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What's Going On With Jimmie Johnson? · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Hello everyone and welcome back to Kenny and Charlie, top two,
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  in stock. OK, Charlie.
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  How you doing buddy? I'm doing great.
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  I'm reporting live from Dover. Hold on the Monster Mile and
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  look at us. Hey, look at us.
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  First of all, we started this thing 2 1/2 years ago on our
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  cell phones and and look at us now, we both have $300.00
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  microphones. How about that?
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  We're we're growing. Charlie, you look so good and
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  when I signed on, you know, we do this over the Internet and I
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  looked at you, I started laughing.
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  I said that's fantastic and it's absolutely perfect.
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  So let's get going right away. We got to do this in 10 minutes
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  or less. That's our goal for Kenny.
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  Charlie top too. Charlie, that crowd behind you
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  at Dover, that was all the rage. That was the big story.
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  In your opinion, why was the crowd so big this year at Dover?
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  So look, I I think what absence makes the heart grow fonder.
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  I do think there's something to these tracks going from 2 races
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  to one and a lot of these tracks that have a spring race, they
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  have a fall race. Think about it.
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  OK maybe you want to go to the the spring race.
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  Oh, I'll wait till the fall then the fall comes.
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  Oh, I got a wedding that weekend.
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  Oh there's a big football game I want to go to.
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  I know this is happening at a lot of these tracks.
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  I grew up around Michigan International Speedway that
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  always had two races when I was growing up.
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  But to me, I think I'm, I'm with kind of Dale Junior and some of
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  these other folks that and and Kevin Harvick, you know, make
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  these events, you know the the big tracks, the iconic tracks,
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  the Daytonas, Talladegas, Bristols.
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  You know you're always going to have the tracks with two races.
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  But I think some of these tracks, having just one race,
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  you make it the huge event of the year and you can't miss it
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  and the fans basically want to show up and have to show up.
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  And I'll just add to that, Charlie, I think when you have
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  all these races like the Coke 600, it's like, oh, what's
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  what's the next one? It's Charlotte.
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  What's the name of it? I agree it it you have those
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  marquee events and we are in a society now.
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  I'm going to go deep now we are in a society where people think
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  they they got it all and you know, I can do anything.
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  Now. I got all these TV stations.
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  I'll choose whatever I want. Oh, they're making me pay for.
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  I got an idea. Let me just stop you right
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  there. Kenny Wallace, how about we just
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  take all racing away from you? Let's see if you really like it.
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  Now though, I know that's a little mean, but they took one
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  race away from Dover and it's my opinion.
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  I agree with you that that scared the fans.
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  I think it scared people like, Oh no, we were just kidding when
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  we were talking bad about NASCAR.
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  We just like to complain. So 39 races, Charlie out of 52
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  weeks. I'm going to say it right now.
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  I'm going to say the biggest controversy and I know the fans
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  don't like to hear it. I always say fans don't know
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  what they want. We race too much Charlie.
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  We race too much. Listen, football is the biggest
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  of all. And how many how many football
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  games are there Charlie in NFL? So it was 16, now it's 17 and
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  you can see Roger Goodell has already said he wants it to be
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  18, to move it up so that the Super Bowl would be on the three
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  day Presidents Day weekend. I don't know if you saw that.
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  So it was 16 and and now they want 18 regular season games
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  down the road? Yeah, and and we cannot compare.
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  The NFL is the greatest. Everybody admits that.
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  Nobody better than the NFL people.
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  We've made fun of. All the football fans, all of
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  you, all of you will spend 2 grand a year to watch football
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  games because you'll love it that much.
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  And that's fine. I'm just a little jealous.
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  I'm just a little jealous. But I think NASCAR races too
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  much. And Dale Junior said it, too.
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  He said it too. So, all right, that was a huge
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  crowd behind you, Charlie. All right, Kenny and Charlie
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  Top, too. So the second one is Jimmie
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  Johnson. Charlie, you're a Sportster and
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  I say that you know way more about all sports than I'll ever,
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  ever know. You reported you worked for
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  Channel 2, downtown Saint Louis, Jimmie Johnson.
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  He came back and he's doing something that I don't know if
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  we've seen in sports ever. He quit racing NASCAR for like 4
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  years, something like that. And he said I'm going to come
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  back and I'm going to race and I'm only going to run about 8
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  races a year. Charlie, let me ask you this,
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  Have you ever seen any athlete in the world that has done what
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  Jimmie Johnson is trying to do? And hold on, here's Keith and be
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  successful at it. OK, I think it's going to get
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  back to our conversation last week about Michael Jordan.
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  Remember Michael Jordan? Of course he retired the first
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  time to play baseball, sat out a year and a half.
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  But then he retired again. You think he's done what he
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  becomes an owner. Then he comes back with the
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  Washington Wizards. I was just looking up.
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  Or the Bullets, Wizards, whatever it was at that time.
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  I was looking up his stats. You know, he was still pretty
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  Dang good, but he was, he was away from basketball for a
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  while. I'm trying to think of other
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  sports. The guy that came to mind was,
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  remember Brett Favre? It seemed like he retired and
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  unretired every single year. It was such a joke on ESPN where
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  they had aerial coverage with helicopters and it sure seemed
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  like at the end he didn't want to play for the Packers.
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  So he goes to The Jets, but he really wanted to play for the
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  Vikings. But the Packers wouldn't allow
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  that. And also, I think as he got
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  older, he didn't want to go to training camp, right?
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  Training camp seems pretty hard in the summer.
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  It's hot. And that's where I'll bring up
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  Tom Brady. It would not surprise me if Tom
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  Brady the next couple years, Let's say a team has an injury,
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  right? Let's say a good team has an
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  injury to a quarterback and all of a sudden Tom Brady can come
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  out of retirement for maybe just 456 games.
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  That sounds more fun than playing a whole season if you're
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  40. What, five years old?
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  So let's do this. Kenny and Charlie, top Two's a
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  lot of front. You had your prop last week.
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  I don't know if you're going to have one this week.
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  I got. One I do.
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  You got a prop. Good stuff.
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  All right. Jimmy Johnson is a very good
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  friend of mine. Very good friend.
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  OK, Jimmy gave me his helmet. I traded helmets with him.
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  Let's look at it. OK.
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  Thanks, bro. For everything, For time.
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  OK. So Jimmy Johnson gave me his
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  real helmet. Here's his drink tube.
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  There's his, there's his drink tube right there.
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  OK, What I'm doing is I'm telling you all that me and
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  Jimmy Johnson are friends when we're when we're talking about
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  Jimmy. This is because Charlie, we're
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  amazed what he's trying to do. I I texted Jimmy yesterday.
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  I said Jimmy. Come on, Kenny, conversation.
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  Let's celebrate your career, you know, No response.
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  No, no problem. He's probably very busy, but he
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  probably doesn't want to hear it.
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  I just find this a very fascinating, unique story.
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  Where could it be that racing's harder than we think it is?
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  I mean, listen, he's a seven time champion.
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  He's he can do whatever he wants to do.
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  And I see everybody's nobody's going there.
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  Nobody except me and you. All the race car drivers are
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  like, let him do what he wants to do.
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  Now, I heard one really good Hall of Famer champion say I
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  don't agree with he's trying to do.
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  And I'm never going to repeat who that person is, but I think
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  that person's a little jealous. So I laid it out.
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  Jimmie Johnson and I are friends.
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  We traded helmets. There's his real helmet when he
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  won his four championship. I think he's trying to do
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  something that nobody's ever done.
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  Charlie, let me ask you this. Could it be that he's a seven
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  time champion and he's trying to do something that no other
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  athlete has done? And by that do you mean try to
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  win more races and win another championship?
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  You know, winning. Winning.
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  Only. Just winning.
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  OK, I I watch all of his press conferences at the at the
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  Tracks. He did one this past week and he
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  talks a lot about just doing this for the team to get data
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  right for Legacy Motor Club, for the other drivers to learn so so
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  maybe when he started out he wanted and thought he was going
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  to win races. I don't know if deep down he
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  still thinks he can, but every time I hear him talk recently,
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  it's more about collecting data for Legacy.
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  So I wonder, he's seen some results.
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  It's a new car. The car is different on these
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  tracks. And I wonder if he's kind of
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  brought his expectations down more from at the end.
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  Yeah, maybe I can get back. I'll win a race here or there.
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  Dang. It's pretty hard.
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  And also when you're not with Hendrick and you're in the back
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  of the pack where you can run into a lot of wrecks and all
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  that, right? Running in the back like that,
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  you get caught up in a lot. We've seen that with Jimmie
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  Johnson, too. Yeah, OK, let's end it like
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  this. We know that Jeff Gordon retired
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  and he came in a relief. Drove for what?
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  Dale Junior, you know? But I mean, it was like the very
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  next year, it's like he was never off work.
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  We want you to respond right here.
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  We're talking about a driver or an athlete that was off for
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  years. Years, plural.
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  Don't throw, don't try to get us 'cause you're not going to get
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  us. But we want you to play with
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  within the rules. We want to know an athlete that
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  was off safe for four years and came back and all right, so
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  Charlie, listen, that's that white bread or whole wheat
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  bread. All right, my my prop is back
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  here, Here, live from Dover. I'm going to give you my look.
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  Oh look. See, this is where the green
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  screen messes me up. The prop doesn't even work
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  anyway. It was wheat bread.
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  Whatever you do, don't edit that.
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  Hold on. Can I put it up?
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  There we go. Hold on.
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  Oh, there. We go, we're close.
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  What's the name of that? I like that.
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  Wheat bread. And and and same with me.
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  I'm with, I'm Dave's. That's the new one.
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  A lot of whole grain. I love it.
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  And did you know that normal white bread will turn green
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  pretty quick? Good whole wheat, lots of grain
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  it is. Sit there for weeks and be OK.
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  All right, everybody. Remember we are in podcast form.
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