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The NASCAR Whine Line & Donny Schatz is Back | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  Man, it rained hard last night. It rained so hard.
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  Woke me up out of that bed. Bang, woke me up.
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  I believe it's the first time in a long time that I've heard a
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  good Thunder banger. Lots of rain, lots of rain.
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  We will see. With all the snow melting and
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  racing season around the corner, What tracks are going to be
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  flooded? Who's going to start on time?
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  Missy? January.
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  It's only March, It's only March.
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  We got a lot of time for everything to dry up around
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  here. What is your dirt track and your
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  weather look like? Respond right here.
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  As you know, I'm always worried about our racetrack.
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  Just 15 minutes from my house, I-55 Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway Park, right here in Pevely, Missouri.
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  We got a Creek. We got a big Creek that runs by
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  the racetrack. We'll get flooded every once in
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  a while. Yes, in the history of I-55,
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  we've had to shut down for a month when Kenny Schrader in the
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  great Ray Marler on the racetrack had to shut down for a
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  month. Does your dirt track have a
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  Creek by it? Has your dirt track ever had to
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  shut down because of flooding? What about the pictures down
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  there at Paducah, KY? Wow.
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  You know, in the past, not now. I'm just saying in the past.
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  But boy, there have been some dirt tracks.
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  You know, dirt tracks. Look for the cheapest land
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  available. So sometimes these old dirt
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  tracks, they get put by a Creek or a river and boy, you get some
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  of those good rains and it it'll do you in for a little bit.
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  So we're praying the Lord let's get this all dried up so we can
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  go racing. OK, couple topics.
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  Speaking of dirt racing, how about it for Donnie?
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  Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots.
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  Donnie Schatz, Man, oh man. There are World of Outlaw dirt
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  Sprint car racers and then there there are the two respond right
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  here. What do you think?
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  There is the King Steve Kinzer, and then there's Donnie Schatz.
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  Both these gentlemen have one. God, I've lost track.
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  I think Kinzer had 15 championships as they now Donnie
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  Schatz got you know, Kinzer was the king and I don't know why,
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  but they call Donnie shots Don Don.
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  What other what other nicknames does Donnie Shots have?
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  Respond right here. Don Don sounds sounds silly to
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  me, but anyway, Donnie shots back by popular demand on Friday
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  night. I think he won down.
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  I don't know where he won, but he won.
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  And they said he sliced and diced.
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  Look like the Donnie shots of the past through the middle of
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  the, you know, carving spaces that nobody could do.
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  I love Donnie's shots. So we're years ago.
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  We're down in Ocala. And that was when I was young
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  and still having a lot of fun. And Donnie came into the bar and
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  I looked at Donnie's shots and I went.
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  Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots.
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  And to my surprise, Donnie just smiled.
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  Donnie Schatz is a good guy. I like him a lot.
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  So he won last night. And here's why it was a big
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  deal. Because, you know, Donnie Schatz
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  and Tony Stewart, they split up. And Donnie Schatz has had a long
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  dry spell, hasn't won in a long time.
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  What? Donnie wins last night.
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  And there's a lot of emotional people out there.
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  So happy days are here again. So congratulations to the great
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  Donnie Schatz. They said he looked good.
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  He looked good. OK, switching subjects, didn't
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  really want to talk about this, but I thought, you know what,
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  why not? I'm going to, I'm going to call
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  this coffee with Kenny the wine line.
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  So while I'm down in Daytona Beach, FL, Ormond Beach, Ormond
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  Beach is right outside of Daytona, you know, I had a
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  wonderful time at brother Rusty and nephew Stevens Southern
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  country customs and I, I love everybody, but this is no doubt
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  what I'm going to say. Every single old man.
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  When I say old man, you can say what it is.
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  What is an old man? What is a old man?
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  Respond right here. Every single old man.
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  They stood in line and I loved every one of them.
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  And they all would get right to me and they would get very
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  aggressive with me. And they say I just don't like
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  NASCAR anymore. And I stay real calm and I and I
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  put my arm around them. I put my arm on them and I'd say
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  I love you, buddy. I said, now how come, how come
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  you don't like NASCAR anymore? And every, every one of them,
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  every one of them had a little different reason, but they were
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  all the same. I just, I don't know, I just, it
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  ain't the same. But they were there to see Rusty
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  and they were there to see coffee with Kenny.
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  This, this damn coffee with Kenny.
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  It blows me away. So, you know, I can't do
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  anything about it right now. The racing is the best.
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  NASCAR's fixed a lot of things. But man, I'll tell you what,
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  these, these old men, they will not let it go.
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  Now, you know, one of my dear friends in life, Mark the kid
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  Martin out of Batesville, AR you know, Mark drove up the driveway
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  and he said, I got fact that, you know, just because we're
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  old, you know, NASCAR's wrong. And so Mark fixed NASCAR single
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  handedly. The NASCAR executives, Ben
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  Kennedy said we were not going to do what Mark said.
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  But then we saw it, we looked at it.
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  And so Mark Martin, he fixed NASCAR got those points fixed
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  because what we were told was it was the points.
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  And if we fix the points, that would be it.
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  And then of course, Mark Martin came out a couple weeks ago and
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  said, listen, the NASCAR teams want the numbers to to stay and
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  there's no there. Listen, you're not going to
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  convince me moving the numbers and going back to 5 lug nuts is
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  going to make you love NASCAR. I think a lot of you are just
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  tired. You know, people, when we get
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  older, we change. We don't want to go to the race
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  tracks. I think a lot of this is an
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  excuse for being old. You know, I'm tired.
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  It's a it's a lot to go to these tracks.
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  But what, what are we going to do?
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  Everybody? That's the bottom line.
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  But I I thought, well, do I talk about this or not?
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  But what I'm going to say, I'm going to say very nicely.
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  I'm not here for it. Everybody.
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  It's over for me. It is over for me.
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  I love NASCAR. I've been at Atlanta this year,
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  I've been at Texas and they're having fun without you.
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  It's been really good. And with that, does the 45 of
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  Tyler Reddick, does he win four in a row?
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  That's a good looking car. Silver.
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  It's it's all silver. It says Jordan right down the
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  middle. Respond right here.
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  Happy Saturday, everybody.