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Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin & 23XI Racing Just Declared War on NASCAR · Kenny Wallace Media

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  11/30, 11:30 on this Saturday morning.
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  Happy Saturday everybody. So 2311, which is Tyler Reddick
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  and Bubba Wallace, That team, that NASCAR Cup team is owned by
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  Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin. And they said screw it, we are
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  not going to, we're not going to sign this charter agreement for
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  next year. So right now what that means is
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  they're not involved with NASCAR next year, that they're not
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  signed up to race with NASCAR next year.
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  Because remember, it's a charter agreement.
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  It's kind of like baseball, football.
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  If you're not part of the charter, you're not part of the
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  sport. So everybody's saying, what's
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  this mean? Are they not racing next year?
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  Well, I don't know what the hell it means, but I can tell you
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  they're not going to do nothing stupid.
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  I think they're ready to go to war.
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  I really do. I, I, I believe Michael Jordan,
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  one of the wealthiest people in the world, it makes 40 something
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  million a year sitting on his ass on tennis shoes.
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  If you watched Air Jordan on TV, not TV, but at the movies, if
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  you watched Air Jordan, OK, when, when it was all over, when
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  the movie was over and the credits rolled, it said Michael
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  Jordan today he could sit on his yacht.
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  He can sit on his yacht. And when the credits rolled at
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  the end of the movie, it says he makes about 44 million a year
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  because he gets paid for any shoe that's got his swoosh.
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  You know the swoosh, you know where he's in the air, He gets
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  paid for that. So what's this mean?
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  That means he's got money to pay attorneys and lawyers.
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  That means they're going for the juggler.
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  It means all the other teams, all the other teams.
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  Hendrick, you know, Richard Childress, Jack Rash, they said
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  screw it, we're exhausted. OK, whatever.
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  So it, it sounds to me like Michael Jordan has some
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  attorneys giving him some advice.
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  They've read everything. Now, why is this a big deal?
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  Because last night, Friday night was the deadline.
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  There was a deadline. It's like you better sign this
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  or you're out. Well, I doubt that.
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  I doubt they're going to shut down their two Cup teams.
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  I doubt they're going to shut down.
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  Remember, the regular season champion last week was Tyler
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  Reddick, right? Tyler Reddick #45 regular season
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  champion. I'm the champion.
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  And then they don't sign the charter agreement that the
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  deadline was last night. Friday night, they didn't sign
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  it. OK, Bubba's over there.
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  Bubble, Bubble Wallace is the other card.
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  Here's my take. My take is this their attorneys,
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  Michael Jordan's attorneys and Denny Hamlin's involved in this.
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  Denny Hamlin is involved in this.
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  He owns that team. OK, Denny Hamlin, let's go
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  through it again. Denny Hamlin drives for Joe
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  Gibbs over here, OK. And the reason Joe Gibbs let's
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  Denny Hamlin drive for him is because Denny Hamlin owns 2311
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  with Michael Jordan. But 2311, they pay Joe Gibbs
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  millions of dollars, millions every year for for everything.
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  That's why Joe Gibbs is allowing Denny Hamlin to own a team and
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  drive for him. And it's in its best interest,
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  right? Denny's still young.
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  He wants to win. But once again, 2311, which is,
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  you know, Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin, they're paying Joe Gibbs
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  millions of dollars. It was on Kenny conversation
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  that Danny Hamlin said, Oh my God, we'd have to have 2-3
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  hundred more employees if we didn't have Joe Gibbs.
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  And actually the if you go down Interstate 77 in Charlotte, NC,
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  the buildings right there and it's a big building, but maybe
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  it might need to be a little bigger if they don't have that
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  affiliation with Joe Gibbs. So here, here's Danny over here,
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  Denny's over here in the FedEx car driver for Joe Gibbs.
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  But he's also over here and he's he's part of a 22 team, right?
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  So you got, you got Michael Jordan, you got Denny Hamlin.
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  I'm sure there's a silent partner in there somehow.
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  What I'm saying is I bet there's more owners than Denny Hamlin
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  and Michael Jordan. There's always silent partners
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  in these Cup teams because they're too expensive.
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  So I'm sure they they have read the fine literature and I'm sure
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  they got a foot to stand on. Now, what's interesting is, you
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  know, are the old days gone? Listen to me close.
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  Are the old days gone? I don't, You know, if you piss
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  the NASCAR for the old days, it's like, let's make it a
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  little harder for them to go through tech inspection, teach
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  them a lesson. I don't think they can do that
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  nowadays because tech inspection is by laser beams.
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  There's no humans involved. NASCAR.
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  Mike Kelton told me years ago, he chewed my ass.
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  Out he goes, Kenny, it is true. Years ago we used to judge by
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  the hip. And if he was a little pissed at
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  somebody, you'd go penalize them now because of, you know,
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  attorneys and rules and all all the money in the sport, NASCAR
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  said We got to get ourselves out of this.
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  So now everything is laser beams, everything is digital.
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  You can give people proof, for example, for example, Juan Pablo
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  Montoya leading the Brickyard 400.
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  NASCAR, I swear to you, I was not speeding on pit Rd.
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  No way. NASCAR says OK, here you go.
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  It's they can tell you they'll print it out for you where you
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  were speeding. So is that is NASCAR pissed?
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  They going to get them back? How they going to do it?
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  How they going to do it? Respond right here.
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  Is NASCAR going to be pissed at 2311?
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  Are they going to be mad at Michael Jordan?
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  Are they going to be mad at Demi Hamlin?
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  Well, they can be mad at them, but how are they going?
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  What are they going to do? The old days are gone, just like
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  you all say the old days are gone.
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  So everything, you know, everything is digitalized.
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  I mean, you know, I mean, I guess you could somehow go
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  whatever, you know, if it is a judgment call, like a restart,
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  Let's say Demi Hamlin's on a restart and he's got somebody
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  and let's say somebody's leading Denny Hamlin second, maybe Denny
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  fires a little early that that could be a judgement call.
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  They that that's a judgement call.
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  Denny Hamlin over here on, you know, actions detrimental on
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  dirty MO media. Is NASCAR going to be tuned in a
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  little bit harder? But I've noticed Denny's been a
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  little more tight lipped lately. Actions detrimental.
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  So that's what it means, everybody.
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  I told you everything in ending. I'm going to I'm going to say it
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  for the third or fourth time. I'm sure Michael Jordan's
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  attorneys have read all the fine literature.
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  I'm sure they're not out of the sport.
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  They're not out of the sport. So all right, that's what it
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  means. Everybody.
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  I think I told you everything. All right, we're going to, we're
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  going to Mosey on down. I did all my tires yesterday and
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  the great thing about this race tracks 10 minutes from my house.
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  The great thing about this is I can, I can work till 5:00
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  tonight and go on down to the racetrack.
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  I love running I-55 Peebly Speedway, Federated Auto.
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  I love it. So I'll Mosey on up and I get my
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  car ready. My plane boards at 5:20 AM in
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  the morning. I'm jacked up.
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  Hey, listen to this. I'm going to fly down Delta
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  because everything's Delta in Atlanta.
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  It says your plane's not going to land at 836, it's going to
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  land at 828. When have you ever seen an
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  airliner announce your plane's going to land early?
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  We will see. We will see.
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  I know it was just me, Louis. It was just me.
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  All right, everybody, see you tonight at Peebly Federated and
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  I see you tomorrow, 11:00. Myself and Noah Graxson playing
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  cornhole. Then 1145 tracks how live
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  starts. And our first one is going to be
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  a good one. It's going to be my dear friend
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  Bobby Labonte.