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Here's My #1 Dirt Racer Right Now | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. Well, it's a beautiful day out
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  here in Arnold, MO and we, we're supposed to go racing tonight,
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  but they saying we're gonna have Armageddon.
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  Hell, they say it's gonna rain. Where to race?
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  All right, so we can race on this Friday night.
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  We can go dirt racing at we can go to a Tri-City Speedway,
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  Granite City, IL, we can go to Brownstown, IL, the Brownstown
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  Bullring. We can go to Lincoln, IL up by
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  Springfield, or we can go to Quincy.
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  Now Quincy, IL shows the best chance of all.
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  So we we can go there, but we're going to make a decision around
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  3:00 today. If I leave at 3:00, I can make
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  it to anywhere. So we're going to find out.
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  This reminds me of those those movies, you know, where it
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  started out on a beautiful sunny day and then the tornado came.
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  So we're going to see what happens.
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  All right, so we've been talking all NASCAR and we've been having
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  a great time. We've been talking, we've been,
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  we've been doing a lot of debating, haven't we?
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  Like I said, NASCAR is doing great, but we've been talking
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  about that Gen. 7 car and we've just been doing a lot of talking
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  about NASCAR. So on Facebook, we always, we
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  always talk about X. And you know, somebody on X said
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  this, so I'm going to respond to them.
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  Well, on this Friday, we're going to finally switch over to
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  Facebook. On Facebook, some gentleman said
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  Kenny, Kenny, you always talk about NASCAR.
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  Why don't you talk about dirt racing?
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  Let's try a little something different, everybody.
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  Let's walk around the pool. Hopefully I don't fall in.
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  You ever see those Instagram posts from hell?
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  I've seen a guy run his lawn mower in the pool by accident.
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  It was in reverse. He couldn't get it to stop.
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  Oh, look how Clearwater is. Man, Now that's some Clearwater.
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  That's some Clearwater. Shout out to Aaron Hollingshead,
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  who works for Two Men in a spa. They also take care of the hot
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  tub. The old man loves that hot tub.
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  I don't want to hear it. Wallace got all that NASCAR
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  money. That hot tub kicks ass.
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  Hey, by the way, look at a redneck hand.
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  Look at my propane tank right there.
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  But that propane tank runs my fireplace.
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  And listen, I'm not putting no in wood like a redneck.
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  Hey, honey, go out and get the wood.
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  It's real now. We're too old.
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  We don't do that turn the fireplace on it's cleaner.
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  I'm not running outside bringing wood in with ants and shit on
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  the wood. So there I I know right where
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  you guys are going to go all the time.
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  But anyway, thank you to two men in the spot.
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  They take care of our pool. Looks great.
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  I mean, about time for the grandbabies to come on over.
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  OK, so anyway, it's going to be about dirt racing.
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  He says, my God, this man on Facebook says all you do is talk
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  about NASCAR. And I said, well, the reason I
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  talk about NASCAR is because if I make a NASCAR post 3000 people
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  respond. If I make a dirt car post,
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  couple 100 people respond. Now I'm not, I'm not trying to
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  hurt anybody's feelings, but my, my dirt racers, not my dirt
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  races, but the dirt fans, they, they think, they think dirt race
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  is popular. And that's fine.
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  It, it is popular, but it's just, it's just nowhere near as
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  popular as as NASCAR. So sometimes when I talk about
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  dirt racing, I feel like I'm hollering to nobody anybody out
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  there. Does anybody like dirt racing?
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  All right, so let's bring you all up to speed on dirt racing.
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  We got a couple drivers that are on top right now and you know,
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  RTJ, Ricky Thornton, Ricky Thornton Junior, this kid, you
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  know, he come along, he's a he's a staple now.
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  Staple means like, look, look, staple, he's here.
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  He's not a surprise anymore. Ricky's been doing a lot of
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  winning for the last but 10 years, 810 years.
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  And then the other one is Bobby Pierce.
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  Of course, everybody knows about Bobby Pierce, a legend.
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  Look at him. You got you too fat to get
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  through the look. He's trying to get through.
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  You got to find one that's wide enough.
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  He's eating too much. He he he used to go right
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  through these things. And now he's like, damn it,
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  Didn't you see him? Hey, Louie, you got to find one
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  big enough, buddy. Look right here.
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  Try, try. Go, go around.
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  It's because I'm feeding him too many treats.
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  I love you. Want to come up here?
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  Come here. Come here, hot rod.
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  Hey, come here. Come on.
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  Let me go get him. Come here, Louie.
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  There he goes, Louie. You want to come up here?
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  Come here, Louie. Well, I about dropped him when I
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  tried to pick him up. So that scared him.
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  OK, So we got Ricky Thornton Junior, we got Bobby Pierce, and
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  I'm going to throw in a surprise here in a little bit.
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  We got Lucas Oil Late Models, we got World of Outlaw Late Models,
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  and then we got some of these. We got some of these flow
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  nights, Cap Castro flow nights in America.
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  If there would be a great debate on who is better, you know, you
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  know, everybody in life, they want to drink some beer and they
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  want to go, damn it, I'll tell you, this is the best series.
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  So I really feel like Bobby Pierce has the edge right now.
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  Ricky Thornton, Bobby Pierce, you want to say they're equal?
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  You know, I want to, I want to say, I want to say Bobby Pierce
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  and Ricky Thornton are dead ass equal.
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  So, but I just think Bobby Bobby sends it a little bit more on a
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  consistent basis. And and you know, just when you
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  think Bobby Pierce is going to wreck, he doesn't.
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  He reminds me of my brother Mike Wallace when Mike ran dirt.
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  You know, I crewed built some of my brother Mike's cars before I
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  even became a race car driver. And we'd run Jeff City or we'd
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  run Lebanon, Lebanon, I-44, the the Lebanon I-44.
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  That's asphalt right now that used to be dirt.
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  And you should have seen brother Mike run those tracks.
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  Holy shit. MM drives like Bobby Pierce or
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  Bobby Pierce drives like my brother Mike.
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  I think what I'm impressed about Bobby Pierce is you.
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  You swear he's going to wreck, but he doesn't.
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  And for that, I'm going to give Bobby Pierce the number one, the
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  number one dirt racer in America.
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  So Bobby Pierce is the number one dirt racer in America.
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  And here's why I'm going to be specific because he drives so
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  fucking hard that you think he's going to wreck and he doesn't
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  and he wins the race. It's like there's no way he's
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  going to run that cushion. He'll run that wall and you'll
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  swear the whole goddamn quarter panels tore off and and then it
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  doesn't. By the way, I shouldn't have
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  said that GD word right there. Dear Lord, please forgive me my
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  sins. I use your name in vain.
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  Please forgive me of my sins. I I never say the GD word.
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  I don't even know why I used it right there.
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  Please forgive me. So anyway, Bobby Pierce is the
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  best super dirt late model racer in America right now.
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  Ricky Thornton is right there. Ricky Thornton is right there.
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  You know, I want to put them. I want to put them both as a
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  tie. The tiebreaker goes to Bobby
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  Pierce because he runs the cushion uncontrollably and he
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  wins. OK, The dad of dirt racing.
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  Just when you think he's done, he'll pop up at Spoon River or
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  Fair Berry like he did over the week.
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  Superman. Jonathan Davenport, you know,
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  Davenport's one of those guys where you're like, what's wrong
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  with Davenport? What do you mean what's wrong
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  with Davenport? He just got done kicking their
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  ass at Spoon River for 20 grand. Then he just, he the next day or
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  two, he went down to Fairbury against the same guys and kick
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  their ass. Here's the thing about here's
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  the thing about Superman. Jonathan Davenport, he's he,
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  he's, he's a chip off the old Southern racers, the red clay
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  Bloomer Bloomquist, JD, if he don't run through the middle of
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  the track, that's it. He's going to win all those
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  races running right through the middle of the track.
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  For example, Fair Berry, you have Brandon Shepherd put on a
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  hell of a show there at the end and, and get by and, and battle.
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  JD is going to run through the middle of the track.
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  JD is not going to pound the wall down and that type of
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  racing comes from the the South, the the red clay.
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  You don't run the cushion because there's no cushion ever.
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  There's never a cushion down South.
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  All right, so I just I just told you the top 3IN dirt race in the
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  day. I told you why respond right
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  here. Let's argue about it.
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  Love arguing it that that's the only thing that makes social
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  media go round. Let's argue you motherfuckers.
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  Let's go. Damn Herman, that's two
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  motherfuckers. That makes 3 and one GD which I
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  I told the Lord I'm sorry and please forgive me my sins.
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  I am a man of the Lord. As far as me, I'm still racing
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  the hell out of my Sonoco dirt car, but I decided to race right
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  around home for a lot of reasons.
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  I raced around home because I'm not an idiot anymore.
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  I would say 5-8 years ago I got one of the best race tracks in
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  America 15 minutes from my house every Saturday night, Peevely,
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  Missouri Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park.
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  The guys up at Fairbury, they say hey Herman, come up here to
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  Fairbury. I'm like duh.
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  Oh hey bug weed. I'd go 4 hours.
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  I drive 4 hours up to Fairbury when I could do the same thing
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  15 minutes. So I don't do that anymore.
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  I run right around home. I run Friday nights.
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  We got all types of racing around here.
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  I already told you the tracks. Granted a Brownstown.
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  Saturday I can run 15 minutes from here.
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  I can run Peevely or I can run Highland if I get desperate.
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  Sunday I can go up to Quincy and race.
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  That's a neat little racetrack, but I'll tell you another reason
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  I kind of quit travelling and this is not this is not meant to
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  be mean. Have you ever watched any of
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  these races for the quote UN quote, you know the mighty
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  modifieds, they on us, they on us.
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  So I've been watching some of these races and I'm not going to
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  call y'all that. Y'all know who you are.
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  They'll run the Super light models and they'll burn that
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  track up and I've kind of three times so far this year where the
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  modifieds go on the track after the late models and and the
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  tracks rubbered up and they know you're and they and they send
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  the modifies out on a rubbered up racetrack one lane.
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  They did it at Fairbury, they did it at Farmer City, you know,
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  respond right here. I think they even did it at
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  LaSalle. So there's three right there and
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  I just, I just don't need it anymore.
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  I'm not angry because we can make a choice.
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  But you know, you travel 4 hours to, you know, for 2000 to win,
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  which is fine. But you know, 9 times out of 10
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  they can push you on a rub it up racetrack.
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  I'd rather wait an hour and have them, you know, at least scrape
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  the racetrack and take the rubber up off.
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  And I'd rather race on a dirty racetrack and a race on a rubber
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  up racetrack. You put all that effort in.
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  You know those, those little old modifieds, the motors are 3030
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  grand. The cars are, are 70.
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  So well, no, the cars aren't 70. The cars are about 42 and the
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  motors are about 30. So it's a $70,000 car.
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  Oh, you know, the little old modifieds, they, they, they only
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  $70,000. So I choose to just stay ride
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  home. It's it's just easier.
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  I'm older that that driving. Really, that's the number one
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  reason I just don't like driving to the race tracks anymore.
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  All right, everybody, there's your dirt roundup.
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  I hope you all enjoyed it. And man, it's hotter than a well
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  digger's ass. My dumb ass just stood here
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  right, right in the damn sun. I like cussing when I don't
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  cuss. That's when I'm weird.
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  Actually, what you got today, that was the real me.
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  What's wrong? You still look at it.
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  It's driving me nuts. But he's still trying.
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  He's still trying. I'll open the gate up.
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  Come on, Louie. Let me open the gate up and go
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  find your deer buddy. All right.
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  See you somewhere Friday night. But they say it's supposed to
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  rain everywhere. It's supposed to have hail.
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  Oh, my God. Have a great Friday.