The Dale Jr. Download - 463 - Beers on the Beach

Episode Date: June 20, 2023

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and co-host Mike Davis are back from their Father’s Day festivities to compare their experiences from the weekend: Another weekend at the beach Beer smuggling technique Trying new experiences vs. a peaceful day at home The CARS Tour race at Dominion  During the Ask Jr. segment of the episode, listeners wrote in questions regarding: Dale evolving as a broadcaster since his debut Favorite country music artist What type of music Dale Sr. enjoyed Bucket list vacation spot 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 make? I'm weird. You are weird. What? Mr. Dallan Hart Jr. That family picnic sometimes. Gives you more than just a tomato salad. That's the voice of my co-host and one of my best friends in the whole wide world.

Mike Davis. We're screwed. What was that mean? No, we're not standing in that box together in our underwear. Are you kidding me, Mike? Oh, my God, that is hilarious. Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download. It's time for some dirty air on Tuesday, June 20th, episode 463.

But you probably don't care what episode it is. Like hell, I don't. You do? Of course I do. Every time you say what number of episode it is, I feel good about myself. You do? I don't think our listeners. No, they don't care.

No. Unless they've been listening to every single one from the beginning, then they do care. Seems like a small number. Seems like I've been doing this my whole life. 4663? Yeah. Seems like it should be like 12,463. Hmm.

Anyhow, we're just coming off of Father's Day weekend. I hope everybody enjoyed the weekend. It's a weekend off, rare weekend off in the NASCAR schedule. And, yeah, so there was no Xfinity racing, no cup racing. And as much as we don't like that, it's good to take a little break every once in a while. It's important. Especially, you know, it's nice when you can take a break and it's a holiday. And this is a special one.

A Father's Day holiday. I've learned, you know, when I was a little boy, I got dad a couple things, a card or something like that. I don't remember doing too much. But I didn't think the day was that important. It just came and went. And then before I got married, again, just came and went. It was just another day. You know, people would always.

say, hey man, you know, I'm thinking about you today. I'm like, I'd have to add it up, right? Yeah. Which is a whole other conversation. But when I got married, and especially, especially when I had kids, you know, the day become more and more prominent. When I got married, we were, you know, sending text messages to Amy's dad, something new.

This day's becoming something I can't just, you know, can't just kind of pass through. it's got to be acknowledged, which was good. But then when I became a father, obviously, it's just gotten more and more fun every year. And as a lot of y'all might remember, we documented it on or talked about it on this show. Documented, it might be a little bit of a strong word, but I fell short on our Mother's Day,

or on our Mother's Day this year. I fell a little short. And it wasn't a total, epic failure but I didn't I didn't hit all the notes check all the boxes but not bringing the mimosis to the beach was a problem yeah there's a couple things so um you've got the beer cool I forgot a lot of things right so anyway I had a list in my phone oh but this year's been a busy one and I've been distracted um otherwise I mean there's no excuse so I had I had very low expectations for this Father's Day.

I had, you know, Amy had every right to mail it in. But it was a good one. I wanted to give you a chance, Mike, to share what you got to do on your Father's Day. But ours, so I went to the beach. My sister in L.W. and Wyatt, my nephew, all came and spent a long four days with us. It was great. Yeah. I did not want it to end.

I saw y'all's pictures. They looked really fun. Yeah. You know, I love hanging out with L.W. and Kelly, they're in a whole, you know, as this, as has been the case, our whole lives, man, they're in a couple years out there in front of me, right? So what they like to do and what I like to do is not always really been the same. So if we were to hang out five years ago, it was a little bit more of a distance between, What we, what entertained me and Amy and what entertained Kelly NLW, but that's, that distance is closed quite a bit in the last couple of years,

especially as my kids are starting to get older. Her teenagers are moved off. Yeah. And Wyatt is still young enough to engage, interact, play with the girls. He is great. Yeah. With our girls. It's, I mean, they played in a pool all day long to be his age in racing and doing all the things

that he's doing and maturing and experiencing some pretty cruel. stuff, he is very good with our two and five-year-old daughters. They play in the pool and kid and joke around and sweet boy. And so, but also the, you know, the, you know, me sitting up and me sitting up playing loud music all day and drinking a case of beer, you know, is not what I ended up doing this weekend, you know, and it was a, you know, it's, I guess, you know, I matured a little bit in that, that respect. but I still enjoy that, but it's got a time and a place. I think you and the beer found each other this weekend, didn't you?

I drink some beer. Yeah. Yeah. But I'm just saying, like, you know, no, no, no. It's not a bender. It's not a bender. If I had been hanging out there with my wife and no kids, I would have drank a case of beer on Father's Day. You're tearing it up.

A whole case. No problem. Right on. Yeah. I mean, yeah. But having them around, you make adjustments. That's a good word for it. Those adjustments are easier to make, is my point, these days.

Yeah. You know, play into your crowd. And I enjoyed it, man. I mean, you know, it's not that they don't drink and hang out and have fun. We listen to music set by the pool. We had a few drinks here and there, but it was moderated, and it was really nice. And so anyways, I. we went out to the beach and enjoyed, you know, finding sand dollars and, you know,

found, we found this clam. We, you know, when we're out on the beach, we find shales all the time, clam shells all the time, clam shales. And I've never found one alive. You know what I mean? Yeah. And so we found one, and it was probably the size of your fist. and we laid, it was low tide, so we all sit there in the water, about a, you know, a foot of water, and we watched this thing walk around.

Oh, wow. It opened up and would shoot this arm out and move itself in the sand. It was cool as hell. Yeah. And anyways, we, you know, I did the same thing. We talked about that, this on, we talked about this on the show. I brought all the shit out to the beach, all the shit. You're that dad.

Oh, we did it even more this time. I had the Bimity top up, you know, stuck in the sand. And we had another tent sort of shade for the kids. Oh, I was going to say it must be for Kelly and LW, but no, for the kids. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good. That's smart, actually.

Oh, man. And they did everybody took, I've put all this shit up, right? We got two tents. and all the chairs, everything, right? Throw it all out. I get it all situated. They take off out to the sandbar because it's low tide. And we ended up spending all our time out there.

See, you put it up, but nobody used it. And then everybody's, you know, we come back to the, we come, you know, we're out there for an hour or whatever. And finally everybody's like, yeah, let's go back to the house. Okay. All right. Wait a second. What about, remember all the work I did on this? No, nothing.

So I took five beers of the beach. You're not supposed to take beer out there, but I took five beers to the beach and I drank two and we're coming back on Dang man I have a I had five beers for about a good three-hour sit. Yeah, wow, that is an adjustment. That's not a round of wedge. No, that's a change in the spring. Well, you know, when you're on a non-alcoholic beach, you're not allowed to have alcohol out there. You don't take a damn case of beer out there, Mike.

A little obvious. Yeah. I got these little things that slide over the beer that make it look like a mountain dew. Or a Dr. Pepper or a Coca-Cola. Of course you do. I slide, I got about six of those, right? And I slide them over the beers, throw them in the coolers. So you just pull them out and they're already disguised. They're thinking that guy loves his soda.

Yeah. That's a soda drinking soda right there, boy. It's a $1,000 fine, man, if you get busted with a guy. $1,000 fine. It's a non-alcoholic beach, son. $1,000 fine? What the heck? Oh, hey, are you disguising your beers now?

Yes. All right. No, I'm not even. I mean, God. You're not even taking them with a wimp. Not a thousand dollar fine. Come on, son. No, no, sir.

No. I mean, there's people out there holding Dixie Cups, and I know what the hell's in that cup. I ain't going to be sitting out there drinking water. Kiss my ass. I'm taking my beer out there. Well, now that we've broadcast this on the old podcast, you know, $1,000 fine might, it's kind of like a pit road speeding penalty. Now that you said, you know, what you're doing? Oh, you think you got one coming?

Maybe. Hey. I don't know. I don't know that I'm all that recognizable out there on the beach Yeah, I believe that I mean, we... Is it a crowd of beach? I got the same, I got that same damn shade

that everybody else is bought on the internet, whatever that damn blue and teal thing is. Yeah. I got that same, you walk out there and look on the beach and everybody's got one of them damn things. Yeah. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, they're nondescript.

Yeah, they blend. Everybody got the same one. So I look like everybody else. out there. I'm just hanging out. If I'm smuggling goods onto the beach, I probably am going for the blue and teal thing as well. I'm going to look like everybody else. I like that it's a non-alcoholic beach

because it kind of, because there's an alcoholic, you know, there's a beach that allows alcohol right next to us and there's a very, you can see it, right? Okay. You can look up the shoreline and see it and there's a bridge that connects to two islands. And that beach

is slam full. Sure. God Almighty, you can't move. You ain't got no room. Yeah. So the non-alcoholic beach is not quite as crowded. I believe it. Yeah. There's not as much regret on that beach.

But they, you know, you, and I'm, you're, you know, kidding yourself if you don't think you're, about 90% of people on the non-alcoholic beach have alcohol out there. Yeah. Kid yourself. Wow. Dude, that's interesting, man. Anyway. I think I want to say that I'm proud of you for, you know, exhibiting control and

keeping it limit. Hey, if they get me, they get me. they get me I ain't changing I ain't changing my God this ship is sailed I'm drinking my beer I tried man

I try you know what you know how it's not that the not that the authorities aren't on to this but they make these bags right that you carry any you know it's a see-through bag

it's a beach bag you put your speaker in there your phone your towels all that right you feel that thing up and it's a beach bag and it sits on you know sits right there with all your you kind of it kind of blends right in and in the bottom of it though is a fault is a the bottom's a cooler so i think they make it it's not so much like a hidden cooler but if you don't know it's there you'd never look and go oh we'll only see in the cooler at the bottom the bottom of the bag unzips and

it's a cooler and so i'm sure that you know the beach patrol has seen many of these things and they know that they exist, but I think if you have that bag sitting there and your beers are in the cooler in the bottom of this bag, right? And it's just, have y'all seen these? You know what I'm talking about? So there's, yeah, so you know what a beach bag looks like, right?

And it's netted. Well, there's a zipper around the bottom and it hinges open and you can pack about eight or ten beers in there. And you throw a couple ice packs. And then you zip it up and you'd never know that it was a cooler on the bottom of the bag. So it's kind of hidden away.

But that's not enough, man. You know, if you take that bag out there and you don't have a true cooler, see, you've got to have a real cooler full of drinks that are not alcoholic, right? And so maybe when the patrol, if they want to stop at your place and say, hey, man, show them what you got. Well, here's my cooler, right? And then they're so distracted by the true cooler and what might be inside it. Oh, it might be some alcohol in here. They never look at the bag.

They never even think about the bag. being the thing that has the beer in it. They do now. Yeah. Well, no, they don't. I mean, they probably already know all. I don't know. Dude,

I'd love to have somebody else in here that smuggles beer on a beach. It's like I'm my only in this room. Come on. Who here? Raise your hand if you drug beer out on the beach. He's supposed to. I got to be honest with you.

I got to be honest with you. I didn't know that that was something not allowed. I guess I didn't see the sign that says non-alcoholic beach or maybe I've just never gone to one. All right. It never occurred to me that it, maybe I've smuggled drinks onto a beach that I didn't realize it was smuggling. I've on it, known I got about 75% participation.

There's other people in here that are also understanding the conversation we're having. I understand what you're doing. Listen, I'm impressed. You're at your age still acting like you're underage drinking and you're smuggling stuff. Do you bring your ID? Is it a fake ID too? Okay. Good for you.

Oh my God. He's found his youth again. He's sneaking beers onto a beach. It's a thousand dollar fine, Mike. Dude, that's insane. No, I'm with you. That's the part of the problem I'm surprised. You want to walk out there holding the fucking case with the damn, it's still in the box.

Come on. Bring it on, boys. No. Come and get me. I don't go to the beach. It finds you a thousand dollars to bring a beer. That's the logical explanation. Well, it's some, you know, it's not my damn decision that they, that's their law.

It's your decision to go. The council, I have a house on this island. That was your decision. I'm not going to not buy a house because they got a law on the beach. Somebody in this planet, maybe listening. Did not buy a house because it was across my non-alcoholic beach. I love this house that I found of the seven that I looked at all around in this area, but I ain't buying this $1,000 fine.

Hell with that. I mean, a thousand. All right, show it since we're polling the room, who thinks a thousand dollar fine is enough to deter you what you would like to do? and maybe you go alternate your plan. Anybody? Oh, I swear to God. I know this freaking room already.

Would you not buy the house? All right. So for the record, 80% actually agrees with that. That's bullshit. I got two hands got raised. That's 20%. Over here. Would you buy the house or not buy the house because of a $1,000 fine for non-alcohol?

I would still buy the house. You'd still buy the house. You just disguise your coolers, your beers. I would still buy the house. I just, man, $1,000 if you get caught with that. I guess I just couldn't. It's good to turn. So wait, wait, wait, let me put it to you.

I don't live my life like a crime. In all fairness, Mike. Listen, what? As I said earlier, the fine is working for you as a homeowner that wants to go out on the beach and have a little more space because the fine and the non-alcohol law deters the out-of-towners from coming there in a way, right? For sure. Yeah, they're like, hey, man, alcohol beach or non-alcohol beach, which one y'all won't? Well, everybody's going to go to the alcohol beach. Man, they're free to bring whatever they want, walk around, drinking their drinks.

I get that. And I also get it even more that you have kids. You don't go to specific beaches. Yeah, and if you live on this island, you like the law because even if you do want to sneak your beer out there, it's a less populated beach, right? So that's good for people that live there and won't it? to be that way, right? I get it. Yeah.

I get it. You got to weigh the pros and the cons, man. You're getting upset at me because I'm impressed by you. What's up with that? I'm impressed by you. I'm not feeling this emotion from you, man. Not feeling that I'm impressed? No.

Dude, I am. Yeah. Yeah. Listen, I got to be honest with you. You know why I'm impressed? Like, I had a moment this past week where I realized I had a reminder of how old I am now. Like, it's not like you're just not young. anymore. So I had this, and it's on a common activity that shouldn't be a reminder of how old.

You know what it was? I knee-boarded. Big deal, right? I knee-boarded. I knee-boarded. I knee-boarded. And I knee-boarded for a while. And in the next two days, including even today, maybe, I'm still feeling it. Like, my body's sore. I didn't do any, like crazy tricks. I just went to the left, went to the right, hopped over some waves, just that and the other. Behind a boat? Behind a boat, yeah. And I'm so sore, and it's like, God dang, man, can't do it like you used to. No, that's not true, man. that's because that is probably the only physical activity you've done in the last two months. And that's why you're sore. Knee bored every day.

And then you won't be sore. What makes you think I haven't done any physical activity? What about me makes you think there's zero physical activity going on right now? Just say it, Dale. What is it? I can be active. I'm sore. I'm sore when I do things like that too.

That's not a young thing. He does the couple core classes, and all of a sudden he's Mr. Exercise. Oh, look at me. There ain't nobody in here. You know, exercise like me. I went to my first core class. I was sore for three days. Much like you, kneeboarding for the first time and forever.

Yeah, I mean, I was walking around. My point on this was that it's not an old. Don't think, don't put yourself in that box. I think it is an old thing. No, it ain't. I never, I didn't exercise back then. How old are you? You're like 10 years younger than me.

I'm two years younger than you. Oh, yeah. And Amy is convinced that I'm actually five years older than you. That's probably just because you have more gray hair than that, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe. I don't know.

We ought to ask her. She's like, you're not younger than Dell. And I'm like, I am. Quit insulting me. Well. Anyways. Again, I'm impressed. I think you're still like, you know, you're throwing down, man.

Bring some beers on the beach. Mike, you risk a little fine here, a little fine there. I weren't even going to talk about this today. The one thing I wanted to tell you that I did on Father's Day, so the beach was great. We had fun. And I'll be as excited to sneak my beer out there even after letting all this out there. But I, so Amy, so your wife tells you, hey, man, I got a plan for Father's Day or for Father's Day or any holiday, right? And you're like, have you ever had a reaction that was like a knee-jerk reaction and not a good reaction to the plan?

and then you're like, oh, I just threw that out there. I really didn't mean. So my wife said, I got, so, you know, think about this. I'm thinking that, man, she's, me and her going to do something. Kelly and L.W. in my mind, aren't at this, you know, on this, I don't remember that they're coming. Okay. I've, I've forgotten that LW. and Kelly and Wyatt are going to be with us on this holiday. And so Amy's like, I got a plan for Father's Day.

I'm like, oh, I wonder what we're going to do. Wonder what her plan is? Can't wait. She's always something I've never done before. And she says there's a place in Charleston where we're going to have brunch and there'll be a quartet that sings gospel. And they sing it really loud. And so you're going to have brunch while this is happening.

And I was like, Seriously? That's what we're doing. And this is like, I don't get a choice. And so that was my reaction, right? And she's like, hey man, you know, that is not the best, that's not the right reaction. Like, you're going to have fun, you're going to like it. And then she goes, Kelly and LW are going to be there.

I'm like, oh, yeah, okay. All right, I could picture all that, all of us being together. And maybe that would be cool. But right out of the gate, I was like, damn, I wouldn't, that's not what I would have chose to do on, you know, my day. It's Father's Day, man, you know, is your day. The gospel quartet's even kind of throwing me a little bit. Yeah. And so, I was like, you know, all right, I'm in.

I deserve this, you know. Oh, because of the Mother's Day. Yeah. I'm like, you know, I need to shut up and just go on with this. Take it. And it's probably going to be great. And so she's like, you know, it's hard to get into this thing. I got a friend that helped us get a table.

And so we drive into town, get out, and park a block away from this place. And it's right on the King Street or one of the busy streets down there in Charleston. We don't go into Charleston, Charleston too much. We don't go into town town too much. But this is kind of where we're spending our vacation for the weekend. And so we go into this restaurant, man. The people, as soon as you up the door, the quartets right there on the right, there you are singing, they're midsong.

And it's great. Everybody at the entrance, there's like at least four or five hostess, male and female, and they're just bubbly. Happier in hell that you came in there. Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's Day, all of them. Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's Day.

And just smile and interviewer, literally, for me. ear to ear. And they got us we're upstairs because I guess being a bigger group, I guess, we're going to go upstairs. So they take us upstairs and the whole time, man,

quartet's just going. Singing a gospel song, right? Something out of a hymn book. And so I wish I could remember the exact song. I remember it. I mean, when I walked in I recognized it immediately, right? It's a, it's

It's an old gospel hymn. Yeah. And so we go upstairs and we sit down and man, the food was amazing. Our girls, you know, are pittling and being girls. And we ordered our food. We ate. And it was great. It was really, really great.

Then as we were sort of winding down our brunch, the girls went down the stairs and stood on the landing of the stairs. and was able to observe the singing and all of that and take that in a little bit. And then we left. And it was great. It was good. I will say, and I really, this place is amazing. If you ever get a chance, I don't even remember the name of it. Oh, I think it's Hall's Chop House.

Oh, wow. Maybe the name of it. It's a steakhouse that gets to have a brunch. Yeah, I think it's a Father's Day brunch that happens. Is a barbershop quartet an everyday thing? Or is it just, was that a Father's Day kind of anomaly type thing? I don't, I don't think this was a Father's Day only brunch. Okay.

And so, if you ever get a chance or hear about this or whatever, I think there's a couple of these that, halls chop out, it was great. I want them to know, I don't want them to think that I'm making a joke of this or saying I didn't enjoy it or whatever. It was awesome. Go, if you hear it. about it, get a chance to go. And for the hospitality, they were the hostess, the service top, top, top shelf. But it was, for me and my brain, it was sensory overload. Oh, yeah.

And so, when I walked out of there, man, I felt like I had done some mental gymnastics. I'm glad you said that. I've got something I want to tell you about. but keep going because this is interesting. I mean, that's, I got out of there and went and sat in the car and just, like, had to take a bit, a minute, right? To get my thoughts together. Because I will say, like, I think if I go there with just Amy or go there with an adult group, the kids throw another, you know, throw another challenge into the mix, right? You've got a two-year-old over here that's trying, won't down.

I want down when you can't get down. I won't down. But yeah, you can't get down. I won't down. I want down. You know, they want out of the chair. They want to walk around. It's busy in there, man.

People bustling around doing things. Yeah. Waiters and people coming out of every direction, taking plates and this and that another. And so I think if it was a, you know, if it was all adult as a group, it would have been not as difficult mentally. to take in all of those processes all at once,

but having the kids there, and I don't want to put it on them, but, you know. Now, kids create chaos, for sure. I feel terrible just even, you know, analyzing this like this. Everybody listening knows exactly what you're talking about. But, man, it was good. I would do it again. It was different, you know.

It was great. The singing was great. The atmosphere in there was positive. and yeah, good experience, but different. I've never done anything like that before. Listen, Amy's legacy, when I say her legacy, I kind of mean a little sarcastically because when we talk about Amy,

one of the things is that she got you out of your shell, right? Like, we were going way back when y'all first mail, like she got you out of your show. She challenged you to go do new things, and that was something that you had never had. And that to this day is still happening. And that is one of the things I think is awesome about Amy. Is it she challenges you?

You would never in a million, years go do the things that she has you doing ever ever right you wouldn't even think you don't even have it in your brain to even try now here's my point though we got into a conversation over the week and me and my family my in-laws were in town for a whole week right and um and we got into this conversation about um they were asking me do i enjoy hiking uh with my wife my wife's an avid hiker and we like i said you know we talked about on the show we went to the grand canyon and all this other stuff and i'm like and then you know started talking about camping and that kind of thing and I'm like, you know what? No, I don't, I don't enjoy it. I said, you know, I would love camping

if I could camp my way. You know what my way is? I don't have an itinerary. It's like, and I was thinking about you in this case. I mean, I'm looking at pictures when you take your beer on the beach and that, that is the extent of your planning. Your planning doesn't go beyond that. There's not brunch. There's not anything. You haven't, you might not know where you're going to eat lunch or dinner that day because that's not part of you're not you're you're you're at peace when you're sitting and I'm like if I could camp and not go to a museum not hike a trail not go look for seashells not do anything but sit listen to music grill out and I want to grill more food than we're going to eat because that's part of the enjoyment I want to grill and just I want to be able to turn a steak

or turn something and then go back to drinking a beer and not caring but that's not how I do it And so it then led to this point. I think this is where I'm getting at. You know what guys want men? I think we just want peace, especially dads. You give me a peaceful Sunday. And by peace, I mean, I don't have to shuttle somebody to a soccer game or I don't have to go do this and I don't have to, you know, just, then we're happy.

It's just peace. And listen, it's not that you don't love your kids. You don't mean you don't love your wife. Of course you do. Of course you do. But the ultimate Father's Day, I got the ultimate Father's Day. You know what? My wife, we went to church on Sunday,

and we came home and I watched the U.S. Open all day because my wife knew that it was like, it's your day, you do what you want. We're not going to ask you to even do it, lift a finger. And I just watched golf all day and drank a beer. And it was beautiful. And it was amazing because it's just peaceful, right? That's all I love.

And I think you'd be the same way. And I think most guys are the same way. It's not that you don't appreciate that restaurant brunch or that barbershop quartet. That's Amy doing the things that are. amazing. If you had your way, you would have never left the beach. I...

Or the bar. Yeah. Well, I think that it's better, I'm better off having, I'm better off having Amy. I'm better off having experienced that brunch, right? I mean, at the end of the day, it's like, yeah, I could have sat around and just, you know, mose it on out to the beach and done nothing, but by, you know, you know, know at eight o'clock at night would I have been as fulfilled as I was had I I don't think I would

have changed I don't at the end of the day I wouldn't change the thing sure but you feel better about yourself I know I know another I know a little bit about what you're talking about and and one of I've I was I was like that um you express a man I don't want to plan I don't want to I don't want to have this date charted out to where I got to go okay I can sit here in peace for an hour but then we got to get up and do this and then there's a another block of peace maybe down, you know, in the middle of day. And then we got those dinner plans, you know. And so it's not, it's not even the fact that it's okay.

I was like this before I had kids before I got married. I'd go on a trip with some buddies. And there was one guy in our group that would be asking you what we were doing for dinner at noon. Mm-mm. What we're going to do? Where are we going to eat? What we're doing for dinner?

Nope. Where y'all want to go for dinner? I'm like, it's noon, man. Right. Right. Chill. Right.

Zip it. Right. I'm with you. I got five hours that I don't want to hear nothing about a plan. I don't want to make a plan. I don't want to make a decision. You want to say, hey, if I promise you that somewhere we'll eat, can you drop it?

If I promise you that we'll eat. I think that was probably the big worry. That we're just going to hydraulic all day and not eat. So, yeah, maybe you did need to specify. I promise I do. have a meal somewhere in my future. But, so I was a little bit like that back then. And I do agree, like, part of me is like that today, not as much because I kind of, I have succeeded.

Like, there's the kids a priority. My wife is a priority. What they need, they need to have an understanding of what's going to happen. My wife likes to know, okay, this is what we're going to. In her mind, she's like, I just need to know for the girls. Like, what do you need, what do I need to do? If you're not going to want to go to eat lunch at this place, I've got to make a, I got a plan. And so.

And she's right. She's right. She's right. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, yeah, okay. That makes sense. But I'm with you, man. There's some days where you're just like, let's just play it by ear, you know.

Let's just, if we feel like getting up and golf carton to eat for lunch, we'll do it. Yeah. If not, we'll make, you know, we'll make, you know, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, you know, we'll get on DoorDash or whatever, right? We'll just figure it out. And that, most people, most, I think most people, I don't know. Are you a planner or are you wired differently in like you're fine just sort of going with the flow? I'm not a planner.

I love going with the flow. Everybody go with the flow. I believe that. I would like to say I'm going with the flow, but I'm a planner. Raise your hand for your planner. Got a couple planters in here. Yeah, I think, I don't know. I mean, I don't want to say, I don't speak for her, but I think Amy,

Amy's a planter only if because of our girls. Oh, I think there's another reason. She doesn't like surprises. No, she doesn't. She doesn't like surprises. And so she wants to know what's coming. That's right. But yeah, I mean, I could go, I could go sit out there on the beach and miss lunch.

Hell, I'll eat it too, right? I mean, I brought a couple snacks, you know, but that ain't, you know. I know. We'll be sitting there and she'd be like, But the girls. I'm like, oh yeah, they're hungry too. Oh, yeah, they got to eat. I'm an hibble.

That's so true, dude. I'm still learning. I'm still learning. There's other people that live here. You're responsible for them. Remember? There's other people that live in my house. You're the dad.

Our house. It's called Father's Day, not Men's Day. It's not my house. It's not my house. It's our house. Oh, well. Good times, man. Good times.

I'm glad you guys had fun. I love these conversations, man, because it makes me feel a little bit more normal because I feel like sometimes I'm on this island with the way I think. Hey, Nashville, the Dale Ginger Download is coming your way this week for a live show presented by Ally. It's this Friday night at the Old Red on Broadway.

8.30 p.m. start. We cannot wait. Of course, there's going to be other things before and after our show. Russell Dickerson, the country singer, will be performing. The venue fills up really early. So get there, enjoy a beer, enjoy Russell Dickerson, and then we'll be on. We're looking forward to it. And thank you, Ally, for inviting us.

We will see you Friday night. Hey, Dale Jr. Downloaders, are you planning to go to Atlanta Motor Speedway on July 8th and 9th? Well, you should. Listen, this time it's going to be under the lights. It's a new way to experience the high-speed close quarters racing that we've come to expect from the new Atlanta, seeing the sparks fly and lights reflecting off the roaring pack in Atlanta's night race. And there's a lot more to enjoy it, at least. summer NASCAR event. AMS is kicking off the week on the 4th of July with a free.

I said free massive fireworks show presented by freight auctions. You heard that right. It's a huge Independence Day celebration. And did I mention it's free? It's a free way for fans to kick off the race week. It is perfect. That's just the start of a week full of entertainment. There's grassroots legends racing on Atlanta's quarter mile thunder ring. There's track driving opportunities that benefit Speedway Children's Charities. There's Revs and Rifts, which adds a weekend of concerts by Andy Grammer, Lone Star, and more to the weekend racing action. You just don't want to miss it.

Tickets and camping for Atlanta's night races are available right now at www. atlantaMoterspeedway.com. That again is www. atlanta motorspeedway.com. Anyway, man, we got to talk about the, incredible Cars Tour race that happened at Dominion. I don't know that, so if you haven't seen it, you can go to Flow and catch a replay or some highlights. But the battle for the win was a bit viral on social media Saturday, night and Sunday.

Butterbean McQueen, one of your favorites from Mike, number 03 in the Cars Tour. quite a character, quite a personality. Pretty much had, you know, led most of the race and controlled the race for the most part. It had the best car. He was going to win the race. A couple cautions happened late. It gave Carson Quappell, who was running second, third. Bobby McCarty's also up in the top three throughout the race.

But Carson gets on the outside for a restart and beats Butterbean McQueen, or almost beats him. But holds really strong on the outside. has a great restart, and then another yellow presents another opportunity for Carson, and he passes Butterbean on the outside clean, right? And then Butterbean having the best car, and he's a really talented driver. He gets back to Carson with about, I don't know, nine or eight laps to go, gets underneath him, and when he gets underneath him, the way I understand the, you know, the etiquette it in short track racing is you know it's okay to lean on each other a little bit um and butterbean

did that in the first turn and then he did it again in the next turn and then i mean it's like three or four turns in a row he just drives up and slides into the side of carson over and over right and the last turn that they made contact really disrupted the speed in both cars and bobby mccarty comes from behind and goes three wide to the inside, off a turn two, down the back straight away, and three wide at Dominion, it's a little bit narrow. It's a little bit narrow. All of that really squeezed Carson into the outside wall. There's a lot of contact between Butterbean and Carson, and Carson gets the worst end of this deal, right?

He was racing really hard on the outside. maybe had a chance to hold off Butterbean, but even if he didn't, he's going to run probably second. But anyways, he gets damage, folds a nose in under the tire, and ends up falling back to fourth or fifth. Bobby passes them both and wins the race, side by side across the line by about two feet.

It's a fantastic finish. That sounds like it. It was a very, I knew I would be in this situation, and I'll be in this situation again, a very uncomfortable one at that, where I owned some of the series. I'm an investor in the series and also on a car that competes out there,

a car that competes really well. And so I thought for me, you know, Carson did a really, really good job. I was impressed by how he ran on the outside and how committed he was. The O3 has Butterbean McQueen, it's not McQueen. butter being queen has um beating him this whole race and so a lot of times when you have a late restart

that's in that plays into your mind a little bit you're on the outside and you're like well this guy's got the best car you know i don't know how how much of a shot i got and a lot of guys are already beaten before they get that green flag for the for the final restart carson though man he acted and raced like he had every chance in the world to win that race and he actually got around Butterbean and takes the lead cleanly. I felt like that was some of the most impressive driving that I had seen from Carson in the short career that he's been running for us.

That's saying something. I was very impressed by that. Sure. And so while he didn't get a great result, I saw some things, I saw him do some things that I thought, that's what you want to see from a driver who you feel like could

make it, right, who has the tools to get there, right? You want to see him be presented with an opportunity late, even though he knows he's not got the best car, and give it more than his all to get to get the lead and control of the race. He did that. Butterbean is a great personality. Again, he's an asset to the cars tour. He brings a good following that he's growing. He works and engages well with fans and kids at the racetrack. he's got a well well respected i mean that's an understatement uh in lee polium for his car owner lee is considered one of the greatest late mile stock racers of of in history if you will uh i can't say enough about how much i respect

lee and what he does and how much he means to the tour having him he has a couple cars that competes out there and he's got a great little driver in butterby and so they're going to be they're going to be battling carson for this championship and It's going to go down to the wire more than likely. And there'll be more run-ins between them. I was just a little bit disappointed that when a guy passes you cleanly on the outside and takes the lead, you give him a little bit more respect when you're trying to get back by him.

But being ran into the door of the eight car, Carson three corners in a row before Bobby goes by. and every corner they didn't go through a corner without making contact and you know it was I was like damn man you know come on you know he passed you clean on the outside tried not to you know drive him up the racetrack and just you know trying to be so you know it was just a lot of contact

and so I you know Bobby is a veteran champion of the Cars Tour. It was great to see him win. I want to see Bobby had success because I think he's a personality that has a great place in the series. The series has a lot of different talent and a lot of different personalities, young and old, that all play sort of this role, if you will, like you'd see in a comic book. You know what I mean? There's the villains. There's the veterans. There's the young guys coming in. There's the heroes. And everybody kind of feels these roles really. really, really nicely.

And Bobby, I'd like to have him around for quite a few more years. Sure. Because of what I think he means to the series. So it's good to see him have success. And Butterbean, I called him on the phone. And I was like, you know, I said what I said. I said, you know, your talent, your great asset to the series, love everything you do.

And this is going to be a battle for the championship that's going to happen. You know, you and Carson are going to race hard. and be in these situations throughout the year, you have a responsibility to keep it professional. You have a responsibility on your end to try to, you know, make sure that it doesn't become, you know, become physical on the racetrack or off the racetrack where it's a bad look for the series or you. I was going to ask, was there any conversation?

I know you were only watching it on flow, so you may not even know the answer, but do you know if Carson and Butterbean had a conversation, and was it cordial if they did? Butterbean said it went as good. as it probably could have in the moment. It was right after the race. You know, when I talked to Butterbean,

I think he, I told him, I said, Carson passed you clean, I expected you to do a little bit more to take care, better care of him in that moment. I think he used him up too much. It's my opinion.

Everybody might not have the same opinion. Some people might go, yeah, it's good racing, good short track racing. It was. Listen, I own the series. I love the finish. I thought, if I could get that, you know,

excitement. Every week. Holy hell, yeah. Yeah. We're good with it. But I just told Butterbean, I was like, you know, when a guy passes you cleaning on the outside on late restart, you got the fast enough car. You can get back behind him. Yes, hit him a time or two, but damn, every corner till it's just, you know, till both cars are used up. But I will say, you know, and I don't know whether that'll change the way Butterbean races or not. It might. It might not. but I think his you know it just speaks to I think how much

how much contact or how much aggression is okay in his eyes he thought he was doing everything he needed to do and everything that he did was just hard racing that's the way he feels right Carson on the other hand goes that was more than hard racing for me you know that wasn't the way I would have expected to be raced and so

but we'll see if the shoes on the other foot down the road, what goes down, I think it's going to be a hell of a battle for the championship all the way through. I mean, as far as a series investor or part, you know, co-owner in the series, I'm licking with chops, man. Yeah, absolutely, because these are two guys that, you know, I think, and you probably think they have a pretty bright future. You don't know how long the car's tour is going to even have these guys. And for all intents and purposes, they go on to, you know, a truck ride, an Xfinity ride, something like that. Carson Crople is that good.

We know he's that good. I think, you know, I think, I think Butterbean is also talented enough to get there. I do, too. I think he's, you know, I think both of these guys could get in a truck and go run well at a short track somewhere or a smaller racetrack. So I'm excited to see that. I think Carson might get some opportunities here in the future. We're working hard on our end at Junior Motorsports to try to provide that for him. and I bought you know me and me and butterbean or have talked about sitting down and having lunch and talking about his you know what can he do what tools does he have and what resources does he have and how can he utilize those to present opportunities to him beyond the car store as much as I'd love for all of our drivers to stick around a race for us race for the car store forever sure you know it's a it's a tough situation to be in man but I'm going to tell you right now um

Carson didn't be Garson got the worst end of it That's frustrating I went over and saw those guys yesterday at the shop Talked to them They're ready to regroup and get back at it But in the end It was a big big night

For the Cars tour In terms of Showcasing what the series is all about My timeline was full of people going Damn That was the best race I seen all year Now, I know the blanket's a blanket statement, but I mean, I saw that same statement multiple, multiple times. And if you haven't saw, you know, the replay or want to see some of the highlights going to flow racing.com or flow on the app and check it out.

The Cars Tour Race at Dominion this past Saturday night. We need to talk about the second half of the NASCAR season. It kicks off in Nashville this weekend. Finally, the NBC team is back in the booth and we had a meeting this week. with all of our bosses and all of our talent, and we are gearing up and excited to get back to work. We're already starting to prepare. Like I said, we had that meeting.

There was a couple of notes that I took away from that meeting. And basically, you know, when you're, I don't know, when you're in the booth, you know, you kind of get in these, I don't know, I'm still young at this, so I still feel relatively new in terms of like a Rick Allen or even Latart and Burton, who've been doing this for more years than I have. But you can kind of find yourself in a bit of a routine, you know, and that's not really that great. So we had a conversation, a big meeting this week. I'm excited about the year.

It's fired me up in terms of getting creative, thinking about how you want to deliver these races to the fans at home and bringing that energy and excitement across the television. So anyways, I'm looking forward to it. I can't wait to get to Nashville. We've got a couple of things we're doing, Mike. We're going to have a Dale Jr. Downey, on Friday night at 7 p.m. 8. 8.30 p.m. 8. 8.30? moved to 8.30? Well, you're still at the track by 7. I thought it was a solid.

I thought it was the top of the hour. Yeah. I think it's 8.30 p.m. All right. But yeah. 8.30, Old Red, downtown, Broadway, Nashville. Come see us. We had a full house last year. We're going to have a couple of guests, but it's an hour on stage, just kind of taking it, taking it all in, having fun. We're going to enjoy it. We're going to talk about, you know, to prepare anybody that might be there. We're going to talk about basically what's been going on in NASCAR season. I want to ask people their opinions on some of the controversies, right, that we've seen. We're going to rile the crowd up, right? Yeah, I love that idea. See who's going to think what.

Come join us. That's made possible by Ally, and so we just definitely want to thank Ally for inviting us back to be part of that deal. We're looking forward to it. Yep. Also, can I just say, since you're bringing up NBC? next week we are going to have a conversation. I want our listeners to really listen to this because Sam Flood is your boss, executive producer and president of NBC Sports. And Kelly and I had a conversation with him yesterday for business of motorsports that we will air next week. And the reason why I really, first of all, Sam doesn't do a whole lot of interviews.

I haven't really seen that. But there's so many television conversations that happen, not just between you and I or what, whatever from the booth, but just every week, whether it's people talking about too many commercials or weather delays and how the, you know, switches to channels, or what do we expect of Peacock or streaming services moving forward? We were able to ask Sam Flood all of these questions, and I think that our listeners will find there to be a lot of fascinating things that he gives us, and we learned a lot, but that's going to drop next week. So if we're feeling good, also we talk a lot about how they prepare for the Chicago Street course, which is going to be a huge undertaking.

to broadcast that, which you'll be a part of that. So look forward to that next week, Sam Flood. All right, so we're going to get into Ask Junior real quick before we close out dirty air today. Ask Junior, you guys have been sending in your questions to at Xfinity Racing on Twitter, and Andrew is here to lead your questions. So let's get started, Andrew. First question comes from Kevin.

Since that famous slide job call, your debut in the booth, have you noticed yourself change as a broadcaster from them to now? Yeah, absolutely. I think you can't help it. You're going to change a little bit here and there. And I'll be different this year in some way, shape, or form. I really liked my first year. I thought it was, you know, it was a little bit tough because I didn't know all of the rules. I didn't know how things were done in the booth and kind of learning how to manage, even the language. in broadcasting, like, what your producer's telling you. There's all kinds of code words and shorthand and trying to figure out what all these things mean and what's coming at you and what they're trying to accomplish. That's gotten a lot easier. And I think you get a little more polished, whether you want to or not, over the years.

And so your cadence might change just slightly. but one of the things that I think I was trying to do for a long time was play-by-play, which is Rick's job. And I love play-by-play. I love what Rick does. I love calling the battles. I love talking about two guys driving, trying to pass each other. We get to do that a little bit.

But, you know, I think I'm going to lean a little bit more into being an analyst, right? And this is why a driver chose to do that. This is what a driver was thinking in this moment. And try to be, try to, you know, work hard, prepare, spend a lot of time during the week, just really trying to be on top of what I think is going to be going on. So, you know, that's, it's a fun job, man, but nobody's here. There's no playbook. There's no, like, you know, there's no, there's no guidelines or, hey, here's what you need to do.

You got to either prepare or do the work or you're not going to be ready and not going to have yourself all the information you need in those moments when the race is happening. Because when the race is happening, man, you've got to have it all up here in your head exactly what you need to be thinking about. It's kind of fun. I'm nervous about it, but fun. It's a fun job, and I'm looking forward to getting back in there. Yeah, the first broadcast at Nashville this weekend. You gave us tips on what to do on Broadway last week. this next question comes from Bev

who's your favorite country music artist whoa I know I'm putting you on the spot well for the longest time I think Dwight Yockem was at the top of the list I was a big fan of his I got to meet him at Fontana one year he came out

and it was a weird man because they said he was coming I was super excited about that had never made him before and when they they said he was I was in my bus with Amy, and they say he was there, so I stepped out of the bus, and he's got his guitar, and he starts singing, maybe I'll be fast as you. And he's walking toward me, and I'm like, am I supposed to start singing?

I don't know. So I did. We sang and danced a bit right there in the bus lot right before, like hours, a couple hours before the race. It was just an interesting thing. But he's Dwight Yoakum. He can do whatever he wants, right? And then we talked a bit, and he ended up playing, was it my retirement party? Yeah.

Yeah. No, Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame party. The Hall of Fame party, yeah. Yeah, that's right. He played my Hall of Fame party, which was so, I'd never seen him play, right? Never heard him. And he sounds awesome, man.

Amazing. It sounded so good. Yeah. And so that was awesome. So I'd say he's right up there to talk. That's definitely cool. I didn't know that bus lot story. Yeah.

I'm good friends with Tim Dugger. And so I love. a lot of his music. Honestly, man, I mean, when I first got to know Tim, I thought, you know, I was like, yeah, that's a good song, that's a good song, but probably the work that he's done in the last probably five years, it's as good as anything out there. And that's one of the interesting things I think about music. And I know there's a lot of people out there watching right now that know a band or a

or a musician. And you're like, man, your stuff's good. How come you're not getting true? traction, right? And I feel that way with Tim. I mean, he's got it. He's with curb and there's, there's, he's doing, you know, he's doing a lot and he's out there and people know him, but I'm like, man, you know, when's that, when, when this song can be a top 10 song. Why is it not a top, why is it not on the charts? It's good. I like it. I mean, I would, I would pick it over all of these songs on the top 10. Um, so it doesn't make much sense to me, but he's, uh, he's a good,

good pal and so I like to see him do good. Kind of staying on theme with this. The next question is from Spencer. What kind of music did your dad listen to? My dad listened to, he was a big Delbert McClinton fan, which I never understood that. I've listened to some of Delbert McClinton songs, and I just didn't really love it. But dad seemed to like it for some reason. I remember him having a record collection in the basement of the lake house when we moved in in 1981.

and he had like, you know, traditional southern meatloaf and Southern Rock, Skinnerd and all of those, you know, whatever was playing on, you know, the rock radio in the late 70s and early 80s. He had all of those albums. But he liked Brooks and Dunn a bunch. And gosh, I'm going to get up from this table and think, damn, I should have said that one. but because

but he listened to that song Black Velvet you know they played that at the banquet for him one year I believe he won the championship

which was a which was on traditional country radio for a while yeah he listened to quite a bit of country Faith Hill

he was a big Faith Hill fan so I think he got to meet her he wore a Faith Hill T-shirt one time underneath his uniform at a race that she came to. That's cool. Yeah, she was like a singing the national anthem or something.

Yeah. But yeah. How do you do, you know, wearing the Faith Hill t-shirt? No, no clue. No clue. It was so long ago. Oh, man. This next question coming from Mitch, you know, this was the off week.

We saw on social media. A lot of the drivers were traveling to different places. Is there a go-to kind of vacation destination spot that you haven't quite been able to hit? Yeah. My sister was telling me Barbados is great. I don't, I like to go, I don't, I like to go to, uh, new places. I want to go to Ireland. Speaking to Tim Dugger, he's been trying to get me to go to Ireland with him for a long time. He loves going there.

I know that Steve LaTart and his family just recently went there and really enjoyed it this, this past couple weeks. So, um, Ireland's probably moving up the list for me. Uh, I'd love to go to England. I've never been. My mom's family, the G name is. is an English name and I'd love to go. There's a place in England called the G-cross. It's like an intersection where the G's sort of originated from, I suppose.

I need to learn more about that. So I want to go there. I did something sort of like that with the Earnhardt's in Germany. Right, yeah. So I kind of want to do something similar with my mother's name and where they're from. But I mean, I love going to a tropical place. resort-ish sort of place, man. It's hard to beat that.

Me and my wife went to Cabo for four or five days over the past couple weeks. Had an incredible time. Went and I caught my first Marlin. So, I mean, it was, it's hard to beat the beach. Yep. It goes right back to that beach mountains conversation, right? Yeah, it does. Yeah.

I'm with you on Team Beach. Sorry, Mike. Oh, we've got to go here again. We just got to take Mike to the right beach, and I think it'll change his mind. Yeah, exactly. Preferfully one that doesn't have a $1,000 fine attached to it. But we'll get to that. Listen to the earlier part of the podcast.

You'll know what we mean by that. Exactly. I think we got time for one more quick one. This is coming from John. What do the Monday competition meetings look like at Junior Motorsports and then even at Hendrick when you were a driver? Well, we've got a new conference room. Kelly vacated her office and turned it into a big conference room for our,

for our meetings. It's a table with about 15 chairs, and it's full every time they have a comp meeting. Crew Chiefs, drivers shop for them, and our general manager, everybody's in there. The drivers will go over what they liked or didn't like about their cars. Crew Chiefs will have comments about some things

that they might do differently or what they felt might have helped. They might break off individually, into separate groups after that big meeting and then re-watch the entire race from that track before. So I've walked into the conference room and you'll see Josh Barry and T.J. Majors, Taylor, the crew chief, watching, you know, with the intergenier watching last year's race.

And I'm like, golly, we never did that, right? I was, you know, sitting there and watching the old race and, you know, even if you'd ran well, you're just like, gosh, this was like three hours. of the day. But they, you know, it's helpful for them to understand what strategies might pop up. It's helpful for them not only to see how their race went the last time they ran there, but seeing how someone who won how their race went, right?

What did they do differently? And so I think it's nice to have that sort of refresh, refresh memory of what the racing is like there and where the lines were. I think when I get ready to run Bristol you're going to go get into SIM and practice but you're also going to watch a lot of video of qualifying where people ran to get their fast laps and how they worked, you know,

how the track changed throughout the race where the cars were running at certain points in the race with the traction compound or whatever might be down on the racetrack. So there's a lot for the teams and drivers to go over depending on the racetrack for Nashville. They're certainly going to be. going to be paying attention to lines because of the treatment to the racetrack and whatever resin might be down and how that affected qualifying where drivers chose to race and run at certain

parts of the day. So that's really important information they need to know. And I don't think the drivers would sit down and actually do that on their own if they weren't brought in and sat down with the spotters and the crew chiefs and go over that stuff together. The meetings for Hendrick Motorsports back in the day were thorough, but nothing like that. We'd sit down. Drivers would comment about what they thought their cars did. When it got better, when it got worse, the crew chiefs would remark on what they thought those changes were that the driver liked and didn't like.

And one of my favorite parts of the Hendrick meetings back in the day were what we were seeing from the competition. So we'd have photographers in the garage and out on the racetrack taking pictures of the competition and seeing things on their cars that we're like, oh, look at this. It's a little trip-lip. There's a little arrow trick right here on this car. Look how they've got this mounted.

Look how this is twisted. Look how they've chose to do this. And you'd sit in those meetings and they'd throw those pictures up on the screen and you'd try to figure it out in your mind like, what am I looking at? Why, where's the advantage? And you're trying to figure it out before the crew chief was going to tell you what it was, right? Before somebody was going to say, all right, this is what they're doing.

And that was a lot of fun, you know, because then you'd get up from the meeting and go to grab your crew chief and go, are you going to do those things? Let's do that, man, that looked cool. Are we doing it? Yeah. So it's funny because it reminds me I was in a race at Talladega. Tony Jr. was the crew chief. I was behind Matt Kenseth

and his roof flap was opening he's leading the race and I'm behind him and he's like his roof flap was opening up and it's knocking air off the rear spoiler and I said to Tony Jr. I was like, hey man

the roof flap on the 20 car in front of me he's opening it up man they got to figure they figured it out a way to change the pressure to where it can lift at speed and that's knocking air off the spoiler and he said, you ought to see yours. I was like, oh, okay, I'll just keep my mouth shut. So, I don't know.

Those were fun days, man, but I don't know how much of that goes on these days because the cars are so hard to trick and twist and do anything really visual. But I'm sure there's still some conversations in those competition meetings about what the competition, what they're seeing from the competition. Yeah, I know we talk about creativity stories. I find that fascinating.

Yeah. So that was very interesting. one you brought up. Awesome. That's a good place to end Asch Jr. this week. All right, y'all. I appreciate it.

Ash Jr., it's always a lot of fun. Thank you, Andrew. Great questions by everybody sent in. We did have a great conversation about going out on the beach and some of the challenges on Father's Day, some of our experiences that we had. We talk a little bit about the cars tour race at Dominion and that fantastic finish. And obviously, getting ready to go to Nashville this weekend. Get back to work.

get back in the booth. I'm excited about that. I hope everybody is ready for NBC because we're excited to be able to bring the races to you. It's been a fascinating year, so many different storylines and things to talk about, and we're going to dive head first into it in just a few days. So we'll see either across the airwaves or at the tracks somewhere throughout the rest of the season. Thank you. And I hope everybody had a great Father's Day weekend. We'll see you. Check out Dirty Mo Media on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. camp.