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That Talladega Finish Was Crazy! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Kenny Wallace Show,
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  everything and anything. And Jags are telling me that
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  they got everything for Jeeps and pickup trucks.
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  Well, you caught me in a unique position.
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  We just got done watching the race.
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  I've been washing my dirt car, washing all the tires.
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  Dirt cars get dirty, so we have to be able to clean them so we
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  can work on them. All right, let's break this
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  Talladega race down. Talladega.
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  It was one of the best ones I've seen in a long time.
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  And I'll tell you why. Because when they made it to the
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  white flag, I looked at my wife. Brody's working the camera right
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  now, my son-in-law, and I looked at him.
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  I said what a race. I said lap 4.
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  Me and Brody were joking. I said lap 4, NASCAR's going to
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  hit the wreck button. OK, everybody wrecked.
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  Nobody wrecked. But listen, they made it past
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  the white flag and and they were all connected.
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  So when you when you run Talladega, the key is to stay
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  hooked up like this. When this starts, that's when
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  all hell breaks loose. So the reason it was such a good
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  race is they stayed connected. And then you saw the great Brad
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  Keselowski. Now, the reason I called him
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  great, some of you will say you're too nice, Kenny, you call
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  everybody great. Listen, the great Brad Kazlaki,
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  he's won there. He's won at Talladega.
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  He knew what he was doing. So right in the middle of turn
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  three and four, Brad did what they they say you dragged the
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  brake a little bit and then that outside lane gained energy.
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  But when Brad drugged the brake, that allowed Michael McDowell to
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  get ahead. And then here comes Brad back.
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  Now you're wide open. You just barely dragged the
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  brake. Listen, I'll make the sound.
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  And that little, that little just barely dragged the brake.
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  That slows the energy down. Now.
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  Now here he come, here you come, here you come, and he's going to
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  make the move on Michael McDowell.
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  My wife looked at me and she said, what did Michael McDowell
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  do wrong? I said, honey, he didn't do
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  anything wrong. What could he have done?
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  The only thing he did wrong was he tried to win.
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  So he goes outside to block the lane.
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  Then he knows. Then when he makes the left hand
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  move, you know, he just skims Brad Keselowski's bumper.
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  They're coming to the checkered flag.
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  It was violent as all get out. I saw Corey Lejoy.
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  That was Corey Lejoy. That was the seven up on the
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  wall sideways. It was #7 believe that was Corey
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  Lejoy all the way along. Happy that that was up against
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  the wall with the bottom of the car, not the driver's side.
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  I believe Corey's just fine. But I got to tell you this.
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  Also, respond right here. I believe this is a breakout
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  moment for NASCAR and here's why.
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  Name me besides Muhammad Ali. Fly like a butterfly, sting like
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  a bee. I'm Muhammad Ali besides
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  Muhammad Ali, name right here. Drop rider who's the most famous
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  professional athlete in the world.
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  It's Michael Jordan. It is.
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  Google it, they'll tell you. I don't know if they're going to
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  tell you or not, but I think it is Michael Jordan.
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  The car that wins is Tyler Reddick.
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  The car that wins is Tyler Reddick #45 buddy and babies,
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  everybody out there. So it's it's just all Air
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  Jordan. It's a Jordan car.
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  It says Jordan, it's got his logo.
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  And when they said Michael Jordan was there, I looked at
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  Brody, who's working the camera. Brody, did I tell you that TV's
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  got to go to Victor Lane do the camera, didn't I?
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  Yes, yes. I said, you know, usually
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  they'll end Victor Lane on the track.
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  I said they got to go to Victor Lane because this is Fox Sports
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  chance and NASCAR to get Michael Jordan.
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  Sure enough, sure enough. I should have been the producer,
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  but my buddy Jake Jolly and, and those, those people in the Fox
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  TV booth, they did it right. They got the Victory Lane.
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  They got the great Michael Jordan.
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  Now everybody's going. Who was the little kid Michael
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  Jordan was holding? Well, that was Tyler Reddick's
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  son. So listen, say what you want
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  about anything, but Herman's been using this song.
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  Let's get to the good part. And we did.
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  We just skipped everything. We just got to the good part.
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  It was a great race. It was a big win.
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  You know, usually about this time, you know, with three to
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  go, they'll wreck. They'll wreck and everybody go,
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  oh, this is a shit show. I hate NASCAR.
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  They can't keep going. They wreck all the time.
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  So they made it. They made it.
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  They made it to the they made it to the checkered flag.
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  Listen, I will have to say I'm going to end like this.
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  Everybody made fun. Everybody made fun of the I'm a
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  little cold by the way. That's why my mouth is not
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  moving perfectly. Little chilly out, but I like to
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  get things done here on Sunday, the Toyotas, they wrecked each
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  other using their strategies. So we saw that embarrassing
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  moment in NASCAR history. And yes, I say history it.
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  It's like team mates wrecking each other.
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  Don't, don't wreck your teammate.
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  All the Toyotas lined up and like Harvick said on the
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  broadcast, they go across that little bump there where the
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  where the trucks. So that bump on the back
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  straight away. That's where that's where the
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  motor homes. I mean, everybody comes across
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  there right as you enter turn 3. That's where everybody comes
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  across and they're bopping into weaving.
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  The cars are running, you know, 200 mile an hour.
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  They go like this. That upset all the toy, all the
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  Toyota is in a line and they all wreck and everybody is like
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  Toyota wreck. Toyota won the race.
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  Be careful. I always run my mouth just like
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  you all do. But if you get it, it would have
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  been better. We could have run our mouth a
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  little bit more. Yes, it was embarrassing for
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  Toyota, but Toyota went to Victor Lane and yes, Toyota
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  sponsored me for seven years. But but I'm not a Toyota
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  spokesperson anymore. But they did get the last laugh.
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  But yes, that was an embarrassing moment.
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  I'm acknowledging that. So, yeah, what a bummer.
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  All right, listen, everybody, I think that's it.
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  I think our star of the race is, is Kyle Larson.
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  How about Kyle? That's funny.
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  He's all get out. He takes in.
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  He takes in, you know, he don't do nothing wrong.
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  But the car don't make it through tech, right?
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  Kyle Larson's car doesn't make it through tech.
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  So they make him start like a lap down.
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  Then he doesn't have any of his crew member because the wheels
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  fell off at the last race. NASCAR's got this rule where if
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  your wheels fall off, I mean, it's a big penalty.
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  So he started the race with none of his tire changers down the
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  lap and in one of the stages he was coming back and obviously
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  there was Rex galore until we got to the end.
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  So I think those are my highlights.
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  Terminator don't break down. I'm not Larry Mac Reynolds, OK?
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  I don't break down everything. Those are my highlights.
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  And all right, I guess that's it.
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  We run 5th last night at Peebly. We're in 6th the night before.
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  We're going to run Brownstown, IL this Friday and we're going
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  to run Peevely on Saturday. And yes, I do everything myself
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  because you can't find nobody to help you anymore.
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  Respond right here. Can you find anybody to work
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  anymore? Somebody said Herman where's
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  your help? I said I don't want nobody to
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  help me because you can't find anybody to do anything anymore.
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  They too busy making YouTube shows.
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  All right, everybody remember we are in podcast form.
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  We're on iTunes and Spotify. Hell, you can listen this on the
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  way to work and it'll be over. All right.
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  We got some good ones in the pipeline, Michael and ready.
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  And I've also got to call in to Rodger Pensky.
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  And Rodger answered me. He says let me get a time.
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  Indy 500 is coming up. It's the month of May in a
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  little bit, the month of May. So Michael Andretti with 42
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  IndyCar wins, and his dad's Mario Andretti.
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  And I thought that'd be a good one.
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  And he's up. Michael Andretti, he's won four
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  Indy 5 hundreds as a car owner. We're going to talk to him about
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  that. But all right, till the next
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  show.