The Dale Jr. Download - 59 - Sonoma: Road Course Ringer

Episode Date: June 24, 2014

Dale Earnhardt Jr. checks in after his career-best finish at Sonoma; Mike Hoag details the group’s sightseeing trip to San Francisco. Check out Dirty Mo Media on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMedia  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is Dale Jr. And you're listening to Dirty Moe radio. You did a good job. Pickering. Solid strategy, everybody. That's the top five, Bozy. I'll kick your coverage, man. We need to get a top ten.

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Find your favorite pair of 88 Collection Sunglass. classes and intercode Dale yeah. Dale yeah. Check out. The discount is also a valid trackside at the Junior Nation souvenir hauler and right here in the Junior Motorsports Retail Shop. I guess that must have been Alan Gustafsson or somebody that we were just listening to there talking about Jeff Gordon getting the top five in Sonoma, of course.

Must have been. Must have been because we didn't watch this weekend. We were told by the boss to take the weekend off. Mike, it was my beautiful wife Betsy and I are a lot. 11th anniversary. Yeah. So we had a anniversary. Thank you.

We had fun with that. World Cup game, man, that was exhilarating this weekend. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, Michelle Wee won her first major in Pinehurst. That was pretty cool. What'd you do? I went down to Valdosta, Georgia, went to the zoo. Yeah, nice.

We hung out at the swimming pool. It was a good weekend. Oh, that's great. This is concerning. Am I the only one that can speak with authority here today? Am I the only one that watched this race? Wait, what? Well, yeah, I guess so.

I mean, we were told not to. We were just obeying orders. There was a race? There was a race? There was a race. I went rogue. I went against Dale's wishes, and I watched it. What happened?

We finished third. Where have you been? Shut up. We finished what? It's Sonoma? On the road course. You missed it. Come on.

You missed it. Somebody said what, asked Dale Jr. on Twitter last week, what's your problem? He said, I got to turn right. I mean, what? It's Sonoma? On the road course. Did he cheat?

Yeah, of course, we're just picking at, at Dale Jr. Awesome stuff. And I know Mike Davis watched it because Mike Davis had more confidence than anybody associated with Dale Jr. About road course racing. And now most of that confidence you've had, you would have to admit, Mike Davis, would be at the Glen, not necessarily at Sonoma.

No, Sonoma. It's where it's that, man. Listen, Junior's a road course ringer. I've said it all along. At any time I'm expecting a call from the Stuart Haas F-1 team. See if he's interested. As a matter of fact, I'm sure that, you know, the teams that are racing now, if they need a road course driver, they got our number.

Yeah. Well, again, I think you should admit to everyone that before the 2012 season, you said that you predicted Dale Jr. will win a road course race, and then you said the words Watkins and Glenn right after that. Hey, hold up. Listen, if there had been a caution at the end, Yeah. We might be talking about a victory at Sonoma.

I think we would be talking about a victory at Sonoma. And I would be bragging about this. This entire show would be dedicated to the pick that I made years ago that he would win a road course before his career is over. I got to give you a lot of credit because I got to give you more credit than I would even maybe give him. I don't know that he knew. Oh, goodness. I don't even know that he knew he was such a wheelman out there.

Because that's what he is. He's just an extremely talented race car driver, first of all. That's the first thing. The second thing that I would mention is Steve LaTart is truly one of the best crew chiefs in NASCAR. I mean, it's so obvious. And the car that he gave Dale Jr. This weekend, the job that that 88 crew did to prepare that car for the race was in practice on Friday. That was ridiculous.

Who was that guy? I mean, was Robbie Gordon driving that thing? That was crazy watching him. But that's the second thing. And the third thing is, you know, Mike Davis all the time in the past on Reaction Theater, and gosh, man, you've been hearing it forever. Man, Dale Jr. saw if he's not aggressive enough. Well, there's your answer, everybody.

There's your answer yesterday. I know he's upset with the Matt Kinza thing. But listen, I mean, one of his best friends in the world drives the 48. Did you see the way he was racing Jimmy Johnson there in the last few laps? That was awesome. This is what I've always known about him, though. And I say in all seriousness, now that we're not joking anymore, I mean, the fact of the matter is, is I wish he would give himself more credit about being a wheelman. Right.

Because we all see it. But there's a big confidence factor when it came to Sonoma. And we went into those weekends, and it was just like he was dreading it. So that makes Steve LaTard as good as he was on his pit strategy. What Steve Lattard did that was even better was his whole approach to the weekend because he recognized there's a confidence factor. We go into that weekend defeated already. If you could go in there not feeling defeated, let's see what happens then.

Well, you know what happened? We almost won the race. The pit strategy definitely helped. And I asked Steve, I said, what exactly was the strategy and did it change during the race? And he says, I wanted to have tires at the end. Well, he did. He had tires, and he was the first car that. He was the first car on fresh tires when that last restart happened.

I think they started 10th. Yeah, they did. That was also because Tony Stewart had that penalty because I think he was one of the cars that came in. That's right. That's right. That's true. That's good observation. Good observation.

So, yeah. So, I mean, we were sitting there with fresh tires. All year long we've been talking about, you know, is tires more important than track position? And in most cases, no. You would think that even at a road course, it would be even more prevalent the track position than the tires, I guess. I mean, you know, what do I know, right? But, I mean, if you're sitting up there, where was he? He was seventh when that caution came out.

I'm looking at my notes here. Yeah, he gave up seventh position at lap 90, so that was with 20 to go. And only lost, what, three spots? He lost three spots. Yeah, that's awesome. Four if you'd have counted the Tony Stewart thing, but Tony got penalized. So you give up those spots, you come out in 10th. He picked off three spots in the first lap.

Yeah, he was right. He was flying. Well, let's see what Dale Jr. thought about all this. Here's his reaction to a third place finish. Hey, everybody's junior. I just got home from a long trip out west from Sonoma. We had a awesome finish today. Never had a top 10.

I've been going to Sonoma since forever, and finally got a top 10. Finished and third was able to go to the media center and talk about our run, which I don't know if that will ever happen again, but pretty crazy. And in a bitful race, We, I bet on the weekend really, whole week, be honest with you.

We was out in San Francisco area since Tuesday and, you know, tweeted about going to the Gombgate Bridge and going to Alcatraz, which was really, really cool. It was way better than I thought it would be, actually. And got to actually walk in, you know, got to walk a mile inland into San Francisco, into the heart of the city and really enjoyed that. hope we can go back next year and maybe stay in the city during the week and check that out. But there's a lot of cool pubs and stuff sitting around and just a really cool town. So anyhow, we got, you know, Friday we had to get down to work and go the racetrack and the car was fast in both practices and really quick, actually. And then in qualifying we had a really good lap going that was easily going to get us in the top 12.

We got held up by some lap traffic, but, you know, that's a lot. since the way it goes on the road courses. We've never really done this kind of qualifying there. So we learned a little bit about trying to get a little cleaner racetrack. And so that was a bit frustrating, but still the car was good. So we started the race. Everything was cool. First run, the car was real good.

We'd saved the rear tires pretty good during that run and moved forward. And still felt like once everybody started pitting, we were thinking, man, our car is still in good shape. So we ran a little bit longer than we'd planned on that first run. The second run and a few runs after that, I didn't save the rear tires as well and we struggled a bit but got back to sort of taking care of the rear tires toward the latter part of the day but had a run in with kenseth we were racing tight through heading into the S's and

getting to a particular point where somebody's got to give and maybe one of us was really doing that and I jumped the curb pretty big and landed in his door and spun him out And, you know, it was just real sick to my stomach, seeing him spin, you know, toward that tire barrier at the angle he was headed and knew that wouldn't be a very fun ride. And then we'd come back around saw how bad the car was tore up. I couldn't believe how bad it was tore up. So that was pretty disheartening and never liked to see, you know, it's the thing about being friends with guys out there. You try to maintain those friendships and they do mean a lot to you.

but you're going to have, you know, things go down on the racetrack where you sort of, you know, test friendships and makes those things difficult. But, you know, me and Matt have always raced each other really hard. Most of it's always been pretty clean, and I just felt pretty bad about it. And I thought that, you know, that we weren't going to finish the race very well, because that can, once you get that kind of, you know, getting that kind of attitude, that kind of mode. You just, you know, kind of take yourself out of the race.

But mentally, I just wasn't really ready to go, keep going. But Steve got me fired up with some of the strategy he was thinking about doing, and he was wanting to put me out there on better tires than everybody else, which I knew I needed to take advantage of. And we got a great restart. That last restart and got by a bunch of guys real quick, so it kind of got me fired up and back into the game. But we had a little bump in with a little run.

him with the 47 car coming out of turn 11. He jumped on the outside of me into that corner breaking and we come out of there and we'll hop together and I had him pretty pinched up against the fence but I thought he had enough room but we wheel hopped and I looked in the mirror and I thought it was a hell of a wreck going on but apparently everybody but him got going anyways that's road course racing I've been on that end of it a few times more than a few times hell every time it seems like it was Sonoma. That last round was pretty fun I thought that the 24 and the 99 would fall off more than they did like the one did you know I thought that you know the one was one of the better cars all day and the 9924 held on really good that was uh you know I was sitting there

thinking man we're going to run in the top five then I got to think we're going to run in top three then I got to think man we might even win so those guys didn't fall off as much as I anticipated and um that was that I thought Jeff had a great drive and and a great opportunity to win came up a little short maybe another lap or so he would have definitely been able to make it pretty interesting and be able to keep that HMS streak alive, but I wasn't able to do it, and we have to go to the next one. Proud of my guy's effort, proud of the team, especially the car. I mean, they put a hell of a car on the racetrack this weekend to be able to get me,

I mean, look at my track record, man. No top tens, and any starts there. To be able to get me to run third at that racetrack, that's a great race car, really, really good strategy. So I've got to give them guys a lot of credit, and we'll see you next week. Thanks. Some stuff, man. Good, good stuff. Great recap from Dale Jr.

Obviously, he had a fun trip with some great friends and out there on the West Coast. And good explanation of what happened there with Kenseth and Almondinger and what he thought he had there for the finish. You know what I love about Junior's audio? If there's anything that's as indicative of his approach to road course racing, it's the fact that even after a career best finish at Sonoma, his highlight was still Alcatraz and like the local pubs down in San Francisco. Yeah, that was pretty funny stuff. You're going to hear more about that from Hogue here in just a second. In fact, yesterday, Mike Davis sat down with my man Mike Hogue,

and they were doing a little conversation about what happened out there on the West Coast. Here's a special edition of Off the Grid. Look who has stopped by the Dirty Mail Radio studio today. Hello, Mike Hogue. Hey, man. Glad to be back. Welcome back. It hasn't been that long. It feels like it's been a while.

Maybe five days. The first thing Hogue does is he gets back. back is he makes an announcement on the PA system here at Junior Motorsports. And it says to Sarah Adrian, Sarah Adrian's our accountant. She goes, Sarah Adrian, you're not allowed to cook or microwave fish in the break room anymore. Because he stung up the whole floor. It did. It did. It's stunk.

That's like microwave and burnt popcorn. It just stink for hours. So, Hogue, you would know what a fish mails like because you've been out. Oh, there's the burn. Teet him up. That wasn't a burn. I was just saying, you've been out there at Fisherman's Wharf. Did y'all go there?

Man, it was breezy. Yeah, we went there. You went out to San Francisco on Tuesday. Right, right? So before you guys went to the track and did all your work, you went out there, did a little sightseeing. You, Dale, T.J. How was it?

That was great. And I think the whole reason behind that was just to kind of, I don't think Dale has ever really gone out there that early before. And just to kind of relax, sightsee, hang out. We brought our women out there. And all your women? All our women. I'm sure they love being called that.

Do you want to elaborate? Well, I had. Is it one woman per? Amy. You know, Amy, everybody was Amy. Okay. And then TJ's wife, Tamla, and then my fiance, Amanda, we all went out there a few days earlier just to kind of be tourists.

Good for you. And it was awesome. Did the women like it? The women loved it. They're known as the women. Hogue, tell me some stories. So you guys, all right, so the week before you were on here, you were talking about how you left Ryan Newman at the tarmac.

And I'm assuming you got that resolved. Now you go out to Sonoma early. You're out there. Junior's tweeting pictures of you guys at the Golden Gate Bridge. Surely something happened. Nothing happened dramatic. Who did you leave somewhere? Who did you leave this time?

That's for another podcast, not for this one. Okay. We went to this little town outside San Francisco called Salito. It sits right across from the bank. So we went kind of similar thing there. Before we got there, we stopped by. You know that famous view of the Golden Gate Bridge. It's up top.

We're up in the hills. So we stopped there, and that's where he tweeted those pictures of all of us together. And we stayed there for about half hour, hour, just kind of just taking it all in. Because Amanda had never seen there. I had never been to that part of it to see that. So that was neat for us. Who took that picture? We had.

Just a random person? Yeah, we had a driver that day. Oh, okay. Took it for us, and there were some other tours. We were taking pictures for us, too. But Alcatraz is neat, man. I had never been there. I've never been there.

I don't think anybody. None of us had ever been. And that was so neat. You take this boat over. It was about 12-minute ride, and the weather changes, man, was incredible. From when we left, and it's about 20 degrees cooler. I didn't bring jacket. You know, nobody really brought jackets.

So we got there. We kind of did the Google Tips thing. What do you do at Alcatraz? When you get there to beat the boy the crowds, It says go right to the audio tour inside with the cell block where all the inmates were. And they go and they give you these headphones, and it's just you kind of guide yourself on this tour. They don't have anybody to walk you through or any of that.

So we're going through and you get to see all the cells where the inmates were and what they did. And at the end of it, it kind of loops you back into this gift shop area. And we were buying all kinds of stuff. I mean, you can buy everything from the trays they actually use and the type of cups they used to, you know, books. Well, Dale had bought this book by an inmate that was, and stayed there for four years.

And he had a whole bag of stuff. So we were checking out, and Amanda yells at me. She's like, hey, the guy who wrote the book, he's actually signing here, the guy who's the inmate. So we told Dale, hey, man, the guy who you're buying the book, he's over here signing. And Dale's like, oh, it's cool. He's like, the line looks long.

Maybe I'll just go. And then after he bought it, he goes, you know what, I want to go meet this guy. Say, you know, stand in line. So we waited in line. and the inmate, the guy, the author, he was like, hey, you know, looks up, you know, doing an usual thing. Where are you from? He was like, North Carolina, Charlotte.

And the guy's like, oh, man, Charlotte, that's a big NASCAR town. And the guy looked up and he goes, hey, and you look a lot like Dale Jr. And he goes, well, that's because I am Dale Jr. And he's like, holy cow, that's awesome. So then it was at that point, it was neat. I wasn't with Dale there. He told this story afterwards. We were outside waiting.

But again, it's something I thought was cool to tell. The two of them met, and Dale got a picture of him. He got a picture with Dale, and he signed his book. But stuff like that, I think, is pretty cool that people like to hear again. Dale might not tell that story, but it's something that was neat. Do you remember the guy's name, the inmate? I could, man, I could look it up. But I forget what he did.

It wasn't like he was helping. It wasn't anything serious why he was in there. He didn't murder anybody. There were people there that were like that. I thought if you went to Alcatraz, you ended up doing some bad stuff. But it was also. You didn't believe him, did you? I would lie to you.

I mean, he might be. But I know he was. And it's like Shawshank where everybody says they're innocent? Yeah, that movie, I love that movie. That's not true. Anyway, side try, yeah. Just to see that place and put yourself there, we want to do the night tour, but the night tour sold out through August.

I haven't tried to do the old, like, we never do this. I hate doing it. Try to do the name drop. You did not. Oh, hey, I mean, I've been asked Dale to his movies. What did you say? I'm trying to do it. No, not my name.

I called that office. It was so funny. And I did the whole spiel, hey. Yeah, yeah. I was like, I got a manager. I helped manage dealer Jr. And I was like, is there any way we can get on this night tour? Something we really want to do.

We don't come here. We come here once a year. And they asked who it was again. And they're like, nope, we just can't. They said, the people that buy these tickets are only here this time. And it's sold out through August. And there's like, there's no way we can do it. Did you not tell them that you were friends with the inmate?

Well, we didn't know if they'd become buddies at the time. Not that they became buddies, but. No, that's a shame. I could have got that pulled off. What? I could have got us on the night tour. You're right. I could have.

That wouldn't even get hard. Well, they were like, well, you can show up and see who doesn't, if there's not another group that shows. It was like you can stay in wait, see if someone doesn't make it, and then you can go. They rolled out the red carpet. Yeah, come on. Just tell them, talk to me next time. But it's funny. You know what's funny out there?

In the three days, we were touring the San Francisco area. Dale didn't get stopped for one. He got one time for a picture we were in that South Slade area, but it was neat, I guess, because nobody really notices. And it all kind of, you know, there's so many tour in. and you can just... You blend it in. Yeah. Let me ask you this.

Is Alcatraz the one where nobody has ever succeeded by swimming the... Right. Yes. They have, I think it was like five people that have escaped and tried. A couple of them where I've never been found, so they don't know. Some of them washed up. All you would have had to do is say, I could swim this. And T.J.

Oh, that's what we thought we were all like, man. T.J. would have been like... T.J. would have tried it. It's a mile and a half to the closest to the shore. And you go out there and you're like, oh, and you look at it. You're like, that doesn't look that far. It doesn't look that far. When you get on that island and you see how the water is and how cold, everything, it's, there's no way.

No way you can swim that. I know there's no way, but I'm just saying all you would have had to do is say that you could do it. Oh, and I thought, well, that was the problem. T.J. had been like, see ya. He'd have gone in. But T. TJ agreed. He's like, ah, you think you're right on this one. There's no way you could do it, which is surprising.

All right. So good stuff at Alcatraz. Anything else that happened that week? When did you go to the track finally on Thursday? No, we went to the track Friday. Thursday was the Alcatraz Day. Yeah, I mean, went to the track Friday. Everything was the normal was going to be.

Nothing, no issues. Oh, it was funny. We had on a Kelly Blue Book appearance Sunday yesterday in a suite. And, you know how Sonoma is from the garage to everyone stands right there at that gate when you're pulling in. So it's hard. So we have this suite appearance, which we have never done there. And we looked over and Jake Backer and I works at Hendrick. We were trying to figure out.

Saturday we had it all worked out in our brains. This is what we're going to do. We're going to take the Tahoe. We're going to drive over at the elevator. We'll take them right on up. No issues. When we get there Sunday, it's packed. Most packed I've seen in Sonoma with people.

So we get to about 20 minutes before our appearance. And I tell Jake, I say, look, man, there's no way we can get through these people. And about the time I said that, our car is blocked in three deep in the garage. So now we have no car. Can't get to the appearance. I'm like, Jake's get to get a golf cart. And we're like, man, there's no way we can take them through this crowd on a golf cart. We won't go anywhere.

will get mobbed. Because you've seen it, it can be bad. Like, scared. Sure. Scary. So, we go in, I'm like, man, we just got to go tell Dale the situation. I said, our only option, see all those stairs. It's right there. The sweet's up at the top of them. We're going to have to run through this crowd, and we're going to run through those stairs. We go in the holler,

and Dale's right there. He's like, ready to go? I said, no, before we go. Jake and I were talking, we're like, we have an issue. This is going to be kind of a screwed of appearance. We can't get there. We're going to have to run through the crowd. So he's like, what do you mean? He's like, he's like, he's like, where is it? I said, see it right there at the top? That's where we've got to go. It's that our only option right now

is you can either run all the way down the grass end of the elevator or we're running right up to the stairs. So he's like, all right, let's go. He, as soon as I... Not a second later after that. He's jumping out the door. We just fired out of the crowd, got to that gate, and nobody... It was so quickly nobody noticed. So we get up there, and then we're just a dead sprint up, ten flights at stairs. And when I say sprint,

I mean, you're like skipping stairs all the way up. Get there, we're all three gas. Like, what are we doing? He goes to a sweet appearance, and I fell back, because Jake and I were like, Man, we're winded, and Dale's up there like, oh, hey, guys. I'm here, and they're like, what the heck's wrong with this guy? I mean, and then we just ran up, literally.

Okay, let me stop him right there. If we're keeping score at home, all right, Hogue has not been able to get him on the night tour at Alcatraz. Oh, now you're going to twist it this enough. He's not been able to get him on the night tour at Alcatraz. Dale Earnhardt Jr. could not get on a tour at Alcatres, and he made him hike up bleachers to his sweet appearance. Before one of the most physically demanding races there is on the circuit.

That's what I was. The whole time I'm thinking. Oh, by the way, yeah. He's never even finished in the top ten at this point. But you know what this tells me next year? We have to do everything like this again. We have to go in there early. We have to have to have fun.

You have to wing it. You have to not practice. That part I agree with. But the part where you screw up is the thing you ought to. You got a year to fix that. We had to adapt. And our only, the best plan of action at that time was to sneak through that crowd and run up those stairs. All right, Hogie.

Thank you. All right. See it. See you. Good stuff from Hogue and Mike Davis there. It just seems like those boys had so much fun with their wives and girlfriends this past weekend. You could sense it with all the tweets they were sending out. Glad they were able to experience all that.

Let's be clear. Hold on. They don't have wives and girlfriends. Like some of them have a wife. Some of them have a girlfriend. Right. Yeah, that was my point. But, yes.

You're having great time with his wives and girlfriends out there, Sonoma. I mean, some of them are married and some of them have significant others. There we go. Yeah, that's a good point. We probably should mention that. Before we get into reaction theater, let's remind everybody about Spice's exclusive deal for Dirty Mo Radio listeners. Go online to SpyOptic.com and check out Dale Jr.'s signature Spy 88 collection.

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and also right here in the Junior Motorsports Retail Shop. So go online and check out this awesome limited time offer. You hear all that out there, guys, in the retail store, Dale, yeah, 20% discount, shirts are there in the corner. Yeah, I love some of these tweets. Nobody listened. I love some of these tweets that you're retweeting from fans who have gotten their Dalia shirts.

That's some cool stuff. Yep. All right, it's time for reaction theater. Are you going to say it? I mean, don't even hang in Amanda. What are you doing? I just said it a little bit ago. Say it again.

Can I say something here, though? What is the story behind the beer? Yeah. I don't know this story. I think what happened was, is if memory serves me correct, Junior and Kinseth got into each other at the end of the race.

Okay, and there was some frustration there. And Kenza thought that he was upset with Junior, you know, what were you doing there? You know, buddies, you know, yelling at each other afterwards. And after that, on the ride back to the plane, Junior says to Hogue, hey, man, get some beer for the plane ride home. So Hogue asks the pilots to put some beer on the plane and the pilots who, you know, all these guys like know each other, all these pilots on different planes. Yeah. And so one of the pilots for Junior that day went on another plane just thinking it was no big deal. Yeah.

Took the beer off of the plane and they went home with it. Turns out it was Kenseth's beer. Yeah, that's right. So basically Dale Jr. not only got into Kenseth, but then he stole his beer on the ride home as well. That's the story. That's exactly what happened. Wow. And I'll remember.

I've remember it now. Yeah. Yep. No word yet on if Kenseth stole Junior's beer on the way home yesterday. All right, let's get back to Reaction Theater. What do we have next? Congratulations to all the whole team, 88 team. I just want you to know that I'm 77 years old, been a fan ever since he started in this racing,

but I can't find the Dale's Yow shirt anywhere. Please, I need to know where to get it. But congratulations, guys, you're fantastic. Wow. Davis? I got this lady's phone number. Okay. Mike, you need to send something to her.

We're just going to send her one. Yeah. That's going to fix that problem. She's not going to have to look for anything. You just give it to send it right to her. Amanda, you'll contact her, and let's send her one. Thank you for calling. That's awesome.

That is awesome. 77 years old, calling reaction theater. You got to love it. Junior Nation knows no restrictions. What's next? So, Junior may have to make a couple apologetic phone calls. So, f***ing what? He came out of there with defenders looking all nice and neat and pretty.

You won't trying hard enough. Dale fucking yeah. Hell yeah. I love it. Yeah. I gave you a hellia instead of a dahlia. I loved it. I loved it.

I love the way that he raced that. that race yesterday. You got to. You got to do it the same way he did it yesterday. And you know what? This reminds me. He said in his interview on TNT that he was going to cut the shell off and put it in the woods. Yeah.

And I tweeted it. And I think you did too, Taylor. I can't remember. But the people are like, why are you going to destroy a whole car, you know, and put in the woods? He just finished third with it. Well, let's just clarify. You ain't taking the motor or the... They're not putting the car out there.

They're just cutting the body off and putting it out there. And then somebody's like, what? But why would you do that? Well, did you see it? I mean, it's getting cut off, regardless. All right, what do we have next? Okay, the first time I called in, Junior 1, at Pocono, I sounded like I was having a heart attack. I'm sorry, guys, I was just really super stoked for that win.

Today, I'm telling you, damn, yeah, baby, you go. You talk about his driver being in the zone? He was in the zone today. There was nothing that was holding it. that man back. It's pretty cool to see, especially that last run. You know, I love, there have been plenty of times where you have seen, you know, the 88 coming on or the eight coming on in the past, Mike. And that's one of those special days, you know, the last green flag run where you just see picking off spot after spot. I remember a few years ago in Michigan, Steve LaTart was Jeff

Gordon's crew chief, and it was one of the coolest audios ever. He just all of a sudden radios into Gordon. He goes, the 88 is coming like a bat out of hell. Yeah. In Michigan a few years ago, and he ended up finishing third. But that reminded me a little bit of that yesterday. That was really cool. That is cool. I'm glad the girl is feeling okay.

She didn't have a heart attack. Yeah. And, you know, lived to make another call. Yeah. That's right. What do we have next? Amanda, you're beautiful. Your ring is beautiful.

30-mo radio is beautiful just because you work on it. And we've finished top three at a road course, and we got direct Kansas Subboot. You know, I have this email here, Mike, that says, hey, hey, guys, this is to Mike and to Taylor. I just sent a reaction theater call in saying how handsome both of you were. I hope Amanda plays it. That isn't going to work.

Yeah, I don't think that's going to work. For the record, there were several of these. And also, for the record, I'm not playing anymore. Why? Because. I'm going to have to go in there and do something. I agreed. I was going to let Amanda do reaction theater this year,

but I may have to go get the keys and go into the files and find some of these calls and play them. Yeah, by the way, Amanda, last year Mike took vacation after the second Talladega race, junior finished second, and there was a big wreck behind him. It would have won the race if there wasn't a late caution. Yeah.

And Mike was like, hey, man, have fun with Reaction Theater this week. And I had never done it before. And it was like, you have 125 new messages. And I'm like, oh, this is great. Was it that the week I also tweeted out the wrong number? Yeah, and still got, All those. Some 855 number somewhere got, you know, God knows how many calls.

It's probably like for like a hair loss treatment or something. And it's like, what the hell happened to that card again? Dale, yeah. Austin Dillon, I can't believe you, man. Yeah. Let's hear us next. Damn it, boy. A top three finish on a road course in Sonoma.

Dale Jr., you are a hell of a road racer. You do not give yourself enough credit for being good. You got to remember, not too long ago, you and Pop finished second overall at the 24 hours of Daytona. Good job, Dale Jr. Dale, yeah. I love that one. That's good.

That's a good point. We forgot that he's actually been in the Rolex race. Yeah. I mean, you don't just get in the Rolex race unless you know what you're doing on those turns. Yeah. I guess. He had some, you know, pretty stout teammates with him. He's a wheelman.

He's a wheel man. There's no doubt about it. What's next? This week on As the Wheel Turns, it appears Junior studied that Kyle Bush How to Take him out video for road courses. Newman continues to have trust issues ever since Junior abandoned him on the runway.

Will track officials equip the back of every seat with an air sick bag in anticipation of a Jimmy Johnson win? And people are asking, can you watch your rear tires and still keep your eyes on the track ahead? tune in next week to find out and get an update on the waffle bellies. Will they score an autograph? Until then, drive like you mean it. Dale, yeah.

That's pretty clever right there. What are the waffle bellies? That's people that are pressed up against the fence trying to get autographs. Oh, okay. I didn't even know that. And I think she needs to clarify if she means waffle bellies for junior or waffle billies for Hogue. Yeah, that's right. Team JJ.

What's next? Okay, here are seven words that I'm. never thought that I would utter together in a sentence. I'm really looking forward to Watkins Glenn. I never thought I'd say that before my life. But heck of a good run by junior today and heck of a strategy call out the end by Stevie to get him tires and junior drove his butt off man. Great job about the pit crew and everybody on the 88 team man. Heck of run. P3, it's a mama. It's almost like a win. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That is. Reaction theater is open 24-7. All you have to do.

is call toll-free 1-855-740-1902. Again, 1855-740-1902. That is the right number. Yeah. And leave us your voicemail message. That's important. And we'll play the best each week right here on Dirty Mo Radio. Now, Wednesday, Kelly, Earnhardt Miller will be out and junior motorsports employees are taking over Fastlane families.

That's right. Look forward to that. We're taking over. All right. I like that. Friday, you got J.R.M. 360, the podcast, a ton of entertaining nonsense, as usual. And, of course, every Monday, we recap the... the full weekend for the Junior Motorsports nationwide late model teams

and Dale's Sprint Cup series run on the Monday recap presented by Spy with the great Amanda Troutman. All right, Mike Davis. Let's throw the white flag. Well, Jr. had yesterday to get rested up and ready for the upcoming week because, I mean, that's just pretty much how it works around here. You got one day. It's a short week, too.

That's right. Short week. So today, Junior is making his normal Tuesday rounds at Hendrick Motorsports and Junior Motorsports. He'll be doing some production work for goodies this week. Now, if you have headaches in your life, and we all know you do, whether literal or figurative, Amanda has a headache every day right here, and you're hearing him. Goodies, powders, and goodies headache relief shots are your answer. Both will be the headache into submission, and neither need stoppage time to do it.

Oh, wow. Go America. Wow, I like that. With your headache gone, you'll be ready for the race weekend. The Nationwide Series Boys, which also includes Kevin Harvick this week, will qualify in race all on Friday. You can catch that race Friday night on ESPN. the Cup Series will qualify on Friday and race Saturday night at 7.30 p.m. Eastern on T&T. And Taylor, you'll be there?

I believe that we will win. I believe that we will win. I believe that we will win. Olay, Olay, Olay, Oleg, O'Leo. Yes, I will be there. Fired up, I'll be part of the PRN broadcast Friday night and on Saturday. I wasn't talking about soccer either. I know, but I just felt like I wanted to sing that, all right? Okay. All right, fair enough.

That's all the white flag I have. Okay, very good. It ends with Olae, Ola, Ola, Ola. We thank Dale. Jr. We thank Mike Hogue. We thank Mike Davis and Amanda Troutman. I believe that we will win. I believe that we will win. Taylor's our sir. This has been the Dale Jr. download presented by Spy. Oh my God. Thanks for listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Hey, Dirty Moe Radio listeners. Thank you so much for listening to today's podcast. We hope that you enjoyed it.

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