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Are NASCAR Fans Jealous That FOX Sports is Promoting IndyCar Now? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. Yesterday, on Sunday, they
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  played football. You know, the NFL had their
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  playoff games and all the games were exciting.
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  Dale Earnhardt Junior is very happy.
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  His Washington Redskins, they they won an exciting one with a
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  field goal. So congratulations to Dale
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  Junior, darn it. The Packers went out right away,
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  got beat. Go, pack, go.
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  We got a lot of family up there. And who doesn't love the
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  Packers? The Packers are as genuine as
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  you can get. So anyway, hey Wallace, what do
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  you talk about? The NFL for Maine?
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  OK, so on Fox they are doing big time commercials with Joseph
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  Newgarden for the IndyCar Series for the 2025 season.
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  Well, as I was scrolling the newspaper social media, you
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  know, back in the day, you'd read the newspaper and you would
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  turn the pages. So as I was reading social media
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  and I was turning the pages, I see in the in the sections there
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  in the comments section, there's a lot of pissed off NASCAR fans.
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  How dare Fox TV advertises the IndyCar Series.
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  What about us? What about NASCAR?
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  It so it made me think I thought, well, that's that's
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  some content. That's a storyline right?
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  There is a is can will Fox be able to cover both series?
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  Will they make the NASCAR fans jealous?
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  They already have. I know everybody at Fox,
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  obviously, right? I worked there for 15 years.
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  I I think they're a big enough company that they can handle it
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  all. Although it was amusing to me
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  that all of a sudden it it falls right in line with what I said
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  there a month or so ago. I can talk bad about my sport,
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  but don't you talk bad about my sport.
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  Well, nobody's talking bad here, but it was a really good
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  commercial. By the way, you know, I, I had a
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  talk with Joseph Newgarden down at the Nashville, the concrete
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  track. You know, we did trackside live.
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  What a good guy. And I said, Joseph, I said, you
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  look so Russian. You know, you got that square
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  face. You look Russian.
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  Are you Russian? Joseph Newgarden?
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  He said no, I'm born and raised in Nashville, TN.
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  That was a good one. But that's what the commercial
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  was kind of based around. It was based around Joseph
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  Newgarden being the man kind of like, you know, you know, the,
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  the beer man, you know, he's perfect.
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  You had Joseph a Newgarden, you know, he does everything perfect
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  and he's a beautiful man. And then all of a sudden Tom
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  Brady, Tom Brady, it's a good commercial, a lot of money
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  involved in it. Then Tom Brady goes, hey, cuz
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  you know, Tom Brady, good looking guy too.
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  So basically it was a, it was a unique way, but I think it was a
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  good way to build superstars instead of doing one big ass
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  commercial on the whole sport. I think I liked it.
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  They, they focused on on one guy and it's like, Hey, let's build
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  a superstar. Joseph Newgarden.
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  I think it worked. It worked.
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  Plus he he's won Indianapolis 5 hundreds back-to-back.
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  So, you know, there's an old there's an old joke in IndyCar
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  after the Indy 500 is over, everybody says, oh, do you do
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  you all keep racing? It is a series.
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  So they need some help Now, you know, Fox is going to continue
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  covering, you know, NASCAR. And I got to tell you, I just
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  want to drop this in there. This has really nothing to do,
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  but it does have everything to do.
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  I'm a little worried about the economy right now, man, that
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  that stock market has been on, has been losing for like 2 weeks
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  in a row. And a little birdie's telling
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  me, I'm not going to tell you who it is, but he's, he's an ex
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  CEO. He's retired now, but he's no
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  dummy. He said that car sales are down,
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  things aren't looking good. You know, some of these smart
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  people, they can sense when things are coming.
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  And I'm hoping that when this new administration gets in here
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  in a couple weeks at somebody turns the switch on, turns the
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  lights on real quick because, you know, Kyle Petty said it
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  best. He says you can tell how things
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  are going. Just watch the stock market.
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  Stock market's been losing, losing, losing.
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  So I am worried a little bit about NASCAR right now because
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  NASCAR, you know, takes a lot of money, takes a lot of money.
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  So thank God for these TV companies.
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  You know, NASCAR's not going anywhere.
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  NASCAR's not going anywhere. Because FOX, remember, I've
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  been, I've been preaching this to all of you, FOX, FOX TV paid
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  NASCAR billions of dollars. So you know, the, the money's
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  going to be there. But I am worried about these
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  teams now. NASCAR might not be selling
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  sponsorships right now with the way they're used to.
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  This is what my informant told me that, you know, they're,
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  they're having a little tough time selling some sponsorships.
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  But on the other hand, I see the race teams over here doing quite
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  well, you know, so we will see. I, I see, you know, Monster
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  Energy drink sponsoring herpes. Tyler was at herpes.
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  But they own a lot of gas stations out on the West Coast.
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  So I'm sure that was a good trade.
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  Of course, we got Front Row Motorsports starting a new team,
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  you know, so I mean, we, we got Brad Koslowski starting a new
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  team with RFK. So it seems to me that the car
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  count is very healthy, right? I mean, we got a record amount
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  of cars here lately going to the Daytona 500.
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  Remember the Helio Castroneves deal?
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  He's he's locked in because he's considered an international
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  superstar. So we will see everybody and I
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  and I think Fox TV can handle both series, the IndyCar Series
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  there. Listen, their Indy 500 has
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  always been exciting. That passed by Joseph Newgarden
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  in turn 3 on the last lap. That was exciting.
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  And remember I interviewed Michael Andretti on Kenny
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  conversation that I talked to Michael Andretti on Kenny
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  Conversation. And if you go back through Kenny
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  conversation, Michael Andretti said Rodger Penske, those guys
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  over there, Jay Fry, they just don't have the money.
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  They don't have any money to advertise.
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  Last year at that Alabama race, they only had like 168,000
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  people watching. So I, I like IndyCar racing, but
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  they got a long way to go. Let's see.
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  I think it's going to be easy and there's no telling what Fox
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  paid for IndyCar. I'm assuming they paid a normal
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  price. I'm sure Rodger Penske, I'm sure
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  as wealthy as he is. First things first, let's get
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  some TV coverage for IndyCar, OK?
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  But I'll be honest. I'll be very honest.
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  I love IndyCar and like all those guys.
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  I just don't think it's as exciting as NASCAR now.
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  Respond right here. All right, I'm getting ready to
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  do Herman Schrader with Kenny Schrader here in a little bit.
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  Happy Monday, everybody.