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The Dale Jr. Download

Deb Williams: Hollywood with Burt Reynolds & History with Earnhardt

The Dale Jr. Download

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

Sports

58.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Dale Earnhardt Jr. takes a look into yesteryear of NASCAR as he sits down with prolific journalist Deb Williams. On the heels of winning the prestigious Squier-Hall Media Excellence Award, Deb continues to be a trailblazer in stock car racing, working the NASCAR beat year-round. She talks about growing up in a racing family, covering several breaking news stories outside of racing, and how she broke past the "no women in pits" barrier.

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0:00.0

Your first time being able to pick up a media credential was it Darlington and there was

0:05.2

on the credential it said no women allowed.

0:08.2

Yeah.

0:08.6

Jay Wells was the PR person for Harry Gantz and when I got in the press box and I saw him

0:13.7

and that was on my press pass, I chewed him out.

0:18.4

The following is a production of Dirty Mo Media.

0:24.0

All right, everybody, it's Dale Jr. here at the Dale Jr. Download,

0:26.8

and this week's guest is Deb Williams.

0:28.3

Deb Williams has worked in NASCAR for decades.

0:32.3

And just recently, she won the, let's see here. I want to make sure I get this right, the Squire Hall Award.

0:42.6

And that is an award, obviously named after Ken Squire, given to a journalist or someone in the media who's outstanding in their field.

0:55.6

That was a special announcement made at Darlington.

0:58.5

She's also the two-time recipient of the National Motorsports Press Association,

1:02.7

George Cunningham, writer of the year award.

1:05.1

She's a two-time winner of the Miller Motorsports Award of Excellence.

1:08.3

The first female reporter inducted into the National Motorsports Press Association Hall of Fame.

1:15.1

She's going to have some stories.

1:16.4

So I'm excited to talk to Deb.

1:17.8

She's helped us out on a lot of projects.

1:19.5

You might have heard her on the last season of Becoming Earnhardt.

1:23.5

But either way, this will be a lot of fun seeing what kind of cool stories she's got to tell us.

1:27.7

Let's bring her in the room. Deb Williams on the Dale Jr. Download.

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