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Are Mark Martin & Denny Hamlin Champions? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  And there he is, King Louie, Louie, the legend Louie.
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  There he is sitting on his perch.
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  How come he doesn't sit up there every day?
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  I guess boys will be boys. The doors open, so he usually
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  runs the property. I don't know why he's up there
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  today, but there he is looking good.
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  All right, we got 2 subjects today.
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  We got why people make such a big deal out of calling or
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  calling the NASCAR track in Saint Louis, St.
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  Louis, or in reality it's in Madison, IL.
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  If you want to get technical, it's kind of like Charlotte
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  Motor Speedway is in Concord, NC, but we call it Charlotte
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  Motor Speedway. We can go on and on.
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  And the other one is would you rather win 15 races in the Cup
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  Series and be a champion or would you rather win 60 races
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  and not be a champion? So let's go with the the Saint
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  Louis one first. As I scroll social media
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  throughout the weekend, there's a couple people you know, and I
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  make fun of the Kansas City Chiefs all the time.
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  I really do, just just to aggravate them.
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  I totally understand everything. It's just fun.
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  So no Kansas City, Chief Kansas, right?
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  I'm like your stadium, your stadium is in Kansas City, MO.
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  But the problem is, is that when you look at the stadium, you
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  can't, all you see is just land, earth, right?
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  So it gets kind of confusing. You look at the Charlotte Motor
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  Speedway in Concord, NC, and you're like, it's just land
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  around there. So here's the deal with the
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  Worldwide Technology Raceway. The Worldwide Technology
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  Raceway, the NASCAR track, when you look at it, it's right next
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  to the Arch and the city of Saint Louis and the mighty
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  Mississippi. So when the camera shows the
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  Worldwide Technology Raceway, there's the Arch, there's the
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  city of Saint Louis. Because the racetrack is closer
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  to the city of Saint Louis, it's closer to the Arch than any
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  racetrack in America. So when you show all those other
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  NASCAR tracks, you just see land.
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  You don't see nothing. The worldwide technology
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  Raceway, we call it Saint Louis because it's the it's the
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  surrounding areas and there's more people on the Saint Louis
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  side than there is where it's located with which is Madison,
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  IL. So respond right here if they
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  show, if they show the camera, the cameras here and there.
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  And there's the racetrack and there's the city of Saint Louis
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  right there, and there's the arch.
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  We're talking about the Saint Louis region, OK?
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  It's like this. You see that right there?
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  That's Channel 2, Channel 2, because Saint Louis is on the
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  Mississippi River, Channel 2. Everybody on the Illinois side,
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  they watch Channel 2 also. It's the Saint Louis region.
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  That, my friends, is why we all call Worldwide Technology
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  Raceway, the NASCAR track, the Saint Louis region, That's it.
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  That's all there is to it. So forever and moving forward,
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  the NASCAR track that is located in Madison, IL will always be
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  called Saint Louis because the racetrack is located right there
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  in the city of Saint Louis, the mighty Mississippi River and the
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  arch, the Saint Louis region. So I hope that explains to you
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  all that crazy, crazy debate. There is no other racetrack that
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  shows the city right next door to the track like Worldwide
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  Technology does. Respond right here.
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  OK, this one is a barn burner. We're switching subjects right
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  now. Mark Martin, one of my dear
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  friends. I love Mark Martin and he has
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  been a breath of fresh air this year.
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  He brings up subject matters and I didn't see it coming.
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  He's on a lot of podcast. Mark Martin in, in my mind, is
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  one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time.
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  Mark Martin is a badass, but circumstances that were out of
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  his control made it to where he could not win a NASCAR
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  championship. What I mean by this is Mark
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  Martin was running good at Atlanta.
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  He was going to win the championship and the motor blew
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  up in a blaze of glory, meaning that when Mark Martin's motor
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  blew up, it was a catastrophic failure fire.
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  It was one of the biggest grenades blow UPS of all time.
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  I mean, it blew up to where there was fire everywhere.
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  So it was very memorable. And to this day, it bothers Mark
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  Martin that he did not win the championship.
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  I tell Mark, I said, Mark, that's just something in your
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  crawl. In other words, it's just
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  something that bothers you because people tease you about
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  it. It does not define you.
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  And these people that say something about it, they're
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  they're nobody. They don't even they don't even
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  drive a race car. That's that's why I am so
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  awesome. I have the ability to I hear
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  people, but that just goes in one ear right out the other.
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  It doesn't. It doesn't stop.
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  In other words, if I decide that criticism is not warranted, it
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  just goes in one ear right out the other.
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  There, there's, I guess there's some things in my life that
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  could bother me. Not very many, though, you know,
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  I mean, the only thing that would bother me is and my dad
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  died. You know, we're all getting
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  older. We got to live better.
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  We got to travel. I love my grandbabies.
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  Those are the things that really bother me.
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  All the rest of this stuff is just what we call white noise.
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  White noise means like a like a white wall.
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  You know, there's a wall, it's all white.
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  There's nothing. There's just it's just a nothing
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  it don't, it's nothing. So when you look at Ryan Blaney,
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  who's won 15 Cup races, great race car driver, great race car
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  driver, loving, but he's a champion because he won the
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  championship. Then there's Denny Hamlin, one
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  of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, no doubt about it.
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  Not even La La La La 59 wins. Is Ryan Blaney because he won a
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  championship with only fifteen wins.
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  Is he better than Mark Martin? Is he better than Denny Hamlin?
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  No. Anyway, so as far as Mark Martin
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  not winning the championship, Denny Hamlin not winning one
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  yet, it just Oh my God, X-rated Louie, Louie, my God, if every
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  man could do that. So as far as some, as far as
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  some of you picking on Mark Martin or Denny Hamlin because
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  they haven't won a championship, white noise.
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  As far as Ryan Blaney winning 15 races and winning the
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  championship, awesome. But as of right now, there's no
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  way that one of them stand above the rest.
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  Championships are meant to be. They're meant to be.
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  They don't define you. They do not define you and
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  that's the way it is because US competitors realize that.
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  Mark Martin, Danny Hamlin, they're a champion many times
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  over, but circumstances beyond their control make a pit stop.
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  Bad pit stop takes them out of the championship blowing motors.
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  People know these things and respond right here.
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  Have a great Wednesday, everybody.