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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Is The Pope Of NASCAR | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Palm Sunday, everybody. Can you believe this?
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  Unbelievable. On Palm Sunday, if you wanted to
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  be anywhere in the world on globe Earth, look how lucky I
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  am. There it is.
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  Saint Peter Basilica. St.
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  Peter was the very first Pope and now it's Pope Leo in the big
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  house. Let's do a 360 right here.
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  We just got done eating a really nice lunch.
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  And I guess you could say we're, we're not in Saint Peter
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  Basilica Square, but we're on the Main Street.
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  It was an incredible rush for me.
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  I watched everybody come out, you know, thousands of people
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  came out of Saint Peter towards us, me and my friend John.
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  Let's see where John's at. Wait, John?
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  I said. John, this is the perfect
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  setting for coffee with Kenny. I got a lot to say about Dale
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  Earnhardt Junior and his influence on all of us.
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  OK, hang with me. Now, everybody, we know that the
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  popes are the leaders of the Catholic religion.
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  And in there in a little crypt is Saint Peter, the very first
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  Pope of the Catholic religion. And the Saint Peter's Basilica
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  is built above the first Pope, St.
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  Peter Peter. So it reminds me, as the last
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  six or seven days have gone on, I've watched something play out
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  that I've already known. But I thought, well, today be a
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  good IA. Good day.
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  A good idea to bring up. Let's go back when I had Dale
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  Earnhardt Junior on Kenny Conversation 3-4 years ago.
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  Still number one, close to 300,000 views with Dale Junior.
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  He was unbelievable. Dale Junior is a brilliant mind,
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  incredibly smart. His father, Dale Senior had him
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  in military school. Junior is yes Sir, no Sir.
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  And now I, I understand there's that side of junior where he can
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  be a little smart ass and be a prick every once in awhile, but
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  for the most part, Dale Junior is just an incredible, hey,
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  hello, love you right in front of Saint Peter.
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  Hey, may the Lord be with all of you today.
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  So anyway, I told Dale Junior on Kenny conversation.
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  I didn't tell him, but I asked him the question.
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  I said Dale junior. I said, do you realize that you
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  ruled the sport of NASCAR, and do you understand that your
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  influence is #1 that your influence, there's nobody's
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  influence larger than yours? Dale Junior responded to me.
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  I don't feel it, he says. I feel like I'm always trying to
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  make up the NASCAR. I wanted to laugh, but I
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  couldn't. But today, we'll chuckle.
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  So let's go over the last seven days now that everything's over.
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  By the way, I want to thank Mike Davis.
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  Mike Davis sent me a really nice text, said Herman.
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  We loved your response to Dale Junior.
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  And you know, I responded that I grew up in the Midwest and we
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  did everything the hard way. And the only thing, the only
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  reason you deserved anything out of Saint Louis is you had to do
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  it all. You had to win it all.
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  Nobody better than you. So for me, if you're going to go
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  into the Hall of Fame, that means you're the greatest.
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  There's nobody better than you and that you don't get a trophy
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  for the second or third series down.
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  I have had plenty great people say to me, oh you run that
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  Little Boosh series and they've said it to me.
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  Speedy, not speedy. Speedway Auto Parts.
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  The gentleman that ran that years ago, me and Schrader went
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  out that way and he looked at me and he was being a smart ass to
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  me and he said, oh, you run that Little Boosh series.
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  So understand my perspective. I grew up where if you weren't
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  the greatest, I mean, if I told Rusty, if I ever challenged my
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  own brother Rusty and I know I know Richard Petty a little bit.
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  If I ever challenged Richard Petty, they'd laugh me out of
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  the room. So when Dale Junior made Justin
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  Allgar extremely famous seven days ago, he was coming from a
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  point of let's talk about it. So today or yesterday, on
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  Saturday, Dale Junior holds a press conference and says, look,
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  all I'm saying now he corrects himself.
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  Dale Junior corrects himself. Yesterday, on Saturday,
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  Martinsville, he said, I'm just saying that if Justin Agar keeps
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  it up, he's on the fringe of getting in.
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  He says, you got to understand, I vote on these people and that
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  I vote on. You got 30 drivers and let's say
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  Ryan Newman comes up for going in the Hall of Fame or Martin
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  Truax comes up to go in the Hall of Fame.
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  Well, you got to put them in. And then that would keep
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  shuffling that guy down who might get in.
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  And he said if Justin Agar keeps it up, he could be somebody get
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  in the Hall of Fame. So he brought on this
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  conversation now right in the middle here before I talk about
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  Lee Pulliam. Is that his name?
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  I forgot. But here I am in front of the
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  Saint Peter Basilica. And I mean this when I say this,
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  but I mean it with love. Listen to me close.
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  Dale Junior is like the Pope of NASCAR.
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  When he speaks, everybody listens.
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  Manners. A group coming right now,
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  they're going to swarm me. Watch this.
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  But when Dale Junior speaks, it takes your famousness booties
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  girl staring at me. Hey, say hi.
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  Hey, I ain't afraid of nothing, man.
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  In a good way. I'm a lover.
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  Hey, by the way, I learned that thank you very much Is Grazia
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  Millie did your Aunt Millie was my aunt Aunt Millie.
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  So Grazia Millie, thank you very much.
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  So anyway, my point is, is Dale Junior, he, you know, we joke
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  that there's influencers on social media.
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  All it takes is Dale Junior to say something good about you and
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  that's it. You're in like Flint.
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  And I mean this with love. Because if this conversation
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  doesn't come up about the Hall of Fame, it never comes up.
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  But on Saturday at Martinsville, he explains himself.
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  Basically, I'm going to dumb it down.
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  Justin Algar is not ready for the Hall of Fame, but if he
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  keeps doing what he does now, he's on the fringe of being in
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  the Hall of Fame. And with that, it's pretty
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  incredible. Now, same subject.
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  I'm from Saint Louis. I lived in Charlotte 27 years
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  and I like this lead Pulliam respond right here from Saint
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  Erung. I like him because Kelly,
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  Carson, Elledge, they all like him.
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  And I don't know him, but I love him.
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  You know why? Because Dale Junior tells us to
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  love him. This is two people in in a span
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  of seven days. Justin Algar deserves to be in
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  the Hall of Fame. Maybe not yet, is what Dale
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  Junior says yesterday. And Lee Pulliam, they love him
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  and this was his chance. He's got to go around me because
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  I was smart. I stood in front of that, but
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  now I know who Lee Polium is because Dale Junior made a big
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  deal out of it and Lee finished fifth.
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  He challenged for the lead. The videos are out there of Dale
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  Junior hugging Lee after the race and that's it, everybody.
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  That's my coffee with Kenny. I think I'm respectfully.
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  The power of Dale Junior is immeasurable.
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  Like Pope Leo, the leader of the Catholic Church.
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  Have a great Palm Sunday, everybody.