Reliving The Bud 8 Years with Dale Jr.

[Music] do you remember um i want to give you a chance to tell all the stories that you had come to mind so i want you to i want you to be able to do that yeah and you know because you you may have some that are important that you share but uh it's in the driver eight book the uh when we won at richmond yes and we come in the victory lane remember that i remember it very well so uh i don't remember it as well but i do know what happened um because it's in the book but uh we win the two we we won this is our second win yes uh we haven't we wanted texas a couple weeks ago and i passed dad and terry labonte i think are just dad a past dad yeah late in that race he got two tires and we got four stewart had been dominating the race and me and him had contact on pit road that hurt his left rear tire and he had to come back down pit road and lost the track position we had a late race to the finish and we ended up winning the race and holding off dale jarrett and terry labonte very close they were closing in we get to victory lane we won our second race i mean i'm a rookie we're ecstatic everybody's bonkers yeah we've won richmond before so this is a track that we were real happy with and uh i get to victory lane and uh i don't even did i grab you and tell you who to do yeah how did that happen you just you just went wide as a sheet and so i didn't know what was going on but i knew something was going on and i think you kind of grabbed me and then joe glenn from budweiser was another guy that worked with us and i'll let you yeah so have you ever been driving down the street and you need to be in you need to get to a restroom immediately like sure or if you ever you know say you say you're doing a podcast and you're like i gotta stop i've got to go to the bathroom um so i didn't feel it until i got out of the car i get out of the car and like i need a restroom now yeah this is happening i think you did the the leap into the guys and then it was like oh yeah and then something yeah you're like i can't i can't do this so yeah so there's the interview that's getting ready to happen yeah and the um hat dance and all that and i'm like jade i got to use the bathroom bath okay you got to find me one right now right now and jade turns to a guy luckily there was somebody really close to like right around the corner yeah it was right right around the corner of the bathroom so i'd leave and everybody's still looking at me cheering like we just got there jumped out of the car and everybody's like yeah and you're kind of in the middle of the you're the focal point of what's happening in that in that and i and i walk out i could feel everybody watching me as i left victory lane and i just left without saying a word and so jade's standing there and i don't know what you do i i think i just said he'll be right back [Laughter] we'll be back after these messages like five minutes later i come back back in there yeah yeah you are all fully relieved and uh we can do the hat dance now everybody we carried on i think we had we post race interview and all that for tv and everything waited i can't remember about tv but i know everything else did so sucked you know everybody was cool well i'm just saying you know the the feeling sucks yeah oh that i had yeah yeah what other things have you uh you remember back at that time that you uh do you think fondly of i mean i i think fondly of the the whole time um i've worked with drivers through the years who are their only interest is racing they only want to talk about racing which is fine which is cool but as a pr guy that made my life rough you know what do we talk about the benefit of working with dale every six months you had a great new hobby or a new interest that hasn't changed so hey all right this this this time uh he's building rc cars and so we could do interviews about that oh he got a boxing ring from budweiser so we did interviews about that that's right um you were always interesting and new and and had interesting things about your life outside of you driving that budweiser car so it made my life vastly easier um and so that that comes to mind in retrospect thinking of all the drivers i've worked with for years and years and so i i give you full credit for having an interesting life and being an intelligent guy that didn't only think about racing yeah so hey do y'all remember when dale agreed to be in some dude's wedding and then the dude ended up being like a um like on the run from police and we got called from like the fbi do you remember this jade vaguely i remember it became bad news pretty soon this should joggle your memory uh maybe the you met a guy in a bar and he tells you hey this is my fiance fiance we're gonna get married and you know whatever and you're feeling good i don't remember what bart is maybe it's at daytona and you say hey you should get married at atlanta motor speedway that should be what you do and so he's like love it will you be in it and you're like of course you'll be my best man and you're like i'd be honored and so i remember in atlanta which would have been my like this had been my fourth or fifth race ever with you guys right yeah and so there we are taking him to victory lane and here he is i mean there's a picture of it somewhere and he's the best man of this guy's wedding fast forward a couple months we're getting called from an fbi going hey or maybe it was this guy's brother or sister or something like have you all seen him and we were like no and they're like we don't even remember he's wanted he's wanted he's wanted by the police and we were like hey look that no no no no keep us out of it do you remember this at all i remember it vaguely i don't remember the fbi necessarily but oh god in my time working with you we met i mean talk about the widest spectrum of humanity you know we met future presidents we met you know corporate leaders you know superstars and boxing or sports or music and then we also met like folks that are at the other end of that spectrum it was right always crazier it was always you had to kind of be ready to be flexible at any moment because you never knew what was you know what was to come so that's a good way of putting it it's like you there's so much you can pack into one person's life that like even stuff that you would remember if it was anybody else like this was just a tuesday you know in this in this world right it was just it's just something you gotta expect anything right yeah and that was the way i remember that yeah and then mike wallace was it something i wanted to ask you about yeah so that was now i'm working for you and mike wallace wants to come do a piece and much like you guys were joking with me how i cite jimmy spencer's punching of kurt busch as being a significant career step right yeah but like in that mike wallace deal correct me if i'm wrong this is how i remember it we did one interview at daytona i don't remember if we had a second interview lined up but he got burned in a sports car crash that that led mike wallace to come to mooresville yeah is that do i have that right yeah that very right and and you know something that might have been that certainly was a negative situation certainly for dale where he's getting burned in a sports car crash ended up being a huge deal when you've got mike wallace you know uh legendary newsman coming to mooresville north carolina to spend you know several days uh you know with dale and somebody just recently referenced that in fact it was again jordan taylor last week even remembers watching that episode where mike wallace came out of the bathroom and said you know dating for dummies yeah what can you tell me about dating dummy you mean i remember him saying that that was at the old shop i i remember that so vividly first of all you and mike got along great it was kind of like with toure it was like this instant not relaxation but you just kind of hit it off but you got to talking about the crash and you guys are talking about the feeling of your dad being there you had never shared that certainly not with me right so i you know most interviews i kind of know where things are going and that one i was like oh my oh my god to be clear dale says he thinks that his dad might have pulled him out of the car yes um to save his life that's what you said and nobody and i remember i'm sitting next to you yeah and we were like did you yeah i didn't know he has he said that to you i know wow yeah that so that was one of the interviews where it was a moment where i was taken aback so that was i mean it was really powerful yeah um you know i remember i remember that interview and i remember saying those words and i remember feeling pretty confident in my my thoughts about that and um i couldn't for whatever reason when we had that wreck and at sonoma i i was a i was awake and aware but do not remember any of it right it's like this uh so i've got i remember absolutely remember spinning out of control and hitting the wall i remember looking down and seeing the fire coming up out of the out of the seat um the fire come it was like the fire came out from under the seat because the uh fuel tank was behind the seat like right behind it the rear the left rear tire went forward and broken some of the filler neck and all those other in the fuel cell itself and so i uh this it's like i looked down and the fire comes up through my lap and into my helmet and like was in front of me in between my helmet and my visor and i was like holy crap it's the hottest thing ever i mean uh you know you get next to a fire you get next to a a fireplace or a lit flame and you're like oh you think you get an idea how hot a fire could be or wouldn't be or how hot being on fire might be and it's just it was i was amazed at that sensation and how painful it was and how it's like a million bees stinging you at once and then i thought i gotta get out you know i started it it dawned on me it took me like it took me like a second to realize like oh hell how do i get out i know how to get out of my race car but this car i don't know how to get out of it there's a the window net hooks differently i don't know how to get the door open and um and as soon as i went to reach for all that stuff it was gone like the winter net was gone the door the window net was knocked down somehow and so i started pulling myself out of the car and then that's the last thing i remember was like getting getting like moving in that moving to do that yeah and then i don't remember another thing until i was in the infield care center on the board and max pappas and borisette are standing over top of me with this nurse and she's sticking morphine in my leg and i'm screaming like it hurts and she's like i'm looking at it it's not that bad i'm like i don't care that what it looks like this is hurting yeah you got to do something and i'm i'm like grabbing them by the collars going teller and boris is looking at that lady going do something and she shoves the she sticks another needle in my leg and i passed out woke up in the hospital but from the moment i get out of the car or from the moment i try to get out of the car to the moment i'm on that uh infield care center i was awake i was i was coherent awake talking there's pictures of me sitting on the tailgate of a pickup truck wow out having gotten out of the car there's a picture of me sitting on a on a uh corner workers truck tailgate or you know 20 foot from the car but i don't remember enough of that wow but uh and i don't know why like i wasn't i must have been some kind of weird shock or something yeah it was weird and i whenever the bud car was on track i was required to be there but that was a chevy deal so i was at home a friend of mine calls first of all he's okay and i'm like what yeah we we just airlifted dale jr oh no yeah it was a helpless feeling so what's this card game on a plane oh well this it it's not even a that great story but it you were so competitive about everything about video games and and cards and all that stuff and so we're on a flight somewhere and you were you taught me a new card game and so i'm enjoying it i'm learning and we get to the end and you end up winning and i said uh well that you know that was fun that was cool and you're like what i said yeah that was that was fun you lost i'm like well yeah but i learned a new game how can it be fun if you lost like you were really serious like in my face like well you know you can't have fun if you don't and it was that was always like you'd play video games and then you'd be like here come on try this and i'm not a video game guy and you would laugh your ass off when i'd get just killed or whatever whatever [Laughter] but uh but you you didn't believe me that i had fun learning a new oh my god a new game we had so much fun it was a good time i did i was so weird yeah yeah you had your moments i did the one that that you you posted on uh instagram i think was you in that bandana at pocono oh yeah when you hurt hurt your forehead it hit the bottom of the pool so that was that was before pocono and i you wouldn't even tell me what really had happened it was hush-hush you had this big bandage and then you'd put the bandana on so we kind of didn't tell any of the media or anything that you were you had a big scar underneath there and we came back to the hauler one day and you know the hauler was mirrored on the back so you can look out but people can't look in and sometimes you'd stand back there and watch all the people you know you were just in a hilarious mood and you're like joking about all the other drivers and then you're like dale chair look at dale jarrett he can't pull this off i look cool in this dale jarrett couldn't pull this off and you you started listing all the other drivers that couldn't wear the bandana as cool as you were and again it's such a stupid story but i just i laughed my ass off of you like doing this comedy routine about how cool you looked do you remember um the my 30th birthday party oh yes and coming back to the track with the black eye from the boxing ring yeah because i i left because we had the party at the club and then ended up at the house ended up at the house boxing it was some irish bar in mooresville yeah yeah and yeah i've never been a huge party guy so i i kind of did my polite exit yeah and so i left before the boxing began so suddenly he shows up this giant shiner yeah yeah and did it was it ross coleman the bull rider that did it well so we had it was about three or four o'clock in the morning and arturo gotti the boxers with me and i was a huge fan of his and i'm thinking i always used to say uh you know if you meet uh if if anybody a sports uh star ever comes to your house or you're ever around them and you get a chance to throw football with dan marino or something you gotta do it right try not because i was always checking out on things and i'd be like so if i got a boxing ring and i get a boxer here i'm going to ask for some lessons so i tell it's three in the morning this is the bud talk and i think we are so drunk and i'm like are true man can you show me how to throw a punch because i'm fighting my buddies and and they're pretty good and it's hard for me to you know it's i'm not doing too well i was like give me something that'll just take them out and i used to fight josh schneider one of my best buddies all the time and uh he he went easy on me he could probably destroy me but i wanted to get in there and show josh one thing you know just surprising one day with a combination and so um he's like yeah i'll take you down there we'll go he don't know where we're going i'm like i got this boxing ring in this in this shop well ross coleman the bull rider he championship bull rider got a plate in his head he's like i'll go down there i like boxing i like fighting he wants to fight everybody brad arnold from three doors down is gonna go and uh a handful of my buddies and so we go down there and i learned a nice combination then uh ross the bull rider wants to fight arturo and they got in there and fought three rounds hard as they could go oh man i mean i've watched uh our tour on tv and live in person and it was it was every bit as is intense and at speed yeah because ross is a big guy he's really big he had to have something for about 100 pounds so he goes yeah he goes after our they go start boxing and they they got they get super competitive and they start going harder and harder and harder and they were one minute rounds and i had a timer and the timer goes off and ross comes back to my come back to the corner i'm taking care of ross and arturo's got a buddy with him that traveled from from florida and they're over there in that other corner and ross comes back to me and goes he knows we're just playing right and i was like you ain't giving him that impression i'm like what are you talking about you trying to take his head off he's just doing what he does you know and so uh they went and fought two more minutes and then brad arnold wants to get in there and uh with arturo god that's a mismatch yeah like it was boom boom and brad arnold's laying on the ground laying on the mat lead singer this band laying on the mat blood in his teeth and i was like uh you're done man he's like no no i'm good i'm good good i'm like nah that's enough this is getting out of hand i went over to arturo and i was like hey he's my buddy arturo and he's like hey he'd come at me he walked to me with his hands up what do you think i'm gonna do and uh and then i got in there with a with one of my buddies and we're boxing hard and i'm i'm like keep seeing this shadow out of the corner of my eye and i'm like what in the world and we're i'm in the ring you know we're going at it with this guy and i'm like hold up hold up that's like what in the heck is happening and it was my brow it had swollen up and was protruding you know it was out here like an inch and that was the shadow like i was seeing and it was like i went and looked in the mirror i'm like holy like i got a swollen head and uh it turned my yeah my eye goes black and all around and we go to the race the next weekend you couldn't put a patch over that yeah yeah yeah so there's a picture on the internet no we got the picture yeah i'm sure it'll be in the tv show that's cool it could we had a lot of fun all right guys i know a little bit about cars so believe me when i tell you that tire pros they're the real deal they've got great people great service and they can take care of all your automotive maintenance needs plus there are spots for this show so you know they got great tasting podcasts so check out tire pros follow them on facebook and tell them that i sent you

Channel: Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Dirty Mo Media

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Length: 21min 1sec (1261 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 10 2021