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I'm Getting A New Truck & Is The NASCAR Xfinity Series Better Than Cup? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. Look at the the king, the
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  legend. Louie.
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  Hi, Louie. Man, he must be tired.
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  He must have stayed up partying all last night.
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  OK, we got a couple topics today.
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  Number one, I'm finally going to quit acting poor and I'm going
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  to buy a brand new pickup truck. Oh, oh, Louis, the legend.
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  He woke up for that one. Look at there.
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  Oh, hold on. I'm so, so excited.
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  Looky there, there they are. My oldest daughter, Brooke,
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  Charlotte. We call her Lottie.
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  And this little one, Mila. Hi, Mila.
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  Do you love me, Brooke? Do you love me?
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  Oh, am I lucky? Nothing better than to have your
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  your oldest daughter and a grandbaby spend the night
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  because they have to be in this area today.
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  So instead of going all the way home, they live about 50 minutes
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  from here. So I am so lucky.
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  There they are. I live my life for them.
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  They said, dad, what are you doing tomorrow?
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  I said, I'm going to make some money.
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  So I give it to you. They're like, all right.
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  The girl Brookie says all right. And the girls go, all right,
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  Poppy. So I said I'm tired of acting
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  poor. I've decided to buy a brand new
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  Toyota Tundra. It's a beautiful blue.
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  There is some debate on what it's called, but what what it's
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  called, what I see is called, it's called Blue Crush Metallic.
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  And some people are telling me no, they don't make that yet.
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  So we'll see. We'll see.
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  I don't know how long it's going to take, but it's definitely
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  been ordered and they're going to get back to me as soon as
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  they find it. There is an APB all points
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  bulletin for a truck for Kenny Wallace.
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  And yes, I am buying it. I am buying it.
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  Yes, I am even even called my my life coach, my CPA, an
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  accountant and he says, yes, my friend, it will be a fantastic
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  tax deduction. So we're going to buy that new
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  Toyota truck and let me tell you why I I have been driving my
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  2003 Chevrolet Suburban around now.
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  Oh, Louis wants to listen to this story.
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  I haven't seen him get that close in a long time.
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  That usually means he wants a tree.
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  Tree. You see it in the years one more
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  time. Tree.
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  Oh, yeah. Later on.
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  Louis, I get you 1. So I always take care of
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  everybody else, you know, make sure the whole family is in new
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  vehicles. Well, I keep driving that old
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  2003 Suburban around and we will not sell it.
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  We will not sell the legendary X-rated AAI.
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  Just OK. He's licking his leg.
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  That's OK. Well, we'll just go like this
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  for a little bit. Just Louis.
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  OK, I am proud of the 2003 Chevrolet Suburban with right at
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  203,000 miles. However, it's kind of like, hey
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  Herman, let's go to Kansas City. It's getting to the point where
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  like I don't know if I want to take the Suburban.
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  Well, why? Well, the air conditioner don't
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  work. It's leaking somewhere and I got
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  a great mechanic. We just put dye in it.
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  We charged it two or three times every year.
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  Right rear brake caliper stuck. Left front brake lines were made
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  of steel at that time, so they were rusted out.
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  Heater core T vents were made of plastic.
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  They crack. So let me, let me put it simple.
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  Although the 2003 Chevrolet Suburban is badass and it is a
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  gangster mobile, we're we're concerned that I might get stuck
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  on the road. So it really came down to is I
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  liked acting poor. It was kind of fun.
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  You know, everybody's like, hey, herm, I like your vehicle.
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  But then it also went like this. I it started getting back to me
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  and I went down to detours and somebody said everybody around
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  town wants to know why you're driving such an old vehicle.
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  I said, yeah, that's a great question.
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  Why am I driving such an old vehicle?
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  I guess sometimes it was like, keep people off my ass.
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  Wallace got all that money driving or renting?
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  No, I bought Kim a brand new vehicle last year.
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  Not me. So I decided I'm going to turn
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  62. I will be 62 years old August
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  23rd. I've worked my ass off my whole
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  life. It's time for Herman to have air
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  condition. It's 100° outside and I rode, I
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  drove OK, my youngest daughter Brittany, and they're not 2 year
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  old baby. And and Brody, I took him up to
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  the airport last week with no air condition.
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  That ain't good. That ain't no good.
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  You know, it's it's time for me to have something nice.
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  So I don't got to explain it to you.
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  I don't have to explain it to you.
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  I'm just letting you know I acted poor long enough.
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  It was fun. And we will keep the Suburban
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  because it's only got liability insurance and I don't think I'll
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  get 4 grand for it. I think I could get 4 grand for
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  it. And what I'm going to do with
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  that, I could get 4 grand and I could, I could give it to my
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  family. But then.
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  But then they need the spare suburban because Brooke will use
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  it. You use it, don't you, Brooke?
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  You got an old van. Yeah, because she had to do some
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  maintenance on her van and she and she drove the gangster
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  mobile around me. Stop, she's doing.
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  Hey, stop. Hey, we're doing a show.
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  Stop, we're doing. We're doing a show.
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  She's hiding. Are they awesome?
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  OK, so 7 minutes on why I'm going to drive a new vehicle and
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  why I'm buying one. OK Yesterday, on Thursday, there
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  was a big announcement by The CW network and they were bragging
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  and it was very nice and I liked it.
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  Yesterday, The CW network, they put a, they put a press release
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  out, they said the ratings at Pocono for the Xfinity Series
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  were unbelievable and proving every day why they are the most
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  competitive series there is. And they were bragging on
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  themselves and that it was very nice, very nice.
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  But let me debulge this for you a little bit.
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  I've talked Susan, I've talked to some NASCAR executives and
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  and they flat told me this St. Herman, we definitely expect The
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  CW network on certain net, certain weekends to outperform
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  the Cup Series. And here's why.
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  The CW network is wonderful. It's awesome, it's free, it's
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  channel 11 right here in town, Channel 11.
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  It's just like an old everyday channel.
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  We've had it ever since I've been a child.
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  So you just all you have to have is rabbit ears.
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  What a wonderful network to show and and platform these young
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  Xfinity drivers. So you get to watch the second
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  series, the Xfinity series free. So you're going to have a lot of
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  people watching it. Now this is this is planned.
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  I guess what I'm explaining to all of you, this is not going to
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  be I got you. The Xfinity cars are better
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  cars. They're they're better races.
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  NASCAR, don't look at it that way.
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  They're excited about having a weekend here or there that the
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  Xfinity Series out does the Cup Series.
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  It's going to because it's a free network.
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  You get to watch it free. OK.
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  And then there's some now we got college.
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  Hey, we're already we're we're moving into July on Monday.
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  Monday is July, Monday is July. You girls got one more.
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  You girls got one. When do you when do you all
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  start school? What month?
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  End of August, End of August. Yeah, they've got two months.
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  It won't be long. They'll be back to school and
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  then you'll have college. College starts in August.
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  College football And I think on some of those head to head
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  deals, CW networks going to outdo the Cup series.
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  So listen, everybody, let let's not start a, a civil war just to
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  prove that the Xfinity car's better.
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  And let me just say something. I mean, that's nice.
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  What what are we going to do just in like in in one month,
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  get rid of the next Gen. car? If we're going to get rid of the
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  next Gen. car, which is never going to happen, as brother
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  Rusty would say, you're thinking wrong.
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  Get that out of your head. Get that out of your head.
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  They're just, they're not. You just can't get rid of a race
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  car when the Cup races have been this good.
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  Now Mark Martin's talking about Mark Martin told me.
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  He says these are some of the best races he's ever seen.
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  However, he doesn't like the way the sport is being run.
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  So Mark Martin never asked for this next Gen. car to be gone.
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  He's just saying that the sport is not being the run the way he
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  wanted. So we're not we're not going to
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  be able to get rid of the next Gen. car and then tomorrow we
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  have all new cars. As Rusty would say, get that out
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  of your head. So in ending, we are excited.
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  We are all happy that The CW network is free and the ratings
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  are looking good and everybody's happy.
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  But everybody is smart enough to know that whenever you show Free
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  TV, the world's going to watch. Ratings are going to be higher.
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  And I think that's great for the Xfinity Series.
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  I think it's great for these young drivers like Connor
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  Zillig. Look, look at Dale Junior.
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  He was, you know, when he was the crew chief, he probably had
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  500,000 more viewers than they probably would have.
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  All the old people got to watch Dale Junior be a crew chief
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  because it was free. We're just having a good time.
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  All right, everybody have a great Friday.