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My Opinion On NHRA Beating NASCAR In TV Ratings | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning to everybody.
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  Yesterday on Tuesday, Adam Stern came out with the TV ratings
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  over the weekend for the first time in a long time and I don't
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  think it's ever happened. And if it is happen, let me
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  know. Respond right here.
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  NHRA National Hot Rod Association drag racing eked out
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  had 100,000 more viewers than NASCAR.
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  I'm laughing. I'm only laughing because it
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  shocked everybody. Even all my friends over in NHRA
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  they're like well, all right, let's go.
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  Before we talk about it, let me say this.
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  I think everybody knows over on Kenny Conversation, we have
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  interviewed the best we've interviewed.
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  Remember we just got done with with Doug Colletta.
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  We've interviewed John Force, Ron Capps, we've interviewed
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  Jake Coughlin from Jags. I think everybody knows how much
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  I love the great Don Perdone, the snake.
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  The snake is one of my very best friends and we just had an epic
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  Kenny conversation with him. I think you get the point by
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  now, right? I don't think anybody loves drag
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  racing as much as Sweet Daddy. I love me some drag racing.
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  Damn, almost forgot about all of you out there.
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  I was really into it. This is my burnout.
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  Hey, there's nothing like standing on the starting line at
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  an NHRA race with 10,000 horsepower over here, 10,000
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  horsepower over here. I did it.
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  And buddy, when they hit that gas, holy moly, it's
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  unbelievable. When they stop on that loud
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  pedal, when they stomp on that loud pedal, the NHRA is
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  unbelievable. Got a lot of good friends over
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  there. So congratulations to NHRA.
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  OK, now that I've bragged on them and now that you know how
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  much I love the NHRA, the fans were having a field day with me.
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  Well, let's see what the NASCAR hype man has to say about it.
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  I said, I said I'm the, I'm the NASCAR hype man.
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  You know, put that a little emoji.
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  I'm the NASCAR hype man. People are so strange at NASCAR
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  and in the world. There's people like this.
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  They'd like NASCAR. Oh, Ward, Burton's calling.
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  I wonder what he wants. I'll call him back.
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  Hey, Ward, I'll call you right back.
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  Well, the NBNA Ponic, I spun outgoing for the pole, hit
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  Darlington, I hit the wall, went bust into flames.
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  I love Ward. We did a Kenny conversation with
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  Ward too. Actually.
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  Did you know we've done about 100 and 710 Kenny conversations?
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  Just got done with Ray Everingham and Connor Zilich.
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  Hey, Kenny, it's Ward. If you get a chance, give me a
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  call. Yes, I will.
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  Ward. Hey, as old Brent Musburger
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  would say, you're looking live right here on coffee with Kenny.
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  OK, I wonder what he wants. Probably wants me to come run a
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  late mile stock race, but I don't know, that's kind of over
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  with. So getting back to the people
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  that are psychologically different, they they they, they
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  love NASCAR, but they like the sport of talking bad about the
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  sport they love. Do you know those type of people
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  respond right here? It's it's like it's like being a
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  football fan and and they're your team, but you talk bad
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  about your team all the time. So I've never seen any any
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  people so excited that NHRA had more TV viewers.
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  I think it was 100,000 more this this last weekend.
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  They're so excited. Well, let's see what the hype
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  man has to say about it. Well, first of all, I'm going
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  to, I'll be honest with you, NHRA got a little lucky and we
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  all know it. So let's be let's be serious
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  here, OK? We, we can all be big mature
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  people and then we can run race tracks and go look, NHRA outdid
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  NASCAR. Well, first of all, we got good
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  views this week. It was 1.7 million people that
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  watched NASCAR. So the question is this, what
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  the hell did the NHRA do to get so many views?
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  That's the question. Why was NHRA so popular this
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  weekend? Well, first of all, it was one
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  of the first time in ages they was on prime time.
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  They were on prime time and there was a football game going
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  on and the football game got over or it was leading into it,
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  but it it was covered up, you know, on both sides.
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  In other words, when the NHRA race was coming on, I think
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  there was an NFL game getting ready to start and it got like
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  friggin 7.9 million views. Speaking of a great sport, you
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  all like some NFL, don't you? So do I, but I don't watch the
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  games anymore because I'm bitter.
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  I'm bitter, bitter or better. Which will it be?
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  The rest is up to me. I'm just mad that the, the Saint
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  Louis Rams and the the Phoenix card, the Arizona Cardinals are
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  gone. We, we couldn't keep a a
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  football team in Saint Louis. I'd like, I'd like to run the
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  city of Saint Louis. I'd run it.
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  I would run it and I'd tell you the first thing I do, but I
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  can't tell you because it piss everybody off.
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  So congratulations to everybody in a NHRA and to everybody that
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  is mad at me because I like NASCAR.
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  Here's the other thing. People are mad at me because I
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  like NASCAR. Oh, he, he always talks good
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  about NASCAR. Look, NASCAR's falling mightily.
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  They've failed. They've fallen mightily.
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  There's only 1.7 million people watching the race.
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  Back in my day, there used to be 4 million.
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  So to everybody that's just all excited that NHRA outran us.
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  There is a reason it was on prime time.
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  It was covered up by football. And first of all, you know, it
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  really it it's it is it is it is.
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  It doesn't make everybody go what the, you know, even even
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  NHRA people did it. So, all right, well, I think I'm
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  going to get off here. Hey, listen, respond right here.
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  Do you like NHRA like I do? Are you friends with everybody
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  in NHRA like I am? I think it's fantastic.
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  Hey, there's nothing wrong with sharing TV viewership.
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  Nothing wrong with it. OK, I think I'll call Ward
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  Burton right now and see what he has to say.
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  Have a great Wednesday, everybody.