The Dale Jr. Download - 357 - Dale Jr: If You Hit Me, Then I Hit You

Episode Date: September 14, 2021

Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s one race of the 2021 season didn't come and go quietly. Jr. and co-host Mike Davis decided to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly from his race and bring in some of the characters in play.Dale's 14th place finish in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Virginia's Richmond Raceway ruffled a few feathers. The 2-time Daytona 500 Champion discusses the on-track incident that wrinkled his racecar and led to the sub-par result. Plus, the post-race discussion between him and a not-so-happy Kyle Weatherman. It was a conversation that still has Dale chippy.During the race, Dale Jr. also traded some paint with Xfinity Series regular Josh Williams. So why not call Josh? We didn't just call him, we learned his side of the story. Williams also shares about his fight to the top of the NASCAR ranks, something that Dale admits he respects even more after racing against drivers like him in the series. Jr. Nation was a little rough on Williams. How has he weathered the storm?JR Motorsports driver Josh Berry was also in the race, in another team's car, and went wheel to wheel with his friend Dale Jr. for the very first time. Dale brings Josh on to talk about that first. The most special moment for Dale though, was having his family there with him for the race. What did it mean to him to have Amy, Isla, and Nicole by his side before the race?Dale and the DJD gang talk about Dale's broken toe during AskJr presented by Xfinity, and the foot photo that revealed it. We also talk of potentially getting behind the wheel of a Gen-6 NASCAR Cup Series racecar to learn the car for his broadcasting duties. Speaking of fresh rides, Dale Jr. explains why his garage Corvette has been replaced by an indoor-bouncy house.That and much more on a special edition of The Dale Jr. Download. 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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Dirty Mo Media. Dale Jr. Download. Hosted by Dale Earnhardt Jr. Starts now. Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. This is episode 357. That's a cool number.

$257. Oh, I see. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I dig it. Mike Davis. How's it going?

He's my co-host. Matthew's here. Leah's here. We got a great-ass junior coming up later in the show. We're going to talk about Lost Speedways. We're also going to talk about Richmond, racing in the Xfinity series. We've got a few surprises for you throughout the show. But one thing we want to let you all guys know, the studio has been branded.

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We wouldn't just tackle any name to a studio. It better be cool. I would be pretty particular about that. As would I. Yeah. And so, yeah, the new Bojangles Studio. That's where we're broadcasting from. That's where we're going to be doing

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Got us up there, T-Jack. To the green here. Green, green, green, rolling. Good, rolling good. So let's get into Richmond. Ran the Xfinity race this past weekend. Didn't finish that well. Didn't, let's talk about that right off the gate.

Let's get that out of the way. All right. So we've ran really good in the last several years in the Xfinity races. And so came in with some confidence that things were going to go well. Started 30th, I think, which is fine. I started working my way up through there. And we got to Josh Whee. Williams and had a little trouble getting around Josh.

He was very competitive. But at the same time, I was kind of trying to take it easy because we had a comp yellow at lap 35. And so we're going to have a comp yellow that's going to bunch the field back up. We're not coming to get tires during that comp yellow. I've got to make these tires last to the end of the stage, which I think was 75 laps. I'm not sure. So, you know, I was sitting there. I wanted to race with Josh Barry, who was also in the field, right?

And so I called Josh Williams, couldn't get around him. And I told my crew chief of us that, I'm not going to burn the car up. I'm not going to burn the tires up. I'm just going to sit here. He's going to be hard to pass. So I'm just going to wait until the caution comes out. And then Josh called us, and I let Josh go by. And Josh couldn't get around him either.

Josh Barry. Josh Barry. So the two Joshes, I got to watch them race a little bit. We'll talk about that a little bit more later. But I noticed right around that time that the car wasn't turning really good. and we're going to have to work on it. We're going to have to fix it. We're going to have to make it better.

It's just not good enough. But as the race went on and we came down pit road and made adjustments, the track was getting tighter. Our car wasn't turning in the middle. The track was getting tighter and we weren't making any gains on making the car better. So as the race went on, we were getting worse and worse. And near the end, I think we had about an eighth or tenth place car at best. and so we had an opportunity, a caution came out with about 70 to go.

Everybody came down pit road to get their last set of tires. We gambled that there would be another yellow, so we didn't take the tires. And sure enough, with 30 laps to go, we had another yellow. And it was a great situation because now we're going to be able to come down pit road and get new tires. Nobody has, only a few of us had saved that last set. So a few of us have a huge advantage over the rest of the field that has to stay on the racetrack on the old tire. And we're going to be a lot quicker than they are.

But I sped on pit road and now I have to start in the very, very back as a penalty car. We get another yellow, so that allows me to leapfrog all the lap cars and line up with the lead lap guys. But we've also lost a few laps. Now there's only about 20 to go. And we got the green flag and I jumped to the outside of Kyle West. Weatherman coming off of turn four. I was on the outside of a lot of people, but in this particular instance, I was on

outside of Kyle Weatherman in the 47 car. Something happened on the inside in front of him, and he veered up the track to avoid what was going on and fenced me. I hit the wall real bad and bent the ball joints in the right front and knocked the toe out. And so immediately the caution comes out for whatever happened. I think the 51 might have spun or something. I'm not sure exactly what was going on. and so we were rolling down into turn one caution's out everybody's slowing down and I ran

into the back of Kyle Weatherman's car like I was mad and I hit him and I was like I felt pretty good so I hit him again and I was like I'm still mad so I think I need to hit him once more so I hit him a third time just in the back of his car right and I bent the back bumper a little pretty good and and I thought man all right I need to stop I won't wanted to hit him another time, but I didn't. And so I was so mad because I've got new tires and I, the caution's out. We're going to have another restart. We're going to have another chance to gain more spots.

But now my car's bent. And now I don't know. It's not, now the new tires don't matter as much anymore. Now it's not going to drive good and we're not going forward. And that hurt us. So when the green flag come back out, the car was bent. It was plowing. And I couldn't really get anywhere.

And I think I got on the outside of Alex. LaBea and he ran me into the wall off turn too. I was mad about that too. But, I mean, anytime you get ran into the fence, you know, you jump on the outside of somebody and they just come up like you're not there. And you got one choice. Get out of the gas or hit the wall. And I wasn't smart enough to get out of the gas.

What an eventful one race back, right? I mean, you have the Josh Williams run-ins, which we're going to unpack this in a little bit. But we also have the Kyle Weatherman. Yeah. You got put in the wall. And then who did you say put you in the wall again? Alex. I think it was Alex Leigh in the 36th.

They had a really good car and they were pretty fast. And everybody's just trying to survive at the end of the race there on their old tires or whatever they got. You know, they're just trying to get everything they can get. And we're three and four wide. And, I mean, you want the outside. I chose the outside when we would line up because I've never had to choose rule before. so I thought man I got new tires I'm going to the outside when we get down into turn one I'm going to jump to the very top and try to drive around as many guys as I can but when you

come up off the corner they got to know you're there yeah and and so anyways yeah we got banged up pretty bad there at the end and leapt home in 14th or whatever if I hadn't a sped we'd probably run easily in the top 10 walk out of there with their heads held high but we ran where car wasn't fast I wasn't fast we finish you know mediocre but anyways um i'm standing the i'm standing there doing some interviews and this driver in a uniform walks up and i'm looking and looking for a name and i'm like who is this he kind of hovering right while i'm standing there doing my interview and i look down and he has and i see weatherman on his belt and i'm like oh it's weatherman and maybe he's

here to say, hey man, sorry about running you into the wall off the corner. Toward my car to hell. So I finished my interview. He was nice enough to wait. And I'm getting ready to do radio, MRN. And he comes up and I'm like, hey man, all good, no problems. And he goes, why you got to hit my bumper? I was like, what?

He goes, well, you ran into my car. Why did you do that? I got to fix it. I said, well, you ran me into the wall. Like, you hit me, you fence me, I'm running into your ass. You hit my car, I'm running into your car. And he was like, I got to fix it. I work on my car.

And I said, well, you need to go fix it some of a bit. Yeah, yes. He gave me that, I work on my own car card. He pulled that down. I work on my car. I was like, well, go work on it then. You got a bumper to fix. I was like, next time you hit me, I'm hitting you.

You hit me, I'm hitting you. There's no, there's the end of the discussion. Especially, you know, I don't know. And he was all, he was all blowed up. I've been out of shape by it. I love it. I'm just basking in this right now. I just keep going.

Tell me how mad you are. I don't feel like you've told us how mad you were about it. Tell us some more. I wasn't. So I laugh. He's about to wreck the guy. I didn't, it was caution without Mike. I got you.

Oh, so do we, but. You got to understand. So the caution comes out and he's in front of me. He just running me in the wall off of four. Caution comes out. We go down and turn one and I'm like, bam, bam, bam, bam, into the back of his car. Got it.

Okay, you hit him under caution. Yes. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Like, until I felt better. And so. Therapy. It was good. And so I go, so he's, I'm like, I can't believe this guy.

I said, he's like, you run into my car. I got to fix that. He's like, I got to run this car at X racetrack. I'm like, what the fuck about my car? You ran me into the damn wall. Is my car not matter like you tore my damn right front off? Like that don't, he don't care.

Like, just because I'm not the one working on it? What is it? Like, what the hell? I got 50 employees that got to fix that, Bub. Yeah. I mean, damn. You should just go out there and work on it for two minutes and send him a picture. Mike, right.

Right. Right. You can wreck the hell out of his car. He's got 10 guys working on it. Don't matter. Okay. I just was the nerve, right? So I do everything I'm required to do on pit road, and I go down to the bus and see my family off and take a shower and put on my broadcasting clothes. And I come back to pit road because I'm going to work the broadcast from pit road.

And so I'm down on pit road with my mic and everything, and me and Jeff Burton. are walking down pit road to go to our position. They've got all of the Xfinity haulers on pit road so that they can all load their stuff up, right? And I walk by and there's Kyle Weatherman's car and his team's around it. And on the back it says Junior was here. The back of the car was dirty and they wrote with their finger,

JR was here. And so I told Burton what had happened. And so I see that. And I'm like, I walk right over there too. And there's about 10, 15 people over there at that car. I walk over there. I'm like, we got to get a picture with this. And so Kyle's standing there, Weatherman.

And I think he's still pissed. Still a bit upset with me. And so. He didn't want to take a picture with you, I bet. And so he didn't. But he did. So I was like, let's get a picture. You got your bumper.

You wrote my name on it. Let's take a fucking picture. Let's do this. And so I'm standing there, and his team, they kind of gather around. A couple of them were probably mad at me, but most of them weren't. So we take a picture, and Jeff Burton and Dale Jarrett were standing off to the side. And so we get done, and Jeff Burton's like, hey, we had your back. If anything went down right here.

What is he going to do? I know. They were joking. And I said, I said, oh, I appreciate it. I appreciate it. He goes, man, why did you go over there? What if something did? What if one of those guys did push you or something?

I was like, well, I don't know what Kyle Weatherman did when he walked back to his team. He might have told them, I told that son of a bitch. You should have heard me. I'll let him have it. I ain't scared. He'll know better next time. So I was like, I had to go over there and show him that I might. Unfazed.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So. Let me just say something from the bottom of my. Listen, you getting in dust-ups on your one race back a year is the content I came for. That's what it's about. I'm telling you what.

If that happened, I hope you end well. I hope you win. I'm cheering for you. But this is what it's all about. I loved it. But that wasn't the only one. No, it wasn't. Boy, you were out there.

You're mixing it up. Well, I mean, you know, you got to, so I don't want to, I really go into those races trying to completely be anonymous and out of the way. You can't do that, though. Can't do it starting 30th. Well, I'm just saying, like, you, there's, it's a fine balance between, like, you want to race, you want to race hard, but you're not going to move out of the damn way for everybody. Exactly. And so.

And we don't want you to. Well, I'm just, I, I, I, kind of struggle with that, because I don't want to do anything that's going to be detrimental to Kyle Weatherman's career. I don't want to, I mean, you know, he'll, they'll fix that damn bumper and that, and that won't be a big damn deal at all. But, you know, I don't, I'm not going to, I don't want to do anything to anybody on that racetrack that's going to make it difficult for them to continue their career, right, or get back to the racetrack the next weekend, right? I don't want to hurt anybody's point situation, whatever that point situation may be.

I don't want to be involved in anything that's going to be a bad experience for somebody, okay? But yeah, you got to also go out there and race. You know, Taylor and those guys that put that car together and my crew chief, they want to win, right? They want to go run well. They don't want to go out there. This ain't a parade. Right. And so it's a fun balance.

And so, but, you know, early in the race, I talked about catching Josh Williams. So the interesting thing is that Josh, most of his cars, if not all, are bought from here. their old JR Motorsports cars. Didn't know that. All right. So about six months ago, I walked into the fab shop and Josh's car is back there. And I said, hey, man, this is cool. What's Josh Williams' car?

Oh, we fix it every once in a while. They bend it up. They'll send it back over here. And so the damage that I did to Josh's car this weekend probably going to get fixed over here. Wow. 31-half off of you. No pressure. Just a 92 there.

Me and Josh are on the racetrack. I catch him. We're coming up on the competition yellow, so I'm trying not to burn up my tires because I've got to make him last this whole stage. And so he's hard to pass. He's making it difficult. And so I'm kind of right. I'm kind of on his inside a little bit. Off of turn two, I hit him twice, two different occasions in a period of about four or five laps.

And he got a little bit out of shape about it. He had every right to be annoyed. I would have been absolutely teed up. Let's play the radio chatter from Dale Jr's perspective here. By himself. I'm trying to get by him. It's going to take a lot. I can find him.

I'm hit him off the turn three twice. Tell him it's by mistake. Message delivered. Yeah, so there it is. I don't remember what the corner is the car. That's the truth. I hear you. Yeah, so like you come off the corner and I hit him, I'm like, oh man, I mean, I'm not trying to hit him.

I'm not trying to say, hey, buddy, let me buy. there was no point in getting aggressive at that point in the race. But I bumped him, and I thought, dang, I didn't really want to do that. And then I did it again, like a couple laps later. I'm like, crap, I bet he's getting teed up. And he was, by the way. And I know I saw the picture afterwards with you guys, and y'all were laughing and cutting up. But in the heat of the moment.

In the heat of the moment, he said, I don't care if he's a hero or not. He keeps jacking me up. Jesus Christ, you got plenty of room. Use it. Yeah. He did. He gave me plenty of room. He's right.

He's right. Yeah, can't argue with him. Well, I did like how he managed his social media afterwards, and he actually said that it looks like he was taking a little bit of grief from Junior Nation. Well, you know, we have some passionate fans that support us no matter what, whether we're right or wrong. Did you see the one guy that actually ended up burning his hero card? What? Yeah, dude.

I'll send it to you real quick. That's terrible. You know, so maybe we can. Maybe we should call Josh. Yeah, that's a great idea. Do you think we should get him on Zoom? Yeah, I'll get him on the line. I got his number.

Do you? Yeah. All right, so let's see if we can get Josh Williams on here. Let's hear his side of this whole thing. I'll admit him in here. He accepted. Man, that's quick. There he is.

Well, you hit him so hard. He's sideways, Dale. Josh, turn your phone. Something's crooked. It is turned. No, I'm looking at you like this. There it is. That's better.

Hey, man, what's up? What's happening? Where are you at? I'm at my shop in Concord. Show me around real quick. The old arc of cars. Yeah. There's the boys.

There's the boys. What are you guys? One of our drivers? All right. Oh, you got your Bandolero back in there or a legend's car? That place is full. We got a, that's Bryce's late model. He's racing for the first time on Saturday.

Who's Bryce? Bryce Applegate. He's one of our development drivers. Y'all got a development program? Yes, sir. Yep. We do everything from Bandereros to archa cars, and, you know, if they want to do some exfinity stuff, you know, we'd bleed them over into Mario's deal.

No kidding. So let me, we're going to, we got in, we got it, we had a little fun on the racetrack this weekend. I did. You probably didn't like that too much. I wouldn't have liked it either. You can tell me your side of it, but I bumped in you a couple times off a turn or two and got you fired up.

Yeah, it was, well, it was like, we were struggling at the beginning of the race. And then when I moved to the top to give you the bottom, I picked up speed and I was like, well, this, I'll just keep running here. Yeah. And then, uh, you said you was having a little judgment issues there on the right front. I was telling Reed, I told Reed, I said, dude, what, what is his deal? Like, use the bottom. You got plenty of room.

Like, there's plenty of ass ball. Yep. And, uh, it's funny because they didn't like play. You tell the TV kind of picked what they wanted to say. We always do. Yeah. We got to make it dramatic. Yeah.

Yeah. Josh actually confirmed this because, I mean, you know, Twitter. will sometimes get things distorted as well. So this was the quote during the race. I don't care if he's a hero or not. He keeps jacking me up. Jesus Christ, you got plenty of room, dude. Use it.

Exactly. Are we close? Is that good? Is that accurate? That's like spot off. I love it. They didn't even get the good part. I called him a cob about 300 feet after that.

Oh. We didn't get that part. Yeah, they left out the goods, man. good. Well, the TV's got to be careful. They can't get too graphic. Yeah. They also said that they warned you don't wreck that car. You'll get us all in trouble. I only, and then you said I only drove into the side of him. Yeah, that was, that was Reed or whatever. Reed Sorensen is my spotter. And he's like, whatever you do, don't wreck him. He said, because we're never going to get out of here if you do. Oh, Jesus. How's Reed as a spotter?

Is he pretty fun? Oh, man. I love it. I love having Reed, man. He's helped me out a lot. I mean, he's a racer. You know what I mean? He's really good at what he does. It's fun, man. He teaches me a lot of stuff, and sometimes I think I surprise him every now and again. After the race, there's this awesome, awesome picture you put on social media where you're on top of a sprinter van or something where in front of the sign at the racetrack.

Whose idea was that? We were leaving the racetrack, and it was like one of those billboards that kept flipping through different stuff and sponsors and ads. and one of the guys that was helping us, Chad, he's like, he's like, look at that. He said, dude, he said, how funny it would be if you took a picture right there with Dale. So we literally hopped the media in front of all these cops and like, we're thinking we're going to get pulled over. And we pulled back in the parking lot.

We had to sit there for like 15 minutes. There was like 30 ads that kept clicking over and over and over. And finally we got it. But it was pretty cool, man. You got to have fun with it. I've had a blast with people on social media. I love that stuff. I get enjoyment out of it.

I see that. And I think that's what I appreciate you about you is, you know, we got out of the car. And when you're on the racetrack and here at the moment, you're trying to race and you're trying to do your best. And you got, you got, there's a lot on the line. There's a lot of layers to that. But when you get out of the car to be able to kind of shake it off and talk it out or have a laugh or whatever. And then, you know, not let the social media stuff, all of us aren't that great at doing that, not letting the social media stuff. sort of get under your skin.

Yeah. It's pretty interesting. And I, so before we, before we let you go, man, I wanted to ask you a little bit about yourself. So where, where did you start racing? I started racing in South Florida, you know, when I was four years old, did red race go-carts. And one of my last go-kart races, we won, and one of the kids flipped. And, like, I guess his helmet was too big.

like spun his head around in his helmet. He was fine, but my mom's like, all right, that's it. We need seat belts and roll cage. So moved on to quarter midgets, did those for a while, banaleros, legends cars, pro trucks, and come to the time where we had to decide what we were going to do next.

So it was either super late miles in South Florida, or we were going to go arc racing. So we decided to go arc racing. The Reagan's, Dave Reagan and Ken Reagan, they hooked me up with a guy Barry Owen in Lexington. We actually, the car that we won both of our races with, that one right there, we call her Bertha. Yeah.

We built that thing from the ground up, like the chassis, everything. We didn't even have a surface plate. And we won both of our races with it in 2016, but we built it in 2009. Wow. And just kept fighting and plugging along. And finally at the end of 2016, my dad's like, all right, this is it. Like, that's, you know, my family supported my racing. and sacrifice a lot, you know, just like normal stories, you know, refinancing houses and

selling stuff to make to the racetrack. And he's like, this is it. You're going to have to figure it out. So I started doing starting parks and stuff for Mario and Jim Beans. And my marketing agent, Megan Henrique, she took a chance on me and went out, we found some partners and some sponsors. And now we're full time in the Xfinity series. So it's been a long road, man, but I've slept on couches, floors.

I've done it all. Built race cars, had to work for people. Crew chiefs spotted. I've done everything. So it's been a journey, but I'm not giving up yet. I still got to race on Sundays.

Yeah. You're going to make it, you think? You're going to get into the Cup Series. That's your goal. Oh, yeah. There's no if. It's just win.

You've got to keep grinding. Yeah. Can't stop. Some of those cars, are all the cars of old J.R.M. cars or just some of them? Some of them are. The car that I was in,

it was a J.R.M. The one from this weekend? Yes. Yeah. So the one Dale Jr. ran into twice was his own car at one point? Yeah, he owes me a left for a quarter panel, man. You know, you're not the only one that said that after that race. Oh, my gosh.

Well, sometimes y'all send them over here and we fix them up for you, but don't, I'll get you, I'll get you a quarter panel, no problem. Is that right? I'll just go back here and get one, right? Where are the quarter panels around here? Only on the Dale Jr. download. So back to the Arka deal, man. My second car that we ever had, well, actually it's the first Archer car I ever got. We bought it from Mark Gibson, and it was an old DEI car.

No kids. And I still have the chassis. It's killed. I killed it at Toledo, blew her right front. But I kept this out of it. Oh, damn. Oh, 31. That's pretty cool.

I won't get rid of it, man. We still got some old stuff. I actually put two DEI spring cups in our road course car that we took to the Archer Roadcourse race. So we've got some history around here. We don't throw anything away because you never know when you're going to need it. I bet. I bet somebody after they see this podcast can figure out what 031 did where it raced. I think it was a MW.

It was a Michael Walshap car because I had to build like a six-inch extension on a seatback plate because of the back so far. That must have been Michael's end. So, man, we just, we, you know, we appreciate you giving us some time to come on the show today. and I know you guys are busy grinding away to get ready for the next one in Bristol this weekend. You like Bristol? Yeah, I love Bristol. I like all the short tracks, man.

If it's rough, it's wore out, each tires up, or you actually got to drive the car. That's the fun races, man. You know, you can make a little bit of a difference, you know, the driver can. You know, you're not just relying on arrow and motor. You know what I mean? You can really get after it. So those places kind of play into our wheelhouse a little bit for our small team. We can capitalize on having good finishes.

Well, you guys are certainly, you know, overachieving. There's several weekends where y'all got great speed and you put, you know, you put a decent car on the racetrack and you seem to do well with it. And we've kind of been watching you a little bit. Ever since about six months ago, I walked back here and saw one of your cars sitting in the back, getting some fab work done. And I thought, all right, well, I guess I had to start paying more attention to what he's doing but knowing that he's in our old cars out there.

And then you take one of them old cars and outrun me with it most of the day. anyways. Yeah. It was funny because they're like, oh, you're just a back marker. I'm like, you weren't paying attention. I drug his tail for the next. It's true. What did your shirt say?

Oh, you ready for this? I mean, I've said, I survive, I think, but I can't tell. Junior Nation. Oh, Lord. He's got a shirt that says, I survived Junior Nation. Wow. They give you a hard time. Man, I tell you what.

There's, I got into, I like getting into arguments with people and then by the end of it, for some reason, they always click the follow button, man, you know, and it's, uh, it's a fun time. I got into it with a guy from Pennsylvania one time. And, uh, he's one of my biggest fans now. He follows me all the time, you know, uh, man, when you come to Pocono and things like that. Yeah. I love it, man. They're salty at the beginning, but, you know, they end up coming around. Well, you're a good dude, man. You're kind of like the Kenny Powers of the Xfinity series, and I think you ought to be proud of that. Yeah, sure. We appreciate you, give us some time today. Had fun, sharing the racetrack with you this past weekend.

I look forward to the next time we get an opportunity to duel it out again. And we'll be seeing you in Bristol, man. Good luck this weekend. All right, I appreciate you guys. Thanks for having me on. And, yeah, definitely send me your schedule, so I can get prepared. Well, since you love Martin Short Tracks, maybe it'll be Martinsville next weekend.

I'm trying to aim for the first Martinsville, so we'll get it. Even better. Hell yeah. Maybe I'll return the favor this time. Then people will really be jacked up. I'll be ready. I'll be hanging on. All right.

I'll have both hands on the wheel. Yeah, there you go. I didn't. All right, buddy. We'll see you. Thank you. See, boys. Thank you.

Later. Josh Williams. coming on the Dale Jr. Download man, it's awesome to be able to talk to him a little bit and give some of these guys that work, some of the hardest working guys in the sport.

Yeah, that was cool. Yeah, shining a little light, shine a spotlight on them. He's a hard worker and all those guys back here. I mean, even Kyle Weatherman and Alex Labay and all those guys, you know, when I get in the car and get out on that Xfinity track with those guys,

you realize how hard they're trying to work every single lap. It's hard to see it from a distance. When you're standing in the grandstands, you really don't know exactly how hard that guy is working behind the wheel, but when you're on the track with them and you're seeing their cars moving around and seeing what they're struggling with

and trying to get those things around the racetrack. Some of these guys have found a way to get speed out of these smaller teams, and it's a mix of talent and ingenuity and just never give up attitude like Josh Williams said. So it's fun to be able to get out there and gain some more appreciation for them, right? You know, we try our best to do a good job in the booth, highlighting some of these guys when we can. But, you know, you're never going to gain the appreciation you really need for them until you can share that racetrack with them. And we certainly got a understanding of how a few of them, how hard a few of them race and work this past weekend.

Well, there's a couple other moments of the race I want to get your reaction to. you, if you could play clip seven for us. That's on Channel 2. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. TJ's not going to give him that one. Yeah.

Tell us about that. I mean, all right. So, TJ has the lap times from all the cars on the racetrack, right? And he's watching the leader, and maybe the leader runs a 2320. He sees me run a 2320. And he goes, hey, 2320, good lap. And I'm like, I don't know what the, because I don't have that. information that the leader's doing what i haven't i haven't all week long i haven't looked at a lap time no

practice we haven't practiced right haven't qualified so you could say hey 1830 good lap i'd be like sure 1830 physically impossible to run 1830 around richmond but i wouldn't know wouldn't know it yeah so when he says that's a 2350 okay what the what that means i mean i don't know what it means and so i i know what he wants me to do with that information. It doesn't help me at all. And he keeps doing it. We talked about this for years. I'm like, don't tell me the lap times.

I don't know what a good lap is. Just say good lap. This is one of the other things that when we heard this, it felt like throwback weekend, right? Like it just felt like, oh, we've got everything. The complete package is back. TJ and Dale are chirping at each other on the radio. Well, you're in the car, and the car is frustrating you, and so TJ's got to be careful what he said. I'm like, just a, you know, I'm just a nudge away from, like, coming unhinged in that moment, right?

And so he said something that, like, I was like, like, he ought to know. It ought to be, he ought to, he's on top of the, he ought to know that he's giving me information that I have no clue what to do with. The counter argument on that would be that... That's like, hey. If he's used to other drivers, spotting other drivers, and they do like that information, then he... How do they know what a good lap is?

Well, he says on door bumper clear that they do like to know their lap times. To keep it consistent, because you were in a tough run there at that point in the thing. His argument on BBC was he wanted you to be able to hear the lap time so you can keep them consistent. They were having a good time laughing about it. I can't keep them consistent.

Yeah. I mean, I'm just trying my damnedest just to get a... around the damn track. Hey, listen, I love it. I would want that to happen every time you race. That's fun. And T.J. gets a little upset, but then he gets over it because, you know, it's a great life. Do you have anything else you wanted to add to that?

I don't. I mean, I feel like I made my case pretty clear. I do not know what a good lap is, so telling me a lap time is not going to do shit. That's right. So I don't know what he wants to do that. Play clip 8, Matthew. That drink bottle man. The end sucks.

I don't know why we'd be. Turn it, twist. All you missed was bosure myself. What I think. So, all right, so this is funny as hell. I forgot about this. So we get in, I get in the car. And so, okay, when I started racing, the drink hose was a hose.

With the end, it's just a hose, right? You stuck in your mouth? You start drinking. If you didn't push the fluid back through the hose into the bag, it would siphif. all the fluid out. All right. So when you drank out of the hose, when you drank out of the hose,

you had to siphon the fluid, you had to siphon all the water back into the bag. Or when you turned loose of the hose and got to drive it again, all the water would siphon out of the bag. So that was the reason why they started putting ends on the,

on the line. And the end, you would bite it to open it. Like an inflatable pool, kind of? So what? Like the air on an inflatable pool? What are you talking about? You have to bite it. to get the liquid?

So the, yeah, you see them. I think, I think that's sort of the technology behind it, or the engineering behind it. You've got to bite it to open up. Yeah.

So they started putting ends on the lines that you would bite to be able to open and release, get the fluid. And so that was good. Okay, gonna put an end on it. All right. You guys, you know, you're worried about siphoning out this water or whatever.

Some drivers went to an electric pump to push a button that would pump the fluid into their mouth. there's all kinds of technology with this drinking of fluids during the race. The last thing that I used was the end that you physically put in your mouth and you bite. All right, and that's fine.

And that end, you don't have to siphon the water back into the bag. You just bite, drink, and you're done. But the water gets hot in the line while you're racing and when you drink it again, you get a lot of hot water until you get cold water from the bag. But anyways, anyways, anyways. The line, I get in the car, and the end looks familiar, looks similar to what I had,

but it's this big, long, bulky plastic thing. It's about three inches long. And shoving it up in between my face, my microphone, and the end of my helmet, it could barely get in there. And I literally scratched my chin on this plastic piece that's on the end of this. It was comical. And I'm still on pit road. We haven't pulled off pit road yet.

So I'm trying to bite the end of the hose and open it up, start trying to drink, and I can't get any fluid. And there's nothing, I mean, it's siphoned shut like the line is pinched. And I said, guys, the line's pinched. There's a tie wrap somewhere in this line that's got it pinched shut, or there's a kink in the line. So they're back in the back of the car diving into the passenger side trying to fix this line. some guy walks over to the window and goes you got to pull the end like a bottle

like a drink bottle like to open it up you gotta pull it and he's doing it with I can't hear him he's doing with hand motion so he grabs it and he pulls it and he shows me it pulls open and I'm like well what the hell okay that'd have been nice information yeah so I now I got

I get back up in there I'm like hell of this and so and then middle of the race I'm trying to drink and I'm like what in the hell? We used to just have a line with that just cut the hand. I just if I had a pair of 10 snits I'd cut that damn end off drink the dagon water and just drink the damn water. I couldn't even get any water and so I don't know that was funny. That's good. That's a good explanation. I would have never known that. Matthew go to clip 10.

I want I don't want to rehash the speeding penalty just you know just to mess with Dale. I do want him to explain to us what he's talking about here. Dale, You're talking about lights and this, that, and the other, and I just love to hear, you know, what you're talking about there. Two, one, don't speed two back to the next. Broking up. Lights on it. It's zero.

Four reds. I try to give it back. Yeah, it's all good. I'm looking at it now. I was all over the place. Four red, six red, zero red, green. All good. elbows up.

We'll just go to the front from here. So, yeah, just, it's pretty simple. The dash gait, the RPM takometer has lights on it, and they'll, uh, It's one green, two, green, three green. And the more you increase the RPMs, the more green lights you see. Once you get to pit road speed, the green ones will be gone. And those green ones now turn red, one red, two red, three red, four red. This is preference.

But Taylor and the guys set pit road speed for three red lights. So what I need to do is to do my best on pit road. light up three lights and stay there. All the way down perfectly, in a perfect world, you'd go down pit road and have three red lights on the tack, right? But the car's bucking, the cars, there's things happening. You know, it's impossible to be perfect down pit road. Now you can be good, really good.

But having not been in a car much, the car is kind of bucking down pit road in second gear. so if I saw four reds, which is too fast, I'd lift and all the reds would disappear and it'd light up all the green lights. Now I'm way under. I'd gas it up. Six reds. Oh, too fast. Gotcha.

You know, so you're kind of like, you know, like an accordion. So it was a mess. I don't know what my pit road speed was earlier in the race, but on that particular stop, I'd just goofed up. Yeah. Well, I don't even know why I was trying to be aggressive. or why I was even pushing it so close, but that hurt us. That really put us kind of in the back and where we got banged around like a pinball. Go off to finish 14th, and it was, you know, listen, it was fun watching you out there.

I hope that you did get enjoyment out of it. It looked like after the race in your interviews that you were certainly having a good time. The one thing that you said when you were kind of recapping the race with us was that you really enjoyed racing with Josh Barry. Expand on that a little bit. I mean, like, is this the first time you've ever shared a track with Josh? I think so. I think this is the first time me and Josh been on the racetrack together.

I didn't even know that he was entered in the race until earlier in the week. And they were like, hey, he's driving 31. He's going to start behind you, right behind you in 33rd spots. So got to see him at Driver's Intro. You know, it's just, it was cool to be able to race with him a little bit. And when we got, you know, when we caught Josh Williams there, we got a chance to be around Josh Barry quite a bit. So it was just fun to share the track with him.

I saw him a few other times out there and got to race with him a little bit. But hoping that he's part of our future at Junior Motorsports and the Xfinity Series over the next several years. I'm glad to be able to get on the track and run with him. Yeah. Well, I think we have him. I got Josh ready for you if you want to talk to him. Yeah, let's talk to him.

Yeah, let's do it. Whoa, there he is. What's up, Josh? What are you doing? Can you hear me? Yeah, I can hear you good. Where are you at? I'm at the late model shop.

Man, you got a little kitchenette over there. That's kind of nice. So what are you doing with your late models? We're getting ready, getting them ready for Martinsville. Are you? Boy, going to run to 300 again this year. My goodness. Yeah, that's what we're doing.

Well, that'll be fun. More, more, I'm going to, you know. Can you improve on the last performance? A few more gray hairs. A few more gray hairs for me. Yeah, can you? Yeah, you'll let everything there was to lead. you won. What can you do better?

I don't know. We're going to just try to come close to that again. I think that's all we got. I haven't lost at Martinsville in a few years. Have you promised your wife anything if you win? No, I have not. No promises like that. We're laying off that. Well, man, we just getting you on here to talk a little bit about this past weekend. A lot of fun to race with you. We just had Josh Williams on here, having a little fun with him about banging into him a little bit. And that was quite an experience for really. both of us, but you were right around all that, and I kind of got tangled up there,

couldn't get by him. I was sitting there thinking, man, I could probably get by him. I'd probably burn my tires slap off the car, and we're creeping up on a competition yellow. So then I said, I'm going to just sit behind him and let this yellow happen, and then you came up through there, and I thought, well, I'll let Josh Barry try to get around Josh Williams. Yeah, no, it was a lot of fun. I think we both kind of, I agree with you. I think I kind of burnt myself up a little bit too, but it was fun. And you were definitely wearing out his left rear a little bit. But no, it was fun, man.

I didn't, you know, going into that, I really didn't, I didn't really put much thought into racing with you. But, you know, after, you know, I know, I know we spent some time together at driver intros and then early in the race, especially, it was pretty cool, definitely. Yeah, it was a lot of fun to, I didn't even realize that we hadn't never race. each other before. I don't know why I would think we had, but we hadn't. And I didn't know you were entered in the race

until earlier in the week. They told me where I was starting and where you were starting, and I thought, man, that's going to be great. And so, and it was, and I think we got to race with each other quite a bit. I saw you a few more times throughout the race as we were on different strategies and whatnot, but

it was fun. Are you are you going to, do you have plans to run any more Xfinity races this year or is it just kind of, you know, do you find out a week ahead of time? How do those deals come together? It's, you know, we've kind of, we've been working on that. I think Martinsville and Phoenix are two that me and Jordan have kind of circle, just short tracks. It'll be good opportunities, hopefully to go race and, you know, nothing's for certain yet. But, you know, I feel pretty good about Martin'sville especially. So hopefully we can, we can put together a deal to run those two.

But really, other than that, that's all I really, you know, have lined up. It's been a lot of fun, racing for that group and they're kind of getting started and learning and you know we really had a had a pretty good car we had a pretty good car Saturday just had some trouble on pit road and then you know the strategy deal kind of didn't didn't play to our favor but that's racing yeah that strategy was was difficult especially if you speed on pit road it comes really difficult but uh yeah i um you know you're also driving in the truck series for uh uh the 25 team so tell us a little bit about that program and what other races you got for them this year? Yeah, so we're still kind of working on that as well.

I'm racing Bristol Thursday for them, and definitely Martinsville. And I'm still kind of working on a few of the other ones. You know, there was a little bit, there was a conflict with that group with the Martinsville late model race that, you know, we kind of, you know, we thought it was important to our late model program for me to be there and participate in that race.

So, you know, that's kind of what me and Ldub and everybody kind of decided. And luckily, they understood and, you know, worked with us there. So that's been a great group. You know, they just started. They're based in and right outside of Nashville, you know, relatively close to where I'm from. And, you know, there's partners Curtis Sutton and Willie Allen. I've known Willie Allen since I was a kid, race.

And so that's kind of what put us all together. You know, they're getting started. We're working on things. It's been enjoyable. You know, it's the same deal. They're just kind of, we've had good trucks, had some issues on pit road and some different stuff like that. But I think, you know, hopefully we can clean some of that up

and have a good race Thursday night. Well, man, it'll be fun tuning in to watch it happen. Good luck going through the rest of the year. Everybody knows that you're setting stage to run in the Xfinity Series for Junior Motorsports. We can't wait for that season to start, but there's still more racing this year. And we'll be enjoying what you got going on.

I'll be back out there again next year with you. So hopefully we get to race a little bit more, and I can run a little bit better than I did. I know I didn't hold up my end of the bargain this year with the eight car, but you certainly have carried the torch for that little program. Thank you, buddy. Thanks for coming in and giving us a little bit of your time today. Yes, sir.

Yeah, thank you, yes. We'll see you. Josh Berry gives us a little bit of time on the Dale Jr. download today. Well, it's a lot of fun kind of recapping this weekend, and the race had a lot of fun. had a lot of fun to compete with those guys. I take a race in those Xfinity races, and I don't take it for granted.

And I really enjoy the competitors and getting to know them better is a great plus for me going forward as an analyst in the booth. So checked a lot of good boxes this weekend. Next time we've got to finish in that top 10, get another top five or something like that, if not a win. It was fun watching you, buddy.

Bobby Allison comes in ninth to win his first Winston-Cock championship in 23 years. Hey, my name is Rick Houston, and you had best get ready, because this is going to be one heck of a glorious white-knuckle godbearing spun out and half-turned-over racing store. When it comes to stats and the record book, right is right and wrong is wrong. Bobby Allison has 85 career wins at the cup level, and not the 84 that he's officially credited with. There.

I said it, and I'm not taking it back even. If I remember it, the race was in the record book, and then it went out of the record book, and I thought they gave the win to Richard Petty, and quite honestly, the Pope's not going to take a race with him from Richard Petty, and so it's gone forever. But if they didn't give it to Richard Petty, then I did win the race, and I should get to win.

Go listen and follow glorious racing stories now, available on Dirty Mo Media and all major podcast platform. Saddle up. Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. Here for Ask Jr. Looking forward to hearing some questions. You guys send it all into Xfinity at Xfinity Racing on Twitter. I'm sure you had some good ones.

We had a lot of things going on this week with the race at Richmond and everything else. And so Leah has put all that together, so let's get started. Yeah, our first question is coming from. I'm Aaron Bearden, a good friend. Now that you've been doing these one-off Xfinity Series race handful of years, how, if at all, has the sensation of each race change? Is it different as your family has grown? Well, it was really cool to have Ila there this past weekend.

Nicole's too young to really know what's going on. She's not going to remember none of that. It's cool to be able to have photos of her with me at the track. I've brought Ila to the racetrack when she was that young, quite a year old. So we have those pictures, and that's going to be great going forward for them and their families beyond. So that's all cool. And Ila's starting to get old enough to sort of get it and figure,

kind of like, she still doesn't really understand. I don't think she still gets that I drove a race car or ran in a race and all that. But just fun watching her try to piece it together and all that was really great. I mean, you know, for years watched drivers bring their kids to the intros, bring them to the cars before the race, have their families around them at various. times throughout the race weekend and I mean I didn't think anything of it but and before I was a dad it just looked like a lot of trouble and then when I become a dad I'm like oh no I get it you know you want to show your kids what you're doing you want to include them you want to give them experiences and that's just

enriching them as a person right so Ila that was overload all the things that was going on that morning and up to the start of the race that was a lot of take in for a three-year-old. I was glad, you know, you love to put them in those situations where they kind of, you know, they experience something new. So I get it now. It's not a lot of trouble. It's something you want to do. It's something as a parent you're excited about doing. It's interesting. I mean, I think that's parenthood in a nutshell really is before you're a parent, you're like, oh, kids, God, that looks hard. I mean, I've got friends now that aren't parents yet. And when I talk about what we got going on with our kids.

They're like, it sounds terrible. And I'm like, well, wait until you do it. And then you'll realize it's not terrible. You know, you enjoy it. So it's pretty fun to take them. I'm going to run another one next year. And we really don't plan further out than that.

And so maybe at four years old, it'll be a completely different experience for Ila. You know, every time we go back to the racetrack. I certainly would love to run sooner than that because I don't like, you know, when we don't run good, you'd like to go redeem yourself. And I'm used to, well, I'm just saying we didn't run good in the race. Yeah.

So in my career, I'm used to being able to go, you know, fix that the next weekend. Right. I don't have to wait a while. But unless somebody worse to need a relief driver. Bristol. But I had some opportunities this year. I'm kind of regret not taking. All right.

Next question from Simon Adam Sick. With you being a broadcaster and using the one-off race is to be up to date with what's happening on the track and how the cars behave to be able to explain everything to the viewers, would you try to do a one-off race in a next-gen car just to know how they drive and race? Yeah, I mean, I don't think I'll do a one-off in a next-gen car in a race, but a test practice, that's a great opportunity. You can, you know, you can call up these guys with these race teams, particularly a Chevrolet team like Hendrick or something and say, hey, man, I'd love to get a couple laps behind the wheel at a test you're going to. I could call

Allen on Chase's car and Alan would absolutely probably have no problem allow me to get behind a wheel. Chase would be pretty good with it. I'm sure I've asked them in the past about that when they changed the power and add the giant spoiler on the back. I'm like, hey, I need to drive it to feel it. And they were open to that. So, yeah, I could lean on Rick a little bit and Jeff Gordon and check an ounce and say, man, just give me a couple laps to feel it. I've never drove a next gen. I don't think you can go into the broadcast booth as an analyst and do the job unless you've got that, you know, got some experience and knowledge.

That's a must-do kind of a piece of homework for me, I think, going forward. But I don't think I'd run a race, and that's only because I don't know what kind of equipment I'd be getting into and a lot of moving parts of that. You never say never, but I think just getting in a car to test would be really helpful for me in the booth. And that's something that I think I must need to accomplish some point next year. Next question from Linda Sellers-Cohar. How did you break your toe? We've been seeing that on Instagram. Yeah, geez.

We were getting our girls' bath time, getting them ready for bed, and there's a stool in the bathroom that the girls share. I banged my feet on a bun. I banged it on the stool. The leg of the stool kind of angles out. So the stool itself, right, has a footprint, and that's the seat, right? That's whatever the, when you have stools, you assume that the footprint is the, you know, the width of the seat and the legs are straight down, right? That's a natural assumption. That's where they most are.

Well, Amy buys some things that aren't natural. And this stool's footprint, you know, the cushion is the square part of the stool in your mind, your feet, the legs go out. They protrude out. Yeah. And they catch things like toes going by. And I hit it, and I've done it. We've got some other stools in our vacation home around this island in the kitchen that do the exact same thing. The legs angle out, so the base on the floor is wider than the chair itself.

And so you kick them all the time. I hit my feet on them all the time, and it hurts so bad. And it's only those types of pieces of furniture where the legs and the base is wide. than the than the what you're you know visually looking at what your eye sees anyways yeah i kicked that thing i guess good perfect perfect sort of uh contact to break the toe and um i called my doctor and he's flying out of town i was going to get an x-ray and he's like i can't even do anything for it even if it is broke he's like just tape it up and so i googled a couple videos and got it taped up and i can hardly walk man it hurts like hell it is it looks bad painful and so the sucky part

is is you can't do anything. You can't go anywhere. You can't walk or do anything. I mean, it sucks. It sucks. I'm sitting on my butt. So I'm a little frustrated about it. Amy's back's not real great right now. She's had some back issues. I think it's from her cheerleading days. She thinks it's from getting pregnant twice. So she's having some back issues and can't pick the baby up, can't do things. And I'm trying to help her with that. And then I break my toe. We are a hot mess. We are. We literally are falling apart. Yeah. We're struggling right now. And I don't know. how long broken toes take, but it's damn thing better not take too long.

I just need to get mobile and be able to get around a little bit better than I'm doing. I only got like one. I've got a lot of tennis shoes in my closet. Can't wear any of them. I got these kind of Chuck Taylor-style shoes that they're kind of big in the toe area, Chucks are. And so they work okay. They're not too painful to walk around in, but it sucks, man.

I hate it. It was so painful. By the pictures that looked like you got two toes might be, Is just one? Just one. Okay. So if I can't, but if I accidentally somehow push down on it. Not really put weight on it, but flex it down.

Oh, yeah. And put pressure on it that way. That is a bad deal. Boy, that is some serious pain. Otherwise, it doesn't, it's just like a bruise hurt. But there's this little, it feels like somebody's stuck a knife in it if I do one thing, one little move and I try not to do that move. So I, uh, I tried to make, make light of it, you know, what are you going to do?

Can we make light of it? I did. Did you see my social? Yeah, and I saw Amy even made light of it. She said that's now her, like, favorite stool. Favorite stool. Oh, yeah, right. I didn't see that.

I think we should lay him across the table to do a pain test, like a threshold test. That's not funny. But that's not funny, but it's what a doctor would have done if you were going in to see a point. Yes, absolutely. His ass. He would be like, all right, tell me when it hurts. No. Is it?

Oh, yeah. No. Oh, yeah. No. Trust me. I've been to med school. He's like next. He's like next.

I was going to walk in there and say, we're getting taken x-ray of this thing, and that's what we're going to go do. Can I say this is the most Dale Jr. thing ever. He sends, before he gives us the context about how he broke his foot, he just sends a picture of his foot first to us. And so it's like, Dale's foot in a text message. Now, maybe you send it at the same time as you, the explanation,

but the photo came in about a minute later I broke my foot or I broke my toe or whatever so for a while you're just sitting there Dale's out he's feeling a mood today

he's just gonna send pictures of his feet to everybody his gnarly purple toe yeah it's all right though I was not prepared to open up your Instagram story and see your feet

I'm not gonna lie I was like I was like probably could have gone without seeing her toes yeah not a foot person no

Amy isn't either and she had the same kind of reaction but yeah Yeah, I didn't, I wasn't bothered by that. Yeah, it doesn't matter. Anyway, sackass junior. I didn't cover up my toes on the where I, the post where I wrapped it.

Uh-huh. I did cover up toes there for you. I appreciate it with a little gift. Yeah, I did, yeah. I appreciate that. It's the details. You put work in your Instagram. I blurred out all the, I blurred out all the bad, all the bad parts of my feet are the worst parts of them.

Okay, back to Ashton you now? Yeah, sorry, we don't toast. Ask Dale's toe. From Brian Baird, what's the best way you find to hang your used race car doors like you have on the wall? I don't know, I mean, you dang, put an anchor in the wall and run a screw into it. I mean, find a big enough one to just hold it. You find the stud in the wall, get you a stud finder, and just, you just, you go. got to commit.

Put it this way. You commit. Like, if you look at ours on the wall, though, they're screwed on. They're not like hung on. No, no, no. You know, so like when he says about commit, you commit. It's ran into a stud or an anchor. It's a race car.

It's used to being drilled into. Well, the walls, I think, what they're more concerned about. And you just got, you're going to, you're going to commit to the damage you're making to this wall. All right. One more question from Robert Martin. I've tried to research this and I've found nothing. Who usually spotted for your dad? I know the spotter role was different.

then and it may not have been one designated guy. He had a couple guys, but it wasn't anything like it is today. I don't even want to guess. But I mean, I don't want to disrespect the people that did it that got paid to do it. But there were times when it was just like, hey, go up there and spot, you know. Just here, take this radio. You can do it. You do anything?

Take this up there and go. It wasn't, it was a different type of job. I'd have to have a spotter to explain this. We've got a podcast where there's spotters galore called Door Bumper Clear, and so I don't want to misspeak. But back in the day, paid spotters were a rare thing back in the 80s and 90s. If you spotted, often you didn't maybe get paid unless you were hired by the team to do it regularly. And the spotter's job wasn't to clear you, wasn't to help you on a restart,

was it to tell you when the green flag comes out. All the spotters did was, they tell you where a wreck was. Spoters just spotted the crashes. You know, if there was anything like, crew chief was like, hey, man, can you see X, Y, or Z? The spotter's up there to say, yeah, I see that. You know, debris on the track or whatever. Where another car may be running on the racetrack,

as far as running a different line or a groove. But they didn't go, you know, they didn't go, green, green, green, the ring flags out, go, Dale. they didn't say oh man car high three wide middle they didn't do all that you know the driver just drove

and the driver just made his own decisions when he was clear and whatnot but the spotters you know back then it was different they did a lot less well if you want to know the quality of individual today spotters are we've got an empty liquor bottle right here that they left for us

yeah I don't know why it's to us I don't either they just they're funny I mean they got hammered during the show yesterday It's a shame they pour this out and waste it because I know they didn't drink it. They did drink it. We've got a podcast. T.J. didn't prove. Of course T.J.

Last time he did, he said on the show, it was your birthday party in my 30th. I think so. And Regan made him drink. 16 years ago. That's what he said. Yeah. Last time he drank fireball. Yeah, he's not a drinker at all.

And that's okay, do you know? It's right. Good public service announcement there. Right. Well, cool. Good questions. I'd never known who the Ellen Hart Spotter is either. I don't even, I mean, the name's escaped, man, but it's been different people.

Yeah. Let's get one more. We can't even on that. That's pretty sad. One more from our YouTube chat from Kevlar Kite. What happened to the Corvette that the bouncy House Castle took place of in your garage? Every year, for every year for a long time back in the day. I would get two vehicles from Chevrolet.

I always got a Corvette. It's one of those, and the other would might be a, a truck or it might be a duly for the late model team. It might be a truck, a vehicle for Willie, my mom's husband. So that other vehicle was kind of different each year depending on what we needed. I didn't need another car, you know, but I'd get that Corvette. And I never drove it. This must have went on for about eight years.

I'd get a different vet every year. They'd take it back. And I literally wouldn't put any miles on it. It'd park right in that little spot. And when me and Amy started living together and Dayton, I'm like, hey man, There's a vet out there in the garage. I don't drive it, but drive it. She never did.

She didn't care much before it. So eventually just stopped getting it because I wasn't using it. And now it's a bouncy house spot. I did get Amy a 66L Camino, and it's getting an AC put in it. So when it comes back, it will be parked there. But for now, the bouncy house is in there, which is great, because I don't have to drag that damn thing out in the yard every time she wants to play in it. I just plug it in, fire it up.

There she goes. I thought it was brilliant. When I saw that picture, I thought it was brilliant. I'm telling you, you can't hide that thing. So when they see it, I want it. They won't in. I want that bousous house now. Yeah.

So that means we got to take it out in the yard, get the extension cord, blow it up. Then they play five minutes, and then they're on it the next thing, and then you got to roll back up, put it back away, drag it back out. And so throwing it up in there, we just pull the plug and let it deflate and leave it. And it don't kill the grass. It don't do anything like that. So it's great. All right. All right.

Well, hey, appreciate all the questions you guys sent into Xfinity Racing. Sure appreciate Xfinity for everything to do for this podcast. All they do for NASCAR as a whole. They support our business, our industry a lot of different ways. And I'm a customer theirs with a vacation home we have. I got Xfinity Internet there that we pay for. And we got the 200 megs up and down and stuff works great. So it's never gave me any problems a year and a half.

I've used it. So we really appreciate it. And thank you for Xfinity premier partner of NASCAR. That was really good. That was terrible. Saved. Totally saved. It was a good read.

That's called a 42nd place finish. So we've been talking a lot about our show Lost Speedways on Peacock TV. We're super proud of it, obviously. And Dirty Mo Media has done an amazing job on that series as a whole. We're constantly at work. When you say, Matthew, you're always on it. Even though season two is streaming now, there's nonstop preparing for season three. Four.

I mean, we've got so many seasons, 11, 12. Matthew is counting on some big plans, aren't we? We're 12 seasons, but I got it. We've been hearing from people about the show. Dillner, you were somewhere this weekend where you heard a lot about the show. Yeah, I was at the Mount Airy Moonshine and Racers' Reunion. Okay. And they had this huge session, like under a tent, autograph session and stuff.

And you wouldn't believe at the car show, at the parade, how many people went out of their way to come up fans. Hey, you know, we love the show. Hey, I got Peacock just to watch this show. You know, and I was telling them, hey, stick around because Peacock's going to be a big player in motorsports and whatnot too. But, you know, between that and just the whole show was incredible. And some of the characters from Lost Speedways were at that show. I had such a good time. You know, we always talk about fun things.

You were talking about doing something with, you know, bringing Isla to Richmond, you know, and her with you. I had Hudson in the back of Dink Widenhouse's B-29 sitting on a battery box, and we got to ride along with him in a parade. You know, what an awesome dad moment. You know, that was to kind of look in the back seat and he's hanging on to the window, looking out the window. and it was just an incredible weekend, you know, and incredible to hear from all those fans and stuff too. Check out Lost Speedways on Peacock TV, season one and season two. Streaming now.

All right, so last call, Sandsdale, because he just went to go do some ride-alongs. Yeah, Dale Jr. had to cut out of here because he's off to do the ride-alongs of the Dale Jr. Foundation. He's going to Bristol, so his driving is not done quite yet. He's got to do the ride-arounds at Bristol. see if he can keep it out of people's rear quarter panels in the wall. Seemed to be running into stuff this past weekend.

Don't want to judge. See if that toe holds up. Yeah, now he's doing it with a broken toe. But it is on his breaking foot, so we're good. Well, you still got to slow down. I don't know that that's good thing. If it was Martinsville would be terrible, but he could kind of coaster off. I'd want to be able to have my breaking foot, you know, tip top shape.

Yeah. Maybe he can just break with the same foot, right? With the gas like most people will do when they're driving their cars. Who knows? We'll see. I wouldn't want to be the first rider. That's what I was going to say. I heard that Taylor is going.

Yes. Are you going? No, I'm not going. Why are you going? I'm still sitting here. Get out of here, guys. Because I got too much work to do today. Okay.

So you changed your mind. Yeah, I wanted to go. But it's just too much work. Too much on podcast, I guess. Yeah. So Taylor is going to be looking for us. where to sleep tonight because after he goes for a ride with Dale Jr. and I haven't gotten one yet.

He's out. You're mad. Yeah, mad. There's emotions. Yeah, mad. I don't blame you. Because I've done it. I did it last year with him.

I've worked for a deal longer. You have, but Taylor's his crew chief. There's a relationship with the crew chief. So, I mean, I mean, I've been here longer than you and I haven't gone. It's okay. Maybe it's work related. Have you ever thought about that? Like, maybe he wants Taylor to feel what he's feeling.

I think he did last Saturday. Yeah. I guess he did. Everybody felt what Dale was feeling last. Josh Williams, Kyle Weatherman felt what Dale was feeling. TJ Majors felt it. My God, everybody in Richmond felt what Dale was feeling by the time that race was over. All right.

I did listen to Door Bumper Clear this week and, you know, a really good show. Man, I will not touch on the fact that they were getting smashed the whole time. I mean, that's whatever is your secret sauce, man. Go to it. But I thought TJ's vantage point from that whole discussion with Dale Jr. was interesting. And I certainly like to hear Freddie and Brett's take on that as well. So another good door bumper clear this week. Yeah, go check that out.

You can watch the Dell Jr. download this week on NBC Sports Network. That's on Thursday, Thursday, the day after Wednesday. And the day before Friday, that's when Thursday is. It's at 5 p.m. Eastern time this week looking at Mark Trana, getting verification. It's hard to see the confirmations, Mark, when you've got the math. on, I admit. Like, it just looks like Cobra Commander over there, just looking at me. 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Thursday, NBC Sports Network.

Other than that, yeah. I'm going to go to Bristol this weekend. We've got a special announcement with a key partner of ours with Dale Jr. So I'm probably going to probably go up there Saturday. Other than that, I think that's about it. What are you guys doing? I have family coming to town. From Illinois?

Yeah, well, they're actually in, at the beach in South Carolina right now. So they're going to come here on the beach. way home. All right. Cool. We'll probably go to the mountains, do a little wine tasting. And Matthew,

we already know what you're doing. Are you there a hero? Like, when you go to these things, are you the, are you like the, you know, the Tom Cruise showing up

and everybody's like, there he is. No, but I will say it was weird. I'm a behind the scenes guy for 19, 20, whatever years. It's weird being at Mount area and people asking for an autograph for a picture. How many autographs?

At least 100. What? Yeah. You signed 100. Was this an autographs session? There was a session then just walking around, too. So you... You need to come to one of these, like, reunion, like, old-timers events.

Why? The people that are coming to these deals are rabid fans of Lost Speedways. You know, they care about these racetracks. You're on it. You're the face of it. Yeah, but they know you from... I don't know. Even Dale Jr. download fans, you wouldn't believe how many.

I would go... I would just want your autograph, Matthew. That's all I would want. That in 25 cents will get you a piece of bubble gun. Oh, I met Barney 5. You met Barney 5. Pretty sure he's dead. Yeah, no, it was an impersonator.

Ah, gotcha. He had the magic bullet. My son loved him. He had the magic bullet, yeah. Because he wasn't allowed to carry. All right, we're going to end this download with a little Andy Griffith humor. And as we do every week. I wish I could whistle.

Oh, yes. That would be great. Take us out, Mike. Yeah, no. Somebody's doing it. Who is that? I can't. Dun, da, dun, dun, dun.

I love that show. Andy Griffith. All right, everybody, thank you for listening to the Dale Jr. download. Dale Jr. is off to Bristol, and we had a fun weekend. Fun time today, recap in the race. Kind of old school, kind of how we used to do on the download pre-Dell. But love playing those radio clips. Matthew, thank you for pulling all that together. Leah, thank you for everything.

I wish you well in your deal-ins with Taylor tonight. When he comes back, he's going to come back and say it was amazing. I don't know what happens after that. Maybe you'll tell us. Thanks, everybody. Take care. Have a good week. Mark it and post. This bit of badassery was badassery. It was made by Dirtymo Media.

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