The Dale Jr. Download - 246 - The Earnhardt Name (feat. Jeffrey Earnhardt)

Episode Date: March 4, 2019

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is joined by nephew, NASCAR racer Jeffrey Earnhardt. 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 Dirtymo Media. Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. For the Dale Jr. download, back again. We've got a great show today. Guest Jeffrey Earnhardt on. He's going to come and talk to us about why he drives a Toyota. I got to know why. That's the greatest tease ever.

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That salt and pepper hair guy with the great teeth? What about that big guy with the funny hat? That new girl came from drag racing, right? And the main man. They show him all the time. Yeah, the one of the show's name for it. The Dale Jr. Download. Okay, so now I get.

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The smartest way to hire. All right. So here we are. I'm finally, I'm really excited about this particular part of the show, this guest. and for good reason. Jeffrey Earnhardt's on the show today. Welcome, Jeffrey. How's it going?

I appreciate y'all having me on. I can't believe he's here. I can. No, I think that he's the hardest person to get in touch with, and you would think, people would think he's the easiest for us, but it's not. I'm asking you my friends, I'll tell you the same. All right.

I'm horrible with cell phones. Well, you're good. There's times when we have a good dialogue on the phone, and then there's times when I can't get a hold of you. I just assume because you're traveling so much, man. because you are all over the place. I've been staying pretty busy. I mean, everywhere I look, you're somewhere hunting or somewhere traveling.

I imagine some of it's in connection with a lot of partners that you have. So what is that all about? Yeah, so, you know, with my new sponsor Extreme Concept, IK9, man, the owner of Landon and Ash is a traveling man. I don't even know if he sleeps, honestly. But, man, we're just going everywhere we can, doing all kind of hunts. Got to go down to Mexico, do a big mule deer. hunt down there. That was a lot of fun. So they're, so extreme concepts, they're hunting.

They're based around outdoors and no, they're more of a, they do a lot of government work. So they do military training, law enforcement training, and then the I canine side, they train military dogs, police force dogs, bomb sniffing dogs, TSA dogs. How did you create that relationship? Well, it all kind of started last year at Charlotte. They came on as an associate sponsor. sponsor and they were brought in through another sponsor we had on the car and the guy took a real liking to me. We had a gold star family on the car and had the wife and two kids at the track hanging out and just, you know, show them a good time. And, you know, I spent most of the time playing with the kids and that meant the world to him. You know, he was very appreciative of our military and thought that, you know, just seeing my interaction with those kids rather than paying attention to the people that were sponsoring the car, spending the money when.

obviously sponsors was something I was looking for. At the time, you know, those kids meant more to me. So that meant a lot to him. And he said, you were playing with his kids? No, no, no, no, the Gold Star family's kids. The Gold Star family, I got you. I mean, you had these drivers going, wait a sudden. I haven't done this in my sponsor relationship building yet.

I mean, you're talking about their families. That's good. Awesome. So it was cool how it all came together. It came together. I mean, we're talking the Charlotte race last year. I guess there's spring race. But from then to now, it's like, I mean, we're,

basically family and he's a he's a great guy and giving me the the opportunity of a lifetime they seem to be getting more and more involved and not only partnering with you but supporting you know some of the k-and-n races and some other some other folks throughout the throughout different levels of the sport so it seems like he's he's a big fan of motorsports in general oh yeah he uh he likes to he likes to go fast he he enjoys the atmosphere and just uh he sees it as a good opportunity to brand his company and and and and give you know young people i'm not i'm not that young but But young people that are coming up to the sport and opportunity. Does he like to hunt?

He does. All right. So now we know. Now we know. Everywhere on his Instagram, he's hunting somewhere. I know. Everywhere. All right.

So I've always wanted to ask someone else this question that I get all the time. So what's it like carrying their own heart name? Oh, man, it's, I mean, I'm not telling you anything. I want to hear him. I know. Tell me on him. Tell me. It's, I mean, it's awesome, you know, what Paul O'Dell is built.

And then, you know, you and Daddy and, um, the whole family's continue to do to carry on that legacy, you know, that's what means the most to me and seeing how much it means to other people, you know, it's, it's incredible. You see fans, I mean, hell is the past weekend. I was just hanging out at the track, but I ran to the lady that I ran to last year, and she just bawled like crazy whenever I walked up and hugged her, and she did the same thing this weekend. So, you know, that speaks volumes and just broke down crime? Oh, big time. And, uh, You know, that's cool to see, and that, that to me is what makes our last name so special

and knowing what it means to other people. I mean, it's kind of mind-blowing, really. Yeah, has it ever been a challenge? They've ever been hard to, you know. Yeah, for real. I mean, obviously, you know, expectations are high, and people automatically assume just because of your last name of your win races. And unfortunately, wins don't come that easy, but, you know, it's, I feel like, you know,

because you grow up in it, you kind of understand how to channel that pressure and not let it sit on your shoulders. And I feel like I've been able to handle that pretty well and know that, you know, I'm cutting my own past. I'm not you. I'm not Pop-Odellell. Has anyone ever used that line that we hear you just are where you are because of Earnhardt? Regardless of any type of success, you know, hunting, whatever. Oh, you're just an Earnhardt. That's how you got that opportunity? Every day. Every day?

I mean, you hear it all the time, you know, and it's haters. but at the end of the day, that don't matter. Do you respond to it? Not really. I mean, you know, it is what it is. You know, people are going to say what they won't, but until they know the real story, it's, you know, it's just what their thoughts are.

Did that ever bother you? Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, you hear it all the time. Even after I retired, I still hear that I rode my dad's coat tails all the way through my career. It's frustrating because, you know, just like Jeffrey, he's had to work and and there's times when he's had to sacrifice and you know do things differently than maybe his dad would have done or or Pap Aldell would have done.

I just got used to saying Pap Aldell. It rolled off the tongue. You're pretty good. We have this picture in the house and that's what I'll have. That's what we tell Ila. Gotcha. So, yeah, I'm getting more used to saying that. But it can be frustrating, but yeah, you just got to remember.

And I don't know that Jeffrey does this. because we get a lot of practice that you just think about what you're doing. Think about what you're in control of and remind yourself of what you've done to be where you are, and that makes you proud and happy. But I've talked about the social media

seeing you everywhere. It seems like, and this is a bit of a bigger, you know, there's a bigger question here, but it seems like you're doing more to show what you're up to, show people what you're about, and engage fans promoting your brand. I don't know if that's intentional or not,

but it just seems like, I mean, I've seen you change so much over the last decade or two ever since, you know, you're a little boy. But over the last couple of years, you've really taken a hold of promoting yourself and activating. And I just want to know, you've got great people around you.

I don't even know who they are. But can you talk about that a little bit and explain to us the transition there? Yeah, I mean, obviously, y'all know. I'm terrible with myself. on them terrible with social media. That's why we're asking. This doesn't make sense.

It doesn't make sense, right? So obviously, over the years, the sports transition a lot and, you know, finding sponsors transition a lot. You know, it's not just asking them to, you know, come sponsor you. It's, you know, they want to know how you are on social media, how many followers you got. Those are important things because obviously that's going to reach more people for them. So that being said, I realize I better jump on the bandwagoner.

I'm going to get kicked off. And, you know, just started working really hard on trying to be better on social media and post better content. And my sponsors, especially this year with ICNine Extreme Concepts, they've really helped me a lot and just being able to get more content when I'm out doing stuff. Because I'd be out doing stuff and I just wouldn't be taking pictures, you know. So now it's like they're, you know, send someone with me filming, you know, catching little clips and edit up a video real quick to throw up on social media. I mean, we put a video up at like midnight Vegas time. So it was like 3 o'clock in the morning here. But when we're out in Vegas, just like little, I mean, it took like 30 minutes, quick little video, edited up, throw it on social media.

And it got a huge reach. I mean, all people talked about the next day is the boxing ring that was at our Airbnb. So, you know, those are all things that as us as drivers these days or someone that's looking for sponsors has to, you have to, you have. have to continue to push and activate on because, you know, you're not just, or not just sponsors, but even the fans. I mean, it builds your fan base too, which then is a better return for sponsors. Was that a self-observation or did somebody have to come to you, say, Jeffrey? We've got to work on you a little bit here.

We got to explain to present. Who are the folks that you're working with? So, well, within extreme concepts, I got a guy Ford Brown. He does a lot. I mean, he does a lot for the company, but he also is an incredible guy when it comes to, doing social media and putting videos together and making content but he's also really good at making me come out of my show because i'm a quieter guy i'm not real just outgoing and and he's been able to pull a lot of that out of me and you know these are people involved with your partner your

partner's extreme sponsorship that's pretty cool yeah yeah yeah and it's cool because that's you know it shows that they're wanting to build my brand as well so what you're doing is working i don't know if you know this but um in february you gained 20 000 followers alone that's more than anyone else in NASCAR. That's pretty good. Now, would that have been because of his Daytona fish? Primarily? I would say so. Yeah. That has something to do with it for sure, but he's definitely doing a great job. Yeah. I think, though, that you've got to give him content to want to consume while

they're following you and you're doing a heck of a job. Whoever, you know, you and the people you're working with, whatever you're doing is working. I have a lot of fun with it because it's a great way to keep up with you because you're so busy. We don't get the bowfish. I don't know. We got to get back out there. But y'all did that, didn't you? Well, we tried. Oh, I try. I want to hear this. Well, I mean, Jeffrey was like, man, come on.

You'd come out and try this. And Kerry was going to go. And I'm like, yes. And my wife said, go. Damn, it's your brother and your nephew. You don't never get to spend time with them. And I was like, all right. So what's fun about it is it's in the middle of the night.

And you're out there spotlighting, which is kind of fun. It feels bad. It feels like you're breaking the law. And you drink beer. Yeah. And you bow fish with these, I mean, I just, you know, I love bow hunting in general. So, I don't know. And plus just hanging out with them.

We had a lot of fun. We got in some shallow water and knocked the prop off the motor. Yeah. Thought we were done early. That he thought he could fix it. Yeah. And we worked on that for a while. That was fun to watch Kerry try to fix that.

Then we ended up getting what we got another smaller motor. Yeah, another fellow motor. Yeah. We borrowed that. Didn't we borrow that? Yeah. From Brad Burroughs. Yeah.

Yeah. Braddroll them. Yeah. Brad Burroughs is somebody that works on the property. It was like a little Fisher Price. Yeah. So here you are in a boat in midnight with a Fisherpriced troller motor drinking beer. Got it.

Nothing could go wrong here. And with bow fishing, there's no sight. And it's basically just sort of, you know, muscle memory. Yeah. Right? Yeah, it's instinct more than anything. And I'm way off, you know, so, and we're not seeing, you know, You don't have enough opportunities really to get to where you understand how you need to be shooting.

But I did understand that you got to aim pretty low. Yeah. Yeah, you didn't really low. Right. And because once you see a fish, you've got to shoot. And he was usually quick on the draw. And he was like, I'm shooting because it's going to, opportunities here and it's gone. And so I got very, very minimal opportunity to shoot, which is fine, because I was going to miss anyways.

The trick is to find, like, an old trash beer can that's, like, sunk in the bottom and then just set practice shooting at that. Tell me that. We should have tried that. That's what you get when you let daddy drive the boat. It's a lot of fun, though. And I don't know. We don't, like, we don't get opportunities to really spend time together because he's busy.

I'm busy. But, you know, we're hardly doing. That's what's so good about this podcast. It brings families together. We're hardly everything. That's like a hallmark moment. There you go. Some fan was like, telling me advice to give you advice on you.

your beard. Oh, yeah. Awkward. I said the next time I talked to him, we'll be talking about bo fishing. And I was right. Yeah. What was the beard advice, though?

Save it. Well, no, everybody thinks like, you got to cut it, you got to trim it, you got to do, everybody has an opinion. Grow it longer. You know,

there's a million different opinions out there. I think that the beard now, now that I'm listening to Jeffrey through this headset, like his voice needs that beard. I go together well. Absolutely. Good combo.

Yes. Listen, if all this racing and fighting thing you do doesn't work out, you could absolutely do commercials for monster truck rallies. Yes. You could. Listen to him. I grew a beer and I kind of liked it, so I just kept it. Yeah, I do.

Keep the beard. So, MMA. Yeah. I've never had a chance to talk to you about your MMA career. It was one fight. One fight. How does one decide that they're going to just have one MMA fight? What life event happened?

to make you want to do that. Curious? Did you have some pints up frustration? Like Uncle Waltz-spent time with me! No, it was, you know, I wrestled in high school, and I really liked the discipline aspect of that. And I was only running a partial schedule that year, so I had a lot of free time on my hands,

and I didn't want to get out of shape, just sitting around doing nothing. So my buddy's like, man, you need, just come to this gym, come to this gym, you know, come around, do jujitsu and I was like man I'm not going to get my butt kicked like you know I don't I don't want to come home crying you know so he's like it's not like that it's not like that and I blew it off for I blew it off a lot like he he begged me to go and I wish I'd done it

sooner but um finally I was like all right screw it I'll go down there and I went down to the gym down in Charlotte and uh rolled around a little bit and the coach come up he's like man he's like you know like with your wrestling background you give me like two months and we could put you with a guy of about the same skill level and and you'd have a good chance of winning a fight. So I was like, man, I'm not a fighter. I've never gotten fights in school, none of that. So I was like, I was like, I don't know.

I was like, let me roll around the rest of the day. So roll around the rest of the day. And I thought about it. And I was like, man, it would be a good opportunity for me to do something different, probably get a lot of exposure and just kind of step out of my box a little bit. And I said, screw it, I'll do it. And it was probably one of the best things I did for me personally to learn how hard I was willing to work at something I had no clue about and be successful at it. So obviously you don't want to

go in the cage and get your butt kick. It's not going to feel good. So it would be news if an yeah, it would. Yeah. So I obviously didn't want to lose and I trained really, really hard and I was miserable every single day. I'm not going to lie, it sucked. But I knew if I didn't train, I was going to get my buck kick. And I had people behind me that continue to pound it in my head that, man, you're going to beat this guy. You're going to beat this guy. This guy don't understand a chance. So not only did I learn that I'm willing to work really, really hard, but I also learned that mentally you can be prepared to take on the world if you put yourself in the right mindset.

So I feel like it's a lot of it's got me to where I'm at today, honestly, even on the racing side, because, you know, you learn how hard you want to work. When was that? That was a while. It's been a while, yeah. 2012? 2012, I believe, yeah. Would you ever go back?

I mean, did you have enough fun to where you went, hmm, Man, that was fun. I did. I did. Or did you get out of there and go, I don't want everyone to do that. No. No, I mean, I loved it.

And I even flirted around with doing another fight, and they asked me to. And I was just so busy that it doesn't make sense. If I'm going to do it, and I get my butt kicked, I want to know that I did everything I possibly could to make sure I didn't get my butt kick. And it's just, I mean, it's time consuming.

And obviously, the racing lifestyle is very time consuming as well. So it would have been really hard to balance both of them. So at no time during your MMA training, and fighting, did you think that this was my new career path? I mean, it sounds like you were not giving up the racing part of it. No, racing was that. I wasn't giving up on racing. That was my main thing.

This was just kind of something to stick in there, you know, to try and get that rush for one, but to also keep me busy when I wasn't racing. So you talked about your, how you cultivated and built this great partnership with ICNine and extreme concepts. Fans all the time, particularly ever since Daytona, are asking me, why don't you drive for junior motor sports? So I would, I think the best way to counter that is to explain to us and the people listening how you developed your relationship with Toyota. Yeah, so, I mean, a lot of it started last year, and Roma-Ga-Ga-Brother's had an opportunity to get behind the wheel of Toyota.

And, you know, over the years, you know, I've tried getting. help here, try getting help there from manufacturers. I'm not knocking them, but, you know, I asked for help, whether it was Simtime or whatever, and never would get it. And so I get this opportunity with Gaunt Brothers driver Toyota, and they were like, all right, well, let's see if we can get you some Simtime. And obviously, I was like, probably not going to happen, you know, because it never worked in the past.

And they gave me Sim Time, and then they started giving me notes and advice and all kind of stuff to help develop myself as a driver. So to me, that meant a lot, you know. That's coming from Toyota. That's coming from Toyota. Is this about two or three years ago? No, it was last year. Last year.

Yeah. Okay, so this just happened last year. Last year. Okay. And just the openness of them to give me the opportunity to develop myself and make myself a better driver meant a lot to me. And then whenever we were tossing around ideas, hey, what do we want to do next year? We want to be in a good ride. We want to, you know, have the chance to go win races.

Obviously, the couple opportunities just weren't there. And I said, all right. I was like, what better place than, you know, Gibbs? You got the Toyota relationship, and you look at what Christopher Bell did last year, and it was pretty impressive. So we went to Gibbs, talked to them, and, you know, they said, well, we got nine races available in the 18 car if some of y'all are interested in. And then they also had the opportunity to sponsor Colin some races and even Brandon Jones.

So we set back and I was like, man, this is probably our best opportunity if we want to go win races. And stay in the Toyota camp and, you know, show. appreciation to what they've done to me already. And so that's kind of how it all came together. And, man, it's just incredible what they have available for drivers, you know, through TRD, through Toyota. Man, to me, it's impressive and has been a huge help in developing myself as a driver. Yeah, so that loyalty that they showed to you, you want to repay.

You talked about Simtime and tools, notes. How much of a difference does that stuff make for someone, knowing that what it was like to try to compete without it to now you have it how much is that helping that's tremendous you know it's like before like agon brothers we go to the simulator but we weren't working on our cars because we didn't have all the data and stuff all the you know cars measure and all that to be able to simulate you know setups and changes and how they would react to our cars so this year it's like we're actually working towards what our car is going to handle like when it comes race day and you know obviously Daytona is kind of it is what it is you know you don't really practice sim time at

Daytona. But when it came to Atlanta, like that's that's something I wanted to make sure we we ran good there. And then as it got closer, it looked like with the forecast, we weren't going to get no practice. So I was like, man, I want more sim time. I was begging for sim time. And luckily the cup guys allowed me to get another hour in Thursday morning before we left. So, you know, being able to do that and work on your actual car and knowing what it's going to do when you unloaded off the trailer is just even more confidence booster for me as a driver when you get behind the wheel or you know go out there and bust the lap off you know first lap out you know it's it's it's incredible you know you bring up Atlanta I mean that was the one where

like Dale Jr was even texting us during the race like look at Jeffrey go I mean and now I'm hearing you talk about how the sim translated or the information you get from the sim translated over to what was a top 10 finish a legit top 10 finish at Atlanta yeah we should have better had to feel oh really so you're more dis are you more disappointed and man I'm I'm happy I uh I'm excited, but you know, you always want to be better. If I won the race, I'd want to do something different, you know? So it's just competitive in a sentence. You know, it's like you win by a second.

Damn, should have won by two seconds, you know. Oh, yeah. You got to always, you know, shoot to be better. But, man, it's to come off and have two races out of the gate like we had, I mean, I don't know what more you could ask for. When's your next race? Texas. So with Texas coming up and the success that you've had,

just a short period of time you've been at it, Fans want to note, is this going to present more opportunities for you? Are you going to have more opportunities to race if you continue to have these type of runs? We're working on it. We're trying to get more opportunities. So Texas won't be in the 18 car. It's going to be in the number 81 car. It's extreme concepts.

They're actually starting their own team. Wow, really? Yeah. Who will be the crew chief? Dave Rogers. Okay, okay. So we're going to have an alliance with Gibbs, so we're going to have a lot of help from them guys. and Dave Rogers is on crew chief it, which is very exciting.

He's been really cool to work with around the shop, and it's going to be cool to see him in the crew chief position now because I've heard incredible things. Right. I mean, did you guys not announce that it was like a nine-race deal, and if so, is this one of those nine races? It is not. This is separate.

Okay. So I got the nine races with Gibbs in the 18. I got five in the 81 with Extreme Concept Racing, and then two cup races at Talladega and the 81 cup car, which will also be fielded by Extreme Concept Racing, as well with a Joe Givdolans. Oh, wow. It's exciting stuff, man.

Palatega. It just continues. I know, right? It continues. Well, that's where our extreme concepts is based out of. They're based out of Birmingham, Anniston. Their facilities in Anniston, their headquarters is in Birmingham. But, you know, to go down there, we'll be running the Xfinity race in the 18th car at Talladega

and then the cup car for Extreme Concepts racing. So it's a good way to. show out at their home track, I guess. That's pretty incredible. I didn't really understand exactly what the season looked like for you, and it's great to hear that if you continue running well, we're going to see you even more. Do you know what the terms of the deal are,

the terms of the deal is for you as going on in the future? Is this a multi-year deal? So the plans are to be full season next year in the Cup Series with Extreme Concept Racing. Really? That's the goal. You know, obviously, you know, a lot of that, determines on sponsorship and how we're able to place things because, you know,

obviously the more sponsorship, the easier it is on them, you know, so that's, but that's the tentative goal for us right now. So we learned a lot about what you're doing now, what you've been doing over the last couple of years. How did you get started in racing? Like, what was the first thing you ever drove? My first race car was the Ugo. What?

Was that in a... As everyone's in, right? That's the first. So where Renee's my step-monds from in Virginia, right? Roe Retrieve, Virginia. They're just big half-mile dirt track, high bank, freaking badass place to race with Raceway. They started this series where you could be, I think, 12 to 18 in race.

And I was 12 years old, and whenever they announced they were going to do the series. And I was like, man, this is great. I want to go race. And I begged Daddy for two years to let me go race. He's like, no, no, no. Finally, he said, all right, you go get sponsors in a car, and I'll let you race. and there was family friends that had companies up there, Mark 4, Honda and Suzuki, Tam Topin, the owner. He had a car sitting there for sale.

It was a Ugo. Had a roll cage in it. Oh. Just needed a seat and seat belts and, you know, good to go race. So he agreed. He said, all right, you know, I got the car and I'll help fund it. And, you know, we need some more sponsors. So, you know, see what else you can find.

And I went to another. And maybe a couple counts of horsepower. Yeah. We weren't worried about horsepower at the time. I'm just worried about getting on the track. But went to another friend, Jim Hilton, owned Cedar Springs Fish Farm, Cedar Springs Lodge right there in Speedwell, Virginia,

has, you know, spent many summers up there, you know, staying at his house, getting up in the mornings, going in stocking the creeks with trout and hanging out on his farm. He had a big 500-acre farm. So I went to him, I was like, man, like, you'd be interested in doing something like this. And he's like, shoot you, yeah. You know, he'd already sponsored some other cars up at the dirt track. So I went to Daddy.

I was like, all right, I got two good sponsors and a race car. And he's like, well, like, all right, I guess you can go race, you know. So me and Renee's dad, Richard, went hard at it, getting the car ready. I think we picked the car up on Tuesday and had it ready to race on Saturday. So that's kind of how it all started. And from there, you know, work way up through the different series on dirt, you know, to street stocks, late models. Yeah. I did like three years on dirt and then went to asphalt late models, limited late models,

at Motor Maw Speedway. And then, you know, after a year there, signed the deal with DEI to do K&N and did two years there and had that opportunity and kind of DeI did what it did. And, you know, then I was kind of stuck trying to figure out what my next plan was. And, you know, it was a lot of hard work, but ended up getting back in racing in a truck

and worked my way up through trucks, Xfinity, and ran some cup races. and now here we are. You ran overseas a couple years ago. I did. I did. In the NASCAR Euro Series. That was pretty wild.

That was cool. What was that like? It was different. That was a Brands Hatch. Which is one of my sort of bucket list racetracks I'd love to run a lap at. It's awesome. It's really cool place. Obviously, you know, the NASCAR Euro Series, it's similar to like the Pentee series up in Canada.

The cars are, you know, basically a stock car chassis. but really cool to get the opportunity to go over there and race against some guys that are just excellent road course racers I didn't have that great of a finish I think we ended up finishing seventh but that's not too bad nah I guess I guess going against a bunch of professional road racers they brand many many laps at that racetrack too it was pretty cool though yeah cool through that whole trajectory was there anything you wish you would have done differently on the euro thing or not the euro I'm talking back to that starting with the hugo series All the way through.

The one thing I wish I'd have done different was appreciated what I had more when I was at D.I. Yeah. You know, and I was young, I wasn't, I was stupid, you know, I didn't understand what I had. And, you know, I thought the streets were paved with gold, man. I was like, man, it's a walk in the park. And when DIA, I fell apart, I realized it wasn't. And I probably, I wish I had done things different, but at the same time, you know, I feel like that also made me understand, you know, hard work and how these opportunities don't come easy.

And, you know, I've not had the best opportunities in the past, but I've appreciated every one of them because it's not easy to get a ride out there. Yeah, I agree. I think that I'm glad to hear you say that. And I think that from everything you've been through, you couldn't be any better position personally to succeed because you do, going through all those trials and tribulations and to see how hard you work today. And I think all the Earnhardt fans out there have to appreciate you doing it your way. Well, I'm surprised. I was a little disappointed we didn't have Jeffrey on it, but we put up a poll on our Twitter handle at Dirty Mo Media.

If we hold a tag team wrestling match, who are you picking as your partner? And these are fans picking between these four people. Matt, D. Benedetto, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, who is a wrestler as well in high school, I believe, and NASCAR chasm. He's ripped. Ascarcasm did not lose.

didn't finish last. No, he didn't finish last. He finished last. Let's hear the poll result. Kurt Bush was 11% and NASCAR Kaz Kasm at 16. He'll be extremely proud of that. Kurt Bush was 11, NASCAR Kazm 16. Kevin Harvick, 30% Matt finished with 43.

Wow. I'd have taken Harvick all day. I would have too. Because I don't think Matt wrestled in school. No. And Harvick was, so Harvick, if I'm not mistaken, he won sectionals. in California, which is like winning state, you know, at any other, anywhere else. I just don't think he's that tough.

What? I don't, I'm one of you people. You got to be scrappy, though, wrestling, right? Yeah. It's not like, like, deep and adddo. Like, he's like buff. That's got big arms. That's it.

That's a bit of big arms. I would have picked BJ McLeod personally. You walk into a bar. You're not messing with BJ McLeod. Yeah. Just BJ's look makes you not want to mess with him. Did you win State? No, I didn't.

I didn't. I didn't. But Moreswell was one state, I think, the past two years. They've done really good. He wrestled for Moresville? Yeah. I didn't even know you went to Moresville. Yeah. Like, we went to the same school. I know. Yeah, they used to have your picture in the big, like, trophy cabinet when you played soccer. Oh, crap. Wait, wait, wait, he didn't even start. He didn't even start. He was in the picture. I was in the picture. The team picture. The team picture. Oh, I thought you'd see this picture of Dale Jr.

Coach said if he had 12 more of me, it'd be a great team. he's building you up team with a lot of heart no tell you who would you want as your tag team partner probably probably harvick yeah because I know is wrestling background

I don't know any other harvick would have been my pick yeah I wrestle Matt in the sumo the sumo outfits at Martinsville yeah well then you got it didn't fare too well for him he's top heavy man he's got all that big arms big arms

you wrestled him at Martin'sville in sumo suits it's funny and sumo suits gotcha Boy, those track promoters, man. They'll pull out anything, won't they? Well, that's interesting. Well, the idea there, by the way, was that Jeffrey was the one person on the tag team

and, you know, who would he want? So that's why Jeffrey isn't in the poll. Oh, really? Yes. And we did have people say that they would pick Jeffrey. Yeah. Very cool. Have you, does anybody call, do you have a nickname?

I don't. You don't have a nickname? How do you not have a nickname? I don't know. I just never, I had one like a while, like back when I ran lay models. They called me Slicky because I'd always like, I'd always like overdrive the corner and end up spinning out getting in the corner. Luckily, we wouldn't tear stuff up when I'd do it. Maybe you could just be simply the beard.

The beard. The beard. The beard. I got one. I want to propose one. Oh, boy. Well, you had Dale Earnhardt was Ironhead. You were hammerhead.

Broadhead. Broadhead. Broadhead. Oh, Beau, Huntington. Oh, Jeffrey Broadhead Earnhardt. Come on. Huh? No?

I'm putting it out there. You know what? I've never had a nickname. The fans will determine if Broadhead is going to stick or not. Yeah. I'm proposing Broadhead. I feel like I need a nickname because everyone always is. What you do?

I have beard envy, so I'm going with the beard. You can do something about the bearded name. I can't. I can't go in the booth with that. Why not? They don't let me get away with that. It would resurrect NASCAR back to the very top if you went in there looking like that. I think you should grow down.

I think so. I can try. I just don't want to, my boss is rushing me to the bathroom to get it cut. As long as you keep it neat, you get rid of that. That's the thing. Like, it can't keep it. It's hard to keep it. Like, it's hard to keep it neat once it gets that long.

Yeah. If people have different opinions about what need is. It just kind of does what it is. Like Jeffrey would say right now, his is neat. Yeah. While many people would not call that neat. I brushed it this morning, so it's neat. Did you?

Probably put conditioner in there and all that crap. Yeah, the maestro's, I, I used the maestros. You used the me. You used the meisteros? Yeah. That was another thing people want to know has got any awesome beard tips.

Yeah. Some mystroes. Yeah. The hardest part about growing the beer was getting past the itchy phase. Like once you get past the itchiness, then it's smooth. I don't even have that anymore.

It's just grown out. Once it turns gray, maybe it stops itching. I don't know. But you use Maestro's. I use Maestro. Yeah. Their stuff's pretty good.

I like it. I like the beer butter. I don't like oil. I use the wash too in the shower. Yeah. Wash it. I don't know why that's different than shaming. shampoo, but yeah, it works.

You know what's interesting about you guys and your family, and correct me if I'm wrong, everyone looks the same, and they all look like Dale Earnhardt. I mean, and now listen, hold up. I've got grandfathers. I look nothing like them, nothing, right? But look at, even starting at Ralph Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt, Carrie, you, Bobby Dale, even Bobby Dale's kid looks like Dale Earnhardt

you put a mustache on him I swear that little kid am I wrong Do you see this? I see it I don't I took Adam her mom I think I don't I don't have much of Dad's physical traits And Kelly does Kelly and Kelly looks a lot like dad If you see a picture of dad when he was younger

Before he grew his mustache it looks a lot like Kelly Carrie and dad It's freaky It is Like the way they walk and talk and manner and all that. And I think Jeffrey and Bobby both took after Kerry, which is similar to dad. Yeah.

Yeah, I think, like, on the album that you share, like, someone posted a picture. It was probably you, but Paul Ordell back in, like, way back in the day. And I was, like, oh, there's steady. And I was like, oh, dang. It's not daddy. It's not daddy. It is freaky. It is freaky.

Well, man, appreciate you coming. Yeah, absolutely. We fans are so happy that you, you know, you agree to come on the show, and they're going love to hear this. So thank you. Thank you. And look forward to seeing you race at Texas. It's going to be an interesting year for you. You're building a new team as well as driving for Gibbs. It's going to be awesome to watch that all sort of develop. And we're hoping for the best and hoping to see you full time next year. But until then, man, let's go bo fishing. Yeah, we need to. It's about that time.

It's about it has a season? It doesn't have a season, but it's got a certain time period where it's good. I got a lot of time off. I'm not nowhere near as busy as you are. So you let me know. We don't have to take carry. We'll have to make it happen. We can take him. We can take it. They bring a better motor. We need somebody to pick on. We need somebody to fix the motor. Motorboat.

Motorboat. Oh, Jeffrey Motorboat. All right, man. Take it easy. Thank you. Well, we had a race this weekend at Vegas with the full package. You know, we talked about it. Didn't have the full package at Atlanta, but this was the full package. And I thought it was a pretty good race. Anybody else watch a race? I watched it a little bit. Yeah.

I thought it was entertaining. It wasn't anything like we, I think anybody expected. Everybody assumed there was going to be big packs, and I did too. I didn't know what to expect, but they got strung out a little bit. Handling was a very key, critical part of it. I didn't think that a lot of people assume handling would be that important, but Jeff Burton was telling the rest of us in the booth on our text message that everyone he'd talked to said handling was going to be very critical, and it was.

I was pretty impressed with some of the comments the drivers had after the race. Martin Trex Jr. gets out and says, yeah, it's challenging. He says, I think everyone will tell you it's more challenging than I think we ever thought it would be. He said he had a top five cars at times, but in the last run, just way too tight. So balance and handling is still a premium.

Ligano, the winner. It's intense. I'm exhausted. That's surprising because there were no cautions. I think that's why, you know, like if there was more cautions, those restarts that we did have are incredible. Oh, they were fun. Kyle Busch had a lot to say after the race,

but said it was physically challenging, the more load on the drivers in the corners because they're going faster through the corners. He was very sunny after the race. Yeah. Denny Hamlin, I think, said it best. It'll be great at some places. It won to others. And I think that's what we see pretty much every year.

Yeah. Great races sometimes. Sometimes not so much. So how would you grade this race then? I think it was a good race. And for Vegas, compared to last year, it was a much better race. It's not important, I think, to grade this particular race.

It's more about grading what the season looks like. Let's get down the road, get more of a sample size before we go off the rails here. That's right. And, you know, just kind of keep calm and enjoy what we have. With that said, I think it goes back to we need to make – I'd like to continue to focus on the schedule having that. That's changing. That's coming down the pipe.

less 1.5 mile race events, more short tracks, maybe even a few more road courses, and then that will be a nice change. We also have a couple other things on the horizon that are critical to remember when we're starting to get very critical of these events. We've got a new car coming, a Gen 7 car. We may have a different tire, style of tire, different model of tire. We will have a new engine. And so there's a lot of things that are coming down to pipes.

So let's not get too in over our heads about what we want now because even more change is coming. You're asking a lot, by the way. I know. This day and age, people not. Be patient and wait for everything to roll out. I hate to ask for common sense. No. You're asking for a lot.

Yeah. I think everybody should just kind of hold up a second and be patient and wait. Let's see what a few more races looks like under the belt of this new package. and from what I saw, from what I saw this past weekend, I was pretty, I was pretty happy with it. I would have enjoyed calling that race. Did you hear Jeff Gordon say slide job? I heard a few of them.

And I heard fans are a little critical of the broadcast using slide job. Well, they're not sliding. Well, that's not true. A car is worse. They were sliding. They were sliding. Yes, they were. People think the cars are just locked into the racetrack and glued to the track

without any balance issues whatsoever, whatsoever, but that's not entirely true. Fly job was legitimized for me when Brad Kislauski used it in his post-race interview. So he used the word slide job to describe the slide jobs that the broadcast was describing. And when a driver jumps out and says, yeah, those slide jobs are cool, that legitimizes it for me. If Brad would have made that pass at the end, that would have been the ultimate slide job. I mean, as he went low, as he went low, last corner, last corner. I was scared it was going to be like a Carl Edwards thing because he threw it in there pretty deep.

I couldn't believe how much ground he made up on the 22 car. I know, right? Joey gets out and says, man, I was plowing tight coming off of turn four, just about hit the fence. You could see the movement in the race cars coming off a turn four against the wall. That was too close for comfort for me if I'm Joe Legano. Or Penske. You had Harvick back there who seemed better, seem faster. And then you had 18, Kyle Bush coming back from a speeding penalty on pit road,

who was even faster, you had that drama of them trying to close the gap on the Penske cars. And, man, if we only had 10 more laps, 20 more laps, what would that race if it would look like? And that's what you want when you're a fan watching is, I want 10 more laps. Yeah. Instead of, man, I'm glad it's over. A lot of great racing, K&N, dirt race, world outlaws, all that going on over to the dirt track Thursday night, was it? Yeah, Haley Deegan, scoring a big win over there. That was made a lot of headlines.

It's truck racing. Expinity racing on Saturday. You had a full weekend. So I'd say it was a pretty successful weekend. Next up is our live-ass junior segment presented by Nationwide. Before that, though, Mike, we got a new partner. Oh, let's hear. I love new partners.

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Oh, absolutely not. I used to, I mean, obviously, they weren't around, right? I can't even do it. It's weird. Well, there's a difference in between, like, once you've been given the presentation by your dentist about the difference between manual toothbrushes and then electric, I mean, you can't go back to the manual stuff. I still old school, so I should be going on to steal.

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Follow all our social media handles, dirty moe media. Let's get to it. Let's get some questions. All right. Our first question coming in from Michael at Hillbilly Minor. He wants to know, what was your thing? favorite way to kill time during rain delays or downtime at the race track? Oh man, that's a great question. Every driver hates rain delays. Once the race has started, you're kind of ready to keep going. You

don't want to stop. I don't know. Maybe you got some plans later that night or whatever and you're just ready to get, you know, you have your life so structured by the minute of when you're going to practice, when you're going to qualify, when you're going to race, and you hate that to kind of be broken up. So most every driver I know hates a rain delay. Typically, you're going to sit in your motor home or whatever, wherever you're at, driver's lounge in the hauler and get on your phone and be on Twitter or whatever. Spend time with your kids. It was always very boring and you spend the entire time really just looking at the radar and wondering, okay, when's this going to end? Okay, how long is NASCAR going to take to drive the track once that's over once the rain stopped?

You're listening to NASCAR scanners talk about that too, how long they think they're, you know, going to need to drive the track once it's done. It's basically just a bunch of annoying mess. So, yeah. Rain delays. An annoying, boring mess. It's awful. Rain delays are terrible.

All right, Alex. Alex Pipe wants to know, if you had to do over at a race where maybe you messed up on a restart or a corner, felt like you let a win get away, which one would it be? Oh, man, there's lots of those. Yeah, there's so many races that I'd love to have a chance to do over. I think that losing at Martinsville, Harvick passed me with like five to go, ten to go, or something like that. I took off and got the lead and really, really burnt my car up and I probably could have taken a little better care of the rear tires. And I also didn't adjust my brakes enough. I got

looser and looser getting into the corner and I didn't adjust my brakes enough to try to, I could probably fix that pretty easily with the brake lever. And I didn't do that. And Harvard ran me down and got by me. And I love another shot at that. But I mean, you think about that every time you lose the race. Anytime you get past late in the race or run second or third or, you know, always think about what you could have done differently and there's so many, there's hundreds of races like that in my career. I'm thinking about a bunch of race. No, I mean, I can think of a bunch of races that I just know that probably kind of eats at you. Do you want me to tell you? Sure. I've just always wanted to ask you this. What about that race at Charlotte when you wrecked Michael Waltrip on the front

scratch? Did that make you feel awful? Hell yes. Man, I remember, you know what I remember about that. I remember Tony Uri making such a big scene to the media, and that was in a very sensitive time for us all. I remember you after the race pulling in, and I never did this to you, but I did this day. I said, hey, get to the hauler real quick so I can tell you what, what you're saying to the media, why you've been racing. Yeah. That's one thing about it. I mean, Tony Sr. never held back. Tony Jr. either. The one thing that I remember about that race is when I wrecked, I pulled under my pit stall, and they said take it to the garage is damaged too bad.

To the garage meant backing up through I think it was Kevin Harvick's pit stall. Okay. And the opening was right there. So I just backed up. And one of the guys happened to be out there sweeping. And I don't think that I came close to hitting him. But apparently he was angry enough

to follow me down into the garage and confront me about backing through their stall. And I wanted to fight that man so badly in that moment. Even if he won, I didn't care. I was so angry at that that I wished either I could have fought him and lost or whatever. I don't care, but I just was so mad. I had no idea of this happened. I hate that.

When you're racing and you have adrenaline going, if somebody kind of gets confrontational with you, if that happens like in the moment after that, a lot of bad decisions go through your mind. That was the one thing that I remember from that night. that made me the most angriest. I felt stupid that I did that. I don't know why I did that. I don't know why I ran in the back of Michael because it was obviously a terrible decision

and was going to spin him out and it did. There were some weird, weird things going on between the teams. I had decided to get away from Tony Sr. and Tony Jr. after we won six races the year before, and it was a terrible decision. One I said before, I think on this podcast, that one of my biggest regrets in racing really was. was us splitting up after that 2004 season.

And 2005 was tough for all of us, I think, and that was probably the lowest point. Yeah. We got Grode House. He's headed to Phoenix for the race this weekend. He wants to know if there's any good food suggestions in that area. Phoenix, man, forgot everywhere. I mean, the whole town.

Yeah, they can do food out there. I'm sure there's some good barbecue there. Barrio Cafe is mine. I just go to, if I can't, I'll just go to barbecue. If I can't, if there's not a place that is well known or, oh, you got an iconic, you got to go to the steakhouse or whatever, just find a good barbecue pill. So they can't, never go wrong with barbecue. Which place did you say? Barrio Cafe.

It's probably my top three favorite restaurants on the road. Okay. It's fun to see how people do barbecue differently in different parts of the United States. And it's extreme. I do not like North Carolina barbecue. I don't like most of it either. Kansas City, Texas. Yep.

where the concentration's on the smoke. Yeah, I don't know. I just don't, I'm not a big fan of where I'm, you know, the barbecue from where I'm from. Hard to say. Speaking of food, Austin Bingham wants to know if you're still eating your mayo banana sandwich. No, I haven't had one of those in a long time.

I mean, since only, I haven't had one of those in a long time. I don't eat those regularly. And, but I did see where on bar stool, radio. They had a three, they had one of their radio shows where their three hosts tried the sandwich. And all three of them said, damn, it's pretty good. They all tried a banana mayo sandwich. Really? They all tried it.

Barstool sort of got this big NASCAR push right now. And they thought, hey, okay, this guy says this sandwich is good, so we're going to try it. They all tried it, and they say, it's not supposed to be. You wouldn't think it would be, but it is good. All three of them. So I felt like that was a big win for me. Because, boy, did I catch a lot of hell from the sandwich. You did catch hell.

God I call hell for that. I know it. You're still catching hell. Still catching hell. Try it. If you still hate it, then you can give me all the hell you want. Yeah, right. All right.

Max Kluge, what NASCAR legend would you love to maybe go back in time and rival? Uh, rival. D.W. probably. I think Darrow Walshipp when he was driving the Gatorade 88, and then when he got in the Mountain Dew car, the Buick with Junior Johnson, everybody loved to hate and boo him. He was dominated. you know, he's winning so much.

I remember going to North Wiltsboro, and he was winning every single week, it seemed like, and he dominated that day, and the fans hated it. It wasn't so much Darrell. It was just winning. And it's the same thing that I think Jimmy Johnson dealt with in his career,

especially when he's winning five championships in a row. And that's probably one of the reasons why he's not more of a fan favorite is just because of so much success, right? Fans don't want to see the same guy the dynasty type of thing going on in NASCAR. But boy, they didn't like Darrell back then. And so he would have been the target for a lot of guys in rivalry,

I think back then. So that's an easy pick for me. And because if you beat Darrell, everybody's going to be like, yes. Just this guy who just beat him. Ben Taylor wants to know if you have a favorite outside activity or chore. Me? Yeah, you. Favorite outside activity?

Activity? Yeah. Or a chore? Well, we talked about it earlier on the show. Going bow fishing with Jeffrey's fun until I master it eventually. Then I'll probably become boring. That's never going to happen, Mike. That was a cue for you to come in there.

Oh, okay. Well, I mean, I'm sitting here thinking that's not considered a favorite activity because you've done it once. It's not a chore either. Or a chore, right. I think they're thinking more landscaping and stuff. Oh, hard. Yeah, that's what. Landscaping.

Yeah, that's what they were saying. Hard work. When's the last time Del Mota's grass? That's the question. My favorite, my favorite activity. I mean, this goes back to when me and Amy were remodeling that house down in Key West. I did all the landscaping lights and digging, putting all the wires underground and putting all the lights, positioning all the lights on the trees. So they shine just right from the street and all that.

That was fun. And actually got me going to do all the remodeling. saw the landscaping lights on the other properties that I have. So that would fall into that category. Digging a pool was fun. Getting on an excavator and digging out a five-foot, you know, rather small pool in the world of pools. But that was fun.

Any of that kind of work was pretty good. I hated, you know, the traditional work in remodeling or building a house, like dry wall. Oh, that was sucky. and cock and windows. Yeah. All that stuff. But some of the more unique jobs were a lot of fun.

Well, it sounds like anything you can do to climb on a piece of equipment makes it more fun. You just named a couple things you enjoyed and they all had to do with, except the lighting, except the setting of the lights. But like, if you get on an excavator and tear up something, that's fun. I am a guy that loves, like, building the technology of putting together a, you know, stereo unit or some sound system for a house or any kind of IT style work, setting up a hot spot or something, any kind of IT kind of. And so that landscaping lighting kind of was little IT-ish. Gave you a little bit.

Yeah. I hear you. I love building computers and crap like that fixing them. All right. What else we got? Junior 3815 once, what's your recollection of the 2001 Car Quest 300 driving the number 87? for Joe Nemichick. Yeah, so that was a terrible day.

Joe got hurt and wanted somebody to fill in for him, so he asked me, and I was like, heck yeah, what a, you know, it was a compliment for Joe. He had a great car, a winning car. Yeah. I was going to get to work with Brian Patty, who I'd got to know through racing in the Xfinity Series and a Cup Series. And it seemed like the URIs respected Brian Patty quite a bit, so I was excited to be able to work with him.

I had to borrow a suit. I didn't have, I needed a generic suit. so I had to borrow a suit from Hank Parker Jr. He had a black suit, so I got this suit taped over Hank Jr.'s name. And we practiced, okay, wasn't great, qualified terrible. And then in the race, the car was undrivable, like something was broke in the back of the car. And I was on the verge of crashing and wrecking this thing. And I told Brian, I said, man, I can't figure it out.

I don't understand something's wrong. Something's loose. with the suspension of the rear of the car. And so I think we ended up having to park it. I can't remember how we finished terrible, but I think I ended up parking the car in the middle of the race because something was wrong with it. I think you're right.

I begly remember that, yeah. And I was so disappointed for Brian and that team and those guys because they hired me thinking, man, this is going to be great. He's going to do us a good job. And I got out there and I couldn't drive the car. And I don't think, I don't know if they ever found anything wrong with it.

So curious to this day, really, what might have been the issue. But just I was excited about the opportunity, didn't pan out the way I hoped. Can I tell you a quick story? Sure. Do you know that when I was in college and right towards, you know, about a year before I started, before I was going to graduate, I started sending letters to a bunch of places like people do when they're wanting jobs. And I sent, I got a copy of all the race teams addresses, right? And so I sent letters to all the race teams.

the race teams. Brian Patty is the only one that actually sent me a letter back. I didn't even ask, you know, now, it wasn't with the job, but I'm telling you, Brian Patty, a crew chief, you know, this is back in 2001, 2002, you know, he was hot. And Brian Patty sent me a letter. I mean, you think about how many people send resumes. I just, I've always been a Brian Patty fan of that because he just sent me back a letter. They were just saying, you know, we'll keep your resume.

Thanks for reaching out. You know, it wasn't long. That was Brian Patty. I always appreciated that. Well, he missed out. Alan. Thank you. Alan Timmerwin wants to know, how do you see Kyle Busch winning 200 races at NASCAR?

Is he going to be the next king? So Kyle even said that his record versus the Petty's record of 200 wins is not the same. Obviously, it's not. Richard Petty had 200 cup wins. Kyle's going for 200 wins overall. He's 33 years old, I believe. and has a real potential to have 300 total wins across all three series if that's something he chooses to try to achieve.

But he said himself that this is a personal record for him. This is something that he wants to do. It's important to him, but he does not see it in the same vein as Richard Petty's 200. Cup wins. And I think that's pretty obvious to say everyone. But I think it's very incredible. He's a leading winner in Xfinity trucks. Obviously, no one's ever going to get to 200 wins in Cup.

I think the record for Richard Petty is safe for eternity. I hope Kyle Bush is able to take a moment and celebrate that accomplishment without having too many people sit there and be those, you know, those people that are going to be like, well, it ain't the same as Richard Petty's. That's stating the obvious. I hope that people can accept that as a remarkable feat. Kyle is, if you watch Kyle's post race content from social media, and he says, he can hear how much each of those individual wins matter to him,

because he realizes what he's accumulated. I think several years ago, he's just winning. He's just going out to win and loves to win because it really made a lot of people angry. But now when he talks, it's more about I realize what this accomplishment means. And this is important. it to me. And so each individual win, he gets out of the car, he gets out of the truck and says, win number 53. He gets out of the Xfinity Series and says, all right, we're one more closer to sweeping the race weekend. I think that he's starting to really appreciate just how unique

his accomplishments are. And what an incredible record, you know, to have that many wins across all three series. All right. I think that'll be it for, uh, yeah, for Ash Jr. live presented by nationwide. Thank you guys for tuning in, and thanks for some of the good questions. All right, so before we get to the White Flag, we've got one more segment with Leia Vaughn. Leah, Leah, like really. Like really. It's been a crazy week on social media. It started last week with the cheese challenge. Did you guys see that? Cheese challenge. I did briefly. So can you explain?

So I don't know how this came about, but somebody thought it was a good idea to throw a slice of cheese. on a baby's face and it's stuck. A baby war. Like a baby human. A baby human? I haven't seen it. Hold on. They're throwing cheese at a baby human?

A lot of people throwing cheese on their children. Explain this one to me. I don't understand. I can't explain it. They're literally, I don't know how it came about that somebody recorded them throwing a slice of cheese on their baby's face and it's stuck and then everyone started doing it. And it became a challenge.

And it became a ice bucket challenge on the stuff. Correct. But for no benefit whatsoever. Like there was one video this baby was like crying. Of course. Crying. No, no, no. Before the cheese was thrown, they throw the cheese on the face and the baby stops crying.

Did it laugh? It didn't laugh, but it didn't. Probably stopped crying in shock. They got a piece of cheese throwing at their face. I found it, I kind of found it to be annoying and infuriating in a little bit of a way. I got a baby and I'm sitting there thinking, how could I do that? How would I, why would I do that? and what's my baby thinking about me in that moment?

What kind of parent am I to be throwing cheese at my baby's face? And to what end? I mean, like, I know. I guess I'm a little, I don't have a whole lot of confidence in people, you know, the human race, to not know the limits, which, I mean, if throwing something at your baby is okay, what's the line then?

There's, because they're going to go, well, I mean, if the baby will take a piece of cheese, the face. Well, then obviously a block of cheese might be something that they can take. That there's no, there's no end to it. Ribby. I mean, what's, I mean, for the love of God, we're all parents here except for Leah here, but it's like, even, okay, the first person that did this is an idiot. Sorry, but the internet, this just proves to me that the internet sometimes is freaking stupid because how would you look at this and go, well, I'm going to try that. Let me go in the fridge and grab a slice of cheese and throw it up my baby's face. That's the dumbest thing

I've ever seen. You as a new dad. I wonder what your reaction to that would have been before Ila. I know. I probably wouldn't have thought anything of it. I probably wouldn't thought anything of it. Yeah. And maybe you laughed.

Probably would laugh. Probably thought it was funny. When I thought to myself, like, I could never do that to Isla. My God, that's so disrespectful. Yeah. And then video it, right? That's the other thing we're losing side of it. They're videoing this.

Let's send it out there for everyone to see. Right. I'm a shi panned. I just was so surprised there was no context to it or no, there's no reason to rhyme for it or no story to it or no purpose for it. Not that I've found that other than people are just stupid. And apparently people are just angry because the next thing they're throwing is van shoes now. Okay. That's the thing that happened last night.

This seems to make a little more sense to me, though. Explain why they're throwing van shoes. Well, I don't know how this happens. Like, how do you throw your, so somebody threw their, like, pair of vans and they landed right. side up and they thought that was weird so they did it again and continue to get yeah so then they posted on social media and everybody's got five million views and people are responding everybody's throwing their shoes they'll throw them outside like up in the air like is anybody in here where's dustin dustin come here do this let's see this somebody widened out so they could

get this all right let's throw one best two out three a little twirl oh oh It did. Let's get a distance. Different types of throws. No, no, no, no. Put it back on. Back up. We need a sample size here.

Get a little farther, maybe. That wasn't farther. That was a twirl. Oh, it didn't work. All right. So, I think it's, thank you, Dustin. It's likely that it'll land on its soul

because the soul has weight. Yes. Right. Much like, it's similar to the water bottle thing. Flip in the bottle and the bottle landing upright because the water is in the body, you know, the weight is down low. That makes sense to me.

I don't know that it is something that you would expect to blow up on the internet like it did. I guess people are just bored. I guess. I mean, this did happen over the weekend, too. It happened like late last night. Like Vans was the number one trending thing last night. And I'm like... Whoever within that company thought of this and planted it out there.

If they did, that was genius. The internet is a marketplace of morons for the most part. I mean, can we all agree on that? Yes. It just really is where the morons congregate. and that's all I got to say. And somehow it's my job to look at all of it. And you are the keeper of it.

What does that say about me? I don't know. What does it say about you? All right. Well, thank you, Leah. That's interesting. Keep his, you know what? I don't want to hear any more about the cheese thing unless the parent,

it looks like the baby kits, catches it and throws it back. That's what I want to hear. All right. All right. All right. White flag, Mike. Keep talking about it. White flag, right there.

White flag. Guess what, guys. We have a sponsor for this white flag this week. Did you all know that? Really? It's the Shaft Foundation. Shaft is seeking heightened awareness for Tyler. Tyler being Tyler Reddick,

reigning NASCAR Xfinity Series champion, who is not included in any, any current NASCAR marketing campaign and is still a full-time Xfinity Series driver. It's incredible. My wife and I keep on seeing those commercials and we're like, hello! I know, right?

I mean, like, I don't, I know that Tyler's off driving for another team, but he won our championship. He won it for Junior Motorsports. So I still feel a bit of a protective parent on that. I feel like we ought to. And so thank you Shaft Foundation for all the support of the Dell Jr. Download.

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Also, our television show, the Dale Jr. download on NBC Sports Network is back to its original time this week. That's 5 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday. 5 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday. And Brian is over there going to make a masterful show. It's going to be fantastic with all the stuff that we've given him today. And that's it.

Dale, you got anything to end us? Absolutely. We're going to Phoenix this weekend. I got a little history. A little odd history. Oh, let's hear it. Before the NASCAR West series race at Phoenix in 1978, a freight carrying a shipment of Goodyear's tires went missing

somewhere in Oklahoma. And the tires never showed up. So the tires for this race disappeared, and they didn't have tires for that weekend. The teams were forced to race with used Good Year's, McQuary tires, or Firestones, whatever they could find, and Richard Petty, running in the NASCAR West Series, won the race with tires that he had used

at Ontario Speedway in California the week before. Wow. Interesting. Yeah, pretty cool. I love it. All right. Could you imagine that happening? You said you like old tires. Could you imagine?

How well would you like that one? Old tires from a week ago. Old NASCAR man helping us out there. NASCAR man from social media. Oh, he's a good follow. He has a lot of great information. He's going to be helping us out over the next coming weeks with some of this odd history.

Love it. Because we go to some of these racetracks, and that's Phoenix. All right, guys. I enjoyed the show. Jeffrey was great. Yes. Thanks, Jeffrey, for coming on here and telling everybody, why you're driving a tow Yoda

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