The Dale Jr. Download - 165 - Just As Long As It Ain't That Damn Dale Jr.

Episode Date: March 14, 2017

Dale Jr. and Tyler Overstreet discuss Sunday's fight between Kyle Busch and Joey Logano, while Junior also reveals a few personal post-race run-ins with drivers throughout his career. 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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Hey, everybody. It's Dale Earnhardt Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download. As with me, as always, is our guest, Tyler Overstreet. We also, hey. Hey. We also have a bunch of guests here in the gift shop out here. The crowd is growing. It's awesome.

Exhaught of the studio. if you want to come out and see us record this on my um yeah Tuesdays Tuesdays come on out around 9 930 a little late today 930 but anyways we got a lot to talk about so are you ready I'm ready yeah let's go let's do it all right so let's go ahead and get on uh get the race talked about Las Vegas so I really like that track um they just announced in the last a couple days that they're going to go back there for a second event next year. Very deserving. Yeah, I think so.

I mean, there's some of the traditional fans that hate to see any race track lose a date, particularly New Hampshire, because New Hampshire's sort of got such a core racing vibe to it. The modifies, there's lots of lots of racing up there, a lot of race fans up there. Yeah, they do a lot of racing at that track. obviously people see the two NASCAR weekends, but they're racing up there all the time. They go a little road course and do all sorts of racing. Yeah, but I mean, just locally, that's a great race market.

Because it used to be the Bush North Series. Yeah. It raced exclusively in the Northeast. Right. And so it's unfortunate for New Hampshire, but Las Vegas, yeah, definitely is one of the tracks that I would be excited about getting a second date. So that's happening next year.

We had a pretty decent weekend. We had a great first round in qualifying. Couldn't really get it done in the second round, but still qualified okay. Started the race. Actually, in practice, the car had a lot of speed, third and last practice. And like our lap times,

we made some adjustments to try to improve a couple things, as we always do. We ran in the top 10 most of the day. I think we got up to like fifth at one point. We ran fifth a long time in that second state. Okay. Right there at the end, we had a couple restarts in the bottom lane. That lane wasn't really moving forward very well or making up any spots. The outside is the best way, best spot to be in for a restart. So we were losing a few spots on those last few restarts that was hurting our track position. The last, we had a caution with like 10 to go, got to come down and get tires. And I think at that point we were running 11th or fighting for 11th. You were right in that range. Yeah. And restarted 13th. Yeah, on the inside again.

So let's see. This is something that we tend to do every time that we have a late 10-lap dash. We don't put any fuel in it. And why we don't put fuel in it is because it adds a little bit of nose weight, which increases kind of security in the car. So when I was a rookie in the All-Star race in 2000, we didn't fill the car up with fuel. last 10 laps and that's where our speed came right in that in that in that

particular of course in a race you got to put fuel in it to be able to run the fuel run but in those little 10 laps sprints it's not necessary so we don't put fuel in the car that adds a little nose weight we also pump tires up so the tires don't need a lap or two to come in if you're gonna run 60 laps you want a low air pressure so you don't overbuild the tires and miss your target your peak your peak pressure so we pump the tires up so we do a lot of different things to sort of make the car take off and unfortunately it really screwed up the balance on our car made us really tight and we couldn't move forward but lost a few spots didn't finish

where we i think we should have i think we should have finished around eighth or tenth um ended up 16th but at least with the stages you collected i think five bonus points yeah i think it was three in one stage and one in the other yeah so four or five yeah yeah so we uh we came out of there with at least the result. You know, the last couple weeks at Daytona, Atlanta haven't been great. We're moved up a little bit into points. If we can keep doing this, we'll get ourselves back into this little chase or playoff at the end of the season. So.

And the next four or five tracks are all good tracks. Yeah, I don't really know any bad tracks for us. Right. What do you think? I mean, you would say the road courses, but you've been running better at the road courses. We've finished great at Sonoma the last couple of years. So, yeah, I don't know that we have any tracks that I'm concerned about. You know, it just depends on how things go for us.

We finally put a race together where we didn't have any problems, loose wheels, flat tires, things like that. Although on the flat tire thing, that first run when Harvick had his blown right front, we had a similar issue developing. Yes, we did. but we actually got really lucky on that. So what happens there? And I'm not sure you can tell me maybe if you were really watching the race closely,

but if Harvick was running the top, was Harvick running his traditional high line, which I'm sure he probably might have been. I think he was, because he was moving up pretty quick. Yeah, so the thing about running the top at any racetrack is the track's a little bit greener, not as much rubber down, so you're the guy putting the rubber down. If you go up there and if you continue to move the groove higher and higher, you're the guy that's putting the tire rubber down.

You're using a lot more tire than a lot of guys that are running the bottom. Once the track rubber's up, tireware improves. So if you're running where the rubber is, you're going to have a little bit better tireware. If you're running in a green or a racetrack, a particular part of the racetrack that doesn't have a lot of rubber on it, you're going to eat up the tire a little bit quicker. So the risk of going up high, yeah, you gain speed. and the car goes faster, but you use a lot of rubber on the tire. Right.

So you're doing everybody else a favor, but you're killing yourself. Yeah. So it's a little risky to go up there in the first run or two of the race at any race. And so me, Harvick, the 42, a bunch of guys were moving up there, and you just hope you don't start picking up any vibrations. We picked up a right-front tire vibration with about 10 laps left to go in that segment, I guess, or before the- He was about midway through the stage.

Well, we picked up a vibration right before he crashed, and I guess he had the same problem. But after that, tire wear improves the rubber's up there in the high groove, so you don't have a problem the rest of the day. It's just, you know, it's tempting because you want to go up there and take off, and you know you can go up there and run two, three-tenths faster, but it's going to be a risk on your tires. So I try not to do it that first 50 or 40 laps in the race.

Let someone else go up there and do that, and then I'm going to get up there and dig the rest of the event once we get through that first tire tire run. But anyhow, unfortunate for Harvick, he's been so fast the last couple of weeks. I expect he'll be getting him a win here soon. Yeah, the Phoenix is an awesome track for him.

Yeah, I don't think he's missed. I don't think he's not won a race there since he joined Stuart Haas. Right, and then I think he even won his last race with Childress there. I think he's won every spring race since he joined Stuart Haas. at Phoenix. Yeah.

So we'll talk about Phoenix here in a bit. So let's go ahead and get to it. Everybody's been talking about the post-race fight. Does Joey Legano have the most punchable face in NASCAR? I think Kyle Bush would agree. Yeah. T.J. was jealous. TJ was upset.

See, T.J., this is the thing about T.J. This is what's awesome about T.J. is that if you say, if you shame him and say he's got the most punchable face, he gets mad. Yeah. So he's going to get you back. and then when someone else takes the title, he's jealous and upset.

Yeah, weird guy, but shout out to T.J. Major's. Big fan of this show. He is a big fan. Anyways, Joey Lugano gets loose. He didn't, I mean, obviously there was some contact on the back straight away. Because they were avoiding Kozlowski. Right. Okay?

Understandable, right? But 22 gets down in the corner and he gets loose, right? And collects the 18. Okay, a little reckless, but not. unintentional. He could have wrecked himself. Right. Well, he would have wrecked himself if Kyle wasn't there. I think he would have saved it. But he would have lost a spotter too. Yeah.

Yeah, we won't debate that. But anyways, Kyle goes from a top five finish to ending up 22nd, right? That is, that's one of the things. That's probably any driver's pet peeve is to be running in the top five coming through turn three and four to the checkered. And then moments later have a 25th or 20th place finished fall in your lap. 17 points. That's a lot of spots. It is.

You work all day long. He had even bounced back from a speeding penalty. Yeah. So you work all day long and get screwed over. So Kyle was very mad. He walks up, he throws a punch at Joey. Judging by Jeff Gluck.com's video. Yep.

Looks to me like he hit him. It does. Joey is fake news. Fake newsing it, right? Yeah. He says he didn't get hit, but it looked to me like he hit him. Yeah. I mean, his face.

was a little red. Maybe he was hot from having his helmet on all day, but his face was a little red on that cheek. So, I don't know. Do you think he hit him? I do. I don't know how hard, but I think he made some contact. Yeah, it doesn't matter how hard. But Joey denying it is kind of funny. It's like, nobody

I mean, they're not challenging your manhood if somebody blindside you. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, it was certainly very dramatic. I'm not surprised by it. The only thing I regret is that I wasn't looking that way when it happened so I could see, it live.

I think Jeff captured it masterfully. Yeah. I think he had so much web traffic that it bogged down his site last night. Yeah. How about that guy? I mean, Jeff Gluck. And it made it on TMZ. Jeff Gluck leaves USA Today for family reasons for his wife.

She's got this job and I got an opportunity elsewhere. And so he needed to uprood and relocate. Yeah. Relocate. So he has to create his own service. to the NASCAR fan, he's going to do this totally from scratch, and here he is.

Those are the moments you've got to capitalize on? He has been, it seems like he's been everywhere he's supposed to be since the season started. Getting all kinds of great content. Good job. Anyways, back to the fight. I would not have done the same thing.

The thing about that is, so I know, maybe more than Kyle, that there's a lot of cameras and there's a lot of people watching. You got social media. You got people getting this content all kinds of different ways.

And if you go up and punch a guy in the face, that's going to be on TV all week. And you're going to show up at the racetrack on Friday or Thursday next week. I have to talk about it again. You're going to get asked about it every day. This probably will go on for a couple weeks. And NASCAR,

somebody singing in the shop. NASCAR will take this content and it'll be on every show that they do. Commercial. Every commercial. So you'll see it over and over and over and over. And NASCAR will take this fight and use it as advertisement.

Oh, you've got to come out and see what's going on at the next race. And they will wear it out. So do you think Kyle will, go Matt Kenseth on him. I'm just asking you, do you as a driver want to put yourself in that position where you can't escape?

No. Like the the media coverage that comes from all that? The commercials and using that realm would be fine with me, but having to answer over and over and over. Because they could be waiting on him Friday. I'm not a big fan of the commercials because like if you crash

you're in a commercial. If you get in a fight, you're going to be in a commercial. So that's a lot It's a lot of media Kyle is going to have to do, a lot of answering and, hey, is it over between you and Joey? Obviously, he doesn't like Joey right now, so you don't want to talk about Joey. If you're really pissed off of Joey, you don't want to talk about him. So he's going to get asked a lot about Joey. That's no fun.

And Mama's watching. You don't want to upset your mama. She's just a phone call away. He said that Joey's going to get it. So is he going to get it this weekend? Yeah, but what about your mom? What if your mom? His mom's probably cool with it.

Really? Well, at this point. You're mom. Oh, my mom? Yes. I'm putting you in Kyle's shoes. My mom would probably be a little disappointed, but she'll get over it. She'll get over it.

She knows I love her. That's pretty disrespectful. She might be one of our listeners. Now you're crawling back. Anyways, Joey's PR guy was pretty aggressive in jumping in there and pulling Joey back and holding him back. Good job. Hey, so.

Smart P. I'm giving you an opportunity here to pump the PR guys. I know. It was a good job. Yeah, he took a few bows. Joe was swinging. I was like, whoa, don't hit your own guy. Joey was swinging?

Well, he was like, well, why? Trying to get out of it. Yeah. So if you get in a fight. Let me ask you this. What guy in any fight, when he's getting pulled out of it, doesn't act like, hey, I want to get back in there. Yeah. Do you think he really wanted back in there?

Once all his guys were there, I'm pretty sure he was okay with getting back in there. It was like a five-on-one. Yeah. And then he was that guy. He wanted some more. Yeah. Every guy does that, though, when they're getting full. pulled back. I've never been in a fight.

Better be glad they're holding me back. You think he was saying stuff like that? Oh, probably. So, if you get in an altercation, do you want me to hold you back or do you just want go at it? Or do you want TIF to hold you back? I think you can hold me back? That's the debate. Can you hold me back? Not possible.

We'll have our own fight. Me and you will be fighting. I think maybe if you're walking that way, I'll be like, let's just me, you will go there's a fight we'll go duke it out in the bus line yeah it'll be it'll be us brawling on pyrrude yeah that would be good somebody on twitter had to ask last night do you think that they should do like a hockey fight and like everybody have to back up and let them two go at it i mean i i i am uh you know i there's a part of it'd be like a high school fight where everybody circles around to watch i mean i i think that that would be better than

all those people piling in and it looking like a complete mess Yeah. You know, it just looks. I know that the team guys, some of them, so if there's five team guys that jump into a fight, one of them's jumping in there to punch the hell out of Kyle, kick him, whatever he can do. Yeah, don't kick.

One guy's trying to get in there to actually break it up. Yeah. You got the good Samaritan guy. You know, so everybody's trying to do something different. I think that if, and it looks like a, it looks a bit, it's not something like, it's not a proud moment, I don't think, for the sport in that particular at that particular time, even though, you know...

If five guys jumping on the guy in the M&M's jumpsuit, it just isn't cool. It just... It kind of looks weird. I couldn't tell because of the suits, who was M&M's and who wasn't. Everybody needs a different color nowadays. Yep. I...

You know, I've had a few altercations, but no fights like that. I mean, I'm not trying to play my stuff out on the main stage. We got into it a little bit with Tony Stewart. on the racetrack at Pikes Peak. I don't know if this was 98 or 99, because I got wrecked at Pikes Peak. Both years.

One particular year, so me and Tony Stewart, I'm trying to pass him. I keep running into him, and finally, when I got around him, he ran into me. And we got called to the hauler after the race. So we go into the holler. Me and Tony Sr., my crew chief,

we go into the hauler. Tonnell Sr. Senior's really fiery. Got a bad temper. I could see that. He was very upset. So Tony Stewart comes in there. Tony's fine.

I can see from the minute he walks in the back door that Tony's not going to be a problem. But his crew chief, and I can't remember who it was. We were talking about it on Twitter this week, but his name escapes me at this moment. It was not Greg Zipedelli. And it wasn't Ratcliffe or any of those guys. This was a long time ago. So this guy comes walking. I think he's a K&N guy now.

But anyways, he comes walking in, and the minute he opens, the minute the door opens, I can hear this guy talking and yapping. And he's talking about me being a daddy's boy and riding my daddy's coat tails. And so I went over Tony Stewart to get to this guy, and Tony Sr. went under Tony Stewart to get to the guy. Wait, like between his legs? Or like under his arm or something like that? Under his arm. Okay. Tony Sr. went low, and I went high.

And so It was like a rehearsed tag team move. Yeah. So I got a hold of the guy and held his, grabbed his shirt, swung. And as he, you know, as I swung, he came out of his shirt. Like it ripped off. And Tony Stewart's just kind of there. And it kind of tangled up in all this unwillingly.

Anyways, there was no, nobody punched anybody. I was really mad at the crew chief because I thought his comments were incorrect. But me and the cool thing about it was we race at Milwaukee the next week. As soon as I walk into the pits, Tony Stewart walks up to me and says, man, I ain't got a problem with you. We're going to race together for a long time. Let's be friends.

And we have been great friends ever since. And the other time you wrecked at Pike's Peak. Yeah. So, yeah, the next year or whatever year it was. Maybe it was a year prior. I'm racing. Todd Badine, a couple laps to go. Kind of what the 22 did.

Todd gets a little loose on the inside of me. Spends me out. And I was really young and stupid. So I went into, I said, I called him a cue ball-headed fool on TV, which was okay because it, you know, it's kind of funny. Was that like an insult that you had built up in your head or was it like on the spur of the moment? All right, so the Bodines and Narnhart's had some history. Dad and Jeff back in the 80s, so there's a little bad blood there, but it's kind of gone away.

Me and Todd and those guys are pretty good now. But back then, I had a chip on my shoulder for them because of what had went on with my dad and them. Okay. So, yeah, I didn't have that pre-programmed to say when I, it just came out. Anyways, we get into the garage area, and I grabbed a, I was an idiot. I grabbed a jack handle because jack handles are pretty solid damage. Yeah.

Holy crap. And I sort of paced back and forth around my car like any, you know, when they came in after the race, I was like, come on over here and get you some. I wasn't going to do anything. But so that was pretty, that was kind of how you handled it back then. You grabbed a jack handle, and if anybody wanted a piece, they would grab a jack handle, and it would be a big jackhandle fight. Like a sword fight?

Yeah. So anyways, me and dad got into it at Japan one time in the exhibition race in 1999. That would have been your first cup anything. Yeah, I think it was. You made quite the impact. So me and him bumped each other a little bit on the track. He was really, really, really ticked off. I thought what happened on the track was kind of par for the course,

and nothing I hadn't seen before. But I don't know if he was just ready to get out of there, ready to fly back to America. but he was not in a good mood. He threw a shoe at me. We were in this little trailer changing clothes after the race. I was super happy because I beat Dad. That was the whole goal of the trip.

Did he connect with the shoe? No. It went right by my head, though, very close. I was looking down, untying or tying my shoes, and it came by at a high rate of speed. It would have heard if it hit me. Do you think that situation would have escalated if he had connected? As close as it, he's, I know.

he's not, he's not that good of, I know his aim ain't that great, so I think his intention was to hit me because it came pretty close. But, God, man, if he'd hit me, then we would have both been pissed. Yeah.

That wouldn't have been good. So. That'd have been a long flight back. Yeah, we didn't really have words. It was just kind of like, you know, I'm upset with you. That was kind of his. Well, Kyle and Joey didn't have words.

Yeah. We had some problems in the late, model days. Kelly, one time we was racing at Tri-County Speedway. I used to work on Kelly's car. Actually built her car, too. She would get wrecked by these guys all the time. Not all the time. She'd get wrecked by people, and

it was really obvious that it was just about, you know, wrecking a girl, or wrecking an Earnhardt. Reckon heart girl, yeah. Yeah. So she gets crashed on the back straight away, destroys the car, and we had a couple

altercations in the pits after that. One time, let's see, we had the entire grandstands at Hickramur Speedway pissed off at us one week. We started last in this race called the Bobby Isaac Memorial. Yep, they still have it today. We were running third with about 20 or 30 laps to go. I got black flag for passing a lap car under caution, which the guy was kind of waving me by, which was totally legit. and I didn't think it was fair.

So we pulled into my car, the guy that was work, kind of my crew chief owner, which says pull in, this is bullshit, we're getting out. So I pull in with a few laps to go in the race. And I get out of the car, the whole grandstands is booing at me.

For quitting? I don't know, but just for being an Earnhardt. I don't know. Hickory is a little bit 50-50 for Earnhardt. A lot of Jared fans up there. Oh. So at this particular time, okay, one of my crew members, we had ripped our fender off in the race,

so it's in the pits now. My crew chief, or one of my crew members, throws the fender onto the track. Now, there's no, they're red flagged at this moment. Cleanup crash. So we throw a fender on the track, more booze. I flipped off the, I flipped the bird from the pits to the booth.

To like the score. Yes. Like Will Power did in the Indy car race. I know the score because I change his oil at Dillenhart Chevrolet. So I flipping this guy off. Well, it obviously now looks like I'm flipping off the booing fans. 14 times most popular driver. So now the booze are turning into objects, cans, and bottles.

Dang. And the guy comes to the dealership like a week later gets his oil change. and me and him had words. That might have led to my firing from the dealership. Anyways, then we go back to Hickory a couple weeks later. My sister is working, so I'm going to test her car. She's going to race there, and I'm going to take her car and test it. So I'm pulling up, I'm sitting in the pasture seat of the duly.

This little kid standing at the fence grabs. He sees the trailer, and me, Kelly Carey, had the same looking, same same looking trailer same design so he grabs a handful of rocks and we pull up it's like a 10 13 year old kid has a handful of rocks and he says uh who's it whose car is this as we pull up to wait on the gate open and the guy my my buddy driving the truck says is kelly's and he goes just as long as it ain't that damn deal junior and he dropped his rocks he's going to throw rocks at us how old were you i don't know i was probably 20 dang i didn't know that you were

you were the Kyle Bush of Hickory Motor Speedway for, yeah, for a while. Anyways, that's a... What about the other fight story was the do-rag story? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's talk about the du rag.

So I was going to... I was wondering if Kyle's going to start wearing a du rag because he busted his forehead, right? Yeah. Right? So now he's got... I wonder if it was, you know, needed stitches. Did you get a good look at it?

I don't guess it did, because he came out. out of the care center and he was still yeah had a had a hematoma a what hematoma oh my gosh a little swelling um anyways let's see uh he uh so i was wondering if he'd wear a du rag because i busted my forehead similarly to uh what he experienced but i did it diving into a swimming pool over at ricky hendix oh so wasn't a fight yeah that's not as cool not not as cool yeah me we rick henrick was having a party Rick's son. They had put They had put

dishwashing deterge or something in a hot tub so it was all foamy and it was spilling over into the pool and I had not been over there before so I dove into the pool and hit the bottom. How deep was this?

Not deep enough. So I busted my forehead open. Jimmy Johnson drove me it's 3 o'clock in the morning drove me over to doctor that they had on call. I got sewed up. They had a doctor on call because they knew this party was going to be that rowdy?

I don't know. I know this doctor seeing today. He's still the HMS doctor, quote unquote. So I drove over to get my forehead sewed up. But then we wore the do-rag for like a month later, you know, a month after that at the racetrack. I had this, had all these stitches in my forehead. People thought you were just trying to make a cool way. Yeah, people were like, oh man, Dale's wearing du rag.

The crew, the overwall guys, they didn't have. have helmets back then. They all wore du rags changing the tires on the car. The first week was at Pocono. I think it was around 04, 03. So yeah, we wore a du rag for a whole month. People didn't really know why. And so yeah, try it out, Kyle. We're the dourag. Also in Vegas, you had your own injury from your bike ride. I did? Yeah. That's what you said on Saturday. What injury? Because you wore poor. your spandex were not ideal. Oh yeah, my ass is sore. Yeah.

Okay, so that's not an injury. That is if your ass is sore? Let me tell you this. If you're going to ride a road bike, like the ride, you know, the real deal road bikes, your ass is going to be sore. That's every time. This is not a positive,

this is not a pro in the pro con thing when considering ride bikes. This goes in the con column. Yeah, not good. The seats on these road bikes. I don't understand why these seats, they're as hard as a surfboard. I mean, they're just not comfortable. You're going to ride 25 miles on this thing.

Yeah, but it was very painful. You should have your interior guy craft something nicer for you. Yeah, I guess so. I'm actually going down to Cool Breeze in Charlotte Thursday, and I'm going to look into trying to find some driver-com. Some rider comfort. Yeah. So our Lance Armstrong was going to send you some socks.

Yeah, man, Lance got on me about my socks. I didn't know there's a sock rule. So I'm just wearing my socks. I wear low-cut socks with my shoes. I think everybody does that. Has it not been the style for the last 10 freaking years? Yeah, especially with shorts. Yeah.

So I didn't think I needed special freaking cycling socks. So Jimmy texts me. I happen to be at the cycling store. I'm not there every day. But anyways, I'm at the cycling store with Alex Bowman, and I'm getting him a bike and getting him fitted up for a bike because he wants to get into this fitness regimen. He's on the same plan that all of us are as an HMS driver.

He's got a certain amount of workout, certain amount of stuff he's got to do each week. You understand? Yeah. Okay. Well, you're looking at me like, you don't know what I'm talking about. Well, I'm thinking. You keep looking at the wall. I'm looking at everything in this room.

I'm just admiring the sights. Okay. So I didn't know if you were understanding what I was talking about. Tyler, pay attention. So I'm helping Alex get this bike thing figured out. That way you're not the most awkward person. Well, me and him kind of live near each other, and we can ride together out near where I live.

Because T.J. says he's going to ride, but he's a toe liar. He's not. So back to the story, Jimmy texts me, and he's like, hey, man, Lance Armstrong, I guess they're big pals. He says, Lance thinks your socks suck, and he's going to tweet, he's going to Instagram

a picture of you in your little socks because I posted this picture of me in my spandex. I'm like, look, I'm going to wear a spandex. People are going to take pictures of me riding around the infield.

I'm going to be able, I'm going to put the first one out there and control the narrative. I'm not going to let people be like, hey, here's Dale, look at him, ha, ha, ha. Were they doing that? Take pictures?

I had, on my way back in from the ride in Vegas, I had two fans to take pictures of me as I was riding in. and they looked like they were very happy to have caught me in my spandex. So I was thinking, man, I'm going to get that first picture out there. That's smart.

Yeah. It's kind of like the wedding photo thing. Yeah. Yeah. You want to put your own stuff out there. So after you put one out, if you want to make fun, so be it. So anyways, I'm getting this text from Jimmy about my socks, and Lance Armstrong thinks my socks suck.

And so then I grab a pair of socks off the rack And I take a picture of them I said here I'm buying these Send these to Lance and tell him I'm going to be fine And I said better yet If Lance wants to send me some socks I'm a size 11 And he's sending him

I guess he is Man The weird thing is folks If Dale tweets about Or it says that he likes something People are like man I want to send him some free Free stuff of that Yeah

I'm like oh my gosh Free stuff God I love it Free, free, free. I love free. But also on your bike ride deal, you almost crashed. I did? That's what you said.

You were avoiding a rock. No, I didn't almost crash. You said you almost crashed. I had a flat. Do you not remember the story? Oh, this is how you got the flat. You hit the rock. Gosh.

Man, I didn't crash. Didn't almost crash. Don't be putting out that false narrative. Sorry, folks. We control the narrative. That's what this whole podcast is about. Bill did not almost crash. He had a flat tire.

Doing a podcast is so that we can control a message. I know. And you're sending out the wrong stuff. He did not almost crash. He hit a rock and had a flat rear tire. Yes. No, I didn't hit the rock. Wrong.

Let me just tell you what happened. You just tell this story. I wasn't there. All right. So Jimmy has this buddy named Ben. And Ben is better on a bike than any of us. So he's really good. Been riding bikes all his life.

And he knows how, at 25 miles an hour, We're coming up on this big boulder. It's about the size of a cantaloupe. He knows how to, at 20 miles an hour, kick his front tire to volley the freaking rock across the street out of the way. That sounds dangerous. He's just good. So, I don't, Jimmy and him are riding side by side.

We're on the shoulder of the road. All right. On our right is dirt and gravel. On our left is these ruffle strips that you, truckers and stuff run across and when they're kind of dozing off and wakes them up. And then there's the road.

All right. So on the other side of the rubble strips is the road. There's a very, it's a very narrow alley that we're in between the rumpel strips and the gravel. We're riding two by two. I'm in the second lane

or the second pair with my pilot beside me, Jeff. Jimmy and Ben are up front. So Ben's in front of me. I don't see this rock. We're coming up on it at 25 miles an hour. All I see is Ben, sort of kick his front tire, and this rock goes flying out into the street.

And it freaked me out. So I ended up on the rubble strips. Oh, okay. Going 25 miles an hour. Yeah, that's not good. Because those tires are pretty thin. Dude, the freaking rubble strips blow the tire out. Just the one tire, though.

The rear tire. Yeah. Well, my ass is sitting on the seat, so that's where all the weight is. Yeah. The front tire was saved. Anyways. How long did it take you to change the tire? and quick.

Oh, yeah. Did you do it or Jimmy do it? Jimmy and Ben never saw what happens. So they'd go on down the street. Oh, like a mile. Then they kind of turn around. We got to change before they got back, though. So I pull over.

A pilot Jeff pulls over. And he's like, all right, look, I'm changing it or trying to change it, but he's like, let me just show you. Because he's done it a million times. And five minutes, we had it changed. They're simple. It's real simple.

I was surprised how easy it was. very, it's close, close call. Could have crashed. But you didn't. Didn't crash. That's always the best way. Yeah. I was riding that thing like Dale Earnhardt in 1989 at Daytona in turn three when he had

that flat. There you go. Coming to the checker. Yeah. Because before you said how bad ass that was. That was badass how he drove that car into turn three at 180, 190-mile hour with the right-year flat. It was less badass how you saved the bike.

No, same. Same badassness. Yep. If you were there, you would have been in all. But I wasn't. I was in the media center. 25-mile an hour on a flat tire. saved it.

On your second ride. I took a moment. The natural. I took a moment. Relaxed. I got this. Slowed it down. Pulled over.

All good. So moral of the story, he did not crash. He saved it, but he did have a flat tire. Speaking of almost crashing, your Washington Redskins offseason is not going good. Yeah. The only reason we're going to talk about this is because it made news. when you were a disgruntled fan

tweeting. I'll read what you tweeted. This made it in USA Today for the win, which is a pretty good little website. After they fired Scott, how do you say his name? Magluven? McLaughin? Let's just call him Scott.

Scott M. Dale tweeted. GM, who reportedly is a football mind and player GM gone. The franchise breaking quarterback, two times over once a trade. It's only March. You know, that's exactly how I had it read in my mind, yes.

And then somebody, because Dallas Cowboys fans are always, you want to be a Cowboys fan? And then you say, no chance, I'm betting on outliving this horseshit carousel. Yes. Which I thought was hilarious. Because you always make fun of the Panthers. And the Panthers aren't, their off-season is going okay, but it's not going as bad as your Redskins.

I don't know that it That it isn't Well you should tune in Oh that the Panthers? Yeah It seems okay Oh They got Julius Peppers

He's only He's 40 years old He's 37 Fifth on the all-time Sacks list But so here's the issues That you're facing As a Redskins fan

You tagged Kurt Cousins for the second year to row He's going to get paid $24 million Awesome payday for one year But he don't want to play there He doesn't. And then you lost your top two receivers. That's, okay, you want me to go over these?

Yes. You tell us. Pros and cons. All right, God dang. Yes, I am disgruntled. I have been a disgruntled fan for a very long time. We haven't been, you know, very good over the last 20 years since 91, really. We've had a couple winning seasons, but it seems like as soon as we figure out what we need to do, we quit doing it.

or somebody gets mad or somebody wants to leave or somebody gets fired. So, look, man, I don't pretend to know exactly what was going on in the office between Scott, the old GM, Bruce Allen, who has really been the GM the entire time, and Mr. Snyder. They like Mr. Snyder, though. Mr. Snyder is very nice to me. I get invited to the games to his personal box. He sends me a Christmas card every year. We get a milk chocolate life-size football that takes a long time to eat.

And the dude's just really cool, okay? He takes a lot of shit for being a terrible owner for the Redskins. From the Redskins fans, I get it. We're all frustrated. But he has done some great things for the franchise. Not every owner hits home runs every single day. So, anyways, say what you will about Snyder. I know him personally and think that he's a pretty cool guy, and he wants to win.

Right. Nobody shows up to lose. He's a bigger Redskins fan as anybody. It's why he bought the team. Anyways, I just, something has happened. All right, so Kurt's been miffed ever since he got drafted. I don't, you know, I'm just, I'm speaking for him, and I'm probably incorrect on half of this. But I imagine maybe he wasn't too happy having to battle it out with RG3

and go through that whole mess, right? Yeah, understandable. They never really bought in. It never really seemed like they bought into Kurt being the starter until they kind of had to. Right. Because they did a lot to get RG3. Yeah. And I think Kurt was just the other guy.

But if two or three years goes by, they're trying and trying and trying to get RG3 to work out. Kurt's not enjoying this whole process being this, you know, this second guy. He earns the starting job, breaks the franchise record two times over, and still can't get the deal he wants. And still, even though, all right, maybe he's not getting the deal he wants, he still doesn't appear like he's getting treated as the franchise quarterback. That's all he wants is to be wanted, you know, wanted, wherever. he's playing.

Be appreciated. Be treated like the guy. He feels like he's got to be looking over his shoulder all the time that they might be looking for someone in the draft or they might be looking for someone in trade. There's all kinds of stupid rumors going on out there. There was a rumor at one point. There's how stupid they are that they were going to bring in Romo. How mad would you have been?

And apparently that was a leaked rumor by, I read in a story. Maybe that was leaked by Bruce Allen. I don't understand. Yeah, I don't understand. Don't threaten me with the Tony Romo train. Anyways, they lost to Sean Jackson, a wide receiver to the Buccaneers, Pierre Gras Stoll, to the 49ers, both great players. They signed Therreira Pryor.

How do you think he's going to do? I don't know. I mean, it seemed like he did okay in Cleveland. He did very well considering. Still learning the position. He was a quarterback coming out of college. They got a few other guys in free agency. It's been decent signs, but it's been kind of frustrating because we all thought Scott

was a really smart football mind. He did a great job in San Francisco and Seattle. He's had some problems without alcohol in the past, and I guess that's cost him a few jobs. He's been completely honest about that. He did say when they hired him that he still drank beer, that, you know, he's not a recovering alcoholic. He's not relapsed.

He said, look, I drink beer. I don't think it affects my job. Right. They knew that when they hired him. So I don't know exactly. I wish he was still there, to be honest with you. I think he is. I think he is a good scout.

I think he does a good job in the drafts. He missed on some guys. He missed on some people in free agency. We didn't do a good job last year getting the defense better in free agency and so forth through the draft. But I still think that he knows a good football player when he sees one. We've heard some rumors about some potential signs on the GM job going forward, which I like.

So I still think we can climb out of this mess and look okay. You know what you got to do? What is that? Keep pounding. Oh, Jesus. So people always ask about the Redskins, and I've got a lot to say. But we won't go over it all today. But anyways, it's fun waking up everyone and wondering what the hell you're going to read about the Redskins.

What's it going to be? All right, now we're going to get into some fan questions. We received these using the hashtag Ask Jr. As always. I'm sad that we're not doing this on Periscope because Tyler doesn't want to hold a phone. and yeah and ask questions sorry about it

we'll be back in the future all right first question if you could give another track a second race or give a track not on the schedule

a race which track would that be man you know maybe Homestead I kind of like racing at Homestead this is one reason

why I think it'd be fun to have a second date there is because that is where we we finish our season right That's where we go with the four drivers for the championship all in one race. Would it not be interesting for a fan or anyone really that's plugged into the sport to see a preview of that some point in the middle of the season? I know, but does that not take away some of the prestige of that championship race?

Not one bit. So think about if you were able to go to Homestead in July and see a... Homestead in July. Why not? It would be hot and muggy. I'm actually in the car where it's probably 130 and 40 degrees. Probably. I bet your ass is in the media center in the air conditioner where it's real comfortable.

Probably, yeah. So. I come outside with about 30 laps to go there. Tough. Tough gig. It's bad. Wouldn't you like to see a preview of, so that you create a, you create a... It might would make the race more competitive.

Because, like, if you have... No, if you have... Let me finish my thought. I know it's terrible for you to listen to me, but would you not want to see what might happen later in the season? You get guys at Homestead in the middle of the season. You get to see the race and see who's strong. And then you talk about that for the next several months. Look, ex-guy, he's great in the points.

He had an awesome homestead. If he gets to the, if he's in Homestead battling for the championship at the end of the season, now he's a favorite. Because he was strong in the race and you're like. thinking like if a Super Bowl matchup has happened in the regular season? We kind of go into Homestead with some missing, there's some missing content because we haven't raced there and nobody really knows. And it's so different than everywhere else? Yeah.

And nobody really knows who the favorite is. And I know it, maybe it's not great to know everything, but if you have a race there before earlier in the season, you kind of get to see like, all right, man, these. These guys got it figured out. So this team, maybe it's Penske or Hendrick. Penske or Hendrick, or somebody's going to be strong there in that race. And you go, oh, wow, they're the favorites. And that's, you know, that's a great content.

That's a storyline that builds as the season goes on. Okay. That's what I like that. I'm not totally swayed, but it's okay. If it happened, I'd rather it be in late April than July, just because July would be hot. and I don't want my driver to be hot. You're not worried about me.

And angry. Anyway, you're not worried about me. All right, next question. At Nick D. Race Life, do you still play the drums? No. When's the last time you did? 15 years ago? 15 years?

You actually played them at the Jay Cole photo shoot two years ago. Trying to think about that. I was there. Oh, yeah. But that was brief. It was brief. Good thing it was brief. I don't know if you could have took much more.

Yeah. Yeah. Jay Cole is a talented musician. He doesn't want to hear that. Nope. At Eskins 21 asked, who are your final four teams and national champion

in this year's NCAA tournament? Oh, I filled out my bracket. I got the Tar Heels winning. Me too. Do you, you know, the one, there's one team Gonzaghan. Do you think that they're going? They always,

they're always in the tournament, like in a top four or five seed, but I don't know who they play during the year to have such a solid record. exactly so I think that UNC makes it they're in the same they're in the same division is what Kentucky or Kentucky Kentucky so they're gonna I think that UCLA beats Kentucky yeah I think I have that too yeah and then you know Carolina beats UCLA I'm kind of torn on that game but the UCLA team not sure they're kind of like in Zaga not sure

exactly how good they are but you got to have you know there's going to be those sleep are that are going to bust your bracket. Right. I'm picking them to do it. I pick a lot of tens and tens over sevens and 12s over fives. You risk taker. I don't pick them to go past the round of 32. That's not risky.

Yeah. So who's your, you got any Cinderella stories in your bracket? No. I mean, the only one that would. Rhode Island? I have Rhode Island winning a game. I do too. And then.

East Tennessee? No. I have Notre Dame, but they're a five. They're not a, that's not. And they're going to the elite eight, but I could be wrong. They could lose the first round. They're no Davidson. They're no Davidson, but they don't have Steph Curry either.

Yeah. I got Kansas going. Amy's mad because I got UK losing. Hey, sorry about it. Well, I made her promise that when we got married, I'd be a UK fan. Carolina and Kentucky both can't make it. I know it. They both can't make it.

So. Guys on ESPN, two or three of them picked Carolina versus Duke in the championship game. I have that. I have Carolina versus Duke 85 to 84. I would love to see that with Carolina winning, but if Duke won, I would be very upset, and I probably wouldn't come outside for about a week or two. But talking about the NCAA,

we can talk about Whiskey River bracket.com. Uh-huh. And fans can go there, sign up. It's free. You can win some money if you have the perfect bracket. Went $100,000. Wow. Yeah.

What if I'm in there, I filled out a bracket for that. Can I win? I think it's in the rules that you can't. But if you go on there, Dale's bracket is on there. Boo, I can't. Yeah. I don't get anything. Well, you'd probably be paying yourself.

Free beer? You could get that. Do you not get free beer there anyways? Nope. They make you pay? Yes. They don't even make me pay. That's not true.

I know. I'm just kidding. I don't even know what this person's Twitter handle is, but they asked, when can you... Give it a shot. Who is it? It's the RISAC. No, it's Teresa K.

You're such an idiot. Teresa K. 10.21. She asks, when can you reveal your world 600 paint scheme? Do we have one? We do. No. Whenever I see it, I'll show it to you. Teresa?

He will not. He'll reveal it when Nation 1 says we can reveal it. All right. This is... what do you think this one is brand disco or brandy scow brandy scow let's go with that are such a great storyteller and extremely witty thanks tyler debatable when are you going to ask me the question have you ever thought about writing a book this is part of the question i have wrote a book driver eight i know when you go to write another one uh probably when it's i don't know when i'm really really

really really old i'll probably write another book all right i don't writing the book all right i don't Writing the book, doing the driver's rate book was fun because it basically just told the rookie season story. And there's a lot of funny stuff in there that happened. We won at Richmond, and I had to use the bathroom so bad that when we came to, when we drove into winter circle, I climbed out of the car before the TV guys. You know, when you pull in and went to race, the TV guys say, sit in your car, stand your car. When we come back from break, we're going to tell you when to get out. So this, I don't know if fans even know that happens, but the driver gets out when the TV guys.

waves you, he kind of gives you a signal. And you jump out like, yeah, here I am. So I pulled in, and I just got out, and I walked out of the Victor Circle. I didn't know that. Yeah, well, you weren't there. I guess I didn't read the book.

Nope. So I got out of the car, went out, walked out of Victor Circle, went into the Unicow 76 building, which is now a Snoko building, and used the bathroom. And then I came back 10 minutes later, and we had Victory Lane.

So you climb back in the? car? I don't remember. I don't think so. But they at some point are going to make you stand on the thing and act like it. Because sometimes you'll get out. We did all that. Yeah, so sometimes you get out and maybe they don't get quite the picture they want, so they'll make you climb back up and hold your hands up and team act like they're throwing Gatorade and stuff like that. So anyways, yes, we do want to write another book and someday.

Probably going to get Mike Davis to do that. I think we've talked about that in here. That was a pilot. Oh, yeah, we did a pilot podcast, no one has ever heard. Unreleased pilot. Yep. At Debbie B.0603 asks, what do you think about having qualifying on the same day of the race at Pocono in July? It's also going to happen at Martinsville in the fall. I'm pumped about this.

This makes this a two-day show so that eliminates Friday for the road guys. Gives him one more day at home. I don't know what it means for the drivers because I hear about these fan fest days on Friday. That's what it says online. They haven't sent a city of... Yeah, it's just real vague. Fan Fest, it's going to be fun. Well, obviously, but it's vague as to what it is.

Yeah, like, does it start at new? What are they doing? Does it start at 7 o'clock? I don't know. What is Fan Fest? Is this happening in town? Yeah. It's going to be on Main Street.

They're doing this at the racetrack? Are their drivers going to be there? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. So, I'm excited about that for the team road guys, though, because it gives them another day at home. with their families. People don't, I don't think, understand how taxing it is for those guys,

the schedule they work, because they'll go to the shop, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and then, like, this week, they're flying out at 7.45 a.m. Thursday to go to Phoenix. And then they're staying after Phoenix all the way through California. So all that time on the road is...

Being a road guy is not fun as far as the schedule. Yes, it's exciting, glamorous, winning races, working on race cars, being with one of the best teams in the business, having a great paying job. But that, all that really, that last for, that honeymoon kind of goes away after a while because the schedule for them is awful. They get home. For example, they're flight home from Vegas. Two and a half hours, stop for gas, two and a half hours, stop for gas, two and a half more hours. They're getting home like five o'clock in the morning. ruins any chance

of really having a productive Monday. Right. And I don't think people, and me included, because I'm pretty spoiled that I fly with you and we leave Friday morning and we're leaving the track

20 minutes after the race wheels up within an hour after the checkered flag. So we got home right before midnight the other night. But those guys are always going. And then they're up early, like five and 6 a.m. every Friday, every Saturday to get to the track.

Yeah. The garage opens at 7 o'clock in the morning, so they're up at 5, 5.30. They're flying. Yeah, we can go on and all. Right. So shout out to the road, guys. That's right. This is, I don't know, but the first name is Marietta.

I don't know what her Twitter name is. When's your mom going to come on this show? Well, we haven't had a guest yet. I know. Somebody asked when we were going to start doing interviews. Yeah. I don't even know if we should, should we? Do we want another person in here?

I don't know. We're awesome. I know. People keep telling us that we're awesome. We had this whole room remodeled for us. Yeah, I know. We got a big couch, so we got room. Why would you want to put people on it? Well, I guess we could have a guest over there on the side of the couch.

We have headsets for two more people. We have headsets. We'll definitely get some guests in here. Mom. Mother's Day is coming up. Mother's day is coming up. Maybe we do it then. Yeah.

She's always a hit on those from past years. Yep. so I'm not sure that I would enjoy that as much as everyone else well then we're gonna set it up Mother's Day week all right at side pipes asked in that there this is how this tweet was phrased in that there race car what do you keep in that little pocket inside the door side pipes that's a pretty cool

handle side pipes side pipes with a why yeah I guess pipes within I was taking yeah probably So in that there car, what do you keep in that little bottle inside the door? No, pocket. Pocket. Sometimes I, if I wear a heart rate monitor, I throw my garment in there so it can do the GPS. Oh, so it's. Jimmy's been posting his heart rate from his races on Strava.

If you don't follow Jimmy on Strava, download Strava, follow Jimmy. He posts his heart rate and how much calories he burns. All on each event. I like the map because the map it'll drive half a mile outside the track. Yes. So me and him are both on Strava, so you can check out the workouts and stuff that Hendrik has us doing. But the pocket, sunglasses, Sharpie. I throw my hat in there.

Anything you want to put in there, you can put it in there. Yeah, because you run the whole race with the hat right in the door. Yes. Why? Because if I wreck, I want a hat. Oh, understandable. Yeah, because you're going to have bad hair when you take it Hamid off. Yeah.

All right, looking ahead, Tuesday, that's today. That is today. We're giving a ride. Now, can we even talk about this? You can talk about it. This is pretty cool. By the time this comes out. That's right.

It'll have been done. Yeah. So this afternoon, earlier this afternoon, we're going to, we took a ride around Charlotte Emergency Speedway and a two-seater that's owned by my boss man, a race car, with Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook CEO. So I'm pretty pumped up. So this has happened already. But when we're recording this at 9 o'clock in the morning,

so it's not happened just yet. So I'm really excited to have done this. Does that make any sense? If that paints a picture of when we recorded it, it was sometime on Tuesday, and then it's going to be posted, and he may or may not have already drove. I wonder why he's coming to do this.

So he's... I heard that he was going around. like cities or states that he had not done stuff in, and he wanted to, like, go to those states. He's like doing a bucket list. I guess so, because yesterday he was in Chapel Hill, and he met the North Carolina basketball team. Holy moly.

So. So this Mark Zuckerberg is just cruising around doing all kinds of awesome things. Yeah, he's going to tour HMS, and then you're giving him a ride-along. So it should be kind of cool. Yeah. He seems like a very smart guy. He seems like a jeans and t-shirt guy.

Yeah, I think so. Yep. So I'm going to wear my jeans. t-shirt so i'm not overdressed i got my pearl jam shirt on is that okay you're gonna have to wear a fire suit to drive him around yes that's in my car right now so i figured that yeah but is it okay if i wear the pearl jam shirt the rest of the day i don't care friday well we don't have anything till friday so i got wednesday and thursday off well you're going to meet with gregg tomorrow but i don't we don't put that on the podcast wednesday yeah me and gregg had a little

meeting wednesday i think it's cool to say that because people okay TJ's in that meeting. Crew chief driver, spotter, having a meeting. We're going to talk about what we're doing that we don't like, what we're doing that we do like. It's good to have those meetings. And these are meetings that we have often. This is not a come to Jesus meeting.

Right. This is more of a regular weekly thing. Right. So, yeah, we're trying to get better. So we're going to have a little meeting tomorrow. Actually, I got meetings over there today. Yeah, when you leave here. Yeah, when we're done with the podcast,

we drive over. to Hendonk Motorsports. All the crew cheese and drivers get in the room and talk about the past race and the next race. I'm going to talk to, let's say, we're going to ride bikes. Me and Alex, T.J. said he's going to ride. This is Wednesday.

T.J. is not going. T.J. says he's going. So we're going to... Stay tuned. Stay tuned. T.J. backs out of a lot of things. Exactly. Everything. T.J. backs out of everything.

Let's change that. Friday, we're going to Phoenix. Friday, we're going to Phoenix, practice, and qualifying. Qualifying at 7.45 Eastern. That's 4.45 local time. Saturday, we got two practice in the Xfinity race at 4 p.m. Eastern on Fox. It's the big Fox, not the Little Fox. And then Sunday, the race starts at 3.30 p.m. Eastern.

Yes, 1230 local on Fox. It's the first race for the new Exaltica car. Yes, I'm excited. that car is awesome. I know I was right as the green flag was waving Sunday. They were swapping it out in the garage. And so I took a couple pictures of it as they loaded it. Man, it's nice.

All right, we got three wins at Phoenix. Top tens and six of the last seven races there. I think we were third the year before and second last year. No? You won fall of 2015. Fall, but spring. What? The spring races, not the fall races.

Oh, last year you finished fifth. You were running second, and then there was a late caution, and we stayed out to restart second, and a couple guys had pitted and took tires and passed you right at the end. I thought we ran second to Harvick last year. You ran second all day, and there was a green-white checker and a couple guys. Because remember, that's the one where Carl kind of bumped in. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So Carl run second. Yeah. All right, so, yeah, we run pretty good at Phoenix. Alex ran really well there last fall. That's right. So 88 has been crazy fast there the last three times. Yeah, last month we had a two-day test there, so we got some laps on the track. It's going to be super hot.

95 degrees is what they're saying on Sunday, 94-ish, 93-ish on Friday and Saturday. The test was probably like 75 max. Are you going to be all right? I don't know. I'm probably going to go in the bus. Yeah. Oh, you're going to go in my bus. Yeah.

Okay. Well, I hope everybody enjoyed the show. What a mess it was. No, it wasn't. He thought it was good. I think it's good, good content. It was. Thank you to our friends at Exaltta for this awesome studio.

Thanks for everything they do for Dirty Mo Radio. They're a great sponsor. Looking forward. They're on William Byron's car also this weekend. That's right. Two Exalted cars. Black and silver. A black and silver.

A neon yellow. Yeah. So big weekend for them. Also be sure to subscribe to the download through Dale Jr.com, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and all the other major podcasting outlets. Let us know your feedback on Twitter. as always at Dale Jr. at Overstreet Tyler and at Dirtymoor Radio

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I didn't have enough protein, apparently. That's what my trainer said, and that's why I was tired this morning. There you go. So we have about 10 people coming to the studio today. I'm going to hop out there and take a few pictures and sign some autographs of those folks. Hopefully see some more people next week. Again, thanks for tuning in.

See you next time. Thanks for listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Hey, Mike. So as we're sitting here in the newly renovated Exalted Xalta Studio, let's talk Exalta. First of all, this studio is awesome. Is it not? Oh, my gosh. It's huge.

I love it. It's amazing. Yeah, we are very appreciative of that. But Exaltas is everywhere. I mean, we just left Daytona. Thousands of people went into their seats through the Exalta Injector. I myself. I'm going to brag a little bit here, but I actually watched the duels from the Exaltza suite.

It was fabulous. You know, Exalta is a co-primary on Dale Jr.'s car. That car, you will never miss it. It is so bright, colorful. It's amazing. And it's going to run at Phoenix. But yeah, Exalta is everywhere. They are really big supporters of our digital platform and our race teams.

We didn't even mention the fact that Exaltza is going to be sponsoring William Byron. That announcement came out this week. And they have a brand new building that they just built right next to Hendrick Motorsports. I've had the privilege to see the outside. Now I'm really excited to go and take a tour of the inside. It's absolutely incredible just what they've been doing. Totally. So we appreciate Exalta.

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