Looks like the door is opening and we are welcoming in Bubba Wallace. Yes. Hello. Bubba. Yes, we were alive. I thought it was tall. I thought it was tall. We were alive on the air. Sorry. I'm standing up here. We'll stand up later and take a picture. NASCAR superstar and winner of the 2025 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That is Bobba Wallace who's headed to the playoff. August 31st. How we get his microphone there ready?

How are we feeling about heading to the playoff, August 31st.

How we get his microphone there ready?

How are we feeling about heading into the playoff here, man?

We're in a tip-top shape, and we got tires flying around everywhere.

That was a little too soon.

Too soon, okay?

Man, I'm excited.

Playoff start.

We get Daytona here. We're stress free for the season finale.

Well inside the playoffs with our indie wins.

So I'm excited to get it rolling.

The reason that Gio brought up the fact that we have tires flying around here is because last week of Richmond, your left tire fell off.

Well, I know you know, but our audience.

Oh, yeah, right.

So we're telling our audiences, as you're leaving your pit row, your left tire falls off and then you pull over into, I guess, one of your teammates. Yeah, yeah, Toyota teammates, the 19th of all. But you're not allowed to do that. You were penalized, right? We were penalized for that. Yeah, but you're doing something smart. You don't want to go out on the track. You drop a tire in the middle of the track, do you? You don't want to, no.

Because that's actually a worst person. Yeah, but you're doing something smart. You don't want to go out on the track. Exactly. You drop a tire in the middle of the track, do you?

You don't want to, no.

So that's actually a worst penalty for us. Our Jackman and our tire changer would be suspended for two races, which would be one of the first races of the playoffs. So I need that. We challenged a bullet. unfortunately we took ourselves out of contention but we we could have made the situation worse than what it was. So that's the tire guy's problem there? He's not going to sit here and throw anybody under the bus. I mean, come on. Bub, listen, I throw a pass to a guy in the end zone and he drops it. I'm like, that's his fault. You threw it too good, though. Yeah, but I hit him in the chest and he dropped it. That's his fault. I you threw it too good though they have but i hit him in

the chest and he dropped it that's his fault i'm just i this got to be one of those really hard things

to it's it going back and looking at the footage um it was just a really freak deal where the lug nut

fell off the gun and and it was such a weird transition and so uh you know how fast you're going when you

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