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The Mark Martin vs Danielle Trotta NASCAR Playoff Drama | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  About 5:40 AM in the morning. Boy, Herman, you sure do look
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  nice. You're all shaving up.
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  Got your hairs dead. So on this Wednesday morning, I
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  am going to St. Charles, MO, about 35 minutes up
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  the road. Coach Joe Gibbs is in town.
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  He has a big prayer breakfast. In other words, you know, he's
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  going to give a little speech, say a prayer.
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  We're going to eat some breakfast.
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  And Sam, Sam is part of the family.
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  Sam challenged me. Oh, I guess about 3 weeks ago.
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  Sam is on my daughter Brooke's side over there.
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  Sam's like, you will come with me to breakfast to see Coach Joe
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  Gibbs talk. He goes, it's really early.
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  I'm like, Sam, I'm not getting up until 5:00 in the morning.
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  I love Coach Joe Gibbs. I love the Lord.
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  This is the day. This is the day that the Lord
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  has made. You know, it's like when people
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  challenge you, they're like, I don't know if you're really
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  religious or not. I'm going to test you.
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  I'm going to make you get up in the morning.
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  You're going to prove to me. I'm like, so I said, Sam, I'll
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  see you there. So I got my ass up at 5:00 AM
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  this morning. Sam's got me a ticket and we're
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  going to go listen to Coach Joe Gibbs give a little speech.
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  Now, listen, these these football guys, they are
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  incredible. They they can give some great
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  speeches. So I'm sure Coach Joe Gibbs is
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  very good. Looking forward to just
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  listening to him. I don't want him to recognize
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  me. I just want to sit at my table
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  and enjoy this morning. So right now it's about 5:40 AM.
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  OK, Wow, deep breath, everybody. Holy moly.
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  Yesterday, on Tuesday, SiriusXM channel 90, Danielle Trotta, she
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  gets on X and she writes Mark Martin a little love letter.
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  She says, Mark, you know I love you, but what the point system
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  we have right now is way better than what we used to have.
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  Holy moly. I just checked it this morning,
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  611,000 likes. That means 611,000 people saw
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  what Daniel Trotter said to Mark Martin.
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  There are people that think that Larry Mack and Danielle gave
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  Mark Martin some shade. I think everybody's out of
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  breath and I would encourage everybody to simmer down.
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  Simmer down everybody. This is all a show.
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  This is all a show, OK? My job is was a mistake.
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  COVID came around. I started coffee with Kenny and
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  you all love it and that we bring up topics and I talk about
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  it. So let's let's paint the picture
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  real quick here. About two months ago, Mark
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  Martin started getting on social media and and he he started
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  taking polls himself. My dear friend Mark the kid
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  Martin out of Batesville, AR Mark, you're watching and you
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  know I love you and this is all good.
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  Everybody smile. Everybody smile.
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  Now I'm a mediator. I'm the mediator.
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  That means I'm stepping into this show and I'm going to
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  straighten it out because I'm a leader, remember, I'm a boss.
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  I tell you all the time. OK, so couple months ago Mark
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  Martin got on social media and he said this playoff system is
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  horrible. We need to go back to the old
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  days. So I called Mark, see how it
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  works. I called Mark and I said, Mark,
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  you want to come on Kenny conversation and we'll talk
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  about this and you can air it out.
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  Well, he did and I listened and at the very end Mark said, you
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  know what though? NASCAR is still the greatest
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  show in auto sports today. That's what Mark said.
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  So 150,000 views on long format on Kenny Wallace YouTube show.
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  It was a Grand Slam. So when Mark Martin came on to
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  Kenny conversation, Mark said what he had to say.
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  Goddess said his piece. I respected him and and that was
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  it and everybody liked it and everybody talked about it.
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  And I had to remind people that I called Mark.
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  I had to remind people that I called Mark and said, Mark, come
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  on, state your grievance and get it out.
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  He got it out and it was wonderful and that's that.
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  Mark is like a dog with a rat in his mouth.
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  He will not let this go and I admire him for that.
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  Mark Martin loves NASCAR. That's the first thing that
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  everybody has not realized yet. Mark Martin loves NASCAR.
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  He said it, March said. NASCAR made me a lot of money,
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  but I want them to go back to the old point system because I
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  feel like what's going on right now is a gimmick and it has
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  diminished my career, It has diminished what I did, he said.
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  What I did back in the old days was so hard, so hard, and now
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  these gimmicks are diminishing my career.
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  Fast forward yesterday. What was that?
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  July 24th, 25th, July 25th, yesterday, SiriusXM channel 90,
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  they start talking about, you know, there is a driver that has
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  not won a championship and basically he doesn't know what
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  he's talking about. Well, who could that driver be?
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  It could be Danny Hamlin. Danny Hamlin hasn't won a
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  championship. It could be Mark Martin.
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  Mark Martin has won a championship.
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  Well, once the fans got their teeth into this, here we go.
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  And I wouldn't encourage you all to listen to me because I'm
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  smart about this. You both want the same thing.
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  You all are fighting over the same thing.
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  You all want NASCAR like it was in the old days.
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  You want it big like the old days.
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  OK, so you all are fighting over making NASCAR like the old days.
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  So since I'm the mediator, let me straighten you dummies out.
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  It ain't never going to be like the good old days.
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  What the wrong with all of you? What is wrong with you all?
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  Nothing is like the good old days.
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  Nothing. Nothing.
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  When The Beatles came over from the United Kingdom or Europe,
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  whatever the hell it was, it was insane.
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  The girls were screaming, Well, The Beatles are gone.
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  Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne, They split up now.
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  Ozzy passed away yesterday. You see what I'm saying?
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  Changes Nothing's the same. I gave you all credit.
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  I said you all want the same thing.
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  You all are arguing over the same now.
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  Stop it now. I'm awesome because I let Mark
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  on my platform and let him say his piece.
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  And I said, OK, Mark, you done. And Mark said, yeah, I'm done.
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  And then at the very end, Mark goes, ain't nothing going to
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  change. And NASCAR's great Mark.
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  Mark just wants to be heard so you all quit showing throwing
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  shade at each other. I done told you I'm going to
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  repeat myself this time because I want to make sure you hear me
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  and I'm going to end like this. We will never get back to the
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  old days. Times have changed.
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  You're never going to have 200,000 people in the
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  grandstands again. So stop it.
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  Just stop it. You all are barking up the wrong
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  tree. You.
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  It's never going to be like that again.
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  Those days are over. Just like Black Sabbath is not
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  coming back. The Beatles are gone.
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  Dale Senior's gone. Rusty Rusty's retired.
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  Mark Martin's retired. Ernie Irving's retired.
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  Jimmy Spencer's retired. Everybody's gone, guys.
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  The good old days are gone now. Get that in.
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  Get that into your head. You guys keep going.
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  I want the old points system back.
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  Well, it ain't coming back. See, people smart like me are
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  executives like Rodger Penske, Chip Ganassi, John Menard that
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  owns Menards. Really executives, super smart
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  people. They deal with what they know
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  and what they got, OK. And what we know and what we got
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  is what we got and we deal in real time.
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  We we're a little halfway past the season.
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  You can't right now change the point system.
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  So deal with now. Deal with now.
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  How'd I do? Gave you a little ass tune
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  because you deserved it. Y'all.
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  Y'all are going stupid right now, OK?
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  Danielle Trotta, Larry Mack. They said what they wanted to
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  say. Mark says what he wants to say,
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  and that's that. Now, Mark is a hero and Mark
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  Martin's one of my very best friends in life, and we all know
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  that. Talk, talk to Mark every day.
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  Larry Mcreynold, Daniel Trott, a good friends of mine.
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  All right, y'all, y'all understand?
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  What the hell I said no responding here with some stupid
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  you're going to dream up. Well, they need to go back to
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  the old days. Well, OK, how you going to do
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  that? We're right in the middle of the
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  race season, dummies. Lamont, you big dummy.
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  Now you're insulting my intelligence because I'm smart.
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  Let's go back to the good old days.
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  How do you do that? Just think about this, you guys
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  say, all right, I'm headed up to Coach Joe Gibbs.
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  I love you all. Merry Christmas, everybody.
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  Have a great. Have a great Wednesday.