What Are We Mad About, Buying a Kangaroo & "Chasesexuals"

Summary

The Dale Jr. Download — Episode Summary

Podcast: The Dale Jr. Download
Episode: What Are We Mad About, Buying a Kangaroo & "Chasesexuals"
Date: August 29, 2025
Host: Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM)
Guests/Co-hosts: Dylan Hart Jr., Travis, Jeff Gluck, Laura Boyer, Chase Briscoe, Joey Logano

Episode Overview

This episode blends classic NASCAR debate and colorful conversation, as Dale Jr. and his co-hosts dig into fan reactions after a recent Cup Series wreck, dissect the ever-present blame game in motorsports, examine team loyalty and alliances, host a fascinating interview with Chase Briscoe on switching teams and pressure, and get playful about pets, kangaroos, and even NASCAR’s most uniquely devoted fans ("Chasesexuals").

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Aftermath of the Big One: Who's to Blame? ([00:59]–[09:17])

• Dale Jr. and the crew debate the controversy and finger-pointing after a massive NASCAR wreck.
• Key Arguments:
  • Dale Jr. laments the shift toward assigning blame, remembering a time when incidents were accepted as "just racing."
  • Travis and Dylan argue that fans and the media are hyper-focused on finding fault, often fueling days-long social media storms.
  • Social media amplifies drama, transforming normal post-race debriefs into prolonged online debates.
  • Denny Hamlin eventually blamed Bubba Wallace, but opinions were split among drivers and fans.
• Notable Moment:

  "I've watched the wreck over and over and I still don't know who's at fault." — Dale Earnhardt Jr. [06:40]

• Historical Parallel:
  • Dale Jr. recalls Ernie Irvan’s infamous “apology meeting” where he publicly addressed safety concerns after multiple wrecks:

  “He gets up and he goes, 'Hey, I f***ed up. Guys, I know y’all are worried... I want you all to feel comfortable racing me.'” — Dale Earnhardt Jr. [05:43]

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2. Teamwork, Alliances, and Respect in Superspeedway Racing ([07:13]–[09:46])

• Discussion of Austin Hill’s comments on Junior Motorsports’ lack of cooperation with his team at Daytona/Talladega.
• Dale Jr. candidly confirms he instructs his team not to help Hill, given Hill’s dominance at superspeedways:

  “If you want to run second, help Austin Hill... Your chances of winning go up when you don't help him.” — Dale Earnhardt Jr. [08:17]

• Not personal, just strategic: “It isn’t so much personal as it is ... that guy’s the one that’s going to be the toughest to beat at that racetrack.” — Dale Earnhardt Jr. [08:54]
• Travis points out that the resulting teamwork among JRM cars led to some of their best group results.

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3. Driver Spotlight: Chase Briscoe on JGR, Pressure, and Proving People Wrong ([12:01]–[21:19])

• Chase Briscoe joins the show for an in-depth interview about his adjustment to the Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) "win-or-bust" culture after Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR).
• Team Culture Shifts:
  • At SHR, there was little pressure—“if you ran 25th great, if you won, great”; at JGR, top-5s are the baseline and 15 wins are the expectation.

    “You finish all four cars in the top seven [at JGR], and the meeting was like, we ran 30th or worse. I was just like, this is crazy.” — Chase Briscoe [14:04]

• On Doubters and Motivation:
  • Briscoe uses media skepticism as fuel:

    “My whole life, everybody said you’re not going to make it, and you try to prove them wrong...I bookmarked it.” — Chase Briscoe [15:05]

• Performing Under Pressure:
  • Both Briscoe and Logano later discuss thriving in clutch situations.

  "I definitely do way better under pressure than not pressure." — Chase Briscoe [15:58]

• Technical Differences at JGR:
  • Briscoe details how JGR cars have much more grip and speed than his previous rides.

    “It literally feels like you’re on sticker tires...at SHR I could not run a single lap without coming all the way out of the gas, now I can almost run wide open.” — Chase Briscoe [18:29]

  • Admits he spent much of the season underdriving, shocked by the JGR car’s capabilities.
• Extracurriculars & Sprint Cars:
  • Briscoe retired from sprint cars after realizing the risk wasn’t worth it with a young family, choosing to end it after one last fun race.

    “I had a race-winning car and I ran like fifth or sixth and I just decided right there, I’m done.” — Chase Briscoe [21:19]

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4. Pet Chat and “Buying a Kangaroo” ([22:25]–[26:27])

• In a lighter segment, co-hosts riff on pet red flags when dating, dog breeds that “match” their owners, and absurdly, Clint Boyer’s desire to own a kangaroo.
  • Breed “red flags” are gently teased (e.g., big guy with a tiny shih tzu), but most agree any dog is a good dog.
  • Kangaroos are discussed as a “cool” but wild pet idea:

    “But wouldn’t that be cool to be like, hey, here’s my kangaroo?... If anybody around has a kangaroo, Clint Boyer really wants one.” — Laura Boyer [25:00]

  • Concerns are raised about kangaroo strength and their propensity to “box.”
  • Side note: Dale Jr. has owned big cats — a Maine Coon and a Manx.

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5. NASCAR Playoffs Talk: Pressure, Format, and the ‘Told You So’ Factor ([26:33]–[29:49])

• Joey Logano joins Jeff Gluck and Dylan Hart Jr. for a playoff format debate.
  • Logano is tired of being used as “what’s wrong” with the system after his championship win, but shrugs it off:

    “It pisses me off... But, I mean, fine. Change it. We’ll go win it again.” — Joey Logano [27:02]

  • The group drills into how the playoff structure heightens do-or-die moments.
  • Logano defends the format’s drama, likening it to the Olympics:

    “You want to see desperate people do desperate things. That’s...what I want to watch.” — Joey Logano [28:07]

  • All agree that pressure and elimination moments are essential to great sports viewing.

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6. “Chasesexuals” and Fan Fandom ([29:49]–[31:07])

• Chase Elliott is asked about the fan label “Chasesexuals.”
  • He’s only familiar with the term through Bubba Wallace and is bemused:

    “If that’s how they want to roll, that’s cool...definitely not on my radar, but I’m happy for them.” — Chase Elliott [30:55]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “I’ve watched the wreck over and over and I still don’t know who’s at fault.” — Dale Earnhardt Jr. [06:40]
• “If you want to run second, help Austin Hill ... Your chances of winning go up when you don’t help him.” — Dale Earnhardt Jr. [08:17]
• “I definitely do way better under pressure than not pressure.” — Chase Briscoe [15:58]
• “You want to see desperate people do desperate things. That’s...what I want to watch.” — Joey Logano [28:07]
• “If that’s how they want to roll, that’s cool.... Not on my radar, but I’m happy for them.” — Chase Elliott on “Chasesexuals” [30:55]
• “Would you really need to get in a fistfight with your pet, like, a kangaroo?” — Laura Boyer [26:09]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Topic | Time | |--------------------------------------------------------|-----------| | Big One Blame Game and Social Media | 00:59–09:17 | | Teamwork & Austin Hill Superspeedway Strategy | 07:13–09:46 | | Interview: Chase Briscoe — Team Culture, Pressure | 12:01–21:19 | | Relationship Red Flags, Pets, and Kangaroo Antics | 22:25–26:27 | | Joey Logano Playoff System, Pressure & Drama | 26:33–29:49 | | “Chasesexuals” Fan Discourse with Chase Elliott | 29:49–31:07 |

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Conclusion

This episode showcases the full range of “The Dale Jr. Download”: hard-hitting motorsports analysis; behind-the-scenes stories from drivers; frank discussion of pressure and rivalry; and playful, offbeat conversations that only could come from Dale Jr. and friends. It’s a must-listen for NASCAR fans seeking insight into racing’s psychological and cultural undercurrents — and for those who just want to know what kind of pet Clint Boyer might bring home next.

Transcript

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Hey, everybody. I'm Dylan Hart Jr. And this is the Dirty 30. The best highlights from all of our podcasts this week. 30 minutes every single Friday. The Dirty 30 coming at you. Let's get right to it. The big one. Who's to blame for the wreck? That. Why is everybody so wanting to blame somebody for this?

[Travis]

It's just a. It's wrecked.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

That's fine. That's your opinion. But that's. When there's a wreck, there's always who's to blame for it. Like, people.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I mean, just a, nope, nope. This feels different. I've been around this a long time, and when the big one happens, it just happens. It just happens.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Well, I think there's also a little debate because you had Denny blaming Bubba and then.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, that didn't happen till he got home. But, like, as soon as this wreck happened, like, there's been this. This sort of conversation that started immediately, like, whose fault was it? We gotta find somebody. Gotta. We gotta settle this.

[Travis]

Yeah, well, I don't. I mean, if you want to go back, even to exit a turn four, the. The wreck starts when Joey gets up off the bottom and leaves the lane for Kyle. That gets. They get four wide. When you get four wide, the room for air is way less. And when a car moves a little bit, like, Bubba gets a. I mean, not even a big bump from the five. He moves, what, a foot and a half to the left and he's hooked.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

So. But the wreck really starts.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I just don't know.

[Travis]

It's just racing.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. I don't know that we need to be so blaming. Yeah. Like this insistent. I mean, do you not see, See that?

[Travis]

Yeah. It's like cutthroat, man. It's like somebody has like blame, you.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Know, it's like as we're going through time, right. As. As we're evolving, like we're having to be more. There's this insistence to like, that's.

[Jeff Gluck]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

That's, you know, this was his fault or this was this person's fault on everything. And like this kind of right here is just what might happen today.

[Travis]

It could. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

When you go to Daytona or Talladega and in, in the past when there's been big wrecks like this. Yes. There will be a quick, you know. Well, I could see what happened there. That guy, you know, that guy hit this guy and that guy wrecked that guy. He moved this way and it's his, you know, there's a person at fault for sure. But it's like this, this has been like. This was like a two day conversation that Denny had to finally settle.

[Travis]

Would you rather have this or the two by two where nobody makes moves?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Because I'm just wondering.

[Travis]

No, I'm just asking Travis, like, why.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Was he acting like. I don't want, like.

[Travis]

I'm just asking. I'm not acting like you wanted.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

My question, Travis, is like, why was it so important for everybody to figure out whose fault this was?

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Because that's what we do in sports.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's not. I don't remember it being what we do in sports.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

We, whenever there's a wreck, whatever, we always place blame on somebody.

[Travis]

To me, it's three different people right here. Maybe four. I mean, it could be the five, the 23.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

And that's fine if that's your take. No one's like, I'm not saying that you can't have this take. I'm just presenting the question.

[Travis]

But it just doesn't. I don't know why it needs to be like that. Like, there's just so many. It's just everyone's so close.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

In football, we do this. In basketball.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

When there's something happens, who's at fault, what, like.

[Travis]

But they. It was very aggressive on. On X and stuff about who is to blame and you know what I mean? Like. Yeah, everyone wants to start too. I was just aggressive, like, who. Who can we blame for this? And then it was.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It was very similar to. Kind of similar to like when Ernie Irving was catching hail back in the day. And I mean, it was. That was like a 8, 10 month, maybe a year long simmering sort of debate or, you know, and eventually he had to stand up in the driver's meeting and tell all the drivers, guys, I'm sorry, and I'm. I'll be safe, you know.

[Travis]

Really?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Travis]

Wow. He did like willingly or they asked him to do it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think it was like, hey, this. It's in your best interest to probably address the crowd here next opportunity because all these guys don't trust you. And he was.

[Travis]

Did he wreck anyone that race?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

No, but we. There was a. You know, they had a wreck at Daytona going down the back straight away. He clipped Bill Elliot or somebody and destroyed the front of the field. It happened again at Talladega. And. And so every, you know, Rusty, Dad, I don't know, you know, there's a bunch of guys that kind of were.

[Travis]

Like, look, man, that was 10 house for a little bit here.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You got to clean this up. What's the deal? Like, every time we go to one of these tracks, we're worried about your ass wrecking the field. And so he kind of had to say, yep, you're right. Let me get up here in front of everybody. Drivers meeting. This was back when the driver's meeting was literally just the drivers. There weren't any fans, no cameras, none of that. Of course there was a camera there. I think they captured it, but not all the problem.

[Travis]

Circumstances show.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah. And he gets up and he goes, hey, I up. Guys, I know y' all are worried. I know it looks terrible. I'm. I want to fix this. I want you all to feel comfortable racing me. Going to work hard to not. Not create more problems. I want y' all to know that I'm, you know, understanding what's going on. I had, you know, and that was. I don't remember too many instances where it was like, so electric, you know, in terms of, like, who the did that? Let's, let's, you know, we gotta get to the bottom of this, you know.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Yeah. Social media is bigger now than it's ever been.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know, but this is. I guess I'm just saying. You think it's a good thing? Yes.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Wait, so you'd rather fans not freak out on social media?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I think that there is a good hour long window. But there's. Race is going to continue, right? The race is going to continue. Let's get back, let's go and watch the rest of the race.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Yeah, but then you have shows that like, that's how this works.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I suppose.

[Travis]

Yeah, we'll just blame Freddy and be done with it.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I've watched the wreck over and over and I still don't know who's at fault. Freddie.

[Travis]

Freddie.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Travis]

Freddie probably cleared.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What did everybody determine? Because everybody. There's some people saying that Kyle Larson hit the 23.

[Travis]

Do we need a poll?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

And then, then, you know, but it looks like, you know, the 23 and who the 8, you know, are sandwiched between the 22. Like should. Should have Joey backed out. Like what. Who's. Who's. I know Denny said Bubba was at fault. How does he discern? I mean, what was his purpose? What was his reasoning behind Bubba? The Bubba. Because Bubba didn't know he was three wide. He comes down.

[Travis]

Bubba's one that changed the lanes, move lanes a little bit. So, yeah, I think we need a Jeff Gluck rec pole.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Listen, I know I saw Austin Hill's comments. I guess he was thinking, man, why us? They don't, you know, Junior Motorsports. I just didn't feel like I had a lot of help from a lot of people coming from that guy, namely Junior Motorsports. And I don't, I didn't read the comments, so I don't want to take it out of context, but, you know, with all due respect to Austin Hill, he is, he's got the best track record in the Xfinity series at Daytona Talladega in the last a handful of years. And so, yeah, and so we, I tell my guys, I'm like, listen, if you want to run second, help Austin Hill if you want to. You know, if you push Austin Hill out into the lead with a couple laps to go, he's hard to get around. And so here it is, the quote right here. We never have the JRM cars help us. Hill said after being released from the open field care center. Doesn't matter if they're Chevy alliance or not. They don't help us at all. They'd rather with work with a Toyota or Ford than us. We really know that our backs are against the wall with the JR cars. Yeah, I would agree with that. I tell, I tell our team, you know, if you, if you want to run second, you know, help that 21 all you want. Yeah, you'll go to the front, but you won't. You won't, you know, your likelihood of, of beating him and winning the race, it kind of, you know, goes down. Your chances of winning the race go up when you, when you don't help him. Right. And so, I mean, the one year.

[Travis]

We wrecked all four cars making sure he won the race, I mean, yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I just, you know, it Isn't, it isn't so much personal as it is. Look, you know, that guy's the, that guy's the one guy that's going to be the toughest to be at that racetrack. And so you kind of have to learn over time that you do need to limit how much you help him. Yeah.

[Travis]

Because if he's in front of you, you're not getting him.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

It's a sign of respect.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Well, if you're helping him, you're, you're, you're increasing his chance of winning the race. So you know, we, I tell him openly, I'm like, look, you know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't help the 21. I would try to do everything I could to make his day as difficult as possible and at that particular racetrack. So yeah, that's, that's, that's just kind of. Yeah, ended up working out good.

[Travis]

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[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Got Chase Briscoe here on the Dale Jr. Download. It's been a minute since we've had you in here. The racing has been work in progress.

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What's it felt like for you, I suppose to go through this year? You're kind of now in a place where you've, you're established, would you say not. Do you feel you don't feel established yet?

[Chase Briscoe]

I feel like I still, especially now more than ever.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Really.

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah. Just because like I think I said this even before the season started, like if I don't go and win at jgr, nobody's ever going to hire me again. So like, and it's, it's weird just being in a totally different environment. Like you were saying at shr, like, you know, I could win a race or two but my teammates, you know, every now and then they would run up front. Where at JGR your teammates are winning races all the time. So like just the atmosphere, I feel like you always have to be performing. So I, I mean, yeah, I still don't feel like I've made it per se. Like I, and I feel like you can't lose that otherwise, you know, you can get, you know, kicked out the door really quickly. But it has been very interesting just going to JGR and just the, you know, I almost feel like I've started my career over again truthfully. Like just the, the expectations at SHR and just going to the racetrack, like it all felt so different than what I'm doing now. Like SHR and honestly felt like you were just going to the racetrack with your buddies and like if you ran 25th grade, if you won, great. If you ran 10th grade, like it was just, it was fun. Like you were going to the racetrack with this group of guys that you were just going to have a good time with and there was really no expectation of like we should be winning these races. So you would come back on. On Monday or Tuesday. And, you know, if you ran top 10, like I said, it was great, but if not, we just need to try to get better. There was never this, like, expectation of we should be winning races. Where? At jgr. It was a huge culture shock. I remember at Bristol, we finished, I think, all four cars in the top seven, and the meeting was like, we ran 30th and worse. I was just like, this is crazy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Chase Briscoe]

And then, like, even before the year started, I remember going through, like, one of these meetings, and the expectation was, as a company, I think we should win 15 races or something like that. That was the goal. And I'm just like, if we could get 15 top tens at shr, like, that was a great year. So it's just. It's different. And that. That. That's still taking me a little bit of time to get used to. And just like, the. The prep work, everything is more work just because the expectation is so much higher. But it is more fun going to the racetrack and, you know, battling for a win. It feels very similar to Xfinity where, like, when you go to the racetrack, you know, if you do your job right and you execute, you should be in the top five to ten pretty much every single week in the cup series, which is crazy.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yes.

[Chase Briscoe]

Compared to the last, you know, four or five years of my career.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What is it like when you hear the media pick you as one of the guys not to make it out of the first round?

[Chase Briscoe]

I like it. I feel like it motivates me. Yeah? Yeah. I read everything. Like, I really. Oh, yeah. I love the negative.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Really?

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah. I don't know why you're not a negative guy. No. But I. I feel like that stuff motivates me because, like, my whole life, everybody said you're not going to make it, and you try to prove them wrong.

[Joey Logano]

So.

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah, I like that. There was a guy yesterday. I saw that Randy the Plumber that you ever seen.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chase Briscoe]

He said, not a legitimate shot. And I was like, oh, man, I got it. I bookmarked.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You can't give that guy anytime.

[Chase Briscoe]

I like it, though, man.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

The way that you. It was easy for me to think that you could contend because you would take the SHR program and elevate in the playoffs. Right. Right before the playoffs and during the playoffs, like, you would do things that you hadn't done all year.

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah. Playoffs were always good for us at.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Shr, but I also feel like that even in the Xfinity series. You're a guy that, like, when the chips are down or when it needs to happen, you can, you can will it into existence.

[Chase Briscoe]

I like pressure. I definitely do way better under pressure than not pressure.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

It's so rare because there, I mean, the great athletes, great drivers, all of them are like that, right? The really, really good ones go good when the pressure comes. Most people, myself included, I mean, most people in any walk of life, any profession, don't love pressure, don't handle pressure well, don't perform as well when the pressure's on. But what is it? Why do you like pressure? Why does that make you smile and why does that make you perform better?

[Chase Briscoe]

I don't know. I think a lot of it is just, you know, my upbringing, right? Like the sleeping on the couches and volunteering, like there was always no other option and you would get, you know, maybe it was a one race opportunity and like, you better perform and all your chips were on the table and if it doesn't work out, like, you're going back to Mitchell and you better find a job that pays decent. So I've always just loved those high pressure. Like this is the moment you have to show your worth. And I don't know, I've always been that way for whatever reason. And it's only, you know, Ben, I feel like over the last couple of years I've been able to show that because at times, you know, when I was getting my first ARCA start or something, right. Like, nobody knows the what's going on behind the scenes, but now that you're in the playoffs and then the spotlight, people get to see it a lot more. And I mean, yeah, if you look statistically, I mean, the playoffs and when the pressure's on is normally when I perform the best in that kind of mid summer where nothing's going on. I normally suck really bad. So, yeah, I don't know why that is. I've always been somebody that, you know, even I remember as a kid, like playing baseball, basketball, like I was always like a gamer, right? Like practice stuff. I was terrible. But when the pressure was on, I always would be my best for whatever reason.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, I think coming into Darlington is a track where you could again, like continue to show like this, like this team's a contender. You got some great memories there. I know you say run good there last time, but what's different now compared.

[Chase Briscoe]

To six months ago, I definitely think I just have a better understanding of the car and just what I can get away with and push and, you know, just how it drives, like, the.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Feel of it and the hill is so different. I.

[Chase Briscoe]

That's a great question, because I thought when I came here, they were gonna drive exactly the same.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Same parts and pieces and even Bell.

[Chase Briscoe]

I remember him saying, oh, yeah, it's gonna drive just like what you're used to. You're just gonna go faster. I'm like, man, you have no idea what I was driving before.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

What are the sensations or something?

[Chase Briscoe]

It literally just. It has more grip. It turns better, and it goes faster. It's unbelievable. It's a great feeling.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Chase Briscoe]

Like, it just. It just doesn't feel bound up. It just has a way better balance. I mean, it literally feels like you're on sticker tires versus, like, Kansas. This is a great example, Kansas. At shr, I could not run a single lap where I didn't come all the way out of the gas and turn one and two in the race. Not on stickers anytime. Lap 30 to 40 on tires. I'm carrying more throttle in a JGR car than I could at an SHR car, and damn. And I can almost run dang near wide open all the way around. One and two on stickers, Like, I could have never done that. Just the setups or whatever, like, they just have so much more grip and capability. It's. It's mind blowing. And I feel like that's where qualifying, like, that's been. The big thing is, even at shr, I felt like we would qualify really good, but we would be, say, sixth to 10th, so people don't really notice how good we're really qualifying, where now the car just has so much more capability. It ends up being fastest, and you've.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Spent the first half of the year. I'm asking a question. You spent the first half of the year getting out of the car going, damn, I under drove it every time.

[Chase Briscoe]

Every single week. Like, Texas. Getting into one. Like, I had a pretty good idea of where I'd always had to lift in qualifying, and I went there and I lifted. And as soon as I lifted, I was like, what have I done? I could have ran wide open. I think they wanted to. Like, it's just. It's crazy. Just the capability in the car. Yeah.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

In a perfect world, like, what are some of the extracurricular things that you'd be doing? What. What are some of the cars that you want to drive, haven't drove outside of your cup job and responsibilities?

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah, that's a. That's a good question. You know, the Sprint car thing that's that's all I've done, right? I started racing sprint cars when I was 13 and up until last year I still did it. And last year I just kind of had this, I don't know, I ran probably 20 sprint car races and every time I was out there, I was truthfully driving kind of scared. Like I didn't want to get hurt. A lot of my buddies have been getting hurt and paralyzed and I'm like, what am I out here really doing? Like, I know when I'm going out there, I'm not doing it to win. I was just kind of going to have fun. It was kind of like a golf game, right? Like, it was a no stress. And we had twins coming, obviously in October. And I went and ran during Brickyard weekend. I ran up Bloomington Speedway, which is my home track. It's where I grew up racing every Friday night. And I got done with the feature and I had a race winning car and I ran like fifth or sixth and I just decided right there, I'm done, I'm not doing it anymore. And I came in, told my dad and he was like, well, why didn't you tell me beforehand that this is gonna be your last one? Like, I would've enjoyed it a lot more.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

You don't know that.

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah, I was just like, I'm retired. I'm done.

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[Laura Boyer]

Hey guys, I'm back in the DirtyMomedia studio and this week I have with me Laura Boyer.

[Podcast Co-host]

Apparently there's a new dating app in her city for dog lovers. So you can like post your dog their dog and that's how you match with each other, I guess. So she's wondering what kind of dogs would you Think would be a red flag for a guy to own?

[Laura Boyer]

Ooh, I don't think that any of them. Do you think a dog, like, a dog, any type of a breed is a red flag?

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Kinda like if there's, like, a big old guy with, like, a little tiny, like, shih Tzu or something.

[Laura Boyer]

What if he rescued it? If they just don't, you kind of end up looking like your dog. So maybe, like, that would be odd.

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[Laura Boyer]

They do say, like, you pick something that, like, matches you.

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Like, I feel like a man should have a masculine dog. You know what I mean? Like, I just. I know if they show up. And now I struggle with that one.

[Laura Boyer]

You're like, what happened here? And why did you end up.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

Why do you have this little, tiny. Like, I don't know, what's another little tiny? Like a shih Tzu? Yeah. And they're like, hey, babe. You're like, shouldn't you have, like, a.

[Laura Boyer]

Lab is your grandmother's dog?

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[Laura Boyer]

Is he using his grandmother's dog to get dates?

[Podcast Co-host]

That has happened way more than not.

[Laura Boyer]

There's people doing that.

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

You guys don't have small, little, tiny, girly dogs, do you?

[Podcast Co-host]

No, I have a lab.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

See? See a lab. Or like a German shepherd or something.

[Chase Briscoe]

Yeah, exactly.

[Podcast Co-host]

I know a guy who's like. He was a big, buff dude, like, six four, built, nice. He had that little terrier just, like, on his. On his, like, a little. And he was showing it around to girls in bars, and I thought it was a real cheap way to do that, but I was like, that's not gonna work. Like, who wants to see a dog?

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

But she's not gonna go home with him.

[Laura Boyer]

She's gonna hold your dog for you while you're at the bar, but she's not gonna go home with you.

[Podcast Co-host]

Right, Exactly. A golden retriever that just comes up and, like, lays on its back. That's how. That's what you want.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

Like, who's the guy on TikTok that's got that big dog that, like, he travels with? It's like a sheepdog. Have you ever seen that?

[Laura Boyer]

No.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

He, like, puts it in his backpack and, like, travels with his dogs.

[Laura Boyer]

Oh, I have seen that. He hikes with him and his dog.

[Chase Briscoe]

I'm like, that's cool.

[Laura Boyer]

Yeah, that is cool.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host]

What about if he owns, like, a cat or something?

[Laura Boyer]

Dale had cats. He also had dogs, but, yeah, he's. He's like an animal lover in general. They were big cats, like, huge. A Maine coon And a Manx. Like, they were giant cats.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

Oh, those are kind of cool cats.

[Laura Boyer]

They were neat.

[Podcast Co-host]

What would be the coolest animal that you go over like, and he's got.

[Laura Boyer]

Honestly? A dog.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Really?

[Podcast Co-host]

A dog would be it.

[Laura Boyer]

If a guy's got, like, lizards and snakes and stuff like that. I'm out.

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You know what? Clint wants a kangaroo.

[Podcast Co-host]

Oh, that's cool.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

I'm like, what? Because we need it, but I think that's kind of cool.

[Laura Boyer]

And what if it kicks you? Well, you're done for.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

A kangaroo.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

But wouldn't that be cool to be like, hey, here's my kangaroo. I mean, it's kind of cool, right?

[Laura Boyer]

Clint want ever.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

I know.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

And I was like, where the heck.

[Laura Boyer]

Do you have kangaroos in North Carolina? I don't know.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

I don't know. That's a great question. We do not have any kangaroos. But he's like, let's get some kangaroos.

[Laura Boyer]

If anybody around has a kangaroo, Clint Boyer really wants one.

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I don't even know if.

[Laura Boyer]

Watch out, Laura. They're gonna show up.

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We're gonna show up with like, three kangaroos.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host]

They're gonna be fighting in the backyard.

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

So that would be kind of cool if he, like, went on a first date and he's like, you want to meet my kangaroos?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host]

Right?

[Dell AI PC Announcer]

I'm like, yeah.

[Laura Boyer]

Kind of.

[Joey Logano]

Kind of awesome.

[Laura Boyer]

So excited. Alex also wants a kangaroo.

[Podcast Co-host]

Kangaroo now, too.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host]

I did one of those drive thru safaris one time and a zebra came up to the door. And that was the coolest thing ever. I mean, maybe because I had food and they weren't too violent, but I'm like, imagine just like, you want to see my zebra and this thing just walking around your backyard.

[Laura Boyer]

Zebras are less scary, I feel like. Are they dangerous, though?

[Podcast Co-host]

I've heard they're dangerous.

[Laura Boyer]

Really?

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They're really dangerous.

[Laura Boyer]

I feel like a kangaroo would be more scary than a zebra, but I don't really know what I'm talking about. I just. It's just my assumption.

[Joey Logano]

Yeah.

[Podcast Co-host]

Kangaroos and dogs, I don't think mix. Like, they try to fight each other.

[Laura Boyer]

Right.

[Podcast Co-host]

But. And they're strong kangaroos, but I feel like you can just punch them and they'll let go. That's what I've seen.

[Laura Boyer]

Would you really need to get in a fistfight with your pet, like, kangaroo?

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Stand up.

[Podcast Co-host]

They'll box with you a little bit.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah, they will.

[Laura Boyer]

That would be so weird.

[Podcast Co-host]

Oh, no.

[Laura Boyer]

Like, looking at you eye level, like, put them up.

[Podcast Co-host]

I'll be honest if I Had a kangaroo. I'd try to box it every day.

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Maybe we'll get you a kangaroo.

[Laura Boyer]

I feel like you really need one.

[Podcast Co-host]

That's my new favorite animal.

[Jeff Gluck]

Welcome to NASCAR playoffs media day. My name is Jeff Glucklun with Jordan Bianchi. Welcome to we are motorsports for the athletic. And here we are on the teardown with Dirty Mo Media. Joey Logano is here.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

We talked about this. Last year you were the satchel one championship. I like this playoff format. I think it actually puts you guys in a spot, everybody where you have to rise up.

[Joey Logano]

Yeah.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Do you get. But there's been so many people that have used you as an example of what is wrong with the system.

[Joey Logano]

Oh, yeah.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Do you get tired of that?

[Joey Logano]

It pisses me off. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Ticks me off all the time. But I'm also like, fine, change it. We'll go win it again. That's got to be your attitude with it. Right? So, I mean, I think it. I mean, most likely right there. There'll be some kind of adjustment.

[Chase Briscoe]

More.

[Joey Logano]

More than likely. At some point, you just see what it is and you adapt to that and you do what it takes to win that.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

And I would, knowing you, I would imagine that they change it to whatever it is you're. You win that championship, you're going to love to kind of, oh, I was.

[Joey Logano]

Going to be the best one. I'm looking forward to that one. That would be the best one is like, just because you like. I don't know, like the. They'll, like, get out and like I told you so moments, like, those feel really, really good. Like that's an extra motivator for sure.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

That's who you are in the playoffs. It seems like you are the told you so guy. Like 2018, the big three, doesn't matter.

[Joey Logano]

Yeah.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

You know, I mean, the year. You know this. I mean, last year's example.

[Joey Logano]

Yeah.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

You win. You win Atlanta, then you win at Vegas and then it's like you are the told you so guy in a lot of respects.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

Yeah.

[Joey Logano]

I mean, I, I like that. Right. Like, I love. I think it's the pressure that I've learned to love. Right. Like, it's just in this format does that. Right. And that's one thing that, like, I've brought up. And not to get too deep into what we talked about yesterday, but like, I did bring this up saying, like, whatever the change happens in the playoff format, you can't lose the do or die moments because that's what's in sports. All of sports. Is what drives people to watch, right? Whether it's, you know, the NFL, the NHL, the NBA, they all have moments where it's like, you perform or you're out and, like, you don't want to see, like, okay, to win the championship, I got to just finish fifth over and over and over and over and over again. I want to see where you have to win. Like, you have to win. What are you willing to do? You're desperate. What are you going to do? I want to see desperate people. I want to see desperate people do desperate things. That's like, as a fan, that's what I want to watch. I talked about it yesterday. Like, the Olympics. I love watching the Olympics in every single sport, even the ones I don't even know anything about, because I like seeing people with the most amount of pressure you can ever imagine. Like, it's more than what we do in NASCAR because it's once and every four years a chance to be the best in the world. And if you don't perform in this moment, you may not get a second chance. And if you do, it's four years down the road from now, and you're a completely different athlete, and maybe you won't be as good. Like, that's the real pressure. That's why I love that type of stuff. And we can't lose that in our sport. We have that moment in our sport right now. We can't lose that.

[Jeff Gluck]

All right, Chase Elliott is our next victim. Guest. How are you doing so far? Well, you actually. You said it the first time. I didn't even say it.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

I think you did.

[Jeff Gluck]

Okay, well, anyway, Chase, welcome in. Yeah, we're happy that to get you early in the day because we're still trying to wake up a little bit here. But I have probably the most important question of the day to ask you because I was. I promised that the door bumper clear. Listeners that I would ask you this. Are you familiar with the term Chase sexuals and what do you think of it?

[Chase Briscoe]

If so, the only reason I know what this is or I've heard of it is because Bubba has said that to me before, and I don't know. I don't know the meaning behind it. And yeah, I don't know what the meaning is, but I kind of have, like. I kind of like some sort of a fan.

[Jeff Gluck]

I mean, you're. Some of your fans are openly calling themselves that.

[Chase Briscoe]

Okay. Just labeling kind of what I thought based on the context of how he said it.

[Jeff Gluck]

But I don't know if I was a fan of somebody that I would personally call myself that and use somebody's name. But some of them are all about it.

[Chase Briscoe]

Me either. But you know, that's okay if that. That's how they want to roll. That's cool.

[Dylan Hart Jr.]

Okay, cool.

[Jeff Gluck]

I was just wondering if it had been on your radar. So you go.

[Chase Briscoe]

Definitely not on my radar, but I'm happy for them.

[Dale Earnhardt Jr.]

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