The Dale Jr. Download - Phoenix…The Championship is Wide Open

Episode Date: October 28, 2025

It’s officially NASCAR championship week, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. is here to kick off the festivities with a new edition of Dirty Air. He joins co-host TJ Majors to unpack the action from Martinsville and look ahead to Phoenix:The 2026 CARS Tour schedule is out Sam Mayer and Jeb Burton’s Martinsville dramaJR Motorsports has three cars contending for a championshipThe Goodyear tire at Martinsville was right onThe Cup championship is wide openDuring the Ask Jr. portion of the episode, listeners had questions regarding:Dale’s dream three-band concertInteracting with Dwight YoakamDale’s recent hunting excursionDale doing a voice in the video game Scarface Plus, in Dirty Mo Dough, Russell and Tampa Timms join the guys to help handicap the race at Martinsville.And for more content check out our YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@DirtyMoMediaReal fans wear Dirty Mo. Hit the link and join the crew.👇https://shop.dirtymomedia.com/FanDuel: Must be 21+ and present in select states (for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino) or 18+ and present in D.C. First online real money wager only. $5 first deposit required. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable bonus bets which expire 7 days after receipt. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG. Call 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat in Connecticut, or visit mdgamblinghelp.org in Maryland. Hope is here. Visit GamblingHelpLineMA.org or call [phone] for 24/7 support in Massachusetts or call 1-877-8HOPE-NY or text HOPENY in New York.Consumer Cellular: New customers get a $5 credit on first five monthly invoices. Visit https://savings.consumercellular.com/DJD for details. 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.

I'd get in my vehicle and run over to that shop and go in there, and you'd have to hit the guy and push him around to get him to say stuff. And I've recorded all these lines, right? And so I'm smacking myself or punching myself, and I'd hear myself go, hey, whoa, hey, man, watch it, you know. And I just kept beating this shit out of myself. The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. This is the most fun I've had in this chair in the last hour and a half.

I don't know if we've ever argued. Did I piss you off over the weekend? I'm still sour that I went the best man at your wedding. Who was your best man, Dale? T.J. T.J. You don't need a cool best for that race? What are you thinking?

Get them, T.J. Hellway is starting a show. All right then. Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download with my friend, T.J. Majors, Travis. This week's dirty air segment is brought to you by Bass Pro Shops, North America's Premier Outdoor and Conservation Company. plan your next adventure at a bass pro shops near you or online at basspro.com. All right, so, TJ, let's go ahead and just talk about the car store schedule real quick.

That is coming out. The cars tour wrapped up their season at North Wilsonboro just a few days ago. Great races. Caden, Quaple got out of wind. He will be full-time next year behind the wheel of the, I don't know if he's 8 or 88, but we've yet to decide that. I do know that he's going to be sponsored by Jerky Boys. Jerky Boys Bees Jerky, the best jerky in the world.

I tell everybody that, and I have yet to have anybody who's tried it tell me that it is not the best jerky in the world. Everybody who tries it says, yep, you're right. You're not lying. This might be your favorite race car. Yeah, well, we're going to try to put everything we can behind the Jerky Boys promotion and try to sell some more jerky, but also go win some races. The cars tour schedule is out. We will start our season in February on the 21st at Coastal Plains Raceway. we're going to Southern National

Motorsports Park the week after that. We haven't been to Southern National in a year. Great to go back to that racetrack. The D.S. family, great folks up there running that racetrack. Wake County, Nashville Fairgrounds. April 11th, Nashville Fairgrounds. We'll go to Carraway, April 25th, Ace Speedway, Langley, May 30th,

Dominion, and June, July, will be part of North Wiltsboro's Cup weekend. That was awesome this past year. It was. will only go to Wilkesboro once this year. You know, so we won't finish the year at Wilkesboro like we've been doing. Our only stop for North Wiltsboro will be midsummer with the Cup series. Awesome and very thankful to NASCAR to be part of that race weekend.

Back to Anderson on August the 22nd. We'll go to Florence in September and Tri-County as well. Does Florence line up with the Cup at all? Yeah, that's the same weekend as Darlington. So if you've got a ticket in Darlington, come on over to Florence. It's amazing. Friday night. Yeah, it's a Friday night race.

Come on out there. Hang it. I think that's Friday night. What is that? September 4th. What's you got there? I think that's Friday night. Either way, it's the same weekend as a cup guy.

So if you got a ticket and you're over at Darlington, you're camping, come to Florence. Come to see us. Come see the car store. It's a lot of fun. It's a Friday. All right, Friday night. We go to Tri-County and September 12th.

October the 3rd, Newport. And then we will finish our season at the iconic South Boston Speedway on October the 17th. We are so thankful for South Boston to host our final event. It is a premier short track with late model stocks and just tons of history. So thank you. This is a great schedule. Also, the pros will be in a bunch of those weekends. We'll have a 10 or so race pro series schedule.

All of that information is on the Cars Tour website or follow Cars Tour on their social media handles on X and Instagram. And you'll get all of this great information. I can't wait for the season to get you cranking up again. We just ended our year, and now there's a lot of excitement going into next year. I met Ben Meyer. Ben Meyer, yeah. Ben Mayor, yeah. I met him at Martinsville this weekend.

Yeah, great kid. He's our champion in the Pro Series. Yep, had a great year. And, yeah, we love all the kids and drivers that come through our tour. We love our veterans. It's a great place to get noticed and get recognized, and you can look through the truck, and the Cup Series and fine people that have came through the cars tour had experience there

to hone their racecraft. Let's get into the Xfinity series and talk a little bit about Sam-Mayer. Jeb Burton, Sam-Mayer got into it a little bit. There was an intentional crash of Jeb Burton by Sam-Mare after the checkered flag. I was talking to a veteran driver in the Xfinity series who says he might be surprised if mayor isn't suspended or he might be surprised if he's not suspended. How could he not be suspended? I don't.

I mean, I've admitted to doing it, I think, in the interview. You don't need to admit to doing it either. Look, I know. And, look, I like Sam Mayer. He's part of the junior sports family. He's always going to be part of our family. I'm always going to, you know, we're always going to be boys. But we call it like it is on this show, even our guys that drive here currently.

aren't immune to getting called out when they make mistakes and so forth. Look, this was an intentional crash. The precedent has been set. A suspension is the call. I can't see it any other way. Why would they, what would they, what would be the explanation to, to allow him to race in Phoenix? I can't think of anything. What would, what could they say?

What could the be, right? And he doesn't, he's not race for a championship. Yeah. They have set the precedent and I would, I would think it would, it would create quite a lot of chaos, would they allow him to run, right? Could they say, because he's basically not racing for anything, we're going to levy a heavy fine because what is suspending him do to... I can't understand.

What's the difference between this and Indy? Well, I'm saying, though, is... There is a difference. That was during the race. I mean... Well, that's not what I'm saying, though. I know. I'm just saying he's asking a damn question.

I'm trying to think of like what would be if NASCAR They're going to come out today and tomorrow Or sometime and say he's suspended I'm sure they will I would be blown away if they don't But if they don't what would the explanation be I don't see how you don't it

They said after the checker Like right after the line Yeah but still I mean If they try to say he's not going fast enough Like that doesn't Yeah they do that doesn't work for me though But they've done that before They've talked about the severity

That was during a race, not after. No, but they've talked about that, too. They do, they have said that they weigh the severity, because it Cota, Dylan wrecked the two. Yeah. On the front straightaway. Two wrecked Dylan. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's right. I had it backwards. The two wreck tied Dylan. They didn't suspend him. It was an obvious hook. It was a fine and points. And they said that they judged severity. Hey.

Could be the window. Maybe. I don't know. It could be the possibility that we see Sam. Some of the hardest wrecks I've seen were at Martinsville. Dude, I'm telling you. I've been steering wheels there. What do you make of him being upset?

Sam? Yeah, do you think he was valid? Listen, I would say to Sam, if he were sitting here right now, his ass was out of line all night. Yeah, I agree. I mean, listen, I know he's frustrated with the position he's in

going into that race. Sam, to try to help you understand Sam, so Sam wants to win and be a successful race car driver so badly. Sam believes that he has and possesses the talent to race on Sunday. I think that he actually does have the speed to race on Sunday. What he's still missing is that judgment, you know, the decision making. A guy that races on Sunday doesn't do these things. And Sam is beyond this.

Sam is better than this. Sam should not be wrecking Jeb Burton at the end of the race because he's mad because Jeb was, you know, being a jerk on the track or whatever, right? He shouldn't be doing that. If he's a son, if he's thinking, man, I'm a Sunday guy. I just haven't had my chance yet. Act like it. You can't be doing this.

And so I would say that to him. I would say, look, man, you've got to tone it down. You've got to get it under control. your emotions got out of control. And, you know, talking to several people in the race, they said he was pretty damn aggressive, way too aggressive. He was. You know?

He was aggressive. But also, I mean, his interview was. I know. It's like he just, you know. Like didn't help it at all. I know. And I think, you know, you get to Martinsville and you see the kit that goes on there and you almost feel, I think you get comfortable, you know, and you get out of the car.

You get out of the car and you're kind of like, yeah, well, this is what happens here. You know, but that ain't really. Well, we won't happen in there, right? And so, I don't know, over the last couple of races at Martinsville, they've been, I've gotten on this show after the races at Martinsville and literally asked them to take it off the fucking schedule, because it's ridiculous. The damn stuff goes down.

This race was actually pretty decent. Yeah, this one was good. It was a good one. But, I mean, I'm just saying, like, there's been some wild stuff going on in the Xfinity races and the truck races at Martinsville. This was a good one. It was like Mr. Sam Mayer was still a little bit too wild. I would say that.

Jeb was funny. Jeb gave some. They all gave some great one-liners. Yeah, sound bites. Yeah. I just wish they could have got to each other. I get why Jordan prevented it or kind of talked Jeb often, went and talked to Sam. But I, as the fan and the person that wants content, I want these two swinging.

They said, do you want to talk to him? Jeb said, oh, I'd love to talk to him. Wouldn't be much talking. I'm like, go, Jeb, get it. Yeah. Get it, Jeb. Yeah. And, look, I mean, Jeb is there to, Jeb was actually having a pretty solid night.

Jeb? Now listen, Jeb, well, if you listen to Jeb, and he's raced here too, he's part of our DNA as well. If you listen to Jeb and look at Jeb over the years, you've got to know, look, this guy here, when you talk, if you listen to Jeb in his interviews on social media, he drives, he views his career as an opportunity. missed or like I didn't get the benefit. I didn't get the chances. I didn't get the monetary backing, the support that a Sam mayor got. Or he could name a, Jeb could name you a list of guys, right? That, man, I didn't, I'm as good as them, but I didn't get their chances because I didn't

have this or that in the other, right? I didn't have all that money behind me. And if I had all that support, I had, because he's, Jeb has, this is Jeb's opinion. He has scratched and clawed to put together every little deal that he's ever had. And if you go into the corner and put a damn door, put a tire on his door, he ain't going to fucking like it. He ain't going to be happy about it. And he is not the guy to be doing that to.

He's already a little annoyed about how things are going. He's got a chip on the shoulder already about it. He's in, you know, he likes the situation he's in, but he sees a guy like Sam Mayer in a Stuart Haas back to car going out there and, and being a wild man and going, man, I wish I had, I, I, you know, I think he looks at it and says, man, I'd appreciate those opportunities better than Sam is appreciating his opportunities, right? Not that that's exactly true, but, you know, I think, I think, you know, Jab's not the guy to be running in the back of. I will say that Jeb didn't just get the tire of the door. He got the, I'm setting.

I'm just saying, yeah, I know what you mean. Jab ain't the guy to be doing that too. Exactly. He has nothing to lose. And if you go way over that line, he's going to be. even more mad. Would you go, look at like the 21, Austin Hill, right?

We know it's aggressive. You're at Martinsville. You're one of the guys that needs to win this race. You're trying to get yourself into Phoenix. Do you go down in the corner and knock the 21 up the racetrack? You know your ass is getting it back. I mean, I'm probably doing it in the three and four in the last lap. Well, I wouldn't do it in Jeb or anybody.

I'm talking about the middle of the race, TJ. No, I'm going to race. I'm going to race him smart and just. I ain't going to create problems for myself. No, because, yeah, 100%. Yeah. I would, you just got to know better. If you do win the race, next week's going to be a problem with them as well.

No. Well, pretty interesting to hear all the back and forth after that race. And, all right. Our championship four, like I said, we're going to have Zillich, Algaro Love, and Koppel on the show tomorrow to talk to them about, you know, their chances and just kind of why you need to pull for them. What, you know, maybe it gives you a chance to kind of get to know each of the drivers a little bit better. Yeah, they're all forward. for different reasons. Yeah.

You know, Jesse's great. Yeah. I've been able to talk to him a little bit more this year, kind of because him and Connor are such good friends. And it's really been nice to get to know him. And, you know, he listens to a show. He, uh, he plugged into, he's plugged into the, plugged into the industry.

What's going on? Pretty smart guy. He's, he's watching him paying, paying more attention than, than I think we get, we, you might give him credit for. The teams are actively in the shop right now getting primaries ready, primary cars ready, also getting backup cars ready. You know, typically we just load a blank backup car in top of the hauler and hope for the best that we don't even have to use it.

But on this particular weekend, you better prepare the backup car as well as you prepare the primary. There's a ton of work. You look out in the shop, and I think this is probably the same for RCR, most of all these. race teams, even on the cup level. Everybody in the shop is spending whatever's left in the tank to make sure that they are as prepared as possible

for the one final event. And they're all looking forward to the off season. They're all looking forward to a break, but whatever they got left in the tank, every guy out there, every roll, they're all crossing the T's, dot in the eyes,

and you're doing it for two race cars. Not just your primary. got to have a backup car that is as good. We saw it last year, the seven car got in some damage in practice, had to go to a backup car. They win the championship because that backup car was pretty damn spectacular. And so that could, you know, you got to have every, all their bases covered. Yeah, like when you leave the crew chief office lights, they're still on.

Oh, yeah. They're still, they're logging late hours. They were here Sunday. Yeah. Working. They raced Saturday and we're back in the shop Sunday after Martinsville. Justin has the experience I would say also when you look at Phoenix

Justin performs the best has the best history there even though Connor Zilich has the most wins you would look at the statistics this year say he's having the better year I think Justin can go and be competitive

I'm not going to be shocked to see Jesse Love right in the thick of the battle and Carson Quappell goes in with a I think an underdog mentality of you know I want to come in there and upset the upset the field, right? And he could absolutely do that with a clutch performance this weekend.

I'll be watching the race. I don't, you know, probably from a pit box. I'm not usually, like last year I was on the seven box. And I feel, you know, I kind of personally I have, you know, I'm the owner of the car, right? So I got to go, all right, which box can I sit on? Maybe I'll go sit on the eight pit box for this one. Last year I sit on Justin's because, man, we've been trying to,

to get Justin that championship and I felt like I can sit on this box and it not take away from whatever else is going on. He was the only playoff driver too. That's true. But with three of them in there, I might sit on the eight box with Sammy and those guys. So we'll see. I don't know. I could move around.

What's this week like for you? It's great. I mean, even when we only have one in it, you know, you're thankful, a lot of reflection. I would agree with some other drivers that would tell you that getting to this point is the hardest part. Like the hardest part is over. Yeah, I agree with that. I mean, this playoff system is just, it's hard. It's a grind.

It is. And it's hard emotionally to be up against elimination, to be up against some things that are kind of out of your control. to be up against circumstance and fortune, good and bad. So it, you know, in the way they stack the races, especially in the final round, you got Talladega, Martinsville, it's pretty chaotic. So you're emotionally spent, I think, once you just get through this Martinsville race, you're kind of like, you've got to go refuel. You got to go fill the tank back up and get ready for Phoenix.

But you know what the deal is. You go into Phoenix, and you know what the deal is. You got to be the best of four. before that it's just chaos and so that's I think getting to this point is the hardest part and now that's over and everybody may feel a sense of relief

a little bit at this point yeah I mean Saturday night before the cup race I mean those guys be some sleepless nights oh man I mean when you so when you come to Saturday for Xfinity the nerves come all back I mean you're just as nervous as you can be

and when that race is about to start you're like man I don't know how it's going to turn out and I hope at the end of the night I'm happy but I don't know you just don't know yeah now when you take three cars you're feeling pretty good about it but you know you know it's the most cars you ever had in right

no we've had three in before we went to we went to homestead with three in it we were up against uh it was we had three cars in it and I think hemrick was driving for rCR and they broke early I can't remember maybe it was two and

yeah I don't remember I think we had three in it before, but either way, I, yeah, I'm feeling really good right now, but I think, you know, come Saturday, we'll all have the anxiety and the nerves that you traditionally would have. Do you talk to the drivers at all? Yeah. Yeah, I will. I think you've got to tell them, like, you know, Justin probably not as much. He's been here, done that.

But I'll sit down with Carson, and I'll sit down with Connor. and I think I might all get them collectively together and say, hey, there's a good chance that you're all going to be very good and a good chance you're all going to be battling for the lead together. Let's try to do our best to take care of each other. And that means that they can't hit, don't touch, don't rub, don't get tired, you know, don't give each other donuts, nothing. Like, I don't like them sending it off on the inside underneath them

and getting loose up into each other and shit like that. We can't have that, right? You've got to know how to, if you're going to commit, to a move you've got to wrap the corner and and do it right can't put your teammate in a in a precarious situation so that's something i think i have to say it just to make a self feel better um and um but i think i'll talk to connor and carson just a little bit about their you know where their heads at in terms of uh it's a anything can happen in this race like you got to remain calm.

Fire off first couple laps. The car ain't turning. Something's not great. You're too loose. Whatever. Calm down. I'll tell them. Look at that race that Justin had last year.

He was out of it. Multiple mistakes. Multiple mistakes. Multiple problems. Look like it was completely over. Just, look, you're sitting there running 8th, 9th, 11th, struggling with the balance thinking, oh, God, we're in trouble. Just sit there.

Just calm down. Take an opportunity. to work on the car, things are going to happen. All right. You'll find yourself somehow some way through the chaos of the back half

of the third stage with a late yellow and an opportunity inside the top six, you know, on a final restart. If you just stay calm. And you never know what happens there. That's right.

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That's DJD 25 hours off when you switch to consumer cellular. Go to consumer cellular.com slash DJD and use promo code DJD 25. William Byron dominated at Martinsville, but the race, the good race pole was favorable in the 70 percentage last time, mid-70s last time I looked. What was the first race? Do you know? I'd just say anything in the 70s is good. at this rate. I love the tire.

Denny Hamlin talked about it. Goodyear's done an incredible job. We've asked Goodyear. I remember back when I was driving, we were begging Goodyear to get softer, get softer, get softer. Give us a tire. We want more fall off. We want more fall off.

50% was Martinsville won. All right. Big improvement. Dude, and I give a ton of credit to the tire. We've not really changed the car all that much. We still think the car could improve. at the short tracks, but the tire obviously has helped us make some big gains. I was watching early in the race.

You had Chase Elliott, Byron, the five, all of them running there in the top three, and all of them running different lines trying to create runs up off the corner. You had Byron driving really tidy and low up off the corner and trying to keep it straight. Larson all over. Larson was, you know, big arcs into the corner. Same with Chase Elliott. I mean, that is all you asked for. Martinsville is the one track where you never.

know it's going to be bottom dominant. And if you can go to Martinsville and produce what we saw with guys changing their entry and moving around, you've got it. Don't touch it. Like that is all you can get. That's as good as it can get. That's as good as it will get at Martinsville. And don't mess with it, right?

Well, this race had the not the it factor or the other factor, but it had the factor where the driver came into play and how hard he wanted to run those first handful of laps and we don't have that a lot. You could actually hurt the tires in the beginning of a run and you'd pay the price later. So you had guys that were meeting in the middle and passing. There was a lot of passing

late into a run. I saw in practice we were in like 60 laps and at the end there were some guys falling hard like way off. Yeah. And you heard Rudy fuel telling Byron at the start of the one run to end calm down. You're going to get to lap traffic. That's when you can go like save me some tires. Yeah. I love that.

because, you know, our drivers, they're very talented, but in some cases, a lot of cases, one of the things we're not really utilizing or asking them to do is manage the tire, right? And so that's another element where I think some guys are better than others, and some guys can separate themselves or be at an advantage when putting that situation. And I want to see that. I want to see a guy who's, like, ignorant and fires it off and runs his ass off for 10 laps. suffers at the back end of the run. I want to see that guy and watch him, like, develop as a driver, right?

Yeah, for the course of his career and adjust and make the changes necessary to be able to have the good car on long run speed. And be a guy. Passing, too. Yeah, be a good guy on old tires. Then you'll see some of the veterans who are like, yeah, go on, run your ass off. I know, I'll see you in about 50 laps, you know. You know what? What sucks, though, is that is that you let them go and then the cost comes out 40 laps in and then you come back.

That's part of it. That's the beauty of it. is, which I love it. I mean, it's great in both, like, all around. Anytime the driver has to come into play, and like you said, do they have that mental trait of, I'm going to let you go here. And some of them say, heck with that. I don't, I'm just going to go. Shout out to Ryan Blaney driving through the field, putting himself into position trying to get it done. It was a must win. And he gets out and says, hey, you know, good hard racing. I'd have done exactly what Byron did. They were a little physical. Byron gets into him a little bit. That's what we want to see when we go to

Martinsville. It's absolutely what we want to see. And Blaney got out and took it like a champ. So pretty interesting to see all that happen. As we go into Phoenix, now there's no Penske car, right? We all said that if Penske gets to Phoenix, they're the favorite. Well, there's no Penske car. They could still be in the mix among the top five racing late in the race to win at Phoenix. But it's basically Joe Gibbs Racing versus Hendrick Motorsports. Both have two. cars. You got Hamlin, Briscoe on the Joe Giz racing side, and Byron and Larson. Sorry, Brian and Larson on the Hendricks side. And so I like, I like Byron. We're going to talk about all this later in the show in the Dirty Modo segment. But the way Byron's looked and the

way he looked this weekend, I think you've got to look at him as the favorite. How much is momentum in NASCAR? Like another sports, you're playing the same. plays and stuff where it's a different car, but how much, like, coming off a win, is that important for a driver? I, I, I, you can believe in momentum all you want. You go out and you haul ass and, you know, dominate Martinsville. But when you unload that car and go down in the turn and the thing don't cut through the center, what's momentum doing for you at that point?

When you, Byron's got to unload a car at Phoenix, go into practice and get out there and in the first five or ten laps, it's either going to be, man, this car is amazing, or, oh, boys, we've got some work to do. All right. And what's momentum doing at that point? Is momentum going to help you fix the car? So I don't know if I believe in momentum. I think, you know, it helps your attitude.

It helps your personality. But I think the weight of the situation is so heavy. The weight of the real opportunity of becoming a champion is so in your face that you, you, you, You don't carry momentum. You might carry momentum from race 10 to race 11, right? But, man, when they got done at Martinsville, they were all greeted with the reality that now they're going to go race for a championship.

And I think as the days go by and we get closer and closer and closer to Sunday, and they're doing a ton of media, getting asked a million questions about this, you know, how can they stay out of their own head, but stay in the right head space and do all the right things, to be in championship winning mode on Sunday.

That's going to be the important part. Doesn't, like, to me, momentum is also, like, in a mind thing, too. Like, you know what, I'm better. I'm going to, does it push guys to work harder that week? Does it push guys be like, I got back to the 9 o'clock. You're already looking at stuff for the next week. You know, are you already looking at stuff like that? If that's what momentum is to you, like, what is momentum?

That, you know, everybody may interpret that different. Momentum to you may be, hey, man, we're coming off a win. Let's get right back to it. Let's go into Sim on Sunday night. Let's go into Sim on Monday morning. I'll see you there at 6 a.m. Is that momentum? If that's momentum, then yes, momentum's working for you.

I think it's just the whole package. It pushes when you run good. It just makes everything. It's easier to work. You want to go and get more. I'll tell you what, though, if you need any extra motivation this week to work, like you should already be maxed out if you're racing for a championship. There shouldn't be, that's enough.

I mean, for sure. Well, I just feel like momentum in racing is great, but the car and what it can and can't do, you're at the mercy of whether that car is going to be able to do what you need it to do. They do get extended practice this week, so I can help. Yeah. I just think it gives momentum to me gives confidence. I think that, I mean, I think that all the driver, I think, you know, like, Denny, all these guys, all four of them, the only thing, like if they could, in a perfect world,

if they could snap their fingers, they would skip everything and get right in that car. The next thing they want to do is drive that car out on the track and run three or four laps to see what they got. They cannot wait to get into that first practice and learn, have I got the fucking car? Because that's it, right? and they're going to run that practice and they're going to get out and they're going to look at the sheet and they're going to go,

all right, how are their mother three guys? How am I? Average speed. My five lap, my 10 lap, my 15 lap. Man, we're not good. Man, we're great. I mean, you know, that's what they want to do next. Don't you think, though, if you come off a win

the next time in the car, you're going to be a little more confident driving. Like, I'm better than these guys. I'm going to be good here. Well, I think you already feel that way at this level. Yeah, but I mean, I think. I think, Byron, Denny, they all already believe that they're the best.

You know, like, Denny's had two bad weeks with car issues, and I think when he gets in that car on Friday, he ain't going to, like, his mentality is, I'm still, this is my weekend. I don't know, he might have a little... He would have liked to win Martinsville. He might feel like he's on a little, you know, delicate ice. I don't know.

That's what I'm saying, though. He doesn't have any momentum right now, but I don't worry about Denny because he's a veteran. He's done this numerous times. Yeah. But he, too, has said, like, I've been a little bit surprised by Denny's, like, man, it's always something, or it's something every week, or it's one of the three things that happens every week, right?

He's had these comments to the media, and I've been like, man, that's that's kind of, like Denny's not holding back as much as he used to, right? When he's always had, there's always been problems. There's always been things, right? Sure. He's not having, maybe he's having a little bit more of the mechanical woes than traditional, but he's had a really good year, too, at the same time. I'm a little surprised, I guess, by his, I guess he's at that point in his career where he's like, I don't get a shit.

So I'm just going to, you know, I'm going to get out of the car and go, yeah, it sucks. How many wins does Denny have? Six. How many wins does Byron have? Three? I mean, how does the guy with three times, you know, twice the amount of wins not right in here? Like, and we're talking about William Byron being the favorite. Because I'll tell you why he doesn't ride in high.

If Denny won Martinsville, would we be talking about Danny? I think Denny will be good. But he'll definitely be good. He lost an engine at Martinsville. He had starter issues at Martinsville. He had throttle cable issues at Talladega, power steering at Kansas, engine blue at Chicago.

So how do you not start your first lap at Phoenix Beach's like that little bit more timid? I think you will be. Yeah, I agree with you. Like, I don't know how you wouldn't be. And Byron's going to be like laser sharp. Byron's going in there not worrying about that thing's breaking. Now, Denny might be a little less confident. I mean, he would feel, he would be in the right to be less confident.

but he's, you know, he'll overcome that, man. He'll overcome that. Yeah. It's also, like, Dale, you can speak to this, but like, it's out of your control. So as a driver, you're just going in, you're only focused on what you can control, right? Denny's already told us in the past. He's been here a million times. He's like, getting here's the hardest part.

The hard part's over. I'm in, I mean, whatever happens today is what's going to happen. Yep. Whoever's going to win this race or be the best of this four. That's what's happening. It's kind of like, out of it's kind of. of my hands to an extent, right? He's going to drive the car. He's going to do his best job today. And if he gets outrun that day by that guy and he doesn't win the championship, well, that's it.

But the hardest part was getting there. I don't really know who has the advantage. Damn, Chase Briscoe has won races there. He's got. Chase, to me, is the underdog. They've been as anybody. They've scored more points in the playoffs than anybody. They've done the playoffs better than any other team. Lining up the names, Briscoe is definitely the underdog to me. I don't agree. I think it's. Who do you put him from? open. So you definitely think

Briscoe's got a better shot than someone else than Larson, Byroner. I don't think anybody doesn't advantage. I think they're equal. I think it's really... I mean, I think it's awesome

Chase is in there, man. He's had a great year. Yeah, I've watched it since Pocono, and he has been solid. One of the best cars in the field since then.

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Hey, everybody, how you doing? Thanks for tuning in for this Xfinity Ask Junior segment here on the Dale Jr. Download. We've been sitting here for five minutes, Andrew, waiting on you to get down to the office. I was told Asch Jr. Where were you?

Why do you think it would be at a specific time? Because that's the time Travis sent out in his call sheet. I know, but we just get there when we get there. Yeah, it's never at the same exact time. It's never at the exact moment. We're actually early, folks. You should be happy. Yeah.

Who should be happy? It just threw me off. Yeah. Are you not listening up there? He should be outside the door waiting for us. You're not upstairs listening? No, I'm working on other stuff. What are you working on?

What are you working on? I'm cutting clips. I'm the video editor. Okay. Well, here we are. But I'm happy to be here. Over the past 11 years, Exfinity, and the Xfinity series has grown into something very special.

They've backed young drivers. They've helped tell their stories, TJ. Lots of them. Giving a lot of shots, making it into the Cup series. And they brought the fan, all of us, along for the ride, through amazing content giveaways and access that you don't get anywhere else. And now the series is changing the name. But Xfinity, they're not going anywhere.

11 years, one incredible ride, but the next lap's going to be just as good. We're very thankful for everything Xfinity does here at the Dirtymo Media office and everything they've done for this series. It's been incredible. But we've got some great questions today, so let's get going. 100% yeah, it's good to see some familiar names in the YouTube chat as well, Bev, tuning in from Maine. But this first question is from Matt,

if you could put an event together with three bands, which three would you pick? Oh. Doesn't matter, dead or alive? Sure, I'll say, yeah, dead or live, anybody. I was supposed to go see Nirvana with a friend of mine at Atlanta, at Omni in 1994 or three. I was going to school at Mitchell Community College

taking automotives and my buddy Tommy and he's probably going to listen to this Tommy Donaldson we were going to go and he bailed on me that morning we get to school I'm pumped me and him are going to drive to Atlanta we're going to buy our ticket and we're going to go see the show that was way out of character for me we had no plan other than that

and we get there that morning he's like man I don't think I'm going I'm like, well, if you're not going, I'm not going, what the hell? I was so mad. We didn't get to see them. So Nirvana would be one. Vegas or, yeah, Vegas or Hawaii Elvis. Uh-huh. Would be the other.

And it's tough. It is tough. It's very tough. I'm trying to think of my own, and I can't. I would have to go with someone that I listened to as a kid. It has a lot of songs, maybe like a Steve Miller band or something. I don't know. But I know they're not probably super popular.

I'd want to see Whalen Jennings. Do you want to watch? Like if you see the highway, man. I had tickets to see Jimmy Buffett, and it got canceled, and I never saw him. Yeah. And so I would put him on my list. Hmm. All right.

I got one more. I got a feel a blank in there. Let me see. Would you like some suggestions? No, I don't. That is thrown in their own answers. Okay, yeah. I'll take them, Jack.

I didn't thought your own. You were going to give me suggestions. No, I know what kind of music you listen. I'm seeing Creed, Billy Joel. Billy Joel. Michael Jackson. Billy Joel. I'll go with Billy Joel.

Okay. That's pretty good. That's good. I forgot about that. What about the Beatles? I just recently watched that documentary on Billy Joel. It's really good. I need to check the documentary out.

It was good. And it made me. really wished I'd have seen him. So yeah. I mean, he's got the hits, man. He does. There's a lot of them. So many.

And the way, the documentary is good, how he kind of like, was like, I'm going to build the band I want to play with and make the record I want to make, and it ended up working. Pretty cool. I've seen some clips from that, and it looks really good. You might have told this before,

but how did you become a fan of Dwight Yolcombe? Well, he just kicks, you know, kicks out. I know that but like So I think I just liked his songs And you know maybe I'll be fast as you I don't know feels like a racing song And he

This is like a rumor Maybe it ain't true But remember Sharon Stone right So you know What was that movie she was in? Like put her on the map God I can't Beasts

Basic instinct. When James speaks, he nails it every time. James is our resident carpenter. So, of course he knows that. All carpenters would know. Right around that time when she was in the height of her fame and he as well was in the height of his, there's a rumor that he took her out on a date.

And he pulls up into her car wearing his holy jeans in his capo hat in a, in a, late 60s Corvette. It's just a rumor. I'm not sure it's true.

Things didn't absolutely go that well, so he wrote the song Fast as You. That's the rumor. So Sharon

Stone famously compared kissing Dwight Yocum to eating a dirt sandwich. Holy shh internet. Well, then maybe

that's why he writes the song fast as you. Can you find out whether that actually he did write it about

her or no? Travis will do some more research. Dirt sandwich. There was a video that just resurface of Dwight Yolkham playing that song, I think, at a racetrack with you. Yes.

So somebody surprised me. We were out at Fontana, and we said, it was, I don't know, I'm retiring or it's my birthday or something. There was some occasion, and they surprised me and had Dwight come by. That's cool. Literally, it was weird. So I know he's coming. I know I'm going to meet him.

I'm excited. I'm pumped. And they're like, hey, man, Dwight's here. And this is race morning. I'm nervous. I'm anxious about the race too, right? I get super nervous on race morning. And I step out of the camper.

He's got his guitar and starts playing and singing the song. And I'm like, what do I do here? He's walking toward me singing this song that he knows I like. And I'm like, well, I'm not going to let him sing it to me. So I'm going to sing it with him. So it's less awkward. It'll be still awkward, but less awkward. That sounds awkward already as well.

It was awkward, but I tried to make it less awkward. by singing alone. And yeah, we laughed. We had a little laugh about that. But he played my... Your Hall of Fame. My Hall of Fame party. Oh, that's right.

It was awesome. That was a surprise, too, right? I guess. It might have been. I think Amy set it up. Yes. Yes. It was awesome.

I mean, I literally stood there and just watched him play all the songs that I love. And, hey, and he did. He did write a song and he mentioned me in it. Oh. Yeah. Which one? There's a song where he talks about a Dale Jr. poster.

About this girl who has Adele Junior poster on her wall. It's a good song. That's not bad. Yeah. Did you know that lyric was going to be in there? No. Like you just happened to be listening. He writes, this song came out later in his career.

And so I'm already a fan. International Heartache. Yes. Tossed out his clothes, boots, bud cap, and signed Dale Jr. poster. Then shot the whole mess neon green. green with a with a can of DuPont spray

this is a breakup between a guy who girl she threw all his stuff out in the yard including his Dale Jr. poster I'm sorry she didn't keep the Dale Jr. poster Well it's written in history that she threw it out

so what can we do? I guess it reminded her of her ex-boyfriend. What are you like at a concert? Are you like... What am I like? Yeah. Are you like singing and jamming out?

Are you just kind of like... Melo. I jam. Do you? Yeah. So, I mean, I get in a mosh pit. Oh. Oh, yeah.

I mean, I don't know if I'd do it at this age. But, like, I went to see, I saw Tool Primus Green Day live. They used to be, so I went to see Green Day Primus Tool at this place called the Hornets training facility in Charlotte back in the 90s. and gotten the pit every time, man. I mean, it was in the 90s. I wasn't anybody important. And, you know, you just run in there and jump around and bang around and bounce off people. And then you're like, pick me up and you crowd surf.

And they throw you over the rail into the security. And security picks you up and sends you back around to the back of the crowd. And you go back around the crowd and run back up in there and get all back in it again. It's so much fun. And so years ago and. In the 90s, late 90s, early 2000s, they used to have this big concert, a radio station called 106.5 in Charlotte

would put on this big concert called the Weenie Roast. And they would have all these great bands, like all the bands from the 90s all came and played. And I took my mom out there. There's about 20 of us that went, and I took my mom, Brenda, with me. And I didn't know that this is an amphitheater, but up on the, where we were at was a grass, grassy area.

And so they had, like, I'm looking at the list now, Allison Chains. You remember what year? Uh-uh. But, I mean, this is, you know, they had a lot of alternative music, which I was a big fan of. And so, hear me out. So I, this was probably 2002, 2001. This is a long time ago. You're looking into, yeah, there you go.

So, listen, so we're in the grassy area. We're not down in the seats. And we got our, we got a couple blankets. And there's a bunch of us, right? And my mom. And my mom likes the same kind of music I like. She likes smashing pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots. She used to get me to make her mix tapes and stuff.

And I love that because, you know, it's cool that she listened to the same music I listen to. And so I'd record her, make her tapes. And so, or CDs. and we're sitting there watching somebody play and it's we're standing I don't know it's pretty awesome stuff awesome enough that there's multiple mosh pits happening on the grass and I'm like mom I'm gonna go get in this pit and she's like y'ar and I was like I got it and so I'm like come on with me and so I took my mom and she stood on the side like it's a big circle and I mean, it's about a 20 foot by 20 foot circle,

and she stood on the edge of it, and I run through there and bang into a bunch of people and get on the other side and turn around and go, look, did you see that? And she's like, holy shit. Yeah. And I'd run back through there, back to her, get clothes lined or get turned upside down. I don't know, man. I thought it was fun.

It was fun. Can you show me what a 20 foot by 20 foot circle looks like? What do you mean? I don't know what you meant by that It's an empty So everybody's crowded around Everybody's all crowded around And the circle's empty in the middle

Oh I gotcha And people are jumping around I didn't know a circle had two measurements It's 20 I get it now I can't believe you get in there Damn it TJ That's one of the things

That's a clip out for the end of the show That's a TJ One liner for TJ Yeah I appreciate it TJ you ever get a mosh pit before No I'm not getting a mosh pit I was just in a mosh pit. For real?

No. No, you were in the pit. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Has anybody? The openers for cloakroom at Bobby Marcos' show had a mosh pit. And I was not in there for long. You didn't know it was going to happen and it happened. Yeah, I got kicked in the show.

There's nothing worse than being surprised by a mosh pit. Yeah, I kind of had to go with the flow because that was, I had to go through the mosh pit to go to the back room. You had to act like you knew that that was going to happen. And you were like, yeah, I'm going to ease out. Yeah, it was awesome. Now, I'm not talking about the type of mosh pits where people are literally windmilling. You know, those are nuts. I'm not trying to get punched in the face.

Oh, yeah. You might get in the mosh pits I was in, we were all just kind of like jumping around, right? Jumping around, just about. And if you got knocked over, the great thing about it. Yes. Like when we would go to, when we're at prime, I was a big Primus fan. My name is Mud and Southbound Packarderm.

Primus catches a lot as a band, but I was a big fan. And then Green Day, yeah, Tunis, tool. So when I was going to those, and if you fail, man, people were like quick to pick you up. Yes. Get him up, pick him up. You know, if you fell over, got us fell over, people would grab you right up and pick you right up. It was always good. Like I hear people are very aware.

Yeah. Yeah. Nobody's trying to let anybody get hurt. I was picturing like Limbiscuit at that. Woodstock? Yeah. Dude, I actually do want to see Limbiscuit. They're, that'd be cool.

You know, their bases just passed away, but they're going to continue their tour. And man, they're killing it. And they got that new, they had put that new song out that went to number one. Like, they're just still doing whatever they want to do. When they played at Woodstock, that looked. I was a bit, I was all about Limbiscuit. Oh, they had some good stuff, yeah. When it was, when it was new.

Their songs fit. I played a lot of it. Their songs fit to something in your life, it seemed like. You know what I mean? I mean, I was a big Limp Bizkit fan with the original, like, $2 bill, all that stuff. Wait, is the new song Making Love to Morgan Wallen? Yeah. What a name of the song.

And it goes to number one. It's like they made it as a joke. Yeah, it was an SEO play. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I've been a fan of theirs for way back because I liked Jonathan. He came here and took a tour. they found

they kind of were the John Otto No no no He's something about a different band Yeah I don't know why I can't think of his name They're probably sitting in the chat right now But they kind of shepherded

Limp Biscuit into this world And it's gonna drive me crazy Well I see YouTube chat I'll be so mad See if y'all can help the chat I know they're probably already telling us I am seeing a lot of people saying Hell no not getting in a mosh pit

Oh I wonder if anybody in the chat has Has anybody in the chat has done a mosh pit I did see a few yeses. Yeah. James and Brittany both said yes. Gotcha. So we have some brave souls.

YouTube chat. All right. Well, what's the next question? That's fun. Yeah. Was it corn? Corn. Yes, I'm so mad at myself for not knowing that.

I was a big corn fan. And Jonathan came here. Brought his family. Jonathan, the lead singer of corn, had been here a couple years back. They were touring to Charlotte and he'd come over and we took him for a tour around the shop. But they kind of, so I was listening to Lent Biscuit early before Lent Biscuit was even really MTV yet through corn because they were kind of helping them. Damn.

That's crazy. Ryan wants to know how was hunting this past weekend. Hunting was great. Man, I'm telling you. I didn't, I did not get a deer. Saw a lot of great deer. Didn't see anything that I was willing to shoot. I'm pretty particular.

So I took a friend of mine, his name's Shom. He's never shot a deer. And we've been, I've taken him a couple times. And I'm like, man, you know, he saw a deer one day. And I said, that would have been a great deer for you to shoot. You know, but, and you got to, you kind of got to start at a certain, the way I am, and I've kind of done this to myself, is like, I don't ever want to shoot one smaller than the last one. And so I'm just not going to.

It just doesn't do anything for me. If it's like a $150, you know, 10-point buck, I'm just going to let it walk. I'm just going to watch it and enjoy watching it and see how it acts and see what it's doing, try to learn something. And, but I'm at this point now. I think, you know, that it's going to have to be pretty impressive

for me to want to go through all the trouble of getting it processed and taking care of the meat and everything and doing all that. So what's shoot the deer? You're going to be messing with that thing until midnight, getting it to the processor and everything, making sure it's all done right. And so, you know, I love going. I actually, I'll be honest, man. I love going as much as the actual opportunity to get a deer. I love sitting in the woods and watching the sun come up.

And I go into the woods and I climb in this stand. It's pitch dark. And I sit there and I don't know what I'm about, I don't know what I'm about to see. I don't know what the landscape looks like, what the horizon looks like. And I'm hunting some of these stands for the first time. I've had this property for 10 years, but there's a lot of places we've got new stands and all that. And so I'm sitting in this stand that I've not hunted on one of the mornings. And to watch the sun come up behind you and start to like, you know, start to paint the landscape.

It's just amazing. It is so much fun. And I sit there. I sat in that morning stand from 6 o'clock till 11. Like typically we get out at 9.30. But I kept seeing deer. And I, every time, and LW, my brother-in-law gave me some great advice, he's like, when you see a deer, that resets the clock for 30 minutes.

Like if you want to kind of know when you should, yeah. Like so when you see a deer, do whatever come through, that recess the clock, you're going to sit in that stand for another 30 minutes at least. It was pretty busy. It had a lot of traffic. And man, you'll be sitting there and you're looking at this, you're looking at the woods around you, right? And in an hour or two, you're like,

you've got a great understanding of where everything's at. And when you see a little movement that's something that's unnatural, your eyes go to it. And sure enough, like kind of coming through the woods, is this dough or you're not sure if it's a doe? It might be a buck. Is it a buck? I don't know.

Okay, it's a dough. All right. Well, usually they walk in pairs or two or three or four. So there's a couple dough coming. and now you're like, all right, I don't want to get found out, right? So I want to be real careful. I got to make sure I'm real steel. That buck could come in behind them.

He could be chasing them. Who knows, right? But if those, see you get spooked and they're going to blow, they're going to ruin the whole hunt. So you've got to be really careful. And real quiet. And you're literally like front and center. You're 20 yards from them. They can look right there.

And you're like, well, that wasn't there yesterday. You know? And they do. They look up there and they're like, that wasn't there yesterday. What is that? and they'll look at the ground and back up at you see if you moved and they'll be like oh and you just got to sit there still one night I sat in the stand one night I literally didn't move for three hours not nothing didn't move my hands feet nothing for three hours um just trying

because I had deer on me in the field and you can't give yourself away you know because you don't know where that buck's at. It is so much fun. And, you know, if I get to see a spike or a six or eight or a little basket rack or whatever come through there and get to watch them in the rut and trying to work and trying to figure out how to find a mate, it's just fun as shit. So you went out in the morning? I went in the morning and then the evening. Whoa. I thought we weren't doing that. Amy told me, Amy told me to man up. Was, oh, good. Amy basically told me like, get up. Get up there. Get out there. Get out there. and do it.

I was like, because I like to drink beer. We, we, well, yeah. So we hunt in the evenings and we get done. We're going to grill some really, really cheap steaks and like cheap steaks. And this is what we do. We get really cheap, thin steaks,

and we get cans of green beans and cans of corn. We put the green beans to corn in the pot, heat that up, grill the steaks, and we eat, same thing every night. And then we go out, build a fire, and burn some, cardboard and all our paper and then, you know, set around, drink beer. And I don't want to get up at six or, I don't want to get up at five in the morning.

I don't want to get up at five in the morning. But we went easy that night, got up in the morning, hunted all morning, had a blast, sat in the woods, God, it clears your mind. It is so awesome. I don't get to do it enough. I want to go back. Was Truex with you this trip? Truex came in as we were leaving.

Truex was coming in. Trix was racing his RC boats. You know, I don't know a lot of... Oh, because we did have people asking, how's Turex doing? True X doing great. Trix is doing great. I'd be lying if I knew where he was, where he's been spending his time. He's in a great relationship that's going really well, I'm aware of.

And he's spending a lot more time up in Jersey, I believe, that, you know, he's kind of... He put his place in North Carolina on the market. I don't know if it's sold or not. But so he's got a place in Florida and he plays up in Jersey and he's happy and he's running around doing tons of hunting right now. RACs races boats. He's always been really good at building them boats. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

He builds them and they're meticulous. Dang. And they fly. He sets records. He sets Guinness and World Records with these boats. Oh, my God. And he runs them around on the lakes and stuff. Who do?

And so he's always like building new boats to break records, break new records. Yeah. Well, that's cool. Yeah. We got a YouTube comment that I thought was funny. Joshua said, I farted and scared two deer this morning, if that counts. Yeah. Sorry about that, Joshua.

I tell you, man, I wish I was sitting. I wish I was going again. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go back. And we've owned this land. Me and Truex and my brother-in-law owned this property. We've owned it for 10 years. We've curated it.

We've got some friends there that live local that help us a lot, some farmers. They farm the land. and in turn do some of our food plots for us. So it's a really nice little agreement we have. And we have a very, very basic sort of bunk bed, camping sort of situation with all of our stuff there. It's perfect. Why Ohio? What made you guys go?

Well, there's really, really good deer in Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas. but we wanted to get something that we were going to drive to. Could drive to, but we're willing to drive to. That's about five and a half hours. Kansas and Missouri, Illinois, bigger deer, better opportunity, but you're going to have to fly. You could drive out there, but it's just, I don't know. Yeah, you can make a nice little weekend trip out of it.

Yeah, it's fine. And where we are, there's an historic town, and there's wineries, there's all sorts of things to do around there. So if you want to take the kids, go shed hunting. I took Isla shed hunting. So we walk around the property and looking for deer sheds during offseason. And you can take them into town and they'll have fun. And there's all kinds of candy shops and all kinds of stuff.

So pretty cool. Yeah. We got time for one more question. This surfaced on social media. It was, I guess, an old Reddit thread that you were in the game Scarface. Yeah. And that you used to beat your character up in the game. Yeah.

So people want to know. People want to know about that. So this was Scarface. When did that come out? I don't even remember what. 2007? Yeah. All right.

So this was in the, 2007. Right. This was in the height of, this was in the height of our, you know, it's weird for me to discuss it, but it's in the height of our racing celebrity, right? We were in the throes of. The heyday. Yeah, the heyday.

And so I get asked to be, to do a voice. and I'm like, what a, this was, this was, I was excited, as excited about doing a voice for a character in this game as being asked to do MTV Chris. It was super cool, right, to be in Grand Theft Auto. And, I mean, we hear about, you know, the anticipation for the next game coming out when everybody's just going crazy over this. And so it was a big deal back then, too. I am this nondescript sort of anonymous dude in this working in this shop. I'm a mechanic in an old greasy shop.

And this is a big giant world, right, of all kinds of characters roaming around. And I'm one of just, I'm one of hundreds or thousands, right, of the characters. And so I would get on, I'd get in my vehicle and run over to that shop and go in there and you'd have to hit the guy and push him around to get him to say stuff.

And I've recorded all these lines, right? And so I'm smacking myself or punching myself and I'd hear myself go, hey, whoa, hey man, watch it, you know. And I just kept beating this shit out of myself just so I could hear myself go, hey, dude, come on, cut it out. You know, whatever my guy says.

We should do it. We should get the game. Yes. And we should go beat myself up. Whenever we get mad at you, we'll just play on the video game. And then we could see what, you know, we could play this this would be probably a good little Dirtymo Media social clip You guys, I don't know why you'll have any more

I thought of this. Beating you up. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder, I forgot my name. I had a name. It's like Clarence or something. I don't remember. You should know.

Did it look like you? That's what James has. Oh, I doubt it. It was just some random non-descript, dude. They're not, in the thread, I don't think it's going to have all that information. But this was just recent. That is amazing.

Yeah. Oh, what a pleasure. What a, what a, what a, what a, that's cool. What a honor. Yeah. To be even a little grain of sand in everything that that franchise has become. And what a great game.

Yeah. So much fun. I played that thing for hours. And people are asking which game. So that's Scarface, The World is Yours? Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't know if it's that one or it's. I don't think it was, I think it was the one after that.

Okay. All right. I played that Scarface, The World is Yours a ton. But I believe it was the second one or the one after Scarface? It might have been. I don't know. That is hilarious. Well, people in the YouTube chat and listening,

go beat up Dale if you have this opportunity. Virtually. Yeah. Show us some clips of your whooping that mechanic's ass. Get your pipe wrench. Go in there, show them guys. Show him a thing or two. Draw some blood.

Maybe his name was Johnny. Sound like he was Johnny. Pipe wrench. Johnny didn't have the car ready, so we had to show him a little. Well, thanks to Xfinity for This Ash Jr. It was good. It was. In racing and in life speed isn't optional, especially in what we're doing.

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all right appreciate you Exfinity see y'all later place your bets ladies and gentlemen place your bets all right everybody's time for the Dirty Mo Doe segment with Tampa Timms this segment's brought to you by a fan duel. We've got Russell here, TJ, everybody ready to talk about who might

win the next race, I suppose. We also have the championship coming down in Phoenix, so a lot of possible bets to be placed. I don't know. Who's the favorite? Everybody says it's wide to open. Yeah, who's the favorite? Travis, you first. Wide open. I know the answer. It's wide open. All I've heard since the fucking end of the Phoenix race is how wide open this is. Everybody's so, happy about how wide open it is. Who's a favorite, Russell? Well, who do you think, Dale? Is it wide open?

Survey says. Russell. Am I allowed to say Travis or not? I wouldn't know what the model says. Oh, my God. What's the model say first? The model says that it's William Byron is the favorite.

Oh, it's not Denny? Okay. Travis is next. Well, I mean, he's going to be in the top four, okay, Travis? But I'm just curious. He's worried. The winner of the,

race, I have the winner of the race is Christopher Bell. Christopher Bell wins the race. On the model. It's him neck and neck with Ryan Blaney. Man. All right. Then we have the championship four guys after that. Yeah. There's definitely a Penske car up in the top three, if not two, Penske cars, right? I mean, they're going to muddle the top five, one or two of them possibly.

So yeah, that kind of throws things into a, you remember when Ross Chessane was up there, winning that race and pissing off Ryan Blaney? Ryan's done the same thing though Ryan was not in the final four at some point there and just kind of rode up there didn't really force anything Yeah yeah yeah

So yeah there will be somebody up there Yeah Doing that just Well All right so Blaney Or I'm sorry Byron is your favorite That's my favorite with the model

Is it wide open? Is it a tight race? I think it's wide open Tight race wide open Everyone's right I thought the media was just trying to, you know, get everybody excited at the uncertainty. But look at who we have.

Like, who else could you be in there? I don't know. I'm just giving everybody a hard time. I believe, I also agree. It's wide open. It is. The name of the podcast. So, Denny is actually the odds on favor to win the championship, not to win the race.

How many sports is you look at? Byron is plus 275. Larson plus 250. Briscoe 370. Here's my betting advice for you on that. Just bet him to win the race. Because you get better odds. Denny's plus 400.

Larson's plus 500. Byron 600. Briscoe is 700. Listen to that information, everybody. If you bet, if you think ex-driver is going to win the championship, better odds to bet they win the race. Yes.

And the champion tends to always sort of win this race if not run into top two, right? So you got a real shot. if you're betting, you know. Winners are the bet here. Russ, do you have, and the current format do you have, how many times a non-playoff driver is won? It's just Chastain, right?

Yeah, so, to your point. Yeah. Well, I don't see Chastain slipping up in there. He could, you know? They do things like that. He does, yeah. I don't see him slipping up in there. The only thing I would be worried about is,

is the, you know, the Blaney, the Blaney Ford and Ligano. Not so much of Lago, but still, you know, it's Phoenix. Bell too. I don't know if he can beat one in Ford. In a straight up race, Bell and Blaney? Blaney. Every time.

I agree. What do you think about Denny versus Briscoe head-to-head? Denny's minus 140 Briscoe plus 100? I think Denny. Yeah, I don't know how you don't. I didn't know what the plus if you would just... Not with that, no. Did we do a parlay last week?

We did. I think we did. I didn't hit. No fucking... surprise. Our parleyes are not very well. I talked to some betting experts, and they told me to quit messing with them parleyes.

We've only been telling you that for 36 weeks. I don't want to hear from your ass. Every bet you share with me is a parlay. Yeah, that is. You're not following your own advice. I send you some individual bets. The hell you do. I actually have a parlay this week.

Oh, here we go. What is it? Bet the all four championship drivers for a top 10, it's plus $1.25. Nice. I feel good about that. I do, I do, too. Yeah, I don't know how that would not happen. That's one of those juicy bets where I have to actually remind myself that I cannot bet in NASCAR.

That sucks. It was like this initial reaction like, damn, I'll get in on that. No, I won't. No, I won't. No, sir. I'll bet you're not. No, no, not with the landscape the way it is today. You want to go play poker?

No, well, there'll be no poker in my future. I got these great glasses for it. Holy shit. Oh, man. All right, could a non-playoff driver win? Probably we said he wouldn't win last week. They didn't. I don't think they...

They don't got a chance in it. Wait. Blaney. I think Blaney... Yeah. Now we change. changing our tune a little bit. Penske is the only way there's, I think, a non-playoff winner.

Yeah. I'm agree. I mean... Does he, you know, does he... He will potentially have the car that can do it. Do they... Do they get that aggressive as if they were in the final four? I don't know.

I don't either. You know, you're not... If there's two up there fighting for it, I don't think he... He ain't fucking with it. No, if there's one, it might be like a chassis. But if he were to be positioned out front, right? have the track position. Drive away.

If he comes off pit road first and he's the leader and can get out front, I think he goes. Right, but I don't, if he's, say he's running third. Yeah. Say there's 50 laps to go, he's running third and he catches the second place guy and the second first place guy are champion. He's not going to. I don't want to be that guy.

Which is a crummy place to be. It is very. Crummy spot to be for him. It'll be interesting to see how he plays it. If he's put in that situation, Blaney, will he go for it? or anybody, you know. Well, we know what Ross does. Ross is going to win the race.

There's a few guys like that. He's not the only guy out there. Who else would be up there to have a chance, though? SVG. If SVG is fast enough to pass him, he's going to do it. He's going to win him a race. He's going to be like, I don't care, I'm Australian. I think he's New Zealand.

Sorry, I'm New Zealand. I don't care. What are they going to do, chasing me back to New Zealand? I don't think SVG gets that aggressive like that. there. There are a couple of guys for a first win. He's been running good. No, he's been running really good.

Shout out to SVG, getting better on the ovals. Yeah. He's been really good. Different style racetracks, like short track, intermediate. I saw a graph on the internet. Oh, boy. It's going down. It's going down.

Average finish on the ovals going down, getting lower. Shout out to, I thought Casey Mears drove a really good race on Sunday as well in that 66 car. He did a really good job. To show up and not have nothing. No time in the next gen. His lap times aren't that fucking bad. I mean, he qualified right on the 51's heels. He was competitive in the race when everything was there.

Yeah, and that car shows up. They don't have all of the tools. They don't, like, get to the racetrack and travels in it. We've seen them kind of miss it. Not to, you know, give them shit. But I'm just saying, like, you know, they don't have all the tools that the other teams have. They are way off and they're actively, like, grinding to get that car competitive in just a short amount of time they have at the racetrack on Saturday.

Great. And Casey's experience in this car, like you were saying. None. It's got none. I know. Shout out Casey Mears. Hey, y'all know Casey Mears is almost a 500 starts, and that's why he's doing this. Yeah.

What's he at now? He's past it. He's past it. No, he's got like three left, three or four left. Hold on. He ran a truck that last weekend, too. Yeah. He's trying to get to 500.

600 or something. Yeah. He's there. Oh, so that's it. I thought it was, like, just a couple of races ago. He was still. He's run a couple of. though now in this car.

I think it's... No, he's short. According to AI, 500, that's what he's going for. Yeah. And he has... He has 400... He'd be going for 500 cup, but he just passed 600 in...

Exfinity. Well, what do you fucking do? He's going for the cup number, Russ. He's going for the cup number, Russ. Well... Damn it. Do you not... I'm just trying to tell you what the man himself told me he's trying to do,

and you're trying to tell me what he's actually trying to do. I talk to Casey Mears. I didn't have these... on this podcast. I talked to Casey Mears. I talked to Casey Mears. He told me this stuff. Now, you want to talk to him?

Tell him what he's actually doing? The computer says. Yeah. Well, the predictor tells me, Casey, that you're actually going for this number. You know what was funny on Sunday? Oh, Russ walked by me here on the roof, and I was talking to some radio guys. And I said, oh, here he comes. Here comes the predictor.

And they all started laughing at him. It's pretty happy about that. Great story. A hell of a story there, T. He had me on the edge of my seat. His name's the fucking professor. I know. I want you to wear a shirt with a name tag on it that has that.

You should have said, here comes the professor with the predictor. That would have been the thing. Yeah, I think we just, yeah. His name's the professor. Well, the professor, he can't be the professor. That's like a basketball guy, right? That's that guy that shows up at the school or them pick up games. He's the professor.

Yes, like the guy in the N1 series. We all know him. Yeah. Yep. All right. Well, this has been extraordinary. What did we not do? Head to heads? Do we have... We don't have no head to heads.

You gave one. I don't see one. Yeah, he said one. Head to head. Some other head to heads. Ryan Blaney versus Christopher Bell. Blaney's minus 130. Blaney. Larson versus Byron. Larson's minus 1.25.

Byron. Byron for me, bud. Tim's minus 105 for Byron. I think Byron's going to win the championship. Yeah, I think Byron. He's hot right now. Yep. Yeah.

Ross Chastain versus Lugano. Lugano is minus 140. I'll take Chastain. I'll take Lugano there. Top tens? Put the four in a parlay, I'm telling you. Anybody else? Sorry?

Put the championship four in a parlay. That's it. Championship four in a top ten parlay. Lock it in. Lock it in. The other driver we think could be a top ten? I don't know. Man, you're going to mess up and drop another driver in there, drop a fifth in there?

No, no. On its own. On its own. Yeah, yeah. Experts will tell you not to be messing with imparlay. This is the most confident I felt in parlay. This is where we mess it up. This is where we overthink it and mess it up. No, I'm saying we got our parlay.

Is there an individual? I would take, what about the championship four plus? No, no. Here we go. Add Christopher Bell and add Blaney. No. Just take the chair. That's actually pretty good.

Come on. Add Christopher Bell and Blaney, six of them. Go for it, guys. Go for it. Let's live on the edge. Plus 238. Let's live on the edge. This is the most predictable weekend, though.

I know, you're right. So if you're going to do it, this is a weekend. It's so predictable you don't need the predictor. You just use your own head. All right, Russ, see you later. Use your own brain. Anything that stand out that we haven't talked about, Russ? I like Boucher as a standalone top 10 finish.

All right. Top 10 last four there. Yeah. Busher? That would get you by himself. On his own. Don't add him. No.

I mean, we could. Don't do it. What about Priest? Does he have anything good? Bushers plus 115, top 10. Yeah, take that by itself. But if you wanted to, plus 627 now. Oh, boy. No.

That's not. If I lose on the busher, I'll be pissed. Yeah, I would too. I wouldn't put him in there. You could do multiple parlayes, though. You can, but again, the advice was you get in trouble with the parlias. I wonder if you could round robin that. Oh, here we go.

Oh, boy. I don't like the name. I don't like the phrase round robin. So I never, I never utilize that feature. They need to call it something else for me to get excited. Full throttle. A wide open.

A wide open parlay. The dirty mo-dough segment has brought to you by Fanduel, the premier gaming destination in the United States. Thank you, Russell, for coming out. Thank you, Tim. Thank you. Yeah, see you, boys. All right, it's time for the white flag.

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will we have at this? This could be his best. We say that every time, but really, I think we all believe it. It's wide open this year, though. Yeah. Doorbopper Clear also dropped on Monday. Speed Street with Herman Strz.

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