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Something Happened at Michigan That Hasn't Happened in a LONG Time | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. Last night I thought about
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  taking a break from uh, just doing what I do, you know,
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  change it up a little bit. Uh, and then I thought to
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  myself, no, no, because all I do is an 8 or 10 minute video every
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  morning and it's this one coffee with Kenny.
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  And there's no harm in this. Every once in a while I talk to
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  myself and say, self, is this you up in any manner?
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  And if the answer too many times is yes, then we'll stop for a
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  little bit. But right now, coffee with Kenny
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  is something that's fun and we just keep on doing it and we not
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  hurting anybody. OK, today's subject is Michigan.
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  That race yesterday, I just looked on this Monday morning at
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  Jeff Glucks. Let me sit down right here.
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  Let's sit right here. Seems like got a little cushion
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  on my ass. Oh yeah.
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  Feels good. Feels good.
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  All right. OK.
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  I just looked at man, I need sunglasses.
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  I'll tell you what, my future is so bright I got to wear shades.
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  Jeff Gluck, his pole is out and right now it's a little over
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  10,000 people and Michigan's Cup race on Jeff Glucks pole could
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  set a record. Right now it's at was it 92% of
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  the people said Michigan was incredible.
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  Of course you asked yourself who are the dummies that said it was
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  not a good race? Are those the old people?
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  So we did. We did.
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  Speaking of old people, we did define old people yesterday.
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  Old people is an ongoing joke. It is the people that are sad
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  that they're heroes, like my brother Rusty, Dale Senior, you
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  know, Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin, the old people.
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  It's not really that they're old, although they are.
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  It's that they're sad that they're heroes are gone and
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  they're just pissed. So they complain.
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  When I say old people, I don't mean I'm, I'm mad at them.
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  I'm just like, Oh yeah, those are the old people.
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  They're pissed that the days are over and now we got these new
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  crop of kids that they cannot relate with.
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  All right. Moving forward, however, NASCAR
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  has made this massive turn that we've all talked about in the
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  last five months. Really.
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  It ended. It was ending last year.
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  NASCAR is, you know, Kenny Schrader would say NASCAR's
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  trending in the right direction right now.
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  I feel like it's getting to be like a rocket.
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  You know, everything that NASCAR's doing right now is
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  stemming from their hard work. As you know, all the truck and
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  trailers are headed to Mexico City, Mexico.
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  They're going to race this coming weekend at Hermanos
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  Rodriguez. Now, I've raced there a lot.
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  I've raced at Hermano Rodriguez a lot.
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  And I love that area down there, man.
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  That's one of the biggest cities in the world.
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  OK, so the race yesterday at Michigan was one of the greatest
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  feelings in NASCAR in a long time, and here's why.
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  There was one way you could judge it, and I went, well, I'll
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  be damned. I haven't seen that in a long
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  time. It was the moment Denny Hamlin
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  won and he done his burnout on the front straightaway.
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  What did the fans do? What did all the fans do?
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  When Denny Hamlin done his burnout, what did the fans do?
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  That's right. They stayed there to hear what
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  he had to say. If you you know, I looked at
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  that said I'll be damn, man, NASCAR is back, like bigger and
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  better than ever. And of course, Denny Hamlin did
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  not disappoint them. Danny Hamlin recognized what was
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  going on. He went, oh, my God, NASCAR's
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  back. This is old school.
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  All the fans have stayed after the races because they want to
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  hear what Danny has to say. Those fans knew Danny was going
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  to taunt them. He did not disappoint.
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  He said, dad, I'm sorry because his dad said, son, I don't like
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  you doing that. And he said, dad, I'm sorry, but
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  I beat your favorite driver. And there was literally a
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  mixture of booze and cheers. It wasn't all booze.
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  So the fans now, they're learning to play along.
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  That's when I knew NASCAR was back, like in a bigger way than
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  I thought. They stayed after the race.
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  They wanted to hear it. Then he had, let's say.
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  And then the race itself, My God.
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  I mean that was insane. How many laps did Denny Hamlin
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  and William Byron run side by side?
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  What was that? 3 laps, 4 laps on a mile and a
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  half track? Both of them had control of
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  their cars. And of course, here come Ty
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  Gibbs. And in the post race, Denny
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  Hamlin said, myself and William knew we better stop this because
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  Ty Gibbs is getting a run and he's he's going to pass them
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  both. Well, if you if you think, OK,
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  well, that was just a race. NASCAR's not back.
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  Well, the good news just keeps on coming before the race even
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  started. Now I'm starting to learn this.
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  Help me fill in the gaps here. We can we getting ready to do
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  Herman Schrader here in a little bit.
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  We getting ready to do Herman Schrader here in a little bit.
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  Going to walk in the house there, fire the computer up.
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  But before the race started, Stalantis is a group, I guess,
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  that bought out the Dodge Ram. Things like that from somebody.
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  Charlie Mall are going to break it down today on Herman
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  Schrader. So Ram announced that they're
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  coming back to NASCAR because this is where they see the
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  trajectory going up, like skyrocketing.
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  So Ram is coming back to be 1/4 automaker, a fourth 'cause we
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  got Ford, Chevy, Toyota, and now Ram.
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  And then they said let us get going back in the trucks.
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  I just thought I saw a frog jump in there.
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  Who knows? But Ram said we're going to get
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  going in the Truck Series and we will be back in Cup.
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  Let us get geared up. Here's what I say this would be
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  the easiest time for automakers to ever get in the NASCAR and
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  here's why because they don't have to design a new race car.
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  This is the next Gen. car. You just buy it.
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  All you do is buy the car. NASCAR, they'll work with them
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  on, you know, their body and as far as you know, whatever
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  they're they're doing their motor, things like that.
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  But your Ram is coming back at the right time because they
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  don't have, they don't have to build a race car.
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  The race car is built. You just buy it.
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  That's it. Hey, Kenny, quit squealing.
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  OK, I guess I'm excited, everybody.
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  There's so much more to talk about.
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  But yesterday was an awakening. And I think that's a beam.
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  That'd be my headline. Yesterday's race at Michigan was
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  an awakening. All right everybody, we're going
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  to keep it short today. Everybody have a great Monday.
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  And they said 35 hour trip for those tractor trailers.
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  It's going to take them 35 hours to get from the Michigan
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  Speedway to Mexico City, Mexico at Hermanos Rodriguez.
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  I'm excited to see that race. And remember everybody, two
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  races left on Prime. There's only two races left on
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  Prime. Boy, that went fast, didn't it?
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  I can't say goodbye without my coffee bug.
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  Have a great Monday.