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Why So Many Empty Seats At Bristol? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. Friday morning is Friday.
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  The greatest day of the week, is it?
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  Respond right here. You know, when you're retired
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  like me, every day is Saturday. But I will admit Friday seems to
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  make everybody be happier, and they calm down and they get
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  ready for the weekend. So I think, hey, Kim, is Friday
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  the greatest day of the week? I don't know.
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  Every day is ever. See, I told them.
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  I said since we're retired, every day is Saturday.
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  Yeah. But even if it's not, you should
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  Yes, get rid of all the negativity.
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  But Saturday night, tomorrow night, I-55, Federated Auto
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  regular races. All divisions will be there so
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  check us out. OK monologue is over.
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  So this is weighed on my mind all week long as I scroll social
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  media everyday. There are people that are just
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  up in arms over the crowd being so low at Bristol.
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  Well, let me steal a page from Kenny Schrader.
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  Nashville Fairgrounds is very small, had 12,000 people there
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  and it was packed and it looked good.
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  We love Nashville and you go up to Bristol and it seats about
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  155,000 people. So there was about 30,000 people
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  there. Look bad because there were so
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  many grandstands. So when people say, should we
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  get rid of Bristol, Louis, Louis stop getting ready to lick his
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  balls again right in front of everybody, just like a man Don't
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  care. Reminds me of my dad.
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  We'd go to Bristol and Rusty and all of us, we'd be sitting there
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  with Rodger Penske, talking to Rodger Penske, one of the most
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  powerful men in the world, and my dad would RIP a fart.
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  We're and we're like, Dad, it's Rodger Penske.
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  You know Rodger doesn't fart. Rodger Penske is his roses
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  really smell like poop. Poop.
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  That's all. He has no shame trying to lick
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  his balls right in front of all of you.
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  OK. So you you see where we're going
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  with this. You know, everything at Bristol
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  in this spring race is a lot lesser.
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  It's just the way it is. So the question that I'm going
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  to ask you is this, will you ever normalize that or will it
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  always be a a problem with you? So we all know that 2006 was the
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  last year of NASCAR high success 2006 and everything has been way
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  lesser since. And now me, I've just grown
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  accustomed to it. It's like this is the new world.
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  Remember, it's, it's, it's the same thing as I told you a
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  couple 2-3 days ago. They asked the 102 year old
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  lady. They said what's changed since
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  you know your, your days. And she looked at them and she
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  said everything's changed. Nothing's the same and that's
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  the way life is. Hell, I can remember we'd go
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  down to Busch Stadium for our eleven time world champion Saint
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  Louis Cardinals and you about, you about couldn't get in.
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  I mean, Busch Stadium seats about I think it's sold out in a
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  high 4040 thousand people, but used to be where you couldn't
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  get in. Hell, you can walk down to right
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  now and sit wherever the hell you want And and I for the most
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  part, I see that at most baseball parts, you know, except
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  for the ones that are, you know, the Dodgers are kicking the ass
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  and you got some teams that are winning a lot.
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  But for the most part, you see it in baseball right now.
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  Now college, college football, they they don't play but a
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  couple games a year, right. So I mean, you know, it's like
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  saying somebody, hey, you're only going to get to see 8
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  football games here. Well, hell, they're going to be
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  packed. I mean, could you imagine NASCAR
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  going over? We're only going to run 8 or 16
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  races a year. We're going to run the Daytona
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  500, a Southern 500A, Coke 600, maybe the Brickyard.
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  Hell, they'd be packed too. I've always said NASCAR races
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  too much. It's just the way I feel, You
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  know, NASCAR used to only run like, what was it, 2832 races a
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  year? That's when I was a crew chief
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  at like 1984. Hey, respond right here.
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  In 1984, how many NASCAR Cup races were there?
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  All right, I think I've made my point.
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  This is just the way it is, just the way it is.
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  So I don't know about leaving Bristol, but they can do
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  whatever they want to do. But I'm used to it.
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  The spring race doesn't get very many people, but it's still hey,
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  if you go to the race, like you know, when we do track
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  satellite, it's packed. It's not until you get everybody
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  in and you're like, damn, this place is empty.
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  But when you're there on grounds, it's like, hey, things
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  are happening. So 12,000 at the fairgrounds or
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  over 30,000 at the at Bristol. Are you over it or does it still
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  bother you? I don't care.
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  I really don't. Have a great weekend everybody.