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My Thoughts On Chase Elliott Saying NASCAR Throwback Weekend At Darlington Has Lost Its Luster | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody. King Louie, look at it.
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  He's looking good. Man.
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  Oh man. It has rained 40 days and 40
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  nights here in Saint Louis and I think it's finally over.
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  If it if it is finally over. We run the Sonoco Dirt car this
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  Friday at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, IL and then of
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  course, Saturday with the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars right here
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  in Pevely, Missouri at Federated Auto Parts Raceway.
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  So come watch me race next week Friday night in Granite City, IL
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  and Saturday night with the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars.
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  There'll be two divisions, World of Outlaw Sprint Cars and R
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  Modifieds. All right, let's get right to
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  it. Controversy, controversy Down in
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  Darlington, our most famous driver, Chase Elliott.
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  Chase says that the throwback weekend, you know where
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  everybody plays part. You know you got what do you
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  got? You got Joey Logano pretending
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  he is Kale Yarborough this weekend.
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  Joey Logano's car looks good. It looks like the number 11
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  Holly Farms car. I think Josh Berry is.
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  What is it Jim Clark? The Formula One car you got fans
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  running all around with with their legendary jackets.
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  You got Larry McReynolds with his original Davy Allison, you
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  know, Haviland shirt on so you can see where you know this
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  started years ago. Now respond right here.
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  Play part in the conversation. How many years has the throwback
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  weekend at Darlington? How many years has it been going
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  on? Seems to me like maybe 10, eight
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  to 10, something like that. This was a wonderful idea.
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  This was it was definitely a gimmick, but there's nothing
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  wrong with gimmicks. I think sometimes people confuse
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  the word gimmick with advertising.
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  It's no different than going to your ballpark, you're bait.
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  Let's say it, you know it's baseball time right now, right?
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  They got bobble head night. That's a gimmick.
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  Bobble head night is a gimmick. You get a free bat.
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  That's a gimmick. But it's also, it's really
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  called advertising. It's called advertising.
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  So the throwback weekend at Darlington is really
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  advertising. It's meant for people to have
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  fun, get more people there, more people to watch, and in return
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  make the sport better and everybody make more money, more
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  money. We want more people at the
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  racetrack. So they feel like if it's kind
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  of like Halloween, right? Throwback weekend is Halloween.
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  You're dressing up, you're painting your car as somebody
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  you're not, you're not that person, but you're pretending it
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  is. And it's a lot of fun.
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  Now, I believe now you can respond right here.
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  I believe it was one of my my older PR people that started
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  this. I think it was Chip, was it Chip
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  Wiles? Chip Wiles was the president
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  down there at at Darlington for quite a while.
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  What was it, Chip, that started that respond right here.
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  Somebody at NASCAR is watching this.
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  Whose idea was it? All right, so, you know, I come
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  up with this saying the big story in the garage area is our
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  most popular driver. Has it any listen?
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  It's good content. So they're sitting there and
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  they're interviewing Chase Elliot and they go Chase, you
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  know, your car for this week and that.
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  And he goes Chase Elliott. I think he answers a question.
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  Maybe it wasn't Chase. Maybe it was a you know what I
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  saw is just Chase answering a question.
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  I'm sure you've seen the talk on social media on at the throwback
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  weekend has lost its luster. I'm curious on where you stand
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  on that. Do you feel like this weekend
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  has lost its luster overtime? I thought it lost it about four
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  or five years ago, so I was way too early to that conversation,
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  I think. But.
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  Not to be a downer, but I, you know, look, we're, we're and I,
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  I joked about this before, you know, years ago, but like, if we
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  kept going down the road, we're going to be throwing it back to
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  me in like 2018. So like, you know, at some point
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  I think we got a chill on it a little bit.
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  I think we've, I think we've rode the horse to death and we
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  tend to do that a little bit too much.
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  Chase Elliott says this. It has wore its welcome out.
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  In other words, he said pretty soon a throwback weekend will be
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  Chase Elliott's 2018 car. It's kind of funny.
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  And then then, you know, then everybody you know, listen, you
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  know, if somebody else would have mentioned that, it wouldn't
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  have been anything but our most popular driver.
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  How many how many most popular drivers in a row is Chase
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  Elliott won? His is it 10 years?
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  Is Chase Elliott the most popular driver for the last 10
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  years? Respond right here.
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  How many most popular drivers in a row has Chase Elliott won?
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  So anyway, because Chase Elliott said it's warts, welcome out.
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  It ricochets throughout the garage area.
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  Danny Hamlin brings up a good point.
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  How's the calculus change for team owners when you're trying
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  to balance partnerships with changing the colors, changing
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  the schemes, logo, stuff like that for the throwback weekend?
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  Yeah, I mean, I think it sounds good in theory, but, you know,
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  truthfully, these these guys are trying to find a, you know,
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  reason to, you know, get a return on their investment.
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  And so when you kind of change their their logo or maybe you
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  change other colors and stuff, it doesn't really line up with
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  what they want. So it's just sponsor driven
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  sport. What do you want?
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  What do you want me to say? I don't know what's out.
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  There's nothing else to it. He said, listen, I think it's
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  wonderful. I think throwback weekends
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  wonderful, but not everybody can play part.
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  You all are forgetting that like Progressive Insurance is paying
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  $600,000 per race. Say it with me.
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  Say it with me. You didn't know that whatever it
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  is, 400,500 thousand. Listen, it's not anything less
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  than 400,000 per race. So if your sponsor is paying
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  $600,000 race, we're not pretending it's Halloween, OK?
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  We're going to make, we're going to make sure Progressive gets
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  the real logo on there because they got to answer, you know,
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  you don't want to change everything up and, and, and, and
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  people going, who the hell is that?
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  It says progressive on it, but it, it looks like Mario
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  Andretti's car from 1963, you know, but, but a lot of people
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  don't know that. And then another thing we're
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  dealing with is a generation gap.
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  Some of us old people, you know, I'm 61 years old.
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  I, I can tell you whose car's who, but somebody 40 years old
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  right now might, they'd go, who the hell is that?
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  So although it's fun to a lot of older people, you know, you look
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  OK, Chase Elliot, let's take example.
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  Super young. How old's Chase?
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  He's not 30. What is he?
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  2425 S Chase might not even know who some of these drivers are.
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  But then Brad Keselowski, he might know because Brad's
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  getting of age now. Brad is getting of age.
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  Brad Keselowski. And right there, Brad
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  Keselowski, he's very smart. So Danny Hamlin says, hey,
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  listen, I think it's wonderful, but not everybody can play
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  along. OK, So we heard what Denny said.
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  Now Brad Keselowski, he says, hey, it's not all about us.
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  It's not all about the drivers. You look in the grandstands and
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  the fans are pretending it's Halloween.
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  The fans got their old gear on and they love it.
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  So respond right here, everybody.
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  I told you everything. I think you figured it all out
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  it it started out as bobblehead day.
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  It started out as bat day, right?
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  Hey, it's throwback weekend at Darlington.
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  And now, 10 years later, we're doing the same thing.
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  I don't think it's hurting anybody.
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  My opinion is it's not hurting anybody.
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  Just keep it going. However, if somebody doesn't
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  play along, you cannot get mad at them.
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  OK, I'll meet you all halfway. If Progressive Insurance and
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  let's say, you know, Miller Brewing, you know, let's say
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  they don't want to play along. Well, then you can understand
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  that. But you know, listen, when you
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  think of The Wood Brothers, they love it.
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  The Wood Brothers, they love it. They play along Once again that
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  green car that that Josh Berry is running this week.
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  That's that's that is a tribute to Formula One driver.
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  Did I say it right? Respond right here.
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  Is that Jim Clark the green car? I could be wrong.
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  But anyway, look at this. That's what it's been like.
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  Look at that 12 plus inches of rain in three days down there by
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  Paducah. But we have been we've had every
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  bit of 6/6 to 9 inches. I've been I've dried in a
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  swimming pool twice. All right, everybody, I think I
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  wore this out. As old Larry Mack Reynolds say.
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  I believe I beat this like a dead horse.
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  Respond right here. Do you like throwback weekend at
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  Darlington? Could could you go without it?
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  Do you understand it? Do you like wearing your old
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  jackets and old shirts like old Larry Mack does?
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  How about old Ward Burton this week?
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  Ward Burton, Ward Burton he still looks good.
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  He looks like he could drive him and Jeb over on the Xfinity side
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  got that that hardest call. Ward button got the hardest
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  call, but I've hey, has anybody done Ward Burton's WNBA call?
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  What a WNBA call call run real good.
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  Ward what happened? Where'd a call bust in the
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  flame. That's who we got to get on
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  Kenny Conversation. Ward Burton respond right here.
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  Do you want to see Ward Burton on Kenny Conversation?
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  All right, everybody have a great Sunday and we're going to
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  watch the Cup race. It's going to be a good one.
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  Darlington. The track is too tough to tame
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  the Lady in black. I love Darlington, have a great
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  Sunday.