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Coffee With Kenny | It's Time I Call Out Some of You NASCAR Fans! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  Today's coffee with Kenny is about being sure of yourself and
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  believing in what you're doing and believing in what you're
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  saying, being sure of yourself. So that leads me to Waylon
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  Jennings. Let's go to Luchenbach, Texas.
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  Waylon and Willie and the boys, they're successful, live at a
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  living, sing the rest of it. All right, So Waylon Jennings
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  and Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder.
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  Remember Stevie Wonder, Stevie Blind.
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  But boy, he can sing. Stevie still living with us.
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  Or is he not I? I don't remember Stevie Wonder
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  still living. But anyway, I'll watch his
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  documentary and remember that song.
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  We are the world, we are the children, we are the ones who
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  make a better day. So let's start live.
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  Anyway, that song. So after like the Grammys, I
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  know 30-40 years ago, years ago, they said we're going to get all
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  the stars together, the greatest stars that America and the world
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  has. And we're going to raise money
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  and we, we're going to, you know, feed the children because
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  there was people starving, you know, in other parts of the
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  world. Well, the only problem when you
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  do this is you, you gather up all the stars and boy, they got
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  egos. You know, they're, I'm, I'm the
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  best. There's nobody better than me.
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  So anyway, Stevie Wonder, you know, he starts acting goofy.
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  He says, I don't want to change the words to we are the world to
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  something different, something from some other country.
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  And everybody's trying to, you know, calm Stevie down.
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  And so all of a sudden you see Waylon Jennings just walk out,
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  walk the hell out. Now stop and think about it.
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  You got the greatest musicians in the world in this room.
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  I mean, you look back and they're it's a who's who.
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  It's a smorgasbord of, I mean, the greatest, I mean, all the
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  names. So you want to be part of this
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  Waylon Jennings. He just walked out.
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  Lionel Richie, when they're doing this documentary, Lionel
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  Richie said during this process of trying to calm Stevie Wonder
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  down. You know, Waylon Jennings, he's
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  a badass. Waylon, you know, he's a country
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  boy and he's, you know, from somewhere.
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  I don't know where he's from, Texas, you know, Nashville,
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  wherever it is. Waylon left and he walked out
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  like a boss. He's like, I don't need all you
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  crazy ass people y'all thinking, you know, just let's sing the
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  damn song. Stevie was all jacked up on Sun
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  Drop. Wanted to change the words right
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  in front of, you know, 50 to 100 of the greatest singers and
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  musicians. That leads me to this.
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  Being comfortable in your own shoes, standing for what you
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  believe in. I'm going to make a hard, I'm
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  going to make a hard 90° right here.
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  Hang on. OK, I'm going to make a hard 90°
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  here. Hang on.
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  Bernie Sanders, the politician, a lot of people thinks he's just
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  crazy because he wants everybody to be the same.
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  And Bernie's, you know, Bernie says what he says, but one thing
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  everybody agrees on, if Bernie believes in what he says and
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  he's been saying it forever. So Waylon and Jennings believed
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  in what he believed in. And he said, I don't need none
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  of you nut cases. You must think you're perfect
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  wanting to change the word to watch the documentary, you,
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  you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
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  And it was some weird ass thing Stevie Wonder wanted to do.
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  And but it was funny. Lionel Richie said we lost
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  Waylon right at that time. Well, when when people, you
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  know, when they believe it in something, they just stand their
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  course. Call them crazy all you want,
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  but at least they don't they're not wishy washy.
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  You know, the worst thing you can do is have a leader that's
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  wishy washy, Yes. No.
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  OK, I'll go with you. So that's where I am right now
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  on the whole damn points thing, that whole damn NASCAR points
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  thing. Some of you are like a damn
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  bunch of mob. You're you're a mob.
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  You're like you're coming at me like and you're saying mean,
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  mean stuff to me and I don't appreciate it.
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  I see it out there. I see y'all getting cocky as
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  hell. Some people calling me a clown,
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  some people saying you don't understand.
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  Us fans just don't like it. So let me just tell you this.
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  I'm going to shove it right back up your ass.
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  I like the point system, OK? So I'm going to be cocky just
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  like you, and I'm going to stand my ground.
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  And I'm like Waylon Jennings. I'm walking right the hell out
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  of this conversation because I like the point system.
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  You're not going to wear me down.
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  I like the point system. I'm sure of myself.
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  I'm a badass. I stand for what I believe in.
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  NASCAR is a great sport. You all bitch 24/7.
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  You're never happy. And that's what Kenny Schrader
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  says. You're never going to please
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  everybody. I don't mind debating with you,
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  but I don't like you guys calling me names and I don't
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  like you all being sarcastic with me, so I get the last
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  laugh. I'm a badass.
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  I'm going to stand for what I believe in.
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  All right? I like the point system.
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  Like I told you, though, I'll change those last races like
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  I've always thought. I would like to see the
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  championship end deciding, you know, three races.
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  We go to Phoenix, we go to Miami Homestead, we go to Vegas.
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  All right, everybody, that's that.
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  Let's go to Luke and Mark, Texas, Waylon and Willie and the
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  boys. All right, got another one on my
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  mind. I was with Sunoco Racing and my
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  friend Fred McConnell yesterday went down to Texas and drove
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  these Rush race cars, had these Suzuki motors in the back and
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  boy, they hauled ass. They had paddle shifters, they
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  were awesome. And boy, my shoulders hurt
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  today. I got these two torn tenants
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  over here on this one shoulder and I was getting back.
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  We'd run 30 minutes straight. You talk about a workout.
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  Shit, I'm ready to get into my dirt car now, man, that thing, I
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  couldn't, you know, late in my NASCAR career, I'd get about lap
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  250 of a 300 lap race and when I turn right, my right shoulder
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  started hurting right here. It's like I've wore my shoulder
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  slam out. So anyway, I got down to like a
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  minute 1935 some of the kids run like in I think the fastest bad
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  ass sumbitch there was Blair. He ran like, you know, 117 five.
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  These kids, they're good, they're young and they're good.
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  It I want to tell you something that I witnessed here.
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  I am 61. These guys are under, you know,
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  they were 25 maximum, maximum 28 years old boy, this new group,
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  they are really into the digital era to the maximum peak sitting
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  there and and they say, come on, let's go study the course.
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  Let's go in the room. And so we're sitting there and
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  he's got the computer up there, the layout of the track
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  digitally, though, like, you know, showing where you're at,
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  but but it's not really showing the real racetrack.
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  It's just showing the outlet. So I'm like, OK, what corner is
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  this? You know, they spent a damn hour
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  and they had not made it a halfway around the racetrack.
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  And these kids, there's like five of them.
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  They're like, OK, what are you doing here?
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  Me. I'm like, hey, what gear are you
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  in in that corner? What gear are you?
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  What gear are you getting? A six?
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  No, I'm staying in fifth, OK, I'm talking about what gear
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  you're in. You know, I know the angle of
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  the dangle. I know you got to be here to get
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  there. You know, I get all that grew up
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  racing my whole life. But these kids are
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  perfectionist. They in NASCAR, these kids now
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  they run these Sims, which is fine.
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  I like Sims because it's real time.
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  I'm not saying it, I'm not saying it's like real.
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  Like a SIM probably doesn't relate to a lot of people.
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  If you've never been to a racetrack, you get on a SIM.
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  It's it's, it's like it's like you're really in the race car.
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  So let's say you to a racetrack you never been to you get in a
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  SIM and all of a sudden you run it for an hour or so.
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  Then when you get to that racetrack in real, you know
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  where everything's at. But these kids nowadays, it's
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  official. They've passed me up.
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  I'm old school. They talk to each other about
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  this and that, this, this and that.
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  And I'm like, I was about to lose my mind.
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  So finally he came up. He goes, OK, let's go to my in
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  car camera. I'm like, yes, that's what I
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  want to see. I want to see you drive the
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  racetrack from from your helmet, you know, so I thought I'd add
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  that in there. I know, you know, I hear about
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  Kyle Larson and Martin. They say Martin trucks can break
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  things down in detail. Kyle Larson's like, I don't know
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  what I'm doing. True, true story.
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  So you got some drivers that are good, what they call data
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  drivers. You got some drivers, NASCAR
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  will hire some drivers like David Reagan.
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  David Reagan's a SIM driver and he tells that Ford team, here's
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  what this you know, here's this, we tried this setup in their
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  simulator and David Reagan does all that.
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  But you got some drivers like Kyle Larson, they'll go, you
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  know, Chevrolet go hey, Kyle, you know what about it?
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  And Kyle Larson's like, I, I don't know, I just do it, you
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  know, and I'm like, Kyle's got a God's gift.
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  But I just want to say that these these new kids, man, they
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  just, they're digitally enhanced and they're just sorry the real
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  Herman came out. That's where I would use that
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  word. So yesterday made me realize I'm
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  61 years old. I'll go run my dirt car.
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  Have a great Thursday, everybody.