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Why Hasn't NASCAR Cancelled The Entire Clash Weekend? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning everybody. I want to let you all know how
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  much I appreciate you all. Last night at the Volusia
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  Speedway I had a lot of people come up to me and just tell me
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  how much they like coffee with Kenny and I want to let you know
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  that I hear that and it doesn't go unnoticed.
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  I appreciate y'all. Thanks so much.
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  How about the green vase? It's it's becoming legendary.
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  Aunt Patty's green vase. Yeah.
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  It's what? A piece of art.
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  We'll keep it in the shop to draw attention that way, The
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  comments section, everybody will go.
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  How about that green bong in the background?
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  Whatever. OK, let's get right to it.
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  Everybody. There's a lot of news I ran
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  forth last night and the story in the garage areas.
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  Did you see Wallace win his heat race?
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  I wasn't sure how to respond to that, but I figured it out that
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  I'm surprising some people. I guess at 62 years old I'm
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  supposed to become a crippled old man.
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  Ain't going to happen. I stay active.
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  I stay going and like Ryan Roosevelt.
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  Ryan, you watching this with Jerovich shocks He he come up me
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  and Ryan and Nick Hoffman and myself, we get to talk and last
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  night the devolution Speedway and Ryan said, somebody said,
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  did you see Wallace on that heat race?
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  I'm like, did you not pay attention to the full year?
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  I won two championships and 7A mains come to Saint Louis, come
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  to our local bull rings and do that.
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  It ain't no joke where I race. It's it ain't no joke.
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  All right, I guess that's it. I was going to keep going, but I
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  thought that's enough. OK, switching subjects.
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  What the hell is NASCAR thinking?
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  I see this morning, this Friday morning, Bob Pockras and in
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  America they've announced a winter warning.
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  And you all taught me, see what we talked about last time I said
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  what's the difference between a watch and a warning?
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  Watch, watch, watch out. Warning always happens, really
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  going to happen. So starting at 4:00 tonight,
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  it's Friday right now for this evening or something like that
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  into Sunday at noon, noon till Sunday.
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  Winter warning, 4 to 7 inches of snow.
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  Now you know, my Kelton is always said, Herman, be fair
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  with us. I said, Mike, I feel like I'm
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  always fair to you. Now it's 7:00 in the morning.
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  Should I call you up? Mike?
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  Hey, Mike, why? Why are you, why are you still
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  promoting your racing? I'm going to take, I'm going to
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  take a shot at this. I think the reason NASCAR is
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  saying, hey, we're racing is because we're trying to build
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  this deal up in town there where the fans can come so you can go
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  somewhere indoors. I think Saturday or, or today,
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  it's kind of like a Fandango thing like they do down there in
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  Texas. But we always did it at Winston
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  Salem. Remember that everybody respond
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  right here. Remember when we did that the
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  the fan like the fan get together.
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  So I think NASCAR's trying to keep the wheels in motion, but I
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  I would expect soon for them, for them to go look, this is now
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  a winter warning. Warning means it's going to
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  happen. That's what you all taught me.
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  But once again, I think the reason they're they're acting
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  like this is still going to happen is because of this fan
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  get together, the fans, you all, you can go up to Winston Salem
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  and see the cars. I guess the real race car or
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  something like that. Respond right here.
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  So I look for NASCAR to completely do what Kenny
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  Schrader says. Abort now.
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  It's a winter warning now. It's clearly unsafe.
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  I think Jacqueline, Kevin Rumley's wife, she lives up
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  there. She goes, I don't know why
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  NASCAR is still advertising that they're going to race.
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  She goes, they they got like it's like like like bells and
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  sirens going off. It's like Armageddon people
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  going to be and all that. So, I mean, we can do have the
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  snow cleaned off from Saturday to Sunday on a flat racetrack
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  with grass in the middle. I love NASCAR, I love them, but
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  just pretend we're eating and we're hanging out.
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  Winter storm warning, 4 to 7 inches, Saturday through Sunday
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  at noon. And we're still racing
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  everybody. All right, enough of that.
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  Just always have a little comedy.
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  That was my little comedy sketch.
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  So when you come down here to Daytona, switching subjects,
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  when you come down here to Daytona, you're you get that?
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  Know some things the Daytona Beach Journal reports now, I
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  didn't say a reporter's name. I saw a Daytona Beach Journal,
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  Ben Kennedy, who owns NASCAR, He says that they are going to
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  create an atmosphere around every racetrack this year.
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  And each racetrack is an individual in itself.
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  In other words, the racetrack at Kansas City, you know, it's got
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  a casino on the back straight. It's got a hockey stadium across
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  the street there. Daytona's got the beach, but
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  they're going to create an atmosphere like our Saint Louis
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  track. We have Worldwide Technology
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  Raceway and what what Ben Kennedy at NASCAR says they're
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  going to create a fan experience.
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  Now, in other words, yeah, there's going to be a race going
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  on. But to me, it seems like they're
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  going to do what Formula One does.
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  You cannot convince me that the racing is good in Formula One.
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  But why does everybody like Formula One?
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  And I know we're not Formula One.
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  I get that. However, what's Formula One
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  doing that Everybody loves going.
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  They got the Ferris wheel. It's like, oh, look, there's the
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  Ferris wheel. We got Red Bull.
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  Look, I got wings. I can fly.
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  You know, it's got these little suave little restaurants.
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  So Ben Kennedy says in the Daytona Beach Journal that
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  they're going to do like Saint Louis does Saint Louis and Chris
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  Blair and Curtis Francois, they got what they call the
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  Confluence Music Festival. You go to the racetrack and
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  there's way more than racing. See, people get bored nowadays.
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  It takes a lot to entertain people.
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  And I've said that all along. You, you go to Monster Jam,
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  hell, it ain't good enough that trucks can jump jumps now.
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  They now the, if the trucks don't do backflips and hop on
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  rear tires and act like an, a dog, you know, a dog, a pickup
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  truck, a pickup truck on its rear tires bouncing around.
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  It's like, it's very hard to entertain people now.
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  So people are like, oh, there's cars going around in circles.
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  So NASCAR's figured it out. And Ben Kennedy in the Daytona
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  Beach Journal said they're going to do like Saint Louis, the
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  Confluence Music Festival. You go to Saint Louis and
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  there's there's people at the racetrack that don't know
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  nothing about racing, but they're there because, you know,
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  they're favorite musical actors there and they just got things
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  going on. So I see all this in a positive
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  step. You know, listen, don't make me
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  go through the list, but NASCAR's got it going on right
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  now. Congratulations, Ben Kennedy.
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  I like this. It's an event.
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  It's not just all about the race.
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  Race cars. I mean, it's all around us.
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  Everybody, It's all around us. Formula One Monster Jam
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  snowmobiles are doing backflips now, as an old buddy of mine
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  would say, it's sad to say, but cars going around the track just
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  don't do it anymore. And I know all you listen, a lot
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  of you don't even go to the racetrack anymore, but you're on
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  social media. So maybe this will make you
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  maybe your grandbaby go. Poppy.
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  Let's go to the NASCAR races. They got somebody playing music
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  that they like. So all right, that's a long one,
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  but it was worth it. Look here.
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  Look at here active cold alerts. They're going nuts here.
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  Cold weather in Daytona Beach, FL is like a foot of snow in
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  Saint Louis simply being look feels like Sunday.
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  It's going to feel like it's 15° here in Daytona.
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  Feels like, see, they do a feel like the reason they do feels
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  like here because you got ocean water.
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  So I will say this, I just came, I live in Saint Louis.
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  We had, we had a foot of snow and, and 0°.
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  But there's something about the cold down here.
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  I think it's 'cause the state is covered on both sides by ocean
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  water. As they say here, it's a cold,
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  wet. Holy moly.
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  Sorry. I went along today.
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  Everybody have a great Friday.