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Carl Edwards Says 2016 NASCAR Championship Was "Snatched" From Him | Charlie Marlow · Kenny Wallace Media

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All right, we are live. Hello everybody, Charlie Marlow
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here on the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel wanted to talk
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with all of you and hopefully you jump in the comments as
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well. Already see Matthew McDonnell in
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there. I want to discuss this Carl
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Edwards interview with Dale Earnhardt junior on the Dale
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Junior download Dirty MO Media. It dropped Wednesday morning, so
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I listened to it last night. This interview is fantastic.
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If you're a NASCAR fan, if you're a sports fan, if you're
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just a fan of of good conversation, good discussions,
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just good content, you absolutely have to listen or
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watch this interview. And by no means am I saying that
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because here on the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel, we have
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a partnership with Dirty MO Media.
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It is just fantastic. It it's one of the best.
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I mean, it might be one of the best NASCAR.
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Maybe it's the best NASCAR podcast, singular podcast I've
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ever heard. I, I can't I can't remember
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myself being more into listening to this podcast.
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And then also once I started listening just how good it was
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for heck, almost two hours that that includes the ads and all
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that. So maybe the, the Carl Edwards
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portion was more like 90 minutes or 100 minutes, Whatever it was,
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it's it's well worth your time. Now.
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There's so much to talk about when when you talk to somebody
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for over an hour and a half. But obviously the big news, the
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big story and then Carl Edwards, he has started to discuss this
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because he went into the Hall of Fame.
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So he had his speech. He's done a bunch of media
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availabilities over the last year, but he hasn't really
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gotten super in depth like he did in this podcast with Dale
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Junior. So let's just start with I think
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what is the most interesting part and that is why Carl
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Edwards left unexpectedly, suddenly just retiring from
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NASCAR and then kind of disappearing before what was it
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last year, year before? It was the year before with the
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NASCAR's 75 greatest drivers that Carl Edwards started to
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reappear at the tracks. That was Darlington, what,
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couple years ago. But you kind of wondered what
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exactly was Carl Edwards going to say, right?
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Because I, I also think deep down there's a lot of things
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Carl Edwards wants to say that he won't say.
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And even at a point in this interview, he said, you know, I
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don't know how honest I want to be about all this.
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And Dale Junior also did a really good job of, of kind of,
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I don't want to say pressing him, but following up.
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And it was, it was 2 buddies. It was 2 buddies talking.
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It was a therapy session. I, I'm, I'm telling you, me
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saying this, I have no financial incentive to say this, but you
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should absolutely watch or listen to this interview.
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And I actually, I listen to it on podcast.
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I kind of wish I would have watched it here on YouTube just
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because I do think, I do think the facial expressions matter
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and, and maybe how long it takes for him to, to, to say something
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or if you can tell he's saying something, but he's, he's
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holding back a little bit. So anyway, he he discussed his
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his final race obviously there at Homestead and he did use the
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words, I can't remember the exact sentence, but he did say
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that that was snatched from him, that that that championship was
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snatched from him. And and he used that that
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verbiage after Dale Junior followed up because Carl Edwards
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story, which which I believe, but I do think he was, I, I
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think he was holding back a little bit just because he
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doesn't want to absolutely destroy NASCAR, right.
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He did criticize NASCAR a bit saying, look, look, we we know
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it's a fact and that he talked to people, he talked to people
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that NASCAR back then, they were throwing those debris cautions
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to re rack the field to make things more interesting at the
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end of a race. And he said, look, that's a
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that's a fact. He also got into this story
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where he was talking about his faith and how he was always
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basically an atheist and he said just something, something
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happened that weekend where his his motorhome broke down a
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couple times. He almost, he almost wrecked.
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And then everything that happened with that final, with
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that final caution, with losing the championship.
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So he never won a championship. Obviously, he, he kind of framed
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it like that, that God had a different plan for him, right?
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Like that this is how it was all supposed to go.
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And and this is also coming what we're we're what now 8-9 years
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later. But but he did say again that he
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felt like the championship was snatched from him.
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And when I was when I was listening to this, look, I do
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think NASCAR deserves a lot of criticism, criticism for this
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and they have been criticized a lot for this.
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This was 8-9 years ago. They're not doing this anymore.
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I don't really think you can do this anymore.
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Those debris cautions to re rack the field to make it more
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interesting at the end of the race, especially with gambling
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in the sport. Tony, Tony Stewart talked about
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this in the Kenny conversation couple years ago.
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You can't do any type of judging by the hip or internal, let's
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say moderating. And, and what I mean by that is
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Tony Stewart and Kenny Wallace talked about the fact that back
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in the day, if you pissed NASCAR off, if you said something in
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the media they didn't like, they could give you a pit Rd.
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speeding penalty the next week. And that was NASCAR's way of, of
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basically governing, right? You, you really can't do that.
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You can't do that now that you have legalized sports gambling
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and all of these leagues and what now tracks, they're
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essentially in bed with the gambling companies, which which
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is fine, but you can't have people who put a ton of money on
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the line thinking that a sports league is basically re racking
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the field at the end just to make it interesting.
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And I did find this very fascinating.
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And, and Carl Edwards said after, after the season, I think
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he said he went down to Key West by himself to kind of figure out
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what he wanted to do. And he was driving and he went
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to, he went to Joe Gibbs Racing to basically tell Joe Gibbs his
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decision. And I did think the way he
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framed this was really, really interesting.
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He basically said that he's so devoted, he was so devoted to
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racing that he put his his heart, his soul, his mind, his
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body into it. And he's thinking and at the
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time, what is he? Is he 30?
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I don't even know 3637, whatever.
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We'll we'll look it up. Something like that.
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But he's thinking himself. And also he's talking to Jill
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Junior about this with Dale Junior having his his head
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injuries and all that. And Carl Edwards said, you know,
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he hadn't had necessarily the the injuries like that, the
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concussions, but he had gotten his bell rung and he was
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starting to think more about that.
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Dale Junior brought that to the attention of a lot of folks.
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But I found this part really, really interesting.
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He's thinking, OK, I just finished up a year of NASCAR and
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he's thinking, if I'm going to do this again, I'm going to do 1
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full year where I put my entire life into this, right?
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I don't see my wife as much. I don't see my kids as much.
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I'm gone all the time. I'm traveling every single week.
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Obviously well paid. We all know that you get the
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fame, you get all that. But he's thinking to himself and
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and he said this, he said, am I going to go through another year
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of this knowing it's probably going to come down to that final
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2 laps, right, that final caution in Homestead?
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You're going to do everything all year long, all season long,
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whether you have a great season, whether you have a bad season,
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but if you're in the playoffs, if you're in the championship
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hunt. He's thinking to himself, am I
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going to put myself through all of this knowing that NASCAR is
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probably going to do the same thing and throw that late
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caution and it's all going to come down to a final restart.
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And I thought that really, really put the whole thing in
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perspective, right? To go through all of that, you
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could be great, right? All the trials and tribulations,
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36 races, you get to the 36th race and you know it's going to
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come down to a final restart. And I just thought that part was
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really, really interesting. Again, if you guys haven't
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watched this, if you haven't listened to it, I just, I can't
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recommend it enough. Just a A2 hour therapy session
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between buddies and, and look, they, they talked about that,
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that, that was the most interesting part to me.
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And also Dale Junior asked him, look, have you had more
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opportunities? Of course, all kinds of great
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teams have have contacted Carl Edwards over the years and he
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has not run a race. He didn't totally rule that out.
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I, I think we're going to see Carl Edwards run a race.
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Maybe it's an Xfinity race and I don't know, this year, next
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year, whatever, I, I can see Carl Edwards running one more
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race or or a couple more, who knows.
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But he's doing TV now, going to be doing TV with Dale Earnhardt
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junior with, with the new package there with what is it
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Amazon? And so just a really fascinating
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interview from what he's been doing since then, talking about
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how he's rekindled his relationship with his kids.
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Didn't know his kids very much. He went on this boating
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adventure where he went and bought a boat over there in
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Europe and drove the boat back with his son.
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And he told this really great story where they were travelling
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and he said he just needed to get a workout in.
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He went out to the dock doing burpees or whatever, and he said
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his cell phone fell into the water.
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And he said his son said something like, well, well, good
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dad, because now you'll pay attention to me.
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And he said that hit him really hard.
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He said once he was gone from the sport that first year or
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whatever it was, he said there was there was a time where in
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the morning, his son, they ran into the room of, of he and his
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wife's room. And the son jumped on his side
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into his side of the bed, which is something that never
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happened. And he turns and looks his wife
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and and she says, this is what you've been missing.
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Just a really fascinating conversation, you know, doesn't
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doesn't regret it. And I'm sure he, he said, look,
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that first year or two really, really difficult.
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He, he said there was a time where his wife wanted to, to
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watch a race and watched a couple laps.
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He watched a couple laps and just couldn't do it anymore.
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And he said he went out and about and people would say, Hey,
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how's your season going? And he said, well, I'm not
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racing anymore. They're like, what, what the
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heck are you talking about? Because I, I, I get that too,
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especially if you're an athlete at that level, the highest level
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in Motorsports, that becomes your your whole identity is, is
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being a racer. Want to thank you guys for
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watching here. We got a bunch of people in.
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We got some comments and questions.
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I will get to those as well. Let's see.
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Jerry Langston says because they stole his win.
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Talking about that championship. Yeah, Jerry Langston.
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Don't blame him. Championships are hard to come
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by, especially when NASCAR sticks it to you with no Lube.
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That's what Jerry Langston is saying.
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Yeah, when I, when I was listening to this too, I, I will
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say again, you know, it, it, it does stink that NASCAR did this
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back in the day. And again, we're rehashing this.
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But that's what that's what we do.
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When you have a big interview like this.
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It is a it is a damn shame because I think most people
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agree that Carl Edwards was royally screwed back in the day.
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And Carl also talked about the first championship that he
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missed out on where he tied Tony Stewart.
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So you're down to a tie, but you lose by by that much.
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But you didn't have, you know, Dale Junior use the word
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shenanigans. You didn't have the shenanigans
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with that first attempt to win the championship.
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Of course it's going to be heartbreaking when you you get
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down to literally a tie essentially and you lose to Tony
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Stewart. But the but the way he lost the
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championship at the end when he's ending up retiring there,
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that is a bitter pill to swallow.
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And again, 8-9 years later, I don't want to say he's over.
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You're probably never truly over that.
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But time heals all wounds. You move on, he's back in the
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good graces of the sport, which I think is is fantastic.
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I remember we had a a Rick Mash show and I was talking to Rick
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Mast about this when Carl Edwards was was going to get in
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the Hall of Fame. And to me, I remember we were
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kind of we were kind of debating and arguing because he didn't
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like the fact that Carl Edwards made all the money in the sport
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left the sport, right, kind of didn't have anything to do with
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NASCAR for the last eight years or so.
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And maybe it's because I'm just somebody who I'm I'm always
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looking for stories, interesting stories.
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I think the way Carl Edwards left made his story more
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interesting, right? He's a great driver.
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He's pissed. He retires out of nowhere and
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just goes off the grid and essentially nobody hears from
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him, right? There was some some funny jokes
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at the beginning of the podcast on The Dirty MO media, Dale
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Junior download. And Dale Junior's messing with
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him. He's like, you know, do you have
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a bunker? He's like, do you do you have a
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supply of of food that would last you whatever it is joking.
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Obviously there's all these rumors about Carl Edwards of of
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what the hell was he doing right?
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Did he build some type of bomb shelter?
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Is he is he preparing for the apocalypse, which he's not.
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He didn't say he has like a supply of supply of food that
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would last him a little bit, but so did Dale Junior.
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So just some kind of funny moments from that podcast.
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There another another cool story.
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And I had heard this, but they hadn't talked about it together,
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obviously, because Carl Edwards hadn't talked with anybody.
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But the famous story that Dale Junior has told a million times,
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hanging out with Kenny Schrader, going to the strip club back in
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the day when Junior was like 15 or so.
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So what is that like 35 years ago?
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So the story goes, Dale Junior can't get in the strip club, so
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he has to sit outside on the truck and he sits with this guy.
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And Dale Earnhardt Junior did not know until I think it was
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essentially the end of Carl Edwards career, Dale Earnhardt
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Junior did not know that the man he sat with on that truck while
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everybody else was in the strip club having fun.
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So Dale Junior sitting there and drinking beer, that was Carl
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Edwards dad, which is really, really fascinating.
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And, and, and Dale Junior said, man, I wish I would have known
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that when we were driving. He just said, you know, our
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relationship or friendship, he, he, he thought would have been
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so impacted by knowing that that dude that sat with him on the
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truck 35 years ago was Carl Edwards dad.
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And I just thought that was a was a really cool story.
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Obviously, if you don't know, I think most of you do, but Carl
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Edwards cousins with Ken Schrader, I think they're
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cousins 1st removed. So they were hanging out back in
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the day. Like I said, this was like, this
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was like 35 years ago. It's funny because I was in Ken
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Schrader's shop. I was in his shop quite a bit.
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I would say, I don't know, 5-6, seven times when we first
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started recording this Herman Schrader, before we got all the
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gear and whatnot so he could, he could do it himself from the
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shop. But I remember it.
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And you, I don't know if you'll be able to see this.
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Actually, you probably can't. You have to really zoom in.
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But if you see where Schrader is sitting in the office of his
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shop, he's got kind of like a bulletin board in the
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background. So you probably can't see, it's
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probably too small and depending on where he's sitting.
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But on that bulletin board is that famous business card.
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You've probably seen the story where when Carl Edwards was
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whatever, 18/19/2021 years old as he's trying to get a get a
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NASCAR ride, he passed out these business cards with his picture
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on it. And it said something like if
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you're looking for a driver, you're looking for me, or if
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you're looking for a driver, you're looking for Carl Edwards.
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And so that actual business card, because again, Schrader
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and Carl Edwards are cousins, that's sitting there on the
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bulletin board in Ken Trader's shop, which is pretty sweet.
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And there's a lot of a lot of Missouri connections here
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because Trader shop, gosh, what, what town is it in?
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I can't remember. I've been there.
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It's like it's see, I live in basically Saint Louis, not the
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city, but like 15 minutes from downtown.
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Trader lives about 40 minutes from me.
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Carl Edwards lives in Columbia where University of Missouri is.
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That's a good two hours from Saint Louis.
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And just because we're talking about Missouri connections,
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Kenny Wallace had Jamie McMurray on Kenny Conversations and that
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already dropped this morning on Dirty MO Media Podcast and it's
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going to drop here on YouTube later tonight.
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Really good conversation. I just bring that up because I'm
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talking about Missouri connections.
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All right, get back here and check out some of your comments.
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I'm not going to go super long on this.
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Let's see, let's see, Bibsters repair shop says.
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Just finished listening to the podcast.
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Really excited to see Carl back at the track.
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Jerry Langston saying NASCAR been making paper champions
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talking about the controversy with Edwards and and maybe he's
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also talking about the playoff situation.
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I know a lot of old school NASCAR fans don't love
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necessarily the the playoff format taking away from the
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regular season and all that good time says I don't believe it
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should come down to one race or one restart.
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I don't either. And that's where I I, I think
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NASCAR needs to continue. I shouldn't say tweak because
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NASCAR said they didn't want to tweak the format every year,
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right? If they're going to make a
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change, they're going to make it more substantial, which is why
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they didn't really make any changes this year.
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But potentially down the road. I think whether it's a couple
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races at the end, I, I do think one thing that you can do that's
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easy is rotate the final race. Now that doesn't take away from
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it coming down to one race, but I do think that takes away from
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a particular manufacturer that just happens to have it figured
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out like it has been for Penske in the in the last several years
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with Phoenix. I would rotate what, what do you
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guys think? I would rotate Phoenix.
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Las Vegas, would you do? Would you do Homestead?
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You can't do Atlanta because there's too much, too much with
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a superspeedway. I think luck involved,
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obviously. So you're not you're not going
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to do Atlanta. What am I missing there for the
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final, final three races? What do you think?
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If you did a rotation of three, you think that's fair?
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If you go Phoenix, Vegas, Homestead, what do you guys
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think on that? Let's see, Jerry Langston says.
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I see you wanting to giggle, lol.
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I'm just brutally honest. I appreciate that.
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I appreciate the honesty from, from Carl Edwards.
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I, I think he was, he was fair in his criticism, but he wasn't
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biting in his criticism. And I get that because he's a
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dude who, look, it was 8-9 years ago, He's just now getting into
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the good graces of NASCAR. He doesn't want to absolutely
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RIP them, even though deep down he was being much nicer than he
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actually feels. Let's be honest.
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And This is why I'll say it again.
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At one point in the interview with Dale Earnhardt Junior, he
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said, I'm kind of wondering. I'm kind of wondering how honest
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I want to be. And that that tells you right
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there all you need to know. And again, he he did say flat
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out he thought the championship was snatched from him.
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And he said, look, we know it's a fact.
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And he's talked to NASCAR people who admitted they were throwing
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those cautions back in the day to re rack the field to make it
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more entertaining for the TV ratings and all that.
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But he also said, look, he he understood that to a certain
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extent because they are in the entertainment business, right?
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Even if he didn't like it. And I think most people would
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would agree, though this, this was the most egregious time
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where people really thought it was truly, truly unfair and that
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NASCAR was going out of their way.
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Well, I shouldn't say that knowingly or unknowingly, they
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clearly impacted a championship that season.
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I'm not saying that's what they wanted the end result to be.
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I'm not trying to say it's this grand conspiracy theory.
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But what they did in re racking the field with that, as people
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call it, fake caution, it did impact the championship.
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And look, Kenny Wallace said this was it 3 years ago, right?
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I mean, he said that Carl Edwards left NASCAR with a
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broken heart. And that video was actually
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popping a little bit yesterday. That's, that's still our biggest
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video on YouTube. It was, I think maybe, maybe May
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or June of three years ago, so not quite three years ago.
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And that video is pushing, it's not that close to 1,000,000
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views, but it's over 900. I think it's like 930,000 views.
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That's still our most popular video on this channel.
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That just goes to show you too of, of, of just the, the
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mystery, the mystique, the intrigue that people had for
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Carl Edwards over the last eight years or so.
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But then really, as he's coming back, he's doing media, he's
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doing interviews now he's going to do TV, which by the way, I
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think he's going to be absolutely fantastic at TVI
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think he's going to be really, really good.
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And also, if you're a dude who has all the money in the world,
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right, you do other things. You want to be around your
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family, but now you can also bring your family to the tracks.
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I think he's what is he doing 5 races?
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And to me, if you're somebody who doesn't have to work, but
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you still want to be involved in the sport, isn't this five race
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deal, whatever they're doing with Amazon, Isn't that the
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perfect way to jump back in? You don't have to do every race.
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You don't have to travel 3540 weeks a year.
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You can do 5 races, have fun. And and hey, if you love it,
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maybe you want to do a little more work next year, right?
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OK, let's see. Full throttle RP says I cried
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watching and understanding how he was screwed over on his
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championship. Very sad.
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Let's see Gibb Salisbury says it's ridiculous that a candy
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wrapper on the track will cause a caution, right?
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And this is what was going on back in the day.
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Obviously, you can't do that anymore, although there's still,
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there's still a lot of discussion about NASCAR throwing
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caution. This was more so at Daytona, the
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Daytona weekend. But this is for safety, right?
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It's more about, and I understand how fans, they want
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to see folks race to the checkered flag, but also look,
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if you don't throw the caution, all of a sudden guys are flying
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through and they're still cars trying to get out of the way.
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And then you have the the cool down lap.
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You could have some really terrible outcomes from that as
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well. If you don't throw a caution.
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NASCAR is in a really, really tough spot there when they have
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to make an absolutely split second decision on the final lap
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most of the time, right and and people aren't going to be happy.
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You want to have the best possible finish, you want to
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have the most fair finish. But also at the end of the day,
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the driver's safety is the number one concern.
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Dave Milam says nicely done, good job.
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And Manga 12 says sometimes the cautions are excessive.
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For sure. Steve D says Dale gets the best
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interviews. He does.
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But it's not just Dale getting the best interviews right.
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Dale does a really good job when he's interviewing these folks
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and, and I'll just be honest with you, now that I'm kind of
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full time in the NASCAR world, I try to consume as much as
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possible. But I will say I don't listen to
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as many of the real long form interviews as I should.
25:55
If I'm, if I'm on a car trip, if I'm by myself, like I remember I
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had a car trip by myself and I listened to the Scott Bloomquist
26:03
interview with with Dale Junior and Mike Davis.
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This was what last last year right after Scott Bloomquist
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passed away. But I consume most The Dirty MO
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media stuff from the clips right on social media for me, usually
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X or on on YouTube. But if if there's a an interview
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that like this, this was the interview, right?
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And Dale Junior said that this was the interview Carl Edwards
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that everybody had been clamoring for for years.
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And they finally did it and they did it right, even though it was
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a remote deal, right? Carl Edwards was in Columbia and
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Dale Junior was wherever he's at.
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He wasn't, he wasn't in studio, but it was really well done.
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It was the right length of time. Again, it was with the ads and
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all that. It was almost two hours long.
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So you, you felt like every question that needed to be asked
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for this, for this first interview, right?
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This first big interview, obviously you have to get out of
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the way, not even get out of the way.
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It's what people want to here and see you.
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You have to talk about Carl Edwards leaving the sport.
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I mean, that's, that's the number one story.
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But they hit on so many different things over the course
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of the the almost two hours. But yeah, Dale Junior gets the
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best interviews, but he's also a really good interviewer.
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It, it just felt like 2 buddies and it was a therapy session and
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they, they kind of challenged each other if they didn't like a
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certain answer. I remember at one point after
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Carl initially described what happened and he said it was kind
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of like God's plan type deal. And I'm paraphrasing, but Dale
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Junior challenged him saying, I just, I don't know if I can, you
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know, I don't know if I can believe that I, I don't know.
27:43
And, and he wasn't saying you're lying, but he's saying like,
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give me more. We, we got to get into this
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more. I, I don't think you can just
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say nine years later that this was God's plan.
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Like we got it. We got to talk about how you
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were really feeling your emotions back then and then also
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now 8-9 years later. Let's see.
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Let's see what we got here. A lot of comments coming in.
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David Carter says this was one of the most moving, interesting
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interviews I've ever seen. Dale Earnhardt.
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I enjoyed every second of it. I've always been a Carl Edwards
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fan. Yeah, I think, I think it's my
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favorite. It might be I I shouldn't say my
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favorite because I got to say Kenny Wallace's interviews are
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my favorite. But in terms of the Dale Junior
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download any content that I've heard from them and they've done
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all kinds of fantastic stuff. I, I think this was the best
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interview I ever heard NASCAR related, honestly.
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But it's also because, look, Dale's a great interviewer.
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He got Carl Edwards, right? It was the first, he's the first
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guy to get Carl Edwards. And everything was on the table
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and Carl Edwards sat down there and for 90 minutes, 100 minutes,
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whatever it was, really kind of poured his heart out, but also
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just explained detail by detail all of his decision making.
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When I say all, I say most. I, I still think deep down he
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probably has a lot of anger, Surely had a a lot more back in
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the day. But he didn't want to absolutely
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destroy NASCAR. But I'm sure there's some things
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he held back. And look, that's how we all
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would be right if we felt we were royally screwed or in his
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words, that the championship was was snatched from him.
29:21
Let's see, we got Matthew McDonald says the DJD Dale
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Junior download interviews are awesome.
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Also the Stapleton 42 hometown history vids.
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Yeah, Mitch Stapleton's great are great too.
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Will be great if Dirty MO Media and Mitch Logan could do a
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collab. Yeah, but they're also doing
29:38
their own thing, man. They're they're both super
29:40
successful doing their own thing.
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So sometimes you don't mess with that.
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Also, let's see, Denver Thurston says can NASCAR give Carl
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Edwards Daytona 500 start as a way to send him off grand style
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with him some sense of pride back that lost when left the
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sport? OK, first of all, we need to
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type that better, all due respect.
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OK, we need to add some words there, Denver.
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But look, there's no way because Carl Edwards was talking about
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his health. His wife's a doctor, right?
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If Carl Edwards does do a one off race, which I wouldn't rule
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out, there ain't no way in hell he's doing a superspeedway,
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right? There's no way he's doing the
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Daytona 500. He'll do something shorter
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because again, talking about injuries and anything can happen
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at a superspeedway. The worst we know could happen
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at a superspeedway. So if Carl Edwards does a one
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off race, I would almost guarantee you there's no chance
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it's at a superspeedway. Dale Junior brought up Bristol,
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so maybe someplace like that. All right, we're over 30
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minutes. I'm going to shut it down.
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Thank you so much, you guys. Just want to give my comments on
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the interview. I thought it was fantastic.
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Thank you so much for joining me.
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I'll go to Steve B here at the end.
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I think Carl's only passion now is sailing, to be honest, right?
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So Carl Edwards talked about sailing, boating, whatever you
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want to call it a lot at the beginning of that interview.
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And Sean Murphy says it was a great interview.
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Yes, it was. All right, thank you very much,
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guys. Comment like subscribe if you
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haven't checked it out, Dale Junior download with Carl
31:13
Edwards. I highly recommend it on podcast
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or here on YouTube as well. All right, have a great weekend
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everybody, love you all. Thanks.
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We'll see you soon here on the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel
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and Kenny Wallace media. Charlie Marlow signing off.