The Dale Jr. Download - 218 - MAMA'S VEGGIE TRAY AND BRAVE DECISIONS

Episode Date: May 15, 2018

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his mom, Brenda Jackson, have a colorful discussion about Mothers Day and parenting. Junior tackles fan questions regarding NASCAR’s All-Star Race aero package and the post-victory burnout conspiracy theory. 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.

This is a production of Dirtymo Media. Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download on Dirty Mo Media. Yeah. My co-host, Mike Davis. Hey, what's up? How's it going?

It's going pretty good. I think it's all right. How are you doing? Good, good, yeah. It's been an awesome couple of weeks for you. Fatherhood. We just had Mother's Day yesterday, which was a great new twist on Mother's Day, you know, being a dad. Yeah, yeah.

And how would you say you did? Well, we talk about it in the show. Okay, we should do that. Let's get to it. Hi, Mom. Yeah. Mom. Mommy.

Oh. Remember biscuits in the oven. Barbecue sauce rubbing. Everybody grubbing. Showing us all loving. Used to hate to see you on the floor scrubbing. Hey, Mom. Mama.

Mama. Hi, Mom. Come in loud. Ma. Ma. That's a great intro, man. I got a wonder, though. These are so good that I wonder, like, at any point, are we going to get a letter in the mail from some attorneys saying that we used, you know, copyrighted material?

No. No, I think it's legal in podcasts. As long as you don't use it. It's like eight-second rule or something. Yeah, as long as you don't use a certain amount. Yeah. So we can use anything for eight seconds? I'm just going to stand.

I'm going to say Mike Davis said I could do it. Yeah. I know that we tried. Yeah, that'll get your far in line. Popular music don't work. I know that. Well, I remember I wanted to play music. Yeah.

on our podcast, like full songs. And there was a rule that we couldn't, but we could play sections of the songs or parts of the songs. So there's some loopholes to jump through and we're dropping through them. You and Blaney actually wanted to do a music podcast at that point. We did. I wanted to do, I love music. And so I'm the kind of guy that it's sort of an unwritten rule.

Like you don't do this. You're not supposed to do this, but I do it anyways, where if I hear a song on the radio, I tweet it. You do that, don't you? You know those friends of yours that'll send you a YouTube link to a song? man this is a great song you gotta listen to it or else screenshot it on their phone I'm that guy you are that no I was gonna say you're like you know how you got free yeah I do I know one yeah so yeah and Blaney's taste of music is all over the map kind of like mine so I thought

we'd have fun doing a podcast how all over the map well he music taste I like every name of genre and I have a song that I like in it yeah he's right I could let's not go international I mean I don't I mean so you're not going to have like polk on on your iPod. I got that crap. Probably not. No. But the rules and legal limitations don't make it no fun because we can't play the entire songs.

I can't just say, hey, I heard this song on the radio and I want to play it. I love it. Do you remember my first idea on this, though? It's illegal. You may not remember or you may not have been paying attention when I told you. But I had this idea right when we started Dirty Moe. And that was that we did all underground music. So that way we didn't have to worry about record labels.

Yeah, there you go. And then people could send in their demo tapes. and then we would identify who we thought is our favorite, and then they could play like a show at Whiskey River uptown or something like that. And that sounded like a good idea up until the point of having to listen to everybody's demo take. Exactly. And then it was like, nah, I don't want to do that anymore. We had some guy come in here with like a boom box one day when I was setting up for the show

and start playing some song you recorded and I'm like, what is going on? Yeah. So Mother's Day. Well, you had a first, I noticed you guys put out a picture of Ila Rose. We did. Yeah. Was that a Mother's Day specialty? All right.

I'm all, I'm going to tell truth here. So I've been wanting to put a picture out ever since, you know, she's been born. We had some pretty, we had some advice from a person that we both trust that they don't think we should do that, right? And so that made us sort of mold or think about, man, why would that, why should we not? You know, why? Was it me? No, it wasn't you. All right.

I'm just saying. All right. We weren't like, okay, yeah, you're right, we're not going to do it. But it made us think about it, and it made us be a little more patient to do it. And at the same time, a lot of the pictures that we took ourselves, you know, just aren't pictures we want to put out there. You know, they're private photos. And it's a little different, you know, when it's your kid. I'm, you know, we pretty much put anything on social media as far as our own personal stuff.

But when it comes to them, in my mind, I'm like, well, she doesn't get to decide, you know, for herself here that this, goes anywhere or, you know, she doesn't get to tell us, hey, I don't want to be on social media, you know what I mean? She's just a little baby. So I was trying to give out, Ila the benefit of the doubt, trying to think about that person that we trust what they said that they would do. Because I've had this one picture that I really, really like, but Amy was like, don't put it out there yet. I was like, okay. And I would joke with her every other day or so about putting it on social media and she would get really mad at me. That's fine. Yeah, go ahead and anger your wife that way.

But we were sitting, okay, so for Mother's Day, we went to Mom's house and hung out by our pool. Kelly and her family came over, so it was a really good experience. And Amy and I were sitting there, and she goes, I'm going to put this picture. Kelly's going to take this picture with me and you and Allen. We're going to put it on social media today. You know, it's Mother's Day. She's feeling it. I don't know.

She's getting those emotions. I was like, all right, I can't wait. I'm so proud. My feelings about putting the picture there. are more about pride, introduction, look at this, look at us, look at her. We're excited. Other people were excited for us sharing in that excitement. That's all it is.

So Amy was in the mood and we put it out there and it was great. Great feeling to get that off my shoulders and that, you know. Did you realize you accidentally texted me a picture of Ila Rose? No. So there wasn't. Oh, that wasn't an accident? No. So, oh, yeah, I told you.

I don't think this was a picture that you. She was smiling. I actually hit that by accident. I did. But I had sent other people pictures of her for the last week or so. You know, it's not like we haven't let anyone see a picture of her. But that one photo for, you know, that you want to put out there for everyone's going to be, you know, taken and used and put places. And so it was, we were a little particular about it.

People were nice and encouraging. A lot of fans were like, hey, a lot of people. I won't just say fans. I will say a lot of people were very encouraging going, you take your time. You do this when you feel like doing it. That was my vote. Yeah.

Right. And so that was nice to hear because it was a little pressure, you know, to, you know, everybody wants to see her. So there's a little pressure there. But, man, it was so nice to finally put it out there and let everyone see this awesome little baby that we think the world of. Again, you know, I mean, we had a great time at Mom's House. Amy's sister came into town, Katie, from Texas.

He was on a business trip and stopped by for a couple days. And that was great for Amy because Katie just had a baby months ago and was able to give Amy a bunch of information. I answer a lot of questions that Amy has about parenting and so forth and just the experiences that we had over the last couple weeks. I was able to take, I went to the grocery store and then I stopped by and got mom and Amy a couple cards and some flowers. and I bought mom this big potted pink hydrangea kind of thing.

She's been kind of doing a lot of landscaping around her house. So I bought her one of those, and I bought Amy a hanging plant, sort of a flowery hanging plant. And we just had a great normal day, you know. That's been one of the funnest things about this whole month. I haven't had to work at all. And I've just been able to, I've done a little few things here and there, but I haven't done much.

Sitting at home and just being normal. Like, hey, honey, you need me to go to the grocery store? Yeah. Here's the list. Boom. Did you grill out? Off to the grocery store. We didn't grill out.

Mom had some, mom only put out like this little vegetable tray. We'll ask her about that because mom's going to be a guest on the show here a little bit. But we'll ask her about this. She put out a vegetable tray. All right. All right. And she's got some fermented cheese and a couple dips and da-da-da-da. And across the street, Sunny is over there barbecue.

Sunny Lunsford. Yep. Yeah. So our neighbors. are barbecuing. You can smell it. And we got nothing but damn carrot sticks. Free bark.

So I, Amy and me, Amy and I went into the house, mom's house for a minute so Amy could feed. And I was like, Amy, you want me to slip on down to the house and get us something to eat? I left out the front door, got my car, and drove home. And he did me and Amy up a meal and brought it back in. Oh, my gosh, really? Yeah, and we ate it while mom and all then were still out by the pool. Oh, they don't even know? Oh, they didn't know?

Are we going to tell her today? Yeah, we should tell her. We can. Yeah. But, I mean, I was sitting there, I was like, man, I mean, nothing. Mom is very hospitable, and she takes that real serious. Like, you know, having guests over and everything being perfect and comfortable, and she'll get a kick out of the fact that we were a little.

You essentially did what she would do if she was at a place that didn't meet her standard of, whether it's food or decor or whatever. She would have certainly made a comment about it. Oh, yeah. You were a little bit more tactful, I believe. leave. Yeah. That's the thing about Brin. It was Mother's Day, so I didn't want to. Yeah, right. I didn't want to say anything. He's going to set her off. We'd already had a little trouble with one of the air conditioners in her pool, in her pool house earlier. So it was already kind of a little rough morning. But it was a great afternoon. I didn't know what to do, you know. I didn't know being a new father. You know, over the last year, I've learned so many things that I'm responsible for that I had no idea that you don't even think about when you become a husband for Christmas and birthdays and anniversaries. And there's a lot. lot of, there's just a lot of things that, boy, you better remember and you better be prepared. And you got to start months in advance getting your shit together and being, you know,

having your shopping done. You can't wait to the last minute. And there's a whole new set of responsibilities when you become a father. And I didn't know what to do. So Mike, what did you do? So it's Mother's Day. It's the first Mother's Day for your bride, your wife. And I didn't know whether I was supposed to buy.

Isla's gift for her mom. Was buying, was buying a card from Isla that I would feel out? I was like, man, maybe I'm supposed to grab I out a little hand and put a pen in it inside it. Like, what am I supposed to do? You know, because I wanted Amy to be happy. Yeah. And, but anyways, I was really curious as to what was the right thing to do to make Mother's Day her first, you know, be special. Yeah.

But by the way, everybody's different. My wife is so different. It's like she's very hard to shop for. People say, just get her flowers or jewelry. My wife wouldn't want you to get her flowers or jewelry. My wife would want you to get the flower seed so she can plant it. But then you go like, hey, what did you get your wife for Mother's Day? I'll be like, you know, a pack of seeds.

You know, I got a reputation to uphold as well. Other people are going to critique your gift. I'm critiquing your gift to your wife and your mom right now, as you tell me. Yeah. And so that's important. You don't know it's important to you, but you also don't want to be that guy that is the one that flops on important holidays like Valentine's Day yeah we're going to sit here and I'm going to look at you Matthew I'm going to look at you down don't look at me about flopping because I'm the

king of flops it's like listen we can go in and don't even go there and discuss this together on the front end or we can sit here and critique each other on the back end let's work together on what do you got going on oh yeah that's okay there's a spotter out there uh freddy craft spots for bubba that got married in the same day as me and when he figured out his wedding day he had like two three choices like dillner i'm going to get married the same day as you so we both can just remind each other and not mess up and get each other's anniversaries. The gifts are very important. And what's even harder is that women will tell you it's not that important, but it is.

It is. It is. It's not about the gift. It's about the gesture. Yes. So you got to get the gesture right. You're right. So that's why the seeds are okay.

I go out in search of this gift that's going to make this moment special and I put too much emphasis on the gift or the value of. Or the value. or the value of. But it's more about how hard it was to get it. Right. Or the effort that you put into obtaining it and putting it together. Right.

Do you know what my wife... This is a great example. My wife asked... It's hard to believe that because we're... Men, we're the complete opposite. Sure. We want exactly what we want. Right.

Tools. Yeah. Some boots. My wife, I know that I, you know, I'm going to get her a card. I'm going to get her a gift or whatever. But you know what she wanted for Mother's Day? What? For me to dust in the house.

Like, like, so she hates dusting. So she wanted me to be the one to take the dust rag and just to do that, do that chore. Now, if you were to ask me, what did you get your wife from Mother's Day that really meant a lot? What was the gesture? And I said, I dusted. What would you think? I probably failed. No.

No? No, not really. I would think that's sucky to do. Sucky thing to do. It's admirable. That's a sucky thing to do, therefore impressive. Okay. So you'd have been impressed.

I would have. The seeds now, I mean, if you'd have told me the seeds initially, my initial. my initial reaction to the seeds would have been like, whoa. But now when you explain it like, hey, this is what my wife would love to do is take the seeds and make the flower. Then you're like, well, damn, you know, that's pretty incredible. She wants something for herself that, you know, she, that's right. But see, my wife is different than maybe yours, Matthew, definitely of Amy. And so whatever's important to her.

And you ask the question, do you make it from Isla Rose? Do you make it? What do you do? The answer to that is, first of all, I always include my kids on it because they're too young to, think proactively. They'll do stuff at school. They'll do stuff at church and at school and it'll be all mothers. And that'll be all means something.

But when we got a card and got the gift, I had my girls write a note in it. And it was from all of us. And that means a lot to her. So that standard is to, I got Isla her own card. And, man, I like how you go into the card aisle and it's all sectioned out for you. Ain't that great? Mother's Day from child. You know, it's like not hard at all.

It makes it really easy on guys like me. I got Isla a card and it was really funny and then I got a card for myself so I guess I did okay Good so you Pat Dillner did you do okay? Yeah I don't do the card thing man I'm weird but I made her a little I took home one of the cameras to do some testing and some frame rates

sounds boring and I ended up shooting some footage of my kids playing and then little Annabel with Erica in her arms and stuff and she was smiling and all that stuff and I was like looking at the footage tested out I'm like man this would make good Mother's Day present So I put her together a little video. And then Hudson and I went out to a hardware store and whatnot.

And he saw the flower section. He's like, flowers for mommy. So we ended up getting some flowers. And I taught him how to plant. I'm a brown thumb. My wife's a brown thumb. But I taught him how to plant some marigolds in a pot and stuff. What does that mean?

A brown thumb. Every plant I touch or every plant my wife touches dies. We're not green thumbs. We're brown thumbs. That's like some sort of superpower. I also we also got a chance to go to dinner which was the only reason why we were able to do that because Katie was in town so we fed Island and ran off to dinner and came back home but great weekend for Mother's Day. That's good. And like I said, Mom's going to be on the show here in a bit.

Yeah, it'll be fine. We'll talk to her a little bit about her Mother's Day experience and her choice in catering. Let's do that. Let's actually put her in a hot seat and explain. She has explained what's up with the vegetable. plate. It was, I mean, that's the gust of wind would come bring that barbecue smell over. I would kill me.

And it was 3 o'clock. We hadn't even had lunch. And it was 3, 2.30. And that barbecue smell coming in. Oh, man. Did you watch any racing over the weekend? I did. I watched the truck race.

That was fun. Yeah, the truck race is always good at Kansas. I love Kansas. That racetrack is so awesome. I was, I liked it before they reconfigured it. And usually, nine times out of ten, I'm going to hate the reconfigure. configure track because it's you know it's nothing wrong with the original but this track really they didn't change three and four much they just made more banking in one and two and it's still a great

racetrack if not better um the way they run the top there you know i love all the tracks where we can run against the fence and you can definitely do it there and even if it even at a night race that the top's still competitive that's the problem with charlotte is that it's a great racetrack and you can run the top but as it gets dark and cool and the surface cools, the top goes away and the bottom is the only place really to run. But at Kansas, you can tell that racetrack is grayed out and aged really well the surface has, so the top stays good no matter the temperature or the time of day. I watched the cup race.

Like I said, we went to dinner and missed a little bit of it early on, but caught pretty much the last 75% of the race. I thought Truex might be able to do it, man. You know, I wonder if, looking at that last few laps, I mean, Harvick, I've been there. He passed us at Darlington on tires and beat us. He beat us at Martinsville on the same tires. But I've been beat by Harvick before at the end of these races and the man, that's why they call him the closer. But I wonder if Truex runs that race over and over and over in his mind.

You know, I always do that with the ones that I lose by a very slim margin is, like, for the next week, you sit there and think about, man, what if I had done this? should have done this, I should have done that. There were so many choices as far as the line that Martin could have ran in the corners to try to defend a little bit or make it a little harder for Harvick. I wonder if he thinks about that. It sounded like he was in a situation that was sort of damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I mean, he was tight. He couldn't get his car to turn all race. Harvick was way faster. Yeah, Harvick was coming. Harvick was so lucky to even be in that position. I mean, he almost, by inches escaped that big wreck, which I want to ask you about in a second. But the fact is, is that, I mean, what did Martin say?

Martin said that he was just trying to run whatever is going to be his fastest line and not try to go overthink it. And yet, Harvick closed so fast. I could not believe. So I was thinking. So I was thinking, man, run the top, make him pass you on the bottom. But then Truex went to the top, I believe, in one and two. And freaking Harvick made up like eight carlinks easily.

So even if he did run the top to try to defend. and make it tougher on Harvick. Harvick would have easily gotten by him. But if you're tight. If you're tight. You run the top. You run the top? I would think.

Okay. But it's late. It depends. You know, if it's late at night, sometimes, I don't know. It just depends. It just to me, like, if you're. And I'm, you know, nobody's driving tricks. Scarborough Hill.

Yeah. But I thought it was a good race. I'm so sick. Can I be the one to say that I'm already bored of Harvick? Can I say that? Yeah, sure. Well, it's been, what, 11 races? 12 races.

He's won five. He's one five. Just kind of bored of it already. And listen, I can be that guy. So we need to go old school and put a bounty on them. You know what I mean? Like, hey, it's Charlotte, man. Charlotte used to do all fun promotion things.

We'll throw a bounty on them. $50,000 bonus, you know, cash, non-taxed or something if you beat Harvick, you know, whatever. That's the sort of stuff. They used to do that. They used to do old school racetrack promotions used to do, I mean, shoot, even a few years ago in late model. I remember somebody winning a whole bunch. Lee Pulliam, they put a bounty on him. Back in the early 2000s, Charlie Bradbury was winning a bunch of late model races.

Promoters put bounties on, hey, if you could beat him. There was a bounty on Ralph Earnhardt in the dirt tracks back in the 50s. There you go. I mean, a bounty meaning if you would come, basically, if a driver in Ralph's case, maybe he's racing at Concord or Metro line or somewhere, he's literally winning every week. Nobody's even able to touch him. The bounty is to bring anyone in from out of, from a different race track, anybody from a different area to come in and beat him.

So that's what the bounty was there for to attract drivers from other areas to say, hey, I'll come in there. I'm the big dog from over here. I'll come in here and whoop this guy and take you money. And the fans loved it, too, because it was like, man, these guys are going to want to get at it, you know. It certainly also raised a profile of a guy that the bounty was set for. Oh, yeah. What a freaking badge of honor to have a bounty put on you.

Yeah. A compliment. All right. All right. So we just need to get a bounty on Canada. Well, I got something that's going to break the monotony of, you know, Harvick's domination and Bush's domination. If you think the race, if you think that's getting a little boring this weekend,

we've had the All-Star race. We're going to talk about that a little bit later in the Ask Junior segment, but they've got a new rules package that I'm really excited about. So we're going to talk about that. You actually confuse me on that because you said you were excited about it, but you're skeptical. Yeah. And that to me now that's confusing.

I can't wait to talk about it. Okay. All right. We'll have an ask you a question about that. Oh, yeah. I don't know. What do you want? Bring Brenda in, maybe?

Yeah. See what's up? Let's get to it. Let's have Brenda come on in. We hit Brenda in a second, but first, an Exaltor Race Center update. This is your Exaltor Race Center update, and I'm Casey Hanks. Kansas Speedway was off the epicenter of the NASCAR world this weekend as both the truck and cup series hit the 1.5 mile over. In trucks, Noah Gregson rebounded from his Dover mistake and drove to his first win of the season at Kansas.

becoming the series fifth different winner of 2018. The Cup cars took Kansas by storm on Saturday night, and once again, Kevin Harvick came out on top. Harvick passed Defending Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr. on the next to last lap to notch his series leading fifth victory of the season. Truex took second, followed by Joey Logano, Kyle Larson, and Denny Hamlin, rounding out the top five. The Junior Motorsports late model team tested at Bristol Motor Speedway,

J-RM drivers Josh Barry and Sam Mayer ran in the top three on the speed charts in preparation for this Saturday's short track U.S. Nationals Cars Tour event at Bristol. This has been your Exalta 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 Exalttacs.com. All right, back again, we have a special guest on the show. Being that yesterday was Mother's Day, seems fitting, that we would bring in the mother of all mothers, Brenda Jackson, mom, thanks for coming on. Thank you for having me.

Yeah. So yesterday we had a fun event over at your house. You moved into Kelly's old house, which has a pool, so we all come up there and enjoy the pool for the first time together. You had Ila over and Kelly's family, which was great. great. Wyatt, Kennedy and Carson. Carson just went to her prom, which is pretty excited to talk to her about, but it was a fun afternoon. It sure was. Sorry, my AC went out in the pool house. It was a little warm in and out. There was a rumor that that had happened. Got off to a rocky start. Yeah,

but we survived it. Everybody was good. So let's talk about that for a second. So it's a little warm in Mama's Pool House and a big open floor pool house and we're going to hang out in there a little no presents and do all that stuff and enjoy everybody's company. And we're like, Mom, it's a little warming here. And she says, well, I got it on 77. 77. Yeah. Mama.

Like, most people set their air conditioners on 72. That's kind of 68 to 72. Maybe a little higher. 77. Okay, well, see, I mean, basically Willie and I live there. Yeah. I'm hot as hell all the time. Well, maybe that's because you got an old 77.

Willie is freezing all the time, so we try to compromise. But he said 77 was pretty high. Like he agrees that 77 is unrealistic. It's just because you were there. He wouldn't agree otherwise. Okay. He was agreeing in front of you. Doesn't that annoy you.

It does. Yeah. People that just agree with Dale just because he's there. And if he wasn't there, they'd take your side, wouldn't they? Absolutely. You don't even have ownership of your own husband in this case. This is not part of the conversation. It is now, Brenda.

We didn't have mom come on the show. Brenda, what else annoys you about your show? Let's get back to Mother's Day. That's a whole other show for us to have. Okay, but I want everybody to chime in on this when we put this up there. Let us know. Like, is 77? Yeah, I'd like to know what everybody is.

Not for me, man. Is that a often? used setting on the AC? Well, we're not out. We're not out there all the time. You are. You're out there every night. Your dogs live out there.

But only a few hours in the morning and a few hours at night. Every day, they're out there. My case closed. Yeah. Their dogs live out there. We're going to have to put up a pole for the optimal temperature. Does anybody else in this great country live in, you 77 is the preferred setting on the thermostat.

We'll find out, of course, Brenda's not on social media, so she's got no way to know. She is. She is? Yeah, really. I could have easily had it set on 88. How's that? Oh, good. That's what your swimming pool needs to be set on.

It'll get there. What's your swimming pool set on? My swim pool's not heated. Oh, is it not? No. The hot tub, you can heat the hot tub, but I don't. I got you. You don't eat it.

No. She is on social media. So I set her up and. Instagram account. Really? Yeah. That's just for her. And she just, only for her to be able to look and watch.

Okay. And I woke up this morning since he posted that picture and I got like 472 new followers. Yeah. Oh, really? My phone's just full of people. Yeah. I don't even know what to do with them. You don't do nothing.

Okay. Just keep them happy. Just keep them happy. Are you planning on posting any pictures? No, I don't post nothing. She does not post. But if we just ever get into that right. Wouldn't that be nice to have a post?

If we get Brenda Justin, no, no, hold on. Stop, stop, stop right where you're at. Is that just feeling real good? No, no. Maybe there's an issue after a race that you feel real strong about. Well, guess what my hookup is on my Instagram, speaking of? Your hookup? So I would remember what my password was?

Oh, you don't want to tell people your password. We don't need to say this. Well, it has something to do with that. But don't. Okay, I'm not. This is the first rule of social media. Don't give your password out. Your password is really only for you.

Oh, my gosh. Well, see, he's. This is a mistake. He sets me up, but he doesn't give me any direction. So I don't. What do you need? You don't need to tell you not to give away your password. Did I need to tell you not to tell him your social security number two?

No. Man, a show with Brenda and do technology, like stuff like social media, would just be fun. Brenda's review on Twitter. An Instagram review by Brenda. Yeah, yeah, right, right. I like this idea already. Let's get back to Mother's Day. Well, this is Mother's Day.

I mean, this is all happened over Mother's Day week. Go ahead. What do you got to say? We did. We had a really, really wonderful time. It was good times. We don't get, we're not able to get together a whole lot. But Mother's Day is one of the days that we all, everybody's family.

We tried to do something, go somewhere. So it was a lot of fun. And you had a new addition, this Mother's Day. That has to be fun. And she was so good. She was good. She was in that 77 degree. house and she never cried once.

Not once. Maybe there's something to it. Optimal baby temperature. It was the first time. She got to get a little more comfortable around you. She didn't know it any different though, does she? But anyway, so, of course, the party ends. Everybody goes home. I get up this morning and I go out to my pool house. My pool house was comfortable this morning. Okay, good. And I'm

having my little coffee and messing with the dogs and feeding the dogs and stuff. And I happen to glance at the TV and lo and behold, the whole family portrait was on Channel 9 News. I'm a damn. From Mother's Day. Oh, based on the one I posted on social media. Yeah, there we are on the...

What's it like, Brin? They must have stole my password. How does that word? How can they possibly take that? How did they steal that? I asked Kelly. I text Kelly. I'm like, damn, we're on Channel 9 News.

How did they get this? Yeah. She told me here. This is the world that you're now opening yourself up to. Is it now... Oh, I know. And now I come in this morning and you tell me, has Dale mentioned, He liked me on the Dale Jr. download.

I said, no, he didn't mention that to me, but he does like to surprise me. So I don't get excited. Maybe he messaged you on social media. I hear this Dale Jr. download is pretty large. So, I mean, I'm really coming into myself here. Yeah. On the news in the morning, the download. She's going to need her own agent.

I might need an agent, yeah. Hey, I can see somebody. I'm volunteering. Yeah, yeah, be your agent. Yeah, absolutely. Well, listen, I think that with Mother's Day, I think mothers spend a lot of time if you got the family coming over. Tell me about the exquisite meal that you prepared. I didn't.

I mean, you got one job. Well, I didn't even know until yesterday morning that they were coming. Bull crap. Mother's days on a calendar. Are you serious? When you sent me, Kelly didn't tell me. She told me that they would be over sometime yesterday. After noon.

Well, here, let me back up. I have text messages to prove this wrong. Send me a picture of Isla smiling and you said I told her we were coming to the pool. We all are in it. You, Kelly, and Amy are all in a text message together and we have been talking about seeing each other at your house. Let me back up. Kelly's. That really wasn't true.

I mean, I knew they were coming. But I can't. All right. I can't cook for them anymore. Why not? Because they are into all this clean, eaten. I don't. I don't really understand what clean is.

I don't think I eat dirty. But, I mean, does clean eating mean you don't have any spice? No. I mean, is it rest? You're asking genuinely, genuinely, what does it mean? Yeah. So, I would say. Yeah, you can.

Clean eating is really trying to cut down on the butter. The more spice, the better. I mean, I use olive oil. That's clean, isn't it? No. Wait a second. This is starting to make sense. Did you not have a veggie tray or something?

I did. And is that not clean? Is it not? It absolutely is. You're just trying to give the people what they're asking for. Just trying to give them a little something. That's what's all I'm saying. I had a cheese and slimy and pepperoni tray and veggie tray and had some pimento cheese with bacon in it.

That's probably not clean. Mama. I like that. But it's good. You have to put some dirt in your body so your body will know. So your body will know how to respond to it and fight it. How will it know what's clean? You're going to be so clean that you're going to get something bad and your body is going to fall all apart.

Makes perfect sense. It ain't going to know how to work. The best part about it was we had like this one little vegetable tray and the wind was blowing perfectly from Sunny's house over to hours so we could smell the barbecue from over his place. Yeah. Barbecue is not good for you, is it? Yeah, it's fine. Oh, is it? Yeah.

Yeah, it's a protein. I mean, come on. I mean, we're not eating that damn clean. I mean, I have, for a month, I've made potatoes and sausage. Potatoes and sausage. I made some other things, and I'll say, I have so-and-so. If y'all would like some, I got some left over. And he said, Mama, we don't eat that stuff.

Hey, I want to ask you a question, and I want you to give us. I want you to give us an honest. I'd be disappointed if you didn't. Get Brenda, I want the honest Brenda. I want your reaction to this. What if I told you that Dale Jr. and Amy snuck off. and got food somewhere else and brought it back. I know you're telling me the truth because they put the damn containers in my garbage can.

Oh, they did. And I look in there this morning to put my water bottle in there, and I'm like, well, they went up to their house and got some clean eating. Amy had. Now, why, if I'm lying, you tell me, they know I cook all the time. My refrigerator was full of stuff. I had spaghetti sauce. I had Alfredo. noodles. I had chicken. I had tons of stuff in it. They did not even say, hey, mom, we're hungry.

Of course they did. It was Mother's Day. They run right up to their little house and get their clean food. Well, in a way that was nice because, I mean, they didn't want you to bother to have to fuss. But they didn't even bring you any back. Yeah, they should have brought you a plate at least. She has a fridge full. They snuck in my house saying they had to feed the baby. We did. And they went and got food from their house. Amy was still feeding. That's so wrong. It is wrong. It is wrong. Yeah.

This is such a bull-b-k. No. Didn't even bring her a plate back. Look, we were sitting there. She's feeding. I said, I'm starving. She said, I'm starving. I said, I'll go grab some food.

Amy had some ground beef and sweet potatoes. You like ground beef and sweet potatoes, I do. Yeah. So, I mean, we don't eat clean all the time. You're missing the point. Yeah, yeah. You should have brought a plate for your mom. The point is not whether that's clean or dirty.

We've established that. The point is, is it on Mother's Day? She wasn't hungry. You're assuming. You got to ask her. She didn't have any food. Maybe she was starving. I had a ton of food.

I know. She had her own food. So if she was starving, she would have cooked it. What's the point of getting together? Is it B-Y-O-F? It must have been. All right. Poor Brenda.

I went to my house and got it. in your dish. I went to my house and got some my own food out of my own fridge. What was in your dish? She had sweet potato and grahamie. Chicken and quinoa and spinach salad. Yeah.

You could have just kept your food. It was freaking awesome. I'll take the pimento cheese with bacon. I'm going to Sonny's. It had an olive oil and lemon vinegarette dressing for it. And then I have Kelly's family, which Kennedy, my middle.

Yeah, I mean, there's more people there. Kennedy, my middle grand-old. Well, she has to eat completely gluten-free. By choice, right? No, no, no. She has issues with it. She has to. Everything's got to be gluten-free.

So they're on another meal plan of their own family-wise. That's very difficult. Yeah, that is difficult. L.W., Kelly's husband, he don't like no onions. Well, I can't cook nothing without no onions. Well, see, I mean, that's, that is plain. That hard-headedness right there is your problem. I'm old-school cooking.

I know, mama, but if people don't like onions, you've got to be able to do. to cook it without onions. We're having to pick them out. Or just not put the damn onions in there. But, I mean, there's so many things that are not good without an onion. Now, onion makes it. Uh-uh. In your opinion.

It is. You know what I have for dinner last night? I had. Oh, man. I am too. What I cooked for dinner last night. You guys love onions and everything you eat? I'll do a Vidalia onion on the grill and eat it with a fork.

My point is, if she's making it, it's her prerogative on what she puts in it, right? Last night for dinner, I had boneless pork chops. Don't look at me like that. He's shooting me stairs. So when people come to your house, you don't cater to them, that's why they call it catering. No, that's when you order in. I know, but. Hey.

No, not technically or literally catering. I'm saying, like, you don't cook to your guests. Possibly, but let me ask you this. What was yesterday called? Mother's Day. Is it possible? We're just talking about in general. I'm just talking about in general.

I'm saying it's possible that maybe we've got this. wrong. Maybe it's not that why did she put in certain things and ingredients. Maybe it's why did y'all not cook her food? When you come to my house, I was off buying Vidalia. I'm not going to pacifically cater to what you're eating. You eat what I cook. Amen. Everything I cook is good. The only thing I want to know if you're coming to eat in my house, tell me if you got a peanut allergy because I don't want you falling out or getting the house. Other than that, you eat what I make. And if you do have a peanut allergy, and you'll do your best to avoid it, but if it happens, so be it. It's still not your responsibility, right? You know, whatever. I'm not a label reader either.

I hear you. No. Hey, Dale, I meant to ask you this, because we got new listeners every week on the Dale Jr. download, and maybe we should have done this at the beginning, but give, how would you describe your mom to somebody that doesn't even know her? A lot of people do, but give us an idea. What is Brenda Jackson for people that don't know her? I don't. That's putting me on the spot. Well, don't be mean because you know I cry easy. You do?

Sometimes. I cry when I get mad. Cry when I'm happy. Cry when I'm sad. Works as designed. It works as designed. Yeah, I mean, she's just a lot of fun. She's a great smart ass.

I think that's a good compliment. She keeps it fun, keeps the conversation pretty. fun she always wants everybody to have good time she always tries to make everybody comfortable because I enjoy having a good time yeah she wants to have fun so she wants everybody else to be comfortable and get you have everything to need and have you enjoyed living at dirty mow acres since you've been there now I know you just moved into this new house but I'm saying that I've been there for five years maybe four or more yeah you enjoy it yeah absolutely yeah I do and now you've got the

grand kid right down the road got the grand kid right down the road spoil run got animals everywhere I really loved that When I moved up to Kelly's, my animals aren't as much as they were at my other house. But it's a little noisier up there. More traffic. Oh, that's right. You just, that reminds me, you were the one that got upset at, was it Blaney or Kozlowski that was sitting off firecrackers? Blaney.

Right when you got to dirty blinders in the first year. Yep. Yeah. And you made him know it. That's the thing. If people ask me what you are, I'd say very transparent. You don't ever have to wonder where you are with her. I mean, it wasn't even the Fourth of July.

It's on a Tuesday night. People got good work. I'm like, what the hell? I mean, it wasn't even nothing going on. I guess he just found some that Brad Kay left there, so he's old. Let's shoot these off. Did you yell at him from your porch? I did.

Some choice words. Oh, really? Yeah. I've never known you to use choice words. Cut right off after that. All right. That's how you do it. Yeah.

Now that you're on social media. We've patched up, though. Oh, good. Yeah. He's my bud. Did he come over and bring you some food? No. Because they don't do that around that parts.

I didn't feed him in, yeah. We don't share food no more. Well, cool. What else we got, Dale? Yeah, I think, I don't know. We had a good time yesterday. I didn't realize it until, I mean, Dale really stayed a long time. You know, he don't stay too long in places, but they stayed three and a half hours maybe or so.

So Willie and I were cleaning up and everything after everybody left and putting stuff away. And I look in the fridge and I turn to Willie and I said, well, damn, the reason why, way less because he didn't drink all the beer. No. There was no more beer in the fridge. Yeah. You want to hang around? You got to keep the cool.

I didn't drink all the beer. I only had four beers. I'm just kidding. But the beer was out. So you were ready to have a drink and the beer was gone. Yeah. I got to worry about with Sunny's house. You can always go there to get more beer too.

Well, I'll be sure. I don't know how good I'll know on the food, but I'll keep the beer stock. If you come next weekend, I've got to figure out another little snack for you to have. I'm not going to feed you. the same thing you had last Sunday. So what's the preferred snack this week? Oh, I get to cheese. Yeah, she just gave you the option.

Some, what are those peas, them old peas everybody eats nowadays? At a Monde? No, they're supposed to be, um. You can make hummus and stuff with them. What are they? No idea. Well, just put it in order. I'll see what I do.

I don't know how. I'm not a person that likes stuff in a big tray that everybody's picking in. Buffet is not on your list. Got you. And so, like, when I, and I used to do that at my house, and then I quit, like, put out a bowl of salsa with chips. And because a lot of people don't like to. You don't want people to double dip, too, man. That, yeah.

And that's a little difficult. I mean, I give them things to, but kids are. You do the little cauldrons. You give them their own caldron. I like everything in its own package. Well, I tell you what you do. That I like to open. And it's like.

Do me a favor. Those packages of things that you and Amy eat, will you just save me the packages? and then when I'll clean them up and everything. When you come on Sunday, I'll have your chip and sauce and a little packet for you. What an awesome mom that would even have. Exactly. Moms always care. Brenda, this has been a good show for you so far.

We just go follow her on Instagram. Yeah. Let's boost up those numbers. And if you want to know her password, just ask her. She'll tell you. Hey, by the way, do you still watch the races, Brenda? I watch Saturday for sure, or the Xfinity. It's for sure.

It's vocal and transparent. Sunday, I don't as much. I got you. Well, even an Xfinity series race. I don't know, man. That might be fun to actually go watch a race with Brenda. I want to know what she thinks about, you know, the last Xfinney series race, man. You had a last lap two junior motorsports cars coming to the start finish line to the checker, you know, bouncing off each other.

And then the penalty the next week. Well, I didn't know about the penalty until I got back to work the next day. Yeah, that was all of us. Yeah. But, yeah, did you? But yeah, oh, I was thrilled. Okay. Were you pulling for anybody in particular?

Us. I know, but we ran one and two. I know, but that's hard to say who you want to win, but I'm telling you, I am ready for some freaking barbecue. Now, if Elliott won, every time Elliot wins, we get barbecue. Really? For the whole, oh, see, you hadn't, you hadn't gotten it yet. The whole shop. That's funny.

That's funny. Barbecue. They don't get a vegetable tray? And I'm, it's delicious. What's the name of that place that he deals with? What's the good friends of his? I can't remember. But they set up fried chicken barbecue, the whole shop, everything.

I'm going to get a one main hat. Yeah, yeah. But I can't say Justin doesn't do it too. Brenda brought up a point. Brenda brought up a point after Elliot Sadler finished second again because he keeps finishing second. And she said, if he's going to end up winning these dash for cashes, that ought to at least get us some barbecue caterer.

At least. Yeah, she's got to get her a sandwich. I mean, we'll just take like 150 sandwiches and 150 bag of chips. Yeah. You don't even have to set it out. Just drop it all. Bring it to us. It's the least that he could do, right?

Yeah. Well, thank you for coming on the download. Oh, thank you for having me. Thanks, Mama. You're welcome, darling. Let's get to our, did you see that? Dale, did you see anything over the weekend on social media that caught your attention? Yeah, I did.

I saw a tweet from Adam Carriker who used to play for the Redskins. that I follow on Twitter and he had a picture of some money that was ripped up looked like a $20 bill and a $5 bill. Oh, cash money. Yeah, cash money.

And it looks like a lot. Like maybe it's a couple 20s in there. And it's ripped up and it's laying on the carpet in this home. And it says a child ripped up their allowance because he wasn't happy with the amount. His mom walked out of her room

and saw the money, ripped up and laid on the floor at the doorway of a room. What would you do if, This was your child's behavior. And so it got me thinking something that I hadn't thought of yet. And I know it's only been 10 days since I've been a dad, but when those type of things, anything like that happens, what am I going to do?

That's right. And I sat there for about 30 minutes trying to answer the question that Adam's asking, what would you do if you saw this? I would think of an answer and rewrite it in my head and think of another answer and rewrite it in my head, you know, kind of like type it out and delete, type it out and delete and thinking, man, what is the right response? And so I wanted to come here and ask Mike, you know, you've been raising your two girls for a couple years now. You probably ran into scenarios like this.

And do, I guess as a father, do you make missteps and go, hmm, I'll remember not to do that again because that didn't work? If you do make, if you do try to set them straight and it doesn't work, do you try again in the same situation or you let it pass and wait on the next opportunity to. No. How does that work? I tell you right now, this is the hard part about being a parent. And I'm going to tell you right now, the way I treat it is that their most impressionable years are five to ten, right? Like if you wait to start disciplining them or teaching them, you know, character and morals and what are important to you, when they're a teenager, you waited too late. Now that they've all gone to their mind.

So I would not, like that that would be unacceptable to me. A lesson would have to be taught no matter how hard it is. you don't tear up hard-earned money. No kid needs to think that's okay. Yeah. No kid. I don't get my kid, your kid, nobody needs to think that's okay. There's other ways to, by the way, that was a lot of cash.

I don't know whose kid he's talking about. I would have loved that allowance. That was my first three paychecks on my first job right there. But regardless of the amount, I don't think that a kid needs to ever think that there is, it's okay or that you've got a freebie on a lesson that's like being accountable for your actions. money is not just given to you it's earned yeah i was thinking that the the reaction and and it being wrong to do was the obvious answer to the tweet but i was having a harder time answering what would my response be well this is going to develop as you uh over the next couple years about how you

decide to discipline your kids i mean how you just how you uh usher discipline i would say and This is something I've recommended to you and Amy when us three have been talking about things, is that you and Amy are united. Don't, you know, you guys, maybe one of you are actually communicating the disciplinary action, but y'all are together. And so your kids know that this isn't a dad thing or a mom thing or even look, even think that maybe I can go to dad and get him to ease up on this while mom. That is not good for y'all's relationship.

But I would say that whatever you. you do, you be consistent. If you've laid out the ground rules, be consistent as no matter how hard it is. I remember the Navy football program, I remember they've got rules and one of the rules, and they're not rules that any other football team has, but they being the military academies and the Naval Academies, they have specific rules. And one of them is you do not leave after a game is over. You do not leave the field before you go shake hands and do the things that you've got to do. Well, one of their Navy star players years ago did it because for whatever. a reason. And it broke the coach's heart that he had to sit him the next game, which was the

Army-Navy game and also his last game as a college football player. But you had to do it. But he had to do it because you had to be consistent with your rules. And if you ease up on those rules, and this is honestly a lesson even we've been dealing with an infraction that NASCAR handed down to us, junior motorsports after an infraction or whatever they called after the Dover race to Justin Algar. The rules of the rules, you've got to be consistent. with the rules as a parent so that your kids know accountability, excuses don't get you, you can't talk your way out of it. You certainly can't pit mom and dad against each other because they're going to try that.

It's almost instinctual that they're going to try that. I almost think that they're going to look like what ways. It's almost like lying. I tell my kids, listen, you're better off to tell me at the beginning. Let me find out from you that you got in trouble at school. If I find out from somebody else, I'm going to consider that you trying to keep it from me. I don't want to hear it from your teacher. I don't want to hear it from anybody else.

I want to hear it from you. It'll be more severe if I hear it from somebody else. And these are things that you're going to develop over time. It doesn't mean you love them less to have to discipline. It's so hard, but you've got to be consistent. I would tell that kid right now, whatever your disciplinary actions are, I would, whatever the most severe is, if you tore up money to try to prove a point, you're going to get everything that you got coming to you.

And you're not going to get some money for a while. Whatever it is. Right. Or you're going to get something taken away. You're certainly going to feel about what it's like to not have the money. Yeah. I definitely think that taking the allowance away would be... Did you get an allowance growing up?

No, I was thinking, reading that tweet, made me think about how I would always... The only way I got money was if I was the one that was able to run and pick up the carryout, and Dad not asked for the change back. That was literally the game we played. So Dad would often order carry out on a Sunday night or a Monday night early in the week. he would give us usually a hundred bucks. He hardly ever gave us proper correct change, I guess, is my point. And we would go home.

And you knew that if he handed you $100, that he was going to ask for the change because he knew it was a lot of money. But if he gave you like $40 for a $25 carryout, you hope that he didn't ask for the change. And the dejection when he did, I can only imagine would be pretty severe. Like, oh, darn it. I was close. Otherwise, we didn't get an allowance that I recall.

That's why, you know, yeah, I mean, the other side of that is, that's why I went into his room and stole that money to buy that game boy. That's right. Out of the change jar. Which is one of the all-time trades a house. I don't, if I did, I don't remember it. It certainly wasn't. I wouldn't be opposed to giving my child allowance if they had something they did to earn it, like, you know, just some simple weekly chores. Yeah.

Give them a couple tasks, not impossible to do, just something that gives them the understanding of doing something. to be rewarded for it. Learning it, yeah. All right. 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. All right, let's get into Ask Junior, of course, fans chiming in using that hashtag Ask Junior. First question by Cheryl Stoughton Rouse. That was a tough one. That was a mouthful. How is Gus and Junebug reacted so far to Isla? Oh. You know, a lot of people have asked me that.

A lot of people have asked me that. And I really don't have, they don't act any different. They're just maybe, they still do the same annoying things. They run and bark at the door, anybody comes near it or drives by the house. And that doesn't wake an aisle up, which surprises me. But then you think about it, she's heard that for nine months in Amy's belly anytime anybody came to the door. True. I mean, Gus is super loud.

So when somebody drives by or comes to the door, he just goes bonkers. and she just doesn't even wake up. They come, you know, they come around and smell and sniff and want to know what's going on, but they're not over, you know, they don't overdo it and annoy the hell out of me about it. I get asked that a lot, which makes me wonder, hmm, what do dogs are doing some weird things? Are dogs acting strangely? I mean, my dog had like almost jealousy issues. Yeah, I mean, I think there's some of that, but we already had that between the two of them.

Yeah. When you pet one, the other comes in and tries a little. weasel under your arm and when we're holding aisle or feeding or anything they're not they'll just sit there and stare i think it's more about they're wondering what the hell's going on who is this person where they come from what does a dog do when it's having jealousy issues how do you know you don't want to know oh okay oh okay pooped the whole deal yeah yeah wasn't fun yeah that now we did have a cat uh years ago tux was his name because he had a little tuxedo coat um that's the color not a real coat He had a black coat.

I was going to say, a t-shirt, that would be awesome. He's here to party. Living the good life. He pissed and shit all over everything because the dogs drove him crazy. Amelda wants to know, I saw a social media post that you and Amy just had your first date night since Isla was born. Now, be honest. How many times did you guys check in on her to see if everything was fine? Just once.

Our dinner, date night, lasted two hours tops. Okay. Right. So we went downtown to Epic Chop House, which is the best damn steakhouse in Mooresville. And we had a 7 o'clock and 8 and we're home by 9. I think I checked in once. I don't know. Amy may have checked in more than once, but it's her sister.

And she had just had a child, so we felt like we couldn't – I would have been in better hands. All right. Will Whitman wants to know with 11 races down this year, nobody yet has burned out long enough to rip the quarter panels off a race car. Did a rule come out or what changed? I don't think a rule has come out. I can't say, hey, this guy was cheating.

That's why he's doing it. And I never did. It's the optics. It's really about, all right, well, if a guy tears his quarter panel off, then he's got to jack the car up, put a tire on it. And all this happens before they tech the car. And it disrupts the process of the clean process of getting the car off the track to the tech. You know, you already get to go to Victory Lane.

There's already a good period of time where the car is not in the official's hands after it crosses the finish line and gets the checker flag. So why exceed this leniency and get aggressive with tearing a car up and damaging the race car and making it pretty much untechable? It's just the optics. But I don't know that anything's been said by anybody. I just think that, you know, nobody's done it. Not to say that they won't start up and get to hammering that and doing that a lot, especially around the chase. When guys are pushing the envelope real hard on the bodies and everything about the quarter panels and how the cars seal up underneath and the crush panels and so forth.

forth. Who knows, I have never seen a car and seen a part that was illegal and connected that to guys tearing up their tires and trying to destroy that area of their car on purpose. But I just don't like the optics of it. I've never been a fan of it because the car needs to go get tech. I don't think that anybody has yet connected a real infraction with guys blowing their tires out. Let's be clear that there's not a real infraction obvious. It's just the optics. No, but there's a lot of perception about when you do that. And one thing that I've noticed over the last few years that there's been a, you know, I could say this, there's been a team out there in particular that has done it almost every time. And that was Kevin Harvick's team

until this year. And that's something that's stuck out in my mind. as wow, okay, you know, all this perception about why are they doing that. Well, that's your point, I get. Yeah. I don't know that, I'm just saying that, like, for us, we're not saying, I don't want anybody to think that we're saying someone's cheating. Yeah. All right?

So we don't know that somebody's doing something wrong, but the fact that the car gets torn up before it gets checked, and they can jack it up and put a tire on it, and who knows what happens when you can jack the car up and the obvious opportunities to do things to the car during that time. It's just the optics of it. It doesn't look good for the integrity of the inspection process.

I don't know that. That is interesting. I didn't even think about that. So maybe, you know, NASCAR, O'Donnell, those guys have said something to the drivers personally. I don't think they have. I think that we would have heard about that. I don't think that that would have been able to have kept the secret.

I just think that sometimes, I've talked to several. drivers and sometimes guys just are so and this is hard for me to believe because I felt like that they were hiding something. I felt like guys were tearing their cars up to hide something to give them opportunity to trick a loophole in this in the inspection process. But talking to the drivers and knowing what I've done in the past, guys are just excited

and until they find a guy, until they find an illegal car and until they find a link between the guys blowing their tires out in that celebration to that to an illegal part or illegal infraction, I can't fault them for it. Another good asked junior question here, and I know this is one that you've wanted to hit on. Riggs Racing on Twitter chiming in and saying, Dale, what do you think of the new All-Star Rules Package? Yeah. So I'm really excited about this week because we're going to see something that I'm

I think we're definitely going to see something different. NASCAR's got a new package, a new rules package for the All-Star race. It takes a lot of horsepower out of cars, puts a lot of drag on the cars. I have no idea what this race is going to look like, all right? I don't know whether it's going to be great or God-awful. I don't really care that I don't know that. The fact that we are going to try something is what is exciting to me. I don't know if this will be a great race or a bad race.

but I'm tuning in hoping that it's great only because of Charlotte Motor Speedway. So Charlotte Motor Speedway has, let's just be honest, I mean, the conversation about the All-Star race and, you know, the health of it, moving the race. People want to move the All-Star race because maybe it's not as exciting as it could be. Maybe it'd be better at Bristol. Maybe it'd be better over here. Maybe it needs to move all the time every year to a different track. You know, there's been a lot of conversations. Every year.

every year. But one thing about that is, and that's fine. I mean, if people think that's a great idea and they do that and the All-Star race goes moving around and it has a great success, fine. Still, though, you still have Charlotte Murray Speedway over here struggling to put on an exciting race. I mean, it just has. It's had a hard time putting on great races whether you're talking to All-Star race or the

600. So what do we do? We got to do something to help Charlotte. We can't let Charlotte struggle. and they're going to have the roval. We'll see how that works. I'm excited about that because it's a change. It's different.

It could suck. It could be awesome. We don't know. But we got to try something. This is a really brave move. This is a really, really gutsy brave move by NASCAR and the track and the drivers. I know a lot of the drivers aren't really excited about the actual package. A lot of guys really want all the power they can get, right?

the least amounted down for us they can get. There's a lot of, there's different opinions as far as the drivers go, but most of them really actually like the way the cars are now. And to clarify that package, it's a restrictor plate, it's a similar arrow package to what was run at Indy, as well as the 2004 and the Xfinity Series at Indy. And there's that 2014 splitter back on the car. Yeah.

So I think a lot of the drivers are like where the cars are right. now everywhere else. You know, we need to try something to help Charlotte. Something needs to be done to try to help Charlotte. So I think that this is necessary. Should it have been tested? It had been awesome to have tested it, right? You would love to test everything.

You almost feel like that this is the test, right? Yeah, I mean, they did that with the tire compound last year and used the All-Star race as a test, but this is such a drastic thing. Do you think it should have been tested? Absolutely. You know, and I don't know whether there was not an opportunity for the teams to do that or not. But regardless, you know, testing or not, something needs to be done to save Charlotte Merr Speedway, whether they're, whether Charlotte Murray Speedway wants to admit the difficulties they're

facing or, you know, something needs to, I'm just worried about the track. I'm worried about the success of the track and the popularity of the track, the ability of the track to draw a crowd. So hopefully, this really puts on a great, great race and it's something they can think about doing at Charlotte in the points races. I would be resour. I'd be conservative to trying it anywhere else because I think that the racing has been really good at a lot of other places. Texas was awesome. Kansas was pretty good. I mean,

I don't think we need to go trying this at all the big tracks. This is all sort of the perfect opportunity for it. This is just a great, let's just see how it does in this little trial. You know, I only think you need to try to fix what's broken, and we know that the Exfinity race at Andy was broke, and we know that the,

we know that Charlotte Mercer Speedway for whatever reason is broken. And that Charlotte can't be okay or good. It's got to be freaking excellent. It's Charlotte. This is, I mean, it can't be pretty good. It's got to be the best. Yeah. And so I, listen, I've never heard that take and I can't help but agree with it wholeheartedly.

I've never felt that responsibility or heard that responsibility like we owe Charlotte Motor Speedway. The whole industry does. You know, the thought of the thought occurs to me that, you know, you went to Bowman Gray over the weekend. Bowman Gray has to meet an expectation because of what it has given people in the past. Charlotte Motor Speedway is no different. I mean, it's given us incredible racing, and it is important to the very psyche of the industry to have that. And I agree with you. That's a good point.

All right. One more question real quick from some listener named Mike Davis who said, help. My wife is leveraging Mother's Day to try to get me to throw out decades of Alabama football and basketball VHS. tapes. So the question is, asking her to throw away her jewelry, is that fair? This wasn't an ass junior, but it's absolutely. We're making it an ass junior. Your wife, secret is.

This is Mike Davis, obviously, but his wife is trying to get him to throw out these damn old VHS tapes, and I've been through this sort of stuff before. Sounds like to me you need a storage container. That's what I got. Now, they're in a storage container. Not even on the property of the house. Oh, I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying.

Like one of those things you read out. Yeah. need to rent your own storage container and then you put whatever you want in there. I posted that on Twitter as a kind of as a joke and yet the people that responded, there were so many responses and they were all very into their responses. Like, how do you even, do you even have a VHS player? And I'm thinking, that's not the point. The point is this is three decades of work.

Why do people keep their old college notes? I didn't do that. But I'm saying people keep old magazines and things they're not. I'm going to read because it's sentimental to them. It's something that you did back as a kid. I may never watch them again. I don't have a VHS player, right? But it's like when she asked like, hey, can we get rid of all this stuff?

By the way, she was not being very, you know, she wasn't being aggressive. So did you ask her about the jewelry? As a joke, I wasn't literally going to do that. But the fact is, is that everybody's like, just get it moved to digital. I don't know even how to take VHS to digital. How do you do that? You take it to a place and they will swap it over to digital for you. Even VHS tape.

Yeah. Okay. Well, that's what we're doing. Super 8 millimeter or whatever you got? Anything. Beta. How big is your racing old race library now that you all move to digital? How many races you reckon you have?

I don't even know, man. It's pretty big. Like in the thousands? It's in the, it's, yeah. I don't even know, Mike. It's a lot of races. Let's say there's probably 20 races per year and it starts in 51. God, almighty.

I mean, there's obviously not a lot of races from the 50s and 60s, but around 1971, I've got a lot of races for each year. This is the other thing. Is it, are they cataloged? Yeah. I cataloged every VH. Like, there's even like VIN numbers on my VHS. Oh, yeah, I'm telling you.

See, that's Alabama football basketball games all the way back to the 80s, yeah. You definitely need to go to digital so you can catalog it'll be a little easier. Yeah, I hear you. All right, let's go to white flag. White flag, bud. White flag right there, white flag. Pre-order your copy of Dale and Hart Jr.'s racing to the finish my story. Right now on Dale Jr.com forward slash book.

Dale and Ryan McGee are working diligently on this as we speak. Is that going well, by the way? You and Ryan McGee? Yes, it is. The other day he came over to the house and we read the first four chapters together, just kind of going through some back checking and tying up some loose ends. He's going to come over later this week, and we're going to read a couple more chapters to sort of polish them up,

and he's going to sit down. He's still got to spend a little more time with Amy. She's not had a lot of time to spend with him to get her take on it, a lot of things. But it's going really well, and looking forward to seeing people's reaction and response to it. Especially, I think, maybe even more so like you, Kelly, folks like that. Yeah, I can't wait. What's you guys think? I can't wait.

Your DIY Network show will begin airing June 2nd. That is called what, the Dell and Amy? It's a renovation realities, Dale and Amy. There you go. All right. June 2nd, that starts airing on the DIY Network. The Whiskey River at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport is open, but it's not grand opened, grandly opened.

That grand opening, that's a difference. You can open it, but it ain't been grand open, Dillner. You understand what I'm saying? Yeah, well, that's going to happen on June 4th. June 4th. Yeah, June 4th, I'm going to be there. You're going to be there? You're going to go grandly open that thing.

I'm going to go check out the buffalo chicken salad, make sure it's up to snuff. Because if it ain't, is that a jam? That's my jam. Yes. At the Whiskey River in Charlotte at Douglas Airport, Buffalo Chicken Salad is so good. There you go. He is big under that buffalo chicken salad. So if Rale doesn't have a jam there except for beer.

Well, that's got to be up to part two now. Not this Friday, but next Friday we will do a live Dale Jr. Download at Junior Motorsports Fan Day. I feel like we should, I don't know. We ought to give something away. We ought to make it special, make that day. I don't know. I mean, I'm really thinking about this for the first time right now,

but maybe you and I deal on or get together. We can figure out how to really make that special for people that come here for Fanday and watch the Dill Jr. Download live. We do some ask junior questions live. We could do some fun stuff. Yeah, we'll have a good time. So come to Junior Motorsports Fan Day. That is on Friday.

It's the 25th maybe, whatever the Friday of the Charlotte 600 weekend is. Pretty good. Feels good. Brenna Jackson finally got in the studio. She's always looking for reasons to get in and share her opinion. on things. We're privy to text messages from her every weekend. Yeah. It's matter. We've got to take that to podcast, and now I'm excited that she's on Instagram.

All right. Hope everybody enjoys her week. We'll talk to you later. Hey, don't forget, tune into that All-Star Race. It's going to be pretty interesting to know that works out. And eat a snack tray during it. Ah, veggies. Beggies. Yeah, clean. Eat clean. Eat clean. They're an All-Star Race. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Dirty Mo.

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