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Dale Earnhardt Jr. & Chris Stapleton Team Up For The Daytona 500 | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Well, happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  Sweet daddy gonna head outside, get a little fresh air.
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  Green Acres is the place to be. Farm loving is a life for me.
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  Oh, the Gator. Just yo the gutter, not Gator.
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  Herman Herman's headed to the Gator down in Volusia.
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  Gonna win win me a Gator trophy. But there's the gutter.
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  Yeah, she I think she getting away from the house a little
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  further. So respond right here is is the
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  gutter heading out or is the house moving or is it expansion
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  contraction? Kentucky patching.
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  Look at there. She right.
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  All right, Louis in the house. Louis, Louis in the house.
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  All right now. So breaking news in the garage
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  area, Dale Earnhardt, junior and Chris Stapleton, the singer,
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  along with Rick Hendrick. And they got themselves a nice
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  sponsor car #40 God, I remember I ran #40 it was worst time of
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  my life. They're headed to Daytona with
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  driver Justin Allgire. Man, let me say that again.
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  That was a mouthful. Dale Earnhardt Junior and Kelly
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  Earnhardt and you know, Junior Motorsports, they received a
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  phone call, the way the article read.
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  Now listen, I read the article, OK?
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  The article says Dale Junior and Kelly Earnhardt received a phone
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  call, I guess from Rick Hendrick.
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  Rick Hendrick, real good friends with Chris Stapleton, the
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  singer, and they got themselves a sponsor.
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  And so then Justin Allgar said they called me in and and I
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  didn't know what it was about. So Justin Allgar is going to
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  drive this car and they're going to attempt to qualify for the
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  Daytona 500. I'm laughing.
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  So odds that they will not make the race are very low.
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  How many, how many people think that this car will miss the
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  race? That ain't going to happen.
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  I think it's going to be all hands on deck.
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  That's my opinion. I think Hendrick Motorsport
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  along with the shock and spring team and you know, the caster
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  camber settings, the techniques of the body, the little
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  situations prevailing. I think all hands on deck from
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  Rick Hendrick over there to junior Motorsport and I think
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  Dale Junior and I think Kelly are going to make one hell of a
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  team. And I think that Justin Allgar
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  going to hold a pretty wheel. And listen, if you go back
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  through last year, remember how good Justin Allgar was in the
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  the, what was that? The Coke 600, remember, because
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  Kyle Larson was late getting in from Indy.
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  Oh, remember, look at here, Herman Nader's smart.
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  So Kyle Larson is late getting in from the Indy 500.
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  Justin Algar gets in Kyle Larson's car and hauls ass
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  shocks. The racing world doesn't shock
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  me because look, Justin lives right over there.
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  He's born and raised in Springfield, IL.
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  He just ride up the road. Of course, I know the whole
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  family. So I know what Justin's capable
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  of. He's a he's a he's a hot rod
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  Justin Allgar. Justin Allgar is a hot rod race
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  car driver. So he did a hell of a job in
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  that in that car filling in for Kyle Arson.
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  I think he was up to like, what was he up like the 10th or 13th?
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  And so just a reminder that Justin Allgar is a hell of a
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  race car driver. So I'm sure he'll get up to
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  speed, get qualified. And so I think they got
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  everything just the way they need it.
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  Now, let's talk about this situation.
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  NASCAR. The races right now are through
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  the roof. The NASCAR races are the best
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  we've ever seen. The racing and NASCAR right now
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  is the best we've ever seen. Side by side door handle, the
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  door handle. I I've done documented that.
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  Don't make me repeat myself. The three wide finishes at
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  Atlanta, these races have been unbelievable.
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  However, I've always been complaining and you, you know,
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  listen, I know you all got big memories.
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  You, you all got memories like an elephant.
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  And I'm very aware that you all will remind me what I say,
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  especially if you, if you trying to hate on me and get my point
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  across, get your point across. So I've always been consistent
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  in my delivery. What have I always said?
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  I've always said NASCAR Cup Series needs to create some
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  superstars. The only superstar we got in the
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  Cup Series is Demi Hamlin. What's that?
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  Oh, now you're mad that I said that 'cause you don't like Demi
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  Hamlin? That was Amy Earnhardt.
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  I was just telling Amy. I was just telling Amy
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  Earnhardt. She's a hit and she's she just
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  responded. That's really cool.
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  Going over to Kenny conversation.
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  Amy Earnhardt is up 25,000 views overnight.
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  That's a hit. William Byron won the Daytona
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  500 and he could walk right down the street and nobody know who
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  he is. We got to create more
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  superstars, more bang for the NASCAR Cup Series.
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  And my friends, this is where this comes in.
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  This will be one of the first time since Michael Jordan and,
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  and I got to be honest with you. I I think, I think with what
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  happened late in the winter there a couple months ago, Dale
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  Junior took that late model stock, put a #8 in Budweiser on
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  it, went to Florence and they said he sold like over $200,000.
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  Like like we're close to like $1,000,000 in late model stock
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  souvenirs, Dale Junior. So if Dale Junior can take a
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  replica #8 Budweiser and go down to Florence and get the fans
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  jacked up on Sun Drop over a late model stock race, Can you
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  imagine the ratings if Justin Ogar will get qualified and he
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  will for the Daytona 500? Can you imagine what Fox is
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  going to do with this? This will be one of the first
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  times where the car owner's bigger than the driver.
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  Hey, that's a quote right there. That's a quote right there.
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  This will be one of the first times where the car owners.
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  This will be one of the first time where the car owners are
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  more popular than the driver. Now, I love Justin Agar.
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  He's my buddy, but I know Justin agree with that.
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  Can you imagine when Justin Agar fires that motor up, gets ready
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  to qualify? Where do you think the cameras
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  are going to be? You're lying to yourself if you
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  don't think the cameras are going to be right on Dale
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  Junior's face and Chris Stapleton and Kelly Earnhardt.
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  Oh, hey, you know the NASCAR offices right now, they're they
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  got slobber coming out of their mouth.
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  They're like, they're talking to Fox TV right now and everybody's
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  getting the cameras ready. This is good for the sport.
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  This is what we need. We need to create more superstar
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  ISM. We need more superstar ISM.
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  And this is just what the Doctor ordered.
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  Dale Earnhardt Junior's back baby as a car owner in the Cup
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  series, right where he needs to be all the all the wealthy car
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  owners, Chip Ganassi, who is not a who is not a cup car owner
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  anymore. If you ever watched that when
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  when Dale Junior was interviewing Chip on Dirty MO on
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  the Dale Junior download, Chip was like, Junior, come on, man,
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  get in. You know, of course, Chip got
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  out, and Chip got out because of a lot of different reasons that
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  I don't want to get into. But it was just time for him to
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  get out. But Justin Marks picked up right
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  where he left. So Justin Marks bought, you
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  know, bought him out. So he's OK Chip Ganassi's just
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  fine. But I think this is the biggest
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  thing that's happened for the sport, and it's going to be big
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  because now they're going to be able to use Dale Junior from the
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  garage area right where he needed to be.
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  You know, Dale Junior in the booth, you could hear his voice.
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  But now we can advertise Dale Junior, Kelly Earnhardt, Chris
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  Stapleton, this whole conglomeration.
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  So that's what I mean when I say we need more superstarism.
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  All right, everybody respond right here.
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  I told you everything. I told you.
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  I told you what's going on. I told you my thoughts.
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  I told you why I'm consistent and the racing's great, but we
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  just don't have any superstar drivers in the Cup Series.
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  Danny Hamlin's the only one. Danny Hamlin's the only one
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  because he's the only one brave enough to take take it on.
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  And if you remember that, Darrell Waltzer, Rusty Wallace,
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  Tony Stewart, those are the boys we're missing.
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  Even Dale Senior Graves gave some incredible sound bites.
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  We don't have any Cup driver anymore.
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  And a lot of that's Jeff Gordon's fault because he wants
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  them all to stay real low profile.
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  And and I've I've told him that, you know, this, this Formula One
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  type driver where we where we March, we March this this whole
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  perfectism is where you drive the car, act perfect.
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  That's dumb because it hurts the sport we need.
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  We need some gangsters out there, man.
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  Dale Junior and Kelly are not there gangsters along with Chris
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  Stapleton. Come on, kick it back.
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  Hey.