Hey everybody, it's Dale Jr. and we're back again for another episode of the Dale Jr. Download.

We're not in the studio today. We are down here at Whiskey River. I got Chris Stapleton coming in.

Justin Alguire. We're going to talk about our Daytona 500 announcement and a lot more. It's going to be a lot of fun. Let's get started.

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The following is a production of Dirtymo Media. I'm I'm I'm The All right, so sitting here with Chris Stapleton and Justin, Justin and Chris.

I mean, we've been working on this minute for a long time, trying to put together something that's not easy to put together.

But we're here today and announcing finally able to share, I guess, with the rest of the world what we're up to.

And I kind of want to get y'all's individual feelings about, you know, the realization that this is going down.

It's a real thing.

Yeah, I mean, it's been cool for me.

You know, the process of this is kind of superseded me being a part of it. Just trying to get through the end of the year. Obviously, we were going for a championship last fall. And so the question never got asked if I would drive it. But when the question finally came of, you know, would you be the driver? When I walked the office i'll never forget the faces were pretty

stoic and uh i thought maybe i was in trouble right like i didn't know what to expect and so they

started running through the process of what was going to happen and and that travelers was going to be

part of it and you were going to be part of it and and um i kind of thought in that moment that we were

just they were going to tell me the program and, tell me who

was going to drive it and just what Junior Motorsports was up to. And when I got asked to drive it,

it was really special. And then to see, you know, to see your involvement to understand what

you've wanted to get out of this, it's been special. Right. And I mean, the Daytona 500, you've lived it,

you've been a part of it. I've been lucky enough to race it twice now and there's no race

like it. So this is a really cool experience and cool that we're able to get all together

like this and to have this program going. For me, I, you know, selfishly just wanted to see the car.

But beyond that, I just love the history of racing and whiskey a little bit.

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