The Dale Jr. Download - 221 - Father's Day and Party Fouls

Episode Date: June 19, 2018

Dale Earnhardt Jr. discusses one of his biggest party fouls, racing to a port-a-john, his first father’s day as a dad and answers several #AskJr Questions.  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 Dale Jr. Download. It's been a bit of a break. I got with me my co-host, Mike Davis, producer, Matthew Dillner. How's it going, guys? Good to be back. Did you get the tan?

I probably would be, this would not be considered a tan by any one other. For you? Yeah, for me, this is a tan. It is a tan. In pictures, it still looks pretty white. Yeah, but you definitely got some color in on. I look at my, it's weird, you know, I look at my arm, and I'm like, Amy, I think I actually getting some tan.

And she's like, yeah. And then I look at a picture she took just five minutes ago. And I'm like, I'm pale as hell. Pale as hell. Why is that the name of our show? Pale as hell. Pale as hell. Pale as hell.

My nickname. Casper. Oh, no, it's not. No, it ain't. My neck, not Casper, but there's this movie that came out years ago about this kid that was all white and he had these special powers. He was like an albino. Edward Scissors.

You're saying. No. He had these special powers with Ben Spoons and stuff, and his name was. Oh, I know this. I know this. What is it? His name was Powder. Yes.

His name was Ben Spoons with his mind. Yeah, so they nicknamed him Powder and. That's your name. No. So that's what, not Brad Parrott, but Todd Parrott would excuse to call me. Oh, really? Yeah, because Todd Perrin and he went on a vacation one time. Oh, that would be fun.

And I went out on the beach in my shorts and he goes, Powder! Because that movie was relevant at the time, I think. I swear to God, we could get some rejuvenation in diecast sales, even post-retirement, if we just took the number 88 and put powder on the top of it where the name goes. Make it a white car. Yeah, just an all-white car. Off-white numbers. Right.

Yeah, let's pursue that. All right. So we got, as I said, it's been a bit of a break. We took a little time off, gave ourselves a chance to enjoy some home time and vacation time and so forth, but we're back at it. That's right. We're back at it. We got some stuff to talk about. I mean, obviously, this was your first Father's Day as a dad.

We're seeing each other for the first time in at least a week. And so I want to ask you all about your Father's Day experience as a dad. Also, I'm curious if you remember or if Father's Day was even a big deal back when you were a kid, if you ever got the intimidator or a Father's Day gift and what would that be like. So we're going to ask about that. Speaking of Father's Day, Justin Algar gave us all the Father's Day present with the win at Iowa. He had him covered.

Man, had him covered at Iowa. Justin Allgaard is up. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that. And also, we're on TV. We are on TV. I wonder this is like, yeah, there's cameras here. What are we going to do?

Are we supposed to have makeup or something? You look like Steve Bruill when he's doing the camera turns. Yeah, what camera are we supposed to be looking at? This is what, yeah. I love Steve Bruill. We're going to talk about it all. This is what we're doing on the Dell Jr. Download.

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I'm telling you the intros, Matthew, you do such a good job. We got a lot of great topics to talk about today. Mike, you were mentioning Father's Day. Father's Day is a lot different now than it used to be. It was not a big deal to me. When Dad was alive, I didn't really think much of Father's Day. Of course, I wasn't a father at a time. I was the kid.

Well, you had a father. I wasn't a father, though. So I don't understand. Yeah, so it's hard to understand how important that day is. And now becoming a father and being a father for the first time on Father's Day, I get it. I feel like I fell pretty, I fell miserably short as a son trying to get, you know, at least he's honest. Yeah.

And to show my father appreciation and make Father's Day important and special for him. It did not get really important to me until Dad passed. And then Father's Day comes along and you're like, wow. It's Father's Day, you know. And you think about your dad and you think about how amazing he was and everybody does this. We see, you know, on social media, everybody posting photos. Their father's so good to see all those different old school photos and people's appreciation for their parents and their dad. But anyhow, I wasn't very good at making Father's Day very special for Dad.

It just came and went. And I don't know whether he cared or not. I imagine he did. He had to have, you know, cared. that it was a, you know, he'd get recognized. Because, boy, my first, I was like, you know, I felt a little different. Bring it on. I'm a dad.

Birds were chirping a little louder. Yeah, they were. Sunshining a little brighter. Got a little color. Yeah. That wouldn't happen if that wasn't Father's Day. Father's Day get a little tan. Yeah.

And it's, I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but it's interesting to me how Mother's Day and Father's Day are kind of close together. Yeah. And so Amy had her first. mother's day and I had my first father's day kind of back to back so we both we both had to put in that effort to make our first as parents unique and different so it was uh it's came and went it was great I can't say anything crazy unique happened you know get anything did you get a gift I don't want to say I love um Illa had on this little uh onesie that said hello daddy on it I thought was pretty cool.

Oh, man, I'm going to get in trouble with my wife. Awesome. I don't remember getting anything. Oh, but if you did, you are screwed, and we're all going down with that ship. I don't want to go down with you. I hope this don't make TV shows. She made a special day, right? She did.

I mean, I did get breakfast in bed. Oh, that's good. Well, it was a fig Newton and a cup of coffee. What the heck is that? Are you kidding me? I'm still in bed. Well, that was what I wanted. Why would you want that?

Apple cinnamon, man. It's real good. Well, not even the regular Fig No, it's the nature. It's the one that's used to. Yeah, the used to sponsor Danica, Nature's Bakery, man. Actually, that apple cinnamon one is. They're good. I think you let yourself down on Father's Day.

Dude, I'm laying in bed and these things were brought to me. I didn't choose them. Like, I didn't go downstairs. That's a good Father's Day. I'd love to lay in bed and have Fig Newton's delivered to me. It was what I wanted. I had, it was the breakfast that I've been eating all week on vacation. I'm like, you know, I'm going to try to take, you know, not eat a big breakfast

because we were having so much fun at lunch and dinner, eating whatever we wanted. So I was like, I'm going to eat, I got this box of Fing Newton's from the grocery store, and I'm going to eat these for breakfast, get up in the morning and get some coffee, get the Fington. So I'm laying in bed, and Amy brings that up to the bed and hands me island. She's wearing this little daddy, you know, hey, Daddy, Woonsey. And Ila was in a great mood, so we just laid in bed and looked at Ila and she's smiling. You know, she's just now getting to where she smiles. And, you know, she smiled at Amy a few times, but she smiles me a lot.

And so I can tell when I was in a smiling mood, and it's rare. It's not often. But maybe one time every day, I'll catch her when she's like ready to have fun. So. Well, if you bit of a handful? No. She's just real quiet. She's just pretty much expressionless most of the day.

But if you get her in the mood, you know, if you find her in that right mood and give her a lot of baby talk and all kinds of silliness, it's pretty comfortable for me to be real goofy. And it's not for Amy. And Amy's real serious and doing the mother stuff. And, man, I'm digging a hole. No, no, no. That makes sense. The mothers are doing mother things. Yeah.

So Amy's like, you know, she doesn't. She's on the clock, so to speak. Yes. You're at recess all day long, almost. I'm where the baby goes. You're the class clown. You're the amuser. You're the entertainer. Yep.

Yeah. So that's it. So. You're powder. I can't remember. I can't remember what else happened that day. That was, uh, that was specially dedicated to.

Because if you watch the race, I couldn't even watch the race on Father's Day. I mean, like, there didn't things. No. Why? Well, it's also my kid's birthday. Oh, well, you were busy. So, yeah, we were busy. I watched a heck out of that race.

Oh, did you? Okay. Good. Yeah. So I was a place where I had thought. about maybe running and I was asking Ellie Sadler about it and what kind of race track it is

and he says it's real rough and so I don't really like going to the rough places too much. Nothing against, you know, it's just with my history of head injuries and stuff like that, going to a track that's really going to get your head bouncing around. We saw some air car cameras from the cars the other day or yesterday

and just their heads are just banging back and forth on those headrests and I don't want any part of that. So So I won't be going to Iowa. You're going to be going to Kentucky. Yeah, Kentucky's front straightaway, turn three and four in Chicago. I, you know, I did watch the race because I wanted to learn more about Iowa,

but I also wanted to see how our guys were going to do, really how the whole field's going to do against just the Xfinity competitors, no cup guys. And that's a great benchmark, really, to kind of see where everyone's at and who you're going to be facing in that playoff later in the year and who you might be seeing in homestead. And I said at the start of the season, thought to myself that Christopher Bell is going to be one of the tougher competitors this year. He's in an amazing car and he's an amazing driver. I mean, the kid's just so talented.

And as he starts to get sharper and sharper and he's going to do this huge, quick learning curve in this first season by the end of the year, he's going to have it all figured out. And him and his team are going to be clicking. So he's already looking really strong. I thought he had the best car, a little bit better than the seven, but the seven of our guy, man, he was really smart about his line. So he made it as hard as he could with what Bell had to choose as far as the line he needed to get around. He couldn't, you know, he got running the bottom.

He just couldn't clear him. He could get alongside him, get alongside him. And to give Christopher credit, man, he ran him so clean. The other thing that I saw of Justin that doesn't surprise me, but every time he does this, it kind of blows you away, man, but the moves and the risks that he takes, the move that he made to try to win the first stage on the 20-tenth, you know, it's early in the race.

Not a lot of guys make that move. Not a lot of guys take that chance of knocking offenders off their car and hurting themselves later in the race to be able to get that position and win that stage. And I've seen Justin take that chance. and take the risks time and time again. One that stands out from last year was that last restart of Chicago, where he just pushed all his chips in on this really aggressive restart

to take the lead and win the race at Chicago last year. That's quintessential Justin. That's how Justin drives cars all the time. When he was racing in the Cup Series a couple years ago, it was frustrating because he raced you just as hard, in a car that was going to probably finish around 25th to 30th, as if he was in a car that was going to run into top five. But that's Justin.

Justin had that reputation when he was in the Cup Series to be in that guy that like the ones that Denny Hamlin always complains about. Oh, really? He is like. Brad? No, he's not like Brad. He's like Brian Newman in a sense of he's going to be hard to pass and he's going to race you.

And you knew that he was going to get that. He was consistent. He didn't race you dirty and didn't make it. He didn't put you in bad. situations, but he was just going to, he wasn't going to lay over, ever. Was that in your mind when he came to junior motorsports? Were you wondering? It feels like I remember a little bit. You were like a little apprehensive about Justin O'Gar coming to the team because of that reputation. I was, I was only worried about having to explain

Justin's style. As an owner, as an owner when you get a guy in your car, you know, he's a representation of the company. And whatever he chooses to do, You endorse. You have to endorse or apologize for or explain. And a lot of times, drivers, myself included, don't make the best choices on the racetrack. I knew Justin's tendency to race everyone very hard. He's not a guy that's going to give a spot up early in the race if he doesn't have to or feel like he wants to, which is mostly every time. He's a guy that's going to race for that position.

I thought yesterday was a great sort of, you know, example of who he is and how he races. He didn't have the fastest car, but in miserable heat. You know, he just grinded every lap and he made it, you know, as hard as he could on his competitors. I was so impressed with that effort and his tenacity and ability to never go, man, you know, I think I'm defeated. I think he's better than me. He's got me. He's got a better call. Even in positions when guys got by him when he was racing the 21,

Hemrick there at one point. Hemrick, Hingert takes the lead and Justin did not quit or just say, I'm defeated. Or, well, that's it. I'm second now. He just doesn't have that ending. That's one of the reasons why I think that in a good opportunity, Justin could do great things at the cup level.

I think he's a cup talent in Xfinity stuff. That's interesting. Wow. Yeah, I mean, I think there's not. There's a few others in the Xfinity series that are cut talent. Justin's a guy that really, I don't think, ever got the opportunity in good cup cars to stay to prove he belongs there. He drove for Penske. Not in a cup car.

Oh, okay. Yeah. You know, and when he drove for Penske, a lot of people maybe not, don't remember that, but he ran great. He ran great. But, you know, a lot of race car drivers, you know, this is just my opinion, seem to mature differently. Yeah, that's true. That, like, you'll see, you know, will mature at 20. Yeah.

And Algyar, I think, is really coming into his own because I think he's also comfortable knowing Justin and them too. He's really comfortable where he's at as a Xfinity driver and a guy that's going to go for championships. He has a really, you know, he has a really interesting calmness about his situation and where he is in life. He's happy. He's got a great relationship with his sponsor that he's cultivated and he's made. Which made that a huge win, by the way. Side note. Win in the Midwest. That may have been a little bit of reason for the tenacity.

Yeah, good point. Keep going. We won't make this about all sponsors and stuff, but go ahead. Yeah, it was great for Brandt. Yeah, I'm so proud of Justin. You know, he's done so many good things in our company and drove hard. And, you know, never. He's won races that we might not have thought we could win or should have,

might not have thought we were going to win. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And that's the kind of guy you want, like yesterday. Yesterday was a time where I felt like, well, once Christopher Bell gets up there, We're probably going to run second. I thought once he got by him and maybe he could move up to the high line, Justin was done.

Yeah. I knew. I just felt inside. I'm like, man, I don't think our chances are great once Christopher Bell gets up there and either beats us on the track or on pit road. It's going to be hard to get back by him. He's just going to be too strong. And Justin never felt that way.

Never thought that way. Never gave up. And that's why we won that race. You're proud. I can tell you how proud you are. I was real happy for Jason Burdett. Those guys kind of took a beating over at Dover when they got busted on the failing inspection and all the excitement and thrill of winning at that race with that awesome finish

with our teammates crossing the finish line together. All that was kind of taken away from the team and the excitement, the win was out of the sales because of the infraction and post-race inspection. and I'm so glad that they passed inspection this time, so they get to really, you know, finally celebrate and enjoy a win like they want to and like you would want to. I came to work today with a ball of tequila to give to Jason, but he wasn't here, so I had to find someone else to give it to.

Gave it to Lee, our parched manager, Lee Langley. That's a good one. Well, I thought if Lee doesn't want it, he's a parts manager. Everybody comes to the parched table, and he can find someone that does. Yeah, because, I mean, when there's ice cream there, the other day there was ice cream. Yeah. I mean, everybody came down and had some ice cream.

So maybe everybody come down today and have some tequila. Wait a second. Why does Burdette, Burdette doesn't even get a second chance at his gift, his bottle of tequila? I mean, he had to be here to get it. You couldn't just hold it for him? I came in the door determined to give that to somebody. You wanted to give it to somebody.

More than he wanted him to receive it. Maybe it left the house with no one in particular, but I knew I was going to give it away. And so when I walked in here, I thought, Prudette, I'll go to his office. It wasn't here. So I text him, and he's with his kids. having a delayed Father's Day afternoon with his family. Yeah, very good. And it's awesome, man.

It is awesome. You know, it occurred to me with Algar winning on Father's Day, being that he has a little girl. And so now that you're a dad and you know how much more things mean to you on days like this as a parent, when you become a parent, everything changes. Your priorities change, everything changes. And so I remember back when you won on Father's Day, in fact, you've won two races on Father's Day. I remember that that was even before I even had a kid.

So, like, yeah, it was hard for us to really process what it meant to people. But I remember everybody thinking how huge of a deal that was. And you and your Victory Lane interview gave a Happy Father's Day to everybody. That was at Michigan in 2008, by the way, your first win for Hendrick. And then, again, in 2012. And I don't know. What do you remember about those races? Father's Day wins.

Oh, well, I mean, I just remember particulars about the events. I remember one time racing on Father's Day. and driving one of the Budweiser cars, and it was painted up like Ralph Earnhardt's. That's right. That was right. That would have been like two thousand with that slanted eight deal. Just a great.

It was like the old, not a slanted eight. Like the off white car. Yeah, yeah. With the funny bumpers on it, you know, the decal bumper. I remember also on a Father's Day running a,

there was like a black, basically where our names were on the roof of our cars were all black. It's sort of a nod to dad. We were driving the red, but eight car then. By the way, you go back to that race where you ran that cream. Yeah, rained out. We were flying.

Run in the top. Finish third. Yep. Finish third in that race. Case came one. Do you remember? Carl every second. The snapshot that I vividly remember about that race was at the hell of Pat afterwards.

Was that when your hat? Remember because we had those throwback hats? Well, yes. That was the throwback hats. That was it. Oh, man. So wait, wait. So what happened?

We have to tell this story. So this is the best story from a father's day at Michigan. So we go, all right, so we were running great in that race, but Casey was fast. I think Casey won and Carl was second. Yeah, that's right. And man, that car was so, our car was so good. Right around then, Tony Jr. and them guys are doing some great things. And we finish the, we get rained out, go into the media center, do our media stuff.

We're happy, you know, top three. We should have finished, but, you know, we'll see, you know, we'll leave and be happy. went to the helipad because we used to helicopter to the airport. Now, back when we was high in, we were high maintenance. Back before we knew how dangerous that is. Yeah. So we got to the helipad and a race fan come over there and he had a few drinks and was a little drunk. By a few drinks, he didn't know his own name.

This guy was so drunk. So he was drunk, but he was like, hey man. He saw the, he was like, first he was like, hello, how you doing? We're talking to him, signed a hat for him. or signed something for him he had. We signed it for a bunch of people there. It's about half a dozen, a dozen people standing around. And he's like, he sees this hat on Mike's head.

And he's like, I want that hat, man. I want that hat. Give me that hat. Mike's like, I ain't giving you my hat. And I was like, don't listen to Mike, man. He gave him that hat. Mike. He's got about 10 more of those hats in his book bag.

No, no, that's not how Dale did it. Dale's giving himself a lot of credit here. This is what Dale did. Del Jr. Dale Jr. did something that shocked me. he had my back for a moment. He was like, man, don't be take. The guy was trying to take the hat off my head.

What, like physically? Yeah. Yeah, so it wasn't that he was just asking me for the hat. I said no. And so then he took it. He yanked it off my head. And I saw red. Oh, yeah.

You know, he literally just yanked it off my head. He grabbed it. And I grabbed it back and I'm mad. And Dale Jr. comes in, he's like, man, don't be taking his hat like that. You don't just yank a man's hat off his head like that. What are you crazy? That's, you know, he's a man. He has my back.

He's like, he has 10 more just like it in his bag, though. And that guy then went yanking for my hat again. He did. Mike got even more upset with this guy. And so there really was a need for separation at the helipad. And I, like, that was the most mad that I've ever been. Dale turned in the PR Dale. Yeah, he was.

He was pulling me back. He was the grumpy driver. Yeah, Mike was the grumpy driver. He's just right. You know, he's been racing all day. He's been in the pits running those pit notes all day. He's hot. He's bothered.

You were. I was mad. If somebody took something off your head, you'd get mad. Oh, yeah, yeah. The guy didn't even, you know, give you any kind of warning. He just went and reached for it. You went from having my back to instigator. Yeah.

And then thought it was so funny afterwards. Oh, yeah. He did. But that was Michigan in 2000s, whatever, six maybe. Then you go there in 2008. I remember in 2008, I remember we were short on fuel. And I remember that being the very first race that I had ever turned the car off and coast under caution. You know, that's something that everyone does all the time.

Even if they're not needing this, I mean, they start doing this at the start of the race. Guys are trying to save fuel, cycling the engines under caution as they're beginning the pace laps. But that was the first time where we were really low on fuel, and Tony Jr. said, cycle the engine on and off. And so I'd drive the car, I'd gas the car and coast by the pace car with the engine off. And then the pace car would come back by, and I'd go way back here behind the pace car, and then fire it back up and do the whole thing over again. And everybody was raising hell because I was passing the pace car over and over and over. Matt Kenseth was like, why, how can they let him pass the pace car over and over?

there's your black flagging. They're letting, you know, it's Dale Jr. Just let Dale Jr. do whatever Dale Jr. wants to do. Right. Go ahead and give him the win. That's what Kenseth was saying. So Tony Jr.'s finally like, man, stop passing the pace car. So I said, all right, all right.

But I'd never done that before. In any kind of fuel, you know, saving situation, had ever even thought to turn the motor off before. That turned into doing it in that situation, that dire, you know, last minute, last second salvage of trying to, to save fuel in that moment. That went from every time we were in a fuel situation where we needed a little bit or even if we thought we could make it and we needed to try to get a little more insurance,

every caution. Cycle the motor, cycle the motor. And then it went from cycling the motor in them situations to, well, it's the start of the race. We're going to start cycling the engine. Oh, I remember that, yes. We're going to start cycling the motor once we pull off pit road. And we're going to cycle the engine every caution. Even if we're not even trying to save fuel, we're cycling the motor.

And I'm like, I think this is time for me to call it. a career. This is the kind of shit that I'm really not enjoying about NASCAR. I remember that. I forgot about that. I was like, I remember that day when we put off it, and I think it was I was, it was I was,

it was hard or something I am like, he's like cycle it from here on, we're going to cycle all day. I'm like, for real, I'm already annoyed that cycling is even part of the game. Right. Because it's just so frustrating.

Frustrating and tedious. And yeah, so when cycling became, cycling the engine to save fuel and even bring temps down and things like that became part of the norm that you do all the time. It took a lot of fun. Here's the thing, though, you made up two laps. When you made your final pit stop in 2008 that race, you were two laps short, and you made it up.

And then you did get the benefit of a wreck on the last lap. So we don't even know the car did run out of gas to where I needed to be pushed into victory lane. And I actually crossed the finish line, turned into pit road at the entrance to turn one. Oh, really? and drove to the pit box and it was out of gas right there. So had we had to finish the race under Green, probably wouldn't have made it. 2012, this was a big one. This was the first year where, you know, rear skew and the houses and things like that was becoming a big deal.

One of the biggest parts of skew or the biggest moments of skew that I remember was when it was a 77 Penske car at the All-Star Open. Who was driving that car? Sam Hornish. Sam Hornish coming down the back straightaway in the, open at Charlotte, literally sideways, you know, down the back straight away. And things were getting way out of hand. And NASCAR started to dial it back and make some rules to try to take some of that, you know, that physical skew out of the cars.

But teams are still, even today, trying to find ways to gain that skew back, you know, and that skew creates side force and therefore create speed. I think Hendrick was doing some of the best work in that area at the time we were at Michigan in 2012. I remember that track was just recently repaved and I remember looking up at the scoreboard

seeing like 202 averages and 205 averages knowing we're going in the corner at 220 miles an hour and just that seems so insane that'd be able to average over 200 miles an hour faster than we average

at Talladega Daytona. When the race started we were terrible, we went backwards stevely tart stuck a rubber in the left rear and that was that adjustment made the car go from out of control to winning the race.

But I remember Marcus Ambrose having an awesome day and having to race Marcus up front. You know, Marcus was a great race car driver with a team that wasn't really a top-tier team. So for him to have that kind of day was something that was memorable to me even today. You had them covered. Yeah, our car was fast.

It was. Great experience, though. Went in in the Batman car, Black Knight. Dark Night or whatever. It was cool. Yeah, they had the Batmobile out at the racetrack that day. Good Father's Day memories there. And Justin Algar just made one for him, so that's good for him.

We're happy about that. Speaking of Father's Day gifts, I think you'll find this funny. My 9-year-old daughter gave me a Father's Day gift before she went off to summer camp, and I'm going to show you what it is, and then I'm going to tell everybody what it is. She gave me. Oh, man. She went and bought with her own money somewhere, some yard sale, a deck, a pack of playing cards, Delton Earnhardt Jr., rookie.

Rookie. Rookie. Rookie. Rookie. Rookie card. Yeah, playing cards. Not collecting cards? Yeah, yeah. Like Queen Diamond, you know, spades.

But it's got his bleached blonde hair. So that was my Father's Day gift right there. That's pretty cool. So that's not too bad. I thought it was the thought that counts. That's what I'm looking forward to. I think as Father's Days start to trickle on by is seeing Isla's creativity in those moments. That's the goal.

Yeah, when she gets to the point where she's going to actually get the gift. Let's hit an exalt update. This is your Exalta Race Center update. I'm Matthew Dillner. The NASCAR Cup series was off spending time with family on Father's Day weekend, but the Truck and Xfinity Series were in action at Iowa Speedway, and the short track amongst Cornfields did not disappoint. Brett Moffat held off a desperate last-lap move by Noah Gregson to win the M&M's 200 truck series race on Saturday night.

On Sunday, Junior Motorsports driver Justin Algear held off a ferocious charge by Christopher Bell to take the win in the American ethanol E15250. Daniel Hemrick, Cole Custer, and Brendan Jones rounded out the top five. The Cup Series will serve up some fine racing in wine country this weekend, going left and right at Sonoma Raceway in California. While the Xfinity Series enjoys an off weekend, the Truck Series will be on track at Gateway Motorsports Park just outside of St. Louis. The Junior Motorsports Late Model Program takes a trip to the coast of North Carolina

for the cars toured Crystal Coast 125 this weekend at Catarret County. Speedway. 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, please visit exalta

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All right, people chiming in using hashtag Ask Junior. Number one question, I'm curious, this is one of those examples of we don't prep down with these questions. We like to hit him from right field. Noble and Chocolate Myers recently on Series XM NASCAR told a story about you and a guy named Brad Stevens, who's a news anchor in Kansas City, racing to a porter john during a red flag, possibly during the Juan Pablo Montoya incident in Daytona.

He didn't say who won. Do you remember that? Did you win? Yeah. The race to the porter, John? With Brad Keselowski. Oh, so this guy tagged a Kansas City reporter. So it was actually Brad Keselowski who you raced it.

Yeah. So did you beat them? Oh, yeah. I mean, I think everybody had to have seen that. But we were parked on the, the whole field was parked on the back straightaway and we're out of our cars and reminded me of at Hickory Motor Speedway. Hickory Motor Speedway has a cemetery on the back side of the racetrack. And on Saturdays in the middle of the day,

there was a race and there was a funeral, they'd stop the race, they'd have red flag. Oh, wow. The funeral goes on. So there's a long term, you know, long red flag. Guys get out of their cars and drivers leaning up against the backstretched wall, talking, and how you doing, man, what's up? And, you know, for half hour to 45 minutes. So this reminded me of that.

All the drivers are out of their cars. Cars are sitting on the back straight away, these, you know, $100,000 machines. Everybody's like looking down and turn three at Juan Pablo, wondering how that happened. You know, none of us have seen a replay or know exactly what went on. How do you crash into one of the, you know, paste trucks or whatever? So we're just goofing off. Everybody's got their phones, which that was the night that Lackasowski tweeted out from his cockpit, a picture of everything happening.

And NASCAR said, well, you can't, you're not supposed to have your phones. So they made a rule about everybody with their cell phones. So he started walking to the port of John, and I thought, man, it's a good idea. Where's this portadjohn at? And I got to look and I saw where it was. And I kind of jogged up behind him quiet. and tact no one of his children, say, race you. And so we started running, and with his long legs, man, he can.

He's deceptively fast. He's like a giraffe. There you go. I thought for sure I had him be. He's definitely more of a giraffe than a gazelle. Right. If you've seen the basketball video of him on YouTube, I thought. It is a priceless video.

I thought I got this guy beat, but man, he almost, he had me beat. Actually, I had to give him the shoulder. We got to the port of John, and I had to push him. So you wrecked him. Yeah, put the bumper to him, push him. by where he overran the port of John. At this point, literally my heart is pounding out of my chest, and I'm almost embarrassed about how out of breath I am.

And so I go into the port of John and stood there for five minutes for I ever took a leak to catch my breath. Like, holy moly, I can't let anybody see how terrible I feel. And he's probably standing outside the thing going, man, I'm going to have to go in there. He's been in there for five minutes. Oh, no. Brad's thinking, this was my idea to begin with, and now I'm sitting here waiting for this out of shape guy to cool off.

Exactly. We made a JRM 360 out of that, though, Dilloner. You'll like that. We went and had Dave Moody do a race call. No, I didn't see that one. Yeah, we had Dave Moody call it as a turn announcer, the race to the Port of John. That's great. All right.

On to a serious question. Tyler Locrow wants to know. Dale, is the driver's counsel able to push NASCAR hard enough to try, the opposite side of that package that they tried, maybe no tapered spacer, valance instead of splitter, less downforce, et cetera, or do the drivers have very little say in that situation? It's hard for me to measure exactly how much influence that the driver council has not being in it. I know that when I was in the driver council that the drivers did have a lot of influence compared to when there was no driver's counsel.

So without the driver's counsel, before that was around, you had drivers going to, you had drivers going in to the NASCAR hauler or texting, calling different executives, everybody offering different information and ideas, right? Everybody with good intentions, but just a lot of different voices. And not everyone's saying the same thing. The council came together because at one point, me and Denny Hamlin and Jeff Gordon got together in an agreement to maybe form an organization for the drivers. A union?

Well, let's not say that you were. Yeah, I know, right? We were trying. We were trying our hardest for it not to be a union. Right. And it was more of a way for us to try to think of ways to, I don't know, maybe save money on health insurance or life insurance. If we could figure out a way to do some things that would bring some costs down for us

as a group. Kind of like a players association in other sports? Okay. That's a union. I think it was very similar to that. More than like, I don't, you know, I can't say what it would end up becoming. But right around the same time, when we told NASCAR, hey, this is something we're thinking about doing, they came up with their idea to have a council.

Well, all right. You know, if you guys want to get together and have one voice, then we'll start a council. It became a bit of a problem for us because me and Jenny, and Jeff was mainly in there by name more than anything, but didn't even did a lot of legwork. We basically had to decide, man, do we still want to go forward trying to organize? It was very hard to get all the drivers on the same page as far as needing to organize. A lot of guys didn't understand an appoint an organizer or whether it was necessary

or having to pay dues or what would it be beneficial. A lot of guys like the idea of the council, and the council wouldn't cost us anything. So we, I think, at that point, decided to cut our losses and not organize and then join the council. And the council's become very beneficial for the drivers in the sense that the drivers got together and would meet together without NASCAR to form their plan and form their initiative and their goals. And that way, everybody knew what the plan was, knew what the objective was, and not everybody was saying different things. everybody was, we would go into these meetings with a plan like, hey, you know, if we want less now for us, let's all say that and let's not get in the weeds. Yeah.

With different ways to do it or everybody's opinion being, you know, unique. Let's all just ask for the same thing. And that really, I think, helped NASCAR, but it certainly has been a benefit for the drivers. I think the council's changed a lot since I was a part of it. How they function has changed quite a bit since I've been a part of it. So it'd be interesting to do a piece on the council, really, to know where it is and how it's changed. Because I think it's changed quite a bit. Do you think for the better?

You know, I'm sure it's changed for the better. I mean, the drivers that are still in it that were in it when I was around seem to still be utilizing the council and believe in the council. Yeah. You know, so I, yeah, before there was a council, drivers didn't get a lot of things done. and the driver's opinions were so varied and unique, and because there were personalities, NASCAR didn't know what we wanted and what was really important and what wasn't.

It works in conjunction with the race team alliance that the owners have. Yeah, and the competition committee that NASCAR has put together with all the different teams. I think it works really well. How much influence they have, it's hard to say. All right, Mike Callahan shimes in a few weeks ago, a Chevrolet executive wrecked a pace car in the Detroit Belisle Grand Prix.

His question is, if Mike Davis wrecked the Windale Jr.'s ride Corvette, like that guy did an indie, like that cat did an indie, what would his punishment from you be? I mean, I don't think there would be a punishment. He would be so upset, so ashamed, you'd feel terrible. You wouldn't, it wouldn't be. You're so nice, you're being so nice to him. I'm telling you, if anybody in this. This is the part of the conversation where he's got my back and he's telling the guy to leave my hat alone.

Watch. Just wait. Watch what happens. It'll turn. You couldn't do that. You couldn't punish somebody because they would feel terrible anyways. What are you going to do? I would never get in that car.

I don't even want to get near that car. I mean, anything worth a lot of money, you just stay away from. That's a golden rule. I tweeted about that. Hey, when Dale Jr.'s ride, you know, program, here's the Corvette. and this guy tweets back, how many corvettes do you own? Sarcastically, right?

Like, obviously, I don't own a Corvette, so many Corvettes that I'm giving one away every year. What happens is Chevrolet Chevrolet donates this car to us, and this is an awesome, it's ain't no stripped-down low-options Corvette. No. This is the top-of-the-line Corvette.

I mean, this thing is nasty, especially this year's car is my favorite as far as the color, interior and exterior. It's a 2018 Corvette Coupe 06 for the 3LZ package. It is a awesome car. They send it to my house, and it's in my garage. And so me and Amy will drive it. Heck yeah.

You know, we'll go to dinner and we'll put some miles on it and get in there and drive it around. So we would not do a disservice to the person thinking they're going to buy this car, and I've never drove it. You know, like, oh, it just sits over here in the corner the junior sports shop and we never touch it. Or put 100,000 miles on it, and then I'll float it. Right. And you don't. And you don't want to beat the thing up. Right.

All right. Nikki Bobby Marks chimes in saying back in the day. That's almost three first names. Nicky Bobby. It's like Ricky Bobby. But the Marks. Justin Marks. Maybe it's Justin Marks.

Alter ego. Like it's his burner account or something. Yeah. Nikki Bobby Marks though wants to know. He said back in the day, man, you had some good victory parties. But what was the best victory party that you went to that you didn't win? Oh, somebody else's victory party. Okay.

Well, that's a good question. That is a good question. I'm even trying to think, I mean, if you've ever been to a boy or victory party, that's got to be up there. I don't know that I've ever been to a boy or victory party. Truex, maybe? I have went to Martin's house. Martin throws down, but he don't get too crazy. Martin's victory party that I went to anyways wasn't a blowout.

So it was a small group. Does a chance to deal or? No, this was just recent. recent. Yeah, a couple years ago maybe. In the last probably 12 months. I'm trying to think. Well, you just bring up a good point, doing her.

Back in the chance two days, especially when winning the championship, there had to be. There had to be some epic throwdowns, right? There had to be. They all lived on the property. What are you going to do? I mean, certainly something was destroyed. A gazebo or a go-cart.

I went to, I don't know if it was a Vicky party or not, but I went to Ricky Hendricks House one time. We'd race somewhere, and he called me up and was like, come on over, man. We're having a party, and Jimmy and Jeff were there, and more than likely than one of them two probably won the race. Right. Yeah. That was a pretty fun one. Ended up getting a couple of stitches.

Yeah, you busted your head open. Tell us that story. Oh, God. Come on, let's hear it. So they, have we not told this story? I don't know. I don't know that this would ever get old, actually. So, yeah, so I'll give the short version.

I go to the house, I'm going to stay because we're going to drink. So he's like, hey, you know, I'll put you up in the upstairs of the detached garage. He had like a little room up there. I was going to stay up all night. I didn't plan on sleeping. But they had a hot tub and they put all this detergent in it. And the suds went over into the pool. And so I dove into the pool, didn't know how shallow it was.

And hit my head on the bottom and came up and busted my foreheads. split it wide open like probably about an inch by inch kind of an x split and jimmy johnson's like it's two three in the morning jimmy's like i'll drive you we got a doctor you know we got a guy that works for hendrick and uh they call him and he's like i'll meet you at my practice so jimmy drives me over to this guy and we go into this doctor's office and it's just the doctor i laid on a table he put a sheet over my head and the guy sewed my forehead up jimmy's around jimmy's walking around in there, playing with all the stuff in the room, right? And there's so much to the story that I didn't know.

Right. So Jimmy drives me back to, and they're like, don't go to sleep, man. You know, you hit your head, so we don't know if you got a concussion or not. So maybe you just kind of stay up for a while. So we grabbed a couple more beers and we stayed up a little longer. Because we're worried about concussion. So let's follow me. Let's just get a couple of beers.

How many can you drink from three to five in the morning, right? So eventually about five o'clock, I'm like, I'm too tired. I got asleep, so I went upstairs and laid down. Got up the next morning and drove home. You were saying that the head injury happened because you dove into the shallow end. That had nothing to do with the suds. The suds are in the pool. I know, but that isn't why you got injured.

I thought you slipped and busted your head. You're lucky to be here. I know. I could have broke my neck. Oh, my God. I see, that's what I'm saying. I didn't know this. Really?

Yeah. I dove into a shallow end of a pool and hit my head and probably could have broke my neck, but I'm lucky. You are lucky. I'd have been so ashamed to have broken my neck at their gathering, you know, and have made, you know, that's the least part of your problems if you broke your neck. The shame at your party. You understand that, right?

You would be embarrassed. You don't want to ruin a party, but, geez, there are more important things. That would have been the whole, you know. That speaks to the level of partying he used to do that his biggest concern was not being embarrassed at the party. The side note to that is we went to Pocono the next week to race. And I'm like, man, I can't walk around all these stitches in my forehead. I got a big old, you know, patch over my face. So I started, I'm like, I'm going to have to wear a du rag.

That's right. That's right. I remember that. The only thing. That's why you were wearing that thing? I was wondering. I'm like, what the heck is he trying to do? The only thing I could think of that would work was a du rag.

And because the du rag could stay on when the helmet went on. If I wore a hat backwards, I'd have to take it off. Yep. And people would see this big patch. And it's like a. two-by-two-inch patch. And so we wore a du rag. I wore a du rag for like three weeks.

They started selling them at the merchandise trailer. I remember shooting that thing. I don't know if he's a Crip or a blood or... All right. Ant Jemima. I don't know. I think at the Talladega race, a couple weekends later, the team did the whole over-the-wall game wore them and did their pit stop.

It became a thing. Right. It was a trend. Right. And so the whole reason I was wearing this du-rag was just to hide this injury. Do you do that. Wow. There's a picture I'm standing with Dale Jarrett, and I think Elliot Sadler, in the garage at Pocono,

and if you look real close, you can see that patch kind of sticking out from under the do rag. But I bought this one. I brought a red du rag, the red, just a regular red. And then somebody's like, you know, you got do rags of your own at the souvenir trailer. So we went, we went and got those. And I started wearing them instead. I'm like, hell, if I'm going to wear this damn thing, maybe we'll sell a few of them. Make some money off of it.

And then the team's like, all the guys knew that I had busted my head open and why I was wearing this do rag. And they're like, we're going to wear new rags too, man, you know. And so they're wearing them before we had helmets over the wall. Yeah, yeah. On the tire changers and so forth. So, yeah. Wow. And finally, after like three, four weeks, then stitches come out and you can still see the scar a little bit.

It's embarrassing because, you know, I'm, I. It's a party foul. It is. We won't get into it in this. episode but we've got plenty of time in other episodes to talk about the things that Dale Jr. would do like in between practices or you know in a weekend but leading up to a race and and have to think about cover cover up something that he did and I'm thinking of one specifically and all I will say is remember those wax those candle uh those ear candles we'll say that for

another you will say that for another episode but there's a funny story about him with these ear candle wax deals yeah there's that one and then there's also the story we'll tell later where I went and got hair straightener and straightened my hair. Yes. Ended the bus and blistered my forehead. We're going to have an episode called the dumbest brat that Dale Jr. has ever done. Right, right. I want to say one last thing about that.

That whole thing with the bust of my head open. At three in the morning, for us to have been there for hours. And Jimmy could be, I'm taking you to hospital out of anybody there. And he wasn't even the guy that I knew the best. You know, me and Jimmy weren't, you know, best pals. I knew him. We were friends. And I know people were probably tired of me trying to convince them how great a person

Jimmy is because I have done it a million times and I do it all the time. But for him to step up and say, I'll take you. Yep. Because I'm embarrassed. There's 30, 40 people there. More than half, I don't know. I'm the guy that jumped in the pool and hit my head and busted it open and completely killed the vibe.

And for him, he's like, man, all whiskey out of here. We'll get them. We're going to go. I got a doctor. We're calling him. We're going to set it up. You'll be fine. At three in the morning.

He could have been in bed or been like, you know, someone else handled it. But, dude. We've been waiting for Jimmy to screw up and so we could pay this life debt back. But he's so perfect that he never will do anything stupid. He hasn't screwed up really since the golf car deal. Yeah. The golf car deal. That's good one.

All right. Cool. Any other ones? Yeah, let's just do one more real quick. Brianna Codeway said she misses the post-race periscope videos. So is there any chance you could do one and maybe get a breakdown after a diaper change? Oh, man, that's a great idea. So when I did the Periscope Post-Race things, it was a race to talk about.

And I've wanted to keep active on social media, but it's been a bit of a challenge to tag those moments and do it. Mike gave me that great, great line to tag moments, you know, and talk about them and speak about them. But it's been a little bit more challenging for me having just been sitting around watching racing. And I know how a lot of people, I know how a lot of the other drivers feel, especially some of the younger guys, like, is this important? Does anybody care to know that I'm doing this? Do I want, am I going to be perceived as a person that's like doing too much? Like, you know, is every moment worth capturing?

What are the ones that are? One are the ones that aren't? So I'm sort of navigating that water. It's going to be great to finally get back to the racetrack. I think that's going to give me opportunities to engage with people on social media more often because that there was a time when especially before ila was here uh where i was doing a lot more stories on instagram i was you know posting a lot more on twitter and instagram but when illa got here i don't know it's just we've been that has taken up so much of my mental focus sure it ain't

really that i don't have time it's just a mental focus is on ila and what iowa needs and why she's upset or why she's what she's going to need next you know and so So I can't even think about, I don't even think about, like, this is fun. I should change, you know, this is a great picture. Boy, this is the cool moment. Let me capture. You just mentally not even in that moment. You know, you're mentally not plugged into that at the time.

But I think once I cycle back into going to the racetrack and stuff, that'll come back to me. You know, but I definitely feel like I've missed being on social media and using it as much as I used to. It was fun, engaging. I love to engage and get feedback. and be part of the conversations. Cool. But ever since I was came, it's like,

I can't even get into that anymore right now. Y'all are still trying to figure out how, you know, I mean, look, it takes a long time to really kind of get into your rhythm, right? Oh, yeah.

I'm out of rhythm. Yeah. Stay out of rhythm. It's fine. It's normal. It's the same way. It's the same. I had the same,

I had the same exact feeling when I got out of the car. I kind of knocked me out of orbit, you know, and I was a little bit out of balance zone as far as how to, engage on social media and whether people wanted to know any of the content or whatever was happening.

And doing this show and putting this on TV now and doing things like that's going to give people access and content and maybe that will spur some more great social media interaction. That's a good point to actually talk about the TV show. I know we're an ass junior. There's been some misconceptions. There has been some misconceptions. I did a Periscope last week actually to address some of that. But, you know, the fact that this is on TV now had a lot of people concerned.

well, then why is the podcast got to leave? Well, the podcast is leaving. This is first and foremost a podcast. And more than that, the TV people don't want us to change a thing. Yeah. And I can promise you, we don't know how to change if they did tell us to change. So that's what the TV is going to be. Yeah, basically, we've been doing this podcast forever.

And over this particular year with Dillner's Edition and the connection to NBC, we've been able to put a lot of video content of the podcast, either on social media with our handles, Dirtymo Media, or on NBC's NASCAR America. That's right. And people see that and they say, where is all of the content?

Where's the full podcast? Yeah, they want the whole episode. I would like to watch the full video. This is an opportunity now for people to do that. They'll get more of the video. It'll be a half-hour TV show. It'll be a condensed version of the podcast. They're going to take out all the bourn stuff.

And leave in the busts in your head in the pool. Our job is to try, you know, we're still doing the podcast, still be able to access the podcast the same way you always have, but they're going to try to condense it. And our job is to try to make that as hard as possible for them to condense it into 30 minutes. That's right. That's right. And hopefully people enjoy seeing this on TV and hopefully it translates well. Yeah, absolutely.

And it is so exciting for us because, to be honest, we're just to think about the trajectory of dirty move media, right, and how we've grown. And adding Dillner was such a huge piece of it. So this television aspect, look, it's not going to change us, but it is very cool for us, and we're really excited about it. And we also want to do a good job for NBC. That's right. Hey, before we go to White Flagdale, I want to ask you about this, the exciting conclusion of renovation realities. This Saturday night at 9 p.m. Eastern, like the network has been doing each week, they'll air the previous shows before that. So this is episode four and the final.

This has been pretty cool. Yeah, if you haven't seen any of it, you can literally watch all four episodes in concession in a two-hour timeframe. Leading up to it, right? From 7.30, they should play the first episode, and then the final episode will air at 9. 9 o'clock. So you could watch them all together if you want. We would prefer that. Have you enjoyed it? I have really enjoyed it. Me and Amy Lay watched this past episodes in the bed on our vacation, and we just laugh. We just can't believe how... What are you laughing at the most?

We're laughing at ourselves, really, because it's just weird to see yourself, and I don't really. know exactly what my, how you would categorize my sense of humor. And I don't know, maybe, you know, I wouldn't be able to explain my sense of humor to another person, but when I watch it on the TV in that show, I can sort of see it. It's like looking in the mirror a little bit. It's just some of the things that you say that you don't really even mean to be funny or you don't mean to be smart-assie or sarcastic. The way they come across and how they edit the show together, it's just, wow. You know, Amy's laughing like crazy and It's been a fun experience to watch.

We worked real hard. You know, one of the things that I remember when I see the show is, like, it reminds me of how much work we really did physically. Now, there was a lot of guys there helping, especially on the days we weren't there. There was a full crew working on that house. You obviously, you know, obviously we're not there every day. We've got races to go to and other obligations. But we did a lot of work. It was hard.

The work was enjoyable, but it wasn't something that I would love to go do every day. You know, it made me appreciate our contractor and his guys and what they do for a living. So watching the show just sort of brings back all those memories of like, man, it was miserable. The heat and the misery of the heat does not translate well over the television show. Well, you could see your sweat. Like in the first show, I was kind of laughing. It looked like a face on your shirt. I was wearing these khaki wranglers.

and Ranglers makes this great pair of work pants, not to be pitching, but they soaked, the legs soaked down to the shin bone, and I've never sweated an entire pair of pants. You sweated the full pant. Yeah, I was like, this is like a new level. This is like several levels above where I've ever been in sweating. It's been in many hot race cars. Yeah. Build that sweat equity.

I've been in so many, I've been in hot cars like it's 130 degrees in there, and I've never sweat as much and you know the heat down there's just so bad but and there's it's not moving you're in this old house there's no AC and the wind's not blowing through that thing and oh it's terrible it's the smell doesn't translate like so we're saying we're in a room we're in this house that cats have been peeing in for 20 years in for 20 years animals have been dying in it for 20 years no one's lived in this thing and we're smelling all that in the first probably 30% of the whole process of building the house, we had to stand and smell all that. You know, that doesn't come across on TV as bad as it was.

I mean, I'm just glad it's over and I wouldn't want to do that again. I did enjoy, it did sort of unlock this side of me that I didn't know. It has. I had. Yeah, I was going to say that. When it comes to being a little bit more of a handyman, I just never really tried. I would see things around the house and go, that's broke. Got to get a got to fix that.

or damn it, got to replace that. Now I look at something and go, how can I fix that? And man, why haven't I fixed that? So I've been working on all kinds of them, odd jobs around my house, making these giant long lists. I'm going down to our property in Key West and fixing additional things, you know, that I know I can fix. And that's been fun.

I've had this whole chunk of time while Fox has been broadcasting the races, waiting on the NBC deal to start. I've had a lot of time to take a look around and really take stock. and where my property's at, where my house is, what state, what state of, you know, repair this is in and that's in, and take note, you know, and think about, when I was racing and you were going from track to track to track to track and you were only home for a couple days, you'd look at things and go, well, I need to get somebody to fix that, and I got to, I'll just, yeah, I'll just put that on the side, and that's not important right now, you know, that TV

outside, down by the pool, I don't even watch it, so I ain't even, it's been broke for eight years, what the hell, I'll just leave it. Now I'm like, hey, man, I can fix these things. That's good. You know, and Amy's tweet was funny about the dry wall the other day that she you could tell that you guys are laughing at yourselves and having a lot of fun with it. That was a moment where I didn't think they were capturing us

on TV. We're standing there. Oh, wow. Yeah, we were standing on the phone? No. When I was like, do you know how to do this? Oh. They were like, literally they would hand us the dry like for this example. They're like, here's some dry wall. You're going to do this wall. And I'm like, Amy, do you know?

I don't have to do drywall. I have no idea. And our contractor wasn't there all the time. He's got other projects he's working on. And they've got, you know, hurricane damage and things they're trying to fix. And he's all over town. And so I'm like, man, I'd no idea how to do drywall. So I assume she did because she's been in enough homes in certain states of, you know,

progress to see something done. And she's like, I don't know. That's them. And so we're standing there going, damn, we don't know what we're doing. That's so funny. And then the thing is is you don't want to. start doing it and then they're filming it and then somebody's going to see it and go, they don't know shit about drywall.

Look these idiots. Look at this idiot doing drawwall terribly. All right. Let's do white flag. White flag right there, white flag. All right. So we talked about the renovation realities. Also, Dale Jr.'s book can pre-order racing to the finish on Dell Jr.com.

Look, Dale Jr.com right now. He is finished writing it. They're running it on the press if that's still a thing they do. I guess there's a press. or something. I don't know. They have to make the book. I can just see some like newspaper.

At some point, printing has to be done, right? It has to be done. Everyone has read this book has been blown away. I got another one this morning, Dale. I haven't even told you about it. But the people that have read this book internally have been blown away, and I am one of such people. So I really think that a lot of people are going to receive this well.

Dale Jr.com forward slash book. That's where you go pre-order racing to the finish. Also, as we talked about earlier, Dale Jr.'s raffling off a Corvette. You can go to Win Dale Jr's Ride.com to purchase a $25 raffle ticket. It is a 2018 Corvette Coupe Z-O-6 with a 3LZ package. And also by doing that, you'll support the Dell Jr. Foundation. And then, listen, lastly, you are less than two weeks away from being a broadcaster now, a weekend broadcaster. Are you excited?

I am. I'm getting a little bit nervous. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I am because I knew I would. But the great thing about it is we'll have a few practices, you get our legs underneath. get my leg, you know, for me to get my legs. Jeff Burton and those guys.

They got their legs. They're going to go in there and fire off, and I'm going to have to sit there and make mistakes and so forth. I'm just nervous because I don't want to fail. I don't want to, I want people to go, you know, he's an asset to what's happening, and I want to, you know, I'm glad he's there. It may stumble out of the gate, you know, have those learning curve there and rookie mistakes, but I'm excited about it and hope to do a good job.

Does it raise your anxiety knowing that NBC put that market campaign? Does it feel a little bit? like countdown to E-Day? Yes. It does. That spot they put on it. You can just be watching a hockey game or something, and all of a sudden you see this banner and this Dell Jr.

putting his headset on. It feels a little like countdown to E-Day back in 1999. That's an interesting concept. Cross-promotion with hockey and NASCAR. That's interesting. I don't know why you would do such a thing. I mean, you know, the demographics. That's groundbreaking.

Yeah, the demographics are so, so apart. I don't know why they would ever consider doing such a thing. And we'll end on that one. Yeah, don't make me comment on that one. There's a lot of... I'm doing this, and I'm throwing away the key. Yeah, yeah. We don't want to get fired after our first TV episode.

I am real nervous. I'm real nervous, but I mean, this is such a... Don't be nervous. Just be yourself. No, no, no, no. It's a healthy nervous. Okay, like that jittery before. Yeah, nervous.

Okay. I'm excited. I know I'm going to have fun, and the next thing to that is that means I mean the hope I get to do it a really long time. I know I'm going to enjoy this. I want to be good so I get to do it. Awesome. Fantastic. Can't wait. And that's the Dale Jr. Download. All right. Boom. Hope you guys enjoyed it. We see you next week. Next week. Good to be back. You never know these days. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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