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Is it Dangerous For NASCAR To Race in Mexico City? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  They say that these clouds are going to roll on out.
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  They going to be gone by 1:00 today and the sun's going to be
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  shining. So that means the Herminator is
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  racing tonight at Highland Speedway in Highland, IL.
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  So we're going to, as they say, down South, we going to Mosey on
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  over Yonder. I think we can think we can get
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  around some of these little wet spots here.
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  Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  OK, let's get right to it today. First of all, going to repeat
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  myself. I will see you at Highland
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  Speedway in Highland, IL tonight.
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  We're going to race dirt cars. OK.
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  Mexico City, Mexico and the racetrack.
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  Hermanos Rodriguez, I saw something yesterday evening that
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  made me think that will be a good coffee with Kenny.
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  Everybody knows by now you all know a lot of the NASCAR medium.
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  Let's take these glasses off. We don't need them on there.
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  We just wanted them on when we were scrolling earlier.
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  Hey, Wallace, what kind of glasses you wear?
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  These are two hundreds just from like Walgreens or whatever.
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  So I, I saw Jeff Gluck, I saw Bob Pockras and I saw the media.
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  The media was down at Mexico City, Mexico for all the NASCAR
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  racing and they've already been racing down there.
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  I don't know if you've all seen the highlight one car in another
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  division. I think it's, I think it was the
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  Mexico series. Lost his brakes, went flying in
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  the corner, turn around backwards.
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  I mean, hit that wall a ton. So anyway, they've already been
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  racing down there. Everybody's down there.
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  And Jeff Gluck said, you know what, I'm having a great time
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  down here, but my comment section is atrocious.
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  Jeff Gluck was was basically, I'm not, I'm not putting words
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  in Jeff Gluck's mouth, OK? But he he says, I'm very
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  disappointed in my comment section.
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  So I'm going to comment on what I see.
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  Everybody is not everybody. It's the 20%.
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  You know, I, whenever I take these polls, 75% of the people,
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  it's the same every time I talk, right?
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  75% of the people love NASCAR, love what's going on.
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  Then you got the Muppet movie over here.
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  You got the old people, all right, So you got it.
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  You got 2020% of the people go, why did NASCAR go to Mexico?
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  And you don't even know why. You're just talking.
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  You're sitting on your couch. You never had no interest going
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  there. You weren't going to go to
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  Richmond. You weren't going to Richmond.
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  Stop it. Because you didn't show up there
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  in the 1st place. So they said to hell with it.
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  If nobody's going to show up to Richmond, we had to take the
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  back grandstands out. You never came anyway.
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  We'll go somewhere where they want us.
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  Oh yeah, that's worth repeating. You wouldn't show up at Richmond
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  because you wanted to watch the race on TV.
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  So they said we'll go to Mexico City where we'll pack them in.
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  And they're paying us to come. Yeah.
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  Mexico City, you know, like, offered NASCAR all this money.
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  Come on to Mexico City. We love you guys.
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  All right, That's what we're going to talk about.
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  And we're going to talk about you complaining that NASCAR is
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  in Mexico at Hermanos Rodriguez. Now we're going to be all this.
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  I've raced at Hermanos Rodriguez three times with my best finish
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  of 8th. Yes, let's say it again,
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  children, Kenny Wallace has raced at Hermanos Rodriguez.
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  Kenny Wallace has been to Mexico City, Mexico three times.
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  And just like you all, just like you all, We've all been to
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  Cancun 5000 times and Cabo 5000 times, and we've all been to
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  Mexico, all of us. OK, maybe not that one over
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  there in the corner, the one complaining, you know, the one
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  over there. I don't go to Mexico.
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  Well, maybe you don't, but the rest of the world does because
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  everybody parties down in Mexico and Mexico is a good time.
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  Here's what I got to say about NASCAR racing in Mexico.
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  Just like New York City, just like Times Square, you can find
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  some bad spots in Mexico. You can find some bad spots in
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  New York City. Hell, furthermore, you can find
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  some bad spots right here in Saint Louis.
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  You know, we're the king of shooting people here in Saint
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  Louis. I mean, by God, CNN made sure
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  that you all thought we had Armageddon during all that, that
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  rioting and stuff. But you know what I had people
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  say to me, man, Saint Louis is dangerous.
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  Tell me all about it. I said it was not even a square
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  block long by the time, by the time they got done showing it
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  all to you, you thought Saint Louis was burning.
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  It was like 1 gas station. I think it was a quick trip.
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  OK, now you understand, right? Do I got to repeat myself?
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  You know, if if you listen about New York City, NY City's burning
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  down too. Don't get on a subway though.
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  Lights are on fire, OK, Get it right here in America.
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  Same thing with anything. So my experience at Hermanos
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  Rodriguez was wonderful. My experience was #1 I didn't go
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  looking for trouble. I stayed in my lane and the
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  people were wonderful. Here's my memories of Mexico
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  City, Mexico. Got down there and met.
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  It's a little hard to breathe every once in awhile.
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  That's because you're 8000 feet. So remember Las Vegas and
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  Poconos, about 1800 feet. So you go to Mexico City, Mexico
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  to race your way up there. So get there a little early, get
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  acclimated. It's one of the largest cities
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  in the world. Mexico City, Mexico is one of
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  the largest cities in the world. So there's a lot of bacteria
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  flying around it. It just looks like a dust storm
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  because there's just so many people there.
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  So I learned to take a little pill called Cipro.
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  Cipro keeps bacterial infection away.
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  So #1 remember, it's a little hard to breathe because you're
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  up at 8000 feet. You're used to being in Vegas or
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  you're used to being in Pocono. It's 1800 feet.
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  A lot of people take a Cipro pill, cut down on the infection.
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  OK, that's as far that's that's the only negative side there was
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  that was it. The racetrack was wonderful.
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  Mexico City, Mexico leaving the hotel inter not
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  intercontinental. We were on buses the first two
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  years I raced there. I was on bus with the team.
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  The third year I got lucky Rusty brother Rusty was sponsored by
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  Bell Helicopter. The third year I went, we went
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  out, went to the top of roof and took a helicopter to the
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  racetrack and I ran 8th. So a lot of people say, Oh my
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  God, look at everybody saw that picture, right?
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  Look at the Army. The Army is escorting all the
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  NASCAR trailers. What they got to escort them in?
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  It must be a dangerous place. No?
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  Have you ever got off the cruise ships at Cancun?
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  The policing in Mexico is different than ours.
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  Our police officers, they have a gun in their little pocket there
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  and they pull it out when they need it.
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  In Mexico City, Mexico. My experience, my experience
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  when I get off the cruise ships when Rusty and I left the hotel
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  Inter Intercontinental and we walked over to Starbucks or in
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  in Kabul. So I'm I'm named three different
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  places in Mexico. When I got off the cruise ships
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  in Cancun, when Rusty and I left the Hotel Intercontinental and
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  went over to Starbucks at Mexico City, Mexico, where NASCAR's AT
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  and Cabo and Kabul 3 complete different areas.
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  The police carry AK-40 sevens around.
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  That's just the way they police down there.
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  It it hey, may, maybe we need to do that because it does scare
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  you. So no different.
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  We have police escorts here. We have police escorts here.
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  Right here come the police. We better move over.
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  Well, the pictures you saw, they were police escorts, except they
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  had AK-40 sevens in a little Jeep and some of you were like
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  you. You guys were looking to pick a
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  fight. You look, look at her.
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  I wouldn't go there. I wouldn't go there.
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  I got AK47. This is why I tell all of you,
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  be like me, be like me. I've raced in Japan.
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  I've been to Europe. I've been up there to Canada and
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  race. I've been down in a Mexico City,
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  Mexico. Now, I haven't been everywhere,
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  but I'm a little worldly and everybody's got different
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  cultures and I'm as redneck as you are.
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  I'm as redneck as you are. So simmer down, simmer down.
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  I had a buddy here, just went to New York yesterday.
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  Kurt Vanderhart, Kurt Vanderhardt, the promoter that
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  promotes all these race tracks, He goes and gets the sponsors.
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  He says I'm going up to New York.
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  I said you'll have the best time.
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  He did. He came back.
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  He's on, he's on Facebook. Look up Kurt, Kurt, Kurt
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  Vanderhardt, he said had the best time ever in New York.
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  So sometimes, sometimes, you know, if you if you choose to go
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  seek out badge, you'll find it. It's like right here on social
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  media. If you want to find bad shop,
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  you can find it. But you don't need to go down
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  those rabbit holes. So the same thing with any damn
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  country. Don't don't go down some of
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  these alleyways here in Saint Louis.
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  Don't, don't go Minnesota. They just they just shot a
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  couple other law people up there in Minnesota this morning.
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  So that's everywhere. There's not one safe place in
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  the world in the world. So my experience in Mexico City,
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  Mexico was wonderful and I've done told you why NASCAR went
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  down there because Richmond. You want to talk about a look at
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  the surrounding areas at Richmond, VA.
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  If you want to know why NASCAR went to Mexico City, Mexico,
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  look at the surrounding areas of my favorite track.
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  I'm a three time winner at Richmond.
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  I love Richmond. Go around, go around the
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  surrounding areas of Richmond and get back to me and you never
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  showed up. Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico.
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  They're they're like bring NASCAR here.
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  We love NASCAR. You know why?
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  Because we have done race there three times and it was great.
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  All right now just just because don't don't mix with what's
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  going on. You know what I'm saying?
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  I'm not going there. Don't mix with what's going on
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  with what's going on at the racetrack.
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  All right, respond right here and have a great Saturday.
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  See you at Highland Speedway in Highland, IL tonight.