The Dale Jr. Download - 127 - Sloppy Yellow and Purple Drank at Martinsville

Episode Date: April 4, 2016

Mike Davis and Taylor Zarzour are joined by the one and only Dado, as well as T.J. Majors, for this week’s episode of the Dale Jr. Download. They tackle everything from Junior’s day at Martinsville Speedway and listen to a rowdy Reaction Theatre. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is Dale Jr. And you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Thanks, man. I'm just leaving this thing a little bit. What's payoff? In the Exalta Studios today, we have first name Davis. Hello, Davis. What's up, Taylor?

How you doing, my man? I'm good. How are you? Your phone is absolutely in pieces, by the way. It is. We'll explain that coming up in just a minute. We have last name Davis, Mike Davis. Hello, Taylor.

What do you say, MD? Why are you fighting everybody on Twitter, man? I'm not. You got kind of defensive this weekend. Or was that just smarter than everyone? Oh, here we go. And we have the man of the hour, sloppy yellow, aka Dado, aka Dan the junior fan,

aka the man that should be mayor of a certain city in Texas. What are you doing in the Exalta Studios this morning? Taylor, I feel a little lost because as soon as you started introducing me. Introducing me. Interducting. T.J. Majors walked in and it's messed up my entire game. I'm afraid Mike Davis and T.J. may start fighting any second now. They might.

Over the door bumper clear, Dale Jr. download stuff. If we start fighting, I may need to start refereeing. But I'm very excited to be here. And I've always, I always like to see violence. So this might be a good good. Hey, Dadda. How disappointed do you think the listeners were when Taylor teased this up? And in the studio today, is,

the man and they're expecting Dale Jr. And it's like, Dad, oh boy, it's jackass again. I just, I felt everybody cutting our podcast off right there. I felt it. There's dozens of fans standing at the window. I'm waving to them right now. T.J. can verify that

later on Twitter. TJ just walked in. TJ, what's going on, buddy? TJ, man, I tell you what, I got a bone to pick with this guy. First of all, hold on. He's put on a headset. He abandons this podcast. We had so much fun the last few years.

on this podcast. We became good friends. We went, hey, the national championship is going on tonight. T.J. and I went to one of these games a couple of years ago. We became good buddies. Then he runs off and has his own podcast. Now he's talking crap about our podcast. That's right. Well, that's what bottom feeders do.

Well, you know, there's only room. First of all, hello, everybody. There's only room, you know, you can only put me and Mike in the same studio and Taylor for so long. Taylor just outgrew us. Yeah. Thank you for acknowledging that. You're the one with your own podcast. You're the one with your own national radio show.

Every time I see you tweeting, you're in some golf course. Right. You basically, I felt like you abandoned me and Mike. So I moved on. Hey, listen, I just want to make this real clear. T.J, if you would have offered me a spot on your podcast, I would have abandoned Mike, too. Oh, damn. Shots fired.

Ouch. Shots fired. First one spit over this line starts it. I basically just stopped in to see what I can come over and get some free food this week. from from dan and this time tj i know you're not big on wild game i'm not i'm not a big wild game then i'm not so sure you have a have a seat at the table at sloppy yellow just we have we have very limited wild game this year wasn't a very good hunting year for for dado was it not no it was not um but the cows are running crazy in texas and we got plenty of them so yeah you'll be

very very happy to come over yeah i'll come by i mean if i got to bring some easy mac and cheese or So let me know. I got to bring something neat. We don't have a microwave there. But if we can smoke it for 12, bring it early. We do have fire. That's all we need. Fire fixes everything.

I guess we should just say, I'm assuming everybody understands this, but Dan here has a school bus called Sloppy Yellow. We should probably say that. They know that. Okay, but let's just say it for a couple people that might not know. People like you that jumped on the bandwagon late may not know that. But if, you know, most of the people out there. Listen here, fool, I gave sloppy yellow its name, all right?

You're talking to one of the originators. I knew I could do it. I knew I could fire him up. So anyways, Dan, what parking spot are you going to be at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend? I am, yeah, WallSpot 123 and Turn 3. Come by and say hello. Listen to White Flag today. I'm not sure exactly, we haven't done White Flag yet, but White Flag will be spectacular.

One of us has done White Flag. I don't know about you. Some of us come up here. Actually, as I sit in his room, I'm the only one that hasn't. but white flag will be spectacular. You'll definitely want to come out and see as if you can. Okay. So you'll be the naked one, right?

No. No. But it's, never mind. What's the next topic? Listen, no, real quick. Sloppy yellow actually is not yellow anymore. It's got a big Texas flag painted on the side of it.

It's half yellow. It's a school bus. Just make sure we're clear on that. It's going to be parked over there near the turn three entrance, like, basically, right? That's where Daddo sets his camp up. There's a lot of people there. He's got a big platform on top of the bus. And I'm promising there is no such thing as a stranger at Slopi Yellow's Texas Motor Speedway. Good gracious, man. I tried to go over and say hello, and I was like, this is a lost cause a few years ago. It is. It's a scene there. That guy is the mayor of the infield. There's no doubt about that.

Me and Mike, we've been going there since Taylor. Taylor's probably in diapers when we first started going there. That's right. That's right. You know, I was thinking about this today. The first time you guys came over, Steve Arpin was running the Arka race that night. And I think he had just, wasn't he doing something? Did he drive a car for Junior Motorsports or something? He won that race, I think. He did win that race. Yeah, he did drive for Junior Motorsports a couple races.

Mike, Dale, Daniel Jr. and you have told this story before on this podcast. This is many years ago, Datto, but Junior was. Junior was riding around in the truck, and you shouted something about Mike Davis that absolutely about brought him to his knees, correct? Yeah, that's true. And we are definitely going to do it again this time. We have reinforcements this time. We've come up with, well, that's all part of white flag.

Yeah, Taylor, you're dropping ahead. I didn't know that. I apologize. No, no, it's okay. Teasing it for later. That's okay. How would you know he didn't bring anything in here to actually prepare us? for it.

Well, the talent shows up at 10 a.m. and does this thing, right? Hey, where I am? Why are you in town? Well, I'm doing a job in South Carolina. Okay, so you do field landscapes. No. I build fields. Field landscapes.

That's ridiculous. All right. Builds field. He builds fields. Builds fields. Like, kind of like what? Like Field of Dreams, like Kevin Costor does. You plow over corn crops.

That's amateur stuff. Oh, is it? We're professional stuff. God makes fields too, man. Yeah. God and Dad, oh. But Dato doesn't want to clarify, so we'll just go with that. Daddo is sort of like God, I guess.

I didn't bring it up, but if that's where he wanted to go, that's fine with me. I'm building a field in Greenville, South Carolina, and we got rained out, which means I couldn't do concrete Saturday, which means I couldn't do anything Sunday, so I drove up and went to the Martinsville race. Okay. Why are you concreting a field? Right. Well, you do curbs around the field. Oh, so it's a construction site.

Yes. Okay, that's different. I thought you were making a nice. green pasture well i do synthetic turf so it's it's very green for a very long time when we're done but we have to have a curb around it with a drain in it it's real technical i wouldn't expect you inside folks to let me ask you something let me ask you something if you were building it right and it was draining like it was supposed to wouldn't wouldn't a rain rain out not matter for you it will today i mean because it's finished today okay but it wasn't finished

Saturday. Lord Daddo had to finish his work, you know. On the seventh day, he rested in with the Martinsville. That's in the Bible somewhere, I'm sure. That's right. Now, we have a lot to get to with Dado. We do need to recap the race. We do also need to tell DJ, TJ to get the hell out of here because I do need to leave. I just came by to say hi and give Dato a shout out here next week.

TJ, y'all got some big stuff playing for door bumper clear tomorrow. Absolutely, man. I want to bring our ratings and I'm being on this thing. Is that a bill shirt you're wearing? Golly. Is that a techno bowl bill shirt you're wearing? You're like that?

Well, I think it's more of a Syracuse orange shirt. That's the last time the bills made the playoffs probably. I think you were in diapers when that happened, too, Taylor. All right. Thanks for having me for a few minutes. Travis James. I will be outdoing you tomorrow morning. Oh, he's a beauty.

I'll tell you what, Mike Davis. Datto, you were there to see it. man we had some drama very early in that race lap six spinning out contact with uh reagan there sliding up uh underneath a junior and you're thinking okay well he's the only guy a lap down hopefully this won't last long uh we're about at the halfway mark before he uh before he got that lap back that was quite the fight to get back on the lead lap uh man it took 200 plus laps Mike to do that And honestly, that wasn't much of a surprise to me because it's so, I mean, laughing new people, it happened so quick at Martinsville. So, you know, you got a leader at the time.

You know, you had Jimmy Johnson, Kevin Harvick led for a while, Kyle Busch obviously led a lot of laps. Those guys catch the end of the pack really quick. Yeah. And so, you know, patience is key. I thought Dale Jr. Adjured a lot of patience yesterday, even in the way he was saving his car during the middle of a run because he knew that he can honestly catch back up to the people. people that he needed to catch later in the run. Patience is key there.

And our rec happens so early that fortunately for us, you could be patient and get yourself back on the lead lap. But it just doesn't happen very quick at Martinsville because, man, if you think about it, after the second Green Flag run, they had lapped all but 18 people. Right. The entire field, all but 18 people. And Junior suddenly is fighting with eight or nine other guys, you know, with one lap down there. And trying to get into that position, and you're hilarious on Twitter, too, you know, tweeting about McMurray, and that was crazy.

The dog fight they had for lap after lap after lap, trying to get in that position. Then it was Carl Edwards for the longest time. And it actually turned out to be 306 laps before he got back on the lead lap. But when he got back on the lead lap, it felt like there were still plenty of race left to go to then now make your move up towards the front. And he was able to do that. Yeah, Dad, oh, tell me what the feeling was like in the, in the, in the, stands. Did you lose some confidence there early in the race or did you think, oh, man, he'll get it back? Let me tell you something, Taylor. As soon as I got up in the stands, I immediately had to

figure out who everybody was around me, you know, who you're for, who you're, you know, who you against. And actually, there was some, when Dale Jr. got, when he announced his name, driver intros, there were some booze in my section for Dale Jr. And I said, this is fantastic. I am in the place I need to be. So when he wrecks on what was, It was a lap six, five, six. Yeah. I stood up and I clapped and cheered. I thought this is fantastic.

And the guy sitting next to me, he became friends. He's like, I thought you were a junior fan. I said, dude, I came here to see Dale Jr. pass a ton of cars. And now it's going to happen. There's no damage on that car. He is, this is going to be awesome. I wanted my first Martinsville race, see a ton of passing. And that's what I did.

That guy, he's a master at passing cars over there. It was fantastic. I loved every second of it. And I had no doubt that we would get on a lead lap sometime before lap 500. I didn't think it was going to be easy. And then when we pitted and we came out and we were behind Carl Edwards and Joey Ligano and Jamie McMurray, I think Jamie McMurray probably used his bumper more than anybody else in that race. Is that right?

He sure did. He was on it. But I thought it was, I knew we would get up there. I knew it was going to be awesome. And a lot of people thought the race was boring. But where I was sitting, there was action. Every car on the track, except maybe the first two cars, there was tons of action the whole time.

It was fantastic. Yeah, I love that place. Collie. I mean, it's about as good as it gets, I think. It's just time hadn't touched it in 30, 40 years. And I mean that with all due respect. I mean, in a very positive way, I mean that, Mike. I mean, I know that you've been everywhere and seen it all.

I just, I feel like that is as good a place to watch a race as a race as there is, and it's exactly the kind of racing that all people that grew up watching the sport enjoy. Yeah, I mean, listen, it's one of my favorite tracks. It's a lot of people's favorite tracks, but listen, Dan, you've been to race tracks, you've been to several. You love Bristol, for instance.

What was Martinsville? Well, honestly, taking it in as an objective race fan, not a Dale Jr. guy, don't care how the race ends up. What was your impression of Martinsville Speedway? Martin'sville Speedway from seeing race action is probably better than Bristol has been the last couple years as far as I'm concerned. Now, old Bristol, maybe not, but, you know, the Bristol last couple years, once you get in the groove, it's really difficult to get something, to get around somebody.

But at Martinsville, you can work on it, and you can eventually get it as long as you hit your marks and you got, you know, as long as you do it. I think Martinsville for racing action is probably the most action I've seen at any racetrack I've been to. Now, I qualify that. I went to Darlington a couple years ago and junior, when he finished second to Kevin Harvick, but there's a last, you know, like a four-lap restart

or something to go at the very end. That was probably my most exciting race I've been to, because Darlington is so close. But at Martinsville, if you're sitting up there where you can see the corners, there's action at every turn. You talk about hitting your marks. I mean, Martinsville is also less forgiving than Bristol is.

And a good example of that was Denny Hamlin yesterday. Oh, man. Who simply missed his mark, and he ended up in the garage because of it. I mean, it's, it. And there's nobody that knows that place better than he does and still happen to him, yeah. And that curb on TV doesn't look near as intimidating

as when you see it in person. You're down there because you see a car get up and just even kind of nip that curb, and they bounce like crazy. That thing's a real. Jimmy Spencer used to hit that thing every lap. I mean, we would wreck so quickly in that place because of that curb.

Well, you're so right about seeing the whole track, too. I sat up in between turn three and four high up there once, and I've been there a few times, but I love that vantage point because you can see the whole track. I want to give a shout out, Mike, to a man named Marty the one-man party. He's a legend in Raleigh, as a country music DJ, and he's a huge religious Dale Jr. fan.

But we sat up there one time, and you can see the whole track from up there, and it's absolutely as good a race to watch in person as there is. I have one bone to pick before we really go through all the rest of the race here. What do you have against Martin's little hot dogs, Dado? Look, if I ever eat another one of those damn things, I want somebody to call the authorities right away because I am doing it under force. There's no way anybody should put, I mean, when you look at that damn hot dog,

first of all, you know, I hear it's got chili, it's got, you know, coleslaw in it. That looks like ground up erasers. I mean, it is not chilly. It looks, it's horrible. And then when you see the actual hot dog, it is a color that doesn't even hit the, the spectrum of colors I've ever seen. It is a distinct, Martinsville hot dog should be a color.

I mean, like purple or blue, Martinsville hot dog. I mean, it is absolutely disgusting looking. And people are buying these things by the sack. They're taking, you know, their scanner bags, and they're putting like, give me 20 hot dogs. And I'm like, good God, almighty. 20 hot dogs. And everybody that walks up into the stands, I'm not making this up.

They come back with sacks of hot dogs, and they just pass them out. I mean, I was offered dozens of hot dogs yesterday, and I was like, no fucking thank you. I don't want any. I had won. I've done it. I've moved on. Good Lord. There's no, I mean, and I've been to a lot of races, and most of the races I go to, I'm always out with the people in the outfield or something.

and I've never seen anybody go so low on a food item at a damn race. Normally it's like, we're eating turkey legs or we're smoking a brisket. And in Martinsville, we're like, we're eating the shittiest hot dog we can possibly find. In fact, you know, there's an old saying that hot dogs are made of two things, hog lips and something else. Well, they skip the lips and use double something else on the Martinsville hot dog. And that's what makes them so terrific. Oh, my God. I was still fighting that hot dog last night at night.

nine o'clock last one's like good lord help me and Oprah you you are a proud Texan and you kill the pig in front of you and make your hot dogs okay so that's the difference these things could they be nuclear yes yes did they come from a pig i'm not so sure are they phenomenal yes you have man i don't know about you mike davis i'll a dog and a do martinsville speedway that sounds pretty american to me a dog to do uh yeah it's Listen, it's an acquired taste, and I almost wouldn't expect a Texan to appreciate it. Yeah, he's not going to understand that. The Virginians love it.

I'll give them that. They love them some Martinville hot dogs. Listen, hold on, Dan. Not me. Do you know what Martinsville also has, it's really good at Martinsville? I do not. Their barbecue is beyond that. Here we go.

Yeah, you better be careful. You're going to get shot. Barnesville has the best barbecue. In fact, Virginia. First name, hold my damn night. I don't want to be responsible. First name is going to do a lot of editing. sitting when this thing's over.

Listen, Texas, you have your donuts. What's wrong with you guys? What's wrong with you? Can't you be proud that you own the donut category? What times T.J. tape? I'm going to stop in there for that one, too. Here's my favorite tweet from yesterday. If I ever eat another Martinsful hot dog again, please call the authorities as I'm under

obvious arrest. Hashtag Virginia is for lovers of horrible food. Virginia is not just for lovers. It's lovers of horrible food. So he's not buying in. I will say this. Listen, I've had the Martinsville hot dog, but it is not something that I go clamor for.

I almost think that it's... I'm in. Yeah, but I almost feel like that this thing, like other things in life, it just gets completely overblown and people do it almost because... Well, you just have to experience it. I've got it.

Let me tell you what the Martinsville hot dog is. It is the yager bomb of food. Yagre bomb. When you get out with all your buddies, some jackass always says, let's do yager shots. That's right. And you're like, okay, let's do one.

And afterwards, you're like, God, why did I do a yager shot? I can't. Listen, I'm not trying to compare it to any of the food that Dan is fixing in Texas, but it is definitely something that you have to experience, and I'm glad that you did. All right. Now, we've got to get back to the race here. Everybody's going to be fired up about the decision to pit, and we'll get to that in just a second, Mike. I do want to say this first, you know, like you said, like once he got the lap back, DW and Gordon, Gordon was talking about it a lot during the broadcast.

He was like, watch out for the 88 if he can get that lap back. And he did. He was very competitive. and slowly but surely picked off car after car passing people. He restarted 12th on lap 3,84, got up to 9th with 34 laps to go, and then got inside the top six, and here we are, man, thinking, golly, you got a shot here. And absolutely Mike Davis thought it was the right decision to pit when the first couple of cars stayed out,

and he with several others, just two others in front of him, decided to come in. And it's such a crap shoot. We have done, I don't know, 10 or 11 of these Martinsville recaps now. And every time we talk about inside versus outside. And unfortunately, for Dale Jr., he beat one of the guys out of the pits that was in front of him. Unfortunately, they did everything right on the pit stop because that put him on the bottom instead of the top, or excuse me, the top instead of the bottom. And you're screwed, Mike. You can't get to the front.

And the finish is not reflective at all of how competitive that car was. It's not a cut and dry situation, and you can't compare, you know, it's apples to oranges for other Martinsville races. You've got to look at the situation, and there's several different things that factor in. And one is, okay, you've got this caution. How many laps do you have left? Well, if it was just like two or three, if it was like a green-white checkered, then obviously that matters. You don't probably go in for tires. Here's another variable.

Dale Jr., can we all agree the guy likes his tires? I mean, can we all agree that when he restarts on old tires? it very rarely ends up in a positive situation. Right. I mean, can we agree on that or am I wrong? Totally. Okay. Here's another one.

You're right. The inside and outside. And I don't want to sit here and harp on inside outside too much because honestly, this is racing. You're going to start on one or the other. Yeah, but it never matters anywhere as much as it matters there. Of course. And so being that said, where was he going to restart?

Had he not pitted? Well, you've got to look at who pitted. And so there were three cars that stayed out. Now, I'm not a math genius. here. In fact, I really suck at math. But when I can do this math. If three cars stayed out in front of you, the rest pitted, where does that put Dale? It puts him in fourth. Where does that put him on? Which road does that put him? That puts him on the outside. Then you have to ask yourself this, because this is what Greg Eyes has. Can I win? Can I win

starting on the outside row? If it's, if you come back saying, no, I don't think so, then you do things that maybe increase your chance to win. And at that point, he knew that he wasn't going to be able to win from the outside starting position because you're also, keep in mind, you've got to compare yourself to the leader, Kyle Bush. Were we better than Kyle Bush yesterday? No, nobody was. Nobody was. So what kind of advantage can you get to try to beat Kyle Busch? Tires was that advantage, and maybe you can start on the inside road. That was your only chance to win. All right. Let me ask you this then. Why did we take two instead of four? If we know the two guys are coming in, the only way we can be different is to take four tires.

We take two tires. We end up in the same shitty position. We already talked about he didn't get any good until he got 50 laps into a 100-lap run. So now we're going to change two tires, which nobody did the entire race. There's no time. How many cars were on a lead lap? You couldn't spend that much time on pit road for another two tires. In fact, I would answer that question.

I'd answer that question by this. How many took four? None. Are you sure of that? I think there was one person that did. Okay, so where did they restart? Behind junior. How far behind?

No, I have to see that. Right behind us, I thought. That's my point. I mean, so like, you know, and all this factors in, I see what your point is, Dan, but honestly, track position does matter. You're going to stay on pit road for X amount of seconds for a splash and go. That obviously is not smart. If you're going to not take any tires to stay out.

If you're going to put on two, that's, you know, six, seven seconds, that you're out there more, you know, six, seven, you're out of there than if you're taking four. Yeah, that is one. I think that's a good response. I think that's a good question that Dan raises. I do think that ultimately that you're right. That's the decision. The reason why they didn't take four is because of how much extra time you would have spent

in the pits. And at some point, you have to say, okay, if we're going to pit, we can't spend much time in here because there's nowhere you're going to lose more track position than in Martin'sville simply by pitting. So you have to be mindful of that. couple of tweets to read here. Dale Jr. says to the fan who said he would have rather had four tires, needed the inside lane on restart.

41 restarted fourth where I would have started if I didn't pit. He finished 13th. And of course, then you've got Greg Ives, who I thought had some good tweets on this situation. He said response to a fan, zero or four tires with outside lane equals no chance to win. Zero to two tires with inside lane equals chance to win. The three stayed out in front of us equals outside lane.

So pit. That was obviously what they were thinking. It didn't work out that way. And there's always going to be frustration, Mike. And no matter what happens, if people don't like the result, they're going to question it. They're going to say, well, we should have done something different because this didn't work. But I have a hard time doing that in this situation. Look, I'm going to be honest with you.

And I know some people that are associated with this company aren't going to like this. Qualifying is ridiculous right now. I mean, it's got to improve. and everybody is trying their best, but to me that's the biggest issue. It's not the decision in the race. I have total trust in everyone associated with the team with the decision that they made at the end of that race. But something's got to change in order so that they're not always playing catch-up during these races. I think it's clear competitively that the 88 team is one of the best in the game again this year and will win races.

But, Mike, they've got to qualify better. That is where I think we can really criticize. but I don't think it's on this decision. They criticize himself this weekend over qualifying. Junior actually criticized himself or his team before they even qualified. He said, yep, after practice, we're really good in race trim. We're terrible in qualifying trim. And he laughed.

He's like, we're working on it. We're trying to figure it out. There's nothing I can do. There's nothing I can say to make it. It's not like they don't understand it. They're going to work on that thing. And yes, it is terrible. Yes, I think it directly affected the likelihood of being wrecked by one bars,

which is what happened. And it's got to get better. I mean, what else? I will say this for the qualifying at Bart. If there's any place I don't worry about qualifying, you guys may think I'm crazy, but it's the plate tracks and it's a place like Martinsville where Junior can root up in there if he doesn't get spun out. Because look at Jimmy Johnson, where did he start?

23rd? Where did he finish? Top five? Okay? He didn't get spun out. He didn't have to fight forever. I mean, it's qualifying definitely has to get better. But this is what's so good about the Martinsville track. Here we are on a Monday morning talking about this entire race and this all of us here, very knowledgeable in the sport, and all of us might have done something different with that, with that pitch strategy.

I mean, that's what's so awesome about the Martinsville race. No, that is. It is great. And that's a really good point. The point I'm making, Mike, and Datto is this, is that they were trying to win. And the decision was because they thought it was what was in the best interest of them winning. They didn't think they could win from their current position, and they were doing something to try to change that. So I have nothing but respect for that decision, even though that it didn't work out. My point to piggyback off of what you said, Mike, is if they go qualify 25th in Texas this weekend, that's a problem.

You know, and that's got to change. So let me tell you where I'm at more on qualifying and how that affected us. Honestly, it had less for me. It had less to do with the fact that he got wrecked by David Reagan. That could happen any time no matter where you start. It was during the race when we were a lap down and they're like, okay, the 38 will be pitting. He'll be coming in. So watch him, you know, pit short, whatever.

And I'm like, the fact that we're even having to pit around the 38 is why I think we need to be qualifying better. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry if that's mean, but I'm just saying, Well, if it was fluky and that was the first time this year or, you know, second time this year that that had happened, then certainly, then we wouldn't be having this conversation. Well, here's the thing. I don't think anybody would disagree that the 88 team on race day is by far. They are a top three race team every race day because they go from so far back all the way up to the front. Just think of what we could do with that team if we could start inside the top 15.

I'm not even talking top 10. If we could get five or six spots on the start, man, it would be, this team is phenomenal. We just got to start better. And I think the wins will definitely come from that. Yeah. As I have said numerous times, I'd much rather be great in race for them than be a great qualifier. And certainly Dale Jr. is that. I mean, Kevin Harvick's an example of that.

Dale Earnhardt, Sr. Or certainly an example of that. But if we're talking about winning a championship, which clearly is the goal, then that's going to have to get better, Mike. I don't think anybody's going to disagree. Wait a second, let's back up here. What did you think? Tell me what you thought. Was the pit call correct or not correct?

You said you had no problem with it. Is that right? Me, Taylor? Yeah, you Taylor. I cheered when they pitted. Yeah, I mean, I thought, you know what? For the exact reason that Greg Ives explained it. I didn't think they had a chance to win if they stayed on the track. Now, once they, once the three drivers, now, I mean, it's kind of like, you know,

you've heard crew chiefs do this forever. Watch what the guys are going to do in front of you. Right. But given what the guys in front of them did, I thought it was the right decision. They had to change something to try to get the inside lane. Dale Jr. is phenomenal on restarts on the inside lane at Martinsville. So here's one more thing I will say. I don't know if you notice this.

I had that sinking feeling when I realized that he was just going to have to start on the outside. Now, it wasn't the fact that he was restarting 10th. Was it 10th that he restarted on that last? Let me look at it real quick. Yeah, he restarted 10th with basically 10 to go. or 11 to go. That way, it was when he came out and you said, all right, well, we're going to be on the outside and now we're 10th and not fourth.

Right. At that point, tires doesn't even mean anything to me. Well, I mean, Hamlin won from a very similar position with about the same amount of laps to go a few years ago. But if they start ninth, I don't know that he wins, but I think he could have gotten to third or second. I really do. Like Kyle Larson did, because Kyle Larson started ninth and he finished third. So check this out, though. I will go so far as to say this.

Then the issue became, can you get down? And Kevin Harvick, I don't know what happened to Kevin Harvick on that restart. But he basically bottled up for 10 laps. We went spiraling backwards. I mean, and we were in the,

and Kevin was right in front of us, and Kevin couldn't get down, and therefore we couldn't get down. And now you've got Biffle and God, when Danica passed us on that last restart, I was like, uh, I'm not,

telling you guys that it didn't suck. It sucked. Sure. It was bad. All of us were upset. Right. You know, and I'm sitting here defending a pickup. I'm not saying that I didn't feel awful about it.

But the fact is, I'm like, Harvick, get, you know, just get out of the way. Of course, there's nowhere for him to go. And it's like, but this is the beauty of Martinsville. This is, you know, it's like, listen, if you love Martinsville like I do, you got to take the good with the good and the bad with the bad. It's going to work your way sometimes. It's not going to work. And it didn't work our way this time. But you know what?

It's part of Martinsville, and it was what makes it so hard. And the fact that Kevin Harvick starts on the outside. I mean, Kevin Harvick was one of the really good cars in this race. You had Matt Kenseth. Matt Kenseth restarted second. Did you see where he finished? Was 16th. 17th.

Yeah. That tells you everything you need to know. I mean, that just tells you everything you need to know. Look, I agree with you. And I know the fans get upset, but, I mean, look, we're calling a spade of spade about qualifying. But when it comes to that decision, again, I thought it was the right decision at the moment. it was a decision trying to do what you can to have any chance to compete for the win

it didn't work out everybody's upset with that but I was thinking the same thing that junior tweeted after the race which is the result was average but the work was a damn good time today I do it again tomorrow great effort by this team the win is coming I wish they could race at Martinsville again tomorrow I really do I love that place and I love the 88th chances and honestly Mike

when the chase happens and which Junior, of course, won that race a couple of years ago. When the chase happens, I love the 88's chances at a track like that. Yeah, as long as Carl Edwards isn't screwed up for us before we get there. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm still going back to last. I need to get over there. Do I need to forgive him for that?

No. All right. No. No, you need to continue to harbor ill will. Okay. Besides, I'm still mad at Harvick. And then yesterday, that didn't help any matters. So you're still mad at Harvick for what?

For the restarted Talladega last year. Come on. Yeah. I mean, and they held us up yesterday. Yeah, well, be careful because Davis is on the Harvick defense team. So you've got to be careful on that one. First name or last name? I'm just messing with you.

We had a great debate. Last name Davis and about that Harvick situation on this podcast towards the end of last season. All right, so finished 14th. Not what you want, but certainly you've got to appreciate the effort. All right. It's time now for radio chatter replay. presented by Nationwide. Hey, Junior Nation members, did you know that you can get a special discount when you switch to Nationwide?

Call 1-855-346-913 or visit Nationwide.com forward slash junior nation. For more information, Nationwide is on your side. Radio Chatter. 500 left. Good, hard fun. Racing here. A lot of friends and family. A lot of things they enjoy here in Martinsville.

So let's do our jobs today. You guys been doing a heck of a job. I'm really proud of all the effort you guys put in this weekend and to the start of the year. So let's go get it done today. Have some fun in there, Dale. T.J., keep them safe out there. Looking forward to it. Poor, buddy.

Y'all be safe. Real tight. I'll be rude. Have a good one. Still there, the 23. I'll get down as soon as another can here now. Still there. Sure.

Might be able to beat him on the corner here. Still there. Hold a break. Hold the break. Hold the break. Hold the break. Hold the break. There's still coming underneath you here.

All right. Swinging around here if you can. Get ready. Swing it around. One more car. Fire up, swinging around. Back it up if you have. You got time. You got time. Plenty of time here. Just now coming into one. Okay, guys. We'll get caught up. We're going to have a little left front damage here. We've got the left rear down. Take a real good look at that left rear. I had to do, had to spin the tires a lot. All right. It's a long day. Don't worry about it. Good operation, too. Take advantage of a different situation here, guys. We've got to get that lab back, whatever that is, or wave around or whatever.

Don't worry about it. It's cool. He just drove in there real deep. Cut the tire. I don't know why it pushed on him so bad, but it went straight. Top five lap times right there. Best 10 lap average so far. Got one of the wild two. One of the wild turn two. It's a 17 car. Go high there. I think we take four again. I don't think we put ourselves in behind A ball here. It's a lucky dog. It was all okay. I didn't know. You need to keep me on top of that man. I thought it was racing the 19th of the lucky dog barrier. 10.4. Give me that information. I wouldn't like it. We hoard that shit.

19 is and you are first two cars a lap down. It's still you versus 19. It's going to be like that for a while. You are the lucky dog. They're about three quarters a second to the tent car. Who's the next car to go a lap down? On the wall, crosses out, crosses out. One of the wall three is rolling now is a 30 car.

We will be the lucky dog. Get your fans off there. Nice job, buddy. Thanks, man. I'm new saving that thing a little bit would pay off. Yeah, you drove up to about seven place there on the track. So pass a lot of cars. You're doing a great job out there.

Make sure you get some fluids in there. I've been working. And there you have it. There's a lot of going on during that race that is detailed there in radio chatter replay presented by Nationwide. I cannot wait for this next part. Datto is disqualified. He usually has one of the best calls because he's in the studio this week.

Let's listen to Reaction Theater. I think everybody was doing that past lap 300. Daddo, are you celebrating when we got back on the lead lap? I high-fived everybody around me, even that damn Kyle Bush fan that was sitting in front of me. I think he was scared not to high-five me, but, yeah, I was excited. Hey, I can always get behind in-race reaction theater. Amen. I love them.

I love those. Who's next? Well, my strategy for the day was to drink one beer per 100 laps. Well, that strategy went right out the fucking window when that last caution came out. Our whole day just went right out the window. Everything we worked for to come home 14? Man, that's disappointing. Man, June, you deserve better than that.

You're fucking raced hard today. The track sucked, didn't take rubber. Man, that's okay. We'll come back and win this fucking race next time. Whatever the hell it is. Martinsville, we're coming to Mr. next time. You know, one thing I wanted to ask T.J.

when he was in here. I was listening to the race scanner, and I could have sworn that when Jamie McMurray sat there up on, at the end of turn two, that T.J. said, oh, he spun that on purpose. He did say that. Well, he didn't say that specific words, but he said that he brought out,

he, he looped it or something. He did something. He meant to say that he put out the caution on purpose. No, he did. He did. Yeah, see, without that, if Jamie McMurray just gets down right there, at that apron, there's no caution that comes out. That being said, did he cut a tire?

I can't remember what happened. Yeah, he cut a tire. It seemed like, totally gone. I fully expected the caution to come out earlier. But yeah, before he ever spun it, because honestly, he had a lot of stuff going on. You know what? I have a problem with that. I got a problem in a place like Martinsville.

Every person that's a part of the NASCAR officiating crew has to know that what happened ultimately with Jamie McMurray was going to happen five to 10 laps before that. Yeah, he was smoking like crazy. He was smoking. Gordon was saying, oh, this is going to be a mess. And, I mean, everybody knew it was going to happen, Mike. And in a plate site, Martinsville, you're just, it was inevitable. I just, the fact that they waited so long to throw a caution,

if you have awful tire wear and basically don't have a tire, as McMurray had there, you got to throw the caution. If the guy can't get back to pit road or he stays out, black flag him, throw a caution something, but you knew that was going to happen. Okay. Did anybody catch the Indy car race? Did you, Dan? No.

Did you see what happened there? Were they? Yeah. They had debris out on the track. They didn't throw a caution until right at the end. I mean, they're like, they could have thrown the caution well in advance. And they never did until. Raise over, right?

Right. And you know, they don't do green white checkers at Indie, in Indy car. So they threw the caution right at the end just so you could end it under yellow. Yeah, gracious. That's crazy. Who's next? action theater sound like if that happened. Greg, eyes, why the

fuck did you pit right there? Jesus Christ, we could have stayed out and done way better than this somebody made me the crew chief for a week. Yeah, that sounds like a terrific idea. That's a great idea. I'm not saying we do that for Dale Jr.,

but you know what? Should we not run a sweepstakes to, like, be a crew chief for a week, like on our late model or something? Oh, yeah, John Barry. Yeah, I can see. I can see. Not even Josh Barry, maybe Christian Eckers. Let me drive the car and get that guy to crew chief.

Would you do it? Can we please in Elliot Sadler an email right now, hey, this is Mike Davis's idea. This guy's going to be your crew chief this week. Can we please get his reaction to you making that happen? Listen, the crew chief, no, not crew chief or week, but like a consultant to the crew chief. They can sit beside the crew chief. Seriously, they sit up there with the engineer. Yeah, that sounds like a great idea.

Hey, you tell them, would it get views? That's all I care about. It would get clicks. That's all that you care about. Then that will work. In my role, in my desk, that's all I care about. I can't make these cars go faster. I can get clicks.

And for the record, everybody knows how much I just love bashing the crew chief of the ADA whenever I get. But I was on board with it. I just had no idea that we would beat somebody off pit road. And I don't mean that. I was like, what the heck? Do we just, oh, God, I just never occurred to me that we made, yeah, I just maintain, maintain, maintain. Before this podcast is over, we have to describe your relationship with Lance McGrew. Oh, God.

Who's next? Or we don't. The race just got over in Martinsville. I'm so pissed. I decided to be a first-time caller. I'm happy he battled back. You know, he had a rough start to the race. Obviously, the car was fast, but I'm really getting sick and tired of the wrong call being made on the Fit.

We did it at Phoenix. Cost us the second place finish. We did it now. Cost us the top 10, probably a top five. I don't know if it's Greg Ives that needs to figure out race strategy, but it's driving me nuts.

The biggest thing was, two cars stayed out. So if he's the one that stays out right behind him, he starts third. That's on the inside. That's where you want to be. No. Dale yeah.

Yeah, three cars stayed out. Well, as a long-term caller to this program, I'm very glad and excited that he made his first call, but dude, you've got to have your facts straight when you call in i mean you can't say actually that's not a requirement it's not no damn i'm going to quit taking notes wait a second dan are you saying that you've been factually every time i run my platform on it not no listen it listen if two cars stayed out not three i'm right there with you buddy then you start third on the inside row you do not come home right

you go you stay out there he had to come in it there was no i mean starting forth up there with those two cars up front i mean they've been way ahead of of us there's no way again the second place car that restarted right there finished 15th harvick started six uh fourth or six six i think and finished 17th it just didn't work for any of the cats that were starting on the outside it just didn't that's the way it works there is the way it works man i'm watching kyle busch tig's victory lap right now y'all and all i got to say is that That's, man. Dale Jr. had a good run. If we hadn't the wrecked on lap five, I think we would have had something for him. And that last restart getting caught on the outside, man. That just sucked. That just sucked.

I predicted the top five. I guess finishing four teeth after fucking spinning out on lap five. I guess that's similar to a top five, but we could have done better. Just sucks that last restart. us, man. We had at least six plays. At least six. But Delia, love you guys. My Dirty Mohicans. Peace out.

There you go. Dirty Mohicans. Dirty Mohicans. That's pretty funny. I have never seen a Kyle Busch victory lap. I haven't stuck around to see one of those. I do have to give the guy credit, though. It was pretty cool.

The video that many have seen that has gone viral of him autographing a hat from a fan who was next to him in the car. I still want to hate him. I still want to hate Kyle Bush, and I still absolutely don't want to watch his victory celebrations. That's fine. That's a fair thing. Listen, TJ just walked in,

and Dan, you actually had a question. Let's just get back to this. It says TJ's here. When Jamie McMurray's tires going down, okay, it looked to me like that thing blew up on the front stretch. He makes it all the way over to the corner of turn two, and I heard you say something in the effect of he spun that thing on purpose to bring out the caution.

What do you think? But is that what I thought? Okay. I mean, could he have made it down to the apron with no caution? Was there debris on the front stretch? No, the tire was not shredding any debris that I saw at that point in time.

But it's normal. I mean, I didn't expect him not to do it. I mean, I kind of saw it coming. I mean, I would too, probably.

I mean, I would probably, because they can't really say you did it. When you got a flat tire, if you just stand in a throttle, when you got 800 or something horsepower, it's going to spin out. Well,

I'm just tired of hating Kevin Harvick. I've hated him since Talladega and he held us up yesterday. I'd love to jump on Hayden Jamie McMurray, you know, jump on that band wagon. I don't blame Jamie. I mean, that's anybody. They always have. The voice of reason here is this is not a place for the voice of reason. I know.

He had his arm itched. His arm etched. Yeah. I get it. Yeah. Hey, while you're here, TJ, Harvick could not get down and he did, yes or no, he completely bottled us up. And one of the reasons.

Oh, my gosh. What was going on with Harvick? I don't know what was wrong with this. car, but that thing, I mean, it looked like a street car out there trying to race with cup cars. It was bad. And did that not affect us completely? It affected us big time. We couldn't get, we couldn't get low.

It's just so hard to get low, and we almost got three wide a couple times, but it just got too close. And we had already lost a handful of spots by the time. That already happened, and it wasn't going to be any, it wasn't going to make a huge difference at that point, but, yes, it held us up big time. Junior slowed down because TJ thought he could get him in. He slowed way down. It was like two or three car lengths off of him and it didn't work.

So Junior went straight back up to his bumper like that. Yeah. I mean, it was crazy. He was bad. Like something was off. Like he had a tire going down or something. But maybe he should have spun it out. And maybe his arm was itchy and he didn't realize it.

Maybe he had something itchy. I don't know what it was. Sorry, what did you want to. That was good. I like hearing it. Let's keep going. What we got? Well, you know that I'm feeling when you,

and what you're with one of your good friends, and they just, for some reason, decide to just kick you in the balls for no reason. I think, dear guy, I just did that to Junior Nation. Mm. But bringing Junior in for two tires and giving up to Dick's place and ended up finishing a disappointing 14th after you. He's worked his ass off to drive up there

back to the top ten after an early spin. I'm just like, wow. What the hell? If he's smoking, must be pretty damn good. But hell yeah, go get him in Texas. I hope something good comes out of that. Listen, let me tell you something right now.

I don't know where this some of the a shit is from, but he needs to hit me up on Twitter because I want to party with this dude. And I want to see if I can figure out what the hell he says after about five beers. I don't understand anything until he said kick me into balls. It's going to be a good time in Texas. There's no.

Hit me. up on Twitter, dude. You know, I got to hang out. You better wear a cup. There's a 100% chance there's going to be a good time in Texas if you go see sloppy yellow. I like Mike Lowe. that guy thought that Dale Jr. was forced against his will to come into Pitt Road there. Greg is trying to destroy all the success in the company.

That's pretty clever. Dale Jr. in Pitt, there was 300 feet left. Give me four. Put the air pressure up. I ain't got time to get them warm. That's true. I agree. I agree.

Can we start 27 of 300 feet? Let's do it. Who's next? What a race. We're still standing in the grandstand. The race just got over. Junior passed more cars than anybody in the field today. Oh, my gosh.

What a great race. I'm here with three newbies. Never been to an ass car race. And we're having fun. We're getting ready to walk out. We are still standing in Grand Sands. Oh, my goodness. Good race.

Junior, Gray, guys. At the early trouble you had, boy, did you not pass every car on the track three times. Way to go, Gray guys. Way to go, Jr. Dale, yeah. Man, that's what you want to hear right there, Mike Davis, having that kind of experience at the track. Dude, they call from the grandstands. Now I'm kind of mad at Dad out that he didn't call.

Well, I don't have sprint, so I didn't get service until I got to my car. Isn't that in the league? That drives me crazy. It absolutely drives me bananas. I couldn't tweet during the race. I couldn't figure what was going on. It's bad. I will say that the service is bad there in general anyway, because there's not a whole

a whole lot around Martins. I was going to say, I mean, you're not in the booming metropolis there. So that's cool we call from the Grandstands. Yeah, right after the race. That's cool. Yeah, TJ probably peed on him a couple. I was going to ask if you got wet because we had a lot of green flag runs, man. Oh, God.

It happened, didn't it? I had to go. How many times did you do it? Four probably? What golly. Are you serious? Listen, one time I went down there and I got in there and there was a line and I'm like, oh man, I got to go.

I got to go. And then next thing you know NASCAR says, all right, one to go next time by. I'm like, oh, man, I had to run back up. I mean, I had Tony was in there watching the race and the scoring stand. He looked at me and he looked at me. He was like, hey, what's up? I'm like, I got to go. Listen, TJ and Breck and Breck.

Griffin had a funny conversation about this on Dill Bumper Clear last week, and you should go back and listen to it. It is quite funny because Brett has an interesting take on that as well. And I think he actually has an example, a recent example of where at the track, at the track where Elliott Sadler got mad at him for during caution, because I think, I think Elliot ran into somebody under caution. And Brett was in the bathroom. Well, see, the thing that makes me question that whole story.

I'm surprised when you opened the bathroom door, the seas didn't part like Moses was walking in or something and say, oh, God, there's T.J. Everybody's stand away. He's got to. That does happen, but, man, there's people that got to go, man. Well, it's towards the end of the race, was it? Three quarters away. Yeah, see, long green flags. Everybody's the same thing's had to go too. I could not go. I could not go the first half. Four times in Martinsville. When we pit the second time by, that's my time to go. You know, that's normally my time when I can go.

Oh, the second time. But we were the second time. For 320 laps, I couldn't go. Take you one of them little portable tents and a five-gown bug with kitty litter in it and stick it up top. Why, they can't tell when I go over the edge. Well, yeah, except for the people that are 100 feet below it. Yeah. Unbelievable.

Who's next? First off, I can't understand why we can not qualify even better. Every week it's the same story. I watch that man drive through the field three times and then get to sixth, and then we pay. For some odd region, no one knows. Greg Ives, which has done a fabulous job this year, but I don't understand why we pitted it then. Could we please grab our s'i and get a fucking victory?

We have to win, you know, I know we sound like a broken record here, but I think our pitting was to try to win the race. I mean, I think that's fair. TJ, we trust me, we've talked at Nogium about it, to be honest with you, to try to explain the logic behind that. But we were going to restart on the outside. side. Three people stayed out.

And that's the explanation. What I think's interesting is that Greg Ives hasn't tweeted tweet number one for two years. I know. And then he was, this pulled him out of hiding, out of Twitter hiding. And now he was tweeting all night. Responding to people. Yeah, I like it about this. I like it.

No, I do too. Trust me. I do too. Now, after trying to answer for him, just look at what Greg said. Yeah. Yeah. Greg, we're going for the win, man. That's our shot at winning.

and was tires and bust up through them, and it didn't work out. So we'll go to the next one. Who's next? Gosh. I'm going to have to start taking some kind of medication to watch the 38 team this year. Nothing they could do about it. Qualify better. How about that?

Figure out a way to get up front, and then you won't be chasing your shit all day. Great run, trying to get back up to the top. And I knew as soon as he passed the 48 that the day was done because you know it was going to be a caution of Martinsville. Nothing wrong with that. It's a kid call. So everybody's talking about that can shut their f*** up.

when you're in sick, there's nothing you can do to pick because you're going to be an outside lane no matter what. Sorry about that. Take that last thing I set out. My bad. We got Texas and Phoenix confused. We did say that our team has a flare for the dramatic. I mean, if you're going to be a fan of the 88, we will make sure that you find it to be interesting.

How was that not that Ray is just not thoroughly exciting? Did you not think it was? I thought it was awesome. I mean, I don't see how anybody can not think that rate. I mean, we passed all day. long we were had action i mean if you just watch the 88 gar yeah it was non-stop when we were chasing down we came out we had five cars to pass to get on the lead lap and and we didn't get past um um and we came back out we had to pass edwards and then the college came out right that was

probably the best 120 laps i've seen in yeah there's no doubt man it was four hours of entertainment there's no doubt about that and uh i know it was hard work from t j and junior and and ives and the boys, but they worked their tails off. There's no doubt. And that's the thing, Mike, like I was saying, you know, you had not, what, you have nine guys on the, that were all down a lap for over a hundred laps, DJ. I mean, it was crazy, and you're trying to compete with all those guys,

get in that position. I mean, you had some, you had some people going after each other there. Yeah, there was a group of us that were cycling. We were, we were trying, we were right, there was a, with Carl and us and Casey and Chase, we were all right there, and we were all trying to race in each other. The runs were so long that the leaders were catching somebody that had got the Lucky Dog like Danica or Ricky. They were catching them, and that was the factor.

We needed a caution before they caught them because it was another three-quarters of a track or half a track before we got to them. So it was a race to get to the Lucky Dog position, but then it was a race to try to get a caution before they cycle back around. And it took a long time, but it was a, there was two races going on, the whole race for us, really. The main race and then our race to get back on the lead lap. And what's awesome, I know Twitter was upset about this a little bit, but when you have to start it to tail end the longest line. I'm glad you brought this up. Dude, I love it. I absolutely love it because when Kizelowski got a speeding penalty and he was like, now he's way back here fighting these guys, but he's 12th or 15th or whatever he was.

And see, that just makes it so much more interesting to me because you have started to tail in the longest line, but you're out of order and you're fighting all these guys. and then you're trying to figure out where they're on the track. I thought it was a fantastic race. I love the rule. I know a lot of people don't. I love double file restarts, but it just makes it so much more interesting. Now, it makes it difficult for the newbies.

The guy said he brought some newbies. Try to explain that in the stands with the decibels. To that point, Taylor, I thought, you know, we just, it took a year or two,

but we just finally, I think, got people to understand what the wave around, how that works. And we get the lucky dog. I don't understand. Will you explain it again? Hold on a second.

We just, we just got, that done. Now, we get a lucky dog, and people started losing their mind that we had to start at the tail end of the longest line when we're now back in the lead lap. Wait, that's not fair. And I'm like, this rule wasn't checked. This is the way it's been since day one. And that day one was years ago, years ago. Why are we having to explain this? You get your lap back. You just got the benefit there. You got a lap back. This rule was put in. Yeah, you're lucky. That's right. This rule, let's just remind people this was put in so you don't race back to the line like we used to do

and therefore calls it caused a tremendous accident right it's a safety factor that's why this is this wasn't to benefit del junior every time he's a lap down and put him back in the in the top five if he gets his lap back it's just the way it is i didn't have to go explain it but therefore i say this you got to start it made it interesting um it didn't take us long to work back through there. You know, there was a couple

guys that had pit road speeding penalties. Cuselowski, I think, was one, Denny Hammo's another one. It was fun watching them come up through.

Again, this is the beautiful thing about Martinsville. I saw one guy say, we need to eliminate double file restarts at Martinsville. And I'm like,

come on, do you realize that the guy at the tail end of that line would be starting right in front of the leader? Five car legs in front of Kyle Bush.

I mean, I live 25 plus years, 30 years of single, file restarts. I mean, just go to sleep, man. I mean, in some tracks, you just not do, there's no action. Hey, there's a, I'll tell you one quick thing is whenever I did the 24-hour race,

they actually do what they have a wave around and they have a, like a free pass deal. Their wave around is like they wave everybody around. Like, it's crazy. If you're between your class leader and the race leader, if you're behind the race leader, if you're behind the race leader but you're in front of your class leader, you get to go. Wow. Yeah. Really?

Oh, yeah, it took me. Trust me, it took me a little while to learn that because I actually didn't learn it the first time. We got a penalty from it. So I learned it pretty quick. That sounds very difficult because at that race, you got a bunch of different classes on the track and save time. Literally, we got two laps back one time because we were in front of our class leader.

We were in front of our class leader, so we got a wave around. That means you pass the main leader to you come around. Right. And then when we come back around, everybody pitted. So we stayed out, and then we come back out, and then we got a wave around because we were in front of the leader. That's creative right there. Yeah. I like that.

Yeah. All right. Who's next? As I get ready to watch WrestleMania tonight, I've just got one thing to say to David Reagan. You are the world. Come in. Son of a B. If you want to see Stone Coach Steve Austin open up a can of whoop-p-eat on that piece of trash, give me a tail, yeah.

Dale, yeah. If you want to see Stone Coach Steve Austin, open up a can of a whop. Open up a can of wolf-a-h-h-h-up on Kyle Bush. Give me a Dale, yeah. That's exactly what I'd like to hear. And as for submarine, Mike, well, Stone Coat, Steve Austin listened to you last week at Fontana, talk about your little nursery rhymes about

Know Your Old Boulevard and Chabronie Tribe. Well, Stone Co., Steve Alston, has a nursery rhyme for you. He's going to make his way down to Fort Worth, Texas next weekend. Check right in. to Texas Motor Speedway and watch as Dale Jr. Burns that dumb bhawn. Mike, Kyle, and David,

and anybody else listening, you remember this? Junior 316 says he just whooped your because Junior Nation sets. That's pretty strong. I'm ready to do wind sprints in the front of JR. I'm pretty fired up right now. Why in the, I mean, I tell you what, man,

Dave. Put on the pads and do some Oklahoma drills. First, some eye black, absolutely, first name, if you have more to play after that one, I mean, that was a whole really cow. That's, that's top shelf material. That is top shelf. That's, that's Datto the first time he ran top shelf material.

Yeah, that's up there. I enjoyed every bit of that. You haven't done one like that in a while time. No, that was, I'm telling you, that, that's one of my all-time favorite. That really is. Remember the macho man that used to make an appearance on this show? That's right. I like the macho man.

I like, there's a wrestling theme, obviously, I like here, but. That was good. I don't know much about wrestling, but that was pretty. I pictured that dude smashing a beer on it, too. And then he have an audience? Give me a day. Yeah. That was great.

There was an echo. Like, he was really on a microphone. When you get someone to say Dale, yeah, when you say, give me a Dale, yeah, it is a pretty powerful moment. I mean, like that, that moment that Mike Davis forced me to do at Charlotte Motor Speedway was one of the coolest things I've ever accomplished, I have to say. Dude, dad, I was inspired over here. You should see this. He had a little tear in his eye. Somebody get me a pen.

I'm going to start writing a dynamic pentament. right now. That came the goosebumps, man. They gave me goosebumps. The first time ever in Dirtybell Radio history, I am Big Phantameter if it's ever used to Troy. I got to hear what first name Davis has to play after that one. This better be good.

Greg, guys, you're f***ed in the head. You're 15 laps from the fucking checker flag and you want to pit. I'll tell you something. This is no longer a season. It's a quest. It's a quest for a championship.

We're all going to have fun during championship week. We're going to have so much fucking fun we'll need plastic surgery to fix our god-s-smiles. You'll be whistling zippity doodagh out your assholes. I've got to be crazy.

I'm on a Pilamish to see Junior win a championship. A Pil-Mage. Dale Jr. Holy shit. No positivity this week. Couldn't do it. That was a galactically stupid call, Gray guys.

Hashtag Dale, yeah. Hashtag, go get him next week. Hashtag eight beer-flavored waters. A pilmage. A pilmage. Listen, I love something. me Mike, but what if somebody drank water at sloppy yellow? What are the rules? No, listen, we all drink water at sloppy yellow son. Do you drink beer flavored water?

Well, I don't drink a whole lot of beer. I drink bourbon, period. And that's what we drink at sloppy yellow. That was my. I'm serious. Whoever voted against this guy in Texas should have there. You have to have water in your system. Right. There's two things. This is way too long of a story for me to tell about the first time I met Rob Loebts, but two things you have to have at sloppy yellow. everybody's got to bring a package of baby wipes and everybody has to bring at least a case of water

because you have to stay hydrated and after three or four days and not get into the shower you have to take a spit bath somewhere at sloppy yellow you just have to a spit bath huh yeah I mean you gotta get

you gotta get yourself clean somehow you're gonna smell like hickory and mesquite and so you gotta use the baby wipes and you gotta drink water you can't stay drunk all week if you don't stay hydrated Mike Oh, do we get one more?

There's TJ. We're periscoping right now. TJ's infiltrated our podcast. Every time right here. TJ's here because he doesn't want this one to beat his door bumper clear. That's the only reason he's saying I got claimed to all of us. He's actually because he's here. We are going to beat his door bump.

That's right. Old man's in the, old man's watching. Tony. Tony. Oh man. We need to get old man in here. Hey, old man, how did Kurt do yesterday? All right.

We actually, oh man, we'll get typed back to you later. We've got to finish this podcast. We got one more reaction. We got more reaction theater. So there I was doing my job under somebody's house. You see, I'm a satellite installation technician. Now, I'm not going to mention what company I work for, but let's just say the remote that we used on our boxes was visible on the table,

the lounge, and that last JRM 360 episode, but I digret. Back to my story. There I was, under the house, doing my job, getting ready for a race, listening to the audio on the headphones when on lap, frickin' and five, Junior spins. Imagine the surprise of the customer when he hears this cussing coming from under his house and a bloody yell like somebody had just maybe hit their head a rafter? Yeah, that was mean.

So I gave myself a nice little mild concussion. Upset the customer with my language. When I'm not getting a run off the job, it was still a lap down two hours later. It's not been a good day. So I'm going home now and come into drinking some Jack Daniels, perhaps in some Everclear, hoping that, By getting an ebriated, this race will seem a little bit better than it really is.

Goodbye. So wait a second. Am I don't understand this right, first name? He was working on a job at somebody's house, and he's listening to the race, and we get in the wreck, and he starts cussing, and they ran him off the job? Did he get fired? Hits his head, too. Yeah, I know, but that happens. So he had, is that, did I understand that right?

Can you appreciate this? I'll tell you something right now. I'm so glad I didn't call reaction theater this one. Those last three calls, absolutely phenomenal. This guy right here at somebody's house, cussing, and then two hours later, he's going to go from Jack Daniels to maybe ever clear? That guy's in a bad way. That's a transition.

That's a definitely a transition. We might have to start a GoFundMe page for him, too. Listen, I got to know, have we ever got somebody fired? Well, guess what? It's the first time for everything. That's, that's, I, dude, this guy. How do we, listen, we haven't sent sunglasses to anybody in a while, but I think, dude, if he got run off a job, we got to send him for sunglasses. He's going to spy sunglasses.

It's going to be bright when he's out there looking for a new job. He's knocking on doors. That's, uh, that's pretty funny. Do you got his info? Do you think you could find a, we figured out. First name is going to figure it out. All right. Well, guess what?

You can be happy with the all new spy Dale Jr. Paint Scheme sunglasses called the livery series. They're available on the, popular dirty mode general daga mccoy and admiral frames get yours today at spy optic dot com you're ready for white flag are you not mike davis i guess i am dan what's the what's the plan here do you i've got i've got a white flag i've got a white flag do you want i'll just let you add in where you hold on a second i got asked this question i'm watching this periscope deal right now hey taylor daddo dada are you drinking liquor what is that in that water bottle no that's uh water with meo put

in it. Mia. You put a little squirt in there? I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret. That's the bottle I filled up yesterday. Something's wrong with you, dude. See, when you're in Texas, we have a drink that we make called the Purple Drink. And it is.

Jamarcus Russell got thrown out of the league for that. Yes, he did. And that's why we named it the Purple Drank. It's after Jamarcus Russell. You take Tito's vodka, which is made in Austin, Texas. And you take water with purple meo in it. And that's what you drink. So you can drink all day.

You can feel good, but you stay hydrated. And so if you see me drinking one of these, that sloppy yellow, and you have to go back to work, T.J. And spot, do not ask for a sip of this. Don't ask for a water to go. Don't ask for a water to go unless it's clear. T.J. doesn't need to ask for sips of anything. Yeah.

That'll never be playing in the National Football League. No, no, I won't. So what's happening with White Flag? I'm just going to read it. Dan had an announcement. Do you want to just, let's just, let's just, drop it in whenever you feel compelled. How about that?

I can drop it in now if you want to. I don't know what the magic of first names editing is. He's going to do a lot today. I can promise you that. I'll tell you what, let's start white flag, and then Dan, you can lead us off. White flag right there, white flag. All right, Dan.

All right, so Texas Motor Speedway races this week, as everybody knows. We're moving past Martinsville officially, starting Texas. A couple years ago, I think I told this story last time I was here, Dale Jr. was coming around on the parade lap. And I yelled, hey, Jr., Mike Davis sucks. And he turned around, gave a fist pump, and everybody wanted to know. Who's Mike Davis? Who's Mike Davis?

Mike Davis sucks. That's all you need to know about Mike Davis. So me and the sloppy yellow fellows got together, and we decided that if Junior, when he comes back around, either Saturday or Sunday, on the parade lap, if he acknowledges our Mike Davis sucks chant, that we will donate $500 to the Dale Jr. Foundation. So you're saying if Dale Jr. just acknowledges. Now, we're going to film it. So he's got a...

Let's define acknowledge. Well, I don't know that I can. If he gives you a wave, if he laughs. If he gives the same wave, he gives all the other people around there, that doesn't count. Okay. We've got to have something substantial. And you're going to donate to the Dale Jr. Foundation, $500. $500.

Basically, if Dale Jr. agrees that Mike Davis sucks. That's what I'm looking for, yes. That's what I'm looking for. looking for. All he has to do is hear us, but I'm sure he will agree. Mike can't tip him off. It can't be any tip-offs here. Well, I'm sure he listens every week. Dale, whatever you do, ignore whatever they say about it, ignore it.

Because honestly, that'll make you the jerk if you're not going to donate to the foundation. That would be a jerk. So the joke could be on you. What's up? What if I just give you a shout out before the race on the radio, will you donate another 500? Oh, wow. I like that. I like that.

Travis James for the win. If you say that sloppy yellow rules, Mike Davis sucks. No, don't say that on the radio. No, yeah, well, then the deal's off. Mike Davis. I'll say sloppy yellow rolls. That's no problem. On channel one, not channel two.

Yeah. Shout out to sloppy yellow. Oh, I'm glad you said that. See, I would have. His only Greg eyes would hear that. Yeah, he'd be like, what? Sorry, I was in the bathroom. So sloppy yellow rules?

Come on, man. I don't do that for sure. I'm Periscope. Wow, sloppy yellow rules. And you'll donate $500? Yes. That's outstanding. An additional 500?

An additional 500. Like right after the end? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is a double or nothing deal. There's a double or nothing deal. If Junior acknowledges and you say sloppy yellow rules, it's $1,000. If junior does not acknowledge, it's zero. Okay. All right.

There we go. Double nothing. I mean, I feel like that's a lot of coverage, man. That's probably, I mean, I feel like it should be like $1,500 or $1,000. I mean, you know how many people are listening at that? Not all of us make spotter money. This is different than a hundred yards of a racetrack. We're talking people on their couches.

Well, that'd be awesome if I had something to sell. What if this? Swoppy yellow. Sponsored by a field making. Yeah. What if you started something? You've got a week to do it. Sponsored by Purple Drink.

What is you got a week to do it? Listen, let's make it about the ex. Are you going to spot Junior in the Xfinity race? I don't have a choice, yes. Okay. So, let's see this. Oh, but fans at home can't listen to that radio chatter, can they? Yeah.

Or can they? Dave says yes. Okay. So maybe if you do it at the start of the Xfinity race and people listen, maybe fans can donate. If you do it, fans will donate like what, $10? No? You think somebody's going to donate in the name of Sloppy Yellow? How about this?

You match what they donate. God, Lord. Oh, yes. Come on. Hey, wait just a second. I'm a working, man. No, yeah. I got kids.

Hey, that field in South Carolina, man, I heard it's good. This is Junior Motorsports brainstorming at its best right here. I have no idea if this broadcast is still going. See, this is how trouble starts. Oh, I'm seeing on Periscope. People are saying, I'll donate. I will. All right.

Look, I can't match. What if somebody? This has been a fantastic visit by you. This has been. Hey, turn all the way back around. See, I was trying to do something against you. And now I'm in a hot seat. Mike just filled a beach house.

Now I'm not happy to see it. When people make a go at me, this is how it ends up for them, Dan. I've always heard that. I see exactly how this happens. Mike said, hey, if you want to sponsor the white flag segment, be my guest. Come on in. And Mike just build a beach house. I think Daddow's ready for us to get the white flag so we can move on this topic, right?

Lord. I'm going to get fired. What's your wife going to say? Good grief. Okay. This addition of white flag is brought to you by SoundCloud, because that's the newest place you can find Dirty Mow Radio Podcast, including this. Very cool.

Even door bumper. clear tj you can download the soundcloud app free of charge to your smartphone or tablet or you can go to soundcloud.com just search dirty moor radio and let us know what you think again we've got eight podcasts on dirty moor radio this dale jr downloads one door bumper clears another uh we've got a bunch all right so dale junior has a day off today because it's nothing but work the rest of the week starting tomorrow with the unilever production unilever by the way dan is a fantastic company that brings you brands like helmans and suave one of those is mayonnaise the other is hair care product if i had to guess say there is more Helmans on sloppy yellow than suave.

Yes. But it doesn't need to be that way. No, I'm glad to hear that because the spit-bad thing is getting the bad name also. I think you should get him a unilever unitard and make Daddo wear that. Well, Texas players too late. If TJ says sloppy yellow on the radio, then you got to wear a unitar. Hang on that. It's taking a big turn for the worst.

There you go. All right. So that's happening? We all agree? I'll vote. Okay, that's happening. We are not. On Wednesday, Dale Jr. will be in Tallahassee, Florida, visiting the dealerships for a fan day event.

Justin Algar and Alex Bowman will be with Jr. You can go to Twitter handles at Dell Jr. Chevy and at Dell Jr. BGC. For more information, if all the wristbands for the autograph session are gone, you can still go down there and buy a car. I paid 600 bucks from my bus, so I'm way, ways from a new car. Plenty of money to donate. Visit at Dell Jr. School Bus dealership. Oh, now we're talking. Oh, yeah.

You got my attention now. Now you care. A lot of you have asked where you can buy Dirtymoe Radio and Delia Gear. The answer to that is right here in Junior Nation retail store where the Exalted studio is here or on shop, junior nation.com. Junior is pulling double duty this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway. He'll be in the number 88 goodies Chevrolet for the Exfinity Series race. T.J. Majors will be spotting. TJ, you will have no problem seeing that car, purple and blue.

I promise you it's the only one looks like that. The race is Friday night on Fox Sports One or in parking. spot. 123. 123 where sloppy yellow is. I encourage you if you're out in the infield, go there and watch the race. Then the Sprint Cup series will race Saturday night. That two will be on Fox Sports 1.

Junior will be the fellow driving the number 88 Chevrolet. The other, oh gosh, TJ's flexing for the Periscope broadcast. Taylor, that's for you. Hey, one more thing. I do want to just say this, and we won't spend a lot of time. And I don't want to embarrass Dan here. But his daughter started something recently on her own. not even just give you the whole backstory.

You can go to a website called I.Mroyalty.org and check it out. I'm really proud of your daughter for this. She's 15 years old. And she's got way more maturity than Dan, which is unique because the 15-year-old seems to be way. Handles problems with thought and compassion. And her dad's going to be wearing a Unitar this weekend. And paying a lot of money.

With Purple Drink. Sounds about right. dream. So anyways, I'm really like, I'm glad you're here, of course, but also I'm really proud of your daughter. She started that last week that launched that website. Iamrolytie.org. And so just go check that website out, especially if you're a parent and you've got daughters

or sons. It doesn't matter. Really impressive stuff by your daughter. Thank you. And that's it for me, Taylor. What else you got? I think we've done enough. I think we've covered everything in the world this week on the dirty mode radio, Dale Jr.

download presented by spy daddo you're my hero oh taylor thank you man you're too kind you were my hero until the stone called steve austin now he's my hero yeah well yeah that's a good point that was pretty strong tj i love you pal good to have you back my man good to hear you on the radio first name davis produces this god bless you my friend uh putting this one together for dale junior for mike davis i'm taylor zarser you've been listening to the dale june download presented by spy Thanks for listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Hey, Junior Nation. Thank you for listening to the Dale Jr. download presented by Spy.

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