The Dale Jr. Download - 433 - Drivers Need Glasses

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

It’s time once again to kick off the Dale Jr. Download week as Dale Earnhardt Jr. joins co-host Mike Davis in the Bojangles Studio for some Dirty Air. Penalties were repealed and the famed Richmond Raceway delivered, and the guys had reactions to all of it: Dale found his first late-model stock car win trophy Hendrick Motorsports penalty is amended (8:35) Josh Berry impressed with a 2nd place run (25:30) Are there fewer consequences with the NextGen car? (36:53) During the fan favorite Ask Jr. segment, (46:48) listeners sent in questions about: Dale’s “Welcome to NASCAR” moment NASCAR racing overseas again Best post-win party Best prank  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.

What do you think? Did he get him? I mean, of all things to say, I want a victory beer. Oh, no! He's a seven-time champion. Oh, my God, that is hilarious. Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr.

Back again in the Bojangles studio for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download with my co-host, Mike. It's Tuesday, April the 4th. And we got some dirty air and Ash Jr. on deck. How was your April Fool's? You get any good April Fool's jokes pulled on you, man? I did not. In fact, I didn't even realize it was April Fool's Day till late in the day.

Way later than you usually find out April Fool's. Did you? Did somebody prank you? Nope, nope. But April 1st is also my buddy Sean Brawley's birthday. Everybody might remember Sean from the old nationwide commercials with him and Sunny. But we had an Easter Earnhardt family reunion on Sunday, which was. was wonderful.

I was down at the saloon with all of the Earnhardt's, and we watched a little bit of the race as best we could. The service down there was kind of iffy, but I was able to see pretty much most of the race. We had Easter Egg hunt and hayrides, and we grilled a bunch of cheeseburgers and hot dogs. Y'all had a full-on bunny. I saw somebody in a bunny costume.

Was that Sean? Yeah, Sean. Amy ordered a bunny out for. fit. Sean put it on, came out, and had pictures with all the kids and everything. Sean's son, Lawson, says, that ain't no real bunny. He's got daddy hands. Ain't going to fool him. He ain't going to fool him. Nope. He's got daddy hands. I thought that was hilarious. He ain't got bunny hands. That's funny. Anyways, we got a bunch of stuff here on the table. Yeah, what all you have here? Well, first off,

ever since we started talking about candy cigarettes and other crazy nostalgia, these things have been showing up everywhere. So our loyal listeners have started sending in the candy cigs. These are the bubble gum ones, not really my favorite. I don't like the bubble gum ones that much,

but the chalk ones, you know, basically kind of like eating a piece of chalk and it tastes like sugar. I think that's what I got right here. But, you know, because they do make two different types. I didn't know. I thought they were just gum. No, they do have the...

The chalk, these are the, I'm pretty sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, these are the, these are the chalky ones like. There's a good. That's what's up right there, man. And things, man. Is that what they do? You want to eat one, Mike. Might, yeah.

Go ahead, man. You think your dad's, you're okay with that? I mean, I know he. All right, what, you got teeth joke? Is that what it is? Is that where we're going to do this? I mean, he's, you're probably his best customer. I got it.

All right. Cleaning things for days. We're having fun today. Yeah. Let's see here. Yes, have you come back two trips. I missed a dentist appointment the other day

All right You what? You missed a dentist appointment? I bet he's I bet he's home crying This isn't what I remember Right That's the ones I remember

But these'll It'll look like you're smoking Or is it just literally Just a prop It's a stick of chalk That's it Eat it I told you that

I liked them Because they taste good Not because they Really look like a cigarette Yeah You like it because it makes you look cool. Yeah. And I don't feel cool right now.

Right. I just eat them. What do you think? I've had better candy. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. I know it's probably not top candy in the world. I'm going to do a...

Nobody said this was the A number one best fucking candy in the world. I'm going to do a candy sig review. Let's see here. Oh, God. Yeah. You know, did you say it's like chalk? It's sugary chalk. It tastes like it.

Yeah. Yeah. Had a little sweet thing. A little bit like a sweet tart, but not. nearly as good. Kind of like an aftermarket, not sweet tart, but yeah, no sweet tart.

Where am I trying to think of? Spree. What? Smarties. Smarties. Yeah, it's an aftermarket smarties is what that tastes like. One hell of the review.

Good job, Mike. Yeah. Send me over a piece of gum. Okay. Is it the gum? All right, look, we're thankful for everybody sending these over here. I've been sharing them

with the guys out in the shop. You'd think that we had a deal with these folks. But anyhow, Thanks for everybody that sent us. Those are ridiculous. My gosh. The gum ones are a little old. The smoke's done gone, y'all.

All right. So anyways, also, on the table, on the table right here, man, this is really cool. I don't know if everybody else will think is as cool as I do. But I went to Gary Hargett shop. Gary passed away recently. Gary Hargett used to help me, actually, on the car I drove in 93, 94, in the late model stock series, raced at Myrtle Beach in Florence and a few other tracks. And man, if we spent two years together, I swear it felt like 10.

And he became like a grandfather to me. But I went by his shop to look at some photo albums and try to retrieve some pictures and stuff. And his family was there helping me kind of go through what was there. Shop full of nostalgia, racing history, and old parts and all kinds of pictures and stuff. But anyways, I found a trophy. And this trophy right here that's on the table is the trophy that me and Gary won in 1994. My first late model stock win.

And so it's from Rural Beach Speedway. It's the only race I? No, I won two races at the beach. But we won this race in 94. And I don't know why it was at Gary's shop. You know, I guess back then I didn't care about the trophy. I just thought it was cool we won and was ready to go to the next race. And Gary put the trophy on a shelf in the show.

shop and I thought I was going to race at that shop forever, right? And so when me and Gary split up, I basically came in there one day and I said, hey, man, dad said I can bring all my stuff up to the, you know, up to Mooresville. I'd like to. It'd be right there where I can work on it. I'm, I can learn on, you know, work on the car every day and learn how it works and put it back together and all that. And I wanted Gary to come with me, but Gary didn't want to do the hour drive to work every day. So the trophy stayed. had all the things I tried to gather to take up to Mooresville to, you know, as far as cars and parts and pieces and pit boxes and trailers and all that, the trophy state. But anyways, I was able to go and look at the shop and, man, it brought back a lot of memories.

I got a bunch of photos that I'm so excited to be able to share once I get them all cleaned up and scanned. But this trophy right here, man, I never thought, I didn't know where it was. I didn't think I'd ever see it. I didn't even know what it looked like. I didn't even remember what it looked like. But here it is. Careful. I'm going to be careful, but I want to read it.

Hey, hey, hey. He's now. That thing's brittle. Well, read it. Myrtle Beach Speedweight. 82094, Winston Racing Series Feature Division, first place. There you go.

Simple enough. And so, real thankful to have that. Glad to come here and share it with all y'all today. And question. When we did that Myrtle Beach lost Speedways episode, we showed a couple wins. Was one of those, the first one? So this is the trophy for that race that we saw in Lost Speedways. Yes.

That's cool. Yeah. Now Mike's happy. I was always happy. He tied it back into his own life. Really? Is that what I did? Yeah. Lost Speedways? The show you lost Speedways.

Your idea. Okay. You connected it to your own personal memories. Well, I have to because, I mean, you remember hardly anything. thing of it. I remember stuff. Okay. Was that not a feature, a double feature, a double race that day?

Yeah. Or did you win the first or second one? First one. Okay. How'd you do the second one? Probably third or fourth. Was it third or fourth? One of the two.

I got you. Okay. And so do trophies exist of, you won four times? I run twice at the beach and once at Florence. Got those trophies? Not a clue. Man. I do think it's cool.

I bet that going into Gary Hargott's shop was like going into a museum or going back in time. Yeah. Yeah. He had let, yeah, there's a little decal that came. You can't really tell it. It's a no point in showing it to the camera, but it's an old decal from his race shop. There's a sign on the front of the door that looks just like that.

Anyways, man, let's get into some real cool. Okay. All right. Let's move on. The appeals committee has amended HMS as penalties, and there has been a lot of response to this one. A lot of people don't understand. why they give them the points back and still charge them the money. One of the, you know, Jordan Bianca went through the garage

and sort of anonymously polled the opinion of mechanics and crew members and crew chiefs and so forth, GMs for different teams. Every one of them were like, you know, I don't understand this. It's opening up Pandora's box. How do you going to police the teams going forward? I also, I don't know, I don't know how you, I guess, you know, maybe you could help me understand it, but I don't know how you get your points back, but still get charged, you know, financially. Yeah.

I don't know why the committee chose to do that. I know that HMS had a really, really, really good argument, and they had the receipts. They had the texts, the emails that would basically exonerate them. and help someone understand the confusion, right, of how that all came about. And so with what I know, I don't know how they didn't get it all overturned, you know, and so, but yeah,

they still find them $100,000 per car, you know, which is a lot of money. I know people think, you know, I don't, it's a lot of money. I, even if I run this, you know, we run this, this race team right here, we can't afford 400 grand. No.

We can't. Nope. That's our, that's our, that's our plus or minus for the season. Right. You know, when we rate, we're going to maybe make a couple hundred grand. We're going to maybe lose a couple hundred grand. You just don't know which it's going to be when the year starts. And so if you're racing that tight at the budget, I imagine at the cup level, there's no more,

there's less, you know, there's about the same amount of wiggle room. So, you know, whatever profit they might make in the season, that's going to eat right on into it, if not make it a loss for the year. Can I just ask this question real quick? I mean, like, I think we need to, and I'm asking because I don't know, but I think we need to kind of go through exactly what this appeals committee is. It's not a, is. Who decides who the appeals panel is? That's a good question, too. I mean, it seems like it's sort of a random draw out of the hat. They got a mix, you know, maybe a bag, a bag full of names that they, not, not.

metaphorically, not literally, but they got a list of names and they just sort of pick and, you know, pick randomly. I don't really even know because the group of people that I haven't heard about who's on every appeal, but when I have, it's been pretty random. And which I think is a good thing. I think that's picked by a third party because I listen, I heard Elton Sawyer talking about his response to it. And, you know, NASCAR is upset that they gave them back what they gave them. Like, they're not happy. So it's not NASCAR. If anybody wants to point fingers at NASCAR on, why did NASCAR give them back points? That's not who you're supposed to be point fingers. They're unhappy that they got what they got back.

So, and then they got some more appeals. I'm really waiting to reserve judgment until I see what happens with colleague. Yeah. I think that they have to give colleague the same. I can't understand how you can't basically give colleague the same. that you gave HMS. But the appeals panel will be different. They may interpret it differently. And they're not going to have Hendrick arguing on their behalf. Hendrick may have made a really good argument. That's another thing.

Colleague absolutely is communicating, has to be communicating with HMS going, hey man, what do you think helped you in this scenario that we can use in our own appeal? And, you know, I don't know if colleague has the receipts, has the text messages, has the emails, that would show the appeal panel, hey, man, you know, there was communication here that gave us the idea that we were able to do these type of things. At one, you know, that's the way, that's the way I read this is that at some point, HMS felt like NASCAR opened up the door for them to make these adjustments to the parts, to make the parts fit, and make the parts get closer to the actual CAD design. and then NASCAR changed their communication, changed the wordage in their emails and said, nope, we don't want you doing this, but the cars were already on the West Coast swing and out there with the parts.

And so, again, I think I myself, knowing what I know about it, felt like that you could definitely see HMS's point of view. The penalty was far too severe. It was a miscommunication. I don't think there was real intent there to cheat and make their cars faster and slide something under the table. I think when you look at all the things that they, you know, the communication between NASCAR and the teams and organizations and the,

and Chevrolet themselves, the manufacturer, you could see where this type of thing could happen. The car, the parts didn't race. All those things factor in, in my opinion being that the penalty was way too severe. But,

you know, we'll see how, you'll see how they treat colleague on this. Collie only had one louver wrong. Right. The other one wasn't wrong. Wasn't wrong. Yeah, like why would you, it's not a blatant act of cheating because they, it's like, it's like it's like it was more, that appears to me to be more of a mistake than anything, right?

It looks like an accident. Yeah. Yeah. And so. Well, not that, not that accidents don't, you know, I don't think anybody cares whether you make, if you break a rule and it's an accident or not. I think I don't, I'm not saying that. But I do think that it's, it's suspicious or it's weird that, you know, their intent certainly wasn't there. So, colleagues appeal is tomorrow, Wednesday.

And then Denny's got his appeal Thursday, right? Yeah, Denny's appeal is about words he mentioned on his podcast about intentionally wrecking Chastain at Phoenix. Denny has went on record in his own podcast saying, I got what I feel like is a very, very good approach to this appeal an argument for trying to overturn his own suspension. I think that's going to be more theater than the colleague racing appeal. I think everybody is expecting colleague to come out of there pretty much in the same scenario

or the same situation that HMS is in. If they don't, everybody's going to wonder why in the hell not. But I think when they go paying attention to Denny's appeal on Thursday, I don't expect Denny's appeal to change. I really don't expect it as a punishment to change. If it does change, I can't wait to hear how he feels he made that happen. We get to, you know, he's going to, I'm sure, share with us on his podcast how the process went for him, win or lose.

And that's going to be great for us to hear. That'll shed more light on that appeals process for everyone out there that wants to know how this all goes down. But anyways, we don't know anything until Wednesday, till Thursday. And we'll certainly react ourselves, but I got a quick question for you. Pretty fascinating. I want to go. Danny brought up something.

done on the podcast this week and it made me want to ask you about it. Denny asked, why can we not get back to the days where we could be completely transparent and NASCAR would be completely transparent where I'm, I gather that they used to take an illegal part or something they perceived to be illegal and put it out for the entire garage to see. Is that correct? And so that was like not every week. It wasn't? No.

That's what I'm wondering. I'm like, was that an actual policy or was that something that one competition guy, at NASCAR, like a Darby, a John Darby goes. Like, I'm going to show them. Everybody's going to get to see this. So basically, we would go to Daytona, and people would show up at Daytona with all kinds of weird, you know, weird cheated up stuff on their cars.

And NASCAR would confiscate the piece or the part, and it would be in the hauler and not on display, not out on a table for everybody to walk around and look at, but if you wanted to see it, you could walk up in the holler and it'd be laying there, you know, on the counter next to, the next to the cheese spread, you know. And so, you know, you would, you could go up in there and say, I heard you took such and such, you know, where is it?

I'd like to see it. They might show it to you. It might be laying there. They might not show it to you. There had, I think there had been times, you know, one-offs where there was a table with parts on it. But for the most part, it wasn't, you know, too much. It wasn't NASCAR grandstanding and saying,

ha ha, look, here's the, we got you. Here's all you stuff. Everybody come look at what they did, you know, did to their car. So I think it would, it's not a bad idea. I don't love it. I don't know. I think it's silly. I think, look, if somebody, so the louvers, right?

So they take the louvers and it starts circulating in the garage. Hey, guess what? Do you hear what happened? HMS, man, I saw this. I saw all that. I wonder what the part looks like. If people want to see the part, have them come up in the holler, and the park can be up in the hauler.

Up in the trailer in the NASCAR hauler. NASCAR confiscated it. They can set it up there. And if you want to see it, come on by. Well, that's what we're talking about, right? You don't love that? I don't love it out on a table for display. Oh, okay.

No, I'm talking about the way they used to do it. If you're saying they put it out there, you could go see it. Wouldn't that at least give the teams a little bit more confidence? If there's all this ambiguity and concerned by the teams like Hendrick Motorsports going, hey, wait a second, y'all did this. And NASCAR's like, nope, you broke. the rule, put it out there and show the teams what exactly they did wrong. You're going to have to hire somebody to stand there the entire day to explain and showcase this

piece to part, this part to every GM, every crew chief in the garage that wants to come by there and look at it. In between tech, in between cars, qualifying, and all the other track activity. I mean, you know, it's doable, but, you know, it's going to slow down the day. it's going to, it's doable. I don't know. I mean, I think, I don't know what that really solves other than showing the teams, hey man, you know, yeah.

I mean, you know, I don't know. I don't, I think it's fine if you, if, I'm trying to think, like if I'm, if, I'm going to put myself in, I'm going to put my owner's hat on and I'm going to the racetrack as an Xfinity series owner. Somebody got caught with something. NASCAR took it.

I don't need to see it. I mean, I trust that the parts illegal. I'm not going to be able to look at it and go do it to my car. And so I don't have this urge to take a look at it that I believe, you know, I don't, I'm not as curious about what they did to those louvers as the general public is or the race fan is. I think the race fans, you know, curious to, and they have the right to be curious about it because we, you know, they don't have any idea of, you know, well, they want to make their own assumption of, oh man, yeah, that's definitely a rule, a broken rule. You wouldn't be curious so that your team doesn't break the same rule? They already know.

You wouldn't want to see a louver that if another team got popped for $400,000 and they're saying that you, that they, they, they, they this wasn't illegal i can go you don't want to know i would i could go talk to elton sawyer and he'll he'll tell me the part you know he'll tell me look man the area that they mess with was this area don't mess with that area i don't need to look at it okay that's interesting i mean there's a lot of energy you're wasting there you know there just seems to be a trust problem and and and there's a disagreement on what's illegal and what's not and you're we're asking questions about well if you gave back penalties that you kept the fine were they guilty of them or were they not guilty? Can you be half pregnant? What's the problem here? If they got their

points back, if it wasn't illegal, why are you even keeping the fine on them? All right, so I get that. I believe that it would be helpful to have a little transparency on the appeal, right? And what did HMS say that changed their minds? What was this information or what did HMS have on NASCAR that helped them when that points back? That's what I think everybody wants to. know and nobody's really coming out and saying it exactly what it was but it's it's communication that's text email whatever right that NASCAR sent to HMS that gave HMS the idea that this was okay that this was something they could do and then that communication changed within days but their cars were already out doing what you know out on the west coast swing and and there's meant you know

there's what two sets of louvers per car you know i don't i don't know enough details to say more than that but that's what we will that's what we all want to hear from either nascar but you you know you're going to hear naskars of their version of it you're going to hear hms's version of it right and and there's a little bit of truth and and falsehoods in each one right their their versions are their truths right they're not going to be the same but i i you know it's just a a lot of wasted energy on trying to, you know, figure out whether we should be looking at parts and all that. I mean, I just feel like that if they were, I'd just like to know why the appeals panel came to the decision they came to specifically, like, all right, why did the point,

why did the money stay, why did the points go back? What did HMS bring to the table that was so convincing, right? Convince us, you know, let us in on it. Because that's what is unfortunate, is going forward, there's this, you know, the reaction to the reaction to the way the appeals committee amended the penalties, the reaction to that is almost as bad as, or worse than the actual initial reaction to them getting caught, right, or the louvers being discovered. So we could, I would like to avoid the misinformation or miscommunication about, you know, what happened in the appeal. What the hell happened in there? that made them change their minds, right?

How in the hell, you know, is an appeal one? Tell us, right? Details. And I think that's why I'm saying that I think Denny's appeal will be the most theater because he will tell us. Right. For once, we're going to get to hear

probably more about the process than we've ever heard before. He's already wanted to tell us before his appeal what he's going to argue. you. I don't know this is going to help you very much. Like, just tell us after. Yeah.

Think about that, folks. So, you know, HMS did the same thing. You know, they were, they went in front of the media, but they were very cryptic about the information they were willing to share to the media before the appeal because you don't want to tell the, you don't want to tell your opponent how you're going to go in there and win, right? You're not going to tell them your playbook. And so, but even after the fact, after the Hendrick appeal has been, you know,

changed and altered, we're still wanting more information about what was the game plan going in for HMS to change this appeal? And what information did they feel like was strong for them? I think with Denny's will hear all this. And so that's what I'm looking forward to. Let's move on to Richmond. Josh Berry finished second in the race. I'll lead off with that, man.

Kind of a, you know, riding around the back side of the top 20, most of the day, looking at lap times, you know, different parts. of the race, they were about the same for everybody from second to 20th. Got that track position at the end and was able to capitalize on that. Great, great strategy by Alan Gusterson and his whole team, man. They, you know, they're working with all, you know, HMS has all four crew chiefs at home running those deals from the war room back in Charlotte. And so that's a little bit of a, you know, that's not preferable, but it's still. still is doable.

And so it was pretty happy for Josh to be able to, at least, you know, while he's having the opportunity to drive for Chase and help Chase out in that team, I was hoping that he would have a result, right, that he could come out of there and go, that right there is what I can do. And I know that, you know, he didn't run up front all day. I know that otherwise without the strategy, it would have been a very, you know, probably frustrating, disappointing result. But, you know, they had a plan. that sort of that strategic approach wasn't going to benefit them the track position till later

in the race when it did. And just really good job by the whole team that was able to see, you know, something they could, they could do different than the rest of the field. You know, it was a pretty good race, you know, looking at Jeff Gluck's poll on Twitter, Richmond usually fairs pretty bad. We've all complained about the racing there. We complained about it leading up to the race weekend. in about, you know, man, what kind of race we're going to see?

What should they do to this track? How could they make this a better racing track, you know, as far as action? But everybody seemed to enjoy it. Everybody seemed happy with what they saw. It was good. Yeah. I enjoyed it. The racing was competitive.

Yeah. Racing was competitive. The restarts were, for the most part, really clean, but a lot of great hard racing. And it got shook up at the end. Truex looked like he had the best car. and he ends up running out of tires. And so there was an exchange on the radio between him and his crew chief after the race. Tants.

Yeah. And so, you know, the crew didn't tell True X that he was on scus. And that's sort of the question, I think, in the public eye is, why didn't you tell your driver what the situation was? that is really frustrating as a driver to not get that type of important information. And I think James, his crew chief was like, you know, I don't know that I help him by telling him that information. I could see both sides of it. When I was racing, I would tell my crew chiefs, you know, there's some things I just don't need to know.

That's right. You know, and don't tell me something that's going to put me on the defense. don't tell me something that's going to make me doubt or lose faith or lose confidence in the car, in its abilities. And so I'll be honest, you know, I think, you know, Trix would probably love to have known he was on scuffs. But I wonder, the question, I guess, is if he knows his own scuffs, does he run worse? Does he finish worse?

Does he go You know They take off on that first restart And he He slipped real big in term one or two And lost a lot of time to the front two cars And was kind of holding up the guys behind him And I wonder if he knows he's on scuffs

Does he do a little more defense Does he drive defensively Does he maybe not restart where in the line he chose Does he change all of those things right in an attempt to put the best defense on, right, to maintain the best position he can, or does he hear, hey, I'm on scuffs and does he go, does he lose his shit and say, why in the hell?

How did this happen? We're screwed. We're screwed. You would have. Oh, yeah. I'd have finished 20th. You would have. It would have been hell.

It'd have been hell, and you would have let everybody know it. Yeah. So I wonder, you know, if maybe not telling him as hard as that is for people to understand, as hard as it is for True X to stomach, you know, gosh, you know, why would you not tell me? I need to, you know, we all should be telling each other this information where a team were. It's a marriage, right? It's a marriage, you liar. So I wonder if, you know, he actually might have ended up with the better result not knowing, you know.

you know because some yeah I think so it really matters it really matters what type of person you are right not not everybody reacts the same way to that information right and some people will go all right I'm on scuffs I'm buckle down

I'm busts my ass and we're gonna freaking get out of here with the top five you watch right some people are going to go we're screwed right see it to holler you know when I finished 15th there's the people that want to be challenged I'm like oh okay so I got scuffs like this is your new reality there's very few of those well like I know but like you're right

because most drivers are headcases and I don't mean that in a bad way I mean that anybody in those situations of those high high pressure situations are going to be mental speak the truth yeah that's it and and yeah I mean like I just I compare every scenario that I see on Sundays through what would you have done and in that one I would like Dale I remember man I remember when you you wanted your tires by God I won't be on offense yeah you want your tire You want to have everything going in your favor to be aggressive. Yeah. And if you did not get that,

I remember that time Lance McGrew left you out on a caution so you could lead a lap, and you unraveled everybody else pit. So now you're the leader, but your leader on old tires? Is it Charlotte? I don't remember. Oh, by God, I do. Everybody, that was a f***ing for the ages. Christopher Bell and William Byron got together.

William had a great car. He might at times have been better than true X and had a real shot to win the race. But Christopher Bell and Byron get together on one of the last few restarts. And Christopher Bell blamed Chastain. Chastain just can't escape a race without somebody. Even if you don't touch the guy, you get caught or wrecking ball. Did you see Bob Pockris on social media ask? he asked Kyle Bush

Hey Kyle What do you think about that last restart or something like that And Kyle goes around Talks about it for a little while And then he finally goes You know what Some of those guys might need glasses You know I'm wearing glasses this year

It's really helpful Maybe they need to go get looked at And go go to that I don't know if they need glasses or not But maybe they need You know and I thought That's a fair point You know you got

I just started wearing glasses Harvick's wearing them Ligano's wearing glasses you know and they're doing really well and so Kyle goes hey man I'm gonna wear some damn glasses let me go to the doc oh yeah this is nice I can see much better and so I think Kyle's making a fair point a little tiny maybe a little tiny sense of sarcasm in there but for the most part he's speaking the truth Bob goes right to chastain and says Kaublish says you need glasses it's a bull's I love it I wouldn't want Bob to frame that up any other way oh my that is

hilarious. It's hilarious. But the look on Chastain's face every time he gets one of these questions every week. With a look on his face, I really did study that because when they said, Christopher Bell called you a wrecking ball. And he was almost like, really what gives at this point? Like, I'm really going to

catch this? He goes, I didn't touch him. Yeah. He goes, I certainly didn't touch who did they wreck? Byron. Yeah. I didn't touch him. I didn't even touch Christopher. He wrecked him. Christopher Bell wrecks Byron and then Chastain gets called the Reck and Ball. And I think Chastain's got a new narrative that I really like.

He's like, and I hope he keeps this going. He's like, you know, it's funny these guys saying all these things, but when I see them, they don't say it to my face. I love that. That's true. I want him to keep that one going. Yeah. Denny, speaking of Denny, trying to win his appeal,

I don't think he did himself any favor this weekend. Reck and Yaley. He spun Yaley out. What's you guys laughing at back here? He admitted it. Have you guys seen on Twitter the trend where people are like blaming Ross Chastain for everything? Yes. Like here's a picture of Ross like in the Kennedy assassination.

Or like he was the one who started the fight in the 1979 Daytona 500 or wrecked Carl. That's Carl at Talladega. I don't know. That's hilarious. Yeah, it was funny. I hope that keeps on one. So Denny appears to get a little frustrated with JJ that Jay J.J and Denny is in the middle of a three wide and JJ's smashing him into the car.

I mean, there was a lot of contact and literally the next corner Denny drives through him. And JJ ends up in the fence and Denny says that it was an accident. And he takes blame and JJ goes, gets out of the car and goes, yeah, the guy talking about respect is out here running over everybody. Isn't that ironic? What's your thoughts on that might? Well, Denny took full responsibility for it. I mean, if Denny would have said.

Do you think he did it on purpose? I'm going to take Denny at his word and say that he didn't. He said that I wouldn't wreck anybody for 30th. No, that's my response. I don't think he did on purpose. I think he made it. Listen, Denny had a comedy of errors, to be honest with you. Richmond did not go well for him.

The two pit road speeding penalties, like I think he was so frustrated at himself and that it just ended up being a bad day gone worse. and no, I don't think he's wrecking people for 30th place. Do you think, you disagree, I can tell. You think you wrecked J.J. Yaley for 30th? I think that he was frustrated and I don't think that he, I don't think that he wanted J.J. Yaley to be in the fence when it was all said and none, but I do think that he wanted to show his frustration to J.J.

about how he felt like J.J. raced him literally just a, you know, 500 yards. before that. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think Denny's the kind of guy that puts people in the fence backwards on purpose. You know, I don't think that there's many guys that are like that. But if any at all, but I think he was frustrated. I think that he might have lost a little bit of control of his extremities there for a second. His extremities. Yeah. And it ended up being like because I think I saw him do things that, you know, I've done something before on the racetrack where you're like, you son of a gun, bam, oh, shit.

I didn't mean to do that, right? I didn't mean to, dude, I'm sorry. Right. You know, I just, damn, I was, I f***ed up there, man. Yeah. My bad. Okay. Well, I mean, listen, you may be right.

I guess, you know, listen, this is the thing about it, is that if we can appreciate it, appreciate drivers being honest with us, maybe even on a podcast, and then they get punished for it. Now we're back to never knowing the truth, right? I mean, we'll never know the truth because it doesn't reward anybody for telling the truth. You get punished for telling the truth. So, I mean, I guess we'll never know, really, what happened. Harvick said drivers are becoming more aggressive because there's no consequences with the next-gen car.

I thought that was a good line. Yeah. I really like that. I mean, listen, it goes back to parenting, doesn't it? You've got to have consequences to your actions. If you don't feel the consequences, you're going to continue doing the actions. I wonder what he really means by that because, number one, we had guys getting hurt last year, and then because the car was too rigid, they've raced a little bit this year.

We're not hearing quite as much about that. But right out of the gate at the Coliseum guys were talking about how, you know, well, I'm not sure the cars. I'm not sure they've cured the rigidness of the cars, the bumper, the contact and all that. So I say that, not that, you know, to continue the narrative that there's a problem with this race car, but I say that there are consequences, right? The drivers understand the consequences of injury or the potential for injury with this particular car. And it hasn't been a, it hasn't had a good reputation going back, you know, 24 months ago. So as a driver, I would have to imagine they're all out there going, yeah, you know, I don't want to, I don't want to bop my head around.

I don't want to put someone else in a situation where they could get, you know, banged up a little bit. There's got to be some of that concern out there. Is he talking about the consequences of the next-gen car in terms of how tough it is, possibly? I thought that's how I took it. I mean, that's how I took it. Yeah. Like the body does, you know, there's not as much of a detriment to, you know, banging the body into things because it pops back into form.

You're not it. You're not absolutely going to lose performance aerodynamically like you would with the old steel body. I think that that might be what he's talking about. I still don't, you know, I still don't love or feel confident in the idea of banging wheels with other guys because it does still seem to be fragile in terms of these toe links and keeping the, you know, keeping the toe and the genie. geometry all going in the right direction.

Of course, you know, Kyle Larson runs in the side of somebody on pit road, and I thought, man, he's done. That's bent some shit. He ain't going to have, you know, the front suspension is going to be a little askew. He said it drove horribly after that, but good enough to still win the race. I find that comment interesting, but I know Harvick knows his shit, so whatever he's trying to convey, he's probably right. Hamlin says our sport frowns upon hand-to-hand combat.

They frown upon retaliation on the racetrack, so what's really the worst that can happen? What do you think he means by that? They frown on hand-to-hand combat. They frown upon hand-to-hand combat. They don't like us punching each other. They frown upon on track retaliation. So what's the worst that can happen? What's the worst that can happen?

It's on your sheet. Tell them what you think. I think it goes back to the respect thing of like, why wouldn't guys just bump each other out the way what are they what's the worst they can happen what are they going to do yeah because they've they've they've already made a precedent so they've so he so you're saying like you know NASCAR has created the narrative that we're not you know you're not going to get out of your car and hit each other and you're not going to retaliate so now all these guys are shoving each other out of the way because they know there's no repercussions yeah coming right because NASCAR has buckled down and doesn't allow

the drivers to go out there eye for an eye kind of thing right that's the way you take that, which is a great point, too. That's a good point. Yeah. So NASCAR has, you know, the drivers feel like they're not allowed to retaliate against each other. And if that's the norm out on the racetrack, then yeah, you're going to have guys booting each other out of the way because they know for the most part that the culture is there's not going to be anything coming back. There's no where they can go that they can actually settle it. Was Austin Hill penalized for what he did to Mayette Snyder last year? Ooh, that's a good question.

Andrew, do you remember? I don't remember a penalty on that. And in that case, that would be NASCAR allowing hand-to-hand combat, wasn't it? I guess. I mean. That was real extreme. Right. That's what I'm saying.

If he didn't get punished for that, which I'm glad he wouldn't, if he didn't, I just don't remember. But like I'm saying is that, yeah, where do you let these guys settle it and gain their respect? You've got to have some issues ironed out. Where are you going to iron them out if not on? I don't know. I called Truex yesterday and I said, hey, man, going back to his comments with his crew chief,

I said, hey, man, what's going on? You and your crew chief okay? And he goes, what you're talking about? I said, your post-race comments are everywhere. Everybody's listening to this little spat. And he goes, oh, just heat of the moment, man. Right. He's like, it's no big deal.

And that's true. I mean, people should go back and listen, you know, go on to YouTube and, and, and watch some of the compilations that have been put together about drivers like myself, Kurt Busch and others over the years in the past two decades. You know, because what I heard from True X was tense, but nothing out of the ordinary. Oh, you said way worse to your crew chief during the race. But anyways, I got it from the man himself that he's like, yeah, we're already over it.

from what I see, no penalty on that Austin Hill thing. There you go. So Denny wouldn't be correct if that's in fact what he said. He would say that if they frown on hand-to-hand combat, they didn't there. Don't you think that NASCAR actually, listen, I think we might be a little too hard on NASCAR on this thing. Listen, they've got to be able to police the sport the way they want to police it, right? And this is a very volatile situation where drivers are going to have road rage for 300 miles, and they're going to do that.

And then afterwards, we've got to expect them to be able to vent it out, to be irrational at times, and not have, you know, severe consequences over it, right? Now, they've got to, but then it's a judgment call on when they cross the line. So, I don't know. I mean, like, I know why Denny feels that way right now, frankly. I do. But at the end of the day,

I think drivers are well within the right to go settle this to themselves, as long as they're not putting anybody else in danger. pick you know pick uh pit road officials guys like that you can't do that you got to you know because we didn't even talk about sora as a penalty everybody agrees that one's justified right i will say this man i think that um i think nascar does a really damn good job i don't envy their position i've said that right i've said that before um but we're you know i was i was faced with i had to ask myself you know after this past weekend uh after the coda late race restarts and all the comments and opinions about all that.

And, you know, we, we sit down in here every week, just like a lot of people, and we go over what we don't like, what we like, what we think should change. And a lot of times, you know, we're adamant about some of those things. Man, got to change this. Why is it like that? Why does it got to be this way? And, you know, I wonder sometimes whether we're really, we're really, we're a bit too neurotic.

Of course. Right? You know, because I got worked up over the green white checkers. And then after the fact, I'm like, man, wonder if I wonder if that's not as big a deal as I think, right? Does it really freaking matter that there's unlimited green white checkers? I mean, I don't love it. It's not exactly how I do it. But it's the way NASCAR is doing it.

And I've always, you know, there always has been this great idea. that this is their sandbox. You want to be here? You're going to play by their rules. I love that. I've always wanted it to be that way. And it's a bit, there was always, you know, the sports always kind of been better when there was a bit of a dictatorship style of rule and less collaboration and committee rule, right?

Does that make sense to you? It makes sense to me, for sure. I kind of always liked it when it was like one. one person at the top going, everybody come in the room, this is what's going to happen, everybody good, okay, see you, go out there and do it by the parameters that I've set. And I don't want to hear about it. Right. And so, but, you know, it's fun to come in here and bullshit.

That's right. I said last week, see, I wasn't exactly on the same page with you in terms of, I've respected your opinion about the green white checkers, but frankly, I don't think NASCAR had anything to apologize for. Not NASCAR, not NASCAR fans after CODA, not any. anything. NASCAR is who we are. We talked about that a little bit. I also don't apologize being neurotic because this is what this. I don't. Listen, I hear you. I've, I've, I've literally said this to some friends of mine at NASCAR. They don't like, you know, the narrative

a lot of times when people are being critical. And I'm like, listen, this is what you signed up for, man. I mean, like, you're the governing body. Listen, this is part of it. Don't you think that, you know, the commissioner of baseball and in Roger Goodell and football? Listen, there's things that come with being at the top and being the governing body. And that is that you're the first person to catch hell when we don't like something. We don't get our way. But you know what? Don't make it change you. You're not going to change. We don't expect you to change. We expect you to deal with it. And let us have our opinions. And you stand firm. We respect what you have to do. We wouldn't want your job. But this is what comes with the territory. Nobody needs to

apologize. Well, it's finally time for our favorite part of the show. What just happened? That was a great transition. It's why we're here. Straight off of Mike's rant. I love it. That wasn't a rant. Was it a rant? Well, you're passionate about it.

He's passionate. He's neurotic. Let's get to our favorite part of the show. All right, Ask Junior's on deck. Andrew's going to get our questions together. But Ask Junior's brought to you by Xfinity TNG Network. Let's take a look at the questions. Everybody's sent into at Xfinity Racing on Twitter.

You ready to go? Yeah, let's do it. Ask Junior on deck. Let's fire it up. This first one, comes from Connor. He said something I see NFL players and coaches talk about a lot. They're welcome to the NFL moment.

You know, it's either a coach chewing them out or, you know, that first moment where it becomes real. Did you have a specific welcome to NASCAR moment? There was probably a couple. I went to, oh, wait, Mike's got one. Martinsville. Oh, when I ran into everything. I mean, I'd ever, I'd ran a hand,

I'd ran a handful of races before that. But, you know, the welcome to is the welcome to moments usually right at the very front end. I mean, I went to, yeah, went to Japan and raced in that exhibition race. And dad punting me on the last few laps. That was kind of my welcome to the big boys moment. I had tires, new tires. I was trying to drive through the pack and get as good a finish as I could. We had like a 10-lap run to the finish.

I caught dad. We were coming up off turn four. I needed to clear him so I could open up, you know, I couldn't go full throttle off the corner because he's on my outside. So I'm sitting there running like three-quarter throttle, sliding up, sliding up. And if I could clear him, I could get in the gas, right, and go down the next straightaway, and he's holding us up. And if I don't clear him, he's going to side draft me,

and we're going to get, you know, we're going to lose car links to the guys in front of us. And I need to go. Laps running down. So I just cut, I just cut across his nose. And he had to lift to not get fenced. He was going to run into a wall if he didn't lift. But he kind of clipped me and then jacked me up down a straightaway and turn me sideways. He let go of me.

And then I was able to go on and get a couple more spots. But, you know, he threw a shoe at me afterwards because he was mad at me. So that was kind of my welcome to the big big leagues moment. There was a couple more. Yeah, Mike referenced Martinsville. I went out there either the spring or the fall and just destroyed the car, ran into everything. I even hit a pace truck or a cleanup crew truck in the pits trying to get around behind the wall to change the sway bar arm. We drug the sway bar arm off.

Ended up crashing the car into the wall in turn one and two, bent the steering wheel, cars on fire. And that was the end of the day. We was in like four or five accidents that day. Yeah. All Ross Tustain's fault. Yeah, all of a Ross Tessane's fault in hindsight. Like, I guess walking away from that type of race, how do you, like, what was your mindset like? So earlier in the race at Martinsville, I was a lap down and we started on the inside.

And so I was the first car lap down. They dropped a green flag and I passed the leader and I drove away by a straightaway from the leader. And dad was running into top 10 so I knew you could see all this. And so we get in a helicopter to go home, and it's me, dad, and Michael Walter. And we're eating hot dogs, you know, got us a bag of hot dogs on the way home. And dad, dad's like, dad said something like, man, was there, you know, you hit about just about everything out there today or said something like, you know, what was going on with you? And I was like, man, you didn't see me straight away the leaders at one time. That was pretty damn impressive.

And Michael Waltrop just starts laughing like, hell. Because dad's trying to get me to go, yeah, I see all my mistakes, and I know what I should have did different. And I'm like, do you see my ass straight away them leaders? Something else. Whopped them. Wop their ass for about 20 laps. That's a good way to remember that race.

You know, speaking of the Japan race, I saw someone on the YouTube chat calling in all the way from England. Damn, all right. What does it take? to get NASCAR back international like a Japan race. I love it, man. I think it would be awesome to, I love the idea of taking our cars and going into international environments in front of an international audience on an oval.

So, you know, the street course, you know, momentum with Chicago, all the road courses that we've started to incorporate into our schedule, schedule. That's great, but I don't want to go. I mean, I give a, I don't give a crap about a cup race at a road, at another road course, even internationally, right? Even in the UK or out, I don't care. I don't want to see it.

I want those, I want that audience that's never seen our cars race in person to see them race on an oval, right? Yeah. Our roots. And I want them to see that race we saw this weekend at Richmond. I want to take that, you know, overseas. That's what I'd rather happen. So, you know, there's not a lot of ovals out there, right, for NASCAR to go to.

And so if we went international, I mean, I'm sure it's just easier to go to a road course and just, you know, that's the easy, low-hanging fruit. But damn, I hope that's not what happened. Do you know of any ovals that exist so far? Rockingham, I think it's in the UK. The track called Rockingham over in Europe. Oh. And it's kind of shaped like a Nazareth or it's just kind of got an odd shape to it.

But it's an oval, you know. And I think it might be, it might be functioning, but it was closed there for a while. So I don't know what kind of shape it's in. It's probably not, it's probably not the best oval configuration. I don't know that they put on an amazing race. It might. But yeah, there's not a lot of ovals. Tell us what ovals do we need to be considering that are international. You know, not, you know, Canada has several up there because of Cascar and all the years of racing stock cars

in that area. But I mean in Europe, right? Over in Europe, twin, I think Motagie is still in Japan still operational I'd rather see us go to Europe and getting from the F1 crowd and put on a proper oval event there Boy that is rocking him is an awesome looking configuration It closed in 2018 according to Wikipedia

It's like a square almost Right it's almost like a square A rounded all square Not a road course No basically This next question comes from Rick Without giving away too many of the embarrassing details.

What's the best post-win party that you can remember having in your career? That's a good question. You know, one of the funniest ones, honestly, was we ran, we didn't even win the race. We ran, we ran, no. We didn't need that to a party. We ran third, we ran third at Sonoma,

me and LaTart. That's enough. And we all flew back from the West Coast and met up at my house at four, five, six in the morning and drank till lunch, partying about our third, our podium finish.

Because I believe I had never finished better than 11th at Sonoma. For the longest time, like 11th was my best result at that racetrack. And so when we ran in the top three, it was like a win for us.

And we had, LaTart tells this story really good. We used to go test at the road courses. We used to test it, road of Atlanta. We test, test, test, right? Trying to get better at the road courses. And we'd go run terribly. We wouldn't run, you know, better. And so that year, LaTartre said, hey, we're not testing road to courses this year. Don't worry about it. It's going to go race. And I was like, okay. I mean, yeah, I hear you. We're wasting a lot of energy trying to test, and it's wearing our

guys out, and we're not getting results. So let's just show up and see what happens. And we end up running a third. So I told him, I said, man, I'm pretty damn happy about this and if y'all want to come on over to the house when you get home i'll be there and so damn they did you know about a dozen people or so showed up and we we got after how about that yeah where is where does that third place rank in terms of all your career wins and NASCAR right in front of the Daytona 500 yeah that's usually the base it's basically when we won ma'am it was like hey you know when you get home come on over. I'll have everything ready.

I remember when Blaney won, Pocono, he was through the woods, he was living real close. And I remember taking all the beer over to his house and having a good time. That was a lot of fun. Celebrating with somebody else,

celebrating and win with someone else. But we always just said, hey, when everybody, because everybody flying back was going to be getting back pretty late. Right. Pretty much from all the events. And so, but I would say, hey, man, the door's open. When you get home, don't even worry about it.

Come on over. We'll be there. I'll be there until the sun comes up. As the winning driver with all the media obligations and everything, were you always kind of like late to the party, like fashionably late to the party? No, because I was, I had my own plane, so I was going to probably get home even, you know, because the teams, well, I mean, if the winning, the winning teams, usually the last team out of the. Right.

But all the other teams that are on that plane have to wait for the winning team. And boy, we've been on the other side of that plenty of times. But it wasn't too big of a difference. I'm going to throw an honorable mention. I always liked the story. I wasn't around for it. But it was either for Dale's first win in the Bush series at Texas or it might have been his first cup win. But I liked hearing the story.

I read it in a book actually about when he got home, everybody was there at the house waiting on you. That's always kind of cool. Yeah, so. That's, yeah, that's a cool moment. I, we won at Texas in the Xfinity series. And I am riding with dad from the, I'm riding with dad from the airport. We land in Statesville and we're driving home and he's going to drop me off at my house. I don't know how this happened.

This rarely was a scenario, me riding with dad, but we're driving up my driveway and my friends had hung sheets in the trees with stuff written on them and it was it was pretty embarrassing but awesome at the same time and it's one of those things where your parents know you party

or they know you drink or they know you cut up a little bit but you don't do it in front of them and they don't never see it they don't you know you always clean up after the you know before they come over or whatever and we're driving into a rager right and I'm like

I wonder how he's going to react to this. And he just let me out and said, have fun. And it's his house. It's his house I'm written from him and all that. But he wasn't too nervous. That'd be the best feeling. He's like, just go. Yeah, you're good. I love it. We've got time for one more. This comes from Jake.

You talked about it at the front of the show. No April Fool's pranks this year, but what's the best prank that you can remember? The best prank. I've told this one a few times, but a guy, a guy, I was, I was in this relationship with this girl, and a friend of mine had, a friend of mine got a pregnancy test, a positive pregnancy test, and put it up in the bathroom. Oh, man, he's got me good. And, I mean, that's, that's pretty low. And pretty awesome at the same time. Yeah. I don't think there's much topping that type of prank. Yeah. I had dumped a bucket of water and a bag of flour on him the night before at about two in the morning when he was in bed asleep and broke into his house and did that and put a bunch of, put about 2,000 crickets in his bedroom.

Same year? Yeah, same night. Same night. Oh, this was a prank war of all prank wars. Yeah, it was pretty rude. So, okay, maybe you had that one coming. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He got me good. That ended it.

Yeah, I bet that was the end of the game right there. Hey, that pregnancy test was probably about 15 or 20 minutes of terror in his life. Where crickets, they're probably still making noise over there in that house. You might have to move out on that one because you aren't going to get them all. Awesome. I think that's a good place, send it. This really got to ask Jr. All right, everybody.

Thank you all for tuning in. I appreciate everybody's support of Dirty Mo Media and everything we got going on here. We got a great guest this week. week. Tony Fur is coming on the show. He's a crew chief in the Cup Series in many different forms from the Cup Series, Xfinity trucks and all that. But he also owned race cars that my dad drove at Metrolina in the Dirt Days. His dad was the owner of Metrolina Motor Speedway and Concord Motor Speedway, Henry Fur, and we're related too. A long way down the line. But But anyways, we got a lot to talk about.

He's really, really connected to dad. He has a lot of stories that I want to hear that I've never heard. Also connected to the G family, my mother's side of the family. So Tony Fur is going to be a lot of fun to talk to. He also cheated a lot. He really got busted a few times pretty bad by NASCAR on some things that he did to his cars. Can't wait to hear some of the creative things that he had.

So Tony Fur tomorrow on the Dale Jr. download. Hey, before we get out of here, I want to say, listen, We had a big announcement this week on Dirty Mo Media yesterday on Door Bumper Clear as a matter of fact that they are going to have a new streaming partner. Dirt Vision. Oh man. That's right. Starting April 12th. So are you making those shots, by the way?

I've made one in the seven years. He's firing paperballs. I've made one in the seven years we've been here much. Sorry. All right. This is, hey, I want to stop you. Oh. This is amazing news. I am so thankful for this.

So Door Bumper Clear has been picked up by streaming. streaming company DirtVision. That's right. Everybody's been asking for a door bumper clear to get back on the picture tube. Yep. And so now that they're back on the picture tube,

the color box, Dirt Vision is to be thanked. That's right. So thank you, Dirt Vision. I am so excited for that partnership. I'm pumped about that. Listen, the other thing about that is that, and this is a big one, is that if you just register at DirtVision, it's free.

So that's to say you can access the full episodes, the visual episode streaming for free. You just have to register with DirtVision. And the registration does not require you to spend any money, right? Now, there's opportunities for you to subscribe and get all the awesome access to world outlaws, all the things they do. We've got some great streamers in this industry that just really kind of, there's no, there's no lack of racing coverage. But Dirt Vision is one of the big ones, and I really appreciate what they do.

And I think that Door Bumper Clear is perfect for them because this is going to be just a beautiful bridge between NASCAR and the dirt world. Casey, Freddie, Brett, all of them are big dirt fans, and they consume dirt. We've got some new segments that we're going to do tied to the dirt community. So that's a whole community of passionate race fans. And I'm glad that we're able to do that and bring it. And that's all by way of Dirt Vision. So I'm very grateful for that. Speaking of dirt, I also want to just say, we've got the Bristol Dirt Race coming up this weekend.

And so we have a partnership with them that I just really want to say, if you're looking to go to a race, this is the one to go to. Like this is the one, it's Bristol. It's Easter weekend. They've got a lot of events planned up. Listen, in fact, let me just list off a few here. Easter celebration for anyone who wants to attend. It's free starting at 4 p.m. on the fan midway stage. Amazing lineup with keynote speaker Tim Tebow.

If you've ever heard Tim Tebow speak, by the way, you leave changed. He is an amazing public speaker. So that's going to be fantastic. Music by singer-songwriters, Phil Wickham, and Corey Asbury. So make the Bristol Race Weekend, a family weekend to remember, visit the Kid Zone, the Food City Fan Zone and Fan Midway. Kids' cup tickets are just $10 to get your weekend package and say, visit bristoltix.com. Bristol, t-I-X.com.

Also, on this note, Marcus Smith. is the, you know, CEO of SMI. They have Bristol Motor Speedway. Next week, we have our second installment of the business of motorsports, and that is with Marcus Smith. And boy, Dale, we've already taped it. Kelly and I did that, and it is a fantastic conversation with Marcus, as you would expect, because he's been on this show many times.

But we get right to it. We ask him about the RTA and the media rights deals and say, hey, advocate for the tracks. Why do you tracks need 65% of that cut? And listen, tell us about Wilkesboro. Listen, we're all got the warm and fuzzies about Wilkesboro. What happens after the All-Star weekend? What happens after?

How's it going to survive and not fall into the same fate as it did before? And so we really ask a lot of good business questions, and that's going to be next week on the download. That will be our only episode next week because we're taking off. I'll be in the Grand Canyon, but we've got that episode. It'll drop Tuesday, as a matter of fact. And that'll be worth it. You'll look forward to that.

All right, everybody. Appreciate everybody tuning in, Dirty Air, Asch, Jr. A lot of fun today, Tuesday, April 4th. This show's in the books. Make sure you tune in tomorrow. Tony Furr, going to have a lot of great stories. Can't wait to share all of that with y'all tomorrow. We'll see you.

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