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I Just Saw The Worst Thing I've Ever Seen in Racing | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning everybody.
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  We have a lot to talk about today.
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  There is a lot going on. I went to Cedar Rapids, IA for
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  Landon Castle and his father Rodger Castle.
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  They run the Hawkeye Downs Speedway up there in Cedar
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  Rapids, IA. I want to let you know that I
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  had a wonderful time up there. I run second.
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  I was pleasantly surprised. This is an asphalt track in the
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  middle of dirt racing country and there was like 15 cars in my
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  class. I I won my heat race.
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  I started 6, won my heat race, started 6 in the feature and
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  another hot rod. A 14 year old kid lined up right
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  next to me and his lane cleared. He got to the lead.
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  Took me two laps to get to 2nd and I could not run him down.
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  Went caution free. I run second and then I I went
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  to Victory Lane with him. I parked my car out of the
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  picture. Gave him a big hug in front of a
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  great crowd. Told him how good he was.
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  He was shy. I said we got to get you talking
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  you you're going to go NASCAR. So it was wonderful.
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  They were very excited to outrun Kenny Wallace.
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  It was very heartfelt. So thank you once again to
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  Rodger Castle. And, yeah, our NASCAR Landon,
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  Castle, Landon, I'm so proud of him.
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  He's a man. But he went back home and his
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  father, Rodger Castle, is very, very successful, has like 14
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  businesses. And Landon is now, he'll laugh
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  when he sees us. Landon's going to start printing
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  money pretty soon because he's that smart and he's going to.
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  He went back home, Landon Castle, went back home to Cedar
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  Rapids, IA And so. Yeah.
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  So congratulations, Landon. And that sure was good talking
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  to you this morning. And.
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  Yeah. All right, So Cedar Rapids, IA,
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  Hawkeye down Speedway, beautiful fairground facility, nice
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  legendary grandstand with the top on it.
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  And the fans were wonderful and we pulled them out.
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  We pulled all the fans out of their house.
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  I said get out of your house and come see me.
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  I think Kenny Schrader's going to be going up there to Hawkeye
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  Downs pretty soon, OK? Last night we had some
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  controversy. We had Bob Gardner, a local
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  racer up there around Peoria. He's a Peoria local, but he
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  races around the Illinois are Bob Gardner was at Farmer City
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  for a Mars event. Actually, I'm racing tonight
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  here at Pevely, Missouri with Mars.
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  So Mars ran last night at Farmer City and they're coming to
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  Pevely tonight. We're running Quincy on Sunday.
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  Bob Gardner should never race again this year.
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  What he did was one of the most ugliest things I've ever seen in
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  racing in my life. This Bob Gardner was in a tough
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  heat race. He was leading and Darren Klein,
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  one of our locals, throw him, threw him a mean slider.
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  One of those sliders were clear, but not basically a Bobby Pierce
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  slider, a dirty slider where you're forcing the guy you're
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  going to eat my quarter panel in your left front tire.
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  This is dirt racing and it happens, happens to me all the
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  time. You see it coming now, the open
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  wheel Midget guys, they stick it right in the center of your,
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  your door. Basically the open wheel
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  midgets, they don't have a door, but the open wheel midgets still
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  stick there. Right rear tire, right in your
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  seat area, right where the header is.
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  So Darren Klein fed him a man. He was just almost clear, but he
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  wasn't. So the right rear of Darren
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  Klein's car kind of got right there at the nose and then
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  Gardner kind of gassed it up and they they both, Gardner spun to
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  the infield and, and it's still green flag.
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  This guy turns around on the racetrack while they're racing
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  and he's so mad that he's going to smash into the field and they
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  immediately caution, caution. So then he goes, this Bob
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  Gardner, he takes his car, goes running through the infield with
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  his race car and kind of goes up to the 10 car.
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  And you know, if you've been running dirt long enough, you
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  know, all the little idiosyncrasies and took his car
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  real slow and took his car and rammed it into the door of
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  Darren Kleining and just tipped the kids car over.
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  And then of course, you can hear, you know, the director is
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  going get off the track. You're done for the night,
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  you're done for the night. And I'm like done for the night.
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  You're done for the year, buddy. You know it.
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  It was bad enough him knowing how to flip another man's car
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  over, but was what was insane is while the heat race was still
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  green, this Bob Gardner turned his car around and he's going to
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  take his car and run into them. Landon Castle.
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  Hey, forgot to ask you Schrader based in Saint Louis.
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  I'll call Landon back. So that was ugly.
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  I gave my opinion just now. I don't care.
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  Slider or not, sliders are part of dirt racing.
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  Some people get pissed and some people go, hey, it's part of the
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  sport. When somebody throws me a dirty
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  slider, it's fine with me. I just let off the gas, try to
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  go underneath them, you know, and and you got to protect
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  against those sliders. You got to slide yourself
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  sometimes. So Bob, I know you're a good
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  guy, but you lost your mind. You lost your ever mind.
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  You're crazy, man, crazy. And I'm sure I like you, Bob.
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  I'm sure I like you. I saw you win your heat race at
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  Peoria for the summer nationals and you were wonderful.
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  But you did say these boys are in my house now.
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  I'm going to kick their ass. I remember you saying that.
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  I'm like, damn, of course you didn't.
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  You did not. But man, I tell you what, I'm
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  not mad at you, Bob. I'm just in awe.
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  I'm in shock. I'm like, holy that you lost
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  all. You lost all brain.
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  Your brain was gone. So I hope you find peace in your
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  life. When you take a car and go to
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  smash and do the whole field coming around that's there,
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  there's something more wrong than just that heat race.
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  So I'm very disappointed in you, very disappointed in you.
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  Next one, this is a fun one. Kyle Larson and David Gravel
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  fighting it out for second spot last night at Eldora for the
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  World of Outlaw. OK, there's more to this, and
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  I'm going to paint the picture for you.
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  OK. Rico Abrew, he's gone.
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  Now, let me say this. You're probably wondering how
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  the hell do you know all this? Herman, I was racing last night.
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  The phone's a wonderful thing. I scrolled it all.
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  I scrolled it all and I saw it all.
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  And people are going. Herman, comment on this coffee
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  with Kenny. It was a World of Outlaw race
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  Friday night at Eldora. Well, on Thursday night it was a
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  high limit race. It's pretty cool for one
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  racetrack to house 2 divisions, 2 competing divisions.
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  World of Outlaw been around for 100 years.
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  It's the World of Outlaws, often imitated, never duplicated.
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  The World of Outlaws is a wonderful, wonderful series.
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  And now Brad Sweet got his brother-in-law.
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  Follow the bouncing ball here. Now Brad Sweet got his
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  brother-in-law, Kyle Larson and the family, the wives are all
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  involved. If you remember last year, Brad
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  Sweet and Kyle Larson and family, they had me out in
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  Chico. Yes, I, I flew out there and I
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  had a wonderful time at night Corey day one.
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  But we did a, we did a Kenny conversation with all the
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  drivers out there in Chico. So I know what's up.
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  I'm not an outlaw guy, I'm not a high limit guy, but I know
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  what's up and these are my friends and we talk.
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  OK. So once again, Eldora does this
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  and then all of a sudden, you know, on Thursday night, Kyle
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  Larson just walks the dog and wins $100,000 on Thursday night.
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  OK, now the World of Outlaws comes rolling into town on
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  Friday night. Rico Abro, a high limit driver,
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  walks the dog, wins the race. The fight for second was a fight
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  for superiority. Kyle Larson wanted the top two
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  to be swept by high limit guys. Now Kyle might hear about this.
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  That was my impression. Kyle Larson threw a dirty slider
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  coming to the checkered flag. Dirty slider means my right
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  ear's coming. Boy, it's up to you.
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  My writers coming, David Gravel, my writers coming.
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  Now what are you going to do? So obviously Kyle throws The
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  Dirty slider, wins the match and wins.
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  As the great Dick Trickle said, Kyle Larson wins 2nd place.
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  So now that means the top two in the World of Outlaw race are
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  taken by the high limit drivers. So Gravel gets pissed after the
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  checkered flag and Russ Kyle Larson up on the back straight
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  away and they both end up stopped arguing And then I was
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  really proud of Kyle Larson. Kyle puts on X on social media.
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  It's not all about Facebook. Everybody, all you face, y'all
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  are country. I'm over here on Facebook.
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  My mom and dad are over here. X is where all arguing goes on.
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  And I know you don't know how to work none of that.
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  You don't even know what that's about.
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  It's funny, when I talk to people about other social media,
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  they get so stupid. Well, I don't know how to work
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  that. I'm like the same way you work
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  Facebook. It's called an app.
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  You hit the button and shit, thumbs up.
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  So over there on X is where all the arguing goes on.
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  X is a show. It is very entertaining, but X
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  is where you, you post a lot. You post every second, every
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  minute, like hundreds of posts a day.
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  Like one person can post 100 times a day.
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  It's fine. Now, if you post more than five
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  times a day on Facebook, that means you're a freak.
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  Oh my God, he's posting so much. It's not like that on X.
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  So Kyle Larson, he gets on X and he goes and there's a picture of
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  him and David Gravel arguing after the race in their cars all
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  the back straightaway at Eldora. And Kyle was brilliant.
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  He goes, here we are working out David Gravel's contract to come
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  high limit racing next year. And then and then Kyle Larson
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  goes for the dagger. He goes, he's going to come high
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  limit racing and now he's going to know where the real
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  competition is. He's not used to that.
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  I went, oh, this is good. So the moral of the story was
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  Rico Ebru, a High Limit driver, Kyle Larson, a High Limit
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  driver, filled up the two spots at the World of Outlaws.
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  And yeah, me and David Gravel talking about what's going to be
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  like the race in High Limit, where the real competition is.
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  Here's my take away from this. Competition is healthy and it's
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  good. That's what we needed.
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  You know, it used to be ASA up north and All Pro down South.
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  And then we meet at Nashville. It was called North against the
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  South. Rusty would have an American
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  flag and the guys down South, they'd have the rebel flag.
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  And buddy, it was great. Nobody took it real serious, but
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  it was it was fun. It was the North against the
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  South. So I can, I can see the World of
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  Outlaws and high limit. If, if Brian Carter, the owner
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  of the World of Outlaws, and Brad Sweet, the owner of a High
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  Limit, if they were smart, they'd get together and they'd
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  do something like that, which they're kind of doing it now,
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  but they're not advertising it. So yeah, I thought it was great.
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  I know we're 14 minutes, but last but not least, I'll speed
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  this one up. It is of my opinion.
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  I want you to all to respond right here.
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  Although I think racing is awesome.
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  It's exciting. I took a little poll yesterday.
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  It was a good one. Got thousands of people.
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  I said is racing lesser? I'm going to try again.
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  Is racing not as famous as it used to be OK all auto racing?
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  Is all auto racing in America lesser than it used to be in the
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  80s? Is all auto racing in America
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  not as famous as it used to be in the 80s?
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  About 60, 6465% of the people said it's not as famous as it
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  used to be and here's why. A lot of these local tracks back
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  in the day, Wisconsin, it used to be rocking the whole I
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  listen, listen, calm down Wisconsin people.
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  I love you and you know you did you know I love you.
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  All I said about four months ago was Wisconsin is has lost its
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  luster and I hurt your feelings, but I never all I said has has
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  Wisconsin, you know, basically start coming down and and
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  everybody's told me, oh, you know, yes, it has.
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  So Wisconsin is is surviving. Wisconsin is surviving, but it
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  is not like the glory days. And we all know that.
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  Don't even argue with me, all right, because you're wrong,
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  because I know I've raced up there, I've raced the triple,
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  you know whatever with trickle. I've raced all those tracks.
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  All of racing, all of racing is not as famous as it used to be
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  in the in the 80s, we used to add 2500 people every Saturday
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  night here at pevely. Now I want to put the disclaimer
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  in there. You going to have your what?
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  This track here, You know the you know the Widowmaker at
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  Vermont. Oh, we're still packing them in.
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  Calm the down. OK, OK, that's good.
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  Got a handful of tracks. I'm still we're still packing
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  them in. Packing them in.
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  You ain't packing them in like you used to.
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  So racing's lesser and that's why everything's lesser.
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  But we're still racing. We're still surviving so respond
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  here with your bullshit answer how you will make me think
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  racing my heart race over here in Pennsylvania we still packing
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  them in and we done by 9:30. You're lying.
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  Crowds ain't nothing like they used to be.
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  Some tracks yes, but for the most part 95% of the tracks are
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  lesser and not as famous. It's just the way it is.
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  And the reason is kids don't work on cars anymore.
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  Kids don't work on cars anymore. That's the number one issue.
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  You, you take a young kid and go, hey, you want to work on
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  your car? They're like, I don't even like
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  cars. I don't drive them.
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  We had a good time there. I enjoyed blowing out my ass on
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  that subject. All right, everybody, I'll see
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  you at Peebly Missouri tonight, Federated Auto Parts Raceway.
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  I'm going to be down there early at 3:30 for the veterans, all
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  you veterans. I'm not half the man you are.
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  Veterans get in free tonight for the big Mars race here in
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  Peabody, Missouri. See tonight Federated Auto Parts
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  Raceway Park respond right here to everything.