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Breaking News: Kasey Kahne Returns To NASCAR at Rockingham | Charlie Marlow · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up everybody, we are live here on the Kenny Wallace
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  YouTube channel. I am Charlie Marlow.
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  You see the headline, you see the title.
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  Breaking news, Kasey Kahne returns to NASCAR this year,
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  Xfinity Series one race at Rockingham.
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  You see the cool graphic behind me.
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  Hopefully it's not too distracting.
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  There's Kasey Kahne for RCR Richard Childress Racing.
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  I will read you the press release right from X.
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  This came out about an hour ago, so nine o'clock 9:00 Central
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  Time. Here we go.
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  News Kasey Kahne to pilot the number 33.
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  Beautiful number. My favorite number 33, the 33
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  Hendrick Cars Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing in the
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  NASCAR Xfinity Series event at Rockingham Speedway.
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  So that's the release right there from RCR on X.
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  And the article has some quotes from Kasey Kahne.
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  Kasey Kahne to drive a third Richard Childress Racing entry
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  in NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Rockingham Speedway.
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  OK, that's coming up Saturday, April 19th when NASCAR returns
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  to the Rock for the first time in over a decade.
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  And Kasey Kahne, I won't read the whole thing.
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  I'm not trying to play dry. I just want to give you guys the
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  info. You can all see this on X from
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  RCR from Kasey Kahne from NASCAR as well, but Kasey Kahne says
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  I'm excited to get back behind the wheel of a stock car,
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  especially at a place like Rockingham Speedway, said Kahne.
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  Quote, Rockingham has been a special track throughout my
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  career. I remember winning the Truck
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  Series race in 2012 when the sport went back there last.
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  So to be a part of the current return is cool.
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  Very appreciative of the opportunity that Mister
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  Hendrick, Richard Childress and everyone at RCR have given me,
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  along with the support of hendrickcars.com, Chevrolet Curb
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  records and Caravan trailers. I look forward to hitting the
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  track next week for the test. So here we are late January and
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  Kasey Kahne already will be at the track next week for the
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  test. Kasey Kahne, How old do you
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  think Kasey Kahne is? I was thinking to myself when I
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  saw this news, how old is Kasey Kahne?
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  I I knew he wasn't very old. 44 years old, born April 10th,
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  1980. He will turn 45 years old later
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  this year, still racing dirt that High Limit series, which
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  was created by Kyle Larson and Brad Suite.
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  So he drives the the number 9 Sprint car there for his own
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  team that he owns, Kasey Kahne Racing.
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  I'm also thinking when was the last time Kasey Kahne raced in
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  NASCAR? Now when I was really into
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  NASCAR, we covered it. I was working in Lansing, MI at
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  Michigan International Speedway. We had two Cup races each year
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  there. So this would have been 2006,
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  2007 when Kasey Kahne was really rolling one of the the big
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  stars, obviously of NASCAR. So let's just look at his
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  numbers. I'm just here on Wikipedia.
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  We're just we're consuming and processing the news as we go
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  here. So Kasey Kahne, 529 Cup races
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  over 15 years. His last Cup race was 2018, the
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  Bojangles Southern 500 at Darlington.
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  His last win in the Cup Series was 2017, a crown jewel, the
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  Brickyard 418 Career NASCAR Cup wins 176 top tens, 27 poles in
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  529 races. You probably remember a couple
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  years ago named one of NASCAR's 75 greatest drivers.
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  He was the Cup Series rookie of the year going back to 2004.
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  So Xfinity Series, his last race, also 2017 at Talladega.
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  Let's see, Truck Series last race, 2015.
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  So he hasn't raced in the top three series of NASCAR since
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  2018 was his last race. We're going on 7 years here.
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  Xfinity eight career wins. Truck Series, five career wins.
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  What do you guys think of this pretty cool Kasey Kahne.
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  I mean, heck, he looks like he's 35, only 44 years old coming
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  back at the Rock Rockingham Pretty cool news to see on a
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  Friday. NASCAR doing a good job of of
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  keeping the the headlines moving here throughout the offseason.
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  What do you guys? Think we'll go?
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  To some of your comments here, thank you for joining me here on
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  the live stream. Charlie Marlow.
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  You probably know Kenny Wallace is out there in Europe.
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  He was in Italy, he's in Germany.
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  I don't know if he's still driving, literally driving to
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  Berlin. You should go to X Actually, you
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  should watch him here on YouTube.
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  They're on X as well. But here on YouTube, you got
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  Kenny Wallace driving on the Audubon going something like
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  120. He said he's going 158 miles an
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  hour. So we have all those videos
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  coming out. We have a great conversation
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  with Holly Kane that dropped yesterday.
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  That's really good. So a lot of great stuff here on
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  the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel.
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  Let's go to some of your comments here.
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  Noah's Athletics says, say what? So yeah, the news.
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  If you're just joining us, Kasey Kahne will return for one race
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  right now to the Xfinity Series coming up in April at
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  Rockingham. His first NASCAR race since
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  2018. His first Xfinity race since
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  2017. Let's see.
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  Some people not liking it. Salty says stay in dirt.
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  NASCAR sucks lol. Come on now.
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  You can't do a little both. Don't you think this is fun?
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  Don't you think this is good for the sport?
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  One of the big names coming back.
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  I think it's great. Let's see.
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  MC hot stuff says hell yeah. Thomas Johnson says that's cool.
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  They're racing at Rockingham again.
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  I agree. Let's see.
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  That one Polish guy, that's crazy if he actually returns.
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  No, he is going to return. This is just one race.
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  It's not like he's returning full time, folks.
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  This is one race coming up here, 2025 at Rockingham, a track he
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  knows very well has had a lot of success at.
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  Let's see. Ek Falcons O 9 says Casey can
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  race in NASCAR for the first time since 2018, but Mike
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  Wallace can't race in NASCAR for the first time since 2020.
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  How does that make sense? Interesting point there.
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  And I'm guessing the fact that Kasey Kahne is younger.
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  He's 44. He has been racing a ton of
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  dirt. So we can get into all of that.
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  And if you want to go after NASCAR for that, I I understand
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  Kasey Kahne has been racing a ton still.
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  That's probably the difference. James Taylor says good deal and
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  Keith Frank with the same question about Mike Wallace.
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  He says how is that fair? If Mike Wallace can't race, then
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  how in the hell can KC race in NASCAR when he hasn't been
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  involved in NASCAR in over five years?
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  Yes, Laughing Donkey. Kasey Kahne, 44 years.
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  Young. Let's see.
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  Everybody's making the comparison to Mike Wallace here.
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  You guys are all over that. Has Casey been racing more dirt
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  other races than Mike? He has been racing that High
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  Limit series. He owns a team, Kasey Kahne
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  Racing. Let's see, He's starting to look
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  weathered. I don't know about that.
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  Come on now, Thomas Johnson says.
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  Wonderful bullet boost. I'm extremely happy.
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  Huge KC fan. This is good for the sport.
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  Come on, guys, don't we all agree on this big name?
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  Still young. I mean, the ladies used to
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  always love him back in the day, right?
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  Let's see, Joe. Yolts, I believe Herman is
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  driving KPH kilometers, right? But he was going 200 kilometers
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  per hour. What is the what's the exchange
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  there? Not the exchange rate, but
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  what's the conversion to to miles?
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  He said 1/21/25. He said 158 in his last video.
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  So I don't know. I'm not there.
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  I'm here in beautiful St. Louis, MO.
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  Let's see. Drew Pierce Casey still
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  successful in the World of Outlaws as a driver and team
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  owner, so he's well prepared to race again.
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  I agree with you. Timothy Hetherington, this is
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  awesome. Thomas Johnson Fantastic for
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  mature race drivers. Let's see.
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  And then Z17X machine says, But Mike Wallace never got out of
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  the car due to health issues like Casey did.
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  Yeah, a lot of people making the comparison to NASCAR ruling that
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  Mike Wallace can't attempt the Daytona 500 even to qualify
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  because of inactivity. Let's see.
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  Dale French, What's the big deal with all the old drivers?
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  He ain't that old, folks. I mean, heck, I'm about to turn
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  43 this year. Kasey Kahne is going to turn 45
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  this year, so what's the big deal with all the old drivers
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  that are all of a sudden returning to racing?
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  Don't you think this is fun? Isn't this good for the sport,
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  Specially A1 off track like Rockingham bringing it back old
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  school. I think it's great.
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  Let's see. Charles Tinsman, People talking
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  about Mike Wallace can't race and Casey can.
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  The main reason is Daytona is a superspeedway.
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  Rockingham isn't. That is true.
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  Let's see Mer, Diesel says. Hey, from a mountain on Taiwan,
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  you're in Taiwan right now, how about that?
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  Will says Glad to see Casey coming back, it's good for the
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  sport. I agree wholeheartedly,
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  Murdiesel says. Casey comes back and has fun.
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  Let's see Andrew Day. Kasey Kahne will be a back
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  marker. RCR is nowhere near the team
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  they used to be. But what if they turn it around?
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  Don't you think Kyle Busch is kind of pushing them?
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  Let's get this thing back. Let's let's start winning some
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  races again. That first year for Kyle Busch,
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  pretty Dang good, right? What did he win?
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  Did he win 3 races? Started out really hot.
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  This is about Kenny Wallace on the Audubon. 124 mph.
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  OK, I don't know. That's what I thought.
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  What's the conversion? 1.6 to one for kilometers to
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  miles. Let's see.
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  Ken Ruggle says no comparison to Mike Wallace.
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  Casey has stayed behind the wheel.
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  Mike has not. I brought that up earlier.
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  Paul Werner or Werner says how's the snow down there in Saint
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  Louis? We got a ton of snow 2-3 weeks
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  ago. Still a lot of snow on the
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  ground. Well, it's pretty much straight
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  ice now. Pretty Dang cold.
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  I think today it was about when I was in the car truck earlier.
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  It was about 15°. It was 0 the other day with Rick
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  Mast. I did the Rick Mast show and it
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  was 0°. That was on Tuesday, so pretty
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  Dang cold, Brian says. So hypocritical he's making the
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  comparison to Mike Wallace. Let's see.
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  This person says, John Watson, stop comparing others against
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  Mike Wallace. I agree.
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  Can't we just focus? Hey, we all love Mike Wallace.
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  I wish you would be able to run and maybe he will be able to run
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  next year if he gets back in the swing of things and races a
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  little bit. Let's focus on this story.
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  This is the news of the day. Kasey Kahne returning to the
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  Xfinity Series. First time back running a NASCAR
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  race since 2018. He will run at Rockingham coming
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  up in April. I read you the press release,
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  little bit of it from Richard Childress Racing.
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  And this was all over. X just broke at 9:00 central
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  time. Let's see what else we got here.
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  I know NASCAR has weighed in. Of course, NASCAR their release
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  on Access News. He's back.
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  Kasey Kahne will compete in the Xfinity Series at Rockingham
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  Speedway in the number 33 for Richard Childress Racing.
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  And again, this race is coming up in April.
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  Saturday race, what day is it here?
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  Trying to find it Saturday, April 19th as NASCAR returns to
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  The Rock for the first time in over a decade and Kasey Kahne
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  returns to NASCAR for the first time in seven years.
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  Thomas Johnson says super fun. Let's see here.
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  Ken Ruggles says though Casey had 18 Cup wins, I think he
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  ended up a big disappointment. Interesting.
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  I don't agree with that. I think he had a heck of a nice
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  career. Obviously didn't race super
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  long. Finished fourth in the Cup
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  Series in 2012. What?
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  7th in the Xfinity 2318 Cup wins, 8 Xfinity wins, 5 Truck
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  wins. Named one of NASCAR's 75
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  greatest drivers. 2004 Nextel Cup Series Rookie of the year.
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  All right, we're talking Brickyard 400, winner in 2017,
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  winner with three separate manufacturers in NASCAR, one
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  with Toyota, Chevy, and Dodge. I'm just sitting here and kind
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  of perusing his Wikipedia page, folks.
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  That's all I'm doing. Let's see.
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  Randy Melton says can't wait for The Rock.
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  Every time I hear The Rock, I want to say welcome to the Rock.
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  Like Sean Connery from that great movie The Rock with with
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  Nick Cage, right? Pretty good movie back in the
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  day. It was about 2025 years old.
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  Good. Was it late 90s early 2000s?
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  Somebody look it up. The Rock's a good movie.
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  Let's see. Casey was good, but not great.
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  It's fair, but I mean, again, one of NASCAR's top 75 drivers,
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  that's pretty Dang good. Let's see.
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  Everyone knows Kasey Kahne's name.
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  He was pretty good. Lol yes is that in the
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  comparison to to Mike Wallace? Yes.
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  Clearly, Kasey Kahne is a bigger name we all know.
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  Let's see. Jason Stacey says, I think Casey
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  at Hendrick was a disappointment, but not his
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  whole career. I mean, really nice career.
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  I like to focus on the positives, guys, OK, I know he
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  never had a Cup championship, probably want more wins.
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  Let's focus on the positive and he's back, right?
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  He's back. This is good stuff, good
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  storyline. I've always said this for
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  NASCAR, especially Xfinity Series, if you can draw
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  attention to the Xfinity Series like this will with Kasey Kahne,
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  it'll be it'll be the story of the Xfinity Series the same way
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  Dale Junior when he comes back and runs an Xfinity race once a
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  year or he usually does. And that's a huge story.
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  And we we talked about this and Herman Schrader talked about
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  this on their show. Also the fact that look, this
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  special exemption, which is this is different than the Kasey
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  Kahne deal because that's for Cup.
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  But I agree with Schrader in the sense of you don't need the the
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  special exemption for Daytona. It's great that Elio Castroneves
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  is running it. It's fantastic.
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  But I'm just saying Daytona 500, the Great American race, you
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  don't need anything extra to bring attention to the Daytona
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  500. But I think it makes a ton of
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  sense for marketing publicity to get eyeballs, especially on the
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  Xfinity Series to do things like this.
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  These one off races with some of these big name drivers coming
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  back like Kasey Kahne is for the Xfinity Series at Rockingham on
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  Saturday April 19th with a Hendrix car driving for RCR.
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  His first NASCAR well race his his last Xfinity race was 2017
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  but his last Cup race was 2018. So the first time racing in one
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  of NASCAR's top three series for the last seven years but has
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  been active racing. Dirt high Limit series owns that
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  team. So the Sprint car owns Kasey
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  Kahne Racing, obviously. Let's see.
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  Specialty on dirt, says TJ. Awesome Casey says Rocks 1989
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  Melissa Higgins says Casey was a great driver and good guy health
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  issues were out of his control so excited to watch him race
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  again and Sammy Carroll says he was stuck in a dodge.
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  Here we go we got 307 of you watching here on YouTube.
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  Appreciate you all and I'm not going to go super long.
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  I just wanted to kind of chat with you guys.
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  I know you have questions and comments, like to read them.
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  I know you guys like to see your names on the screen.
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  It's all good. Kenny Wallace is in Jetermini
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  going like 125 mph on the Audubon or whatever the
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  conversion is. I don't know how fast he's
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  going, but it's pretty Dang fast.
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  Check out all those videos here on YouTube and he's all over
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  I'll read a few more comments from you.
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  Guys, let's see. Jason Stacy says his Dodge days
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  were arguably his best years. And Timothy Hetherington says
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  the Rock 1996. Fred Haggis.
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  Nice to see him back. I'm sure he will do all right.
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  Yeah. And it's a fun storyline.
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  It's fun, brings attention, brings eyeballs to the sport.
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  You'll love it. Let's see.
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  David Powell going a little more negative here.
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  Casey can't even win a Sprint car race high limit.
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  No way he does anything in NASCAR.
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  It's a one race, one off folks. Xfinity Series.
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  It's fun. Can't we just have fun?
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  Can't we just enjoy it? Come on now.
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  Come on, David. I'm just kidding, but come on.
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  Let's see. Jason says, Jason Kinzer.
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  I was not a Kasey Kahne fan, but I respect him as a driver.
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  Eighteen wins, takes talent for sure, 18 Cup wins.
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  We mentioned his stats earlier, one of NASCAR's 75 greatest
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  drivers and also the rookie of the year and Cup back in the
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  day. What was that, 2004?
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  I'll read his stats for you one more time.
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  I said I'm not going to go super long here.
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  We'll go over 20 minutes and we'll call it a, we'll call it a
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  show, but Kasey Kahne, 44 years old, about to turn 45 here
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  coming up in April. So we'll turn 45 right before
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  that race. And won the Brickyard in 2017.
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  That was his last NASCAR Cup win.
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  Last NASCAR Cup race, 2018, Bojangles Southern 500 at
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  Darlington, finished fourth in the Cup Series.
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  That was his best. Finished 20/12/18.
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  Cup wins 176, Top tens 27 Poles in 529.
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  Cup races over 15 years, 8 Xfinity Series wins, 5 Truck
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  wins. We're talking about over 700
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  career NASCAR starts over the top three series.
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  And he'll be racing at Xfinity for the Xfinity Series, I should
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  say at Rockingham coming up April 19th.
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  His first time racing in NASCAR since 2018.
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  All right, TJ says he has one in Sprint cars.
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  Yeah, I thought that as well. I don't know exactly his stats
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  over the last couple years. And obviously the High Limit
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  Series is a relatively new series as well, owned by Kyle
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  Larson and Brad Suite. And then starting that up to
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  have more of a little competition with the World of
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  Outlaws and have multiple series that the guys can all run.
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  All right, there you go. We'll call it a show.
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  Dirty MO Media podcast. Charlie Marlowe signing off.
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  Have a great weekend everybody. Love you all.
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