The Dale Jr. Download - 55 - Charlotte:" Donkey's Goin' Crazy"

Episode Date: May 27, 2014

Dale Earnhardt Jr. gives analysis on a disappointing 19th-place finish at Charlotte. But it’s what happened later that we seem to be most interested in. 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.

This is Dale Jr. And you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio. It's really hard to tell what's going on. It's shaking like a son of a . 47 to go. We just do the best you can't. We'll just try to limp it home. With Mike Davis and Amanda Troutman, I'm Taylor's Arzer.

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I mean, seriously, did you see the shirts that the folks from Spy brought Fan Day last week? They were awesome. And I saw them all over the track. Oh, really? Yeah. Spy did a great job putting out the Dale Yes shirts all over Charlotte Motor Speedway. You know, it's funny you say that because on Saturday I went out to the track and was part of the PRN broadcast of the Nationwide race. And I parked my car in the media parking lot, which is in the infield.

And I'm walking towards the media center. And I'm not kidding. I have past five people said, hey, Tyler, how you doing? And all of them were, I mean, I didn't say, I mean, I don't know how they know who I am. But three of them were wearing Dale Yes shirts. Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's great. Junior Nation, man, is amazing.

It really is. I mean, I walk out of my car and some junior fan just says, hey, man, Taylor, good to see you, man. Love the podcast. It's amazing. Yeah, it's good stuff. I, you know, I was out of the track this weekend in place of Hogue, as I will be for the next two weeks. And, yeah, a lot of people came up to me saying the same thing, even on Pit Road. Even somebody in the National Guard came up to me on pit road and said, Delia.

So, just neat, man. It is pretty cool, man. Those shirts are awesome. Fired up about that. Not very fired up about the race, though. No. You know, you hate it when you have an engine trouble. And Mike, obviously, you were up close and personal there to see it.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, Junior was describing, you know, this radio clip that Amanda played at the beginning here. He was describing this vibration in the car as we were going to the helipad. By the way, you talk about parking in the media lot. We parked at the helipad. That's pretty good. All right. So anyways.

But he was describing this vibration. It's important to note that it was happening as he was accelerating, you know, So there's a good indicator that something's very much wrong. It's not like one of those wheel-will-vibrations, you know, like a loose wheel. So as he's, you know, launching down the back straight away, this vibration gets, you know, borderline violent. And the best way I can describe it being that this is an audio forum here is it sort of reminded me, you know how a space shuttle when it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere, at least how we've been led to believe through movies, I guess. I've never been there first person.

But, you know, as he accelerated, it just got worse and worse. And it's like, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know what I'm saying? And so, yeah, there was issues there. I got to be honest. I can't believe they made it to the checkered flag. Yeah, that was amazing, especially given that some of the other Hendrik engines had some trouble. I mean, Danica had some problems. Kurt Bush had a whole lot of problems the other night as well.

I know Casey didn't have a good run, but that wasn't engine related. But clearly, you're right. I mean, some other people weren't able to get to the finish. So it was impressive, and you could tell something terribly wrong was going on with that. And that's frustrating, too, because I felt like he would have had a chance to really compete for that win, Mike, at the end. I mean, he had a top three, top four car on those long green flag runs. And, you know, it's all about getting yourself to nighttime. And I felt like, you know, last 50, 75 laps, he would have really had something for him.

He said after the race, to me, we could have won that race. That car was that fast. And, you know, I always love the fact that as long as this has been going on, a lot of people ask me, was junior in a bad mood, how dejected was he after the race? If the car had speed, he can handle it. If the car doesn't have speed, he can't handle it. I'm telling you. And the car had speed.

He said that car could have won the race without the problems that he had. But, you know, there was a point when all this stuff was happening. Like, on top of the motor issues, he's talking about something about the brake pedal, like there was a long brake pedal. And then all of a sudden he said something about the suspension. And I'm just thinking, my gosh, the bolts are coming loose out of the. this thing. I thought like they need to take Superman off and put the Memphis bell on the side of it if he actually makes it back to the checker flag. So I'm glad that they were able to get a home.

That's pretty funny right there. Well, I am too, and here is Junior after the race on Sunday night with what happened. Hey, everybody. Just got home from Charlotte. It was a pretty quick trip. You know, disappointed. I know everybody's disappointed this week about whatever issues we were having. I'll just spill it out to make it clear to whoever wasn't there, wasn't listening, but we had water pressure gauge, getting real, real high, and it turns red when it gets to a certain pressure, and I get notified and tell Steve. We'd seen a couple cars blow up to 41 to 10, breaking engines, not knowing why, obviously being inside the car. But I was aware of that, and I was just kind of sitting there, you know, watching that water pressure. Damn, I don't know if y'all hear that, but the donkeys going crazy. Y'all hear a different animal every week.

Anyways, all right, the water pressure is going up, and I tell Steve, and he's like, all right, we'll keep watching it. And it was staying pretty steady, but still climbing. And we picked up a real bad vibration, and it was, you know, it wasn't a wheel of vibration or anything like that, but just shaking like crazy on throttle getting worse down the straightaway. And it got to a point to where I was afraid. hold it wide open. He just felt like everything is just going to come apart. You know, I thought we

were breaking the motor. We saw the other guys break engines. Steve, you know, the water pressure would tell you that your motor's going to break. And Steve says, come on down pit road. We come down pit road. We hit the release valve and knocked the pressure out of it. I go back out on the track. We didn't feel it with fuel. Probably should have. But go back on the track, vibration is still really bad, but it actually calms down the more I run. And apparently, you know, I don't know what is wrong with a car. I can't tell you that, but they're going to figure that out. and hopefully have us an answer and apparently we you know I overreacted or we overreacted as a team or whatever I take the blame I don't care but as far as

the situation the car made it to the end I guess if we didn't you know thought about it or in hindsight we could have raced down pit road popped the hood flap and hit the release valve knocked the pressure out put it fuel in at two tires and went back on the track and only lost about a lap or two instead we ended up losing four laps we got two of them back we're able to race some guys gained some positions and ended up 19. So I was sitting there thinking we was going to be broke, finished 36, we ended up finished 19th, so I'm a little bit happy about that.

The other end of that is the car was really fast. As a disappointment as everybody is, you've got to think about how good we've been all year, how fast these cars have been, and how quick that car was tonight. So wins are going to come. We've got to stay positive. We can't let stuff like this spin us out and not go to the racetrack thinking we can win. We've got to go, we got to leave this track tonight, thinking, man, we had a competitive of car that could win the race, unload the next week with that same attitude, and just take

on off. And I hope you guys enjoy the download. Take it easy. Well, I love that stuff right there. That fires me up. I love hearing the confidence he speaks with, how positive he is. He's absolutely right. That is absolutely the attitude that you have to have.

And I love how he feels, you know, somewhat responsible to explain to all these listeners what he thinks went wrong with the car. I mean, you just don't find many people. that are willing to do that and walk you through it like that. So, I mean, just another reason why this podcast is so great. But, Mike, the reason why the guy is the most popular guy in motorsports and will always be, as long as he's out there racing, is because he opens a door to go outside and says, damn, donkeys going crazy.

I don't know if y'all hear this. I don't know if y'all can hear this. He's going crazy. We have a different animal every week. That is why the man is the most popular guy in motorsports. because who else is having donkey sounds in the background when they're taping a podcast, Mike Davis? Hold on. It's not the first time an ass has interrupted, Jr., but usually it's me.

So the thing about that, let me give you a little context. This is so funny because we got home, we got to his house. And he's still in his fire suit. We left the racetrack and he was still in his fire suit. We get home. He grabs my phone. He likes to go downstairs and get away and be alone in his thoughts when he recorded. this so he pops back up you know about five minutes later and he goes hey you know what

you're going to want to listen to that audio on the way home you know there's a you know how there's an animal every week that you know sort of makes rack it in the background this week it's a donkey so I'm like I can't wait to hear this so I'm driving I'm pull out and I'm driving home and I'm listening to it and I'm just like yeah only junior yeah has the perspective of a donkey yeah you know given you know I just I loved it it was so funny So funny. It's just so authentic. It's so genuine.

It's great. It's awesome to hear. I love how he doesn't stop and re-recorded. Yeah, no. I mean, it's real. Right, right. It's real. You know, I mean, he's going outside so he can get his thoughts.

Damn. Yeah. Y'all hear that. Man. If you can hear it wailing in the background. Yeah, you could. So, I mean, if. Well, I mean, listen, old Eeyore in the background was upset about the race too.

If Hogue wasn't at the beach, I'd have thought it was him. But no, I'm kidding. Do you know any of these donkey's names out there? I got to be honest, I didn't even know he had a donkey out there to be honest, because where he went out the door, he goes down into this bar area downstairs, just like basement level, and he went out the back door,

and it faces pasture. You know, it faces pasture, and that's where he has the buffalo that, you know, made headlines of Vernon Shirley and whatever. And so he sort of just has kind of accumulated different livestock out there. I didn't know there was a donkey. I never really pay attention,

but clearly there is. And you know what? It's now the most popular donkey in NASCAR. At least in NASCAR, maybe the United States. Try to beat that, Reddit. Yeah. Well, I tell you what, I can promise you this. That donkey will have a name somewhere on Twitter by the end of this day.

I should ask Jr. what the name of the donkey is, and if it does not have a name, and it may not. And if it has a name, and we'll get Dale Jr. to answer it. If the donkey has a name, let's try to guess what it is. Let's not let him tell us. Exactly. If you know Junior, then you should be able to get this. We'll figure it out.

I feel like it's got to have a name. Almost everything out there does. The goat's names are Bonnie and Clyde. Amanda, do you have donkeys on your property? Oh, no, no, no, no. I tell you one thing she does have. An engagement ring, Taylor. Oh, I was wondering about that.

Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. I mean, you know, you've got Charlotte Race Week. Did you do it at the racetrack? Did he propose, you know, on Pit Road? Victory Lane.

Victory Lane. Walked up there. Oh, my gosh. goodness no congratulations you know what your ears must have been burning that's some that is awesome because out at the track on you know all these people are asking me about the podcast and in the media and on pit road and all this stuff and i'm trying to remember who it was but somebody comes up to me and says i'd tell you the best thing that happened about podcast is y'all took amanda troutman and i said i couldn't agree more and uh and so we're we're shooting the breeze and uh yeah no his name was not kip we were shooting the breeze and

and then i said you know what i think it's about time for amanda to get and get and aged, I would think. I thought she's going to get married sometime soon. I swear to you, I said this on Saturday. You know what? It happened Saturday night. Saturday night, yeah, because we had to be back for Sunday. Well, maybe the guy's name was Kip.

I don't think it was. All right, one more thing before we get into reaction theater. Mike, you and Stevie been chatting before this podcast? Well, I talked to him this morning because anytime you have mechanical issues, you know, I like to get the crew chief perspective. And if you really paid attention to what Junior said in his audio, you sense there was some accountability stuff going on, you know, you're talking about like, yeah, maybe I overreacted or we could have done this in hindsight.

And, you know, so it's not just, he's talking about the entire team. Yeah, in hindsight, they may have could have handled that situation better. They lost four laps during that whole sequence. I mean, between the time the vibration happened and the time they make the green flag pit stop. So, yeah, I spoke with Stevie, and he brought up an interesting point. And he says, you know, it's extremely difficult to run fast every week. week and they've managed to be pretty much fast every week. What happens is they don't get a whole lot of practice in crisis situations or crisis management.

And because they haven't had, there have been a few, of course, but he says we could certainly handle these moments of crisis better, and that's something they need to work on. For instance, clearly there was an opportunity to put gas and tires on the car during that pit stop. They didn't. What that meant is that junior had to come back in was it some 20, 30 laps later. and get gas and tire. Well, he'd been on pit road already. So there was one thing that, you know,

and I think Junior may have alluded to that during his audio there. He also talked about, you know, they didn't really have to, in hindsight, open up the hood. They could have just simply popped the hood flap open, bled the valve. They bled the valve. They just did it with the hood open and all this stuff. Just another thing that cost time. That's something they could have done.

And then Jr. also admitted afterwards about, you know, that he didn't go full throttle when the vibration escalated, you know. He was like, I didn't want to run full speed because I was fears and just going to blow the hood open. Well, that's information that Stevie could have also known, but he sees his car that's two seconds off the pace. He can only assume that the mechanical issue is the direct cause of that. So as good as their communication has been, it can always be better. Just crisis management situations that are so pivotal. I mean, the way to unpack this for us is simply that better to be ironing this out now, you know,

because it's extremely difficult to be very fast every week. They are fast every week. but a championship team is one that can take those crisis moments, those when you get the Grimlins, and they will happen. You know that it'll happen. Junior said that, but to make the absolute most of it, the best case scenario. And so.

Did Stevie this morning tell you what the problem, like have they figured that out yet? You know, without yesterday, you know, they'll know this morning, but not at the time of the taping of this podcast they didn't yet. So there was clearly something, you know. I think the best example of how they, you know, they need to get better,

but the confidence everybody has in them is what we saw in the last nine races of last year. Yes, they didn't get a win, but they were competing for wins every single one of those weeks. And that says how seriously they take everything and how they are able to diagnose problems and get better from it. I don't think there's any better example of that than what we saw last year. We'll figure out what happened with the 88. But in fairness to those guys, I will say this. Junior talked about how, yes, the 41 had blown a motor, the 10 had blown a motor. He could only assume, now it may have been a false accusation.

I think those were valve spring issues. He was assuming that he was next in line at this point. And so they're just bringing it down pit road more or less to save the car. I believe Steve even said that. Junior's like, what do I do? Do I stay out? He goes, no, bring it down. Let's save the car.

Save the car. Well, that was the mentality they were all under. So what's the first thing you do when you're saving a car? You pop open the hood and see where your problem is. well, in hindsight, they didn't necessarily need to do that. And I think that's why Junior was talking about maybe I overreacted. Certainly the vibration was worthy of a reaction, but they could have probably had a better strategy in place

to not lose that many laps. They got two laps back. Well, before we get into reaction theater, let's remind everybody about Spy's exclusive deal for Dirty Moe Radio listeners. Go online to Spyoptic.com and check out Dale Jr.'s signature Spy 88 collection includes the Dirty Moe, McCoy, Quanta General, and Farrah for the ladies. In her discount code, Dale Yeh, that's D-A-L-E-Y-E-A-H at checkout and receive 20% off your purchase. The discount code can now be used at Trackside at the Junior Nation's souvenir hauler

and right here in the Junior Motorsports Retail Shop, so you have no excuse not to go get yourself a sweet pair of Dirty Mo Spy Shades. All right, let's go to Reaction Theater. Well, this race just suck. I'm sick and tired when Junior's got a great engine, and I'm sick. tired of situation as best they could and brought it home to the 19-20 finish. Can't ask more for my driver than to do his very best. Frustrating night.

Didn't Jack Nouse and Jeannie? Didn't they say pretty much they took the five's notes and applied it for the 600? And then they won with it? Yeah. You know, because the five was so fast and has been fast at Charlotte. Well, that five just had bad luck. That was just, you know, it wasn't just bad luck. So anyways.

Yep, tough night. All right, what's next? I'm calling to get the Dale Jr. fans up on their feet. Josh Wise, the driver of the number 98, dodgecoigne.com car, has won voting for the All-Star race. Now they're trying to go after Dale Jr. for his most popular driver. Come on, Junior Nation. Rise up. Let them know what time it is.

I like that. Yeah. I like that. You know. Old Doecoin is on a mission right now, it seems. Dodge coin. Isn't that what he said? Dodge coin.

You get the manufacturer in there. Yeah, they are. You know, there's something interesting. A lot of people have been asking me about that over the week, you know, certainly since the All-Star race. And I don't think that they did any hijacking or anything or hacking of the system. I think that was straight up passion. Now, listen, I'm all about Junior Nation.

We got passion. He's right. It's a wake-up call. It's a time to put the passion, you know, let it speak for itself and get Junior that 12th most popular driver will. I don't think there's any, you know, hijinks going on by the Reddit people. They just sat there and they did what they needed to do. I feel confident we're going to get 12 in a row.

All right. Who we got next? I'm so disappointed in the boys tonight, man. You guys blew it. See a couple lights come on and go into the pit and lose three laps. I really hope you tighten something to make them finish that race out because should have just stayed out there and let it blown out. Come on, let them go out there blow up.

Maybe you'll be around a couple of Toyoters and take them. out and it helped everyone out. I mean, come on, man. Have them come in and pitch. Should it have stayed out there. Blew it finished 19, two laps down. I don't think anything was wrong with the car. A couple lights. Come on. Big deal. I like how he says. Stay up there blow up. Take out a couple of Toyotas. Amanda, do you have any comment? I don't even know what to say there. Well, if you have lights blinking in your passenger car when you're driving down the interstate, do you not get concerned? That's what they're for, isn't it? If you see something

blinking in your car, you should have some sort of concern, in my opinion. If you see a blinking light in your car, your reaction should not be. Well, this is the end. Yeah. This is how it ends for me. Typically, my reaction is I'm going to drive faster and take out some Toyota's. Yeah. Well, you can do that.

You see? That would be pretty funny, though, if Lartart got on there and said, hey, man, I got some, if Junior says, I got some lights coming on in here, and Lattart says, take out Hamlin, Kyle Bush, and Matt Kinzeth. All right, who we got next? Hell yeah. P-19. Blowing up with a quarter of the race to go, and I was sure it was going to be a 40th place night. You somehow carried that car to a top-20 finish. And you won your Twitter bet while you were at it. You didn't even scratch the paint. That's Superman.

I don't care what the haters say, Dale. You're the best driver out there. You're my superhero anyway. Uh-oh. Wow. Wow. I'm glad you cut that call off before it got any steam here. Wow. That was interesting. All right. What we got next? Hey, guys. My five-year-old has something he'd like to say to Jr. Good job, Jula. I'm here to get the next time.

Good luck next week. We'll try harder. Goodbye. Starting from a very young age. Yeah, we're getting fired up. Very good. This podcast is a family podcast. Yes, it is.

This is sort of like Nick Jr. over here. Yeah, well. My mentality is anyways. Yeah. The one before that was Nick late night. Yeah, for real. Well, we got next. Superman, my.

Faster than a speeding bullet. Looks like a piece of kryptonite cost me $1,100. Feel like calling Jazzle and talking trash about their junkie valve springs. He's not happy, man. A lot of money down. Boy, yeah. Yeah, that's a big night. Have you ever gambled, sports gambled Taylor?

Possibly? Would you put $1,100 on a NASCAR race? Never, no. I mean, I just, even in my most confidence state, Even when I just feel like we've got this, $1,100, I mean, of all the things that can happen in 600 miles? Yeah. Oh, I've lost some money in Vegas, but I'm not going to put $1,100 down on a NASCAR race. No, sir.

No way. What we got next? Maybe you shouldn't run the Superman cars anymore, buddy. Both times you've run them in the last year you've had engine trouble. So maybe either go back to Batman or put the flat. or the Green Lantern or some other cools. Good run. Get them at Dover.

All right. There you go. Coming up this weekend, Monster Mile. Put the monster on there. Just put the monster on there. Just put the trophy on it. It's like a hood ornament. What we have next?

Well, guys, I got to say, drunk again and very disappointed. It seems like every week, that's what we're getting. Because they go on 500, drunk and disappointed. Why can we not win a fucking race? I know Junior Nation wants one. We all want one. We'll stand by him forever, but by God, we need a win. Yeah, everybody wants one.

But I love the attitude, Junior had afterwards, saying, you know what, we have to go out there and be very positive. We had a lot of speed. And we have to go out there and put the car on the track and expect to win, not expect to have any problems. I think that's absolutely the attitude you have to have, Mike. And you can still be drunk and have that attitude. That's the key part here. Well, no, Junior can't. Not during the race at least.

No, Junior can. We can be drunk and have that attitude. That gentleman can still be drunk and have the attitude. Gotcha. Absolutely. Last one. I have to start this call with an apology to T.J. Major. What? T.J., I am sorry.

I doubted you. Stephen Stephan and Mike Hogue have no business being on a racetrack with you. I was wrong. Your $50 is on its way. On another note, Dale Jr. has driven three super... Superman cars. Two of them have gone to shit. He drove one Batman car, and he did donuts. Bring back the Dark Night, and let's go. Splat, pow,

bam. On to Dover. Dale yeah. Yeah, it's going to go to somebody's head when you have a competition like that, and everybody was worried, Mike, about how I was going to go to T.J.'s head, you know, just going to feed the monster here. But Regan Smith made a good point before the nationwide race. He said, Listen, it doesn't matter who would have won or lost that thing. Everybody, he said all of those egos are out of control. Yeah, that is the best thing I've heard since then.

By the way, did you notice that Mike Joy brought up that race during practice on Fox Sports One? Did you know that? Taylor, you were working, I'm sure. Yeah, on Friday, I'm sorry, on Thursday. Wow. He brought it up. God, when were they practicing? It was Saturday.

You're right. It was Saturday. It was Saturday. It was Saturday. It was Saturday. It was Saturday. And he brought it up. when they were showing junior on the track.

I thought that was pretty cool. Yeah, that is really cool. And Regan, well, he had to stick around because Jeff Gordon's back was not feeling well, so he had to be ready to get in the car. And because of that, he didn't get to go to the Indy 500 on Sunday. So I was disappointing for them for that, but you've got to be there ready in case something happened to Jeff Gordon. But Regan's having a great year.

It's not like it was the second closest finish in indie history or anything that he had. Oh, my God. It was unbelievable. It was awesome. By the way, Regan did, if you listened to the PRN broadcast on Saturday, Regan did a great job pitching interviews to the next guy. Like I said, do you want to pitch this next interview? He goes, no, I got it.

Hey, Hermie Sadler, who you got over there as we get ready for this race today? I was pretty impressed with what Regan Smith had to offer. He's no one-trick pony. That's good because NASCAR's got him doing some work at the country. What is it, Amanda? The CMT Awards. The CMT Awards, him and Chase next week. Oh, nice.

June 4th. And he may be having to utilize some of that. You may need to give him tips on interviewing people. I was put it that way. He was pretty impressed what I saw the other day. Reaction Theater is open 24-7. All you have to do is call toll-free 1-855-740 1902. That's 1855-5-740 1902. And leave us your voicemail message and we'll play the best each week right here on Dirty Mo Radio. Now remember Wednesday, Fast Lane family with Kelly Earnhardt Miller. She recaps Fan Day at Junior Motorsports and several Ask Kelly questions from fans.

Of course, Friday we have JRM-360, the podcast. Grand Prix Did Dirty Moe Radio. Still has tempers flaring. And I'm sure we'll hear more on that. And of course, Amanda does a great job on Mondays with the recap of the Junior Motorsports Nationwide and late-mile teams as well as Dale's Sprint Cup series run, and that will be in Dover coming up on Sunday.

And speaking of that, let's throw the white flag. White flag right there, white flag. Well, Hogue is at the beach this week, so as far as product, activity goes around here. Everything's pretty much the same. Yeah, I mean, in fact, it may even be better a little bit, Taylor, with Hope gone. So, Junior's got a busy week. It starts tomorrow.

Now, we'll be announcing something, listen closely. We'll be announcing something that you'll find very interesting, so stay tuned. It won't be hard for you to hear about it, so just stay tuned to life, and you'll hear about it. So do that. He's also got some production work for Kelly Blue Book tomorrow. That's one of the new sponsors on the 88 program this year. On Thursday, Junior's going to Chattanooga, Tennessee, for an appearance at the annual Best of Preps banquet. Junior's never been to Chattanooga.

I have. I used to live there. I went to school there. Go, Warriors. From there, we will go to Dover, where the race weekend will get underway with practice on Friday, qualifying on Friday, practice on Saturday. And then the FedEx 400 benefiting autism speaks will be on Sunday on Fox. Don't forget about the nationwide series. Regan Smith and Chase Elliott are going for the good guys.

Taylor, did you realize that Junior Motorsports has? has had the point leader all 11 weeks this year. You know, I did, I did notice that the other day. It's just, I mean, what a year. I mean, unbelievable. And the greatest part is that it's been different drivers. So it's like, yeah, Elliot and Regan, yeah. Yeah, back and forth between these two cats.

So Regan retook the points lead from Chase last week. Dover will be a lot of fun as that continues to play out. And lastly, I want to say, and I know you do too, Taylor, that even though Memorial Day was yesterday, it's never too late to say thank you to our men and women who have served or currently served in our military. You know, as our boy, Marty Smith says, you're all B-A. So I just, I want to get that in.

And also, Taylor, I don't know if you can hear this, but there's a donkey going crazy. Yeah, there is. It's a different animal every week. That's right. Good stuff this week from Dale Jr. We appreciate him very much. Amanda, awesome job. Congratulations.

So happy for you. Thank you. For Mike Davis, I'm Taylor Zarser. You've been listening to the Dale Jr. Download presented by Spy. Thanks for listening to Dirty Mo Radio. The Dale Jr. Download is presented by Spy. To see Dale Jr.'s signature Spy 88 collection, head to Spyoptic.com.