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NASCAR Should Thank Cleetus McFarland & Michael Jordan | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  Thought I'd come out here to the legendary downspout.
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  Hey, where's the gutter at? Where's the gutter is, is that
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  the gutter? And is this the downspout?
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  And then there's a receptacle here and then a drainage unit.
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  It's all called the gutter, everybody A gutter.
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  Did you see that face? Gutter?
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  All right, I moseyed outside here because the grandbabies are
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  in the living room sleeping. They came over to Grammy's house
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  last night and they camped out the living room and they're
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  still sleeping at 8:00 this morning.
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  Charlotte and Mila, they're awesome and they love Poppy.
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  So we we met our daughter, Brooke Hathaway last night and
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  she's about 55 minutes up the road and we got the babies and
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  we had a wonderful night and they're still sleeping this
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  morning. They were in my production
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  studio. You know, my my living room.
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  That's my production studio. Hey, there's only one thing that
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  moves me out of my production studio and that's those sweet
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  grandbabies. We have six of them, 5 girls, 1
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  boy got the got the grass cut yesterday.
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  Look at that. Oh, look who's in the house.
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  Louis. Louis the legend.
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  Louis Poppy in the house. Look at him.
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  He's a bad ass. OK, everybody got something
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  really interesting to talk about today and actually we brought it
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  up on the Herm and Schrader show.
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  But before we do that, I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway
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  Park this Friday and Saturday, April 10th and 11th.
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  It's the World about laws. All the big boys are going to be
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  here and it's going to be a great weekend.
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  So go to worldofoutlaw.com, get your tickets, boy, when the
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  World of Outlaws roll in right here to Imperial, MO, right
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  outside of Arnold, MO, right outside of Saint Louis.
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  All right, so I was on Herman Schrader yesterday and you know,
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  Herman Schrader always comes out on Wednesdays.
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  Kenny Schrader, Alan Dietz, myself, we have a great
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  conversation and I thought I'd share it with you all because I
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  think it's worth worth discussion, worth debate.
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  I said NASCAR has not received this much attention for what?
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  I mean, I don't know how many years.
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  When was the last time NASCAR received this kind of attention?
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  You asked what kind of attention you talk about Herman.
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  Well, the most famous athlete in all the world, Michael Jordan.
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  Michael Jordan and all of his friends.
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  You see all the great legends around the world congratulating
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  Michael Jordan on NASCAR. And we've talked about this
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  before. And now Cletus McFarlane, you
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  know, when you look at what they can bring to the sport, it's
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  like NASCAR has no choice but to acknowledge the greatness
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  involved in NASCAR right now. So you you take Michael Jordan,
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  most famous athlete in the world, they've won five races,
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  four with Tyler Raddick, one with Denny Hamlin.
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  And then you look at Cletus McFarlane, who is a phenomenon.
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  It was funny. Somebody said, what's the deal
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  with Cletus McFarlane? I said Cletus.
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  Oh, my God. Aren't you freezing, honey?
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  Poppy out here doing coffee with Kenny?
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  This is Mila. She's my sweetheart.
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  Did you hear Poppy talking? You did.
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  I'll be right back in there. OK?
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  I love you so much. Hey, you want to go eat or you
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  want me to make you cereal? Do you want to go to Denny's?
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  IOP or cereal? Cereal.
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  That's Mila. You snuck right up on me.
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  OK, you. It's too cold out here for you.
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  Run in there. I love you.
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  Hey, say hi to everybody. That's Mila.
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  She's as sweet as can be. Her big sister Charlotte's in
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  there. I thought I had the door pretty
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  much closed up. So anyway, up on Herman
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  Schrader, I said, you know, you treat you treat.
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  Well, at least I'm smart enough to do this.
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  There's other drivers out there that they're not easing up on
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  Cletus. They're like, he ain't don't
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  deserve to be here. I'm like, Cletus is kind of like
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  Taylor Swift. All the musicians.
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  They said we don't mess with Taylor Swift because her fan
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  base is so big that they'll destroy our careers.
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  So I don't mess with, I don't mess with Cletus.
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  Cletus has got more people than NASCAR will ever have.
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  And you got to recognize he's not hurting anybody and he's
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  living a dream. Listen, one of the most famous
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  quotes that Cletus came up with was last week, I'm in Europe and
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  you know, I'm getting ready to go to bed. 7 hour difference and
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  Cletus says what would you have done?
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  Richard Childress called me up and he said Cletus would you
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  like to drive for us for a two year deal and NASCAR approved
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  me. What would you have done?
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  You, you can't, you can't beat that.
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  Everybody you got you got to take it.
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  Now, on the other hand, this came this came up on me and I
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  didn't really get it. Now I get it.
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  I guess Cletus ran Rockingham and Ward is on the street that
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  they want him to run another race before he gets approved to
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  race Talladega. So in a strange right way,
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  there's there's there's an approval process that we didn't
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  know about it and I learned about it on door Bumper clear
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  yesterday. Them boys do a good job over
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  there. Dirty MO.
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  They got great content. I thought I might have heard
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  more grandbabies coming out. That door's open.
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  They've got to be getting cold in there.
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  Hey, I lucked out, though. I don't got to take him
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  anywhere. All they want is cereal.
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  So I think maybe now respond right here.
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  I heard that crew chief Danny Stockton, you know, during the
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  race they said, well, maybe our pit stops need to get get
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  better. Maybe Cletus has to go and race
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  Kansas. Is that right?
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  So this is a mixed, mixed bag of nuts.
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  And there's a lot of things playing out and and I'm here for
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  it. I'm here for it.
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  I just can't listen. I can't get mad at people that
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  don't do anything wrong and just hey, Richard Shoulders, Klay,
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  just want to drive my car. NASCAR, you're approved.
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  What's he going to say? No, I don't want to do this.
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  All right, everybody, respond right here. 2 subjects today.
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  When was the last time NASCAR was this popular?
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  And more stories about Cletus. Don't mess with Cletus.
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  His fan base will rain terror down on you.
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  Have a great Tuesday everyone.