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I Was At Atlanta & It Doesn't Match What You Say | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning, everybody got a glare in my glasses.
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  And I recognize that that's because it's kind of it's kind
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  of rainy and cloudy outside and, you know, it's just shining off
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  my my lamp here. So can you see anything inside
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  my glasses? All right, everybody, once again
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  happy Sunday. It's rainy in Saint Louis.
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  I'm hoping I can go race tomorrow in Harrisburg, AR on
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  Monday at old #1 Speedway. We'll see.
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  It looks like rain. The weather forecast says rain.
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  And then Tuesday will come back up Interstate 55 and we'll run
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  Benton, MO. And all this is for the summer
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  Nationals. OK, All right.
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  The glare is driving me nuts. I went to Atlanta.
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  I went to Atlanta. I was there, you know, after the
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  Mark Martin Kenny conversation that shocked the racing world.
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  And oh, yes, it did. The the Mark Martin Kenny
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  conversation shocked the racing world.
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  Oh, yeah, It really did. I was on stage with Kyle Petty
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  at Atlanta and they were taking questions and this this
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  gentleman out in the crowd raised his hand and they said,
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  Kenny, this is for you. I just want to let you know that
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  that Mark Martin conversation was incredible.
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  I said thank you. Now that was somebody that was
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  at the racetrack. They were at the racetrack.
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  So think about it. They liked what Mark had to say,
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  but they were at the racetrack. They don't hate NASCAR.
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  They missed the old days. But this was a this was a
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  middle-aged man. He wasn't old.
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  So Mark, there's somebody that listened to us.
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  They were at the racetrack. They were at Atlanta.
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  Did I tell you that I went to Atlanta and I go to 11 Cup races
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  a year? What I saw at Atlanta with my
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  own eyes was two distinctive situations.
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  I see a lot of you at home on X on social media just bitching
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  and moaning how you hate NASCAR, but you watch everything
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  NASCAR's doing, and yes, you do. Don't lie.
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  Don't get on and go. I don't watch NASCAR.
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  That's the first signal that you're watching NASCAR because
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  you come. If you don't watch NASCAR, then
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  you just don't comment on it. I don't follow people on social
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  media that I don't like. I don't watch something that I
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  don't like. So when you say I don't watch
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  NASCAR, that's a blatant lie. That's a lie.
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  You're lying because if you don't watch NASCAR, you just
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  don't watch NASCAR and you don't comment.
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  You don't even comment on NASCAR.
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  So that's a giveaway right there.
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  All right, now let's go on to what I saw.
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  Packed grandstands. Maybe not a sellout, but a hell
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  of a crowd. Our show Trackside Live was
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  awesome. It was a hell of a crowd.
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  People were jacked up on Sun Drop and they were happy to be
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  there and they made an effort. They made an effort.
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  They had to drive there and it was worth it for all of them.
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  Hayward Parish is a man that I talked to on social media.
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  Hi Hayward. Hayward is on social media all
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  the time. It's the first time somebody
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  that I know on social media made me happy.
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  There they were. And just like Hayward said on
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  this Sunday morning, I saw him already on X, he said Kenny
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  Wallace is a racer man. He loves racing.
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  I'm the same in real at the track as I am right here.
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  I'm different than most people because I'm right here.
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  And then when you go to the racetrack, I'm right there.
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  I'm right out in the open. I'm on stage, Hey, talking to
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  everybody. I don't hide.
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  I do not hide. I'm right there.
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  OK, Now that I've said all that, I know what I saw.
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  I saw happy people Marcus Smith at Echo Park Raceway, that is
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  the new sponsor at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
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  Everybody, your stadiums that you're, you know, listen, we got
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  Busch Stadium here sponsored by Anheuser Busch.
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  Every stadium, every arena in the world is sponsored.
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  That's the name of it. Now you can bitch and moan
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  because you're a bitch and a moaner that you want to call it
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  Atlanta Motor Speedway. That's fine.
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  That's fine, but it's now Echo Park Speedway, just like your
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  arena, your Coliseum, your stadium and your hometown.
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  We got Enterprise Enterprise Center here.
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  That's where the that's where our Saint Louis Blues play.
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  We got Energized Park, which is where our soccer team City STL.
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  So we got Energized Park. We got Rent-A-Center we and we
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  got Busch Stadium. So as far as you rebelling
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  against it being called Echo Park Speedway, get over it.
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  Jesus, aren't you tired of bitching about everything?
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  Aren't you? Go look at yourself in the
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  mirror and say, Self, what am I happy about?
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  And talk to yourself. Now.
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  What I saw was one hell of a race, one hell of a race.
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  But I saw two versions. I was at the race.
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  So when I'm at the race in Rio and they had a big wreck like
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  they did, everybody in the grandstand stood up.
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  They were it's, it's kind of like the gladiator.
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  Are you entertained? Are you entertained?
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  The people at the racetrack? They were entertained.
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  Of course, all of you at home on social media, you're two
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  different crowds. The people at the racetrack,
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  they're entertained. You sitting at home, you, what
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  do you do? You get right on your phone and
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  start talking. Oh, my God.
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  Half the fields knocked out. I miss the this is the one Look,
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  I saw it all. I saw it all, and it's right
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  there on everybody's social media timeline.
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  When the first wreck happened, you hated NASCAR.
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  I miss the old Atlanta. What the that mean?
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  You missed the old Atlanta. What does that mean?
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  Those races were great, but they're better now.
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  They're way better now. This stat, I'm going to tell you
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  is for real. The last six out of the last
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  seven races. The last six out of the last
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  seven races have been won with two laps to go and the one last
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  night was one with a half a lap to go.
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  The three wide come thundering off at Turn 4 that Danielle
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  Suarez won. What's wrong with some of you?
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  I think it's more about your personal situation.
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  I think you, I think you're unhappy with your own life.
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  Do like me. Be like Kenny, get the out.
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  Get out. Get out of your house.
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  Be like Hayward, Hayward Parish on social media.
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  Get out, put your phone down every once in a while.
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  Put your phone down every once in a while.
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  See, here's the difference. When I'm on my phone, I'm on my
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  phone, but I'm out there living life.
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  I use voice activation. I do things like this, like I'm
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  on my phone like I'm at Atlanta and the race is awesome.
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  Send and that's it. That's it.
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  I'm not like this. You know me.
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  I'm the king of social media, but I've learned how to do it
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  quick. Pretend this is my phone at the
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  dirt track and post it up ready to go.
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  That's it. When I'm on social media, it's
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  like maybe I'm at lunch. You cannot live your life on
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  social media. It will ruin it.
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  There are rabbit holes on social media that would take you down.
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  So after the big wreck and all of you started bit how much you
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  hate NASCAR because they had a big wreck like like the wreck
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  was NASCAR's fault. That's the other thing.
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  You guys just you blame people aimlessly.
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  NASCAR, yeah, that's it. NASCAR they got to do anything.
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  They're sitting in the NAMM tower.
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  The drivers wrecked by themselves, the people at the
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  racetrack, they were happy you messed up last night.
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  Then they had another wreck it and it clearly shows.
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  Handling is everything there. Christopher Bell loses it, gets
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  loose all by himself, Had another wreck.
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  They had wrecks. They had a hell of a finish.
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  The crowd was happy. You all make excuses up.
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  Oh, it was a good race because there was only 20 cars left.
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  What do you want me to do? Then somebody says, then they
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  reversed course. I watched them.
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  They reversed course. Then they said, OK, OK, this
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  shows you how bad Talladega is. OK, yeah, let's let's get rid of
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  Talladega. People.
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  I'm giving you, I'm serving you us up an ash chewing today.
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  I'm serving you up an ash chewing.
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  So you remember today, you deserve this.
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  You deserve this ash chewing because you are you embarrass
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  yourselves. That race ended up being one of
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  the great Atlanta races of all time.
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  And at the end, Keselowski's going to win.
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  And boy, it was a feel good story because he's been roughed
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  up. Keselowski bought in to Roush
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  Racing. It's called RFK, Roush, Fenway,
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  Keselowski. He hasn't won and why he's going
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  to win, but we are in Chase Elliott's hometown, his own
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  track, Awesome Bill from Dawsonville.
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  Well, Herman, the thing of it is life is all about timing and
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  circumstances, and there it was, timing and circumstances like
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  Awesome bill from Dawsonville, said Chase Elliott's dad.
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  There was come down the front straight, timing and
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  circumstances. Woof.
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  Chase Elliott makes the pass with the draft clears Brad
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  Kozlowski. The crowd roars like we're at
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  the Coliseum in Rome. He wins the race and at the end,
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  come to start finish line. Kozlowski gets back to 3rd and
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  then he passes Bowman and gets second by just a little bit.
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  You all are so used to bitching about NASCAR that it ended up
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  being unbelievable. Then you had to reverse course
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  on social media during the night.
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  You, you at the at the start of the race, you talked about how
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  bad it was. And then about halfway through,
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  three quarter way through, then the idea, how am I going to
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  twist this? And you all started twisting it.
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  But my eyes don't lie. I saw what you did.
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  I saw what you did. People at the racetrack love
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  NASCAR. Ratings are up, Mark Martin said
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  his piece. Me and Mark Martin are like
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  this. Me and Mark Martin are best
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  friends. He said what he said.
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  He got it off his chest. And like Mark Martin said at the
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  very end of Kenny conversation, the race is great and I know
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  NASCAR can't change, Mark Martin said.
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  The racing is great and I know NASCAR can't change.
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  You got it off your chest. The world heard you.
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  Atlanta was awesome and you just got to admit it.
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  Let's move on everybody. The race has been great all year
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  long. Maybe one or two races that you
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  didn't get your photo finished. Now, I realize they gave you an
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  Ashton today, but I wanted to because I was so upset on the
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  way home. I got home late last night and I
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  thought about you all flying back and I thought what I see at
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  the track don't match up the way you all talk on social media.
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  All right, now, with all that said, I'd love you very much.
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  I love you. Straighten your out.
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  You're exhausting. I love y'all.
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  Have a great Sunday, everybody.