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Natalie Decker Still Has A Place In NASCAR | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What's up everybody? Charlie Marlowe here talking
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  about one of the biggest NASCAR storylines from over the weekend
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  at Dover. NASCAR All Star Weekend happened
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  in the Truck Series. Unfortunately for Natalie
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  Decker, just an awful day on track over the radio, maybe the
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  worst day of her life. I don't know when you take into
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  account all the backlash she's receiving right now with all the
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  shows and podcasts coming out and everybody weighing in in the
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  media on social media and all that.
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  So she's running the Truck Series.
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  What black flagged not making minimum speed.
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  She has just a a really bad incident on the radio calling
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  out the Truck Series. They basically bring her in.
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  She says she never wants to run the Truck Series again.
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  Only wants to run O'Reilly. I've I've I've seen a lot on
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  social media people talking about her.
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  I've seen a lot of the clips of people in the media breaking
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  this down. I saw one from Kevin Harvick who
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  said he doesn't think she should run in any of NASCAR's top three
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  series. I obviously have all the respect
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  in the world for Kevin Harvick, but but I disagree with him on
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  that. So first of all, even though
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  Natalie Decker right now is at the the lowest of her lows,
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  let's take the whole body of work into account here.
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  I believe her first year in one of the top three series was
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  2019. Correct me if I'm wrong and I'm
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  looking at her stats and looking at her races and look Truck
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  Series probably not the place for her right now, maybe ever.
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  She said that herself on the radio even though emotions were
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  running high. But go back to 2020, she
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  finishes 5th in a Truck Series race and I believe that's the
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  the highest finish ever by a woman.
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  Again, correct me if I'm wrong if I missed somebody since, but
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  that was 2020 and then go to the O'Reilly Series 2024, correct?
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  She finishes 18th at Daytona. So my point here is I understand
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  a lot of people are saying that Natalie Decker should be done
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  with NASCAR and I just I don't agree with that.
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  She, she is a racer. There is a place for her.
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  I feel like if she's comfortable now, maybe after what happened
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  over the weekend, maybe she's done.
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  I I have no idea. I don't want to speak for her,
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  but I do think she's had enough success at superspeedways.
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  And I understand there's a lot of variance at superspeedways,
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  but when I mentioned the 5th place in the trucks going back,
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  that's six years ago. And the 18th place, which hey,
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  look, 18th is 18th. It's it's middle of the pack,
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  but it's respectable. That was the O'Reilly series.
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  And we all, we all know too, at Talladega Daytona, you can have
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  big wrecks and drivers can kind of squirt through there and you
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  can have a better finish. We, we all know that.
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  My, my point is, I know she's had some bad incidents, but I
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  feel like if Natalie Decker moving forward wants to continue
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  to run O'Reilly series races, limited schedule at a Daytona
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  Talladega, I feel like that's OK for her.
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  This all gets into the NASCAR approval process.
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  Also, we've talked about this with a lot of people.
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  I mean, Mike Wallace couple years ago wanting to run the
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  Daytona 500. He wasn't approved.
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  We've talked about this with Garrett Mitchell, with Cletus
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  MacFarlane. This is also on NASCAR too.
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  I mean, I do think the debate over these things, it's good for
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  NASCAR, maybe not the greatest for Natalie Decker and Natalie
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  Decker's mental health because obviously she's taking a beating
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  on social media. But look, my, my whole thing is
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  this also, OK, I think Natalie Decker is also good for the
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  sport, even if you disagree with her, even if you disagree with
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  her racing in NASCAR. And I have followed NASCAR full
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  time every day for five years. But I know it's not a long time,
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  but I covered a ton of NASCAR races at Michigan in 2006, 2007,
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  two Cup races a year. We covered NASCAR all the time.
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  And like I said, since I've been working with Kenny Wallace the
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  last five NASCAR season seasons, I'm paying attention to every
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  single race. NASCAR week in, week out lack
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  storylines. They do.
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  They lack interesting things happening.
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  Whether you like Natalie Decker or not, whether you think she'd
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  be, she should be racing or not, she has a storyline almost each
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  and every time she races. And, and maybe it's not for good
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  reasons. And I understand that and
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  there's some controversy with the picture she was taking with
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  Bert Kreischer earlier in the year and her social media.
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  I have no problem. I had no problem with the Bert
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  Kreischer pictures. If you know Bert Kreischer, he
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  takes his shirt off. She was doing a thing for her
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  sponsors and it was an interview.
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  It wasn't like she was doing it, you know, during the race.
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  It was with her fire suit taking it down.
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  I know people talked about that. That didn't bother me.
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  And also, I just look at this, I look at this on a human level
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  and it's funny. I I said, I said basically some
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  some neutral comments the last time during the Bert Kreischer
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  thing. And you get these people on
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  social media, they're like, oh, you're simping.
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  You're simping for Natalie Decker.
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  Oh, she's not going to sleep with you, bro.
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  Like that's, that's the kind of comments you get on social
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  media. Just so you know, I'm almost 44
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  years old, happily married. I have an 8 year old daughter
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  and look with a, with a young lady.
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  I know Natalie Decker's, what is she pushing 30?
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  I don't know. But I look at, I look at
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  situations like this through the lens of my daughter and I, I do
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  feel bad for Natalie Decker and I do have empathy for Natalie
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  Decker, even if look, she's brought some of this on herself
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  and even if she's in a, a series or running right now in a series
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  where she's over her head. I, I think that's, that's all
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  fair. That's all fair to critique.
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  And I look, there's always going to be the deepest, darkest
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  depths of the Internet. They're the worst people in the
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  world. They're the worst people in the
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  world. They're going to be the meanest
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  people they're going to be. And look, I'm not even bringing
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  sexism into this, but they're going to be just the worst of
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  the worst in terms of sexism and misogyny and all that.
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  And, and again, I think there's absolutely fair criticism for
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  Natalie Decker. I'm not going to crap on this
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  girl at her absolute lowest, all right?
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  And that's what I'm saying. I'm not just saying this.
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  I'm not, I'm not simping for Natalie Decker when I say I
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  think she has a place she can still run if she wants to run
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  Talladega and Daytona in the in the O'Reilly Series, I think
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  there's a place for her there if she's comfortable.
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  You know, I don't know. I don't know what she wants to
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  do moving forward. Everybody in the NASCAR world is
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  talking about Natalie Decker. And again, right now that's a
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  bad thing for her. But big picture, every time she
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  runs, she's a storyline that everybody's talking about Now.
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  I don't want her just getting beat up, beat up all the time.
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  But again, NASCAR week in, week out, LAX storylines.
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  Natalie Decker is an interesting character in the NASCAR world.
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  Whether you like her or not, whether you like what I just
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  said or not, it's it's absolutely true.
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  And again, I don't I don't want her always to be just getting
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  picked on. I don't want her always reckon.
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  I don't want it always to be negative.
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  But it's just it's a fact of the matter.
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  Every time she races, she's a main topic of conversation.
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  And it's been negative this year after each and every race.
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  And there's there's a lot of boring NASCAR weekends.
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  Let's be real, this car isn't super interesting.
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  There's some races that just you got a winner and then the next
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  I think I covered it all. Natalie Decker.
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  She's having the worst week of her life, probably.
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  I'm not going to pile on, but a lot of the criticism is fair.
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  I don't think she should be done with NASCAR.
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  I think an O'Reilly schedule with the superspeedways is cool.
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  And by the way, I was about ready to wrap up and I forgot
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  about this. This is why I should write
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  things down. I wanted to talk about this
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  before and I forgot Arca. She may think she's too too big
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  for Arca right now, but here's the thing.
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  Arca's back baby Cletus. Let's be real, Cletus has
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  brought Arca back. Arca is not just oh the the 4th
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  series anymore. There's a lot of eyeballs on
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  Arca because of Cletus, McFarlane, and if you look at
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  what Natalie Decker does for her sponsors.
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  Do you think? I know, I know there's less
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  people watching, but there's more now watching Arca than
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  ever. But for what she's doing for her
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  sponsors on social media, do you really think it's that big of a
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  difference if she's racing trucks or O'Reilly versus Arca?
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  Because what she's giving her sponsors also is appearances is
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  all of her social media. I looked at Facebook, she has I
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  think almost 300,000 followers on Facebook.
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  She can post the pictures, she can post the video on Facebook,
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  Instagram X, all that. Whatever she's doing.
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  I don't even know if she's on TikTok.
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  But my point is you can have as much sponsor engagement, I would
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  think almost as much through Arca as you could with the
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  trucks or O'Reilly series based on her social media.
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  And I'm telling you, man, Arca is almost as interesting as
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  anything. If Cletus is in it, you got a
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  lot of storylines with Arca. She can be another storyline
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  Natalie Decker, Ken with Arca and and maybe she goes down
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  there and she's running a lot better and she's running upfront
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  sometimes or or running close at least at least respectable,
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  right. So there you go.
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  I've kind of wrapped this up multiple times, but I think she
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  has a place in NASCAR. It's the worst day of her life,
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  probably the worst week of her life.
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  It's going to get better. I hope she bounces back.
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  I hope her mental health is good.
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  No, I'm not simping for her. I have an 8 year old daughter
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  and that's how I look at these things, to be honest with you.
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  So I don't care what you think. All right, because if that's my
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  daughter, yes, I'm going to say, hey, we need to do some things
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  differently, but I'm also having empathy and sympathy if that's
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  my daughter. So that's how I'd like for
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  somebody else to look at my daughter if she was in the same
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  situation. So there you go.
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