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Have I Become a NASCAR Apologist? · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Easter Sunday. Everybody seems like the perfect
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  time to do coffee with Kenny about a subject that has blown
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  my mind. First of all, before we get
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  going, There it is, ladies and gentlemen, just like a legendary
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  monument. There it is.
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  Let's get it. Good.
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  We'll work on that baby one day until it.
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  Until then, it just keeps me, you know, get like a well, we
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  need like a A45I. I don't want to stop up here,
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  turn it, then go down. But she that gutter stands
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  strong. There's a legend.
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  Louie, you say hi to everybody. Say hello.
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  All right. So it has come to my attention
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  that there's a group of people nowadays that are upset with me
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  that I don't talk a bunch of crap.
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  You know, it just seems like this is the day to talk about it
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  because it's Easter and you know, you're supposed to be a
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  little bit nicer. Now let me explain myself.
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  So I commented on a Dale Junior Dirty MO media post, he says,
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  Dale Junior says, am I becoming a grumpy old man?
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  He says. NASCAR puts out a tweet about
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  Christopher Bell making us 150th start, he says.
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  I wonder how many other drivers got a tweet that it's their
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  150th start, to which one of his comrades said, well, they're
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  making up for him. Since NASCAR and Netflix didn't
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  give Christopher Bell enough love, I thought it was funny and
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  I said, boy, I love this where we, we complain, become a grumpy
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  old man. I said this is fun.
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  I think I might join in what that created a firestorm
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  everybody, said Herman. Ever since you already going to
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  Trackside Live. You you don't.
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  You're not as fun. You're too nice.
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  So here's the bottom line. Since Kenny Wallace has started
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  Trackside Live. I'm too nice to NASCAR.
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  Just seems you like you're not. You're not like we remember you
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  are. You're not complaining about
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  everything. How about talking about this
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  bad, this horrible next Gen. car?
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  Well, so I went racing last night.
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  So this all happened sometime around 4:00 or 5:00 yesterday.
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  But then I went racing and I was racing, you know, I finished
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  third last night hard battle. So we stopped the quick trip
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  last night and I strolled my phone.
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  I said, well, ain't this something jug get look here I
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  said I got a group group of people mad at me.
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  Wallace don't talk crap anymore. What happened?
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  We liked it when Wallace talk crap.
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  You pick the weeds. I'm not going to.
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  So when people roll up to my house and they tell me about my
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  house I say, look don't make me get in my car.
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  Go check your house out. I tell you about your house too
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  so you pick the you come and you pick the weeds.
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  I'm not going to do it. So actually that's why we this
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  is kind of that phoenix. Look, I said a no more
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  shrubbery. I was in North Carolina, had all
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  that shrubbery grow up all over the house.
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  I said I ain't doing that. See, this looks good right
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  there. OK, so anyway about talking
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  crap, I ain't. I do talk crap if I if I need
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  to. Listen, I was all over NASCAR.
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  I did not agree with them when they was inspecting those cars.
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  You know, Guy win the race on Sunday and then they bring the
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  car back and they still be inspecting the car on like a
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  like a Tuesday or Wednesday. And then he goes.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the race in Phoenix on a
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  Wednesday is is official. I'm like, that is the most
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  stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life.
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  Guys, when the race is over at the racetrack, that's the
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  winner. I'm sorry if you got beat or
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  not. That means you just got beat.
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  Surely you can take somebody's car back to North Carolina, put
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  it on a laser plate, inspect the hell out of it and find
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  something. The bottom line is, is if you
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  inspect the car that night when you leave the racetrack, you
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  know he's the winner. So I raised, I raised a lot of
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  fuss about that now and you know, even when I talked to Ben
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  Kennedy, I told Ben I said Ben, I'm not mean just to be mean to
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  NASCAR. This, this is the guy that owns
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  NASCAR. I did a Kenny conversation with
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  Ben Kennedy. So anyway, the bottom line is
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  this, there's got to be something wrong guys, but right
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  now it's just my opinion whether I do Trackside Live or not.
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  And first of all let's let's make it, let's make it right.
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  Let me, let me get this right. Look at look at Louis just
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  standing all tall and proud. When I do trackside live, that
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  is with Marcus Smith about, said Bruton Smith.
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  We lost Bruton. Marcus owns SMI, so SMI Speedway
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  Motorsports and Crew Incorporated.
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  They own Bristol, Charlotte, Texas.
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  They run coda. They they run.
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  Let me see up there in Pocono that they own a group of tracks.
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  They're not NASCAR. So my point is this, just
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  because I do Trackside Live has no bearing because they're not
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  NASCAR. When I do Trackside Live, that
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  is not NASCAR. Don't have anything to do with
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  NASCAR that that is Marcus Smith.
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  If anything he's against NASCAR, which he's not.
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  So I guess the reason that I'm, I haven't done a lot of
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  complaining about NASCAR's, I just, I see this year really
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  good. I see the TV ratings up.
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  I see the spectators up. I see great racing.
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  Now if I see something wrong, I'm going to point it out.
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  But until then there's just, there's just nothing wrong in my
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  opinion. So I might throw you a softball.
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  Maybe I try to pick something apart for some of you, make you
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  happy. That ain't going to happen.
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  So I'm still, I'm still, I'm going to leave it like this.
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  I'm still kidding. Nothing's changed.
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  I just think NASCAR's doing really good right now, and my
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  God, 15 years or more of just constant complaining.
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  Jesus, I've had enough, all right.
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  Ran third last night in the Jack's dirt car, getting a
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  little chilly out now. I'm on my grass here.
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  Brag on that for a while.