The Dale Jr. Download - 151 - Captain Earnhardt

Episode Date: September 26, 2016

Dale Earnhardt Jr. joins this week’s show in studio to analyze this past weekend’s races as he also updates us on his life, his music choices, and more. 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.

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And you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. with the Dale Jr. download and Dirty Moe Radio. As usual, with me is Mike and Taylor. What's up? How's it going? Good. Great.

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True Timber, man. It's one of my better ones. Fires me up, does it? So how's everybody's weekend? Good, man. I'm still just can't believe what I saw in Auburn, Alabama. Were you down there? I was.

Were you calling the game? I was. Auburn and LSU crazy finish. I emptied the tank calling LSU. use last second touchdown and all for not. And then it was overturned. And then it was overturned, yes. It was crazy being there for that.

And then I watched Mr. Harvick win yesterday. And I thought about Dale Jr. watching his redskins on Sunday afternoon. It was a crazy day. We had some tragedies in sports with. Yeah. Arne. Jose, with Fernandez, with the Marlins. And then the King, Arnold Palmer passing away.

So it was a wild weekend. Busy weekend for you in the sports. radio world, huh? Yeah. Well, you think that was crazy. T-ball practice for the four-year-old daughter got a little upside down when the boy that likes to play first base, all he wanted to do was bat. And so he did not want to put on his glove.

And, man, that's when it got crazy. The dad went out there and said, pleading with his son. Hey, man, come on. Put on your glove. No, throws the glove. Then we migrated over to soccer practice. No, soccer game. That was rather uneventful.

calls me over there while I'm at soccer game. He was on his way to a birthday party. Yeah, Carson's, uh, Carson turned 16 a week ago, and we had her birthday party this, this Sunday. And, uh, after the race. And, man, it's crazy to Matt, crazy to see how fast they're growing up. And I call him Mike and he's over at soccer practice. That's right.

That's right. Yeah, it's good stuff. You've got a big birthday party, I would imagine coming up here soon. I don't know. We probably won't sit. celebrate. Amy has told me that she just wants to get in the airstream maybe and go camping me and her. And then all your friends come out of the trees. I got to be honest. Those are the best cons of birthday parties.

Yeah, I'm slowing down, I guess, in my older age. That 40 was a big one, so we don't need another one like that for a while. Wait, that's what I got coming up. I got 40 coming up in November. All I tell you is be prepared for anything. especially given Mike Davis Yeah Especially given the pranks That he pulls on everybody

Please Please A lot of people may be coming For their revenge Hey I got mine this past week I mean I prank myself basically I ran out of gas JRM 36

I was expecting AAA to show up That was an awesome episode I got JM360 instead That was an awesome episode I love seeing All the people that participated With that you could tell they were just excited to see you out of gas.

I was proud of him, you know, for pouncing on the moment, you know. I hated them, but I was proud of them. But anyways. Well, Dale, we got a lot to get into NASCAR-wise with Hart. What did you think of the race yesterday? Truex, again, was fantastic. Yeah, that team is ready to roll. Yeah, when you're looking at, you know, who's running well,

there's no real surprises from yesterday. I thought it was interesting how the race played out, but there's always some late-race yellows at New Hampshire that sort of changed the way the race is playing out for the most part. But yeah, Turex was very strong. Didn't have as much luck there at the end on the restarts. I thought, you know, the Hensard cars look good, particularly chase. I'm sure those guys want to get a little more competitive

but as far as just this first round it seemed like business as usual for me from what I saw. What happened to chase there at the end? We just got a bad restart or something. He was like running six. The restarts at that place are ridiculous. One lane, the outside lane can be very good. The guys on the bottom sort of have to,

they get bottled up down there in the bottom of the corner and trying to get up off the, you know, off a turn two is kind of tough. You get a lot of guys that, you know, you can restart 10th and be running fourth in a lap. You know, if you're getting a restart on the outside, it's a pretty good deal. It's real hard to try. It's real hard to not lose spots restarting on the inside, particularly around, you know, fifth on back. That gets real tricky on them restarts there. It's a harder track day able to get a handle on than maybe some of the others.

Yeah, you know, there's these seams at that track that are on the outside of the groove, and particularly in term one, I guess, is the one that I hit the most. You know, if the right front gets on that seam, it's sort of, you ever rode, you remember those, when you're a little kid and you go to the amusement park and you rode those cars that were on a rail, like a, and you basically, it was going wherever the rail was going, right? You're not really staring at it. I think I actually wrote them the other day at the Bears County Fair to be on. Okay.

Well, that's what that seam feels like. When you get on that seam... Y'all act like that's hard. Y'all got a rail guide and you around the whole place? Yeah, it's slower than the... It's slower than any other way to go around the corner. But once you hit that seam, the tire can't get off of it. I got you.

I got you. It just, you just keep... You know, you just keep taking off across the racetrack. And it's tough. You've got to run as hard as you can without touching that seam. And the right rear can get into it first or the right. front, but once it does, you lose a ton of ground, particularly if you've got guys around, you're going to lose some spots, and it can be pretty frustrating.

Dale, let me ask you this. How much are you thinking about keeping the appropriate speed when you're in the restart zone? Because clearly that was in Kenseth's mind, and he admitted as much afterwards. Yeah, you know, I'm pretty, I'm more, I'm not really worried about my speed as much, or thinking about, man, I want to go this fast, or I want to go this slower, so forth. It's more about when I go. Trying to go when the guy's not expecting me to go or not ready. And that all pertains to where he is, where I am,

as far as us being side by side. So you want to get an advantage on the jump, and you just kind of play a little cat and mouse there with each other. Yeah, you look at the bubble now, Chase Elliott, Carl Edwards, Kurt Busch, Kyle Larson, all inside the top 12. Jamie Mack is five points out. Dylan is two. Smoke is 11 points back, and Chris Busher is 30 points back going into this last one in Dover.

Junior, you had to be thrilled with Sadler's win Saturday in Kentucky. Yeah, I was thrilled. It was shocking might be the wrong choice of words, but we, you know, we played the strategy really good. Kevin Mandar and those guys put Elliott in a great position late in the race to get a win. It's been so tough between us and the Gibbs guys all year long, and the Gibbs cars are fast every week, most of the time faster than anybody else. So it's so exciting when we can get a win. So I was thrilled.

You know, it's great to see Elliot sort of reinventing himself a little bit here and having some fun. When we got together to work together and race together. I was hoping that this would be the outcome that he would get to Victory Lane and we would be able to give him what he's not, you know, been able to find at these other places that he's drove four before. And it seems like it's working out. Kevin Meandron's doing an amazing job. And he was, he was my lead engineer for many years. I got tons of respect for him and think that he's going to be a lead, you know, one of the leaders in the garage is a crew chief on the cup side in years to come. so he's got an awesome career to watch and look forward to so it's working out you know we hopefully

can get through the next couple races and get get our guys into the next round and and keep on trucking eight point lead right now for mr sadler tell me how you consume that race dale do you are you just watching it like we're watching it or are you in communication from afar with uh with the team as well? How does that work? Yeah, I just watch as a nervous fan or owner. You know, I'm just watching the same broadcast to everyone else is. I don't have any direct line of communication to a team at the track. But it's, you know, it's pretty nerve-wracking, particularly the new chase is definitely

a new perspective from being an owner, watching your cars trying to compete in a chase format is new. I didn't realize it, but they, during the broad, I'm not really, I'm not really watching too many broadcasts up until I've been out of the car. So I'm seeing a whole new, I'm seeing the broadcast and a new perspective. And so I see the points as they run. And I'm like, man, I don't want to know that. Get that off the screen. I don't want to know what the points are because it's so nerve-wracking.

Yeah. What you don't know, that's been an age-old debate on social media for, yeah, for, you. for years. The points as they run, and you've got the team, I like it, and the team I don't like it, and they sit there and they argue,

and then you found yourself in the middle of it a little bit over the weekend. I had no idea that it was such a hot topic. Between media, really. Like, there's media members that just. I'm starting to learn, as I watch these broadcasts, that I need to be a lot more diplomatic

and understand that there are people that likes points as they run. And there's people that like, things about the broadcast. Some people want to see this miles per hour in qualifying, and I like to see the time. That's right. We've had that discussion before. So I'm starting to understand that, you know, it's not, I can't have it exactly like I want it. You're starting to understand that nobody understands really what they want, to be honest with it. It's 50% one way, 50% of the other. This is NASCAR to a T right there. I guess if it wasn't there, if points as they

run wasn't there, I'd probably say, wonder what the points are. Yeah, you would. Of course you would. Well, I do, yeah, I mean, just listening to you through the years, you would ask TJ, you know, where we need to be. Yeah, how are we doing? Right. It's funny. That's funny because, yeah, you know, the crew chiefs have sort of had their engineers giving points as they run, you know, forever, forever. It's just now it's on TV and now we don't know what to do with all that information. I know.

It's tons of information. I was so nervous. I'm like, I don't want to know all this. I just wanted to get to the end and see what happens. Right. but it was pretty exciting. I think, you know, Elliot and those guys seem to be peeking right at the right time. I hope that, you know, Justin and his group can understand the information

and what they can learn from what Elliott and those guys are doing to help themselves improve a little bit. And I know Justin, he's got some, he's got three top two, three second place finishes. So he's real eager to get that win this year. And, you know, no better time than in the chase, obviously. Yeah, but let's talk about just for a second Because see, that was the kind of race. He got caught up in a wreck, and that's the kind of race that eliminates you from a chase contention.

You know, in the first race, automatically, and it sucked. And yet they came back and finished ninth, I believe. Was it ninth or tenth? They were running 21st, 22nd, with not that long to go. And he came back, took tires at the end, came back, and so they salvaged it. He's sitting there six in the point standings now. Absolutely.

They've had real good speed this year And we're going to Dover Which is a track that I thought We ran extremely well at the first race this year Alex was Yeah In position to win And all our cars were in the top five

I thought for the most part of the race Yeah So I'm looking forward to seeing how we can do this weekend I'm actually going to go to Dover and watch the race And Be on the Pit Box Moving around and aggravating everybody Well that

That'll be fun this weekend. Look forward to hearing your thoughts on that. I do want to ask you, Jr., about what we were saying earlier, about these laser inspection station clearing those things after the race. Mike and I talked a lot about this last week and what was going to happen to Jimmy and what was going to happen to True X. And they decided last week they were going to get rid of the lower tier punishment system, if you will. What do you make of all this?

Because I know NASCAR fans have been going nuts about it. Well, I like the way that Steve O'Donnell and NASCAR are handling the situation. They're being stern and drawing clear lines for the teams to understand. And that's all I think that I would want as a driver or crew chief is just to understand the box you've got to work in. And, you know, not see that boundary become blurred or confusing or different for, team or the other. So I like what NASCAR's done as far as the reaction to the events of the last couple weeks and, you know, tell us how it is, make it so, you know, drop the penalties when they're deserving and, I mean, you know, give the teams the penalties when they're deserving.

So the way that they didn't foresee the circumstances that they ended up with in Chicago, so it was a challenging situation and position for the NASCAR to be in. But I like Steve, I think, he does a great job, you know, steering the sport and especially handling these type of difficult situations. You know, Mike Hilton and those guys are, they've been in that position for a long, long time, so he has that type of leadership to lean on. And you know that this is a, you know, the decisions that Steve is announcing are a collaboration of the competition committee and NASCAR, and it's not just one guy up there going, this is how it's going to be. you know, the sport all works together to come to these type of conclusions.

And I like what's going on. Finally, about racing, I do want to talk about some things going on off the track, Mike, and we'll get to Reaction Theater here in just a second. But your thoughts on the 88 team. I know that you're so close, obviously, to all those guys. Those are your boys. And Alex Bowman's shown some real signs in the last month or so. Yeah, I know the guys are excited to get to work with Alex.

He's a young guy. and they see him as a person that they can help. It gives them a bit of a challenge to try to give him these opportunities that he might find himself with a full-time job next year. You know, that's something that, you know, it's unfortunate that I'm not in the car. I want to be in the car, but the guys need something to motivate them

and something to make the job enjoyable and fun. And they get to work with Jeff Gordon, which is pretty awesome. He's an awesome substitute to have probably can't think of a better one and then you get opportunity to work with a young guy like Alex who I think's proven that he has his ability and speed and he gets to get in some good equipment that he can build some confidence in he's going to run a few races here so he'll get many more you know a few more opportunities it's not just a one-shot deal so the pressure's kind

of off him in a sense to not make it happen all at once he can put together a handful of races here that might be impressive enough for the right opportunity to come along or the opportunity he's looking for. I'm pretty happy for him, and I'm glad that he's getting the chance. I thought when we first talked about him driving the car in New Hampshire, the first New Hampshire race, I thought it was just going to be a one-race deal, but it's turned into something more. And that's due to the speed he's shown in the car, but also, I think, the report that he's built with the team. He's already got a great relationship with the guys and spends a lot of time with him on the weekend. It does everything you want as a driver.

He's very interactive with the group, and they seem to really like working with him. All right, so you went to some birthday parties. I know you're watching a lot of Red Zone channel on Sunday for your fantasy team. H-T-TR, just for you, for the Redskins, beating the Giants. Unfortunately, T.J's bills won this weekend, so we're going to have to hear a lot of crap about that. Yeah, that was a big upset. I had Carson Palmer in one of my leagues along with Fitzgerald. on the same team and man I mean I should have thought they were going up against a

defense this that's been pretty good but I didn't think that they was shut Carson Palmer down like they did it was he he just kept on throwing picks there at the end of that game but the bill's defense racked up a ton of points for a lot of fantasy fans and as well as did the Vikings and the chief defense yeah the Vikings man they now that they got Bradford they're sort of you know he's a he's a he's He's a field general. He's going to manage the game and control the ball and not turn the ball over. It seems like he just does what they need on offense,

and the defense gets them some points as well. The defense gets a lot of stops. It's a very good defense in Minnesota. Yeah. First name Davis, down in the dumps today on his Panthers. Are you down? Yeah, between them and the Gamecocks. Oh, yeah.

Amy's Kentucky. Yeah, they won. Yeah, it was awful. That's right. Kentucky beat. Dale Jr.'s gamecocks too. Yeah. You know, it's hard.

I'm sort of, I believe I'm more of a North Carolina Tarhill fan today. I still pull for the game cox, but, man, it's just not been the same without Spurier. He brought an identity to the team and an aura and a personality to the team. He gave the team of personality, and it's not, it's missing something. But, yeah, it's tough to see them struggle. They're struggling pretty bad. They don't have any weapons, yeah. Yeah, offense are struggling.

North Carolina had an amazing comeback against Pitt this weekend. So it was a fun football weekend. And we mentioned Arnold Palmer. Did you ever run into him? I never met him. But my friend Brandon Suggs actually got an autographed glove from him a long, long time ago. Brandon says he still had it. We were talking about that yesterday.

Suggs sports marketing. Those are the guys that give garage tours and so forth around the, racetrack but Brandon's one of my good good friends. He's a big time golfer and had met him, but we were, I'd never had the chance to meet him. Pretty, pretty amazing character and icon in the golfing world and in sports in general, seemed like a gentleman. He was. And, you know, I often say, we often say this about you, Dale, how you're so considerate

of everyone in the room and you want to make sure you make everyone happy that works with you or that you interact with. And he was the blueprint when it came to that. You just got compared to all that. Well, he does. That's the biggest compliment I could get there. That was hard for Mike to hear. Yeah.

You're the Palmer Junior Motorsports. There you go. So Mike Davis, I want a time I'm excited about talking about this. Mike Davis got a new phone, iPhone 7. Yeah. How's it going? See, I'm surprised you didn't get it. Because you don't have a headphone jack.

You're the same guy. You're the guy that I remember when the first iPhone came. came out. You had somebody fly to New Hampshire and deliver it into the garage. I know, but the new one doesn't have an iPhone, Jack. That's like a downgrade. Well, that's interesting because the fact that you have not been the first one to get the new iPhone is this is the first time it's going to happen. This is about you. You have the new phone. Well, this is what the conversation was on Friday. I thought for sure. I got a new iPhone. Dale, who is the iPhone. Like, he's the Arnold Palmer of iPhone users.

Oh, my God. He's like, man, I can't believe you got that. It doesn't have an. a headset jack and i'm like i can't believe you didn't get one because you get them anyways i like your plugs i got you well so far do you want to know how it was this weekend yes my new iphone 7 i have uh no complaints except one i end up getting that dagon voice control uh screen or syri you can take it for your option which one where you could used to just you know press your thumb on the uh home button and you know you get your uh your desktop more or less whatever you want to call it now it takes me to voice control, which doesn't work.

I'm like, you know, call Dale Jr. And it'll say, calling Arnold Palmer or something like that. It won't even be the name that you say. So the voice control thing, and I don't think there's a setting to turn it off. I'm sure there is. No, I look. There's not. I don't, man.

If you had the iPhone 7, you would usually be the one to help me out with that, but you don't. I can't rely on. Well, I just think that you need to speak more clearly and slowly. I don't want the voice control, period. I don't want it. I don't need a voice. Who talks into their phone? I do.

I do. Rick talks into their phone. Rick Hendrick. He'll do call, blah, blah, blah, blah. Into his iPhone? Yes. Or into his personal assistant? Into his phone.

Siri. I've seen him do it. He tells Siri. He's like, call blah, blah, blah, cell phone. Well, I don't even have it down here with me, but I could show you would be annoyed by that. I have the pressure sensitive. Oh, it's yours to do the same thing.

No, you can turn it off. Pretty sure, man, does the same thing. I'm going to show you something. Sorry. I didn't get that. That's what it says a lot That's honestly it Yeah, you're right

Never mind, you know exactly what I'm talking about That was on cue right there Yeah I told Mike that I was going to wait till the 8 Or the 7S came out When the headphone jack is back Because he thinks He thinks they're going to pull a NASCAR basically

They're going to get something And then they're to come back a week later And say you know what On second thought We were wrong, you were right The headphone jack's going to be back This is like New Coke You mentioned music.

Fans go crazy. Always tweeting at you asking what you're listening to right now. Got any recommendations? Yeah. I don't know how I miss these guys, but I've recently probably, I guess, in the last two years, become a big listener of the dangerous summer. And they aren't, they're not together anymore,

but pretty good stuff. I like just about every song. My friend and Canadian Matthew Good is in studio, currently putting together a new album, which I'm excited about because I like everything he has, like everything he's ever done. I don't know, that's about it. That's probably my go-to radio station on my Pandora app,

which is probably the app that I use the most in my phone, The Dangerous Summer. I know. Out of Maryland. Well, I stumbled on to them guys listening to a combo station I made with Lord Huron and 21 pilots, and it played some danger summer. And I'm like, dang, that's pretty good.

So I don't know how they slipped by. Obviously, still listening to a lot of Angels and Airwaves, they just released a new album with a few tracks called Chasing Shadows, which has a couple of good songs on it. The Dreamwalker album Angels and Airways that came out maybe two, three years ago, still solid. That's about it. All right, so you do Pandora almost exclusively.

You're not doing searching on Apple music? I don't. I got to stick my guns here. The Pandora, Pandora is something I've used for a really long time. And I became a fan of Pandora. I bought some stock in the company. I, you know, I look at it as the other, those other guys are rivals. You know, so I won't use Apple or any other service because.

You got stock in the company. I got stocking in the company. You're in with those guys. I got it. Yeah. All right. So I want Pandora to be the best. I think it is.

So Spotify, Pandora, they all kind of do something a little different. Their services are all a little bit unique to where they kind of, they work for one guy and don't work for the other. You know, Spotify is great. If you want to go through the hassle of finding songs, creating playlists, basically, what you are doing is organizing your own personal library. That's great. I particularly don't like to know what's coming next. That's what I like about Pandora.

Pandora's going to play something I've never heard before that I might like. I've learned of and discovered and found and purchased so much more music in the last several years listening to Pandora than any other way. Hey, Taylor, in case you were wondering who White Flag will be sponsored by today. Pandora sponsoring. I'm just saying, I have. I actually, I agree with what you're saying. It's like a radio station.

Yeah, but I'm very passionate about this because, and I don't, I don't pretend to understand the entire argument between the artists and streaming radio and royalties. So Pandora has been going to a court against the artist to change the royalty rate because the royalty rate is so high that their business model struggling because of it. They have to pay so many royalties pretty much every time a song is played. So I've been paying a little bit of attention to that just to understand really what the future looks like for Pandora and streaming radio. But anyways, I would say that, you know, to Pandora's defense, that Pandora is driving me to buy music.

When I listen to a song or hear a new band, like I've bought every album that the Dangerous Summer has, for example, this is a great example. I've bought every album that Danger's Summer has, because I heard them on Pandora. Would I never bought it. Would have never heard it. So I think it's a good tool for the industry.

And I'm, yeah, all right, that's said enough about Pandora. I really believe in what you said about the element of surprise instead of being in total control. It's kind of like you can have every movie known to man either on your iPhone or have them on DVD in your house. But like if Shawshank Redemption comes on TV on AMC, you're like, oh, man, I got to watch. just because I love Shawshank Redemption, even though you've got three copies of it, at least in my case, in my house. It's the element of surprise.

That's exactly right. Pandora does that. And, you know, like I say, I've heard so much music that I'd have never found, never knew how to find it, never, you know, they're on traditional radio and so forth. They play the same eight songs every hour. You know, you're not going to hear these new bands.

And I would have never heard a Lord Huron. We went and seen them in concert just recently. as I think they were playing their last stop this season or this year. So we went and caught it. And I'd have never, I bought all their stuff. They got two albums. And I'd have never heard them, ever. I don't know where that's playing besides Pandora.

I think Mike Davis just downloaded Taylor Swift. He just discovered her. Did he? Not true. Is that true? Not true. I bet you did because your little girls like it. No, they don't.

We don't. What are they listening to? You don't let them listen to Taylor? Are there? What kind of music restrictions does the Davis household have for the girls? Yeah, they don't. I guess we do. We just haven't encountered any.

But my seven-year-old likes that kids' bop stuff that T.J.'s daughter likes. We end up into the kids' bob. It's Taylor shipped on that. I don't know. It's a bunch of different music artists. It's just the cleaner versions, I think. Gotcha. All those guys don't have dirty versions.

I don't know. Like, all about that base, I think, is talking about ass. shaking, but like the clean version, like it really may be like treble and bass. There's something else. See, there you go. I love you, man. So I'm telling it, it can clean it up a little bit by just a play of words. Good stuff on music this week.

The Dale Jr. download is presented by Spy, but maybe in part is brought to you by Pandora this week. Let's go to reaction theater, first name, Davis. Elliot Sadler is a badass. What a restart. Junior's motorsports has taken it all the way. One word. Elliot, yeah. Woo! Way to go. Elliot Sadler, what a race. So proud of J.R. Motorsports. Great job. Hey, don't forget. Junior Nation, boat daily. Gail Jr., most popular driver. Yeah. Way to go, Elliot. Awesome win in the X-Friety series there. If Greg Ives or the crew chief on the Justin Allgaar's car, if they want to take notes on how pit calls should go,

they need to be listening to that Kevin Meandering guy. That is how it's done. You take a fifth to ten place car, you put him out front, and guess what? He's going to go out there and win the race with a handful of laps to go. Way to go, Elliot. Good job, Alex, and the 88 car. Let's go on the Dover with Jeff,

and let's go see if old four-time can I get us the old W. Jeff, yeah. As campaign manager for Taylor's Georgia for president, I approve this message. Dada-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Eliasaddla wins. And in bigger news, spin-up series, Toyota P-Nod. How about that, cheating Joe Gibbs racing?

Ha-ha-ha. Can't let old happy Harvick over there. beat you, huh? Well, good news, good news. Mike Davis still sucks. Taylor Zarza for president. And Davis, first name, I was probably a little too rough on you last week. He sounded like a pretty cool guy.

But, hey, you know, got to pick where I can on some people. But yes, campaign manager, Taylor's Arza for president. First time caller sitting here in the parking lot at New Hampshire, waiting on the traffic to clear out. And all the talk about dreams, sports weekends over the last few weeks inspired me to call. Had one of my own this weekend. Probably the only time in my life, Mississippi State football and NASCAR will be within

two hours of each other on the same weekend. Yesterday, I got to sit in Gillette Stadium, watched my Bulldogs pull out a really ugly win against UMass. Today, I got to sit in the stands in New Hampshire and watch it get even uglier. Greg Eyes took his car with top five speed, screwed it up. Good job wheeled him by Bowman. Hate that Mr. I manipulate chase rate outcomes without getting any penalties. personalized one, but I guess at least it was a Chevy, not a Toyota.

Good job Byron and Sadler with the big wins this weekend. First name rocks. Taylor's Archer rocks. The Alabama Crimson Tide suck for scheduling a home game the same weekend as Talladega and making my hotel in Birmingham that much harder to get and more expensive. Mike Davis sucks. Go team bado. Hell yeah.

Well, all in all, it's a pretty good race weekend. Soon to be junior motorsports driver William Byron won the truck race. My main man Elliot Sadler won the Infinity race Woo! And Alex Bunwin did a pretty damn good job for Team 88 New Hampshire. It was a pretty good weekend. But I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the fact

that I've noticed the last few weeks listening to Submarine Mike do his long choreographed songs taking shots at me. And I'm here to tell you I'm better than that. I try to pull Junior Nation together and not tear him apart. I could go on and on about how his voice sounds

like he's a 12-year-old girl, but I'm better than that. I could go on about the fact that not only does he troll me on Dirtymoe radio, he looks like a god-de-chroll, but I wouldn't say something like that. I could make fun of him because in the one periscopes I watched, he was cooking, and he finished his fork-tops 35 minutes before his gravy, and he burned his damn gravy. Or I can make fun of him because he takes hours upon hours to complete his reaction theater calls, and I don't even know how I'm going to end his goddamn shit. sentence, but I'm going to show restraint. Because now is the time for a leader to unify

Junior Nation. Not a bullshit joister who's claimed to fame as he's had a beer with Kevin Harvick and Mike Davis in first name like his idiotic songs. Because I'm a representative of the kind of people in Junior Nation and not a person trying to claim presidency, I am asking all Junior Nations, be extra kind to people, even that asshole submarine mic. I'm going to take the first step. Submarine Mike, I hope you have a nice day. I wish I had a bus.

Old yellow bus, Texas flag, follow that dude all over town and see. Taylor's d'arse is going to notice me. Wish I had t-shirts. would show them all from a periscope streams looking so cool maybe sooner or later read me Taylor's ours is going to side with me Everybody said fool fool nothing you can do never going to see him with the likes of you I say watch and see come to the light Taylor hashtag Mike Davis rocks

Hashtag Dale yeah hashtag anybody but that oh Thanks to each and every one of you that called Reaction Theater. The number is 855740 1902. First Name Davis plays the best of them each and every week here on the Dale Jr. Download, which is presented by Spy, the official sunglasses of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Now features the official camouflage of Dale Jr. The signature 88 collection sunglasses now feature true timber camo. Go get yours at Spyoptic.com.

It's time now for our nationwide segment. They're proud to sponsor the NASCAR Foundation's Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award. Given to one NASCAR fan who's making an impact in their community with children's charities, visit NASCAR.com slash award to watch the stories of four amazing finalists and vote today and every day for your favorite. The winner will get $100,000 for their charity. Today, September the 26th is the last day for you to vote. So head to NASCAR.com slash award to cast your vote. My name is Parker White. I founded backpack beginnings in 2010.

Our mission is to deliver child-centric services to feed, clothes, and comfort children in need. Unfortunately, Gilbert County was just ranked number one in the nation for food and security, and that is a number one status that you don't want. Approximately 67% of the children in our school system are low income. That is 49,000 children that potentially have a basic need that needs to be met. When I started all of this, I wasn't looking to start a nonprofit. I was just looking for a way to give back to the community.

And it started in my dining room. The plan was to feed 50 children in one school, and we'll be in 45 schools this fall. We've grown from 50 children to over 6,000 annually. We have four main programs at Backpack Beginnings. There's a food bag program which goes to the Head Starts and the elementary schools. We also have a comfort backpack program,

which is for abused, neglected, homeless, and refiards. neglected homeless and refugee children, and we send out about 1,400 of those a year. And then our final program is our clothing pantry, which sends out 1,200 clothing items a month. Each year we're increasing and providing a much-needed resource for the community. Parker has made an enormous difference in Guilford County. Many of our students come to school with inadequate nutrition. Kids need to be well-fed in order to focus on math and reading. This program is a real godsend for our schools.

Thank you. Thank you. We have a lot of hungry children in Greensboro. This organization has really helped my family by not having to scrap and, say, put a bill on hold in order to get the necessary foods that we need. People seem to think that you're not. not a good parent because you need help or you've done something. Surviving, it doesn't have to be such a chore, and I can move on to trying to get us to living a little bit and not just surviving.

You're helping to feed 1,500 children on a weekly basis, of which you don't even meet them. I don't even know if it's measurable, the impact that she's had. I have been extremely blessed in my life, and I feel like I've been called to give back. The end game here is that no child in our area is struggling for food, for clothing, for school supplies, that those tangible needs are met. You said it, Mike Davis. White flag brought to you by Pandora. White flag right there, white flag. Pandora. I guess I can reserve my complaints of Pandora then, or should I, because I've got an actual stockholder here. I should probably tell him, right? But I won't do that right now. I'll read White Flag.

Dale is heading to Memphis Tuesday night for the AutoZone National Sales Meeting on behalf of Valvaline. he and Ray Evanham will be giving away a car race team built called the El Laguna. Yeah. A hybrid between an El Camino and a Chevy Laguna. What does that going to look like? It looks like a laguna. But kind of like an El Camino. Yeah, does it have a bit.

Chevrolet is still running the What's in Dell's Garage sweepstakes at www. Win Your Chevy.com to win a Chevy Silverado and a trip to Las Vegas for NASCAR Champions Week this December. the races this weekend are in Dover. You can tell Tyler Overs Street wrote this thing. It is as bad as boring as it gets. Like, no, there's no jokes. There's no, like, there's nothing. And he's funny.

He threw him under the bus. Yeah, I did. That's right. The races this weekend are in Dover. The second race of the expedite chase is Saturday at 3 p.m. on NBC Sports Network. Elliot Sadler is locked in with his big win. See, I added it big.

I added an adjective because he just says, I'll read it like Tyler. Elliot Sadler is locked in with his win. in Kentucky. So now it's just an Algar's turn to try to lock his way into the next round. Alex Bowman will be back in the 88 Xenity car. All three of those guys ran very well at Dover and Bay. So the teams are really...

I did tell Tyler to come down here. And he didn't. Yeah, Taylor, continue to defending. Dale said, come down here and look. I said, come down here. He said, I don't want to be on the show. I said, you might learn something. I'm with, I mean, he does, I think he's funny.

He is funny. Maybe not with this white flag. He must not been in a mood this morning. I mean, he even wrote this line. The teams are really excited to go and back down there. Sunday is the last race of the first round of Sprint Cup chase at 2 p.m. on that NBC Sports Network. Jeff Gordon is back in the 88 cars.

12th through 14th are currently separated by five points. So watching the battle between Kyle Larson, Jamie McMurray, and Austin Dillon, will be interesting. Just throwing shade. Throwing shade. There it is. So Gordon's back in the car in Dover. And Dela, I know you want to thank Exalta for all their support this year.

Exaltor Racing.com. Everybody can go out there, check out the photos. And they always have news up on the 88. And Mike said, Gordon's in the car. Alex Bowman's been doing a great job. And they'll continue to do that for the rest of. of the year,

you can go to exalta racing.com for all the latest news. There you have it, my man.

Well, this weekend, you said you're going to be on the pit box? Yeah, I'm going to go

Saturday and Sunday. I don't know how it's going to be kind of different, tough, not maybe not a ton of fun,

but hopefully it's a bit weird to be, you know, not in the car, but at the track. When you're a driver,

you don't know what to do with yourself. But I'm going to try to support the guys and maybe learn a thing or two. I'm excited to see how Jeff does. He usually runs great at Dover, looking forward to it. So it's going to be different, but we'll see how it goes. Well, I know that you've said many times that you have to challenge yourself, you know, throughout this entire process. Yeah, that'll be some exposure for sure.

I've been, I went to that, let's see, I went to a one-year-old, my buddy Josh Snyder's little girl turned one year old, so I went to that birthday party and had tons of exposure. There were 15 little kids hollering and carrying on in one room. Yeah, I don't even like that. It kind of exposed. Yeah, and then I went to Carson's 16th birthday party Sunday, so going to the race.

All that stuff's good. It ought to be kind of calmed down once you get to the race after those two birthday parties. Yeah. All that stuff, those environments are good for me. I've gotten to the point. I guess we can talk a little bit about where we are as far as our, going through our recovery. I went to another evaluation last week. Basically, what's happened is that part of my recoveries this is doing exertion, you know, exercising for an hour or two.

And I'd gotten to where I couldn't get the exercises to trigger anything. And so we would get new exercises until they wouldn't trigger anything. And then we'd get new exercises and go through this cycle, really, of working harder and harder and harder just in a gym environment. till really I can't get that to trigger anything. The only thing that triggers the symptoms is the, you know, going somewhere I'm unfamiliar with, going somewhere I've never been where it's busy. A lot of people talking, a lot of movement,

a lot of visual stimulation and things just, you know, a busy place. So, you know, that's kind of, if I can find a busy place, if I go with Amy to the grocery store or I go, you know, to the birthday party or something like that, that's basically just rehab. So we, yeah, that's why we went to Lord Huron. I wouldn't really have went all the way to Milwaukee to watch Lord Huron play, but we thought, man, you know, we went and picked up Tim Dugger, a friend of mine and his girl

and went to Milwaukee and spent the night. That was interesting. Being in a, you know, I was basically, it wasn't like a, it was in a field. And so I was like four people back from the stage, and nobody recognized me or anything. And we stood there for the whole concert, and there was a lot of things going on, a lot of visual stimulation and a lot of noise and people moving and talking in your peripheral. So it was a good experience.

Yeah, so I'm going to go to the racetrack and I think get that same kind of exposure. And my eyes are really, really good. I had some issues with them for a while that was pretty frustrating and those have really gotten better. I don't have any headaches. Never really was dealing with headaches that much. More than anything out of the ordinary,

just a balance in the visual. stuff so basically when I get into these environments the symptoms that I have now are balance I feel like I you know if I when I'm in a busy room or say for example at that birthday party for Josh's kid there's a lot of people there I didn't really know well and just a lot of chatter so obviously everybody in the room knows that I've got a concussion and I'm not in a race car and so they're everybody's kind of analyzing me as it is get up and wander around a little bit, stumble. That don't sound like any different from any other one-year-old birthday party ever.

I guess so. Get up, stop around, try to find a way out. I don't know. I hear you. Dale, that was a really encouraging report, though. Yeah, you know, it's getting better. One of the new exercises that I got, they got this phone block. It's about three, four inches tall, and it's about 15 inches wide.

And I have to stand on it and close my eyes and turn my head and stuff like that. and Tyler was having problems with that, and I think any normal person would. But that's the, when they taught, my doctor talks about getting me back to being a normal person, and then there's work to get me to where I can be a race car driver. And so we're almost back to being where I'm a normal functioning person with no issues.

But to become that guy that I need to be inside the car, we've got to really train my senses to be really, you know, perfect. So I'm going to be doing a lot of stuff. stuff that that's really hard for anybody to do to try to continue to improve the balance and my response time and how quick I'm reacting to things and so forth. So I'm still working on it. And I enjoy the work. I don't really there for a while.

It was kind of repetitive doing lunges and stuff every day. But I play a lot of basketball now, which is a lot of fun. So I'll be good next year in the DMBL. Do you want to predict what your draft status will be? I believe I'm going to request to be drafted. Actually, I'm going to request to be drafted. Is that out what works? I was going to finish my sentence.

I was going to request to be drafted in the fifth or sixth round of seven like I should be. But I might be captain. I've never been captain. You have been captain. The first season. That was like forever ago. It feels like you've been captain. I know what it's sort of like.

You end up kind of taken over as the captain. Isn't that what it is? I'm just, people let me. I don't come in with all these suggestions of stuff. I'm not, hey, this is what we've got to do. Are you playing defense? You're guarding that guy. I'm not doing that stuff.

You know, the players on my team will be like, what should we do? So they looked at all-Arnell. Arnold Palmer. The Arnold Palmer of the D&L here. There we go. He'll tell you going to hear the end of that. I'm never going to hear the end of that. Golly.

Unbelievable. All right, so fifth or six round, we can count all that. I want to be captain again. I think I'm thinking about making all the crappy players captain. Okay. Are you going to pick me? No, you're better than me. Crappy guys.

On your team. Matt's got to pick a team. I thought you meant as captain. Yeah, well, no. Well, I, yeah. You scored 20 points, 20 point average? You know, on a bad night, maybe. Who's playing in this league if he's scoring that many points?

He's a good player. I have to see that. Well, listen, man, I know this would test anybody's patience, and you've been remarkably patient through this and especially having to deal with it so publicly. And I really, I think all of us listening to you, especially on this download, the last couple of months have learned that no matter what we're going through, if it's what you're dealing with, or if you recently had a death in the family or anything,

talk through it instead of bottling up all your feelings, and you've done that. And I really admire you for that, and I know that everyone listening does, we're all pulling hard for you. And certainly it's an encouraging report you gave us today. So keep it going. We'll do. All right. Mike Davis, I love you, my man. I love you.

I hope you have a great week. Do you all end every podcast with this? Yeah. It's hard to say goodbye. For first name Davis, for Mike Davis, for Captain Earnhardt, I'm Taylor. You've been listening to Dale Jr. Download presented by Spy. Thanks for listening to Dirty Mo Radio. Hey, everyone.

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