Jimmie Johnson

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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🗓️ 20 March 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Jimmie Johnson is a California born professional stock car racing driver and seven-time champion in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. His seven wins tie him with Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for the most Cup Series championships of all time. In 2006 Jimmie and his wife Chandra started the Jimmie Johnson Foundation dedicated to helping children, families, and communities in need. Jimmie and Lance caught up on: getting started in racing, how racing has changed with the digital age, fielding fan questions, and more.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Ford podcast. I'm your host Lance Armstrong. I think a lot of weeks I forget to say in this intro
0:08.1	or remind you guys send me a note you got any questions or comments concerns suggestions whatever
0:15.0	send it to me. The forward podcast at we do sport.com.
0:21.0	We do is WEDU sport is singular. Drop me a line. We've had a crazy, not a crazy, we had a fun week. We've been up in Colorado for spring break.
0:33.0	They had the Men's World Cup here. That man had a World Cup in Aspen, skiing World Cup in a long time.
0:40.0	For some reason, I'm not a ski ski fan I don't really know why but it's been
0:45.3	really cool to see all the athletes from all over the world here in Aspen and then you know more at, it's been cool to get the kids out on the slopes.
0:56.0	It's funny to watch a little seven-year-old boy just ripping down the slopes, fearless.
1:02.0	One day I was out skiing with my son I ran into the to the
1:05.7	great Ricky Carmichael. So for you guys that are fans of Motorcross and
1:09.1	Supercrusts, you'll know the name Ricky Carmichael, arguably one of the greatest motorcrossers of all time.
1:15.1	And speaking of one of the greatest, my guest this week, Jimmy Johnson is undeniably
1:18.6	one of the greatest of all time, seven-time NASCAR champ.
1:21.2	I'll get into him in a second. A couple things. Number one,
1:27.0	rest and peace Chuck Berry. 90 years old, worked almost all the way up to the day he died.
1:34.0	I was trying to figure out yesterday how old Chuck was when he passed away,
1:39.6	so like we all do, I googled it.
1:42.4	It was interesting to me as you type in Chuck into Google and I'm
1:47.8	thinking this is so topical it's got to be the first thing that pops up it's not the
1:51.8	first Chuck that pops up is Chuck E. Cheese. And Chuck Berry wasn't even
1:56.7	the second one. The second Chuck that pops up, anybody got a guess? That's right. Right. Chuck Norris.
2:03.0	And then you type in Chuck B and then you get Chuck Berry.
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