The Dale Jr. Download - 233 - Bad Stickers and Dry Pickles

Episode Date: September 18, 2018

Dale Earnhardt Jr and the DJD guys tackle a crazy Vegas weekend on track and in the boxing ring. Dale gets honest on the new NASCAR emoji stickers, Harvick’s salty statement and reveals a new Mayo sandwich. 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 to another episode of the Dale Jr. download. With me, as always, my co-host, Mike Davis. Hey, Mike. Hello, Dale. How are you? Matthew Dillner's in the house. What's up?

And we have no guest, but we don't need a guest. We got a lot of things we talk about. We got you. Just came back from Las Vegas. We'll talk about it all on the show today. It's time to chill out. This is going to be good. Take a seat on the couch.

It's time for the Dale Jr. download. All right, Mike. Man, we had a wild weekend. First playoff race. Ross Chastain's upset. We went to a boxing match. We had a lot of things going on, man. Vegas was good to me.

You have not been to a boxing match in a long time. This is going back probably nine or ten years, right? Yeah, big boxing fan. The boxing's changed a bit, and, you know, it's been a little frustrating. The big names come and go, right? Right. Kind of like some other sport. And with the UFC, gaining so much popularity, boxing has not really been at the forefront

of the news and sports and so forth. Haven't had any Mike Tyson's come into the boxing world in a long time, guys like that. But anyhow, I've become a big fan of Triple G. He's a pretty cool guy. I came over to Fontana a couple years ago to meet us, and he trains out there at Big Bear, and he was having a fight with Canello Averrez, and this is our second fight. The first fight was a draw. Everybody thinks that Triple G won that fight, so they were going to fight again.

I didn't think they should because of the bad judging in the first fight. I was there for this one. I got to see it. And I'll tell you this, seeing a fight in person versus seeing it on TV, you judge it differently. Of course. How so? Well, you just, you see the fight differently. You see the punches differently.

You see the activity and who's walking forward and who's always on the offense. You just see it differently. I still feel that Triple G won the first fight, and, well, we're sitting there watching this fight, and it was really good. They started really slow, and that's why I think Triple G lost the fight because he gave away the opportunity to win the first six rounds

because he wasn't as active as he needed to be. Are you talking about this one or the first one? This one, this one, right. This one, right. He gave it away. All right. I think he gave it away in the early rounds, and he didn't get the knockout,

so he left it to the score. cards to the judges, which was dangerous because of the way the first fight was, you know, scored and went against him. And he lost by a point on two cards and lost one of his belts. And that was frustrating. I hate going to Redskins games and boxing matches or any kind of sporting event and your team loses, right? I got a high school football game and your high school loses. It's no fun, right?

I guess. You leave with your tail between a lot of that. I'm just saying when you go to a sporting event, your guy loses. Is that enjoyable for you, you must? for you, Mike. Georgia Southern, never losing. You enjoy that. You want your team to win.

I mean, gee. You probably do want your team to win. I think so, yeah. All right. And Triple G was your team. That's your guy. Maybe mad. Where does Triple G's name?

Gnady Glovkin. Wait, what? Where's the other G? He's from Kazakhstan, I think. Somewhere like that. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. No, it's just curious. Yeah.

Well, you can Google it. Okay. And quenched your thirst for knowledge. Don't dare ask you, though. You're going to pull for a G. Yeah. All right. Figure out what that other G is for, right.

Triple G. Let's figure out what that other G for it. Double G. For now. Before we move on. Before we move on. Double G. No, let's get the specifics here.

The meaningless. The meaningless specifics. All right, so, you know, I don't want to go to another fight for a while. That's why I probably haven't been to a fight in 10 years. Because you just have anybody to latch on to. Well, that. Yeah. That.

Yeah. Triple G's 37 years old. He's aging out. He had a great run. I think he's got a few more fights in him. I will watch. I will pull for him, but I'm done going to fights for a while. When the Redskins lose, doesn't make me want to go back next week.

Really? Yeah, I get mad. I don't know what that is. What is that? See, me, I get over it by like Tuesday. That's you. Monday or Tuesday. I'm done.

I'm going to tell you. I know that's me. Yeah. But this has been, self-admittedly, this has been your problem for a long time. You have a hard time getting past things. And you've got to put it away. If Triple G fought again, you'd go. You'd want to go.

Actually, here's the question. I don't know why HBO didn't give those seats to a real boxing fan. Oh, did you see that? You got called out by some fan. And I thought your response was not called out. You weren't called out. Your response was perfect. Yeah.

Your response was perfect. I teed him up with some information. Did you see this deal with by the way? No. Okay. Talk to me, Goose. So he was being, he was on Twitter talking about being at the fight. He thanked HBO for the seats.

And then somebody called him out and says, I don't know why HBO doesn't give these tickets to a real boxing fan. And Dale Jr., very casually just dropped a link in there from this Old Sports Illustrated article where Arturo Gotti was talking about his best friend, Dale Earnhardt Jr. And that's completely legit. In fact, the only time I've ever been to a boxing match was with Dale Jr. at an Arturo Gotti fight.

He used to walk him to the ring. I walk him to the ring. I ring walked Arturo Gotti with Mickey Ward, another boxer. You know, Mickey had that movie made about him. Yeah. I walked with Mickey. So I go to the fight and I'm sitting there and they're like, hey, man, do you want to come back and see Arturo before the fight? He's getting his hands wrapped and stuff.

So I'm like, wow, I kind of want to see what that's like. But also, I'm like, I don't want to be in the way. Right. I go. I'm standing in there. And it's quiet. everybody's looking at the floor. Arturo's sitting on the chair backwards like you see in all the movies.

The boxers get their hands. Everybody takes his hands. You know, there. And everybody's just kind of standing at nobody's having any conversation. It's quiet. Game time. Yep. Not even any music playing.

And I was like, all right, I've seen it. I'm ready to get out of here. This is weird. You know, this is too intense. And so I go back to my seat and sit down. And they're like, hey, he wants enough if you want to walk into the ring. I'm like, why not? Yeah, of course you do.

Heck yeah. And so I go over there and go back over there and toward his dressing room. And they give me, they're like, hey, man, you and Arturo are you and Mickey Ward? I'm like, Mickey Ward? Like him and Mickey had this trilogy that was ridiculous. And fight of year, round of a year. All three of them. Crazy.

Insane. And so they had the trilogy where they beat the hell out of each other and then they become friends. So me and Mickey walked him in the ring, man. I'm like, this is a great assay. You're like part of this. Yes, it's a badass entourage. Dream come true. for a boxing fan to have something like that

happened to him. And so this guy's like, I can't believe HBO give these tickets to God I don't even care about boxing. I'm like, what the hell do you? I was going, and then he comes right back at him. Yeah, it comes right back at him. Yeah. But that was good. Here's a question I got about

that whole experience. Because the one fight I went to, and you had told me this, and that is the ring, the entertainment of the ring and the fight itself is one thing. But when you're at a boxing match, the surrounding is just as entertaining. There are stuff going on, but there are fights in the stands.

I mean, I remember fights being in the stands. So it's like a hockey game. It's crazy. You got like celebrities everywhere because it's Vegas. It's Vegas, right? Was that the case this time? I thought, did we see Arturo and Vegas or Atlantic City? Atlantic City.

So I think that's a bit of the difference there. Oh, okay. Where I've seen two fights in Atlantic City, and both of those, there were fights in the crowd on several occasions each time. At Vegas, not so much. And we went to see the U.S.C. I went to the UFC fight a couple years ago in Vegas, and I thought the same thing.

Like, if there's fights at the boxing matches, I'm sure there's some real brawls going on. Right. UFC's crowd, right? And there wasn't. I think it's the Vegas, the Vegas people mind their manners a little bit more. Atlantic City.

Jersey crowd. It's the dirty chairs, man. You're in my shoes. They're knocking each other out there. I know some of those Jersey racers, man. You don't want to mess. of those. Those jersey people are...

Same thing. So, yeah. Well, Triple G has awesome punch of power, much like Okti. Otherwise, I don't know that I compare them too much, but I like their styles. And I don't like a prod and sort of, you know, Mexican style, which is Canelo. He's just a worker. Gonna work, work, work, work, work, work. And, you know, out points you, out, box you.

Triple G is just about power, you know, and doesn't have quite the speed that Canello has. It was a great fight, though. The second half of the fight was tremendous. The championship rounds, 9, 10, 11, even 12, the very final round when you think one of those guys would assume that he's got this thing. One, neither one of them ran. Neither one of them hid. Both of them just. And at one point, Triple G was tired or just kind of, oh, man, you know, we're beating hell each other.

And Canelo's like, come on, you know. I gained a lot of respect for Canello. He's got bust. We're going into weeds here. He got busted for two drugs. He failed two drug tests for steroids, and there's a bunch of controversy there, so this fight was delayed.

It finally had the fight. Canello's, in my mind, I lost respect for him. But watching him fight, watching him, he was emotional after the win. It was a big deal. Both those guys worked really hard to get there. Triple G was mad. He left before his interview, left the ring, frustrated.

But I think they'll fight again. It'll be a third fight. There's just too much money to be made. It's too good of a fight. If those guys can get in there and deliver that type of entertainment again, people are going to buy it, they're going to make the money. They'll be crazy not to try to capitalize financially on that opportunity. And so I'm excited about that.

You want me to get them to roll his eyes real quick? Yeah, come on. Did you see who else said he was going to fight again this past week? Oh, yeah, I saw that. Mayweather? And I don't think that, I don't believe it. Mayweather says he and Paciaw are going to have a fight. What did Pac-Eau say?

Has he said anything? No. No. He's on a mission trip. He hasn't texted me yet. I'm just kidding. I don't. Mayweather, I think, you know, there's a big fight going on, right?

These two guys, Triple G and Canelo, they're on the front of the casino. This is in Mayweather's hometown. Everything all weekend outside of the racing is the fight. Everywhere you go. There's people betting on the fight. signs of fight, you know, the signage for the fight, promoting the fight, talking about the fight, every casino hotel room has looped videos of the fight happening. Hey, you're in Vegas, you know, you go to a Vegas hotel room and they play, you know,

they turn on TV and it's the hotel's TV channel or what the hell of it. Yeah, the first three channels are all the promos. Oh, about how to get a massage. Yeah, so everywhere he goes, fight, fight, fight, fight. And this is a town that Mayweil lives in, all right? He can't, he cannot stand the, he's not jealous of the attention, but he's, He's like, I know how to drop a little, you know, bomb in this little mess. And they're, you know.

Oh, that's, that's. I'm going to fight. I'm coming out of retirement, guys. Guess what? It's like, oh, fuckia. Yeah. All right. Well, all right.

Hey, look, it may happen. The thing about that. They're 100 years old now. Him saying, him saying that, you know, I'm going to fight Manny Packyow. He'll beat Manny Paciow because they've already fought. Aged out, too. They both are aged out. But Mayweather is.

is such a superior fighter and he knows how to outpoint the guy. He'll not get hit. He'll outpoint him. People will pay to buy. People will watch it. People will pay to buy it. They'll be disappointed. I don't care if they're throwing damn walkers at each other.

Mayweather. Mayweather and Pacquiao. Now, Mayweather's fights in the last, I'm just going to say five years, probably longer than that, have been incredibly boring. Incredibly boring. The McGregor was interesting because McGregor, but the rest of his fights, very boring. he does what he has to do to win the fight, and it's not flashy, it's not highlight.

Not a highlight reel. If you watch his fights when he was younger, he went in there and destroyed people. And it was, you know, he was the highlight real. He's great, but he doesn't have to do that now. He gets in there, makes his $100 million to $200 million, and he goes home, which is smart man, businessman. And that's what he's doing again, if they fight.

Those are the losses that turn me away that I don't want to go back. Those are the ones. I won't buy. I'm not going to buy. I haven't bought a made way of the fight in years. I won't. I know what I'm going to. going to get. I know what I'm going to get. Triple

G, if those guys fight again, I'd probably watch it. I wouldn't go to it. I just don't see with Golden Boy and those guys promoting that fight and Canelo. If you would have seen the... So we're sitting there in the theater, right? I'm not the theater but the arena. In my

mind, both of these guys coming off a draw they're even numbers. It could go either way. The odds are even. They both sort of have the same clout and respectability in the fight world. they play a song for Triple G, he walks in the ring, gets in the ring, and he's there. Next thing you know, they play a big, they play this long promotional video for Canello and then a song. And he is hyped and promoted at the beginning of this match.

It's his home, there's more people there, there's more Conello fans there. It's like it's a home field advantage. And he's getting the respect and all this extracurricular stuff before the fight to promote him. And they didn't do that for Triple G. So you can tell right away, like, hmm, this is a little bit of, more of a show about Canelo. This is more to promote Canelo than an equal...

So, yeah, I get what you're saying. I fell. I'm like, right away, I'm like, it's from the last fight with the shoddy old judging they had and Triple G got robbed. Triple G was robbed and everybody freaking knows it, right? And we all come running back to the gates, bang, I want to get a ticket.

All right, so I'm sitting there thinking, man, can he get an honest decision? Will he get robbed again? And I'm sitting there watching this promotion for Canello and how big they're blowing him up before the fight. And I'm like, yeah, he's not getting to the decision. Well, he better knock him out if he's going to have to knock him out. Right.

He's going to have to knock him out. And he let it. He allowed the fight to be too close. Yeah. He lost a decision. That was debatable. Really? It was it?

It was, I mean, I didn't walk out of there going, that's bull-hs-hack. It's rigged. Not like the first fight. I walked out of there going, all right, I could kind of see, you know, a fight expert or someone who's been a judge or been a journalist or someone who's been in a fight game for a long time could make arguments for Canelo winning that fight. You could.

He was walking forward the whole night. But that's Mexican style. That's what he does. Even when he's getting the shit beat out of him, he don't know anything but keep moving forward. Gotcha. And Triple G didn't land the shots at the start of the fight.

So even the rounds where really nothing was accomplished by either guy, you give it to Canello because of the moving forward. Yeah, Triple G won the out of the last few rounds because he beat the hell out of the guy or hit him harder and hit him more often. But you don't judge the fight as a whole.

You judge it per round. Anyways, that's a lot of talk about that. And it doesn't mean anything unless we know what the third G means. Yeah. What else you get? There was other things going on in Vegas. There were other things going on. I mean, I'll tell you what, to be honest with you,

pretty entertaining weekend at the track. Truck race was wild. Holy crap. Yeah, I forgot about that. Grant getting his first win, the finger. Is that his second? I believe so. I thought it was his first.

When did he win his first race? Well, you guys Mike knows? No. I promise you, Mike don't know. Well, either way. Anyway, I think it was his first race. If it wasn't, congratulations on your second win, finger. The finger.

Yeah. That was a wild race. Good for him. It was wild to see Moffitt. Yeah. I mean, watching Moffitt come through there and almost make himself a contender for the win there. And that was the most interesting. At one point, in the end of that race, everyone was contending for the win.

It was kind of bonkers. The wild, wild race. And that sort of lit the candle for the rest of the weekend. The Xfinity race was just as exciting, in my opinion. Yeah. Long overdue for the watermelon farmers out there. Ross Chastain, I liked what he said. Okay, so he gets out of the race.

He goes, hey, if I got to go back to farm and I'm happy. This is a dream come true. And if this is the end of the dream, I'm thrilled. Go out on top. He made fans, I guarantee. I guarantee you saying that. Yeah, of course. He made fans about everything he's done over the last couple of weeks.

Absolutely. He's a fan making machine since freaking Darlington. But that for the common person, you know, that's watching it. Say if you're a rural, you know, a mid-America farmer or something, you're watching that. If you're what? Rural. Rural. Are you trying to say roble?

Roeble. Rule. But, you know, for that, say, a common mid-American diaper. may not identify with some of the, let's just call it, like it is, some of the hero card kids, you know, and that's a kid that may be a working class guy. What is a hero card? I don't know. A hero card kid, maybe, you know, somebody.

Coming up all these terms that just. Oh, come on, man. Somebody with, you know, that's, say, maybe racing on a trust fund or just, you know, that can't, the common person can identify with as much. And here's a guy that goes out there and says, man, I might, you know, be back on a a watermelon field. Yeah. You know, that middle America person can identify with that.

No. He said he owns a damn company. Yeah. All right. He had a hero card. He had a hero card at one time. And he had watermelons on his trucks. At watermelon helmet?

Yeah. Let's not, let's not, let's not. Let's not go blow this. I'm not saying he's out there with a pickaxe in a pitch for us. He didn't hitchhike his way to Vegas. No. Yeah. But it's cool, man.

Well, you know, Ross, he's like a nice guy. And he does. He seems like a good guy. He has rubbed some guys the wrong way on the racetrack. But that's cool. You like guys that race hard. You'd like guys to get in there and beat and bang a little bit. And even if they make a mistake, you know, you'd rather a guy be going for it.

And you saw that with Justin got ticked at him there. Yeah. And then congratulate him at the end because he knew what that win meant to him. There were many times in that race where guys challenged Ross and Ross wouldn't lose the challenge. He'd lose the lead, but get it right back. It wasn't a race where he just walked away. He had to really work hard for it and earn it. Had a couple different people coming up there trying to challenge him.

And that's a great day. That's a good day for the sport, you know. And it helps him move into the next round. Yeah. Yeah. And he's got, what, three race deal with Gannasi, right? One left. One left, right.

That was number two. And so, like, I am curious on what happens to him because I believe, I'm going to have to get into some racing knowledge. I believe he was racing for J.D. Motorsports. Is that right? Yep. Okay. So for the last several years. And so I remember Harvick at Darlington saying, this is probably why he'll never get another chance.

I bet he's wrong now. The guy had gone off for one of my race. But like, how does this go on now? Like, is he in the playoffs? Do you think Gannasi gives him another ride, another chance? It's a possibility. And he didn't even meet Gannasi. I thought that was a little interesting.

The owner and the driver had never actually met face to face. Yeah. I thought that was a kind of cool little nugget for that story. I don't know what happens to Ross. I really don't. And I don't know how without some financial backing, whether he has a trust fund or a hero card. Hero card sponsorship.

I don't know how he gets a really good Xfinity series ride for next year. What may happen is he could get a call from one of these owners in the Cup series. Go Fast is looking for a driver. And we know maybe some other, as these dominoes continue to fall, the 95 cars are looking for a driver. Reagan Smith, in my opinion, is a guy they need to be thinking about putting in that car for next year. Look what he did this week.

Amazing. Every week. I mean, there was a ton of attrition, but both weeks. that he's been in that car, he's delivered, and he's taken care of the equipment, and he's gotten a great result. Yes, he has. But so for Ross, I think the opportunities lie in doing what he's been doing,

or maybe hopefully getting an opportunity with one of the underfunded teams in the Cup series. He has one now with Premier in the 15 car. Yep. But I think there's slightly better opportunities maybe on the horizon for him, but I just, otherwise, I don't see. You never know. Maybe DC Solar appreciated the donuts in the logo. and steps up for the kid.

Yeah, DC Solar wants to write a check, then he'd go racing. Well, I'm happy for Ross Chastine. I'm happy for Gannessie. Chastain. Chastain. Chastain. I messed it up. It's not Brandy Chastin.

Well, you know, it's not, it's Chastine, not like Pristine. Pristine. We do have. We got one of those coming. We got Pristine joining us this week. So it's not pretty, I got it. I'm happy for him. The cup race, Dale, insane, right?

Yeah. I mean, come on. Jeff Burton said it was going to be a wildcar race. I'm like, I don't know if he's. just trying to blow this up or, you know, make it something bigger than it is, but he was right. I mean, it became this crazy race where everybody was having trouble and more people were, more people were having trouble, more people were having trouble, more drivers in trouble. There's a lot of reasons for it.

You know, the track was really, really slick. It was incredibly hot. That means less tape on the grill, less down force. A lot of variables came into play there that really made that race challenging. And we started to see some of that happening in the Xfinity series right off the bat with Michael Annette getting loose off of turn four. Tyler Redick off of turn two. That kid in the three truck or three car Lee also getting loose. I mean, guys were just crashing on their own.

And I'm like, wow, you know, it's a track really that slick? Cup race comes around and we had tire issues because of the heat. And if you have too much camera and so forth and things like that and too much excess heat on that on that inside edge, it can fail the tire. We've seen that for years. It was just, and the track was tightening up and getting more and more rubber down and getting tighter and tighter and abusing that right front more and more. It was just crazy. So many problems. Guys is spinning out on their own.

Denny Hamlin, Kyle Bush, turning, you know, getting up in the speedy dry. That speedy dry that they have, in my opinion, that's a whole other conversation. I'm not a huge fan of it. It's too fine. It's like a baby powder. You used to have speedy dry that was more like kitty litter, you know, kind of a gravel. and that stuff would soak up the oil and then you could easily get it, usually get it off the racetrack. Did they try to blow it off?

The stuff that they had. You were there? Yeah, but it's so fine. It's like a chalk. Okay. That even when you do clear it, clean it off, blow it off as well as it will with that, you know, the trucks and stuff that they have, the cars still go through there and it's still, you know, leaving a trail of. You can see it. Dust behind the cars.

And it's a ton less grip when you go over that stuff. And so once that gets put down in the high groove of a racetrack that's, you know, the guys are run on the fence, it disables that groove for quite a while. And it almost takes a ton of speed out of it. That was Larsen's groove, too, wasn't it? Yeah. They were putting it up right up there. Yeah, so he had to, especially on that last, with all that stuff over in a turn three and four,

he had to completely avoid that part of the racetrack, which is unfortunate. That speedy drive is the reason. It's too fine. It's too fine of a product and, like, powder. Maybe kind of go back toward the more coarse gravel style. Well, I see, this was something that you guys said on the broadcast That 12 of the 16 playoff drivers had issues You got one coming down to oh, it was insane

Even at the last few restarts I mean, there was one restart that seemed Almost seemed to single-handedly remove Hendrick From the race And Jimmy and Alex Bonn. Right, they were all having great days I mean, I couldn't believe it Then you had that last wreck which started with

I think McDowell and somebody, which I think we need a ruling from Denny if those are meaningless drivers or not. Or he was already out of the race that one. So it didn't matter. Yeah, but then somebody, who was it that? Somebody cranked on Denny for the meaningless driver. I saw it on Twitter and I forget now who it was.

Was it Jeffrey? Yeah. That's pretty funny. He said, meaningfully, the drivers did pretty good today. It's better than some others. Oh, your cousin, Jeffrey. Yeah. Oh, that's good for him.

My cousin? Yeah. He's my nephew. Oh, your nephew. He's your nephew. I've had that wrong all these years. Yes. So anyways.

Goodness. Pinsky. Uncle Dale. Uncle Dale. You got Legano, Kuzlowski. I like Lugano. I love Kislowski. I love the sport even more.

And the part of me in the sport was hoping that they kind of tangled a little bit than what they did there at the end. Just because to start our playoffs, if you had those fireworks. But, man, once he got that clean air, it was like, bye-bye. Oh, yeah. It was incredible. At the end of the race, Brad had the best car if he gets out front. He's gone.

I was pulling for Larson, actually, to get it done, running at high side, working at high side. He didn't have the early run speed in his car, and that's kind of what hurt him on those restarts is just getting going. Yeah, those cautions. Yeah, messed him up. And so, yeah, the final cautions he didn't need. Right.

He had the lead and was getting ready to check out, and then the caution come out and allowed Brad to cool his tires down, and that hurt to 42's performance on the restart. But good for Brad. I mean, three in a row, but also they weren't anywhere on the radar to start of the season, first half of the season. the Stuart Hoss forwards were the forwards to be reckoned with. Brad's team, if you're watching the races,

you can see that they don't have the best car. They have a great car, not the best car, and Brad and his team are working and persevering and finding ways to win races with that stuff. And so that's how you win championships. He's in championship form. They're going to advance in the next round. He's going to be somebody you're going to have to deal with

with his playoff points that he's gained over the last three weeks. He's somebody I think gets all the way to Homestead now. I think the Homestead of four are already picked. Brad Keselasky, Martin Trix Jr., Kyle Busch, and Kevin Harvard. Those four are the four for Homestead. If you can knock one of those guys off, good for you. I don't think anybody does it. But who wants to even?

Because, my gosh, those four in a final race, son. The only way. Give me some of that. The only way that somebody gets into that knocks one of them guys off is you're going to have to win. Yes. In that third round, you're going to have to win. You're not going to point your way by those guys. But Kevin Harvick also used up on Mulligan almost, points-wise, you know, having the bad day that he...

He's still got plenty of points. He's still got, what, 30-some ahead. He's still race ahead. He's fine. He's got more than one mulligan each round. One more. We got that roval coming up. Yeah.

There's not enough cars on the racetrack for Kevin Harvick to miss this next round. It just ain't. He can't lose enough points. I didn't like how he blink good year for all his problems. Oh, that was a salty interview. I didn't like that. I didn't like it. He had a few salty.

interviews over the last couple weeks. I didn't like it. But, yeah. It's Cheerios. Might have something in it. All right, guys, we've got Pristine Auctions back as a sponsor for this podcast. What does that mean? I mean, I'm not going to be excited about that.

It's starting to feel like family. It's starting to feel like, you know, I need to put them on the Christmas card list. I like it. I like it. Merry Christmas. This is three weeks in a row? Something like that. Yeah.

Like the hat shirt. They just earning their way into my heart one week at a time. I've actually been checking out stuff now. Well, you know, auctions are a fun way to shop, right? Heck yeah, dude. You know? Auctions are way funter. It's kind of like going to a high school football game, actually. Why just buy it? You want to win.

I think, yeah, it's the competition, the suspense, if you're going to win, you kind of want the item even more than you originally did when you first saw it, because you don't want to lose it. You don't want to lose the auction to somebody? Ratchets up the excitement. Who's just been against me? Cheaters. I need this.

You do not need this item. Right? We just got to make sure we're not bidding against each other. That's how you feel. Right. Right. Who's this dummy? Trying to take my stuff.

Which is what everybody says. It's not really yours yet because you haven't paid for it. Everybody says when you're going up there cleaning out the whole, the pristine auction items of all the old retro stuff. Yeah. Well, it's my stuff. I'm trying to bid. Oh. No, but you said yourself you haven't won it yet.

Well, it's mine when I see it. All right, got it. I'm just saying I think that that's the way everyone feels. It starts to bid on auction. That's mine. want that. That is mine and you're trying to take it. Yeah. That's the way the auction feels. Is that too much? It's tribal. It's a step below tribal auctioneering there. Well, you know, the great thing about Pristin is you don't have to research the nearest auction house, worry about what's going on. You

don't have to go there. You don't have to research their legitimacy and all those good things. With Pristine, you know you're going to get genuine items. They run different auction formats, including multiple weekly auctions, a premier monthly auction as well as a daily. And then they also have a 10-minute auction. I don't know what that's all about. Speed auctions. We've got to find out. That's about all I got time for.

I kind of like, I kind of want to try one of those now. Let's do it after the show. They guarantee the authenticity of every item. So if you purchase it, you know it's the real deal. It's not a fool. It's not some forged autograph. You're going to see on a lot of other sites that I've seen. There's a lot of forgery out there.

Yeah. All right. The best part, it's so affordable. Dillner, you were just telling you. me that you got your eye on a Bobby hole hockey card? Heck yeah, man. It says $1. It's a Hall of Famer, dude. Wait a second. Right before the show, I was looking

at it. Baseball card, like style. Yeah, it's a baseball card, but it's a hockey card. Is Bobby Hall a hero card, trust fund guy? Oh, she. Or is he a hockey card? He's a hockey card, man. There's a 1975 Sports Illustrated with A.G. Ford on the cover signed by A.J.

And it's only 20 bucks right now. Boy, that's really, that's something I'm kind of, I definitely paid $20. Okay, let's let's communicate. so we don't out fit to each other. Yeah. So check out pristine auctions now. You'll be hooked.

It's free to register, free to bid, and you only pay for the items you win. That's pristine auction spelled P-R-I-S-T-I-N-E-Oction.com. And when you register, be sure to select Dale Jr. Download podcast from the drop-down menu in the How Did You Hear About Us section. This lets them know that me, Mike, and Matthew sent you there for the auctions. I don't know why that's important. Why is that important? Why do they need to know that we see?

sent them. But it's a hugely important. So they want to come back for a fourth week. All right. Yeah, we want them back for the 13th. They want to be back. They don't need that. They need that.

No, they do. They need to know that we affect. They don't need that. Yeah. They want to be back. Pristine auctions. All right. Let's have an Exalta update.

This is your Exalta Race Center update. I'm Matthew Dillner. NASCAR's triple header at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, simply put, was a jackpot. The first to hit a big was. Grant and Finger who won Friday night's truck series race locking himself into the next round of the playoffs, with one race to go in the opening round for the truckers. In Xfinity Series action, Ross Chastain ran the tables, winning both stages and collecting his first series win. Justin Algeyer finished second and was awarded the regular season championship trophy. No odds maker could have predicted Brad Keselowski's recent streak

in the cup series. The Michigan driver opened up the cup playoffs by punching his ticket into round two, scoring his third victory in a row. Next up is a big weekend at Richmond Raceway. Dale Earnhardt Jr. makes his return behind the wheel in the Xfinity Series. Twelve drivers, including three from Junior Motorsports, get their playoffs started on Friday. On Saturday night, Race 2 in the opening round of the Cup Series playoffs, under the lights at the newly renovated Virginia Oval.

This has been your Exalta Race Center update. Exalta is the official paint partner of NASCAR, developing, manufacturing, and supplying and supplying coatings to all types of vehicles and industrial applications. For more on Exalta, please visit Exalttacs.S.com. That was a great Exalta update. Now it's time for Asht Jr.

Tad to break, though. You're a little too excited for Asch Jr. I mean, damn, elbows up for the love of God. Dale Jr. is excited right now. All right, Asst Jr., people chiming in on social media. We love social media so much and using a hashtag Asked Jr. Greg Owens.

Do you think Kevin Harvick will get a Christmas card from Goodyear this year? Better enough. I don't think that Kevin Harvick will get a Christmas card from Good Year. Tire issues. Can't just play the tire. Yeah, can't put it all on the tire. Some guys didn't have them. There's a debate in the sport.

I don't know if it's a debate, really, but there's a conversation, an ongoing conversation. All right, for years and years and years, especially recently, as the speeds got so high, particularly around 2014, we had some really big corner speeds. Good Year had to make the tire harder. When Goodyear makes a tire harder, there's less wear, less fall off, particularly it tracks that are repaved or newer surfaces. All right. Drivers go back to Goodyear and say,

we need a tire that wears that has fall off. To produce better racing. Right. Well, you get a tire that wears and has fall off. Well, sometimes you're going to wear it out. Yes. Too much. And then boat.

And there needs to be tires that wear out. I don't want to race a car where I can run qualifying laps every lap and not have to worry about tire wear. I want that to be something that I need to be concerned with as a driver because I then think that I can manage those better than anybody. Drivers all think they can do everything better, right? I'm a better driver than you. I can manage the tires better than you.

I can get down pit road better than you. I can run qualifying laps better than you. I know how to set up a car better than you. That's what every driver thinks. So if you give me the opportunity to have to manage my tires, I think in my mind that I can do that better than anyone. And I want that. I want a tire that falls off and wears out.

And I want a tire that might be a tire guy doesn't manage very well and screwing himself up. Okay? I'm not saying, that's what happened to Harvard. I don't know if they had too much camber. I don't know what happened to his tire. But I'm just saying it's a balance. You can't have one way out the other. Yeah.

Hey, I got a question here. This question is from Jeff. My kids were watching Handy Mani the other day. And I could swear I heard your voice. Yeah. Were you on Handy Mani? Years ago. Really?

Yeah. So what was that about? 2007. They asked me to voice a character on there, and I voiced it over. What was your character? I don't know. It was a racing character that it was a racer. Handy Mani was racing, and I was another racer.

It was a pal. I was nice. We actually. Oh, so you were nice to him. I was helpful. We actually did a press conference. I don't think there is a bad guy in Hany, who knows. We actually did a press conference in Daytona announcing that.

And what's the guy's name? who were asking the same question to each other. The guy in the 70s show. Oh, that's 70s show? Yeah. He's the handy manny's voice. Wilmer, Wilmer. Wilmer.

Wilbur the horse? Wilbur. I can't, I don't remember. Brian's going to Google it. Wilmer. It wasn't Ashton Cutcher. No. No, okay.

So it was the other guy. The other guy in the 70s. Yeah. He's handy. He's handy. And he was at the press conference. He was. with Dale.

It was a big deal in our. Yeah, he voices handy. You can tell how important it was. Not enough if Handy Mani's still around. I've never, I'd never even seen an episode.

Well, clearly it is. The guy was watching it. I guess it is. It's on reruns with laughing. It was an Ask Junior question. All right. Jarrett Zent, this is a question that I wanted to ask you,

but I get away with doing it an ass junior. It's perfect. What's your feelings on the car emojis? I know you love cool paint schemes, and these look pretty dang hideous. They were bad. I don't think any of the fans on social media liked them at all.

So this is the situation there. The RTA is being given opportunity to, they're given some opportunity to be able to utilize that space to understand what the value is in that space on the car. And the contingency decals and the contingency program is going away. NASCAR's going to let teams have that spot and say, hey, here. So the RTA and the head of the RTA are trying to find what the value is in that space. So they can then try to sell it.

And they're doing that with this emoji program. This is just a program to test the value. And, you know, see if it's something the fans think is cool. Obviously, the fans unanimously hate it. And I don't think that they even care. The fans don't care what the program's about. No. No.

I mean, they shouldn't. I don't. I don't care about this. I don't care what you're trying to figure out. What I don't like is the delivery or the, the creativity behind it. It looks like they spent maybe two minutes on that part of it. It's a big old white box.

Yeah. It is the worst. The rollout was no good, all right? And so it would have been no problem had they spent some time to make the sticker work with the car. Now on the head. Yeah. So when you see it visually, it's pleasing to the eye instead of like, oh, what the hell is that? You know?

So. Like I see. said basically when I saw it. Listen, man, I'm all four trying to do what's good for the sport, and that's all it's trying to happen here. The RTA's trying to try to... The intentions are great. That doesn't mean it's okay.

That doesn't make this okay. And so... Follow through their swing, is better you're saying. Oh, man, so bad. Like I was saying, like, looking at Jimmy Johnson's car, he's got that black car, it is, let's just say, badass paint scheme. It is awesome. And it's like, I think about, what if

Jimmy Johnson wins his eighth title and his car is forever like immortalized in the history of our sport and big on the side of it's like this goofy emoticon of his face. Yeah. So the face does, I don't care what the emoji is. It's the big white border box behind it. Here's the best, here's the worst and the best case scenario. All right.

The worst case scenario would, one of the worst case scenarios would be the pole winning car. Eric Jones, black and yellow paint scheme. They put all this, you know, time in designing this car. This isn't something that happens in mere minutes. They spend days and months approving the design of this paint scheme, going through the companies, the sponsors, the teams, maybe the driver gets involved. And then somebody comes and slaps a 12-by-12-inch white sticker on the car with his initials. It's not subtle.

It ain't. And it looked awful. And you go over to Harvick's car. Now, I know it's a white car, and that's why it looked good. You see his car, and they spent the same amount of time. all year or early in the year designing this car. And his emoji blended into the paint scheme because the white box didn't show up on the white car. So it looked okay.

It looked fine. If that would have been the case for every car, nobody would have hated on it. They hated on the visual. And so that was frustrating because I know they're trying to do something good. It's like, ah. I mean, who, somebody didn't look at that and go, guys, before we send this, out, maybe we should spend a longer time making this look a little better. On this car, it doesn't look so good.

That's all they had to do. The other thing I saw this weekend, not quite as bad as this. Nothing will be near as bad as that. They took all the top 16 guys, the playoff contenders, and had them paced the field before the race. Did y'all see that? I didn't see it. No.

We didn't show it on TV because it didn't look good. So that when the race, when the cars pull off pit road, they have the playoff contenders at the front of the field, single file and they ride a lap and then they all go back where they're supposed to go in the field. That frustrates me as much as it does when they announce the chasers.

It looked like an unorganized nothingness. I mean it was like, what's going on here? Why are the cars doing this? There's no reason for it. You watch them year after year, week after week, pull off pit road, double file, lined up how they qualified,

and now you're looking at it going, I can't figure out what's happening here. it took me really too, it took too long for me to understand, oh, it's the playoff guys out front. And they're, you know, they're riding all over the track. They're not in, like, it's not a neat, organized parade style. And then, yeah, they kind of just kind of pull to the side and pull to the top and fade to the back or fade to their, I'm like, man, why do we do this?

Why do we do this? What did this accomplish? Because it wasn't organized and nice and neat and cool enough for TV to go, That's badass. Let's put that on there. We didn't cover it. It's not like some four-wide salute or something really, like, cool-looking. Yes.

It sounds good on paper, but doesn't deliver. It can't execute it. You can execute it. The four-wide salute would. They introduced the chasers now, you know, the past, like, five years as a separate part of the starting lineup. I don't like that. I don't like that.

I want to build up that starting lineup to the front row. I know. And then the chasers, you know, say if you're starting second and you're a chaser, Now you've got a small amount of time to get in the car. It's crazy. Well, yeah, they announced the whole field and then the chasers. Yeah. And so, you know, I don't like, I never like that either.

I felt like that that didn't make much sense. Well, it's not to the fan. I mean, we're just manufacturing, attempting to manufacture excitement when really the excitement just needs to be on the racetrack. And if you're not. Like it has been. It has been delivering. We are delivering the crap out of racing. We don't need some of that.

It sounds to me like we just need to let the race be the race. And that's really from driver intros all the way through. I just feel like there's somebody, there's too many people going, you know it would be a good idea. Nations. Nations. Yeah, nations. And how does that all get down to pipe so far?

And all the way out. I mean, it don't even get shut off. It don't get, nobody like, remember the nations? Oh, I remember. Oh, you're the only guy that really had nation. And here's another one for you. Daytona Day? Daytona Day.

Don't get me started. How does those things get all the, how do they become real? I don't know. I don't know. I know, you know, it's interesting. Happy Daytona Day. What we were talking about, but it's interesting that you're saying NBC made the conscious decision not to do that because of the. No, I don't know that they made a conscious decision.

Oh, I got you. They just didn't. We didn't know. You didn't know to do it. You didn't know to do it. Got it. I understood that red flag going to the Indy car coverage at the start of it. But, man, it sort of deflated the excitement.

It wasn't. I don't think it was exactly how he hoped it would be. I don't think M.C. wanted it to be that way. I don't think they had a choice, really. But they had to take care of the Indycar deal. That's the season finale. They did what they had to do. It's all right.

They cut back. I was getting a little antsy waiting on it. Imagine this, though. How long was that rain to look? How long was that? Over 10 minutes? 10 minutes. 10 minutes to fill.

Imagine sitting in 160 degrees. Or they've broken thermos. And 160 degrees inside the car for 10 minutes sitting there still. Not being able to move, do anything, get out. Did they bring them waters? Because we were in the red flag. I couldn't tell. Imagine that.

Miserable. A lot better in a booth. It's dangerous. Yeah. It's dangerous. Something's going to happen one day to somebody. One guy ain't going to pull off. You're going to go over there and you're going to be a, hey, wake up.

This is one of those situations where it's just impossible for guys like me or Matthew, to really know the context of how hot you're talking about. You got football players on the, you got football players in training camp, having serious health issues, if not deaths at times, heat strokes. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. No, I know.

I know what you're talking about. And I don't disagree with you at all. Yeah. But like the kind of hot you're talking about, me and the fans, we don't even know it until you experience. Where do you go to experience 160 degree temperature? Right. Where do you go?

Right. And it just seems hot. I just thought at the time just hearing everybody talk about how hot it was. I said, well, the driver that comes out and wins this race is going to be really physically and mentally strong. Oh, yeah. And Brad is mentally strong. Personally, in those situations, they read flagged the cars and turn three on the banking. Personally, in those situations, they could bring the cars tied around the apron on the pit road

and be able to allow one of the team members to get to the car to service the driver. The driver. Bring a fan. With the situation. You know, if they could even say, look, you know, this is going to be five, ten minutes. drivers, you can drop the net or you can take the helmet off. Whatever you need to do. Yeah, you could bring a fan to the car.

There needs to be free rain on whatever it takes to keep the driver comfortable and keep them healthy, man. Because that's dangerous for their organs. You know, you've got Casey Kane out of the car because his organs are getting damaged because of this heat exhaustion he's experiencing. It's not good for your body. It's not good for your body. We're going to move on. We talk enough shit there.

Yeah. Okay. We still have some Ask Junior questions, but we went off on a great tangent, in my opinion. Amelda wants to know. He's like, we're not done yet. I have found these and these are important. Yeah, well. And you're going to answer them.

You're going to answer these questions, dang it. Amelda wants to know this is so important. How did you come up with the dirty moe name and are you going to continue to expand and maybe add to your old Westtown? I'm glad you got this question. I mean, this is breaking stuff. You are. Dirty mo, you talk about how the questions

were getting better. And you hold these. This is, yes, last week. Where's that piece of paper you crumbled up? I'm going to throw it back at you. Last week you said, you know,

there's so many good questions to actually save them. Yeah. And these are, you know. I kind of like that one, man, it's a little off pudding,

a little off color. But I like pudding. The dirty mo, it's not, okay, the dirty moe is Moorsville, North Carolina.

Yeah. That's what people call Moorsville, not everybody, Probably not any political figures or government figures in town or anybody that works over the police office. I am running for mayor at Dirty Mo. They probably don't like, they probably don't appreciate it. But as kids in high school, we all gave it that nickname. And I think that you do that because you hear from some other town that they got a cool nickname that the kids all say.

And it's just kind of something that got started around in Moorsville Senior High. And we call it Dirty Moe ever since. There you go. We have our nationwide children's hospital question of the week. And this one coming from my man, Beckett. Beckett's got a pretty cool one for you, Dale. Check it out. Hi, my name is Beckett, and I'm 11 years old.

I would like to ask Dale Jr. When was the last time you had a banana mayo sandwich? Good question. A lot of food questions. I wonder if you actually feed these questions to these kids. Why? Because is that a fat joke? No.

Is that a fat joke? How did you take that? Come on, man. Is that a fat joke? Because I said feed. I don't know. Thanks a lot. lot, man.

Are you, do you make these questions? No. These sound like your questions. If there are my questions, come on, man. You know me. There'd be hockey. There'd be short track racing and food. I swear, I swear.

Next week it'll be, if the kid will ask, if you were being launched into space, what would you take into space? If you were on a deserted island with Bartrix Jr. All right. Poor Beckett, man. This is really Beckett. It's question. No, we're not making on Beckett.

All right. Back it on you. Beckett, you're good, man. We love you. I haven't had one a long time. Oh, it's because you're on a diet. Because you're eating hummus. No, I'm not on a diet.

There's no part of that that goes. That's not true. I'm not on a diet. I would say to you, hey, I'm on a diet. But when I really think about it, I'm just counting calories. I ate biscuit for Saturday's lunch. I ate off food trucks behind the grandstands. Dang.

Was it? Yeah, it was so good. There was so many freaking food trucks. this racetrack. Las Vegas, they called these guys, their third-party vendors, like from other states.

Hey, we heard you're a badass. And, I mean, they talk about a setup. Like, big setup. Not no damn, an airstream. I got you.

You know, with a window. No. I ate barbecue Saturday and then ate Asian barbecue Sunday. So I'm not on a diet. I understood.

Beckett, I would say that I don't eat the banana and mayo anymore. And here's why. I have changed my mayonnaise sandwich to a different style. Changing it up. All right. So when I put that tweet out, like I did eat those when I was a kid.

So when Helmans is like, hey man, we want to make a strange challenge. So we want to do this program around strange sandwiches and would you do that? And I'm like, yes, we make the sandwich and it blows up on the internet. And oh boy, you know, some people are like, yeah, I ate those as a kid. But the majority of people hated it and thought we were crazy, crazy people. They needed to be locked up. I don't want to go around shouting it from the roof that I ate that sandwich when I was a kid. But I do work with Helmonds.

I do like mayonnaise, all right? And so what I've done is what I've been trying to do is push into this new direction. Another sandwich that I ate when I was younger. That's right. And it's any kind of deli meat. I prefer ham, but probably these days I'd use turkey. But ham, Doritos, and mayonnaise and pickles. So you got the crunch in there?

I like that. Everybody likes to put the crunch on there. Heck, yeah. Some people do Fritos. I was bologna in fritos, man. Right. So, yeah. I love the Doritos.

I don't like to crunch them. I like to try not to break the Dorito before I put it, you know, eat it. Talent. Yeah. So the mayonnaise. It's risky. So this is how it goes together. You put the mayonnaise down.

because Helmonds is going to say, oh, this is Dale's favorite sandwich, this is how you make it, he puts mayonnaise on both sides. That's not true. They just want you to use more mayonnaise. Put mayonnaise on one side, put the Doritos in there,

because if they do break into small pieces, they stick to the mayonnaise. Yes. All right. And then you put the meat, and then you put large pickle sliced long ways. So not your chips. No, not pickle chips.

Not chips. Not chips. Long sliced pickles. All right. and deal. Do you thin them out, though? Because I've always had a problem with the long pickle deal. If you don't thin them out, man, it's like a big old chunk of pickle.

Yeah, I don't mind it. The one thing I have to do is dry the pickle. So I take the pickle and put it on a napkin and dry it, pat it dry on both sides so the pickle doesn't soak into the bread. Yeah. Geez, you'll put a lot of thought that your sandwich making. Well, hell, yeah, we do. Let me tell you right now. If you're going to count calories, you're going to enjoy what the hell you eat.

You're going to make sure it's good. You're not going to pound so much food that it doesn't matter. No, no, I guess I'm referencing the physics and the thought into, like, the order in which the condiment goes on there. In case the chip breaks, then it is saturated into the condom it. It's called intelligence. I mean, that is... It's intelligence. That's pretty...

I wonder where that comes from. It might come from racing, like, how meticulous we are about our cars, setups, building the car, the craft and ship in the car. You know, I'm just assuming that when you build a... Yeah, when you build a... sandwich, it's like building a model. That's exactly what it's like. I'm building a race car. All right. Good question.

All right. This question is going to fall to us into our next subject. There's two questions here. Michelle T. wants to know who's spotting for you at Richmond because you're making your return this week. And Sean Craig wants to know who's going to be your crew chief at Richmond. So let's just go

right into the Richmond race, man. All right. Bum Gardner is going to be the crew chief. He's worked as my crew chief before, but it's kind of like... He's a jack-of-all-trade, sort of a utility player, does everything. Yeah. It has a leadership pro on the floor. How many times he won employee of the year? A good bit.

And you sent him to, like, Italy last year for winning employee the year. I won this trip at a charity event, and me and Amy couldn't use it, so I gave it to him. He won an employee. I'm like, well, you should go on this trip since you're such a badass employee. Yeah. Anyways, he's going to be the crew chief, and he's fun, easy going, not a high, Not a high intensity kind of guy, real low. That's cool.

Been around forever. Yeah, a lot of, very respected. And TJ's going to spot for me. Oh, yeah, it's good. I emailed Roger Pinsky myself directly to Roger. And he goes, oh, yeah, no problem. Because T.J. said, you know, you're probably going to have to go all the way to top for this one, for me to be able to come spot for you because they don't want him going to another team in spot.

So I asked Roger, and he's like, it's all good. Would it be funny if Roger Pinsky had like a net zero e-bel? This is before Roger got so big. busy winning all these races. Roger Penskeet, 03. R.3. AOL.com. I did not email Roger right after he won 500 races or the Brickyard 400.

This happened before that. Right. Okay. All right. R.P. at a. Oh, Hey, Roger. I know you're busy.

I know you're busy, man. You know. But it's all about me here. Can T.J. spot the Richmond race. You forget. Hold the celebration. Can T.J.

spot this little race. Will you pay him, but let me use him as a spotter, Roger? Yeah, that would do that. I mean, that would be the setup. Listen, T.J. ain't going to do anything before he's established how he's getting paid for first. But hey, it's a big weekend, man. You know, it's Richman. You get back behind the wheel and you test it at Hickory and, you know, is it trepidation?

Is it excitement or is it a juggle? I don't know about that trepidation because I ain't sure about the meaning of that word. I am, I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be a fun day. Trying to keep it from being a long day because we got some responsibilities, and I'm going to try to keep those at a minimum so we can just drive, car, have fun, and then we've got to broadcast the race the next day. So I'm going to try to be doing a little homework as I'm broadcasting and racing.

And so when I get in there for the race on Saturday night for the couple of guys, I know what's going on, what those guys have been doing all weekend, who's fast, who's not. Big deal. So plus Richmond, it's a short track. It's a lot of, you know, I love short track. track racing. We don't do a ton of that. It should be a great weekend.

Cars ready. I've been in and out of the car, getting the headrest and everything right. Right. Good to go. That'll be good. Dilder's going. We're sitting Dillner with the camera.

Oh, great. It's going to be documenting and everything. You'll be capturing stuff. Yeah, we're going to capture stuff and kind of put together a little. It's all going on Dirty Mo Media. Absolutely. Absolutely. Be good stuff.

Instagram. Dirtymoe Media. YouTube. Dirty Mo Media. YouTube. Twitter. YouTube. Twitter.

Yeah. Good stuff. I guess it's time for the white flag. Actually, you know what? Hold on a second. I'm throwing a curveball here. Wait, but, Beckett's throwing a curveball. You don't have to...

Yeah, I mean, Beckett is a baseball name, man. That's a bad ass baseball name. Beckett's not a baseball name, but it was the name of the baseball magazine. For the cards. Yes. I used to love that magazine. That's where it's coming from.

That's where it's coming from, yeah. I used to buy those Beckett. Oh, yeah. I subscribed to that damn thing. Circle Tracks, Stock Car, and Beckett. All right, we haven't done a did you see that in a while. Did you see, we were all on a hurricane here, and of course, you know, thoughtful for all the people on the coast affected. But it brought out a light moment of the week, man.

Did you see that guy? Man, struggling. Oh, with the flag? No, that was cool, too, but the guy's struggling to do his report. Oh, the weather guy. Then two guys walk right by. Who was it? Did you call that out on Twitter?

I retweeted someone else's tweet about it. And, uh, hey. Hey, I mean, listen, it's frustrating. It got, yeah. That got viral attention for good reason. There's no excuse. No, there's not. It actually made me mad.

Yeah, me too. And that wasn't the only one that I saw over the weekend. There was another picture of the guy in the water. You know, that was not recent. No, that was from years ago. Oh, really? That was Anderson Cooper. That was Anderson Cooper years ago.

But there was another one from even further back of the lady in a canoe. Yeah, I remember that one. Right. People literally, she's in a canoe trying to paddle, and people literally walk by ankle deep water. Yes. Right. I saw that too. It's like, come on.

We don't need to go ratchet. That was as well, that was 15 years ago, the canoe. The coverage is fun because, I mean, I was even watching local coverage where it was like some lady was like at a curb talking about a puddle. The same people that came up with those ideas were the ones that decided to put the 16 playoff drivers out in front of the pace car. They're cut up with ideas because I need to ratchet up the excitement on this. And it's like, hey, guys, there's a hurricane. You don't need to. You actually don't need to.

You don't need to act like you're falling over. Because we know that in hurricanes, the wind blows. Hard. Yeah, I mean, it was very frustrating. My tweet was very short and abbreviated because it's a sensitive situation. There's people in trouble and there's people dealing with some serious real issues. But at the same time, it's like, you can't do that to the public. You cannot mislead the public and have any credibility going forward.

You know, and this is a tough, this is a tough time where we need to be able to trust and believe what we're hearing and getting. And all the news, political, whatever, sports, everything. Dale Jr. download. Yeah. You want to know that when you're listening to something or somebody's telling you something, that it's factual and, you know, so that that was tough to see. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I'm with you on that. And I was angry.

And I think a lot of people were angry. I was too. Off of the reasons you just mentioned, I won't even have to go repeat them. I mean, because this is not the time to go basically validate everybody's points that you can't believe anything. You can't believe it. Right. I want to believe. Right.

And the media's, I want to believe. And I'm giving benefits of the doubt. Don't make me feel like an idiot. Yes. By doing it. And that, you know. Thank God, though. You mentioned the guy with the American flag.

Thank God for him because I was all. That's a hero. I was all ticked off, and then I see that video of some guy in Myrtle Beach, man, flying the American flag with, like, no shirt on. And I'm like, yes, he won the Internet. Yeah, that was good. All right, white flag. Keep talking, bud. White flag, bud.

White flag, right there, white flag. White flag. I've actually got just two. Over time. Two things. Cream white checker. Do you know who I have an appointment with tomorrow? Who?

Oh. Don't tell me. Just say it. I don't. Look at those chompers. Oh, look at those chippersers. Holy shit I finally

What? Yeah Tell me about that Here's the thing Guess when I scheduled it Huh When? When?

I don't know A month and a half ago I don't get that You have his number now You don't have to Wait that long Yeah Yeah I

This is when they got me in A month and a half later Oh you're not on that VIP deal yet All right So No no I'm not complaining Why did you tell me though

That you did this Why are you waiting a whole month To say Hey I say for the people That are big podcast The podcast fans understand this. Mike Davis has the most perfect set of chompers.

Actually, the other week I actually asked him, are they real? Seriously. And I was offended. And Dale's got his dentist and Latar on speed dial. And Mike always picks on him about it. And Dale offered up his dentist number to put him on the deal. And Mike has not taken. He wouldn't do it.

Now you're going. That's the background. Man, it's going to be awesome. Yeah. So I will let you know how it goes tomorrow with what's his name? I can't remember Dennis's the name. Jeez, you don't even know his name? I've never been.

I've still, it's, uh, Brad Hey, I got the coozy still on my desk. How do you improve on those perfect chomper? The other, Brad can make it happen. That's a question. Dale, and Dale, I, are you seeing those things? What are you doing now? I texted you this weekend.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. But we got, I texted him. He was excited about this. This was a gift, a retirement gift from our friends at Pepsi Sports Marketing. It's awesome. Listen to this gift. This is Washington Redskins season tickets.

He is now a season ticket. at Pepsi. Yeah. We know how big of Redskins fan you are. Now that you have Sundays free, well, kind of. We figure you might have the time to take in a game or two or eight. We have been waiting and waiting and waiting

for the best seats in the house to become available for you, and they finally did. On behalf of the entire PepsiCo family, we want to congratulate you on a special career. Wish you the best of luck in your retirement from racing and into your next chapter. And most importantly, thank you for being an amazing partner and ambassador to our brands and the PepsiCo.

family. Enjoy your Redskins season tickets. There you go. That's cool. I've never, I've been a Redskins fan all my life. I've never had season tickets. I've been lucky enough that the owner, Daniel Snyder, has invited me to several games and allowed me to set in the box with him. And it is a great way to see a game.

Look at that. Look at that. They don't get this. Look at it. That's cool. What is that? Like a pin or something? They got a lapel pin, a power supply, just, you know, the case.

Because, again, this isn't Dan Snyder's box, so you don't keep, probably just can't plug in your phone or anything. But this is out there. These are good seats. So listen, Adam Harder, Chauncey Hamlet, Justin Toman, and Justin Faber. Here they are. Look at that. There they are.

Thank you so much. This is a big one. This is really nice. And by the way, Lou, whoa. We got a Platinum. Platinum parking. You got parking with it, too, huh? Did they got some good home games?

There's a schedule right there. What are the home games they got this year? Anything good? Indianapolis this weekend. Eagles, that'll be a good one. The Giants. I was looking right here. Texans, Falcons.

Cowboys. Panthers. They play Panthers. Oh, when did they play Panthers? Packers on September. Yeah. So this weekend. Hey, don't let me see any of that on a pristine auction.com.

Well, good stuff. I am so thankful to Pepsi. Appreciate that. And that's a good way to end the show, right? I mean, you end up on season tickets. All right. Good show, guys. We always say, hey, I always say, I always tease these guys.

Make sure we have energy at the close of the show. I think we found a way to get them to have energy. Give them damn skin tickets. I think I could go. I can speak for Dale said, if you ever want to give Dale gifts, we'll put it on the podcast, right? I mean, like, this is the way we will start giving them. Or Davis and Dillner. Yeah, we'll take some.

We will always dedicate a portion of the podcast to receive gifts. I'm sure we miss something good, but. Whatever. It cares. We got tickets. All right. Thanks, everybody. We'll see you.

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