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The Dale Jr. Download

142 - Junior Speaks Out

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. discusses his concussion-like symptoms for the first time; ESPN’s Ricky Craven speaks candidly about his own struggles with concussions, the toll it takes on drivers, and the fear of living with regrets.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Dale Jr., and you're listening to DirtyMo Radio.

0:05.0

Hey, good bye, Dave.

0:07.0

I'm Fred.

0:08.0

And Nick's right here.

0:09.0

He's in a good job.

0:10.0

I think you guys, for letting me feel in, I do appreciate all the hard work and for being so welcoming.

0:16.0

Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr., this is Sunday evening after New Hampshire.

0:28.0

Proud of Alex Bowman, he did a great job.

0:30.0

I knew he would.

0:31.0

We had a great car to test and Greg and all those guys did a good job of the weekend getting him comfortable.

0:37.0

And I was kind of plugged into what they were doing throughout the weekend.

0:40.0

So it was fun to feel like I was part of it anyways, a little bit of help.

0:46.0

But it was fun and fun to watch.

0:49.0

I missed all my guys and missed the drivers and the media and everybody.

0:53.0

I missed the fans, missed being at the track.

0:56.0

But I couldn't ask for a better substitute there.

1:00.0

Alex was digging.

1:01.0

There's probably, I know there's probably a lot of speculation about what type of injury or symptoms I'm dealing with.

1:07.0

And my mind feels real sharp.

1:10.0

I took the impact test, which measures thought process and the speed of your thought process and memory and retaining memory.

1:21.0

And my results matched my baseline, which made me feel confident that my brain was pretty sharp.

1:29.0

It feels good.

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