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It Was Dale Earnhardt Jr Night at Bristol! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  All right, we're going to try this.
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  I'm going to try it where I don't repeat myself and I'm
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  faster with my my coffee with Kenny.
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  Yesterday I caught a load of crap because my mom said I went
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  too long. She said one last paragraph,
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  please. All right.
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  So what a what a bitch. I'm sitting here third in the
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  points in one of our biggest races of the year.
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  I'm third in the points and I'm starting front row, front row
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  pole first for a qualifier. But I got to leave for Bristol.
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  Kind of reminds me of of, you know, you're on the pole for the
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  Daytona 500, but you got to leave because you got to go to
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  you got to go on vacation. All right, Well, that's just the
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  way it is. So congratulations to whoever it
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  is. He gets to take my spot tonight.
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  So we're getting ready to leave here.
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  Going to be wheels up at about between 10:00 and 10:30 today
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  headed to Bristol, going to see all of you at 4:00 at the Food
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  City stage right there at the front of the Briston Motor
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  Speedway. And boy, we got some great
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  guests. Bristol Motor Speedway is where
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  Trackside Live came back. That's where we did it.
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  And it was like 5000 people, you know, out there.
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  And all of a sudden Marcus Smith, who owns a Bristol Motor
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  Speedway and Charlotte and Texas and so on and so forth, we just
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  got done with the show and Marcus said, Herman, let's put a
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  deal together. So we verbally put a deal
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  together and we ran down to the media infield center at the
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  Bristol Motor Speedway and we announced that we, I called it
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  NASCAR race Day and I said it's back.
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  And then of course, you know, Marcus came in and talked about
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  it. But so anyway, really proud of
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  we had to switch it to Trackside live because NASCAR on Fox, Fox
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  TV, they're like, hey, we're still using that name.
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  They said we're still using NASCAR race Day.
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  So now we we had to name it Trackside Live.
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  All right, so the other thing on my mind, and I need you all to
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  respond, how about Dale Earnhardt Junior?
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  Last night the story was not Dale Junior running 7th.
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  Now you all, you all might think it was, although, OK, so I raced
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  last night and I worked hard on my race car.
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  But I got home and I went through went through X and the
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  media, everybody at Bristol, it was like a damn party.
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  It was it was like a damn party. And I'm A tag Dale Junior in
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  this. So it was like, and and I mean
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  all love and I mean all good. I'm I'm going to make a little
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  bit of a comedy out of this. It it's like Dale Junior, our
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  fifteen time most popular driver of NASCAR and my and my very
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  close friend. It's like, Oh, I can't see my my
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  glasses fell out in the media during the race.
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  Junior's glasses fell off. He's having a good time.
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  He's going to pit for glasses. Dale Junior going to pit for
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  glasses, everybody. So it, it it was it was a
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  dynamic to where Junior's having fun.
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  Yeah, it feels like the good times.
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  And I thought to myself, what would it be like if we just were
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  like that all the time? But Can you imagine if it was
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  Dale Junior in his prime? Dale Junior's glasses fell off
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  complete devastation. He might miss the the cut in the
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  points. Dale Junior might not make the
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  playoffs. This would kill the sport.
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  Nobody would keep watching. You see what I mean?
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  But last night was like, it was awesome.
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  I loved it. It was like another one.
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  Who was it? Martin Truex's brother, gosh
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  darn it, I have brain fade, but Little Truex, Little Truex said
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  before the race. Me and Junior didn't talk
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  because we knew he was going to have to race each other and I
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  was going to be hard on Junior. I was not going to let him pass.
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  Sure enough, after the race, that was the story.
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  Me and Junior in battle and I wasn't going to let him pass me.
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  You know another one, Shane Bass, SVG.
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  After the race, Junior's so old he couldn't get out of the car.
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  I went over there to help him out.
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  I said, Junior, need help getting out of the car.
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  You're so old now I'm laughing because it was just like this.
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  It was awesome. But the point is this.
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  Can you imagine a time in racing if we all just acted like
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  everybody acted with Dale Junior last night?
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  It was a big love fest. Hey, man, Junior run seven said.
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  Dale Junior said I might do it again.
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  I might. I might do it again.
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  But I'm done. I'm done.
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  And then all of a sudden on X it was like Bob Pop grass.
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  NASCAR Hall of Fame says, say that helmet, say Dale Junior's
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  helmet, because that might be his last NASCAR helmet ever.
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  And we might, we might put it in the Hall of Fame because that
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  was Junior's last helmet. I loved it.
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  I thought it was the greatest damn night in the history of
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  sports. It showed that it it, it
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  literally showed that if you wanted to, if you wanted to, you
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  could have a damn good time. But but people don't know how to
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  have a good time now. But Dale Junior racing last
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  night was an innuendo. It was a look how you could have
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  fun if you wanted to, But just imagine if we took every one of
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  those situations. If if SVG was like old man runs
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  seven couldn't get out, so I had to help him get out of his car.
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  Could you imagine a little true XI held that.
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  I held Junior off. He was trying to get by me.
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  Do you see what I mean? It was just an awesome night.
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  It was an awesome night. Good job, Dale Junior.
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  You saved the sport in some weird way.
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  You're you're so fantastic. You're the complete dynamic of
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  what you do for the sport. It, it made everybody last night
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  feel like the good old days. Everybody was so damn happy.
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  Even me. Hell, I'm running my dirt car
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  and had a little downtime. And so I got on and man, I got,
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  I got involved in it. You know, shit.
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  Will Dale Junior go down the lap?
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  No, he's not going to go down the lap.
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  He come in for glasses, though. Oh, and the best one, and I'll
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  leave you with this after the race, I think it was Jordan
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  Bianchi or, or somebody they're interviewing Dale Junior right
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  after the race and they're like, Dale Junior, you lost your
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  glasses like like like this. And so I'm mimic.
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  I'm like Dale Junior's glasses. It's like, I can't see
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  literally, literally, because, you know, Junior's got his
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  glasses, only got his helmet on. And did you notice that
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  everybody's wearing glasses now? Joey Logano was wearing glasses.
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  You know, at the end of Tony Stewart's career, he was wearing
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  glasses. Everybody's wearing glasses.
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  So much so I'm like, damn, give me a pair of glasses, but I
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  don't need glasses. But my point was at the very
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  end, it was like somebody interviewed Dale Junior after
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  the race and they said, hey, Junior, could you, could you
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  have kept, could you have kept racing without your glasses?
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  And he goes, oh, yeah, come on now.
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  You know, Dale Junior's like, you know, I, I wear these
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  glasses so I can see the gauges, for example, they said, hey,
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  Junior, what's your water temperature?
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  And he goes 200 and something, 'cause I can't see the small
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  numbers. What a great night.