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My Take On That Wild Atlanta Race! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning. Everybody went to Atlanta for
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  the NASCAR Cup race yesterday, and it was a good one.
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  Atlanta Motor Speedway at one time was thought of as a track
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  that is failing. They're going to have to tear
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  this thing down. Nobody's coming.
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  What happened? I have never witnessed the
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  resurgence of a racetrack as fast as Atlanta Motor Speedway
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  in the NASCAR Cup Series. So in other words, you look at
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  all the NASCAR Cup tracks, like the next one that needs, you
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  know, a resurgence would be the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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  But this Atlanta Motor Speedway, it's the hot ticket now.
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  I mean, look at those finishes. Look at the racing.
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  It's it's kind of wild because it's in between a Daytona
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  Talladega. But as we as we witnessed, you
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  got to handle. You have to handle because Kyle
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  Larson, the in car video, Jeff Burton, everybody watched it.
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  He got a little loose by himself.
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  Nobody took the air off his spoiler.
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  Nobody was on his ass. He got a little loose and you're
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  running so fast. You got so much G force that it
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  it got loose and it caught and Kyle Larson, you know, went in
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  the wall and man, am I glad he's OK.
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  Then Chase Bisco came by and hit him hard.
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  So thankful that Kyle Larson and Chase Brisco are OK.
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  So anyway, my point is the track is in between a Daytona and
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  Talladega. You can get, you can get loose
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  and you know, you got to handle it.
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  Daytona 2, Talladega is the track you have to least handle.
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  But besides the race being awesome, that whole team there
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  at Atlanta, I don't know if it's the same team from the past, but
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  boy, they they put on a show. They had, you know, one of our
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  Olympic rugby players there. We had Lonzo for who is that?
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  Fernandez, You respond right here.
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  I think we had an IndyCar driver there.
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  Listen, we had a lot of famous people there.
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  OK? Listen, I don't know everything.
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  My name is not Larry Mac Reynolds.
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  I don't know everything. That's another subject for
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  another day. But, you know, I remind
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  everybody I'm not a journalist. Respond right here.
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  Put in your viewpoints. That's the great thing about
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  Coffee with Kenny. Remember, you know everything
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  since you know everything. And if you don't, you'll Google
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  it, then come back and make me look stupid and that's OK.
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  Respond right here. But there was a lot of people
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  there yesterday, a lot of the entertainment.
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  So Atlanta Motor Speedway has it going on.
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  We had a great trackside live, really good trackside live.
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  And listen, I must say something controversial, but it's the
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  truth. I witnessed it with my own eyes.
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  You know, about a month ago, I said here's the three most
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  popular drivers. I said Bubba Wallace, Hayley
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  Deegan and Denny Hamlin. I said that of course all you
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  all went nuts. Wallace says these here's what
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  people confuse with People think that if you win races that makes
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  you famous and it's not true, especially with today's social
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  media where you can see the driver.
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  So anyway, I'm just going to tell you what happened and then
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  you can respond right here. We had Bubba Wallace, we
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  announced him and I'm going to tell you what they put.
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  They put our show. I don't know if I like it or
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  not. I got my questions about it, but
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  they put us in this contained area.
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  They put trackside live in this contained area called Echo Park.
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  Echo Park is where you can buy cars.
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  Echo Park is a, is a sponsorship.
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  You can buy cars at Echo Park. Well, when you come in there,
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  they can kind of see how many people are in this contained
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  area. Well, when Bubba Wallace came
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  in, you know, we announced Bubba Wallace and I mean the people
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  came in and they pack the area. There's pictures out there.
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  Respond right here. So when Bubba Wallace came in,
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  it was standing room only and everybody's like, like, he like
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  bubble was going to say something unbelievable.
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  Like they was going, he was going to say something and they
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  were going to get him. You know what I mean?
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  Or they were listening. They were listening.
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  Well, when Bubba Wallace left, everybody dispersed to try to
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  get his autograph. Nobody left.
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  Nobody left, but as Bubba walked off the stage, everybody went
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  around to each corner stage. Baba Baba, sign my autograph
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  now. I'm sorry.
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  I'm sorry. Because I know there's a lot of
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  people there that pretend to not like Bubba.
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  They pretend to Boo him because they must think it's the end
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  thing. I'm here to tell you the man's
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  famous. All right?
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  So respond right here, whatever you want to say.
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  But I witnessed it with my own eyes.
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  We had a SVG Shane van Gisbergen.
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  He he man, that guy's tall and he was fun.
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  He was fun. I like Shane.
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  We had a Noah Cracks and we had a lot of good drivers and all
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  the interviews went really good. So then then came the time for
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  me to get off stage. Oh, we also played it was crazy.
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  We played some crazy cornhole and it it was Daniel Hamert with
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  a fan and then Noah with Noah Graxton with a fan.
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  It was good. It it was surprisingly
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  entertaining. Fans went us basically we played
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  cornhole off the the the bags are, you know, the boards were
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  down on the ground and we played off the stage and it was good.
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  It went real good. A lot of swooshes in the hole.
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  But anyway, so after that was all over, I went down to the
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  Media Center, saw Deb Williams, saw Lee Spencer had a good time
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  in the Media Center, and then it was time for me to introduce the
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  top 16. It's so weird because I don't, I
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  mean, I go to the NASCAR races, but I would think that I'm out,
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  I'm out of the game, you know? But it was funny because a lot
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  of the, a lot of the, the, the newer drivers, I forget I'm 61.
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  They called me the OJOG from NASCAR.
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  I think it was Daniel Hamrick that said that or somebody.
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  They said what? You're not you're you're the OG
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  from NASCAR. I'm an old guy from NASCAR.
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  So they think I'm cool until I pissed them off.
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  And I can do that easily. But I, I like all the drivers.
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  I like them all. Some are more sensitive than
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  others. You got to go.
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  You got to grow thick skinned boys because I did.
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  But anyway, so I, I, I was, I was going to say that Kevin
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  Harvick, now that he does, you know, the, the happy Harvick
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  podcast. So I'm not you just got to,
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  you're never mean to drivers. You just got to say what
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  happened. And that might not be in their
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  favor, but I introduced the top 16.
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  And, you know, I, I called out Chase Elliott a little bit on my
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  shows. And I said, you know, love Chase
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  Elliott, but he's got to do more.
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  So when I said I said drive in the number 9, when he talks, we
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  listen. And I mean, the fans roared and
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  he came out. He looked at me and stuck out
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  his hand and shook my hand. I had to take my mic and put it
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  in. Heather shook his hand and I
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  said, thank you, Chase. So I said when he talks, we
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  listen from Dawsonville, GA and that's all I said.
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  I couldn't even say his name. When I said from Dawsonville, GA
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  they went zerk. So listen it was it was a good
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  time. And listen one more thing.
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  My God, I sound like Kyle Petty now.
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  I keep saying listen, they're listening Herman.
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  So about that race, we already talked about Chase Briscoe and
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  and Kyle reckon it was a good race.
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  It was a good race. That's all there's to it, good
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  strategy, things like that. But I do want to call out
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  something meaningless to me. It's not a big deal, but it kind
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  of struck me odd and respond right here.
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  I kept reading that the race finished under caution.
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  OK, listen, Joey Logano is 1 football.
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  Look at the replay. Look at the replay.
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  Joey Logano is 1 football field away or two 2 football fields
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  away. I'll meet you halfway coming
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  through the checkered flag. I mean, they're looking at the
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  checkered flag and as they're going, they're wrecking for like
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  20th, which is fine. The 20th, it's hard to run in
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  the top 20. Those are competitive cars, but
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  the race is over. OK, So they immediately grab the
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  hey flag. Man did a good job.
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  He grabbed, he grabbed the caution flag at the last minute.
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  So they're throw, they're throwing the checker, they're
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  throwing the checker and then then the caution comes out.
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  So technically, technically, which is fine, which is fine.
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  Race entered under caution for but but for about 100 feet, race
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  was over everybody. The race did not end under
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  caution. Like I said, I'll meet you
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  halfway. It technically ended under
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  caution, but so anyway, I just saw it.
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  There was I thought, oh man, I wonder what happened And because
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  I was on the airplane still and I got off from like I see the
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  replay. What the hell?
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  What do you mean? In the end of the I'm thinking
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  like it ended under caution. They were waving the checkered
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  flag and and the wrecks happening as they're coming.
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  I mean, you know, within 100 feet of the checkered flag and
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  they at the last minute get the caution out there.
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  So race was over. That's all there was to it.
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  All right, everybody. Well, make sure you go down and
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  see Rusty and Steven. I think Clint Boyer be down at
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  Lake Ozark, MO Lake Ozark Harley-Davidson bike week at
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  Lake Ozark. I'm not going.
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  I'm too tired. I got, I got 3 hours sleep last
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  night and I just want to sit in one spot for one day.
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  That was another thing yesterday.
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  All the fans were going, damn, Herman, don't you ever stop,
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  boy. I was like, you're right.
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  I need, I've taken this. Listen, don't let the old man
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  in. I've carried it a little too
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  far. I got to back it up.
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  The old man is not coming in, baby.
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  I'm digging. All right, I guess that's it.
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  Go see Rusty Steven. See if Clint Boyer's going to
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  sneak in there. I know that Rusty and Steven are
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  staying at Clint's house. They're going to have a good
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  time. But it's, you know, they ride
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  Harley Davidsons down there and my bike will be down there.
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  My bike will be down there. If you want to buy it, tell the
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  boys it's always for sale because I'll build another one.
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  But but my bike's awesome. And so check it out, talk to
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  Rusty Steven. I hear a little birdie tells me
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  Clint Board has been on my bike. I got an eye on the on the
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  speedometer and and it's showing more mileage.
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  Clint, I guess you like my bike out of Sturgis was like, Clint
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  looks at me and goes, I've been riding shit out of your bike.
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  I'm like, that's why every time I turn it on, I look down.
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  It's got a lot of mileage on it. I think I dropped it off at
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  13,000 miles an hour. It's got 16.
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  I'm gonna start charging Clint. Not we love Clint Boyer.
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  All right. I guess that's it.