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Dale Earnhardt Jr, Chase Elliott & Brad Keselowski All Want NASCAR Championship Change | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody still hot out here in
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  Arnold, MO tonight On this Saturday night we are racing at
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  Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park.
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  Oh, that's a mouthful Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park.
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  That's a lot in Pevely, MO. They have moved everything back.
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  Practice starts at 7:30 tonight. Now that's, that's weird, but I
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  like it. I'll probably leave the house
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  here at six, get down the racetrack around 6:15. 6/20 be
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  unloaded. So I'll see you tonight at the
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  racetrack. OK man, old man, the gift that
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  just keeps giving as they say, I'm going to beat this like a
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  dead horse, but boy, it just keeps on.
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  It just keeps on growing and growing.
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  So as everybody knows, about 3 weeks ago Mark Martin came alive
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  and he said, damn it, I don't like this point system.
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  So we did that show and we've done a lot of shows about this.
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  Like I said, we just when you think we're wearing this subject
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  out, it gets bigger. OK?
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  So remember Mark Martin and myself, we put it on the show
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  and then the media got ahold of it.
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  Mark Martin does not like the point system.
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  He wants to go back to the old days.
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  OK, so then Larry Mac Reynolds and Danielle Trotta, they talked
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  about it on SiriusXM. Well, hell, it blew up bigger.
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  It got bigger. Now for the third part, they
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  Jeff Gluck is that he's at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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  So they got a press conference and they got they got Chase
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  Elliott there and they asked Chase Elliott about it.
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  Now I want to tell you the drivers that are involved in in
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  their thoughts on this, our most famous drivers.
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  Chase Elliott gave his thoughts, Dale Junior gave his thoughts on
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  the social media site X, then Brad Keselowski gave his
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  thoughts and then the great Rd. racer that's retired now, Tommy
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  Kendall gave his thoughts. OK, so let's start with Chase
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  Elliott because Jeff Clucks got it out there.
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  Chase Elliott said, look, right now we race, we start at Daytona
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  and we go to what we call the regular season championship.
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  So we started Daytona and we go to the regular season
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  championship and a lot of people, they know what's going
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  on. They, you know, but they don't
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  really pay a lot of attention to it.
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  Chase Elliott's thought was, hey, look, let's take a sample
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  size and that is a sample size. The regular season champion is
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  just who leads the points from Daytona to who is the regular
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  season champion and Chase Ellis said, Man, it's come down to
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  about the very last race all the time, he says, So I think it'll
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  work. And Chase said, So what if
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  someone runs away with it? That means greatness.
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  Now, I will say I've always thought that when the Pittsburgh
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  Steelers or the New England Patriots when they won three
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  Super Bowls in a row, I thought that was awesome.
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  Hell, now you got to remember there's a lot of there's a lot
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  of dynamics going on here. Why are we're where we at?
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  Why are we where we're at NASCAR?
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  Well, when Jimmie Johnson won four championships in a row, you
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  all went back crazy. And then when we had the regular
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  point season championship and I don't know if it was who it was,
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  respond right here. Was was it Matt the brat
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  Kenseth? That's what they call him at
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  Slinger. You know, Matt the brat Kenseth.
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  So somebody ran away with the championship one year and then
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  Jimmie Johnson won four in a row and that was the Chase for the
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  championship. Now this is called the playoffs.
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  But like Mark Martin said, it's a catchy name, but we ain't
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  playing. I love.
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  That's my favorite part of the Mark Martin Kenny conversation.
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  Herman, they got all these catchy names, playoffs, except
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  we ain't playing. I love it.
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  He was pissed. Mark was pissed.
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  Me and Mark talking every day still.
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  So here's the drama. Chase Elliott comes out and
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  says, OK, we have that sample size.
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  I think we should just go back to normal points like the good
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  old days. OK, fair enough.
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  That's his that's his opinion. But hold on, hold the door.
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  It gets it gets juicier like a soap opera.
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  Dale Earnhardt junior comes out and and if if Charlie edits this
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  right, Charlie, I know you don't want to really work at it, but
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  install what Dale Junior said put Dale Junior's up right here.
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  He said two things on one. He said we will most likely
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  never ever. I got to make sure I pull the
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  cup up to aggravate some of you. So it's funny, man, you can tell
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  when people have never watched Coffee with Kenny.
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  They get so mad about me holding this up so I can very easily
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  keep it down. But that don't look good.
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  You put it up, you piss some people off.
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  I'm a rebel. But anyway, Dale Junior comes
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  out and he goes, look most likely he said we will never go
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  back to a normal championship. And then on another one, he
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  said, here's what I'd like to see.
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  So do you remember like the Chase for the Championship,
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  where we got with 10 races to go and and you ran that?
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  That was called the Chase for the Championship, the original.
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  So you had the regular points championship and then we went to
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  the Chase for the Championship. Remember that one?
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  OK, at the end, I don't know, there was like 4 left or
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  something like that. That was the Chase for the
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  Championship. Now what Dale Earnhardt junior
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  said, He said, I'd like to see, you know, 10 races, 10 drivers.
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  And then he said 6 trailer, 6 races, 6 drivers, 5 races, 5
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  drivers, 4 races, 4 drivers. Now that I can get behind and
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  I'll tell you why, because I've always thought one race is not
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  good to determine a championship.
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  And here's why it it hasn't happened yet, but it will one
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  day. People say to me right now,
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  Herman, who's going to win the championship?
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  I said hold on. I said you don't know.
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  It almost happened. You saw where what was it 3-4
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  years ago when Kyle Larson won his championship?
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  He came in the pits and he got beat out of Pit Rd. and then he
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  was going to run second. Remember that race at Phoenix?
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  Then the caution came out and he won the race off Pit Rd.
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  I think. And then he won.
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  The problem with what we're doing right now, it's it's not
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  that it's not exciting, it's just that a guy could be
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  dominating the race at Phoenix, he could be dominating the race
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  in Phoenix and then have a bad pit stop car drop off the Jack,
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  something little like that. So I like what Dale Junior said.
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  I will go with that. I will meet you all halfway.
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  But when Dale Junior says we're not going back to the regular
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  season championship, I mean, he Dale Junior is a good friend of
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  mine and I call it the way I see it, Dale Junior pretty much runs
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  the sport now. Chase Ellie, there's our most
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  popular current driver and and everybody, hey, listen, Chase
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  Elliott and Dale Junior, they're both like EF Hutton when they
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  talk, we all listen. Now, Brad Keselowski said
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  something very interesting. He said the reason the
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  championships are like this. Now let's listen to what Brad
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  says. Brad says the reason the
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  championships are like this is because the cars have got so
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  much parity. There's so much, there's so much
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  the same. And he says because of that, he
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  thinks if we go back to regular points, maybe it will come all
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  the way to the end. Brad's thinking nobody will be
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  able to run away with it if we go back to regular points
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  because the car is so close and nobody can get away from each
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  other. I don't know about that either
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  though, because you know, I think somebody can get away from
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  each other because you all you got to do is wreck it Atlanta,
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  you know, or not wreck it Atlanta.
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  You get a lead right there that you know, they wrecked their ass
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  off. Nowadays, maybe if we went back
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  to regular season championship like Mark saying maybe people go
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  back to stroking because you can't wreck out.
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  Who knows? Tommy Kendall, Tommy Kendall the
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  the legendary Rd. racer, I mean super famous in his day.
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  Tommy had a lot to say. All right, respond right here.
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  The great ones have spoken. Dale Earnhardt junior says let's
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  go back to the like the chase for the championship where 10
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  races, 10 drivers and then he also said six races, 6 drivers.
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  Let's go. I'll go 4 races, 4 drivers.
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  That's my final, final take. I'd like to see four races, 4
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  drivers, but I don't really give AI really don't.
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  I'm having fun with this whole deal.
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  Respond right here. They have.
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  I can see my headlines right now.
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  Our superstars have spoken about the points championship.
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  That's my headline. All right, I'm loaded up.
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  As you can tell, the truck and trailer are not there.
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  I've got them in the air conditioner.
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  I loaded up last night and I'll see you at in Peevely, Missouri
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  tonight. Respond right here with all your
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  bullshit. I love you guys.