The Dale Jr. Download - 230 - Surprise... It's Sadler!

Episode Date: August 21, 2018

Longtime friend and veteran NASCAR driver Elliott Sadler joins Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the couch and gets deep about his retirement decision and one last championship push. Sadler also shares stories of being head deep with Dale at a foam party. 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 with another episode of the Dale Jr. Download with my co-host, Mike Davis, and our editor, soundboard, musician. Comic this morning. Yeah. He's a funny man. Matthew Dillner. It's too early to move on. It's pretty early this morning.

Yeah. We got a great show, though. I'm really excited about this. We've got to school beans now. I mean, might as well. Okay. Elliot Sallers, I guess. Elliot Sattler.

Emporia, Virginia. It's our guess. So let's get started. All right, Ellie, man, here we are. How about that? What's up, buddy? It is early. It is early, man.

It's early. We do this show at about a different time every week. Usually around 11 o'clock or noon, but we knew that you're such an early riser and that you are, you're so local and that you could just skip right over here. It's a little drive. We figured 8 a.m. 8 a.m. was going to do it for you. We did this for you. I just knew you were full of BS when you told me 8 a.m.

And I've seen there thinking to myself 20 years ago, we'd be going to bed at 8 a. That's right. That's right. We had a Saturday night race for sure. Life has changed, yeah. We figured if, you know, on the week that you've announced that you're not going to race after this year, we figured we'd throw it back to 1998 and make you feel like you were doing an all-nighter with Dale Jr. And I did. And I did.

So I had to stay at home last night. I had people over for SummerSlam. So we had that. I had wrestling last night. So we had already paid for it. And that stuff is $65. I'm not skipping out on that. So I stayed, my brother came over and we cooked, and my kids are all into wrestling now.

So I had to watch that. Then I drove down. What time did it end? 11.30. It ended at 11.30. So I drove down and got here about 3 o'clock. Dang. And I usually sleep in my car, but I know how you are.

So I actually got a hotel room so I would be safe. Oh, my gosh. I was really scared to sleep in my car in the parking lot that you would be on jack stands when I woke up in the morning. We'd be pranking you in your car. Right. Wake up, it would be blacked out. I feel bad for the reasoning, but I'm glad that you didn't sleep in your car. I don't.

But I do that all the time. Really? It's tough to be a big guy and sleep in your car, though, man. You're comfortable? It's actually very simple. I have a blow-up mattress. What? I have a Chevy Tahoe.

I lay the back seats down. If you have curtains, that's creepy. Where are you going so often? Are you driving a van or something? Where are you going to have a candy? Sounds like you do this every week. I got a company vehicle. Oh, yeah.

This is a commercial, really, that you can sleep in so much room in it. So I have a blow-up mattress. I mean, I have blankets. I got a comforter. I got a couple pillows. So what I do, this is my habit. So I will put my kids to bed, whether it's 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock at night. And then I will drive to the airport to get on the team plane.

And most of the time the team, which is in Statesful. And most of the time the team plane. That's how long? Three and a half hours. Team plane usually leaves five, six o'clock in the morning. So I pull in the parking lot. I got a spot that I've got picked out where the lights don't shine in. I've gotten used to it by now.

And I sleep until I wake up to get on the plane. Every week. But every other week. I've been doing this for years. Elliot, you're a successful man. You know, I mean, you make a little bit of money. You could splurge for a $70 hotel room. Just for a couple hours?

Yeah. Man, I don't maintain things are tight right now. I'm retiring. Actually, I found I sleep just as good without, because look at it this way. So if I had to stay in a hotel, I had to park my car, you got to go in sign in at a desk, which always takes an hour at a hotel right. They just study click and click and click and you got to sign all these forms. And you got to walk up to your room and time you get the temperature straight and all that stuff.

In my car, I'll pull up and parking lot. I'll put it in park. I lay right down. I'm gone. I'm good. I've gotten used to it. Yeah. Damn.

But last night, so I was usually. I was usually sleep in my car, but thanks to Mike Davis. I splurridge for a hotel room last night. Have I pranked you since you've been at your? have I ever prank? No, you haven't. Okay. And I'm proud of that.

When do I get to earn your trust? When I retire. Maybe when you retire, the pranks will start coming even more. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not to come to Virginia then. It's all right. We actually talked about that. We actually talked about it.

We did talk about it. Not a prank. Never been to Emporia, Virginia. I've wanted to go. Okay. So I've been. But I'm not going to prank. You have my word.

Okay. You ever been to Emporia? Yeah. I drove through there, yeah. Yeah. I figured you had one of them, sadly. I am so surprised by that. his dedication.

Heck yeah. Dedication to sleeping in the car. And so I've been, you know, I've been in the Xfinity series now like the last six or seven years. And I've always done that. I drive in the night before because I want to put my kids to bed. I look at as an extra night and like I'm sneaking out and they don't know they're missing me, right? Put them to bed and daddy's home while they're going to bed. Yeah.

And then afterwards, you know, then I go. What do you do when you get back? I drive home. All right. So you fly back, land here, and then drive it. another three and a half hours home. Yes. That's insane, right?

Yeah, but look, it's worth it. When you get up in the morning and your kids come wake you up at 7. 38 o'clock in the morning, that's worth it. No, no, I guess I'm not, no, no. But I do get a mid-afternoon napping. I guess I just don't know why you don't buy a flight or something to Virginia. So. Why you come here.

A big airport. That's a great question. And I have a great-international. So we fly in the Statesville. There's no commercial flights out of Statesville. So I'll drive an hour. to Charlotte, go through baggage, get on a plane, fly to Richmond, and then have to have a car to get me back.

I mean, it's too much. Didn't you have a plane? I do, but I lease it out. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa. You have one. Right. You have one now. Yes.

And you do all this and you have a plane? You know how expensive it is to have a... Yeah, but, but you have a play. Man, it's hard. Junior, what are you thinking about all this? When do you ride your own plane? So I have a deal with Junior Motorsports. I fly my own.

plane to road courses because I bring all my spotters with me. Okay. So that frees up seats for you guys. And then I even have some of Justin Allgaier spotters like Frank Denny and those guys, they all fly off me on my plane. So I can take my plane to the road courses, but I fill them up. Do you love road courses? It makes you love road courses.

But otherwise, your plane's being leased out. Yes, leased out all the time. It's like Blake Shelton used it forever doing it because he could afford to do that. And I fly it every once in a while. When my family goes, I'll take it, but which is on a limited basis. Do you use it on vacations? so forth. Well, we don't really go on vacation.

Yeah, bet he makes his family sleep in the car on vacation, to be honest to you. Wyatt, you just shut up. You stay back in the back seat. Thrifty. Thrifty? Yeah. Honestly, I've been doing it so long. The drive from here to Emporia doesn't feel like that long because I got check stations

in my head. And I can tell you, like, what every food is at, like every exit. Yeah. But I got like, once I get it to here, it's not that far. Okay. Okay. I'm just, I'm getting close to home. You never get sleepy.

You never get. What do you do to stay? Oh, 100%. I mean, sometimes I get sleepy and I got certain places I'll stop and just take a little nap real quick on 85. You are hardcore, man. You are. It gives me more time at home. I get it.

I get that. I just, I mean, man, that's a plane. It's funny about it is, you know, I don't live in Charlotte. That's right. So I have to, you know, do different things to, you know, to accommodate. Well, if anything, it just speaks to how much, how important employer Virginia is to you. And I mean that in seriously. Right.

So I lived in Charlotte. You know, we all lived in here in Charlotte together. And in 2007, you know, my mom got diagnosed of breast cancer. And I called Ray Everingham. And at the time I was driving for him, I said, look, my mom's sick, which we talked about this story later, how he and Rick Hendrick actually helped save my mom's life. But my mom's sick, you know this. Do I have to be here at the shop every day?

Does it really matter to you? I really want to move back home and help take care of my mom. So he's like, no, you need to do that. So I put everything up for sale that I had down here and sold it like that and moved back home and moved back actually in the house that I was living in when I was running late models and stuff like that. Wow. And that's what you live in now. And that's what I live in now, which is expanded now. You'll see what a wife, she don't like the bachelor pad house.

We need a, you know, we got to have the right bedrooms and the right everything. So we expanded. But it's the same house, same property that I was born and raised up. Did you go out and grow your own trees so you could have the wood to build your house? So let me tell you what we did. That sounds like a sadly thing. So rule number one for me in my house was no landscaping, no bushes, no anything. Because I didn't want to keep up with that crap.

The last thing I wanted to do when I got home from a race was pool weeds, right? So we just cut grass right up to the house all the way around. And my mom would give me a tree for Christmas. I get a tree to put in my front yard. I'd run right over it with the lawnmower. I don't want a dance tree. We don't need a tree. You don't want a tree.

When I got married, now I got beautiful landscaping. The Santa Green program. I got to have it. You know, not my idea, but we got to have it. Yeah, buddy. Well, I do. You know. I know.

You wait. I mean, I ain't got to wait. It's happening, man. It's happening. Yeah. Hey, you know, go back to what you said there, you know, with your mom. Let's touch on that. Because, I mean, I really think a lot of people don't know the racing community,

some people, how they really stepped up for your family. I'll tell you a cool story. And I say this a lot. And I'm not saying this just because Dale's here. But, you know, I have the best owners now between you and your sister, Kelly, but also Mr. Hendrick. So in 2007, we're in New Hampshire on a Saturday night. It's like 8 o'clock in night.

My brother is actually staying with me on the bus. And my mom calls his cell phone and is just crying so bad that, you know, we can barely understand what she's saying. So actually, while he's on the phone with my mom, I call my cell phone. sister who is at home going, what is going on? She had been diagnosed with breast cancer and it was pretty serious. And the doctor acted like, it's just going to be a while before we can get you in. You know, we know you have lumping your breasts and we know it's cancer, but it's just going to be a while. Our schedule is full. So I called Ray Evernham and he says, man, I'll tell you who you need to talk to.

You need to talk to Rick Hendrick. He said he's got a lot of connections. So on a Saturday night at 8 o'clock at night I call Rick Hendrick's cell phone. Ray Evanham gave me his number. And I said, Mr. Hendrick, I'm sorry to bother you. And I told him the story what was going on. He said, are you going to be around your phone for a while? And I'm like, yeah, he said, I'll have my doctor call you tonight. I'm like, a doctor's going to call me tonight.

Yes, a doctor's going to call you tonight. And it was Dr. Limitani, who's from here in Charlotte. So he called me 930 at night and said, when can you have your mom here? I said, whenever you have, he said, Monday morning. I said, she'll be there Monday morning. So that's when I flew my own plane a lot and all, too. So we put my mom on the plane and flew her to Charlotte to see Dr. Limitani, who's one of the best doctors there is for cancer.

He heads up all the cancer research. He writes all these books, and these big buddies of Mr. Hendrick. Rick set all of that up, and it was very aggressive, and I mean, she beat it. Yeah. And 100%. If we didn't have that connection with Rick to Dr. Limitani and Charlotte, you know, my mom wouldn't be here right now. Man, at all.

What an amazing story. So it's cool that, you know, and Dillner hit on it, the family atmosphere of the racing teams is awesome. There's a lot of stories like that about Rick Hendrick, you know. That's a sure. When it comes down to it, he goes and takes care of a lot of people. And those stories, I tell you what, they just, they amazed me every time, right? And I know your mom, and she's a sweetheart.

And so, like, that also adds to this story. I remember your mom and dad would be here at the shop, and I had such a good time taking them around the shop, but they're awesome people. Yeah, she sewed down to earth and so much fun to be around. And, you know, when we're at the track, if she sees Rick, well, she goes up, gives him a big old hug. What's cool about that is Rick's from our area.

You know, he's from South Hill, Virginia. Of course. So he and my dad knew each other in high school. Oh, really? Yeah. And then they both got into car dealership together, business together, not together, but around the same time. And, of course, grew apart and all that.

But it's neat that it all kind of came back together for that. So my mom, to this day, to this day, still comes. comes to see Dr. Limitani and his partners to get checkups. That's awesome. That is awesome. So speaking of South Hill and Rick growing up there, my grandfather, Robert G, is from there too. And him and Rick knew each other back when my granddad, I think my granddad, I think my granddad, on the gas station, on the gas station or something, Rick bring his car over to get fixed up

when he's 15, 16 years old. So the G's, you know, my mom's side of the family from right up in there, too. Yeah, they actually helped put bodies on some of my dad's race. cars back in the 70s. Wow. They've been hanging bodies for a long time. Oh, geez. So that's a pretty cool little group. You talked about your brother coming over for SummerSlam. How about that? He lives up there too, huh? He does. He lives up there too. How close to you? We live 10 minutes from each other. I'm still out in the country, and he lives near his in-laws in town, close to in town. We're 10 minutes from each other. So it's neat. He brought his whole family up last night to the house,

and we cooked and did all that stuff and watched a little rassling. Is he as he as thrifty? Because I know he travels as much as you do because he does. He does mostly commercial stuff out of Richmond. I guess the TV deal is different if they pretty much give you an allowance. So they give him an allowance and he spends it however he wants. Which he's pretty smart. He's always stayed with me on the bus.

So he takes the allowance money from the hotel and puts it in his pocket. He uses my rental car if he needs it. And if I'm flying, he'll fly with me. But he flies a lot of commercial out of Richmond. So to answer your question, yeah, he's a three. Y'all spend a lot of time together weekend. Yeah, oh, yeah. Yeah, we do.

And he stayed with me this weekend, because he did the truck race, and he just stays on the bus with me. And then he stayed over Friday night from my race when he heard I was going to get to do the command and all that. So he wanted to stay there and be a part of that. What did you think about doing the command? Man, I started crying when they told me. You know, that's a big honor for me, man. I can tell you that was.

That was pretty cool. When they told me, they surprised me with it was something you don't think of as a. kid. My dad took me that racetrack as a kid as a fan and to watch all these race with him with Kale Yarborough and Darrell Walter. And then years later, get my first cup win there and then get a couple wins there in the Xfinity Series. And I won a race there in 2012 for Richard Childress and the Xfinity car. It was actually the first time my mom was at a victory lane with me since her breast cancer stuff. So Bristol has a lot of emotion with me for a lot of different reasons. And when they told me I got to do that.

I was pretty, I got emotional about it. And, man, this is, you know, for a few, man, this is, you know, I love this track. This is the last time I get the race on it. And then, man, I got to do the command. Well, man, well, I can't do it bad. Man, I got to show some energy. Yeah. So I had to kind of turn that switch on.

You leaned into it. I had to, man. Yeah, you got to. He did a Daytona, man. You get that moment. What you start. I mean, actually, when you found out you were going to do it in the time between that and when you did do it, is you thinking about how you were going to do it.

Yes. And then when you get in there and you do it, it sort of just takes care of itself. It did. Because you're adrenaline. Adrenaline was pumping. I was talking real fast. Oh, my God, we're here. Let's go.

Let's go. Man, ready. So how different was the actual delivery from what you had anticipated? Way different. When I read it back on tape, I was like, holy cow, speed reading. Yeah. What was I doing? Oh, that's so good.

I had it made out of my head. You know, I wanted to thank Food City for doing it because Mr. Smith has been friends of mine for 20 years. And I want to make sure that, because they were giving up their right, you know, as the, sponsor the race to have a, you know, a person doing on a start, finish line to let me do it. So I got to thank them. And I always thank the military because that's what we do. And then I wanted to say some to my wife and kids at home.

And then I wanted to get it, you know, hit it. I want to get it right. And next thing I know, I was, go, hey, come in it. He's an auctioneer. Yeah. He's hard not. to do that. I did the same thing. I was like nervous about it. I was nervous. And then when it started happening and I'm like in the middle of sand and I'm like not nervous at all and I'm like,

I'm like wanting to scream, you know. It's so funny. It's got to be another level of anxiety when you're doing it right before your race. I can't imagine you ever even wanting to do a command to start engines from your race car with the race. Yeah. It was a lot going on at one time. Yeah. I bet. Do I put my helmet on? Do I take it off? Do you want to do this? I'm not here radio. Do I have a mic? Does the live mic work? Is it working for TV?

Is it for a lot? You know, I had all these questions. So, it was talking about having questions. So you announced that you're retiring from full time. So that means you're leaving the door open to maybe run a few races here and there, whatever. Well, so the reason I left it open was because, you know, your sister. I talked to Kelly about it is, you know, I'm not sure what junior motorsports plans is for next year. I don't want to know.

It's none of my business. but I'm saying I know we need to be four. I'm going to say we because I'm part of the team. We need to be four teams. We got a lot of people here. We want four championship teams. But if something happened and Kelly needed me to fill in a couple races to whether it's to satisfy a partner or fill a schedule out or whatever,

I wanted to leave that a possibility. So I told her I was not, you know, I'm not going to turn my back on her or the team or anything. So that's why we did retire from full-time racing. If she needed me to do something, I'll be glad to do it. So you still definitely think you got. the passion and the, you know, the want to. I have the passion, I think, to run a couple races. I don't have the passion to run restrictive plate races anymore.

I don't. Consider how good you are at them. So I... Both y'all are the same on this. Right. But, you know, me and you've already talked about this a little bit about, you know, when you missed your first Daytona 500, how you felt about it and all that. And I've talked to Ryan Permanenton about it.

I said, man, we need you in restrictive plate races. I'm like, dude, I'm going to tell you someone. I got home from Daytona in July, and my wife and I looked at each other, I went, I don't have to run another restrictive late race. No, that's it. So I want to make sure when I talk to Pemberton about stuff, I'm like, all right, look, man, do not. Yeah, I'm not doing a restrict. So this has been in the cards for a while.

You've been, you know, you just said that you talked to your wife in July. So this has been something that's been on your. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we kind of, you know, with sponsor stuff, and in today's world, you have to have sponsorship to race and be competitive, and we understand that. And when we knew that maybe one main financial was not coming back and they were on defense and they had just gotten bought from another company and they had a lot going on. You know, my wife and I and Kenny Crosswhite who helps me out with a lot of stuff and we pray

about a lot of things, we kind of knew that this could be an option or this might happen where this would be a good time to kind of step away. Did you ever consider, you know, just trying to, you know, another team? Is that just, is that ship sailed? I'll tell you what. I've gotten to offer it two other teams that have asked me about driving. Wow. Okay.

and good people, nice people, friends with them, I just don't want to take a step back. I felt like if I left this team to go do something else, I still get the race, but I just don't think it would be the same. I got so many friends over here now, and I've been here last, you know, this will be three years and competitive team and I love my guys. I just don't want to take a step back just to say I'm a race car driver

or just to say to race. You know, I'm at a really good situation, right now. Yeah. I just don't want to go that direction. It's got to be hard. I mean, I would imagine, you tell me, I mean, I kind of went through it with Dale, just the roller coaster into the indecisiveness and the seesaw and going on away and like the pros

and cons of do I keep doing it? Do I not? It's emotional, isn't it? It is. It was real emotional, that for a while. And, you know, but I think talking about and communicating, I don't, you know, I like doing that. I have an amazing relationship with my crew chief.

I love Kevin of death. He and I have to talk about this for a while. I'm like, look, dude, this is what's going on. So if I get a little short on the radio this week or something like that, man, I got a lot on me. Just understand that. So he and I communicated about that a lot, just so we knew what page, you know, we were both on moving forward.

To send that tweet out, to write that and explain, was that difficult? It was a relief. It was a relief for me. Because we've kind of, you know, we've known the last couple weeks that this was the decision I had made. You know, I had told my employees, you know, earlier just to give, I want everybody to get a heads up, everybody know what's going on. And I had told some of my friends at home, some of my closest friends at home, that kind

of what was happening. So it was kind of relief for me that to get it out in the opening. And that's why I want to do it before the playoffs start. Guys, I'd rather just tell everybody, I don't want to be dealing with questions and emotions and all that when the playoffs start. I want to be focused 100%. You know, my guys deserve that. So that was kind of why we.

picked the time that we did. He talked about how you're excited about being able to spend more time with your kids. What kind of activities are they involved in that you're excited about being involved in yourself? You talk about being a coach. So a lot of people don't know this about me. So my dad coached me all growing up, coached a lot of different sports. My brother is one heck of a high school basketball coach. And I've been coaching for maybe 15 years, different styles of sports, mostly with young people. So I've got hooked up with a company called Top Hand. It's a travel ball a guy that I went to school with started it. He's from my hometown.

So I've got hooked up with them when we do baseball and softball. And we're going to expand the basketball and gymnastics and all these other things as we grow. So I coached five different teams in the last year. What? I am eat up with coaching and mentoring kids and being a leader. Multiple sports? Oh, yeah, multiple sports. What are you coaching?

So right now it's baseball, softball, and soccer. But I'm kind of putting soccer more on a back burner now and turn it over to another guy so I can focus on this new travel ball deal that we're putting together. Wow. So yesterday, we had practice yesterday for four hours with a couple different age groups and we had 120 kids out there. Wow. You know, that we are coaching and teaching and all that stuff. And it's just a – it is a serious passion of mine. I love it.

So my kids are very involved. My son plays a couple of different baseball groups, 10 U, 8 U and plays a rec ball. My daughter actually plays two different styles of softball as well as gymnastics. So they are very involved. And I can tell you, y'all, it killed me this year to be at the racetrack during all-star time. They both made all-stars. Both their teams made it to the state playoffs to have a chance to go to the World Series. And I was at the track going, I am miserable.

I am missing everything that they're doing. And this is – so I'm a coach, right? So I've coached them all year and helped coach all these kids that I know. know all year. Then when it comes time to being on the big stage, I can't be there. So that was really hard for me, but it actually made my decision easier. Yeah. I'd say so. To be a part of it. And one, the major factor in all of this. So I don't know how much y'all know about my son Wyatt. So when he was, when my wife was like 20 months, I mean 20 weeks pregnant, we went, she went, we went to find out what the sex of the baby was going to be, a boy or a girl.

So they came in and they told us, you know, you're going to have a boy. They said, but you need to stay and talk to the doctor. There's some issues. So the doctor came in and explained some stuff to us. His intestines had a crimp like a garden hose when you crimp it. He had that in his intestines. And he said, this is a signal of a few different things. He could have spina bifida.

He could have Down syndrome. There's a few other things that they listed. We're going to send you to a specialist in Richmond. So we went from the like the happiest day of our lives to oh my God, I devastated. So we went and saw the specialist and he helped us, you know, get through to when that Wyatt is born. So we know when he is born, as soon as he is taken, he has to go immediately into surgery. We couldn't even seen. So it was right out of Amanda straight to surgery.

So he had two surgeries and we're in the NICU for, you know, three and three months. months and I'm having to leave every weekend to go race. Oh my gosh. I didn't know this. My wife is living in the NICU. You know, we have a room at the Weston because we have to leave every once in a while when they do shift change, so we'd have to leave. So I had to watch my son go through all this.

So the doctors are telling us, all right, because we have to give him, he couldn't eat. So everything was being pumped out of his stomach. So they had to give him his stuff through his IVs. And they're like, look, he's going to be his manual dexterity. It's called his motor skills. He's going to be way behind. He's not going to be like athletic.

He's not going to be able to run. He's not really going to be able to throw. He's not going to be able to all his things because he's been laying in a NICU for so long while other kids are developing. So he's going to be very underdeveloped most of his childhood. So that's what they're telling us. So I'm an athlete. I've played six sports in high school. I'm devastated with all of this.

So anyway, he gets better. We get to take him home. We go through some issues. But we get him home. He gets older and starts playing sports. And I'm like, man, he's, you know, he's holding his own. Yeah. But then he really fell in love with baseball in the last couple years.

And has, he's got a niche. Like he's, he's got it, you know, so I can, we can see. It's not just my dad, you know, it's not that dad thing. Right. Everybody's kid. Everybody's an off-roll, right. Right. Everybody's coming to me going, look, dude, your son's got it.

Like, he's got the tools. And he loves it so we can push him, we can push him really hard. So seeing all that from what he, you know, fighting for his life, I remember the visions in your head. I remember him on the operating table like it was yesterday with then driving needles all in his foot and, you know, innovated with all this stuff down his throat to now watching him on the baseball field. And so my reasoning for retiring is if my son can fight through,

you know, everything he fought through to live and fight for his life and it can work as hard as he works his guts off every day to be a player. Why can't I help him do that? You know, I've had plenty of time to pursue my dreams. If he's going to fight that hard, dude, I need to help him. So that's honestly 100% down to the wire why I made a decision that I did. It makes sense. It makes sense.

You know, I worry about you guys when you retire. What is your identity? It's something that Dale and I talked a lot about over the last several years. You know, what's going to fulfill you, right? What's going to make you just, you know, get up in the morning? I don't have any questions about you. I'd see it. I mean, that answers that question.

Look, man, it's so cool. So the other day we started school. My kids have started school. And my daughter's in the first grade. We have a tradition at our school. The first grade is march in with the seniors. It's like a changing of the guard. That's cool.

They're welcoming them to the campus. That's cool. Because at our school, everybody, all the grades are on one campus. So while I was there, all these kids that I coach all summer, hey, Coach Elliott, hey, man, good to see you, Coach Allen. All these parents coming up going, man, they love you so much, and they love the sport. And that to me, I was like, I'm going to be fine.

My brother's telling him I'm going to be bored as hell by February, and I'm going to be begging somebody. But after seeing all that, I was like, it's going to be fine. It's going to be good. But I just really felt like that if my son can fight it, as hard as he did to get himself in a position where he's got a niche on the field. I want to give him every opportunity to be successful with that. Yeah, you can't miss that.

Yeah. People are telling me when I was retiring that you need to retire to something, not from something. That's a good way of looking at it. You definitely are doing that. Oh, yeah. You've got like this whole other life and whole other chapter. Yeah, 100%.

That you're going to write. My wife and I joke about all the time. She's like, Ellie, you're way too busy to race. And what she means by that is this. So, you know, I was at, we had practice Wednesday night. So we had ball Wednesday night all night. Then I get in the car and drive all night to Bristol, you know, for practice Thursday morning. And then as soon as we get back Sunday, we have practice all day.

Then I have meetings all day tomorrow, setting up lessons and stuff like that. So you had practices Sunday. Yeah. And you had to squeeze that in just in time to get the home to SummerSlam. I mean, yeah, four hours of summer. And he's sleeping at the car, Probably out of the gymnasium. Hey, you can laugh about this.

My son said, look, I'm not, 6.30, we're done. Because we've got to get home in time for SummerSlam. So during practice, Danny, what time is it? What time is it? We're not going to miss SummerSlam. Good for you. Yeah. Which is a whole total different life than the first life we shared.

I tell everybody that it's two Elliott Sattles. Oh, yeah. There was this Elliott Souther, and then there's the one that was 20 years ago. Tell us about the first Elliott Sattler. Dale. Tell me about Elliot Sadler for the late model days. Oh my gosh. Well, you know, me and Elliot got to know each other. We knew who each other was when we was racing late models, but we didn't spend much time together until we started racing the Xfinity Series together. Elliot was like maybe a year ahead of me, went to Cup before I did, been in the Xfinity Series

before I was there. But we started hanging out when the series went to Vegas, we're in the hotels, and looking for something to do. And so me and him would meet up and maybe another driver or two. But mainly me and Elliot always was part of the crew that was running around. And then we started going on vacation sometimes. Took a couple of days. You know, when we had an off weekend, man, we got to do it up with two single guys. We try to see if anybody else is interested in going.

And we'd put all our money in one basket and get us a big old place. Just go together. Yeah. So we would spend a lot of time. Yeah, we always goofed off. We had a lot of fun. We took care of each other. We looked after each other.

That was the greatest thing about hanging out with Elliot is we were going to have fun, but we weren't going to get in trouble. Everybody was going to be going when it was time to go home. Everybody went home together. You know, we didn't leave somebody hanging out at the bar or nobody went home some other hotel with other crew. It was awesome, man. We were good.

We were a pretty tight-knit's group. So we're going out one night, right? We're going to go out. So we are decked out, like, in our best clothes. So we're looking good. And we go to this place, Harpoon Harry is old. I don't even remember the name of it. And they're having a phone party.

A what? Phone. F-O-A-M. The hell is that. F-O-A-M party. So we're like, you know, hey, man, just check it out. Let's go check it out. So the manager.

Is that you or is that me? That's you. That's my worst impersonation. So the manager figures out with air and takes us like, guys, we can go upstairs and look. So we go upstairs and kind of looking down on it. And it's, I mean, they have machines just foam rolling out. And everybody else is in, of course, bathing suits. We're not.

Man, we're looking good. Yeah. So he's like, man, this is good. But, man, we need to be in there. You know, we want to go, let's go, just put our feet. Just get close to it. Dip your feet in the pool. Yeah, kind of dip your feet in the pool.

So we went from being safe to, we get a little. A little closer, a little closer. Next thing you know, we're all in with all that close. Up to the top of our head. I'm at the top of our heads. And I had my buddy with me, Big John, who's already 6, 6, 6, 6, 7, and then the foam's on top of him. But they had a guy in the corner with a water hose. So if you get soap in your eyes, you go over to him, and he'll spray you off with the water hose.

But what we had to learn when you drank is you had to cover your beer up. You don't want soapy beer. Yeah, because the phone, you can be, okay, get a break. Yeah. Okay, we're good. So we went, like, ruined our clothes for that. But that was like the funest party. We had some fun.

That was so much fun at the phone party. It was. That was great. We was always trying to get the VIP table at the clubs in the Vegas and all that. Yeah. Why not? Yeah. And Elliot would be there. He was good at that.

Or he might get there first. He'd be like, I got the table. You know, just calling on the phone, texting on the phone. We over here, we under this corner. Or we'd get there first and be like, All right, Elliot, we over here, man. This is where we at. Find us over here.

But we just spent a lot of time having fun, cutting up. It was good times, man. Nothing more fun than Vegas with Sadler. Last time I was with him in Vegas, Vegas, I ended up hanging out in a suite with the Golden State Warriors all night. Like back when they sucked. Yeah. But it was, I mean. I got another phone party.

What? I got another phone party. I'm sorry, you aren't involved in this one. So we go to this phone party. And then six months later, they're having a phone party to have a nice day cafe in Richmond for jail. Oh, yeah, I've been there. I'm like, guys, all my buddies, you know, all my buddies. And I'm like, hey, we've been to one of these.

We know how to dress. It's going to be good. So we get bathing suits, flip-locked. We wouldn't bought floaties, you know, to get on your day. Like a snorkel. I was like, dude, we're going to be right. So we stopped and had a pre-game on the way up there. So we walk in, we're going to be ready.

We walk in to have a nice day cafe, and it's like the record stop. They had a foam booth, not the whole party. A booth, like a phone booth. Like, wait, a phone with an end? They had a phone booth with foam in it. Tripping like one. The one that we went to, it was pouring in. Like a water bomb.

So you guys show up with your damn swimmies. It was like the whole shop, the whole room, the one we went to. We show up it to have a nice day cafe. Everybody else was dressed like we were a nice boat. Yeah, we had the wrong setup in. We were screwed up. They all had nice clothes in. We walk in with floaties and a rubber duck thing around your waist.

Oh, my God. That is so funny. All right, so to finish that story, me and two of my buddies get in the phone booth. And it's dripping. And we're so tight in there. Our bellies are against the glass that the foam can't get to our feet. It's like blug it up from our belly up. And we're just against the glass, you know, like this with your face against the glass.

Holy crap. So I've been in two phone parties, and I've been dressed wrong both times. Just humor me and tell me Brett Griffin was in that phone booth. Tell me he was. I don't think he was there for that. He wasn't there for that one. All right. Well, good phone stuff out of Elliot Sather today.

I had no idea. Man, now I want to go to a phone party. I can't even get it. I can't even. That don't even get me excited anymore, man. I remember back, if this was 2004, Yeah. It's Monday before an off weekend.

We would be chomping at the bit because we had somewhere we were going to go. And somebody told me, Matt Kenseth told me one day, he's like, one day, man, you're going to wake up and that stuff ain't going to be fun no more. I was like, I don't know what you're talking about, man. It's always going to be fun. That's right. It ain't. It ain't, man.

Nowadays, you know, me and Amy, we're going to take Island and go somewhere and hang out by ourselves. Yeah. It's funny. We used to go downtown to Bar Charlotte, all the time. Yeah. And he had a black Impala. And I had a buddy of mine that would drive because he didn't drink,

Timmy Petchick. That's right. That's right. And we'd get in the back, it would be so loud. We'd be sitting beside each other and back going, yeah, what? What'd you say? Yeah. Uh-huh.

Yeah, I don't know what you said, but yeah. That's great. And now I'd be like, well, you turn the music down? I can't hear what you're saying. Do these young drivers, do they, do they race hell like you guys? No way. No way. No.

I think they do. You think they do? Yeah. Uh, they can't do it in public. This is the difference. Very Blaney does, but yeah. This, I mean, I think that social media, cell phones, camera phones, all those things sort of corral their, you know, their perception of partying hard.

They think they're partying hard. They think they're raising hell. But it's a different time. Yeah. And I think that they have to, I don't know. They've got to be careful, man. Yeah, they got to be careful. What would have been like if social media would have been around when you guys were running hard in 2002?

We would have been hanging out of the bus a lot more. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. People would have probably been pretty critical about our focus. You never heard that once in your life, didn't it? I own it. I own it up, buddy. My focus was always there.

But we did. Damn, we probably had more fun in 2004 than any of the year, and we did win six races. I always used to say that. There you go. I ran. I won two races and made the chase. That's right. I always felt like I ran better if I threw a good drunk at some point in the week.

Well, look. See, my spotter always told me, Brett, Brett's like, you know, because you used to qualify on Friday, you'd come into a place on Thursday night. Look, now you've got to go get drunk on Thursday night, because if you get drunk on Thursday night, we always qualify better when you get drunk on Thursday night. Really?

That was his thinking. That would be his thinking. I didn't have any real science behind it, but I knew that when I didn't, my nights was like Monday night or Tuesday night. And if I went out Tuesday night, I ran better on Sunday. The weeks that I didn't do anything,

and I sat around home, I didn't run good. I don't know why, but it just seemed like that. Pressure relief. Yeah, yeah. Man, see all this stuff that we're going to miss, right? It's like, well, we missed it. It's gone. It's all right.

You got new ways to have fun. Summer slams at night. So we're still having fun. We're just doing it in a different way. Just a different way, right. All right, the rest of this year, you're going to get after it, right? You know what? This year's been fun, but it's been a little tough because of my guys.

and I know Dale can allude to this. You know, when you see your team and your guys putting in the effort that my guys do, you want them to reap the benefits and see all the accolades and be in Victory Lane and get the recognition they deserve. And that's my number one goal. It's not about me the next how many races we got left. It's about telling my guys or showing my guys or seeing my guys in Victory Lane, holding the championship trophy at Homestead, you know, those things that come with it.

And that's my number one goal moving forward, which it always has, man. I've told Kevin a many of the time, man, I'm sorry I screwed the last restart up or I didn't communicate well. You know, one thing I've learned in my career is when I was young, I used to think it was always the car. And I'm older, I understand that, yeah, I got a big part in this, you know, the way I drive and the way I communicate and I'm the quarterback and I need to take responsibility. But, you know, my number one goal is, you know, giving back to my guys and I want them to enjoy

the benefits of running good and being up front. I sense that. You know, like when, you know, and I know that you're running like this every week. So, but I remember that Dover race when you and Algar were going after it right there at the end. I mean, man, you just felt like you were just hanging it all out. Every, every piece of you was just going after it, man. I mean, and I know that that wasn't selfish. That was selfless.

That was wanting for your team. Your sponsor was there. Yeah, that was, you know, so funny how this works. on the last restart, I'm like, all right, how am I going to race Justin right here if we get into this? I can't, we need to race each other hard, but I can't be stupid. And then we were getting that close to the end, and he was starting to move up some and taking my line away, and I was trying to create another line, and I knew I was going to be loose up under him, and I knew all this was going on.

And coming to the last lap, we're going into backstretch, and I'm like, I just got to go the opposite direction he goes, and let's see what happens. So he went high and got blocked, and I got under him, and I remember, remember being in the middle of the corner going how hard, you know, and it happens so quick, but I've got to give a throttle and just see if it sticks. And I got loose. And then I'm like, stay in it and wreck both of us or, you know, it's so many things that wait through it.

And it's so different when you race, you know, your team, mate. So it was so many things going through your mind in such a short period of time. But, and then when it's over with, you're like, ah, you know, maybe I should have tried this and maybe it should have done that. But it's tough sometimes. Bristol was like that the other night, coming to the last lap through the middle of three and four. Joy was on the bottom. Justin got loose in the top.

I thought about putting it in the middle. And I'm thinking, I'm going to wreck both our cars right here. The shop's going to be really pissed at me. And I've got to show up Monday morning to film with you guys. I've got to be careful. I got to be careful right here. Oh, man. Middilner, he's thinking about us there in the middle of racing three wide at Brisbane.

I kind of added that too. Yeah, I mean, you're always thinking about us during the middle of a race. I mean, who wouldn't, you know? I got one last question. This is always something that I'm just curious about because of my own personal thoughts. So you're going to retire from full-time Xfinity racing. I know you raised some late models when you first, before you came to Xfinity Series back in the 90s. You probably look back on that as some of your funnest times you had in racing.

Your brother, he runs some go-car stuff. He has a little go-car business outside of that occasional Xfinity race opportunity that's always on the shelf for you. Have you ever thought about going and running Lake Models and doing some local track stuff? So I sent out a tweet like six months ago now about wanting to race in Barnesville or somewhere and I get a text message from my buddy amount over here

goes, hey, you know I own some lake models, don't you? Oh. So honestly, that has 100% crossed my mind. I would love, love, love to go race another late model race. Yeah. Just for fun, let's show up and let's race hard and see what happens, whether that's the Martinsville race, whether it's the one at Myrtle Beach or maybe one just back home at South Boston, I would absolutely love to, that.

That's definitely in my future to race some late-months. And I want to race some go-carts. I've already told Hermia. Really? Yes. I did it as a, you know, I did it for 10 years as a kid. I want, and it's so much hype around it now and money and prestige and these guys are the trophies are bigger than the ones we get.

So I'm like, you know, I want to race, I want to race a few, not all the time, but I want to go race at a couple of these, you know, big go-kart races. Man. All right. Well, I know you have some late models. I do. So I got to work out. There you go.

We've got to work out. We do got to work something out if you're serious. But if you do go run late models with someone else or you do run these occasions, you know, run a go-kart race. You've got to let us know when it's happening. Okay. All right. All right.

I can do that. The thing about it is, is a lot of people, it's kind of like similar to Bill Elliott coming back and running this road course race. Is that cool or what? It's, that's the way people are going to feel. Awesome. Yes. Well, that's the way people are going to feel when you run that go-kart.

That's the way people are going to feel when you run that late model, so don't let that happen without us being able to pay attention. So if Dale Jr. decides to go race a late model at Hickory, you're going to tell everybody. You're going to show up on a Saturday night. You don't have to tell everybody. You can tell me. No, I'm saying if you.

I'm not going to tell everybody, but I might tell you. Oh, okay. All right, okay. I'm going to have an alias. I'm in the circle. Yeah, I might be like. An alias. Hey, we race with an alias.

Hey, friends. Ralph G. Hey, friends. I'm doing this. I'm racing this Saturday night. Come check this out. If he was in a race, would it make you want to do it? I'd want to come watch.

Oh, you wouldn't want to race with him? Yeah, heck, it'd be hard for him to get two late models together, but heck yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah. We need to go run the Marnsville race together again. I know. Like we did back. Yeah. I need to just go try to make it on time for once.

So, look, I won that race. I won that race in 1995, the Marnsville race. And as I took the checker flag and I come around, I see my engine builder walking across the track leaving. What are why he's leaving? I'm sure they're going to pull us down. Yeah, we had angle mill heads. Uh-oh. That's why he was leaving.

That's why he was leaving. He was like, oh, crap. We pulled his motor out the next week and went to Don Kawowski, and he built my engines for the rest of my little career there. Elliot Sadler is a late model driver. It was hard to beat him, right? You told me that before. We were good back in the day, right? Yeah.

It was fun. He had a great car. recognizable car. You know, when the car, I don't know why, but so you would, when you race late models back then,

you didn't know who everybody was, but you knew what the cars were. Oh, yeah. Because you would see pictures of the cars all the time in publications and so forth that you're reading about late models. And, oh yeah,

that car, I seen that car before. He runs to South Boston. Oh, yeah, that guy wins South Boston all the time. What's his name? L.A. Settler, all right.

And then, you know, So they would come to our races. We'd go to their races, you know, Barry Beckerly and those guys. I mean, everybody would be racing at everybody's tracks at some point. But the cars were as recognizable as the names, if not more so. You know, what's in breaking news right here on the download. I'm going to ask the CEO of one main if he will let me have my own paint scheme for Homestead. Dang.

Oh, yeah. And that's the paint scheme. Slip in. Well, no, I would, no. It'll be the, you know, there are one main on it, but I would like to have it to slip in colors. That's what I'm talking about. I would love that to happen. That would be my dream kind of thing.

Man. But I don't, you know, I know it's tough because it's not their colors and I understand the money and effort and everything that puts behind it. But I'm still going to call and ask. Listen, I think it worked out well for Exaltzata last year when they put that old Budweiser paint scheme. That was a awesome idea. Yeah. That was neat. It's so many memories with that paint scheme.

And Dale hits it right on the head. because the way the publications are a huge picture and then the names of being little print. And so you just kind of look at the pictures and see who was doing what is so many memories with me with that paint scheme that I would love to run that at homestead. Yeah, I think it would be the icing on the cake for me. So the thing about to make sense of what I was trying to say is in today's world, the cup guys, everybody's cars are different every week. Yeah. You know, you don't, the car doesn't pair with the driver like it used to. But in late model days back and even today, you know, the late mall guys don't.

have different paint scheme every week they got the same paint scheme all year so the car the driver go hand in hand recognizable well man i hope that works out for you that would be a great way to go out well a great way to go out well that yeah there you go yeah that's uh that'd be a great way to go yes sir it would we're gonna try to you know we've been close we've been close and what that that gives me confidence because we know how to get there you you you know you went through a tough one last year i told you man little time passes you're going to get over it you're going to get your head right and you're going to get back in there and get all the way back to homestead with another shot and you're a little smarter than you were back you know every year you get a little smarter you learn a little bit

more yeah so i feel like you got the tools man you got the middle tools and i'm excited about what's happening the rest of this year thank you for coming all the way over here thanks for having me man now that i know how how much traveling this man does and driving around appreciate it but it's worth i was talking to elliot on the phone last uh yesterday afternoon and i said and he was telling me what he had planned and I said Elliot you know as well as I do Dale Jr. is not going to want you to do like if Dale Jr. knew all that you had to do in SummerSlam and all that stuff he would not want you to have to drive all the way like that. He's just well we're not going to tell

it. We're not going to tell you right now. Everything's going to be fine. I'm used to it. I just like I had a count going because my favorite Elliott Sadlerism is when he says the word together together and well I guess that's five. I had a count going on my My page, man, because I'm like, I wonder how many times Souther's going to say together. And it was only like four or five, man. I'm like, I'm going to miss that. I'm just going to say it right now. Like, we're all going to miss you behind the wheel.

And we're all going to miss that. But your personality, what you've brought to our game from when you were youth, you know, running in this deal and you were young. And there was party, Elliot and stuff. But your persona at the track. And what you've now done as a veteran of our sport, I think that's going to be the big takeaway that we're all going to miss is your persona. you know, to the fans and just overall the industry, man. Well, you know, I've learned a lot from different people, but I learned a term from Dale Jarrett.

You know, I really look up to him. He's a huge mentor to me from 1996, the first time I met him, kind of he took me under his wing. But one thing he was always good with, he was respectful of the fans. He understood that part of it. But he was a hell of a teammate, a great teammate. And his deal was this. He's the first one, first team that I had to say this to us.

We have a deal. You don't lie to me, and I don't lie to you. We have 100% truthful with each other, no matter what, no matter what our crew chiefs say, because back then we had Todd Parrott and Mike Ford, who, you know, whatever. That's what we're going to do, and that's the relationship we're going to have, and then we're going to both understand that we're going to try to help each other, but don't hurt yourself to help me, and I don't expect you to hurt yourself to help me, like when you restrict a plate racing and stuff like that, is if we have those two understandings,

we're going to be fine, and he was exactly correct. And so I have that same talk with every teammate since then, the same exact talk. I'm going to be 100% truthful with you. You'd be 100% truthful with me. Don't hurt yourself and your car to help me. And then if we understand that, then I don't do that as well. If we understand that going into stricter plate races, we're going to be fine.

And ever since then, with that idea in mind, I've always had a great relationship, you know, with most of my teammates, about all of my teammates. And I want to be that guy. He was so nice to me. I want to be that guy like here at Junior Motorsports. When they were asking me, when they were bringing William Byron on. Oh, yeah. You know, will you help and we, and I remember sitting on the plane with him,

us looking at videos and talking about pit stops and restarts and stuff all the time. I mean, I love that part of it. That coach mentality. A coach inside. There you go. I absolutely loved it. Because I remember Ryan Perman and telling me going, look, you know, this kid's coming on, won't you help? Can't wait?

You know, I love to. I love that side of it. Well, man, I tell you what, it's been such a cool, cool opportunity talking to you, man. Elliot, thank you so much for being here, buddy. I really appreciate it. Glad to be here, my man. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Want to do an Exaltor Race Center update, Dillner? Let's do it. Exaltor Race Center update. This is your Exaltor Race Center update. I'm Matthew Dillner. It was a big weekend of NASCAR thrills in the hills of Tennessee at Bristol Motor Speedway. It all kicked off on Thursday with a double header. In NASCAR Wheel and Modified Tour action, Justin Bonsignor took the win.

Then it was the truck series turn. Johnny Sauter took the lead with four laps to go and captured his series. best fifth win of 2018, solidifying him as the regular season champion. In Xfinity Series action on Friday, Kyle Larson held off a hard-charging Justin Algeyer to visit Bristol Victory Lane for the very first time. On Saturday night, Kurt Busch took the point on a late race restart and never looked back and route to his first Bristol win since 2006. The Cup series heads into its final off weekend of the season, but that doesn't mean NASCAR isn't in action. The Xfinity series goes right and left at at Rhode America and Wisconsin on Saturday.

On Sunday, the trucks do battle north of the border at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park. Also, the Junior Motorsports late models battle the Bullring at Wake County Speedway in North Carolina on Saturday night. 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. It's time for Asked Junior. I got a question. You have a question for me? Hit us up on Twitter using the hashtag Ask Junior.

All right. Ask Junior question. Since this is kind of a special episode with Elliot Sather, we're condensing it here. But we can't leave out the kids, man, of the nationwide's children hospital. The patients there are always giving us some good questions. And Seonde has one for you down. Would you eat more peace on? Caravut.

Would I eat more peas or carrots? Would you eat more of if you had to? Peas or carrots? Man, I think that's like the question of the year. I'm a carrot guy. And I just say something yesterday, as a matter of fact. There you go. Yeah, carrots.

So I'm a carrots guy. I like to eat carrots with hummus. Oh, yeah. I like that, actually. My kids love that. Carrots and hummus. Right. I thought that was just a Davis weird thing.

Sathers in the background. He's still here. He's making a face. same face I made about hummus, man. My kids love it. I didn't like hummus. I thought it smelled like body odor. But my wife eats it.

So, you know, everything that my wife does as far as food goes, I'm going to eventually try. That's just how it goes when you live in the house the same person. Hummus ain't too bad. And when you're walking around in the house and you're hungry and you're looking for something to eat and it's not snack time and it's not dinner time and you shouldn't be eating anything, carrots is a good go-to. Yeah.

Good question. All right, man. Let's do a white flag. Keep talking about it. White flag, bud. White flag right there. White flag. So the Driven to Give Gloves program was a huge success in its first year for the $60,000

raisedale Jr. The money goes directly to the nationwide children's hospital. Not surprised them, I believe Chase Elliott's Waukins Glen, winning gloves was the big get, right? Yeah, they were. Went for 10 grand? And we're going to do it again next year. Yeah, more than, yeah. And I want to say, I'm sure a lot of people.

People are curious. They went to a fan. Oh, they were not bought by... Really? Rick Hendrick or Chase or myself or some other sponsor or anything like that. They went to a fan. Good for them. That's cool.

Awesome. And bad for Chase. Poor Chase. He can buy them back. So for anyone who wants to know, well, we'll do that driven-to-give-Gloft program again next year, but for anyone who wants to learn more about the great things going on at NCH, go to nationwide childrens. And you can read all about that.

And the Dell and Amy Earnhardt Fund, which is doing a lot of good things. No Dale Jr. Download TV show this Thursday, but you know what? You can do this Thursday, Dillner. You can go to pre-order Dale Jr.'s book, Racing to the Finish. I got a copy right here. Elliot, we'll get you a copy of these. Elliot, it's a good read. It's a really good read.

And you'll, you know, when you're sleeping in the car, you know, right before you go to bed. Get you a little. Turn on the headlights and you got a little. So, yeah, go to Dale Jr.com, forward slash book to pre-order your copy. Dirty Moe media is on YouTube. So with no TV show this week, I think we're going to cut us a lot of clips.

Let's do a little expanded clip this week. Absolutely. Why couldn't we actually cut our own show to make it available to the fans? The room turns to Dillner. Who? Wait, wait, wait, why are you guys looking behind me? That's a great question. I don't know, I put it this way.

When this was an off week for the Deltjutor down low, which was last week, we had said that we weren't doing one. Dylan and I, we had a big plan for accomplishing a lot of adults. I have this plan. Junior Texas, man, we're doing the show, and I'm like, what? So, anyway. So that's that. And then lastly, I just want to say to Dale, have fun on your week off, man. You, Amy, I'll go have a good time.

We will. We'll try not to bother you. But I can't promise you. I'm probably going to have my phone close by if you need anything. But I'm excited about this weekend. I'm also excited about watching our Junior Motors team, Ellie Salon and those guys racing on the road course. It's going to be pretty exciting weekend.

Yeah, so it's my first off week as an announcer. Right. I don't know if it'll be. Oh, it's not going to be like the driver off of these. Yeah, it's weird. Phone party! You know what the funniest part? Get some phone.

Get some foam. I want to tell you what the funniest part is. The funniest part is, well, it's not super funny, but at the end of the race Saturday night in Bristol, we get done. So all the way leading up to that race, the guys were like, man, you know, broadcasting bristles hard cars are so fast you know you're sitting there talking about something that happened and all your four laps have gone by you know

it's just real hard to broadcast and so we got done and they were like well what you think and I said I loved it it's fun I can't wait until next week because I don't really want a weekend off I want to go to I'm having so much fun I want to go to the next one and we got darling to coming up with a throwback

and all that I'm excited about that I'm gonna be able to move with Dale Jarrett competti and so we got all kinds of cool stuff playing for for Darlington and uh I wouldn't even I wasn't even thinking about the off week now as a driver well you can't wait get down on that calendar you can't wait you got every you got every damn minute playing so well we'll see I'll be wishing I was at a track wishing I was in a booth or wishing I was talking to some driver doing something getting better at my job but I have to take a week make a break well make it count buddy

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