Jake Kruse and Weekend preview

Dirk, we got some tough news for DW, Daryl Waltrip.

His family has put out a statement that he is going to be stepping away from the public light a little bit more as Daryl is diagnosed with two diseases.

illnesses, I am not going to attempt to pronounce them.

One of them is abbreviated as FTE, and it is a rare type of dimension that causes the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain to shrink and damage nerve cells.

This is similar to Alzheimer's, except that it strikes usually in younger people between the ages of 40 and 65.

It will begin to affect his personality, behavioral language, movement, rather than his early memory.

So this is going to be a different type of dementia than Alzheimer's.

than Alzheimer's, but, um, he's dealing with that as well as it sounds like it's going to exacerbate his CTE.

This is the common, um, brain injury that football players have been dealing with for the last, uh, 30, 40 years.

Uh, and that, uh, Doctors have have taken a lot of strides on now that there's awareness and money going into it.

But so Darryl Waltrip going to be dealing with those two.

And his family put out a post that just said Darryl is in good spirits and is doing fine right now.

But I think he's wanting to take a step away from the limelight and spend more time with his family.

You know, for a lack of better way of putting it.

while he still can.

I'm not sure because I've never heard of this FTE, but I'm fairly well read on the CTE, but it just basically caused from repeated concussions.

Yeah.

You know, and I could see where a race car driver could have that.

And maybe not.

Is it necessarily strictly a concussion or is it just repeated brain trauma? Well, Or, you know, well, it's kind of severe,

but it's going to have to be severe.

You know, I've had my bell rung a couple dozen times in my life.

I've been knocked out once, but I've never had any type of worry that I've got CTE.

So I've either got a hard head, you know, or I just haven't had it repeated enough.

Yeah.