On this week’s Happy Hour, the hosts Trey Lyle, Michael Massie and Caleb Barnes are joined by Bryan Nolen, host of Bringing the Heat with Bryan Nolen, to talk the frenzy of NASCAR Cup Series storylines exiting Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The quartet dive into Joey Logano‘s playoff-opening win and why the two-time Cup champion makes the Championship 4 every other year. Will that trend continue this year?
The guys then discuss the topic of the year that ramped up this past weekend: charter negotiations. All but 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports signed the charter agreement presented by NASCAR, but was it right the way NASCAR went about getting the signatures? Do the two holdouts have a shot at winning if they get into a legal battle with NASCAR?
The gang then makes their picks at which of the current drivers below the cut line— Brad Keselowski, Harrison Burton, Chase Briscoe and Martin Truex Jr. — in the Round of 16 will make it to the next round and which ones will be eliminated.
Finally, this past weekend was the first of NFL action. The guys go through a list of drivers and select which driver best matches an NFL team.
Watch the whole show below or listen to the audio version wherever you get your podcasts.
A Graduate of Virginia Tech in Sports Media and Analytics, Trey Lyle has been covering NASCAR since 2021 as the producer of the Fast Lane with Ed Lane on VTRN Sports 93.3 FM in Lynchburg, Va.
Trey joined FS in 2023 to cohost Happy Hour and help out on the podcast front as the producer for Brining the Heat with Bryan Nolen. Now, he oversees the entire podcast operation for Frontstretch.
Caleb began sports writing in 2023 with The Liberty Champion, where he officially covered his first NASCAR race at Richmond in the spring. While there, Caleb met some of the guys from Frontstretch, and he joined the video editing team after graduating from Liberty University with degrees in Strategic Communications and Sports Journalism. Caleb currently work full-time as a Multi-Media Journalist with LEX 18 News in Lexington, Kentucky and contributes to Frontstretch with writing and video editing. He's also behind-the-scenes or on camera for the Happy Hour Podcast, live every Tuesday night at 7:30!
Michael Massie joined Frontstretch in 2017 and has served as the Content Director since 2020. Massie, a Richmond, Va., native, has covered NASCAR, IndyCar, SRX and the CARS Tour. Outside of motorsports, the Virginia Tech grad and Green Bay Packers minority owner can be seen cheering on his beloved Hokies and Packers.
Bryan Nolen is the Operations Manager and Multimedia Director for Frontstretch.com. He also hosts the Bringing the Heat with Bryan Nolen Podcast and occasionally makes appearances on The Happy Hour Podcast. He has a Sportscasting degree from the Dan Patrick School of Sportscasting. He resides in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, his French Bulldog Archer and two rabbits.
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