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Chase Elliott & Danica Patrick: The 2 Hottest Topics in NASCAR · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone and welcome to a new show, Kenny and Charlie Top
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  Charlie Marlow, how you doing today, buddy?
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  I'm doing great, Kenny. How are you Sir?
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  Well, I'm excited to do the Kenny and Charlie top two
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  stories. So something that really came up
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  on our radar. Charlie was, you know, when when
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  Chase Elliott just got done winning Texas, we thought, oh,
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  he's finally back. You know we need him.
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  When you and I interviewed Ben Kennedy, who runs NASCAR, he
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  told us that when Chase Elliott wins, we see a big tick up.
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  But you and I had noticed that when Chase wins, it's really the
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  old people, his dad's fans, Bill Elliott's fans.
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  What is your take on the 40 to 60 year old people really
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  excited that Chase Elliott wins? So that's very interesting.
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  I would also think there's some, maybe some young ladies.
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  It seems like the young ladies also really like Chase Elliott.
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  But I do think, you know the older generation of NASCAR fans
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  and I've really seen this through your channel and the
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  comments and all that. And I and I would agree, I'm,
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  I'm 41 years old, but there was something different.
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  You know, I grew up in the 80s and 90s.
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  Just the cars, the color schemes, the names, the
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  nicknames, the fights, You know, there's just something about
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  that, that throwback era of NASCAR.
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  It does feel a little too corporate these days.
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  You know, some of these young drivers are these young, good
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  looking kids and a lot of them have a lot of money.
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  I think. I think a lot of people like the
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  folks like your family back in the day who who built the cars
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  they were underneath the cars. I just think that classic NASCAR
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  70s, eighties, 90s, it's just it brings a lot of people from your
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  age group back to their youth. We all love our youth.
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  I love music from the 90s because I cared about music.
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  Tears, right? I don't.
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  Care about music now? Yeah.
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  So I think. I think everybody loves their
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  their youth and they think it was better back then.
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  And I think with NASCAR it's fair to say it was.
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  It seemed more fun back then. And not to mention that you and
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  I have brought up lately it is that and and and everybody quit
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  battling me finally on our Kenny conversations or Kenny Wallace
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  shows. We've said that officially
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  finally Chase Elliott is the last of the bloodline of the
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  greats. Now listen respond right here
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  everybody but Charlie. I mean I know Ryan Blaney is one
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  of the championship and and I I love his dad Dave and and his
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  dad Dave was great but he was never a NASCAR great.
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  He didn't win any races. I didn't win any races.
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  So me and Dave Blaney are kind of the same.
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  I believe Chase Elliott is the very last of the great bloodline
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  from his dad. What do you think about that?
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  Yeah, I think there's a lot of truth to that.
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  I I think it's funny, too. We've talked about this a lot,
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  this current crop of drivers I I love personally, Denny Hamlin.
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  Kyle Busch. Because they're they're
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  interesting. I didn't really grow up a
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  hardcore NASCAR fan, so I would say now now I'm hardcore with
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  with you obviously, but I'm more of a casual, so I need a little
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  more of the extra to probably get into it.
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  We've talked about how you know William Byer and Ryan Blaney.
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  Great guys, great drivers, but a little little milk toast and.
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  Right. And it's like to me it's funny
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  because I think, I think Chase is kind of like that too.
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  But people love him. It's almost like Chase is so
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  polite, he's so respectful. And he also appreciates the
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  history of NASCAR, which I think people love.
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  You saw him do the what, the Polish victory lap talking about
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  Alan Kowicki and I think people love that, especially your
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  generation, NASCAR fans. They love when people appreciate
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  the history. And Chase Elliott for the last
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  three years, when I've really paid more attention to NASCAR,
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  he's always so respectful of the history of the sport.
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  So Kenny and Charlie, top two, now it's Danica Patrick who's
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  we're going to talk about. Danica Patrick, she reminds me a
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  lot of great racers, they they either love them or they hate
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  them. And I've seen a lot of, I've
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  taken a lot of polls lately, you know, and it seems like it's
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  always 7030. We had Danica Patrick on Kenny
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  conversation. She literally blew away.
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  I mean, she's up to 85,000 views and that was an hour 20 minute
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  show. So either people come on because
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  they hate her, which is a very strong word.
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  I don't like the word hate. She's over 85,000 views in no
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  time. So what is your take?
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  Why is Danica Patrick so polarizing?
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  That's a great question. I just think anytime, I don't
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  want to say she was the first, but she was, she was kind of one
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  of the first big time women drivers, obviously IndyCar, then
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  NASCAR. She's basically the same age as
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  me. I remember interviewing her
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  years ago around Michigan International Speedway when she
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  was in IndyCar. Look, I I think whenever you're
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  different, you're going to have people who are celebrating you,
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  other people who are hating on you a little bit, You know,
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  there's I think there's also political ramifications to that,
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  especially now you can tell on her podcast like she likes to
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  get into these topics. She likes controversy.
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  And look, let's be real, Don't we all?
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  Isn't isn't that what's interesting about just the
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  content in general? I mean, she said some
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  controversial things on on your show, obviously about suing
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  Andretti. She made some comments about
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  Logano and Martin, Trex Junior and Denny Hamlin, but look that
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  that's how she felt and that's interesting.
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  I think people want authentic folks and I think ever since
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  Danica started doing the the podcast, like she understands
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  this, This is interesting, this is what people want.
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  You don't want to listen to a 90 minute podcast and and it's
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  boring. I mean at least there should be
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  two or three. Wow man, did you hear what she
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  said? And I feel like she gets that
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  she's interviewing Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson.
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  That's kind of the that's kind of the world we live in.
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  People want interesting, authentic topics, and I think
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  she brings that. And and Charlie, I think she's a
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  throwback from the past. She reminds me and my brother
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  Rusty Wallace. Rusty's calm down a lot now.
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  He just wants to chill out. But my God, my brother Rusty.
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  He'd say anything. He was so controversial.
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  And now you know I can't. I I I talked to Jeff Gordon.
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  I can't get him to get William Byron to talk.
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  I'm like Jeff, Jeff, William, Byron is.
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  He's our, he's our guy. He's winning all the races.
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  He's got to talk. But people are so afraid now.
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  They're locked down. I think Danica Patrick is a
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  breath of fresh air. She's from the past, even though
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  she's young. Was she 42, maybe 40?
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  She's 42. But what I like about Danica
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  Patrick is she says what everybody's thinking and then
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  they all go, Oh my God, how dare you say what I'm thinking?
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  You know, you can't say that, but I wish there was.
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  I wish the guys were more like Danica.
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  But I mean, I'm. I'm saying she's polarizing.
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  She says what she thinks and then people respond.
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  She's successful in everything she does.
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  I agree with you, Charlie. I I think that she's going
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  places that everybody's afraid to go.
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  And listen, all the males chauvinists out there, they're
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  jealous. I don't care if she won a race
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  on gas mileage or not. She's she she runs third in the
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  Indy 500. She LED laps.
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  She won an IndyCar race. And Charlie, let me ask you a
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  question. What kind of men are these that
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  go she she only won on gas mileage.
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  Are these in? Are these insecure men?
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  100%, I was. I was about ready to get to that
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  part of it because we're talking about Danica.
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  But again, I, I go through your comments section all the time.
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  It can be Danica, and it's the same type of comments.
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  If it's about Hayley Deegan, Natalie Decker, Tony Bridinger,
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  we have her on the podcast that hasn't been released yet, but
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  it's always, oh, she's a woman. The only reason she got the ride
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  is she's a woman. Oh, just 'cause she's a pretty
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  face. And I'm like, what's wrong?
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  What's wrong with that? By the way, Hey, you know this,
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  There's a lot of dudes. I mean, there's not a lot of
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  ugly NASCAR drivers too. Marketing is a huge part of it.
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  There's probably a lot of dude drivers who might have been tied
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  with somebody else to get a ride and they're like, hey, let's
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  they're kind of the same. Let's pick the good looking guy.
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  He can sell more product and what?
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  What's wrong with looking at a a pretty lady?
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  What's wrong with that? Yeah, I agree with you.
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  Well, there it is, everybody. Kenny and Charlie top two in 10
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  minutes. Charlie, let's end like this.
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  There's Coke and Pepsi, but nobody calls it Coke or Pepsi.
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  Is it soda or pop? All right.
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  I'm, I'm more passionate about this topic.
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  Then then Chase Elliott and Danica Patrick combined.
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  All right. I'm from Toledo.
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  OH, we are a pop city. We're a pop area.
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  We call it pop. We don't call it soda.
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  We don't call it soda pop. We don't call it Coke, but then
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  so I lived in Toledo 1st, 18 years of my life, go to College
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  in Illinois. I've lived in Saint Louis for
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  now, what, 16 years? It's a soda town.
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  This is one thing I I will, I will never call it soda.
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  It's always pop. And also I'm trying to get my
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  kids to call it pop, which is going to be hard because they're
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  growing up. But this is one of those things
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  I'll put up the pop versus soda map.
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  It's pretty cool to look across the country at who calls it pop,
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  who calls it soda, and who calls it Cokes, I'm guessing.
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  Did you grow up with it? Soda?
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  Charlie, let's end it just like that for me.
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  It's soda. All right, everybody.
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  Listen. We are, we are in podcast form.
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  Go to iTunes or Spotify. And this is our new show, Kenny
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  and CC, that was a lot of fun. Thank you buddy.
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  Awesome, man. We'll do it a lot.
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  We'll do it a lot. All right.
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  See you all next time on Kenny and Charlie, Top two.