Jimmy Spencer vs. Kurt Busch Explained

[Music] i've got a theory uh you may disagree with me but i've got a theory i think that actually your dust up with kurt busch actually is why i got the attention and here's why hold on let me finish because i think you're already ready to disagree with me remember we are good at what you do hold on though we had the attention of sports illustrated that year i know lars anderson yeah i know and he was writing a story on you however it was only going to be on what we were told is it was only going to be on the website he lied to us no no no he didn't lie to us he didn't have any control over that that he's not an editor he didn't lie to us but but he had come down and and we've done interviews and so us doing sports illustrated was a major deal and i'd been working on that deal and we got the sports illustrated but we didn't think it was going to be in the magazine and yet when the michigan thing happened and and you uh did what you did to kurt [Laughter] and maybe we talked about that here oh yeah but but but when you did that that got us in the magazine you know what i'm saying i mean you agree that got us in the magazine lars anderson said we ain't got to worry about websites now we're in the we're in the big deal and i remember that and so when that sports illustrated article came out i think jade gerst noticed like how you know did we have any business being in sports illustrated ultra motorsports jim smith you know blowing up every week yeah struggle feeding we had one we had one race coconut holy bristol you let a bunch of laps got caught under caution that was one thing so i think but but here it is i look back at my things oh my god mike egg he was a motor builder yeah but i think that that might have been unfortunate for you on how that all transpired with the kurt bush deal but i don't think so i think that that that deal at michigan then i come to realize how how important i was to the fans yes same as you that was the best pr work i've ever done ever done you you remember you come i said this is a setup buddy they are not going to let me race wednesday no i flew we flew to freaking bristol i know that we did because you're i said mike this is cut and dried and i told them to their face they said you know anyway hold on though but remember like i i don't think you actually punched kirk bush because of anything that happened on the track can we stop yeah can i like yeah you're right you're the host of the show no [Laughter] y'all are not let's let's okay stay take it again let's get into the details okay go ahead first off of what happened so that's true we should do that yeah all right like i don't know and i'm sure a lot of people listen and don't know if he ever did get punched i don't know what happened oh that's right well he came out with a bloody nose so something happened don't know how that happened he hit the steering wheel so what happened so there's stuff's going on on the racetrack 2003 michigan international speedway so there's stuff going on on the racetrack y'all are running over each other banging at each other post race you're in the garage before him out of your car what happened tell me exactly what went down he uh the year prior he says i wrecked him at phoenix then he says that he re he took the win off me at bristol he tried to wreck me at bristol made the other way and that was his first win yeah and he he's lucky that day i was driving for ganassi because if if i was driving for myself he wouldn't have won but you got to do what your car owner says you don't want to lose your job and then the following time it was another track indy he says i wrecked him i didn't even have a scratch on my car something broke on his car and he brings me anyway i hit him huh you touched him at indy you ran into that mindy come on yes i think you did pretty damn good wasn't it they did not even know that i mean how helton come over looked at the car he said spencer how the hell did you do that there's not a marker in your car because i says bobby allison taught me how to do that so let's get you're admitting it i'll admit it i spun that sumbitch out and i hope he broke his neck oh my god so he goes so it phoenix all right no that no that was first sorry you mean michigan yeah michigan michigan now it's it's still happening it's still going on yeah post race you're out of your car you're well tell you how it happened bud so we were running for the win yeah he was two and we've had a pit for fuel well he says he ran out of fuel okay long story short you know how michigan is you have to come in the pit road yeah so as we're coming i don't know where we finished pissed off now i'm my car is here that bastard comes down there 300 mile an hour revenues motor cuts me off after the race this is in the garage this is this is before you get in the garage before you get in the garage yeah actually oh i got you what's his name uh he was there all right uh yeah who was there all right it doesn't matter we just talked doesn't matter who's there you telling the truck driver jeff miles jeff miles so anyway jeff was always the worst first one of the car to help me out anyway so now as you're coming down down in the thing all the trucks are lined up and he has to turn this way he pretends his car's not going and he wants me to hit him and i'm like you know what i'm going to teach that sumbitch a lesson i am going to hit him well miles god no no no so he says well my car ran out of gas or whatever so you know he blocks a whole line he screws everybody i get out of the car yep he calls me to the car hey you old bastard that's what he said he said hey you old bastard and my friend bobby allison says it needs to be addressed so you walked up to his car i walked up to his car they're like this in the garage i said get out of the car and let's just finally settle this and i says i'll put one hand behind my back and whip your ass you said that to him yeah so he ain't gonna get out of the car this is what he does dale he calls me to the car sitting in the car calls me to the car i go up to the car he says you old decrepit has been i know where your family lives and i went like that and he swings at me but he's in the car he's in the car this is how stupid this person can be all right i went you stupid son of a boom and i saw the blood and i went holy sh no you coward you know and he would not get out of the car he he he is he is what did he what did he say when you hit him he was shocked and i didn't i didn't really intend to you know i just slapped him yeah that's all i did he ain't a man because he couldn't take a punch it was it was just a little backhander i know what he said after he picked it what do you say you're over you're ended you're done that's right that's what kurt said when he got out of the car you had it on tape i also have it in my memory i mean you i i know you leaned in there so what he did is he parked in front of the lift gate you couldn't pull your car up on the truck and he parked in front of it and he kept you cause y'all were playing those games and then when you went into the i just remember watching this because because you go in and you're leaned in and i just think y'all were having your conversations i'd seen you go at todd beaudine a couple times i know how these things work but when he got out with the bloody nose i was like oh he hit him and then and then kurt bush is like you're done you're over it's over and he went straight to the nascar hauler and we went straight to your car trying to get out of the track you almost made it all right so we did almost make it we were waiting for them to let the line go and we're like come on let's get out of here i said where and then the next car i'm laying in the back that's right he was laying we were trying to do an escape our lives are good important details we're a podcast so we went he's like might get the car and and so we'll get in the car and then we're and then we're laying there and we're like come on let the crossover thing go let it go and then finally this nascar official goes [Laughter] so y'all have to go to the hauler is curt still in there oh hell no he's long gone who's talking to you he's a coward who's talking to you hilton helton said what happened and i told him there's more to the story than meets the eye mike are you there not inside i'm outside okay i'm outside says i told you i got to do something about this it says no you don't i said that son of a deserves what he got because he threatened my family he threatened my family and i remember growing up with my dad the boys would sit there and the girls would sit there and mom would sit there and dad said if anything ever happens to any of these girls i'll kill you you protect them it's just the way my dad was you protected your family and uh who when he said that to me about my family that was the end of it and i told hilton and don said you shouldn't hit him i says mike i didn't hit him he hit me first he swung at me first he missed yeah i didn't miss a that's it that's that's in the court of law and it didn't go to the court of law just that's in the court of law to spencer maybe you mike you swing at somebody oh and oh and i see what you're saying right just i'm saying the record that never went to they threatened the reason i knew what he got i know what he meant but they threatened a lawsuit oh yeah they threatened the lawsuit that day absolutely jack roush was saying we're suing him why that's why i'm drawing distinction between the fact that this never actually made it to the court of law that's why i'm saying that so jack comes in he's hot as a firecracker and i'm calm my one thing you want to hear the truth i'm going to tell you the truth so jack's sitting there and helping sitting and i said there's more so jack i says relax calm down blah blah so this needs to be told so jack's sitting there and i told jack what happened okay well jack knows i have a run-in with with them in the past so one thing leads to another jack takes the car home and checks it jimmy finning ironically is this crew chief jack i take off bristol the fans make me a hero mike calls me on the phone he's you need to listen to this and they were raining and raving jimmy spencer remember mike it was signs everything it was you took off oh no no i got kicked out for the truck race race and the cup right for him hitting his hand on my fist so here's what happened he got he got he got fined let me rephrase that for his face hit me so he was going to miss bristol the next week he did miss bristol we went to bristol early to try to appeal it and and lost the appeal and um how did you lose the appeal because god had a chance really yeah come on dale yeah that back then people weren't winning appeals but um i'm just saying probably yeah you're used to winning a field seems like pretty easy i'm just kidding i'm just kidding he won an appeal just a few weeks ago so awesome i think nascar's changed some over the years but i i believe in my i know from listening that hey they took the one after me at daytona i believe back then they were there they were either you were either going to be party or not yeah you had a target on your back yeah here's one of the things you had a reputation yeah and then everything that had happened between y'all here's one of the things i'm most proud of though is that so you just heard jimmy and i've always had this here i've always been curious but i've always felt like the only reason you did punching was because of him parking where he parked and the things that happened off the track well i knew things had escalated jimmy i get that but i'm just saying like that day because you and i when we talked on the airplane going back i was like what i mean why did you hit him you're like you poked in front of my truck you see that didn't you and i'm like is that really why you did it though i mean that's it i i i told helton then the same thing i said you jack was sitting and i said first of all he threatened my family see i didn't know that and i told jack i said you know what cut both my hands off i'll still figure a way of kicking your ass or doing something about it because that's the way i was raised with my dad and that got jack's attention i got you but but let me let me do this i somehow got my hands on the in-car radio yeah you did and it's kurt busch saying i tried to wreck him but i'm not i guess i'm just too good of a guy and he's talking to jimmy finnegan on the radio now this is before nascar's track pass and all that stuff and so you know i don't even recall how i got the radio but what i did with it is i sent it to dave to spain for wind tunnel and i said look you want to know why jimmy wrecked him or why jimmy hit him because he was admitted that he had to he was trying to take jimmy out in the race that's why and i was hoping that they wouldn't ask any follow-up questions to me because honestly it was all bs because i did there's no way jimmy could have known what kirk bush was saying on the radio during a race right i mean certainly not at that time but i put that to dave to spain they play it and man it was just sit back and watch what happens because then you all of a sudden the fans became big like like they that that kurt was the the enemy in that dude yeah and what hurt more than anything mark martin calls me on the phone thirsty teammates with kurt at the time i thought yes sir mike uh yes sir deal and he suspects he says i needed to come to the motor home tomorrow night okay so we we go to darlington nothing happens we we totally didn't address it was over with because it was over i missed bristol had a chance of winning all three races uh we miss it really missed it bad because i knew the truck was good i knew the bush car finished in the top five of the cup car fish in the top i was really pissed off because i know it's way better than the driver that was in it but anyway jack roush wants to meet me at mark's bus oh this is the two weeks after the incident so jack comes in he's late he comes in mark says i'll leave you guys alone he says no you can sit here mark it doesn't matter and mark and i were good friends and jack comes in he says i'm sorry for what happened at michigan and i went jack you know i told you there was more to the story about the eye he says well i went check the car out he lied he lies all the time he lied to me you know one thing leads to another and let me accept my apology i said we need to tell the media i can't do that think about it from my side two thousand employees whatever all my sponsors but you got me personally you and i personally know that i i accepted it and it hurts because the fans didn't know how bad that driver was he's terrible driver he got fired from roush got fired from pesca fire from everywhere he worked i mean all truthfulness your old man told me one time he fingers me one more time spencer i'm gonna break his hand up and stick it up his ass he never learned he never learned how that he's a hell of a race car driver but you know you know daryl waltrip always says you've got to learn how to raise you got to learn it's respect he has no respect to the garage area your dad had respect rusty wallace jeff gordon you did i mean he had respect and he never did and when you look over his career what happened well jack was the one that told me that mark the same way he gets fired at the end of the year so but then he gets roger pesky comes jimmy i said yeah roger mr penske roger you and me going to get to the bottom of this i'm going to get this settled i says until somebody says they're sorry can't accept their apology you can't i'm gonna get it done he never did i flew home with roger from atlanta and he said you know spencer he's just not he's a hell of a race car driver but he's just not quite the person that i forget a roger explained that sure he fired roger fired him yeah years later or several years later right yeah but he gets fired because he said dumbass i'm not saying he can't drive but he just you know what i'm trying to get you just don't you has it getting better did i wreck you because you wrecked me at richmond no you're so the funny thing is is we actually ended up in a back of a pickup truck like the next week really and that how it works that's right it always never fails never fails you run over a guy you're gonna be in the pickup truck for intros the next week yeah and i said hey jimmy i didn't have any breaks and he's like he's like all right don't worry about it i was like i had some problems with my brakes that night got in the corner too deep right over you nobody goes out there with the attention to wrecking anybody right i mean all truthfulness you don't i mean it's way erased life is best lived in motion and that's why tire pros gets you ready for all your driving adventures whether it's along corners and curves 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Channel: Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Dirty Mo Media

Views: 191,206

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Id: Z8yOL7POn74

Length: 18min 38sec (1118 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 25 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/juu073]

My only dislike about the two-part series is how Jimmy Spencer repeatedly says "he fingered him" to say that somebody flipped someone else off.

[u/Chewie4Prez]

Actually surprised by the number of people here who respect, pity, or let his absolute bullshit lies slide like it's acceptable.

[u/Blazethesol52]

I love Jimmy Spencer, but both parts were really tough to listen to. I feel like he embellished a lot of details throughout the podcast, and even got called out on lying about things a couple times

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[u/HurricanesnHendrick]

The main thing I have deduced from all of these podcasts…. Is that dude Henry Benfield who drove the truck and bus that worked with Kenny and Jimmy and Jr needs to be on that podcast TOMORROW

[u/sweetnasty887]

I know Kurt did some dumb stuff and used to be an ass but Jimmy was acting like he’s Hitler or some shit lol.

[u/yankeesfan033]

People here hated part 1 because Spencer isn't Spencer anymore, but I loved this entire episode.

I just find it so weird that Jimmy Spencer is literally a stereotypical Grandpa now. It's just odd after watching him growing up

[u/Square_Emergency]

Jimmy speaking on Kurt like it's still 2010. Just seems like sour grapes he was very bitter.

[u/Leuel48Fan]

Jimmy very clearly still has a deep disdain towards Kurt Busch, and I don't blame him one bit. Glad the guy turned his life around, but that was a fucked up man for most of his career. You don't get fired from that many teams - especially for how skilled he was - without having some major screws loose.

I always found Kyle's immaturity wayyy more tolerable than Kurt's deep assholery back in the late 2000s / early 10s decade.