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HUGE News Day: Dale Earnhardt Jr, TV Ratings & A Lawsuit | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning everybody. Well, looky here.
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  The herminator finally slept in. Got up, looked over nine O 4.
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  Whoa, doggy. Felt like a kid again.
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  I think the reason I slept in is 'cause I worked pretty hard
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  yesterday. I loaded Kim's trike,
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  Harley-Davidson trike. I loaded it up in the front of
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  the race car trailer and then I loaded my race car up behind it.
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  Middle of March, Kim and I are going to drive everything down
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  to North Carolina, going to unload the race car at Nick
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  Hoffman's, going to get that baby freshened up, get it ready
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  for the year. And then the trike is going to
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  get dropped off at Uncle Rusty's shop so Steven can go over it
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  one more time before we take it to Tilly Harley-Davidson.
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  And that is where the Kyle Petty charity ride.
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  That's where they're going to load up all the bikes and take
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  the motorcycles all the way over to San Francisco right there at
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  at Sonoma. That's what I call it at the
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  road course because that's where the 30th annual Kyle Petty
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  Cherry Ride is going to take off and we're going to go all the
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  way across the United States and we're going to end up at the
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  Charlotte Motor Speedway. Morgan Petty, Kyle Petty,
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  wonderful people, Richard Bostic, everybody involved in
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  that. Kim and I have found this in our
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  life and we love it. We help them raise about
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  anywhere from 1.5 to $2,000,000 per year and Kyle and Morgan
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  take that money and it goes to the Victory Junction Gang camp.
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  But no, I don't feel like riding the trike all the way out there
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  From ride the trike from Saint Louis all the way to Sonoma,
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  then come right back by here. Well then you're not a
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  motorcycle guy. Well, guess what?
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  I guess I'm not. Kim and I do our share of
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  riding. We put in three 4000 miles last
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  year on the Kyle Petty Charity ride, so we really enjoy it.
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  OK, a little heavy on the monologue today, 2 minutes and
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  30 seconds got some we, we have so much news today that look at
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  this, so much news today that, that I had to make notes.
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  So let's get going right away. We got lots of tidbit
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  information here and it's all really good stuff.
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  So here we go. Did you know I just found out
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  late last night that great basketball player Brad
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  Daugherty, he was a NASCAR Cup owner when Ricky Stenhouse won
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  the Daytona 500. So that means Brad Daugherty has
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  won the Daytona 500 with driver Ricky Stenhouse.
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  Well, guess who Brad Daugherty's teammate was at North Carolina
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  in college basketball? That's right, Michael Jordan.
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  And guess who just won the Daytona 500?
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  That's right, Michael Jordan with driver Tyler Reddick.
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  So 2 college basketball players at North Carolina.
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  There they were, both of them standing next to each other in
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  those powder blue uniforms. Brad Doherty and Michael Jordan
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  have both won Daytona 5 hundreds.
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  Can you believe that? I thought that was pretty
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  awesome. That was just some fun info.
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  Just something to get us going. OK, switching subjects, the
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  Daytona 500 peaked at 9.2 million viewers, settled in
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  around over like 7.4 million people watching.
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  Like I said about the trucks, that's a lot of people.
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  Now, there'll be some of the negative Nellies out there.
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  They'll they'll say things like this.
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  Herm, sorry to tell you. Too bad we had higher ratings
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  years ago. There they are.
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  There they are in all their glory, the negative Nellies, the
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  mean people. Herman, I'm just telling you the
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  way it was. And then, then they use the
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  little emoji. It goes like this.
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  Oh, I'd hate to be them. I'd hate to be them.
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  Finding the negativity in everything.
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  All right, here's my comment on that. 9.2 million peak for the
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  Daytona 500. That's way better than the last
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  two years. So we're gaining and we're
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  looking good. That's the way it goes.
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  We're better than we have been. OK, changing subjects, This
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  one's going to be a long 1. Dale Junior comes out on Bless
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  Your Heart with a his wife Amy. And Dale Junior says, well, are
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  we going to address the elephant in the room?
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  And Amy said, Yep, I had a moment.
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  I don't know what I was thinking.
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  Dale Junior will not drive the Daytona 500.
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  Now, to me, that's not the story.
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  The story is what he said later. He said I want to explain and he
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  got very serious and I and I thought the reason we'll bring
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  this up today because it takes a good look in the new, the new
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  lifestyle of the NASCAR Cup driver.
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  Very hard to do 1 offs now. In other words, very hard for
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  somebody to go. I just want to run 1 Cup race
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  and here's why. Here's what Dale Junior said.
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  When you drive these cup cars, now all the teams that you drive
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  for the big ones, the ones that now you might be able to get on
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  a smaller cup team, but Dale Junior says I can't put the time
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  in it that's required. I got to spend time in the SIM,
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  he said. I got to spend every inch of
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  that car learning all the switches.
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  I got to work for all the sponsors.
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  I got to do all the hospitality in the fire suits and the photo
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  shoots. And he said it's not worth it.
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  I I cannot do it. I thought, wow, I've never
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  looked at it from that point of view.
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  So to be a NASCAR Cup driver today, you just if you want to
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  have a good run, you know, now you look at you look at somebody
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  like a Justin Allgar. He's already in the SIM 4.
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  You know, Hendrick. So he is a runner.
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  In other words, Justin Allgrow. That's what he does.
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  He he runs the Xfinity car for a living.
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  But over here he also gets paid to do SIM and well, there's
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  Louis the legend. Where the hell you been, Louis?
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  Your fans been looking for you there he is, race fans.
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  The king lives. So Dale Junior's right to be a
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  competitive cup driver nowadays and to do it right, it's it's
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  too much work. So, hey, I tried for y'all
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  because he's the one. He's the one that brought her
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  up. And it was national news.
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  It went all over. OK, last but not least, this
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  one's juicy. This one's juicy.
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  I want to thank Denny Hamlin for using a meme of me.
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  Yes, Denny Hamlin uses a meme of me.
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  So late last night, Denny Hamlin did not know that his own team,
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  Joe Gibbs Racing, is suing Chris Gebhardt.
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  Chris Gebhardt worked for Joe Gibbs Racing for quite a long
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  time and he was in charge. He was the competition director,
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  meaning he was in charge of all competition at Joe Gibbs.
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  Oh, he quit. So anyway, it says Joe Gibbs
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  Racing files lawsuit against Chris Gaybhart and and Denny
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  uses a meme of me like this. I got these glasses or something
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  like this. Check it out.
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  Go to Denny Hamlin's X social media site.
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  It's funny. And I said Denny Hamlin for the
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  win. Thank you, Danny for thinking of
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  me and using me as a meme. It's awesome.
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  So here's my opinion on that. Go to Jordan Bianchi over there
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  Dirty MO Media. He's got a he he he breaks it
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  down. So Jordan Bianchi is where I'm
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  getting all this information from.
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  Jordan explains the story. Basically I'm going to wrap it
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  up in a nutshell since we're at 9 minutes, Chris Gay Bart goes
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  to Joe Gibbs and says I want total control.
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  Joe Gibbs and teams say no, Gay Bart says I'm leaving.
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  So Joe Gibbs Racing feels he feel they, they feel allegedly,
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  you know, that's that new word allegedly that way that gets me
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  out of trouble. So Joe Gibbs Racing is suing
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  Chris Gaybard because they feel like Chris Gaybard allegedly
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  stole all their chassis setups. Allegedly.
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  Good. Now, I'm not in trouble because
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  I said allegedly a lot. So we'll see how this plays out.
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  But I will tell you this, This is big.
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  It's bigger than big and it's loud.
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  It's a loud one. It's a loud lawsuit.
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  And this will set a precedence. This will change crew chiefs and
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  competition directors for the rest of their lives.
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  Now everything see when you go to work for these teams, you,
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  you sign all this, you sign non compete.
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  I won't take any of this information when I leave.
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  So when when you go to Joe Gibbs Racing or any of these high
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  teams, they give you the computer here.
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  This is the team computer. You're not allowed to take that
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  information with you because it was learned with that team and
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  that team was paying Chris, Chris, you know, you know how
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  much money they were paying Chris Gabehart, $1 million a
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  year. Damn, that's good money.
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  So here's my opinion. I just gave it to you, but I
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  don't think you heard me. This will set a precedence.
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  Crew chiefs, competition directors.
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  You better start writing that stuff down at home.
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  Start writing it down at home because you can't take it with
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  you digitally. I will see you all at Echo Park
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  Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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  I'll see you there Sunday for Trackside live.
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  Have a great Friday, everybody.