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Already a WILD Weekend at Indy | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning. I wanted to make sure we saw the
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  legend Louis looking at us because he looked good.
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  There he is, look at that, ears straight up.
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  Oh I know what it is. DD just came walking through and
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  he could sense her getting ready to come through, so he was
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  alert. OK man oh man.
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  First thing up on the docket. I was feeling a little guilty
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  that I had been on X too much, so I took a poll yesterday and
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  the poll was still going after about 3200 people right now.
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  You're telling me it's 85? Fifteen, 85% of the people say
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  we like how you engage with us on X.
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  We like that you answer our questions.
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  You know, I read some of the comments last night about 1:30
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  in the morning, so about 3200 people, the polls still going.
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  And you know, sometime you want to do a little check on
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  yourself. You're like, man, I'm on this X
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  too much. I'm on social media too much.
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  How about on Sundays when your phone pops up with how many
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  hours a day? My mine usually averages right
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  at six hours, but I'm like, there's no way I'm on the phone
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  that much. It's like, but whatever, I still
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  get things done. I still get things done, but
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  yeah, So what happened? I think this week is I I got my
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  race car done on Tuesday. I worked hard on it Sunday,
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  Monday, Tuesday. So I worked three days hard on
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  the Sunoco dirt car, but I was done on Tuesday, so I was ready
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  to go racing and then on Friday we got heated out.
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  Canceled the races on Friday because of the heat.
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  So there it is made me made me think, OK, OK, we all right we
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  all right it was JJ Yeley. JJ Yeley, said Herman, if you
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  would do social media a little less, we'd like you more.
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  We got a lot of topics for today.
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  That was the first one. I said somebody said, like, you
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  know, just, you know, we constantly argue, constantly
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  debate. Somebody said we don't argue.
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  I said, right, we don't argue, we debate.
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  JJ Yeley chimed in on something. Herman, what would you do with
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  NASCAR? Whatever.
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  And I said, oh, that's simple. I said years ago we used to have
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  like 32 races, something like that.
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  I said I would race less in NASCAR.
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  I would have less NASCAR races because anytime you take
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  something away, it makes people like it more.
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  I see this happen with a lot of dirt tracks.
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  You know, Lincoln, IL runs like twice a month.
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  Brownstown, IL runs twice a month.
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  Sometimes it's the only way to survive is to race less.
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  And so it was just an idea I threw out there.
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  It doesn't mean, it doesn't mean we have to, you know, and I'll
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  tell you what, I just thought of this, if you go back, what, 8
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  years ago, Dale Junior said We raced too much at NASCAR, He
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  said. And for as much as Mark Martin
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  and everybody's saying, you know, we're not like other
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  sports, we're not. But Dale Junior said this and I,
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  I liked it. I thought it was a good cliche,
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  he said. Look at the NFL.
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  They have 16 games. It's over and it leaves the fans
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  wanting for more. So I also look inside
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  psychology. Does NASCAR race too much?
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  Respond right here. Do we race too much?
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  Could we could we have a week off every month?
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  What do we do? We race.
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  We race February, March, April, May, June, July, August,
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  September, October, November. Damn.
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  I didn't. We raced 10 months out of the
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  dam here Yes we do right there. I just did it Holy moly.
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  Maybe we maybe we do race too much holy crap.
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  Hey, we started, we start the Daytona 500 in February and we
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  end in November, right? So or something like that.
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  Maybe we race too much, maybe if we take a little bit away.
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  So the Xfinity race, I got three things to say about the Xfinity
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  race #1 Connor Zillich, three wins in a row, fifth win of the
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  year. And I'm going to take credit for
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  this. I'm the one that said it on
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  social media. I said it right here, I think on
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  XI, said Connor Zillich, is Connor Zillich.
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  The next Jeff Gordon, I said it now all of a sudden, that's what
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  everybody's saying now, the reason this one's getting a lot
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  of lot of legs is because it was Dale Junior, Junior Motorsports,
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  Kelly Earnhardt. It was their 100th win as Junior
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  Motorsports. So that's giving Connor even
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  more publicity on this deal. But listen, I'm just bringing it
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  up. I've already said it.
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  I already said that. I already said Gunner's Connor
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  Zillich is a once in a generational talent.
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  He just turned 19 years old. You know, you got to be running
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  third to win or you got to put yourself in position to win.
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  All right, next subject, how about Kyle Larson going for it?
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  I mean, he just got loose up off at Turn 2 and got into Justin
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  Algar. That's that's one of those
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  deals. You're like, oh, he's loose.
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  Oh, no, as he's loose, he gets into, you know, Justin Algar.
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  So to me, there's just not much to talk about right there.
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  That was a he was racing their balls off for the win.
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  And that's what you want out of your driver.
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  You see him get loose and then he saves it, but he's already
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  into Justin. So that's that.
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  So that's number two. One was Connor Zilich.
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  I said that last week. He is.
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  He is a generational talent. He is your Kyle Larson.
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  He is your Christopher Bell. We'll think about it.
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  You know, I don't know if he's as great as Jeff Gordon, but I
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  believe we have more talent nowadays.
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  I think Jeff Gordon was the innovator, let's put it that
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  way. Let me be clear about that.
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  Jeff Gordon was the innovator of young kids racing.
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  Everybody started copying. It was John Bickford, his
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  stepfather. Jeff told me this story.
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  He said, dad, I'm getting tired of racing.
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  And John Bickford said, OK, son, let's go, let's go out on the
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  lake. So they went skiing.
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  They took a little break. So for all you parents out
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  there, you say you want to be like Jeff Gordon, don't wear
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  your kids out. John Bickford, Caroline Bick,
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  Carolyn Bickford, you know, Jeff's stepmother and real mom.
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  They said OK, let's take a break.
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  So they went skiing and stuff, water skiing.
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  And Jeff said I think I want to race.
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  Now. There's a lesson right there.
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  Don't wear your kids out. Sometimes you'll wear your kids
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  out. OK.
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  And for the one y'all been waiting for, Austin Hill, I'm
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  not going to beat it like a dead horse.
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  Austin, listen, I don't know you, OK?
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  And I'm a race car driver. I'm in this is kind of a this is
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  funny what I'm going to say. I'm in the NASCAR drivers union.
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  There's not one, I'm just joking.
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  But Austin, you should have never been wearing white gloves.
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  You should have never been wearing white gloves.
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  You're and here's the problem. Everybody is so creative.
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  They they showed that deal in slow motion.
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  I mean, man, Austin just got pissed, blew his lid and turned
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  left. And NASCAR, you can get away
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  with moving somebody. You cannot hook anybody.
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  And Austin, I'm sure you're a good guy.
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  And I'm not throwing in. I'm not throwing in.
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  I'm just saying if you're going to do that, change the color of
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  your gloves. You do know going down the back
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  straight away at Talladega on that day that Earnhardt and
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  myself ran 1/2 at Talladega, it shocked me too.
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  You know the man in black, Dale Senior, he was wearing white
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  gloves and that's why you saw on that video, Dale Senior, the man
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  in black like this. To me, Dale Senior's like this
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  and that big old paw come up, the big old white gloves and the
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  world could see it 'cause it was on ESPN and I could see it
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  'cause I was right on his ass. And I said me hell yeah.
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  So that's what done yen buddy. Sorry about that.
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  So NASCAR are going to rough you up.
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  You can get you're going to get in big trouble.
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  And here's here's the other thing.
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  Now I'm right here with you on like this, 'cause I lose my mind
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  too. You notice I'm not roughing you
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  up too much. I'm just saying you're, as my
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  Mama would say, this too shall soon pass.
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  You're probably going to be in more trouble for motherfucking
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  NASCAR over the radio, like a lot.
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  All right, so we're getting ready to go to the car in the
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  ball game. Want to thank Doug Schoenfeld
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  and his wife Missy Schoenfeld from Schoenfeld headers.
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  Doug come up from Arkansas and he sent Herman and he came to he
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  came to the dirt races last night.
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  Almost forgot to tell you. I run second started 5th and run
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  second. You go, you go through those you
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  go you get your pit pass and they tell you draw a number and
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  all and and the numbers going right and you hit a button.
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  Mine Ant mine landed on 82. I started last row of my heat.
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  So started 5th in the feature and run second.
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  All right, ball game today. Probably get the trike ready
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  tonight. Just let me just pack my clothes
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  because we got to do Herman Schrader Monday morning and then
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  Kim and I are headed north. All right, have a great Sunday.