The Dale Jr. Download - 440 - Don't Touch My A1 Sauce

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and co-host Mike Davis return to the Bojangles Studio for another hot edition of the Dale Jr. Download. NASCAR tackled the treacherous speeds of Talladega, and Dale continued his recent streak of new adventures, so there was plenty to discuss: Dale’s first core class (2:00) The right and wrong time for A.1. Steak Sauce (19:40) Twitter’s blue checkmark debacle (26:50) Ryan Preece and Kyle Larson’s massive crash (32:00) During the Ask Jr. portion of the episode, listeners sent in questions regarding:(49:58) The best meal Dale can cook Who would win Dale and Amy’s beer pong match-up When Dale went blonde  Dale and Amy’s first date 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? Didn't get them? I mean, of all things to say. What? Family picnic sometimes. You get you more than just to create it out. Are you kidding me, Mike? Oh my God, that is hilarious.

Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. Welcome back to another episode of the Dale Jr. Down Low. My co-host, Mike Davis, here in the Bojangles studio. It's Dirty Air. It's As, Jr. It's Tuesday. It's April 25th.

and it's 2023 and it's episode 440 tomorrow Tony Stewart's our guest going to be excited about that tomorrow but today we're going to talk about my week oh wow you got a week to talk about so all right so Mike has let me just let everybody know because I know this is probably the first thing on everybody's mind Mike has not went to cryotherapy yet um it's not even the first thing on my mind not even the first thing on my mind Not yours, everyone else. I know what you're. So, okay, everybody, I know you're disappointed. But we're going to get him there.

We're going to get him in that box. We're going to get him to come back and explain to us his experience in minus 140 degree temperatures for three minutes. But moving on, I went and tried something else. So, you know, great experience with my wife at the cryotherapy, the ice bath, and all the things we talked about last week. So she goes to these little exercise classes. with their girlfriends. And one is called core. So basically it does, from the knees to the shoulders,

they work on everything for an hour in this class called core. They have a hot yoga. I've never done yoga, but they do this hot yoga. 104 degrees or whatever in the room, I don't know what it is, hot. That sounds awful. So I'm going to try that. I haven't done that yet. But I went to core.

Amy says I got a core class at Monday. do you want to go? So yesterday, me and her, went to Corps. We're getting ready to go, and she's like, we're going to be late. And they locked the door. Like, when the class starts, doors locked, you don't come in late. Yeah, well, I would liken this to a hostage situation. I'm sitting there, I'm sitting there trying not to hope the door's locked.

Have you ever done that? Have you ever tried to not? No, no, no. I have gotten myself. I have promised to go do this. Privately to myself, I really think I might have made a mistake. She says that we may get locked out because we're running late. And there's part of me going, damn it.

I hope we're locked out. Don't. Don't hope we're locked out because if we're not, then you're going to go into this with a terrible attitude. Yeah. So I'm sitting there going, initially I was like, yeah, I hope we're locked. Hope we're locked out. No, don't do that.

Don't do that. Don't do that. Don't hope you're... The conflict. Don't get hope that you're not going to do this because then when you get there and you get to go in, you're going to... You're going to let out an audible disappointment that she's not going to be that.

I'm going to have wasted this entire drive there and not wrapping my brain around the idea of doing this damn thing. So don't wait, don't hope that this ain't going to happen. Because when you have to go in there and do it without getting your mind wrapped around it, you're really screwed. Anyways, we get there in plenty of time. There's about, let me just line this up for you. There's about 10 tables.

in this room. Well, they're not tables. There's 10 machines and they look like glorified rowing machines. Okay. And basically, you'll put your elbows

on a fixed pad and then your knees on this part of the machine that can move back and forth and you basically do a sit-up on all fours. So you're pulling your legs to you, then you stretch back out

into a push-up position, and then you pull your legs to you in a squat position. Oh, right, right, right. I got you. All right. So there's, and this shit is freaking hard. It's a little dark in there, which is probably good. It's got a lady that's a class instructor walking around,

kind of hollering at you, instructions about your form, and cheering you on and all that, all right? And she's telling you what the next move is, which I don't understand any of these moves. I don't understand. I'm watching other people get in position for the next move, and I just mimic them. And it's all females.

Amy did say there's some guys that do come, but they didn't. She said saw Michael Watchman there one time. God. So, uh, America. I'm in there doing these exercises, okay? And the first five minutes is so hard. We're doing, uh,

so I'm laying, I'm on my right side, elbow down in a plank position. Yeah, you're doing a side plank. Side plank. Right. And it's hard. Well, I'm sure it is.

You're probably waking up muscles that have been hibernating since the 90s. My body's like, what in the hell are we doing? What is this? Stop. Stop doing this. We were sleeping just fine. And I'm going, man, it's a 55, 50 minute class. And I'm five minutes in and I don't think, I think I'm going to have to take a time out.

am I going to have to take a timeout on every move? In front of everybody. In front of everybody. I look over at Amy, she's fine. Of course she is. We're also there with a couple of her other friends. They're fine. So I can't time out.

So we're moving on. And I got about halfway through this class and that one move where you're in a push-up position and then you pull your knees toward you on this row machine. your elbows or your arms your hands are in a fixed position on a pad that doesn't move and your knees and feet move right yeah it's kind of like mountain climbers or something like that my name is awful yeah they're hard so there was a midway through the class i had to look and see when the teacher wasn't looking i took a little break all right cheater cheater i did and i was disappointed i was disappointed in myself were you though i cranked it back up though

right around minute 40 all the way to the end no breaks did all the activities without having to stop or cheat. And so my body is sore from head to choke. Right now. Right now. And I got up this morning. I'm proud of myself, though. I got this app, and it has these little seven-minute warm-up,

get up in the morning, and do it's like stretches and some core work, some push-ups, some set-ups, crunches, but it's all this stuff in like seven minutes. I got up this morning and I did that, and I'm kind of glad I did. It kind of loosened me up a little bit. But anyways,

wife is super proud. Good. We get out of there and her friends are texting me. Way to be a man. Love that you went to this workout with your wife. That was awesome. The girls that were in there with us working out are texting me. Going, way to be a man.

I started to feel like Amy was encouraging these people to give you motivation. Maybe she was. I liked it still. I bet you did. It's all the same to me. Did the drill instructor send you a text saying way to go? She didn't. But if she had my number, I'm sure she would have.

Mike, Amy, I was like, Amy, I felt pretty bad about having to take a couple breaks, didn't kill it, right? She's like, no, no, you did great. Your first time. She's like, I had to take a bunch of breaks in my first time. It's hard. I look down on my machine, right? There's springs on this thing to make the tension

stiffer or weaker. I look on Amy's machine. She's got two springs. Everybody else is two springs. I got three springs on mine. It's harder. So it's harder. Yeah.

Well. Which, of course, I'm... You're a man. Well, you better have three springs. I wanted the same machine. I know you did. So I was like, okay. Can you reduce it to one spring by anything?

Yeah, three machines made me feel a little bit better about myself. But anyways, dude, it's hard. And I told Amy, I said, and they drive an hour to Charlotte to do it. They get up, drive an hour to Charlotte to do this to themselves for an hour. I was like, couldn't you find something closer that's as tough or strenuous? But no, I told her, I was honest. I was like, man, I'd be, I'd be hard pressed to be motivated to get up and go do this on my own. Yeah. I might go back down there with her and I'll probably, probably have a tough time with it again.

But anyways, I'm only exposing myself to this for you, Mike. Why? Because it's good for the show. You're doing it for the show then. Not for me. You're doing it for the show. Are you trying to motivate me? You're my co-host.

Are you trying to motivate me to do the same thing? You're never going to go do this. You're right. I'm not going to do the cryo thing either. Yeah, you are. No, I'm not. Yes, you are. I'm not doing it.

You are. I can't tell you how I'm not. I can tell you how I'm not going to do it. I'll tell you what. I will do it. I'll never say never. I'll do it if you run a dirt race or if you go hike the Grand Canyon or something. Right.

I'll hike the Grand Canyon. I will. But won't do. I'll hike the Grand Canyon. That's okay. You got a deal. All right. Go hike the Grand Canyon.

No, no, no. You're going to cry you over first. No. Because I'm hiking the Grand Canyon sometime in my life. No, you aren't. So, yes. I'm not doing the crying thing. It sounds awful.

People, can y'all not help me? No, they're not going to help you. Get Mike to understand that he needs to do his part. Like, you're literally doing. doing none of your part here. Did you just appeal to the audience? Yes. Oh, stop.

That's cheating. We do have people listening. You did, I know. And you just tapped into their weaknesses. You're not carrying your part of the load here. I'm going to remove myself from Twitter for a week. Look, I am proud of you. I like to hear your stories.

There's things that I do that you don't do. So, well, can't we just have a couple things that we share with each other, but we don't ask each other to them? Is there's something that you think I would, is there something that you think I need to do that we could come on this show and talk about? Let's freaking do it and don't make that sorry-ass excuse. You're going to do cry-o. I'm going to get the damn thing set up. You're going to go over there.

Even if I have to go back in the damn box. You'll do it with me? No, we're not standing in that box together in our underwear. But I'll do it. I'll do it in the same day. I'm not going to do it unless you do it with me. Physically in the same box. I mean, I tell you what?

That's weird. Maybe as weird as it is. It's tied in there. That's how much I don't want to do it. It's tied in there. Well. You have to control your shaking. See, this is what you're going to do.

You can shake into me. I don't want you bumping into me, man. You're putting me into this situation where you're going to want to take a camera. Whoa, whoa. Aren't you? No. You're not? I mean, well, probably would want to get a little video of

you before you step in there. Hey, Mike, let me talk about this. I was videoed walking up to the door. Right? We got a great authentic reaction. I would want to get your frame of mind before you go in. And obviously, you're going to give us all of that great material on exit. We don't have to video anything in that moment, but you can come to the table and say,

good grief. What the hell that was awful? Or whatever your experience is. right? I just want you to do it, man. Come on. You're doing it. All right. So, um, you're not going to ask me to do core, though, are you? No, you'll never do that. You'll never do that. Wait, wait, wait, wait, no, I'm offended. Well, the reason, I guess the reason why I wouldn't you ask to do, ask you to do core, because it's an hour drive up there. It's an hour class. You got a, you know, it's 45 minute one way. I wouldn't, that's too much to ask you. We have worked out together. I mean, we've done this stuff. We've done core together.

And you remember, all right. It was awful. It is awful. We didn't do it again. Well, we did it for a week. That was. Every day. We did it a week. Until somebody said you're working out too much, you should probably take a break, and we took a lifelong break.

We're still on break. Anyone else do any core? I do it a lot. All right. We got us a core ex-old here. And if it helps, I have a triathlon on Saturday, I'm thinking I might do the cryo afterwards. You probably should. Yeah.

If there's any time, is there ever a time? If there's any time to try it. If there's ever a time for cryotherapy, then after a triathlon would be probably the time. Hey, you know what? I had so much fun with Amy telling us her side of the story. Do you think she'll come on and tell us about court? She probably will. I think she'll do a better job than I have done telling, telling every.

I don't know nothing about this stuff. I go in there and I'm working my guts out. My form's not all that great. I feel like crap now. in terms of my muscles are all mad and sore. Maybe I should have did some cryo after that. Dang, missed opportunity. Has anybody listening to Dunkor?

I mean, I don't know how populace is. It's a very small class, so I'm assuming it's kind of like this little niche thing. But you've done. Yeah, I've taken a few classes before. How hard was the first class? Yeah, it wasn't easy. Yeah, wasn't easy.

But now I just kind of do my own, like what you've done. like what you said, that little seven minutes, just rotation. I'll do that as like a pre-workout type of thing. Have you ever done hot yoga? I've not done hot yoga. Hold up, hold up. No, that little thing, that seven minutes is now the workout. They ain't a damn pre-workout.

That is now the workout. That's all we're doing. So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, before you move on, is there a chance that you're going to go do this hot yoga? Hell yeah. You are? Yes, I want to do the hot yoga. yoga before the core.

The core sounded hard, sounded miserable, it was. But I think the hot yoga, I've never done yoga. I can't not live my life and not have tried yoga once. You have done yoga. The hell I have. I've never done yoga. Never done a single yoga. If I was doing it, I didn't know it.

If I was doing it, I didn't know it. Didn't you ever watch a Danica Patrick video and say, I'm going to try this with nobody watching? No. Like, okay, I haven't done. Staying on your head and, you know, mount like a tree. I haven't done that, Mike, but I haven't done that, but you've done some yoga in your time privately. I've done yoga.

Okay. Yeah. What do you think about it? Yeah, just, you know, I don't see the point. Okay. Well, I need to go and experience this myself. And so, yeah, I'm going to do it. If it's, you know, if it's worth chatting about, we'll chat about it.

But, yeah, I think we should get Amy to come in here sometime this week, talk about core. And, oh, freaking A. I bought one of those guitar buddies. So a guitar buddy is that little thing has the red, green, yellow, boo button on it. You mount it to your guitar. A boo button? Blue. Oh.

You mount it to your guitar and it kind of teaches you how to play. Mashing one button will actually create a, you know, a chord for you. Like E minor or something like that, right? Okay. And so instead of using three fingers to create that chord, you just match. the button and it's in strum the guitar. I've never learned how to play the guitar and I've always wanted to. I know that there are absolutely probably better ways to go about this process, but I got the

guitar buddy because it was relatively affordable. And I said, what the hell? I see these commercials for this thing all the time. And I played my first song last night. What was it? Well, my family was upstairs. So I got the guitar. I tuned it.

and started trying to look you know i'm reading this book that comes with this thing and i'm starting and it says okay get ready to play your first song here you go it's two chords the red blood the red button and the blue button i listened i watched a video of somebody play this song on youtube so i can understand the cadence and the pacing right of the the words to the chords and all that so i start playing it and amy and the kids come downstairs obviously the girls are curious as the hell what the hell is this sound. I've never heard this before in the house. And they come down there and by time five, ten minutes down the road,

I've played this song badly, very badly, about three or four times and finally got to where, like audibly it made a little sense and then they enjoyed it. They danced a little bit. Right. What are we talking about Thunderstruck, Freebird? What are we got?

What's going on here? What are you playing? A song called it's an old folk song um Tom Dooley is the name of it and you'll never I mean that's nothing nobody knows I didn't never I'd never heard of this song

So the girls though think you really just played this whole guitar thing right I'm doing it in front of them but you're saying you're doing a two button guitar playing right two chords two chords yeah yeah well the guitar buddy basically does the job of three fingers with one and so i see what you're saying yeah and so you know as i'm trying to understand just physically how to strum a guitar like picking a guitar up and strumming all the strings properly is not a is not something you just naturally do how to use your elbow wrist and all that to make the strums, you know, similar one after the other after the other. It's not easy to do.

And you hit the strings coming back up sometimes accidentally and you don't get all six going down. You get four. You get three. You get five. It's a damn mess. What's so funny? This whole new, this whole lease on life thing that's got, you got going on.

I don't know if Amy, I find it fascinating. and interesting. But in the last two weeks, you've done cryotherapy, you've gone to core training, and you've strummed a guitar so your kids could dance. I don't know who the hell you are anymore. Like, what is going on here? I don't know.

I like it. It's awesome. It's like you're trying things new. You never used to do that. No. You hated that. You hated new. You hated change.

Just. It's the same day. meal every day. I did. Brots. Yeah. Well, we had Taco Tuesday. Taco Friday. Brought Saturday. Anyways. Good for you.

Yeah, it's fun. I enjoyed it. Keep working on it. We might hire you for the Dirty Mo Media Christmas party. Look, I bought the damn guitar buddy six months ago, tune the guitar and never touched it. So, literally, it took me six months to pick the damn thing up again to play one song.

So don't get your hopes up. You're on pace to play. Old McDonald had a farm by the time you're 80. That's right. So, somebody was saying something on social media there about, you know, steak. Somebody on social media. Somebody was on social media,

and there was a conversation, and steak comes up in the conversation. It's not important how we got there. Okay. All right, but I said, I'm leaving that steakhouse if they don't have any A1 sauce. Like,

if they don't have A1 to put on the steak, I'm up out of there. Specifically A1, not just steak sauce, but A1 steak sauce. A1. That's hardcore. And this has happened before, and I don't get it. So people will say, people will say respond stuff like, I've never imagined you were that guy.

Or if you need A1, they can't cook steak. Homemade steak sauce is always better than A1. These are replies that you got. These are replies. Come on, Dale Jr. If the steak's good enough, you don't need it. And good steak doesn't need A1. I mean...

Wow. That's overwhelming. People think I'm putting A1 on my steak because the steak's weak. Maybe I just freaking like A1 sauce. And Hines 57 is not a substitute. And the homemade stuff, while I'm sure some are good, It's a risk.

You don't know. And when you get it and it's not better than A1, you're damn disappointed, which happens more times than not. I like A1 on a steak. I don't give a damn if it's the best damn steak I'm all you ever eat. I want A1 on it. Why can I not have that? Why are people so damn hardheaded that? Well, they may not be the ones that are hard-heded.

Well, let me just say. Why are people so hard-headed? that it's a good steak. Don't put shit on it. Better not put nothing on that steak. It's too good. What is that? Listen, I'm trying to work this out in my head here, and I'm trying, and I want to be on

your side on this because, look, free country, put the dey-up steak sauce on anything you want. You put it on, you know, put it on whatever. Put it in a salad for all I care. Everybody's weird. Everybody's got their oddities. However, Dale, I don't know. There does seem to be some element of juvenile on putting steak sauce.

on any steak. Like, it's like in the same way that, and I don't know why. I'm not even saying I'm happy about this, but in the same way that like if you went to a Ruth's Chris in order to hot dog, there's something juvenile and childlike of that that putting A1 steak sauce on a, like a high-end steak especially. If you're doing it in the backyard grilling out, do it all day long. So if you go to a very upscale restaurant and order a hot dog,

you probably shouldn't put mustard and ketchup on it. However, there's an element of people that will also have a big opinion about that as well. Like, you know, like Chicago people, if you put ketchup on a hot dog, you know, you might as well be banned from the city. In my mind. Andrew's shaking his head. He's a Chicago guy. Let me see. In my mind, you know, I, every.

Everybody can prefer their steak however they want, right? If you don't like steak sauce or would rather try the homemade side or like Heinz 57 or nothing at all, fine. That's no problem. But don't tell me, you can't put that on there. That ain't no good steak. It must be a shitty steak if you got to do that. That's what I don't like. I like A1.

I would be tempted as a kid to walk into the kitchen and drink straight out of the bottle. It was so good. Hey. You just answered your question on who's the weird one in this whole thing. All right. So A1 on a steak is like barbecue sauce on ribs. It's like they go together. That's the way it is for me.

I just don't know if I can go that far, though. Oh, man. I understand that. Look, I could, I love a great steak. Take me to take me to this. the best steak house ever and put the best steak in the world in front of me. I'm going to eat it and love it, but there will be a side of me that is disappointed that there is no A1 as part of this meal.

What do you say about the people that says you ordering A1 for a steak as an insult to the person that made the steak? Because I think that that's fair. People like, you know, like a high-end chef, if you order probably even any steak sauce or asked for steak sauce. I've done this in a restaurant. You know, my wife used to be a travel writer, and she would, you know, go and critique

and all these, like, high-end, high-scale restaurants. They, we ordered steak, I asked for steak sauce, and I got the look. Yeah. I don't, I think that's, um, I think it's petty. Yeah. Hmm.

I think it's petty. Like, I want to, I, you know, I feel like, I don't want to be ashamed to ask for what I like. That's fair. Look, I got you. All right, well, look,

So where do you net out on this? I think I'm clear. Are you, you're just going to stay on. I don't think there's any question. You're just going to stay on the, on the A1 path. Until I hear a valid argument of why I should not absolutely ask for A1 steak sauce at a restaurant when I order a steak. I mean, I need a better example other than what's insulting to the cook. Okay.

I mean. So feelings don't matter. All right. I guess, oh, man, is this baked potato? so damn good. I can't put butter on it and they're going to piss somebody off back in the kitchen. Good. That's a good point. Anybody going to be offended with a little salt? If I had a little salt to my meal. I'm sorry. That's funny. It came out of the kitchen. It's ready to eat.

Right. Yeah. No, that's a good point. I like A1 steak sauce on my baked potato, by the way. Damn right. Have you ever done that? You know. Yeah. Of course. Who am I asking? Of course he's done that. Hey, in it, that happens, I think, inadvertently at some point anyways, because it's all on the same plate, right? And so that A1 sauce becomes part of the, you know, the potato at some point. So you then learn in that moment, like, oh, this ain't too bad. I put this on there to begin with.

Let's just get that started right away. God, I'm out of my day one. I want some now. Damn. So good. I think it's vinegar. Like I like a lot of things, like pickles and all kinds of things with kind of vinegar base to them,

buffalo sauce. I'm all in that. I live in that sort of, you know, food group. I remember back in your racing days, A1 came out with terriaki flavor and you went on a shi-goy. You remember that, though? You were all about this A-1 terriac. Yes, you were.

You loved it. Yep, put it on everything. Oh, man, did you, so, I don't even know how we, I don't even want to make this a big deal, but Twitter took away the blue check marks. It took away mine, yeah. Oh, you had one?

Okay. How's your, you all, you okay? I mean, I know a lot of people were really upset. I haven't really thought about it much. You didn't go on Twitter and tell everybody you didn't care? No, I have not done that. Well, a lot of people did that. I've noticed that actually, yeah, yeah.

All right. Well, why do you think that is? I just think it's funny. I don't know. But wait a second. You got your blue check mark back. You went and bought it. I paid it.

And I don't see a problem with that, by the way. I don't want people to get scammed. I'm afraid of impersonators. I've been relatively fortunate for the most part across all social media platforms, not to have had a massive issue that's created some problem for someone else, right? But I've heard stories, and we see it happen time and time again to other people that I follow in my own timeline. They'll be like, hey, this ain't me. They're asking for money.

Don't do it. This is not me. They'll post you, you know, people will screenshot the account that's impersonating them and then put it out there and say, don't do this. It's like, holy s'I mean, that has happened to me as well, to be honest with you. Really? Oh, yeah, for sure. And I do think that there's actual reason now to consider paying for that verification check mark

because I think it comes with services. Utility. Yeah, services that Twitter never before offered in terms of that thing. Your Twitter's blue, right? So I can change it to any color. like my Twitter is uh here let me show you this ain't worth eight bucks but um the color change yeah it's all orange well there you go um maybe that is worth eight i love the color color orange that's worth about 99 cents look the icon it changed icon to

orange too well look there yeah that's worth about so you're you're amused by people that are out there saying what exactly like they're just saying hey i'm not going to get a i don't what do they say i i guess i don't really at If you say, if you go on there and say, I ain't paying eight bucks for this, fine. That doesn't really. The people that go on there and say, yeah, my blue check marks gone and I couldn't care less is just kind of amusing to me. Because you're probably thinking if it didn't matter to you, why are you on here tweeting about it so I know? Yeah.

I have a, I bet there's an unspoken theory or sort of an instinctual thing and maybe that's their way of verifying themselves, right? Or at least validating themselves. There's people who go on there and go, I never had a blue checkmark. I never needed one and I never will have one. Like, okay. That's code for I want it. I need it. You don't have to say.

I don't know what that means. You don't have to say who, but are you thinking somebody specifically who said that? I saw that on social media. Oh, you saw it? Yeah. And your response is, okay? Well, all right. All right.

No, there's, maybe it's their way of sort of just making themselves feel good. Maybe there's this insecurity they didn't know they had. and they're just saying, I'm going to say this for the record, and then instinctually they're thinking, and now I'm, this is my own way of verifying myself. Yeah. Maybe that, yeah. I guess it's maybe a, maybe a release. Yeah, maybe.

Like, I got to pour off some steam. Right. I don't care about this. Right. I'm going to tell them. I got to tell everybody. I got to tell everybody. I don't care.

I don't care about it. All right. Now you've done it. Now I feel good. Yeah. That's interesting. It's just, that was an interesting. a moment in time, a period of about 12 to 24 hours on Twitter where there was a lot of conversation

around it. What do you think about the companies having to pay was like $1,000 a month to be verified? Yeah, 12 grand a year. Holy smokes. To get a gold checkmark. Yeah. I thought those were free. Well, some companies have got them for free.

Yeah. And some, I also saw where some Twitter users have gotten the blue checkmark back for free. If you go in there and can somehow get Elon's attention. Well, I know one that did. It was LeBron who went out there and did the very thing you said. I ain't paying $8.00. I don't need to be verified. And they gave him one. And Charlie Sheen? Charlie Shee did it? Yeah. Well, that's random. Anyhow, we're looking for people for verification of that, aren't we?

I just wonder where a doll is going to go. You know, what's going to happen? Yeah. Will it just, you know, kind of be this, uh, it's a bit of a, a, buy the seat of your pants kind of thing right now right it is i and to be honest with you i was going to do some more research on it to see what you know in terms of you know dirty mo media as a company and you know the people around here if it makes sense from as a content creating standpoint standpoint if it makes sense for verification and if it doesn't we won't do it i think if it wouldn't for but i'm not going to go walk everybody through my thought process while i go through it i guess if it wasn't for impersonators or people trying to scam i wouldn't be too i wouldn't

worried about it at all. I wouldn't care about it. Yeah. Anyways. Let's move on to Talladega. We had a massive crash. One that I had, you know, we hadn't seen an impact like this in a really long time. We certainly haven't seen an impact like this with the next-gen car where Kyle Larson gets turned sideways, comes back across the track into the path of Ryan Priest and Ryan Priest

nails him right in the door of the pasture side of his car. nearly almost wide open. I mean, Ryan's trying to get through the crash. If you saw the in-car footage of Ryan Priest, man, violent. And it's all over social media, if you haven't seen it. Pretty incredible just to show you what the drivers go through during those type of events. And we also saw a quick shot of the pasture side of Kyle Larson's car and what appeared to be. some relatively severe damage and destruction to the roll cage of the car.

So the center section of the car, the four points that surround the driver, have always kind of been a very good focus for NASCAR. In any kind of a horrific crash where cars are flipping, tumbling, getting ran into and so forth, making sure that those four points are always secure and that nothing intrudes on that has been kind of the, that's the main most important, thing to pay attention to in a crash.

And now we have a next-gen car with some intrusion there. And NASCAR has decided to take both of these cars back, which is such a smart thing to do. Obviously, you definitely want to be able to look at the five car, find out how the welds ripped apart and broke, how the doorbars basically folded into the interior of the car,

understand what can change there to maybe improve that scenario going forward. But taking the priest's car, that is really where the answers to this whole puzzle lie. And let's go back to last year, drivers backing into the wall and getting issues with concussions and so forth and just talking verbally discussing about how hard those hits were. These really mundane hits that we'd seen for years,

drivers were having problems with them. Even talking at Martinsville and places like Martinsville and the Coliseum, just traditional bumping in the corner was really severe and overly, overly difficult to manage. NASCAR went and looked at the rears of these cars, made a lot of changes in the offseason to try to improve how they absorb energy. One of the things that they have on this car is this aluminum bracing, and it's kind of a webbed piece that there's, I believe, four of these on each end of the car two on the outside corners and then two in the center that basically mount the bumper of the car to the chassis to the to the front clip and the rear clip and for the most part i believe those pieces

went relatively unchanged during the process of naskar making the rear clips crush more and absorb more damage and so when i saw this crash and how the 41 car kind of speared into the five and how it damaged the roll cage. I thought to myself, man, I wonder what those, I wonder how those aluminum braces performed in this accident. And so I got in touch with some people, and I think that that, this is what NASCAR, taking the 41 car back, they will see, I believe,

that this is a great area for them to pay attention to and to focus and improve on. the front we've made some great gains in the rear clips of these cars to allow them to absorb more hits but now this is a chance for them to look at the front clip of prece's car particularly those aluminum braces that web out to the front bumper and how can we allow those pieces to absorb way way more energy in a head-on collision like that because without them being able to destroy themselves in a crash like that, they do become that spear

that's going to drive right through that roll cage of the five car. That would have been a nasty wreck. That would have damaged the roll cage of that race car regardless. It was a hard hit. But the amount of damage, I'm sure NASCAR feels is far, far too much. And I think that the answers to the solution

are more in the nose of the 41 car than in the door bars and how to improve the welding and gussets. there. Okay. Just to recap here, you're basically saying the way they put emphasis in the rear, on the rear clip and its ability to crush and dissipate and absorb energy, you're saying that they need to start focusing on the front clip, particularly as you're saying that Ryan Preece's car showed that it did not crush at all. And you keep using the word spear. So these struts, these, this webbing you're saying is,

did not change anything. And that's in fact what completely destroyed and moved bars into places that they don't belong. Yeah. Those mounting pieces, those aluminum mounting pieces that mount from the clip to the front bumper

are actually present in both the front and the rear of the car. NASCAR made a lot of changes to the back of the car in the off-season. But these pieces remain relatively unchanged. Got it. All right. They're on the back and the front.

I think that is a new area maybe where NASCAR can see how those pieces can change so that they destroy themselves. You know, they made, I believe, you know, in my opinion, this is my own opinion. NASCAR wanted to make a car that could handle impacts and so forth, but these pieces would relatively survive so that NASCAR wouldn't, or so that the owners wouldn't be afforded the cost of replacing all these pieces week after week after week. and so maybe in that attempt to try to make a car that's more cost effective and more durable you know these pieces have been have been made too tough too durable too durable too durable and so I'm speaking about these very these aluminum pieces that are that are that's it's they're based they're boxed they're they're big webbed boxes of aluminum basically that hold the bumpers on

both ends of the car and those didn't really move or change a lot in in form and shape during this crash and I think if they absorb they should destroy themselves they should they should be unrecognizable when you when you when you when you look at this 41 car and I think NASCAR has a great opportunity here and I am 100% confident that they are going to make some great adjustments to what they see when we look at the car it's a scary thing now I have to say if this impacts on the on the driver's side I feel a lot more confident in the integrity of the roll cage for the driver's side of the race car.

Why is that? The driver's side of the race car, obviously, the holes in the roll cage on the door at the door bars is boxed in. It's framed in by a plate. It's plated. But the tubing is also double tubing. And so all of that is built like a tank on the left side that would have been damage, but I doubt we would have seen intrusion,

but we don't want to find out, right? So I think NASCAR knows they don't want to find out in a real case scenario. And I'm looking at those aluminum braces on the front and back of these race cars, and I'm looking at those really hard and trying to find a way to get those to accordion and impact. And that will be just, that will just have to be, and the issue, which is not a bad the problem is is now those will more likely

be damaged in minimum impacts and have to be replaced. It's a cost issue. I think the teams understand that they're going to have to incur going forward for these cars to be able to absorb these kind of crashes. I mean that

the you know we're seeing these cars have contact on the nose and on the back. that would have destroyed the rear clip in the old car, right? And these cars bounce off walls and look unscathed. The shape of the car relatively unchanged.

It's because of these braces, right? They're staying in place. The bumpers are staying in place. Everything pops right back out. So I'm excited. You know, I know this is unfortunate to have to go through this kind of situation and see this kind of destruction to the five car and how scary that is, but I'm excited for NASCAR to have that opportunity to learn from this,

and I believe they will. Learns in a way that the guys don't seem to have suffered any major injuries. What a blessing that is. Talk to both of them. Talk to priests. He says he's sore, and he says, of course, it was the worst hit he's ever had, but he's relatively good. And I talked to Larson. And he's like, I feel incredible.

He's surprised. how well he feels. Wow. That is amazing. Yeah. Because, I mean, again, we just, we're not even a year removed from two guys suffering concussions. Missing races. One of them ended his career.

And Kyle Larson took that hit and didn't have anything? The guy, so, you know, the guys, the guy who feels probably the best out of, you know, a very brief text conversation I had with each driver, Larson's, hey, man, I feel fine, 100%. Now, his car absorbed a great deal, almost all of that impact, right? Doorbars crushed into the center of the car, all kinds of destruction. Guy feels the best. The man, the other driver, who feels quite a bit sore, worst impact I've ever had my life, I'm fine, but dang, his car, you could argue, absorbed minimum impact, right?

nothing around that car that you would typically expect to collapse, to crunch, to absorb energy did, right? That car basically, you know, from the bumper back didn't, not as much damage was done as what you see on the five cars. So that should tell you in your mind like, hey, okay, we got to get this 41 car in this instance to share some of the energy. Let's figure out a way for it to take on a bunch of the destruction and energy that's happening in that moment to where the damage to the five is minimized quite a bit. But anyways, yeah, that was, you know, the race itself, we had it. There was some conversation around this Super Speedway package and the two-by-two racing that we see, and we did.

First stage, second stage, two trains, side by side. You know, you don't see guys jump to the outside and drive to the front, or you don't see people driving through the middle, getting big runs and making these passes like we used to see. And as the race was going on, you're, you know, I'm thinking, man, this is disappointing. What is it about this car? What is going on? And then third stage, when it all starts to matter, did we not see a completely different race?

Do we not see three lanes? I saw three lanes. In fact, I saw one time the third lane catapulted Bubba Wallace to the lead. Yeah. Yeah. So I was sitting there going, oh, okay, maybe there's nothing wrong with this car. Maybe there's nothing wrong with the package, right?

The Super Speedway package. And we can debate that Super Speedway package. Boy, we beat up the short track package last week. This Super Speedway package, though, has been debated for two decades or more, right? ever since the plate came wickers on the roof wickers on the rear spoilers different plates more plates more plates drag here drag there I mean we've we've changed this package a hundred times so why by all means we can discuss it critique it celebrate it punish it whatever right but I feel like the third

stage that I saw is what I'd love to see at a restricted plate race or what I'd love to see at Daytona and Talladega we can't even I'm calling a restrict place anymore because they don't run those, but old habits die hard. So the third stage I saw what I was wanting to see all day long. It's there. It's possible. But how do we get that in stage one and two, I guess, is the question for me. The drivers will tell you, look, man, I'm riding.

I'm taking it easy. You know, if I can't, if it don't look like I'm going to get any stage points, I have no, you know, there's no incentive for me to put myself in any kind of a situation that's going to not me out of this race early. And then in the third stage, it's, it's, it's what you would expect. Start seeing a lot of aggressive blocking and all the things that you typically see at a restrictor plate race. And, and by the way, the aggressive blocking leads to carnage as it always does. It did. It did. Every time I watched the restrictive plate races over the years, the closing rates can be different, the way the cars draft, the runs they get or they don't get, or they're not

able to generate or they can generate. All of those things ebb and flow. There are absolutely days when the package looks great, and then there's days when it looks like it's a little frustrating. But I'm not sure that I know if there's really anything wrong with the car at Talladega. Because what I saw at the end of the race was really entertaining. And I saw a third lane form. I saw runs start happening. I saw guys start taking risks.

I saw what I would tend to expect at that race. track. So. People expect different things out of Caledega and some of it may be a little unfair. I mean, like there were times and periods and you'll remember it because you were driving in them where it was three wide the whole race, right? Because, you know, we didn't have that. But there's also a group of people and I bet you're one of them that does not want three wide the whole race because there's too many things that could go wrong. I don't want three wide if it's going to look exactly like two wide. I don't want it to

where there's, you know, there's three lines and nobody's moving or doing anything. But I do want the cars to get big enough runs that they can swing out and go around each other and form, you know, get a couple guys teamed up to make, and they did. When they really, really needed to at the end of that race, they made the moves and created the energy and put the runs together that needed to happen. Things got pretty damn exciting. There was one time where they, the outside, the middle line, the second groove was kind of forced to go up and stop something happening on the third groove. I think Denny drugged them up there.

He was running about fourth in line on that second groove. He saw the outside coming. He's up there and everybody in front of him. Before you know it, everyone in the middle was now at the top of the racetrack in turns one and two. And the run they got off of turn two, down that back straight away, was super. so badass. And I'm thinking, damn, do that again. Where is that? I want more of that right there. So the car can do it. The car can do it. And it's the fact that during stage one and stage two of that race, there's no incentive. Rightfully so. There's no real incentive other than some stage

points to do anything, you know, to really get into a racy, racy situation. Before we go on to ask Jr., just wanted to touch on a big conversation that's been happening, Denny Hamlin, obviously, weeks ago, penalized for conversations about intentionally wrecking he had on his podcast. And Corley-Loye comes out in an interview, not on his podcast. He was doing another interview. He did on his podcast, too. Oh, he did? Yeah, two places.

So he said it twice. Well, anyways, Corey LaJoy comes out and says, relatively, hey, man, I was trying to wreck Kyle Bush at Martinsville. And he didn't succeed, but he said, hey, man. man, my intentions was to wreck. I wanted to bring out of yellow anyways. I really was, you know, I was struggling at that moment in the race. He was frustrating me. And so a lot of, you know, a lot of people said, hey, what's the difference?

You know, what's the difference in these two situations? One guy gets penalized. One guy doesn't. Kyle Bush even comes out and says in some comments this weekend that there's a double standard between the two drivers. And, you know, I don't really, my opinion about all of this is that neither driver. should be penalized and it's a non-issue. This is the type of thing that I want to hear from these drivers.

What Corey said on his show is what I want drivers to be saying. What I want to hear from that. I want to hear the truth. I don't want to hear bull's-s-h-h-oh, man, we just racing. That was, oh, man, you know, I got it. I got loose. I accidentally hit him. That was, oh, my bad.

You know, I wasn't trying to wreck him. Now, I want to hear the truth. And if that's really his truth, I want him to be able to say that without repercussions. Denny Hamlin on his show. You ready to move on. Let's go to Ask Junior. And we're live, Dale. All right, thank you, man.

Everybody, hey, thanks for tuning in to another Asch Jr. here live on YouTube with Dirtymo Media. And the Dale Jr. download. Mike Davis is here, my co-host in the Bojangles studio. We've had a great show today. We made some great points today. But let's get right to it. Yeah, we did.

And you mentioned the A1 Steak Sauce conversation and it ties perfectly in with this first question from Oliver. If I were to come over to your house and you were to make me the best meal that you could possibly make, what would it be? The best meal. Oh, if I was trying to make something feel and I would be confident that this was going to be great. Probably brisket. I feel like, you know, I don't know that I don't know that I do anything with consistency. see, and I'm not a massive cook.

I grill, right? My wife's like, hey, grill this chicken, grill these steaks, whatever. I can just throw it on the grill and it's good to go. I can do those things. But I don't do it with regularity, so I don't think that I have a great steak or a great piece of chicken. But brisket, that's a two-day process that I'm more than willing to dive into, hardcore, to make sure that it's going to be amazing.

Good deal. Yeah. The pressure's on now. All right. Let's do it. Don't tempt me. Don't make, I don't need a reason. I don't need a reason to go smoke some meat.

Let's do it. Awesome. This next question, funny enough, coming from the YouTube chat from Mike Davis, there's someone named Mike Davis in the YouTube chat, unless Mike you're on your phone. Yeah, it's uncommon. They asked who would win in a game of beer pong between you and Amy? Probably Amy. I don't know.

I mean, I can't even hit the trash can over here with the, with these papers. Every time we get through with, you know, with some paper here. I miss the basket, but probably Amy, yeah. Flip cup, though, I'm pretty good at. Okay, yeah. Yeah. I think I'm a decent flip cup. Two completely different games.

This next question coming from Jake, is there a story behind you dyeing your hair blonde, and did you get any crap for it back in the day? Well, yeah, I mean, there's not much of a story. So I was going with Teresa to get my hair cut by the same, in the same building that she, would go to. And so whenever she was going to go get her hair done, she would just schedule me a haircut and I'd go and get my haircut while that was going on. Otherwise, I wouldn't never get it,

I wouldn't never get it cut, right? And the person that was cutting my hair is like, hey, man, you want some highlights? And I was like, yeah, what is that, right? So I'm like, yeah, let's do it. So he puts this cap on my head and he starts sticking this metal pointy thing to, it's a like got a little hook on it and he sticks it through the cap and pulls hair out right to be able to highlight the hair and you don't highlight the whole thing uh you put the cap on so you just get a couple strands here and there and that freaking hook would hurt because it pokes into your head every time he goes through this cap and uh i'm you know my eyes are watering uh but then they pull the hair through and then they brush this bleach on there that bleaches it and then lets it sit

for a while, wash it out, pull the cap off, and cut your hair, and you're highlighted. I liked it. I thought it was cool. I thought it looked great. But eventually, I went there and I was like, you know what? I ain't wanting that cap, and I ain't wanting to get poked with that thing. And he's like, let's just bleach the top. No, you know, let's just bleach the whole thing.

And I was like, you'll, let's do it. And so that's how that happened. I think I did it once and didn't ever go back and get it done again. No highlights, no nothing. with a cap I was done with all of that but and my eyes are almost water and just thinking about that thing going through that cap and poking you in the head there was a moment in this story by the way that I was rooting for the story to go like this I went to get my haircut and Teresa had the stylist highlight my hair without him knowing it no until afterwards now there was a moment now I know

they didn't go that way but that would have been uh that would have been a new development yeah that have been a new development in the family saga so I mean you know Teresa was cool. There was some moments when there was, listen, man. You know, so let me tell you, all right, fine, fair enough. One day, I'm living in my double-wide trailer. Who's got a vacuum the carpet and the double-wide?

Damn thing's full of carpet. I got a vacuum. It don't get vacuumed if I ain't. So I'm vacuuming, you know, I'm vacuuming and my vacuum breaks. Happened to be over at the office. Dad and Teresa sitting in there. and I mentioned that I had to go buy a vacuum. And Teresa goes, hey, no, no, no, no.

I got a vacuum. I got an extra vacuum. And she goes and gets me a vacuum. Dad has a bunch of ski nautiques. Okay, boats. Every time you'd win Atlanta in the 90s, they gave you a ski naltique, and he would get so many that he parked them in this warehouse. I said, hey, Dad, I got the weekend off.

I want to take one of your ski nautiques out on the lake. me and my friends. No way in hell I'm letting you take a ski gnaw. What are you crazy? Dumbus, why would you even ask you something like that? Trees is sitting over in the corner. Dale, why don't you let him take it? They're just sitting in that warehouse.

He wants to go out on the lake with his friends. Let him take the boat. There you go. All right. Does it? Two stories I didn't see coming. Huh? Just a couple examples.

Can I ask, though, did your dad ever, I mean, how many ski nautics do you think he ended up collecting him over of the six I think and did you ever remember him going out on any of those skiing antiques there was one that he used a little bit and that's the one I wanted to borrow I was like not going to take the brand new one uh I think he won four or five of those had bought one uh so I don't know I mean there was there was a lot of Atlanta wins there in a little stretch but the one that we took out it was me and Hank Parker Jr. I'm like dad it's Hank Parker Jr. He's a fisherman boater you know he knows the lake I mean he's going to be with me we're going to be fine

He comes back home from the race, and I got the boat hooked up to my truck, still in the driveway, and you can't see the floor in that thing for all the empty beer cans. He was like, I knew better to let you borrow this boat and never got to use it again. Oh, man, maybe clean up next time, or wasn't smart enough? Teresa, you're going to explain to him that I'm a drinker and now I can do my baby? Teresa, what the hell? You're on my side on this. Self-awareness is not part of my.

No, okay. Man, that's funny. Time for one more quick one. One more quick one. From Jonathan, do you remember your first date with Amy? Yes. Yeah, we went out to eat somewhere.

Gosh, she's going to be mad at me. She might come back this week and we can talk about this. We went out to eat at dinner somewhere. It was nothing. I mean, it was like, you know, just like not a big event. Yeah, no, it was like apple bees or somewhere, right? High end.

Yeah. Yeah. Go treat her like a lady. Well, I'm going to impress her. I'll show her what's up. Life of Dale Jr. is going to be right. Go to Applebees. I mean, it was, you know, I don't.

So that back then, you know, this is not who I am today. But back then, I was like, I don't go on dates. I don't date. Yeah. You know, we're together or we're not. And I don't, we're not. I would tell her for the longest time, she's like, she would say when's the last time we went to eat together when's the last time you know we went to

even pine the sky or steakhouse somewhere and I'm like that don't cross my mind to go do those things like if you want to go out to eat say take me out to eat tomorrow and I'll do it but I'm never going to go man you know what we need to go out to eat I need to make a date that just wasn't in my mind right to go do those things and so now it does now it's kind now that I know it's fun and I and I and And damn, you know, we do need those moments where we can go sit at the steakhouse and just talk about nothing. Now I'm eager to do it. But back then, I was like, why we want to do that, man? Let's just drink him with my buddies or let's just go the racetrack or, you know, let's go out on the lake.

Let's go on the boat. Nowadays, you guys can both go to a steakhouse and use steak sauce at a restaurant. As you want. I'm taking it with me. I wonder if Amy would have said, questioned his A1. you know, addiction, yeah. If the, if the relationship would have ever got off the ground now. Yeah.

May not have. She might have been a deal breaker. He prioritized stuff. What we've learned today is that A1B Steaksaw is right up there with family. He was probably thinking it. All right, Mike. That's a lot of fun. We're going to wrap it up Tuesday.

Tomorrow, don't forget, we have Tony Stewart coming in as our guest. We'll have the Thursday show. I'm going to probably bring Amy back on here to talk a little bit. That was a lot of fun. having her on here. Steve Lutarch is going to drop by for our Thursday show. Yeah, that would be fun. We're going to enjoy some of the games we've been playing with Steve,

and that should be pretty interesting. But we're going to open the door and let you guys out. While you're headed on out the door, enjoy Tyler Gray. Race reroute. It's Talladego, baby. You got to go 500 miles just to earn one. Got a draft with a pack, and don't look back. Hope you got a sim to learn some.

2.66 all the way around. Just for all them to turn one. And you better not forget that finish line. but a thousand feet toward turn one. It's speedway racing, that is fine. It's races away all year for. It's drafting and bumping and passing and dumping. I'm here for the three and four wide wait.

They're going. Two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two by two. I'm no engineer that much is clear but I mean like come on shine. Spend all day with two conglines for an overtime wrecking turn one. Just fix the package. It's not the hard. Gotta drop the power with deep drag the car. This might have been cooling in 2002 with a little change really be too far.

I get it. Pack racing's a draw, and we're all about that cheddar. But these drivers are best in the world, right? So why is Xfinity better? I'll probably get blasted, thrown on a black. That's giving the penning is chatter. But I'm just a dude without any clue making raps in this room. I don't matter, right?

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