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Kyle Larson vs Christopher Bell at The Chili Bowl | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. The day clock says it's Friday
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  and I believe it. It's got fresh batteries.
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  OK everyone, it's Friday and myself, my daughter Brittany and
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  her husband Brody, we are headed to Tulsa, OK here early this
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  morning. We're going down to the 40th
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  annual Chili Bowl. For a lot of you that don't know
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  what that's about, it's been going on for 40 years and they
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  run an open wheel Midget race. So open wheel is a division of a
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  type of race car that AJ Foyt, Mario Andretti, Kyle Larson,
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  Christopher Bell, Tony Stewart, Kenny Schrader, all the great
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  racers have raced open wheel midgets and they started this
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  indoor race in Tulsa, OK and they named it the Chili Bowl
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  because the first sponsor they had was all about chili eating
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  chili. It was a chili company or chili
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  whatever eating chili. So the name stuck so good that
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  they still call it the Chili Bowl, even though I don't think
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  Chile sponsors it anymore. Respond right here if you know
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  that some chili company sponsors it.
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  But anyway, so for a lot of you NASCAR fans that don't know what
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  it's all about, it's in Tulsa, OK and it's an incredible indoor
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  event and a record 371 or 400 race cars.
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  They qualify for like 6 days for 20 starting spots on Saturday
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  night. For years it only paid $2500 to
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  win, but it was all about that trophy, The Golden Driller.
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  The event takes place inside of the building where they display
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  oil drilling equipment. And it is perfectly made for
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  this event the way it's laid out.
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  So anyway, yeah, now you're smarter right?
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  Now you know what the Chili Bowl is.
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  OK, let's have a little fun. Rivalries.
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  Friendly rivalries make sports awesome.
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  And I want to talk about a friendly rivalry.
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  Kyle Larson has three Chili Bowl wins and Christopher Bell has
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  three Chili Bowl wins. But the daddy of them all is
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  slamming Sammy Swindell. Sammy Swindell has five, and he
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  is the master. So in the press conference early
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  this week, they asked Kyle Arson about, you know, racing in the
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  Chili Bowl. And the question was bar brought
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  up about Christopher Bell and you, Kyle Larson, you both are
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  tied with three wins. Kyle Larson said I want to get
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  that 4th Chili Bowl win before Christopher Bell does.
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  I thought it was awesome because now the fans will get involved
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  and they will make this event more exciting as the years go
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  on. Now all you open will people
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  that are watching this respond right here, get engaged in the
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  conversation. Here's the way I look at it.
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  There was a year or so that the hot dogs, they didn't, they
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  didn't run the Chili Bowl because they were a little upset
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  that it didn't pay enough. Now the Chili Bowl pays 10,000
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  to win. The 40th annual Chili Bowl that
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  will be run this Saturday night has a bigger trophy, the
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  trophies bigger. It's not a normal golden
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  driller. So don't you know, all of us
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  with happiness are going to watch this great rivalry and
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  they both are so good. Both of them are so good.
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  So Thursday night, Christopher Bell in his own open wheel
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  Midget, he jacked up on Sun Drop right now because this is his
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  own open wheel Midget. He owns it.
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  So it's a bigger deal to him because that's what he said.
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  He started 8th in the A main and he passed some of the greatest
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  open wheel Midget drivers there are.
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  He passed them and he won it all.
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  He won the A main couple, 2-3 days before that, Kyle Larson
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  won his A main. Both of them, they always are
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  put to the test. Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell,
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  hell, you might as well. It's like start them last, start
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  them both last, start them behind CJ Leary and all the big
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  boys. And they always do.
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  They start them last almost. I'm joking, but they'll start
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  Christopher Bell, they'll start Kyle Larson mid pack and they
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  win it. They still win it.
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  They figure it out. They know how to work the lane.
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  Christopher Bell found a really good lane in his aiming.
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  He grabs some moisture getting into one.
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  He slid all the way out, took his right ear, stuck at me
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  cushion, launched down the back straight away, and then the dirt
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  was really gnarly and 3:00 and 4:00.
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  So he rolled the bottom and boy did he roll it.
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  Put that left front up on the berm, put some pressure on right
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  there and drove down that front straight away.
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  And that that was the lane. His lane was the only lane.
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  Nobody else was running Christopher Bell's lane.
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  That's why Christopher Bell and Kyle Arson are so good.
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  They find these lanes that nobody else finds and that's how
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  they're able to be so good year after year.
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  We all think, oh, so somebody's going to.
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  I think Tanner Thorson. Tanner Thorson maybe was the
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  last one to win. But I don't even I don't think,
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  I don't think Kyle Larson was there.
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  It's fair to say. Now you all respond right here.
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  It is fair to say, and this is not a stretch, that Kyle Larson
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  and Christopher Bell are a gift from God in open will midgets.
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  They keep putting themselves to the test.
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  You I can even hear the flow announcers.
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  They're like, well, actually listen to this and I'll end like
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  this. You know, it's on the flow app,
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  the Chili Bowl every night. They didn't even choose
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  Christopher Bell to win the A main because that's how good the
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  Open Will Midget racers were in front of him.
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  Remember Sea Bell starting 8th? Christopher Bell reminded the
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  gentleman that was interviewing me in Victoria.
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  And he goes, hey, you didn't even pick me.
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  You didn't have me in your top three.
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  I know it's hard on a lot of people.
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  When I was your age, it was hard on me too.
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  But when you admit, when you admit to yourself somebody is a
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  gift from God, life is so much easier.
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  So on Saturday night, we're going to see who's going to win
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  this thing. Is it going to be Christopher
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  Bell or Kyle Larson? And if they don't win, it will
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  be an upset. And I don't care.
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  I don't care. I'm going to watch the show with
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  you. Can any driver beat Kyle Larson
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  or Christopher Bell? Or will Christopher Bell and
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  Kyle Larson, will they win their 4th Golden Driller?
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  Who will be the first to get their 4th Golden Driller?
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  I'll see you all in the Chili Bowl building this Friday night.
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  We should roll in there around 4:30.
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  Have a great Friday, everybody.