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NASCAR Has Realized You Can't Go Wrong With Cleetus McFarland | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning everybody.
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  We're outside, we're just wandering around I-55.
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  Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park, my home track has got it
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  going on in 2026, only only like 10 minutes from my house.
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  The World of Outlaw Wings Sprint cars are coming April 10th and
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  11th. Get your tickets at World of
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  Outlaw. Hey, look here, my nephew.
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  Look at there. Aaron.
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  The legend in the house. That's what he does for a
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  living. He works for two men and a spa.
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  See, that's a fat ass look. I like that color.
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  Looks like Nick Hoffman's dirt car.
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  Hey, did you like winning that championship this year?
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  Oh, yeah. Did you?
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  Did you like your bonus money? Oh, yeah, that was really nice.
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  That's right. I'm a lover.
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  Thank you Aaron for helping me this year.
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  We we won a couple championships, won 7A mains and
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  Aaron helps me at the racetrack. Well look at the hair just
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  blowing in the breeze that they looking good.
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  I'm headed to the Chili Bowl everybody.
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  Brody Pompey and my daughter Brittany will be down there
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  Friday. We'll be walking in the in the
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  Chili Bowl area. We'll be walking in there
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  probably around 4:30. See you in Tulsa, OK, this
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  Friday and Saturday. All right, let's keep walking
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  around the pool here. I want to open the damn pool up,
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  but it's too cold. I always tease the grandbabies.
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  I say whenever it gets to be 60° in the middle of the winter, I
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  say. You ready to open the pool up,
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  Poppy? OK, listen, we got some things
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  to talk about here that I see. Look, let me go ahead and sit
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  down here. I see some really neat things
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  that are happening at NASCAR right now.
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  How about NASCAR? Smart enough, NASCAR getting
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  smart finally. They're not doing stupid stuff
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  anymore. For example, NASCAR made a
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  mistake with Cletus McFarlane a year ago or so.
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  Cletus was practicing like an an ARCA car a year or so ago, and
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  he put his own camera in the car and he was out on the racetrack,
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  you know, practicing. And NASCAR scolded Cletus a year
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  ago. You can't do that.
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  No such thing as, you know, recording inside the car.
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  And Cletus is such a good man. He's like, my bad, so sorry.
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  You know, really, it's my bad. Everybody don't get mad at
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  NASCAR. Do you remember Cletus, you
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  know, being so nice about that. My talk a lot.
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  Times changing. Fast forward now.
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  Now NASCAR loves Cletus and they're all over him.
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  They're like Cletus bring your crown Vics running around
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  Daytona Speedway. Now NASCAR is working with
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  Cletus. NASCAR, I'm proud of you.
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  Good job. Steve O'Donnell, president and
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  Tim Clark in charge of marketing.
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  Now they got Cletus after Daytona 500 and he is kind of
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  your second hell yeah commercial.
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  It's really good. He's on the front straightaway.
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  He's got a he's got a phone and he's talking and he slams it
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  down. It's and he even says hell yeah.
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  So let's add this on to the 6th or 7th thing that NASCAR is
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  doing right. Cletus is a gift that just keeps
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  giving. I'm proud of NASCAR to recognize
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  and right they're wrong. You know, you kind of wonder,
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  and I talk about this all the time, how the hell did they get
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  where they're at by being so dumb over the last 15 years?
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  But now it's like the smart NASCAR is back.
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  So just to reiterate what NASCAR has done, they've welcomed
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  Cletus back from arms. Cletus has run his Crown VIX
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  around the Daytona Speedway. That's a far cry from scolding
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  him a year ago. That Cletus, you can't put a
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  little camera in your car. And now Cletus is making the
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  hell yeah commercials. Hey, listen, I'm, I'm, I'm not
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  going to leave you with this because they got more subject
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  matter. But I'm going to tell you I've
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  created my own saying about Cletus.
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  And this is what NASCAR always needs to remember.
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  And now they do know it. But you can't go wrong with
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  Cletus. It's just that simple.
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  You cannot go wrong with Cletus. So congratulations, NASCAR for
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  getting it right. Damn wind just start picking up
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  out here, blowing my beautiful hairs everywhere.
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  So the gifts just keep keep giving.
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  You know, yesterday. You know, sometimes when I do a
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  coffee with Kenny too early, I miss out on the news.
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  I'm very I'm very lucky because I've slept in a little bit
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  lately and I started coffee with Kenny late and I'm glad I did
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  because it's like around 10:00 Eastern Standard Time be like 9
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  here and I just catch it. And I caught it yesterday.
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  You know, talk about Tony Stewart is going to be back
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  driving the truck. And by the way, I want to add in
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  there, Jimmy Johnson's making a big deal.
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  He's coming back, you know, truck racing.
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  He's going to run 1 truck in San Diego on the course of the Cup
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  car. But I wake up this morning and I
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  don't miss it. What I did not miss was NASCAR.
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  You know, listen, we all forgive each other, right?
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  It looks like NASCAR, Tim Clark and everybody at marketing, at
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  NASCAR, they have forgiven Tony Stewart.
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  We're all big boys, right? Steve Phelps is gone.
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  The coast is clear. Love Steve O'Donnell, the new
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  president. He's a big boy.
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  So social media this morning on NASCAR, they're like Tony
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  Stewart's back, Smokers rise and Tony's back.
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  This is after. This is after Tony calls him
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  out, you know, five years ago and says, yeah, NASCAR is going
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  in the wrong direction. I don't like what they're up to.
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  Are you, are you all, and I say this respectfully, are you all
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  starting to follow the bouncing ball?
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  NASCAR making everything right again.
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  I love it. Well, I've been working really
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  hard. Uh, I hope you all like the
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  Kenny conversation with my three daughters.
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  You know, I'm getting ready to do Jeff Burton.
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  We're now listen, we've already done a Kenny conversation with
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  Jeff Burton, but we're getting ready to do 1 from a standpoint
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  that, hey, Jeff, you work for NBC, but you are in charge of
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  the racing alliance. You represent the drivers, so
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  you mediate. Jeff Burton mediates the drivers
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  and NASCAR. Jeff is the mayor.
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  He marries the drivers and NASCAR together.
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  So we're going to have a Kenny conversation here in just a
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  little bit. Looks like 40 minutes.
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  I got my outdoor clock. See my outdoor clock order.
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  Terry Wright brought me that. Thank you, Terry.
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  So we're going to talk to Jeff Burton today about NASCAR coming
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  back and what does he think? All right, everybody have a
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  great where's where's my day clock?
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  Aaron, what day is it?