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Tony Stewart Is Back & So Is NASCAR | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning everybody. My home racetrack, I-55
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  Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park, has the winged World of
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  Outlaw Sprint Cars coming this April 10th and 11th.
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  Go to worldofoutlaw.com to get your tickets.
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  Man, what a morning. NASCAR just keeps getting better
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  and better and better. Should I say it 6 times and
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  better. And finally, NASCAR is so good
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  right now that guess who's coming back to race with us?
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  That's right, Tony Stewart. Smoke is coming back, Woo.
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  That means NASCAR's back. That means all of you can quit
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  saying Tony Stewart doesn't like NASCAR.
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  He left NASCAR. Tony Stewart is back racing in
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  NASCAR. He's going to run the truck race
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  at Daytona. Is that unbelievable?
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  My gosh. Now, listen, let's break it
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  down, OK? We got a lot to talk about
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  today. Herman's got his notes.
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  Why is Tony Stewart coming back? Well, Steve O'donnell's in
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  charge and they've righted the ship.
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  They've made it right. And I also think RAM had a
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  little bit to do with it. You will see Tony Stewart, you
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  will see his wife do commercials for RAM.
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  So I'm sure that's the number one reason right there.
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  Sponsorship. However, Tony Stewart is no
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  joke. He's not going to give in just
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  because somebody said, hey, we need you to do this.
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  Tony Stewart is his own man. So welcome back, Tony.
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  All right, let me see if I can remember this.
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  What is NASCAR doing to make you all happy #1 The hell yeah.
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  Commercial US rednecks or back, they love us #2 They got rid of
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  Steve Phelps like you asked #3 the championship, they got the
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  championship back. How about that new points
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  championship? It's pretty simple.
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  When people ask you now what's the deal with the points, you
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  just simply say they go 26 races and they take the top 16 and go
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  10 more races for the championship.
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  That's all you say. It's that simple.
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  There's no more explaining anything.
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  God, that felt good. I want to say that again.
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  Hey, Wallace, what's the deal with the championship now?
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  Oh, it's simple, man. They go 26 races, they take the
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  top 16, and then they go into A10 race chase for the
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  championship. Oh, wow, that sounds exciting.
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  God, that's a lot easier. Feels good, everybody.
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  And then what else are they doing?
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  What else is going on? Well, Miranda Lambert, country
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  music is back then now sat on on the NFL.
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  She's going to have a pre race show before the Daytona 500.
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  And then of course, we talked about the Ram reality show.
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  Boy, dude, we had no idea that Ram coming into this sport
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  coming back. Let's say it that way, Dodge
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  slash Ram. Now listen, we know Ram is the
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  pickup truck. Stalantis, we've cleared the air
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  on that. Ram is the pickup truck.
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  We know that. However, who would have thought
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  that Ram coming in would do so good for NASCAR?
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  Ram is creating the reality TV show Remember for Colic, along
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  with Fox. They're going to find that one
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  last superstar driver. Ram trucks along with Fox TV.
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  They're going to put it live at noon.
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  Don't know what day yet, but they're going to start The Gong
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  Show and then like the other five TV shows are going to be on
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  YouTube and Ram is going to find that next superstar driver just
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  like The Gong Show did with Kurt Busch.
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  Kurt Busch was found through the Roush Fenway Kozlowski gong show
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  years ago. I'm going to steal one from Bob
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  Pockras. You kids didn't know that, did
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  you? Yes, that's how Kurt Busch made
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  it. The gong show.
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  So another gong show on reality TV by Ram, Ram trucks on Fox.
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  All those things I just said has NASCAR on top right now.
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  NASCAR has been approved by Mark Martin, Dale Junior and now Tony
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  Stewart. OK, here we go.
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  Got my notes. Got my notes.
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  OK, the tide has changed. Out of all the polls that were
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  taken yesterday, 80% of the people say they like the points.
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  Between Jeff Glucks polls and the Kenny Wallace show run by my
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  Charlie Marlon, everything we see is 80.
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  Twenty, 80% of the fans love it. And the other 20%, those are the
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  disturbers. Hey, not too bad, not too bad.
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  That's that's about my second or third cuss word in seven days.
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  That's I'm cleaning my ACT up. How do you like me now?
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  OK, let's look at the other one. Mark Martin said something that
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  I really liked. Mark Martin said with the old
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  point system, he got tired of listening to the TV announcers
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  and all the announcers talk about how the points are running
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  now, the cut off. So in other words, when the race
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  was going on, the announcers never talked about the drivers.
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  Mark Martin said it's time to make the drivers famous again.
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  I told you that story where I did Kenny Conversation, Alex or
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  no, not Alex Bowman, but William Byron got done winning the
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  Daytona 500. And I, I was so excited.
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  I had William Byron on Kenny conversation and man I thought
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  he'd do like 100,000 views. He was the Daytona 500 winner
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  like 25,000 views. I go up to Iowa and I get Taylor
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  Cool and IMCA race car driver young lady.
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  Hell she done like 60,000 views. I said we're in trouble in
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  NASCAR when a young girl running IMCA dirt cars out does the
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  Daytona 500 winner so I agree with mark the kid Martin out of
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  Batesville, AR. The reason one of the reasons
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  we're having such a hard time making our NASCAR drivers famous
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  is because the announcers never say their names.
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  They're too busy talking about the cut off the playoff as the
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  points. You're now old.
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  You never say the drivers names and if you do, you don't promote
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  them. So now, now we're going to we're
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  going to talk about the drivers. We're going to make these
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  drivers famous again. And I thought that was a good
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  point made by Mark the kid Martin.
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  All right, last but not least, NASCAR owner Ben Kennedy came
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  out and explicitly said that we would have never got to this
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  point system if it wasn't for Mark Martin.
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  Mark Martin, that's how powerful you are.
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  They were going to go to a three race playoff again, owner of
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  NASCAR Ben Kennedy said. We got here because of Mark
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  Martin. Mark buddy, you keep getting
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  respected. You might not have won that
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  NASCAR championship, but this is your championship.
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  You are the most well respected driver in NASCAR history.
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  All right, everybody respond right here and have a great
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  Tuesday.