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Dale Earnhardt Jr. & Mark Martin Speak Out | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Surprise and happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  It's so warm out here in St. Louis, MO Supposed to be close
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  to 80° today, 80° and guess who's back?
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  That's right, gutter man. Oh, hold on, it's not a gutter.
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  It's what it's a downspout. Hey, Wallace, that's not a
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  gutter, that's a downspout. I that's when you can tell
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  you're bored when you're correcting somebody on what you
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  perceive as that's not a gutter, that's a downspout.
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  All right, everybody look at this green grass right here.
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  That's a song. And look at oh, you know what I
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  just realized? Look at this.
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  If you look in it, you can see like raw wood.
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  Look, look through that window right there.
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  I've never, well, I've been up in my attic before.
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  I've looked up in there, but that's, that's raw.
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  It's just the attic up there. I've never, I've never looked up
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  in there, but I've had my attic perfectly clean and, you know,
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  made sure it was perfect. I guess I have looked up in
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  there before, but never from the outside like that.
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  All right, everybody, like I said, it's Thursday.
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  I hear somebody cutting wood over in the Yonner in the
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  Chattahoochee. Somebody over in the
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  Chattahoochee cutting some wood out here.
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  It's one of those old, older guys.
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  Real good guy. It's like 8:30 in the morning.
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  That son of a bitch is over 8:30 in the morning.
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  Well, boy, we start working six. We go to breakfast at 5:00.
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  Get out of bed. Hey, Wallace, what are you going
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  to do, waste your life away? Get up, he's a good neighbor
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  too. Hey neighbor, when you watch us,
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  I love you buddy. He watches all this 8:30 in the
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  damn morning. Hey balls, some of us go to
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  work. You know I'll never forget Rusty
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  said. Herman, what time you get up in
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  the morning? I said brother, I get up
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  whatever time I got to get up When I did TV it was like 4:00
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  AM. You.
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  Hey, hey, when you not go to sleep, y'all just want to stay
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  awake our whole lives. We'll pass out.
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  Hey, why'd you pass out? Because I fainted.
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  I ain't slept. Look at, look at.
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  Look at. Hey, what are you doing,
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  youngin? Look at that.
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  Louis the legend. What are you smelling?
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  You know he's smelling deer poop, all right?
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  Wow. What a monologue, huh?
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  What's that? Y'all want another?
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  Look at the gutter? The legend.
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  Oh, downspout. Hey, respond right here with the
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  controversial. Is it a gutter or downspout?
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  OK, I want to point out something that I had noticed and
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  and it's quite heartfelt. Yesterday or last night, Dale
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  Junior got on a heater. Junior was on a heater last
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  night on the social media site X.
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  Now, as bad as I want you to go on there and just listen to what
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  he had to say or even mark the kid, Martin from Batesville, AR,
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  the social media site X. close your ears, kids.
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  It's a show, but it's still the best place to go.
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  You know, everybody goes, oh, X is horrible, but everybody's
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  there. That's where all the fighting
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  starts. That's where the complete racing
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  industry is most likely. The happiest, funniest place to
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  go on social media is Instagram. I laugh for days.
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  Kim's like, Oh my God, you're laughing, you're crying.
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  What is so funny? And I show her these videos on X
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  or not X, but Instagram, Instagram's the best.
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  X is the show Dale Earnhardt Junior was on ex last night and
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  he said some heartfelt things. He was just he was on a roll.
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  He was commenting on everything, but he was on a roll.
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  But everything he said was very heartfelt.
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  I woke up this morning and I saw that Lou Holtz, the great
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  football coach, you know, Lou Holtz passed away and Lou
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  Holtz's son showed a picture of their family following a a
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  Hearst, you know, taking their they great Lou Holtz to his
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  burial place and a very emotional text by Dale Junior
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  late last night. He saw it.
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  He saw the post of the family following Lou Holtz.
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  And he said when dad died, which this is Dale junior, when Dale
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  Junior says when dad died, Dale senior when he died, it was
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  devastating. And everybody DEI was they
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  didn't know what to do. Everybody was numb, so it was
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  Dale Junior. Dale Junior said.
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  I hired Lou Holtz to come speak, and he says he believes Lou
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  Holtz saved their team. You know, save DEI.
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  It just kind of tells you what kind of.
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  I think what I'm trying to say is that's a look inside Dale
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  Junior's brain. I've always said Dale Junior is
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  a man that is wise beyond his years.
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  You know, Dale Junior's 50 years old going on.
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  He's got like an 80 year old brain, meaning he's smart.
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  So I noticed that then, then the next thing that Dale Junior
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  talked about was this, this Nashville Fairgrounds.
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  I I really wish Nashville Fairgrounds would stay, but Dale
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  Junior said he went there and practice for the Cars Tour race
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  and he said when he got on the racetrack it was like going back
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  in time I think. Dale Junior said he had not been
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  on the racetrack since in the 90s and he said it felt good.
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  It was almost like going home. Dale Junior going on the
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  Nashville Fairgrounds. I really would like to see this
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  racetrack stay there and I guess Dale Junior.
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  One big take away. Dale Junior is very close to
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  Marcus Smith. You can see this relationship on
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  social media. Marcus Smith likes puts a heart
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  on everything Dale Junior says. You know, every morning I get
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  up, I look and and you know, Dale Junior say something and
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  there'll be Marcus with a heart. And we know that Marcus, you
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  know, love him to death and his wife Cassie, but he is doing
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  everything he can do to save this Nashville Fairgrounds.
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  Dale Junior says that Marcus has got a plan to put up a big sound
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  barrier wall all the way around the racetrack.
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  Now, if you don't think, if you don't think Marcus is working
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  his butt off to try to save this Nashville Fairgrounds, think
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  about that that. I mean, all we got to do is put
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  a roof on it next, right? If Marcus can put a sound
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  barrier all the way around than old Nashville Fairgrounds to
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  make the mayor happy. And you know, it's at a point
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  right now where the soccer people, the mayor, people, they
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  hate the fairgrounds so much. They're just, they're just
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  trying to pick on something. And every time the mayor or the
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  people in Nashville pick on the old Nashville Fairgrounds, then
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  Marcus just says, OK, we'll do this.
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  OK, we'll do that. But really intriguing switching
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  subjects to Mark the Kid Martin out of Batesville, AR Mark
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  Martin has recently come out in a post and he's been over in
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  Charlotte a lot lately. Mark Martin has said something I
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  think's worth repeating. Of course, everything Mark says
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  is worth repeating. But Mark Martin says I'm
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  understanding everything a lot more.
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  I've been to the NASCAR R&D center.
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  He says now I understand why the towers are so wide.
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  Now I know why the rear of the car is short, shorter.
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  But now I want to drive it to better understand it.
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  That's it. I just want you to know.
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  Mark Martin says he understands why NASCAR is doing everything
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  now because he went and talked to him.
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  Sometimes you don't want to talk to people because it ruins all
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  the drama. Right now, Mark says he
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  understands everything. There's a lesson to be learned,
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  right? To everybody.
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  Mike Kelton always said to me, Herman, if you got a question
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  about something, just call me. I'm like, no, I'd rather talk
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  about it, Mike. But I do call them or they call
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  me. All right, everybody have a
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  great Thursday.