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Here's An Important Life Lesson | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  Drinking my high octane coffee fueled by Sunoco.
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  Doesn't that sound awesome? Well, it's almost Showtime,
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  everybody. That's this time of the year
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  when everybody lays their tools down and goes home.
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  Christmas is next week and that leads me to this.
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  I've always told everybody I said, boy, if you don't got
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  things done by now, you better just wait till the middle of
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  January cause corporate America, the CEO's, the, you know,
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  president of marketing, everybody's getting ready to,
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  you know, head South. They going to Florida, they
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  going to take a vacation. So that leads me to this.
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  When I was in NASCAR in, oh gosh, back in 1984, for all you
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  kids, you'd get around, I don't know, 4-5 o'clock.
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  Let's just pretend you're at Daytona for, you know, Daytona
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  Speed Weeks. And you know, in my era, 1984,
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  you had guys like Bill Gazaway, then Billy Gazaway, two brothers
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  that kind of ran the garage area, Dick Beatty, Les Richter
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  and, you know, and then Big Bill France or Bill France Junior.
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  But they were country guys and talking about right now with
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  Christmas next week and everybody getting ready to get
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  off work in the corporate into the big companies and everything
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  you get towards the end of the day, qualifying be over,
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  practice be over. And they come over the
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  loudspeaker and in that country voice.
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  Oh, oh, Gaz away. He grabbed the microphone for
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  the whole garage area and he'd say, gentleman, lay your tools
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  down and go home. Garage opens up at 6:00 in the
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  morning. Hey, my buddy David, if he was
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  my crew chief, you know, like 1989 ninety David, if he was,
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  you know, mechanic of the year, he was the crew chief for K
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  Yarborough. He said, Herman, I love NASCAR.
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  They tell you when to come to work and they tell you you need
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  to leave that right? There's some true stories for
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  y'all. So sometimes us racers are
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  guilty of spending too much time in the shop.
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  You know, like, you know, your wife's got to say when are you
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  coming home? Do you love that race car more
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  or me? I always told Kim, Kim, don't
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  ask me that question ever again. She never has.
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  I, I don't, I don't tell her to choose between the wreaths and
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  me. I don't ever do that 'cause
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  that's not fair. She knows she's #1 Ken knows
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  she's number one. But don't, don't tell me quit
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  working on my race car 'cause that's it just puts me in a bad
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  mood, 'cause my race car makes me happy.
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  And I would never dream of telling her, quit working on
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  your wreaths. She tells me all the time, I
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  love working on these wreaths. They make me happy.
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  I'm so OK. But yeah, now with winter
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  setting in and everybody getting ready to take off, you know,
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  they'll take off 3 weeks. They will, they will take off 3
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  weeks. Because my whole life I've had
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  to get, I've had to get sponsorship.
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  And buddy, if you haven't, if you're not done by December
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  22nd, 23rd, it's funny, they will work, they will work
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  further up to Christmas, corporate America.
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  They they will work up to like December 23rd.
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  But buddy, once those sponsors, once they go, OK, it's time to
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  celebrate Christmas, they won't come back.
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  They'll be they'll be good. I mean, you'll get to middle
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  January and they'll go, Oh, I'm, I'm still cleaning my desk off
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  getting back to work here. OK, man, I'm sick.
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  I'm I went to bed. I took one of those big Mucinex,
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  one of those big O's horse pills, took a big horse pill
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  Mucinex. I slept horrible last night, but
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  it's kind of funny. Right as I woke up, I started
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  feeling better. It it's that damn cruise ship
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  and and that airplane. Yet this is that time of year
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  and I, I was on that plane coming back and I was on the
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  plane and was kind of like sleeping, but not.
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  And immediately at that moment felt that sinus drainage.
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  I was like, I was all good. All of a sudden it's like
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  somebody opened a spigot. I could feel it coming down my
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  sinuses. I'm like, oh, I'm sick.
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  And sure enough got that thing in the back of my throat.
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  But I think, I think I've kind of figured it out.
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  Take one of those big old horse pills, Mucinex, that helps you
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  out a little bit. So I think I'm on the road to
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  recovery. But all right, this is the point
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  I wanted to get to, you know, just get into the everybody's
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  wanting to know everybody. Everybody says to you, they say
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  to you or they say to me, what's your deal next year?
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  It's like, what do you mean? What's my deal next year?
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  I'm, you know, for even you, I'm asking you, what's your deal
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  next year, right? You know, you're going to work
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  at your same business. What are you going to do?
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  What's your plan for 2025? I think it's good that everybody
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  has a goal. That's that's imperative in
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  life. If you don't have a goal, you
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  can you can get messed up. So what is your goal for 2025?
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  If you don't have a goal, you better get one.
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  You better. You got to go.
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  Hey, this is what I want to do. So I just want to share my goal
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  with you. My nose is running.
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  Sorry about that. So what the Hell's going on
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  here? Illinois man rides coaster
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  10,000 times. Holy crap.
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  See that? Look there, Illinois man.
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  An Illinois man rides a coaster. Roller coaster 10,000 times.
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  My God, he must have a good brain.
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  I'd go. I'd go crazy.
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  All right, so here's my deal everybody.
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  January 17th through the 27th, I'm going to fulfill a dream of
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  mine. I'm going to Italy.
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  Me and my buddy John Scootoni, remember the guy that I fly in
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  that little SR22 and we go to all the trackside live shows.
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  John Scootoni, he's a good dude. He's eaten.
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  You remember I told you I traded him out?
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  I said, John, you're a cheap ass.
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  You're wanting to sit in the back of the plane, save money.
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  It's 11 hour flight over there to Italy.
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  We're going to land in Rome. I said I'll make a deal with
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  you, I'll pay for both our first class plane tickets, but you let
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  me know where to go. You're my leader, he said.
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  I don't like that idea. So that's what we're going to do
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  now. When I get back January 20,
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  seventeenth, I'll kiss Kim, re clean the clothes and I'm headed
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  to Daytona Beach, FL. We start racing January 30th,
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  31st and February 1st. It's a new schedule at Volusia
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  this year. I don't know why, but we're
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  running dirt racing nine nights. We start January 30th.
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  You're you're going to hear people, you're going to hear
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  racers go. I'm going down in January this
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  year. That's because you race three
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  days. They start racing January 30th,
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  31st, February 1st, then take over, take off that Sunday, then
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  come back Monday, and then we race all the way to the 8th.
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  So I'll be running the Sunoco Dirt car and I'll be driving for
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  Nick Hoffman and I'll be down there in Florida.
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  I'm going to ask Uncle Rusty. I'm going to ask Brother Rusty
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  if I can stay at his house. Man, Rusty's got a beautiful
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  house down there in Daytona. Nice.
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  Probably 1 of the nicest houses I've ever seen.
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  If I was going to build a house, I'd build it just like that.
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  Got like 13 foot ceilings. I think I measured them.
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  Me and brother Russ, I said let's hold this tape measure.
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  I think it's 12912 foot 9 inches.
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  Got a big living room, kitchen all together.
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  I really like that house. I'm going to ask him if I can
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  stay there. He probably won't let me 'cause
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  he probably thinks I'm going to tear his house up.
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  I'll probably end up like a damn Vagabond.
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  Stayed same damn rusted up, broken down a hotel in Florida.
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  Everything's rusted up in Florida, 'cause they got all
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  that humidity. Everything's rust.
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  You already see that you in Florida, everything's rusted.
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  I don't like that. Then remember, we are going to
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  do it again this year. Brian Hammond.
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  Brian Hammond, who's the boss at all the SMI tracks that stands
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  for Speedway Motorsports Incorporated Trackside Live is
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  going to be back. Yes, Siri, myself, John Roberts,
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  Wendy Venturini, Jose Castillo, we're going to, we're going to
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  do like, you know, 810 of those. And then we do the Kenny Wallace
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  Live in September right here for the the NASCAR Cup race.
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  And they got the Xfinity Series coming into Worldwide Technology
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  Raceway here in Saint Louis. So we're going to run the dirt
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  car. We're going to go to Italy.
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  We are going to do all the trackside lives.
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  I'm going to do Sturgis with brother Rusty with the
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  motorcycle. I'm going to do Daytona Bike
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  Week. Kim loves that Kyle Petty
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  charity ride. We're going to take our new
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  trike. We're starting out up there in
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  Michigan, Traverse, Michigan, going to be going down to, you
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  know, going to see like Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Henry Ford
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  Museum. We're going to do a lot of
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  stuff. So doing the Cal Petty charity
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  ride this year we are going to do we're going to go to Cabo.
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  So I think he got he got an idea there what we're going to do.
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  So we'll stay busy. And then of course, we got the
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  Kenny Wallace YouTube show, take some of my time up.
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  And then we got the Herman Schrader on Dirty MO media.
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  So that does take a lot of my time up.
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  I want to thank you all because I never saw this coming in a
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  million years. And at that Herman Schrader
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  show, it's a hit. Thank you very much.
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  It's it's very successful. Numbers are through the roof,
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  all because of you. Kenny Schrader is brilliant.
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  He's awesome. And all right.
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  Holy moly, 11 minutes. All right.
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  Have a great Tuesday, everybody.