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My Denny Hamlin Interview Was A Big Topic In The NASCAR Trial?! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  As Larry Mac Reynolds say, I got my notes.
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  You know, when, when NASCAR is doing this, this trial, this
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  historical time in NASCAR history.
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  Wow. So let's go through it all.
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  There it is. NASCAR finally gets the
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  attention of national media. There it is right there.
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  The top one. NASCAR is on CBS This Morning
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  and they said what I've been thinking, this historical NASCAR
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  trial, this historical NASCAR trial.
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  And that's that was I think Monday I said, are you all going
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  to try to act like this has not happened?
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  Even CBS This Morning said, my gosh, the most famous, not just
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  basketball player, but I mean, who is the most famous person in
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  America? I would bet Michael Jordan's
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  right there, even though he's a basketball player.
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  Guys still knocking down $350 million a year for that sewer
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  logo on the Nike tennis shoe. Man, talk about getting it done
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  early in life. He's one of the greatest.
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  He is the greatest basketball player and his Mama.
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  I went and saw the movie Nike Air.
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  It's called Air. His mother, Michael Jordan's
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  mother was the one that did the deal with Nike said if if you
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  believe in my son that much, you'll pay him per shoe.
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  They said, OK, we'll do it. So Michael Jordan to this day
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  gets paid per shoe that has the Nike swish of him jumping.
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  Well, not the swish, but the one of Michael jumping up in the
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  air. He gets paid per shoe knocking
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  down 350 million bucks a year. That's why he just, he thinks
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  this is all chump change. They say he has spent 40 million
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  so far on this, on this NASCAR lawsuit.
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  OK, so this one's unreal. The very first thing of the
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  NASCAR lawsuit yesterday, the very first thing that the
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  breaking news in the NASCAR lawsuit, me right here sitting
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  on the couch with a cell phone, NASCAR attorney, they they
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  looked at Denny Hamlin and they said, Denny, on the Kenny
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  Wallace Show, you said that NASCAR was easier to get
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  involved with with the Next Gen. car and NASCAR was trying to
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  rough him up saying no Denny Hamlin, you said on the Kenny
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  Wallace show that you like NASCAR, Damn it.
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  Denny Hamlin, he's like, that's because I was saying things to
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  try to help build the sport. So that's number one.
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  Who would have ever thought that was the first thing in the
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  NASCAR lawsuit was you're looking at him.
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  Kenny Wallace. Hey, Denny, on the Kenny Wallace
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  Show, they called it the Kenny Wallace Show, but it was Kenny
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  conversation. My message to NASCAR.
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  I know y'all are listening. You know I'm a little corny at
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  time. I love you guys.
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  You know you, you gave me a life.
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  But I had to talk to Danny about this.
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  I promised Danny I'd keep him out of trouble.
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  It it's top news. Respectfully, we you cannot
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  expect us not to talk about it. So thank.
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  You and we all have the same goals and that's to grow this
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  together. And, you know, we met with
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  NASCAR about this, you know, a month ago.
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  We're like, let's lock arms and do this.
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  We, this, this sport is a sleeping giant.
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  If you're just willing to change, you know, just because
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  it's, it's what you did for 50-60 years, it doesn't mean
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  it's the right thing to do now. Every sport has evolved over
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  time. We have got to evolve.
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  And people like Ben Kennedy have done a great job of changing the
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  schedule around taking us to places like Chicago.
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  It's been fantastic what they've done with schedule variation
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  over the last few years. The next shin car, right?
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  I mean, while some may like it, some may not, it's still been a
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  net positive for our sport. And you know, the, the access to
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  be competitive is easier now than what it has been before.
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  So we're we're doing a lot of good things.
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  I just hate that we keep hanging up and this has been a subject
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  for a better part of two years and that we just can't get a
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  fair deal done because if we ever can, the sport will take
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  off. And they need the teams to be
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  able to do that and the teams need NASCAR.
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  So, you know, let's let's get this deal done.
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  Wow, Talk about being humbled. It's just us guys, OK?
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  Denny was extremely impressive. You got to give Denny Hamlin a
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  lot of credit. He's a great study.
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  Here's the winniness. NASCAR driver this year with six
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  wins, basically won the championship.
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  But the caution flag comes out because my blows a tire and
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  Denny Hamlin, I read what Bob Pockras said.
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  I get all my information from Bob Pockras, Matt Weaver, Jeff
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  Gluck, all the big guys. That's where I get all my
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  information. And they said Denny Hamlin was
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  impressive, that for being a race car driver and winning the
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  most races this year, he's a great study because they said
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  they could not get him, that Denny was combative and resolute
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  and to the point. They said he was a great
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  witness. They said he was dead on.
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  So pretty impressive for a guy that can chew gum and walk at
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  the same time. You know, some, some people
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  might be deer in the headlights and start stuttering.
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  But they say Denny's a good study, that he knows how to
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  study. Must have made good grades in
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  schools. All I can say.
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  All right, this one pissed me off a little bit.
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  NASCAR attacked the Denny Hamlin for making $14 million a year.
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  Now that's, that's not very American like because America's
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  land of the free. That's why everybody lines up to
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  come to America because you it, it's capitalism.
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  You can do what you want to do. You can get yourself a hotel and
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  run a hotel. You can do whatever you want to
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  do in America. So if a man makes money, you
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  don't condemn him. So NASCAR's like, you make a lot
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  of money. You make 14,000,000 a year.
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  Denny Hamlin's answer was historical, one for the ages.
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  It's fair to say that NASCAR should have never went there
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  with Denny Hamlin. Here's what Denny Hamlin said in
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  response. Most drivers don't win as much
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  as I win. And it's true.
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  It's true Denny Hamlin won the most races this year.
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  He won 6. So when NASCAR tried to tack and
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  Denny for making 14,000,000 a year.
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  And by the way, that's embarrassing because the Formula
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  One drivers make 65,000,000 Max Max Verstappen makes 65,000,000
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  a year for 24 races and we run 39.
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  So Max Verstappen makes 65,000,000.
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  Lewis Hamilton makes 60 million. Denny Hamlin's way down here.
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  A damn baseball pitcher makes 2530 million a year.
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  We ought to be embarrassed we got the lowest paid race car
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  drivers in in the world. If we want NASCAR to be
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  successful, we should be celebrating Danny Hamlin making
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  a measly 14,000,000 a year. Cheating death going into these
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  corners at a high rate of speed and you're seeing these drivers
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  flip end over end. Guys, my message to you all is
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  this don't dumb our sport now don't, don't say we're not worth
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  14,000,000 a year. We're worth 70 million a year.
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  These these guys are cheating death.
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  Oh, look at me, I'm throwing a ball around.
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  Pay me 50 million a year. Look at me, I throw a football,
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  pay me 40 million a year. Come on, get with it.
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  Danny Hamlin's worth way more than 14,000,000 a year.
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  So I don't I don't think NASCAR should have went there.
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  Yeah, I think that's it. That those are my highlights.
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  CBS the this morning that, hey, that's how we finally got
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  national attention was and and they talked about Michael
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  Jordan. You know, that one juror, one of
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  the jurors couldn't be on the juror because they were too
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  impressed. Oh my God, there's Michael
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  Jordan. Kenny Wallace show was the
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  number one thing yesterday in the courtroom.
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  Holy Denny was impressive during the interview.
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  They attacked him for making money.
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  And of course, Denny, the quote of the day, most drivers don't
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  win as much as I do, so ought everybody.
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  Well, listen, have a great, great hump day Wednesday.