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Breaking: NASCAR Settles & The Trial Is Over | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Look, it's not hyperbole to say this is one of the biggest days
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  in the history of NASCAR. And look, you can go back to
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  when NASCAR was formed, obviously the tragic Dale
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  Earnhardt senior passing. But you tell me, folks.
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  You tell me what's a bigger day in the history of the sport of
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  NASCAR than today with this lawsuit being settled at trial
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  day nine. And look, it was pretty obvious
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  if you were following this trial and lawsuit, it was pretty
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  obvious, especially since the trial started, that things were
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  not going well for NASCAR, especially the last couple days.
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  And if you go back to 15 months, whatever it was when this was
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  first filed, it seemed like the teams had the early momentum.
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  And then it did seem like a while in the summer that the
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  momentum had switched to NASCAR. But a lot of those rulings,
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  really all of them had to do with the injunction, with the
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  injunction for 2025 in terms of 2311 racing and Front Row
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  Motorsports trying to race as chartered teams in 2025 S that
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  went NASCAR's way during the season.
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  But then once this trial started, I'm, I'm trying to
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  think of a good day that NASCAR had and I'm, I'm trying to be,
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  I'm trying to be down the middle here.
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  If you really look at the last couple days, then I, I just
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  think that all of the team owners joining in, deep down, I
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  think we can all agree all of the team owners wanted Michael
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  Jordan, Bob Jenkins, 2311 Racing, Front Row Motorsports to
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  come out on top. I, I think look, you have to
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  give all the credit in the world to Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin,
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  Curtis Polk, again, Bob Jenkins for having the bravery and the
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  courage to challenge NASCAR. Because from what we've heard
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  from all the reports, the declarations, all the letters
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  from the team owners for the last 15 months, it was obvious
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  that all of the team owners did not like this charter deal.
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  And you can use whatever language, gun to our head, we
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  felt like we had to do it. We had to do it for our
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  employees. We got hundreds of employees
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  that are depending on these charters.
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  None of these team owners wanted to sign that charter deal.
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  Now, obviously 2311 racing in front row, they didn't.
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  But in a way they were also doing it on behalf of all the
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  teams. And I tweeted this earlier, I
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  said, look again, give Michael Jordan, Denny Hamlin, Bob
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  Jenkins all the credit for their bravery.
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  But in the end to get it over the finish line, it was a team
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  effort. The letters from Rodger Penske
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  that was read yesterday, you had the the letter from Rick
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  Hendrick that was read, I believe that was 2 days ago,
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  Correct me on my timing, but Rick Hendrick says, look, we won
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  a couple championships, we've lost $20 million, whatever it
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  was, right? And then you tell me, I mean,
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  the timing is awful, is awful. Interesting that they settled
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  this morning and it seemed like really they probably settled
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  overnight because think about this, the first tweets I'm
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  seeing and all these reporters that do a great job covering
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  this this trial in Charlotte, including Matt Weaver, who's
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  contributed a lot of great content to this YouTube channel.
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  But it seemed like the second they got to court today, it was
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  time to talk settlement. And I don't, I don't think I
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  miss your conspiracy theory. I don't think I'm a genius for
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  saying this was the straw that broke the camel's back, The
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  letter from Johnny Morris. Now I'm sitting here in St.
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  Louis, MO Johnny Morris down there, usually in the
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  Springfield area. I mean, heck, he runs the whole
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  freaking area. If you ever been down there,
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  it's amazing. Big Cedar Lodge, unbelievable,
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  all the golf courses down there, everything he does with
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  conservation and and respecting, you know, Native American
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  history and everything down there.
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  It's incredible. And and Johnny Morris Bass pro
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  shops. If if this isn't NASCAR, folks,
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  tell me what is? If this isn't NASCAR, an old
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  school business owner who's been sponsoring this sport forever,
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  writing a letter, handwriting a letter from his tree stand.
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  He hand wrote it from his tree stand as he's out there hunting.
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  And then of course they, they type it up.
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  But if you saw the letter, it was 3 pages.
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  And at the end there was some hand handwritten the signature
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  from Johnny Morris, the dude that may have saved the teams.
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  And again, I, I think we're being honest, I, I think the
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  teams were going to win anyway. But when one of the big dogs who
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  sponsors Richard Childress, obviously, who sponsors a race,
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  who's been sponsored and everything.
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  I mean, think about how many different cars Bass Pro, Johnny
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  Morris have been on over the years, all the different series.
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  He's all over the place. And he wrote that letter and
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  let's be real about that letter. And, and he's buddies.
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  They are very good buddies, he and Richard Childress.
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  And he was not happy with what Steve Phelps said about Richard
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  Childress in those texts. And I've said all along, Kenny
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  and I did a video last week, and this was during the trial, but I
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  said, look, I said the worst, and this is obvious, I'm no
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  genius. I said the worst thing that's
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  come out of this trial or this lawsuit are those texts from
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  Steve Phelps. And I said that because NASCAR
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  fans, a huge sentiment of NASCAR fans that I read your comments
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  all the time and they've thought for years that NASCAR looks at
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  them as rednecks, right? And, and this sport which grew
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  in the South and the Carolinas and all that, NASCAR is
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  expanding West and going to the big cities, which by the way, I
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  think NASCAR should do that. But I, I do think NASCAR's
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  admitted that they, they, they lost some of the hardcore race
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  fan trying to chase the casual race fan.
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  And that fan may not even exist, to be honest with you.
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  But the fact that they called a legend, I, I think Richard
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  Childress is 80. Don't quote me on that.
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  I believe I looked that up and he's 80, around 80, a guy who
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  was a racer, an owner who owned Dale Earnhardt Senior's car, to
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  call that dude a stupid redneck, to say he should be taken out
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  back and flogged. All that did, all that did was
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  just reinforce the way a lot of NASCAR fans already thought the
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  NASCAR suits, the NASCAR execs thought about them.
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  I mean, and, and look, if they're talking about Richard
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  Childress that way, think about that.
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  And so look, you can go back and read the Johnny Morris letter.
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  It's about 2 1/2 pages. I read it last night.
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  I think it's the third page of that letter.
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  He basically says, and he makes a baseball analogy, he says,
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  think if you're the commissioner of MLB and you disrespect one of
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  the greats, whether it's Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey
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  Mantle, Babe Ruth, whoever it is, you're probably not going to
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  have that job for long. And you shouldn't or you
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  wouldn't have that job for long. Let's be real about what that
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  was, folks. That was Johnny Morris, one of
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  the big dogs, one of the the big sponsors of NASCAR, essentially
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  calling for Steve Phelps, the commissioner of NASCAR, to be
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  fired. That's what that was.
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  And again, I, I think all of the momentum in the lawsuit was
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  trending towards the teams anyway.
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  But I think that was the straw that that broke the camel's back
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  and it's Johnny Morris, but it's probably not just Johnny Morris.
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  There's probably a lot of other sponsors that were pissed off
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  about that and and kind of said, look, NASCAR, you know what?
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  You've done it your way for a long time and let's let's settle
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  this thing. You disrespected Richard
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  Childress and let's get this thing.
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  Let's get this thing completed. And I, I will say this, I was
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  watching the, the post settlement press conference on
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  the steps. Matt Weaver again shot that.
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  We put it on the channel here. And I, I really like the way
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  they presented it. They, they weren't mean
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  spirited. They weren't going after each
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  other. Jeffrey Kessler, is it Beuterman
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  the way you pronounce it? Michael Jordan.
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  I could barely hear Jim France speak, but Michael Jordan
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  presented it in a way like he wasn't, he wasn't spiking the
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  football. He wasn't smoking the victory
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  cigar. Now he, he might tonight.
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  You might see some pictures of that.
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  I already saw a picture of them toasting with a drink that Denny
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  Hamlin posted. But I've said this all along and
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  and I, I did a video the other day where I said this is not as
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  big of a deal as people think. And I didn't mean that in a way
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  that it's not a big deal. What I meant was because I
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  covered sports for 20 years, I've covered a lot of this.
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  This was the first time NASCAR had gone through this, a strike,
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  a lockout, whatever. And what I said was, and I, I
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  feel this way, this is not as bad, folks.
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  I, I really believe that this is not as bad as a strike or a
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  lockout where you miss the baseball season.
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  I remember being 12 years old in 94, there was no World Series
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  that next year. They didn't have the whole
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  season after COVID in baseball. They had a shortened season and
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  Kenny and I talked about this. I think I've covered 2 NHL
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  lockouts. I covered an NFL lockout when
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  the Rams were here, about whenever.
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  That was 10/12/15 years ago. I can't remember.
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  I don't have a great memory. The NBA has gone through the
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  lockouts. I know they had a 50 game season
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  back in the late 90s, I believe, when the Spurs won the NBA
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  championship, and I can't even remember, but essentially
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  there's either a lockout strike or a threat of a lockout or a
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  strike every time a collective bargaining agreement ends in
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  sports. So my point all along is, yes,
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  this is really embarrassing for NASCAR, but at least you're
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  doing it at trial. At least you're doing it in
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  court. You're not missing the Daytona
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  500, right? Race fans?
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  Wouldn't that be 10 times worse? All these other sports have
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  missed games, in some cases missed entire seasons.
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  Wasn't the NHL the NHLI believe has missed at least one season
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  and help me outlook that up. I think maybe multiple seasons.
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  They've had two big labor issues in the last 20 years, if I'm
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  remembering correctly. So this was embarrassing, by the
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  way, bringing up Steve Phelps. It'll be interesting to see if
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  Steve Phelps has a job after all this because that's that's what
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  Johnny Morris called for. Johnny Morris, don't mess
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  around. He he swings a big stick.
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  Let's just say that I love Johnny Morris, by the way.
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  It it's funny though, because I actually, I'm not going to
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  mention his name, but at the gym the other day I talked to a guy
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  who knows Steve Phelps, friends with Steve Phelps.
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  Now, he didn't talk to him about the trial, but he kind of said
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  he goes, he was kind of in agreement with me and saying,
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  you know, this is this is not the end of the world.
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  Yeah. It's really embarrassing.
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  It's really embarrassing to have your texts, your emails leaked.
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  But it's not the end of the world.
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  And, and I get that too, but then again, it, it could be the
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  end of Steve Phelps world with NASCAR.
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  I don't know. I want to hear from you guys.
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  Do you? Do you feel like Steve Phelps
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  has to step down? Do you feel like he has to?
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  I've seen a lot of comments on X and YouTube kind of saying the
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  Steves are next. Steve O'Donnell though, just
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  based on the texts, and I could be wrong, I mean, I I'm going
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  back weeks here, I don't remember Steve O'donnell's texts
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  being as scathing. They were clearly spooked by
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  live golf and they were clearly spooked by by SRX as a threat.
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  And you know what? Here's where I'm really trying
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  to be down the middle here. I understand why NASCAR was
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  pissed about SRX even though if you look at it big picture
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  30,000 feet, I think all racing being popular is good for all
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  racing. I thought SRX was a great
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  product by the way. Those races were cool, short,
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  just like entertaining and O Kenny raced in a in a couple of
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  them. I thought those were pretty
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  cool. But I understand why NASCAR
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  would be pissed about specifically the timing of SRX
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  because they're trying to negotiate a billion dollar TV
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  deal. They have their broadcast
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  partners and they're saying, hey, we're trying to negotiate
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  with FOX NBC, obviously it was prime.
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  It was it was CW ended up with the package.
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  But we're on ESPN, we're on a competitor.
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  And then all of a sudden these these big NASCAR guys are racing
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  over there, which again, I think is big for the sport.
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  But I can understand why NASCAR wouldn't love the timing of that
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  while they're they're negotiating their TV deal.
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  So, and I'm going to get your comments 645 of you watching
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  live. Really appreciate that.
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  And I'll get to some of your comments.
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  I will not be able to get to all of them because Dang, there's a
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  ton of comments here. But I will say this and I'm
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  repeating myself, but I have so much respect for what the France
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  family has built over 75 years. And I was watching that press
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  conference and it's it's hard not to watch that.
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  And you see Jim France, you see Ben Kennedy in the background
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  and look, this is a loss. Let's let's, I mean this, this
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  is a settlement. But let's be real, this is a
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  loss for NASCAR. The teams won, clearly.
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  And so I'm kind of like trying to read body language and all
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  that. And again, they, they lost.
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  But I, I truly believe this because I have so much respect
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  for what the France family built over 75 years.
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  I think while today was a legal loss for the France family, I
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  truly believe that today the France family legacy is better
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  based on what happened today. Because look, generations live
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  and die. And if NASCAR keeps going for
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  decades and hundreds of years, hopefully, and we always look
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  back at the France family as the creator of this great sport that
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  we all love, NASCAR is healthier.
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  In my opinion, it's going to be healthier moving forward because
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  of today because the teams are going to be healthier and the
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  owners are going to be happier and more money is going to be
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  flowing towards the teams, you would think.
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  And I think in the end, that's good for NASCAR.
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  So while the France family, they're taking their L today, I,
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  I truly believe this. I, I truly believe that in the
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  end, this is a good day for the sport of NASCAR, which they
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  created. So in the end, it's going to be
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  good for them. Let's see 16 minutes in.
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  Let's get to a couple comments. First of all, my guy, Jeffrey
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  King throwing us a couple bucks. Let's see.
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  Yes, it's over now. Let's focus on a new format.
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  Steve Phelps is the reason Noosegate happened.
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  Everybody's still talking about Noosegate.
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  Thank you. Jeffrey King.
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  Yeah, I believe that was Steve Phelps.
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  I mean, I wasn't there for the investigation, but I hear you.
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  I know people are still pissed about that.
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  I get it. I get it.
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  Let's see, my guy. Mr. Junior says Charlie M.
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  What it do brother? Thank you.
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  OK, before I get to some more comments here, let's go and read
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  some statements. Got 639 of you watching.
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  I appreciate that. Denny Hamlin's statement.
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  This is from four hours ago. Obviously Denny Hamlin, co-owner
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  of 2311 racing quote. I've cared deeply about the
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  sport of NASCAR my entire life. Racing is all I've ever known,
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  and this sport shaped who I am. That's why we were willing to
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  shoulder the challenges that came with taking the stand.
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  We believed it was worth fighting for a stronger and more
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  sustainable future for everyone in the industry.
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  Teams, drivers and partners will now have the stability and
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  opportunity they deserve. Our commitment to the fans and
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  to the entire NASCAR community has never been stronger.
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  I'm proud of what we've accomplished, and now it is time
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  to move forward together and build the stronger future this
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  sport deserves. That's Denny Hamlin.
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  Let's see, how about Rick Hendrick?
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  Rick Hendrick says, quote, millions of loyal NASCAR fans
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  and thousands of hard working people rely on our industry and
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  today's resolution allows all of us to focus on what truly
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  matters, the future of our sport.
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  For more than 40 years, NASCAR racing has been my passion.
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  I believe deeply what we can accomplish when we work
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  together. This moment presents an
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  important opportunity to strengthen our relationships and
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  recommit ourselves to building a collaborative and prosperous
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  future for all stakeholders. I'm incredibly optimistic about
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  what's ahead. When our industry is united,
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  there's no limit to how far we can go or how much we can grow
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  the sport we love. By the way, I should have said
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  this earlier. I think you know most of the
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  news. I'm just giving you my opinion,
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  but obviously the settlement is the teams get permanent charters
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  or Evergreen charter. So it's kind of like a franchise
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  in in other sports. But the best part of that is
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  we've heard all the stories over the years of all the old, old
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  time race teams that closed up shop and had nothing.
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  And we're selling things for scraps, right?
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  And now you have true equity, you have true value.
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  And those charters are only going up.
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  Let's be real, Michael Jordan knew that.
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  He knew the second those charters become permanent,
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  whatever the going rate, what was it, 45,000,000?
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  Well, they always say that was yesterday's price.
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  The price of poker has gone up. I mean, those are going to
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  double quick. Honestly, they might have
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  doubled already. You tell me.
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  Some economists tell me the fact that they're now permanent, they
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  may have. They may have literally doubled
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  in value already. If not, it's going to be
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  doubling soon and I think it'll only go up from there.
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  Folks, look at sports franchises, I mean look at every
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  freaking sport. What are they selling for?
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  What do the Lakers sell for? Did the Lakers sell for 10
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  billion? Am I right on that?
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  Something like that? The Saint Louis Cardinals,
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  whatever they were bought for, I think in 95, correct me if I'm
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  wrong, 150 million, something like 150 million ish I believe
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  now valued at like $3 billion. So look, would it surprise me if
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  a charter that right now is going for 4045 million, would it
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  surprise me if that charter is worth 500 million in the next
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  decade? That would not surprise me one
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  bit whatsoever. People love sports.
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  People love live sports. You have equity value with the
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  charters. And I, I've, I've also, I
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  thought all along it, it was pretty obvious.
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  And you, you heard this from Curtis Polk, from some of the,
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  the leaked messages that Curtis Polk was going to fight for
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  permanent charters. It seemed like that was, that
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  was kind of what they were really fighting for.
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  I'm sure they'll debate over some other percentages of, of
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  revenue. And on that note, let me find
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  that for you. I believe I saw it from Jenna
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  Fryer, by the way, so many reporters did a great job of
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  covering this for all the NASCAR fans.
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  Let me find this for you because I believe she had some, yeah,
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  she had some info on some other details of the settlement.
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  Let me find it for you. There was a picture of there's a
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  picture of everybody celebrating the lawyers, Jeffrey Kessler and
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  Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan. Nice little toast after they
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  win. OK, here's this is from Jenna
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  Fryer. She does a great job covering
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  NASCAR as well. This is from 11:50.
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  This is 3 hours ago she tweets. Source.
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  And this is murky because there's going to be a Thursday
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  afternoon call to discuss new charter model.
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  Teams will now share an international revenue for the
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  first time. The three strike rule will be
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  reinstated as A5 strike rule. Excuse me.
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  Teams will get 1/3 of revenue from IP intellectual property.
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  Charter revenue will have to be periodically negotiated amidst
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  new media rights deals. And I like that, you know,
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  that's, that is a compromise because I will say this, look, I
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  understand NASCAR wanting to tie the charters to the TV deals.
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  I get that. That makes sense.
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  Again, I'm not I think I've been pretty fair in this all along.
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  I always I don't want to say I was rooting for the teams.
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  I kind of always just figured the teams were going to win.
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  And the only reason I say that look, I came in and NASCAR
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  really covering it four years ago.
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  I covered a lot of NASCAR and O six O 7.
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  But again, my background is other sports name name me any
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  league that that was able to have an authoritarian hold over
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  the sport. It just doesn't happen.
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  Every other sport had their their big labor issue decades
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  ago. Think about Curt Flood in
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  baseball. What was that?
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  Was that the late 60s, early 70s?
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  I think what's cool about this too is look, Denny Hamlin and
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  Michael Jordan, they're going to go down as the Curt Floods of
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  NASCAR and they they will be celebrated in that way.
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  Curt Flood lost his career because of challenging baseball
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  with free agency and I think he was traded again.
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  Check me on that. Didn't want to be traded.
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  Denny Hamlin's going to race a couple more years.
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  Michael Jordan stayed in the sport.
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  They were able to challenge NASCAR, beat NASCAR and stay in
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  the sport. And I've, I've thought all
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  along, I never thought, I never thought Michael Jordan, come on.
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  You think Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin were trying to
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  destroy NASCAR? No, they just wanted a fair
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  piece of the pie in their minds. Fair piece of the pie.
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  They wanted more money. You really think Michael Jordan
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  with all he's got going, you think Michael Jordan wanted to
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  start his own race series? Hell no, he didn't.
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  And you don't build that freaking beautiful facility.
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  What do they call it? Is it airspeed?
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  You don't build that facility if you're trying to start your own
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  series and leave NASCAR. Although I guess, I guess you
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  could build it if you're trying to start your own series.
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  But I'm saying they weren't like he wanted to stay in NASCAR.
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  They just wanted a a fairer piece of the pie.
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  And we did a video last week, Michael Jordan, nobody knows
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  branding like Michael Jordan, junk man, right?
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  Actually, you know what, look at this.
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  What should I say? You're going to fall off.
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  I have, I don't have jump man, but there's my Nikes.
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  But my point is, Michael Jordan understands the value of NASCAR.
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  He wasn't trying to destroy NASCAR, right?
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  He just wants a fairer piece of the pie so he can still be
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  involved in NASCAR and his business can be healthy in
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  NASCAR and he can employ, they can employ tons of people
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  because NASCAR is successful. So there you go, we're 24
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  minutes in and so many comments. Let me check real quick on the
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  old YouTube. By the way, real quick folks,
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  this might be this might be our greatest day ever in the four
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  years of the Kenny Wallace YouTube channel, which by the
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  way, our four year anniversary is tomorrow.
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  We started this channel December 12th, 2021.
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  That's when we created, I created the channel that day.
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  I think Kenny's first video was the 13th.
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  But either way, today, I mean today Jeezo Pete's, I think
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  we've had like 250,000 views today alone and we still have
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  the Rick Mast video, which I have to check.
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  I haven't even edited it. Rick Mast gave his take and
• 23:46
  we'll put that later. But right now what do we got?
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  We got 3000 people have been watching this live stream and
• 23:54
  right now we have 733 watching live.
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  OK, I can't get go super long because I have to go pick up my
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  kids from school. Actually, we're going to Ohio
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  tonight where I'm from for an early Christmas.
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  There's my Christmas mug. So I got about 8 minutes.
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  I'll read some of your comments here.
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  And again, I really appreciate you guys, you guys watching and
• 24:18
  chiming in. So here we go.
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  I should go all the way back because the people that started
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  first, they deserve their comments read.
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  So we'll go back. Woo, 25 minutes.
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  OK, North Country says I heard each team will now get 2 extra
• 24:31
  sets of tires per race. You think that's the settlement?
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  That's what they decided on. Millions in lawyers for two
• 24:38
  extra tires. Let's see.
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  OK, we got Chris Klein. Hey, Charlie.
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  Glad it's over and the team's got their deal.
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  Let's go racing, boys. That's what I love about this.
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  You know, also, you finished it before the holidays.
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  Everybody can enjoy Christmas and New Year and all that and
• 24:59
  the calendar turns, you get ready for the Daytona 500, we're
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  going to race. It's all good.
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  I think people a bygones be bygones.
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  These are these are adults, man. They battle in court, They
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  battle on the track. They'll figure it out.
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  NASCAR was built on people freaking running from the law
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  with moonshine fighting in the pits.
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  Everybody's going to be fine, folks.
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  I have to say, I just like to be honest with you guys.
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  I wanted this trial to last forever.
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  I did. I wanted this outcome.
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  I wanted I wanted a settlement. I want the sport to be healthy.
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  I figured the teams would win. I'm being selfish here.
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  This trial was and and lawsuit was the greatest thing for
• 25:38
  content creation we've ever seen.
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  And I'm just being honest folks. We're a business too.
• 25:43
  We want more money too, just like NASCAR.
• 25:45
  And the views for the videos that Kenny was doing the last
• 25:48
  couple weeks have been insanity. So selfishly, I never wanted
• 25:52
  this trial to end. I'm just being honest with you
• 25:53
  guys, by the way, our guy Kenny, let's give him some love.
• 25:57
  What I love about Kenny, many, many things, but how about the
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  fact that, you know, he's obviously not at court.
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  This dude's on a cruise. He's breaking down.
• 26:06
  All these folks are at court breaking it down.
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  Kenny Wallace is on a cruise ship with frickin the Caribbean
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  in the background like this with his phone doing videos with the
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  frickin ocean in the background getting 100,000 views per video.
• 26:21
  That's why I love Kenny Wallace, right?
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  We're old school. We're old school, right?
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  I love it. That makes me chuckle.
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  Every time I see Kenny with the phone with the Caribbean in the
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  background and he's given his opinion, it just cracks me up.
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  I love it. Let's see.
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  Doctor Diff says it's too bad they didn't eliminate stage
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  racing. You know what?
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  I had some people saying, oh, this isn't going to change
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  anything. The racing still sucks, you
• 26:46
  know, the next Gen. car sucks, blah blah blah.
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  And look, I think from a, from APR standpoint, NASCAR now has
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  a, a great opportunity to right some wrongs.
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  And, and by the way, I understand that this was a bad
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  look, the trial was a bad look for NASCAR.
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  But again, I actually think it's good for the sport.
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  I think NASCAR needed to be brought down a notch financially
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  and, and, and from the power structure, right?
• 27:12
  You need a little work. This is America, folks.
• 27:15
  You need a little more of a democracy, right?
• 27:16
  We all, we love democracies, we don't love dictatorships.
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  And I'm, I'm not saying NASCAR was a dictatorship, but it kind
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  of was for a while. It was their way or the highway
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  for 75 years. And I think this trial and
• 27:29
  lawsuit showed that we're, we're in a different world now.
• 27:33
  We're in a different world now. But on that note, again, I think
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  this is, this is good for NASCAR big picture.
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  I think the sport will be healthier now.
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  I think you have some positives you can roll out here.
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  Maybe you want to wait till after the holidays.
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  I don't know, timing wise, I'm not like a marketing person, but
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  you already said more horsepower for the next Gen. car.
• 27:54
  If there's going to be some little tweaks the next Gen. car,
• 27:57
  I think people are going to be excited about that.
• 27:59
  So you can own a day of the news by announcing the tweaks of the
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  next Gen. car and then what everybody's really looking
• 28:04
  forward to. I hope this is a good thing,
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  which is the the playoff format. Now, if it's not going to be
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  full season points, I don't think anybody thinks it is.
• 28:14
  If it's not going to be a Chase, if it's more of like a three or
• 28:17
  four race finale, maybe fans won't be happy, but it's
• 28:21
  certainly better than what we had before.
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  So there's going to be some positive news, I think on the
• 28:26
  Next Gen. car and on the playoff format that we can roll some
• 28:30
  positive momentum into Bowman Gray into the Daytona 500 after
• 28:36
  this lawsuit was pretty, pretty ugly.
• 28:40
  And the text and the emails for the better part of 2-3 weeks.
• 28:44
  And there you go. Look, my wife's home.
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  You know what, it's perfect timing because I have to go
• 28:48
  anyway. We're getting close to 30
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  minutes here. Thank you guys for watching,
• 28:54
  Really appreciate it. And again, the teams win, NASCAR
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  settles. But in the end, I think this is
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  good for the sport of NASCAR. And in the end, I think this is
• 29:03
  good for the legacy of the France family.
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  Thank you all for watching. I love you all 657 of you right
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  now watching live. Let's do one more check.
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  We've had 30. How many how many 3600 people
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  watching this live stream. So I'm off to Ohio for the early
• 29:22
  Christmas celebration. Enjoy your Christmases new year,
• 29:25
  happy holidays. Kenny will have tons more videos
• 29:28
  live from the Caribbean with his phone like this with the
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  beautiful ocean in the background.
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  I'm sorry I couldn't read all your comments guys.
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  Love you all.