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It's The Biggest Day In NASCAR History | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, and it is one of the biggest Monday
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  mornings in a long time. Some people might argue no, it's
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  just a normal Monday morning. Well, they're wrong.
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  It's December 1st. That's a big deal.
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  But it is also the first day of one of the biggest stories in
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  NASCAR history. Am I exaggerating?
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  If I am exaggerating, respond right here.
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  Maybe the death of Dale Earnhardt Senior was the biggest
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  day in the history of NASCAR. I was born in 1963.
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  I don't remember the other NASCAR.
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  Well, it wasn't a lawsuit. I think the other drivers tried
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  to go on strike. They did.
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  They all said we're not going to race at Talladega.
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  And NASCAR said fine, why have the Bush Grand National Series
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  run? And they did.
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  And it was a failed attempt for NASCAR and the drivers to come
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  together. So here we are on December 1st.
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  It's cold in Charlotte, NC Danny Hamlin walked in to the
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  courtroom alongside the great Michael Jordan wearing a big
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  heavy coat. There's a big media contingent
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  there. There's a lot of sadness in the
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  air because, you know, let's put it this way, when we do, Herman
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  Schrader, for almost one year, my my best friend in life, my
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  other brother Schrader would say, Herman, it's not our deal.
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  It's not our issue and my traitor, how do we ignore it?
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  So here we are on December 1st and this time it's real and
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  nobody can ignore it. I think of Dave Moody today.
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  I think of Larry McReynolds. Do they act like it's not
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  happening? Can they lie to themselves?
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  I mean this in a loving, caring way.
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  They are the NASCAR station. You know, MRN is kind of serious
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  nest NASCAR Channel 90 MRN Radio.
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  Today's story on this Monday is it's only so many days from the
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  Daytona 500. Can you act like today's a
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  normal day? Can you act?
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  It's none of our business while it's worldwide and a media
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  contingent is huddled around downtown Charlotte, NC.
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  Hell, this is World News. How do you act like NASCAR is
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  not involved for the fight of their life?
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  I bet if they lose the son of a bitch, it'll be news.
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  Today is our last Herman Schrader of this December, and
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  then we'll start back up. And I thought of my dear friend
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  Kenny Schrader, who I love dearly.
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  Do anything for. I think how Kenny's a little
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  different than I am. He was born in the 50s.
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  I was born in the 60s. Schrader's strategy is to do
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  minimal. He he thinks it's funny that I
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  like social media. However, Schrader made his first
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  video when he went to Volusia. He finally made a video and I
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  said, well, lookie there kind of reminds me of, you know, my
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  brother Rusty Wallace and Schrader, both born in the 50s.
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  They think us social media people were just dumb.
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  One of these days I might sit them down and show them my bank
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  account. They would all over themselves
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  if they knew how much money I was making.
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  With great sponsors and everything being monetized and
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  Charlie Marlowe working the YouTube channel This is Life.
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  Things change. Who would have ever thought we'd
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  have a cell phone one day? Who would have ever thought we
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  had social media? And in the end, who would ever
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  thought that? NASCAR, who has never been in
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  this position in their life, is now fighting for their life.
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  I truly believe that in my heart of all hearts, you know, I have
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  followed this since the beginning.
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  And there was a time that I said NASCAR's going to win this.
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  Remember that back in the heat of the summer, I said NASCAR's
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  going to win this. They got friends in high places.
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  Well, listen, I'll be honest with y'all I know.
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  I know a lot of people and I don't call them.
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  No, I don't call nobody. And I say that humbly.
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  I say that with respect. They all call me and they all
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  give me numbers. I feel fine saying this.
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  It's going to come out in court. Yesterday I was called and I was
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  told that Michael Jordan's already spent $40 million on
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  this lawsuit. It's going to be big one way or
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  the other because if NASCAR loses, NASCAR won't be the same.
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  I think about Jim France, Lessa Kennedy, France Ben Kennedy, the
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  sport that their grandpa, great grandpa, Big Bill France, then
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  Bill Friends Junior, then Mike Hilton.
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  Is this a deal? Where is this the day the music
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  stops? Kind of like the song, you know,
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  when the Big Bopper and some of the great music artists got
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  killed in that plane wreck and they said that's the day the
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  music stopped. You know, when we lost Dale
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  Senior, that's the that's the day we thought racing stopped.
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  It did, but it went on the 2006 and I reminded you've all
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  several times. 2006 is when the music stopped.
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  That's that's the year that NASCAR stopped its rise.
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  Why 2006 respond right here. What was significant?
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  I knew 2008 they had a they had a homing crisis where the banks
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  had to take back the loans and that was the start of a lot of
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  bad. But why was it 2006?
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  Why was that? The end was that when we started
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  the next Gen. car with the wing, that was a failed attempt.
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  It didn't look good, didn't race good, but still everybody's.
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  I got that car didn't work, nobody there.
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  There was not a mob at that time like there is now.
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  So respond right here. Can you ignore this lawsuit and
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  act like there's nothing wrong with NASCAR?
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  Because I know some people that are going to try to do that.
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  They work for NASCAR. God, what a life to live.
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  Act like nothing's going on while Rome is burning.
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  All right, everybody respond right here.
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  I can see the headlines now. Are you going to ignore this
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  NASCAR story like nothing's wrong?
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  Have a great December 1st.