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The Media Is Pitting NASCAR vs IndyCar | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning. Everybody look like Kim trying
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  to roll the window up on me. What's that, honey?
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  It's cold out there. She says it's cold out there.
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  She's been coughing a little bit.
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  She'd be all right. She got a little tickle in her
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  throat. All right.
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  We are on the other side of Louisville, KY.
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  Louisville, KY, home of Churchill Downs and Muhammad
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  Ali. Fly like a butterfly, sting like
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  a bee. I am Muhammad Ali.
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  All right. Now, don't you all worry I'm
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  going to get my hairs cut because I'm headed to Evans,
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  Greece, next week on March 21st. Get my hairs cut.
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  Get all ready to go. So anyway, we stopped here last
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  night. Got a lot on the docket.
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  Got a lot on the docket today. Oh, first of all, we're going to
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  get back to Saint Louis. We left Charlotte, NC yesterday
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  morning and we drove 9 1/2 hours and I said that's enough, we are
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  not trying to make time. I'm going to repeat that we are
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  not trying to make time because our ass is retired.
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  We said, well, feel a little tired, let's roll on over here.
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  And Kim was like, it's fried and I got to eat my fish.
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  So we stopped at Culver's up the road there.
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  Real nice exit here. Real nice exit.
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  OK, little drink coffee. As I always tell you all, I
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  read. I read things, and then I
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  respond to it. Let's start off with High Limit
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  racing out there in Las Vegas. At the Las Vegas racetrack
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  Thursday night, Kyle Larson won with a hell of a race between
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  Kyle Larson and Corey Day. Now that's the way Corey Day
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  keeps his name in the news. Run a high limit race right next
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  to the NASCAR track. And on this Friday night, OK,
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  today's Saturday. But Thursday it was Corey Day
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  and Kyle Larson and Kyle Larson won.
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  But last night, on Friday night, Corey Day one.
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  So when he goes to that NASCAR track, when Corey Day goes to
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  that NASCAR track, he's going to be a hero.
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  Hey, Corey, good run. You outran Kyle Larson.
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  See what I mean? Even though Kyle Larson is a Cup
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  driver, racers recognize greatness.
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  Now a lot of people are going to say, well, Corey Day is not in
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  the Cup Series, but he's coming. So I just wanted to to give you
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  a little insight on how you keep your name in the papers and how
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  you keep qualifying to be a Cup driver.
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  So Corey Day lines up head to head with Kyle Larson and, and
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  it's one for one. So tonight, tonight will be the
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  tiebreaker this Saturday night. I think it pays big money out
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  there and like the top six are locked in and Corey Day, Kyle
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  Larson, they're locked in the big race.
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  So pay attention to that. Who is going to win the
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  tiebreaker on this Saturday night?
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  Will it be Kyle Larson or Corey Day?
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  High limit does got it going on and there is enough room.
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  There is enough room for the World of Outlaw Racing Sprint
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  cars and high limit Sprint cars too.
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  OK, seeing something with my eyes and you all can see it too.
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  I read Adam Stern. Adam Stern is a great reporter
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  and I see he's been doing something the last two days and
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  Adam Stern does not do this stuff himself.
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  He has people that plant information to him.
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  So the last three days, Adam Stern is like, basically, I'm
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  going to dumb it down for you. The articles are out there
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  basically for Fox Sports. NASCAR on Fox has taken the The
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  Hub TV show away, you know, OK. And I, I responded, well, Fox,
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  NASCAR on Fox can do whatever they want to do.
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  They're giving NASCAR billions of dollars.
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  Then this morning on this Saturday morning, there's a a
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  really, really good one. You can tell they're they're
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  pushing hard. Adam Stern reports that in the
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  hallways of NASCAR and Fox, there's a much bigger ceiling
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  and that NASCAR and Fox is going to basically try harder with
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  IndyCar. No, Sherlock, because NASCAR and
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  Fox, the Fox people, they own 1/3 of IndyCar.
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  As my mother would say, don't insult my intelligence.
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  And another thing, I love IndyCar.
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  But before I say this, I want to say I like IndyCar.
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  I love Roger Penske. He owns IndyCar.
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  IndyCar. They are wonderful cars and they
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  are great people. They're I love them.
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  OK, now that I said that, IndyCar is a much lower series
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  than NASCAR, even though they're very sophisticated, they got a
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  lot of money and they fly up down, upside down airplanes.
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  An IndyCar, a Formula One car, They are upside down airplanes.
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  They look like airplanes. The wind comes over, pushes them
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  down. An airplane, wind comes over,
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  pushes an airplane up. So as far as you know, OK, let's
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  go back to last week in Phoenix. All the IndyCar people, they're
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  like, Oh my God, this is the biggest crowd we've ever seen.
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  Well, yeah, because you were with NASCAR and you were at a
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  NASCAR on track, and NASCAR lets you race there.
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  Now, I don't know who's feeding Adam Stern all this information,
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  but that's two articles in a row.
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  NASCAR. I'm going to repeat myself just
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  so I can hear myself. That's two articles in a row.
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  Basically, NASCAR and Fox is not going to do any more TV shows
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  for NASCAR. OK, well, that's fine.
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  But then today it's like the ceiling is much higher for an
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  IndyCar than NASCAR. Well, duh.
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  I just explained to you why. As you can tell, pisses me off a
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  little bit. That little that little bird's
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  got something in its in its mouth, got like plastic in its
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  mouth. Hey, look, Wallace, you're
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  hyper. There goes a, there goes a
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  squirrel. OK, I'm going to end you with
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  this if you've made it this far. There's also a a big deal out by
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  NASCAR on FOX. NASCAR on FOX says NASCAR TV
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  ratings are up 20% this year. Why do you think that is?
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  Respond right here. Why are NASCAR TV ratings up 20%
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  this year? Well, first of all, the races
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  are good. That's simple.
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  And Mark Martin got the points changed.
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  That's good. But I think he got some
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  superstars I got. I got to give a lot of the
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  credit to the great Michael Jordan.
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  You got all these world class athletes all over the world
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  going wow, what's going on over there?
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  I didn't know Michael Jordan on the NASCAR team.
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  I really believe, I mean, listen, it's a it's a host of
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  things, but I think you got to give Michael Jordan a lot of the
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  credit. Michael Jordan, he's been to
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  every if I was a NASCAR, if I was a NASCAR, I'd pay Michael
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  Jordan. Hey, Michael, can you keep
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  coming to every race? Hell, when Michael Jordan lands
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  his airplane and and he gets off at the airport, there's NASCAR
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  and Fox. Michael Jordan's off his
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  airplane. He's walking to the racetrack.
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  There he is. Is he going to talk to Jamie a
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  little? All right, let me get in the
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  truck and we're going to head on to Saint Louis.
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  Have a great Saturday, everybody.