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Talking With Chase Briscoe! | Kenny Wallace Live · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Keno Wallace. Man, I'll tell you what, Johnny,
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  they say Bill Murray's backstage.
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  I just got goosebumps. Carl Spagler.
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  Who are you going to call Ghostbusters?
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  Hey, hang out here for a long time, man.
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  He's here. And he also can do your your
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  golf course grass too. Oh, yeah, do it.
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  Cinderella boy. He was the Cinderella boy at one
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  time. Guys, we're fired up for racing,
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  man. This is one of the greatest
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  events year in and year out. And Kenny Wallace, now Worldwide
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  Technology Raceway, has earned the right to have a playoff
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  race. Guys, this is big.
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  Hey, I mean who God ordered this weather we are so thankful like
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  he's. Rusty did your brother Rusty.
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  Rusty. Yes, that's Rusty's nickname.
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  Like when Rodger Penske's coming, Rusty goes clean the
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  shop up. Rodger's coming.
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  I'm like when Rusty talks, you think EF Hutton talks?
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  Everybody's listen. When Rusty talks, I get nervous.
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  I tell my girls. I say Uncle Rusty's coming.
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  Oh, God, give me the vacuum cleaner.
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  All right, Johnny, we got them backstage waiting and they love
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  Saint Louis. All I hear is the reason they
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  like Saint Louis, all these drivers, is because they do it
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  right here. We had City STL Soccer, we got
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  the Cardinals, we got Kenny Schrader Racing last night at
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  Pegley. And we have the Wallace family.
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  I'll tell you what, we got last week's winner backstage right
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  now. You ready to?
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  Roll, I'm ready and I want to get video too.
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  Oh, you're going to do it right? Well, yeah, you're going to
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  enter this. You run this thing, these new
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  bangled phones. What?
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  Do you press? I don't know how to run this
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  thing, but I got it. I'm ready.
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  Kenny, look at this. Kelly and gentlemen, he's won
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  back-to-back. Southern 500.
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  He's the pride of Indiana. Chase Briscoe.
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  What's happening? Look what you doing The cowboy
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  walk. Yeah, I.
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  Don't know about that you. Walking out here like Harry
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  Gant, hey. I think you walk a little funny
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  though, after racing at Darlington, don't you?
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  What a tough race track chase. But that's, you know, I think
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  when people look at some of these big race tracks, it's kind
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  of a team victory. It's always a team win.
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  But when you win at Darlington, that's is that one a little bit
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  more on the driver's shoulders. I don't know, I mean, they're
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  definitely all team wins. And darling, it's just the
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  Southern 500 in general, I feel like it's one of the hardest
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  races to win just because, I mean, every weekend it takes it
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  all over there especially. I mean, we're doing so many pit
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  stops. I think we had 11 something pit
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  stops last week. You know, your car has to be
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  good on the short run, the long run, you know, just the car goes
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  through so many phases there from day to night and everything
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  else. So yeah, it's pretty cool to to
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  just even honestly race in the Southern 500, let alone win it.
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  That was definitely a special weekend for sure.
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  Crown jewel. So much to talk about that
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  Southern 500, but I'm I'm going to get in the seat with you.
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  They're they're waving the white flag we come off with.
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  Two, it's uncomfortable. You look in your mirrors, you
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  see Tyler breathing. Take the fans and myself.
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  You know he's going to die by you.
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  Yeah, I definitely knew he was going to die by me.
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  You know. I knew though, that in three and
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  four, at least in Darlington, on the long run, you know, as long
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  as you just don't get in the fence, it's really hard,
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  truthfully for somebody to pass you just because there's no grip
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  once you get, you know, below the wall.
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  So I knew as long as I just made a decent corner and didn't plug
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  it into the fence, I'd be all right.
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  But yeah, Tyler truthfully got way closer than I thought he
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  would. You know, I think he was
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  probably 3 or 4 car links back and I mean he was two inches
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  away from getting into my left reporter panel.
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  So yeah, it was definitely a good race.
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  It was way harder than it needed to be at the end.
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  But yeah, he was just really fast there at the end.
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  I just didn't really have much left in the tank.
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  It would have been interesting if there was, you know, five
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  more laps for. Sure, Johnny, I don't mean to
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  interrupt you, but I got to, I got to acknowledge it.
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  Listen to this, everybody, Darlington, the track that's too
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  tough to tame. He led 309 laps and Johnny, it's
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  like the Saint Louis Blues. We played all these games and it
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  comes down to the last game. It come down to the last corner.
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  That's insane. Yeah, it is crazy how you could
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  run, you know, 500 miles, right? And it comes down to I think the
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  margin of victory is maybe 2/10 of a second.
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  It's crazy. And then they're just in
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  general, you know, I've been fortunate to win at Darlington
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  three Times Now, and all three of them came down to literally
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  the last corner. So yeah, all the places to do
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  that, you know, I definitely felt the most comfortable there
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  out of anywhere we could go, just because I've truthfully
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  been in that position more than anywhere else in my career.
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  So yeah, just it was weird not doing it against Kyle Busch
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  because that's what it's been my other two.
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  But yeah, Tyler was really good as well.
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  So chase, people in the media always like to say when someone
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  gets a win or if you're locked in or something, you're resting
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  easy, you're calm. But I don't think going into any
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  given Sunday in the Cup Series you can really be calm because
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  there's always something to gain, isn't there?
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  You're on to the next round, you know that.
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  There's got to be a little bit of relief in that.
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  But still, you guys got to go out and fight because you're not
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  here to to run 35th, you're here to win.
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  Yeah, for sure. I mean, we're definitely coming
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  here to win. And I think, you know,
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  especially in the playoffs, you just can't take a week off in
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  general. You got to keep your foot down
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  and, you know, really keep the pressure on everybody else.
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  And once you get that confidence, you get that
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  momentum, you want to keep it rolling.
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  So yeah, I I was telling our guys yesterday, I hope we lead
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  every life today. It'll be a little bit harder.
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  We don't start on the front row. But yeah, I hope we can
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  obviously go and and put put another solid day together.
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  That's the the thing about the playoffs and just racing in
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  general. You know, that momentum comes
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  and goes throughout the season and obviously right now we have
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  it. We just want to keep carrying
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  that on now. In case every race is special,
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  every race has its own thing, but there's so much that goes
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  into this weekend, this track, the way it came about, the way
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  they revived it, the fans that are out here.
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  In this area of the. Country.
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  And the competition on the racetrack, what's special about
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  this weekend, this event and this track for you?
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  Yeah, I've always loved coming here.
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  I I tell people all the time like the Saint Louis area is
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  such an underrated Motorsports region.
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  Like they're just. Yeah, there's just so many.
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  I mean, there's how many race tracks you have Tri-City, you
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  have Jacksonville, you have Lincoln, you have Wayne County,
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  you have Wayne City. You guys don't run like you just
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  have, you have people. There's, I mean, there's 1010
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  tracks literally within an hour and a half, two hour areas.
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  So yeah, I just, you know, I grew up a lot, you know, racing
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  at Macon and Jacksonville and all these little dirt tracks are
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  out here and it's always cool to come back.
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  And, and truthfully, this is kind of like my second home
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  race. You know, my hometown's only
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  three, 3 1/2 hours from here in Indiana.
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  So yeah, outside of Indianapolis, this is really the
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  closest I get to racing home. So yeah, I've always loved
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  coming here and yeah, all the time.
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  This this area is definitely. Johnny, This is why Johnny and
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  myself are partners, because you set me up beautifully, OK?
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  At Highland last night they had the World of Outlaw midgets
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  basically over at Heavily. They had mods going wild over
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  here at Granite. They had to use SAX Sprint cars.
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  I mean, this is like, I wouldn't say dirt racing Capital, but
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  we're knocking on the door. Yeah, it's definitely, it's
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  definitely. There's a lot.
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  There's more tracks. I feel like in this region, I
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  mean Indiana, we have a lot, but I mean really in this 2 hour
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  window, Saint Louis, there I got a ton of tracks.
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  So I told him back today, I said I'm going to rough you up a
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  little bit. You got to go with me.
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  World News lately and I'm a football rigging.
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  One of your dear friends, you know, got hurt in a Sprint car
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  and you said something that caught my eye.
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  You said I'm not going to run a Sprint car anymore.
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  A lot of dirt fans out here. Can you talk to why you don't
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  want to drive a Sprint car anymore?
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  Well, I mean, I'm still going to be heavily involved.
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  You know, I have my team still. It's not been on the racetrack
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  this year, but it's something that's a huge passion.
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  I mean, my grandpa's own Sprint car since the 70s.
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  It's it was my first love, right?
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  He's going Sprint car racing. And yeah, for me, you know,
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  this, I ran probably 20 something Sprint car races last
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  year and I found myself truthfully kind of nervous and
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  scared. I didn't want to get hurt.
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  It just wasn't giving it 100% when I would go.
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  I was already kind of going there just to have fun and kind
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  of use it as like a golf game and a stress relief from the the
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  cub side. And yeah, I just, I, my heart
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  wasn't in the driving part of it.
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  I, every time we would go and I have a young, young kid from,
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  from actually Mason City, IL, Carter Stark that drives my
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  stuff. And I had way more fun and
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  enjoyment go in there and just being car than I was being
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  drivers. So, yeah, I had a had a buddy a
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  couple years ago, DJ Vanderlei. He was literally the lead
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  engineer in my Xfinity car. And yeah, sit beside, beside him
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  on the plane going to Texas. He's going to run a micro that
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  weekend. And he got paralyzed literally
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  from the neck down. He told me the day before that,
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  you know, him and his wife were pregnant and it just really hit
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  home. Like man, like I have 3 kids
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  now. So yeah, after last year my wife
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  had twins and I was already going, you know, away and racing
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  more. And I don't know, I just felt
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  like it was more important to, to be there for my kids and my
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  wife obviously, and not, you know, going out and racing for
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  cars. So yeah, I just decided to step
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  away still. Want to go?
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  Be a part of for car racing, but just not drive anymore.
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  So yeah, hopefully can get my team back out there.
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  So, Chase, we've had the debate all weekend long and I guess
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  it's been a couple weeks now. People keep talking about the
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  GOAT, the greatest of all times. Indiana's given us you and Tony
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  Stewart. Tony Stewart, one of the.
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  Best drivers? Ever You look at guys like,
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  well, the good Lord himself, Rusty Wallace going to be here
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  today, one of the goats, one of the greatest of all time.
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  When you look at that in racing from growing up and you look at
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  the guys that were on the top of the heat, who did you look to as
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  being somewhat the GOAT? I mean, for me, it was Tony
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  Stewart just because I grew up in Southern Indiana.
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  You know, Tony grew up. Yeah.
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  Tony grew up 45 minutes from where I grew up.
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  You know, he grew up racing Sprint cars.
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  And yeah, So for me, Tony was always that guy.
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  You know, Steve Kinzer grew up 25 minutes from where I was
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  from. So Steve Kinzer, I mean, is
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  probably the GOAT Sprint car racing.
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  Jack Hewitt was somebody that I always looked up to.
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  Dave, darling, he's like you said.
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  Come on. You say Jack Hewitt?
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  I would make my producer so mad. Yeah, don't, Don't do it.
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  Right now, not afraid to die. Can he do it?
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  Jack Hewitt. Yeah, Hewitt.
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  Was one of my heroes. Yeah.
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  He drove to my grandpa for two years.
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  Just hearing the stories of them growing up and down the road.
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  Yeah, I Hewitt's probably one of my favorite individuals in life.
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  So yeah, do it. Oh yeah.
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  So yeah, there's a lot of guys out there that are up there,
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  but. We see different.
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  Eras of racing, I think and different guys.
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  It's just kind of hard to to say who the GOAT is because Richard
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  Petty raced in a different era. But one thing, Chase, I don't
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  think you can really debate much is guys, we look week in and
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  week out. The margin of victory has
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  changed so much over the last couple of years and we're
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  probably going to see 1 today. That small margin of victory we
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  see now, it used to be 5-10 guys maybe could win one of these
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  races. Guys, we're talking about 25
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  winners week in and week out. This competition level Chase is
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  huge. It's definitely tight.
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  That's for Rd. course racing and SVG wins by 30 seconds.
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  But yeah, on the Opals it's yeah, it's been crazy tight.
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  This is the field. Honestly, yesterday was probably
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  the the biggest gap I've seen in qualifying in a long time.
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  And it was only, I think a second from literally first to
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  dead last where a lot of the time we go places, you know,
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  Martinsville, it'll be from 1st to 30th, it'll be 3/10 of a
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  second. Like, it's just crazy how tight
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  the field is and that's why it is harder to pass today, just
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  because we're all so fast and we're all so close.
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  So yeah, it'll be, it'll be interesting race today just
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  because the track's going to lie now.
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  It's going to do a lot of things different.
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  But yeah, I'm sure the margin of victory will certainly be close.
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  OK, how many race car drivers do we have out here?
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  Raise your hand. All of.
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  Us want. OK, No.
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  You all drive a race car from your couch, right?
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  I can't believe he knows it. Hey.
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  Hey. I've never seen you throughout
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  that many towels. He was.
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  You were out of breath. You were awesome.
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  OK. Oh yeah, we got more.
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  OK, we're going take us around this racetrack now.
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  I know when we're down, you know, towards turn one.
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  We hear all the shift, you know, going on.
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  Give us all a preview. You know, we got sequential
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  shifting, right? OK, take us down in turn.
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  I want y'all to hear him real good.
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  Who's who's got scanners today? OK.
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  All right, you listen. Lift them up a little bit,
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  right, Let's go down to the front straightaway.
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  Yeah, so this racetrack is is honestly really just odd, right?
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  Like when you look at it from Google Earth, it kind of looks
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  really similar to Darlington just from the shape of it, but
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  it's totally opposite. You know, turn one, you're going
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  down there and it feels like you were absolutely flying.
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  I mean, you're probably running 180 something mile an hour and
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  yeah, you go from here, you slam on the brakes as hard as you
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  can. It's as similar to Rd. core
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  style braking that we get anywhere on an Oval.
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  I mean, you're on the brakes as hard as you couldn't possibly
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  push it, downshift from 5th to 4th, then from 4th to 3rd.
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  And then you just kind of go in there and decide where you want
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  to run. You're seeing in the race day, I
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  think we'll be almost all the way up to the fence in one and
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  two. Or you can be all the way down
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  on the curbing, come off the corner.
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  It'll be sliding and doing all kinds of weird stuff because
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  you're you have so many RPMS, 3rd, 4th, 4th to 5th down the
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  straight away you're just bouncing all over the place.
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  I don't know how many of you guys watch practice, but you're
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  just literally just doing this the whole straight.
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  Away the old pit gate you know the pit gate comes across and
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  you're. You're bouncing the whole way
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  down through there. Then you go into 3 and it's this
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  really long, really flat kind of sweeping corner.
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  And you have some options there too where you can kind of run on
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  the bottom of the top. But I feel like that's where you
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  see most of your passes, at least start is in three and four
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  because the balance of your race car, that's where it really is a
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  huge difference maker. So you see guys kind of run up
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  the racetrack, get a big run, and then yeah, you're down to
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  4th gear in three and four late in the run.
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  You might go to 3rd gear there as well.
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  But here at this racetrack, you're extremely busy just
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  because you're shifting so much, you know, your back kind of
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  hurts. I feel like after this or just
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  because the the amount of brake pressure you use in this place.
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  So yeah, it's it's it's not an easy racetrack.
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  It's like I said, it's kind of an odd one because it is so
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  different from everywhere else we run.
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  So the car doesn't really drive that great.
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  So kind of makes fun. So we're going to do something
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  we never do because Wendy mentoring usually helps us.
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  One or two people out in the crowd have a question.
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  Back-to-back Southern 500 winner Chase Frisco, who has a question
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  right I. Want to ask you buddy.
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  How much pressure on the first southern 500?
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  I would say the pressure was way higher the first southern 500
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  than the second one, just because you know, it is a crown
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  jewel. You want to win a crown jewel,
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  but really just the whole everything that went into that
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  one, you know, the the Stewart house was closing down.
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  You know, we had literally 10 races left till the company
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  didn't even exist anymore. Yeah, you just, you felt like,
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  you know, obviously I went to the shop leading up to and that
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  was our last race to make the playoffs.
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  If we don't make the playoffs, people are literally going to
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  start leaving Monday because they know there's no shot to
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  race for a championship. So we'd already lost, I want to
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  say in the span of four weeks before that, like 40 people.
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  And if we didn't win that race, I felt like we were going to
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  lose another 40. And just the pressure of, you
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  know, all 300 employees, that one definitely was way more I
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  would say the pressure packed. Well Chase, we got to let you
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  go. One of the true good guys in
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  racing folks is Chase Briscoe. And before we go a real quick
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  question as a car owner, if you own two quarter midgets, do you
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  have a half a Midget? Yeah, I mean, math would tell
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  you we did. OK, I just want to clear that
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  up. Yeah, I love it though.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  Thank. You you could well be talking
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  about your. Winner right there.
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  This guys on a roll, right? Now, and as cautions breed.
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  Cautions Houses. Winning breeds winning.
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  That's true. You win 1, you win another one.