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Ken Schrader Talks Playoffs, NASCAR Lawsuit & Our New Dirty Mo Media Podcast! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Very pleased to be joined by the great Ken Schrader.
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  Schrader, how you doing? I'm doing fine getting it's race
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  day next couple days and it's nice here in Saint Louis, so
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  everything's great. All right, we'll get to that, to
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  your racing. But First off, how excited are
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  you for this new show, this new podcast?
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  We have a name. I don't think we're allowed to
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  announce the name yet, but yourself, Kenny Wallace to Saint
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  Louisans. Are you super excited or what?
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  Yes, I'm. I'm OK.
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  Let me reword that. Yeah.
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  I'm looking forward to it. I'm.
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  This is something I swore I'd never do.
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  You know anything like this? Kenny eats it up.
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  Kenny likes to be seen. Kenny likes to be heard.
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  I just like talk about racing. I just just started because
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  Federated asked us to post where we were going and what we did.
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  We just started doing Facebook a little better the last couple
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  years. So I'm a little bit little bit
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  scared. But yes, it'll be fun.
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  My wife had a name picked out. OK, what was it?
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  Dumb and Dumber. I don't know if we could get the
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  trademark from Jim Carrey on that one, but you said you said
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  you like to talk racing. So let's let's do just that.
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  NASCAR, we have 3 races left this season.
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  We're right in the thick of the playoffs here.
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  Round of eight, Joey Logano, just one to advance.
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  Just give us your big picture take on the NASCAR season.
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  I went to the Vegas race. I was out there last week.
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  You know, the, the NASCAR season.
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  It just looks to me like every year those guys are running
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  harder and harder and harder. It gets harder to make the
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  playoffs. They're just man, they're, you
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  know, as Rusty Walls. She used to always say they're
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  driving her guts off the guts out, but they got to do that now
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  because of the stage points and everything.
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  So I really like what I'm seeing.
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  You know, the other day we're out there and Logano wasn't
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  really in the picture and all of a sudden he wins it on fuel.
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  What doesn't make any difference how you win it.
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  He was the first one to to go 400 and however many miles, 267
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  laps. But I, I'm excited, man.
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  It's when you come down to those, when you got in the
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  playoffs, then you come down to that race where they cut four
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  more that that gets a little bit nail biting.
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  It's trying to figure out who's going to make it and who isn't.
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  All right, I have to ask you about the controversial topic
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  going on right now in NASCAR. This lawsuit, 2311 racing, Front
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  Row Motorsports, this antitrust lawsuit.
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  Just give us your opinion. You're coming to this from two
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  different directions, as a former driver and A and a former
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  car owner, right? Yes, all right.
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  Someone new came into the sport. The sports run, the way it's ran
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  for what, 70 something years? I just don't see it getting
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  changed a lot, you know, because somebody wants it to change.
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  I did see one comment said all we want where Danny had said
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  something for all we want NASCAR to do is pay for our expenses.
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  Well, hell yeah. Any business would want someone
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  else to pay for their expenses. You know, I mean, if, if if you
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  have a serious, serious problem with the way things are, maybe
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  you're not allowed in the right thing.
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  You know, I mean, it costs all this money to run this team and
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  that, but we must not be worried about a couple million a year
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  here and there after, you know, with the kind of facility they
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  built. So I don't know, everybody would
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  always like things to be better no matter what kind of job they
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  got or what they're involved in, but kind of know going in what
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  the deal is. And you said for Facebook, you
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  like to tell people just what you're doing, where you're going
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  and how you did Now on this podcast, obviously we're going
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  to have to have you open up a little bit more, but give us
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  give us your schedule. How much are you racing these
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  days? I remember last year you told
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  Kenny Wallace, I was, I was there, I'm from Toledo.
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  You said you did the school bus racing in Toledo, OH.
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  Are you still doing that? Tell folks how often you're
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  racing these days. We've run 60 races so far this
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  year and through this through today, 1234, I had been in a
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  race car 96 days so far this year.
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  We got quite a bit left this weekend.
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  We're going to Grant City, Illinois, going out to do some
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  sponsor stuff this next week, going to miss next week's A
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  racing and go out to Seema Show. And then we've got we race in
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  Springfield, MO don't know where, the 22nd, 23rd.
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  We have a couple different places in November and I think
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  we're going to Columbus, Ms. at the end of the month and then
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  we're done until January. So we're going to run about 6566
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  races, be in a car over 100 days between the racing and we're
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  very fortunate. We do a lot of play days for
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  Federated Auto Parts where they bring 20 customers out and we
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  put them in cars, let them drive, give them a ride in two
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  seater and eat lunch and go somewhere else and do it the
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  next day. We'll do that about depends on
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  weather and everything but 35 to 50 times a year.
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  And Kenny Wallace says that racing keeps him young.
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  He always says don't let the old man in for you.
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  Do you still love racing as much as you did back in the day?
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  Coming up or more? Yeah, that's the problem.
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  I, I, I do, you know, I mean, like going to the Cup race the
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  other day and watching this like, oh man, you're shaking a
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  little bit because you, you'd love to be out there.
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  Not that you could, you know, I mean, I know I can't play with
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  those guys still, but yeah, I'm having as much fun as I've ever
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  had Said we run 60 races this year, but we've won 13 of them
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  at a whole bunch of different tracks.
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  So we've we've had a great year and we're not done yet this
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  year. And, and tell us quickly about
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  Vegas. You were what the the race
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  ambassador, you were honored for the weekend.
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  What was it? Basically, I was the oldest guy
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  that used to race Cup that they could get to come out and spend
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  the weekend. That's all it was, but it was
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  fun. They took between the Las Vegas
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  Speedway and Chris Powell and South Point Casino and the Gone
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  family, they they took off the good care of us.
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  All right, let's end on this because I was on Twitter, which
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  is now X these days, there's all these these accounts that have
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  great classic NASCAR stories and video and pictures.
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  And so I saw this picture yesterday.
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  I knew I was going to be talking to you today.
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  So I got to show it to you because you're talking about the
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  the good old days. So tell me about Ken Schrader
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  here with this car, with this hairdo, with this mustache.
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  Look at this thing. Yeah, that was probably 1979 or
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  80 in as a Springfield, IL Don Hank, see the Kings Ford
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  Granada, which was built by poor boy chassis which was Rusty and
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  Kenny Wallace, Kenny Kenny did a lot of the work.
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  It was Rusty's company. But yeah, yeah, that was a long
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  time ago. You know.
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  A real long time ago, but we had a lot of fun.
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  They without the sea, the kings here from Saint Louis, we would
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  have never got to go down go Cup racing, but they helped us a
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  tremendous amount. I had hair.
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  I got a little bit still I got, you know, I didn't have to buy
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  any like Kenny, but you know, it's, it's not near as much as I
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  had done. And I have heard Kenny give this
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  line many times and, and he's, he's said this.
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  So I'm not giving away any secrets.
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  He says, I think it cost him $19,000 to get that hair.
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  And then he said he, he talked to you and you said that's all
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  you got. Something like that.
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  Yeah, yeah, I said you should've spent 30.
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  Awesome. Well, I'll tell you what race
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  fans, NASCAR fans are super excited for this podcast to hear
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  all those great stories from yourself and Kenny Wallace.
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  So Schrader, I'm looking forward to to working with you.
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  I'm going to be producing the show.
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  It's going to be on Dirty MO Media's podcast feed.
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  It's going to be on the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel, and I
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  can't wait. Thank you, Sir, for your time.
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  No problem, looking forward to it Sir.