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Honoring Kurt Busch Plus NASCAR & 23XI Are Sharing A Sponsor?! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning everybody. Just got done dropping the
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  grandbabies off wearing my Don the Snake predome hat.
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  Let's take it off. Let's let's mess his hair up a
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  little bit. Hey, IE coffee tongue.
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  Alright, Remember I-55? Federated Auto Parts Raceway
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  Park, March 19th, 2020, First mods gone wild, $5000 to win for
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  the mods and the B mods. All right, it's 10° outside,
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  feels like 4. So let's get out in it, all
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  right? Hey, Wallace, you crazy man.
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  OK, let's get right to it today. Kurt Busch being inducted into
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  the Hall of Fame. We've already done a preview on
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  handsome Harry Gant. Want to congratulate Mr.
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  Hendrick Hedrick being into the Hall of Fame, his family, I'm
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  sure they'll be there. Kurt Busch, you know, a lot of
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  people didn't like him. I learned to like him.
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  You know, if we remember, Kurt got in trouble with Rodger
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  Penske. He got in trouble with Jack
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  Roush. That's where I come in.
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  You know where this is going. So let me start with the good
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  stuff first. I I get called by Eddie Gossage
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  from Texas Motor Speedway and Eddie goes, Herman, I need you
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  to come down to Fandango down there, Texas Motor Speedway.
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  I said, all right, Eddie, I'm on my way.
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  He says, well, I need you to ride with Kyle Petty and Kurt
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  Busch. And you guys just take our big
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  old jet that's owned by Bruton Smith.
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  Bruton Smith. I said, OK, so I go to the
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  Charlotte airport and there's that big beautiful jet and I get
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  in that jet with Kyle Petty, Kurt Busch and myself.
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  Three of us, we had the time of our life and I thought to
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  myself, man, I like Kurt Busch. I wonder why nobody likes him.
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  I found out about Kurt Busch that Kurt, when he gets to the
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  racetrack, like all of us, Kurt Busch goes into a different
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  mode. He's not, you know, when you go
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  to the racetrack, we we turn into race car drivers.
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  It's not all fun and games. Hey, as Father John would say,
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  competition to kill you. So the first thing I learned
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  about Kurt Busch is that, oh, there's a there's a different
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  Kurt Busch when you go to the racetrack.
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  So I understand that. And Kurt Busch, one of the
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  greatest race car drivers of all time.
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  Holy, is it cold? It's 4° out here.
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  Hey, Wallace, why you shaking? So Kurt gets in trouble at
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  Phoenix and I drive the car. I just jumped in the car and I
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  start last and I finished 16th. First thing I learned about Kurt
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  was how he was able to drive the car so loose.
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  I can't stay out here, it's too cold.
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  Let's go in the house. So Kurt drives the car so loose
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  and there was a rubber in the right rear.
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  So Kurt, I'm like, OK, Jimmy Finney was the crew chief.
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  So we take the rubber out of the right rear, put it in the left
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  rear and that thing lit up and I was still on the lead lap.
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  I think it was fighting. I was fighting Ricky Rudd to
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  stay on the lead lap. So I go from I don't know what
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  it was 20th something up to 16th and they they throw the
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  checkered flag. So it was a good run for me.
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  And Jack Rouse said, OK, we're going to give you another bite
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  of the apple. And I drive the car at I drive
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  the car at Miami Homestead through this whole time.
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  I got to know, you know, Kurt and I must say Kurt Busch is one
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  of the greatest race car drivers of all time.
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  I could I couldn't drive the car as a loose as Kurt did.
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  So I just want to let you know that Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch,
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  they draw. Hi, Dee Dee's like what the hell
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  you doing? I'm like, I'm putting on a show,
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  baby. So do not help them.
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  This is disgraceful. Kurt is a hell of a race car
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  driver. He's a champion.
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  Lucy, you got to let me in. Hey, you got to let me in.
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  She's like, man, you crazy. So hi, Davey.
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  Get my hair messed up. He's getting too nice looking.
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  I like to get my hair hair messed up for the show.
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  So anyway, yeah, that's what I can tell you about about Kurt.
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  Champion, race winner, nice guy. And so that's my story with
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  Kurt, right? You all know it OK, I hit a
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  snack, but this is what happened.
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  Let me turn this down. I don't want you guys listening
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  to TV. They still crazy up there in
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  Minnesota. OK, I heard something the other
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  day that made me made me do one of these.
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  Remember I told you that it's you know the gas prices are
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  cheap, record race car counts all over.
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  You know, the, the car count at the Chili Bowl was like 381
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  record Wild West shoot out in Arizona record.
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  Well, now the president at Daytona Speedway, we're
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  switching subjects. By the way, the president and I
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  think the president of EMSA, you know, the Daytona 24 is getting
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  ready to start right now. And they said, we want to
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  announce that there's a record crowd right now for the Daytona
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  24. So there's mixed messages out
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  there. Everybody respond right here.
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  What's going on? Grocery stores are packed,
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  restaurants are packed, record car counts.
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  So there's there's definitely, I don't know what's going on, but
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  everything's good. Stock market's way up.
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  And, you know, I'm an old man now, so I'm invested in stock
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  market. I'm kicking ass.
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  Actually, I'm recording the names of everybody's ass.
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  Is that a kick? OK, so we talked about Kurt
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  Busch being inducted in the Hall of Fame.
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  We talked about record crowd at the Daytona 24.
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  They've announced it. Last but not least, my favorite
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  of the law. Say the last for least.
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  How about how about 2311 they sue NASCAR and then couple days
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  ago NASCAR 2311 and Hardee's the food people.
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  I got you. You're thinking oh Hardee's
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  ain't got enough money until you realize they have 3800 stores
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  and they're worldwide. Did you know that Hardee's is
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  not just in your town? How do they got so much money?
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  I don't see them, but just in my town.
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  No, they're hey, it ain't just Pitbull.
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  Hardy's is Mr. Worldwide. They're worldwide.
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  So I think they end up giving, I think Hardy's took place a
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  McDonald's and they're going to be Bubba, Bubba Wallace's
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  sponsor, $1,000,000 or so. But they're sharing the sponsor
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  with NASCAR. So, you know, I'll never forget
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  this. I've heard stories of people
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  suing each other and going to dinner because they say when
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  you, when you go to the courthouse, you know, Can you
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  imagine having a fight with your wife and saying, let's go to
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  court and settle this? I'm telling you, I'm, I'm, I'm
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  going to keep the names private. But I know a couple people.
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  I, I know a driver and car owner that, that we're suing each
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  other and we're still going to dinner.
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  So 2311 sues NASCAR and now they're sharing Hardy's as the
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  sponsor because Hardy is like the official sponsor of, of
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  NASCAR. Go figure.
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  When you grow older like me, you'll realize that people can
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  MF each other and go and put their arm around each other.
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  It's it's a craziest damn thing. OK.
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  I hope you enjoyed the show this morning.
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  It was a lot different. I did it on purpose.
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  I wanted to show you my hair is not really like this.
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  I do it for the show, as you can tell.
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  So when you saw me at the Chili Bowl, my hairs look good.
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  I hope you enjoy the effort that I put into this.
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  Have a great Friday, everybody. Better yet, have a great
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  weekend.