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One Of The Toughest Weeks In NASCAR History | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's Monday, everybody. I'm not going to say happy yet.
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  Couple more days. We are all still hurting after
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  the death of Kyle Busch. Talked to my wife on the way
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  down here to Myrtle Beach and I said, you know what, it's just
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  not happy yet. So we will get to that soon,
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  maybe tomorrow, but it is Monday, Memorial Day.
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  Everybody down here in Myrtle Beach, look at this TV, would
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  you? They call them for rain here and
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  there, just like the Coke 600 last night.
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  I am down here in Myrtle Beach with some very good friends,
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  some of the best friends of our life, Glenn and Brenda Hay.
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  She says, Herman, what do you want for breakfast?
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  There they are. And she says, what do you want
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  for breakfast? I said, now you're spoiling me.
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  Stop it, Brenda, I said. I'll take a piece of toast with
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  a little butter and maybe some blueberries and strawberries.
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  There's Glenn, you know, you know what we're going to do
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  tomorrow? Tomorrow coffee with Kenny is
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  going to be with my beautiful wife Kim and Brenda and we'll
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  see if we can get Glenn to do a drive by.
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  He's a little shy. And we'll talk about the great
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  fan club days. We'll talk about, I had a talk
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  with Kyle Betty about fan club and he had something interesting
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  to say about the fan club days with his dad, Richard Petty.
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  OK, we're going to be down here and we're going to take off
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  Thursday and head back home. I'm laughing because I'm never
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  home. One of these days I'm going to
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  stay home, everybody, but I feel like I'm at home down here
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  because it's a wonderful place to be.
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  All right, let's, let's talk about the weekend that was the
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  Coke 600. Boy, I tell you what, it played
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  out just like the week that it was one of the toughest weeks in
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  motor racing history, losing officially, losing Kyle Busch to
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  sepsis. And of course we had a long talk
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  about that. You know, at first I heard he
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  had double pneumonia and then severe pneumonia.
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  I, I guess it could be the same respond right here.
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  I don't know, is double pneumonia, is that a thing?
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  I know severe pneumonia I've never heard of, I don't know,
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  during the sepsis. And we lost a great cow Bush.
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  You know, for days I wondered what would Samantha and Braxton
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  and that baby Lennox be like? And where's Curt at?
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  Where's the mom and dad? And to everybody's shock and
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  amazement, there they were. Poor Samantha and and Braxton,
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  the man that he was at such a young age, Braxton becoming a
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  man. There they were before
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  everybody's eyes at the Coke 600 right there on the front
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  straightaway there was 2 vehicles that pulled up on Pit
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  Rd. They look like Chevrolet
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  Suburbans or Denali's or something like that.
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  Two of them. And the families got out of both
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  vehicles. And I mean you talk about time
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  standing still and people just. I mean, I was, I yelled at my
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  wife, Kim. Oh my gosh, look at that.
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  That's Kyle Bush's wife and family.
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  And boy, I said a couple days ago that we haven't had a real
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  president in NASCAR in a long time.
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  Out of everything I'm going to say today is probably the most
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  controversial, but I mean, well, you know, our our NASCAR
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  presence haven't been right there.
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  And there he was. We finally have a NASCAR
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  president. Everybody, Steve O'Donnell, what
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  a strong man he was right there told that family that everybody
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  in the grandstands, everybody in the garage area, we love you and
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  we got your back. What a wonderful gesture by the
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  president of NASCAR, Steve O'Donnell.
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  He could let it go. He could let it go and said,
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  listen, you know, that's that's a family situation.
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  But he stood up like the man he was, President Steve O'Donnell
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  of NASCAR told Braxton. We got you.
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  Oh, man, I'll tell you what, I it was a it was incredible.
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  Now I end like this on Samantha. I don't know, but I read and I
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  think it was a pretty good source that after that she went
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  to the, you know #8 which is now 33 pit box.
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  And maybe she stayed there just for the start.
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  Man, I'm more, I'm more out just talking about that because it's
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  so heartfelt. All right, switching subjects.
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  I have to admit, and I, and I feel bad.
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  I Brett, Brenda's over there and Glenn's over there.
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  And I told him, I said, I'm ashamed to admit this is the
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  first Coke 600 that I've watched in entirety.
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  I watch that thing on this big, beautiful TV right here, right
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  there. I watch them drop the green
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  flag. And when they drop that green
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  flag, it was it was good, But I said something's missing.
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  Where's Darrell? Walter.
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  Pat, we need boogity. Boogity.
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  Let's go racing, boys. Still, it was a great broadcast,
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  really good broadcast. I really enjoyed it.
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  I don't know what it was, it just I really liked it.
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  Respond right here, everybody. Did you like that broadcast?
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  Sometimes, you know, it's not that Fox did a bad job.
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  Fox does a wonderful job. Actually, I believe Fox has
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  saved NASCAR because they've been with, you know, NASCAR a
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  long time and and Fox was over there broadcasting the Indy 500
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  and they did a wonderful job. Those announcers brought home a
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  great, one of the greatest finishes in IndyCar history.
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  So Fox did a good job for the Indy 500.
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  But sometimes just a nice little change in middle of the year is
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  really nice. So I really liked, you know,
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  Carl Edwards being there. Looks like he's forgive himself.
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  That's a subject for another day.
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  But it it seems like Carl Edwards has forgiven himself and
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  it's good to see him back. Of course, Corey Lajoie Corey
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  has shown up and shown out lately.
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  Corey Lajoie, Carl Edwards. They announced the CMT Awards,
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  Country Music TV Awards, so those two are a duo here lately,
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  but great broadcast. You had Dale Junior up in there,
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  Steve Letarte, I believe that was AA Adam Alexander.
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  Danielle Trotter, I'm sorry, I'm apologizing early, but I think
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  she's the let. I think she's the best lady
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  broadcaster I've worked with. Danielle Trotter.
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  She just when you're there with her, she's in control when
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  they're saying, OK, we're going live 543.
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  She's got it together. She's sure of herself.
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  She's good. I've worked with Danielle.
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  You know it. It seems like nothing was going
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  to be normal this week And and I'll just consolidate it all as
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  we come to the end of coffee with Kenny.
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  Nothing was going to be normal. And when you when you looked at
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  that weather radar, like on a Monday, it's like we're going to
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  get washed out. There's no way we're going to
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  get anything in here. We are on Monday and everybody's
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  peaceful. They're going to spend time with
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  their families or their loved ones.
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  And I'm going to tell you what, I'm going to give NASCAR 110%
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  because they got every race in. Could they have done this right?
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  Could they have done that right? Well, that's easy to say, but in
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  the end, NASCAR got all three races in.
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  They lined up, they raced for an hour here or there.
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  I mean, the Coke 600 was within what, 30 laps?
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  They ran 550 something miles. Everybody got the same chance.
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  The truck race, when they dropped the green flag, it was
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  10/15. At 10:15, they dropped the green
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  flag. They had an hour and 45 minutes
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  to determine a winner, and that's a long time.
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  Just sit on your couch for an hour and 45 minutes.
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  But they wrecked. They wrecked and they wrecked,
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  and Lane, Lane Riggs won the race.
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  That's it. That's the winner.
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  The O'Reilly race, same thing. They made one mistake in the
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  O'Reilly race. One mistake, the truck, and I
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  don't know what the call was, but I'm not going to beat NASCAR
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  up. That guy blew that motor going
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  into turn 1 and dropped all that oil everywhere they come, all
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  the way around. They ran right through that oil.
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  About 5 car wrecked. I'd say that's the mistake of
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  the week. That's it.
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  That's all I got. And in the end we had we had
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  another winner and then we roll on and this how I'm going to
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  leave you everybody 30 cars come down Pit Rd. and they all had a
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  decision to make. And some said I'm going to take
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  4 tires and some said I'm going to take 2 tires.
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  Daniel Suarez team took 2. They went, I guess it was
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  exactly 2 restarts and they couldn't pass him.
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  And that, my friend is called strategy.
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  And that's your winner, Daniel Suarez.
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  And what a week it was and one to remember for the rest of our
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  lives. All right, everybody, There she
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  is there Brenda, right there. She's saying, are you done yet?
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  I got your breakfast ready. She said I ain't saying a word.
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  Love you, Brenda. I love you too.
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  All right, tomorrow's the big day, everybody.
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  You know, Kim's going to get up early, get her, get her hair in
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  a ponytail. So tomorrow, hang out for
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  tomorrow. It's going to be the fan club
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  special. A little bit about our fan club.
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  And do fan clubs still exist? And do you remember the fan club
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  days? that Lady right there, Brenda.
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  Hey, she was, she ran our fan club.
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  And boy, she did a wonderful job.
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  Best days. You were the best.
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  They were the best days. They were the best, all of you.
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  OK, everybody have the best Memorial Day that you can have.
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  And maybe tomorrow it'll be happy Tuesday.
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  We'll see.