The Dale Jr. Download - 579 - Dale's Eventful Race, One Free Bird Flip & A Short Track Travesty

Episode Date: September 24, 2024

After an action-packed return to racing action this past weekend in Bristol, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is back in the Dirty Mo Media studio for a new episode of Dirty Air. He is joined by special co-host TJ Majors to chat about their radio issues in Friday night’s NASCAR Xfinity race and even listen to some radio chatter sound clips, plus:Racing with Ryan Truex in practiceA P13 qualifying runThe track was different this yearHow the No. 88 team dealt with Dale’s radio issuesPost-race pit road beersThe Cup short-track package needs a massive overhaulRound of 12 previewDale remembers his childhood house along Lake NormanThe Washington Commanders are looking good21+ and present in North Carolina. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling problem? Call 877-718-5543 or visit morethanagame.nc.gov. 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.

Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download, and we're going to talk about Bristol coming off of the heels of a cup race there that was not so satisfying. And the Xfinity race where we didn't have a radio for most of that. T.J's here. We'll describe what happened and what we think we can do going forward. We have a lot of fun today. A lot of good things to talk about. So let's get to it. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. They got a little Gatorade or something in that radio from last. I'm coming to... Four tires and a helmet. Hey, real quick. Next stop, do you watch your glasses?

Do y'all have them? I thought they were in here in the floorboard somewhere. Just one outside. Nothing else in your mirror. Hill, Riley, to disregard the bird, that was unnecessary. Driving away, go get him. Is he holding up the dreams, we'll have a cold beard for it? That was funny.

I wish you would have worked out a little better for it, but damn, that was fun time. Hey, everybody. it's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download, and it is Tuesday and here, we haven't done this in a while. All right. Okay. All right, that's Andrew talking. Hey, everybody.

Let me introduce everybody. All right. That would be nice. I like that. That'd be very lovely. Andrew, Dalton, Alex, and T.J. That was, all right. Quick and to the point. This is episode 579. It is September the 24th. 2012

2004 it's a shame man it's not the 21st of September do you remember that's such a hold on this is a story this is I don't

I wasn't this was not going to be for this part of the show but do you remember I remember 21st night of September yeah

so it is like midnight on pit road it is finally the 21st of September and I go to Amy yeah and I'm like guess what it is?

It is the 21st night of September. And she is freaking out. She's like, this is so awesome. Like, you have to tell Dale. I'm like, Dale's not going to be excited about that. I'm like, you can go tell him. So she's like, she goes to have you on the shoulder. Like, Dale, okay, Andrew, go tell them.

You're in a big circle talking to other people. I'm like, it's the 21st night of September. And you could not have cared less. Oh, my God. I don't remember that. And I wasn't that drunk. It was scarring. I wasn't that drunk.

Andrew remembers. That normally means you were really drunk, just so you know. That was a bunch of conversations happening at once. I liked that song. It is a good song. Yeah. And I would have appreciated that joke. I've since seen people doing something similar on social media on their Instagrams and whatnot.

And I can appreciate it. It's a great song. It is. Let's get right to dirty air. So there's so much shit going. I'm sorry for stumbling through the introduction here, but there is a bunch of things happening right now. And a bunch of things that have happened that we want to talk about on the show.

TJ is here to help me go through it. And I've been a bit... Oh, I made a cool post... on Instagram. I made it. Oh, wow. Congratulations. Yeah. I do

I do like all of my social media. But when a video or a reel gets made, obviously someone produces and creates that for me. I make some of the stuff, but you can obviously tell a massive production quality difference

in what I put out personally and what someone has made for me to put out. For example, when we go race the late mile stock race or the Xfinity race, a lot of those reels and stuff are created by someone we've hired. Or we're our own team, you guys, right? But somebody went fishing on Lake Norman

and they fished by my old house. Oh, I did see this. Yeah. And so a buddy of mine, he's a great dude, David. He actually works out on the property. And he's like, hey man, you know, fishing by this house. Here it is. And I'm like, I ain't seen that boat house in forever.

And I certainly haven't seen it from that point of view from the lake since I was a kid, since I was swimming off the dock. But it's the house that Dad bought in 78. I moved in 81, and I moved out in 92, and I graduated from high school. And Dad, I think, was there through mid-90s. I don't know when he moved all the way out to the farm on Highway 3. But anyways, I spent a decade in this house with Dad and Teresa and Kelly. It hasn't been touched. I mean, it looks dated.

It looks like it did. But anyways, I cut this reel. I put these pictures in the backside of that video, the house of pictures of me growing up and being around the house. But it's awesome, man. The old pier is just falling apart. I remember Dad sitting on that pier.

I remember us fishing off that pier. It's awesome. Those pictures are really cool. Yeah. Yeah. The house looked cool too. Yeah. Well, if it ever hit the market,

I have it on my Zillow app, I have it carded. If it ever hits the market, probably going to have to buy. You should. That would be awesome. Yeah. Yeah, I think you should definitely get it.

Yeah. The only thing is, is it's out there on one part of the lake where there's a low bridge. You can't get nothing under that thing except for a little bow rider. Like you can't take, you might get a pontoon under it. But any, you know, any like larger boat, I guess, or a cabin boat, you're not going to get under the bridge. So it sucks because it's just a little pocket of the lake where you kind of limited on what you can. It's quiet there, though, at least. Well, they built a, there was a, so I don't know if I told you that story where,

where dad pulled, the last time dad pulled the belt, you ever, did any of y'all get whoopens when you were kids? Yeah. Right. Well, no. No. I remember. I remember the last time, I remember the last time dad pulled the belt on me.

Oh, yeah. I remember that, right? We all, if you got whoopens, you remember the last whoopens. You remember the last time they were going to whoop you. Remember them all. I said it. said a cuss word at my buddy's house and his daddy heard me and sent me home he told dad when dad got home dad comes into bedroom starts taking his belt off and i knew exactly what was coming and so

he messed up and gave a little bit too much room between him and the door i hit the door and out the front of the house and into this field across the street and i hid in that field for like three hours my And I did not get my ass whoop. And so I avoided the whoop. I was probably like 12 years old or so. I avoided the asswopin and I don't think I got one from him after that. So that's how you avoid him? I don't know.

Find the nearest field. Yeah. I would not have bet that taking off and running and hiding was going to end the asswopens, but it did. I would think that would give more. I know it. And so, but now there's a, you were saying it's quite over there. Now there's a big giant development in that field. This was a big old farm field.

I used to fly kites in there and do all kinds of fun stuff. And now it's a big housing development over there. Someone commented in the Instagram post that they lived there. And it's still pretty quiet, but not as much as it used to be. But that's a, man, that's right over where the Days of Thunder barn is. It's like two miles from that old Days of Thunder barn where they film Days of Thunder and where the best buy and all that is. Um, man, Amy posted on her Instagram, this funny little clip that's like, I remember when all this used to be farmland. And she's like, that's all Dale does nowadays, is right around going, I remember this was a far, a field.

Back of the day, this was a two-lane road, Amy. He's right, Bill. Is that your impression of yourself? Well, they look at you like, they don't believe you either. Like, she doesn't believe you. I'm like, Amy, you don't even know, man. If none of this shit was here, she's like, okay, I don't care. Eat your ice cream.

I'm like, come on, it's a big deal. Like Target and Best Buy and all that? You used to be nothing up there. Like, nothing. Can you believe all they've built out here? She's like, yeah? Oh, yeah. Sure can't.

Yeah, actually. I'm looking at it. But anyhow, I want to get into the Xfinity race, but, um, I want to get into the Xfinity race, but I have, all right, I'm just going to, so my birthday's coming up, been traveling a ton, got a few more trips to take before the end of the year, excited about that. I've been working on, I was going to go to the Gulf Coast this weekend. Obviously, there's a storm that has developed, and it is not looking really good. So for everybody that's listening that's down in Florida on the Gulf Coast or, you know, in the path of this thing, we're thinking about you.

Hopefully everything, you know, works out okay with that. That storm looks particularly nasty, at least a forecast for it. But so anyways, just had that on my mind. I wanted to send a note to all the people that are down in the Panhandling on the Gulf Coast listening on the Western Coast. of Florida. And they've been beat up over the last couple of years with some different storms coming through there. And it looks, especially around the Tampa area where this storm's supposed to go, is kind of

worrisome. Before we get into the Xfinity race and cover that, I wanted to thank Tire Pros for sponsoring dirty air today. They have been a great partner of ours. And the other day, so when we got Tire Pros as a, as a partner, my mind, you know, I don't know everything about every business that we, we team up with. I learn, uh, over, over the course of the agreement and the relationship, a lot about them, but you don't, uh, you know, I just assumed they were, uh, they,

you'd go there and get your tires, get new tires, get tires rotated. It was a tire store. But it's so much more than that. They do, they have, they have multiple mechanics, multiple bays. They do, uh, diagnostics. They do brakes. alignments, they'll fix anything wrong with your car. I did not know that. I had, you know, I was getting some, I had a truck and I was putting some tires on it. And then I was going to do something, the alignment on my truck wasn't good. And I was going to take it somewhere else.

And they're like, no, no, no, we got that. We can fix that for you. And they did. And so the other thing that I think is really awesome about tire pros is now they have mobile vans. And so I saw one of them. the back behind the shop here. If you're, you know, if you're busy like a lot of people and you're working a nine to five or you, you know, 40 hour week or whatever and you need tires on your car, they can come

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Change your tires. That convenience is unmatched. Thank you, tire pros. And so... Let's get into the Xfinity race. Yeah, let's get into the Xfinity race. And I want to say thank you to Xfinity for being a great partner here at Dirty Mo Media. Exfinities, they have the Xfinity Mobile now that we've been promoting.

Wi-Fi speeds up to a gig in millions of locations nationwide. The coverage is unmatched, and they'll come through in a clutch, especially now where we're watching basically everything. on our phones and you're wondering around wherever you're at during the day, you know, going with your girl shopping or whatever it is and you're trying to watch the cars tour and whatever the hell on flow. The Xfinity Mobile is going to pull through. They're a proud premier partner of NASCAR and a great partner here at Dirtymo Media. And they also put so much into this sport, obviously by doing one of the things that we

enjoyed this past weekend, and that's the Xfinity Series race at Bristol. TJ came in and did some spotting for me and we had an eventful night but I want to start off by saying I took my camping world fifth wheel and parked it in the bus lot where we used to park our old bus. My old bus is in Oklahoma getting sold.

We are trimming down and getting more practical. I love the fifth wheel. Listen, that thing takes a beating going down the road. I take it, I took it to Langley this year and drove it around and it, we beat the shit of this thing. We do. I'm sorry.

All right. I'm pulling it behind a dully and going through all of the potholes and all kinds of imperfections in the highway and it's tough. The thing about the fifth wheel that I love that is different for me than the bus is I couldn't work on the bus. I can't, I can hardly, I would look at that bus and I don't know much about the diesel motor and I don't know much about how it's wired and just so overwhelming. This fifth wheel, I can fix any freaking thing that breaks on this. Anything, anything that happens to the interior, whatever.

The systems are easy to understand. I love it. I'm having a great time of that and my family loves it. We got the bunks in the back. The kids came to the race this weekend and we were perfectly comfortable. Had a lot of fun. As you could expect, terribly nervous. so nervous no um we didn't dude so we i started getting a little bit nervous like and i cannot

help this and amy's getting frustrated because i'm she's like god dude you got to chill out and so i'm like amy it's not like i can't just pull the fuse and and make it go away and so we get i'm doing okay we get to the racetrack and the the curtain rod in the master closet had dislodged itself somehow, another going over a bump or something. It hopped up out of that little cup that sits in. And I reached back in there and cut my finger on the end of that curtain rod. It is a steel rod that somebody had whacked off.

And so I'm sitting there. I ain't been there two seconds. And my finger is split wide open on the end, my middle finger. and uh good one yeah and so i'm sitting back there and i'm cursing and cussing and amy comes in there and she's like what's going on and i tell the girls are clustering around us right underneath our right at our ankles and i'm like can everybody just get out of here just give me some space and she's like we've been here two seconds and you're already out of here bringing mine and i was like i just got my finger wide open and uh so we kicked off the same one that you gave riley yes no nice no no

No. Oh. I gave him the left finger. Yeah, I was going to say it's probably out the window. Anyhow, so we didn't get today started off too good. But I got in the car for practice, and it's such a short practice. The idea is you're going to pull out there if the car is reasonable, and there's no real bad balance issues.

You're just going to run this practice out, which was what we did. We did the same thing the year before. Oddly enough. So I saw True X, Jr., it's not really his name. I saw Ryan Truex at Martin Truex's charity event. I said, hey, he'd come up to me and I said, hey, man, I can't talk to you.

He's like, why? I was like, you know, we're racing against each other this weekend. I said, the way the universe works, if you talk to a driver a lot before the race, that's probably the guy you're going to run into. You're going to have a problem with. You're going to cut him off. You're going to wreck him, whatever.

I said, let's just not talk. So we don't draw all that into our lives because we're pretty good friends. me and Ryan. And he laughed. We go out and we go out and practice and he's behind me the whole practice. And so basically I ran the whole practice with him in the mirror and I could tell, all right, you know, I could look in the mirror and go, all right, I pulled him a little bit in that corner. So I like what I did. I'll remember that next time I go into that corner and try to mimic the same thing. And if I put a good lap together, I would put about a car length

between me and him. And then if I didn't, he'd kind of gain it back. I felt we were really even. I was just maybe a tick better in practice. But anyhow, went out to qualify. everything was fine with the radio in practice as far as I remember, right? No. I don't, no. I don't think it was because we had them issues where I was giving you lap times. I never heard none of it. Yeah, I was given in like. Oh, that's right. Yes, I remember now. Your last two laps were like in practice were like ridiculous. Yeah. So I came in. into the pits and I do remember y'all were like uh I flipped it to two or something I turned did something in there and then you just then it showed up and they were like hey okay now we hear you

because I was sitting there talking the whole practice and they couldn't hear me oh yeah yeah we couldn't hear them but I could hear them I could hear you saying the those last three laps are really good that's a good lap 39 38 40 yeah they're right they're really fast so like the opposite problem of the race yes and so I'm like no big deal I just didn't have something in there flipped the right way So we didn't worry about it too much. I had a new helmet that I was excited about. And I've been bouncing around between about three or four different sets of earplugs from a couple different makes.

But I'm not really settled on anything. I'm not really totally in love with anything. But I'm just trying to see what works and what's the most comfortable. I like the ear plug. When it plugs into the helmet, I want it to feel like it's really secure. and some ear plugs don't plug in there and feel like they will stay. And I get a little worried about that. And so, because it's easy to bump that cord when you're messing around drinking water,

tightening a belt, and you can easily knock it out. Where's the cord? The cord plugs into your helmet. But like where, like on the front part? Yeah, the cord just comes out of your ears and plugs in your helmet. Just like headphones for the iPhone back. The cable is just there. Oh, okay.

Yeah. The cable is just hanging there. Oh, I didn't know. And I've short, some of them, some drivers run these cables, the natural length, which is about a foot. And so there's a lot of stangling down there that could get caught in your hands if you're messing around or trying to tighten your helmet or whatever. So I shorten my cable up really short so it comes out of my ear, runs right under my chin, and runs right in the helmet. So there's not a lot of excess hanging around down there. But, you know, anyways, I wanted to securely plug in there really well.

Some cables don't, some plug in there good enough for me. So I'm kind of bouncing around trying some new things this year. And we go to qualify. I go out and ran my lap, and this ain't no disrespect to anybody, but Weatherman beat me, which he's a great qualifier. My nephew, Jeffrey, beat me, and the five. Alfredo. Yeah, he beat me too.

He ran a really fast. lap. So I ran my lap and I'm like, ah, I don't know how, I don't think this is going to be very good. 22nd, 25th, maybe. And so I was kind of freaking bummed about it immediately. And which is, that is my Achilles heel, especially at this age. Everywhere I go, I have zero confidence in my ability to go out there and qualify well, no matter what I'm driving. And so I got out of the car, went to the hauler and started watching the rest of qualifying and man the track just got worse and worse and worse slower and slower for whatever reason right temperature's going up guys are picking the rubber up that we put down in practice track's getting slicker and there was you know the treatment to the track

definitely made the car and the track drive different than last year it had way less grip this year the traction compound gives you so much more comfort and grip and drivability and they didn't put that down on the racetrack for our race. So I was struggling with the car and really not sure exactly how good we were going to be. I thought we qualified terrible. As it turned out, it wasn't too terrible, right? It ended up 13th. We qualified 15th last year, two spots better this year.

So I was kind of very relieved over that. We went to the stage and did a Q&A with the rest of the junior motorsports guys. The one thing I'll say about that is. while the announcements are out that Mayor and Brandon Jones are going to different teams next year, those two guys have been nothing but professional. Now, I know that I watch them on the racetrack and I know that they're probably less likely to help us and more likely to help their future teammates in certain unique scenarios when it perfectly presents itself at a drafting track or something like that.

but I ain't holding that against them but the way they're carrying themselves Brandon's a great kid dude he has always been so easy never complained never said one crossword about junior motor sports or his cars or the performance or the poor luck he's had

and mayor is excited about his future opportunities and still trying to do a great job for us so that was one thing I drew from being around them this weekend and especially at that event and then we went to see some Bass Pro Shop folks up in a suite and then back down to the bus where we met some folks that we're trying to work with with the High Rock Vodka

partnership and ownership piece and then got ready for intros. Intros was fun, always cool to go to the stage. I've got to bullshit with SVG a little bit there at the stage. Yeah, then we went out to the car. Got to the car and one of the best parts about the evening is having the kids there for the pre-race. Yeah. That's just fun to see them sort of looking around and taking it all in.

Isla loved seeing herself on the big screen. That's a complete 180 from Ila a year or two ago. Yeah, really? Right. Terribly shy and burying her face in your shoulder a year or two ago. and now she's, you know, in the background, making funny faces and stuff. And so, which is great to see as a parent, right? You want your kids to sort of open up and gain that confidence.

And, you know, now Nicole's kind of going through that process of being the shy of one and bearing her face in your shoulder. Those were some great moments that sort of drive home, the drive home, you know, you build up a lot of anxiety and nervousness about how's this going to go. will we run good? Will the car be fun? Will the car drive well? Will we have a great night?

Will we miss all any bad luck or potential dangers? And then you're standing there with your kids and you're like, ah man, this is why we're here, right? This is what's about. This is going to be fine. You know, this is going to be fun. And so that's the moment, I think, when all of the anxiety and stuff kind of leaves.

I wish I could control that anxiety stuff better, but I don't know. It's just who I am. So we get in the car. and TJ you can chime in if I get anything incorrect or you want to add and we have radio clips too from the entire night

yeah so we get in the car and you know finally get the engine fired getting excited about getting this race going and pull off pit road and during the pace laps

I think is when we started having some issues and we've got a clip all right thank you that was on two they got a little Gatorade or something in that radio from last

anybody on two now now how long that's not sorry we're we'll figure it out we'll have that's him that's him

we need to come back now we need to do with this lap here just see you know yeah so that was a that was a

gathering of probably the first 40 laps yeah that was that was all summarizing the one yeah

so so what and and out of all the f bombs in there I maybe dropped one of those

some of that was some of that was some other talking. I don't want to know the names, but we sound a little similar. Basically, under the pace laps, T.J. started dropping out. Anyone, right? The crew chief, TJ, they'd start talking and then they'd just disappear. And by time we got the green flag, it was completely gone, all of it. Yeah. And I don't remember when the first caution came. 40-ish.

40-ish or something. So we ran all of that, not a word, nothing, no spot or nothing. And did we come down pit road? Yes, you just pit out of nowhere. I look up and you're on pit road. And I'm like, okay, we're coming down.

So you might have said you're coming down. Yeah, I couldn't hear from y'all. I couldn't just. You entered a closed pit road, so I'm like, okay, we're coming to fix this because he's not, he can't, you know, he's not hearing very well. Right. And so we come down pit road thinking,

And so under caution, I was messing with everything, right? And I kind of started getting some communication back. We narrowed it down. I wasn't sure what I had hit or what exactly. I didn't have a lot of confidence in, oh, this is the connection issue right here, right, or wherever it is. But I messed with everything. And we came down pit road. And I think the first thing we were going to try to do was change earplugs.

And so I undo the helmet and we come down pit road, get another set of earplugs. and I undo the helmet and I push the helmet off of my head, right? And I'm putting as I'm driving around the track. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, so I. Got my receipts. Yes. And so I change earbuds.

And that sounded better. Like things start working again. Green flag drops. We go three corners and they disappeared. And so I'm freaking out. I don't know if they can hear me. I'm just talking and saying I can't hear anybody. This is what's going on.

Has anybody hear me? I don't know whether they're getting this or not. I can't hear them. And every once in a while, T.J. would come back and then he disappeared for like a corner. And so there was something that was moving. And so I started grabbing the ear mold plug that plugs into the helmet. I thought bending that a certain way,

it sounded like it might start working. So then we're thinking helmet. So caution comes out again. We're going to come down pit road. Undo the Hans device on the back of the helmet. I undo the earplugs. Come under the, undo the air inlet on top. Come down pit road.

They pull the windin net. I give them one helmet. They give me another one. They put the wind of net up and we get strapped in, buckled up. Get the Hans back on. Plug the end. Plug back. in new helmet. So now we've done

ear molds and then the next caution we did helmet. I ran four or five laps and that went. Okay. And then that stopped working. So it's not the molds, it's not the helmets. Eliminated of that. And they were

like, we're going to change the harness. And so we come down pit road for the next caution and this is around lap 80 or so. Maybe 110? Yeah, probably around Yeah. And they give me a radio and it has a cord, one single cord coming off of it that plugs. It's about a foot and a half long that plugs into the helmet.

And then there's a little button push to talk that has a clip. And it's what the crew chiefs use to put, they clip it to their belt. And then they just reach down at their hip and mashed a button to talk on the radio. And so now that's how I'm going to communicate. They plugged that in, and they stuck that down somewhere beside me, and that was working. I could adjust volume. I clipped the button on my chest, and I could talk to T.J. under caution during the driving, under Green Flagg laps, I couldn't push the button, and the button on the wheel is no longer in play.

Yeah. I was talking to you, T. I was. I was. My best work. I could tell he couldn't. I knew he couldn't hear me because when I was clearing him, normally when you clear, when you're spotting and you clear, they move right away.

And I was clearing him and there was like, I'm not going to move yet. I'm going to get another car length and look before, I'm sure. I heard you going like, clear, click, click, click, clear. Well, I was, and I don't know if you could, you obviously didn't hear it, but I didn't know what you could hear. So I was like saying it like five more times, just in case one of them got in there.

It's very smart. I like that. I got to tell you, man, we, so the help, the, the radio that they gave me, they faceted somewhere beside the seat. And in the next little run of Green Flags, my elbow kicked that down into the floorboard of the car. And when it got down in there and hit a rowbar or something

and turned the volume knob, and so T.J. was not max volume, but he was much higher. And I was like, hey, I was like, T.J., don't say anything loud. Because he usually doesn't. He's usually pretty much the same tone the whole race. but I just like, hey man, don't say anything loud because I can't turn this thing down.

I was afraid to grab the cord and start pulling it to get the radio back. It might unplug. Then you're true. Yeah. And so I'm like, what do I do? Do I fish for this one bitch or not? So finally the costa comes out

and I'm pulling this cord up like and kind of like fishing without a pole. And finally here comes the radio. Oh. And I got the radio and they're talking to me. What do you need? What did you car? I'm like,

I'm like, I got it down. I'm like, I'm working in it. I'm working for me. And I'm like, where can I put this damn thing? So I can't. I tried to mess with the clip. The clip fell off the back of it. I'm like, what the thing?

And there's no, there's no pocket or anywhere to put this. I can't put it in my lap. Finally, I stuck it in the water bottle. There's a water bottle holder in the middle of the car. The water bottle just come out. I just took the water bottle and it just fell out of my hand. It ended up in a floorboard somewhere. and I set the radio down in there

and then we were fine and man we finished the rest of the race well we've got a clip of that all right hey we all have them yes do you want them on the next stop I'll take them as it that I thought they were in here in the floorboard somewhere

sure they're torn all the shit yeah I didn't know where they did you that's funny man good thing you said holder because the water the radio is now in the water bottle water bottle yeah okay that's gonna work did you only have one pair of glasses

listen so the glasses thing is not a big deal. I feel like, it feels like a big deal. It feels like a big deal, but it's not. So drivers start wearing glasses, and you'll see Joe Legano and Harvick and a few others. The majority of the people are wearing them to be able to read the gauges better. As anybody that turns, you know, 35 or older, you know, you're reading close up on your phone and stuff gets a little more difficult for some of us. And I started to, my sight was so good up until about 43 years old.

I started wearing glasses to read. I started wearing just readers. And the rest, like the bottom of my glasses would have the reading prescription. And the rest of the glass was not prescription. It was clear, nothing. And so from, if I take my glasses off, I can see just perfectly at a distance. Now, up front reading something, a page or my phone, I need the glasses. Now, in the last four years, the distance has not, the distance has degraded a little bit.

And so now I have a buyer, a trifocal prescription in my glasses. But I can totally race without them. I just won't really be able to tell you a specific temperature on the dash for, you know, whatever, you know, whatever the water or the oil temperature is. But that's not a big deal either because these gauges flash rush. red when they're too hot. If they wanted a specific number so they could add a little more tape, then it would be worth wearing the glasses. If you're racing somewhere like Kansas this weekend where a little more tape would make

a massive difference in the balance of the car and you would want to put that tape on there, I need to tell them a specific temperature so they know how much tape they can add. So I've been wearing glasses for a decade maybe or a little less than that. I've only been racing with them for the last year. The first couple times I tried to race with glasses, they fogged up really quickly, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to use them if I wanted to. So I didn't.

I decided to start wearing them every time I drove about a year ago. I got in the car, put them on. I'm like, great, I can see the dashes, I can see the gauges, I can read everything detailed. And then when we started having to change everything, I swear that I took my glasses off and tried to tuck them in this tiny little pocket that they perfectly fit in

that's on the padding of the door bar beside me on my left. And I swear I tried to put them in there and I knew I was like, they probably aren't going to stay there, they're probably going to fall out, get scratched all to hell. I'm going to my doctor coincidentally in a month

and I'll probably get some new glasses made. All good. when we changed all this shit out I was just putting my helmet back on going glasses are in the floorboard not worried about it we're going to run the race but they're like we got your glasses I'm like that's somebody else's glasses

my glasses are here but they're like no man we got them and they did I don't know how they it must have taken them off I did take them off to be able to get the helmet off right but then like put them in the helmet they must have fell in the helmet

it was a total like mystery and just a, you know, just a fluke. Weird. That they ended up in the helmet with, with the glasses on pit road. I thought they, I'd stuck them in a pocket. But there was something shit going on. I don't, you know. Yeah.

Anyways, where the glasses ended up was a surprise. Yeah, sure, I'll take them back. But I did not put them back on. Oh, really? Nope. Oh. No. All that for nothing.

Yeah. You're right. Jeez. Well, the glasses, like I said, were a big deal to everyone but me. he's driving blind he just took out the leader yeah exactly it wasn't it wasn't a big deal

of me I wish you could see the just from the other side he couldn't see yeah like the other side of like whenever you have a radio problem is a spotter you start switching everything too which is not fun and I'm a neat freak

and the part that bothers me the most about this is I destroy my bag trying to change yeah changing radios cables and it's really annoying but and then you know it's not you because I was scanning myself when I was talking, and I'm like, I know I'm transmitting,

and I can hear myself fine, but you still change it anyway because you want to eliminate it. But, yeah, it's definitely a really, I know it was entertaining for everyone else, but I really wasn't enjoying it that much. Let's listen to that last clip you want to play. So what that was about was, Riley, me and Riley raced around each other quite a bit,

and there were a couple times where he got the better of me, either by lane choice or on a restart, and I had just maybe passed him or I knew that I could get by him. And as we would start running after a restart, he was pretty quick for a couple laps, and then I would get quicker. And I'm working underneath him trying to pass him, trying to pass him. Get down in the corner and get kind of up to his door,

and he'd pull me back down straight, straight away, over and over, corner after corner after corner after corner. That is totally fine. I am not annoyed by that. Now, I'd love to pass him, but I am not annoyed by anything he's doing. And then something happened where we decided we come off the corner. I'm underneath him. He clears me.

We ran a couple corners. And then he went into the turn and didn't go to the top like he'd been running the top. He just goes into the middle. And so I'm like, all right, I'll just jump to the top. And I'll just, whey-on. And I go right around him. I'm like, I think he let me go there. I'm not sure, but why did he do it that way?

And that was making me, that was what frustrated him. I'm like, we just ran 20 f***ing laps. You're just being stubborn or in hell. I don't think you let you go. And then we go into a corner and he's like, eh, just go. Because you got on his outside on like the straight away almost. It was before the exit. He knew we were, I don't think you let you go because we were making up ground on the bottom through one and two.

He tried to run the bottle and he just missed it. And that's what happens. These guys run the top so much. And the first time they go back to the bottom, a lot of them missed a corner the first time. And he under did it, you know, and then he just flung around the top real quick. And we got,

I laughed whenever you got out there. And I'm like, it's inside. I was so mad. It was like a hot, it's like a, it's like a flash of like, ugh, you f***. But I'll have a beer for you. Yeah.

And then I was, you know, and then a couple corners later, I'm like, that's fine. You know, it's not a big deal. Take this cut finger. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

But he didn't come for a beer, did he? Uh-uh. I like Riley. And great kid. I'll be honest with, there's not a lot of, there's not, I can't,

I mean, there's not really anybody in the Xfinity series that I don't think would be, that I don't think it's fun to race or that I don't, I wouldn't, you know,

I don't bull shit with or, and they're all cool. But, um, yeah, I was just like, oh man, you know,

we, when we were racing and I was trying to get by him, I'm also watching the cars in front of front of us just kind of inch away and I'm thinking man if you were going to let me go after all that you could have let me go earlier and then I wouldn't I would might have a chance to kind of race those guys that have drove away from us but I wasn't sure exactly what he was trying to do or not trying to do but yeah we went we I'm trying to pass him trying to pass him and he's running the wall running the wall and then all of a sudden we go in the corner and he goes to the middle and I was

like well that's the guy that's not going to work you're not you know the middle is no man's land. You run right on the apron or right on the wall at Bristol. There's nothing in the middle. No grip, nothing. And so I just jumped to the top and got to his quarter panel and went around his outside pretty quickly. And I was like, all that for that, you know. But I always kind of like having those kind of moments. Flipping people off? I'm not. I think you get one bird. A race? Yep. I think you get one i mean if you're if you're flipping off multiple drivers it might be you you might be the problem like blaney yeah yeah you know really well just he you know he blows up a lot on the radio yeah but he's like a one bird race guy yeah you're right i don't know that he really

flips a lot of birds he maybe does a lot of like fish shaking and stuff i know when you can't flip the birds in practice because you he got the burn practice one time and yeah i don't like that i mean receiving the bird is like the most insulting thing that can happen as a race car driver right that's a great, that's a great thing. So, I thought, like you said, no, no, no, no. So when I was in my 20s, flipping the bird was

pretty casual thing. Oh. You know, I don't think we all walk around flipping each other off, but also on the same side, if I'm flipping any of you guys off, I don't think you're coming after me. No. Right? It's not a very intense, serious thing. when I went to,

when I got into cup racing, I didn't, I thought, you know, I'll flip the fucking bird, I don't care. You know, and I would flip off, you know, maybe, maybe not dad. It would have to be a pretty intense situation, but I would flip off his peers. I would, in my mind, I'm not doing it.

I'm just saying, yeah, I mean, if I think you, if I think I won't flip you off, I'm probably going to do it. And then I heard, so I didn't think it was that serious. then I heard Rusty Wallace say one day in a conversation to someone else. I'm just standing there. And he said, flip me off, the worst thing you can do. You flip me off, I'm coming after you.

Right. I do not like, he's like, out of all the things, on the racetrack, that is the worst. Don't do that. And I thought, I had no idea. People felt this way. And so then I was like, I'll be a little more, I'll be a little more strategic. And so since then, thanks to Rusty, this veteran, even just he's dropping in on a conversation

he might be happening at driver's intro, I am now a smarter, better race car driver. And so I'm not just going out there going, eh, F you, F you, F you, and getting myself a terrible reputation with my peers. And so, you know, I think you get one bird a race, and if you don't use it, don't use it. But if you do, that's the one bird.

So since you only have one bird race, you got to be you know hey is this moment worth using it um was it worth it no do you think that sounds a message though or like riley like a veteran this veteran did i do something wrong there you know what i mean like if you did let you go i definitely wanted riley to go riley probably went what the hell to do that guy yeah but i do want him to kind of think about it and go hmm i wonder why he might be pissed what what what could he not you know and hopefully he doesn't go well he didn't like to be hard. Gosh, you know, that's not it. Um, you know, it just was, it was weird how he ended up kind of letting me go or got, you know, how I could get back around him on the outside like that.

And TJ, were you trying to calm his spotter down? No, I just went down there and said, hey, just didn't, you know, telling me didn't mean anything by the bird, everything is all good. Got it. Okay. He probably was like, he didn't say nothing. Yeah. What, I did. I actually went down there. I know, Riley probably didn't even hear, get that message, but no, Riley probably didn't even say nothing. His Spiter probably doesn't even know anything about it. Yeah, he didn't. I'm sure he did.

Yeah. I doubt. Ralee was like, dude. No. He flipped me off. When I first told him, he had the look of like, you know, kind of like, what are you talking about? And I'm like, well, he flipped him off when he went by.

So, just letting you know. For no reason. It's funny that you have to kind of like mold that. Like, you kind of have to stop the spread of the fire before it gets too crazy. Yeah, you don't, I didn't want, I didn't want him to think it was too serious. So where were we? Oh. racing at Florence.

We were racing at Florence Darlington weekend in the late model, and I'm running the top and going around some cars that are on the inside. Somebody made it three wide and shoved a guy into the middle, which he ended up hitting me in the left rear quarter panel. I knew who did that,

and that guy goes by us. And so the next time we go into turn three, I just drove through that guy. I didn't wreck him, but I just run in the back of me and push him up to race. And then we carried on. He'd come up after the race and he's like, hey, man, I'm sorry about whatever was going on down there. And I'm like, I'm fine. I was like, you know, I didn't like what happened off the three where you force three wide in the middle of the corner and shoved that guy into me.

And I hit you in turn three the next lap and that I was fine after that. So like, you know, that's kind of the way I operate is if I want to do something, I'm doing it. And then I'm good. I'm not mad the rest of the race. I'm not going to go. I'm not, I'm still a Riley-Hirps fan as much as I was before the race. And I don't, I can't carry that shit around. You know, not that that was a big deal with him,

but like when those things happen on the racetrack and there's contact and stuff like that, I don't know, it depends. If the guy's needling you, like Kyle Bush, right? He will needle you in the media and all that stuff. It's like, I'm a. have to do something next time I get a chance because you're making you're putting me in a situation where I can't let this go all those years ago in 2008 and so but other drivers you know

they're you'll you'll quickly sort it out um but anyways that was fun that was a fun little moment um we got a last clip the checker fly clip yep yep yeah curious just to hear what this is about so um always we when we do our when I drive the Xfinity race. I get Chase Elliott's pick crew. Thank you. Hendrick Motorsports. Thank you, Chase Elliott.

And Allen, all those guys over there for allowing that team to crew the car. They do an excellent job. They come in, do the job. You hardly even know, it's just a very, they don't make anyways, man. They do good work. So I take care of those guys. They get some incredible gift. cards, T.J.

Which I hope they appreciate. T.J. and all the crew, they'll get some help for the holiday season as well. And, yeah, I was just thankful. You know, when you come in, the fifth car, we've run it a lot more this year, the fifth car at junior motorsports. So it's getting to be a little more understandable how to, it really spreads us thin. It's hard for the company, but now that We're doing it more often. We're understanding how to make it not be such a detriment to anything else going on in the building. Because it's a lot. You know, we don't bring in more people.

We don't hire more people to run it. All the people that are, you know, that can volunteer come on board to go get that car to the racetrack. So just thankful for that because it's hard to get four cars running fast, much less five. And that five, that fifth car, that 88 has been, it's been a winning car about every damn time it's went to the racetrack. Yeah. Yeah. Andrew over straight after the race. He's like, we're a championship winning team. People just don't know it yet. That's a good attitude.

Andrew is the crew chief on that car. He is absolutely confident as he should be. And you said you'll do another one in a few years? I'm not going to say, everybody was like, is this your last one? I'm like, I don't have any plans. I like it that way. If I want to run one, I will. If I don't, I won't. Right now, there's nothing on the schedule for next year. But I know, no, me, I'm probably going to go, man, I missed running. When 25's over with, I'll probably, actually, when I'm done broadcasting and NBC finishes out the year, I'll probably be sitting there going, I should have ran a race.

I should have ran one of these. Darn it, you know. And then I'll probably go to Kelly and LW and say, hey, let's find one for 2026. And I'll get nervous all over again. And Bristol's the pick. Oh, no. Oh, you don't want to go to Bristol back. Oh, I might go to Kansas.

That looks pretty fun, running the fence. This weekend. I haven't. No. I love running the wall, and that's why I went to homestead a couple times in the last couple years. So, Kansas, you definitely run the fence. That was a fun one back in the day for me. I remember the last several times we raced there.

So, yeah, I mean, I don't know. It's just a, we're just talking. Speculation. Right. Yeah. I think you'll run. Oh, I'm sure. I'm not done.

Heard it from TJ first. I just think he went, I can hear it in his voice when this is fun as hell. You know what I mean? I don't. I want people to remember him now. We're, we're,

it was fun though. It was fun, but I mean, I'm only racing my late model. Yeah. And Amy and I sit down at the start of the year and I'm like, let's, we put the schedule in front of us and I go,

Amy, uh, I want to run this many late model stock races. And here's, here's, a bunch of races that are interesting to me and we'll look at what the family's got going on what my work schedule is

I got everything else is a priority racing driving a race car while I love it is way down on the list it is there are so many other things now in my life that insist on being prioritized above that and must be and so

we take racing and try to fit it into the puzzle that's built. And I love driving that late model stock car and I love grassroots and I love being in that atmosphere. I would encourage anybody that hasn't been visiting their local track to go check it out. It is fun. It is there.

The true love and passion for motorsports is alive and well at the local short track. And especially if you find yourself an opportunity to be involved with a team or helping someone that's racing or driving yourself. So I want to focus as much that. If I'm prioritizing driving, I prioritize racing my late model over driving that Xfinity car. For me, that's a selfish thing, whatever. But I want to drive that car more. And if I'm, if giving up an Xfinity race gets me another late model race, I'm going to

do that if I can, right? But if somebody walked in here tomorrow, the phone rang and said, hey, we want Dale to drive an Xfinity race and we'll sponsor one of the other four cars for a package deal, five or ten races. We're doing that. We are doing that. That is going to check the box, and I'm back at the racetrack in the Xfinity car. But until that happens, I'm going to mess with this late mall stock car.

We've got a really cool announcement, I think, coming around the corner with the late lot stock car I'm excited about. There is some really, really cool things in the future. that's going to be announced, not just about late-mile stock cars. But I'm excited. I can't wait to get this news out. One of the things that we did is when the race was over, as we like to do, is we'd get to crush a couple beers, okay?

More than a couple. Yeah. So we, I love this about late model stock racing, and we've done this with our Xfinity races from time to time. particularly when we finish, when we get to the checkered flag, I feel like I've earned the right to drink a beer and hang out and enjoy. If we have a bad night, something breaks, the car catch on fire, whatever. Maybe we dial the back the celebration a little bit.

But when we race our late mall stock cars, we always have beers before we finally loaded up and get out of there. And trying to replicate that old school vibe on pit road last Friday. night was a lot of fun. All you guys were down there. Amy and some of the high rock vodka folks come down for the suite. Yep. And we had a cooler

of beer ready to go that we had planned to have. We drank that in 15, 20 minutes. It did not take long. No. So, you know, there were other people around. We signed autographs for fans that were sitting there. Some of those people wanted beer. We shared some of our beer.

And then Marcus Smith. owner the racetrack comes over. No, no. Tim Dugger came first. Tim Dugger came... He came with the next shipment of beer. Tim Dugger came with a case of natural light. Like he was like a backpack.

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. We had Budweiser and Nicolow and then he came with some Natty Lights and then then Marcus came with a big giant barrel of bushlight. Yeah. We drank all of it. We drank all this beer.

But there's about, what, a dozen to 20 of us? Yeah. And it was about every 20 to 30 minutes. We were new shipment from somebody on a golf cart or, like, it was never the same case. It was never the same. It was just like people were finding beer. Yeah, we were going and getting it from somewhere. Even later, Marcus grabbed like pulp pork sandwiches from the concession stand and brought

them down. We ate those. Yeah, it was just like we were being taken care of. I took Amy over to turn one and two and try, and, and, He's like, walk up this banking, honey. I want you to go all the way to the top with me and sit at the wall and just really appreciate how steep this is because you can't appreciate it from any other perspective.

So we walk up there and we sat down next to the wall. We're right in the middle of turn one and two. And I was showing her how the rubber builds up on the racetrack, and we try to avoid that. We try to straddle the rubber that's building up. And you could peel the rubber off like a sticker. And she's sitting there pulling it off. And then everybody come up there about,

20 hours or so. We took a big picture and, you know, fun documenting the night. But we stayed up till about 2 o'clock in the morning, hanging around on the racetrack and just laughing and joking with each other. We went back over to the fifth wheel from camping world and drank until about four in the morning. I didn't have that endurance. You didn't know. I was getting texts throughout this time. I was kind of jealous that I didn't go, but Saturday was a... You had to work. Saturday was a big day. But I didn't, did you, did you see the video of Dugger getting down the banking? Yes, of course. I didn't want to leave that go. I'm sorry. I could not. I didn't put that out in the universe, Dugger. I did not because I wasn't there. But yeah, Dugger couldn't get down

the banking. Dugger went up there and in boots. Yeah, didn't he take his shoes off? He had to take his boots off to come down. And he had to be helped by two people. Sounds like an amazing night. It's pretty funny. It is pretty funny. And then we had every hall. honk there and the seven hauler here at junior motorsports has the train whistle and they that thing ran out it went for yeah he laid on 90 seconds maybe longer good lord that looks like a bunch of kids literally kids all get in the trucks you missed it i know i know i'm jealous i was i was uh upset i was awesome it was awesome to see the pictures but i was like man i i want to be there i i'll say this no joke that was probably the coolest thing i've ever

done at a race swear to god well listen like it was so wholesome like it was just living in the moment. No one ever does this and I don't understand why. I don't either. So, I mean, look, I was just like, I was just like all the other guys back in the day when I was racing in the Cup series. Race is over. You're getting their ass out of there. Yeah. And I don't know why we didn't hang around. I don't know why we didn't crack a beer and just take our time leaving. But I'm telling you, it's the way it should be. And it's certainly the most enjoyable way. Now, certainly if you don't run well, you're not happy. But when you run top 10, And yeah.

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NC.gov. Going to the Bristol Cup race, not a good night. Not a good night for anybody. Except for Larson. The good poll race from Jeff Gluck. 27.2, the worst Bristol race, recorded.

I think people are just, you know, have had enough. Of this short track package. Yeah. of the short trip. We're going to get to this. So first things first, the track did not get the same treatment as it had in the past. They'd been putting PJ1 down, which had fallen out of favor at a lot of racetracks where it had been used. But it was still checking the box at Bristol.

I ran on it last year. I loved it. I used it specifically to have a car that could lead laps and run around the bottom and be very competitive, even against the cars that ran the top of the racetrack. I love the bottom of the racetrack with that PGA1 down there a year ago. This year they came back and did not put the PGA1 down and they put some resin on the racetrack, which has had favorable results at other facilities, even at Nashville Super Speedway, which is a concrete track as well.

they're thinking, hey, PJ1's kind of falling out of favor, mostly everywhere. Resin has had some reasonable results. Let's try that. The track, as I mentioned, had less grip. The tires had a harder time getting a hold of that concrete. The car was not as comfortable. And it, you know, it does, no matter what, even if you don't change anything, rarely do you go back to the racetrack and have exactly the same comfort and feeling. So that was not as big of a shock, but I was missing the PJ1 during the Xfinity race. NASCAR decided after talking to drivers and a bunch of people, there's a lot of collaboration. I was privy to a lot of the conversations going on about treating the racetrack,

which I thought was a great choice to do. They went and reapplied or applied PJ1 to the bottom. Two feet, that's plenty. don't, you know, they were wise not to apply so much that the whole car could fit in it. They only need to be applying enough to get the left side tires in there and give the drivers a little bit of grip down there to make it as maybe comparable and as racy as the top. Good choice.

That had nothing to do with what happened the rest of the day. The race begins and it took two hours, 37 minutes, rather short. race. Larson led 2, 462 laps 92% It's insane. It's been done before. Oh, I know.

That number is just crazy looking at it. And it's not a next-gen thing. Kelle Yarborough led every single lap in 1973. Dad, I think around 90-something led just about as much or more than Larson. So, I mean, it's not like

this is a next-gen issue. but we had a really compelling event there earlier this year with a lot of tire issues and I was welcoming those tire issues I thought that that really made the race interesting how drivers had to be smart about how they used and abused the tire on the car we went back to this race and we had none of those problems teams may have made adjustments to improve the balance of the cars and the wear of the tires. But I believe, you know, the tire was, the tire held up and did what it had done there in the past.

We kind of reverted back to having the tire react the way it had always done there. There's a lot of drivers that are trying to put together good races. There's a lot of guys that are trying to get to the end of the season. And so there's not, there wasn't a ton of like urgency or even a hint of panic in the race, the vibe of the race, which was a bit surprising to me considering it, you know, we're in the playoffs and it's now or never for a lot of these drivers. But again, we watched it over and over when you, and I noticed this, so the track had less grip. in the Xfinity car. And I believe that that was also the case for the cup guys. And the trucks even were a little slower.

I was told the trucks were a couple tenths slower than they were the race before. So if you have arrow issues, right? If you got a car that inherently is problematic in traffic and you pull grip out of the track, that car's issues are going to be compounded. And I think that's what we really saw everybody dealing with. You could be as fast as you wanted to be, but if you ran somebody down, you weren't going to pass them

or you're going to struggle to pass them because you would lose so much of your downforce and grip in the car that now it's almost nearly impossible to get around the car that you've caught. And so, you know, it's funny because we are we keep I'm guilty of this we bounce back and forth between where we put the blame

every time we have one of these bad races oh it's the tire and I think the answer's in the tire and then the next week it's a car thing like Denny made the case this week on his show that it's the car and so no one's wrong But I'm going to say this. That race car is a sports car. That is a sports car running ovals.

It's got, you know, it's got all of the thing. It's got a lot of technology from the supercar in Australia that runs predominantly, specifically road courses. It's got a lot of components similar to what you might find in a GT3, you know, MSA car. It is a sports car. It's got these white-ass tires on it.

It's got the diffuser, the underbody, all the arrow, and they're racing it on ovals. And I, it is a giant, it is a big shift away from what we ran for over 50 years,

which was basically like a Chevrolete, Camaro front clip with a 55 Chevrolet rear suspension pickup truck. Not that that's like the greatest thing in the world, but it was, it worked, right? It was very imperfect. I think the good thing, the good thing about a race car from, the good thing about a NASCAR race car from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s was that it was very imperfect and flawed. underbody was a mess.

And, you know, all of the things that that car did poorly, you know, in a wind tunnel or in a, you know, we're actually producing some of the quality of racing that we saw. But the car that we have today is, you know, it's an amazing vehicle. It really is. It's an incredible car. but it's not going

I don't believe it's going to be a good short track car and that's how do they get to where it would be I don't know that they I don't know that they really can't I don't know that you can ever take this car

it's going to it's going to probably require a narrow tire like a lot more narrow lot of rubber off the racetrack and you got to pull all the underbody

off the car but that's not is that realistic is that even realistic is that are those changes real changes that can be made they've they've invested

and put so much into this thing and I'm not sure you know and do you know that all of those things are the answer. NASCAR's tried a lot of stuff. They pulled the undercarriage off the cars at testing.

You know, they've done a lot of these things already. And the driver's driving them and go, they don't feel any different to me. So, you know, I don't have the answer. I don't. I do know what I'm looking at when I look at this race car. It's a cool-ass race car, but it is a sports car. It would do, it does great, you know, it would do great things in a 12-hour race at Seabring.

But what I will agree with or what I can say, I heard Jeff Gluck on the Teardown this week. And he said, and he's right, this cannot be okay. and I feel pretty confident that NASCAR is looking at this and going, saying the same thing. This can be okay. I don't know what they are going to do. I don't know what they can do. I don't know what levers they haven't pulled.

But I do not see short track racing surviving this if they don't find some solution. you know we lost one Richmond and it's not out of the question to think that in you know in just a few years you know the Martinsvilles and the bristles are going to be really hanging on

by a thread to keep their two races uh Elton Sawyer told serious XM this morning that they're baffled while the tires didn't wear and he said we're disappointed as a company for our fans. I appreciate that. And I think I'm disappointed too. I'm not sure why they got the results they got,

why the tire did what it did and all those things. And it felt like we were getting somewhere. We had that tire we took to the road course that they really, the drivers really approved and appreciated. And you saw at Watkins Glen the guys were getting yawed out and the car felt like it could be driven aggressively and they could slide that thing around. And you're like, okay, they're getting aggressive

and we're making some gains. And then we had this weekend and you're like, what the hell is that? And I don't know that they have the answers, right? That's what's frustrating is they, you know, I don't know that they know why it reacted the way it did this weekend and why we had the race we had. and that's you know

they're puzzled and I'm not confident we know what to do about it which sucks man because I mean just about 10 you know just just five years ago we were all begging for more short tracks it was a hashtag trending on social media

and now nobody wants to go to one now nobody wants to see one on the schedule the next week what a Travis So I will say We went for the truck race Spring race everybody ran the bottom

You could not move up And we go there this race Right in the beginning of the run I mean 20 laps in the run The run in the top In the spring race if you got off the bottom You were getting trained Yep so and it was the same tire as well

So what was different Why is it race so different I don't know the answer But like I'm I don't know how you go from that And that was just what four or five months ago Yeah you know I know it's crazy man

and it's I'm telling you I don't know that it's this is another I mean this is another thing like okay every solution is probably going to cost somebody some money and every solution

is just a guess who's going to be the one willing to take the hit is it Marcus Smith is he willing is he the one that's going to bite the bullet and change something about this racetrack

that they think will make a difference is it simply putting PJ1 back down in the bottom because they treated the track Sunday morning but it was probably not as much as they typically do I think there's multiple treatments that go down before those races so that probably wasn't as grippy and as effective as it might have been in the past is it I mean I know I've tuned

I've sang this song but I'm serious like is it asphalt what is what is putting asphalt down on this track, bring it back, make it fun, I don't know. And damn, that's millions of dollars

to risk if it doesn't make a difference. And you have a shit race. Denny Hamill will tell you, it's the car. It ain't the pavement, it ain't the concrete. It's not the tire. It's not, the tire isn't as big of a part of this

as, they thought. Some will still say, no, it's the tire. You know, that's the thing. We've got, if you bring all the voices in the room, you're going to have a bunch of different opinions on where we would need to go to fix the short track package. But I will say, we have been complaining about the short track package

with the next-gen car since it came onto the scene. And it is, and it is a great race car. But it is just not built for short-track racing. And so, if I was the race, if I was NASCAR and the owners, I would be in a room as quickly as I could together

to go over what options we would have to entirely overhaul this car for those races. And, you know, is it horsepower? What can we strip out of this car that's not necessary? What components and parts and pieces might we just not even need even if the um you know they took the they shortened the fins on the um the underbody and the diffuser and said the drivers didn't really feel much difference do we need it do we even need the diffuser could they just take it take

the damn thing off i don't know you know what do we not need on that car when it goes to these races let's just not bring that whatever that is right even if we don't know whether it's making a difference I don't know I think you get I think you know I do I do feel like that the diffuser to me

is one thing that stands out because all of these cars the way those cars are built now with the with the air channeled underneath to the back it is for that car to do everything it's supposed to do great that air has to get under that car to the diffuser.

And if you got something in front of it, such as another car, it's starving that air and it's starving and that air is not getting to the diffuser and then therefore you're not having as much downforce and grip. I don't love that. I don't love that being in our building. I don't love that being part of our DNA. Right? When I see a diffuser, I think sports car.

I don't think NASCAR. I don't think stock car. And so that, I'm just, you know, rambling here, but something, the car certainly could be overhauled.

Is that realistic? I don't know. I'm not an owner. I'm not in the conversations with NASCAR. I'm glad to hear that there's disappointed as we are. But how long do we have? How much time do we have?

have in the in the bank before we are bankrupt you know what I mean in the short in with our fans in short track racing yeah it feels a lot like we're treating the symptom and not the problem yeah you know like we keep like putting the the cough medicine and the band-aid over and then the the wound or the the cough keeps coming back and it's like at some point you got to look deeper you've got to look deeper and see what's going on with this thing yeah I don't know there I think there's a lot of things. I don't, I think it's car. I think there's tire. I think there's plenty of ways to, do you give more horsepower with less tire? Do you get rid of the, do you get rid of the diffuser, all that stuff as well and just do all of it? Yeah. I mean, can you give them a smaller tire?

Because if you have a smaller tire, you don't have as much grit. Yeah. The, they wouldn't be able to, they probably wouldn't be able to make a, a smaller tire in diameter because of the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the engineering spent on brakes and everything they're not going to change they would spend millions of dollars having to change suspicion and brake parts and stuff to be able to put a smaller wheel on there and I know nobody's asking for that it is possible for them to consider going to a narrow tire yeah that's kind of what I meant just a yeah I think of course and I think so if you've got 12 inches of rubber on the racetrack and your contact patch is, you know, just a rough number,

12 inches wide. What is, you know, go eight, go 10, go eight. Get, get way down there. And, you would build a narrow, you'd have to build and spend money on a narrow wheel. That would be your short track wheel. You wouldn't have to change anything, I don't believe, in terms of breaks and so forth for clearance and all of those things. You just put this narrow wheel on there that's,

got less tire on the ground. And, or, I don't know if this would work either. NASCAR might could run a treaded tire that basically goes on the same wheel you have today and it would just have less rubber on the track. It would be a grooved tire. But that presents problems with possibly chunking and the tire coming apart because of how that would work. So, because they come apart quick when the tracks dry out.

Yeah. Like a rain tire? Yeah. Yeah. I'm sure that this has all already been discussed, right? We're not sitting here saying anything that NASCAR and Goodyear hadn't already contemplated. But gosh, I implore that they may do something soon. And not that, you know, if they might have an idea what direction we could go.

Because, again, I don't know how much more we've got before we, if we have more of this, right? how is Marcus going to get people to come buy tickets next year after this 27.2% favorable poll after the last race too yeah worst thing the dirt races the last race the last race got all of our hopes up so high for this race so high the bar was so so so high and the campgrounds there was a lot of people at this race yeah yeah like it was awesome it was really cool to see so I hope we can figure it out because I want these people to keep wanting to come back to these tracks you know Jeff Gluck he mentioned during the race like trex is one of the fastest cars all night then he gets mired back in dirty air

can't do anything and he ended up getting eliminated too and I love the fact of bringing the driver back into the play a little bit where you have to where you have to manage your car a little bit where you have to do that because the spring race the guys that excelled have experience in doing that previous versions of the cup car when they first got into the

cup series they had to do that right I mean when Martin first got to the cup series he had to I mean you could spin the tires everywhere so and Denny and Brad, they were the top three guys. I agree. Four eliminated from the playoffs, Burton, Kozlowski Trix, and Gibbs,

and now we reset the field going into Kansas, Talladega, and the Roval. The Roval is going to be interesting because they changed the configuration in the infield. Matthew Weaver posted a picture of that on his Twitter of people. He's like, somebody was asking him, like, what are you looking forward to?

two in this round and he just posted a picture of that reconfiguration. So as they're trying to get to the very end of the infield portion of the roval, there's a very, very tight left-hand turn that should present some guys, some opportunities to do some crazy stuff and piss people off. So Kansas will be a lot of fun because they run the fence there. It should be a lot of fun watching Talladega. Taledega, as much as we complain about the short track package, the racing at Talladega and Daytona is

is boo, poo, crap. So, I mean... I thought Daytona was better this time around than it was before, because we ran hard. Yeah, they stopped racing, you know, Barry and them told me they were like, we're not saving gas, we're just going to go hard. If we can get that at Talladega, we'll have a great race.

Yeah. If they're saving fuel, they're running side by side two by two and everybody's sitting still. Yeah. I don't want to watch it. Nope. All right. So hopefully the driver,

will go there and hammer down and drive and make some moves, right? I was worried about Daytona being that way, not being, you know, kind of... These crew cheese need to turn them loose. Do you think eliminating the stop for stages at plate races could answer? They just need to say, hey, man, go lead every lap. Try everything you can to try to lead every lap. That was always producing some pretty exciting stuff. Tell Degas.

Like a bonus or something. Tell Brad to stop being an old man out here. Well, I mean, I feel. riding around in line. I feel like we were in pretty good position when the first Talladega race this year. Well, I want you to... You weren't.

Yeah, but that's... Yeah, you bored to shit out of me for 90% of that race. Damn it, T.J. To put yourself in that situation. Yeah. Lead every lap, T.J. Come on. I wouldn't...

Yeah, I'm all for it. Try to lead every lap. Kansas should be exciting, though. Yeah. It was one of the best races earlier this year, although we said that about Bristol, so I'm trying to be positive. So, let's look at the,

the playoff grid. Larson, Bell, Reddick, Byron, Blaney, Hamlin, Elliot and Lugano, those are the top eight that are right now above the cut line, all recognizable names, names that you absolutely feel are capable of being in the playoffs and should be there, right? Yeah. Then these four right here are trying to shock the world.

And I love this. It's like the Cinderella story of the March Madness NCAA tournament, Austin Cendrick, Daniel Sores. as Alex Bowman, Chase Briscoe, and those four drivers, namely Briscoe and Bowman, and I'm sure Cinderick and Swords could argue, they've overachieved and outperformed. Maybe Bowman and Briscoe feel like they're not overachieving. They're running exactly how they should run, but they are dangerous and they're good enough to beat some of these guys in that top eight. I'll make a case for Bowman. Point scored in round one. Bowman scored the most points out of

the entire field. So Cindric was tied for second. He scored 103. Alex Woman scored 120. So they're fast right now. They are. Yeah, but you're forgetting where we went, the first race was Atlanta,

where they all stayed in line, where you qualify. That's why Cindrick's right here, and that's why, honestly, Alex had a lot of stage points there. Because you go to the Glen, Alex had a quiet, whatever run again, so did Cindricie. They weren't, but they had all them stage points

from Atlanta, that all they had to do is go to Watkins Glenham be average. So I just think that set these guys up for a really good first round. Now they're going to struggle. But they know how to points race. Well, now it's too where they can't do that now. You can't put two or three team cars in a line and get eight stage points or 12 stage points easily.

Yeah, I'll give you that. So Cindrick got stage points the first two stages, then went to the back and never made it back up through. Yeah. So can't do that now. It's going to be interesting. I see these four, Cendrick Sores, Bowman and Brisco, I see these four still trying to muddy the waters a little bit.

For sure. And one or two of them may bust through and be able to get through this round. Who doesn't then? Like, looking at these top eight, is it like the 11? Is it the 22? Like, those are the two. Denny's definitely going to have to turn his luck around. I agree.

And his strategy, right? I mean, you know, we give him a hard time. But his kind of slow play of this first round was dangerously close to knocking him out of the playouts altogether. I think you see the exact opposite of that. I think he goes to Kansas. Flips it and just runs hard. The Toyota's really good at Kansas.

And that's not me trying to say, I think he'll do well, but I just think they're going to run super fast, like all the Toyotas are. So then you have Talladega where he's kind of, it's flip-flopping. You had Atlanta first where he's like, I'm going to hang out towards the back,

maybe see if I can war of attrition here, right? Total opposite. He's going to try and get as many points as he can at Kansas with Taledega looming, you know. Well, it, you know, Cendrick and Suarez, while there's not good stats to back it up, could be

competitive at the Roval. If they can get through Kansas and Talladega, you don't know what, I mean, Austin Cendrick could go to Talladega and win the race. Penske's always been really good there. And so those guys could still be a threat. Chase Briscoe, man, I think he's going, Chase Briscoe's sort of building this very unique, us against them.

true underdog mentality. No one, after everything that Hasse has been, Stuart Haas has been through this year, no one had them even anywhere near the playoffs at this point, let alone in the second round. I mean, that's making him, he's the wild car for me because he's had a lot of speed in the last two, three races as well. And I,

Kansas is a place where Chase can go, and I think he can be really fast. So he could be a spoiler, you know, like, I think he could be a spoiler in this for sure. All right, this week's segment of Dirty Air was brought to you about tire, There's many people out there that love cars, but these tire pros specialists, they love cars more than you and I, and they're the service experts out there trying to offer you a huge selection of brand name tires and full service repairs from oil changes to alignments, brakes.

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They're one of 32 teams, all right? And of our listeners, there's maybe one in 25 that are a fan and give a crap. about what I might say about them. But we have had, they ain't won a Super Bowl since 91. There's been some moments, some good times, but for the most part, it's been a real struggle. Finally, new ownership, new coaches, entirely whole new kind of rebrand of the team. And got a nice little quarterback in the draft this year and a pretty kind of decent draft class that we picked up. Anyways, third game of the year.

We barely squeaked out a win last week against the Giants that was really, you know, you look at the Giants and you go, well, that's not a great team. And so what does that say about us? And so we go up against Cincinnati. Again, they've got their own struggles. But I thought they would beat us. And Washington ended up playing amazing. They have played two games.

This is the first time this has happened in the history of the NFL. Two games with no punts and no turnovers. That's actually crazy. In the Super Bowl era. That's wild. Yeah. And last week, so that's a new record that I kind of like. Last week, during the Giants game,

they were the first team to win a game without scoring a touchdown against the team that scored three touchdowns. Pretty cool. Like that, like, teams that had done that were like, oh, in 2000 and something. Not a very good, not a good record. I wasn't proud of that part. We won a game against a team that scored three touchdowns without scoring a touchdown.

That's like a totally Washington thing to do. Made up for it. We did make up for it. Man, last night was amazing. So I only mentioned this is because a lot of us are fans of either NASCAR drivers or other sports teams, and we have these decades or maybe just a year or maybe a stretch of races where things just don't go well.

But man, it feels good when you sit down. and whatever it is you're pulling for has a great night. That is a great feeling, and I had missed that. I'm gonna tell you, man. You like to scroll on social media when the commanders do good. Yeah, it's fun.

We were up two touchdowns, or we were up two scores with a minute left, and I was still nervous. By now. I do the same thing with the bills. Dude, I mean, are you a Bills fan? I didn't know if that when he had to throw that. They won a Super Bowl since 91.

Well, the lost that Super Bowl, just in case you were wondering. And they haven't won a Super Bowl pretty much ever. So I didn't know if that was like a humble brag that you threw it in there. No, it wasn't. I know. No. But, you know, I think we can relate, T.J. Oh, yeah.

Our teams have both had some rough patches. Rough patches. Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, yeah. So anyways, it was, it's, it's looking really promising. Feeling good, Washington. Yeah. The DMV.

Dude, that big play, I mean, we were texting during it. We're texting during it, and then they throw that bomb at the end. I'm like, I'm like, holy. Let me tell you some, man. They, Jaden Daniels threw a touchdown to McLaren to pretty much kind of put the game away. We don't do that shit. Do you now. Washington fans don't get to celebrate those moments.

Those moments don't happen for us. No. We ain't throwing touchdown passes to win the game. No. Run the ball, two of the clock. Pondick. Yeah. Yeah.

What he did last night. I flipped over just in time to see that. And we were texting right back forth. And right when I saw, I was like, wow. Okay. Like this dude. Man, I'm hitting Amy on the arm. I'm like, babe, look.

We scored. We scored again. Look at this. Not a field goal. They have scored on every drive. A field goal to a touchdown? That's impressive. We're doing shit.

ain't done in 30 years. I love it. I love it. I love it. Just had to say it. Anyways, let's get to this. Let's get to the race. All right, T.J.

I'm ready. TJ's over there doodling on his paper. Go bills. Go bills. Go bills. Are you actually? With a heart around it? He did.

As I'm talking about my team and enjoying my moment, he's over here, doodling, go bills. I thought it was cool because both our teams want. Normally both of our, I mean, we've been, like you said, we relate to it, but they've both been rough. I had a, oh, oh, and we'll talk about, sorry, TJ, didn't mean you're in a row here. We'll also talk about, I had a decent night or a day, Sunday. I didn't bet much on Fanduel, not as much, I was 15 and 9, no humble brag. Last week, this week I went easy.

I just had a couple bits, but I was, I come out on top, man. Two good weeks in a row now that I came back. I took the summer off from my betting app. Let you let you down, though, one of them, didn't give you that 10 yards you needed. Yeah. Man, I could. Yeah, lost a couple pennies there.

His guy, his running back was short 11 yards on a prop that I had. But hey, it's all right. Still came out ahead. Things are looking up. Yeah. All right, it's time to do some dirty-mo dough

with Tampa Tim's. The best bets the team made this week from the Bristol race. And we're going to preview the upcoming race at Kansas. Before we do that, though, we want to talk about something we started last week. We all made a bet together.

We chose a money line bet on the Thursday night football game. And I believe we took the Jets and they won. They won. Yeah. So congratulations to us. The Jets were at minus 280, so it wasn't a massive deal. But hey, it's fun. We're all together.

We're all learning and we're all having fun. We're going to do it again. The group's going to make a bet. for Thursday night football, but it's going to be a group parlay. You can watch this game on Prime, the Giants versus the Cowboys. We each are going to pick a leg to add to this parlay. So it'll be a four-leg parlay, and there just so happens to be a no-sweat, same-game parlay bonus bet.

So if we fail, we'll get our money back in a bonus bet that we can use. So I want to go ahead and go around the room. It's going to be Donne, Alex, T.J. Me. And go ahead and Dalton, tell me what your leg is. I like Devin Singletary 60 plus rushing yards. There you go. Devin Singletary 60 plus yards rushing.

I like Malik Neighbors' 6 plus receptions. Dude's on a tear. Malik Neighbors is doing awesome. Washington played the Giants recently. He was hard to stop. Washington again this past weekend had some great moments. That's a lot of catches, man. But it's really he's the only guy they're going to. He's got over

those targets every game so far. So if they're throwing the ball, he can catch it. You kind of contradicting each other, though. I would rather... and pass game a little bit. I'd rather have him at 60 yards, but we'll do this. We'll do this.

Six, six and a half? Six catches. Six catches. I got Dak Prescott at over 275 yards passing. I like 275. I think Dak's going to light it up. That's a lot. Plus money too.

Yeah, that's a lot. I like Dak. I mean, I don't like the Cowboys. You don't like that. I think he's going to bounce back. I would have been more comfortable at 250, but T.J. calls it at 275. We're rolling. I'm going to go with Giants over 19 and a half total points.

They've scored, I believe, at least three touchdowns the last two weeks. I think that watching the Cowboys, they're having a hard time keeping people out of the scoreboard. I think they can go back in there Thursday night, prime time, and put 21 on them, at least. Right? At least 20. So, yeah, we'll see how it goes. We're going to make that four-leg parley bet. It is, I didn't, I made it just a minute ago, and I didn't do the odds, but if anybody wants to throw that in.

We'll see how that goes. We'll, um, you want to put that, are you going to put that up on? Yeah, I'll tweet out the, uh, on your tweet, the slip and it will have the odds up there, and I'll find it. Awesome. Do it after the show. On your own handle? Yes, and Dirty Mo will retweet.

We'll retweet. Derry Mo retweet. All right, check it out there. So, uh, I had a good day Sunday. I mentioned last week, I had was 15. to nine on my bets for the NFL. I didn't bet as much this week. I think I made four or five bets only,

but I had Alvin, I had a trio parlay at plus 300. Kamara with 25 yards passing, Brock Bowers, 40 yards passing, David Montgomery, 50 yards passing, and won that. So I was pumped about that. Yeah, had a good little run here the last two weeks. There you go.

NASCAR, let's talk about it, Tampa Tims. What did we do this past weekend? We did go. We hammered some top 10 bets. We had Bowman, which was a lock. And you've been on Bowman for a while. Bowman's been our best cash cow of the year. We've been liking that.

I had McDowell. He was one spot short, so that sucks. But I also had Ryan Priest's anything or seven, so that was big. Damn, really? Five to one. Yeah. Steve tried to talk me off of it, but I stayed strong. He qualified well. Yeah.

He's a short track guy, man. Yeah, I take those guys. All right, we're going into Kansas. Toyotas are probably going to be strong, like Dalton mentioned earlier in the show. Who's your winner? I don't have a winner quite yet, but my best bet right now is Denny Hamlin top five. He's got 15 top tens there, 14 of the moment in top fives. You'll get better odds with those.

Yeah. I imagine, you know, if I was going to pick a winner, I would say, let's go here, where am I? I do my shi. Tyler Reddick, but, I mean, even though I think he's got a real shot at it, driving to Toyota, the 2311s had a really good run at Kansas here lately over the last several races. I doubt the odds are favorable for that anyways. I think the opening odds, he's like the third.

favorite at like 750 so yeah I mean it's it's between him Hamlin and Larson it's just pick how can you pick between any one of those three and they're all pretty much the same so all right man so that's Alec and there's more information coming when dirty modo releases on Thursday uh Steve Lart and the whole gang will help preview their best bets they'll talk a little NFL too I'm sure maybe you'll see if Steve will jump on this parlay with us his four-leg parlay but sure he will yeah I don't know he might he might see some of our choices and and steer the other direction. But Dirty Mo Doe every Thursday on Dirtymoe Media.

Thank you, Tampa Tims. Thank you. All right, it's time for the white flag dropping after the race every week. And again, this past Saturday night, the tear down with Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi. Those two guys said so many nice things about me on that show. I'll listen on my way to take Isla to school Monday. And I text them immediately after that, thanking them.

I was really appreciative. Yesterday, action is detrimental with Denny Hamlin dropped. Let's listen to his reaction about Bristol and what they might should do going forward to help the short track racing package. Door bumper clear. TJ, you were on that show. What did you guys talk about?

Everything? Yeah, how good the race was. A lot of things like that. All right. Dropping tomorrow's Speed Street with Connor Daley and Chase Holden. And then our David Hoots interview for the ally guest segment of the Dale Jr. download drops tomorrow as well.

Thursday, DJD reloaded with Asked Jr. and Moore. And then Dirty Mo Doe. As we mentioned, will come out Thursday. A new episode of Andrew Curlin went there. with Country Music Star Justin Moore is out now on the next level with Andrew Curlin YouTube page. Justin and his drummer Tucker Wilson

have my dad's face on their drumplate at every live show. We're going to learn all about that and more with Justin Moore on Andrew Curlin went there on the next level with Andrew Curlin YouTube page. Dalton has this week's social media standout. I do, yeah. So I was casually scrolling TikTok

and I saw this guy who posted an entire breakdown video of your playlist that you posted. Shuffle it. A breakdown video. Yeah, I mean, he went through and found, like, the deep dives, and he was like, Dale's got alien ant farm on there, but it's only one song, and it's not this song,

it's this other song that no one's ever heard of before, right? And so there were so many people in the comments who were like, I can't believe he's got chunk, no captain chunk on there, and free throw, and, like, people were amazed at all the different bands that you had on there. So just want to let you know, you've hit a chord with, like, I need you to see me that video. I will.

And you've hit a chord with, the music industry for sure. Yeah, I have this playlist that I've shared three or four or five times on Twitter from my Spotify account. And this playlist is something I've been working on for about six years. And I just keep adding songs. And I try to kind of stay in the same vein. It's a little, it's some old alternative. There is a couple of hidden rare, weird gems in there that have no relation to the kind of theme, but there's a Bob Skag song on there that I just leave on there for fun.

Anyways, and then there's some more modern pop-punk stuff that I've been listening to that reminds me a lot of the alternative music I loved in the 90s. So yeah, it's fun. I think a lot of that is unexpected. It's funny to see people surprised by the taste of music because it's not

surprising to me. I think it's not quite normal, but they're like, oh, I never thought Dale would listen to that. So, yeah, send me that video. I'd like to watch it. Yeah. We got the question of the week from Ryan Blaney. What am I going to get invited over for beers again soon? It's been a while.

Put him on spot. What? He said he's going to be listening this week too, so. I hope he is. You know, he used to be my neighbor, and then he moved, and now he lives over in Concord next to Jeff Burton. I took a little bit of offense to that. Love Jeff Burton.

I think he's a great guy, but I kind of feel like I got traded out. I really do. And so, I don't know. Is he having beers with Jeff? Yeah, have beers with Jeff. Yeah. Is Jeff inviting him over? beers. I think he wants the invite from you.

Well, I would know. I'm saying is he, you know, I don't know. He's getting married now. I know that he doesn't have time for beers, so I'm not sending him invites when he can't come. And so, yeah. But if he wants, yeah, we do need to figure out, he texts me after the

he texts me yesterday or the day before. He's like, dang, man, I saw all y'all having fun on pit road with social media posts. He's like, I would have loved to have been out there. That'd be awesome. And he's that kind of guy. Oh, yeah. I saw in a social media He got tossed a beer after the race, drank it, drank it down. Yes.

Yeah. He's not going to pass that up. No, he is that kind of guy. He is the kind of guy that will one day eventually start, you know, dragging a beer cooler out on pit road at the end of the race. He'll be the beer guy. He will eventually start doing that. And anyhow, he is a lot of fun to hang out with.

I'll say that. Well, we've got a reason to have a beer with him now, though, with his dad. Yeah, that's right. Congratulations to Dave Blaney. he won a race that's named after his father and promptly retired. Yeah. That's so cool. That's so cool.

And he's going to go out, man. Yeah. That's really cool. That's so, oh. It is cool, sad at the same time. I know. No, I know. You hate it.

But like what better way to go out? That's it. I agree. I agree. But damn, how hard that's got to be to say I'm done. Yeah. Yeah. Congratulations to Dave Laney.

Thank you, Ryan. We'll get you over. man, I'm ready to drink some beers. I'll come to you. You tell me. We'll figure it out. Jeff coming. Never mind.

We won't. I'm just kidding. All right. That's the show. Enjoyed it. Thank you for tuning in. Hope you enjoyed this week's episode of the Tuesday show brought to you by Tire Pros and everyone else.

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