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Gas Price Excuses, Indy 500 Emotions, & Why Dover? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. Here I am again in a hotel room
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  again on the road again. Hey, oh, there's my clothes.
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  Are are you like me or do you get like jacked up on sun drop
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  the night before? Like there's my shirt, there's
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  my jeans. I'm I'm ready to go.
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  I did that last night. Like I'm organized it, it don't
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  take me long to get going because I'm always ready.
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  My daughter Brooke is like that. She's super organized.
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  Yeah, let's, well, let's take a look.
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  This I'm staying here. I'm on the north side of
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  Indianapolis. And boy, I'm going to talk
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  about, I'm going to talk about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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  I came through Indy last night. Let's let's do a 360 here.
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  Actually, there's an Arby's over there and I ate at Arby's last
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  night. But yeah, nice hotel room, nice
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  hotel room, Hotel, motel, Holiday Inn.
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  That's where I'm at. I'm at the Holiday Inn.
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  I put my clothes on, went downstairs.
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  They don't got a coffee machine in here.
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  I like it when they have coffee machines in here 'cause that way
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  I can just get my coffee right here.
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  OK, I am on my way up to Plymouth IN.
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  I'm racing Plymouth Speedway tonight, good looking asphalt
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  wedge, Super Late Model orange #24 and I'm excited about it.
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  So we will be racing tonight. So come out Plymouth IN Plymouth
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  Speedway, right up 31 right out of Indianapolis.
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  So I took Interstate 70, went 40, went 465 N, 31 N and I'm I'm
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  going up 31 right now. So going to race tonight
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  Plymouth IN Plymouth Speedway. Then we're going to race dirt
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  tomorrow night at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park, IE.
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  OK before we get going, T-shirts, decals shop
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  kennywallace.com check it out. I will be putting the link out
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  on social media today. We have finally got our design
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  done. Here we are middle of May and
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  the new Mobile 1 dirt car T-shirt.
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  Oh, it's good looking so royal blue.
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  Their shirts are royal blue. Good looking design.
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  Got the car on her got kind of got my helmet, got the decal.
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  So shirts should be in less than three weeks.
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  But we'll just we'll just put everything up and you ordered my
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  daughter's will fill the order, but it make it take maybe two
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  weeks to get everything. We call it pre-order, but we
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  ordered plenty of everything so check it out
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  shopkennywallace.com. Two things on the docket today.
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  Something sentimental. I want to talk about the
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  Indianapolis 500 Q 995 hundred radio.
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  Remember the Bob and Tom show. I think Bob just passed away.
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  Very sad but and I want to talk about Dover.
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  OK, so I guess around 5:00, you know, it's 4:00, I'm coming up
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  the road and all of a sudden I lose an hour.
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  I get, you know, past Terre Haute.
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  I get past Terre Haute IN, I lose an hour.
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  It says 4:00, boom, it's 5:00. But I get going through Indy.
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  And man, the commercials were so good for the Indianapolis 500.
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  It reminded me of the glory days around the Daytona 500.
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  You know, you'd go to Daytona, you'd have on, you know, 95.1
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  the hog that's the radio station down there in Daytona and you
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  know the day total 500 Saba Daba Daba dabi will come through here
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  to site Carb day Miller Brewing sponsors carb day, carb day for
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  the Indianapolis 500 Miller brewing.
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  I'm like, you know, they got the voices going.
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  You know, some of you young kids don't know, but man, the
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  commercials, just it's the that is one constant right there.
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  The Indianapolis 500 has always been great.
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  It's always been awesome. It's kind of like the Daytona
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  500. But the Indy 500, there's no
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  argument. Indy 500 is the biggest race,
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  the most famous race in America and no doubt in my mind.
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  Now respond right here if you don't think so, but I just
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  wanted to let you know that, man, I felt it.
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  I felt it. I've been watching the news, the
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  local news, the track opens up like at 10 or 12 today.
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  Last practice before qualifying is qualifying this weekend.
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  It's like I told Kim, I said Kim, it's the month of May,
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  Memorial Day weekend. So we got the Indianapolis 500
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  coming up. But I just really enjoyed that
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  that feel. It felt felt like, you know, the
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  old days. Miller 500 Carb day.
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  That's all. It's just very emotional.
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  I still love racing a lot guys. I just don't get into that
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  complaining like you all do. I meant to tell you, it's just
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  you know, it's like gas prices. I'm going to go there because I
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  did some math in my head. I'm going to go there, OK?
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  Our gas around Arnold, MO is let's say it was always 26270 a
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  gallon, 2240 to 270. Now in Arnold, Arnold's a normal
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  place, we don't got those crazy gas prices.
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  So our gas is about a dollar a gallon more $2020.20 gallons,
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  $20 more. So it's about $2025 a tank full
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  more. That's a lot of money.
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  However, people use a lot of excuses nowadays.
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  Just give me any damn excuse I used to Get Me Out or I can't go
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  to the movie theater. Gas prices are too high.
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  It's like I went to Mother's Day, you know, I was coming in
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  town and these, these restaurants, I like you, you
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  couldn't get in them. It isn't it fun when we can, you
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  know, gas prices right now, they're expensive, no doubt, but
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  boy, people are using gas prices as an all time excuse for every
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  damn thing. Oh, I can't, I can't go eat.
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  Gas prices are too high. Well, I'd love to go to, I'd
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  love to run my race car 10 minutes down the road, but gas
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  prices are too high. I'm like knock, knock.
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  I'm like, simmer down. This ain't California, it's a
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  dollar more a gallon right now, $20 a tank full.
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  But it's just comedy. People just give give me an
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  excuse to making it. Well, I can't, you know, the
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  Indianapolis 500 sold out, Indianapolis 500 sold out.
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  You don't hear people going well, I can't go to the
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  Indianapolis 500. Gas is too high.
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  Don't get mad at me. I'm just saying people are using
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  these gas prices to not do things that they didn't want to
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  do. What I can't, I can't go to the
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  dentist's office. Gas prices are too high.
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  I hope you understand what I'm saying.
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  I understand gas prices are high, but boy, people are using
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  it to I, I can't take a shower. Gas is too high.
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  You know what I mean? Mean.
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  And that just come from a buddy of mine.
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  We just got off the phone. We were doing the math.
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  I said he has about $2025 more a tank full and that's a lot of
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  money. But my God, the excuse people
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  are using. It's hilarious.
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  OK, how about a drink? Coffee.
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  Dover. Why Dover?
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  Why Dover? For the All Star race?
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  I'm going to keep my eye on it. The truck races today.
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  The O'Reilly race is going to be there.
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  I thought it was going to be somewhere else.
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  I was wrong on that. O'Reilly races there and then
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  finally, you know, the the All Star race.
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  Why Dover? Everybody's perplexed, even Dale
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  Junior's like what everybody's like what?
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  But you got samples restaurant. They got the casino there.
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  People are starting to pile in. They say it's getting filled up.
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  So I'm going to keep my eyes on this.
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  We're going to learn something. We're going to learn something.
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  And when I do Trackside Live, you know, that's SMI Racing,
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  Speedway Motorsports Incorporated.
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  So Trackside Live, that's who I work for.
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  Marcus Smith, Brian Hammond, Jose Castillo.
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  But you know, SMI owns Charlotte, Bristol, Dover, you
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  know, a lot of these tracks. Texas.
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  So SMI is the one that, you know, has all the All Star
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  races. Charlotte, you know, Wilkesboro.
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  So we're we'll see. You know, I mean peep right now.
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  I don't hear nobody really bad mouthing it, but everybody's
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  going Dover because it's meant to be run at night and this I
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  don't think there's lights there is there respond right here.
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  Does Dover have lights? Will can you have fun in the
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  daytime? Can you?
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  I mean, fun is supposed to be men at night.
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  Sparks are flying. Sparks fly at night.
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  All right, everybody, I've went a little too long.
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  Respond right here. Well, I can't go to the races
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  tonight. The gas is too high.