The Only Time Dale Can Recall His Dad Getting in a Fight

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media. [MUSIC] The Dale Junior, the Dale Junior, sound live. [MUSIC] >> Hey everybody, we're back again for another episode of the Dale Junior Download. It's Wednesday and we got a unique show for you today. No guest segment, we're going to have a one hour ass junior. I have been looking forward to this. This is exactly the kind of show I've been looking forward to doing over the last couple of months finally we got the green light. So an hour of ass junior and then we're going to dive deep into some Dirty Mo dough. We got George Reister calling in. He's a new personality and host of Dirty Mo Media's new college football show called The Una Freight Show. He's an expert in the college football space. He's going to give us a lot of information about some of the bets that we've been making personally in in fan duel with college football and then. >> Might help us out. >> Yeah, and then are you guys telling us we're stupid for making those bets? But either way, after that, we're going to obviously get Russell on here and tackle some of the bets for coming up for Kansas, an exciting race with a lot of potential there. So it's going to be a fun show. Let's get started. This episode is presented by Arby's and their new meet in three bucks. You get more meal for your money at Arby's, we have the meats. [MUSIC] >> All right, everybody. We are live here on YouTube for the ass judiners segment of the Dale Jinger download. I'm pretty excited about this. I'm trying to find it in my deal, think coming up. We just got done talking to Joey Logano. We have been debating, good debates around and around in circles about a host of our and all that stuff with Blaney. >> We were just asking him about the Thai Gibbs and host of our, what was your guys' reactions to kind of tie messing around with Carson there? >> It looked just like hard racing to me. I really didn't, it looked like freaking insane badass racing that I was thankful that we were getting. >> It was fun. It was, yeah, I mean, it was, it was thrilling. And I'll tell you, every time you run a race like that, the guys that didn't win, they're all gonna run that back a million times in their heads like, man, what, and you'll keep doing that. Even though there's nothing you can do to go back and change it, you'll run, I run races from 15 years ago, back in my mind about man, I should have did this, I should have done that. It's crazy, but, all right, I finally got all my stuff up, but I thought it was a great race. Did the, did the action at the end save the day or save the race? I know that the pole was something in the 70s for the good race pole. So I know a lot of people thought the race really wasn't that exciting until, you know, we got to the end, but to me, it was pretty entertaining. I enjoyed it. >> Yeah, I had it too. >> Yeah, you did not. You said you didn't enjoy it. >> The end? >> No, the whole, oh, the whole race sucked. >> I thought the race didn't suck. >> Joey Logano stayed out. One stage one didn't change, Brian Blaney stayed out stage two, one stage two. >> Yeah. >> Where's the tire fall off? >> Well, come on, you would have liked a little fall off, don't lie. I love the, in the perfect world, you want tire fall off at every race you run, but you're not always going to get that, but that doesn't always mean the race is ruined. Elliott Sadler won in 2001 on 170 lap tires. He, he didn't pit with 170 laps to go, yeah, there were multiple cautions after that. Multiple people coming down pit road. And I think the guys that finished behind him had 180 lap better tires in 2001. And so it's concrete, dude. And so it's, it's really funky. It wears the crap out of the tires when it's cold because it won't accept the rubber. When it's hot, it accepts the rubber and it starts taking rubber down and the wear, and that cures wear, right? So that improves wear. >> It's really cool, you're going to get these weird races where the tire just shreds and it doesn't lay any rubber down so they wear, doesn't improve the entire day. >> Apparently, that's a temperature thing. >> I just said that. >> Well, like, I don't know exactly, I don't know exactly what's going on. >> It's concrete. >> Yeah. >> So if, you know, an asphalt racetrack doesn't really do this. And. >> I've had cold races at Dover before, and I don't know if I've seen it. >> I don't think you've had that cold of a race at Dover. >> Like mid 60s? >> I don't know. >> I don't know. >> I really don't know. >> Yeah. But the, I think that, and I, you know, I would pave it. I would pull the damn concrete up and I'd pave the **** out of this thing. I'd take the progressive banking out of it and I'd pave it and damn, we'd see some racing. But they'll never do that. So we got what we got. I liked Bristol, I enjoyed it, I was there for the, for the O'Reilly race, I thought it was entertaining. And the cup race I watched on TV at home and I thought it was good as well. >> Bristol was really a few miles race, honestly. >> Did you know that we had a green flag pit stop in '04 when I won there? I lapped all the way up to 6th, and we pitted on the green. That's a, that's nerve-wracking because you lose two laps. >> Mm-hm. >> Yeah. >> It is. That's a very bad time. >> Yeah. >> It's very nerve-wracking. >> Riley Herpp says caution for some days. >> Yes. >> So. >> All right. Anyways, we're doing, we're doing Ask Junior at 1030, just like we told you all. And this is going to be a really long one. So usually we're having to get off of the, of our YouTube at around 20 minutes or so into the Ask Junior. But we're going to stick around. I don't know if you guys got some time. One of the things that obviously with everything that happened with the fight this weekend, let's dive into most memorable NASCAR fights. If you got one in the chat, the more random, the better, I think, because what a mind was Ambrose and Mears at Richmond. >> That was a good one. >> We don't have very good video of that, but you, the video that you do have Ambrose connected, popped Mears in the nose. I've seen Casey Mears in the last couple of years and he jokes about how he got dotted. Much like Blaney, he takes ownership of getting his ass whooped on that day. >> I didn't think the first punch connected when I was watching, but Blaney says it did. But the most memorable, the most important is the 79 day ton of 500. >> Absolutely. >> You know, I won't go through everything, but at 16 million or something crazy number, people watching us. >> That's crazy. >> They, most of those people had never seen an Ask Car race before. That was actually the first flag to flag coverage outside of a race. I think that ran at Greenville Pickens in 1971. And so, yeah, the world will see in our sport literally for the first time ever. And here we are, fighting at the end of the race after crashing all the way down the back straight away. And the call from that, right, with Ken Square. >> And there's a fight. >> Yeah. >> I mean, it's just, it feels so, so perfect. >> Yeah, perfect. >> You know? >> Richard Petty winning the race and, you know, one of the greatest race car drivers of all time, AJ Foyte right there in the, you know, in the mix late. >> That's crazy. >> Yeah. >> All the names in that right there. >> Yeah. >> It was a compelling race because they had had, you know, the rain delayed the race. They ran under caution for a while, buddy Baker, who was dominant all weekend in the gray ghosts, fouled his plugs and ruined his motor during the, the, the pace laps in his car and never ran correctly. He was so heartbroken and David Pearson wrecks out after having to start toward the back of the field. David Pearson gets swept up in this crash off a term for with a bunch of guys in the back half of the field. So the, the wood brothers are out. There's not going to be a, you know, Richard Petty, David Pearson battle, historic battle to the finish like we were expecting. Just to end, then, you know, you're, you're also seeing my dad run one of his very first races on, you know, in front of a national audience of any kind. And they're, they, I don't even think the broadcasters knew how to, you know, knew that, you know, he was going to, he was going to be up in there duking it out. So that was pretty cool because it's funny to hear him talk about Dale Earnhardt as this unknown, you know, like it's guy from Knappler's, they learn heart character. >> They only knew what was coming. >> Who is this guy? >> Yeah. 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Yeah, accomplished run on a day that they didn't get out and fight. Obviously, Texas with Bradis Lasky Texas was a big brawl. That was probably the biggest maybe brawl Jeff Gordon. Yeah. Yep. There was. I mean, did you say you said Kurt and Jimmy at Bristol? Kurt and Jimmy, wasn't at Bristol when they parked in the infield. They didn't. Kurt or Jimmy punch Kurt at Bristol. Jimmy. Oh, you're talking about Michigan. Jimmy Spencer. Was it Michigan? I thought I was Bristol. You got to tell you got to use last names, brother. Jimmy Spencer Kurt. Jimmy Spencer and Kurt Bush. That was at Michigan. Oh, I'm sorry. They started at Bristol. Like the whole thing started at Bristol back when Jimmy was running the 41 target car. Jimmy was leading the race. I think Kurt pushed him out of the way late to get the win. Jimmy didn't have many chances where he's, you know, with a shot to win a race. And then a whole year later, they're at Richmond and Kurt says over the radio, man, I swerved at him to try to knock his fender off because you would you could bump a guy and yeah, if you bent the right front fender, he hurt the balance of the car. He made the car tight. And he's like, man, I tried to get his right front fender and I got mine instead. And so he's out there messing around with Spencer. Spencer bops him in the nose in the garage. Yeah. I see John Hunter running down the front stretch. The road course was kind of, I mean, that's kind of stands out. Wasn't really a big fight, but there's a good tackle. Yep. Cold custer. Yeah. Yeah. Cold just took off. Yeah. Somebody said, hold my watch. Yeah. Yeah. As we talked about that. That's one which is funny as Blaney said, hold my phone. Yeah. Yeah. That's one I wish there was video of. Yeah. Was Kyle and Richard Richard. Yeah. The whole my watch. What was the fight that Robin Pemberton talked about was about um, holler. Oh, that was, uh, that was Kurt Bush and Tony Stewart. Okay. Yeah. So we'd always wondered we didn't know for sure whether, you know, Tony had punched Kurt. Yeah. In the holler. And apparently, uh, that's true. So, um, boy, you're punched newman a ton. I remember that helmet. I wasn't a helmet on that. Yeah. So let me say Michael Walter punch late speed on pit road helmet on it Michigan. So let me say Tony story. Casey Kane crews fighting each early. Yeah. That was it Chicago. Yeah. Yep. Um, yeah. Dad, I don't think was ever in a fight. I don't think I've ever. I don't. Only time I know Dad through hands was on, on the dude at the farm that shot his deer. But he never followed the racetrack that I know. Pearson and Tim Richmond. So apparently rich men got popped in the nose by 10 by Pete Pearson. Uh, I think Tim was unaware of who risked for Pearson was and Tim caught him an old man. Oh, oh, and Pearson popped, pop through that again. Yeah. Pearson is not to be missed with. I feel like Pai Gibbs Sam and Sam Merritt, Mark Zill. Speaking of Sam Merritt, some news. Yeah. Junior Merritt's boards is announcing today. Yeah. They punched Sam in the face. That Sam's coming back to Junior Merritt's boards. I'm really excited about that. We, um, I've, we've been talking about this for a while. Um, Sam one races with us left. I think he's a better driver now than he was then. I think he's more grown up. I think we're a better team. And so I'm excited to get it, you know, getting back in in the building and see what we can do. Uh, we worked with Sam Mer all the way back to the late model days and, um, and had a lot of fun. So he's been kind of part of the family ever since. I'm curious to see how he races the rest of the year because he was not happy after. Yeah. I've heard him say those things before, but, um, we'll see. I, I'm, uh, I am looking forward though to see how much better he runs in our cars having the time away. Um, because yeah, I think he, I think, you know, he was in, he's in a good place now. He's with a good team. Um, but I think that there were things about our program that he might have took for granted. Uh, that I'm, I'm thinking that my, now he's like thankful or looking forward to get back back to older, more mature. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that goes. Yeah. So that's going to be good. Do you feel like, I feel like pops and was good for like usually a fight a year. Tony senior. Yeah. Like, Tony senior, he isn't. Yep. His nickname was, is Rosie because his face turns red when he gets mad. He's pretty, pretty easy to tell when Tony seniors angry. Somebody said, uh, Nelson P case failed kick. I missed that. I believe it was in the truck series. Yeah. That's the one we talked about on yesterday. That was, uh, yeah. Who went after Max Papis in a garage at truck race one time? That was somewhere. That was a non-company in race. And I feel like I remember it. It was something somebody slapped Max. Yeah, woman. Oh, yeah. Max got slapped. Yeah. Oh. Yeah. You remember, um, Biffle and, uh, um. Harvick, right? No, um, Boris. Oh, Boris was mad. Yes. Boris. I've never didn't know Boris could get mad. Yeah. You got mad. Yeah. Boris. Boris is pretty tame, dude. I like, yeah. AJ foight. A couple of people. Oh, Carl Edwards, like, fake punch at Matt. That was an interesting one. That was, yeah. Yep. Somebody in here, I'm trying to find it was asking about Thai Gibbs in the water bottle. What do you think about that? I thought it was funny. I hate it. Hit that guy's phone because he was getting some good footage. And my minority, I think he should get a fine. What? You're just saying that. Hit a phone. Why would he get a fine? He's throwing a full, like, what are we doing? They throw full water bottles on the racetrack big difference. Surely it wasn't like unsealed completely full. I think it had a lot of water in it. I have a prompt. Like, if you have an issue with host of our go take it up with them, you were throwing a water bottle. You got priests and buried, like, jab and add like, yeah. I think priests are mad. I don't think they do something about it. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I don't think there should be a fine. Um, geez, Travis. You threw your water bottle away. I'm not the only person here. Someone in the chat says, like, Travis, go on mute. What an idiot. Yes. Another question. Did you see Bon Jovi's son wearing a Junior Merced Sports T-shirt? It's an old picture. That's old one. Yeah. But yes, I saw it. But it was from years ago. Oh, I think that picture was from three or four years ago. Okay. So I don't know where you got it. Travis, our chat's not moving here just so you know, like it's. It's not updated. Yeah. There it goes. Now we're doing it. Um, Todd gives his scared of his own shadow. I don't know. I mean, I think, I'll say this, man, I think some guys like Blaney was like, if it I'm going in and I'm doing this where other guys are like, all right, if I do this, I'm going to get asked about it. I'm going to be, it's going to be all I see on social media all week long. All of the guys that are in the chase are required to go into a media scrum every single weekend. So they're setting with the media for 10 minutes, answering every single question that they get asked. And so you kind of have to ask yourself, is it worth it? Yeah, for sure. And for a lot of guys, they're just like, man, it's not that they're scared. It's not that they don't want to go over there and punch the guy. It's just that they're like, yeah, all the s*** comes with it. It's just not. I think about that. I think that to myself before I tweet, is it worth it? Yeah, make sure. I do too. Yeah, did you think about when you retweeted that Zayn sign on his new deal? Was that? Y'all didn't know about that? Folks and news. My gosh. That was awesome. Yeah. And that's Chris newest reporter over here. I get good on Saturday. You did. Yeah. You handled yourself. Did you ever get any late model fights? Oh my gosh. I can't remember every day. No, no, no, no, no, no, I mean, arguing. Yeah, arguing. But no, I didn't, I only wrecked a guy, I don't really wrecked like, no, I could count. I could count on both hands in my entire career, the amount of people I've wrecked. I mean, I probably could count on one hand, like the amount of people I've wrecked on purpose. Yeah, that number should be really low, but yeah. Well, I mean, for a lot of people, some people, it's really high. Yeah, some people are already at two hands, yeah. It's a short tracks. A lot of guys get wrecked on purpose. They do, yes. But I, we had Tim Dugger as a guest on my show, a fam, uh, sending a question about favorite top eight play, uh, Tim 10, top eight, all right, top eight. Tim Dugger songs, um, he's got a new one called want you like I do. That's probably my favorite right now. Hurts Donut is an old one's 10 years old, sing a single again is another song is 10 years old circles, circles is a song that he didn't want to cut. He sent me the demo and I said, man, it's a good song. He goes, man, it's stupid. I actually thought it was okay. He was like, I'm not, I'm not going to put that out into the world. That's a hokey and stupid. And I'm like, it sounds good. Do it. So he did it. Um, square man. Yeah. Hard of a small town home away from home. You're going to love me in Colbert night. Those are my eight favorite Tim Dugger songs by bar. That's that's not in my top eight, but it's a, it's a good song. Circles is goaded. See, Tim totally was like, check this out. You won't, you won't believe that I actually cut this demo and I'm like, man, that's actually pretty good. And he's like, they, no way I'm going to release it or, or master it, but I talked him into it. Um, where did I get my junior merge force phone case? So I bought, so I like the phone case where you can put your license in there. So I got it with me, you know, it just, it just goes right in there. Um, you know, many people have those. They slide open or whatever in your phone, your wallet and your credit card or whatever can go in there. And so I've been buying this same case anytime I get a new phone or the case, you know, it's weird how we follow the part of them. Yeah. Yeah. But I get the same case and it's called wingmate by scooch. And apparently it's this really kind of mom and pops family ran operation. And they saw my order and made me this case and sent it in my order. And they were like, that's cool. Yeah. They were like, thanks for buying it. And I never, I didn't thank them. I didn't write them a letter. So I'm telling you now, thank you, uh, scooch. Nice. Yeah. So it was pretty nice. We get a lot of cool stuff. I'm always worried though. If you, with that, the case is like, if I lose one thing, I lose everything. That is true. But my thought about that is if I've got a phone and a wallet, now I've got two things that I can lose. Except for, uh, when you're on vacation, right, and you dump it out on the road, did you lose everything there? Remember, when you lost it, he, he brings up a good flight. I mean, you lost it, right? That was your, was your license in there? When you lost it? Yes. I didn't even think about you. But I recovered it. I know. Thankfully. Yeah. Thankful. So the case did its job. I feel like everybody's heard this story, but just in case you haven't. I was in, um, I was on vacation out of the country. I was on a mokey, which is like a little golf cart. And I'm in my swim trunks and I'm driving. And the mokey and my seat is like level with the side of the car. And so my phone slid out of my pocket right into the street, the, you're just the way you sit in those cars. It just slipped right out. And we got back to the house. And I'm like, man, I can't find my phone. I must have left it at the restaurant. There are, you know, mile and a half, two miles down the road to the restaurant. I've got, I've got a watch that will connect to my phone when I'm near and it ain't connected to it. It must not be here. So we walk all around everywhere we were, couldn't find it. Get back to the house. All right. We get a phone call from my sister. Um, I've got a text that Dale's been in an accident. Are y'all okay? Joey Meyer. So my phone sent an emergency text out to my wife and my sister that I had been in a collision. And it told us where the collision was, so we, it's, it's up to street about half a mile. So we drove up to street. There's my phone laying in the foot, laying in the street, going screaming, you know, going, not making all kinds of noise. You're so lucky. I know. You're so lucky. Yeah. Someone said, dude, do you remember Walt's on chains? Do you ever have one of those? No. No. Dolly definitely wore one of them. Yeah. He had one. He had one. I never did. Elijah. You did. No. Did you, did you have the, did any of y'all, or any of y'all old enough to remember having the wallet that had like the, the photo folder in it where you could put all kinds of, oh yeah. Class pictures and stuff. Was that like a tri-fold wallet? Like, we all needed to carry around a photo album. Yeah. You did. Yeah. You literally had photos in there. That's right. Yeah. Look at my family. Look at my family. That's exactly it. I mean, you did. We did. We did. I know. I mean, normally it was like, you, the Velcro, you can go put it up. Oh, man. Velcro wallets. I need to go back to carrying around the photo albums. That you pulled, you pulled your Velcro wallet out of your pocket with your, with your comb, the comb, you normally kept in there. No. I didn't keep a comb pocket. I didn't keep a comb in my pocket. No comb. Neither. But a lot of people did. Oh my god. DJ. No. My dad did. Which means you did. No, I never did. I barely own a brush. Someone wants to know, Dale, have you ever lever mush with syrup? No. No. Surf is good with everything. So. Yes, it is. By the way, the maple cookies that our Canadian friend sent with the, with the ketchup. Yep. The ketchup Cheetos are amazing. Ketchup flavored Cheetos. It is amazing. The, the maple cookies were. No. The best one was the Nashville hot chicken chips. Yeah. Did you like them? I, it might be my favorite chip. Really? Like I might do take a road trip to Canada just to get them who had to switch blade comb. I never did. But I remember you go to Spencer's. I feel like you get one of those. I think those are right. DJ. No, I never. DJ. He's people. The best part of the ass junior live is the chat clouding us. That's the best part. I, I think you could get the switch blade comb. Like remember this, the Christmas door at your school when you would go pick out gifts for your parents. No. Did you ever have this school at a Christmas store? Yes. Did you? No. This is, see he says yes. Where in the hell are you from? You get the little thing where you put on the map and New York. What is that? Yes. I guess a New York thing. What is up with y'all? Weird. We don't have any stores. Yeah. Hey. Okay. Okay. Dependence upon the season. You guys have hauling store. Hey man. You had book it up there. Come on. Pick up your board. Sure. You can do that. You read the book sale over here. Did you do that? What? Did you have a book it where you can get the pizza, pizza hut party? Oh, those are good. No. What? Book it. Yeah. Where you can get personal, personal pizza, pizza hut. No. Someone said DJ went to a high school at hallmark. Yeah. Might have. I might have. Sounds like we did. I mean, you the same stuff I did. Yeah. Oh, man. All right. So here's a good question. I saw in our in our questions over the course of the the past week. If you could choose one track throughout all of racing history to run your run your last race on, I guess, or any race, regardless of the series or whatever, the track can exist, not exist. What would it be? I had it. So old Atlanta. Oh, yeah. That's hard to beat. Well, I, I. Old Atlanta, meaning the one 1991, 1989, 1975, because old Atlanta now means. It's all different. No, no. Atlanta without the dog leg. Okay. Man, you had a, you had a mile and a half race track without a dog leg. We don't have one of those. If you would have left it alone, you would have a one of a kind racetrack today. Was it more similar to a Darlington? No. It ran just like it runs now. I mean, well, it doesn't run like it runs now. It runs. It never, it didn't really change how the racing was when they put the dog leg in. It just, the turns that Atlanta, it's Atlanta's on a mile and a half racetrack and 80% of it was turned. You know, the straightaway is really really short and it's just in a turn forever. And the old Atlanta, the, the ends were different too, though, right? Like they were, they weren't, they weren't, same ends. I felt like I just put a dog leg in a T.J. Really? I thought the corner is one of those tighter than that. Looking up on a map, go to historical aerials, dude. All right. Damn. Get it together. Get it together over here. I, um, I think, uh, yeah, Nashville Fairgrounds is a great, great one to put on the list. What the hell, they're all homesteads. Like the flat homestead? No, the four four cornered homestead. Absolutely not. Uh-uh. No way. Yeah. I like I would do old. I would do asphalt Bristol or old original Atlanta. Man. They did flip your correct spread. They did flip one and two and three and four Atlanta. Like TJ. Is that what you mean when you said the ends are different? I thought they were just different in like shaped. Yeah, tiny bit. Yeah, when they put the dog leg in in 96, they just they left the turns alone, but yeah, the front stretch in the back stretch changed like Darlington. Yeah. And dirt Bristol man. I don't know. Lisa. Better than no tire fall off. You're going to do anything to dirt or do anything to Bristol. You know what? I would like them to do. Um, this is. Oh, man, Winchester Speedway. Here I go again, talking about Winchester Speedway. We have, uh, I racing has Winchester scanned. Yes. I wish they would release it. My errors is going to be mad at me, but we're live day. I know. I know what I, but Winchester. Let's go. I racing. The 400 one of the biggest races of the year. We want to race online. Come on. Oh, Chris, uh, Chris rock. Pretty cool. The Chris rock. Yeah. Right there. Yeah. He wants to know if we've been on I racing. Do y'all? How many y'all like racing against the AI on I racing? I mean, I grew up, I grew up racing against the, uh, against humans on there, but I had this idea with TJ that I wanted to do a 500 mile 87s at Taladega against the AI with TJ. See how we run. Yeah. See how we run and fix that ups are open. Well, you suspend a lot of time working on our setups. Then it got really difficult. What would, uh, racing have been like for you have the head sim racing that the drivers do now when you were. Dude, when I, when I learned that there was racing on a PC, like you could go on a computer. I was going to, I was in, I was a senior. In high school at Moorsville, when Bill Elliott's NASCAR challenge came out on DOS. And so on a floppy disk. And so I was in the back of my drafting class after school was done for an hour. Uh, the teacher would be in there, you know, wrapping up and I'd hang around as long as I could to mess because I didn't have a computer at home. And so I went to community college to get an automotive degree. He had a computer in, in the, in the classroom. And I played bill, it's NASCAR challenge at, at school with technical college. Getting my automotive degree, my college education. And then in 94 or 96 NASCAR racing by the Pirates came out. My sister took me to Best Buy. She put a $500 computer on credit. I didn't have credit. I didn't have any credit. And so, um, I got a steering wheel and the computer and I paid her $100 a month. Um, and my dad said, you're wasting your time with them computers. And I'm like, I don't know, man, this seems like, this seems like it's cool. This is cool to me, right. And now, man, the computers are cool. Like, why would you say that? And I thought, man, he's usually right. But, um, yeah. Yeah, 95 was, when I think it came out 95, 96 was amazing. And we were just telling this story. So you could, after a couple of years, I think they had, they made a service that you could call in a long distance number. To Massachusetts to race online. So they as a free, just a long distance call. They came out with the, they came out with a way. At first, when you bought NASCAR racing on PC, you raised against the computer. And, and if you look at the graphics today, it was way better. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And so I'm like, God, look at the graphics day. I'm like, damn, that's terrible. I know I said, yeah, I was so real. Then boy, I couldn't believe I could actually race on a computer. And so, they came out with a way to go multiplayer. And what you did was you, you called this long distance number. We had, um, you know, you would, there was a number in Massachusetts. You had to, it would be busy. Like if it was eight or nine o'clock at night, you, you called the number. And once you connected to the number, it patched you to the server inside the game. Yeah. But everyone was calling it. So it would only accept one person at a time. So you called the number over and over and over. And it was busy, busy, busy until you finally got in. And so you're sitting there, dialing this number up over and over and over. And finally, you, you get, you get locked in. And this is all DOS base to, yeah, like this isn't point and click. This is like, yeah, it was really, really challenging. But finally, you're loaded in and you're running around these race tracks. And there's real people. It's unreal in front of you. Like exciting. You know, driving good, driving bad, whatever. But it's way better than the AI that you've been racing for all, you know, these, these last couple of years. The problem was, is that you, you incurred the, the long distance rate. My brother and I lived in a double wide trailer that we shared all utilities. We had about a $20 phone bill and, you know, a $20 power bill. What it was all pretty reasonable. And he had me, we didn't, I was working at the dealership, making $180 a week. And so was he. And he had a little bit better job and idea. But we weren't, you know, we were barely doing this. And so he, we get the first phone bill. I know that this shit coming. Mm hmm. But I don't know how bad it's going to be like I'm not keeping tabs. I'm just like, I ain't, he don't. So I got fired from the dealership. And that story we've told, but I was late every day. Like I was, I was the, the quick loop mechanic. I was the guy that changed the oil. And I did 20, 30 all changes a day. But my ass was rolling in 15, 20 minutes late every day. Now when this was going down, I'd get on the computer and race all night. Carry would be coming out of his bedroom, going to work. And I'm sitting there on the computer, still racing. And he would just look at me and shake his head. And I'm like, I know, I'm going to get up and I'd get up and go and throw on some clothes and how last to this, to the dealership and be, you know, 10, 20 minutes late. For work every morning. And anyways, we get the first bill. And it's bad 400 bucks. So mine was, whoo. Yep. And Carrie comes in. And he's like, what in the F is this? And I'm like, yeah, yeah. I kind of knew that was coming. And he's like, well, I'm not splitting this with you. We'd split everything. And, you know, down the mill. He's like, I'm your, your hand. I don't remember how we paid it. I have no idea. I have no idea. And I know for a fact that I ran up another $400 bill the next month. And you didn't, when you got that bill, you would already, you're already three quarters way through the next month. Yeah. Like, so you're getting another one. I added the same thing. My mom was pissed. I don't, and I mean, I don't, that didn't bell us out. He didn't. I couldn't go to him. He had told me to screw off. You know, I don't know how we care. I don't have helped. Yeah. I mean, I didn't pay my mom anything. Actually, they placed a look for the money. My God, you didn't pay it. Yeah. Finally, they came out with this program called 10 total, total entertainment network. And that was a one 800 number or it was a total. Yeah. It was a service like it's 10 bucks a month or something. God, damn, man. We were so, I mean, that's how I met TJ. You have no idea how cool that was. That was so cool. Yeah. That stuff was so much fun. It was a ranking system too. I'll tell y'all something to about dad. This tells you about my dad. And his, his like, how much he helped out. So y'all remember when satellite direct TV and all that stuff was kind of coming out. And that was all new. Like, I remember when only a few people on the street had this stuff. Yep. I mean, I know like way back in the day. That's a big dish. Yeah. That had one of them in the backyard. Giant dish out there. And so we had that for a while, but not everybody had one of them on the street. And then they come out of these little little dishes. And to get a direct TV, I think the monthly bill was in the 30s. I don't know exactly, but it was like reasonable. But to install was a thousand bucks, like to install a dish was a chunk of money. And I didn't have it. And so I went to dad and I'm like, man, I want to, I want to put a dish in my house, but I can't afford it. He's like, I'll pay. He was, he, I'm renting his house. Or I'm standing in this double. I trailers his property. And he's like, I'll, I'll do half. I caught him in a good mood. He's like, I'll do half. And so I'm like, you sure he's like, yeah, so I scheduled it. Dude comes out, puts it in the ground. I've got my satellite dish. And now I got to pay for it. And he told me he don't change when I went to get his half. He said, I changed my mind. Nothing happened. Like I didn't know. He wouldn't mad at me for some reason. He's just like, yeah, not going to do that. And I'm like, dude, like I, and now I'm on the hook for this money I didn't even got. It's all done too. Yeah. Speaking of, I got to find, I saved the question. Scanning somebody says they were on the scanner of California speedway when you wrecked and asked you guys to help. What do you remember of that? So Kevin Harvick had a flat tire. We're all running right around the top five. I remember correctly. Kevin Harvick had a flat tire. And he's trying to get to pit road. But he's coming from kind of the top of the racetrack of the middle of the racetrack. I'm coming full speed around the bottom. And I see him. And I, you know, made the poor decision to stay flat footed, thinking that I could slip by him. But he clipped me in the right rear, turned me head on into the wall coming off of turn four. And so we, I hit left front to right rear. So it was like a pop pop. And it just was like a shot going off right next to my head. I remember being in a lot of pain. Yeah. It's kind of one of them deals where you hit perfectly to where all of you hurt. Like not just a part of you. I did slam my foot up against some of our gas foot went over and hit the clutch pedal wide as open. So that hurt. I went and got an x-ray for that because I thought I'd broken my foot. But I was just in a bunch of pain. It wasn't so much. You know, I had a lot of head injuries over my career. But I don't, I don't think that was one of them because I got lucky and caught with the left front right rear. It wasn't really a flat driver side slap. It was kind of like, you know, King King corners kind of hitting. You get a little fortunate in those situations. Were they worried about a concussion from that? They were, weren't they? I don't, I don't think so. Um, I don't think so. But we didn't really talk about concussions back then. Yeah, this wasn't. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't like this taboo thing. I remember when I flipped it, I flipped it Daytona 98 in the, in the, in the, in the bush race. And I hit my head on the door like my helmet hit the door top when I came back down on the left front real hard. Yeah. And so I had a concussion. I didn't really know it. I got to the infill care center and got checked out when I'm walking out of the infill care center. I got really dizzy and the people that were with me caught me. I was falling down and we laughed. I laughed. And I'm like, oh man, you know, I guess I've gotten my bell ring. I've never had my bell ring before. This is what it must be like. And we chuckled because the idea was, this will be a two, three day thing. Never thought about it again. Yeah. Back to the fights of the Chatsman debating Austin Hilvers Ryan Newman. Austin Hill and Ryan Newman. I remember Austin. No, who wins in a fight. Oh, I thought it was. I've tried to remember when they found they were debating who I'm like, I remember Austin Hill and sold her at Iowa. And I remember Austin Hill and Mike Snyder on pit road. Martinsville. At Martinsville. I don't know what kind of fighter Newman. I know I might be. I was question three. We've seen Austin Hill in action. Yeah. I think we've seen Newman fight. Austin Hill's a big boy. Yeah. I don't think we've really seen Newman fight. Fight. Have we? I don't know. I don't think so. I think Newman would hold his own. I think he would hold his own. That's a tough. He looks crappy. Like tough. Yeah. We've got two gentlemen in here from the one that want to the Dale Jr. Foundation. Who do you guys think would win in that fight? Oh, we got a new man. I'll both say Newman. All right. Okay. Oh, a couple people here in Newman. Pretty big dude. Newman wins all day long. Newman's a big boy. Dale. Another top 10 for your boy. Yeah. No. Josh Barry got another top 10. You know, there's three races in the chase. And Josh has been the top finishing non-chase driver in two of them. Pretty solid. Yeah. Josh Barry is having a pretty good run here lately. Hey, that's from the back. I got an interesting stat. Now don't look this up everybody. Who's led the most laps this year in 2026? I think a manufacturer. Oh, what? No. Name the manufacturer of the car he drives. Toyota. It's a forward. Blaney. Yep. Right now here at that. That I would have lost. I would have not guessed that correctly. I mean, just assuming as strong as Toyota has been this year. Yeah. Yeah. Blaney there for a little while was just kind of hover and top five ish. Wasn't really dominating the races. Yeah. That's cool. Everyone forgets it. I mean, he was second and points this year. So it makes sense. He's almost got about 100 more laps than Denny. And Larson is. So it's Blaney at a thousand thirty one. Denny at nine forty eight. Larson at eighty three. And he got legato seven twenty five. I wonder how many of those laps in the last like two months for legato. Yeah. Reddick is five twenty three. Tie Gibbs. Brisco. Blaney led a career. How two hundred two laps at Bristol. Is that a skewed stat though because it's easier if you're really strong or I mean, short tracks like Wilkesboro. If you're really strong there, you got a more of a shot and it's more laps to four or five hundred laps at Bristol. Because you can knock off three four hundred laps in a race. You go to a mile and a half. We run Kansas with two sixty seven or something. So really, you know, Blaney could lead four hundred laps at, you know, Martinsville and is the driver's not on the track at Martinsville. I'm just saying it's easier. You have more laps at short tracks. If you're strong there, like I'm not able to lead there. I'm just saying is it. There's more laps to if your car is better at short tracks. Could it be slightly skewed? Yes, but odds like it's not like if we ran five hundred laps at a mile and a half, would it be then he would have more laps led exactly. That's what I'm saying. I don't think it skewed though. Well, I mean, maybe that skewed was the right word, but like weighted differently. Yeah. UK fan here. Scooby. That's pretty cool. It's a good weekend for anyone. What time it is in the UK? Or are they saying Kentucky? Yeah. Oh, really. That's how I took it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think they're just celebrating United Kingdom. Let's go. That's a buddy. United Kingdom. That's a buddy. I was glad they won that game because they put on her cheerleader outfit. It was a great day for her. It's a great day for her husband too. The, um, she has a war. I mean, that cheerleader outfits like 25 years old. She can still wear. It's amazing. Sorry. What's so funny? Help me out chat with the question. No, that was good. College. How about freaking you and see all, you know, making us believe that they might beat Clemson. I do think the lightning delay hurt them. God, I thought it would help because they're, their freaking defense was gassed. I was so frustrated. Both your teams lost, right? Are you talking about Washington? No, well, all three of your teams lost. Oh, yeah. I felt bad for you South Carolina. Oh, yeah. I like. I did feel bad for you during that game. We were texting a little bit about it. I was watching. I'm like, man, really? Like it just sucks. Yeah. Somebody streaming an Egypt, Egypt. What? So I just said they're streaming in Nicholas White 31 streaming in Egypt. It's got to be what? Like the afternoon. Yeah. I have no idea. Oh, somebody is another UK fan here. Kirk Kirk Patrick name checks out. Ian. Um, Rick Flair Bristol. How cool was that? That's pretty cool. He told him to hang off the helmets and fight. Yeah. I know. Rick Flair is a wild man and he sort of come clean to some of the, you know, he's like, "Hey, I was a f***ing wild man. I was crazy. I probably parted way too hard, but he stayed on the throttle." He did. And he is not, he is recognized his faults and leaned into them. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm. It's like this is, this is who I am. So Brad Pitt at the track, too? Oh, yeah, Brad Pitt is a track. Yeah, that was interesting. We had, who do we had the week before? Uh, Sophie Cunningham? No, um, I mean Tom Cruise. We had Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise and Brad almost back to back. Yeah. Yeah, and Sophie Cunningham with that. Yeah. I think it's good when you get, I know some people kind of like it, but I like when, I think it's good for the sport getting outsiders in. We used to not be able to pull like a-listers, you know, just a, I mean, yeah, it's a day until 500 maybe, but some of the other races, maybe, I don't know what's changed, but- Yes, I've played war dogs. I like it. You haven't played it yet. I have it. What's war dogs? War dogs is a PC game. Yeah, a new PC game. It might be out on other, I don't know if it's out on other consoles or whatever, but it's pretty fun. We go to a bills game, you jump through a table? No. Oh, Travis? No. Really? I don't know if I'd like the- My body's gonna be sore for like a week. Can we? No. I don't know if I would like, I mean, if it was, if we went to a bills game and we were hanging out behind, you know, a tailgating off of it, in your parking spot, and it was just us. You'd do it. I'd do it. You don't want to do it. I'm not doing it in front of a crowd of like a couple hundred people or cell phones out. I don't blame either. My thing is, I do that and then I'm gonna be drinking all day. I'm just gonna be sore. Or like- I ain't worried about that. Can I spray you a ketchup and mustard? No, definitely. I'd rather jump through a table than get sprayed with condiments. So we got time for maybe like one more question? One more question here before we check out. Somebody's earlier said, "Did you ever buy the Columbia tapes? You get like 10 tapes for a penny?" The cassette tape? Yeah. Well, yeah, you used to get those on a big pack. Yeah. No, they were wanting to know if you guys ever- I did. I didn't do that. But when I was roughly eight years old, Kelly and my cousin, Tony Jr. were the one hundredth caller during the Sunday countdown, the top 100. And they won a either full album or the 45 of every single song in the top 100 that played that day. And I remember the records coming in the mail and they had 100 records, either full albums or the 45 of the single and they gave me a 45 of Fleetwood Mac and they gave me a queen single as well. But I remember all these records coming in and- That's kind of cool. Remember that? What was your first record? Do you remember? That was it. That was it. Yeah. So Fleetwood Mac called me and it might have been a radio by a queen. I think my first record was the Beach Boys or, yeah, was the Beach Boys. Hmm. Yeah. Also, uh, rock, me, I'm a dance solid. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I remember calling into radio shows. I wouldn't be calling number nine. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Get on the air. Request your song and then you right, you got your set tape ready to hit record and play it. And then the DJ would talk over the eating the song a little bit and it would ruin the whole thing. Yeah. I got, I remember going to roses. We didn't even have Wal-March back then and getting the sync, the cassette for, uh, it takes to my rob base and DJ Easy Rock. Yeah. Those were the times they were. Yeah. All right. Well, that's- All right, everybody. Hey. Appreciate everybody tuning in. We'll do some dirty mode, though next and, uh, and then call it a day here in the studio. Um, don't forget about Xfinity. They're waving the red flag on internet price hikes and raising the green flag on savings. Now you get the speed and the reliable Wi-Fi you need locked into one price for five years. No surprises. No late yellows. Just straight shots to victory lane. Just like we like it, man. We've got a winner. It's been imagined that and we appreciate everything they do. Thanks for tuning in, everybody. This hour went by really fast and, uh, appreciate, uh, we had 1,900 people tune in to our Ask Junior Live and, um, thanks for tuning in. Hey, everybody's time for some dirty mode doe here on the download dirty mode doe brought to you by FanDuel. Russell is with us and we are going to talk about some NASCAR stuff. Um, first off, though, uh, going over last week's bets that we made, uh, all of us missed on our top tens, brisco, host of our, I missed on that one. Like I know Blaney. I'm not taking blame for my loss. My losses, Carson, host of ours fall. I'm not taking it. Buddy, you lost. Oh, bottom line. Travis, you lost Travis, Travis had Bill, Hamlin, Blaney, TJ, Kizlowski and that was just a mess. Well, always because of this. And this is a hard time when he came in with him to, um, all of our picks on, uh, matchups were correct. No, three or four. I'm sorry. We didn't get Lugano. Hang on. Yeah, then he scored that up. Yeah. But you did say Lugano would finish top 10. So that bet would have cash if anybody bet it. All right. Um, of course, uh, we did a good job on our, on those. Um, so let's take a look at, uh, racing insights, insightful insights. That's, uh, that was shirt, uh, um, it's going to be a shirt. Yeah, we're going to name it. We're going to list a few drivers here and give you racing insights, insightful insights into each of these drivers, Ryan Blaney. So Kansas is not a good spot for him to find his mojo apparently, um, he's failed to finish three of the last four races, uh, of 2026 due to accidents. He's only got two top 10 finishes in the last seven Kansas races. Wow. Um, Ty Gibbs, he's great in the points, not great in Kansas. For racing insights, only two top 10 finishes in eight Kansas starts, including a ninth in the spring. It's time to prove that he's a contender. That's Joey Lugano. He's got, he's a three time winner at Kansas last win there in 2020. Um, he's finished 14th, the worst in four of the last five Kansas races. So not, not a great place for Joey, but can he go in there and prove he's a contender? And you have redic rebounds at Kansas, Tyler, redic, he's one, two of the last six Kansas races, um, he's finished in the top four, including a win in three of the last four, one and a half mile races. Hurricane could face a storm, Carson, host of our, his best Kansas finish in six starts his 13th, and that was in the spring. Someone's cold in Kansas and on one and a half mile tracks and that's Austin Cindrick. He's finished outside of top 10 and all 10 Kansas starts, another driver that's just purely cold at Kansas. Daniel Swarez, it's been a difficult track for Swarez finishing 13th, the worst in each of the last six Kansas races with only two top 10s and 19 starts at the track. Bubble Wallace is good at Kansas, one at Kansas in 2022. Four top five finishes in Kansas in the last eight races. Someone looking to turn things around at Kansas is chase brisco. He's only one top 10 finishing the last five races of 2026, so he's trying to make things a little bit better. He's won the most recent mile and a half, though, it's Chicago. Kansas is a great place to fix his season. That's chase Elliott. He's got two wins at Kansas, including this race last year. He's finished in the top 10 and sixth of the last seven Kansas races. And Kansas could make him a contender. That is Christopher Bell four Kansas race or four Kansas polls, but the best finish is they runner up in 2023 in the May race. He's finished in the top 10 and nine of his 13 starts at Kansas, including five of the last six. Now, the ones to really watch the hot drivers for Kansas or Kyle Larson and Danny Hamlin. Kyle Larson has an average finish of 2.6 in the chase. He's got three Kansas wins and all the last 10 races there. And he's won two of the last five Kansas races. Danny Hamlin has four Kansas wins, leading all drivers. And he's finished in the top 10 and nine of the last 10 Kansas races. The other was a mechanical failure. So that is what racing insights has forced today for all our chase contenders. Who's gonna win this race? - You know it was Superbell. - Christopher Bell. - Whoa. - Really? - Yeah, that's five days. - That's five days. - That was a man I hate to agree to him. That's who I was sitting and thinking. - Why Russell? - Well, what's he been runner up in the last two mile and a half races? He runs really well at Kansas. That's, I just think it's his time. - Wow. - I do too. - Couple of interesting stats going to Kansas. No driver has got their first win at Kansas in 41 races. That is the most races of all active tracks without a first time winner. The April Kansas race had just three cautions, tied for the fewest in track history. Four of the last six Kansas races, though, ended in overtime, including the last two. How about that? - That's, that's weird that it does, 'cause Kansas has long runs. - Yeah, it does. It's a long run racetrack, but yet it provides you more often, oftentimes an overtime finish, man. - You like the notes this week, huh? - I do. I've been working hard. - That's great. 23-11 has the most wins at Kansas as an organization with four hinder motor sports as second with three. - Do you trust 23-11 right now? - Honestly, when you go to Kansas, I think you have to. - It's probably their arguably their best track. We don't intend to stop there too, but. - But do you think they could just turn it on? - They turned it on last year. They turned it on the year before. - Yeah. - They've been a, before this year, they were not a top tier organization. And they would show up at Kansas and run incredibly well. So I feel like this is one of them deals where you kind of got to ignore recent performance and kind of go with some going with my gut that I will see redic and bubble Wallace running in the top five at some point in this race. - I think it's very likely. Did Danny just turn it off? Can you just turn it on? - Regardless of the, and it's even regardless of whether Toyota has lost their edge or not, I still think this is just a track where 23 and 11 and the two drivers, it could be a very driver dependent. I know 23 and 11's got great race cars, but this is also a track where these two guys have a ton of confidence. I don't think that they win the race, but I think you could bet them top 10s. - So, who do you think wins, Dale? - Christopher Bell. Honestly, I've got a weird feeling man that Kyle Larson goes in there and wins. I've said it on our show yesterday, the first thing I'm going to be looking for when they start to race in the first stages are the Toyota still dominant. Where's Danny Hamlin running? How many Toyota's are in the top five? Does this mile and a half look different than every other mile and a half that we saw this year? And that will help me understand truly whether Larson has a shot, whether Penske has a shot, or is it going to be another dominant performance by Toyota's? I have a feeling that Kyle Larson and his team, they aren't the best team, they aren't the fastest team, but they don't have to be. I think they can execute. I think he, if he's got a top three car. - Yeah. - He could get the track position, use the top of the race track, do all the things that he does really well there. - They seem to be finding their way. - To get the win. Yeah, I just, I think that they're, I think the balance between or the competitiveness that Toyota's had is, they've closed the gap. - Do you feel like Kyle now that he's kind of found victory, he's found victory lane again, he's strong again here now? Do you think, to me, this is a race where guys like him, I want to see him go in there and be really competitive, but not over step, because I feel like there's guys like Brisco and Reddick who have to be pretty much aggressive now, right? They got to make up some points. - Yeah, the other thing I like about it is, Larson's crew ranks the best overall 29 races this year. It's this time of year where we start looking at pit crews and start even in the chase where the elimination is gone and all of that mess, pit crews still matter. Pit crews still make a difference. And it feels like that, those guys on the five car are sort of posturing themselves to be competitive on pit road and on the race track as well. And that's what they've talked about. Internally as a team is execution. Once the cars get there, which I believe the cars are starting to really get to, you know, get to where they're winning cars, the execution has to matter. That's how Reddick was able to get to where he was, five races into the season or seven races into the season, perfect execution. Not being the best car, but perfect execution. So it feels like to me that the five teams looking like they're doing that better than anybody at this moment. How much can fans take into practice and qualifying to see kind of how the race is going to be? I think a lot, you know, the more practice we get, the better understanding we have of who's got long run speed, who's got, you know, I look at those five, 10, 15 lap averages. And I see, okay, this guy's, this guy's really high in the five, but he's low and or totally non-existent in the 10. Short run speed, no long run speed. That's problematic at Kansas where you think we're probably going to get some long green flag runs. I look at guys that are really, really good at 10, 15 lap runs because I think we'll have a handful of those long runs in this race. And so that long run speed's going to matter. There's a wide race track. So, you know, track position is nice, but it's not everything at this place. So, yeah, I kind of, I think the more practice you get, the better understanding you have, not at every race track. Some race tracks will watch practice and everything you see doesn't plan to pan out at all in the race. Yeah, you'll see guys that are fast in practice. They never hear from them. You're in the race itself, but I think here we get 50 minutes now too. So, yeah, you're going to see two good runs. Yeah, everybody together to me makes a difference. But you have to at the same time. And I think we all know this, but at the same time for our listeners, the drivers and the teams also have an agenda during practice to run a certain amount of laps to get all the fuel out of the car to be able to go out there and qualify with as little amount of fuel as possible. So, teams, drivers were out there running longer, the green flag runs, multiple laps trying to position. So, you got to know how to offset some of the things you're seeing with time, with speed as to what their agenda is during practice. Some of that can be a bit misleading, but yeah, if you can look at all that, go ahead. I will say from experience this year, Denny's practices are not an indication of if he's going to be good or not. So, that's the one that's been true most of the year. That's exactly right. Yeah. So, matchups. Yeah. I'm going with Larsen, Russell's got Christopher Bell. Don't ask me. You're going to Denny Travis, TJ, who you got to win the race? You're going to be Bowman. I got Bell. Bowman a run. Good at Kansas. So, that's one of his best tracks. Wait, non-chase driver. Where does Josh Barry finish? Josh Barry will probably not be the highest finishing non-chase driver in this race. I'm going to say anywhere from, so no top 10. 10th to 14th. That would be a good day for him. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I just, we're in the chase. You're going to see a ton of chase drivers toward the front of the field. It's crumbs for every non-chase racer. So trying to get, you know, a 10th to 15th is going to be a great result for any non-chase racer. 80 degrees partly cloudy skies, five to 10 mile. I like Kansas and past because of the wind, but we don't have a lot of wind this time. Who you want to win the race, TJ? I picked Chris for a bell already. All right. I'm just marking us down. You just go with what Russell says. No, I was mad. I'm in Russell. Best friends. Always mad when he says it. All right. Let's talk about top 10. It's a favorite part. Who's going to dial up a couple of top 10s? Let's parlay a few drivers together. When we look at active top 10 finishing streaks at Kansas, we have a couple drivers with three. Briscoe Larson. Does, you know, I think Larson for a top 10s a nice little pick and easy. Can Briscoe bounce back? He was our most recent winner in Chicago, the last mile and a half that we ran at. So with two top 10, two top 10 streak going is Reddit Byron, Kaiselowski, Hamlin, Wallace and Chase Elliott. Denny Hamlin. Another thing I would want to mention, Denny Hamlin and William Byron are the only drivers to finish in the top 10 in all five races on 1.5 mile tracks this year. So here's a couple of parlays that I could throw together. All right. A couple of top 10 parlays that I would suggest what does a Denny Byron top 10 parlay look like? Travis? Denny. And the Byron top 10. 10 minus 102. All right. I like that one. How about a brisco Byron? Brisco Byron plus 138. All right. Give me this one. Brisco Redic Larson. Brisco Redic Larson plus 132. I like all of those. Um, this is my daily, uh, my weekly reminder that Dale likes these. He will not be betting these. I do not bet on motor sports. I bet on college sports, but I like to pretend. So have fun with that. We'll see if I'm right. Um, Russell, you got a good top 10 Parley. Uh, I, I, I, I would be a favorite guy. Like, I, not, everything scares me, but the favorites. Okay. Yeah. So the ones I mentioned. So the ones you mentioned, I might do like a, a tie gibs and, uh, Christopher Bell or something like that. Okay. Travis. Give me Larson, Hamlin Blaney. Okay. It's, I, I just think we're at the point now where it's, it's chasers. Yeah. TJ, you're going to step on an island? Yeah, probably. I normally do. I'll go, uh, Prius and busher top 10. Well, we know what's not hitting. All right. Busher. All right. Hey, you want me to go out on island? I'm going. There are multiple drivers without a top 10 at a mile and a half track in 2026 and Prius is one of them. TJ plus 950. His, his best finish though, it wasn't 11th. I'm telling, I mean, which I'll say, check it. Still don't pay. Just, just, just see, no, it still won't pay. All right. I'm going to write that one down. So TJ, you're going Prius. Yeah. Sure. Busher, busher to our guest in the studio. Give me two names. Top 10. Baba and Hocivar plus two plus, uh, two, three, three turns. I'm going to give him that because, well, they are guests. I'm going to be nice to them. Both of those drivers have top chances at mile and a half this year. But Hocivar, what? Yeah, I'd be a little nervous about Hocivar. He's not running very well on mile and a half. Slightly. Thank you. I'm nervous about that. But I'd be nervous about it. It's better than your bet, TJ. Yeah. I said, Josh Barrier would finish in the top 15. His best finish in a mile and a half in 2026 this year has been 27th. Yeah. That's, uh, I guess you're wild, man. You gotta, you gotta remember that all those, his streak was all on those, I know, not on mile and a half. Yeah. Yep. We'll see. We'll see what happens. Um, another driver who is on that list of not having a top 10 in mile and a half is our chaser Austin Cendrick 12th is his best finish at a mile and a half this year. All right. We got a few matchups to go over. Um, we got our first matchup is Larsen reddick. And this is an interesting one because Larsen's minus 140 reddick is plus money plus 100. So I mean, if you wanted to try to make a little bit of money, you could take reddick there, even though I think we all agree. Larsen is the favorite. Uh, the next next matchup matchup here is Christopher Bell and reddick. It's even at minus 115 a piece. And I think our man Russell here loves if Christopher Bell to win the race. I do. I like that. I like belliness. Larsen versus hamlin. Pretty even as well. Um, what do we think there? I'd stay away from it. Stay away. Briscoe and Byron, another even one there. I like Byron and Briscoe both to get top 10s. But I loved what I saw it out of Briscoe at the mile and a half in Chicago land. And and he's had a couple of rough weeks. And I just got to feel like they're going to have some sort of a decent result. Yeah. And I feel like Byron's team has really struggled lately. So, yeah. Legano and Bell, this is, uh, this is an interesting one. Legano has been hot. But at, uh, at this matchup, he's at plus 145 versus Bell at minus 200. I wouldn't bet Bell because it minus 200 is not a lot of fun. Uh, but do you even wasted money on betting? Legano, he would probably make you regret it if you didn't. I think you'd rather go bet him to just top three or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. You bet what? I would bet Legano top three or something like you're going to skip the matchup. Yeah. I'm just going to skip the matchup and bet. If you think that's going to happen, if Legano is going to beat Bell. Yeah. Hamlin versus Chase Elliott. Another matchup just doesn't make any sense. Hamlin at minus 175 versus Chase at 130 plus 130. Um, betting neither one of those sounds much fun. I avoid. Yeah. Blaney, uh, versus host of our Blaney at minus 170, host of our plus 125. This is just a good job by the books. Good job putting this together. I still think even with the juice, I'd go with Blaney. Oh, all right. Blaney at minus 120 versus Gibbs at minus 110. I feel like for some reason Gibbs ought to be the favorite here, but he's not with the odds. This is another one that's really a coin flip for me. Yeah. Because I think they're both going to run anywhere from six to 10th. Yeah. They're both going to finish 5th and 6th. It just depends on. Yeah. I want to see if we can parlay two of these together. Sometimes they allow it. What's two that we like that we said, but juice-wise we didn't. You want to do Blaney and Hamlin versus Elliott. I like Christopher Bell over Legano and Hamlin over Elliott and Hamlin over. We can do that plus 135. Nice. Man, that sounds like fun. I hate that I cannot do it. All right. Well, then let's do that. Let's parlay. Um, let's parlay Denny and Bell on that. Hopefully Legano doesn't make and Legano or Chase Elliott doesn't make us regret it. Well, Russell, hey, I appreciate you coming in, buddy. No problem. Hope you enjoyed your time with us. Hey, this is Dale Hart Jr. And for all the latest Dale Jr. download gear, including the Amel drink some beer t-shirt. We've been talking about here around the office. Head over to shop.dirtymomedia.com for all the latest merch. We now bring in George Wrightster, who is the host of Dirtymo Media's new college football show. Unafraid show. George, thanks for joining us today. Played at Oregon, fourth round draft pick for the Jacksonville Jaguars. And he's our expert when it comes to college football. And we've got a lot of questions for you today. How you doing, George? Man, I'm doing great. I'm doing great. I've watched you race and me and you have something in common. I don't know if you know, but we both share our father's name. I'm the third. You're a junior. All right. Yeah, that's a that's a lot of responsibility. That's why I've always found it. It really, it really is because um, so my dad isn't famous like like your dad was, but uh, but I remember, uh, a PE teacher told me when I was in high school, he said, George, if you go, if you grow up to be half the man, your dad is, you'll be a great man. No pressure, right? Yeah. That's, uh, that's, that's, I mean, that's every son, but yeah, I think when you get the name, there's sort of this expectation of, I, I've, I've given you this, this thing to carry forward and don't mess up the legacy. Um, yeah. So let's get into some, uh, some college football. Last week, um, I had, uh, let's see here. Last week, we had a couple of bets that we, we all put on the table, um, and Miami, that was a bad beat. Yeah. I, I had, um, I had UNC, they looked like they were going to win that game against Clemson, but I had UNC, I think it plus three and a half. They look good to the light. Well, that game, honestly, that, that game has so much writing on it because Bill Belichick and company, you know, with his son resigning, Mike Lombardi resigning, like, every win buys him more time. And the same thing with Clemson and Davo, like things aren't going exactly as planned after they got boat raised by LSU and then people are already frustrated with, you know, with the way things are going. So them coaches, they needed that win badly. And, and Davo coming out with it, it just silenced everybody just for a little bit longer. Yeah. Do you follow, uh, the UNC deal because I mean, I'm, I know there's a lot of tons of noise off the field. Uh, and it kind of makes you wonder how, how long Bill will hang in there, but he seems for the most part still committed to putting a great football field on the, on the football team on the field and committed to UNC. How long do you see this partnership going? It depends on how many wins they get, right? Because on, on, on some level, when you have your, when your general manager has allegations of, of, of impropriety going on and then he resigns, your son goes on medical leave and there's reports that, you know, unsubstantated, they in terms of not, I shouldn't say I'm substantiated. I should say not verified reports that he's in rehab. and then there's allegations of coaches giving drugs, the players, the staffers sleeping with players, all of this stuff, like all of that going on. It, it, when you are the man in charge, you are ultimately responsible for everything that happens inside of your program. So like if you are the board of regents, if you're the donors, the boosters, you have to say, all right, if we're not winning football games at a high level, even if we're only getting six wins, seven wins, that's not what we paid for. And also all of the rest of this noise, it's not quieting 'cause last year was one thing. This year it's another thing. And you just have to wonder how long that they're gonna wanna stick with that situation. I give it, if they win six games or less, I think this will be the last season. If they get up to eight games, he'll get at least one more. - Wow. - How long does it take for him to take over a program like that? And really, how long does it take? Like we saw a hard bar going to Michigan. It seemed like it took him a couple of years of recruiting and stuff before they really started to hit their stride. Like does it take a coach like him a couple of years to come in and start before the recruiting kicks in really good? Or you know what I mean? - Well, we're in the day and age of the transfer portal. So if you do a good job of recruiting the portal and coaching well and coaching them up, like you can go from a bad team, you know a four or five win team to a seven win team pretty quickly. But it doesn't take too long to get your culture in because you can get rid of kids, you can get rid of staffers and he brought in his whole crew. So you shouldn't have had a problem in terms of staffing because this is your staff. But you can have a problem with getting the requisite talent to compete in the ACC. That may take you a couple of cycles. But so like you can get some stop gaps in between time. So I don't think that you have to go out and you know, win immediately. Look at Tony Elliott over at Virginia. They had three years when they're building, building, building. And then you are, and then they go out and win 10 games last year and then they start to season pretty good this year at two and one. So like people will give you grace with the wins and losses but you can't have not winning and have turmoil within the program with the people that you hired off the field and people think that you have control and a handle of what's going on because this is his first time in college. And I've talked to a former professional player who played at the highest level whose kid went there and he was like, this ain't the situation, it's not good over there right now. Well, let's move on, talk about Ole Miss. They are now three and a half plus three and a half on the road at Florida. What does Vegas know that the public doesn't? Oh, man, they have not seen this Florida offense because they can score points. Aaron Phylo, the quarterback, he's a good player. Jayden Ball. This is what I have on my watch list for this week as the Heisman Trophy game because you got Trinidad Chambliss on one end who is, I mean, everybody saw what he did to LSU. That's what he does every single week. And Jayden Ball, the running back over at Florida, this kid is electric and their new head coach John Sumberall. He has this team offensively rolling. Defense, they can't necessarily stop a nose bleed. So this is going to be a shootout, but I think that they believe that Florida has a little bit more offense and we'll be able to have the advantage of playing at home in the swamp. Georgia is only a 14 point favorite against Oklahoma. What did we think about that? This is a rock fight game of the week. This is, this is my sickos game of the week. If you are a sicko, if you want to watch Oklahoma play offense again, they scored 14 points versus New Mexico last week. And the week before they were, and the week before they played Michigan, they only scored 10 points. This is an offense that can't run the ball at a high level. They can't pass the ball at a high level, but they damn sure can play some defense, but they had a major injury scare. And we're not even sure if they're best defensive lineman, Stone, the big detackle who's likely all American that he's not even good. He's not even expected to play in this game. So that's going to hurt them as well. But Brent, Brent Venables, very good defensive coach. So on some level, you are thinking, all right, he'll be able to slow this, this Georgia offense down some. And that's why I think the line is only 14 is because I'm looking at it. And I'm saying, all right, Georgia's going to win this football game. It's just a matter of how much because Georgia's defense is good, but Oklahoma's offense is horrible. It's bad on the eyes right now. So I would take Georgia and have 14 points. And you, but that 14 is tight like that, that could end up a 13 point win. And you'd be frustrated on the back end, but but Georgia's winning this football. Dale, that's where you do what you normally do and move that number in parlay it with another game, that's right. Georgia, I have a game, Alabama for South Carolina. I think Alabama's going to, you know, they kind of struggle against Kentucky, but I think they're only getting better and keel on Russell, young quarterback. And South Carolina thing's going backwards at 12 and a half. I feel like this is, right, for BAMO. I do, I do too, but the only thing that scares me is that this is the exact type of game that Katelyn the board, right? Easy Travis. No, that's it. He's right. He's not wrong. Yeah. This is the exact kind of game. If you have put Georgia in this spot, Georgia would be in trouble. The fact that they're playing against South Carolina is, like, this is the one time where you will have shame, beamer and, um, and Lenora sellers, like, they will be at their peak magic powers. That's the only thing I'm worried about in this game because everything they're playing in Bryant, Denny Stadium, they are, you know, it's a, after, it's a night kick. Everything is in Alabama's favor and then you'll mess around and have angels in the outfield performance from, from South Carolina. So, but I, if, if my money's on the line, I'm taking Alabama minus 12 and a half. I got a three game parlay, Alabama is actually part of it. Um, I got Alabama minus six and a half. I got Indiana minus 15 and a half and LSU minus six and a half. Oh, I, I, Alabama minus six and a half, that, that feels amazing. That feels amazing right there because you're going to get at least a touchdown way out of there. And then, and then, uh, and, and who is the second game? Indiana 15 and a half over Northwestern. Ooh. So, so Indiana's playing Northwestern. I know very few people watch that there's sickos like, like me and they watch, um, Northwestern versus Colorado versus Colorado last week. They tore the cover off of Colorado. So I think that people are underestimating, uh, this Northwestern team and Chip Kelly is the offense coordinator and he does a really good, good job. Their quarterback, Aiden Charles, who transferred and from Michigan States, a good player as well. My biggest question about Indiana, the defendant national champions is, we don't know anything about them. They just played what their own coach, Kurt Signati said is it was, was, was three glorified scrimmages, which I absolutely hate because he gets out here talking all this trash. All I do is win. All I do is win. All you do is duck non-conference opponents because they, they, they canceled the Notre Dame game. He doesn't want to play anything competitive in the non-conference, which is hard because he's a great coach, runs a great program. I don't understand why you're ducking the smoke when, as college football fans, this is what we deserve is more good games. So with that, uh, I said, I would have stayed away from that game because that's scary because I like, Indiana against Western Kentucky and everybody else that they've played, they've looked amazing, but so does everybody else versus versus non-competitive games. So we don't know as much about Indiana this season as we should because I think they're transferred a quarterback who transferred in from TCU, Josh Hoover, I think it's only thrown like 52 passes in three games. Like that's not realistic. So and he was a kid who threw a lot of interceptions and we're going to see if, if he is the, if he, if they can Fernando Mendoza, Josh Hoover, but I stayed away from this game. And if I were picking it, I would lean towards Indiana minus what was a 15 and a half. Yeah, I would lean towards that, but that would, I would have teased that down a little bit to get that under the under two touchdowns, like 13 and a half. I watched a little bit of Texas A&M last weekend there with the, they're playing LSU this weekend. I'm taking LSU minus six and a half. I like it. Why do, why do you like that one so much is the, is the question. What about what LSU has put on tape that you are confident that they will be Texas A&M? I think they got a chip on their shoulder, they got, they, they know that they got to put a lot of points on the board. I also think it's not what LSU can do. It's what Texas A&M can't do with Marcel Reed. They're, they're like the same quarterback. I noted everybody. Everybody's looking at and I actually think that Marcel Reid is a better passer than Sam Levitt. Because if you watch with an LSU fans, they will grow to understand. If you remember back to last weekend, it was fourth and fourth. It was fourth down a couple of times or some or some short third downs. There are wide open guys standing four yards away and he's like, no, I'm going to go run it. And he turns into this batter and ram quarterback and number one, you can't stay healthy like that. And also you don't build trust in your teammates like that because the wide receivers, they want the football and you got to do your job as a quarterback to deliver that. And Marcel Reid, on the other hand, teams know if you keep him in the pocket and don't let him escape outside of the pocket where he becomes a whole different player, he will eventually throw you the football. And if he throws you the football once, he will have at least one or two more turnover worthy plays during the game. So this is going to be decided by which quarterback can play the cleanest because what LSU does is similar to what, I mean, it's very similar to what they were doing with Ole Miss, except for they don't have Trinidad Chamuelis. They got Sam Levitt, who's not a bad quarterback, but these are two Spider-Man's pointing at each other. I would tend to go with, I'm telling you, like these, these teams are very similar. And LSU is going to be without Traydaz Green, they're, they're star tied in, who's a monster. And they lost one of their DBs too. I like Texas A and M to, to get, to get the upset. Wow. Man. Coming off of the loss to Kentucky, you don't think that they're in their heads a little bit? Oh, of course, because truth be told, even a week before, they almost, they almost lost to Arizona State. They needed Arizona State to have like two fumbles, sixes in the fourth quarter to be able to pull away in that game because that, that game was looking like a potential upset too. But I do believe that this is a potential reset for Texas A and M that they're, they're looking in the mirror like, hey, yo, like we thought we were good. We got to tighten up. And there was an arrogance about LSU, right? Well, even going into that old misgame, oh, we're just better than them. Well, and the way that they lost, I'm telling you, like, just, just look at the body language, even look at lane, lane, kiffin, he just looks smug coming out of the, out of the tunnel like, man, man, we're better than you. You know what they say? You can't make a house. Yeah, hey, man, hey, man, you can't do it. Yes. Yes. It is not advisable. Everybody knows the saying and, and that's, and that's lane, like he's going to do what is best for lane at all times, at all times. Sometimes it aligns with what you want to. So then you think that he's a, a, a friend and not just an ally in the moment. Yeah. It's big because lane going to do what lane want to do. He ain't going to be worried worried about what's best for any body else, but sometimes it lines up and there's an arrogance about this team and I don't think until they drop another game that they're going to, it's like that quote that says, a man only lives two lives. And the second one begins when he, when he realizes he only has one. And I think that they won't realize that they don't, that they only have one until they lose to, to Texas A&M and then it's going to be like, Oh, wait, hold on, hold on, we gotta, we gotta figure some things out. I love it. All right, man. Well, perfect. I'm rethinking that back. Yeah. I am too. I think about putting the dust, another bat down. All right, buddy. George, I appreciate you tuning in today, man. It's great to have you part of the Dirty Momedia family. And it's awesome to be able to talk college football with somebody with as much knowledge as you. I appreciate you, you, you having me. I'm proud to be part of the Dirty Moe family because we stand for the same, same things. I stand for five things. They'll face family, fatherhood, food and sports. That's right. Those are the things I spend my time, my money and my energy on. So, uh, yeah. So I'm happy to be here and thank, thanks for creating a platform where we can grow some things. Got it. Thank you, man. All right. I'll talk to you about FANDULE, the premier gaming destination in the United States. Thanks for joining us here in the RB studio. Appreciate you, TJ. Mm-hmm. That was a lot of fun. A great Dirty Moe Doe segment. A lot of good information there between George and Russell, a little bit of college football. And a really, really fun ass junior. Um, remember, RB's has the new meat in three bucks. You get more meal for your money at RB's. We have the meats. We'll have a great show for you tomorrow. We'll see you. Check out Dirty Moe Media on Instagram, Facebook, X, and TikTok.