The Dale Jr. Download - 166 - Junior Sounds Off on Recent Happenings in NASCAR

Episode Date: March 21, 2017

Dale Jr. voices his opinion on what precedent is being set in NASCAR with the recent dust-ups both on and off the track the past two weeks. He also breaks down just what happened to the No. 88 team at Phoenix and responds to Ryan Blaney's in-race anger. 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, this is Dale Jr. Another episode of the Dale Jr. Download. We don't call it the Dale Jr. download. We hashtag it, Dale Jr. Download. So can I just stop saying the? Well, grammatically, you should still say the. Okay. But we took off the capital T.

But we dropped it from the hashtag. Yes. I'm just trying to keep up. and as you hear my host as usual Tyler Overstreet hello I'm here again he is here again he'll be he's producing whatever that is and he'll also be editing whatever that is I know what that is you do a great job on editing parts are similar the producing part I can't visually

see but I do I do see the editing who do you think produce that show sheet in your hands and produces produces Oh, like produced, literally, like produced. Literally. Yeah. Well, technically the printer produced it, but I produced a document. Well, we got a fun show. So let's get to it.

All right, we're going to start off, obviously, talking about the race, Phoenix. It's been a great racetrack for us. Alex almost won there. Yep. Last year, you know, we talked about that. we qualified third that was awesome haven't qualified so well in quite a while since Daytona

yeah well we don't count Daytona that's that's all race car so I felt like you know this was more where yeah wherever the car however fast the car is going to run at Daytona Talley that's where you're going to start doesn't really matter the the car really took off well we started the race

the first run running pretty good kind of in the top five moved up I think third one point, right? Yeah. You were running those guys down at the end of that before the first caution. Yeah, car was great. We started to lose front brakes early in the race,

and I'll explain, that's interesting. What was that? That was an email. I forgot to turn my email off. Oh. Nice. Let's keep that in the show.

I love when you screw up. Me too. People need to know that you're human, not some crazy robot. All right. So, anyways, the brakes kind of started fading earlier in the race, and I think that's why we got so loose on entry. We had a couple things in the car that we wish we didn't as far as the setup,

some things that I wanted in the car and some things that Greg thought would be great. So there's a team effort and kind of getting the car off of its typical fast self. So we kind of struggled throughout the race. We worked on the car and made it worse, and then we worked on it some more and made it better. By the end of the race, I think it was handling as good as it had been all day. But I had no brakes. Laptime-wise, coming up to that last caution,

your lap times were like eighth, ninth quick consistently. So the front brakes were getting hot all day, fading, the pedals fading. And what that means is the pedal literally gets longer and gets further and further and further down and closer to the floor. you mash it, a good pedal, when you mash the brakes, obviously like any street car, is going to be really hard right at the top of the pedal. So you get brakes immediately as soon as you mash the brakes. As you start to lose the brakes, what happens is the fluid in the line boils that creates air bubbles, which puts air in the line. The brake pedal will go further down, eventually reaching the

floor where you'll mash the brakes and they'll go all the way to the floor and the car won't slow down. It's almost as if there's just no brakes at all. Does the increased heat the other day add to that or is that just a typical Phoenix thing? So as we're running throughout the day the brakes are getting hotter and

hotter and hotter and there's nothing that you can once you put air in the line you can't undo this. You can't get the only way you can get air out of the lines by pulling in and bleeding the brakes in the pit stall or the garage. So once you boil the fluid once you kind of have that soft pedal

the rest of the day. By the end of the race with the last 80 laps, the pedal was going to the floor. One thing you can do to kind of help yourself a little bit is to pump the brakes, and that will pump them up down the straightaway, so you'll have a little bit of break, at least getting into the corner. The only thing about that is you're continuously heating the brakes through this whole process. You're not giving them any chance to cool off. And what happens is that heat dissipates into the wheel, and it melts to be the tire. You saw the 22 car pop a tire and getting in the fence. I'm not exactly sure if that's what happened to Matt Kenseth,

but I know the 22 car was having break problems similar to us. Me and him both started out the day very quick, and we both really faded about the same all day long. Yeah, because he had a speeding penalty, but then he never, I don't even think he cracked the top 10 again. He was struggling with his brakes about identically as we were and faded throughout the day. And eventually, you know, it's,

You don't know exactly how hot they are. You can tell by mashing the pedal that you got a problem. And you have to just kind of moderate that. And unfortunately, they ended up popping a tire. We were probably going to do that. Yeah, because you were on the radio pretty concerned about that the last 50 laps. We were probably going to pop a tire if it didn't get the cautions when we did. On that note of the 20 and 22, that's a good area to shout out for the safer

barriers because those guys took some big hits, especially the 20. Yeah, the 20s hit was bad. I checked in with Matt and Joey. Both of them are feeling great. But yeah, Matt's hit was really, really bad. I saw that again yesterday. So what were you doing to compensate for that? Were you lifting super early?

because on that last green flag run before that whatever green white checkered, you had caught Suarez, but then you started going back to talking about the brakes going away, and you kind of just settled in behind Suarez. Well, because I remember the first... I'll answer that for you. Yeah, give me a second. In the Kentucky, the first time we raced the lower downforce package at Kentucky,

the brakes cooked, and you... Plowed over Danica there. Oh, yes, that's true. So when you have brakes and they're hot, if you get real close to another car, that's basically taping up the brake ducts. You're not, you know, when you're, when you get close to somebody, you get less air into the brake ducts. And so if I got closer to Sforay as my brakes got hot or not only because I'm running

harder trying to catch him, but I'm also cutting off air supply by running closer to another car. So that would also give you problems That's why you see a lot of guys Every once in a while I pop beads at Martinsville Even though the temperature's not that hot Ambient temperature Because there's no air circulate

Yeah, you're right up behind guys Lap after lap after lap And you literally cook the brakes Because you're not getting any air to them So It's just Once that pedal starts fading You know that the fluids to a boiling point

And that's when you need to go I better back up here and chill out Sometimes you just have to do that. I mean, if you don't, you're going to pop a tire or boil the fluid over and ruin the brakes for the rest of the day. So you can get the rotor so hot that it physically warps the rotors. All kinds of issues can happen. We had break problems one time at Richmond.

Oh. See, we have some visitors out here in the gift shop. Gus is not sure about all these folks. He's in here hanging out with us. Gus, quit it. So, we, anyways, in 99, we were racing at Richmond in one of our first cup races with Tony Jr. and Tony Sr., and we boiled the fluid in our car. And when we came in, we actually came in and tried to bleed the brakes during the race.

And when they would crack the bleeder open on the brakes, it shoot a blue flame out. The fluid actually was on fire. That's incredible. With the tire change, We're just chilling right there. Yeah. Yeah, that's not. Gus.

Cut it out. Gus sits. All right, so you ultimately finished. Stop for a second. Let me get him to shut up. He's going to sit here on the whole damn show. You're on the ground on the whole show? I think it's inevitable at this point.

All right. Gus off. Hey, Gus. Gus. Hey, off. There you go, buddy. He listens. It's questionable.

Anyhow, where were we? We're talking about. brakes. So, all right, Newman's winning strategy. I see you have that here in the notes. What was it? I was in my car racing. He did not pit on the last caution.

Well, there you go. There's Newman's winning strategy brought to you by Tyler Overstreet. The question would be, because you're going to have a lot of armchair quarterback saying, why didn't the 88 stay out? Oh, we didn't have your brakes. I know, but people don't understand that. Are you one of those? No, I sound pretty skeptical.

I understand. I wrote these notes. If you would have stayed out, you would have restarted third. Explain why that. Why don't you explain it? So if you restart third, which you did early in the race on the initial restart, the inside's not the lane to be in. You would have had Larson and Bush up your ass.

Oh, man. And you would have fallen back because Truex restarted third lost eight spots in two laps, finished 11th. Yeah. He was running right there with us before we pitted. Right. I don't understand what you're saying. Remember, and on the last lap, whenever TJ, our number one fan, and he said,

hey, don't follow Truex, and he told you the wrong lane to go in. Are you changing subjects? No, this is still on the last green-white checkers. Is this the new winning strategy conversation? Yes. You're bouncing off all over the place. This shows off to a terrible start. It is.

Are you nervous because of these folks? Nope. Are you sure? Yeah. Why are you nervous? I'm not. You sound nervous. I'm not nervous.

You're sure? I just want you to go through the show. I'm going through the show. Okay. But we were talking about Newman's winning strategy. And then you bounced over to the 78 car. It's hard to keep up with you. I'm explaining that he was on the same strategy.

Oh. Three guys stayed out. Newman, Stenhouse, and Truex. They restarted 1, 2, 3. Newman was first. Where'd Stenhouse finish? I think third or fourth? Ah, that's not too bad.

Yeah. That's a good run for him. It was a very good run. He was really fast in the last 100 laps. Was he? Yeah. That's good. He passed us, and then he went and passed through four other guys.

Newman's winning strategy. I think they stayed out mainly because Newman had such a great long run car. Every time that I was around Newman, we would beat him for the first 30 laps, and then his car was really fast on that back end of a run, like really fast. Right, because he passed you, like on the last lap or two of that first stage. Yeah. Every time I was around Newman, I was faster than him. for the first 30 laps and then he would pass me and just flying.

Incredible. So ultimately that strategy only paid off for him. He wouldn't have won the race if Larson and Stenhouse didn't make contact in turn. Oh, I didn't see that. Yeah, so Newman took off from the outside lane, Stenhouse obviously on the bottom, and then Larson was fourth and tried to kind of cut between them, but he wasn't clear of Stenhouse. And so Stenhouse barely clipped him in the left rear. And that let Newman get away.

Gotcha. Do you think Larson, so Larson's trying to run down Newman in the last lap. Do you think for a split second he remembered that time that Newman just floored it and turned three and four at Phoenix and blasted him into the fence to get into the chase? Yeah, I don't think you ever forget that. That would have been pretty dramatic if he would have returned that favor. It would have been dramatic. But also on dramatic. Ryan Blaney, during the race, I assume you had no idea until after the race.

Apparently, he couldn't pass you on the first. That was in the first stage. Oh, it says, Tires are gone because the 88 cars are d'8. Yeah, Ryan Blaney, he's my neighbor, right? So he rents the house that Keselowski used to live in that I sold to Brad. And so, yeah, he comes over. We hang out.

We drink a little beer after a race or two. Not as often as we would like, but we do spend some time hanging out. I actually gave him the option to, he has like a razor or something. So I let him ride the trails on the property. Oh, good. Yep.

So obviously we get along great. I'm happy for him, excited about his future. He's one of the good guys. But I don't know what that's all about. He said he was hot in the car. and that, you know, when he's hot, he just can't control himself. So hope. That's the excuse he made up?

That's what he said on Twitter, said it was really hot inside, and he just kind of having a hard time. It's going to be 60 degrees this weekend in Fontana, so he should have an easy go of it. Yeah, you should have an easy go of it. So you can race him? You can actually race him.

Yeah. Without him losing his cool. Oh, okay. You've got to judge how hard you race Ryan Blaney based on the ambient temperature? Well, if you're, you know, if it's hot, he's allowed to call you a, yes. I'm unbelievable. Yeah.

I didn't anticipate that from Blaney. I thought I didn't either. But there's some guys. I mean, I said some bad words Sunday. Yeah. But I don't know that I called anybody any names. When's the last time I called somebody a name? Yeah, I don't remember.

We do say F an idiot a lot, but we don't like. I think T.J. Say number X car is an F an idiot. We just. TJ's more prone to call somebody an idiot. DJ, my spotter, TJ is, he's bad to call the guys out. I try not to really call anybody out because it would get on Twitter or to get in the media and you have to talk about it on your podcast.

Yeah, it's going to be on that little radioactive show. Yeah, it'll be on radioactive. We'll probably get asked about it this weekend. So I try to avoid those situations. So Junior Motorsports, awesome day on Saturday. William Byron wins the poll, Justin wins the race, three of our four guys qualified for the dash for cash, $100,000 bonus, and obviously Justin won it by winning the race. What's that like as the car owner?

Because for me, working here every day, it's pretty badass. Yeah. Because adding that fourth team, these guys are working a lot. And then Saturday it finally showed. They had a couple rough weeks. Atlanta and Vegas weren't exactly what they wanted. Phoenix was a really good race for us. Yeah.

The speed that the 7 car had was a pleasant surprise. You know, our guys, last year we kind of started the season out. Kelly gets mad at me for saying this because we won Daytona. But we kind of started the season out a little bit off of the Gibbs guys. And as the season went on, we closed that gap. And by the time we got to Homestead, we really gave them a run for that championship, right? Yeah. And so to see the speed this good, this early, is a pleasant surprise to me.

It says that we did all the work that we should have done in the offseason and we didn't get behind. Because when you're not on the racetrack, this is the deal. When you don't go to the racetrack during the off season, you're not around the competition, so it's hard to measure yourself to everyone else and know exactly where you're at. When you can measure yourself literally at the racetrack,

looking at the timesheet, you know we're not good enough. We got to work harder and you'll step it up right then and there. But when you're not at the racetrack and not around your competition to be able to measure yourself in the offseason, sometimes you can lose some speed and competitiveness to the teams in the series and not even know it until you show up to Daytona or show up to Atlanta and these other tracks early in the schedule. And then you get to see, oh, wow, you know, these guys have found something that we didn't find in the offseason. So that early speed is great, especially awesome for Justin, because. He went winless last year.

Yeah, he had not won a race. I mean, obviously he was in Cup for a couple of years, but he hadn't won since 2012. Well, it was a great win. So, especially for our partners at Brandt, to have them there physically at the race. Rick was very excited in Victory Lane. They had a huge group there. A lot of guests. I think they did a hospitality outside turned three or four, so they had probably 50 people.

Yeah, I saw that hospitality. It's pretty awesome to have those guys there. William finished fourth. Great run for him. That kid, man, he's got a... He's still, you know, got things to learn and some, you know, progression to make. Yeah, he made one little mistake and hit the wall, but he never even said anything about, like, oh, that screwed up the car or anything.

He just kept driving. Yeah. Well, you know, he's just going to keep getting better. He's already running well, and as he starts to really polish it up, it's going to be pretty awesome. Sadler, he's going to be there all year. And that had a good rebound compared to Vegas, struggled all weekend. Got a top 10.

I think he qualified well. He qualified 12. Yeah. They're gaining on it. Right. I knew it was going to be tough for those guys because the team came together at the last minute. And it's basically a team from scratch. So it's not a team that has any kind of experience together,

and there's a lot of jelling to do. But I expect those guys to continue to gain momentum. And so with all that, with those good runs, We've now got three of the top four in points. Justin finished 30th at Daytona and Atlanta, and has already recovered to fourth in points. Pretty good. So, yeah, it's good going forward.

Also, in that Exfinity race, near the end, there was an incident with Austin Dillon and Cole Custer, which Cole, obviously, he ran our truck the last two years, and now he's a rookie for Stuart Haas and Xfinity. He made a mistake, wrecked Austin. Austin had been running really well all day. Austin his car

is tore all to hell and he's not happy about it so he goes and pulls up or maybe he waited for him under caution and then ran into him kind of like pinned his car up against the wall and he was called to the NASCAR hauler him and a crew chief and the spotter

yes but the week before Kyle Bush and Joey Lugano are rolling around on pit road or Joey wasn't rolling around Kyle was after getting in their fist-to-cuffs and they were not immediately called to the NASCAR trailer.

They went in Phoenix, but obviously it was just them to. So, like Jeff Gluck, he jokingly tweeted, well, Austin should have just punched him in the face. Is that? Why did he say that? Because you didn't have to go to the NASCAR trailer. It seemed like less repercussions for just punching someone in the face than actually going and hitting their car.

So is that a precedent now, or what do you think about that? Well, I got a lot to say. I love Austin and Ty. Those boys have known them for a really, really long time. Good friends with Mike and RC. Happy for those guys for winning the cup race, Richard. This isn't nothing against Austin or Kyle or anybody else for that matter. but the only thing that I worry about really isn't what the fans think about the penalties

or to penalize or not to penalize whether the sponsors have a problem with their car getting penalized or not penalized. What I worry about is what do you want to happen in the future? Like next week, six months from now, a year from now, how do you want the next guy, the next driver that's in this situation that's in Austin's position, And how do you want that driver to react? Do you want him to think that it's okay to go smash into this car? You know, you can't measure the repercussions of what happened.

You can't measure the repercussions of what happened this early in the season for Cole. Cole being a regular in the series. People were going to say, well, it didn't matter because it's early in the year, it didn't hurt Cole, or, you know, it's not like Matt Kenseth and Joey Lagano late in the chase. But you don't know that. You don't know exactly how that hurt coal. It obviously costs him some spots in the race. Yeah, so look, what if he's within a couple points of the chase cutoff?

That's my point. He had to pit and fix his damage. Anyways, Austin's a cup regular in a series that is a privilege for the cup regulars to run in. They're limiting the opportunity for the cup regulars in that series. Even that race. It's a privilege to be in that series, and I have an opportunity to run it. So running into one of the regulars, I know you're mad, you know. understandably should have probably punched it just don't run into it you know if

punching's okay obviously going and punching or karate chopping or karate kicking a roundhouse roundhouse kicking somebody on pit road is fair game but smashing into their car on the racetrack in between the flags is not ever been good you know it's never been something that you don't want you don't want you know the gap we got a late model car right runs around regionally it's local tracks these these kids that drive these cars are as young as 13 years old, right? Incredibly impressionable. If they're seeing this on TV on Saturday and Sunday,

they're going to take that into their mind thinking that that is how you do it. That's okay. That's acceptable. We don't want, you know, these kids growing up with that mindset that, yeah, man, you know, I'm a little smash into this guy because I felt like he wronged me after the race or under caution. It's just not, you know, we've seen it before.

I've probably done it. I can't really recall doing it, but I probably have. But I'm not, it's not so much, you know, about Austin or the personalities of drivers themselves. It's just what do you want, what message are you sending to drivers in that series, in the truck series, in the Cup series, and in every racetrack around the country? So. Do you think that's different if it was an example? Spinity guy that would have done it?

I don't care. Right. It's just what message are you sending to everyone else? Yeah. What message did you send to everybody in the Xfinity race? All of young guys in that series. What message is that? Send a Cole.

Right. He can go do it too. It's not okay to do that. So I don't, I don't, uh... And you don't have to, you know, go overboard on fines. Park in Austin wasn't a thing to do. I would have probably fined him $5,000 and made him go do an appearance for an Xfinity race.

Make him think about. you know, during his out-of-market appearance, promoting another Xfinity race, maybe next time he won't do this, you know? And plus you get some free marketing out of it. You got a driver on the clock, promoting the next race for free. It's like a probationary appearance.

It's good for everybody. But it also, at least, you know, even if it's just a slap on the wrist, man, at least it's sending a message that, you know, We really don't want this to happen. NASCAR, I talked to NASCAR a little bit about this. Their position is that, you know, they don't want a bunch of buddies out there racing around. They don't want everybody all friendly and letting each other go and slapping each other on the back, kumbaya and all that stuff to the finish line.

They want personalities. They want drama. But I think the drama belongs in between the flags. You know, when racing succeeds, we have. that kind of drama in between the flags, not after the race or under caution. So what if he did like Joe or Matt Kenseth? That's during your flags. And what if he hits him under green?

Well, you know, I mean, I think you have to say that it was intentional and you have to penalize someone for being, I don't have a problem with what they did with Matt. Suspending him, yeah. Yeah, they took care of that. So it's, it's, and I was, I was one, I, I was one. I was one to think that the same penalty would belong across the board to everybody, regardless of severity or intent. But I've changed my mind.

After talking to some of the NASCAR guys about this, you know, in different sports, there's different penalties for different violations. You have five-yard penalties, 15-yard penalties. You have flagrant fouls and all that good stuff and just, you know, two-shot fouls and things like that, right? Technical fouls. So I understand now being open-minded and listening to those guys that maybe Austin's Penel. Austin's isn't the same as what Matt did.

And then Kent and the severity wasn't the same. So I'm okay with the penalty not being exactly the same. Do you think, obviously we're recording this Tuesday morning, do you think there will be any penalty for that, like financial penalty? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I haven't heard anything or gotten anything.

or gotten any information that tells me their will or won't be. But, you know, the one thing about it, NASCAR understands that they have to govern, but I've talked to them, and they know that they need to govern, but at the same time, they also need things to be colorful, and there to be some drama and some personality to the sport. And I want that, too. I want things to be exciting. I don't mind, you know, it's not awesome when you get, you get,

get wrecked for a win or something, but if somebody gets spun out, I mean, like when Kyle bumped Carl to win at Richmond, that's fine. That's good stuff. If somebody gets spun out and wrecked in the middle of the race, it happens. That's what happened to Austin. That's exciting. That's drama. It's unfortunate for one guy, maybe more than one guy, but it's part of racing.

But I think when it goes, you know, the extracurricular stuff has to get kind of handled a little bit. At least you've got at least send a message to everybody, but this is not. going to be okay going forward because it will get out of hand. It seems like the sport goes through this ebb and flow of we're going to let them have at it, let them do whatever they want, and then they flow into like a couple years of, we're going to penalize everything, we're going to have a six tier penalty system and da-da-da-da, and then it flows back to there's too many penalties, we're just going to let them do whatever

they want to do. Right now, yeah. Yeah, and we keep cycling in and out of that. We can't really find some sort of happy, consistent medium, but I don't. don't know. I'm disappointed when I see what happened with Kyle and Joey or and if Austin and those guys, if

something doesn't, some sort of repercussion isn't delivered. It's just disappointing, you know, because I don't, you know, that's not really I'll tell you one thing. And it doesn't have to be this big deal. It doesn't have to be a huge fine. In 1979, Daytona 500, we had a big fight in turn three. Cal Yardboro, Donnie Allison, Bobby Allison, they all got signed $6,000 apiece.

And then four weeks later, they were at Rockingham, and they all got $1,000 reduced on their penalty for a good behavior. But at least it sent a message like, you know, hey, you know, this was great for the sport. Everybody tuned in and loved it. And it was all over the newspapers the next week, and we used the hell out of it even today to promote the race. But they did, they didn't just let them walk out of the damn racetracks got free.

They said, you know, this is, This is really not the kind of character we want to convey. What do you think? So what do you, I'm just trying to think, what would your solution to that be? Do you want to... I just told you, I'd find him $5,000 and send his ass somewhere on an appearance to the road a race. I know, but say you don't want him to hit him and show that he's mad. Under caution?

Under caution? Absolutely not. But then you don't want him to go, do you want him just go confront him after the race? Yes. But not fight. Yeah, don't punch him in the face. I'd rather him not hit him in the face. Like that time that Harvick jumped over Biffel's car at Bristol

and got in his face and explained how unhappy he was. Yeah, I think that's fine. Okay. I agree. Yeah. Because the fighting is stupid and then hitting some minor caution is stupid. I mean, obviously, Cole did not mean to do it. Austin's not racing.

Obviously, those guys on the two team, they're still racing for an owner's championship. but yeah good point and so obviously they're disappointed they got to fix that car but obviously he did not do it on purpose i know but austin doesn't know that at the time right i mean it's you know maybe they were maybe there's a couple four austin seemed to think adamantly that he did it on purpose uh or or felt yeah you know felt that way at least in the post-racer is interview immediately after um maybe they had been racing each other all day or something and things had been going on that we'd never see because the camera doesn't always catch everything happening on the racetrack but anyway um y'all tell us what y'all

think you know i don't know whether i don't know if we actually explained our opinions very well but um it's yeah i mean it's just such a weird scenario because i think you just got to do something you can't just let let it keep going you can't just let this happen it's ain't you know eventually it's going to get back to joey and you can't matt and then then they're going to be like, oh, crap, why would you do that? You can't let the nuts run the asylum. Is that what it's called? Inmates.

Inmates, nuts, whatever. Same thing. Inmates would be prison. Exactly. Not the nuts, though. Nuts are in asylum. Am I right? I think that might be a slang term.

Sure. We're using some slang terms. Anyways, let's move on. We're going to, we're going to talk about your cycling. This is a week. weekly thing now. Yeah, I just rode 15 miles yesterday. To the store?

To the store. You should get a basket and then you could actually... God dang. You could go to the grocery store. Can I use some slang for this? No, because I don't want to... I don't want to edit it. Yeah, so we went...

Lots of been made of this cycling. I think it's good because of the spandex, which is fair. Jimmy Johnson has promoted cycling for a long time within the garage area, especially with his own teammates. Now we all are doing it. We talked about this a little bit before. HMS has all the drivers on a workout regimen. There's a quota to meet every week, and cycling really is a fun way to get that quota met. So we've been doing that quite a bit.

I bought the trainer, so it allows you to ride indoors. There's an app called Zwift Z-W-I-F-T, where you can actually ride, and it's like a video game. It puts you in a real kind of an open-world simulation with other people that are actually really riding in their own garages. So it's like you're going up the street? Yeah, actually, I was riding in London yesterday. With cars on the road? No. Oh.

It's all bikes. Oh. That would be awesome if there were cars on the road. Why? Just so you had to miss them. There's a bike lane. Oh. That's boring. You don't know much about cycling.

I don't. So I enjoy doing this. So while we're in Phoenix, we went on a 30-mile ride in between practice and qualifying. Me, Jimmy, Elliot. Chase Elliott. Yeah, Chase Elliott and Kane. So we're all going on this. And Jimmy had a couple buddies with him.

One fellow from Troy Lee Designs, who actually gave me some gear, which is cool. So we go on this 30-mile ride, and it's really hot in Phoenix. Yeah, folks. It was like 93, 95 degrees. And I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I was putting some sunscreen on, and I used that spray stuff, which has got some alcohol in it. And I sprayed it on my face, so we're about 10 miles into cycling, and I'm getting all sweaty, and this stuff runs into my eyeballs.

So for the, like, 5th, mile 10 to mile 5, I was only using my left eye. and then got that right eye cleared up. And then from mile 20 to probably mile 28, I was using my right eye because the sunscreen got into the left eye. It was a fail on the sunscreen. Did Jimmy offer you any better cyclists? I was too embarrassed to say, hey guys, I have sunscreen all in my eyeballs. It stung like hell.

But now you're telling everyone. Well, I'm okay. I'm over that embarrassed. In the moment, it was embarrassing. While it's happening, because they're going to see me, and I'm going to be one eye squint, you know, when I shut and one eye open, and I'm like, they're going to laugh.

I don't want them laughing. So I came back to the bus, and Amy's said I should have used the lotion that you rub in. Yeah, I would do that too. But you didn't ask my opinion. I did not. And nor would I ask your opinion about cycling or sunscreen. Why? I don't know.

You're just not my go-to sunscreen guy. Who is? Amy, probably. She's not a guy. Well, you know what I mean. She's your confidant. Yes. So that was not a lot of fun.

Lesson learned. Yep. We did have a good 30-mile ride. Drafting. I did not know. You see the guys drafting and you're like, oh, that really probably can't be that big of a deal. Maybe a little bit.

right huge so in the draft you're you know it's like half of the effort half so when you pull out and you or you take the lead you work twice as hard so I'm always drafting who's the leader Jimmy usually because he's the one that can handle you know he's got he's got a lot of strength in his legs he's been cycling a long time so I always sit there and draft him or someone else Casey Kane also he's he's got a lot of endurance in cycling so Do you, like, run, are you last in the pack? Yeah. Usually I'm either last or second or wherever.

How far off of the pack do you run? You can't. You've got to be, the draft is, like, technically right on the bike. It's like Daytona. You got to be close. Oh. You can't, if you're one bike link back, you're basically getting the resistance of the air again. It's very, there's not a very huge hole to be drafting from another rider, but it's huge the benefit.

I couldn't believe it. when will you take the lead just for like you'll be drafting and be like man i'm kicking butt right i'm fresh i'm not paling that hard and you're like i'm gonna pull out lead this thing for a while and you pull out there and go like a mile and your legs are burning and then you're waving them all back by wanting to get back into the draft so you have lead oh yeah but not for long okay still working my way up to uh to getting where i can i can even keep up and lead them a little bit but it's i'm only on my third outdoor ride, so got a long ways to go. But it's fun.

Everybody on Strava is super supportive. Yeah. Yeah. You got Strava? I have Strava. I'm just watching. You're just watching. Yeah.

So, yeah. Just trying to build up that. You're not logging exercises, have no, you have zero goals. Yeah. But you're, uh, observe it. Maybe it'll inspire you. Yeah. I get a notification like every day that somebody knew is following me.

And I'm like, they're going to be so disappointed. So, yeah, Saturday night we ran four laps around the racetrack, get a little, my trainer wanted me to get four miles in, so I ran around the racetrack. That was a lot of fun. Yeah, I noticed on your Strava there, it was mile three, and it was like, oh, my heart rate dropped because I signed an autograph. Mile four, heart rate dropped again because I took a picture with the same person.

Yeah. So I was running around the track and the guys that paint the signs on the surface of the track, you know, like the logos and so forth. They were out there touching them up from the Xfinity race, and after about the third time by, they asked for an autograph, and then they stopped me for a photo,

which is totally cool. Okay, I was going to ask that. Well, I paused my Strava when I stopped, so it doesn't record me standing there, and my heart rate drops, and then I can run way faster, so my last mile was really fast because of those guys, because they gave me two breaks.

So it is cool if somebody sees you running to stop you. Maybe not often, but you know, kind of kind of, you're trying to, you know, keep your heart rate up to goal. Right. After mile three, after mile three, I'm kind of ready for a break. Oh. So that was nice. There you go. Yeah.

If you see Dale running for what appears to be three miles, feel free to stop him and give my heart rate reset. Yeah. Here we go. Guys, you ready? Yep. Tyler, you ready? Ready. All right, I'm going to start off with a question here.

Tony Dobson, how do drivers feel when incidents like fights and big wrecks lead to increased national media coverage? All right, so he's wondering if it bothers drivers, I guess, that the next week is all, you know, all they're going to hear about is this fight or this thing they did. And it does, but that's, you know, that's the media's right. And that's NASCAR's right to use that in promotion. What you need to do is a driver is ask yourself if you want to. to give them that ammo. Like when you get in your, get into, if you're Austin Dillon, when you're getting ready to run into the double zero card, you got to think, man, do I want all the crap that's going

to come with this, right? You know, and I don't. I'd rather not, I don't want extra crap, so I don't want to do that. That's why I don't call drivers out on the radio too often, and that's why I don't run into people under caution or getting fist fights. I just think, you know, it's going to be all over the media. If I do it, it'll be all over every damn media channel, and that's all I'll hear about it. And every opportunity that me and that driver are around each other in the next several weeks,

they'll call attention to it in the middle of the race. Here's these two again. Better watch out. What's going to happen? Let's roll the tape on a couple weeks ago. What's going to happen? It's just a real pain in the ass. The drivers want to move on from those incidents quite quickly because,

understandably they're kind of regrettable but the media won't let you so you got to think about that next time you're in that situation and you're that mad do you want to put up with all the crap that comes along with it Tyler do you have an opinion on this I would agree but I've never been a driver so I don't

like Kyle Bush he could have deflected a lot of the negativity whenever they talked to him Friday and then he kind of went Marshawn Lynch and then sort of resurfaced it by saying everything's great, everything's great, everything's great, everything's great, and dodging it.

So I think that makes people say, well, Kyle did this, and Joey handled it very well, I thought. So you can help yourself. Do you think, let me ask you this, Tyler, do you think that there's drivers that do like that type of publicity? I just guess maybe I'm wrong for assuming everybody's like me,

which that's probably wrong. are there some drivers that feed off of that kind of drama in that attention? I think there's some. I mean, I would say Kyle's a hell of a driver, but I think that kind of feeling hated kind of motivates him. But I don't know Kyle, so I don't know. I don't think that anybody wants to be hated in life. You don't want to be hated, but you, like, I think that kind of,

that does serve as a motivator. Do you think, though, that he's the one that says, let me ask you a question. Do you think that guys give? get into those incidents with the intent to bring attention to themselves and be in that media circus. No, I think there for a second, maybe it was hot that day, like Blaine, like Blaney said, and he just got really pissed off really quick and did something that he maybe, he's never done that before and actually thrown a punch. There's one thing, too, I said about, you know, Austin's deal. We don't know what was going on during the race with him, too.

Could have been some situations where Austin was kind of fed up with the double zero. On Kyle's thing, he said, made a quote earlier in the week about how he was tired of Joey getting wrecked by Joey Gibbs cars. Apparently, Joey's had a lot of run-ins with, I guess Carl or Matt, obviously. And think about that going on over a chunk of time, six months or so. And they have meetings every week. And Joey's names comes up, and the company as a whole has had sort of an issue with Joey. And their past history of having him as a driver.

Yeah. So there's animosity there. There's some animosity there. It ain't just like that popped and happened that day. If you hit him like that, I don't think it would have been the same thing. Yeah. I think that that would have been brewing. That's outside the question being asked.

But it's interesting. Yeah, I don't. I don't think that they are like, I'm going to go punch this guy so that I can be on TV. I don't either because that guy would be easy to call out. Don't you think, Mike? Yeah, without a doubt. I mean, that guy, that would be obvious if they were those, those kind of attention sicker. It'd get old really fast.

Yeah. People would see through it. I mean, I think people assume that drivers are thinking way too much in those moments anyways. Nobody's really thinking about all the ramifications. But they're like, why would they do that? Well, the reason they do stuff is because they're not thinking about all the things. It's an emotional moment. Yeah.

That's it. Wow, we're getting a lot of good questions. You know what? I'm going to go off the page here for a second and just ask you this. Somebody, I don't know who it was, said, do you have any good Kenny Schrader stories? My follow-up question was, is there a bad Kenny Strader story? Because I think everything I've heard is always good. Do you have a quick one?

I don't have any. No, there are no quick ones. There are long ones. So, this is very quick. quick. I went with Kenny Schrader for a week when I was 15 or 16 on a, he raced a dirt track every night. The week culminated with an Arca race in Topeka. And my dad was going to run the Arka race. So I would meet up with my father at the end of this week with Kenny and go with dad wherever. I think they were racing it, poking up in the cup cars. So I got on the plane,

reading the Bible. When Dad picked me up Saturday, I had a fistful of dirty magazines and had been drinking plenty of beer that week. So dad was really, really mad. Me and Kenny had a great time. Kenny showed me a lot of cool dirt track races and met a lot of great people, sleepy trip. You know, kind of met a lot of the sprint car guys going around all these tracks. But dad wrecked Kenny at Pocono that weekend on the second lap, ran into the back of him, and did not talk to Kenny for about two years. He wrecked him because of that? Yeah.

Do he admit to doing that? Or you just know? I mean, I wasn't in the conversations with Dale Earnhardt and Kenny Schrader, but obviously being the subject of the issue, I probably wasn't privy to those discussions. Did you ever hear Ken Schrader's story when he was telling Kelly on her podcast? the follow-up to that when he finally went up to your dad and said, hey, he goes, the next year, when it was time for whatever race it was and that trip, the anniversary of that trip, he goes, can Dale Jr. come with us again?

And your dad didn't say, you know, said some rough answer. I don't think he was still over it. I think he still is. Yeah. And then Kenny goes, can Kelly? Yeah. So that's typical Ken Schrader right there. A lot fun.

Have you guys talked about this whole restraint? restrictor plate at Indy on the podcast. A lot of questions, a lot of questions on both Facebook and Periscope on what are your thoughts on restrictor plates being used at Indianapolis for the Xfinity race? I have a lot of thoughts about that. Number one, they should have probably never moved that race from ORP. We had some amazing races at Raceway Park. And I know that, you know, it was great when we moved, when we thought it was going to be awesome.

for the Xfinity series to get that type of exposure at Indy. But the race itself has not been that exciting. The races at ORP always are fun, short track racing at any racetrack for that matter. It's pretty awesome. But that's not an option. That's probably not going to happen.

So I am curious. I'm curious to see it. And I think that this is an idea and how to fix racing in general. I think NASCAR sees this as an idea on how to fix racing in general at Indianapolis, maybe even for cup cars. One of the things that they like to do,

when extreme times call for extreme measures, right, they like to try some of these things out in the lower tier series, like the Xfinity series of the truck series. And I think that if this happens to work or look better or produce some passing at least, that they'll think about doing this at the cup level because the Cup series at Indy is not doing too well. As it's doing as poorly, I think,

it's the Xfinity race there, and it's going downhill fast, so they need to make some changes. They don't want to just quit racing at Indy. They would love to continue to race there. It's a beautiful facility. A lot of history. There's got to be a way for us to put on an entertaining race.

race there, right? So they're not going to give up. Maybe this is an option they're trying to see how it works out and if it looks good or does what they plan or whatever they're seeing on their computer sims. They may try this on the cup side, which, you know, I think it's obviously going to bring the straightaway speeds down, which will bring up the corner speeds, but what I think they want to do is produce the straightaway passing that they have in the IndyCar series. the way the Indy cars can drive up and pass and pull out, you know, lap after lap, it seems like that's what they, you know, the NASCAR would love to produce that for the stock cars. And that's going to be hard to do.

That's what they were aiming for when they brought those big giant spoilers there that didn't pan out. I think that failed experiment is what makes me, like, wary about. it because it seems like it would just bog the cars down and then you would be less likely to be able to get a run but is that not true because it slows you down on the straightaway I mean it doesn't matter how fast you're going you're not gonna I mean if the other guy's going just as fast you're not getting a run right but a restrict plate doesn't mean that they're just gonna run all stacked on top of each other like Dayton Talladega because they tried restrictor plates that

one time at New Hampshire and it was a horrible race yeah it was a long time ago I know but still I enjoy that race Did you? Yeah. I was in there. Where'd you finish? I don't remember. Probably 10th or something.

Jeff Burton led every lap. Yeah. I mean, that's happened before. It wasn't the last time it happened, I think. Well, I'm just saying it was in plates. Yeah. Jeff Burton's good. All right.

Chris Haynes asked, is there a backstory to Jeff Gluck's hat or just spur-of-the-moment tweet that spread like wildfire? Spur-of-the-moment tweet. I like messing with Jeff Gluck. So, Dale's in the media center as the winning car owner. and he's been in there for a while, and I guess he, they started asking Justin questions, and so Dale gets bored, starts looking on his phone, then starts taking selfies,

then took an awkward picture of Jeff Gluck, which is now Gluck's Twitter picture. And said, hey, Jeff's selling these hats. I was trying not to be rude to Justin and Jason Burdett, who are doing some questions for the media. media, but I just haven't fun. It was a good day. We'd won the race.

I couldn't believe we'd won the race. Couldn't believe sitting there finally with Justin and him and Victor Lane and doing Media Center, Winter Circle Media Center. But so from there, it just took off, and everybody asked. Even Kelly asked. Yeah. So one of the fun parts about the media is kind of razzing them or joking with him. Bob Pockris, he's hilarious if you read some of his tweets.

And there's a, there, it's fun when, when we're just, there's human interaction where you kind of joke back and forth. And it's, there's this weird thing with the media where they have to kind of keep everybody in arms link because they might have to write bad about you one week and they don't know whether you're going to be okay with it and whether people can handle that. And so they kind of, there's kind of this weird thing where they, we can't really bunt, make these great relationships or friendships or friendships. because, yeah, they got to be, they can't be, they can't play favorites. But if you work real hard, you can kind of get into their, get into their trust circle and pick and play with them on social media, and that's a lot of fun. So I knew Jeff obviously has this new website, he's got his hands full, all kinds of things being thrown at him at once, and he's overwhelmed.

And so I thought, you know, inundating him with tweets about hats would, would put, a little bit more on his plate. If there was a little bit missing, a little bit of room on his plate, he would fill right up quickly. And so it was funny watching him for about 24 hours, keep repeating on Twitter,

there are no hats. Honestly, people, this is a joke. The hats aren't real. And I don't know, it was fun. I just like picking and playing with those guys. You go in there and they're in there every week. You see the same folks every week, and you get a relationship with them and trust with them.

bunch of good folks in there all right how are we looking on time Tyler plenty of time yeah let's take two more question there was a question a while ago uh do you miss carl edwards and greg biffle biffle flew with us to Vegas yeah i don't miss biffle because i just saw him he's on the plane going to Vegas uh and i saw him in phoenix walking around he just loving life man um and carl is too I think Carl's just having some fun being with his family. It's weird when you remind yourself that they're not there. It's kind of weird. But that's part of it.

I learned a long time ago when I first started racing late models that people are going to come and go in your life and your team in the sport. I got such a great relationship with my first crew chief in the late mile series. He was like a grandfather to me. And when we had to split up, it was the worst. thing imaginable you know i thought we'd be together forever i don't know why i was so naive but uh i learned early on that you know the the people are going to come and go in and out this whole this whole deal and that's just part of it uh you know you see tony stewart walking around it's great

when you see him at the track i guess the one thing with carl is i don't miss him as much as i'm just curious as what the hell he's doing at least i see biffle walking around carl was at some race. Atlanta. Atlanta. Yeah. Good one, Tyler. Well, you didn't see him. I did. Anyhow, I see Biffel walking around in the, you know, and he's flying, you know, walking around in the garage and the pits and he's flying with us. So at least you kind of can ask him what's up and how they're doing and stuff. But Carl, he'd go hiding on you. Let's hear. Let's see. Your favorite paint scheme of current or past driver, this question coming from Timothy Hedges? Not my own, right? No, not your own. Okay. Because that would. That would be awkward.

Not really. My favorite paint skin, I really love this new exalted car. Good Lord, it's cool. Well, hold up. On that point, somebody did ask what is going to be your paint scheme this weekend so they know what shirt to wear. That is going to be the exalted car this weekend. Right there. So that answers that question.

But go back to your favorite past or current driver paint scheme. Past paint scheme is probably the gray ghost. Buddy Baker raced it in the 1980 Daytona 500, so you can Google that. Current paint scheme. You know whose car that I kind of like is, isn't it Stinthouse, Sun Kiss? Oh, yeah. The orange. Yeah, the orange.

I like orange. No, it's not Sun Kiss. It's Sunny D. Sunny D. Sunny D. Yeah. Stint House, the Sunny D car is cool. And I've told Stint House when I see it, I'm like, oh, yeah.

Because it's pretty, it's like blue and orange, kind of two of my favorite colors mixed up. There you go. Pretty bright. All right, Tyler. What do you got? I don't really have a favorite. Geez. Why even waste your time, Mike?

do like this new Exaltza car. It's pretty incredible. That's easy. What's your favorite past paint scheme? Past paint scheme. Past paint scheme. Past paint scheme. Dead space.

It is a dead space. I don't know. You don't have, I mean, you like, who's your favorite, Ricky Rudd? Del Jarrett. You like any of the old quality care car. Oh, there you go. Okay. I got to help him out.

Man. All right. What about current besides Exaltza? Current. I actually like the 48 car right now. That's kind of cool. Is it? Yeah, that's great.

All right. Last question. You ready for the last question? Last question. All right. Tom McDonald says, How does your mom like working at junior motorsports? That might not be a great last question.

Although I'm kind of curious. Tom McDonald? wants to know how does your mom like it working here? Has she ever been upset about working here? Tom McDonald? Is that Tommy? My best friend in high school was Tommy McDonald? Might be.

He didn't say he was a friend of yours. Oh, awkward. He's a... He's very modest. How does mom like working? This is really your best last question? No, it's not a good last question. Tommy.

She hates it. Mom loves it. Has she ever complained about working here? Mom complains every day. Okay, so there you go. That's what we're getting at. Brenda is complaining, but that means she loves it. She's probably complaining right now.

Right. Okay. Now, let's go over the better last question here. It wasn't Tommy McDonald's. Y'all must not have been that good of friends. You can't even remember. Jesus Christ, like 30 freaking years ago. Can you ride a bike?

Who's your best friend in high school? Same best friend I have now. Same is the same best friend I have now. You haven't made any best friends since? No. You need to work on your social system. Look, all this talk about bike riding, somebody asked, or actually it was Stephanie Bergland asked, can you ride a bike while sitting on it backwards like your dad?

even ever tried. Hell no. Is that your last question? Yeah, yeah. And I think it's a good one. It is not a good question. No, I don't ride bikes backwards. That's a Dallernhardt thing.

Why did that start? I don't know why it started. He just, hell, I don't know. He probably did that stuff where I was born. I mean, it's got to be a dare, right? Yeah, how do you learn that you can do that? Mike's trying his best to salvage this question. We need another last question.

I still want to know an answer. No, I can't ride one backwards. But have you tried? There are some things the dad did that were so. cool that you just left to him. Okay. Well, that's an answer. Yeah, that was pretty weak answer, actually. Great question. Weak question.

Great question. What was the last car you put in the graveyard? Jessica asks. By the way, this is a good point to bring up. There's a graveyard segment a series on Dell Jr.com every Monday. Yeah. Throughout the year. So many people go to that thing, it jams up our server every week.

Yesterday they posted Kuzlowski's 7 Navy car. So, yeah, check that out every month. day. Deljr.com. All right, go ahead. I really don't know what the last car was. What's the last car that you know of?

Yeah. We usually... I know. I can't remember. I told Sonny about it the other day. Oh, it was... The last car we got was a Tony Stewart car. It wasn't wrecked or anything,

but it was obsolete. They were kind of culling it out of the fleet. And Tony actually texted me. and asked me if I would want it. So we went and got it. Thank you, Tony. Because he knows I like that kind of cool stuff and would certainly want one of his last race cars.

I mean, the entire industry knows that. Do you find it a little bit gratifying that other race teams call you up with their wrecked race cars? I mean, that's pretty cool, right? I really like it because... Do you ever have to turn anybody away? No. They're like, I don't want that.

There's not... There's always room in the woods, man. Weird. He'd buy more land. Yeah. He'd buy more land. I need more land. Yeah.

All right, looking ahead. Tuesday, that's today. Not looking too far ahead. Unilever production. We also got some Kroger stuff in there. So, AJ Almendinger and me will be in the production at Hammerhead today. Hammerhead Studios. Hammerhead.

Another, what would you call Hammerhead? Production company? Besides the production company. It's an extension of Junior Motorsports. Yes. So we have our own little production company, which is kind of cool. So we get to do all these production companies. locally. This is just a couple miles from junior motor sports.

So in a few minutes, I'll be hanging out with AJ. You just looked at your wrist. You looked at the wrong wrist. In a few minutes. Thursday, we're flying to California, in case anybody that was wondering. We have a nationwide event in Dana Point, California. And then Friday, obviously, we have practice and qualifying. Qualifying is at 7.05 p.m. Eastern. and then Saturday to practice per normal.

I think the first one's at 8 o'clock or 9 o'clock in the morning. Pretty early. 8.30. Pretty early. The Exfiniated races at 4 p.m. on Fox Sports 1. That's Eastern time also. Yeah. And then we have a dinner with the exalted folks Saturday night.

Yes, we do. You know what's Saturday? Saturday is Amy's birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, Amy. So wish her happy birthday on Saturday, folks. And then Sunday, obviously the race starts at 3.30 p.m. Eastern. Is that Eastern? Yes. On Fox, not Fox Sports One, just the regular old Fox. This will be my 600th career start. Is that a lot?

Seems like a lot. I was at your very first start, very first cup start. The 1999 Coke 600. Yeah. I was only 11. Do you have a Dale Jarrett shirt on? More than likely. Probably, yeah. He was good. He won the championship day. year. Did he? You were a bandwagon? No. Yes.

I actually, in 96, when he started driving the quality care car. Gotcha. He won the 500 that year. Well, there's our, there's our looking ahead. Hey, you know what would be awesome in Fontana? Yes. A taco truck. Oh, God.

You know what? Okay. We got to come down hard on Fontana. Auto Club Speedway. So, Jimmy Johnson was on a podcast. other day, Lance Armstrong's podcast. They were cycling out there in Colorado or something. And I sent in a question for Jimmy.

I said, what, you know, I sent in a question whether he got it right or wrong. If he had, if he got it wrong, he had to rent a taco truck and have it parking the driver's owner lot at Fontana this weekend on Saturday. Well, he got the question right. So I was going to, me and Tyler and Amy, We're going to rent this taco truck and have it come into the driver's owner lot at Fontaine on Saturday, but Auto Club Speedway would not allow it. Yep.

We talked to the fine folks at Hang 10 tacos in Los Angeles. They were ready and willing. Ready and willing to come out there. So we're going to reach out to Richmond. Yeah. We're going to reach out to Richmond International Speedway. I want to rent a taco truck for Saturday for the drivers on our lot. So all the families and kids were sitting there all day for the race anyways.

Right. So right. people aren't really getting out moving until about 4 o'clock. So be a grateful way for everybody to get lunch. So if Richmond is listening, be prepared. We're going to ask for her. We're going to call you up. Yeah, bringing the tacos.

Damn you, Auto Club! Well, that's the show, folks. I hope y'all enjoyed it. Thank you to our friends at Exhapta for making this happen. As usual, we are recording in the Exaughta Studios every Tuesday. Not every Tuesday. In a couple weeks, I'm going to be off-site. Do we want to tell folks about that?

I'm going to be doing a podcast. I'm going to be doing this podcast by myself in a couple weeks. It's going to be awesome. Yes. So I'm taking it on the road. I'll be doing it with some of Amy's family, the Tuesday after Texas. And then the Tuesday after Easter, I'll be doing it with Amy. So it'll be me and my co-host, Amy.

Tyler doesn't think I'm going to get it done. I'm anticipating a lot of editing. Well, that's very true. That's possible. But we know you're good. I'm going to get it done. It's going to be a lot of fun, though. But for two weeks, we'll be on the road with this show.

So don't come to the store those weeks. Yeah, don't. Be sure to subscribe to the Dale Jr. download through Dale Jr.com. You'd find it on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher. I love saying that. And all the major podcasting outlets. Let us know your feedback on Twitter at Dale Jr. At Overstreet Tyler and at DirtyMoe Radio or the Dirtymo Radio.

Facebook page. See y'all next time. Take it easy. 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 Exaltza Injector.

I myself, I'm going to brag a little bit here, but I actually watch the Dules 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 Exaltza. How can we follow them on social?

You can follow them at Exaltor Racing on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.