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My Thoughts On Stewart Friesen's Bad Wreck & Jade Avedisian Gets a Big Break | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody from Wisconsin Dells and I've
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  got breaking news in the garage area.
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  The weather is absolutely beautiful.
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  I guess it's around noon and I came out the sliding glass door.
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  I walked outside and I said, well, they say it's supposed to
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  break and it is beautiful, 78°. And man, oh man, it's been a,
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  it's been a heater, it's been a steamer.
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  Hopefully it gets down around Saint Louis.
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  And they say on Thursday in Saint Louis, it's supposed to be
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  good too. OK.
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  We have family up here. My wife, Kim, she's got a big
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  family and they're all from Milwaukee and they come here
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  during the weekends and we thought we'd meet.
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  Would you see that? You see that bird?
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  He's come to say hi to the herminator.
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  But Kim's family, usually every weekend or so, they leave
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  Milwaukee like you all do, and you guys bust ass over 9439
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  whatever. And man, we started getting
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  close to The Dells and it was like like 2 to go at Talladega.
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  It was wild. We're on that track and we're
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  we're being safe, you know? But you can tell when people get
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  excited when they get close to The Dells, it turns into three
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  wide 2 to go here at Talladega, except it's Wisconsin Dells.
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  OK, so we are having a good time.
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  We busted our ass yesterday. I knew it was hot yesterday when
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  I was on the trike and Oh my God it was hot.
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  But as we're on the trike and we we averaged around 7075 mph and
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  I looked at my arms and my arms were sweating in the wind.
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  That's how hot it was yesterday. Oh my God.
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  I drank bottles of water, Gatorade, and then got here, got
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  some good iced tea and woke up this morning, had the whole room
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  blacked out because I wanted to sleep.
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  Woke up this morning, looked over and it was 1037.
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  Kim also said I feel rested. I said so do I.
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  So we're going to go over to the families and we just going to
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  hang out. We're not interested in going
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  and doing. We just going to hang out.
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  OK. A lot of news, a lot of news
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  going on, man Stuart Friesen up there at up there was that
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  Drummond, Quebec. I saw the wreck.
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  I saw it, man. I'll tell you what those centers
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  steer mods, you usually do not see a wreck that violent.
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  But it appears to me that Stuart got off the back straight.
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  Who? I don't know what the deal about
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  that. It's a Canadian.
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  It's in Quebec, QC, Canada, They're on a swing, they're on a
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  tour there. Matt Shepard won his 100th race,
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  the Dirt Car Series. I've run those cars before.
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  I've drove him about three times.
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  But Stewart was on the gas and and got off that back straight
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  away and Oh my God, I think he hit the hit the end of the Turn
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  3 wall there. And that was bad enough, but
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  when he was almost done flipping, man, somebody come
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  along and clean his clock. And I just want to let everybody
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  know that I did see, I did see the update on Stuart freezing.
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  My prayers to Stuart, I guess. Broke, broken legs, broken
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  pelvis, those those center steer mods, they sit kind of like a
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  Sprint car. You know, you sit in them,
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  you're in the middle. You know, you got the gear
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  shifter between your legs, the drive shaft and everything goes
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  right between, you know, your legs.
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  And so I really am sorry for Stuart Friesen.
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  You know, he probably makes more money running those dirt cars
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  then he does running the Truck Series.
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  I mean, it's kind of the way I think just because he wins.
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  I mean, to to win money running dirt, you got to win.
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  And I've already I've already given my opinion on you cannot
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  make a living running dirt. However, if if you're one of the
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  lucky 2 like say Stuart Friesen and Matt Shepard, if you can win
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  all the time like they do and you can win the big money races,
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  that's some good side hustle money.
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  So we all know that Stuart Friesen races during the
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  weekday, runs the Super Dirt car series, then goes back and runs
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  the truck. But, you know, hell if Stewart's
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  getting 30 to 40% of the earnings and he's knocking down
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  10 grand a week at some good side hustle money.
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  So for that reason, I just think it's OK for Stewart to be
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  running, you know, the dirt car because he's making a good
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  living at it. And once again, you got to win
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  in dirt if you're going to make some money.
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  We've already been through this everybody, I said you cannot
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  make a living running dirt and you cannot, you have to have a
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  car owner to own all the equipment.
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  You have to be a driver only. And so hopefully Stewart
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  recovers. It's going to be a long road.
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  It's going to be a long road. I, I saw the report this
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  morning. He's busted up pretty good.
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  And I'm so sorry to him and his family.
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  Hope he does better. But I just wanted to, I just
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  wanted to defend Stewart for anybody going.
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  He shouldn't have been running the dirt car.
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  Well, in this case, he should be because the trucks here, he
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  doesn't pay that much. You know, it just doesn't.
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  So Stewart is a he races for a living.
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  So good job, Stewart winning all those races and I'll be praying
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  for your recovery. All right, little drink coffee
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  here. I knew this was coming about a
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  year or so ago on Kenny Conversation.
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  We had a good Kenny conversation with Jade Avedisian.
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  Jade is a really good lady race car driver and buddy.
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  She can wheel those open wheel midgets and I'm really proud of
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  Jade because she's doing the process.
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  You know, Kaylee Bryson too. There's a lot of girl lady
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  racers out there. Guys, calm down.
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  I'm not real good at remembering all their names, all the ladies.
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  I'll tell you what, I'll make a controversial statement.
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  I think there's better lady racers today than ever in
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  history of Motorsports. I really do.
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  You look at what Catherine Legee did, 17th place at the
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  Brickyard. You, I know Jay Davidizian is a,
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  you know, a Midget winner. Kaylee Bryson kicks ass.
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  You know, respond right here. I mean, well, all the ladies are
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  doing good. Was that Taylor Rhymer's good.
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  But Herman, get to your point. I got busy bragging on all the
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  ladies because I know you all are going to go.
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  Herman, what about this? They're all good guys and girls.
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  But congratulations to Jade Avedesian.
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  She's always been a Toyota driver.
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  Heroes of late but Toyota is paying for her now to go ARCA
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  racing with Venturini Motorsports and man, that's a
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  big win. Congratulations, Jade.
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  We've had you on Kenny conversation.
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  I called I saw you coming three years ago, girl, so good job.
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  Congratulations. All right we're going to be here
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  a couple days it's only Tuesday. We're going to be here all day
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  today. We're going to be here all day
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  Wednesday and we're going to Mosey on back down the hill down
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  to Saint Louis on Thursday and we will race Tri-City Speedway,
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  Granite City, IL on Friday, Highland on Saturday, Quincy on
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  Sunday and hope you all have a great day.