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NASCAR Denies Cleetus McFarland at Talladega | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning. Everybody got up late.
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  I got up around like 910. I think my body is finally
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  starting to get back to, you know, the good old USA time.
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  The whole time I was over in Europe, I was 7 hours ahead of
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  you all. I'd be going to bed.
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  I'm talking to Kim. I'm like Kim, I'm going to bed.
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  It's like 10:00, be like 5:00 over here or something like
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  that. So it's, it's almost 10:00 and
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  here I am still on the couch. All right, everybody, remember
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  this weekend, it's the World of Outlaws this Friday and
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  Saturday, April 10th and 11th, the World of Outlaw Wings,
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  Sprint cars, David Gravel, all the big boys.
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  They'll be here 15 minutes from my house right there in Pevely,
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  Missouri. Go to World of Outlaw to get
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  your ticket. World of outlaw.com.
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  Look at Louis, would you? Louis.
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  Hey. Oh, yeah.
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  There's the legend. What you doing, buddy?
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  OK, just a reminder about this weekend.
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  It's a big weekend, everybody. A lot of racing, a lot of things
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  going on. Like I told you, World of
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  Outlaws here at I-55, Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park.
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  But the herminator I talked to Cletus yesterday.
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  I'll be headed down to a land in Sarasota.
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  John Scotone's flying me Down. Spend the night Friday night
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  after the big Freedom Factory 500 Crown Vic race this Friday
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  night. Saturday will take off in John's
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  airplane and we'll make our way up to Bristol on Saturday.
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  Sunday will be trackside live at Bristol Motor Speedway, Kyle
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  Busch, Kyle Larson and Christopher Bell.
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  So I'll either see you down there at Bradenton, FL at
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  Cletus's place, or I'll see you up at trackside live at noon
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  this Sunday. Kyle Larson, Kyle Busch,
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  Christopher Bell. All right, nice little
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  monologue, let you know what's up.
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  OK, so overnight breaking news in the garage area.
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  When I talked to Cletus yesterday, I talked to him by
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  phone. Cletus and I were talking about
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  a subject and he said I'm waiting to hear from NASCAR if
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  I'm approved to run Talladega. And we talked.
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  So I said, I said, Cletus, whatever they do, just, you
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  know, it is what it is. That ain't really what I said.
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  I changed right there. I didn't want to let you know
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  what I'd said to him. I'm going to give you my
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  opinion, though. I see that, Cletus When Cletus.
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  Let's talk a little bit about it all.
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  OK, It it's like this movie Flash, you know, you know how
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  sometimes in your mind, you know, you look back on your
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  childhood and to where you are right now.
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  It's like a movie. So I'm going to give you a quick
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  movie, my movie of Cletus. Cletus a good guy.
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  His name is Garrett Mitchell. He's out there, you know, doing
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  1320 videos because he he's helping.
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  He's helping that 1320. He's a kid, he goes out, him and
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  his buddy and they have fun and he goes.
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  I'm Cletus McFarland acting funny and all of a sudden a star
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  is born, So 1320 and Cletus, they're all still friends and
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  they're having a good time. Sadly, Cletus wants to fulfil
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  the dream and he wants to, you know, once he reached stardom,
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  started making a little money. He's like, man, I want to, I
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  want to go to NASCAR. I want to fulfill a dream.
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  I want to run a little bit of NASCAR.
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  But you can clearly see he's happy.
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  He's jovial. He becomes friends with Greg
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  Biffle. So the Biff, even the Biff's
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  wife calls me and we talk a little bit about social media
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  content, what kind of money I'm making.
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  And before I know it, it looks like Biff and Cleves become
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  friends and Cletus had a teacher, Biffle.
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  Greg Biffle was Cletus's teacher.
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  When I say sadly, what what I've watched is I've watched this
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  jovial happy guy get sucked right into competition.
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  There's an old saying everybody. And I've said it here before.
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  Father John taught it to me. He said, Kenny, what are you
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  going to do? And I said, I'm going to be a
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  race car driver. What did what did Father John
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  say to me? You know what he said?
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  Respond right here with it. Did you say it?
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  OK, here's what he said to me. Father John said, oh, be
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  careful, Competition will kill you, so I'll work hard with
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  Cletus. Cletus is just fine.
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  But in in Cletus's post yesterday, he said I'll be all
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  right. I got to make more laps, but
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  it's just a big kick in the nuts.
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  NASCAR has denied me. They won't let me run Talladega.
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  They said I need more laps. So there it is.
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  Cletus has been denied. Denied to run Talladega because
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  NASCAR feels like he hasn't had enough laps.
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  Now this, this story, this Hollywood story, Louie not in
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  front of everybody. Louie, start licking his balls
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  right in front of all of you. Hell, dogs don't care.
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  Hell, every man wishes they could do that.
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  Old joke, Old joke. Now I've watched Cletus come in,
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  jovial, happy, and here's where a competition kick said he said.
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  Man, I just feel like I've been kicked in the nuts, you know, I
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  feel, I do feel for him. However, we all know this is a
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  big boy sport, so Cletus has become a acquaintance of mine, a
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  friend. I'll get to know him.
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  I'll meet him for the first time this Friday.
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  God, he looks tall. How tall is Cletus?
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  Respond right here. Looks tall and looks like he's
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  got some damn arms on him. I would not want to fight
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  Cletus. He'd kick my ass.
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  Now we're going to end like this.
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  Everybody. We have said we've already look.
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  It's over, OK? He can't go to Talladega.
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  It's not. Hell, there's a lot of race car
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  drivers now that run Talladega. That's like they don't even want
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  to run Talladega. Here's Cletus.
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  Vagan, let me race Talladega. And we all heard Tony Stewart's
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  rant. Remember, Tony?
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  Hell, we haven't wrecked enough. Let's run them around backwards.
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  Let's see if we can wreck more cars.
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  So, Cletus, look at it that way. Some of the drivers, they don't
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  even want to run Talladega. And here you are.
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  Let me in. Damn it.
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  I'm going to end like this everybody, as soon as you get
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  mad at NASCAR. I've never seen Dale Junior talk
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  like he did yesterday. He got very serious.
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  Dale Junior got just like this like he was NASCAR and and Dale
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  Junior said I haven't seen enough good out of Cletus.
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  And I told Cletus this and Dale Junior's face was like this.
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  I'm like, I'm watching the video.
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  I'm like Bam. So a lot of fans are perplexed
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  and they're split because they love Cletus and they love Dale
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  Junior equally. So I don't think there's nobody
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  to be mad at as soon as you get mad at NASCAR.
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  What Dale Junior is the one that told NASCAR, you can clearly see
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  it. Dale Junior said I'm not.
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  Cletus is not approved by me. He doesn't have enough
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  experience. So this will be just fine.
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  And as my Mama says, this too shall soon pass.
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  And my message to Cletus. And I'll tell him when I get
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  down there Friday. Cletus, let's have a good
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  summer. Let's log some laps and we'll
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  celebrate you race in Talladega next year.
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  How's that? All right, everybody, I'll see
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  you. Well, it's only Wednesday, but
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  I'll see you this Friday down at Freedom Factory 500 down there
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  in Bradenton. Or I'll see you at Bristol this
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  Sunday, 12:00 noon, Food City, the Food City 500 at the Food
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  City stage. Have a great Wednesday,
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  everybody.