The Other Side - Ep. 8 - Flat out

(bouncy music) (lively music) Dylan: It's important to live by myself just because I want to be an adult. I want to be by myself and not have to worry about somebody else telling me like what I need to do. I know what I need to do. and I don't need somebody else just being like, ""Come on, Dylan, you got to ... " Because she does it all the time and just beats it on the head. I'm like, "Mom, you said it like 6 times, I get it." Jen: Do you know how special this chair is? This is like a designer chair that came from Grandma Georgia. Dylan: It's weird. Jen: Super comfty. There's a little stand- Dylan: Can I put it outside? Jen: Yeah, there's a stand that goes in it. Dylan: I'll put it outside. Jen: All right. His success on the track is one thing and we'll see how successful he is in living on his own. He's never balanced a checkbook, he's never written a check for a phone bill. It's like the bird who's leaving the nest and all of a sudden they have to use their wings, you know? (lively music) Dylan: It's been pretty hectic couple weeks. I was moving in to my apartment then we traveled down to Greenville, South Carolina for some testing. (lively music) My relationship with my crew guys is it's really cool because they're always having a blast with me. They try to bust my ... I can't say that so. They try to bust me around a little bit. Mardy he's like, "All right, I'm going to throw you in the [unintelligible]." I'm like, "Whatever, like how old are you? "almost 40," and I'm like, "Go ahead and try." I give it like about maybe 15 seconds and then after they're (panting) They can't breathe and I'm like, "All right, now it's my turn." White-haired man: Look at him, he's waiting now. That's as hard as he's worked. That's as hard as he's worked since I've known him. Mardy: All I need is 2 minutes to get him down then I'm done. Dylan: There's actually a lot of similarities between me and Mardy. I mean, his dad passed away at a young age, He was in racing and he kind of had to continue his legacy without him. Seeing his name on the wall, it was really cool. I knew growing up that Mardy and his dad were some of the best short track racers around. Mardy: It's kind of hard to believe the year I was winning races out here was the year he was born. It don't really seem that long ago. On 1995, I was kind of pretty close to the same age when I was racing at Greenville. This was a [crate] track here and there was people parked along the end field and- Dylan: Yeah. Mardy: The back stray was just packed and there was a lot of crazy drunken people on a Saturday night. The thing that always sticks out on my mind especially coming off this corner is all the women hanging out at the fence with their shirts up. (laughing) With their *** out. Yeah, true story. Dylan: How come I don't get any of that? Mardy: I was a lot like him. I still had a lot of kid in me, still wanted to hang out with my buddies. You're in that spot now and you've got the big sponsors with you and you got all these opportunity in the world to make it. Dylan: Yeah. I mean, what stopped you from doing that? Just sponsorship? Mardy: Yeah, a little bit. Just the right opportunities. I really had an opportunity where [unintelligible] and Clint Bower for some reason they chose him, and I really thought I had it locked in and you know, when you get that age Dylan: Yeah. Mardy: And you got to move on with life and I chose to start working on race cars. Dylan: Mardy he was a great racer, one of the best out there and he had an opportunity to hopefully get up to the Sprint Cup Series and he was right at the age but he just didn't get over the hump to get there. Sometimes I'm kind of disappointed that he didn't, he wasn't able to do that because that was obviously his dream. (music) Mardy: That window's really small to get in to the sport. Without sponsorship, without people getting in behind you, you have no chance but I see Dylan with a lot more potential. Dylan's got that personality about him you can't help from liking. He's a great person and everybody knows that around here and they see that level and talent that he has. Thanks Dylan. Dylan: No problem. Voiceover: Thank you, Dylan. Mardy: For Dylan, coming to this shop and being a part of this race team, we're just part of his path, you know? He's passing through and I think he's going to make it. Kenzie: I punched him. (laughs) I punched him. Dylan: What happened to my face is I was moving the dresser and I wasn't really paying attention, so when I turned the corner I kind of busted my face on the side of the wall. If I got into a fight, I'd say I got into a fight. Kenzie: I told him if he would have gotten to a fight he would have 2 black eyes. Dylan: They keep asking me if I got punched in the face. I'm like, "No, if I got into a fight, I'd tell you guys I got into a fight." But I literally just made a stupid mistake. I'm not going to be like, "Yeah, actually I bumped my face on the wall." That sounds stupid even though I actually did it. Kenzie: No, (laughs) you can't do anything. Dylan: No maybe a wheeler. Dylan: I can like jump on it, that's about it. Kenzie: No 360? Dylan: No. I got some time to spend at the shop and talked to Kenzie one of my teammates and it was cool to get to know her a little bit more. I'm going outside, you want to come? Kenzie: Sure, let's go. Dylan: She did the same thing. She up and moved from Oklahoma to North Carolina and she established her new place there. She's doing her own thing and she's become an independent woman in North Carolina. Kenzie: I think you'll love it here. I think it's definitely going to be something to get used to but- Dylan: Yeah. Kenzie: It will definitely be like your second home after a while. Dylan: Yeah. I mean I was really kind of like dreading going over here. It wasn't pretty easy to make friends over here. Kenzie: Well, I mean not really. Dylan: (laughs) Yeah. Kenzie: Everybody is either older than me or younger than me. Dylan: Yeah. Kenzie: You know what I mean? In here everything is about racing so- Dylan: Yeah. We're dealing with the same stuff. I mean, we both don't know what we're going to do next year. I don't know, this sucks. Trying to get like sponsorship and everything for next year. No matter how good you are, you don't have like a set spot which is like I tried telling, explaining the sport to people and it's like I don't know, there's nothing like as close to racing that I can explain it. Kenzie: Yeah, not at all. I mean, you kind of have to bring your own money or find your own sponsorships to bring. It's hard, you kind of move out here just hoping it will happen. You don't really know it's going to happen. You kind of take every year one by one and hopefully the next year you'll still be racing. (calm music) Voiceover: Next on Flat Out. Dylan: You can't get too close to the other drivers. I might have to take somebody out that I was just chilling with my apartment. You can't pass me without hitting me out of the way. Come on, dude. I just wanted to wreck them like right there.