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Talking With Comedian Bill Murray, Rusty Wallace & Kyle Larson! | Kenny Wallace Live · Kenny Wallace Media

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They're going to go wild because, guys, we have former
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champion, race winner and premier NASCAR driver Paul
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Orson. How are you, brother?
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Good to see you, man. We got a little bit of
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watermelon residue, but I guess every time you go after Ross
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Chastain, chances are you're going to see something like
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that. I didn't, I didn't get to see
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it, but he said it was pretty spectacular, so.
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She had some legs, man. Yeah, she looks strong.
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Sorry back there. All right, you, you know, Tony
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Stewart once said to me, Herman, the one thing that bombs us is
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this dirt racing. So let's start with this.
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You're I'm not saying this is dirt racing capital, but we had
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the world wild midgets 20 minutes in the highland.
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We had USAX Sprint cars over here.
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Granted, mods going wild and peeving.
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So Chase says he's going to calm the Sprint car stuff down.
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Where's your next dirt race? I'm actually off until probably
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November, so I I usually laid out pretty heavy until you
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knocks the nationals after that and then then the series kind of
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goes out West. So I don't really get to a whole
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lot of stuff. You get less midweek racing this
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time of year, so my dirt racing slows down some, but it's nice.
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I actually feel like I need the time off a little bit.
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I I feel like I, you know, run myself pretty thin sometimes.
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Yeah, I know it's been it's been nice.
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The week like last week felt really long.
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It felt like, you know, it's been been two weeks since we're
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in Darlington. It's only been a week.
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So yeah, it's, it's different, but I, I enjoy.
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It I see you on Instagram, I'm like, Oh my God, he's golfing.
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I don't. I don't, I don't.
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That must be old because I don't know.
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I don't really do. I don't play a whole lot of
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golf. I think I've played six rounds
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this whole year. So where like Michael Waltrip
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is, I think he's played over 100.
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Yeah. So I don't, I don't golf that
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much anymore. So Kyle, we often say that there
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are levels of people who race, There are competitors, there are
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winners and then there are champions.
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You sat at that throne as being champion of the Cup Series.
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Once you get there though, Kyle, is that one of those double
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edged swords? Yeah, you've got it.
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But nothing else after that will really suffice, because you've
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tasted what it's like. Yeah, I think so.
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You know, honestly, Yeah, it was amazing to win that championship
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in 2021 and then. Yeah.
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Thanks then. We haven't won.
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Since then, but I, I don't know, I think I finished second in 23
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and it was like, that's amazing, right?
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Second NASCAR Cup Series points and stuff.
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But I was like, you know, after. So it just makes you itch for it
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more. And, and you know, this is a fun
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time of year. You know, the playoffs are
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really exciting and we're one of the 16 guys that have a shot.
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So yeah, we still got to kind of get building our stuff and keep
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some momentum going and and hopefully we'll have a good shot
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here in a couple months. I've got to go there just
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because I'm that type of guy. You, you.
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You are what I consider a God's gift, your talent level.
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Is through the roof. You're, you know, David Ift was
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a legendary crew chief for Kami Aubrel and he said there's a
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string from your foot, your ass to your.
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Brain. To your arms and then you play
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that piano. You play it so good when when
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people talk what what I just said about you, do you recognize
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that? Do you recognize?
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I don't know, not right now. I feel like I haven't done
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anything good. Here lately.
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I yeah, true, finally did something good.
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But no, it's, I don't know. I mean, I think a lot of that
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too. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure I, I,
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I'm, I'm grateful with where I'm at, my career and the success
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I've had. But you, you really don't have
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any of that success without good people and good mechanics and
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car owners and, and I've been blessed all along the way to to
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have great people behind me. And you'll get to work around
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some, some great race car drivers as well.
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But yeah, I know it's, it's fun. It's fun to be competitive and,
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and hopefully we can, you know, be that way today.
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It's been a great weekend so far, so hopefully we can I have
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a solid race. It's like I said, it's been a
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little while since we've had a a great race and the one where
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we've LED laps and got great stage points and.
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Can't do the ball. Challenge, I know, but we have
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one in a while. I think it's probably the
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longest. I feel like I've gone my
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country, Kansas in May since we've won, so today would be a
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great thing. So Kyle, when?
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You guys had you? Guys have the longest season in
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professional sports by far. It is long thing.
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It's a grind and you want to be up top.
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And I remember there were so many times when Jimmy Johnson
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was kicking everybody's butt and if you went a few weeks,
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everybody was like a, you know, what the hell is wrong?
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Him and Chad aren't getting along.
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You know, there was all these theories and then they go out
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and just kick everybody's butt. Say, what are y'all talking
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about? You guys have to be pretty even
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keeled throughout this course of the year.
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Not getting too high at the highs or too low at the lows.
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Yeah, absolutely. I think you know everything you
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just said there. It's such a long year and you
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look at it like like our up till May was great.
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Like, Oh my gosh, we're going to win 678 races this year and like
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this is we're going to kill them in the regular season points.
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And then it's like, yeah, the the series is just constantly
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changing each week. So everybody's evolving.
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And then you can kind of taper off a little bit.
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But you got to stay confident, motivated and and try to just
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dig through, you know, the dips the best that you can.
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And and like you said, you just got to stay pretty even.
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You can't let your highs get too high, your lows get too low.
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So that's what I feel like we do well with the five team is we
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don't really have too much emotion.
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So I think that's what you need as a competitor.
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OK, they're telling me one more. Damn it.
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I have so many questions. Just one more question though,
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guys, because Kyle's going to stay with us for a little bit.
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We have another surprise for you.
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The last surprise was a lady crushing watermelons, so we got
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another one for you, but continue.
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OK, so you know Chad and Alice, who basically, you know, runs
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your competition at Henry, he came out after Darlington and he
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said we didn't run good. And then, you know, Schrader
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raced there. Forever.
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And, you know, we hear about these Monday morning meetings.
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Are are these meetings what they're cracked up with me like
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what happened on Monday? I mean, I'm not a part of all
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the meetings, but just your normal like for us with A5 team,
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we'll meet at 10:30 in the morning.
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Do our, you know, hour long kind of just five team specific
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meeting and then that rolls into typically a hour and a half
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competition meeting with the all four teams, crew chiefs, engine,
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you know, a couple engineers, whatever.
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And I don't know, I mean, you would expect it to be like this,
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like, you know, everybody's mad and stuff in the meeting and
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you're cracking the whip. But you know, I think Darlington
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was just a a good eye opener and reminder to to just really dig
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into the details of everything that goes into the race cars to
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be best ready for the race track.
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So although it's not good to to have bad results like we all did
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last week, I think it was good for us to to have that because,
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you know, we're we're digging through it and I think we've
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learned where we kind of got off and maybe where we've been
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trending off here lately. So I think, you know, this
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weekend we all fall really fast in practice.
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Yesterday a couple of us qualified very good.
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So yeah, so, you know, I think that's a good thing with
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Hendrick is you have the resources to.
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And look, we're only seven days away from Darlington, but we can
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turn things around a little quicker than other teams, which
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is which is always good. We often talk about the goat.
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Sometimes it's not good to be called a goat, but if you're
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talking about the greatest of all time, a lot of people are
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already saying this. Is out of.
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Hand I see what I. See.
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OK, seriously, in terms of GOAT, we have Hall of Famer Rusty
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Wallace joining us. And guys.
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Also, we're going to try to get him out here, Another one of the
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goats, none other than Bill Murray.
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Hey, what's up, brother? Good to see you.
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Good to see you guys. Come on up here.
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Let's all get. In my name's Kenny Wallace.
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I'm Rusty's little brother. And depending on how old you
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are, he's either the greens keeper in Caddyshack or a
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Ghostbuster. You can tell him how old you
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are. Hey Bill, how much fun is this?
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Problem. Well, so far there have been no
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injuries and no arrests. East Saint Louis is right here.
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Yeah, right. There's some wonderful people
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that have come from East Saint Louis and it's on the ill nice
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sort of the side of the border, so I'm sticking up for East
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Saint Louis. Jackie Corner, Percy Vincent
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Price, Kyle Petty reminded me of that.
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They have made some legends if. You can, if you can make it out
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of East Saint Louis, you can if you can.
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You know they say if you can make it in New York, you can
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make it anywhere. If you can make it in East Saint
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Louis, you can make it. OK, but what do we got here?
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It's. Another one, we have children.
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Right here, the goat. Guys, we have a goat.
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All these. I've got all these goats.
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Literally, we got a lot of goats.
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We're going to talk to Rusty here in a minute, everybody,
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Chris. Levi the goat.
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And look, Levi guys, there's a reason why Levi is dressed the
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way he's dressed. Bill, this is considered one of
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our greatest race car drivers of our time.
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Kyle Larson, he he's good, wins everything.
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So the GOAT we're going to bring?
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That code up here. Levi.
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How's it going, Levi? You having a good time?
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You got your tickets. That's a good outfit, isn't it?
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OK. What photo opportunity?
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Yeah, there's a brief photo opportunity here in the Bahamas.
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And he likes watermelon. Every time you take one of those
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tours, that's what they say, the brief over the ocean.
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All right, Big Brother, Big. I told everybody earlier, you're
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not in your jet anymore and you're flying commercial.
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Is that hard on you? Well, I do 5050.
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I use my airplane half the time. I'll fly commercial half the
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time, You know, just balance it out.
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So last night you're getting ready to fly to Saint Louis and
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they cancel your flight out of Charlotte.
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What was that like? Well, I went straight back home
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and watched the Saint Louis Cardinals win with walk off.
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Had a glass of wine and I'm sitting there and they have a
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walk off right to the very end. And one day one.
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Then I went to bed. White Chardonnay.
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Of course it is, so Chardonnay is always.
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White, Bill. Rusty's got a place in Cabo.
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You need to go there. OK, but I'm not going alone.
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Anybody Cabo A couple of us, we can sleep on the lawn or the
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beach. Me and Kenny always have a
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saying, guys, when the going gets tough, the tough go get
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wine. And so that's what Rusty is
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doing these days, right? So, brother, here we are in
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Saint Louis. This is our hometown.
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We're from here. What do you think?
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Saint Louis is finally going to playoff.
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This is a big deal. This isn't a normal NASCAR race.
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Well, having a NASCAR race here is a really big deal.
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We knew they filled up, didn't we?
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So look at all the people here and have a playoff race. #2.
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Fantastic, and I'll tell you we're going to have a great race
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today because this weather is absolutely beautiful.
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Racers love this type of temperature.
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I think it's going to be fantastic.
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It's really a great time that Saint Louis has got this race.
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Hopefully keep it for a long time.
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I'm 100% behind it, no doubt about that.
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So Bill, you got a prediction for us.
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We got Kyle Larson starting up front.
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He's tough to beat. When he's starting to back, he
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makes it to the front. I'm going to go out on a limb
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here. Kyle Larson is going to win.
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Hey, I know this yes question, but it's probably the only time
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I ever see you. I mean, does it get tired of two
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goats? Three goats?
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I mean, you're recognized all over the world.
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I mean, you're a legend, man. Saturday Night Live,
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Ghostbusters. Or do you get tired of it?
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Or do you welcome it? Well, when you're a goat, it's a
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lonely occupation. Isn't it?
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Is it Russ? Is it lonely?
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And it's nice that we're finally travelling in just a small pack
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today. It feels so powerful.
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I feel like we can walk through the merch tents and take
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anything we want, just walk out. Extra larges, smalls, extra
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smalls, anything we want. We're out of here with any
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T-shirt, any hat, any goofy sunglasses we want.
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I think that's what Levi the goat did.
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Levi the Goat stole the Kyle Larson shirt.
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First of all, you are the GOAT because you're brilliant.
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That was quick. You're really good at watching
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him. Saturday Night Live or was at
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work. Well, believe it or not, they
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have Saturday night all across the country.
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I could tell you about a couple recently that were outstanding,
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just outstanding, right up there with some of the best.
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But I don't, I don't miss it because I had so much fun.
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But it's fun to see all the people do it.
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And it's it's like the school you went to.
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You know, when I watch it now and I see them all get better.
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No, no, no. And people say, oh, it's bad now
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and that's terrible. It's not true.
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They write sketches now on Saturday night.
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They're as good as any sketch that was ever written.
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They don't they're not all good, but neither were ours.
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Ours all good. But it's a it's a learning
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curve. When you start, you're not very
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good. And you know, you spend some
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time, you do it. There's also a lot more
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competition. There were only seven of us.
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Now they've got like 18 players, you know, so you're all fighting
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to do stuff and work and be like, you know, if if there was
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a car race and there were 700 entrance, you know you'd have to
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it's. Called the chili.
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Ball OK brother. Listen, you watch it every week.
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What's your prediction? This is race #2 you know, 9
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races left. This is the playoffs.
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What are you thinking? Well, I'm thinking a high side
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is going to come in and Kyle Larson's going to get up there
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and run that high side. Well, Kyle's probably in a
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winustration and he's got a lot of them on the side and but he's
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got to get to that high side man because he's a high side guy,
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don't you guys think? Julian Kyle, you guys get a
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pretty good feeling over the course of the weekend.
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We do a little practice and now we're qualifying.
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You get a good idea about your car.
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What do you think? Qualified well, Practiced well.
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What do you think? Yeah, we, this honestly has been
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a really bad track for us in the past.
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So we did get to come here and test a couple months ago and oh,
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we got our car really good. So you know yesterday well, I
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thought we were one of the best cars in practice qualified good.
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So hopefully today's the day you're.
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You're you're multi talented. You know I brag on people.
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Sorry for bragging on you. But now, I mean you got this.
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You've always been a music guy. It seems like you're somewhere
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every week. Tell me about your band.
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They look cool. They look good.
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Yeah, the band's really cool. OK, they look good.
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Sorry. They're, they're really
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handsome. I don't know.
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They're, if we have any bachelorettes here in the
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audience, There's some, there's some keepers up here and
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there's, there's some fixer uppers too.
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There's some fixer uppers and I'm in that category.
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But they're, they're all, they all play so, so well that it's,
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you know, it's, it's not so hard for me to, my name is on the
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T-shirt. That's about it.
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You know, I'll show up, I'll do something.
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But they're all so good and it's like being on a great team.
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It's a fantastic team and it's fun.
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We have a lot of fun. And you know, it's not I don't
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know if you can have as much fun, right, racing a car as as
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as, as you could just sing a song, but it's we're going to
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have a lot of fun. This is a great place to be.
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You know, we're right next to this big damn piece of water.
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And it's, it's really exciting just to kind of America right
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here. Thank you, Bill.
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OK, brother, I go there. I hear all this noise.
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NASCAR ain't what it used to be. You've seen it all.
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What do you say to the people to say NASCAR ain't what it used to
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be? That's a tough one because it's
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totally different. I mean, you had you had me, you
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had Earnhardt, you had Labonis, you had Stewart had all all,
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we're all in the same era. And now you got these guys
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kicking ass to take a name. So I mean, we we put some good
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races on the past and these guys are putting good races too.
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So I can't I can't say nothing good or bad.
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It's all I think NASCAR is all good actually.
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You know, it's I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for
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NASCAR and all you fans. And so I appreciate the hell out
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all of. It and.
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You know, I, I'm doing a lot of things in life now that I always
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wanted to do because I couldn't be because I was on the race
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track. Like I, you heard, you guys
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always hear about me in the motorcycle industry.
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We're doing a lot of motorcycle stuff now.
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He's got back from Sturgis, SD 2 weeks out there.
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That's the most fun you've ever seen in your life.
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And my son and I are building these high end Harley Davidsons.
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It's a blast. We've built over 165 of those
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things and Kenny goes to most all of them with us.
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So you know what I'm talking about.
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We'll be in the Lake of the Ozarks next week next week for
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about 7 days with Claire. Boyer.
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And me and Boyer have a blast up there.
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Always have a blast. Yeah, I'm just doing different
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things. But I couldn't do that stuff,
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you know, But wasn't for NASCAR. Now I get to do the stick
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because I'm not in NASCAR so. That's pretty cool, too.
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All right, here's what I got to say to anybody that that says
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NASCAR ain't what it used to be, ain't as good anymore.
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Look at this crowd. Look at this racetrack and look
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at guys. Like Kyle Anderson.
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Then. Come.
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Tell us it's not good, Kyle. We got to turn you loose, bro.
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You got stuff to do and go get a race today.
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Thanks all. You guys will come out.
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It's always a great guy. Thank you.
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Do good buddy, do good. All right guys, there is.
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And you notice the reason why we put that goat shirt, why the
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goat was wearing a certain shirt, that that's a talent
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unlike any other. Yeah, crazy.
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I'm still in shock that I'm up here with two of the greatest
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one now. Rusty.
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My nickname for Rusty is God. I tell my family.
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I say, girls, Rust, Uncle Rusty's coming.
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Vacuum the carpet. Here he comes.
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You know that term goat. OK, I swear I never helped out,
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man. So I love the sand dunes out
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there in Plymouth, California. So we take a bunch of our
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buddies out there in the sand dunes and we took John Elway
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with us, the football guy. So I'm not there.
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It's me and John Elway, It's Clint Boyer, It's Don the Snake
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for them, Big Greg Racer, a bunch of us out there together.
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And that night we're having dinner and I got a buddy of
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mine, his name is Mike Mullman, and I met Mike, you know,
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through some things I get involved in and I sent.
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Him a picture. While standing together, he sent
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me a note back and said the goats.
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And I go. Why?
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Does sucker? Call me A.
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Goat. I didn't.
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Know it meant greatness of all time.
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I thought he was just being a jerk.
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You're an animal. Call me a damn goat.
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Man, it's not just a Barnard animal anymore.
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Bill, I see you in magazines all the time.
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Besides, you're all good. All good.
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Well, certain magazines, you know so.
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You know, so you're doing the music.
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What are you doing these days besides with the band?
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Well, I, I play with a classical quartet too.
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We just did a tour of Europe. We played, by the way, in the
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big concert halls over there, and we had a lot of fun doing
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that. That's a lot of a lot of
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excitement, a lot of energy. And you're you're sitting there
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in the dressing room when you go like, yeah, this is Ricard
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Strauss's dressing room. I guess I got to show up
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tonight. You know, I can't phone him, you
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know? So you got really, you really
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got to show up and work. So I'm, I'm having a lot of fun
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doing things like that. There's a lot of opportunities.
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I mean, Russell says, you know, if it weren't for NASCAR, you
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know, and for me, it was sort of like if it worked for Saturday
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Night Night Live. I've gotten to do things and
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meet people. I mean, just meeting.
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I mean, how would I have ever met you characters?
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I mean, yeah, but not. Anywhere else?
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We've all been in. Jail but.
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But the photos didn't turn out. I got to tell this story.
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So back in the days, you know, when dad was racing, we used to
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have these four ways, like you take the lug nuts with off by
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hand. But then we realized we could
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take them off with an air wrench, but we had no nitrogen,
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you know, we had no air to run this.
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So Rusty and Mike wouldn't stole the nitrogen model off of a
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telephone pole. This little old lady peeking out
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her curtain, you know, because they, they'd have this counter
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across the road and they had to be run by a nitrogen model car.
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One car, 2. So me and dad and mom, we go to
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Tri-City Speedway by ourselves because Rusty and Mike are in
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jail. What do you what do you remember
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about those great days? I don't remember.
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A damn thing. Is that the right answer?
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I don't. Recall.
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Hey folks, how many people out here in in in their youth just
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watch these Bill Murray movies over and over?
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And. Over.
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Strikes. That he said they were the
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greatest ever and. We we quoted them.
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Constantly. We quoted you all the time.
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Well. I hope there hasn't been any
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long term damage. That's all I can do and.
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If I make the. Show all standing and walking
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and staring at the sun having a beautiful day I'm feeling the
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same way look at me up as healthy as imaginable right this
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is a great thing that's a great thing all right guys I.
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Am sorry to say this, we're having so much fun, but we got
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to stay on schedule. No?
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Yeah. Sorry.
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Kenny, he's got some. Talking to do on the Motor
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Racing Network, he has some music to be played and we are
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not worthy both both of you thank.
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You are not worthy. Be awesome to stand in the
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presence and we are not worried. Stand in the presence of some of
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the greatest racing fans in the world in one of the greatest
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cities and thank. You race track.
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In the business. Thank you.
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Guys so much, you will have a great day.
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Be safe. Let's go.
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Saint Louis love. You Merry Christmas.