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  All right, we're both laughing. You're looking live.
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  Charlie Marlow, Kenny Wallace, Daytona 500 just ended.
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  What a crazy finish. A guy basically, we weren't
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  talking about the entire race, even though he won it last year.
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  William Byron escapes all of that craziness to go
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  back-to-back in the Great American Race term.
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  Charlie, people ask me all the time who's going to win the
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  Daytona 500. I said you might as well go to a
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  casino, go to the roulette wheel, there's 36 numbers and
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  then there's 2 green numbers. That's 38.
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  I said spin a roulette wheel because William Byron running
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  about 12th, the 15th and the leaders all wrecked and you look
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  up and there's William Byron. You know, was he in position to
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  win the race? No, he was not.
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  But there's an old saying, if you're in it, you can win it.
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  And Charlie, William Byron, we've had him on Kenny
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  Conversation. We're lucky we had William Byron
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  on Kenny Conversation after a week after he won the last
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  Daytona 500. But it's official, Charlie,
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  William Byron etches his name in the record books.
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  He is a two time Daytona 500 winner and Oh my God, this race
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  had it all. Where do we start, Charlie?
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  Well, that was going to be my question.
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  This, this final wreck on the final lap.
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  I, I'm in my office here without ATV and I tried to watch it and
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  you saw what Custer and Hamlin there and then William Byron
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  escapes it. How, how about we start with
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  this? How about we start with the 15
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  to go? Because I got like that was the
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  big one. And also we have a bunch of
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  drivers that did interviews with Regan Smith afterwards talking
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  about it. So basically, Logano's pushing
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  Ricky Stenhouse about 15 to go, throws the late block, and then
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  it looked like Logano tried to get in there again.
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  What did you see? OK, everybody, we're going to go
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  to the Juice right away. All right?
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  This is my opinion, OK? I watched the replay 2 times of
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  Joey Logano, OK? And Ricky Stenhouse.
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  Here's what I see. I see two stubborn guys that are
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  aggressive and they're winners. You you can make fun of Ricky
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  Stenhouse and Joey Logano all you want.
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  The bottom line is Ricky Stenhouse is a winner.
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  Joey Logano's a three time champion, so make fun of all you
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  want, but they're always going for it.
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  So here's the way I broke that wreck down.
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  OK? You know, Logano's got to run.
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  He turns left. Ricky goes to block it and you
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  clearly see and you clearly hear Joey Logano let's off the gas.
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  I mean, he lets off the gas. That's all there's to it.
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  And then there's a little bit of gap and it appears that Joey
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  Logano's frustrated, like he's trying to wiggle his way in
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  there. But watch what I watched,
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  everybody. The four of Noah Gregson is
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  pushing Joey Logano in into it more now.
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  There's a couple replays, the replay that I saw, you kind of
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  got to look at the roof of the four car, you know, cuz there's
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  not a real good replay of it. Now they, they interviewed Joey
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  Logano. That's the way I see it.
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  I see 2 great racers and, and I think of the Arrington Center,
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  the great Formula One driver 15 laps ago, Daytona 500.
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  You see a gap and you don't go for it.
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  So I see Logano go for the gap. I see Stenhouse close the gap
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  and then you clearly see Logano come way out of the gas.
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  You see the flames, you hear the in car camera.
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  Then he gets back in the gas and, and now the four doesn't
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  get to him immediately. There's a delight.
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  Now the four is pushing him and and that's what happens.
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  So you know, I, I saw that, you know, and, and I know all of you
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  want to blame somebody on that wreck.
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  I get it. But you know, it's not that.
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  Look, if if I thought Joey Logano said I'm just going to
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  wreck it, he can't wreck everybody got to win the race.
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  But that's what I saw. I saw at the end there the four
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  coming in and then it was just a pile of potatoes after that.
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  But man, I'll tell you what, Charlotte, let me say this.
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  Here's the difference in these Daytona 5 hundreds, they ride,
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  they save the gas mileage. We see what they're doing.
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  You know, they're saving gas and they figured out, OK, we only
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  need 4 seconds of gas. This is the new thing now,
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  everybody watched it, right? They got the laptop, right?
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  The guy comes into pit stop and he puts up a laptop and the
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  laptop says 4.5 seconds and the laptop is yellow and he's got it
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  right in front of the driver's windshield.
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  And when it goes down to 0 seconds and the driver, it goes
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  green, the driver takes off. This is new.
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  This is a new deal. So now these guys are playing
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  this fuel game. Cuz whoever takes less fuel
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  takes less time on Pier Road. And now, now that the fuel is
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  over, Charlie, no more fuel game.
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  That's what we got. Everybody's like the same fuel,
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  the same fuel. And then all of a sudden
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  nobody's saving fuel anymore. Now we're wide open and now, now
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  we're trying to win the Daytona 500.
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  Let me just say this, Charlie, what a race, what a race.
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  I mean, NASCAR is still has the best start in 20 years.
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  And, and let me say this, I, I keep having things to say,
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  Charlie, my last thing and we're going to, we got a lot more to
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  go. They got lucky with the rain
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  because I mean, it's it's 8:45, but that race was over at say
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  835 in Saint Louis. So the Daytona 500 gets 4 hours
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  rain delay. It comes on in prime time.
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  It's over at 830-5935 in Charlotte.
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  Hell, it's even earlier north or in in California.
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  So all's well that it ends well. So the the four hour rain delay
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  actually put this Daytona 500 in prime time.
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  So NASCAR's got to be smiling. Yeah, it'll be interesting to
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  see the the ratings there. So I haven't heard from Ricky
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  Stenhouse yet. I don't have the TV in front of
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  me. But we did hear from Logano.
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  We heard from Kyle Busch. Logano didn't seem very pissed.
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  And I mean, he he was upset, obviously he didn't really blame
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  Ricky Stenhouse. I'm sure some people are blaming
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  Ricky Stenhouse, some people are blaming Joey Logano.
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  Some people are saying, hey, it's just racing.
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  It's 15 laps to go at the end of the Daytona 500.
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  But obviously you probably saw Kyle Busch.
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  Kyle Busch was not happy and he certainly did blame Joey Logano.
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  He said something like a it was the fastest car basically trying
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  to get to the wreck, you know, the the fastest car trying to
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  jam in there. So the 8 car Kyle Busch going
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  for his first Daytona 500 win in his 20th try, he was obviously
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  upset, but he did blame Joey Logano.
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  So Charlie emotions emotions are an all time high.
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  You, you got, you got here, here.
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  Here's the scenario. Joey Logano, not very many
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  people like him, OK, number one. Number two, he wins 3
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  championships. They're mad at him for winning
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  the third one and he's got the fastest car.
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  Now you got the villain who is Kyle Busch.
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  You know, this is like WWE, right?
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  The villain is Kyle Busch for so many years and he goes winless
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  last year and everybody's like, oh, they, they feeling sorry for
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  Kyle Busch now. They feeling sorry for Kyle
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  Busch. Now Kyle Busch is like kind of
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  like a Dale. OK, calm down everybody.
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  Kyle Busch is not Dale Senior, but it's got that feel. 20
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  years. He keeps trying.
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  He's always in the top five and gets wrecked out.
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  So Charlie, the fans are feeling bad for the villain and the
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  villain is Kyle Busch. This is a scenario.
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  Kyle Busch, who was the bad guy one time, Now everybody's loving
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  because he's 39 years old, he's getting of age.
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  He went when they're feeling sorry for him.
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  But in the end, it was just a damn wreck, you know?
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  And I broke it down and man, what an outcome.
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  You never know who's going to win this Daytona 500.
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  Let me say this Charlie, do you got the rundown I got?
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  It right there. People in the comments said that
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  junior got a top ten with all guy or was he 9th I believe?
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  Yeah, let me go ahead and read it.
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  I usually look for you you to read this, Charlie, but I got it
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  right here. I got the top 20, everybody.
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  William Byron wins his second Daytona 500 back-to-back.
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  Tyler Raddick, he runs second and that's good for Michael
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  Jordan. Look at this.
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  Jimmy Johnson, the 7th time champion was hanging out in the
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  back, literally, and then finally got it on.
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  He runs third or posted to Chase Briscoe finishes 4th.
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  John Hunter Nemechek finishes 5th.
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  Alex Moment 6 Ryan Blaney. Ryan Blaney totally destroyed,
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  wrecked out, they fix his nose, he comes back, finish the 7th.
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  Syndrich 8th And there it is, the feel good story in 9th, Dale
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  Earnhardt. Junior's car.
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  Justin Ogar finishes 9th Chris Buscher 10th OK, Chris Buscher
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  10th. Take a little breath here, take
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  a little drink of water in 11th. How about that?
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  Michael McDowell finished his 11th.
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  Daniel scores 12th, Eric Jones 13th, Ty Dillon, who I thought
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  was a good runner, he was multiple laps down, but he comes
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  back to finish 14th. Chase Elliott 15th.
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  Riley Herbst. He was, yeah.
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  Is that's his name, Riley Herbst.
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  Yeah. Riley Herbst was 16th.
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  And he he was trying to push Denny Hamlin to the win there.
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  So he wrecks out get 16th. Ricky sent out 17th, Ty Gibbs
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  18th, Justin Haley 19th and Kyle Arson 20th.
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  So everybody, that's your top 20?
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  So what did you think of the of the final lap racket?
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  Looked like Cole Custer also was just trying to jam it in there
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  against Denny Hamlin. And then also, I've seen some
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  people saying they're glad that they didn't throw the caution
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  there and they let William Byron run till the end.
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  You think that was the right call for sure.
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  I like the call. OK, I'm going to go back.
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  I know what everybody's going to say.
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  Everybody's going to say that they should have thrown the
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  caution, but but hear me out. Hear me out.
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  If they if they would have thrown the caution, your winner
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  would still have been William Byron.
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  Stop and think about it, everybody stop and think about
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  it. If they would have throw the
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  caution, William Byron was still out front.
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  And if they would have thrown the caution, Tyler Reddick was
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  still second. So let's calm down, everybody.
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  I'm with you. Hold on.
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  I'm with you. Why didn't they throw the
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  caution? Well, because the wreck happened
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  and everybody it was done and, and and they're coming to the
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  start finish line and you would have had to go on two more miles
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  to to run into the wreck and they knew that wasn't going to
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  happen. So I hear you, I'm with you, but
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  I don't care. It was the right call.
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  It was the right call. So I'm going to give it to you.
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  Let's let's say you all want to say that should have throw the
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  caution. Well, if they throw the caution
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  you the top five, still the top five maybe Who was it?
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  Somebody got by the 19 at the I think Jimmie Johnson might have
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  got 100. OK, John under Nitmachek might
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  have got by Briscoe during that wreck, but I studied that.
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  So once again, everybody must say for the third time, I'll
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  give you the caution, throw it top five, still the top five.
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  So it looked clean. Thank God.
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  I I I predicted this race to enter the caution.
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  It didn't. But we still got a hell of a
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  Daytona 500. And.
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  And Charlie, you want me to say what I think about that last
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  wreck? Number one, I'm very happy that
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  Ryan Priest is OK. Yeah, there's DC322.
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  We are. Yes, you're exactly right.
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  DC322. Ryan Priest had the big wreck
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  last year. Very happy.
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  And Ryan Priest said when he was in the air and it got silent,
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  Charlie, he said. I thought about my kid for a
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  minute. His daughter?
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  Yep. Yeah, yeah.
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  Very, very, very scary. And listen, that last wreck was
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  nobody's fault. I mean, you're, you're coming to
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  the checkered flag and everybody's wide open.
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  And, you know, Danny did what he thought he needed to do.
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  Listen, Danny Hamlin's a three time Daytona 500 winner.
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  It's easy to so say he should have went high.
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  You know, come on everybody, that's that's bar talk.
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  That's when you're at the bar. He should have went, you know,
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  while we're sitting on our asses.
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  But so happy Ryan Priest is OK. Yeah.
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  What did you think of his comments?
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  Not just talking about his daughter, but then after that he
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  said, hey, look, we we got to, we got to change something or
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  other. Otherwise the next time
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  somebody's not going to be able to be walking out of the car
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  after a flip like that. He's he's kind of become the
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  unfortunately the, the flipping guy, right?
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  He did it last year. Yeah, it's sad to say.
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  Now here, here's what I say. Let let me let me give you a, a
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  history lesson. When brother Rusty Wallace was
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  getting into all these wrecks and break, you know, hurt
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  himself, You know, he flipped at Daytona in 1993, flipped at
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  Talladega the same year. Well, Rusty started saying,
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  guys, we're going to kill ourselves.
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  Well, then I heard other drivers going, oh, Wallace is getting
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  scared. You know, let me tell you, when
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  you wreck as much as Ryan Priest's wreck at Daytona, if
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  you don't start getting a little timid, you're not normal.
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  So there's Ryan Priests two years in a row with the worst
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  wreck you could ever wreck, flipping and over and violent.
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  But in a weird way, as scary as it looks, those are the easiest
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  wrecks. The wrecks that kill you, sadly,
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  are the ones that Dale Arnon Senior had.
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  That's when you when you hit the wall really hard.
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  You know, when you hit that wall really hard, that's that's what
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  kills you because your, your, your brain is floating in
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  liquid. When your brain floats in
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  liquid, you hit the wall, your brain smashes up against your
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  skull. And that's what happened to, to
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  Dale Senior. So listen, Rhyme priest said all
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  the right stuff. If you, if you, if you don't
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  say, I was seeing my kid and something's got to be done.
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  You're not normal. So, you know, you got to give
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  Ryan Priest a break. You can't act like a like you
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  want to kill yourself. You know that's crazy talk.
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  So you, you, you said earlier that NASCAR got lucky with it
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  becoming a prime time race. I'm, I'm wondering though,
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  because early on, I mean, man, you're thinking again, can they,
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  can they catch a break? With.
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  They already started the race an hour early because of the
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  forecast. Then they run what, 11 laps,
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  whatever it is. Then there's about a three hour
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  and 10 minute rain delay, whatever it is, they go out
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  there and run under caution and don't even run a lap.
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  But luckily that second rain delay, it was only about what,
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  2530 minutes? And then once they got back,
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  hey, it's a night race, it's all good.
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  And the ending, I know, I know you, you saved some fuel for a
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  while. But hell, if you look at the
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  last three wrecks, I mean, if you're looking for excitement,
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  the last, the last what, 25 laps to go, whatever it was, was
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  freaking awesome. Charlie, let me address the rain
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  deal first. You know, we're we're not
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  perfect, but when I say this, it's perfect, OK?
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  They move the Daytona 500 up one hour.
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  If they don't move it up one hour, nothing happens.
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  There's no introduction, there's no Pitbull, There's no there's,
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  there's no President Trump landing.
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  So just remember that I think people lose their mind and they
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  like to talk negative and they're like, oh, well, they
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  changing time and Trump landed. That's why it's people.
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  You're thinking way wrong. They moved the Daytona 500 up
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  one hour that way. We got everything in.
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  Then they went six laps and it rained.
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  Then they went a little bit more and it was lap 11 where they
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  said, OK, pull them down Parrot Rd.
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  So, yeah, you know, I mean, I understand everybody wanting
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  things to be they way they, you know, you can convince anybody
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  to agree with you. You know, they, they did that
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  for Trump, just like people. You can tell when somebody's a
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  Democrat. It's like it had nothing to do
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  with anything. It it was a wonderful move
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  because they got everything in and here in St.
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  Louis, MO, at 8:30 at night, we have a Daytona 500 that went all
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  the way. And yeah, so OK.
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  Then the second one, Charlie asked him that one again about
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  the end there. I just saw what really caused
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  that last wreck. OK.
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  So you're talking about on the final lap or with with?
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  5:00 to go on the final lap. Final lap.
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  So that was Custer, right? Kind of pushing Denny Hamlin.
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  Yep, but he he was not the one that made all hell break loose.
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  Once again, nobody's fault. As I watched the very last
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  wreck, what happened was Custer goes to push Danny and says to
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  hell with it, I'm going to try to win it and he pulls out to
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  make it 3 wide. It was Chase Briscoe in the 19
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  car hit Danny so hard that it turned Danny Danny into Austin
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  Syndrich. So if everybody wants to get
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  down to the nitty gritty and watch the replay, what caused
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  the very last wreck is it wasn't Cole Custer.
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  I just watched the replay 30 seconds ago, and it was Chase
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  Briscoe. He did nothing wrong, but he
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  knocked the hell out of Denny Hamlin.
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  And that put Denny, you know, into Austin Syndrich.
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  But, you know, listen, this Daytona 500 had it all.
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  OK, Let me let me see here, Charlie.
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  Doug Schoenfeld, Take a breather here, everybody.
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  Yeah, I'm. I'm trying to read the finishing
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  order again because it's funny because when you read that, off
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  to me. So here we go.
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  Obviously Byron wins. Reddick second, Jimmy Johnson
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  third, Chase Briscoe 4th, John Hunter Nemechek 5th.
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  Now, clearly Chase Briscoe was your poll sitter.
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  But it's funny because as I'm watching, you see William Byron
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  win and then I'm getting ready to run in here to start the
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  show. And so I didn't really know who
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  is second, third, 4th, 5th. And it's kind of funny because
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  when you started to read off the names, it's like that's
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  basically four or five guys you didn't mention once the entire
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  night. But that's so Daytona because
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  after, after three wrecks and you clear out whatever it is,
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  5/10/15 cars that are running up front.
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  It's some guys at the end that you don't talk about, but they
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  they had the luck of the draw and they get a top. 5C That's
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  Daytona. That is Daytona.
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  Here's the difference. Years ago we could cheat and
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  these teams could show up and they'd have an advantage and
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  they're a car. Listen, it used to be 7030.
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  Eighty, 20 years ago it used to be 70 percent, 80% car.
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  It's everybody says that everybody.
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  That's not my opinion. So you could get away from
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  people. Years ago, Dale Earnhardt Junior
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  won the Daytona 500 like by himself.
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  He he just passed Tony Stewart and like, we were happy, you
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  know what I mean? You could get away from people
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  back in the day because you can handcraft your car now.
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  The rules are so tight that that's why you might as well go
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  to the roulette table. Like I say, everybody's learning
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  it when somebody says who's going to win the Daytona 5?
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  I had Logano and I was, I said Joey Logano was going to win and
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  I was looking good. I was looking good.
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  OK, just a quick story. Everybody I look at, I have a
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  lot of texts. Doug Schoenfeld, the owner of
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  Schoenfeld Headers, the largest header maker in America for dirt
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  cars. This is Doug's quick story.
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  My first time to Daytona 1969 stood in the infield on top of
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  Steve Peterson's truck. First car I remember was 9 was
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  the #71 Bobby Isaac's Super Bird.
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  I was at Daytona with you Herman when Rusty crashed on the back
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  straight. There was mud in every crevice
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  of the car. Their most memorable rain delay
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  was not NASCAR. But with you in Fort Wayne, IN.
• 22:09
  It was cool to see Trump pacing the field and on pit Rd. talking
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  to the driver today. Wish I had more time to talk to
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  you at Volusia. So everybody I'm reading off
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  this is something new. I'm reading off some very
• 22:26
  popular people that text me. I'm going to voice activation
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  back does I'll read We are live on Kenny Wallace on YouTube.
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  Thank you for your text. That's what we do.
• 22:40
  OK, go ahead. OK, so Game Nerd says this is
• 22:44
  his dependent. He says that was not a race.
• 22:46
  It was a wreck fest. I feel like it was a pretty good
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  mix, right? I mean, look, it's Daytona.
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  You you don't want a couple wrecks.
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  I mean, at the end, OK, was there one too many?
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  But I I feel like it was kind of the right amount for the Daytona
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  500. OK, who said that, Gene?
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  Game Nerd. OK, Game.
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  Listen, I love you, Game Nerd. I love you.
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  And I'm very glad you're on here.
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  That is so old. Find something new.
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  Do you? Do you remember Tony Stewart's
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  quote? Let's turn them around
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  backwards. See how many cars we can wreck.
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  Let's wreck the whole field, gay nerd.
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  I love you and I'm so happy you're on here.
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  They're going to wreck. And NASCAR don't make them
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  wreck. They wreck.
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  The drivers wrecked themselves. So Game Nerd, I understand that
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  your driver wrecked out when anybody says something like
• 23:38
  that. So Game Nerd, respond, who is
• 23:41
  your driver? Guarantee you he wrecked because
• 23:44
  that's the way he always goes, right?
• 23:46
  So, and you're going to lie for a comeback, but that's OK, Game
• 23:49
  Nerd, I love you. This is Daytona and this is
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  Talladega. The drivers wreck themselves.
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  They they run into each other. NASCAR doesn't do that.
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  There's a gas, there's a brake and it is the environment.
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  I did it my whole life and I used to say, tell me when
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  there's 10 to go and buddy, I'd start pushing people harder.
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  My my goal was like the great Dick Trickle taught me you must
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  first finish to finish first. So I didn't believe in wrecking
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  out early. I was, I didn't have an Eagle.
• 24:30
  I once asked my team Charlie, I said, hey, do you guys want me
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  to run upfront about halfway through and wreck out or do you
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  want me to, you know, I have a chance to win the race?
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  I think I've had some teams say go ahead and wreck out.
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  We just want you upfront. It's like, Oh my God, you're not
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  running for a percentage because me, I'm, you know, I was getting
• 24:47
  like 3040% of the earnings. I'm like, I want to be there at
• 24:51
  the end so I have a chance to win.
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  But you get some of these egotistic crew members, they're
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  like, we don't care, you know, so they don't wreck until the
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  end. They only wreck early when it's
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  a mistake at the end, they're ready to wreck.
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  They know they're going to wreck.
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  So that's, that's superspeedway racing.
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  That that is an old saying. And I wish people would quit
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  saying that. It's just, it's like, it's like
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  a repeat. Yeah.
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  And and like you said, it's superspeedway racing.
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  This isn't going to happen at every track.
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  And I feel like people by now, you know, you're going to get
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  this at Daytona and Talladega and even to a lesser extent, but
• 25:31
  pretty much also Atlanta now. I, I think what makes it so
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  exciting is the fact that you really have no freaking idea
• 25:40
  who's going to win, right? Like.
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  And at at. Smaller tracks, short tracks,
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  and it it, it's good that at different tracks, right?
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  Like the best car wins. As a fan, I think you want to
• 25:50
  see that. Sometimes you want to see a
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  dominant car or you want to see the best car win.
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  But at this point, we know what superspeedway racing is.
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  And to me, that's the freaking excitement is when when you're
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  sitting there, 5 to go and then there's that that wreck and
• 26:04
  there's the wreck on the final lap.
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  You had no freaking clue who was going to win.
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  Like when you saw that red car take the lead, I'm like, who is
• 26:13
  that? Is that Corey Lajoie?
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  Oh my God, William Frickin Byron.
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  Where the hell did he come from? Like that's the excitement.
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  You had no idea who's going to come out of that pile of cars to
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  win. Charlie, I couldn't have said it
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  better for in there's so many people in America that want the
• 26:29
  little guy to win, you know, because they're life, they
• 26:33
  struggle, right? So, you know, we all want the
• 26:35
  little guy to do good. I do.
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  I want the little guy to do good.
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  I do. OK, let's let's make that sane.
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  That's that. But the bottom line is this is
• 26:49
  the race that the little guy can do good, right?
• 26:54
  Corey Lajoie's up there, you know, I mean drivers that, you
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  know, don't have the money, but their cars are equal.
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  So this should be the race that the people like where their
• 27:08
  little guy, this is the race where they show up.
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  They're not going to have a chance at any other track, you
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  know, because it's it's about engineers.
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  But this is the everybody listen to me.
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  This is the one race. Daytona, Talladega, you know, so
• 27:25
  many of you want the little guy to do good because you don't
• 27:28
  have much money. I don't got much money.
• 27:30
  So I want the little guy to do good.
• 27:32
  I'm always pulling for the underdog.
• 27:34
  This is your race, Charlie. You're exactly right.
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  It was just cool too. It's it's cool to see the
• 27:42
  storylines. It it's funny because after
• 27:45
  every restart, after every wreck, I, I would still see
• 27:48
  Austin Sindrick right there with a chance to win.
• 27:51
  And you're thinking after all this, and and I like Austin
• 27:53
  Sindrick, nothing against him, but he's kind of boring, right?
• 27:55
  And you're thinking, you're thinking, is there going to be
• 27:57
  another race where all of a sudden just Austin Sindrick with
• 28:00
  a really fast car wins and and kind of a boring fashion, But
• 28:04
  with each wreck, it's like, OK, then all of a sudden Kyle Busch
• 28:07
  is near the front. OK, can Kyle Busch win it in his
• 28:09
  20th try? And then he gets wiped out?
• 28:12
  And then you're like, oh, there's Denny Hamlin.
• 28:14
  Could Denny Hamlin win his fourth Daytona 500?
• 28:16
  To me, that's the fun of it is after every wreck there's like
• 28:20
  there's brand new storylines after every wreck.
• 28:23
  Charlie, I couldn't have said it better because you go back to
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  the, you know, they call them the duels now, the dual 150.
• 28:32
  Nobody was mad about the caution flag falling.
• 28:35
  They were mad that that 43. You know, we said it before.
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  Richard Petty was the last person to win at Daytona 1977.
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  I was bummed out. I was just bummed out.
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  The people went frigging nuts. They went back crazy.
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  I'm trying to make it where you don't have to beat this out,
• 28:53
  Charlie. We're live.
• 28:55
  We're live. You can just say it.
• 28:57
  What's that? We're live.
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  I can't believe you. You can just say it well.
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  Yeah, that, you know, that was, you know, so it goes all the way
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  back to Thursday night. So many storylines.
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  You know, they did the right thing.
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  They threw the caution flag, da, da, whatever, you know, are they
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  consistent? No, they're not consistent with
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  it. I, I am glad they made that call
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  right there. I'm, I'm glad they let the
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  Daytona 500 finish because everybody was, you know, it was
• 29:23
  the way it was. What'd he say right there,
• 29:27
  Charlie? I like to ask real long, What'd
• 29:28
  he? Say, yeah, we're getting some
• 29:29
  some super chat. So we appreciate that.
• 29:32
  Matthew Brown says it's obviously a great accomplishment
• 29:35
  to win 25 hundreds for William, but we've seen this show from
• 29:38
  him before. Strong start, bland finish by
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  the end of the season. He needs to win the championship
• 29:44
  soon. Well, he did.
• 29:45
  He did get to the championship last year, but he did start out
• 29:48
  hot and then kind of had a cold spell throughout the summer last
• 29:51
  year. OK, let me say this, Matthew,
• 29:55
  valid point, but you and I are sitting on the couch that that's
• 30:00
  like telling Dan Marino he was not a very good quarterback
• 30:03
  since he didn't win the Super Bowl.
• 30:06
  That's like telling Kyle Busch, Kyle, you haven't won the
• 30:10
  Daytona 500, so your career's not complete.
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  Hold on. I'm on a roll here.
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  That's like telling Rusty Wallace, Rusty, you never won
• 30:19
  the Daytona 500, so your career's not complete.
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  This is life, Matthew, and this is competition.
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  There's an old Rolling Stone song.
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  You can't always get what you want home, but if you try real
• 30:36
  hard, you know, you know the rest.
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  So I understand you, but I'm not, I'm not going to go there.
• 30:44
  William is A and he's won a lot of Cup races and he's a two time
• 30:49
  Daytona 500 winner under green flag.
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  Like, you know, he won the last one straight up.
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  He was giving this one. That's fine.
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  But he didn't wreck out and he was there.
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  And like I said, you must first finish to finish first.
• 31:04
  So I hear you, Matthew, but I'm not going to go there because
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  Mark Martin didn't win a championship.
• 31:12
  Mark Martin did not win a championship.
• 31:14
  Dale Earnhardt junior, I mean, we can play that game all day
• 31:18
  long. There are several drivers in the
• 31:20
  NASCAR Hall of Fame that did not win at all, but they showed up.
• 31:25
  Dale Junior didn't come. You know, he didn't win the
• 31:27
  championship. You know, Rusty did, but didn't
• 31:31
  win the date. You see what I mean?
• 31:33
  You can go any way you want. You can go any way you want it.
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  It's it's like the great Dick Trickle told me, as long as you
• 31:40
  can justify it, I would never in a million years ago.
• 31:44
  Well, William Biden never won a championship.
• 31:47
  I'm going to go. That's Sunburger one
• 31:49
  back-to-back Daytona 500. That's incredible.
• 31:52
  The first one he flat out won. The second one, he was there at
• 31:56
  the at the at the finish. So yeah, but but I hear you.
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  That's good. That's good.
• 32:02
  AM debate talk. Yeah, yeah.
• 32:05
  So thank you to Matthew Brown, thank you to Noah's Athletics,
• 32:08
  thank you to David Bell, thank you to Gino.
• 32:11
  Gino also asked Herm. Let's see, I'll bring it back
• 32:15
  up. Gino.
• 32:16
  Hey, Kenny, nice to see you. Why are so many cars flipping
• 32:19
  upside down? Say hi to Mike for me.
• 32:21
  He is a true gentleman. So thank you.
• 32:25
  Mike is in Lai don't know. I mean, I do know why I almost
• 32:30
  feel like brother Mike wanted to get away, you know?
• 32:35
  So Mike's out there. Kevin Gundaker, what's he want
• 32:42
  here? Could you get a hold of Michael
• 32:44
  Walter for me and ask him to call me?
• 32:47
  I want to talk to him about serving beer at Tri-City
• 32:50
  Speedway and Granite sitting on the hold on all.
• 32:53
  Right. Kevin period, I will tell him
• 32:58
  and I will get you his number. Period.
• 33:01
  We are live on Kenny Wallace YouTube show right now and I
• 33:06
  just gave you a shout out. OK, I heard you but I forgot
• 33:11
  what you said. Gino said.
• 33:14
  Say hi to Mike. Oh yeah, I'll bring it back up.
• 33:16
  But also their question was about cars flipping.
• 33:20
  Yeah, OK, here. Here's what I say, Gino.
• 33:25
  They did everything they could do to put down force on the car,
• 33:29
  push the car down, but they forgot about the car turning
• 33:33
  upside down. So, you know, I call it a turtle
• 33:39
  shell. I call it a turtle shell.
• 33:44
  Austin Harris just said. Austin, can you tell Dale Junior
• 33:49
  I said hi. Hi, Austin.
• 33:52
  Love you, buddy. What's?
• 33:53
  Up Austin. Yeah, So those cars are turtle
• 33:59
  shell bottoms. They don't do good when they
• 34:02
  flip over. And I I think it's a deal,
• 34:06
  Charlie. Where what's going on is not
• 34:09
  supposed to happen. They put these cars through all
• 34:12
  these, you know, tests and like that deal tonight, he ramped not
• 34:19
  to boy, good memory. I got a good memory.
• 34:22
  The last time I saw that was turn 2 in Michigan last year.
• 34:27
  Corey Lajoie, right front ramped on somebody's left rear.
• 34:33
  It did happen. We got to go back to the
• 34:35
  Michigan replay Turn 2, but I don't know if it's because, you
• 34:42
  know, when you look at the front of those cars, they kind of got,
• 34:45
  hold on, let's take Earnhardt's car here.
• 34:48
  Here's what I've noticed on the new cars.
• 34:53
  On the new cars, they got a little bit of a flare that comes
• 34:56
  out right here, a flare right here.
• 35:03
  I think what happens is the tire really does stick out a little
• 35:06
  bit, but the plastic body covers it.
• 35:10
  And when it runs into another car, that plastic gives away is
• 35:14
  what's going on. Because when I look at those
• 35:16
  cars, they look cool. Got those little flares that
• 35:19
  come out. But if you smash those flares
• 35:22
  in, you run right into the tire, the right front tire.
• 35:26
  And now these cars are rampant. Now I'm just saying, I think
• 35:30
  that's what's happening. There's that three car.
• 35:35
  That's a pretty looking car right there.
• 35:36
  Oh yeah. It's a beauty.
• 35:39
  Yeah, we got some good stuff here.
• 35:40
  Everybody talks about we got our our Dick trickle.
• 35:44
  So yeah, I I just say that the one that we're going to have to
• 35:53
  calm down right now is I want to say this everybody.
• 35:58
  I want to. I want to.
• 36:00
  This is my wish. We've just come off of two of
• 36:05
  the best starts in NASCAR in 20 years.
• 36:11
  Don't, don't play that game where it was a rec fest.
• 36:16
  They're all rec fest. Don't play that game where they
• 36:19
  did. They should have thrown the
• 36:20
  caution. So what if they throw the
• 36:23
  caution? You still got the same, same
• 36:26
  winner. So don't do that and I encourage
• 36:31
  you to don't do that because the racing is good here.
• 36:35
  We've had we've had Mark Martin right here.
• 36:37
  Go back and look at Mark Martin on Kenny conversation and
• 36:40
  Charlie, I know you remember what Mark said.
• 36:43
  You want to repeat what Mark said?
• 36:44
  Somebody said I. Remember, he said, something
• 36:47
  like this is the best racing in history.
• 36:49
  In history, yes. He said.
• 36:52
  But I don't like the car, right? That's right, And we know he
• 36:56
  hates the number placement. Yeah, and you know, because Mark
• 37:03
  and myself, Charlie, we, we're mechanically inclined, this car
• 37:07
  is very hard to work on, but it is the best racing.
• 37:13
  And all we're doing nowadays is we've got this social media and
• 37:18
  whenever somebody's car gets wrecked out, people lose their
• 37:20
  damn minds. So, yeah.
• 37:23
  All right, what else we got, Charlie?
• 37:25
  Susan says it was awesome. Bring on the rest of the season.
• 37:28
  Let's get back to just cheering on our favorites with a bunch of
• 37:31
  hearts, I think. Yeah, Thank you, Susan.
• 37:34
  I I thought what was interesting too, at the end, once you're
• 37:37
  seeing William Byron win, it's just it's just funny sometimes
• 37:40
  how you know, because everybody talks about Hendrick as as they
• 37:43
  should. Hendrick is running the show for
• 37:45
  several years. They're always really, really
• 37:47
  good. And Chase Elliott basically has
• 37:51
  the best car wire to wire at the Clash and wins.
• 37:54
  And then this race tonight, all that, all that you see, all that
• 37:58
  we talk about is Penske, Penske, Penske, Penske.
• 38:01
  And then at the end you start thinking, oh, there's a bunch of
• 38:03
  Toyotas. Remember at the end there they
• 38:05
  did, they did it on the broadcast.
• 38:06
  They said five of the top eight at the end Toyota cars.
• 38:11
  So you're thinking, OK, after talking about Penske for the
• 38:13
  whole race, is a Toyota going to sneak in there and win?
• 38:16
  And then when it's all said and done, Hendrick, Hendrick again,
• 38:20
  that we didn't talk about the whole freaking race, basically
• 38:23
  gets the win. You, you are so good at your job
• 38:26
  because you made you made my brain think.
• 38:28
  Early in that rain delay, they were interviewing Brad
• 38:33
  Keselowski. Brad Keselowski said something
• 38:37
  that made me go. Brad said we don't have enough
• 38:40
  cars to be strong on the speedways.
• 38:43
  And the reason we brought Ryan Priest is that way we, we have
• 38:46
  more cars in our team to have a chance to go upfront.
• 38:50
  So you know, you're sitting there with Brad Keselowski,
• 38:54
  Chris Buscher, That was it only two.
• 38:56
  Now they got a third one that blew me away for Brad to come
• 39:01
  out during the rain delay live on fox and say the reason we
• 39:05
  started 1/3 car is so we could have more chances.
• 39:10
  You, you see what I mean? That, that that's, I never
• 39:14
  thought about that because I didn't think people would have
• 39:16
  enough money. Hey, let's start another car so
• 39:18
  we have a better shot at winning.
• 39:21
  You know, it's going to cost you about $15 million, right?
• 39:25
  But you know that they, they find the damn money somewhere.
• 39:28
  You know what I mean? They find the damn money
• 39:31
  somewhere. And so my point is this, that's
• 39:36
  what Rick Hendrick did. He got four cars.
• 39:39
  And then if you want to add Justin Allgar in there, you got
• 39:42
  you got five cars, right. So there's Rick Hendrick with
• 39:48
  five opportunities to win the Daytona 500.
• 39:52
  So you brought up a point and didn't even know you brought it
• 39:55
  up. And I remember that during the
• 39:56
  rain delay. And I thought that was, I said,
• 39:59
  OK, that's smart. But man, just to start another
• 40:02
  car to have a shot at winning more races.
• 40:05
  That's that's fifteen, $20 million investment because these
• 40:08
  cars, I ask everybody, Charlie. You buy the car, you put the
• 40:13
  motor in. These cars are pushing a half,
• 40:15
  $1,000,000 each. So really interesting, you know.
• 40:21
  OK, so NJ Vinny says Cletus made Daytona.
• 40:27
  Now I know we're going back here to yesterday, but I got to say
• 40:29
  this Herm, I had heard of Cletus MacFarlane, right?
• 40:33
  And I knew about the, the YouTube channel.
• 40:35
  I knew about flying the helicopters with Greg Biffle and
• 40:38
  I knew he had a big following right?
• 40:39
  4.1 million subscribers on YouTube.
• 40:42
  Herm, I could not believe we posted a couple videos.
• 40:46
  You, you did a little quick 3 minute video or whatever.
• 40:48
  I cut, cut a video out of our our live stream from yesterday.
• 40:53
  I could not believe the views on those videos.
• 40:56
  Like I knew the dude was popular.
• 40:58
  I had no frickin idea how popular that dude was and how
• 41:03
  many people not not even just young people.
• 41:05
  Herm, I know he's like 30 years old. 29.
• 41:07
  I had dudes who were 70 years old in the comments going.
• 41:10
  I used to love NASCAR. I haven't watched NASCAR in 15
• 41:12
  years. I watched the frickin arc erase
• 41:14
  because of Cletus MacFarlane. Charlie, YouTube is a
• 41:19
  phenomenon. And you have.
• 41:20
  I've learned that it's no secret how honest I am.
• 41:24
  I'm brutally honest. I don't think I get myself in
• 41:27
  trouble, but I think it makes people understand I'm going to
• 41:30
  say what I'm going to say because you can go to YouTube
• 41:32
  right now. He there there's a there's a
• 41:35
  YouTube push 1320 Cletus there. There's a 30 minute show out
• 41:42
  there Cletus and he's on 1320. That's how he got his start.
• 41:47
  1320 on YouTube was the YouTube page that got Cletus started.
• 41:56
  Garrett Mitchell, his story is phenomenal.
• 42:00
  But I want to back up and say this, we're not going to tell
• 42:04
  everybody to figure, but it's a lot.
• 42:06
  We make, we do good. Did you ever think, Charlie,
• 42:09
  that you would make a living doing this with me?
• 42:13
  I, I didn't, I mean, I, I knew YouTube before I started with
• 42:16
  you. I was doing some stuff with
• 42:18
  Cardinals baseball and I knew there was a tremendous
• 42:21
  opportunity to have YouTube be a, a media network basically,
• 42:25
  which we've created for you When I called you on that Sunday and
• 42:29
  we started doing videos, whatever it was the next day.
• 42:31
  It was now three, 3 / 3 years ago.
• 42:34
  No, I, I had no idea it would grow this quickly into, I mean,
• 42:39
  it's, it's not just a full time job for me.
• 42:41
  It's essentially your full time job.
• 42:42
  This is like a, a legit business.
• 42:44
  It's a legit media network and it's pretty damn impressive.
• 42:48
  So we have we have Jags that sponsors this show.
• 42:52
  We have Sunoco that sponsors Coffee with Kenny.
• 42:57
  We have Kenny conversation. We have the Kenny Wallace show
• 43:01
  that right now this we call this the Kenny Wallace show.
• 43:05
  Then we have Kenny conversation where we interview the greatest
• 43:08
  athletes in the world. Then we have Coffee with Kenny.
• 43:11
  That's three shows right there. Then, you know, Dale Junior
• 43:15
  called us with Mike Davis, you know, and they said, would you
• 43:20
  please give us your Kenny conversation content and would
• 43:24
  you start Herman Schrader? Now we've got all these shows.
• 43:30
  You all love it. We appreciate you.
• 43:32
  OK, now let's go to Garrett Mitchell.
• 43:35
  Garrett Mitchell tells this incredible story where he's
• 43:38
  just, he just wants to be part of this group 1320.
• 43:42
  So we call ourselves Kenny Wallace.
• 43:44
  YouTube show. You go to 1320.
• 43:47
  Charlie push it in on YouTube. They got 3.6 million
• 43:52
  subscribers. Garrett Mitchell's up to 4.1
• 43:56
  now. But but Garrett Cletus
• 44:01
  McFarlane, he says in his 30 minute special, it's it's a 30
• 44:04
  minute special to all of us how he got started and and his story
• 44:11
  is got 1.1 million views. I watch it all last night.
• 44:14
  He's Garrett Mitchell, but he did one little video and he did
• 44:20
  like this. I'll tell you one thing right
• 44:22
  now, Earnhardt's my man. I I liked his daddy and he went
• 44:27
  full redneck and his buddy that was working the camera posted it
• 44:35
  and he he said he was going to make his name something, but but
• 44:38
  the guy said you're going to be Cletus MacFarlane because
• 44:41
  Cletus, it's like WWE, it's a show.
• 44:46
  So if everybody knows the real the everybody knows the real
• 44:51
  Garrett Mitchell, he's a real serious guy kind of like this.
• 44:55
  But there's there's something about creating a character.
• 44:59
  He is so damn funny and he says all the funny stuff.
• 45:03
  And here's the reason he's got so many viewers.
• 45:06
  Everybody's got a car. Everything he does is about a
• 45:10
  passenger car, about drag racing.
• 45:13
  So see, Charlie, we'll never get there because what we do, we're
• 45:18
  we're racing, racing, racing. What Cletus does is he creates
• 45:22
  this character and he's got like an old drag car.
• 45:26
  You see what I'm saying? And and so everything he does is
• 45:29
  he he relates with everybody. Everybody else is like, I got a
• 45:32
  car, you know, it's it is it's outlaw drag racing on the
• 45:37
  streets. It's illegal.
• 45:40
  Then he tells his story where he borrowed money from.
• 45:44
  Now here's the other little hidden secret.
• 45:47
  Garrett's mom and dad are pretty wealthy and that's on the down
• 45:50
  low. But but Garrett made it on his
• 45:54
  own and they wanted him to go to law school and and Cletus was
• 46:00
  going to law school and he he found himself in law school
• 46:04
  going found found himself on Instagram and Facebook.
• 46:08
  He goes, I can make a living at this just like you did, Charlie.
• 46:12
  So here's Cletus McFarland finds himself in law school because
• 46:15
  that's what his mom and dad wanting to do.
• 46:17
  And he's like, I see how much money 1320s making.
• 46:22
  I can do this. And he tells his daddy goes,
• 46:25
  Dad, I love you. And this is in the story.
• 46:27
  Somebody sent me the story last night.
• 46:29
  I watched it all. I watched all 30 minutes.
• 46:32
  So he did it on his own. So he takes all this money that
• 46:36
  he makes, he goes down, he buys Bradenton down there, I think in
• 46:40
  DeSoto somewhere and, and, and calls it what, what's it, what's
• 46:43
  he call it everybody. The Freedom Factory.
• 46:46
  Freedom Factory, they pick all the weeds.
• 46:48
  I've raced that track. I've run that track and he
• 46:52
  turned it into a show. And now he says it's making so
• 46:55
  much money. He was brave.
• 46:58
  He's the American dream. But I'm going to tell you what,
• 47:01
  to fly a helicopter, you got to be pretty damn good.
• 47:04
  So yeah, what's what's NJ saying here?
• 47:09
  OK, NJ, Vinny says about Cletus. He does much more than that.
• 47:13
  He does RC airplanes. He had to hold the door closed
• 47:16
  on his house during the hurricane.
• 47:19
  Right. And he and he records that.
• 47:21
  Yeah. You, you know, Charlie, I used
• 47:23
  to grab my phone and do videos when I was pooping In, in, in,
• 47:27
  in porta potties. Embarrassing, but they ate it
• 47:31
  up. They loved it.
• 47:32
  Hi, Charlie. Come here, baby.
• 47:34
  Come on. Come on.
• 47:37
  Yeah. Poppy's live on TV.
• 47:39
  You can say hi to everybody. Come on, then.
• 47:41
  You spending the night with me? Come here.
• 47:44
  Look here. There's thousands of people
• 47:46
  watching. Say hi.
• 47:48
  Come here. Say hi.
• 47:49
  Hi. What's your name?
• 47:51
  Charlotte. What's your nickname?
• 47:53
  Lodi. And there's my daughter, Brandy.
• 47:56
  Come on, Brandy. We're live my family.
• 47:59
  What are you all doing here this late at night?
• 48:01
  Come on, kids. Come on.
• 48:03
  Come on. Look here.
• 48:05
  Say hi. Come on up here.
• 48:08
  Come on. Get in there.
• 48:10
  Say hi. Say hi.
• 48:12
  Come on, Jet. Hi.
• 48:15
  Oh, there you is. He's good enough.
• 48:16
  Come on. Get in there.
• 48:18
  Hi. OK.
• 48:19
  And one more Mila. Hi.
• 48:22
  Let him see your face better. There's Mila.
• 48:25
  And then my daughter Brandy. Brandy don't want to be on TV,
• 48:28
  Ken. They're all watching us.
• 48:30
  But yeah, Charlie, the story of Cletus McFarland is wonderful,
• 48:35
  and he relates to everybody because he uses normal cars.
• 48:39
  And just like you said, you got to be good to fly a helicopter.
• 48:43
  And I I flew with rusting those helicopters.
• 48:46
  And those things are no joke. They're very dangerous.
• 48:49
  Cletus Garrett. Garrett is very smart.
• 48:52
  And I think another reason it works is everybody knows he's
• 48:54
  playing, but the stuff's real. He knows it's real, too.
• 48:58
  So I can relate. I love him.
• 49:02
  Yeah Charlie, one more thing I want to relate with you.
• 49:07
  I post a 3 minute observation of of Cletus McFarland on X.
• 49:14
  Did you see how many views they got?
• 49:16
  OK, so hold on a second because I put that on YouTube.
• 49:20
  I don't know if you knew that how how many views did it get on
• 49:22
  X? It's over 150,000 views on X.
• 49:27
  OK, my three minute observation. So I took that.
• 49:31
  So yesterday Kenny and I for everybody, we did a live show
• 49:36
  basically around what, around lunchtime.
• 49:39
  There were so many storylines from Daytona and and then we
• 49:44
  talked about Cletus a little bit, but then you did kind of a
• 49:47
  a coffee with Kenny basically on the couch.
• 49:49
  And I missed it because it was late at night.
• 49:52
  I should have called you. Well, no, it's all good.
• 49:54
  I think you know, whatever time it was and I'm doing stuff with
• 49:57
  my family and then I see it, I go, oh, so I put it on late and
• 50:00
  I just put it on YouTube and I kind of walk away.
• 50:03
  Not because if you do YouTube a long time, you usually kind of
• 50:07
  know how a video is going to do. I, we had never really talked
• 50:10
  about Thudos McFarlane. So I had no clue.
• 50:13
  So I leave my computer, I come back with I was like, I could
• 50:15
  not believe how many views it got.
• 50:18
  So so that three minute video, whatever it is, has 166,000
• 50:23
  views on YouTube and I couldn't believe it.
• 50:25
  Again, that's why I said I knew this dude was popular.
• 50:28
  I never knew he was that popular.
• 50:30
  It's freaking amazing. Unbelievable.
• 50:34
  I'm watch. I'm looking at it right now.
• 50:35
  That is insane. Well, I'm I texted the Biff.
• 50:40
  I texted Greg Biffle. Did did we?
• 50:42
  We did a Kenny conversation with Greg Biffle, didn't we?
• 50:45
  We did one before the helicopter stuff.
• 50:48
  Yeah, yes, sort of. The BIFF text me all the time
• 50:52
  and boy, when I, when he, when he, when the biff text me, when
• 50:56
  great people text me, I answer. He needed some shocks for his.
• 51:01
  What do they call those, those cars they run?
• 51:03
  Those little Mustangs or? Are they Crown Victorious?
• 51:07
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Cletus McFarland, Garrett
• 51:10
  Mitchell, they created this. You know, I wanted to buy a
• 51:13
  Crown Victoria just to drive around town.
• 51:15
  Well, so, so Biffle, he's got a little dirt track out in the
• 51:19
  middle of the woods up there in North Carolina.
• 51:22
  And the Biff calls me. He goes, Herman, I need to get
• 51:27
  some shocks. So now these guys, now they're
• 51:30
  getting competitive. They just couldn't run this
• 51:32
  fundraise. So I got Greg Biffle hooked up
• 51:35
  with my buddies at at Fox shocks.
• 51:38
  So the Biff, I'm going to reach out to Biff one more time and
• 51:42
  say, hey, I bet Cletus will let me interview him.
• 51:45
  And yeah, I I got great questions to ask him.
• 51:50
  All right, we. Got some more super thanks.
• 51:52
  We got Derrick Adams says Trump is the greatest.
• 51:55
  Obviously, Donald Trump was there at the beginning.
• 51:57
  He did a good, He did a good job.
• 51:59
  Trump did a good job. JJ Productions says I came to
• 52:04
  this show because of Cletus and I find Charlie, who I follow on
• 52:07
  X for Cardinals baseball updates, sick.
• 52:09
  How about that? I love it, Mr. Mr. Sadie says
• 52:14
  Love from Arnold MO Bubba. They moved our local house.
• 52:18
  Now you can barely get in there unless you're Kenny Wallace.
• 52:21
  Lol I'm going to tell you what I don't go to the local house
• 52:25
  because I think it's stupid. I get mad like I love the local
• 52:29
  house. They know me and I go in the
• 52:31
  local house and I say I'll take the grilled Buffalo chicken wrap
• 52:35
  with honey mustard because they don't like that hot sauce.
• 52:39
  Charlie. They moved it to where 51
• 52:43
  restaurant used to be, across from Walmart.
• 52:45
  Beautiful restaurant. You would think they're giving
• 52:48
  food away it it's worse than Texas Roadhouse.
• 52:52
  You can't even start to get in and I'm not dealing with that
• 52:56
  crap. There's no restaurant.
• 52:59
  OK, I'm glad you all do it. I'm not going to do it.
• 53:01
  You know what I do? I go around the corner to Mod
• 53:04
  Pizza and I get a sausage, pepperoni pizza and nice little
• 53:08
  salad. I love the local house.
• 53:11
  I think it's awesome, but I'm just not going to water and all
• 53:14
  that. I mean, it's, it's a restaurant.
• 53:17
  Everybody. I mean, I just don't.
• 53:19
  I just, I know what he's saying and the local house is killing
• 53:23
  it and I'm excited. But they do that Texas Roadhouse
• 53:26
  thing where everybody gets in. I got to eat.
• 53:29
  I'm like people, people quit breathing on me.
• 53:32
  You're all like this. You know me.
• 53:37
  When I get pissed, I go on a tangent.
• 53:39
  I love it. And then how about this one Red
• 53:41
  Hawk, another Saint Louis in or Saint Louis area from great
• 53:45
  above in Oakville, Missouri. How do you feel about Herbst's
• 53:49
  chances for this season? Thought he had a solid run with
• 53:52
  the great save to end it. Riley Herbst in his first year
• 53:54
  Cup with the 2311 Racing. One of the monster guys.
• 53:57
  Well, well, first of all, let's put something to bed.
• 53:59
  I don't want to hear it because I know everybody's already going
• 54:01
  to start. He's got money.
• 54:03
  You better have money. So put that to the side.
• 54:07
  OK? I don't want to hear about it.
• 54:09
  He's got money. His family owns 88 gas stations
• 54:13
  out on the West Coast. Terrible.
• 54:15
  Herbst. I don't want to hear it.
• 54:18
  He can drive the car. It's one thing if you got money
• 54:22
  and you can't drive, but he's a good kid and he can drive.
• 54:25
  And he just showed you he was there.
• 54:27
  At the end of the day, total 500.
• 54:29
  So yeah. And let's see here, we said it,
• 54:33
  but he ends up finishing. Herb's got 16th, but he was, you
• 54:38
  know, he's pushing them there at the end.
• 54:40
  Everybody wrecked out at the end there.
• 54:44
  So what do we got, Charlie? I think we got about 7 more
• 54:48
  minutes buddy. Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what
• 54:50
  we got, we got 1200 people watching live right now.
• 54:56
  We've had over 10,000 people watching this post race live
• 55:00
  Daytona 500 show. So it it, it's fun too.
• 55:04
  I, I think it's cool. NASCAR season is so unique.
• 55:08
  Obviously at the end with Phoenix is so hyped, but the way
• 55:12
  that they kick it off with Daytona, I know it used to be
• 55:15
  speed weeks and it was a couple weeks, but still, if you start
• 55:17
  with qualifying on Wednesday, you're getting 5 solid days of
• 55:21
  racing and you're really building up people to to to know
• 55:25
  that NASCAR is back, right? And maybe everybody didn't love
• 55:30
  the way tonight's race finished. I thought it was great and I
• 55:33
  just thought it was typical Daytona 500 Super Speedway
• 55:35
  racing, so I thought it was cool.
• 55:38
  The race was awesome Charlie it it's this new era of my driver
• 55:42
  wrecked out. I hate smoop.
• 55:44
  We all watched OK, let me say this about speed weeks.
• 55:49
  A lot of us are old, OK? And we remember speed weeks when
• 55:52
  they were when, when they would run the Bud Shootout, right?
• 55:57
  And we would run that Bud Shootout on a Saturday or Sunday
• 56:01
  the week before and we would qualify and we would practice
• 56:06
  Monday, Tuesday when we took Monday off.
• 56:09
  But there was a time that we were at Daytona literally on
• 56:15
  track on track Friday to Friday, 7-8 straight days.
• 56:23
  Then we'd run the race. Then Charlie, what happened is
• 56:27
  they realized that our, our now follow my storyline here.
• 56:32
  Then I'm going to talk about right now.
• 56:35
  The reason speed weeks got, you know, Wendell, you know, got
• 56:41
  smaller was they realized that the people couldn't spend 8-9
• 56:46
  days there anymore. Times changed.
• 56:49
  Our sport fell mightily. Remember we were putting 250,000
• 56:53
  people in the grandstands. Then we we admitted NASCAR fell,
• 56:58
  it fell 70%. So when NASCAR fell we had to
• 57:04
  readjust like OK, we can't do speed weeks 11 straight days
• 57:09
  anymore because the the sports not as popular as it used to be.
• 57:13
  See, we got no problem admitting that are our sport is not as big
• 57:17
  as it used to be. But I tell you what, there's
• 57:19
  still 100,000 people in the grandstands.
• 57:22
  There's still 60,000 people at each race.
• 57:25
  So when they realize we fell mightily, it's OK, let's let's
• 57:30
  take speed weeks and you know, let's bring everybody in on, you
• 57:33
  know, we started qualifying on Wednesday, so we qualify
• 57:36
  Wednesday. We got, you know, the the duels
• 57:41
  on Thursday, we got the truck race on Friday, Xfinity and
• 57:45
  Orca. You know, we're we're still five
• 57:48
  days. We're still five days.
• 57:50
  Now the reason I call it speed weeks is because I went down
• 57:55
  January 30th and ran my very first dirt race.
• 57:58
  I ran 9 out of 10 straight nights.
• 58:02
  And there's racing all around Daytona.
• 58:05
  You got New Smyrna, you got Volusia, you got Ocala, all
• 58:11
  these dirt tracks, Charlie. So when you when you bring in
• 58:14
  New Smyrna, the dirt tracks and Daytona, it's speed weeks.
• 58:18
  It's still speed weeks to me -6 days at the big track.
• 58:23
  So it's still awesome and I love it.
• 58:29
  And hopefully I explained to everybody why we aren't at
• 58:32
  Daytona 810 days anymore. Yeah, somebody actually said
• 58:38
  basically what you just said. MBR says yeah, speedways got
• 58:43
  expensive back in O1, O2 and no Airbnb 8 days at Adam's mark was
• 58:48
  ridiculous. Yeah, I'm with you.
• 58:51
  I mean, so we we adjusted times, you know, Charlotte, when you
• 58:56
  know where you're at, for example, I'm going to I'm always
• 58:59
  honest. My brother Rusty's great.
• 59:02
  He's, you know, and I love him. People like they think it's
• 59:06
  going to bother me or something. Oh, you're, you're riding your
• 59:09
  brother's coattail. I'm like, right, I love my
• 59:12
  brother, but they so it's weird how some people think things are
• 59:16
  bad and like it's demoralizing. It is not demoralizing to me
• 59:20
  that Daytona has had to go down to six days.
• 59:23
  We just had to my, what's my new phrase, Charlie?
• 59:26
  Right size, right size. This is the era we are in.
• 59:31
  I mean, NASCAR's nothing like it used to be.
• 59:35
  The NFL is nothing like it used to be.
• 59:38
  Now those, those helmets are better.
• 59:41
  I mean, look at look at baseball, Charlie.
• 59:43
  They're they're radioing each other.
• 59:45
  They don't, they hardly do handsome.
• 59:47
  They're, they got to, you know, they're telling each other what
• 59:49
  pitch to throw. Pitch com Yeah.
• 59:51
  Everything's different, everything.
• 59:54
  So our our, our day, our glory days are over, but we still
• 59:58
  doing good and and we still doing good.
• 1:00:02
  I love it. You know what, you you, you said
• 1:00:04
  we're still doing good, right? As we hit exactly on an hour.
• 1:00:07
  I think we should end on that. What do you think?
• 1:00:10
  I think so. Charlie, I'd like you to edit
• 1:00:11
  this up and I'd like to know if you will maybe put that caution
• 1:00:16
  thing out because I, I see a couple people, not many, they're
• 1:00:20
  not beating it like a dead horse like Larry Mack say.
• 1:00:23
  But I like the way I explained why it was OK, because if they
• 1:00:28
  were to throw the caution, the finish still would have been the
• 1:00:32
  same. Yeah.
• 1:00:34
  All right. I love it.
• 1:00:35
  Yeah, people, the second we're done, they can also go back and
• 1:00:38
  watch this as a recorded video. And I'll also, I'm also going to
• 1:00:41
  put it on podcast as well. And Speaking of podcasts
• 1:00:45
  yourself, Ken Schrader will record Herman Schrader tomorrow,
• 1:00:49
  which will come out on Wednesday.
• 1:00:52
  Yeah, I think tomorrow it's going to be pretty easy content.
• 1:00:55
  Yeah, you can't. We record it.
• 1:00:58
  I mean, it's going to be all Daytona.
• 1:01:00
  We'll slide some dirt racing in there and a joke what Schrader's
• 1:01:05
  been up to and he drove back, I know, Thursday.
• 1:01:07
  So All right, Charlie. All right, Herm, appreciate it.
• 1:01:12
  Thank you everybody for watching here.
• 1:01:13
  We got one more. We got one more Super thanks
• 1:01:16
  here. I'll put it up there.
• 1:01:17
  It's a humming along says now we just need Cletus racing NASCAR
• 1:01:21
  at the Rock. I'm telling everybody loves
• 1:01:22
  Cletus. So thank you for watching.
• 1:01:25
  Please comment like subscribe if you haven't already got almost
• 1:01:29
  1000 people still watching Over 10,000 people have watched this
• 1:01:33
  post race show NASCAR's here. Let's see one more.
• 1:01:36
  I'll I'll put up MBR Good show. Thanks, Charlie and Kenny.
• 1:01:41
  Yeah, thank you guys appreciate it.
• 1:01:43
  Oh see, I, I, I hit the wrong one.
• 1:01:45
  I I can't end here we go good times there we go good times,
• 1:01:49
  Jimmy V See you, everybody. See.
• 1:01:50
  You later, everybody. Earn.
• 1:01:51
  We'll see you.