The Dale Jr. Download - NASCAR Playoff Drivers Like You’ve Never Heard Them

Episode Date: September 5, 2024

In this special episode of DJD Reloaded, we’re taking the show on the road! Join The Athletic’s motorsports journalists and hosts of The Teardown, Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi, as they take you behind the scenes of their first-ever exclusive driver sit-downs at NASCAR Playoff Media Day. But don’t expect the same usual questions you’ve heard drivers answer before.  These guys were candid, unfiltered, and so much fun. From surprising insights to raw reactions, this episode offers a behind-the-scenes look at the personalities and pressure fueling the Playoff contenders. Plus, Amy Earnhardt joined Dale Jr. on the Download for #AskJR – or, shall we say, #AskAmy – this week, so you won’t want to miss it! 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 week, it's an extra special episode of DJD Reloaded, straight from the NASCAR Playoff Media Day. Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi were there with all 16 drivers this week, and the content they captured was too good not to share. We've got exclusive interviews, fun and unique questions that showcase the many personalities behind the wheel like never before. Get ready to see a whole new side of your favorite drivers. Let's dive in. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. Welcome in to another. episode of DJD Reloaded.

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in its pod. Welcome to DJD Reloaded. I'm Carla Gebhardt, and we know the teardown usually takes place after the race. But this week, you're getting a double dose of Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Gluck, who took media by storm for dirty moe media this week and no need of course to delay their work any longer will let them take it away all right everybody welcome back to another edition of the tear down my name is jeff

cluck and alongside my co-worker jordan bionke we are motor sports riders to the athletic and today we're at a very very very different situation than we're normally in jordan we're not at the racetrack no we're at the charlotte convention center where we have just wrapped up nascar and media day, playoffs media day. This is the first time that either of us have ever been involved in having a station at media day. Normally. It feels very odd. It does. It's very strange. We're actually in a room with three cameras and lights and a whole dirty moe production team. Usually you and I are like two cups and like a string like production quality and this is like full on like big time. Literally Jordan, I don't know if you remember this, but in before the tear down was called the tear down, it was the under. It was the under. It was the under. It was the under. It was the under. It was the under. It was the under. It was the under. It was the under. It. Untitled Jeff Gluck podcast. First ever episode was right down below. Exactly. Right down here out of this door, maybe 100 feet away. Down stairs. Yep. Yep. That was in 2017. They had just announced a big change to the playoffs. Yeah, that was you announced the stage breaks. Stage breaks. That's okay. And Jordan, I was on my own. You were my very first guest on the podcast. And so I was using a plug-in microphone to my iPhone to record it. One microphone that we passed back and forth. The audio quality was terrible. I didn't know how to moderate the audio.

I didn't know how to the volume or anything. Barely knew how to edit. It was the first time I'd ever tried podcasting. All these years later now, here we are at Media Day. We have our own station. And we have all 16 playoff drivers come through today. Wow. That's kind of wild.

It's nice to be with Dirty Mo. Yes. Thank you to Dirty Mo Media for helping make this happen. Thank you to NASCAR for including. us this year in the station. Probably won't happen next year. Well, I mean, let's see how how this went, you know? I mean, we had all 16 drivers come through. Kind of a surreal experience for us. You know, normally how Media Day works, you know, for us on the print side is we have these, we call them scrums, the scrums. A bunch of us gather around the driver,

basically. Yeah, they have, they have a few drivers come into time. They sit at a director's chair and, you know, you put your recorders in and everybody takes turn to asking their question. and you get what you can and the drivers move on and all that stuff. So it was very different to have 15 minutes of undivided attention each as these drivers came in and sat with us today. What was, what did you think the experience was like? It was nice to interact to the drivers and they were loose when they came in here. You know, we bring that out of them naturally. They were just, it was a very chill vibe and it was the, you know, none of the playoff pressure, stuff like that.

And it was just, we tried to stay away from the generic. questions about playoffs and stuff like that. We mixed in some racing questions, obviously, but it was nice to just have a conversation with them in a very laid back manner. Well, your suit was certainly a talking point. For those of you listening to the podcast version, Jordan's wearing a three-piece suit that looks like, I mean...

Show some respect. Okay. Put some respect on it. All right. The accurate description... They did say they liked it. We did have some comments from, drivers who I think were more on my side of me it's a very it's a how how would you I don't even know

how to describe this is a plaid suit the plaid three piece suit a plaid three piece suit it looks like something a Scottish person would wear as a kilt but it's stylish this is this is what it is when you want to look good this is what you wear chase briscoe said that you look like some something that his grandmother's drapes sure and then he also in the same breath said I also wore something similar to that so yeah so you know take it for what you will anyway we It was definitely a conversation started. You had some big reactions from drivers as they came in. Whoa, look at this guy.

So I don't know if that is your goal. My goal is just the, I look nice. Okay. Look nice. Well, we certainly had some great conversations. Starting with Joey Lagano. He kicked off our day. He called you bald.

It was great. No, I called, I said that he's turning his back on the balding community, which he is. He got hair. He could have just gone full. I've full shaved my head. I landed here in Charlotte. It's actually a good look for you. Yesterday.

And I got off the plane. I took an Uber straight to a haircut. You said, you mentioned this yesterday. We were going back and forth like, oh, I got to get a haircut. I got to get a haircut. I'm like,

won't you just shave your head at home? Like, it's not like, takes you like 30 seconds. Well, if I went full bald, this is not full bald. There's still a little bit of hair because that's crazy. Why?

I know it looks like it wouldn't be a difference. Like what's the deal? Like, what is the difference? No, it's crazy. Look, I got to be on the cameras. See, we have three cameras looking at us right now. I can't be like, I know, it's not been... So then why don't you go the fake route and just, you know, we can get you like a

toupee? No, I don't, I don't, that's, no, we don't need to do that. I mean, you know, Lugano's looks good. Lugano's looks really good. And, you know, there's been some other people in the past that, you know, some other drivers. Yeah. I don't know name names, but yeah. It's, it's obvious. But anyway, it was a fun conversation with Joey Lugano. He's, you know, Lugano is always my first 12 questions of the year because I know he's going to kick things off the right way. So we didn't plan our schedule here. No. But it turned out he was first and I think that was really good. It set the tone. It was good. Interesting about Lagan and we talked to him about this in the conversation was every even numbered year since this playoff knockout format was instituted

in 2014, he has advanced the championship war. I mean, he could, I feel like with him, it could be like boom or bust. Yeah, like I was going to mention this on a show after Darlington. I was vacillating between him or Blaney in my final four. I almost pick Lugano. I just feel like they've actually been running much better. The finishes don't necessarily correlate because you got wrecked at Richmond. He almost won that race and those kind of things.

He's running well. And the schedule sets up for him well. So I wouldn't be completely shocked that he makes a very deep run and culminates in the championship four. Then we got to talk to Martin Shurek's Jr. he is obviously coming off embarrassing night for him at Darlington

but you know what it's a fresh start for the playoffs it's his final season he's got one more shot at this whole thing I thought he was good it was good to talk to Truex I mean he had some we asked him a lot about fishing

didn't realize like he sells tuna like he goes and catches tuna and then he sells it I didn't realize that either I mean I guess he's catching big enough stuff I just thought he'd just go fishing like you catch him and I don't know I'd no idea what you'd do with him, but I didn't realize he was like selling them. Yeah.

And then he makes nachos. Yeah, tuna nachos? Please. Yeah. We talked to several drivers today about their cooking. Austin Sindrick? Austin Cindrick, man, he was really, I mean, if that's not, if what Austin Cynchric had to say about his cooking doesn't make you want to eat whatever he's going to, I mean,

that sounds delicious. I mean, no offense to your meatballs, but. No, I mean, his cooking skills seem like they're on point. He really goes above and beyond. And I feel like I'm sitting here going, okay, I will be writing a story cooking with Austin here soon. Oh, that's a good idea. Well, now you just told everybody. That's like the one out there, don't want the reporters out there be stealing my stories.

Well, I mean, it sounds like we, you know, we got the inside track with getting over, getting the invite for some meal there. My taxes as soon as we're done here. Of course, we also had Denny Hamlin, our fellow Dirty Mo podcast hosts. Yeah, it was nice little family reunion. Yeah. Yeah. Jared came in with the sign that I think he was showing to everybody today. that was saying to not ask Denny if it's his year because it's his year every year.

Of course, I don't know that we agree with that because he's been cursed by all sorts of bad luck. Yeah. I wasn't going to pick him anyway just because of the bad luck factor. I'm tired of being burned by picking Denny Hammond for the championship and then... Maybe this is reverse jinx? Reverse jinks. There you go. Yeah.

That could work out, right? Could. I mean, it's the points hole he's in compared to what he could have been. and he certainly could bite him, especially early in the rounds, because they're so volatile. But he's also somebody that could go to Watkins Glen and win, and he's won at Bristol the last two times. So him going to Bristol and winning and starting to recoup those points wouldn't be surprising at all. It's going to be interesting. And then they go to Kansas after that.

So, I mean, him, you know, winning two of the first four races, I mean, heck, you even throw a super speedway in there. Like, you feel like he could quickly get himself back into a very prime position to go deep. we asked Danny Hamlin also about, you know, the one moment of his career that he'd regret. I thought it was interesting that instead of saying, oh, that championship where, you know, he coughed away to Jimmy Johnson 2010, 2010, he picked the 2017 Chase Elliott incident as the one that he would like to have back because he thinks that was what made the fan turn against him. Yeah, and it seemed to, I don't know if it bothered him, but it seemed to kind of resonate with him a little bit. Like, you can tell like, well, you know, that doesn't happen. Maybe I

I'm not, I'm not disliked. I'm not getting the loudest booze every week during driver intros. I mean, ultimately, I think my, um, the way fans feel about may change probably in 2017. I would say that was probably at Martinsville with Chase. That was probably one of the big defining moments for sure. Uh, wish I could do that all over again.

Uh, certainly feel like I would have made a lot different choices in the moment. You know, that's, that'd be the one that certainly. I'd like to have back on the controversy or on track side. Yeah, that was really interesting. Of course, we also got to talk to Brad Kozlowski, who, man, I mean, like he's got a lot going on. He obviously clearly wants to be a two-time champion. That's something he's stated. Actually, he stated that I remember the media tour in this convention center in the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

and right after he had won his first championship in 2012 he was like I got to be a two-time champion because he's said all along being a two-time champion is something that sets you apart in NASCAR history.

Yeah, I remember he said that several times he's in 2014 right at the Daytona 500 Media Day and he said the same thing of like hey when you win two championships no one can say you're lucky like they can't say you're a fluke like it validates it in some reason And so, you know, he's still missing and it still eats at him.

I even threw out a crazy scenario to Brad Keselowski as how far he'd be willing to go pain-wise, I guess. You didn't like my question? It was something. It was a question. So let's say a magical genie comes along and says, all right, we'll make you a deal. If you stand on top of pit road wall and you jump off pit road wall and you land directly on your knees, both knees, like knees first you hold your legs behind but you win the championship

if you're willing to do this would you take that deal or would you just say you know a very random way to be injured isn't that your question basically would you injure yourself to win a championship? Yeah basically.

Well you don't know how bad it would I mean I've never landed on my knees are we talking here. Would it even be an injury? I mean I don't know if it would hurt. It would hurt. It's going to be bruises for sure. I'm going to say you're going to walk funny

for a month or two. You could break your kneecap. Yeah. You could dislocate your kneecap so okay. Let's let's play it this way. Okay. Worst case.

scenario two dislocated knees broken knees but you're a champion yeah I would take that okay two knees for two championships that's what you're gonna have yeah okay I mean I mean that was a lot easier than I thought there's enough quality doctors out there that I think you could get recovered from that would you what would you land on your knees for like directly on your jump off pit road wall if I said I will Jordan Biankey you will get five million dollars if you jump off pit road wall and land Now you're talking my language. Now for $5 million, yeah, that's definitely something I would do. I don't know many people that were $5 million wouldn't jump off a pit wall on their knees.

Okay. How about $100,000? Would that do it for you? Too low? Nah, that's probably too low. So for $100,000, you wouldn't jump off a pit road wall and directly on the room. I don't know, man. That sounds just like, how high is the pit wall?

Is it like one of these shorties? Like Martinsville? I got a lot of questions. I'm thinking, you know, intermediate track, Charlotte, Motor Speedway kind of thing? I mean, I don't make much money now, so maybe. I need a raise. Okay, so you do it for 100. I'm thinking about it now.

I would do it for 100. I would do it for 10 grand. Okay, at this point, I want to start off. I want to see this. I might have to start up a collection. Really? 10 grand? To see you do this?

$10,000. Yeah, withering in pain, that would be worth it. I would absolutely, whatever consequences come. I mean, I mean, you're maybe making me doubt myself. Because if I, that sounds. painful, but yeah, no. It sounds extremely painful. $10,000 is a lot of money.

I would start a fun to see this happen. Hey, if you're giving me $10,000 for it. All right. We also talked to Christopher Bell, and, you know, it's funny because you don't feel like you know necessarily where you're always going to get out of Christopher Bell. Today we got a Christopher Bell who was like fired up about the playoff system in some ways. That was really interesting. He was pretty poignant.

I mean, about his comments. about the system and the totality of the season and how it kind of unfold. And I mean, there's a lot of people that agree with them. What's that balance between entertainment and adding like an Atlanta or having a Taledega in the right versus, you know, having like you said, a kind of a quote unquote pure racetrack. What's that been, you know, deciding the championship?

I don't know. I mean, it just, uh, it feels like we are in a little bit of a identity crisis. And I can't, I didn't someone else in our industry use that term. and I loved it. I'm like, that is so true. Do we, are we a racing league and do we want to promote the best sports, the best teams, the best drivers, or do we want to be in the entertainment industry and have, you know, the most entertaining races?

It's hard to have it both ways. I mean, it is. And if you ask different people on what a good race is, you're going to get different answers. And you have true motorsports people that understand what a good race is and how, you know, the best win race or whatever, how a race should be. And then you ask, you know, other fans who aren't as educated in the sport and their view of it is going to be much different. So, uh, yeah, it's, uh, it's, we're in a, we're in a weird spot right now.

And it's just going to get weirder next year with Talladega in the round of eight. Yeah. Like make you cringe? It does. It does. Yeah. I mean, there was strong comments, but, you know, he, it comes back to him being sort of the, the racer's racer kind of guy.

Kind of old school throwback, I guess you could say. Yeah, I mean, the way he came up, I mean, he's, that's all he cares about, right? Like, he's not, he's not, he's sort of like Chase Elliott type where he's not here for the fame and the money and stuff. He cares about racing. So, you know, I could see that the purity of the system more appealing to him. I could. I mean, and I get it. I mean, there's somewhat of a case we made for it.

But it's the conversation we also had at various points today was the entertainment versus sport. and what that balance is and how do you maintain the integrity of your championship, but at the same time have a system that is entertaining and, you know, makes people want to do that. Then we got to talk to Chase Briscoe, and that was pretty cool because, you know, we didn't even think he was going to be here a few days ago. I don't think he did either. But he's always such a great talker. Yeah.

You know, he's one of those guys where, you know, there's some drivers where you think, man, if this guy was more relevant and, like, winning races a lot and he was coming to the media center, a lot people were hearing from him. That'd be really good for us as media people. He's one of those people where he's just like, he's a good quote. One of the things I was fascinated hearing about was his twins on the way. The big one. He thought that was more,

he thought that was scarier than anything that's in a race car. Really? Yeah. I mean, he equated it to Talladega and then a big one. You know it's coming and you don't know what to expect, but it's probably going to be bad. I can't create chaotic and everything of that nature. And the other thing that jumped out to me was him being able to deliver SHR one last win.

Like, you know, we all know the story of where they were at, where they've been, and it didn't look like they were going to win a race this year. And, you know, no one expected that to happen at Darlington. And to have that moment, it just gave them one last opportunity to kind of step in that spotlight and enjoy it. And that was really cool to see. And it really meant something really to chase. And we also got, I tried to talk him into not turning his back on the balding community like Joe Lugano has. He said he might go full shave at some point. It seemed like he left the door open to joining me in the hairless club for men. You're going to start a club? Like a membership thing? Well, you know, you got to stick together. It's a tough road. It's not have any hair. I know you don't know about it. I know you don't know about it's a tough road. I know you don't know about it's not. Thank goodness. It's like one of my biggest fears.

But it was also cool. Let's just listening to him talk about, you know, standing up in front of S. at SHR and sort of being the leader now, right? And given the raw, raw speech and all that stuff. Yeah, I mean, it was, you know, when you had this turnover, you lose a Kevin Harbick, you lose an aircom role. I mean, and you bring in, you have a rookie driver and Josh Barry, you kind of have a guy and Noah Gregson who didn't run a full year last year. I mean, the experience is not something that is running through the halls of SHR on the driver's side. And Briscoe has stepped into that role. And he's done a really good job.

I mean, there was, we were having the conversation during the summer. I mean, they were at one point, they were on the cusp of pointing their way in, and then they hit a little bit of a rough stretch, and it went sideways for them. But kudos to them in this environment, with everything they had going against them, with the situation where maybe your resources aren't to the level you need them to be at, and the support isn't there. They still manage to win a race in your playoff eligible, and look at who they beat to do that. They deserve a pat in the back.

One of the most, actually, the most unexpected interview for me, of the day was Ty Gibbs. You know, typically, Ty Gibbs doesn't say a lot. I feel like in the media sessions that we have in the media center, he's guarded. Yeah, very guarded, kind of quiet.

It's not something he's like, he's not really wanting to do or comfortable doing. Yeah, he doesn't, he doesn't really want to get himself in trouble with something he says. So to sit here and have a conversation with Ty Gibbs about rap music and fashion, yeah.

That was unexpected. Okay, for me, obviously, I don't know what's trendy or fashionable. Yeah. It seems like it's something you have to learn or understand. I mean, I'm on social media. I still got it. I'm 21.

Yeah. So that's what you do. You look through your Instagram feed and you're like, yeah, I just, I mean, you have, if you don't. You guys got the good suits,

you know. You might have it. This is like my one suit. Yeah. It's trying to up his game. Really? Okay. Here's a question.

If we were going to, like, kind of do Jeff a makeover. What would you do? You can't help me grow hair back. So that's out. Well, we can do that.

I did say that earlier. Lugano said he would help him. Yeah. Yeah, you can do that too. I mean, there's a couple different ways for that. I mean, I don't know. Get you all juiced up and get you lifting. I need to hit the gym.

I get you on tight shirts. Yeah, you'd be up. So the big debate earlier. Breaking fights up. The big debate earlier was the buttons on Jeff of whether. So he's got the one button. He wants me to unbunth. He says air it out.

Unbutton another one. Well, we can get you chain before you do that. Oh, it's a chain. You guys show chest here off the chain. You could just be ripping it. It'd be good. it was pretty fun it's interesting because like tie gets to tie gives we see a lot like when the cameras are off and the microphones are put away i've had a lot of great conversations with tie he's

big into fashion and he's big into pop culture sports like and we had those conversations but when the microphones come out and the cameras come on he's a little bit like you said guarded it's probably the best word it was nice to kind of bring that out a little bit and let people see that and i think when they listen to this interview we did with him i think they're going to be really surprised. And his Spotify playlist, I mean, it sounds like we need to get a hold of some of those for good suggestions. Oh, that's all you. That's your department. Well, no, because

he said he has one for every genre. genre. Like Elvis Presley even. Yeah, that's surprising. I was Elvis Presley on the airplanes. You did? Yeah, I know. So I, I'll tell you this story. So really quick. I have dreaded fear of fly. I know you, I know you're scared of flying. So like, I actually listen to Elvis Presley when I fly because it helps

me get into it. Why Elvis Presley? It's just, um, an ex-girlfriend, a few years. ago way back when made me like a playlist and I had a lot of Elvis songs on there and it was just like very soothing and Elvis Presley calms you down on flights. Yeah it's if I tell you the genre of Elvis Presley song he'll never hear the end of it so like when he's crooning. Yeah. Like yeah really. You're a strange dude. I mean let's be honest. You're a quirky dude. I have a very bad fear of flying and it helps. Okay. Well another person we didn't expect to see, um,

Sitting in the chair with us this week was Harrison Burton. Yeah. That was a surprise, but, you know, a pleasant one at that. Like, I think he's a really good kid. He's certainly been through the ringer. Yeah. But, you know, in terms of you not kind of like understanding human emotions sometimes, you seemed very skeptical about Harrison Burton being nervous about proposing to his longtime girlfriend.

Okay, long-time girlfriend. They've been together since high school. So at this point, if you're going to ask her, you know she's going to say yes. It's like 100% guaranteed lock, right? So why are you nervous? Like just ask the damn question and she's going to say yes and move on your happy way. But he explained very well why you would be nervous. And I thought that was pretty interesting.

I mean, you got the ring. You're trying to hide the ring. You're doing it in a special spot. You don't want it to get seen and you want it to be ruined. I get all that. Do you? I'm trying to be sympathetic. I'm really trying to be more sympathetic in the sense.

world. But Harrison Burton in general, I mean, he just has a good head on his shoulder. Yeah. He's, listen, it was a tough spot he was in. And he probably got moved up to Cup before he was ready. And it showed there were some struggles. And it felt like there was glimpses every long. Like, okay, I feel like to kind of turn the page a little bit and they're going to go

forward. And then it just didn't happen. But at least they did get that moment, victory lane. And hey, you know what? If you're Harrison Burton, it doesn't matter. I mean, whatever happens in the future, happen in the future. but you, not only did you deliver the Wood Brothers a win at Daytona, which is special unto itself, it happened to be their 100th.

Another person, I think one of the best interviews of the day or one of the ones I enjoyed the most was Kyle Larson. Yeah. That was really fun. Talked about a variety of different things with him. One of the things that stuck out the most was him talking about his daughter, Audrey, racing and how different she is than his son Owen. And it sounds like she could really be, you know, the kind of person that comes up as a racer. And, you know, the anecdote he was telling about how she recently raced.

She spun out on the first lap and she got nailed. But she wasn't mad because she was hurt or anything like that. She wasn't crying. But she was upset with herself for spinning out and saying, how did I do that? He was saying that she absorbs things, you know, like maybe he's saying maybe it's a boy, versus girl thing. But like when he talks to Owen, and he said this before, right? Like, Owen doesn't really listen to Kyle Larson's advice. You know, he's just like, uh, whatever, it's my dad trying to tell me something. But he said, Audrey absorbs it and then listens to what he

says and you can see her processing. Yeah, processing. Yeah. And I thought it was interesting too. On top of that, how Kyle Larson is as a father watching his kids race. Like you, you see different, like the hockey dad cliche, right? Very intense. And then do it. Like Carson's like, whatever, just chill. Like, you guys go have fun, do your thing, and I'm just going to watch up here at the grandstand. Yeah, and he contrasted himself to Kyle Bush, saying when they go to Milbridge, Kyle Bush is making all these signals and telling the mechanic to tell Brexton what to do. It doesn't sound at all like Kyle Bush. Larson's just kind of like sitting back, you know.

I also liked what Larson was saying, because I've always wanted to ask him about this. Like, you know, in dirt racing at like a World of Outlaws race or whatever, high limit, obviously now for him. they open up the pits afterwards. So everybody with a ticket can come down into the pits and try to meet the drivers, get an autograph. Well, the large majority of the time, the massive line forms at Kyle Larson's trailer. And he stands there all night long and signs and signs and signs for like multiple hours sometimes after a race. So I got to ask him why he does that.

Like I thought that was pretty interesting. It's cool that he does that. and he says, like, if I don't want to just do a couple people, because then other people are going to be like, hey, why not me? And it's really cool to see because you don't see that from everybody. And he's literally, you know, hopping around the country. Oh, he's in Nebraska and he's in Oregon and whatever.

And he's, you know, a lot of these drivers in places where there's not NASCAR races, you can't reach out and touch these guys. You see him on TV. They're not coming to your town. But with the dirt racing that Larson does, he's going to these people. And that might be the only time these people get to interact with the NASCAR driver. It's cliche.

He is literally, he is genuinely a throwback. Like there was a time in, way back in the day of NASCAR, Bobby Allison's one that comes in mind. Like Bobby during the week would just, he would fly his own plane and he would barnstorm to different places. I mean, Tony Stewart was much like that too.

But he is very much a throwback in the sense like, he doesn't matter with a car. Like, just give him a car. Like wherever he's going to go racing. And I think that's neat to see. And you need, it's a good way for the sport at this high, level to maintain its connection to a grassroots community.

Next, we were able to welcome in my fellow regular season champion, Tyler Reddick. I say fellow because since our last episode here, ladies and gentlemen, I've done it. I've won the regular season good race. Did you win the regular season last year too? I don't know. I know it doesn't guarantee. I know it doesn't guarantee anything, but 28 races of hard work, including the two exhibitions have got me to this point.

I didn't even have to use the tiebreaker because you had a terrible guess, by the way, after Darlington. So that's what irritates me? So what was the number for Darlington? 90.1%. How is that not higher? Like, what was wrong with Darlington? Either way, you needed to guess lower,

so you would have had a chance mathematically at beating me. It didn't work out for you. I'm here for the playoffs. I'm Jimmy John saying this. Okay, well, I'm up one zero going into the playoffs. I don't care. Very exciting. We still don't know what our bet is.

going to be, by the way. We're going to figure it out on the drive down to Atlanta. Yeah. But Tyler Reddick was able to come in. I was able to ask him if I'm taking the correct approach. Also, we were able to ask him about how he's feeling. Okay. Yeah.

He rubbed his hands all over me. He did touch him a lot. He touched me a lot. He said, don't get near me, and then he proceeded to you a hug. Yeah, pretty much. It's gross. Yeah, so. I'll be bathing in anti-bacterial stuff later. But it sounds like he's doing better from what he said.

I was interested to hear the Michael Jordan part of the conversation we had as well. That was kind of interesting about, you know, larger than my figure and how engaged MJ is in it and all that stuff. That was cool. Flu game and the poo game. The poo game. I like that. The poo game. Next we had Ryan Blaney.

Blaney was great. That was really fun conversation. Another engagement. We've talked a lot about engagements today, but his story. Yeah, yeah, no, no, he had a great story about, I mean, that could be a whole podcast episode in itself, the three drivers we talked to today about whether they were nervous getting engaged or not. Yeah, and he had to call the future father-in-law, and his father-in-law was like,

I'll let you know in a couple days, because this was right before they're hopping on a plane to go destination somewhere. He's like, I'll let you know. And he's like, just kidding. But, okay, I learned you. Apparently you have to ask the best friend. when did that become a thing? You're asking the wrong guy on that one.

I've never heard of this stupid thing. Ryan Blaney contacted Gianna's best friend to make sure she was cool with it too. But apparently this is a thing. Like, since when? He had a split reaction in the room on whether. Because like, there's a lot.

I mean, best friends don't always like their friends. I think that's part of why, right? Like if they're going to be like, don't marry that guy. The woman trusts her best friend. But the best friend could have like alter your motives or like she could have

some silly reasons or could be jealousy. They could be also. Do you trust more? You know, trust your ride or die best friend or this guy that's trying to woo you? I trust no one. You trust no one. Okay. Anyway, that was a really fun conversation with Blaney.

He's so good in these situations. It was just a casual. Yeah. Great conversation. By the way, you probably have been hearing a lot of these clips. Some of the clips, you know, some of the things we're referring to. You may not be hearing them in the podcast. There's just so much content.

I think what we're going to do, Jordan, we're going to take our five favorite interviews and we're going to put them in full on Dirty Mo Media's YouTube channel rolling out over the next week here. You'll see some of it on social, but we'll pick our five favorites out of the 16

and we'll put the entire interviews on YouTube. I've got to pick five. We got a lot more than five that were great today. I agree. I mean, honestly, you could just take a lot of chunks from just about every one of them. I mean, like I said, cooking with Austin Syndrick, which is never something I thought we'd be talking about and that was wildly entertaining.

Speaking of cooking, I got to ask a couple drivers, this question I came up with, including Alex Bowman, about what happens if you were at a restaurant and someone came over to you while you're halfway through your dinner, you're eating your ashto, you love it. It's great food. And they came over and talked to you, oh, I'm a big fan, I'm a big fan. They start dropping like little bits of spittle on your food as they're talking to you. Right? Yeah.

What do you do? You have three options. Yeah. You could either keep eating that food. Nope. You could send it, you could get a new order. Send it back. No, I mean, I don't like the term send it back.

Where did this question come from? Yeah, that was what I was going to ask too. I was getting there. Like, where did you come up with this question? Because this is very... I just made it up. How do you think I come up? And I'm the quirky one?

How do you think I come up with like 12, questions every year. This is the kind of question. You solicit a lot of feedback and stuff. Yeah, but I mean, I sit there and I think of like weird scenarios. Okay. I was, you should see the stuff I was Googling trying to come up with questions for today. Anyway, so what clearly you would send the food back.

Oh, I'd send that thing back and I'm good. Thank you. I would be like what Chase Briscoe and Alex Bowman said in answer, which is just, they would kind of just be done with it. Yeah. And they would maybe go get something after. They will say ice cream. Yeah, no, somebody else said ice cream.

That was Redick. no somebody later but bowman said he would go get something else to eat I thought there's like two people that said Byron Byron said ice cream that's right yes yes Byron and Chase Briscoe would go get ice cream afterwards to fill up their stomachs from the missing food and Bowman just said he would get something else to eat on the way home all right yeah we had Chase Elliott on as well yeah I was about to talk some Georgia football with him college football in general and that that was fun that led to a conversation about how what could NASCAR do to take away from the college football season?

What do they do well? He kind of echoed what he said in my 12 questions recently, which was, you know, less is more. Shorter season could be better. Not shorter in terms of games, but what he likes about college football is they get in, they get out, they leave you missing. The longer off season is, you know, just kind of sum up.

NASCAR's off season, you basically start first or second week in November, but then by like end of January things are really ramping up again and especially now when you've got the clash a week earlier or weeks earlier actually if you look at it in early February it's like it's not much what is that six weeks eight weeks whatever the number it's not a lot and it's you know how do you miss something if it doesn't go away and I always say absence makes a heart grow fonder and I hear what he's saying I don't think he's wrong I mean I think there's a fine line between being gone for too long outside out of mind kind of thing but there's something to be said for, you know,

having it, people miss it. And NFL is kind of like this too, where, like, you only have 17, 18 weeks in the NFL, and it's like, okay, it's like, oh, I'm ready for this again. And, you know, I don't know how you do that. You know, in fortune reality is like, you're in this box. Like, it's 38 races on the schedule.

Like, TV partners are paying for 38 races. You can't, you can't really go back. And I don't know how you do that unless you're going to truncate the season and start running midweek races. And then maybe you can shorten the offseason, elongate the offseason that way, but it's just, it's really hard to do that. We had William Byron. You could tell Chase Elliott was about the, toward the end of his rope in terms of,

it was a long day, long day. William Byron was also in that boat. You know, we were like maybe a second to last stop or something or his last stop. And he was good too. He was, you know, it was just like, oh, man, these days long, we started at 11 a.m. and, you know, these guys later are coming in after 4 p.m. Yeah. I mean, this is, and they're talking the whole day.

Yeah. That's a lot. Like, legitimately, I've gone to, like, family gatherings in the past. And, you know, somebody asks you a question, oh, how's your job going? Whatever, right? And you say, oh, it's good. And the first time you get asked something, you kind of have the enthusiasm for it. And then, you know, the next time, somebody asks you five minutes later, some other relative,

oh, how's your job going? Well, it's going good. you know, you know, he's sick of the same answer. Then somebody else asks you. I mean, so imagine doing that. Now, I get this is their job professionals, but, man, to be asked the same question like 10, 15 times in a span of a few hours. I don't know how I would do with it, honestly.

But you're just a joy at family functions. I mean, yeah, no, probably not. Are you? Oh, Mr. Popularity. You are? Oh, yeah. At family functions. Yeah.

Why? I don't know. Tell jokes, talk to people, you know, usually pouring drinks for people. people. That's the, I could see you doing that. Yeah. Okay.

So William Byron was great as well. And then we ended with Daniel Suarez and he was told another fantastic, unbelievable engagement story. Yeah, he had a location picked out in Monaco. His soon-to-be bride or current bride, he just got married, you know, childhood home and then the photographer didn't show up. Didn't show up. He was ready to do the proposal and didn't show.

Yeah, he had this great idea in mind. They had an audible on the fly. You got to hear and tell it. Yeah, it's so good. It's great story. I feel like we could have just like a clip episode of like engagement stories from today. Suarez,

Harrison Burton, Ryan Blaney. Yeah, it was good stuff. Yeah. In general, there was just a lot of fun, lighthearted moments talking about our outfits,

talking about the drivers about who, who gets the ox cord on the way down to Atlanta driving. We even tried to see if Martin Truix Jr. would give a discount. He owns an aviation company. How much? would it cost to fly you down on a private jet so you wouldn't have to listen to the music. But he didn't have, he wasn't able to quote, I just want to try Trux's, uh, tuna tacos.

Truex is tuna tacos. Uh, it's tuna nachos, nachos, not tacos, nachos. Nachos and, uh, whatever Austin Cynjerk is going to cook, apparently. That sounds amazing. So yeah, um, fun day. Uh, I think, I think, I mean, would you want to do it again? I twist my arm. I'll be here next year. Well, if they let us. That's true. That's the big unknown.

NASCAR, we enjoy doing this. Please let us do it again. A big thank you to Dirty Mo for putting this all together as well. Yeah, seriously, Dirty Mo sent down an entire crew that spent the entire day listening to all this. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my gosh. I feel bad for them having to listen to us. And now our producer Colby, she's got to cut this all up into something that sounds like a podcast and video form.

She's the best. We love Kobe. We love Colby. Shout out Colby. All right, Jordan. Well, after this, we need to get ready to drive down to Atlanta. But before that, we have a writing day tomorrow. We do.

We tell people we're working on. Yeah. So part of what we did off camera and off microphone today on the podcast was we did an anonymous survey of all 16 playoff drivers. What were some of the questions, Jordan? Some great answers to this one. What is your preferred NASCAR championship format? A couple of unique ideas as well. One that I thought it was like, wow, okay, I like this.

lot. Really good reactions to this one. It's kind of in the news lately. After the Austin Dillon penalty, what do you think is the maximum allowable contact to win an elimination race or the championship on the last lap? We rarely got almost two of the same answers on that one. Those answers were kind of, you know, it was because it's tough to define. So it's kind of all over the board.

That was the conversation about that. Yeah, we asked who will be a surprise early exit. We thought we'll win, obviously. track you'd like to see added to the playoffs that's not in it. A lot of Darlington good number of Richmond answers. Can we give a spoiler on who the championship favorite is? Sure. I don't think it's Christopher Bell. It is? For my

quick tally from today, it looked like Christopher Bell was the pick. Well, that's who I picked. A lot of people picked Christopher Bell. A lot of speed in that race car. Playoff points. He's got more playoff points coming in than the air has before. Consensus seem to be Bell than Larson. Okay. Well, for the rest of the answer, Please check out the athletic because we'll have a recap tally and the quotes. Obviously not telling who said them, but good stuff.

Yeah. So that's very exciting. And then we will be driving down to Atlanta to do the next episode of the tear down Sunday night. I am, this president of team chaos. I am. This is your race. I am looking forward to your race. Ever since it got announced, it has been, everybody's looking at this going, are you really

making us go to Super Speedway Ask Atlanta for a opening round playoff race. I am convinced that there are going to be at least one, maybe two championship favorites that we look at and they're going to be leaving Atlanta in a much different spot.

All right. Well, that was our Media Day experience. Hopefully you guys enjoyed that. Check out some of the clips that will be in video form as well because obviously for the podcast version we can't put out 16 driver interviews in full or even clips from every single driver.

It would be a heck of a long podcast as we just sat here for five and a half hours or whatever doing these interviews. So check out the clips on Dirty Mo Media's YouTube channel. Check them out on social as well. Some of them will just be floating around out there on the Instagram world on X, TikTok, all that stuff. And we'll flag them on our social media. as well to try to spread out as much out there as we can. But thanks for listening to this bonus episode, and we'll talk to you next time on The Teardown.

See, everybody. DJD Reloaded has more this week outside of Media Day, of course. Amy Earnhardt is rejoining Dale back in studio for another edition of Ask Jr. and Amy, where they answer all your burning questions. We'll get to that coming up after this. All right, everybody. Hey, it's Dale Jr. and Amy here on this Tuesday.

for this episode of the Dale Jr. download. And instead of Ask Junior, since Amy's in the studio, we'll be in the studio the first of the month every week, every month we're going to do Dirty Air with Amy involved. It's asked Amy. So this will be a lot of fun to see what kind of questions everybody threw together for Amy. And let's get started. Yeah, hey, first Timothy in the YouTube chat called me out for being late to going live.

Guys, this is Dale's fault. So please direct that at hand next time. Proof. I need proof. I need proof. What's the proof? I don't know. This first question is from Ben. This one's from Twitter. Amy, do you have any advice on how husbands can enjoy their addiction to fantasy football

and avoid the doghouse? Includes your wife. Have her start her own fantasy football league because I have a group of girlfriends. And we are very passionate about it. We get to run for brunch and we bet. and it's a lot of fun. So that was my best piece of advice. I agree with that.

We don't know anything about anything. And we let an auto draft this year. So we didn't, because we used to get together and, like, everybody had their laptops. It was like sports center. We all had, like, stuff going. And, you know, we kind of have gotten busy or kids and all get in the way of that.

So we still find a way to get together and make it a thing. What? Ben. Ben. So if your wife is hopefully listening, so Amy So Ben, he has fantasy football I have fantasy football

and we will get together with our buddies to draft and sometimes you don't, right? Sometimes you just draft from the house and you're like, yeah, we're not getting together. We might get together and have dinner to celebrate the champion and give him the trophy, right?

That might happen. But otherwise, don't really get together, right? Amy and her league, and this is where your wife needs to listen to this bit of advice. Say it nicely, don't. I'm trying. Amy will be like, hey, I'm going to brunch with the fantasy football girls today.

And so they get together to, they get together before the season, after the season. They get, even when there's no football, they're like still have, you know, brunches and things like that. And so I like it. I think it's. And sometimes it's like you take your kids with you. We find places everybody's welcome. It's not just like we're, we're not partying.

And it's not become that. But, yeah. I mean, it used to be like that before we all had kids. Yeah. It's fun. We all get together and it gives you a reason to like be excited about the football at the time. Sure. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's also keeping that group communicating to where they together. They stay connected and they also do things together and go see each other and hang out. Which wouldn't probably, you know, if they didn't have fantasy football and I'm not, and it is a bit of an. We wouldn't have such a fun excuse. Yeah. It would just be like, oh, we're trying to keep the band together. It's like a central thing you can bond over.

Yeah. Yeah. and everyone like, you know, no matter what. The fantasy football brings us together. Their fantasy football and the results is so secondary to just in being able to be around each other and enjoy each other. It is a good fun way too. They really get to know some of your girlfriends who might just be kind of quiet. There are some of us that are very, very, very competitive.

And some of us will be like, eh, I'm just here for the camaraderie. And so that's always fun because there are a couple, and it comes down to the end. They're like, the real competitors come out. Oh, dang. Speaking of fantasy football, I'm in a league. where we have some pretty crazy punishments. One year, someone had to enter an amateur karate tournament.

But this year... Is that like the first loser has to do that? The person who gets last place. This year, the punishment is we are all going to go to a Panthers game. And one person has to dress up as like the E and Panthers and paint themselves blue. And everybody else just goes as normal.

Like neckie, becky chest out? Blue paint. Yeah. That's the punishment this year. That's pretty good. We're probably going to do it in a winter game too, so they just freeze their ass off. That's not as nice.

That's brutal. We don't do things. like that. Winter takes all and so everybody dumps in some money and then it's, I would get to celebrate. I like the one where they sent their, they sent the loser to a fast food restaurant for 24 hours. Oh, like the Waffle House challenge. It was like 12 or 24 hours and then there were things on the menu they could order and eat that would dock time off. They had to stay.

Yes. Yeah. They'd sit in there so many. And the Waffle House of Welf? Yeah. There was, like every waffle. it was like an hour and 30 minutes

yeah and you can't throw up no I think that's the rule it wasn't like you have to stay and hang out you have to order something every hour or you can just sit 24 hours you could sit there in silence for 24 hours but if you did order off the meal you dock time off your so it's like do you eat a ton of waffles

to just not have to stay there right I saw one the Waffle House isn't like the worst place to hang out it's pretty dynamic plenty entertainment going on I saw one that was like it's called like the 50 challenge or whatever and you have to eat, it's either eat donuts, run miles or drink beers and it's like totals to 50.

So you can like run 20 miles, eat 20 donuts and drink 10 beers. Give me the runs. Yeah, it's like ridiculous. I feel like now we need to step it up. Yeah. You definitely do. Your league's so boring. We need a punishment for you guys.

All right. I'm asking the YouTube chat, what should the punishment be for Dela and Amy's league? Our league is boring. This next question coming from Daniel also on Twitter, between the two of you, who has the dirtier vehicle. Me. You? Yeah, I have all the kids stuff in my hair and the critters that, yeah, they're slinging food

all over the place. It's too much to keep up with. I try, but absolutely me. It's like an uphill battle. Yeah. Fair enough. It's the Everest. You was in.

I'm sorry. Let's see. This next question coming from Facebook, Alicia asks, do you guys have the same taste in music? Not really. Yes and no. Okay. There are a couple of genres we both absolutely love, and then there's, he's always feeding new music to the group.

And do you listen to it? Not usually unless I'm with him. So here's the thing about that. Okay. When he falls in low with a new song, it's literally on repeat. Or he'll add it to the top of the playlist, so every time you get in the truck, it's the first song that comes on. Yeah.

And I'm like, come on, man. Do we have to listen to this today? Or, so here's the other thing about Dale. He likes to turn on like heavy rock or something like that when he first wakes up. And like for me, that's going to send me into a rage and that's going to dictate how I act all day long. He's like, yeah, let's go. It's Tuesday. And I'm like, I am going to claw someone's face off.

Turn that shit off. You know, like, where's the Barry Manilow? Can we start off with a little bat while we have coffee? We don't have to start off with Metallica, which I like, but not first thing in the morning. You've got Def Lepper shirt on today. Do you listen to them recently? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Power Mania was a good album. Yeah. One of my favorites. I feel like I'm more on your side, Dale, with like the getting something to pump you up in the morning. Yeah. Type of thing. I just need to ease your way and like, all right. Listen, we just got here.

Yeah. Amy will. With the bodies at the floor. Like, I'll run to that. Yeah, right. I don't really listen. My go-to genre is pop punk and alternative 90s and all that stuff. I kind of crush all that in one big ball, right?

and I would listen to that probably 90% of the day if I could and if I take Amy to any concert of any of those bands she will rock out have the best time hell yeah love every minute of it yeah but if I turn it on at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and there's not nothing else going on she's like can we listen to something else here's the thing Dale Dale doesn't really read the room yeah like he used I'm wanting to change the room I'm not reading the room

I read the room and I go, I'm reading the room and I'm going, I'm changing this room. I don't like this room. He used to play to his crowd. Back before kids, he would make these lists and have all of his music and his iTunes is rated. Whatever the room was, I was ready. And he will play to the crowd. Now I'm like, if this room. He's going to fuck shit up.

It's my room. Pop-point time. There comes dangerous summer. Yeah. I call it whiny boy music. I like music. But I'm like, dang. Go back to some.

a little different. Winy boy. Pop, pop. That's funny. The YouTube chat said the punishment should be the nine beers,

nine hot dogs, nine innings challenge. Hot dogs, donuts. Nine innings, burdle. So you go to a baseball game, you got to drink nine beers, eat nine hot dogs,

and nine innings. That's tough. We got time for one more quick question. A bunch of people were asking about this. An update on, she said no,

and specifically, like the sleeper because you had to sleep over on the boat a few weeks ago yeah we've had two on there now all right it's good yeah tell it's good how does the couch it's no legs yeah it's now has like oh we're fantastic wow remember I told you one of them's kind of crooked that's right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's like all straight teeth and one crooked yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm gonna fix it I was gonna make a joke I'm gonna we had sleepovers we had a family reunion we stayed over we stayed over at the marina one night with the kids it was great

He actually did get graphics worked up to put, She Said No. Oh, nice. And I thought it was a joke. I thought it was just a joke we had here. But this poor boat's going to have she said no on the side of it. And I think that's funny. But I'm like, you know what?

You keep taking me on and off the boat. And it's like, she said no, but I f*** it anyway. You want that in small print? Yeah, but that's what it looks like. That's the subtitle. Yeah. Instead of she said no. Mooresville, North Carolina, it's going to say, but I did it anyway.

And here we are. But I did it anyways, North Carolina. That's awesome. Anyways, North Carolina. But I did it anyways, North Carolina. All one word. That's amazing. Yeah, the boat's been going good.

I do need some help. We have a generator. So we, this is what's great about social media, and we'll just use it here. And you think I'd know the answer. to this, but I need to Google. But everything on it's good. We've been fixing a lot of the things that are broke. All the rope light around the interior and the ceiling was burnt up and stuff.

So we fixed all that and just kind of, you know, getting things where they're operational, had a light switch that was broke and stuff like that. But it's been fun fixing those things. I can pretty much do everything on the boat. And I've learned how all the plumbing and the wiring and everything kind of works. And so, and driving the boat's easy. but the generator in the back. So the generator, I fired the generator up by the dock the other day,

and the generator is spinning out a bunch of carbon deposits. So it's burning oil, oils coming bypassing the rings and the pistons, and burning in the spark plugs and shooting that out the exhaust. So the water is covered in these little, it looks like little black flakes, right? And so I think it's serious enough that there's probably, I'm not going to bore this thing out and put new rings in it. That's probably, I'm not going to, I'll just pull the generator and replace the generator. But I wonder if there's another alternative fix to trying to figure out how to get those rings to seal,

just to buy myself some more time. I don't know, there's probably some additive or it looks bad enough that I don't think an additive would do it. but aside from basically just putting new rings in it which then it might be bad enough that it needs to be bored out it might just be best to change the alternative or the generator altogether it's about a 500 pound generator four four cylinder generator it's a little he just robbed ask Amy with this generator

well I just kind of messed up I you know I used to I used to go on Twitter and be like yeah I'm going ask a real, I got a real question, right? Don't, it doesn't happen anymore. You can't use Twitter that way anymore. No. And because people were just

just... It just troll you. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like you need a new boat. Yeah. Sounds like Amy was right. Yeah. He was right.

Generator said no. It's just, you know, you're going to get all that. I don't want to weed through all that to try to figure out where I can get some sensible information. but and I could just Google but it's fun to ask people

because some people may have made some real good advice. We do have a gentleman in the marina that has some boat. Maybe you should just go knock on his door. He was pretty nice. I don't know. Just swap the generator out.

Amy's always asking me to ask strangers for advice. I hate that. I'm the type of chick that goes into the lows or wherever we are. I'm like, hey man, where is this? Exactly. Wandering aimlessly with two children. Amy's like, should we ask?

I'm like, I'm asking somebody. We're going to find it. I'm that way. I'm a man, damn it. I'm not finding. I'm not asking a random person. I know where these screws are and the whole thing. I'm like, that's why they're stationed in every aisle so that you can ask them questions.

The best thing about Lowe's is like... He'll get on his phone and... How do we get? My app says it's on aisle 6B or whatever. Look at that. I log into the Lowe's app. That's not the right store. I log into Lowe's at.

You're in South Carolina. We're not in South Carolina. This store doesn't look like my Lowe's. I go to the right store. I go to the right store every load on Lose.com. So now we're arguing Lowe's. In Lowe's. On Lowe's.

You can go to the right store and it'll be like, oh yeah, you need this screw. It's on 16, aisle 16, Bay this. And I'm like,

all right. He heads to Isle 16. The girls and I head out to the plants and just for all look. Hang out. That is the best part of shopping at Lose. It's like, the plants.

I'm going to find this stuff on my own. Oh, hell yeah. You know what? Because I have asked some of the people that, the people that are kind of just, wandering around in the,

that work there, they're, they're going to have to look on the app too. I know you're going to go, I need this specific thing. They're going to go, hmm, that should be over,

blah, blah, blah. Did you look over there? Let's go over there together. Yeah. And now I'm hanging out. Exactly. Yeah. Now we're hanging out.

And we're going to go over here. And I'm damn sure. You like working here? Yeah. Just show me where the screws are. What are you working on there? Oh, yeah. It's not that.

It's not that big of a deal. They don't do that. It's probably just Because of you. And then it's, and then, you know, and I'm like, you know what? In the same amount of time, I'm doing this on my own, on the phone. Yeah. I don't know.

I just think it's easier to ask a human being. There's a pride to it though. There's one in every relationship, Andrew. That's just how it works. You know, like we just, this is very much why. You're going to make some girl really happy with that attitude. He's going to get in there and ask the question. She's going to be very excited.

I'm saying. I'm saying. I'm saying. I'm saying. We're going to find this. I think that's Lois motto. I'm going to be checking out at the exact same time as you. You want to race?

We're going after this. We're going. We're racing. What we need to do is, is somebody come up with a list of just random items. And you've got to go through attendance to get yours and I'll go through the app. Done. And I bet we're checking out at the same time. I love it.

Can I run through the store? You can do whatever you want. You can take your dog with you. If you're what are you going to run? Are you going to get the attendant to run with you? Yes. Yeah. The attendance is going to begin to know.

Hey man, we're on the clock. Let's do this. I don't know how we got here. That's a good place to wrap up. Ask Amy. That'll do it for another episode of DJD Reloaded. Don't forget to go back this week and listen to Actions Detrimental with Denny Hamlin. We got the tear down post-Darlington, post-the-regular season.

Door bumper clear, the Dell Jr. podcast with Dirty Air on Tuesday. And the guest segment on Wednesday featuring Travis Carter. Also, Speed Street with Connor Daly and Dirty Moe. That'll get you ready for the race this weekend in Atlanta. The playoffs are officially here. We hope you enjoy the weekend and we'll see you back here next Thursday with another episode of DJD Reloaded. Check out Dirty Mo Media on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.