The Dale Jr. Download - 183 - Selfie Protocol and Bunny Ears

Episode Date: July 11, 2017

Dale Earnhardt Jr. recaps a crazy weekend in Kentucky, including a track-rubbering controversy, loose windshields and a 50-year-old man asking for a selfie. What’s the protocol on that? Junior discusses with Mike Davis and takes live questions from fans at the Axalta Studio. 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.

My racing career isn't just about me. It's about the team, the fans, the sponsors, the families, the tracks, the whole sport. Join us over the next five months on the Junior Nation Appreciation Tour, where we show appreciation to where it's owed. This is Dale Jr., and you're listening to Dirty Mo Radio. Okay, I'll go live in the store if y'all are ready. Not quite ready. Did you not listen to last weeks? Get yours away from me.

I'll actually have a caramel latte hazeln nut. Of course you do. What's the word, personable or personal? God. You're just mad because mine was way more popular. That's another reason they have the windows out to get the crowd. To laugh at all your dumb joke. You don't like my gift?

Is it a gift? Yes, it's for you. That's for me? Yes, you can have this. The phone? No, that phone's mine. Damn it. I'm the new owner of a clamper.

That's your phone. Is it weird because it's my phone? Yeah, I don't touch another guy's phone. All right, man, let's hit it. It's a feature song for today's Dale Jr. Download, Honesty by the Dangerous Summer, courtesy of Hopeless Records. It's a good song. It is a good song.

So I'm Dale Jr., and we're here again for another installment of the Dale Jr. Download without me this week, or without us or without him, is Tyler Overstreet. We're without him. My guest host, co-host, is going to be Mike Davis. What's up? So we'll see how this goes. I've got more episodes in this show than you do. I know.

So I'm kind of excited to do this with you because this has been, you're the kind of the patriarch. Is that what I am? Of the Dale Jr. Download. The way I see it is, this is sort of like the new dukes versus old dukes, but only if Coy and Vance Duke had first led off the Dukes of Hazzard and then the good ones came in later. It's nothing like that. So I feel like me and Taylor were Coy and Vance and then you and Tyler are Bo and Luke. Really? Yeah.

And this is sort of like a reunion special where the cousins get together like a family reunion. I got you. All right. Well, I'm excited about this show. Me and you've been talking about it. Tyler is, I don't know where Tyler is. There must be some WrestleMania. I'll tell you where he is.

He's here. He's taking vacation and not going anywhere. He puts an Instagram picture up yesterday from like the old Mecklenburg brewery. And then I find out that he was here at the office yesterday. He told somebody to leave something for him. He came by, didn't even say hi. What do you think about that? You're surprised.

I don't find this very surprising. I was trying to rack my birthday. brain on where I thought Tyler might go taking vacation. So that makes total sense to me that he didn't go anywhere. Was the old Mecklenburg brewery, one of your options there? He's vacationing in Mecklenburg County. As people do. One of the underrated vacation spots.

Yeah. Well, he does love a good brewery. He does. So that's good. Yeah. So we're going to do this show in his absence. But we've got a lot to talk about, so let's get to it. One of the big deals about this particular race weekend was repave.

This is like the second repave in two years, and there was a lot of great conversation going on about that. We had drivers, myself included, very opinionated about where to use this tire dragon that they have. They have this tire dragon that puts rubber down on the racetrack. You can see a big difference. You can see exactly where it's putting the rubber down by watching the race on TV. You can see where this tire dragon has ran and used, and been used. The drivers had a lot of opinions about where it should be used the most,

and the tracks have their own opinion. And so what the drivers, I can't speak for all of them, but what the drivers think is don't work in the groove that we will typically run. Let the drivers do that. Let the cars are going to do that naturally. So don't waste any time putting rubber down in where you assume the groove will be. So the cars are going to gravitate toward that anyways. You got the truck series, Xfinity series, and the Cup series running all on the same weekend. You're going to have plenty of guys running in the groove putting rubber down. So don't do that, right? And I like to think about it.

We used to have go-kart races over at the house. We had a dirt track, right? We had all these go-carts. And I'd invite the guys over for a whole day of go-kart fun. Well, we had this pickup truck that had race tires on it. So when we'd wet the track, we'd take this truck and ride it around the track. real slow and pack the rub, pack the, pack the mud in, or pack the track, and get the track more suitable for the carts because they couldn't go out of there and run on a soaking wet

track. They just wouldn't go anywhere. Mud would be going everywhere. And they literally make ruts in the tracks. So anyways, you had to go pack the track with this truck, right? And wherever you pack the track is where the carts would run. So if I pack the track from the bottom all the way to the top, all the guys would run the shortest distance immediately, right? They go right to the bottom. Right. And we'd spend, if you're going to race go-carts from six o'clock in the evening to midnight, the race is going to start on the bottom, and it'll be on the bottom at the end of the night.

It's the same track all day long. And it's not very fun. Not a lot of passing. The top isn't an option. The best days that we, or the best races that we had were when we only packed the very top groove in. Because over and over, so the racing begins at the very top of the track at the start of the day, right?

it's the only place that's packed in. If you went down into the mud, you spun out or you're real slow. So what happens as guys are trying to pass each other is they slowly work that groove down. And by the end of the night, it's from the top to the bottom, just like any other dirt track.

So I think a lot of the drivers had the opinion that if they'd want multiple grooves, if they want an option to run side by side in the corner, work in only the outside groove because we're not going to practice there. The longest way around the track is what you're saying. Pack in parity. Pack in, yeah. Go ahead and work in an outside groove only and have that ready right off the bat.

Chances are we may go out there and practice and run in that groove and then work to groove down ourselves. So that's kind of where the drivers were going with their opinions about how to work in the track or maybe if you want to try to create you know if you got a if you got to repave there's no groove there's no defined groove just yet um so if you don't do anything you're only going to have one groove worked in by the end of the weekend and that's where all the drivers are going to run now if you use a tire dragon and you want to try to create an opportunity to make a multiple groove work on the second option not the not the groove that's going to get worked in anyways okay you know what I do I do

but I got some layman's questions here first and foremost when did they repay when did they repave And what does a repave actually do? It's a brand new track, and therefore, what does it drive like? A brand new, yeah, I mean, they repaved this track. I don't know exactly when, but before this race, we hadn't been on the track. The track had, they did have a test there with the wheel force cars. And Alex Bowman did that test. He said it was super treacherous because there was no rubber on the track.

And so the cars will go out there and run, and they'll run in a very narrow, single groove and that's where you have to run so you don't get in trouble. So you don't wreck. Yeah. Right. And so that keeps that you're really in a box with no options. You've got to go in that groove. Which means there's not going to be much passing.

Zero passing. Nobody wants to be side by side going in the corner. Right. You're just trying to keep it on four wheels. Somebody's screwed. Right. So the idea of getting the tire dragon in there is a way to work in a second groove. And don't worry about the primary groove. The cars are naturally going to make that groove or create that groove.

So don't work that groove in. Work in the grooves that you want to be there. To encourage passing. Yes. From my stance, it just looked like drivers were complaining again. Yeah. And that's kind of the stance that the track owners took. There was an article where one of the...

I've got that information. Steve Swift, the VP of Operations for SMI, said, I think we know what we're doing. And I'm like, what is he responding to? And then I go kind of follow the trail. And there you are in the trail. And I'm like, oh, great, here we go. All right.

So explain what you guys did to prompt that. Yeah, we all said, why in the hell would you work the tire dragging in in the groove that we're going to run? Work it in. If you're wanting to create opportunities to pass, work in other grooves. Yeah. We're not going to practice. No one's going to go practice in an alternative groove. They're going to, everybody's going to practice in the primary group.

the one that's going to be the fastest. But if you want to promote passing, use the tire dragon to create a second or third groove even. And his response to that was, we know what we're doing. You guys, you know, or he had a couple of different, he sort of covered

all the bases. He said, we're taking advice from the drivers, from the past. We're taking, we're doing what's worked before, and we know what we're doing. And he said, so on a new track, you have to put rubber down and what is the groove, not what you want the groove to be.

That must be the part where you disagree. Yeah, I mean, he thinks that, and if I'm reading his statement correctly, he thinks that if we go run the tire dragon around the wall, that that's where we're going to race. Not true. We're going to find and establish the optimum groove on any track, whether it's been, we've done that before the tire dragon. And our argument is that if you want side-by-side racing, which is what the fans want, the drivers want it,

I want to be able to go in the corner on the outside of somebody and not have to give up the spot because there's no second groove. I want to be able to race a guy into the corner. So it worked a tire dragon into the second groove to give me that opportunity. That makes sense. So did you guys have any follow-up conversation? I'm curious because he said what he said in the articles. You and Denny started making a little bit jokes on Twitter.

We just thought it was funny. Yeah. I went into his timeline on his social media to find, you know, a little bit about this guy. It's 99% inspirational quotes. That explains your tweet. Yeah. I had no idea what it meant. You tweeted something like...

I said, this guy's going to send the second groove in inspirational quote. Oh, my gosh. Before the race. Now it makes sense. Everything's going to be great. And in fact, now it's even more uncomfortable as I thought it would be. So I'm glad you offered some explanation because... It sounded like all we were doing is going to be.

I mean, come on. No, no, no, it's, look, this is, it's sort of like the, you know when the Dixie Chicks kept complaining about stuff and people just said shut up and sing? Yeah. Sort of like that. Well, I think that the drivers feel that. The drivers, that's probably why the drivers weren't louder or why we just, we, I think the reason why we took the joke angle on social media was because we know that that's going to be the response. What do y'all call it? What do you all complain about?

just race. So we go, you know, all right, man, this guy's obviously doesn't have the same opinion as us. We don't think very much of his opinion. It is what it is. Here we are on Friday or whatever day it was. We're going to race Saturday. There's nothing we can do about it. It's too late in the game.

They did end up putting a little bit of work on the second groove. And I think that was in response to the driver's complaints. And it gave us the opportunity to go into the corner and race. And the restarts were better for the outside of the line. line you had a little bit of an opportunity to kind of hang on to your spot and you weren't just trained by the guys on the inside did the exfinity race before the cup race not helped that too of course okay so are you saying what they did extra but if you watch the xfinity race they ran the bottom everybody ran the bottom okay yeah so why focus on that with the tire monster the tire dragon work in

try to create the second groove i got you i'm following i'm tracking with that yeah so then explain to me then what Brad Kozlowski got so vocal about. After the race? Yeah, because whatever you and Denny did, you didn't go all Kozlowski. No, we didn't. Thank you. We didn't take the route that NASCAR needs to build a brand new race car. I thought, you know, if I had known Brad was going to go that crazy after the race,

I would have probably been a little more vocal on social media because anything I had said on Friday was going to be quickly forgotten. That's right. Right, yeah. So give us a little bit of Brad's comments. Well, I mean, I'm looking at it here. Brad said he went after the car. The way this car is, it needs a lot more help than a tire dragon.

It is a poorly designed race car, and it makes racing on tracks like this very difficult to put on the show we want to put on for our fans. But to clarify, Brad said this right after he had a wreck. We all know that drivers aren't in their most rightful mind after a wreck, or even just after getting out of a race car when it's hot, especially in the summer. Nobody is. You can't expect people to be. Which is why it's great to interview you guys after the race. Because you're not thinking straight. That being said, he then comes back on Twitter later and clarifies it, look, that was just a combination of being frustrated, which I totally agree with, and also that he's passionate about the sport, which I also agree with that.

So you don't think there's any, like, you don't think there's any truth of his opinion or that he believe, you don't think there's any truth that he believes what he said? No, I absolutely think he believes what he said. Right. And I'm not even saying, well, listen, I'm not even educated enough to know if he's accurate or not. I kind of like the way the cars look, but I don't drive him. I don't think that Brad has a problem with the cars look. But I think. I got you.

And I would have liked to heard Brad maybe clarify and get a little more specific about exactly what he doesn't like about the cars. I know that I have opinions about the cars. I hate the splitter. You do. You've always said that. In my opinion, the splitter came with the wing. that was strictly an attempt to, well, they did want to limit travel with the splitter because what we had been doing with our previous race cars was traveling them so much

that the fenders were laying on top of the tires and guys were blowing out tires because the fender strap would tear the top of the tire off. Or where into the tire, wear grooving the tire. I'd come into the pits sometimes and see a groove in my tire and be like, Tanya Jr., you know, what the hell? Get this thing off the ground a little bit So I don't blow the right front tire out Because I mean it's you're literally playing with fire

So I understand that the splitter was a little bit there for limiting travel But I always thought that the wing and the splitter was like a A desperate attempt to sort of grasp at the the younger demographic that are you know this This tune and you know this These guys these kids that are putting all these wings and and splitters all over the You see them coming out of NASCAR Tech every day at lunch. Yeah, okay. So if you go to NASCAR Tech and watch the kids leave, half of them got wings on the car.

They got wings. Yeah, they got those big spoilers or wings. And they'll be wing on anything. They'll put a wing on whatever car. If they can get a wing on it. So I think, you know, this was, and NASCAR finally gave up on it, gave up on the wing at least, and went back to the old spoiler that had worked so well for the last 75 years. But they will not give up on the splitter.

I don't know what it is about this damn splitter. but I've never liked it. I don't like driving a car with it on there. I don't like driving a car that's sliding across the racetrack on the splitter. It's not fun. And what the splitter does is it makes every car and every team live in the same place. We all set our cars up to run right on top of the ground with that splitter. So what it does is it equalizes the field because we all run the same travel.

We all set our cars up pretty much with the same wheel rates in the front end to run to run right across the top of the ground with that splitter. So all the cars really get very, that's why the cars I think are so similar in speed. Like from first to 25th, there's not a lot of speed disparity there. Okay. And so that's not conducive to passing. When you had the valence that you could, that was grinding off or not grinding off, depending on how do your car, how you had the car set up. Guys were living in a much bigger window

as far as front travel and set up. So, you know, you might, you'd have two inches or so difference in travel between one guy and another guy, and that would have the cars running differently. Okay. And handling differently. With the splitter, everybody goes to the splitter

and stops and stays there. Every car. So every car is the exact same in the corner. And so all the cars are going to run similar speeds. Can I ask you a question, though, that doesn't really have to do with the way the overall cars perform, but it's something you were saying on the radio. Were you saying, and reporting back to Greg, that your splitter was off the ground too much? The reason I recognize that is because usually that's not what the complaint is.

The complaint is usually that it's on the ground. But it's saying that you were saying like it was like three or four inches to fly. Yeah. Well, that's a huge fail if your splitter's not on the ground. Everybody wants to be right on the ground. That's where the best aerodynamics are going to be found. So if you go out on the racetrack and you miss that setup and your splitter doesn't travel to the ground,

you're going to be much slower in the car's not going to drive as well. So he can see that in pictures. We have pictures. There's a guy designated to take pictures of all the cars going around the track, and they're sent to the notebook of the engineer. So we can look at pictures of our car in the corner at several different positions in the corner. This guy's literally just taking pictures of car.

cars they go around the corner. Lap after lap after lap after lap every car. So we can see, yeah. So we can look at pictures of every car and see where they are and travel. Not just the front splitter, but the side skirts and everything. And it gives you an idea maybe of what the guys are doing for rear springs, how there's a difference in the rear heights that you can run the car that can be better or worse for down force and so forth and pitching the car.

I mean, there's all kinds of, but so if he's looking at them pictures and he sees the splitter's not on the ground. That's a huge red flag. We've got to get that splitter down. You know what I'd do? I'd delete everybody's picture except Truex's. Maybe Kyle Larson's. That's a good point. And then I'd blow it up. I'd make a mural of it. Yeah. I mean... You'd make a good third engineer. I feel like I could. So Truex dominates the race. You want to talk about that? This crawls under me. Fans were talking about how... I guess some fans on social media were talking about how they didn't like the domination, right?

Right. And they were like, oh, they got to look at True X's car. There's no way. This just ain't, you know, something ain't right. No way that car passes tech. You know, I don't know whether that's coming from the fact that True X has been running really, really good for quite a while now. Very strong.

He seems to be one of the fastest guys at every race. So people, you're saying, may you start to give him a wood by it? Or do people just not like when a guy jumps out and gets a six to 15 second lead in the race is kind of, you know, there's not much of race for the lead. You know, I hope that's not what people are bugged out about, the fact that somebody just dominated. Because back in the 80s and 90s, when everybody said, oh, the racing in the 80s is so awesome. I mean, you know, Bill Elliott would, would, you couldn't even touch him at some of these

racetracks. You couldn't, it was no competition. You know, dad would dominate races. Even in the 70s, Petty and Pearson and all those guys, I mean, they're literally the only guys left on the lead lap at the end of the race. people love the sport back then but don't seem to like it when it happens today

and it's rare that it's more rare today to see a guy really dominate a race I mean the cars are so evenly matched so when a guy goes out and does that to me it's incredibly impressive he did the same thing at Dover last year almost lapped the field he lapped up at like sixth place and they threw a yellow

they have a competition caution sometimes they call out of nowhere and the late stages of the race. And y'all made that joke on the radio, actually. Yeah, it was noted. I was walking out of the driver's meeting, and I won't say who, but a driver comes up to me and goes, there's a competition caution at lap 30,

and sometime around lap 250. I thought that was funny, but I won't throw him under the bus. Was his name rhymed with, like, Recklowski? No, it rhymes with Schumann. But we don't want to say who it is. I say who it is. Thank you, yeah. But I really, especially in today's environment with the way the teams are so, you know,

the cars are so similar and there's really not a lot of things you can do to get an advantage. I find it really impressive to see what Turex is capable of doing last Saturday night. Yeah, you don't want to see that every single week. That's not great for any sport to have a team dominating week after week. after week, they make things too predictable. But when that happens, you have to kind of appreciate that. That's what, I mean, racing is racing. You drop the green flag.

Whatever happens happens. And then there's a checker flag and it's over. I don't really have a, you know, I don't want to see that every single week. But when it happens, especially in this environment, I think it's pretty impressive. Well, listen, we're talking about fans. I mean, we've got fans in here. Who did not like the fact that Martin Truex dominated the race this week?

Show a hands. Anybody? Not one hand. Not one. So who then appreciated the domination that Truex did? Okay. Here's my other question. And this is a point that I like to make.

Does it depend who is doing the dominating on whether you like whether the fact that it was a domination? Absolutely everybody's shaking their head. I have said this on the Dale Jr. download ever since we started. who is doing the domination absolutely shapes whether or not you like the domination and therefore people will change their opinion on this every week if Kyle Bush had left the field everybody in here would have a problem with it I say everybody in this building right now I feel safe in saying that

if you lap the field everybody loves domination don't we I mean so I just say like who let's just call it we're fans I think you're right yeah but I don't think that I guess I don't think that this is a bad thing, whether you check the box of I like domination or I didn't like domination this week. I think it's, I think what happened this weekend and what Trix did is healthy. Did you just spill chocolate or coffee all over your notes? Just a little bit. He's still rusty folks.

No, I did this in my prime. Okay. This reminds me of back in 81, 82 when Darrell Walshrip was winning every race in the Mountain Dew car. He drove for junior Johnson and this Buick. You couldn't beat him. They won a championship two years in a row. I've never been to a race since where a guy was steadily booed.

He was booed probably more than Kyle Bush's. Really? Yes. It was a one, it was pretty much, you know, 90% of the fans were hoping to not see another Dale, Darrylop-Waltrow-Domination victory. So we would go to, yeah, I mean, we would go to, yeah, I mean, we would. go to the racetrack and Darrell would come by on a pace laps and the whole place boot him. And it was only because they won every week. And he was so hard to beat.

And then once that changed and once that kind of went away, there wasn't another driver that I can really remember that the fans treated that way, but there wasn't really another driver outside of my father that dominated. You know, there was a little bit of a window where Bill dominated. The fans were really in all of that more than anything because there were so many passionate Ford fans that loved to see that Thunderbird go. What about Jeff Gordon?

You know, Jeff Gordon wasn't unbeatable. They won a lot of races. But he always, in every year that he was winning his championship, he had an anti-Jep Gordon competing against him. He had a guy right on his bow. back, you know, on his heels. It wasn't... It wasn't domination.

He just happened to end up winning him all. I got you. I don't want to say it was domination because he was freaking awesome. It won, what, 13 races one year or something. Yeah. But he always had guys close enough to make it a race, even for the points or what have you. And that was the way it was with Dad, too. A lot of times it looked like maybe Dad was winning races he shouldn't be winning

with a car that wasn't capable of winning. And it was a little more... there was a blue collar aspect to it and I don't really know what it was that kept people from boo and dad when he was having so much success other than the fact that he just it looked like he worked hard to make it happen

people kind of appreciated the process of how he won races did you think that Martin was screwed on those old tires for that last restart? Yeah I did too and he drove away from him yeah we were talking about this in the airplane after I was like

why in the hell would you throw the yellow with a half a lap to go to the white. Like what does it, what purpose does it serve when Martin's had, Martin has a 13 second lead? Yeah. He's half a lap from the white. What was going on that we needed to throw a caution to where we couldn't complete another lap and a half? Wasn't Kurt Busch blowing up?

Well, they said Kurt Busch, he broke a rear end gear. It happened down the front straightaway. He got to the apron in turn one. they never put any speedy dry in either corner. They put a little speedy dry down the frustrated way and some on my apron in three and four. But you don't know that it's not going to be needed when you throw a caution.

It might be needed. So I was sitting there, I'm not seeing this. I'm not, I'm in the race car. I'm not seeing Kurt Busch on fire, whatever the hell happened. And your windshield's half loose. So that's another, anyways, go ahead. Keep going. I was like, why the guy's got a 13 second lead?

Why in the hell would you throw a yellow when there's only a lap? There's only, what, two miles to complete the race? and this race has been going on for three hours. But TJ and Amy and everybody said that Kurt Bush had like fire coming out and pretty dramatic. It was. Yeah. So like at first, TJ said, I don't know why they're throwing the caution.

I don't know why. And so that basically teed up the joke. That's exactly right. That's when we heard competition caution. Yeah. Which I laughed. But as soon as they showed Kurt Bush, I mean, like, it wasn't like, it wasn't a question, in my opinion. And it was needed, a costume was needed.

Okay. You did not bet, right? No, we came down pit road, I think. Yeah, we came down pit road and got four tires. A couple guys in front of us got two tires. And I'm like, God, darn, you know, maybe we should have got two or staying out. It's not good. You don't want to be like eighth, ninth, tenth, on all tires.

You know, in that traffic, it's just not going to be good. But I like the call we made after the fact, because my car had tons of grip, and I was able to be aggressive on that restart, which I want to be. So TV showed like literally the screws and bolts coming out of the windshield. Really? Yeah, did that affect anything? I mean, I would assume it would. Well, the windshield was going crazy down straightaway, especially in traffic.

You made a comment about that. When I would get some distance between me and other cars, it would calm down a little bit. But when you were, when you had about four or five cars in front of you, it was just moving back and forth like four or five inches. It's a big, big, you know, big throw of movement. And yeah, I mean, it was, you couldn't see, you couldn't look around down into the corner. If you're going down the front straightaway, you know, you tend to kind of look way on around the corner. Right. Because, you know, thinking about where you want to position the car in the corner.

And that, that wasn't an option. That was just, it wasn't. It's the way you replied to that. It makes it seem like you did not know that the screws and bolts came out. No, I can't see screws and bolts. You don't have slow motion in there? Where were these shoes? The ones on the outside of the car that are...

Yeah, they came out. Yeah, how am I supposed to see them? I'm halfway joking, but I would have expected some sort of different behavior by your windshield without the screws or bolt. There was a lot of different behavior. But it happened after you complained about the windshield. So basically, it was already doing some stuff. Maybe there were other screws that came out.

Maybe. But they caught two, one on the left, one on the right. And I was like, man, my man, I don't have a windshield in there. He's about to go modified on him. I was pretty nervous at one point. The windshield was moving so much in traffic that I thought it was going to come out of the car. Boy, that speaks to the turbulence going on in there. It's terrible.

Yeah. Yeah. But I, you know, we made it through. And you get to run it loud in this weekend. We couldn't say that last year. That's right. That's right. Yeah.

So we made it through and we're still racing. Yeah. And we feel great. And we feel great. That's really. That's what I thought about. Like every time people are like, hey man, this was your last race last year.

And that makes me think, yeah, I remember how sick I was and how bad I felt and how happy I was, it makes me thankful to feel as good as I do today. I'm looking forward to New Hampshire. Yeah, it's been a good track for us. There's been some communication.

I know, we've got to talk about this, right? There's been some track, uh, the adjustments made. It's actually fact now. It's, uh, because I read a story about it, that they are putting GHT

Is that what it is? Yeah. I thought it was VHT. Is it? Hold on, let me pull it up here. I want to get the letters right. I don't want to get the letters on. It's sticky stuff.

Yeah. Basically the same thing, right? Why are they doing that to loud? I don't know. So, you know, the only thing I can think of is that they're trying to produce a, you know, produce a second groove or an outside groove or maybe side-by-side racing in the corner. This depends on where they're spraying this stuff. What I read in the article is.

Oh, no, it's not G-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-H-Mier. will add the traction agent PJ1. Oh my gosh. To all... PJ1, who's heard of that? Anybody? All right. To all four turns this week

ahead of its NASCAR Cup and next Finney Series races, the agent will be applied in the middle lane up to the wall. So that's a... That makes me wonder, like, what is their middle lane? Because we run in the middle lane already.

There's a lower groove that nobody runs on. Get this! Of course, all roads lead back to Dale Jr. As I read this story, the possibility of adding the agent was first mentioned by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Sunday morning on Periscope. Quote, I heard they put some of the sticky stuff down on the racetrack, Earnhardt said. He's shaking his head off. Are you not read this?

We can't figure out exactly where they put it. The rumor is they put it in the middle groove, but if you go to New Hampshire and you look at the racetrack, you could ask 10 people what the middle groove is and five get different opinions on that. everybody spraying this stuff everywhere, man. I don't even know it was an incredible success anytime we've used it, so I don't know why everybody's so damn spray happy. And there you go. Dale Jr. in the news today. You asked over the weekend, there must have been a moment.

This is going to include you guys, you fans out there. Okay, let's do that. At what age should a man, this comes straight from Dell over the weekend. He sends this to me. At what age should a man have to quit? asking for selfies and actually use the camera the normal way. So this happened. I was walking through the garage area, and I'm 42.

Yeah. And there's probably about a, I don't know, maybe if the guy might have been 40 or 50 years old, hollering at me in this big environment, a lot of people, he's hollering at me probably 20 yards away going, Dale, can I get a selfie? And I'm thinking, man, it's just weird to hear that from another man. and so I was thinking I was saying to myself I don't you know do I

have I ever shouted shouted hey can I have a selfie to another man and I always think to myself you know I don't do I actually hand the camera to somebody and say hey can you take a picture of me with this person that I want a picture with

and so I think that there's a time there's an age now I think women are on the selfie train for life. For life, huh? Okay. There's never a bad time for a woman to ask for a selfie, or there's never an age limit or anything like that.

I think women can selfie all day long. Okay. But I think it... And they usually do. I think there's a certain age where a man should decide to no longer do selfies. And just if you want a picture, actually take the picture like you would typically take the picture before the selfies. What if the man doesn't have?

have somebody to take the picture. Well, then... Should he just not ask for a picture? No, then I think that it's my responsibility to take the selfie. Really? With his camera. Yeah. That for me is less uncomfortable than him taking it.

You holding another man's camera? I know that's weird for you. It is. I can't get past that. You don't know where... You know, in that the number one way to transmit germs is through the phone? Cell phones are pretty nasty. Yeah.

Yeah. So, all right. So you say it's better just for you to take a selfie. I think from a 30, 35, 40, 40, 45 year old man to another 45 year old man. It's just a, let's just do a normal picture. You know why you just made this awkward? Because somewhere in this audience, somebody was going to take a selfie. And now they're trying to figure out if they're going to go through it or not.

They're all looking at their buddy going, man. Will you take a picture? Yeah, somebody's going to make new friends out here because you're going to need to take a picture with him. I didn't want to, you know, I was wondering about that question whether that would, offend anybody or insult anybody, but I just, and Amy chimed in during this conversation that I was having. I actually came back to the bus and asked her. I said, I had about a 50-year-old man asked me for a selfie. It kind of made me feel weird. And how do you feel about that, Amy? And she said, yeah, I don't, you know, I think at a certain age, a man shouldn't, shouldn't ask for a

selfie, shouldn't be, a man should just no longer be doing selfies. And we just heard, we determined that you could, and this goes a little further, but you could, if, if it's, family it's okay. Like if you're a family or union and you want a selfie with your uncle, that's not as weird. Amy says no more rabbit ears after you finish your high school education. I think that should stop before that, actually. I don't like the rabbit ears. I hate it. Yeah, I have a great story about that. So, and I know why I think this is where Amy was coming from. A couple years ago, we were on pit road before the race at Charlotte. And this guy comes up and he goes, I really want a picture

I've been trying to get a picture with you for like five or ten years and he's he, Amy's standing there and he hands the phone to Amy and says

will you mind taking up my picture? And I was like sure. And so the guy we get ready to take the picture and right as she gets ready to match the button he gave me rabbit ears. Yes, I remember.

She takes the picture and hands the camera back the guy and goes, really? Like you're one option, you're one time to take this picture, you finally hear and you want to use

Rabbit ears? On Dale. And she was pissed at this guy. Yeah. And so that really, I think that's stuck in, stuck under her skin for a while. I don't, I'm not much, I've never, I can't remember the last time I've done rabbit ears, but I think it's a, it's a kid thing. It's like, you know, if you don't want to be a goofball kid.

Well, that, yeah, I even think kids need to find a better way to photo bomb a, a photo, a picture. That's not very funny. I don't know. I just think it's unfunny. We all laughed when you said that they did it to you, though. Yeah. I just realized that. I was somewhere in the last week somebody did it to me.

Really? I remember, yes. We were at the nationwide children's hospital. Oh, no. Yeah. A kid? Yeah. Oh.

Well, I took a picture with all the kids in this activity room and one of them got your rabbit ears. The kid. You were there with your team making an appearance. Yeah. All the good vibes. Yeah. They threw the bunny ears on you. This is going to be the ass junior.

segment we've got Natalie Sather in what's up Natalie? Speed Sather. I'm sorry, Speed Sather. Speed Sather is here. Natalie Speed Sather is going to ask some Ask Junior questions. We're also going to take some questions from Jordan Luku here on the that's manning the periscope. What's up Jordan? And let's get right to it. Natalie, go right ahead. So I'll start with some from Twitter. A friend of Dirty Moor Radio's, Billy Bradley, asks, repave tracks have not been so racy. Texas, Kentucky, do you think this has open eyes to other tracks to not repave? Yeah, absolutely. I think that Atlanta has been contemplating repaving their racetrack and actually

have held off for a year at least. Maybe not, you know, maybe not a couple more before they have to repave. There will be a time in every track's existence where there can no longer hold off on repaving because of the track's surface deteriorating so badly. But, and Atlanta's close, but they're trying to get as many more races out of their surface as they can before they have to repave. And they know when they repave that it's going to, you know, create a challenging situation for the product. But I think a lot of tracks definitely are taking notice and trying to figure out ways to prolong the life of their tracks, their surface. All righty, I'm going to slaughter this.

Imelda Pedrosa 88 That's pretty good actually I did a pretty good job on that one Asks how do you decide what wrecked cars Go into your graveyard Do other drivers request their cars To be put in there?

Just wondering Do other drivers wreck their cars Just so they can go into it Of course they do Basically We just did idle And we'll get a text from Either a driver, crew chief, or owner

That says hey do you want this car? We don't call up guys or actively seek out cars to put into the graveyard. I don't want to call a driver on Monday and go, man, you know, that wreck you had, I kind of want that car. Yeah. So it just happens organically or naturally by them knowing that we collect those cars. We've never paid for a car. A lot of people are assumed that we might pay for them, which I thought was kind of fun. but we've never,

no point in buying a tore-up car for no reason. It's always a surprise to me as to who calls. And sometimes these cars aren't cars that crashed last week. We got Michael McDowell's

Texas crash. Oh. Where the car, the spring flip, flew out, and this is back in the 55 errands. Oh, yeah. Remember that crash? You had qualified?

Oh, that was big. Yeah. Long time ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, that happened how many years ago? Eight, ten years ago? Got them. Well, it's that long?

I just got that car a year ago. Michael, Michael Waltrip was getting rid of a bunch of stuff as he was shutting his team down. Yeah. And said, hey, you want this car? I got it. So I was like, yeah. So, I mean.

What could they possibly have been holding on to that thing for? It's just sitting in a box somewhere. But so, and I've gotten, I also got, I don't know if you'll remember this, but Dennis Setzer was driving for Brad Kiselowski's brother or his father. in the Xfinity race at Talladega, and they had a big wreck in turn four, and this car called on fire. It was a white 92,

and this car kind of bounced around, caught on fire, ripped it up pretty good. I got that car maybe a couple years after that accident. You know how interesting the graveyard is to people? Natalie knows this. We did a 360 a couple weeks ago,

okay, J-RM-360. That thing got $3 million. Is it $3 million, Natalie? Yeah. The 360 just of the graveyard was sunny in it and all. Austin Lunsford, got three million views. I couldn't believe it.

Just about the graveyard. I had a lot of people in the industry, a lot of guys, a lot of the drivers in the garage come up to me telling me about watching that one that they thought it was funny, how they yanked the car off the truck. It's hilarious. It's the most redneck thing I've ever seen. That's the logic and a lot of things that we do around Dirty Moe Acres. I think people are just curious as to what is a race car graveyard.

What does that look like? I've never heard of that. And then I don't know whether they're underwhelmed or what when they say. see it, but it's different. Yeah, it's different. Not many people have that. All right. Cars in the woods.

Well, I missed who asked it, but I like this question. Are you going to do any dirt racing? Geez. I don't have any plans to do any dirt racing. I've never dirt raced, except for a couple handful of legends races that I did back when I was 15 or 16. We had a couple races on the dirt track

that was over in turn three Charlotte Emergency Speedway. It's now paved, but I also ran a dirt racing Legends cars at the Talladega Short Track and I also ran... Oh, that would have been cool. I got some footage of that.

I also ran... I did that when I was 15 or 16. I ran a match race with a couple of the cup drivers in St. Louis at Kenny Schrader's dirt track that I did horribly in. I do want... I do think I'm want...

I will want to run my late model and I've said that a few times. So we'd love to keep the late model team. Not on dirt. It doesn't run on dirt just so everybody knows. They run here locally around Hickory or Tric County or somewhere. Wow. What about the late model win this past weekend?

Josh Barry put it on them. God, what a race. Did y'all see that? That was incredible. Yeah. If you want to take a look at that, the highlights from the Josh Barry's win this week, it's on my Twitter feed. Yeah.

All right. So speaking of late models, Jam Jr. 1966 asks, What were your favorite race tracks when you ran late models? Were you the track champion at any of those tracks? I was never the track champion, and I ran second and third more often than anything else. There was always like this dominator type at every track we went to, and a guy that you just would win every week.

Who was it? Who comes to mind? It was either, there was three brothers, Robert Powell, Charlie Powell III, and Sean Graham. And they were all sons of Charlie Powell that ran I-95 Speedway, and I think he still does. But I ran at the beach at Florence, South Carolina, and I ran second to Robert and Charlie, CP3, as they called him. I ran second to those guys, or, you know, right behind them in the top two or three every week. They were impossible to beat.

I didn't know nothing about what I was doing. I didn't understand how to save tires. I ran as hard as I could every lap and burnt my car up. But even then, I didn't have quite the speed those guys had. They ran there at those tracks for quite a while. They had some great teams that they were working with. And I learned a lot from them. It reminded me of racing with Mark Martin when I got in the Xfinity series.

Oh, yeah. You know, I was racing against guys in the late model ranks that were pros. And I learned it was good to get your butt whip by them week after week because I learned so much. Did you like CP3? I got along with all those guys. I never really had any dustups with them. But I certainly respected them because of, you know. They were good.

They were good. Yeah. CP3, that's what they're putting down on the track at New Hampshire. for a little. All right, what's next? So C.J. Pop 80 and Johnny Hayes both ask, will you be doing the radio show when you're retired? Of course. Yeah, I mean, I think I'll have more time to spend, even with Tyler editing the show. So I anticipate the actual production of the show to get a ton better once I'm retired and have the opportunity to push Tyler to be his best.

Yeah, the podcast isn't going anywhere, but it's growing. I'll put it that way. Is it growing? Yeah. Yeah, we're going to... There's going to be new ways to access Dirty Moe Radio. And that's what we call a teaser. Okay.

Right. Yeah, I'm excited. I love doing the podcast, and I think that I definitely want to continue doing that after driving. Alrighty, so you wore your redskins shirt today, so this is a great question for that. If the Redskins were retiring and you could only choose the Dallas Cowboys, Eagles, or Giants, who would you pick? Oh. Dallas Cowboys, Eagles are. Giants.

So I get to stay in the Redskins retired. I get to stay in the division. That'd be tough because I really don't like any of those teams. Right. You know, we play those. Hence the question, I think. Yeah. That's a really difficult one.

I was, I would probably go over to the AFC and pull for the Chargers. That's not an option. I know. I don't want to pick one of those three teams. I wouldn't. I'd just get out of football if that was the only office. D. The option D there.

Yeah. I was a, I pulled for the Chargers because I always like them. They were kind of like my second team because they were blue and yellow, like Dad's Wrangler car and the lightning bowl. It's such a cool, simple uniform. Yeah. So the Panthers still don't get a nod for you if the Redskins retire? I mean, you're friends. That's an option.

Panthers. I probably would do that. I probably would become a Panthers fan if the Redskins went away. And you and Tyler could have season tickets and y'all would go to games and sit next to each other. I would pull. my heart and soul into becoming a Panthers fan. And only to know more than Tyler so that I could win every argument because there would be nothing but arguments.

And I'd want to win them. I'm going to tell you something. Tyler, I think, would give you a run for your money. He knows his stuff now. He'll study it up. Yeah. I read online that some fan named their child after a combination of Cam Newton and Luke Keekely. And I thought, I didn't know that Tyler had a kid.

I didn't know if Tyler had a kid. Oh, man. Tyler's pounding his fists on the desk somewhere. Oh, that was my idea. In Old Mecklenburg Brewery, as a matter of fact. That's where he's at. Cam Kekly gone. Cam Keeakley.

All right, what's next? So I'm going to slaughter this one, but Blayanka, 10? Blaniac. Blaniac, whatever. See, I told you that's going to solve. This is Blaney's alter ego account. Blaney. Blaney Act 10.

I don't know. Yours is better than that. Blyanka. What do you think? It probably is because not many people know Blaney's grandfather's number. Is that it? Yeah, it is. Blaney's actually even as a tattoo.

Yeah. So this is definitely Blaney's alter ego. It totally is. But it's got an eye, so that's why I was thinking it was a day. Did I see a tweet that Blaney was on American Ninja Warrior last night? Yeah, him and Ricky. How'd it go? I didn't watch it.

I heard Ricky won. Ricky topped all the cup. all the racers. He should. He does that stuff with Danica all the time. I know. Danica would whoop them both and that. Yeah, she would.

Okay, anyway, that person asks, what do you think your dad would have thought of the social media explosion? How would he have used it to interact with fans, if at all? Not at all. Yeah. He, um... In fact, I'd go so far as to say social media actually wouldn't exist. He would have something to say about that, too.

Yeah. Certainly NASCAR wouldn't be all involved in it. Yeah. I remember when I was trying to get my first desktop computer And he thought that I was wasting a bunch of time with that Oh gosh Yeah Well you wasted a bunch of time

Let's just be for the record There was a lot of time wasted They just came out with this racing This game called NASCAR racing by Papyrus And There was nothing like it And so I had I didn't have any credit

So I couldn't get a line of credit to go by this desktop So Kelly went with me to Best Buy and put it on her credit. And I paid her. It was like $500 to get this desktop. And dad was like, what, that's a waste of time, computers. And did you like, but dad, look, it's just like the real racing. He never came over to see it. Oh, okay.

But he hated computers, laptop, any kind of computer. He didn't like it. He didn't know how to turn one on, didn't know why you would need one, why I would use one, what email was, none of that stuff. So, I don't, you know, I don't remember him being very, um, hansy with his phone. I mean, nobody really was back then, but. Wait, wait, wait, handy with his phone. There wasn't have been phones, cell phones. Yeah, there were flip phones.

Okay. He had the big bag phone in all his cars. What is that? The satellite phone. Really? Yeah. In his cars. Yeah.

Wow. I mean, that's like Knight Rider stuff back. then, right? Yeah. Close. Yeah. All right. So he was kind of techy.

He was techy for sure. Yeah. But he hated, I don't know, he thought computers were like the devil or. What if it had been a deer hunting game? Think you got on with that? I don't know. Man. See?

He would not have gotten on with that. He'd been like, why would you want to do that when you can do the life? Do the real thing? Yeah. But he would hate social media. If you followed Dale Earnhardt on social media, it'd be kind of the same. thing is it would just be a lot of

sponsor driven tweets very corporate hashtag doll to hell a lot of giveaways a lot of gold hats a lot of win this win that be the first one be the tenth to retweet

all those not an original thought anywhere in that not one not even a good old swift inspirational quote would breach Del Earnhardt's timeline. Oh boy,

but as Swift would have come with a real good one though. You never know would have turned the intimidator. He wouldn't even

The intimidator would have been the motivator. Oh, goodness. Dad's would have been one of them annoying ones that just retweets everything.

You see those people yeah, they just retweet everything. I like that. Retweet. I like that. Retweet.

They never say anything or never comment. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. All right. On that topic, somebody asks, what would your dad's bio on Twitter read? Earnhardt.

Big, like, 15, it'd be like 25 letters that spelled out Earnhardt. And a bunch of exclamation points. Oh, man. You know what would be, if we're sitting here in this fantasy land of Dale Earnhardt on Twitter, if Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt are on Twitter together, they would probably, antagonize each other, don't they? A little bit? Yeah, they always did.

Yeah. So if Rusty was on Twitter and all of a sudden Rusty started having more fans or selling more stuff or something, it would have to... Totally get into the competition with each other. For sure. Yeah. All right.

Good question. All right. Joseph LaFave LaFav asks, How come all the numbers for junior motorsports are leaning backwards and not forward like the 88 and the late models? Wow, have we noticed this? What's that? What's that again?

He said, how come all the numbers for junior motorsports are leaning backwards and not forwards like the 88? That's true. And the weight models. If you look at the numbers, they actually lean forward on one side and lean backward on the other side. But on the TV side. So it's probably leaning backwards on the outside, right? right one side

somebody looking there no I've seen this I was noticing this so yeah so with my my dad always said that numbers should lean forward you lean forward when you run right

and that was his analogy he would say how do you lean when you run you don't lean back you lean forward and he would have communicated that in a gif yeah on Twitter

a running man yeah he would have retweeted yeah so I always had my numbers leaning forward a couple years ago at Hendrick they tried to swap them numbers on me.

And they tried to make the numbers kind of be the same position on all sides of the car, no matter which way you were looking at it, which is how we have it at Junior Motorsports. So on one side of the car, the numbers are you leaning forward on the other side of the car, it's leaning back. And that's a brand consistent thing. That's where companies worry about branding and imagery and seeing the number on the car and on a post somewhere in advertisement.

They want that brand consistency so that the number's always leaning the same way. But I told the guys at HMS, I said, I need them leaning forward on both sides. I just can't have the numbers leaning backwards on one side and forward on the other. It just doesn't look right. It doesn't look right, especially when there's two numbers. Now, if you got a single digit, like five, six, seven, that... Eight. I mean, eight was the same way?

Yeah, I mean, but that, dad, dad, was in control of that at DEI would not allow his numbers to lean back no matter what side. If you look at the Penzole car or Michael Watrop's car, they all lean forward both sides. Okay. They lean toward the front of the car. That's just personal preference. I don't... So how did it end with the Hendrick conversation?

Did they... They changed it back. They changed the way you wanted it. I went into the shop and saw my numbers leaning the wrong way. I called one of the men at the top. I said, this shit's got to change. Urgent. and sound the alarms

and the man at the top and the man this is not Rick this is a oh it wasn't no it wasn't I didn't want to be like hey Rick we got a massive problem

come come wherever you're at but Hendrick knows that any type of massive problem they usually can assume that it's about the race car the way the race car looks that has been consistently your biggest problems

that you complain about at the I particular about you are yeah so we changed it real quick and boy that we

that was close If I had not went in there and looked at it, we didn't went to Daytona like that because they put the clear code on the car and you can't get the numbers off then because they're under the paint. Crisis averted. Yes.

And we run better. I think the question is, is how did the ones at junior motorsports get like they are because that goes against my father and my own preference. Yeah. So that's a good question.

Maybe for Kelly? Yeah. Donnie. Well, no. Johnny. We'll get Donnie in here and answer this question. Yeah, no. Okay, but yeah, we'll do a two-parter on this one.

We'll follow back up. There'll be a sequel to that question. All righty. Does anybody have a question out in the audience? We've got a couple. Come on in. Come on in. Come on to these guys right here.

All right. What's your name, pal? Brian Scarberry. Brian Scarberry. Where are you from? Originally Kentucky. Okay. I live in Cleveland now.

So Brian's got a question for Dell. If you could pick any paint scheme, anyone in the history of NASCAR has ever ran to run at Darlington. What would you run? Good question. Yeah, that is a good question. A paint scheme that I would like to run would be my dad, my grandfather, Robert G. Had a dirt car that ran at Metrolina in the 70s. They took it to the snowball derby and all over the country, really.

And it was orange and white, and it had a blue 17 on it. and my dad drove that car, won a lot of races with it. There's some pictures online with it. Darry Waltrip drove the car a lot. Some other prominent short track drivers from around this area. Billy Scott and a couple of the guys ran the car. Darrell actually took that scheme into the Cup Series when he first started racing in a Cup series in the mid-70s.

Again, it had orange sides and a white top and light blue numbers. we actually did a design like that when Truex was racing for chance too I remember that yeah so I would like to run that one time I think Stenhouse ran it last year at Darlington

a version of his you know they're sort of rendition of that but I thought that I've always that's always been one of my favorites I think it's a beautiful combination one of my favorite colors is orange and so that'd be that'd be a lot of Can I ask one more question?

Sure. Go right ahead. It's not about racing. I have a friend, Mark Hollingsworth. He got you to sign an AC Delco sheet metal piece earlier this year. Can you tell him on this podcast that you like the Kentucky Wildcats basketball? Yeah. What does that have to do with anything? Because he's a hardcore tar he'll.

Oh, so you're just saying, I was wondering what the AC Delco sheet metal had to do. It's a friend of mine. You're just giving us some context. Gotcha. All right. So does he have to like Kentucky? Well, I tell the truth here. He has said this on air before that he did like Kentucky.

I do. What has happened is that Amy has asked for a fair, even trade for me to be a Kentucky Wildcat fan on the hard court. Okay. And she will be a Redskins fan in the NFL. And so for her to be able to, I need her to go to the game. For your marriage to work. You have to compromise, and that's fair. That's one of them.

So I'm a Wildcat fan, first and foremost, on the hard court from here on. There you go. Starting this year. All right. Yes. Will Mark be happy about that? No, he won't. Oh, he won't.

But I will. You're being a good friend. I got you. I got you. Okay. By the way, the AC Delco piece, we gave it back to Sandbass. Oh, really? Yes.

Very nice. It's down there. I took it the Monday after you signed it. That's badass. Thank you, Brian. Good deal, man. I appreciate you. All right, we've got one more coming up.

Let's go right here. What's your name? Joshua Gordon from Concord, North Carolina. Right on. Hey, look for Tyler over there. He's vacationing over in Concord. My question is, the rumor has it that for race fans only is coming back to Morrisville for a one-time show. Will that be here or will that be at 30-mode acres?

Hold on, Josh. Let me think on this one. Okay, here's what we can say about. that. Do you know what he's talking about? Yeah. Okay, okay. It's coming back.

It's not here. It's going to be at the Exaltah CEC at Hendrick Motorsports. Yeah. That's what's going to happen. That new building that they built over at Hendrick Motorsports for Exaltta. Yes, sir. That's where they're going to have it. So it's in the air.

You've been over at HMS? Yes, sir. So they got this, Exaltah built this brand new complex. And basically it's a place for Exaltza to bring all their painters from all over the country. the people that they supply paint to, to help them understand how to mix and use the paint. It's a great facility. It's a great, it was Rick and Exalta built it together

to strengthen the partnership, obviously, between Exalta and the race team. So Exaltes is forever going to have this sort of home footprint, if you will. But that's where we're going to do it. And we'll come out with information on when exactly that's going to happen. But that will happen over there this year. And is that open to the fans or is it like a core?

I'm sure there will be a fan element to it. Yeah. They'll be, they'll want a, probably they'll want a live audience for that. I guess we should just say for what, in case people don't know, for race fans only is a show on QVC. Yeah. Right. And we used to do them all the time. We used to do several a year.

And we do them in Daytona, here and everything. So it's, you know, where we would talk about a lot of the merchandise and they would sell, you know, what QVC does. It's a TV shopping network. So that's what he's. he's talking about when he says for race fans only i don't know is for race fans only still a show okay so it's not a show so it's not going to be the show probably but it'll be a kvc thing from what we've heard it's a one-time deal yeah and it's only for his retirement and his appreciation tour yeah and that's what they brought it back for okay yeah because of dale

himself they're not lying and i can't blame him yeah so there you go good question brine do we want to take one more i feel like we need one more does anybody else have anything make your way around bud and kathy here's what i'd like to do let's let's hook these three gentlemen up with uh some appreciation shirts or hats they they can choose not both uh dale's gonna buy that for them right yep sounds good appreciate you man some uh appreciation shirts oh he's bringing in and so he's bringing in and sir friends thank you Brian thank you what's up bud do you have the question or do you who's asking dad's asking come on in dad all right who we got Danny hobbs Danny hobbs and who's your friend here it's

the main man mason mason what's up mason how's the mason 10 it's good to have you mason all right what y'all got what track that's left on the schedule would it mean the most to win at probably talladega oh yeah i think considering all the success that we've had there and and uh just one more one more win one more plate win that'd be awesome uh we got a lot of fans that come out to that racetrack and uh support us love to see us race there and so be able to go out on top at Talladega, it'd be awesome. What about Darlington? Darlington would mean a lot to me personally because my dad won a lot of races there.

It's known as a driver's track, so if you get around that place and get a win, the driver seems to be credited a lot more with making things happen there than maybe at other racetracks. You've got to have a good car, but that's a driver's track where a driver makes a huge difference. So if you win there, it's a personal, you know, satisfaction that you get. It's, plus the history of the track's one of the, you know, one of the most historic

racetracks that we go to. And it's just really, really hard to get around, you know. And I think when, when it's really hard to impress your peers, there's not a lot of things that drivers in the sport do that impress where we impress each other. But anybody that wins at Darlington, you kind of walk out of there going, you know, he got the job done tonight. So I'd like to be that guy. There you go.

Not to put any pressure on you, but I think we all want to see a homestead win. Oh, all right. No pressure. He spoke about the pressure this weekend. There's your little more. That'd be nice. That would be nice. All right.

What about Mason? You got anything? You got any questions? Go ahead, sit on Mason real quick. I want to ask him questions. What's up, Mason? Can we hear you all right? Let's see.

Do a test? Check. He knows how to do this. So you're 10 years old? 12. Oh, you're 12. I'm sorry. I got that wrong.

So you're 12. Who's your favorite driver? Del Jr. Who's your least favorite driver? Who do you not like? Cowbush. Oh, look at him. Everybody does like Cowbush.

Well, you know, Junior's all about motivation today. What can you tell him to motivate him? Win all the races? There you go. Win all the races. There's your swift motivational moment of the day. It's a very simple direction. Yeah, win all the races.

Right on. Are you going to go to any races? Bristol. Are you? Man, you'll love it. We went to Kentucky. Yeah. Oh, were you at Kentucky?

Okay. Okay. And did you go, Mason? All right, what did you think? It was great. It was it good. You liked it? All right.

Where'd you guys sit? Okay, I'm frustrated. I was just past the flag stand. That pit stall that Dale Jr. didn't make it to because of the communication problems that one time. Well, cool. Mason, thank you for coming, buddy. It's good to meet you. Yes, sir.

So, scheduled this week. Today we have the typical HMS team meetings. I'm also doing a document. interview on Joe Gibbs. That's why we have on the Redskins. Oh, look at you. The matching shoes. And the matching shoes.

Okay. Badass shoes. We're taping a spot for J.R.M. 360. Using this opportunity to promote the Wind Dale Jr.'s Ride promotion. So you go to win Dale Jr.'sride.com. You can buy $25 raffle tickets for an opportunity to win this car. A lot of people that have won this car have only bought one ticket. So, I mean, it's not like you need to buy 10 for a chance to win.

Because there's a limited number of tickets. We're not, you know, there's a limited number of tickets. There's 10,000, there's only 10,888 tickets. Right. And it ends September 29th. We've sold this thing out way ahead of time every year. Yep. That's a 2017 Corvette Grand Sport Coupe with a 3LT and a heritage package.

I've drove this car around. Me and Amy's taking it on a few dates. It's sitting over in my garage right now. You can have this car. all you got to do is go buy that ticket at windale juniors ride.com. Wednesday, I have a dentist appointment. It's possible. I got a crown.

I'm getting a crown. Possible route canal. Oh, really? It's possible. Uh-oh. What's going on there? I'm 42. Oh, so when you hit 42, it's root canal time?

Well, I beat that one already. Yeah. Well, this will be my second root canal. I got one 10 or 15 years ago. I don't, my dentist is like, hey man, it's not going to be a root canal. So me and him have a $10 bet. I'm betting that it is a root canal. He's betting that it's probably not a root canal.

Okay. I got a cool-ass dentist. I guess. You're sitting there wagering stuff with him. All right. So good luck on that. Thursday, we're in the simulator early in the morning for New Hampshire. That'll be from 7.30 to 10.30 to give you an idea how long we're in the simulator.

Or how early you're going to be in the simulator. 7.30. Don't they have afternoon times that you could do? I know, but I don't want to mess up the whole day, splitting it in half with simulator work. Is that your choice to get there that early? I can get in there early and get done. Then I got the rest of the day. Okay. We got production work for the Junior Nation Appreciation Tour later that day.

We're also doing another little piece we can't talk about, I suppose, right? Because it's not on here. That's right. We're doing a little TV show. So we'll talk about that when we had the opportunity to talk about that. But the Junior Nation Appreciation Tour production work we're doing is a series of videos for each of the racetracks to use, which you may have seen a few of those already. We've had a couple already.

We put them out every week. We're not going to have one for New Hampshire because this is not the last time you're visiting Loudoun. But they're going to be every week that we put out Daytona, Kentucky. Big responses to them. So, you know. Friday, obviously, we're headed to the racetrack. We're in the nationwide paint scheme this weekend. A lot of folks asked me during the week what paint scheme we're running nationwide.

So where your blue and white colors didn't even get a chance to race there last year. So I'm looking forward to going. We miss both races. We got some pretty decent statistics, but no wins. It'd be great to get one. Not too early for that. Nope. You got it?

So I think that's the show. Thanks, Mike. Thank you. Thanks Natalie. Jordan. Appreciate you. Appreciate all these fans for showing up. How many do you think we got out there today?

And Kathy, would you say more than 50? It's got to be 75. Oh, yeah? 50 a couple weeks ago. I put it this way. As many as our little store can hold, I would say that's that. Oh. She says,

108? 108 of you in here. Wow. That's got to break a fire code. It does. Is that a record? Yeah, that's a record. Thank you guys for being here.

We really appreciate it. I know it's a commitment to come here, and it's also a bit of a gamble because you never can be sure if we're actually taping on Tuesday mornings. We try to give you guys a heads up, but I know that's a bit of a gamble. Thank you for being here.

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