MRN Crew Call - Mar 8

Wednesday, March 8th

This week on MRN Crew Call... Tony Rizzuti & Kid Cruz call on Crew Chief Richard "Slugger" Labbe & MRN Pit Reporter Alex Hayden. If you missed it, WATCH IT RIGHT NOW!!
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A top spot or not. Oh yeah you do is read MRI group calling presented by Hercules tires. We're currently tied up phone lines that verdict itself and it dig a cute clothes into the guy's not hot but it has bonded over the wall and on your radio dial. Your faces while holding appreciated our representatives are working hard to bring it up 5% from the hottest it's not that that's certain. Thank you for holding viewers now being affected your house don't even know it and hit current. So I'll go back there. All along the line. The only. City age don't you for all show on. This. Radio effort to use the hash tag ask him or and as always we have the and for him hotline you can give us call that is 844. For. Ask him Mario and so we always love to hear your messages here your feedback. Give we have and we may need some followers tweet had a real thinkers yeah right there. Another great show force today will be making our first called the welcome North Carolina. Three showed what her lab be joining us later on in the show they've been off to a that super fast start. Not the results like watts oh. You're excited about both villains actually this year watching time in Austin with an exciting start to this good. And then we'll make a call to a really cool dude the one and only Alex eight. Another guy that hung with us in Orlando Orlando game I ever really. Connected that'll be fun and as always we close it out if you saw last week a people I had emails. We take calls. We have letters. We had. Do you still get those telegram's we got them. Five on five periods of jealousy people love other show in Orange dot com there are jealous of a cooler segment one well it is the award winning. Best. Something game. Something. The keyword. If they don't like it was still the chicken. Yep that's state of Nightline every Friday that your fantasy outlook that should. It's Nightline the jobless 51 of those now allow likable. Take it last week you can't hang with Lady Antebellum. At Daytona you big country guy now you've gone from pop stars. To country stars in NASCAR's. I love NASCAR US. Imaging with this week well. I thought this is appropriate right his single hometown girls rising up the charge is a new a new CD. A deep south coming out on Friday. And he played the pre ratio at Atlanta Motor Speedway Josh turner right well better time mr. people news at candidates I didn't try to I have my voice to sound yeah I'd have to let him right there in a handsome man let's get same beard and his little little little stronger than mine but flexing like that they'd have to take the a new. We have to me was nice enough to sit down and talk a little bit is on this week's crew cut you know I ask him about his favorite drivers growing up we grew up in South Carolina. And if you saw the three ratio is wearing a kill Yarborough shirt when he was performing down at Atlanta Motor Speedway. So you know I'm asking about it his favorite drivers and it's probably safe to assume that on this week's. Crew cut he's gonna mention kill Yarborough as one newspaper drivers right. The we'll speak The New Yorker. Look what. Nelson. Here again Miller or. You live mostly. He. We're gonna pray for him you I don't know what it's like who have good Christians who have so little was filmed. You realize that it Q I should just. Over the last two years I think so. If you tune in to NASCAR USA this week and you get yours talk a little bit about that a course the new album we'll have some bits of the interview on my Twitter as well you can follow but the real kid Cruz. If you haven't listened and asked for US air don't know where to find it. Just go to MR dotcom a look at the station's tab up top and you could hear more with mean Josh like that song that Darryl had Roland underneath that that was probably his biggest hit what. Three or four years ago it would yeah it would mean around for a long time ago but we I mean you can hear my whipping boys of the audiences what do you think do you think I have a major country music now. Really we're gonna go with that just now I'm hearing at in my eight years well nothing it's universal though is among the control room and it's hard. I see how this word today hey Atlanta race yeah. Cars slipping and slide and we had stages somewhere other than a restrictor plate race what were your thoughts on the folds of honor 500. Your guy got the lab that's why I love I gotta love it we haven't Kozlowski who weren't allowed me to spotter forgot to bring my chops he's brought me some cool things went over the past couple I know I know Joey Meyer is awesome I was happy with the culinary can not be. I guess the big question is. To pave we're not repaid but I hope they don't I'm saying no they don't Joey talked about that on. On motor sports Monday on Monday that you know basically. They were doing this because the weather right if it rains it takes right that that bracket and messes up the whole schedule but you know for. To to mess up something that's so good in like I. Every Atlanta race has been a little bit strong now but if you watched the action guys are nothing is guaranteed there but he Kevin Harvick had that race Juan. But he. An and that's a typical Atlanta race nothing's guaranteed the way they're slip and slide and you get up high he run download you run in the middle there's so many different lines I mean Kyle Larson was in the drivers equally that race went up high brag goes low. I hope they don't change it and if they do I hope they come up with some type asphalt that makes the surface similar to what they had. I thought it was exciting. Absolutely I called the the harbored the Bible not obviously speeding on pit road but I knew something was gonna happen there I was. Watch and you know was a Kyle Busch and trucks in the same thing happening like the day before he won the expert but he race of that happening drugs like some gonna happen you can just run away with the entire thing and insured up. Of course it was open for a pal arsenal and and Kozlowski Bowman and nowhere. And had a pop open normally celebrate so I I ask you we widened bring it's one of those big old all boys in the and he reminded me. Because he's got a library at home he doesn't usually get one but he said next time maybe try to get one you actually I get I can't. I think is exact words were rosy year so cheap on you just asked a particular being stored by 12 bucks. Swift response product it's always fun to get the Trotsky are we're gonna take our first break here on empowering group called when we come back hopefully we'll check in with the crew chief of the number three Lucas Oil Chevrolet this week dal going into the quarter panel's. 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Good afternoon guys doing just fine can't complain thanks. Hey before we get in the last Sunday's race at Atlanta you've got to spend some time up in the Booth with MR wrinkle in the truck race publisher time on the radio with them aren't. I was scared the whole time. It's they would it was quite experienced Mina and I'm glad I did and hope we get to do it again but. Just to put a different aspect in my mind of of NASCAR racing in general you guys memoir and operate. And and I know you know everyone knows what's segment of the racetrack is there's what their responsibility is in you know watching her bag network togethers just. And it is amazing that you know nobody walked on each other and everybody. There was never a dull moment operated as everyone always knew what to do and it was just. And it was just awesome to see the level we often talk over the driver on the radio with a spotter. Walked over VO walk over Austin and and would you guys doing the live broadcast it was like no interference and everything was just amazing how you guys. While interjected and in New Year's certain area what to do it at certain times so 2000 Breaston. When they point to beat to tacos and the like that old thing it's my turn I guess. It's really need him legacy that I hope I get to do it again and I'm very very glad I didn't. Like can tell you everybody here was talking about how much you brought to the broadcast SOA definitely wanna get you back up in the Booth again when you have the time. Now let's talk about that Atlanta race did you guys were very fast once again. Lost power late I know you've torn that car apart what was the final verdict as to why you lost power. Yes thank Tony was a great weekend for sure in general this the end result wasn't what we wanted to know we. Been issued eighteen ago and and basically what happened to be honest with is. You know Atlanta's wore out attract one apart lot of rubber tires fall off you know and at the rubber ridge. We have an alternate productive basically all that debris from the track in the rubber. In the end over the course run and racist filled deduct up with debris in the open air overheated when an elevator overheated shorted out. Therefore drain the battery so we read about a hundred laps on the battery but no we had a probably just quit all of a sudden we had no indication. It that we had an issue in the only indication we do is that the 31 had a problem about fifteen national forests and a little player arrested did work. Faced wondered can go to questions we there were a couple of guys that did the that the triple this weekend there right next Saturday trucks and and cup and obviously. The priorities for Austin Dillon to go out there and hopefully competing getting the chastened and be in the the playoffs and win a championship so how frustrating is it frustrating at all. Trying to get as much one on one time with him as you need during a race Wendy's tried to practice in and qualify and and get with. I guess up to three other Europe the two other crew chiefs during the weekend how does that play out. It was interest like we spoke about and broadcast on Saturday. We're happy hour ended dostum was on pit road get the Goodyear tire sheet. And he virtually jumped out of the car ran to the truck drivers meeting and I never talked Austin until about 10 o'clock Saturday night after everything settled down from the truck race. He got company which has a little bit but he wouldn't have much time for sure he was he was busy all weekend and you know it's. He tells us liberal what he's thinking in and we use our children and go to work to do it but you know it and he bit information you give us is very important but time was of the essence. This past weekend in Atlanta but going to Vegas Austin is an extra IndyCar as well again this weekend so it's you know. It's good I like it when he. Runs different series is one it's appropriate group because anytime bosses in a vehicle or pit crew. Pitch that truck or car whatever may be. And you know like bonus we in the Vegas we've got a completely new tire. They have a new aero package we have a new aero package opportunity. So anytime we get in the car is going to be very beneficial or so. Looking forward to Vegas has been a really good tracks for us. We qualified fifth last year we ended up finishing fifth that to have some adversity off their road. In the box and speed penalties so to overcome it we were fast all weekend and looking forward for the same result in this weekend but it is nice to the that we have speed and our our speed on their road with a pit crew. We had some mechanical issues that we can clean them up but. Gonna try to find three or four tents. Is very hard to do six and mechanic Alicia not just that is a lot easier than trying to find speed. Slugger I know a lot of people see the crew chief and they only think about what you do on the box and in the garage area that trying to work out the logistics. Of turning around cars and swapping parts to get ready for this West Coast swing what is the plan for the three car after Vegas to swap out. Well you know we don't from Atlanta I think it was I think it got home at 1030 Metallica to bed it was 1130. Accurate exam Monday morning at RCR and the truck which pulls back or Monday night at seven. So the truck drivers conduct 36 so that the Las Vegas. Or Phoenix scores they're almost on right now they'd leave Friday afternoon. To do the swap on Monday morning and in Las Vegas after the race. And then Vegas cars are coming home after the Vegas race and we're gonna try to run those cores. At Fontana if possible and now we have another back up plan but. The Vegas core group a lot of work and effort into them they're all and all the vehicles and spent a lot of time and a wind tunnel developing them. And I would feel this is our best course of which they can make this moment. Hey before we let you go you know I spent some time at DEI together and obviously you want to Daytona 500. With Michael Waltrip how. How emotional how weird was it to see Mikey run that that final race spec at Daytona. There was you know we texted back important chattel of it before the race and you know I feel very fortunate I was able to win three races with Michael and you know I've so it goes a big part of his career. And I just see him walk away when he decided it was time I guess what every driver should do it just. Is this kind of said that you know to dusty wanna attract more but will will see him at racetracks that is kind of a benefit that you know he is retiring. He will be around so let's see if Mikey around his character that he has has slumped one having around as if she wasn't doing TV. That'd be a huge bummer but still have that option is you Michael for the first half the the 2017 season is critical but you have me Mike you've been to a lot together and then resist neat to see him walk away when it was done. Yeah it was a cool moment hey look I know how busy you are getting ready for this West Coast swing really appreciate your time here on a marring group called. Good luck Vegas good luck on the West Coast swing and good luck the rest of the year 2070. I think Sloane looked like two guys that are out. There is slugger Levy crew chief of the number three typically the Dow Chevrolet Lucas Oil jumping on board very good to see sponsors continuing. The wanna jump into the NASCAR series especially at that monster energy level that's that's big money so it's good seeing a new sponsor on that car this week and I we got to take a break we come back we'll make another group called republic pulled them off the golf course right version that's that's actually a low level right now taking time Alexei and up next here on MR Google. Both forms of shot with a twelve to offer for Amare unfair. Using promo code I'm on 45 to receive 25% off your first order a crystal farms dot com now through march 31 got 45% off juicy premium black Angus beef. And soccer and all natural draw for 420 years but don't farms have been through a rough multiple. Food lovers across the nation with a higher quality beef and pork products always been very good the US slowed them one bite and you'll be cleared for light. You vote tomorrow and 45 good every coach Barnes thought god. 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Timberlake talk like him something about it suit and tie. Welcome back to the program can't cruise is Tony was duty. Part of the Orlando trio but we're we're missing the third yeah I wish you well we have sat yet we have him on the phone line. He is MR instant reporting it's your money NBC sports as well. He is the Alex Aden Allah tell you nobody. What went wrong and had seen all the Orlando trios complete by the way what golf course to people you off of that. And tomorrow. Asian Mara Iowa playing the stage and editor and a plane around that singled out there. Greater junction they call them what it's like a poor man's Pebble Beach to me. Around Atlanta. When my favorite play what handicap these days. You know what I really keep up our act probably it may be well you player. It's gonna give me next time we get together and need I need at least two aside. I can be accurate I we. Yeah absolutely hey I'll give back you and I started at. That you started here at him or in and out here start. It was 19970. Yeah this is starting liked what he expert. He's my he's departed. 97 it it would kind of crazy act never got any regular radio it never got any. Play by play at any comments or anything of that nature. And I entered. Classified ad in the newspaper. Back in 96 believe it or not. At that outlook local short track at that now along with this Wayne county speedway gift outside of gold or North Carolina. And dad are working at all they can palatable fourteen to go and I got that it on a Friday night tracking and week later got on this Saturday night track at east Carolina speedway which is a NASCAR home track me bill runs. They they actually wore them on Saturday night and at the original track higher meat based secretly recorded the incident sent a tape in Myanmar and and literally within ten months of never doing it and getting my first short track now I was on him RN at Rockingham. We've got to reach 200 for the NASCAR Busch Series back in the day. 8 February had ninety. That's kind of how our. Alex congratulations by the way and a successful. Appointment with the the account yesterday. Heard around I'd love I haven't I haven't done that yet aren't here shares here's the question right have you ever kept track of this during a calendar year what number is higher at the end of the calendar year the number of races you've called or the number of golf rounds you've played. You know it's ideal and that's no joke it's fairly equal if you don't ever actually coming up how many races are gonna get. Between races and qualify you practiced black cat actually worried on air product at. You're able to what I beat me 95 and get in. That's not what made the rounds of golf. Bummer that doesn't include the winter about it order book so it may be higher on the golf. Anybody have always told people that I think the hardest position at MR and is working pit road pitcher. You're covering a multiple cars you got loud noises you got so many things going on what do you find to be the most difficult part of being a pit reporter. I think it's cute things. That matter probably the biggest challenges that I I think it and you can act any the other pit reporters and and you may come up with different states that. To the most typical banks first and foremost it's. Think you've got to be able to see what's going on and what we do on motor racing network you know we correct camera and more by herself. Have to be able to seat pits stops and you they can recover much the cars and normally papers thirteen or fourteen cars in your picks section. That you got to look up and down both left and right. So be able to get the whole wall and if you're fortunate enough have an opening somewhere in the wall weakened standards it be opening it. And kind of look back report after one of the biggest talent its. It the other is something that actually make. Along time that it was an avid develop the relationship. With the crew members with the critiques the cart chief the engineer. Certainly the driver. Act to be able app those relationships and any time there's and you read dear lord it over ought to act or race team. Active at trying to beat that person out trapped in a little bit of time with a good system that they know lying mean it would on it would end any what I walk in their pocket. It'll freak out this packet can walk in with a microphone and they're part of it is it's. They're gonna give you the information community oh win when you're the middle of a racist and there may be an issue or potential problem with the car. That relationship support me the opportunity to literally walk and the oxygen in most cases brought up the pit box on top of it. And go right to distort that might have been currently burning here cart keep whatever the case and at. Exactly what their problem is that can beat you haven't heard her relationship with that the team members and then be enabled vetoed elected big talent. Yet you do a phenomenal job for us on pit lane hey we have this game show we started last week. Kids are down badly do you think you can take him down today I had two wins. I come out kicker. Isn't it I want. We. Hear you hire. At least in rural and working Universal Studios act when it crew. Let them mayor and the war in you know and you were the go to commercial. Demand and inflate. Is it ego advocate I would go to these excel. You'll that they would view around great Orlando area and these live radio remote. Because if I think it. Was going to be IQ up there. I hit it any longer yours but it got off each. Out they'll out they're among other places and a church street. This getting at is to go and how it grew out of work and exit Corey. All right we'll don't go easy on him try to win them guys pop idol aren't great. 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Idaho starving and out of Hungary and it's making me crave. For creeks don't farm state. And folks we've we've got an offer for you creeks don't farms is back. This is an exclusive offered just for the Amare and fans use promo code in Bahrain 25. If that state. For 25% off your first order of premium black Angus beef in all natural to Iraq pork it's now through march 30 offers. Order today creeks don't farms. Dot com a mistake low medium where like that again yeah absolutely got a pretty good got a rare medium currently president he goes weld them with ketchup I don't know what they pay little boy and game five on five off here's how we play the game they don't have to be right. They just have to be closest I appreciate the kind words that last segment Alex you're going down. All right Alex Donald he can't hear you at all OK so let's get really wants a replay will be talking I rowdy maze but 45 seconds on the clock. We have a thing this week the team is. Vegas baby. Vegas or anything we'll have to do with Las Vegas here we go 45 seconds and a block in times starts now. How old was Elvis when he bought Graceland. When he started according to Billboard Magazine how many number one hits it Elvis passed. What teams did how many Grammy Awards did tell this win armed. For. How many consecutive sold out shows that Elvis have ample Las Vegas don't. Nobody thought. And finally in my favorite question bill links thin streak of evil and evil thing jump over the Cesar. Palace balcony 1067. And I don't want to. Upheld our right awful on the border. Those answers are locked in now we're going to bring Alex didn't back yen. Alex we haven't seen this week for five on five off its biggest baby. The cost. So things that have to do with Vegas Robbie hood 45 seconds back up on the border ready Alex. Here we go your time starts now how old was Elvis when he bought Graceland. 32. According to Billboard Magazine how many number one hits to dealt with that. Are you. How many Grammy Awards that helped us win. War. How many consecutive sold out shows that Elvis have that the Las Vegas Hilton. Liked your work throw out there. And again I might think his favorite question the links in key. Of evil to be able to jump over the Cesar spell it out. 200 when I. There you go boy is the answer sir in its. Time to find out if they got a game I think we got a good or if balloting took it down all right let's bring in producer Daryl Smith. Darrel let's see how these guys did the first question had to do it. How old Elvis was when he bought Graceland kids said when he salmon and Alex said 32 the answer was 22 meets Luke. There is room. With the mark all right question number two. According to Billboard Magazine how many number one hits it Elvis have kids that at 27 and Alex said seventeen there correct answer 188 who. He away arm. Lot of controversy over how many number ones because billboards says that it was. Eighteen. But the Elvis Presley estate feels like it was closer to thirty because the UK number one's and different things it's a. Oh left right back to you after this long distance that it action there how many grammys did Elvis win their Darrell kids said. A 44. Alex said four. Really they both of war he geared the answer was three. So they both get a point that we attitude to match by the way. None of them were for rock general sue for gospel song in one for a lifetime achievement award. You learn something here on hammering group called the ruling only two real ones are right number four at two questions ago that this is where it's gonna come down to your guys how many consecutive sold out shows that Elvis have. At the Las Vegas Hilton kids said 758. And Alex said 100 the answer was 830. I am how I didn't think alleviated. As we go to the final question added. How long was evil and evil thing jump over caesar's palace by the way it was his longest jump. He ever did Eddie didn't make it was in the hospital for 29 days but still probably is most famous jump next to sweeper in it. Also did not make the link was. Darrell kids that. 1067. And Alexy said 220. Correct answer was. Is 100 and. You win one dude champion here. I have my above Allah Satan gets the win. Hi. I'm under it waiting. But you live now wrangling and I know 00 with a 1067 just to be cute I think at the end and it really does he had a Alex. A great job today were run in a little bit longer before we let you go we mentioned here you're a musician. You play almost every instrument out there you have to go to the song. When you decide to get on the keyboards. Hotels up and I Ernie. Do anything to give us a little taste yet now. I'm store and that's where you by the way Alex and once I'm still working and we are on prime. I would really beat export it they go can't wait to see if they were playing good win today RTX are right there goes out taking kids on one kid. Because close on the right now we're here tonight you've got on the other music I don't know whether. Very well lose anyone. Flew to Dallas it is not so bad again thanks Alex for joining also thanks slugger Levy finds time to join us here on group off we and a whole lot of fun hope you majority you can watch your back on it all right Jack obviously aren't athletes. The papers on them. You've been listening to aunt are written for. Results presented by herculean tire and street thugs everywhere and bad news about empowering dot com forum at our Red Hat. Anbari I was also available on demand. In the emirate dot com media that are on our FaceBook page on YouTube. Downloaded through IQ. Is there who will play every print color of the production of the vote everything that's where. Good side.
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