This is Dale Jr. and you're listening to Dirty Moe Radio.

We're hitting right here. If you have hard times to do this time, we'll put Hogue on the wall. There's no way you'll miss it.

Ha!

It would be brighter for sure. I'm afraid it'd be like follow the pace card. Be so bright to give you a headache though.

It wasn't that bright.

This is the Dale Jr. Download presented by Spy. I'm Mike Davis. He's Mike Hogue, the man with the bright shirt.

She's a man of travel. Our boy Taylor Zarser is traveling this morning. So the professionalism meter totally just took a nose dive.

Yeah. You can already tell.

Yeah, we're coming to you from the Dirty Moe Radio studios on a Tuesday morning. Joe Slingerlin, the 88 team's rear tire changer, will be joining us here in a few minutes. I'm excited about that.

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Dale, yeah.

It's not actually Amanda, Dale, yeah. Right. I need to make sure that's. Dale, yeah.

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And right here in the junior motorsports retail shop. All right. Hogue.

Yeah, sure.

I was too old. Tell me something. Explain to me something. How is it that on a race that is as pivotal as this one?

And if you didn't know already, dear listener, the 88 team struggled mildly in practice on Friday.

They struggled in qualifying. I think qualified 27th. They threw out the notes Friday night.

Came up with a whole new game plan on Saturday. And yet despite all that, how is it, Mike Hogue, that the very first thing on Steve Littart's mind and Dale Jr. for that matter as they fire up the engines is your shirt.

I have no idea. I didn't think it was that bad. But everybody I talked to, I could not have a conversation without dude.

It's a draw your shirt. Why is it so bright that people wearing sunglasses to talk to me? But why that was the first thing he chose to talk about.

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