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Kevin Harvick Returning To NASCAR? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  I checked. I know it's Saturday, all right.
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  Everybody had another good night last night.
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  Wallace won his heat race again. Wallace, 62 years old.
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  Wallace lined up on the front row with Ricky Thornton.
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  RTJ Wallace led the 1st 13 laps and then it ended.
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  We ran third last night. Man oh man, I thought I had that
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  baby one. We had caution after caution
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  after caution, but every time they drop that green flag, I put
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  about a second and a half on them.
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  And then Charlie Medford, a good, good little kid that has
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  grown up and become a great race car driver.
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  Charlie won 10 grand a win at Eldora about three months ago.
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  Charlie Medford is a is a lot like me.
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  He's funny. He's the one that at the Dome.
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  Charlie Medford is the kid at the Dome 3-4 years ago that said
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  you can't park there. You know, he flipped his card
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  and me and Charlie Medford, we parallel each other.
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  We're we're happy people and you can confuse happiness with crazy
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  and I and I tell everybody said, listen, tame yourself.
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  We're not crazy. We're happy.
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  There's a big difference. So anyways, it's been a good
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  start to speed weeks. The first night on our heat
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  finished fourth. Last night when our heat
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  finished third. So I want to thank Nick Hoffman,
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  his dad, Darryl, Mama Rhonda selling merchandise.
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  Check out check out Rhonda behind the grandstands.
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  OK, Now we, we don't got this big cold weather right now that
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  they're all talking about. I mean, it's going to be chilly.
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  But yesterday was nice. I mean, 70, it was warm all
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  night. So as of right now, we might get
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  lucky, you know, the cold might come in and see, we don't race
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  tomorrow. We don't race on Sunday, so it
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  it could be cold, but hell, we might not know it because we're
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  not going to be at the racetrack.
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  We start back up on Monday. OK, a lot to talk about.
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  Let's go right here, Right here. IndyCar, Kevin Harvick and if I
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  have time I'll get to Darlington, OK.
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  I love Harvick. Happy or happy Harvick?
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  Happy Harvick. I love that show.
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  Kevin has had me on there. Caitlin Vincey.
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  I know Caitlin real well. I worked with her at Fox Sports
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  1 and Mamba Mamba's there. So I feel like they all know
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  something. And they were setting Kevin
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  Harvick up. They were talking about, you
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  know, how NASCAR's doing and Tony Stewart coming back and
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  Kevin, Kevin said, hell, I think I might come back to NASCAR.
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  Then Mamba and Caitlin starred in.
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  I think they knew they was part of it.
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  They go well, what about running O'Reilly Auto Parts or the
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  Craftsman Drug Series? And then Kevin talked about it.
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  So Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart are really good friends.
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  I think my headlines here is Harvick and Stewart are coming
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  back to NASCAR. I think you're going to see
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  Kevin Harvick run either an O'Reilly Auto Parts race.
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  I could see him driving a car for Dale Junior.
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  I'm sure there'd be some other team out there.
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  But Kevin and his CEO of Harvick Management, we call him Mother
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  Function on X, but his real name is Josh Jones.
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  Josh is the king at getting sponsors.
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  Harvick Management controls a lot of superstars.
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  There's way more to Kevin Harvick than just a race car
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  guy. Harvard's loaded.
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  He's got a lot of money. He don't need to be doing
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  anything. Just like brother Rusty, these
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  guys have done good. Brother Rusty's got 11
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  dealerships now in Knoxville, TN.
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  So if you want to know what brother Rusty is, do up to 11
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  dealerships in Knoxville, TN. Harvick.
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  Harvick's got Harvick management and they manage all these
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  superstars. Hell, they could be in rodeo,
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  they could be in UFC. So Harvick is just a staying
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  relative, something to do. And I think with his friend Tony
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  Stewart coming back and running the the Ram truck at Daytona, I
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  think Harvard, I think Harvard wants a little bit of the
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  action. I really do.
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  You know, what happens is you're burnt out on NASCAR.
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  You're like, damn, I've had enough of this.
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  I'm tired of being inside this circle.
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  Years go by and you're like, I want to go back and do what I
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  love again. That's kind of like with me.
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  I have so many people that are trying to get into my head.
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  Why is he? Why is he still race at 62?
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  I don't understand. I'm like, it's real simple.
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  When you get older, you want, you want thing, you want
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  something to do. By the way, do you know how many
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  times I wanted to say SHIT but I haven't for you?
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  I've been seeing your comments. I've been seeing in the comment
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  section. Herman, good job not cussing.
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  Thank you, leader. You are my leader.
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  I do what you tell me to do. Now I just want to cuss because
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  I'm rebellious, you know, I want to do.
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  I want to do what I want to do. Anyway, I think Harvard's going
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  to come back and run a couple truck races or so.
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  The last time he raced, he raced against his son, and he kicked
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  his son's ass. Actually, he moved Keelan.
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  Keelan popped his dad in the ass, got him sideways.
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  And Kevin said, oh, I think, I think Keelan lit Kevin's ass up.
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  It's like you little Kevin. Kevin went back, knocked his son
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  out of the way. And in the interview after the
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  race, Kevin says if he direct, that's just going to be the way
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  it was. He says all fun and games are
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  over for Keelan now. He said that.
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  Watch the interview, OK? I think I like Larry Mack.
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  I think I beat that like a dead horse.
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  I think Harvick's going to come back and run a race here or
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  there because they teased it on Harvick Happy Hour or whatever
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  the hell it's called. IndyCar.
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  Switching gears, switching subjects.
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  Rodger Penske was at the White House with the president and
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  with Eric Shanks, the president of Fox Sports.
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  This was a powerhouse. They are going to run the
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  Freedom 250. They are going to race Indycars
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  in front of them. What in Washington, DC, right
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  around the White House? They're going to come down
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  Pennsylvania Ave. at 180 mile an hour in an IndyCar.
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  This is huge. This is big.
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  This is bigger than big. And here's why.
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  It's furry. It ain't going to cost you any
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  money. I think it's Sean Duffy in
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  charge of all that. If you keep politics out of it,
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  if you can do that like me, I don't put politics in anything
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  anymore because politics is toxic.
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  If you can do that, if you can keep politics out of it and you
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  can go, hey, it's 250 years, we're celebrating America and
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  we're going to race cars in front of or down Pennsylvania
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  Ave. celebrating 250 years. It's free, it's IndyCar, it's a
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  points event. It's a big deal.
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  And I believe America. I think, you know, our president
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  signed off on it. So I think it's awesome in every
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  way because I'm a race fan, OK? I love it.
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  I think it's just absolutely awesome.
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  So thank you to the president, thank you to Rodger, Penton,
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  Rodgers, the 1 Rodgers powerful. They set up those St. courses
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  anyway, so they'll just come in here and set that street course
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  up. They know what they're doing.
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  They'll get it done. All right.
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  I think that's about it. We went a little long today.
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  We raced tonight at a Volusia. Come Watch Me race and the
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  merchandise trailers right there behind the grandstands.
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  Go see Rhonda. And I know, I know it's going to
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  be cold. Everybody down here in Florida,
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  everybody comes up to see me. Kim, my wife, she said, say she
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  would say, honey, they don't know what to say to you.
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  So they just create conversation.
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  Everybody it's going to be cold. I'm like, it's OK.
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  Have a great Saturday.