The Dale Jr. Download - 489 - Where Are All My Blues At?

Episode Date: September 14, 2023

Dale Earnhardt Jr. reconvenes with co-host Mike Davis to close out another week of the Dale Jr. Download. The guys discuss the results of Dale’s “management by strength” report and what it says about his personality. They also react to their incredible Wednesday interview with bass fishing legend and longtime friend of the Earnhardt family, Hank Parker Sr. Dale had several key takeaways from the chat with Hank that was enlightening and made him reflect differently on his relationship with his father. After that, Dale and Mike chat about the return of stage breaks at the ROVAL, Ty Majeski’s penalty, and Zane Smith’s future.During the Ask Jr. segment of the episode, listeners asked questions regarding: Dale’s recent trip to the antique store Choosing a different career path The emotions behind winning the first NASCAR race back after the 9/11 tragedy DraftKings State-Specific Problem Gambling Information:In Massachusetts, call [phone] or visit gamblinghelplinema.org, In New York, call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369). In Tennessee and Kansas, Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). In West Virginia, Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit www.1800gambler.net. All games regulated by the West Virginia Lottery. Please play responsibly. In partnership with Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races. In Connecticut, Help is available for problem gambling call 888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org. Licensee partner Golden Nugget Lake Charles (LA). 21+, age varies by jurisdiction. Void in Ontario. See DKNG.co/autoracing for eligibility, terms and responsible gaming resources. Bonus bets expire seven days after issuance. Eligibility and deposit restrictions apply.  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. Yeah, you are weird. What? Mr. Dallan Hart Jr. That family techniques, sometimes. Gives you more than just a tomato salad. That's the voice of my co-hosts.

One of my best friends in the whole wide world. Mike Davis. We're screwed. What's that me? No, we're not standing in that box together in our underwear. Are you kidding me, Mike? Oh, my God. It's hilarious.

Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dell Jr. Download, Thursday, September the 14th, the reaction show. We've had a heck of a week. I'm in here in the Bojangl studio with Mike Davis, my co-host. How's it going? It's going well. Good to see you.

Good to be seen. Yeah. Somebody said that to me one day. I thought, man, that's kind of good. That's how you'll respond to us. It's good to be seen. Yeah. It's good to be seen.

If you're a narcissist, that's what you would say for sure. Are you serious? Okay. Well, hey. Glad you got to see me. No, that's not what I said. Is that what that means? It's good to be seen.

Like, it's good to be alive. Oh, I got it, I see. Good Lord. Okay. How did y'all take it? Y'all didn't take it. I took it kind of like, oh, yeah, good to see me too. Really?

Yeah, a little bit. Hey, this is a moment in history where Alex actually doesn't agree with the-dolting. So, all right, maybe I might stop saying that shit. Half the people are going, what a d'i. Sorry for my language. Just to start off the show. Yeah, that's a real, I don't want to be spreading around the idea that I'm a jerk. Listen, I'm glad you're saying this, Dale, because I have in front of me,

so our HR person was listening to you and I wrapped back and forth last week on our podcast, and she says, what you're saying about Dale, we have it in his management by strength, which is a program. What was the topic last week? I don't remember. Oh, I think it was something about how you get anxiety. and so you'll say no to things, especially if we don't present it in a specific way.

Yes. Okay? She sends me your NBS report. And this, you know, you'll be glad to know that it doesn't say Dale Jr. is a dick. It's not in the report. Okay. But let me read to you what it says. This is based off of how you answered a list of questions.

You are harmony-oriented, persist to accomplish results on schedule. You're friendly, easy-going, good listener. It's debatable. Good memory has a long fuse and tends to hold things within. Does not like to be rushed at the last minute. No, that's absolutely true. Prefers to work with people one-on-one. Can be very direct at times.

Tends to lobby for results. Wants time to think to plan and to make decisions. Timing is everything for you. What was the log results? What? What? Once time to think. Right before that.

It says, can be very direct at times, tends to lobby for results. What's that mean? Like, come on, y'all. I want results, man. Give me some results. How can we get results around here? I think it would be good for y'all to make results.

Is that lobbying for results? But in a good timing, yeah, I don't know. And then communication by strengths, it also says you appreciate people who are candid to the point, take time to listen, avoid rushing you at the last minute, giving you time to plan. In other words, timing is everything for you. Now, do you think that's true? Absolutely, yes. Yeah.

Has you paid? How did they do that? I think we actually sit down and do a sort of a quiz and answer all these questions. And then we're like, oh, damn, that thing is smart. Right. But we actually just kind of told it all of those things. Right. Although there are times when people disagree with what, you know, the report comes out for themselves.

No, I think it's fair. I am absolutely harmony-oriented. Well, the good listener That one I don't even know what that means. I don't even know what that means. Harmony, horrient. No, you know what? That is actually true.

That is true. You know why? I don't like shit to be non-harmoning. You don't like conflict. I don't like conflict. If anybody comes to you conflict. If you're anti-harmonie, man, I'm not going to get along. Right.

You're all about harmony? Yeah. Yeah. That's, if shit gets awkward and off the, off the, if you're, if you're not, if, if We're not rhyming and harmonizing. You want to harmonize? Yeah, we're not talking in song. I don't like it.

See, I do think that you don't like conflict, but then there's times, especially with me, that I don't think you'd give a damn if there's harmony or not. Is that fair? That's not true. Not true? Nope. You want us to be harmonious.

Yeah, I will say that we often disagree. We often debate, argue at times. Often. Like we are, we, we're not afraid to counter each other. We're very opinionated and strong-minded about our thoughts, you know. And every time that we don't leave with a resolution or some sort of agreement, or every time I leave a conversation with you, I have nausea over the fact that we are not settled. We are not in harmony.

So, and I mean, I'm like that with most people that I care about. Like if we're not in a good place, it's bothersome and it's something that I can't get off my mind. Yeah. Right. I actually believe that. And again, you know, you say that you and I can disagree. Even the simple disagreement. I'm not talking, I'm not trying to give people an opinion that we and you have these battles.

Yeah. Yeah. Bows. No. No, we'll just disagree about something silly. Right. And it bothers me. There's a little, even those little things.

But it says you appreciate people who are candid. And I like to think that I can be candid. I hate not knowing. That's another thing, yeah. Well, that's it. I mean, it's not so much that I want you to be candid, but it's the not knowing that's the bothering part. Like, tell me how you think.

Tell me what you feel. I'd rather, even if I don't like it, I'd rather just know, straight up where you're at, not be going, man, I think he's bullshit, or I think he didn't tell me the whole truth, or I think he's trying not to hurt my feelings, or try not to upset me. I just give it to me. I'll digest it.

I'll figure it out, right? Amy comes to me, and she's like, this is what we're doing tonight, or tomorrow you got to do X, and I'm like, oh, and I'll spin out, right? And she's like, she's like, why can I just come to you and tell you this and you just do it, accept it, let's, it's happening?

And I'm like, I'm like, I'm going to be there in like five minutes. Just give me a minute. Let me work through this. Give me a minute to be in shock and then sort of wrap my brain around it and go, okay, I'm doing that. Or that's what we're doing. It might be like, I've got a, you know, we're going somewhere. I got a plan. This is how I think it should go, right?

And I've envisioned how it's going to be, right? We get right up on the cusp to do it. And, you know, she has a whole different vision than I do on how this is going to go. Who might be there? Whatever, right? and I'm like, damn, I thought it was going to be X and it's now Y? And she's like, why do you have to get so spun out of that? I'm like, well, give me five minutes to be sput out and then I'll be bawled in, you know?

Yeah, I think that that applies to everybody around you, not just Amy just for the record. I mean, like. Oh, I do it with everybody. I was just using that example. Yeah, yeah, that's an example. Right, right, right. Now, that's true. Yeah.

But what do you think about the good listener part? Do you think you're a good listener? Because I got a theory on this. I think you actually are probably way better of a listener than what people. people. Super good. Well, I, I'm good at it. I think that you just don't put off the vibe that you're listening.

I'm a good listener, though. Yeah. Yeah, see, I just disagree. You know what? You don't think. You were just getting ready to say, oh, well? Were you not teeing it up like a, man, you give me. Candidly speaking.

Give me this vibe that you're like about doing. I tried to convince myself that you're a good listener, but I don't know. No, no, no. I think once I agreed, then you about faced out of the, out of the conversation. Give me five minutes and I will work this out in my head and I will be agreeable with you. I think if I had not said a word, you would have kept going down the road of Dale Jr., you're very good listener. Until I agree with you, you turned around and about face.

Is that not what just happened? That's not what just happened. Should we roll the tape back? You're not listening. You're not listening. I started off, in fact, if you go back, rewind the tape. When I read this, I said, good listener, and I said, that's debatable. So I started a point thinking you're not a good listener.

I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt. And I try to say, maybe you are a good listener, but you just don't really put off the vibe or the appearance that you're listening. For instance, you may be listening to everything while looking at your phone. Right? But when you look at somebody looking at their phone,

you don't feel like they're listening. Not at all. Not at all. Yep, you're right. And I think you have a, your opinion about me being a good listener is biased because we sit here at this podcast table all the time. That's fair.

Right? And so you're more often than not probably annoyed by my habits. Oh, I think I have your ear away more than everybody else, frankly. Okay. Yeah. True, yeah. I mean, listen, you and I get a lot of times to say things.

Yeah, yeah. So, all right. All right, well, this is your management by strength. Yeah, thank you. You're a blue, whatever that means. Blue is probably the best color to be. I don't think that, honestly, there's reds, greens, yellows, blues. Yeah.

And, you know, and if I was a, look, there's not a wrong color. It's not, you know, I don't know if people even know what the hell we're talking about, but you take these sort of. quiz test things when you go into organizations and businesses and they'll give you a color and it's so they got this little heartbeat graph on it and then all of this information here is in your file for people to gather if they're going to sit down in a room and have a conversation with you in a business in a workplace they can get this information so it helps them know how to kind of approach you right it's on our name plates actually our color so colors are on the name plates at the

office door yeah as supposed to inform everybody else this is how and i got to be honest man i mean if I had a red, I'd be a little pissed. I mean, why is, what, what, red seems like. That's what your sister is? Warning, warning, warning, ah, aren't. Be careful around this person. They're, they're red. Red sounds, red's like, uh, red gives off this vibe of no patience will blow up in

your face any second, like, get out of the way. Right. Like, don't annoy, don't bother. That is, uh, that is the perception. I'll agree with that, but that's not exactly. What it means is that they're just very direct. They're not going to go. Red is direct.

They're not going to go coddle you. They're just going to try to hit you with the direct. Blue is like, blue is very calm. What is blue? Blue's very calm and easy. Yellow gives me this sort of hyper vibe. Yeah? Yeah, I doubt it.

I doubt that's what that is. Like hair on fire running around, panicky. No? Oh, I think I was describing the blue. Green. Blue people are harmony oriented, persist to accomplish results on schedule, friendly. And then she highlighted the things that, you know. Green gives me the vibe that, man, this person's real positive.

That's what I am. So I'm just saying, now, this is some boring shit to most people listening to it. But when they give colors to this test thing, or what do you call this? Management by Strength, it's personality test. All right, personality test. When they give it a color, man, it throws me off. Because you have your own definition. I know.

So I look at the color and I go, oh, I assume X, Y, and Z about the person. I don't really know. I ain't read this person's information, right? Right. But I'm like, oh, green, they're probably really positive, always forward, always, everything's great. I think the idea is the assumption by the NBS people is that you know what the colors. I mean, I'm very favorable for blue people. Of course you are.

And if I walk up and you've got the blue mark, I'm like, yes. One of me. One of us. My brother. Yeah. We're like-minded. We've got team dinner tonight. Seven o'clock if you want to be there.

It's just blues. Don't show up if you're another color. Yeah. Right. And if I see a red, man, I don't go in there. Well, that's not true. That's not true. If I see it, I don't make.

Maybe I ain't seen it. There are a lot of reds in this building. In this room, probably. And you are related. Sorry if I'm offending you, Reds. Yeah. Reds, Kelly Earnhardt's a red. L.W. Miller's a red.

No freaking surprise. What happens when two reds marry? No freaking surprise there. Both of them are hotheads. I'm right then. My assumption, just based on colors. Chad Canals is a red. Yeah, sure. I believe it. My assumption based on colors is correct, man.

Stay way from the reds. Good of the heavens. Oh, poor reds. Poor reds. Alex, do you know what color you are? Oh, blue. Of course you are. Easy going, man.

Yeah. I mean, you could have guessed that. Produced podcasts. You could have guessed that. Hey, guest, guest Dalton. Guess Dalton? Guess Dalton? All right.

What was Dalton Greco? Great last name. I'm going to say Dalton's green. Hey, hey, hey, look, man, I'm telling you, I got this. Run it. I got this. I got this. All right.

What's Dustin? Dustin. Dustin's our camera guy. Justin's yellow. Dustin's yellow for sure, man. You need to retake the quiz. What color are you? You're all the colors?

Really? All right, all right. You just offended a fellow blue. We always do that to him at the blue dinners. He wasn't at the last meeting, that's why. We're always messing with him at the dinners. Hey, that makes sense. He's pretty chill.

Chill is not what blues are, though. Yes, it is. I don't think so. Blue is a very cool color, and I mean cool in temperature. come on man oh man i'm not even going to discuss temperature but Andrew crone's not in the room but as soon as i do that it turns into a joke on me and i'm just going to stay away from it well you appreciate people who are candid to the point i think that also would explain dustin yeah um uh takes time to listen that's definitely a dustin you know you don't like time

you don't like dealing with people that uh you know aren't paying attention don't want to listen Anyways, all right, well, that was fun. There you go. There you go. Hey, thank you to our HR lady. Maybe she gave me stuff that I wasn't really supposed to use on air, but I did anyways. Anytime you bring, when you bring up the HR lady, I mean, I get a little nervous. Right.

Most people would, right? You're like I talked to our HR lady. I'm like, oh, shit. Right. What happened? Usually when she's talking to me, it's not about this podcast. It's about our friends down the road. Oh, yeah.

Down the road. What color is Brett? What color is Brett, Freddie and T.J. Okay. Brett's red. Freddy's green. Yeah. I think you're right.

T.J. is yellow. Yeah. What does yellow mean again? In real world? Not Dale. Hair on fire. Erratic. I don't think that's what that.

Erratic. Wild card. Yeah. Dangerous. Unpredictable. Yeah. Debris on the track. Yes.

Gossip. Gossip. Caution. Be aware. Be leery. Approach with caution. You're not trust. Combustible.

Might, might blow up in your face. Might turn into a red any minute. All right. Well, we've just redefined the whole NBS program. They'll be glad to know. We've got this. We'll add colors before it's all over with. You know, there's an orange.

Well, there's not. But there will be before we're doing it. That'd be cool. Yeah. You'd love to be. I'd be down to be an orange. I wonder how you could trade your blue in for an orange. Hell yeah.

Yeah. I just need to answer the questions correctly. Right. I'm being orange. Right. As long as the question is, what color do you want to be? Orange. Hey, look at there. All right.

Did we have any plan for today? Because apparently none of our colors mean I'm prepared for a podcast. No, we got a great conversation to have. So a couple things, man. Hank Parker Sr. reaction. Great interview. Great guy. Thanks to anybody who's listening to that show.

I know that, you know, our listeners sort of trickling in over time. Everybody gets to it when they get to it. But I think everybody's going to enjoy that one. There was a mega moment for me, right, when he's talking about how inadequate dad failed as a father. and man, that was a heavy, heavy moment. I wanted to say something. You know, I'm not going to apologize for all of the Del Earnhardt conversation that we have.

I'm not going to apologize for becoming Earnhardt or whatever we do in the future with that or all the guests that we have come in here that talk about Dad. That's important to me. I get a ton from it. I think our listeners enjoy it. I know that we go heavy on the Earnhardt stuff. I know we do. Sometimes it's heavy for me.

Sometimes it's a little bit too much for me. But most of it's necessary. And it's part of the process to get through the conversation. But yesterday was an incredible opportunity for me to talk to somebody that spent a ton of time around my dad in the most unique moments away from the race car when dad was just dad. you know, we often wonder who people really are. You only learn about people in certain scenarios where they're very comfortable and they let their guard down. And Hank spent a lot of time with Dad when he had his guard down. And so we got to learn a lot.

I enjoyed that. And even, you know, 20 years, almost 25 years after Dad's passing, I'm still learning new things. Dude, I mean, I hoped he felt inadequate about. being a dad I really you know wished he would have been more direct and and transparent what was my thing candid candid I wish he'd have been a little more candid with us it wasn't his thing you know what I mean but to hear Hank had this conversation with him man it really hit home so hope I know you want a comment about Hank, I loved learning about his career. I had so much more that I really wanted

to glean from the conversation about him becoming a professional bass fisherman. And then turning that into a multimillion dollar business as a spokesman and retiring from the championship tour on top, at 37. I know that, you know, the money wasn't all that great in terms of what he could and would make during his TV show. But damn, you know, your heroes, the people that you look up to

in sport or entertainment, you, man, you really, you want them to, you want them to be out there competing for your entire life, right? Yeah. Anytime like, you know, Peyton Manning or Joe Montana and all these guys that I really admired retired, it's like, damn, why does that have to happen? Why can't they just keep on playing while I'm alive, right? I want to enjoy watching them play forever.

Yeah. Did it make sense, though, what he said about why he quit? Absolutely. I mean, when he asked me or when he told me that, you know, hey, man, my kids leaving to go. do a tournament and my son wanting me to be around was all that I needed to hear. I mean, that made perfect sense to me. And you don't think about those things. I did not think about that.

The answer, I already knew the answer, but I really didn't. You know, so that was pretty profound. That was cool. I love being able to learn everything about that. I have so much more that I'd love to sit down and talk to him about. And I think it's going to have to happen on a fishing boat somewhere. you know, the rest of the conversation. Yeah.

Right. So anyways, everybody, I appreciate your engagement and how excited you were about it, Mike. You brought some great stuff to the interview. Your conversation about the, you know, you questioned about the song for the TV show. I mean, that stuff was perfect. I thought you did a hell of a job. And, you know, I had these personal moments that kind of knocked me out and knocked me, I kind of laid me out of the interview there for a little while.

and you had some great stuff to bring to the table and carried the interview. There was some heavy moments, man, heavy moments that I don't know what to do with them either. Like you, I mean, it wasn't just the fact that, you know, your dad loved you. He just didn't know how to tell it. There were other moments that were really profound. I had a couple takeaways from it. One, you know, I think that we kind of knew this about your dad, at least, you know, from all the other people, the Ned Yost, the Richard Childersers has been here, that of course he loved his kids.

There's no question about that. And there was no question that he also didn't really, he's not the kind of guy that says, I love you. He's not the only one, frankly. And if you really get down to the nitty gritty, and you and I can have a conversation about this all day long because we're both dads. But if there's the perfect dad out there,

I've never met them, and I certainly am far from the perfect dad. And to be honest with you, all of us are basically trying to figure out how to compensate for our inefficient. Maybe I am the, I love you girls. I love you. I say that to my daughters all the time. But there's something else that I am not, that I'm not doing well, right? And I'm trying to, it's a constant quest of trying to find out where do you lack? Is it, do I not ask enough about what my daughter's

day is like? And when they say, it was fine, but they don't give me details. Should I be pressing harder to know every detail and these guys? You know, every day, it's like, I wish there was a manual for parenting. And Dale Earnhardt was not impervious to that. Dale Earnhardt had his deficiencies. And he was, the thing that I gather through all these conversations is that behind the scenes, he had the compassion and things, he just had, he was not wired to show it. He just wasn't wired to show it. Frankly, I do see a lot of that in you yourself. I see a lot of those similarities. Not to say that you're not compassionate, And I'm not around you and your kids.

I mean, how you are with your kids, but I'm saying is that sometimes, you know, we choose not to go show our vulnerable sides to the public. That makes him normal, frankly. So that was one of the things. The other thing I left the conversation with is, you know, there's only a handful of people on the planet that knew your dad to the core. And it's not his family. I'm convinced of that. It's not his family. It's his hunting buddies, right?

There's just three or four people, Richard Childress, the Ned Yost, the Hank Parker's. There's a few other ones. And the point I want to make on that is I don't think that's as unusual as I would have originally thought either. Frankly, your friends are the ones that ultimately end up knowing the details that you don't want your parents to know. You don't want your kids to know. It's the people that you grew up with or the people that are closest to you.

That is, you know, I'm not saying in every case, but it is you. usually you're friends that know the goods and the bads. And I don't think that that's unusual. I do think that the hunting buddies and the hunting clubs is where your dad probably felt like he was surrounded by the people that he loved him the most, right? That's the other thing. He trusted him, man.

And the last thing I will say is on, I could have talked to him about fishing all day. I mean, I swear to God. And the one thing that we didn't ask, you know, he went from in 75 being humbled at that fishing tournament. He goes back and basically goes to school for a year where he's just learning lures and everything else. He comes back in 76 and wins the championship.

I wanted to know so much more about, hey, do you go scout those lakes? Like how many times do you got to go fish a place to know the honey holes and that kind of stuff? And maybe he doesn't want to tell you that, right? Because who knows? But like, you're right. He was a fascinating. interview on multiple levels. The hope for me one day is that our podcast and our show gets so, I am able to book,

I hope that one day I'm able to put that kind of time into it to where we give you the interview that you got this week, which is more, you know, skimming the high points. But then have that kind of conversation about, man, here, we're going to go into the weeds about bath fishing, right? Right. And we'll put that in this show. We'll put that in this little 30-minute spot. So if you're interested in that, you can find this right here, right?

But if you just want to know about the man and his path and his story and his relationship with my dad or all that, it's all in this big piece, right? Because I'm with you. When he walked out the door, I was like, damn, I really wanted to know more about his expertise, his career, his job, and how he learned to get better. and yeah, just what you're saying. There was a couple things that I went home and I sat on the couch and I thought a little bit about that conversation that he had with my dad.

And, you know, I guess there were a couple things that he told me that there was that one conversation that he had about, you know, being inadequate as a father. And then there was a couple of the conversations that he had. And I think at the end of the, you know, if I sat there for 10 minutes, right, I think at the end of it, I got up with the feeling and the emotion that I need to, it was a good reminder, the conversation with Hank was a nice, needed reminder of how much I need to appreciate my dad for the opportunity and the foundation that he laid for me and Kelly. and Kerry and Taylor. And as you get removed from his life and being around him and being reminded daily by

that very thing, right? Everything you have is because of him. Everything at your fingertips is because of him. The further removed from that you are and the more you go on with your own life, the more I think you take a little credit, you know, for yourself and less, credit to the origins of everything. And so it was a good reminder for me to remember that all the blessings that I have and the life that I live were the the first handful of dominoes that got me here were set up and knocked

over by him. Absolutely. Right? And so it was just a good reminder that because sometimes I get in this sort of I get mad. that he's gone I get mad that he's not here I get I you know we're learning about him and some of these conversations with like Tony Furr talking about the the old days in the 70s when he was imperfect wasn't a great wasn't a great great you know person and did some did some things that you know he probably wouldn't want to admit to right right being being an idiot and I

just get you know sometimes I just kind of need it was a nice reminder that hey You know, dad, dad certainly provided us a lot of opportunity that still, we still are benefiting from him every day. And there's always, I always do remember that, but that was just a really nice reminder to really embrace some of that and appreciate that and be thankful for that, you know. And so it was just a good reminder for all of us. if you're if you were lucky enough like I am to have to still have my dad yeah the the appropriate response and what I did was call my dad right I mean I still uh have the privilege to be able to call my dad and tomorrow that may not be the case next week it may not be the case but the relationship you have with your dad that you know and this will be the way I'm sure with my kids they'll want they'll have

some sort of impression on me that may not be fully fully formed right like they don't know all the details of why I might have done something. And we're privy to some of these things these days. What a blessing it is. And that's the appropriate response is to go, man, did my dad not, he always had my back. I just didn't ever know it all the time. Man, my dad was always working his butt off. And I always looked at it as he was never there.

But, you know, in my dad's case, he's working three jobs at times. And I'm just, all I know is that he wasn't in my basketball game. Right. Well, I wasn't that. Yeah. Yeah. And so I think the appropriate response for everyone. It's not just you.

We were talking about your dad, but man, I bet there's a lot of people out there that it resonates with that, you know, either has good relationships with their parents or even relationships that may have had fractures along the way. Right. Yeah, for sure. I wanted to ask you this, though. What did you think about what Hank said about how, if not for his conversation with your dad on the front porch of wherever they were, you would have never even had that race car? I know. I told Amy about the. And I told Amy the analogy.

I told Amy the whole story last night. And I said, you know, the analogy used about the dad buying the soft drink and drinking it in front of his son and not getting his son one. And she thought that was, she really wanted to meet Hank. After I told that story, she's like, I really like to meet this guy. I want to hang out with him. And I'd never thought about it like that. you know, he had a great point.

I always felt a little bit guilty for wanting dad to be a bit more of a provider in terms of just physical parts and pieces and the ability to go race, right? I would walk up to dad and say, I really want to become a race car driver. And dad would say, well, you go over there and clean out the horse barn. show me you want it show me some initiative and I'd mean I'd go clean the shit out of the stalls

but then he'd be like all right now clean the tools that are out on the counter and put them back in the toolbox sleep to floor and you know after a while you're like how long do I got to do that right before

how is this working right of course you're you're 12 14 years old and you're like okay well how much of that and how much of that net's progress right um and i didn't understand what he meant what he meant was just show me what you can show me you want it if you're out there giving it you're all even when it's cleaning the shop or whatever i'm going to support you and he would have done the necessary things without a doubt um and all we the story that you give

about and you've given it in the past about moving that paint bucket i believe it was Like go move that from there across the room and you're like what the hell is this got to do with anything right? So when we did get our you know and the street stock car was all me and Carrie like dad pointed in the direction of the dirt of the junkyard but man me and carry went and found the money by ourselves we went and bought the car we went and found the roll cage we went and climbed underneath all those cars out in the junkyard to get spare parts when we bent ball joints and A frames and a dad telling Hank that I needed to go to the junkyard. We did that.

Me and Kerry were out there under those cars that have been there for 30 years with the snakes and everything else. We did it. We rode around in the back of our eastern trucks with little toolboxes that were only there to go work in the junkyard. There's toolbox sliding around in the bed of the truck

everywhere you went, slamming into all corners. We did that. But when we got our late model stock stuff, that's when that little shed of guilt came in, right? Because it was like, oh, well, Dad bought this, right? I don't have, I'm not creating this. I'm not getting the money for this. And so I always kind of felt a little bit guilty that, yeah,

we did get some of those things given to us to go race a lot. You know, we'd literally, man, we'd go down to Myrtle Beach, and Gary Hargett would have a blank check to buy the set of tires and the pit passes. and that money came from a deal dad did with mom and pops and a partner that he already had. He didn't have to part that money out to me and Kelly and Kerry for our late model team. He could have kept it. But he parted out a hundred grand for all three of us to go race on. We split that three ways and went and raced.

You could race for 30 grand a year at Hickory or Myrtle Beach. That's huge. Yeah. Other guys didn't have that, right? But so I felt a little bit guilty about that all those years. But it was necessary for me to have the opportunity to make it to Xfinity to Cuck. And when I got to those levels, right, I'm still driving Dad's car. I'm still in the, I'm still under the, under his arm, under his wing.

No job security issues. You know, I'd be in a room with Michael or Truex and Park at a photo shoot or whatever. and I mean, I'm standing there going, these guys got to work. They got to work to earn this. I don't. I mean, I could half-ass this day. I've got, I'm family, right?

I might have half-assed it, but not because I thought I was family. I half-assed it because I was probably hung over or just in your shit. But, you know, I mean, I thought about those things. I was aware. I was self-aware. But it's interesting for Hank to sort of set it that way

and go, look, you know, you think he needs to be in a junkyard because that's what your dad was doing. He was in a junkyard. Yeah. But your son sees you riding around in an airplane and, you know, racing, a race shop with 20 cars in it. And he's like, why can't we, you know, why can't you help me? I get it.

That was good, though. I had a great time listening to him, like you say, man. Let's just hope we can get another opportunity to sit down and talk to him. Did you trade text or anything with Hank Parker Jr.? I called him. We talked. Did you? Because I was texting with him too.

I called Hank Jr. on the way home and talked to him until I got to the gate. Good. He's doing good. Kids are good. Family house, land, job. Hank Jr.'s doing great. By the way, speaking of Hank Jr., I did not know this, but maybe you did. But him talking about that wreck, the wrecked.

Billy. It was Billy that wrecked in Chicago. I went back, you know, we'd have to talk to Billy. I'd never really heard about that. I don't remember really Hank getting into it, Hank Jr. talking about it too much. I went and watched that race yesterday. Okay.

After the conversation, I did a lot after the conversation. Called Hank Jr., looked at this race with Billy from Chicago Land. It was a very normal accident. He gets a little loose in the middle of one and two if this is the same incident. It's the last race he runs for Rusty Wallace. He's replaced the week after. He backs into the wall, left for one. slat, left front, he backs it in, left rear.

Left front hits the wall, so it's kind of a driver's side impact. It didn't look hard or nasty. And I believe he gets the car out back on the track and runs laps and moves forward about six or seven positions before the race is over. But I've seen wrecks like that that can cause damage and can get you hurt. And there's no telling whether he didn't have the right, you know, padding on the head rest or whatever we'd have to have billy come in here and tell us about it well i mean you've experienced that yourself i mean like the the one that caused that concussion that ultimately put you in pitts

you know i remember those those wrecks have was it a michigan you know i i i i'd all blend together yeah they i'm sure and and uh but the uh you know the things that were causing concussions should you know sometimes aren't the ones it looked like they should yeah right now so yeah i was that was uh that was interesting conversation i'd love to i haven't talked to billy in forever yeah it'd be nice it would that was a great conference I keep saying it over and over, but before we get to this next topic, I had not, I have hurt my thumb this morning. Uh-oh. I want to warn everybody about a product out there that is dangerous.

Oh, yes. All right. And it's an everyday product. Okay. Do you know those little white plastic clips that you hang on a wall and they're sticky, you know? Yeah. It's like peel off the sticky side and it's like, this is the wall sticky side and this is the clip side, right? And then when you're wanting to remove it, you pull that little tongue off the bottom of it.

It's got this little tab that's hanging there, and you pull that tab, and it removes the sticky part out from behind the plastic, and the plastic thing is reusable. Oh, okay. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm talking about? It's just little plastic hooks that you can hang. You glue to the wall, stick to the wall.

Like a man strips. Yep. Yeah. Well, when I was pulling that little tab to remove a couple this morning off a wall, Because we're changing around some of our kids' playroom stuff. I was pulling that tab, man, and it's coming off. It's coming out from under that thing, all right, the plastic part. Well, when it released, that plastic part flew down into the top of my thumb,

and it hurt like a MFer. I'm telling you. Man, did it hurt. Be careful. All right. Be careful out there. These things as well. I'm trying to.

Be careful. How do I not know it? What do they call it again? Mike. Don't hijack this shit, Mike. Okay, I won't. With your lack of knowledge. Okay, I won't.

I won't. That's a good point. I won't. You're going to get everybody on your ass about not knowing it. And they're not going to heed the warning. They're not going to heed the warning. Beware, everybody. Right.

When you're pulling that tab, hang on to the plastic thing because that thing's going to fly everywhere. That's the only point you want to make. Yeah. It hurt. Okay. It hurt. And it hurt bad. It's like a bone bruise.

Very deep. Do you feel it right now? Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, nothing you can do. It's a thumb. It's very important.

I broke my thumb. Did you know that? I did not know that. Yeah. I had a hand in, I can't even remember what happened, but I had a hand injury in the middle of my career. You were, you were around. Went and got an X-ray, and the guy's like, yeah, you jammed it. You jammed your knuckle really bad.

Do you know you broke your thumb sometime? I'm like, no. He's like, yeah. Oh, yeah. It wasn't broken at that moment, but you, but you, broke it. Yeah, I've had that happen to an arm. How do you break your thumb and not know it? Impervious to pain, man.

It's a weird bone set up anyway. It's a little stubby thing, right? It's like, how would you know you broke it? It's really pretty much, pretty much. Thumbs, you realize how important they are when they're injured because, I mean, you take away a thumb. Take away any other finger, but you take away a thumb. Yeah, a little short bone.

It pretty much keeps you from doing a lot of stuff. You can break a little tiny short bone and not know it. I mean, you know, you break a long bone, like your leg or something. You know it instantly. But you break a tiny short bone in your thumb or whatever. Do you know it? I guess I don't. I don't know.

All right. Well, let's get to this more. I wish you well. It's 42 minutes into this podcast. We're going to get to the content. You ready? Yeah, let's do it. Let's start the show.

So stage breaks. Ah, yes. They're returning to the road courses. Y'all remember having this conversation? I feel like I was sort of saying, hey, get ready because this shit's happening. Look, I didn't have any insight in. but I felt like the road course races in NASCAR's eyes were not going to not going to do it. Like they were sitting there watching Watkins Glen play out and they're going, yeah, this shit ain't happening.

Yeah. Yeah, we're going to have to do something. And so here we are. And I'm surprised, but I'm surprised NASCAR is doing it before the year's over. Right in the middle of the season in the middle of the playoffs. Yeah. Elton Sawyer did say he wants all playoff races, or they want all playoff races to have the same procedures, but I take that with the grounds.

Here's my opinion. All right, so if you don't want it, turn it off. You want to hear my opinion? Stay. Earmuffs. Stay on. You've given the warning. Yeah.

If you're a yellow out there, you've been warned. The red's coming out. He's got some red, and here it comes. All right, so I think it's great. I thought the non-stage race, you know, Road course races were not good, boring, not good. And it wore my ass out trying to remember that at the end of the stage, we weren't going to have a caution and we weren't going to have a restart.

And I'm like, okay. But you are doling out points. They're doling out points. But next week we're going back to that other procedure, you know, where they do have the cautions. And this week we're not going to do it. Well, why not? Well, it's a row course, you know.

And next week at the Oval, we're going back to the other rules. I hate that shit. I want everything the same. Make it all the same, man. Stop messing with me. I don't like it. They were screwing with me, Mike. So they put it back.

Thank you. Well, there you go. I'm a head hurt. Wait a second. They did. They fixed this for this one race. But next year, I mean, you know, we're going to go back to road courses.

They're not going to have stage breaks. Are you going to be pained by all that? Sorry, man. We're not. You know something, Mike? Yeah, what? Well, I assume this is just for this. No, you're saying they're going to put it back for all road courses?

Next year. Why would they change it and then change it back? Yeah. God Almighty. Okay, maybe I got that wrong. Yeah, that would be terrible. On NASCAR Twitter would have a field day with that shit. They were going to change it back for just this race

and then go back to no cautions next year? Oh, man. Well, first of all. Don't put that out in the universe, Mike. No. it's not above them to do that. Now, I mean, listen, they'd have their reasons, but I'm just saying, I didn't,

I'd look at this announcement, just being for the, I think they're like, hey, we tried that, didn't like it, we're going back. Okay, yep. I'm down, I'm down with it. I don't like the rules being different for different tracks. I like shit being same all the way across the board.

But wait a second. Let me then ask this, because I am reacting to this in real time. Could have prepped. I didn't. But then you got back the same problem of why you would have changed the rule. rule to begin with.

What was it? Impossibly too long. Really? That was the reason? Wasn't it? No. Why would you not? You're trying to,

the caution lapse like it. Give me a, Road America. Yeah. Like, wasn't that the reason why they eliminated those? We don't go there anymore. Okay.

What's another road course that we go to? That's a long road course. Not the road. Find another long road course. Mike can make his argument. Sonoma. Coda. Coda.

You thinking about Cota? Did I say Rhode America? I meant Cota. I meant Cota. You meant Cota. Yeah, no, I meant Cota. You met Cota. You met Cota.

You met Rhode America because that's what you said. I said, Rhode America. I meant Cota. I can see how you get those two. Stop. I was confused already. No, no confused me anymore. Listen, are you not kind of resorting back to the same problem?

No. You're not. Then why did they change it to begin with? I don't give you. No, no, I'm asking. I knew all along you didn't give a shit. That's not the question. I don't care.

It's the fact the way it should be. Okay, then maybe I'll ask somebody that might give a slight shit. I don't care. Went for the stage break fans. I mean, you know what? When stage breaks came, I hated them. I was a traditionalist, man.

I was like, this is dumb. Dumb idea. But nope, I like it now. Oh, Lord. All right. I was just looking at the blues. It says impossible to deal with. How about this?

Hey, if you're just, hey, if you're just looking at the blues. y'all seen the restart zone for the roval so now okay Mike when we have restarts at the roval in the past at Charlotte you didn't go through that last chican right before the start finish line

that's right that restart zone was on the original front straightaway right on the actual big track on the big track well now we're gonna you know they were they were you know they were having some crashes down in turn one

Heartburn turn. Right. That's what we love to call it. You know what? I ain't saying we. That's what I love to call it. Oh, did you? You weren't the only one because they did go sponsor that thing by, was it Tom's?

The first race there, they had Alka Salter or Tums or something about it down there, right? Right. Heartburn Turn. And they wanted it. They named it themselves, Heartburn Turn. And then we come back for the second race, and the sponsor was gone. And everybody was like, okay, well, not heartburn turn anymore. I'm like, why the hell not?

That's right. Why in the hell not is it heartburn? It can stay heartburn turn. We don't need no damn sponsor. That's a great name for the turn. It's a heartburn turn. So for me, it's heartburn turn forever. Oh, yeah.

Screw everybody. World 600 and heartburn turn. I ain't changing. I don't care who sponsors it. Right. Even if it's anti-heartburn medicine. Oh, damn. It's still heartburn turn for me.

It can be rollades and it's still heartburn turn. turn. Well, that would still apply. Really? Right. Wouldn't it? I don't know. Maybe they don't want heartburn.

If your roll aids, heartburn's bad. Is rollades any different than Alka-Seltzer? Same. It's the same. That's my point. Okay, you're right. What would be a good argument for that then? Probably a chili dog.

Oh. Yes. Yeah. John's Chili Dogs is now the sponsor of term one. My ass is up in the booth still saying, Heartburn turn. I don't give a damn. So where were we going with this, actually?

So they changed the restart zone? What? They changed the restart zone because of heartburn turned. Okay. But not, you know, it was okay. We had no, you know, we had no problem with the cars crashing into the wall in turn one. Charlotte. Nobody did.

I didn't. All right. But we went to Cota and had these ridiculous restarts. It's silly. Sport looked like a clown show. And then where else did we go? Oh, it was kind of happening at Indy. Yeah.

Right. And so they started, hey, man, we'll move the restart zone and it'll be better. And it was, right? We've not been back to Cota since they could, you know, make a change. But at Indy, we no longer had these really bad, you know, black eye moments for the sport down in term one late in the races. And because they had moved the restart zone back around further around the track, like turn 12. Well, I guess they thought,

hey, that worked. There, let's do it at the Robles. So now the cars will go through this last chican. And the restart zone is in this wicked, weird part of the chican. It looks so broken. Wow. Just visually looking at it from the aerial photo. It's like, that's not, the cars aren't,

the cars are kind of weaving through this sort of weird chican anyways. Now there's a restart zone in that sort of kink. Which could just mean that you've moved the silliness from heartburn turn to the kink. I mean, like, seriously, if you're restarting 25th. And so now you're going, you're going to have to get up to speed before you probably get to that. No, no, no. You'll be running in the back of cars in front of you. They have to go to the kink.

No, no, I'm saying is that everybody else is getting up to speed, but you're still having to break into getting into the... Yeah, so it's going to split cars up. Right. That's the whole purpose of it. I think they're going to run into each other. It's on the screen, Mike, if you want to take it. Oh, yeah, let's look at it. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, that's going to get silly. Yeah, so the restart zone is starting in the very center of the kink in the turn and exiting that chicane. Isn't that a weird place for a restart zone? I'm telling you, my prediction is that now you won't have the lunacy that happened at the front on those restarts. Now you're going to have the lunacy start in the middle of those restarts. Does that make sense?

Or in the middle of the pack. I just don't know why they were like, yeah, we'll just put the restart zone here in this weird freaking spot. It's a weird spot. The restart zone needs to be in a very neutral sort of space. Not this bend, an elbow. I don't know. We'll see.

Maybe, maybe they're smarter people than us. Nobody's smarter at us, buddy. Nonsense. Nobody's smarter at us. You do you, do you? Yeah. I mean, listen, and I'm, and I'm, reality here. Marcus,

that has to be a Marcus decision, right? No, no, no. I mean, it's possible that it's kind of a collaboration. Drivers, NASCAR. No, no, the track doesn't just go, hey, NASCAR, here's your restart zone, like or love it. Hate it, whatever.

I guess, look, I think we're still going to have some problems down in Heartburn Turn. Sponsored by John's Chili Dogs. But this restart zone, mess. They need to clean that up. I don't know who did that.

That's bad. It's like when you walk into the living room of somebody's house and you're like, why the hell did you put the furniture in here like this? Right. Or the power outlets. Like, that didn't even work. That doesn't work, right?

Yeah, well, listen, I'm going to reserve judgment until after the race. I'm going to always armchair quarterback and work in hindsight. I like to run my mouth before things happen. Of course you do. If I'm wrong, I'll just. did mid-eyes wrong.

If it were me, I would have put the restart zone in the first half of the chicane. There's a very straight part of the racetrack. Green flat, you know, they can go and kind of fly through the kink on throttle, right? Or as they're accelerating toward turn one. I just think the restart zone for me

can't be in an elbow funnel. All right, well, give us your opinion. If you've seen the restart zone, does it look, is it, do you care? that it looks funky, that it looks like a badly furnished living room? All right. Experience the thrill of the racetrack like you're in the driver's seat with Draft King's sports book.

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Time Majeski's team got caught bleeding valve stems. So, and we don't need to stay on this at all long. I just wanted to say, man, I love the ingenuity. We talk about it on the show. I did too. Yeah, we talk about it all the time. They got their ass busted. Now, 75 points, five playoff points, find 25 grand crew chief suspended for four races.

For me, that's a lot of nothing. I'll be honest. I mean, bleeding tires for me is kind of like a big motor. I mean, it's a big deal. And the other thing is, is how long they've been doing this. You just have to assume whether they got proof. If I'm NASCAR, right, I would put this out there out front. I'd say, hey, if I catch you doing something,

I'm going to assume that you've been doing this all year. I'm not going to assume that, oh, it's brand new this week, or you've had it for a couple. I'm just going to say, hey, man, you've got this. this ability to machine these parts and do this, you've had it all year in my mind. No, no, no, no, no, no, uh, you try to change my mind, but you're not going to.

Not going to. Yep. And so he's benefited from this all year in my mind, right? Whether it's true or not, that's the way I'm going to think about it if I'm NASCAR, right? Sure. If I'm a competitor, I could give a shit less. Hey, he got busted. I'm glad NASCAR's on top of shit.

and hey good job for trying good job for trying and also weren't you impressed to how NASCAR came out and just like the series director you talk about transparency here's what they did here's a good one here's a bad cat I love that they're showing it yeah I thought that was pretty I do too pretty stupid yeah um I love that I uh I worry though that it gives people there's only there's one worry about it right is that not only truck teams but super late model team or Cars Tour teams or any team, right, anywhere, any track, sees that and goes, oh, I know how to make that and not get caught.

Yeah. That's the only problem, right? I just giving them an idea. It's kind of like saying, hey, man, here's how you get away with something. These guys got busted, but maybe, you know, maybe somebody out there can think of a way to make it happen and not get caught. Or maybe they're in a situation where tech is not stringent enough and they know they can basically use that same method,

even if it's something completely different than a bleeder, right? So I just worry about people seeing too much. I mean, it is interesting as hell, and I'm glad they're showing this stuff, but I just kind of worry that there'll be some, there's always going to be some, a little collateral damage to being that transparent. Don't you think?

Yeah, I also think, though, you're giving, you know, NASC, I mean, racing series and officials things to also look for. Like, that was my question. You got 100 students. All right. No, I get what your point is. You got 100 students. One of them cheats on the test.

And you tell them, here's how they cheated. Yeah, that's probably not very productive. I disagree, but not just to the point of disagreeing with you. I think that the transparency is always going to be the better way. It's great because I like to see it. I'm like, damn, that's neat. That's cool. Here's my question for you.

And I would not know the answer to this. You would. Is it felt like that cap, that tire, cap with that was pretty brilliant right to do that and to bleed the thing my question is brilliant that's okay wait wait wait did the officials know to go check things like that without being or were they ratted out they I read they heard the sound of the tire leaking air oh okay but I bet you that there were some rumblings that's what I was wondering there's always rumblings do you think NASCAR catches that without getting tipped off they there are

Always rumors and rumblings. Always. And in this case, I imagine absolutely NASCAR was like, yeah, we're hearing some things. Nobody's going to walk in that NASCAR hauler and go, this team is doing X. I know it. You need to go bust their ass. The other crew guys and crew chiefs are not that way. The owners, maybe some of the owners are a little salty, but there's a code in the garage where you don't tell on

of the crew chiefs. Right. Now, it presented an opportunity in a conversation to make a smart-ass remark. Now, that might happen. Right. I ain't ratting on anybody, but

he's cheating some of the B-B-Gy over there and the old third pistol. Now, so that's how they sort of get tipped. And NASCAR will hear, you know, hear some of those comments and just go, man, you know, I keep my eye on that. You know, they're probably thinking,

well, we better keep our eye on it, right? Yeah. But I read that they heard the sound of the tire leaking down on the grid or somewhere around the car, right? And so they're like, oh, what the hell is going on here? The other thing, too, is the valve stem cap looked brand new. Remember him showing it on the table? He's like, here's the legal one, and it's all chipped up and skint. And then the one that's cheated is like pristine.

It's like, damn, man, take them things outside and drag them across the ground a little bit. Hell. Act like you don't want to get talked. No shit, right? Beat them up a little bit. Yeah, one of these is not like the three others. Look how brand new that valve stem cap is. Oh, that draws no attention.

Because valve stem caps are sort of this reused, you know, chipped up, busted up, skin up piece. That's always just kind of, it's not, it's an afterthought. It's like, nobody's going, man, we've got to go. some new valve stem caps. Our valve dim caps are kind of beat up. Nobody does that. So why do you roll up with some brand new vows dim caps for? That was odd.

This is a dumb question. Are they all yellow? Because like I would think that they were black and so they're even less... I think they're all yellow. They're all yellow. Say, I mean, if I'm going to cheat one up, I'm probably going to make it the same color as the Will Will, right?

No. No? That would draw attention to it. It's obvious. If they're all yellow and that one's black, why is it flat? Well, no, yeah, right. I guess I just was, I didn't know that they were all yellow.

Stop it. I didn't know they were. How would I know that? Well, now that you know they're all yellow. We've got a, we've got one right out here. Let's see. I don't see a yellow one. There's no caps on that.

Oh, there's not? No. Okay. Stop it. You're not bleeding out of this eight. We're not bleeding on the number of eight. Anyways, I thought that was pretty neat that they found that. Joe Shear Jr. is well known for being aggressive, right?

I think that Joe Shear Jr. was working with us as our crew chief when we won our only truck race. Cole Custer. With Cole Custer? No. No, it wasn't with Cole? Wasn't it? It wasn't Casey King. Casey King.

Oh, Casey King. But Shear was Cole Custer's crew chief. Yes, but this particular race, Casey was driving the truck. It was at Charlotte, right? Yep, yeah. And the truck failed inspection. I'm like, hell yeah, we want a truck race. And I look on, stop.

That's right. I look on Twitter. And Bob Pockris is like, the truck has failed inspection. It was, it was low on the left front, the left rear and the right front. And I retweeted and I said, well, damn right rear was good. Yeah, got one good tire. I remember this. It was the heights, not the tire.

Yeah, it was so funny. Yeah, it was good. That's right. It wasn't that. I think it might get out of his own way. You're right. But I got excited. I remember this now.

I remember your tweet. It was funny. No. Yeah. You're gonna... It was funny. It was fun. Yeah.

That was Joe Shear Jr. And I'm like, you know, I like Joe Shear Jr. He's aggressive. I won't, I'll tell you, man. I want my crew chief, firing a bunch of holes in that rule book. Go for it. Well, he did.

He's going to be sitting there and watching him on TV for a while, too. There's a lot of talk about where Zane Smith's going to land. He has apparently made the comment on social media, at least. that, or to some of the media, that he knows his plans for next year, and he's good to go. And so the idea is that he's maybe going to end up at trackhouse,

and so, but there's a place he needs to go for a year. All right, where does he go for one year? I'm going to guess colleague. Really? Yep. In Cup or Exfinity? Exfinity.

One year of Exfinity with Collig, and if that's the case, and I bet you, SVG also, ends up at Colleg. For some races. Zane Smith is a great kid, talented driver, race for us for a little while.

And if he ends up at Colleg, they will be good. That'll be a solid little season for him if he's ended up there. Wherever he goes, he's probably going to be in the Xfinity series, which is unfortunate for us because we'll have to go out there

and racing and he'll be tough. And SVG, right? If he shows up for some Xfinity races, particularly, I guess he's going to try to run as many ovals as possible. Sure. He'll be interesting to watch. Yeah.

Yeah. Colleg has the cup car, the 16 cup car, the 31, and they're a couple of Xfinity rides. I mean, they've got several potential openings, right? Yeah, they haven't announced anything. Right. So, who knows? They could have a whole new look next year. Let's go to Short Track Insider with Hannah Newhouse.

Hello, Short Track Insider, Friends. local tracks are finally starting to wrap up their seasons, unless you're like me and you live in the south. Then it seems race season genuinely just never ends. We will find a way to race all season long, whether that is indoors or we just head down to Florida. But either way, regular series and seasons are starting to wind down in their championship chases as we see tracks and series across country start to crown those champions. So let's start with a little bit of a recap over the weekend. The World 100, which is one of Dirt Lake Models' crown jewel races, took place at the third. famed Eldora Speedway over the weekend. There was a ton of eyes on the race going into it for

the prestige that just simply comes with being a World 100 winner. And it was shaping up to be a battle of two of the hottest drivers right now in Dirt Lake Model Racing being Ricky Thornton Jr. and Bobby Pierce, each leading in their respective series. And of course, just topping the charts and wins. But when Saturday's feature rolled around, both of them faced some misfortune. So that lined up a interesting battle between the young gun of Hudson O'Neill and then the veteran of Jonathan Davenport. came down to it. Huddy out dual Davenport on a late race restart and captured his first world 100 win while also bringing his car owner, Mark Richards, the first World 100 win for the Rocket One House car, which if you follow Dirt, late model racing, seeing that Rocket One House car

in Victory Lane has been a long time coming. Also, the cars tour made their second visit to New River All-American Speedway down in Jacksonville, North Carolina over the weekend, where Brendan Queen was looking to defend his win from earlier in the season when they visited the there in March for the battle at the borders. After playing the tire conservation strategy just right because that track extremely abrasive, Queen found himself under fire from the veteran of Ronnie Bassett Jr. In those closing laps and, man, if you saw the videos on social,

the two swaps and door panel donuts back and forth coming to the checkered before. Eventually, Queen was able to get the edge and get back to Victory Lane at New River All-American Speedway. And lastly, the World of Outlaw and Noss Energy Drink Sprint Crent cars were over at Silver Dollar Speedway for three days, for the prestigious Gold Cup. And this three-day race fell smack in the middle of a three-week West Coast swing for the outlaws. And honestly, a big point of the whole weekend is the seller of the incredible atmosphere. I mean, they've got the return of the bikini contest, which, you know, is a trophy girl contest.

There's the glow party. And then, of course, the great racing that comes out there as the California guys mix it up with the outlaws. So it was two preliminary nights that led into Saturday's big race where 17-year-old Corey Day was able to lead the field from green to checkered capture his first world of outlaw win and it was definitely an emotional one in front of his home state crowd of course day being from clovis california i think this is just the first of many for that young driver who continues to turn heads in the world of sprint car racing i think that sets of a pretty easy segue though into what to look forward to this weekend because man a busy schedule across all aspects of racing this upcoming weekend uh but that'll segue us into

the world of outlaws wrapping up their west coast swing they head to hanford california to King Speedway on Friday night. And then they'll head over to Placerville Speedway. Still one on my bucket list that I feel like I need to get to. But they'll be at Placerville in Plasterville, California on Saturday. The Extreme Outlaw midgets presented by Toyota also have a three-day Illinois swing coming up this weekend. They'll start it off at Jacksonville Speedway in Jacksonville, Illinois on Friday.

They'll then head over to Highland Speedway in Highland, Illinois on Saturday before finishing it up at Red Hill Raceway on Sunday in Sumner, Illinois. both of the World of Outlaw races and, of course, all three extreme races, as always, can be watched on DirtVision all weekend long. The Lucas Oil Late Models host Late Model Nationals at Knoxville Raceway all weekend long as late models takeover sprint car capital of the world. I know this race weekend is a lot of drivers and fans look forward to it. Just, you know, bringing late models to sprint car country and, of course, being able to race at the prestigious venue that Knoxville is. So all three days of Knoxville can be watched on Flow Racing. racing as always, the Lucas Oilate models can be watched there as well.

Now over to some pavement racing for our pavement enthusiasts, the SRL Southwest Tour heads back to one of my favorite racetracks on the planet, that being Irwindale Speedway, and I say this in the best way over the track that won't die. Thank goodness. We don't want it to, but man, if you know, you know. But of course, Irwindale Speedway out in California, they'll take on that racetrack. All SRL racing can be found on their own streaming platform of Spearsracing.tv. And then in the past, the Pro All-Star Series, alongside the ACT Tour, the American Canadian Tour, is also at White Mountain Motorsports Park over the weekend up in Barry, Vermont.

The CRA All-Stars will be over at Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, and can be watched on Racing America, as well as the Northwest Super Late Model Series, who will be at Wenatchie this weekend in Wenatchie, Washington, both of those available on Racing America. And lastly, for some of our modified friends, both pavement and dirt, actually, the NASCAR-Will-Moddewan Modified Tour is at Riverhead Raceway in Riverhead, New York over the weekend.

They can be watched on flow racing. And then you've got the Super Dirt Car Series, which is, of course, big block modifies over on dirt. They're at Albany, Saratoga over the weekend for the Malta Massive Week. And this race being the last chance for those drivers to get a chance to lock in to Super Dirt Week. And as we speak, there's dirt being laid over Oswego Speedway, which of course usually a pavement track. The dirt's being laid down. The stage is being set for Super Dirt Week, which takes place the first week of October. And Super Dirt Car Series, as always, can be watched on Dirt Vision.

That being said, guys, get out there, support your local short track, support your local drivers as the season starts to wind down. And don't worry, we'll get you squared away next time here on Short Track Insider. All right, that was a great job, Hannah. Always bringing some of the great information from around the country with Short Track Racing scene. Our Short Track Insider is always a great ad. And thank you, Hannah, for the hard work there. It's time for some ass junior.

Andrew Curlin's got your questions ready that you've been sending into Exfinity Racing on Twitter. So let's get started. Yeah, this first question is from Anna. She saw that you were at an antique market, I guess, or last week. Did you get anything good from there? A couple of records. Nice. It's funny, man.

I went in there. I was a little hungover. And so you walk into an antique market, man. This is indoors. They got all, you know, the squares for each little store, or maybe a little roughly the size of this table, maybe twice the size of this table. There's hundreds. of them in this building. This is an old mill, the Burlington factory

in Morseville. I think that was the Burlington factory. But it's this giant, you know, like a size of a Walmart and it's just full of these little stores. And every store has something different. There's a lot of DACAS. There's a lot of records

but there's also a lot of knick-knack home stuff, right? Old country sort of pieces that you might repurpose and use for decorations and knick-knacks around your house. I don't know. But Amy was looking for a couple of old doorknobs

for the western town. And I was just kind of, she just asked me if I wanted to go. And I was like, hell yeah. My wife asked me to go somewhere. Let's go. I'm riding with you. And I don't have to work out or do anything like core class or Yeah.

Feas and chambers. Yeah. So we went. And yeah, I've been kind of working on this little record collection I've been talking about. But I was walking around in there and I was like, oh, first thing I saw, first store with records, I was like, oh, these are cool. Oh, boss scags.

I got to get this bog, Bob Skag's records good. I'll get that one. And so, bought a couple records, but as, you know, kind of hung over a little bit. And so I got like 20 minutes into walking around and following Amy looking for these doorknobs. And I'm thinking, damn, I don't really want these records. I can probably, you know, I don't really know if I want to buy these records. They're only a five bucks a piece, but I was just thinking, man, I'm carrying these things around. I really want these.

But then I was so far from that other booth that I couldn't, I was like, I ain't going to go over there and put them back, right? Right. Convenient. Yeah, that's right. I'm not going to stick them in this other guy's booth. Because there's so many, because when I got to walking around, I was like, well, damn, there's records everywhere. Right now I'm like thumbing through all of it. I'm getting down this rabbit hole.

I'm going to walk out of here with like an arm full of records. And then it got really good when we get toward the door to leave, and there's these booths with all of the retro toys. Oh. Man, I could have stood there for another hour. I had like a second burst of energy. And I'm standing there looking at all these toys. So like the original

Rockham Sockham You know the football games With the metal The vibrating football games Where the players like shaking around On the little metal I know what you're talking about Of course Andrew's looking at me

I might not know you're talking about No Don't know So these are like 1970s toys right Or even earlier But I remember them I played with them So they had those in the box

And it's like Yeah it's missing this piece are missing that piece. But for the most part, I mean, this stuff is like marked $200, $600. Whoa. Oh, yes. Wow. Yes.

It was like, there was some high prices. And so, but which, I mean, you're looking at and you're like, okay, vibrating football game, both teams, everything's there. All the toys, all the parts, $600. I mean, I don't know. Somebody I'll buy that. But anyways, this, these little booths were full of toys and you're like, I remember that. I remember that. I remember them.

I remember that. They had the WWF wrestling ring with the Hulk Hogan. Yep. And, dude, I had that ring and I had at least 16 wrestlers. I mean, they made them all, right? Junkyard dog. Yeah. I remember my Routy, Roddy Piper, like the color is peeling off his shirt and stuff.

I'm just remember that for whatever reason, right? His shirt, the white. Anyways. So what other toy? They had so many toys. They had these, they had these, they had these, they had these, they had these, two cars that you could run them into each other and the parts would fly off and it had a little tea handle that had gears on it. You'd drive that tea handle down through the cars and you'd pull it out

and the cars would run and you'd set them on the floor. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Run them into each other. Oh, I remember that. Yeah. I had a motorcycle that did that. Yeah, like the Evil Caneval had the same sort of tea handles gear thing. And so all of them are like missing tea handles. So, but anyway, yeah, But it's like... They have GI Joe's? Oh, yeah. Of course they had those. And baseball cards, man, I was like, oh, man, I was, look, okay, where's the, where's the most expensive ones?

What is, what do we have here? And then they had an open boxes of 1987 tops. And you're like, hey, there's gum in there. I'm telling you. All of these unopened boxes and you're like, don't you remember, I'm, I'm not. I mean, you don't remember. You remember, like, getting an open box of, like, 90 Fleer or 87 tops and just, or 83 tops and just like, what's in her? Every pack.

Every pack. And now. And you get that one guy in every pack. Barry Bonds. Right. Now, I would have loved it to have been Barry Bonds. It was like. I got a lot of 87 tops cards.

I got a bunch of those. Is that the wood grain? Yeah. That was, for whatever reason, I, there was a lot of those for sale. when I was collecting and then there was a bunch at this market. And, but I mean, okay, I'm sitting there looking at it. I'm like, okay, if you bought that box, would you open it? Do you leave it unopened?

This is the part that was always the dilemma about being a baseball card collector and why I couldn't ever do it. I would always want to open it, but you're not supposed to. No, the answer, well, the answer, you know, in 1992, when I was in school collecting this stuff would be yeah you're going to open it. Of course.

Find out what's in there. But now all these years later would you just leave that box sealed? The value goes down. If you're trying to resell it, you don't open it. But anyways, that's fun. The gum, the gum.

If you thought it was like chewing cardboard back then, I imagine what it would be like today. Yeah, so I used to collect baseball cards when I was 16, 17, when I was finishing up high school. and so that was probably 91-92 and I was eating the gum out of the 87 boxes

absolutely yeah yeah no it had this weird transition of okay stick of gum turns into powder and then back into gum somehow I don't know yeah but it had this weird moment where it was powder for a little bit

yep very powdery and then back to gum right it didn't care you know it's it's coated with asbestos, don't care. I got to chew it. Bebonds.

That's right. I'll have to go find some and try some, just so I can relate. This next question coming from Nick, he actually, this is a multiple choice. You must choose one job. You start tomorrow. Either elementary school teacher, doctor slash nurse, architect, or accountant. God. Phew.

All right. Not doctor nurse. So what's the other, what's left? Elementary school teacher, architect, or accountant? Accountant sounds terrible. A lot of numbers involved. It's definitely between elementary school teacher and architect. Probably architect.

I mean, I took drafting class, so I'm pretty much an architect. Being an architect did racetracks. I used to draw race cars as a kid, so, yeah, I'm highly qualified as an architect. I'm pretty much on. It pretty much has his debris. I've always wanted to tell people I was an architect. What would it be building? Huh?

What if Mike was an architect? Wrong answers only. What does he build? The plumbing and each building. Like a Fun center. Mike builds a fun center. Mike builds a fun center.

Yeah, you know, kind of like those big trampoline and kid places where the kids are, it's trampolines and swings and all kinds. It's all, what is these places? I don't know. Sounds amazing. There's one in Morseville. Like a trampoline park?

Kind of, but they have more than just trampolines. They have these big pits you can jump into, bold pits, and swings and zip lines. Like, where was this when I was a kid? My kids are, you know, you take, and you go in there, and they give you these special socks to put on with the grippy. And there's like kids everywhere of all ages. There's like even two-year-olds running around.

You're like, whoa, hey, this is a little dangerous. No? No, I mean, yeah. I take my kids to them. Yes, I don't know the answer to where were those when you were a kid. They weren't around. No. You didn't have them either.

No. We went to Rollerscape. That's what we did. I guess. That and Laser Tag. Remember Laser Tag? Yeah. Yeah.

Why did those go away? No, I think they're still around. Yeah. Yeah. You sure? I don't know. I feel like I've been to Laser Tag recently. In the last five years, I went to a one of those, you know, arcades with all that stuff.

They did have a laser tag. Lasertag was fun. Yeah. Good time. We got time for one more. This one comes from Andy. Obviously, yesterday was September 11th. There were a lot of stories that I read on Twitter.

And obviously, the comeback, the first race back being at Dover, you won that. Do you remember the emotions of that race, especially afterwards? Um, well, yeah, I was just, uh, I was just, I was just, I put a picture of us in Victory Lane, and I put a picture of us in Victory Lane on my Instagram story, and I was just looking at that photo going, man, victory lanes were something back then, because I'm standing on the roof of the car, which you'd never do today, right?

And not that we did it a lot back then, but I'm standing up on the roof of the car, just upright as hell, with a volleyball in one hand and a beer in another. and a big giant American flag behind me stuck in the jackpost adjustment of the car. And there's like the little American flags, which everyone had in their hand at the start of that race laying here and there, right, on the car and so forth. The team and everybody around, I mean, it's just a cool photo.

So I'll, to, I, uh, we, everyone, I don't know, none of us knew what to do when all that happened and how to get back, right? And everything, you know, everybody took us, everybody just said full stop. We need this. We need to, we need to think this through. Nothing's really that important right now. And so, um, but eventually, right, you got to, you got to find your way back. to some normalcy. I think everybody at some point after you stop and reflect

and sort of take account of what's going on, everybody does want things to, you know, everybody does have to go back to work, go back to life, go back to being a parent or whatever it is, right? Go back to racing. And so you were a bit apprehensive about how to do that. Going to the racetrack,

it's super quiet in their pits in the garage on Friday. Everybody was just not sure how to respond or be. But I'm telling you, man, when we got to the pre-race before, like, during, as the anthem's about to happen and that anthem does happen, I'll never forget the feeling of patriotism and just all. It was, there's these moments when you're in a place where everyone in there,

there's, there'll be these moments in your life where you go somewhere where there's thousands of people and everyone is on the same page. Everyone is like-minded. Like a lot of times you go to sporting events and there's the home team and the away team and, you know, someone's going to be happy and someone will be disappointed. but there's a certain moments in life where you'll go somewhere where everyone's on the same page. And that was the way that was.

It's just a really great feeling. And so as the, you know, we get the race going, cars great. And when we win the race, I don't know, we all were like, okay, yeah, you know, we're going to, we're, you know, we're going to, this felt right. This felt good, you know, because you didn't know when you got back to racing and got back to doing what it was going to be like. What was going to feel like? What was it going to matter? Were you going to care about it the same?

And so it was, I felt, too, I say this, I felt so lucky to be the one that won in that moment. Because I knew that no matter who won, they were going to honor the country and honor the moment the best they could in their own one. way and we didn't have a plan because we didn't we don't we don't go you know you're you're you're bit superstitious in the way of like I'm not going to I'm not going to have uh you know this plan when I win this race because that you know we just weren't like that um but we win the race and I'm going to I'm going to do it on the best I can on the banking of the front straightaway without sliding down in the inside wall Joey who is uh was working with with our team at the time and is currently my pilot.

He was Brad Kisalowski's pilot several years ago. He's Brad Spotter for several years. He worked with my dad as a pilot and a spotter. He's been around forever. He comes running, he comes jumping across pit road and comes out there and meets me at the car with the flag.

That was just spontaneous. I just kind of, you know, they're talking to me over the radio that it's coming. And so I'm like, okay. And then I'm like, oh, I got to make sure, that this doesn't touch the ground, right? Yeah. So when you're, the one thing I'll say,

we're getting in the weeds a little bit, but when you put a flag in the car, a big flag of any kind, and you start moving, that thing is trying to exit the vehicle, right? Yeah. There's no mound or anything, right, for it, and you can, you know, the flag pole can kind of shift an angle in the, in the doorbars and whatever,

and if you're not careful, it can end up on the ground. And so I knew that that was, something I needed to avoid in that specific moment. So I'm making sure I've got that thing wedged in there good and I'm not going to go too fast. But, you know, we go to Victory Lane. Coincidentally, that was the volleyball castaway. So I told Tony, we were racing at Darlington and I had a really bad, Mike's going to get the volleyball. We were racing at Darlington or somewhere.

And this is it. Dover 2001, this also was in the car at Talladega. Huh? Yeah. Anyways, this is the ball ball. And so, Castaway is a big movie. I thought Castaway was great. I'm so fascinated.

I know we're going along here, but I'm so fascinated by what, you know, castaway stories. Anybody lost at sea. It's fascinating, right? To be found and rescued. So, of course, I liked that movie. I told Tony Jr. at Tarlington or somewhere a race, and I said, I was getting annoyed at Tony

Jr. He wasn't talking to me. I was, like, telling him about the car, and he's not responding. He's riding it down, or talking to the other crew members about adjustments he wants to make, but I wanted him to go, I hear you, and he wouldn't. And I said, damn it, man, just tell me, Tim four. All I need you.

you to do is acknowledge that you heard me. It pisses me off when you don't. I feel like I'm on an island. I'm all by myself out here, like a castaway. And so, I get in the car for that race at Dover, and it's a 500-mile race, I believe. Might be a 400-mile.

I think it was a 400-mile. 400 laps. Yeah. I'm halfway through the race, at least 150 laps in. And I said something over the radio, and Tony Jr. goes, well, don't you ask Wilson? I asked some question or said something.

And he goes, why don't you just ask Wilson? And I was like, what the hell are you talking about? Like that's what the first thought in my mind was like, what is he talking about? That's weird. And I was like, what do you mean? He's like, well, look over. Do you not see it?

And I did not see it. They had this volleyball tie wrapped in the car right next to me. It had been there when I got in. I never saw it. And so this thing was tie wrapped over in the pasture seat. right next to the damn seat. And I could have touched it. But I never saw it.

Got in the car, buckled in, started the race, ran 150 laps, and had no clue it was in there. And I look over and I'm like, damn, what did y'all put that in there for? And he goes, oh, well, you told us you was out on the island. We figured we'd give you some friends. And so, you know, they're making a big damn joke. And so we win the race, and they pull it out of the car

and hand it to me while I was climbed up on the roof. And I think they brought, and they must, you know, they put it in the car. They said, hey, it was such good luck. We'll keep it in the car. And so I think it rode, it's got that on their Talladega 2001 too. Wow. So, dang. Eventually, Wilson was put on the shelf.

But that's the story. Anyways, man, it was a fabulous experience, you know, winning that race and Ben and Victor Lane and everybody, finally we were smiling and happy and yeah I mean it's a great it's a great memory good stuff lots of good stories sit down ass junior all right it's time for flying lap presented to you by birch gold group uh for today's flying lap we've got two how many clips two two clips all right a couple of things that have been going on in the dirty mo media family first clip is Speed Street. All right, let's see what the boys at Speed Street are talking about.

Yeah, and that's kind of interesting, especially in your sport, right, with the Indy cars. It's like you're seen as like the person, like, oh, it's just Connor. But, you know, the pit stop crew, right? They couldn't, the Jack wasn't working or whatever it was happening, right? Like, threw the whole race off. Like, that happens. And if you look at our game that we just played, you know, our offense, we scored 34 points. And if you just look at that, like, oh, you scored 34 points, that's pretty good.

But guess what? the defense let up 36. The preparation starts so much further back than what the final product is shown. But when that final product day is, it's like, okay, this is a test of all of our teams and all the functionality between everybody. Can we put it together for one final show?

And that's what makes our sports so intense is because everyone's trying to do that and it's so competitive. And man, it's a sight to see. All right, so the second clip is coming from Dirty Modeo. We're going to check out their five bets to watch this weekend in Bristol. All right, let's get five bets to watch.

brought to you by Draft Kings. We're going to start with Kyle Bush, eight-time winner at Bristol in Cup, 22 total. The simple question is, Chob, 12-1. Kyle Busch, 12-1. Oh, that's my man. That's his man. There's a bet to watch. Let's also go to some draft kings, some of our five bets to watch.

We're going to go matchups. The real question is, Byron versus Hamlin, the tail of the heavyweights. I'm leaning Byron, Chop. Hamlin. I knew it. You can't go against Chop and Denny Hamlin. that's Byron against Danny Hamlin. Another matchup.

This one's going to sting, and this is why I'm asking the professor directly, Truex against Chris Busher, but you have to take who, Professor? Oh, you save this for this? It's got to be Busher. Got to be busher over Truex, and that's from the president of the fan club.

We also got some group bets. Let's talk about Chop loves Group D. Radic, Blaney, Bubba Gibbs. This is where you're going, Team Penske, Chop. You're on the Blaney train? I'm on Blaney. All right, he's on the Blaney train. I like that.

I like that aloft. And I think the last one we need to talk about for the fifth and final Draft Kings, five bets to watch. We're going to take Allgaier plus 280. He's so fast at Bristol. The man has only won there once in his life. Surely he has a second win coming. There's five bets to watch brought you by Draft Kings.

That is the Flying Lab presented by Birch Gold Group. Text Dale Jr. to 9-8-9-98. and speak to the rep to get your free info kit on gold. By the way, if you invest in gold by October 31st, you can earn a gift card worth up to $500 to the Dirty Mo Media Junior Nation retail store. All right, man, there's a lot of fun, Mike. Great show. Hey, I just found in my internet Twitter feed,

do you call it Twitter or X? I can't get used to calling it X. No, I call it Twitter. Yeah, I'll probably always do that. Yeah, creature of habit, right? Yeah, heartburn turn. Harbor and Turn. Somebody sent me a link to a houseboat in my Twitter feed,

and it is the houseboat that I've been looking at. Oh, really? Yeah, and I text it to you. Oh, did you? Yeah, open it in your iPad so you can see big picture. All right. Tell me what you think about this. It's pretty big.

47-foot. Gibson, 2001. Looks amazing. It does. I'm not going to lie. There's like a little bunk room. underneath the steering. I'm looking.

I'm looking at it. Wouldn't the girls love that? They would. Not just the girls. The employees. No. Dirty Mo Media just found a houseboat, y'all. What if we wanted to go by it?

We'd get in a bidding war with Dell. I'm about damn close to pull the trigger, man. Really? Yes. I can't stand it. I don't know why I can't just let this go. Amy got to say so in this? She's seen it. She don't mind it.

You sure? She don't care. I mean, it's really cheap. It is cheap for a houseboat. So much so that you should take a look at it. Oh, I will take it. Make sure it's not going to just order it like a pizza. It's got a reason. I'm not just going to order it like a go to the fast food and look on the board up there.

Yeah, give me that cheeseburger. That looks good. You've done it before. What am I looking at? That car. You bought that car right there without looking at it. And it's the real deal. You found out later.

Instinct. My spidey instinct. One of the qualities of a blue. It's in my thing, man. Read it. Great instinct. Big old wheel. Kind of like it's a... I want it.

Yeah. I want it. You'd have fun with that. I'm going to have to send sun in the boys after to look at it. Yeah, there's a little bunk room. That's below the steering. Mm-hmm.

I was looking at the bathroom. I should have sent it to everybody so they could all enjoy this too. You're really enjoying this. Right. Yeah, you've lost me for the rest of the show. You know, just going to close it down. I'm looking at next now. I've got to resist the temptation to get into another houseboat.

If that's what you needed out of me, you sent it to the wrong person because I'm going to encourage it. The one I had, I mean, it was like an 06 or something. It's funny is that somebody on Twitter sent this to you. I know. They're like, hey, check this out. I'm like, damn, that's the one I've been looking at. Yeah. I mean, I've been looking at this thing for a couple months,

just, you know, casually just hanging around the house and just open it up and just go, man, even if you look at that boat again. Hey, it's in Chattanooga, my old hometown. Yeah. A little road trip. See, the high school buddies. You go check out the boat for me. I will.

Go check my boat out. I will. Or this boat. This will give me a reason to go check out people. So go to see my boat. Go see my buddies. Hey, everybody. Let's go check out the boat.

this boat. Yeah. Give the boat a good once over. I will. And if it smells, let me know. I'll tell you if it has a cigarette smell or something weird, we don't want it. This boat looks like there's been a cigarette smoked on it. I'm not going to lie.

So the story is it's owned by a handful of people. Like it's owned by like a trio that is sort of, they all own a part of it. And it's very well taken care of from what I can tell. Yeah. But if it smells like a damn ashtray, we don't want that. Well, can't you do something about that? I mean, like, would that be a deal breaker? Yeah.

Okay. I'm moving on. It's baked in. Yep, it's baked in. Good point. But I need you to go see, Mike. Can you? Yes.

Really? Yes. This weekend? No, we're going to be in Bristol. Damn. But maybe we leave Bristol and go. You go. The Chattanooga.

Sunday. Hey, if any of my high school buddies are listening, party Sunday at the houseboat. See you there. Did you say? See the underneath it's clean. Never mind. We need to end this show.

Do we? Everybody, thanks for tuning in. A lot of fun this week. Hope you're enjoying the shows. We're working hard. We're trying to give you some good stuff. And we're going to Bristol. We're going to have some fun behind the wheel.

Hopefully we're smiling when we come back and we'll talk all about it. Y'all have a great week and weekend. We'll see you. Check out Dirty Mo Media on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. I don't know.