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My Take On NASCAR Rotating The Championship Race & Going Back To Miami | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  We have woke up in a beautiful no, we're going to Watkins Glen,
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  We're going to Watkins Glen, NY today and we're going to ride
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  these motorcycles around the Watkins Glen Rd. course.
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  But we are in Niagara Falls, NY right now.
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  Just got done taking a real nice picture with the King, Richard
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  Petty and all of us. Schrader's so damn funny.
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  There's like seven of us race car drivers right there.
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  Schrader says. Hey, we got 7 championships
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  between all of us. Only Richard had any
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  championships. OK, breaking news in the garage
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  area. This is a big one, NASCAR.
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  NASCAR said we are going to start rotating the championship
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  starting next year. It's 2025, so we're going to
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  finish 2025 off. And this is what you fans
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  wanted. You said I'm tired of Penske
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  winning every championship at Phoenix.
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  If we keep the championship at Phoenix, Penske's going to win
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  all the championships. And everybody was saying, hey,
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  let's move this thing around. Now here's what I think is funny
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  about it is for all those years, for all of you that say I want
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  to go back to the old days, well that's the way the old days
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  were. We ended the championship every
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  year at Atlanta, every year. Well, this is a good change.
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  I think you all will agree. Yesterday Ben Kennedy said we
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  will not even recognize ending the championship ever at a road
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  course or a superspeedway. So I want to be clear right here
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  at the two-minute mark and Kenny with coffee or coffee with
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  Kenny, Ben Kennedy and NASCAR said we will never entertain
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  ending and certifying a championship at a road course or
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  Daytona Talladega. So started in 2026, we're going
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  to start rotating the championship.
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  So this year in 2025, we go back to Phoenix because it's on the
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  schedule. It's on the schedule.
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  We got to go to Phoenix this year, 2026, we're going back to
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  the track that don't it always seem to go, you don't know what
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  you got till it's gone. They paved Miami Homestead, put
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  in a parking lot lot. So we're going back to Miami
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  Homestead because when we left, everybody realized how much they
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  loved it because Kyle Larson would run high.
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  Man, I can't wait to see Larson win that championship on the
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  high side or on the bottom or through the middle.
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  The restarts are crazy now. Don't you know, Come on over
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  here, people watching me do coffee with Kenny, people
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  starting to gather around. There's about 285 people, but
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  don't you know that? You know, I'm thinking about
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  Carl Edwards right now. So everybody wants to go back to
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  Miami Homestead. That's where we're going.
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  What do you think Carl's thinking?
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  Do you think he's going to relieve, relive those two
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  championships? You know, he tied with Tony
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  Stewart and he lost that one. And then of course, he was going
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  to win the second one. And they had the fake caution.
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  I don't think I'm supposed to say that, but they did and they
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  admit it. Phantom.
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  Yeah, what do they call this thing?
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  What do they call those fake cautions, Phantom?
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  Phantom caution. OK, so breaking news yesterday.
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  I know you, but for everybody out there doesn't What's your
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  name? Scott Ferguson.
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  Where are you from, Scott? PITTSBORO, NC.
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  I always want to say Pittsboro IN that's where Jeff Gordon was
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  from. Well, NASCAR, Ben Kennedy, two
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  things. Ben Kennedy said we will never
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  end the championship at a road course or a Speedway.
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  So the Fran, the all the fans are like, oh, we got our way.
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  We don't like gimmick race tracks like Rd. courses and
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  superspeedways. I don't think they're gimmicks.
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  However, they said they're going to end the championships at oles
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  #1. Let's address that one first.
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  What do you think of that decision?
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  That's that's fine. Rd. courses are probably not the
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  proper place to be for a championship race.
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  OK, NASCAR said from now on, they're going to start rotating
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  championships. Now, that doesn't mean always at
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  Homestead and always at Phoenix. It could be somewhere else.
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  What do you think about that? I I think it's best if they do
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  move it around, get there, give everybody a chance to fans wise
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  to go to a championship race. What name a track?
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  What's your local track? What track do you want to see
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  the championship and that one year, like 3 years from now, two
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  years from now, this year's at Phoenix.
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  Next year it's in Miami Olmsted. Where do you want to see 2027?
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  Where do you and all of you respond right here.
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  Where do you want to see it in? How about?
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  Charlotte, but not the Roval. Oh, OK, I like that.
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  We need to get Charlotte back going again.
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  Man. They quit going to Charlotte for
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  some damn reason and that's that's one of our best race
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  tracks of all time. Yes, it is.
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  What else you got to say? I I lived in South Florida for
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  26 years, so Homestead was a great place.
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  They did a great job when they did the banking on it because
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  originally it was a flat track made.
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  I ran there. Yeah, like Indy.
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  Like it was like the original Miami homestead was like
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  Indianapolis Motor Speedway. OK, buddy.
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  All right. Let's keep on going here.
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  Oh, I love you, buddy. It's awesome.
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  Let's go find some. Let's go find, you know, the
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  king. Richard Petty's over there.
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  I'm afraid of the king, though. Let's go.
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  Let's go find some people here. Hold on.
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  Let's look. Let's look.
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  You're looking live. Let's see what everybody thinks.
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  Let's see what everybody thinks. We'll find somebody.
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  There's Max. There's Billy Davidson, the
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  owner of Harley-Davidson. Max.
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  Yes. This is coffee with Kenny
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  yesterday. Big announcement.
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  NASCAR signal we are going to start rotating the championships
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  this year will be Phoenix, then the next year we're going back
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  to Miami Homestead and they said we will never end the
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  championship at Daytona, Talladega or Rd.
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  Course. I don't know.
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  I think that we want to have, you know, bringing a road course
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  in. We'll bring someone that is not
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  a usual NASCAR driver and I believe, you know, let's give
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  ourself at least five years. Rotating is good.
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  Yep, you know, but I like changes as well.
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  What track? OK, we know we're going to
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  Phoenix this year, and then we know we're going to Miami
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  Homestead. What other track do you think
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  deserves to determine a champion?
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  You know, we used to do it at Atlanta, but Atlanta's almost
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  superspeedway now. You know, listen.
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  As an Italian redneck, yeah. Me.
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  Yeah. Darlington.
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  Oh, Darlington. Oh, I got to get in on this one.
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  I like that one. Darlington is one of our most
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  legendary race tracks. Max, I agree with you.
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  Let's go to Darlington and do it.
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  OK, Psych. Kenny, we're going to do
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  espresso and coffee with Max. Yes, yes.
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  OK, let's let's look over Billy Davidson.
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  Billy, do you mind? This is coffee with Kenny.
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  This is. Coffee with.
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  Kenny How? Are you this?
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  Morning. I'm doing good.
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  You know, listen, you're a great man and everybody just kind of
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  looks at you. You are Billy Davidson from
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  Harley-Davidson, and it's been an honor riding with you on the
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  right. Tell me about being part of the
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  Harley-Davidson family and where exactly do you fit in right now
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  and the Harley-Davidson company? Well, first of all, I just want
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  to say it's been an honor for me to ride with all these great
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  people like Kenny and everybody else.
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  Stop it. It's been awesome.
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  Stop it. And so it's an amazing history.
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  Yes, my great grandfather was one of the founders of the
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  company. My grandfather was president
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  from 1942 to 73. Don't.
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  Get any bigger than that? Willie, my father joined in 63
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  and kind of retired in 2012, but I can tell you he's still
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  working today. Yeah, and I joined in 1984.
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  I'm still with the company and and happy to be part of the
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  executive team that's guiding us to the future.
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  And tell me, what are what are you riding here?
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  So this is a 2025 St. Glide.
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  CBO and we put a a little motor in it, it's 135 cubic just.
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  Just a little motor. Everybody look at that, huh?
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  Wow. And it is a ball.
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  Oh my gosh, what a ride. Fantastic.
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  Well, thank you, Billy. We're gonna make absolutely.
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  We're gonna make a circle now. I've never asked and I'm
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  embarrassed. Girlfriend.
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  Wife. This is my wife.
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  That's all. This is Angie.
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  Angie, you're wonderful. This is Coffee with Kenny and it
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  goes on my YouTube show and it does pretty good.
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  But thank you for letting me say hi to you all.
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  Absolutely wonderful people. Thank you.
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  And yes, I do get nervous around them just because that's I'm
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  always like, love you guys, OK? I did that for you all.
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  You owe me. You owe me.
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  All right, here he is right here.
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  That's becoming more and more popular.
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  The Harley-Davidson CEO. There it is.
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  Wisconsin, baby. Look at that.
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  Whoa, what a good looking bike. All right.
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  There, look. At that and you do a good job
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  Max espresso with Max it's on, yeah.
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  Cafe Latte with Max and Ken. Yeah, OK, I think that's enough,
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  everybody but you getting a good look.
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  Respond right here. Tell me what you think, Rick.
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  What I'm the? Herminator Kenny Wallace.
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  OK, wait a minute. OK, so we'll end with you on
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  coffee with Kenny. NASCAR announcer, going to start
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  rotating that championship. Yeah, this year it ends at
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  Phoenix, next year at Miami Homestead.
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  What do you think about 2027? Where would you like to see the
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  championship end? What track?
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  Short track. Oh, short track.
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  I don't know how far South we can find a short track, but
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  yeah, yeah. I mean, maybe Martinsville,
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  Maybe Martinsville holds. Champions yeah, there might be a
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  little that could be controversial because, you know,
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  they got knocked the hell out of each other OK, I like both of
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  these. Max Peppa says Darlington, and
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  racer Rick says a short track Martinsville.
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  All right, let's end with Morgan Petty's jacket because it's
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  badass. Let's.
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  Do it. She's the sheriff.
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  No. She's police.
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  No. No, no, Morgan all look, did you
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  make this? You did make this yourself
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  because I saw the video she's. Santa Fe.
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  You're a badass. More to come.
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  Are you a model? More to come.
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  She's like, should I be? Yes, Definitely not.
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  OK, let me see the. Let's do a 360.
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  Look at that, everybody. This is just some of them paying
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  respect to the police, all right?
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  They're my people. OK.
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  Thank you. All right, Goodbye, everybody.
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  We're on our way to Watkins Glen.
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  I got to sign a paper. I I got to sign the paper.
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  I got. I got to sign the paper.
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  Bye. Bye.