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Talking With Ross Chastain! | Kenny Wallace Live · Kenny Wallace Media

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  We decided that our good buddy, Ross Chastain.
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  He. He won the Coke 600 this year,
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  right? And we're trying to figure so
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  much has to go into winning a race these days.
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  So me and Kenny just decided it was the fact that he appeared on
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  the show with us. In the.
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  Morning. That made him win the Coke 600.
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  That was the key thing. So guess who's going to be back
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  with us again today? Guess who's back, ladies and
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  gentlemen? Watermelon Man, Ross Chastain,
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  look at you. Cowboy boots.
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  Yeah, you look good. Get after their fans.
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  Want to see you man. Feels good.
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  How about this weather *? Well, I've the stars are over in
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  my merch trailer. How about?
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  That. That's the Dang rose.
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  Family's. Over there selling my merch.
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  So you're walking in and there's more merch being sold today than
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  all year. You know what?
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  We got to tell this story. I want you to know what
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  happened. So Kelly, who works for Fox
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  Sports, she does a little bit of everything.
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  She says the NFL starts today. I can't be there.
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  Can your daughters sell Lost Chest St. souvenirs?
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  And, you know, they're not like me.
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  They're real nice, you know? I heard that $5050 that'd be $50
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  two shirts they were selling. You know, 2 shirts for 25.
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  They were, they're so I, I, they giving it away their mom,
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  they're, you know, I was going to sell my father's suits for
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  $500 and my, my wife's like $1000.
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  So the girls believe in me more than I believe in myself.
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  But anyway, so I said, girls, look, Kelly's asking to go to.
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  So anyway, they're over there and they're having the time.
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  They're like, and they say Saint Louis loves you.
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  They've never sold so much stuff in their lives.
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  Congratulations. Thank you.
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  Well, it's been a body of work for a long time.
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  Look here. My cousin Aaron, look at there.
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  Already got your stuff? So.
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  So folks, yesterday I was walking through the garage area
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  and there was a big horde of fans, and they were around
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  somebody, right? And I'm wondering who's over
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  there that's got all the fans all around them.
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  And it was Ross Chastain guys. And I think Ross, I looked over
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  there and I said, man, here's a guy who gets it.
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  Here's a guy who week in and week out, you do the
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  appearances, you serve your sponsor, you work with the fans.
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  And we've had you on this program before and asked you
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  about it. You said that makes you feel
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  good. But that's a big part of this
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  thing, isn't? It, well it is and it's fucking
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  self-serving. OK, I'm selfish.
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  I want to promote my brand, my sponsors.
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  So when I had the opportunity, we basically start from Cup, the
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  start of the race and we just start backing up all the way
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  through Sunday, Saturday, if we need to go Friday and this week
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  it started on Wednesday. So for me to be able to go to a
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  Cardinals game, which that's. Right 11 * 11 time World
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  Champions close card all. Right, let's not live in the
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  past too much, OK? Me and.
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  All. 1300 other fans were there. Hey, hey, let's go there for one
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  minute, OK, brother, Rusty always says.
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  You got to remind them because they remember what they wanted.
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  So we did win 11. Yes, yes.
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  You know the fans aren't showing up.
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  It was, it was I had my run to the place, so I went all over
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  the stadium and and went to all different areas and, but yeah,
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  so I had to start Wednesday if I wanted to go to 1.
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  I said well, looks like I'm catching a flight Wednesday.
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  We are really lucky here because Chris Blair called 3 great
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  drivers. You know yourself, Kyle, Arson,
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  Chase Briscoe 2nd, 3rd and 4th. Tell me about that qualifying
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  run. Good.
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  Run really good. Really good.
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  Yeah. So in practice we roll on track.
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  We're in Group 2 like all the playoff guys are and there's a
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  couple of non playoff guys that go out there with us to even up
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  the two groups. And I don't know what happened
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  but the 16 merged late and emerged right in front of me and
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  I was like oh man, now I got no clean air.
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  Now I got now I'm stuck in the Bush.
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  And so we just sat there for about 8 laps and then he pulled
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  in. So the timing, the sheet did not
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  show good in practice, but I told my guys I'm not worried
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  about that. It had the makings of something
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  OK. And then and then it was all
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  right in the long run and then but for qualifying y'all know we
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  well documented it. It's just not been good.
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  So and what I asked for they they nailed and they gave me a
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  lot more rear grip on throttle and my ex in the turn 2 was
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  either qualify 4th or build a wall or build another car
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  because I was committed and it stuck.
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  So that was really rewarding. But yes, we, you know, we did
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  qualify well last week as well at Darlington.
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  And then we're going through turns one and two.
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  I'm I'm not even like all the way down in the seat yet.
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  Like the the the G forces haven't even pushed me in and
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  the 21 cars spun out from 3rd place so it can happen.
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  There's nowhere safe. Yeah, so.
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  Ross every racetrack has the special things.
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  I mean, we go to Darlington, Daytona, Indy.
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  There's special things about every racetrack.
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  But when you look at this crowd here, this area, you came here
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  Wednesday, shoot, this is a special place.
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  Isn't this track in this area? It is for me.
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  Bush Lights here Anheuser Busch so to being able to to represent
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  that brand and the iconic colors and and what Bush lights meant
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  for the sport is it's been incredible and then bringing the
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  Cup series back here to Saint Louis.
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  It changed the game for me whenever I signed with Bush
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  light and now get to drive their colors.
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  So having drank out of the finishing tanks when the beers
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  just. Look, that sounds.
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  Great, I've never had a bad Bush light.
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  Right, but that's really. Good, I'm.
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  Not being paid. We go down there during the
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  holidays. Who goes down to anaize the Bush
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  for Christmas, right? And you're it's like 10° and
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  you're like, yeah, take a beer. Then you got to pee in 10
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  seconds that. Might just be your age.
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  It is. It.
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  Is it? No, it is.
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  OK. Listen, you know us competitors.
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  We learned from the past. OK Hail Melon.
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  Turns 3 and 4 at Martinsville. One of the most historic moments
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  in NASCAR history to me. To me.
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  You created a new one. Coach 600.
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  William Byron has LED this race forever.
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  And you go into one and you do what Dale Junior finally wanted.
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  All those dirt racers like, Say it, Junior.
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  You go into one and they yell, Sly Job.
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  Tell me about that. Tell me about that other moment.
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  You know William Byron leads this whole race.
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  Tell me in your brain, when did you commit to go?
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  I'm going to clear him. I'm going to go up.
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  Yes. So we had caught him probably 10
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  laps before and he made a couple of key blocks and I was, my car
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  was turning really good and then he made those like one block in
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  turn 1 and one block in turn 3. And he just he timed it right
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  and I guessed wrong and then I got tight.
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  So I slid my right front tire, both my fronts all the way
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  through those corners. And then for 10 laps I was just
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  parked behind him tight. So yeah, he had a bobble off
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  Turn 4 and I didn't think I would get there because the 11
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  was to my left side. And then I had realized.
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  Favorite driver? She.
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  Doesn't. Care who boos she's had.
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  You're like Danny, she's like, she loves you all.
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  So as I turn for turn one, it's, it's not a dirt slide job where
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  you're like pitching the car. It's all, it's a right front
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  slide job, like you're just turning the wheel.
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  And as I got in the clean air, it, it turned a little bit
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  better and I gave up the exit. But I, yeah, I took the entry,
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  but it was all tight like it never fobbled once.
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  I was just hoping I didn't hit the wall with the right front.
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  Do you ever think, my God, I've got some great moments here?
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  I mean, the, the tell me, let's go back to Martin's just for one
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  minute. What lives on from Martinsville?
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  I mean, when you, when you go to Snooks Art, one of our grocery
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  stores, the people in line, dude, is it, it's still
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  everything. It's Congrats on the 600 or
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  maybe a a nod to the world 600 that I called it.
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  And then it's but it's always Martinsville.
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  Yeah. That's like, that's just like a
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  bridge to get there. And they ask.
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  You to help me pick out a watermelon.
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  So help me pick I. Mean, I get congratulated, I get
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  congratulated on winning Martinsville with the Hail
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  melon. I didn't win.
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  I finished fifth, yeah, end up being 4th, but we gained spots
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  after the race too, with the six getting thrown out.
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  But yeah, people think people think I won that race when seat
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  belt it.