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My Take On Texas! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone and welcome back to the Kenny Wallace Show
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  to fix your vehicles up. Well, it's Sunday night and I
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  just got back from Texas Motor Speedway.
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  Still wearing my dress shirt. Don't have my erase shirt on,
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  but I thought we would break down a little bit of this Texas
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  race and here's why it had it all.
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  Let's start with Jimmie Johnson, our seven time champion.
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  What's Jimmie doing? Can he pull this off?
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  Jimmie Johnson on I think Saturday, He said.
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  Man, these cars really drive different.
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  I'm used to driving these cars off the right rear.
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  In other words, Jimmy's used to being a little bit of a dirt
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  racer, he said. He's used to going down in the
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  corner. He's used to feeling the right
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  rear do all the work and he got away with that and he won 7
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  championships and he's one of our greatest NASCAR drivers of
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  all time. So he takes the break, he goes
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  and runs Indy cars. He kind of reminds me of, you
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  know, MJ, right? Michael Jordan, you don't
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  remember when Michael Jordan took that little break?
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  He I'm done playing basketball and he went and played a little
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  bit of baseball and he'd come back.
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  But listen, I'm never going to say never to Jimmie Johnson
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  because he's a seven time champion.
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  Jimmie Johnson can do whatever he wants to do, but this looks
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  like this is going to be a long road to hoe, so to speak.
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  He spends out on Saturday, he gets away with it.
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  He does a press conference in the Media Center and that's when
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  he said, look, I'm used to driving the old cars off the
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  right rear and he said up these cars, you got to drive on the
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  right front, meaning don't test it.
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  Listen, we saw all the spin outs.
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  What was their 810 spin outs today?
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  A lot of them, you know, on the outside going for the lead, but
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  there was a lot of people spinning out.
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  So Jimmy Johnson spins out on Saturday in practice and he says
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  I got no practice. This is really hard on me.
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  If I'm going to do this, I need a little bit of practice.
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  There's not much NASCAR practice right now.
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  Listen, we can line the excuses up.
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  It's not excuses, but I'll go with Kenny Schrader.
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  Schrader says. Listen, it's not how you run,
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  it's how you place the blame. That's a good one from Schrader.
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  So I agree with Jimmy though, this is a tough one for him.
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  He leaves NASCAR, he comes back and it's a whole new car.
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  He gets no practice even though he's a seven time champion.
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  And as of right now Jimmy just can't get the feel of the car.
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  But around around 147 laps of 270, whatever it was, he started
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  getting there and then he got involved in another mission.
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  So all right, Jimmy Johnson spends out on Saturday, spends
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  out on Sunday, ends up getting in a wreck and Jimmy's just
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  done. So feel bad for him, but thought
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  we'd wrap up the Jimmy Johnson. It seems like a little test.
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  Jimmy's working with legacy. He's doing a good job, he is
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  doing a little bit of work on the team and he is a leader.
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  I think over there I talked to Erick Jones and he says, man,
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  listen, I'll listen to anything Jimmy Johnson has to say.
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  All right, we're at 3 minutes and 30 seconds for Earnhardt, so
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  let's move on real quick. All the spin outs, right.
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  Crazy. I mean, that's how.
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  Listen, there was nobody's fault.
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  You can't go. You can't go.
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  Oh, it's the car's fault. Oh, it's the race track's fault.
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  No, this was a very difficult race track.
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  You cannot go back and go. Let's change the rules.
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  Let's put grip down. Let's build a new car.
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  No, everybody had equal chance. This was a very difficult
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  racetrack. I got to be honest.
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  Hell of a race, hell of a show was like, oh, I mean, my butt
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  was puckered up the whole damn race.
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  Oh, there we go. I mean, you could tell that
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  Denny Hamlin, when he was going for the win, it was basically a
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  green light checker, right? We tried it three times.
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  Green white checker. You could tell Danny Hamlin, he
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  Danny Hamlin, he was peddling on the outside trying to get by
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  Chase Ellen Oakhard, just come around on him.
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  So yeah, so the race was just full of spin.
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  Outs galore, very difficult race track.
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  Once again, I don't think it was anybody's fault.
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  I think everybody was loose and had nothing to do with race
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  track. Same race, track.
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  Been around for years so can't blame anybody.
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  That's just the way it was. Difficult race, track, good
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  race. All right, I this is my new one.
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  Let's get to the good part. Finally.
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  Chase Elliott. Wow.
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  He does it. Listen, when we when we talked
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  to Ben Kennedy on Kenny conversation, we said, you know
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  what was the downfall of NASCAR? Well, Ben Ben talked a lot about
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  it. He had good reasons, you know.
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  But he said, listen, we see a distinct drop in viewership when
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  Chase Elliott doesn't do good. And when Chase Elliott wins, we
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  see a distinct uptick in NASCAR And.
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  And here's what I said and and I'm just going to repeat myself
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  because not everybody watches everything.
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  Chase Elliott is the last of the bloodline of the greats because
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  a lot of you strike me out. You said, well what about Ryan
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  Blaney? I'm like, look, I love Ryan
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  Blaney. I love his dad, Dave Blaney, but
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  I'm talking about the greats, OK?
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  We had like you know, Dale Earnhardt, senior seven time
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  champion, his son, Dale Junior. You know, Darrell Waltrum,
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  Michael Waltrum, you know, all that stuff, all that, you know,
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  Richard Petty, Kyle Petty. What I'm saying and respond
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  right here. What I'm saying right now is
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  Chase Elliott is the very last driver of the bloodline of the
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  greats that that's competing. Now, you can try to get me here
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  and there, maybe Jeffrey Earnhardt or this or that, but
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  just for the sake of arguing, go ahead and tell me right now.
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  But this is the last of the bloodline.
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  Chase Elliott's dad, the great Bill Elliott, was a champion,
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  won it all, the first guy to win the Winston million at
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  Darlington. And so when Chase Elliott wins,
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  the people around 40 to 60 years old, they love it.
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  I love it. I think it's great it.
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  Listen, if it takes Chase Elliott to win to make everybody
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  happy, I'm all in. So big win by Chase Elliott.
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  And here's what was big about it.
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  Comes back after that skiing accident.
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  Remember Chase Elliott breaks his leg and we're all like what?
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  You know, he's just not himself. He's still recovering.
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  I said that. Well, looks like he's back now.
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  Showed up at Martinsville, Ran real good.
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  So I would say last what 4 races respond right here.
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  I say the last four races. Chase Elliott's back, You heard
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  it bar talk in the bar. Chase Elliott running good now.
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  Now he really run good. Run the siren down there in
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  Dawsonville at the pool hall. So Chase Elliott's back, he
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  wins. He's looking good.
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  Great interview, great interview.
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  Felt he looked humbled, looks like he'd just been in a fight,
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  broke the leg. He hears the whispers and I
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  really liked, he said. Listen I got Hooters on the car.
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  I want to pay tribute to Alan Quickie to finally get Hooters
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  in the Cup series in Victor Lane.
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  This is for Alan Quickie his family the whole deal very
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  sincere. I I I had goosebumps I felt it.
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  So good job Chase on the interview and and I think all
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  the eyes are on you and I I think what I saw now this is me.
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  You respond right here. What I saw in that that post
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  race interview was a man that has been through a lot after
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  being, you know, Chase has won a NASCAR Cup champion.
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  This guy's good. He's won it all.
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  He's done it all. He's won in the short track
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  rings. He's won it all and and that's
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  why he's where he's at right now.
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  He's a great Rd. course racer. But I see a guy that won it all,
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  went through some tough times. What has it been 4142 races
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  since his last win? That's over a year.
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  Well, listen, if you run every race in NASCAR, it's 39 races.
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  So it's been well over a year. So congratulate.
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  Hey, Herman. Quit saying so, so, so I can
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  hear. I can hear my journalism.
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  My my teacher quit saying so. OK, so all right, let's end it
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  like this. Let The Herminator end with AD
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  bullshitter the 2nd place deal. That was not William Byron's
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  fault. I know, I know, Ross Chastain is
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  upset. But we could clearly see Ross.
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  He was he was running high. And I think he, you know what it
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  looked like he got high, high, high.
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  And he's like, oh, and he starts letting out of the gas.
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  And William Byron does not wreck people.
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  And he just ran. He packed him right in the ass.
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  Yes, he did. Spun him out.
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  All hell breaks loose. So listen, we are late on Sunday
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  night. But I would I agree with.
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  I agree with Brad Keselowski. When did that caution come out?
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  Because when they were wrecking, Brad was underneath William
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  Byron. Brad Keslowski thinks he
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  finished second. Will they overturn it?
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  TV was done. They they stayed a long time.
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  TV stayed a long time. But we don't we don't have speed
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  TV anymore. So you know let's see you are is
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  Brad Keslowski, right. He said I think I'm finished
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  second. He didn't say I think I'm
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  finished second, but he's like because they congratulate him on
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  3rd place he goes. I got to ask NASCAR about that.
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  So told you my opinion on everything. 10 minutes.
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  I couldn't go any faster. I didn't repeat myself.
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  I'm proud of myself. Oh, Herman, what are you doing?
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  I'm breaking my back, breaking my arm, Patting myself on the
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  back. That was balls of the wall right
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  there, everybody. All right.
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  Pretty cool. So, yeah.
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  All right, All right, everybody. Well, listen, that's Kenny
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  Wallace show. That's where I get my opinion.
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  Didn't do very good, but that's fun.
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  So we got lots of got some stuff up here.
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  Maybe one day I'll break it all down.
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  That'll be another show. All right, everybody, ma'am, we
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