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The Real Reason My Brother Mike Wallace Entered The Daytona 500 at Age 65 | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. I'm jacked up on my high octane
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  coffee fueled by Sunoco. All right, well, there there's
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  excitement in the air right here in Arnold, MO.
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  It's beautiful today. The sun's shining, but we got
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  big snow moving in. Everybody running to get all the
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  bread and milk, crowd gone crazy.
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  All right, deep breath yesterday, on Thursday, my
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  brother Mike Wallace. All right, now, here's the way
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  it goes. I'm the youngest.
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  I'm 61. Mike is 65, and Big Brother
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  Rusty is 67. So brother Mike called me and
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  said Herman, I am going to attempt to run the Daytona 500
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  this year, 2025. And you know what?
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  Because he's my brother and I know everything about him.
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  I didn't even say why. I did not say why to Mike.
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  Now I want to say that two times because I think it's very
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  important. When my 65 year old brother
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  said, Herman, I'm going to attempt to run the Daytona 500
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  in 2025, I did not say why. I just said, OK, what do we need
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  to do? And Mike said, well, Herm, he
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  says you're really good on that social media and you got a hell
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  of a show. He says, I'd like to know if you
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  would help me announce it. And I said I'd love to, brother.
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  Now I want to let you all know a little behind the scenes, my Big
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  Brother Rusty Wallace on Christmas Eve, Chris, I don't
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  know when it was Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, the day after
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  Christmas, something like that. Big Brother Rusty went and got
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  my mom and and got M3 of them. Now I wasn't down there because
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  I live here in Arnold, MO, home of the big one.
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  So those three went to a beautiful, you know, immediate
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  family get together. Our dad passed away October
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  30th, 2011. My brother Mike, my brother
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  Mike's wife passed away OK, just not long ago.
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  So Rusty did a really good deed, right?
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  I mean, when you get a little older and you you lose your
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  loved ones, becomes very lonely during the holidays.
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  So at that time, my brother Mike looked at Rusty and my mom and
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  said, hey, I'm going to run Daytona 500 this year.
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  And you know what? Rusty Wallace, Mama Judy said OK
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  And I said OK. Now I'm doing this coffee with
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  Kenny to let y'all know the back story.
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  Mike lost his wife, you know, my mom's by herself.
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  So a big shout out to my Big Brother Rusty.
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  That was awesome brother. I love you so much as I love my
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  whole family. So Mike, Mike Wallace is one of
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  the best restrictor plate racers in NASCAR history.
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  History. That's the way Mark Martin would
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  say he'd say history. Now, everybody knows that Mike
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  ran forth in the Daytona 500 in that James Finch black O9 car.
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  Mike, as Mike won the very first truck race at Daytona.
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  Did you know that brother Mike, Brother Mike Wallace won the
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  very first truck race ever held at Daytona?
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  Brother Mike also won an Xfinity race at Daytona.
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  Are you? Are you, are you starting to
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  understand here a little bit? Mike knows what he's doing.
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  OK, Mike Wallace knows what he's doing.
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  OK, Now, I just gave you his stats and what he's up to now.
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  I want to dress. He's 65 years old.
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  He hasn't been in a car since the early 1800s.
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  Well, I understand that. And so I'm.
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  I'm going to address it now. We not mad.
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  We not mad. We not going.
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  Are you crazy? See my eyes?
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  He is he crazy? Is Mike Wallace crazy?
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  No, he's not crazy. Mike is is being a true
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  American. He's living out his dream.
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  He needs to do this. That damn dog.
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  Get over here. I'm going to kick your ass.
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  We got these two dogs down here. Let's go see what's up.
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  Hey, come here. What are you doing?
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  What are you guys doing? Get your butt in here.
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  Get your butt in here. Come on.
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  They're literally barking for Dee, not Kim, to get up.
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  They got control of the ladies. Look at this one.
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  Come on. Get on over here.
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  Now I'm trying to do coffee with Kenny.
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  So if the dogs start barking again, we're going to ignore
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  them. OK, That was you got.
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  That's Yoda. Yoda is barking for Dee to get
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  out of bed. Get out of bed.
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  But since this coffee, Kenny, we don't stop.
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  We don't edit. I'll just show you what the
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  Hell's going on. And yes, that's a Martinsville
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  clock right there. Right there.
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  And that's the ladder, Dale, Dale Junior, he's so awesome.
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  Dale Earnhardt Junior goes Hermann, is that a damn ladder
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  in your house? I said, Oh my God, it was during
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  the summer and there was nothing on it.
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  I said no. I said, that's what we hang.
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  That's what we hang all the blankets on.
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  So the ladder usually is over there, but we got all the dogs
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  here. It's like damn romper room here.
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  It's like, it's like a damn man, it's Animal House.
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  That's right, it's Animal House. So anyway, Mike getting back to
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  brother Mike, why is Mike doing this?
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  Is he too old? Is he going to crash?
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  Does he not know how to shift the car?
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  Some people are asking legitimate questions.
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  So I want to go to Herman Schrader for a little bit.
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  About 2-3 weeks ago on Herman Schrader, we did a, we did a
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  little segment on Martin Truex in, in the coming, in the near
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  future. Should, should Martin Truex get
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  in and out of NASCAR? You know, should, should Martin
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  Truex run 3 or 4 races next year?
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  Now we brought this up because Kevin Harvick, Kevin Harvick
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  said I wouldn't do that. Kevin Harvick said, you know,
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  Martin Trux should not get in and out of NASCAR, the Cup
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  Series you're either in or out, OK.
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  And Kenny Schrader said said it perfect.
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  He said, can Martin Trux go to Daytona?
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  No problem. Daytona, Talladega are the type
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  of tracks where you know you can do it.
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  It's it's not as difficult as the other tracks.
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  However, once you start drafting, it's everything.
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  Drafting is artwork drafting. You have to have a lot of
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  knowledge to go through traffic. But as far as letting off the
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  gas and braking and, you know, going on to Vegas or, you know,
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  Martinsville or something like that, you can't do that.
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  So Kenny Schrader, I'm going to go by what Kenny Schrader says,
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  You know, can Martin Trutz go to Daytona and be fine?
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  Yeah. OK, It, it's the, the, the rate
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  of difficulty going to Daytona is way lower than any other
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  track. OK, so can Mike Wallace, who has
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  not been in a Cup car for 9 years, can he go to Daytona and
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  go through the gear? Watch.
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  I'm going to show you watch. It's called sequential shifting.
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  No problem. Sure, you could be 75 years old
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  and do that. Now the question about will he
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  be dangerous? Will he be in danger racing?
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  Is he going to wreck the field? Is Mike going to wreck the
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  field? Is he going to be 65 years ago?
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  Oh, I don't know where I'm at. I'm, I'm, I'm, I might wreck the
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  field. Is Mike going to do that?
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  What I do is I exaggerate shit just to make my point.
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  Well, do you know if Mike makes the race, he won't be the oldest
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  person to do that. There's another gentleman in
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  2018 that made the race OK that was 66 years old.
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  So the degree of difficulty for brother Mike doing this is much
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  lower than going to Martinsville or going anywhere else.
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  And I'll leave you with this. Mike's got to get this out of
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  his system. He lost his wife, he's lonely.
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  It's America baby. It's a dream of his.
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  Let him be, let him be. Why is Red Farmer still racing
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  at 90 years old at Talladega? Why Kenny Schrader getting ready
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  to turn 70 and he's still winning against the 25 year old
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  kids? Now I know it's not the highest
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  form of Motorsports and listen, this does not dilute the highest
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  form of Motorsports. What it does shows it's America
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  and if you qualify, you qualify. That's the way it is.
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  I told you everything. I'm not going to repeat myself.
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  I told you why Mike's doing it. He's given a lot of interviews.
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  He gave a great interview to Matt Weaver.
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  He gave a lengthy interview to me.
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  Now the one we've been showing you is the minute 58 second
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  video, but there's a 11-12 minute video out there of Mike.
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  So if you want to know why Mike's doing this, you can go to
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  those videos, but I just told you why because he can.
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  All right, now what you think don't matter, but I'm giving I'm
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  doing coffee with Kenny, letting you, letting you know.
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  All right, when, whenever listen, do you think Mike, when
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  he went to do this, he knew he knew y'all was going to say not
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  y'all. But here I'll give you a
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  percentage. If there's 100 people right now,
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  I see about two people. There's there's 98% of the
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  people are positive. There's, there's a couple of
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  them that are being jerk offs, which is fine, which is fine.
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  But all you did was give me content for coffee with Kenny.
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  All right, Mike Wallace is going to attempt to qualify for the
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  Daytona 500 because he lost his wife.
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  It's been a rough year on him. And he can.
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  And he just wants to be happy. OK, Let him be.
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  Cheer him on. It's America, baby.
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  Have a great Friday.