404 - DIRTY AIR - Bubba Wallace vs. Kyle Larson; Ben Kennedy Aftermath; Dale Jr. Reacts To Kurt Busch Retirement

The Dale Jr. Download

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4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

An early-bird, Dirty Air-segment solo special for Dale Jr. Download listeners eager to hear Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s take on current events, including the drama from Sunday’s South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. But first, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mike Davis start Dirty Air by addressing criticism about last week’s interview with Ben Kennedy, NASCAR’s SVP of Strategy & Innovation. The two DJD hosts respond to social media kickback claiming they were too lenient on Kennedy, grandson to the late Bill France Jr. and widely considered to be NASCAR’s next top guy. Did they let him off the hook with softball questions and easy outs? The conversation then pivots to the topic of the hour – the initial mid-race wreck involving Wallace, Larson, and Christopher Bell, as well as the retaliation, shoving match, and post-race interview that ensued. Earnhardt tries to predict what NASCAR’s response will be by drawing from past examples such as Chase Elliott vs. Kyle Busch at Darlington in 2020 and Noah Gragson vs. Sage Karam at Road America earlier this year. That wasn’t the only news from the weekend. Kurt Busch announced he will no longer race full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series as he continues to heal from concussions. This topic was especially personal to Dale Jr., who also had his racing career cut short due to a head injury. What will Kurt do next? Mike Davis has a thought, and Dale Jr. loves the idea. Lastly, on Dirty Air, Earnhardt unpacks the whole saga at Stewart-Haas Racing, where Tony Stewart expressed anger towards NASCAR over the penalties levied against Cole Custer’s No. 41 team, and Gene Haas reportedly made comments to media about Custer’s future. What does this mean for Custer? What about Ryan Preece? Earnhardt weighs in with his usual unfiltered opinion, candor, and honesty. The full episode of The Dale Jr. Download will drop on Tuesday, October 18, complete with Dirty Air presented by Filter Time, Ask Jr presented by Xfinity, and a deep conversation with Erik Jones, driver of the Petty/GMS No. 43, in the guest segment presented by Ally.

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0:00.0	What's up, Dale Jenner, Download Listeners.
0:06.5	Happy Monday to all of you.
0:08.5	I hope you are doing well.
0:09.5	This is Mike Davis here.
0:11.1	And we had an idea.
0:13.0	We wanted to try something that we've always wanted to do.
0:15.7	Just never have done it.
0:17.2	And that is start dropping parts of our show out early in the week, almost immediately.
0:23.1	And it just so happens that we taped this morning.
0:26.2	We had a great conversation about Bubba Wallace and about Kyle Larson, that whole incident
0:30.8	at Las Vegas.
0:32.4	Even Dale and I wanted to address some of the comments that we saw on social media over
0:36.4	the week about Ben Kennedy, that episode from last week.
0:39.5	So we had a really good conversation.
0:41.7	So we've just decided, I got with Alex, our producer and said, hey, let's put out dirty
0:45.9	air today on Monday.
0:48.2	And you know what, you can expect a full show tomorrow as usual.
0:53.1	We had Eric Jones, what an amazing conversation, learned so much.
0:57.2	I encourage everyone to listen to that tomorrow.
1:00.4	We'll put that out on the feed as usual.
1:03.0	But enjoy this.
1:04.0	This is something new.
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