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Can Cleetus McFarland Save NASCAR? | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  NJ Vinny says Cletus made Daytona.
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  Now I know we're going back here to yesterday, but I got to say
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  this Herm. I had heard of Cletus McFarlane,
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  right? And I knew about the the YouTube
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  channel. I knew about flying the
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  helicopters with Greg Biffle and I knew he had a big following,
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  right? 4.1 million subscribers on
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  YouTube Herm I could not believe we posted a couple videos.
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  You you did a little quick 3 minute video or whatever.
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  I cut cut a video out of our our live stream from yesterday.
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  I could not believe the views on those videos.
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  Like I knew the dude was popular.
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  I had no frickin idea how popular that dude was and how
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  many people not not even just young people.
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  Herm, I know he's like 30 years old. 29 I had dudes who were 70
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  years old in the comments going. I used to love NASCAR.
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  I haven't watched NASCAR in 15 years.
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  I watched the frickin ARCA race because of Cletus MacFarlane.
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  Charlie, YouTube is a phenomenon.
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  And you have. I've learned that it's no secret
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  how honest I am. I'm brutally honest.
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  I don't think I get myself in trouble, but I think it makes
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  people understand I'm going to say what I'm going to say
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  because you can go to YouTube right now.
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  He there there's a there's a YouTube push 1320 Cletus there.
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  There's a 30 minute show out there Cletus and he's on 1320.
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  That's how he got his start. 1320 on YouTube was the YouTube
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  page that got Cletus started. Garrett Mitchell, his story is
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  phenomenal. But I want to back up and say
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  this, we're not going to tell everybody to figure, but it's a
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  lot. We make we do good.
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  athletes in the world. Then we have coffee with Kenny.
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  That's three shows right there. Then, you know, Dale Junior
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  called us with Mike Davis, you know, and they said, would you
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  please give us your Kenny conversation content and would
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  you start Herman Schrader? Now we've got all these shows.
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  You all love it. We appreciate you.
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  OK, now let's go to Garrett Mitchell.
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  Garrett Mitchell tells this incredible story where he's just
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  he just wants to be part of this group 1320 so we call ourselves
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  Kenny Wallace YouTube show you go to 1320 Charlie push it in on
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  YouTube. They got 3.6 million
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  subscribers. Garrett Mitchell's up to 4.1
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  now, but but Garrett Cletus McFarlane, he says in his 30
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  minute special, it's, it's a 30 minute special to all of us how
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  he got started and and his story has got 1.1 million views.
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  I watch it all last night. He's Garrett Mitchell, but he
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  did one little video and he did like this.
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  I'll tell you one thing right now, Earnhardt's my man.
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  I I liked his daddy and he went full redneck and his buddy that
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  was working the camera posted it and he, he said he was going to
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  make his name something, but but the guy said you're going to be
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  Cletus MacFarlane because Cletus, it's like WWE, it's a
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  show. So if everybody knows the real
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  the everybody knows the real Garrett Mitchell, he's a real
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  serious guy kind of like this. But there's there's something
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  about creating a character. He is so damn funny and he says
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  all the funny stuff. And here's the reason he's got
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  so many viewers. Everybody's got a car.
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  Everything he does is about a passenger car, about drag
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  racing. So see Charlie, we'll never get
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  there because what we do, we're we're racing, racing, racing.
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  What Cletus does is he creates this character and he's got like
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  an old drag car. You see what I'm saying?
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  And and so everything he does is he he relates with everybody.
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  Everybody's like, I got a car. You know, it's it is it's outlaw
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  drag racing on the streets. It's illegal.
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  Then he tells his story where he borrowed money from.
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  Now, here's the other little hidden secret.
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  Kurt's mom and dad are pretty wealthy and that's on the down
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  low. But but Garrett made it on his
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  own and they wanted him to go to law school and and Cletus was
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  going to law school and he he found himself in law school
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  going found found himself on Instagram and Facebook.
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  He goes, I can make a living at this just like you did, Charlie.
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  So here's Cletus McFarland finds himself in law school because
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  that's what his mom and dad wanting to do.
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  And he's like, I see how much money 1320s making.
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  I can do this. And he tells his dad.
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  He goes, dad, I love you. And this, this is in the story.
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  Somebody sent me the story last night.
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  I watched it all. I watched all 30 minutes.
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  So he did it on his own. So he takes all this money that
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  he makes. He goes down, he buys Bradenton
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  down there, I think in DeSoto somewhere and, and, and calls it
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  what? What's it?
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  What's he call it? Everybody.
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  The Freedom Factory. Freedom Factory, they pick all
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  the weeds. I've raced that track.
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  I've run that track and he turned it into a show, and now
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  he says it's making so much money.
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  He was brave. He's the American dream.
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  Yeah, but I want to tell you what, to fly a helicopter, you
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  got to be pretty damn good. So, yeah.
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  What's what's NJ saying here? OK, NJ, Vinny says about Cletus.
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  He does much more than that. He does RC airplanes.
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  He had to hold the door closed on his house during the
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  hurricane. Right.
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  And he and he records that. Yeah.
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  You know, Charlie, I used to grab my phone and do videos when
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  I was pooping in, in, in, in porta potties.
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  Embarrassing, but they ate it up.
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  They loved it. The story of Cletus McFarlane is
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  wonderful. And he relates to everybody
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  because he uses normal cars. And just like you said, you got
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  to be good to fly a helicopter. And I, I flew with rusting those
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  helicopters. And those things are no joke.
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  They're very dangerous. Cletus Garrett.
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  Garrett is very smart. And I think another reason it
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  works is everybody knows he's playing, but the stuff's real.
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  He knows it's real too. So I can relate.
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  I love him. Yeah, sorry.
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  One more thing I want to relate with you.
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  I post a 3 minute observation of of Cletus McFarlane on X.
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  Did you see how many views I got?
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  OK, so hold on a second because I put that on YouTube.
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  I don't know if you knew that how how many views did it get on
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  X? It's over 150,000 views on X.
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  OK, my three minute observation. So I took that.
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  So yesterday, Kenny and I for everybody, we did a live show
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  basically around what, around lunchtime.
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  There were so many storylines from Daytona and and then we
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  talked about Cletus a little bit, but then you did kind of a
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  a coffee with Kenny basically on the couch and I missed it.
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  Because the date it was late at night, I should have called.
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  You well, no, it's all good. I think, you know, whatever time
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  it was and I'm doing stuff with my family and then I see it, I
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  go, oh, so I put it on late and I just put it on YouTube and I
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  kind of walk away not. Because.
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  If you do YouTube a long time, you usually kind of know how a
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  video is going to do. We had never really talked about
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  Judas McFarland, so I had no clue.
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  So I leave my computer, I come back with AI was like, I could
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  not believe how many views it got.
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  So, so that three minute video, whatever it is, has 166,000
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  views on YouTube and I couldn't believe it.
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  Again, That's why I said I knew this dude was popular.
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  I never knew he was that popular.
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  It's freaking amazing. Unbelievable.
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  I'm watch. I'm looking at it right now.
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  That is insane. Well, I'm I texted the Biff, I
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  texted Greg Biffle. Did did we?
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  We did a Kenny conversation with Greg Biffle, didn't we?
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  We did one before the helicopter stuff.
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  Yeah, yes, sort of. The Biff text me all the time
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  and boy, we're not when he when he, when the Biff text me, when
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  Greg Biffle text me, I answer. He needed some shocks for his
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  what? What do they call those, those
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  cars they run? Those old Mustangs or?
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  Are they Crown Victorious? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So Cletus McFarland, Garrett Mitchell, they created this.
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  You know, I wanted to buy a Crown Victoria just to drive
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  around town. Well, so, so Biffle, he's got a
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  little dirt track out in the middle of the woods up there in
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  North Carolina. And the Biff calls me.
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  He goes, Herman, I need to get some shocks.
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  So now these guys, now they getting competitive.
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  They just couldn't run this fundraise.
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  So I got Greg Biffle hooked up with my buddies at at Fox
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  Shocks. So the Biff, I'm going to reach
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  out to Biff one more time and say, hey, I bet Cletus will let
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  me interview him. And yeah, I got great questions
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  to ask him.