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Meet The Hilarious Jerry Hoffman, Owner of Springfield Raceway! · Kenny Wallace Media

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just sign up right here at the drivers meeting.
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in stock right now. There he is, one of the most
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famous racing promoters of all time, the owner, the promoter of
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Springfield Raceway in Springfield, MO.
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My long time friend Jerry Hoffman.
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Good morning. Kitty.
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Hi, Jerry. Hey, you got a beautiful dog
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there. I love the horns above your
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head. Tell me about those horns first
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of all. Well, those horns come from my
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fiance. I was happily married for a lot
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of years and then sometimes things get unhappily and you go
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through things divorce. But I got these horns from me.
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Move this over here from my fiance.
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Yeah, very nice. Can you see those?
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Take, he said. Take those out to the racetrack
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once and and like Jimmy Spencer says, you mess with the bull,
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you get the horn and there you go.
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You get the horns. You get the horns.
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But I told her, I said if something happens between us, I
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get the horns, right? She says.
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She can have the horns, Gary. Yeah, So what about that little
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doggy? That's my dog, Festus.
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Who's that dog, Festus? Window.
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Yeah, he sits in the window and looks out there to the north.
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That's where I do all my thinking, Kenny.
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Look to the north. How far is the Springfield
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Raceway dirt Track 62? Miles takes 52 minutes.
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Oh my God, you drive that all the time.
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Yeah, couple times a week usually.
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Wow, this kind of reminds me of me having a conversation with
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Brian Deegan, Hayley Deegan's dad.
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He he just had a phone on the couch and it was fantastic and
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he was wiggling it all around. But I'm going to get this set
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back again and Charlie told me to stack it, so I got it
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stacked. Yeah, well, we wanted you to
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look good. Hey, I do.
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I. Lost 9 1/4 lbs Kenny.
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Nine and a quarter. That's good.
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Jerry Hoffman, ladies and gentlemen, you're looking at
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him. Let me just say a couple things,
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Jerry. First before we start talking.
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The man you're looking at right now is and was a great race car
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driver. 1A boatload of features, one of the best.
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And we're going to talk about it, Jerry, But then all of a
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sudden decided to buy Springfield, MO Raceway, the
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dirt track right off Interstate 44 right there.
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You know, in Springfield, MO, you're looking at him.
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He has become one of the most popular promoters and great
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promoters I know, Jerry. A lot of people get tired of me
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saying this person is great. So I said, I'm going to say he's
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popular and you are great. Jerry, Let's start like this.
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What made you become a promoter after winning so much in dirt
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racing? Well, it's just like all racers,
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you know, you go race all these tracks and you always think you
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can do it better. I mean, it's the armchair
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quarterback, Joe the plumber. And you always want to have one
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because it's something you love, you know, and you want to be
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part of. So I've seen one was going to be
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for coming for sale. And I talked to a buddy, Doug
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Bland, and Doug had other things going on and I kept burning Doug
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down. Let's buy this deal.
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Let's buy this deal. And Doug said you get everything
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arranged and I'll come in and be your partner.
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So I got everything arranged, all those legality stuff set up
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and everything and got a hold of Doug.
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So we come in and we bought it together.
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We've leased it for a year and then we bought it after that.
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So Doug Bland was a big part of the beginning.
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And Doug had already had the ownership and been on the, he
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owned the Stacker 2 dirt Lake model series that used to be the
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Hava Tampa series. So he had had his education of
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dirt track racing and stuff like that.
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And he owned the was part owner of the Joplin Speedway here at
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66 and Joplin, MO. So him being my partner at the
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beginning really helped me out because I want to be like every
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racer when he gets a racetrack, I want to pay a bunch.
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Do this, do that, do that, do this.
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But here's what happens when you get 1.
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You get humbled quickly because reality sets in and it becomes a
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business. And to own and operate a
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racetrack as a business is a hard deal to make money because
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there's a lot of moving parts and there's a lot of you want to
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pay as much as you can. But sometimes it's an expense.
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I mean, for what you bring in for weekly shows, what you pay
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out. So that's how I got started with
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me and Doug together and always ran my mouth and said if I owned
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one, it will be the raciest one around.
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So because you are we're a great race car driver and now you own
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a racetrack, is it fair to say that race car drivers are a pain
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in the ass? Some are, yeah.
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And I can think back when I was a pain in the ass, too.
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Can we cuss or that? No, that's fine.
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That's fine. Yeah, you're.
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Good. I don't know how you do this
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without cussing because you get wound up and say the F word.
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I don't want to. I mean, I might, I am sorry,
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but. I am a cusser.
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A scene is good for me. It relieves my stress.
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I love the. Lord, he for everybody can pray
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for you. Yes, that's good.
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They pray for me. The Lord forgives me is my
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wicked tongue. OK, yes, back to your store,
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your question. Yes, race, race car drivers are
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hard to deal with. Some of them, some of them are
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great. It's humbled me a lot owning the
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race because I own it. I'm I own it.
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I actually pay the personal property taxes too.
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At the end of year. Doug helped me for a while
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there. We're together, we're partners.
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And then he wanted to go and do something else, so I bought him
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out. We're still buddies, we still
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talk. He still sees what's going on
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there. So I own it myself.
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And it is hard because you want to make everybody happy.
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You know, you want to make everybody happy.
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And it's hard to make people happy.
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It really is, but yes, it's way harder to do and make people
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happy than what I thought it would be I want.
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To ask you this question on the same same linearage, the same
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thing, but and then we're we're going to move on.
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OK. As a race car driver, we hear
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race car drivers complain all the time.
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The tracks too wet, you know, too rough, too dry.
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Rub it up. They're not paying enough money.
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I don't like the rules. So what don't the drivers
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understand? What don't they understand?
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It's a business they go to, they go to work each morning, whether
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they work for somebody else or they own their own business.
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They go to work to make money. They don't want to go to work
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and work for the plumbing company and owe the company,
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plumbing company, 2 or $300.00 a day.
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I mean, who the hell want to go to work and owe your employer 2
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or 300 a day? And on a racetrack, It's that
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way, I mean, or any business, you know, if you're a
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construction guy and you're doing a big job, you have the
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numbers. Well, what it takes to make
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money on the end of that job, Well, the racetrack, you don't
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know who's showing up each week. You don't know.
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It's like having a big party. I've got, this is the 18th year,
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so I've got an understanding what I have on weekly and what
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my specials are. But still you don't know.
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You fight the weather. So the biggest thing the race
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car drivers don't understand that.
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I didn't understand either. It's a business and there's a
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lot of work that goes into it and you're judged.
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You're judged and put on social media.
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Every my Rotor Brick Rd. grader breaks down, who are they going
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to do? They're going to laugh at me.
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You know, look, Jerry's old road grader broke down, have a flat
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tire. Look, his water truck broke down
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and all that's on social media and they can all put it out
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there. So it's the hardest thing.
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If the race car driver, they need to understand it's a
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business and you have to make money and you got to work hard
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at it too. You do, you really do.
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I mean, everybody works hard. Some works harder than others.
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I feel like I'm a go getter. I'm wound up, I'm a go getter
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and I'm going to get her done. You, you are my brother.
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I, I calm myself down to do these Kenny conversations.
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So let's get this. I want to tell everybody this
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right now, your marquee event in my world.
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So your marquee event is this November 14th, 1516, the Turkey
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Bowl. It's a legendary event.
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So many people come that we got cars everywhere.
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And it is, it is a wonderful event.
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I just want to get that out there.
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His marquee event is coming up November 14th, 15th, 16 And I
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love that event. Jerry, it was breaking news in
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the garage area about a year ago.
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A big company came to you because your racetrack property
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is right off Interstate Fourty 4.
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You know, I mean, we're talking Bass Pro Shops territory, we're
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talking Premier Land, OK. And this company came to you and
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they said we're going to give you big money.
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We want to buy your racetrack land facility.
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And you became very popular for saying you said no because what
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would I do? What would I do Then?
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Tell me about this time in your life when you were offered, you
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know, $1,000,000 or right at it enough to retire on.
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It was more than that. It was more than a million, I'll
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tell you that much right now. Millions.
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Millions. Yeah, it was like a digit.
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Yeah, it was a lot. And I looked, get this media
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e-mail from this guy, you know, I get a lot of fake emails and
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crap and I just delete, delete, delete.
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Kept getting this same the same guy.
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And finally I open it up because I was always told don't open it
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because you get a virus and your computer locks up.
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And so, and if you look at them one back then porn sites, you
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know, you don't open porn site, then you're a porn guy, then
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you're a porn guy, you know, so I open up.
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You didn't get it one time 1. Time when I was drunk and I
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don't even drink and now I'm labeled the porn guy.
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Yeah, right. I get it.
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So you don't, you don't want to open the e-mail and you finally
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do. We did.
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And it's a so boys, that I'm gonna contact you several times.
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Here's my here's my about the time.
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And this is no lie. Don't think Google don't watch
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you, Elon Musk or whatever the heck he does, or not even
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Facebook. What's his name?
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Zuckerberg. They're watching it.
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It was like a matter of 30 minutes after I opened this
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e-mail, I get a damn text from the same guy and I never replied
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back. He got my phone number somehow
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and he's saying, I've emailed you several times and I'm with
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this company and I'd like to talk with you.
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I thought, what the hell just happened?
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I opened that e-mail, 30 minutes later this guy's texted me and I
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never replied back. Nothing.
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Yeah, they they can tell when you read it.
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Something weird, but that's all right.
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I'm not conspiracy theorist, but sometimes there's some
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conspiracies that you wonder why.
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So I called this so born. I just tried to ask him how in
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the hell did you get my phone number?
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But he told me he got it from somebody else or something like
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that. He got it and I said, well, I've
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seen your emails and he said is this real or what?
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He explained who he was and stuff like that.
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And he said I'd like to make an offer, but I want to put it
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formally. So he's in this contract and
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they made me an offer. OK, I thought, Nah.
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I said, Nah, that's all right, I don't want to sell.
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And he sent me another one back and it got a little more in
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detail. Well, I sent this one to my
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lawyer and he read that and I go see, that's for real.
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Well, he Google searched him and all that stuff and he said,
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yeah, they're for real. And he said, looks like you're
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making a pretty good offer. I told little boy.
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Now I don't myself. We come back with a third one
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and I tell you what, Kenny, I don't drink.
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Well, I do. I drink one time of year,
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usually at my banquet at the end of Go Sky Casino down in Seneca,
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MO for racetrack banquet because I drink.
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Buy everybody a drink there, have a good time.
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I don't smoke dope, never done dope in my life, never done
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cocaine, restrooms, acid on that stuff.
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You and I are just natural. And I don't do Ritalins either.
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You you. You said one time on your
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interview you did Ritalin or something but the couch dogs and
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your mom took you off of it. When I was a child, yes, I was
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on Rick on in fifth grade I think, and then my mom took me
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immediately off of. Them.
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Yeah, I studied you a little bit, researched before I let you
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do this interview with me. I like that.
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Thank you. You're a good old boy.
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You're a good old boy. You're different racist.
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OK, so I thought about it and then my lawyer said, man, that's
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a lot of money. And he said, man, you think
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about that, Jerry? I thought about it and it got me
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kind of goofy thinking. And I told my fiance about it.
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She said, oh, you're crazy, sell it, sell it.
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Said no, I don't think I want to.
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So then they come up with this real official contract.
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I mean, it's like down to where I can't tell nobody, I can't say
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the company that non disclosure deal or whatever it is.
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So then I talked to accountant, try to do it, what it would do
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to do a 1031 light kind exchange, talk to my lawyers.
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I don't want to pay a bunch of taxes if I sold and stuff like
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that. So I sit down Indian style over
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here to the north. It was late one night and the
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stars without planes to slam by drug free, no alcohols with my
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shorts on. And I have my Crocs on 2 wheel
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drive, just so you know. And I sit down in the grass and
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I thought, man, I'm getting ready to have this.
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But I told him if I would do it, it would have to be a year
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because I thought about it. I'd have to own the track for a
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year, but I'm going to get ready to have this Turkey Bowl and how
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much of it. I felt like a chicken shit to
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have this Turkey Bowl and know it's going to be the last Turkey
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Bowl at the track and almost sell it.
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Shut it down and something hit me next morning.
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I just called him. I said now I don't want to sell
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it, just decided not to. He said well, we'd like to leave
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our offer and if you ever do like to sell, get in contact
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with us. Well, since then, UPS has built
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a building across the road from me, like right across you turn
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in my driveway. UPS has built, it's not UPS, but
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they've built a building on the 40 acres across from me that's
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going to be a totally automized UPS facility.
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There's going to be robots loading and unloading trucks.
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So I can't wait to kind of see that.
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So I don't know if the race tracks going to mess the robots
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up or what. So who knows, UPS might want to
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buy and I put a deal out there this year because the words
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getting around again that I'm going to sell the track.
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I'm not going to sell the track. So Jerry, you know you're not
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going to sell the track, but the best thing psychologically is
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race car drivers are, they're very self-centered.
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It's all about them, but but if now listen, I'm having fun with
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you, you, you always dangle that carrot that I'm going to sell
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this damn racetrack and then they'll show up more and they'll
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respect you more because you know we have found that out When
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they think they can abuse you, you know they will so you.
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Don't know how you you don't how much you miss something till
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it's gone. Too.
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Yeah, right. That's that song.
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You know they paid Paradise put in a parking lot.
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So I put it, I put a deal out again just the other day.
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That's not like Tony Stewart, you know, I'm not Tony Stewart
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or the biggest he is, but L Dor was going to sell.
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He just smashed it with an interview.
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Well, I mashed mine with the press release from the SRN news
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page. SRN News.
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You see my news page, Springfield Raceway is now
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affiliate of SRN News. We're more than just a
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racetrack. We're fun, fun about the world.
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So back to that. OK.
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And I said it's not for sale, but I put the disclaimer in
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there. I watched Yellowstone.
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You ever watch Yellowstone? No, but I've I need to watch it.
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I'm afraid I'll get a Dick. Beth is Henry.
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She's a rare. She's kind of redheaded, she's
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feisty, she's kind of smoking hot.
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And her dad has a lot of money. Well, they're trying to buy this
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land beside him. No one sell it.
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No one sell it. Don't sell it.
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Don't sell it. And finally, old Beth, she's
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really direct. She said make me a number, give
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me a number. This old boy just spotted off
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like $900 million and she just said write him a check.
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It's not for sale. But and the disclaimer, if
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somebody wants it more than what I feel like I needed in that
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location, I will take $10 million.
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Yeah, and I will move it. I will not move it.
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I'll move it. I'll, I'll get a year deal when
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I get it for a year. And I'll move it to this north
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of Joplin, MO. I've already got some land there
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I've spotted was going to buy. I wasn't going to buy this land.
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What if I was going to sell the other one?
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But the land is still for sale there.
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It's in a good location and it's only probably 28 minutes from my
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house. I love it. 54, so I'm 51 years
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old. I put on there.
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I'm looking good feeling. I just don't want them stress
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tests where you got to run that incline deal and they'll tack
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you out about 10 minutes on that incline.
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I'm just as horny as ever, I mean.
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Your arteries. Your arteries are.
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Flowing good, got good blood flow.
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I'm artery as ever and I enjoy. It's a challenge.
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Any racetrack owner. It's a challenge to own and
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operate a racetrack because I'm just your average old boy.
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I am your average old boy. I don't come from oil well
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money, natural gas money or anything like that.
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And just because you have oil well money and extra gas made
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don't mean you don't work. They're hard workers too, but it
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helps you out a little bit. So I come from my own, start
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with nothing. When we got the racetrack, we
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didn't have a grader, Kitty 1 water truck.
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And there's one water truck. And I don't know how we done it
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with no grader and one water truck.
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You card when I come to your racetrack.
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It's a beautifully carved out racetrack.
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You can tell that you're just constantly manicuring it.
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I love your racetrack, Kenny Schrader.
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All the race car drivers love your surface.
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But what a great story. OK, now I want to move on.
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These are highlights. You know it would take us two
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hours, Jerry, to do. 3 or 4. To do a Kenny conversation with
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you, I'm touching on these highlights.
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So you are popular for incredible driver meetings.
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You as mean as racer racers are, and it's all about them.
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You do grab their heart and you talk loud so we can hear you.
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The worst thing about it, a racing drivers meeting is the
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promoter going. Everybody gather on in and
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you're like, what? What?
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So the great thing is we can hear you, but something that you
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did, it is is not real popular. A lot of people don't know about
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it, but I know about it and we talked about this.
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We know that local racing is all about fighting.
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People want to fight because all these race car drivers are
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gladiators. I'm the greatest, my car's the
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best. You're dumb.
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They screwed me. I've been screwed.
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So that driver walks down to the other driver and wants to fight
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him and show I'm a man, I'm going to beat you up.
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You watched one of your drivers go down to another driver's pit
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and and he came back with something he didn't expect it
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don't go down to another man's pit.
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Tell me your philosophy on fighting at the Springfield
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Raceway. There's a place for it.
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Go ahead. A place for it.
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I mean, we're not a boxing match.
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I mean we're not. And just you brought this up and
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it goes back to when I raced. I had a trouble with a guy and
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he's mouthed me, I mouthed him. He crashed me and I told him
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next time I'm going to turn his, turn him over and then I'm going
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to beat his ass after I turn him over.
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So they told me not to be like ashes.
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What I does, I took caution tape, that yellow crime scene
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tape and I put it around my pits so they knew where my territory
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was. And I told him if he comes in
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there, I'm going to whoop his ass.
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And I told the track if he that's just way it's going to
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be. So I always felt like don't go
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to nobody's pits. Life's going to come.
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Sun's going to come up tomorrow on that racetrack.
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It's competition. You're running hard, they're
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running hard. Some guys cars don't work as
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good as others and they're battling that damn car all the
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time anyway. They don't mean to hit somebody,
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but if you go to somebody's pits at my place and a fight breaks
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out, you're going to be the one throwed out.
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But one old boy went down there and he got his eyes dotted.
19:41
I mean, that old boy, black goes in his eyes and you come
19:44
bitching to me. I said, hey, you're the one that
19:46
went down there. You should have never went down
19:48
there. But you brought that up through
19:50
a month ago. I had two or three little
19:52
incidents where the guys over on the West side of town is what
19:55
Springfield is known As for the racetrack is the West Siders.
19:58
Well, I tell people my dirt track is located on the other
20:01
side of I-44, not the West side, even though it is the West side.
20:04
I call it the other side. Well, a couple guys, you know,
20:06
they think they're badasses, They think they're part of some
20:08
big gang or something. They want to protect their
20:11
brothers. And then stuff happens.
20:13
And I don't want to seem that like that because it's a family
20:15
oriented place. We have a lot of kids there, mom
20:18
and dad's there, grandma and grandpa's there.
20:20
Let's have fun. So I told them.
20:22
You can sign up to be the baddest badass at the racetrack.
20:25
If you guys want to fight you just sign up right here at the
20:28
drivers meeting. I'll give it the boxing
20:30
Commission and we will do it legally.
20:32
You can box this little boy and I would do it.
20:36
Nobody signed up and everybody's kind of calmed down.
20:38
Yeah, you're, you know, I want to say something to everybody
20:43
that's watching this. He's not crazy.
20:46
He's like me. He's he's a brilliant man.
20:48
I'm smart and we we have this thing inside of us,
20:52
hyperactivity and we go and people think we're crazy, but
20:57
we're brilliant. I just wanted to make that
21:00
disclaimer out there. The man you're looking at right
21:02
now has one of the most successful dirt tracks in
21:05
America. Everybody loves it.
21:08
Kenny Schrader's, if he lived there, he he'd racer everyday.
21:13
He loves your racetrack. Let's move on just a little bit.
21:16
I told you this was going to be 20 minutes because it was.
21:19
It's catching up with Jerry Hoffman.
21:22
We're not doing a life story. We've already touched on the
21:25
things I want to know. But I guess inquiring minds want
21:28
to know is how are you dealing with this new dirt racing world
21:33
where everybody's watching on flow, everybody's watching on
21:37
dirt vision? Has it?
21:39
Has it taken people out of your grandstands?
21:43
What are you seeing in this new era of dirt racing where we
21:48
don't need to go to the racetrack, we're just going to
21:50
watch it? It's a double edged sword.
21:52
No disrespect to Flow. I like Flow Rigsby and them
21:57
guys. It rigs me that that's the Flow
21:58
guy and it rigs me. Yeah, Michael Rigsby.
22:02
Rigs. Michael Rigsby, I don't know
22:03
him. I looked up to him.
22:04
He's a good announcer and I'd like to have been announcer
22:06
sometime. I really like to have been a
22:07
gynecologist but on a dirt track instead.
22:10
So you'd get. Tired of it they all you'd get
22:15
tired. You'd bring your wife?
22:16
If you knew I was a gynecologist, you'd for 100%
22:19
bring your wife. OK, we better stop on that.
22:21
But hold on. The stream.
22:23
The streaming. Yeah, the stream, but but
22:25
Michael Rigsby said I watched all these great.
22:28
You know, we just, we had a conversation with Michael Rigsby
22:31
and Flow and you know, you said I got tired of looking at all
22:34
these great drivers and nobody knew about them, so I put them
22:38
on TV. It's double edged sword.
22:40
OK, go ahead. It's good for their business and
22:42
it's good. It's good for the it's good for
22:44
the national level. It's it's causing they can't pay
22:47
75,050 thousand 100,000 without that national deal.
22:51
Me sitting here in my underwear watching.
22:53
Flow $150.00 a year. Yeah, 100.
22:56
Dollars T that's 300. For dirt vision.
22:59
Yeah, that's cheap and it's a good, good fair price.
23:02
I don't say it's too cheap. I don't want to raise it, but it
23:05
works nice. I like I watch it, but it's it's
23:07
hurt the weekly race and here's why.
23:09
Here's why. Before to find out what went on
23:12
the racetrack, you had to go, you had to go to your weekly
23:15
dirt track to find out to watch your heroes race.
23:18
There's no heroes anymore like there used to be years ago when
23:21
I used to go to the Vedas Speedway, there was Ron Bolin.
23:24
Ron Bolin, I don't know if you remember him, short track racer,
23:27
give me 3 steps right on the back of his race car.
23:29
Wide open late model driver, backer in, start at the back of
23:32
the field every night, Top point man started it back weekly
23:36
racing. That's what needs to happen.
23:37
Every dirt track on weekly racing needs to start cop man to
23:41
the back, become a hero, become a star past people.
23:44
We line all these guys up on the front on weekly racing and just
23:47
sign them on and they win. It hurts weekly racing, it
23:51
really does. I'm not talking about a
23:52
participation trophy, but weekly racing is built off that.
23:56
OK, now back to the Flow deal or not Flow the streaming app.
24:00
Here's what's hurt weekly racing.
24:01
You, you know what's going on by watching every Monday, Tuesday,
24:05
when like this weekend there's all kinds of stuff going on.
24:07
And then you can watch their YouTube channel.
24:11
You know, Chase Holland Racing, he's got a great YouTube People
24:13
hunt the front guys. They've made good business out
24:16
of what they do. So you can keep up with that.
24:19
Why go to your weekly dirt track?
24:21
Those weekly fans are true hardcore weekly fans.
24:25
They really do. Your birthday at my track, I I
24:28
try to let all my weekly fans in for free.
24:29
One night your birthday and you get in for free at Springfield
24:33
recently. And if your birthday's in the
24:34
offseason, I have a date for you to get in free because I feel
24:37
like it's cool to do some for somebody's birthday because my
24:39
mom and dad always make my special.
24:40
When I was a kid growing up, boys got to play football, big
24:43
party and stuff. So I share, share that on
24:46
because used to on your birthday, you go eat for free.
24:48
I think now you get a dessert. Yeah.
24:50
You know what, Bynomics. Bynomics.
24:53
Bye. Well, no disrespect to Joe, but
24:56
yeah, Trump. Trump needs back in.
24:58
Quick, quick. OK, I agree.
25:01
So it's hurt the weekly racing and those fans that come, man,
25:05
my hat's off to him. I thank you for spurting
25:07
supporting my old dirt track. I really do.
25:10
Because it takes your money, your time, and people are
25:12
staying. We have Springfield raceway.tv,
25:15
but my Springfield raceway.tv is good for me to.
25:18
I watch film, Kenny, I watch, I watch my film after the races to
25:21
see how the track was good here, the good here, what happened the
25:24
year before, all my big events and the drivers can watch the
25:27
replays. So I don't want to mouth and be
25:29
part of it because I am part of it with Springfield raceway.tv.
25:32
Well, you are. You do have to stay up with the
25:35
times. You got to do what you can do to
25:37
survive. I understand that.
25:39
OK, let's, let's move. Let's move forward a little bit.
25:41
You got any more to say about that?
25:44
No, it's a double edged sword. You can't dog them.
25:46
It's good and bad. I use it too, but I don't know
25:50
what's going to happen with it. I really don't because there's a
25:53
lot of tracks that's hurt, really they are.
25:55
And you can't blame it all on that though.
25:57
You can't blame it all on that. OK, so this one I'm going to
26:00
catch you off guard with I, I race UMP United Midwest
26:07
promotion and I live I live South of Saint Louis and I want
26:15
to come race at your racetrack, but I can't because you have a
26:20
different set of rules, which I totally understand.
26:23
And you're right. So I, I have a UMP carcass.
26:26
Every single racetrack around me is is called it UMP.
26:30
My rules are my rules. Now your rules are your rules.
26:33
And then you go a little north and they got USARAUSMTS and then
26:38
IMCAA and UMP and all these cars look identical.
26:44
So for the fan, I don't see any different.
26:47
It's just it's a modified. Oh, you, you say, OK, come on in
26:50
here. Let me let me show you the
26:51
differences. So I can't run your racetrack,
26:56
but you have the Turkey Bowl coming up and I want to come run
27:01
your I want to come run that race.
27:03
Now they're trying to test the waters.
27:06
They just had a big $100,000 to win.
27:09
Kate Dillard won it and they all race together, all of them, all
27:13
the divisions. So I, I just want to let
27:18
everybody know that I want to come to your racetrack.
27:22
But you can't penalize me. You cannot favor IMCA, you can't
27:26
favor your boys. You got to figure out how to get
27:30
me to your racetrack to where I, I, I'm not cut off by the time I
27:37
get there. So think about it.
27:38
For 12 years we've been doing that, Kenny, the Turkey Bowl.
27:41
For 12 years we combined all of our rules together.
27:44
So before they'd done that race up there and paid all that
27:46
money, we've been doing that at Springfield Raceway.
27:48
You can do a lot with a spoiler, You can do a lot with a 60 tire
27:51
on the right rear. You can do a lot with this.
27:53
A little bit of lead on the nose.
27:55
I have rule package at Springfield Raceway and UMP guys
27:58
have came right, came right there and it's pretty equal.
28:00
It really is. My locals are little bit maybe
28:03
advantage because they race there.
28:05
Race Springfield's a different animal.
28:07
It's like a small Batesville and when you come to Springfield,
28:09
you're not only racing your car, your other drivers and your luck
28:13
of the draw and everything like that.
28:15
You're racing Jerry Hoffman. Because I watched the track and
28:18
if I see the top getting too fast and I know I'd be on the
28:21
bottom, I'm going to meltwater the bottom.
28:23
If I need some bike through the middle, I'm going to put back
28:26
through the middle. And these younger kids have
28:27
learned. The younger kids in my track
28:29
have really learned because they their their dads tell me, they
28:32
tell them to watch Jerry. And this one kid said, how can I
28:35
watch Jerry? He don't hold still, he
28:38
understands to watch me in the track because they got to be on
28:41
their toes. Because you race Jerry Hoffman
28:43
every week. I get the race every week in my
28:45
own way on preparing my track to make it racy so you can bring
28:49
your car. Kenny, like I told you, 60 on
28:51
the right rear, no spoiler. What's your spoiler?
28:55
You get a two or three now. 3 inch.
28:57
You put a three, so this year the probably the only have you
28:59
leave your spoiler on. I'm going to let the USRA cars
29:01
keep their spoiler and then IMCA cars probably get a 7.
29:04
And that's basically what USRA rules are, basically what they
29:08
are. 7 inch spoiler for what division?
29:11
Nix O4 crate motor. Yeah, but.
29:13
Your USRA is. But your track is slippery, you
29:16
don't need no see. UMP cars are at a disadvantage.
29:20
UMP cars are at a disadvantage because we got too much motor so
29:24
your tracks naturally slippery. So a six O 4 motor is like
29:28
traction control. How much is a six O 4 motor?
29:30
Like 7-8 grand. Oh no, they're about. 8 grand
29:35
just for the motor, just for the long run.
29:37
Let's say 8500 and what's your motor 25,030?
29:41
1000. OK, so I'm going to tell you
29:43
right now, Kenny, you probably need to buy six O 4 almost have
29:47
more money. And run up your.
29:48
Car that has you need to put less motor in your car you need
29:51
to hook. Your car with that.
29:52
OK, we're having fun, everybody. We need a restrictor plate.
29:55
I'll make it even. Kenny, you, you'll bring your
29:57
UMP car, we'll make it even. You're a good driver and you'll
30:00
be fine. We make UMP cars run there and
30:02
they do pretty good. This was a little promo,
30:05
everybody. Yeah, Turkey Bowl.
30:07
Turkey Bowl. I'm coming to the Turkey Bowl
30:09
this year. This will.
30:09
Be a Turkey. Bowl I I I want to run in the
30:12
top ten I. Want to make, don't you?
30:14
I want to make the a main, you know?
30:15
The Schrader said that one of the most prized trophies he has
30:18
is that Turkey and he had I went to Schrader's shop over the that
30:22
the last dirt gateway dirt Nationals and it comes in it's
30:25
great hospitality, great shop. You're one of the kind.
30:28
It's cool what you do for dirt racing.
30:29
Not all racing, not just dirt racing, you know, for all
30:33
reasons. Thank you too.
30:35
And that Turkey? Schrader said.
30:37
It's probably one of the greatest trouble he's ever want
30:39
to hangs from his ceiling in his shop.
30:41
Yeah. Let's end like this, everybody.
30:45
I was born in the city of Saint Louis, and my mom and dad told
30:48
me when I was three months old, we moved to Rolla, MO.
30:53
I'm an Ozark boy at heart. I I love Rolla, MO, I love West
30:58
Plains, I love Fort Leonard Wood, Springfield, the home of
31:01
the great Larry Phillips, where Jerry's track is.
31:06
Emotionally, those are my real stomping grounds that I grew up
31:09
around. It does pain me that I can't I I
31:12
need to build a car so I can come up there and race those
31:15
boys and fight with them. Would you get 6th or 7th one
31:18
year when you drove my? Car was it?
31:19
Oh God, let me brag myself a little bit.
31:25
So what was the what was that number 88's name?
31:28
What was that guy's name? Jed.
31:29
Wheeler's. It was my car, yes.
31:31
Jed Wheeler took it to Vegas as an A mod and then ran IMCA with
31:35
it. And then you didn't think it
31:36
would compete? I said Kenya will compete.
31:39
You started tell back the heat race.
31:40
No yellows ran second or third. That puts you in the B because
31:42
you have so many cars. You and Terry Beckham with an
31:45
open USMTS car had a heck of a race.
31:47
Hold on, hold on right there. I had AAB mod with a six or four
31:53
crate. It was my B mod and.
31:57
I outran a USMTS straight up 60-70 cars there and I run 6th
32:03
in the A main. From the B car like 14 because
32:05
you wanted to beat and you right around the bottom.
32:08
I mean, it was good. Your car was good.
32:10
That's a Hoffman car, by the way, with Kenny Wallace driving
32:12
it. Yeah.
32:13
OK, back to whatever. He used to it well that that is
32:16
a perfect example of the six O 4 crate that what was it an IMCA
32:21
car. IMCA, it was an amon.
32:23
It was an IMC Amon. We went to the duel in the
32:25
desert with. I ran it as a BYU
32:27
internationals. I'm going to trust.
32:29
Do you got a picture of that car?
32:31
Not right now, but OK, Charlie Marlowe, we're going to drop a
32:35
picture of that red number 88 right here, right now.
32:38
And I want everybody to know that was an old crate car.
32:41
No, I'll have to send it to you. Yeah, you're gonna hop back when
32:44
you have your hand up like that. Yeah, you're going to send it to
32:46
CC's, dropped it and you're everybody's looking at it and I
32:50
outran that car was so fast. O6O4 crate motor, just a popping
32:54
and a banging, hitting the red chip out running.
32:58
No, no, that's not the end of the story.
32:59
The story is I come from deep in the field.
33:02
In the a May 18th, Yeah, you, yeah, you passed a lot of cars,
33:05
but you, you had less motor than them, Kenny.
33:07
Hint, hint. You don't need a lot of motor.
33:09
To well, I know that. Detune, detune your car and you
33:13
have a Hoffman car, right? It's the other Hoffman.
33:15
We're not related. I do have a nephew.
33:17
Hoffman So Nick's going to have to get you hooked up a little
33:20
better, which I say he could, or we're going to detune your motor
33:22
just a little bit. You run or shoot your plate from
33:24
time to time. I can, yes, I can handle that.
33:26
OK, everybody listen. We are in podcast form.
33:30
We are on iTunes and Spotify. You can listen to this fun
33:34
catching up with Jerry Hoffman. Can I say one thing for you?
33:37
close. Yes, Sir.
33:38
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33:52
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33:55
Thank you. I love it.
33:56
OK, we are in Spotify and iTunes.
33:58
You can listen to Jerry on your way to work, listen to him all
34:01
the way home. And we know that this could be a
34:04
three hour conversation, but easily.
34:08
All right, everybody, Jerry, I'll see you at the Turkey Bowl.
34:11
We've announced it right here and I'm coming down here full of
34:15
love. I'm I'm a Rolla MO boy, so
34:18
everybody be nice to me. Dad raced at Springfield
34:21
Fairgrounds, Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, West Plains, Fort
34:25
Leonard Wood. So I don't want to hear hear
34:27
about it. That's my territory.
34:29
I was there before all of you. So therefore I win.
34:34
Thank you, Kenny. See you later, everybody.
34:36
See you later, buddy.