The Dale Jr. Download - 252 - Clint Bowyer: Puke n' Rally

Episode Date: April 16, 2019

Dale Earnhardt Jr. sits down with NASCAR wild-man Clint Bowyer to talk about racing, partying, saving a pig, putting Jeff Gordon in a headlock and being the worst t-ball coach ever. Dale Jr. also takes fan questions, talks about the origins of fancy underwear & morning drinking. 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 again. My co-host, Mike Davis is here. Matthew Dillner, Leah. Everybody's in the house. We've got a great guest coming on here in a bit. Clint Boyer is going to be on the show.

Clint, man, I mean, we got a lot of questions here, a lot of great information. But I don't even think we're going to need it. Clint. It's not going to be a lot hard to pull stuff out of him. Clip's going to interview us. That's right. So it should be a great show, guys. Let's get to it.

Go! Wish but then. DJD. It's a new day. My baby's going to run his own way. Dell Jr. Download. Del Jr. Download. Don't get Leah off the straightaway.

Junior sleeps up working all day. Dell Jr. Download. Dell Jr. Download. The internet is a marketplace of moron. Those moron. What the hell? I need this is my ringtone, man. This is so good.

I like tacos, and she's probably going to like tacos. So this is a good thing, right? So we're rolling. My God, man, is that you rapping? Matthew, it is. Matthew sung and made his own rap. You know what? I think he's been singing a lot more than we even realized,

because I asked him a few weeks. I said, Matthew, who was that that was doing? And the Lee looks, she was like, that's Matthew. I got tears in my hands. I don't have a damn budget for a singer. You're right. I don't know what is your licensing fee, because I don't know how we could afford that. That was too good.

Lunch. Lunch, yeah. Man, he's auto-tuning himself. I've got to do something to make it sound good. Regular singing wouldn't. My guy, man. How do you follow that? I don't even know where to start.

Jimmy Johnson's currently running the Boston Marathon right now, isn't he? As we're recording this? Yes. He hasn't. He started yet. All the elite runners go first. Okay. So they do it in waves because there are so many people.

So he actually hasn't started yet. Okay. Ah, nice. Okay. Well, I hope he does good. What do you think about that, man? That's pretty cool, huh? Comes right out of the race.

He's going to run this marathon. He's been preparing for this for over a year. Well, he's been kind of thinking about doing a marathon for a long time, but he's literally been physically training for about a year to do this. I would have no knock on him. I would have almost thought he would have done a marathon. It seems like Jimmy Johnson. I hold him on this Mount Rushmore of

of Iron Man fit people in marathons. Yeah. You know, like, I don't know. But to be honest with you, it is, the guy just is an immaculate shape. I mean, like, the guy just trains all the time. And we know that from being teammates with him for all those years and him trying to get you in on that. We'll talk a little racing here.

Anybody watching grassroots short track racing? I didn't watch any short track, but I did watch the NASCAR Euro series was kicking off this weekend. And one of the things that was interesting about that is Bobby Labani and Mike Snyder were over there racing. I think they're going to run the full schedule. Mayotte actually qualified really good, spun the leader on the last lap and the last corner on Saturday's race, got into a little bit of a dust up on the next Sunday's race, but still finished in the top 10. One of the funniest things about it was, so Mayett's running second on the last lap, last corner,

and he dives down in and dives the guy leading the race and takes them both out, and the announcer said, that was very optimistic. I just thought that was such a nice way to put it. That is. That's funny. Yeah. That's funny. He's optimistic. I'm putting that in my...

In your repertoire. In your repertoire. That was very optimistic. Can you imagine seeing somebody spend somebody out, wreck somebody? That's funny. That's funny. But that was good. So did he...

I guess he took himself out. That was that. Spund himself out, yeah. Tough deal. But he had a fast car. It's going to be fun. So Bobby ran that thing last year, the whole schedule of the European NASCAR series. And they run all these old historic road courses, some really cool

tracks and Bobby did okay but my it i think is in a really good car with a real real good opportunity to get do some do some fun stuff this year so i'll follow that people i guess always wondering what we're doing what we're following outside of you know cup racing NASCAR euro series is one thing i'll keep up with this year uh richmond we had a race there this weekend what did you guys think about that i watched it i thought it's pretty entertaining good good finish i you know i um you know we're going to have clint on here uh he was sitting there and the running for it uh you know was it Lugano that goes up there and had a shot. Pretty excited at the end.

It was certainly an end. And I really, man, Truex, wow, pretty impressive to hold those guys off there at the end because they got a little squirly. It didn't seem like the old Richmond that I, that I mean, like Richmond was my favorite track that we'd always go to. Yeah. And part of it's because you were always so good there. And so we always went there with a piece and had a shot to win. But it didn't feel like the old Richmond, but that probably has a lot to do with all the changes that have happened over the past several years to it. I don't know.

What do you think? Yeah, I thought it was, uh, really. Richmond has a chance of being a pretty boring race. It was an exciting race for Richmond standards, I think. Really? You think it's usually a boring race? Well, there's, yeah. I mean, when you look back over the history,

one time Brad Keselasky won it and he led like 300 laps or something. At times, if the tire combination versus the tire and it not rubbering the track in, in the last five years, there's been a lot of races that weren't that exciting for me at Richmond. I thought this one was above average. All right, boys, here we go. Flint Boys in the house. How does this work? Do you have organization?

Like, do you literally have? No, it's sort of organized. So your people just hook you up? Matthew's a producer. He'll build the show sheet. You know, I can tell you that you gave up on all fun activities? Why? Like drinking and anything like that?

Where's the shotgun of a beer that you run your mouth at and all this stuff? He did get a little chippy on that. We got the beers right over there. We do got beer. Oh, no, you don't want to drink that now. It's been about five weeks. How I can tell is you look like you need a cheeseburger or a beer or a case of beer. He doesn't have that Tony Stewart box?

He's got that TV look going on, doesn't he? That's a TV. That's not a TV look. I mean, listen. He's changing TV looks. Well, I eat good. Like I eat hummus. No, like I.

I want to stay in my 33s. This is not the Dale that any of us know. Yes, it's the same Dale. I don't know. I mean... No. Okay. Whether you choose to believe this or not, you are not the same Dale.

Well, I... We all knew the old Dale. There is a new deal. You are getting ready to turn... You just said, I eat good. You're getting ready to turn 40, and you can't keep eating cheeseburgers and chicken wings all your life. There is some validity to what he's saying.

No, there is. I mean, it just a matter when you want to actually face it. The problem is your ass keeps getting wider and wider. I have to buy all new jeans every year. And I finally said, you know what? I'm just going to get back in those 33s that are up in the top of closet. And so I'm trying to stay in those.

But I have not, I could still rip with the best of them. Still got it. Still got it. I think it has less to do with age and more to do with the fact that when you're married, it's a game changer. I mean, and then when you get kids, it's another game changer. So it's not like you can pull the all-nighters with kids.

There's no way you are doing the same thing. thing you did 10 or 15 years ago. Well, it's funny. I think we had this conversation when you guys had your child. I was like, hey, here's the deal. You're still dumb enough. You think you're going to do it a few times. And then all of a sudden, about 10 times it took me, probably two for a normal person,

about the 10th time of waking up with a massive hangover. Yeah. And your kids standing on your head at 6.8. And you're like, aha, no more of that. I know. It hurts so bad. I found I'm

so you this I found a little trick all right let's hear this so I you ever heard

a bud 55s bud 55 yeah it's a 55 calorie bud bud light kind of yeah

it's a bud extra extra light yeah they're two and a half percent oh yeah yeah

so you're just drinking you're kind of a little you know a little more yeah easier

that's so you so basically no no no no he's just he's just changed

the viscosity It's half of what a bud light has, so you can drink more. That's like Keystone lights back in the day. It's the only thing you could afford, so you drink 30 of them to get to everybody else is 12-pack. I like to start at 10 in the morning. So it's normal. Yeah, I can't be a father. So it's still in you.

I can't be a father drink at 10 in the morning, bud lights all day long. That's where I go wrong. I can't, I have no, my throttle cable breaks. Once it starts goes to you. You ain't going nowhere dangerous with those 55s. I can promise you that. And you'll wake up. feeling great. I mean, there was an off day yesterday. How are you feeling this morning? Did you run hard yesterday?

You know, I actually was about halfway through the day. I got done pouting about the race the night before. Everybody knows any race or knows how that goes when you lose one like that. But I went down and was watching the indie race, which, by the way, I hope, you know, I always thought maybe one of those street courses would be a good idea. That's not a good idea for our sport ever, possibly for any sport. But, any sanctioning body, but made me a drink and decided I'd probably reach out to you guys, means that the only way you've reached out to me was on Twitter about this show. That's not true. Hey, when does this happen?

No. Oh, yeah. Brett Griffin was the one that coordinated this whole conversation. Which was the weakest intro to an invitation I've ever seen in my life. No, no, what was it? I don't know. You floated across the board. Like, well, do you think we could get it?

Who would be the person to contact to get a hold of? Clint to see it. You have my number. Who goes through people? First of all, help me here, Dale. It was a weak attempt. No, listen, let me let me let you a little bit into my life. There's a difference when I reach out to somebody or Dale reaches out to somebody. There's a difference in...

Yeah, the answer's yes. In priority. You go through the channels, it gives an opportunity to fail. Never go through channels. If you want your way, go straight to the source. But you're here. Yes. And you finally went to the channels. We knew Brett would get to you.

It was a rain delay at Richmond. Y'all were sitting there looking around, looking for something to do. That's how we planned to see. Yeah. We gave you something to do while. And then all of a sudden I started cringe and I told my wife as, man, I have no idea what I got into. Something about a, some kind of weird shot and shot getting beers. I was trying to make you notice.

Just plan on my Monday because we're going on vacation first thing in the morning, tomorrow morning with the kids. I said, just plan on me not being around Monday. It looks to me like, then I get here and another week intro. Listen, this is going to be such a good time for you. This is going to, yeah. Have we even started yet? I don't even know if we started yet. We haven't.

This is going to be such a good time for you. You're going to be like, damn, I've got to get my own podcast on Dirty Mo Media, the Clint Boyer Show. And we're going to be like, hey, Clint, let's start it next week. And then you're going to tell your wife, hey. I'm surprised that he doesn't already have one, knowing Brett and how much Brett enjoys it. Well, I think as long as you have partners, I don't think I'll probably be able to have one of these.

That's not the way to think about this. Yeah. I don't understand that either because I've had partners and I could do a podcast because I talked to drivers today, even the young guys, and they all say, oh man, you know, I can't be honest. I was talking to Chase the other day and he's like, I just wish I could say what I want to say. That's brutal. Pathetic.

Say it. I know. Well, that's you. You could do a podcast and everybody would listen to it. Listen. And you get more partners. Your partners would be happy. That's right.

Your partners are looking for new and inventive ways. The Clint Boyer Show. I am going to take your deal over. I'm taking this business by storm. Starting tomorrow. This is my new quest. No, no, no, the vacations tomorrow. Yeah, yeah.

Don't do that tomorrow. I'm going to the beach. Everybody knows when you go to the beach with your wife and kids, that gives you a lot of time to think is what that means. Apparently, a lot of people like going and thinking because beach activities suck. If you want me to tell you, where my mind is. I didn't grow up.

I grew up in Kansas. They didn't offer beaches in Kansas. So that activity was non-existent. So you move out here with you Carolina boys. Everybody, hey, let's go to the beach. Take kids. Let's go to the beach. I'm all excited.

All right, let's go to the beach. I got a board, shorts, flip-flops, and a big cooler. Let's go. That's all you need. Yeah. So what's the problem? That's the problem. There is literally nothing else to do.

You get to the beach. You get all set up, you drag everything, out there. You got your little trailer. You got your umbrellas. Rent this deal. Find this kid. It's cleaned your clock on some sort of rental program for the whole week. You get out there and I mean four

minutes and I'm over it. All right, what are we going to do now? What do you mean? We're here for four days. You don't like to just sit on the beach and drink beer? Hell no. Listen, for anybody else I would question it, but knowing Clint, I mean, if anybody's been to a party with Clint,

usually there's something he wants to destroy by the end of the day. You know, he wants to put a gazebo in the fire. Do you think that's a correct reputation? I don't know about it. No, I'm not a destructive guy, but I do. Now, if you're talking a bonfire, burn it all. If you can get a hold of it, burn it. I know. If you can cut it down, burn it. I know. Yeah. I've seen you do this. I've seen you do it. So my point is, is if you're looking for that type of entertainment, the beach will definitely

let you down. The beach is uneventful. The same thing happens over and over and over. Maybe that's what you need, though, a little bit of unevents in your life. Read a book. Catch up on that good book. You see a lot of that in my future, sit down, enjoy a good novel on the beach. That'll be our podcast. It'll be the Clint Boyer Book Club. It will fail, because I won't even show up.

No, I don't know, man. Having Clint talk about the first page of a book. What's the last book you read? It was White Tail Institute. All right. I'm trying to. Trying to enhance my food plots at the house. That was the last book that I did.

I think it was a column. So you do read. Yeah. It's easy, when you have massive amounts of ADD like I have, which I think I have, I've never been diagnosed with it. But no, I can't slow down and read a book. I can't even hardly. Like I make fun of myself and start laughing.

Do you ever do that? Start laughing and like halfway through reading something, like something that you're definitely like, I want to know this. I've got to figure this out. I was just reading the other day about Blake. He's got me into trapping coyotes. I've got a major coyote problem on a farm, and I got into this. I've been reading about it.

Halfway through it, I've lost interest. I'm daydreaming about Richmond. I'm like, my God. You can't even get through something. You're interested in. This is terrible. So you got coyotes? Don't we live close together?

Yes. Do you want some? No, but I'll trap over my way, so they don't come your way. They're terrible. So you got a farm? Yeah. So you're a farmer? No, no.

Farming is, that's a job. Yeah. I'm definitely a hobby farmer. If I'm, if you're going to classify me. Do you hire farmers? Yeah, we had farmers. Farmer Phil and Gus. His name is not Farmer Phil.

Yeah, I don't know if you watched that DeKalb commercial we just had. You know, been doing some online and Twitter and stuff like that. It's so funny. He's so dry and quiet and talks real silly. He's like, he's Farmer Phil, man. Funniest story, this is true, too. They came over and wanted to farm the ground when I first bought the place, and I needed it done and didn't know anybody around here.

Met these old boys. They come over with a case of beer. Well, when I woke up the next morning, Gus was sleeping in the bucket of his tractor. Oh, dang. True story. Went out there to check on Farmer Phil and Gus, and Gus was in bed in the bucket of the tractor. Well, when you're a large night.

options and you know that there's not many. The bucket of the tractor probably is going to be the most comfortable. That is not a good option. Seems like he's done that before. Yeah. So you're not a farmer. So you're kind of part-time. I'm kind of the same way.

I got the four buffalo that people gave to me that are still on my property. We've had longhorn steers that have came through and they're no longer with us. Are you, do you have any animals? Oh, yeah. When you have kit, you'll see. Wait to your animal. Your wife and your daughters, they're soon going to gang up on you. You have this farm that you talk about.

You think you have animals. You wait until they start rescuing is what happens. They'll start rescuing everything. You'll have cats. Was your wife always into rescuing animals? No, not until we have a farm. Got a barn. Yeah.

You got stalls in the barn. You've got to fill it. You got to put these animals in there. She got into pigs. Really? Oh, yeah. Let me give you a little bit of it. advice do not allow your wife to convince you that we ought to have pigs how come if you want

one pig have one pig why i was gone her and my old man thought it was a good idea that he needed a girlfriend oh let me tell lady pigs are tough oh i've got bit by one of nine or 13 nine or 13 or something three times a year jack wow what really you enter the pig business very fast very fast. Well, I got out of the pig business very fast. I put a stop to that. The girlfriend was gone and he was out on Jack's dance. Which is a smoker's pit.

Yes. We had goats and I finally convinced Amy to let me send them over this other guy who had more goats. But we had this little horse and Amy's like man, it's sad. I'm like, how can he tail it's sad. She's like, it just by itself, it needs a companion. I'm like, what if that

companion comes to start biting it and ass every day and kicking it and annoying the shit out of it? It's called marriage. Maybe it's perfectly happy, you know, being by itself. And so now we have another, another, another donkey. All right. So you've said, wait a minute. So do you have a, we have a mini horse with a, with a regular size donkey. Do you think the mini horse think it's a jackass now? Like if the only thing you see is a jackass Do you think it's a jackass? Do you think that? It made it with a donkey a long time ago, so maybe it does.

Good grief. You have a lot of interesting things happen on a farm. Yeah. We rescued the donkey dad and the mini horse and its offspring. The donkey dad's gone. The offspring's gone. They left together somewhere. But the mini horse stayed.

It's got these bad back legs, so we just kind of taken care of it. And she's been by herself forever. And since we've had our child, Amy has gotten more, I don't know how to put this, without pissing her off. But she's gotten more into rescues. I just said it. I'm telling you, it's going to happen. We're driving down the road the other day, and this guy was manhandling his dogs, and she rolled the window down and gave him a bit.

Yeah. I was like, holy crap. I mean, she's serious. Wait till the little ones grows up. They'll start, oh, it's coming, buddy. I'm telling you, you're going to rescue everything. I know. I think the pig, the fascination of the pigs did not happen because of a rescue, though, right?

You weren't rescuing pigs. The kids wanted a pig. We had a pig, right? It's as simple as that. I mean, I raised this pig in the kitchen from a baby. Like, it sucked. Two times a night I get up and feed it with a syringe because it was all of its siblings died. I didn't know anything about pigs.

Apparently, they'll freeze to death. and they were all froze and that one I got up on Christmas Day and it was 13, I think it was 13 of them, whatever, however of me there was, they were all out there squealing. I'm like, I went back in the house, McClora, guess how many pigs are in there? They hatched again. Gosh, I'm mighty. There's pigs everywhere.

I went back out there after we ate dinner to check on them and they were all gone. I couldn't find them. I was like, there's no, where's the pigs? and I read, I thought I'd read where like they'll eat, they're offspring or something. So I'm like, my God, there's blood everywhere somewhere. This thing's a savage. And they were all, no, they didn't make it. Well, I picked this one up, and it kind of started moving a little bit.

So I read, do what every farmer does, picked up the phone and Googled how to rescue a pig, went in and put it in a, warmed it up, in a heat pad. And literally within five seconds. that thing was standing on the kitchen counter. I'm like, wow. It was unbelievable. Brought it back to life. Yes.

So June's the only one left. Well, I guess my point on this is it's one thing to rescue and to take in miniature horses that have bad legs, but to take in pigs that taste so damn good at the end of the day. That would be hard to ask Clint Boyer to do and it not end the way we would all predict it to end. It's the funniest thing, though, is the kids start liking and everything's a pet. in. I know, we've got cattle out on the ground. You're like, hey, it's a pretty good eating right there, boy. Every day.

What do you mean? What do you mean? Lots of good. Do you like that steak, don't you? Some good eaters out there. I wanted to send the buffalo to Newman, and she wouldn't let me do that because she thinks that Newman sells his buffalo for meat. I'm sure he does.

Yeah, because he has buffalo farm. He does. Just to be clear, most farmers boys do that. It's not a pet farm. They don't have wives that rescue animals. The key word here is rescue. Once you rescue an animal, that animal, trust me. You think Dale Jr.'s wife is ever going to let you harvest one of her animals?

Listen, I don't care if he's got bad legs or not. That animal is the safest, well-cared-for animal ever in a history of animals. I get it. I mean, listen, I'm with you because we had chickens. And you know where we went wrong? When my wife gave the chickens names. When you give them a name, when you give them a name, they're in for good. That's right.

As a matter of fact, we had a promotion with a sponsor where you could put your name on Dale Jr's car. And so it had like 50,000 names on it. I had three chickens on that car. But we all grew up, you know, I mean, you started tearing a good rib eye. The old boy's going, grandpa's going, eh, old Fred's pretty good, isn't it? Come on. Man, can't say that. Fred.

Yeah. I bet his old brother's going to be good, too. Did the pig that ended up in the smoker have a name? Oh, no. Come on, it did, didn't it? Yeah. It did. Have you smoked a whole pig?

You do that, right? I have not tried to smoke a whole pig. So Patty is built, it's like a Dutch oven thing or something? I got to try that. That's the way to do it. Brian Patty, he built one. It actually cooks underneath or something, and the coals are on top of it. It's bitching.

It's the way to do it. Well, he does whole pigs. Yeah. Really? Yeah. I've never tried to do a whole one. I can hardly get ribs right. I'm pretty good with brisket.

My whole problem with all of that is that's a drinking event. It is. What's wrong with that? Well, by the, I sometimes forget it's on there. You ever do that? Sometimes I forget to check the temperature or, yeah. Or I forget how to regulate the temperature. I'm like, the damn thing's going up and down.

But you smoke a pig for like a day or two, don't you? I mean, like, it wouldn't be like. You can take as long as you won't. Right. Oh, there's no question. You've lost interest. You've lost your crowd. You know what I mean?

You get all excited about smoking. Smoking is an event. There is nothing more fun than the anticipation, the excitement of getting the Trigger all fired up, getting your pellets good. You've gotten all the spices, all the sauce, everything's ready to go. People are coming over. Well, you just getting a pool ready. You's getting this ready.

He's filling the cooler. You got all your events set up. Well, then you forgot to put the meat on, and it's five hours past then. Now, fast forward, you're about half tuned up. It's 7 o'clock at night. Your old lady's hot on your tail. Hey, we're all hungry. We've got two more hours.

Showing it's at least two hours. Now you've lost your crowd. Everybody's leaving. Kids are screaming. They're hungry. You blew the whole day. That's exactly how it goes every time. Because I won't smoke through the night.

Like, you know, if you're going to have barbecue at lunch, You got to start smoking at midnight or the middle of the night. I won't do it. Or you'll do it. Or, all right, fix this deal. I'm starting at midnight. Uh-oh. By noon, you're in bad trouble.

You ain't been to bed yet. Your wife's mad at she. She can't tell who you are. You don't know who you are. This is farming with Clint Boyer. It all goes back to drinking. Next episode, Boyer talks about his cats. Real life.

You can't tell me there's not anybody. that has entered the world of smoking meat, that doesn't experience that same thing. Sure. That's the way it is. We get Sunday. Sundays is our day off, right? You get home, you're all wound up from a Saturday night race,

and everybody's coming over the pool. You got it all lined out. That's the nights that's dangerous. You're already running lean. You're down on fluids anyway. So you get that meat started, get everything established, get going on that. And, yeah, by three or four or five,

you're starting to run low on fuel yourself. And the food's no good the next day. Yeah, that was the worst thing about West Coast races, man, is we get home at three or two or four in the morning, and you're like, I can't go to bed. Nah. And I want to go out on the lake the next day, so we would get on the boat at four in the morning

and drive out to the lake, and we're passed out in the bottom in the cabin of the boat by time everybody else is pulling up to tie up. Yeah. And we sleep through the entire afternoon. Missed it. Yep. All this is making me think that Clint Boyer,

even in married life, and being a dad, like, he's still got it. I mean, like, I know when he comes in here and says that you've changed, he may have changed, but the degree of change is definitely not. I think he wants me to, I think he's hoping that I have changed so he can change. Oh, is he wanting an outlet? Is he looking for a way? I have a doubt, you know, we all have, you know, our heroes and the people that we looked up to in this sport,

and that's the problem. You know, every time I see Schrader, I'm like, damn it. Still going. Man, I thought I was going to be able to grow out. this. Thought I was going to be better. Be a better adult. It's not going to happen. You're still doing it. I tell him that all the time, but I mean, that guy is still on the gas, having fun, doing everything. You did, you know, 15 years ago when I came into the sport. I remember a night at Watkins Glen, three o'clock in the morning. I'm sound asleep. Man, I had my new motor home.

It was like, I was just in Xfinity, you know, just it got going. I was excited. I thought I was a big deal. My front door blows open in the motorhome. Like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It was Schrader and all the guys. Way, hey, hey, hey, you got any beer in here? I'm like, oh my God, are you serious? What's going on? It was a rain out and, you know, just a wild night. And that's how the sport was. I mean, it was a good time. Those guys, they took care of business on the racetrack and had a damn good time doing it for sure. It must have been something about Watkins Glen because the same thing happened to me one year. Glend, Trader blows up and a door to the bus and says, come here. And I go three or four buses down and walk in and it's him, Terry Labani, all the guys are in this bus sitting there drinking.

They'd been out riding around, watching fans be crazy in the middle of the night and stuff. And I think they, in Sirley, Marlin, they would all go to Watkins Glen and just cruise Saturday and Friday and Saturday. But 100% rolls reverse a way it should be, right? They were the old guys. And we were the kids. It should have been out raising hell. Wouldn't it, wasn't it, Schrader would be, wouldn't it call Bud at the Glen?

Schrader would be his second off in practice and say, I think we need to change the transmission. Because that's going to take two hours. That was one of the coolest things about having, you know, Richard for a boss is there was several times we had some good times over the years, and he'd tell me, hey, just, man, you might tell them, transmissions not running good, and the engine's bad, I don't know, tell them something.

Well, hell, you're the boss, you tell him. I was with you. That's crazy. Boy, he was telling us some good running stories from the past this last week. Richard definitely had a few to go with. But the reason I bring up the fact that I think you still have that reputation because you were the source of a poll question that we put out. Am I right?

Yes. And so what was the question, Leah? So the question was, what current driver can keep up with Clint Boyer? Now, we can't put that out there unless Clint Boyer is a known hail raiser. And we had somebody tweeted, with or without blowing a motor, which we did not clarify in the poll. Yeah, true.

Hold on. Let's just, Clinton will blow a motor now. No, he won't. Do you? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Been known to. So let's just say,

as long as you still run. As a good news is, the trailer's full of them. I must show up to the track. We're bringing extra engines. I'm straight, Stippy. So what was the result? No, so you're puking rally?

No, I can. Pewken rally. I've tried. tried to get a little bit better with that. I cannot puke and rally. I don't get sick. I hardly ever get sick. Nobody does two percent at a time.

Yeah. You're literally hydrating yourself. Next week he's down to Bud 11s. It took a lot to admit I drank both 55. That's a good point. Dale's over there bragging that he. I don't blow motor. I didn't ever blow motors back in the day.

You can drink a drum of it. You'll be fine, Dale. That's right. I'm trying to think if I've ever witnessed you blowing a motor. I've got to have at least once. I never, I don't do. I've maybe got sick once in 10 years, once in less, two, three, like, yeah. Dang.

It's not fun. No. It's not. Well, who did they say would run with Clint? So, 52% of people said Ryan Blaney, but 40% said nobody. Yeah. So Blaney, people think Blaney. He smiles.

Let me tell you something about Ryan Blaney. Him and these little craps, man, I'm telling you, so lucky. We're all so old and they're walking into this deal. I mean, when I came in, you know, you were still, you had been established, but you're still young. You know, there was so many guys at your age, you know, that were still running hard and having fun and doing all these things. You know, you didn't have anybody. These kids come in. We're all got our families.

It's like a giant gap. huge gap you know what i mean like it's it's way different than it was when i first came in and i tell him and uh elliott all the time like you lucky bastards i mean look at you two you're cleaning up you got it all everything is is yours uh you know and they come over to the bus the other day where it charlotte these the two little punks come in the door i'm like hey what are you guys doing it's raining you know pouring rain and i'd stay it down i had a commitment or something i had to do for the track and stayed down there and laura was like, just stay down there.

I'd say, hey, anymore. Hey, how about when your wife says, well, just do it? You know, you're like, oh, man, I don't know. Are you sure? Like, I need my wife. She knows that I need her responsibility and her sense, you know, because I have no sense. And she's like, just stay down there, man.

You'll be all right. Kids have fun because I told them these, they'd come blowing through the door, pull up with a bottle of bourbon. I think it's so funny. you know, when these young kids come in all tough, little bean poles that weighed 90 pounds, he's got a bottle of bourbon with him.

What are you going to do with that? What are you jackass is going to do with that? So I pulled out, made me a drink, Jack and Coke or something. We're sitting there cutting up and listen to them. They do have good taste in music. I dig that. I like that, Blaney's a good kid. And, you know, we're just sitting there talking about race and talking about.

The generation gap is that big. You find out pretty quick. You don't have much to talk about. We're not into the same things, but we're having fun, we're enjoying it. They're there 10 minutes, 15 minutes, and left. That's all that. I was like, did I fail? What did I do wrong?

They were done. Were they bored with you? We can't drink anymore. No, they were done drinking. They had had one bourbon, and Chase was like, well, yeah, yeah. I'm like, you show up with a bottle of hell, and you didn't raise hell. 35 lives blew out the right rear. Yeah, I couldn't, I mean, you could.

Come on, man. These races are long. You've got to get settled in. You can't go to the back five laps in. Now them 55s are sounding pretty good. Yeah. I was surprised that, you know, they came in. I was like, oh, this is going to be bad.

So you're saying, what I'm hearing is that Blaney hasn't necessarily earned the reputation. No, no, no, I didn't say that. I said that was my experience. That was my first experience with him. I tell you, one of the coolest things that he did when I won that race up in Martinsville, you know, everybody come over the barn. and parties afterwards. He showed up, drove up 30 minutes up the road and showed up and threw down with us.

I appreciated that a lot and respected that. We had a lot of fun that night. Well, that's all great. We want to know what the ultimate result of that was, though. I mean, we're not here about the gesture. We're here about the result. May have had to go to a backup that night. Seems like the...

Does Blaney blow motors? I don't know. I don't know. We should have asked him. I was out of commission by then. I don't see... I don't see, Chase,

I don't think Chase has it in him. I don't think he'll. I don't think he does either. But you, I can't see Chase going to 4 a.m. at any point in his life. Ever, ever. So, look,

this guy is about to turn 40, I believe. Now, before you give us your opinion, what's a key word they're about, damn it? What does, what does a Clint Boyer birthday

with, on a significant milestone birthday? What do you think it ends up like? On the 40th. I mean, the 40th is the birthday. You know, because 50's not going to be a razor.

No. No. is and it's kind of the last it's it's the last big one it's i mean it'll be he'll need a lot of motors yeah yeah and i imagine it would be but giant concert like a really good act probably blake and somebody that blake knows and he's got to be showing up for this for sure yeah but it ain't gonna be just blake because he's he sees blake enough um so it'll be so blake will bring some big names i mean it'll be one you won't want to miss okay how how close is he i think four I think he's right on the 40 deal, and he knows it better than anybody.

He is that, but... I'm going to be 45 this year. 45 years old. You're halfway over. It's crazy. I don't even look at a day over 35. Well. Crazy.

No, I'm looking forward to it, and I think he is right. I mean, that's that last one. You're like, man, you got to blow it out. Because you're starting... Hey, at 30, he hit me at 34. It's like, you wake up the next. morning, hey, what the hell was that? I mean, him hangover's hurt. And by 40 years old, they hurt bad. And you start, I think by 40, you start realizing that it's not worth it anymore.

Kind of, right? But, uh, well, we'll find out. No, I'm looking for it. We're going down, uh, to the Bahamas and, and just got a group of people. And yeah, yeah, it's planned. Yeah, yeah. Okay. So is Blake going? I'm not in on the surprise as much. You know, are you a surprise guy? Oh, I don't plan anything. So you don't know what's just, You just know where you're going? That's all that needs to be planned. You just know where you're going. The worst mistake in life is a plan.

Well, who's planning it then? If it's not you, who's planning it? All as we do. My wife and my brother and everybody was kind of in on, you know, I just said, hey, let's go down there. Let's do that. And then from there, what happens happens. It's like anything. You can't plan a party.

How many parties have you tried to plan and they suck? I don't know. I planned a lot. The best times are always just happened. Oh, yeah. Oh, spontaneous ones, yeah. That's for me the most memorable things that have ever happened to me are just things you either wake up. Like, how in the hell did that happen?

Well, you got to plan a little bit because if you end up with people there that you don't want. I don't think he's got to worry about that going to, where are you going, Bahamas, Jamaica? Well, yeah, but you end up somewhere with people you don't want. That's never happened to you? No. Oh, my gosh. And I can tell you this. I've had a few parties where that's happened and you were there.

Oh, what? What hell is that supposed to be? That means you saw it happen. Oh, he's not the one that he didn't want. Oh, I thought that's what that meant. Appreciate you. No. That's what you said.

It's what it sounded like, yeah. I remember that party came to mind. So you're saying there are people that Clint was at that he should know about. Like, it should come to his mind that you remember. He's been to a few parties where that's happened, is what I mean. I would say there's got to be other race car drivers that show up at parties that nobody wants to be around. Oh, no, no, no. Even if you, like, so sometimes race car drivers show up to parties, and you're, even if you hate them, you're like, damn, he's here.

Have you ever, I mean, you've had, you've been enough parties where. I think I, I am the personality or I have the personality of, it really doesn't matter if I hate them or not. Yeah. I'm going to pick on them enough that we're going to figure it out. Right. Even literally, it's put the hate card down for the day. I remember Jeff Gordon. I mean, this is recent right after.

That deal happened in Phoenix. We're down with Kevin Harvick and I and Guy Fietti where we walk on this huge massive boat down in St. Bart's. It's P. Diddy's boat. And Guy, thank God, Guy has crazy, terrible, god-awful hair. They recognized him. Didn't recognize Harvick and I, but they recognize the cooking guy. So we get on this big yacht and roll in there and we're pretty worse for the wear. and the first person I see is Jeff Gordon and Ingrid.

And I'm like, hey, Harvick, we're feeling pretty good. Feeling no pants and watch this. I go over and grab him in a headlock and start acting like I'm punching him. And Ingrid's flipping out. Oh, my God. Even Gordon is like, oh, dude, what are you doing? I didn't mean about you. And I'm like, dude, I'm just kidding.

Let's have some fun. But I'm going to go back to hating you tomorrow. I mean, that's just the way it's supposed to be, right? If you're going to enjoy a good time, how do you let some. buddy drag your good time down. There's no possible way. There's got to be one time when you've been in a fight at a party or something like that. You've never been in a fight at a party. I think everybody has those deals. But for me, it's like, dude, if you're not going to have fun, get the hell out of here. We're here to have fun. Don't be an ass. Yeah, I got to be. I got a bad. Don't be the ass. You

know what I mean? That's the thing is you want to make sure that everybody's having fun. And for me, when I have something going on, that's, that's what I try to do is, you know, you're so focused on making sure everybody's having a good time that I don't have any time for that. That's usually how all the, that's usually how all the, if I had a bad relationship with a driver or even another crew chief or somebody, whoever I might have pissed off at some point in my career, it always got patched up when we would find ourselves somewhere drinking beer. You're going to be like, hey, man, forget about that crap.

Yeah. Because that's the first thing they want to bring up. I'm over it. Like, why would you bring that up? This is a good time. You see this here, sir? This is a good time. Last thing I want to do is talk about you pissing me off last week.

I'll tell you a funny good Dale Jr. story that we're on here. So that party that he was talking about that I wasn't invited to and he wanted me to leave, I guess, is what he was implying before. I woke up in the theater the next morning. Oh, at his house. Well, I run out of people to talk to. He disappeared. You can't disappear at most people's houses. When I say disappear, I mean, this man is just gone.

and I am stuck in this basement looking around like, well, all right, I guess I don't have a ride. I rode over there with Kane. Kane, I can't find him. Like on this house, it's like the Neverlane. Like, you're stuck. Oh, don't shake your head. That is your establishment. I mean, it's like being, like even the barn down there.

I knew where it was at. It was the western town and all that. Coolest place ever been to my life. I couldn't have walked to the house back to the, the, the western town to save my life. Right. Had no clue. You need a roadmap.

Yes. Yes. And the only roadmap was some big jacked up Chevy redneck truck with no tag on it. This is the baddest truck I've seen in my life. I think it never been on the highway. I'm like, Dale, what? How come you don't take this truck on the road? Oh, man.

It's some sort of truck. You can't even drive it. So what I'm trying to say and describe is this is not a normal establishment. This is not like being at our house. houses, right? Uh-huh. This is being trapped. And when I mean trapped, I mean the door's no longer open.

You have to have a keypad to go upstairs. That's right. Yeah, yeah. But you weren't locked. You could go out. You're trying to like stick up for yourself as if that's normal. But you could go out the doors. Negative.

So I wake up the next morning. You had a, he had. He's too drunk to figure out how to get out the actual door that has a normal lock on it. I may let you off the hook that night, that. But when I woke up the next morning, I'm like, I'm still stuck. It wasn't just the alcohol. I am stuck. So finally, I'm talking, my phone was dead.

I'm out. Like knocking on the upstairs door, that's not normal. People don't have a door to block off the house. You're knocking on doors inside the house. It's like four knocks lock me in. So I'm in jail and these big, massive windows, you know, in the back that's really, really cool. opening up that beautiful pool that you can't get to because you're locked in his house. Finally, thank God for the love of God, a landscaper comes walking by, and I'm beating on the door.

I'm like, hey, hey, on the window, and he's looking at me. It's like, what? He comes over and opens the door. I've been released. Like, I escaped jail. Finally. Did you ever think that being locked in there wasn't just a coincidence? They might have had to put the troublemaker down in there and just lock him away?

No, negative. Like, if you was at my house and acting like that, I'd have just locked you out of the house. I wouldn't have locked you in the house. That's true. That's a good point. This was, we had been going, this was like almost seeing the sun come up.

No, it was bad. Yeah. We was on a, on a, uh, trying to out. You know, when you don't hang out with, with people very often. Oh, yeah, you hear, you know, that guy, he's a badass. I'm, all right. Put my big boy shoes on.

It's on here. That was, it was definitely one of those nights. Trouble. Do you remember this? Do you remember this? Probably any chance. The times that I've hung out with Clint all run together. Oh, really?

Yeah, they do. I can't remember one from the other because, yeah, they go till 6, 7, 8 o'clock in the morning. Real quick, before we move on, let me tell you about a returning partner, Quip. Quip is an electric toothbrush designed to make brushing your teeth more simple, affordable, and even enjoyable. I'm telling you, handheld old-school toothbrushes. They don't have sensitive sonic vibrations. Gentle enough to not affect your sensitive gums, Mike. My gums are great.

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And shiny teeth. You know the best thing about those breakfasts was the thick cut bacon? You remember that? Oh, yeah. Holy crap. I've never ate bacon in my life. Which brings us all the way back to win. decided he's going to be a big farmer.

God Almighty, it's like quarter inch thick. Wow. Oh, man. And it was crispy. Man, I'm going to see some Fannistles in Emporia, Kansas, where I'm from, has a, and I just got some for Blake, the steak cut bacon. I mean, I'm talking like half inch thick heart attack in a package. It's good.

Oh, man, it's good. Damn. Emporia, so you went back to Emporia and you donated. enough money to build a community center there? Yeah, yeah, that was one of the first things that we did. You know, hey, when you get an opportunity like this and you get paid well for that opportunity, you want to give back. You know that. Nobody's done it better than you. But that was my opportunity to go back and try to establish some sort of, you know, charitable cause. And once we did that, we kind of went back there and it was like, all right, well, where are we going to have this?

It was like, we didn't have a place. It was the first thing. that, you know, really, and I had just, I will never forget, I had just been to the Victory Junction game camp, you know, so I, and we were actually, uh, went to the Kansas City chamber or something with, with Patty on it, and was trying to pitch a new idea for victory junction game camp right out by Kansas Speedway. They had this big plan and, in a drawing of what the building was going to be like. And as soon as I saw that, it was like, all the stars lined up. That's what, that's exactly what we need in Emporia. And I pretty much took a modified version of that drawing, and that's what we built. A place to, you know, community center, a place

to have anything from weddings to business, you know, meetings and events to school things, kids first and foremost, with everything. I mean, it's so much fun to be able to give back for kids. But the event, you know, Blake came and played the grand opening of it and knocked it out of the park and made a bunch of money that night. That's the hardest thing about having somebody like him is you can't build a big enough venue to capitalize on your talent, you know? But, you know, it was a lot of fun to kick off that building and, you know, just to be able to give back. When you go back to him poor, you see the playgrounds and all the stuff, you know, and it makes you feel good that you've actually made.

All your family still is back there. Well, my old man has figured out a pretty good program. He bounces back and forth. Mom, she stays pretty close to those grandkids. She lives, you know, or stays on a farm quite a bit. There's a house up there that they have, and they bounce back and forth. I mean, this isn't a normal life. You know, he still has his toe in business and has good people, you know, that will run in it or working there when I was a kid and, you know, still there today. So it's just a good, good combination for him.

And your brother, I hear that he's, people think Clint Boyer's crazy. I hear that he's even crazier. He is? I've never, I mean, I met him, met him, but I've never really hung out with him. Up until he turned 40, we looked a lot of like. Oh, yeah. Y'all did, yeah. You don't look like anymore?

He had a thyroid issue about a year ago. Oh, really? Looks to me like. It's stuck wide open. Is it either stuck wide open or it fell asleep? What happens when you put on about 100 pounds? Is that? I don't know.

Does your thyroid quit or does it go wide open? He didn't stop. He didn't change his diet when he hit 40. That's right. That's right. And there is a truth. If you ain't careful, you'll start to look like. him again.

Man, you'll know when I retire. I'm going to be fat and happy. You'll see it. You will see it. I got a question for you. There's a thought. There's a thought. You know,

we talk about all these fun stories. But, you know, you just, or Dale just spoke about a very serious side of you and something you're doing to give back. Now, I want to talk about from a sports standpoint. And we've talked about Blaney and all this stuff.

And we, you know, we think back to the, you know, the couple of qualifying sessions a few weeks ago where you were very animated. And I'm not, I'm not saying that to joke at.

I'm saying is that there's a theory that that had not as much to do with what exactly happened to you on the track, but more about the optics of our sport because the sport means a lot to you and how we are perceived. And you heard booze and it affected you more. Is that true or false? I think I'm very passionate about that. I love the opportunity that been given. Think a lot of it. I think a lot of the people that helped me get established, you know, in this sport that has meant so much to me.

I'm aware. I don't need anybody to, I guess, form their opinion. I know in my heart that I'm aware of the pride that I have of being a part of this sport. And I do love it. You know, it did bother me when I got out. I've never, ever seen anybody boo, you know, and it wasn't booing Kyle Bush or Jeff Gordon because, you know, of a scenario. They booed us. All of you. Yeah, and that bummed me out, and it kind of fired you up. But, you know, I think as a sanctioned embody, you're answering to so many different people. The fans, you know, it's no different than the drivers. You know, we have those driver meetings, you know, and they get in there. They kind of break us up anymore. And at first, I'm like, man, the communication gets, you know, you talk about one conversation

in one meeting, you don't in the next. That's dangerous. But I've put us all together before, and I've seen them put us all together. together before and everybody has so many different opinions that you can't get you know anything accomplished. You know, I think the dialogue is definitely there across the board. You know, sometimes you feel like you're heard, you know, and sometimes you're not, but hey, I get it. You know, I think Jim France being there, you know, he's set next to me in those meetings and that we had just this last week in Richmond. And, you know, I think having the guy there, having somebody there that's capable of making that decision and, you know, wrong, right or indifferent, pull the trigger.

You know what I mean? I think that's the world we live in right now. And if it doesn't work, drop back and punt. You know, I commend them for trying, you know, the qualifying thing. I think on paper, you know, it looks really good. You know, we all watch that and, you know, Daytona every year. And, man, that's exciting. but you can't duplicate that on a mile and a half track.

You can't put a car in a scenario where the first car out is at a deficit. You're going to do whatever you can do to maximize the opportunity to try to be that last car because you know that's your best opportunity. That's not a realistic thing. It doesn't matter if it's, you know, some people say, well, just put four of them out there. You can't do that. You're still going to fight over being the last car. The last car is the fastest car.

You can't have that. And I guess for me, I think. think it's always important not to just put the complaint in. You better have, if you're going to complain, have an idea. You know what I mean? I don't like people that just come up with something and say that sucks, you know, and walk off. Give me an idea, you know what I mean? And whether they listen or not or whatever, I mean, that's what my point was when I talked to, I didn't air, you know, anything, displeasure, anything on, you know, other than my interview, my rant, but, I mean, I didn't say anything, you know, about the situation, you know, in any way.

one in particular, I called Steve O'Donnell and described my weekend, how that came to fruition on that qualifying event. I unloaded, I wasn't fast enough. We weren't good enough in qualifying trim, put our car in race trim knowing that I needed to draft. I got out there, and when Newman got up there and got me stuck in the middle, I was like, well, they're going to call me sitting here, so I got to go. Well, lo and behold, guess what?

I went out there by myself, and guess what? I wasn't fast enough. Qualified 25th. I said, I'm telling you, no smoking mirrors, that's what happened. That's how I got there, and I wasn't fast enough, and that's why I was frustrated. But, I mean, to the point, when I called him, I was like, hey, man, we have dirt late malls that race all across the country. You know, sometimes you go to races, and they pill draw. The guy that sits on the pole, pill draws and inverts the top six rows.

Maybe do something like that, you know what I mean? I mean, I at least have some ideas in the idea jar, too, not just the complaint jar. you know to heat races that i know that ain't a popular opinion i mean i was a guy that went in there this week and said hey you know we're talking about gin seven cars and all this stuff show me on that list all these things that we're doing what's going to make these things wreck right wow what did you just say everybody turned around and driver was like what the hell what you mean i'm like i mean that's what's going to we got to figure out how to have some cautions and have these cars you know crashing every now and then i mean i get it we don't

need to hurt anybody it doesn't need to be dangerous um But when I go to a race, I know back in the day when we didn't talk about qualifying, we just showed up and watched. How many times pre-06 did you see a car crash just flat out bust their butt all in their own and qualifying trim all by their self? How many times that happened? Every week, maybe. Almost every week.

You don't, I mean, you, on the edge. You arguably can't crash these cars. Well, you'd go to certain racetracks and see it multiple times. You know, you go to Texas and stuff and see it multiple times because the track means a treacherous. I agree. I mean, I think there's been a little chatter on. social media about how there's nobody spinning out. The cars are completely stable.

You were talking about ideas for qualifying. You mentioned heat races, pill draws. What would be your idea going to, if you had to go to a mile and a half, if you had to go to Texas tomorrow, what would you do? I would probably, if I had to fix this, if it was mine to try to say it, and I'm not sold that it needs fixed. I think Bristol the other night, you know, all as I talked about, I did interviews last week, and the only thing I talked about was,

was the empty grandstands. I don't want to talk about the empty grandstands. I want to talk about the damn race. That was a good race. That was the best race that I had been in in probably six years at that Bristol track. They finally found a good combination with the traction compound that they had.

It was there by the end of the race. I was past a lot of cars on the bottom, moved some cars. There was some carnage. There was some good race side by side. That was a good atmosphere. I mean, if a fan didn't like what they saw there, I don't know what to tell you.

You know what I mean? I don't know that it can get a whole lot better. You don't have the anticipation of watching a car hold up six, seven cars and knowing, hey, buddy, don't go get that beer. He's fixing to wreck him. You know, I mean, I get that. That was real, and I understand that. But I'm telling you, that was the first time and a long time.

I've been in the car and you're working your ass off. And you're like, man, this is good racing. I think if you went back on a timetable, you know, when we put the cars on the ground, you know, went to the no ride height rule. I think that was a step. I hate to say it. The horsepower was a step. You know, I get that we need to, you know, to be enticeive to the manufacturers, OEMs.

If they need less horsepower to make that attractive to somebody else, let's figure it out. But I also think as we've graduated through, you know, down the lines and evolved with side force and all the things that we've learned, having them things down on the ground and, you know, figuring out the underbodies and all the down force that we've found in the underbody and then that side force. You know, you take the side force off these things with no blade on the back of them. You're not going to be hung out. And when that thing goes sideways, guess what? She's gone. Yeah. You know, you look at all these old cars on the wall and stuff like that. You know, they weren't all branched out. And, you know, when you look at our cars, they're all look like a dully fender on the left side and they're straight as a board on the right

side. I mean, it's, no, yeah. That's a wedge body late model on the back of it. You know what I mean? I mean, that's what our late models look like. I think you take some of those things away. The other thing, the quick fix, if I had to fix short track racing, and if the goal was in fact to create some cautions. How many times back in the day, not meaning to at all, you'd roll under to turn one at Richmond, get into somebody and wreck them.

Happened all the time. The bumpers are lined up in a way right now where it almost aids the car. You might flip them off out the window, but y'all throw them to peace sign too, because it just catapulted you past whoever you were trying to pass door to door. You know, you used to get in a corner too hard. Maybe he checked up for somebody in front of them,

and you took their rear tires five inches off the ground and spun out. And then you look in the mirror and you're like, oh, my God, I just wrecked 12 cars. Dude, I got nothing. I'll try to call him Monday. I didn't mean to do that. He literally did not mean at no intention. I wasn't pissed at him. He didn't do me wrong.

I got into him and spun him out. Didn't you win the Richmond race where the same thing happened to you and Kyle, right? He did. Why did you piss him off that day? I did. Oh, it was so obvious. It was obvious. Nothing happened.

He had it out for you. I mean, I don't know. Did you say something to him for the race? Are you kidding? No, remember all this? Oh, it was like you had, you'd piss him off. He wants us to tell the story. Oh, is that what it is?

Is he baiting us? Lucky you. Hey, you're in the right place at the right time. Hey, if it makes feeling better, the hangover hurt like hell. Yeah. It was a good time. Was that the party where the blow torch come out? Oh, the flamethrower?

The flamethrower? I don't know. You have a flamethrower, right? Yeah. Happens a lot, I feel like. That was when I thought, oh, man, that guy's next level, because I didn't have flamethrowers. No. When it got next level and we were running out of gas out of the tank so much that I thought,

man, let's just go tap into the diesel tank down there. Oh, my heavens. Yeah. We could just drill and tap the diesel tank and would never run out. You didn't do it, though. You just have to get a longer hose. That's when it got out of hand. So you did it?

No, but it would have been a hell of an idea. What's the biggest win? Do you think Martinsville is your biggest win, your favorite win? I think, yes, it was definitely my favorite. I don't think, you know, the biggest win is always your first win. You know, that was my welcome to the big time. Did you, where'd you put the clock? Clock's in a living room.

How long did you wind the clock? Man, that's a real thing. That is a real question. Not very long. I think it's more important that it's your wife. Are you over it yet? I like that thing. So tell me, what's the...

Every hour, bud. Every hour is what the V is. Every hour, it reminds you that you won that race. Every hour. It also reminds your children that are up. every hour when they hear that 10th thing. Bong. So the thing to me is that

we had one of those clocks right by the front door of the house when we lived on the lake. And that thing rang. It worked. And I never thought about it. It never rendered my mind. Like, somebody's whining this thing every couple days. It rang and rang and rang as long as I lived there. Didn't think nothing of it. I went a clock.

I'm excited. I'm a whine this damn thing. you damn right it's going to ring in my house I had to you have to wind it every two days oh yeah I'm like how in the hell did dad spring for 10 years stayed wound somebody was whining that damn thing I got tired of whining it after a while I did too and and that's but I got tired of it

reminding you that you won but I tell you every time Martinsville rolls around oh yeah give her a crank baby let's fire that baby back up get the juices flowing here get some excitement yeah I'll tell you what? The troubles of a grandfather clock owner, my goodness.

This week on the battle. All right. All right. The plight. How dare us complain? Yeah, I'd tell you. I only have one, man. I still, I ain't bitching about it too much.

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You own a dirt team, started that team in 2008. Why do you own a dirt team? Are you going to go back and drive dirt cars one day? Do you hope that maybe, this is because I have this going on with me, do you hope that maybe 15 years from now you still own that team and you can go run? You know, I hope that I still own it. Yes. Why do I have the Dirt Lake Model team? Because that's the only thing I've ever known. You know, since I can remember, I always...

It's expensive, though. It's got to be an undertaking for you with your... I guess we should start with this. The older I get, the longer I've been in a sport, some of the most fun things that I really do enjoy are the relationship sides of this. I love the racing. There's no question. I love getting in that car, especially when that hot rod's fast, and you're mowing up through the field. There's nothing better than knowing I'm going to pass this. bastard. I mean, nothing better, you know? But I really do enjoy what's on the side of those race cars. They're not sponsors. They're not partners. They're relationships. And over the years,

I've had a lot of them, you know, the partners and sponsors that are on the side of my dirt late models are ones that I've had clear back, you know, from RCR days or from MWR days. I mean, being able to keep those relationships alive and keep them through the dirt late models, or whatever the case may be, is really enjoyable for me. You know, those conversations, those helping each other out, you know, I love when a new partner comes on board and you're like, let's figure them out. Let's utilize our tool of an unbelievable fan base to help them be a part of what we're doing and not just for this month or this year for many years to come.

You know, that's my most fun thing to do is try to make their dollar worse something. and make them happy that they made that decision. The fan base themselves, I think all of what we do on Sundays is established on a weekly racing thing. Your love for motorsports started at being at Lakeside Speedway or being at a local track anywhere across the country. Those are the race fans that come and support on Sundays, and that's the millions of fans that are on the road every single weekend watching a race.

It might not be at Richmond last Saturday night. but it may have been down the road at, you know, Hickory or one of these tracks. I mean, the reason they didn't do it there is because, man, it was a special going on in our own backyard. I mean, there's race fans all across the country enjoying good racing everywhere. And I love being a part of that. I think that fan base is phenomenal. I think the racing itself at late model, you know, dirt late model racing is second to none. That was my dream.

I didn't dream of being on, what the hell is this? Dirty Mo. Dirty Moe. radio or podcast. Yeah, yeah, we're close. You're in the ballpark. We didn't even, couldn't even imagine. I still have a Dale Jr.

number eight Budweiser signed at my dad that I had when I was, it was in my apartment, you know, in an emporiate. It's in a shitter now, but, uh, of course. Literally in the shoo? Well, but it is. I walked in my dad's, uh, uh, Towing service the other day. And it's, it's, it's there in, in the bathroom. I mean, those were, those were, that wasn't a dream. That was, that was things that were larger than life and, and not reachable.

What I'm saying is racing a dirt late model for a living and, you know, I always wanted a semi, man, that's all I ever wanted is a big rig, you know. I didn't want a damn duly and a fifth wheel. I always wanted one of them big trucks, a big stacker hauler, and that was really the only thing I ever wanted. So being able to keep that and race those cars week in and week out is something that means a lot to me. So you talked about your career and racing with Richard and racing with Michael Walter. You ran a year with Harry Scott. What was that, do you think about that time in your career today? Does it, did it help you?

And I'm sure you get this question a lot. But does it continue today to help you appreciate where you. are and the opportunity you have in the car today? No, not at all. It was hell and it wasn't good. It was a bad time in my life and it's something that I just know. I didn't appreciate anything of it. I was, you know, I was aware of what was going on and didn't like it and didn't believe in it and

was frustrated. You know, it was just a, it was a bad time. But, you know, it makes you appreciate when you get around an establishment like Stuart Haas racing with the men and women that make up that racers. Did you think that you would get that chance again? Yeah, because it was already signed up and done. Yeah, it was such a different thing. It wasn't like you fell back and that's all you had.

It was either that or set on my ass and, you know, and do a podcast or something. I mean, it was, it was literally, you know, all that we had. And, hey, we had a great group of. of partners that were along with the ride, and, you know, I was trying to keep relevant, and that was the plan, you know, and that was a frustration, too, is it wasn't relevant, and it was so bad that I lost a lot of those relationships, and because they stuck their neck out for me, and like I said, it was, it was a tough, that was, that was the tough thing, had nothing to do with, with anything other than the people that I cared about, you know,

went over there with me, and I let them down, and it pissed me off. Yeah, damn. I remembered that. I thought that you already knew what was on the backside of it, and you just confirmed that. I'm not to say that that made it better or worse. What you're saying is it didn't matter. That year was hell. Oh, yeah.

It was bad. What the hell did you bring that up for? We just having so much fun talking about drinking and old days. How did that help your drinking life? Well, let's talk about that. I tell you what you're appreciating things like that is your family. That's what gets you through things like that, family and friends and, you know, kids, having those kids right then and there was a perfect time to get your mind off of a bad situation going on in your life. I've said it time and time again, them kids, they'll change you.

And, you know, you don't realize that, don't understand the impact of that until you have them and the pride that goes into those. You know, that's why Martinsville, going back to, you know, what was the biggest win was Martinsville because of my family was there. That was the only thing that I hadn't accomplished is to be able to get my family in Victory Lane. You know, the only thing that ever scared me about, you know, kids and raising them is if this was all gone tomorrow, man, they didn't remember or see any of it, you know. And finally to get that picture in Victory Lane and having Cash and Presley up there with Laura was everything for me. See, that's why I asked that question. It's good content. Yeah.

He led you right where he wanted to go. It was about your kids. Speaking of Cash, I'm always curious now that I'm a dad. dad, especially with people that have kids right around at four or five, six year age, they got to be, he's got it, he's already riding dirt bikes. You started in dirt bikes as a kid. Like, do you, do you dream about where he's going, where he might go? Do you just kind of let it happen? Do you daydream about that at all? Do you wonder about him being a race car driver and being what you're rolling that will be? Do you let yourself do that? Or do you just

kind of take one day at a time? You know, the hardest thing, and I think, you know, the hardest thing, and I think, You know, you can attest to this is being, I guess, us or being a race car driver or being the guy, right? I mean, you're the guy. And the hardest thing about that is the thing I love about kids. They help you realize how selfish you are. And, you know, through that, yes, I think about, you know, what he wants to do or what's good for him, you know, school right now. I mean, you're like, you panic to it. You know, first it was the name.

Damn, what are we going to name them? I'm freaked out about that. It's got to be a cool name. somebody's proud of, whatever. And then it's like, it fast forwards to where are we going to put him to school. You know, they've got to have a good education. And it's so important. And then it's, yes, what's he want to do?

Have you? I know you haven't. There ain't no way in hell. Have you ever been asked to be an assistant coach on a t-ball team or soccer team or something like that? I've actually coached the soccer team. That's the worst thing a friend can do to you, throw you under the bus. that deal and then change the schedule around it.

There's no way in hell you're going to get out of it either. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah. So you were asked or you did it? Because how many times when you say, Dale, when you tell somebody you'll, you know, somebody puts you on the spot, yeah, no problem. Oh, yeah. There ain't no way in hell, I'm going to do that. But what do you say?

Did that happen to you? I am the assistant coach for the dirt bags. Of course you are. Yes. Is that what they're called? Wait, no, wait, does that have anything to do your kid? Yes, okay, this is still a catch story. This is where I'm going with this.

T-ball is a big thing when you're up there around the Winston's Salem Mary. And the good thing about myself and trying to raise cash and Presley and everything is we're so close to my brother and his family. We've always lived together, you know, close to it. And they're always over at the house. We're over at their house. My nephew, Lincoln, I mean, I've been really close to him as he's grew up, you know, I've seen things that he was into or, you know, learned things about him that I, you know, put forth to, you know, trying to raise cash ride and I've learned a lot through watching him grow up. I was fortunate to have that and be close to that.

So just like Lincoln, we're playing tee ball right now, and we suck. But that's okay. You know why? Oh, my God. Do you know what your job is as a coach of a tee ball team? There's only one. Do not suck? No, that's not even it.

Your sole responsibility is the tee ball coach is snack. All they really care about is the juice box or the snack. No, it's not Danny Lines either. No, quit picking the damn dany lines up. Pay attention. Oh, you're telling somebody to pay attention. That's what it's terrible. That's why I'm the worst coach in the world.

I mean, I have the equivalency of a four-year-old mindset out there. I'm like, well, pretty damn good dandelion right there, isn't it, buddy? I mean, like, can any of us think of this possibility that Cash is telling the coach, his dad, to quit picking dandelions over there? It's brutal. And then my friend that his son and Cash are the same age, he's the coach, he's like the coach. He's into it and played ball in college. and he is the guy. Brian is such a good coach and is knowledgeable and is really good at making those kids good.

Me, I am terrible. Like, I literally had no intention at all when I told him I'd help of helping at all. And now he changed it to where practices are on Monday. What, you don't do anything on Monday? Mondays are, it's our off day. That's our side. So he literally took your off day. Yes.

So pissed me off. So you got practice today. I guess we're on, oh yeah, if I ever get out of, what is this thing? Podcasts. We may be doing you a favor. But, yes, if we could run this until 6 o'clock tonight, I appreciate that. Take a beer break here in a little bit and roll on through. But I guess what I'm going with all this is, he's, I don't think he's into that.

I don't, you know, I mean, how can you be into something? I've watched Harrison Burton grow up. I've watched, you know, Carson, all these kids grow up in this garage. Chase Elliott, how can you possibly be into anything else? That's the only thing you know. I mean, when he gets behind a wheel of a go-car, he's wanting to lean on you already. You know, if you're racing with him and something, he's like trying to run it over and, you know, rub on you. Or if he gets on a motorcycle, he's already trying to beat you, you know what I mean?

The competition side of their mindset is all about gears. And in my opinion, and that's the other thing. You don't believe in it. I don't, T-ball sucks. Elliot Souther would disagree with you. I got them. I don't even if you're telling the truth there. But I guess what I'm saying, if it doesn't burn gas, it sucks.

Right. Right. Is that the way cash feels? Pretty good. And if the dad feels that way, there's 100%. How do you think we became race car drivers? Yeah. That's how our dad felt.

My dad, I had, he would go to the shop and I was going whether I wanted to go or not. And when we got there, he went to work on whatever his car was. had to find something to entertain myself with. Which was not an iPad. No. It's my next beef in life right now. Oh, is there, yeah. So where are you with that?

Me and Amy, Alla doesn't mess with our phones, doesn't play with our phones. But, man, when we're eating at a restaurant, the phone comes out. She can't differentiate that between a block. Like if she's looking for something to chew on. She sees the videos. She knows where the videos are at. They're coming from the phone. But I don't like it before we eat after we eat.

If you're trying to finish up and, you know, because what do they eat, three or four bites? Then they're done. Then you get home. Then they want to snack. And it's like, it's everybody. It's reality. But after they're done eating, if they eat what, you know, asked them to eat, if they want to chill out for a man. I mean, it keeps, I remember being a kid.

You remember being in the booth, throwing food over the backside of the thing? Parents don't even know. In a restaurant? Yeah. I mean, making faces of the people behind you and raising hell. I mean, that's all stuff that you don't want your kid to do, you know. And that's the other thing. I mean, when you still knows when you go to eat dinner at your, everybody's looking at you anyway.

You know, everybody recognizes Cash. I'm just Cash's dad anymore after his interviews on. I mean, I'm literally, and I'm Cash's dad. So everybody, he walks in first, everybody gets the looking, you know. So your last thing you want is him throwing a salsa cup over the booth. You know, I mean, if he wants to play Lego land for a minute on your phone, have that. Yeah, so I feel it's okay if we're having, if we're in a public place like that. I'm like, whatever it keeps her from ruining everybody else's experience.

But then you worry about people judging you. Oh, I know. I'm not even paying attention. I know. I'm sitting there. Father of the ear right there. Ila scraped, got a little scratch on her forehead. And I was like, damn, Amy, we got a hat or anything we put on her?

We're going to eat lunch. People can't see this. Wait until they start racing or riding motorcycles, stuff like that. My dad, my dad is the worst when it comes to grandkids. He has done raked. It was a whole face job to my Lincoln, my nephew. He dropped him off of the golf cart one time. Ripped his face.

He's all scabbed up. Casey and I stand there. He comes back. Boy, I screwed up bad. We look at my, oh, my God. What have you done? You know? Last week he's riding motorcycles of the cash.

Cash comes back and he's all like mud from head to toe down his back. You could tell he went down somewhere. And dad, nope, he wasn't doing nothing on me. It wasn't my fault. Before Cash, he even had a chance to say anything, Dad's already. It wasn't my fault. Diffuse and blame. So you get to look at Cash's back's all scratched up.

First thing you think, oh man, don't show your mom. Of course, he goes in, takes a shower that night. Oh, my God. What? Have you seen this? What did you do? Grandpa run me over. I'm like, oh, man.

But grandpas are, hey, it's just like, they're a grandpa. They're the luxury of coming in and raising hell with that kid and showing him, giving him candy and juicing him all up. All right. See you. I'm out. Yeah, that's a pretty good opportunity for them. You started at restaurant booths that made me think about you've been in a broadcast booth a little bit over the last couple years. How has that made you, do you even enjoy that?

I mean, obviously you must because you keep going up there. Or is it one of those things where somebody asks you to do it? And you're like, yeah, sure, and you really don't want to do it? No, I enjoy. I really do enjoy it. I think it's fun. I think it's really easy. Yeah.

Damn, thanks. So easy. Just so easy. Poor sweat and work your ass off. I mean, you don't even have to push the button. It's like a headset. It sits on your head and you talk. And literally talk about the same thing you've talked about your whole life.

And that's where I say is it comes naturally because you're bench racing, just like you are with your buddies. And I feel that way. You know, I feel like you're sitting here watching a race, which, by the way, is the best bird's eye view of a race ever. You have the most advanced technology right in front of you, showing you everything that you always dreamed of. I'm telling you, I want to mount that screen in the booth on my dash.

the car. I got it. I don't need anything else. You give me that. You can wear them out. Don't even need a spot or anymore. I'm telling Brett, thing in the past. If you had that, you would literally not need anybody. But, you know, I guess where I'm saying is in all seriousness. It is fun to go up there and bench race with whoever you are in there the last time it was with Kevin. This is a guy that from the very first day I walked in the door of the NASCAR scene, Kevin was my teammate. So sitting there as a teammate in the booth looking down and calling a race, which, by the way, was an awesome race. You know, I picked Bristol for a reason.

Well, I didn't get to pick, but I was, I had Bristol and I was excited about that because I knew the opportunity was there for it to be a good race. But I think opportunities, you know, a thing that everybody blows out of proportion when they see our races, there are opportunities there at any racetrack to be a great race. It's not always a great race. you know, how many times you've been down at Hickory or one of these local tracks and it might just blow the roof off the place one night? I mean, just all hell broke loose. It was awesome.

Everything was perfect. But then all of a sudden the next week, it was uneventful and the leader won by half a track. I mean, it's racing. But it's that way in a football game. It's that way in a baseball game. It's always that way. I mean, yesterday I'm on the edge of my seat. I'm up and down.

I'm up and down. I'm nervous as hell. I'm like, what am I? This is golf. The most boring thing I've physically ever done in my life, I am on the edge of my seat, glued to the TV. It was as intense as any sporting event I've ever seen. I mean, they were down, they were tied for the lead. They were tied for second place, five deep.

I mean, one way or another, and the biggest name in a sport that everybody was wanting to win could have been out, could have been way out. He could have went from the lead to 10th all in the last two holes. I mean, it was as good as it could be, you know, for any sport. And I guess for a sports fan or going back to the booth or anything else, you're happy for the sport. You know, you're happy for that individual, but I was happy for golf. I mean, for the most part, when you think about golf, I don't think about excitement, and I damn sure don't think about wasting my whole Sunday afternoon off to watching that. You know, I was had plans to do everything.

And because of the intenseness and because of the atmosphere, that was going on, I was glued to it, couldn't get away. Yeah, that's awesome, man. Well, we hope you come back. I hope you had fun. Will you come back? I mean, now that you've done this, we've gone, what, an hour and 15? Well, the funny thing is, we were all talking about things we wanted to talk to you about.

But, man, we just got going and started talking about partying and drinking and all that stuff. That was great. We didn't even talk about stuff we want to talk about, so we'll have to have about. Do you think there's any opportunity of me having a job or a career after I've done this podcast right now? I'd say career in both. I mean, the driving thing you got down. So basically, if I can't get a beer route after this, some sort of delivery route, I'm done. You did deliver a beer podcast.

We're an official alcoholics. Basically what we've told to public. Yeah. Yeah. I think they'd do that already. That's a secret. Now, I'm proud of you, man. You've done a good job, but, you know, everybody worries.

I think you've paved the way for all of us to know. Everybody worries. What you're next? Whatever else. And I'm telling you right now, I hope that next. I hope that next isn't anywhere around the corner. I'm having as much fun in that car as I've had in a long time. Our car is good.

The last four weeks in a row, we've been spot on, been knocking on the door. We're going to get. You're in your prime. Yeah. Well, it's fun. It's fun again. And you asked about 2016, that wasn't fun. And I've told people time and time again, I'm with the right group.

The fit factor is important to me. This is fun again. And I think the sport is, you know, we've finally got, you know, gym and people that are making big changes, drastic changes, you know, that are positive things for our sport, you know, but I guess what I'm saying is, is you also make the other side of that look pretty fun, too. You know, what you got going on, this is, look how much fun you guys are having. You're doing things that you just, you did even when you're racing. And I think it's so important to have, you know, when we talked about family and friends,

you're the epitome of that. I mean, look, you're surrounded by all the people that when you came into this sport that you had before, you're still doing it together. And I think that's where people go wrong, you know, when they turn their backs on those people through their career and they were selfish and arrogant and didn't have anybody, true friends, when it's over with, they're sitting there with nothing.

And somehow, some way, you've obviously been a pretty good dude to a lot of your friends. Yeah, thanks. That was my pat on the back to you. That was very nice. He hardly ever does compliment me, so I really appreciate that. But it's not fun that when you have friends, you beat them down. That's what friends do.

Click, Chris. It gives you a lot of shit. You have to, especially when they've locked you in their movies. Well, there's so many people. Yeah, no kidding. There's so many people that tell you you do good all the time. It feels good to have somebody to beat you down. That's not true.

That's what my wife says. She's like, everybody says, everybody's always nice to you. Everybody's, no, he's a shit out of her because everybody's nice. We go to a restaurant and everybody, oh, hey, hey, how you doing? I'm like, man, ain't that everybody's so nice. Everybody's always nice to you. Yeah, yeah. What do you know any different?

It drives are crazy. But your closest friends, you give each other shit. That's what you do. You don't call your best friend and go, hey, buddy, man, I really appreciate you. Yeah, that's true. That'd be nice. What's wild? All right.

You are that guy. You're a softie, aren't you? I am. I gotten softer after I quit driving. Well, I appreciate you. You're doing a really good job, all right? Being a dad. Hey, by the way, one more thing.

So we pulled up, my brother and I, before I go, this is a funny thing. So there's a brand-new corvette sitting in front of Junior Motorsports here, and there's a jacked at redneck. red truck on the other side. Like, well, which one is it? Is he in a Corvette or is in the truck? And I looked over, I said, you could tell he's, he has oblivious

to how things get paid because it's definitely the redneck jacked up truck parked right in front of the mailbox is where the checks go. They can't deliver the checks. You pull in front of the mailbox. That's true. There's a lot of truth and all that, yeah.

For sure. I saw that I pulled in front of the mailbox, but I was too lazy to back it up. Ain't getting any checks. It's your name on the building, you've got the whole road to park on. It's just wherever you want to do. I'm out of the way over there, man. Hey, it's also bills in there, so it might be smart.

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But you know what? And I can't smell them. You can't smell them either. So you probably are. I like the styles. That's one thing. I love the color. Because, you know, forever, when we were little kids to wear teenagers, you just wore the

white tides, you know, or whatever. Just plain old boxers, no good, cool, no good graphics on and stuff. Now I get some cool graphics. All right. Look at the socks we're wearing. They're just crazy socks. It's crazy what people are putting on their underwear in their socks these days. I know.

Almost explicit. It's almost explicit about underwear these days. It's, you know, it's funny. It's as if we think we're going to walk around in our underwear. We're wearing such crazy stuff on them. Nobody sees these designs. Well, that was instilled back in the days when Superman and Incredible Hulk came on your underwear. Then it's like it became a big deal to you, right?

Does that where it started? Well, for me, it did. I mean, in general for society, where we're all wearing these crazy underwear with these crazy patterns that nobody's going to see all day. Listen, I think that. that's where it started. Somebody can prove me wrong. Do you think it's the crazy patterns

give you some sort of confidence that, you know, makes me different. Makes me feel different. Makes me feel good. I feel good. I feel good. I'm going to be a good day. I feel good.

It's going to be good. Happy. I'm just wondering what it is. I'm deep in thought sitting here. I can tell. Probably not what I intended to do without underwear today. Although no one is going to see the pattern that I'm wearing, I am glad that I can get underwear with cool patterns.

There you go. Well, somebody else will see. Because I still have some of the old whitey tides that, You do? Yeah. What? They're kind of a boxer brief, but they don't have a pattern. They don't ever get worn.

No. Sad, sad, sad, sad underwear. Yeah. You're hanging on to them, though. Well, I mean, they're not old. But since I've went to Mack Weldon, I'm an underwear cool now. That's the point on this. Yeah.

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it was white, plain white was good forever. Yeah. Now... When did that switch? I know. Now, it's the crazier or the better. Or if it's something you like, like... Mike's been very quiet about this. I know he is. If it's something you like... I'm literally trying to think. Are you a tidy white guy? Oh, man, I got some socks with beer mugs on them. Love them.

They don't go in my outfit, but I'm wearing them. I haven't caught onto the sock. I wasn't either. My socks were pretty. My socks were pretty. straightforward. Then I went into the broadcast booth and everybody's pulling her pant leg up going, look at my socks today. They're so awesome. You should see LaTarton. No, I've seen it. Oh, yeah. They're over the top with the sock game. I'm killing it today. And so you can just describe it. You don't have to follow. New York Islanders. I know. Poor Leah. I take my shoe off. Yeah. Geez. Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. for the Dell Jr. Download. This is the Ask Junior Live portion of his show on

YouTube presented by Nationwide. Thanks for tuning in. Leah's got all your questions coming in. She's going to team up. All right, let's start with M. Carpenter. He wants to know, are you still riding your bicycle? Haven't seen many posts about it lately. Yeah, me and Amy just went for a ride a couple, about two weeks ago, and that's the first one I've taken this year probably.

I haven't rode my bike at all, and I felt pretty bad about it. And then I talked to Jimmy Johnson, who is getting ready to run the Boston Marathon, and he said he's only rode about 100 miles on his bike this year, but that he's ran over 1,000 miles. So then I felt bad again. crazy. I was like, oh, you're not on your bike either. Thank goodness. You have it. I run a thousand miles. But I still got all my stuff. I still love it.

I enjoy it and I'll probably always be doing it. But it's hard to find the time. I used to make the time, though. I used to get up at 6, 7 o'clock in the morning and go do it. I'm not doing that anymore. I need to get back on track. It's hard when you got a kid. I'm telling you, kids are game changers. It's simply just being lazy, I think. We got a lot of people chiming in about Jimmy Johnson. Would you ever run the Boston Marathon?

No. I mean, you know, no, I don't enjoy running. It's painful. I'm serious, man. That's why I got into biking because I wanted to do something to sort of try to keep myself in some kind of decent shape. And running was painful. I would have problems with my feet, my knees, something over time. And when you're running and you've got a sore knee, you run differently, and that creates problems elsewhere and pain elsewhere.

So I never really enjoyed running much. I did get some, they do make some shoes, though. I can't even remember the name of the brand that makes these shoes, but they're very squishy. That helped a lot. I run a couple times a year. I'll get out and run just to make sure you can still do it. Yeah, I don't even know why I do it. You think, oh, man, I'm going to start running again.

You go run one time, then you don't run for three months. I like to ride the bike, just getting out on the road. And even around, the fun thing about riding my bike is there's roads, like literally a mile or two from my house that I haven't been down. And when you're riding your bike, you can go down those roads and you can be nosy as hell and see what everybody's doing in their yard. and what's going on in the neighborhood. So riding the bike is pretty fun, just getting out and cruising around the roads local to the house. Nitrogator wants to know. How did you get your nickname Junebug?

Well, Darrell Waldrop's calling to try to take credit for it. But I don't know. It happened a long, long time ago. I can't even remember how that started. I think Dad started calling Junebug. Just picked up. No point, no reason whatsoever. My assumption is that your dad,

called you Junebug at some point and DW was in the vicinity and that's how DW started. So Junebug used it all. Yeah, DW used it quite a bit. Dad and I had, he called me literally and he did that because he was trying to needle me. And I would call him Biggie. To needle him back? To needle him back?

Like Big Ego. Oh, is it? Yeah. Yeah. Did you ever call it Big Ego? Yeah. Like you'd say Ego? I would go big ego.

And. We were just picking on each other. Oh, my goodness. He actually, remember he had this hat that said, Big E? Just had a giant E. You had a little E on it. Yes. My mom still calls you little E when referring to you.

Like, oh, how's work going? How's Little E? And I'm like, I haven't heard that in forever. It's kind of weird. That big E. Go. Hey, chiming in. I'm interrupting here because I know she won't ask it.

But Wizard, like a lot of people notice. things in the studio, which is really cool. Wizard noticed the Wally sitting in here, the NHRA trophy of Leah's, and she's bashful about it. She won't ask, yeah. I wouldn't bring that up. Ron Capps. That is my wally that

Ron Capps gave to me my last NHRA drag race. I worked with Don Chmogger Racing for seven years. And my final race, Ron Capps won, and he gave me that Wally. He made a big deal in Victory Lane. He did. I did. I thought that was really cool. I was really embarrassed.

Well, it certainly made us excited because he had so much respect and appreciation for you that you were coming to work with us. We were so excited about that. I get to see those guys in a couple weeks when they're here in Charlotte. Mark McCollum, he wants to know, is there a goal how many cars we can see fit on the table? That's a good question. I wouldn't want to ask that myself because I think that we have room for more. Oh, more are coming. Good, because I think we got some cool stuff.

I think we're on to something. I have one that I forgot to bring this morning. It's Mark Martin's Buick, the O2 Buick, Buckstove, Buick that he raced in 1981. And I left it at the house and didn't bring it this morning. But as we go, I'm just going to continue to add to this. And the tough part about it is for Doorbump or Clear for the other podcast that Brett and T.J. Do they have to take all these off the table. And then they have to be put back on the table.

I told them to bring their own, but they haven't done it yet. Oh, yeah, they're not. Well, don't let their stuff get all mixed in with my stuff. Hey, by the way, that new one that you're going to bring in, I thought the intriguing part is you sent us a picture of it, and I don't know if you saw the picture, but it's like you did some mods. Yeah, I lowered it. Some of the mods, yes.

What? That sounds like the most earned hard thing ever. I lowered it. I lowered the DACAS. It was not, I didn't like the ride height, so I changed it. This is a very important question from Jimmy Baskin, but it kind of goes along with what we were talking about with Boyer, earlier.

Ribs or pulled pork. Oh, ribs. Yeah. I love ribs or brisket. Pull pork to me, I don't like the consistency that much. And so I don't eat pulled pork

often. I don't really enjoy and love. I wanted to get with, I wanted to talk about this with Clint and we didn't. That's right. Since he lives in North Carolina, but he's from the Midwest,

what his favorite barbecue was and what he thought about North Carolina barbecue. And I'm not a real big fan in North Carolina barbecue, Mike. I'm not either because of vinegar. I don't particularly just gravitate towards vinegar.

I like vinegar because It's in a lot of other things that I like, but... But you don't like it on your barbecue. I just don't... Yeah, I like the thicker barbecue sauces, and I like brisket and ribs, and I don't... Pulled pork is kind of a Carolina thing. But I was just going to say,

if you don't like the consistency of pulled pork, that right there has to do within your preference to... Yeah, of not your non-preference of... I know. I almost hate to talk, to admit it, because I'm from North Carolina. You're supposed to love all things in North Carolina, but I can't get down.

It's not my favorite. We didn't forget. The guy wouldn't shut up. I mean, my God. Gosh, Clint Boyer was just going on for an hour, and we've realized, oh, we got to move on. A.B. once to know, did anyone take a shot with Boyer? We didn't. I was just kidding. It's too early in the morning, man. Even I won't drink 4 10 o'clock. I mean, that's just, you've got to have some personal rules.

Even on vacation? No. Yeah, on vacation, I probably wouldn't drink 14 o'clock. No. I don't think, I feel like, come on, man, there's, there's got to be a boundary. There's some boundaries. There's some things that you just, even as a dad, if I'm on vacation by myself, with some buddies or something. I might have to pop top for 10 o'clock, but that's getting pretty aggressive.

Because when you're with your buddies, you're going to drink all day. You can't start drinking at 9 o'clock. All of this is stuff we talk about with Boyer. So there is that. We didn't do it, but certainly some interesting conversations. When is it? Okay, so I guess a good question is, what's your limit? What's your personal limit?

When you're willing to start? What's the earliest you're willing to start? When do you start? If it's a Saturday, you're on a beach vacation. These are the perfect parameters for starting early in the morning. Maybe you're hanging out with your buddies, no kids. Oh. Maybe even the wife in there. You've got total control of the situation.

I think 10 o'clock is early enough. 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock. Yeah, if you go early, like put it this way, when like Bojangles stops serving biscuits, then it's time to drink. It's time to drink. But Bojangles doesn't stop serving biscuits. Is that what you're trying to do here? You can buy a biscuit at Bojangles all day.

Hey, are you, do you have a drinking problem? I rolled her off the trailer this weekend in Buffalo and put a set of stickers on it. I didn't wreck. I didn't wreck. I think 10 or 11 o'clock, the only reason I would say is that I just can't, and I know some people are different, this is just me personally. I couldn't drink with breakfast. Like having beer with my eggs. Bloody Mary?

Yeah, I don't like Bloody Mary's. I'm just saying, but this is just me. Mamosa. I wouldn't drink with my breakfast. So let's call it 10 o'clock. That's a good, nice time to start. Yeah, 10's really pushing it. And it's too late.

10 o'clock's too late to eat. If they're still morning in the air, you don't need to be popping open, popping open, cracking a beer over. There's there dew on the grass. Yeah, if the sun's still letting burn the fog off. Yeah. We should ask that a boyer. Like, when is the start time for Boyer, do you reckon?

I would say it's about the same 10 or 11 o'clock. Now, everybody is shiming in about when to drink. What are they saying? A lot of, a lot of. lot of all day. You can start whenever the sun comes up. Really? Whatever the hell you want. Yeah, mimosas.

See, I don't drink a lot of mimosas or bloody mary's. Yeah, me neither. I would have one of those at 9 o'clock for a breakfast or something, so I don't count that. I'm thinking cranking open a beer, turning it up. Right. Turn up a long neck. Judd Miller was at R.R.

And he opened the first one at 8.30. This morning? Damn champion. No, at Richmond this past weekend. Oh, okay. Yeah. God, yeah. I guess if you're a race, right. If there's a different set of a hour.

Now we're learning. There's a lot more to this than we even thought about. There's some discovery going on here. Racetrack has its own rules on this, which is to say there isn't any. All right. That'll be it for today. All right. Good stuff, guys.

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Thank you for writing that. Somebody's name is Davis Deal with it. I don't know. Has anyone noticed that no matter what race track Dale is talking about, he calls it blank Motor Speedway. Even if that's not part of the track name. Really? I don't think I've noticed it either, but you said...

I do. Daytona Motor Speedway, Phoenix Motor Speedway, Nashville Motor Speedway, Nashville Motor Speedway. That's it. What was the guy's screen name? Davis deal with it. Man, people always give you crap online. I know what is it? You know what I say about the internet?

He doubled down, though. He gave him crap and me crap. All right, Lance 7419 says, I've listened to this podcast for years now, but it has never been as good as it is today. Side note. How are Mike Davis's teeth that nice? Well, that's just a little secret. I'm not going to disclose.

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T.J. Majors used to be regular on the Dell Jr. Downline. Wow. This is a days, man. Way back. Is that T.J.'s Burner account? Philip Dale, probably. I think Dale's, if T.

If T.J. has an account, Dale is in his account name. I'll close on that note. There you go. All right, buddy. We got some odd history for you. Coming up on Talladega. In 1975, Neil Bonnet entered the race at Talladega in his own cup car. He spent 10,000 on the top motor.

And it was 10,000 he really didn't have. He also knew it was a motor that he was going to blow up. What? Yeah. That's so weird. Isn't it? So after discussing with his wife, he intentionally installed more gear than he knew that the motor could stand. His hope was that he would run up front long enough to get the attention of a team owner or a crew chief and obtain a more competitive ride.

Wow. That's awesome. The gamble paid off as he led the race for 12 laps and was running with the leaders when the motor we finally let go. Along with that performance, Taladega and the experience in 13 other starts in the 1976 season, he was able to secure a chance at driving with master mechanic Harry Hyde in 1977. That resulted in two wins that season, which catapulted him into the Wood Brothers 21-4. the rest is history. That's awesome. That's cool. Neil Bonnet. All right, guys, good show. I had fun. Thanks, Clint Boyer.

It's late enough. We could go pop a beer. Yeah. It's Beer 30. Let's go. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Dirty Mo.