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23XI Racing Owners Called Denny Hamlin "A Child" | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning everybody. I think I got the day right
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  yesterday. I messed up and I said the wrong
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  day. Thank you all for keeping me
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  honest. The days fly by My my
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  mother-in-law, Dee, she said. Kenny, when you get to be 50
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  years old, they go by in five year chunks.
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  Five year at a time is like you're 2000, boom, it's your
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  2005. It's true.
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  Time flies. All right, everybody.
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  I feel a little wounded this morning.
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  I feel somewhat sad and angry. A little bit of both.
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  I think equally, you know, like 25% sad, 25% angry, you know the
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  rest bewildered, perplexed, you know, add it all in there.
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  Yesterday, Bob Pockrass put all over social media, the e-mail
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  messages from all the NASCAR executives.
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  I understand, you know, that it's a big sport.
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  NASCAR is a big sport unlike any other sport.
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  There is. It's, it's complex, it's
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  perplexing. All of these e-mail exchanges
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  were done during the time that NASCAR was trying to get a 7 or
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  $8 billion contract. So they were pissed.
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  They were on edge. And boy, everybody was talking
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  bad shit about each other, which, which the older I get, I,
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  I laugh about because like I told you other day, you can, you
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  know, it's so awesome. I have so much freedom in my
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  life now because years ago, if somebody cussed me out or talked
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  badly of me, it hurt my feelings.
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  And I got to be honest with you, it was social media that trained
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  me that, Oh my God, I don't know these people.
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  And even if my, even if my friends or even if somebody, you
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  know, cussed me out, you get over it.
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  When you get older, you just realize, you know, it just don't
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  matter for me nowadays. It's kind of like that that
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  little video you see over there in Italy, Fuck you and everybody
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  goes fuck you too. Have a beautiful day.
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  That's kind of where I am, but that's what I see with this
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  whole NASCAR deal. Everybody just mother fuck each
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  other. And but I'm going to tell you
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  the one I want to talk about this morning.
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  This reminds me of of Watergate. A lot of you are are are too
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  young to remember Watergate, but it's when the Republicans both
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  broke into the Democrat, you know, offices and found out some
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  dirt and, you know, they kind of got caught and then Nixon
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  resigns. What is the name for this?
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  You know, we had Watergate back in the day and that's why
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  President Nixon resigned. What what do we call this?
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  The Files? You know, think there's a little
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  movie out about it, The Files. What do we call this dark day in
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  NASCAR? I tell you, a lot of people are
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  hurt. Mark Martin, I saw his, you
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  know, Mark Martin commented. He's he basically says it sure
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  is sad that the people in charge don't, you know, are they don't
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  they're not they don't got like emotional investment like we do.
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  And if they did, maybe, you know, we'd be in a better place.
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  I got to tell you, I'm worried. I'm worried.
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  I hope we can recover from this. And here's what I'm worried
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  about. When you read everything, you
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  realize how hardcore everything is.
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  There's no, you know, it's very disappointing, right?
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  OK. What I want to talk about that
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  bothers me is Curtis Polk and Eugene Mason, the executives at
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  2311. Those mother fuckers.
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  Yeah. There you go.
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  OK, man, you guys hate Denny Hamlin.
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  I mean, the executives at 2311. I mean, I've seen, you know,
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  there was a batch of emails that got out, I don't know, a month
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  or two ago. And boy, they, they just
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  badmouth their own driver, which owner, I guess you could say so.
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  So Curtis Polk and Eugene Mason, they're like executives at 2311.
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  I maybe they own part of the team.
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  Hell, I don't know. You know, when I look at it, I
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  look at it as Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan own the team.
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  May maybe Curtis Polk and Eugene Mason, maybe I don't know what
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  they do. And I didn't care to look
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  because I'm not a reporter. OK, I'm not reporting, but I'm a
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  little perturbed, a little pissed off how they treat Denny
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  behind Denny's back, Eugene Mason said.
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  Denny's a child. And, and, and basically Denny
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  started in with me that nobody respects his opinion.
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  He gets, you know, kind of like Rodney Dangerfield.
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  Danny feels like, you know, the executives there don't respect
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  what he's saying. Now, if you go back to another
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  one made months ago, Curtis Polk basically says the problem with
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  Danny is that Danny likes to throw money at everything.
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  He likes to spend money. Well, I'm like, fuck yeah,
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  capitalism, baby, spend some money, spend some money.
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  Now, when you realize, you know, listen, Danny was saying spend
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  some money to make things better.
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  He wasn't. He wasn't saying waste money.
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  So there's definitely a difference between Curtis Polk
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  and Denny on how to run 2311 Denny's.
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  Like we need to, we need to invest more, we need to spend
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  more and Curtis is over here. No, we don't need to.
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  We need to figure out where to, you know, we don't want to do
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  that. So behind Denny's back, Curtis
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  and Eugene, they're bad mouthing Denny.
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  And that pissed me off because I'm a race car driver and I know
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  what it is like to be a driver in NASCAR.
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  And I'm going to tell you right now the way it is, it's the crew
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  chief against the driver. It's The Body Shop against the
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  motor shop. And all NASCAR teams are like a
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  little civil war inside the race shop.
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  You know that. The body's no good, though.
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  We ain't got no horsepower. The driver ain't driving right?
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  That goes on 24/7, but these are high end executives and it
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  seemed tell by my face. It's very disappointing.
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  You know, I I always said one thing about people and if you've
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  made it this far, one reason I like Trump is because he mother
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  the right to your face. And then you got another group
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  that they, they, they do behind your back.
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  Don't do behind my back, motherfucker.
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  Right to my face. So I know who my enemies are.
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  And I think that's what Denny Hamlin's dealing with right now.
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  He's dealing with a lot of people talking behind his back.
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  I don't know how he does business, but I'm sure Michael
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  Jordan's helping him figure it out.
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  All right, have a great Sunday, everybody.