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The Dale Jr. Download

309 - Rodney Childers: Three-Wide in an S10

The Dale Jr. Download

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4.89K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Childhood friends Dale Earnhardt Jr. and NASCAR Championship Crew Chief Rodney Childers reconnect about racing, crew chiefing and causing trouble as youths. Most know Rodney as Kevin Harvick's pit boss, but prior to his role on the box, he was a winning racecar driver. Childers details how his racing career began with a go-kart and his mom. While dominating in Late Models, he reveals why he was told to not come back to the track. Oh, and how close did he come to making it it NASCAR's top ranks? He was one vote away from an Xfinity Series ride and shares the story. Childers then reveals tales of hanging out with Dale Jr. that even Dale doesn't remember. Like the time they broke into Mamaw's house or when they cruised around Kannapolis in Dale's S-10 truck three-wide and picked up two-more passengers. That night ended with a grocery store trip and egging the town! Rodney then recounts deer-games played on Dale Sr.'s property that gets the gang laughing out loud. Rodney talks about transitioning from a driver to a crew member in the sport and the dark times that preceded his rise in the Cup Series. He covers the beginnings with Blaney, his role with Scott Riggs, moving to MWR, his landing spot with SHR, and how Kevin Harvick changed his career. What's next for Rodney? And does he want to return to driving a racecar? Dale Jr, along with co-host Mike Davis discuss a sudden silly season with news from Brad Keselowski and Leavine Family Racing. Leah Vaughn brings the fans closer to Dale Jr. with questions about Sim-Similarities and College Football in this week's AskJr. presented by Xfinity. Plus, Dale has an idea to finally bring negativity to social media and potentially save the world. We also learn of mixed-up frequencies in Odd History and lastly, give some special birthday love that derails the close of the show. Enjoy!

Transcript

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Marker one marker one outside and we are rolling

0:30.0

Hey everybody it's Dale Jr. back again for another episode of the Dale Jr.

0:35.0

download my guest is Rodney Childers what a first name Rodney what a last name

0:43.5

yeah children Mike Davis is here Matthew Gilner Lea everybody's in the house

0:49.1

me and Rodney have been friends for a really long time I was in the same

0:54.0

grade in high school with his brother and went yeah so I know Rodney okay had

1:01.0

no clue he was gonna become who he is today incredible we're gonna hear about

1:05.2

his story it's a great one and we got a really good show for you as

1:09.2

junior hard history all that's coming up

1:15.8

a lot of hard work on our sacrifice I came from

1:22.4

you know the hard work inside the track

1:26.3

gonna work so hard gonna work on me

1:32.7

oh yeah you drive with I don't know with a sincerity

1:42.0

you're serious

1:45.4

you worked hard oh yeah gotta work so hard

1:58.2

that was the hardest hardest race ever do what did we go talk about in our open

2:03.9

segment I don't know let's just have some fan fun about what yeah too much news

2:08.5

who what is going on a keselowski son okay keselowski all right so he's

2:16.4

signed one year deal everybody's like what happened why one year I got an idea

2:21.8

you all know I don't know but I mean that's good for keselowski isn't I think so

2:26.4

so Brad I don't want to be locked in for long time yeah so it isn't really I

2:31.7

don't think anything to do with Pinsky I bet you that

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