The Dale Jr. Download - 80 - Homestead: Season Finale

Episode Date: November 18, 2014

Taylor Zarzour and TJ Majors breakdown the Homestead race as well as the 2014 season. Mike Davis calls in from Miami; JR Nation has a lovefest on Reaction Theatre. 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. And on behalf of everybody, it's been an honor and a privilege to go to battle with you every week. And good luck in your future, my man. Thanks, buddy. Well, see you, but. It was an emotional day for everybody. Steve LaTart's last race was really cool to have him on the podcast last week. This is the Dale Jr. download presented by a spy.

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I am Taylor Zarser, and we are recapping the entire season here of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the 88 team, and T.J., it was an emotional day for everybody, as obviously Stevie is moving on. And as for the race itself, it was a crazy, exciting race with the way Kevin Harvick won that championship. Congratulations to Harv, certainly very close to Junior and to Junior Motorsports with winning races for them this season. but you guys certainly deserved a better result than what you got, much more competitive than that. I think you guys had a top five car. Oh, yeah, we definitely had a top five car.

We had to drive up there numerous times. I think we passed more cars than everybody all night. Even the most impressive to me was the time we got the Lucky Dog after the loose wheel or a tire going down. And we drove from the back of the field, not just the last car in the lead lab, but the back of the field all the way to like 10th. Yeah, and it was just crazy. some of those restarts. Mike, what an unbelievable few days.

I know an emotional few days, an exciting few days with Chase Elliott, setting so many records for what he did this year in the nationwide series and winning the most popular driver and, of course, winning the championship. That was really cool and emotional to see Stevie in the pit box for the final time. Oh, yeah. I mean, it was a long weekend. It just seemed like there was so much going on with Steve's last race. He had a camera crew for NBC following him all weekend.

And it just seemed like a circus. I told him before the race. I said, your new name is P.P. Barnum because you call it a circus everywhere you go. And that was the truth. That's what it felt like. But you know what was Chase Elliott's championship, getting that crown? That was a long day, but a very, very memorable day for all of us. And we're still down here because of the banquet.

We're all kind of recovering from last night. So it's just a good weekend. It definitely was. Guys, for both of you, Dale Jr.'s thoughts on this last race and the entire season. I certainly think the entire season was a success. And, TJ, I've been saying this to you every week. I really feel like this team continues to gain on it, and I expect them to be championship contenders next year. Yeah, I mean, I definitely don't see why we wouldn't be.

Dynamite drop in there, T.J. No, it's been, this team's great, man. It's the, I mean, it's just, it's the closest group of guys that I've ever seen work with each other and has the most fun, you know, and, you know, everyone does their job really good. And, you know, Stevie's put together a great team and, you know, the group really knows how to have fun. Obviously, they know how to have fun after wins, too. And I don't know, it's just, it's just fun working with them. Everybody gets along, and we're competitive every week, you know, we know, even if we have one of them bad qualifying efforts that everyone, you know, get so mad at sometimes, you know, you look after 50 laps into the race.

We're in the top 10 and making a run, you know, and it's fun to not stress about stuff. You know, we don't go hang our heads after qualifying. We know we know Sunday's payday, so, you know, it's just a fun group, man. Everyone knows their jobs, and we all get along real well. Mike, go for it, man. I'd love to get your perspective on this entire season and how optimistic you are on the future. You know, a very optimistic, you know, a lot of, a lot of, that's come out of the Chase Dillette Championship is just how great of a crew chief of Greg Eyes is.

I mean, last night at the Nationwide Series banquet, they asked Greg Eise that same question. You know, like, you know, what do we have to look forward to for next year? And let me tell you something. That guy gave me chills. He says, I want more wins than what we had this year. He's talking about Dale Jr., and he goes, I expect nothing less. So he's laid the gauntlet down, but this is a tremendous year. I mean, this is a fun year.

Everything was clicking. It just seemed like for Dale Jr., both on the Cuff side and the nationwide side. I was just, you know, we were kind of going back to the entire season last night at this banquet, both CUP and Nationwide. I don't remember a year where everything just seemed to be working. I mean, and everyone was just on Cloud 9. It seemed like every week just the camaraderie, the team, how it jails. That's going to be one of the things. I don't care, you know, how good a crew chief is.

The team chemistry is always really important, and anytime you have a change, the chemistry is going to be affected somehow. That's going to be one of their big goals going into the 215 season is that, you know, try to get everybody on the same page, I think, and get used to Greg I's system, because he is completely different than Steve. I know. DJ can attest of that. But I don't know, man.

I'm just optimistic about it. Usually by the end of the year, I'm like, I'm ready for a break, and I'm like, don't even want to think about racing, but with Greg Ives coming on board and with the season we had this year, man, I really can't wait to get the Daytona. Yeah, I think everybody feels that way. Mike, tell me if you think this is accurate.

I just get the sense that Dale Jr. has never been as comfortable in his own skin and as confident as he was in 2014, going into 2015. Obviously, winning a championship as an owner was a huge success this year, a huge reason for that. Just seeing how accessible he is now via Twitter and other outlets.

He's very, very confident and comfortable doing those things. And as for results on the track, I really believe this was his best season. I know that he's come closer maybe to winning a championship in some other years, but I thought this was the best season he's had. How do you feel about all that? I definitely feel that way. I need to get back and look statistically. obviously we've had seasons where we had more wins and more top five,

but it just does still like the best season because I think there was more of a consistency. And those years will we won six races. We also had a lot of 30th, and we didn't have much of that this year. We were all up and down. But Junior's comfortable in his skin because he's running well. Like when you talk about how he just seemed to be doing more, I mean, anytime the car runs well, and we've talked about this, just how many times, Taylor.

When that car's fast, everything helps just click. Everything helps in his life, you know, off the track. A fast race car has a lot to do with how your week goes. And he's had good fast race cars, and so I think that definitely has a lot to do with his demeanor off the track. I think he wouldn't tell you any difference because, you know, fast race cars make for good weeks. And you're a lot more pleasant to be around.

DJ, you're around them as much as anybody. You feel that way, too? Absolutely. Fast race cars solve a lot of problems. Yeah, I mean, that's the key to everything. If your car is fast, it doesn't matter. You know, if you do mess up and qualify. If you have a fast race car, the driver, everyone's confidence is way up. And, you know, you just know, things are going to be good.

So everyone likes to win. So fast race cars fix about everything in our sport. So, yeah, he's definitely, you know, the most focused. I've seen him on, you know, ever really racing. he's focused with stuff. Like it's been a pretty big year as far as like him joining Twitter and stuff and being more social and he's handled it like better than anyone could have expected. He's been funny out there.

He's joke with people and dealt with some of the negative stuff that people say to and just had made it fun, you know, and he just had his head up all year and happy. So, you know, I'm glad to see it. Being a friend and, you know, being around a lot and being there when it was bad and stuff, It's a night and day difference right now, and it's just a lot of fun. I'm glad to hear that. That's great to hear you say that, given how close you've been to him for so long. And from afar, I've gotten that since.

But to hear somebody as close as you are to him say that, it's really cool, and it gives everybody a lot of confidence going into next season. Mike, before we let you run, TJ and I will do reaction theater and white flag and all that. I just want some final thoughts from you on this entire season, my friend. You've been here for 40 podcasts, actually 80, if you count the last two years. And it's been one hell of a ride, man. It's been a lot of fun this year. And I'd love for you to tell us what these next few months are going to be like.

I know you'll get some R&R and the whole team will, but there's still going to be a lot going on. Well, I'm glad you asked that. Dude, what a great year. I have had so much fun doing the Dirty Mail Radio podcast. And, you know, I'm so appreciative of you as always. and Amanda, you know, Amanda was nude this year, and so she came on board and you and I chuckle about how much she's helped us out, but the fact of the matter is I don't think words could truly say how much the addition of Amanda Troutman was for Dirty Mail Radio this year, because she just, she wears many gloves and helps us out a lot, but she was a huge addition this year.

We were able to grow. We had Kelly's podcast this year, which was awesome. You know, Amanda's Monday recap. We're going to work on stuff for next year. Continue to build Dirty Mill Radio. There's going to be a new podcast that I'm excited about. We'll reveal that here in the next month or so. But right now, a lot of people are saying,

why does Dirty Mell Radio have to go off for the off season? Eventually, we'll get to a point where that doesn't happen. But right now, between you, me, and Amanda and T.J. there, you're looking at pretty much the entire staff of DirtyMell Radio. We got to be able to add next. programming and to be able to add all this stuff, we've got to be able to have a couple months to do that. So we're going to continue to build.

I'm so appreciate, listen, everywhere you go these days, every will bring it up. I see the Dirty Mow Radio, Del Yes shirts everywhere. People are saying, Dale, yeah. Did you guys see the Dale? Somebody put, through my attention to that, look across the track and there's Delia, yeah, written big letters on the wall. And, I mean, that's just fun to do. we get such good response to the fan interaction with reaction theater but also just word

of themifies what we're doing and uh i don't know man it was a great year uh this year going to series xm they're appreciative of everything and uh looking for the next year yeah thank you for saying that and i'm uh you you are you're the engine my friend and uh we're we're all here because of you so we're really grateful to hear you say those things and you're so right about amanda uh my wife uh when i was texting with amanda trying to we're all trying to figure out this week with everybody in different places. She said, I'm a little concerned at how much you enjoy women dominating your life.

And I said, I said, listen, if Amanda wasn't here, I don't know what I'd do. But it's the truth. She has been an unbelievable addition to us. So thank you for all you do, Mike. Be safe coming back, man. So grateful for you. We'll do, buddy.

And Amanda, Yes, safe flight. TJ, thank you for joining us. It's a lot of fun. Don't forget you run a race car. this year too. That was pretty cool. Yeah, that was really cool. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Dirty Moe Radio on a race car.

There was always that. There was always those primary paint games that I forgot to talk about. We've got plenty more to say about that throughout the rest of this podcast for sure. Mike Davis, the man in charge and we are very, very grateful to him. That's the reason why we do this. So hope he is safe coming back

to us. T.J., I want to ask you about something as we let Mike run here. I want to ask you about Kevin Harvick and that team winning a championship. I think it's quite obvious that there's a lot of people in junior motorsports associated with Dale Jr. and company that were really thrilled that he won that championship and so many other people. Delana, the mother function, you name it. The list goes on. People are really excited for Kevin Harvick. Yeah, I'm just really excited for them. You know, I've known a lot of them for a long time and seen him at the racetrack. And it's just

awesome to see to see some of the you know we all have friends there and stuff some you know more than others and you know i'm just really glad to see you know kevin and and uh like you said josh mother function and then do you know finally get a championship is something we all want to do and and um you know it's it's always uh heartwarming to see your friends uh have success like that even though you want to be in that position someday but it's good to see your friends uh you know succeed at something and finally a season coming to an end and I don't think anyone can be you know I'm sure people are disappointed but I don't think anybody can be really disappointed with how the year played out and how everything went for our sport I thought it was a successful year for the sport in general and

and you know it just everything you know it was a great year yeah it really was and if if nothing else everyone associated with your team TJ needs to believe they've never been closer to winning a championship I mean, that to me is the first thing I will think about 2014 is that the 88 team has never been closer to winning a championship. And that's exciting. Yeah, I mean, we were, you know, just had bad luck at the wrong time. And, you know, it didn't just happen to us, happened to other guys too. But, you know, we'll come back next year. You know, we got a solid team.

And, you know, majority, obviously, Stevie's moving on, but majority, you know, we're going to have placed the same group. So I'm really close to it. So it should be a lot of fun, and we'll come out of Daytona, trying to win it again. This is your last chance for Spy's exclusive deal for Dirty Mo Radio listeners. Go online to SpyOptic.com and check out Dale Jr.'s signature Spy 88 collection. It includes the Dirty Moe, McCoy, Quanta, General, and Farrah for the ladies. Enter discount code Dirty Moe Radio. Oh, and word.

At checkout and receive 20% off your purchase. Christmas is coming fast, so take advantage of this discount and give a sweet, present to somebody. All right, Ms. Troutman, last time you had to listen to all these people. Taylor, it's a love fest today. I'm just going to let you know. Here's reaction theater. First of all, I want to say thank you to Dale and Art Jr. for an amazing year.

Four wins, that's incredible, one of the best seasons that I've ever had as a fan. Next, I want to say thanks Steve Lartz for putting together this amazing team. and this year's in one-house ride with you, Steve, and I'm going to miss you on the pit box, but I'm going to really enjoy you in the broadcasting booth. I'm excited for next year with Greg I and Dale Jr. together. I think that's going to be a great combo. Congratulations.

See if we said Daytona. Dale, yeah. Absolutely, Dale, yeah. TJ, I know you guys will take a break, but will there be an earlier point than usual that Greg Jr. and you get together and talk about communication, you know, with you spotting, with him, et cetera,

than is typically the case? I don't think so. I think Greg, you know, I think he's had his feet in there a little bit already. I had a couple tests already. And, you know, I've worked with Greg already before. With Regan last year, I worked with Greg. And so Greg knows me already. He obviously knows Junior.

And, you know, I don't think it's going to be, I don't think there's going to be much of a transition at all for us three to to go right in there and click with each other and, you know, fire off just like nothing ever, you know, changed. That's great to hear. All right. Who's next? Just want to give a real. Hell yeah.

And congratulations to Dale and Stevie. All the hell of a year. I know they came up a little short on the championship, but it was still a hell of a year. Fired up for next year. Greg Hives coming in. Hell of a season coming up. Hell yeah. Dale yeah.

Yeah. TJ, how crazy was the end of that race? we were talking about it before the start of this podcast. I mean, deciding how many tires to take or pitting decided a championship. Yeah, it was nuts. You know, you didn't know how many cautions were going to be at the end or what was really going to happen. There was at one point I thought Danny had it won,

and then the next point, you know, I thought the 31 was going to win it. And then here comes Harvick with the tires to win it. How bad do you feel for Lagano, though, that final pit stop he had? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I feel, I mean, it's just definitely something you're not going to have happened, but it's tough that happens. I mean, how bad did people feel for us in Kansas?

Yeah, yeah. It was just his turn for, I mean, you know, those guys have nothing to be ashamed about. They ran great all year, too, so. Amanda, you can talk about this better than anybody. How bad do you feel for the crew? Oh, my gosh. When Kip makes a mistake on Pit Road, it's just heartbreaking. Yeah.

Because, you know, like, in his mind, it's like, oh, what's going to come down on him from that point? and how angry people and how bad. I think you beat yourself up more than anybody else could. I mean, that was kind of like after Bristol, I felt like, I know he, you know, the junior told me that he was going to the top, no matter what, whenever we knocked the foam out of the left side door and destroyed our car. I was telling him to go high, and that didn't work out.

But you always, you know, you sit there and think about it again, but you don't ever want to, I mean, knock on wood, and I probably won't ever put myself in a risky situation like that. if you're not 100% sure they're clear, I mean, I won't clear unless I know, you know. So you got to be real careful because you never want to go home and think about stuff like that and where it could have been your fault. And it's just not a fun, not a fun night. Crazy finish to the season for sure.

All right, who's next? Last podcast of the year, boys, let's make it a good one. The race wasn't so great for Dale Jr. I don't even know where he finished, but it was kind of disappointing. But anyways, congratulations to Harvick. I love that new format and the chase. That was awesome. And, you know, Hendrick Motorsports provided both engines for the two championships nationwide and Cup series.

So even though it's not necessarily Hendrick Motorsports, Hendricks still on top engine-wise. So let's go get them next year. Great guys. Come on, man. Let's go get a championship with Odale Jr. And Steve Wittart, man, thank you for making this sport fun again for Junior Nation. This was an awesome year, man. And Davis, Zarser, whoever else you got on there, Amanda, you're beautiful.

But I'm in you all under Daytona? Hell yeah. We know why you know that one made it in there. We know why that one made it in there. That's hilarious. Jealousy's unbecoming. Yeah. That's funny stuff right there.

I'll hold my thoughts. TJ, thank you, too. Yeah, man. All right. Who's next? How beautiful. This match is right here. It's not about Dale Jr.

It's about Steve was a tart. Steve, you're going to be missed. You did a lot for Junior Nation. You did a whole hell of a lot for Dale Jr. You brought his career to levels that's never been brought to. You made moves that were uncharacteristic and were able to propel him to great levels. And we thank you for that. You made Dale Jr. a calming influence in the car,

and he just was able to do things that I don't think he's ever been able to do. If you ever pick against him, you're a B. Oh, okay. There he goes. It was a very level-headed call. Yeah, he definitely helped him out, though. I mean, he definitely made him calmer because I'm going to tell you what, about five years ago he was not very calm. There's no doubt.

Steve had a tremendous impact on him, and Dale Jr. has certainly gone over that many times. Who's next? Well, most entertaining spotters I've listened to him on a while. Absolutely. Yeah, definitely a great ear. I mean, if they threw somebody could throw a brickyard in there, I might even, I don't know what I would do.

Yeah. A brickyard and a Charlotte. Yeah, I'd take that too. Yeah. Get a home win. Yeah. And get to kiss the bricks. That'd be pretty cool for sure.

Maybe Bristol? Yeah, Bristol. I've been there. I've won there before, though, so. Yeah. I want to win again. Yeah, I'll take it again. Darlington.

Come on. Yeah. We can be greedy here. Yeah. Hey, one thought, T.J. I'm glad the best man won. I was frustrated last week about some people being in the Final Four and lack of wins and all that sort of thing. And listen, Ryan Newman raced his ass off on Saturday Sunday.

I mean, listen, I'll give him all the credit in the world. But I'm glad the best man won the championship. Yeah, I think Kevin was definitely the number one seed, you know, and Ryan, you know, he earned it. Wasn't it crazy how good all those cars were that race? Like, at one point they were all on the top five, and I wasn't even sure we would ever even see that. But at one point, it was a heck of a show. I didn't think they would all get up there and be able to race with each other as much as they did. But they were nose to tail, the four, the 11.

They raced a lot. The 22, they swap positions a lot. So I think you can ask for anything better than that. No, for sure. All right, who's next? What a year? We're finishing one and two in the nationwide series. Phenomenal year.

But let's talk about the Cup Series and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Mike's his way back Steve Lattart God rest his For the lead again And then at about 2014 And the top 10 Steve Lartre

Welcome in Greg Ives 500 Let's get Oh yeah Steve Lattart God rest his soul I think he's still with us Yeah it's not like

He's gone off the planet I mean We might be able to call him Once in a while Yeah I have a question about that restart Though I don't recall him Messing up a restart

I mean, there was people in a lot worse positions that we were. I mean, we had the inside row. I think we had the inside row pretty much every restart towards the end because people would pit. We were like, oh, we're going to be 14th. And then it was like, oh, we're going to be 12th. And we get one guy out of pit in front of us. Like, oh, man, we're going to be 13th.

So our secret there was obviously against the wall and turn 1 and 2 on restart. So we would always get a couple of row or two up there doing that. And when it didn't open up, it was hard to maintain on the bottom. It was hard for anybody to do that if you weren't on the outside row. So I don't remember that restart either, like one particular one. I just remember being on the bottom where we didn't want to be, but it's part of it. Yep, that's one of them racing deals.

All right, who's next? Since this is the last dirty-mo radio, all one word, of the season, it's fitting we reviewed things we have learned and things we are thankful for. One, I've learned that Amanda is beautiful, and there's no way in hell she is doing her wedding to Talladega or any other track. Number two, Amanda also learned about he-haw's gloom to speak, bear song. Three, Mike Davis needs either different service provider for his phone at Tele Deggan or come up with a better excuse for not tweeting out info while at the track.

Number four, Dirty Moe Radio is all one word. Five, a junior learned he wasn't sponsored by John Deere at the Spring Texas race. Six, we learned that TJ has become a t-shirt bearer. Seven, we've all learned that we're losing Stevie to those sons of bids at NBC. Just kidding. Best in luck, Steve. Eight, we learned a quasi-dato is bat-shund crazy, but funny and dedicated. Nine. I'm thankful for the Dell Jr. Twitter feed. Ten.

Thankful for Rob Lopez, who gave me the info so I could buy my own tire off the 88 car from Talladega. Dale, yeah. 11. I'm thankful for my Dirty Mo Coozy, T-shirt, and stickers. Sorry, T-J, holding out for the great T-shirts, L.O.L. 12. I'm thankful for Taylor for hosting such a great download and answering my tweets. 13.

I am thankful for the Daytona win, a Poconos suite, and getting a Tic-Cuck. and further clock, a good road course finish and wrecking Matt Kinzut at the same time. 14. Most of all, I am thankful for Dirty Mo Radio, all one word, and all the information and entertainment. And last but not least, 15. Thank you, SpyOptic for sponsoring the podcast. Have a great and safe off season, great holiday season. Merry Christmas.

Thank you, everyone. Oh, and no beers. That is awesome. That sounds like a robot. That is really awesome. He sounds like a real, like, recording that you would call. You called Amanda Beautiful. Thank me for the tweets.

He mentioned your shirts, which you're ordering even more of. I hope he bought one. The T-shirt Baron. Yeah. T-shirt Baron. Whatever I know what it would do? Man, it's awesome. T-shirts.

At the time I see somebody wearing one, which is rare because I haven't sold thousands of them, but for the time I see somebody wearing one, I stop, say hi to them. Hey, listen, dude, if you want me to help you here, I'm going to the Army-Navy game, I'm going to the semifinal and then the national championship in college football. I'll wear a door bumper clear shirt on the sideline. Can you let me know when you're going? I'll get you on. All right.

Who's next? Hey, guys, we just spent the weekend at Homestead. I saw Chase Ellie get the crown for the nationwide. So Dale Jr. and Steve did their last race. It was absolutely fabulous. Got real close to the 88 on pit road. By the way, Mike Davis, I'm sorry. I bumped right into you while they were taking that last team photo.

didn't mean to annoy you, but we had a fabulous weekend. Hope everybody has a great off season, and we'll see you with Daytona. Nice. Bumped into Davis. You were the one that made him so mad. Is that right?

Yeah, I'm sure. I don't know. Who knows with Mike? He's so spun up to racetrack. I mean. I thought we had a good story about him. Did he really get mad? I doubt it.

I was just kidding. Rubbing is racing, even on the pit road before the race. On pit road before the race. That's right. All right. We got one more. Here it is. This may be the last episode of Dirty Moe Radio for 2014. I want to give a big shout out to Mike Davis, the brain trust of Dirty Moe Radio. I want to give a big thank you to Taylor and Amanda and T.J. Majors for a great year, giving us listeners

a opportunity to not only listen, but take part. I look forward to 2015. 2014, you guys grew. And if 2015 can be anything like 2014, Dale Jr. will go out there and when the championship. You guys have improved, just like Dale Jr. Dale Jr., you got a great group of people behind you. They support you. They believe in you. Junior Nation is the same. I look forward to watching your race in 2015. So let's go out there. Let's have some fun, just like we have on the Dale Jr. download. Dale yeah. Dale, yeah. Appreciate all of you so much. Reaction Theater was invented by Dale and R. Jr. and Mike Davis, and it was one of the greatest ideas I've ever heard of.

I was associated with a show in Charlotte that did something similar to that for years, and they wanted to start their own spin on this, and it is taken off. And I love that we have a forum for Junior Nation to say everything they want to hear. I'm sure Amanda Troutman 40 times this year was thinking, what in the world if I gotten myself into? But we know now she's enjoying it. It entertains my household, that's for sure. And it's open 24-7-365.

Amanda put it on the sheet, so I'm going to read it again. All you have to do is call toll-free 1-855-740-1902. That's 1855-740-1902. Leave us your voicemail message, and we'll play the best in February on Dirty Mo Radio. So if you want to call in the off-season and just make Amanda laugh, talk about her wedding. You know, call her beautiful. Yeah, beautiful you think she is. She'll probably put it on the website or something.

You know what we need to do? We'll get Kip to get a good one of her still sleeping in the morning, drooling or something. I'm going to get Kip to listen to all these so he can go after. I'm going to get Kip to listen to all these so he can go after the people calling her beautiful. But no, you can play them in the offseason, record them if you'd like to. It's still busy here in Dirty Mo Radio. Our pal, Marty Smith, is back with Kelly on Fastlane Family presented by Charlie Soap.

Check out their end of the season recap. Don't miss the final episode of JRM 360, the podcast. And that will wrap the 2014 season for Dirty Mo Radio. Miss Amanda, are you going to do white flag? Do you want to do a combo white flag here? Because I think we both have some thoughts. Absolutely. Let's do that.

All right, Taylor. I think we got some thank yous. We do. I'm letting you go first. Okay. Well, first of all, I'd like to thank you for putting up with us all year long. We can be a little scattered around here. I tell you, in all seriousness, I appreciate what Mike said, and I appreciate you very much.

You have been a godsend to us and a game changer, and I'm so excited about the future. But it has been a crazy year for me professionally, and I did make a tough decision this year. I decided that the only association I'm going to have with motorsports is with this podcast, and I'm very proud of that. And we're glad you did that. I really enjoyed all my work on pit road and some other things that I was doing but this is the only thing I'm doing with motorsports just this podcast so I'm excited to be part of it

and TJ we're so happy that TJ has decided to start coming into the studio with us for sure thank you so much for taking time out of your schedule to do that that's fun all one word you have been a real blessing to us last year we had fun with you and this year too man it's fun hearing of people's reactions and talking about all the race with you guys and stuff and informing people.

Well, to have somebody that's so associated with every race, so much a part of it, it really gives us great perspective. So we're very grateful to you for that for sure. Thanks. Definitely. And for our big sponsor spy that came on board with us this year. Oh my gosh, what will we do without them? Absolutely.

I mean, they have been, they make it possible for us to send out these podcasts for everybody to enjoy. And they've also given some pretty nice discount. and giveaways along the way, too. If I didn't have spies, I'd be, I'd be squinting like Legano. Unfortunately, I got me some, too. And remember, Dirty Moe Radio, all one word. Get that discount. Taylor, I'm going to let you take the rest of these.

Thank you's home. All right. Thank you to Steve LaTart. Joe Slingerland, Marty Smith, Barney Hall. Wow, that was awesome. J.R. Rhodes, was really cool to talk to him about his big trip he took with Junior this year. We had a lot of great guests this year on the podcast, and we're so grateful to all of them.

Again, thank you, TJ. Obviously, Dale Jr. It was really awesome to have him record all those messages all year. We had him in studio several times, but having him record those messages to me was terrific and really look forward to that again in the future. Thanks to everyone at Junior Motorsports for letting us grow Dirty Mo Radio and put in the studio. the Junior Motorsports Retail Story got our own studio in there

and that's been really fun to be a part of that. Yeah, for sure. A lot fancier than the pre-Trapment era, that's for sure. Most important, the fans, Junior Nation,

that have made this podcast their own. We are so grateful to you and we can't wait to be back with you again in February. God bless you. Happy Thanksgiving. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.

We hope you have some fun with your family and friends, you're all your loved ones. We thank T.J. Majors, Amanda Troutman, Mike Davis, Dale Earnhardt Jr. I'm Taylor Zarzer. You've been listening to the second year of the Dale Jr. download presented by Spy. Thanks for listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Once again, thank you to everyone for allowing us to bring you another season

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