The Dale Jr. Download - 291 - Kyle Busch / Isla Earnhardt: Crashing the Party

Episode Date: March 31, 2020

Who wrecked who? Dale Earnhardt Jr. brings Kyle Busch on the show to discuss the Texas iRacing Pro Invitational & more. The two rivals discuss dealing with life at home because of the pandemic. Kyle's son Brexton hops on to meet and then interview Dale Jr. Co-Host Mike Davis gets Dale to open up about why he stays informed of the news surrounding the Coronavirus. The DJD gang uses their "big ass mics" to chime as well. Nothing brightens the day more than a child, as Isla Earnhardt makes her podcast debut. She not only steals the show but nearly ends it. Special guests make Dale Jr. laugh in AskJr presented by Xfinity and we deliver an Odd History that's worth at least 50-cents. 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.

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Dale Lerunhard Jr. Hey, everybody. It's Del Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download. Week two of quarantine. And we are here recording. Everybody's actually at home. doing this from their own houses.

And it's been fun. We've had a good time. We've got Mike. What's up? Matthew, everybody here, ready to do a show. We got Kyle Busch coming on later. Can't wait. I said, I can't wait.

Oh, you can't wait. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. Talking to Kyle Busch, we're going to ask him about Sim Racing and what else he's doing. What else is doing? Everybody's just sitting around their house on their phones on the couch, I bet. All right, man. So this is show number two on, you know, on the,

on the laptops and with our in our home studios how's everybody doing man we're doing good i tell you what show number two on the couch uh this is uh i'm afraid we're gonna get you're on a couch you're not in couch are you're not i use that figuratively guys come on work with me a little bit i mean it's not leah is that mic new that looks nice it is new yeah yeah cool i got i got new mic all you all all you all have new mics this week yeah except for mike okay same set for mike with the same Mike? Old school. I know where the pecking order is now.

You probably had one and just refused it. No. Why is your Mike? Let's be honest, Mike. Did you want me to Jeremy Jermickstein to come deliver it? I got donors germs, honey. Did Mike refuse a new Mike because of the worried about the germs? I think so.

Hey, I thought I was overly worried about the germs. but you know you can like you know you can wipe down your packages when they get when they get delivered and do what you got to do there but Mike refused it how thorough was I Leah how thorough Leah saw the thorough nature how thorough was I well I delivered your own mic so dillner was very thorough and I wiped it off when I brought it into my apartment again after he just sprayed it in Lysol in the parking lot and I took it out of the box and I plugged it in and it it didn't work. So I'm like, what do we do?

So then I had to actually go to Best Buy in Morseville. And they had the most amazing process ever. I never got out of my car. No one ever came near me. Everything was through my passenger window. They were in gloves, masks the whole deal. For real. Hey.

And how did you pick out your item? So I pulled up there. They had a tent and they said, what are you here for? I said, I'm here for an exchange. And Matthew had already talked to them on the phone. So they took the old Mike, asked me what was wrong with it. And then they went in the store, brought me my new mic. I was in and out of there in like less than 10 minutes.

Dang. I've been needing a webcam and I've been waiting on it to be shipped from a manufacturer. And I probably could have drove over and done that. Now, they're all out. I checked for you. That's right. By in the like 400 mile radius. I imagine webcams are flying off the shelves.

And that's figurative too, Mike, much like the couch. the um i just um yeah like i have been you know i don't need no webcam uh what do i want a webcam for i'm not doing any webcam stuff but now it's the only way you can really communicate this is i've got a laptop here but i'm trying to get a webcam fired up so i can uh you know be part of the process during those races that uh fox's been putting on where they look in on the driver's driving um so trying to get buttoned up there but can i just tell you i was not afraid i didn't refuse that a mic because of germs. Well, that's okay.

Y'all don't ask my reasons for anything, but it had nothing to do with germs. It has to do with the fact that those mics are the size of the Hindenburg. Only mine. Yeah, it looks like you went shopping at the Adam and Eve store. To be quite honest, that has been, that has been a bit of an annoyance about this Mike. Because look at this thing, man.

Exactly. Look at this. That's obscene. It's just ridiculous. Look at that. Mine's blue. face right there. I mean, this thing takes up the whole screen.

You barely see it. I know because I have a good shot. You know why? I had to basically put my laptop on top of a cardboard box so that the mic wasn't like this. Really? Exactly. My laptop's on a book.

Yeah, exactly. Just to get these giant microphones out of the shot, Matthew. All Matthew had to say to me was, hey, I need to get you a new mic. It'll look just like mine. and I'm like, no thanks. I think you should give that to Leah. Thanks, Mike. I'm actually real happy with mine,

but you are right. They are giant, way too big. And then he puts that, and then Matthew puts that puffy thing, puffy thing on top of his mic. It looks like Bob Ross's head on it. I just pop a lot of peas,

so this thing helps me not pop peas. You pop a lot of peas. That sounds like a personal problem. I don't know. Do that offline, buddy. Pop your, piece somewhere else, not on my show. Well, anyhow.

You got no segue for that, do you? I'm speechless. Any new developments in anybody's lives going since last week? I've removed, I haven't, I don't know if I've, you know, we could pop this into the show or any of the clips, but I've, I have a, I have a DJ booth in the basement

and it's a 48 pickup truck cab. So, you know, when you're down there hanging at the bar, having a few beers, you're looking at the front of this truck. And if you want to go in the DJ booth, you kind of go around into the interior of the truck and you can look out. And I have over the years since 2009 or 8 or whatever decal this truck completely covered the entire cab with decals. And I have cleaned it of no decals. I've pulled all the decals, probably 150 decals. Oh, really? There was a dirty Mo Media decal on that.

There was awesome old school ones. It was a dirty-mo radio. Yeah. There's old-school ones, though. You wanted to change our logo and the whole name of the thing. So it's now dirty-mo media. So all the dirty-mo radio stuff is obsolete. Is that why you tore them all off?

Because it just didn't feel right anymore. You know, I know there's more important jobs to be doing around my house. And I'm going to do them. But I saw it. I was like, you know what? Amy always hated that. I'm going to clean that truck up. I saw some pictures of it a long time ago before I decouered.

I'm like, man, it looked good. It's nice and clean. It's kind of a matte black, kind of a low gloss black, I guess, mild, mid gloss, but I just finished today.

I just finished pulling all decals off of it with some goo goo goon, and I had really long fingernails. I've trimmed them since, as soon as I got done, I finally trim my nails because I was like using, I let my nails go really long, because they were a good tool for pulling all stickers.

It's like a DIY segment. segment here. I just finished. I got the goo gone to get the rest of the residue off. And then I waxed it. I cleaned the windows. I ain't never done that. I've been living here with that truck for over 10 years. I ain't never touched that thing. And now again, man, waxing it, clean the windows like as if I was going to drive it down the street. Yeah, it's crazy. So there's another little project. I'm going to do a little outdoor patio for Ila and give her a place to play. I've been working too, Mike, but more the work that I've been doing is emails. NBC is going to start firing up some stuff going on that I'm going to be a part of over the next week,

particularly next Wednesday. Stay tuned, I guess, to find out what we've got going on, but it's going to involve a lot of past history and content races, but also an iraicing component. But it's been pretty much the same. now that I've got the truck done or cleaned up. Yeah, what's next? We've been trying to use the pool a little bit. Ila loves to swim,

and I've been really excited about getting her more acclimated with swimming and more comfortable with swimming. And yeah. So one of the things, though, she is not comfortable with. Maybe you can help me here, Mike and Matthew, brushing your teeth. I cannot get out. with a brush your dang teeth. It's driving me crazy. Oh, I've got one. What is it? Song. Huh?

It's a brush him high, brush them low. Yeah, that song. Give your smile that shiny glow. That's how we got Hudson and Annabel. Yeah. In on it. All right. What was your method? I think he just told you. Our method was No, like, I know, I want to play. I want to play it out. Play it out. What you do? Okay. We gave them the brush and put the toothpaste on it and at first they're just going to suck on it okay when i when i put it in it when she sees it she goes what type of toothpaste you got for i'm like come on now she goes and i'm like i can't even get started like we we did it a few times and uh you know maybe putting some bubbles in the bath i could i could trade barter but um you know what type of toothpaste do you have for like like is it like the kids fruity type stuff that they like candy on

kind of a gray. Dug. Concrete, you got it. Yeah, it's that old. Hammer? No, no, no. Give the kids some bubble gum toothpaste or something. She's not getting bubble gum toothpaste.

She's going to get toddler toothpaste. That's what the hell she's going to get. Yeah. But what does it taste like? I don't know, man. But this seems like a big, it's a big, it's a big piece of information.

Maybe she doesn't like the taste. Well, that's not my decision around this house. Oh, what he's saying is. All right. I got it. We're reading between the... I'm going to use...

Let's just say that I'm using the toothpaste. face that's given to you. That's given to me. And I've got to try to coax her into brushing her teeth. I want her teeth to be awesome. They look great now. And I want to stay that way. But I cannot get her to take me seriously and take this toothbrushing thing seriously.

It's so frustrating. So that's kind of been going on each night because we just started brushing her teeth pretty much in the last, you know, a couple months. Maybe not even that long. But, good Lord. Frustrating. I mean, we brushed her teeth before. that but with sort of that little thing you put on your finger and not the real not a real brush right

and not toothpaste because you're i guess you're not i don't know i don't the rules on yeah but yeah that's been kind of frustrating for me so are how closely are all you guys keeping up with the are you guys like plugged into covid updates every day are you trying to distant yourself from it so you can not be you know worrying all the time i'm plugged in You're plugged in. And so where does that left you right now? Are you, uh, give us your distance? Okay.

So, um, you know, it, it's hard to have this conversation because it's hard not to involve politics in it because you can't have the conversation about the virus without involving nations, decisions, truth, false, eras, mistakes. Um, so I don't really talk about it a lot. Even in our own home, um, when I talk to Amy. about it, I basically just share her, I share with her news that I've heard or just to make sure she's sure how serious the situation is. But I don't get in a conversation of, do you think this was wrong? Do you think this was right? Do you think they should have did this or that?

So I try to avoid those. And I'm going to do the same thing here. You know, I don't want to get an argument or read on my social media. about how wrong I am or how bad my ideology about it is or whatever. So I'm just going to say that I read as much as I can, and I make my choice on what I think I need to know, what I think I need to do with that information. And I do try to encourage my friends. You know, we have a big group text that a lot of friends are on there,

and I do try to encourage them probably more than I should, to take it seriously. And the one thing that I fear is that we don't know the truth about how bad this is. Sure. All right. Particularly with China, I think that information is going to come out, whether what they've been telling us is the truth or not. That's eventually going to be known. And it's best for me, in my opinion, to err on the side of taking it very serious.

not, you know, not assuming that, man, if I get this, I'm, you know, I'm not going to have a big issue. It's going to be not, it's not going to be a problem. Plus, Amy, you know, we talked about last week, Amy's pregnant. I want to protect her from having any issues with that. I don't want my daughter to go through that, being feeling bad, being sick. I mean, I've heard accounts of friends of mine, people that I know that have had this illness and it's rained. from mild fever, hardly anything at all, to I couldn't walk and get out of bed. And I was quarantined in my bedroom for 20 days. Couldn't see anybody, couldn't leave the room, and was feeling pain and stressed

that I've never experienced in my life. So, I mean, you can't, why, I'm not going to take any chances, because I don't know how I'm going to react to it. I don't know how my family could react to it. I don't want to be away. This is already bad enough, right? I don't want to be in a worse situation. I can't even, you know, I don't want to be in a worse situation.

I'm not going to get it. I don't want to get it. I'm trying not to get it. I'm trying to not, you know, keep my family can get it. And so I don't really, you know, watch the news all day. I just kind of scam through different spaces to find kind of what I want to find. And maybe in the evenings before I go to bed or when I wake up the morning, I sort of get an update on what's been going on around the world while we've been asleep.

because it's changing every day. Every day there's news about something happening, whether it's getting worse here or it's been an outbreak over here or this country's now involved in some serious situations or that science has gotten better or whatever. I want to know what's going on. So I'm pretty plugged into it. I'm trying to stay aware, you know, stay knowledgeable and aware.

How about you guys? Well, this morning, I'm, first of all, I can't stand how politics come into this type of conversation. It's like, to me, it feels like if there's one place that it should not be political, this ought to be it. But yet, because it's us, we're all political and it's, you know, we can't help ourselves. So I'm like you. I don't want to get into the politics of it because that's the part I hate anyways.

I'll tell you this, I know there's a virus. And I know there's, it's getting around. And I know that I got to do some smart things because I don't want my family to get. My wife's in the health care profession. I don't, I'm worried sick about her because they're calling in all those people into the front lines to deal with this stuff. And I'm worried about all our health care professionals, frankly. But the fact of the matter is like this morning, I had to go to the store. And man, I looked like, I looked like a mummy going down those aisles.

I looked like, I mean, I'm wearing gloves. My daughter made me a mask. I'm saying, you know, she didn't want to send me out. I had to go to the store. I had to go to the store, right? It's like I had to go. And I had to go get some stuff. And so it was the first time I'd been out since this is really kind of ratcheted up.

You know, I was out several weeks ago. But this is the first time I've been out of my little abode here since this is really ratcheted up. And I'm telling you, man, it's so weird. You got people with masks in the grocery store. And you got this one lady who just didn't care. and is going to sit there and cut you off and walking. I'm just thinking, I'm calling her names in my head. Here's one for you.

The interstate is all but empty, right? And yet I saw a guy today go from the slow lane all the way over, like, wow, all the way over to the pay lane because he wanted to, I guess, beat traffic. Well, there is no traffic. I'm like, there's just some idiots out there, right? You mean a guy? Yes. Let's the regular lane to run the, what do you call them?

The fast pass lane. And they're not, there's not a, not a car on the interstate. What an idiot. Before those poles start coming at you, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had to basically do Dukes a hazard across the interstate to get into the pay lane when it's empty. The whole road is empty, right? So it's just like, that was entertaining for me. I, you know, I've laughed at that. But I'm just like, listen, I couldn't wait to get to the store and get back home. because the way I see it, there's only one way I'm going to get it. And that's getting out into the community.

And I don't want it. And part of me's like, man, before it's all said and done, I mean, this thing I still feel like we're on the front end of it. I mean, like, you know,

good chance it, you know, of the, what is it? The four of us in this thing, you know, one of us could get it. Pretty good.

I mean, the chances are good. I don't want to freak out about that. And I don't, I just want to be smart. That's me to be smart. And, and,

you know, I want our businesses to still, like I want to come up. I like the challenge of coming up with some new ideas so we can keep kind of doing what we set out to do. But, you know, I'm just trying to stay away from it all. So staying away from the constant updates because that to me just starts affecting my whole mood.

Do you feel like, Mike, that everybody in your house is taking it as seriously as they need to? Man, that's a great question. So my kids still don't understand what this is all. about why they're not in school. You know, and like, you know, God bless them. They'll do things. And I'll be like, don't touch that.

You know, we'll be walking down the road. And, you know, we'll be doing something. And I'm just like, you know, they'll see one of their friends. And they're like, I said, keep your distance from them, all right. But their brains are not wired to distant themselves from them. Because their brains are not wired to understand what a virus even means or what we're going through, what a pandemic means. And so they don't even know how to process it.

My wife, on the other hand, as a health care professional, like I said, she processes things in her own way. A lot of times, I don't know how to say this. I mean, a lot of times she's like, listen, here's a good example. She being in the role that she's in, she was ready. She wanted to go volunteer. Now think about this. What if this was Amy or Matthew, what if this is your wife?

She's like, I need to go down to the hospital. She starts pulling out her scrubs that she's, she hadn't using it because she's in a more of administrative role now. she's not on the floor, but she was ready to go. And I'm like, where do you think you're going? No, no, no, no, no. Don't go. No, what are you doing?

You know, what about us? You know, you're going to go down there. And that's such a selfish, I felt rotten for even saying that, right? I did. I ain't going to lie. But she was ready to go. It's like, you know, a soldier ready to go fight the war. And, man, you talk about a difference of approach.

And we really had to come to an understanding. I'm like, listen, I can, I can, appreciate that. And sorry for my selfishness, but I don't want you to go. You know, I'm not going to lie. No, I feel the same way. My sister-in-law is a doctor in my hometown. And so they're very lucky. They haven't had anybody in my entire county test positive. But, you know, she goes to work every day and they're testing people and like, you know, there's stuff going on there. They have a full tent set up outside the hospital. So anybody, with any respiratory problems.

They don't come in the hospital. They stay outside. And she comes home every day and she takes her scrubs off in the garage. And, you know, like, it's just, we're a pretty tight-knit family. And, you know, she's got a big family. I've got a big family. And, you know, we're used to hanging out and, like, you don't, she's not seeing anyone besides my brother, which means now my brother can't see anybody, you know.

So it's just, it's terrifying, you know, thinking that, you know, she's going to to be exposed. Like there's no doubt she will be exposed to it. That's just scary. You know where this week got real when Joe Diffy died and I'm not like this big Joe Diffy fan club member or anything, but you know, now of a sudden people that we know of celebrities, I mean, we know that the virus isn't selective. Right. But it becomes a lot more real when when people, you know, that we know of and that we like, you know, like Dale said or somebody at my home track I saw. you know, up in Long Island got it and he's an older gentleman. And it wakes you up a little bit.

You know, we're not shopping anymore. I shopped the other week before our shutdown and just got as much as I can physically fit in our little freezer. And I told Erica, she was going to go out to Target and do the curbside thing the other day. I'm like, let's just hold off and maybe once every two weeks we'll do some master reset, huge shopping thing and do it curbside. But that's it. I'm not leaving my yard. But you're inviting the entire neighborhood to come to it. No, that's an exaggeration.

My neighbor's kids come over. They go on our swings and my kids go on their trampoline. And we know where they're at. They're not leaving the house either. You know, the mom is going to work from home. The dad's working from home. It's like Leah said, it can be scary. You just can't freak out about it.

And you just got to close up and protect your core, protect your family. And then, you know, protect. ourselves here with the show. What we're doing right now is a reason, you know, we're all trying to protect each other. Mike's been trying to protect us and keep us away from certain things. And there's a lot of tough decisions and we're just doing the best we can. Everybody has to just do that and be respectful. Yeah, I agree with that. And I feel like that with the initial reaction from just our industry and from, you know, the public in this area where I live, of, we've all learned, you know, the initial reaction was, you know, we're going to try to get back to racing within a month.

We're going to try it. Now it's going to be two months. Now it's going to be three months. It's, you know, and will they shut down Mecklenburg County? Will they shut down this area? Now it's the whole state. I mean, you know, it seems to be ratcheting up. And what that tells me is, in my mind, is that we're all.

all learning like everyone is learning about this in real time and we're all starting to see that it's more serious than we first thought and I still don't know that we have a great peg on just how serious it is and so I'm not going to open myself up or let my guard down until I know exactly what we're dealing with and I'm not going to take any chances and so you know hopefully, you know, I just hope that eventually things get back to normal. I don't know when that's going to be. And probably not, it's definitely not going to be soon enough. So, you know, my house was real disappointed to hear that we were going to be, you know,

kind of buckle down here for 30 days when North Carolina made the announcement that they were, there was a stay at home for everybody. And I, that, in my mind, I'm like, well, you know, I can be, you know, don't be disappointed about that because this could get longer. This could get delayed into the summer and even further. And you just don't know. You just got to mentally be prepared for this to be quite a long process so that you can, because every day. And listen, I'm, I know that there are people in worse shape than us and worse shaped than me. But I know if I get out of the bed every day going, damn, it's like groundhog day.

every day I get up and go, well, here we go again, Amy. Another day of doing what we're doing with, you know, and it's frustrating. And there are times when I get overly frustrated and necessarily frustrated. Amy has those moments as well. And I think where every household is going through that. And it's just going to be a little tougher as the weeks go. I do really empathize for Amy. I cannot imagine, in you, by the way.

I cannot imagine being pregnant going through this. That right there would, that's a whole other level of anxiety that I can't even contemplate right now because of something you said last week on our show and that was, you know, the normal appointments that we're so accustomed to doing, you know, finding out the sex of the baby,

finding out this, man, it occurred to me, and I've forgotten about this, but it occurred to me, those are so important when you're, you know, especially for your wife. I mean, like my wife, like those were huge. and like huge because they're now like wired into everything is about that baby.

Everything's about that baby, right? Yeah. Everything. And so the smallest little like missing an appointment here, missing appointment there. I had forgotten until you mentioned that. And I'm like, man, if you're Amy, if you're Dale, that's got to be incredibly anxious. Yeah. I mean, there's so many things that they learn from the blood work, you know.

Sure. Yeah, we just, we just have to wait. but, you know, talking to Amy, she doesn't even want to go to the hospital, you know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, she doesn't. She doesn't want to. She's like, you know, I don't want to be anywhere near hospital right now with everything going on.

And, you know, and I'm actually, I'm actually comfortable and confident because I'm, I believe in things happen for a reason. This is all, you know, we're in this situation. There's a reason for it. I think going to these appointments would be nice, learning this. information about our child would be great. It's not essential. It's not, you know, a critical knowledge.

But there's a reason why we're not allowed to know this information for whatever, you know, whatever that is. There's a reason why we're having to go through this process differently than we did with Iowa, whatever that is, you know, it's all going to make sense. It's all going to work out. And whatever, whatever hand I'm dealt, you know, every day I try to justify it or reason with it or make sense of it and just play that hand. So day by day, boys, I'm telling you what?

It's one day at a time. It's one day at a time. And I appreciate you guys being honest about it. And a lot of the, for our listeners, we're very, you know, concerned for you too. And I appreciate, listen, we don't, we have not talked about this. The four of us on this show right now, we're doing it. I've been curious about how my friends here are dealing with it and coping with it. And a lot of us times we just need to talk about it out.

loud of, but we don't really do it during the week. And so for better or worse, listeners, you're getting to hear us kind of go through that process right now on this show. Yeah. And I know y'all got a lot of questions there by listening out there about when we're going to go back to racing. We thought we would go back to racing at Martinsville or we hoped we would. Now there's a stay-at-home for Virginia that extends beyond that race. So that really changes maybe what NASCAR is capable of doing for that event. But we don't know if this is going to push things back in the midsummer or even beyond that. So it's so fluid. And we've got to be able to understand that the plan that we have today could change tomorrow. I'm really enjoying the

outracing thing that we're doing until that process happens until we do get back to racing. I'm actually enjoying it. The first week was a bit overwhelming. And after that homestead race, I got done and I was like, man, I don't know if I want to do this every single week. But then we race this past weekend in Texas. Mike, you put together a pretty cool thing with Steven Steffen, my crew chief, if you will, during these races, to be able to stream from his point of view. He's a, Steven's a streamer of many video games and very active on eye racing, so he's very capable of doing all the things we need him to do from that streaming platform and interact with people chatting and so forth.

and I know Leah, you're going to help us with that as well. That was a lot of fun that brought a new element into the whole experience for me. I got done racing at Texas, and ever since that moment, I have thought so positively about that experience that I'm really excited about the next race. Whereas after Homestead, I was like, hmm, I don't know if I want to do this. I don't know if I want to commit to this. I racing's fun. I like to clown on that sim and just enjoy it.

I don't want to be scheduled to race. I don't want to, you know, you know, I retire. from that. What we did this past weekend with Stephen's streaming and given the fans that sort of point of view, we had 15,000-ish people tune into his stream and watch from his vantage point. You could hear me and him talking about our pit stops, our strategy. You had T.J. Major spotting for me as well, and he was in there chatting as well. You could all listen to that on that stream. Appreciate you guys' efforts to put all that together and made that experience for me. a lot more fun.

Oh, man. It was incredible. Listen, this was this Twitch. Stephen has a Twitch channel, as most, you know, a lot of gamers do, for sure. It's not like he's the only one, but we basically got to

just watch you and listen into your team channel, you, Stephen, and T.J. talking. And by the way, go to Dirty Mo Media's, by the time this podcast comes out, you'll be able to go to Dirty Mo Media's YouTube channel and see kind of a highlights of that. Steven Steppen as the crew,

chief, I had no preconceived notions on what that actually even meant in your sim world. Had no idea. But Stephen puts his crew shirt on, his Hellman's crew shirt on. You know, he looked a little like Harry Hogg sitting there on the pit box. And he actually was engaging with people. You know, the people in the charity, like you said, there was 16,000 people that came in at some point of this stuff. And at one time, there would always be three or four thousand.

And so you got Stephen sitting there, crew chief in your race, engaging with you, obviously talking, communicating with you, also answering fan questions. It was an unreal experience. It made me, like, I had options. I had to choose between Fox's broadcast, obviously, Brett Griffin and Freddie Kraft doing their live stream, or this. I looked at all three of them, and I chose this because it was actually more entertaining for me. And no knock on all the other people. They're all doing it. It's just whatever your preference is.

but that was I hope we do it some more. I hope we do because that was a lot of fun. And it's sure to give a lot of insight into your race. Yeah, appreciate it. I enjoyed it. Made it a lot more fun for me. This weekend we got Bristol coming up. That's going to be a wild one.

I think they're going to change the format for that race to where we'll run some heat races and maybe a smaller field for the main event to keep the calamity and chaos down a little bit. But still, I'm glad that they're not avoiding these short tracks, which will be more challenging for everybody. on the sim. It'll be carnage.

It'll be a junk. Yeah. I'm glad they're not avoiding it. So they could just avoid it and go to Dager somewhere, but they're going to let it rip. I'm liking that. And I told you, keep an eye out for some of NBC's ideas.

They've got an iraicing component coming out here soon that I think people are going to be excited about. Yes, we should be able to bring in Ka Bush. He's going to call in and tell us his experience about what he's enjoyed about. about eye racing. He's a new member of the service and his two races under his belt. I feel like he really improved from Homestead to Texas. We're going to ask him about that and also see what

he's doing during quarantine with his family. So let's see if we can get Kyle online. Let's do that. Matthew, while you dial him up, Dale, how about you hit us with a next door ad? We got a new partner this week. Hit us with some next door information. Matthew, you go ahead and dial up Kyle. Look here. We just got joined by Kyle Busch. What's up, man? Gosh, you guys were way too ugly. Well, you knew that.

Yeah, I knew that. All right, so we got Kyle Busch coming into the podcast. Thanks for calling in, Kyle. I know you've got better things to do to be hanging around. Not really. Really? No, I don't, no. Well, how has it been for you?

I mean, we've all been talking about how this experience has been for us, but give us your perspective of what you've been doing. for the last few weeks. It's been pretty interesting, that's for sure, obviously, just kind of staying at home, being at home, and not doing a whole lot. But, you know, getting into this ir racing gig, that's certainly been the first part of all of this stuff going on and trying to figure all of that stuff out.

Last night I was actually trying to figure out how to run a sprint car. Them things are damn hard. And that's been part of the fun. And then now we're doing house projects. You know, we kind of hear about everybody else getting into the house gig and doing some stuff. And Samantha decided she wanted to do. to paint the basement. So we're doing baseboards and trim and doors and walls and everything.

So I'll be there down there for about the next month. Man, so you're physically doing this work yourself, I'm sure. Yeah, yeah. I saw the, I saw the estimate for the, you know, the price that for painting it all and doing all that and paying somebody to do it. And I said, that ain't happened. Yeah, I would imagine during a quarantine, the price doubles if you need help for payment. Actually, no, the price came in about two months ago, maybe, a little bit before the quarantine happened. Oh. And still, it was like, now I can see why these guys wanted to charge so much.

The material is not that expensive. I think we're 450 bucks into materials, but time and effort, that's where it's at. That's pretty awesome. I got to give it to you, man. I haven't really, I've got into a few small projects around my house, but nothing like that. That sounds pretty elaborate. You talk about it's going to be intense. so pray for me.

Yeah, I will. You know, you have been involved in eye racing props to that because not everybody has dove into this. And, you know, all the drivers that do participate, it really is big for all the fans that are sitting around waiting on racing to get back to normal. So it's pretty awesome that you're involved. And the fact that you really probably didn't do it much before, if at all, you've learned on the fly for the last two weeks. I feel like that you were the most improved from homestead to this past Sunday. There was one particular point in the race where you were driving up through the field because you had either done the strategy better as far as getting new tires under a certain caution,

or you were also learning really well, which is one of the key parts about eye racing and saving your tires for that long run. What have you learned over just a few weeks that you've been doing it? because it seems like you're grasping it pretty quickly. Yeah, the biggest thing there was, like at Homestead, I kind of felt like I was halfway decent. I just qualified in the 30s. And then every time I was kind of on my way picking off cars after about 10, 12 laps,

because guys would burn their tires off. I was making my way up through. The wrecks would happen, and then it caused me to have to go to the back and start all over again, you know. So qualified in the back again this week at Texas. I didn't get a good qualifying lap in. The field's really, really tight. Yeah.

But past that, just was able to pick cars off. You know, we got into that wreck down the backstretch with Blaney. He was trying to do the side draft on me to slow me down. And I texted him after the race. I said, hey, you know that the side draft algorithm doesn't work, right? Like, you don't have to be that close. And he didn't know that. So some of these guys, it's new to them as well.

But overall, I was able, like you said, drive up through the field. I think I got as high as, like, ninth by myself. And then we had that caution late in the going. and then it was going to be, you know, the four-lap blast to the end and whatnot. But just spending time on it, kind of getting used to the driving of it. And like you said, saving the tires a little bit, but also just the ability of being able to work on your lines, work on the visual. The visual aspect to me is the biggest one. You know, like you're looking at a screen, but it's also you've got to look in being able to find your lift marks,

being able to find your throttle up marks, being able to see how far away are they really of you? and the mirror aspect and all that. So it's just learning, trying to figure all that out. Well, it's been a lot of fun to watch you and a lot of other guys get acclimated with driving on the service. You've had two Sims now, two different computer setups and steering wheels and pedals in the two races. What's the process there for you? Yeah, the first one I had, I was over at Ty Gibbs's shop, and he's got this sim craft, the spaceship one that looks like Denny Hamlins.

Yeah. And then the latest one that I ran was a borrowed unit. I asked the Toyota guys if they'd let me borrow some of theirs. They had some. And so we brought it over to my house and got it all set up. It's a Carolina Sim unit, which I guess is who do they use for the rig? They use somebody's rig, right? Yeah, they buy rig components and put it together themselves.

That's the same one that I bought many months ago. Pretty good. I'm real happy with it. I'm real happy with the feel and I've got the feel all set up. I got the vibration thing all going the way I want to and the feedback through the wheel, right? It's just my visuals, the screens, they're so wide but so short that I can't see all of what I want to see. So I think the screens are wrong. They're like 32 inches wide by 13 inches tall.

Like that's not right. So I got to get different screens. So that's next. I hear you, man. Well, there are a lot of adjustments that you can make to make the point of view or the field of view what you want to kind of capture what you're looking for if you're looking for more dash or whatever. But you're going to learn all this stuff. You're going to learn so much to this process. I guess you're going to continue to compete going forward as long as this thing's going.

Yeah, I'd like to figure out how to use it as a tool and use it as something that can help you because everybody's kind of getting into the real SIM world, right, and going over to TRD for us. Ford Performance has one. Chevy's got one. Everybody's got these SIM units. Well, if you can just get three hours a day and kind of learn some of the nuances and the tendencies and practice those and use the tools.

and use the tool properly. Like to me, I went and ran Bristol late last night, and there were guys running around there at 1450s, and I started blasting off laps, and I think I ran like a 78 or something like that, but it was so unreal. Like, that's not ever going to happen in real life, you know? Like, just throwing it in under the top,

sliding up to the wall, bouncing off the wall, hammering the gas, and driving straight up off the corner to run a fast lap. Like, yeah, you can run a fast lap, but in all reality, that's not real. So you've got to be able to use it as a tool and use it right. Yeah, I'm a little bit nervous about Bristol being a short track and the wide skill set that we have in the series from front to back.

Yeah. I'm sure it's going to be a little bit different format, though. I'm hearing different things about heat races, smaller field for the main event, things like that that may improve as far as how the race goes. But it should be fun to watch everybody try to skip from that. Homestead in Texas is pretty straightforward, not really too challenging as far as throttle points and so forth, but Bristol will be tough for everybody.

Even me, I haven't really put a lot of laps in at Bristol on the sim in a long time, so it'll be tough for everybody. Yeah, it definitely will. I can see where getting used to it and just running laps. I think one of the guys, one of the real sim, the professional guys, said he turned like 2,000 laps there or something this week to get ready for tomorrow night's race. So crazy amount of time can be spent on that stuff if you're willing to do it and get into it. Hey, hold on. Dale says that homestead in Texas was pretty straightforward, not like Bristol, until you get your ass run over.

Who was it that you were referring to in your video that said ran you over with four to go? Because I don't know who. Dale Jr. ran my ass over. Man, I was on the inside. Carlo. You knew where the groove was. I was coming down. I had to get down. I was waiting. Okay, so here's what happened. So I come off a two and I didn't really get that good of an exit. Junior had a little bit better of an exit on me. So he got a little bit of momentum. But I saw everybody up front, like four, five, six cars in front. They were all dodging left.

And I'm like, oh, they might wreck here. So I wanted to get off to the right to get a better vantage point and viewpoint to see if they would wreck. And they never did. And by the time I was coming back down, it was corner entry. And Junior was there. He plugged the hole. So what the heck, Jr.

That's what you got to do, man. It's four to go. Yeah. I thought we were both wrecked. It spun you out, I'm pretty sure. And I knocked me down on April. and I'm losing spots. I'm thinking, oh, darn, this is bad.

But then they all wrecked in front of us, and luckily I got through most of that and ended up getting up. I've seen that. I saved your ass. You saved me. Yeah, that little mistake down into turn three between us was what really kept me out of the big wreck that happened on further around the corner. So funny.

That's why we wanted you on. We wanted to say thanks. I do appreciate that. All right. Well, you're welcome. But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how, like, was like four or five other times in the race that I'm running down the backstretch and I got to run on a guy and I

roll out a line and I show them my nose like hey I'm going to put it in here and they just turn down and come across your nose and sometimes you don't know if they're clear or if they're not clear because I think the delay on the um the spotter you know calling it or whatever is just a little slow uh like it is like literally somebody's on your inside or whatever but you can be like almost there or like you where I might have rolled out a titch. I don't even remember, but you stayed wide open and just threw it in there, and the wreck is on, you know what I mean, where some of these other times during the race, I was getting out of the gas to make sure I didn't run over somebody in front of me.

But you're right, when you come to four to go, it's time to go. You've got to go and get all you can get. So the wreck is on after that point. Yeah, there were some funny moments in that race. A couple guys running pretty crazy. I don't know if you got around Suarez or Nimichick. Nimichick ran well, finished well, but boy, was he aggressive. And Suarez was just wild man.

So funny. He eventually got ejected out of the race because he tried to Intuitary Rink Ty Gibbs on the back straightaways. That was the funniest thing ever. Wait, wait. That really happened? You got ejected from the race? Yeah, he was ejected out of the race for trying to intentionally wreck Ty,

Todd Dillon down the base right away. It's on Twitter. I don't know if you follow social media much, Mike, but it's on there. What is that? Even O'Donnell said you're called to the virtual trailer. even though Steve O'Donnell's joking around. But it's so funny, man, I was laughing the whole time pretty much. I'm trying not to take this real serious so that the bad results don't get under my skin.

Because you can, you can get so competitive. We're race car drivers, you know, you want to win. It's easy to get frustrated. But I'm trying to have family. I just run up and run seventh. I thought seventh was going to be a hell of a day. I was going to be happy with seven. I would have took that after some of the things I went through.

Hold on. You guys, I wanted to ask you both this. Is it possible to get as angry in a sim race as it would be a real race and another driver. Yeah. It is. I don't think it's, I don't like so Blaney, we're going down a backstretch, right? And I'm minding my own business and he crosses me over out of two.

And then he sidetrass me, hits me on the straightaway and wrecks me. And I'm pissed. Like I'm mad because I'm like, damn it, there's only one reset. And you just ruined it on lap 12 on the straightaway. Like, really? But in all reality in real life, if that would have happened in real life, you're going to want to go punch that guy. Yeah.

That's a good point. I guess you're right. I was thinking that it would be the same kind of anger because I've seen, I've been in leagues with T.J. Majors and a bunch of friends in Madden. And I've seen Madden do some bad things to people. Ruin friendships. It brings the worst out in you. And I think Sim racing, you can allow it to get there if you wanted to.

But no normal sane human being would probably let that happen. But you can get frustrated. But you said T.J. Majors, that's all you had to say. He also said normal and sane. I don't know who that is. It's none of us. like who Dale who is the best

Sim racer in the world right now in the world like yeah like maybe in I racing just in I racing who is the best well they're going to race on Tuesday nights in the pro series that that I racing has and you know it just

they're all there's 40 guys that race every every other Tuesday on this pro series and those are the best guys on the service those are the 40 best oval racers on the service. Now there's an equally prestigious or elite road course series

that runs and those guys are the best on the service in the road course, which is a lot more technical in my mind. So they call them aliens. Those guys that are really fast are, that's sort of a referred term

in the Sim world as you're an alien if you are just ridiculous at what you're doing. And it's funny because you would think that if we all put the same amount of time we all would be about the same in talent or ability. There he is. We would.

Hey, what's up? Hey. Hey, buddy. How you doing? Know who that is? No. That's Dale Earnhard Jr. Ask him what he does.

What do you do? I'm a talking head these days, buddy. He used to race cars. I think we're looking at the lead painter of the basement right there is what we're looking at. I don't think it's going to be, I don't think it's daddy. Yeah. Ask him how many? How many races did you win?

I won a handful, a couple dozen. I won some in the Cup series and some in the Xfinity series, not as many as your dad. So you won some big races, right? You won the big races, right? I won a few, Daytona 500, a couple races here and there.

Uh-huh. Are you going to win some big races one day? What are you going to do? You're going to race? Yeah. Or are you going to play something else? I'm going to golf and race. Golf?

Yeah. What was the first thing you wanted to do? Do you remember? No. I don't either. You said something you wanted to do while you were a kid, and then he wanted to go golfing, and then he wanted to be a race car driver,

and when he was done with all of that, he was going to be a dentist. Hey, all that pays really well, so that's great choices. I think he's planned all the way out to 60 already. Is he having any driveway races lately? How much what? I see you guys any driveway races lately?

I've seen you guys all the time goofing around on social media on the driveway and all racing. Yeah, we were racing. Now he just learned how to ride a bike. So now we've been doing the bike riding stuff. And so that's been pretty fun and been doing around with that outside. And what else is we doing? The go-kart thing, we haven't gotten on your go-kart in a little while, huh, man? So we've got to get going on the go-kart stuff and get back out there because he wants it.

Hey, what do you really want? Don't you want? Yeah, what kind of race? A quarter midgett? Yeah, he really wants a quarter midget. So I told him, I said, we ain't getting that until you can show me that you can drive in one of the go-karts that you've already had. Yeah, he's about that age to be getting involved in competitive racing. So would you go asphalt or dirt, or do you have any kind of plan in your head?

I don't really have a plan, per se, but we can do whichever with dirt or asphalt. I think Millbridge is obviously running a bunch of that stuff. It's not real quarter midgets over there, though. I think they run those QRC parts or whatever it is. But yeah, we were going to get with a few friends that have some of that stuff and go out there and test a little bit and see if he's interested in it and can make some laps and what he can learn there. And before we really get going.

So we had him on the Simrig last night, run in Texas. We had a bit of trouble trying to make a lap. So we got to get better there. You had him on the Simrig? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was letting him drive. I had to turn the force feedback back because when he crashed, it about snapped his wrists.

Oh, man. That's funny. Hey, listen, this is why I was asking you, Dale, about the best. Because Kyle, he's saying the best out there run on Tuesday. If you had no family and nothing to do, how long would it take you to be beating those guys on Tuesday nights if you were completely committed to Sim race? Dude, it would, I think it would be, I think it would be close.

to 80 or 100 hours a week, probably for two years before you'd really be able to start winning the pro races? That's what I think. I don't know. Yeah, that's what I was going to say is that before Brexton jumped up there and stole the spotlight, I think that, you know, we can put the same amount of time, but some guys are just going to be better, and that's why they call them aliens. Some guys are just going to have a knack for it. Like William Byron, for example, we all put. in so much time trying to get better and run well and qualify, but he's going to get that pole by two or three thousandths over second place. He just has, you know, put, he just knows how to

get around there, knows how to do it, knows all the tricks. I mean, there's a few tricks to pull for qualifying, but if everybody's pulling them, I think that was a good representation of who's good and who's the best. And right now, I think Byron is the guy to beat in the Sim world as far is all the real world racers out there competing? Yeah, for me, like, I put myself kind of like William, because when I was a kid, like, I had the steering wheel and the pedals just mounted to my desk and a computer screen that I was running off of. I did that from when I was like eight until when I started racing until I was 13.

And then when I got racing when I was 13, the Sim stuff, that was the papyrus days. You remember that? That kind of went away. I didn't do a whole lot. So I haven't done this stuff since I was about 13. and it's obviously morphed into way more than what I remember it being. But that's how William started. He was a kid kind of getting into it and racing a little bit, got interested in it,

then got into racing in real life about 13. So 14, he was a late starter as well too, but he's obviously still kept up with the Simworld stuff and is still really good at it and making it work as wild. So he's always going to be one of the guys to be for sure. Yeah. Well, man, we appreciate you giving us a minute of your time today. I know you've got a lot of things you've got to be doing,

especially with getting it. You sure there's not anything else we can talk about? He's looking for something. Anything? You've got anything on your mind. We'll talk about it, buddy. I hear you. No, it's been good.

It's been fun. Just trying to bide my time before I've got to get back to work. Well, have fun. We hope you're doing well. Hope you stay healthy. Hope you keep your family healthy. And can't wait to see you back on the racetrack. Trying to win some races, buddy.

You got it, brother. Sounds good. Looking forward to it. Hopefully we can get back going here soon. But y'all be fun and do good. See you later. Yes, sir. Thank you.

You got it. Good game. Thanks, man. All right. Have fun. All right. We will. I have no idea how you exit out of a meeting, so you'll have to figure that one out yourself.

I got it. I'm pushing buttons. See you. See you. See you. All right. Where we got next there? Bring it up, Leah.

Ash Jr. Get it. Start it. Start the segment. What are you going to practice? You have to practice? Start. Start.

I did see where, uh, I know, Matthew doesn't like his background. Oh, he's, I hate it. I'm doing it right. This is hysterical. It's perfect. There we go.

I like, take off. Cushing it. Don't like this pressure. Don't like this pressure. Go, Leah. Okay. All right, guys, it's time for Ash Jr.,

presented by Xfinity. First question is coming in from Jeff Berner. In the interviews you have done so far, what has been the most surprising story you've heard? Well, I think in my whole life or just this quarantine part because there's two, it's like a whole, there's real life and then there's this life.

Real life. The most surprising story that I heard. You know, it probably have to be the Gary Ballou. I'm sure I'm going to think of a hundred after this, but the Gary Ballou one to me is pretty interesting. Him smuggling and then getting caught and then going back to smuggling. I just still can't get over that.

and the fact that he was so good as a race car driver and just really gambled it all away and gambled it away twice. I go on and on about this story. But to me, that's pretty incredible. You know, just to be, you know, doing all that to fund racing and be successful at racing and be good at it and have it all taken away and have to go to jail, that just blows my mind. Pretty wild story. I'm trying to think of others.

just some of the stories about cheating and not so much that they did cheat because it's in my belief that if you're not trying to cheat in racing you're not trying hard enough to win I mean if you're winning legal great good job but the creativity and ingenuity

that goes into trying to circumvent the rules or find holes in the rule book really impresses me and some of the things that guys have done in the past We talk about Smokey Unique and several of these legends that built motors or built cars and found ways to make those cars do things they shouldn't do within the rulebook. And that's always really impressive to learn how they cheated. You know, it's really cool to find out some of the things that they did. And try to take that cheat or take that thought process and apply it to today's technology.

right and see if it would even work again today or maybe find with today's technology a more ingenious way to accomplish the same idea that to me is really cool next question is from crit is there any possible way that i racing can model cars from the past decades to race absolutely i mean those cars exist so i racing can go scan those cars the only thing is is that they have to find out how they drive, right? So with today's technology, basically iRacing goes and scans a cup car. They go to Goodyear and get the tire data. They go to the racetrack and scan that, right? And then they can basically make a realistic simulation of how that car might feel or drive, right? With something in the past,

it's a little harder because there's some missing pieces, components. Maybe the tire technology isn't available, the data, the information about the tire. That is so important because it connects the car to the road. Maybe the guys that drove those cars aren't around to be able to explain what they felt like drove like to be able to make the cars feel realistic or feel like they should feel. So it gets a little more difficult, but they've done it before and they've already done that. On the road course side, they have historic cars and there are a lot of people that are fans of them. So I don't see why they couldn't do that on the Oval side, bring back some stock cars from different eras.

And it would be a lot of fun. It's got to be coming down the pipe because there's only so much of today's content that's available. Eventually, every track's going to be out. Every car is going to be available. And they're going to have to go back into the history to find some cool things that people really appreciated and bring that back to life. Next question is from Adam Zam Body. What shows are you and Amy watching to get you through quarantine aside from kid shows? We watched that tiger show, like crazy guy.

Crazy. Tiger King. Yeah, Tiger King. Of course we had to watch that. Everybody's talking about it. Mike, you've seen that? Tiger King. No, but I have heard nothing but awesome things. I got to check it out. It's awesomely awful. Oh, yeah. I've never seen anything like it and probably never will. That was great. We've kind of, we were watching The Hunters, which is on.

Amazon Prime. And I mean, it's really not that big of a deal. I've watched a few things. And we're not watching a ton of TV, to be honestly. Friends is on quite a bit. You know, Friends is on every channel, it seems like. So we watch a lot of friends. But that one show, The Hunters, is pretty interesting because not Robert De Niro with the other guy.

Al Pacino. Yeah. I swear, I would have guessed Al Pacino when you said Robert De Niro, but I'm like, surely this isn't going to be so close. Well, that's kind of like so similar. Yeah. In my mind, right, as far as their credentials and success and roles they play. But so that show is really cool because I'll start over.

So that show, Mike, in World War II, after the war was over with, they brought a bunch of Germans over here to help us create rockets and do cool, you know, crazy stuff. They were big, they were scientists and all that, right? And Russia got a lot of those guys and we got some of those guys. And now they're in modern, in today's, well, it's actually in the 70s, this show, The Hunters is where these Jews that survived all that they went through in World War II are going around and finding these guys and killing them.

Oh, wow. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. And it's based in the 70s as far as what this show is, which I'm really curious about the 70s and one of my favorite decades. I was born in it, but don't remember anything about it and love everything that I see about it. And so the style and sort of what people, you know,

how this show is sort of shot is pretty interesting and creative. But so we watched that, heard it was good, watched it. And I don't know what's next. Next question coming from Brandon Lurick. With these irises are teams able to sell space on their cars as they would in real life?

I'm just curious about the economics. of these races. You know, that's a great question, and I've been talking to Mike about that. We don't drive for an organization. We have a blank canvas basically to do whatever we want with this paint scheme. This past weekend in Texas, we decided to give a nod to Helmonds because they were, you know, we're going to drive a Helmonds car at Homestead. It's not happening today. It's not happening when it was supposed to. So it was a great chance for us to show some support and love to a partner that's been with us for a very long time in Unilever and Helm. And so what we do with that space going forward is really up to us.

Other teams may not have that same feeling or same approach. Some of those teams are going to ask, like for example, I'm just assuming this stuff, but for Kyle Bush, he's probably going to have to drive the M&M's car. Now, what M&M's wants to do with that livery, change it, promote whatever they want, they're probably going to do and take advantage of that opportunity. But Kyle's not going to be able to go maybe and run whatever he wants. I don't know. Some of these guys are going to be kind of tied to the current organizations they

drive for, current partners that are their sponsors. And we may do that as well, but we have a little more flexibility, which I liked. And it was great because I got to run the filter time car, the first race. Big, big boost for filter time, a small company that I'm an owner in. So we can get creative with that space, and I'm excited about that. All right. Our last question is coming from a couple of. special guests. It's actually in your group me, Dale. So pull that up. Great. Okay.

Yo, what's up? Brett Griffin here from Door Bumper Clear. I got my buddy Freddie in the house. What's up? Freddie Kraft in the house. Hey, Dale Jr., I got a question for you, man. I've always heard in real life that if you pay peanuts, you end up with a bunch of monkeys working for you. I mean, what do you pay a guy to spot for you that doesn't even show up for the first 15 laps? That's funny. That's pretty good. Yeah, maybe you should tell the story in full here. What happened?

Yeah, we were, we started the race at Texas, the simulation on eye racing, and TJ was my spotter, and we're running along. Everything's going great. Crew chief's talking to me. I'm racing, driving, doing my thing, everything's fine. And then TJ comes in, like, lap 15, goes, oh, man, y'all started? I didn't know if you started. Oh, man.

Well, and I was like, oh, I thought TJ had been there the whole time. He just, you know, was being quiet. yeah, y'all seem to really enjoy that. And I know that Brett knows guys are going to give him a hard time. So it looks like I'm getting ready to lose him to Ligano, though, because Ligano's coming back. Your comment was what was hysterical. What was my comment?

You said, Oh, welcome to the race, T.J. And then later, when you actually, hit the wall or you done something and then like three or four laps later tj goes hey well what happened there did you uh you're i know he's like i just looked away are you watching the race tj yeah i'm sitting there running see this i know t j so none of this surprises me but i'm running along and i hit the wall and i'm gathering my thoughts and trying to figure out how to fall into line and not get run over and he comes back he goes what happened man you're running 34th a minute ago where you're in

I'm like, where, where are you going? Are you getting up and walking away? He's going in, he's going out in the yard. I don't know what he's doing. But, uh, Claire. It's worse than that, Mike. I mean, it's even worse than that. He's going to walking over to the bookcase behind you and checking out what's over the bookcase and reor, you know, he's babysitting. That's right. That's what he says. All right, guys, that's it for today. Thank you, Exfinity, for sponsoring to Ask Juni. your segment. Good to have you on board. History.

Okay, here come to Ila. What's up? Sweet pie. A seer. Okay, okay, okay. Come here. Can you sit in my seat? Say hey to Mike. Oh, hey, Allah. Oh, hey, Allah. Don't eat it.

Talk into it. Oh, what did you do? Like this one. You can talk into it. Hello. Hello. You're going to push the buttons. Push the buttons.

Hello. Hey, Alla. Is that? Hello. Stop that. She's muting you. I love it. Would it be great if she could mute me?

You going to talk into it? Here you want to hear? Ali, do you want to hear? Here. Oh, hello. Can you say hi? Hi. Hello.

Oh, dear, sweetie. Listen. Sing. Go ahead and sing into it. Twinkle. Let's sing. Twinkle, twinkle little star. How I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high.

Like a diamond in the sky. Sing it. Tinkle, twinkle little star. I wanted to hard. Yay! Yeah! Good job. Thumbs up.

We did it. We did it. Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Let's keep doing this. Keep more. We need more.

I wish everybody was like this about our podcast. Yay! Oh, here we go. Gila. Let her get. I got. See what I got? What is it?

Clinkle. Don't do that, Ila. Don't touch the buttons. Don't touch the buttons, I like. Okay, I got it. Let's get them back. Let's get down. Uh-oh.

Oh, here comes the meltdown. Oh, no. Meltdown. We're going to have meltdown. Okay, okay. You can come back. Yeah, let her back. We finish out the show with her.

Let her finish up. Hold on. What's going on? Like you're choppy. Uh-oh. All right. We got you back. Can y'all talk?

Yep. Y'all all messed up now. I'll change the settings. All right. She's back. Yeah. Let her finish out to show her. She's back.

What do you want, honey? What do you want, down? What do you want? What do you want? All right. Color, Iya. You can color.

All right. Dale and Ila will do the odd history. Okay. Ila, don't draw on your hand. You're going to get us in trouble. Oh. Color too. now this is going to be awesome to see if Dale can actually do it with her on

on this lap. I can do this. You're ready to get down. That would be great. She lets you off the hook. Yeah, that'd be great. I'll go back. I love back.

I need the pen, honey. You can't have that. I'm going to get in trouble. You come back up. This is the reality is working at home. It's awesome. I love it. This is my face.

I just want to watch this. Ready get down. Bye-bye. Hi-bye. Oh, my gosh. Here, hold on. Let me put this right here so you can climb up here. I'll read this, okay?

Welcome to my daddy phone. You want to watch Coca-Mellon? Welcome to Daddy phone. Well, go get your iPad and watch it. Where's your iPad at? What's your iPad at? Honey. You disabled my iPad.

Thank you. Disabled. Well, that'll take down the screen time. I'll drop that thing by half. Ila. Let's read this. Yeah, tell her you got a story. I got a story, I'll read your story.

Oh, NASCAR man on Twitter comes up with some good ones. I've said it before. Here's a, I've said it before. He's a great follow on Twitter. He helps us with some incredible tells on a regular basis, and this one's a classic. I'd never heard this one. So pretty interesting. It happened during the 1970, Southeastern 500 at Bristol. The race was filled with mechanical failures, and by the end, the field was incredibly spread out. How spread out? I mean, Kale Yarborough blew a motor

with 44 laps to go and still finished third while parked in the infield. So that tells you what kind of day it was. Near the finish, it was a two-car race between Donnie. Allison's Banjo Matthews-owned Ford Torino and his brother, Bobby Allison. Donnie had a three-lap lead over Bobby in the closing laps. And this is where it gets interesting. Suddenly, Donnie had a new threat. Jabe Thomas, who was running 150 laps down, pulled in the pit road. He stopped his number 25 Plymouth in Donnie's pit box.

You see, Jabe Thomas was a teammate of Bobby Allison's. jabe pulled into donnie's pit stall and asked banjo matthews a question he said how much would you pay me not to go out there and spend donnie out banjo told him to go back on the track and he'd think about the question for a few laughs banjo checked his pockets and told crew chief herb nab to hold up a sign for jabe to read fifty cents jabe thomas saw it came back to pit road collected the two quarters and returned to the race With the bribe paid, there were no incidents. Jade Thomas raced to a 12th place finish, and Donny Allison won the Spring Bristol race.

Pretty cool. There you go. 50 cents. It sounds like it was a bit of a lighthearted joke between them. Yeah, fairly, right? All right, Ila. What you doing? Cleaning up?

All right, everybody. It's the last call. Time to wrap up this show. I want to thank Ila for being a part of it here. She's still over here messing around. I'm involved with a fundraiser for COVID-19. And I wanted to tell everybody about that. At pledge it.org.

That's pledge it.org. I donated a signed pair of my signature skeleton racing gloves for the athletes for COVID-19 relief. Anyone who donates at least $25 to enter will have an opportunity to win these gloves. Go to Pledge it. pledge it.org slash Dale Jr.

hyphen relief. All right. Let me say that again. Pledgeit. dot org slash Dale Jr. hyphen relief. That's where you're going to enter. As of this taping,

we are only about 25% to our goal. That address again is pledge it. org slash Dale Jr. hyphen relief. Speaking of nonprofit efforts, I want to talk about the Dale Jr. Foundation for a second. We have some fundraisers coming up, including the Windale Junior's Ride Raffle. That's right. You want to get down? Okay, here. I'll be honest. We've spent

a lot of time asking ourselves if we should proceed with a lot of these fundraisers, and every time it's clear that our partner charities need our support more than ever at this time. So we're going to continue that. These charities are still providing meals for the hungry school supplies and educational tools for children who are now having to learn from home, wellness to those at risk. So yes, we're going to proceed with our fundraisers. You'll be hearing about them soon and I ask everybody to help in any way they can. Lastly, I believe our TV show will be firing back up in a couple of weeks. All right? At first, we heard it will be next week. Then we heard April 15th. I will just keep giving you the latest information I have. But be assured, NBC Sports is working on getting our show

back on air as soon as possible. So we're happy to hear that, Mike. That's right. Everybody keeps asking us, man, and I'm telling you, like, hey, they're doing the best they can up there. They're fighting the stuff that we're fighting, but we'll be back on soon. It may look a lot like this. That's fine with me. I don't think anybody else is going to care either. I hope not. I really don't think they will. There's just not a lot of content out there right now. Sports is all on hold,

so whatever we can do to help people to be entertained is good with me. Oh, you got somebody in the background walking around there, Leah. Taylor's home. Yeah, I see him. Taylor, how you doing there, buddy? Good to see you, Taylor. He's on the couch. Oh, Taylor's on the couch.

Good to see, man. How's he doing? Is he staying safe? Yeah, he is. He's saying busy down at the farm. Is he taking this thing as seriously as you are? Yeah, I mean, he goes. Y'all have conversations about that,

sort of back and forth about who's taking it seriously. I think I'm probably taking it a little more seriously than he is. But he did, does he agree with that? Probably not. but he goes on the farm and he only sees cows so he's pretty safe down there you'd come back with that mad cow see that's a whole other conversation all right the animals can get you didn't know that all right i've been reading about this um um i did hear a cat i don't know yep heard cat got it no really yeah i read somewhere the cat had heard that some cat guy cat guy what owner gave the owner

I think the owner gave the cat, the virus. I hadn't heard that. I don't, hey, y'all need to Google. See what this is. If it's on the internet, it's true.

Yeah. It's true. Okay. That one for me falls into, I don't know what I trusted, but I did read about it. Got it. Until I hear more,

you know, confirmations of animals being infected with survivors, I will be skeptical. That's right. We will. You didn't need to tell us. We'll be skeptical.

We need a second. Y'all need to be skeptical too, okay? Also in the tabloids, Dall and our junior reports. Yeah. Now being infected. Don't follow this track. How do you make your background blurry?

Oh, my. Are we done? No, I think we should do more of this. Yeah. I think you should. You should explain that plant. Here we go. Did I blur y'all's backgrounds?

On the beach. Mine is the best. Leah, you ain't going to throw in a background? She's got the perfect apartment. I would throw up a picture my dog, but then you guys would just shit on that too. His first curse on the download. It might be.

Dale, what is in your background? Like, for real. What is that back there? Can I ask it? Like that yellow thing back there. It's a framed photo. Of what? I think we got that.

Yeah. So it's a car. Isn't it cool? My light shines right where the headlight. So amazing. Hey, Dale Jr., this reminds me of something. Hold on, I got a question for you. On your desktop of your computer.

Oh, yes. Oh, yes. All right. Yeah. What is the desktop picture? Oh, my computer? Yeah. I don't think it's anything.

Okay. What would you say about a person that has a picture of themselves as their desktop picture or their screensaver? Just picture of you, just picture themselves. Would you have an opinion on that? Yeah. Yeah, I bet you would, wouldn't you? Yeah. Yeah.

What do you think about that person? Kind of a douchey, kind of a dochy move? It's not a picture of myself. That's pretty douchey, Matthew. Hold on. I have a slideshow of like some of my favorite pictures from the. off Speedway's shoot so far, and it just happened to share the screen, and the one was like a picture of me.

No, it wasn't a picture of you. It was the glamour shot of you. Look at that. He's trying to take a picture of himself. Of a picture. And he's going to put it as his desktop so he and Matthew can be seen. Okay, okay. This has been fun.

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