The Dale Jr. Download - 225 - Earnhardt Awesomeness

Episode Date: July 17, 2018

Dale Earnhardt Jr. gets a big surprise and some new/old swag. The #DJD guys tell stories of Dale Sr, biting a teacher and beating up a deer, answer #AskJr questions and debate the Kyle Busch vs. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. war of words.  Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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He's heading for the record. Download. Download. Hey, it's Dale Jr. Mike Davis. What's that Dale Jr? Matthew is here. What's up?

Good to see it. All the original guys. We got no guests today. So it'll just be us three. Don't need them. So, Mike, do you want the good news of the bad news? I want the good news. And I don't want to hear the bad news.

Well, you're going to get the bad news in some part of the show. So far, all right, the good news is yesterday was Martha Earnhardt's 88th birthday. Everybody, you know, shared a little bit on social media yesterday. Got her some congratulations and so forth. Not that she'll ever see it. Right. She does have. She's up on that IG.

She does have Facebook. And so she probably saw. quite a bit on there. She's doing well for those who are curious, healthy, and sharp in the mind. Awesome. We had a lot of great conversation. She got to see Ila. She got to feed Ila a little bit because she's me and Amy made the decision to,

Ila didn't seem to want her bottle when we left the house, so we went ahead and started driving a mile to miles and five miles down the road. She wants the bottle, and we got about a 20-minute drive, so we finally about halfway there. I asked Amy if she wanted to get in the back seat. she gets back there, calms Isla down, or we're about to lose our mind. That happened. Yeah. So that was interesting.

And we, so she got to feed Isle when we got there. And my aunt Kathy was there. She had brought Mamma an ice cream cake. Great choice for birthday cake. If you, you know, if you're getting tired of the same old, same old, ice cream cake. Thanks, great. Never, never fails. Doesn't sound like that suck?

No. Ice cream doesn't suck. You do ice cream cake, would you? Look at me. I mean, is there anybody who's never had ice cream cake? I have. Has there anybody who's never had it? They don't belong talking to us.

No, I've had it, yeah. This one had a little, like a half inch of chocolate cake material, then the ice cream and then some whipped. Do you have any cookie crumbs? No, like that. Then some whipped cream, I guess, on top. It was really good. Let's see.

Oh, yeah, so Aunt Kathy's there, and she gets off on a tangent telling stories about dad. These two stories, particularly that I'd never heard before. And apparently I was wearing shorts and I got this big gash on my right knee. And Kathy was like, I don't remember that what happened there. And I was six years old. We were living in Rainbow Apartments down in Canapolis with my mom. Dad and mom were separated already.

I was having this little disagreement or being bullied, I guess, on the playground. And so I ran, I was running back to my apartment or our apartment, toward our apartment. And, you know, six years old. And I fell on the grass. And right where the, you know, in this big grassy area, right where I fell down, I felt something on my knee and I rolled over and my knee is wide open. Like just, and it's like a five inch long by one inch wide open, gnarly hole. And I mean, I can see some white bone or, you know, and in my bone, what I saw, I think it was bone. It looked like styrofoam kind of.

It's kind of weird. I just remember these images, right? You never forget. If you ever lived on a lake, you know what white styrofoam looks like. Oh, yeah. Is this the good news still? No. Okay.

Oh, yeah, this is the good news. Because this is not good news so much. He's waiting for that bad news. So anyhow, anyhow, the whole point of this is, this is a long story. It was a brick that had broken in half that was just laying in the grass, and the grass was tall enough. And it couldn't, you know, I didn't even know the brick was there. I just fell down and leaned over, and I fell on the brick. Crazy.

The busted end of the brick, right? You won the lottery out of the whole. Exactly. Like this random as hell. So I run up to the house. Mama's in there. She's freaking out. She was dating this guy, and his dad was a family doctor.

Family practice, you know, got a flu, got a cold, get, you know, need testing shot, something like that. We go there. We ain't got a money. So she calls her boyfriend. He's like, hey, I'll call my dad, meet us over there. We'll slow him up. So I went over there and they laid me on a table. And the guy didn't have anything to numb it.

And he had the, you know, so he has the hook in his hand, you know. And they had to stitch it up without numbing it. And this big five inch long by one inch gash in my leg, how many stitches do you think you would get for that in today's? I don't know. Like, like, 20, 30. I got five stitches in that. That's not keeping up.

What is you stitching it with rope? Right. It's this really wide. A yarn. It's a really wide scar because it was terribly... You're all right. You're an earner. It was terribly done as far as him tied it up.

But this guy sewed it up and put a big old bandaid on it, and I wore a bandaid for a while and it eventually healed. So this was really like a block or two from Mammaw's house, and I was telling Aunt Kathy, I said, that's where that scar come from. She goes, I remember your dad. He almost cut his finger all the way off on a gear, on a go-cart chain gear. His finger went into, you know,

in the gear with the chain, right? So he almost cuts the finger. He comes into the house and Aunt Kay, his sister Kay, is like, what's going on? He's like, I cut my finger off almost. And she goes, I don't believe it. And he opens up the rag and blood's going everywhere. And she's like, oh, my. And so they took him to the doctor to get it sewed up.

And he refused the needle because he never liked needles, right? Oh, Dale Earnhard did not like needles. suppose he didn't. I mean, not many kids do it 12 years old. You're right. Yeah, but the alternative. So they and they, like, four, him, two of his sisters and a couple other people had to hold him down while they stitched up his finger

back on. So that was one story she told me that I didn't, I had never heard before. Right. And then the other one was, she was, there was another woman at Mama's house yesterday, and they were talking about Wienkopf, which is an old school that's no longer around. Dad went to that school, and I've bought

some of the yearbooks off of eBay. that dad's in, you know. And he wasn't in school until the eighth grade, so there's not many yearbooks with Dill Earnhardt in him. Okay, yeah. And he quit school at 16 years old in the eighth grade. And so he doesn't fail so many times if I give up. He was 16 years old in the eighth grade?

16 years old and eighth grade and quit. All right. Right, so he failed a lot. Get to the point where it was just almost embarrassing, I guess. Yeah. So anyhow, when he went to the first grade, he has Kay, his sister, and Kathy, right? And so he goes, he's going to the first grade and he's, Kay's like, all right, you're going in this classroom.

And he's like, starts crying. He's like, I ain't going. I don't want to go. Don't, no, no, no. And he's crying and crying and crying. And she's like, he's like, I'm going with you. And she's like, all right, fine, whatever. So he goes to her class for two weeks.

Two weeks. Yeah. Did anybody notice? Well, that's what. That's the point of the story, right? He was able to do this for two weeks. And finally, his teacher came to get him and he bit her. As they were trying to take him out of the classroom, he bites her on the armor.

I didn't get any more details after that. But that's all right. I kind of want to know the rest of that one. When you end up skipping your class and then biting the teacher, that's a good climactic story right there. I think that's for Dale Earnhardt even. Yeah. Bite the teacher and first grader. Yeah.

So is that the good news? That's the good news. The good news is really Mamal's birthday. Oh. And we went over to the teacher. They're a visitor, and Amy's, I'll tell the whole truth here. So years ago, I wouldn't have went over there, right? So now that I'm married, Amy's like very, I love my family.

Don't get me wrong. But as, you know, as a lot of sons and grandsons do, they don't hold up there into the bargain, I guess. Preoccupied, you get busy, get tied up. And so Amy's, you know, hey, we need to go over there. We got to go. It's her birthday. We're going. So middle afternoon went over there.

We had a great time, and I'm glad we did. It's fun walking around at a house. That's the original house. You know that Ralph lived in. Got a shop out back still? Yeah, the shop out back, yes. I played there many, many years as a kid. So it's always fun walking around in there and just looking out in the yard

and seeing how it's changed and everything. But that's the good news. Well, what's the bad news? Well, the bad news really is, so did y'all see, so Jeff Gluck has this, was it a good race post? I saw that. All right. Yeah, I mean, the results aren't good for Kentucky this weekend.

That's the bad news. Well, but you know what was? The broadcast. It was real good. The broadcast was good? I thought so. Listen, I wondered, you know, you had a couple good, nice little pieces of gold for races the first two weeks. Yeah.

What was it going to be like when the race wasn't that great? And you got your, you got your other end of the spectrum. Yeah, I was really worried about it because, you know, judging by last year's Kentucky race was 27% yes, thought it was a good race. Okay, yeah. And I know this is not a, you know, this is not a thorough poll. I mean, it's a poll. It's a sample. It's a sample.

That's a sample. The Smithsonian isn't using it for anything. It's unofficial. And I know that a lot of people might not think that it's, you know, a lot of people might, like Steve O'Donnell's tweeted, you know, tweeted to the poll at times. Like, is this necessary? Right. You know, things like that. So I know it's not in favor for a lot of people.

But I've found it very interesting and at times voted. So, you know, so I look at that and I, you know, I know, Twitter. There's, you know, at times mostly, sometimes more negative than positive. Grumpy. Grumpy, yeah. And I tend to do that myself. I'm as guilty as the next guy about going on there and like, I got to complain about something. And this is where it happens.

You know, I'm going in here and I'm going to tell everybody. Here's my soapbox. Yep. So I do that too. But I do pay attention to this poll. I don't, you know, it makes me wonder, like, yeah, we did have two great races. We understand, and it's wide knowledge in the industry that the surface that we have at Chicago, it produces great racing.

It has that potential, and that's sort of the preferred style of grip and width of groove and all those things. And so when we go to Kentucky, I was really concerned that we were going to have a tough one. Well, we have the Xfinity race the night before, and it turns out to be really an exciting race, you know, a really entertaining race. Not even having to stretch the truth there. It was a good race. I got up Saturday morning

and with some confidence that maybe we were going to see a great race like we saw the night before with the Xfinity but you know sometimes guys are going to dominate you know Trix had dominated that race the year before I think he had like a 12, 13 second lead at one point or one by 13 seconds or something like that so understandably that's why that poll maybe wasn't good last year

there were some parts of the race Saturday night that I thought were entertaining and that were you know keeping up with everybody's expectations mine included at the end didn't provide much fireworks. No. But that's okay. I mean, sometimes races are going to feel that way, and I'm not trying to talk. I'm not trying to backtrack here.

But I guess the one thing I'm curious about is we can't, I worry about going back to Kentucky next year and doing the same thing. Exactly. That's it. That's all. Same thing as in what, like package? No, I mean, I'm not saying package. Okay. I'm just saying having the same result, having the same reaction.

Like, how many times can you keep going? Can we do something? And doing the same. That's the obvious question is what can we do to, you know, whether it's track prep, which I was paying attention to that a lot. Yeah, there was no, there was a, yep, there was some use to the tire dragon. I don't know if there's a different thing you can do with the tire dragon that would make a difference. They did drag in the bottom.

They did drag in the bottom, and I'm not sure dragging the bottom's necessary because the teams will do that, you know. But the one thing about the tire dragon and dragging the bottom, it does improve. durability for the tire and it does also, I think, affect how the tire takes heat. And if we go to a repave and don't use the tire dragon, the risk of having a tire failure because of heat on the inside corner of the right front goes up, right? The tire dragon can bring that risk level down a little bit. There's no measurement. There's no scientific data behind all this.

It's my opinion. So at times, I think using the tire dragon in the groove is helpful. But if it's not necessary, if it's not, if you're only using the tire dragon really to create a groove, if that's the only purpose of the application, then I would only create the outside groove. Because the teams will work that bottom in. There's no doubt about it. They're going to run that bottom and put that rubber down themselves. If you have X amount of hours to tire dragon, you know, tire dragon, the outside groove and the third groove,

where the guys aren't going to run in practice at all, hardly ever. you know and try to get as much of a groove worked in before the you know because they're not going to do that till the race really starts exfenty guys did it quite a bit so that's one thing about the tire dragon also you know there people are going to wonder about the uh put down the whatever i don't even what's to call it these days PJ1 or whatever it is that sticky stuff so i don't think you use that on a half i just don't think that they're going to use it this weekend well look i got to stop us though yeah if we reach a point where we have to care about tire drive dragons and sticky stuff being applied.

Let the track workers do that. I don't rightly care. If you can't appreciate a butt-whip it every now and again. No, I get you there, but I want a better race. I got it. I understand. But in baseball and football, there are just from time to time ass whoop-ers. Ten nothing games.

And no other sport do people sit there and scrutinize that the way the chalk was and what we could do to better the game, sometimes people get run-ruled. Yeah. Some people, and I'm just sick of this. The tire dragon stuff, if I can't apply it to my daily life, I rightly don't give a crap about it in talking racing. Because tire dragon doesn't apply to anybody outside of racers, which you two are. I'm not. I don't care. I don't care.

I don't know you don't, and I understand that. You don't have to and don't need to know what it's about and all that stuff. But, you know, track prep and the influence that can have on how, what kind of, I mean, that's important to dirt racing. that's important to drag racing. I know, I know it is. And so I don't, and it's an option. It's not something that needs to be done everywhere, but if it can help the outside groove come in sooner,

I want it. You know, I want it to be done. I know that, but if it makes, if that becomes the storyline that the fans have to therefore hear about, that's the problem. I'm going to, one, assume it's important, and two, assume it happens at every race for everybody to do, because that is important.

I just don't think if that's what we end up talking about rather than the domination of a driver like Truex, the polls will always show negativity that way. I get you. Nobody will ever think the race is good if Tired Dragons and C3 POs and peanut butter and jellies are what we're applying to the track to make the racing better.

I get you. You're going to always have buttwopens. I get you. But, you know, and I know this might not be your opinion or your opinion, just my opinion, I think there's certain things in track prep that we've been doing wrong. And I think if we did them better, we could produce a better race at a place that doesn't exactly have the greatest racing surface right now because of repave to help things out.

And still, the button weapon might happen, even if we got a two-groove track. It will. But I was watching an Xfinney race, and those drivers made that a good race. The race surface didn't. That race surface could have been better, and that race could have been even better than what it was. if they had more than, I mean, you could barely step out of that groove. It was not. Yeah.

Just my opinion. Talking to Parker Cleanerman at the trucks, he said the gray was like ice. He said it was unlike anything that he ever since before. As far as just being out of the groove, the grip level was extremely low. So I wonder if some of the Lyme application to try to age the track, as you can see, that track is grayed really quickly since it's been repaved. And they've tried to, I think they've tried to accelerate the aging of the track has an adverse effect. But I'm not sure that, you know, we need to even mention the word package.

I think this track is going to be great. Oh, it will be, yeah. This track is going to be great. It will. But I think that maybe they could talk to the drivers and get some advice on how to use that tire dragon differently. If there's other ways that drivers would prefer to be used. The Kentucky track person didn't listen last year when they talked about it. And that was a source of contention there.

It was very sensitive. And Dale Jr. did not miss the opportunity. T2. T2. T2. Yeah, the tweeting about it. Failure to listen. Yeah, there was some gears grind in there between the drivers and the track about

how it should be done and so forth. Well, hey, I got good news. What is it? And even better news, which one do you want? I'll take the better news? Not the best news. I'll save the dessert. Actually, my news is just awesome.

Okay. But all of it's awesome. I think it's just all awesome. Dilloner, would you agree that the news that we have for Dell is awesome? I've got to be honest with you. I'm a fiddity. No, man, we're going to build this up like it's a movie trailer here. Listen, we have somebody here.

You have got into the vintage t-shirt game. You've ratcheted it up. You even last week went and made a purchase or 10 to bring your vintage t-shirt game up. Well, then you tweeted something that said, well, this is why I'm into the vintage t-shirt game. And you tweeted a picture of this t-shirt, this elusive t-shirt. What was it? So there was a T-shirt that was made. It says 1979 Rookie of the Year.

My dad, it's got dad on it, and there's not many of them around. I have one or two at the house, but they're Amy's size, and I don't have one that fits me. And like a 1980 large, it isn't going to fit me. It's going to need to be like an extra large. So I'm like a 19 to 21 inches pit to pit. Isn't it weird that I even know that? It is. It is.

We'll talk about the awkwardness of that. act later. But in the studio, somebody named Miss Connie Goodman has come by, and she has this shirt. How you doing? Welcome. Why don't you put on a headset? Yeah, let's give her a headset after the hug. Always got to get the hug. Connie is from, Connie and Rick are huge fans, and they've been... Miss Connie, throwing that headset out there. They've known their Earnhardt family for a long time. They're from Kenapolis, North Carolina, and they have quite a collection of things. Miss Connie, welcome to our studio, and you wanted to meet Dale Jr., right? Well, I want to. I want to. I wanted to see him again.

See him again. You met him. Oh, my first meeting with you, you were about four years old. Yeah. And we played race cars in your bedroom. Is that right? I believe it, because I was playing race cars every day back then. Yeah, he invited me into his bedroom to play race cars.

Wow, that's nice. He probably ended up with a gash on his leg. He's kind of injury prone back then. So you brought something. Let's see this. What is it you brought? Oh, yeah. Seventh-nine rookie of the year.

Is that it? Yeah, that's the shirt. That is the, the, that is the, the, the, one that you have been after? Yeah, this is it. Brand new. Brand new still in the bag. Wow.

So how do you have a brand new one of these? Yes, Ms. Scott. I want to know that. Please tell us. Well, we followed your dad's career. And once he got the, you know, won the rookie. We bought the souvenirs. And I thought, I'm going to buy one that we've worn.

I've got it with me. And I thought, no, I'm going to keep one because he's going to be very famous one day. Just knew it. Just knew it. And hurdy bit his first grade teacher. Like, that guy's going to be famous one day. Well, he started out at the dirt track at Concord. Yep.

Driving for James Miller, who is my cousin. Oh, wow. So, in fact, my dad helped work on that car some. So, like I said, I followed the career from day one. That's awesome. So you've seen it all from the dirt track at Concord all the way through his first several years in Cup. Right. I bet you have some pretty cool stuff.

We do. She brought some. We brought some. She did. But let me ask you about this shirt. So you hung on to this shirt. Yes. How did you hear that Dale Jr. is after this?

Friday morning, I always go on Twitter. Yes. And I'm going through Twitter. And all of a sudden, there's the shirt looking at me. And I said, wow. And so I picked up the telephone and I text Aunt Kathy. I said, Aunt Kathy. I said, I have a shirt that I think somebody's wanting.

I said, call me. Within 15 minutes, I had a phone call. Wow. She's pretty prompt. Pretty prompt. He says, what do you want for it? I said, Kathy, you know, I don't know how to put a price on things. And we talked a little bit.

I said, I know the perfect price. I want to sit down to see Dale again. It's been years with his racing. We never got to connect. I've seen you a couple of times. I've talked to you. I know my son said, well, he don't remember your mom. I said, he'll run my face when you see me.

You remember seeing me around. I said, it would be just, I said, that would be payment enough for me to sit down and talk to Dale for a little bit. Awesome. Wow. That's impressive. We've got to see what else you got. You can just move in with him for the week, and we'll see what else we can.

Oh, believe me. It would be a week. Let's see. You brought a couple of things that we want to see. I have a question, Mr. Jr. When did your dad win his first short track asphalt race? Ever? Ever.

My gosh. And what race track? First short track asphalt might have been, I'm a little guess. Well, it'll be 44 years July 19th. Maybe Hickory. Nope, that's the second. Yeah. That was on Saturday.

He won on Friday first. Maybe in... And it was... I looked up the date. South Carolina. No, no, no. I looked up the date before we left home. And it's July 19th of 1974.

He won at this racetrack. Oh, yeah. Metro Lina. Wow. Dude, hold that up. That is just awesome. Dillner loves this. Oh, that is awesome.

That is so cool. Metro Lina. Yes. Yeah, they paid. Metroline was a dirt track of Resilly, and they paved it just for one season? No, it was a couple seasons. Ned Jarrett promoted. And it was a Friday night, and your dad won that race.

And he begged us to go to Hickory the next night, but we didn't do things like that then. So we had our routine. We went to Metroline on Friday and went to Concord on Saturday. So we went on to Concord on Saturday and be danged if he didn't win again on Saturday. But that was in 1974. Wow. He was having a good week. The year he was born.

Right. Yeah. Right on. There you go. I saw a picture. Somebody sent me a picture the other day of dad crossing the finish line, a paved Metrolina Speedway in 1974 one month after I was born, or either one month before. But he was in November.

So right around the end of that year, it's a picture from the flag stand and the flag man's waving the flag, and dad's car is going underneath. He's in an old, let's been a Chevelle or something. 64 Chabelle. She's like the rain man for Del Earnhardt. It's great. I mean. Well, that one I went to court over. Remember, I had to go to court over that one.

Yeah. Over that car. Oh, okay. I was one of your dad's, I helped her dad win a case on that one after his passing. Wow. I had to go to court and testify to what car he was driving on July 14th, 1979, a 1974 where I had to testify. She's great.

That's crazy. That is crazy. I want to know more, actually. I was on the, I had to, Harry Gendon. was on the stand for I was, and Harry Gant, he got the car from here he Gant. And Doc Brooks from Brooks Cycle Center and I sat in a room waiting, and he and I were talking about motorcycles, and because Doc's name was on the side of the car. And so.

Doc Cycle Center. Right. See, Uncle Randy got me into that. Oh. The legal? Uh-huh. Uncle Randy got me into that. Yeah.

He would know who would know. Yeah. He would know who would know the truth. Right. Well, I told you I looked up the date. That's because we keep a calendar. My husband keeps a calendar of every car. Let me have that one.

Yeah. They can throwing stuff at me. Who did he drive for in 79? Rod Austerlund. Wow, man. Look at that. Yeah, baby. Look at this.

That's the Austerlund race team logo. I've never seen that logo. Well, they didn't make any Dale Earnhardt shirts that season. And we were over at Australon Racing. We used to go visit the shops, and they had those shirts. And so Rod and Roland and Rollin Wilotica. Yep. Gave us those shirts.

Roland had actually drove the car, drove the car in 78, and then became the team manager in 79 when dad came in. All right. Then I have another keepsake shirt here that I'm not giving that one out yet. Man, she's coming loose. It's a Christmas. That's right. Well, we have to thank Kathy's office when we get through here because I've got more.

Oh, nice. Okay. Now, this one I need you to look at. Yep. That track doesn't exist anymore. It's Asheville. Ashford Motor Speedway. Okay.

My husband wore his shirt like this Saturday night to Bowman Gray Stadium. And so I thought, I have a shirt like that. The reason I brought this is look at the names of the people. Is it a list of winners? It's a list of people. Ralph Earnhardt. Ralph Earnhardt's name is on it. So you've got a bunch of names here.

We can hold that up for the camera. And that's a... The 60s. Remember in the 60s? That track now is a walking park. You can actually walk around the surface of it. Yeah. So that was your granddaddy race there.

And so I told, you know, I told my husband, I said, yeah, we've got two of these. I actually went there one time and tire tested for good year and the old model, but I never raced there. Okay. Yeah, I was there and Pete Silver was there. Okay. I have a show and tell shirt. This is not for Dell.

This one, I'm sorry. I saw your husband sort of put the block on that. He's like, wait, this still fits me. He did. I'm going to show it to you. Eventually, we may come back to you. Yeah. But not today.

Right. I'm sorry. I have to preface that. I understand that. Oh, yeah. Man, that's awesome. Look at this. Show the camera.

This is the Dale Jr. Kerry Earnhardt, Kelly Earnhardt. All the late models. The original Big Three. Oh, yeah. That's awesome. Mom and Pops. This is probably 1996.

Definitely 96. Me and Kelly and Carrie both had, Mom and Pops was a sponsor for us. Underneath the Mom and Pops umbrella they owned, Bennett's Smokehouse Saloon, which was in Hickory, was on Kelly's car. Western Steer Steakhouse was on Kerry's car and Prime Surloin.

Steakhouse was on my car. Yeah, we all three race late models for about three years together. Do you know who I said was the best driver at the time? Oh, Kelly. Kelly. Yep, that's what I thought, too. I don't think you were alone in that, actually. You know why, because I don't want to build a race car.

No, is that right? You were building Kelly's race cars. I was building Kelly's cars. The truth. We always laughed that she was the best driver. She was really good. and having no experience, she never raced before she drove late models. She never ran a go-car?

She never ran a go-car. She ran a couple streetstock races, but she was racing mine and carry street stock that we had put through the meat grinder. You know, that thing was beat up. A couple of weeks ago, we were at Bowman Gray, which is where we go on Saturday nights, and somehow the conversation came up with drivers and who was good drivers, and we talked about the three of y'all. And then my husband said, well, you know who was the best all-time female driver he ever

saw on short tracks? Aunt Kathy, where are you? There. Aunt Kathy. Aunt Kathy? Never lost the powder puff. You're lying? Why do we not know this?

I am not lying. Aunt Kathy never lost a race. Aunt Kathy slayed her competitors. Really? I'm taking slayed her competitors. Just wore them out. War them out. I love her even more.

I love her even more. Didn't need a tired dragon or any kind of chemical either, did you? Aunt Kathy was the prime lady driver. Where did you see her run? Concord, Metrolana, you know, Concord mostly. but she drove in the powder every powder puff race and she couldn't be touched yeah and she ran against you know good good daughters with good good drivers um i remember uh was it hodgton brought a car over there and um i think his somebody with that deal with that deal with Neil bonnet it wasn't bonnet's wife

but it might have been Hodgson's wife or somebody but they had brought in like a uh ringer to try to to take Kathy out Are you serious? Look, Kathy's shaking her head, yeah. They brought in a ringer to try to beat her, and she just... Kathy just beat them, like, I mean... Not even close. I've seen video of that race.

Danica, who? That's so awesome. I'm glad I brought that up. Wow. We were just, I don't know, we were just reminiscing with some people about, you know, at the racetrack. That's what we grew up racing. I mean, we've lived it all of our life.

And, you know, my first race I went to was our third date in 1970, and I've been going ever since. Y'all go to Bowman Gray Weekly. Every week. Matthews over there every other week, it seems like. Yeah, that's like my favorite place on God's Green Earth. Legally trying to change his name to Bowman Gray. Talk to that. Talk to that bit. Look at the shirt he's got on.

There you go right there in the Madhouse. I want to ask you. You said something about your early memory there. First time you met Junior was playing matchbox cars and whatnot. What's your first Earnhardt racing memory? Whether I don't know if it was Ralph or if it was Dale or Junior. What's your first Earnhardt racing memory? You're an Earnhardt fan. It was Ralph racing.

I was in 1970 at Concord and Metroline. Really? Yeah, because like I said, my third date with that man out there, we'll be married 46 years to end of this month, and he took me the third date to Concord. And that's where we went every Saturday with the old Concord Speedway where's the most acres of at. And we'd go every Saturday night. And I did not like Ralph Earnhardt.

You did? Oh, really? Really. Why? Everybody liked him I heard. No. No. I was a Chuck Piazza person.

Chewit Piazza. Nobody. likes Chuck Piazza. I'm kidding. It all goes back to how skillful eraser that Ralph was. And he could pass you, knock you out of the way, and you never even saw him touch you. But he could knock him out of the way and win. And I hated it. Wow. Wow. But you like Dale Earnhardt, who just at least you knew he knocked out of the way. I liked Ralph. But like I said, I pulled for Chuck and my husband pulled for Stick Elliott. Oh, Stick Elliott. Yep. What a great name. And Stick Elliott drove for Granddaddy.

And that's the most. I talked to your granddaddy was after a stick started driving for him. Okay. And we would go over to Ralph's shop. Behind Grandma's house? And that was the thing. But talking about one of the memories, one of the times when after your dad started building his race cars back there in that shop, and we, my husband, for our son, that's our

son out there too. And he was born, we used to go visit race shops through the week. You know, they raced on weekends. So during the week, we'd go visit race shops. And so one night we decided, well, we're going to go to the Dail Shop. And we'd go, well, I didn't. I didn't know if I'd remember because I went to Wienkopf with him. I heard you mention Wyncock while ago.

We went to Wyncock together. He was really got in town to my brother's two years younger and he was in school with him at that time. Because he failed so many. I wasn't going to bring that up, but you said it. This is all confirming exactly what we were hearing at the beginning. Yes. My brother was two years younger.

Kathy's a year older than I am. But I knew Kathy at Wienkopf and Kay was older than her. So I knew both the girls. But we walked in over there at Dales and I thought, well, he's not going to, you know, all I can do is ask us to leave. And I go walking in, we go walking in. I remember you. Oh, wow.

And he did. He remembered from racing for James Miller. And then, you know, being at Wienkopf and being around, he remembered me when we walked in. About what year was this? Like how, like, what, in the 90s? In the 70s. Oh, you went to visit a shop in the 70s? In the 70s, when he first started, you know, doing his sportsman cars.

And he remembered you from being a kid. Yeah, being a kid and growing up. And that's one of the earlier memories I have of Dill Earnhardt. Wow. And so then it was almost every other week we came. I got time for one more funny story. Just take your time. Take your time.

He used to call me his official, unofficial photographer. Okay. And I, because after I got a camera and if he wanted pictures of his race car to send to somebody to get sponsors, he'd call me up and say, hey, y'all come take pictures. One night I got this phone call. Kathy will tell you this is the truth. I got this phone call. Get over here with your camera to the shop.

And I said, why? Just come. So we go over to the shop. My husband, I go over to the shop, and there's a deer carcass hanging in the shop. Your dad wanted pictures of this deer's face. Because it had a very unusual look to it. It's atypical. Because when he had it mounted, he wanted to be mounted correctly.

Oh, right. So I had to take all these pictures of this deer carcasset. And then send him to the taxidermist. He got to go back to it. But the funny part of that night, and I think Aunt Kathy will remember this, you know, there was a few beverages involved. And he started telling the story about fighting that deer. You know, he shot it. Then he went up to the deer.

And the deer was still flashing around and caught him in the leg, in the shin. And he was standing there and he kept trying to pull his pants up and pull his pants. And his, you know, jeans wouldn't come up. So he unbuckles his pants and drops his pants. I look at Kathy, he said, you're a family, who cares? And that deer had gouged his leg like you wouldn't believe. Oh, my God. It was funny.

Oh, I thought you were about to say he was like going to strangle it with his belt. No, no, no, no. The deer kicked him and he just went, wop-pom, punched him. Like he's going to go after. But that deer and he had fought to get it. He literally fought a deer, is what you're saying. He didn't use a gun. Hence the importance on why he wanted to make sure it was mounted right.

That was personal at that point. I did see it. That was another time I saw you. We had come back from North Wiltsboro at a race, and we had stopped to go in. We stopped at the house up in Lake Norman when y'all were living up Lake Norman. And you were there at the floor playing, and we went in. And I'm sitting on the hearth, and that deer is mounted over my head. I know you.

I did get to see it down. I remember you. Hi, how you been? So that was another time I saw. You look better than you did the last time I saw you. Yeah. You're aging well. I saw you a couple times over the years.

Yeah. Well, I tell you what, you certainly have made us have a, it was just a wonderful day. We could swim in this pool of Earnhardt's all day. Yeah, I know. I mean, have some more stories. But you know what? You've got a lot more stuff that we'll show Dale after our shows over.

But this, listen, when Dale tweeted this last week, I was like, wow, it must not exist. I mean, he spends hours on eBay. And he goes out and, you know, sends his people out looking for sure. It must not exist if he has. it. And then here you come bringing this thing. And by the way, we don't want to get this mixed up because I don't want you to get in trouble your husband. And this thing has, the greatest thing is you can find all the stuff on eBay and stuff that we want. And, you know, I hunt some he does on there. And you find stuff that's worn out. Pit sweats, neck collar stains. That darn

thing is 19-19 in the bag. That's impressive. Yes. I still have what are the number eight in the bag. Wow. What do you mean by that? Like Ralph? Ralph. Yeah. No, it's the Dale Earnhardt. Dad's basically dad's first ever t-shirt has read, it has a white number eight Nova on it.

And it says Dale Earnhardt and red letters. And it's real like 70s font. And Uncle Randy had one of those too. And I said, Uncle Randy, let me borrow that from you. And so I took it and I had like a hundred T-shirts made. That's, I know what sure you're talking about. And I gave them away to like Kenny Schrader and all kinds of people that were friends after dad had passed away i was like i'm i have this made and i'll give it to like schrader and all

his buddies you know and but there's i haven't never seen an original of that so other than the one that uncle randy had i have two wow one we've worn it one of a brand new in a bag just like that incredible that's awesome there's not any of those around no right i mean that that thing right there is the holy grail i didn't bring it today i have it at home but well thank you so much for being yeah i appreciate you coming by thank you for being it's been fun just talking to you for i you know like i know this means a lot to dell but it's been fun just having you here and just hearing your stories, and I bet you have many more. And you know what?

We'll have you back sometime just to talk about it. Because, I mean, listen, this is just the stuff that we hear about Deller. I mean, let's just think about what we've got this week. We've got Dahl Earnhardt, biting his teacher, skipping school. We got nashes, you know, legs being nash sewn up, fingers almost off. And now we've got... Beating up a deer. Beating up a deer.

I mean, this is just Earnhardt awesomeness right now. You're not going to get better than this. I just want to find out where they sit at Bowman Gray, and I'm going to come sit with you. Yeah. That's awesome. I will come sit with you. Under the flag stand.

Okay. Front slash right. No, in the horseshoe. Under the flag. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yep, in one and two. Right.

Under the horseshoe. I'm section, I'm section eight on the bottom. Nope, we're over the very top row. I figured you guys should get together. You and I're going to become friends. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

There's Christmas cards and gifts. I'm a new friend. This is over. Well, listen, thank you, Miss Connie. And thank you, for being here. Yeah. And we'll throw it to an Exaltta Race Center update.

We'll be right back. This is your Exaltor Race Center update. I'm Matthew Dillner. Domination was the story Saturday night as defending series champion Martin Turex Jr. swept all three stages of the Cup Series race at Kentucky Speedway to capture his fourth W the season. On Friday night, Christopher Bell

held off Daniel Hemrick down the stretch to win the Xfinity Series race. Justin Alguire was P3 on the podium and Junior Motorsports top finishing driver. On Thursday, the truck series served up some home cooking in the bluegrass state. When the bell rang, it was Kentucky native Ben Rhodes who scored his first career truck victory. From the home state of the Kentucky Derby to the Dirt Derby, the Truck Series will head to Eldora Speedway to play in the dirt on Wednesday night. Also this week, New Hampshire Motor Speedway plays host to a big NASCAR race weekend that features the modified tour, Xfinity, and Cup series.

Catching up with JRM, the late model team was in action last weekend at Tennessee's King Sports Speedway. Speedway. Sam Mayer finished fourth and Josh Berry 9th in the Cars Tour event. 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 exaltacS.com. You know, we haven't done one in a while, and I was thinking about it, did you see that? What's you got?

I don't know which one I like better, but, I mean, A, the sprinkler went off. Yeah. And that was pretty freaking crazy. crazy. But I didn't go to Bowman Gray this weekend. And since we talked about Bowman Gray, I don't know if you saw the link that I sent you to see the video. I didn't see it. AJ Sanders, he gets mad at somebody and goes after this guy. AJ Sanders. Yes. So AJ is running mini stocks now at Bowman Gray Stadium. And you know, Bowman Gray, man, when you get into it with somebody, sometimes you're taking care of business out on the track before you get in the pits and fight.

And he goes after this guy and goes to hit him under the cool down lap and ends up, spinning, hitting them, and hitting the inside berm, and barrel rolls, flips his own car, trying to hit him. I've never seen somebody retaliate and mess up their car. That bad. That bad. Like, worse. That's got to be embarrassing, man. Like, you know what I mean?

It would be like going to punch somebody and you miss him and you hit the wall and you break your hand. I remember a couple years ago, Danica was trying to retaliate on somebody and wrecked herself, and that was embarrassing. But she didn't barrel roll her car. That takes that to a whole new level. So that's what happened at all the time. You ever done anything like that where you messed up? I never. That bad.

No, I've never failed. I've never failed at retaliating against somebody. No. AJ wins that award. The only time that, the only thing, that makes me think about, well, a wrecked a guy. It's not really the same thing, but I wrecked Stanton Barrett. The stuntman.

Pike's Peak. And he'd do nothing. I just needed a caution. And, oh, yeah. Bullie. It's probably the, yeah, it's probably the one time. that I'm like, oh, man, that'd be the one I'd take back. I don't think there's many that I'd take back because I never wrecked anybody without

reason that I thought. Well, you didn't have it coming. You need to cost. That was a terrible, awful, awful thing to do. And so I wrecked him. We go on down, we get on racing some more and me and Tony Stewart get into it, beating on each other on the racetrack. I ran into Tony Stewart like 15 times and then he finally fenced me and they called us

to the hauler. Yeah. Right? And so I'm in the hauler waiting on whatever this punishment is. I'm just standing in the hauler of the NASCAR hauler. And Tony Stewart and his crew chief were called to the hauler. They hadn't got there yet. So Tony Senior isn't even there yet.

Somebody, they got the side door to the hauler open and I'm standing in that doorway. And so this guy walks up and he doesn't have like anything on that I would recognize or team uniform or anything. And he starts hollering at me. What the hell did you do that for? And I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. I had wrecked Stanton. That I had wrecked Stanton. And it was the owner of Stanton's car.

I figured it out later. But I'm standing there going, I don't tell you're talking about, man. And he is chewing me up one side down the other. And I'm just standing there going, I don't remember. What are you talking about? I had totally forgot. And all the things that me and Stewart got into and the back end of that race, I had completely forgot that I had wrecked Stant.

And he was coming to figure out what my deal was. and I was completely clueless. Yeah. I didn't think, and then later I'm like, oh, like that was the owner of the car. And now I feel doubly worse because I've wrecked the car. And then I acted like it was no freaking big deal to me. Yeah.

And boy, was that, that's completely uncharacteristic of me. And then we had a big old mess in this trailer with fighting. Yeah. Talking about fighting. With Tony Stewart. We ended up getting in a big fight. Not me and Tony, but me and I tried to fight the crew chief. Look, this is the foundation of any good friendship.

And then you and Tony obviously went happily ever after after that. The crew chief was running his mouth, not Tony. Tommy come up to me the next week. Tomi come up to me the racetrack. He walked up to me in the pits and he's like, hey, man, let's squash this. You got to race together. Let's race together. I'm like, I'm good with it.

Sometimes fighting, they'll do that, man. I remember one time I got in a fight with this kid, Vernon Leak in grade school. And I couldn't stand this kid. And he was picking on me all the time. And finally I kind of ended the deal. And we hated each other. And we're sitting there in the principal's office for five minutes. waiting to go in there in that impending doom, and we ended up becoming friends.

Yeah, during the wait. Yeah. I had a, did you see that? What you got, man? You know, Dale Jr. and Amy were kind of funny on Twitter this week. We were? Yeah, I thought it was. Without trying.

One thing I think this is the honorable mention. I think Amy actually wins this, but Dale Jr. had a funny tweet, somebody tweeting a picture, I guess, from the early 80s of your dad, and Dale Jr. had said, as he looks at the grandstands being relatively empty, he said, says, oh my God, OMG, look at those empty seats as sort of a sarcastic reminder that maybe we make too much of all this stuff. It's not quite the Armageddon that it is out to. But I think the award from me went to Amy Earnhardt, who tweeted, whoever made up the phrase, don't cry over spilled milk, must not have had it squeezed out of their boobs.

I mean, is that not an incredible tweet? That wins a did you see that award? I think that way is it. But I'm biased. Yeah, she has to get the ribbon on that, right? Hey, if you talk, well, I don't even know what to say about that one. I'm going to speak with it. She does not care.

She put it out there. That's what I loved about it. She wins my award. So, did you see that? That's one of my favorite things about Amy is her honesty. She'll go there. How genuine she is. Right.

And by the way, anybody that, any parent that's gone to that experience, also will know, you know where she's coming from. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you've got to work for that. She had pumped and knocked it, knocked a bottle over. That's why she sent that out. She sent that out one. All right, let's do some 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. People chimed in using the hashtag Ask Junior. I've got to start with this one because we just talked about Amy. Melda wants to know when are you guys going to have Amy on the podcast?

We miss her. I know. We've talked about it since the start of the season about getting Amy on as a guest. She's been a little busy. She's been busy, I was just going to say. And when she gets a, you know, when that time kind of freeze up and things get a little further along, all we're doing as we wait to put Amy on the podcast is gathering content. I mean, all the stuff she's going through with Raisin Aila, it's just more stories to be able to tell when she gets on here.

So the way to be worth it. There you go. Open invitation for Amy. All right. Jared, Zent wants to know. What is the weirdest thing you've ever been asked to endorse? Oh, man, you know, we're really lucky. I tell us, I say this all the time.

I have been so lucky through my whole career to be able to align myself with partners that make sense. And they're not hard to work with or hard products to pitch. Can you think of one, Mike? I'm thinking right now. I mean, I know the level of which they're asking for. No, there's none that are just outrageous. There's some that have been, you know, off brand, but that's boring and nobody cares about that. I mean.

Well, what would you consider off brand? You know, taxes. Yeah. Taxlayer? Yeah. I mean, like, you know, how interesting is that? I mean, so anytime we do a production for tax layer, you know, it was sort of difficult. But as far as endorsing something, I mean, we tried to make a point not to put him in those situations.

Yeah. Have we ever had to, you know, there are some, I guess there's some souvenirs that I've seen over the years. Possibly. You know, that are like. Bad shirts? No, no, no, no, like completely unusual souvenirs. Right. Like, not just a bad shirt, but.

Adele Jr. Lava lamp or something. I don't know. Like, ridiculous stuff that doesn't belong. Something like, I see some things like, I guess, to be honest, a car seat. A Dale Jr. car seat for kids. Like, I would like, I know that might, to me, that was really strange. Like, I can't believe they're.

Del Jr. You're keeping your kids safe. I can't believe people want to buy a car seat with my damn face on it. Right, right. Raise your kid on this. I just always assumed that when my dad was racing. for the most part, the souvenir business pretty much stayed in inside its own bubble. It was race cars, die cash, t-shirts, hats, flags, you know, sports memorabilia.

There was no like singing mice. Nothing outside the, you know, whenever, like Christmas ornaments was a stretch. Right, right. Now, Joe Mattis then came along. Now. And said, wait a second. Like they'll put you on anything. That Christmas tree needs a Dale Jr. star at the top of it.

My mom has a stupid Carl Edwards. She bought this thing and was like, oh, you know, the grandkids are going to love it. I'm like, what is it? She pulls it out. And for some stupid reason, she's kept it in a box, which is even stupider. Sorry, Mom, I love you. It says Carl Edwards mouse. And it sings like, bad to the bone.

And it's like, what the heck? Why would you even, I mean, do that? A Carl Edwards mouse singing bad to the bone. Some of these things don't even sense. That is like the trifecta of oddness. Yeah. You got the mouse, the song, and Carl Edwards. All of that, right.

No three belong to. Right. The weirdest of that is the Carl Edwards part. Not that Carl's not bad at the bone. It's just a random song that makes no sense. There are some souvenirs that I've seen that were already approved and out where I would have totally not let it get made. Yeah. Okay.

Let me ask you about one more. Well, you know, that moment for me was when they started making souvenirs about your pets. Yeah. Oh, really? Killer stuff's out. I agree. I was, when they started making the killer shirts, I wasn't for that.

But they ended up really out, he was out selling me in the souvenir store here at Junior Motorsports. For a time. You're getting out sold by the dog. But for a killer stuff was more popular. But like on the all-time list, like, I mean, Killer outsold Greg Biffel.

No. Oh, yeah. Killer was in the top six of all NASCAR drivers. The dog. The dogs. This ain't. This is not being... This is true.

This is true. This is not being made up. All right. Good question, though. All right. Next up. So, Kyle Larson, this is from Tyler Partridge. And the reason I use this question, because I love the way he describes this, he says,

So Kyle Larson missing driver introses, is there a team fine or punishment, which we all know, you know, some teams will handle things differently? And what if a man had a bad stomach, and this is what I love, and was on the crapper. Yeah. Didn't that happen? Yeah. All right. So here's the situation.

And this is just how I would handle that. There is no team fine that I know of. The driver's going to take the responsibility. A PR person's also going to try to take the responsibility. And the team owner may say, hey, PR person, you know, you're kind of, Mike can attest to that. I can't attest to that. PR person is going to take some heat for this. But the driver is going to feel the most guilty about it because it's really his responsibility to know when it be a driver's meeting,

even though the PR person is probably going to take the punishment. Easy pickings there, by the way. So if there's a sour stomach involved, your best bet is to have either O'Donnell or Hilton on your phone, which most of the drivers have one of the other. And before that driver's meeting, you know, before you even get within that time frame, you're telling them, hey, I'm going to miss it. If you're on the crapper and, you know, 10, 5 minutes countdown to the driver's meeting, You should text them and say, hey, I can't make it.

This is why. Totally be up front, be honest, and they're likely going to give you a pass. Really? I didn't know that. I mean, I think everybody's human, man. Dude, man, they can't. I got it. If it's a, well, the one thing is, is there, it's not something that they're going to be like,

if they're forgiving and there's, the only thing that they're trying to avoid, really, is for guys blowing it off. Yeah. All right? They don't want people to blow it off, right? Of course. It's serious. If you're, you know, if you're on a crapper, we're not going to cause any problem.

for you. We're not going to create any waves. But they've got to keep it strict enough or be stern enough to where guys don't just blow it off and don't come at all. So they make it mandatory. But yeah, I think if you were feeling ill or sick, make an exception. They'll make an exception. Have you ever missed a driver's meeting? I can't. Driver's introes or either one. Either one to send you to the bat. I don't think that I have. Or just been late on one, right?

I can't remember ever being late. I might have walked in like a minute late, two minutes late. I might admit, because usually I don't know if they even do this anymore. When somebody went, so there's a guy standing up at the front of the driver's piece of paper. Yeah, he's like, hey, he's right. He's looking in there. Crew chief of the 88. He checks everybody off, right?

And then the driver's meeting starts. They don't even say anything. He's just looking and checking. And then the driver's meeting starts. And if he's, there's somebody on that list he can't see in the crowd. They'll call it out. Driver of the 22. Yeah.

Here. Okay. Sorry, didn't see. Yeah. You know, and, you know, if they get to somebody who's not there, that guy's absent. Yeah. Yep. And then, you know, they handle it.

You better have a good reason. That's a good reason. All right. Junior Nation Forever. I love these type questions. If you could go back and star in any movie that's ever been filmed, which movie would you choose and what character would you play? Any movie that's ever been filmed.

Yeah, like any in the history of movies. Slinkblade. Nah, probably not, but how... I'm talking about for me. Yeah, they... Probably not, but same action. actor, Daddy and Them. Daddy and Them.

Oh, is that what you, the heck is that? Daddy and Them is a movie that, the same actor, what's his name? Billy Bob Thornton. Yes. So Billy Bob Thornton's in this movie called Daddy and Them. And it is not, you know, obviously not one of the more popular movies that he did, but I, I can relate to that movie so much because it reminds me of either my family, people I know, my locale, like where I grew up, Concord, Canapolis, Mooresville, all those Andy Griffiths in there,

that's North Carolina. You know what I'm saying? Mayberry. The way they are is just so relatable, I guess. It's just a funny movie, and there's a lot of, you'll see, you'll probably be, you'll watch it and go, yeah, I know a guy like that in my family. Yeah, we have that guy. There's a lot of that going on in the movie.

And Billy Bob Thornton, he's just great. I kind of want to think that he had a lot to do with how this movie was cast, the story. I don't know. I like him as an actor. I think I love a lot of his movies. So you'd be his role? You'd be his role? I wouldn't.

I would just want to be cast in it. Just be a part of it. Kind of a supporting role. I kind of want to know why he wants to be on Slingblade. You said Slingblade. You said Slingblade Mike Davis. That's a great movie. Yeah.

So like one of my favorite artists, Dwight Yokem and Billy Bowman. Bob Thornton are pals. He's so good in that movie. Yeah, and Dwight's in a few movies that Billy Bob Thornton has been in. I think that, you know, their friendship has influenced that happening. And so I like that about Bill of Bob Thornton. He gets his buddies into movies and he has fun. He has fun doing what he does for a living.

That's good acting. I think I'd want to be in Tombstone. Oh, that would be a good one of those movies, like say if you're home sick or something like that laid up in bed or whatever, if that thing's on or you have it on your DVR, I can watch that thing. And it seems like sometimes that movie's four hours long. Yeah. But I can watch that thing anytime.

You know what? I remember loving Tombstone and thinking when Wyatt Earp came out, remember who was in? Kevin Costner. Kevin Costner. So Kevin Costner, and it's right on the hills of Tombstone. It's like maybe a year later at Topps. And I'm going to White Earp thinking, heck yeah, Tombstone was good. This is going to really be good.

And it was literally three hours long. I could not. When I got it, I never checked, you know, and I sat down. in the movie theater and I'd better have a lot of popcorn. I'm sitting there going, holy crap, like I'm ready to leave. And it's complete plagiarism. We got another hour, hour, and 15 minutes. I mean, like a lot of the same lines were used in that same movie.

I mean, like it was ridiculous. I was disappointed in wide. Tombstone was good. All right, that's it for Ask Junior. All right, good question. Good segment, yeah. You know, let's, uh... That's good segment, guys.

Yeah, yeah. Just a hand. Woo! Yeah, yeah. All right, how about we, uh, from the flagstand, we throw that big old white flag. We can do that. A white flag, buddy. White flag right there. White flag. From the flags, Danny.

I never saw that metaphor coming. No. Right out of the building. No, that's just very original. Yeah. Yeah. By the way, so how's the crater over there? Can we get... How's the crater over there in the couch? That's something I wanted to talk to you guys about because we get more racing metaphors. I don't know if we have. We don't have enough. No. Our support is. How's the crater? Why, have you been sitting here?

Yeah. Last week. Last week. All right. It's fine. Okay, good. I didn't know if you sunk in too much and you felt a little. little uncomfortable. This is awkward. You have created some awkward moments today. I am, the king of awkward.

No, it's all good. The king of awkward. Your new name. All right. If you didn't see Jerm 360 last week, Dirty Moe Media Zone, speaking of awkward, did you see what Dillner did last week on Jerm 360? Oh, I'm glad.

Good. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He got the Corvette. Of course, that's all that. Grabbed the bullhorn, then went to Joe Gibbs Racing to go try to sell the Corvette, which we do appreciate that effort,

but you can watch. How did Joe Gibbs Racing respond? Byron Gagin, He was like a manager over there. He came out. You know, he was looking at his wallet to see if he had any money, but I'm just telling you the echo off the building from that bullhorn. There's people in the shop.

They could hear every word. Wow. It was a little, it was slightly loud. It was loud. You and Carson Elligment over there. You can watch that on Dirty Moody's YouTube channel. So that was Jeremy 360 last week.

The last two 360s have been really freaking. Oh, you've been impressed. Hilarious. Really? The slide job? Yes. Slide job was funny, man. I know sometimes you could get sick of that stuff, but it was funny.

Wait, wait, wait. I'm going to give you a real attaboy on slide job. Wow. At the time that I... Where'd Dustin go? Dustin's gone. Oh, wait. No, that's not.

Grand looks like Dustin. Grand looks like Dustin. At the time that I saw this and that I was hearing a lot of compliments about it, there was a good majority of the people in the industry that were ready for slide job to sort of go away. And y'all sort of, even in that, even with that unpopular content, you may, made a really, really awesome funny video that people thought, yeah, okay, that's really good. Wow. Even though I've heard slide job all freaking week, this is pretty funny.

I got to send you the stuff that hit the cutter room floor. All right. And we won't post it because people are proud. No, no, it's good. Yeah. Well, if it's good, let's post it. No, no, no. It's the reason they didn't make the video.

But that, you know, we could get sued. Maybe that's one reason. Getting sued is no good. No, no. You frown on those things. Got it. As the boss. I got it.

Well, thank you for the compliments on. 360. I mean, that feels good. Dustin Lee, you got to give him credit. Dustin Lee's incredible. And to be honest with you, well, that's all I got to say about that. But well done with your bullhorn. I don't know what we're doing this week, but we'll figure something out, right? It should be noted. So that was Windale Junior's Ride. It should be noted that they did sell a lot more tickets because of your work. So if you want to buy one, they're now, you know, running out. Until August 31st, it will be open. Windale Jr.'Ride.com is where you can go do that. Better chances than the lottery, man. I mean, I mean, I played the lottery for the first time in a year the other day, and I was thinking about it after doing that deal. I'm like, man, there's better chances of win that Corvette than this thing.

So you played the lottery. Yeah, I can't try to win your Corvette. I'm not eligible. By the way, since we're on this charitable kick, I'll mention this weekend Dale's going to be talking about and telling people about this new initiative that the nationwide children's hospital is doing in conjunction with the Dale Jr. Foundation.

And I really don't want to say any more than that because it hasn't been announced. But it's coming. It's going to be good. It's coming. It's coming. I will say that, so this past race weekend at Kentucky, a lot of the drivers are wearing visors for Jimmy Johnson's foundation. Oh, yeah, yeah. Love seeing that.

Homeless for Hope. Yep. There was a long list of about 20, 25 drivers that were wearing this visor, and they'll sign it. They'll auction it off for Jimmy's Foundation. So check that out. Google search for Jimmy Johnson's Foundation and find out where those visors are and all the drivers. NASCAR on NBC will help give Dell Jr. the microphone in the platform.

What we're going to do with nationwide children's is similar. And that's what we're going to tell you today. You know, he teased us about teasing him and building up before. My man, over here just gave a good tease right there. He knows how to tease a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he can tease. Well, let's send a show before I give him too much information. That's right.

And then I will say that Winsdale is going to happen again this week. Yeah. Wednesday's at six, though, because of qualifying at Eldora is at 5 to 6. Okay. So Wednesday is going to be at 6 o'clock. Our guest is Kyle Bush. So it's interesting to see what kind of show we have. Wow.

So this is, you know, Kyle Bush has, you know, strangely been in the news recently with his feud with Ricky Stenhouse. And I was wondering, and we didn't get to this on the show, I'll throw it into White Flag. It's worthy. Do we make a little bit too much of this Monday apology thing? It sort of means. So am I made an apology Monday? No. The fact that he, the fact that Stenhouse didn't go calling and apologizing about Daytona.

And Kyle made a big deal about that Kentucky this past weekend that Stenhouse never called him. I don't know. I'm sorted on Stenhouse's side on this. There's etiquette in the garage that if you wreck a guy, take him out of the race, that you call him. But what's the etiquette when if he doesn't get the call? Is it to put him on blast? No. Well, that's what happened. I mean, that's not the etiquette, but it would have never happened had he made the call. I get it.

I agree. I mean, you know, a guy gets out, runs his mouth. The thing is, is like, every driver, I mean, who knows what was said on the radio about Stenhouse during Daytona? majority of the drivers probably keyed up and talked some about him. Does he have this attitude toward every driver in the field now? It's talked too much crap. I don't know, man. He don't.

I think he reacted more off of the press conference. I agree. Well, Kyle is a guy that's going to do that. Was he surprised that Kyle said something? I mean, come on. It's Kyle Bush. Did you like the fact that, I mean, you're in a different seat now. You're in a different seat.

I loved all this. All right. I loved all this. this. I thought what Ricky said was awesome. Yeah. And I hope it keeps going. I mean, listen, man, I hated it when I was a driver, even when I wasn't the driver in this shit.

I was, when it was other drivers, I hated it. I'm like, get, get your together, quit giving them content. We're going to see this all over TV every week. Stop it. And now I'm like, y'all keep doing it. Keep doing this so we can get this on the TV next week. Right. Right.

Think about it. It was one of the more interesting things that happened. It was awesome. You had the sprinkler, you had TrueX's car sort of rolling away, you had Denny's Dash, and then you had this feud. The feud is great. This is great stuff. Right. And I have to say about it, I got to disagree.

I love the guy. I agree with, like, 80% of the stuff he says, Kyle Petty is so opinionated. I love Kyle. I want to finish up. But that deal right there saying NASCAR should intervene? No. No, no, no, no. NASCAR can't get in the middle of that.

Let that happen. That's why I should not enter me. You get the last point. The one thing I want to be clear. Like, the etiquette is to give a, you know, if you wreck a guy of a race and you're at fault, the etiquette is to call. You don't have to call. If you don't call, you don't call me. And it's not like there's a rule.

It's just etiquette, man. It's what people do. It's what we all sort of understand that responsibility. And I think Stenhouse understands it. Okay. So he hears something to do it like from Kyle. Besides not to call. I can't say.

that I wouldn't have done the same thing. I don't know. I mean, if a guy's mouthy, you'd damn sure don't want to get on the phone with him and talk to him. And they've had some dust-ups in the past, too. But there was a whole week, you know, to get to Kentucky. And I don't know. You know, I mean, I've maybe tried to have reached out and at least said what he said to him in the car, you know, at Kentucky. Hey, call him on the phone.

Say, man, let's get some lunch together. We both in Moresville. I got a problem with what you said with me. Why don't we get together? Well, if you've got 30 calls to make, maybe one. Slides for the crack. He only really has that one call to make. I mean, that first wreck was Ricky's responsibility because the two spun off his nose,

but that's plate racing. Those happen all the time. That wasn't really, oh, you screwed up and everybody hates Ricky now. That was just a wreck at Daytona. The second one was the one that was a little, he's a little more responsibility there. Even though you don't want to call a guy and the guy's mad and gets out and goes, that dumb idiot wrecked the hell out of me and everybody else, what if? freaking a

fool. Well, anytime you get wrecked in a race, you fly off the mouth. I mean, people say stuff. So that's,

I mean, I think that if you called earlier in the week, it wouldn't, we wouldn't have got what we got and, you know, it wasn't a steamrolled

into Kentucky. I'm glad it did because I'm in TV and it was great. Thank you. You know. And Kyle, in true Kyle fashion,

through a zinger that was so good. When? In his, in his point, saying, when they asked him about Ricky,

they were like, I don't worry about people far in the back. I I just, it's a, I'm like, Kyle, please don't ever change. It would make me irate? Never.

Kyle is never going to change. No. And we saw a side of Ricky in his interview that will never change. That's Ricky Stenhouse. Like, he ain't going to take no shit and he's going to go up and tell a guy. And I didn't know that about him. Oh, yeah. He's a little sawed off badass.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. He ain't going to take. He's road bulls. He is. He's a road bulls. So. Those two guys, you know, maybe one of them is going back down from...

I got one more question about that, though. Was Ricky wrong or right by going to Kyle's car in the qualifying? That was unusual. When he was about to go turn his qualifying... There's no wrong or right there. Okay. Okay, no opinion on that. I mean, if you're going to talk in the media, you've got to be ready.

Yeah. I mean, it's a free game. Wide over. Yeah. Fertile ground, open territory, open season. All right. Hey, I think that was a good show, guys. I mean, a little bit of everything.

That was the longest white flag lap. The longest, white flag, but you know, sometimes we go to these big tracks. It takes a little longer to get around the last time. Thank you, Dale. Awesome stuff. Dillner, well done. And that's a wrap on the Dill Jr. download. Appreciate it, guys.

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