The Dale Jr. Download - 87 - Martinsville: Bad Vibrations

Episode Date: March 31, 2015

Dale Earnhardt Jr. discusses the issues on the 88 Diet Mountain Dew chevy that led to a long day at Martinsville. Reaction Theatre callers unleash their emotions over Truck Series race. 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. This face is not going to go so well. We've got to, come on, let's go. Bad or let a few up, there's more shit. Yeah, I can't wait for you to see this replay. Are you not at her tape? That's all I can think of. 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. It's Jr. just got done here with Martinsville and back to the house has a pretty pretty disappointing result but we had a fun day driving the car the car was fast even with the nose tore off of it like it was we still were passing guys up into the top 20 so got to feel good about the speed we've had this year aside for Phoenix car's been pretty fast everywhere we went

But basically, you know, we improved a little bit in qualifying. I know it's a small victory, but we have been so bad there over the last several years trying to qualify for that race. It was nice to see some kind of improvement. And we got the car pretty good in practice. For whatever reason, the car was real good on long runs, and that definitely showed up in the race. On the short run, we were working around the track bar. doing some things to help us get a little speed there. But on the long run, our car was pretty happy.

We had some kind of issue, I think, with the drive shaft. There's a little, maybe like a little roller baron or something, and in the universal joint fell out or just, you know, came out, disappeared, disintegrated. It created a real bad vibration, and that vibration is so bad that it actually will break the shifter. It'll shake the shifter so bad. literally breaks in right off right on top of the transmission and I think you guys saw that from the in car how we were having that problem we put another shifter on the car and it broke that one real quick and then we put a third shifter on there that

actually was a completely different model that held up and you know that had us in the back but the guys were doing a great job keeping the car on the lead lap and trying to get that change I I feel like we needed to come behind the wall and change the drive line. I'm glad we didn't because that was, you know, we lost a lot of laps doing it, but I felt like that vibration was so bad that we weren't going to ever get to shift their thing fixed. But anyways, we got there back in the back, and these guys checked up going into one. It happens all the time at Martinsville, and we just got the bad end of the deal. It happened so fast though. There was nothing TJ or myself could have really done. I couldn't see it coming.

but we had a real good car and got behind, you know, got it behind the wall, we fixed it up, and got back out there and kept digging. You know, that's what you got to do. I've had times when we've tore the car up and basically just packed it in and went home. And you don't really know it at the time, but once you get home and you, you know, bumming around the rest of the week about how you finish, you, there's a part of you, you're, that feels a lot of remorse for not trying to do everything you could and run every lap you could run and fight for every position you could fight for.

And that's a terrible feeling. So, you know, when you have those kind of days, what's important is that you get the car fixed and you go back out there. And even though you're 37th worrying about how you can be 36th, you know, you're still fighting and you're still trying and putting forth your best effort. And it's, you know, it may seem pointless. to worry about gaining a spot or two, but as a competitor, you have to find something to work for, some goal, something has to matter, you know. And so it felt good to get back out there and keep digging.

And as a team, we have to stick together and try to go to the next race and put it behind you. And that's the best way to do it. Get out there and do everything you can do, run every lap you can run, and then load up and go to the next race. You know, I wish we could have finished better. We didn't. We got an Easter break coming up. I hope everybody has a great Easter, and we'll be ready for the next one. I expect us to be quick.

If we keep showing up fast, we'll eventually get us a win. We're going to have a lot of fun running toward the front until we do. So y'all enjoy the download. Happy Easter and take it easy. Doesn't matter how great the day is or how bad the day is. We always appreciate hearing from him. We do have Miss Amanda. We got T.J., I'm Taylor.

We got a lot to talk about. We got a lot of reaction theater callers. Maybe even Mike Davis will show up in the middle of the podcast again. I woke him up. I woke him up. He'll be hearing a few. Yeah. Hopefully he'll show up in just a minute.

But obviously that stunk. What you want to say? I mean, started 14th, had all kinds of vibration issues and shifter problems. Overcame all of that still on the lead lap. But then obviously caught up. up in a wreck on lap 227, not even at the halfway mark. After all that you guys went through, had to go to the garage repair, the radiator, among other things, the entire front end, really.

Yeah. But it wasn't a good day. And, you know, anytime you're in a wreck, that's going to happen. But, T.J, let's start with that. In all seriousness, I don't really know, I mean, just from a fan standpoint and somebody that's gone to the paper clip that loves, loves that place. Truly might be my favorite race to go to. Yeah, mine too.

I love that place. But I don't know for the life of me how a spotter like you could have avoided what happened to you guys yesterday, just given how everybody's going to bottleneck and collect each other, you know, especially only a few laps after a restart. Yeah, you know, it's pretty surprised that we got as far as we did restarting in the back like that. Because, you know, when you start back that far, there's so much stuff that happens on the bottom. People shooting to the bottom and jamming the lanes up, and we're pretty good at seeing that. stuff and I feel like we've made up a lot of spots on the outside because people shoot to the

bottom and jam everybody up and we roll the outside and pinch them down a little bit and get the spot well you know and we've been pretty good at that over the years and you know we did it a lot yesterday up more fixing the shit we started behind everybody numerous times very back and uh you know finally the one time whenever we think everything's fixed and this is now we can we got half the race left which is plenty of time we didn't have real good track fishing but we're kind of off-seek-ons to leaders so we can maybe do something to get back in it at some point, you know, and, you know, it just seems

everything's starting to roll good, here we go again, and bam, it's like nothing like working hard there for an hour, you know, real hard for a while, numerous cautions to get that thing fixed, and, you know, just only to have it all end and turn one. Yeah, it stinks. I mean, for that to happen. So let me ask you this.

You win the October race right after knowing that you're not going to win a championship, You guys came back the following week, and for the last time with Steve Lattart, one, did you feel like you were anywhere close to that if you didn't have the wreck? Yeah, I felt like we were, our car was good. We were driving to the front, and he had noted and said that he was going very easy, and I can tell when he's going hard, and he was not going hard. You know, there's just no sense in it then. Okay, so you get out front and you lead for 75 laps, 150 laps, and you just, you're hard around your heart around your, stuff, heating everything up more, or you just ride back there in third or fourth and just kind of

take care of your car. And he was definitely, and, you know, he was controlling his stuff and take care of stuff to have a, to set himself up for having the best shot he could at the end, you know, and you give these guys a little bit more car than the other guy, and it's going to show, you know, and if he could have a little bit more car there at the end and we get that late restart again or late race charge. You think you would have been a factor? I think we, yeah, easily I think we could have been a factor. I was, I was, I was, actually planning on it. Yeah, but it didn't work out.

The 11 car won, and it's interesting, Amanda, I was listening to your buddies at MRN, and they were listening to, obviously, the Hamlin and his crew chief. They're in car. Yeah, and Hamlin was saying, hey, guys, I've got a lot more car. I'm not even going close to full here, you know? And to your point, T.J., I mean, the first couple hundred laps, Denny Hamlin was like that, you know? So you do.

You save your stuff for what? Last 50 laps? The last run, probably the last hunter, you need to start trying to make sure you have great track position for the end. You try to set yourself up for that last hundred laps. I'd say, you know, the last run, which could even be a little bit more than the last 100, but you just want to set that vicinity is where you want to be the best. You know, as we look back at the first, I guess, quarter of the regular season, I guess that's the way that we could look at this period that we've had so far,

now that there's a week off before we'll have a bunch of races in a row. I would say this. From a competition standpoint, the team has been terrific. Yes, no, they have not won a race, and that's the disappointing part of it, because especially in this format, you've got to win races. You want to assure yourself of being in the chase, go win a race. Now, Ryan Newman didn't win a race,

and going in the last few laps of the last season, he had a chance to win the championship. I understand that, but the most certain way you have of qualifying for the postseason, for the playoffs, if you will, is to win a race. So we need to check that off the list. But from a competitive standpoint, I can say it, I promise. From a competitive standpoint, I'm really excited about what we have seen so far. Every single time, you guys have put a car out on a track.

You guys have had a chance to have a top five, maybe at worst, top seven or eight car. And led laps in numerous races. So that part's exciting to me. Now, there's going to be racist this year. That's just reality where you're not going to have nearly as competitive of a car. But I guess the big positive so far this year, TJ would be from a comp... I just can't do it. I don't know.

From a competitive standpoint, I really like what I've seen every week. Yeah, I know. When I woke up Sunday morning, I knew we were going with a shot to win. I knew we were. I saw the car in Happy Hour. I saw how it turned. I know what kind of car he likes, and I saw that in Happy Hour. Greg and M. kept working on it.

And honestly, we weren't very good Friday. day. We weren't bad, but we weren't, we didn't have that little bit of, we were missing just a tiny bit. It only takes tiny bit there to be great, you know, and, you know, happy hour came around. They worked hard on it and got together, and the car looked, and his comments were he'd come out, he'd pull over and be like, I like that. So, and I saw it. I know, I know what the car looks like when it handles good for him there, and I saw that. So I knew going up there Sunday, we had a shot to win, and that's how I've woken up. You know, you know, when you, when you wake up when you work on teams, you know if you're going to have a shot.

We all wake up knowing we're going there with a chance to win. That's a great feeling. Yeah, that's exactly what you want. And that's good news for when you're trying to win a championship later in the season. So the guys did come out on the track. I'd like to hear a little bit of that conversation that you and Dale and Greg had when you guys went back out there. How are we doing? We just picked up a spot.

It looks like the three is being spoken here for a while. Mike gave him, too. 167 to go. Leaders, you're driving away, man. They're been all the backstretched. They were actually closer to you before, but you're driving away. Yeah, they got the same amount left on their tires. We're running 2040s.

They're running 21 flat. You're doing great. Yeah, tough for if you want to cool the rears a little more, you can turn your rear tire fans on, but you're doing a great job. 57 flat up front. And all that right there is great information for the race that is in the chase that you guys won last year.

Put a good notebook together, to try to defend your title in October. Yeah, I feel like we'll go back and we'll roll off the truck and be just fine. I'm looking forward to getting there already. Yeah, absolutely. So before we get into Reaction Theater, let's take a moment to remind everyone how to get a pair of spy shades because we all need a little happy lens in our lives after that race.

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8. And receive 20% off of your purchase. Before we get into action theater, Mike Davis, it's good to see you again. Hey, what are we talking about today? We talked about a whole lot on the problem. Well, you know. Did TJ screw up? Is that it's all I want to know?

No, we talked about how much we appreciate TJ's commitment to the podcast. We talked about Amanda's commitment to the podcast. We talked about my commitment to the podcast. We ripped apart your commitment to the podcast. I don't know. I don't have nothing to say. None of this will probably make the podcast. Oh, it won't.

Talk about to that. Let's go now to Reaction Theater. Fuck that fucking shit. The 0-0 truck was going to win that fucking truck race. But that fucking 88 fun him. That's bull of s' shit. He was going to win. I'm so mad at the 88 right now.

I can't even stand to look at myself. He's going to, race, that fucking 88 getting spun out. I love this. I forgot that we were going to get some truck race in action theater. You're like, what did you do to make somebody mad? No, no, no, I forgot. That was nuts.

Really offended you because I think you missed a beep at the very end, and I heard a worry. You can say bitch on the air. And we just did, just to make sure you, just so you know. You can? Yeah. It sounds a lot cooler when Amanda says it. Yes, it does. That's right.

I got that truck rubs, man. I love the truck race, and even though we got, you know, we got moved out of the way there at the end. How about our boy, Cole Custer, going in there, you got Joey Lugano, and you got the two-time truck champion, and he went in there and cleaned him right out of the way. I like his interview. In his interview was great. Did he not say he messed up and went to get him off a two instead of... This was great.

This was the best part. He goes, yeah, I made a mistake. I meant to punt him coming off of him. Yeah. And I said, oh, that right there, you made some fans. Who's next? Somebody needs to get that squiny-eyed little or Joey Legano

a copy of Days of Thunder and a pacifier because what Cole Custer did was five laps ago to take the lead was nothing but racing rubbing is racing I'm sick and look Joe Lugano he's a cry baby

I feel like that was you was that you calling in? I'm not a little bit like my did I miss something did he complained yes here's what happened after Cole did what he did. Crafton called him a punk.

This is on the radio. So, look, what goes on the radio? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I know. And then, uh, Ligonon caught him a son of a, like, I'm going to wreck that sht is what he said. Now, me being, you know, I like to stir it up a little bit, you know, I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, you know, whatever. But rightfully, the phone number is. Yeah, that's what I did, actually. But with five to go and you're getting, you know, emotion, like, you can't really take that as gospel. Because after the race, Kraftin said, yeah, that was just racing.

And people were like, but no, he said on the radio, and the radio of a driver in the car in the heat of the moment. Yeah. Now, Ligono, it felt like that was a lot more authentic to how he feels all the time. I did feel like there was a little bit of hypocrisy there in Lugano's. I wasn't really that mad at crafted. I thought the truck race was great. It was great.

It was awesome. Nobody got destroyed. Listen, it was a successful truck race because no trucks got severely destroyed, and Johnny Sauter was mad at the end of it. So it's a successful race. That's how you. Well done. It is generally how they end.

Did you get any fight? Who were you spot? The guy Johnny Sauter was mad at. Oh, so no wonder you threw that in there. But last race, he was trying to fight Timothy Peters or something, wasn't he? He always fights there. It's Marnesville. It's Sauterville.

I don't know. I don't know. I'm starting to see a common denominator being you. Yeah. How about my boy, Cole Custer, driving that thing down in there hitting them? And Joey Lugano, you are a big-time bitch. Oh! radio, getting mad at the boy, and you did the same damn thing out on the how many races.

Kissed my ass, no beers, but it's going to be a good one. I think Amanda just to turn, like, you know what, I'm not beeping anybody this week. Reaction Theater, a truck race version. I like that. Our first caller used all my beeps for the week. Yeah, yeah, it's met the quota. I mean, I'm glad we've got a truck race reaction theater. It's not like you have anything to talk about from the couple.

Hey, another short track race, man. It's exciting. Oh, it's great. Oh, listen, if the France family wants to come out and say all races for now on will be conducted at Martinsville Speedway, I'm all in. I wouldn't have a problem with. Oh, we rotate. Back and forth when Bristol-O-Mars will rotate. It probably wouldn't be good for my liver.

But given what happened on Sunday, even with that, because guess what? You're going to win clocks like you did in October. There's going to be times of your wreck. But it is good old short track racing. All right. Who's next? Yeah, I'm a first-time caller, long-time listener to the podcast. I just wanted to call up and express my disappointment in Greg Eyes.

It doesn't seem like the guy's much of a leader. He seems like he delays making calls. A lot of times like today, it seemed like TJ was kind of telling him what to do or Dale Jr. was telling him what to do. It just seems like this guy needs to step up and be more like Steve. I understand that it's tough, but the man took the job and he needs to step up and do the job. Again, I am a big junior fan, have been for a long time, and want to see the best for him and the team.

So I'm sure this won't make it because there's no beeps and hashtag no beers. You made it. You made it. I think you should drink a beer next time and call. You know what? I think Greg is a great leader about a week. I think if he would have listened to your guys' in car on Sunday

when they went behind the wall in the garage, you would have seen that Greg. Yeah, that and Phoenix too. Greg knows what he's doing. But Greg is also, I mean, how many races in it? He's six. Hey, and not minus Daytona, which is a completely different style of racing. Greg is doing great.

I bet I know what he's talking about. I bet. I know what he's talking about. I bet whether the pit or not, and Dale Jr. talked him out. I will just say this. Dale Jr. has talked a crew chief out of decisions all his career. I don't. And sometimes they've worked and sometimes they haven't.

He wishes you hadn't. Six weeks into the season, I don't care how big a homer somebody calls me. I love Steve Lattart. As a human being, I love him. I thought he was a very good crew chief. The first six weeks of the year, every week, in my opinion, from Friday, Saturday to Sunday, the 88 team has been a better team this year than they were last year.

Yeah. I honestly believe, that's me, Taylor. I honestly believe that. Okay, now, you may not like Greg Ives' communication compared to Mr. cheerleader who was obviously destined for a great TV career because of the way he communicates. But let me make this really clear. And for the entire week, I think that the 88 team through six races has been better.

Ives has no influence over a bead problem with your tires or when Paul Menard's going to check up. He's got no influence over that. I will say this, though. We go to Phoenix. That's our weak spot. Do you know where Denny ran at Phoenix, majority of the race? Like 20th, 25th, the whole race. You know what I mean?

And Greg is a, Greg has assembled. I think Greg's doing great. I feel like we're stronger now than what we ever were. I do. I mean, I do. You got to win races. You have to. Our car was fast without a hood and a fender.

I mean, like we played earlier, the conversation. I mean, they were beating the best team on the track when you guys came back out there. All right. Off the soapbox. Who's next? Are you fucking? Kid me? What the sht?

I am so tired of these damn not worth a piece of horse-shund racers racing for, like, 30th. The don't know how to have a fucking race. They run into each other. And then Junior happens to be there and get the fucking caught in it. I'm fucking pissed, okay? And I support Hendry Motorsports 100% of the fucking time, but something needs to be done about their damn shifters and the transmission. Jimmy last year at Michigan, junior last year is freaking Charlotte.

Now here at Martin'sville, what the fuck, okay? I'm not even drunk and I'm fucking pissed. I can hear it. Yes, he is. Make no mistake. Homeboy's pissed. He's got a legit point. I mean, we've had a few things that should.

It wouldn't happen, and we'll get it figured out. I mean, it's going to... Any discussion, Mike, in the last 24 hours about the shifters? Honestly, I was just coming down here, and I saw Regan Smith, and I said, Regan, I got to ask you something. Because usually I like to ask him this stuff under the cup race, but selfishly, he goes and puts himself in a cup car and prevents me from being able to call him. But I was getting him on the way down here, and I said, look, what's the deal? You know, they're talking about a vibration that they thought was a tire, but all of a sudden they take the tires off. and now it's vibration is still there,

so it's kind of come out of the transmission. Now they're saying that the vibration and the transmission caused the tire to come loose, which I've never heard of that in my life. I don't know if you guys have talked about that. I don't know if that was just something he's telling Dale just to appease him, but I've never heard of it in my life.

Yeah, I don't know if it's a freak deal or something's going on, but, you know, we'll get it figured out. And we're not, you know, we're not the only one that has these type of problems. When we have problems, it gets magnified. five times 10 you know yeah because we got a you know podcast network and all these other things to talk about well in my remarkably uneducated opinion i think it had to do with the loose wheel i really

do i think it had to be related to that well and i don't i just don't think it came out of nowhere or maybe saying this wrong but i asked kip last night when he got home what causes us to happen at short track races and he says that a lot of times on restarts those tires spend so much on short tracks that it actually the the tire comes loose from the wheel Yeah, I know what you're saying. And that causes the tire to come off balance, which makes these drivers think there's a loose wheel and there's a huge vibration. We run low air pressures, so the tire isn't as tight to the wheel as it could be. It's like a bicycle tire.

You know when it's loose or whatever? You can push in on it. You know how it run or yellow on. You'll see the left side bulging out of it because they got low air. Well, when they stand on the gas, it'll spin the wheel and it'll spin it a little bit on. And the rubber part of the tire won't spin as fast and it'll readjust it. it's out of balance at that point. Because, you know what I mean?

If it spins, it becomes out of balance, and that'll make it vibrate. And you would especially see that on a short track. Yeah, oh, yeah. I mean, you just feel that anywhere. Yeah, because that's where you run the lowest air pressure. Yeah, if somebody will prank you and put a bunch of wheelweights on one of your tires, and you'll dry down and you'll be like, uh-uh. I mean, they were those things where they look flat.

Yeah. So that could happen to, and that could have, that could have not to dry shat anything. Okay, so in other words, that would have caused it to continue to vibrate or cause a bigger vibration after you change the house to vibrate. vibrate, come loose, like the dry shaft comes loose a little bit, and snowballs from there. All right, who's next? Don't want to hear any wah, wah, wah from junior fans crying in their beer. By God, I'll tell you, there's some grid on that team.

Smacked it up, two shifter problems, too many men over the wall. What do you get? He's back on the track, digging. Ten beers and counting. Yeah, Dale, yeah. Yeah, Delia. Ten. I like that.

Yeah, Delia. Yeah, he's right, though. Our guys never give up. That was the most impressive cluster beep, you know what? For trying to repair his shifter at Martinsville. Yeah, as many. And when we pit, which you don't understand. Most fun 36 place finish ever.

When you pit at a track like that, you have less time because the track is small. When you're pitting from the very back, the leader is already half a lap from you. You have very little time. I haven't suggested on Greg on Channel 2 that I told Greg, I'm like, You know, we can get a, this race is long. We can get a lucky dog. So I was like, Greg, should we just take a lap penalty and fix it for good here? I know we're in Reaction Theater and Amanda hates it when we get under our soapboxes on Reaction Theater.

But it was so early in the race, I was wondering why we didn't just take a lap down and fix it the first time. He made the wreck, we never lost a lap, man. What's awesome is when they fix the thing after we wrecked, you know, our car, it's tore all up. I mean, it's beaten. We're passing cars that don't have any damage and stuff. And it's a guy. That's a good feeling. We passed Kurt Busch.

I mean, I'm not going to lie. I did a go down to a spotter and tell him we want the bottom. And because we were coming. This car doesn't even have a scratch on it. And you're 100 down. Yep. Who's next? Hey, it'll get better, boys.

Just remember if it's got boobs or bumpers, it's going to give you problems. Deal yet. Hashtag. I don't know. I love it. Hashtag I don't know. If it's got boobs. boobs or bumpers, it's going to give you a problem. You know what I'm looking at? Big problem right now.

I figured you're looking at Mike's next t-shirt design. I was looking at you. Apparently you're a problem. You better keep your eyes in a certain spot. Boobes or bumpers. You'll have problems. I wonder if he subscribes to that. All right, let's go to the next one. I don't know what the hell you guys are doing in that garage area, man, but Titan and Shifter bolts ain't one of them. For two races in less than a year, Dale Jr. Shifter comes off in his hand. I don't know what the hell's going on there, but Mike Davis, how about you stop running around? with your little handy can making videos that nobody's watching on YouTube and get in there and tighten the bolts for the guys so we can win a race without having a shipper come on his name

TJ majors instead of worrying about t-shirt to say door bumper clear how about selling t-shirts that say can a brother grab a gear so that we get some money to buy this man a shipper and some bolts it won't come off of his hand idiots Amanda you're so hot I'll send that guy had if you don't because that was pretty good. What about Taylor? Yeah. I love he's forgotten about me. That's fine. That was pretty good.

That was terrific. Do I have to pay you if I sell that? Really, it's a great call. I'd like to point out I run around with the handy cam and Mike just directs me. That was a really, I couldn't, that was a great call. Hey, if people call up and says Amanda, you're so hot, I'll gladly take credit for the handy cam. It's really nice to get to call in, you know. Who's next?

Let it go, let it go. Junior couldn't hold back anymore. Let it go, let it go. Menard slowed and slammed the door. Casey Mears is one bar, they say. Let the race wage on. Woken Shifter never bothered me anyway. Hashtag, is that deep enough for you, T.J.?

Oh! Oh! Yeah, hashtag six beers. Yeah, this is two weeks in a row. Submarine mic has called in with some music. It calls T.J. out. That was strong right there. It started bad, but isn't it good?

That was well done. Reaction theater's open 24-7. All you have to do is call toll-free 1-855-740-1902 and leave us your voicemail message, and we will play the best each week right here on Dirty Moe radio. Time now for It Takes the Nation presented by Nationwide. Last week we had Sean Brawley on Takes a Nation because Sean is one of two characters at Dale Jr's farm that made the nationwide commercial.

The one that you watch every Sunday or when you're watching the race, it was on the Daytona 500. One of my favorite commercials of all time. Well, this week we got the other half, maybe even the better half. I'd say the better half. Sonny Lunsford is here. And if you remember in that commercial, Dale Jr's line was something along the lines of, you know, Sunny and Sean that have always had his side or been on his side. And so we got Sonny Lunsford in this week. Sunny, how are you, buddy?

I'm good. What's going on these days out at Dirty Moe Acres? You run the property there, right? Yes, sir. We've got a lot going on. He's always something going like the farm. There really is. I mean, there is something always going on.

If there's not anything going on, something happens that day just to make it interesting, right? Definitely. If they're not busy, they're not looking for something. I remember we've had people, you know, climb the fence and, you know, show up and do crazy things. We've had snakes. We've had all kinds of stuff going on. Yeah, I had a couple guys trespassing, I don't know, about two weeks ago, just riding through on a full-wheeler. Just riding on Del Junior's property, like it's their own.

Like the gate was open or something. They come in through the woods behind my house, and we're all sitting there looking. It's like, well, we don't know these guys. Right. So I cranked up to old Honda, and I zing on after them. What a Sunny Lundford's reaction when somebody's trespassing? I can't imagine it's very good. That wasn't too bad, you know, after I slide up behind them and grab a hole with a four-wheeler.

It's not too bad. Everybody's doing this. If you can see my hands, I'm like, ah! So you can visit them in the hospital right now if you want to. No, I'm good. I mean, you are responsible for Dirtymoe Acres. I mean, Dale Jr., he leaves that in your hands. You live there, and you always have, and you got, like, when Dale Jr. comes up with his wife,

wild hair idea to do something. Sonny Lunsford, he's the guy. I said last week, I said, Sonny is the guy that Del Jr. says if he had to pick one person to be in a foxhole with, it's this man right here, Sunny Lunsford. So any wild hair ideas lately? No, we've been building a tree house seems like for the last five or six months. Well, that counts.

That's a wild hair idea. I mean, there's 20 feet off the ground. How's that coming? It's getting better. I mean, the inside's pretty much done. Is it? Yeah, we just finished up the steps last week, so you can actually climb up to it. having to climb a damn ladder to get to it.

Are you impressed by this tree house? Oh, yeah. You could live in it? Yeah, definitely. What all does it have in it? Right now, it's just power. I mean. No, no, when it's done.

It's going to have just one little loft room and a little living area. I mean, you could say size-wise, it's 400 square feet guessing. Really? I could live in it. It's a guest house, though, right? It's going to be a guest house. A guest house tree house. Who doesn't have a guest house?

They doesn't have a bathroom, but who needs a bathroom? Listen, if you're a man and you're in a treehouse and 25 feet up in the air, and there is a bathroom, you ain't going to use that bathroom. No, I'm going outside. That's right. What's P-flat. Is there a porch around this thing? Is there a deck?

Yes, all the way around. Oh, yeah. That's, I mean, you don't need a bathroom. No. The commercial that you shot with Nationwide, what was that experience like? It was different. I mean, it was cool. I mean, there was a great cast of people around, so they made it easy.

It's just, I'm not very camera-friendly at all. I disagree, man. I disagree. But you are shy around the camera. You do all your work behind the scenes. Yeah, I don't need to be on the camera. But you graciously do stuff when we ask you to do. You gave us a tour on J.M. 360 several years ago of the graveyard.

I think that might have been the first time anybody gone out of the graveyard. Now it seems like it happens quite a bit. By the way, speaking of the graveyard, one of the questions I always get is, you know, how many cars are out there? And I always tell them about 60. Is that right? Yeah, 75, 80. So we've added. Yeah.

We don't run out of room out there? No, never. Never? Not in our lifetime. I hear you. Maybe our kids' lifetime. I got one more thing. I sitting here looking this wall with all the 76 stuff on it.

We had the sign that come from. Oh! The Metro-Lanah. Metrolana. That's right. Y'all seen a picture that he tweeted. Me and Brad at the farm, we painted that thing. I got one more for you.

Go ahead. You do got, and that's a good get now, that Metrolauna Speedway. It's awesome. I mean, signs turned out great. You know what else we got coming down there? Have you heard? No. Maybe.

me, I don't know. Brandon, the president of Pocono Raceway. Yeah. Is going to be, or he's offering up the Pocono Raceway sign that's above the tunnel. Yeah. As you walk through the tunnel turn and the Pocono Raceway sign. So you've got the old tricky triangle thing coming. Bring it on.

I don't know where you're going to put it. We'll find somewhere. Oh, you will. I know. All right. Well, Sonny, you are the man. I don't even know how to the way to say. You the man.

It's awesome to have you on here. And like I told everybody last week when you weren't here, and I'm telling them again this, week. Sonny's been with Dale Jr. for a long time. And that's going to 20 years. 20 years.

And so you've been working for Dell and you run that property. You are the, you're the mayor of Dirty Moe Acres. I don't know about that. You are. Maybe the sheriff.

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She used to wear the Army uniform? No, that was his mom, Martha. Oh, okay. Well, Andrea will be there. Talk about Martha in studio for another episode of Fast Lane family presented by Well of professionals. You all right? I was really hoping it was Martha.

Okay, Front Road Joe's wife in studio. Thursday, Regan Smith will host his own podcast. Junior Motorsports up front. You get the details of him filling in for Larson. Hope Kyle's okay. Yeah. If you need to get more of Dale Jr. Fix, don't miss Sed Jr., 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, which will not be happening next week, presented by spies. We've kept the full weekend for the junior motorsports Exfantty, truck, and late model teams, as well as Dale Sprint Cup series run. Let's throw the white flag. White flag right there, white flag. All right. What do we want it to be sponsored by this week, gentlemen?

What are you thinking? That's a good one. I'm thinking my vote is, I just want Cole Custer to, to be the presenting sponsor this week just for Lay the Bumper. Because he is one of the punting coming out of two instead of going into two. I'm going to like to sponsor this, like U.S. Airways to sponsor this. I hope I have no delays on to and from Indianapolis. Yeah, they're going to let you down.

All right. I knew that was going to happen. All right. All right. So this week's presenting sponsor. Yeah, by Cole Custer. Here's what Dale Jr.'s week looks like. Yeah.

Yeah. And that's Dale Jr.'s week. All right, so now let's get to some real stuff. Here's where you can find this week's race action in the Trucks, Xfinity, and Sprint Cup series. All right, here's T.J. Major's progress on filing his taxes. Wednesday. Are you doing it Wednesday? Yeah, I'm legal.

And you're doing it on Taxlare.com, of course. That's right. You know, fast and easy. Point click. All right. Fast and easy. Amanda, tell us how much you love starting your day with me, Taylor, and T. Oh, come on.

Amanda and I get along great. How many of you guys have toured Dale Jr's race car graveyard? Well, I've been past it. No, you guys. I've never been invited. There's a reason for that. You're in luck, because Dale Jr. is giving video tours of his graveyard on Dirty Moe Acres on the team Chevy social accounts. Tomorrow will be the third episode.

The first two are still on there, so you can go to the Team Chevy Facebook page and follow Team Chevy on Twitter. Also, I don't have this written down, but, you know, Dale Jr.'s auctioning off his gloves again for the month of March on the eBay channel so do that how many you people have Dale Jeter's gloves we got good use out of the cricket sound effects this week yeah good stuff this week on the podcast that I can help to also recap Mike Davis's participation in the first 30 minutes of the podcast for Miss Amanda for T.J. majors I'm Taylor's ours sir. This has been the Dale Junior download Hope everyone has a happy Easter

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