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Joey Logano Gets His Revenge at Texas | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  The title of this video. Too many cautions at Texas.
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  Am I being too negative? I want to know what you guys
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  thought of this race yesterday. Mile and a half's usually the
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  best racing for NASCAR during the Next Gen. era.
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  Again, I want to hear from you guys, jump in the comments, let
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  me know. I thought this race was kind of
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  boring, right? It was saved a little bit, I
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  think by a really good ending. Lot of cautions, 12 cautions,
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  OK. And I also look we're we're
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  critiquing NASCAR because we're NASCAR fans.
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  And some people say maybe you're complaining too much, but I
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  think everybody wants the best on track product.
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  And I think sometimes you got to say what could NASCAR have done
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  differently? What was out of their control?
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  For example, both of the of the stages ended under caution,
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  right? That's not in NASCAR's control
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  if you're watching the race. I understand some of you guys
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  don't even like stages. I get that.
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  But if you're if you're looking for the races within a race and
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  each stage ends under caution, that's kind of a bummer.
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  Nothing that NASCAR can control their overall.
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  I just, I didn't think there was a ton of passing.
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  I thought till the end you had some interesting restarts at the
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  end and we'll get to all of this.
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  All right, Explore America, jumping in and starting off with
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  you can't afford to be a NASCAR fan anymore.
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  You know what though? Everything in the world, don't
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  you think everything in the world is just getting too Dang
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  expensive? Everything, right?
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  Not just professional sports, everything.
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  Maybe we will dive into that further, but OK, I'm like, I'm
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  not trying to be overly negative.
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  I think you guys know me. Hopefully you know me by now.
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  I think I'm pretty fair. So Joey Logano wins the race and
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  right when Joey Logano wins, first thing I thought of
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  randomly was Chipper Jones. How about that Chipper Jones,
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  Atlanta Braves legendary Hall of Fame player you probably saw
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  last week? Chipper Jones went on X and was
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  chirping pretty hard. Joey Logano for MF ING his
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  teammate Austin Sindrich on the radio.
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  And how about Chipper Jones right after the race going to X?
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  So this is after last week, Chipper Jones ripped in to Joey
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  Logano, right? And then Joey Logano responded,
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  wasn't as biting in his commentary, but basically said
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  look, what is Chipper Jones know about driving a race car around
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  Talladega, right? So here's Chipper Jones, though,
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  with an olive branch, I think it's fair to say ending this
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  whole little dispute. Yesterday after the race, he
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  says congratulations to Joey Logano, a Hall of Fame driver
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  with a masterful win. This is what NASCAR fans expect
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  from you. Hard charging wins and gracious
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  top fives and 10s. Well done.
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  Somebody then responds to him and says this guy Hollywood Todd
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  says you backpedaling after all that noise last week.
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  Joey 3X3 time champion will be a Hall of Famer and he's great
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  with fans and Chipper Jones responds.
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  We'll get into more but I think this is interesting.
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  Chipper Jones responds on X backpedaling.
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  No appreciating a great race and sportsmanship.
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  Hall of Famers are always held to a higher standard and should
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  be. How about that?
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  What'd you guys think last week? Everybody chirping, Chipper
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  Jones chirping at Joey Logano. Joey Logano chirp back.
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  Joey Logano gets the last laugh. He wins the race at Texas.
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  And then Chipper Jones ending it very graciously and saying, hey,
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  congratulations and we can all move on.
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  One of those little storylines within the storyline within the
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  race that I find fun. Maybe you guys don't.
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  A little drama never hurts, especially midweek as we're
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  going race to race. What do you guys think?
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  OK, let's see. Explore America says I just
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  watch old Winston Cup races on YouTube now.
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  Explore America. NASCAR is impossible to follow
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  now. I used to be able to.
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  OK, so NASCAR is impossible to follow now.
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  I used to be able to watch it on TNN or NBC.
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  Now I got to have five different subscriptions to five different
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  networks and a couple apps. Harlan Drake says just enjoy the
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  race. It is entertainment only.
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  If you have a favorite race from the past, just watch that race
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  over and over again. Let's see, Explore America.
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  Also saying the one thing NASCAR has going for itself now is its
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  level of safety. Well, that's good.
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  And by the way, I'm I'm not always trying to jump down
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  NASCAR's throats. I do think from a racing
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  standpoint, they've had a rough month.
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  They've had a rough month. We all know the Next Gen. car on
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  the short tracks is not the best style of racing.
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  With this car. The mile and a halfs are
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  fantastic usually, which I think everybody should be excited for.
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  Kansas. I mean, don't you think you can
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  make the argument that Kansas is maybe the best racing we have?
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  I mean, you can throw Phoenix Homestead.
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  I feel like Vegas is usually pretty good racing, but clearly
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  the mile and a halfs, that's where it's at for NASCAR.
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  I mean, Kansas to me, I understand they can't do this
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  because look, weather comes into play.
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  Kansas would be for me in the rotation for the championship,
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  but you just can't count on weather in early to mid November
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  in Kansas. But man, the racing at Kansas is
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  freaking awesome. So I think everybody should be
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  excited for next week, but we're talking about Texas now and
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  again, please get your comments in.
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  Let's see, we got Trucker Cowboy, Ed says.
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  As someone who travels, I actually appreciate NASCAR
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  putting the race on more streaming platforms to watch on
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  my phone. Yeah, it's kind of a
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  generational thing. Also, I believe.
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  Let's see, Chris Morton says. My opinion is NASCAR is starting
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  to be more like open wheel, single lug, not right.
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  You're not liking the single lug nut.
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  We've had that now for four years, though.
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  Let's see, Charles F says past races had more cautions than
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  this race did. So too many.
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  I don't think so A lot, but it's Texas.
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  If you're going to race in Texas, you better expect
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  cautions. Sounds like a country song.
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  It does. If you're going to race in
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  Texas, expect a lot of cautions. Right.
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  My thing too. And I got a little discussion on
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  on X with somebody yesterday. To me, it's not just about the
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  number of cautions, it's more of a feel, right?
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  This is why I said earlier some bad luck for NASCAR with both
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  stages ending in cautions. If you're somebody who's having
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  the race on the background, you're kind of always looking up
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  007 to go in the first stage, 09 to go in the second stage.
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  You probably sit down, right? Some people watch the entirety
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  of the race. I get that.
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  That's great, but if you're watching the end of the stages,
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  you're like, oh, this 1 ended in caution.
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  The second one ended in caution. Now, I do think you had some
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  interesting things going on at the end, right?
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  I mean, Denny Hamlin blows up. What do you think of the horns
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  down? Did you like that?
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  Did you notice that in Texas? Horns down.
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  Denny Hamlin now an Ohio State fan.
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  I've been Ohio State fan my whole life, so I appreciate it.
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  The horns down, I think it's kind of fun.
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  Have some fun with that. His engine, you know, he blows
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  up, no good there, but I thought you had some good drama.
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  Then at the end, I do think this race needed some interesting
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  restarts at the end because I thought the majority of the race
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  was not just the most interesting with a ton of
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  passing and all that. You might say, Oh well, Joey
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  Logano, what do you start 27th? Whatever it is, he comes up.
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  You had a lot of look, a lot of cautions.
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  You had a bunch of DNFS. You didn't see some good racing
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  at the end there, right? Michael McDowell.
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  You thought Michael McDowell had a chance and he tries to go
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  block and then Joey Logano finally passes him.
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  You have some of the big name drivers in the mix at the end,
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  Kyle Larson, Ryan Blaney. So give it, give it up to
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  Penske, by the way. So Austin Cindrick wins last
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  week. Joey Logano wins this week, Ryan
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  Blaney. I mean, you can make the case
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  especially early on Cindrick at at the superspeedways, but Ryan
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  Blaney, Joey Logano, Penske cars had run really, really well
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  throughout a lot of these races and had some terrible luck.
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  I haven't looked at all the stats lately, but if you looked
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  at the laps LED and all that, he had all these Penske cars
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  leading a ton of laps but not getting the finishes they
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  wanted, right, not getting the wins.
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  So Ryan Blaney is probably the next he he deserves a win.
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  I would I would think you guys would agree with me on that.
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  But so Syndrich wins last week, Joey Logano wins this week.
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  The Penske cars which have been running well but didn't have the
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  luck. I almost said puck luck.
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  I've been in the hockey mode. The Saint Louis Blues lost last
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  night in just terrible fashion. But you have to have puck luck
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  in in the NHL play offs. You have to have a little bit of
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  track luck. You have to have a little bit of
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  escape luck in terms of staying out of the wrecks and all that.
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  And the Penske car is running so well early but not getting the
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  finishes. Now they're starting to get the
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  wins. Cedric Logano and I'm betting, I
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  mean Ryan Blaney, You're not going to keep Ryan Blaney out of
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  Victory Lane for too long. He's going to win a race this
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  year, probably multiple, don't you think?
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  Let's see. Explore America.
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  You are correct, Sir. It is generational.
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  That's talking about the TV experience for NASCAR, remember?
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  Hey, you got Amazon Prime coming up.
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  That was the first time I saw the commercial yesterday with
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  Dale Junior and Steve Letarte talking about the five races on
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  prime. Which are what?
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  Coke 600 Nashville, MI? I can't remember all of them.
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  There's five of them, Coke 600, Michigan, Nashville, Poconos,
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  one of them. Oh, and Mexico City.
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  And there's also a cameo from from Chase Elliot there.
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  I thought that was a really cool commercial.
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  Junior Steve Letarte driving like an old school hot rod
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  muscle car and they're talking about the races that they have
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  on Amazon. I thought that was cool.
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  And look, I have kids. I get it.
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  I get it. If you're complaining about TV,
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  I've complained about TVA lot. I switched back and forth from
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  DIRECTV to YouTube TV back to DIRECTV, kind of chasing the
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  Saint Louis Cardinals and Bally sports Midwest, which is now
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  FanDuel Sports Midwest. And then I, I totally get what
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  you're saying. If you're not liking having all
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  these streaming services, I'm with you.
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  I have kids. And when you have two kids under
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  7, I feel like I almost have to have all the streaming services
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  because there's just at least a show on all of these networks
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  that that they like or I like or my wife likes.
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  At this point, I would more easily get rid of cable and just
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  keep all the streaming. In terms of what we watch, we
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  hardly ever watch actual TV unless it's a sporting event.
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  We're watching all the shows on Netflix and HBO Max or Max,
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  whatever it's called now, and Hulu and Amazon.
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  I get it, it's frustrating, but it's kind of the world we're
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  living in now. And to me, I mean, what's more
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  valuable than than live sports? To me, there's not much else I
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  want to watch besides the big time sporting events.
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  NASCAR last night it was NHL playoffs.
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  You obviously need cable for that.
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  And and I have some shows I like on on the different streaming
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  services. But this is also, look, we can
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  all complain about it and I do too.
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  I feel your pain. Like I said, I chased the
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  Cardinals on three different TV programming networks over the
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  last five years or so. But this is just the way it's
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  going to be and it's not changing.
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  So we all kind of just have to adapt to it.
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  Let's see. Craig says the Missouri Mafia is
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  here. Just me though, in Saint Louis.
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  The rest of the Missouri Mafia, the real Missouri Mafia, Kenny
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  Wallace, Ken Trader, they're on the Kyle Petty charity ride.
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  So there will be no live new episode of Herman Trader this
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  week. We'll have some really good
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  Kenny conversations. But we have been posting a lot
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  of content, lot of videos from Kenny along the way on the Kyle
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  Petty charity ride and then next week Herman Trader, they'll tell
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  you all about the cool different museums and the whole charity
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  ride. They started in Traverse City,
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  MI, a place I've spent a lot of time.
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  I'm from Toledo, OH at an aunt and uncle.
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  Have an aunt and uncle that live in Traverse City.
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  So been there a million times. So Kyle Petty charity ride start
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  in Traverse City. They're driving down Kenny of
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  them actually started I think more close to MIS to Michigan
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  International Speedway. Then they go up to Traverse City
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  come back down. They went to the Henry Ford
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  Museum, which is there I think Dearborn, Detroit area.
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  Then they're kind of found. They probably went right through
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  my hometown Toledo, OH, then jumped on whether it's the
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  Turnpike or 80 to go to Cleveland.
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  And this morning they were at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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  You should check out the video Kyle Petty jamming singing with
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  a really good band. What he's saying he's saying
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  Johnny be good. Another classic classic old
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  school rock'n'roll song. I can't remember but check that
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  out here on the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel.
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  So back to your comments, here we got Herbie.
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  Herbie says about Texas. Repave the upper grooves but
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  leave the bottom as is. Trucker Cowboy Ed.
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  But the new Gen. car or next Gen. car always is fun at
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  certain tracks to watch. Way better than the Gen. 6.
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  Yeah. Truman Lake here from Craig.
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  Is that where you're at or where you live?
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  Yeah. Like I said, look, my whole
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  thing is I don't look at it as we're we're criticizing NASCAR.
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  Just just bagging on them to me. I I read so many comments from
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  from you guys and the old school fans.
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  You just want more racing, right?
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  That's what you're looking for. You're looking for more racing,
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  more passing. And sometimes look at Talladega
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  when you see the end of the Xfinity Series race and there's
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  more passing and more three wide, 4 wide there than there is
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  in the in the Cup Series. I mean, Denny Hamlin said that
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  straight up he goes, somebody make me a graphic, Somebody make
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  me a video of the last two laps of Talladega Xfinity versus Cup.
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  It was obvious, folks, there's way more passing in Xfinity.
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  And I think people just want the top series of NASCAR to have the
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  best overall racing. We know we have the best drivers
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  in Cup, but they want to see the best racing.
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  And I think you fans, you fans are definitely smart enough to
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  know sometimes too, when it's when it's two lanes and all of a
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  sudden there's a record amount of passing.
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  But really it's just kind of like this.
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  And I always, I hate to always quote Denny Hamlin, but I think
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  he's the most honest about this, right?
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  If it's just passing like this, is that real passing?
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  I think what people want to see, they want to see what they saw
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  at the end of the race yesterday, you saw a fun duel
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  for a while between Joey Logano and Michael McDowell and Michael
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  McDowell throwing the block. He did everything he could.
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  Joey Logano gets ahead of them. And then what was it with
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  Blaney? He got the The Dirty air there
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  and Michael McDowell spins out. But I think to me, that's that's
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  what was fun for me, watching the real racing in the passing,
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  watching Logano pass McDowell, McDowell doing everything he he
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  could to hold him off as long as he could, but he couldn't.
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  That's what I think made the race for me yesterday at Texas.
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  I just think overall, too many cautions, too many cautions
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  early kind of boring cautions at the stage breaks.
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  But we did have a good finish. I think there were there were 4
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  cautions there at the end, not a lot of green lap runs at the
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  end. So I want to hear from you guys
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  what you thought. And you know, Jeff Glock always
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  does his pole. Let's see.
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  Last time I looked it was kind of 5050, which I think is fair.
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  I, I don't think this was a terrible race.
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  I don't think this was a great race.
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  I think it was middle of the pack.
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  So I think a 5050 type race there, I had to, I said no, I'm
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  just being honest. So look, I mean, you can't get
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  basically more 5050. Was Texas a good race?
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  Yes, 51%, no 49% / 15,000 votes. I think that's very fair, right?
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  And I think it's it's cool that Jeff Gluck does this because the
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  people, the people speak right, the customer is always right.
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  And, and maybe as customers, NASCAR fans, maybe we complain
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  too much sometimes. I think that's fair.
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  Not every race can be perfect. Not every race can be a photo
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  finish. Not every race can have the
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  amount of cautions you want or the amount of passing.
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  But I think we'd all agree NASCAR needs to clean up the
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  short track package with this car.
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  Superspeedways, there's obviously more volatility.
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  So, so last week you didn't have the big one at Talladega, so
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  maybe some people were disappointed about that.
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  To me, it's not just about the wrecks, though.
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  It's not just about the cautions.
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  It's about the passing. People just want to see racing.
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  Am I wrong? That's what I want to see that.
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  That's why I'll I'll keep repeating myself.
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  But to me, the most interesting part of the end was the Logano
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  versus McDowell racing at the end.
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  Then he saw it a little bit with with McDowell and Blaney.
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  But Logano goes ahead and and wins the race.
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  Let's see here we go. Let's see trucker cowboy.
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  Ed says. But some tracks have always been
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  boring with little passing sometimes.
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  Richmond used to be pretty boring at times.
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  Let's see Twisted 420 ish says trucker cowboy.
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  I don't agree with that but I'm partial to Richmond as a
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  Virginia native lol. It's one of my favorite tracks.
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  Yeah, we all have our favorite tracks.
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  Also. Let's see, Scratch Acker 2019
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  says those Fords become rocket chips at the end.
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  What's under their hoods? Well, hey, they passed
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  inspection. Joey Logano didn't last week, as
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  you know. But Joey Logano passes
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  inspection, they win. And then look, the Penske's we
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  know for sure the Penske cars have it figured out, especially
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  at the end of the season. Penske, as we all know, they've
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  won every championship during the next genera.
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  Logano, Blaney, Logano, and they clearly have something figured
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  out at Phoenix. Now, we know Homestead is going
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  to be the championship, what, next year?
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  But as long as the championship is at Phoenix, the Penske cars,
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  whoever's in there. And last year it was Logano and
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  Blaney. But whatever Penske car is in
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  the championship for has to be the favorite, don't you think?
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  Let's see. OK.
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  Going after Kenny Wallace there. Let's see.
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  I'm not going to put that up there on this channel.
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  You can come after me. All right, let's see.
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  Kenny Walrus says how much racing was going on in the
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  Daytona 500 that Earnhardt was leading before he hit the
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  seagull. I guess the Glock pole went from
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  95 to 15 when he fell out of the lead, 95 to five.
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  Yeah. Jeff Glock's Pole.
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  How long has he done this? The last 10 years or so, yes.
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  Kimmy Walrus Racing is not two cars riding side by side.
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  Bro, Is that at me? Are you coming after me for
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  that? That's what I'm saying, You
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  know, and Denny Hamlin always jokes about this to me.
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  If you have two lanes and the the left lane and the right lane
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  kind of always go, oh, this guy's leading, this guy's
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  leading, this guy's leading, this guy's leading.
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  Come on, that's not the real passing we're talking about.
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  South Kimmy, I think you agree with me.
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  Unless you're coming after me, which is fine.
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  Please explain. Let's see.
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  Explore America. As long as NASCAR continues
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  towards cookie cutter ARCA and the Cars Tour will grow
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  exponentially. Yeah, CARS Tour is great.
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  ARCA is great. Especially with what Cletus
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  McFarlane has brought to ARCA and all the attention there.
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  You know what's interesting about Cletus MacFarlane?
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  I think a lot of people, he's what, 30 years old?
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  I think a lot of people assume that he's only bringing the
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  younger crowd to NASCAR and ARCA.
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  But as somebody who I run this channel, so I see all of your
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  comments and I tried to reply and comment and heart and like
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  them all and whatever that is not the case that Cletus
• 21:22
  McFarlane is just with the younger generation.
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  I have seen so many comments from old school NASCAR fans, not
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  just people in their 40s, fifties, I'm talking sixties,
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  70s. People have said, look, I was a
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  big NASCAR fan in the 90s or 2000s.
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  I was a Dale Earnhardt fan, I was a Jeff Gordon fan.
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  I left NASCAR for whatever reason.
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  I found Cletus whenever that was during COVID and I, I think he's
• 21:51
  had a channel for a long time. I'm not sure.
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  But I'm talking old school NASCAR fans who were big fans,
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  nineties, 2000s, whoever it is, Dale Senior, Rusty Wallace, Jeff
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  Gordon. I have seen dozens if not
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  hundreds of comments from these people saying Cletus McFarland
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  has brought me back to NASCAR. Cletus McFarland has brought me
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  to watch the ARCA races. These are people who are saying
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  like I don't even watch the Cup races anymore and I watched the
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  whole frickin ARCA race at Daytona or the whole frickin
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  ARCA race at Talladega specifically because of Cletus
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  McFarlane. And this dude has 4 million
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  whatever it is subscribers on YouTube.
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  It's not just the younger generation that is coming to
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  NASCAR because of Cletus McFarlane.
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  It's people of every age group, old school NASCAR fans,
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  families, whatever it is, 20s, thirties, 40s, fifties, sixties,
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  70s. I would love to see actually
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  Cletus Mcfarlane's YouTube analytics because we have a much
• 22:48
  older audience here on the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel.
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  We have a lot of people. Look, Kenny is what, 61 going on
• 22:54
  62? I believe you have the Herman
• 22:56
  Schrader show. Kenny Schrader's pushing 70.
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  We have a lot of old school NASCAR fans and we love that, by
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  the way. So our audience is older.
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  It's 45 + 55 + 65 plus. I would love to see what Cletus
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  Mcfarlane's analytics are on YouTube.
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  I I bet you it's a wide swath of all different, all different age
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  groups. Cletus fun stuff, man.
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  You saw him at Indy the other day with Tony Stewart and Greg
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  Biffle, you know, racing all kinds of fun cars.
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  They're painting them up. You got monster trucks there.
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  He's just a fun dude that knows how to have fun.
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  And people on YouTube and, and all over social media love the
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  dude. Let's see, we got he's 32.
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  Who's that? Who are you talking about?
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  Who's 32 years old? I was talking about Cletus
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  McFarlane. Cletus McFarlane is the Caitlin
• 23:48
  Clark of auto sports. That's a good comparison.
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  And that's a compliment. By the way, Caitlin Clark is
• 23:55
  somebody who transcends women's basketball.
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  Nobody was watching the WNBA or or women's college basketball.
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  Let's be real in the type of numbers they were until Caitlin
• 24:06
  Clark got involved and she's selling out every game and the
• 24:09
  TV ratings are insane when she's in the final four of the
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  championship game, the WNB games that she's playing in the
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  ratings are just crazy. She, she truly is bigger than
• 24:19
  the sport. That's where what Cletus does
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  look here on YouTube. I'm not saying that Cletus is
• 24:26
  look, NASCAR is a billion dollar business.
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  We all get that. But from a content creation,
• 24:32
  YouTube standpoint, bringing eyeballs, Cletus McFarlane has
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  more followers, subscribers, whatever it is then NASCAR does.
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  So in a way, in a way, he is bigger than NASCAR.
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  That's all good. He can help NASCAR, NASCAR can
• 24:47
  help him. They can help each other.
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  I think it's great. Let's see, Let's see.
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  Doo Doo, Doo, Doo Doo. People are going after each
• 24:56
  other, talking about Larson. We got a Larson fan.
• 25:01
  Larson was looking good. Different car by the way.
• 25:04
  I'm so used to Kyle Larson being the one car that you can find on
• 25:08
  the track right with thehendrickcars.com logo.
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  It was different to see him in the Valvoline car.
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  I know they've done that every once in a while, but I feel like
• 25:19
  Kyle Larson is the one car you can usually find easily.
• 25:22
  I thought Joey Logano, who you can also usually find in the
• 25:25
  yellow Pennzoil car, but he had the the white.
• 25:30
  What was his sponsor? Was it AAA insurance?
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  Let me find this. I'm going to find it for you.
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  Yeah, AAA. I thought he had a sharp looking
• 25:37
  car. Joey Logano, when he wins, you
• 25:40
  had Chase Elliott in the gold Napa car for the 100th
• 25:44
  anniversary of Napa. That was a cool car as well, by
• 25:49
  the way, while I have you. So Logano wins, obviously will
• 25:52
  go top 10. Ross Chastain finishes second,
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  Blaney third. Blaney's going to win a race
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  soon. Kyle Larson finishes 4th, 90
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  laps. Joey Logano only LED 7 laps,
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  Eric Jones 5th, Ricky Stenhouse Junior 6th Austin Dillon 7th
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  John Hunter Nemechek 8th Christopher Bell 9th Daniel
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  Suarez 10th. So William Byron LED 22 laps.
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  Carson Hosevar, your pole sitter.
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  He also had the fastest lap of the race.
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  Carson Hosevar on the pole. Then he goes and Rex at the end,
• 26:24
  Ryan Priest. Ryan Priest not happy with
• 26:26
  Carson Hosevar at the end, if you saw those comments.
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  But Hosevar LED 22 laps, Austin Sindrich LED 60, Michael
• 26:32
  McDowell LED 19. Josh Berry LED 41 laps.
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  Remember, he kind of spun there as well.
• 26:39
  Bowman LED a lap, Denny Hamlin LED one lap and he was out.
• 26:45
  After what? 73 laps for for Denny Hamlin,
• 26:50
  but the Joey Logano gets the win.
• 26:54
  Leading 7. Laps in that race, Penske going
• 26:57
  back-to-back with Cindrick and Logano and again, it's only a
• 27:00
  matter of time. We know until Ryan Blaney wins a
• 27:03
  race. Ryan Blaney with a top three,
• 27:07
  finishes third, let a couple laps.
• 27:10
  He's going to win soon here. Penske's cars, which have been
• 27:14
  rolling so well all season but not getting the results, finally
• 27:17
  getting the results the last couple of weeks with wins from
• 27:19
  Cindrick and Joey Logano. Going back to the chat here.
• 27:24
  I appreciate all you guys watching live. 68 of you.
• 27:27
  We'll repost this on the Kenny Wallace Media Podcast as well.
• 27:32
  Look at people. Going after Denny now, how many
• 27:34
  times has Denny choked? I'm a Denny fan.
• 27:37
  That's trucker cowboy Ed and then Lightning responds. 56 wins
• 27:42
  for Denny Hamlin. Just passing Rusty Wallace here
• 27:44
  this year when he went, So what? Denny went back-to-back and then
• 27:48
  didn't. He finish second in the third
• 27:50
  race. He had that stretch.
• 27:54
  I should know this. What was that?
• 27:55
  Was that Martinsville? Was it Darlington?
• 27:58
  Let me check real quick. Let me check real quick.
• 28:02
  I don't have the greatest. Memory All right.
• 28:04
  Denny Hamlin. Denny Hamlin.
• 28:08
  Somebody help me out on. That Denny Hamlin this year.
• 28:11
  Two wins. Come on, NASCAR.
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  Dot com All right, I'll find it for you.
• 28:18
  I'll find it for you. Let me go and check Danny
• 28:24
  Hamlin. Stick with me folks.
• 28:27
  Stick with me. OK, Danny Hamlin.
• 28:35
  So Danny Hamlin. His last win was Darlington this
• 28:39
  year. Danny Hamlin 56 Career wins, 364
• 28:45
  Career Top tens, 43 Poles. I'm on Wikipedia, right?
• 28:50
  Now so. Let me find Denny Hamlin.
• 28:53
  Denny Hamlin, So one at Martinsville.
• 28:56
  Hey, I was actually right for once.
• 28:59
  So Denny Hamlin had a. Stretch there where?
• 29:02
  Look, I mean he was second at Phoenix, but then he goes 5th at
• 29:05
  Homestead, wins at Martinsville, wins at Darlington, and then
• 29:09
  Bristol finishes second. Last couple weeks not as good.
• 29:13
  Talladega finishes 21st and Texas was dead last. 38th there.
• 29:19
  I just spit on my computer. I was so excited to say dead
• 29:22
  last. But like I said.
• 29:25
  I'm a Denny fan in the sense of he's good for business, he's
• 29:29
  good for content, keeps things interesting.
• 29:31
  And also I think 20 years in, the man deserves a championship.
• 29:34
  He's a Hall of Fame driver. I'd like to see Denny Hamlin win
• 29:38
  a championship, Lightning says. Denny winning at Kansas over
• 29:43
  Larson. Let's see.
• 29:47
  Hold on. This is Kimmy Walrus.
• 29:50
  Gluck said the race was tainted by the leader having clean air
• 29:52
  in the field, racing and dirtier.
• 29:54
  I bet the powers that be at NASCAR will fix that when they
• 29:57
  take cup to China. All of the air is dirty.
• 30:00
  Come on now. You think cup's going?
• 30:04
  To go to China, So you're saying China has a lot of smog and all
• 30:07
  that, which they do? Let's see.
• 30:10
  I was actually trying to put up a different comment that was
• 30:12
  lightning. Sometimes you guys comment so
• 30:14
  fast that I go to press it and already refreshes.
• 30:17
  Denny winning at Kansas over Larson.
• 30:21
  Probably 2 good guys to choose there.
• 30:23
  Very good chance they go. They go at it next week at
• 30:25
  Kansas. I love the racing at Kansas.
• 30:28
  Only about 3 1/2 hours away from me in Saint Louis.
• 30:31
  I was actually near the track last year at the frickin Great
• 30:34
  Wolf Lodge and you guys have kids.
• 30:36
  I was at the Great Wolf Lodge hanging out with my kids because
• 30:39
  they love the water park and all that.
• 30:41
  And that's right across the street in in actually Kansas,
• 30:45
  not Kansas City, MO. It is in the state of Kansas.
• 30:49
  Great Wolf Lodge is right there next to the racetrack.
• 30:53
  Let's see, Lightnings, these guys are going back and forth.
• 30:57
  This is what I love about NASCAR, though.
• 30:59
  We have a Larson fan and a Hamlin fan going toe to toe in
• 31:02
  the chat. He's choked some and he has 56
• 31:05
  trophies talking about Denny Hamlin.
• 31:07
  Let's see, they're kind of saying who's choked the most,
• 31:11
  Both Hall of Farmers guys. Can't we all just get along?
• 31:15
  Let's see, here we go. We got Jake, Jake Reeden says
• 31:21
  very big Kenny fan. Hope to get to see him soon in
• 31:23
  Quincy, IL. But let's go Cletus McFarlane
• 31:26
  agreed, agreed, agreed, agreed. I think Cletus is he's great for
• 31:31
  business and just give the dude credit.
• 31:33
  I've been on YouTube for about four years.
• 31:36
  For anybody to have that big of a following, you're doing
• 31:39
  something right. I mean, he's doing a lot of
• 31:41
  things right. He's a he's a freaking
• 31:43
  sensation. So give him all the credit in
• 31:45
  the world. Let's see.
• 31:49
  Monster Shot says Joey got it done for Chipper.
• 31:52
  Loli talked about that at the beginning of the stream here.
• 31:54
  Yeah, Chipper Jones did compliment Joey Logano for the
• 31:57
  win after he went after him last week when Joey Logano was
• 32:01
  chirping his teammate Austin Sindrick on the radio.
• 32:04
  But hey, little bit of drama midweek.
• 32:06
  Joey and Chipper going back and forth, but then we can put that
• 32:10
  to bed. Chipper Jones extends the olive
• 32:12
  branch. He congratulates Joey Logano
• 32:14
  after the win. And we can all move on with our
• 32:18
  lives. Let's see.
• 32:21
  You're saying does NASCAR have two million fans or 4 million
• 32:24
  fans? Well, NASCAR has millions and
• 32:26
  millions of fans. I was talking about specifically
• 32:29
  YouTube, how many followers Cletus has.
• 32:32
  I'll look it up right now for you.
• 32:33
  How about that just so you and and I'm not saying Cletus is
• 32:37
  bigger than NASCAR in the sense of we all know NASCAR is a
• 32:40
  billion dollar industry, but my point is Cletus.
• 32:45
  On YouTube. Is bigger.
• 32:47
  So here's Cletus. I'm looking him up right now.
• 32:50
  Cletus McFarland has 4.3 million subscribers on YouTube.
• 32:55
  NASCAR itself. NASCAR, the sanctioning body has
• 33:00
  1.44 million. I can't believe I haven't been a
• 33:04
  subscriber. There you go, I'm subscribing.
• 33:05
  So now they have 1.44 million and I just added.
• 33:07
  But look, that's pretty much Dang close to three times on
• 33:11
  YouTube that Cletus McFarlane has a three times bigger reach
• 33:15
  on YouTube than NASCAR does. And I'm not going to look at
• 33:19
  every other platform. And again, we know NASCAR is a
• 33:22
  billion dollar industry. Cletus McFarlane is huge, but
• 33:25
  I'm talking about his impact with content with YouTube.
• 33:29
  Cletus McFarland is huge. OK, look, I'm.
• 33:33
  Calling a truce. They're both great.
• 33:36
  Look at that. We're getting along.
• 33:37
  The Denny fan, the Kyle Larson fan.
• 33:39
  Let's call a truce. Let's all get along.
• 33:43
  And this, this guy's saying starts with the letter.
• 33:46
  Let's see. I'm focused on viewership
• 33:48
  numbers. Does NASCAR have 4 million fans
• 33:50
  or 2 million fans? Well, on TV that you're talking
• 33:54
  about, TV, NASCAR can get 4 million people on TV.
• 33:57
  Is that what you're talking about?
• 33:58
  We haven't seen the ratings yet recently, but yeah, I feel like
• 34:02
  I'm in the Xfinity Series races have been getting a million
• 34:05
  lately on CW. Let's see.
• 34:09
  Kimmy Walrus says fingers crossed that the ARCA IndyCar
• 34:12
  guys don't hurt Larson and Indy. Otherwise y'all are going to
• 34:15
  love or hate him a lot in the future.
• 34:18
  All right, let's end on that about 35 minutes.
• 34:20
  Thank you so much for jumping in.
• 34:22
  All of you guys, live guys and gals.
• 34:24
  I really appreciate it. Good talk.
• 34:26
  I like to get you involved in the comments.
• 34:28
  Joey Logano wins a lot of cautions, kind of a 5050 type
• 34:32
  race. Good passing at the end.
• 34:35
  Logano wins and Penske goes back-to-back with Cindrick and
• 34:39
  Logano and back-to-back weeks and next week should be an
• 34:41
  awesome race at Kansas. Maybe the raciest, raciest.
• 34:45
  I said raciest, the raciest track we have the next Gen. car
• 34:51
  usually great at Kansas and on those mile and a halfs, although
• 34:53
  Texas is in OK there it is. All right.
• 34:57
  Charlie Marlowe signing off starts with the letter says
• 34:59
  thank you for answering questions.
• 35:01
  Yes, thank you for asking questions.
• 35:03
  See you guys later. Love you all.
• 35:05
  Peace out and stream.