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My Thoughts on Scott Bloomquist's Horrible Wreck & Eye Opening Interview · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone, emergency press conference on this Saturday
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  now. Well, as I point to this super
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  late model, this is a dirt super late model.
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  Let's look at it real quick. This emergency press conference
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  is about the great Scott Bloomquist.
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  So as we all know, Bloomer was driving his dirt super late
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  model in one of the heat races, the qualifying heat races up
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  there at El Dora and had a violent wreck.
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  Had a lot of people called my phone.
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  Herman, what do you think of that?
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  So had about six people want my thoughts and I thought, well,
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  let's have an emergency press conference right now.
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  First of all, the wreck and the interview were equally as big.
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  I felt bad as you can tell in my face.
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  You know, the the wreck was an accident.
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  Let let's talk about the wreck first and then I want to get to
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  the great Scott Bloomquist. Really, it shook me up his
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  interview on flow. But let's get to the the rec.
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  First of all, Scott goes into one.
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  He diamonds the corner, the great Shanna Babs in front of
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  him. Babs making the circle looks
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  like Bloomer kind of goes in, gets up, gets it turn and he's
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  coming down the hill and it looks like he's going to blow
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  just right by Shannon Babb and he was Babb was kind of going
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  across the track and and it is my belief.
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  Listen, I ran outdoor a lot. I'm I'm nowhere near as good as
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  these guys, but I've got I've got a handful of wins there in
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  my modified in in, you know, the 2005 prelude of the dreams.
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  So I've run outdoor a lot. That's my disclaimer.
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  So here's what I saw. I saw two great drivers at two
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  different angles. You know, you saw Bloomquist
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  coming down the hill. His peripheral vision says I
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  have passed Shannon Bab, I passed him and now I'm going to
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  start coming up. Bab is coming down at the same
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  time and Bab's kind of coming off like, like Babs, Babs, you
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  know, out there and he's kind of OK.
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  Now I'm coming down. I see both of them doing this.
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  Bloomer in his interview was a little upset with Babs saying,
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  hey, look, man, he didn't even pop the gas.
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  He just finished me off. But listen, we're not we're not
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  going to, we're not going to pick sides here.
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  We're not going to pick sides here because these are two great
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  race car drivers. You're never going to convince
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  me that Shannon Babs said, hell, I'm just going to fucking kill
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  Bloomquist. Excuse me, excuse me for that
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  language, but kind of worked up on this deal emotionally.
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  I just don't think Shanna Babb says I'm going to go ahead and
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  kill Scott Bloomquist and Bloomer's thinking I'm clear. 2
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  great drivers had a hell of a wreck.
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  And you know, listen, wreck's a wreck.
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  But you know, it's kind of like Earnhardt.
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  It's kind of like when you see Dale's senior wreck, you're
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  like, you know, the greats. I want to be clear about this.
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  The greats, they have wrecks, but they and they come out just
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  like Bloomer did. But, but when the greats wreck,
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  it's a reminder that even the greats wreck there.
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  There's always this thought that oh, the greats never wreck, only
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  the Bobo's wreck. Well, this is a reminder that
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  that what can happen. 2 greats. We all know that Bloomer's the
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  greatest of all time. There's no argument there, and
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  we know that Shanna Babb is one of the greats.
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  He's a hero to many, including me.
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  So 2 great drivers get into it. I'm telling you, I feel like it
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  was an accident. 11 thinks he's, you know, Bloomer thinks he's
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  clear. He's not.
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  And I think at the same time, Babb's coming down the hill and
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  he didn't expect Bloomer to be passing in that fast.
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  All right, so that is my thought process on the wreck.
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  But the bigger, the reason I'm even doing this emergency press
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  conference on the Kenny Walsh show is the interview with Scott
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  Bloomquist was very emotionally draining.
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  Scott says, you know, I've overcome a lot #1 He says he's
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  overcome cancer. Excuse me, OK, I know y'all are
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  better than me, but I'm a dirt racer too, OK?
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  I didn't know he had cancer. I just thought he got roughed up
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  with the bad wrecks on the motorcycle.
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  I thought all this stemmed from five to six years ago down the
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  Daytona bike week. We all know the Mcdowell's all
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  of them were together and and Scott Bloomquist wrecked and I
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  still in my mind thought he was just overcoming this and just
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  could not get healthy. Well, this was an eye opening
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  interview and I know a lot of you are in shock right now.
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  So Bloomer says, look, I've had to overcome cancer.
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  I've had to overcome my arm being numb.
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  I've had to overcome my hip, my leg.
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  And if that isn't enough to go, he says, I'm selling.
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  I'm liquidating because I need money.
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  That crushed me. This is why I always talk to
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  Gordy Gundaker. Gordy, you're watching right
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  now. If Gordy's not watching, make
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  sure y'all tell Gordy. I tell Gordy Gundanker I'm proud
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  of Nick Hoffman. He's doing it.
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  I love these guys, but you know, I'm a teacher.
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  You just heard the greatest skirt racer of all time saying
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  that was not his car, although it looked like his car.
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  The interview was ground breaking.
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  He flat said I'm liquidating. You know, he wanted to thank
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  everybody. He was thanking everybody.
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  That's got him to where he's at right now.
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  And I can tell that he's a tough guy.
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  I get it. Bloomer's a tough guy, but I
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  think he's heartbroke. There I said it.
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  I think Scott Bloomquist is heartbroke.
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  I think Bloom. Bloomer's my age.
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  He's 60. Listen, you know, I understand.
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  Don't let the old man in. But when you've had a bout of
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  cancer and you can't feel your arm, you can't feel your leg,
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  and you're beat up like him, the turning point in this interview
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  for me was the cancer. And I'm, I'm liquidating.
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  I'm selling things basically to stay alive, stay digging in the
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  racing world. And once again, he's thanking
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  everybody that's helped him. But listen, these damn motors
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  are $60,000. If you're Scott Bloomquist,
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  you're not going to run a $50,000 motor.
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  Listen, I know what the hell I'm talking about.
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  I don't want to get in a pissing match with any of you.
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  I know what the hell I'm talking about.
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  If you're a Bloomer, you're going to have a $60,000 motor,
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  not 54,000. OK, so he's going to have the
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  best because he knows what it takes to win.
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  And then super lay miles, they'll take it out of you.
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  When Bloomer got hurt, you know, the, the money quit rolling.
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  You know, you got to keep operating a business if if you
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  pause for a minute, now this is key.
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  If you pause, if you stop your business for a minute and the
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  money quits coming in, that's it.
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  You need big financial help. So Bloomer says, basically, I
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  want to thank everybody that's helping me.
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  And, and, and he and he felt strong in his heart that he
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  could win the dream tonight is what he said.
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  All right, I've laid it all out there for you.
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  I told you why the emergency press conference?
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  Because the cancer caught me off guard.
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  Him liquidating caught me off guard.
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  I didn't know he's liquidating. I look at his dad, who's got all
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  those beautiful airplanes. You know, you, you just you just
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  hope that your heroes save money.
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  You know, my brother Rusty taught me when the great Bobby
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  Allison got wrecked, you know, in the triable there at Pocono.
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  That's the moment my brother Rusty sat me down on a set of
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  steps at our shop down there behind their Charlotte Motor
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  Speedway, said Herman. And I want all you young kids
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  who remember this hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
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  It pains me that Bloomers saying I'm liquidating, I don't own
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  this race car. I want to thank Eddie Petroff
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  and listen, Bloomer. Bloomer is not done.
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  I I, I think he's going to come out and he's going to try to
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  finish this deal off and go out the way he wants to go out.
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  I never doubt this man. He'll make you look like a fool.
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  I don't doubt him. This emergency press conference
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  is about my heartbreak for the great Scott Bloomquist.
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  Hey, listen, I've said hi to him a couple times.
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  He acknowledges me. He's a badass.
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  We all know Bloom bloomers in his own world.
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  This whole alien deal. Sometimes I think, you know, he,
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  he OK, let's say he really believes in aliens.
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  Let's say he doesn't. He's a hell of an actor.
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  He's a hell of an actor. I just take Bloomer for every
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  everything I see. He's a hell of a showman.
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  The crotch chop. You know, I tell you, the
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  longest conversation I had with Bloomer was down at the Dome.
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  I said we were. He was getting his money.
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  He won the first Dome race here in Saint Louis.
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  And it was just me and him one-on-one.
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  I want to share this with you. This is a look inside Scott
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  Bloomquist. He's very nice to me, very
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  serious. I said Bloomer, I said I really
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  like that when you do that crotch chop.
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  He looked me right in the face and he says when I do that
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  crotch chop, I better win because I know I'm taking a
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  chance. He knows he's putting on a show
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  in front of all of you. We know he's different.
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  But now I'm going to give you my opinion on the clothes like
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  this. My heart hurts for Bloomer right
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  now. I don't believe now this is my
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  opinion. I will sponsor some of these
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  race car drivers and then they'll come back once more and
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  I'm like, no, I'm done with you because a dirt super late model
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  racer is like a crack addict. I said it, I said it.
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  A dirt super late model racer is like a damn crack addict.
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  They'll they'll always come back for more.
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  There's never enough. You can win $1,000,000 in one
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  year and by the time you pay taxes and get your part, you got
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  300,000 left and you buy yourself a ranch and now you
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  need more because you spent it all.
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  We all watched and we listened to Mark Richards.
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  He, he, you know, listen, the driver don't get it all.
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  The car owner didn't get it all and there's bills to pay,
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  motors, tires, all of that. So deep breath for blooming.
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  But here's my opinion. He's going to do what he's want,
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  he's going to do. He's going to do what he wants
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  to do. However, I do not, I do not want
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  to see a great go out like this. I'm not half the man he is.
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  But I want to say this, I had a couple great NASCAR drivers said
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  to me, and even though I'm nobody, I'm nobody.
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  But when I quit NASCAR, I said that's it.
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  And I made a big deal out about it.
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  And I had a big sponsor, US Cellular, and I drove a Joe
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  Gibbs car and they gave me a standing ovation in the drivers
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  meeting. And that was it then.
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  And you know, my career ended the way I wanted it to end.
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  That's what I want to see happen to Bloomer.
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  I want to see everybody in the drivers meeting give him a
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  standing ovation. And I wanted to see him ended on
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  his terms, OK, just because I, I, I look up to the man.
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  I don't want to see bloomer going out like this.
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  So maybe, maybe he'll see this bloomer.
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  I love you. You're a hero.
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  You're so damn smart. We're not even in your
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  wavelength. You're you're like, you're like
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  an Alexander Graham Bell. You, you are an innovator.
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  You're like you're like Elon Musk.
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  I just want to see you go out with all of us driver.
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  All of us drivers give you a standing ovation.
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  So we cannot let you go out like this.
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  I had no idea, buddy, that you were liquidating.
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  You had cancer. I knew I knew your hip.
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  I knew everything else was next messed up.
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  But all right, everybody, that's it.
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  I gave you my opinion. I gave you an innuendo right
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  there. I'm just saying for all your
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  racers out there, what you heard Scott Bloomquist say is what I
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  already know. And that's why I tell.
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  That's why I tell my dear friends Gordy Gundaker and and
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  I, I tell Nick Hoffman, don't be a dirt dobber because at the end
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  of your career, you have nothing Come out unscathed.
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  All right, Bloomer, I love you, buddy.
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  I'm looking forward to that standing ovation at the World
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  100. Bloomer's coming back to the
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  World 100. He's going to win that sum
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  bitch, and maybe he's going to go out his way because I don't
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  want to see him go out that way. Lots of love, everybody.
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