The Dale Jr. Download - The Best DIRTY AIR Moments of 2023

Episode Date: December 18, 2023

Season 10 of The Dale Jr. Download has officially come to a close. Our Dirty Air segment brought us a lot of laughs, debates, and storylines. From Denny Hamlin and Kyle Larson's beef to Chase Elliott being suspended, to Mike's Alabama playlist and Dale Jr.'s Cryotherapy experiment, there are many great moments to look back on! Here are the best Dirty Air moments from this past year on The Dale Jr. Download. 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.

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. What's going on, everybody? Producer Alex Tim's here live from the Bojangles studio at Dirty Mo Media. Today, I'll be counting down the best moments from the Dale Jr. download in 2023. And today, it's all about Dirty Air. Dirty Air is where we go to share opinions of the previous race, share some stories, even have an unrelated debate or two, all of which you're going to hear today. First up, we look back to when Dale Jr.

was starting to try new things, with or without his knowledge. Dirty Air Moment number one, Dale and Amy try cryotherapy. My wife, who does not like surprises, knows I do like surprises. And she's telling me, as I'm getting ready to take the girls to school, hey, meet me over in Burkdale, which is off exit 25, I think. It is. I'll fetch it. 25, I 77.

Burkdale's a sort of a little village of all kinds of fun stuff and apartments and whatever. Got a theater, bookstore, all the good stuff. So, anyways, she's like,

meet me at Burkdale at 2 o'clock. You know, we're going to take the kids home, drop them off, and, and I'm like, man, what are we doing?

She won't tell me. I'm thinking, man, you know, I don't know what, going on this is going to be fun i'm sure right going to do some day drinking i don't know what's the plan is i'm trying to think of my head it's not my birthday trying to think of what what we're celebrating but we're getting ready to party you don't have any clue what we're doing going to the movies nope that girl on my guess we're at burkdale you tell me to meet you over here

going to eat sushi we walk up on this building she's like here it is and it's a kyrgy What's it called? A chiro chamber? Yes. Yeah. So I've been talking to Amy about ice baths. And I don't know nothing about them. Don't really care.

I don't care about it, but I want to do it. I want to do it because I want to see if I can do it. You know, kind of like, hey, feel like somebody's daring me to do it, right? And so I don't even know how long you're supposed to be in there, three minutes, ten minutes, whatever. I think 15 is getting dangerous. Not that I could even be in there that long, but anyways, I got this feeling.

It's like something's daring me to do it, and I got to do it. Got to try it one time just so I can say I've done it. And I keep telling her about it, telling her about it. And she's, I mean, basically I just mentioned it once. Okay? And so the night before we were laying in bed, I'm like, man, I'm going to get one of them damn tubs on putting it on the back porch here. and I'm going to do an ice bath.

I got to try it. See if I can do it. And I'll probably never do it again. So here she is. She booked us an appointment at this, what's it called? Cairo chamber. Yeah. But it's got a name.

It's called a Cairo chamber? Yeah. Now, it's got a name. There's a name to the, there's a name. Cryo. Cryo. Sorry, man. I don't know.

Not you, Alex. It's got a, there's got a, there's a, There's a name to the act of doing it. We get there, we're at the store, and I'm like, oh, hell no. Like, I'm, you know, I'm doing this on my terms. I'm not doing this. What's next? Savory and spice.

Nope. Cairo therapy? Yep. What's that? You've been telling me you want an ice bath. Oh, no. Are you serious? You brought me here to do an ice bath?

You're going to get in a cryotherapy chamber. Oh, shit. Three minutes. You can do it. No, I am. You did not like this surprise. No. Okay.

Damn sure wasn't day drinking, for one. So big disappointment that I had to shield, right? Your conscience wasn't daring you to day drink, though. Your conscience was daring you. You want to know what's tough? Try not to be disappointed that you're not day drinking. Oh, man. Fair enough.

Fair point. So I'm like, all right, we're going in there. I'm like, I've said, All right, are you doing it with me? She said, yeah, I said, all right, fine, we're going in. We go in. This lady sees us a mile away, right? She sees it coming.

She knows that when you never done this, she's giggling, the lady at the desk. I'm thinking an ice bath, right? How cold is that? Right, let's just go around the room. How cold is an ice bath? Pretty freaking cold. Give me a number. Give you a number?

Like in temperature, fair night? Yeah, just guess. We're all going to be wrong, so it's fine. I was going to say. 25. I was going to say Z. bro. 25 degrees.

25? I was going to say 32. I was going to be way off. 32 is like literally melting. A lot of the ice. Go ahead. Ice is water freezes at 32, so it's got to be below that.

Oh, really? Fair enough. I shouldn't have been that hard on you. I told you we were all going to be wrong. Maybe in the Cairo chamber is 30. I told you we were all going to be wrong. So fine. All right.

So everybody's pretty thinking roughly is like zero to 32, right? Somewhere around that range. I know. It's going to be negative in it. Well, these chambers, like the The pros, so they got different levels of aggression. The pros go in there is minus 200 degrees.

What? What? You're in there three minutes. Two hundred, minus 200 degrees. Me and Amy got the beginner lesson at minus 140 degrees. That's the beginner. That's what they told us. Look, man, anybody that's hearing this that knows more about this than we do, congratulations.

And if we're completely wrong, congratulations, you can correct us. whatever. This is what they're telling me at the counter. Okay. All right. And I'm like, holy shit. Yeah, they tried to talk you out of it. They didn't tell me this before, right? They're telling me this after. So, we're going to go in this box. It's literally a freezer. We opened

the door, me and Amy step in, and we're in our underwear. Yeah. We walk in there with roves. You take the rogues off, hang them up, and then you're just standing there. We got slippers on, and we got gloves on, and a toboggan. And our underwear. And it's three minutes.

And I'm going to tell you at 10 seconds, I was like, get me the F. Get me out of here. I was going to open that door so bad because they're not locked in there, obviously. And Amy's standing there, not saying a word, standing there just stoic. And I'm like, I'm shaking, moving, jumping, tapping my feet, rubbing my arms. And like, I got to get out of here. This is awful. This is terrible.

Like, quite the feeling. What would it like knives in your back or something? No, no, no, no. Not, not. It's just freezing. It's, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's, you know, imagine getting locked outside of the house. You're in the mountains and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, it's three foot of snow outside, and you step outside to grab a newspaper and you should turn around and the door's locked. And there's, like, nothing you can do about it.

You're under, you know, you're standing there in your pajamas. But it's freaking cold, man. So in 10 seconds, you're ready to get out. I was ready to leave. in 10 seconds. And so Amy stood there completely fine, and I had to, I had to do all types of shit to distract myself.

I'm speaking in tongues. I'm, you know, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm rubbing every part of my body, right? Trying to find some work. Trying to get, you know, trying to create some friction. And, um, it was miserable. So they got this light, this bar that lights up. And it's like imagine mercury rising in a temperature tube, right?

And that's basically, once it gets to the top, you're done. You can come out. So I'm sitting there watching it thing, and it's freaking going so slow. And I'm like, come the fuck on, we've got to get out of here. This sucks. I'm never doing this again. And I felt like I got freezer burn on my back. When I come out of there, my back is burning.

Oh, man. Yeah. And I'm like, man, my back burns. So I'm rubbing it with my hand, and that's not really helping. And I'm like, wonder why my back feels like it's sunburned. And so, which I got no understanding of, you know, maybe, you know, if you're in there too long, that's exactly what happens, right? And so, anyways, no chance I'm ever doing that again.

No chance there's any infections hiding in my body. Those are dead. Hold on. I want to show you something. See, now that you tell this story, the very first text, now this is related to the story you just told. The very first text that I got coming out of the canyon because then all of a sudden you come out, you got self-service, and then all these things start flooding in, is from Amy Earnhardt. Please let's keep this between us, but if you can, I need you at the farm on Monday afternoon for an ice bath session. Dale is going in.

So she was planning this at the farm. All right. I got an addition to that. All right. Do you know any more? No. All right. I'm putting it all together right now.

Well, I want to, you know, I wanted, Amy has been wanting to dabble a little bit in the, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, and she, she, she's been thinking about this for years, right? Trying to figure out what that means and what that is. Well, she's also been watching these YouTube videos where I talk about my personal life. And she says, hey, you know, that's, you know, that's, your version of it. That's your side of it. You left some things out or that wasn't exactly entirely

true or you embellished this. And she's like, I don't have a chance to come, I don't have a chance to speak my mind, especially when it's something that includes her, right? And so Thursday, we may be in here with Amy. Oh, yeah. Awesome. Talking about an ice bath. So I told her, I said, hey, you know, we did this ice chamber thing. I'm going to go and talk about it. So why don't you come in and tell your side of it, but also Tuesday, we're going to do an ice bath. We got a tub. She went and bought a tub because after we do the cryo, whatever, we come home and she says, guess what?

I've ordered a tub. Now we're going to do an ice bath. We're going to try to compare the two. And I've asked people, what's the difference? And they say the ice bath is far worse than the chamber because the ice and the water is touching you, right? It's even worse. And so, me and her are going to do an ice bath Tuesday, and then we'll come in here on Thursday.

Okay. And tell us about it. Yeah. We're either going to do it today or tomorrow. Thursday, Amy's going to come on here and share with us. Her experience of the cryo chamber, and then we'll talk ice baths. Our next moment highlights the Denny Hamlin Chase Elliott Entanglement from earlier this year. Now, this conversation happened days before.

It was announced Chase Elliott was suspended. So Mike and Dale debated, should he be? So are you fired up today because of the, I'm curious. I mean, Chase Elliott, Denny Hamlin. What happened? They found each other. Oh, yeah? They found each other.

And they also eliminated each other from the Denny Hamlin and Bracklett Challenge. Oh, they did? I don't seem to remember that part of the race. I don't believe that. Where did this happen? It was somewhere during the race, they found each other. As they've been known to do in the past. So you're telling me that Chase Elliott, my old, the guy that wanted to extend any series championship here.

For Junior Motorsports, that guy. One of my teammates. Yeah. Has a fan or two. And drives for Hendon Motorsports, which I just love. Yeah. And had a crash with Denny Hamlin who is part of Dirty Mo Media. Yeah, that Diddy Hamlin.

Not the other ones, but that one. Yeah. That's the one. Denny Hamlin, the guy that was in Victor Lane at 2004 Daytona 500 with me, carried my trophy back to the bus. That one? Yeah, that's the same one. Shoot. Right.

The fanboy from 2004. Damn. Well, I know those guys really well. Do you? Doesn't sound like them. It's fine. It hard to believe you didn't see them collect each other. It doesn't sound like those guys, the Denny and Chase that I know.

Oh, really? What is the Denny and Chase you know? Super nice guys. Well, they are nice guys, of course. I just don't think they're nice to each other. I think, you know, they've had a history. So I was watching this. The lap before that.

So there was a restart and they're kind of, you know, it packed up. and Amarola gets in the fence. TV is like, hey man, check this out. Amarola is in the wall. Well, at the same moment, Denny is sliding up into chase. Basically the exact same thing that happened a lap or two later when the crash goes down. So, you know, I saw that and I'm like, oh, Denny, man, you're going to piss him off. honestly anybody that when you're watching these guys race and they slide up in each other you're just waiting on the other guy to do something right

like every time somebody slides into you man you just you lose it it it happened a few times during the race with some other drivers and you're just like oh what's that the guy going to do like for example rickston house a couple instances where he didn't like a few things going on around him with other drivers and boy he almost turned Kyle bush down to front straight away late in the race he was trying yeah he was trying so um anyhow that that was contact right then in that moment tv picked it up um i didn't know if they mentioned it or not it's all happened real fast watching as a fan you know i'm not a broadcaster in that moment i'm just like oh hell yeah do that oh yeah i'm just a race fan and so they go back around a couple more laps and then then he slides up into chase again and i mean you know it looks like chase turned him It looks like it. It looks exactly like Chase Turny.

A lot of people were on, you know, saying, hey, man, you know, Brad hit Chase, all these other things. A factor, you know, how do you know what happened? How do you know what went down because of this and that and the other? I looked at my wife and I said, she says, well, how do you know what happened? I said, hey, you know what's going to tell the tail is the SMT. And all the drivers have that access to the SMT. The SMT is the dad of the steering. steering, throttle, all kinds of information about how a guy is driving his car,

how he's turning the wheel, how much. Then he can look at chases and vice versa. And so Chase gets out and he says what he has to say. He does his interview, right? And he's learned by what he's seen over the past couple of years. You damn sure ain't going to admit it. And you're going to say everything you can to lean far away from admission. That's right.

There was a couple things on the radio. that I think Chase might have said, like, that's twice now. He's hit me. Yep. You know, something like that. Yeah. So there was some frustration, naturally, that NASCAR could look at. There was a motive.

NASCAR could look at the audio, right? That's right. That could factor into the decision NASCAR makes. And so they, um, I, my wife's like, hey, man, you know, what's SMT? And I'm telling her all about it. And I said, you know what? I think if I know Danny, he's going to screenshot it and post it on Twitter. Well, that's what he did.

I text Denny. Oh. I said, hey, man, you looking at that SMT? It's like 30 minutes an hour after the wreck. It's within an hour. And he goes, it's loading right now. That's the Denny that we know and love. So I knew that as soon as he could get somewhere to look at it, he would.

And sure enough, man, he posts it on Twitter, which, you know, he turned his comments off. It's probably smart in that scenario. He's like, hey, man, here's the facts in my eye. Then he's like, in my world, I have these facts, this evidence, right? I'm putting it out there. He's angry. And I don't think I would have posted it. I would have put that in my pocket.

And I would have, you know, I would have sent that to Steve O'Donnell. I would have said, or I would have, you know, I would have said, look, man, I would have sent it to the people that mattered or the people that would be, you know, handling this situation. and said, this is what I see in the data. But Denny went this other route. Well, in fairness to Denny, he's already been sort of scorned, you know, trying to do the, keeping the stuff evidence to himself. It didn't work out for him a few months ago. I can't even keep the timeline.

I mean, the timeline of Denny in the middle of something is a long one. Yeah, yeah. And so, yes, he has all kinds of, He has all kinds of examples of, you know, what he should have done differently, how he should have handled this and that and the other. But I'm not criticizing him posting it. I thought it was entertaining. So, well, let me get.

Okay, because I got questions. I know you do. You get some feet of it right here, man. We got a long show. We got a lot of time here. We'll keep going. All right. So he posted the SMT data.

Yeah. And so looking at the data and looking at what I saw on the racetrack, it looks like Chase turning. I mean, it just, it does. Chase is going to have to now, I think. Chase is, it's kind of bawling his court in terms of how's he going to argue this? Because he's going to have to. NASCAR's going to look at it. I talked to Steve O'Donnell, and Steve's like, late night last night, NASCAR is going to handle this.

If anything happens, it'll be in middle of the week. All the racing, extending and everything gets done midnight on Monday. And so they're absolutely going to take a look at it. I think they actually posted that on social media that NASCAR was going to look into the issue. And I don't think Denny would let NASCAR off the hook, right? I think Denny's going to push to have NASCAR take a look at this. I was wondering whether an admission of guilt or any kind of verbal, you know, admission or getting close to admission would factor into it, but I don't think so. I don't either.

I think that, man, I mean, this is the problem. I don't envy the position NASCAR is in, right? They sort of set a precedent with Bubba Wallace, and Denny was quick to note on that in his interview at the media center, at the medical center. Denny put that narrative out in the universe like that, and he had an intention to do that, right? Hey, this is exactly like that. And I don't know how NASCAR doesn't react. I really don't see how this works in Chase's favor at all. Me neither.

I don't even think this is controversial. I don't even think there's anything to discuss it. As soon as I saw this happen, I was like, oh, no, he's totally going to get one. He's going to get, he's good. I don't know what it'll be if it's full suspension for a week or what, but there's no way that goes. I believe that Chase is, I'll be surprised if Chase is it parked for a week. As soon as the cautions, you know, the caution is out, they've wrecked. You see Chase going behind the wall.

I thought to myself, I was like, man, If Chase was still rolling, I wonder if NASCAR would have looked at that data in the moment, not waited, right? I wonder if they would ever be in a scenario where they'd look at the data in the moment and park Chase during the race. That would have probably been preferable for Chase and NASCAR. NASCAR would rather say, hey, man, put your ass in the garage, take your punishment, let that be the deal. we damn sure don't want to park chase at St. Louis

connected to the ratings or not, whether you believe that or not, the ratings were certainly different when Chase wasn't in the race. And all of the Xfinity guys are in Portland. Logistically, that's a nightmare for anybody that they think needs to drive this car, right? Right. And so

that's interesting. I didn't even think about it. It puts everybody in a bit of a tough situation if Chase does have to sit out. who would drive the car and all that. But that's probably the least of their worries right now. But I think sometime Wednesday we're all going to learn what the decision is for NASCAR. And that's a tough one. So let me back up to the SMT data.

The one thing when Denny posts that, and listen, I've been fortunate enough to look at SMT data before because of the other Denny Hamlet's situations. But the thought occurred to me because that thought occurred to me that not anybody, not most everybody doesn't know how to read that. Okay? And so explain to us what you're seeing that makes... Yeah, so it looked like Chase literally did that. So, Denny, there was a few reporters. One was Gluck.

Gluck post... All of them were retweeting this post by Denny with the photo of the data, right? And so Gluck was probably the best one to say at the moment of contact. So when I first, you know, when I first pull up the tweet from Benny, I'm like, okay, now I got to do some, now I got to think. I got to study.

I got to figure out what I'm looking at. So I got to find the steering line. I got to go to the, I'm looking at this picture on the side, showing the cars. I'm like, all right, this, you know, I don't know if this tells me a whole lot. And so, but Jeff Gluck and his tweet, his retweet of it says, here is the steering input at the moment of contact, right? So it's basically saying it's putting a timestamp on. This is when the 9 and the 11 are making contact and the steering on the 9 is to the left.

If Denny says that graph going higher means to the left, that's what's going on. And so I'm not driven this car much at all, much less with any kind of a broken suspension part, right? you know only the drivers denny chase nascar could tell us all right if this if if it did indeed have a toe link broke on the right rear this is the steering input that you would probably give into the car if it's broken

a toe link or bent a toe link on the right here's how you would steer the cart right if the car's trying to go in one direction you're trying to keep it from doing that this is the input you would have so I would believe that that would you know that would argue in denny's favor right yeah and i don't know in any case when you had broken right side suspension, bent suspension that you would steer left.

I don't know. I would, you know, that's for NASCAR to sort through. I felt like Chase's own comments were the most incriminating evidence. I know why he said what he said. You're going to diffuse and you're never going to do it. We've learned that. These drivers now know that, right? Yeah.

But if I'm right, Chase said, you know, once you hit the wall, you knock the right side off these things, they're indrivable. You just can't drive these things anymore. But then you go back and watch the wreck, and that car was very much drivable. It came off the wall straight. It came off the wall straight. You'd not have to slow it down. Well, what he means is that so this is something unique about this car, okay?

I hear what you're saying, Mike, but I remember the best example of this car becoming undrivable after contact for me is Ryan Blaney, Daytona 500, when Austin Cinderick and him get together. Cendrick wins the race. They are going down the front straightaway, headed to the flagstand. They make contact, and Blaney is trying to drive his car toward the start finish line to finish second, and his car is doing everything but that. And he has zero control over it at that point, because, you know, this was before they reinforced the toe links.

They were very brittle. That contact snapped the toe link on. the 12 and now the car is driving like a forklift. All right? Sure. And so that is Chase's Chase's story and he's sticking to it. No, no. And again, I understand why he is.

I just don't think that's what his car was driving like. It didn't look like it at all. And we'll never know because after he, you know, after Denny comes off the wall, he destroys the right side of the nine car, which eliminates all the evidence, right? But if the toe link wasn't been, it's bit now. You know, so that will be a tough spot for NASCAR in terms of looking at, they're really only going to be able to go and look at data. Look at that steering input from the SMT.

They will not be able to look at the right rear at least. I imagine the right front on Chase's car is also damaged beyond being able to say, you know, hey man, this is, I think after the contact and destroying the 9-9thes, car, the ability for NASCAR to look at any of that and factor that end of the decision goes away. Well, I love what you're saying. I love the fact that you go look at the data. This is what I wish they would have done all along instead of making decisions based

off of comments that drivers say, because we know drivers aren't going to always be truthful. We've known that for a long time. You don't penalize people because of what they say. You penalize them what the data shows and what you as a human watching a race, what it looks like to you. You make a judgment call. Yeah, and NASCAR has drivers in their ranks. Right.

This isn't, you know, this isn't, someone making the decision, I imagine, would probably, someone like at the very top, O'Donnell, or whoever this is, right? This isn't going to say, all right, everybody, we've came together, we've made a choice to penalize, not to penalize. That person at the very top probably hasn't drove in the next-gen car, much less the thought car in their whole life. But they had drivers in their ranks that can look at that data that were at that saw what happened, that will more than likely influence the decision one way or another and to be

determined, to be continued. The large majority of people believe that it was an intentional act. Listen, would that be fair? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's fair. That's fair. And that's no knock on chase. I mean, again, just going about what you watched. And it's funny you say that because drivers, their opinions are the ones that matter most. And you have a driver in the way. And you have a driver in the booth the moment it happened Clint Boyer goes, that was intentional and Mike Joy goes, well I don't know maybe Brackaslowski got him, maybe this

and Clint's like, nope, that was intentional that's a driver watching what drivers doing on the track and also looking at the tailpipe and the flame, knowing that Denny's car gets loose. I mean, I like to listen to the drivers in that matter and that was an interesting take for Clint. I think that that was tough to do

I want to give credit to Clint for making a decision on which way he thought that went and being quick to it. Not easy. It ain't easy because, man, you never want to be wrong. You want to be right more often when you're a broadcaster and an analyst, especially. You never want to have to go back and go, man, I was wrong about that. Thanks for tuning in. But he jumped on his decision in his direction. And that's tough to do.

That is tough to do, especially in the moment. And you have, you have everything, you have every reason and every excuse to drag your feet. Sure. You know, you do. You can stand up there and go, you know, well, we don't know, we'll have to look at the data. The data will tell you can he-haw around it, right? But, and I've, you know, I've been in that situation before. And sometimes, man, you want to make a decision, you want to call it, but you don't want to be wrong.

You don't want to piss off the drivers. I've been a driver. I know this, man. You get pissed off those guys in the booth. You're done with them. You don't ever want to talk to, you know, if you get on, if Darrell or somebody up in the booth says something you don't like, you're done with that guy, right?

See him in the garage? I ain't talking to that guy. Yeah. I don't respect him. And so you, as a broadcaster, you don't want to sever or burn that bridge, right? But, man, sometimes these drivers put the broadcasters in such a difficult situation. They have to understand. I've had to come in here and tell my guys,

the Junior Mercer's guys, I had to call it. I had to call it against you, man. That was a mistake. And you got to understand what had I have on when I'm in that booth. Clint did a great job. I hope that satisfies everybody out there listening. We're all going to wait. You'll be catching this probably Tuesday night, maybe Wednesday.

We're all going to learn Wednesday what goes down. I won't be surprised. I will be surprised if Chase isn't penalized. I'll be pretty surprised. Hypothetically, let's just think if he's not. Yeah. If he's not penalized, what do you think? the response would be. I will say this. If he is not penalized, NASCAR would do themselves a massive

favor by being absolutely transparent with every bit of information that drew that conclusion. They need to be able to explain thoroughly why they came to that conclusion. Because, like I said, I believe that the majority of people, you know, looking at it go, hey man, yeah, that looked intentional. the casual fan, the hardcore fan, most people believe what they saw, and if it turns out that it's not that, then there needs to be plenty of evidence shared willingly, right? So that NASCAR doesn't,

I don't want to see NASCAR get blasted for, you know, something that they don't need to be blasted for. If they find out that, you know, it wasn't intentional, however they do, they need to share that. You're 100% right. And the reason why is because there's some people, like as soon as that happened, there is that narrative out there in the court of public opinion like, oh, they will never do anything to their golden boy. They'll never do anything because it was Denny versus Chase. They like Chase. They hate Denny. They'll never do something. I'm thinking,

no, I'm thinking they'll do something. But if they don't, they're going to have to explain that. Well, I think that, you know, there is a odd narrative. And there's tension in the room between NASCAR and Hendrick, right? The penalty situation, right? That whole thing, the appeal getting turned over. I really

don't know where that stands. I don't know where everyone is in terms of NASCAR, the industry, Hendrick and all Jeff Gordon and all the employees never, I don't know where they all are in terms of, are the good or a little bit, a little bit awkward. So that, you know, we don't know,

we don't know that NASCAR is like, you know, trying to protect Chase and we do know that, you know, Denny certainly gets under their skin a little bit. I don't know that that is going to factor into it. And I don't believe that. I do not believe that NASCAR plays favorites. I don't. I think that NASCAR has more information than any of us. True.

And makes a decision based off of what they're looking at. I truly believe that. I know that we sit here and raise hell about the decisions that they make sometimes and the short track package and all, I mean, we railed on them earlier in the season over a few things. And I do disagree with a lot of things that, you know, I'm a traditionalist. But honestly, when I get in the same room with NASCAR and I say, show me why this is the way it is, they have good information that will convince you. all right, I see why you made that decision NASCAR.

I see how you came to that conclusion. It's not like, oh, we like this guy more, so we're going to go easy. They can't run an organization like that. They can't. Right. You're forming that opinion, though, and I think that's well-formed opinion, but it's based off of your private availability to things that public opinions, public people aren't privy to.

Exactly. And that gets back to your point. You've got to go. There's a public narrative that says they would never do anything to chase if they don't, the only way for them would have to be complete transparency. Absolutely. Complete transparency. Another infamous Denny run-in from this past season was with Kyle Larson, his good friend

off the track. Earlier in the year, Hamwin wrecked Larson on the backstretch of Kansas coming to the checker flat, resulting in Hamlin winning and Larson wrecked. At Pocono, which this clip is referring to, Denny squeezed Larson into the wall. And Larson had enough of being race like that, saying he's cost me a lot of finishes in my career. And all the buddies know, Denny's always right. I can count four or five times he's had to apologize to me about an on-track incident, and I've never had to apologize to him.

Shout out Kim Kuhn for getting that quote from Kyle. Moment number three, Larson and Hamlin. It was exactly like with the one car, Ross Chastain, last year. So Denny gets position in the middle of the corner. Larson missed the corner didn't whatever right Larson didn't get through the corner as well then he gets to his then he gets wheel to wheel mid corner he makes a decision in that moment to throttle up and drive up the racetrack and door the hell out of the one out of the five it's it's he there's contact he's up he's coming up the track right so I

agree that it was a you know dirty move I agree that it was a dirty move to door him, to throttle up and just door him. But it's for the win. You know, it's not how you would expect friends to race friends. But maybe that friendship, which I've seen this, and I've been part of this on the racetrack, when you got buddies, you use them up.

Oh, yeah. More than you would otherwise. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Because you know, you're like, hey, man, I know this guy. I know he is not going to do anything. I know he's, you know, I know him, you know,

and I can, I know, I feel like I can take advantage of this situation and get out of the car and go, hey, bud, come on, man, you know, we're just racing. Yeah, I've seen it before from other drivers that were friends, and I've been in that situation with other drivers that were friends. I got fenced off of the turn to it, Michigan. by Matt running for 10th one year. And I'm like, you know, I don't know, maybe he fences everybody off turn two in that scenario.

But I felt like, damn, dude, why'd you do that to me? We were both going to run top 10. That shit mattered to me. If I was, you know, if the best I could do was a top 10, I wanted it. You know what I mean? And he, you know, I hit the wall and ended up getting passed by a couple people and ended up 12th and I was so pissed because fucking big difference. A top 10

and a 12th is a big difference. And so the you know and Matt's like hey I'm you know it's last lap I'm racing hard and sorry. You know just the consequences of signing up to getting a car and go.

And so I can understand you know both sides of it. I really think that put anybody else in Denny's car. and do you have the same outrage? I mean, you already had a lot of people pretty upset at him over this year, right?

Some of the things he's been involved in on and off the track have soured a lot of fans, right? You go to the racetrack, I don't know, you haven't been to the racetrack a ton this year, Mike, but when you go there and he's introduced, he's likely the most booed driver. I agree with that. It used to be Kyle Busch, but no, it ain't even close. Yeah. And so, you know, he didn't help himself there. The fans were adamant.

Now, I look down and I'm in the booth and I'm looking down, and there's some fans cheering. There's some 11 flags and shirts, and they got their arm in there. But it was like 80-20. Yeah, I believe that. And you had a funny line. You had such a funny line because Jeff Burton was like,

no, this is the right call by NASCAR. And you said, I don't think that's why. they're booing, buddy. That's not why they were booed. We should talk about that, too. We'll get to that minute. Well, yeah, the caution at the end. But look, I, you know, I have a hard, look, he throttled up and drove him up to racetrack.

That's what happened. He crossed some lanes. He did. There's no denying that. He doored him. Now, when you slow it down frame by frame, like, they didn't, you know, when the five hits a wall, Denny's not in his door. Right.

Right. It's not that egregious. Right. You know, that would have been total, total, he bounces off of him and then kind of turns down the track. Denny didn't even get off the corner. He ain't, he didn't, he's not full throttle and just hit, he didn't hit a badass exit. They hit, Denny kind of turns down the track.

There's a car like them half between them when the five's in the fence. But, yes, the five's in the fence because of Denny. For sure. But they both come off the corner and have. to block like hell because they both got off the corner so shit so um you know it's it's it's a little disrespectful but it's it's also hard racing and the the thing that i can't avoid the thing that i cannot ignore you know say what you want about whether you hate denny or you hate the move or you think it's i you know i don't i'm way beyond i'm i'm i can't get into that

part of it I don't what I cannot stop thinking about is how freaking good it is right now to be a NASCAR fan

thank you and how great the last four weeks have been yep how that place looked like a 1994 crowd it was packed

slammed the infield I tweeted I retweeted a couple of images from 2019 to to yesterday. Stark difference, right, between how many fans were in the infield, the cars parked around the racetrack for the fans that are at the grandstands.

The storylines, look, I know that, you know, if you're a Kyle Arson fan, you're pissed off about that race, you think that was a shit deal. You're mad. But your sport that you love is thriving. And if you can take a little comfort in just being a little happy about what kind of growth we're seeing, what kind of sparks we're creating, what kind of conversations we're starting. We need exactly what we got yesterday. We need that.

We need that villain. we need contact confrontation somebody's got to do it god dang man when it ain't there yeah good lord it's bored yeah yeah i'm sorry when there ain't nothing going when you don't give a crap about the two three guys up there battling for the lead and they're three carlings apart all day

and man letting each other pass and driving by each other cleanly and not even really putting up a fight I mean, that's where we were not long ago. That's right. What we got right now, man, it ain't scripted. This is real. This is authentic. This is literally,

exactly what I love about NASCAR. And maybe this is just me. I grew up in the 80s, and I grew up, I grew up in the 80s, watching Dad run over everybody. and we loved it. Yep. Hey, he's catching that guy. Watch him put the bumper to his ass.

We freaking wanted it. We expected it. You knew it was coming. Yes. Couldn't wait for it. And man, when he passed him without hitting him, it was disappointing. What, this clean? You're like, damn, man.

I hear for the clean stuff. Yeah. What's up with that? I mean, you know, it's a little serious. seriousness to that. No, I'm with you, dude. There's some honesty to that. Listen, this goes back to the thing.

This is NASCAR's identity, whether you like or not. You know, Matt Weaver had a really good article, a couple good articles this week in reaction to it. And it's like, this is the sport, man. This is what we are. Not we don't, it's not that you endorse dirty driving. That's not it. But there is that nuance that these are the cars with the fenders on them.

So you want the cars with the fenders. They use the fenders. Yeah. And then we embrace everything on the aftermath of it. including the hypocrisy. And there is some of that. There's some hypocrisy. I'm here for it all.

Our next moment steps away from racing for a second, which dirty air tends to do sometimes. No better example was when Dale Jr. tries to get Mike to admit what music playlist he has on his phone. Mike was reluctant at first. Understandably why. You know I love music, everybody here loves music, right? We all love music.

And I find it really interesting about how we consume music. We talked about it on this show before. 15 years ago, 10 years ago, all of us had iPods. Remember, they were MP3 players. We were ripping songs off of Napster and all those things. And then iTunes Store came out and you had your iPod and then your phone and now it's all on your phone. Now you don't even need to own a physical copy of the music anymore. or you just subscribe to a service like Apple Music or Pandor or Spotify or all of them.

Right. Right. And now you can just kind of jump on any playlist you want. Or, you know, you can listen to Sirius XM and listen to your music. That way there's so many ways to consume music, right? Yeah. How do you listen to music, Mike? Sirius XM, mostly when I'm in my truck, I'm usually listening to music in Sirius XM

because you can just pop to any of those stations. Lately, obviously, with Jimmy Buffett dying, man, Margaritaville is where you want to park it. I bet everybody has been some freaking awesome stuff. Yeah, everybody's listening to. But yeah, and then, you know, on my phone, I mean, like I subscribe to Spotify. Oh, yeah.

I've got Spotify playlist, and so, yeah, that's how you do it. You have Spotify playlist? You make some? Sure. What's your playlist? Oh, God. See, I shouldn't have opened this can of worms. Because I don't even know where this is going.

Where is this going? Just what's what's running about it. No, I don't want to. Like, I'm more eager to hear about what your point was. You're going somewhere. Now, I want to, how do I find you, man? Where are you at? I want to follow you.

Nope. No. Go open. What's your pan? I'm not doing it. Come on, man. No. No, I don't want, no.

I don't need this critique in my life. You don't need to tell me. You don't need to tell everyone. I just want to see it on my screen right here. So let's not tell the podcasters what your username is. I could bleep it out. Yeah. Shut up.

I'm not doing this. Where were you going with this? Go! Do it. Stop. No, I'm not. No, you stop. What's your playlist?

No, you stop. What's the name of your playlist? I'm not telling you. Why? Because I've known comfortable. What's it called? Nothing. Come on.

No. The playlist is called Never Share with Dale Jr. Oh, come on. Now we're not moving forward until he tells us at least one. I'll get comfortable. here. You'll get comfortable? I mean, I can sit here all day. Oh, oh man. What do y'all think? Should we just sit here and wait patiently? I'm looking through Mike Davis profiles on Spotify right now. It's probably Mike. There's a few of us out there, my friend. Are you Mike Davis, the artist? You just keep looking.

Yeah. Keep looking. You know it's Mike, it's M. Davis 88. That's probably what it is. Okay, look up M. Davis, A. Yeah. It might be, actually. All right. Where were you going with all this? I don't know, man. I'm just bullse. Oh.

That hell's your problem. Do you have a... M. Davis 887? Uh-oh. I don't know. New Year's Eve, 2003. Nope. Beast mode.

That's definitely not one of your playlists. Could have been. Beast mode? No. You're not a beast mode. You don't look like you, Nate. I'm a beast. I'm a beast, man.

Beast mode. Yeah. I can have a playlist named Beast mode. Come on, man. When are you going to tell them? I'm not. I'll share fun. Yeah, he's got a fun playlist.

All right, here we go. This is where I knew this was going. It was inevitable. All right. All right, Andrew, go ahead. Andrew, you. This is, go ahead and do your eight-minute comedy bit. I can't, not.

Actually, those Tim's, temperature is rising. What do you want to say? What do you want to say? Garage door opener? You got box fan, ten hours. Yeah, you got ten hours of rain music. Yeah. Good heavens.

How does this, how do we end up in the same place like this? I mean, what is this? Well, all right. Well, since everyone's so disappointed. This is actually interesting. Everyone's so disappointed. So I am, my username is Unocal the Fuel, right? Unicow 7, you know, like Unicow 76 or Union.

So U-N-O-C-A-L-88. Unical-A-L-88. I have three playlists. One's a Matthew Good playlist. It's like all his songs. But the other two are really the ones that I listen to every day. I have two playlists. I may make more.

How many do you have? You have more than two? I don't know. Come on, Mike. I don't know. It's probably more than two. Killing this show. You're just torpedoing this whole thing.

I know. I didn't know. This wasn't even on our show sheet. I didn't know what we were going to talk about this. Well, I'm bull's shit. You don't know? Is it two? Is it five?

Is it 20? It's probably more than two. Yeah. Yeah. All right. All right. Tough question. So one of mine is called shuffle it.

Because that's the, that's what you need to do. Right? Don't play it in order. So you give yourself instructions before you play it. Yeah. The name of the playlist is also an instruction to the listener. Yeah, apparently, yeah. And the shuffle it is like all rock from like my, like the 90s to current.

And it's like alternative and punk rock. And a lot of people, you probably, you know, a lot of people, people are probably not going to like. But it's okay. It's for the people that do like it Okay And then I started My latest playlist I made this in the last month

And it's called Houseboat Rock Remember we had the conversation About yacht rock? Yeah Yeah And Alex had never heard of it And I hate the name

Yacht Rock Right? Because no None of us here Can freaking relate To a fucking yacht Right So

Damn It's Profane He really doesn't like Yot Rock Well, I'll tell you, man. I do love a houseboat. Yeah, you had a great one, too.

I did. Yeah. It's time for another one. But anyways, I've been looking at some used models, man. The old Gibson's from the early 2000s ain't too bad. Really? Yeah. The Gibson model.

There's some nice houseboats out there. But you can't trailer them, many of them, because they're so big. So you have to kind of, if you're going to buy a used one, you've got to buy one that's here, local. Anyways, my houseboat rock is, I made this at Watkins Glen. How are you? Just a few weeks ago. Yes, right? It is 15 hours and three minutes of music.

Holy, moly. Yes. Good of heavens. Yeah. hours and three minutes of music. What? Dude. Yeah.

Isn't that awesome? That's serious, man. I'm impressed. Yeah, that's pretty good. What's your playlist? Oh, come on. Stop. Stop this already.

Listen, I'm not the music connoisseur that you are anyways. Why are you ashamed to tell us what your damn playlist is? I'm not. I just, it's not nearly as. What's the genres of music? It's a little bit of country. And I mean, listen. I'm a big Buffett fan, so I love listening to Buffett when I'm out on the boat,

but I listen to Buffett anyway. So this is how interesting this conversation would go if we were emptying out my playlist. All right. So what are, what is the names of Mike's playlist, wrong answers only? Well, he's got a fun playlist. Fun playlist? After five o'clock. On the boat.

Play it straight through. Pondoon rock. Do you know, noises or something like that. Pontoon rock. There should be a genre called pontoon rock. Absolutely. I mean, why did the yacht people get to take their own music? Man, that's such a small demographic.

Right. There's way more pontoon. There are. They could probably appreciate music. Me and you are one. A yacht rock ought to be like ballet or something. You know, like, or I'm not ballet, but a classical. Classical music.

That's what Rick Hendricks listening to, probably. Anyways. You don't need to go direct music conversations towards me. It's going to lead you nowhere. Actually, I think he just has one, and it's called Mike's Playlist. As if you didn't know it was yours. Mike Davis's playoff. In case there's any confusion.

Or just music. Yeah. Now, I'm interested in this for real, Andrew. You guys, you listen to. I have a, I know that Mike probably has a playlist of Mike, of Davis family sing-alongs. You know. What do you think that's a single-hongs to be? Y'all have a specific playlist that you play only when you're riding with your family in the car.

Okay, I'm going to give you a little bit. I'm going to give you just a thing. I'm not telling you by playlist, I'm not telling you, but I do have a playlist. Shouldn't I say this. Yes, here we go. No, no, no. It took us ten minutes. Should we go live now for this?

Oh, we've been live. If the word Alabama is in the song. Oh, my God. It's in a playlist. Are you serious? You have a playlist of any song that has the word Alabama in. Yeah, I do. I do.

I do. It's embarrassing. I'm sorry. I got a problem. I'm going to seek therapy. I'm going to go to better help and I'm going to use discount code down. Ask what my problem is. But it is, what are you doing?

Dude, he's buckled over here. Is he all right? I just can't believe you. Even if it's like the worst song ever, Mike's like, Alabama. Yeah. Mike's like painfully cringing through this whole song just to hear the word Alabama. And then I break out in celebration.

Oh my gosh. And in that there is, because you can imagine there's, probably about 10 different variations of Sweet Home Alabama. I got them. Everyone. I got them all. I got just the instrumental. Wait, he doesn't say it?

There's just a tune, you know. And then I've got, you know, there's the rock version. There's the, there's, everybody's done a version of Sweet Home Alabama. It is my favorite song. So now we have to go search for some of the worst freaking songs we've ever heard with the word Alabama in them. So we make sure that Mike has them on his playlist. That actually would be fun.

Fun for me. And do you listen to this playlist? Or is it just like a, is it sort of like a habitual collection, habit, right? Like you're like, oh, I got to have them all in one place. Even though you probably don't even like

play this playlist, right? It's probably the my most listen to playlist. Oh my God. Man, this guy loves Alabama. I do. Yeah, I do. That's, that's, uh, I mean, you know where it really gets tricky is,

when you have a band, a group called Alabama. Well, you got to put all their stuff in. Oh, really? Well, I mean, they do say the name a lot. Where do you end this? I mean, is it. There is no end. I mean, now I know that I've got to beat 30 hours.

I wonder. Damn, that lead singer's got a cousin. Liz in Alabama. I got to add him and all of his music. Well, that's the thing. Everybody's got a cousin in Alabama, whether you know it or not. Oh, geez. Probably married one.

There's no way this is really true. That everybody's got a cousin in Alabama. No, that you have a playlist. No, it's true. My gosh. What is it called? Just Alabama? Probably.

No, you know what it's called. What's it called? No, it's probably something like that. Nope, no, what's it called? Mike's Jams. You know, the condescending tone out of y'all's voices in the producer's room. The control room's gotten a lot sass here later. The best stuff's coming from the booth today.

Ever since Andrews started being in there, it just got a lot more spicy in there. What do y'all got jokes? All of a sudden, it's comedy hour back there. Alex. It's talking Mike's jams. That's my next playlist when we call it Mike's James. Alex, do you have a playlist that you just put on when you're trying to be romantic with a girl? No, I just put liked songs.

Like, does it have a... Whatever's running. You don't got a mood set in music? No, I just do the... They make, like, Spotify at least makes, like, playlists cured to whatever music you listen to, and I just kind of throw those on. see what happens they change daily so goodness gracious

very interesting Mike I guess yeah we've just learned a lot about each other today so I can't get my head around

he's done I can't get my head wrapped around that you live you just listen to Alabama random playlist of songs that mentioned the state of Alabama. So, I... He's such thrown.

This is throwing him. You want me to help you? There's a race that we had this last week. Should we go ahead? I mean, we skip right through the rest of the... Can we just talk about races at Talladega? I get it. Yeah, funny.

Asch Jr. is one of the longest-standing segments on the download. And this year, with Andrew Curlin asking the questions from you fans, it was a foregone conclusion it was going off the rails. Here's a couple of our favorite questions from Ask Junior from this past year. This next question is coming from Ian. What's a good, I guess Ian is going on a first date. What's a good first date idea? That's a good question.

Well, let's weed out the bad ones first, all right? Any family function. That would be not good. Don't take any first date to a family reunion or anything that involves family, right? Yeah. Wait, did you do that? I don't remember.

Oh, my. It depends. I wonder how old he is. I mean, and I know that you're probably not going to know that. But like that matters, doesn't it? Yeah. If he's... Let's just assume that he is 25. All right.

All right. So just got to pick a number, damn it. We've got to finish this. Well, all right. 25. If you're asking for first date advice at 25, you got a bigger problem. Wait, he's going on his first date with this person, not his first date ever. I understand that and yet

I still stand behind if you're still looking for first date advice. Not everybody. You got issues. Not everybody is so lucky to marry in such a young age. No, whatever. Mike. We weren't all. I'm not wrong. I'm not wrong on this one. You need to hang out. You're one of the lucky ones.

Your Blaney prediction doesn't get you to the dating advice. You're not right about that. You're one of the lucky ones there, buddy. Go ahead. What's your advice to 25 year old Ian? I can't wait for this. I'm hanging on it. So, Ian, just don't do it in a family function. Family functions are bad, yeah. Oh, man.

I think, you know, I think you got to scratch off the apple bees and all of those, right? Like the chain restaurant. Yeah. Wouldn't you say? Yeah. All right, let's take them off. Movie theaters. Movie theater's a bad one.

Yeah, because, dang, man, you can't talk. You can't get to know. All right. Sounds amazing. Mike? Find me at a date. he don't have to talk. That's it.

Mike married her right away. Took her to the movie. She never said a word. I married her. I went to the movies looking for her. I think that, I think a good first date, man, is like picnic,

right? What do we do? Go to a park. A picnic. Go for a walk. Go to the park. You know, take some food. Play big.

Bingo. Go to Shoney's on Wednesday nights. Nope. We took the chain, we took the chain restaurant to off Mike. So, okay, in Mike's case.

Go knit a crochet. In Mike's case, visit Nana. We'll take off. They are Nana. All right, go ahead. No shonies or no dinnies in Mike's case.

Okay. So a picnic and, you know. I mean, I'm serious, dude. You can sit down in a park. It's an easy,

neutral spot. Conversation needs to happen. You can ask each other what they like, what they don't like. Going for a walk is a great place to do those type of things. The first date doesn't have to be this, like, the actual location is not that important. Right? It's really what happens. Like, you've got to get to know this person.

Don't take them to a party. Don't take them for, don't take them to the bar for drinks. I think the bar for drinks would be Alex, you're in trouble Good. You just took out you know, basically Alex's entire social life.

Yeah. That's it. I would take, if I was looking for a girl that liked to go to the bar for drinks, then I'd take her to the bar for drinks. Yeah, okay. Alex Tim's would be the best person

I asked us to. But I'm looking for that girl. We're looking for... That's true. My go to is just an activity like mini golf or anything like that where you can kind of get them out of their like stiff, you know,

first stage is stiff. So I actually don't like dinner on the first day because you're sitting down, it's stiff. They're usually self-conscious about what they eat in front of you. So using activity. That's a good call. So afternoon? Afternoon's great.

Afternoons? Something kind of like off the beaten path from like every other person that does. Yeah. Interesting. I like it. I like that too. We'll go with that. Well, you got any advice, Mike?

No, I like what Alex said. You like the mini golf? Yeah, that's a great idea, actually. Yeah. All right. What if, like, are you supposed to let them win? No, you got to dominate. You cannot lose.

You can't lose. It's actually more pressure on yourself going. Now you're nervous. Yeah. Now you're feeling some pressure. Yeah. They like that competitive side, though. If they don't, then they're not the one.

Took her to minigoff and figured out that she was the one. This is just not going to work out. You mean you can't hit that windmill? the hell's wrong with you God you're at windmill I mean it's just I had her about six strokes

and she didn't get a shit You weren't competitive enough You take her bowling She picked a red ball I like what are you thinking lady I don't mind bowling bowling's good

Yeah bowling's a good Yeah because that's You can You can dominate a girl at bowl The other thing The other thing with bowling is you take you can take your time Does it help your cause if you ask for the bumpers?

Yeah, no. We're going gutters. You're going gutters or nothing. Bowling's a time-consuming, take your time, conversational kind of thing. Well, Tiff's here. We haven't even asked Tiff. Like Tiff, first date.

Come get on a mic. She's coming over. Oh, yeah, she's going to out. She's probably going to give the best answer and we're all going to be all. Activity is good. I'm with you guys on that one. although all this talk about dominating your state on the activity is ridiculous.

Okay. Yeah. Do you remember where Doug Powers took you? Actually, I think we went to a Panthers game because I was a Panthers fan and they were playing the Colts and the Panthers won. I've seen sporting event on the do not list, but that was good? Yeah, it was good. Because you can talk or not. All right.

Like if it would have been awkward, we would have just watched the game. You can talk on the way to the game. You can talk during the game. Like football, you know, there's plenty of breaks. Yeah, good point. Okay, so sporting events. If you were competing against Doug in an activity, would you want to? Like, sporting events is good for me, but we also knew each other before that.

So, like, he knew that wasn't going to be something I did. He knew you were a Panthers fan. Yeah. Gotcha. Yep. But, like, if y'all were competing, do y'all get competitive with each other? Absolutely. And so if he would have, if he would have taken you to mini golf.

and you would have beat him. I would have... I would have not assumed anything was wrong with that. No, I know. I'm more concerned about what he thinks about the... You would have been sad. Yeah. Exactly.

Right. Can't see her anymore. My show my home. Oh, man. All right. What a good question. Who's that, Ian? We sat there and picked his life apart.

Don't even know him. And then it ends up being a really... good question. All right, we got time for one more. This one comes from Rick. What's your iPhone wallpaper background or like your screensaver? My wife

and my girls. So on the lock screen, it's a picture of Amy and Amy and my two girls. Oh yeah, nice, yeah. And when I go

into the phone, it's black. I don't like, I can't see. I can't see. the emojis and I can't see the folders and everything. It's too busy when there's a picture in the background. Yeah. I like it blank. Like the like the like the like nothing there. Like the desktop on my computer when I like get into windows.

Like I don't want to screw. I don't need all this stuff in the background. I'll see where everything's at. Right. Blank just like his heart and his feelings and his compassion. It's void. Blank. It's empty.

Like if you were to open up. the original iPhone, like that's what the wallpaper looks like. Yeah, it's black. Yeah, there you go. Nice. What is y'all? Mine's blurred, so it's kind of similar. Blurred?

Yeah, it's, uh, unlike one of the new updates, you can blur the picture, so it's kind of just like, the picture. So you can still see all the stuff. You still see the colors of it, but it's blurred out. Not like that's a picture. Yeah. I'll teach you. I got, yeah.

I got a rotation of like 30 different pictures. It just like, it goes through. It just gives you one a random one. No, I pick them. I pick them. So it goes through up. You continuously change them? Every now and then.

Yeah. Yeah. Have you updated your phone? You can do the same thing. I just don't have the time to be sitting around looking for wallpaper. I think that's the point of what Andrew's saying is that it does it for you. Yeah.

Well, you can choose folders. I asked him just now. I said, wait, it'll do this for you. And he goes, no, no, I pick them. Well, okay. You can do both. It can do it for you or I pick them myself. I handpick them.

He picks them. But I don't, and it's different. Mine's the current weather situation outside. And so right now I can know it's cloudy. Okay. It's cloudy and dark, just like Dale's heart. I do not hate these options, so I'm going to look into that. But I mean, I keep my shit up to date.

My phone ain't behind. I don't know. I think he's been exploited a little. I think he's been exposed. I don't know what the hell kind of person you think I am, but I'm not one to walk around with an old-ass update on my office. Not used to be, but now it seems like there's a new day. I'm not that kind of person.

All right. Now I know. Now I know. Teach you how update. If I see you in the hall, I like that's daily. When I get the icon for the update, I'm one of the first ones. Oh, you're the first to hit it. Oh.

I'm going to tell you something. Look, I think he's all talk. I think he's all talk. You know, he does not remember this, but there was a day years ago at some racetrack in the in his bus where I got my first iPhone and I'm trying to do something, probably trying to get service. So it must have been at Talladega. and he's like, you don't even know the capabilities of your phone.

That's a shameful thing. You don't even know. You just don't even know. And I'm just like, all right, then please, I know what he wants. He wants me to ask for help. And that's what he wanted. But I think there's a new day. I think you are going to ask him for help.

What the hell did that story have to do with him? Then you think you used to be. What the hell did that story have any connection? I'll tell you. I'll tell you. You used to think that you were all the techie guy, the one that was all the one that update. I don't think you are anymore. Well, that's your opinion.

Well, I think it's mine and everybody else is in the room. I don't think so. I'm just the only one to tell you. You're really? I'm the only one to say, you look like you're aged. You used to be the tech guy. You're trying to wheel this into existence, Mike, and it ain't happening. No, you did it for us.

You did it for us. I've fixed so much s' shit around here. You're blank. Your screen is blank. That's the way I want it. Yeah. It's all you know how to do. No, I want it that way so I can read the words and see the icons.

That means your eyes are going. No. Anyways, for those just joining, the question was, what is your wallpaper on your phone? Oh, man. Good times. Yeah. Anyways, yeah, that's a good place to end Ash Jr. Before you guys get into another argument over there.

What else? What else can we ask them about? I just want to start a shit. No, I'm not. Yeah, you are. I saw you have a little chippy over there. You have a little chippy. It's funny.

You put everything in folders, too, when you... Hell yes. Yeah, you're... Oh, God, folder guy. I want all my apps on the one... I want all my apps on one page. Right? So you don't want to scroll through to get to something.

I need to see every app so I can see all the icons and I can see what needs attention. And so, yeah, I got sports news, maps and weather, maps and weather go together. Does other people... Who splits theirs up? you're an animal. There's no way that goes together.

Maps and weather go together. No, no. I don't put anything together because when you're looking at them, you're looking at both of them are maps. Nope. Just quick poll the other. Who puts her maps and weather together? Wait, wait.

What do you mean? It's a unanimous thumbs. They're separate, but they're on the homepage though. Alex, I'm like, I'm all folders. Do you put your sports and news together? I got too many sports apps. Sports and news to go together? Same app.

Same folder? Sports is my news. I don't need to see anything else. Right? Yeah. All right. It's the same thing. I got music, social media, photography, video TV.

So like I put my video and my TV stuff in the same. Yeah, same. So like I can go and, you know, well, yeah. Any editing for video, any kind of that stuff is in there with flow racing, right? Yeah. Shopping. Yeah, I got shopping. I got a shop.

I feel a little weird having a shopping for. Mine's food and shopping. I see it. I'm like, I should not be shopping, especially on my phone. Utilities. Yeah. Yeah. I've got a folder for my home.

Okay. I do too, actually. Like house. Yeah. Like, yeah. I got a hunting folder. Wow. I'm surprised you don't have one.

I don't need a hunting folder. I put all my hunting apps on the front page. I'll move. Contacts and. things that don't matter above honey off. I've only got three apps in there. I've got an aviation folder. Okay. So when I'm in the air flying, no matter what plane I'm in, I can see some stuff. Do you have a boat folder? I don't. I got a cycling and health folder. All right. Okay. Yeah, I don't make folders, but I do have one of them. I've got a health folder, but I've never

opened it. I'm surprised that's not on the back side of the phone right on the next phase. gaming. Yeah. Games. Everybody's got games. And then I got my two, Gert, I'll and Nicole.

I got a folder for them, like for their school and all kinds of stuff. That's right. That's right. And then I can... Go ahead and say it. The last folder I have

is called Auto Trader. And it's got... It's got RV Trader, ATV Trader, Van camper, auto trader, boat trader. Classic.

Classics on Auto Trader. Public Auto auction, eBay Motors, Craigslist, Cars.com, Boats.com. And you've got to swipe that folder. Yeah. I, dude, I love sitting around

my phone and, like, seeing how cheap stuff is, like, you know, boats and cars and RVs and all kinds of stuff. And, man, I see a lot of things that I'd love to buy, but I never, I'm just a window shopper. Yeah. So it sounds like you are pretty up to date with the whole phone thing.

No. No. Not according to Mike. Oh, and you know what? What? Does, you know what, there's some stuff? Let's keep this going just a little bit longer. There's a couple of things that live outside of the folders. Yeah, because you don't know where to put them. Occasionally there's an app that doesn't fit any of them. Do you go create a new folder just for it or no?

Here's how, first off, the one thing I did want to ask is, does anybody have a folder that they would rather not share? such as like I had the auto trader. Does anybody have a folder that we would find humorous? I have a folder that is just the singular phone app. Like that's the only app. Because you didn't know where to put it.

Well, but it's the only app in there. I should just fix it. Yeah. What is the singular phone app? It's like, you know, to make phone calls. The green one. The one this. He's talking about that. Oh, I'm just too lazy to change it. Why is that not down at the bottom? Right. I have a, I have Strava.

down at the bottom. Oh my God. You're using Strava more than actually phone calls. The purpose of the device. So, all right, that's funny. Anyone else? I have the useless shit, which is just like the Apple stuff

that they make you, they can't delete. I just throw that all the way to the back and that's all I got. That's in my utilities. I just feel back filled the utilities with that. Yeah, I just got a photo call fun. And then it's just the random stuff like that. Yeah. What?

Oh, wrong. answers only. What is in Mike's fun folder? That's awesome. It's something that's to do with his dentist, I'm sure. All right. It's thermostat. A thermostat. Actually, I didn't even know what's in my fun folder. Some of these are I'm a little

embarrassed. I don't know why that's so funny. I don't get it. What is that mean? It's a garage door open. No, that's not in there. Home Depot app. It could be.

7-Eleven coupons over there is. He's free slurpee. No, what's in my fun app. These don't make sense. It does not make sense. It's the lottery app. This one probably has his keynote app. The keynote app.

You've got to tell us now. Well, I will if you'll shut up. I mean, you guys interrupt us. I think you're more entertained by the things you want to be in there. Okay. Go. All right. One of them is pit boss grills.

Yes. Yes. Fun. Gosh, that map is a blast. One of them is ancestry. Oh, my gosh. That's even better than we thought. Yeah.

I don't know why, but the book. app is in there. And then also, because it has a lot to do with all the things, garage band. I didn't even know if garage band was even still on my phone. Yeah, I didn't even know. Oh, man. And then for some reason, FaceTime is in there. Okay.

The FaceTime app. You got apps just lost. That is a, that's the abandoned folder. You have apps that are just roaming freely around in there. Yeah. It shouldn't be called fun. It should just be called like, like random. But that is random.

So we were going to talk about the apps that aren't in folders. I've got apps that aren't in folders that are specifically, so at the very top is the calendar, settings is next, notes and safari. Then it's all folders. At the bottom bottom, phone, texting messages, FaceTime, Mail. If you do your phone any other way, we can't be friends.

I agree with that. No, I mean, I'm three of those four, but come on. Calendar is down there. Top right. Top right. Top left. No, it's in the bottom. Mail is top left. Calendar.

Top left. I got FaceTime top left. That's why y'all are always like. I got two emails, Gmail and Outlook, so they're on the bottom. I got to be on the bottom. Okay. There is one app that is out of the folder because it's important. All right.

Does everybody have that app? I have all of them. out of the folder. Damn. You're crazy. You're madman. Yeah. What does your house look like?

It's like a horse. It's like a house. Yeah. It's like a hoarder's house. Yeah. It's all right. Stuff stacked to the ceiling. You're talking about you've got all these folders on your main page on your first page.

Yes. So most, I've got two folders on my main page, but the rest are sitting out. There's no other pages. Okay. But wait. I thought y'all would find this kind of humorous. Go ahead.

I want to hear it. There is one app that is not in a folder because it is a very important app. It's the alarm plug. Does everybody, you have a Strava. You know, you have Strava placed down in the bottom

where everyone else in the world today has their phone. Yeah. So that's important to you, right? Don't, I want to guess it. All right. I have an app that's out of the folder that's really, really important to me,

especially over the last several weeks that I need to access. I'm not, I want it out of the folder. I don't want to click, I don't want extra clicks to get to this. I'm going to guess music Apple music Oh no your way off

Okay This is This has something to do with y'all It's the NASCAR app Nope YouTube No What

I mean I said alarm clock first It has to do with y'all With us? Yeah Teams Microsoft teams Stop already

What have we been working on? Oh Yes podcast It's the docs at For the script for Becoming Earnhardt. Gotcha.

Yeah. I'm like, right there on the front, man. Yeah, yeah, I believe that. Now, when Becoming Earnhardt's over, does docs get moved on out? I'll probably put it in utilities to hide until we start to the next season. Well, there you have it. The top dirtier moments from 2023. Honestly, there's so many to choose from, it was hard narrowing it down to 90 minutes worth.

And I'm sure we missed some. So let us know on social media or leave an Apple review and tell us, your favorite moments from Dirty Air this season. I'll be back later this week to count down the top guest moments of 2023 from the Dale Jr. download. But until then, I'm Alex Tims, saying so long from the Bojangles studio. Check out Dirtymo Media. On Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and Instagram.