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Tail Of The Dragon, Morgan Petty, & NASCAR Moves Watkins Glen | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy noon on Friday. Hey, we were really busy this
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  morning. Sorry I'm so late with coffee
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  with Kenny, but here we are. You're looking at it.
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  The Dragon, the tale of the dragon.
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  It's we started in Tennessee and we wiggled and we winded and I
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  loved it 'cause I love the banking.
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  Kim was on back. I looked in the mirror.
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  Her fists were like this. There's nothing she could do.
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  We basically stayed in 3rd gear the whole time.
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  But yeah, so let's take a look for a lot of you that don't
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  know. Tale of the Dragon is a very
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  famous winding, I mean, tight, tight winding road.
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  And like Kyle Petty says, look at any record book, any
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  historian book you want to. Tale of the Dragon is like top
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  three in all motorcycle rides and I loved it.
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  Kind of wish I could go back that way on my 2 Wheeler.
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  We did that on Kim's bike at Kimberly Marie but would have
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  loved to done the Tale of the Dragon with my two Wheeler.
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  I will be back and when we when we were coming from Tennessee
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  doing all that whining, you get right to the end and says
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  welcome to North Carolina. And I know brother Rusty and
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  Steven and the whole Southern country custom group.
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  You know, I mean, this is so famous and so much fun.
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  Let's do a little bit of a 360 here and we're going to talk a
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  little racing. So the tail of the dragon, you
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  start, you go up right there and we're at the end of it.
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  So this is kind of a resort. The Kyle Petty charity, right?
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  These are Marshalls for a lot of you that don't know these
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  gentlemen right here. They're called motor marshals.
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  Without them we'd be in trouble. They they cleared the way for
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  us. They make sure hey we don't stop
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  at any red lights anywhere at any time.
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  Actually Wichita, KS and basically everywhere they shut,
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  they shut the interstates down. Look at them.
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  Those guys are award-winning bikes.
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  That man right there says if it fits in a skillet, kill it.
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  That's right. That's the man right there.
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  He gives us our speeches. Basically, don't try to miss a
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  squirrel and run into a tree. Just if it fits in a skillet,
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  kill it. Just go straight.
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  There she is. Can I come down there?
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  Oh, my God, it's an update. I haven't done anything.
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  It's a very late addition of coffee with Kenny.
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  And everybody said even some of the, I believe that was
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  Tennessee police. The Tennessee.
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  The Tennessee police said you're Tennessee and you're over here
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  in North Carolina. I love that.
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  Come on in. OK.
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  The coast is clear. Yes.
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  And Morgan, you made my dream come true.
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  Morgan Petty, everybody. So I didn't know because I
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  lived. I lived in Charlotte, NC for 27
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  years. But Morgan knows this, being
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  married to Kyle. You're laser focused on racing.
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  I never enjoyed anything, so I was always on a racetrack.
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  How many times do you run The Tale of the Dragon?
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  Yeah, I've been with this state for nine years. 9.
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  Years. So for nine years and then I ran
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  the down the dragon when I was at the county.
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  Yeah. So, Morgan.
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  Yeah. I told you, you made my dream
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  come true. It wasn't until after we stopped
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  and they have a tree of shame. Hold on, hold on.
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  Everybody right over there, there's a tree of shame.
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  And what that means is Morgan is there's been so many motorcycles
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  that have wrecked and that is all their spare parts.
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  Is that true? Did they really rest?
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  What do you mean? It's true?
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  It's true. Hold on, Hold on.
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  We got some guys. Is it true?
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  It's very true. Yeah.
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  It's very. True, you'd be surprised to
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  number wrecks. That happened.
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  Say that again. I said you'd.
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  You'd be surprised how many wrecks occur over on the The
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  Dragon sports cars and motorcycles.
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  OK, Morgan, it's all about you right now.
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  Thank you for doing this for me. I want to thank you from the
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  bottom of my heart. This has been a hardcore trip
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  and we're celebrating 250 years in America, but more importantly
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  for you, 30 years of the Cow Petty Charity ride.
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  When you thought about this ride, how did you dream Enough?
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  Like what did you say? Well, I would say this ride is
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  all Kyle Petty really. Yep, he planned the whole route
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  and picked places that are iconic American landmarks,
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  iconic American highways, Route 66, Highway 50, riding the
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  Dragon, going to Graceland, you know, going to wheels three time
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  Johnny Morris's original Bass Pro.
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  It was all about the sights and what makes this country so
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  great. And our 30th anniversary is such
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  a big deal for us, so we wanted to celebrate America.
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  Yeah, and I just want to interject.
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  This is all about the Cow Petty Cheddar ride and we raise money
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  for the Victory Junction game Camp.
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  Kyle said something this morning.
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  It's $2500 to send one child to camp.
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  Is that? Right, One child, that's what it
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  costs, but the families don't pay anything at all.
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  So every time we can, somebody gives us a dollar, $20, you
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  know, $50, it adds up. And we look at that at the end
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  of the year and we say, OK, we raised $2,000,000.
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  How many kids is that going to send to camp?
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  Because that's, that's how we look at everything.
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  So it's all about sending kids to camp.
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  Yeah, one more thing before I let you go.
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  I noticed, you know, months before you do this, you take a
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  dry run. Yep.
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  You load up all your kids, Kyle, your Mama.
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  Yep, that dry run. Does that take longer than this
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  run? We run it in the exact same
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  amount of time that it takes us to do the charity ride.
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  So we'll wake up at 6:00 in the morning and hit the road and I
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  have all the Google Maps directions, we have the Atlas,
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  but I'm writing every single turn down.
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  Every traffic light. We write it down, down to the
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  10th of a mile. And then I come back and I type
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  it all up and that's what we follow.
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  That's our route Bible. And you are a damn gangster.
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  Every. I've heard more people.
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  This is my 4th one. I've heard more people say it's
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  unbelievably organized. We come into Wichita, KS and
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  this girl right here shut the highway down.
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  We had the highway shut down in Memphis, TN Yeah.
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  Chattanooga. How do you do that?
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  Springfield working with local law enforcement.
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  I pick up the phone and I, I cold call and I hope that
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  someone's going to answer or call me back.
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  And I've been fortunate to make really awesome relationships
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  through the years with a law enforcement at a local, county,
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  state level and they're all amazing.
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  They help us. OK, cold call triggered me
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  because the only way I ran 905 NASCAR races is I had to get
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  sponsorship and the word cold call means you just call
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  somebody that's. How I did too pick up.
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  The phone Pick up the phone you. Know what Carl's always said, If
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  you don't ask, you don't know. I love you.
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  Thank you, Morgan. Love you.
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  Awesome. Alright, everybody just right
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  there want to take hold on. We gotta just show this logo,
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  show this man right here playing.
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  Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it, Sheriff Brian.
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  Thank you, buddy. Appreciate you guys so much, and
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  we're going to end this a little bit.
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  I know you all want to talk about Watkins Glen.
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  Now we're going to do racing. OK?
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  So let's end like this, everybody.
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  You never know what NASCAR is going to do.
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  And it is my opinion, and I don't know if I'm right or not,
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  but NASCAR needed to go out to San Diego because that is part
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  of Ben Kennedy's vision. And Ben said, OK, we, you know,
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  we're going to do Bowman Gray, but yet we're going to go to
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  Rockingham, We're going to do Coronado, we're going to go San
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  Diego, but oh, we're going to go back to Wilkesboro.
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  You give and get. So for everybody at Watkins
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  Glen, I understand. And like I said, I respect you
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  and I heard you. But we did all that complaining,
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  which I'm not mad at you all, you had a right to complain.
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  And I know the weather's bad up there right now, but they got
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  rain tires. I got to tell you one thing,
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  Schrader said. Schrader said they were all
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  drinking the night before at Watkins Glen.
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  And they're like, oh, they feel so bad in the morning and
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  practice is like 9:00 and guys in his motorhome, race car
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  driver, it's raining. He said, oh, thank God practice
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  is cancelled. Oh, no, we got rain tires.
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  And now NASCAR's really got rain tires.
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  So I would say enjoy this weather.
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  Everybody in Watkins Glen and understand that the big
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  announcement is that Watkins Glen is going to be in the
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  playoffs in September next year. So you gave up one year and
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  you're going to have memories of all the mud everywhere and the
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  rain tires. You know, it's kind of like just
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  the time you remember those times, it's well worth it.
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  All right, So enjoy the moment. Understand NASCAR scheduling.
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  Ben Kennedy is trying to give everybody a taste of, you know,
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  different scheduling because people will say, hey, tired of
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  the class being here, so let's move it here.
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  And I think that's what we're doing right now in NASCAR is we
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  are moving the schedule around. So everybody in Watkins Glen,
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  all of you in the Northeast toughen up.
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  You gave up this year to get something better next year.