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Keelan Harvick Signs With Toyota, NASCAR's Best Automaker | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  It's Tuesday, my favorite day of the week, don't you know?
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  Yeah. Hey, you going to The Dells this
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  week? Yeah.
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  I'm gonna stop by Ho Chunk Casino.
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  Don't you know I love everybody in Milwaukee.
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  Kim's family is from there. Every Tuesday I give them a
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  shout out. Alright everybody, I I-55
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  Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park remember now March 19th, 20
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  and 21st got a big race. We got to get the car count up
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  everybody. We don't got enough cars yet.
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  I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park mods gone wild.
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  Paying $5000 to win or A mods and B mods, that's a big pay.
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  All right, everybody sip of coffee Monday.
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  Yesterday everything went nuts. Started out on door, bumper
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  clear, Carson Ellis said. Look at this, look at this.
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  Kevin Harvick took Toyota Racing Developments offer for his son
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  Keelan. Yeah, that's right.
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  That's right. Keelan Harvick has become a
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  Toyota Racing Development driver.
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  Then we're going to talk a little bit about Mark the Kid,
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  Martin out of Batesville, AR Mark held a nice little session
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  on the social media site X on Monday night.
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  On Y, you cannot move the numbers.
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  The numbers have got to stay where they want.
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  Mark also talked to the fans about why we can't go back to 5
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  lug nuts. So although Mark once, you know,
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  he got the points changed, now he's working on getting some
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  other things changed. But he said can't change the
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  numbers, can't change the lug nuts.
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  And we'll talk about that in a little bit.
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  And this TV deal, the way you all talk about TV, all that and
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  more on the docket today. All right, let's get started. 2
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  minute and 32nd monologue right there.
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  Toyota is the best automaker for the sport.
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  And here's why. Toyota has developed Christopher
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  Bell. Toyota has developed.
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  Jay Davidician Respond right here.
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  Google it. I understand Toyota's from Japan
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  and a lot of you are like, I don't like Toyota, but let me
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  tell you something. Toyota is as American as any of
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  the other other automakers. I like Toyota because they got
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  what they call a Toyota racing program for the young kids.
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  They come in, they spend millions of dollars developing
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  these, these kids. So you look at somebody like a
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  Keelan Harvick who is 13 years old.
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  And, you know, Mama Delana and Keelan have been writing those
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  checks. They've been spending a lot of
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  money developing Keelan. Sure is nice to have somebody
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  take over for a little bit. Hey, Kevin's working now.
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  Listen, Kevin's got a lot of money.
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  Kevin and Delana got a lot of money, millions and millions of
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  dollars. But there's one sure way to lose
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  all that money is just keep spending it on your kids, Kevin.
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  Kevin ain't doing TV for his health.
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  Kevin's doing TV to stay relative and to make the money
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  and spend it on his wonderful family.
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  So we know Kevin and Delana, they don't need money, but they
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  want money because you got Keelan looks like he's going.
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  He is a superstar already at 13 years old, won the snowflake
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  down there at the Snowball Derby in December.
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  So here is Toyota already backing the lady racer, Jade
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  Avidisi. And now I've been bragging on
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  Jade for years. I got her on Kenny conversation.
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  She's already won a big race down there at New Smyrna during
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  speed weeks. The the media is doing a
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  wonderful job. They said she's one on dirt,
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  she's one on asphalt. So Toyota also offers, you know,
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  health and physical. They got a building where they
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  work with the kids, you know, like hockey players.
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  You see those hockey players, how they work out, you know,
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  trying to make their minds fast. Toyota offers so much to these
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  young kids nowadays. So congratulations to Kevin and
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  Delana Mama with their son Keelan, Kevin Harvick, Kevin
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  Harvick and Delana, congratulations.
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  Big, big development. Toyota is going to take Keelan
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  the rest of the way financially. And that, my friends, it is
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  really nice because because Keelan is already great at 13
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  years old. Congratulations.
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  And I like what Toyota did and why the other automakers don't
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  do it. I don't have a clue.
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  I think they're missing out. OK, everybody, the way you all
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  watch TV fascinates me. I was on social media on Monday
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  and there's somebody on there that I mean, put a boatload of
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  work, pen and paper, how many commercials came up this and
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  that. And I'm like, I don't get this.
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  Fox TV did what the fans wanted. They never left the race.
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  They went side by side commercials.
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  So what that means, here's the race.
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  The race is always on TV, never will leave and over.
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  Here's the commercial side by side.
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  Thought of it as revolutionary. The fans say too many
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  commercials. Have you ever watched any of
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  these, any of these shows on TV? Any of them?
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  I mean they, they go to commercial like every 3 minutes.
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  I I watch them all it, it's part of the sport.
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  I don't understand what's in some of your brains.
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  So in other words, pretend here, here's the way I've always
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  watched TVI mean, I, I don't go to bars.
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  I don't hang out in bars. I might go to the bar and eat,
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  but I'm not a drinker. I don't drink.
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  But everybody in a bar, they just, they're drinking.
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  They look up at the TV. You can't even hear the
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  announcers. You don't even know what's going
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  on. I just don't understand why you
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  just don't watch the TV. Why are you?
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  I mean, just watch the race. I just don't get it.
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  Respond right here. Do you watch the race like, like
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  this? Is that what you all do?
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  You watch the race in dead silence and then you you analyze
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  all he said there. He should have said duh.
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  Oh, they went to commercial break.
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  They shouldn't have went to come.
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  People watch the race quit, quit and you're over analyzing
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  everything. The points where the numbers at
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  the lug nut, the commercials, I mean you're, you're making your
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  life miserable. I'm not telling you what to do.
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  I'm just saying you all are over analyzing everything.
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  Stop here. I know this because I'm really
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  good at this stuff. You're over analyzing everything
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  and you're making your life miserable.
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  Just enjoy it. Watch the race.
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  All you got to do is just watch it.
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  Quit going. Oh my God, they they went side
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  by side that commercials aggravating me.
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  I want I want the whole TVI want the network to lose money so I
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  can get the whole TV to myself. People, I've been in TV my whole
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  life. I'm involved.
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  I I know Ed Gorn, I know Eric Shanks, I know everybody at Fox.
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  I know a lot of people. The networks life doesn't work
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  that way. Got to have somebody to pay for
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  it so you can watch it. All right, Drink a coffee.
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  We're heavy today. We're at 9 minutes, 30 seconds.
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  OK, changing subjects. Mark the Kid Martin out of
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  Batesville, AR last night reported Marks in there deep.
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  He's working hard for you all. So Mark wants the numbers
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  change. Mark wants the numbers in the
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  middle of the door. So last night on X, Mark Martin
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  announces the race teams don't want that RTA, the Racing
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  alliance. They want the numbers back on
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  the quarter panel because the sponsors like their names bigger
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  in the middle of the door. I hate to say this, but that's
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  the end of the story. There's no more manipulation and
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  talking about the outcome of the situation, Mark Martin said.
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  I'm not going to be able to get the number changed because the
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  car owners the same thing. Racing alliance, same thing.
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  The car owners own racing alliance.
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  They give a fee every year or whatever it is.
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  They don't want the number in the middle of the door, and Mark
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  Martin announced that last night.
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  One more thing and I'll let you go because we're a little long
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  today. Mark Martin announced.
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  With the wider Goodyear tire, the bigger wheel, you just can't
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  go to 5 lug nuts for the hell of it.
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  Like, I mean, I mean, it's nice. You all just want 5 lug nuts and
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  you want the number in the middle of the door just to go
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  back to aesthetics and that that old look, I get it.
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  I'm not mad at you. You want everything old.
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  You want the five lug nuts like the good old days.
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  You want the points like the good old days.
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  You know, I will admit though, I like the points better now, so
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  I'm with you on that. But as far as where this number
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  is and the lug nuts, guys ain't going to stop the sport.
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  Let it go. Jesus.
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  And anyway, I'm so proud of Mark the Kid Martin out of
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  Batesville, AR Mark cleaned it all up last night.
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  He said that you just can't go back to 5 lug nuts because of
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  how big the tire and wheel are. And So what, you, you know how
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  many millions and millions and millions of dollars you'd have
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  to rebuild the whole damn suspension, new hubs and new
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  everything. It's not that easy.
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  All right, now listen, I love you all.
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  Just had to clean some things up today and man, well, that was
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  that was a good one. All right, everybody have a
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  great Tuesday.