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My Mark Martin Interview Will Blow You Away & NASCAR Street Race In Philadelphia? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning everybody.
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  Today is going to be a big day. Mark Martin on Kenny
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  Conversation We have had Mark Martin in depth about his racing
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  career on Kenny Conversation. However, we felt like it was
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  time to revisit Mark Martin because Mark has been on social
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  media and his opinions have been strong.
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  Let me explain. Mark comes from a standpoint
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  that he's aggravated with NASCAR and he had a lot to say.
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  I come from a standpoint where I don't think I can change NASCAR.
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  So let's have fun. And I see all the older NASCAR
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  fans upset and they want change. Well, I just don't think we're
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  going to make a difference. I don't think we're going to
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  change NASCAR. So I come from the standpoint
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  that there's too much complaining.
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  I come from the standpoint you all are exhausting.
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  You all wear me out. I come from the standpoint that
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  I'm a happy person. I, I, I just grew up like this.
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  So for me to defer, in other words, look, let me, let me take
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  everybody's anger and let's have a little fun with it.
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  I've always told you all, I grew up on Saturday Night Live.
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  So I take, I take people's anger.
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  I'm, I'm getting ready to laugh right now and, and I'm like,
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  let's have fun with it. So I started the old people, you
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  know, you old people. And I've said several times and
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  you all know it by now, old people is a joke, you know.
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  And then of course, the sitcom Sanford and Son Lamar, you big
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  dummy. So I've said this over the last
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  two weeks. I've explained myself well with
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  that, Mark Martin piped up one day.
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  He goes, you know what? These, these old people, this is
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  starting to hit pretty close to home.
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  Wow, Mark Martin responded to me.
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  Having fun with all you old people.
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  You're angry. You complain all the time.
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  It's exhausting. So Mark Martin said.
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  Listen, this is starting to hit pretty close to home.
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  So immediately I call Mark on the phone, I call Mark.
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  I said Mark, I said, you want to do a Kenny conversation.
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  He said Mark. Mark responded, absolutely.
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  I said, you want to do it tomorrow.
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  He said, right now let's do it. So it was my idea to get Mark
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  Martin on a second Kenny conversation, and I thought this
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  would be good. And boy, Mark Martin had a lot
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  to say. We went an hour and 23 minutes
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  effortlessly. Mark Martin did most of the
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  talking. I know the whole racing
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  community. I know Dale Junior, I know
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  everybody is going to be watching it.
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  It's coming out today, Mark Martin, like I've never heard
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  before. Mark makes a lot of good points.
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  I'm going to let you in on a little excerpt, you know, like a
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  little piece of what he said that really shocked me, made me
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  look differently. I do want to let you all know
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  that Mark Martin specifically blames one group of people for
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  this, and it's not NASCAR. Mark Martin says there's one
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  group of people to blame for the change in NASCAR, and it's not
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  NASCAR. You're going to want to hear
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  that, OK. He also said something to me
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  that made me think differently. And of course, everybody has
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  been showing the Richard Petty video from, you know, 40 years
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  ago where Richard Petty says we're not baseball, we're not
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  football, we're not hockey. That's why we're awesome,
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  because we are not like other sports.
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  Well, on this Kenny conversation with Mark Martin, he said
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  something that I went, wow, you're right, he said.
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  Mark Martin said, I don't like it that NASCAR calls it the
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  playoffs. We're not the damn playoffs,
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  Mark Martin said, I don't like it that they used the word
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  overtime. We're not in overtime.
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  I went, wow, I never looked at it that way.
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  I said, Mark, do you think NASCAR show some keywords to
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  make us like other sports play offs?
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  We're in the play offs like baseball, football, hockey.
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  We're going into overtime like all the other sports.
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  So you're going to want to listen to this.
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  Mark Martin makes a lot of sense and he's very good.
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  And of course there's already been a cut out.
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  There's already been an excerpt put out on video.
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  Charlie put it out yesterday. Mark Martin feels like his
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  career has been diminished with all the he calls them gimmicks.
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  I call them promos in ending. I explained to myself, to you, I
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  said I come at this, I come at NASCAR as we're not going to
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  change it. So I'm having fun with it.
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  Mark Martin comes at it like, Nope, I'm pissed.
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  So it was my idea once again, for the second time.
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  It was my idea and it was a great, great conversation and I
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  hope you will like it. And it's coming out today.
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  Today is Thursday, obviously. Yesterday, Wednesday, NASCAR
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  comes out with another big press conference.
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  Steve O'Donnell, the new president.
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  Steve says the days of us building a racetrack in a rural
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  area is over. I'm going to repeat it, then I'm
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  going to explain it. NASCAR President Steve O'Donnell
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  said the days of us building a racetrack in a rural area is
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  over. Now, what does that mean?
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  Well, Pocono is in a rural area there.
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  There's nothing around Pocono. It's the racetrack and that's
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  it. Iowa Speedway is in a rural
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  area. There's a racetrack and there's
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  nothing around it there. I think on the corner there's a
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  hotel and a gas station. So when you look at a lot of
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  these race tracks that are built, that have been built in
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  the day for years, NASCAR would build a racetrack.
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  They'd find some land out, way out, and they build a racetrack.
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  You know, for the better part, you even look at Chicago.
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  I mean, there's nothing around Chicago.
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  The racetrack. It is, it's it's a commerce area
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  for sending things down, down the river, down the big old
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  Illinois River. So when you when you go to
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  Chicago Speedway, it's very commercialized.
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  I mean commercialized to the maximum peak.
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  Like there's nothing around there.
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  OK. I mean, I guess you could go
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  down to Joliet and find some, a casino or or so.
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  But there's really, you know, it's, it's very commercialized.
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  OK. And the next thing that Steve
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  O'Donnell said caught me off guard.
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  Now reported by Adam Stern. Everybody not me, Adam Stern, go
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  to Adam Stern. Adam Stern said that NASCAR is
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  in big talks. Listen to this.
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  Another St. course. Remember 2 days ago we talked
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  about the street course in San Diego.
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  Now NASCAR is talking about a street course 2 hours from
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  Pocono in Philadelphia. You say to yourself, what the
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  hell is going on and why? I think, I think Mark Martin and
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  my conversation has come at the right time.
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  You're getting ready to see NASCAR like you've never seen it
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  in your life. If you want to jump off the boat
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  right now, now is the time because NASCAR's going to look
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  way different. But now I don't want you all to
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  get depressed because, you know, Martinsville still here.
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  We brought back Wilkesboro, we brought back Rockingham.
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  So, so think about it, everybody think about it.
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  We bought, we brought back Rockingham, we brought back
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  Wilkesboro. So NASCAR is keeping its
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  heritage. Let's be clear.
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  NASCAR is keeping its heritage. But NASCAR sees value, they
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  said. They said the next time we ever
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  build a racetrack, it's going to be in the city with developers
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  and development. Basically, NASCAR said if we
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  ever build another new racetrack, it's going to be in
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  an area where there's stuff going on with a developer.
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  We're not going to do it by ourselves.
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  All right, everybody, I think I think I've explained myself with
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  Mark Martin. It's coming out today.
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  It's going to be one of those deals where you don't listen for
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  20 minutes and shut it off. This is a deal where you're
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  going to listen to it the whole way through.
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  Mark Martin, like you've never heard him before.
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  I help him with receipts. I bring the receipts.
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  Mark Martin will say something and then I'll say, yeah, this is
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  the receipts. And it's it's really, really
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  good. So Mark Martin, for all you old
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  people, I love you. All right, everybody respond
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  right here and have a great Thursday.