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The Dale Jr. Download

Carl Edwards on Returning, Reconciling, and Why He Retired in the First Place

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. welcomes the highly requested Carl Edwards on the show to discuss why he retired after 2016, settling old scores between the two of them, his new job at Prime Sports, and much more. After nine seasons without Carl behind the wheel, he opens up to Dale about the true reasons behind his departure, and how he knew it in his soul it was his time to leave.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's talk about Homestead. This is a tough one for you, I'm sure. Yeah. So what I'm sitting here

0:08.6

thinking about, my hands are sweating when you're saying all this because I don't know how

0:11.6

honest I want to be about all this, but I think I'm just going to tell you how it is. So

0:15.9

there's a couple things here and they're really big deals to me to say.

0:23.3

The following is a production of Dirtymo Media.

0:29.2

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

0:32.7

It's the guest segment and we've got Carl Edwards coming on the show.

0:35.4

Y'all requested him. We've been begging him to come on, and we finally got it worked out.

0:39.5

Carl's going to be a teammate of mine at Amazon as we're coming up on the five-race stretch

0:44.0

during the summer, and he's getting himself ready for that job as a broadcaster, getting

0:49.1

himself reintroduced to the NASCAR industry after years away.

0:55.9

We're going to learn what he's been up to.

1:01.6

We're going to learn all about his career and why he stepped away to begin with. So got a lot of questions there. This is going to be a good one I can tell. Let's get started.

1:05.8

Thank you. All right, so the Dale Jr. download here on a Wednesday guest segment, and one of our most requested, by far, has been Carl Edwards, and we are lucky to have the chance to have Carl here

1:32.1

today. I want to say thank you, Carl, for giving us some time. Where are you at? I'm here in Columbia,

1:36.8

Missouri at my buddy Brent's office. It's nice of him to loan me his setup. I hope it all works

1:43.1

the whole time. So yeah. Thanks for having me on. This is so cool, man. Man, it's nice of him to loan me his setup. I hope it all works the whole time. So yeah,

1:44.7

yeah, thanks for having me on. This is so cool, man. Man, it's been awesome to see you

1:48.9

here over the past couple of years. You've kind of reemerged and reconnected in a sense

1:57.1

with the industry. And it's been good to sort of see what you've been up to.

2:02.4

And I want to learn a little bit today.

2:05.3

There's a lot that I have to get into.

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