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Coffee With Kenny | Tony Stewart Doesn't Like Where NASCAR is Headed · Kenny Wallace Media

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  He stopped loving her today. We're still doing George Jones,
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  everybody. Well, let's get right to the
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  point on this little bit of rain.
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  Rain. Is there a song for rain?
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  I don't know. You know, there is.
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  Sing it with me. All right.
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  But the rain is gone. And drama in the River City Tony
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  Stewart last night, yesterday on Kevin Harvick's happy hour with
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  Harvick. So Tony Stewart was on Kenny
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  conversation over almost almost three years ago, and he was the
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  very first person on Kenny conversation.
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  And Tony got incredible views. Man, My, my eyes are doing good
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  this morning. I don't need these glasses.
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  Tony Stewart is like lightning. He's like lightning and Thunder
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  is a little bit frightening. You better not not knock on
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  wood. Damn.
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  Herman's happy this morning. I feel good.
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  I can do that on wood now. So good.
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  All right, simmer down, Herman. Hey, Wallace, why you always so
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  happy? I tell people I came out of my
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  damn Mama like this. Let's go.
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  All right, so Tony Stewart goes on Kevin Harvick's happy hour
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  and does something that shocks and creates earthquakes
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  throughout the NASCAR world, and we're going to get right to it.
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  But when he was on Kenny conversation, if you look on
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  Kenny conversation right now, he's he's he's top five and his
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  views are awesome because Tony says it the way he says it.
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  I have I have many conversations throughout my life with some of
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  the smartest people in the world.
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  And brother Rusty says, and I know brother Rusty is not going
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  to mind this. Rusty loves Rodger Penske
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  because Rodgers, a successful businessman, and even Rodger
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  philosophize Roger Penske told Rusty and Rusty told me, and I
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  really appreciate that. Thank you, brother, for, you
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  know, all the wisdom I use is a lot of us from Dick Trickle or
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  Rusty Wallace or somebody like that.
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  And Roger says this, before you say something or repeat
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  something, you have to ask yourself, what do I have to
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  gain? Oh, sometimes it's just harmful,
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  a non harmful. Sometimes if you repeat
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  something, it's like, hey, it's going to better, better the
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  world. So what Tony Stewart said
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  yesterday was this in ending. I mean, I'm not going to end,
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  but I'm going to say this and then we're going to talk about
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  it. I'm going to wrap it up in a
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  capsule, OK? He talked a long time.
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  You think I'm long winded? Go see what Tony said.
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  But he said this. You know what, it just seemed
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  like it was time for me to, you know, get out of NASCAR.
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  It's just it was getting harder. He said that man, you just can't
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  get sponsors anymore. He says, you know, in the
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  heyday, you know, 1520 years ago, sponsors.
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  He he basically, I'll say it this way, and I believe this
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  like I interviewed sponsors O Square D you want to sponsor me,
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  Do you? That's the truth.
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  Squirty came to my front door of my house back in the glory days.
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  I call it Studio 54 days. You know, it's like sex, drugs
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  and rock'n'roll. Obviously not, but it was that
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  much fun, you know, to where, you know, you equate, you equate
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  that to just man. Everything's awesome.
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  There's plentiful everything. Well, Tony said those days are
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  gone, right? And now he said, Oh my God, he
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  says you got to have, you know, the crew and the, you know, and,
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  and the driver have got to wear different fire suits all the
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  time. You got to have, you're
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  constantly, you got to have your own wrapping company inside your
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  shop because you got 67810 sponsors for the year.
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  Tony pointed that out. The big one that Tony really
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  pointed out was what a lot of you fans, a lot of you fans have
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  always loved Tony and I, I do too.
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  But you're going to like this one, Tony Stewart said.
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  Basically in a nutshell. Now I'm paraphrasing, so calm
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  down. Don't.
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  I'm paraphrasing, OK? Once again, I know NASCAR's
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  watch and I'm not a dummy, he said.
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  NASCAR's headed the wrong direction and I don't want to be
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  part of it. And now seemed to be a good time
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  to get out. There you go.
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  Some of you might say mic drop, some of you might go boom.
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  I'm going to say it one more time.
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  Herman is going to repeat himself, Tony, Tony Stewart
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  said. So difficult to get sponsors
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  nowadays, all these different fire suits and uniforms and
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  hiring your own rapping company now the days of being able to,
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  you know, just get one sponsor, they're over.
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  It's exhausting. Then he said, you know what
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  seemed to be a good time to get out, but now he said after, now
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  here's the third one. He said, now that I see what's
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  going on with 2311 in front row Motorsports.
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  He goes, I don't like the direction NASCAR is headed.
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  Whoa, drink coffee on that one. Tony Stewart said, I don't like
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  the way NASCAR is headed. So he said now is the time to
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  get out. It made even more sense earlier
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  this summer. He said, you know what?
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  I just, I want to, I want to get out.
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  Just seems like right timing. But then he goes on Harvick's
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  happy hour yesterday. And, you know, him and Kevin are
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  really good friends because he drove for for a heart.
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  He drove for a Harvick when Harvick had his own team.
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  You remember, we forgot about that, didn't you?
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  Kevin and Delana, you know, had their own team, Truck Series,
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  you know, had a lot of stuff going on.
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  And then they decided to have babies.
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  And that was the reason they said, you know what, children
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  are more important. We're getting rid of this team.
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  It's too much. So what a great decision.
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  Now you see Keelan and the other little girl, she's so sweet.
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  So that's where Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart got to be such
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  good friends. And I think that's why you saw
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  Tony Stewart open up so good to Harvard.
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  You know, I'm not going to pat myself on the back, but but you
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  know, I raced a lot in NASCAR and people say my boss, Eric
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  Shanks at Fox. Eric Shanks, look him up.
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  The boss, he told everybody, he says.
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  He said I want to get Kenny Wallace off the desk and I will
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  put him out on the road in the garage area because the drivers
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  talk to him differently. Well, that's because I raced
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  these guys and they know I know what I'm talking about.
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  So what you saw yesterday out of Tony Stewart was he was talking
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  to his buddy Kevin and felt good about what he was saying.
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  I will say that even if you go back to your Kenny conversation
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  with Tony Stewart, he said some pretty scathing stuff, which was
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  really good. But listen, I want to give an
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  attaboy to Kevin Harvick. I want to say cheers because
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  that is what everybody's saying and I hate to admit it.
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  That's what they are saying in the garage area.
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  I can tell you that those guys are miserable.
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  I said it now. Now I don't care if one of you
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  crew members go, I'm not miserable.
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  Well, more of you are than than not, So, you know, here I go
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  again. I said what I said, and I meant
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  what I said, so I said it. The whole garage area is
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  miserable. And I know these things because
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  they all tell me they go Damn, Herman, I wished I could run
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  that dirt with you. You're having so much fun.
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  We're miserable. It's just, it's just
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  everything's too difficult now. But I got to tell you, I've had
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  some sponsors call me wanting to talk to me about wanting to get
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  my advice about, you know, when they called me, one of the
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  biggest sponsors in NASCAR called me.
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  Herman, tell us what's going on with this lawsuit.
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  And I'm like Saba Dabi, Daba Dabi.
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  And I tell them and I'm like, now that Tony Stewart brings it
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  up with my oh boy, OK, this these sponsors, these sponsors
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  now listen, I'm thinking about what I'm going to say it.
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  I'm going to say right now, what do I have to gain by saying
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  this? Well, I don't, I don't have
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  anything to gain. It's just free speech and it
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  doesn't harm anybody. But a lot of these sponsors
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  don't like what's going on with this 2311 and front row.
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  Now I just, I don't really know why right now.
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  I'll admit I'm not that smart, but big, big sponsors, they
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  don't like this lawsuit going on between Michael Jordan and front
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  row against the NASCAR. They they don't like it.
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  And you might respond right here, OK, because a lot of
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  NASCAR, a lot of NASCAR people have burner accounts, different
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  accounts, and they respond to my because my stuff's really good
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  here. OK, deep breath.
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  Hang on everybody, because it's going to go all over the next
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  whole week. It will be the talk.
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  It happened yesterday. People get busy, but today it's
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  out. So I'm responding to a Tony
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  Stewart said on Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour.
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  And what he said was this. I don't like the way NASCAR is
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  headed. This 2311 front row deal.
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  He didn't. He don't like it.
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  He doesn't like the way NASCAR is headed.
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  He flat said that. And he said this deal of getting
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  6-7 sponsors and different fire suits and uniforms and having
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  your own wrapping company. He said he doesn't like the way
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  NASCAR's headed. All right, everybody, I broke it
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  down and I expanded on a little bit.
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  So listen, it is what is it Friday?
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  Happy Friday morning, everybody.