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FOX Sports Is Saving Racing | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning to everybody.
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  There's my friend John Skatoni, and we are going to do a 360.
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  We are high atop our hotel. We are in the pool bar here in
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  downtown Athens, Greece. We don't get downtown very much
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  anywhere, do we? And this is pretty wild living
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  downtown anywhere. So here is the here's the pool
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  bar. So you say you want to see the
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  swimming pool, huh? OK, Follow me.
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  Hey, Wallace, what are you doing drinking water today?
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  This is my poop juice. This is OK.
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  Let's look here. So see, it's.
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  There's no water. There's no water.
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  Don't be going in there. But you notice, you see some
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  people. This is a this reminds me of
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  Green Acres. Everybody coming on down here to
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  check out. Look here got some people coming
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  hightop. We're waiting for the fighter
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  jets because it's it is their 4th of July and they're having a
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  military parade. So anyway, that look at there,
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  there's people with planters up there and it's city life.
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  Goodbye sea life. Green Acres is the Green Acres
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  is the place to be Farm loving is a life for me.
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  So anyway, people in the city, they pretend they're in the
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  country by putting flowers in and planter, you know, pottery
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  up there. OK, so if The Jets start, then
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  we'll just show them in the background.
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  That was my monologue for the day.
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  OK, something I really want to talk about because I talk about
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  what I see racing in general. I see everybody seeking
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  attention. That's going to be my headlines
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  today. We see IndyCar seeking
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  attention. We see high limit on Fox Sports
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  1 seeking attention. We see NASCAR seeking attention
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  and last but not least, we see just straight up dirt racing
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  seeking attention. That is my that is my headlines
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  today, auto racing, all divisions.
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  Hey, look at me. Look at me.
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  So late last night we saw Chase Briscoe, we saw a lot of people
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  going Oh my God, Oh my God, Fox Sports 1.
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  Remember the channel that's so hard to get carried on Is that
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  live live from Nuvedo out there in what the hell respond right
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  here. I don't got brain fade Nuvedo.
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  They raced there during the winter, but that's New Mexico,
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  something like that. So anyway, high limit was on TV
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  last night and I Oh my God, the dirt racing people about ready
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  to lose their breath. We're on TV, we're on live TV,
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  watches, watches. There's there's always that
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  thought that we're going to be famous and we're going to be big
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  time and by God, we're going to take over the world.
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  Now you know me to get the point across.
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  I exaggerate a lot, but respond right here is this the year of
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  look at me. I seek attention.
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  And what have they all got in common?
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  Here's the punchline to all of this.
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  It's Fox TV. It's all Fox TV.
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  Because you look at IndyCar, they bought a third or no Fox TV
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  bought a third of IndyCar. Fox TV put high limit on TV last
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  night. I think all of us owe gratitude
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  and we almost owe a little bit. I don't think we owe debt, but
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  we I think we should be loyal to Fox.
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  Yes, my disclaimers, I worked for them for 14 years.
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  My paychecks came from Fox TV for 14 years.
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  But without Fox, we don't have any high limit races.
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  Without Fox, Fox owned Speed TV, and I just really believe that
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  there's no other network out there.
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  Now, there's some that throws a bone every once in a while, but
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  for the most part, there's no TV network in the history of
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  racing. I mean, maybe CBS, the human
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  drama of athletic competition and the agony of defeat.
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  I mean, Wide World of Sports, you know, back in the day, but
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  it seemed like this new network of Fox has taken over.
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  So what I'm trying to say today is this, do you see what I see?
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  I see for the first time in a long time, I see a lot of
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  different racing divisions trying to stake their claim.
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  IndyCar we're the greatest high limit Sprint car racing and I
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  got to tell you that's another subject matter right there.
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  I know Jennifer Marshall, Jennifer, I love you and Richard
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  very much. You put millions and millions of
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  dollars into open wheel dirt Sprint racing and I know how
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  proud you are to see the return on your dollar.
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  You know, you get a lot of these open wheel dirt Sprint racers
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  got a lot of wealthy people and they go to these.
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  Oh, here we are. Let's see if we can see them.
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  There they are. They're one little bit.
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  They starting right now. But anyway, my friend, listen,
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  I'm wealthy too. I'm wealthy, so I but I'm just
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  saying the wealthy people, but the wealthy people, they put
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  their money into these old dirt tracks.
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  Me and John, John and myself, we go these old dirt tracks and
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  they got porta potties. It's kind of embarrassing, you
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  know, and you try to take the rich ladies there with the big
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  diamond rings you like, hey, go take a porta pot, honey.
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  You know, they're worth about, you know, $100 million.
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  So it's nice to see your investment pay off when you can
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  literally turn FS1 on. And there's the sport that you
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  put, you know, probably $50 million into at least.
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  And I got to be honest with you, you know, Brian Carter,
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  everybody at the world bylaws, they're awesome.
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  But man, I tell you what, this Brad Suite and who, whoever his
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  partners are, I know it's Kyle Larson, Brad Suite and some
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  other people, but I think they're changing the game right
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  now. Respond right here.
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  Do you think Brad Suite is changing the game and dirt
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  racing with Sprint cars being on FS1?
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  I guess that was live. It wasn't taped, was it Or was
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  it? I don't know, because roots or
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  ruts will want her. Aaron Reitzel, I got it there.
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  Everybody's seeking attention, but you got to work for it.
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  So I'm going to close out like this.
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  Rodger Penske was smart enough to make the deal and go, OK,
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  Fox, I'll let you buy 30% of IndyCar.
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  We'll be a team. We'll get on national TV.
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  There's no doubt in my mind that IndyCar would still be much
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  lesser without Fox. Same thing with Sprint cars.
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  Sprint cars would be much lesser without FOX on FS1.
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  Now, I know everybody's the greatest.
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  I know I'm the greatest. I'm the greatest.
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  Not you. I'm the best.
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  See, it's my comedy. My series is the best.
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  All right, respond right here. Have a great Wednesday in
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  Athens, Greece. Say goodbye, John.
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  Good night, Race fans.