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Why Has St. Louis Become THE Track For NASCAR Fans? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. It is still beautiful in St.
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  Louis, MO Monday morning, 58°. And they're saying that at the
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  end of this week, we're gonna be back to summertime temperatures
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  in the 90s. It's what do we call that?
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  Hey, respond right here in Indian summer.
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  Is that what that's called when you think it's winter time, but
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  then all of a sudden you're in November like it's September,
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  October, October gets a little rainy, then it gets to be in the
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  80s in November. What's that called?
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  Indian summer? I don't know.
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  I think so, though. OK, today's subject matter.
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  Why is the NASCAR weekend in Saint Louis?
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  Why is it so good? Respond right here.
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  OK, now listen, I'm going, here we go again.
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  I'm going to de bullshit all this.
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  You all know that I was there. I was there.
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  Did you see those grandstands? 60,000 people?
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  Bill Murray. Bill Murray was there.
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  I'm laughing because Bubba Wallace said one of the drivers
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  did not know. Hold on, where there he is.
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  There's a legend, Louis the legend, out roaming the
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  property. Bubba Wallace said that one of
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  the drivers did not know who Bill Murray was.
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  Bill Murray from the original Saturday Night Live cast,
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  Caddyshack, so many great movies.
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  He was there. Brother Rusty was there.
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  The vibe at Worldwide Technology Raceway was through the roof.
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  People, all the media in in a NASCAR like Jeff Gluck and Bob
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  Pop Grass and everybody that follows the sport, they're
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  saying no other track does. It has the entertainment behind
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  the grandstands like Saint Louis does.
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  All right, I'm going to give you my opinion on why NASCAR is so
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  big. Why is it popular?
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  Why is it good? Because the narrative that some
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  of you older people are trying to sell me, NASCAR's no good.
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  It's failing. I'm going to tell you what, it
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  ain't true. Everybody get up, get off your
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  couch, get out there. Saint Louis, and not just Saint
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  Louis, but Darlington last week, the races before that, NASCAR on
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  a high. NASCAR's on a high.
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  They're rolling right now. All right.
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  Worldwide Technology Raceway. Why is it so good?
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  Well, behind the grandstands, the midway is off the charts.
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  There is so much to do. The entertainment is.
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  I mean, some of the people are coming to the racetrack like the
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  good old days. Well, Kenny Wallace live, yours
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  truly, man, we put on one hell of a show.
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  It was a one hour show and it was off the charts.
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  See, Saint Louis is about sports.
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  It's about the Saint Louis Blues, Saint Louis Cardinals,
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  City STL soccer. For everything you've heard
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  about Saint Louis, most of it's true.
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  We are crazy, but it's, it's a it's a sports city.
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  So when we started the show, we have the towel man, the towel
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  man that he's the guy that when the when the Blues score a goal,
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  you know, the camera, the lights, they go to him and, and
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  the fans get jacked up. So we had him start the show.
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  We started off with kick ass music.
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  Then we had the great drivers man Chris Blair, the general
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  manager at Worldwide technology. Listen to this.
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  He had Chase Briscoe, last week's winner at Darlington.
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  He had Ross Chastain, Hail Melon.
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  He's the guy that, you know, did the slide job at 1 Charlotte,
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  the Coke 600. Then he's also the guy that ran
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  it wide open through turns 3 and 4.
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  My daughters, my daughters, Brooke and Brandy.
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  They sold souvenirs at Ross Chastain's souvenir trailer.
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  They said, Dad, we had no ideal. Ross Chastain was so famous.
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  I said, Oh yeah, They said we hurt today.
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  Last night, Sunday night, they said, Dad, we sold so many
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  souvenirs. So on Kenny Wallace Live, we had
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  Bill Murray, Rusty Wallace, Big Brother came, Kyle Larson.
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  We had a real goat with Kyle Larson, fake fire suit on the
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  goat, Chase Briscoe, Ross Chastain, the towel man.
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  We had it all. And I mean, the fans were
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  entertained. We had music that was jacked up.
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  OK, not just that, I mean, Kenny Wallace Live did kick ass.
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  But the owner of the Worldwide Technology Group, that man right
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  there, he knows how to help out the racetrack.
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  The owner, Curtis Francois, he's the one that picked Bill Murray.
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  He told me, he said I got a list of entertainers.
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  My God, you can't go wrong with Bill Murray.
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  But the Confluence Music Festival, my God, they had a
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  little John there. They had so many musical acts.
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  So like I've always said, and I'll say this to all the
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  promoters out there, all the dirt track promoters, you can't
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  just post on Facebook. I mean, yes, Facebook is the
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  biggest bang for the buck, but you got you got to promote
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  differently. Nowadays, those fans, they just
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  don't want to come watch cars go in circles.
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  So Saint Louis, Worldwide Technology, it's a big event,
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  big music festival, race cars, they got it going on.
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  And how about the pyro to start the race?
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  Now the fans are used to it, the cars get ready to come take the
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  green flag, the face car, the pace cars are leading them off a
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  turn 2 and everybody's ready. And Oh my God, the fire, the
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  boom, it's big. And the drivers are like, Oh my
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  God, you can feel the heat. You see what I'm saying?
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  Chris Blair, Curtis Francois Worldwide Technology, They just,
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  they just set this presidents and they got great traffic flow
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  too. The Illinois State Police, they
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  have this legendary meeting. There must be 200 of the
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  Illinois State Patrol around 8:00.
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  I see him out and then Chris Blair takes his legendary
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  picture shows the the the Highway Patrol getting ready and
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  they're ready. The traffic flow is in and out,
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  in and out. There's none of this deal where
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  you sit there and you stop forever.
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  So they've straightened out the traffic.
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  The entertainment is off the charts.
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  And then how about Denny Hamlet? And how about that race man?
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  Just enough wrecks, just enough controversy.
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  Kyle Larson gets in deep, thinks he's going to slide across the
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  track, but accidentally gets into Ryan Blaney blank.
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  Blaney's a little pissed, but he comes back as a good finish.
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  Somebody gets into Turn 1, dive bombs, gets up into the 21 car
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  of Josh Berry, spins him out. SVG stays out on tires.
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  He gets spun out. Just enough action.
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  Just enough action. What a day.
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  Congratulations to my hometown. And I'm going to leave you all
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  with this. No matter what you say, you do
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  not matter because you weren't there.
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  I was there and my timeline is filled up with how great the
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  race was, how great, how great the entertainment was.
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  Saint Louis does it right, and all the other tracks.
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  Now this, this is, this is the precedence.
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  Worldwide technology has set a precedence and all the other
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  tracks are going to want to make sure they can do it like we do.
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  And all the dirt racing, racing around the racetrack.
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  You got Tri-City Speedway 20 minutes from the NASCAR track,
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  Highland, 20 minutes away, Pevely, 30 minutes away, Kyle
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  Busch was racing at Dough Run with Braxton Bush.
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  That's a fourth track. So much dirt racing.
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  We were racing Friday night, Saturday night, every night,
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  racing, entertainment and shows and music.
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  Congratulations to the team at Worldwide Technology.
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  You make me proud. I got goosebumps.
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  Have a great day everybody.