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Is William Byron Boring? · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday, everybody. Coffee with Kenny from the
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  couch. This time I've been be bopping
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  around the house trying to break it up.
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  You know, backyard, front yard, kitchen.
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  I debated whether to talk about this subject.
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  William Byron. Why is he not any more famous?
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  Why respond right here? Why is William Byron not more
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  famous than what he is right now?
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  Now, I want to let you know I've had my eye on this a long time.
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  I really like William Byron. I'm going to say it one more
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  time. I really like William Byron.
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  This phenomenon fascinates me. We had William Byron on Kenny
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  conversation and you can see him right now.
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  That interview is on Racing America.
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  Kenny conversation with William Byron was really good.
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  Talk about how dynamic he is, how he started out in I racing
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  and how he just went from I racing to winning the Daytona
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  500 to winning coda last week. William Byron.
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  Right now the stats say listen to this.
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  This one's going to shock you, is as good as Kyle Larson in the
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  Cup Series. Respond right here.
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  Now I want to tell you our analytics on Kenny conversation
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  on the Kenny Wallace Show on YouTube.
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  We do this awesome conversation or conversation.
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  Get the shit out of your mouth on William Byron and I mean like
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  hardly anybody watched it. And Charlie Marlo and myself,
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  we're talking about it. We're like what is the deal?
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  Elliot Sadler got way more views.
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  Jamie Little long, long form. We did an over an hour long
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  interview with Jamie Little and she got like 49,000 views.
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  Jamie Little is incredibly popular.
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  William Byron. I mean, it hardly registered.
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  It's like you all didn't care. It hurt my heart.
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  I'm like, this guy just got done winning the Daytona 500.
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  He's an Xfinity champion. He is.
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  OK, so listen, I I hit the like button on everybody's stuff.
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  I really like what everybody does.
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  So I win the make everybody feel good awards.
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  So in other words, I make everybody feel good.
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  So I really like happy Hour with Caitlin Vincey and Harvick and
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  and somebody else on earth forgot apologize.
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  But anyway Kevin Harvick on happy hour on their podcast
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  brought up an incredible stat. William Byron Stat Same amount
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  of races, same time in the Cup Series is the same or better
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  than the great Cal Larson and I? I thought to my I almost called
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  Charlie Marlow and said Charlie, we're right.
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  What is the deal with William Byron?
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  So what? What is the stigma?
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  Respond right here. What is the stigma with William
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  Byron? Is he too boring?
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  Does he not? Is he not mouthing enough?
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  Is it because there's no controversy?
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  When you look at the greats like a Tony Stewart or Harvick or
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  Rusty, they're talking shit. They're ready to fight.
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  I mean, they are. Is that why we like them?
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  Harvick, He's ready to fight. He will fight Tony Stewart.
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  He will fight. Good sound bites from those
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  great drivers. As I look back at it, I'm going
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  to give you my opinion right now.
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  I think he's too perfect. I think he's even.
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  I think this falls right underneath the what do you want?
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  An appearance, The legend. He wants He wants out.
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  He wants out. We'll put him out All right.
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  So anyway, I just think it's another one's Jimmy Johnson
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  deals. Jimmy won so much that he was in
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  your face that you had to pay attention to him.
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  By the way, Martinsville clock. Come on.
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  Ding Dong, Ding Dong won a couple times at Martinsville.
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  So so do I respond right here. Hi Kenny.
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  I see myself in the mirror so well, that's good lighting right
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  there. Why is William Byron not any
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  more famous than what he is? I just think he's he's there's
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  not enough to him. William, start fighting.
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  Some people talk some shit. Respond right here.
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  Tell us why William Byron is not any more famous.
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  And I'm going to give some, I'm going to give 30% of this credit
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  to this content to happy hour with Caitlin Vincey Harvick.
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  I already knew it because we interviewed him on Kenny
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  conversation. His numbers were no good.
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  In other words, the people that watched and then it just got
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  confirmed by Harvick. So and Harvick said, listen,
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  it's unbelievable, went right through it.
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  And so I'll leave you with this little nugget that Kevin Harvick
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  said same amount of races. William Byron has more lead lap
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  finishes than Kyle Larson. So why is William Byron so
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  boring? Respond right here.
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  We have one man, and his name is Ken that wants to do battle with
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  me over William Byron. Now Ken says to me, Kenny
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  Wallace, you're very vain if you're calling out William
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  Byron's success based on how many views he got on your
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  YouTube show. OK, Ken, I heard you, but you
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  don't hear me. OK, here's my point.
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  And you've missed For as smart as you are, I can tell you're a
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  smart man, 'cause you're you don't misspell any letters.
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  You're smart, but sometimes, like me, shit flies over my head
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  and that one flew over your head.
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  Here's the point. I like William Byron.
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  William Byron is not resonating with the NASCAR fans.
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  We know that NASCAR's popularity and NASCAR success relies
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  totally on the driver engagement with the fans.
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  They loved Michael Jordan. NBA was famous.
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  They love Taylor Swift and Kelsey in NFL and Patrick
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  Holmes. That's success.
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  So I know because I'm I am in communication with NASCAR and if
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  you look at happy hour right now, go chew Kevin Harvick's ass
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  out. Go chew Kevin Harvick's ass out
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  'cause right on this timeline he's talking about the same
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  thing. So what the point that you're
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  missing is we all like William Byron.
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  We need him to be more famous. So our sport will be more
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  famous. We need the driver that's
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  winning everything like William Byron to resonate with the fans.
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  So what I'm saying is what is William Byron got to do to
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  resonate with the fans? Because if the fans like William
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  Byron, they're going to watch the race because they like
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  William Byron. Now I'm right and you're wrong.
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  How do you think I did? Think I did good.