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The Cleetus McFarland & Dale Earnhardt Jr. Effect | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. There, There it is, Herman's new
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  sponsor, Mobil One. Baby, the best, the best oil in
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  all the world. Do you know that I've been with
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  Mobil One since 1986, the year that I started racing?
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  I am still with Sunoco, Sunoco and Mobil One, but Sunoco said
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  Herman, we're going to back it down a little bit.
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  I said that's all right. So Mobil 1 is now the color of
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  the dirt car. I can't wait to unveil it around
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  Wednesday evening. Wednesday evening we're going to
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  unveil the new paint job and I think we're going to have a
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  little blue over the top, going to be white.
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  I got a little, I got to keep my day.
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  Go orange around the bottom. It's going to be a very clean,
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  good looking race car. So yeah, Mobil One has been with
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  me since 1986, the very first year that I started racing and
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  I'm excited to have them. And who knows what's coming out?
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  Who knows what's coming out. We we probably have T-shirts and
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  we'll have it all. We even have some new coffee
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  mugs we can start. Do you all want to do that?
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  Do you want to collect coffee mugs?
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  Respond right here. It's up to all of you because
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  you and the Herminator, we are a team.
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  I'm thinking about, you know, when you're a kid and somebody
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  says we and they want to be a smart ass, they're like, we
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  what, you got a mouse in your pocket?
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  So we, as you and I do, we want to make some mobile one coffee
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  mugs. That's up to you.
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  We can keep our Sunoco coffee mugs because Sunoco still
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  sponsors the Herminator. Oh yeah, we're going to have a
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  nice Sunoco logo on the dirt car, but Mobil 1 is going to be
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  the major sponsor on the dirt car.
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  And there it is, Mobil One, baby.
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  Hey, I thought I did this at the last minute.
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  I looked over, I had a Sharpie over there and I thought, you
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  know what the fans always say? Where's that Sunoco logo?
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  And you know, I just didn't have any decals with me on this trip.
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  So I told everybody a couple weeks ago Mobil One was going to
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  be the sponsor this year. And so why not have fun with it,
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  right? It's Sunday.
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  It's the day of the Lord. This is the day.
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  This is the day that the Lord has made.
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  We will be glad. We will be glad and rejoice in
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  it. And but what else is Sunday?
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  That's right, it's race day. All right, What a monologue.
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  Mobil One, baby. And we will be racing April
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  17th, basically next week, Friday, Brownstown, IL, the
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  Brownstown Boring. That'll be the first race.
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  And then, of course, that Saturday, just 15 minutes from
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  my house at my local track, I-55, Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway, I believe the monologue's over.
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  I think so, but let's keep talking.
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  You know, I've been everywhere. It's kind of like that song
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  says. I've been everywhere, man.
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  Across the ocean there, man. Yes.
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  Start of the year, I went down to Volusia and raced and won.
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  Then left there and went to a Yellowstone National Park, left
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  there and you know, immediately went to Atlanta for Trackside
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  Live, then went to Circuit of the America for trackside live,
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  then then went to bike Week with brother Rusty, then went to
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  Europe and man, I, I've been burning the candle both ends.
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  It's time to settle down. It's time to settle down and
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  start racing. So I told everybody this year
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  that hey, we're going to race, but we're not going to race
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  nowhere near like we did last year.
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  So you know last year we won two championships.
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  We won the Missouri Illinois region and we won what they call
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  the the Bullring championship. 2 race tracks combined that was
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  Brownstown and Pevely. So this year we not running for
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  no points, that point still ahead, that'll wear an old man
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  out. But boy, we we did it last year.
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  We was a two time champion and with a lot of wins, so we'll
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  settle in right there at 6 championships and 128 dirt wins.
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  Now I just want to go to the race tracking and have a good
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  time and win. We want to win still so, but no
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  more points racing. Too much, too much. 6 is a nice
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  number. That was my dad's.
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  That was my dad's number, Russ. So, OK, here's what coffee with
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  Kenny's really about this morning, the Dale Earnhardt
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  Junior Effect. Did you see that show last
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  night? My gosh, sip of coffee,
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  everybody. How about just the the everybody
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  knows how much I love Dale Junior and Cletus McFarland is a
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  wonderful man. I told everybody how much I like
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  Cletus. Now his mother come by and
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  introduced herself to me. You looked at what happened at
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  the IROC Invitational over there at the 10 tenths racetrack, That
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  10 tenths racetrack, it's a little Rd. course right next to
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  the Charlotte Motor Speedway. It's owned by Marcus Smith and
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  Rick Hendrick. First, it was designed for car
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  club type people. You know, they're very wealthy
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  people. You go there, you have all the
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  amenities, you can celebrate the history of racing.
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  So dawn on me and I think that'll be what we'll talk about
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  Monday morning, you know, with Herman Schrader.
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  Herman Schrader airs on Wednesday.
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  Puts us at a little disadvantage because sometimes some of the
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  news comes out on Tuesday and it kind of got a guess.
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  However, let's talk about those big three.
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  Dale, the Dale Junior effect at Nashville, the Cletus McFarlane
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  Effect at the Freedom Factory 500 facility, and then of course
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  the Heritage Invitational at 10 tenths.
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  What did all all three of these have in common?
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  Right? It's all a throwback.
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  It's all feel good when you look at Dale Junior.
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  Listen, I'm just going to say this and I'm going to say it
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  nice and I mean it with love, total love.
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  I watched that race a little bit on Flow last night and Dale
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  Junior did a wonderful job. I mean he did a kick ass job,
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  but let's be honest, he was passing for like 15th and the
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  crowd was on their feet. Sold out 12,000 people.
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  Two things. If that doesn't tell you the
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  people are ready for a race at Nashville, nothing will.
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  So that that mayor, that mayor better get his head out of his
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  ass. That's not a customer, that's a
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  donkey. The word ass is not a customer,
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  that's a donkey's butt. But I mean, the Dale Junior
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  effect at Nashville sold out 12,000.
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  Now, OK, I'm not going to argue 10,012 thousand.
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  Let's put it this way. There was no more seats left.
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  How's that? How's that?
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  No more seats left. No more seats left at Nashville.
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  They they parked the car somewhere they might, they might
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  have been down the street in the city and they might have bust
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  them in. However, it's the same thing
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  with that soccer stadium, you know, so they all you can't fit
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  all the people in around her because all the houses gathered
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  at. But Dale Junior just put up a
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  big argument that the Nashville Fairgrounds is a feel good
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  throwback. Plus with Ella Langley now that
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  hey, I'm Ella fellow man. I did.
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  I found that Lady yesterday. Damn, she's got some good songs.
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  What is it Drinking Jack all by myself choosing choosing Texas.
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  That's a good song. So congratulations to my buddy
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  Bob Sargent down there at the National Speedway.
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  The cars tour, Dale Junior in the cars tour.
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  All it took to say, hey, Nashville deserves NASCAR Cup
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  Series to be back. That is the Dale Junior effect
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  sold out. Then you go down to Cletus.
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  All right, drink coffee. You go down to Bradenton, the
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  Freedom Factory 500, this is a track that was shut down.
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  Cletus bought it, brought it. When I went there, OK, You know,
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  I raced there on Friday night. I was looking at all the people
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  and I thought those are all NASCAR type fans and that when
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  the race was over, I started signing autographs.
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  Hermann we drove from Detroit. We flew from Detroit, MI to see
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  you. Hermann worked from Pittsburgh,
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  PA and I'm like, this is unbelievable.
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  So Cletus has that effect that that country redneck, you know,
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  fans with their sleeves cut off. I had the best time at Cletus's.
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  It was a feel good night. Everybody just piled in, sold
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  out, sold out. And once again, I don't care how
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  many people it is. There was no more seats left.
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  I think Cletus probably had 8000 people in there at least front
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  stretch, back stretch in the pits, sold out.
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  He when you pulled in the facility had a sign flashing
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  sold out. Stay away.
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  If you ain't got a ticket, you can't get in another one.
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  That Heritage Invitational. I don't know if it's a Country
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  Club or what. Sold out, can't come in for the
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  I Rock race. So something about the old days,
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  everybody, people just want to be entertained and have a good
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  time. All right, I'm going to get in
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  the shower and we're going to head out to the racetrack.
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  We're here. We're here at Bristol.
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  We got a good trackside live show this morning. 12O clock,
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  12O clock. Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch,
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  Christopher Bell and Jacob Cobb. He was, he's a God here.
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  Tennessee Vols legendary quarterback, they call him the
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  pastor or not because he he loves, he loves NASA.
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  So we're going to talk to all of them.
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  Have a great Sunday, everybody.