The Dale Jr. Download - 499 - Thank You Urgent Care

Episode Date: October 17, 2023

Dale Earnhardt Jr. makes his return to the Bojangles studio after a couple of weeks out of the office. He is joined by his sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller to chat about life and recap the exciting NASCAR weekend in Las Vegas: Gas or bad breath?  Touch Tunes hijacking  Dale’s recent trip to urgent care Kyle Larson is locked into the Final Four 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.

Will you make? I am weird. You are weird. You are weird. Mr. Dalenhart Jr. That family picnic sometimes. Gives you more than just a potato salad. That's the voice of my co-host and one of my best friends in the whole wide world.

Mike Davis. We're screwed. Was that me? No, we're not standing in that box together in our underwear. Are you kidding me, Mike? Oh, my God. It is hilarious. Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr.

Welcome back to another episode of the Dale Jr. Download. It is Tuesday, October 17th. I have been out of office for a couple weeks, but I'm back. And joining me for today's show is my sister Kelly. Hello, Brother Dale. Nice to see you. It's good to see you. Mike Davis is under the weather.

Poor Mike. So it's great that you're going to be feeling in this week, all right? Because we have a special guest coming in tomorrow, Johnny Morris. And he owns Bass Pro Shops, which is a proud sponsor here at Junior Motorsports. And you've been doing such a great job on the business of motorsports episodes. Love the last one with the owner of Milbridge. Thank you. I thought that was so clever to have her on to be able to tell her side of the story.

And so anyhow, it's kind of a nice blend back toward, you know, the traditional guest Dale Jr. downloads with me but also you know using we'll have some of your business of motorsports um um seasoning on this show i'm excited to see what you asked you johnny and pressure yeah well there's no pressure but we're in the bow jangle studio awesome to be back i have missed it and i want to tell you why i've been gone but uh want to think before i do that lionel um i'm looking across the table still no sun dry plate model model stock, but there is the Larson Lay Mallstock. I do see that one.

But I'm excited. The new late model stock tool seems to be received well across social media. And everyone has ordered, pre-ordered their sundrop cars. They're telling me, I've got mine on the way. I see the Bass Pro Shops one here. Anyways, we always talk about that. I can't wait to see that sundrop one. Yeah.

Everything's here but the sun drop one. One of a. Yeah, so I'm excited. I'm excited. Soon enough, I'm going to walk in here and it'll be here. And it'll be here. Yeah. But anyways, thanks Lionel for everything to do for us.

A little bear today. The table's a little bear. A couple of die cast short. I don't know who's responsible. I don't know who's responsible. Try to shorten the low a little bit. I don't know who's responsible. I don't see my diecast.

Is it getting too cluttered? It looked a little cluttered yesterday. Damn it. We're going to have to get some more diecast. Get a 38. That way you can put it on the table when I'm in here. There's not enough diecast. Not enough.

One day every square inch of that table will be covered in die-cast. That's not a problem. So something I wanted to tell you, Kelly, you look around this room, you see all kinds of cool memorabilia, and it's from all kinds of different things. A lot of helmets, though, in here. And you know that I've been collecting, by a great fortune, some uniforms, right? Yes. And most recently, I acquired one of Dad's 1981 season cup uniforms.

Rick Hendrick also has another 1981 cup uniform, so two of possibly the only two in existence. Because back then, how many did they have? They had two, maybe three. And they wore those suckers out. Every week, right? So I believe that Rick Hendrick and me, only two, 1981. Wrangler uniforms in existence. But I don't have the helmet.

One of, I don't have, I won't name names, but there's a fan out there that comes by as Unimurgy Sports from time to time. And he has built a replica magnum helmet from 1981, Dad wore it. So there's some, you remember that one tough customer video? Yeah. where I get drug across the boat ramp on my butt. Yes. Trying to learn how to ski back in 1981.

You're behind the boat, ski in on two, tubeman maybe as well. But we're in that video. I think you're maybe go-karting a little bit in there. I'm not sure. I think so, yeah. We did that goat cart thing. Yeah. So anyhow, in that video, you can see this helmet that dad's wearing as he's racing

around Charltoner Speedway and as they're filming that document. You can see this helmet multiple times. Well, this very incredible fan has made a perfect replica. He sent me some pictures of it. So now I have, I'm going to bring it in here and set it in here. I might have to change out Kell Yarborough and put the helmet up there on the shelf. But anyways. We need more space.

I get so excited about that. I know. That's exciting. It is exciting. I can't, you know, I've collected things for a long time, but here recently my fortunes have been incredible. Yeah. And you've really been getting some good stuff from bad. Yeah.

Yeah. I thought the text from Rick was funny when he sent you those pictures. And I was wondering where you were going to take it if you were going to try to snaggle those from them or not. No. You're just glad he has them. I'm just glad they're where they are. But he, he, so Rick sent me and Kelly a text in that text was a 1981, Dallernhardt uniform, Cup uniform. A 1980, it's 82 or 83 white, Budmore, Dailer and Hart uniform.

and when he drove the Ford for Rudmore and they were 15. And then there was another uniform that was Dad's Suzuki-A-C-Delco uniform from when he went to Japan. That's right. So pretty cool to see those type of uniforms and stuff popping up from time to time. So usually this is pretty easy to do when we do this show, we kind of break into the show with a little bit of a human element, right? And it's just kind of a shoot-de-a conversation. And with Mike, it's easy. We talk about farts and things like that, right?

I know. I saw that, but I have some comments. Let's talk about farts in bad breath, yeah, please. I am married, so I know a little bit about farts. All right, so here we go. The, the, I was having a conversation with Amy the other day. For everybody out there, play along. Amy and I, so we're walking around or doing something, and I farted, and she goes, you know, she gets mad.

she just can't stand it and I'm like you know it's unhealthy to hold farts right you got to let them go I feel like if you if you hold a fart and it goes back up in there it's bad for your system your system's like way this is not how this works

yeah it's not the way the system works let the fart out and so you know she's Amy's other comment and I wish she was here to to help but she will also say

well go to the back bathroom. Like when I would, if you fart, right, she just, her, her direction for you is go to the bathroom. And I'm like, well, I don't need to use the bathroom. I just had to fart.

I don't, I don't need to, I don't need to have a full bowel movement. And you can do that anywhere. Yeah. That's not what's coming. All right. That was just some gas for eating too many grapes. And she just assumes that the next thing that is a poop, right?

And I'm like, I don't know what, I don't know what that's all about, but I guess her experiences is like if she begins to get gas, that that means that it's time to go to the bathroom. But, and we should, again, I don't want to assume she'd have her on the show so she can share, but this started a debate with me and her.

And I'm like, you know, it's better. I was like, you know, I walk around and fart from time to time randomly. and yes you may, you know, Amy, you may have to smell it. But it's better than me having bad breath all the time. And she said, no, I think I'd rather have bad breath all the time. Really? Right.

Yeah, I'm surprised about that. So I said, hey, man, we were sitting there and I said, Amy, I'm putting this in my notes for my show. I'm going to have a debate about this, okay? And she's like, yeah. She thinks that other people, too, would choose bad breath over farty. constantly. And maybe not farting more than normal, right?

Just just normal amounts. Let's define normal. Yeah, the normal amounts of farting is probably, let's say, I don't know, let's say four to six times a day. Is that a regular farting routine for you guys? I would say so, yeah, depending if it's Taco Night or not, maybe a little more. So, all right, so six farts, six smelly farts. A day.

Or bad breath. Right? I mean, who would want bad breath? I would deal with your farts, right, rather than your bad breath all the time. Well, the thing is, is you can get up and move away from farts, but it's kind of offensive to move away from people with bad breath, don't you think? And it's... And I just can't stand it.

Bad breath is so much worse than farts. Yeah, yeah. And bad breath is like a hygiene thing versus like everybody farts, you know? I wonder about that is bad breath a hygiene thing. Sometimes I think that there's some... There is chronic bad. There's some genetic, yeah. You're right.

Halitosis. Isn't that what they call it? We can't do that. We don't know that. Look that up. Halitosis, yeah. Chronic halitosis. If you have a cavity, I think it's...

I think I've seen a commercial for that. Tim, so you weren't prepared for this? I was prepared. I actually, there's some farts actually you get used to the smell and it kind of like you get used to it. Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. Kind of smells. Did you say good?

Yeah, it's kind of like a guilty pleasure kind of thing. Like when you smell, you're like, oh man, I know when I want to eat this. This is going to be in the good. It's sort of food smells. Exactly. I mean, yeah. I honestly do not. And I'm so unbothered by the smell of my farts.

But Amy, on the other hand is the other end of that. She's like, I can't believe you farted at all. And it's, I could be, I could be sitting on the other side of the room. I can't believe you farted in my face. Like, wait, I'm not in your face. I didn't walk up and just, you know. Didn't look up the wind direction to go down. she's gonna be so mad um that's funny we were this has this is this is farts or burps in my case but

sunday night we were having dinner my daughter carson and her boyfriend rover and you know how carbonation makes she burp right so like we're drinking we're having a carbonated gingerill and carson is burping and l dub is across the table furious with her because she's burping and she's he's he's like you're going to run your boyfriend all because it's like, you know, Logan and he's, he's a new boyfriend a few months in. And so it wasn't like within a minute, I took a sip of my ginger ale and like this big burp came out. He was furious at the two of us. And I don't, I don't agree with farting at the dinner table, but Wyatt thought it was so funny that we were burping and that L. Dubbo was getting mad that then he farted at the dinner table.

Oh, my God. Yes. What a moment. chaos what was the rest of the restaurant doing well we weren't it we were at home but oh that's different damn I had you at a TGI Friday so can you fart at the table at home

I had y'all in an apple bees and everybody no no no no no everybody's what is going on with the millers we were at the camera corner booth give them 10 minutes there oh man

I um Yeah. Yeah. I'd much rather. I will say, hey, I will say, though, man, I'm with LW. No farting at the table or no burping. No. Carson should not be burping in front of her boyfriend of two months.

Well, it was kind of under her breath. Like, it's hard. It's a carbonated drink. I hear Carson. Mine was loud. See, that's how I thought Carson's was. Because I could see Carson just going, no.

What do you think about the mom burping in front of the boyfriend that's a new boyfriend? Totally cool Totally cool Totally cool I'd be like all right You tell your friends I like this family I would be like I like this family

It's a good family You feel like comfortable Yeah yeah Like everybody's comfortable Mom's burping Dad's offering me beer This is a great family Yeah

Yeah Yeah All right So this is This is also moved on to We were having this conversation At the live Dale Jr.

And Friends show in Vegas And this moved to another conversation around farts. Someone, I think it might have been Brett, was amazed that you could catch a fart in your hand. And I was so amazed that Brett, one of the most defensive people on our talent line,

did not already know this, right? I had no clue. This is such a Brett thing, right, catching farts in your hand. I couldn't believe that he didn't even know anything about it. But he was amazed that you could catch a fart. So you can. I did not know that you could do that. It has, what's the name?

You said the name. I was trying to, I was literally, I spent the rest of the weekend trying to remember what the name of this thing was. I don't know if it's official or not. You won't check it? Yeah, I'll double check it. On Google.

But, uh, anyways, we, so back in the day, when I was a little younger and, and, and, and, much more an idiot.

Me and my friends were, it's called a cup of cheese. Ah! All right, it's called a cup of cheese. So at least my friends called it a cup of cheese. So you catch a fart in your hand, you walk up to somebody, and you just open your hand right there in front of their face,

and I'm going to tell you it's very effective. And Brett was walking, Brett walked in, was like, Can y'all believe this is even possible? And I was like, Brett, this has been happening for decades. Like, my, my, I was, when I was, you know, just a kid, like this is known. Did you know it? No, I did not know.

Okay. Google backs you up. That's what it is. Really? I had no clue. Is there any more information that would make me feel better about myself? Cup of cheese is also a measuring cup to estimate how many ounces of actual cheese you have. I knew that.

I knew that. So yeah. You can catch a fart in your hand and it'll stay in there until you open your hand up. Now, I mean, obviously, you know, it is time sensitive. Yeah, it will escape.

Okay, I got there quick. Farts can be elusive. You ever done one into a zip-lock bag and then seal it up? Oh, my goodness. Yeah, don't you. You all did that? Have you ever done that?

Oh, my God. Yeah. That was vile. You don't want to get that one on your face. Don't get that one. Someone was sleeping? And I'm sure, okay, everybody that's listening is also going, everybody is listening is screaming at their radio or whatever, their phone, however they're enjoying this show,

or maybe not enjoying this show. Dutch oven. Yep. Right. And so, you know what a Dutch oven is, Kelly? Yeah, I cook with one. No. It's when you're in bed with your, when you're in bed with your.

with your better half, right? And you fart and you pull the sheet over. I do that. I've done that. You've done that. I've done that. L-Dub hates it. You did it. Wow. Oh my God, Kelly. I can't believe this. That's cool. I did it too. One of the times that I have to toot like that is in bed.

That's when it happens. Yeah, yeah. When I lay down, maybe something with your body. Oh, hey, well, this is the one thing I've learned. If you do have gas, lay down on your left side. Oh. Yeah. Comes right out. Wow. If you've got like, if you're having some pains and you're like, I don't know what's going on,

lay down on your left side and for whatever reason the way your pipes are routed, it is effective to allowing the gas to escape. That's generally when it happens for me. So I did that one time and I will never do it again. Amy was furious. I thought that she would get a little angry or a little annoyed, but. So I don't really, I don't really pull the covers up every time, but what happens is I leave the covers like very tightly around me.

And then when he goes to get in his side of the bed. Oh my gosh. So knowing how now that we all know, right, now that we all know how frustrated Amy is with me farting around her, every time I get in bed and I, and I toot, I'm like, oh, son of a gun. We're stealing this up, buddy. I know you try to keep it. Turning it out, don't move.

Turning every fan on. Don't move. Don't move. Because, I mean, and it's usually, like, so I'm sitting there still as a, I can be sealed up. Yeah. Don't let the fart out. Don't let her know. And then she'll move and she'll go, my God. And I'm like, well, you're the one that moved.

You disturbed it. Pop the vacuum seal. It's panic mode for a moment. You're like, don't anybody move. Yeah. A friend of mine, Tim Dugger. likes to drink beer. He's a country singer.

And this past week, he got a pretty bad hangover in Vegas. I can't imagine. Well, he said he drank eight espresso martinis. Eight. And so Tim Dugger gets tired. He drinks beer. He gets a little beard out, right?

I just can't see him drinking an espresso martini. Well, I think having talked to him that he doesn't know that you can get the experience. espresso by itself. He thinks that the only way to enjoy espresso. He needs alcohol with it. He's in an espresso martini. And he's like, I'm like, dude, you know, I drink coffee from 9-n-knit.

I don't drink coffee. I'm like, well, that's what espresso is. Now I'm probably going to get some backlash because the hardcore espresso fans are going to be like, it's not coffee. Yeah, they are. Yep. But I just wanted a short message to Tim Dugger and anyone else out there who's confused. You don't have to drink espresso martinos to enjoy espresso. Another thing about Tim Dugger, we've talked about it on this show before.

Did you know me and Amy were enjoying my birthday the other day? We were in a bar and Tim played. I was at this bar specifically to play touch tunes. You love some touch tunes. Well, I mean, it's a very narcissistic kind of activity. to go to a bar and control the music for the entire bar. But I do enjoy it. You do enjoy it.

Huh? Yeah, I do. And so, I don't know if I, you know, I'm the kind of person and it's like, I want to control the car radio. I want to control the music. I want a DJ, right? Yeah. It's your music or no music.

Yeah, I'm getting better. Not quite the way it used to be. But anyways, man, you know, I go. into the bar and I sit down and the bar is playing 80s music pop rock whatever right and I'm like I can dig with this I have a lot of songs that I like that are right in this wheelhouse and I'm just going to keep it going right I'm gonna flip the whole vibe so I start playing some 80s pop and the bartender's like do you play this this is good yeah yeah you know and we're playing this we play 20 25 songs right

and Tim learns that we're at this bar. He's somewhere else in the country. And he gets on his touch tune app, and he plays fine young cannibals. She drives me crazy. Thinking that he was going to flip the vibe. He thought I was probably in there playing some pop punk or some country. Yeah, I was going to say that flows right along with what was going on.

And he was like, oh, I'm going to ruin their day. Because you can do that. Yeah. You can play a song in any bar. I can open up my app right now and play a song at any bar I want in the country. Pretty crazy. Pretty wild. It shouldn't do that.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean? But, uh, see, I've done this to Tim. He would be at Batters. Yeah, he'll be at Batters box in Nashville at 11 o'clock, pounding beers, listening to both Seifis or whatever they're listening to. Just going Nashville hard and I'll play them some Celine Dion. That's what I was wondering what you throw in there. A little Barry Manilow.

And you can't change it. Yeah. There's nothing they do, but sit there and let it play. Yeah. Yeah. The only experience I've had with that is when they try to play things and get in front of you and get in the line and all that. And that ticks me right off. Like, I want to play my music.

I know. Somebody else goes up there and tries to. What would you, how would you describe that person with one word? Yeah. Okay. Well, that's me. That's who I am. You're the one that keeps controlling the music.

You know what? I'm spending that extra credit even when no one's in line. I know. That makes me back because I'm like, I went up there and spent my credits, damn it. I'm like, you know what? I'll spend that extra credit. Yeah. Just in case somebody walks in here and tries to jump my ass.

I just like the jupe box, you know, where it plays in order. I know. I got to calm down. I don't get that many opportunities anymore. No, to go do it. To go set in a bar. I mean, that was, I can't tell you the last time I went to a bar to play touch tunes. I would say that's true because I used to remember a lot of touch tunes like

on my credit card. I don't see it as a lot. It's more Amazon these days. Yeah. All right. Hey, so I was out. I want one last thing. One last human element story. I went out of town. I can't remember. The first week that I missed the show, I went out of town. And then the second week was my birthday. Yeah. Hunting. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Went hunting. I went deer hunting. I went deer hunting, had a great deer hunt with True X. L.W. My buddy Sean, we had a blast. And that was the first week, and you stayed here and you worked, and you put out a show. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome.

On just a moment's notice. The second week was your Millbridge show. Yes. And I went to Key West with my family because I have been dying to take Ila to the Butterfly Museum. and sat we were at the roval race weekend is happening i'm over at the broadcast booth on saturday working the race and i got sick i started getting a fever on the drive home and my boss said you can't have a fever within 24 hours and you're not working tomorrow so i didn't work the cup race still working that out um so i my wife had this plan for the

this trip. I've been wanting to take Isla to the Butterfly Museum forever. So I went before we had kids and I'm like, oh, you know, we, we're in Key West. When I'm in Key West, I'm going to wake up in the morning and I'm literally going to drink a beer as soon as it's like, no matter what time it is. As soon as it's reasonable, right? And, you know, 10 o'clock, maybe earlier. So we, we get up one morning. this is six, seven years ago. Amy's like, I'm scheduled, we're going to the butterfly museum this morning. We're going to go eat some breakfast and butterfly museum.

I'm like, what, knee hell. So I'm like, all right, we're doing it. I'm thinking we're going to go in there and see all these butterflies pinned up on the wall and all these learn about all these different species and just boring it. Just too educational. Right, big old educational mess.

And so. Field trip. It was that for about five minutes. And then, you walk through these double doors into a greenhouse and it's in Key West imagine it's 95 degrees hot on hill outside you walk into this double door greenhouse and it's like cool perfect 68 degrees air conditioner blowing from all angles and a butterfly landed on my hat bill big big giant blue butterfly and then another one on my shoulder and another one on my hand and then I look around

they're flying everywhere and I ain't got kids at this point my life And I was like, this is some, this is some magical stuff here. This is magical. It is pretty cool. It's fantasy land. Yeah. And not only that, it's very rainforesty, you know, curvy through. Like, it's really cool.

Yeah, there's a little path you take, trees everywhere. There's two pink, real giant flamingos in there. There's a bridge. Yeah. It's insane. There's all kinds of animals crawling all over the place. Birds flying everywhere. Birds, yep.

And there's a million butterflies. A million butterflies. And so I was amazed. And I was like, all right, damn glad I did this. And then we had kids. And ever since we had Ila, I'm like, I can't wait to take her there. She's going to flip. They love butterflies, right?

They love everything about that. And so finally, here's the trip, but I'm sick, you know, not feeling good, but we're going to go. We're doing the trip. And it's my birthday. So we got this house that we rented, and everything was great. and I'm not feeling too bad as far as my my illness, but I got this fever that won't go away.

I keep getting a fever every night. Kind of would get a fever during the day and then at night. That was worrying me because I usually would get, when I get a fever, I get it, I break it, it's over. And it goes away. But this was a fever that kept breaking, kept coming back, kept breaking, coming back. And then finally, and me and her tried to go out on my birth,

we had a plan on my birthday to go out. I had this place I wanted to eat lunch at, and then I wanted to go to these two or three specific bars and play touch tunes. Yeah. And so we went and had lunch. We were sitting at lunch on Tuesday, and I was like, Amy, I'm just going to tell you,

if I'm not at myself, I am sore all over. I've got a fever. I don't feel great, but I don't want to go home. I want to see if I can break this fever and also have a good day. But just telling you, I'm not in myself. And so we ended up going to the bar, drank a couple beers, play some touch tunes, and then later that afternoon I was like, I can't do it anymore. Let's go back to the house.

So we go back to the house and laid in bed all the next day, feeling crummy. I'd get up every once in a while, and the girls were just outside in the pool having fun. I can hear them out there playing, giggling and carrying them. And anyways, I told Amy, I said, said I'm going to the doctor when I get back as soon as I can. And so Thursday morning, we flew home and I went right to urgent. Well, actually, I tried to call my family doctor. We have a family practice.

What every one call it. Which is a new family doctor, by the way. Our guy retired, and there's a new one in there. And we were referred to him by our doctor, and he's a great doctor, this guy. Good guy. But I've lost the personal sort of, like, experience when you call and you're like, hey, I'm sick. When can I come in? There was not an opportunity for me to come in that day. And I'm like, but man, you know, I feel bad. I, all my,

look, I don't know. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong here. Fine. But all of my life, if you had a family doctor and you were sick, you called or you either. You just go and hop on in the damn waiting room and just put your name down and they just call you when they can, right? They just see you when they see you. They weren't able to get me in there. Part of the issue is this, I just thought about it. You used to have the people that worked in the office that knew you, right? Now they're call centers. So now because they're underneath the noggots or the atriums of the world in our area, it's a call center. So, you know, she don't even know who you are. No. Yeah. And so. Yeah. She don't know how close you are to your doctor. Right. And so I couldn't get into

my doctor. I couldn't go see him. And I'm telling you, dude, my ass is dragging. I'm feverish. I'm feeling crappy. And so they, they said, hey, we can get you on a teleconference. And I'm like, I don't even know what that. Like, what? How do you tell the doctor how you feel in the teleconference? I mean, you know, at that point, I was willing to try anything. So I said, yes, teleconference. We're doing it. So that was on the schedule for a couple hours later. And how does the doctor have? And how does the doctor have time to teleconference you but not see you in person. Right. Yeah. I'm not sure how that was going to go down. I'm not sure what that experience would have been like. All the while, in the last two years, they built an urgent care in Moorsville. It's a giant building. And I'd never

been to it. Amy has been there, taking the girls there a time or two. But Amy's like, we're going to go to urgent care. Let's just do that. And I'm like, are you sure? You know, urgent care just, I've never really been to an urgent care too many times and I just thought, man, are you sure? Dude, we go to urgent care and it's a massive building, brand new, spotless. They had all these, they had these receptionists there. What can I do for you? What's your problem? Here's your paperwork.

Fill it out. We'll holler at you. Go over there, sit down, feel like my stuff, hand it back in. Dale, come on back here. All right, I get up. Here, the lady takes me back into the back. there's all these, you know, nurses and doctors, you know, walking around and hustling and bustling room to room and they put me in a room and they're so personable and what's your problem?

Two or three people came in there to run some tests and that another, and then the doctor comes in. They x-rayed me on site, and then I get a call. Actually, the doctor comes in after the x-ray, and she goes, hey, man, you got pneumonia. in your right lung. And I was like, really? I've never had pneumonia. And then she's like, yeah, you got pneumonia. We got, we're going to do this, we're going to do this, put you on this, put you on this.

So there's like four meds. I got a shot in the ass, which is always, I'm always okay with that because, and I'll tell you why the shot in the ass doesn't bother me too bad. Anyway, she tells me I got pneumonia, right? And she leaves, she's coming, she leaves the room. my phone rings and it's my doctor's office and they're like hey we're here to connect you to the teleconference and I'm like hey guys you know what I really don't need to do that did you tell them you're in urgent care I was like I am in urgent care I'm in the middle of I'm in a room getting getting taken care of and I'm about healed I was like they have told me that

I have pneumonia so you know what we're just I'm just going to let this play out and and I appreciate it but I'm not going to do that teleconference and she's like okay and so um yeah i got diagnosed with pneumonia on thursday morning started the meds right away um by the next morning i was a whole lot better and every day since have gotten you know just just just leaps better and i i don't fill out i don't fill out surveys right you see in my ass a survey yeah whatever go to the ars archives. Even for all the free stuff they give you these guys.

Get on in the junk folder there, buddy. But this of a gun, the urgent care sent me a damn survey boy. I poured it on. I even went into the extra space where you could type in your own personal experience. I was like, you know what? I got a little time.

I got a little time to tell you about my experience. I gave them a raving review. Excellent. That's good. All across the board. So thank you to the Mooresville urgent care for helping me get over this. Who knows what would have happened. I might have missed another damn week of work.

Yeah. But the reason why the shot in the ass, so the reason why the shot in the ass, so they offered it. I was like, yeah, I didn't even know they still did that. You know our dad, right? Yeah. When dad would get a runny nose, a little sore throat, tinge of anything, right? Any kind of drives his ass right to the family doctor, says,

I want a shot right now. They're like, what's the matter? And he's like, I'm getting a cold. Give me the usual. I'm about to get a cold. I cannot be sick. And he would, it was a penicillin shot, right? Man, the old style.

And he would just do that instead. And they're like, you know what? We can give you this prescription, this 30 day. Uh-uh. Give me the shot. Quick. Get all in there right now. Wow.

And so, you know, everything that I, everything that dad did, it's a everything you know if you're you know if you really look up to your parents whatever they do you're like

that's what I'm doing that's how I'm doing it and so I always did that that's what you're doing like you know 15 years ago drive in there hey give me a shot in the ass I'm feeling bad

I remember one time we visited mom it hurts yeah well it sometimes hurts it hurts been it sore that spot sore for a couple days but dude it's so much better than sitting there and popping a pill twice a day for 15 days or whatever. Oh yeah. Yeah. And so when they said,

hey, man, we're going to give you a shot. And I'm like, we're going to be better in a day. I promise you because that damn shot in the ass is exactly. And you needed to be better quick. Yeah. You had a lot going on. I was like, man, Amy, I know this is the place. When they offered me that, I was like, we are in the right place. Amy. And they do everything. I mean, urgent cares do everything these days. That's what I asked him. I was like, did they x-ray you right on the spot? Because it's great when you find an urgent care that can do everything. I got to tell you, man, all the nurses, so kind. And the doctor, she was on top of it and gave me everything I needed. And boy, I was sitting in that room, getting ready to check

out getting the alerts from my pharmacy that my stuff was ready. Dang. How about that? That's fast. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways, thank you to urgent care. We are, yeah, we're better. New urgent care fan. Dude, I've been coughing for a month. Yeah.

I've been coughing this green stuff for two weeks. I didn't know what was going on. I kept, and I got a, had a fever for five days. Straight. Yeah. That's tough. Took you a while to get to the doctor. You have those people.

I'm a little hard-headed. Well, I was going to say, you have those people. You have some that run to the doctor, like you said, at the first sniffle. I was going to try to party it out in Key West. That did not work. Anyways. I mentioned our live show in Vegas. I thought that went really well, guys.

I mean, we haven't really had a chance to really sit down and pat our ass on the back. But, I mean, I think everybody here deserves a big round of a pause. Yeah, let's do it. We went toe to toe with Barry Manilow. Yeah. He was actually playing at the same venue at the same time. I'm a huge fan. And you know what?

I was hesitant to say that because I didn't thought y'all were going to. to try to bring him over there. And I was so nervous that I didn't want to, I was too scared to meet him. Really? Yeah. Oh my goodness. Do you remember when I became a Barry Manilow fan, Kelly? Not really.

Probably in a Monty Carlo going from Virginia back and forth. Exactly. You remember that drive. I do. I mean, we took it enough. That drive. No, there was one specific drive where Kelly's like, play whatever you want. And I had the whole CD case in front of me.

I think I had two or three in my, in the, in the floorboard. Oh, this is when we were. older driving. You were, I was just 16. Okay, but I was driving us there. You were driving us there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We, Kelly had Barry Manilow's greatest hits. I did. And I, yeah. And so we listened to it

front to back on this ride. And I'm like, damn, man, I do dig this. And so from that moment on, Barry Mantelot, big fan.

Yeah. So that was kind of cool that he was playing at the same spot. We shared the stage. I mean, we had door bumper clear there, Steve LaTart, Andrew, did a great job running the show. From what I've seen on fan reaction, it's been, they had a great time.

And so that was probably my main concern. Did they feel like it was worth their time? Right. I know everybody came there and smirked, laughed, had a giggle, but was it really worth that effort to come, you know, to spend that night there? There's so many things to do in Vegas. people that are there to buy tickets to come to see the race. There is so many opportunities and things that they could be doing all across town.

And they chose to spend that few hours with us. I mean, Barry Manilow was next door, my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, apparently Westgate's where Elvis played. Yeah, really. He had a residence there for several years. Yeah. Yeah.

And so, yeah, like he played a bunch of shows in that result. How was the sharing the stage with all those personalities? It actually flowed really good. One of the things that I've learned in the broadcast booth is, man, you really got to be patient and allow other people to talk. You always have something to say, but you can't be the only one talking all the time. And also, when somebody's telling a story or you're saying something and I go, oh, you know, I got to add, I got to add. I got a thought, you know, you got to be patient. Let that person finish.

Let them go where they're going to go. If you could still add ad, if your ad is now, you know, if the ship's sailed, yeah, let it go. And it's hard. Yeah, right, because you want to dominate or you want to control. Well, you want to tell your story. You want to tell your story. Right, yeah. Yeah.

So, um, yeah. Okay, so connect the dots to this. We got a package for, for, uh, Freddie in the mail. It was a gallon of fireball. Oh, my God. I was carrying it through the office yesterday. Why did we get a gallon of fireball? Because I mean, the door bumper clear boys ought to be sponsored by them.

Jesus Christ. Like a freaking walking billboards. Kelly, I was-exclusive. I was carrying this in the office yesterday. Just a brown paper bag. I had to explain it. We passed in the hallway. Yeah.

They took a shot on stage, so that made everybody on stage myself included feel peer-pressured into joining them. I don't know when we'll do another one of those, but that was fun. I think we learned a lot. I think we can get better. But I really love the format. I love the idea. I wouldn't change, you know, sort of the angle of the show and exactly what we're trying

to deliver. So good first experience. It was. Good. Now that we've got a lap under our belt, we all can come, we all kind of can come with some more stories that we think it would fit, right? Everybody's going to have a different opinion. I think that, you know, certainly something we ought to continue to try to do.

Let's go over the racing in Las Vegas past weekend. Riley Herps finally won his first Xfinity Series race after 139 starts, and I tell you right now, I mean, that was an emotional thing. I don't know how everybody else, I don't know how it felt to anyone else watching at home or, you know, whether you were there or not, but standing up in the time, that booth and being so close to you know him down on the front straightaway going on and on about how this was such a big deal to him well it really hit me pretty cool he's a great dude yeah he's a great dude you know he he he's a great dude you when you hear you know when you see

what he's when you when you look at what he's done on the racetrack or the lack of what he's done and you you you kind of get snippets of his background where he's from, where he grew up, there's some preconceived notions, right? There's some assumptions that are not all great about what kind of, you know, if you were to go, walk up to him. Stereotypes, yeah. Yeah. What would he say? How would he act?

I'm telling you, I've been more than impressed every time I've ever had a chance to even engage with him at the racetrack and talk to him. He is the nicest kid. And I think everybody that is in the industry and has had a chance to ever speak to him. couldn't have been happier for him to finally break through. Well, incredible. It is home track. I mean, you know he had, I mean, all the important people that he wanted to be there were there to share that with him, right? A great point.

Gosh. Yeah. I guess if he wanted to script it, he would have scripted exactly that way. Incredible. Well, great for Riley. And right on the heels of announcing that he's coming back in that car, you know, they had a little frustration through the playoffs. He feels like they were good enough to make it, but the car and a couple other things, you know, failed him. and they get a chance to do it all over again the next year.

And I think coming off of a win makes everybody feel like, all right, yeah, we're making the right decision. Yeah, it's definitely nothing better than that. Kyle Larson beats Christopher Bell in the cup race Larson advanced to the championship four. I did not have Larson in my championship four. Yeah, I'm getting a lot of that. So here's the deal. We got, you know, this is so convenient for the rest of,

rest for everybody else. You get to just kind of decide who your championship for is on a whim. And I can ask you a minute later and you can just give me a whole different set of answers. But me, you know what? I don't think you're allowed to change. I picked my championship four many, many months ago. And so, you know, I'm going to stick to my decision. I'm not going to, you know, look at the result.

and go, well, I better change it because now I've got a different opinion. Now, I don't, you know, if you've got a different opinion, that's fine. But don't give me a load of shit that I didn't pick Larson. Because I set my four way back, right? I'm not looking, I'm not looking off the most recent results.

But to a fans' point that reached out on social media, how could you not pick Larson with Vegas and Homestead in this round. And that's a true statement. I think I did not take into consideration

how good he is at those racetracks. And so, yeah, it's a little bit of an oversight there. But damn it, you know, there's eight drivers and they're all damn good. And so I don't know that Larson is a unanimous decision

for the final four on every ballot. But I picked my four many months ago and I believe you should be allowed to adjust and change. If you're wrong, your ass is wrong. And Blaney, he is the guy that I've chosen to win the championship. Oh. Do I think that he is running like a champion right now? Not really, but I'm not changing my vote, right? I picked him way back in freaking January. So I picked, that's my, that's the bed. I'm laying in it. And so he gets dequal, he gets, he gets, he gets,

disqualified for the left front shock. Apparently NASCAR had an issue with their template, and they rescinded the penalty, and we're back. We're back, baby. Blaney is back. I still got a shot at this. Save a little face, right?

Save a little face. You could have to tell them Larson people. I got the egg on my face from the Larson debacle, but we're still in it with Blaney. So who's your other two? Oh, who's your other three? Blaney? You got Hamlin and Truex.

And Byron's the other. Byron and Blaney. All right. Yeah. You know, I, it's hard for, when somebody's like, hey man, pick the best four, it's so, it's like, okay, do you want me to just really pick the best four? Do you want me to give you a little twist on that? I mean, some of these guys on the NBC team are Colin Bush or through to the finals. And which is, you know, he's a bit of an underdog to make it.

He can't. He can make it. Any of them going to make it. But I just, it would have been easy to say Larson, right? Of course. Larsen's amazing. Of course he's a great shot at making the final four. But I thought maybe he might not.

He wasn't running that great before the playoffs started. No, he wasn't. No, Hendrick as a whole was kind of stumbling. But, you know, they get back to the mile and a half. they're back at it. Jamming. Kyle Buschold is truck team, Aspire Motorsports.

You know, I guess my, just not so much comment on that, but what do you think is your curiosity of what's next me? How much of KBM will continue on underneath the umbrella, right? Aspire. Will they somewhat break it down

into taking all the best? parts and putting in a smaller piece? Or will there be multiple trucks out there for Spire? Yeah, when you look at it in two years, what does it look? That's a good point. That's right. I like it. I know that the building itself will be a big benefit for them, but of the truck operation,

the actual trucks and the two, how many does Kyle have, two? Three trucks, two full time and then the 51, yeah. So like how much of that is going to continue on years down the road? Carson Hosevar is going to drive the 77 for Spire Motorsports in the Cup Series, He's skipping right over the Xfinity series. Man, I wish he would have came here. Yeah, he's a fun kid. He's a wheel man.

Yeah, he is a fun. He's going to be fun to watch. And he's driving that 42 car and doing a decent job, seeing some glimpses of what can be. It was just announced this past, in the past 24 hours, I guess, John Hunter Nemechek's going to drive that car at homestead. I think that's smart.

You know, John Hunter and Memeichick's going to get in this car. He's racing it next year. Yes, it's a Chevrolet. It will be a Toyota, all those things, sort of being able to happen are good. And then Carson, I guess, is going to finish out the year in the final race, or the final two races at Martinsville and Phoenix. I Racing and NASCAR are going to develop a console video game for 2025.

Basically what happened was is I Racing has acquired the rights to create NASCAR content outside of the PC market. So there's an agreement with NASCAR and I Racing for the irasing surface that or a service that we currently understand on the PC format. And, but I-Racing is now tain the rights to be able to build content on Xbox PlayStation and all other areas. So that's great for NASCAR. I think, obviously it's amazing for ira-racing.

And I think I-racing will do a great job, Kelly. They just recently built a World of Outlaws game, right? Yeah, which has been highly successful for them. Right. You race in that world with Wyatt, so you would understand how that game was received by that community. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, it's been received great, and they've added tracks and got some new updates out.

I'm curious, though, from the perspective of, you know, the eye racing part of it. And it, I mean, it is so technical and whatnot, how that will translate to the console game, right? With what people have played in the console games prior to then this and what that would look like. I've been in a few conversations with eye racing it about their. vision and it's very it's it's it's absolutely what you would expect uh in terms of there's some there's some realism but also the the console side of it is has to has to appeal to a wide audience right a very general wide audience so i think that they're going to nail the target they most everything they do well everything they do they've done well they do a good job yeah

That's sick. The 2024 schedule was released. Notable changes. The clashes back at the Coliseum. Thumbs up, thumbs down. I prefer to move on. I can take it or leave it, yeah. I don't dig it.

It was good for a couple years, but I'm ready for something else. Cool. Atlanta replaces Fontana's race number two. I'm good with that. Yeah, the first thing I thought of there is Willett Snow. Yeah. Because that's what used to happen. I know.

I mean, it's not. Atlanta being the number two race on the schedule has some history. quite a few times in our lifetime. Bristol back-to-back concrete races, but no. So the dirt's gone, but no, this was the one thing that pissed me off. So I was going to run the first Bristol Xfinity race if it was on the schedule. And it's not. They don't run, Xfinity don't run there twice.

It's truck and a cup. Yeah, Xfinity doesn't run there twice. I'm disappointed in that. I wanted to go there and race in the spring in the Xfinity. Finity car. We just had such a great run there at the night race. Well, I'm sure if you had a told them that, they'd have probably done some different things. I don't know what the hell. Xfinity used to go there twice a year.

I thought it was a given that that was going to happen. Are we somewhere instead? Are we off? I can't recall. Yeah, got it. But I am glad Bristol's not doing dirt anymore. Well, that's what I was going to say. I think, and that looks like an overwhelming response that I saw. That means we're getting closer to paving it with asphalt. No dirt. Probably not.

The All-Star race is back at North Wiltsboro. It will be repaved. I think that the repave is great. I'm glad they tried the old asphalt. I don't think that old asphalt is why we had such a sort of lackluster race in terms of

action and racing. And I don't know that the repave is entirely the answer. NASCAR has a serious problem with the next-gen car at the short tracks, any short tracks. That to me is I'm putting something

on NASCAR here, man. I'm really trusting them and hoping that they're going to fix this. They got to. And it's not so much, like, look, man, it took forever for Wilkesboro to come back. It was a, there's a lot of people that thought it would never happen. And now it's here, and the product is so bad. Now it's got to be good, right?

We've got to fix the product. How long can North Wilsonboro hang on? Iowa is on the cup schedule for the very first time. This has got to be thrilling for a lot of people. Now, so many people love racing Iowa. They do. Yeah. And there's a lot of fans that have been begging for Iowa.

I want to get on this opportunity. So I think that's cool. I can't wait to see the racing there. Brickyard 400 is back at the Oval. Everybody's about that. There's a two-week Olympic break. Not sure. I'm thrilled about that.

I don't like a break in our schedule. Two weeks is a long time. I don't like a break in our schedule determined by other sport. Yeah, true. Look, nothing against the Olympics. But we would always adjust our schedule based on, well, if the NFL's doing this

and this is happening. There's a prime time game. here and we go so we're always like moving for everybody else hell with that we we ought to be doing what we want to move move yeah yeah yeah um darlington is the regular season cutoff race um and i that is really only because they did not want to move from that date uh makes sense it's historical yep and i love it so some traditions remain Atlanta walkins glen and bristol now the round of 16 Now, you know, you know, the racing at Atlanta is pretty insane. Watkins Glen and Bristol, I mean, that's a crazy round.

Bristol's it, yeah, that is a crazy round. I would caution NASCAR. Whoever it is, it's making the decisions for these rounds. I would caution them to have some purity. You know, I mean, we've got some crazy races that can go into these rounds, right? Some bonker, like a Talladega or a Daytona in any round. is a wild idea. Yes, a new changer.

But Atlanta, Wachens Glen, and Bristol, that's like a lot happening in one moment, right? That's like... Like three races that could just go any direction. So you're saying that there should be one that's kind of a constant. Pure, mile and a half. Yeah. Yeah.

I would caution them not to get too wild. Wild. Yeah. Because the end result could be a flukeish, sort of vibe, right? And so, anyways, I know that they want to make moments, and I get that, we absolutely have to make those moments, but these rounds, man, are getting crazy.

Yeah, right? Yeah. Championship races at Phoenix for the fourth straight year. You know, I don't know what's that. I don't know what that's all about. I love Phoenix. I love going there. You would think they would change it up just the way they want to do things.

I think everybody misses Homestead. Yeah. Yeah. And it's such, Homestead. For the last race of the year, maybe it's just me, man, but it just felt right. It was perfect. When I would be down there, it felt, you know, it, you know, what is synonymous with finishing the year is that Florida sunset, man. It was like the vibe at the racetrack and everything about what was the truck race and the championship celebration on the frustrated way,

the Xfinity race and then the championship celebration. It was like we were just, it was like clockwork and it felt right. It matched and all those beautiful sunsets and the nice warm weather. I mean, nothing. There's not one thing bad I can say about it other than the fact that it's kind of in the far, far corners of the country, right? It's like it's not central as far as. Neither is Phoenix.

No, it ain't. No, it ain't. which I don't love that either Yeah But yeah I miss the race's ending I miss the season ending at Homestead But I think I could get the same experience

At a Daytona or somewhere else You know I love the warm environment I love finishing at a comfortable space You know we don't want to go somewhere And end the season and celebrate In our fur coats But I don't know man Phoenix

Yeah I don't know I don't know what else you What else it would be At least rotate it I mean You can't have have a wild card race as the last one though because again you end up in that situation where something crazy could happen but i still also feel like phoenix is so far from home it is and we end there in the dark well i know we do on the exfinity side i'm not safe for the cup but yeah i wonder

what that's like and if i'm there at phoenix and uh i've never watched it from the seat of the i've never watched it from the east coast on my television is it is it hitting no it's weird it's it's Like, because every big sport, World Series, Super Bowl, it's nighttime. It ends at nighttime, and you get that championship celebration under the lights. And Homestead, I feel like, had that great front stretch of like we were as blue. Yeah. And the lights would just reflect right off it. And you felt like you're on a big stage. Yeah. You know, but Phoenix, I don't get that same vibe, you know. I understand. Yeah. I know, right. I get it. That, that's what I mean. Like, when I'm at the, when we're celebrating the championships at Homestead,

yeah. It feels like a moment. Yes, it does. When it's how. happening at Phoenix, it's kind of like another, it's like, it's like, yeah, there's just nothing climatic about it. Is there another race next week? Plus, we only go to Homesed once a year. And that's what also, I feel like made it special. It's like this place feels like the championship venue because you don't see it earlier in the season. That's good point. Yeah. I'll get a Phoenix twice. Well, those are the, those are the changes to the schedule. I think, you know, look, we picked it apart, but there's a lot of great stuff happening. NASCAR. I love where we're headed.

Like I say, there's a couple things we need to do better. Short track package is probably top of my list. During the past few months, our friends at Lionel Racing have been busy making the new late-model diacast tools important to Lionel that fans can get die-cast cars that accurately represent what's run on the racetrack. And that's also important to race teams, drivers, and to me personally. So our licensing team at Junior Motorsports has been working hand. in hand with the production team at Lionel to make sure that these new late model diecasts

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late model 23 to get free shipping on your purchase. All right, it's time for the white flag. Junior Motorsports had a strong showing to kick off the round of eight in the Xfinity series. Sam Mayer came home with a fifth place finish, and Justin Argyar was sixth. Argyar sits second in the playoff point standings. 21 points to the good of the cut line. Mayor is six. Sixteen points below.

A little work to do the rest of this round. I returned to the Xfinity series behind the wheel of the number 88 Bass Pro Shop Chevro Chevrolet this weekend at home. I'm from a newstead Miami Speedway. I cannot wait. I sat in the car this morning and it is comfortable. It's the same car we raced at Bristol. We washed it all, fixed the problems that we had there and should have a great time when we get there Friday.

A little practice and qualifying Friday evening, the race Saturday. Cars tour is back in action this weekend at Tri-County Motor Speedway, and the points battles heating up between Carson Cople and Brendan. Butterbean Queen with only two races remaining in the season. Tune in to Flow Racing Saturday, October 21st at 6 p.m. Eastern. and there's a couple of stars that are racing in the Pro Series as well. I've heard we've had some unique entries that people may be interested in hearing about. Listen to door bumper clear and action is detrimental. They're out now.

A new episode of Speed Street will drop tomorrow and Dirty Modo Boys. They're back at it on Thursdays as usual to preview their best bets for homestead. Tomorrow we've got Johnny Morris coming to the Bojangl studio. And that episode will be out tomorrow. So I hope you guys have a great Tuesday. We're going to see you back here tomorrow with Johnny. Check out Dirtymoe media on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram. Come out Dirtymo.