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Coffee With Kenny | NASCAR Fans, You May Not Like Hearing This · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  I got my hairs dead. Hermanator got his hairs dead.
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  Hey, Herman, you going to hold that coffee cup the whole time
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  you're here? I think I'm going to do AI think
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  I'm going to do one of those, you know, voting things.
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  Should Herman keep his coffee cup up like this or not?
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  My mom says it's annoying. She does not like it.
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  So maybe I'll start like this and eventually put it down.
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  Let's try that. Respond right here.
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  It's going to be a quick 1 today.
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  I'm not going to try to get to 8 minutes just because I'm going
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  to give you all a break. Just saw by Adam Stern that 2.3
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  million people watched the Miami Homestead NASCAR Cup race.
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  Now before you start saying well this and that, don't go there
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  because I'm a smart man. I'm not bragging on myself, I'm
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  a smart man. 2.3 million. Just just sit on your ass right
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  now and count to 2.3 million. He'd be here all damn day long.
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  2.3 million is a lot of people. So 2.3 million people watched
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  the NASCAR Cup Miami race. And that's just that.
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  And that my friends right there, is why TV is paying billions of
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  dollars for NASCAR. Now listen, I've talked bad
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  enough about NASCAR. You know, I've been kind of
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  neutral at times to the lawsuit. I've I've just said what I'm I
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  see. So I'm going to talk good about
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  NASCAR right now. OK.
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  So you're just going to, you're just going to have to eat this
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  one. You're going to have to eat this
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  one. You're going to have to eat
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  positivity. So the article by Adam Stern
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  also reads that NASCAR viewership for TV has been
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  rocketing up for the last six weeks.
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  Why? Why respond right here?
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  If if Bristol was so bad? Oh God, they destroyed Bristol.
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  OK, now I'm giving a little comedy to it 'cause I'm an
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  entertainer. Bristol's seen.
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  Bristol's destroyed Bristol. It was just complete bedlam.
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  And I, and I said about five days after Bristol, I said they
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  will forget Bristol, the fans will forget Bristol and you did.
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  And now we're talking about they should run every race at Miami
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  Homestead. They should run every race in
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  Miami Homestead. It's the greatest race of all
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  time. So I talked to Kenny Schrader
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  about this on our new Schrader. Well, now it's Herman Schrader.
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  It's official. Halfway through this looks like
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  Mike Davis and Tiff and everybody at Dirty MO Media.
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  They have named the new podcast Herm and Schrader.
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  Schrader's pissed. He said and and said you would
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  have top billing. I said, Kenny, I didn't do it.
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  Get on, get on. Mike Davis at Dirty MO Media.
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  What they did, they tested the search engine.
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  They put in all these different names and they said when you
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  search for the new podcast, Herman Schrader is what what
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  search is the best. Not Schrader and Herm.
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  I wish there was Schrader and Herm.
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  OK, so now that I've told you we forgot about Bristol TV, ratings
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  are up. Let's talk about that crowd.
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  Let's talk about that crowd at Miami Homestead.
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  There was nobody there. I I'd say you'd be stretching if
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  there was 20,000 people in the grandstands.
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  OK, I'll give you 30 just because maybe there was 30,000
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  people there. I think it holds 60,000 people.
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  But this is what I've been preaching to all of you all
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  along. Listen, I'm right.
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  Don't get mad at me. Don't get mad at me.
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  I told you that NASCAR was moving on wide open.
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  Look here, here's my here's my gas pedal foot.
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  Look wide open on the gas. On the gas.
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  NASCAR is not letting up. Now listen, I'm going to say
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  something a little smart ass and you can respond right here.
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  We want people in the grandstands, OK?
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  We meaning our sport. When I say we, that means all of
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  us together. You too.
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  I know you want people in the grandstands.
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  I want people in the grandstands.
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  NASCAR wants people in the grandstands.
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  We want people in the grandstands.
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  However, TV is paying NASCAR billions and billions of
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  dollars. Like 2 billion 1.8 billions.
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  I'm going to say it like a smart ass You don't have to be in the
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  grandstands this oh God, Kenny Jesus, get your voice like a man
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  NASCAR does not need us. I'm going to include me to make
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  me look bad first. NASCAR does not need us in the
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  grandstands, OK? So get off, get off your high
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  horse right now. Get get off of it because they
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  don't need us in the grandstands, OK, As much as you,
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  oh, the sport is failing everything, everything is about
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  TV now. Going to the race tracks is you
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  got to do it at a NASCAR track. But maybe you want to sit at
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  home and you just want to watch it on TV.
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  There's two types of people. You got the people that love
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  NASCAR and they're going 'cause they want to experience it.
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  I mean, that crowd at Bristol was unbelievable.
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  That was one of the biggest crowds I've seen at Bristol in
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  years. Because Bristol is awesome is,
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  you know, I thought the race was awesome because they went green
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  flag so long, but you didn't like it because you wanted them
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  to pit. You want to pitch tragic.
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  And me, I'm from the old days. I'm like, man, holy crap, this
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  place it went caution free and and some of the new race car
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  drivers disagree with me. But to me, I mean, I thought
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  Bristol was awesome. Now the fans showed up.
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  They here's here's the opposite. They did not show up at the best
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  race of the year. So respond right here.
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  Why did they show up at the race that you say is the not not a
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  good race, which was Bristol and they don't show up at the best
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  race of the year? Is it because it's in Miami and
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  it's too far down and you're not going to drive there?
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  Could be, it could be. Is it too expensive?
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  To me, it's like, hell, you make a vacation out of it.
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  So we're looking there. I didn't even try to go to 8
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  minutes and it's just such a good subject.
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  I think this one's going to be a good one.
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  Everybody all right? Take a deep breath.
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  I see this going on in dirt racing.
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  I see this going on in dirt racing.
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  And by the way, more and more of you dirt racers are worse.
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  You dirt racing fans are getting worse than NASCAR fans.
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  I'm seeing so much bitching and moaning out there.
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  But, but here's the deal with dirt racing, you got flow, you
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  got dirt vision and those, those subscriptions are record
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  ratings. So you're doing the same thing
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  in dirt racing. So don't act like dirt racing is
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  pure. You dirt fans are the same as a
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  NASCAR fan. You won't go to the race, but
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  you'll watch it on Flow and you'll watch it on Dirt Vision.
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  All right, everybody that look, I, I just told you what I see.
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  I'm not trying to get you. There's no agreeing with me or
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  not. That don't matter.
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  The point is, is that's what's going on.
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  All the money right now is that Flow, Dirt Vision and TV.
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  All right, You can go to the race whether you want to or not,
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  but they're proving to you they don't.
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  They don't really need you. They don't need you at the
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  racetrack anymore because a billions of dollars because
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  you're watching at home was why. All right, respond right here.
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  And I think the ones that that don't make any sense.
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  I don't like Bristol, but it had the biggest crowd of the year
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  just about, oh, that Miami race was great.
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  But there's nobody in the grandstands They're going to
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  NASCAR is is going to be just fine.
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  It's designed for people to watch on TV.
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  Respond right here.