The Dale Jr. Download - 86 - California: March Madness

Episode Date: March 24, 2015

Dale Earnhardt Jr. shares his opinion on the restarts in California and applauds team for improvements in the car. JR Nation has some choice words during 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 Mo Radio. The 11th restart of force, he went down on a turn of one, and the four just passed around the outside of him. And then he ended up being about 14 once again singled out there just to let you know. I don't understand what your point is. Basically, don't let somebody get on the outside of you. You're now listening to the Dale Jr. download presented by Spy. Check out Dale Jr.'s signature dirty-mow sunglasses from Spy at Spyoptic.com.

Hey, everybody. This junior just got home from Fontana. It's a good, uneventful flight, a lot of fun, joking around on Twitter with everybody. It's middle of dang night, and nobody's up. But I'm going to use downstairs to have a beer too. It was a good weekend. The car was real, you know, competitive right out of the box.

I thought we was going to qualify better than we did. We had some pretty good laps in our mock qualifying runs. So anyways, you know, practice went good both days. Qualifying didn't go as well as we'd like. You know, that place is real line sensitive. Maybe I didn't run the right line or something, but for the most part, I think, you know, we were kind of worried about how we ran at Phoenix and how we would rebound and how the car would respond whether we'd be as competitive as we thought we could be.

And we were. So once the race started, the car was really good, kind of moving up through there a little bit at a time. It was real hard to pass guys because they wanted to run where you wanted to run. everybody really like that top groove. I could get my car to run through the middle of one and two, which not everybody could do, but so I had some options in one and two, but in three and four is right on the fence for pretty much everybody, so he couldn't really make much happen down there. Jimmy Johnson, from what I could see, was the only guy I was around that could do some things in the bottom of three and four, and I eventually got to where I was better down there later in the race.

But we made some adjustments. The first round of adjustments didn't really do what we wanted, so we went the other way and that was the direction we needed to go. Greg and the guys kept improving the car. The stops were real consistent. We had a loose wheel on the left rear, but it was going to be fine. It shook pretty bad in the corner, but Greg said that it was on there pretty good that we could have ran as long as we wanted to. So that was good.

You know, you never want to have a loose wheel so bad that you've got to get down pit road or the thing comes off on the racetrack and it gets a car tore up. You know, the guys are going to have a lug or two here and there, and they're going to be free. It's just the nature of it. You can expect to have some loose wheels here and there. You just hope that they're not real bad. So that wasn't too bad. We was able to get lucky and get a yellow.

I just kind of took off, let off the gas a little bit and run that. Didn't run too hard with the loose wheel until we got a caution because we had about seven seconds on the guy behind us. The car kept getting better after, you know, each run. And we got further into the race. We got more competitive. We turned in from, you know, we were like a seventh place car to a fifth place car to a third place car. And that was really good to see. So we're still a little bit off of the four guys, and it looks like the 41 has a little bit of what the four has.

You know, not every week, but I expect to see that more often. And so they're still sort of, they were the class of the field all weekend this weekend. Sort of seem to be the standard every weekend, at least the four is. So we're still trying to figure out where their speeds at. Otherwise, I think we're pretty competitive against, you know, we're right there where the Penske cars are and right there with a couple of the teams. But I was happy how the car kept getting better each run. Got to race my teammate Jimmy Johnson quite a bit.

When I say race, we ran, you know, around each other a lot. You know, either he was faster or I was faster. and it was again hard to pass each other but it was fun trying you know the end was tricky we had we were sitting there running third coming to the white i thought he was going to get a third place finish there and the caution come out on the back straightaway coming to the white which is kind of frustrating you know you work all day long you know bracing all damn day for every freaking spot i mean on pit road on a restart you grind every day damn wall, trying to get every inch you can to have it all decided on who takes two, four,

none, who stays out, and a green white freaking checkered. So that's real frustrating. I mean, you, you know, there's some drivers said there was some stuff out there, so I guess they needed to throw the yellow for it. Anyhow, you hate to see, you know, race in like that. I know, you know it was exciting to see brad get up there and make it happen and get the wind but as a drive from a driver standpoint you know you don't run 400 damn miles to to have a green white checker that's just not what you get up in the morning to do but you know sometimes it works in your favor and sometimes it doesn't we lost a few spots on a restart we gained a few back and we ended up you know round six place and

You know, not everything we wanted, but not the end of the world either. So you hope not have to deal with that every weekend. Hopefully we'll get a good fast car one of these weekends and we've classed the field, and we can get out there and try to win us a race. But until then, these consistent finishes and fast race cars are giving us a lot of confidence, give us a lot of hope. Our car took off well on restarts today, which I was happy to see. we were able to make up a lot of ground on some restarts.

And we were starting about on the top. It didn't seem to matter where we restarted. We did really well. So the cars are good. That says a lot about the cars and sales when you got that kind of confidence and you get to drive it in there and do what you want to.

We head to Martinsville. We want to try to go down there and win another clock. And I think we've got plenty of places we can put one around here. So looking forward to this week. week. It's Amy's birthday this week. So we'll be celebrating that. And Chase is running his first race. A lot of stuff to be excited about. So looking forward to the race this weekend. Looking

forward to getting in there and practicing a little bit. And we're going to have to take a break for Easter. Hope everybody's doing good. Enjoy the downward. Talk to you later. Really good stuff from Dale Jr. today with his comments. So grateful for those. It is the Dale Jr. Download presented by by with Amanda, T.J. and Mike. My name is Taylor. We'll talk about all kinds of things today. You just heard him talking about throwing the caution with two to go. Then they don't throw the yellow when there's cars wrecked. And we'll get to that in just a minute. I don't even, that's 16 car, man. My blood is still boiling. I've had 24 hours, Mike Davis, to try to calm down. And my blood is still boiling. We'll get to that. The restart matter.

The Battle with JJ, Mike Davis with a tweet that truly made me how laughing out loud in my house. We got all kinds of good stuff to get to here today. How are y'all doing? We're doing good. Amanda's already admonished me because I'm chewing a peppermint in the microphone and she's saying, we can hear that. Yeah. And so I'm already in trouble. We started this show off normal.

Well, we're always professional. Yeah, yeah, you know. But, you know, yeah, all those things you just said. I mean, I don't even know where to start. We can start with Biffle, but I know we're going to end with Biffle too, so maybe we don't go there. The race with Jimmy was exceptional. I just enjoyed watching that race at the end. They were just trading that spot over and over again.

I still don't even know what I think about the cautions and stuff. So I'm anxious to hear what you guys have to say about it. And I'm anxious to honestly hear what reaction theater has to say about it. Well, T.J. tries to bring level-headed perspective. Before we get into, you know, we don't like level-headed perspective. I'm sure they're nailing Biffle. before we would do that the race with jimmy was awesome and mike's uh tweet that really made me

to the point where my family came in to make sure i was okay uh was retweet if you want to beat jimmy johnson babe if you want to beat jimmy johnson i can tell and i think you do such a good job of representing junior nation and and saying what all of us are feeling and that's exactly what i think all of us are feeling i i love you love Jimmy Johnson. I think he's a wonderful guy. A lot of people don't want to hear that, but my goodness, I wanted to be in front of him at the end of that race with that battle. That was really cool. And TJ, like Jr. said, God, I couldn't agree more. I just didn't want to see that caution come out. And look, if there really was debris, and certainly you could speak to that better

than anybody being up there, then that's fine. I understand if other drivers were complaining. But like you said, you work so hard, you battle your ass off to get in that position. You battle Jimmy for third. You've earned it. You think that's what you're going to get. And then, I mean, let's be honest, it's kind of like UCLA in the Sweet 16. Something fluky happens in the last couple of green white checkards. And look,

congratulations for Brad, Dirty Moe resident. But that was fluky. What happened the last couple of green white checkards was fluky and some dude driving a golf cart was blocking the 88. You know, the last one I agree with because, I mean, I saw it fly up in the air. You can't race with a bumper

cover on the race. I was Larson's. Yeah, you had it though. But the one before that, you know, I... The one where we were to finish third? Yeah, that to me was very questionable. I mean, you got the guys up there that have pretty much earned it all day, racing for the win, and those are the guys that probably deserved to win. Not that Brad didn't deserve to win, but those were the guys that had race hard all day

and, you know, made all in Pistos, made all them adjustments, and still were up there, you know, and I don't know, for something as low as it was on the race. track and for the to to throw it at that point i don't know if i personally would have done it but here was the quote from the race director richard ritchard buck or the series director we got multiple reports over the radio and confirmed it that there was a piece of material something in the racing groove and so we went ahead to call the caution by the time that we called the caution somebody had hit it i don't have the piece back yet we always asked the safety cleanup crews to

return that to us. There were multiple reports of debris on the track. Man, I don't know. I was sure we'd like to see the piece of debris. Yeah, I mean, if that's true, then I get it. But there's, there are all kinds of people claiming conspiracy, even some drivers that we know and love. It's just part of it. That were claiming conspiracy, especially given all that the driver of the 41 has put himself through personally and others have put him through, et cetera.

So that's, yeah, that's interesting. I don't know. I think we could have. I mean, I saw a picture of it later on and where it was sitting, and to me that wasn't in the racing groove. If somebody hit it, they were probably getting down out of the way. There's no way you hit that at speed. Oh, you saw it?

I saw a still image of it. What they say was the piece they called it for, or somebody said, I wasn't from NASCAR or something like that, but somebody had a screenshot of video head on. We were running third. I could see the two leaders, and we were back there. We were up against the wall off the corner, and it was three grooves lower than what the leaders were.

So if the leaders, that's not really in. the groove to me. I mean, we ran a whole lap at Watkins Glen with oil on the track and finished the race. But honestly, what it sounds like is you're saying that it was on the racetrack. It wasn't even on the apron. No, it wasn't on the apron. It was up on the racetrack. So, like, honestly, you know, we don't want to get to a point where we're calling debris cautions, whether it's in the groove or not.

I mean, if it's on the track. Yeah, then you got to throw it. I think you got to throw it. I don't, I don't, I mean, to me, to me, it could have went. It could have been a coin flip. It could have, I mean, it could have been a coin on the. race track. I don't know. You know what I mean? It could have been a quarter with the sun hitting it right. I don't know.

But to me, it was close enough to the racing groove that I, like they threw it because I don't want to see Laning Castle get out of the way and run over it and go down and turn three and blow a tire and tear his car up. I don't want to see that. So they probably did the right thing by it. Well, and Mike Davis,

you and I are rabid college football fans. And I love talking college football, shameless plug, on Sirius X-XM Channel 91. Yes, you do. Every day. Is it all one word?

7 to 10 a.m. Eastern, Channel 91, Monday through Friday. What I love most about college football, Mike, is how much you have to earn it. Every single game is so precious. It's not the case in the NFL. Eight and eight and nine and seven teams make the playoffs. It's certainly, look, I love March Madness. Everybody loves the tournament, but the tournament can be fluky. See UCLA.

See the Wolfpack. I'm glad the Wolfpack's there, but come on. They're not one of the 16th. best teams in college basketball. We see fluky things happen. I love college football because you don't see fluky things happen. The thing that I completely agree with Dale Jr. about Mike is you work so hard all day with strategy for a weekend on strategy and how to

improve the car, what works, what doesn't, qualifying, all that. And you come up through the field and you make all these improvements. You've got a great car. You're battling Jimmy Johnson. You've earned third place. And then something fluky happens. Look, I know that happens. That's part of the, that's part of racing.

And it certainly is Helpedale Jr. It's certainly Hurtdale Jr. And everyone else, I would have preferred like he did for that not to happen. So we would have gotten an honest account of who finished where. Well, isn't that always the case, though, anytime we have this conversation. That's how it always is. But seriously, like if you take Daytona, the reason people are upset is because they preferred it to end another way or they preferred it to, you know, there was a preference. and it usually has something to do with how their driver would have finished.

Yeah, sure. Compared to how they ended up finishing because of the flukiness. Yeah, it's always like that. I don't know how to fit. I don't know what solution there is to fix that. No, there isn't one. There isn't one. I'm just saying I agree with Junior.

I wish we'd never have any of that happen. Sure, I do too. In the same token, I don't really buy any of this, you know, NASCAR didn't want Kurt Busch to win. I don't believe that. No, that's not. I don't want to do that. I think if that was the case, they wouldn't have let him back in the sport. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it just happened to be a coincidence. He happens to be leading, and he was having this really good race with Kevin Harvick. But Kurt Bush could have still won the race with the cost of it anyways. If something happens, then we win that race, everyone was going to love it. Because we weren't going to win it before that. You know, something happens, and we go to the bottom, and they all get jammed up, and they kind of wreck up high and we come out of there leading it somehow?

Did Kislaus? Does Kislauski not restart 17th on that first green-white checkers? Yeah. I think it was 13th. Yeah, he was back there. They said 17th in the media center yesterday. Well, there was two of them, yeah. So maybe it was 17.

The second to last one I think he was 15. Now, that Taylor is a fluke. And that's why Taylor... Well, that's what I'm saying. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Listen, I'm not... Everybody loves Brad.

T.J's real close friends with Brad. I've got nothing against him. Brad Kislowski winning that race was fluky. He said it. Yeah. Brad said. He goes, this was luck. Yeah.

Tyler and I were talking about it this morning. And he was saying, you know, I wish we were taking four tires. And I said, I don't know how you could have taken four tires if you're us. Yeah, we were in a spot where we would have, well, you can't plan on another call. It's absolutely the right call. You know, Brad was hoping to get back to, he was hoping to get back to fifth or six. That's right. He got another caution, which fell completely his way.

We were hoping to go from, you know, fifth, six, seventh to the lead. In fact, let me ask you, T.J., if Greg Biffle and his team make the right decision, to not stay out on the track and go in pit, what position do you think the 88 finishes with? You know, if he wasn't out there, that would have put us one spot higher. We would have been in the outside lane. We might have got a few of them in one and two.

We probably would have been top five easily still. Well, we restarted second right there. Second, we came off pit road second on tires. Right. There were three cars that stayed out, and then was it Harvard? Who was in front of us? Who came out for it?

It was the 41, wasn't it? The 41 was in front, Harvick goes behind. He was behind. So, yeah, we passed Harvick on pit road. We were fifth. We were fifth, but second on tires. Yeah. I mean, what could have been?

I don't know. It's just, man, it's part of it, man. It is. Like, Greg did absolutely nothing wrong. I mean, they had a terrible day, and they were just trying to. Oh, Biffle. They were trying to make something of it. You know, we've been in that boat before, and we've tried to make something out of a bad day,

and we just happen to be that car behind him. He has every right to stay out. You know what I mean? He has every right to try to make the best that he can. But when, TJ, when you know you can't be competitive, how do you have every right to stay out? I mean, you've got to go around that track twice with that kind of car, and you know good and well it's not very competitive,

and you're racing in 20-some-odd position all day. I mean, you know good and well you're going to get run over or you're going to cause a huge pile-up. It's just hard for me to imagine. I think that's the plan. Biffle finishing the race in the top five or six with that kind of car. No, I don't think he was aiming for a top five or six. I think he was aiming for more like a tenth.

And that's what you kind of hope, man. You kind of hope they go down and get jammed up behind you and get slowed down and spread out or nothing that only a few of them get you, you know, compared to where he was running all day, which was what, like 20th, 25th? He was 25th when he stayed out. So imagine 25th to 10th for him in that day that he was happening. I mean, I get the strategy. I just think it's unrealistic given how lack of how.

how uncompetitive his car was, Mike. Here's what I'll say about that. Yeah. Earlier in the race, Tony Stewart stayed out on old tires. And he dropped like a rock. But it took a while. It took them. I didn't think it took a while.

I mean, it took him... He was out of the top ten in no time. It took about four or five last four he was out of the top tank because he hung on a little bit. It wasn't terrible because True X did at the same time as he did. That's right. And Truex was able to hang on, though. They had two tires. They both had two tires.

They had right sides. That's right. Okay, so they were on two tires. They were on two tires. Biff was going to go out there with the three other cars. And I don't know who those other two were. It was. Stewart, he stayed out and I think Jeff Gordon.

It was. Those three stayed out and then Kurt comes off pit road first. Where did they finish? Tony finished seventh or something. Yeah, I mean, I... Okay, so you convinced me, okay, but I still don't like it. That's 12. Yeah, I don't like because we were behind him,

but I mean, that's 12 positions better than what they would have been. I just thought, look at how uncompetitive it was just right off of the restart. I understand what the strategy is and what others were able to do with it. Yeah. I don't know, man. And again, I'm biased and it's frustrating. Yeah. I mean, if they go, we all go down there and get shuffled, and he drives away a little bit,

and he's running seventh coming to the white flag, and he gets passed by four more cars at lap. That's still 15 spot. That's still 12. that's still 12 better than what he was. Your point, though, Jeff Gordon did the same thing staying out with no tires, and he finished 10th. There you go.

I mean, that's... Seurat finished 14th. And granted, Jeff's car was a little bit better than Greg's all day, but Jeff struggled at times, too. You know, and he wasn't... Every time I looked at, and he was, what, 12th to 15th himself, roughly? You know, so... The decision to stay out led Greg Biffle to a 30-second place finish.

Yeah, well, we crashed, too. Yeah, we can go back and forth about it. I will say this, I love the race. I really, I like that track. I thought the crowd was terrific. Yeah, it was. A lot of people, you know, Dale Jr.'s been tweeting a lot about this. Kevin Harvick, who keeps winning for junior motorsports and everyone else in between every single time he climbs into a race car.

I've been talking about single events at a track. And, man, Fontana's doing it right. There's no question. That was a great atmosphere yesterday. And I thought it was a really good race. It started on Friday. I looked down. There was a crowd for practice and qualifying.

I mean, a decent crowd for that. And it was actually pretty cool to see. I mean, it's pretty fun to see, you know, I don't know what their hot dog prices were and stuff, but it was pretty cool to see people bringing their families out and stuff. The better question is, are they using the same hot dogs as they've been using for the last 70 years? Probably. Probably are.

Hopefully not the ones from the prior year. Although out there, they got a lot of different foods, and they do over here on the East Coast. They got, like, taco stands and stuff. all over. There you go. Well, I got nothing else to add to it. Yeah, it's different. Tocos are great. It makes me hungry. Tos stands in the infield. I'll give you that. When I think hot dogs, I think about the place that we're going next, Martinsville. Yep. And trying to get another clock. That should be a lot of fun. A couple other things I've got to ask you about before we move on, before we

got reaction theater, which if you're a fan of the 16, I can't imagine what that's going to be like. You know, we talk about, you know, throwing the caution, not to throw the caution. What about not throwing the yellow, TJ, on the very last time around the track? Yeah, T.J., speak for this. Yeah, that caught me off guard, but I will. I mean, it was pretty much a single car incident, and he kept rolling. So I think if he would have stopped at all, the caution would have came out. So he never stopped, though.

He spun out and he kept moving. You know, I think if he would have came to a complete stop at any point that would have thrown the caution, which actually, you know, I got to give it to him for not throwing a caution because nobody wants to see the race end right then. You want to race back, even though we lost a spot probably because of it, but you don't want to see the race end when there's a chance. You could go green and Greg did a good job of getting it rolling and staying clear and letting the guys race back. So, you know, good job with them for letting it play out. I mean, I know it's a big track and you've got time to see what happens, but a single car incident, nobody, he didn't hit the wall hard.

He was just spinning out the front stretch. ended up being able to finish race under green. I agree with the call. Before we get into reaction theater, let's take a moment to remind everyone how to get a pair of spy shades at a discount. Go online to spyoptic.com and check out Dale Jr.'s signature spy 88 collection. Pay close attention here, Mike Davis. It includes the Dirty Mode, McCoy, Quanta, General, and Farah for the ladies.

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Greg, best. he gets the fucking out of the race award they could have put eight tires on that car and give him a half a track head start and he still couldn't win a fucking race man that suck

Bush changed his line on the last lap and that fucking stayed high he'd be in victory lane right now that's six beeps right out of the gate that's really a funny visual with a biffle having eight tires on the backstretch

but oh that stunk who's next Mark's 22nd 2015 the day NASCAR officially jumped the shark. I don't know how David Hose sleeps at night. You throw a coffin with two laps to go,

a lap and a half to go, because there's a paper cup outside of turn three, yet you leave a car sitting on the front stretch coming to the checkered flag. You don't let them run at Daytona. You let them run at Montana. 16 to go debris costs. It's WWE.

Kurt Busch got it right. Hashtag fire hoots. Hashtag six beers. Good drinking day there for you. I will say this. I mentioned this several weeks ago when we were talking about this after Daytona. I don't think you can compare scenarios on when you throw a caution when you can't. The wrecks are different.

You cannot compare them. There was actual stopped cars where they needed to get equipment to them. They needed to get equipment to that guy. Biffle never stopped. He kept rolling the whole time. Hey, I mean, I applaud them for letting it roll. I would also like to defend David Hutz because I love David Hutz. and he is not the only man in that booth that's making decisions.

No, he calls a great race. Here we go, Amanda. Wow. Amanda loves David Hoots. I do. Hashtag Amanda on fire. Yeah. Hashtag Defend Hoots.

All right, who's next? Somebody give me Boris Sitz's phone number and Greg Biffle's address, because I'm picking Boris set up in my 2002 Dodge Neon, and we're going to go kick Greg Biffle's ass. That's right. We're going to win that damn race. And you know why we didn't win that race? Because Greg Biffle blocked us, and I can't find my Daly-Yad T-shirt.

Anyway, good job to the old 88 crew. We had a fast car. We were going to win that shit. I don't know, man. We'll get them at Martinville. Dale yeah. I like that. Where was that?

Was that Sonoma or Watkins Glen? Warkinsland. Oh, yeah. Scaredy cat. That's what he called it. Scaredy cat. I'd also like to point out we have more dirty-mo radio shirts on sale. Yeah, you can always buy another one, huh?

I'd be a tremendous fan of that dude showing up in his Dodge Neon what Boris said at Biffel's house. I wonder if that's an Uber Neon. Don't think he's an Uber car? All right, who's next? Look, Mike, I know Brad Kesloski is you guys friend and all, but just like you don't like Logano, I can't stomach Brad. I wish he put his fucking head in there, ring that bell on his brain. I just can't stand his ass.

You need to talk to TJ Majors. Man, I know him. Oh, come on. You're tight. I know him a little bit. You're tight with him, too, Mike. Don't act like you don't know. the dude. I mean, he ran for junior motorsports and things went his way that race.

There's not nothing you can really do about it. All of a sudden, Mike Davis doesn't know Brad Keselowski. Not this late Taylor. He's tweeting at Mike Davis all the time. It's not like you. I've never heard of. How do you say, how do you pronounce his last name? Come on now.

Crashelowski. Crashleowski. No, I got nothing bad to say about Brad, but hey, listen, I respect everybody's opinion. And Brad does too. You're the ones as friends with him, TJ. Well, no, no, listen, Brad wasn't the best man in my wedding, Taylor. TJ, on the other hand.

Well, yay. They're tight. That's good. That's okay. Who's next? What in the hell is up with NASCAR today? Daytona, wreck on the backstretch, no obstruction at start, finish line. Caution.

Fontana, Biffle wrecks at start finish line, no caution. This shit's starting to turn into the Brian France soap opera. Anyways, junior finish sixth. And now where we head to next week, TikTok. It's Martinsville. We're on our way to another clock. Dale, yeah. Yeah, you can't compare Rex, though.

They needed it. It doesn't matter where they're out, like where the start-finish line is or whether they've got to get safety equipment out, you can't have cars at speed pulling safety cars out there. I agree, but I will say that Nate Ryan had a compelling argument on Twitter. Go to his Twitter feed. I guess it's at Nate Ryan. I don't know what it is, but he had a couple points that he made,

and he says, listen, if a car is turned around backwards, and you say you err on the side of safety, and you also admit that you're looking for debris, does a car that spun backwards not possibly put off debris? Yeah. I don't know the answer to that. I mean, I would think you'd have to hit something for there really legitimately have to be debris.

I mean, I looked on the front stretch, and immediately, I looked because I knew we were coming around there, but I didn't see anything right away. It doesn't mean there weren't a couple small pieces here there, but you're coming back. They're coming back to the check. You're slowing down. Yeah, you're slowing down.

TJ's right. Every single caution is different, but both of those were debatable, in my opinion. Who's next? Man, I don't know. There you go. Dale, yeah. Wow. That's a fun Sunday right there.

You're the real winner, man. Yeah. Yeah, you won, bud. Yeah, victory lane. That ain't look. All right, who's next? I am so bad, and I don't even care if I get on reaction theater, but I am so mad.

Somebody just please, please, please explain to me why there was not a caution thrown on that last laugh when, who was that Denny Hamlin that spun around, I do not understand how he's in front of the track, and he spins around, and there's no caution. There should have been a caution. And Dale really got screwed over, didn't he? Yeah, he did. All right.

Just had a rant. Thanks. Bye. It's a good rant. Have you ever been so mad where you don't spit it out correctly? That's why I felt she was. That's where she was. Yeah.

It happens, yeah. I still agree with Mike, though. You have to call each caution is a very unique. It's its own. Yeah, it's its own deal. There wasn't anybody else to come past Greg. Did you notice that? He was the last car.

The next car to come past Greg was going to be the leader. So you didn't have to worry about slowing any other cars down either. Wow, I didn't even realize that. You know what I mean? Like, if there was more cars coming at him racing for position, they would have probably had to throw the caution. But he was the very last car. And he never came to a complete stop.

So I think they made the right call. There you go. All right. Who's next? Are you fucking kidding me, Greg Biffle? You bug-eyed, son of a... Oh! He ran 25th all day.

And then you're going to stay out on old tires. You got a fucking chance to win a rate. It's unbelievable. And then, yeah, you finally wrecked it. After you damn near cost us a top ten. It's unbelievable. Way to go, JR. You will it, man.

Good job to the whole nationwide crew. The Biff is in trouble. Now we're attacking his looks. Yeah. You knew it was coming. Yeah, I knew it was coming. I might have even encouraged it a little bit. Yes, I think you did.

Just a wee bet. Who's next? I'm leaving. I'll close to be here right now. I want to know what the F. Jeff Gordon is thinking. Staying out, we go off pit road to Biffel. Biffel

just said his team's dying of slow death. Well, he's fucking the race die of slow death when you stay out and back everybody up like that. Un-hmm, unbelievable. That was our shot to win. We got backed up. With that, though, strong run from the 88. I loved it.

Half a fifth of Jim Bean, and one, two, three, three-bud lights, and one marjorie did. I'll go see him. There we go. That's... Was that the track? That's new leader right there.

He actually counted the empties. They were sitting in front of him. That's funny, yeah. When you count the empties, you're leading. That's pretty strong. Half a bottle of beam. He's counting the bud lights in front of him and a margarita in there. I know where that margarita stand is because Brad Burroughs used to go out there with us to drive.

Oh, yeah, you're right. He would be sitting there all weekend. And he always hit that margarita stand. That's right. Hey, that's six beeps on that call. That ties our first call. I'm trying to see who gets the record. I think we got to give a Dirtymoor radio hat to whoever had the most beeps.

I think this guy's leading, though, because he counted his empties. When you count your empties. I agree. Well, you count your empties, that is impressive. Well, Greg Biffle messes up for everybody, but I can't say he really did anything wrong, as bad as I hate it. He was just doing his best to block and stay in front. At least we beat Jimmy Frippin Johnson.

I hate that, dude. Oh, my gosh, that's funny. Oh, man, you nailed it. Even though Jimmy's actually a really nice guy. He's a wonderful guy, but that's a hilarious. There's nobody that would laugh harder at that called than Jimmy Johnson, actually. Who's next? Oh, my God, people, seriously, got a life.

First you complain because NASCAR finishes the race under caution. Now you're all in an upboard because they didn't call a caution to finish with the race. You can't have a cake and eat at two. Either you want it under caution or you don't. I prefer the way it was race today. Thank you NASCAR. And Junior 6, not a bad finish again. Hopefully you're going to get that win for us, Junior Nation, soon.

I didn't want to have to say it, but she's right. Yeah. You know, there's a lot of people that sit there and complain when race is ended up caution why they didn't let it race out. This is the exact opposite. There was no threat. When the leaders got into the finish line to finish the race, there was absolutely no threat at all. Every car was rolling out on the racetrack. Nobody needed attention at all.

So there was no need for it. My point is that people get mad. I just can't stand with TJ is so level-headed. That really bothers me. We just have to tell the truth and be objective and fair. I guess I'm just wondering, why is it, why are so many people mad that a race didn't end under caution? Like, I've never even heard this, to be honest with you. Usually the argument is, why didn't they let it play out?

We want to see a race in under green. And when it ends under caution, people are furious. I didn't enjoy Greg Biffle running, doing cartwheels on the track, though. That was fun. Who's next? Got their restart still, Jenner. You go, 88. I'm loving it from 10th to 6.

Woo! I am so glad Kurt Busch didn't win. Over and out. Go! I love it. I love it. I may not have been any bleeps, but that was a lot of woos. That was.

That was pretty good. Was that you, Amanda? How was that play working? Hey, listen. When I see Junior, when I see Junior restarting like that, that makes me want to do that, too, I'm telling you. I love those restarting. Yeah, well, I take credit for most of them.

Oh, there we go. And now it's coming out. Okay, now he's being irrational again. Do you not listen to the restarts? I do listen, yeah. I also listen to Dale Jr., and he didn't actually use your name when he talked about why those restarts would be better. He's not going to ever use my name. Ready.

Go, go, go, green, green, go, go. Yeah, that's the whole thing hard. That's real hard to do. Ready. Look for a green flag. Go green, green. We have a really good system. It's working good.

It's that third green that really makes the difference. All right, who's next? The things I hate today. I hate that I miss most of my church service. I hate that Kerr Bush couldn't hold back Keselowski. I hate that Keselowski won. I hate that Jimmy Johnson is Jimmy Johnson. I hate that Greg Biffle parked his motorhome in front of the field.

Things I love today. I love the Dale wheeled the 88 car back up to 6. I love the Greg Biffle finished 32nd after wrecking on the last lap. Dale yeah. That's really strong right there. That's good. Well thought out. All right.

This next one had a lot of fun. Here we go. Because he's Biffle. Clap along if you feel. Biffle is out of time. Because he's Biffle. Clap along if you feel. Jack Rowsh is past his prime.

Hiffle. Huffle Hale Jr. up. Because he's Biffle. Clap along if you see. Biffle won't ever win a cup. Hashtag hell yeah. Hashtag 15 beers. Oh.

Oh, man. Yeah, that's a winner. That's a winner. That's really strong. Please do another one next week. That's really strong. I can tell what the song was. They did good, man.

That's your buddy, submarine mic that you met in Daytona. Oh, that was a... Submarine mic. His guy. His wife was kidding, but he was at the end. He was at the end. Here we go. That's a good one.

That's awesome. Let's play one more. What the hell was Greg Bufel thinking? That was bull's shit. He was in the way and shouldn't even been out there to begin with with, damn, no tires. I know one thing at Bornishville. I'm buying two tickets. You know why?

Because the first one I don't get sold out of for throwing a beer can at Greg Biffle. And then I used the second one to get back in. Go there. I got a question, though. People are just nailing Greg Biffle, but do you think Greg made the call to stay out? It's his fault for driving a dump truck. He was the one driving the dump truck. I mean, Greg doesn't choose.

the dump truck. The dump truck chooses him. Hey, listen, let me just say this. Pull over. Let me just say this. Biffle's not having a good season. No, he's not. And Biffle pretty much threw his team right under the bus this past week. He sort of retracted it a little bit, but we knew where he was going. He was

he said some stuff that, man, I couldn't believe. And that's what Biffle does. Biffle is a very honest guy and he wears his emotions on his sleeve. So, you know, if you feel that Biffle won't win the cup. I got more a problem with the 6 than I do the 16. One or two laps down. You're not even in the lucky dog position.

You're riding right in the groove for three laps. We almost clear than you drive back around the outside of us for absolutely zero percent reasoning. Like nothing. Like there's absolutely no common racing sense in those moves at all. Trevor Bang? Yeah. Why don't you just say his name?

Why do you just use numbers? I just use numbers. I don't even know. The hat's got all kinds of things going on. No, the 17 was in the race. It could be. Reaction theaters open 24-7. All you have to do is call toll-free 1-855-740-1902.

Leave us your voicemail message, and we'll play you the best each week right here on Dirty Mo Radio. Time now for It Takes the Nation presented by Nationwide. I tell you what, guys, I am pumped for our guests on this week's Takes the Nation segment. I've been looking forward to this all year. This guy is who I've been wanting on this segment when we came up with this segment. If you have watched the new nationwide insurance ad campaign, the one that's going on right now with the car being built in the garage by the people in Junior's life, there is a gentleman by the name of Sean, along with a man named Sunny, who is mentioned by Dale Jr. in the commercial. And if you watch closely, Sean and Sonny are working on the car. In the studio today is Sean Brawley, who is Junior's buddy for years and years. How long have you been?

junior's pal. I think we've known each other for about 15 years now. That's a long time now. Yeah, real long time. And you live on the property. You have lived on the property for a long time. You lived with Martin Truex, Jr. When Truex lived on the property.

Yep, when he was back-to-back champion. You were dirty bow through and through. Yes, I was. Been there from the beginning. Actually, before Junior even moved out there. That's actually true. I lived in the house down there. Junior kind of lives on your land.

Sort of kind of it. He footed the bill. How did you end up in this nationwide commercial? I got an email from one of the ladies here at Junior Motorsports asking if I'd be willing to help out in a commercial. And I was like, sure, you know, I'll help out. I always try to help him out whenever he comes and asks me, you know, to do something like that. So I headed over to the Speedway with Sunny and they got us all fixed up, make up. you didn't need any makeup now Sean

no they put makeup on me and everything I was I was surprised and then they called me called us to the set told us what we were going to be doing and met the producer and he was really cool so and we did our thing so it was really neat

we should tell people who Sunny is if they don't know already how would you describe Sunny Sonny is my dead in-law yeah he's that he runs the property He runs Dirty Moe Acres for that. He's the property manager.

He's, you know, I've heard Dale call him, like if he has one person to put in a foxhole with him, Sonny's his guy. And I'm going to tell you something, that's the truth. Sonny has been there for Dale, and Sonny and Sean, they lived there at Dirty Moe Acres. And so when we were looking for people to put into this nationwide commercial, nationwide came to say, hey, we're wanting some friends of Dales. We're going to try to find some fans. We're going to, you know, Amy.

Well, when the friend slot came up and we said, well, you know, we've got to get Sean and Sonny in that thing because you guys are on Dale's side. If there was ever anybody that had been on Dale's side every week throughout his life, it's Sean and Sonny. Fair statement, right? Yeah, absolutely, man, absolutely. And let me tell you why that's true. I know that when all those years when I was traveling around with Dale every week to the racetrack, we would always come back to Dirty Moakers, you know, after the race. And there were some years, you know, we were going through a funk or whatever, and, you know, on the racetrack, the performance wasn't there,

but there was also those years where we were kicking butt. And every Sunday night when we got back to Dirty Moe Acres, you could guarantee that O'Shawn Brawley was always the first one we'd see. And he'd have a couple of beers waiting on us, and we'd sit out there on the porch, and we'd sit somewhere and just sit there and talk. We didn't even have to talk about the race. In fact, most times we did, did we? No, we didn't talk anything about the racing.

and we just talked about whatever, what was going on. Yeah. In general, what I'd done that weekend. That's right. Anything, just had a couple beers and winded down, you know. And that helped. I think that helped him relax. Have you been in any other commercials with Dale?

Yeah, I did, I helped do one for AMP, I think. That's right. The Dirty Mo Posse? Yeah, the AMP thing that was online, that whole deal. That's right. I helped do it. and there might have been a couple others. I can't really remember.

You know, a lot of the extras that you see it. Oh, the Wrangler. What did you do in the ring? The one, the wrangler commercial. See, I didn't make the cut on that one. Oh, so? I was grilling. You did, you, they left you on the editing room floor?

Yeah. Oh. Hey, you made the big one. You made the big one. The Nation, my man, you've seen it in the Daytona 500. You see it every week during a race. I see it everywhere. That was fun.

And I'm going to tell you something. The nationwide spot that they've got right now might be. be my all-time favorite Dale Jr. commercial. It really may be. I like that commercial, man, because it's real. It's real. It's what goes on.

Absolutely. Absolutely. It is absolutely as real as it gets. It's authentic. And it's got our pal, Sean Brawley. That's right. And I'm telling you something.

I smile every time I see it. And for this segment, when we started this Takes a Nation segment, I have been wanting to get Sean Brawley in this studio just to talk about that. Well, Sean, thanks for coming by. Listen, folks, if you want, behind the,

the scene stuff. I say it every week, but it really is the truth. You just follow Nationwide 88 on Twitter. Go to Nationwide 88 on Facebook. They've got you covered. I noticed just this last week they were doing some behind-the-scenes stuff at Junior Shop. Check them out, follow them, like them, and always remember Nationwide's on your side. Wednesday, tune in to Kelly and her guest of the week on Fastlane Family, presented by Wello Professionals.

Thursday, if you haven't heard JR Motorsports up front, you need to co-hosts. Regan Smith and Heath White bring you insight into J.R.M. As well as the hot topics of the week, my man Davis helping them out too. If you need to get more of a Dale Jr. Fix, don't miss said Junior, presented by Nationwide, they keep you up to date on all the juniors at track press conferences. And of course, don't forget about the Monday recap presented by Spy as we recap the full weekend for the Junior Motorsports X-Finity truck and late model teams as well as Dale's Sprint Cup series run. And hopefully, uh-oh, look at Taylor.

Got the old clock going. I like it. You know what? That scared the crap out of me. I thought we had a technical problem. I made it jump. I made it totally jumped. She's like, what is this? If anybody knew what time it was.

By the way, I need to go to the dentist. They got a broke tooth. But before that, let's throw the white flag. White flag right there, white flag. This white flag is brought to you by Tax Slayer, not just because they won the dang race on Saturday, TJ, but some of you have not done your taxes yet. You procrastinators.

I haven't done it. You haven't? Not yet. All right. You just go to Taxpayer.com because, I mean, you'll get a refund probably, T.J. And then you can square up with the government. You don't have them on your back. I mean, I brought my shoelaces off.

It's just easier. All right. Dale will be doing some production work for goodies this week. I think NASCAR could use a few goodies powders. I think Biffel needs a box. Think Biffel needs a few goodies powders? Yeah. He's going to be shooting some video with the number 88 goodies Chevrolet, a car which, in case you didn't know,

will compete in the Xfinity Series race at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday, April 10. The Xfinity series is Friday night, not Saturday. By the way, there are some discounts and coupons on goodiespourdes.com. Really easy to take advantage of that. The Xfinity series is off this weekend, but the Sprint Cup series is not a programming note. Sunday's Cup race will be televised on Fox Sports One, not Fox. Dale Jr. will be in the old Diet Mountain Dew Paint scheme, and my man will be going after another grandfather clock.

You got that, hey, you got that sound effect again there, Taylor? I can get it for you, absolutely. All right, just get it queued up there. Oh, yeah. tweet if you want to win a clock, Fave if you want to win a clock. That's right. Lastly, I need to speak directly to you Dirty Bow Radio listeners. Thank you for listening, of course.

We appreciate it. But also, don't forget that you can go to iTunes. You can rate and review our programs. You can subscribe to our podcast. Get it right on your phone. We were talking to a gentleman in the store here right before we started this podcast, telling him how this works. It's a podcast.

Not really new, but some people don't know. Follow Dirtymo Radio on Twitter and buy a Dirtymoor radio hat, shirt, Cousy, decal, whatever you want. Kathy Watkins here at Junior Nation Store says last week that they'll take phone orders now, so you can call 704-799-4-808. Place your order. Support us on Dirtymoe radio. It's that easy.

704-799-4-808. That's all, Taylor. Very good. All right. Well, you need to get shirts. I can't take phone orders. Let's go win another clock. TJ is not accepting your phone calls, but we are.

Thank you to Ms. Amanda, thanks to T.J., thanks to Mike, thanks to Dale Jr. My name is Taylor Zarzer. We look forward to talking to you next week on the Dale Jr. download, presented by Spy. Thanks for listening to Dirty Moe Radio. Amanda, do you know that I counted 23 beeps in reaction theater today? That might actually be a record for us. I don't know if that's a good or bad record. I don't know.

I know that you spent a lot of time editing that thing then because that takes work to have to beep out that many times, right? Yeah, but it's worth it. I'm bringing the listener's voice to America. Right, and beeps. You're bringing beeps to America. The one thing they could probably use their life is a happy lens. It ain't necessarily going to get Biffle out of the way, but it's going to make them a little happier. What do you think?

I know where they can get a pair and get a pair at a discount. Tell me where. Go to spyoptic.com, and if you enter code nationwide 88, that's nationwide 88, at checkout, at checkout, and you'll get 20% off your purchase.