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My Trip To The Mayo Clinic For Health Issues & The Penske Indy 500 Cheating Scandal | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning everybody.
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  I am in Rochester, MN and I'm staying at the hotel connected
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  right to the Mayo Clinic. Cannot be any nicer.
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  Let's take a look. Here we are.
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  It's really nice. Got the river over there.
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  OK. Oh, you can see me right there.
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  Hey, Herman, what's up? How come I'm not answering back?
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  That's a mirror. Got a nice hotel room here,
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  everybody. There we are.
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  Herminator. You know me?
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  I'm totally organized, have my clothes laid out, ready to go.
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  But nice hotel room. OK, Just want to talk about the
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  Indianapolis 500. I want to talk about, you know,
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  Rodger Penske's interview with Jamie Little.
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  Before we do that, I want to let you know that the Mayo Clinic
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  has overwhelmed me. So did you know this book was in
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  my hotel room? It was sitting here and the Mayo
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  Clinic was started because of a tornado back in that, as I
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  always say, early 1800s, in the early 1800s, there was a
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  horrible tone tornado. And so some sisters, some nuns,
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  basically they opened up like a hospital.
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  And anyway, the Mayo's years later, they shook hands and
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  said, OK, we're going to go in this with you.
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  And, and the nuns, they raised the money for the first Mayo
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  hospital and then he had two sons and they became super smart
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  and they just became world famous for fixing everybody.
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  You know what they're famous for?
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  What the Mayo Clinic is famous for.
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  Exactly what happened to Jughead?
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  A lot of you have been asking about Jughead.
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  He's, he's doing great. He's doing really good.
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  They fixed him. But the Saint Louis hospitals
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  have some of the best, you know, gastro doctors in the world.
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  Saint Louis does. But Saint Louis said we we don't
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  know what to do. We cannot fix you.
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  So he came up here. Now imagine your hospital saying
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  we can't fix you and you come to Mayo and they fix you.
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  It was a close call with Jughead.
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  I want to thank you for all the money that you donated.
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  But Jughead is backed up 200 and something pounds.
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  He's doing great, and they found a pill that stopped that chronic
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  diarrhea, but it was a close call.
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  They were worried about him. But your money went to the right
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  place. I just want to let you know
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  about the Mayo Clinic. That's what they're famous for.
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  The Mayo Clinic, I'm going to be specific.
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  Actually, I took a picture of it, and it's in this book where
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  it says that we're famous. You know, what they're famous
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  for is other hospitals not knowing what to do with you, not
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  knowing how to fix it. You come here and the reason
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  they're so good here is because they pick up the phone right
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  away and they have a, a big staff that they talk to and they
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  get ideas from all across the world and they're not afraid to
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  do that. So anyway, I'm I'm happy to be
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  here at the Mayo Clinic. And so I don't want to get in
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  too much about me. I'm I'm a little embarrassed
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  because somebody on X couple weeks ago, a month ago, they
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  said, Hermie, you're going to drink a beer.
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  And I said, no, here's what here's what got me.
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  I'm not saying in trouble, but I'm a little embarrassed.
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  Somebody said Google Kenny Wallace and Mayo Clinic.
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  So I did. I googled Kenny Wallace and Mayo
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  Clinic and I'm like, holy crap, all these articles and I want to
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  thank you for your prayers for me, but I don't think it's that
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  big, big of a deal. But so anyway, everything's
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  going really good up here. And the reason I'm here, and I
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  said it yesterday, the reason I'm here is because you can get
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  done in two days here. In two days you can get done
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  here. What will take you almost a year
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  at home. Because he, like yesterday I
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  woke, I met in the lobby at 7:15 yesterday morning and they, they
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  did everything. You're in blood.
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  They did a stress test, they did a plaque build up test.
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  They they put me, they did everything.
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  They did everything and more. But I got done around 3:00.
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  So what we're here for is to make sure that my arteries are
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  clear and to figure out what's going wrong with why.
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  Sometimes I feel like I got food stuck right here.
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  Why do I feel like I have food stuck right here?
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  Sometimes, not all the time and sometimes I got to poop and I
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  don't take a good poop. These are the best gastro
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  doctors in the world. And we had a great talk
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  yesterday. It was so fun to talk and and
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  then do all these tests. So today's the big day.
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  Today is where, Oh, by the way, they're checking mirrors.
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  I'm hard of hearing. Did you know I said, my wife
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  gets so mad at me, she's in the kitchen and she's talking and
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  she goes and then she screams at me.
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  I'm like, Kim, I can't hear you. So I'm I'm hard of hearing.
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  So this morning we're going to do a couple more hearing tests.
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  And I know I'm hard of hearing. My mom can't hear.
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  My cousin Timmy cannot hear. My Uncle Gary cannot hear.
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  It's it's hereditary. And it doesn't help that we
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  listen to those loud old race cars.
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  But tomorrow's coffee with Kenny.
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  I will tell you what they said, 'cause I don't know what they're
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  going to say yet. But what is really cool is you
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  have an app on your phone and as soon as they do all these tests,
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  you know your blood results, you know your urine results, you
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  know your EKG results. That's the other one I missed.
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  We did EKG and you know all this stuff like in 15 minutes, right
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  on your phone. And then the doctor, the main
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  doctor, Doctor Lundstrom. Carl Lundstrom is my doctor.
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  He's awesome. Look him up.
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  So he gathers it all up and he says, OK, here's what we're
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  going to do. And I have a feeling he already
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  knows all about me. I don't want to end with the,
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  the mail like this. We've, we've taken a camera down
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  my esophagus. We put a, we've had two
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  colonoscopies, you know, one when I turned 40 and we put a,
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  we did a colonoscopy 4 years ago.
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  So we've done it all. And, and I do want to say this,
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  the camera went right down my throat, so there's no problem
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  there, OK, There's no blockage. The camera went right down my
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  throat, So camera went down my throat.
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  So who knows? But I have an idea.
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  And he's, he's already given me some great advice.
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  Damn. Almost 8 minutes in and I, I
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  still want to talk about the Indianapolis 500.
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  OK, we'll do a coffee with Kenny tomorrow and I'll tell you what
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  the results are and what we're going to do to help me.
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  I will say that he's already given me some great advice about
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  life, mind over matter and being healthy.
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  Some of the stuff I already knew, but it's good to hear from
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  one of the best doctors in the world, Carl Lundstrom.
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  OK, I'm I'm a little biased because I like Rodger Penske and
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  I'm telling you that straight up.
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  I'm a little biased because my brother raced for Rodger Penske
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  his whole life. I'm a little biased because I
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  drove for Rodger Penske and I tested for him.
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  Now, when I say I drove for him, I drove the Red Dog truck.
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  It was Earl, Earl Barben's truck.
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  But somehow when they did that big 50th anniversary and they
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  invited all the Penske drivers, they said they wrote me a check.
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  So I was at the Penske party for 50 years and I did do a lot of
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  testing for Big Brother that didn't want to test the Blue
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  Deuce. So I did test the blue deuce at
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  at Talladega and I did a lot of IROC testing for Jay Signori.
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  Little more Hermioneer than you think, a little bit more to me
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  than you know. It's just hard to remember and
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  tell it all. So I've explained to you, I'm a
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  little biased to Roger, but one thing I know about Rodger
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  Penske, as he is always first class, and I know this for a
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  fact. If you are a Penske Racing team,
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  you are not allowed to cheat. And if you cheat, you did it on
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  your own. Rodger did not know about it.
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  OK, I want to be clear about that.
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  Rodger Penske is a man of integrity.
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  All of his companies, he's got thousands and thousands of
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  employees. So you got to know the man
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  Rodger first, OK? This is why Rodger Penske fired
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  Tim Syndrich and another person because they used too much boost
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  last year and got in trouble about it a week later when
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  IndyCar opened up their computer system and they saw that the
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  IndyCar guys at Penske Racing used too too much of their boost
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  during the race. So that didn't look good for
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  Team Penske and then this year. So Tim Cindrich has already been
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  on XI. Want to be clear about that.
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  You know, a lot of people make fun of social media, but it
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  looks like everybody's finally accepting it.
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  Now. Tim Cindrich is in a very high
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  position, and he got right on X yesterday.
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  And he said, my conscience is clear.
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  So I believed him. And Tim's a good man as far as
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  his son Austin driving the number 2.
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  I think Rodger Penske can separate the two.
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  That's my opinion. But I'll say this, Rodger
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  Penske's a businessman and he's, and I'm sure he can give a
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  seminar. I'm sure Rodger Penske can give
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  a seminar on how to clean up a mess.
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  Usually they say what to clean up a mess.
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  You got to fire everybody to, you know, it's like cutting out
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  cancer. You got you got to cut off a lot
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  more stuff than you want. And usually that's what they
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  say. I think Rodger knows what he's
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  doing and I think the region, I believe Rodger likes Tim
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  Cindrick and I but I believe Rodger said, OK, look, you know
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  this is going to go bad. There's a lot involved.
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  You're talking about the Indianapolis 500.
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  Rodger owns Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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  Rodger runs basically it. Listen, if it weren't for Rodger
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  Penske, I don't even know if IndyCar would exist.
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  Rodger Penske has saved IndyCar over and over because nobody has
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  enough money. Nobody knows how to do it like
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  Rodger. So Rodger is a man of integrity.
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  He did what he thought he needed to do to, you know, fix this.
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  He also, Rodger Penske also called all the team owners a
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  couple days ago. Listen closely.
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  Rodger Penske called all the team owners and said, guys, you
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  know, there's a lot. I want to keep the integrity in
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  this sport. Here's what I did.
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  And they all seem to be pretty happy with what Rodger did.
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  He's starting last. And the reason that they're
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  starting last is because the cars qualified.
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  They were in the top 12. The reason the Indy 500 last
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  year is a real win is because the car went through tech.
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  It passed tech and I want to give you my opinion on the the
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  the penalty itself and what it is.
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  There was a great article. I mean, it was incredible,
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  incredible detail about what what is in question this this
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  piece that is considered illegal.
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  I'm going to compare it to this. It's it's like having, it's like
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  having your decal on in the wrong spot.
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  There is absolutely no advantage.
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  It is just a single source part. The single source part I guess
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  got messed with at Delara or whoever makes the cars.
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  OK, Somebody makes the cars, something happened.
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  But because I'm a racer and I'm a fabricator and a mechanic,
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  it's like, OK, this is one of these deals where that's
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  illegal, but it is definitely not a competitive advantage.
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  It's like having a decal on in a wrong spot has nothing to do
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  with the car going nothing. It it, it's, it's a piece of the
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  back of the IndyCar that if you wreck it keeps you from smashing
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  the motor in. It's I forgot the damn name of
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  it. Respond right here.
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  But I listened to the whole interview with Jamie Little and
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  Rodger Penske and it was fantastic.
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  Good job Jamie Little, even better job Rodger Penske for
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  answering everything perfectly. Rodger Penske has addressed
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  everything perfectly and that's why he's the captain.
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  He's so damn smooth. He's like a song.
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  Rodger Penske is a smooth operator.
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  So the final synopsis with me and Rodger Penske's IndyCar
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  drama is this. It was a single source part,
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  meaning that you're only supposed to get it here and it's
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  supposed to look like this. Now, if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong
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  and I'm full of tell me, respond right here.
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  I'm doing my best with what I think.
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  I've followed the whole story. I've read the piece that is in
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  question and at the very end of the synopsis that I read, it
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  said isn't an advantage and all the engineers and everybody said
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  no, it's not an advantage. It just shouldn't have been
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  using that. Whatever it is, Intunader or
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  whatever the hell it is. Basically, it's a bumper.
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  OK, I'm going to dumb it down for y'all.
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  It's a damn bumper. It's a rear bumper for an
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  IndyCar. All right, everybody, I hope you
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  all have a great, great Thursday.
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  It's already gone too long. 15 minutes.
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  Hope you made it this far.