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Why Does Everyone Want NASCAR Now? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  Kim and I had a great time last night downtown Saint Louis.
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  She in the office so she's sneezed twice.
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  God bless you, Kim. Hold on.
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  Let don't let everybody see you wave, everybody.
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  I start coffee with Kenny in the background here.
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  Hush, hush. Hey, Louie.
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  Say hello. Louie in the house.
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  OK, let's get coffee with Kenny started.
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  So last night downtown Saint Louis, Kim and I went to what I
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  consider the old Keel Auditorium.
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  They call it the Stifle Center. Now, we had a wonderful time,
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  man, it was the best. Tony Larussa, the Hall of Famer,
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  the great manager for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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  He brought us 2 World Series, and he also brought a World
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  Series 2, I believe, the Oakland A's.
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  So Tony Larusso, Hall of Famer, done it all.
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  Yeah, he's pretty rare. He also won World Series for the
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  American League and the National League, so he's got a lot of
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  stats. But anyway, he brought a lot of
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  fun to Saint Louis during those those dominant years when we
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  were in the playoffs every year went down there and raised some
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  great money for pets. Tony's always about taking care
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  of dogs and cats and and anyway, it was just a really good time.
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  Had some great players down there and I put some pictures
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  out on social media already, so that was a lot of fun.
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  Kim and I were just laying in bed one night and they come on
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  Channel 2 right there. We always watch Channel 2 and
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  they put it up there and I grabbed my phone real quick,
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  bought some tickets and had a good time on Wednesday night.
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  OK, subjects for the day. Subjects for the day.
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  Scotty Scheffler, the golfer crates breaking news in the
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  garage area about, oh, about a week ago.
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  Scotty Scheffler holds his press conference or, or they have a
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  press conference and he brings up a very interesting point.
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  We're going to get to that in a minute, but I want to start with
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  the the second one. The TV ratings have been coming
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  out and listen, you fans, some of you fans, you 2025% y'all,
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  y'all are getting beat up bad. Y'all are getting your ass
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  whipped. So you got all this racing in
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  the world and in America, and for as bad as you think NASCAR
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  is, all the other series are worse and everything's way
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  worse. Did you see that crowd at Iowa
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  for the IndyCar race? It was very disappointing.
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  There was like a couple 1000 people in the grandstands.
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  I even, I even saw some, you know, commentary about it, like
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  what is going on with IndyCar? IndyCar started the year with a
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  boom. You know, the Indianapolis 500
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  and Fox TV and all the ads. Where's all the TV ads now?
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  Fox TV, Where are all the TV ads?
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  Fox TV for your IndyCar Series, couple 1000 people showed up in
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  Indy. What's going on?
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  Showed up at Iowa, Nobody at Iowa.
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  Hey, did I tell you there was nobody in the grandstands at
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  Iowa for IndyCar? Why?
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  What's going on? And then I noticed that The CW
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  starting, they're not they're not getting a million views
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  anymore for the Xfinity Series, they're down to 976,000.
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  OK, so here's the stats. The Cup Series is still getting
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  2.1 million on TNT. And remember, you don't got that
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  Channel. It's only been around since the
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  early 1800s, but you don't have that Channel.
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  The Cup Series is still getting over 2 million.
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  It's been the same all year long. 2.1 million on TNT for the
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  Cup Series and still the undisputed champion of the
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  world. The Cup Series at 2.1 million.
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  Then you drop down to the Xfinity Series on The CW
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  Network, 976,000. That's good.
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  That's real good. And then the IndyCar Series
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  576,000. Now those are good numbers.
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  I'm happy with all those numbers.
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  I'm just saying what happened to IndyCar?
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  You know, they blow their wad. Why is Fox not putting all the
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  commercials all over anymore? Why have they slowed their TV
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  advertising down? I'll say it.
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  I've said it before, the demise of the NASCAR Cup Series is
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  greatly exaggerated. I was going to talk about this
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  over the last couple days, but I've been busy and did and
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  didn't bring it up. So all of you NASCAR, people
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  that hate NASCAR and you watch NASCAR, you're getting your ass
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  kicked bad. Looks like the Cup Series is
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  going on without you. And to boot, it appears NASCAR
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  sees all of you, but they're just letting you go.
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  They're just letting you run the mouth because Ben Kennedy said
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  they've already got a, a, a mock that means a fake 2031 schedule
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  that they kind of got worked up and they're thinking about going
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  back to Chicago because it was such a success.
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  See, here's the problem. Just because a couple squeaky
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  people over here, you know, get on the social media and go, I
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  don't like Chicago. In reality, the city loves
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  Chicago. The city of Chicago loves
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  NASCAR. There's money there.
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  The city gave NASCAR $5,000,000. Hey, NASCAR, here's $5,000,000.
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  Will you come race in our city? Now, mind you, remember, here's
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  a reminder. I know why you don't like NASCAR
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  because of the politics, but the race is good in Chicago.
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  So respond right here. What's it feel like to get your
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  ass kicked so bad? Maybe we'll skate.
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  Maybe we'll save Scotty Scheffler for tomorrow.
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  Scotty Scheffler All the beauty press conference about sometimes
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  winning everything is disappointing, Scotty Scheffler
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  said. I win.
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  I worked so hard my whole life and I win one of the biggest
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  golf tournaments of my life. I still go home and I still go
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  out to eat and there's no bombs, explosion and there's nothing to
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  it. I think a lot of athletes can
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  tell you they worked their whole lives to win it all, whether
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  it's Super Bowl, you know, the World Series, the Daytona 500.
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  I have race car drivers to this day that called me, that have
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  done way better than me and they call me for a little bit of
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  happiness. I hear about this all the time
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  where these great athletes, they win the world, but they get
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  disappointed because it's not the celebration that they
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  thought. They're like, OK, I'm the
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  greatest and then there's nothing to it.
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  You still go home and there's just nothing to it.
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  We'll talk about this another day, but respond right here.
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  Everybody have a great Thursday.