19-Year-Old Racing Star Hayden Swank on Paving His Own Way in the Sport

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

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Politics, News

4.8 • 966 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Bakari is joined by Hayden Swank, a 19-year-old rising race car driver, to talk about racing his first cars when he was 7 (4:36), why it is difficult to build a career in race car driving compared to other sports (9:40), and what it's like being a young Black driver in an overwhelmingly white sport (14:53). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Hayden Swank Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.
0:15.0	Today we'll be interviewing a racing savonne Hayden Swank.
0:20.0	I know that we had just gotten back to normal. I was watching some of the races this weekend
0:24.5	and so it's a perfect time to talk about a NASCAR with my good friend Hayden who was one of the few
0:30.2	black NASCAR up-and-coming drivers who's making a name for himself.
0:35.0	Happy Memorial Day y'all.
0:37.1	Shout out to everyone who is commemorating today, spending time memorial, and remembering all of those who sacrificed for us and paid the ultimate price.
0:47.0	I'm actually thinking about a friend of my Darius Jennings, who was killed in Iraq.
0:53.6	He was a 2,000 graduate of Orange Roy Wilkinson High School.
0:59.9	I got to make sure I said that right.
1:01.2	Yeah, he was a 2,000 graduate of Orangeville Wilkinson High School.
1:05.2	I'm in his mother at Lane, who still lives in South Carolina, does a lot of work with wounded warriors in the area and today I'm actually doing the Murph.
1:16.1	Some of you all may or may not know what the Murph is, but you run a mile, you do 100 pull-ups,
1:22.1	200 push-ups, 300 air squats, and then you run another mile and today I'm doing that in honor of Darius.
1:31.0	And as you all enjoy your day please drink it up hang out by the pool do all of those great things
1:38.8	but always remember the reason why we have the day. Before we get to Hayden, I do need to also
1:46.6	talk a little politics today. And I have to talk about Justice Breyer's new book, the Authority of the Court and the Parole of Politics.
1:57.0	Don't get me started. So instead of a resignation letter from Justice Breyer, we got a book we don't need and didn't ask for him.
2:04.5	And what's the book about exactly? Well, I ain't read it yet. I can tell you that I read a lot of books that come to the
2:10.4	Bakari Sellers podcast. Justice Breyer didn't send me his book, but we have seen a lot of quotes.
2:17.0	And the quotes that I've read that are particularly troublesome are the ones where he's warning Democrats against overly politicizing the Supreme Court.
2:25.3	And from my read of early reviews of the book, Briar wants Democrats to step away from things
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