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Report: Cleetus McFarland To NASCAR Truck Series? | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What is up, everybody? Good morning.
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  Charlie Marlowe here. We're going to get right to it.
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  You see the headline. Cletus McFarland to NASCAR Truck
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  Series question mark. Big story breaking last night.
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  Let's give all the credit where it's due.
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  Adam Stern does a really good job, everybody, covering
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  Motorsports for the Sports Business Journal.
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  So he had an article last night. He posted it on X and I was
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  going to go live last night. It was right after the race at
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  Nashville. I was kind of tired and I'm
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  like, you know what, We'll wake up early.
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  We'll do it on Monday morning. Here's his headline.
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  Adam Stearns YouTube star Cletus McFarland could drive for
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  prospective Ram NASCAR Truck Series team.
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  How about that? So if you don't know about
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  Cletus McFarland by now, I think you do Cletus McFarland is just
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  enormous, especially on YouTube. I think he's got 4.4 million
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  subscribers, something like that.
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  I haven't looked recently, but does all these fun videos and
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  races, cars and drag races and Crown Vic races.
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  And this dude literally is a superstar and he's always been
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  into Motorsports and he helped out a ton last year with all of
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  the hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina and then started
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  to run ARCA races this year. So he's run what, 3 ARCA races?
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  He's run the superspeedways. Then also Charlotte.
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  So he ran Daytona, he ran Talladega and he ran Charlotte.
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  Had a bit of an issue there in in Charlotte caused a wreck.
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  Also, it's his first year in ARCA.
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  He's learning and all that. But this is huge news and he's
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  had look two top 10 finishes in ARCA in three starts.
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  His best, his best finish so far is 9th.
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  And this is his first year in ARCA.
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  But this news is pretty huge on 2 fronts.
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  First of all, you have this superstar Cletus McFarlane.
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  If this is true, by the way, if this report is accurate, which
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  Adam Stern is a very good reporter, but Cletus McFarlane
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  would be entering one of NASCAR's top three national
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  series for 2026. And then the other cool part of
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  this is that it's going to be with Ram, the Ram brand, which
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  what left NASCAR. So Dodge left NASCAR after the
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  2012 season. And you've probably seen a lot
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  of stories about potentially new manufacturers coming back into
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  NASCAR. And folks wonder, could that be
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  a foreign manufacturer like Honda?
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  Well, here with this particular story, we would have Dodge, We
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  would have the Ram Trucks brand coming into NASCAR for 2026.
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  And basically, I don't want to just plagiarize Adam Stern's
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  article. You guys should all read that
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  Sports Business Journal. It's a free article.
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  When you click on it, you don't have to go to a paywall or
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  anything. So I'll just read the first
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  sentence. He says YouTube star and ARCA
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  driver Cletus McFarland could get involved with the
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  prospective new NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team from Stalantis
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  Rambrand should the automaker complete talks to enter the
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  sport, according to four people familiar with the matter and a
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  document seen by the Sports Business Journal.
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  OK, Cletus McFarland, whose real name is Garrett Mitchell.
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  Apparently he did not. He did not respond to this
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  particular report. I'm sure.
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  Look, if this is going down there, wait until all the ink is
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  dry and you dot your IS you cross your T's.
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  I think this is just a really cool development though.
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  I really do. And Cletus is so popular
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  grassroots guy. And look, if if he wants to
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  climb the the ladder in NASCAR, if if that's truly his goal and
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  it seems like it is, look, he's doing ARCA this year.
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  If you were to do trucks in in 2026, after that, you could
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  obviously do the Xfinity series if you wanted to, to dabble in
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  cup down the line there. But I think I think this is the
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  perfect way to to do it the right way to to pay your dues
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  right to kind of work your way up if if that is Cletus's goal.
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  So a lot of you guys watching the live stream here on YouTube
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  got 173 of you watching. Appreciate that.
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  We will repost it on the Kenny Wallace media channel and we'll
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  get to your some of your comments here.
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  Brian Lacortic. I don't have any coffee.
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  We'll get some. I already finished my coffee.
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  So I just got just got water now already did the coffee.
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  Let's see. And Mer Diesel says, hell,
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  Cletus already owns a truck. OK, let's see what else we got
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  here. Scotty Smith says that'd be
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  dope. That'd be dope.
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  Cletus McFarland in the Truck Series.
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  Daily sports report. Good morning, Charlie.
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  Good morning. Brian again says, why not?
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  If Frankie Muniz is it, Muniz can.
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  So can Cletus. Frankie Muniz who?
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  Of course, the actor, the famous actor Malcolm in the Middle
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  running in NASCAR as well. Mer Diesel says, hey, y'all from
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  a mountain on Taiwan, That's pretty sweet.
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  Send a picture if you can either here or on YouTube, let me know.
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  Let's see. Muir Diesel says yeah, hell,
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  Cletus already owns a truck lol. I'm guessing Cletus owns a lot
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  of vehicles right? Let's see.
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  Scotty Smith says can he run the Dale truck all season?
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  That would be cool. It'd be interesting to see what
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  the the paint scheme will be for this.
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  Bruce Sumner says let him stay in ARCA and get some experience
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  before moving up. So that's a fairpoint, but what
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  do you think, Bruce and all you guys, I want to put the question
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  out to you. So if he continues to run ARCA
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  this year, if he ends up running, I don't even know what
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  his schedule looks like. I think I heard he was going to
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  run Bristol, right? So if he runs let's say four or
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  five, six, whatever that number is of ARCA, you guys don't think
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  that's enough experience with his Motorsports background to
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  enter the Truck Series next year?
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  Let's also be honest about the Truck Series.
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  And I say this with all due respect, the last the last
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  several years, let's be real, folks, the Truck Series has been
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  a bleep show in terms of just drivers running over each other,
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  not respecting each other. I mean, we're talking all the
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  way down to the championship race, right?
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  And you let me know I, I, I'll be the first one to admit I
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  don't watch a ton of Truck Series, but I remember a couple
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  years ago at the championship at Phoenix where Tony Stewart and
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  everybody, they were just running over each other on every
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  final restart. And a lot of people think, look,
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  I'm not saying you need all the old school drivers, but if if
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  you had maybe some more veteran drivers to kind of teach the
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  young bucks how to race, would the NASCAR trucksters look
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  better? Would the racing be cleaner,
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  more respectful? What do you guys think?
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  I don't know though, Bruce, to your point, I think, I think if
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  Cletus were to run several ARCA races this year, he's already
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  run three. I would think he's, he's ready
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  for the move up. We've we've sure seen a lot of
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  people with, with lesser Motorsports background.
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  Remember, I mean, he is a YouTube sensation, but this guy
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  drives everything. I mean, he drives every type of
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  vehicle, flies a helicopter. And, and, and it's obvious too
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  that he takes this serious, right?
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  I mean, he's fun, he's good for business, but he's also taking
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  this sport seriously. And I think I think he does and
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  he's earning the respect of the garage.
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  And I think a lot of the drivers, a lot of the cup
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  drivers love this dude and do content with him.
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  And I I think he'd want to do it the right way and move his way
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  up. And I think the Truck Series is
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  obviously the the natural progression here.
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  And then if, if Ram comes into the full, that's pretty cool.
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  Adding another manufacturer. Let's see Mer diesel says what
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  Cletus and the Biff Greg Biffle did with the Cajun Navy in North
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  Carolina in the Appalachian Mountain area is nothing short
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  of amazing. Absolutely could not agree more.
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  Let's see. And he says I flew back and
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  could not even land in Asheville, but Greenville, SC
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  Brian says I'm currently sitting in Edinburgh IN about 30 miles
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  South of Indy. I'm here in St.
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  Louis, MO, baby, home of the big one.
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  The desert dweller says if I were Cletus, I'd concentrate on
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  bringing NASCAR back to DeSoto, AKA the Freedom Factory.
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  And Brian says he has his own tractor practice on.
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  Yeah. I just feel like this is this is
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  just a natural progression. I think this is a home run if it
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  goes down. Again.
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  If you're just joining us, Adam Stern report, Sports Business
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  Journal saying that Cletus McFarlane in talks to run the
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  NASCAR Truck Series 2026 with AI.
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  Don't want to say new manufacturer, an older
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  manufacturer coming back into the sport.
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  If this is the case, which would be Ram trucks?
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  Dodge left NASCAR back in 2012, about 13 years ago.
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  Let's see. The Truck Series would be the
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  cheapest to enter. No Dodge engine.
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  Just have to build a nose. The Dale Earnhardt #3 Dale
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  truck. Yeah, it'd be cool if they they
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  do some cool paint schemes. You got to think, too.
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  Look, Dale Earnhardt Junior does a lot of content with Cletus,
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  their buddies. They're running that truck at
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  Talladega. You have so many great
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  opportunities for sponsorship with Cletus.
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  He brings so many eyeballs to the sport.
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  And in a way, I'm not saying he's bigger than NASCAR, right?
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  NASCAR is a billion dollar business.
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  But from a media standpoint, especially on YouTube, he is
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  bigger than NASCAR. I haven't looked recently, but I
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  think NASCAR had something like 1.1 million.
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  I'll look right now. I'll look right now because why
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  not? We're live, we're having fun.
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  Let's see here, NASCAR on YouTube and I do pay more
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  attention to YouTube. Hey, we're here on YouTube, OK,
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  NASCAR has 1.48 million subscribers on YouTube right
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  now. Boom.
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  And I think Cletus has about 4 million more or three million
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  more, I should say. So NASCAR, there you go, NASCAR
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  has 1.48 million, Cletus has 4.39 million.
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  So we're, we're talking Dang close to three times the
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  following on YouTube. And I know he's big on Instagram
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  and all that too. I, I don't know all the
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  different platforms, to be honest with you.
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  I'm I'm more on X and I feel like Cletus's profile is not as
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  I, I feel like he doesn't do X as much as he does Facebook and
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  Instagram and obviously YouTube. And I get that.
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  We're kind of the same way on the Kenny Wallace YouTube
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  channel, where for monetization, X is not X is not the preferred
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  platform in terms of putting your content out there.
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  OK, Jim Doyle says cleat has over 150 vehicles.
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  Yeah, I I didn't know the exact number, but I knew it was a lot.
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  So let's see. Garrett has the talent to drive
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  anything if he gets the reps. That's from Bill L Yeah, I
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  agree. I think this is I think this is
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  great. I think it's great if it goes
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  down. Mirror diesel saying he could
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  straddle ARCA and the Truck Series.
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  Can he run the Dale truck? It's a four wheel drive drag
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  truck. You kidding me?
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  I don't think they meant the actual truck.
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  I meant like the scheme. He could have fun with the
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  schemes and all that. Cletus is the godfather of Crown
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  Vic Racing. Jim Doyle.
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  Cleat is a natural wheel man. Full time ARCA next year with
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  select truck races. OK, OK.
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  Yeah, I don't know the exact schedule.
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  I'm just reacting to the article I saw last night.
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  NASCAR needs Cletus. I know Kenny Wallace also, who's
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  on vacation by the way. He's in Cabo.
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  He is going to do Herman Trader this week.
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  So I know Kenny and Cletus are talking.
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  I know Cletus invited Kenny to do one of his races in Indy, but
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  Kenny at the time was on the Kyle Petty charity ride.
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  So I know they're touching base. I know Cletus wants Kenny and
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  Kenny wants to do one of his races.
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  I know that Kenny obviously wants him on the Kenny
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  conversation, which hopefully happens here soon in the next
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  several months. NASCAR needs Cletus.
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  You know, I think it certainly helps, right?
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  I don't want to say NASCAR needs Cletus.
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  Cletus needs NASCAR. To me, it's it's just a great
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  relationship for both. I think they both help each
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  other. It's all good, right?
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  It's all good. I'm guessing most of you who are
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  fans of NASCAR, a lot of you fans of Cletus and I also, I
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  know this because I run this channel.
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  I post all the videos, I see all your comments.
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  I try to see all your comments. It's almost impossible because
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  we, we have so many comments and I say that as a, as a compliment
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  because our channel has, has grown so much.
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  It's not as big as Cletus's, but we have 132,000 subscribers.
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  So we get a ton of comments. So I try to see if I can all of
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  them and comment and like and all that.
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  And again, I'm, I'm saying this for the 8th time, but I've seen
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  so many people, not just young people, older folks, older
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  NASCAR fans who said I love NASCAR, 70s, eighties, 90s,
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  whatever it was. I kind of gave up on NASCAR for
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  whatever reason in the 2000s, mid 2000s when Dale Senior died,
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  maybe your favorite driver retired, whether it was Rusty
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  Wallace, Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, whatever it is.
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  Maybe you didn't like NASCAR and some of the things that they did
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  in terms of stage racing in the playoff format and some of the
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  kind of social stuff. Maybe it was too expensive for
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  you. Maybe you feel like they they
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  drove the grassroots fan out of the sport and they were favoring
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  some different tracks and some new markets, which I think
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  NASCAR is trying to remedy. It's it's obvious they're trying
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  to fix that. But my point is I've seen
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  dozens, if not hundreds of comments of people saying that
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  Cletus has brought those people back to watching ARCA and they
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  hadn't watched NASCAR in years. So I mean, you can only elevate
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  that if it's trucks and then go on down the line if it ends up
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  being Xfinity Cup down the road, whatever it is.
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  So farmer and sons garage says, I think he's already better than
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  many drivers in the Truck Series and he can bring viewers and
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  sponsors to the series too. Right.
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  And I'm not, I'm not trying to make this an apples to apples
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  comparison, but I remember, and we're talking about from a name
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  standpoint, I remember Hayley Deegan saying when she was in
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  the Truck Series, when she was in the Xfinity Series, and I
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  know she didn't have good results.
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  And again, I'm not saying that Hayley Deegan is Cletus
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  McFarland or vice versa. That's not what I'm saying.
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  But I remember her citing statistics and ratings that when
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  she was in, whether it was trucks or Xfinity, the, the
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  ratings, the impressions did go up.
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  She is bringing a different fan base to racing.
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  Cletus is bringing a different fan base to racing or back to
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  racing. So Jackie Mcclung says Cletus
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  needs to win an ARCA race. OK, You feel like he needs to
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  win an ARCA race before he goes trucks.
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  Dodge is like, we have a marketing opportunity here,
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  guys. Absolutely for sure.
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  I mean, Cletus marketing wise is freaking gold.
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  We all, we all know that. We all get that ARCA ain't as
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  easy as Cletus makes it look. Yeah, Cletus is obviously very
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  talented for sure. Mir Diesel he is hungry and
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  living the dream. Ken Rogel says, I think trucks
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  would be a downgrade. He would be fine in Xfinity.
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  Well, I think I think you, you kind of have to move up the
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  progression. I, I feel like that's the way to
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  go again. I, I feel like he wants the, the
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  respect of the garage and I think he already has that.
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  I think it's growing right. He he had his first kind of
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  issue. I think it's fair to say in
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  Charlotte, his team put him out there, spun his tires.
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  It happens. It happens to the best drivers.
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  It happens to all drivers and and he's going to go through
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  that and he's going to take his lumps.
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  It happens to every freaking driver out there.
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  It happens to the best drivers on earth.
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  I mean, look at look at Kyle Larson, the Indy 500 spinning
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  out and Kyle Larson. I think most degrees probably
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  the most talented race car driver in the world or, or right
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  up there. It is refreshing to see fun in
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  racing again. Mirror diesel real seat time
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  comes from the cars tour or the mod tour.
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  I think I think he'll try to run everything.
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  But I mean, let's, let's be real, NASCAR, NASCAR is the
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  show, right? Cletus is the show.
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  NASCAR is the show. It's a, it's a perfect marriage.
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  Wayne Kerr says money buys everything.
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  This is the new era in racing. Money over talent.
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  I don't think that's fair, though.
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  I, I think, I think, look, it's not just money.
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  I mean, Cletus has money, but he's helping NASCAR make money.
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  And Cletus also has talent. And I think he'll only get
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  better as he moves up and gets more seat time.
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  Mere diesel. Freedom Factory has the opener
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  near Daytona, plenty of parking and better weather.
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  How about that? Bruce Sumner, I agree with all
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  your points, just needs to slow down and take his time.
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  Let's see, his schedule would have to change immensely to run
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  the Truck Series on a full time basis.
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  I didn't see in this article if it was going to be full time.
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  And again, this is an article from Sports Business Journal.
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  Adam Stern, he would drive for a perspective Ram NASCAR Truck
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  Series team. Let's see, it says Stalantis is
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  said to be likewise initially looking to re enter the sport
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  through the Truck Series as soon as next year, though nothing has
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  been announced. OK, let's see Ram.
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  Let's see. So catchfence.com in February
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  1st identified Ram as submitting an application to rejoin the
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  series in 26. As I said earlier, Honda is also
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  said to be eyeing a potential entry into NASCAR, though the
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  timing of that is less clear. So is it both going to happen
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  next year? Who knows?
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  Could you have two new manufacturers or a new one and
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  old one coming back? Could you have Honda and Ram
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  coming to NASCAR in the next couple of years?
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  We shall see at the bottom of this article they talk about
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  Cletus's impact and his social media following So here we go
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  4.4 million subscribers on the YouTube, 2.6 million followers
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  on Facebook and nearly 600,000 on TikTok.
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  As I said, and I get it because I'll be honest with you folks,
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  there's really not a lot of value of posting your content on
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  X, especially for monetization. You make way more money on
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  YouTube. YouTube is by far the best
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  platform for monetization. Facebook's OK then also, I mean,
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  look, posting your accounts on any social media, There's also
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  tremendous sponsor value also, just if you have sponsors to see
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  those sponsor logos on all the the videos.
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  But yeah, 4.4 million subscribers on YouTube for
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  Cletus. Remember, NASCAR has a little
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  less than 1.5 million and Cletus, AKA Garrett Mitchell has
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  2.6 million followers on Facebook and nearly 600,000 on
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  TikTok. There you go.
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  All right, I'll tell you what. How about Tony Stewart, the
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  truck owner? Wouldn't that be interesting?
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  Wouldn't that be interesting if you're bringing some heavyweight
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  names in there? Cletus McFarland is a
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  heavyweight name. Could you have more star-studded
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  celebrity type team owners or at least minority owners, right.
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  In terms of they might not be the majority owner, but they
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  have a piece of it and they help bring value to the the ownership
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  group. Kind of like Pitbull was for
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  Track House for a few years there, right?
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  Frank Rice the day Dale died. NASCAR died also.
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  I get that, but don't you feel like, I mean, that's 24 years
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  ago. What do you think of the Dale
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  documentary, by the way? I've watched about 2 1/2
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  episodes. It is fantastic.
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  Fantastic. Let's see.
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  Noah Milky, If Ram does indeed join the series, what new team
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  could join and what existing team could switch over?
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  There you go. You have that as well.
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  Tanja Kangas, It feels like one of those names where I read it
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  and then it's one of those things they're trying to get you
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  with something inappropriate. Though Cletus is a character he
• 20:39
  created. It works because he is genuine.
• 20:42
  Agreed. If he was fake, it would not
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  work. I get that 100%.
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  Tony Stewart and Cletus McFarland are pretty close too.
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  That's from Jackie Mcclung, yeah.
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  Tony ran at that race in Indy couple weeks or a month ago,
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  whenever that was. Preston Peacheck says.
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  Got to get him in the announcer's booth also.
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  Yeah, he's good for business all around.
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  On the track in the booth. Let's see.
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  Solar, DIY, hobby and reviews. Cletus runs for president on
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  beer debt forgiveness. I love that.
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  All right, let's shut her down. Look, I got to shut her down
• 21:14
  anyway because we're going to record Herman Schrader in about
• 21:17
  35 minutes. So I got to send the invites to
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  Kenny Wallace and Ken Schrader. Happy birthday, 70th birthday to
• 21:25
  Ken Schrader. Last what, Thursday, May 29th?
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  He turns 70. My birthday is May 28th.
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  I get it, nobody cares. And then Ken Schrader's
• 21:34
  birthday, May 29th, celebrating his 70th birthday, we put a
• 21:39
  video out there from Kenny where he said just some very nice
• 21:41
  things about his old buddy Ken Schrader.
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  So there you go. And I'll just we'll end on this
• 21:48
  real quick. I was going to maybe do another
• 21:50
  live stream later, but I'm not sure if I will.
• 21:54
  Nashville, I'll just give you my quick breakdown.
• 21:56
  Nashville First of all, I think I think prime is excellent.
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  I think prime elevates every race.
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  I didn't think this was a great race.
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  Couldn't pass all the drivers said that, but best car one I
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  think Ryan Blaney obviously pretty popular and Ryan Blaney
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  had had terrible luck this year despite running up front leading
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  laps. Should have had a win earlier
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  all kinds of crazy issues. So the best car won Amazon Video
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  I think elevates the broadcast. I think night race looks cooler
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  on TV. However, couldn't pass all the
• 22:32
  drivers said that the the fastest cars could could
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  couldn't even pass lap traffic. NASCAR's got to work on that,
• 22:39
  especially that this is when I was intermediates.
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  What is it, 1.3 ish miles? Whatever it is, typically with
• 22:46
  the Next Gen. the racing is really good on the on the
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  intermediates, especially most of the 1.5 mile tracks.
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  So I looked at Jeff Gluck's pole and I think it was like, I'll
• 22:59
  check it real quick. I think it was like 2/3 said bad
• 23:05
  race, 1/3 said good race. I'll find it for you here.
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  And I even think that's a little high in my opinion.
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  I want to hear from you guys. Yeah, here it is.
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  I said no, maybe I'm being a hater.
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  Was Nashville a good race? 67%?
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  Oh crap, I was totally wrong. I take that back.
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  I thought it was flipped. 67% said yes, maybe I'm being a
• 23:31
  hater. OK, I was totally wrong on that.
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  I thought it was flipped. I looked at it this morning and
• 23:36
  I was I must have been sleepy. OK, so look 67% said yes.
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  What do you think you guys agree with that?
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  Again, I think a lot of things, as I mentioned, make the the the
• 23:48
  viewing on TV stronger. Prime is legit night race, Ryan
• 23:53
  Blaney wins burnout pre race coverage, post race coverage is
• 23:57
  great. Dale Junior's on it, Carl
• 23:59
  Edwards. But from a racing standpoint, I
• 24:02
  didn't think the racing was that great.
• 24:04
  You had that that stretch there where you could see Denny
• 24:07
  Hamlin, William Byron and Ryan Blaney going toe for toe for a
• 24:11
  little bit there. But overall, I didn't think the
• 24:14
  racing was great. But look, I'm clearly in the
• 24:16
  minority here. Yeah, I read that wrong.
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  I apologize. So, hey, look, maybe I'm the
• 24:21
  negative Nelly. What do you guys think?
• 24:23
  Good, bad, indifferent. OK, Kenny needs to get on there,
• 24:28
  by the way. Yes, again, Kenny will be on for
• 24:32
  Hermann Schrader. We'll tape it here in about 30
• 24:33
  minutes. That'll come out Wednesday on
• 24:37
  podcast and YouTube, Dirty MO Media podcast, Kenny Wallace
• 24:40
  YouTube channel. We got Robin Pemberton,
• 24:43
  obviously famous crew chief worked for NASCAR.
• 24:46
  That's coming out on Thursday on Dirty MO Media podcast and the
• 24:49
  Kenny Wallace YouTube channel. There we go.
• 24:52
  All right, we're going to shut her down.
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  Charlie Marlowe signing off. Thank you so much for joining
• 24:56
  us, all of you guys. Will it happen?
• 24:59
  Cletus McFarland, the NASCAR Truck Series in 2026 with a
• 25:03
  manufacturer coming back to the sport in Ram, Ram trucks.
• 25:07
  That would be pretty awesome. Thank you so much everybody for
• 25:10
  watching. We'll see you later.
• 25:11
  Love you all. Peace out and stream.
• 25:15
  Do it for Dale. See ya.