All right, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of The Teardown.

My name is Jeff Luck and I'm with my co-worker Jordan Bianchi.

We are motorsports writers for The Athletic.

This is another one of our off-season podcasts as we whittle away the time here until the actual racing begins for the NASCAR season,

which is coming up quickly, but probably not soon enough.

So we have to have more filler content here, Jordan.

Sorry about...

It's not filler.

This is genuine, in-depth conversation about the happenings of going on in NASCAR.

I actually think we're kind of preparing for the show.

I think we're doing a good job of kind of setting the table for 2022.

So I don't know about you mailing it in, but I'm here and I'm ready to educate and have a good discussion. Well, you know, I just, you can only talk about what's going to happen so many

times before it actually happens. But maybe we haven't milked that all yet. So let's talk about

this themed episode, which is the top storylines of the

2022 NASCAR season. Now, we have both gone into our time machine and visited the future.

And we had to sign a non-disclosure agreement when we came back to not say anything else

about what will happen in 22 2020 as a

whole so we can't tell you anything that's going on in politics or sports aside from

NASCAR but we did get permission to each share three of these storylines that we witnessed in the

future and you know we just basically fast forwarded to the end of the year saw what was happening three of these storylines that we witnessed in the future.

And, you know, we just basically fast forwarded to the end of the year, saw what was happening,

came back to report to you guys. So, I mean, I was fascinated by the future, Jordan.

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