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Hello From The COTA Tower | Kenny Wallace Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Alright everybody, you know the way it goes.
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  Welcome to the Kenny Wallace Show, brought to you by Jags,
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  the leader in high performance aftermarket car parts.
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  Remember to go to jags.com. You guessed it, you all
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  challenged me, you said. Herman, when you go to Circuit
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  of the America, you better go to the top of that big old tower
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  they got. I asked my friends here.
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  These guys are so awesome. All right, let's start out with
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  old Ted. Ted, tell me about yourself.
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  Live in Indiana, been doing this for 25 years.
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  Come down to help TMS as part of the sales team.
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  Just enjoy bringing fans out, giving their fan experience and
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  taking them around. So it's a great place.
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  Y'all ought to come down and see it.
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  See you with my buddy Kenny. Yeah, well, thank you.
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  He's a very nice man. Now, this one here is close to
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  home. All right, what's your name?
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  Joey. Lumbo.
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  Joey is in charge of the Loud New Hampshire racetrack now.
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  Joey, help me out at any time, But the one thing I want to say
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  to everybody is when we do trackside live, it's for SMI
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  Speedway Motorsports Incorporated, which is Loud, New
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  Hampshire, Bristol, Charlotte Circuit of the America, Texas,
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  so on and so forth. I love Loudon.
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  OH. It's a great time.
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  I I told him, I said Joey, I said I won the Bud 300 up there
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  in 1991 and you said what? I wasn't even born.
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  Yet he wasn't even. Born Did you get a lobster?
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  Oh, oh, yeah. They're, you know, the original
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  owners. I have Brain Fate Bob Bear, Bob
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  Bear, Bob and Gary Bear. But anyway, you all challenged
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  me. I wanted to introduce you to
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  these two wonderful people. And what do we got planned for
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  Loudon, NH? I mean, kind of just a lot of
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  fun, you know, we got so many people camping there every year.
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  And. Try to do some different
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  different things in the fan zone.
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  Yeah, we'll be there for Trackside Live.
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  Playoffs this year. It's the playoffs.
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  What? What is the date for Loudon?
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  September 20. First, OK, I took it to two
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  minutes. You all challenged me.
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  I am at the very top of the tower.
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  I love you guys. So without these two, I never
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  got here. Let's look at some sights and I
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  say sounds, sights and sounds. First of all, let's go to the
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  elevator and we'll start all over.
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  This is the elevator. All right, here we go.
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  Turn one. First of all, you look down.
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  You're like, Oh my God. Oh my God.
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  Look at the racetrack right below us.
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  So there it is. There's the front straightaway.
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  Look at this view everybody, all the NASCAR Cup haulers look at
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  the go Kart track. Take me over there.
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  Put me on a go Kart, damn it. And then this elevation is much
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  more in real than you think. I know that you know Jeff Glock,
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  all the boys in the media, they try to tell you, but from right
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  there to right there that's like really uphill and that is not as
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  wide and big as on TV. It looks bigger but boy that is
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  narrow as all get out. This race track is simply, I
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  mean, it is one of the nicest race tracks I've ever been to.
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  Now look here, right below us, there's the racetrack.
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  Wow, look how nice it is. So NASCAR's run the short course
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  this year. So what that means is you see,
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  they're not all up in there this year, you know what I mean?
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  They run the short course this year.
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  You can, you can, you can see all this right here.
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  It's pretty awesome. I don't even, I'll be honest, I
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  don't even know what the hell I'm talking about.
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  It's my first time here. I'm like a kid in the candy
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  store. So really nice.
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  And I mean, this place, they're coming in already.
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  It's early in the morning. They only open up for another 40
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  minutes. But yeah, that's it.
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  Really cool. And they put some look, look at
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  the amphitheater right here. They put in 30,000 people.
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  They have some of the biggest musical acts in all of America
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  right here. So yeah, pretty cool.
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  But this place is way more than a racetrack.
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  It is awesome and it's going over here one more time.
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  Now I see why this place now. Now I see why this place is so
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  successful. It's really nice.
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  All right, everybody, we're not going to put you through pain
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  and take you to 8 minutes. But this is our second trackside
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  live. There's fifteen of them.
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  I'm going to do 10 because I got other things I need to do.
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  Got to run that dirt car. Got to go on vacation.
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  Leaving here, going to Bike week with brother Russ.
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  He going to land in Daytona tonight.
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  So we got a lot going on, but I love my life.
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  OK, everybody, 11:00 today right here, Trackside Live.
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  Denny Hamlin, Ross Chastain. We got all the big boys coming.
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  Oh, we got some of. Hey, are you the boss in the
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  tower? No, you not.
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  You look good. Where'd you get all this gear
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  at? I work for NASCAR.
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  You damn right he does. Hold on, I don't even know you.
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  Part of the Kenny Wallace show on YouTube.
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  Hey, So what do you do for NASCAR?
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  I'm a fiber optic engineer. Fiber optic.
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  That's where all the money's at, man.
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  Damn, where'd you learn how to do all that stuff?
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  Out here, NASCAR University baby.
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  Really. Did you really?
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  You went to NASCAR University. That's what we call.
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  It so the fiber optics is that the big screen stuff all the.
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  Show no so timing and scoring cameras, anything that involves
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  any data transfers. Do you make sure like the
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  generators are hooked up every so often?
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  Like when the caution comes out? Yeah, we, we definitely have to
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  like, supervise, make sure nothing goes down 'cause I mean,
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  there's so many things happening here.
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  So I accidentally, I accidentally caught the real
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  deal. What are you doing up here?
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  Oh, we got some cameras up here. We got time and scoring.
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  We have the tracking camera system that shoots every Oh
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  yeah, it's pretty cool. So that is awesome.
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  Well, you, you probably don't know and I'm 61 years old, but I
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  raced at NASCAR my whole life. How old are you?
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  I'm just turned 28. 28 My name is Kenny Wallace.
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  Pleasure to meet you, Kenny Wallace.
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  Good to meet you, buddy. Pleasure to meet you.
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  I think that's what if you want, if you want a job and you want
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  to become, you know, fiber optics, What did you go to
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  NASCAR? I just said you, you being out
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  here and obviously learning, it's very much like a you're
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  learning on the job to craft you.
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  Now, so I gotcha. Yeah, well, so you fall
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  underneath. So years ago a lot of New
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  Hampshire Dale Jarrett spun out off at Turn 4 and we used to
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  race around him and race 2 to start finish line.
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  That's incredible. That's crazy.
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  That is crazy. We were.
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  We were damn Daredevil. Absolutely.
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  Because of you. Now, when there's a wreck, you
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  throw the caution flag, everybody let off the gas and
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  don't run into the wreck. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Thank you for all you do. Oh, thank you so much.
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  It's an absolute pleasure to meet you.
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  Enjoy the beautiful and this weather is incredible.
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  See your past? Your name is Connor.
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  Connor Tarnowski. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Tarnowski Well, what a I'm lucky.
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  What a surprise. All right, Connor, thank you.
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  Thank you, buddy. Well, how about that?
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  Didn't even plan on it. OK, so when they throw the
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  caution flag, he's the guy that set he he's one of the guys that
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  helps set all this up. Well, what do you know?
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  I didn't even try to get to 8 minutes and Connor come up here
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  and didn't even have him playing.
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  So, all right, as you see, I told you NASCAR spent millions
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  and millions of dollars on freezing the field.
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  So, you know, when the caution comes out, you got to know where
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  everybody's at. And you tell that man was right
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  at work this morning setting up everything.
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  And he said they got cameras up here.
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  So, all right, what a great Kenny Wallace show.
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  And up here on the tower. And you challenged me.
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  So here I am. Let's end like this, everybody.
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  I'm at the top of the tower. It's a little scary right here.
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  What a race track. What a race track.
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  See y'all later.