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Meet Talented Young Racer Ty Fredrickson | Kenny Conversation · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone, and welcome back to Kenny.
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  Well, you're wondering, who is this young man?
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  We've started something new. He is the second driver in
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  Driver Spotlight, drivers that are winning.
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  But nobody knows him a lot right yet.
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  But they know him in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
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  Now they're starting to know him throughout America.
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  Ty Frederickson. Ty, how are you doing?
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  I'm doing really good. How about you, Kenny?
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  Man, I'm doing good. I've heard so much about you.
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  You're 15 years old. Are you from Webster, MN before
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  we get started? I can't help it.
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  I love that cheese trophy in the background now.
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  Is that the meant? Is that meant to be a piece of
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  cheese? Yes, it is.
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  It's the Dick Trickle trophy. We're weirs.
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  Machining made it. It used to be like a big old
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  block of cheese that had a 24 on it.
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  So they spiced up this year and I was lucky to lucky enough to
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  win it. But you're you're not just
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  lucky, you are good. And that's why you are on the
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  driver spotlight. We're shining the spotlight on
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  Ty Frederickson. I've been paying attention.
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  They're getting jealous of you up there and we're trying to
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  calm everybody down. Every once in a while, somebody
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  comes along in racing every 10 years or so, and you are that
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  person. You are incredibly talented.
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  But we've got to tell everybody about you, who you are, what
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  you're up to. You are #36 and we're going to
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  be dropping pictures of your race car in here as we go.
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  Where did that #36 come from? So my dad rent, so when he first
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  started racing he is number 27 and I guess you didn't like the
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  number that much and somebody said to go go up on the two and
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  go down on the seven and I guess it's stuck from there.
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  I'm laughing. I was expecting something like,
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  well, we love Joe Shear, you know, from Beloit, WI, or I like
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  Kenny Wallace #36 but I love the 36.
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  Usually don't ask a lot about the number, but I'm older than
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  you. I'm 61, so you're running my
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  number. So I'm a I'm a big fan.
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  That's awesome. Well now do you have another
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  trophy in in the area there at all or does that trophy turn
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  sideways? You got the model of Dick's car.
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  Is that in that trophy? Yes, it is.
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  Oh, let me see. Oh, look at that.
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  Look at that. It's got a light in there, so it
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  lights up and it changes all different colors.
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  Now is that about 5/8 solid aluminum that's I don't.
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  Know what it is, but it's really heavy.
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  Yeah, and Chad Weir's made that. Yep.
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  Oh that then that's a bad ass trophy Ty.
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  Yeah, it. Is all right, let's get started.
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  OK, Ty Frederickson, everyone. Asphalt.
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  How about said dirt, asphalt, super light model, the highest
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  form of super light models. You're getting it on up there.
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  Miss Minnesota, Wisconsin. Let's start like this.
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  Why do we have tie on here? Well, he's 15 years old.
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  He won the 2024 Quickie development driver program
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  champion. That is a very hard deal to win.
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  You're the 2024 Tundra Super late model champion and rookie
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  of the year. Let's start with the quickie
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  win. You're a young man, but I'm sure
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  people told you about Alan Kowicki.
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  Oh, yeah. So if you're anywhere in
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  Wisconsin or anywhere around the country in that matter,
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  everybody knows who Alan Kowicki is if they're a racing fan.
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  And so I heard about the program for a while.
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  I signed up for it not this year but the year before and I didn't
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  get on it at all. But this is my first time being
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  on it and my first race or my second race at Slinger is
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  Stomping Grounds. People are coming up to me left
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  and right telling Alan Quickie Stores is a really cool deal.
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  Yeah, you're so young. And I I your dad is awesome.
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  Your father is a badass. Real quick.
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  Not real quick. It's all about you.
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  But your your father, Dan and your beautiful family.
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  They love you so much. Tell me how much your family
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  means to you. Yeah, we're almost the family
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  run team. We got one guy helping us who is
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  not blood related, but my whole family goes.
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  We our hauler sleeps 8 people so our whole family gets to come
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  with us. So it's really packed in there.
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  But we we always have a good time.
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  I would say one of the reasons you're good is because you're
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  able to compartmentalize. I I would think that when you
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  have that much family with you, does your family keep you calm?
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  Do they make you nervous? What's it like to have everybody
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  piled around that truck and trailer?
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  Is it OK? Yeah, my mom is usually makes me
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  food after practice, so it's always nice when you're done
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  getting all sweaty and making laughs and talking to your dad
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  about set up to this walk in the hall and you got some chicken
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  Nuggets waiting for you. So so it works opposite your
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  your family has a calming effect on you.
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  You you get away from the back of the trailer and you go up and
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  it's like a home. Oh, I want to say Harper, you
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  got to go up on an interview. Yeah, we can edit all this out.
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  It's good. It's good.
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  We can. We can edit all this.
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  It, it, it it, it'll be like it never happened.
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  She just came in here calling me fat because I took.
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  A chair. OK, look, look, look in.
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  Casey doesn't want to edit this out, so when you get out of the
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  race car and you come walking back up to the truck, it's like
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  walking into your house. Your Mama calms you down.
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  Yeah, and then I just sit there, lay on the couch, eat some
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  chicken Nuggets in for qualifying.
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  Your father was so good, he won a lot.
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  Dan Frederickson, how does your dad communicate with you?
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  Does he rough you up or does he just tell you what's up?
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  So he's like, he's my crew chief, car owner, spotter.
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  But during the practice it's like a normal crew chief driver
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  conversation. And then he says he's a spotter
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  during the race. If I had more call him like a
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  driver, coach, he he's, he gives me advice more than he says
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  inside or outside. OK.
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  So I want to get in, I want to get into something for everybody
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  up there in the North. You, you can have everything
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  given to you, but if you don't drive that car, you remind me of
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  Mark Martin. His father was Julian Martin and
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  and, and Mark knew how to drive that race car.
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  Where in the world do you think this is just part of your jeans?
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  Because when you get to that race car, you got to know how to
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  roll off the gas. You got to know how to apply
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  brake. Did this come naturally to you
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  or tell me the the process? Well, everything I go through my
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  dad has been through before. Like he knows when I give him
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  feedback about something that I could adjust in the car, he he
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  says it by the next corner and I can just learn on that and try
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  to get better throughout the laps.
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  And now that I raced 41 times this year in a super light
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  model, I kind of know what to do now and it's really him helping
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  me. Definitely has boosted my career
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  quite a bit. You know, Ty, I can relate with
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  you. When I first started racing, I
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  got a Dylan race car years ago. My brother Rusty had one.
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  So Rusty was all, you know, I knew what to do because I was
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  with Rusty. And then he would tell me, you
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  know, I knew what was up because I'd been there.
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  Do you feel like that's the same for you?
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  You kind of know what's up because you grew up watching
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  your father. Yeah, I kind of know like what
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  what the base was going into super late model race because I
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  was in the pits of my dad for years before I started actually
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  racing. So I kind of got the gist of
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  what was going on. But being the driver, I think
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  I'm very glad I'm the driver now because it's a lot more fun
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  doing that than taking tires off and doing all that stuff.
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  Yeah. And we watch this with Dale
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  Earnhardt Junior and Chase Elliott.
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  It was like, how are they so good?
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  And we all agree that Dale Junior, Chase Elliott, they
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  absorbed. They watch, you know, their dad,
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  Bill, and Dale Senior watched them.
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  So you feel like you absorbed a lot by just watching your
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  father? Yeah, definitely, for sure.
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  Like I'd always stand next to him and when my uncle would go
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  along, I'd always stand next to them when they're conversating
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  about the the setup and what they're going to do to change it
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  and what helped on the last adjustment, what it made worse.
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  So I always just kept my ear in the conversation and now it's
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  paying off for me. So listen up, everybody.
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  He's not some spoiled little kid.
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  He he, he absorbed it. He's got to drive the car.
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  I hear all about you. All my friends up there, they
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  tell me that you're a bad asset that you can really drive.
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  OK, I guess I just had to defend you a little bit because you
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  know, all my friends up there, they said, man, this this 15
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  year old kid is winning everything And, and, and the big
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  boys don't like it. So just a shout out.
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  We watched Mark Martin go through this winning everything.
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  Job well done. Ty.
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  I want to go back to the Quickie Development Driver Program
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  champion. How hard was that to accomplish?
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  So when I joined it, I thought if I just won, I don't know, a
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  bunch of races more than everybody else, I thought I'd be
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  able to win it. But I think I had like three or
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  four more wins by the 1st voting period than everybody else.
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  And then I saw that I was in second by quite a few points and
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  I stepped up my community giving back.
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  So I did a lot of that. And then I won a few more races
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  and I was still in second so that I just turned on the I just
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  flipped on the boosters from there and went full out on
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  everything. I did a bunch of charity work,
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  won 1010 races and it paid off in the end.
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  OK, this is news to me and news to everybody, so I like this.
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  So you're telling me winning is not enough to be to be like an
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  Allen quickie, you have to be a good person?
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  Is that part of the program? Oh yeah, it's a huge part of the
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  program. So they have competition points
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  and I think I had around 1:50 or 1:30 and my final points was
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  like 1100. So a lot of the points comes
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  from charity and giving back and and that's a very big part of it
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  and I think I raised around $33,000.
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  This is awesome. You know, I've given speeches at
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  the quickie program, but I didn't realize that part of this
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  program is teaching you the right way to race.
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  Because we see a lot of winners out there, but they're pricks.
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  You not, you don't want nothing to do with them.
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  And yeah, but you're doing it right, buddy, that that means a
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  lot. Listen up everybody.
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  That quickie program is isn't no joke.
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  Well done. I see that you raised some money
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  for the North Carolina Disaster Relief Fund.
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  I got my notes. You know, I end up and of course
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  you did some really good stuff for the North Carolina Disaster
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  Relief Fund and the epilepsy cause both of them are they were
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  they both through the quickie program?
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  Yeah, so the Epilepsy 1, my sister and my grandmother or my
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  grandmother do have epilepsy and there's this walk going on in
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  Saint Paul. So we I did that and like a
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  little thing for them to make them feel better.
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  And it was a really cool deal in the North Carolina Hurricane or
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  disaster relief. I partnered up with TPC 2311
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  Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing to raise money.
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  And so the farthest S Menards was in West Virginia or
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  Virginia, I don't know which one.
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  So we bought about $8000 worth of goods from there like tarps,
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  jackets, leather gloves, food items, children's medicine.
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  And we all sent we sent them to the Toyota Performance Center
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  and then they delivered it to Joe Gibbs Racing in 2311 and
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  they had their helicopters flight into the mountains.
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  Wow, well done. Ty it.
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  It's hard for people to pay it forward and your family and
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  yourself. You did a real good, real good
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  job. That that's that's very
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  heartfelt. OK, so you win the the the
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  quickie development driver program.
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  That's big. That means everybody in NASCAR
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  sees it. We've watched some great drivers
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  win that program and go on to have wonderful careers.
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  So the Quickie Development Driver Program Championship is a
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  no joke. If you can win that, that means
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  number one, you can drive. That means you're a good human
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  and and you know what to do. Tell me about this 2024 Tundra
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  Super Late Model Champion and Rookie of the Year.
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  So the Tundra series is A5 race series that go to I think 3 or 4
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  different tracks. And the first race was at
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  Kakana, which I don't know if you've raced there your brothers
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  have. And so my it was my first time
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  there. We unloaded fasts in practice,
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  qualified fast time. I think we started 14th or 16th
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  and drove to the lead and won the race.
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  And that was just a great start to the year with the Tundra
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  series. And then we had a rough race at
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  Marshfield. I think we finished like 7th or
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  6th. But the the the next race was
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  Dels Raceway Park. I qualified like 7th, drove to
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  the lead and we had I had a left front shock break like 2 laps
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  after I got to the lead and I was able to hold off 2nd till
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  about 20 to go. So that was a hard one to lose.
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  And then the next race which was at Golden Sands Speedway in
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  Plover, WI, I won that race. I don't, I don't know why I
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  qualified for that one. And then I had like a 20
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  something point lead over second going into the last race at
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  Plover. And I, I, I didn't qualify that
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  good because we had a little crate motor and in the Super
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  Lake class. So they would always beat me in
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  qualifying, but I would be able to keep the tires under me for
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  the race. So I'd be able to go by them.
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  And I drove to the front. I think I was like top three or
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  something And then there's a few fast cars coming by me, but I
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  didn't have to beat them to win the championship, so I just let
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  him go and I think I finished fourth.
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  Smart racing. Where did you where did you
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  learn to race like that? You know, Mark Martin here, we
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  keep bringing Mark Martin up. You know, in NASCAR, he taught
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  people that we're racing the leader.
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  You know, if if you're not the leader, we're we're not racing
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  each other that the leaders up there.
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  Where did you learn to let people go?
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  Who taught you that? Yeah, so my dad's been through
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  all this before and he's always, he's the guy in my ear telling
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  me smart things to do. And he's like the guy who was
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  second in points is behind you. You do not need to beat this guy
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  to win the championship. So I just pointed my finger out
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  the door, let him go by and held on to held on the 4th and to win
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  the championship. Wow, good job.
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  Because you, you could have got, if you would have tried to held
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  them off, you might have got spun out.
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  And then there that guy is making laps and you're like, oh,
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  why didn't I let him go? So man, great teamwork.
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  Your dad knows what he's doing. It reminds me of Rusty tutoring
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  me along the way. So we're, we're getting this
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  dynamic now we're learning how you got racing.
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  Your, your father Dan is kind of like my brother Rusty's like,
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  I've been through this before. Here's what you need to do.
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  I want to go to New Smyrna for a little bit.
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  I read a really interesting story where your dad took you
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  down there and he said he wanted to put you through the grinder.
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  You know he's put you through the grinder to make sure you're
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  ready. Can you think of anything down
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  at New Smyrna where we know long straightaways, tight corners,
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  people are grinding on each other.
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  It's hard to pass, as your dad taught you, anything to do.
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  When you get to where there's fifty cars, everybody hates each
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  other. What does your dad taught you
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  about those moments? Yeah, we went down to New Smyrna
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  because it's 7 races in or I don't know how many races, but
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  in a week. So it's, I mean half a season of
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  racing. Just go in there and learn so
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  much and you got to, you got to keep your car intact so you can
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  finish out the week. And it's super close, hard
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  racing. There's a bunch of good hard
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  competition there that you have to beat and it's just about
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  keeping your nose clean, keeping the fenders on you so you can
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  can continue throughout the week.
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  And your dad learned that from Dick Trickle and so did I.
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  You must first finish to finish first.
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  One of the most most famous quotes in auto racing history by
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  the great Dick Trickle. You know, 400 lap race, 200 lap
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  race. You must first finish to finish
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  first. Well, well done, young man.
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  I, I think that's awesome because I've been down at New
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  Smyrna and, and, and your, your whole week can end in the first
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  couple laps. So I get it.
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  OK. Your dad said he wants you to be
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  a clean racer because he wants you to be good for sponsors.
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  I like that. I I read that.
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  Tell me about that moment. Yeah, you just, it's important
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  to stay clean so everybody has respect for you and nobody's
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  nobody's going out there and trying to crash you.
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  You just stay clean and it attracts sponsors, it attracts
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  fans and it gets respect from all the races, all the fans and
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  all the track promoters. Ty, listen, you're 15 years old.
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  It's like I tell everybody for the new Driver Spotlight series,
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  can't do an hour because you don't have an hour worth of
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  stories. You're you're doing so good.
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  Let's end it like this, my friend.
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  We all know who you are now you want to be a NASCAR racer.
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  But when I read something about you, you said quote UN quote,
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  short track racing is not a bad place to be you.
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  You sound like you're well balanced you, but you want to be
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  a NASCAR racer. Where are you at right now?
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  We're always working to move up the ranks and racing, trying to
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  go to NASCAR, like I said, but if All in all, NASCAR doesn't
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  work out for me, racing short tracks would definitely it'd
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  definitely be a high point. It's probably the hardest racing
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  you could probably get other than NASCAR and the NASCAR
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  drivers, sometimes they come back, run short tracks and they
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  could win Cup races, but it's a real challenge for them to win
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  super late model races. So I think super late models are
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  a really tough challenge and I'd I want to be mad or anything if
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  I race short track for the rest of my life.
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  I'm, I'm serious. I got chills.
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  This reminds me of Ty Majeski. Matt Kenseth, Young man, you're
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  going to make it to the big time.
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  You got the temperament. You got the great driving
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  ability. You're automatically fast.
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  You have speed. Wonderful family.
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  Well, there he is, everybody. Ty Frederickson, 15 years old,
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  out of Webster, Minnesota. Congratulations Tie on all your
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  success. Thank you Kenny, and thank you
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  for having me on the show all. Right, everybody, until the next
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  driver Spotlight here on Kenny Conversation.
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  We'll see you next time.