Nooooooo! Not Kyle Busch!

This is even worse than M&Ms leaving the sport! I followed Schraeder to Sadler and Sadler to Gilliland, but...I don't like Kyle! It would be nice to see the M&Ms car up front again, though...

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JR Press Conference Live on the Web

from speedtv.com

"SPEED will broadcast the press conference live, with pre-press conference live updates beginning at 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. ET, John Roberts will host a special live edition of The SPEED Report, with Bob Dillner on site in Mooresville, N.C. The press conference is expected to last one hour. Viewer's can also watch the event via LIVE Streaming Video on the web at mms://wmscnn.stream.aol.com/live/nascar/webcast1_high
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Dark Star wears Depends?

So funny. Here's a semi-cheesy video promoting Wrigley's new contest (oh look, there's an ad for it up there :) and in it, one of the questions asked to the drivers is "boxers or briefs?"

Dark Star says, "Uhh, depends." And the quick interviewer says, "You wear Depends?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJrhzEnqZDc

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Great show today

The interviews and memories of "Mr. France" was very welcome and done with class. Thanks for helping those of us who are new to the sport gain the perspective on how much has changed in the last few decades.

The interview about how Days of Thunder was shot was interesting, too. I had no idea that those cars were in the actual Daytona 500

Finally, the conversation about why Kurt Busch should be parked made a lot of sense. The comparison to the penalty the 8 team was given for what was undoubtedly a minor infraction was very helpful.

Keep it up

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Podcast Praises

Hey Buck, Bass, Cutler, and everyone else involved in the podcast, I just wanted to thank you for putting out such a professional product on a daily basis. So many podcasts out there are an hour of just what y'all call the outtro. They're very annoying to listen to. Your show, on the other hand, is well written and a joy to listen to. I remember when I first started listening that I thought it was strange that you could have multiple takes on the news because the banter sounds so natural; but that's also a sign of good writing. As a corporate movie-maker, I understand how hard it is to make a script that reads well and is short enough to not get boring (like this blog may be turning out ).

So anyway. Thanks again, and keep up the good work. I can't wait to order my American flag Rowdy Nation t-shirt.

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The Professor needs some soap on that tongue

Did you notice on today's podcast that The Professor, a self-described intellectual, stooped to swear words to pepper his discussion instead of other more thoughtful adjectives? I mean, at the very least he could have said that he wouldn't watch "that asinine race." That's one of those intellectual words that sounds like swearing, but isn't :)

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NEXT to each other??

I just returned from my 30-minute "Walk with Rowdy" and I stopped in my tracks when I heard that JP "Dark Star" Montoya was starting next to my M&Ms car On the one hand, it would be great to see some payback, but on the other hand I wouldn't want Gilliland to do anything to hurt his car. Those should be some fun pace laps, though

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Stay Away Crash Montoya

Here's hoping that in the 600 Montoya stays far away from my M&Ms car. Gilliland's actually good on the big tracks :)

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A TiVo tip: Wishlist with keywords

Some of you may already know how to do this, but since it took me a few years to fine-tune it, I thought I'd share. When I first got TiVo, I used to get season passes for each of the broadcasts on each of the networks. That was a pain because when it would come close to the network switchover, I had to find the names of the shows and set it up twice each year.

Then I made a Wishlist search on Title="NASCAR Racing" and that automatically got me all of the races from any channel. But I don't watch Busch or Truck racing ('cause, well, I have a life outside of watching racing) so I would then have to go in every week to the To Do List and manually delete the Busch and Truck schedules.

This year what I figued out is that I can do a Keyword Wishlist for "Nextel" and add the category Sports - Auto Racing. This records all shows on any channel that has the word Nextel in the title or description and is auto racing. It's been working beautifully, and I don't have to set it up each year.

I hope this helps someone out there. Oh, also, when you set the wishlist to automatially record, don't forget to go into option and set the stop time to one hour later.

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I finally joined the Rowdy Nation

Nag, nag, nag on the podcast every day, so here I am :)

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