The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: What'd You Say? (feat. Ryan Blaney)
Thu, 20 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What makes the Big Suey different from other podcasts?
Welcome to the Big Suey, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.
I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there.
That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it. And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habitual liar.
I was laughing on the way home yesterday because it is a particular kind of funny to speak to somebody who's not nicknamed Iceman and call them Iceman. Like of all of the nicknames, calling someone Iceman who doesn't go by Iceman is funnier than just getting a nickname wrong.
Like Frank Asoa.
Yeah, I mean, just it was ridiculous what I did yesterday.
It actually restored my faith in humanity a little bit because I put that 100% on AI. That's what AI said Christopher Bell's nickname was.
That is not just AI. It was also Wikipedia. So we're joined now by Maverick. Ryan Blaney is with us. And I'm very pleased to have one of the most popular drivers around with us as Homestead. Miami Speedway is hosting the NASCAR Cup Series this weekend, Sunday, March 23rd. That is FS1, 3 p.m. And I wonder about this because, Zaz, I don't know how your ears are doing in radio.
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Chapter 2: How does Ryan Blaney handle the noise and hearing challenges in racing?
I know that I all of a sudden.
My wife says bad.
Yeah. All of a sudden, I'm asking my wife all the time to repeat things, and I've got to imagine just given how loud. He's only 31 years old. Thank you for joining us, Ryan. But I got to imagine that one of the many drawbacks that happen from doing a dangerous thing like this for a living, this has to affect your hearing, how loud all of this is, correct?
That's why he's Maverick.
That's why they call you Maverick.
Very good.
Comedy.
Iceman. Good job. Man, you're 0 for 2. I'm actually Iceman, but it's fine. No, thanks for having me, fellas. I appreciate it. But yeah, I mean, it's loud, man. I mean, I've been doing this since I was nine years old. I grew up watching my dad race, so I've been around the track forever. And it does.
I mean, we do the best we can of like wearing in ears in the car, stuff like that to try to just muffle some of it. But it does digress a little bit. You see a lot of drivers that have retired, they are on hearing aids now, but it's just one of the drawbacks.
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Chapter 3: Did Ryan Blaney always want to be a race car driver?
Yeah, it's always what I wanted to do just because I grew up around it and it was what I was most comfortable with, just watching my dad do it. I played other sports as a kid. You know, I, I love playing basketball. I love baseball. Um, but then I kind of had to come to a realization, like I'm probably not going to make it. I'm, I have my father's jeans.
I'm probably going to be five, nine and like 140 pounds. And, Racing is probably the best route for me. But my dad never forced me to do it. He was always, are you sure you want to do this? Are you sure you want to go to the next step? So it was something that I just wanted to do what my dad did. I got lucky that I was able to get the opportunities and make a living off of doing this.
Do you have other places where you're an adrenaline junkie?
I'll be honest with you, like, not really. I don't really have to search for adrenaline too often. People ask all the time, like, oh, it's just is it just an adrenaline boost racing cars? And like, not really. Like, you're not white knuckling out there all the time. I think it's just what you're used to. But I try to find things that are more like relaxing to me, like going, you know, skiing and
you know, I play a lot of golf. Those are relaxing things to me where I can just kind of decompress and just like be out there and not really have to worry about too much. So I don't really search for adrenaline too often.
Do you drive too fast when you're away from the track?
The opposite, complete opposite. I am a very slow driver on the roads. I have nowhere to be quickly. I always tell people like, I get paid to drive really fast for my job. And the only thing I get, if I go fast on the roads is like a speeding ticket, a fine or go to jail. So it's like the trade-off is not worth it to me. My wife is actually the speed demon behind the wheel.
I kind of, if she's driving, we're getting to the place we need to go to quickly. And, uh, I try not to be a passenger, uh, you know, passenger driver, I guess. And, uh, I'd tell her what to do, but she's a speed demon on the roads. I, uh, I, I don't really get anything for that.
Do you have a number of tickets you've gotten? Like, is there a number that you would assign to how often you have broken the law while driving away from the track?
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Chapter 4: Does Ryan Blaney get road rage?
Do you ever get road rage when you're driving a regular car on regular streets or the highway?
Sometimes I get a little annoyed with with that. drivers on the road like everybody like you know people merging kind of being foolish uh i'll tell you what bothers me the most is uh no turn signals that really annoys me especially if you're like stopping in the middle of the road to turn and you don't put your signal on i'm like what
what do you want me to do uh that that part really kind of grinds my gears a little bit put it on the poll please at levitard show uh what annoys you more a no turn signal signal or somebody who has their turn signal on all the time because that's the problem we have in south florida the problem in south florida is old people who always have their turn signal on but we also have the other problem as well so i just want to know
We have it all.
Yeah, we have it. Well, have you noticed? I don't know if you've been driving very much around Miami when you're not at Homestead, but it's gotten really bad down here. You're not going to be able to get anyone while you're here and you should travel by helicopter.
Yeah, I get down there today. I have noticed. It's funny, we travel across the country and each state has its own like work as far as people drive in and kind of what they do. You know, you got like the big cities like New York and stuff like that, where I don't know how people drive in New York in the city. Everyone's just honking at each other.
But then you got Miami, like you said, where, you know, people just are all over the place. I would say no turn signal bothers me more. If you have your turn signal on, you probably have your music playing too loud and you forgot to turn your turn signal off. I've done that before. But if you're still going and your brake lights aren't on, like, all right, you're not turning anytime soon.
So I don't really worry about you.
It's been a hard luck season for the 12 car this season so far. You've been having good cars and just, well, I guess the sentiment can be expressed best by Cal Shiesty on X when he tweeted out, can't wait for Homestead where Blaney will lead the first 266 laps and then get struck by a f***ing meteor on the last lap.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of being a NASCAR driver?
The worst part? Wrecking. That sucks. That's a good answer. That sucks. Like, that's the worst thing ever. Some of them are, hey, I got a pretty good gig, man. Like, I'm really lucky to do what I do. It's a privilege to be able to drive cars for a living. And that's just part of it, right, is you're going to get in wrecks, and some of them are going to be worse than others.
But that stuff sucks, whether you kind of get a little hurt or just know that you're done for the day. So that is by far the worst part of it. That's the only complaint I have about my sport is the wrecks don't feel very good.
I started following NASCAR closely last season and there have been really some spectacular looking yet really awful wrecks and knock on wood every time the driver gets out gives a signal to the crowd that they're okay and I'm astonished by that all the sign said has gone into protection and then they show the camera inside and I see the driver's neck get knocked around I don't know if you ever get desensitized with the wrecks being having the job that you do it's a part of the job but
Does it ever change the feeling when you know you're about to wreck and you close your eyes for a brief moment and you're like, this could be it? Does that ever go away?
I'll tell you, the worst wrecks are the ones that you see coming. Like, okay, I'll give you an example. Probably the hardest wreck I've had in the last year was right at Daytona. You're riding around there in a big train and I got hooked in the right rear and you go right head on into the fence, right? Going 200 miles an hour.
And that half a second, by the time you get turned, by the time you hit the fence, it feels like an eternity, you know, because you know there's nothing you can do about this. You're just waiting for a big hit. Those are the worst ones by far. Some of them, you know, happen a little bit quicker that you don't really expect it.
But if you get to think about it before you actually hit, that's the worst part. But the safety side has gotten, you know, just in the last 20 years, I think it's gotten pretty amazing. I mean, there's still things that need to get better. But, yeah, the ones that take the longest, and I mean take the longest by like half a second, a second, you realize you're going to wreck.
Those ones usually are bad because then you tense up, you know, and everyone's always like, well, you know, if you're going to get in a car wreck, just relax. That's really easy to say if you've never been in a car wreck before.
It really is. It's super easy to say, yes.
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Chapter 6: How does Ryan Blaney feel about Star Wars?
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Chapter 7: What makes NASCAR weddings unique?
I wanted to ask the group a few questions here. And the first one is I am asking everyone here, including basketball expert Jonathan Zaslow, to pronounce the name of the San Antonio Spur who scored 34 points in fewer than 20 minutes last night and then during the sideline interview brought out his good friend Flavor Flav to be a part of the shenanigans.
Does anyone want to take a chance, a shot at this person's name? Sonaro is the first name, correct? Nope.
Everyone pulled back.
No, it's not.
Sandro.
Okay, Sandro is the first name, and the last name is? We've got nothing? No. Nobody here can name the spur who scored.
Wait, did you really do that?
I did.
Sonaro is the first name, and then it's actually Sandro.
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Chapter 8: Who are the top athletes that can rock a cap?
That was when I was younger. My father still hasn't let go of the fact that I was a hot dog as a soccer player when I was young, wearing headbands and wristbands, and he would always say to me, what are you doing? What are you doing? Why do you have to do that?
That's generally not the aesthetic for that sport in particular.
and terry cloth shorts usually not what you go with in uh intramural basketball either short but i remember they were short short is back by the way short is back yeah but this was the 90s uh yes tony thank you i've noticed this i don't know when this happened but this recently i have noticed that very short ass hanging out of your shorts is back it's back in yes but also baggy is back it's a weird time baggy is
in some cases. Not in sports. In hoops, you cannot wear baggy shorts and go out there and play unless you're Adam Sandler.
My favorite is when they show highlights of the 2008 March Madness and you're like, what is this? Skinny tops, but they got capri pants?
Tyler Hainsborough is the ultimate example of this. The tightest jersey you've ever seen and then pants down past his knees. Blousey. Dan, we have an issue.
Look, we've knocked it out the park with both of our NASCAR interviews. They both went so well, Iceman and Maverick. Maverick went so well that we actually once again forgot to play Vroom or Vroom Vroom, which is a game that we've spent a lot of time in pre-production for.
So we need to find another NASCAR driver named Goose, preferably, and play Vroom or Vroom Vroom because these are really good questions.
I'm sorry that that has happened the last couple of days. I haven't really been buying in on Vroom or Vroom Vroom.
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