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The Dale Jr. Download

171 - Going Out On My Own Terms

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. opens up about the news of his retirement at the end of the 2017 season and discusses the process that led to his decision.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.4

Man, I love this new intro. It's good stuff. It is. It's Dale and Hart Jr., and back with

0:34.7

me again. My co-host and producer and editor. It's been so long. Yeah, Tyler Overstreet. So Tyler,

0:41.1

where you been for the last two weeks? I've been here. Where you been? You've been here.

0:44.6

Oh, I am. Yeah, so I've been going. I took the show with me. I will say that the people on Twitter,

0:52.3

they love Amy, which isn't surprising. Yeah, I mean, what did we expect? She's a lot

0:57.9

prettier than me. Yeah, and she's your wife. So yeah, we had a lot of fun talking about our,

1:02.3

you know, talking over those last couple of weeks and she really did bring a lot to the table.

1:08.0

We'll certainly get her in here more often. She's actually, as we talked on the podcast last

1:11.7

week, thinking about doing her own. So we certainly encourage her to do that. Again, the intro,

1:18.2

that's today's theme song, honesty, from the band Danger Summer, courtesy of hopeless records. We

1:26.7

really appreciate those guys. I like having the music in the part of the podcast. Yeah, we didn't

1:31.0

actually mention it, but last week's theme song was Miles Apart, which was your song at Bristol.

1:36.0

Yeah, absolutely. It was my intro song for Bristol. So big fan of those guys. And thanks to

1:41.6

hopeless records for allowing us to utilize that content. Anyways, we've got a lot to talk about.

1:46.5

Big announcement. As a lot of you are going to find out or already know, at this point in the

1:54.9

afternoon, I have announced my retirement from full-time cup racing. This is something that I've

2:04.1

put a lot of thought into. Obviously, there's been a lot of ups and downs over the last several years

2:11.5

with the injuries and concussions. I worked really hard to get healthy and wanted to get back

2:21.9

to the racetrack and get back behind the wheel. And that's where we are today. With that said,

2:28.1

you know, I'm coming up into my contract and had thought about whether I wanted to

2:37.6

reach an extension with Rick and continue to race. But and I weighed, you know, obviously

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