All right, everybody, welcome back to another edition of the Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast.

I'm your host Jeff Fluck, and I'm here at Bristol Motor Speedway with Aaron Bearden of kicking the tires.

Aaron, how are you?

If I can wake up, I'll be great.

This Dr. Pepper really needs to start kicking in. How about you, Jeff? I'm doing awesome, Aaron, because I you? If I can wake up, I'll be great. This Dr. Pepper really need to start kicking in.

How about you, Jeff?

I'm doing awesome, Aaron, because I'm on West Coast time still.

So even as we record this right around 1 a.m. Eastern time, it's only 10 p.m. back in Portland,

and this was a two-day weekend.

So I wasn't really here long enough.

I don't think to get used to Eastern Time. And with the night races, I had no reason to. So I'm okay. I'm good. I can carry

the load in this if you need me to. And you know, maybe I should just sit back here quiet,

kind of plan my trip. I'm trying to get home tonight. I'm on Indiana time. So maybe that's a good idea. Maybe it should just be a solo podcast, and I'll just chime in every now and then.

So I'm delaying you from your long road trip.

You're trying to go all the way.

How many hour drive do you have ahead of you tonight?

Probably seven and a half to eight, which actually isn't that bad when you put it into context

of the fact that I drove back from the Daytona 500 back in February and one trip.

So I've done worse.

Okay, but you're only having a Dr. Pepper right now, I noticed.

Don't you need something stronger?

Are you a coffee drinker?

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