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Why I Like Stage Racing in NASCAR | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  Man, I'll tell you what, I was tired.
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  Oh, that trip coming back from Kabul is rough.
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  We are unlucky. I love Saint Louis, but our
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  airport is a little small, no direct flights.
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  So we leave Kabul at 1:24. We get to Phoenix, 3 1/2 hour
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  layover. So we got home last night
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  literally at 11:59. Got got home, got to bed around
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  2. Woke up this morning and damn it
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  was 10:00. So I'm sorry that I'm doing
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  coffee with Kenny at at lunchtime.
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  I never meant to make your daughter cry.
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  I apologize a trillion times. Sorry, Miss Jackson, but I am
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  for real. OK?
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  I've had my banana this morning. I've had my killer Dade's toast
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  soaked in a little bit of olive oil.
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  Still drinking my coffee. Let me see.
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  Let's see how much is left in there.
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  Oh, yeah, we still. We're still looking good.
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  So around 10:15 10/20 I started scrolling my phone.
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  I'm pleasantly surprised and happy that I have some angry
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  people that I can talk to today. Yay for me.
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  Sometimes when you post something you're like, I don't
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  know if this is going to stick or not.
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  I found one that's stuck. I said I like I like stage
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  racing and once again you all did not let me down.
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  You lost your ever living mind. You crazy bastards.
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  You guys bite every time. Now you gave me something to
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  talk about. So let's talk about stage
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  racing. Why do we have it?
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  You know what's up? You know simply why do we have
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  stage racing? As I always say, I've said it
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  for years, I'm a leader. I fix, and when I fix it, I tell
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  you why. I tell you what and where and
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  when. Sometimes we have to understand
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  history to understand why we got here.
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  So what happened was there was this societal shift, meaning the
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  word societal shift means that the world changed.
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  The smartphone that I'm holding up right now, the smartphone
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  came about Monster Jam. The trucks started doing
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  backflips, snowmobile racing, they started doing backflips.
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  The X Games came. All sports went wild.
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  You know, the NFL, the NHL, Major League Baseball, everybody
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  started changing, you know, all these new rules to to enhance
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  the sport. Everything changed a little bit.
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  Everything changed a little bit. New rules here and there for
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  everything. All sports have changed a little
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  bit. New rules.
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  So NASCAR lost 70% of its fan base in 2006.
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  That's when NASCAR went downhill.
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  Now, we lost Dale Senior in 2000 and then Dale Junior carried
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  carried the rise of NASCAR. One would have thought when Dale
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  Senior died, that would have been it.
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  No, it's opposite. 2006 is when the nosedive of NASCAR started.
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  So NASCAR started looking around, going, man, we got to
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  fix this sport. And one thing they found is that
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  the new kids, not you old people, I'll tell you what, I'm
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  having a good time with that one too.
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  The young kids, they don't, they're hyperactive.
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  They're like, they're like this. They're like me, you know,
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  there, there's Monster Jam. Like I said, all that started
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  getting real entertaining. So NASCAR's like, what do we got
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  to do to keep people involved in the sport?
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  You know, the biggest complaint was from the new crowd is, my
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  God, these races are too long. All these cars do is go around
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  in circles for like 4 and five hours.
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  So stage racing came along because they thought OK, we'll
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  stop the race for a minute. Stage racing, you go, let's say
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  it's a 400 lap race just for 10 grands.
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  So you, you stop at a lap 100, everybody makes a pit stop.
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  The winner gets 10 points, 2nd place gets 9 points.
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  You know, so the drivers drive harder.
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  OK, you can get up, take a piss because you're going to take a
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  piss, you know what I mean? And why you pissing and why you
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  going to bathroom? They can still be racing and you
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  might miss it and you're going to rewind it.
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  So stage racing, help the hyperactive people with the
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  sport and everybody likes it. Now there's some purist out
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  there, some purist out there that they're like, I want to go
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  back to the way it was. What's this about?
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  Hey, Louis, what's wrong? Usually when he does this, that
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  means he wants treats. Treat.
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  Hold on, let me finish this. Hold on.
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  I'll get you one. So the reason the reason stage
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  racing came about was to make the drivers drive harder or
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  longer, you know, because we're racing to that 100 lap mark,
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  then we're going to go green again, then we're going to race
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  to the 200 lap mark. So really it was a challenge to
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  the drivers to drive harder at a longer period of time, make the
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  racing more exciting. Second thing was to give you a
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  chance to get up, go make something, take a piss.
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  And I got to tell you, ever since stage racing came about, I
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  like it. I like it because I just, I
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  cannot imagine a time where we go back to the way it used to
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  be. I, I just really like it.
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  So once again, I'm a leader. I fix issues.
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  I'm I'm a husband, I'm a dad. I got three daughters.
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  I fix. That's why I'm a leader.
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  And I agree with the leadership of NASCAR.
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  Stage racing is here to stay. It's it's a it's an 8020 issue.
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  80% of the people like stage racing and you 20 remember now
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  I've given you this platform to argue.
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  So come on, mother fuck me. You too.
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  You too. I love stage racing and it's
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  here to stay. And and I told you everything.
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  I told you why it came about because all sports change and
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  and NASCAR had to change to keep these hyperactive kids engaged
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  in racing. It's not about you guys.
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  It's not about exactly what you want.
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  It's about the totality. So I understand that you want
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  what you want, you know, because you're 50 to 70 years old and
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  you want to go back to the old days.
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  And I get it. But you're wishing in one hand,
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  you're in the other. See, I deal with real time.
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  You guys go. I want to go back to the old
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  days. You're exhausting yourself.
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  OK, Now respond right here. Mother me back and maybe
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  tomorrow I'll mother you back. I truly love you guys.
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  Thanks for playing along and engaging and all right, How
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  shall I? Let me see what's how am I going
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  to. How am I going to tag this one?
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  I love stage racing. That's enough to piss you off.