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How Kevin & Keelan Harvick Can Help NASCAR | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world.
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  I always remember you as a child, girl.
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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. It's a beautiful day.
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  I went outside and it feels nice and cool.
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  As old Richard Petty would say cool can't get upset over 1 bad
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  race or one bad year. Hi I'm Richard Petty, that's why
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  I take Goodies headache powders. You all remember that
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  commercial? I'll never forget it.
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  Especially when we would leave Concord, NC, and we would drive
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  up to Martinsville and always around that area, I'd always
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  hear, hi, I'm Richard Petty. That's why I take Goodies,
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  headache powders. It's a pleasure to go on the
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  Kyle Petty charity ride and see Richard on that.
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  On that ride, man, I'll tell you what, I ride side by side with
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  him. Well, not side by side, but we
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  staggered a little bit, Kim and I on our trike, Richard Petty on
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  his trike. And I look at that guy and I
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  think to myself, there are people, they eat grilled chicken
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  and broccoli their whole life and they die.
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  And then there's Richard Petty. He's just still kicking ass.
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  Yeah, he he, he's a legend and he is the man.
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  And how? But while we're talking about
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  legends, how about AJ Foyt? My God, 90 years old.
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  It always amazes me when we, we, we all do our very best.
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  And those guys just eat grilled chicken and or, or fried chicken
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  or okra or whatever the hell it is.
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  But respond right here actually, why do you think?
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  I mean, those two have had some vicious wrecks.
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  Why do you think Richard Petty and AJ Floyd have lived this
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  long after just living this badass life?
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  Man, Oh man. So today I read something on
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  social media that sparked my mind and my interest because I
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  was talking to it last night. I was talking to my friend Bob
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  Sargent. Bob's a Bob owns Track
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  Enterprise and he promotes all these race tracks.
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  Bob was the one that ran Rockingham when the Truck
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  Series, Xfinity Series and ARCA came back.
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  And of course we talked about Rockingham next year.
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  So Bob mentioned to me about Kevin Harvick and his and his
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  boy Keelan. Were they up there at Owosso?
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  I don't know where it was, but Bob said it was standing room
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  only. I mean sold out.
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  Now this is I know what I'm talking about because Bob
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  Sargent myself talking. So I just got on social media
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  and I saw it like this four race tour that that Kevin Harvick and
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  and Keelan are doing. So I got to thinking, I want all
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  of you to respond right here. There's so much to say about
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  this. So if Kevin Harvick and Keelan
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  Harvick are going to all these race tracks and putting on one
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  hell of a show and and Keelan is way advanced.
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  I mean, this kids going to be a superstar, most likely going to
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  be a NASCAR champion. Now, we're not going to hurry
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  Keelan along. Let him and his Diddy have a
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  good time. I think this is awesome.
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  I think it's heartfelt. Kevin Harvick and Keelan, you
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  know, a dad and his son. It doesn't get any better than
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  this. And they're on this tour.
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  And of course, Keelan is winning big races when Kevin's not in
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  the race. I mean, Keelan want a damn what
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  cars Tour race, ASA race, whatever it is, respond right
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  here. Tell me, OK, but when they go
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  and do these races, when Kevin and Keelan go and do these
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  races, they're sold out standing room only.
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  Also when Dale Junior goes goes to Florence SC or Anderson SC
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  and they're sold out standing room only.
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  I learned a little saying for you all.
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  I learned a little saying. I just learned it.
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  No matter what you think, the show and all the money is always
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  on Sunday. I'm going to say it one more
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  time, a little sip of coffee because got to think about it
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  for a little bit. No matter what you think, the
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  show and all the money and I'll add is always on Sunday.
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  Now that's not my quote. That was from one of the most
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  influential people in the racing industry, the auto racing
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  industry. So you can we can all listen.
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  I love dirt racing. I'm running dirt tonight, I'm
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  running dirt Saturday, I'm running dirt Sunday.
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  I'm the dirt racer. I run all the dirt.
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  You don't. I do.
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  I work on my car and all. We love dirt racing.
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  It's the greatest. Look at this big crowd.
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  There's 5000 people there. Look at this crowd, there's
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  20,000 people there. Now here's the moral to the
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  story. If Kevin Harvick and his son can
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  go to these local asphalt short tracks and Dale Junior can go to
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  Florence and Anderson and sell out, sell out standing room
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  only, you know what that means? That means NASCAR is the show.
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  Because that's what these that's what Kevin Harvick is, That's
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  what Dale Junior is. NASCAR is the show.
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  And I know that. You all know it.
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  That's the first thing when we talked about Kevin and Keelan
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  going to these tracks and selling out like that as father
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  and son, If they're selling out these short tracks, if they're
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  selling these short tracks out, that means that means that
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  NASCAR is the show and NASCAR is a big draw.
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  Now I want to add one more thing to this and then I'll let you
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  all go. I would like to see Kyle Busch
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  and Brexton Bush do this when Braxton gets a little bit older.
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  I believe Keelan is a little bit older than Brexton.
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  Respond right here. I don't, I don't really know,
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  but I, I want to tell you all something that maybe a lot of
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  you don't know. For years we did what was called
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  the Race of Champions and it was incredible.
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  Bruce Patron. We lost Bruce Patron, but all
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  four to six of us NASCAR drivers, we get an airplane and
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  we travel all over America, all over.
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  We're talking Oregon, Florida, you know, New York, about six of
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  us NASCAR driver. I remember a lot of the trips
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  myself, of course, the great Kale Yarborough, Kenny Schrader,
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  Sterling Marlin, Jimmy Spencer, brother Rusty, Dale Earnhardt
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  Senior. We had the time of our life.
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  We'd get in that airplane like rock stars and we'd land at
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  those race tracks and it was called Bruce, Bruce Patron's
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  Race of Champions. We would show up, sign
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  autographs and put on a match race.
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  And Buddy, let me tell you what it was.
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  Oh my God, just packed, packed with people.
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  I think it's time to bring that back.
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  I think it's time to bring it back because Kevin Harvick and
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  Keelan Harvick are showing us that it's if those two can just
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  show up and run a real race and pack them in like that, these
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  local short tracks. I think that's that's the deal
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  actually. I'm going to call Bob Sergeant
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  and tell him about that. Maybe he can do this.
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  We'll get Schrader, we get Harvick, we get Kyle Busch.
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  Tell them bring their kids along.
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  Hell, I'm the entertainer. I'll I'll entertain y'all.
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  What do y'all think? Should we bring back?
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  Should we bring back Bruce Patrim's race of champions?
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  Richard Bostick, I'm calling you out.
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  Saddle up, buddy. We're we're going to we're going
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  to call it Bruce patrons as a tribute to Bruce because we lost
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  Bruce and sure to miss Bruce. Do you all want to see Bruce
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  Patrons Race of Champions back? It would be Kevin and Keelan
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  Harvick, Kyle Busch, Brexon book Bush, me and Schrader.
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  May we get Tony Stewart respond right here.
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  What do y'all think? Have a great Friday everybody,
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  and I'll see you at the Dirt tracks this weekend.