The Dale Jr. Download - 173 - Turkey Hunt with Family and Friends

Episode Date: May 10, 2017

Going off track this week as Dale Jr. takes the podcast with him on a turkey hunt with his brother-in-law L.W., his friend Shawn, and his uncle Robert. 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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As you may know, Dale went on a turkey hunt this week, so he recorded on location with his brother-in-law, L.W. Miller, one of his best friend Sean Brawley and his uncle Robert G. Jr. So sit back and enjoy this special edition of the Dale Jr. download. All right, so Del W., you've been on podcast before, right? Yep. So you know how this all works. So we're hunting and we had good success.

I hunted with you. We let Sean hunt with an expert caller Uncle Robert. You're not too bad at it yourself, obviously, because we had them crawl in right on top of us and got my first turkey this morning, so I appreciate it. Glad that you were not greedy and let me shoot one. I guess. I guess I'm supposed to say thanks.

Yeah, that was a lot of fun. I'll tell you, we came up here last year and tried it, and I was the only one that scored on the turkeys, so I was real glad to see you have a good day today, and that was a lot of fun. I mean, we had turkeys goblin, from the moment it started getting light and called that turkey right in on top of us. So, I mean, I think that was awesome.

I mean, I had just as much fun today hunting with you getting that bird as if I would have been shooting myself. So you don't know me any thanks because that was a blast. Yeah, it was fun. I, you know, it's kind of all kinds of all kinds of things going on because me and Sean, we're really new to turkey hunting. I've hunted deer before. So I know a little bit about hunting and all that. Sean, not so much.

You and my uncle hunted all your lives, and so y'all have so much experience to bounce off of and ask questions of. It's a lot of fun going out there and, you know, watching you call and trying to understand what our objective is and what we're doing and position ourselves for, an opportunity to get a shot off. And it's been a really interesting experience for me.

You know, getting up early in the morning is not a big, not a big plus for me. But I was so excited when we got in here last night that I didn't sleep much, so I was pretty much ready to go. We get up 4.30 in the morning. We're out of the cabin around 5.30 and in the woods. and these turkeys are up in these trees, right? So I've seen them roost when we're deer hunting,

and I had no idea that they could get up in a tree that high. It's a wildest, noisiest thing you ever heard. They come in there like 30 at a time, right? And they jump up in these trees right into the top, and they make all kinds of racket to get there. Yeah, for anybody that's listening doesn't understand the racket. It sounds like somebody taking a 55-gallon trash bag and just flopping it in the wind.

Yeah. It sounds exactly like that. So I've seen all that before, but never, you know, they weren't the objective at that particular time when I was hunting. The last time, I will talk to Sean about this, and we laugh about it even today. The last year that we hunted, me and Sean were, I was like, I was dead set on calling one end myself.

I'd never hunted before, didn't know how to call or anything, but I got my box caller, and I'm chirping away. Me and Sean are sitting there for hours, nothing's happening, and we're about 300 yards away from you, and you were calling, and you had a gobbler responding to you, and we went, me and Sean went in between you and your gobbler, and we almost got a shot, but we didn't know any better, and we scared it off, and then ruined everybody's hunt. Yeah, you had me questioning my calling here. I thought I must have done something wrong. Turkey was coming in and coming in. All of a sudden, stopped Goblin and went the other way.

I thought, what in the world just happened there? Yep. You snuck in there on me trying to pull one in. But that was, that was, all of our experiences of what we have out in here woods are just so much fun. And it's awesome to see you come up here and enjoy yourself. And, you know, knowing it's not your typical day to come up here and spend time outdoors and enjoy any outdoors.

And I enjoy just seeing you do that. and just like tomorrow this morning you kind of drew the short straw hunting with me because uncle Robert is such a good caller and he uh I was excited that you got the bird because it finally showed him that I can call one in too oh because he's always uh you know I've last year called my own bird in and shot it and got a real nice one and actually called two of them in last year and then I practice all through the off season I think I have my calls down Kelly and the kids are all mad because I sit there and house calling every morning getting ready for work and that first time of the year I go hunting with Uncle Robert and he tells me I'm doing it all wrong.

Did he? So I get my confidence knocked down and think, my, I better just let him call and I get quiet. And this morning I felt, I spoke with Kelly a little bit ago on a phone, told her I'm really proud of myself for calling that in because I finally got my confidence back. I can call him in again. That's one of the funny things about hunting is,

um, coming down here, I was more excited for Sean to get a bird than me because I knew how happy that was going to make him. And when we saw him this morning, he was literally, beside himself. He was trying to explain to us what had happened and trying to tell us how it all went down and he was shouting because he couldn't calm down. And today, you know, this morning when I was, when me and you were trying to call that one gobbler in, you were as excited as I was just to be calling the bird in and be a part of the experience. It's funny how that works because, you know,

you think the guy that actually harvests the bird is the one who's having all the fun, but that's not really the truth. Yeah. And it's a great opportunity to spend time together. We don't never really get to do that. And we're, you know, we're always, one of us is always at a racetrack somewhere and handling our family and all that stuff. It keeps us pretty busy.

So this is awesome. It's a shame true X ain't here. He's one of our hunting pals. Yeah, he always makes it here in the fall for the deer, but we have got to get him up here I don't know. Uncle Robert says he needs to work on his schedule, his calendar. I said if I can be here, I don't know why he can't. Yeah, we'll try to get him in here in Turkey Hunt next year, I guess. So we usually don't talk about Xfinity on here, but the last couple weeks, our guys have been right in the middle of the chance to win at the end of these races.

and, you know, we've had some odd cautions and stuff that's bit us late in these races that's taken away opportunities for us to win, but it, and you get really upset and been out of shape about that. I know I do. The, you know, but then again, after a while, you cool off and realize how thankful you ought to be for just an opportunity that your team's good enough and competitive enough and they work so hard. And we've, you know, we've had some seasons when it was a, you know,

it was a struggle to get to that kind of, you know, competitiveness. You're kind of the eyes and ears and the link between Kelly, who basically runs the company and what's going on downstairs on the floor. You kind of work in hand in hand with Pemberton and Ryan Pemberton and those guys and help kind of orchestrate a lot of ideas and directions that we go in. You've become a huge asset to our company. At first, we work together through the Late Mall program, which we'll talk about more in a minute. But your value to us has grown incredibly.

So I would, I guess you can know the last couple weeks have been kind of disappointing. Yeah. But I know you're really proud of where we are as a team. Yeah, and that's, you know, you hit it right on the head when you say you're disappointed because we were in the mix of trying to win races. But then when we sit back and we look at the big picture, we're very disappointed the last two weeks. And we had a car that finished second in both those races. So, you know, the fact that we're up there, you know, we finished second.

We won the dash for cash money with Justin two weeks ago. And then this past week, Elliot, you know, ended up second Tel Dega. and, you know, both those races, you're right, were in contention the week before at Richmond. I mean, Elliot or Justin was in contention. One of the two of them was going to win that race, and a caution comes out and changes the whole schematics of it. So we finish the day, and Justin finish the second,

wins the dash for cash. So we, you know, typically you'd be elated with that and had a great run, but we're just so close to win in a lot of races. And that's the part that's frustrating, but on the same token, it's just so great to see our cars running well. You know, we're first, second, I get third and sixth in points as we speak. So I mean, that's, you know,

for it to full-time cars, the Xfinity series, that's a pretty impressive stat as far as I'm concerned. And I'm just, you know, real proud of those guys. And I was so angry when the caution came out. I mean, I just, you're sitting there watching that race at Talladega last weekend, and you're thinking, you know, I guess for the fans, it's probably maybe it's boring

or maybe it was not gonna be the finish they wanted to see. But for a company, I mean, you're looking at a storybook finish to a race was fixing to unfold with three of our, cars in the top four, you know, out there by themselves going to race it out and, you know, more than likely those three probably could have shuffled the other car out. We could have, we could have been one, two, three. And it would have been super for our company and our guys. And, you know, on the same token, I guess maybe for the fans, it wouldn't have been as exciting.

But for a company, that's definitely what we were looking for. So there again, that race gets over with and you're just so frustrated. But then you sit back and you say, well, you know, Elliott finished second, Mike Lynette finished eighth, you know, and we had guys there. All the guys were there. So, I mean, it was. a pretty good day. Not what we're shooting for, but on the same token, I guess we've got to just really look at the big picture and think of how great they really are doing.

Yeah, they are. I mean, they've been all three of the teams that we have running in the last couple years or one, two, three in the points. Michael's creeped into the top six now, and he's going to continue to build steam as the season goes on as that team gets a little more stronger. So I think it's awesome. I mean, it was a bit of a task.

to carry on a fourth team, and we joke about that with Michael, and he has fun with it. But to grow to that kind of size has been quite an achievement. To have both teams or all the teams running so well is something to be proud of. Aside from our Xfinity guys having such a great couple of runs the last few weeks, we've also got a lot of great things going on with our late model program, something that's really dear to both of our hearts. Me and you've worked on that together for many years. Obviously, a lot of folks know about Josh Barry, who's still a driver for us on that side of things. He's still having a lot of success. We've got a new kid this year. Anthony, you want to tell us

a little bit about Anthony and where he came from? Yeah, we, for the past several years, we've had some young, you know, Josh driving the one car, and then along with a younger kid, started with William Byron several years ago and in Christian Echis last year. And Christians moved on to different things as well as William. And this year we teamed up with a kid Anthony Alfredo who grew up in Connecticut, spent a little time racing in the South last year in limited late models and, you know, kind of got to get to a few of the tracks down here

and learned to a little bit. So we were looking forward this year to, you know, put him in a late model and he and Josh running his teammates and seeing what he could do, you know, had a lot of good hopes. And he started to see he's not real well. He ran up at, I believe it was Langley, Virginia, and he ran fifth in a pair of twin cars tour races up there.

And we were excited about that. And then they went and ran a weekly race at Hickory a few weeks back. And it was a dismal day. I think Josh ended up winning one of the races. And Anthony didn't. Yeah, great for Josh, which we always expect Josh to win, of course. But Anthony didn't do so well. And so Saturday after the Exfindi stuff was over,

we headed up to Hickory, Kelly and I and Wyatt, and wanted to check out the late model guys. It was a twin 75 cars tour race there. So they typically have good car counts, good competitive guys. It's usually fun races to watch. And, of course, we expect Josh to go to Hickory, his home track, and just dominate it,

which he was en route to do. The first race, he was leading the race probably about 50 laps in and blew a motor. And Anthony, I think at that time, was running third. And that put him in second on the restart to go back. and I thought, boy, you know, if he can get a top three out of this, this will be a good day. You know, he hadn't, you know, hadn't won any races ever. And he went out there to

racing for the last 25 of that first 75 lap, and probably with about 15 to go. He started mixing it up with the leader and had a couple real good side-by-side, you know, ran side-by-side for probably the last 10 laps. And finally, on the last lap, he cleared him and got the lead and won the race. So he won his first ever feature on the cars tour. So that was pretty awesome. And We were excited about that. And in the meantime, Josh and his guys were in the pits changing his engine, and they have another race in between the two twin races, so it gave them up probably about 30 minutes or so to get it done,

and they changed motors for the second race. So in the second race, Josh had to start last because of the engine change. And Anthony, I think, started fifth, or he started third, actually, in the second race. They inverted at the top three. And they went to race, and I thought, well, you know, Anthony probably used up his car. the first race win in that, but it'll be fun to see Josh come up through there and try to win it. And lo and behold, Anthony jumped up there and ran probably the first 50, 60 laps with the leaders,

right there, ran the second, third, the whole time, and come about 10 laps to go. Josh was closing in on them. They never did get a caution. And 10 laps to go, Anthony said, all right, I'm going to make my move. And he drove inside the leader, and they mixed it up a little bit, and the leader got back into him and got back by them. And they swapped the lead about three times, and I think probably about five. or six laps ago, Anthony cleared him and drove away. In the meantime, Josh had caught the second place car and passed him,

so they came home there at the end of the second 75 lapar with a one-two finish. So that was a super way to cap off the day, you know, just watching those guys, and it's so much fun to see those grassroots racers out there. And, I mean, they just give it their all. They don't, you know, it's not a job for those guys. It's their life. And they just, you know, I love to watch the guys. I watch, you know, our guys go into the track.

And, I mean, they're so serious about what they're doing. And you see the guy that pulls in with just the open trailer and a streetstock car. And, I mean, you think to yourself, I mean, that guy, he just spent his whole week just as serious about his street stock car or his four-cylinder car, whatever it may be. You know, those guys are spending their week just as engulfed and serious about the racing as the guys that are making a living live into it in the Cup Series. So it's just awesome to see all those different walks of life that all just pour their heart and soul into racing. and being a short track racer. My whole life, of course, it's what I love. So it's just, I love those short track races.

Yeah. I really enjoy being able to see our cars run. You know, the late models are kind of the roots and the core of racing. And everybody that's at a late model race, the competitors, the guys on the crew, most of the guys are volunteers, right? And everyone's there because they want to be there. Everyone's there because they're passionate about it.

and that's really where it all starts for everyone who ever anyone who makes it in racing that's kind of where it all begins at some some level of racing you know like that um obviously in north carolina majority of it's going to be uh late model stocks on on asphalt or some dirt racing uh here and there um but that's definitely uh something i enjoy uh being a part of having knowing that we have cars that go run makes me feel good because I feel like we're covering the sport from one angle from one end to the other with the late models and Xfinity team and their involvement in the Cups series as well. So that's awesome for Anthony and we've had a lot of success with our teams over the years and it's great to have two cars that are really, really competitive and the

cars tour I think is a great tour to be a part of. We really enjoy and have enjoyed running and they run a really clean professional series, and it's been something that we've enjoyed spending time in, and hopefully you'll have more opportunities in the future. I'm hoping that our cars can remain competitive over the next couple of years, because I might have to slip off and run a race. Yeah, ever since you spoke about going to Hickory for a 40 lap, I've probably been asked 100 times since then.

When's that going to happen? When's they all going to come run on all these cars? I think all the fans and the competitors as well that all the local short tracks are just, you know, jumping for joy thinking there might come a day when Dale Jr. will come pulling in the gate to race against them. So that would have probably, that would put a big mark on all their lives to be able to say

they've raced against Dale Jr. So that's something you should do someday. Yeah, I think it'd be fun to just kind of go back and get a reminder of what, you know, what's that style of racing's all about. And it really is, it was some of the most fun, enjoyable times I can remember in my career. How simple it was back then is pretty incredible compared to today. Well, I appreciate you being on, man.

I think, you know, it's been a lot of fun to work with you and get to know you. And now, you know, have an opportunity to go hunting together. And you made a big part of our lives, man. So I appreciate you. And hopefully I'll become as good a couple of. caller as you are. So maybe I can be calling you some turkeys in one day. Yep.

Someday I'll have you second guessing your calling skills just like Uncle Robert does for me. Sounds good, man. Thanks a lot. Thank you. All right, so this is me and my buddy Sean. I got Sean here. What's up, everybody? And everybody might remember Sean from the nationwide commercials.

You get people coming up to you and saying you're Sean from nationwide commercials, right? Yeah, I have before. Where they built the car and the car comes spinning. Spending off pit road, right? Mm-hmm. So that was one of the first nationwide commercials we did. And Sean and I, up here in Ohio, this is Sean's second turkey hunt, right? Yep, second time.

And we didn't get anything last time. And that was because me and you were together. And neither one of me and you know how to call turkeys, right? We were bad. But we did. We did have a lot of fun because we sit there by the same. Hey, Bell, goofing off, laughing. And then we heard a gobbler, and it was responding to LW and Sunny, who were way over.

And so what me and you did unintentionally really was we walked toward the gobbler, but we put ourselves in between LW and the gobbler. Yeah. And we were going to basically cut them off from the bird that they were actually bringing in to shoot themselves. And so that was pretty funny. I put my gun down and I was like, I'm just, we're just going to get up on this tree here and they're coming right at us. And I was like, you shoot whenever you're ready, whenever you see a beard.

And they saw us first and we ran them off. And they were gone. Yeah. We tried to chase them. But that was so funny that we headed off LW's turkey before. And they had no idea they were calling it right. They were calling it right to us. They didn't.

But anyways, this trip here, a year later, We get up in the morning Monday and go out, and you're with my uncle Robert, right? Yes. And he's an expert caller. He is really good. He's very good. So give us a little bit of a play-by-play on your morning. So we got into the blind about 545, 6, and we started calling once the sun started coming up and kept calling.

deer were out. Never really, never really heard anything early on, but a couple hours went by and we had a hen come in and she come by and left. And then we sat there another hour or two. Uncle Robert was almost ready, almost ready to get up and walk. And out of the corner of my eye, they come in from behind us. Three goblers come in at one time. And, I was sitting there and I got a little nervous and they separated a little bit. They attacked the, what you call it, the decoy and I pulled the trigger and got my first turkey. Heck yeah, buddy. So it was really cool.

It's a really cool rush and I'm really excited. So how was Uncle Robert? As far as being an expert caller. Oh, he's awesome. So this is Uncle Robert Jeet, Jr. It's on my mother's side, my mother's brother. He uses a couple different calls, the mouth one, and he had a box call, and he perfects it to a tee.

It was awesome. So he... And he was excited for me after I shot. Once I shot it, I was like, can I go out there and see it? He was like, yeah, take off. Go check it out. So I went out there, and it was flopping around. And that was awesome.

Awesome, man. Right on, buddy. Well, I'm glad you got to enjoy getting your first turkey. I got mine maybe an hour before you. My first turkey as well. So hopefully we're buddies and hunting and turkey hunting for a long time. Absolutely, man. It's going to be a lot of fun. Oh, yeah. So, all right, so this is Uncle Robert. And Uncle Robert, we could sit here and listen to you tell stories for days and days. I'll give everybody a quick rundown. You're my mama's brother. You're on the G side of the family. And Robert, your dad, my grandfather was one of the best body men in the business in racing.

And you're also considered to be one of the best in your generation. And you worked with my father a bunch in racing, had a lot of fun. Y'all were good friends. and you've worked at junior motorsports for how many years now? Working on 13. 13 years. So you're kind of the head senior leader in the fab department, wouldn't you say? Yeah, I'd say I've got seniority anyhow.

And you love to hunt, and I know you've always been a big hunter all your life, you and your brother Jimmy. So you've got to help Sean this morning get. his first turkey. That's right. And how many times have you went hunting with somebody where you've helped them kill either their first turkey or get their first buck?

Does that help to you often? It does. I mean, I've had the opportunity that I've got two grandsons and I've helped them, you know, get involved in the hunting. And so I was with both of them. And I expect that's where I spent most of my time there about 20-some years old now. So they don't, we don't spend a lot of time together.

They go hunting and I go hunting. We don't just don't go together too much. But, yeah, I was pretty nice. I enjoyed that, helping Sean get his bird this morning. I mean, that was the plan coming up here. You know, you said, I want you to get Sean a bird. Yep. So, lucky enough, we got him on the first morning.

That's right. You all, um, you all did a great job. It was awesome to have you around and be able to enjoy hunting and having conversation with you. You've, you know, been a part of my life for a very long time. And it uniquely a part of, obviously, you know, related to my mother, but you're such a big part of my father's life as well. So, you know, that's really unique to me that you were kind of interwoven into, the fabric of my life in many, many ways. Yes.

So a lot of folks, you know, y'all used to go dirt track racing. We talk about Metroline, Concord Speedway, all the dirt tracks. Y'all went up and down the East Coast. You went down to Snowball Derby with Darrell and won. Yep. Y'all won a handful of races back in the 70s with many different drivers. Talk about some of the top guys that you worked with. You know, Darrell was one and Dad was one.

there was a couple of the guys. Well, on the dirt track side, that Billy Scott was, he was the first guy that drove, uh, dead his cars. And then, well, and I'll tell you, Billy, yeah, Billy, Dale might have been the first one. And then Billy Scott drove and Haywood Plowler, Carl Smart. They was all real good drivers from, you know,

around North Carolina. Yeah. You know, Haywood was from Canapolis. Your daddy used to help Haywood when he was just a little old boy and worked on Haywood's car back when he used to run old coops and stuff. And so, and Billy Scott, he's, you know, he's known all around as far as driving. And he was always a good driver. He even run on the big tracks, you know, run over at Charlotte, Motor Speedway.

And we even took Haywood to Charlotte Motor Speedway. way I run a race one time. But, yeah, I've, I've had the opportunity to work with a lot of people, you know, and a lot of people, you're talking about helping people get the first, taking them hunting. I've had a lot of opportunities to help new drivers get their first. You know, I've worked on, I didn't, you know, I didn't take the car to the track of nothing, but I've worked on the cars that a lot of new drivers. Especially here lately, yeah, junior mergers.

Got their own, got their first wins, you know. So you did a lot of working around the dirt tracks in the, short tracks in North Carolina in the East Coast and in the mid to late 70s in the 80s you actually went working you did some work for your yourself tell us a little bit about what your business was in the 80s well into the 90s it was about the same thing well I just I used to work on well I was on uh I worked for Rod Ashland when Dale won his first championship Really? I was on that team.

And then I worked on a few more teams. Well, J.D. Stacey bought that team out, so I worked there, you know, on two or three years. And I think Mark Martin drove there, Morgan Shepard. Tim Richmond. Tim Richmond got his first wins over. I was working on them cars. I was just part of team, you know, not that I'd done it all or nothing. but and and then about 84, 1984, I was working at a curb motorsports and your daddy called me.

He said, I want to build a new car for Charlotte. This was in the springtime. And I said, Dale, there ain't no way we can build no car at night to get ready. We didn't have it like a month to get done. And he said, well, just quit your job then and come over here and let's build. it. I said, all right. Dang. So I just quit my job and went over there. And after we got down building that car, we took it to Charlotte and first race, we run third, I think. And from then on, I just worked, I opened my own business up and done work for different people and worked at it

for 18 years until I come to work for you. Wow. 18 years. So you and your, you and your brother Jimmy both are experienced and body men in the sport. Jimmy currently works at Gannasi, is that right? No, he works over at, I think it's a revolution. Revolution. Revolution. Yeah, that's K&N deal. Yeah, the NASCAR diversified.

Yep. So, but he worked, did he work with you the entire 18 years you had in your own business? Y'all do that together? No, he worked for me a couple times. He worked for me and then of course Daddy was getting slowed down and Jimmy went he went over to Hendricks and helped Daddy and then after Daddy passed away he stayed over at Hendricks about a year I think then he decided he wanted to come back down at the shop and work with me so I told him to come on you know I had plenty of work and and our shop wouldn't

but like a mile from Hendricks motorsports yeah so I mean we's we's a in the neighborhood we growed up in. Yeah. Yep. That's awesome. It wasn't no big deal. Then we stayed down there until, what, 2005? Yep.

And you called and started a deal. And started up the Bush. I knew who the best man for the job was. Yeah. I hear you. I appreciate it. It's worked out. It's worked out for me.

Yeah. Yeah, I remember when we first started talking about working together, you said, I'll do it as long as you know I'm going to be going. going hunting when the hunting season comes. Yeah, I got to go hunting, you know. That's right. Well, I appreciate you being around, and certainly Sean's thankful for all your help today. Oh, yeah.

You're going to, you're going to cook some of this turkey for us on this trip. So tell us a little bit about you marinade and all that. Well, we're going to cut the turkey up, you know, the turkey breast, and we'll marinate it in buttermilk for about a day in a Ziploc bag, and then we'll take it out and drain it a little bit, and then we're going to bread it up with some house altry, a medium-hot batter seasoning, and drop it in that grease, and we're going to go to eating then.

All right. Well, I can't wait. That's going to be good. All right, guarantee. I told Sean, we got going to the airport yesterday, and I said, we're just talking, you know, and I said, patience are killed, Patience kills more turkeys than anything else.

Is that right? And me and old Sean, we had to sit there for about three hours this morning to get this bird. Yeah. He was a good one. And we was running out of patience. Yep. He said y'all was getting ready to get up, move. Yeah, we was.

I told him, I said, it was 9.30. I said, we're going to give it about 30 more minutes. And, man, you've got to get out of here. And I bet it wouldn't five minutes. Here the bird come. Yep. If we hadn't been sitting there looking at them dears, we'd have probably. I got up and left.

Probably so. Yep. All right, man. Well, I appreciate you being on. Thanks a lot. All right, I appreciate it. Yes, sir. If you love Dale Jr., then Exaltor Racing is your go-to social media account on Facebook,

Instagram, and Twitter. It brings you Insiders info all weekend long on the 88 team. It's at Exaltor Racing, a must follow for any Dale Jr. fan. Looking ahead to what we got going on the rest of the week, Friday, we're heading to Kansas. There will be two practices, and then qualifying is at 645. p.m. Eastern time on Fox Sports 1. Saturday night is the cup race at 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. That's on Fox Sports 1, not the normal Fox.

So be on the lookout for that. Dale and the 88 team are sporting a new paint scheme this week. It is the Mountain Dew, Do, S.A. car. If you check out Dale's Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, he's posted pictures of that. Sunday is Mother's Day. So happy Mother's Day to my mom and all the moms out there. We appreciate everything you do for us. Yeah, that wraps it up for this week's show.

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