The Dale Jr. Download - The 2025 Dirty Mo Mega Show: Dale, TJ & Freddie React

Episode Date: November 6, 2025

As the NASCAR season comes to an end, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is looking back on an action-packed year of programming from Dirty Mo Media. He is joined by co-host TJ Majors and Door Bumper Clear star Freddie Kraft to revisit memorable moments from the Download, Bless Your ‘Hardt, and other DMM podcasts from 2025.The group looks back at legendary DJD guests such as Carl Edwards & Cleetus McFarland, debate DBC's best arguments from the season, react to Dale's outrageous takes on Bless Your 'Hardt, and much more. Plus, find out why Dale and the group spontaneously call Sheldon Creed.  Afterwards, the guys are joined by DMM’s roster of show producers to weigh in on the clips and what made this season the best one yet.And for more on Dale's Lionel collection and more 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/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.

Here we go. He's probably hung over for sure. Hello. Hey, Sheldon, it's Dale Jr. Hey, Dale, how are you? Hey, I'm on my podcast, and I'm with TJ and Freddie. I got a question for you. All right. The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

Hey, everybody, it's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. download, and it is a Wednesday, well, it's actually technically a Thursday guest show. We went round and around how to, you know, finish the year. on our guest segments. And typically we have, you know, pretty bombshell guests to start the year and another big guest to end the year. But I wanted to do something different this season. We've had real good success with our Dirty 30,

and we've done some highlight stuff in the past, and that's what I want to do this week. We're going to play some clips. I got T.J. and Freddie here. They're going to be a part of the reaction with me. I don't watch every show. We've had a lot of great things happen this year. there's going to be some clips that we're going to run that I haven't seen.

I've asked all our producers to pull from basically what they thought the best of would be from all of our shows. Andrew's here. How you doing, Andrew? What's going on? Andrew's going to help us sort of tee up the clips. I don't know what's coming. And then we're all going to react and have some fun today.

Toward the end of the show, we'll have a final word from some of our producers, Andrew, Tims, Travis. There's some things that I want y'all to hear. I want our listeners to hear about our work and, and what all went into this season. We talked about doing a bit of an ass junior, a live-ass junior. We can fire one up. Why don't we do?

We're going to do a live-ass junior, all right? Because I like doing those. They are pretty fun. They are fun. They are fun. That makes me happy. Oh, he's already... Live is nerve-wracking.

That makes me happy. I got my way. Yeah, that's that, guys. All right. I got my way. Figure it out, Andrew. You know what I love about that intro is you're like, usually we have awesome.

guest to finish the year, but this year it's Freddie and TJ. I figured, I thought there was a fat joke coming when he said we have a big guest the end of the year and I was like, he's going to say something. I appreciate him letting it go. I was waiting. I was actually thought you were going to chime in. Travis is also here. Travis.

Hey, Travis. Travis is here. Carpenter James. Carpenter James. CJ, how are you? All right, boy. Well, should we jump into some clips? Let's go. Let's do it. This first one, we have some new characters on the Dirty MoMey. roster this year, including the legendary Tommy Baldwin, who it didn't take him long to find his

stride and also find himself into trouble. I only went down there to check on him. Jake walked by me and said, hey, man, I think the left rear went down. He told me to go F myself. I said to go F myself. But when I said that, in no big deal. It was like, I wasn't even worried about him. I didn't care about Jake.

That's a northern thing. They all tell each other that. I didn't even care about Jake Crum at the time. I was glad he was okay because it was a hard hit, but I didn't even care about him the whole time. But see all these guys in the gray shirts? They're all Jamie Tomatoes guys that don't even work on the car. Right?

They got a T-shirt showing up, and now they think they're part of the team. This guy with the hat, I don't even know who he is. So all these guys, this big guy, big doofy guy, right? He thinks who he is, and then they start running their mouths, right? So now everybody's. They ain't got the guy in the tow truck drive. starts choking me later on, right? It's like, what are you guys doing? They start running their mouths,

and that's what pissed me off. Tommy was going to throw that headset until he realized he owned it. Two-fifty. You're right there. Awesome. Awesome stuff. That was, you know, when we, when we brought him in, I wasn't really sure, Freddie, about what to expect, but he's fit right to freak in to what we do. You know, I was the first person when Mike, we talked about redoing that show kind of a little bit. I said, well, I really won't want to do with Tommy. Like if I'm going to do it, because you need that edginess. You need that little bit. And I was, who knew who was going to come in and kiss NASCAR's ass all year, but we'll get to that later.

I'm sure. But, you know, he's just, that's him. In a nutshell, that's Tommy. Fierry, wants to beat everybody up. If they say anything wrong or, and he just came in, hit the ground running this year. I didn't expect him to be interested in, you know, the, the, not only the work that it takes to be here every week, sit down and really articulate what your thoughts are. he's got a lot of things going on. I was very surprised, I guess, to know that he would even be interested in, you know,

the commitment that it is to podcast. Yeah, I mean, there was like an immediate, yes, I thought the same thing because he's competition director at Rick Ware Racing. He's got both his boys racing all the time. You know, he's got two or three modified. He's got to prepare every week. So I was like, hey, you want to do this, but it's every Monday morning, nine o'clock, you know, whatever.

And he's like, yeah, I'm in. I was like, okay, well, let me run this by bike then and we're good. And yeah, he jumped right on it. And like I said, he fit right in. Did you see how many guys he was getting ready to fight? By himself. By himself. Tommy came on DBC one time, and within the first three minutes of the show, I think he called

Kyle Busch a bitch. Yeah, right away. And I was like, okay, Tommy doesn't hold back. So I knew when his name came up for DBC, it would have been a good fit. What is the plan for DBC through the offseason? Do y'all, do you going to do any shows? We're going to do one show, a Christmas episode. We've got a really fun plan for that.

I don't know that we have nile down yet, but it's going to be... Tyler, it's going to bring fireball. We're going to bring some families in and have a Christmas show kind of episode, like Tommy's wife, my wife. You're going to have like husbands and wives and children in here? Somebody else's family. We're going to find them out here on the road. Random families coming in.

I want people to get to know people. I'm going to go to Harris Teeter up here and find some people in the produce section. DBC and family just doesn't seem like... What has happened? What has become? Normally Tyler just brings Fireball. Like Tyler Redickman. Reddick is our little elf.

But he shows up. He always would show up with a whole thing of fireball. He's got a candy cane full of fireball ball. Oh, Jesus. A little elf. That's funny. In addition to some new people, we've added some new shows to our roster as well. Actually, what this Thursday show normally would be is bless your heart.

And there's no shortage of fun moments. Holy-hapes games. Dale, you know what's coming. I'm ready. Go. Boobies are crazy. Boobies are crazy. Boobies are great.

Yes. Well, that's easy. Of course they are. You said the word boobies. I was like, yep, know that one. Dale's the love of my life. You're the love of my life. Yeah.

One more. Close. I don't know the first word. Tacos? Dale's the love of my life. Dale. Dale. Dale.

Dale's a love of my life Buffalo shrimp Buffalo shrimp Did you hear me? No Damn I got that on the brain too Sorry

Boobies and Buffalo shrimp That's really me every day all day Jeez That's been a lot of fun You know Me and Amy Have talked about doing a podcast for a long time, you know,

and she sees what we do here, and she's been curious, I mean, for years, been curious about it, just not sure exactly what that show would look like. And I don't know how, I don't even remember the conversation, but we were like, hey, why don't we, Amy actually came in on DJD on Tuesdays a couple times, and how that was, how she did, and how that was received,

was really surprising. Because it's a racing show. She don't give a shit. She's like, yeah, whatever. She's got her opinions, you know, but she, you know, she's kind of, you know, she's not a hardcore fan. She's not a hardcore fan. She's a 36 race. Yeah, she's definitely a 36 race. Ah, fan. Yeah, she loves 36 race season.

Casting her vote. So I, but we were taking it back by that and everybody loved it. And I think it was because you didn't get to see her a lot and not, she wasn't really out there too much unless you followed her on social media on Instagram. you weren't going to really know too much about what she had going on. So people were just curious about it. We had to talk her into it. She wasn't all about the commitment, you know, talking about Tommy and the commitment and the work coming in here every week. She wasn't sure about that.

And so, you know, we even went in about two, three weeks and did the show. We did about four or five shows. And she still was not 100 percent whether she wanted to keep doing it or whether it was really what she needed to be doing. But here we are our whole season behind us. We had fun. I'm going to tell you right now. I don't know, especially this past weekend, man. I know this is awkward for you guys.

But, dude, every time she comes in here, man, she is stunning. And this past week, this show, I mean, I could barely freaking think straight. She walked in the room, I'm telling you. I'm watching this week. I know he's weird. I'm sorry. I just had to say it. We don't notice.

Sorry. Say the truth. Are you in the doghouse? What you do? What you do? What you do? I always have been bad. I always got a f***.

foot in the doghouse. I was just wondering if you had more than a foot this time. You and I live that life on the fucking fence, brother. You know what I ask me that. You might have, I usually live with two feet in the dog house most of the time. Yeah. Your dog house, though, has a fucking sim rig and Xbox. Mine does it.

My dog house don't. Dale, you like sleeping on the couch. My dog house don't even have finished. I don't even have insulation or wood paneling on the walls. Yeah. I can see bear f*** and studs in my dog house, T.J. I'm jealous. You see this guy's fucking...

I've seen his real. My dog house is your dog house. If you ever get in trouble, we can run as a pack. I mean... But you talk about the commitment. Like, our show, everything's kind of laid out for us over the weekend. That bless your heart show, you guys kind of got to come up with every week. Like, you don't know what you're going to talk about, right?

So this week... Clearly. Exactly. Yeah. We have games. We have games and all kinds of shit that we do. That's all predetermined. but to your point, I'm literally writing in my notes.

We have a note that we share all of us on Bless Your Heart or in it. I'm driving, I drop Isla off at school and drive straight here to do the show, and I'm literally writing in the notes what I think we should talk about that moment. So we have a little probably about a 10, 15, 20 minute piece where we're bullshin. That's about life and just shit that's been going on. For example, today, Amy, we hate we're not doing the show this Thursday. We did the show Tuesday instead. Because today, Amy forgot to take Nicole to school.

Really? Like that, like, there's nothing more to it. We were sitting at home this morning, fucking around and laughing and playing, and the kids were playing. And I was like, well, I'm going to go do this podcast. I'm a little behind. Let me text the guy. She's like, holy shit, I forgot to take Nicole to school. Like, and yeah.

She looks stunning, though. Nicole was 30 minutes. That's why they were late, this point she was done yesterday. So, you know, those are the moments, you know,

that we kind of flag and say, hey, let's talk about that on the show. But I've enjoyed it. It's been great. Amy's been amazing. I've loved people being able to get to know her better. It's a slippery slope.

It's, you know, it's a little nerve-racking putting yourself out there. You guys are used to it because you're, you know, you're both, you know, at the racetrack, your personalities, right? Whether you got a job, but you also are personalities and you do a lot of different work,

like the podcast and different things. That was completely new for her. And, you know, my instinct is to kind of protect her, but, you know, we took a chance and put ourselves out there and we're having fun and trying to be, you know, trying to know where that line is too. You're like, you know, sharing too much, you know, information sometimes. and Amy doesn't know where that line is. So Amy's an oversharer sometimes.

And I'm like, holy shit, I don't know why I want everyone to know that about me. But, you know, it is what it is. Clearly boobies and buffalo shrimp aren't across the lines. Well, she, no, you know, she's very aware of my love for buffalo shrimp and boobies. And so that wasn't a big revelation. That wasn't a big revelation. New shirt.

Yeah. It is already a shirt. Thanks for fucking paying attention. Oh, sorry. Whether I'm at a racetrack or I'm at the damn grocery store. It don't matter where. Somebody walks up to me and says, Love your podcast.

That one with Amy. Yeah. Right? I've been getting I love your podcast for years, right? Because of the Dale Jr. download. But now it's only, bless your heart. Getting that feedback, I'm sure you guys do too. Amy, when Amy hears it, she gets so nervous because she forgets that people actually listen to that.

And she goes, oh, damn. And her mind starts running in the back Like, what does that say? Yeah, that's pretty funny There's only one time it's a downside With a DBC fan specifically Is I'll be at a bar during the weekend During a race weekend

And then just shots start showing up Because it's like, I got to work tomorrow Or I hate that. I'm like, all right, we got to cut it off with the phone ball Knock it off. I mean, we went to the Lionel deal And here you guys You got to do a shot with him before the race

I was like, hey bud, you can't do that. It's s' it. Yeah, that happened. Well, this next one, we've had a lot of highly requested guests on the guest show for Dale Jr. Download. And the one we've been chasing for years and years and years, we finally got this year, Carl Edwards. What I realize is that there was a bigger plan than mine and that all that stuff played out just perfectly. And I was just along for the ride. Let's just go to the next year. Let's go to 2017. Right. Let me just be real smart. Let me just think this through. Here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to go and I am going to continue. I'm going to put everything in my life second in the back seat and I'm going to go starting at Daytona and I'm going to drive the hell out of this race car like I've been doing for 13, 14 years and I'm going to run this thing all the way of the end. And then I'm going to get to Homestead at the end of 2017. I'm going to do everything just right and they're going to throw a caution with five to go. And we're going to put all this on a restart. And I thought, damn, I don't know if spending a whole year of my life and all the things you give up and possibly give up for, you know, one restart. Like, I don't know. That's part. Yes, that's a big deal. You have to weigh that. And so, so yeah, I guess really disappointing, but it actually

helped me to say, hey, you know, this is the reality. This is how it could go. And is it worth it to you. You know, I saw this clip yesterday. Somebody put this on social media in reference to this season in Denny Hamlin's experience in Phoenix, which is, you know, almost identical. And so that's where Danny is mentally when he says, I'm not sure if I can, you know, I can't even think about a race car today. We're all pretty sure that he'll run next year and all those things. But yeah, this is where the emotion comes from. I don't ever make assumptions about injuries, right? you learn in the broadcast booth that that's an absolute no-no. When you see a crash, you would never go, he might have done this, he might have hurt this,

he might have broken this. You don't ever do that. And I was so curious about why he walked away the way he did. And I wondered, you know, with my own experience, going through what I went through with head injuries, that dominated my thoughts in thinking about his experience at the end of that race at Homestead in 2017, I suppose, where he hits the inside wall and goes up and slams in an outside wall, gets piled in by a few different guys. He had a lot of bam, bam, bang, bang hits all in that moment. And then the way he got out of the car and the way he reacted, walking down pit road, going up on a pit box, shaking somebody's hand.

It just was really an odd sort of, you know, trigger reaction to everything that was going on. and so I reached out to him. This was five, four years ago. I reached out to him in a text message. Carl wrote me, hand wrote me, like a four-page letter. Wow. And explained to me, you know, what was going on and what was happening. And so I knew everything, and it was everything that he shared with us on the show.

And so I kind of had an idea. at least I had some closure because that the way he walked out and and shut it down was just without any real you know uh explanation uh puzzled all of us right and um and I wanted to know I wanted to know whether I needed to know I guess for my own piece of mind whether he had had some sort of physical event or whether he had some concerns about his physical health or whether he truly was heartbroken by the caution and how that took away this, you know, this sure thing that was laying there in front of him. And so, and maybe some of both, but he comes on the show and everything he told us was everything that was in this letter. I still have it. I still have that letter. And I found it

yesterday looking for birth certificate. The, you know, the way he, and we did, we asked him to come on the show forever. And I didn't know why he was not available and why he wouldn't come to do the show and where he was and what he was doing. And we all had these jokes about him being a prepper and having some, you know, being underground and, you know, all these things, right, or farming, right, whatever. And fortunately, I think, you know, and I say this as a compliment to Carl. Fortunately, fortunately, for all of us, he came back.

He went, and this, I see this with a lot of veteran drivers. He went to the 75 greatest drivers in Darlington. We were all invited, and he came to that. And he was blown away that anyone missed him, or even. worried about him or wondered about him. He was blown away. He had no idea. And we have guys come and sit down at this table that have been out of the game or out of the racing deal for a while.

And you'll tell them, man, we've been wondering where you've been. People are going to be happy to hear from you. People are going to be happy to hear what you've been up to. And they're like, no one, no, I've not gotten that sensation or idea or that's so foreign to me or I don't, I can't believe that or wouldn't think anybody would care. because it doesn't feel like anybody. It gives a shit. Nobody's calling.

Nobody's texting you. But they are wondering where you're at and what you're doing. And so that was what brought Carl back. He was like, man, he loved that response. He was glad people wanted to see him. And he's like, I'm going to come. And he's come back and he done TV. And we learned during this experience of him doing TV

that he's not a prepper. He's not got some big base underground. The dude just been doing life, sailing. He sent me a picture. his son, they have this sailboat and, you know, sailboat has a lot of, you know, the space on a sailboat all has to be used very smartly.

There's not a ton of storage. And way down in the berth or, you know, in the belly of this boat, his son has a sim rig. Oh, my God. And it fits in this perfectly confined space. It's like so, so smart. And his son races on his little sim rig.

when they're out sailing. Wow. And his son loves racing. And he was very careful about, right, exposing his children to the public and very concerned about the ramifications of that. And his son's now old enough and he's very comfortable to bring him around.

It was just really awesome to have Carl around. And we got to know him better working with him on the TV stuff. And hopefully we'll see even more of him going forward. We've been trying to get him forever and it lived up. It lived up to the expectation. Do you think Andrew knows that we can see all the clips on here

that he's supposed to be surprising us with? Do you have that good eyes? Do you have that good of eyes? Well, yeah. It's not that hard. It's like a 52 inch, 55 inch. Charmette. Travis, what?

You seem like you need to tell me something. Damn. I can't get it off your chest. You look so disappointed. I don't think. Is this show that bad? I don't think I've ever met anybody that will judge someone's facial expressions and just react off. You know why you and Denny are such good friends?

You're both so misunderstood. Oh, well, speaking of that, here's a clip of Denny talking about how he's the villain. I've somewhat taken your villain role. Way to go, buddy. Way to go. One thing that I gave him my manual. Yeah. I feel as though...

Is it fun? Kyle... It's somewhat fun to me. See? When you can win. When you can be winning, when you can have the clout to be able to back up what you say, you can do it all. You can do, you can act the fool all you want, right? Because you can back it up.

I have nothing to back it up right now. So I had to put the black hat on the shelf and pull off the white one. I'll never forget, we were there for the NASCAR 75 greatest drivers thing. and Carl's like, what happened? Yeah. We were on the stage. We woke up all of a sudden. Kyle is getting cheered and I just get, I mean, just booed out of the place.

And he says, wait a minute. What happened since I've been gone? Kyle's all of a sudden, the good guy? It's like, yeah. Yeah. It's, I mean, it's been a lot of fun watching Denny embrace that role. And I don't know anybody that's done the best. In our history, in the whole sport, I can't think of a better sort of...

I wouldn't say he's the villain. He's kind of an anti-hero. Would you say, what would you... How would you... I mean, it's not a villain to me. He's more of an antagonist. Yeah, yeah. And...

Yeah. Probably. Dude, it's... He does it... There's nobody that's done it better. Nobody. Like most people... So like Rusty Wallace, Rex Dere Waltchip in the Winston,

immediately, Rusty is the most booed guy in the series. I mean, He goes overnight, becomes one of the most hated guys. And, you know, there was moments when, like, Dad wrecks Terry Labony at Bristol. And it's like an instant shift. I don't know that, I think Dad was a little taken aback. But most people that are, even Kyle, like most people that fall into that booed, most booed driver in the garage, they don't want it.

And they don't, they don't lean into it, right? And, and, and it's a frustration. more than anything. It's a source of frustration. It's not a, you know, I've talked, we've talked to Kyle. He said so in this, on our podcast years ago. He wants to be liked. He doesn't want to be booed. So Kyle wants to be liked. Denny, do you think this will change things for him, how the championship went? Will he get more cheers? Does he get booed at the clash? No. Yes. No. No. No. They were asked TJ. I mean, Did you go to the race Sunday?

No. So Sunday, the PA announcer announces bad pit stop, awful pit stop for the 11, didn't realize it just put four on, everybody else put two on. The place erupted in cheers because Danny had a bad pit stop. Oh, man. I mean, I hate it. But that's, I think seeing the heartbreak, though, I think, I don't think he's going to get the booze. Travis.

Travis so badly wants him to be the most popular driver in this world. That would be fucking hilarious if he does. but I think it's bad for the sport if he doesn't get booed. Chase won it again. I know I'm saying like I want him to get it. Way to ruin it. You probably didn't know that.

I know you weren't paying attention last night. He recorded it but he didn't go to the banquet. Chase is also going to win it next year. But I think it's bad for a sport. I think I actually recorded a thank you. Way to go. Nice job. So I need no, no, no.

No shade. No shade. But I think it's bad for the sport if he doesn't get booed next year. I think Chase recorded next year is already this year to it. He's got him lined up. he's gonna be wearing the same shirt to video for like five years yeah you're right Travis so I thank everybody for my 2025 award my 2026 he didn't even he didn't even date it he's got it's an evergreen just run that one again thank you for the award thank you chase well done chase

good idea so I um I was surprised I'm surprised to hear that because I felt like that with everything that was going on everything that I saw was everything that I saw was everything that I saw on social media at least was, man, I was pulling for Denny. I'm not even a Denny fan. I was pulling for Denny. I really wanted that one for Denny. So you don't think that, you know, I feel like when he, when he first started leaning into this villain stuff, say, for example, when he gets out at Bristol and says, you know, says, I beat your favorite driver or whatever, it angered his haters, right? And anybody that was kind of on the fence fell on to the one. side that didn't like him, right?

And his fans loved it, right? But he already had them in the tent, right? So when he first started leaning into it, I felt like that he was angering, you know, the mob. As time went on, and he started letting everyone in to, hey, man, I just enjoy it. I enjoy fucking with y'all. And then we had, I guess there was one weekend recently, he gets out of the car and he says,

I ain't going to give you all shit today, man, you know? And it's kind of like now there's this sort of agreement. Yeah. Between him and the mob and there's this sort of like appreciation and respect, even though maybe I don't, I'm not a Denny fan, I still respect him. I think, you know, and I think what he is is a personality is a, maybe fans are starting to really, even though maybe they don't like him or don't pull for him.

Maybe he's not their favorite driver. They see the value in the personality, because good Lord, we need more of that. We can say something. It's just like Austin Hill and that fan at Talladega. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

It's just like that. That little one-on-one between them. They love it. Like, it's just, that guy goes there for that moment. Yeah, that's right. He normally doesn't do much on track to, like, he's a very clean racer.

He doesn't wreck. He won't wreck people and things like that. Were you guys watching the FIth Kansas race or would you just skip that way? Sorry, do he wrecked somebody?

Well, but he doesn't go Yeah, he put Bubba in the fence over there. His own? Oh. The win. But I mean, like. Bubba had a little room.

He was better spotter. And Bubba could have lifted, yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't think Denny, like, he doesn't go out there and just turn somebody like, Kyle has a pretty good past of just wrecking guys.

Kyle Bush? Yeah. Oh. I think Kyle, I mean, I think Kyle, I mean, I think, I think Kyle Bush's villain or, you know, his, his, his, his stuff for me was more about what he did, not so much driving. It was like, you know, flip, you know, coming down pit road and giving the bird to the official and walking away, walking away from so many interviews, like, you know, yeah, just so many interviews. I mean, so many times he didn't, you know, he refused interviews.

And those were the things that I think really kind of his driving, Kyle's driving on the track was sensational, you know. But he wasn't scared to turn people. He did a lot of that. But you're right, he did walk away from things. I can't remember a time that I've seen, I went, damn, Kyle Bush wrecked him on purpose. Can you?

Did you review somewhere? That was not on purpose. He's got up, he's underneath me and got loose. Yeah, he didn't wreck you on purpose that way. Hornaday. That was the only time I got to remember. That was bad. Was that on purpose, though?

Yeah, that was more day running a defense and he hooked them. He got suspended for like multiple races for that. I remember what all happened that day. I just don't remember if it was really intentional. Yeah, no, it was intentional. Okay. All right, well, this next guest was a big one this year. We got a million views on YouTube.

Cletus McFarland, who was highly requested. We got him in after his big Daytona race and Dale. He actually had some questions for you in the interview. I had a couple questions I want to ask you to, you know. Yeah. Let me just pull them up. so I don't. I love it.

This is rare. Nobody ever has any questions for me. What do you think of the quote, Do It for Dale? I love it. I was like, I just hope he's never forgotten because he left such an impact on the sport.

And so that kind of thing is the staying power. That is the reminder to me, like, that he resonated with people. Now that you say that, I would say that he has the most longstanding legendary status

of any real, of motorsports driver. Maybe. I think she does. And so when I hear things like that, it's like, yeah. Yeah. He still matters. You know, I think it's a great saying.

It's like a lifestyle. My buddy, Justin Keith, said it to me one time, and I was like, dude, for Dale. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. You know, we were all kind of introduced to Cletus McFarland over the course of the past year or so. Don't know that I knew a ton about. the guy obviously

you know when when he got involved in buying a racetrack and started having some races you start to say hey what's going on down there and and then he he wants to get involved in driving in the Arca series and now you know he has these races down in Florida he has a lot of our guys that come down there and are part of that it's been really fascinating

we knew that his audience and his supporters and people that are devoted to what he's doing were going to be curious so we were talking you know it was pretty fun I think for us to be to know that we were talking to an entirely new audience and that was exciting of course we saw that in the numbers and cleetus was incredibly kind and this all snowboarded.

balled into, you know, he came and did the show and then we went out to Talladega. Funny thing, man, I wanted, you know, I wanted to go to Talladega and sort of, he's going to race at Talladega. Ran Daytona, he's going to race at Talladega. And I saw the Daytona stuff and all of his comments and I was like, hey, man, I might, you know, I know he loved it, I know he enjoyed it. What if we take him to Talladega and kind of give him a little bit of 101 on that place and you know it was a it was an opportunity i think to try to see if we could

help him go into that race and even and enjoy it even more because of his new you know education and understanding of the facility right and what it means and what it's about i thought he might find that kind of stuff fascinating it wasn't as he wasn't quite as interested in the history of the track as I thought he might be. You know, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, speculation over, over the property and what it used to be and how it may be cursed and all of these things. I thought that stuff would be right up his alley, because, uh, it would certainly be something that his listeners are, you know, people that support his channels would be like, oh, man, I need to know more.

What's this, right? But he's all about going fast. He really is. He's all about going fast and having fun. And he's all about cars and car culture. So we show up to the racetrack at Talladega, and he's got that Dell truck. Yeah.

And so I got a chance to drive that. I wasn't really sure if I was needing to do that. But because it's a lot to control. It's, I mean, it's 140-mile hours. Not as fast as some guys go in a straight line, but it's as fast as I'd ever went in terms of acceleration. That thing's not automatic. I mean, it's easy. It's not like, you know, you can mash your button go when you're done.

It's a handful. And the back straightaway is not quite as smooth as you might think, especially down low where we were running. But it was a great experience. And then he's, you know, I know he's trying to. create content his mind is always working on how what what can i do today what can i do every minute i don't want to waste an opportunity he's really really smart and always sort of proactive on creating content which was fascinating and i'm and i'm i'm a witness to this over this course of months while we were interacting with him more and he just he he says hey man i'm driving through the area

I need to stop by. And I was like, all right, well, it's like six o'clock in the evening. And he's like, I'm real close. Can I come by? And I was like, eh, you know, maybe, are you going to be around tomorrow? You know, what's the rush? I'm kind of hanging out with family getting ready to dinner or whatever. No, no, no, I need to do it now.

I'm like, all right. So I tell Amy, I'm like, Amy, Cletus is coming by? He wants to meet me, so I'm going to have him meet me up at the farm shop. Really? Yeah. Is he? Okay, yeah, we're in. Yeah, I know.

I know it's kind of, kind of, he seems urgent. Well, he pull up there and he's got, that's when he brings the swan. And I was like, damn. And, you know, that was cool. He didn't have to do that. And I know he was creating content at the same time. So I know, he's, you know, but it's still pretty, pretty neat, you know. He creates content while at the same time sort of being the good guy, you know.

and I appreciate that about him and he's good for the sport he's good for us we're all curious I watched his in car his arc race at Bristol and tried to really truly see what he's learning

as a driver watch his entry, his line how he picks a throttle up and how he really evolved as that race went on it was really interesting to me so I know I'm going long here but he's a it was cool

it was a big show for us big deal for us Yeah, we went and got margaritas to celebrate it. We did. And I think you posted a photo of it. And somehow, I don't know if he texts Biffle or how he found out where we were at. The menu. He picked up the menu.

He picked up the tab. Yeah. Which also tells me Mike was going to pick up the tab. Mike still owes us drinks. We, that's true. That's the kind of guy he is. So the dirty-mo media group of about a dozen people went to the local Mexican restaurant for lunch. to celebrate our numbers around the Cletus episode.

Yeah. I sent him a picture. I sent Cletus a picture saying, hey, we're all celebrating this show. I'm just saying thanks again for all the, you know, because he understands what the numbers mean. That's what he's working with every day. I'm like, thank you.

He didn't, you know, he got more, we got a lot more out of this than I think he did. He didn't need us. And so I was like, hey, man, here we have. all are so so thankful for you coming on the show and and he did he looked at the menu called up the place pit bought the tab i mean it was in minutes because there were seconds because we were about done we're getting ready to get up in about another five 10 minutes and so pretty spectacular just you know that's the kind of people you want to you want to be around uh you want to surround yourself with

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All right. This next clip, I'm really excited that we have two spotters at the table for this. Dirty Mo Doe is a segment on our Dirty Air Show every Tuesday, which is awesome. And Russell, the professor, has a lot of special stats, one of which is crash avoidance. The other guy I like is Byron. He's statistically the best that accident avoidance. Is that a stat you keep? Yeah.

Yeah. You know who's not good at that? Me. That's correct. Like top job of the spotter is to help guys miss Rex. Holy shit. Hey, what?

We've been doing this for 20 years, but this last month and a half has been a good run. I'm talking about this season. We've rebounded pretty well in the last couple months. We've raced this. We're 26th race deal, but I haven't wrecked him.

I haven't wrecked Brad in the last month and a half. Wait, wasn't he caught up at a wrecked last week? week? No, we finished ninth at Richmond. But he was caught up in one though, right? Yeah, we drove through it and made it through. Drove through it is a fucking. Did we lose positions? Literal definition of what happened. Were we in it? Did we lose spots? No. You were in it for sure. We didn't even pit. It was a bottom groove that was completely clear that nobody told him to go through. Clear up, clear up. Keep going high. Keep going up high. Keep going up there. Locker down. Locker down. What do you think, DJ? That was fun. I love having moments like that.

on the show that's fun for me do you enjoy that there yet there's no deny in the beginning of this year i mean it was a bad we started first five races like i was done before halfway most of them so it was uh kind of like the commander's season yeah my my season done before half way yeah that's what it felt like this year's been rough man and a lot of it and freddie knows this i mean we we we we we we we we don't really have i mean you're in it you're in it sometimes you can do something about it sometimes you can't and A lot of things this year just lined up where a car is sitting broadside in front of you in the track and you hit it and you go to the next one thing. The one stat I was proud of this year that I saw for us was we miss a good majority of crashes, but when we crash, it's terminal.

You know, so I like, I'm not going to let my guy ride around there limping all day. When I wreck him, we're done. You know what I mean? We're getting to get out of. Mostly spotters say when they see your car spitting, they're like, all right, lock it down. Freddy says throttle up. I'm like, we don't want to flip around all day, let's get out of here.

Yeah, that is That's fucking crazy. You know what I think about? You ever drive down the road? Oh, God. There are some moments in some crashes that, where when you know you're about to have impact with another car, actually throttling up is best.

It's best because it, the force that you, you'll feel and how that force will travel through the vehicle you're going to have contact with, it lessens some of that. You know, if you slam on brakes and hit the car, the whiplash and the forward momentum of your head and all those things is going to be more severe. You're going to strain all these things. Your neck could be sore as shit. But if you gas up and pop the guy, you know, in the left rear, quarter pan or whatever,

he's going to spin around, but you're going to drive through it and the forces your body goes through will be different. Of course, the car is going to suffer the damage. think about that in highway accidents. Oh. And I'm like, could you imagine trying to get out of a car and explain to once, you know, you're in the courtroom and they're like, you're a throttle position

and you gasped it up right before you teabone Miss Margaret. How do you explain yourself? Well, you know, I was worried about the centrifugal forces on my body. So I, you know, I did what I thought was best for me in the scenario.

Yeah, I mean. Margaret's neck I mean, damn, I mean I was gonna hit her I was hitting her in the rear quarter panel She was gonna be fine Sir, what is a rear quarter panel? Yeah, that, I don't, I mean,

I don't, I haven't felt a wreck from the roof yet. Have you, Freddie? I've never felt a one up here. Don't lift. Yeah, yeah, you're pretty good. Most time when me and Freddie see Rex I mean, we're probably like, oh shit, just close your eyes, it'll be over in a second.

Well, there was one. it was a couple years ago of Martinsville. Then you have, you went, both of you went through some big melee down to front straightaway. Yeah, that was. Like, you were running the Xfinity race of Martinsville.

I forget where that way. Oh, God. We made it through. There was 13 chances. Oh, I was. Oh, you. It felt like days of thunder. It was like,

there was cars everywhere and smoke and stuff, fire. There was all. I'm going through the smoke, Harry. Yeah. That was, um, we should have been in that wreck somehow, but. That's awesome. All right. I want to hit you with some wrap.

rapid fire bold takes from some shows this year. Image. It's safe to say he was pretty bold on DBC. Not too long ago, Jimmy Sponsor. Give me your state of the union for what you feel like in NASCAR. We are not the water cooler talk anymore. Monday morning, we're not the water cooler talk. And I think that the drivers need to learn a lot as far as trying to get the fans involved.

Trying to get the diehard fans and say, you know, like, Why do people like the Cowboys? I mean, why do people like a baseball team, the Yankees, whatever? I mean, the Yankees and Red Sox, they hate one another. They really don't, but it's a rivalry. We don't have that today. It's pitiful. NASCAR needs to get these drivers to realize that these fans want to see something

and not, well, we had a good day today, you know, the Toyota. No. That son of the fucking spun me out, you know, or whatever. Remember Rusty and Earnhardt. Ernard Rusty threw a bottle of water. He called him rubberhead. All kind of stuff. It was awful.

It was awful. Yeah. It was awful. Old Spence, he was something on there. Like, I mean, that was probably one of her less bold takes on there, I think. But you know when you have Jimmy Spencer on, you're going to get Jimmy Spencer's versions of things. And sometimes they may not be the same as everybody else's version. But he is one of a kind and says whatever the hell comes of mind, I think, sometimes.

We do like controversy, though, on the track. Like, you know, any. Most time, Martinsville normally brings some of that. We've had some instances there, and there's usually some good all series that run at Martinsville, usually, and leaving there with somebody mad at somebody. I think that we need to, like, I think what he's getting at, he didn't, they kind of talked his way around it,

but, like, just wanting to see personalities more. I think we've all said that on all of our shows. Like, you don't get to see a lot of these guys kind of stay buttoned up, and that's, I think the podcast helped with that, and, you know, outside media, stuff that they do, the DAP stuff was helping a little bit. But, you know, I feel like these guys just don't, kind of put themselves out.

And sometimes they can't sponsor related wise or whatnot. But like you want to see more from them. They want to see more of their personality versus the just the buttoned up driver kind of corporate version. Do you think because of an out of this, hold on, do you think because of the way the points are or the way that we race now that we, instead of that race, just crippling your season,

you think you have another chance to win next week and you're in? Do you think, you know, putting more emphasis on a longer point system would make these guys get more angrier at these moments like if you do get wrecked and you have to you don't hey man what if i don't like i can win next week and still be i could tell you that everything we've done to move away from the 36 race schedule has been has been a detriment to this type of what he's saying yeah everything everything everything we've done to move away from the 36 race schedule has not had to design or desired results and it's made the, you know, it's made the bad days easier to get over or get through or not as, not as bad. I'll win next week.

Yeah. And so, yeah. So when something bad happens on a track or a driver does you the wrong way, it's much easier for you to put it behind you. You're annoyed, you're mad, but, you know, it's not detrimental to the year. But when it was detrimental to a year, you were mad at that guy and you carried that grudge until you, felt like you got even, whether it was a year down the road or six years down the road. You were mad because that guy cost you an entire year in your head, right, whether that was the reality of the situation or not.

But I'm going to tell you this. We can make up, we can ask a million questions about, you know, different things and different topics. And the answer would be yes in terms of how going away from the 36 race full season has been detrimental or negative. And that's one, that's just one of a million. I was just thinking about... I was thinking about the age of some of the guys in a sport now.

They don't have any idea what it used to be like like that. This is all they know. I'd love to throw them back into the fire. That's what I'm saying. A lot of these guys have no idea what that system would be. Well, another hot take from a show this year, Herman Schrader, Kenny Wallis, Kenny Schrader, started their show up this year. It's been awesome to watch them grow and bring the opinions.

and this one when I saw this clip really surprised me so I'm curious to hear you guys take on this. A number on a race car is totally useless anymore. Yeah. What do you have a number on race car for?

You don't need it for scoring. That's all electronics. It's my dirt car. One single digit. It'd be a one if everybody didn't have ones just because it doesn't mean anything. It just takes up space

so you could have sponsor names aren't. You know, You bring up a good point that you preached to me years ago, and it caught me off guard because I have this emotional tie to my number 36. I'm like, I'm 36 for so many reasons. And it kind of hurt me when you said a number doesn't mean anything. Now, I'm saying this with love and I'm laughing. You were the first person to say to me a number doesn't mean anything. And you just explained it. I don't, yeah, I love Kenny Schrader. He's family, but I don't agree with that. And I don't like that he, you know, Kenny.

I don't like that he swayed Kenny because Kenny was right. Kenny ought to have this personal connection to 36. I got a connection to 8, 88, 03, 31, and I'm old fucking people. And I you know, I feel like the number does

matter because it's an identifier. And if you, you know, you look at, if numbers don't matter, why are they on football? jerseys and they're in other sports. Every player has a number.

I don't think you say numbers and every sport don't matter. Well, I'm just saying like, no, he didn't, Travis. Thanks for... I don't know why you're bringing NFL into this. I'm just saying if, because every, they're an identifier to the

player, to the race car driver. They're identifying. You go, my guy's number 88. I want to wear that number. number. I want to wear that jersey. Hey, my casual buddy that's at the racetrack, there goes number for 48. There goes number seven. That's my guy. Don't pull for 18. Don't like that guy. Whatever, right? And you don't go

with a yellow car with blah, blah, blah on it. What the you know, there's three yellow cars out there. You know, it's just, it's an identifier. And it needs to be in the middle of the fucking door. And, you know, or wherever you want to put it, right, between the tires, which would have been a great, you know, compromise. But the RTA or the, you know, the teams wanted it to be regulated to a specific space. The, you know, this fucking frustrates me

because the number is important. What are we doing? You know, it's always, why is the, the numbers have been there forever? Why do we want to, why do we want to, uh, uh, minimize it or, or, you know, they move, they went away from, uh, the, the dash series,

went away from numbers pretty much entirely. And you had sponsors and nicknames and shit, you know, there goes the Hulkster. Or what, you know, they, yeah. Was that you? Were you the Hulkster? I was the Hulkster. And one of the final years of the dash series, they took the numbers off the side of the cars. And you either put a sponsor there, or you could put a nickname, you know, you could have like a, you know, kind of like a, very similar to monster trucks, right? You'd have a theme.

And it f*** canned. It was terrible. It basically was the last, you know, it was the last dying breath of the series. And, you know, I just don't agree with that. I don't know where that comes from from Schrader. When I see 25, I think, a Schrader. Like, I associate him with 25. And then I know if I go to a dirt race and I see a 52, that's probably Schrader's dirt car.

He would have a completely different opinion if he would have, you know, this isn't a dig. he would have a completely different opinion if he would erase the number 25 car and won seven championships with it. Yeah. Everybody in the world would go 25 Kenny Schrader. And he would be, that would be equity to him. That would be value to him that he would absolutely work off of and utilize and turn into profit, you know, right? He would lean into that.

He would have a completely different opinion than he has today. I still think of it. You know what I mean? Well, yeah, we do. I mean, we can sit here and pick a number and name tons of drivers that we connect to those numbers. You know, I think the one thing, and I agree with you, Dale, that I think it's idiotic to say. Not idiotic. I shouldn't say that because Kenny gains enough respect.

But obviously it's identified. But I think we do need to do better. As much as you love pain schemes, like some of the schemes we come up with these days, you can't even read the... I'm on the roof every week. Watch a practice. You see a car down in the backst and you're like, I don't even know who that is, you know,

because we don't do a good enough job making the numbers stand out on somebody. You know, the reason for half these schemes are a certain a way because of, you know, tacking things like that. They color certain parts of the car, different colors and things, trying to, you know,

help get through the tech process at times. I just think we need to do a better job of just highlighting the number more because, like I said, you can't see it. There are some cars that, It's very hard to see on. The difference paint schemes every week do make it challenging as well.

It's hard to see. You ought to be a broadcaster. Sure. You ought to be a spotter. It's equally. Well, let's disagree that it's equally tough. All right. Last debate topic came from Bless Your Heart.

So, you know, this one's going to be outrageous. This was actually one of the top Bless Your Heart clips from shit. So this got a lot of traction. A lot of people weighed in. And I'd be curious to see what the rest of the group things. you were thinking about fashion faux paws on the way to the shop if you want me to tell you the truth so i was trying i was putting my hat on and my hat was pushing my ear out a little bit and i was like man i hate that and so because i don't like i like my hat to go all the way down on my head but not put my ears out

and i was thinking that must be why some people put their ears inside their hat but every time i see somebody with their ears inside their hat i think immediately oh man You've never seen a man put on a hat like this and have his ears inside. When I see somebody do that, I'm like, man, I can't trust them. And I see it quite often, especially on the west side of the country. There's a lot of people over there doing that in California. Especially the California. So is it acceptable to tuck your ears in?

Who does it? I notice it all the time. T.J. Bell is the first one that comes to my idea. He has it all the time for me. and I always look at it. I'm like, damn, I don't know I can do that. I don't know how you do it. I wouldn't be able to be comfortable. Cole Custer has done it. I've seen Cole Custer.

Maybe Riley? Riley? Maybe. No, Xfinity series. Creed. Sheldon Creed. Yeah, I don't know if your hat. Your spash should go to your ears and stop at the worst. Well, no, but like you don't, you're, go to you. Pull your fucking head from them.

Your hat, definitely. They should go know, like the, they should go behind your ears. Well, yours, no, like it can go behind your ear. That hat I was wearing right there. No, I don't mind. That's too big. That hat on this clip is too big. Too big of a bucket.

It should not, to your point, T.J., it should not sit down, sit on your ears. It shouldn't. I said that's the lowest it should go. That's like the bottom out point. I didn't, but again, yeah, the ears in the hat. I don't know what that is. I don't know why guys do it.

I don't know. I would like to hear from someone. Let's say, let's open the lines of communication here and have Shelton Creek come here and go, this is why I do it. I want to know. Maybe he doesn't want to hear. Yeah. So shut up and back and forth.

I've seen pictures with it, with and without. So maybe when you get one, say you're a guy like Creed or Cole Custer and you get one and you're like, this summit is too big. I got a haircut. Nothing fits. I'll just tuck my ears in. I don't know. Do you think you have to order them bigger though?

Like if you're planning on it? No, I don't think they plan on it. I think that they just tuck them in when the hat's too big. You want me to call them? Put them on speaker phone. Ask them, hey, man, straight up. Yes. Who are you calling?

Who are you calling? T.J. Bell, right away. Oh, F-J. Bell. When we go live, we can ask the fans, too. Let's ask T.J. Bill. See what he says. Calling somebody. But, yeah, I order damn seven to five-eighth fitted hats, and every one of them is different.

Every one. What are you doing? We just got one quick question. Just so you know you're live on a podcast right now, why do you tuck your ears inside your hat? Because I've always had to fit me correctly. Okay, is that the only reason? Oh, it started, and that's how I've just always worn my hats. Why do you think others do it?

I mean, it's a West Coast thing. Oh, yeah. That's what Dale Jr. said and said it's a West Coast thing. All right, well, me, Freddie and Dale Jr. were talking about it on a show here, and your name came up. So I said, let's just call him. Yeah, yeah, it's West Coast thing. Plus, when you keep the bill flat, you can hold your taco while you're peeing. what do they say

say that again oh my god I bring my taco all right good good uh good good uh whatever you're eating

all right appreciate it thanks put your cheeseburger all right see you yeah I'm never should we try

should we go to the bathroom with a flabron no should we try cold you would get cold yeah you can get coal custer all the photos shows

it's true. All the photos show him not. Well, he's done it before. What about Sheldon? I don't know if I've got his number. He's going to be like, why is it? He's probably sleeping. What time? He might be in California. He's probably, yeah. Here we go. He's probably hung over for sure. Hello?

Hey, Sheldon. It's Dale Jr. Hey, Dale. How are you? Hey, I'm on my podcast, and I'm with T.J. and Freddie. I got a question for you. All right. Why do you wear hats and tuck your ears in the hat? Have you ever seen me with my hat, like my ears outside of my hat? Um, no.

I don't like my, my, I have like a little head. My ears are just not big enough. Yeah. Like, then they just stick out and they look funny. You think it looks funny, so you look and it looks better with the ears tucked in. And, um, I think he looks normal. I'm even tall enough to like stick outside of my hat. Yeah.

Yeah. are in. I see you. I got some pictures here. You got the ears in. Yeah, you look normal on these. And the ears are out. Your ears are normal.

Dude, you're 100% normal. A West Coast thing, I don't know. It's West Coast. Oh, gosh. That's like PJ Nelson. Oh, my God. What is the West,

why do people do it on the West Coast? They think it's a, it's sort of a, look. Who pioneered this? Who pioneered it? I wear a, like, West Coast. I wear a, like, flat bills mostly.

Yep. Have you ever put a taco on it while you peed? He's not going to know that reference. Like the hats are bigger. Like you're an normal like little baseball cap. Yep.

All right. Well, you're just curious. I had a real, I had a take on it. You know, I had a personal opinion about it. And, oh. I want to agree with that.

Well, I just, I see a guy with his ears in his hat. It's like, I just have a hard time. I'm trusting that guy. You're an anomaly. I trust you. You're an anomaly.

You're not in that group. But if I don't know the guy, I'm like, man, why are you doing that? Because the hat's designed to go on the other way. I will say, though, that you wearing your hat normally with your ears out, you got regular ears. Yeah, you look normal. You got it. You don't, I don't know what your insecurities around your ears. I think it's not.

real. Look, I have my ear out right now, and it looks goofy. No, don't agree. Yeah. Does everybody here agree that they look normal with the ears out? They look normal, yeah. You look 100% normal. We were just curious and I appreciate you answering the phone. You look not normal with the men. Yep. When you three are done, you can come help me move. I'm moving right now. Are you? Where are you moving to? Sorry, phones break it up. What? Is it a single floor of ranch? Are we talking stairs? Yeah.

We're living states, though, but we're moving further north, like out into the country. Galais, man. Everybody's moving further away. You know, there's some land over where I'm at, man. Cleveland. It's way too expensive over there. No, Cleveland? It's expensive.

It's very undeveloped. It's expensive. Right Creek. Tidal town. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Shelton. Yeah, thanks, man. I hope the move goes good.

Thank you. All right, buddy. See you. There you go. I mean, we really didn't get... They're consistent. They're consistent. They're just thinking Dale June's going to offer my riders on.

Consist. So it's consistent. Small head west coast is like the... Yeah. This is what triggers. Yeah. Small head big hats. Small head big hat west coast.

Yeah. Wow. You think... I mean, I can't imagine. Oh, man, Dale Jr.'s calling me. Why do you put your ears in your hat? That's funny to y'all. I don't get it.

It is the most random thing. When was the last time you called him? Never. Probably a couple years? Yeah, right. Spent a few years. Whenever the last time he wrecked the car here was, probably. I mean, his conversations.

His off season. I think I called him to tell him a couple years ago to tell him to keep trying, man. He's eventually going to get a win. He should have told him again. All those second place finishes. I was like, man. You just keep digging. Call him re-edering.

Call him back. Tell him that. I'm right to tell you. Stop it. Let's roll a clip. All right. Roll a clip. What are we feeling?

What are we feeling? You're a... You're a producer. You're going to go live. The tear down has the ability to, I think, get a lot of good stuff out of drivers, stuff that other journalists can't get. And they're not afraid to ask the weird, random questions. And this is from Media Day with Ryan Blaney.

You got done with Daytona, and then you immediately went stroller shopping. I did. Oh, you know, I, um. Yeah, that was my Sunday. Oh, you spent a Sunday off. You have so few Sundays. After he won. Yeah.

After you win. That was my off day. We went shopping. And your Sunday, fun day consisted of stroller shopping. Yeah. Well, we planned on doing that regardless. Like, my wife and already planned like, hey, if we get the race in on Saturday, you know, we have to do this. This is a big one, right?

It's like shopping for your first car. So for a stroller and car seat and stuff. Like, you want to get a nice one. You know? I was feeling generous, right? We just got to win. I don't even want to ask. I'm not much.

It is bonkers, how expensive these things are. But also, you know, a big thing to me was, all right, not only does it, how does this thing handle, you know, how does it drive? How quick can you fold it up and unfold it? That is huge. And how easy is it to unfold and fold? And so I was like, timing like, bam. And bam, bam, this thing's open.

Like, Gianna, like, how do you like it? Do you like how it folds and unfolds? And is it easy for you? And so there's so many different levels to it. It's crazy. Absolutely. Spot on. He's right, yeah.

He is. And, you know, when you get two, things really get tough because then those double strollers, they don't fold up. They're heavy as shit. It doesn't do anything you like. There's some real rinky dink cheap strollers. They're the best. The ones that fold up this way

and you just throw them in and, you know... It's literally like a chair, like a folding chair. It is as simple as it can be. And, yes, I remember that. We don't do strollers anymore, but...

So, I don't know if you know this. Telvin in our football league just had a baby. So he has a stroller. I saw this and it rocks itself when it's in park. What the hell? Wow.

For the, yeah, I never saw it before. Isn't that something we're going to, we're going to, as we get older, see all this like new, new technology for kids and be jealous.

Mm-hmm. Like they're in a f***ing strollers. Like that. Rocks itself. Rocks itself. It's like little Tesla strollers. It's driving itself. Yep.

Yeah. I'm excited for Ryan to go through that experience. There's a lot of people that are, you know, that we get to see go through you know all those all those milestones and you don't want to wish your wife you don't want to wish your life away you don't want to wish your life away people tell you that man because you'll listen you don't

you don't understand when you get when you get kids you'll be sitting there and you'll be like i don't i'll be so glad when i don't have to do this anymore there'll be these things you know it's whatever it may be right you'll be like oh so glad when this is over this part of it right or pacifiers like get rid of these f***ing pacifiers i can't wait for but you got to remind yourself not to like wish it forward you know because it's going to come a day yeah you're going to wish it was there yeah i was like a seven-year-old going on 10 and we're like golly sucks slow down time i've noticed now that ila and stella they get they used to come hey what are you doing now let's go play now it's like i'm going to go play with stella i'm going

to go play with ella it's like we've been replaced yes so and it does change you for ryan i'm excited for ryan i think you don't know it until you go through it as a dad. I went through it. I mean, I'd leave the basement early sometimes and you'd be like, oh, that's bullshit. You didn't got to go. I gave him so much hell. He called me, I don't know if you remember this, but you called me almost right after you had Ila and you were like, man, I'm sorry, I gave you all that shit them times. I know, like I understand it now. And it's like just something you can't explain to people until you go through it. And you do love when the day comes and you can get rid of them strollish. Yeah, those things could be.

And the car seats. Car seats. We're all booster now. We just shifted into just booster only. Big stuff. Those big damn car seats getting them in and out of cars. Oh my gosh, man. Yeah.

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the last thing I remember, I was split on the door, so I had one leg in the car, one leg out the out the car. And the last thing I remember is thinking, I don't know why, but I thought I was going to break my femur. Like I was, my leg was stuck. I thought I was going to get caught in the headrests and just, I thought I was done. Like, I thought I was done. And then apparently the first thing I said when I, when I came back to life and, you know, was resurrected is, they said, Michael Campbell, actually, Justin's PR guy, he was walking with me. I was on the stretcher. And I, like, start turning the corner and coming back. And I was like talking gibberish, like just yapping away.

You were in the race too. Which I've seen you do this before. Before the fall. Thanks. And he goes, well, I was basically, not yelling, but I was talking to the medics. And I was like, I'm good, I'm good. Like I'm, my shoulder hurts a little bit, but that's it. Like I'm fine.

And they're like, no, like we're putting you on the stretcher. I'm into this neck brace. And I'm walking, I'm getting pulled away on the stretcher. and I'm like, apparently the first thing, the first words that came out of my mouth that were legitimate where, God, everyone's going to think I'm a . . . . Yeah, that was a tough one. That was scary. Yep. So scary.

He came on the show that day, and I think he was still probably medicated from the pain that he was on there. I'm like, I'm like, we're going to have to cut this whole show out. He's like, he's letting it fly today. That line there, I was like, we're definitely kind of cut that one out. But, I mean, I was glad he came. We had, Josh came in because I'm like, there's no way. like Connor was a scheduled guest for that week, goes and falls out of the car,

so I'm like, all right, he can't do the show. And so we get Josh to come in and fill in for him. And then Connor just walks in the door, and I'm like, all right, buddy, sit out. Have a seat. Let's have some fun today. He is, so he, I was standing there, watched the whole thing happen,

went to the hospital, went through the whole, I was able to see all of it. And I'm thinking he comes out of the hospital and I was telling his, you know, I was telling his people, I was like, you know, we're going, I'll wait. We'll take him back if he wants to go home tonight. He had planned on staying and going to the race the next day.

I was like, you know, probably ain't doing that. He's not, he's got to get surgery Monday. He's going to be, you know, he ain't going to want to move. He's not going to be very comfortable. And he's like, I ain't going home. Me and Jesse got a hotel room. I'm going to the race. I'm doing all that.

And his parents were like, that's what he's doing. Like, he made his mind up. I was like, man, if I was. his dad, I'd be like, the f*** you are, boy, you're going home, that's what you're doing, get on it, f***ing land. But they were like, yep, he does what he wants. It's what has set his mind to, so that's what he's doing. And he did it.

And so I turn on the, you know, I turn on social media the next morning. He's walking up down pit road in a sling, like, you know, like his arm ain't broke. He still ain't had the surgery and he's walking up down pit road, you know, just chatting it up with people. And then comes on the show days later. Like, he just, it didn't. Didn't. Did it even happen? It didn't register to him, I guess, like how, like, damn, dude, just just sit down.

She just calmed down a little bit. Yeah, we all, I mean, you just had a ridiculous looking bad accident. And then, like, you think about it. Like that day, you know, what we're all talking about, obviously, we were driving out of the racetrack and somebody's like, holy shit, Connor fell. So then you're talking about it. You'd, like, talk to some of the guys over there, and they're like, it's definitely a collarbone, it's definitely this, whatever.

So then you start thinking like, all right, he's going to be out, Daytona, for sure. He's going to be out, probably the next three. Like, he's not going to want to run Bristol. He's not going on the road courses. And, you know, he missed Bristol and still transfer out of the next round. He's got so many points. And then he only missed Daytona, right? And he was like back racing, winning the next week.

And I was like, this kid's incredible. He is. And you forget sometimes he's still a kid. You see last night at the banquet, he's on stage singing. Yeah, him and Jesse. karaoke with Jesse. And, you know, a couple days before, he's standing on Pit Road, and as low as he's ever been, probably in his professional career, at least.

and just so heartbroken. And then, you know, he can just kind of, just like this situation with the shoulder, it's like 24, 48 hours later, he's like, I'm good, you know, it is what it is. And he's on about his, you know, carrying home about his life. And the other thing, too, is, like, to see him jump on a stage in karaoke in front of the industry or whoever's there at that party. And I, we have a lot of cool people coming up through the sport. I don't want to minimize anybody.

our two champions in the truck in the Xfinity series, Hyam and Jesse are great examples of some great personalities come up to a sport. But Connor is this like, you know, Connor, his willingness, right, just to jump on that stage, right, and just do a little karaoke, his willingness to come on your podcast

just a couple days after that. It's surprising that somebody didn't say, nah, let's not do it in the media. But he's like, no, I'll get on there. I'll talk about it. This is my experience. And he's the one that's the driving motivation behind that. He's like, I want to do it.

I want to get up there. I want to tell everybody what happened. I feel foolish. I want to get up there and face it head on. I texted that night and I said, don't worry about, I was, I said the next day, actually. I didn't think that night. But the next day I was like, hey, don't worry. We're going to get Josh come in.

Don't worry about nothing. We're not, you're all good. He's like, no, no, I'm coming. I'm like, all right. Well, like the medicine doesn't war off yet. Like, just relax. Like, we don't need you to come in tomorrow. you're fine.

I appreciate it. He's like, no, no, I'm coming. I'll be there. And I was like, all right,

whatever. He does a great job. To be young. Yeah. I know. He does a great job like making, this is why it's so popular too is because people gravitate towards this too and see like he's doing a lot for

himself when he does this. Building his brand. I said the other day, I said he's the most complete prospect I've ever seen. Like I wasn't around for Jeff Gordon coming up or whoever. But like when we sat down in last year, you were there. we came in, I didn't know him well, he comes in and I'm like, you don't think this kid's 17

when you talk to him. You know, you sit there and you're like, this is a polished veteran you're talking to essentially and he's 17 years old and it's like, wow, what the hell? I agree. There was news that broke after we recorded both of our shows this week, both DBC and the download that Zilich was supposed to take part in a World Endurance Challenge hypercar test in Bahrain, but didn't because he didn't win the Xfinity time. Bahrain. That's why he was crying.

I get it. I don't give it. I don't know what the f*** that is and I don't care. I mean, it was important to him. I heard, I saw everybody on social media like, oh, this is b-uh, can you believe this? This is fucking bull-h. Connor, I don't know what it was. Connor still.

What is the hypercar? Is it like an electric car? What is it? I don't know what it is. Honestly, I don't even know. I didn't get involved. I just know that it was about points for a super license or whatever. You can't just go over there and drive the car.

I get it, but I mean, I get it. But he's like a prototype? That's like a Rolex car, I want to say. But he has that background, so he's connected with that still. Well, he's probably a big deal. I think he's still racing in 24 hours of Daytona. Yeah. Look, I selfishly don't want him going over and doing it.

Stay here. Yeah, I want him racing and cut, some, you know, road course. Stay here, Connor. Some Weck stuff in the United States. Yeah. You know, like the 24 hours of Daytona, that's badass. No, I'm fucking around. I think it's, he's a complete package.

I'd love if he can be a bad if he can be a superstar in in NASCAR that does go do you know the Lamonts and those type of things and is successful is a valued asset to a team that's badass for us yeah we claim him we drafted him we drafted him but I don't know what the fucking hyper car is we drafted Connor they're they're really rebuctious cars I guess so well they're a little wilder than the than a normal car like you know like they they too much sugar too much sugar yeah I want to get one more clip. Okay.

Becoming Earnhardt, Season 2, 1980. Boys, over the summer. Slow down. Drum roll. All right. This is the fucking part of the show that I've been anticipating the most.

We got Tims here. Tims, who worked very, very hard on this project, lots of late hours, lots of late nights. I hope so. You stole them off DBC for two fucking months. Yeah, yeah. And then I had to be on these. I know.

That was the worst two months we had. Roll a clip, let's go. Yeah. So this is from becoming Earnhardt. Something evidently wrong with Kail Yerba's automobile as he backed way out of the carburetor. Dale Earnhardt looked like he was shot out of a gun as he guns by Kail.

Yonba on St. Road with the hood up and the crew is under it. I feel like we won the race. We just didn't get paid for it. That's what Kail Arnard. Bobby Allison side by side is three and four. Dale Earnhardt on the high side. Bobby Allison on the low side, as they come out of turn for, they'll be running side by side. Dale Earnhardt, shoot past Bobby Allison and takes over the lead in the amount of 500.

In an article in the Stock Car Racing magazine, Goodyear engineers are telling Jake Elder the tires on dad's car were so warned that there was no way he could finish the race without a pit stop. This is the time of the race where the drivers start hearing everything going on in a car. He feels every vibration. He hears every knock, and he just counts the laps off with the starter. Elder said after the race, if you want to be a superstar, sometimes you have to take chances.

They were down to the fabric, but I figured those tires had another 10 laps in them. And he has a big water-ballon friend underneath that apple bar bus has Dale Earnhardt, the russian driver for just a few years back now becoming a very big, strong veteran, forced to be reckoned with, many of the pads on the bank down the back straight away, raising their hits and salute to Dale Earnhardt. Dad was able to charge to the front and lead the final 29 laps,

and he's going to capture his first win of the season in the second of his Cup career. Canaple's North Carolina last year's rookie the year comes off of turn four. He's headed to the start finish line, and he gets the ticket flag. This 500-mile journey changed Dad. early morning demeanor once he pulls into victory lane. Dale, congratulations. A victory's second year on a super speedway here.

Boy, you did it. I ain't believing we did it, but you know this crew worked hard. And it just was a long day. We run hard all day. We had good pit stops. You know, it was just a super day. Well, you sat back there, seemed to control yourself. You finally made your move.

Just moved right by Bobby Allison. Had you been holding back all day? No, I was running hard as I could go. Bobby slowed down. He had problems. Luckily, Kel had problems too, so it ended up we were by herself at the end. He goes on to say, this I could get used to. This beats the heck out of any other feeling I've had recently.

This is going to be Dad's first of nine total victories at Atlanta. Now, that's a record that still stands today for the most wins by a single driver at this track. Well, congratulations once again on the radio network and everybody's universal waiting. The sweet taste of victory for Dale Earnhardt. Atlanta International Raceway at Hampton, Georgia. This is so long from now from the Universal Racing. The Becoming Earnhardt Series is in its second season. That was a little taste of this past season that we created with the 1980 championship year.

We started that series around the 1979 season. It's a very important project to me. I put a ton of work into the first year. The second year, it was a lot of collaboration. amongst a lot of people when Alex, you came in and did a ton of work on the sound design. And really, I mean, I loved season one, wasn't sure where season two was going to go. I was actually concerned about whether we were going to put enough assets into it for it to rival the first year. But you lifted this series up to a new level.

I loved how you made every moment feel important. You matched the sound design with what was happening in reality and dad's career. incredible job I'll say this man when we were doing season one is a huge undertaking because we would create every episode and then we would listen to it and we would make

monster changes so many changes to every single aspect we were so particular and every episode of season one just never we were in a crunch and it just we were feeling rushed and we just never really got to

a great place with every episode but it was still good and comfortable. We would get episodes for this particular season, and there'd be no changes, minimal if any, changes. You did such a super job, everybody involved. Just wanted to celebrate that for a minute, and thanks for putting everything into it, because, again, this is really an important project to me,

and I'm very proud with what we ended up with. Yeah, thank you for the kind words. Yeah, I got a shout at MRN, too. They gave us all the radio calls, and that really brought it to life. And a lot of the stories that you hear, the candidness from your dad and Kale Yarborough and even Daryl Walshap with his storyline throughout the series was really brought it to life and was amazing. It was really fun to go back and listen to something, what, 45 years later. And a lot of it still kind of runs truth today's very thing, too.

So it was very fun to work on. Yeah, it's a great project. Those radio calls, man. They're cool. I love hearing that, man. I listen to the radio call. for this past week as I was going

out in my garage I was out in my garage quite a bit so for this championship weekend I listened to the radio call more than I watched a television call man

and the vibe that you feel from bags and all those guys on the radio it's the same as it was back

that's one thing that's sort of been very consistent I guess of the many things you know our sports always of

and always changed for better or worse. But the radio call has always had the same energy and intensity and sound and vibe to it. I like that. I do too. I love it. I think that's why I feel like some of our best play-by-play guys, some of our best on-air talent that we've had in our industry has come from radio because they know, like, when you're doing radio, you've got to paint a picture.

I always talked about when you were spotting for me. Like, I don't, I want you to do such a good job. I don't got to look in the mirror. I want to know what it looks like in my mind. You paint the picture for me. And that's what they do is, you know, analysts on the radio. Dale, I know you've been thrown in turns and, like, tried to do play by play. They threw me up on the roof for the roval.

Just practice and qualifying to try and do play by play. Oh, my God, it is not easy. So hearing. That's terrifying. Hearing all those guys do it. They're just so good at it. They just sound so natural. It is not as easy as it looks.

I agree. Yeah, that's a lot of fun hearing those old calls. And I'm not sure what the future is for the Becoming Earnhardt series. I would love to continue it, you know, and I don't know where. I think there would be a point I feel around the 90s where I would lose interest because I lived a lot of that, right? And the point for doing Becoming Earnhardt in 79 and this past season was for me to learn more, which we did. And it, we, we, it was like, uh, excavation or, uh, it was like, uh, you know, um, it was like, you know, uncovering. Unearthing.

You know, it was really, that was the experience. And that's, and it's been rewarding as hell. We've learned. And a lot of the things that, uh, that I love won't even be Earnhardt stuff. It'll be like, you know, Lenny Pond got busted for soaking tires or somebody, you know, things. Yeah. You know. Neobonic got struck by lightning during 1980s.

Twice. I think twice. I think twice. I think twice. And it wasn't even make the show because there's so many things that happened. Yeah. I was unearthing that was incredible.

That was a deal during, there was so, I was overdoing the research on the 79 season. There's a shit ton of stuff that didn't make it. And there's one story where Neil Bonnet basically lands the 21 pirouillator ride from when David Pearson and the Woodbrother split. But at the same time,

he's getting these opportunities possibly to go run the Indy 500 and he kind of had to make a decision in Dover to which one what's route he was going to go right and he he ended up not going to Indy and doing that uh and stayed with with the but those and there's like a yeah it's a cool story yeah that I would never would have thought that right and yeah just and there was a in 792 the McQuary tire comes in there like Harry Gantz sitting on the pole at Pocono in the 47 car that car was good but a pole winning car JD McDuffie, one of the backmarker independence, goes to Bristol and sets on the pole.

It'd be like, you know, it'd be like the 51 sitting on the pole. Could you imagine if that happened? You know, and it'd be like, go, what the fuck? You know. But those tires would fall apart in the race. Quickly. There, yeah. Hey, everybody.

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Hey, everybody. It's Dale Jr. here to Dale Jr. Download. live for a little ass junior on a Wednesday but we wanted to get on YouTube and go live and see what you guys were up to. I want to thank Xfinity for the past 11 years sponsoring the Xfinity series. It's really grown into something special.

They've backed young drivers told their story, really created opportunities for them to get up through the Xfinity series into the Cups series and it's all, you know, they brought all of us along for the ride, you, the fan. We all got to be a, you know,

a passenger on this train for the past several years. And we're very thankful for it. The series name may be changing, but Xfinity is going to stick around, and the next lap's going to be a great one. Can't wait to see what they continue to do to support our sport and everything we do here at Dirtymo Media. Let's get right to it. You see any great questions on there? Yeah, actually, this is funny.

The first question is from Kelly, when are we going to see a joint DBC DJD podcast? And Kelly, that's actually kind of what's happening right now. Freddie and T.J. are here. I don't count it. Oh, you don't count it? I've asked Mike about that. I've told Mike we should have like a roundtable one day where we all get in the room and argue. Oh, okay.

Well, I mean, there's every, nothing's fun. Debate is certainly the most fun route to take, right? Yeah. I agree. You know, on topics happening. I feel like we could get Tommy France pretty wound up with you. It can be pretty fun. I told him yesterday, this is where we're going to do it.

I told him yesterday, I said, I'm not coming back from Homestead next year. like I'm going to Key West. So we're going to do DBC in Key West at some point. So you just come on down and we'll... Well, can you book me on that show? Yeah, I'll see if I get your... Hey, I'm looking for a reason to get the Key West anytime I can't. I've had to get creative.

I had to go there for Tim Dugger's birthday recently. Had to? That's how desperate we are. Had to go? Had to. What did they say he's had to figure out a reason again? Yeah, we've got to figure out reasons. And we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

It seems like Freddie kind of answered this next question for next season, but Ben wants to know what are your guys' off-season plans now that the season's probably watching this shit. Tim. Tim. Tim, Dougger. Tim,

our phone will start ringing here. Ben, you son of them. Is that Kennedy? Ben Kennedy? He wants to know what I'm doing. He wants to know what I'm doing where I'm going to be calling a bomb through it. This year's off-season plans?

Yeah, because you told us next season, the 27. Yeah, I'm going to a Bachelor party for Sons Tyler Courtney in a couple of weeks. I'm going to Tyler Courtney's wedding in a couple weeks after that. We're going to me and Eric Jones. Eric Jones is a big Detroit Lions fan. They always take a trip to a Lions game. Well, it turns out the one they picked this year they're playing the Giants. So I'm going to go to that one with them in a couple weeks.

That's about it for what I can. You got high notes for that game? No, well, I used to. The problem with the Giants is I don't care. I know they were going to not be good, but they were going to be fun to watch with Scatibo and Dart Roads. running around and now we've lost scatabow darts kind of on his own so they're not as fun to watch it anymore but i mean they're they're showing they're showing some signs of life at least which i

appreciate yeah where you going anywhere uh not really been kind kind of kind of quiet um yeah quiet for a little bit go work on my college football team got to take down him where we had that national championship game coming up or we've already had one we're getting there so have you have you've had one since he beat you oh we've i'm going uh i'm going to to the beach for Thanksgiving with Tim Dugger and Tara. Found a good reason to go to the beach. He's probably going to bail on me now.

Rarely scraving the barrel bottom of the barrel for Thanksgiving. You guys travel 38 weekends a year. I know Dale, you used to, but you still are on the road a lot. When that is done and you're just like home, is that a weird feeling to be home

for that long? How do you get to adjust? to that. I mean, by the second week, you're like, when we're racing next week? You're right. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. You'll get, so they'll be like, they'll be like 10 or 8 or 5 races left in the year. You're coming toward the end of the season and you're like, I can't wait to the shit's over with. Yeah. And you get to the end and two weeks into the offseason and you're like, I want to go back to the track. I was wrong. This is not good. This, this happened like right now. Like, after leaving Phoenix, I feel like I'm, I have to think about Phoenix the whole offseason now.

And, you know, obviously it wasn't, it was overshadow. But you got to think about your last race. Like when COVID happened, ended up winning the race before COVID with Lugano. And we went weeks and you're just riding that wave, like the high. And if you end the season on a low note. When we were standing on pit road after the race in Phoenix Saturday night, I was ready for Daytona. 100%. Yeah.

I was like, get me to the, get me back. the track. That's like the only way to fix. It is. I'm lucky enough that I continue to race for majority of the all season. It feels like I'm going to go race this weekend with Jimmy Blewett and his son. And Jimmy's out for the year with some injuries or some medical stuff going on. So his son's driving a modified this week. So I'm going to go to

Carraway spot the Northside shootout for him. I've always been doing the turkey derby for Jimmy at the Thanksgiving weekend. So I continue to race it almost until December, almost every year. Sometimes I do the snowball derby in December. So by then, I'm usually done with it. But then like you said, by January either I want to leave or my wife is ready to kick me out of the house at that point.

So it's time to get back to it. I've done a little eye racing with Jimmy and them. They have a little group from that area. They're a little rough to race with. Modified guys. Much junkyard dogs. I've been racing with Boo Boo Boo, Dalton, a little bit on there. He's been on there running.

Really? Yeah. It's pretty fun, man. We have a good time. But Boo Boo Boo. We got a trip coming up next year. I think me and him are going on a little trip. So our group family trips.

so that's really all we got playing. This next question is from a good fan of ours. He tunes in to just about every live stream we have. He's awesome. Double O wants to know, do you guys have your Christmas lights up already at the house? Yeah. Yes?

Well, wow. They're putting mine up right now. Amy, yeah, Amy gets that service that comes by and puts those white lights along the frame of the house, and that's what we got. Yeah, we got them up. Oh, dang. They come on every night.

I'll be sitting there playing video games. that is they're bright man like these things are bright we do like the same stuff like mine are actually I think they're the same service or something similar is it is it uh yeah Amish John Stewart yeah he uh they were actually literally putting mine on when I left this morning so um are you gonna I don't know if it's cool to be the first guy in the neighborhood that turn them on like when is it in the spirit brother let's go do it yeah I love this time of year everybody yeah me too yeah I came home to I came home to my

Christmas tree up. It wasn't all that I laughed and it was up. Damn. What's your, what's your favorite holiday for any other than Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving, buddy. We still have all our, we're still, we're still collecting and putting away Halloween decorations. And Amy said she's not going, she's not going early on the Christmas stuff, but I don't believe it. Oh, yeah, she's going to go early. I'll start texting pictures of the house with the lights on and stuff. I'll get her. I forget about the tree. I got a love, hate with the tree. I got a love, hate relationship with the tree. Is it a real or fake tree? This is the thing.

This is more for bless your heart than anything. Let me text, Amy. Tell her to listen real quick. So I like the idea. I like going and getting the tree. I like taking the kids and then picking out and us finding it and all that stuff. And then we'll throw it in the back of the truck. I take it home.

I carried it in. I put it out. I can do it. But Amy gets, we got these boxes of these lights. and Amy gets these lights and she is so particular about weaving them in and out of the branches and I'm just like stringing around

you're fucking who fucking 15 minutes and we got them up but she's like oh no we got to put it's got to go here and twist and it's got to twist around and so taking them off is another like massive nightmare and when you're yanking and pulling and busting around all these dried

limbs at this point that it covers the floor in this in the needles and man trying to keep water in the damn thing and all that bull-s-hs it's just I don't know I love getting the tree putting it up don't love putting the lights and shit on it you sound like my dad he can't there came a certain point where he ended up breaking he's like I'm had it with the living trees it makes a mess we got to keep up so now we've got a fake tree it's got lights on it you just push it out we you know we we had the living tree and

And then there's another tree that goes on the piano. There's another tree that goes downstairs. And the bar, I mean, it's like, you know, the tree in the bar is still up. It's, it never went down. It's not here. I have one that doesn't come down. Heck yeah. Once you ride a lot of the way, you usually get to leave it up.

We had two fake ones, and I remember one, we had a fake one that I was, I don't know, wasn't great. But she, there's no lights. So she always wanted a pre-lit fake one. So then the fake one now, I come home one day from somewhere, and it's in, like, we have this big window in front of our second story that you roll in. and I'm like, now there's a tree upstairs? I'm like, what is going on? And that tree has never come down.

In three years now, it's still been up there. How many trees do you put two up? Two, yeah. And now what I mean? I don't know. She does. I don't know. Yeah.

I think I'm going to replace the tree in the front window with one of those leg lamps. A real leg lamp. A leg lamp. Yeah, I want to do it. Like the real one, like the life size one. Yeah. I think that's awesome. I want to do it.

DC Long in the chat said put a humidifier behind a tree saves the needle mess. Humidifier behind it? I guess. Our tree goes in the. Our tree goes in the middle of a foyer, so there's no behind. That's not going to work. That's not going to work. And you still go. That's a great advice.

That's a badass advice. But you still got to refill the humidifier. Yeah. Look, I... I said Charlie Brown's tree. I shouldn't complain. No. And I love the experience.

The kids love it. The tree always looks good when you go in your house right there. Like, it does. I just, I love this time of year. I do. It's my favorite time of year. Sounds like it. You know what the...

And I've talked about this, too. You know what's the best, what's the best week of the year? The best week of the year, hands down. I mean, the between Christmas and New Year's. Isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it's just weird. It's just that.

Yeah. I like the build up to Christmas. Like, to me, like the 23rd, 24th are like almost bigger than Christmas Day itself. That's traveling. That's like when you're going to see the family. We go to Texas. We do, you know, that's, we're hustling. Last year we went.

Getting kids and bags and this and that and the other. There's a lot going on. We were like. You take a million presents to Texas. You bring a million presents back. Oh, man. We were Christmas with the cranks last year. me, Meg, Tim and Tara went to St. Thomas on Christmas Day.

You did. You did. Damn. Dang. I'm telling that week between Christmas and New Year's, it's like, you know, your personal, it's your own personal holiday from everything. Whatever you want to do. You're like, you don't have to do shit. It is nice.

Yeah. Yeah. This is a great time of the year. This is my not-do shit week. Don't bother me. Don't do. All right. Well, this is also a great time to just sit in the couch. and relax.

Norton wants to know he needs some good go-to TV shows right now. Anything you guys are binging? I just watch a lot of YouTube.

Just a lot of YouTube? Just classic NASCAR races? No. I mean, I just whatever, I go, what's on there?

Refresh the algorithm and see what I like. It's good at coming up with stuff to catch you. I watch a ton of college football videos. I can tell. Like the video game?

Yeah, like how to be better. Yeah. God bless. I know. Married to the game. Yeah. But it's your hobby.

It is a hobby. It's something to do. I started watching a show called Task on the way home the other day. It's on, I think it's on HBO. It was pretty good. But I do watch YouTube. I find myself, the problem is you turn on YouTube to watch one thing. You get hooked.

And then you're there forever. Amy still watches shows. I don't watch shows. I used to watch shows with her, but I don't watch shows anymore. Yeah, I watch YouTube and she's not into YouTube. So like when we're in the room together, you know, she's, you're watching shows. I've tried. You ever sit down on the couch and you're like, I'm going to throw up a YouTube clip.

He's going to love it. We'll find one. So I'll be watching YouTube clips of, I was watching this one YouTube clip of this guy and he animated, he animates the, like when the Pilgrims came to the coast

and formed, what is the? Plymouth Rock, right? And all that. And so I got sucked into this thing, man. And it's like an animated, it's a map, you know, and there are things moving around on the map

and how, they how they interacted with all of the natives and all this stuff and the different, you know, challenges, whatnot. And I'm like, you know, I'm watching this and I'm like, why am I watching this shit? And you think I'm random. You can't stop why. You're like, I'm learning.

I'm learning. You know, I watch a lot of military stuff on there, you know. You go to sleep. You go to sleep to that military stuff sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. I like to learn. I like to be educated. And I'm random. I watch this animation of the pilgrims coming over. Like, and I'm random.

What did I say you, random? No, you always say I come up with the weird. I always have the, like, you are weird. I'm going to send you. I'm going to start sending you the clips that I find interesting. And you can grade them on a ABCDF. I'll end up getting hooked on them too. Then my algorithm will be the same thing.

One of my favorite tweets is like I ended up falling asleep some baseball highlights and woke up to like which Star Wars Jedi chair is the most comfortable. So this guy, so I was looking at this clip, this guy makes this, it's this animated cheeeperable. little, you know, map of how all, you know, timeline chronological of the pilgrims coming over here and establishing their colony and whatnot, right? And I would not give a shit about this until I found it on YouTube. And I look at it and I'm like, and the one I just finished, I finished it and I was like, okay, I got to know what happens next. I go onto his page and he hasn't made one in two years. And I'm like,

wait, I don't get to see the next one. Oh no. And apparently like the one, like the one, before that, the chapter before that was made four years ago. So I think he makes one like every two years. He works his ass off. I'm like, subscribe. I'll wait around for two years for the next chapter. Boy, when it hits so. Oh, bye man.

It's like waiting on your favorite band to make another record. That was me yesterday with the trade deadline. I kept refresh and waiting to see what the bills are going to do. Dude, the commanders didn't do crap. I mean, I don't know what we had to sell, but we should have been sold. Old Jets had a big day yesterday. They did. They fired that. I know.

and if they weren't, the bills weren't their division, I wanted them to get some players. But yeah, I was sitting there, scroll, waiting, waiting, waiting, and nothing. I subscribe on YouTube to tons of, tons of racing stuff, obviously. Dalton, by the way, just came in and told me the guy we were talking about yesterday,

the commander's YouTube page, he gave us a donation in the YouTube chat. Bull crap, right now? So, shout at him. Nice. Was it just now? All right. Oh, wow.

That's Carter? Carter? What was his name? He's a commander's fan, WS.H. Carter. W.S.H. Carter. Well, thank you very much. That's awesome. Yeah, we gave him. I seen, so that's a great example.

Carter's, I think, 16 years old, created his own sort of podcast, sort of, you know, he goes live on YouTube. He does about two or three pieces of content a day around the commanders. And it's, it's, that's kind of the, I've ebbed the way. from TV and typical, you know, news like getting sports from ESPN or what have you, I've went away from that to something like YouTube because what I want is specifically, tell me everything that happened with the commanders today. Because I didn't have time to get on social media and I don't have time to do this and that another.

And so this Carter kid does a really good job of like gleaning everything from social media posts and comments from coaches or practice or whatever happened that day, right? and you can just go watch his 15 minutes or whatever and learn everything you need to learn and you're called up and he does a great job articulating everything and he's young but he does an incredible job. Think he's good at college football? I don't know. He might want to join the league.

It would be fun. But probably kick our tail. Probably. I'd be worried about that. Awesome. One more question. Yeah. All right.

A lot of people are mentioning Cletus in the YouTube chat. I know we had him on the show earlier this year. what do you guys expect out of him next year? And like, like, do we foresee him racing further? Yeah, yeah. I mean, I wouldn't. So, colleagues got this gong show going on. They got all these race car drivers that are part of this deal that they roped into it.

You know, we got, um, allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. And, um, Huffman, I think. Huffman. I may not be there. I would say, I would say if they're, you know, if you ain't heard anything from me,

buddies are missing. They're not entered in the races that are happening right now. That's where they are. And so, you know, I think he's part of that. And I think that knowing what I know from the Dodge thing is it's your performance, your talent is going to matter, but it's also going to matter how much your reach is. Can you, you know, if you can demand a lot of attention, which Cletus absolutely does, when he does a live, you know, live stream while racing, you know, there's 40, 60,000 people watching that.

That right there is going to weigh heavily over Dodge's ultimate decision. I don't know that Cletus is in that deal or not, but I would imagine he is. He don't answer. Yeah. Let's call him. Yeah. He's pretty smart. But he may continue to run ARCA, whatever he does.

Look, man, I mean, there's no rules to this. There's no, there shouldn't be anybody's, I'm going to look, I'm going to talk. talk from a traditionalist standpoint. You know, you got a guy coming in and he tried to race arc and I watched his in car Bristol and I see a lot of the things that he doesn't know. But as the race went on, he adapted and he learned and he got better. And he started to understand where and how to push the car. And so a ton of this stuff is completely, completely foreign to him.

But it's not out of the question for a guy his age to say, hey, I want to go race. That's where I'm going to start. I'm going to go right into an ARCA car. I'm not going to run a street stock or a mini stock or a late model or anything like that. I'm going right to ARCA. And I'm going right to Daytona. I mean, that's not a new thing. That is not a new thing.

If you look back over the history of the series, even in the sportsman series or the Bush series, you had guys that had zero experience, very minimal experience running these races or attempting to qualify these races, often with detrimental fucking results. But, hey, he's here. to do it and I'm all for it. Why not? Yeah, why not? And he has a great attitude about it. And if that's what he wants to do, that's what he wants to do.

I think it's good. I would, you know, of course, there's a more traditional route into the sport to become a great race car driver, but this is the way he wants to go. I don't think it's a bad path for him to start there. He's cut some corners, but, you know, it's what he wants to do. I think it's fine. Yeah, I agree. I hope that he, whatever, I hope he races more, Arka.

If he gets this truck deal, great. I'd love to, you know, love to see him continue to be part of it. Awesome. I'll be interested, though, because he's, listen, this has got to make, the other thing, too, is, and I don't know, we're getting in the weeds here, he's got to make it make sense financially because he can't, he's not going to walk away from what's working. Yeah, for sure. He's got a lot of the good, he's got a lot of things working for him financially that have

nothing to do with racing. Yeah, he'd have to sacrifice. into whatever it's what's the truck's you're 22, 30 races or 25 races? But I think wherever he goes they're going to You know the clicks the follows The views are going to follow it Where are they running the gong show?

Do you know where that's is it? So it's allegedly Virginia somewhere They're not even running a truck or nothing Because they can't skirt the testing policy So it's going to be I think a lot of maybe goat cards Or I don't know exactly what it is

But you know So it's going to be GoPro they're going to be over Go pro running all day long Somewhere in Virginia maybe I don't know I really I think I would think so. Virginia?

No. South Boston? I don't know. Why can't you just say it? I don't know. That's what they said. You said Virginia. What are you doing?

That's rumor it has where it's at. What are we doing? Were we breaking some big news? I don't know. You're just speculating. I'm speculating. Allegedly. Well, I know there's NDAs and stuff.

Now, we didn't sign any, so we're good. Yeah. I mean, I'm not, I'm not chained down the middle of them. You can say whatever you want. I haven't heard anything about where it's going to run. but I did hear here there's something about late models. So, I mean, it would, but yeah, I think it'll be interesting to see how that goes. It's going to be a produced thing, right?

It's going to be made for TV or whatever, wherever it goes, wherever it lives. Yeah, I mean, I think what I've heard is basically it's like a reality TV show. They're going to all be in the same house together. Crazy. No electronics. I mean, nothing. Yeah, it's going to be. So if your friends have disappeared, they're at the gung show.

And how long is it? I would say a couple weeks. I think they blocked off like two or three weeks for it. Yeah. For weather, yeah. Doesn't honestly, man, I mean, I don't want to say that. It doesn't sound fun. No, like that's what I was going to say to somebody like Bubba Pollard or like somebody like you're going to leave your family for two or three weeks.

That part I think some of them are fine. Some of them would be fine. But like there's others that have like I'm sure somebody, I guarantee somebody has got a wife and kids and they're like. But if, but learning about how they're all going to. going to be in the same house together. You would want that. You would not do one. Yeah, I don't want to do that. What are we doing? I want to go try out and see if I'm good enough.

Just tell me if I got the deal or not. I don't want to go hang out with these guys for two weeks. What the hell is that, right? That does sound like a lot. Yes. And I think there's a lot of people. Like, I think there's like 15, 20 of them or something like that. I'm like, God bless.

I don't know how to. It sounds. It does. I don't want to hang out with them. I don't want to hang out with these guys. Okay, Carl, or Danny. That's part of it. You got to figure out how good you.

how well you work in a crowd? Yeah, maybe that's part of it. Well, that's a good place to wrap up as Junior. He's done hanging out with us today. He's done with these guys. It's great to see a bunch of familiar faces that have been with us all year long. Eric, Ali, Pamela, a bunch of people in the YouTube chat. Did you just call out?

Was that his girlfriend he's calling out? Did you just call her out? Did I what? You did. She watches a lot of them. Oh, my gosh. Who? We just called out.

Andrew's girlfriend. for watching the online. You did? I tried to be... He tried to be... He tried to be... He tried to be... He tried to be...

There was three names. He put that one in the middle. Look at how red his face is. What does he do? Hey, Amy. Hey, Amy, if you're watching. Love you, honey. I'll be home later.

Island's iPads above the aquarium. All right, I'm ending the stream. We're looking for it. I hope you got Nicole to school on time. What are we doing? He just got busted so hard. When he said it, I was like, there's no way. Sorry, Andrew, I didn't mean to bring all that.

Thank you. Your shout out. You're in, buddy. You're already in. You're already in. The relationship, you're already there. You're good. You already have it.

He's trying to get this over. Endstream, end stream. Are you in the doghouse, Andrew? Is that what it is? It can't end until I read this Exfittity line. So it just is going to keep on going. we'll just keep on embarrassing Andrew Andrew do you want to use the Xbox

or the same ring? His face is matching his shirt at this point Thank you, Freddie. Yeah. Good job. Oh, boy. I saw on Amra. Who's switching back there?

I saw on Andrew. I'm moving the camera. I'm moving the GoPro. What were you going to do? When were you going to bring it up to her later on the night or when you got a little, were you going to text her? She's watching.

She's live. But were you going to? She's live. She's life. Were you going to lay in bed and be like, hey, did you hear me call you out late earlier? Probably. That's...

I can't believe you missed it. I'm disappointed in you. I wasn't paying attention. No surprise there. Damn it. TJ. No surprise. For me, like to be zoned out.

Yeah. Oh, boy. Sorry. Well, hey. Sorry, Allie. We've had a lot of fun today. Thanks for everybody tuning in. Don't go anywhere just yet.

Our show today is, is a lot of the highlight reel and clips. It's kind of like a 30-30. We have a Friday, dirty-thirty of highlights from the week, and this is basically highlights from the season. A lot of stuff that, a lot of, I don't watch every show, every episode of everything we do. So we pulled from everything.

We got with our producers, said, give me your best clips. We're going to watch them. We're going to react to them. And we talked a lot about, you know, just our own personal experiences this year. And Freddie's never really been at this table on this show. So it's been fun having you do this today with us, Freddie.

I appreciate it. So I hope y'all will check it out. and we're not done. We got a lot of, I just was agreeing to a lot of episodes of Bless Your Heart and Dale Jr. download throughout the winter in the rest of November and December. We'll have a lot of episodes and shows coming out,

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we keep an informal document of our guests you know and so I'm looking at the list right here and I'm just wanting to run back through in my mind about some of my favorite episodes you know we had Casey Kane on here it was great to really catch up with him we've had him before we mentioned Cletus McFarland earlier in the show,

Carl Edwards earlier in the show. Lake Speed was a great episode. Casey Mears, and now Casey's back in racing. Yeah. Back competing again. Edwin McCain was a great episode. Honestly, that might have been my favorite of the year. Yeah.

Well, you love music and you love the artist and the stories behind it, so I can understand that. No, but it was just his willingness to be vulnerable and honest. He was so good in that regard. And when we, and you'll know this, when we reach out to people and say, you know, hey, will you come on a show? And they go, oh, yeah, I love to. And I'm like, all right, but I'm going to ask you about, you know, these difficult times in your life. If they've had them, right?

If they've had these struggles, I'm going to, I'm like, hey, I want to talk about that. And so we kind of clear it. And I mean, Edwin's amazing, great guy, funny. Yeah. But that was the part that we wanted to talk about. wanted to hear about, right, is how he kind of came back. I knew this, I knew roughly a little bit about his struggles and so forth and how he'd taken control of his life. But I was hoping that he would share and he did. And I think that being transparent like that is difficult as it may

be sometimes to admit how, how foolish you were. Man, it helps people. Yeah. I still think about that interview. Yes, it helps. He helps some people. He did. It's great to have Rick Allen on the show, and now Rick's back at work. Yeah. You know, I don't want to take any credit for any of that, but Rick came on here, and I don't know that people knew he still wanted to work and was available, right? And so it created opportunity for him almost immediately. Especially outside the sport, you think, oh, he's just racing.

Now he's calling football. Like, I love putting a game on my... I know that voice. That's Rick Allen. I enjoyed the show where we had the three girls, Lainey, Jade, and Isabel. Yes. Talking racing. Ron Howard.

I forgot. I didn't forget we had Ron Howard. I know, but it's like you forget. This is all the same year. I'm like, damn, we did do that. Yeah. Ron was great. We did that remote.

I get nervous about the remote shows because it just doesn't, you know, I love this room and the energy and the table and all that. I get nervous about doing the remote shows, but that one went great. Let's see. Josh Schneider, my buddy Josh. I like the Robin Pemberton Oh the Pemberton I was gonna get there

Boo Weekly Oh he was so entertaining And then you know what Recently Boo got his champions card Did he really? And there's a I put it on my Insta story

So you know He's got a PGA card again And Boo Downplays the I love this guy And he's done this ever since he popped onto the scene years ago.

He downplays like his, how much he wants to be doing this. And he's like, you know, he'll say in interviews, there's this really, really great YouTube clip, go look it up, YouTube, Boo Weekly interview, where he shot one off the course record and they're like, man, you almost broke the course record. He's like, I had no idea. I'm just here to make a little money. And when I make that money, I'm going. man, you won't see me again. I'm going to go hunting.

And everybody's like, really? He's like, yeah, man, I'm just, I'm just trying to make enough money to go home, go hunt. It's a good impression. Well, that was his whole, that's his whole attitude, right? But he gets this car, right? He's been trying to claw back. And he's sort of in a great place, it seems, personally. And he's got some real, he's just, he's got himself sort of somewhat healthy again, working really hard.

And there's this video that was on his Instagram where they tell him as he's walking off the course, the final 18th green of this tournament he had been playing. And they're like, man, you have, the result from this tournament is enough for you to now have your PGA Champions card. And he gets emotional. Wow.

He's like, man, I've worked hard. It's been a long road. I can't believe this. He's so. having that card I mean you know it must it must be hard to keep a hold

of that thing right but man that was so awesome boo's a great guy great friend of the of the you know the iron hearts and all that um Santino ferruci was was interesting

great show interesting some of the feedback we got on that one we still need him and Connor to get lunch yeah never going to happen Robin Pemberton he came back twice you know Robin wasn't like

Robin ain't a star driver he's not like you know old man we got a multi-time champion let's do two shows we got Dale Jarrett let's do a one and a part two I wouldn't have pegged Robin as a person we were going to do a two-parter he sits down and we start talking

and he was so we started we knew right he was in all of these freaking chapters in terms of being a crew chief and then how he worked with NASCAR and all these very critical moments of the sport and he was so good at articulating what was going on. And we all, I think, that's what's fun about this show too.

We were kind of mid-show where we all were like, we got to bring him back. Yeah. Got to get him back. This is too good. We haven't even scratched the surface. Yeah. What I liked about him being a newer fan is I could learn so much about the sport

with just him alone. Like it was awesome. Yeah. I got a chance to BS with him out in the lobby before part two. And we were talking for maybe 30 minutes. and just about racing and about old times. He's already telling me stories, and it was so awesome. He's sitting on it. He just genuinely loves it.

He does, and he's sitting somewhere idle right now. Like, we need to get him on TV as like rules analysts or something like that. I mean, he could be a regular on BBC. I mean, he just has value, right? And he's just sitting somewhere idle right now, and he's very happy to tell his side of the story or his experiences. And he's not controversial. You know, he loves us. sport. I think he's got

some value in some form, whether with us or something else. But Chad Musgrave was interesting. I got a text from a driver, a current driver that was like, I call bullsh-sha on that.

It's always fun. You'll get, you'll have these guys come in tell their story and then you'll get a couple of texts from people that they talk about in their story. Sometimes they're like, yeah, that was true or sometimes they're like, that is absolutely false. I'm like, man, I'm not I'm not in the middle of it. Aaron Plessinger?

Yeah, he was great. I got to text him the other day. We're basically saying every guest name. Yeah, that's... Dave Williams was fun. That speaks to how good the year was. Yeah, Deb Williams was fun. And I got a letter from Ruderman's wife.

Wow. I got a note from her. After he came on this show. About how good that was for him and how thankful she was. He left and my thought was, I'm so... it's so great to hear from him. Like I'm so glad he came in and did this. That's one example, I think of.

He's a perfect example of, like, he may not have been the most popular driver at the time, but there's, I guarantee, a hardcore David Ruderman Fank Club, just like there's any, like, a lot of people like to cheer for the underdog. So like, every driver has a hardcore group of fans that love him or love them, and they want to hear from him, you know, whatever, 10, 20 years later, like that's the group you want to talk to. One thing about Ruderman, too, is people don't know this, is he was a very successful short track driver, like coming up through the ranks.

He was, was running up all pro series. Yeah, and stuff like that. He has won, yeah, big time. He has won a lot of races throughout his career, like big races. I thought Steve O'Donnell was great. Yes. Yeah. Steve coming on here in a new role and came on here and gave us a lot of,

he was great. And we've talked since. He enjoyed it. But, yeah, the, the, we start every season. and I'm like, ah, who we're going to have on this year? You know, we're not, you know, we're running, I feel like we're running out of people who we're going to have on. And I look at this list, and I'm like, we did pretty damn good.

I would take this top, I would take this 20, 25 list of guests, and I would put it over some other years. You know, it ain't, you know, even though it feels like every season, getting guests in here that are going to be intriguing and interesting is harder. I feel like we did one of our best jobs in all the years we've done the show. and you know you you create new friendships like Plesinger amy and then went to the yes went to the race when it was when they were in charlotte got the meeting uh and i knew him so having having talked to him through the show i felt like man he's going they're going to get

taken care of my kids are going to have a great time and now and now me and him are you know we take back and forth i see david green at the racetrack all the time and now it's like now that I know him and he's a familiar face. I've been able to wave and say hello. So that's pretty cool. Well, you know, I enjoy doing the show and we have a lot of fun and we're not done yet. We'll see what next year brings, but this is a good season. All right, let's give one final word before we close a show from each of our producers who's worked on the shows over the years.

Starting with Andrew guys. What stood out to you? Yeah. I mean, the biggest thing was I was trying to find moments for the guest show, which is primarily what I worked on. this year. The amount of guests we've been waiting to hear from for a while, like Carl Edwards, Casey Cain, Cletus, we booked, I feel like a lot of awesome guests. And it was cool that like, like we talked about in the show, to let people share their stories and share their truths. And there were a lot of moments where I left that show like, wow, someone really needed to hear what

this person had to say. Edwin McCain, for example, has just a crazy story about overcoming a bunch of odds and addiction and rehab. And I'm like, dang, that was so good. So lots of great guests. Lots of guests. I feel like we've been waiting to have this year. Stephen Stephan, want to give him a shout out for booking everybody. He does an excellent job with all that. Yeah, no, it was an awesome year. Travis is a bag of the table. Travis, what's your big takeaway from the year? TJ's one-liner suck. Your Twitter sucks.

We'll start with Denny's. It was a fun ride, and I enjoy being new to the sport. You're getting an expert opinion every week immediately after those races, and getting his vantage point, I think, is invaluable for the sport. The six wins were fun. And then with your show, I think just to go in the back and the back and forth, you know, guys just shooting the shit, I think. It was a fun show being a part of. Actually, here's the highlight of the year when Dale won his national championship. No one's laughing.

I am. There's an a great moment. There's an asterisk by him. I'm sorry. An asterisk. Fair and square. Oh, yeah. He took a one-star program and lifted them up.

Lifted them up literally. Yeah. Made them all taller. He edited all. He did. He added height and weight to all this guy. It's like, you play his team. That's a good strength program.

I added an average of one to two inches to every player. They're growing kids. They're 18, 19 years old. Why not? Did you really do that? You don't think that lead? Yes. And I, nobody was stopping me.

Dominic Corelli texts me after like the second, he played him like in the second season. He's like, man, his team looks gigantic when I. Everybody's seven three. Everybody was anywhere from 6-1 to 6-4. That's too one or two. I videoed. I've got it too. Trust me.

Take us there. True friend. I do actually have it. Yeah, he had a 99 tight end that never even saw a snap. He was 994 even playing down. His red shirt and tight end. Came into his freshman red shirt year of 99 overall. Six foot seven.

I told him not to fucking get that good. I can't help it. The game did it. That's a good, just a weight program you got them in there. I can't stop the game from coding whatever it codes. Strength and conditioning was fabulous at you in St. He hung out with the offensive linemen during the all season. boy.

Guy wins. Learn out of a fucking block. That's a team player. He wins a championship. Next thing you know, we got calls. Hey, come call some plays at practice and shit. I win eight of them. I don't even get a hat.

I mean, Jesus. Sorry, it's your problem. Damn. Oh, well. On to the next one. So that was my highlight. Yeah, long, long way to wave. My highlight is anytime Denny calls you Trave, I love when he does that.

Trave. Just calm down, Trave. It's going to be okay. Stop bullying me. You're bullying me right now. Kind of like when you lost on Sunday. It'll be okay. It'll be okay, Teage.

I think, I'm pretty sure you lost on Sunday, too, buddy. There's a reason why you haven't recorded that. It's okay, Teage. I should have made that move. I didn't need you to tell me. I messed up. No, no, you don't need to hear that. Hey, a few more shoutouts to,

too, Dalton, who's in the room every week, taking photos, cutting all the social requests and clips. It's a shout out to Dawson. I think you've got to keep going, man. I got to keep going. Keep going. Now you have to say everybody in the building. No, no, no, I don't think you've celebrated him enough.

Yeah, celebrate him. What else? What else? Well, he is here the longest. He runs probably the most hours at anybody every week. Come say hi. Working on this show. Yeah, look.

I mean, he is, on any given Wednesday, Tuesday. He's here until 7, 8 o'clock at night here early in the morning. So, hard worker, taking some good photos. I feel like the show's ending, like for good. I don't know. Don is... This is our final... This is the last word.

Don't is a very critical, important personality. Because he often... We often see eye to eye on a lot of things. When you two knuckleheads are off doing whatever you're doing, thinking what you're thinking, taking your takes, wherever you go. Be and Dalton usually see I die. Freddie, any last words? No.

Thanks for having me, obviously. It's been a while since I said. But this isn't the same table, right? This one's smaller than the last one we used to do show at. But no, this is fun to be back with you guys. Still bigger than your table. Yeah, oh yeah. It's not a competition.

It's not, this table's better than your chair. Yeah, their table looks cooler. The top doesn't even, doesn't even like connect. The top is a little shaky. Over the old DBC said. Well, James must not have made that one. Carbon and James didn't have nothing to do with that tape. But he can fix it.

He's denied responsibility. James says he doesn't want to associate with DBC. Strictly Dale Jr. property. I don't listen. There's a lot of people. He asked for a charger in this thing, wanted to hold. drilled in it, James hooked him up. Carpenter James, it's actually in this table over here, so

I mean, it looks perfect, too. Well, shout out for us, anyway, Tim's upstairs and all the people that would do TBC that they've booked a lot of great guests this year, obviously, so it's been fun. Brickyard, the highlight. Yeah, from what I remember, it was fun.

No, yeah, obviously the highlight of the season for us is the brickyard, and man, we were close. I tell everybody, you know, you think about it, we are one car owner and a five run out of gas from being in the final Four. Kansas isn't your favorite. I thought Kansas would be the top of your list. Yeah, it's not at the top.

But I mean, you think about how close, you talk about how close things work out and little things change everything, you know, if we can finish a deal of Kansas and then the five doesn't run out of gas, the Bubba's in the final four. And you're like, wait a minute, what? So it's just all circumstantial, man. Yeah, race. All right, y'all. Great show.

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