Well that’s one way to do it…
This week, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was a guest on the Bussin’ with the Boys podcast, where he talked about his career in racing and his success with his own race time now, Jr. Motorsports.
They also got into talking about drinking, as Dale is a huge beer drinker… I mean, he used to have so much of it delivered to his house that distributors thought he was selling it. So when hosts Taylor Lewan and Will Compton got onto the topic of throwing up from too much drinking, Dale admitted that he’d hardly ever done it, which is kind of hard to believe considering he used to be a huge party boy in his younger years:
“I can get sh*t hammered drunk and I feel like I wanna throw up, and I know that I will feel better if I do, I had a stomach bug last week and I’m laying on the couch. Like, God, if I could just throw up, but I’m not like that… I can’t do it.”
He says he can still remember the last time he threw up for drinking too much, and now warns his friends on guys trips that he will not be taking any shots because he knows his “pace,” and he can’t be drinking all day and then start taking shots at eight in the evening:
“Not many times. Like, I did get real f***** up one time, and I remember the last time I threw up, the last time I puked drunk, but that was a long time ago. I can’t do shots. I’ll even tell, like I’ll go on a trip with some buddies and I’ll tell them in a text message before we leave, I’m like, ‘Don’t even f****** talk about shots. We’re not doing it.’
I drink beer all day, I know my thing, I got a damn plan, right? I know my pace. Don’t throw a shot into the middle of the day, or at 8 o’clock at night after we’ve been gone for eight hours. Don’t be throwing a shot in there, because that ruins it.”
He keeps a close watch on his friends, and when he sees someone ordering shots, he’ll chug his beer, no matter how much he has left, and then spit the shot into the empty can or glass, so he never actually takes it, and honestly, that’s pretty slick…
“I’m watching, and I can see somebody’s getting a freaking shot, they’re getting shots, f***. I’ll chug my beer so I can spit the shot in the beer. That’s my plan. I’d rather chug a full beer than to take that shot. But usually there’s a couple sips left in the beer and I’ll see it coming, and I’m like, alright, I’m ready to take this shot.”
The older you get, the harder the hangovers hit, so I can’t blame him but now that Jr.’s secret is out, his friends might be watching a little bit closer next time they order shots…
You can watch them talk shots here:
