February 2, 2023 • 37 mins
The guys address the social media craze accusing the NFL of being scripted thanks to a joke by Arian Foster. NASCAR Champion Kevin Harvick joins the guys to preview the Busch Lite Clash at the Coliseum and his final year driving. Plus, Jonas ruins 50 Cent and a sighting of Puxsutawney Phil.
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Or two hours into the show, um, we were we
were talking about he's way better when he's not scripted.
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He gets too scripted, and it's never scripted. Never we
are talking actually about this is scripted and not like
the NFL, he's super scripted. We were talking about which
to the which bangers we were going to come up
with as our new intro songs because we got to
come up with some new intro songs for the show.
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Do you mean it's more of the beat. It's not
like the lyrics or like how successful the song was.
But I've got one in my head. I'm going on.
I just like those beats that like you think about it,
I know exactly what song that is. That was very
very catchy. I think I'm gonna go with My name
is Jonas Weezer. I feel like that one. All right,
I'm gonna quit probably if I listen to that every morning,
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I'm gonna quit. Man, that song sucks you having to
hear that every single morning. That'd be a rough go Hey,
speaking of rough goes, what are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
going to do a quarterback? Now? Is Kyle Trash going
to be the guy that that's just gonna be what
they roll out that? Do we really care about what
their what their secession plan is? To Tom Fred, Well,
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of course, I mean because that's the best, that's one
of the best divisions in football, that NFC South, and
we need to break down who's gonna win that division
following nine year for the Tampa Bay Box, I'm more
I'm more curious since it whether or not LaVar thanks
the NFL is scripted. Uh, It's definitely scripted. That's that's
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why it gets done. That the same that you know,
that's why you can plan the next game to start
win it starts, because otherwise it wasn't scripted. It may
be super longer or it may be super shorter. You know,
could happen either way. Yeah, you know you could unpackage
it and and UNWRAPID and be surprised at what it
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is that you see. You know, it could be like
tremendously short, right, or it could be tremendously long. If
you guys found out that there was a major cheating
scandal in the NFL, and and a lot of it
was seriously did. But I don't know that it's cheating,
but I don't think that you you place it in
the realm of eating. I'll put it this way. I
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wish it was scripted. Then I think I would have
been able to cope with the lack of a career
that I was able to have, you know, as opposed
to I'm just thinking if it if it was scripted,
I at least be like, Okay, so this is what
you guys have for me. All right, great, well, hopefully
I can figure something out afterwards. Then, but let's just
play this role for the next seven eight years. See,
the NFL is so powerful and so successful that even
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if they were to tell me everything you've watched for
the past thirty plus years was all on script I
would have said, cool, because you watch like that's why,
because you watch pro wrestling, which is also a scripted
quote unquote, do you mean it's scripted? That's real? Taken
away from me, this is the least surprising, by the way,
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the only bet I lost this weekend because I was
on fire when it came to the NFL. I bet
on the Royal Rumble and I lost, so passed. But
although I don't think it should count because the guy
who I bet on actually didn't partake in the Royal
Rumble match. Why uh, for whatever reason they didn't put
him in it. I thought he was going to be
a surprise entrance and he and he wasn't, And I lost.
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That didn't even It's like, hey, who'd you bet to
win the Super Bowl? The Wizards not well and I
still lost, So I don't think it should account it.
But yeah, I lost. I'm not trying to like hammer
down on you, but are you the worst gambler? Lie? Yes?
Who does? Who doesn't know that? By this point of course,
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facts or facts, you can't be somebody out there that
wasn't participant. There's got to be someone that actually does worse.
I'm just being honest. He has to lay down so
much just to win. Yeah, because I just want to
I want to feel good, like I need I need something.
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So it's you know, it's like going down to a
lower division. It's like you can't make it, you know,
at the college level, and you go play Pop Warner
because you just want to light somebody up and feel
like you're actually a real player. That's what I do.
I pick these these bets that have no shot of losing,
and I bet on those to get you know, get
some feel good and going to my body, get some
good taste in my mouth. That's all, you know what
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I mean? You know, I don't know, I don't know
what you mean. Tell us just I want a good
taste in your mouth. I pick a bet that is
a sure thing and absolute, no doubt about it, a
minus four thousand or something like that. I started putting
some numbers to it. I throw like fifteen sixteen bucks
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on it. The return on that's like two cents. But
it's a win, all right, And that's all I look at.
And then after that, AGO lose my next four or
five straight, which, by the way, I know you're wondering,
I really like Kansas City in the Super Bowl, just
saying that right now, you know, I do. However, like
with all of the rising conversations surrounding officials, I mean,
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you do realize that officials have to make sure that
the games begin and end at the proper time. And
I mean I almost feel like that's you know, if
you didn't have certain calls, the game might end too soon.
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If you had certain calls, the game ended too late.
So it's almost like they have to like sometimes you
and listen. I don't in terms of like putting time
back on the clock, like is anyone really paying that
close of attention to when it's like okay, yep, put
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twenty seconds back on the clock, put it at twelve
minutes and three seconds and the play clock at nine
seconds and start on my my account, Like, I don't
think that's what's in question. I think what's in question
is is it scripted in the sense of the outcome
is already determined? So not like that, it's element is
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what it is. But but have you ever I mean,
you're a pretty meticulous dude. Are you paying that close
attention to resetting the clock and how much time should
go back on the clock and where the play clock
is on every single play um as a quarterback as
far as they as as as a quarterback as part
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of the play clock. Yes, because that's part of like
my protocol, Like my job was dependent upon ensuring that
we get the snap off otherwise we get a penalty.
So of course I'm a paying attention to that now
the game clock and oh, is that guy you know
inbounds that bounds that they roll it that they're not? Yeah,
like there's obviously instances where they might roll off a
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few extra seconds here or not. Something back Like to me,
that's I don't. I don't question the outcome, Like I
don't quite the outcome? Is the outcome? Like that would
that would totally disgrace everything that we've ever done to
try to be great. If if the outcomes were determined,
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And then now you got to ask yourself, how do
you judge the greats of the greats if the outcomes
have already been predetermined? Like, how do you say it's
predetermined that Barry Sanders is about to destroy people's ankles
and knees in the game? How do you how do
you justify Tom Brady's career if out comes are already predetermined?
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I don't. I don't buy that at at all. I've
never been in a meeting where they said, you know,
make sure you pull up on if if you have
this much of a lead, isn't it tanking? How that
doesn't really apply to players, Like teams can do what
they want for players that are trying to make you. Yes,
you can't tank a game with players. You just can't.
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The way you tank is by really not playing your
best guy. That's why the whole scripted. That's Yeaheah's attempt.
I don't. I don't buy scripted as in it's scripted
where you know who's going to win or you know
who's going to lose. But what I will say is
is it scripted in terms of how the game is
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regulated and how it moves? Um? Yes, I mean it could.
Even in my humble estimation, if I were a real
true conspiracy theorist, I would even go as far as
to say that referees will will make calls that actually
swing a game. It'll swing a game, or it'll make
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the game closer, or this team, like I, I honestly
believe that Kansas City was gonna lose that game. They
were gonna lose that game. Outside of the the calls,
which the calls are, those were some were questionable at best,
but some were legit. Like there's no way you can
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get around the fact that if you don't make that
call on Patrick Mahomes getting pushed, there's something wrong. So
to say there was something wrong to make the call like,
you know, we hear some of our pundits come out
and say that call shouldn't have been made. That's preposterous.
It's it's ridiculous to say it was a penalty, alright,
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but that that that past interference. It's questionable. There were
questionable calls in that game that said to me, like, man,
like what are they doing? Like even the mess up
on the clock, like yeah, you could show the referee
was running in this down and the other, but why
was this one referee the one and this that. I
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don't know all the terminology and all the justification, but
to me, you ran a complete play. You ran a
complete play, and it was a failure of a play
and you gave them another down. I do think the NFL, though,
has one eye on the business of football at all times,
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because you have a business in The most glaring example
of that was the Well, after looking at this and
reevaluating everything, we're gonna go ahead and suspend to Shawn
Watson for eleven games. And wouldn't you know, at the
first game he can come back against his former team.
I mean, this is just of all the coincidences in
the world, this is so I think there is some
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of that, but it's a big difference between that and
scripted and and people out there saying it's ray, it's scripted.
Come on, man, I think there are a lot of
aspects that are are tremendously influenced and guided, is what
I'll say, And I'll leave it at that. Well, I'll
put it this way. I know, like you have to
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understand how the salt works, how the business works. Right,
If the majority of your money that helps your league
survive is coming from the TV networks, what do you
think they want? They want the biggest possible markets to
have the biggest possible ratings so that they can then
use that to sell to advertisers and say, look, how
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many people watch the properties that we have that we
own that we are are buying from the NFL or
leasing from the NFL. Right, So that way they can
generate as much money from those live games, from those advertisements,
and they can pay as much money as the NFL
is looking forward to get so their league continues to
stay healthy and on top of all professional sports. So
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it's not far fetched to sit there and and and
think that you know, the TV network wanting to have
larger market teams in the Super Bowl. Isn't probably what
the NFL would like to have as well, because they
know that's good for their business. If it's good for
the TV networks, that's good for their business, that's good
for the NFL as well. Like everyone can connect those dots.
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I just I think it's I mean, look, I don't
think any of this stuff is scripted, you know from
my experience going through it. That's just that's just not
how this all works, you know. And I know this
is getting a lot of run from the Arian Foster interview,
which a lot of people now are just taking seriously, right,
and then it's become like a social media thing and
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all that. But trust me, like I said, I wish
I wish someone would have would have let me know
what my script was so that way I could have
at least coped with what the reality was going to
be as opposed to what I dreamed of. It was
working towards my entire career in life. So on hey,
by the way, just on off note, in terms of
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the matchups and the storylines and scripting, it was kind
of funny stumbled upon the fact that you're gonna have
brothers for the first time playing against each other in
the super Bowl. So I was asked this question. Yeah,
I mean I was asked this question. Get it. Yeah
it was such a play on work. But I'm really
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gonna have brothers. What's more likely to happen again in
your mind? Because you have two things that play like
people have called it the Andy Reid super Bowl because
he's facing a former team that he coached, or two
brothers facing off the super Bowl. I think the two
brothers is way more rare. I think that is a
way better storyline, is the brothers super Bowl? If you
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know what I mean. It's not the personal. It looks
like there's more of a brother and a brother. But
but to make just to keep it one way or
the other. If we want to go hard are, we
could go hard or we could go a either way.
It's it's it's the brothers or the brother Uh super Bowl?
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Yeah you did, because it could be. I call my
my my biological siblings brothers. Those are my brothers. Like
with the Nate, I don't call him my brothers with
the hard are I just don't. But that's what they
are technically. So I'm just saying it's the brothers, you know,
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Super Bowl or the brothers. I call of our brother
I call you brother, I call Brady brother. I call
both of y'all brothers, because y'all my brothers. You did
what I'm saying from another mother's I hear you, but
you got. But let's talk about who's gonna take over
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for the Tampa Bay Parks one of the brothers. Let's
let's talk about Kyle Trash because the only quarterback under
contra Trash What why would you want to talk about
that nobody cares about. Let's talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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So we are going to have our play today coming
up here in about fifteen minutes from now, and it's
either good news or bad news, depending on where you're at.
So we'll get to that for you again fifteen minutes
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from now. There's a big event coming up this weekend,
a little little clash at the Colosseum. Pretty fire little
clash at the Colosseum, the l a Colosseum, I mean
a real clash, yeah, like tire clashing, you know, cars
clashing better believe it, you know, one of those deals.
Super competitive, very cramped in there by the way, super cramped. Yeah,
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so we're gonna see as you may think though you
think it's a little more room me there, I mean
definitely custom. I wonder what top speed, by the way,
the clash of the Colosseum is, Uh, well, on the spaedometer,
it's as fast yeah as hell, Yeah as fast then
as super fast and then as fast as hal Well,
one guy who's gone fast as hell for a long
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time in the world of NASCAR is Kevin Harvick, NASCAR
Cup Series Champion. He's the driver of the number four
bush Light Ford Mustang for Stewart Hoss Racing. Kevin, thanks
so much for the time, man, thanks for waking up
early with us. Here it's two pros and a cup
of Joe on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, good morning, guys.
Thank you for having me. It's uh, it's it's nice
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to be able to get up and and talk some
racing in the morning. So I have two kids, so
I'm up and ready to go. All right, good deal,
Good deal, Kevin. I gotta start off by asking you
a unique question to to this week's race. Do you guys,
you guys get dizzy when you're when you're driving around
and there. I feel like it's a small track, right
you just doing his fast circles round and round around. Yeah, well,
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I think it's I think it's like really any other sport.
I think as you get into a rhythm and and
start doing the things that you need to do, everything
just flows down. As I sat in the simulator yesterday
and started doing all of our setup work and in
preparation for the race, I was, I was, I was
a little bit behind yesterday to to be to be
honest with you, because there's so much happening with the
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shifting and brakes and small track and and everything going
on that that it definitely, uh took a few laps
to get to the point of of slowing down and
being able to do everything fluently. Are you are you
able to get to the type of speeds that you
are on the bigger tracks or is it is it
all the way adjusted to you know, how how large
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the track is. Yeah, so everything will everything will be
scaled to the to the racetrack as far as gearing um.
The speed will will will obviously be down because of
the size of the racetrack. But with the with the
with the different size racetracks, it's it's just a different
style of racing. And most of us that that race
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in in the in the top level of NASCAR racing
all grew up on the short tracks across the country,
racing on on bowl we call bull rings, just really
small racetrack quarter mile, three eight mile, half mile race tracks.
As as we were learning how to navigate the ropes
of of nascars. So this this really I think last
year when when we went to the l A call
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sum and looking back at the preparation for the race
last year and the new car and everything that was
going in, I honestly laughed. I thought this would be
the biggest joke that that we that we had on
the schedule. And then we got done with the race
and and ran the whole year, and I looked back
at last year's race and how much fun everybody had
and how unique it was and how well the um,
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you know, the cars raced on on the racetrack, and
and just the emotion in the stadium is much different
than what you have at some of our bigger race
tracks because everybody's right on top of you and and
so you know, to be able to hear the fans
and when you're watching the other races is um you know,
is much different in those places. He's Kevin Harvick, NASCAR
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Cup Series Champion, joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.
Get him on Twitter at Kevin Harvick. It is two
pros and a cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio.
So this is your final season full time? Correct, as
far as running in NASCAR and doing the full time gig.
And when you look at your career, you're one of
four drivers, You've one Daytona, You've won the Coca Cola
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six hundred, you won the Brickyard, you won the Southern
five hundred. What's left, like, what is your ideal outro
look like in your final full season driving for a
NASCAR Well, unfortunate and I think you know a lot
of a lot of the professional athletes don't get to
choose when they're done. And you know, I've been fortunate
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to be able to might have my choice of of saying, Okay,
this is this is going to be my last year,
and this is this is what we're going to do.
But as I've gone through this process over over the
last year and a half of planning the last year,
that the one thing that I really realized is just
how many how many people you've you've affected and worked
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with and and been a part of through the years,
and and how important it is to do this last
year right and and and you know, enjoy it um
and be able to try to do the things that
I've done for the for the last twenty two years
on on the Cup Series level, and that's to be
competitive and and be able to to race in the
front of the field and have a chance to win
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races and and go out like I started. So, you know,
it's it's all. It's been a lot of planning. There's
been a lot of things that have gone into the
year as far as um you know, just different paint
schemes and helmets and and trying to make sure that
you don't forget anybody who's helped you to this particular
point of my career. UM. But you know, the last
year is important, and I look at it as really,
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you know, your first year in whatever you're doing, as
to to to make an impact and make an impression
and try to be as professional as possible and in
all those situations that we've created and who we represent
and the you know, pay pay honor to the to
the people who helped me get to this point. So
there's a lot of there's a lot of touch points
that that need to be UM involved in, that are
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involved in in the last year to be able to
do this the way and we've tried to plan it
that way and be able to go to the racetracks
and in race in front of the fans one more
time and talk about, you know, something that's great that
happened in that particular market, and you know, we've been
fortunate to have a lot of success and and that's
really the goal of the last year, Kevin. I think
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I'd be curious just for people to hear your process
about the course of a week. You know, you mentioned
he I was in the simulator and I'm trying to
kind of get my bearings down for this particular track
because it's unique. Take us through, like what exactly that
looks like, Like what I'm imagining that simulator, Like, are
you sitting in something? Is it on a computer desk somewhere? Like?
Take us through what your process looks like to prepare
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for a race. Yeah. So, you know, the one thing
about NASCAR racings is a lot of people underestimate the
magnitude of the engineering and simulation and things that go
into our sport. But Forward Performance Center has three UM
full size simulators. So basically what that means is that
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the center section of the car basically is is exact size,
has my seat, my steering wheel, all my gauges, and
it has UM. I guess it's almost I guess well,
the new one has Our new simulator has three sixty
degree screen with projectors and everything from from each racetrack,
so when when you sit in the car, it has
full movement and UM, you know, the racetrack you can
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go day, night, rain, UH, sun, dark, lights on, lights off,
All the signs are on the wall, the grand stands
are there, so you you have those references and things
that you need at the actual racetrack UH that are
all simulated in the simulator, and then we run through
UH set up changes and things like that based on
you know, based on path knowledge and and things that
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they that they've built into the into the system. So
you know, it's it's it's definitely not sitting at your
desktop or an eye racing simulator or anything like that anymore.
It's there their life sized vehicles with all your stuff
and and you know, it's it's really progressed over the
last few years since practice has has gone away at
the racetrack. We get now we get twenty minutes of
practice and then you go straight to qualifying. So the
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preparation all happens during the week and you can make
you know, you can make some minor adjustments at the
racetrack to the cars. But um, you know, Tuesday we
have our team meetings. Wednesday we're in the simulator. Usually
it's a you know, three day a week workout process.
And and you know, these these first four out of
six races are a logistical nightmare. We go to Los
Angeles and have a week off and then come back
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to Daytona and then back to Los Angeles, Las Vegas
and Phoenix to to start the season. And all the
teams are basically located in North Carolina, so there's a
lot of logistical challenges that come with the first part
of the season, and in preparation during the week still
has to happen. So all the teams for the most
part fly privately and as soon as the race is over,
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they all fly back to North Carolina and prep next
week's car. And you know, and during the during the
you know, the start of the season, when we're on
the West coast, of the teams will uh stay out
here and there to prep the cars that they have
out on on the West Coast. So there's a lot
of moving pieces and and uh, you know, each team
has hundreds and hundreds of people that work in their
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shop for the most part, to to make it all
go around. You know, I'm a big race fan. I'll
actually be there Friday morning. I'll see you on Friday.
This is var um. I got so many questions I
want to ask. I'll save something for when I see you.
But one of one of the things I want to
throw out at you right now. UM, rivalries, you know,
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we love them in sports. UM. One that I really
liked was was Bush and Johnson. Um. Pretty you know,
some would label it arch nemesis. Do you have someone
that you kind of you know, have a love hate
relationship with that you know out there on the track.
It's like I'm looking for him, he's looking for me. Um,
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there that we could see what goes on and how
it goes down and how it plays. I mean, you
seem soft spoken, but you know sometimes the most soft
spoken dudes are are kind of the you know, they
are the dudes on on the track and how they
do things. You know, I know you have a pretty
pretty smooth race style. But is there someone that you
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just you're out there on the on the track and
it's like yeah, like all right, like I got you,
like here, like here we go. Ye, Who's the biggest
pain in the ass. Yeah, yeah, there you go summarize it. Uh, well,
you know, I think I think for for our side
of the our side of the sports world, I think
for for us, it's, um it's very different because you
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could you imagine if you played the same team every
week and and then you you know, you're part six
ft from them, Your your locker rooms are together in
the garage, we're part six ft apart. And so that
the hardest thing to new to do is navigate how
far to take all these things when you do have
those run ins, because I've had I've had a lot
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through the years, and I think that those rivalries have
kind of come and gone amongst different people, because it
seems like each year, you know, you have you have
somebody somebody new and and you know, we've we've gone
through the years and we've we've had our fair share
of of run ins with with you know, different drivers,
and it seems like those things kind of carry on
through the year. But the most difficult thing to navigate
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is to know when to let your guard down and say, Okay,
that needs to be over because now it's affecting the
performance of my team and I'm having to answer questions
in the media about you know, us running into each other,
into my crew chiefs answer questions, and then it's starting
to distract from the conversation and the Tuesday meetings and
and sponsors are starting to call. So, you know, you
carry those things out as you see fit. You know,
(28:42):
we've We've carried some of them out for years. We've
carried some of them out for hours, We've carried some
of them out for days. And I think as I've
gone through this, I have a I have a pretty
good relationship with with a lot of the guys in
the garage. But you know, you you have to be
willing to do whatever you have to do and in
a moment's notice to to win a race, especially with
you know how competitive it's becomes so um. Sometimes you
(29:05):
do what you have to do. You step with the
consequences after the race and whatever comes with that you
start to deal with and process and do the things
that you have to do to uh, either carry on
a rivalry or um. You know, if you think that
that you have the upper hand in the situation, you
do with what you think is right as far as
being able to push somebody's buttons, So it just depends.
(29:28):
And sometimes you push all the buttons and you get
them all wound up and cause many distractions as you can,
and sometimes you just let it go. So it depends
on the magnitude of the situation for me personally. Get
him on Twitter at Kevin Harvick. He's Kevin Harvick, NASCAR
Cup Series Champion driver of the number four bush Light
Ford must Stang for Stewart Hoss Racing, his final go
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his final season as a full time driver, and you
can check out the bush Light Clash app the Coliseum
this Sunday, eight p m. Eastern Time on Box five
o'clock Pacific. Kevin, we appreciate it, man, thanks again for
waking up early for us here and we're gonna be
watching on Sunday and we'll be rooting on the number four.
Best to look up a right, guys, have a great day,
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Want to take my life away? Hey? How we go
from NASCAR to death? Though? Show? Student? That wasn't okay?
It's got to be deeper. And why is it every
time he does something it just it just doesn't sound right. Yeah,
can you do it like? You do it one more time?
And do it like give me, make it, make it
deeper that deep enough? So exactly that's exactly what it
(31:54):
sounded like. Oh dude again, Ah, you know you said
you want it deep, not like like deep like like
that's pain for like, like do it the first time?
I can't even get it right deep? You want it?
How to do it the first time? Oh? I just
(32:18):
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one was better. Try to go deep. Man, it sounds
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(32:45):
I guess yeah, I gotta put me to sleep too.
I guess everybody going to sleep. Man sper time. Many men?
Which how you want it? Any man? You want it?
You want it deeper, you want it, you want it light? Yeah,
you want Tip said he wanted a deeper voice. I
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(33:52):
You know you were a switch hitter? Why are you
so good at that? Dude? Why does this sound so
painful in every capacity? Like? Oh, you are destined for
holy fans? My g is that allowed that we allowed
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It does. Go on and film your sound effect. I've
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You just you just gave it a different interpretation of
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Or two hours into the show, um, we were we
were talking about he's way better when he's not scripted.
(01:24):
He gets too scripted, and it's never scripted. Never we
are talking actually about this is scripted and not like
the NFL, he's super scripted. We were talking about which
to the which bangers we were going to come up
with as our new intro songs because we got to
come up with some new intro songs for the show.
(01:45):
Do you mean it's more of the beat. It's not
like the lyrics or like how successful the song was.
But I've got one in my head. I'm going on.
I just like those beats that like you think about it,
I know exactly what song that is. That was very
very catchy. I think I'm gonna go with My name
is Jonas Weezer. I feel like that one. All right,
I'm gonna quit probably if I listen to that every morning,
(02:07):
I'm gonna quit. Man, that song sucks you having to
hear that every single morning. That'd be a rough go Hey,
speaking of rough goes, what are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
going to do a quarterback? Now? Is Kyle Trash going
to be the guy that that's just gonna be what
they roll out that? Do we really care about what
their what their secession plan is? To Tom Fred, Well,
(02:28):
of course, I mean because that's the best, that's one
of the best divisions in football, that NFC South, and
we need to break down who's gonna win that division
following nine year for the Tampa Bay Box, I'm more
I'm more curious since it whether or not LaVar thanks
the NFL is scripted. Uh, It's definitely scripted. That's that's
(02:49):
why it gets done. That the same that you know,
that's why you can plan the next game to start
win it starts, because otherwise it wasn't scripted. It may
be super longer or it may be super shorter. You know,
could happen either way. Yeah, you know you could unpackage
it and and UNWRAPID and be surprised at what it
(03:11):
is that you see. You know, it could be like
tremendously short, right, or it could be tremendously long. If
you guys found out that there was a major cheating
scandal in the NFL, and and a lot of it
was seriously did. But I don't know that it's cheating,
but I don't think that you you place it in
the realm of eating. I'll put it this way. I
(03:34):
wish it was scripted. Then I think I would have
been able to cope with the lack of a career
that I was able to have, you know, as opposed
to I'm just thinking if it if it was scripted,
I at least be like, Okay, so this is what
you guys have for me. All right, great, well, hopefully
I can figure something out afterwards. Then, but let's just
play this role for the next seven eight years. See,
the NFL is so powerful and so successful that even
(03:55):
if they were to tell me everything you've watched for
the past thirty plus years was all on script I
would have said, cool, because you watch like that's why,
because you watch pro wrestling, which is also a scripted
quote unquote, do you mean it's scripted? That's real? Taken
away from me, this is the least surprising, by the way,
(04:19):
the only bet I lost this weekend because I was
on fire when it came to the NFL. I bet
on the Royal Rumble and I lost, so passed. But
although I don't think it should count because the guy
who I bet on actually didn't partake in the Royal
Rumble match. Why uh, for whatever reason they didn't put
him in it. I thought he was going to be
a surprise entrance and he and he wasn't, And I lost.
(04:41):
That didn't even It's like, hey, who'd you bet to
win the Super Bowl? The Wizards not well and I
still lost, So I don't think it should account it.
But yeah, I lost. I'm not trying to like hammer
down on you, but are you the worst gambler? Lie? Yes?
Who does? Who doesn't know that? By this point of course,
(05:03):
facts or facts, you can't be somebody out there that
wasn't participant. There's got to be someone that actually does worse.
I'm just being honest. He has to lay down so
much just to win. Yeah, because I just want to
I want to feel good, like I need I need something.
(05:26):
So it's you know, it's like going down to a
lower division. It's like you can't make it, you know,
at the college level, and you go play Pop Warner
because you just want to light somebody up and feel
like you're actually a real player. That's what I do.
I pick these these bets that have no shot of losing,
and I bet on those to get you know, get
some feel good and going to my body, get some
good taste in my mouth. That's all, you know what
(05:48):
I mean? You know, I don't know, I don't know
what you mean. Tell us just I want a good
taste in your mouth. I pick a bet that is
a sure thing and absolute, no doubt about it, a
minus four thousand or something like that. I started putting
some numbers to it. I throw like fifteen sixteen bucks
(06:10):
on it. The return on that's like two cents. But
it's a win, all right, And that's all I look at.
And then after that, AGO lose my next four or
five straight, which, by the way, I know you're wondering,
I really like Kansas City in the Super Bowl, just
saying that right now, you know, I do. However, like
with all of the rising conversations surrounding officials, I mean,
(06:34):
you do realize that officials have to make sure that
the games begin and end at the proper time. And
I mean I almost feel like that's you know, if
you didn't have certain calls, the game might end too soon.
(06:55):
If you had certain calls, the game ended too late.
So it's almost like they have to like sometimes you
and listen. I don't in terms of like putting time
back on the clock, like is anyone really paying that
close of attention to when it's like okay, yep, put
(07:16):
twenty seconds back on the clock, put it at twelve
minutes and three seconds and the play clock at nine
seconds and start on my my account, Like, I don't
think that's what's in question. I think what's in question
is is it scripted in the sense of the outcome
is already determined? So not like that, it's element is
(07:39):
what it is. But but have you ever I mean,
you're a pretty meticulous dude. Are you paying that close
attention to resetting the clock and how much time should
go back on the clock and where the play clock
is on every single play um as a quarterback as
far as they as as as a quarterback as part
(08:00):
of the play clock. Yes, because that's part of like
my protocol, Like my job was dependent upon ensuring that
we get the snap off otherwise we get a penalty.
So of course I'm a paying attention to that now
the game clock and oh, is that guy you know
inbounds that bounds that they roll it that they're not? Yeah,
like there's obviously instances where they might roll off a
(08:21):
few extra seconds here or not. Something back Like to me,
that's I don't. I don't question the outcome, Like I
don't quite the outcome? Is the outcome? Like that would
that would totally disgrace everything that we've ever done to
try to be great. If if the outcomes were determined,
(08:41):
And then now you got to ask yourself, how do
you judge the greats of the greats if the outcomes
have already been predetermined? Like, how do you say it's
predetermined that Barry Sanders is about to destroy people's ankles
and knees in the game? How do you how do
you justify Tom Brady's career if out comes are already predetermined?
(09:02):
I don't. I don't buy that at at all. I've
never been in a meeting where they said, you know,
make sure you pull up on if if you have
this much of a lead, isn't it tanking? How that
doesn't really apply to players, Like teams can do what
they want for players that are trying to make you. Yes,
you can't tank a game with players. You just can't.
(09:24):
The way you tank is by really not playing your
best guy. That's why the whole scripted. That's Yeaheah's attempt.
I don't. I don't buy scripted as in it's scripted
where you know who's going to win or you know
who's going to lose. But what I will say is
is it scripted in terms of how the game is
(09:45):
regulated and how it moves? Um? Yes, I mean it could.
Even in my humble estimation, if I were a real
true conspiracy theorist, I would even go as far as
to say that referees will will make calls that actually
swing a game. It'll swing a game, or it'll make
(10:07):
the game closer, or this team, like I, I honestly
believe that Kansas City was gonna lose that game. They
were gonna lose that game. Outside of the the calls,
which the calls are, those were some were questionable at best,
but some were legit. Like there's no way you can
(10:28):
get around the fact that if you don't make that
call on Patrick Mahomes getting pushed, there's something wrong. So
to say there was something wrong to make the call like,
you know, we hear some of our pundits come out
and say that call shouldn't have been made. That's preposterous.
It's it's ridiculous to say it was a penalty, alright,
(10:49):
but that that that past interference. It's questionable. There were
questionable calls in that game that said to me, like, man,
like what are they doing? Like even the mess up
on the clock, like yeah, you could show the referee
was running in this down and the other, but why
was this one referee the one and this that. I
(11:10):
don't know all the terminology and all the justification, but
to me, you ran a complete play. You ran a
complete play, and it was a failure of a play
and you gave them another down. I do think the NFL, though,
has one eye on the business of football at all times,
(11:33):
because you have a business in The most glaring example
of that was the Well, after looking at this and
reevaluating everything, we're gonna go ahead and suspend to Shawn
Watson for eleven games. And wouldn't you know, at the
first game he can come back against his former team.
I mean, this is just of all the coincidences in
the world, this is so I think there is some
(11:54):
of that, but it's a big difference between that and
scripted and and people out there saying it's ray, it's scripted.
Come on, man, I think there are a lot of
aspects that are are tremendously influenced and guided, is what
I'll say, And I'll leave it at that. Well, I'll
put it this way. I know, like you have to
(12:14):
understand how the salt works, how the business works. Right,
If the majority of your money that helps your league
survive is coming from the TV networks, what do you
think they want? They want the biggest possible markets to
have the biggest possible ratings so that they can then
use that to sell to advertisers and say, look, how
(12:36):
many people watch the properties that we have that we
own that we are are buying from the NFL or
leasing from the NFL. Right, So that way they can
generate as much money from those live games, from those advertisements,
and they can pay as much money as the NFL
is looking forward to get so their league continues to
stay healthy and on top of all professional sports. So
(12:59):
it's not far fetched to sit there and and and
think that you know, the TV network wanting to have
larger market teams in the Super Bowl. Isn't probably what
the NFL would like to have as well, because they
know that's good for their business. If it's good for
the TV networks, that's good for their business, that's good
for the NFL as well. Like everyone can connect those dots.
(13:22):
I just I think it's I mean, look, I don't
think any of this stuff is scripted, you know from
my experience going through it. That's just that's just not
how this all works, you know. And I know this
is getting a lot of run from the Arian Foster interview,
which a lot of people now are just taking seriously, right,
and then it's become like a social media thing and
(13:42):
all that. But trust me, like I said, I wish
I wish someone would have would have let me know
what my script was so that way I could have
at least coped with what the reality was going to
be as opposed to what I dreamed of. It was
working towards my entire career in life. So on hey,
by the way, just on off note, in terms of
(14:02):
the matchups and the storylines and scripting, it was kind
of funny stumbled upon the fact that you're gonna have
brothers for the first time playing against each other in
the super Bowl. So I was asked this question. Yeah,
I mean I was asked this question. Get it. Yeah
it was such a play on work. But I'm really
(14:24):
gonna have brothers. What's more likely to happen again in
your mind? Because you have two things that play like
people have called it the Andy Reid super Bowl because
he's facing a former team that he coached, or two
brothers facing off the super Bowl. I think the two
brothers is way more rare. I think that is a
way better storyline, is the brothers super Bowl? If you
(14:45):
know what I mean. It's not the personal. It looks
like there's more of a brother and a brother. But
but to make just to keep it one way or
the other. If we want to go hard are, we
could go hard or we could go a either way.
It's it's it's the brothers or the brother Uh super Bowl?
(15:06):
Yeah you did, because it could be. I call my
my my biological siblings brothers. Those are my brothers. Like
with the Nate, I don't call him my brothers with
the hard are I just don't. But that's what they
are technically. So I'm just saying it's the brothers, you know,
(15:28):
Super Bowl or the brothers. I call of our brother
I call you brother, I call Brady brother. I call
both of y'all brothers, because y'all my brothers. You did
what I'm saying from another mother's I hear you, but
you got. But let's talk about who's gonna take over
(15:50):
for the Tampa Bay Parks one of the brothers. Let's
let's talk about Kyle Trash because the only quarterback under
contra Trash What why would you want to talk about
that nobody cares about. Let's talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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(16:11):
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So we are going to have our play today coming
up here in about fifteen minutes from now, and it's
either good news or bad news, depending on where you're at.
So we'll get to that for you again fifteen minutes
(17:14):
from now. There's a big event coming up this weekend,
a little little clash at the Colosseum. Pretty fire little
clash at the Colosseum, the l a Colosseum, I mean
a real clash, yeah, like tire clashing, you know, cars
clashing better believe it, you know, one of those deals.
Super competitive, very cramped in there by the way, super cramped. Yeah,
(17:38):
so we're gonna see as you may think though you
think it's a little more room me there, I mean
definitely custom. I wonder what top speed, by the way,
the clash of the Colosseum is, Uh, well, on the spaedometer,
it's as fast yeah as hell, Yeah as fast then
as super fast and then as fast as hal Well,
one guy who's gone fast as hell for a long
(17:59):
time in the world of NASCAR is Kevin Harvick, NASCAR
Cup Series Champion. He's the driver of the number four
bush Light Ford Mustang for Stewart Hoss Racing. Kevin, thanks
so much for the time, man, thanks for waking up
early with us. Here it's two pros and a cup
of Joe on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, good morning, guys.
Thank you for having me. It's uh, it's it's nice
(18:20):
to be able to get up and and talk some
racing in the morning. So I have two kids, so
I'm up and ready to go. All right, good deal,
Good deal, Kevin. I gotta start off by asking you
a unique question to to this week's race. Do you guys,
you guys get dizzy when you're when you're driving around
and there. I feel like it's a small track, right
you just doing his fast circles round and round around. Yeah, well,
(18:41):
I think it's I think it's like really any other sport.
I think as you get into a rhythm and and
start doing the things that you need to do, everything
just flows down. As I sat in the simulator yesterday
and started doing all of our setup work and in
preparation for the race, I was, I was, I was
a little bit behind yesterday to to be to be
honest with you, because there's so much happening with the
(19:03):
shifting and brakes and small track and and everything going
on that that it definitely, uh took a few laps
to get to the point of of slowing down and
being able to do everything fluently. Are you are you
able to get to the type of speeds that you
are on the bigger tracks or is it is it
all the way adjusted to you know, how how large
(19:24):
the track is. Yeah, so everything will everything will be
scaled to the to the racetrack as far as gearing um.
The speed will will will obviously be down because of
the size of the racetrack. But with the with the
with the different size racetracks, it's it's just a different
style of racing. And most of us that that race
(19:45):
in in the in the top level of NASCAR racing
all grew up on the short tracks across the country,
racing on on bowl we call bull rings, just really
small racetrack quarter mile, three eight mile, half mile race tracks.
As as we were learning how to navigate the ropes
of of nascars. So this this really I think last
year when when we went to the l A call
(20:06):
sum and looking back at the preparation for the race
last year and the new car and everything that was
going in, I honestly laughed. I thought this would be
the biggest joke that that we that we had on
the schedule. And then we got done with the race
and and ran the whole year, and I looked back
at last year's race and how much fun everybody had
and how unique it was and how well the um,
(20:27):
you know, the cars raced on on the racetrack, and
and just the emotion in the stadium is much different
than what you have at some of our bigger race
tracks because everybody's right on top of you and and
so you know, to be able to hear the fans
and when you're watching the other races is um you know,
is much different in those places. He's Kevin Harvick, NASCAR
(20:48):
Cup Series Champion, joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.
Get him on Twitter at Kevin Harvick. It is two
pros and a cup of Joe here on Fox Sports Radio.
So this is your final season full time? Correct, as
far as running in NASCAR and doing the full time gig.
And when you look at your career, you're one of
four drivers, You've one Daytona, You've won the Coca Cola
(21:10):
six hundred, you won the Brickyard, you won the Southern
five hundred. What's left, like, what is your ideal outro
look like in your final full season driving for a
NASCAR Well, unfortunate and I think you know a lot
of a lot of the professional athletes don't get to
choose when they're done. And you know, I've been fortunate
(21:30):
to be able to might have my choice of of saying, Okay,
this is this is going to be my last year,
and this is this is what we're going to do.
But as I've gone through this process over over the
last year and a half of planning the last year,
that the one thing that I really realized is just
how many how many people you've you've affected and worked
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with and and been a part of through the years,
and and how important it is to do this last
year right and and and you know, enjoy it um
and be able to try to do the things that
I've done for the for the last twenty two years
on on the Cup Series level, and that's to be
competitive and and be able to to race in the
front of the field and have a chance to win
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races and and go out like I started. So, you know,
it's it's all. It's been a lot of planning. There's
been a lot of things that have gone into the
year as far as um you know, just different paint
schemes and helmets and and trying to make sure that
you don't forget anybody who's helped you to this particular
point of my career. UM. But you know, the last
year is important, and I look at it as really,
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you know, your first year in whatever you're doing, as
to to to make an impact and make an impression
and try to be as professional as possible and in
all those situations that we've created and who we represent
and the you know, pay pay honor to the to
the people who helped me get to this point. So
there's a lot of there's a lot of touch points
that that need to be UM involved in, that are
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involved in in the last year to be able to
do this the way and we've tried to plan it
that way and be able to go to the racetracks
and in race in front of the fans one more
time and talk about, you know, something that's great that
happened in that particular market, and you know, we've been
fortunate to have a lot of success and and that's
really the goal of the last year, Kevin. I think
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I'd be curious just for people to hear your process
about the course of a week. You know, you mentioned
he I was in the simulator and I'm trying to
kind of get my bearings down for this particular track
because it's unique. Take us through, like what exactly that
looks like, Like what I'm imagining that simulator, Like, are
you sitting in something? Is it on a computer desk somewhere? Like?
Take us through what your process looks like to prepare
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for a race. Yeah. So, you know, the one thing
about NASCAR racings is a lot of people underestimate the
magnitude of the engineering and simulation and things that go
into our sport. But Forward Performance Center has three UM
full size simulators. So basically what that means is that
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the center section of the car basically is is exact size,
has my seat, my steering wheel, all my gauges, and
it has UM. I guess it's almost I guess well,
the new one has Our new simulator has three sixty
degree screen with projectors and everything from from each racetrack,
so when when you sit in the car, it has
full movement and UM, you know, the racetrack you can
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go day, night, rain, UH, sun, dark, lights on, lights off,
All the signs are on the wall, the grand stands
are there, so you you have those references and things
that you need at the actual racetrack UH that are
all simulated in the simulator, and then we run through
UH set up changes and things like that based on
you know, based on path knowledge and and things that
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they that they've built into the into the system. So
you know, it's it's it's definitely not sitting at your
desktop or an eye racing simulator or anything like that anymore.
It's there their life sized vehicles with all your stuff
and and you know, it's it's really progressed over the
last few years since practice has has gone away at
the racetrack. We get now we get twenty minutes of
practice and then you go straight to qualifying. So the
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preparation all happens during the week and you can make
you know, you can make some minor adjustments at the
racetrack to the cars. But um, you know, Tuesday we
have our team meetings. Wednesday we're in the simulator. Usually
it's a you know, three day a week workout process.
And and you know, these these first four out of
six races are a logistical nightmare. We go to Los
Angeles and have a week off and then come back
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to Daytona and then back to Los Angeles, Las Vegas
and Phoenix to to start the season. And all the
teams are basically located in North Carolina, so there's a
lot of logistical challenges that come with the first part
of the season, and in preparation during the week still
has to happen. So all the teams for the most
part fly privately and as soon as the race is over,
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they all fly back to North Carolina and prep next
week's car. And you know, and during the during the
you know, the start of the season, when we're on
the West coast, of the teams will uh stay out
here and there to prep the cars that they have
out on on the West Coast. So there's a lot
of moving pieces and and uh, you know, each team
has hundreds and hundreds of people that work in their
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shop for the most part, to to make it all
go around. You know, I'm a big race fan. I'll
actually be there Friday morning. I'll see you on Friday.
This is var um. I got so many questions I
want to ask. I'll save something for when I see you.
But one of one of the things I want to
throw out at you right now. UM, rivalries, you know,
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we love them in sports. UM. One that I really
liked was was Bush and Johnson. Um. Pretty you know,
some would label it arch nemesis. Do you have someone
that you kind of you know, have a love hate
relationship with that you know out there on the track.
It's like I'm looking for him, he's looking for me. Um,
(26:54):
there that we could see what goes on and how
it goes down and how it plays. I mean, you
seem soft spoken, but you know sometimes the most soft
spoken dudes are are kind of the you know, they
are the dudes on on the track and how they
do things. You know, I know you have a pretty
pretty smooth race style. But is there someone that you
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just you're out there on the on the track and
it's like yeah, like all right, like I got you,
like here, like here we go. Ye, Who's the biggest
pain in the ass. Yeah, yeah, there you go summarize it. Uh, well,
you know, I think I think for for our side
of the our side of the sports world, I think
for for us, it's, um it's very different because you
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could you imagine if you played the same team every
week and and then you you know, you're part six
ft from them, Your your locker rooms are together in
the garage, we're part six ft apart. And so that
the hardest thing to new to do is navigate how
far to take all these things when you do have
those run ins, because I've had I've had a lot
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through the years, and I think that those rivalries have
kind of come and gone amongst different people, because it
seems like each year, you know, you have you have
somebody somebody new and and you know, we've we've gone
through the years and we've we've had our fair share
of of run ins with with you know, different drivers,
and it seems like those things kind of carry on
through the year. But the most difficult thing to navigate
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is to know when to let your guard down and say, Okay,
that needs to be over because now it's affecting the
performance of my team and I'm having to answer questions
in the media about you know, us running into each other,
into my crew chiefs answer questions, and then it's starting
to distract from the conversation and the Tuesday meetings and
and sponsors are starting to call. So, you know, you
carry those things out as you see fit. You know,
(28:42):
we've We've carried some of them out for years. We've
carried some of them out for hours, We've carried some
of them out for days. And I think as I've
gone through this, I have a I have a pretty
good relationship with with a lot of the guys in
the garage. But you know, you you have to be
willing to do whatever you have to do and in
a moment's notice to to win a race, especially with
you know how competitive it's becomes so um. Sometimes you
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do what you have to do. You step with the
consequences after the race and whatever comes with that you
start to deal with and process and do the things
that you have to do to uh, either carry on
a rivalry or um. You know, if you think that
that you have the upper hand in the situation, you
do with what you think is right as far as
being able to push somebody's buttons, So it just depends.
(29:28):
And sometimes you push all the buttons and you get
them all wound up and cause many distractions as you can,
and sometimes you just let it go. So it depends
on the magnitude of the situation for me personally. Get
him on Twitter at Kevin Harvick. He's Kevin Harvick, NASCAR
Cup Series Champion driver of the number four bush Light
Ford must Stang for Stewart Hoss Racing, his final go
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his final season as a full time driver, and you
can check out the bush Light Clash app the Coliseum
this Sunday, eight p m. Eastern Time on Box five
o'clock Pacific. Kevin, we appreciate it, man, thanks again for
waking up early for us here and we're gonna be
watching on Sunday and we'll be rooting on the number four.
Best to look up a right, guys, have a great day,
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Want to take my life away? Hey? How we go
from NASCAR to death? Though? Show? Student? That wasn't okay?
It's got to be deeper. And why is it every
time he does something it just it just doesn't sound right. Yeah,
can you do it like? You do it one more time?
And do it like give me, make it, make it
deeper that deep enough? So exactly that's exactly what it
(31:54):
sounded like. Oh dude again, Ah, you know you said
you want it deep, not like like deep like like
that's pain for like, like do it the first time?
I can't even get it right deep? You want it?
How to do it the first time? Oh? I just
(32:18):
gotta do the other one. Do the other one. That
one was better. Try to go deep. Man, it sounds
like you're in pain when you're doing it. Put the
bar to sleep, put you to sleep. Oh man, well
(32:45):
I guess yeah, I gotta put me to sleep too.
I guess everybody going to sleep. Man sper time. Many men?
Which how you want it? Any man? You want it?
You want it deeper, you want it, you want it light? Yeah,
you want Tip said he wanted a deeper voice. I
(33:08):
don't know what to do. I don't have that kind
of go up like that. I don't have that kind
of range. I feel like we could say anything like
it just guts out this weird pass. What were we
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but we're gonna be back on the air tomorrow for
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to the Pro Bowl? Man, can you give us the
one more time? Which one? The second one? The second one?
(33:52):
You know you were a switch hitter? Why are you
so good at that? Dude? Why does this sound so
painful in every capacity? Like? Oh, you are destined for
holy fans? My g is that allowed that we allowed
(34:15):
to do? They just want the sound effect? That's it.
It does. Go on and film your sound effect. I've
had worse jobs. Could there's nothing wrong with that Right now,
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I will never use that ever again in my entire life.
Six I will never look at it the same way
ever again. And like this, making any noises just become
a bit. It's it's funny. I'm just here trying to
be a professional broadcasters want to take my life away?
Did I do that? I didn't mean to say. I
(36:41):
didn't mean to say that. I don't like that. Yeah,
but I don't want to say it anymore. Why not
that ruined it? I don't want to say you ruined it.
You just you just gave it a different interpretation of
It's funny, but you definitely definitely ruined It's just the
sound of it. It is just like now, it's like,
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