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Bubba Wallace Emotional Interview After Winning the Brickyard 400 _ NASCAR on TNT · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: And so I may I can't. You know, I know
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  Speaker 1: you're tired, you're hot, you're dehydrated, and you're here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, tell me you're emotional.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you got all a million things, yeah, right
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  Speaker 1: running through you.
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  Speaker 2: And I imagine you.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait for this to sink in and get home
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  Speaker 1: and set sit down and just let it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: come to you. Uh, talk about not only just how
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  Speaker 1: physical this race is, but also the emotions of winning it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean what I'm about to say sounds like BS.
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  Speaker 3: But it wasn't too hot in the car.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think, Man, what an incredible opportunity for me to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of and then capitalize on it. You see,
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  Speaker 3: the twenty two have an issue that you had a
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  Speaker 3: left right rear left for a flat and in that moment,
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  Speaker 3: you don't know what happens, and you just you just
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  Speaker 3: run your own race. And the next thing you hear
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  Speaker 3: is you're the leader with twenty to go, and you're like,
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  Speaker 3: oh damn. It felt like the racious started here we
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  Speaker 3: go and uh, I hate that. I start counting the
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  Speaker 3: eggs before they hatch. I started thinking of who to
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  Speaker 3: think how big the celebration is going to be and
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  Speaker 3: then I go in to miss the corner.
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  Speaker 2: Oh oh like easy.
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  Speaker 3: Like focus, and my car was going extremely loose and
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  Speaker 3: I cannot drive these things loose at all. And uh,
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  Speaker 3: I started thinking like, oh man, this is it, this
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  Speaker 3: is over with. Then I started thinking about my son.
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  Speaker 3: I started thinking about what MJ would say, and all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden the car got better and it was like, oh, okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is our race still. And so those last twenty
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  Speaker 3: laps was just a surreal moment for me to uh,
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  Speaker 3: to just be a part of and be in the
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  Speaker 3: passenger seat. For Yes, I'm extremely wore out mentally physically,
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  Speaker 3: and I just I didn't think anybody. My mind is
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  Speaker 3: not there. But I appreciate Chumbu Casino for coming on
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  Speaker 3: board McDonald's Air Force, LDOS, Robinhood, Toyota Mobi One.
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  Speaker 2: Thankful the cameras right there. I can see everybody on
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  Speaker 2: my fire suit. I feel like right there for sure.
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  Speaker 3: It's been Uh, it's been an incredibly fun but difficult journey.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking about when Blaney won the six hundred after being
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  Speaker 3: in a drought and says.
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  Speaker 2: You don't know any if you can do it anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Right, it's going on three years and four years into
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  Speaker 3: twenty three. My last one was in the forty five.
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  Speaker 2: We did it.
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  Speaker 3: That's the first thing my wife said to me, because
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  Speaker 3: we did it. And uh, you have no many how
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  Speaker 3: many times I told myself I couldn't do it in
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  Speaker 3: those last twenty laps.
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  Speaker 2: And here we are.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm proud to stand up here and sit up
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  Speaker 3: here with you guys. And it's this ship is so hard.
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  Speaker 3: And I look in the mirror and I'm like, here
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  Speaker 3: we go with the five, what's gonna happen? And I
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  Speaker 3: thought under that first and rear white Jackard, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to beat the best, to be the best, you have
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  Speaker 3: to beat the best. We can all sit up here
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  Speaker 3: and say if Kyle Larson is the best at the
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  Speaker 3: time right now, and it's an honor and political privilege
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  Speaker 3: to race with him. But I go back to what
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  Speaker 3: MJ said last year at Darlington things you want more
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  Speaker 3: costs for Larson. Wasn't getting that for me, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And so I just thank everybody.
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  Speaker 2: I think my parents. I think my mom.
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  Speaker 3: I know she was praying for fuel because fuel was
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  Speaker 3: a big issue and we had enough. I thank my
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  Speaker 3: dad from day one. I had fun today, Dad, I
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  Speaker 3: had fun today.
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  Speaker 4: It's so cool, bub I think all of us up here,
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  Speaker 4: you know, grew up racing with with our family. And
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  Speaker 4: to see your emotion, I tell you that I was
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  Speaker 4: a crier, so I appreciate what I'm seeing right now.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's it's the one thing that's important
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  Speaker 4: to explain to fans. And if you've ever been at
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  Speaker 4: a professional level of sports, is that a lot of
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  Speaker 4: times those emotions are from the work that you've put in, right.
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  Speaker 4: And I think about the I watched your wife Amanda
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  Speaker 4: come out, and I was like, because I've been there, right,
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  Speaker 4: and you you see that first interaction if you see
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  Speaker 4: her and I'm like, oh man, he's not going to
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  Speaker 4: be able to to keep it together. But it was
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  Speaker 4: such a special moment for us to share. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to tell you all of us up here are
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  Speaker 4: going to agree that that you being open and honest
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  Speaker 4: about the way you feel. We love that because that
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  Speaker 4: that's that's what I mean. That shows how much you
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  Speaker 4: care and what this means to you. And and I
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  Speaker 4: love seeing your passion and and I know you got overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 2: You could say I was like, he gonna pass out.
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  Speaker 3: He can pass out, right there in front of all this, said,
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  Speaker 3: is this the last time I sat down? Because the
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  Speaker 3: ups and downs is getting to me. Also, i'd be
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  Speaker 3: remissed Amanda's excuse me. A man's grandmother passed Friday night
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  Speaker 3: and she was riding with us from the start of
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  Speaker 3: practice to qualifying and definitely in the race. And it's
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  Speaker 3: just crazy how life works out.
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  Speaker 2: Man. This was the first This is.
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  Speaker 3: The first ride around where I didn't hear the fans.
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  Speaker 3: I heard the wind, I heard the birds. It's a
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  Speaker 3: surreal feeling. I'm trying to walk you guys through it.
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  Speaker 3: Today was different and very reminiscent of the feeling that
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  Speaker 3: I got in Kansas. I didn't hear any noise today,
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  Speaker 3: just heard the opportunity and I seized it.
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  Speaker 5: I love that so much, you know, kind of what
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  Speaker 5: Jamie said. I think one of the things, one of
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  Speaker 5: the reasons I believe that this is such a popular
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  Speaker 5: win across the board in the garage is because you
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  Speaker 5: do take us along on the ride. You take us
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  Speaker 5: along on your emotional ride when things go well, when
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  Speaker 5: things go bad. We've seen you be so close before
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  Speaker 5: in the day twenty five hundred in races, and you
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  Speaker 5: have taken us along for those rides. How have those
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  Speaker 5: moments and those heartbreaks? How did those moments prepare you
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  Speaker 5: for what you had to do in the car against
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  Speaker 5: Kyle Larson.
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  Speaker 2: I've been racing for twenty three years.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody in motorsports knows we lose more than we win, right,
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  Speaker 3: and every loss you learn on all the things you
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  Speaker 3: did wrong. I was very frustrated yesterday and qualifying zecond
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  Speaker 3: just because I felt like I left something out on
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  Speaker 3: the table. Thirteen hundreds out on the table, right, And
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  Speaker 3: we're so we're so competitive and it's so close, and
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  Speaker 3: so you push the absolute limits, and when you do
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  Speaker 3: come up short, you push yourself to learn why. And
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  Speaker 3: there was plenty of opportunities today where I gave up,
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  Speaker 3: and I didn't give up. I missed an opportunity and
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  Speaker 3: I lost out and I learned from it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get.
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  Speaker 3: Down, I didn't get out. My mind wandered a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: and I told myself to refocus. There's still a lot
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  Speaker 3: of opportunity in front of us, and here we are.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give you for advice. You don't really
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  Speaker 1: need anybody there. This is the best advice that I
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  Speaker 1: think I got in moments like this, Enjoy every second
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  Speaker 1: of this, like the rest of this. You know, all
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  Speaker 1: the media you're gonna do after this moment, all the
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  Speaker 1: other moments you're gonna have with your family and friends,
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  Speaker 1: your team, whatever party you have tonight with.
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  Speaker 2: Let's send you guys the address. Come on, yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get on over there.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy it and soak it all in so you know
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  Speaker 1: you never do this again. For the first time, and
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  Speaker 1: you also have uh you know, you're locked into the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and you can let all of that Holy make
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  Speaker 1: sure roll off your back. I know what that feels like.
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  Speaker 2: That's three years of frustration.
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  Speaker 1: Great feeling not having that pressure going in the next
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  Speaker 1: half moree races. So just take it all in and
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it. Man, you can prepare for the next one
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  Speaker 1: in a day or two. Give yourself about twenty four
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  Speaker 1: next Well we got five left.
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  Speaker 2: But what did Michael say? Well, what did my MJ sadio?
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  Speaker 2: He was just so proud. I said, I wish you
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  Speaker 2: were here for it.
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  Speaker 3: He was like, He's have a drink or two for
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  Speaker 3: me tonight, so we'll be celebrating together in spirit. I
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  Speaker 3: guess go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: See I'm with Jamie listen, don't hold that emotion back,
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  Speaker 1: because you've earned the right not to.
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  Speaker 2: That's the that's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: We've all been here, we've all felt it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you've earned the right to act like you
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  Speaker 4: want to celebrate, you want to feel like, you want
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  Speaker 4: to be relieved, to be exhausted.
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  Speaker 1: You have earned the seat you're sitting in right now.
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  Speaker 2: So damn race and hell has some fun. Thank you, brother,
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's been remarkable how you've mentioned the no
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  Speaker 4: noise today, how you've put all that noise.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you deal with more than anyone else in this sport,
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  Speaker 3: and you put that aside and be able to raise
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  Speaker 3: your performance, get this with today.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you appreciate that's awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for coming up here with us.
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  Speaker 5: Had the bricks taste?
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  Speaker 2: They were good?
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  Speaker 3: I told him, man, that's some competition right there.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you guys. I appreciate you guys so much there
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  Speaker 2: with us.