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My Cleetus McFarland Crown Vic Update & Last Night Was The Greatest NASCAR Truck Race Ever | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody from Gardner, Montana.
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  Check this view out. We got got a river here and
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  right over there we got Teddy Roosevelt's arch.
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  Did you know it was Teddy Roosevelt that was the one that
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  made the Yellowstone National Park.
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  They signed it right away and act.
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  They said what are we going to do here?
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  Are we going to make this park funded by the government or not?
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  And both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats, said,
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  yes, let's make Yellowstone National Park something to
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  behold. So this morning, as you can
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  tell, it's still very early and dark out.
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  We are going to head over to the north side of the Yellowstone
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  National Park. And, yeah, there's a river right
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  here. And Kim and I ate there last
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  night. All right, so we have some
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  business to do this morning. So some people are starting to
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  call this my monologue. And I said, OK, let's call it
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  the two-minute monologue. Man, I have to, I have to
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  apologize about something. But first, let's let's do this.
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  I-55, Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park in Pevely, MO, 15
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  minutes from my house. March 19th, 2020 first guess
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  what's happening, it's Mods Gone Wild $5000 to win for A mods and
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  B mods. So make sure you are at I-55
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  Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park on Mods gone Wild.
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  March 19th, 2020 First trying to help that racetrack get going.
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  Everybody got to plug it every once in awhile.
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  It's called promo advertisement. OK, right on cue, that was my
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  two-minute monologue and here we go.
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  I got to apologize. I never meant to make your
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  daughter cry. I apologize a trillion times.
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  Sorry, Miss Jackson, man, I made a mistake.
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  You know when I said that I'm going to go to Cletus Crown
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  Victoria race, Remember I said that August 14th?
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  I wasn't thinking very well. I was not thinking very well.
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  Guess what is on August 14th? That's our bus by the way, what
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  is on August 14th? What is the mistake that I made?
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  That's right, August 14th is Big Brother Rusty Wallace's NASCAR
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  Foundation motorcycle rides slash Spearfish Olympics.
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  So on August 14th, I got to be in Sturgis because I am not
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  going to let my Big Brother down.
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  Hey, listen, people have teased me my whole life.
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  You wouldn't be anywhere without your brother Rusty.
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  I'm like, that's right. Now that we understand this,
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  Hey, if it weren't for Rusty, my career wouldn't even be where
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  it's at. And that goes, listen, I tell
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  everybody, look, Dale, Dale Earnhardt Junior wouldn't be
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  where he's at with it without his dad.
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  Alan, Sir Junior wouldn't be anywhere without his dad.
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  I mean, actually, you wouldn't be born without your dad.
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  So we can go on and on. But yeah, August 14th, I'm going
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  to be at Sturgis on the Rusty Wallace Charity Ride.
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  So Cletus sent me some other dates.
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  Pass the word. I'm going to call Cletus Monday
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  because they don't want to bother him right now.
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  He's racing and we're going to get to that.
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  I'm looking at that April date down there at the Freedom
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  Factory because the May 1 at Indy.
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  I am on the Cow Petty charity ride.
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  I mean, it just goes on and on these dates.
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  They're they're tough for me because I'm doing a lot this
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  year. So right now I'm going to focus
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  in on that April date. I'm going to give up racing my
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  mod at Peedley. So in other words, April 10th
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  and 11th is the World of Outlaws at Pevely with our mods.
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  I'm I'm not going to do that. I'm going to ask Cletus if it's
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  OK, if that date is good. So I'm going to go down to the
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  Freedom Factory for the Crown Victoria in April.
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  Hopefully that explains everything.
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  And once again, I want to apologize to Jeff Striegel, who
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  runs Berlin up there. I can't do it.
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  And, and, and Jeff, I know you understand because Big Brother
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  comes first, OK? Everybody wanted to talk about
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  that. Hell, that was that was bigger
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  news than the race itself. Switching gears, there's no way
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  you can convince me that there was any more excitement at any
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  other truck race in history. Friday night's truck race at
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  Daytona was by far the most famous NASCAR Craftsman truck
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  race in Motorsports. Craftsman trucks years history.
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  Did you see the people Now listen, I don't I don't want you
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  do not go look, do not look at TV ratings.
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  I somebody's going. OK, go ahead.
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  Get on Google right now. What was the highest rated
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  NASCAR truck race in history. No matter what it is, it don't
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  matter because everybody agrees that NASCAR's truck race with
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  Tony Stewart coming back with Cletus there, with Travis
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  Pastrana there and this new feel good that we're going to talk
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  about in a minute. There is this positive vibe
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  around NASCAR right now. That truck race last night,
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  there was a sea of people out there on Pit Rd. just to get a
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  glimpse of these superstars. Tony Stewart, who we know is
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  gone, NHRA Racing who is already won in Top Fuel.
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  Tony has done everything they want to get a glance of him.
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  Hey, Tony, did you see Steve O'Donnell?
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  What's going on? It's like a damn soap opera.
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  All right, so let's move forward.
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  By the way, I got to tell you something.
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  I got to give a shout out to Dodge, you know, and, and the
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  Ram truck and Stellantis, that whole group.
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  I got to give a shout out to them.
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  And I think NASCAR needs to acknowledge that this new
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  automaker coming into the truck, coming back in, we know that,
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  you know, Dodge Ram, all that. We know that they've been here
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  before. But but with them coming back in
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  by them calling Tony Stewart up and that trio right there, T
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  Stew Cletus and Travis Sutrana, that trio, they made the press
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  conferences, they made it what it is.
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  So here's where I'm going with that.
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  They got a fifth truck. They got a fifth truck that
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  they're always going to put a superstar in.
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  My prediction is, you know, Kevin Harvick's going to go in
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  it pretty quick. That is going to bring people
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  in. And they made an announcement
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  yesterday. They said who was it?
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  Somebody wants to drive their truck, forgot who it was.
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  Oh, Cletus, Cletus said, you know, maybe Cletus didn't say,
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  but the fans are saying we want Cletus in the 5th Dodge Ram
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  truck. And the owner, it wasn't the
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  college, I think it was Dodge themselves.
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  They say, well, look, we got all superstars.
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  There will be some big surprises.
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  So with that being said, you know, you got to give Ram a lot
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  of credit. They are putting eyes Dodge, Ram
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  or Ram, they are putting the eyes on NASCAR.
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  So NASCAR's got to be grateful to Ram.
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  OK, let's get going. In this race.
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  They dropped the green flag. Tony Stewart's truck is not
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  handling good. He's looser than than a well
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  digger's ass. And they said, OK, bring it in.
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  So they start getting tightened up and he gets to where he says
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  after the race, I got to where I could get going and they wrecked
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  right in front of him. So they wrecked right in front
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  of T Stew and that took him out. Bummer.
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  Well, then Cletus, Cletus is looking good.
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  He picks up a push. Well, when you pick up that
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  push, you got to roll out of the gas a little bit.
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  And Cletus don't know that yet because he's he's young and he,
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  he's just learning. So Cletus, he he spins himself
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  out and gets in the wall. Cletus is out the last man
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  standing, Travis Pastrana. So Travis is the last man
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  standing. And I think he finished.
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  But listen, congratulations to Chandler Smith and and I'm going
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  to leave you all of this. The reason that truck race was
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  so good last night is because it was organic.
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  Organic means it it, it finished naturally.
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  The drivers did not wreck. You know, the drivers got a lot
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  of control how these races play out.
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  You you knew they were going to wreck and they didn't wreck.
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  And a lot of the fans were just waiting to pounce on NASCAR.
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  Oh, you should have let him go green light.
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  But listen, it finished organically.
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  That means they went around and they came to the checkered flag.
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  NASCAR does not control that. The drivers do.
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  So it was a great finish. Chandler Smith, how about that?
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  John Henner Nemechek leaving that damn thing, coming off at
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  Turn 4 and finished fifth. So, hell, hell of a finish.
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  Hell of a start to the NASCAR season.
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  All right, everybody looks like we got some campers headed out.
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  There they go. Couple people staring at me.
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  Herman, don't fold his tent. I'm good under pressure.
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  Hey, happy Valentine's Day to the love of my life, Kimberly
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  Marie Wallace. Have a great Saturday,
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  everybody. My hands are freezing.