Daniel Blair: The Whole Truth (updated with YouTube link)

3/4/2025 3:13am

Seems like a whole lot of little man syndrome with some extremely fragile egos all the way around to me….

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3/4/2025 3:16am

Probably a coincidence, but blair dropped all of this on Diffey's birthday lol 💀 

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3/4/2025 3:19am

What a dumpster fire. Is this what’s referred to as “growing the sport?” I’m always amazed at how people get a pass for being complete douche bags because they’re famous for being a great athlete, singer, movie star etc. Character matters just as much, if not more to me than your accomplishments. It’s why I always was a Dungey fan. Even locally, some of the fastest kids are nothing but disrespectful punks on and off the track. Not a great look right now for the broadcast team is it? 

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3/4/2025 3:23am

Remember that one race last year where there was some sort of technical issue, and you couldn’t hear the broadcasters for 5-10 minutes? Just the sounds of the race? That was the best race coverage I’ve ever seen. Wish that was an option, I’d pick it every time. 

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3/4/2025 3:32am
truck wrote:
Hi Ricky!!!! Zero chance RC's ego will let him stay silent on all this. Let me try to guess his response. "I love DB, great guy, wanted to...

Hi Ricky!!!! 

Zero chance RC's ego will let him stay silent on all this. Let me try to guess his response. 

"I love DB, great guy, wanted to see him succeed and tried to offer my advice and he didn't want to hear it. It's unfortunate how this has all turned out. No hard feelings."

Seems like RC hitched his wagon to Diffey and Diffey stroked RC's ego so they had each other's back. 

It's not clear to me if the unnamed person is Bondo or someone else but wouldn't think it would be hard to figure out who it is for anyone in the know. 

It's always been crazy to me that NBC considers Diffey a star. Indy fans have hated the guy for years. Guess he politicks well and does things in a way that keep the bosses happy but those bosses must not spend any time listening to their customers or they never would have had a hard on for diffey to begin with.

As far as DB's future, this is year 3 of a 5 year deal with peacock. Who knows who has the contract 3 years from now, but if the people in charge at that point aren't the same people as now and have paid any attention to what's gone down over the past few years, why wouldn't they call him up and see if he's interested? The only bridges he's truly torched are RC, Diffey, and peacock people.

Matthes has obviously known this story for a while and has asked DB at every opportunity to spill it. What more do you want him to do? JT can't be expected to say much or he'll be next in line to get the same treatment. 

Any idea if Diffey and RC are calling Birmingham? I'm trying to brainstorm some T shirt ideas. Was actually considering doing the RDL VIP thing anyway and might be able to have some fun with this.

mbw479 wrote:
It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung...

It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung of RC’s nuts harder. It would be good to get their honest opinion on this one.

Mathless is in bed with the entire moto broadcast clique. 

Of course he's going to avoid this. 

 

Doubt you'll ever see Blair on his show again.

Matthes also had Feld helping him host his Privateer race, burning that bridge would not be good for business, he's probably caught between a rock and a hard place.

And I'll assume you see him again on Pulp, they'll probably stick to the racing part. But, they do have the Blair Matthes project, so this week's episode will be telling, I assume they'll mention it quickly and move on, no need to keep bringing it up.

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Blair is an emotional guy.  I don't think he was hamming it up for the camera.  I think he was genuinely upset about how things went...

Blair is an emotional guy.  I don't think he was hamming it up for the camera.  I think he was genuinely upset about how things went and about having to throw people under the bus.  It is peoples lives after all, but from his side it looks like he got screwed, but also that the execs running the show don't want the Play by Play guy to be too good(smart) cause it makes Ricky look bad.

Yeah, I get that. It definitely takes some stones to speak out in this industry about something like this. 

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If Daniel Blair and GL do a ride companion type deal where I can basically mute the broadcast and stream them commentating in real time I would pay money for that. Even if all they had was Bondo’s moronic cuts to work with they’d still put together an offering relevant to the market and what we would enjoy more than the current deal. 

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truck wrote:
Hi Ricky!!!! Zero chance RC's ego will let him stay silent on all this. Let me try to guess his response. "I love DB, great guy, wanted to...

Hi Ricky!!!! 

Zero chance RC's ego will let him stay silent on all this. Let me try to guess his response. 

"I love DB, great guy, wanted to see him succeed and tried to offer my advice and he didn't want to hear it. It's unfortunate how this has all turned out. No hard feelings."

Seems like RC hitched his wagon to Diffey and Diffey stroked RC's ego so they had each other's back. 

It's not clear to me if the unnamed person is Bondo or someone else but wouldn't think it would be hard to figure out who it is for anyone in the know. 

It's always been crazy to me that NBC considers Diffey a star. Indy fans have hated the guy for years. Guess he politicks well and does things in a way that keep the bosses happy but those bosses must not spend any time listening to their customers or they never would have had a hard on for diffey to begin with.

As far as DB's future, this is year 3 of a 5 year deal with peacock. Who knows who has the contract 3 years from now, but if the people in charge at that point aren't the same people as now and have paid any attention to what's gone down over the past few years, why wouldn't they call him up and see if he's interested? The only bridges he's truly torched are RC, Diffey, and peacock people.

Matthes has obviously known this story for a while and has asked DB at every opportunity to spill it. What more do you want him to do? JT can't be expected to say much or he'll be next in line to get the same treatment. 

Any idea if Diffey and RC are calling Birmingham? I'm trying to brainstorm some T shirt ideas. Was actually considering doing the RDL VIP thing anyway and might be able to have some fun with this.

mbw479 wrote:
It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung...

It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung of RC’s nuts harder. It would be good to get their honest opinion on this one.

Mathless is in bed with the entire moto broadcast clique. 

Of course he's going to avoid this. 

 

Doubt you'll ever see Blair on his show again.

They do a hour long show together every week 

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3/4/2025 4:17am

We can get rid of RC and Leigh if we make enough noise. 

Delusional. We're fleas on a dogs back

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mbw479 wrote:
It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung...

It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung of RC’s nuts harder. It would be good to get their honest opinion on this one.

Mathless is in bed with the entire moto broadcast clique. 

Of course he's going to avoid this. 

 

Doubt you'll ever see Blair on his show again.

Dan541 wrote:
Matthes also had Feld helping him host his Privateer race, burning that bridge would not be good for business, he's probably caught between a rock and...

Matthes also had Feld helping him host his Privateer race, burning that bridge would not be good for business, he's probably caught between a rock and a hard place.

And I'll assume you see him again on Pulp, they'll probably stick to the racing part. But, they do have the Blair Matthes project, so this week's episode will be telling, I assume they'll mention it quickly and move on, no need to keep bringing it up.

Feld was all in on Blair and told him he was “the guy” for the broadcasts, it was NBC that wanted Dippey, and Blair took the back seat until Dipstick, RC and Bondo puked on with their fragile egos and frankly shallow intelligence. 

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3/4/2025 5:13am

just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people come and go in our industry...but nobody puts out a 30m video explaining why they quit their job. His entire story sounds like virtually every corporate office on earth...

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The unfortunate thing here is, Leigh and RC likely won’t be going anywhere. DB won’t ever be given the chance to call a race again (and even if he didn’t he would probably say no).

At this point I think 90% of vital is rooting for Will over Leigh and RC now lmao 

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just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people...

just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people come and go in our industry...but nobody puts out a 30m video explaining why they quit their job. His entire story sounds like virtually every corporate office on earth...

It certainly vindicates all of us above average iq fans who have been piecing this together on our own! The broadcast is purposely a pos because the folks in charge are incompetent ego maniacs.

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3/4/2025 5:34am

Sounds like Diffey is El Jeffe around the booth (and beyond). Diffey also seems like such a…uh…um…sweet man. 😂

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just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people...

just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people come and go in our industry...but nobody puts out a 30m video explaining why they quit their job. His entire story sounds like virtually every corporate office on earth...

Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a handshake carries (or once carried) real weight. Statements like “I almost knocked him out” say a lot. It’s all quite sad.


 

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Hi Ricky!!!! Zero chance RC's ego will let him stay silent on all this. Let me try to guess his response. "I love DB, great guy, wanted to...

Hi Ricky!!!! 

Zero chance RC's ego will let him stay silent on all this. Let me try to guess his response. 

"I love DB, great guy, wanted to see him succeed and tried to offer my advice and he didn't want to hear it. It's unfortunate how this has all turned out. No hard feelings."

Seems like RC hitched his wagon to Diffey and Diffey stroked RC's ego so they had each other's back. 

It's not clear to me if the unnamed person is Bondo or someone else but wouldn't think it would be hard to figure out who it is for anyone in the know. 

It's always been crazy to me that NBC considers Diffey a star. Indy fans have hated the guy for years. Guess he politicks well and does things in a way that keep the bosses happy but those bosses must not spend any time listening to their customers or they never would have had a hard on for diffey to begin with.

As far as DB's future, this is year 3 of a 5 year deal with peacock. Who knows who has the contract 3 years from now, but if the people in charge at that point aren't the same people as now and have paid any attention to what's gone down over the past few years, why wouldn't they call him up and see if he's interested? The only bridges he's truly torched are RC, Diffey, and peacock people.

Matthes has obviously known this story for a while and has asked DB at every opportunity to spill it. What more do you want him to do? JT can't be expected to say much or he'll be next in line to get the same treatment. 

Any idea if Diffey and RC are calling Birmingham? I'm trying to brainstorm some T shirt ideas. Was actually considering doing the RDL VIP thing anyway and might be able to have some fun with this.

mbw479 wrote:
It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung...

It was hard to listen to Matthes and JT beat around the bush on this on todays pulp episode, I don’t think JT could have swung of RC’s nuts harder. It would be good to get their honest opinion on this one.

Mathless is in bed with the entire moto broadcast clique. 

Of course he's going to avoid this. 

 

Doubt you'll ever see Blair on his show again.

lol. Blair will be on again for sure. 

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just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people...

just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people come and go in our industry...but nobody puts out a 30m video explaining why they quit their job. His entire story sounds like virtually every corporate office on earth...

Beeby wrote:
Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a...

Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a handshake carries (or once carried) real weight. Statements like “I almost knocked him out” say a lot. It’s all quite sad.


 

Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into an action. What sets us apart is being able to keep our emotions in check. Sounds like DB did just that. But here you are judging his YouTube comment instead. Says a lot about you as well. 

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They do a hour long show together every week 

Other than scanning here, I'm not much of a moto media/podcast person. 

 

Just interested once the gate drops, or the lights go out.

Same with F1, IMSA, and MotoGP.

 

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just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people...

just watched the whole video. Compelling story, yes. I can't help but scratch my head and ask, however, "What does this actually accomplish?" - Hell, people come and go in our industry...but nobody puts out a 30m video explaining why they quit their job. His entire story sounds like virtually every corporate office on earth...

Beeby wrote:
Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a...

Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a handshake carries (or once carried) real weight. Statements like “I almost knocked him out” say a lot. It’s all quite sad.


 

Talon wrote:
Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into...

Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into an action. What sets us apart is being able to keep our emotions in check. Sounds like DB did just that. But here you are judging his YouTube comment instead. Says a lot about you as well. 

Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in a business meeting crossed his mind. There’s no way to put a positive spin on that. It says nothing about me, except that I understand how completely unacceptable that would be. Even considering it is absurd.


 

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Beeby wrote:
Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a...

Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a handshake carries (or once carried) real weight. Statements like “I almost knocked him out” say a lot. It’s all quite sad.


 

Talon wrote:
Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into...

Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into an action. What sets us apart is being able to keep our emotions in check. Sounds like DB did just that. But here you are judging his YouTube comment instead. Says a lot about you as well. 

Beeby wrote:
Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in...

Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in a business meeting crossed his mind. There’s no way to put a positive spin on that. It says nothing about me, except that I understand how completely unacceptable that would be. Even considering it is absurd.


 

lol. There is literally nothing wrong with the thought. It would be wrong to act on it. We can’t control our thoughts but we can control if we act on them or not. And that’s where morality and character come in to play. 

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Beeby wrote:
Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a...

Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a handshake carries (or once carried) real weight. Statements like “I almost knocked him out” say a lot. It’s all quite sad.


 

Talon wrote:
Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into...

Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into an action. What sets us apart is being able to keep our emotions in check. Sounds like DB did just that. But here you are judging his YouTube comment instead. Says a lot about you as well. 

Beeby wrote:
Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in...

Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in a business meeting crossed his mind. There’s no way to put a positive spin on that. It says nothing about me, except that I understand how completely unacceptable that would be. Even considering it is absurd.


 

Who hasn't thought about caving their boss's face in? 

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Beeby wrote:
Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a...

Yes, that was my take as well. Many of them haven’t experienced the corporate world and still operate in a space where a name or a handshake carries (or once carried) real weight. Statements like “I almost knocked him out” say a lot. It’s all quite sad.


 

Talon wrote:
Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into...

Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into an action. What sets us apart is being able to keep our emotions in check. Sounds like DB did just that. But here you are judging his YouTube comment instead. Says a lot about you as well. 

Beeby wrote:
Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in...

Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in a business meeting crossed his mind. There’s no way to put a positive spin on that. It says nothing about me, except that I understand how completely unacceptable that would be. Even considering it is absurd.


 

You talk like you don’t have a masculine bone in your body. Or you’re full of shit. Or both 

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I thought Matthes and JT did fine last night. They discussed it, allowed callers to discuss it but kept themselves out of the mud. What more did you expect? They both rely on on Feld and NBC to varying degrees. Did you think they’d come out swinging? 

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Sure would be bad if there were so many signs in the stands at the races that they can’t ignore it..

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Talon wrote:
Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into...

Actually. Saying what thought ran through his head on his private YouTube channel isn’t sad at all. Having a thought is different than turning it into an action. What sets us apart is being able to keep our emotions in check. Sounds like DB did just that. But here you are judging his YouTube comment instead. Says a lot about you as well. 

Beeby wrote:
Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in...

Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in a business meeting crossed his mind. There’s no way to put a positive spin on that. It says nothing about me, except that I understand how completely unacceptable that would be. Even considering it is absurd.


 

soggy wrote:
lol. There is literally nothing wrong with the thought. It would be wrong to act on it. We can’t control our thoughts but we can control...

lol. There is literally nothing wrong with the thought. It would be wrong to act on it. We can’t control our thoughts but we can control if we act on them or not. And that’s where morality and character come in to play. 

Wait, you seriously think that we can't control our thoughts? Emotions are debatable, but thoughts can absolutely be controlled/shaped/directed. 

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Sure would be bad if there were so many signs in the stands at the races that they can’t ignore it..

oh lord - seeing a bunch of "RC is a DICK" signs in the crowd would make me spit my beer. you just know RC would be vibrating with rage....

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Sure would be bad if there were so many signs in the stands at the races that they can’t ignore it..

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Sure would be bad if there were so many signs in the stands at the races that they can’t ignore it..

oh lord - seeing a bunch of "RC is a DICK" signs in the crowd would make me spit my beer. you just know RC would...

oh lord - seeing a bunch of "RC is a DICK" signs in the crowd would make me spit my beer. you just know RC would be vibrating with rage....

I'm leaning towards T shirt or sign with screen shot of the vital DB or RC poll results on it for next sx I go to. 

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Beeby wrote:
Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in...

Ha, the guy put it out there for the whole world to see- he openly admitted that the thought of knocking out a senior executive in a business meeting crossed his mind. There’s no way to put a positive spin on that. It says nothing about me, except that I understand how completely unacceptable that would be. Even considering it is absurd.


 

soggy wrote:
lol. There is literally nothing wrong with the thought. It would be wrong to act on it. We can’t control our thoughts but we can control...

lol. There is literally nothing wrong with the thought. It would be wrong to act on it. We can’t control our thoughts but we can control if we act on them or not. And that’s where morality and character come in to play. 

JazzyJJ wrote:

Wait, you seriously think that we can't control our thoughts? Emotions are debatable, but thoughts can absolutely be controlled/shaped/directed. 

Don’t think of a pink elephant. 
 

I agree with you on the emotions and I think thoughts are part of it as well. We don’t manifest them. Thoughts move in and out of our heads all day, where do they come from?  On some root level I don’t think we control them. Obviously when it comes to problem solving or teaching /learning something we have an ability to shape our thoughts. 

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lol. There is literally nothing wrong with the thought. It would be wrong to act on it. We can’t control our thoughts but we can control...

lol. There is literally nothing wrong with the thought. It would be wrong to act on it. We can’t control our thoughts but we can control if we act on them or not. And that’s where morality and character come in to play. 

JazzyJJ wrote:

Wait, you seriously think that we can't control our thoughts? Emotions are debatable, but thoughts can absolutely be controlled/shaped/directed. 

soggy wrote:
Don’t think of a pink elephant.  I agree with you on the emotions and I think thoughts are part of it as well. We don’t manifest them...

Don’t think of a pink elephant. 
 

I agree with you on the emotions and I think thoughts are part of it as well. We don’t manifest them. Thoughts move in and out of our heads all day, where do they come from?  On some root level I don’t think we control them. Obviously when it comes to problem solving or teaching /learning something we have an ability to shape our thoughts. 

So you think about killing people all day? Or jumping out of your office building? I'd hope not, and we control these thoughts by many methods. You also control thoughts/emotions by living your life a certain way. Don't want to think about porn all of the time? Well quit watching porn. See how that works?

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