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Did Johnny Morris' SCATHING Letter Force NASCAR To Settle? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  OK, everybody, we're going to get right to it.
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  Breaking news in the garage area right now.
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  Now NASCAR and their attorneys on this Thursday morning are
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  having an emergency meeting. So that means later today I
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  could be doing a Kenny Wallace show.
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  Kenny Wallace show means, hey, something's going on.
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  We got a report. Breaking news in the garage area
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  on this Thursday morning. NASCAR attorneys are meaning
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  could they be settling? Could they be settling?
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  But Judge Bell told the jury, three men and three women that,
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  hey, look, I think I can save you some time here.
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  We need an hour. And Judge Bell told the NASCAR
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  attorneys and Michael Jordan, Front Row's attorneys, if you
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  need a different level to meet, I will allow you to do that.
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  So could they be settling? I think NASCAR knows it's not
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  looking good for them. So respond right here,
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  everybody. Now back to your regular
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  scheduled program. If they are settling.
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  I have some letters that came out late last night, and I think
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  they could be settling because the owner of bass pro shops,
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  Johnny Morris, wrote a scolding letter to NASCAR.
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  I think that's what my headlines are going to be. bass pro shops
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  scolds NASCAR. Now, listen, I'm going to
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  paraphrase this, but once this gets on YouTube, my Charlie
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  Marlow is going to drop that letter in that, you know, out of
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  Springfield, MO. Yes.
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  Johnny Morris, the owner of bass pro shops, he starts this letter
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  out saying that he grew up watching the Wallace Brothers.
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  Thank you, Johnny. And he grew up watching the Mark
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  Martin. He grew up watching Willie
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  Crane, some of the local heroes in our area.
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  And yeah, did you know that Bass Pro was from basically my
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  hometown? I grew up in Rolla, MO, and I
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  later moved to Saint Louis. But Johnny Morris says that I
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  watched Mark Martin, the Wallace brothers, all trying to beat our
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  local hero, Larry Phillips. So this letter starts out, you
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  know how long he's been a race fan.
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  So Johnny Morris that owns Bass Pro Shops, he's a racer, but he
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  likes hunting, just like Dale Earnhardt Senior and of course
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  Johnny Morris's good friend Richard Childress.
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  Now you know where this letter is going.
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  Johnny Morris basically scolds the NASCAR mercifully.
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  And at the end of the letter, he said this would be like a new
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  commissioner coming into NASCAR in baseball.
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  Let me try this again. Johnny Morris compared Steve
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  Phelps, who was the president of NASCAR 6-8 months ago.
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  He specifically called Steve Phelps out.
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  He says Steve Phelps showed Richard Childers 0 respect.
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  And then he then he goes on at the end of the letter and he
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  says it's like a new commissioner coming into
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  baseball and showing Babe Ruth all the great baseball players
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  no respect. And he says, I'm sure that new
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  commissioner would not last long.
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  So I'm going to say it. Steve Phelps is well, I'm not
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  going to say it like that. Let me try it again.
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  I believe the owner of Bass Pro Shops, Johnny Morris, is asking
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  for Steve Phelps to be fired by NASCAR because in the at the end
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  of the letter, he said if a commissioner in baseball were to
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  act like Steve Phelps is, it wouldn't be long and he would be
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  gone. And in this letter, he says how
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  dare NASCAR show so much disrespect for the great Richard
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  Childress. Richard Childress is the second.
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  So right now, you know, you, you look at guys like Bud Moore is,
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  is gone. You know, Junior Johnson is
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  gone. Richard Petty really doesn't
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  have a race team anymore. He's hanging out with a legacy.
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  But the oldest running team right now is The Wood Brothers
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  and The Wood Brothers. Everybody knows we give them a
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  break. We love The Wood Brothers, but
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  The Wood Brothers, their race cars are prepared out of the
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  Penske Racing shop. So basically Richard Childress
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  is the longest running team there is.
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  And, and Johnny Morris goes on in this letter, and boy, he is
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  pissed in a nice way. And he's basically asking
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  NASCAR, hey, you know, our partners all across the world,
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  we love NASCAR, and we're hoping we're cheering you on to do the
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  right thing. But it's very clear that Johnny
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  Morse does not like Steve Phelps and wants his ass gone now that
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  that request comes at the very end of the letter.
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  So when Charlie drops it in here, go ahead and read that
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  part. OK, Sip of coffee.
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  These letters just keep on rolling.
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  Now the great Rodger Penske. So all these letters keep coming
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  out. Remember I, I know I've said it
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  all the time, I repeat it, but remember Judge Bell, you better
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  figure this out yourself because you're burning the house down.
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  So now I know why, and I'm going to say it.
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  Every single NASCAR car owner does not like where NASCAR is
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  headed. And when we knew This is why
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  Tony Stewart left the sport, we all know that.
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  But there's been a lot of teams that have got out of the sport
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  because they can't afford it. So Rodger Penske writes Jim
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  France, the owner of NASCAR, a letter and says, Jim, you know,
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  same thing as Rick Hendrick. You know, Rick Hendrick writes
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  the scathing letter. And now these are scolding
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  letters. Rodger Penske scolds one of his
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  dear friends. The owner of NASCAR, Jim Franz
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  says, Jim, love you like a brother.
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  But even if it here, I'm going to put it in redneck terms.
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  Rodger says even if I was to act poor, Jim, even if I was to cut
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  back as much as I could cut back, this is not sustainable.
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  We, you, we can't afford this. And Rodger says you are not
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  giving us enough of the pie. Now, Rodger Penske is a great
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  business owner and I'm going to leave you with this.
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  Rodger Penske says. Jim, may I suggest an Evergreen
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  program? And I've always thought about
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  this and you hear the word Evergreen all the time.
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  Basically, Evergreen means, hey, when NASCAR does good, we all do
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  good, we get more money. When NASCAR does bad, we all do
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  bad, we get less money. And what that pertains to is Jim
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  France testified that the reason I don't want permanent charters
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  is because I can't see that far out.
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  Well, Rodger Penske, one of the smartest men in America, he's a
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  gem. None of us can see that far out.
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  That's why I suggest Evergreen. Evergreen meaning, hey, you, you
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  signed A7 year TV contract. You know, we got permanent
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  charters for seven years, but keep them permanent.
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  And if you sign a less TV deal, then we'll all receive less
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  money. It's it really is high school
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  stuff. But Jim France, you know, bless
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  his heart, he's scared to death. And I understand that.
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  So these are big boy. Hey, listen, I'm going to end
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  like this, OK? I know I've said it ended like
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  this a couple times, but let's end like this.
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  I remember that one person that said, boy Wallace, you really
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  done yourself in. You said NASCAR should sell.
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  There's nobody that has done themselves in.
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  When everybody gets to the Daytona 500, everybody's in
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  trouble. We've learned that NASCAR hates
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  everybody. Rodger, they hate Rodger.
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  Penske they hate Rick Hendrick. And Rick, stop and think about
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  this way. Rick Hendrick is the one that
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  went to Europe with the Garage 56 project with Jim France.
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  So they're all asshole buddies, but boy, they chew each other's
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  ass out big time. And that, my friends, is big boy
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  business. But they mother fuck each other
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  up and down. And it's, it's like New York is
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  like being in the middle of New York.
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  Fuck you, fuck you. They're just so ain't nobody in
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  trouble. So when we go to Daytona, it's
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  more like the car owners versus NASCAR.
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  Not that all we're doing is reporting on what's going on.
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  And I don't report, I give commentary.
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  All right, everybody could be a chance that later today there
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  could be breaking news later today.
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  So stay tuned to the Kenny Wallace YouTube channels and
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  social media on this Thursday. Is NASCAR going to settle?
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  This is pretty rare where there's a big break in action.
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  All right, have a have a great Thursday and might might be
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  talking to y'all later. I hope so.
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  I hope this all gets settled and we head to Daytona with a lot of
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  love.