving forward with J.J.
McCarthy.

Speaker 4 And for the moment, that's bad news for Aaron Rodgers. Seemingly, this delay is because he quite fancies the Vikings, and that's his top destination.

Speaker 4 However, in the moments that followed, Diana Roussini recently reported that it's not over yet for Aaron Rodgers in Minnesota.

Speaker 4 However, the Vikings are prepared to go into this spring and evaluate J.J. McCarthy, his health, how far he's come along before making a decision on Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 They're essentially tabling the Aaron Rodgers discussion. So now the ball is back in Aaron Rodgers' court.

Speaker 7 Do you retire?

Speaker 4 Do you go to your plan B? Do you go to your plan C? Because as of right now, there doesn't seem to be a path in the immediate future for Aaron Rodgers in Minnesota.

Speaker 4 They want to see him in spring minicamps and then evaluate.

Speaker 5 Great poker chip to play in business negotiations if you're the Vikings. Hey, wait it out.
Maybe Justin Jefferson will be there for you. Psych, we don't want you.
You're retired.

Speaker 5 Now the Giants don't want you either. What a move that would be at the end for

Speaker 5 the Vikings to do that to Aaron Rodgers and end his career because it is. If the Giants is my only choice, I'm retiring.
If the Steelers are a legitimate choice, I'm going to try.

Speaker 5 But the Vikings is where I want to be.

Speaker 4 It's humbling, though, because the place that you want to be the most is telling you, like, we're not quite there yet. Like, there has to be a certain scenario in which we'd be interested.

Speaker 6 But right now, in a vacuum, we're not.

Speaker 4 So you can go, you're free to go ahead and make another decision. Like, the Vikings internally decided, like, we're going to run the risk of Aaron Rodgers doing whatever it is that he wants.

Speaker 4 We're going to move forward and see if this kid is healthy enough.

Speaker 18 We are so close to the complete. Brett Farr villain arc for Aaron Rodgers.
We need a couple more things. We need him to play for the Vikings.
We need him to get to the playoffs. D-pick.
D-pick.

Speaker 18 Obviously, that's a big missing one. We're still missing that one.
And also, scamming welfare state.

Speaker 4 Dude, no, there's another one that we're missing. He needs to retire and then unretire.

Speaker 9 This is it.

Speaker 4 This is maybe this is that story arc and then Vikings.

Speaker 13 Yeah, he needs to ruin a woman's career. Also, I was wondering, like, hey, what's up with Jack Golke? I, you know, forgot his name and also that he existed.

Speaker 13 Let's, maybe I can find out and see what he's up to. There's a story catching up with Oakland's Jack Golke.

Speaker 13 Apparently, he plays for the Wisconsin herd of the G-League, getting a few minutes off the bench, bench, averaging three points a game.

Speaker 9 Out of boy. Our guys.
Out of board. Still getting that three off.

Speaker 13 March.

Speaker 17 There'll be another one.

Speaker 9 There will. There'll be multiple of them.

Speaker 5 They're going to spring all over the place. Also in football, Adam Schefter is reporting that it's done now.
Cam Ward is the number one pick.

Speaker 4 Yeah, his most recent podcast said all the momentum is going to Cam Ward. Cam Ward is essentially going to be the number one pick.

Speaker 17 Wow. It's just a matter of where he goes to.

Speaker 4 But Cam Ward's going to have his pro day here. But the consensus consensus is among NFL front offices is Cam Ward is going to be the number one pick in the NFL draft.

Speaker 6 Congratulations for quarterback killer Mario Cristobal, I guess.

Speaker 4 That's really cool to have a number one overall pick be a Miami Hurricane that's been a long time. But yeah, Cam's going to be number one, but the team has not yet been decided.

Speaker 4 And the Titans, who have leverage here, no doubt, if they wanted Cam Ward, this would be done and dusted.

Speaker 4 If you look at the betting odds, Cam Ward going number one is a heavy, heavy favorite, but Cam Ward to the Titans, not so much.

Speaker 4 So now there's an interesting game because Cleveland's in the number two spot.

Speaker 4 That's a dangerous game of chicken, and they badly need a quarterback, and Tennessee's not totally thrilled with the quarterback class.

Speaker 11 And the Giants also are rumored to be toying with the idea of moving up to number one and drafting Cam Ward, which obviously would affect the whole Aaron Rodgers thing.

Speaker 11 That's why I said yesterday, Aaron Rodgers is holding people hostage. He needs to make a decision

Speaker 11 because you'd rather have Cam Ward than Aaron Rodgers, right? Just like you'd rather have J.J. McCarthy, your number one draft pick, than a 40-some-year-old Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 5 Is there anything more tepid that he could have said in terms of flimsy sourcing than the phrase rumored to be toying with? Like in terms of rumored to be toying with, I don't know.

Speaker 12 Rumored to be toying with the idea. That's right.

Speaker 11 Rumored to be toying with the idea it's just you could say that about almost anything well but but it's a fact i mean there have been reports jack that the giants want to trade up to number one do i know that for a fact no so i'm quoting reports okay are you so bad at your own bid so please stop being mean to your father

Speaker 5 cam ward is going number one according to adam shefter no matter uh who wants number one in a weak draft and a weak quarterback draft when the thing that everyone in the sport wants now, right?

Speaker 5 The most valuable thing that you could possibly get in the draft is Jaden Daniels, value immediately at quarterback.

Speaker 5 Value and production immediately at quarterback allows you, correct me if I have this wrong in the architecture of the game.

Speaker 5 It allows you to speed past everyone else if you can immediately somehow hit on the unicorn, but less of a unicorn than it used to be, of guy averages 10 yards a play in college the way that Daniels did, and he immediately immediately translates to the pros,

Speaker 5 that's what you're trying

Speaker 5 to get as the standard when you go all in on Cam Ward, correct? What you're trying to do is, oh, wow, look, one move. The Commanders passed the Cowboys after 20 years of not being able to pass them.

Speaker 5 Pass them like that.

Speaker 11 Yeah, and you're also counting on Cam Ward to elevate others.

Speaker 11 You want, you understand you don't have a Justin Jefferson in Tennessee or with the Giants, but you expect Cam Ward Ward to be so good that he's going to make receivers a different level.

Speaker 18 I mean, Greg, respectfully, Malik Neighbors is an incredible wide receiver. And if him and Cam Ward are paired together, like NFC East has a really good 1-2 down the board.

Speaker 5 You can't forget Neighbors there. Like, Neighbors...

Speaker 17 Neighbors is incredible. Well, but he's good.

Speaker 5 Well, not good.

Speaker 5 I think we can now make the argument after one dreadful season with the Giants, could we not, that Neighbors enters the class of that's as good as there is in the entire sport.

Speaker 5 not not you don't think that's right i wouldn't but i wouldn't put him as good as a justin jefferson i would i mean that's i'm talking about that's the only class he has not yet reached based on the production level with no quarterback play and not a lot of help after saquan in new york like i think no one disputes what i'm saying here that neighbors has entered the class of top three receivers in the league you know jamar chase is in there too craig if i if i give you the stats 109

Speaker 18 109 receptions 1200 yards and seven touchdowns as a rookie where do you put that as far as best rookie years ever?

Speaker 12 With no offensive line. Yeah.

Speaker 11 No quarterback. And with no quarterback.

Speaker 4 No, he's great.

Speaker 11 And I was remiss in

Speaker 11 not mentioning him. And I'm glad you did.

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Speaker 17 We really just

Speaker 17 got to go.

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Speaker 5 We were unfair to you there.

Speaker 17 Well, but he was factually inaccurate.

Speaker 9 No, I was.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I forgot Malik neighbors in making that comment.

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Speaker 11 I want to address Tony and all men who would wear that shirt in public.

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Speaker 5 The thing that I wanted to get to with you guys that we have not gotten to because I don't I know Lucy was obsessed with this this as it related to Ben Affleck, perhaps at 50 years old, going back to previous loves again.

Speaker 5 But we are now dropping multiple power couples and I did not know that there were two new power couples that have entered the room on discussion for pop culture purposes.

Speaker 4 One in athletics, one in Hollywood. One super young, one longer in the tooth.
Which one do you want to hear first?

Speaker 5 I want longer in the tooth first.

Speaker 4 Meryl Streep and Martin Short.

Speaker 13 That's yesterday's news.

Speaker 4 I know, but I wasn't here.

Speaker 17 Are you watching Only Murders or nah?

Speaker 13 Yeah, I mean, they were really hot and heavy and seasoned.

Speaker 17 Blossoming there.

Speaker 9 I think everyone's season three.

Speaker 4 Everyone's rooting for that to last. Also, you look at the general timelines, and like, if it doesn't last, like, where do they go from here?

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Whoa.

Speaker 4 It's just, I don't mean to be glib, but in athletics, there's another hot new couple, and this might be one of the best-looking, most athletically fit couples ever.

Speaker 4 Ben Shelton from the ATP and Trinity Rodman.

Speaker 9 Oh, wow.

Speaker 4 Superstar soccer player. I like it.
I mean,

Speaker 4 they must have kids just for this country.

Speaker 4 They must.

Speaker 4 They must, it's their patriotic right to have children.

Speaker 5 Olympic babies.

Speaker 4 Olympic babies, world-class athlete babies. They come out with abs.
No doubt. They come out with eight abs.

Speaker 5 Speaking of hot, how is this for a transition as a broadcasting professional? How about this guy right here, Christopher Bell? A great nickname, indisputably great nickname, right? The Iceman.

Speaker 5 He might be tired of telling the story of why and how he is the Iceman, but I'd like to talk to him because he's with Joe Gibbs Racing. He came into Las Vegas this past weekend.

Speaker 5 I don't know if this is a record hot streak or just a hot streak, but he's won three consecutive NASCAR Cup Series victories this season, and he's he's currently second in the Cup Series standings.

Speaker 5 He's looking to win his second time here, Homestead, Miami Speedway, this Sunday. It's a festival, Greg.
You go almost every year. We've been there.
This is the best thing Homestead does, is it not?

Speaker 11 Yeah, obviously I preferred it when it was the season-ending race, you know, the Super Bowl of NASCAR parochially. But yeah, it's a major race.
They only have, what, 30 of them or something?

Speaker 5 Oh, but I'm not talking about major race. In Homestead, this and Hurricane Andrew are the things that Homestead is associated with.

Speaker 17 Drive is here too.

Speaker 4 Well, one of those is better than the other, and you'll be happy to know that the reason why this is landing in March is because they're going to renovate Homestead, and the expectation is that the championship will once again be here.

Speaker 4 That's why they're putting in March so they can be ready for the championship.

Speaker 5 It's a giant event, Mike. Please go get your gear head.

Speaker 5 And thank you, Iceman, for joining us. Does anyone in the family refer to you as Iceman?

Speaker 5 Please take me through the history of Iceman because you are reputed to be more aggressive than the other drivers.

Speaker 24 Well, I'll be honest, that's the first time I've heard of that. So I don't know where that came from.

Speaker 5 What?

Speaker 5 So I'm giving you a nickname that doesn't actually exist that I'm just producing for you that is not actually your nickname.

Speaker 24 Maybe you have just started something. We'll see if it takes off.

Speaker 5 Okay, well, I hope so because you deserve the nickname. I want to give it to you right now.

Speaker 9 I keep referring to him as Iceman right now.

Speaker 17 I might as well.

Speaker 8 It's right here. It says it right here.

Speaker 5 It's the first thing on my sheet, the Ice Man.

Speaker 13 Do people call you Ben Solak by chance? Because I could also see that nickname.

Speaker 24 I have literally never heard that before in my life.

Speaker 5 It's wonderful.

Speaker 18 He's good on football.

Speaker 5 Thank you for being on with us, Iceman. You are, however, more aggressive than the other drivers.
Explain to me how and why.

Speaker 24 Oh, man.

Speaker 24 How and why. I want to win.
That's why. I don't know how.

Speaker 24 I guess I just do it. I don't know.

Speaker 24 It's been a hell of of a ride though it's been a lot of fun to be able to uh you know start the season off so strong to win three out of the first however many races it's been it's been you know been great and and i'm excited about getting to miami miami is a great racetrack uh you guys broke news to me again by saying homestead's getting renovated i think that's awesome uh and i'm i'm excited about the future of that place uh Christopher, can we put you down for a second to see if we can get this audio fixed?

Speaker 12 Because he's from his race car right now. That's actually where he's coming from.

Speaker 17 Inside a helmet.

Speaker 4 I must admit, I saw a research packet on you and I saw the Iceman, Christopher the Iceman, Bell. And I'm like, man, I'm a NASCAR fan.
I'd never heard that before. I guess I'm not that much of a fan.

Speaker 4 But apparently, the Iceman, this is the first time he's heard it too. So do you not like NASCAR as much either? Are you surprised to find this out?

Speaker 24 You guys got me? Can you hear me now?

Speaker 5 We can hear you, but it just sounds a bit distorted. Echoey.

Speaker 24 Yeah,

Speaker 24 I don't know what else to do here.

Speaker 24 But yeah, I don't know. I've never heard of Iceman, but I'll take it.
I'll claim it.

Speaker 5 Can you try taking your helmet off?

Speaker 14 Sure. Where's my helmet at?

Speaker 4 Chris, thank you so much for having fun with this. There was something that, again,

Speaker 4 I watch every race. I love NASCAR now.

Speaker 4 And there was something that I hadn't seen ever before, but that's not saying much because I've only been recently passionately following this sport for about a year and a half.

Speaker 4 But it seemed like you and your crew crew exposed a loophole in the rules in Las Vegas. I had never seen this before.

Speaker 4 You're on pit road, it's decided that you have a left loose front tire, and then you run the risk if you go out

Speaker 4 onto the track, you're penalized two laps, two of your crew members get suspended. Your team makes the call very quickly to have you pit in your teammate's box.

Speaker 4 I didn't even know that you could do that. Did you even know that this was a legal loophole?

Speaker 24 So it was, I think it was last year, maybe two years ago.

Speaker 24 I remember Adam, my crew chief, he told me that, hey, if you ever have an issue, stop in your teammate's box and they'll hit all the lug nuts to make sure that the lug nuts are tight.

Speaker 24 And so that was the first time in a couple of years that it has come up.

Speaker 24 And I think it's relatively new since the introduction of NextGen because the old cars, you had five lug nuts and the odds of a wheel coming off were really, really low if you have five lug nuts.

Speaker 24 But with now only having one, obviously, if you have a problem on the one lug nut, the wheel is going to come off. And yeah, it certainly saved us from damaging our car.

Speaker 24 Like if a wheel comes off and you start making and you have to drive back to Pitt Road, it just destroys the underbody of the car and really hurts the car performance.

Speaker 24 So it really saved us this weekend at Las Vegas.

Speaker 5 When we talked to the college basketball coach, Rick Barnes, he wanted to talk about racing instead of basketball.

Speaker 5 If I give you the choice going into a conversation like this, would you prefer to talk about your profession or would you prefer to talk about the Oklahoma City Thunder?

Speaker 24 Oklahoma City Thunder fan. I followed them through the offseason pretty good, but since I started racing, I haven't been able to really keep up with them.
But I know they're doing really well.

Speaker 24 They're leading their conference. And, you know, fingers crossed,

Speaker 24 I would love to get together to an NBA Finals game.

Speaker 5 In order to be as great as you are at this, do you have to be lopsided? How much time do you even have for things other than the obsessive compulsive work you have to do

Speaker 24 yeah i mean it's just such a long season and certainly with us racing at a different track every single weekend it doesn't leave much time to to follow other things but you know you kind of get into a routine and a rhythm whenever you get into the summer where it opens it up a little bit but certainly whenever you know you're just getting the season started you i at least myself i'm focused on uh you know week to week and going to the new tracks so i i yeah i haven't been following the thunder very closely, but come June or May or June, you know, I'm gonna be following them really close if they keep advancing.

Speaker 5 Uh, will you ask for good seats?

Speaker 24 Absolutely, hopefully, I get to be front row, court side.

Speaker 5 Okay, and so you're not bashful about that? You make that call yourself, or

Speaker 24 I mean, I might have someone else make it.

Speaker 8 You've got people to do that for you, yeah.

Speaker 5 You've got you've got people handling that for you.

Speaker 5 What is the worst part of the life?

Speaker 24 the worst part of the life of what that was weird the racing life yeah the life

Speaker 5 the lifestyle the travel the moving around like i know i know you guys love what you do but what do you regard as the part that uh that is hardest about what you do man

Speaker 24 that that's a good question i i'll be honest i don't know that i've ever been asked that but i appreciate it and i will say that I have the coolest job in the world.

Speaker 24 It is, I mean, how awesome is it that I get to drive race cars for a living? But But on the flip side, it is still a job.

Speaker 24 And those days where just you have races that go really smooth and I won three in a row. But then last weekend, which last weekend, I still finished 12th.

Speaker 24 So it wasn't the end of the world, but it's like everything you do is wrong and you can't pick the right lane on restarts. And it feels like you're just bashing your head against the wall.

Speaker 24 So, you know, it's competitive. It's competitive.
It's professional sports. And some days you win, some days you lose.
But those losses are extremely hard at times. They can be.

Speaker 24 And the pressure's on, man. So, you know, everyone wants to be a professional athlete, but I don't think, you know,

Speaker 24 some people don't put into perspective the pressure that we're under.

Speaker 4 It would appear that...

Speaker 4 I mean, all racers love racing, but you really love racing because I'm a Kyle Larson fan. He dismissed Max Verstapin once by saying, do it in the Chili Bowl.
And I had no idea what the Chili Bowl was.

Speaker 4 And then I ordered Flow Racing and I watched my first Chili Bowl. And it's dirt road racing.

Speaker 4 it's like basically souped up golf carts, guys going in a very small circle round and round and you are in the middle of it too.

Speaker 4 And you're a really good driver.

Speaker 4 Why the chili bowl? Can you even explain the chili bowl to the layperson?

Speaker 24 Yeah. So it looks the cool thing about the chili bowl is it's well, number one, you named it, it's dirt track racing.

Speaker 24 And dirt track racing, the car is constantly in a state of drift and you're sliding around the corners. And the driver matters a lot more on dirt tracks than it does on asphalt tracks.

Speaker 24 So NASCAR, which is the, you know, America's top form in motorsports, the car matters a lot.

Speaker 24 And if you're a really good driver and you're in a slow car, like you're not going to win, you're not going to be successful.

Speaker 24 But on dirt track racing, a really good driver can take a slower car and make it win races. So

Speaker 24 that's one thing that I love about dirt track racing is that the driver matters a little bit more.

Speaker 5 When you say casually the pressure we're under, can you articulate it?

Speaker 24 Yeah, I mean, I don't know how to articulate it more than there's, you know, just millions of fans watching, millions of dollars being spent and millions of time and hours and effort put into your race car.

Speaker 24 And it's all dependent on me. doing my job and making sure that I hit my marks.

Speaker 24 And on top of hitting my marks and being fast, like not screwing up, like never spinning out, not coming down pit road, not running into people, not running into the pit crew members, stopping in the right spot on the pit box.

Speaker 24 Like there's just a ton of things that everybody is

Speaker 24 pouring, you know, their heart and soul and money and resources into me to make sure that I do my job. And that can be said for everybody, all the drivers out there.

Speaker 5 It can be, but I don't think necessarily that people know what the price is of dreams, right?

Speaker 5 So when you talk about these pressures or how exhausted you are after a race, can you sleep or are you adrenaline through the roof? What level of tired and drained are you to be at the end of that?

Speaker 24 Yeah, well, it goes, it kind of goes both ways. Like if I really screw it up and I do a bad job, I won't sleep at all.

Speaker 24 Now, if I win, I won't sleep at all because I'm high on adrenaline and I'm pumped up.

Speaker 24 But it's those day, the days that like, you know, I, I do my job and I get the most out of my car and I finish third, fourth, whatever. Like then I can sleep okay.

Speaker 24 But definitely you win the race, you're pumped up, you're celebrating,

Speaker 24 you got buddies over, you're staying up those nights, and then the days that you really screw up, you're not sleeping because you're like, gosh, man, why did I do that?

Speaker 11 NASCAR is known for its rivalries, driver rivalries. Who's a guy on the circuit that you don't particularly like? Or should I put it,

Speaker 11 who's the driver you would most like to beat by one car length at the hour?

Speaker 5 You're really getting in there.

Speaker 24 Oh, man, that's easy.

Speaker 24 That's Larson all day. So me and him have a very similar upbringing, similar background.
We both are dirt track racers, and we push each other to the edge of control all the time.

Speaker 24 And I think he would say the same thing that he loves beating me and I love beating him.

Speaker 5 Iceman,

Speaker 5 it's been nice seeing you. Thank you for coming on and lending us a racing credibility that clearly we would not have without you.

Speaker 5 And we now have even less because we've dubbed you the Iceman when you're not the Iceman. Thank you for being so icy, sir.

Speaker 24 Hey, I appreciate it. I appreciate the nickname, too.

Speaker 5 Okay, I appreciate you being so kind about it because it could have been a lot worse and it still feels pretty bad. Thank you.

Speaker 24 See you guys.

Speaker 5 And also the submarine sound.

Speaker 4 The nice man.

Speaker 12 And also, this question from Dan.

Speaker 25 What is the worst part of the life?

Speaker 5 Not my best effort.

Speaker 4 Wait, play the whole thing. Play the whole silence.

Speaker 12 This is, we did not edit this silence.

Speaker 25 What is the worst part of the life?

Speaker 24 The worst part of the life of love.

Speaker 9 That was great.

Speaker 5 The nice man.

Speaker 9 The nice man.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he was. Thank God he was nice, okay? Because that could have gone so poorly.

Speaker 13 He never got his Jalen Milro takes, though. I would have loved to hear about

Speaker 13 combine quarterback takes for Ben Solak.

Speaker 5 I can't tell you how frail I feel right now.

Speaker 4 You'll have a shot at redemption with Ryan Blaney later this week.

Speaker 5 What is the worst part of the life?

Speaker 4 You must ask Ryan Blaney the same exact question.

Speaker 10 Yes, I'll just play the clip.

Speaker 16 And also make up a nickname for him as well.

Speaker 9 Let's do that.

Speaker 9 Call me Iceman.

Speaker 5 Let's do both of these things. I'm going to make up a different.

Speaker 5 Let's make sure to start the next one the same way.

Speaker 5 I don't know, should I go Iceman or should I make up another?

Speaker 17 You got to make something else.

Speaker 9 I'm going to make a wind turbine.

Speaker 9 Maverick, Maverick,

Speaker 9 what's the worst part of the life?

Speaker 5 Oh my God. Now, keep in mind, I'm going to let people see fully behind the curtain on this.

Speaker 5 We were supposed to end that segment with a game I don't understand, which was Vroom or Vroom Vroom.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it was a well-constructed game.

Speaker 5 But I bailed on it. Because I didn't trust my prep that began with his nicknames The Ice Man.

Speaker 4 I was helping you with the Chili Bowl question. That was pretty revelatory.

Speaker 12 One Vroom would have just been meh, and two Vrooms is like, oh, I'm in on that.

Speaker 17 Vroom Vroom.

Speaker 15 Can we just play it now?

Speaker 5 I'd like to play that game. I play with my dad.
All right, let's do this with your father here.

Speaker 9 All right, Greg.

Speaker 2 Vroom or Vroom Vroom.

Speaker 12 You have 12 items in your cart, but in the 10 or less.

Speaker 7 Why are you.

Speaker 2 What did I do?

Speaker 2 Why are you?

Speaker 15 Where are you coming at?

Speaker 17 What am I making noises back here?

Speaker 9 I'm making noises.

Speaker 7 10 items or less is wide open. You have 12 items.

Speaker 2 I need to regroom.

Speaker 15 Vroom or vroom vroom?

Speaker 11 Well, that doesn't apply. What am I going, meh, or you're darn right? Like, what does that mean? Am I...

Speaker 11 I hate people who go into an express lane with one item too many. So that's vroom.

Speaker 9 I'm vroom on that.

Speaker 11 I'm the guy who counts the items of the person in front of me. You're vroom on that.
Okay, I'm vroom.

Speaker 12 I'm glad we didn't get to this.

Speaker 11 Yeah, it's a bad idea.

Speaker 18 Greg, so you're very religious on the fact that 10 means 10.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I do.

Speaker 17 You never sneak in there. I do an extra one in there, 11?

Speaker 12 I always count my items.

Speaker 12 I'm always wanting to get in there because I'm always in that, like, I'm always around eight to 12 items. I just, the way I shop.
So I'm always like, oh man, I'm counting.

Speaker 12 I'm like, if I have 11, I'm just going and assuming that if they count, they'll miscount.

Speaker 18 Gents, you know what I've done? I've started doing the self-checkout lane.

Speaker 12 I don't have to wait. Not for me.

Speaker 14 Not for me.

Speaker 9 I do that occasionally.

Speaker 10 I take out the little gun and I scan it right in my thing.

Speaker 17 Boom, boom, boom, boom.

Speaker 9 If you have produce, though, it, I mean, it takes unless you have sprouts. You can scan everything else.

Speaker 13 I like sprouts too.

Speaker 6 Sprouts are the best.

Speaker 9 Underrated. I don't like

Speaker 9 it.

Speaker 13 What are your thoughts on Millums?

Speaker 14 Milams?

Speaker 13 Is it Milams? Yeah, Milams.

Speaker 9 Milam's.

Speaker 13 What are your thoughts on Milams?

Speaker 12 I don't like how they demand you to put it in the bag after at the self-check. It's like, put the next item.
It's like, no, I'm just going to put it right here.

Speaker 4 Can I scan all my stuff?

Speaker 12 It's like almost like you can't scan the next item. You have not put it in the bag yet.
It's like, stop.

Speaker 2 I'll put it where I want to put it.

Speaker 12 All right. I scanned it.
That's all you're worried about here. Don't worry about if I put it in the bag or not.

Speaker 11 By the way, I do have a

Speaker 11 grace period on the express lane. If it's 10 or less items and you have 11, maybe 12, I'm going to let that go.

Speaker 11 But if it's more than 13, the play is when the other person's leaving but still within earshot, I say to the cashier, I guess that guy couldn't count, huh?

Speaker 4 I have a top five receding hairlines.

Speaker 6 I like this. Let's do it.

Speaker 4 But it's not any receding hairline, okay? I'm not going like straight back like Walton Goggins, which I like how a hardy leans in. I'm going your V-shaped receding hairline.

Speaker 11 Oh, yeah, the Dracula look. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Number five, Orlando Magic Point Guard Scotts, Giles.

Speaker 21 Wow, Scotty.

Speaker 4 Number four, this one's kind of sneaky because he's blonde and it doesn't stick out as much, but Daniel Craig.

Speaker 4 Number three, Newlywed, Justin Thoreau.

Speaker 4 Number two, Billy Donovan.

Speaker 21 Classic.

Speaker 4 And number one, comic book Norman Osborne.

Speaker 5 What is the worst part of the life?

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