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Ricky Thornton Gets Fired From SSI Motorsports! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. So I thought I would take a shot
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  at this Ricky Thornton losing his ride.
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  OK, let me address first of all, a lot of people say, Herman, why
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  do you hold your coffee cup up? Well, let's, let's let's take a
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  closer look at this. You see how the arms bent?
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  OK, So what I haven't told you all is I have two torn tendons
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  80% in this arm right here. I ripped those tenants about two
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  years ago, did rehab on it. So, so I guess I could hold my
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  coffee down like this, but my elbow bent like that feels
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  comfortable. I guess It appears I'm holding
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  my coffee cup up. But it, it's just that the key
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  is they say to hold it in. If I go out out, that'll hurt.
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  So everything I do is like this. Once again, 2 torn tendons, 80%
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  as of right now, I'm not doing surgery.
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  Surgery is in my future. OK, so I, I addressed that.
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  Herman, why do you hold your coffee cup up?
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  It's just, it's comfortable. I got my arm tucked in like this
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  and I just hold it like that. And it's coffee with Kenny.
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  Damn, that was a lot. OK, I read the article.
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  I read the article. Now, listen, I know everybody's
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  devastated and everybody's hurt. I get it.
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  Because NASCAR sucks and dirt racing is the greatest.
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  Hold on, gang. I get it.
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  I love dirt racing like you. But.
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  But let me talk about the Ricky Thornton being fired.
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  Let go, man. I'll tell you what.
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  That sounds ugly. I like Ricky Thornton.
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  I got Ricky Thornton's phone number.
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  I'll call Ricky Thornton. Yes.
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  I win. I'm better than you.
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  I know Ricky Moore. I get it.
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  So don't, don't don't get all defensive on me.
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  I'm going to address it right here.
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  I'm going to take a shot at it. I don't know anything.
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  That's my disclaimer. I don't know anything.
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  However. OK, first of all, I'm having
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  fun. Calm down, I'm having fun.
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  I have people saying, Herman, I can't wait to see your opinion
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  on Ricky Thornton. So I'm taking a shot at it, OK,
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  That's it. And remember, I love dirt racing
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  more than you. I race dirt all the time, every
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  week, and I report and I talk about NASCAR.
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  I can't help that. I'm a NASCAR dude and I got 905
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  starts. I am not going to apologize for
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  having success in NASCAR, OK, I'm not going to apologize.
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  All right, now let's now that that's all D bullshit and out of
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  the way, let me tell you what I think happened because I'm going
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  to criticize dirt racing. That's why I did all that
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  disclaimer. That's that's why I just said
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  everything I said. I'm going to criticize dirt
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  super late model racing right now in defense of Ricky
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  Thornton. What I'm going to say is I'm
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  going to defend him. All right?
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  As you all know, I did that long conversation with Mark Richards,
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  the king of Rocket Chassis. Yes, and you know it.
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  OK Mark Richards says that there's no way in hell you can
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  make money dirt racing. Now, I'm not even going to meet
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  you halfway because I'm a businessman.
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  I had my own money up and you know, Mark Richards D
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  bullshitted it up and he shut everybody up on Kenny
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  conversation. He added it up for you.
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  Now hold on, hold on. If you have a sugar daddy,
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  meaning if the coroner's real wealthy and that guy's got a
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  sponsor like Jonathan Davenport does, nutrients or whatever it
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  is. By the way, Jonathan Davenport's
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  got the largest sponsor in dirt racing.
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  He does. I know because I was told so.
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  So here's the deal. Mark Richards D bullshitted it,
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  right? And I think what you're seeing
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  right now is the start of the dominoes of somebody better do
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  something about this dirt super late model cost in a hurry now.
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  OK, Ricky Thornton is the one that comes out and says myself,
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  quote UN quote, myself and my car owner talked about it.
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  He didn't like the direction we're going in.
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  He let me go. He's won every fucking race.
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  He's won every fucking race there.
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  I said the F word because, because, because it needs to be
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  said. This is the proper word.
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  This is the proper area for the word fuck.
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  OK, so if he's won every race, why was he fired?
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  Dale Earnhardt senior taught me one thing and I'll share it with
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  you. There's only two things that
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  come between friends, money and women.
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  I'm going to go with the money part.
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  OK, you respond right here. I'm going to go with the money
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  part. I think it has to do with money,
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  and I don't know. Listen, I'm not going to get in
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  trouble. I'm not going to have Ricky
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  Thornton call me up, going to Hermann.
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  Hermann and all that. I told you I'm taking a shot at
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  what I think happened here, OK? Hudson O'Neill.
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  Hudson O'Neill and Mark Richards.
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  I interviewed Mark Richards and Mark just says I was caught.
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  I was caught off guard. In other words, Mark Richards
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  told us on the Kenny Conversation that he, I guess,
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  Hudson, quitting. Respond right here.
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  Nobody said nothing after that big interview.
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  I called, now this is a big one. I called Nick Hoffman and I
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  said, Nick, why was that interview with Mark Richards,
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  the owner of Rocket Chassis? Why was that such a big success?
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  Nick Kaufman told me. And I know Nick's not going to
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  mind me sharing this. Nick said Rocket Chassis is a
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  pivotal part of dirt racing. They built over 7200 dirt cars.
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  After that big interview, he says that he was caught off
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  guard. Rocket Chassis was caught off
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  guard that Hudson left. That was opposite of what we all
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  thought. We thought he was fired.
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  Remember all the rumors, the crazy rumors, it all died quick.
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  So I'm not going to go with rumors.
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  I'm just going to address the issue.
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  I'm going to address the elephant in the room.
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  As much as we love dirt, super late model racing, it's the
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  greatest. It is way way too expensive.
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  It better pay 20,000 to win every week.
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  It better cuz then friggin motors.
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  Bobby Pierce popped the motor last week.
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  He better won that go for 50. He needs all the money to break
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  even. I know these things.
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  The sponsors call me and tell me I know Bobby Pierce popped a
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  motor last week and he needed to win that that that money up
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  there and go for 50 because he's he's down right now, even though
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  he won the race. These dirt super late miles are
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  so expensive that I love dirt racing too.
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  I brag on it, but I'm just taking a shot.
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  I'm sure it has to do with money #1 driver.
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  Let's go with Hudson. O'Neill won the Lucas Oil Late
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  Model championship last year. Remember the last race at
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  Eldora? Hudson does a good job.
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  Fired #1 driver this year. Fired.
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  Coincidence. I don't know what's going on,
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  but dirt Super Late Model racing is not as healthy as you think
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  it is. You love it because you hate
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  NASCAR. See, I'm not, I'm not an idiot.
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  I understand you're innuendos. I hate NASCAR.
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  Dirt racing the greatest. No, you watch NASCAR, so you act
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  a little silly and build dirt racing up.
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  Dirt racing is a great show and I love it, but it's so out of
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  hand it's unreal. Because I pay my own bills.
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  See, I write the bills. Every sponsor.
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  Here's the way it works for me. I'll tell you my old business.
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  I tell you guys my business because you need to know it,
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  right? Every sponsor on that car up
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  there. Jags, Priority Aviation, you
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  know, Trevor Atwell, Crow Equipment, all of them, right?
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  Low Voltage Solution, Gary Sanson, that all those sponsors,
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  they pay for my dirt car and I do not spend my money on that
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  dirt car. Now I'll admit me and me and Kim
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  have laid in bed before when I popped motors and I'm like, oh
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  shit. And she says, honey, go ahead
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  and do it. I, I, I want you to race and I
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  spend my own money on blown motors.
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  Yes, I do. I go into our own account.
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  But the money that's on that dirt car pays for my racing year
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  wise. Rebuild motors at 10 grand a
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  pop. Canoyer just did it.
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  I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it.
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  The guys that I race against spend more money than me.
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  Yes they do because I know Rick Canoyer just got a refreshing up
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  there at Mullins $12,000. That's what it cost to freshen a
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  modified motor. I'm sorry you're the one saying
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  that, I'm just responding to it. There's still 24 model fights
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  every Saturday night down at Peevely.
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  I can't help but that some spend 20,000 and some spend 60 grand.
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  What do you want me to do when I'm racing Tyler Nicely or I'm
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  racing any of these guys? They got better shit than I got
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  and they got more people than I got.
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  I got my sponsorship to pay for my yearly expenses, but I pay
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  for my motors out of my own pocket.
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  The problem with dirt Super Late Model racing right now is it's
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  it's in trouble. Michael Rigsby said it right
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  here. Don't get mad at me.
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  What I'm doing now is I'm responding to everybody I
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  interviewed. I interviewed Mark Richards, I
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  interviewed Michael Rigsby, the owner of Dirt on Dirt and Runs
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  Flow. They all say the same thing.
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  Dirt Super Late Model racing is out of hand.
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  It's it's it's bad. I hope everybody watch this and
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  I don't want to hear how great the racing is.
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  It is good, it's great. It's it's photo finish.
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  Dirt super late model racing is unbelievably awesome, but the
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  dynamics of the business is going to hell in a handbasket.
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  I think in ending, I think Ricky Thornton and his owner,
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  something happened in the financial part.
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  Now me doing this is going to make somebody say what happened.
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  At least I instigated it. At least I got balls big enough
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  to say what I think. All right?
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  I said what I think happened and I addressed the issue.
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  Dirt super late model racing is out of hand.
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  Now, listen, there's a lot of sugar daddies out there.
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  There's a lot of sugar daddies out there.
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  There's a lot of dirt, super late mile teams right now that
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  are rolling up and down the road having a good time, but for the
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  most part, it's a shit show right now.
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  Oh, it pays 50 grand to win a motor costs 60 grand.
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  You're losing Mark Richards. Go go to the Mark Richards
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  Rocket Chassis Kenny conversation.
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  Get back with me. All right, everybody.