The Dale Jr. Download - 439 - Dale Jr. and Amy Try an Ice Bath

Episode Date: April 20, 2023

Dale Earnhardt Jr. is joined by his wife Amy and co-host Mike Davis to further discuss his recent adventure in cryotherapy. Amy arrives early to give her perspective on their date to the “cold box��, and then they fill listeners in on how it compared to their recent homemade ice bath. In solidarity, Mike spills the beans on what really happened at the end of his Grand Canyon vacation and the guys play a couple more rounds of tic-tac-toe. 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.

So you know how when your cooler's been sitting outside, like all afternoon, and you have to get to the bottom of it with your arm to get that last beer? Can you put your ass in that? Can you put your neck in that? Can you get your whole body in that? That's what this feels like. What about your private parts? Can you put them down in that cooler with the beer?

I feel like you're not even thinking about your privates. Once you get your feet in there. We're always thinking about our privates, Amy. What do you think? I mean, of all. All things to say. What? Family picnic sometimes.

Get you more than just the greatest alley. Are you kidding me, Mike? Oh my God, that is hilarious. Happy Thursday, everybody. It's the Dale Jr. download from the Bojangles studio. Dale Jr. is on his way. Have no fear. Dale Jr. is on his way.

He's actually, he's not late. He's in the school drop-off line, which is where we want him right now because this is giving us an opportunity that we've never had. on the Dale Jr. Download. And that is, for the next 15 minutes, Amy Earnhardt uninterrupted. Amy, good morning. Good morning. Amy, you are here because if I have this right, Dale Jr. told me the other day that sometimes you will listen to the Dale Jr. download or catch a video on social and you'll see or hear him tell a story and you're like, that is not how it happened. 100%. He embellishes. He likes to embellish. He's always, you know this about him. He likes to do that.

He'll do it in your presence, knowing that you. know the truth, just to get, just to get more of a reaction. That's just who he is. He likes everyone to be entertained. So yeah, that happens quite a bit, actually. Or, or he has a warped sense of reality. Well, that probably is true, too. I think that's probably a little true to that. I think there is. And by the way, he wouldn't be alone. That's men. I think men, husbands especially, sometimes our reality, our vantage points are skewed. Well, that's really good self-awareness, Mike. Well, listen, I know it because I hear Dale, and I'm like, that's bull crap.

I know that ain't how it happened. Although, I will tell him, he tells a story on Tuesday about you surprising him with the cryotank, the cryotherapy. Right. I mean, we butcher this story. We first of all called it a Cairo therapy. That's what he called it when he walked up to see the sign. I think he was so nervous, too.

He couldn't even get his tongue to do the right thing. Right, right. So if there's a story that he's told that I think is accurate, the closest thing to accurate, It's him hating for 10 seconds the cryo tank or the cryo chamber. Yeah. We sat in there for three minutes. Here's what I want to do today. Before Dale gets here, I want to hear your version of this thing.

Before Dale gets here. Now when he gets here, I then want to hear that I think you guys did the ice bath that he mentioned on Tuesday's episode. He said that he was going to, with you, try an ice bath at the house. Yes. And did that happen? Yes. Okay.

We're going to save that for you and Dale telling that together. Okay. First, give us your version of the cryotherapy, starting with your surprising of him. Okay, so the only reason I wanted to do this, it's not something I would typically sign up for to do by myself. I don't like being cold either. But he keeps getting these Instagram ads, you know, the ads. Wait, the algorithm knows that he's a potential customer. He has talked about it at least once or twice.

And so he's getting all of these ads for these different types of, um, ice bath things that you can just put on your back porch, inflatables. I'm like, you can't fit in that. It's 20 bucks. It's going to fall apart. Well, that doesn't matter. Why are you buying this stupid thing? Why do you care about this?

And he's getting these ads so often. Now he's really wanting one, right? But did he buy one? He didn't. And the reason he didn't is because I tricked him into doing cryotherapy. Oh. He had an obligation for NBC, and I knew it was in the area of Burkdale and that there was a cryo chamber place in Burkdale.

Okay. And so instead of telling him to meet me at the address, I just said, meet me over there by the theater in Burkdale at 3 o'clock. And he loves a surprise. So he was tickled to death that I was going to surprise him in the middle of the week, in the middle of the day. So he didn't hesitate whatsoever to accept. And so we get to the theater.

And I start filming him immediately because he's excited and nervous, but he can't guess what we're doing. He thinks, as he said on Tuesday, he thinks you're about to day drink. He thinks we're going to go have a date. Yeah. He's like, we're going to go eat sushi? Are we going to have? Oh, the movie theater.

We're going to go watch a movie. That's awesome. I haven't been to the movies in so long. Mario Brothers. Oh, there is, oh, there's bars over here. I haven't seen that one before. And then we get past this little spice place, and he sees the cryotherapy, which he calls chiro therapy.

And I'm like, we're going in. He goes, what's chirotherap? It's an ice chamber. You've been telling me you want to do an ice bath. He goes like, no, you know, his typical response. Yeah. Like, oh, uh-huh, we're going in. And so you don't have to have an appointment.

We just dropped in, and we did it together. You have to completely get naked except for your underwear. If you do not have any, they will give you some. Oh, wow. I know. Community underwear. Community underwear. What could go wrong?

So you have to wear a beanie if you're a man and a head wrap. If you're a woman, they want yours covered. Okay. You get socks and you get slippers. And then you get a robe. So you can go in the courage, I'm saying it, like he's saying it. the cryo chamber by yourself where you can go in together. Of course, we went in together.

And we did level one, which is negative 145. Yeah, stop right there. Is that an accurate statistic? That almost sounds like a NASCAR loop stat where it's like, you know, they're trying to convince us that there was 2,000 green flag passes. That seems like a ridiculous. That feels like a non-survivable number. I agree.

It does. But, I mean, so that's level one. They say level four is negative 200. See, that's even. So as you sit in there, it does get colder. there's a there's like wind blowing and it will get more intense it's almost like you're in a blizzard oh you don't start out there it eases into a negative one point in the door it just lets some of the cold out you know I mean like the refrigerator so you have to walk in there's a giant door and and what are you are you sitting

on a bench you stand in the middle you stand like a popsicle in the freezer okay now give a play by play of Dale junior as from the moment he walks in um he walks in and he stands right next to the front door and he lets me do all the talking and then the lady's like giving us both some paperwork to fill out. So he sits down and he's trying to fill out his paperwork. And I get mine done first. So he's already like, he's frustrated. He didn't get a chance to wrap his head around what's about to happen,

which is kind of something you want to do. That's the way you want to do. You want to mentally prepare, which I got to do. So I'm excited. I'm laughing. I'm just laughing at them. The girls are laughing at him because I called them in advance and said, this is what that's going to happen.

So we get checked in. They take us back to the locker room. and we get undressed and we get in our robes. And he looks at me and he's like, ah, this is going to really suck. I'm like, it's going to suck for three minutes. You can do this. You know what I mean?

Like, it's just three minutes of your life. And so we went in there and you hang your robe up as soon as you get in and you just stand and try not to touch the walls. It's not a big room. It's really small. It's literally like standing in a refrigerator box. Wow. So it's that small.

Yeah. And the two of you are in the same room together. We're in the same one together. I start breathing on. almost like, you know, Lamas labor breathing. Oh, like, just like big, deep slow breaths. And he immediately starts huffing and puffing, and his whole body is trembling.

And he's like, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I can do this. And so there's this light tube, by the way, that's up both sides of the door. And it's got this little white bar. And it goes up and up and up as your time is going. This is how you know when it's time to get out. Oh, this is like a time meter.

Yeah. It's like a clock. Yeah. So every 20 seconds, the white will get high. higher and higher, and he's like, fuck this. F*** this. And he's thrown his arms. And how far into it are we?

Oh, 20 seconds. That's it. If I had not been in that room with him, he would have busted out of that thing and run out without his robe to the locker room. And he said that. He's like, if you had not been standing in there, my ass would have been running out in my underwear. He's streaking in Burkdale.

All right. So he says, fuck this. Yeah. 20 seconds in. I'm like, you got this. Just breathe. It's okay. And he's like, my back hurts.

My back. It reminds me that scene in Friday when the dudes on the ground. He's like, my neck, my back, my neck and my back. He's trying to claim that he's got like freezer burn on his back. He didn't touch the walls. There's no way he did. You know what I mean? He's not like got a hairy back either.

There's nothing to freeze. I know, but I can absolutely understand the feeling of burn in something that cold, right? Like that's... Mine didn't. You didn't. You were fine. Okay. So we're 20 seconds in. I think he's just trying to make up every... He had mentally plummeted as soon as he walked in there. You have to... No, no, no, no. I think he mentally plummeted before he walked in there. Right, before he walked on the front door. He was pretty much upset about the whole thing. And then when he walked in the door, it confirmed his mentally plummeting. Yeah. Yeah.

And by the way, I think I would be on his... I would be the same way. So I'm not, I'm not faulting the guy, but I am enjoying this imagery right now. Okay, so you're 20 seconds in. All right, now what happens? I don't remember. So, like, the next two minutes is almost like me just trying to calm him down and watching the bar go up. I'm like, you got this.

I feel like if I had been there by myself and didn't have him as a distraction, I might have wanted to get out a little sooner too. Okay. But him being such a t-b-baby. Really, really was entertaining. We were dying laughing. The girls out front could hear us cackling in this fitness chamber. So y'all are laughing.

We were laughing our asses off. And he was, like, when I tell you he was shaking, every inch of his body was bouncing and jumping all over the place because he could not sit still. It was amazing. Okay. So how long did you last? We lit the whole three minutes. Oh, my gosh. We did not quit.

No, we didn't quit. You weren't going to let that happen. No. He wasn't going to let it happen either with me in there with him. Okay. Is it an aside, if he wasn't in there, how long do you think, would you have gone the full three minutes? I probably would have. I probably would not have had as easy of a time, though.

like he distracted the shit on me. So it was helpful. So that was actually helpful? For me, yeah. It was entertainment. Very entertaining. Okay, so you go the full three minutes and you're watching that light meter. As soon as it gets to the last, we have one 20 second increment left, he grabs his robe and he's holding it.

And he's ready to jump out. Yeah. So as soon as it hit, he opened the door and then I grabbed mine. But we did it. Yeah, it was it. But yeah, but then the post-chamber experience also seemed just as tremendous. for him. Really? Well, he was talking about these compression boots and that his body was shaking and that's when the burn started setting in and all this stuff. Oh, is that not what happened? Tell us what

happened. He looked like he was about to fall asleep, except for all of his texting to you. Like, you can't believe what she just did to me. He immediately got on the phone and was telling all of his friends what he just did. Yeah. That's what I love about him. Yeah. You got to love it. Yeah. So, okay, so. So the boots are tight and they're long. So like, my legs are not very long. I'm only five. three. So they were squeezing all kinds of things they weren't supposed to squeeze when they got to the top because she makes you zip them up. They're so high. She gets zips you up halfway and then you zip for the rest of the way. So you lay in this chair that reclines for what seems like 20, at least 20, if not 30 minutes. It felt really long compared to the three minute torture that we

just went through. Okay. But it's, it massages you really, really deeply to try to get your blood flow back up. and it's relaxing. If you weren't distracted in that moment, you could fall asleep. It was nice. So on the scale of manned card here, I feel like Dale revoked his manned card the day he and Dugger got Manny Petties. Like that'll always stick out to me, that video of like that.

Dugger gets a manicure and a pedicure every week. I'm sure he does. Yeah. But I remember the video of them not only just getting Manny Petties, but they were giggling and tickle it. Because it tickled. Right, right, right. does this what was what what's more revoking of a man card that or what happened in this cryotank

Dale's behavior the the manicure and pedicure okay so you you actually were you a little bit there was another there was another guy that went right in front of us he didn't giggle when he was in the chamber but he was by himself and he must go quite often he looked like he was working out and he had just come from a workout apparently that's what you're supposed to do that is what you're supposed to do like I can't imagine doing any of this ice therapy with without the out in front of it. Like that would be the only thing. Isn't it supposed to help you recover?

Yeah. Y'all were just recovering. Y'all weren't recovering. This was a smart ass choice that I made to try to keep him from putting a damn ice bath on the back porch. But then y'all end up doing it. Or building another room in the house for an ice therapy session. You know how he is.

Yeah. Honey, I need to build another garage because I want an ice bath. He's ridiculous. Yeah. He also just arrived. Oh, great. Dale Jr., welcome to your show. Dale Jr. is here.

Have you heard this? Yeah. It's like you don't remember none of our conversations we had yet. No, no. I need to hear Amy's version of it. Are you saying that Amy wasn't telling the complete truth? You. Me? Yes. I said, I'm sitting there listening and I'm like, he doesn't remember anything we talk about.

No, I do. But like, she gives a lot more detail and she puts us in the chamber. You just told us, you know, it sucked. this. Okay. I don't want it. All right. All right. So, but you're saying this, listen, listen, to be honest with you, if you want to know the truth of it, and I said this on Tuesday, women are just way more tougher than we are. Yeah, we agree with that. More tougher. Is that not right? No. They're just tougher. More tough or tougher. All right, there you go. They're also grammatically superior. Annoying. Gramatically annoying. So then you said that you thought if you didn't do this, Dale Jr. would just go create an ice bath in the house. But then this is exactly what y'all did, right?

Well, so here's the thing with the ice bath. After we did the cryo thing, Dale and I went to Sullivan's. We had some things to do for the construction we're doing down there. So we got an I'd away a few beers in. I text Mitch Phillips. Oh, you did that while we were sitting there? Yeah. So we're sitting in the bar and I text Mitch, I'm like, you know Mitch, those caltrophs that they sell at the farmer's supply? I need you to get me one of those and put it on the back porch. He's like, all right. I'm like, we're going to do an ice bath. He goes, that's what I use for mine. It's going to be perfect. Of course Mitch Phillips does ice patch. Right. Right. So he delivered one to the back porch. Unbeknownst to me, so I look out the back window and there's this tub. I knew exactly what it was for. Yeah. Big shiny silver tub,

just waiting for us to jump in. I said, what? Are we doing that? It's going, yep. Okay, so side note. I felt like we had to. Yeah. Well, I guess so. I got a text when I got out of the Grand Canyon from you. Like it was one of the first texts that I got when I returned to the land of the living, which means sales service. And it was like, between you and I, we're doing an ice bath, you got to be there. You got to see this. Do you remember texting me this? Nope. Okay. Well, you did. So that must have been right after I text Mitch. Okay. But I didn't get it until much later after you'd send it. So I didn't reply. Okay. Well, that's not surprising anyway, Mike. You don't ever reply to my text messages. Oh, so good. You're so bad at communication. So, uh,

So you guys do it. Now, Dale said you guys were going to do it on Tuesday's episode. I got to hear how it went. Well, we fit that in yesterday afternoon. It was absolutely, can I say f***? I just did. We already have. It's absolutely f***ing miserable.

Yeah. Is it worse than the cryotank? Beyond. Yeah. Whoa. Yes. So that was when we started, we did the box and the lady was like, wasn't she saying the ice bass was worse?

Way worse. Yeah. She said, I've done both. it is way worse. I'm like, in my mind. That's a sales pitch, right? You thought for sure she was just blowing smoke because she wants to come back. I thought she was telling, I just assumed she was telling the truth.

And that instantly made me think, ain't no way. I got to do it to see. It's impossible. That what I just did in the box was miserable and it's a minus 140 degrees. The ice bath is like 30 to 60 degrees, something. I don't know, but it's not a minus 140. So now my interest is even more peaked because, you know, that was what I wanted to do from the get-go intentional, you know, from the start

was the ice bath because it's so easy to acquire everything you need. And I think Amy was as curious as I was, and that's why we ended up, she ended up doing the legwork and getting the tub. So anyhow, I did some very, very quick Googling. People were in those ice baths from two to 15 minutes. You just kind of pick your duration. I think it's pretty dangerous. You know, you need to know a lot about your own physical condition and stuff.

far as any issues you might have with blood clotting and whatever because it's going to restrict your veins in a very fast manner. It's probably something you need to do a little homework on. Dr. Dale. Just saying, it seems pretty, it is. It's intense as hell. And so you need to make sure that you don't have any issues. Consult your physician. Consulter your Dr. Dale. Well, when we went to the ice box, we filled out all these. Oh, I don't have this. I don't have this kind of condition. I don't have this issue. I haven't had any family history of this and X, Y, and Z. I didn't read it. I just checked all the boxes. And so we, but anyways, I did some quick Googling, and it's like, okay, you know, you fill the tub halfway with water, so turn the spicket on, put the hose in there, go to town, start filling it up.

And we need three, five-gallon bags of ice, 15 gallons of ice. So I called David Pittman, one of my buddies on the farm, and I said, hey, man, bring over some aculaful ice. I said, I need about 15 gallons. He did. He brought all of, he brought 15 gallons of ice. Amy pulls in. I said, hey, it's all ready to go. We're doing it. I went to pick up Ila. Where did I go? I don't know.

You were in the post office. I had to go to the post office. I told Ila, I was like, I'm really getting nervous on the drive back home. I did not want to do this. I didn't want to do this from the beginning. I knew that he was going to hate it. This is why we started the cryo thing. You know, I've had my back thrown out a lot lately.

And laying on that ice pack sucks. The thought of getting myself into an ice bath felt ridiculous. It was easier to climb into the ice bath than it was ice box for me. But anyways, I dump all this ice in there. It was, I know, you know, we're talking about, this seems like it isn't that big of a deal. But when you're standing next to that tub full of ice, and, you know, you just put 15 gallons of ice in it. And it's already a cold water spicket from outside trying to get yourself to climb in there. And you know, if you don't, if you put a foot in or a leg in, you're not going in.

you got to go all the way in or you're not going in. You got to die almost go quote unquote dive in or you'll get out. Your brain will tell you get out. You can't do that with an ice bath. You physically can't do that. I do have to put one foot in first. Well, yeah, but I mean, I know what you're saying. You don't cannonball in, right?

No, but I mean, I'm just saying I went, I said I'm going all the way to the shoulders, water level to the shoulders as fast as I can. because I knew if I stopped at the waist, I was going to chicken out and jump out. Feels a little like if you're bungee jumping. You know, you got to get up there and mentally prepare yourself to actually commit to getting off that thing.

Or if you sit up there and think about it, you'll stay up there, right? I got it in. 10 seconds is all I could do. He got all the way in. He jumped, slid down to his shoulders and like heavy huffed for 10 seconds and then jumped out.

Amy's got it on a phone. Oh, you do? Yeah, we took a video, but we're both halfway naked. so I'm not showing you, Mike, but it's... But not even him? He saw it. No, no.

I want to see him. Watch mine. Go ahead. Watch it. You could put the... Mike, just hand it to... Here's what I think, though. So, I don't know, I think mentally preparing yourself is what made you get in there

versus not having so much fun in that cryo chamber. You can't get into an ice bath without putting your feet in first and having to force yourself the rest of the way in. With the cryo chamber, you walk straight in. It's not like a toe touches it. I know, but as soon as you... I guess when I open that door to the cryo chamber, you feel that cold and you're looking at the damn interior of that box is frozen. And you're like, I've got to walk into this thing.

You know, it's a very, it's a slower process where the ice bath was like, bam, I'm in. If that volume's turned off, you have to turn it up. Turn the volume up, yeah, you want to hear all that. All right, here we go. And Ila's there with his beiggling. I was in the background, yeah. Oh, you didn't even get, he gets out right after that? Yes.

Hold on, I want to play it one more time. Isla's commentary is the best. that's so funny dude it's so cold it's so cold so cold so you know how when your your cooler's been sitting outside like all afternoon and you have to get to the bottom of it with your arm to get that last beer uh well yeah i i've got a different example like when i'm i'm cleaning deer meat right like i'm pulling it out it's been sitting in a cooler for a couple days and um and now i'm pulling when you go it it is so cold it is like it is so cold in fact i I often wear gloves just to do that because it's so cold at the bottom of that cooler.

Same thing. That's what you mean. Can you put your ass in that? Can you put your neck in that? Can you get your whole body in that? That's what this feels like. What about your private parts? Can you put them down in that cooler with the beer?

I feel like you're not even thinking about your privates. Once you get your feet in there. We're always thinking about our privates, Amy. You know what's most sensitive for me when I go swimming is my waistband. And like, I can go all the way in. into my waist and then that's kind of where I get hung up in a swimming pool and then I have to go you know I could get in on my legs all the way to my waistband and from there from everything up it's more sensitive right but uh I think everybody's a little different there but I jumped in I breathe hoping

I breathe the only way that that breathing that you heard was like not voluntarily that was not a voluntary motion man that was happening whether I could I'm not controlling that But I was hoping that the shock of the cold and, you know, the sensation would chill, but it didn't chill. I had to get out. But then, honestly, wait. So, Amy tries to get in a couple times. I didn't want to do it to begin with. I literally told him I wasn't going.

Oh, you went and after him. Oh, yeah. Okay. I tried to get us to do it together, and he said that he wanted to do it first. Yeah. And she had a harder time. But eventually. I did not get anywhere past my waist.

She got halfway in, come out, try it again, put it. leg in. Nope. He heckled me until I did it again. I would give her hard time saying, you can do it. Not heckling. You can do it. He wasn't cussing out because I was saying. You can do it. He can do it. You can do this. You know how he is? He stares at you until you do it. Persistent. Guilt treatment. There's a lot of words. I just really wanted her to be able to come in here today and say, I've done it. This is the experience I had. I listen. She did. So wait, Mike. So eventually she's like. We have a video of this part too. I said, hey, I'll do it again.

I'll do it. I'll get back in there if you'll, if you'll go it one time, right? And she says, okay. And so she's like, we're both going in the same time. So we both climbed into the tub together. He pushed me in there.

That's not true. That's not true. I have it on video. Grab me, tried to hold me down. No, stop that. So I get in all the way to my, I get into my neck. She climbs in and just goes to pits.

So she's got her shoulders out. and I just grabbed her shoulders and shut her down. Is that different than what I just said? Two inches. I pushed her down two inches. It ain't like a duct her? No, I think, yeah, I think that's exactly what Amy's trying to say. Well, I don't want people to get the opinion that I was physical.

Now people are going to think I'm abusive. Oh, please. And I was. I didn't think you pushed her down that much. It felt aggressive when you're in the ice bath. No. I was just like, hey, no, you're not going to just pick. And he's in there with.

you, he's in there with you, so it wasn't as bad as I thought, actually. I think that, yeah, I think you'd actually handle the ice bath way better. You said you did. Thank you. He did. So, I, I don't understand how he prefers that over the cryotherapy chamber, but he says he does. All right. So they're right. The ice bath is harder. By far, wouldn't you agree? Yes. I got into the box and was able to, you know, thanks to you, stick it out for three minutes. Not a freaking chance. No. No chance. I'm getting beyond 10 seconds in that ice bath.

No, not a chance you go in. The only thing, like, the thing that I do find interesting is that I can get in the ice bath in and out in and out as many times as you want me to, but I can't stay in there. Now, the ice box, I think if I got in it and then came out, I wouldn't go back in. They're two different things. They're very, very different. Well, it's air versus water, so, yeah, of course it's going to feel different. If I got out of that box, I would not go back in it. So here's the thing about the box, too, as we were standing in there.

The vent started to blow the cold air out again. So she told us, level one, you know, that's as cold as it gets. By the time you go up to level four, she said it's like a blizzard in there. It's like spitting out snow almost. There's like ice. No thanks. So did it get to 145 or did it get to 200? Negative 245.

It got to negative 145. That's so hard to believe. Yeah, it's, yeah. Well, I'm impressed. Sounds like Mike needs to go. Oh. You know what? I think that's a great idea. I think we should take this on the road. I thought we were going to have to apologize for talking too much about ice baths and cryo therapies.

But no, man, we got one more segment out of this thing. And that's you going to the ice box. Well, no, I don't think I'm doing that. We still have a free box. Yeah, you are. We have a pass. You're going. Here's what I'll tell you.

Because, listen, you've. Everybody's shaking their head. Morgan likes it. Morgan likes it. Everybody's shaking their head, yes. Yeah. Do you, I appreciate that you come and you own your. flaws and wimpiness and stuff.

If you would like to know, I mentioned in our Grand Canyon story that there was more, but I didn't want to share it. Oh, do you want to know it? I just watched that clip on Instagram and I'm dying to know. Didn't poop your pants. I would only say this because you've owned yours. And by the way, I said, women are just tougher than us. Here's what happened.

We hike out. I told you already that we were not supposed to hike all the way out. We were supposed to hike four and a half miles camp for the day. and then the next morning go the rest of the way, which was another four and a half miles. The last four and a half miles of the Grand Canyon, there's just straight up a wall, right? Like it's just, it's intense, right?

My wife has been encouraging me to get in shape for this hike for months. Yeah. She even has on a chalkboard in her house, like 92 days until Grand Canyon. And I'm just like, you know, past the honey mustard. I've got chicken nuggets to you, right? Oh, man.

With three miles to go, I'm down. down a cylinder. I mean, I'll put, with three miles to go. And I know three miles is a freaking long way. It is a long way. And now I'm down a cylinder. And it's hard flat. But now you're in a space where you can't stop. Exactly. There's nowhere to stop. I mean, you can't. You should have stopped a mile and a half back. Right. Exactly. You're committed. You're your pot committed at this point. For the next mile and a half, there's a mile and a half rest house. And Lily is walking with me. and Gracie and Sarah are way in a way up. They're doing well.

As far as they want to be, frankly. Give me 100 yards, 200 yards. Oh, no, they're probably. Can you see them? No, I can't see them. Okay, so we get, but I do see them at the mile and a half. They've waited for about 15 or 20 minutes for me to get there. And now with a mile and a half.

Now they're refreshed. Now in a mile and I have to go, I'm not only down a cylinder, but I don't have lug nuts on my wheels and I'm struggling. And I got a mile and a half to go. they go on Lily and I stand back and Lily God bless she's 10 years old

and she's just she's just there for support moral support and a three quarter mile She's there for your life alert is what she's there for And I did All right so with three quarter miles

With three quarter mile to go I'm now dead on the apron And Sarah and Gracie Have been out of the canyon now for a while But they also It kicked their butt too

but they, you know, we're, so I text Sarah, because now we're high enough to get cell service. And I'm like, I don't know. I'm seeing three paths right now. I'm low on electrolytes. I can't. I'm dizzy. I'm like, are you busy? No, I don't feel like I'm being dramatic.

Here's the thing. Much in the way Amy was your hero in that cryote tank, Sarah, who is exhausted, goes to the store, buy snacks and hikes back down the trail and brings it to. to me. She's got time to go to the store and shop and come back. At the Grand Canyon. Still. She brings me snacks three-quarter mile down on the trail and hikes this thing again.

My gosh. And brings me a power aid and snickers and things. I was in there on the side of the street. I can see Dale doing this. And she's saying, What? And I have no shame in my game. Let's just see Mike doing this.

Let's just enjoy this. Don't put me in this. And meanwhile, Lily has on her face, she's not saying it because she's too sweet, but she's on her face it says, this, fuck. Get your shit together, dad. I mean, God, you know, and so Sarah then says, do you want me to carry your pack out too? Oh, she's basically saying in front of your kids, your slippish, I'm like. She was actually saying that out of concern for me.

You don't think that was like a encouraging, get your ass up, let's go. Kind of a. She would have been perfectly willing to do it. So basically, Sarah hiked nine and three-quarter miles out of the Grand Canyon. She did the last part twice. Brought me snacks. I don't know if that's ever been done in the Grand Canyon Trail. I don't know if that's a start.

Probably more than you know. And that was absolutely something that I was not prepared to tell anybody. But this podcast has to be owning the applause. And if it celebrates how awesome our wives are, I'm here for it, right? That's right. So. I like it, Mike. Thanks for being transparent.

Amy, you have an open invitation. to just take over this show anytime you want. Anytime you hear Dale or me even, tell a story that you think isn't jiving with reality, which means every week. We say, you know, our realities are skewed. You come in here and correct the record. I'm going to come in here and take out the trash.

I'm going to just clean you right up. Yeah, clean us right up. All right. Well, thank you, Amy. Thanks, all right. Let's do some show. We had an awesome guest in the Bojangle studio yesterday, Mike. Hutt Strickland came through here.

You know, I've always, thought a lot about Hutt and seemed like a really nice, calm, well-spoken guy, never really ruffled any feathers, didn't wreck people or doing anything stupid, had a long career, worked hard to get opportunities and make things happen for himself, didn't know really much about how he got to cup racing, right, what got him to that opportunity. And we learned. We learned a lot about it. And so I love the interview.

thought it was really compelling and found a lot of things that were part of his life that were connected to my life. That's right. And people, you know, and people in town, like he built in Cleveland, he built his junkyard in Cleveland. I mean, I live, my address is in Cleveland. So if you want to go back and listen to that, there's more profound connections than just Cleveland for everybody who hasn't listened to it yet.

Yeah. And then we've got to celebrate him, which I love doing, love celebrating people, Mike. We really got to celebrate him and show him the car that Josh Berry is going to drive at Darlington and throwback weekend in the Xfinity race. He did not see that coming. How could he see it coming? But still, the reaction that he had, he's so reserved and humble that he's not going to sit there and elaborate anymore than he did. So, you know, he's going to be tempered. but it really meant a lot to him.

It meant a lot to him. I loved the interview. I love getting to know Hut more. I've never really talked much to him. So it's exactly what I love about the Dale Jr. download in our ally guest segments is that's a great example of it right there. Getting to talk to somebody who's been in a sport a very long time that I don't know that well. I understand who they are, what their career was about. but getting to sit down with them for the first time really to speak to them.

And it's like, do meet your heroes, right? Yeah. Every time we have somebody from the historical past that we admire, we've never been let down, never been disappointed in this show. So just a great time. Can I admit what I think I'm most impressed by? Go. Only somebody so reserved and humble like that, in my opinion, of what I know of Donnie Allison,

could be Donnie Allison's son-in-law and make it work. Yeah, right. I mean, I don't know. My perception of Donnie is just a hard ass, right? Like, just kind of a grumpy hard ass. Is that right? No, not really. He's more like a, well, I'll tell you what to do.

I know what to do. This is what you need to do. You should have done this. You need to do this. He's going to damn sure be, he's a, he's going to be in your ear advising, advising, advising. All the time. Yeah. And he loved to do that.

Donnie Allison did that all through the late 80s and all through the 90s with a lot of different drivers. Yeah. I don't seem as a hard ass. I'm not saying you insinuated this, but not a tough personality to be around. Oh, I did insinuate it for sure. That's how I feel. You know what? I have one Donnie Allison run in.

He's not. But he, I ran into him at a Talladega Media Center. Yeah. The Talladega Media Center. And he goes, he saw that I was wearing, I guess at the time, the Budweiser gear, whatever. And he's like, you work for Junior. I said, yep. You tell that damn Dale Jr.

And I don't even remember what he said, but it was just like, he didn't even know me. He goes, you tell that damn Dale Jr. This and that and that. And I guess you're right. He's telling you what to do or how. how to act or do whatever it is. I don't remember what it was, but I just remember going,

God, get me, get me away. I got to get away. He's intimidating me. Yeah. One of the other things that I find fascinating about the interview with Hutt Strickland, every single time, every single time that we're going to sit down at this table with a retired veteran,

the one question that I cannot wait to ask them. What is? how they dealt with their last race or getting out of the sport. Yeah. It's fascinating. Do you, when you got done driving, did you want to, did you want to drive? Did you want to go race a late model somewhere or whatever, right? Like Bobby Labani racing modifies.

Did you want to go race again? Did you want to step down out of the spotlight and the pressure and the rat race of cup racing and just enjoy driving a race car? and I'm surprised by a lot of these guys when they say no. I am too. And I'm envious a bit. Like I love driving our late model car.

I love that we're going to go to Wilkesboro and race the sundrop car. I'm excited about whatever the future is with me behind the wheel of a race car. But I am a bit jealous of how simple it is for them to go, yeah, I'm done. You know, when I got done, in 2017, I kind of felt like, yeah, I'm done. I don't want to, I don't want to do it. I really did.

But over every year since, there's this itch that's stronger and stronger year after year after year. Like, seriously, I mean. Yeah. Didn't you get the sense, though, that he was just exhausted? For his story specifically, everybody's, I'm fascinated by the same thing. But He seemed just exhausted. With his son running a development program, he could, by all means, put a very, very good race car out on the racetrack a few times a year and just have some fun. And he doesn't, or he didn't. I know now that he has a condition, a blood clot condition, that doesn't allow him to race.

But I'm just surprised by most of the people that we have here, that answer is, yeah, I don't need to do it. I mean, I want to get Tony Stewart in here, right, and say, hey, Tony, you know, do you not miss pavement racing driving on a, you know, driving a stock car? I know he's enjoying what he's doing in drag racing. Hell, he's winning and probably having a time of his life. Doing something he thought he'd never do. Right. But, you know, I wonder, does, is there something in the back of his mind going,

man, you know, I'd love to go run a lap at, you know, Richmond, or I don't know, Martinsville somewhere. And they don't. Most people will say, no, no, I'm good. I don't get it. He can, being that he's a team owner in the cups.

He can. We might not ever know about it. That's fascinating to me. It's a question I can't wait to ask everyone that comes to this table. It is the number one question. It's the one we're going to get too late in the interview, but it's one that I cannot wait to hear the answer to,

and I'm so anticipating it all the way. through that whole interview with Hutt. You know, I don't know. You know, the one that I remember we asked that question to, and the one that really still sticks with me is when we asked Mike Skinner that, and Mike Skinner said, you know, sometimes I just feel like a bull put out the pasture and he misses it so bad. Yeah.

That's what I want to hear. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. You know what I'm right. It does.

That makes sense to me. Even if Hutt and those guys don't, right? I want them to say, oh, God, I miss this a bad. And maybe they do. You know, maybe they do, but it does them no good to admit it. Or maybe they don't want to even put that out in the universe, right? I tell you the one I want to ask that for real right now is Kenny Wallace. Kenny Wallace made such a big...

Can he still racing? No, no, hold on. He made such a big deal about going back to dirt because that's what he wanted to do, and that was his love, and he's having so much fun. But lately he seems to be missing the... the NASCAR lifestyle and he was so adamant that hey I don't need that politics go back to having fun where

it's fun and I can go to the race track and enjoy it and compete and all that stuff I don't know I'd like to know if Kenny Wallace is actually having that itch again the NASCAR race. Kenny would come on to the show and tell us yeah I'd love to do that I think that Kenny is doing

the you know I think what Kenny's doing in the asphalt world with the race day show and all that is he's doing these things on his terms now. He's not doing them on someone else's schedule. But that's so sporadic. I mean, that's so, I'm talking about on a consistent, but who knows? The schedule beat you down, the politics beat you down. And in Hutt Strickland's case, I think the nomad life and just the going into seasons after season after just having these one year deals and this is just kind of folding,

probably beating down. But for most people, like you said, you know, you don't get to go out on your own terms. And so you wonder how they handle the post-racing life. All right, you got two games. Two? Yeah, we're so good at these. People are wanting more, so we're going to give them more games. It's the vacation from the vacation. We needed some, you know, fun, you know, after spring break type of game.

So we got Guess the Driver, Tick-Tack Toe is back. Yeah. Sponsor edition, Part 2. All right. Dale Mopped before with Mike two weeks ago, so we're going to see if he can go back to back here. You know, yesterday during Hutz, Strickland's interview, I realized I was hoping we wouldn't have these games today because he's sitting there going, Hutt Strickland is bringing up these obscure race teams and owners

and Dale's like, yes, the 68 car. Was that the country time car? What is? And I'm like, God, these things. It's only a matter of time. I'm just going to get annihilated. Rain Man is back. Rain Man's brain took a week or two off.

Which game we got to play first? Guess the driver, Tick-Tac-Tow. Let's go. Who's going first? I won, so I think I should go first. You go first. Let me set the board up first for the listeners. You're way too amped up for this.

So across the top we got Menards, Arens, and Budweiser. And then down on the left side, we got Burger King, Red Bull, and Penzoil. So Dale, you can go first since you won. God, almighty, this sucks already. Oh, my God. I'm going to do errands and Red Bull. Go ahead. All right.

It just escaped me. It escaped me. It really did. Gosh, I can't. think of his name. Brian Vickers. Yes, it's correct. Which one was this?

But Red Bull and what? Aaron's and Red Bull right in the middle. Aaron's? And Red Bull. So Dale, you just took Brian Vickers off the board? I can't even use him. No, you can use them. But this board does not repeats.

Okay. Is there a time limit? Oh, yeah. What is it? The 100 minute and a half. All right, hold on. You're 15 seconds in, all right. Aaron's.

I do know this one, but that's a square. Mike went strategy last week and it blew up in your face. So you might just want to get some ones you know. All right, all right, all right. Give me a 30 second countdown. I got you. All right.

30 seconds. I'll go with the one I know. Penzel and errands, which is the bottom square, is Walterp, Michael Waltrip. Correct. So back to Dale. I got to tell you right now, the Burger King row is going to really struggle. I'm going to struggle with the Burger King Row.

I'm telling you what. I'll go Menards and Penzel. Okay. Ryan Blaney? Yes, correct. Nice. Very good. So Dale gets the bottom left, so now that top right, which is Budweiser and Burger King.

If Dale gets that, he wins. So I'm like, you might have to go for the block there. Yeah. That's going to be a problem for me. He's got the, so I need to really study up on the Budweiser Burger King. Budweiser Burger King? I know. The hell.

I mean, God Almighty. One of the two tougher squares, I think. Yeah, I'd say so. All right, just let me think here. You have one minute left. Okay. All right, I'm going to take a flyer here on one. Go for it.

All right. I'm going to just, God, who fucking drove a Burger King car? God, I'm going to say Wally Dalling back. No, incorrect. Was that for Budweiser, Burger King? Yeah, sure. Pick one, any one. No, incorrect.

All right, back to Dale. Do you know this one? Bill Elliott. Correct. Yeah! Bill Elliott drove a McDonald's and a Burger King car? I guess he did. For Michael Walter Bracing.

Are you even thinking about a Burger King car that Bill Elliott drove? Michael Walter, right? Yep. Michael Walter Racing at double zero. Oh, for the love of God. All right. Dale, what an ass looping that in the way. All right. So I also have the Pinsold Budweiser down bottom right corner is Harvick.

Yes, that was one of them. Harvick. Also could have went Darrell Waltrip on that. Oh, that's right. Darrell Waltrip, all right. Okay, hold up. Hold up. All right, let's just keep going here, Dale.

Burger King Arons. Oh, Burger King Arons, probably Michael? Not Michael, no No That's a great guess Great team No Neumichick is the only

Burger King driver Oh no no no I know who it is I know who it is His dad Rudiman Yes David Ruderman David Ruderman What?

Great pull All right That was Aaron's Burger King That was Aaron's Burger King Wow That top middle So there's three squares You got Minard's Burger King

Um I mean, the Burger King deals... Did Landon Castle ever run a Burger King car? He did run a Burger King car, yeah. All right, so now I can think of two people that ran Burger King. Oh, yeah. All those guys ran the freaking BK car. Yep. The BK car.

I knew that stuffy guy. Yeah, so a bunch of different people drove it. So Paul Menard. That's not the answer. No, I know. What's the answer from Menards Burger King? Matt De Benedetto. Get out of here with that crap.

What are you trying to do to me? I've got to make the game, man. Matt De Benedetto. Yeah, he did. I mean, Wood Brothers Menards car? Correct? Yes, yeah, yeah. The Red Bull Menards.

This is probably the toughest one on the board, I thought. Is it? Red Bull Menards. Is it? Scott Speed? No, that's a good guess, though. Kind of a scary driver. Oh, who else running a Red Bull?

It's an A.J. Almondinger? Nope. Oh, what a good guess. He ran Menards for Robbie Gordon's team. It's not Robbie Gordon. and then he ran Red Bull as like a relief driver. PJ Jones? Not Red Bull, that's a good guess.

He was Menards though. He was a relief driver for... He was a full-time driver, but during the sponsorships, he was a relief driver. When he was a relief driver for... Red Bull, when Vickers was out. For Vickers. Mark Martin?

No. And for, he was a relief driver also for Robbie Gordon? I don't know if he was relief, but he ran Robbie's car. Was it a backup car or his Just his 7 car Later in those years Told you this is it's an obscure one Reed Sorensen

Oh shit we didn't ever got that Yeah never Never yeah That's the hardest one I'm glad you put me down quick on that The Red Bull Budweiser Red Bull Budweiser That's Vickr's middle right

No that's not Vickers That's um Casey King Yes it is Casey Kane right Dale's good these sponsors Yeah dude Screw that game All time up two two there

I like that. Yep, two, two. I don't even want to archive this. I got to find a new topic now because we got to switch all sponsors. They were tough. All right, so that was a lot of fun playing guests to driver. And again, I think I'm better at this one.

Yeah. You're better at the other one. So why don't we go back, now that it's two and two, I believe. Yeah. We'll go back to Mike's game that he's good at, right? Give him home field advantage for round five. It's the same game. What do you mean?

No. It's with race teams, he's saying. With the race teams. You're better at that. You're better at the driver. I'm better to sponsors. You're better at the teams. So we're going to, it's two and two.

We're even up to score. We're going to go back to race teams next week. For round number five. That's a good idea. There's one that we haven't done that I just, I'm afraid to even mention because he would wipe the floor with me. That's car numbers. We could do car numbers too. Well, okay.

Let's do car numbers for a couple weeks. Somebody recommended crew chiefs, too. Dude, this could last forever. I love it. This is unlimited once. While we figure that out, let's get to our short track insider with Hannah Newhouse. Welcome back to another episode of Short Track Insider. While where we took the weekend off last week, the racing industry most definitely did not.

Short tracks everywhere opening up their seasons. A lot of guys finally getting the opportunity to hit the racetrack with Mother Nature either delaying the start of seasons or tracks opening. But first and foremost, the official debut of the High Limit series, of course, that being Kyle Larson, and Brad Sweet's sprint car series, finally able to open up their season at Lakeside. And again, that was a Tuesday evening race. Right outside of Kansas City, $50,000 was on the line for one driver over 50 cars making the call. And it was Gio Selze, who was able to capture that inaugural win.

They race in two weeks at 34 raceway. But then into the weekend, plenty of races still took place, including that at World of Outlaws at I-55, only Friday after Mother Nature rained out Saturday. I mean, we saw pass at New Hampshire, SRL at Tucson, plenty of races throughout the weekend. And that just sets the stage for this upcoming weekend. Another busy weekend across the short track racing world. Really races all week long. But of course, if you're listening to this, it's probably either dropped on Thursday or later on the week.

So let's just start with Thursday. World of Outlaw late models are finally back in action after being rained out since essentially February at Speed Weeks. They will start their week off at 4-11 Speedway right outside of Knoxville. Then they double down at Talladega short track. That's right. NASCAR is also at Talladega. So if you happen to be at the NASCAR race, as soon as everything's done at the big track, make your way over to the short track, which is right across the street,

for some dirt racing. They'll have 360 sprint cars as well as the late models. Knoxville also opening up their season finally and in collaboration with the world of outloss, Noss Energy sprint cars. So Friday, Saturday at Knoxville, for those, you can watch both of those races on Dirt Vision. Lucas Oil Late Models was initially supposed to have a race in Tri-City on Friday. That has been canceled. So on Saturday, they are headed to Macon. We've also got the USAC midgets at Kokomo, both Friday and Saturday, and Cars Tour after a couple weeks off back in action right here in our backyard at Hickory. From what I have heard, and again, as I record this, I have not seen that

entry list, but I have heard it is a pretty gnarly one. So if you're in the area, definitely make sure to get out there, watch that. You can watch, of course, everything. Cars Tour related on Flow Racing. I'd forgotten to mention it, Lucas Oil, on Flow Racing as well, as well as the USAC midgets. The Northwest Super Late Model series is at Wenatchee this weekend for the Leonard Evans 1.50. And also some Arka Racing taking place. Arka West will be at Kern County Raceway Park right outside of Bakersfield. man, and it is a absolutely beautiful facility. I always love that facility, whether I'm watching it on TV or having been the opportunity

to get out there myself. They are Saturday this weekend. You can watch them on Flow Racing. And then, of course, in collaboration with all things NASCAR at the big track, ARCA is at Talladega on Saturday afternoon. You can watch them usually on Flow Racing as well. And one driver who's been making her way through the ranks, that is Amber Balkin. She's teamed up with Vennerini for a handful of races this week.

or this season, and we talk to her going into this weekend on what to expect and what a racetrack like Talladega means to her. I have one goal and one goal only when it comes to Talladega, and that is to win. I know that Ventrini Motorsports is bringing me in fast number 15 icon direct car. And with the speed we showed at Daytona and the learning and studying that I've done through these past few months, I feel really confident in my progression as a driver. And all the also really confident in what my team is put together for me. I've been working really closely with everyone and calling a lot of people and getting just as much feedback and information as I can going into this race. So I have really high expectations for myself. I think my team does too. I'm with a team

that really believes in me. And as a driver, that's all you can ask for is having the people around you believe in you and know that you can get the job done. And so now it's just my job to prove that I can do it. So we're going to give it our all at Talladega and I'm really, really looking forward to this race. Of course, while ARCA primarily focuses on all short track things, just like we do, it is cool to see these drivers

get the opportunity to race at some of these tracks that short track racers essentially dream of, and one of those, of course, being Talladega. So on Sunday, if Thursday, Friday, and Saturday was not enough for you, the Pro All-Star series is at Oxford Plain Speedway, up

in Maine, and the USAC sprint card. will be at IRP, otherwise known as Lucas Oil. And again, all things USAC, you can watch on Flow Racing. And we'll just give you one more while we're at it. High limit, of course, we'd mentioned it at the top of the show. They're at 34 Raceway on Tuesday evening. So that is available on Flow Racing. It's their second race of the season and, man, it's just some cool things that they've been

able to implement this year, as well as USAC Sprint Cars at Texarkana on Wednesday on Flow Racing. Man, we're finally hitting that point of this season. season there is racing almost every single day of the week. We'll cover it again next week and tell you where you can watch here on Short Track Insider. That's a great job, Hannah. Awesome to hear everything going on in grassroots racing around the country. We got a lot of cool things coming up this weekend. Hickory Motor Speedway Cars Tour.

I'm going to go and watch that in person. But if you can't be at Hickory at the racetrack, you can tune in on Flow and watch that. 8 p.m.'s when the features start. There'll be a last chance to race cranking up about 715. So tune in around 7 o'clock on Flow to watch the cars tour this weekend at Hickory. On that note, also, Dirt Vision is now putting door bumper clear on there. And so, you know, they broadcast the world outlaws. So that's good stuff.

I subscribe to both. Yeah. And what a great world we live in to be able to basically watch local grassroots racing all across the country. That was not around, not available to us, literally just years ago. That's right. and something that we wished would be possible that we thought would never happen. And so now to be able to tune in and watch these races is incredible. So we're so lucky.

I think we take that for granted a little bit. We're going to play one more game. We're going to play this new game. You've got Stump the Swab. No, not Stump the Swab. It's kind of like Stump the Swab. I love Stump the Swap. I do, too.

That's a good show. Stump the Download. This is from fans. They've asked if they've brought in some questions. Oh, I love this. These are crowdsourced. So you guys can work as a team for this one. Thank you.

Yes. And you guys have to be down. Okay, let me get my PIN. Your PIN. You have two minutes to come up and answer these, okay? Yep. So you guys have the questions. Okay.

We do? You can just ask us. Yeah. Can you name the 10 winningest car numbers in NASCAR Cup history? And this is from Michael Fields. And we can discuss. You guys can just discuss out loud as a team. Yeah.

Can you come with them? I think the 11 is definitely one. Like, I think 11 is. 11's correct. It's number one. 143. 43, number two. Three. Yep. 17.

17 is not on the list. 21. 21 is number six. 24. 24. Number five. 48. 48, number seven. All right, you're six down. You've got four more to go.

18. 18 is not on the list. 20. 20 is not on the list. Two. Two is tied for third. Third. Damn.

With the three. Each have 101 wins. All right. I'll say the 11. What are the 1? I'm going to say 4. 4 is on the list. Number 10.

Good job, Mike. So we're 2 away. You're only 50 seconds in, and they are numbers 8 and 9 on the all-time list. Number 9. Nope. Number 1. Nope. See, if we just start naming numbers, we could probably do this before.

You probably could. Right. Yeah, one minute left. Not the seven. I was talking to myself. I don't know. I don't know. Did you say 18 already?

You did. He did. You have 30 seconds. And you said 21? Oh, 25. Incorrect. Nope. No.

27. Nope. 42. Nope. 22 is on the list. 22? Number eight, you have 15 seconds. Oh, dang.

One more number. They're ninth. time with 83 wins. That's a lot of wins for one number. It's going to be obvious. Six? Correct. There you go, Mike.

Two seconds to spare. Mike comes in. Good job. Could not stump. Mike and Dale there. All right. The next question is from Sean Krasinski. Can you name an active cup series driver that comes from the following state?

So number one is Arizona. And there's three drivers from the state. Arizona. You know, the old NASCAR. Hotbed. Say the question one more time. Can you name an active cup series driver that comes from the following state? And the first state is Arizona.

Arizona? An active driver. Active cup series driver. Jeez. Arizona has three of them. I think Kyle Arson? Kyle Arson's not from Arizona. Not from Tucson, Arizona?

Um, where's car was Carl Lawson from? California. Okay. Yeah, that's right. somebody's got to come from Phoenix two of them come from Phoenix yeah somebody's got to come the other from Tucson I know this actually hold up I know this

have they won two of them have won dang all right so they're winners all right one's kind of embarrassing you guys haven't gotten I know this is the I know it is I feel embarrassed already yeah you have 45 seconds left

oh um Alex Bowman correct he's from Tucson Arizona. That's the one that we're embarrassed about. Do you want to try to guess the other two? Tell us the other two. The other two are Michael McDowell and JJ Yaley, both from Phoenix, Arizona. Truex is the answer to the next one. Yes. The driver from New Jersey. The state from New Jersey is Martin Chewrex Jr.

Oklahoma. Somebody from Oklahoma. Yeah, so the last state on this list is Oklahoma. One driver is from Oklahoma. They're from Norman, Oklahoma. If that helps you at all. It's somebody, have they won? They have one. Yeah, somebody, we do know this. It's so obscure.

All right. Hold on. Is it Reddick? No. Reddick's also in California. You're right he is. Have we had him on the download? I don't believe so. Okay.

He's a recent winner. I know. That's why I was thinking Reddick. This year. That was a big hand, actually. Yeah, it would be. Is it Stanhouse? Nope.

Oh, God. What a great guess. Yeah, he's Mississippi. But if there's somebody that looks like from Oklahoma, it's a sinhouse. What does an Oklahoma person look like? There's a good movie line that I'm not going to repeat about people that come from Oklahoma. Jeez, who is it? All right.

One minute left. Okay, we got this. All right, who won California? Kyle. Kyle Arson? Bush. All right, who won. Who won Atlanta?

It's 24, I think. He did not come from Oklahoma We know that Yeah, Byron won some of these races So it's not, who is this? 30 seconds Um Don't know

No, no, no Hold on, we got 30 seconds Mike's not giving up Uh Think what, you know, what race usually happens in Oklahoma That just confused you more Oklahoma Landrush

The Chili Bowl World Finals Rodeo I don't know what A Chili bowl All right Oh, Christopher Bell Correct I didn't ever guess that.

All right. So this question is from Michaela Morris. She says, 12 drivers have won the Daytona 500 multiple times. Name all 12. All 12. Do it. Denny Hamlin, Dale Jr. Correct.

Sterling. Those two. Sterling, yes. All right. Jeff Gordon. Yep. Jimmy Johnson. Yep. That's five.

That's all that is. God. All right. Caly Arboral. Correct. Richard Petty. Correct. You won seven times.

Yes. Pearson? No. Didn't. Daytona 500. Daytona 500. Multiple times. It's not Darrell.

12 drivers. You've gotten six. Harvick? Nope. Five more. One minute to go. Wait, we have five more? Yeah.

Yeah. Gotten seven. Dale Jarrett. Correct. Yes. Good job, Mike. Think about more Yates. Is there any more Yates?

Ernie Irving. No. No. 30 seconds. Bobby Allison. Correct. So you have three more. They've all won it twice.

Okay. You just start naming, you know, Hollifaxon, like Fireball Roberts or... No. Ten seconds. All right, we're done on this one. No, not even a guess. That's 10. We're missing two.

We're missing three. Go ahead. All right. Bill Elliott, Michael Waltrip, and Matt Kenseth. Matt, I was going to say his name.

But I thought, you know. I didn't think Kenseth one. Well, when I got the Harvick one wrong, I was thinking, man, I bet Matt only one at once, but two-time winner.

Bill, Matt, and Waldrop. Sorry, Michael. I thought Michael's going to. Michael's going to be so mad. And he should be. So that was stumped the download. You got a... Good game.

So that was really the only one we missed. That's the only one. I don't... The Oklahoma thing, actually. You got... Technically, you got it in the last second. I liked it hints. Yeah.

I like that game. Because in that game, you're not trying to divide us. Yes. You guys work as a team. Thank you. That other game, you're trying to divide us and... Friction. I want chaos.

Cauls friction at the table. I want chaos. That's what I want. Then he brings us to... together. Yeah. That's a download does. I got to be honest with you, though.

Like, coming up with that sponsor game, the Tick-Tac-Toh cannot be an easy. It is, but man, there's no way that you... But when you're in it, it's a lot, but once you're in it, you're in it. You can't step away from that. Every time I can get out, it pulls me back in. Yeah, you're like, you're always won away, too. It's all. I figure that, you know, it'd be pretty easy using racing reference or something.

I don't know how you would go to find a place. place that would tell you just sponsors and the drivers that drove for them. It's racing reference, basically, but you'd think, and then you get down to, like, one of them, and you're like, who has not driven for Penn's oil before? It's, yeah, it bothers you. All right, everybody, that was a lot of fun. Our Thursday show is a wrap. Is that the name of the show? That's a rap. Is a rap? Is a rap? No. No. It's our Thursday show. No. It's a wrap. They don't feel like the name. No. Okay. Damn it. No. So close. It's hard. I'm going to need Alex to come up.

So close. All right. I'm looking around the room for names. Really? Pinball machine. All right. Next option, Dick Pitt. Anybody want to that? Dick Pit on Thursdays. Nobody can see what you're talking about, Mike. So that's going to be really strange for the list for the crowd, the audio crowd. Gas Thursday.

It's the one that's not on camera. It's out too. Oh, man, the name's here. God dang. Speak to us. Speak to us. Speak to us. OJGO Studio. All right. We can't wait to see y'all next week.

Are we doing this show again next week? Yeah. Why not? Do we have a guest? We do. Do you know who it is? Nope. Who is it?

Anybody know? Tiff. I forgot. Who is it? Oh, my goodness. Can we? You wish that into existence? I did.

Yes, you did. Yeah. Tony Stewart's coming. here next week. Tony Stewart. Tony Stewart on the Dell Jr. Download next week. What a banger. We'll see you then. Check out Dirty Mo Media. Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.