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Robin Pemberton On The Time NASCAR Made Rusty Wallace Tear Out His Engine | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  I chose Robin Pemberton, one of the legends.
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  Hold on. Come over here, Richard.
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  OK, so here's what's been going on, guys.
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  We stopped in Jackson, MI, and then we saw we saw Old Blue,
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  which was JD Mcduffie's original haul.
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  So this is all about, you know what what, what it was like in
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  the past. So my deal with you, Robin, is
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  how did you end up getting a NASCAR?
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  What didn't you come from Lenore?
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  Yeah, Upstate New York. OK, Richard, get in here.
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  I want you in here. Too, so I was with Petty's in
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  79. Yeah, but you came out.
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  Tell me how you got everybody's goes.
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  How did you get the NASCAR? How did you get there?
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  I drove. Son of a bitch legendary.
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  I tried. I had a friend and Steve Mill
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  got me a job there at the Petty's when Kyle started
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  racing. So you saw Steve mill up north?
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  Yeah, we're we were friends since we were teenagers.
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  I began. I didn't know it.
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  Steve Mill and you? Yeah.
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  And did you both start at the Petty's?
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  He was down at at Dewitt's with Benny and all of that.
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  Oh yeah, Danny went through Petty's.
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  Is it DeWitt or DeWitt? What?
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  What is Richard DeWitt? DeWitt.
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  DeWitt Yeah. Then you were with my brother
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  Rusty, and you guys kicked some serious ass.
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  Yeah. Seven years.
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  Yeah, is were you there the year you all won 10 races?
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  No, that bud buddy was there. I think we won.
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  Five is the best year I had. Were you there the year that
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  they took your motor apart on the asshole?
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  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
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  So it didn't even went to work for NASCAR, but tell me about
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  that story. OK, so you guys went 10 poles
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  one year and NASCAR had enough of that?
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  So they took the motor part. And here it's going to get good
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  now. OK, go.
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  Ahead, lay in the parking lot at Sears Point.
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  In the pit area on the. Asphalt.
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  What's funny about it is that we sat on a pole, but that wasn't
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  even a good qualifying motor, so that's where we left the whole
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  time we're taking it apart. OK, so.
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  That was all rusty there. I'm going to try this and then
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  you straighten me out. OK.
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  You guys had light rods, so that created light inertia.
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  You were turning that thing like 10,000 RPM.
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  We could. Turn a lot.
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  Everybody else was turning like 8000 RPMS.
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  And we would turn a lot. He still don't want to tell the
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  exact truth. It was a lot, right?
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  Come over here. Look at.
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  These guys. Do this is to cut you off.
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  So no, don't let it cutting me off.
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  This is good stuff. So this sweet man, yes he is.
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  I didn't get. In a lot of trouble in NASCAR,
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  but if there's nearest trouble. What's crazy?
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  Stupid and save. Me every time I think of Robin
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  Moore as a crew chief than his NASCAR days.
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  But we're talking about the time that they sat on like 10 poles
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  in a year with Rusty, right? It was a lot.
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  I felt bad because it was like Year 5 and someone's like showed
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  me a picture of Robinson Cruise and my response was, wait, the
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  guy that runs the place was it? That's what.
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  He had. No idea.
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  I was like, Oh my. God, you know that is strange
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  though, because you you look at Dale Junior and you look at a
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  lot of the great race car drivers and, and all of a sudden
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  now they're in TV, right? Everybody makes that transition.
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  Was that OK? So we talked about that, that
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  those were light rotating parts in that motor and you guys.
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  Allegedly. Did that piss Pensky off?
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  Everybody's seen those parts laid out all over.
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  I think I think it it ruffled feathers.
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  I didn't. I didn't like that at all.
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  Well, we were mad because we had stuff we want to do when we get
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  out of the racetrack. You know, you're up in wine
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  country, You don't want to stand there tearing motor parts Friday
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  afternoon. That's not fun.
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  Isn't it funny how people see things so differently?
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  I'm thinking, OK, NASCAR just invited Robert Yates, Jack
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  Roush, everybody over there to watch you guys pull that motor
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  apart. Yeah.
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  And and I and I'm like, that ain't right because you guys
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  worked for that. You're like, that was a long
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  time ago, right? That was a lot, OK.
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  That was 30 years ago. About 25 years ago, it was over
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  25. What was it?
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  Yeah, that. That That's my problem, Robin.
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  Things just go so fast. OK?
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  Richard Boston took some pictures of you down at
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  Rockingham. You.
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  Yes, he this was my transportation.
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  Guy, OH. Yeah, with.
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  Kyle, you know, I, I bragged on Richard at Rockingham and I
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  said, you know, drove for Kel Yarborough.
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  No Buddy Baker, who all did you drive for?
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  He drove our tractor trailer when I had dirt dever.
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  Benny Parsons. Benny Parsons, Yeah.
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  Freight truck Riverside. Me and Benny went to Riverside,
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  me and him. Do you have one story that
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  stands out from hauling that race car?
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  Are you like 2 candid? You get stuck in Mexico at a bar
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  or anything. You did you.
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  So everybody in the in the old days, everybody went to
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  Riverside or Ontario. They always have that story.
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  Oh, we went to Tijuana. You guys didn't do all.
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  That I did lock Kyle up in the trailer at Daytona one time.
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  What happened? Well.
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  It was time to go. Yeah, and I said, anybody in
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  here? Nobody said that.
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  I locked the door, right? I'm in a padlock.
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  I won't like to get doors now. You.
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  Got coffee black? I always kept respect.
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  Hazelnut Creamer. And somebody called me and said,
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  hey, Kyle's locked in. The trailer's beating, Get Me
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  Out of here, Get Me Out. I said, what the hell?
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  You got telephone, You got a bathroom.
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  You got plenty of mail. Yellow.
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  You locked him in. So is it true that every time
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  you go to the scales like it the the the the man or the lady that
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  runs the the scales on the side of the highway, they go?
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  You got a hat up in there? Yeah.
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  Is that the deal with it? I mean, just give me a damn hat.
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  Look, all our trucks, everybody's are super clean.
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  I mean inspected. We're not, you know, like law
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  callers so they don't mess with you too bad.
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  But I mean, sometimes we get pulled up and have respect.
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  Sometimes it is pretty cool though, I mean, Robin, even us,
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  you know, us guys that work on the cars, there's so much
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  respect for the truck drivers. Cause to me the most respect I
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  give you, I mean I give you respect for everything.
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  But getting those damn truck and trailers like say in Bristol,
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  how do you know the routine, all these tracks?
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  Is that just experience? Because?
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  He's been doing it all. I mean, when you take those
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  tractor trailers and you come into Martinsville, you come into
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  Bristol, you go into Wilkesboro, there's technique to getting
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  those things in and out of those tight spots.
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  You guys are good at that. I used to tell people I would
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  get so close, I said they'd get a Chinook helicopter and drop a
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  man. For all right guys.
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  Well, coffee time load up and this is your bike.
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  We'll see you in an hour. And a half.
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  See you next week. Bye beautiful.
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  We'll get in the. Van just do a little little bit
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  here real quick. Hold on.
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  I don't want to drop this. Let's go find Kim, see how she's
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  doing. I there she is.
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  Look at that bike. That bike's a bad ass.
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  That's a that's a stock Harley-Davidson took it to Uncle
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  Rusty and Steven at Southern Country Custom.
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  And they get this guy here. He want, he wants a little, he
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  wants to be on the show. I don't even know him.
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  Hey, Kenny, we got. Snowmobile suits on sale.
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  Right now. If you want snow, where they at
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  just down the road a few miles, man, Steve.
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  Well, that's really nice of you buddy, but I'm looking good.
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  Thank you. What's your name, Rod?
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  Rod man just walked up and he said I got the snowmobile suits
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  on sale. I'm like, OK.
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  And this, this right here, this wonderful lady is in charge of
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  all social media. Ellie.
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  Ellie. Yes.
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  And you told me this morning, but I was just getting my eyes
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  open. All right?
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  They're getting their helmets on.
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  I'm getting nervous. Why are you nervous?
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  Because I don't want to be left behind.
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  No one could leave you behind. I love you.
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  No one could forget you. I love you.
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  I love you too. Thank you.
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  All right. Here we go.
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  Kimberly, Are you ready? Are you ready?
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  I'm ready. You always find good friends.
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  This man is very nice to you. Yeah.
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  Try to be. You're very nice.
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  Yeah. You look good.
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  Where's your guys bike at? Let's look at Schrader.
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  Annie, are you wanted by the police?
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  Can you be seen? Got to be better than that one.
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  I So in Missouri, if you go to take a picture of somebody in
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  Missouri and they're like no, no.
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  The first thing you go is why are you wanted by the police?
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  You can't. All right, we hold my coffee for
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  a minute. Just for a minute.
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  I appreciate it. All right?
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  We're going to end like this. I got Jesus.
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  Like. May the Lord be with you.
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  I love you, man. So worse shape.
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  I got Jesus in my pocket. Jesus on your bike.
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  Love you too, Kenny. So glad you're so shy.
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  There's the boss. There's the boss.
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  That's where I have lipstick in here.
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  That's what I was looking for. Look at here.
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  They got this baby. They're right.
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  They're right. I know where it is, though.
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  I'm jealous 'cause I can't carry a damn coffee with me.
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  Look at this, Kenny. Let me see.
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  Saw his Garmin, his phone holder.
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  His Garmin. That's 100.
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  How many miles on this baby? Oh, it's low.
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  Mile 5052, 52,000 miles. He rides all over.
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  All right, say goodbye. Turn around.
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  He's doing coffee with Kenny. I am.
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  I got to get this in all right. I finally made one.
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  I watched 100 of them my. Phone.
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  Yeah, thank you for holding my coffee.
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  She. Got Sunoco on.
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  It hey, it should hold say that again.
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  Should have Sunoco on it, should I?
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  I I got a deal in there but no talk.
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  About this. So you get right the next time.
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  Say goodbye. Goodbye.