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The Dale Jr. Download

603 - Kasey Kahne: Why I Disappeared

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. reunites with longtime motorsports fan favorite Kasey Kahne to learn about what he has been up to since his last appearance on the Download in 2018. After making the difficult decision to step away from NASCAR Cup racing later that season due to health reasons stemming from dehydration, Kasey has reemerged as a full-time sprint car racer in the last few years, competing with the World of Outlaws and High Limit Sprint Car Series.

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0:00.0

For me to get to race Rockingham is just, you know, I took six years off of NASCAR racing.

0:06.4

And why?

0:11.6

All right, so we got Casey Kane right outside the door waiting in the lobby, and he's been very gracious

0:23.3

with his time, but I'm excited to bring him on to the show because the last time he was here

0:28.4

was many years ago.

0:29.8

A lot's happened since then, and I'm thinking maybe he wasn't as, you know, he wasn't eager

0:35.1

to maybe to share some of the things that I want to ask

0:37.5

him about back then. Now he's a little further removed from his cup career, a little more

0:43.3

wiser, a little more comfortable in his life as a family man, and maybe he'll open up a little

0:51.2

bit. So we got some, we got some things we're going to touch on, but I'm excited to see him.

0:55.3

He's always fun to be around.

0:56.7

Always a great dude, great teammate.

0:59.0

And I'm looking forward to the conversation.

1:01.5

So let's just get it going.

1:03.1

Bring him in here.

1:03.8

Casey Kane on the Dell Jr. Download with Casey Kane, and it's been a minute.

1:21.2

You haven't been in here, you know, the last time of you were on the show, we were in that little booth.

1:25.7

Yeah, I was wondering.

1:26.9

Things have changed. Things have changed. I was wondering things have changed things have changed

1:28.5

I was hoping it was still here oh yeah when I got up this morning and was thinking about it I'm like

1:32.8

man where is it where is it at but it's got to be right here man I um I've been looking forward to

1:40.3

this we have a good friendship right I think you you trust me I trust you

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