The Dale Jr. Download - 215 - Baby Watch!

Episode Date: April 24, 2018

With Dale Jr.'s first baby set to arrive any day now he welcomes NASCAR Crew Chief, Travis Mack who delivered his own baby. Travis gives all the details on how it all happened, while the gang also discusses the Kyle Busch post podcast reactions, fan questions and more! Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dell Jr. download in the Exhaustle Studio, Dirtymoe Media, at Junior Motorsports. My guest host, or yeah, my guest host, Mike Davis. A guest host, or do I do this every week? Co-host, guest host, what the hell difference does it make? A little bit of a difference. I mean, and my guest are to all work here? You're sensitive.

A little bit. Matthew Dillner, is there you particular? Are you a guest producer today, Dillner? Are you a particular about your... I guess... I'm like, like, producer. slash DJ slash cameraman slash octopus. So you're not as sensitive.

I'm very sensitive. You know that. Well, we got a pretty good show today coming out of a show where we were the best show ever. Apparently. Ever or three days. Best podcast ever. So we got a lot of pressure. Speaking of pressure, we got a guest on today that's feeling a lot of pressure this year.

He's been a lot of high pressure situations. Are you going to just do a whole... waiting on you to come on in here. It's like we've never done this before. You go to like, what have we got on the show today? It is Talladega weekend. So to win a plate race, you got to make everything, everybody think your best friend's to the last lap.

And you guys aren't doing that right now. Then you'd be a complete jerk. So you guys are in your last lap. Yep. So all the way up to this point this morning, me and Mike have been really great friends and I fooled him. Yeah. That feels right.

This is what you do to people here in plate races. It makes all the sense why Kinsethan. And Jeff Gordon hated you in Talladega. Yes. Yeah. So we got a good show. And what else we got to talk about? We're going to talk about our podcast last week.

We got, go ahead. Here's what I want to talk about, Dale. Yes. You are a week away from the due date of your baby. Okay. This isn't about guests. This isn't about freaking Talladega either, dude. It's about you're about to be a dad.

Or did you forget that? No. Okay. Well, so what our guest is, it's not just somebody that's, you know, in the neighborhood, this is somebody that is going to be a delivery expert for you, because you don't know what you're signed up for, my friend. You just don't know. So we're going to have our expert guests talk to you about that.

We also have tons of fan questions. We need to discuss the Kyle Busch aftermath. We also have draft kings. They got something a little bit in store for us this week. I'll just give you a little hint. Dollar, dollar bills, y'all. Oh, yeah. That's what's up.

All right. Well, let's start the show. It's time to chill out. Take a seat on the couch. It's time for the Dale Jr. download. All right, let's do this. Oh, man. What did you think about that intro?

I think it's the perfect intro for delivering a baby. I think this is exactly the feels that we're trying to get, right? Crack open a beer and just kick back. You don't have the work to do. Listen, you think... Careful there. You don't get him off. He's literally going to go, no, wait a second.

Matthew told me that I didn't really have to do anything about it in this thing. But that's not true. You're going to have a lot to do. Are you ready for it? Are you ready for what's to come? Yeah. I mean, you know, me and Amy have been sort of getting the house ready. You know, we have no clue what we're doing.

So this is our first baby. We have been told by everybody that has had, you know, taking the opportunity or taking the moment to tell us that we have no idea what we're doing. And that, you know, we can prepare all we want. We'll never be ready. and to get all the sleep we can get right now because they're never going to be able to sleep when this baby's born, all these freaking, you know, they all meant well. I'm sure. But, boy, it's the same message every day. Yeah.

And so I think that we have brought in somebody that can really lay down the law. You know why? Why? Because my man, if there's ever, I don't know if it was an emergency or what, but like when you think of all the contingency plans for. Any type of situation that might happen. Our expert guest has actually done it. So, introduce, who do we have in the, who do we have? So in the studio today, Travis Mack.

How you do? Oh, and obviously Travis Mack is the crew chief of the number 95 Levine family race team with Casey Kane. Travis, thank you for coming in. Yeah, man. And the reason why that we brought Travis in here is because I'm sure, you know, you're a two-time father, right? That's right. And you're going to have all kinds of great advice.

about fathers to be like myself, but you also delivered your own child. That's right. Not on purpose. Not on purpose. All right. So let's get right into that. So was there no warning? Like I know you guys were planning to go to the hospital, right?

Y'all are going to go. This is not a plan to have the baby in your house. They tell you all this stuff leading up to it. You're going to start contractions. And then, you know, like a day later you have the baby at the hospital. So we started with contractions. and then an hour later we had the baby. So I couldn't.

You had a whole hour to get to the hospital. Yeah, you know, the first kid, we started contractions. She was in contractions. Like, you know, they were pretty far apart the whole first day. Went to the hospital the next morning and then we had the baby that day. So I was thinking this one was going to kind of lay out the same way. We called the doctor. They agreed.

And it didn't work out that way. So she starts having these contractions and they're different than the first child? No, they started out about the same as the first child. So y'all were like, okay, you know, we got a little time. Yeah, we got some time. You know, I started getting the bags next to the door, that kind of stuff. Right, because I asked my doctor, like last week, like, you know, what's the situation?

What is, I asked him, actually, I said, what's the mistake a lot of people make when they come here and you send them home? So I want to know, like, do I need to be panning? He's like, oh, no, you know, he laid it out like we were going to be able to have, you know, relax, you know, don't, don't kill yourself trying to get to the hospital. That's right. That's what they tell you. That's what they preach to you. They don't want you coming in there too early. They don't want you sitting there for two days at the hospital taking up a room, you know.

Okay. So that's what was beating to my wife's head. Like, don't come to the hospital too early. Like, stay home in your environment. Be comfortable. She took that to the extreme. Yeah, for sure. When did it trigger in your mind that this was happening in the house?

Oh, she started freaking out. Thought she had to go to the bathroom. Yeah. So I was like, all right, we got to go. Like, we got to go. Well, leading up to that, So she started contractions. We called the doctor.

They're like, yeah, take your time, put her in the bathtub, get her nice and comfortable, you know. Call me back when they get closer together. You know, they were still pretty far apart. Get her in the bathtub. Yeah. Just you put them in a warm bathtub and it's supposed to help their contractions, make them relax, you know, that kind of stuff. So get them in the bathtub. I start making plans because I have my other kid.

She's two at the time. She's asleep in the other room. So we had plans to call her mother, and so she could come over. and watched that kid while we went to the hospital. So I started calling her. Of course, she didn't pick up. You know, she promised she'd pick up, right? Come on.

Were you angry as hell? I wasn't really mad at the time. I was just frustrated. I get mad when Mike doesn't answer my face time. I can't imagine how it did you wear at that moment. You know, it was like 11 o'clock at night. So I'm like, you know, pick up your phone. You know, what are you doing?

You're sleeping? Pick up your phone. So I started calling a little more panic, you know, like pick up your phone, pick up the phone. Never got to answer. We're getting, she's in the bathtub, starting contractions or, you know, 15 minutes apart, you know, they're further apart. I forgot what they were at the time. Next thing you know, she was having two back to back.

Like, real close, real tight. Nah, that's when I was like, we got to go. Like, get up. I started calling neighbors. I was trying to call every neighbor ahead. Couldn't get anybody pick up. She's like, all right, I'm going to go to the bathroom. And I'm still panicking, trying to figure out what I'm doing my other kid.

So she's getting up, going to the bathroom. I'm getting everything ready. I'm trying to figure out what we're going to do with my other kid so we could get to the hospital. All of a sudden, she's in the bathroom. bathroom, she starts screaming. She's like, it's really bad. She's like, I'm having this kid right now. I'm like, are you serious? She comes out of the bathroom, lays on the floor. I'd say 30 seconds later we had the kid. Wow. Oh, no. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy fast. So that, I guess that kind of answers the question that I had was so you had no

direction from anyone during this whole process, like a doctor or you, you weren't on, you weren't I didn't even have my phone. I think I sat my phone down on the bed when she started screaming. You know, everything's going through your mind. Like, you're just concerned about her and the baby. And that was my thought. You know, I'm just scared for this baby and my wife, you know, what's going on? And just didn't want anything bad to happen.

So she comes out and, I mean, we had the baby so quick. It was crazy. The first one took a couple hours of labor. So this one, I mean, I just caught it. What a mess, you know. I cannot even explain the murder scene that was going on. So how often do you get asked to tell this story? I'm sure.

Several times. It's been a little while, but it's fun to relive it now. At the time, it was not fun at all. No? No, not at all. But it's made you a hero to many of us. I guess. And I want to know, is Dale ready to do the same thing if it comes to it?

Here's my thing. If it's your kid and your wife, I think you could do it. You know, it's just different. It's different when it's your kid, your wife, you just instincts pop in, you know. All right. You know, I don't want to insult or piss anybody off by this,

but in my totally completely uneducated mind, the real, like, I would be, like, you know, so you catch the baby, there's still more to do. Oh, yeah. You know, and again, like, you're not on the phone with somebody going, all right, this is what you got to do next now. No, I never got on the phone yet. Right.

So. I'm going to, like, how? Alexa, what do I do now? It was for Alexis. How did you manage that situation? Did you call, like, 9-1-1-order, doc? Did you have somebody walking you through this? No, no, no.

Really? He never got on the phone yet. Didn't even have my phone with me. That's what I was asking me. He said he's not been on the phone the whole time, even after the baby's out. Not once. So you knew how to cut the cord? No.

Like, I don't get. We'll get to that. So we get the baby. I knew we had to wrap the baby up. The baby seemed real cold. Wife was, you know, sitting there bleeding. You ever gutted a deer? That was about what it was like.

It was a complete mess. They make it a lot cleaner in the hospital than what it really is, you know? Look at Dale right now. I got this trash bag. There's seriously a trash bag in the hospital that all the stuff they don't want you to see. They make it look a lot prettier than what labor actually is. So on the towel floor, it's a mess. So luckily we're right next to our cabinet with all of our white towels.

Fresh white linen towels. They're beautiful. They're from our weddings. I start ripping them all out. I bet I had 20 of them just soaking up all this blood. So you have all these white towels with all his blood. It looked like a murder scene. I was wrapping the baby up trying to wrap my mom.

wife up. And that's when I got my phone. I handed the baby to my wife. I was like, just get her nice and warm, you know, put her close to your chest. And she was doing all that. We're kind of freaking out, but it was amazing all at the same time. Like the baby was crying. I knew the baby was fine. You know, the baby started crying right away. I knew that's what we had to do. So she was breathing. It was like panic mode, but it was like the baby was okay. Like, what do I do now? So I got my phone, call 911. It felt like an eternity. The 911 operator, I was struggling to get her to realize we just have. had the baby. We already had the baby. And I was telling her, you know, we just had the baby in our

bathroom. And she's like, how far along is your wife? I'm like, no, you don't understand. Like, we're due like next week. We just had the baby. Like the baby is here. She's like, can you get to the hospital? I'm like, bam, the baby is here. She's like, is that the baby crying? I'm like, yes, the baby is here, physically here. Tell me what to do with the medical cord. I knew we had to do something with the miracle cord. So she was like, okay, you need to get a shoestring and tie it off a few inches away from the baby. This is awesome. I run it the closet.

This is the crazy stuff that goes through your mind, right? I'm debating on what pair of shoes I'm going to run my shoe string, right? My wife was just doing about cleaning out my closet. So I only had the shoes I really liked in my closet. So I had that thought just crossed my mind for a split second. Then I was like, no, it doesn't matter. So I just found the pair of shoes. Do I want a sacrifice for this?

The shoestrings are going to be gone. I just bought those. So I got that tied it in a knot real tight, far enough away from the baby. She talked me through that. And I was like, do I cut it? And, you know, don't cut it yet. She was like, don't cut it yet. Your wife still hasn't delivered the placenta, which is still attached to my wife.

You know, and she's still attached to this baby. You know, that was kind of weird and it's kind of slimy. Yeah. There's nothing that, no, no, no, no, there's nothing that can prepare you for the placenta, by the way. No, no, no. No. No. What I'm gut the deer.

That's about the only thing. The thing's takeaway from that is that the, you know, the, that the 911 operator was that educated to be able to, I would have never assumed calling 911 that they would be able to direct me through that information. Right, right. Like a 911 operator having that much, having that ability, high freaking five.

Yeah. To the 911. Yeah, true. But it was still like, once the 911 operator realized the baby was already here. No, but does she, she has enough wherewithal to give you that kind of direction. Right.

Right. I would have to think we got lucky on that one. Sure. Yeah. Does every 911 operator have that kind of education? Well, I hope so. Yeah, that's pretty specific, though. I know.

Towed off. I don't think they do that in operator school. I don't think that's on the test. That's right. What do you do with the umbilical cord? Maybe it is. Who knows? Yeah.

So by this point, I've got a hold of the 911 operator. She told me that the ambulance was like 12 minutes away. So at this point, I finally get a hold of my neighbor. I finally call her husband. he picked up the phone and i was like get her over here now he's like what's going on it's like just get her here now and i hung up so it felt like an eternity my wife knew what to do she was all into breastfeeding and stuff so she actually started feeding the baby there you know she was keeping her warm actually started feeding the baby so that was really cool and at this point we're

like this is amazing like this is an amazing experience this is when it like hit us like everything's going to be okay and that's when it was like an amazing experience like holy crap we just delivered a baby in the bathroom wow so it wasn't really resonating to you while it was going on that how I mean you were in the moment you were trying to think what's going on what do I need to do to make this only afterwards you were like wait a second I just delivered a baby in the bathtub oh for sure for sure not the bathtub bathtub would have contained everything it was more of the tile floor oh really yeah yeah at what point do you kind of get everything together gathered up and y'all head to the hospital so ambulance took about 12

minutes to get there. About that time, my neighbor walked in, and she sees the fire trucks, hamlets, everything coming in. She's like, what's going on? Like, oh, go in the bathroom and check it out, you know? Oh, my God. Go look at that. Oh, no. She walks in like, you had the baby. You're like, yeah, we just had the baby. About this time, the fire, fireman got there first. You know, they're volunteer fireman in Moorsville. Oh, my. So they're a bunch of young kids. Right. They walk in, they thought it was a murder scene. Four out of the five of them turned bolted, you They were like, no, I ain't going in there. Geez.

Negolady, blood everywhere, baby crying, you know. One of them stayed there, helped out. But this time, thankfully, there was a lady in the ambulance, and she was really good. She got down there and knew exactly what to do. We decided to stay there probably another 35 minutes, 40 minutes. She had to deliver the placenta right there. They decided to do it instead of getting to the hospital and doing it, just to stop the bleeding and stuff. I went ahead and cut the umbilical cord by we were there.

all this stuff right on the floor of our bathroom. So really cool experience. And then comes the time to leave. Right. You know, my wife actually stands up and she's walking around the house and I'm like, what are you doing? You just had a baby.

And what are you doing? And she's worrying about letting the dog outside to let him go to the bathroom since we're going to be gone a while. Like, get on the stretcher and get out, get homeless, you know? That's true. Like mothers tend to the, you know, to think through everything, including the stuff. You're like, why does that matter right now? You know why? Because it's important to them that the house is kept up while she's gone, right?

For sure. She was worried about her hair. Exactly. And you know what? You got to roll with it because that's what's important to them. Let them do that, right? That's right. So, you know, that's just them leaving the house.

You know, I'm sure Amy's the same way. You've got to be prepared to leave the house, you know. Yeah. Oh, Amy and Dale have been preparing the house for, you know, a couple months. No, I'm serious. That's great. She's been nesting. I mean, if nesting is a thing, Amy's been doing it.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. They've been getting ready. So I think you guys are ready. But does any of that stuff make you nervous? Yeah, not really. It's just a fascinating story. You know, I knew about the story and I've never heard it in detail.

And I don't know whether it would have resonated the way it did today, knowing that I'm, you know, we're nine days, ten days out from our due date. You get the call right now. From the due date. Let's go. So this story read. We got Travis. So this story really, I get, it's certainly more impactful now than it was. when I first heard it.

But when we first heard it, you were just our hero. You know, everybody thought you were this. It was two weeks before Daytona. So it was really cool. Was it? Yeah, I think so. It was a couple weeks before Daytona. Yeah.

We were heading down there. I had Daytona baby, too. My final kind of question on this is, so paratroopers from World War II or fighter pilots, gold medal winners in the Olympics, all these people have had a unique experience in life that other people, normal people, people don't have. So this, you're in, you're sort of in that same boat where you, when you go to the grocery store and look around, you and your wife standing there, you know that no one in that place, no other wives and husband combos in the grocery store have done what you've done.

That's right. Do you and did, what about, what about your relationship with your wife changed, having gone through that experience together? Did, you know, how do you look at her? How does she look at you? You know, I mean, I've always known she's a strong woman. And after that experience, it just, wow, you know, the things that women could do is a miracle. Like, we would have freaked out, right? Yeah. And then I guess her looking at me, just saying I could take control of the situation and be calm in the situation and try to get through all that. You know, we just look at each other that way. And it's definitely a bond now after we're at, you know, you can about go through anything after that.

Interesting. Yeah, I've noticed that as I've went through certain, you know, milestones in my relationship with Amy, that every one of those changes us. Yeah. You know, but this is a situation that not most couples experience. And I can't imagine how y'all feel about each other now having gone through that. It must be really incredible, I guess. It made your bond even stronger for sure. So impressive.

I know you said you've told that story a million times, but it was great for us to hear it today. If I'm going to tell her a lot. I'm going to tell you. That's just how it's going to be. Yeah, I'll never get old. It really. I actually went back after that and documented some of it just so I would know and I wouldn't forget. Yeah.

You know, the different time frames. Physically like you wrote it down. I just wrote it down so I wouldn't forget. My text messages, my calls, my, you know, all the logs of it. Just so when she got older, we could tell her the story. Yeah. That's so cool. It is really cool.

Yeah. It was a funny story before we even get an amulets. Okay. So this is us nesting. you know, I need to clean the car seat, the baby car seat, you know, I was, so I decided to wash it that night. You know, we were going to the hospital, we didn't need the car seat until we were coming back from the hospital. So I had plenty of time to put it back together. So it's in the wash machine and I had it in the dryer all laying out.

Well, the car seat was completely apart. Until you take a car seat apart, I'm sure Mike knows, to clean a car seat is a lot of work and a lot of work to put it back together. Yeah. I mean, you really need a YouTube video to understand how to put a car seat back together. So, you know, it's three in the morning, and I'm trying to put the car seat together so we could put it in the ambulance to put the baby in it to go to the hospital. So that was just another part of the funny of the story. So the baby rode in the car seat in the ambulance up in the front seat? She had to be in the car seat.

So we had to strap her in the back seat. That's interesting. Glad you did that. Did your other kid wake up through this process? At the time, she was a terrible sleeper through the night. You know, she was awful, but this one night she slept all night. never got up. So my neighbor was actually able to stay there

until she woke up the next morning and come. It's incredible. So finally, the mother-in-law finally calls the next morning. Hey, welcome to what's going on. Welcome to the conversation, mother-in-law. Hey, thanks for coming around. Guess what? The sun was coming up next day.

What's going on? I'll see I have five missed calls. Oh, we have the baby. Yeah, yeah. No thanks to you. Well, what? We have some other stuff we want to talk to you about before we let you go. This is, so you're a crew chief this year.

This is your first year as a crew chief, and you've not had any crew chiefing experience in the Xfinity level. Like a lot of crew chiefs sort of get an opportunity to crew chief at some point. You came right out of car chiefing on the Cupside, and I knew that this was a dream job of yours for a really long time because you'd been kind of pushing me or poking me every once in a mile like, man, what do you think? What do I need to be doing to put myself in this conversation?

You know, anytime you would hear of an opening, you're like, what do I need to be doing to where my name comes up top of those lists when these guys are thinking about these opportunities? So how long before you got this job did you think that you were ready for a crew chief job? Now that you're a crew chief, were you ready two years ago? You know, you always think you're ready before you're actually ready, you know? So I think every year that I wait. made me better.

Yeah. Not saying I couldn't have done it five, six years ago. I'm just saying every year experience makes you better in the long run. For the majority of your career, you have been with Hendrick Motorsports, which is one of the best teams in the garage, a team with tons of resources, maybe considered the premier Chevrolet team. So, I mean, they just have so much support from the manufacturers and everything. You just can't overstate how much is at your fingertips when you're working there. How nervous were you really to? kind of break from that. It's like moving away from your hometown. Oh, for sure. You know,

and you're going to a foreign area, foreign place, people you don't really know. Yep. So how, were you confident? I'm sure you were confident in you, but were you nervous about being accepted over there? Were there any doubts in your mind about how this is all going to work? Yeah, very nervous, you know, staying at Hendrick would have been the safe option. As a car chief. As a car chief. Yeah. I could have stayed there probably my entire career, retired at Hendrick and just been my safe option. Love my job. Love everybody there.

Love what we were doing. Love racing competitively. But, you know, I talked to my wife a lot about it. The years passed. And it's like, you know, if opportunity comes up, do I take the leap? You know, do I put myself out there and try something? You know, I could always go back. I feel like I could always go back to Cart Sheafin, right?

Right. Hopefully Hendrick would accept me back. I could get back in there, work my way back up. But if I didn't try this, I would turn 50 years old one day and think to my myself like man could I have done it like what I've been able to do it so this is really my opportunity to get out there and do it you know I was real excited for the opportunity with Casey and the 95 team to try to get them turned around and Casey's really excited and pumped and I feel like I came here for two years dream more sports right and coming here it felt

like the same way as going there you know just kind of weird but you got to get there and put their processes in and kind of do things a certain way to get the process is going and the car is being built and it's been a process for sure but it's been really rewarding we wanted to start out the gate of course you know over the off season we were pumped up wanted to start out with five wins in a row

you know but you know what I'm saying you want to have that confidence every racer every got everybody feels that way you don't want to go out there like oh yeah we're going to be a solid 25th place car this year it's going to be awesome you know no we don't go out there and win races that I feel like we can do it it's going to take time the Chevy's obviously

started off a little bit. So that obviously puts us even further behind, trying to do the best we came with what we have. I feel like that for the longest time, for the longest time, the single car teams and the underfunded teams, what we call them underfunded teams,

they have good funding, but they're not, you know, HMS with four teams and major sponsor relationships. I felt like that for the longest time that those single car teams weren't ever going to have a chance to change.

their identity. And the 78 car, in my opinion, was the first single car team in a really long time that's turned itself into a premier contender. That's right. Does that resonate with a team like yours? Do you guys look at the 78 car and go, well, this is our path to success? Oh, for sure. You know, that's what our owners like to compare us to, right?

So this is a common conversation. For sure. You know, if you look a few years ago, you. go, 78 team was right where we are. Right. They're running RCR, ECR engines. They started just like we were right now at this point of stage. It just takes time we have to get there.

My goal right now is to be the best RCR alliance car in the field. You know, I feel like if we could take all the same stuff and outrun them, that we're doing our job. Now that, if that only gets us to 10th or fifth to 10th place finishes, you know, then we have to start thinking about other things to do differently. 78 did. They switched to Toyotas and picked it up even more. 78 car was a solid, wait, one or two years. They were probably the best RCR Alliance running car, right? And they were from across the country.

So we're just an hour away from RCR. So there's no reason we shouldn't be able to do it. Tell me where I'm wrong. I would assume that the biggest change for you going from a car chief to a crew chief would be you are now responsible for the knucklehead that's in the seat. I'm not talking about Casey Kane. I'm talking about drivers. and they're all knuckleheads, especially during a race,

when they're just, you know, they're in the moment. And now you are the portal into getting him to keep his head about him and to focus and to not get, you know, mentally spun out. Yeah. Am I wrong? Oh, for sure. Me and Casey had this conversation after Texas, you know, sometimes the way your communication comes through the radio to a driver

is almost like a text you get that's in bold. You know, like it's hard to read a text. Sometimes you can read a text like you're harshing at them, and sometimes you can read a text like they're being nice to you. You know, it's just all about how you read it. Yeah. But it's kind of that same way in the driver's seat where he's out there, you know, just driving, he's tired, he's aggravated.

And, you know, I might say something that he's thinking, like, is he being a jerk right now? You know, I'm trying to keep him motivated and keep him going. And we're all on the same team here, and it might come across a different way. So that's definitely a challenge. Drivers are crucially. They're like a married couple. I mean, I know people keep saying that.

but listen to what he's saying. It's true. It's true. I am a little biased because I'm a driver, but I feel like that the driver and the crew chief have to put in so much effort, even away from the racetrack, to have the best relationship they possibly can. They can't go to the racetrack without communicating during the week.

And I'm not talking about talking nuts and bolts and setups and strategy. They have to communicate about life. And so when you get to the racetrack and he does hear you across the radio, he knows this guy's in my corner. and vice versa. That takes so much extra time. You go into, you know, a crew chief goes into the garage or goes into the shop, looking at the car, looking at how he can make the best race car he can put on the racetrack.

He looks at his people in the garage, looking at their personalities. How can I mesh these guys together and position them all where they can succeed? But there's also a responsibility, I think, that the driver carries half of it, but the crew chief carries responsibility to be a bit of a cheerleader, a bit of a therapist for that race car driver. You know, so that that driver can really trust what he's getting from that crew chief. I think that that's something that you deal with a little bit as a car chief, but as a crew chief, it's really, you're the last domino.

Right. You know, when it comes to that driver, going to somebody and going, I need some help, I can't get through the middle. You're the last domino, you know. And when you have that trust from your driver and build that trust, you know, you guys feel like y'all can accomplish anything together. It's going to be fun to see how the rest of this is. season goes for you, man. I really appreciate you coming over here and sitting down with us

and tell us, rehashing your, your delivery, giving us a little bit about, giving us a little bit of information about what it's like to be a crew chief, a new young rookie crew chief in this sport. I know you've been around a long time, but we appreciate your insight. You know, a non-engineer, you know. That's a big thing. I look at myself like that in the sport. Like, I'm pretty much a dime breed in the sport of NASCAR, right? non-engineering crew chief. So that's why it's been so difficult for me to get to that point, right?

If I had an engineering degree, I might have been there six years ago. But not saying that made me better or would have made me better. But I feel like my experiences and kind of being a self-taught NASCAR engineer, you know, that's, I feel like that's where I'm at. You know, I understand that stuff a lot. You know, sometimes it's easier to teach me the computer stuff than it is to teach an engineer the car stuff. And the people stuff. The people stuff for sure. The people stuff is the most critical.

Huge. And the guy that can do that, whether he's a racer or an engineer, is going to be the guy that has the most success. That's right. Well, I know you can handle the people stuff. You've been a great friend of mine for a long time and a lot of fun to work with. Depends on which week and who wins as far as the debate of whether the engineer crew chief is the best or the old racer crew chief is the best.

Because they're all successful across the board in the garage. Yeah, you're only as good as your last race. We appreciate you coming on, man. Thanks a lot. Thank you, Travis. Thanks, guys. Let's hit an Exaltta Update. This is the Exaltor Race Center update. I'm Natalie Sather. Both Cup and Xfinity competed at Richmond Raceway over the weekend. On Saturday night, Kyle Bush won the Toyota Owners 400, making this his third race win in a row.

Bush maintains the points lead over Joey Lugano. Friday night was an action-packed Xfinity race where Christopher Bell Best at the field for the Toyota Care 250. Junior Motorsports driver Elliot Sadler, who finished third, would take home a check for $100,000 by winning the Dash for Cash presented by Xfinity. Fellow junior motorsports drivers Tyler Redick finished 11th, Justin Alguire 14th, and Michael Annette 20th. Junior Motorsports late model driver Sam Mayer competed at Orange County Speedway, where he rallied back after a hard start to finish seventh in the Cars Tour event.

Late model teammate Josh Barry found himself competing in this weekend's Arka Race at Salem Speedway where he finished fourth respectively. This has been your Exaltta Race Center update. Exalta is the official paint partner of NASCAR, developing, manufacturing, and supplying coatings to all types of vehicles and industrial applications. For more on Exalta, visit ExultaCS.com. Back again, guys, is the Did You See that? Because I believe we have one, don't you think?

Absolutely. If you got one, you bring it back. That's right. Is somebody kicking the can across? Is it like a bar fight breaking out? It's the same person playing the piano, too. I recorded it at the old Westtown. Some drunk piano player knocking beers over or what?

It's believable. Did you see that? What did you see this week, Dale? Oh, well, I think sometimes did you see that isn't necessarily a particular tweet, but I think that did you see that this week is the reaction from the Kyle Bush podcast. Oh, yeah. All right. So we definitely have to go back and talk about this a little bit.

I think each one of us took something different away from the whole. experience. And I don't know, I'll let Mike go first. Okay. If that's all right. Sure. I would tell you that my biggest takeaway on this is I knew that it was going to get a lot of attention. Yes. I mean, the occasion, the 10-year anniversary of that incident was going to get a lot of attention. And the fact that Dale Jr. and Kyle Bush in the same room, I did not think that Junior Nation, and I'm not speaking for all of you, I'm speaking for a majority of you, that. though, going just off of my timeline, did not think it would actually change the way they felt about Kyle Bush.

Yeah. Junior Nation, like I put this, I'm going off of my timeline, not speaking for everybody, I'm saying on my timeline, 90% at least of the feedback I got expressed a softening of feelings towards Kyle Bush. Didn't mean that they're going to be rowdy nation. Yeah. Did not mean that they're cheering for him to win. It simply meant it changed a lot of.

little bit their perception of Kyle Bush in a positive way. And I'm telling you, I think that is a miracle. I'm telling you, I know the way Junior Nation felt about Kyle Bush as a whole, and I would have never thought that. And yet, Kyle Bush even said this past weekend, I think he when he was at Denny Hamlin's charity event, Bob Pockras interviewed him, and he said that nine out of ten comments about being on this podcast have been positive. And that is not, that is not a, narrative that Kyle Bush ever says or even has the opportunity to say. I would have thought we'd seen Christ come back first before I seen so many positive comments about Kyle.

Exactly. It was a miracle of biblical proportions. I mean, it's strong statement there, but it's true, man. I thought that you were going to say that all of this happened because of him being on the podcast. Like the podcast is solely responsible for all of this. But I did tweet that and actually I do think that there must be some truth to that. Well, there's talk about it.

I mean, this morning on the Sirius XM show with Bagley and them, they were talking about debating whether it was actually the podcast that did it or not. I mean, there's a lot of chatter right now going on about it. And let's be real. It's not necessarily the podcast, but it's the opportunity to be with Dale. Yes. Yeah, with Dale. And that's literally the thing because Dale has a big fan base and a positive perception in that being with Dale. somehow gets you the, you know, sort of the same treatment maybe.

That's a, what do you think about that? My takeaway from the whole thing was, and I agree with what you said, Louis, Mike, where definitely a lot of the fans have softened a little bit. A lot of them have, but some of them have it. Some of them say they're always going to not like Kyle. Yep. Some of them say that he'll eventually show his true self again. Of course.

I hope so. I do too. Yeah. Well, that was, that was my takeaway. My takeaway was that I don't know that. We want him to change or we're trying to change people's opinion of Kyle. That's right. When I was a racer and I said, I talked about this during the whole podcast with Kyle and everything else.

But years ago, particularly when it was directed at me, but even after that, there were times when he would do things and I thought that's bad for the sport. And there are some times when he did do things that were bad for the sport. I think that he would even admit when he wrecked Hornet and the truck series at Texas. You know, if he could go back, he would not do that. I imagine that he would probably not do that. Or do it a little differently. Yeah. That, when anyone does that, that is bad for the sport.

But there are times when him being a bit of a jerk to, you know, in the media center when he says, what everybody would he say at Charlie? He throws down the mic or something. He says nothing surprises me. All right. A lot of people see that and they go, I hate Kyle Bush, that's what you're a shit to do. I don't like him doing that.

I mean, we see Cam Newton do that. We see other athletes do that. I used to think that everything Kyle did was bad for the sport. And now I look at it completely different. I look at it like, man, that's good for the sport. Even though you may not like it or he may not be popular because of that, that character, that personality is good for the whole sport. And so my biggest takeaway, I guess I was,

surprised that people were so adamant to affirm their feelings about Kyle. I ain't going to like him. I'm never going to pull for him. Or, okay, I like him a little bit now. You know, it wasn't really even about all that. It was more about, hey, man, let's talk about what happened. Let's mean you kind of get over it or get behind, you know, let's just speak about it. Let's document it. And then, you know, let's embrace Kyle for who Kyle is. You know, I don't think Kyle is completely changing or going to everybody, not for what everybody wants him to be. I don't think Kyle's completely changed his whole everything about who he is over the last couple weeks and this is, or the last couple years, and it's time for everybody to meet the new Kyle. This is not what that's about. I think this is

just us saying, this is who Kyle is. You're either going to have to, you know, hate, like it or love it. This is what you're going to get. Did you not think it was interesting when he, he referred to that as a movie character? Like, that's, he doesn't think that's who he is. Yeah. He wants to be liked. He does. He does not want to be bad guys. No. What we see of Kyle is the competitive in the moment. He does not want, I don't think he appreciates that anymore than junior fans do.

Yeah. But it is exactly who he is. And that is, but I think he wants to be liked. Do you know what else I think? Everybody wants to be like. I think he counts his losses. I don't think he counts his wins. Wow.

I never heard that before. That's actually a good point. He looks for opportunities to fire him up. And he proved it to me when he said, this really wasn't ever about Dale. It was about Hendrick Motorsports. And I was going to come Hill our high water. I was going to make them feel the wrath of their decision to not have me. And he literally chose to count the loss, the firing, or the departure as his motivation.

And all the wins that he had that following year didn't even matter to him. Now, championship obviously mattered to him. But I'm saying there weren't enough wins. He could have won every race. And I don't think that he would have wanted to get rid of. that chip on a shoulder. I think he counts his losses. That motivation.

That motivation. I get to identify with that. I'm sure you've had things that have happened to you in your career that were maybe bad that you use as motivation. And, you know, I think that's a crazy good point that I didn't even think of. Way down in there, that rejection still burns. Yes. And Kyle does have a poor way of expressing himself, whereas you. as you hear and he says, I hate this guy.

What he really feels is I wish me and him were friends. That's exactly right. I mean, he said it when, remember when you were talking about how y'all were friends, and he said, yeah, but there was an age difference. So he's already looking for a loss. He's already looking like, yeah, but there was an age difference. And then also, you know, all the drivers had already, they were already friends. That probably isn't the perception.

I mean, how he perceived that situation probably wasn't accurate. I don't think that Jimmy and Jeff or anybody else had decided they're not going to be friends with Kyle Bush. I think that that's what he was perceiving that as. Yeah. And that's what he thrived on. Is Kyle done disappointing us? No. I hope not.

No. Kyle's not done disappointing. No. And I don't want him to be done disappointing us. You know, I think people forget also. And I don't know if I've ever brought this up to anybody. but when I first started working the sport in the late 90s, I think people forget that Dale Earnhardt was booed a lot.

Okay? Yeah. I think people forget that. You know, it wasn't until a little later in his career that at least I experienced that there wasn't a mix because he was that polarizing figure in our sport who had the cheers and the booze. Kyle Bush. There's one thing we do not do in this building,

and that is compare Kyle Busch and Dale Earnhardt. So you're going to We aren't going to even mention the two in the same conversation. All right, whether it's true or not. You can use Darrylil-Waltrup. There's all kinds of other scenarios that you could have went with there. Man, I got the wrath of Dale Jr. right there. Yeah.

I really don't like Dad being compared to anybody because to me, dad, it's one of a kind. It's not really anything to do with Kyle, but it's just how I feel about him. But you haven't had a chance to really kind of talk about your takeaway from that. the whole experience. So go ahead. My takeaway was something of a little pride for us that we were the number one sports podcast over some of those big ESPN shows and big poppy, you know, and some baseball shows and all that because NASCAR in the last few years, love or hate. I'm a NASCAR guy. I'm a racing guy my whole life. And when I see my sport, our sport, do well in a sports platform, it makes me happy whether it's something else or it's us. But this was us. This is us three guys in the room.

you downloading your true feelings a show with Kyle where it was really, really transparent and the fans just ate it up and proof in the pudding, man. Number one, I kind of alluded to the Luda coming for that number one spot and I liked it. It's cool.

Yeah, I agree. I had no idea that that was going to resonate with so many people, getting the reaction to deal with so many people over the years. I just didn't think that was still that big of a deal. But man, what a everybody was talking.

I mean, it felt good that everybody really liked what we put down. People comment on social media, a lot of people in the industry talking about how they enjoyed it. I had people that had never, there were people that had never listened to our podcast that listened to that episode

and then started retracting back and listening to past episodes. I enjoyed the hell out of it. I don't know what we can do, you know, to continue that momentum for the rest of the season, but I think, you know, something that we usually don't do on here is have guests. I think that that's a great, you know,

that's a great opportunity for us going forward is to get some more guests in here that'll be able to give us that type of content. And those people that don't watch the show, the thing is, to me, guests are great, and I think we're going to do a lot more of that. Yeah. But also just being real and being honest. And the people that know this show know that. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I'm thinking back to the shows that we've done this year, I didn't think that that one stood out in content. And I thought our other shows stand up to this past weeks.

Oh, yeah. Podcast. I just feel like that we, this was the one. that weighed the flag and got everybody's attention. So hopefully that'll be good for us going down the road because I really enjoyed doing this podcast and definitely it's going to be fun seeing how the rest of the year goes.

We'll close this by saying that Kyle Bush did text me when we all were learning that we were the number one sports podcast for three days actually. And I said, listen, if you go to Richer, I think it's clear what you need to do. You need to go to Richmond this weekend. Get into a fight with somebody. Okay.

Then we'll launch your podcast next week. And then you can have that person on the podcast as your first guest. I mean, I think it's pretty obvious what we're doing. He's always thinking. Yeah. And I said, so let's just go handle your business. He didn't get into a fight with anybody. He didn't win the race.

Yeah. And he is on a tear. I think definitely excited about, as soon as the podcast hit a couple days go by, phone starts ringing. Oh, yeah. About people, phone start ringing to Mike Davis's office about people trying, you know, would like to be on the show. Yeah.

So I'm excited about some of the ideas and some of the potential guests that we might be having on over the next several months. We've got one more thing I want to touch base on before we get to our Asked Junior part of the show. Draft Kings. They got something in store for us this weekend. I'm pretty excited about. They've created a game for the Talladega Race this Sunday that comes with $10,000 of total grand prizes. I played draft kings pretty much.

I played every week since they first sponsored the show. I don't think I've won any money just yet, but you're trying, though. I haven't lost any either. You haven't lost it either. But it's important to you. Like, you keep telling me your draft kings like that. I used to, I never played fantasy sports like, you know, NFL or anything for money, but this is the first time.

It's been a lot of fun. All you have to do for this game for Talladega this weekend is draft six guys before Sunday. As they perform, you just sit back and watch them win you money. That's nice. Yeah. So you just pick. Everybody lives money. It actually makes a lot of fun to watch the race having something at stake.

Especially Caledaga, right? You get points for the fast laps that they, make and the laps they lead. So if your driver runs the fastest lap of that, he gets points. Yep, yep. The laps they lead, you get points, finishing positions, and more. It's been fun.

I never did draft kings before this year. Well, this is Daga, man. Do you have an idea of what you want to pick? Is it such a crapshoot? I'll have to look at, you know, what everybody's value is. For Tala Degas, it's a little bit different. You know, on most weekends, you've got to pay attention to practice. You've got to look at everybody's average,

and you've got to look at, you know, obviously where they qualified. forth because they get points for every position they advance from where they start to where they finish. Oh, so if you have a back marker. Yeah, so if you get Harvick and he has to start the back of the field like he did this past, or I mean, Kyle Busch starts the back of the field. You pick him, he's going to gain you a ton of points if he drives from the back to the front wins of race. Yeah. Right. Anyways, at Taledega, you don't have to really pay attention to qualifying so much or practice, really, because you can't really tell who has the fastest car, judging, you know, the draft

sort of mixes it all up. What you kind of look at is, past. performance is what these guys did over the last couple years. Like Stenhouse, he's going to be a moderately valued driver. He probably won't be one of the top five valued drivers. So he might be a reasonable value because he's did the way last year at the play tracks. Oh, yeah. But go to draft kings.com. Use the promo code, Dale.

All right. D-A-L-E. Right. Not D-E. Glad you knew how to spell that. You got to use the code is my emphasis here. You have to use this code. It doesn't mean anything to us if you don't use the code.

No, it's worth it. It doesn't just be real. So you need to make a deposit of at least $5. Yeah, you deposit $5. You've got an account. It's just like a bank account, right? And you've got an account. You put it in however much money you want into it, right?

There are eligibility restrictions that apply. You just go to draftkings.com. You can see the site for details on that. But you can then play free games, paid games, all that kind of thing. You put a minimum of $5 in your deposit. There is a Taladega game for free. you can play. You got to look for that game, man.

You got to look for it. This is the one we're talking about. You go do that. And you can win cash prizes in this game. In the free game. Up to $10,000. That's right. That's right.

That sounds good. It's fun. Listen, it's an awesome way to experience the race. Win for free. I like it. It's an awesome way to experience the Talladega race and also support our sponsors for today's Dale Jr. Download.

Draft game. Promocode Dell. Let's do some fan questions, guys. you want to. Time for Ask Junior. It's time for Ask Junior. I got a question. You have a question for me?

Hit us up on Twitter using the hashtag Ask Junior. I'll tell you what. The fans have ramped up, man. Really? And there's been some awesome questions. At the beginning of the year, you had some lame ones. So that reason we put out that one, make sure your question doesn't suck. But they haven't been sucking, man, so we lost that.

Maybe that was the problem. We put too much pressure on that. And then we said, don't make your questions suck. This is a good one. Vicki Vanderhorn chiming in using the hashtag Ask Junior wants to know. Dale has Amy laid down any Twitter rules for you while she's in labor. Oh, great question. You know what?

Knowing my wife, as soon as she says that she thinks that we need to go to the hospital, I am going to shut down social media until I get the green flag from her that I can start social media back up. So I've learned a lot of things over the period of my marriage and my relationship with Amy. You know, things like you don't tell people the name of the baby before the baby's born or before Amy says I can. Certain things you don't do when you're on social media. When Amy said we were going to have a baby, you know, she had to give me the green light when I could share that information. You know, there's just things that I've learned that I don't do. They're important to her.

And I'm starting to figure out these things myself. And so I know that as soon as she says, all right, man, it's time to go hospital. I'm going to shut down all social media and I'm not going to do a thing or even think about, man, that'd be cool to tweet or that'd be cool to Instagram or, man, I want to say this or say that until she says it's okay. And I'm not even going to ask her. I don't think you're going to want to, dude. I know. See, that's that same advice.

Like, you need to keep your sleep, boy, burby, sleeping. You can't bank sleep. People tell you you you get bank sleep. How do you bank sleep? You ain't going to want to do social media. You don't know it, but you ain't going to want to do it. Hey, I'm two for two, man. I pulled out an Earnhardt, damn Kyle Bush reference.

Mike's just going to easily say the same thing. You know what tweeting during pregnancy is like, it's like Dale Earnhardt. If he was racing, you'd be like the nail Earnhardt. Honest God, my wife had no idea about this, but I'm a weird person. I got these weird thoughts. So two days before we were going to hopefully give labor, I packed my bags and stuff. and I packed a catcher's mask and a baseball mitt. Because I thought it would be a funny picture to do like a selfie,

not like showing her an oven, but of me just in the room generally doing that. And that never left my bag. And it never hit my mind. And then afterwards it was like the next day I remembered it was in there. And I was like, and I told her and she's like, you're kidding me, right? I'm like, no, I didn't bring it out. She's like, thank God.

Wow. I have, I know that it's not going to cross my mind, but this person is asking me, If I, you know, what am I going to do? And I'm not doing anything. I'll shut it down. All right. NASCAR fan wants to know.

We just talked about guests. When are you going to have Kenny Wallace on the show? I think we need to. Huh. We might not have enough tape. You thought that was a great question? I thought it was, well, he's the mouth of like Missouri, man. I like it.

The mouth of Missouri? Yeah. What would we talk about? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think there needs to be like a forgiveness moment on that one. Yeah.

It's more. No, I know. I just wouldn't even know where we would begin the conversation. So, Kenny, how has it going? We've had Kenny on. Kenny's been on Fastlane families sometimes. I don't see having Kenny on the podcast, but if there is one guy that I love to sit downstairs in my bar and get hammered, it'd be Kenny Wallace. I'm surprised that hadn't happened.

It hasn't. He likes to drink some beer. He's got a cool man cave too. Being the mouth of Missouri means that you need to live in Missouri. So he spends a lot of time there. I don't really get opportunity to hang out with him. I guess I'm saying that as to not insult Kenny. Like, I don't see why we'd have him on the show, really.

But if there was one guy that I'd love to drink 12 beers with, his name is at the top of the list. Yeah, which is a better list to be on. I think so. Oh, yeah, I'd rather be on that list. Bob Clifton chiming in. Dale, what were you thinking as you watch Kyle Busch climb into the stands and celebrate with the fans? Hashtag, I like this hashtag he throws in. Ballsiest move of the race.

Not the balliest move of the race. Well, the fact that Kyle went in there knowing that, like, he sees visually that there are fans of his right there. They come down to the fans that wanted to fight or tear him in half aren't standing down there at the flagstand, waiting on him. They're gone. Right. He knows when he goes into that grandstands, visually he can see all the fans that are his fans. Yeah. So he was lured into those.

He's like, hell, yeah. You know, I just won this race. Here's all my fans. I'm going up there, and we're going to high five. For the same reason, Clint Boyer did it at Martinsville. Yeah. You know, Martin, he saw, hey, they're drinking beer up there. I like beer.

I thought, immediately, I thought good for him. Here's a guy that, like you say, he acknowledges the losses. And so for a guy like that that dwells on the defeats more than celebrates the wins or dwells on the defeats. I mean, I know he celebrates his wins, but he over-analysis. his failures. And so for a guy like that, being booed or being disliked is difficult, really difficult. And here he is in a moment where he's getting this admiration that he's never really felt before like that.

I mean, I'm sure he's felt admiration for his fans before, but he never felt it like. He's never had this moment. Here's his moment. I think he's awesome. I thought it was good. I was happy for him. Two quick baby watch questions, because those are always fun and we can't use them in the next week or two probably. Brandy chiming in.

It's often said that husbands get pregnancy symptoms along with their wives, food cravings, mood swings, weight gain. Have you experienced any of it? Yeah, I think that a little bit of all of it, I think. She's real emotional. No, I meant you. Have you experienced any of it? I know. She's real emotional, all right? more so because she's pregnant.

I, too, have felt more emotions. Oh, really? Guy, I don't let you finish your senses. So. That's like the Dale Earnhardt answers right there. I think that she hasn't had any weird cravings. I have not had any weird cravings either. So I'm trying to think of things that she's done and see if I'm doing some of that as well.

You know, I don't know. The emotional part is, you know, things have been a little more emotional than normal because you're, you know, you're getting all excited and you know, man, you're going to cry like a baby when you're in that hospital. So we sit on the couch, you know, and just start giggling out of nowhere, you know, because we're, it's coming. You know, I woke up this morning. The first thing I said to her was, you know, we're inside of 10 days. Like, this is, you know, and then tomorrow I'll get up and, and I'm going like counting it down. Like as soon as I wake up, it's like the first thing that pops in my head. And I gaining weight, I mean, I've constantly gained weight since I left high school.

I mean, I was 172 when I graduated and I've steadily added a little bit here and there ever since. Well, now you had nine months to just at least have an excuse for it. But I'm looking around and I'm like, you know, I'm on par as far as the weight gain. But I'm still riding my bike. A lot of people probably haven't seen much on social media about me riding as much as I used to post. I ride the bike as much as possible. Try to stay in shape, you know. I know Amy has not gained any additional weight.

I mean, she's in the gym yesterday. She's less than two weeks from her due date, and she's on her peloton bike, peddling. Dang. And doing weights, and she just can't sit still. That is inspiring as hell. Yeah. You know, so I'm out riding on my bike trying to stay in shape,

so I'm not the only one gaining weight, because she sure is hell ain't gaining any weight. David Pip Zombie I don't know what the Pip Zombie thing is It's pretty funny though What's your diaper strategy What do you guys think is diaper strategy? I don't have a freaking clue

Do I need it? Let me take some notes Because y'all are going to have to tell me What the hell diaper strategy is Well, I don't think that there's any way To even know it until you have to just do it I mean like right I mean I didn't practice

What is diaper strategy? Well diaper strategy Honestly is just first-hand experience Because you're going to be Dude it's going to rock your world Like what? How many do I have on? me at one time?

When you're sitting there and you get crapped on for the first time? Or you know. Like when the diaper feels full of shit? Yeah. And then all of a sudden you're sitting there and you look and it's on you. And now you've got to get up there and you got to get these clothes off of her without getting it on her head. And then you're like wanting to bring her to a dang shower and just hose her off. It's just, it's insane.

Here's what I want to know from you. Diaper strategy nothing. I found it fun to have a record in which I could fat, the fastest I could actually. change a diaper. Oh, so you got competitive. I treated it like it was, uh, you know, straight out of the Guinness book. Like an old change in a dealership. And I would brag about it. So like, you know, as you get good, don't, you know, the first week or two, nobody, you don't know what you're doing. I mean, like, you're going to have to mess that up a bunch. Yeah. But when you get your rhythm down, you know, when you start getting practice laps in

and you can just do that thing and you can do it while you're holding remote control in one hand and you're sitting there. Yeah. And you can do it fast. That, that diaper changing time is something you feel some pride about. I plan on changing tons of diapers. I plan on being able to do it at any moment whenever it's needed to be done. So there you go. Me and Amy even was talking about this a week ago. Why don't you tell me what your plan, you know, what step is step by step of diaper change?

Like how would you change a diaper, Amy? I've changed a few already, and I know Amy has too, but maybe we think about it differently. So we literally sit there and ran through how she would change the diaper, you know, just so maybe, because I damn sure ain't going to be able to convince her to change to my way. So I'm going to go to her thing because she's going to come in there and see me doing it my way and go, huh, this is how you're going to do it. That's right. So I had her sort of go through her process and I'm making sure I know everything that she wants done when the baby's, well, and I know it's not a long process. I mean, you know, change the diaper. But I'm ready to go.

Got all the tools, got the toolbox. That's a lot. Well, we've got two more quick ones here because they've been so good this week. If you could wake up tomorrow and be in somebody else's body, who would it be and why? For how long you think? Oh, let's just say a day. Let's pick a day. Well, they didn't say a day.

They didn't say a day. Let's say, is this like a John Malchovich moment? Like where you could do that? Okay. Would you want to wake up and be me? Wouldn't you, after five minutes, go get me to freak out of here? I don't think I would pick you. I don't think I'd pick you.

I know, but if you did, if I did, it wouldn't be miserable. I would tell you something that I already know that nobody else knows that it would not be what people would assume it is. Your life isn't. Yeah, but wouldn't you want to be out of my body immediately? No, and here's why. Let me finish this one, because this is the point. I think your life is a lot more boring than what people would assume. Like, the fact that you know so much about wives.

Would it not freak you out? It's just I wouldn't want to be you because I don't really want to sit and waste a day watching wife shows. That's true, Mike, but when you looked in the mirror, when you went to brush your teeth, would you not freaking... Is this a teeth joke? Are you set me up for a teeth joke? No. Would you not want to vomit when you, like, looked in the mirror and saw me? This is an awkward conversation, considering you're sitting right here and you want me to basically critique the way you look.

I mean, like, let's say somebody in the sport that you would pick, I would probably pick, like, um, it Boyer. Oh yeah, because he has a good damn time. He has two kids to put up with every day. As do I. I do too. Why would you pick that and why I want to do something different? Maybe I'd want to compare notes how he does it. I mean, like, I bet his way of doing parenting is way more better than us because my wife thinks he's hot. Oh, Justin? Yeah, and I talked to him at California. He's, he loves racing. So it wouldn't be too far of a stretch except for the hotness. I'd gain superpowers of hotness and my wife would love me. And like, not that she doesn't love. love me, but she'd be like, oh, McDreamie.

Yeah, McDreamie. You know what? No shit. All right. Tom freaking Brady. I think that maybe being Tom, being Tom Brady, waking up, waking up being Tom Brady for a day. Just waking up and being that awesome.

Just like roaming around in his house, seeing what all kinds of shit he's got hanging around and what he does for fun when he's not throwing footballs. You know, what is his hobbies? What kind of toys has got in his garage? I'd be driving on. Anything he wants. I'd drive all his cars or whatever. You know what I mean?

What about Floyd Mayweather? For a day? For a day? Yeah, Floyd Mayweather. Drive all his... Drive all these cars he's got. Yeah. And just sit there and just count your money.

Just lay money out on the table all day? Right, right. I think I want to be Kenny Rogers. Really? Now? I think Kenny Rogers win him and Dolly were saying to go. Oh, yeah, man. He was the man.

Let's roll with White Flag, man. Keeps on the bud. White flag, right there. White flag. White flag. We've got a huge announcement this win. Wednesday on NASCAR America. You do not want to miss it. It's the Wednesdays with Dale Jr. version of NASCAR America. It's on NBC Sports Network. Show starts at 5 p.m. Eastern, I think,

I guess it does. Doesn't it, Dale? Is this week's 5 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday. Again, big announcement. Don't forget, you can also win Dale Jr.'s ride. Go to win Dale Jr. ride.com. Right now to purchase a $25 raffle ticket for his Corvette. I got that wrong last week. And, you know, the sweet people with the Dale Jr. Foundation made sure I knew that. Everyone ask about live tapings of Dale Jr. Download. Well, here is one for you. Friday, May 25th here at Junior Motorsports will be on stage outside. This is a big fan day here at JRM.

You've never experienced something. Yeah, I can't wait, man. It's a big deal. Door bumper clear will do a live taping as well. That day also features vendors and entertainment here on the race shop ground. So make a point to come here. That's during Charlotte Race Week. It looks like you've got another booth rehearsal this Sunday, Dale.

That's right. Are you looking forward to that? I am because it's Talladega. those are those are by far the most popular and funest races to call

within the guys in the booth they really love Talladega which I have a little experience with Colin Talladega back in 16

with the guys I was in the booth for about an hour for one of those races for the fall race since 2016 so I'm excited I love

you know love the history that we have their success should be a lot fun all right again Dylaner brought it up

early in the show but I do want to thank everyone that made our show number one sports podcast and iTunes

for three days. It also had got up to number 46 of all podcasts on the planet. Did you know that? No. Yeah, and it reached as high as number 46 on iTunes. Inside the top 50. That's right. Of all podcasts.

So obviously we want to keep that momentum going. That's on us, but you can always rate, review, and share with your friends, and follow us on our social media on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. That's Dirty Mo Media on social media. We'll love you for it. What were you going to say, Dale? Yeah, I just say, I mean, we really, really appreciate everybody that listened.

I mean, to have that kind of notoriety and raising the profile of this podcast, it only happens when people tune in. So appreciate everybody that listened last week. One final thought. May 5th at Tucson Speedway. Herschel McGriff is going to start the K&N West Race in the number 04 car. Who is this? Herschel McGriff is a NASCAR Hall of Fame nominee, and he's also 90 years old.

Good luck, Hersh. 90 years old. old. Good luck, buddy. All right, that's a show. 90 years old. The dude, real quick. Good luck in the race.

The dude finished in the top 10 in the first ever Southern 500. Are you kidding me? This is awesome. 90 years old. Been racing a long time. Just want everybody to know that that's happening. Listen, don't forget, promo code Dell on draft kings. com is where it's at.

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