Dale Jr. Download: The Intimidator's Rivals Ranked
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- Dale Earnhardt Jr and co-host Mike Davis are joined by legendary NASCAR crew member, the great Danny “Chocolate” Myers, for a colorful and candid conversation.
Chocolate was a longtime gasman for Dale Earnhardt Sr., Richard Childress Racing, and the famed number-three. Chocolate rates the rivals of the three-car and talks about how he and the Junkyard Dogs had Dale’s back through thick and thin.
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I always think of Chocolate running out to give Jr a bear hug after that Pepsi 400 win. One of the most wholesome/best moments in the sport.
I could listen to these guys talk about Dale Sr all day. Stories upon stories.
Also him crying tears of joy when Dale Sr finally won the Daytona 500 in 1998.
Wasn't that awesome. I had about forgotten that and thanks for the reminder
I promise there were lots of tears that day. Waited so long but that made it so sweet.
it was cool
That was a set up. I think Nascar gave Jr. a teency bit bigger restrictor plate that night. I was there in the Winston Tower. The fireworks at the end were 3's and 8's FFS. Total setup.
Love Chocolate Myers!!! He autographed a race tire for me, and took some pictures with me next to my car at the Hilton in Dover back in the early 90’s. My car is a 86 Monte Carlo SS that’s painted, and decaled like Dale Sr’s car. The decals came from RCR. Dale Sr signed the console, and Richard Childress signed the glovebox door. I got pictures of both of them signing it. They gave me the Western Steer, Stetson Hats, and Snap-on tools decals at RCR’s Open House back in 93-94. I got EVERY crew members autograph that weekend also. Such a 1st class operation, with down to earth great people there. Fond memories I’ll have for a lifetime. RIP Dale Sr.
Finally Chocolate in the house a true ambassador for the sport of NASCAR RCR and Dale Earnhardt thanks Chocolate
Chocolate has a unique voice, listen to "Trading Paint" every day!
love listening to him on the radio
Nascar shill
Love those shows when we hear Intimidator stories
We all do. A lot.
I remember hearing a story about chocolate. I heard that Richard Childress when he signed him to the crew. Told him. "I won't make you rich. But I will make you famous." True. Chocolate was the only crewmember I ever knew.
Yep me too. He was really the only one that I recognized when I saw him on TV. I think that it is awesome that he was the first one out to Jr.s car when Jr. won the 2001 Pepsi 400. On that wide shot you can see him running well ahead of everybody else.
Black?
"He wrecked a lot of ppl but never touched them". Love that. good stuff
0000000
When other drivers saw the black #3 in their rearview mirrors, they got very nervous. I bet more than once, Jeff Gordon soiled his undies.
My favorite Chocolate moment was when he drove off with Kelly and Dale was left at the Military school lol 😂
Still an underrated podcast and deserves a million subscribers
I work at Daytona International Speedway and not a day goes by that I don’t think about Dale Earnhardt - he’s the reason why I’m there
Would love to see another podcast with Ricky Rudd. I feel so much wasn't covered in the last one.
I love your shows! My grandfather was Hubert McCoy. I grew up hearing amazing stories of your dad and grandpa. I actually have a Ralph Earnhardt’s car signed by Dale Sr. I would love to talk and learn any history of my grandfather. Yellow and blue #2.
No mention of Tim Richmond? He was one of the few that direct challenged Dale Sr. Granted yes Sr. and Bodine rivalry inspired some scenes on Days of Thunder.
Tim's illness happened right when the Earnhardt versus Richmond battle was starting & I believe it would have been EPIC!
Those two had more car control than anyone I've ever seen.
When Tim died the racing world was robbed of something that was going to be Great 🙏
I miss Dale so much hero of Nascar
AMEN BROTHER. i drive to dale's tajmahall DEI IN MOORESVILLE NC. once a year since his tragedy , i set just outside the front doors on the benches & well that part is [personal] Stay a couble hours . talk to my buddy & tell him i"ll see you next year & then drive back home to PA.
@Seven Deuces well that part is personal again thanks for asking 👍
God bless them both Richard and Dale
Great to hear stories from Chocolate finally about Dale on here
Love these stories, just love em. Stories that you don't hear when it's race day. Next story please.👍
Dang I love chocolate! I could listen to his stories all day. And Sirius put their show back on 4 hours!!!
I wish I could have seen Dale race while he was still alive. As much as I dislike how much people deify him, he was definitely a legend, and there will never be another racer like him. Nineteen years later and that tragedy still touches all of NASCAR. Hopefully, it will never happen again.
The people and earnhardt sr. stories are so fun to hear it kinda takes you back and you can almost visualize him in the story and smile
No one can drive a car better than Dale Earnhardt. He can make a car sing when he's racing. Racers get out the way, here comes the Intimator
Wow
These are the good Ole days.
Thanks for the memories.
Done with NASCAR, but still love these podcast.
You are not alone .
Byebye! The community will be better without you.
@PoliceManHat nobody crying here little feller
@PoliceManHat never said NASCAR not the same
You were never a real Nascar fan then. Good riddance
This is awesome! Great stories, love hearing them. Would love to see y'all circle back around to Ricky Rudd one day because I felt like that interview was "Part 1" with a lot of history yet to discuss for lack of time. Keep 'em coming and keep up the great work!
Dale Sr was the greatest driver in NASCAR's history. He could do things with a race car that other drivers thought were impossible to do.
For Christmas 2000, my wife got me a beautiful suede #3 goodwrench Dale Earnhardt jacket, then obviously tragically, in February 01 my all time favorite driver went home, I'm grateful for the jacket, still miss Dale Sr!!!
Love these behind the scenes stories. Wow!
How could you love nascar and not follow this podcast? DirtyMo Media is second to none
Ricky Rudd - the rooster -- was my favorite driver
How many people remember when at the 1993 SplitFire Spark Plug 500 @ Dover during the Post Race Interview he said that "NASCAR had the Goodies Headache Award and they ought to have a 'Rubberhead of the Race Award" for the stupid move Rusty Wallace made on the restart"! (when he tapped an under powerd Hut Stricklin that took and Earnhardt and him out!
The following week NASCAR made him issue an apology for it in an interview!
@@irongoatrocky2343 I remember i think it was 1991 my dad and i were at the Derek cope shop auction and there were air guns for sale and the guy next to me bid of them >> to my surprised it was Ricky Rudd and Phil Parsons . wow always remember that . was surprised how short they were .
Jeff gordon is a great and needs to be mentioned with petty and earnhardt. He was pivotal in building hendrick......jj stepped into a great situation with a grade A supporting class and would be nowhere without jg24
If NASCAR kept the Winston Cup standings Jeff Gordon would be a 7 time champion. But when they switch the system at the beginning of 2004 they robbed Jeff Gordon of three championships. That's the way I look at it. Jimmie Johnson is in his great as they say he is. Especially with chocolate Myers saying Jimmy Johnson was put into a championship team basically from the beginning. Big difference
That’s why Hendrick is leaving the company to Jeff Gordon
@@davidthompson1479 I agree totally. I remember figuring out the points for Jeff and he would have won with the old format. It was a shame that bad timing robbed Jeff of those championships.
I don't really get why Dale Sr. was so popular because he was constantly wrecking people to win. I was a big Gordon fan because he was the one that stood up to Dale Sr on the track and created a great rivalry that skyrocketed Nascar onto the national stage.
@@KoJo-qh9od Dale and Jeff were friends,the rivalry they both created to make nascar bigger
@@KoJo-qh9od see that’s where you are lost on history. Dale Sr wrecked very few people no more than anybody else. That’s the point chocolate is making. It’s a bunch of rumors and people go along repeating it. Dale wouldn’t just wreck people like they do today. He would just do hard racing and you would have accidents here and there. Dale was involved with fewer wrecks then any other driver. Dale grew up not having money so he protected that car as much is he could. I promise you dale wrecked fewer cars then any other driver. He had great car control.
Danny "Chocolate" Meyers explained why the team @ RCR came to be known as "the Junkyard Dogs" when Dale Sr came back! for RCR was truly a small team that built "Something out of Nothing"!
Can you have him back on for 2 more hours? I could listen to this all day!! Great show👍
Not only did Jimmie Johnson jump immediately into top tier equipment. He had Jeff Gordon and Terry Labonte (five championships between them) as teammates. On top of all that, he didn't even need to be good all year, just good enough to squeeze into the chase and then be good the last ten or so races. In Earnhardt and Gordon's day, if you didn't average a finish of about 8th or higher (except Gordons 11th in the odd 2001) you werent winning a cup. Johnson got one with an average finish of 14th. Johnson is the least impressive champion of the three. I put Jeff Gordon as a better driver. Without the chase Johnson would be a three time champ, which is very impressive. But he was set up for success. Put Someone like Kevin Harvick or Mark Martin in that same situation as Johnson and they do eve better than Johnson. Jimmie is good, but no where close to Earnhardt, Gordon, Petty or even pearson
I disagree. Jimmie was able to win and perform the best when it counted. If Jeff was as talented, he would’ve won in the chase era and couldn’t do it. Mark Martin even thought Jimmie was a product of Hendrick equipment and when he went to Hendrick he realized how good Jimmie really was, Jeff has even stated on live tv that Jimmie is the best driver he’s ever seen. So sure you probably don’t agree from a fan point of view, but they definitely think he’s the greatest. Considering they raced against both 7 time champions before Jimmie.
If Jeff was as talented, he would’ve won in the chase era and couldn’t do it.
That's pretty terrible logic. Jimmie Johnson was inconsistent all of 2016 then squeaked his way into the chase and managed to win at the end, while averaging a 14th place finish all year with 10 finishes 20th or worse. Then you have Jeff Gordon, who had one of the best seasons in the past 20 years in 2007, but lost because Johnson got hot the last five races. Then he dominated all year in 2014 and lost because he was wrecked and knocked out of the chase. How does someone being forced into a flat tire dictate talent? Consistency is talent.
3. That is All
@Lil' Wayne's guitar teacher Its messed up. The big reason for the chase was that it wasn't a good look for the champion to be named two or three races before the end of the season, making the remaining races "pointless" But what they've done now is made the entire season pointless. You can win the first or second race of the year and it really doesn't matter what happens until the chase. you can finish last a bunch, miss races, whatever. as long as you remain in the top 30 in points the entire season doesn't matter. You could win the daytona 500 and finish like 25th every week up until the chase starts. Its a really dumb system that no one asked for. Nascar was so popular in the early 2000s, the chase started in 2004. Fans were beating the doors down to get tickets and they decided to fix something that wasnt broken and destroyed it
Lil' Wayne's guitar teacher I agree 💯💯💯🇺🇸
3:57 Still raced him like he didn't know him. HAHAHA
Chocolate should be in the Hall Of Fame!
Another classic bunch of stories. Great stuff !!!!
This hole interview has to on UA-cam. Just this one time please
Being an Earnhardt fan I always wonder what would’ve happened if Davey Allison and Alan Kulwicki had not passed away
I love these interviews with the 'boots on the ground' guys when I was becoming a fan of this sport. Keep up the great work! Also... No disrespect intended, but in the post-race interview with Dick Bergren, Dale Sr. said, "...they ought to fine that sum'b... and park him for the rest of the year" It's hard to take "The Intimidator" seriously whining about being served the same dish he dealt out many, many times, even prior to 1989. Dale... c'mon.
you fail too realize Rudd took Dale out ON PURPOSE & cost Earnhardt the 88 championship !!!
Nah he slammed the door on a car that was already inside of him. He let his temper get the best of him here and when him and Waltrip had their big dust up at Richmond. Dale would have moved Rudd if the roles were reversed so I don’t think Rudd did anything wrong.
@@curtislynch8189 wrong
@@donleblanc2669 , do you really want to get into a who-dumped-who about Dale Sr? I'll bet Rudd was just trying to 'rattle his cage.' :)
@@DaveNull311 Rudd Dumped Earnhardt on purpose
Ricky Rudd is a class act.
# 3 Forever
Hugs Jr. We love you too
# GoToSoon
I like the bump and run that Dale SR made famous
You misspelled "Dump"
Ol' Chocolate is a national treasure.
Dale & Richard are thee two greatest drivers of all time...and then there’s a gap with those other great drivers following.
Gordon and Pearson may be better than petty just based on level of competition
The Chocolate comment starting @ 4:00 is one of the funniest things I've ever heard regarding Cup racing.
hope you get the guest back in the studio soon!!
When I was working at Las Vegas speedway I was driving Bill Elliott around in a golf cart and he was such a nice man and I told him I need to apologize to you For hating you all those years he looked at me and said why did you hate me and I told him I was an Earnhardt fan and he started laughing and put his arm around me and said I was too
I love listening to Chocolate Myers.
Can you do a story on what you think it would be like if we could just bust up all the teams and race like before. More stock and less mone. i know the big guys pull the big money and viewers but it sure would be more fun to go back to old school
I have a bunch of professional photos printed on professional Kodak paper from the first Brickyard 400 in Indy. I bought them just days after the race from a track photographer but never did anything with them.
Oh lord i Ben waiting on chocolate Myers for long time, thank you dale !!!
when everything happened the first 2 folks i thought about was Richard and Chocolate -
i hope Choc is doing better -
He was one of the reasons i was a fan - a big one -
I been a earnhardt fan along time. Believe me earnhardt hated bodine with a passion, but the incident chocolate mention about rudd and dale in wilkesboro cost dale the 1989 Winston cup championship.
12 points...
Like 900. Looking fwd to hearing more from Chocolate. “Race him like he didn’t know him.” LOL
In the video descriptions it would be awesome if you guys put the episode number.
Great one, thanks!
love ya Chocolate!!!
Ricky and Dale were two of the best.
1998 Atlanta practice I was in the Earnhardt pits at the wall. I was in the way and Chocolate picked me up and politely got me out of the way
Hey Dale love your podcast I hope you'll be able to get geoff bodine to sit down and do a podcast with you
Got a feeling that would be Dale Jr's shortest interview ever.
Dale Jr...So Geoff, tell me what your thoughts on my Dad.
Bodine...He was an @ssh©l€ & a very dirty driver.
Dale Jr...😤 Ok well, thanks for stop'n by, Chocolate will show you out! 😂
Chocolate is one of the coolest guys I’ve ever met !!
I didn't realize it until now, but he sounds like Tim Wilson.
Greatest legend
i love this stuff
Boy this show better then the real racing
more choclolate please . . best gas man ever . . nice person too . . thank you . .hi leah . .
Is that a Georgia Southern University football helmet on the table? Curious as to the back story of that set piece....
I just hope that they put Ricky Rudd in the HOF. No he didn't have the championships but the man was relevant for 3 decades. He was a formidable opponent in several eras. He is right smack dab in the middle of a great era for NASCAR.
4:27 Hello Wally! Hello Bobby! :-) Good to see you both today.
If anyone listened to this entire podcast theres a part where chocolate is talking about dale giving childress something he won at Atlanta. Anyone know what he was talking about? Not the gold car the other thing. I couldnt make out what he said.
Chocolate Myers looking like Gary Rossington with the cowboy hat on at the awards ceremony
Love the Cub hat.
I stopped watching racing after Dale Sr died
Always a Petty guy so I was done when Adam died.
Rivals without mentioning Waltrip ? 🤔
Dale sure could dish it out,,but boy he couldn't take it. He would cry like a baby if someone did him wrong.
There's a lot of selfishness that goes along with being a competitive driver.
The worst at that is Kyle Busch
That is so true. Chocolate has a little bit of selective memory too because Earnhardt wrecked way way more by making direct intentional contact. He got to a point in the late 80s where RCR had big bucks while a lot of other teams had a shoestring budget, so heck yeah drivers got out of his way but for survival, not because of intimidation. I never really cared for #3, but he was great for the sport.
@@JJA1987 AMEN!
Dang both of them ran Wrangler colors in 1984 and they had ads with both drivers and cars. Didn’t know there was bad blood over it. Rudd drove for Hendrick and Yates so it’s not like he never got any good equipment after that. He was good on road courses and short tracks but never had much success on the faster tracks.
This is true but imagine if rudd would have been apart of 84-94 RCR in its prime
If you didn't see it was Chocolate talking you would think it was Tim Wilson.
Chocolate Myers representing ol Lexington NC
How much is the black number 3 Hot wheels car still in box number, 3 car Worth to day prices could be worth
😮
Ricky shouldn’t be mad at Dale, he should have been really pissed off at Richard Childress for replacing him with Dale. Anyone would have done the same thing in Dales position. Asking what are you doing at RCR isn’t underhanded, it’s getting information as to how you’re doing so well. Besides, Ricky wasn’t doing as well with RCR as what Dale did when he got there.
NASCAR allowed Dale, Sr. to get away with stuff, just as the NBA had the "Jordan Rules" with Michael Jordan and the NHL would not let people hurt Wayne Gretzky. I had no problem with Dale, Sr. being "rough" with other drivers...but he didn't like getting the same treatment in return...and NASCAR helped him get away with stuff...
Jordan Rules weren't rules against going hard at MJ....The Jordan Rules are Rules to Stop Mike that the Detroit Pistons developed....you completely misunderstood....
@@JacobStevens13 I hear ya. As a fan of the Detroit Pistons and the "Bad Boys", I should have known that. But the NBA did "protect" Michael Jordon, just as Dale Sr. and Gretzky got protected...it was good for business.
@@timheidel5849 You are correct...most diehard NBA fans will tell you that Michael Jordan "playing baseball" was actually David Stern silently and privately suspending Mike for gambling. Mike was luckily not stupid enough to bet on his own games like Pete Rose, but there's a theory that his dad was killed due to gambling debts(which don't make sense as MJ was the richest athlete ever at the time)
Dale's #1. He'd take a 10th place car and finish 3rd. He'd take an eighth place car and win. There's more to winning than having the best car.
He said it right.
I may piss off a few people with this comment... but Earnhardt was a dirty racer. I loved watching him race and loved him in general but some of the guys I've seen him wreck were absolutely low down below the belt moves.
Don't know why NASCAR hate is so bad. They have handled Social distancing better than any other sport or event.
- Sensitive People wanting the wave a traitorous flag at events are mad
- They are mad that Bubba Wallace gets all this attention just because he’s black and call him Bubba Smollett because of NASCAR botching the noose thing at Talladega.
because the people that OWN the media hate white people and they see NASCAR as a white mans sport so their hate pours out of them and its easy to see they hate white people.
You've had Ricky and Rusty on the show. Where's Geoff? I'm sure he's got some good stories to tell, too.
He wouldn’t stop talking until 2021 if they got him on the show. He loved hearing himself talk.
On second thought, I listened to another podcast that he was on recently; he can go ahead and keep his opinions to himself in Chemung.
He drove modifieds, NASCAR's original and real division as we as anyone. Earnhardt never would have lasted in tears of driving ability, nor been tolerated, by the modified ranks. That division had its Earnhardt types, namely Jimmy Spencer and Ted Christopher. I remain befuddled at the appeal these types have, both from fans and media.
The blindness and absence of even slightest sense of objectivity from Earnhardt fans truly separates them from all others.
I second the done with nascar love the podcast.
Like that raced him like he did not know him
What started the problems with Geoff Bodine?
Chocolate taught me to glue lug nuts at dover when i was on the 71 team
Psychology used by a master!
How’s you get the name chocolate???
Im 6'6 280 how do I join a team?
I LOVE CHOCOLATE
I respect Sr. , but he didn't want a fight with Ricky Rudd. That whole intimdator image would have been tarnished had he chosen that path.
I've heard more than a few people say Rudd is a tough man.
Chocolate!!!!!! Yes!!!!?
48 wasnt a championship team, it the capability to be a winning team, but it took all the right people to make it a championship team and it takes a special group of men to run off 5 tittles in a row, so its not like JJ had it easy...
No Bill Elliott?
I think one resin dale died is because of the open face helmet because I had a crash like that in a go kart and it was just like that but I had a full face helmet
He was the intimidator because..... they saw him coming and knew if he couldn't pass he would spin them out.
Hey Chocolate!!