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My Tribute To NASCAR PR Legend Jon Edwards | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. This old boy across the street,
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  he's a hard working man. It's like 8:00 in the morning
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  and he's already got that chainsaw fired up.
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  Listen, that's when you're a badass. 8:00 AM in the morning.
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  And it ain't like you're at a normal job.
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  You got it. You got a chainsaw fired up at
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  8:00 in the morning, flying everywhere.
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  All right, the herminator speaking about getting up early
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  this morning. This morning.
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  I got up to get my blood drawn. Oh, hold on.
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  Sorry. We got to get something right
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  here. Oh, there we go.
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  Don Perdome, one of the greatest drag races of all time, Freddom
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  said. Herman, I love it.
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  That coffee with Kenny. I like it when you get on.
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  Your hair is all messed up. So sometimes when my hair looks
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  a little too good, I mess it up on purpose.
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  Oh, I know. Sometimes I tell people when
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  they go, Herman, you're a lot smarter than than I thought you
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  was. I'm like, well, you too.
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  But yeah, sometimes I tell my friends, don't tell nobody.
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  I don't want to ruin my image. But we will at 1:15 today. 1:15
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  today. Sweet.
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  Daddy's going to go get his hairs cut.
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  But we got my blood drawn this morning.
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  Yeah, I got my blood drawn this morning.
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  Hi, Walls. Will you do that for.
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  Well, the reason we draw our blood is to see what our
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  cholesterol looks like, see what our sugar level looks like.
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  Let's see here. Let's put the Sunoco coffee
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  down. Let's see what we got going on
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  here. We got.
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  Here we go. Yeah.
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  I like, I like to keep an eye on my health.
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  I like to keep an eye on my health.
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  So it's been a busy morning already.
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  It's Friday. Once again.
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  What does Herman Muster say? It's a beautiful day, all right.
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  Got like 3 topics today. Number one.
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  Well, that chainsaw is loud. Look at the legend.
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  Damn, where are you going? He went in there like John
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  Force. OK, shocking news in the garage
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  area. John Edwards spelled Jon.
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  John Edwards was Jeff Gordon's PR man for 30 years and most
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  recently Kyle Larson's PR man. I will say this when I die, I
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  want people to talk as good about me as they they do John.
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  Now I didn't know John, I didn't know him whatsoever.
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  However I know his face really good and he would say, Hey,
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  Herm. So myself and Jeff Gordon, Bobby
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  Labonte, we were the rookie class in 1990 three 1993.
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  So Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte myself.
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  So you know, I knew John as far as in passing, but it was like
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  hi throughout all these years when when people pass away, man,
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  you you don't realize the effect that they have on you.
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  I am I am in total shock right now as I scroll X when I scroll
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  XI mean everybody and their brother in NASCAR right now,
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  they are heartbroke. And that tells me that John was
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  an incredible man. Everybody is talking about how
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  good he was to them, how he took out time with them.
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  And I can see that because even though we didn't know each
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  other, he would, you know, cordially's Hey Herm.
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  I mean he didn't have to call me Herm, but he called me Herm
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  because I think when people they know, you know, I'm Kenny to a
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  stranger. I am Kenny to a stranger.
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  I am Herm to my closest friends. So I remember that about him.
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  So once again, I didn't know John.
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  I do know that this was a very untimely death.
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  He was not supposed to die. I hear that he went home from
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  Darlington not feeling real good.
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  And you know, I'm not going to get into the particulars because
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  it's not my place. But anyway, May God bless John
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  Edwards, famously known as Jeff Gordon's PR man for 30 years and
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  most recently helping Kyle Larson.
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  So my prayers to his family. All right, everybody, deep
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  breath, deep breath. We got.
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  The show must go on. The show must go on.
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  Little pause right there. Out of respect for John Edwards,
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  Jon. All right, today I go get my
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  blood drawn. I'm like, damn it.
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  You know, you're fast, right? You're fast Now.
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  This story is not going to go where you think it's going to
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  go. Remember the other day I told
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  you these, these people with all these verbiages at the end of
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  the day, Oh, you know, at the end of the day and and now the
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  new one, right? You know, it might rain today,
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  right? But you know, it might not,
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  right. So I go get my blood drawn this
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  morning and I run across the street to Mobil one on the run.
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  And then I came to the house and I put my Sunoco decal on so you
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  all wouldn't give me any. So when I when I go over to get
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  my coffee, whoa, they're Brody. Brody's going to run the mod
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  tonight. Brody is running AB mod tonight.
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  Oh, by the way, we are rained out tonight at Granite City.
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  Tri-City cannot take any water. You can piss and turn 1.
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  You, a man could go to turn 1 and take a pee in turn one at
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  Granite. Rained out, we're rained out.
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  Somebody peed in turn 1 ported. Kevin and Tammy, they are the
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  love of my life. But that racetrack cannot take
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  any water. 0 water. Kevin tells me that Tri-City
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  Speedway in Granite City, IL, it's it's like a level with the
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  Mississippi and the drainage of the racetrack is God awful.
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  The good thing about Peedley, it's a highly banked track, so
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  the water just rolls right off of it and goes into the
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  drainage. So anyway, feel sorry for Kevin
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  and Tamley. Boy they get rained out so easy
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  over that racetrack. And but anyway, Brody is going
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  to race a beem on tonight, so I will be, I will be at at I-55
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  Federated Raceway Park, Schrader said.
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  We got to add park on the end now, but Brody is going to be
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  driving AB mod. So I'll be helping Brody
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  tonight. I'll be a crew member tonight.
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  By the way, I'm going to shave today.
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  I'm getting my hairs cut at 1:15.
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  My daughter does that. All right, back to the verbiage.
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  Remember right at the, you know, at the end of the day.
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  So anyway, I go over to mobile 1 and I'm I'm looking it's it's a
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  strange mobile one. It's not mine.
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  I go to a strange mobile 1 and because it's down to where I get
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  my blood drawn and I'm looking for the Creamer.
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  I'm looking for the Creamer. I can't find it.
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  Well, this one guy, he comes flying in there, boy, and he's a
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  superstar. He knows everything.
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  Get out of my way. This is my mobile one.
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  Like Jesus comes flying in there at a high rate of speed and he
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  goes right to the Creamer with his own cup.
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  Talk about a professional. He got his own cup because
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  because he big time. I got my own cup.
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  I'm part of the mobile One on the Run program.
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  I get points. I got points.
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  So he comes there. He goes right to the Creamer and
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  I look at him. I said, oh man, I said you must
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  be a professional. I said I've been looking for the
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  Creamer. Thank you.
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  You know what he said to me? Oh, there you go.
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  I want to say you do. I can't stand it.
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  Hey, would you do me a favor? Would you watch your mouth?
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  I'm 50 years old watching this and I and I don't like it.
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  I'm a man of the Lord. Hey, buddy, so am I May the Lord
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  be with you. He'll forgive you of your sins.
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  That's a play by play or what happens to me sometimes.
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  Will you watch your mouth? Will you mind your own business?
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  So anyway, this guy pulls one of those.
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  Well, there you go. I'm complimenting the guy.
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  I'm like my man, I said thanks for showing me where the cream
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  is at. This is my first time here.
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  And he says, well, there you go, you.
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  I can't stand it when people do that because it means they don't
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  have any time and they're not people person, you know, they
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  don't like people, they don't like people.
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  So you know, there you go. Look at here.
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  What are you bringing? I was just, what is that?
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  I just bragging on you. I said I'm your crew member
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  tonight. So did you get home so late you
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  went straight to your house with the truck and trailer?
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  I got I was scared to death. I come driving up the driveway
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  this morning after getting my blood drawn and I'm like, Oh
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  yeah, I didn't see your truck and trailer.
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  That's right. You were right.
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  Hey he he's filling orders he 2 days ago a guy come and picked
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  up a new fusion outlaw card brand new racer you you ordered
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  his gloves, his helmet, everything it's.
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  All brand spanking. So you got somebody coming to
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  pick up some stuff today? Yeah.
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  Brad Gage Stevens dad is coming to pick their card up today,
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  then we're racing the night at Peasley in the B Mod and then
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  got somebody to come to pick a box.
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  Stock up so we get the money, we pay the electric bill.
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  I love it. I love your.
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  Cup. Yeah, well, you know that, that
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  I just tell them the whole story there.
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  But so anyway, I'm getting my hairs cut at 1:15.
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  I'm going to shave today. I'll look younger and brand new.
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  I'll be. I'll be very.
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  I'll be ready to go to crew for you tonight.
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  Yeah. And I heard Rodger Penske was
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  going to be there, so. Rodger Penske coming, we got to
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  shave. Here's the story there.
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  So around the Wallace Hassle household, around the Wallace
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  household, there's Kenny Isms and I share everything that
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  brother Rusty said. So in the early days, Rusty
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  would say everybody cleans up around here, Penske's coming.
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  So, you know, if Rodger comes, if Rodger Penske comes.
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  By the way, the grass got cut. How about that?
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  What, Wallace? Cussing a lot today?
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  Watch your mouth, boy. There's 50 year old people
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  around here. Don't like that I'm spicy today,
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  ain't I? All right.
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  So anyway, that's our burl Max. We love that burl Max, don't we?
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  We love it. Lila loves it more.
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  But I figured that your mom or dad was going to buy you a white
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  one for Lila. Yeah, we're working on it.
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  Yeah. All right.
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  So I think that's it. I I was talking so here, like I
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  got these, I'm making fun of people that, you know, got these
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  verbiages, you know, remember years ago and everybody's going
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  at the end of the day, you know, the businessman talk and then he
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  been listening to. So anyway, you know what the 1
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  today is? What's that?
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  I I bragged on this guy at Mobile One this morning, and he
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  doesn't know what to say because you can tell those people.
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  And he goes, well, there you go. And I like you, too.
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  I can't stand that, Brody, when people go, well, there you go.
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  Yeah. It's like, what?
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  What does that mean? Right, right.
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  Right. Well, at the end of the day.
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  All right. So we will see you tonight at
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  Federated Auto. What is it, a 50?
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  5 Federated Auto part Speedway in Pevely, MO.
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  And that is a mouthful race fans.
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  All right, We, we paid tribute to John Edwards, told you what a
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  good guy is. Got my blood drawn, my grass
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  cut. The guy with a noisy chainsaw.
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  You came up the road, my neighbor.
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  Was mowing the lawn at 7:00 AM this morning.
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  What? Is going on.
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  It's crazy. These people are jacked up with
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  Mountain Dew. I'm telling you, guy over here,
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  chainsaw like 8 this morning, right everywhere.
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  I'm like, simmer down, buddy. We got all day long.
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  Yeah. Hey, what's Rusty do now?
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  Calm. Down.
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  It's calm period. The period, period down.
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  Calm the down. Rusty told me that last
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  gentleman Rusty, he's a he's a brand new man.
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  All right, just go a little longer than we want.
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  But hell, it's good content. So we little spicy this morning.
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  We're cussing up a storm and got grass cut.
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  What do you think about grass? It's beautiful.
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  I like the. Lions.
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  How about that? They're good.
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  Yeah, they are. Loyette Landscaping.
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  Loyette Landscaping. They didn't put the trees in for
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  me because when they move that mountain, everybody's lights are
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  right into my right into my windows.
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  Hey, Wallace, we cut. We got to get rid of those weeds
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  right there. All right, We'll get that fixed
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  up. Calm down.
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  Calm down. We're good.
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  Say goodbye, Brody. Goodbye everybody, have a good
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  day.