The Dale Jr. Download - 231 - Kahne and Krispy Livermush

Episode Date: August 28, 2018

Dale Earnhardt Jr. welcomes Kasey Kahne to the show for talk about retirement, Sprint Cars, and the Yachtie life. The #DJD guys also chat about the controversial Truck finish, Isla’s baptism and eating raw shrimp and livermush. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is a production of Dirty Mo Media. Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. Welcome back for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download as usual. My host, co-host, Mike Davis. Host with the most. Matthew. Matthew. How's it going, Matthew?

Oh, it's going great, man. Life's good. Well, you got a great show. Casey Kane will be here as our guest. Later on the show. But first, talk about all things that happened this week. It's been a siding week. It's exciting weekend.

So let's get to it. Dale Jr. Download. The Exha Studio All right, before we get to Casey Kane We got to talk about this weekend We had a busy weekend, man We were off from broadcasting So we didn't have that going on

And I'm excited as heck To get back into the booth Especially with Darrington coming up Yeah I'm going to drive to Darrington Me and some of my boothmates That's gonna be fun That is road trip

Yeah, yeah So yeah without You know since I don't work with Rick anymore No more helicopter rides to Oh you'd be. You've been on the helicopter program for that. Driving on down there, just like the old days. It's going to be fun.

Stop it at old gas. Do not speed in McBee. You'll see the sign, man. Don't speed. All right, so this weekend was pretty wild. Justin Allgaier, another win, another road course win. Great job by Jason Burdett. I mean, dang, dude, this guy is wheeling it all year.

Justin has been doing such a great job. I'm so excited about, this gets me excited about, the playoffs. Yeah. This gets me excited about the postseason as an owner for our team, as an owner in the series, as a fan of the series. There's so many players. It is going to be a lot of fun to watch how this progresses down through the rounds into Homestead.

Justin and his guys are peeking at the right time. Fourth win, second on the road course. Were you able to watch the race? I was. Yeah. They put themselves in a real good position too to get those other bonus points by winning the regular season points championship. That's really critical to get those extra playoff points to help yourself get

through the rounds should you have a bad race at any point. You know, you go to a tag or go to a bad track and have a bad finish. It could bother you, knock you out. So those extra playoff points will be important. Yeah, I mean, I think it'd be cool to see Cup go to that racetrack, don't you think? Yeah, that's an awesome race track. If we could figure out, like, I think it was okay this year and stuff, but if we could figure out some form of way to make the caution lap,

shorter. I don't know if there's a shortcut or, you know, if we're going to localize cautions, which is a no-no in NASCAR. The bottom line is Road America, like there's such high-speed, long corners and then some technical places. That place is a damn racetrack. I wonder if there's a way for them to have another location on the track for their ability to throw a green flag. That's a good idea. Maybe on the back straightaway or somewhere. Hey, you know, all right, we got this thing ready. We don't need to run a full whole other lap. Yeah. We're going to throw the green on the backstretch. That's just like red light green light.

That game, it's like throw the green anytime you're ready. Go the red. All right. I'll do that with my kid. Yeah. All right, leader. Green light. Whenever you're ready.

Yes. Just turn the lights on. Listen, we were joking, but that's actually a good idea. It's not a bad idea, man. It's hilarious. Yeah. Frican road America is a pandemic. Pandemonium would ensue.

Be on your game. Hey, we want that. Yeah, it was. You ain't checking for football scores during these cautions. So congratulations to Justin, just an awesome season, and the guy is just driving his guts out. I'm so impressed. That wasn't the only checker flag that Junior Motorsports got in the weekend. And it seems like this happens off.

It's happened before this year where the Xfinity team is won and the late model team is won later in the same day. Sam Mayer, young kid, 15 years old. They went to Wake County Speedway to run the cars tour. the cars tour in our late model program. Josh Barry is our, I'd say, our veteran driver, and Sam is obviously our Ricky. Sam came from night starting place and drove all the way to the lead and won the race. They had a green-white checkered at the end. It was our, you know, both teammates, Josh and Sam on the front row for the final restart.

The outside line was just terrible, so that was, you know, Josh ended up fifth. But in the closing laps, it was coming down between our two guys. I couldn't have been more proud. Yeah. And what Barry went through, You know, with a blown motor and wrecking the car. Being on the outside with the least of his drama. Practice Friday, Barry, that's okay.

So Sam was racing a K&N race and didn't even practice on Friday. Yeah. He just showed up qualified and raced. One, won the race. That's, that's. All right. 15-year-old kid. Josh broke a rear end, crashed into the wall, took the car home,

straightened the rear end out, port of powered the rear clip straight, got back to the track, got out on the track and the motor was broke. So blew the motor. The first lap or something of practice. Yep. So the motor must have spun backwards or something when the car wrecked the day before. And when he went out there to run again, the motor just broke. So he had to replace his engine.

He only got like 20 laps of practice and had to start in the back, worked his way all the way through the whole field. And had a shot, he was closing on Sam at the end. He wouldn't have probably got to Sam, but he was going to run second. Had we not had that last, the caution comes out as soon as they're coming to the white. But proud of those guys, proud of Sam. Man. And then he gets in Victory Lane. They hand him a bottle of champagne, a 15-year-old kid.

He's looking at it like, I don't know what to do with this. How do I even open it, right? The lady, the lady pulls the cork and opens it for him. And then he doesn't even stick his thumb over the end. I guess he's never used the water hose before. And so he just shakes the bottle, and it just pours out. Just like, he just poured it out. He poured out the champagne.

It was so awesome. That's what happens when a 15-year-old will have. what's all Yeah. Don't hand him a champagne bottle. Yeah. The moral of the story. Don't hand a 15% on the champagne.

All right. Wait, you got to talk about the truck race. Oh, nothing happened to that last line. Oh, my God. Noah Gregson. You had a tweet about it.

Yeah, set it up. Tell everybody what happened. So, all right, you know, if you haven't, you know, if you haven't seen a race at,

most important, it's hard to explain what those last two corners are like, but they're really unorthodox. And if there's a guy, and we've seen it every time that they've had truck races there. If a guy's in position in second place,

if he's close enough, it's going to get pretty rough on his last couple corners because there's just such a, there's ability to dive bombing on the end of the inside, and a guy's going to take it. So, hey, that's all fair. You tee it up for him. They're going to hit it.

That's right. So you could see Noah was going to make that move. Noah Gregson. Yeah. You could see Noah Gregson. That was what was going to happen. You knew it was going to happen. Coming into the last lap,

If he got close enough, there was going to be some issues. And it's his teammate that's leading. Todd killing this goal for his first win. Yeah, Todd's had an incredible career as young as he is. One, at everything he's done, sitting here with a great opportunity to win in a limited schedule in the truck series at a road course. A very tough challenge of road course. Noah drives down to the inside, just like everybody knew he would. Todd runs shallow, tight into the corner to try to make it difficult on Noah.

And Noah actually got open to the curb. You know, he was going to hit Todd, no doubt. I don't, I don't, you know, a lot of people had a lot of different opinions about how that should happen or how that could have went down. And I know the drivers probably do too. They're going to replay that in their mind a million times. Gilin said he wanted to go fight him. I mean, he was pissed.

Oh, yeah, of course. So, but he, you know, he ran him pretty tight, too. So he didn't help himself or. But should he have, should he have been lower to really, really try to block? Yeah, I mean, he could have went into the corner completely straight, but he would have, Noah probably would have ran over him. Yeah. Anyways.

Yeah, Gilland didn't do anything wrong on that, did he? No, it got power dropped. He got power dropped, but he probably could have played defense a little bit better, as what I'm saying. There could have been so many different scenarios. All of them end with him being wrecked. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. I think it was a pretty wild finish.

Noah dove it in there, threw it in there just like I, you know, anybody else probably would have. And then neither one of them. And neither one of them. lesson learn and it's tough because Noah has done this before you know he's had some you know what was the deal at Dover with Johnny Sauter

yeah so I mean he's he's sort of got this he's got a reputation that he's got to be careful not to you know continue to add to your car owner what do you think Kyle Bush was saying watching that Kyle's extremely pissed off at Noah I'm sure I mean your initial reaction is to be upset at Noah and I had my two guys are racing at Dover for the win.

That's right. Elliot Saller and Justin. And that's why you're thinking. It's like, just don't wreck each other. You know, just don't give this win away to someone else. We need this win. Terrible, you know, so badly for the bottom dollar. And in the truck series, Kyle's doing the same thing.

He's running on a budget that demands that they don't tear stuff up, that they finish well. So for them to, they lost, you know, thousands of dollars by that end result. And, you know, as far as the, aside from the points and the decision making and how to go forward, you know, you can't, you have to think about the budget. The budget's priority. Didn't it suck having to think about budget while you're racing? A lot of, that was, it sucked. Now think of it when you're holding that steering wheel as much. It sucked because that's exactly what, like when I was watching that truck race and all that happened, I'm thinking, oh, man, you know, all those things come through your mind.

You're like, well, you know, that's frustrating from a financial standpoint. That's frustrating from a perception standpoint. You want to know something. This actually reminds me. He brought up the fact that it was very uncomfortable for him to watch that Xfinity Series race a few weeks ago when we were doing the live event in Michigan. But I'm going to tell you something. You want to see misery. It's watching him watch a restrictor plate Xfinity Series race where his cars like in Daytona.

Oh, no. I mean, this guy doesn't enjoy it. Junior Motorsports, you know, wins a lot of those, right? I've never seen him enjoy it Because it is literally anxiety filled for that half two hours I was the same way the other night watching the car's tour finish With a green white checkered I'm like oh my God Here we are

Especially in that little bullring Here we are getting ready to win this race And now something's going to happen And so that's what Kyle was probably thinking Oh you know we were right there What the hell You know not only And neither one of them won't

Yeah not only did one of you get Both of you guys wrecked and know the one of you won the race. And, you know, so that's so frustrating. That is the toughest part about being a car owner. It's not getting your ass beat by somebody else. It's when somehow you beat yourself. And you got to, you know, you have multiple teams for a lot of reasons.

Obviously, you want to give people opportunity. But financially, it's a little easier to run multiple cars. It's very expensive and hard. It's a very difficult business model to run a single car, actually cheaper. to run two cars. That defies logic for two of those people that would not know any better. Right. So to own two and operate two of everything is cheaper than what, you know, the cost of rate,

the rate to run one. So you're talking about haulers and people and all those things. So as you get more cars, what it costs to operate a car is cheap. It goes down. Yeah. But then if you have more cars, they might run into each other. They might wreck each other, you know. And you just hope that that never happens.

We were running for the championship in Xfinity series last year, and our guys, Elliot and William Byron were battling for it, and I'm thinking, man, just don't give it away and don't ruin it for each other. We actually had three of the four. To make that even worse, three of the four final guys for JRM guys. But those last several laps were just miserable. I felt bad for both those drivers. I felt bad for Todd because obviously getting a win there would continue.

his, you know, progression. He has this sort of meteoric rise through the ranks that he's, and he's on this mission, right, to make it to cut. And that was the logical next thing for him. Yeah, it's the next wrong on the ladder. That was supposed to happen in his mind. He feels like that was taken away from him. So I understand, I feel bad for him from that standpoint.

I feel bad for Noah because I think Noah took a little bit too much punishment for what happened. a little bit. Oh, really? I feel like Noah took a little. Noah was given a little more and more responsibility for what happened than maybe he deserved. Well, is that because of how that played out, like the impact of the wreck of it, or is it because this ain't the first time? Well, he dove into the corner.

This ain't the first time, so he's got this reputation that he doesn't want to continue to create. And he dove down in the corner, so he's responsible. He made them move. But Todd running so tight. that, you know, he's all over the curb trying to stay off, Todd. You know, and it was just a meeting. You know, they both made decisions that brought them together there. There's a team meeting. Yes.

So, I don't know. I mean, I guess, you know, we could play if all day long, and there's a meeting things they both could have done differently. I wish I was in that meeting this week. Oh, I'd love to be that meeting. The other thing. Oh, yeah, Mr. I don't like watching my own teams. But, yeah, you love me in that.

No, no, no, it's a fly in the wall. You can tell in Noah's interview, like, he knows that he screwed up. He beats himself up pretty good. And everybody on social media. I mean, his damn teammate wants to beat him up. His teammate's dad's over there hollering at him. If you haven't had a teammate. I thought Todd did pretty good, though, because the dude looked like he was so angry that he was going to cry,

and he didn't go over and confirmed he did. He did. He's got Gilal and his dad and the crew chief. Everybody over are telling him he's an idiot. I mean, damn, man. man he's just a kid you know but hopefully he learns from those lessons and you know figures out a way to do it differently next time and hey do you remember the cold custer keeps on putting himself the truck series on road courses dude trucks at that race start

cold custer john hunter nemoichick the other thing we done chase chase elliott the shame and the whole thing really i mean that's racing damn it guys are going to wreck get spun out bad things are going to happen people are going to be pissed teammates are going to wreck each other this is what's going to happen at race tracks, especially that racetrack. What sucks is that the damn boy, Haley, wins the race. Didn't suck for Haley. I know, but he's not, you remember what happened to him at Daytona? Oh, yeah.

No. In Daytona in the X-Finity series, he was going for his first win there. He dove underneath Elliot and those guys and dipped underneath the yellow line, so it was in a fraction. And there's like still debate on whether that was really an illegal move or not. And so he gets this wind stole from him right there in front of the whole sport. Well, he got one gifted now, so. And then he gets one gifted, but nobody's talking about it. Oh, because everybody's talking about.

Everybody. I get you. Everybody, including me, told him on social media after Daytona, man, you just hang in there. Your time's coming, buddy. It's all comes back around, man. You just keep your head up. And here he goes and wins the race, and everybody's over here talking about what's going on to the two other trucks. He's like, hey, y'all.

I'm over here. I just won. I got my prize. I got my carbon prize back. Crickets. Yeah. Here on the download. Hey, there you go.

We gave him his pride. I tell you what. I didn't know it was the same guy. Hey, it is. That dude is wheeling. Hayley is. Yes. Haley.

That little dude is wheeling to hell out of everything he's been in. Congratulations to him. Svinity owners. Talking to myself, included, cup owners. You got to keep an eye on guys like that. Yep. Doing exceptional things. So he drove a great race.

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The Cup Series enjoyed its final off weekend of 2018, which meant the NASCAR Exfinity and Truck Series took center stage. On Sunday, the Truck Series had a controversial finish that had fans north of the border on their feet. On the final lap at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park, Noah Gragson forced his way underneath teammate Todd Gilliland. The two made contact and both Kyle Busch Motors drivers spun just yards from the finish. Justin Haley snuck by the Cardage to take the win.

Junior Motorsports had a banner day on Saturday. First, a large crowd at Wisconsin's Road America witnessed Justin Allgaier take his fourth win of the season. The Elkhart Lake victory put the J.R.M. driver in the points lead over Christopher Bell. Algear wasn't the only J.R.M. driver to get a checkered flag. In Cars tour late model action, Sam Mayer, took the win at Wake County Speedway in North Carolina. JARM teammate Josh Berry battled through a tough weekend to come home with an impressive top-five performance.

This weekend NASCAR goes back in time to Darlington Raceway for Throwback Weekend. The Xfinity Series starts it off with a race in the slick of the Saturday, South Carolina Sun. Then the Cup Series dances with the Lady in Black for the Bojangles Southern 500 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, go hit up their website, Exaltas.cS. com. All right, so let's get to a man, our guest today, Casey Kane.

Casey Kane. Glad to have Casey here. What's going on, Casey? Good to be here. Yeah, man, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. What's good up to, buddy? Oh, man, we just had a great week off, started, went on vacation, got a boat.

Yeah? rented a big boat. Oh. And took, there was 12 of us. And we went down through the Exuma's, the Bahamas, and just had an unbelievable time. Really? Yeah. Oh, man, I need to talk to you because.

Well, I am trying to plan a vacation for around New Year's Eve with some friends and family, and that's kind of the area we wanted to go, and we're looking at houses, and everything's gobbled up. And that's peak season two, so everything's very pricey. So I need to talk to you about how your experience was, because that's exactly where we want to go. Yeah, we go to a few different islands. Then we float a lot, but we have kind of my favorite spots. I've done it. I think that was my sixth or seventh time in the last 15 years.

that you've done this trip. Yeah. Similar trip. So just different boats every time. And pretty similar group, too. So I watch, I know you probably, I don't, do you know any of the boat, the dock? What the hell is the shows? Below deck.

Yeah, below deck. You watch that? I watched that. Okay. Below deck. So, yeah, so me, it's a show about yachties. And it's on Bravo. Me and Amy watch a lot of Bravo.

Below deck, they got two of them, below deck regular and below deck Mediterranean. And basically it's a, it's a TV show about. these people that worked a yacht like what happens under you know side of the guests what's going on downstairs so is it similar to the tv show or so there was in the past it really hasn't been and this one wasn't at times but we brought that up one one day i think during lunch and asked them about it and they're like no and i'm close you know they watched this was early on yeah they also watched it but by like day three we started going like i really feel like this is we're getting very close very close to some of that stuff.

So it got really interested at times. Yeah, we had a blast, though. And then it kind of calmed down again the last day or two. I mean, for those of us, and I think if we haven't watched below deck, what kind of stuff are you saying is happening? Drama. Drama. So controversy in the kitchen.

Like in guiding with the crew or something? Well, yeah, it could be between the crew. It could be with the passengers, how they all work together, how they don't work together. You know, yeah, there's just all kinds of drama. It's much better than I can. that's good so so any of the drama was you're saying it was confined to the crew or to the boat people but not to the 12 of the case it came party guest uh even our group got a little bit at times but slight you know and then and then it all came back and like you said the last couple of days was just smooth

and fun and uh relaxing and all that but yeah there's you could see it could happen very easy you're in a you're on a big boat but at the same time there's you know 12 guests and basically seven you got the captain, you have the mates, and like it's just a... 12 people on a boat. Yeah, so there's 19 of us total. 19 of us total. It was three decks, 135 feet. Holy cow!

Was this a carnival cruise line that you went on or something? It was huge. It was close. Carnival with the cave. The only thing is we had all kinds of toys. So when we would stop somewhere and they open up the back of the boat and you have jet skis, you have a little, like a small little tender. Then we have a big fishing boat, the Intrepid, which is a huge boat.

We have things where you go underwater, like pull you underwater. Nice. Floats where the jet ski kind of runs it, and then it puts you up in the air so you can float around. Did you have the big slide off the side of the boat? Did you do that? I did that a bunch. Wow, let's see. When I watch the show, that's what I want to do is the slide.

Yeah, the slide's great. And my sister, it was her birthday on, I think, Tuesday. And she would usually not jump off a boat, like I've never seen her jump off a boat or anything. She wouldn't go down a slide like that, but she had a great birthday, and she was doing everything. Once she did it a couple of times, she actually really enjoyed it, just like we did. Dad used to go to the Bahamas all the time, and he had a boat as well, about a hundred-foot boat, and he would go out to different islands and had particular ones that he had favorites and so forth, and he knew everybody out there.

Jeff Burton was telling me the first time Jeff was planning on going to the Bahamas, he's going to take his wife, and they were racing at Pocono, and he said, Dad called him on his phone, said, what are you doing? He said, I'm in my bus. He said, I'll be there in five minutes. So dad came over there with like a big old booklet and laid down on the floor of Jeff Burton's bus and had planned his whole week. Yeah.

Everywhere he was going to go. Right. Every guy he was going to talk to about eating at this restaurant, docking at this dock. Yep. And had pretty much planned his whole week. Out of all the places y'all went to, what was your favorite? If you were saying, hey, Dale, you're going over there. Got to see this place.

To me, there's this place called the mangro. and the water, depending on the direction of the tide, it's an island that basically separates the main ocean from 12-foot, you know, huge bodies of water, but it's not the waves in the main spot. So like the big boat would be in the, in the shaller water. Then if tides going in or out is the direction of the water, and you can get in the water, underwater, say you hold your breath for 40 seconds and swim and it's just pier sand everywhere. There's fish. It's just, it's crazy. But you can just all by yourself just kind of floating along underwater, 10 feet under, 5 feet under wherever you're at, you can get across a ton of ground.

And it's just crazy. Like you go under and you come up and, I mean, you're way further away from where you were. And for whatever reason, I've always really enjoyed that spot. Yeah. And I've been down there like three times probably. So that's one of my favorite spots. Then like just the beach days where you just, you know, they put the tent up and just, we had a bonfire.

We had a fireworks show. Massive fireworks show at like 9 o'clock. that night. Wait, is this one of those unauthorized somebody called the law enforcement type of fireworks shows?

So I guess you can get these fireworks in Florida, they said, and you just have to... You smuggled them over to... I don't know, I can't remember how it works, but I know I can't get them

around here. Whatever they're right. All right, so go ahead. So the fireworks show is great. So I was surprised that you didn't spend your time at a dirt track. I know you're on your

your own team. How long have you own that team? How long have you own cars racing in sprint cars? Yeah, I actually thought about spending my time at the dirt track soon as I got home. Right. But I was, I had Tanner and I didn't want to mess with that, and I was really glad I didn't. How did Tanner enjoy the boat, by the way? So Tanner didn't go on the boat. I got him soon as I got home. Gotcha. And we just hung out at the house at the pool all weekend and actually had a blast. So we watched some dirt track racing on, on the computer and stuff. Dude, there's like so many websites now. to watch dirt track racing. So it used to not even know what was going on.

Then a few years later we had Twitter and you could keep up pretty well and now you have video. So you can watch just about every race. Isn't it? Because your guys killed it. Didn't they sweep? Was it this weekend they swept in South Dakota?

Yeah, so I started the World of Outlaw team in 06 and that was a single car team. Did you own a car before that though? Before that, myself, Phil Durst and Gary Zeronian, we had a midgett. We had a sprint car, we had a Silver Crown car, and we did it all together. And then in 06, I kind of did my own, just World of Outlaw team. And from that point on, we either had one, two or three teams running full-time, 90 to 100 races a year.

Each? Yeah, each. Wow, yeah. So, yeah, I've just always really enjoyed that race. And that's the type of race and I did. Not necessarily World of Outlaws, but sprint cars. And that's what I learned a lot in. Mostly winged?

Mostly winged. I did a good bit of non-wing also, but mostly wing dirt, but also around the pavement on a sprint car. So this weekend we got back, and I was like, man, I hope these guys are all right this first night out. You know, we had a big trip all week long. And were you able to really, did you completely detach from your teams and everything else? Oh, yeah. When you got away, you got away. Yeah, but I took four of the people, well, Brad Sweet.

Oh, you had them with you. And Darren Pittman. Oh, you took Pittman. They came with us. That was fun. Okay. They were part of the vacation. Yeah, of course.

So we got back, and they went straight to racing. You need to take them on vacation more if they're going to go out there and sweep. That's what I said. Brad won the first night, and Darren won the second night. So, yeah, they had two race weekend. Yeah, I don't know if it made the show last week, but I said that I always felt like that if the more hail I raised on Monday or Tuesday, the better I'd run that weekend. If I didn't raise any hail, I typically didn't run that well, but sometimes just getting

out of your system is a good thing. How is that statistically bent for you? So that actually I haven't thought much about that, but the last three years I haven't hardly done anything on Monday and Tuesday. And back when I used to run really well, I actually was going a lot harder on Monday Tuesday. We've uncovered it. It's in the analytics. Raise hell on Monday or Tuesday. Perform better on the weekend.

You've had a, you guys on your sprint cars have had an incredible season. Is this, would you consider this your most successful year? I would say, you know, overall, with. wins. We've had a little more success with total amount of wins. Sure. In the past. In the past. I'm saying in the past. And then Darren Pittman won the World of Outlaw Championship in 13, which was the first year he raced for me. And that was a great year. I think he also won maybe 12 races that year somewhere in there. So that was a great year.

Joey Saldena won 22 or 23 races one year. Wow. But this year, Brad has seven wins and Darren has six. And Brad won. And Brad won the Knoxville Nationals, which is the biggest sprint car race there is. And it's been the toughest race for anybody to win. You know, it's just, uh, how many cars show up? So that'll be, this year, I think, was 40, maybe 48 or 49 a night or 52 or something. It was like 102 or three cars. So it's right around 50 per night. It's crazy. For the first two nights. And then by the final night, everybody, you know, it's running and all the main events are set. And yeah, yeah, Brad just put it, put it all together for that full week. He won basically all three races.

Wow. It was incredible. It was really special to be there and watch and just know whether it's my family or the other guys that have worked for us over the years, just what everybody's put into it to finally accomplish that because, you know, we never had and we came close, but finally get that done. And then for Brad, that's like a dream of his. So for him to do that for himself, too. That's really cool. What is the celebration like when you've won a Knoxville National after? What was like? That whole place is a party. No, I'm talking about in Camp Cane. Well, I was over there.

I was pretty far away from the guys, but I saw they were all celebrating. Then Victory Lane was great. It's just a normal Victory Lane. Everybody's happy. My dad was there in Victory Lane, and he was pumped up to see it as well. And then I went to Michigan to race the next day, and I saw pictures of those guys. They went all night. There's a little restaurant called Mr. Seas, and I think they had breakfast at like 630 or 7 in the morning at Mr. Seas.

They hadn't been down yet. They hadn't been down yet. No way. Right. So after winning championships, winning in Knoxville National, what's the future for your team? What's the next goal? What keeps you guys motivated and going? I love our guys, the people, our drivers, everybody that's part of it.

And so to me, just trying to win another Knoxville Nationals, trying to put together a season and win another World of Outlaw championship. We have won to do that again. And then just multiple races, you know, just trying to win, win, win. and we have the group to do it. So I just keep giving it to them and letting them go. You announced your retirement from racing cup cars. You said in a couple interviews,

you're going to spend some time racing dirt cars, racing sprint cars. You've done that already a little bit this year. How many races you run this year? I did 20 this year. And so with your ability to be able to do more, what's your future like in a, are you going to drive full time? You're going to try to go win the championship yourself and do you have cars?

No. No. Why not? Yeah, why? I just need to, I want to go really hard for a couple months. Yeah. And then the rest of the year kind of not go so hard in a race car is kind of my, my thought on it right now. I could race June, July, and August, which all leads into the Knoxville Nationals and get 30, 30, 35 races in leading into the Nationals and probably be as fresh as I've ever been at that point of the year.

So to me, that sounds like a lot of fun, race some early in the year, and then maybe some more after that, and get 40 to 50 in on a total seat. reason, but do majority in those three months. See, I don't know a whole ton about sprint car racing, obviously. To run for the championship, how many races do you need to compete in? Everyone. Like, how many of that? So it depends on rain, but if you got every race in, I think it's around 92 or 93. And then they go and hit, like, they go and hit.

Okay, no wonder you don't want to run for the championship. And then they hit other, they'll go and race all-star races, which is Tony's series. Right. So they'll go race some of those races throughout the year. So they'll get over 100, right at 100. Golly. So will you run the Knoxville next year? Will you try?

Yeah, that'd be kind of really what I'd want to do is June July and Knoxville. And you need to run for those three months to sort of get yourself. I think just to get you where you need to be because that's what all the top guys at Knoxville, they show up with they've been racing as hard as they can either at that track or at other tracks preparing for the nationals, you know, all season long. Explain to somebody who hasn't raced dirt before like why you need to run for three. months to get ready for that one race. And what is it about dirt racing that demands that type of preparation and consistently being in the car? Yeah, just the consistent thing about it is just getting

your car and yourself on the same page because when you're in traffic, it's very similar to cup cars really screws up what you have going on. So understanding that having the car drive the correct way, not be the wrong direction and things like that because you can't make any speed like that. And the toughest part about Knoxville, the corners are pretty flat. It's a half-mile track, but you can miss your line. There's always different lanes at Knoxville to take. It's not always just the bottom or the top. Like there's pretty a lot of options there.

But if you miss it by just the slightest amount, you can slow down a half second to a second, no problem in that single lap. Yeah. So going against Donny Schatz, who's won maybe 10 Knoxville Nationals somewhere around there. And then Brad won it this year. Like, you just don't make mistakes. and it's so easy to follow a car into the corner, make a mistake, you lose a second there, then you do it again when you catch them again.

I mean, you can't even see the leaders anymore. That's if you're up front. If you're in the back, it's even way worse. So to me, it's just to go and run that race and to run well at that race, to make that race, things like that, you just have to really be on your game. Man, that's awesome. That's a lot. Yeah.

It's a big commitment. I've heard, you know, Kyle Larson talk about how he needs to run X amount of races to sort of be up to speed and to be competitive. And I've heard Tony even mention how he's struggled a bit because, you know, he needs to run more races to sort of get, like you say, him in the car to sort of get on the same page. And I don't know that it ever really feels that way in asphalt cars or, you know, guys can, you know, run a couple races a year and they don't need, you know, six races to get themselves ready

for Daytona or something like that, you know, to compare. And I'm not sure. Like right now I feel like I could take off a lot of races. and then come back and run really well, just because in my mind I've been driving the cup car for so long. I just know where it's at, you know, and you know what you need, and if you can do it all right, you could have a great day. But that's because I've been doing it so much.

I used to feel that way when I first went to sprint cars. I raced, you know, 03 and 04. I was full-time, Xfinity, and then full-time Cup, and I would go back and race a sprint car and run really well. And didn't have a problem with it. but once I didn't do it for a long enough time, then it got to where I was like, hey, I'm like, if I'm not doing this a lot,

I cannot do it correctly. And I think a cup car might be the same way. If you spend a lot of time out of it. If I spend a lot of time away. It sounds like golf, like, you know, to be really good at golf, you know, and the swings are so technical and all the little things that you can do wrong. You know, if you don't do it every day

and not doing it consistently, you're never going to, you're not going to be able to step up there and hang with your buddy. I think so instinctual, right? I mean, I don't know that we realize, and this goes for anything, you don't realize how much you rely on your muscle memory, just instinctual stuff. But when you've been removed from that stuff,

and you realize that muscle memory carried you through a lot of these instinctual things, in golf and racing, in anything, really. When you've been removed from it, you're just not sharp anymore. I think you're right, because that happens to me a lot in sprint cars, and I think, man, like I know I'm, I feel like right now I'm, driving just as hard as I would have been a long time ago, but I'm not racing as well. I'm not as far up in the pack as I should be, you know, or where I want to be. So I think you're right.

It has a lot to do. It's just instinctual abilities and how you built that over the last so many years. Can you imagine racing for three months just to get ready for one race? No. Like, we used to test two weeks for Daytona. It's interesting to me because I'm getting ready to go run Richmond in three or four weeks, whenever that is. I don't even know when it is.

but September 22nd? I haven't ran anything really all year, so I'm going to go run that Xfinity race, and I'm thinking, man, do I need to go over to Hickory and run a late model for an afternoon just to make sure there's nothing, you know. I don't know, yeah, like, ah!

Maybe I do. I don't know. Maybe he's just go over there and check the boxes. It's so fast! Are those the other cars? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, they're so close. All of a sudden there's a Twitter video.

Dale, Dale with his underwear running across the track. Yeah, you'll be all right. 8 a.m. practice probably. It's not coming back to. That's about three hours. That's going to be good because I'm getting up at five these days with this. Do you go to a rookie meeting? So you'll be sharp.

No, no. I was hoping so. Real quick about the sprint car deal, because I was thinking about this when y'all were talking about this. You mentioned the fact that a lot of people listening to this podcast may not understand dirt racing or sprint car racing in the world of outlaws. It's hit a big boom, dirt sprint car racing of all kinds the past like few years. And obviously there's an element of danger to it.

But then watching it visually, like at a place like Kokomo or anywhere we go, you see these guys flying in there knowing that as a fan sitting there watching that. And you see in them sell out in ways that it may not translate as much to the fan in a stock car, heavy stock car. What is the thrill behind this boom of sprint car racing right now, you think? Well, I think the racing itself is really good. to watch the cars and like if you just go to a, go to a race as a fan and you're there from seven and the race over at 10, you know, you're in the grandstands three, three hours, enjoying it like

any other, anything else like a NASCAR race or anything, but that's kind of, you know, it just seems a little quicker, a little shorter of a night, but the racing's pretty quick. You know, they're moving the show along pretty quick and the main events are exciting. Tracks are pretty short so you can see everything that's going on. To me, it's, it's fun to watch. I love going and watching just as a car owner as a fan and I like doing that a lot. And then driving when the car's right, like there aren't a whole lot of better feels that you get in a car and your body like when the car's right and doing the things that you want. Like as you're moving your throttle around to hook it up and things like that, to feel that grip and stuff is just, it's incredible. It's great.

Yeah. Well, I mentioned how you made the decision to step out of the cup cars full time. Is it something that I think I read in some articles where you said you spent quite a bit of time thinking about this? How do you think you're going to feel next year when you're watching the sport, watching the races? And is there any potential of you with an opportunity to come in and run a race or two that you would do that? If somebody said, hey, man, we need a little help or we'd like you to run this race. What would your response be? So I think really I've been thinking about it for a long time. I've loved what I have done in cup and to be part of it for so long and to have something to look forward to every single week.

Like I've enjoyed that side of it to always have something to look forward to. And I still have a lot of that, you know, like I still look forward to going to these races every week. The problem that got me is two things. One is I've been like in my mind like 100% about cup cars and thinking about them and working with my team and thinking about the cars and the driving and just how to get better. And since I started. and I think that's how you have to be. The problem is the last three years, I haven't had the results, whether it was practice,

whether it was qualifying, whether it was race, that I had the first 12 years of my career. So that got really difficult for me to just never really have that. So actually towards the end of the Hendrick deal, I was thinking, you know, maybe I should do something different or slow down at this point too. And then I got the chance with LFR. I was like, you know, a small team, something new, fresh, so much different.

Like, give that a go. and so I've still had a great feeling all season long, but still haven't got quite to the performance where I had won either and just decided that it was time. So I've been thinking about it a while. And, you know, I'm glad now that I've actually made that decision, I felt really good about it since I did it. And really looking forward to doing other things, other opportunities.

If I could run a couple cup races, I would for sure. Xfinity races, like I would do a little bit for sure, but I just don't want to do much more than that at this point. Are you then off the market, though, from a full-time standpoint? Like, would you ever consider if somebody called you said, hey, next year, if they called you next year and said, hey, we got this opportunity to open up, would you consider coming back? Well, you know, it was reported that SHR, you know, on top of that, Mike, actually reached out to you, you know, for the 41 car or something. Is that true? Yeah, I mean, I had actually counting LFR, you know, four different opportunities of just talking.

You know, there was no deals put on the table or anything like that, but just had talked. to those groups. And I thought that was very cool, but I don't want to do it full time. And unless my mind changed after next year and then I got some crazy opportunity two years down the road, I don't really, I don't see myself doing that at all. Is that all because of the last two or three years from a competition or performance standpoint? Or have you learned a lot more about yourself since the relief of announcing that that you just don't want to? I think it's just the competition.

And I think it's what I put into it. it and to, you know, and I'm not saying I'm the only one. I know everybody puts a lot into it and probably they put everything that they have into it. But that's just how I've been in my career and that's how I've felt. And when I used to run really well throughout a full weekend or just practice, you know, whenever that was all week and long, win races and things, I felt great about that, putting all that time in. And in the last three years, I haven't felt very good about it, you know, just when I would get home on Mondays. And luckily I've had Tanner to make my weekdays really easy and nice, you know, and kind of forget about that last weekend where we didn't do what we wanted.

But, yeah, I just really don't. How much has becoming a father played a role in that decision? I would say it's been part of it. You know, I think knowing that I could take Kim and we can go watch a race, we could go to a sporting event, we could go on vacation, just doing different things and not having to be, whenever you're doing something different, you always have in the back of your mind, like, man, I got practice in two days or I got an appearance in a day or I have this. So you can never really just get away from it and just enjoy whether you're out with friends,

out with Tanner on vacation, like you can never get away from it. So yeah, I think just all of that will be a little bit easier on me. And I want to, I'm always doing something. So I want to make sure I find something to keep me very active. You're going to need it. Will you travel, even if you're not racing, will you travel with your sprint car guys? Probably not. I mean, I think once in a while I would.

If you're not traveling with your sprint car guys, you're not racing. So if you were going to say, hey, all right, I'm done driving this cup car. I'm done doing that for a while. I'm going to have X amount of free time. These are the things that I'm interested in. These are the things I'm going to try to get myself involved in. So people will be interested in what Casey Kane wants to do beyond sprint cars, owning teams, not racing up anymore.

Yeah, I think one thing I think about right now is just making sure that my sprint car teams keep succeeding. So being behind that and making sure they have the opportunity to do that. The other thing is, you know, spend a lot of time with Tanner. The other thing is I want to figure out some business opportunities and get involved in those. And I have a lot of ideas and they've been on my mind for a while. I started to done a couple of things with my dad out in Washington. So we have those going. But more back here, you know, something.

Because I'm not leaving Moresville. I like this area. That's good to know. Yeah. So I want to stay here and just figure out what those things are and try to make the right decisions. and then put everything into that and enjoy that as well. I got a question for both of you guys, because you just announced you're retiring.

You came in in 2004, I think, was your first cup season. So you're recently retired. You came in in 2000. If you could both give yourselves your rookie selves advice, now that you kind of had that full circle, what would it be? What would you tell your rookie self? Casey, you're the guest.

You go first. If you could go back and say, hey, Rickon. Do this different. Here's some advice. Actually, that's pretty tough. I feel like I did a lot of things the right way and the way that I wanted to do them. Figure out how to win sooner for me. I ran second, I think seven or eight times before I won that first race.

And my rookie season, I think six or seven of them were my rookie season. So figure out how to win sooner. You know, I had jumped right into it and we had a lot of sponsors right off the bat with Ray Everingham. every damn motorsports and he was doing it the right way so we were making moves and going here and going there and so he taught me quick you know i had to learn fast on on that stuff and bill it was helping me drive like just with some of the new tracks and trying trying to help the learning curve a little bit make it a little quicker but i i just think we had we were right there to win and i and i didn't so i feel like if i would have been a year down the road in that first season i could have won

more i don't know what else yeah you know it's something interesting about this i think it's the first drive that we've talked to that's either recently retired or just announced for retirement, it doesn't sound like the grind of the schedule is what bothers him. Like, like, I don't think the grind has anything to do, at least I haven't heard it, with the reason why you're getting out. And that's uncommon. Most people are just like beat down at this point, just like, can't do it anymore. Right. And I, yeah, and I feel like the, I mean, maybe that's part of it without saying it, because that's because I need, because I am so involved and into it for, you know, 38. eight weeks a year and then during the off season as well but but to me if that's not like my whole

reasoning at all you know for sure so dale i mean hearing all that what would you do uh what would you said it's a tough question yeah i don't know exactly what the answer is for me i was not i was such a better race car driver out of the car late in my career and if i had been that same way earlier in my career i'd had more success i think um i certainly would have had more success in what way what do you mean When I started working with the tart, we made some rules, ground rules. And he's like, you're going to be at the hauler 30 minutes before practice, no later. Every practice. You're going to be here, available, you know, we're going to be around.

When I was racing the bud car, I was walking into the garage when guys were pulling out of their stalls. Yeah, he has sheet marks on his face. Dude, I would be playing a video game like Madden or something to the very last second. and be like, ah, you know, and then put it down, run outside. Yeah, you paused it. Yeah, putting my suit on. Guys are pulling out of the garage. Like, practice is green.

Tracks green. I ain't even been in the holler to talk to Tony Jr. and senior about the car or anything that day on Friday. Like, I just showed up. I actually remember pulling out sometimes and seeing you walking in. What's he doing? What's he doing? Even Casey thought that was crazy.

It was crazy. But I was such a, I was an idiot. Like I was oblivious to how, you know, how bad that was and how, and, you know, that Tony Sr. and Tony Jr. never laid into my ass about it. Oh, no, they laid into ass. It wasn't your ass. Guess whose ass that was. Yeah.

Yeah. They should have laid into mine because Tony Sr. That's what I told. Tony Sr. would have got my attention. But that's what I would. I was just such a better race car driver. I'm sure you probably felt the same way. You just learn.

Over years, you're like, oh, I need to apply myself here. This helps. You know, you just keep kind of adding things to your tool belt. Right. And you think, man, if I'd have known this when I was younger. But, I mean, I wouldn't have cut down on having the fun I had. I had a lot of fun. You don't want to miss out on that.

But damn it, when I was at the track and even at the shop, because I was at the shop a good amount, it's right across the street. I just should have applied myself. Damn it. I had, I won races and shit. It's just a wonder what we might have. to be able to accomplish had I plugged in a little harder. Yeah, you still are fast.

Yeah, we still did good. That's how good Tony Senior and Tony Jr. were, man. They could, I'm just skipping on into the garage. I got one more thing for Casey. This is all, none of it rhymes. It's just all sporadic and whatever. But how would you assess the competition?

We're looking at it from a different vantage point this year and love the racing we're seeing. So is he. You know, he's seen it from a different vantage point too. That's true. So, like, I mean, like, what's it like driving against these guys in 2018. Like, is the competition is good, like, by good, I mean, difficult and competitive as it looks to us? To me, it's, there's so many cars that are competitive and fast. I mean, you have the three that have won all the races. But after that, I mean, it's like all the way back. You each have, I mean, I race the same group pretty much every weekend.

And it's basically 18 to 26, you know, but it's always kind of those same cars. I'm telling you it is just as tough. there with what we have going on we may not be racing for the lead but with what we have going on and what those guys how hard they're working to pass me or to pass the next guy and how hard i'm working to pass them as it is when you get from 10th to 17th and then from first to 10th you know so to me it's just really the competition is really tough you can screw up the slightest bit in qualifying and not make it to the next round you know whatever round that is no problem just as a driver you can just the slightest bit and it used to not i used to not i used to to not feel that way except at martinsville maybe bristol you know you could go and make a little

mistake qualifying and lose a ton of spots and be like shoot if i just would have done this a little different but other than that you always felt like man i did it like i don't think i really left a whole lot out there but today you're you're seeing it nonstop and it's been that way for the last couple years i feel like last three years for sure four years i mean it just always gets tougher and tougher and tougher i feel like that when i started broadcasts and right like it's since Chicago every truck race every Xfinity race every cup race has felt different like it feels different when I'm watching it the like the drama is crazy and maybe you can't maybe you're you can't see it because you're in the car right and you only see you know what's

going on in your world and that's the way it was for me when I was driving but man it is crazy Like I'm watching, yeah, I watched y'all guys go. I was at the Watkins Glen. I was down there in the chicane or the bus stop. And I could not believe how hard y'all are driving. I couldn't, like I've been doing this all my life. And I've drive. And I never drove that hard.

I'm like, you know, I'm on the edge of control with my car. But, man, watching it over and over and race after race after race, it is so damn impressive to see how hard everybody's going and working and driving. And the races have been exciting, like the finishes, the, you know, okay, Kentucky, wasn't all that awesome. And Michigan, I guess.

You know, all the Xfinity races and every other cup race out of those two, aside in those two, have been freaking awesome. So I feel like a lot of the racing stuff to me is pretty similar as far as what I'm doing, as hard as I'm driving throughout the race. Like, I think that's all really similar.

Yeah. I feel like as we've went, the engineers have got smarter. Yeah. the teams, you know, they've gotten so much smarter with simulation and everything that they're looking at. By doing that, the drivers have gotten smarter as well. And I think that there's a lot of times when drivers can race behind them in a way and make it so difficult on you to do anything. Yeah. Whether they get in your lane, which is probably happened for years, but other things,

where they put their car to kind of screw up your air, you know, and they learn so much from looking at data and looking at the way you're driving the way I'm driving the way. To me, the, the, the way they can race in their mirror more has made it more difficult on the guys behind them as well. By doing a lot of that, just, you know, I mean, you race intense because you only have one chance. Yeah. You know, if you don't clear that guy or get by that guy, you usually don't get that another chance until a little later, you know, later on in the race, get tires, do something different. So it's, yeah, it's a tough, the competition's pretty strong. You can tell on restarts, especially, guys know that this is the only opportunity they're going to get to get positions.

and it is so freaking bonkers watching it work out. One thing too, like when you start watching outside, you know, like whether I'm watching Xfinity or something happened early in a race and I watched the rest of the race and things like that and you watch somebody make a move and do something. And we know because we've driven it like, wow, that was impressive. I know his car felt super light where he was compared to other cars and how he still pulled that off or didn't pull it off or it's like he crashed.

Yeah, I know exactly why. Nothing to happen, but you know why from experiences. and I think we can see and look at that a little bit differently, and I'll have a lot more of that next year when I'm watching the cup races. That's exactly what I'm feeling just about every lap, because I'm seeing something like that happen every single lap with some driver. Every driver's having some kind of weird experience each lap where he's like, oh, Jesus, you know, almost lost it there.

And, you know, when you're not broadcasting or you're not in the car driving, you just casually watch the race. You might get up going to the kitchen, get something out of the fridge, You might miss those off and miss a few laps. So you don't watch it that intently. But when you're either in the car or you're broadcasting it, you're physically watching every single thing in front of you happen, and you're so plugged into it.

I'm excited for you. I want to talk to you. I want to have you back on the show sometime next year after you had a little time to figure out this new chapter. Yeah. When he wins the Knoxville Nationals. Yeah. It's going to be interesting to get your feedback on, you know,

your perspective because you're going to see the sport from a whole different direction, a whole new lens. It's going to, you're going to appreciate it. You're going to, you're going to, I feel real confident you're going to love the decision you made. But you're also going to appreciate the sport in a different way.

So it'd be great to get you back on to talk about it. Thanks for coming. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Good lot of fun, buddy. Yeah. Thanks. You're still going to do running through the business park?

I mean, that's still going to happen. That's not going to stop. Since we're not on team HMS cycling. anymore. Do you ride anymore? I backed off a lot this year. I did you. I did too. I've riding like Harley at all. Maybe 20 miles a month. It's pretty bad. I miss it. I want to ride more, but. I was having fun when we were riding a lot. I was too. That was actually really good. I mean, gosh, everybody's retiring. Everybody's retiring. I've lost the, I've rode with Jimmy and

them at Michigan and I'm like a mile an hour off from where I was last year. Okay. It's easy to lose the legs. I started, once you start building that up and you can go. It was awesome. You did the same thing as me. We both kind of started at a similar time, and it took a while, but then you're like, man, this is actually pretty cool. Yeah, it is. You were doing, like, Iron Man's at the same time, too.

I had been doing other things, but I hadn't been biking, but it still took me a while to build legs to, like, be able to bike with those guys on a race weekend for sure. Listen, man. Thank you for being here. Absolutely. All right. Glad you guys had to have me. Hell yeah.

Dillers getting an iPad, ready? That's the side of, that's the side of all. one thing. Diller! Ask Junior. Dillner is getting this iPad ready, so it must be time for Ask Junior. Come on, Diller. Before we go. Diller. Diller. Diller. Like Dillis Diller's grandson.

Asked Jr questions, of course. Everybody's chiming in on Twitter. Using the hashtag Ash Jr. first off, Lance Lafferty with Darlington coming up through a back weekend in that tradition. Is there a dream paint scheme that you'd like to see done or, of course, racing? Dream paint skin. Golly. I did it. I mean, I did the gray ghost. That was my dream to have a gray ghost paint scheme. My other favorite paint scheme of all time is the three Wrangler car. We ran in the Xfinity race at Daytona. If there's a paint scheme that I've never ran that I'd love to see you out there on the track or that I'd love to do it. Oh, man, I don't know. You know, at all, I'd love to try to do the, my dad's rookie of the year, 1979 paint scheme.

Jimmy did it for Darlington one year. I'd like to try to do it. Or the orange and white number 17 that my granddaddy Robert G. made famous in the dirt tracks and asphalt tracks around the southeast in the mid-70s. Hey, is it true that I heard that I believe Ryan Truex is doing a chance to throwback? Yes, I believe it might be. Yeah, I think he is, a chance to throwback base game. That's cool.

That was the other extended team I owned that won two championships. Yep. Thank you. Back with Martin Truex. I've been in this owner business. Yeah. Longer than for J.R.N. Which is to say he has been not enjoying Xfinity races for a long time.

I have been unenjoying, not enjoying winning a championship for many years. I've got to say, I'm looking forward to, I looked at the list the other day of throwbacks because I love the throwback deal. It's like my favorite thing. And, dude, Boyer's one. I don't know if you've seen it. The Ned Jarrett. You know, the Bondi Long, that number 11 car, blue with the white wheels and hand-painted. This weekend is going to be a great experience just for seeing all the great cars.

And what the teams do. A lot of times the teams do their uniforms up and drivers' uniform. Everything, you know, they go full on. The whole racetrack sort of designs and recreates itself into a throwback atmosphere. It's going to be a lot of fun. All right. 88 Mad says you've been in quite a few music videos. Is there a favorite?

Oh, man. Probably the three doors down video with Tony Stewart was great. That was a great one. We filmed all night long and working with Tony was great. Get to know the band. So in other words, Tony probably brought the tequila, so you guys were good. I've been friends with Brad Lee Singer ever since. We still talk to this day.

Steve McQueen with Cheryl Crow was fun. All of them were fun, you know? Being in music video is something you never think you're going to do in life. and so to be asked to do it, you get super, super dang nervous. I remember being so nervous in everyone. You know a good trivia question for Dale Jr. fans would be? What? Name the first music video that Dale Jr. was actually in.

Do you know what the answer is? Well, no, maybe we should let it go to Twitter and see if people can answer. All right. All right. I know. I think the better question is, is which ones have we been in? I don't even know what there's six or so. You know what?

That's a good point, too. If you could name all the music videos. There are several that, you know. There was Matthew Good. That was the one that I felt like was your first. All right. Three doors down. Cheryl Crow.

The big country singer. The tall guy. God, they're terrible for not knowing people's names. Darroworley? No, no, no. Ever relied in the house is all? That's the name of the song. That's not the song I was in, but that's...

I mean, it was Dale Jr. It was a giant. The big was huge. You know the ones like, Dale Jr. Who is that guy? Seriously. All right. So that's four.

That's four. We're good. Oh my gosh. I was in an O-A-R video. That's five. Oh, yeah. Okay. I forgot about that one.

What else? What was that rap one? What was that? Jay-Z. Yeah, that's what it was. We were in Nickelbacks, Rockstar. That's right. Nickelback.

You were in one recently. You were in a nickelback video? You were in one recently. You don't even know it. What? Oh, boy. We got an approval. It was, who's the country?

I'm doing good on my country. Carrie Underwood. I was in Carrie Underwood's win. year. Crap. Okay. There's eight. There's a flyby.

There's all eight right there. You sure you want to mention that nickelback one? Why not? That means it. That was a lot of people. They were hot back then. It was a fun, fun video, too. I just can't think of the big tall,

grr guy, this country guy, the big tall. The er guy. We'll come back to it. Go back to it. That's eight. So I don't know if I'm missing any. All right. Dylan wants to know football season is around the corner.

What are your Super Bowl predictions? and Redskin predictions. Man, it's hard to tell. Watching the preseason games, Redskins are hot and cold. They don't play a lot of starters. You just don't know what kind of team they're going to be. In the last several years,

they could be 8 and 8 and 8 and missed the playoffs. They could be 10 and 6 and make the playoffs. I kind of still feel about the same. It really just depends. Trace Atkins. Trace. Oh, Trace Atkins. He's a BA.

It really just depends on whether they can stay healthy. The same as last year. They had a great run until they got too many injuries. All right, let me hand you that famed iPad. Hand me that. Hond me that iPad. Mike Davis, I'm handing you the iPad. Thanks.

All right, let me tee this up for you real quick here because this is absolutely awesome. Kids name, of course, this is our nationwide children's hospital question. And Cooper, who's 12 years old, who's in this speech therapy patient program, has this question for you. All right. My name is Cooper, and I am 12 years old. Hey Dale, what is the grossest thing you ever? I've ever ate. The grossest thing I've ever ate.

A lot of food questions from the nationwide children's talking about. Gosh. The grossest thing. Oh, I would say that the grossest thing that I ever ate was an uncooked shrimp. Was that by accident? Yes. Oh, no. So I went and bought shrimp from a seafood market, and I got the unboiled ones by accident, went home and threw one in my mouth. And, I mean, I'm into this thing pretty heavy before I.

I figured out that something just ain't right about this shrimp. That was pretty gross. The consistency of an uncooked shrimp is pretty gnarly. Yeah, I guess so. And it's just, yeah, yeah. Was it like straight up or did you at least have like a little cocktail sauce dip on it? I didn't have anything on it. Oh.

I felt like such an idiot. That does sound gross. I would be shocked. I think there has to be grosser, though, for you. When you're not when you're in the Olympics? Then I must bring an uncooked shrimp for you to eat and see if you. I like this. See just if it, how that hits your gross meter.

I mean, I think I could beat it. All right. Let's not forget that. Well, let me try to sit here and try to think about it. Nothing in Korea that sticks out? Curry, huh? Korea? I didn't eat.

There was that one night. I didn't eat much of that food. That's right. He actually had to qualify. It was on the table, but. You guys went that underground there. Yeah. They didn't eat it.

I know the grossest thing that you eat that you like. What? Liver mush. See, that's not gross to me. That stuff is gross, man. I wouldn't mark that on the, I wouldn't put that on the gross list because I do like that. No, I mean, it's not as gross as an uncooked shrimp. Livermush is kind of weird, man.

It's a different category. I'm telling you that it's a big livermush fan, Ricky Stenhouse. Really? Yeah. They got that down in Mississippi? I guess. Yeah. And up here in North Carolina where he lives.

And for right now, you can buy it for six dollars on pristine auction. Yeah. You can buy livermush? No, but you can buy Ricky Stenhouse autograph. So. Now, if he was eating livermush in the picture, I'd buy it. I'd buy it. I was gross.

out by liver mush one time. So I went to buy some, and I'm sitting there at this market buying this liver mush, and they have it in a big giant loaf. And a guy cuts me off some and starts packaging it up. And there's a guy sitting there, an old man, and he's like, I love livermush too. And he grabs a spoon and digs into raw livermush and eats it. And I said, I didn't know you could eat livermush raw.

Not that I would ever try. But this man's eating it like. Oh, it was so disgusting. Yeah. I'm not eating lunch now. I know. Every time I think about it, I just get so nauseous. I like my liver mush, just crusty and crispy.

Burnt to a crisp. That's what redneck thing ever said on the show. I know. I like my liver mush. It's crispy and crispy. It needs to be like an intro next week. That's the title. That's the title of a Trace Atkins song right there.

Delle Jr. will be in the video. Or that big guy that goes. That's such a... We went off the rails. All right. Time for the white flag, Mike. Put it out. He's coming, bud.

White flag right there. White flag right there. White flag. Did y'all see who is driving? The 2018 Chevrolet Camaro Z.L1 Pace car at the Brickyard 400 this year. Some guy, I don't know. Did you hear who's driving it? Tell, tell. Damn, the pace car driver ain't even paying attention.

I hope he pays attention in the base car. Look at this bug, and my wife's got found into a workout room. That's real? Yeah. That's not real. That's not real. That's not real. That looks like, what is it?

That's a big bug. That's huge. It's like one of them dung beetles or whatever they call them. God. So that I'm sorry. All right. Well, that's okay. At least, you know, it's for a bug.

Where is that? In her workout, in her workout room in a detached garage. And I thought there was. She probably, did you think she jumped the screen? I'm sorry, Mike. Go ahead. I thought there was no other reason to not work out, but I've been giving.

one more. There's a big bug in the room. All right. Junior is driving the Camaro Z-O-1 pace car at the Brickyard 400. Announced earlier or announced last week. Yeah, I forgot that I was doing this. I'm pretty excited. Yeah, as most people are,

that had forgotten they're doing it. Yeah. Well, there's so much crap going on. I just totally lost track that I was doing it. And then I saw a tweet by Indianapolis Post Speedway. I'm like, holy crap. That's like in a couple weeks. Yeah.

You want to hear something that's going to blow your mind? This is the 25th running of this race. Really? Has it been that long? Yes. 25th. It seems like it wasn't that long ago. They were just doing that.

That test, that stock car test at the brickyard. Your dad was in and they remember they crossed the finish line all together because they didn't want to make it a race. Am I the only one who remembers this? Yeah. Got a big brickyard people, huh? Not anymore. Okay.

Well, you need to be in a couple weeks. Dale Jenner's running the page. car. Then you can turn it off. That nice looking Chevrolet Camaro. It's going to be good. And then you're going to go up to turn three. Yeah, I'm doing a radio-style broadcast, so I'll be in turn three.

Oh, they're doing the radio deal again? We are, just like we didn't walk in school. Oh, cool. I will have turn three. So if you haven't already gone to Dirty Mo Media's YouTube page, you should do that. You should see our special edition, Del Jr. Download from last week, the full 55-minute interview with Elliot Sadler, which might have been my favorite download that we've done. Yeah.

I really do. Really did enjoy that. And then Dillner and our guy Dustin Lee made that happen. Now, a lot of people on social media have been asking for more of the YouTube exclusive full edition. I mean, it is an awesome bit of content. So I can understand why they've always asked. They've always asked for the podcast and video. Well, they got it with the TV show.

But then, you know, we've been trying to get Brian to cut an hour-long TV show every week. Brian needed to take vacation. He was like up in the mountains. Like, you know, somewhere. But anyways, go to our YouTube page, Dirty Mo Media's YouTube page. Subscribe. You know, Dillner and Dustin, they put a ton of content on that thing. So do that.

The Dale Jr. Delo will be back on NBCSN this Thursday, 5.30 p.m. So look for that. This Wednesday with Dale on NASCAR America. I believe his special guest, Daniel Suarez. Is that right, Dale? Dang. Daniel Suarez? Daniel Suarez is our guest, yes.

Does this mean there is a reunion with Tyler Overstreet? Tyler. Dale Jr. Tyler Overstreet. trying the scenes. I talk to Tyler all the time. You act like we never see each other. I don't know.

Tyler and I just communicated in the last 12 hours. Probably about fantasy football. About cycling. Yeah. I know. He's not cycling. He's not cycling. Okay.

Apparently Joe Gibbs is doing some sort of cycling deal for the roval or something, so he's wanting to check it out. I got you. All right. So big weekend, drawback. We've already talked about that, but I'm excited about it. Dale, final thoughts? I miss being in the booth.

Can't wait to get back in a booth. That's what's on my mind. Everybody's great. Oh, Ila, baptized Sunday. That was a lot of fun. Thanks for all the kind of words on social media. That's awesome. Yeah.

Wearing the dress. Waring the dress. Amy was baptized in at the church that I was baptized in. That's pretty cool. And so she did great. She was having a meltdown before we went in there. And I got her calm down right before they called us up front. So we walk up front.

front, she's, she's looking around all these people and the noises and the preacher man. And then the preacher man's pouring the water into the thing. And she's watching that. So she was really cool until he put the water on her. Oh. And then she freaked out again. Oh, really? Yeah.

She had a meltdown with the water. She didn't like the water. And, uh, but he took her and walked her around, showed the congregation to walk her over. She's like, he's like, here's the pulpit. Here's this. So he picked her up and took her? He took her. He took her.

He took her. She was out and down. So you were like, here, take her. take her. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I took her back and calmed her back down, and she slept for a lot of the rest of the church service.

Probably wasn't the only one, right? Yeah. Like, she slept in my arms for like 30 minutes of the service. Yeah. And then she woke up, and then I gave her to her. Oh, it was so awesome. That is cool. And then we all went as a family to eat at a place called On the Nines here in Morrisville at the golf course.

Great place to go eat. Had a great, great, great day. And then went home, watched a truck race, which was freaking awesome. And then did a little bit of golf ball. on the sim complete day it was awesome wow good for you well you get back after it this weekend so have fun at Darlington buddy have fun on your drive missing that helicopter who yeah but I love road trips I know you do you do it'll be funny so go have fun all right check us out we'll see check out

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