The Dale Jr. Download - Blaney's Llama Escaped, Dario's Going Truckin' & Hearing From Hocevar

Episode Date: February 27, 2026

How have two weekends of the NASCAR season already passed us by? It feels like time is flying at the speed of sound, and that's why this power-packed 30 minutes has the very best from Dirty Mo Media's... week of shows following the race in Atlanta — so you can catch up on all the action. Dale Jr. kicks us off with a conversation surrounding the storm that blew through Atlanta, known as Hurricane Hocevar. He and TJ discuss what payback looks like and Hocevar's role in the sport, which is much more important than you might think. Next up, Dario Franchitti was supposed to join us in the Arby's studio, but the snow up north forced him to call in; however, the distance didn't keep this episode from being an instant classic. We pick up with him here about his friendship with Jimmie Johnson, and how his Truck ride with Tricon for St. Petersburg came together. Get the bathtubs ready, Blaney fans, Ryan dropped in to Door Bumper Clear, where we learned about his pet llama's daring escape and the unconventional ways he's taking care of that sweet 'stache he's sporting. Remember that Hocevar guy we talked about earlier? Well, he and Jeff Gluck talk about the waves he's making in the Cup Series in one of our newest shows, The Gluckcast, dropping every Thursday on the Teardown's podcast feeds. You'll want to hear how he feels about his driving style, sending apology texts, and how he feels about his nickname. That's all we have for you this time! We'll see you next week for another turbocharged episode.  Real fans wear Dirty Mo. Hit the link and join the crew.👇 shop.dirtymomedia.com/ 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.

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Starting point is 00:00:03 Hey, everybody, I'm Dillon Hart Jr. And this is The Dirty 30. The best highlights from all of our podcast this week, 30 minutes every single Friday. The Dirty 30 coming in you. Let's get right to it. This episode of The Dirty 30 is presented by Arby's new Meat in Three Box. Get more meal for your money at Arby's. We have the meats.
Starting point is 00:00:25 So let's dive into that race. Carson Hosevar racing aggressively. All right. Shocker. He wrecked bail at the end. and everybody is, you know, everybody's wanting to hear our opinion, I suppose. Everybody's got an opinion about Hosevar. We talk about him at length here about his, you know, his style.
Starting point is 00:00:47 I think Denny might have said, like, he's tired, like, he's going for it. Yeah, he's going for it. But you're also ruining people's races now. And at some point, it's got to bite you, right? Oh, I mean, he don't care. But is anybody actually going to truly pay him back? I don't know. I mean, why are we going to debate this?
Starting point is 00:01:05 What is or who it will? Hypotheticals. That's what TJ's saying is going to bite you back, but is it? I don't know. Maybe not. You can't keep wrecking people without. I don't. I get so sick of that.
Starting point is 00:01:16 We're here right now to talk about whether this is his fault or not his fault. And I think it's clear that, you know, he's, he bears the responsibility for everything to happen right there. Right. You know, does somebody come, you know, does this come back on him? We don't know. we do not know. And I'm not going to, I don't want to waste time on this show going, well, yeah, I bet somebody gets him back. Oh, you don't think somebody will get him back?
Starting point is 00:01:40 I bet they do. Isn't that what we're supposed to do? Talk about racing stuff. I mean, Blaney gets a text message and he's okay. He's cool with him. Blaney talks about it. I just don't see these drivers talk a big game about and they never really truly go, like, do something to him. I agree.
Starting point is 00:01:58 Well, all right. I play this game. I feel like that eventually, yes, somebody will do something. Yeah, I do. I think that there'll be a time when, you know, somebody in it may be Denny, you know, that says, you know what, my race is, you know, I'm not having a good race today. And you are. And you are. And it's my, it's my chance.
Starting point is 00:02:18 I'm already going to finish, you know, wherever. So here's my, you know, I won't just go ahead and make it hard on you. How'd you like that, you know? So, I mean, I definitely think that that will happen. I know the guys will, I know the drivers get out of the car and they'll say, well, he's going to regret that one these days. And we don't see anything. But eventually, yes, eventually enough's enough. And somebody will, we'll drop the hammer.
Starting point is 00:02:49 You know who it might be? Who. Could be anybody. Could be Gregson. Gregson likes to be the messenger. Yeah, he likes to be the. deliver. He does. It's going to need to be a driver that's not race for a championship because you can't afford to
Starting point is 00:03:04 wreck yourself and get a D&F. I don't think anybody's going to have to wreck themselves. No. You don't have to wreck yourself. No. It's pretty easy to do if you do it, right? Like if you know what you're doing. Yeah. Well, but is he going to learn from, like, do we think he changes? Like, Ross finally changed? No. It's going to take two or three times for some
Starting point is 00:03:22 this is who. This is who he is, man. This cat's different. I don't think that he has the, and this is not a knock at all, I just don't think he has the ability to have the remorse or, or, listen, I mean, I know he, I think he does understand right from wrong. I think he does know when there's, when he makes a mistake or he doesn't do something just right, or he makes a bad decision or whatever, right? He's gotten outdone interviews. We've heard him talk. We know that he has common sense, but I don't know that he, I don't know that he's going to take a ton of advice from his competitors. He might take advice from somewhere else. I mean, he told you last year he's not really friends with the other cup driver. So it's not like he has a mentor to be like, hey, like.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Yeah, but I mean, he probably listens to other people. He listens to his team owners, the people inside of his shop. What are they telling him to do? If they're telling him, hey, man, keep on being you, he's going to do what they tell him to do. He's going to do what his people tell him to do because those are the people that matter. Those are the people that just gamble. Those are the people that just committed to him. You had to sign that extension.
Starting point is 00:04:29 Yeah. So, like, those are his, those are the people he's going to listen to. He's not going to listen to, you know, Danny or, or Ligano or anybody else. Those are, those aren't the people that are signing his paycheck or those aren't the people that are responsible for his future or his opportunity that he has right now. So he's going to listen to what does team owners say, you know, and his crew chief and all his people that he trusts, all his friends in his circle. If they're all telling him, don't change.
Starting point is 00:04:58 keep being you, that's probably what we're going to get. I think there's one thing that I would love for you to put in a clip. Denny doesn't like it. He said so on his podcast that the competitors aren't happy, but the media is. Well, he's right. The media loves it. This is, while I know that this is a big, massive thorn in the side of any of the drivers
Starting point is 00:05:22 that are in this guy's wake, it is great for the sport. to have at least a couple guys out there willing to shoot the gap, you know, willing to try to make a hole where there's not a hole, willing to try to, kind of like, you know, Brad is Louski at Texas, right? When he drove through Jeff Gordon and they end up, you know, Jeff Flatt. Very similar situation.
Starting point is 00:05:46 Very similar situation. Brad was that guy back then. He was going for the hole. He was going to take, you know, he's going to go for it. And it pissed people off. And it barrels, you know, it filled out on the pit. road and we had that incredible scene. And this is who Hosevar is, and our sport badly needs a couple guys like that in the
Starting point is 00:06:07 field. Oh, it's so good to have them. So bad. All right. So Dario, Franketti on the Dale Jr. download, he is coming remote. So tell me, I guess, how this did come about. So was it as simple as a little conversation with Jimmy? Had you been telling Jimmy, you know, hey man, you know, your car owner now, you know?
Starting point is 00:06:29 You know Jimmy as well as I do. Yeah. So I had seen that they announced that trucks are going to race at St. Pete on Saturday. And Dixon and I have always talked about the MX5 race. Yes. At St. Pete were like, we should do the MX5 race. That would be so much fun. And now he's talking about he wants to do it at Daytona, but he's slightly insane.
Starting point is 00:06:54 Yeah, that's crazy. Right? But I's like, okay, I want to do something. St. Pete's a track of love. can I that would be fun that would be fun to do that and so Jimmy and I
Starting point is 00:07:07 at the time Jimmy and Shanney and the girls were in London and we we meet up a lot and we were sitting having a glass of red and I said to him did you see the truck thing that looks fun
Starting point is 00:07:23 I wonder if I should look at trying to do that and Jimmy's we had a bit of a conversation back and forward forwards and I literally think it was the next morning. Jimmy calls and says, hey man, I found your truck. What? He said, I found your truck. I said, oh, is it a good truck? He said, well, it's a team called TriCon. And I'm like, what, TriCon that won the championship and just, you know, on the the Charlotte Roval,
Starting point is 00:07:53 smashed everybody's doors in and yeah, then, oh, okay, so it's a good truck. Yeah. Good truck. And I'm going to drive it in San Diego. I said, okay, well, we need to get a sponsor. He's like, yeah, we'll work on that. You know, with Legacy and Legacy Motor Club and all that. He said, well, we'll work on it. You work on it. I'll work on it. So the next thing he calls me, he says, hey, Dollar Tree are on board. Sweet. He's like, yeah, they love the idea. He said, I'm going to come on the box and I'm going to advise you from the box like you used to do it. With me an Indy car. I'm like, oh, here we go. So Dollar Tree came on. Pye Barker came on board
Starting point is 00:08:31 and Scott Borsetto with Bersheta bourgene came on board so all this thing happened and then yeah I mean honestly Jimmy has been the driving force behind it he's getting such a kick out of
Starting point is 00:08:44 out of me getting back in the car you know we were we've we raced at Goodwood together we won in Astor Martin DB4 GT which Jimmy put a rather sizeable dent in it but
Starting point is 00:08:57 and then And he, uh, then we, we went to span the 20, the six hours of spa in a four Gt 40, which, uh, you know, so we've, we've done some great racing together recently. And he could see that I wanted to, wanted to do something. And, uh, he's, uh, he's helped me make it happen. So I, I think, I think I have to thank him. We'll see after Saturday. Yeah, I would, you know, that's Jimmy. He, uh, he got me into road biking. He got me on snow skis. Like, he's that kind of, kind of guy that's like, oh, you've never tried this? Well, you've got to try this. And I've got a guy. I'll fix it up. Don't worry. It's all here. Here. He just puts it all out in front of you.
Starting point is 00:09:38 You're like, here you go. You're on, you know, first class operation every time. Let's go. Yes. But you've, you've experienced what I've experienced. I think, I think fans think of Jimmy as very buttoned up. Yeah. Very, you know, he's so sort of structured and polished. You and I no different. We know the Jimmy Jam. When he gets this twitch in his eye and that can mean you're about to get in a competitive situation
Starting point is 00:10:07 with him and you're going to finish second or you're going to go skiing with him or something and he skis like a lunatic. He's you know and he's you know I think he's one of those we're so lucky to have it as a friend he's nuts.
Starting point is 00:10:24 He invited me in some other great friends on a trip and to Europe and we actually ended up at dinner with your wife, which was incredible. And I swear, I've never been to London or
Starting point is 00:10:41 never been to Europe, I've been to Germany, but I'm never really spent much time there. And I mean, we were in the top-in places. It was just like a hotel, everywhere we went to eat. First class out of the out of the park and I felt like I was on another planet like a really cool planet but uh it was so
Starting point is 00:11:04 insane my my uh amy told me to tell ellie I guess that to tell her hello um right right back out yeah Ellie had fun she told me all about it I was so I was so jealous I was the fish out of water man I was I was so out of my element but you just when you're in those moments with Jimmy you just trust, like he knows where he's going, he knows what, he's not going to put you in a bad, a bad spot, but I was like, man, I don't, I have no idea where I'm at. And you went to Scotland, didn't you? We did. We did go to Scotland, which was, that was a little more, that was a little more my speed. Like, we were out in the wilderness. Yes. Drinking beer and riding, you know, out in the woods, riding these bikes down, down this long creek and out in the middle of nowhere. It was so awesome.
Starting point is 00:11:50 and the old place, the old end where we stayed, the hotel we stayed in was just very vintage and like I'd been there for 500 years or more. It probably had. Yeah, right? And so we went into this town we stayed at
Starting point is 00:12:05 and you know this, but I'm saying it's for the listeners. We stayed in this little town, maybe 300 people live there. And we went to the local tavern and hung out with all the locals. And I mean, that right there is right in my wheelhouse. I want to do that kind of stuff right there.
Starting point is 00:12:19 you and me both What's up everybody Welcome back to Doorbubber Clear I am Freddie Craft Joining us fresh off a 10th place Finish I went 10th thing last night Our favorite One of our favorite guest
Starting point is 00:12:35 Mr. Blaney You took me down a notch Well I didn't know You're my favorite But Tommy can't stand you I know you That's been for a long time Well I'm excited to get into reaction
Starting point is 00:12:46 Theater today Because I know we will have Some excited Kyle Bush fans And then the toaster The Toaster comments never fail, so. This guy bet on Bubba. That came in at 8.30 on Friday morning.
Starting point is 00:13:04 That's an early, that was it? That was the whole call? That was the whole call. I called that in when I got to that. I do that every day. Where were you Friday morning? I don't know. Trace that call.
Starting point is 00:13:18 Playing with your llama? Yeah. Yeah, what is that? Yeah, what is that? Yeah, what is with my llama? He protects our goats. Yeah, llamas are great, like, small livestock guardians. Did he make an escape?
Starting point is 00:13:30 Like, when did you get into farming? Does it spit at you guys? She loves, yeah, she likes doing it. Is she from farming? Do you love to farming? From llamas? Yeah, she's from llamas. Now, she grew up, like, riding horses and stuff.
Starting point is 00:13:43 Oh, okay. She just wanted to get animals and what am I going to say, no? When you bought the house, did you envision the backyard being full of animals? No. But it has gone that way. I heard he made the escape. What do you got? Well, we got three goats.
Starting point is 00:13:59 They're Nigerian dwarf goats. And then we have a llama. And I guess chickens are coming. And I heard we're going to get three male goats now so we can breed the females because she wants goat milk. Okay. So. And we have a three-month-old. Do you need to treat the llama better?
Starting point is 00:14:17 Where did he blow? I heard he made an escape. He did make an escape. Yeah. I was feeding Charlie like two weeks ago. It's like 7.38 in the morning, and this was like when it was cold. Like it was before snowed, but it was like teens. And my wife's friend who was staying with us, she came down.
Starting point is 00:14:35 She's like, hey, are your animals supposed to be like free roam? I was like, what are you talking about? You're like, no, they're in the front yard right now. I was like, you're messing with us. She's like, no, they're in the front yard. I was like, oh, shit. I run outside. Shorts, no shoes, socks, no shirt, freezing.
Starting point is 00:14:52 And I yell at my goats. They're like probably 200 yards away from. my front porch in the front yard. And I yell at my goats and they come running towards me and they're yelling. Like the goats are like going crazy running towards me. And if they could speak English, I think they were saying. They speak Spanish? What did they speak?
Starting point is 00:15:07 I don't know. If they could use English, I know they were probably saying like, look what he did. We didn't do it. That's what the way they were screaming at me. So they come up to me and he's just looking at me like 200 yards down the way. I'm like, and this like he's like two weeks. The llama, we're talking about it. Yeah, the llama.
Starting point is 00:15:26 We got him like two weeks ago, so I'm like, Jesus, man. So he broke out of our fence, like. Just busted through. Just busted through it. I mean, he's 350 pounds. What do the neighbors think about all this going on in this farming? My neighbors aren't close. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:15:40 So I think my neighbor caused it personally. He's going to blame it. Yeah. And this is allegedly. She doesn't listen to this podcast. You don't think? No, no. So Lama's right there.
Starting point is 00:15:53 They don't like. Like foxes, coyotes, that's what they protect against. So they'll freak out if there's a fox or coyote. So I don't think there was a fox or coyote, but I think my neighbor's dogs, they sometimes just run over through the woods. And I think, or dog was out there probably barking at this llama, and he was like, I'm going to get this.
Starting point is 00:16:10 I'm going to get this. And so I was kind of proud of him for break it out. I was like, you're doing your job. I don't want you to break through this thing. But like, you had a goal, and you were trying to get this dog. Not makes me feel good for when my dogs are around him. But, yeah, he broke a job.
Starting point is 00:16:24 Yeah, so we had a rassel him back in and then we had to reinforce our fence. He does not spit. I know you asked that question. But did I make that up? Do llamas spit? They do spit. Okay. So I learned a lot about them from the guy I got him from.
Starting point is 00:16:38 And I brought that question up. I was like, gosh, you know, all you read about is llamas, they spit at you and stuff like that. But that's, he's like, oh, no. He's like, that's if they're like in petting zoos and stuff. And they get hand fit all the time. And then they get mad. You're not hand feed them. I would start spitting that people too.
Starting point is 00:16:53 Yeah. And it's not even saliva. Like, it's like bio. I heard this somewhere. Like they regurgitate and then they spit vomit at you, which is even worse. So he's never spit on us. It does make you nervous.
Starting point is 00:17:03 Like, if he'll get in your face, you're like, are we doing this right now? It's not going to happen. I'm hugging up the box this law. I'm going to lose. Like, if I'm not going to win. But he has not spit on me yet. But it's been a couple times.
Starting point is 00:17:16 I'm like, is today the day? Today might be the day. That's funny. The next one is less of a question, more of a demand in quotations there where it's not mine. they need the mustache care routine please is there one yeah yeah I mean I
Starting point is 00:17:30 I give little scissors I trim it up try to make it it gets a little long it curls into my mouth that's when I know I have to trim it a little bit you know when you get you sometimes get strays and you just
Starting point is 00:17:44 you'll chew them off yeah anybody who has longer mustache he's hanging out with This is Lima too much? Lima, whatever. It's not a country. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:59 If you get too long and you don't have your stuff with you, you just bite it off a bit. He's starting to turn into a damn farm out. Yeah. How have we started to curl it at all? Are you going to get away with that? No, I mean, that's too much. When they do get the curly flies. You put the oils in it?
Starting point is 00:18:15 I put a little, like, it's like beard butter just to where they don't get super, you know, it's just like everything, hair and stuff. I mean, you put something in your beard? Right. Yeah. It's just like a butter. Yeah. He puts beer in there.
Starting point is 00:18:27 It's about it. Beer butter. I will say, though, it's a pain to eat. It is. Especially if it's long, like, wings are a disaster. I'm a big pasta guy, too, pasta sucks. Like Alfredo. It must be outweighing all this, or what?
Starting point is 00:18:45 I live with it, yeah. I like it. I like it. I like it's a flavor saver, man. Gianna's good with it? She's the reason I have it. Yeah. Because I do the...
Starting point is 00:18:55 You've got to go to details. When I shave my beard... Pause. When I shave my beard off, I go like a week. I'll do like funny looks. Like light chops, like a good tea and like sole patch and stuff like that. And I got handlebar and then I got to this. And she was like, oh, that actually looks fairly decent.
Starting point is 00:19:12 I was like, okay. I'll keep it. How about your other boss? Yeah, you've kind of changed the old Penske way, you know. Yeah. Yeah, you've kind of... Yeah, I mean, he, uh, I mean, he, uh, I'm not. I think he likes it.
Starting point is 00:19:24 He hasn't. He hasn't said he doesn't like it. He hasn't said he doesn't like it. I know he's been overseas for a while, but has he even seen it? He has. Yeah, yeah. He's seen it. It was funny, though, because when Joey and I walked in the shop, like...
Starting point is 00:19:40 One bald guy and one guy with a mustache. Well, it's... So, like, we go in for Penske Production Day, like, you know, a few weeks before the season, and then when we do all our photos, and I got this. Joey went, shaved, but he also's got the scruff. And he and I both saw each other. We're like, we're in this together. Yeah, I'm like, we are in it together.
Starting point is 00:20:00 It's perfect. Oh, I love that. All right, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Gluckcast. Every single media person, every single podcast was talking about this person this week. So let's bring him in to see what he thinks about all this. Carson Hosevar is once again post-Atlantic. of the talk of the NASCAR podcast universe.
Starting point is 00:20:28 I don't know if that's a term. I need to make that. That needs to be a term like the Marvel universe or whatever. It's called the podcast universe. So the man himself, what do you make of all this conversation about yourself once again this week? Yeah. I mean, last year was pretty much a little deja vu, but I think our cars are faster.
Starting point is 00:20:48 That, you know, for me, I felt like last year was a shock. We were second and in contention where this year, I feel. feel like we've there's been four races if you count the duel in the clash and we've led laps in all of them so i feel pretty good about our trajectory here um you know we had a shot to to win both points paying races you you said you told serious that you know you saw this move open up for a second you saw the middle um and then by the time you got there it was closed but obviously did result in contact with christopher bell so how do you do you have to reach out to him and clean that up. How did you approach that or will you have a conversation with him about that?
Starting point is 00:21:28 Yeah. Well, so, you know, I, I had an idea for the middle. So it was very top of mind. You know, I sat there under red the whole time thinking about, you know, the, you know, just opportunities, right? You know, I got three Chevy's behind me. Am I go to top? Am I going to go middle? Where are going to go? And, you know, last year, I hit bell and filled middle on him. And I remember him saying he was didn't even know i was there like did not like when i got next to him he was he didn't even know that happened you know i he didn't even know it happened so i kind of obviously remembered that that he might give up the middle i mean i you know he's obviously really really good championship contendary multiple years but i was shocked when i heard he he didn't even know how i did
Starting point is 00:22:16 that and how i got there so um you remember that that stuff and felt like when i said I saw the 43 you know the 223 11 cars separated and I saw a huge run from Ross and a shove and they just started to open up just a little bit that right before I got the push I was like if I get a big enough shot I could kind of get there and spook him and scare them and and you know it's going to be really really tight but you know they all have cameras they have spotters you know they're all really really good. Maybe they'll move, you know, if it's half an inch or an inch not enough, maybe I could fit in there. And by the time I get there, you know, it kind of, I kind of squeezed through and sees maybe part. And I think they started to rate when I got the shove, it started
Starting point is 00:23:08 open and it started to close. So instead of an inch closed, which I was hoping for, by the time I got there was probably two to three. And so it turned them and everything. So, yeah, I don't, I mean, I don't know. I feel like we're racing. I mean, I don't know what I, what I, me saying anything would, would do for him, right? You know, he, I don't really like the conversation stuff. Like, I feel like, you know, if he has to race be harder, like, I mean, saying anything is not probably going to change that.
Starting point is 00:23:45 If I need to let him go every now and again and, you know, give him an extra. inch um you know as as uh as a you know my like i feel like everything's just on the racetrack and then the rest is just noise so you know i like i texted blaney but like i didn't text blaney as like uh you know i'm i'm you know i text it blaney because i don't like that stuff even when i'm on the receiving end like i'm like okay well this you know i'm never getting a text from somebody that wrecked me as an apology you know i'm never going to get text that's not an apology it's always a text you know of like do you actually mean you this or are you nervous or you cover your bases for next week you know it's i always think of that so
Starting point is 00:24:24 i feel like you know just actions mean a lot more on the racetrack and that's just important but like i texted blaney mainly because i was fighting demons in my race car at that point and super tight and i pounded the fence in front of them and i just wanted to let them know why i did that and i was like i'm so sorry like i had to make them change my car i was really really tied i knocked the fence down three times myself because i was so bad and dirty air. You know, I just wanted to tell him why I did that and not like, I was just trying to block you and just running in the fence, you know, because I thought that dialogue is better than, hey, I just wrecked you. Please don't wreck me next week. Here's an apology text.
Starting point is 00:25:05 Yeah, that was really interesting. I heard Blaney say that on door bumper clear and it perked my ears up because, you know, you've said in the past that you, what you just explained. It was interesting, though. I don't know, you probably saw the clip of Richard Petty on his podcast this week. And I'll read the quote. He said, that boy in the 77, he has him a time. A lot of the things he's getting by what they're doing are not really that wrong. If I go back and watch him run, he reminds me of Dale Earnhardt. Earnhardt learned to get by with that stuff. That boy in the 77, he's just going to have to learn to get by with the things that he's doing. And that struck me as interesting, Carson, because I think that a lot of us have felt like, well, you're young. And
Starting point is 00:25:43 once you learn the ways of cup, you'll be like all the other jobs. drivers that they're all saying, oh, he'll learn, he'll learn, he'll figure it out. But here's Richard Petty saying, well, actually, he might be able to just get by with learning how to deal with this stuff and still have success on the racetrack, which is the first time I'd ever heard one of the older guard people say that about you. I guess did you hear that comment? And what did you think of what he said? I did. I mean, it's, it's super cool. Right. I love old races. Like I love 2000s, 1990s, even in the 80s. So it's, it's been really. cool. Like I didn't even know Rick
Starting point is 00:26:20 Mass had a podcast and he talked about it. And like, you know, I had in all these clips. And, you know, I was just kind of laughing and, you know, I kind of just made the joke to my buddies. I was like, I was like, hey, I might not be, you know, everybody's favorite driver, but I'm their favorite driver's favorite driver. Like,
Starting point is 00:26:36 I was like, I don't know why. I don't know. Like, I'm just, I'm just out there racing. I'm not anybody. I'm not trying. I'm not you know, out there like what famous race car driver am I going to play pretend today? about. I'm just, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm just racing and I'm going to be super aggressive. And, you know, I don't, I'm not thinking about, oh, I'm going to, how can I, you know, play mental mind games to
Starting point is 00:27:00 get away with this or how can I do this? I'm just, I'm just getting after it. And, you know, I, you know, if, if anybody wants to, you know, settle the school or whatever, um, I don't know if they're going to like this like like you know like you know then i feel like you know anytime i do it unintentionally right i'm just like man i'm sorry like there was there was attention i used the example in c6m of just like man everybody when you go skeet shooting you you might shoot 10 feet off or five feet off or even close but the attention is you're going out there to hit the thing you're going out there to shoot the thing you you might close one eye you might have one eye open you might have two eyes open you might hold the thing close like you have different ways to try and get the same result but the
Starting point is 00:27:47 attention's still there you're not just oh let's just hold the gun sideways and around backwards and see if it somehow flips around and shoots the skeet like there's attention with everything i do like there's the intention of like you know if that that barely started open there's one inch i think i can make it happen and and barely squeeze in and kind of rub off of them and be fine because that's what the next gen seems to reward you know the clash you saw you saw just everybody just goes in there, leans on everybody, rolls through the corner and goes off. So these cars are kind of indestructible and they reward that a little bit. So, you know, it doesn't have to be a full gap anymore.
Starting point is 00:28:23 So, you know, I think, you know, if anybody wants to, you know, per se settle the score, you know, that's intention. And, you know, I feel like that's, that's two points on the score part versus my maybe one. You know what I mean? And then we're not really even. So that's how I've always looked at it. Well, I was also, you know, in terms of people talking about you, obviously the nickname Hurricane has now gone from NBC over to Fox as well. I don't think I've heard from you. What do you think of that nickname?
Starting point is 00:28:55 Is that something that you're going to see on a T-shirt or you're hoping for something, something better? Yeah. Well, I wasn't sure how much they were going to use it because obviously it was Lee Diffey's thing. And then we're switch and I was like, man, you're not even going to hear that thing until next year. year in the fall and I was like I don't know they might have something different but when Fox 2 are I was like okay well I guess we can make a shirt or something I don't know but I you know I take it as a compliment you can't nickname yourself anything so it's got to come natural and it's got to come from somebody else Dale Jr said that too I heard that so I did listen there um yeah I take
Starting point is 00:29:35 as a compliment that we're running good enough that they want to you know help the sport and you know I think it's a value for their time to think of something. So, yeah, I'm all for whatever they want to do. All right, that was another episode of the Dirty30, presented by Arby's new Meat and Three Box. Get more meal for your money at Arby's. We had the meets.

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