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Ram Returns To NASCAR: Why Are Automakers Coming Back To The Sport? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Take two. Happy Sunday, everybody.
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  I thought I was doing dirt racing of justice and I talked
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  about Jonathan Davenport winning the dream and not a not a person
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  bit, not a person bit. So it seems like everybody wants
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  to talk about the Ram pickup truck coming back into NASCAR.
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  So I'm going to tell you everything I know and then you
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  can respond right here. It's Sunday.
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  Right now, it's Sunday morning. They are reporting that at 1:30
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  today at the Michigan International Speedway on the
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  front straightaway, on the front straightaway.
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  That's key. Or somewhere in front.
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  They're going to have a big press conference with NASCAR.
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  So if you're going to do a press conference like out front,
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  obviously they're going to have something on display.
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  So let's talk about the Ram pickup truck.
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  This is what the comedy is right here.
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  Is it Dodge? Oh, are you biting for that
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  'cause everybody wants to make fun.
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  Everybody's like Ram, but I don't hear the word Dodge.
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  You know what I mean? I'll let it fly.
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  Dodge Ram pickup is coming back. Hell, I don't know.
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  I don't know. You respond right here.
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  All I did was read everything in the last week that's been
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  posted. I can tell you this though, Ram
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  pickup. What does that mean?
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  What does Ram pickup? Obviously it's it's a Dodge.
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  If there's nothing, I don't know anything about a Ram.
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  You can call it a Ram, but it's got to be some form of Dodge,
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  right? But there's that underlying
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  weird thing like it's called a Ram and it's got the Dodge Ram
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  on. It's it's going to be something
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  to do with something that used to look like a Dodge.
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  How's that? Can't go wrong saying that.
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  But let's talk about this, this big deal.
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  Why? And I think this is going to be
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  the headlines. Why is everybody running back to
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  NASCAR sponsors alike? TV network executives?
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  Why did everybody spend $8 billion on NASCAR?
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  Why are all the sponsors? Why does everybody want back in
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  with NASCAR? What's going on?
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  The old people say NASCAR's failing.
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  Y'all messed up on that one. Sponsors, automakers, everybody
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  wants NASCAR. Even other countries want
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  NASCAR. So it seems to me that NASCAR is
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  not failing, it is just plateaued.
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  This is what we have now. You know, years ago when The
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  Beatles came to America, all the girls went rushing.
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  This day, The Beatles, I remember Elvis.
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  I remember when disco was everything.
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  Now this is a history lesson, kids.
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  Disco kid was a friend of mine and then all of a sudden they
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  were burning the records. Look that up, Google that.
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  Did they burn disco records? Now disco's out, and I think
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  disco was the greatest thing of all time.
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  Hell, they don't even play Rock'n'roll anymore.
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  And what about all these Rock'n'roll people moving to
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  Nashville? Kid Rock, Aerosmith, all my
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  buddies in Aerosmith, hell, they're living down there in
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  Nashville. What's up?
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  You see the history lesson here? Everybody reorganizes
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  themselves. NASCAR's back.
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  Everybody. They just plateaued.
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  What that means is that NASCAR ain't as big as it once was, but
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  it's as good as it ever was. Oh, how about that?
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  I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm something something that
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  I ever was. Go ahead.
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  This is the part Name that tune. So the moral of the story is, is
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  it looks like the automakers are wanting back in.
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  And remember this Dodge, you know, here we go with all the
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  bullshit where you're going to teach me about all their VVW and
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  I don't I don't buy that bullshit.
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  You can act like you smart and everything, but I know what it
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  is. All right, whatever, They all
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  buy each other out. But the bottom line is, is Dodge
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  all that they want back in in some form, in some capacity.
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  And you got to ask yourself why? Why do they want back in?
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  It's because they're not as big as they once were.
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  Just like the stadiums. You look at any stadium now,
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  they're not as big as they once were, but they're as good as
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  they ever were. Everything is plateaued.
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  You know, Bill Elliott once told me one day he said, Herman, he
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  says there's enough room for everybody.
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  So gone are the you know, 150,000 seat stadiums now I
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  think the biggest stadium in the world, maybe not world respond
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  right here is the Bristol Coliseum, Bristol Motor
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  Speedway. I don't know of anything bigger
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  than that. The big house Michigan, that's
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  what 100,000 Bristol seats way more than that.
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  They they hold the football record with Tennessee and
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  Virginia respond right here. Did I say Virginia right or
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  should I said West Virginia? Should I said Tennessee or
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  should I said balls? You'll correct me y'all are
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  crazy. So the point is, is that Dodge
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  not oh Harmon, not Dodge Ram. We will wait till 1:30 today but
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  respond right here. What do you know?
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  All I know is what I read Ram with the logo, which is a Dodge
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  Ram. What did these people buy Dodge
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  out and buy their logo too. Hey, maybe we'll find that out.
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  I'm going along with you. I'm having fun.
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  The bottom line is this. Some people are saying it.
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  It's not Dodge. It's just Ram.
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  Well, OK, but still, what do you want me to do, act like an
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  idiot? It's the logo.
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  They're using the logo. They got it.
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  They got a social media site. Ram and the RAM, the animal Ram.
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  They're having a press conference today at 1:30 at
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  Michigan and documents that people have seen, they've seen
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  them with their eyes. Now we've talked about this,
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  they're coming back to NASCAR. That's not the story.
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  The story is why does everybody want back in the NASCAR?
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  So you respond right here. Now, I know you old people are
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  going to try to spend this as some type of negative thing, but
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  that's funny because I'll, I'll laugh with you, but everybody
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  wants back in the NASCAR and that's going to be my headlines.
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  Looks like Ram wants back in, all the sponsors want back in.
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  Everybody's got new sponsors. We'll find out today at 1:30.