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Jenna Fryer Leaves The AP & Is All Of Racing Lesser Now? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  Remember to get your coffee mugs at shopkennywallace.com.
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  shopkennywallace.com. We have a lot of good stuff
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  there. My daughters are downstairs in
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  the basement, always filling all the orders, getting them out on
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  time. OK, this weekend is a big
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  weekend. Friday night I'll be racing in
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  Plymouth IN at Plymouth Speedway, be running on asphalt,
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  real good looking, super late model.
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  So come out and watch me race. I'll be signing autographs right
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  after qualifying on Friday night Plymouth IN Plymouth Speedway.
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  Then when the race is over Friday night I'll get back in my
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  pickup truck because yeah I'm driving up and back Friday night
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  When it's over I'm going to drive back home and we're racing
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  Saturday night on dirt at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway
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  Park. Y'all come out now?
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  Then Sunday we're back on the airplane and Kim and I are
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  headed back to Charlotte for almost 2 weeks.
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  Yes, on what is it, May 21st, That Thursday I'll be at Dale
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  Earnhardt Junior's, a big show, big fan fest sponsored by
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  Arby's. I'll be on the Arby's stage.
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  Me and Mike Davis, we'll be talking about everything.
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  And then after our show will be Dale Junior will be there.
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  And Amy, bless your heart, everything's going to be live on
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  the RB stage. That's Thursday, May 21st.
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  I know this is a lot of information, everybody.
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  And then that Sunday, of course, I'll be on Trackside live for
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  the Coke 600. Then Kim and I are going to roll
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  on down to Myrtle Beach and see Brenda and Glen Hayes and Myrtle
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  Beach and eventually May 28th, we'll come back to Saint Louis.
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  So we got a lot going on. I can't repeat it, of course I
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  can, but rewind this, watch it again.
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  We'll be super busy and I'll be everywhere.
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  I've been everywhere, man. Cross the ocean there, man.
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  All right, So much to say. Big story today.
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  Big story. I'm not resolute on this.
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  Resolute means final. I'm not final on this.
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  I'm like a mixed bag of nuts. Scrambled eggs.
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  It means I don't know yet. Little frog in my throat.
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  Rabbit. Rabbit.
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  A Jake break. People ask me all the time.
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  Hey, Wallace, do the Jake break. I can't help it.
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  OK, Jenna Fryer is a big time reporter.
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  She been reporting for the APAP stands for Associated Press
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  Jenna is is a staple. She's been in the NASCAR Media
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  Center. She is reported on a Motorsports
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  in general as long as anybody. So Jenna Fryer is a badass.
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  Jenna came out with a nice little story yesterday that
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  she's left the AP, she's left The Associated Press because it
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  just really doesn't want to report on Motorsports anymore.
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  Damn, that's big. I'm going to repeat that one.
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  The Associated Press does not want to report on Motorsports.
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  The way it should be reported on anymore is what Jennifer said.
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  So Jenna's out and she's going to go on and do something else.
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  She'll find another job. She's quality and she'll be just
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  fine if she doesn't stay in. Now, this is my prediction.
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  One of the race teams I hire most likely be IndyCar, be Chick
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  and Assy or Felix Sabatis. They love her.
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  I know just a little bit here and there, but I don't think I
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  don't think chicken asking Felix going to let Jennifer go without
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  a job too long. But you know who knows I'm just
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  saying she is ingrained in Motorsports.
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  Jennifer. What did I tell you?
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  She's a bad ass Jennifer look her up so that leads me to this
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  now I'm I'm starting to put the dots together here.
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  The Ford Motor Company, Follow me now.
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  The Ford Motor Company does not have a race car in the O'Reilly
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  series. Oh, yeah, I said it.
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  It might have. You might not have noticed, but
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  that's been the story in the garage area.
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  Ford there. There's not a Ford race car in
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  O'Reilly right now. Are you kidding me?
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  Story is that Ford is kind of backing down a lot and putting
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  their money in Formula One and Europe and things of that
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  nature. So you start putting all these
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  puzzles together, you're like, OK, Associated Press court
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  reporting on Motorsports in general, Ford's kind of backing
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  out of NASCAR a little bit, per SE.
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  Then you look at the third deal, Harvick, Kevin Harvick goes with
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  Toyota because Ford doesn't want to do anything with Caitlin.
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  And we know that, you know, Ford Motor Company along with
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  Chevrolet kind of sponsored the end of Kevin Harvick's career.
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  Serious. You're thinking certainly
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  Harvard's going to be able to get Ford or Chevrolet to help
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  out with Keelan. No, it's Toyota.
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  You know, you say you lose 1 you, you, you lose Ford and
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  incomes Ram, right? But Ram is is crawling before it
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  walks. So Ram is back in.
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  They're so new. RAM is in and out, but
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  thankfully they're back in. Where am I going with all this?
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  I've been saying, I've been screaming from the rooftops.
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  Racing is a lesser. So that's the question and
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  that's going to be my headlines. Is racing lesser?
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  Now I've got some of you out there that, listen, I've said it
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  100 times, I love dirt racing more than you, OK?
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  I'm the dirt racer, not you. And you're out there and you're
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  like dirt racing, calm down. There's like 3 to 5000 people in
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  the grandstands at a dirt race. I've said it before and I'll say
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  it again, and I'm consistent. Dirt racing is only going to go
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  so far. They've only got so many
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  grandstands. It's where it's at in your
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  little world. But we're talking about 60,000
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  people at a NASCAR race. Oh, it's a horrible crowd.
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  There's nobody there. There's only 60,000 people at a
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  NASCAR race. And then you go to your little
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  dirt race and there's like 3 to 5000 or packed standing room
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  only. Hey, watch this.
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  Knock, knock anybody home. It's like Schrader said, all the
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  old days were awesome. I'm not sure how you remember
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  the good old days, but they, you know, sometimes the good old
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  days are only the way you remember.
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  Dirt racing is not getting any bigger.
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  I love dirt racing. I'm the dirt racer.
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  I'm just honest. Dirt racing is like this.
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  It's just, it's just good. Dirt racing is awesome, but it's
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  right here, OK? There's no more grandstands
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  being built for dirt racing. Just fill them up and that's
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  really good. All right, I think I've drove my
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  point home about dirt racing. So has auto racing stalled out
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  in America, Has it? I don't know, because Ford is
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  kind of left, Rams kind of coming in, Jenna Fryer's out
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  because one of the biggest associate, you know, the biggest
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  media companies in America, Associated Press are there.
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  We really don't want to talk about NASCAR that much anymore.
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  But, and I'll leave you with this, the big news, if you've
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  made it this far, the big news now, the city of Chicago wants
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  the NASCAR back. Now they're saying that when
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  we're done with Coronado, when we're done with San Diego, we're
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  going to go back to the street course in Chicago.
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  Remember now NASCAR is priding itself on a moving schedule
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  every year now the schedule is going to move around.
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  There's going to be in and out, in and out, set up races, St.
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  course, something out there, Coronado Airfield or what do you
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  call it out there and see any San Diego?
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  NASCAR has the ability to run different tracks every year now.
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  That's the new thing. How to do?
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  Is racing lesser in America? Respond right here.
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  Have a great Wednesday, everybody.