The Dale Jr. Download - 589: Racing In The Playoffs: "It's A Bar Fight Now"

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

Dale Earnhardt Jr. joins special co-host TJ Majors to react to the action packed NASCAR weekend at Homestead. After Tyler Reddick’s stunning last lap pass on Ryan Blaney to lock into the Championship Four, there was a lot to chat about:Was Homestead a near perfect race?What are Ryan Blaney’s regrets about the last corners of the race?How does the NextGen run at Homestead compared to Xfinity cars?The stage is set for a wild weekend in MartinsvilleHow will Hendrick Motorsports teammates handle the race on Sunday?Teammate mentality in elimination racesRace winner Tyler Reddick calls into the showDale & TJ preview their Halloween plans 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. We're back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download. We're going to talk Homestead with race winner, Tyler Redick. TJ's on the show. Everybody's here. We're going to have some fun. Let's get to it. The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

Hey. You're Dale and Jr. You're a complete moron if you undo your belt in a moving race car. Moron. Five, four, three. Hill's rally. To disregard the bird. It's unnecessary.

The Dale Jr. Download starts now. Go, go, go. Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. We're back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download. And it is Tuesday. Let's see here. October the 29th. Almost time for Halloween.

And TJ's here. We're going to talk Homestead. We're going to have a call in from our winner, Tyler Reddick. I saw him already this morning. Went to school. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Dropping our kids off.

Doing a little hunt. Doing a little hanging out, high-fiving him, Brad Kisalowski. I saw Eric Amarola in the drop-off line. Legano sometimes. Hmm. Yeah. All the racers dropping their kids off. T.J. has it going?

It's going good. No pause. No pause. No pause. Andrew Dalton. Alex, everybody good? Yeah. We're living the dream. So we'll get to it later in the show. But we made our parley bet for the Thursday night game, and we lost Minnesota versus the Rams of L.A.

We lost as a group. We lost it. We lost as a group. Hey, that's fine. I don't want to deter Andrew from playing along any time in the future, even though his leg lost. Dalton's leg lost. My leg will lose one day your leg lost before, Dalton.

Man, we came close. We had a four-leg parlay, and the money line bet lost. I would have picked what you picked. the Minnesota win. That makes me feel better. Yeah, it wasn't a bad pick. Yeah. That face mask really ruined it. Yeah.

I went and made a bet on three money lines, Chiefs, Bills, T.J. Majors, Big Bill's fan. And Pittsburgh last night, I made my unit back. Nice. That I lost. That's good. I'm happy. I'm even for the week. I saw Dale on Saturday.

It was at the show. And I, out of context. Amy's standing right there. I'm like, oh yeah, my leg was the bad leg. And Amy's like, what are you talking about? I'm like, Amy. And so, of course, you got to lean into it. She's like, what do you mean? She just walked up on this conversation where Andrew goes, yeah,

my leg's the bad leg. And I'm like, I see what's going on here. So I'm like, Amy, my leg's the good leg. Don't worry. She's like, what are y'all talking about? I'm like, my leg's good. This is bad? So the next time she sees you, Andrew, is your leg better? Yeah, right, yeah. Ice it up.

We just kept on going with it. But a lot of fun. Hey man, a couple things we're going to talk about later in the show that are some cool personal stories I wanted to get to. We're kind of thin on personal stories here lately. We've been traveling a lot, doing a lot. But I went to the concert. Luke Holmes put on Saturday. I know a lot of other people in this room went.

And we also went to the Commander's Game Sunday. We'll talk about that later in the show. Got a lot to share with that. A lot of fun. But this 30-year segment is brought to you. buy tire pros whenever you need to take your car in for some service i don't care what it is uh tire pros can handle it whether you know a lot about cars or little they're the pros and they're the go-to for an oil change engine repair they've got you covered visit your local

tire pro today thank you tire pros they do a lot for us here so let's dive right into to homestead all right um hey i was doing a lot of this week weekend but i was trying to pay attention to what was going on. And I did rewatch the race yesterday. Thrilling finish with Tyler Reddick going around the top to beat Blaney. There's a lot of great feedback about this race. TJ, you were there in person watching it working. But there was, after the race is over with, social media was flush with, that's good as it gets.

That's the next-gen car at its best. This is exactly what I want when I turn. on a NASCAR race. I mean, Matt Weaver, everybody, even all the people that are generally pretty transparent about their criticism or favoritism over what's going on in the sport, we're very positive about this race. I'm assuming that everybody in the room felt exactly the same way. Yes, pretty much. Right? Yeah, 10 out of 10. Yeah. I watched the race knowing, so I didn't see it. I was at the commander's game. Didn't see it live. I came home, see all this feedback, see the clips.

I'm like, I'm going to watch this race with all of that information. I rewatch the race. It was good. You know, I don't know if I'm seeing the 10-10. It was good. You know, I mean, it had all the things that I would have expected. It was the race I would have expected to happen at Homestead. Did y'all see something in this race at Homestead that you don't see at Homestead or hadn't seen at Homestead before?

Aside from the pass and turn three and four on the very last, I mean, that happened. That was excellent. And I guess it was just refreshing more so because this playoffs, the playoff drivers have struggled so hard. It was so awesome to watch basically seven of the eight. Okay. Up front, six of the eight playoff drivers led at least one lap.

So, I mean, like everyone was a player. Their comers and goers. It was just, it was nice to see a race. So in the first two rounds that the first two rounds that everybody said were very awkward and clunky. the racetracks that were in those rounds and the performance of the playoff drivers. All of that maybe hadn't achieved the desired euphoria or effect for a fan watching. And then you go to Homestead and you're like, ah, they're all up there.

Yeah, this is it. That's maybe the reaction. I think you're right. I mean, you know, it's not like it did better than I expected Homestead to be. It's just by far the best race we've had in the playoffs. So, like, maybe there is a little bit of that relief feeling of like, oh, there finally is. It's a race that we're looking for. Maybe there's a balance in, maybe there's a balance in trying to not, maybe there's a balance to really, like, okay, so they set up those first two rounds.

Very challenging, difficult, odd racetracks, a big, you know, each package of the round one and two were these funky races. And it muddied the water a little bit. You had a lot of challenge, you know, the playoff drivers weren't shining. Am I right? Is that, is that, is that? And so maybe that's not exactly the, the, maybe that's not hitting the target in terms of how, you know, if you're in industry, you're at the controls. You've got the, you've got the Xbox controller in your hand. You're running this sport, right?

Do you want to see the playoff drivers in scenarios where they can excel, they can battle amongst themselves at the top of the field each week, each round, as opposed to giving them this Rubik's cube that's almost impossible to solve in round one and two? It's maybe a balance of what we're looking for. That's interesting. just, I don't know, maybe I'm getting in the weeds, but the, when I watched that race, I was, I felt like I was watching a pure NASCAR, Oval, motorsport, it was a good, solid, this is what I would expect.

I go back to a comment I made earlier this year, that's kind of what I expect when I watch a race. And so, while I am thrilled, it was a great ending, I am glad it was a happy day and a good day, and everybody's very excited about it, that's kind of, what, I would like to happen every week, and I think that's attainable, right? But Tyler Redick, let's get down to it, man. I mean, there's a lot going on in this race of a couple things that we're going to touch on,

but Tyler Redick makes the pass on the outside. And has anybody really saw any kind of a comment from Blaney on maybe what he was thinking about going to the middle of the track? So there's a, I asked this question because in the Xfinity car and all of the cars in the past, all of the cup cars in the past, there's no way you're not running the wall on that corner.

But with the next-gen car, it's such a different animal. And he chose a line that he really thought was the best route. And the car is, the car does do well up against the fence,

but it's not as critical or somewhat mandatory to put the car on the wall late in the race like it, like it might be in the Xfinity race. So what was what when when he goes into the corner and you can hear the dejection in his voice if you listen to the in-car of how like he's like you know what you know I got I messed up you know I wonder I wonder what after the fact if he thinks he should have ran the fence I mean he said after the race it was hard to protect three and four and then a direct quote is man I thought I got in three hard reddick just blitzed off in there it stuck for him which is pretty impressive. So honestly, I think he was just taken by surprise. Yeah, I don't think he thought that move

was possible. Like I really, I think he went into the middle, was expecting for Reddick to maybe someone to run the high, and then he was going to have a chance to block them coming off the turn. I don't think he thought in the middle of the turn that he was going to have a car on the outside of him. Every race that I've ever watched there, take the next gen off of the shelf, all right? In the Xfinity car, in any other car, I see that pass happening nine out of ten times. If the, if the, lead car goes into the third lane, middle lane, wherever you want to call that, I'm definitely expecting the car that Redick's driving

to make that pass more often than not. What about what the next-gen car that gives Blaney the confidence that his choice, his lane choice, was the right one, even though he didn't succeed? I think that Blaney decided on that lane, he passed Denny there. Right.

Like the lap before, that's how he passed Denny, so I feel like he thought that was his fastest line at the time. and in the next-gen car you can a lot of cars it wasn't just plat like everybody wasn't running the fence the entire race they would go in there it was really awkward lines that people were running and not i wouldn't say it was it wasn't a common line and the wall was still fast but i don't think um i think with ryan had he passed had he passed danny on the outside i think he runs the wall but you know i think with a guy like tyler or or or a Kyle larson if they're behind you, those guys are going to the fence. Like, and I think you take that away no matter what, because if Tyler, if Tyler slide jobs him, Blaney can play offense after he's slide jobs. And you know what I mean? Like if Tyler, Tyler's not the type of guy that's going to go in there and just run a lane

lower than you. Tyler's going to send it off in there and clear you and then Blaney can play offense again, in my opinion. But I don't know, you know, to me, I would still cover the fence or at least run half a lane off it where he couldn't get there if he wanted to because I think Tyler did that. somewhere earlier this year and somebody closed the door on him and he couldn't make the pass. But like that's, I don't know, I mean, you can't give Tyler the outside. Yeah, right there, man.

I think that there's a couple drivers in the field that are very good at running the wall and getting everything they can out of that one corner. And Tyler Reddick is one of those drivers. When we were, when we prepare for going to Homestead with the Xfinity car, our drivers get on the Sim and practice running the wall. when they get to the racetrack, they go out there and they get on the wall immediately. Even though maybe you can run a couple of tents quicker running the bottom for the first handful of laps, maybe first lap or two, you go right to the wall, you start running the wall.

You're going to run the wall on the race, get up on the wall in practice. There's just this very mass, it's like a 99% focus of just putting the car on the wall in the sim, in practice. You're racing it in the race. That's where you're going to be. in the cup race, now there's, they're a little more, they're a little refined about it and they, they're smart enough to know, well, everyone can't run the wall. If we're all running the wall, no one can pass anybody. And so I saw Blaney make that comment before the race in the media

center. He was like, you know, I got to practice off the wall. I'm going to practice running some different lanes because I got to make the car work there. If everybody's on the fence, then I've got to find somewhere else to be. And we see this with the next-gen car at a lot of the mile and a halfs. And I believe that's what makes the car so incredibly good at those tracks is, well, with the diffuser, they can't follow each other. They need to be always funneling air underneath the car, getting air under the car to the defuser in the back.

So they have to run offline from the car in front of them. So if they all, you know, you send 10, 20 of them down in the corner at Kansas and homestead, they all have to choose different lines to get away from the car in front of them. They have to. And so, you know, it really kind of does present like multi-grove racing on steroids. You know, the old car was not quite as dependent on that clean air. Dirty air was a bad problem, but really you didn't worry about getting clean air under the car. with the next-gen car you have to have it and so we see the field go down in the corner

and fan out more aggressively using as much as the race everybody trying to go where someone else isn't just to get the clean air only to get the clean air and so it kind of makes it to where yeah no not the whole field can't go run the wall they can't they'd be all if they all ran the wall they'd be all about five 10 car links apart from each other right because they couldn't get closer because it starts to lose air on the diffuser. So, you know, they kind of have to practice off the wall. They kind of have to race off the wall and they have to make their cars work there. And Blaney, to your point, made that pass and said,

I feel good about where my car is and how it runs here in this area. But just really kind of shocking, a great call by Lee Diffey at the end. I was watching the race over again. and the energy that this guy has, man, it's pretty, pretty cool. And so it's given, these are the moments. This is the time of year where we all ought to be standing up, right, watching every play to reference being at that Washington game. You know, this is the time of year where we need that energy,

and it should be high, and it's fitting, and he did an awesome job bringing the moment. But pretty impressive job by Redick. We're going to talk to him later in the show. Kyle Larson had an up and down day. And now with this win, the playoff picture... He's minus seven. Yeah, it's pretty crazy, man.

And look, I like Larson. And I think that, you know, I think he's a... We were saying, I guess, last week, we thought he was the championship favorite. And he's got to make the championship four first. Jesus, man. What is this with this system, man? I mean, Denny was talking about this on Action's detrimental yesterday. It's like, this just shows you can be the car all year long.

But this format, you've got one bad race. It is not forgiving. Yeah. And the appreciation and criticism won't be forgiving around this either. When your format is aggressive, you're going to hear from people who don't approve of it or approve of it regardless. And I mean, if, you know, if Larson doesn't make the final four, man, that'll be quite a disappointment for that team. But, I mean, it's realistic. Christopher Vell's done such a great job, just piecing races together, being smart.

Again, I'm hesitant to really say much about Christopher Vail because he lives. listens. He hears what the media is saying about him or not or not saying about him. I think he takes a bit, he takes a bit of offense not being championed as the contender that he is. We saw it in Netflix show last year. We talked to him on the show midway through the year and I said, hey man, you know, you're doing it. You know, you're putting together the results in the regular season. Nobody's going to be ignoring you this time. But here we are. A lot of people not really, I mean, they are complimenting his consistency, but nobody's really, he's not winning the races, that's not really putting him on the front page.

You got to go to like page three, page four, page five to find the conversation around Christopher Bell, but he's sneaky. I mean, he's in a really good position at plus 29. His chances of winning a championship, he's feeling like Blaney was last year to me. Like I called Blaney to win the championship this year. It's going to have to go to Martinsville to win the race and get in. He did that last year, so... He did.

But if he doesn't do it, I mean, going to Phoenix, regardless of whoever the fourth driver he is, if Bell makes it, he can beat Tyler Redick and Joe Ligano at Phoenix. Yeah, absolutely. If his brakes stay on. This guy's got a real shot. It went into championship. It's real.

I think he's appreciated this year. I know, but I still feel like... I think he has, too. I do still feel like that he's not talked about enough. he's talked about Shane enough I agree I mean he's like

He's finished outside of the top 10 Once in the playoffs He's got three top fives in a row Yeah we were talking about Best Average finish in the playoffs If that was Denny Hamlin We'd all be talking about it It's his year

It's no shot Yeah like Christopher Bell's like The Silent Assassin He was gonna probably win Vegas Yeah Right exactly And this story would be completely different If you won Vegas

Or the Roval Second of the Roval Yeah I mean like before the year before the playoffs started, our good friends at the athletic, Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi did an anonymous driver poll,

and he was considered among the competition as one of the favorites to win the championship. So the threat, I think, is real for Christopher Brown. I think Blaney can win Martinsville, and I think he does.

Oh, really? I think, yeah, watching him run every lap there, he will run 500 laps within three inches of the curb the entire time, and he's figured out Martinsville. And I think Blaney Blaney, his next best track to me is Phoenix. I mean.

So is he... So Blaney, at minus 38, you could almost argue right now is the favorite. Is what? Like, if he wins. In your eyes. I mean, yeah. I mean, when, would he, what do you finish there last year? At Martinsville?

No, Phoenix. Second. Where did he finished? I mean, the year, when Joey won the year before, who rode behind Joey and played Blocker the entire race? Second, yeah. He rode right behind him. So if there's some guy that can ruin this.

you know, Ryan Blaney, he's equally as good at these places. Bell won Phoenix earlier this year, though. Yeah, I mean, it could be a good race. But then also you have to think about like a Hendrick car, Hendrick dominated Martinsville earlier this year. Yeah, I mean, that's the old tire. You got to look at Byron, Larson, and even Chase Elliott, what he, I think he was asked after the race, like,

oh, how do you feel about Martinsville? He's like, we're going to win that race. These Final four, like, if it ends up being, you know, Blaney as well on there, man, you got the fast guy, Bell, Legano he'll throw, I mean, if the late caution comes out, he'll be the guy that if he catches the caution right,

he can win. And Joey, I mean, he's done it all year, so. He plays chess, man. Yeah, and there's probably nobody better at doing that than that group. No. So, but I don't know, it's going to be, and like I said, you got two guys with Bell and Blaney going

to one of their best tracks. I mean, I'd like to know their average finisher in the last couple years, which one has a higher finish? I but man that's a tough competition right there for everyone below that it's a must win right denny i mean unless he goes out and sweeps the stages and finishes second or something i don't know how you i think it would have to be right yeah it's going to be close between william and william is good at martinsville so it's going to be really hard to outpoint him yeah larsson finished in second at martinsville earlier this year set on the poll um kind of a bit surprising i didn't think that

when I think about Martinsville, I don't think about Kyle Larson being very consistently strong there, but to your point, Hendrick was good. So anyone, Blaney or anyone, have their work cut out for them to go in there and get it done. I do want to say, man, I was pleasantly surprised or happy to see Chase Elliott relatively competitive throughout the day Sunday. They have just really struggled to run like we expect them to run how they expect to run they've not

not matched some of their teammates over the course of the last couple years but no denying the talent that the driver has he's a champion a student of the sport and his talent the talent in the team

it's just like a matter of time of like when's it's going to come back so it's good to see them running well the sport's way better off when Chase is competitive. And so that was kind of good to see. I got a follow up to Chase, and this is from the conversation we had last week.

Because we were talking about Chase is in a weird spot, racing his teammates. Now it's definitely looking like there's only room for one Hendrick car to make it in the champ for. No, but you were saying Chase is in an awkward position. But Trey Poole, his spotter, said over the weekend, he said, he's talking about Larson. he's not a teammate right now.

Yeah. So these guys are not looking at each other as friends. That's right. On the racetrack. Yeah. And that's, you know, hey, it's reality of the situation. It's not a, that's not a, that's not the wrong way to approach it, I don't believe. You know, they've got to be, they've got all of, they're underneath the same roof.

And we have this sort of happening at junior murder sports from time to time. We're all here. We're all in this together. we all are going to have access to all of the same tools, all of the same information, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, as we prepare to go to this next race. It's all here.

Nobody's hoarding anything in the corner. And, you know, it's pretty transparent to a point. Now, you know, when you go into the halls of the building by the offices of the crew chiefs, that's when things get a little more tense. Tense. That's where, yeah. You don't go into the other crew chief's office unless you got a good reason to go in there, right?

And so there are some areas, physical areas that are a little more off limits. But literally all of the same information and same tools, same engineering help, and all the support is available to everyone. You go to the track, it's kind of like once they leave the shop, you're out of the fence, you're out of the pasture, you're on your own. It's up to you now. You've got everything. You're prepared.

It's your car, your race. And so the one thing as an owner, though, that you don't want is them to bounce off each other, right? One can, you know, there's going to be times when one beats the other driver or they have contact and one's race is ruined in their mind. That's tough to navigate. I've been in situations where you're thrilled for one guy but almost equally disappointed for the other, right? You're almost being ripped into. And so those are tough spots for an owner.

The worst thing is when you've got one of your drivers, wipes them both out. And that's just hard to forget. It's forgivable, but it's hard. And so you want to grab him and go, man, you ruined it all. You ruined you and him. and us, you know.

And I don't think that's a problem here. These guys are pros, man. William, Kyle, and Chase, they're not going to use each other up. But we've seen Hendrick battle hard for wins at Martinsville before. Didn't the five use the nine up at the Gwynn last year? Oh, yeah. I feel like there was a couple times in the past two years. We've seen five and the nine kind of bounce off each other.

Yeah. I agree with you, though. are going to race hard and if it does come down to the last lap? I look, I know if it comes down the last lap, someone is going to get used up and disappointed. Yeah. But I don't think that they were, they'll be the type of teammates that'll be foolish to where it ruins them both.

No, yeah. For sure. Rick could be sitting there in Victory Lane with one driver very happy and another driver extremely upset. A whole team, right, extremely upset with how they, They felt they were treated by another team. It's when you put four fast cars on the track that all run really good, it's going to happen a lot. Like, man, I've had teams here at Junior Motorsports where we had one good car, and you really didn't have a whole lot of problems because the other three never ran into the one good one.

And when they all get good, they hit each other a lot, you know? And you're like, well, I thought that would be a good problem to have, right? Four good cars, three good cars, right? but then they start running into each other racing for wins and racing for the second, third, fourth, fifth, place in the race, and you're like, this is another great opportunity

to remind people, something that Chase said one day that I thought was insanely cool and exactly how athletes should think. They're going into Martinsville and they're all, we're all sitting here saying, these guys are in a tough spot, these guys are in a tough spot,

Chase minus 43, Ryan Blaney minus 38. Chase and some of these guys are going to be looking at this, not like, damn, this is tough. They're going to be look at this and go, what an incredible opportunity I have. I'm at the top of the elite form of stock car racing in this country, and I am going into this race with a chance to win my way into the final round. It's a dream to be in this position, right? right, that's the mentality of a real champion. Like some people, some people, regular people, some athletes, some, you know,

no matter what line of work you're in, would see this situation and get nervous. There may be some dread. There may be all types of emotions about how difficult in a tough, tough spot this isn't, pressure. But then Chase Elliott, when he was going for his first champion, championship got interviewed on the racetrack at Phoenix maybe on Friday or so a couple days before the race and they're like hey man bill Elliott's son going for first first championship this must be what's the emotion must be pretty tough he goes this is my dream I this is a

great what I'm I'm honored and and feel this full of uh I'm grateful that I can have this chance to do this. And he hadn't won it yet. I'm like, holy shit. That's a hell of an attitude to have. And he really believed it. It's one thing to say it. It's another thing to live it that way, right?

I'm going to tell you, man, I live like, what's going to happen next? How are we going to lose this race, right? You know, you're coming down to the last 10 laps. You've got a straightway lead on the field. Damn, I hope it'll cost you're going to come out. What's going to happen? Something's going to happen.

Right? Yeah. We all live life certain ways. Like I live like, damn, this was a good day. How'd that happen? Yeah. I feel like every race, anytime we were leading or any time even now when you're in the lead, I'm like, oh man, what's going to happen?

Yeah. Something's going to happen. Well, the Chase Elliott that year when he was going to win that championship wasn't thinking that way. He was thinking, dang, I'm here. I'm here where I finally wanted to be. and I can't believe what a honor and what a lucky guy I am, right, to have this shot. And he took that mentality and won it.

And so the people that the people on this list right here, like Denny and Larson and Blaney and Elliot and Byron, Christopher Bell, to a point, when they go into that Martinsville race, the disposition, are they jovial, happy, excited? Are they like, locked in? Damn, dude, this is amazing. I can't believe I get to go try to do this, right? Even though I'm way down, right? Even though I got a win to get in, this is what I dreamed about.

When you can recognize that and harness that and truly genuinely believe it, that's a powerful thing. We'll see who has that. Try to see that when you're watching the race Sunday. Pre-race. Pre-race, right? Try to look and see what driver's giving you that vibe. right and of course they're going to have a little bit of an idea of how happy they are about their car

in terms of the laps they've ran a little bit in practice and so forth but so if you're concerned about your car it's hard to wipe that look off your face on Sunday but um i mean the amount of guys post race even after miami uh talking about we're going to go in martinsville yeah i mean it's basically everyone below the cutline had that type of confidence bell even posting on instagram like martinville is going to be in a all-out war. I hope so. You got a lot of confident guys

below the cut line. I hope it is a war. That's going to be doing a lot of point in by when guys get to him. I mean, that's a smart play for him. He's just got to protect. He just has to protect. I, Martinsville

short track, the short track package, you know, if you've been living this sport for like the rest of us, you know that the short track package has been suspect. But I'm hoping that with what's on the line with what's at stake, we do see the classic short track race, contact, ruffling feathers

and, you know, nervous energy and hard battles. You'll see that on Saturday. You'll see that on Saturday for sure. Saturday will be more than we want. Yeah, I know that very well with a couple cars. I've got a couple cars in the video. This car owner talking right now. That hat came on. I'm very glad I'm not doing this race. I'm not doing the experience. I'm not doing the any race. That's another, that's me too. Like that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, this also goes along the lines of what I was talking about with Chase Elliott and his attitude or, or a driver's

attitude going into this, these, these, these, these, these final few races. As an owner, a lot of times we get into these positions and I'm thinking to myself, all right, let's just not create, this is not, this not, let's just not do, let's, hopefully somebody doesn't do something that's just too, totally ridiculous. but is that the way to think right if you're the owner of say you know you got three cars going for it um well you got a harness you got a harness championship mentality here down yes i don't see it in you right now i don't see that stuff you were talking about the championship mentality i know that's what i know we're a car owner here that's what i'm bringing i'm bringing this up okay good good let's talk

about it let's take that we're backing up here no let's take what we're talking about with couple of drivers and flip it over to the Xfinity side and on the owner's point of view. So a couple weeks ago, usually with my drivers, I'm like, y'all just try to win and not do stupid stuff. I don't, you know, we go to Daytona and wrecked four damn race cars out of the front of the field when we're sitting there running second, third, and fourth with, second, third, fourth, fifth with, you know, 20 laps to go. Yeah, it like that. A couple years ago we did that. I was so pissed off. And so, um, You know, let's just not be clowns.

Let's be great. And if you can't be great, be smart. So, but a couple weeks ago, we got, you know, we got pulled out a line and we got a spanking because our rear clip was bent on the one car and at Talladega, right? And we filed the appeal, felt good about it, worked really hard, felt like we had a great argument. And we lost. And so I told Sam, mayor, I said, dude, you go, they just rode, they just rode our pass. You go to the Roval.

I don't care what you do. I don't care who you drive through. You go out there, it's a bar fight now. I was like, you go out there and you just win. I don't care how you have to do it. You've got a pass. They put us in this position. It's on.

carnage, man. And I felt like I didn't know if I was making a mistake there. I mean, he was going to do what he wanted to do anyways. But I just kind of changed my attitude about it. I was like, I really don't care if we look like clowns or what everybody's opinion is of whatever we do, however this falls out. He goes out there and makes a textbook freaking pass and wins the race sharp as hell, which, you know, honestly. Gave me that pump that talk, man. Well, I don't know if that did it, but I'll be honest. I mean, For Sam, that was a great, that was a very mature approach to the end of that race, where he had every right, and I gave him every right, to bowl through them boys,

knock them out. Maybe I shouldn't worry about whose feelings we hurt, who's angry at us when it's all said and done, do whatever you got to do. If that wins you championship, you'll be glad you did. They, Martinsville's, this limit, Martinsville is an elimination race in the, in the round before the finals. It's a recipe for freaking disaster. So let's be part of the disaster. He says this now. Right. I mean, yeah, yeah, it's true. Well, I'm just saying, like, I, you know, hey, I don't know.

Yeah, just, you're in the same, because we're just talking about the Xfinity series now. You were basically Rick Hendrick in the Xfinity series right now with Junior Motorsports. There's only room for one J-R-R-M car. And so I'm sitting there thinking, you know, generally my go-to would be, oh, let's just get in. I don't care who it is. Let's just get one in. This is not just, you know, let's not come out of here.

Stombing our feet mad, destroyed with nobody in the final round. But maybe that's not, maybe that's not the attitude. Maybe the attitude is, y'all just go. Race some hell. It's a, you know, they put us in this position. They got this race here in this moment. They, they obviously are okay with whatever hell transpires, right? It is a recipe for disaster, not in a bad way, but it's going to be chaos.

It is a recipe for that, as was the roval. Let's, let's embrace the chaos and try to make it work in our favor. and I am not going to walk out of there feeling any resentment or concern over whose feelings we hurt or what fans may be disappointed with whatever went down. Right?

And so, you know, as you get older, I think you're trying to shift in that direction, right? I feel like I could come up with a couple scenarios that you would be pretty mad at. I know you could. Last year of Martinsville. I mean, Austin Hill and... Sheldon Creed. Justin's leading the race. Justin wins. Justin's lead in the race. Sam Rex

on the last corner. That would be terrible. That's not embracing the chaos and making it work for us, Tjay. That is not. I also take back, there is actually a path for two J.R.M. Yeah. Because if Allgaier points is going to hold you accountable on that. Well, I just wanted to, someone was probably yelling at their car radio right there. How you teed it up first. That was on my notes to bring back up. But just to add something to it, Allgaier, obviously very good to Martinsville, but Sammy Smith ran great last year. I mean, he finished third. I know he led laps, I'm pretty sure. Wasn't he leading and then Ty Gibbs wrecked him? Is that? Am I think of the right? No, that was Brandon Jones. I'm sorry. The one guy that I would like to see, listen, this is a

compliment. If someone could not, you know, if someone could find their way out, I think myself, as an owner and a lot of the people that are, you know, not associated with Cole's team or a fan of his would say that he's the biggest threat to win in the title for any of the drivers that get in. And so, yeah, I think that that's, for me, that's kind of the approach to Saturday. Hopefully our guys are aggressive. Don't worry about whose feelings you're hurt or, you know, you're being put in a situation where you're going to have to do uncomfortable things and things out of your character.

and that's going to happen Sunday too. Maybe not to the extent that we'll see on Saturday night. Saturday night, those races are almost impossible to survive because you'll get that late caution with 30 or 40 to go and it's just caution after caution after caution. And they're wrecking in the front, they're wrecking in the back. And before you know what, you do, you're going to have the Sheldon Creed Austin Hill

issue, even if they're in a team... We have it. Brandon Jones getting wrecked out of the lead. I mean, every time we go to Martinsville, it is nastiness. And I wouldn't expect anything different Saturday. Sunday will be a little tamer, but to, you know, if you're, really, if you're there in person

paying attention, you'll see a lot of things that TV won't catch in terms of contact and arguments, frustrations. but there'll be a lot going on throughout the field. Plus, just to add real quick to the Xfinity conversation, one guy that's really racing with house money is Chandler Smith, almost must-win situation, minus 28, and bigger news, it looks like he doesn't even have a ride next year,

and he's not even sure if he's going to get one. He said I could be working for my dad's construction company next year. So, like, gosh, he's... That's not a must-win, Chandler-Smith. Minus 28? He's, oh, minus 20, yes. I mean, he's going to, yes, sorry. Yeah.

Unless, Costor or Justin have issues, he's going to have to win. He's going to throw caution in the wind, I think. Yeah, I mean, I think all the, you know, all the guys fifth through eight, Sammy Smith, mayor, Jesse Love, they all got to go in there

and try to win the race. And honestly, man, I mean, they can be pretty damn aggressive with everyone in the field. It's, it's, you've, NASCAR and the way they've teed all this up has basically written you a free pass, to say, hey man, you know, get with it.

I may not love everything I see happening out there because it's probably going to have some things to do with my own cars. One guy who is not going to be concerned about the bar fight at Martinsville is here. The race winner, Tyler Reddick, has joined the show. All right, so we got Tyler Reddick calling in to the Dale Jr. Download yesterday's winner. And Tyler, congratulations on a great finish. Kind of a career-defining moment for you. think you've had a lot of those but this was a big win how where does this one rank i think it

uh it shoots to the top um you know homestead for me's always been one of my favorite racetracks we've gotten experience the highs of highs together there and um yeah i think with everything on the line um how we had to win that race given the circumstances um that's probably the most have had to overcome even more than uh even more at talladega when i you know strategically let CJ get the lead coming off of four. So you're going down the back straightaway, and I imagine as you're going down the back straightaway, you can't wait to see what the 12 is going to choose.

Is he going to fade a little left, or he's going to open that outside up for you? Is that kind of what your mentality is going down the back straightaway, and when he starts to make edge left, are you like, oh, here we go. Tell us about how you made the move. Yeah, it's a tough thing, right? You want to have a plan, but I think in that moment, you know,

I've been in this situation a few times this year, and I've screwed it up every single time. You know, I think Joy Lagando's probably not in the playoffs if I just execute that final overtime at Nashville better. There's a number of situations, Vegas earlier this year, with Larson. So I've had some hard lessons along the way. And, yeah, just going into that last corner, there behind him, just trying to, again, have somewhat of a plan right.

But I think what was important for me there is to, instead of making my mind up before he even see him get in the corner, just let him make the first move. And then I respond to it. So what he ended up doing, I didn't think was remotely on the table. But as soon as he kind of drove in a lane down, it almost seemed like he was waiting to see what I was going to do. And once he left that lane open on the top, I knew I had a split second. I just, I had to drive it in as deep as possible.

I had to get at least even with him on the outside so he could run me up into the wall and keep on going, which, you know, was another part of this that was really, really cool. I think with everything on the line, it's so easy to just absolutely use somebody up in this situation and he raced me really fair and square. I feel like, you know, you're talking about Martinsville, right? Like, we're going to get down into there and this Xfinity race has the potential will be just bumper cars all night long. So, yeah, for me, it was, you know, it was just a big shock that I was able to get that

deep into the corner and not smoke the fence. How did that happen? But it was also really. I was, yeah, like I don't know. I really don't know. I didn't. I had no mark to really go off of. I literally drove it in the corner until I knew I was going to be even with him on entry.

And once I got there, I was like, I'll figure it. You know, if I hit the wall, whatever, you know, get caught in the wall, he wins a race. So be it. I knew that for me to have a shot at winning that race, I had to try to get ahead or at least even with him on corner entry. Yeah. You know, Denny Hamlin hired. you after you had such a great run with RCR. And I really thought it was a smart choice by Denny.

He's a serious owner. And they've made all of the necessary investments into their program to make it as good as possible. And all of that is starting to now bear fruit. You win the regular season championship. Had a great year. And you're able to find. your way through a very difficult, challenging playoff system

with an opportunity to go race for a championship. When did that sink in? I know winning the race unlocks that opportunity, but as you went through the process of celebrating the win, letting things kind of come to you, when did it start to hit

that, man, I'm going to Phoenix with a chance to win a Winston, or not a Winston Cup championship, but win a Cup championship. It's still Winston Cup. Yeah. I think it finally sunk in last night. We had some friends at the house.

I had my giant grill at my house rolling, cooking all sorts of hammers, hot dogs, steaks. So I just kind of had some time of myself while everyone was in there watching the race back. I was grilled out, trying not to screw that up. And yeah, once that night started to wind down and me and my wife were sitting there watching the Yankees get their asses kicked. in those moments while that game pretty much was out of reach, I was sitting there and it was finally sinking in last night. So, yeah, it was just a surreal moment.

Like the last, you know, three or four laps felt like they happened really, really quick, but also almost felt like at the same time, too, though, like time just wasn't moving. I was very locked in on the moment, locked in what I had to do. And, yeah, last night just the, the moment finally sunk in what this win means to me

what this win means to this team at 2311 and what we're going to be racing for here in a little over a week I want to compliment you on something man you worked for us here at junior murder sports we want a championship together the changes that I've seen in you

as a person as the character that's grown inside of you, your dedication to on track, off track, professional, personal life. You've really, at least from this perspective, I'm quite outside of your bubble at this point in your life, but from my perspective, you really did the work. You've really tried to prioritize things properly so that you could have success while at the same time you have this personal life that's bubbling and growing right you're your your

husband and the father and um talk about that process i mean it's a you you you came to me a few times and told me when we were working together man i'm going to do better i'm going to work on this i'm going to focus on this and it was on track and off track stuff and you did you made the you made the changes and you took better care of yourself and you started you know you your physical appearance and health is better. And so talk about all of those things. That's not easy. That's constant daily focus on all of those things to be able to find yourself in a position to race for the top prize in the sports.

So how has that process went for you over the years? I think it's still ongoing, honestly. But yeah, you know, I feel like for me, you know, when I was at, When that the year I went to RCR, we were, you know, approaching the playoffs. And then I find out that me and my now wife find out that we're going to be parents. And, you know, it's a, it's a life-changing moment. It's an incredible moment. It's something, you know, I think it's, I think we've told a number of people.

It wasn't necessarily planned. But when it happened, it's like, okay, now what's next? Like, what's it going to look like? You know, neither one of us done this for, right? First-time parents. There's a lot to learn. And just the whole process of, you know, as she was going through the pregnancy, we're trying to figure out names and that whole deal just, you know, really help motivate me.

I found fresh, I found, I've always been really motivated to run well. I love, I love passing people. I love running the top. I love winning races. But it was just an extra source of motivation for me. And as that process kept going on and we got closer to homestead a second time, you know, the bet with my wife or getting a name of my kid if won the championship was something that just pushed me over the edge of wanting it so bad a second time.

And then, you know, as we got cup racing, I get, you know, I win that second championship. And then I find out I'm going to be in the eight car and racing in the cup series for the first time as a rookie all while trying to figure out how to be a dad at the same time. A lot happened really, really quick. And for me, I just, again, I found a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a, a. And just as life was going on, I found more sources to get that motivation from, to be a better person. I had, you know, if I go out and make some really stupid decisions, not only am I going to affect my life, I'm going to affect my family's life, my wife's life, my kid's wife that's coming into this world. So all those things really helped push me to be a better individual on and off the racetrack.

Mainly off the track. And a lot of this bled into me being, you know, a better shape when I got to the racetrack and a better mind. mindset when I got to the racetrack. Certainly, I'm human and I still make mistakes along the way, but all in all, it was really, really cool for me because, yeah, I was able to focus even harder on something that I already really, really loved and cared about. But I was able to just keep finding more motivation that I didn't know what's possible before. And so, as this process continues to go, you know, again, just getting to show these moments

with my kid who's four getting close to five years old now has been. Been a lot of fun. He's really helped even out this roller coaster of the season that we've had. On the high moments, it's some of the greatest highs. And when we've had low moments, man, he's, and I'm sitting there probably getting interviewed, pissed off, don't want to talk to anybody, and my kid comes run up to give me a hug and tell me it's okay. It just really helps.

Everything just flow really well. Man, I appreciate that. I appreciate you. You have incredible, incredible driving talent. and you have sharpened and polished everything around that, everything you are around that, to be an asset to the sport, to be an asset to yourself and your family and your inner circle, to have an incredible career going forward. And here you are on the cusp of fighting for the greatest award.

And you deserve this chance, right? And I hope you go have a lot of fun with it. congratulations again on this win this past week enjoy a relatively mild Martinsville weekend compared to some who will be in some high pressure situations and good luck getting ready for Phoenix, man. We'll see you there.

Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I have a feeling Martinsville's going to go way better than it should. I might have a career past. Now that it means not really as much. We'll see what happens, but yeah. Well, thanks, man. Congratulations.

The Rizzler of the Wall. All right, bud, we'll see you. I don't know who the Rizzler is. I'm getting old. Thank you, guys. Hey, everybody. I want to talk to you a little bit about safety culture. You may know Safety Culture's logo from Shane Van Gisbergin's car, but Safety Culture is more than just a sponsor. It's also the workplace operations tool for the trackhouse racing team.

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And I might have told this story before, so I'm sorry if I'm repeating myself, but every audience is a new one. we went to we went to an appearance together and he when is this this is back when he's driving

in his Finity Series Virginia Mergersports couldn't tell you the year but he was he had a late night or he got you know whatever I don't know he played video game

I don't know what he did the night before I was tired he was just tired yeah and we're at this we're at this appearance and man he's I look over he's leaning on stuff and got you know

We're kind of getting shown around this facility, and he's just like, uh, just like, ah, this is such a boring day. And I was like, hey, buddy, like, come on, just at least appear to be a little engaged. And he's like, all right, right. And he came to me the next day. I was like, you know, I've been there. I did that. Dude, I did that plenty of times. I showed up so hungover one time with a with dad to an appearance back in my rookie year and boy he was not happy so i had done all those it's fine i get it so but he came to me the next day and he goes hey i'm sorry and i'll never happen again i will never let that happen again and i was like oh i was like okay you know i mean i don't i don't i won't hold you to it but i appreciate it and he's like no that's unacceptable

I'm going to, I won't do that again. And I don't know, he could have been up all night playing video games or drinking. I don't know, I'm not going to say, I don't know. But he was so self-aware. And he has, around the time he went off to RCR, RCR's, they're racers, their racers, their heart, is a great fit for him.

But it was, it was, it was, going to be tough, you know, and that could have went many different ways. But he, with his talent and their mentality, they continued to succeed and he wins the championship in the Xfinity series the second time. Then he gets in that cup car and goes wins the races and was doing things in RCR stuff that nobody had done in RCR stuff in quite some time. And he got skinny, lost weight, got in better shape. I saw him this morning. Guys in phenomenal shape. he's driving for a high profile outfit it's not too much it's not too big for him you know the spotlight um and they're in a they're in the mixed they're in the middle of the lawsuit and all the other things

you know they're disruptive a bit uh at least they're you know they've churned up the bottom of the lake and and there's a lot of distractions or things that could be distractive and not to him he's got he's he's got a good way to focus on what's happening and what he's in control of and like talking about being locked in on those final three laps and it just like time stopped. Like that's that's the, that's something that only certain people have the ability to do. It's that champion mindset you were talking about. Yeah. Redick's always been great to work with too on the media side.

Yeah. He's always been open to the wacky ideas that we brought to him like Scooter Gang. You're right. Like, you know, I go to his PR app. I'm like, I got a crazy idea. but like I feel like Reddick would be down for this. It's like, do you want to ride scooters up and down pit road for a bit that we do in a video? He's like, yeah, no problem.

We were goofing on him about the scooter gang. Right. And he could have, like, you know, some of them kids, take offense to it, kind of. But some of the kids might get their feelings. I probably would have, you know, back in the day, been like, screw this. Yeah. You know, I'm done with him.

Won't do his show anymore. Never going to go on that show. You know, that's what I would have done. and he, but he's like, he's He brought to your scooter. He probably played into it. Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm, now I'm scooter game.

Now you're scooter game. We got a scooter gang driver in the championship for. I just got a first time in history. Hey, I just got a new scooter. No. T.J. knows this. I didn't know you got it yet. Amy got me going from a birthday.

It is bad ass. Where are you using this? At home? It's really big. Riding around the house? It's not like a little scooter. It's not little. It is huge.

And like, take the girls for rides they'll hop on they'll hop on and hang on the handlebars and we'll just go around i sent amy some links because she he rode the one i had and i ride stella around all the time with it too it's fun it actually is a lot of enjoyable tj bought one he he finds all everything tj buys he finds at a discount and then he tries to sell it to you at full price so i was like yeah okay he's probably gonna try to sell this how do you think i made that money off amy i mean you got to make money somehow gift cards i'm trying for buying that scooter amy i was like he's probably He's going to try to sell me his scooter, so I'm just going to be patient.

But he didn't. I like it too much. I like it. It is. It is a good scooter. Some off-brand bull's bullshit, but it's tougher. It's a tank. It is, man.

It's heavy. I picked this thing up, and I'm like, damn, the battery's going to die just trying to get it moving. It's heavy as hell. The thing will run. It's supposed to run, like, 35, 45-mile an hour. I get it up to 20. My God. I can get it up to 25 on my driver.

Yeah. I don't want to get any faster than that, though. 25 on a scooter. insane. I'm not on sport mode. Oh no, you gotta go to sport and then we're ride kids. But then you gotta go to three after you go to sport. Sport and three. You gotta wear a helmet. You wear a helmet on this thing? No. Ah man. Why do we need helmets? Yeah, man. 25 on a scooter. I ain't going 25 on it like consistently. We get up to peeport's power and then we slow it down. You know how you do it when you're a kid. You're like you go real fast. You're like, oh, yeah.

Andrew, the wheels on this thing aren't little like skateboard wheels though. We're talking Yeah, they're a little more. I don't know. I still feel. Oh, it's fast. I'll bring the damn thing in here. You can take it out there and run up. Really?

That'll be fun. You'll, yeah. Okay. It's big. Promise. It does break down. The handlebars hold down. Wait, it breaks down.

The handlebars, I think. Mine's still running. How do you find speed? I'm sorry you got a, I'm sorry you bought the faulty one. I meant fold up so you can travel with it. Oh, wow. He bought the shtabot. He's still got the razor scooter.

Let's laugh at TJ Biden. He got the same one that I had. That's why I was discounted. I got the good one. What a loser. He's got the same exact one I got. His little electric car and his little scooter all breaking down.

It's good to see you're finding the electric way. What are you using for power over there, man? At least you can't lock your keys in your scooter. Hey, this thing has RFID keys to it. Oh, dang. Power cord. Pretty wild. The scooter has RFID keys to it.

This is TJ's last show. He's going to get two offenders. It's not coming back. You know, I'm done. DJ's powers is a little unstable The Rizzler's out It's burning all the suns out

The show's dang Oh my gosh You're getting all the rails You just ruined it All right You think I could pull off Tyler Raddock for Halloween People

People tell me I look like him Maybe If you wanted to stop the show In its tracks That's not right By the way All right

I am still not sure cut it out. I don't know what I'm going to be. We were sailing across the open Z. The room went silent. Air fully just pushing the hell out of that sale. There was an awkward plunge there.

And then all of a sudden it's just like, nothing. Anyway, I was thinking about being Batman for Halloween. What do you guys think? The room went silent. The room was silent before I could hear my heartbeat. So what are you going to be for Halloween? TJ, I'll walk out right now with you. Let's go.

I'm done. We'll ride my scooter. Yeah. I can't tell you. what I'm going to be for Halloween. Surprise. Yeah, but I... Because are you guys going

trick-or-treating? Yeah, but we have free reign to be whatever we want to treat. They're adults. I already know what you're going to be. I am not... Last year he shows up with like a $5,000 $1,000 Darth Vader mask.

Okay. Or the year before. It was really good, though. It was great. It was Darth Vader. It was an awesome mask. It was definitely awesome. It was like three pieces

and it made noise awesome. I've got a really, good I'll call it the disguise we'll just say that you'll learn Amy's going to post it all on our social media and I cannot wait

and so what happens for Halloween is my family comes to TJ's neighborhood he lives in this really cool neighborhood and we walk around the kids go to the doors of all the neighbors and we trick a treat and the whole neighborhood's out just walking around just chilling everybody's dressed up

doing their thing very creative Very fun. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good time. It's a great neighborhood. Yeah. And so that's what we're going to do. And we've dressed up every year.

So, yeah, but I got to, this year, we, every year that we've had to dress up before, we had, me and T.J. Had to be part of what the kids were doing. Not this year. Right? Not this year. Free reign. Go and rogue. What are you, T.J.

Don't tell. I don't even know yet. Don't tell. Tyler Redd's taken, so you can't be him. You don't know, like you're winging it? or you haven't been told yet like are you picking your own costume both it's totally gonna suck

it is yeah mine's awesome mine's awesome it's good it's good I can't hey I can't wait to see I do not pat myself on the back I don't even when I deserve it I don't do it oh my gosh

the disguise this time I gotta say it's pretty good he's really excited about this I need to get down Yeah. Worst case scenario, I got a Josh Allen jersey and a Bill's helmet. I can just throw it on.

How awesome is that? Yeah. What a great. MVP. There you go. What a great costume. I thought you had yours on. I'm just going to get something

out of my closet. There you go. That's what I'm going to do. Good job. Well, I mean. You're going to win a contest for that. I might. I mean, it is Bill's house.

Should have a contest. Do y'all know that me and TJ won a costume contest? Oh, we don't want to talk about that. Yeah, we do. Why not? I'm talking about it now. Yeah, we've won a few contests in things. Me and T.J. went to Vegas.

We went to Vegas not intentionally on Halloween, but it happened to be Halloween. And we were hanging out in the hotel, and the butler's like, hey man, y'all going dress up for Halloween tonight. We had, we was going to go in the casino and have some fun. And we're like, no. And he's like, well, you'll be the only

ones. And so we're like, we had the reservoir dogs playing on the TV. And we were just kind of hanging around in the hotel, watch some reservoir dogs, big old sweet, and there's about eight or ten of us. And the guy's like, I said, wait, we could be reservoir dogs. That'd be easy, just buying suits, right? So we went down to the men's warehouse.

We all bought matching suits, and then we went over to the pawn shop and bought some gun holsters and stuff like that and got ourselves. And the butler had us all name tags made, Mr. Orange, Mr. Brown, all of that, and got us the sunglasses. We all had the same sunglasses. And so we went to, we went to, we went to. down the casino later that night to just hang out and drink and stuff

as the reservoir dogs. We're in this club. Jenny McCarthy's hosting a contest and they come over to us and they're like, y'all want to enter? They're just going around the tables, right? Y'all want to enter in the contest?

And I was like, I don't think so. And my buddy's like, hell yeah, we do! And so he signed us up. And we finished in the top three and got two grand. Oh my God. Yeah, wasn't it a grand or two grand?

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Oh, so you want. Yes. I mean, it was money we didn't have and we're like, hey, why don't we try to double this new money? House money.

Yeah. And so that's what we did. You thought I paid for that scooter. Yeah. But what I learned, one thing that I did learn is, okay, on Halloween in Vegas, all of the big clubs and all of the, all of the casinos are having elaborate mass

it's a big night for them right and they they will be busy all the casinos are super busy but the bars and the clubs will have contest every single one of them is having a contest on and there's real big money to the people that win or anybody that places

in the top three I suppose I don't know how each show casino does it there was two or three outfits, I will call them, that were going

from club to club, even from casino to casino. They'd win or place and then immediately leave the club to go to the next contest.

They had it like mapped out the timing and everything where they needed to be to go to... And this one, the one that won that night

was Wizard of the Oz. And I mean, this shit looked like they came straight off of an L.A. movie it was elaborate giant like costumes

that they were they took up a lot of space and it was full on like they had somebody helping them with this look right and it was coordinated heavily and so as soon as they won man they were like eager to get out of there

and go to the next event to try to place and win that and that was their night they weren't partying what really was that wizard of those or Wizard of Oz or Wizard of Ah A Wizard of Oz

I was a Wizard of the Oz What the fuck you guys? Try to tell y'all story Y'all somebody's don't deserve no damn story Man, you want to watch Wither to the Oz later?

I'm gonna have a play in my garage when you get there. Which movie? Wizard of the Oz? Okay. Fair enough. All right. Losers.

So anyways, man, I just thought that was interesting. Yeah, fans, if you're listening, show us your Halloween costumes. We had a bunch last year. Did we? A lot of Dale Earnhardt costumes.

Yeah, tons. Yeah. Maybe someone will be Andrew. Tyler Radaquil. Did anybody ever, when they were young, a kid, right, did you dress up as what you wanted to be? Like when you grew up? Oh. Like I was, I wanted badly to be a football player.

I did that. I did the same thing. NFL. And so, I mean, for three, could have been four or five. straight years. I wore the exact same costume. Just starting to get a little bit smaller. I had I had this football uniform. It was so it was bad.

The red jersey, no number. A football jersey with no number. White and blue stripe on the sleeve. Same jersey. And I had the shoulder pads. I had the pants with the pads. Yeah. and the white plastic helmet with the plastic tube. The plastic, it was like a one bar

that split into a two. Oh, yeah. You know, the old original. Yes. The punter hal. So freaking uncomfortable on your head is killing your forehead. You wore that every year.

Worse than Peyton Manning ever had it. You did that numerous years in a row? I did that at least three in a row. So you went from being a running back to a lineman. I just was like, yeah, right, yeah, yeah. They would say what you want to do? Football, don't even ask. Yeah, don't it don't matter.

Don't don't even try to start that conversation or convince me otherwise. I am football player. And I'm willing to get into existence. Not even a team. I am football player. For any team. I am. Football player.

The replacements. Anonymous football player. And don't try to talk me into something else. Don't bring no plastic mask in here. I'm football player. Those helmets were real to you back then, too, because I had one too. And it was. I ended up, sorry, I ended up getting.

another whole set of pants, pads, and a bunch of Washington jerseys and Washington helmets. And I cut that face mask off and got a real face mask and put it on and screwed it in and drilled the holes and mounted it to this plastic cheap helmet. And I had a buddy in the neighborhood, and me and him, dude, would suit up in full pads and just go all head-on collision all day.

Oklahoma drill. Over and it. Over and over and over. One with the ball and one's trying to stop them. And it was like, there were two plays. You're going left, you're going right. It's like, you guys just guess, right? And I'll never forget this shit.

I, um, my, my buddy ends up starting to play, organize football for his school. And I mean, one year goes by. And we get, you know, maybe six months or, or something goes by, and we decide we're going to suit up, get in the yard, man. We get out there with the water hose and soak the water, soak the ground, get it all muddy. Man, I'm going to get dirty. And, I mean, it's fun, right? You watch as a kid, and you're like, you love the mud games and the snow games.

I'm like, I want to play in the mud. I want to play in the snow. And so we destroy these uniforms. We get out there, and this s'm, I can't stop him. I'm like, this ain't fun. It's good when neither one of us is good. Yeah, he got too good. Damn, he got good.

I couldn't believe it. I mean, in six months, man, this guy had a twitch. He was off the line. I couldn't even see him. It was fast to kid alive. I couldn't even see him moving. He's gold. Could score it will.

Did that ruin your football dreams? That was the end of my football dreams. That was the end of it. Next year you were Dracula or something. I went to, I went to, when I first went to Mooresville's junior high public school, week before school, we're riding around with the dean of the school. somebody up there in the office. We're driving by, and I see the football team practicing on the field.

It's a week four school, you know, practice starts early. There's 80 of them. There's lots of them out there. And in my mind, I'm like, I can get out there. I want to get out there. I'm 5'3 at this time, maybe shorter. And we're riding by, and I said, hey, I'd like to try for football. And he goes, let me drive you on down the road to the,

soccer field meet me co-stiff soccer coach I was like no not soccer but wrong football

yeah they were like yeah you're not gonna be playing football too little yeah I thought I was gonna be short my whole life

sorry Tj we won't talk about that it's all right yeah we were having fun here yeah we were till I said that now he's offended I know the roof split I can feel it over here

he's up he's totally upset I felt a little bit I took it Took it a bad place, T.J., my bad. I'm not. I played organized football a little bit. Damn you! What league did you play in?

I played... My school didn't have it, so I played at another place, a town over. They had like a summer deal, the fall deal, and I played there, but I hated it because I was too little. Yeah. Damn it. I probably would have hated it. Yeah. I'd be quite honest with you.

I wouldn't have been good. I wouldn't have got to start. I ended up playing soccer. I wasn't good at that either. Didn't get to start that. I played soccer. but I did have fun playing soccer. Soccer was a good time.

You know what they did the first time? They let me return a punt, and that's the last time I return a punt. Damn that. Yeah. I'm not doing that ever again. I can't believe they thought you could even catch it, you know? I went to the Washington game,

and I'm sitting there watching them guys catch punts, and I'm like, that's pretty, that's like the hardest thing to do besides the guy kicking it, you know, the kicker, kicking a field goal. Kicking a field goal, high-fresh situation, right? That's hard to do. But you have to catch a puns. You can't drop. And you got three or four guys bearing down on you.

And even though you call the fair catch, they're still screaming and doing all kinds of things to try to, how. I mean, I don't know. Yeah, it was not enjoyable. Yeah, the field goal kicker and the pump returner are the two toughest jobs in the NFL in my opinion. I agree.

High pressure jobs, not toughest. I don't know how you look at it. Whatever word you want to use. All right. All right, we got Dirty Modeau with Tim's coming up in the white flag. This week's segment, though, was brought to you by tire pros, there are a few people who love cars as much as I do, but these tire and service experts equally love the drive. They offer a huge selection of brand name tires and full

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the last couple weeks you've had the William Byron head-to-head matchup over Kyle Larson's been plus money. It's cashed both weeks. So we're looking good there. We nailed the margin of victory, so that was a big one. And yeah, I'm still riding high on Christopher Bell. I can't believe he has a won yet. Outside of listening to Dirty Modo that comes out every Thursday, where else can people find the bets that you are making?

On my Twitter at Tampa Timms. I used to tweet them all out on YouTube as well. I'll make the comments there. Yeah, so. All right. Well, we're going to talk about the upcoming race at Martinsville, but first I want to pivot to our group bet that we made. Thursday night football.

We did a group parlay for Thursday night football every Thursday on prime. This week it's Texas and the Jets at 815 on prime. But last week we had a four-bet parlay and Andrews money line, which I think we all felt good about. Minnesota over the Rams is the breaker. We all were all of our props made, made their money except for that. And so what do you got over there, Andrew? I have an apology that I absolutely wrote myself.

Dear Download team, I hope this message finds you well. I want to sincerely apologize for the recent betting advice I provided. I understand my guidance led to an unfavorable outcome, and I deeply regret any inconvenience or disappointment this may have caused you. All right. Thank you, chat, GP. So, look, I think that was, I would have, I think most people, well, you know, outside of L.A., Rams fans, but I think most people would have assumed

with the way that Minnesota's been playing, they would have won that game. We were on our way. I put together a little recovery bet on Sunday between a couple Monday line games, two games on Sunday, and then Monday night with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they finally pulled it out, so I recovered my losses. We've got a bet we're going to make this week for the Texans and Jets, so we got T.J. in the room.

Andrew, I really wish you'd bring that money-line bet. It's an even... I'm happy to provide. Are you? Okay, we're going to do it, man. What the hell we got to lose? Put it in. That's five props.

So, T.J., let's hear yours. I like Garrett Wilson over 59.5 receiving yards. Nice. 60 plus you could do the same, right? Plus what? Technically. Yeah. Over 59.5 receiving yards. Do you want to do an alt on that T.J. where it's plus 50?

Did I mess you up? No, no, no, you can either take over under 59.5 or you can do 60 plus. If you can't find the prop on your... Can't do 50 plus? You could do 50 if you want to buy it down a little bit. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Since it's a five-five prop bet, hedge toward the conservative side. All right.

So plus 50? 50 plus. I like that. Receiving. All right, Tampa Tim's. Let me go. I'm going to do Tyler Conklin over two-plus receptions. Nice. All right.

All right. We're going to be working together. And I'm taking, oh no, I'm sorry. I'm taking CJ Stroud over 30 and a half passing attempts. Ooh. She's got a good feeling about it's hit seven at the last eight times.

Do you know Diggs is probably out, do I don't have an all, do one because you can't do pass attempts in the same game parlay on Vandal. Oh, all right. Notice that last week? Yeah, I figured that out last week. Interesting. I will do then, I saw this earlier caught my eye.

I'm going to do Joe Mixing 80 plus rushing yards. Wow. It has hit four out of the last five. Wow. Hassan Reddick's back though. I ain't worried about that. All right, I'm going to, I was going to,

I was going to also do a Garrett Adams. Garrett Wilson. I'm sorry, Garrett Wilson, but since T.J. took his receiving yards. I don't think you can do plus receptions, right? You can? You can. All right. TJ, I'm kind of going to, I'll do that then.

I'll jump on the wagon with Wilson and go, I will do over four and a half receptions. You want money line? Time for the money line. Give me Jets. I like their, you know, historically the Jets have performed well against the Texans, winning seven of their last meetings. Plus, they have really good defensive strength. They, you know, six in the league in yards allowed per game.

I'm surprised by that. I think a lot of people with Lean Houston, Jets have been in a little turmoil. They fire their coach. But, really? When you're looking at the lines, it's pretty even, right? Yeah, it's very, yeah. And this is maybe where they turn the season around. This is our biggest parlay payout if it hits.

Really? Plus 870. Oh, gosh. Is there a boost? Not at the moment, but maybe as he gets closer to game time, it will be. All right, so maybe hold that bet. Yeah, maybe hold that bet. What do you think the digs being out does to that team, though?

Without Nico Collins and Diggs, it's really, that's their top two receivers. Yeah, a lot of running. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. I think the line is correct then if they're both out. Yeah. Well, we'll see. All right, man, I'm ready for that.

It's going to be a lot of fun. Maybe we get together, watch the game. Oh, yeah. All right. After we go to the graveyard. Oh, yeah, we got to go to the graveyard. We got a great-garten. We got a football, yeah.

We got a trick or tree. Hey, I got an idea. We'll take my car to the graveyard. Park it and we'll watch TV out. in my car. I watched a football game. All five. Cramped in there. All five of us. I'll put it in the fireplace mode. I don't know.

There you go. All right. So we got the upcoming race here in Martinsville, Tampa Timms. What's the dirty mode, dough crew thinking? So so far, the opening line report about all the guys that need to win to get in are within 10 to 1 favorites to win. But at Martinsville, no winner has ever finished outside the top 10 in stage 1

since stage racing has obviously been a thing. So my theory here is, wait, until stage one, see who the 10 guys are. Pick your favorite. Go from there. All right. And our bet that we're making for Thursday night football, Tampa Tim's, we'll put that up on his Twitter at Tampa Tims. He'll post the parlay, and we can all jump on board. Again, hold out for maybe a day or two, see if there's a boost and bump that plus 870. And we should have some fun.

All right. We'll see you. All right, it's time for the white flag here on Tuesday's show. The Teardown with Jeff Gluck and George Bianchi dropped us. Past Sunday after the race, all the commentary and opinions and advice around the homestead race reaction to it. Yesterday, doorbumber clear with Doug Rice. Doug Rice, retiring from the radio booth. It's been in our sports such a long time, such a great guy. TJ, were you on the show?

Yeah, it was good. How was Doug? Doug was awesome. All right. There's your endorsement. That will get you to tune in. Action is detrimental with Denny Hamlin. came out as well yesterday.

Good job, Denny, getting home and getting it done. I don't know why I say that. I know, you know, it's like... It can be tough. That is it. I mean, that is the thing. Go talk about a disappointing result. I know how I felt after a race.

I just wanted to drink beer until 4 in the morning and then sleep ball the next day. Tomorrow is Speed Street with Connor Daly and Chase Holden drops. And then Ross Chastain is our guest here for the Dale Jr. download on our Wednesday Allied guest segment. And dropping Thursday, as we mentioned, Dirty Mo Doe and DJ.

J.D. Reloaded with Ask Jr. and more. Should be a lot of fun on Thursday. And then Dalton, you've got this week's social media standout. That's right. This week, it comes from Billy Gaddis. First of all, we had a ton of comments about the Bud 8 being back. Everyone loved it. It was such a great response. I'd love seeing that from the fan.

But one stuck out to me, Billy Gaddis on TikTok, he said, I've been a Dale and Dale fan all my life. He turns 50 on the 22nd of November, and he is going to try and spend his birthday. at Florence. Damn, dude. I'm anxious. I'm anxious to see how the turnout is for that race.

I think it'll be good. I've learned a little bit about the Florence race. 250 laps. There'll be a set of tires available to the teams around 1-125. So you'll run, you know, you'll still have to manage tires a little bit, but you'll have to push a little bit in the middle of the race to try to get the track position you want before the break.

The break will be very brief. They'll pull us down pit road. We'll change the tires out and then fuel up the cars a little bit and then they'll try to get us going again. Racing starts, I think, around 5 or so 6 o'clock. I mean, it's not going to be a late, late night unless we have tons of yellows. They'll count cautions for a majority of the race. At least that's kind of the plan going forward. It should be a blast.

And the place sits somewhere around, I don't know, 5,000 maybe max. and there's a bunch of camping. I'm going to have a little fifth wheel out there for a couple nights. There's a lot of room if you want to bring a camper and probably the best way to spend the weekend. So you can spend a night after the race and get out of there early in the morning and not rushing in and out. Pretty cool place. I hope everybody that's coming for the first time will enjoy it. They've done a lot of work to try to upgrade the facility and the grounds.

and they're always constantly trying to do that. And having these races and these great moments and great events is helping. This racetrack continue to be a great part of the community. I have, this is the wrong show for this award, but I have a won an idiot for this week. And it goes to our good friend Dalton right here. Dale, I don't know if you notice Dalton abandoned us last week during Ash Jr. That's because he almost deleted the Dirty Mo Media Twitter account.

Forever. It was almost gone. How? So fun, this is a fun story. Obviously, we were working with Budweiser on a couple things, right? And so I saw during the show that they had followed us on Twitter. So I was like, wow, it's really cool. I'm going to follow them back.

In order to follow them, you have to be 21 years old. So on Twitter, it makes you put in your birthday. So I'm sitting there. We don't have our birthday listed on our DirtyMone Media Twitter because we're not a person, right? So I'm like, all right, let me put in our birthday, make sure that we're 21 years old. And it says on there, like, if you are putting it a birthday, put in your birthday, meaning me. But I was like, I don't want my birthday to be displayed on dirty metal media. So I was like, what's a cool, fun date that we can do, right?

July 7th, 2001, right? When, yeah, it's cool. More than 21 years ago, right? So I'm like, all right, well, we'll see what happens. Didn't ask me for an ID. Didn't ask me for any proof of whatever. Put in the date. Hit submit.

Immediately, it's like, your account's gone. See, we know that you're not. This isn't your birthday. You didn't meet the requirement to be 13 years old when you created the account or whatever. So we'll see if you can ever get it back. Gone. You couldn't look it up on Twitter. Holy-h-h-ha-thing.

I mean, like, if you typed in at Dirtymo Media, it said this count does not exist. I kind of admire the strict, you know. The stick-toitiveness. I did after. Stick-to-itiveness. Stick-to-itiveness. So once I... That Twitter has.

Once I left the room. They dropped the gun. Oh my gosh, like immediately. They dropped the guillotine. The guillotine. Yeah, they just told us to kick rocks. I call it a guillotine. I felt like I wanted a guillotine to drop on me after that.

That's for sure. Because it was sheer panic. Because I don't see a Y in there, do you? We're still talking about this part. G-E-E-E-E-E------------------------------------------------ I thought it was a guillotine. It's not. It's guillotine. Spell it. Can you even spell it?

I can't even spell it. I spelled it God awfully wrong. Yeah. G-U-I-L-L. Yeah. I feel like we've been drinking. I promise we had it. Mondays.

So, anyway, I run out of the studio, change my pants, because that's what I felt like. I just was like scared out of my mind. Colby and Mike, actually, they were both in the same office. And I was like, I got a May Day.

Like, this is all hands on deck. Like, we need to figure this out. So we reached out to Twitter. We reached out to some people. And within a couple hours, we had it back. But there was a good two hours where I was like, I did the big one. I was in the big one. So on Thursday in our snaf beating, I got a custom cake made that said, I'm sorry,

I almost deleted Twitter forever. And we all had cake on Thursday. I just think it's funny asking the baker to, hey, can you write this? When they handed it to me, they were like, I got to hear this story. I was like, well, I'll get to do it. You might have been the top dog here for doing dumb stuff. I mean, I would, I'd be a first ballot at Wooden Idiot Hall. That reminds, that's like a moment, like, where I knocked the laptop off of the top of the

hauler for Derek Cope's team. Yeah. I'm shattered it in a million pieces. That's one of, who else? Have y'all had one of those moments? Yes. I know you have. You're the leader of the pack.

I mean, T.J. loves to bring up that I fill my car up with diesel. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one. Damn. But as far as like J.R.M stories, I mean, it's, I wonder what people were standing there watching you do that going. What the hell? Green Means go.

You see these people. I know. You see these videos of these people with these Tesler's trying to plug to them. Trying to do things to them. He's supposed to be doing. It's hilarious. That's what, that's Andrew over here.

I bet there was a guy standing there going, I don't know about that. I don't think you should do that. And then he just got off and trophal. He can't want to say nothing, you know. He was like, probably a guy in line with a diesel truck. Did you not, did you not smell it and go, this is different? Didn't fit. No, I was going to say, probably the not fitting part would have been the first time.

I learned my lesson. This was years and years ago. It doesn't matter. Like, it doesn't matter. I feel bad about it. Tim's, you got one? Keep bringing it up. Not on top of my head. Bulls. I probably do. Bulls shit.

He's over there. He's lying. He's got two or three of them damn things in his head right now, but he's like, no, I can't. I can't. Nothing's I was putting diesel in my car. Okay. All right. Listen, we could do a whole show with Stephen

with some of the stuff he's done. Oh, man. I mean, the pit practice car through the back door, that was pretty awesome. Oh, man. They got a video of it. Oh, we got to see that. It just drove into it and bent it in.

But it was... That's all. Very good. Yeah, it was very funny. He gets out and turns his hat back. He was in there. Wasn't he in there with his legs out? He'd kicked the thing in gear somewhere.

Yeah. Like, somehow or another. He reached down. Oh, so. So he wasn't even driving. No. He just jumped forward. The car's running.

Yes. And he's getting ready for pit practice. And he reached down in there and somehow or another knocked it in gear. And then, and he dove kind of dove into the car. His legs are dangling out the side window and it goes forward into the thing. He was bad. He literally gets out and looks around. He's like, oh shit.

He turns his hat backwards and he's like, oh, look, this is going to fix it. He was like, what have I done? Yeah, it's pretty bad. Tim's is one of them kind of guys that has all kinds of shit like that in his life. and he don't let you know that. He's smiling too big to know. No, I don't have none of that. None of that never happened to me, no.

No. Got a clean record. No, I'm perfect. I don't make mistakes. No. I don't make mistakes. Well, I did, and I'm glad it was fixed, man. That's bad.

That was scary. We did end up following Budweiser, so that's all that matters. Thank everybody for listening. Thank you for tuning in, and thank you, T.J. For coming out and helping us today. It's been a skibbitty time.

Yeah, it's okay. What? Skippity. Skibbity. You'll learn. Skibbity. I'm not learning. Oh, man.

I know I wish. The whole show. It's all the things his kids say. Yeah, it is. Yes, that's what we were talking about before the show. It's a pretty lit show. Yep. Mm-hmm.

All right. I hate myself. You did. Thanks. Bye. Bye, Andrew. I don't think they're saying lit anymore, are they? Not as much.

No, it's, it's, it's, caff. I know. You can't, you. Do we still dab? No. There's not dabbing. We used to hang on to that shit. little longer. These kids today, like

that they're moving on. It's like three weeks and it's a new word. All right. Yeah. We do have to wrap. All right. Let's wrap. Fine. Check out Dirty Mo Media on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.