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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're basically here to answer this question. What the WHI
wide world of fortunes are going on?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the Rob Dibble Show. Back on the Rob
Dibble Show. It's Ben Darnell in your afternoon Drive, joining
us now on the hotline. Brad Kazlowski one of the
finest NASCAR drivers out there, but he's going to have
to step out of his zone tonight. I guess he's
throwing out the first pitch at Fenway, Brad, Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That is correct? I have to start warming up. I
have a rule for first pitches in baseball. It's a
simple one, guys, is that you do not throw a
first pitch without at least having one or two ships
of beer. That right, shrugs of beer.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
You gotta hit that power bank right aw, there you go,
so you've done it before.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The question Dibbs always has for people a former major
league pitcher, are you planning on throwing it from the rubber?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes? Yes, I feel like that's like a man law. Yeah,
man law. You know, like you have to throw it
from the mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, all right, all right? And and are you gonna
are you gonna wind up?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Are you gonna Are you gonna have a leg kick
or are you just gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah? Now? Am I gonna throw a fastball?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Probably not?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But you know I've done like three or four before,
and uh you know, I, as of yet, I have
not put it in the dirt, but there's still time.
Today might be to day. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
All right, we won't tell anybody, and nobody's gonna be
listening to our show and run to Fenway to boo
you on this. Now you're from Michigan, What baseball fandom
do you have in your heart?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I have multiple fandoms? Is that not? Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's fine, I do it too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Uh you know, hey, keep in mind, I grew up you,
like I said, in Michigan industry, specifically in an error
where all of our sportsen stuff for a long time, right,
I quickly learned that if you want to enjoy sports
as a Michigan native, you better pick more than one
team to be standing up. So I can be a
(02:15):
fan of the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Very nice, awesome, well now and a Fenway tradition.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I don't know if you've been to this park or not.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Our buddy Ryan Priest Uh, he was just there through
telling you right now because last k I think it
was ninety six right down the heart. But he guys, well,
one thing you got to do is sign the sign
the wall on the inside of the wall.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Dibbs always talks about this as well, just like fun.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
With I've already done it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh yeah, that's fantastic, fantastic, all right. So we we
have pres on here a lot and and he's got
like a thousand horsepower Mustang. Do you have like some
kind of crazy car that you've built beside your race car?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I do have a number of crazy cars. Actually just
bought one. I bought a Shelby Gates Homer. It does
not have a thousand four far but it has enough
four power to kill yourself. So that's not what I'm
trying to do. You should be really safe for these cars,
and I consider myself as a safe street road driver.
Would resolve it. So I'm being careful.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How much do you actually drive?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm not NASCAR, not race and no money's involved, like
you're going to the grocery store. How much like hours
per week do you actually spend behind a wheel?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know what's crazy? As I was looking at that
the other day the time, I'm like twenty five thousand
to thirty thousand miles, you know, I think it's actually
a lot considering. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't come any of
my race.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You're a real driver, not fair amount.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
One thing I noticed from you guys, and you in
particular in the Bristol race that you got said and
you've been kicking. But by the way, congratulations on another
great year, Brad Keslawski with us.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You guys are like scientists. You know so much.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
About temperature, wheel pressure, just all this that you were
talking about. Take us through Bristol and just the heat
and how you had to deal with that with your
tires and a five degree heat change. I think you
were talking about from the star of the race to
the end of the race, and like did this knowledge
all kind of come to you?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Osmosa, You guys feel like you all go.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
To some kind of engineer class in the off season
because you guys are just uber smart about this stuff.
Take us through the science of your second place in Bristol.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well yeah, I mean you practically did becoming engineered. Plaust Mosus.
We're surrounded by him, and if you want to be
fatty just to understand how the car worked and gas
some point. The stats we do when we were racing
in Bristol, Tennessee, and the way that the good Year
fire Works that we raced on is with some small
temperature going you know, let's say the sun jumps out
(04:58):
or goes behind the clouds, the track changes temperature. I
don't if you ever walked on like your your driveway
and you barefoot, and you know, you'll say one star
one part is hot, one parts of cold, and it
changes right. Well, that can affect it the way the
car drives pretty dramatically. And when racing in Bristol this
last weekend, uh, and it cooled off and it's changed
(05:19):
to where the cars could only go you know, let's
say forty laps on their tires, where when the track
was warmer, the tires wouldn't wear out. Uh, And the
track would actually make it to where you could go
one hundred and fifty to two hundred laps under tires
before they were out. So you know, the way you
drive the car has to change, the way you set
up the car has to change, and then more importantly,
your strategy has to change. So you know, racing is
(05:41):
always super dynamic, and you watch it on TV you
see these guys going around in circles, but there's really
small new oscers that make a huge difference and who
can adapt to them the best Ultimately that determines the winner.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And more often than not, talking to Brad Keselowski, he'll
be up with the new Hampshire Motor Speedway. Well, we're
just talking to Kyle Larson the other day. So I
had ballpark's Brad where I didn't pitch. Well, Shay Stadium
was one of them. Do you have any tracks where
you're just like, oh man, I hate this track, or
there's some kind of like stands that kind of are
(06:16):
a bad that you know, when you're you're driving around
at two hundred and twenty miles an hour, it just
freaks you out, you know, the way you look up
in the stands and stuff like that, because everybody's got
white T shirts on and stuff like that. Is there
any track that that you know gets into your head
before you even get there.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'll pay the one that a lot of people talk about.
I don't have a problem with for a lot of
people to do. You go down the front stretch and
then affle smart Steedway, very narrow. The crowd is on
both sides. It's almost like driving in a funnel. And
you know you'll have practice there and a little narrow
and practice. But on race day, when the crowd is,
(06:52):
you know, stilling the stands, it feels so narrow, so
easy get in trouble in and there are a lot
of people that almost get crossed the fobus with that feeling.
And it's something, I'll say.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It really Mobile three oh one the Magic mild New
Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend, big, big, big races. The
playoffs are upon us. I wanted to ask you this man,
you got thirty nine wins under your belt. You've done
so many or you've got way more than that. That's
just in some NASCAR stuff. You've been racing all over
the place here in Cup Series, you're in Truck series.
You're doing it at all. You've won so many championships,
(07:25):
you're forty one years old. What keeps you going? What
keeps you just driven to you know, pun intended to
win championships.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, well, my love rations, I'm really gladed. They just
do right, just to do right. I tell people all
the time, I'm sure be big invistors, right, But that said,
you know, I'm motivated by a lot of different things
that are the biggest ones. You know, i had my
fourth kid this year, so now I've got two daughters,
two sons, and I've gotten to this point in my
(07:54):
life now where the thing I enjoy the most is
running well and them watching the rakes and being excited
about it. That's super cool. Of course. I love the
team dynamics and put together a teams, competing with them,
working through the challenges that every team has with people
(08:14):
and uh, you know, ups and downs in the roller
coaster sports, those are all a lot of fun to me.
So uh Sam, as motivated as ever I feel like
in my career.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, NASCAR champion, go out there, throw a great first pitch,
throw it harder than anybody else, man, harder than pre
s anybody else, and don't worry about throwing a strike.
These guys will swing at it anyway. Yeah, if you
watch Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Good, lucky to have.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
There.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You go.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Thank you so much, Brad. We appreciate you, man, Thank you, sir,
Thank sure, guys, Thank you all right, Brad Keselowski. Everybody
one of our favorites. He could have been a nasty boy. Yeah,
he's he's he's ready to mix it up when he
gets in the infield.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I love his post race Prescott conferences, man, I was
watching a couple of them today.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, he likes yelling at people. He's just honest. He's
just honest. There's nothing wrong with being honest, bro, honeste.
He throws great tonight. I do too. I don't want
him to bounce it. I want him to look good.
Aim for the head, Aim for the head, Aim for
the head, for the catcher's head.
We're basically here to answer this question. What the WHI
wide world of fortunes are going on?
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the Rob Dibble Show. Back on the Rob
Dibble Show. It's Ben Darnell in your afternoon Drive, joining
us now on the hotline. Brad Kazlowski one of the
finest NASCAR drivers out there, but he's going to have
to step out of his zone tonight. I guess he's
throwing out the first pitch at Fenway, Brad, Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
That is correct? I have to start warming up. I
have a rule for first pitches in baseball. It's a
simple one, guys, is that you do not throw a
first pitch without at least having one or two ships
of beer. That right, shrugs of beer.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
You gotta hit that power bank right aw, there you go,
so you've done it before.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Now.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
The question Dibbs always has for people a former major
league pitcher, are you planning on throwing it from the rubber?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Yes? Yes, I feel like that's like a man law. Yeah,
man law. You know, like you have to throw it
from the mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, all right, all right? And and are you gonna
are you gonna wind up?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Are you gonna Are you gonna have a leg kick
or are you just gonna.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah? Now? Am I gonna throw a fastball?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Probably not?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But you know I've done like three or four before,
and uh you know, I, as of yet, I have
not put it in the dirt, but there's still time.
Today might be to day. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
All right, we won't tell anybody, and nobody's gonna be
listening to our show and run to Fenway to boo
you on this. Now you're from Michigan, What baseball fandom
do you have in your heart?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I have multiple fandoms? Is that not? Okay?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
That's fine, I do it too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Uh you know, hey, keep in mind, I grew up you,
like I said, in Michigan industry, specifically in an error
where all of our sportsen stuff for a long time, right,
I quickly learned that if you want to enjoy sports
as a Michigan native, you better pick more than one
team to be standing up. So I can be a
(02:15):
fan of the Red Sox.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Very nice, awesome, well now and a Fenway tradition.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
I don't know if you've been to this park or not.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Our buddy Ryan Priest Uh, he was just there through
telling you right now because last k I think it
was ninety six right down the heart. But he guys, well,
one thing you got to do is sign the sign
the wall on the inside of the wall.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Dibbs always talks about this as well, just like fun.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
With I've already done it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Oh yeah, that's fantastic, fantastic, all right. So we we
have pres on here a lot and and he's got
like a thousand horsepower Mustang. Do you have like some
kind of crazy car that you've built beside your race car?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I do have a number of crazy cars. Actually just
bought one. I bought a Shelby Gates Homer. It does
not have a thousand four far but it has enough
four power to kill yourself. So that's not what I'm
trying to do. You should be really safe for these cars,
and I consider myself as a safe street road driver.
Would resolve it. So I'm being careful.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
How much do you actually drive?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I'm not NASCAR, not race and no money's involved, like
you're going to the grocery store. How much like hours
per week do you actually spend behind a wheel?
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know what's crazy? As I was looking at that
the other day the time, I'm like twenty five thousand
to thirty thousand miles, you know, I think it's actually
a lot considering. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't come any of
my race.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
You're a real driver, not fair amount.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
One thing I noticed from you guys, and you in
particular in the Bristol race that you got said and
you've been kicking. But by the way, congratulations on another
great year, Brad Keslawski with us.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You guys are like scientists. You know so much.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
About temperature, wheel pressure, just all this that you were
talking about. Take us through Bristol and just the heat
and how you had to deal with that with your
tires and a five degree heat change. I think you
were talking about from the star of the race to
the end of the race, and like did this knowledge
all kind of come to you?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Osmosa, You guys feel like you all go.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
To some kind of engineer class in the off season
because you guys are just uber smart about this stuff.
Take us through the science of your second place in Bristol.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Well yeah, I mean you practically did becoming engineered. Plaust Mosus.
We're surrounded by him, and if you want to be
fatty just to understand how the car worked and gas
some point. The stats we do when we were racing
in Bristol, Tennessee, and the way that the good Year
fire Works that we raced on is with some small
temperature going you know, let's say the sun jumps out
(04:58):
or goes behind the clouds, the track changes temperature. I
don't if you ever walked on like your your driveway
and you barefoot, and you know, you'll say one star
one part is hot, one parts of cold, and it
changes right. Well, that can affect it the way the
car drives pretty dramatically. And when racing in Bristol this
last weekend, uh, and it cooled off and it's changed
(05:19):
to where the cars could only go you know, let's
say forty laps on their tires, where when the track
was warmer, the tires wouldn't wear out. Uh, And the
track would actually make it to where you could go
one hundred and fifty to two hundred laps under tires
before they were out. So you know, the way you
drive the car has to change, the way you set
up the car has to change, and then more importantly,
your strategy has to change. So you know, racing is
(05:41):
always super dynamic, and you watch it on TV you
see these guys going around in circles, but there's really
small new oscers that make a huge difference and who
can adapt to them the best Ultimately that determines the winner.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
And more often than not, talking to Brad Keselowski, he'll
be up with the new Hampshire Motor Speedway. Well, we're
just talking to Kyle Larson the other day. So I
had ballpark's Brad where I didn't pitch. Well, Shay Stadium
was one of them. Do you have any tracks where
you're just like, oh man, I hate this track, or
there's some kind of like stands that kind of are
(06:16):
a bad that you know, when you're you're driving around
at two hundred and twenty miles an hour, it just
freaks you out, you know, the way you look up
in the stands and stuff like that, because everybody's got
white T shirts on and stuff like that. Is there
any track that that you know gets into your head
before you even get there.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I'll pay the one that a lot of people talk about.
I don't have a problem with for a lot of
people to do. You go down the front stretch and
then affle smart Steedway, very narrow. The crowd is on
both sides. It's almost like driving in a funnel. And
you know you'll have practice there and a little narrow
and practice. But on race day, when the crowd is,
(06:52):
you know, stilling the stands, it feels so narrow, so
easy get in trouble in and there are a lot
of people that almost get crossed the fobus with that feeling.
And it's something, I'll say.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
It really Mobile three oh one the Magic mild New
Hampshire Motor Speedway this weekend, big, big, big races. The
playoffs are upon us. I wanted to ask you this man,
you got thirty nine wins under your belt. You've done
so many or you've got way more than that. That's
just in some NASCAR stuff. You've been racing all over
the place here in Cup Series, you're in Truck series.
You're doing it at all. You've won so many championships,
(07:25):
you're forty one years old. What keeps you going? What
keeps you just driven to you know, pun intended to
win championships.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, well, my love rations, I'm really gladed. They just
do right, just to do right. I tell people all
the time, I'm sure be big invistors, right, But that said,
you know, I'm motivated by a lot of different things
that are the biggest ones. You know, i had my
fourth kid this year, so now I've got two daughters,
two sons, and I've gotten to this point in my
(07:54):
life now where the thing I enjoy the most is
running well and them watching the rakes and being excited
about it. That's super cool. Of course. I love the
team dynamics and put together a teams, competing with them,
working through the challenges that every team has with people
(08:14):
and uh, you know, ups and downs in the roller
coaster sports, those are all a lot of fun to me.
So uh Sam, as motivated as ever I feel like
in my career.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, NASCAR champion, go out there, throw a great first pitch,
throw it harder than anybody else, man, harder than pre
s anybody else, and don't worry about throwing a strike.
These guys will swing at it anyway. Yeah, if you
watch Major League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Good, lucky to have.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
There.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You go.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Thank you so much, Brad. We appreciate you, man, Thank you, sir,
Thank sure, guys, Thank you all right, Brad Keselowski. Everybody
one of our favorites. He could have been a nasty boy. Yeah,
he's he's he's ready to mix it up when he
gets in the infield.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
I love his post race Prescott conferences, man, I was
watching a couple of them today.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, he likes yelling at people. He's just honest. He's
just honest. There's nothing wrong with being honest, bro, honeste.
He throws great tonight. I do too. I don't want
him to bounce it. I want him to look good.
Aim for the head, Aim for the head, Aim for
the head, for the catcher's head.
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