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Carson & Cleetus Own The Talladega Weekend | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up everybody, Charlie Marlowe here, your favorite
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  casual NASCAR fan here to break down the weekend at Talladega.
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  We're going to talk about, of course, Carson, host of ours,
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  first ever NASCAR Cup win riding the dente chili style.
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  Cletus McFarland almost wins the ARCA race, finishing second.
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  And then also we got to discuss the NASCAR leadership changes
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  with Steve O'Donnell becoming the new president, CEO and Ben
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  Kennedy the new COO, chief operating officer.
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  OK, first we got to start with the Cup race, though, Carson
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  Hosavar. How awesome was that the win?
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  You knew what was going to happen this year.
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  Carson Hosavar was due, especially early in the year,
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  running up front. It just seemed like this was the
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  year that Carson Josefar was going to get his first couple
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  in. I remember doing the podcast
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  with Mark Martin before the year started.
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  This was right after Ryan Priest won the clash and we were saying
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  who's going to be the first time Cup winners this year?
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  So Priest had just won the class.
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  We're thinking, could Ryan Priest win a Cup race?
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  But we mentioned this feels like a year where Ty Gibbs wins a
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  race. He already has.
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  This feels like a year where Carson host of our wins a race.
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  He just did. Then I also mentioned maybe
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  Connor Zillich on a road course, but who track house not doing
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  too well this year across the board and Connor Zillich not
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  running well. So that probably won't happen.
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  But host of our gets his first ever NASCAR Cup win.
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  You had an exciting finish there after the wreck.
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  What was it? Was it like 3 or 4 to go?
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  It wasn't. It wasn't an overtime finish,
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  but 3 or 4 to go. Really good finish.
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  I know a lot of people didn't like the race.
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  The Jeff Gluck poll, I looked at it, it was around 50505347 in
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  terms of liking the race. People didn't like the fuel
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  saving, didn't like the two by two.
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  I've always said this about the Jeff Gluck poll.
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  You can have a good race with a bad finish.
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  You can have a bad race with a great finish.
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  In this case, it sure looked like this was a race that people
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  didn't like at all throughout the race, but a great finish
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  because Carson Hosavar won. And then he did the awesome
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  burnout where at first you were like, what is this dude doing?
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  And, you know, hey, Carson Hosavar, he goes by the beat of
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  his own drum, right? I mean, he could have hurt
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  himself, which is why it was cool.
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  And it took him a while to basically figure it out.
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  But once he did, and he's doing the the lap kind of the Polish
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  victory lap, but he's outside of the car waving to the fans.
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  He's beaten on the top of the car, almost caught a beer.
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  If he'd have caught the beer and chugged it, it would have been
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  one of the coolest things we've ever seen.
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  It was already one of the coolest things we've ever seen.
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  And then he even hit the wall at the end.
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  I mean, he bumps the wall. So look, this was dangerous,
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  which is the reason it was cool. And Steve O'Donnell said, hey,
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  we're not going to ban that. You thought, no, they're
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  probably going to ban this. Steve O'Donnell said during the
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  press conference, they're not going to ban it.
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  So that's pretty cool. And we will talk about Steve
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  O'Donnell in a second. So Carson Hosovar, he's good for
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  business, man. He's good for business.
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  He's interesting. He says interesting things.
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  He has a big personality. He's a Michigan guy.
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  I'm from northern Ohio, lived in Michigan three times, so I root
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  for him. NASCAR needs personalities, They
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  need characters. Carson Ho Savar is one of those
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  guys. So we need him to keep winning.
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  That was pretty awesome. And in his post game, post game,
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  I'm a sticking ball guy. OK, post race, Cletus calls him
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  up. We posted that video on Kenny
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  Wallace YouTube channel. Cletus calls him up to
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  congratulate him. That was pretty cool.
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  This was, we always joke old people.
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  You're you're Cletus engagement farming.
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  OK, we all know you post a video about Cletus, you get tons of
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  views. It is what it is, OK?
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  We all do it. But also, he's part of the
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  story. He was the story.
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  Let's be real. The story of the weekend at
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  Talladega was Carson Hosovar and Cletus McFarlane.
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  I don't care if you're a fan of any of those guys either.
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  Those guys, they were the show. They were the show.
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  Carson wins on Sunday. Cletus almost wins the ARCA race
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  on Saturday. He's leading right there at the
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  end. He loses it, but he finishes
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  second. Crowds going nuts.
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  Let me tell you something. I feel like a fire Marshall
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  Bill. That's an old refresh.
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  Let me tell you, champion. I'm 43 years old in living
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  color. Back in the day, Fire Marshall
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  Bill was a character played by Jim Carrey.
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  You got to look that up. Let me tell you, champion.
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  Fire Marshall Bill. Now I'm making myself laugh.
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  But if you're probably under 40 or 35, you don't remember in
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  living color, but you should look that up.
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  Let me tell you something I don't.
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  Remember what I was talking about now because I'm making
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  myself laugh about Fire Marshall Bill.
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  Anyway, Cletus was the show. It was awesome.
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  Look, Cletus belongs 100% in ARCA.
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  Cletus is probably going to win an ARCA race.
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  Cletus said what he's going to try to win a try to run a full
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  ARCA season next year. I would think Cletus will win an
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  ARCA race at some point and I think this proved to people he
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  does belong. Did he go a little too quick
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  into O'Reilly? Yes, he probably did.
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  And he didn't get approved for Talladega, but he still became
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  the show at Talladega. He's going to run that
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  O'reilly's car end of May at Nashville and I'm guessing now
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  he'll probably, I'm guessing he'll probably be approved down
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  the line for a Daytona potentially in in the fall.
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  I haven't looked at the schedule of of what of what ARCA is
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  running, but I'm guessing good chance now that NASCAR approves
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  Cletus for more in the O'Reilly series moving forward after a
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  really good showing second place in ARCA.
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  Oh, now I remember what I was talking about.
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  I was saying, let me tell you something.
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  I don't pay attention to ARCA. I would never I did this last
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  week, I told you this last week, I would never pay attention to
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  ARCA if Cletus wasn't in it. I say at the beginning of every
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  video, I'm I'm the casual NASCAR fan.
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  Cletus is bringing non traditional NASCAR fans or old
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  NASCAR fans that used to be fans that kind of got got sick of
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  what was going on the last several years.
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  He's bringing them back. We're talking about freaking
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  ARCA. One of the biggest stories of
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  the weekend was ARCA and that's because Cletus MacFarlane.
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  So there you go. OK, host of our Cletus.
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  And now the NASCAR leadership changes.
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  So you have Steve O'Donnell. Steve O'Donnell, I think he's
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  like 57. Don't quote me on that, 57,
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  whatever it is. Ben Kennedy, I should have
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  looked this up. He's in his 30s.
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  I'm 43. He's much younger than me.
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  What is he? Is he like 33?
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  Is he 35? Respond right here, as Kenny
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  Wallace says. But I think this is big, even if
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  it's just optics. And I say that because Jim
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  France is, I think he's 8081 Jim France stepping down as
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  president, CEO. He'll still be on the board as
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  chairman. And if you know the chain of
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  command, the chairman still technically runs the show.
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  So is he still going to be running the show behind the
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  scenes like the Wizard of Oz? Maybe.
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  But I do think optics matter in this particular issue because
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  look, NASCAR did not look good in the lawsuit.
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  And Jim France, look, his family built NASCAR, but he's 81 years
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  old. And you can see why he could
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  come across as some people, some young people, as kind of an old
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  fuddy Duddy, an old geezer. And I say that with respect, but
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  just an older dude. I I think it helps NASCAR, even
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  if it's just optics, even if Jim France is still running the
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  show, which I don't know if he is, but the fact that you have
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  Steve O'Donnell, who's a young 57, whatever he is, Ben
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  Kennedy's freaking in his 30s. I do think this comes across as
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  turning over a new leaf for NASCAR.
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  Just kind of just kind of accepting the new world of of
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  media and entertainment, accepting A Cletus, as I said
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  earlier, Steve O'Donnell saying, hey, we want our guys to have
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  personalities, host of our he's a personality.
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  They're not going to ban his, his burnout celebration.
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  It's fun. Is it dangerous?
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  Yes. Is it fun and cool?
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  Yes. Is that why it's cool because
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  it's dangerous? Yes.
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  Clearly we don't want Carson Hosevar to fall out of the car.
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  That could be catastrophic. But this is a dangerous sport
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  also. And I know a couple races go
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  month or so ago, Ben Kennedy and the NASCAR staff, they went to a
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  NASCAR race as fans. And look, I've been I'm I'm
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  jaded. I've worked in media for like 20
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  plus years and, and that was all about PR.
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  But again, I think it matters. I think, I think PR matters for
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  NASCAR right now. What they put out there because
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  fans were not happy the last several years with the playoff
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  system. They're not happy just big
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  picture with the Next Gen. car. They weren't happy with some of
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  the stuff of, of drivers being robotic and, and not being able
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  to have a personality and kind of getting away from what what
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  NASCAR was, you know, a Southern base kind of redneck.
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  I say that with love. A lot of NASCAR fans were not
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  happy about a lot of the changes.
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  And I just see Ben Kennedy, Steve O'Donnell as like a fresh
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  new face. You know, Steve Phelps is gone.
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  He made the comments about Richard Childress.
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  He couldn't survive those. Jim France took a beating.
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  The France family took a beating in the lawsuit.
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  And I'm not saying this is happening because of the
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  lawsuit, but I think I think the team's winning the lawsuit was
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  actually good for for everybody involved, including NASCAR, big
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  picture. NASCAR needed to change.
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  And I just think you have this new fresh vision with a Steve
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  O'Donnell, with a Ben Kennedy. And what I was saying was, so
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  when the NASCAR team went to the track as fans, you know, every
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  business owner does this. By the way, I, I do this, I have
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  like with people who are answering the phones, right?
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  Just to make sure everything is good, just like you're a
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  customer. Everybody does this.
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  So that that's APR thing. But again, I'm not I'm not mad
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  about it because NASCAR needs this positive PR.
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  If you look at those pictures from from those guys at the
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  races, it looked like a lot of young people having fun, like a
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  young staff of NASCAR, people that are ready to embrace the
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  new world of racing and personalities and media and all
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  that. So I think it's great that Steve
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  O'donnell's now the CEO, Ben Kennedy's the COO.
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  And again, if the O'donnell's 57, whatever he is, is he going
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  to be the CEO for the next 8 years, whatever.
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  I mean, retirement age 65, whatever it is, 6810 years, you
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  got to think Ben Kennedy's going to take over after that when
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  he's around 40 or so. That that sure looks to be the
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  So there you go. What are we at about 14 minutes
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  host of our wins. Awesome burnout, awesome.
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  Cletus almost wins, finishes second, and still he's the
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  second biggest story of the weekend besides Carson Hosovar.
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  NASCAR leadership changes. I think it's great.
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  I think it's NASCAR embracing the new world of racing and
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  media and personality with Steve O'Donnell and Ben Kennedy, and I
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  think it's awesome. So there you go, drop your
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  comments. Thank you, guys.
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  We're over 1000 subscribers. We're getting this bad boy
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  monetized. We love it and I'll try to do
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  one at least every week. All right, I'm busy with the
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  Kenny Wallace doing all his stuff, but I'm going to try to
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  do my own video at least every week if I can.
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  So there you go. Love you all.
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  Peace out. Word to your mother.
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  Let me tell you something.