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Watkins Glen In May? Memphis Is Rough, & Carson Hocevar | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  The King. Richard Petty, buddy.
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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  We're gonna try and do Coffee with Kenny by myself today
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  'cause I got a lot of to say and I don't think anybody's gonna
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  wanna be part of Coffee with Kenny.
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  So we are in. Where we at?
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  Winchester, TN. Where we at?
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  Hold on. Savannah, TN Savannah, TN All
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  right, Savannah Banana. Is that where they is this where
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  Savannah banana's from? Not here, not here.
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  Damn it. All right, everybody, we're
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  going to do this one by myself today.
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  Been riding and been thinking, so let's go over here to Kim.
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  Hi, ladies. Hello.
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  Y'all look good. Thank you.
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  Good, good. Hey, are we doing OK?
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  Well, hey, when we got a couple more days, right?
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  No time to bitch. We headed home.
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  Rolling on in, you know, Dale Jacket, right Yonder.
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  Chattahoochee. All right, we roll on over here.
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  Where's my bike? You're Schraders and Hands.
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  All right, we get over here. That's OK.
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  Y'all mind your own business? I said.
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  Y'all mind your own damn business.
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  OK, Today I was riding Kim's trike.
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  For those people that don't know, you know, I've got my own
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  motorcycle and Kim said couple years ago she goes if you get a
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  trike, I'll ride with you. So there's nothing better than
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  having your wife's big hit your back, hit the brake a little
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  bit, get them boobs right up on your back.
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  That's what motorcycles were made for.
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  My dad. When my dad was alive, he'd say
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  I'd ride your mother on the back.
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  I'd hit the brakes, I'd feel her boobs.
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  My dad told me. Dad, that's so awesome.
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  Let's get a good look at the trike.
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  There we are. We love it.
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  Where's your coffee? Cup, Yeah, I just ain't got one.
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  OK, that was my monologue. OK, So, umm, as I was riding the
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  trike, I was thinking, umm, 3 subjects today.
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  Three. It's always for Earnhardt.
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  Umm, Watkins Glen in May Umm Carson Hosavar standing out kind
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  of by himself, and then, uh, Memphis, TN.
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  So let's start with Watkins Glen in May.
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  Everybody hears you all. You're very upset.
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  NASCAR's crazy. Why are they racing Watkins Glen
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  in May? It's a mud fest.
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  There's mud everywhere. They know the weather's bad
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  here. Why is NASCAR running Watkins
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  Glen in May? So I want to I want to tell you
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  a story that happened last night.
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  So, you know, we were with the great Mike Hilton, our
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  president, our past president of NASCAR.
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  Mike is become a dear friend of mine.
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  And we were in the van and I was joking.
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  I said, you know, when I was, when I was 55 years old, I
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  decided to go with everybody telling me I'm crazy.
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  So in other words, hey, Wallace, you're crazy, man.
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  And I'm like, no, I'm not. So I became 55 years old and and
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  I decided, you know what, I'm just going to go with it.
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  So I said I'm crazy. And then Mike Kelton said, and
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  everybody likes you more because you admit it, you're crazy.
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  So the thing with Watkins Glen and may we hear you, we hear
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  you. And maybe it's the wrong thing
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  to do. And once people admit it.
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  So let's say NASCAR goes, hey, we should have never done that.
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  The beauty of the NASCAR now there, there's cons and pros,
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  right? There's cons means bad pros
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  means yay. So let NASCAR do this.
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  And if it turns into a mud fest, gets rained out, like, you know,
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  it did snow at Bowman Gray last year.
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  It didn't snow. And I mean, sometimes you just
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  gotta get lucky with the weather.
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  So the moral, the story is, let's see what happens.
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  And NASCAR can admit we were wrong.
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  But we hear you. We hear you, OK #2 Memphis, TN
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  love Memphis and love Elvis Presley, and we toured it all
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  and it was incredible. It was very emotional and that
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  just hurt my heart to see Lisa Marie die at 54 years young and
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  lose her son and see four buried right there.
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  Elvis's mom, dad, I think it's Minnie.
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  Respond right here 4 by law, Memphis said OK, you can bury
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  four and the other two, Lisa Marie and her son, they're above
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  ground, but they're right there. So my point is this Graceland in
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  the museum across the street, it's so beautiful.
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  It's it's unbelievable. It's worldly, so worldly.
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  However, I was so disappointed in the surrounding areas.
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  The Walgreens is shut down. The old Checkers store is just
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  ratty. Looking across the street the
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  the Taco Bell shut down. I was thinking about Los
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  Angeles. I was thinking about how
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  Hollywood is as but right across street.
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  Beverly Hills is beautiful. I really feel like they should
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  put a pen right in the middle of Graceland and at least a quarter
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  mile around Graceland should be preserved for just beautifulism.
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  I believe if Elvis Presley was alive today, he'd be really
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  disappointed, and it wouldn't be like that.
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  But Graceland is beautiful. The hotel's beautiful, the
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  museum's beautiful. And I just could not believe how
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  bad it was around the area. Now I want to explain something.
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  Come on here. Come here, come here.
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  Sir. There there are people in life
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  that love to with me, and this is one of them.
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  He's a good guy, but he just constantly jabs me.
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  He can never go. Hey, Kenny.
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  How you doing? Always.
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  And and that's him. And did they did you get roughed
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  up early in life? No.
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  Why? And you're, you're a great man,
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  too. Why?
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  I just like to have fun with people.
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  Everybody. Everybody.
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  So it's not me, no. It's not only you, Kenny, it's
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  everybody. I just if if.
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  I know he loves me, but but he can't say.
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  Hey, Herm, how you doing? He's always like, hey, hey,
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  Wallace, what are you up to? He's doing me all the time.
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  Good, good. OK, let's change a subject.
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  But everybody gives it back to me and I give it.
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  Back to them. Well, I love you buddy.
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  I love you. I see every year.
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  You're a good man. I try.
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  I I just knew he was going to start in so I wanted to warn
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  y'all. OK, last subject is Carson
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  Osvar. So OK, let me tell you no, hold
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  on. Let me let me let me end it.
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  It's my get your own show. OK, I learned that one from
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  Michael Waltrip. Somebody got mad about inside
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  next pick up and he goes, hey, get your own show.
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  So I've been around a long time. I've been around a long time and
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  Rick Allen, everybody and here, here, No, stay right here.
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  But here's here's what I want to say about Carson.
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  The last time I seen somebody unique like Carson was Rob
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  Moroso. Yes, we were in a drivers
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  meeting and Robbie Moroso took some black electrical tape and
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  put it right here as a fake mustache and left it on for
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  hours. And I'm like, and then the next
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  person is Tim Richmond. Tim was not afraid to lean into
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  different parts of life. That's right.
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  So people feel like if you're a race car driver, you got to be
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  this tough guy and and act a certain tough way like
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  Earnhardt. Earnhardt was your image of a
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  race car driver. Absolutely.
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  But if you saw Kasey Kahne walking around, you would think,
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  well, hell, he's. Like a little teenager.
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  He he's not a race car driver. Or if you saw Johnny Benson
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  walking around with studio glasses on, that's true.
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  So in my opinion, Carson Osvar is the first driver I've seen
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  since Rob Moroso and Tim Richmond wear goes to Met Gala
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  and dresses in, but wears his father's watch.
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  And so this is my dad's watching.
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  If you and I agree with Dale Junior, if he was uncomfortable,
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  I didn't recognize it. I, I felt like, I felt like
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  Carson became worldly and I think that Carson put more eyes
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  on NASCAR and for that I appreciate him.
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  Can. I say something.
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  One last thing, One last thing. He's killing me.
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  I told you he's, he's killing me.
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  He's. Killing me.
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  We need people like Carson realizing how all centered he is
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  but yet gets in that race car. Driver gets in that race car and
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  all his ass. Now you know what it feels like.
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  OK, so when he was in the Truck Series, he used to wear all
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  those goofy hats you remember? That no, no, I don't, but go
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  ahead. He used.
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  To have all sorts of different goofy hats that he would wear
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  after the race or before the race.
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  I mean, big straw hats, top hat, whatever kind of hat he he could
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  find, he would wear it. And that got his people
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  attention seeing him in all these different hats.
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  They thought he was a goofball. All right, everybody.
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  Which he is, what, 11 minutes and oh, I like that.
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  He's a goofball, but he's good. That's what they say about me.
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  I can win it. I.
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  You're great. You're no hold on, don't be nice
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  to me. That ruined your image, Kenny.
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  Wallace is one of the greatest guys I know.
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  I love you, buddies. Hey.
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  Besides, Kenny Schrader can. You come on over here, can you?
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  Come over besides. Kenny Schrader, say goodbye,
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  everybody. Goodbye.