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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio line m mcleven. I have a pull question.

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Speaker 1: We got a stat of the day, We got a

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Speaker 1: play of the day. The FBI has completed its investigation

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Speaker 1: at Talladega. NASCAR had a stayment last night determining that

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Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime,

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Speaker 1: the FBI report concludes, and photographic evidence confirms that the

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Speaker 1: garage door poll wrote fashion like a news had been

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Speaker 1: positioned there since as early as last fall. This was

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Speaker 1: obviously well before the forty three team's arrival and garage assignment.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate the FBI's quick and thorough investigation and are

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Speaker 1: thankful to learn that this was not an intentional racist

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Speaker 1: act against Bubba. We remained steadfast in our commitment to

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Speaker 1: providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who love racing.

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Speaker 1: NASCAR's president, Steve Phelps, had this to say about the

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Speaker 1: results of the investigation. First of all, I'd like to

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Speaker 1: thank the US Attorney's Office and the FBI for their

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Speaker 1: obviously very swift and thorough work. As their statement had said,

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Speaker 1: they've concluded their investigation at Talladega Superspeedway and determined that

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Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.

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Speaker 1: For us at NASCAR, this is the best result we

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Speaker 1: could hope for. You know, this is disturbing to hear

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Speaker 1: that it was thought that one of our own had

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Speaker 1: committed this hannis act. It is fantastic to hear from

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Speaker 1: the FBI definitively that there was not a hate crime.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's the president of NASCAR. Now there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of questions that I have, and we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace coming up. If I go back to Sunday

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Speaker 1: and NASCAR alerts us to what happened late Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: we get the memo, we get the information, and they

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Speaker 1: have found a noose in Bubba Wallace's garage. Now that's

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Speaker 1: from NASCAR. I mean it's a declarative statement there. And

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Speaker 1: my reaction was where was it in the garage? Was

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Speaker 1: it thrown in there? Was it by the car? Because

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to know did somebody walk by and

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Speaker 1: throw something in there? NASCAR gave a zero details and

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Speaker 1: they're investigating, and I said, okay, security cameras because of

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, there's less access to these garages. And you

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Speaker 1: know Dave Moody from MRN, who is known as the

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Speaker 1: godfather of NASCAR, he's there. I said, help me understand

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Speaker 1: what it looks like there. How would somebody have access

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Speaker 1: to this? Is that an inside job? There? At no

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Speaker 1: point did anybody say it's actually being used as a

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Speaker 1: garage door poll and that it wasn't you know, it

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Speaker 1: was there prior to NASCAR buying Talladega, and it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, months prior to that. They found this out

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Speaker 1: during the investigation. So I just had questions about how

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Speaker 1: long it had been there without anyone seeing it. First

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Speaker 1: of all, because let's say your team gets there at

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Speaker 1: Talladega Wednesday, Tuesday, Wednesday, random assignments, that you get this

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Speaker 1: garage bay. How many times were you going in and out?

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Speaker 1: How many times did you close and open the garage door?

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Speaker 1: Nobody said anything prior to that, and then somebody saw

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Speaker 1: something on Sunday, and then it was reported to Bubba

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Speaker 1: Wallace's crew chief. Now all of a sudden explodes, and

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Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, NASCAR's got a fire to

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Speaker 1: put out. These were just logical questions that I had.

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Speaker 1: I had no I don't have a desired result here.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to know what exactly happened, like paint

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Speaker 1: the picture, give me the scene of what it looks

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Speaker 1: I would have said alleged because NASCAR was so definitive.

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Speaker 1: Richard Petty, who has been in thousands of garages and

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Speaker 1: it's his car, the forty three car. If Richard Petty

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Speaker 1: to have a slip knot or what could be construed

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Speaker 1: we had a garage door pull that was a rope

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Speaker 1: and it had a rubber ball at the end of it,

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Speaker 1: and you pulled down the garage door. That was the

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Speaker 1: garage pull that we had growing up. This is a noose.

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Speaker 1: The FBI says it's a noose. NASCAR says it's a noose.

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Speaker 1: Now you can say this isn't directed at Bubba, Well,

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Speaker 1: who's it directed at? And then I wanted to know

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Speaker 1: how many other garage doors have a noose. These were

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's intentional or unintentional the

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Speaker 1: way it was tied, because I have to look at

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Speaker 1: this realistically and say it's possible that it could be

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Speaker 1: either one of these being true. Maybe it was inadvertent,

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Speaker 1: But if you're going to tie a slip knot or

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Speaker 1: will affix to your wrist and tighten it. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how many other garage doors have this, if it's commonplace, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think people should understand the symbolism and maybe there's

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Speaker 1: a better way to pull down the garage. But it

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Speaker 1: could be intentional, and it could be unintentional. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not an investigative reporter. I was using the information

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Speaker 1: I got. Now, do I call sources with a lot

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Speaker 1: of these stories. Yes, I don't have NASCAR sources. PAULI

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Speaker 1: has some, and he tried to get information. I just said,

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Speaker 1: I just need the give me the basic information to

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Speaker 1: understand this. What's it look like there at Talladega and

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Speaker 1: you have security cameras because I'm thinking there's only a

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming you have security cameras inside because you have to.

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Speaker 1: You know, you want to police each other there and

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Speaker 1: you want to keep an eye on something that's hundreds

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Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars. But that's Those were just simple

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Speaker 1: questions that I had, And I don't know, if you know,

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Speaker 1: did NASCAR overreact or underreact? If they underreacted. How would

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Speaker 1: we have acted then or reacted to that? Did they overreact? Probably? So?

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Speaker 1: Could they have given us more information because we went

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Speaker 1: from Sunday, there's a news Okay, it's on the poll

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Speaker 1: for the garage door any and I didn't know it.

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Speaker 1: Any other doors have this? Who didn't see this Thursday, Friday, Saturday?

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Speaker 1: And then you see it Sunday. These were just questions

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Speaker 1: these answers. But how offen or news is used to

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Speaker 1: you know, the same? Those were just things that I

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Speaker 1: Wallace is now going to be viewed as somebody who's

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Speaker 1: perpetuating a hoax. Here NASCAR is the one that said

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Speaker 1: it's a noose. And who am I to say to

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Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace, come on, that's not a noose. Who am I,

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Speaker 1: as a white guy saying to Bubba, come on, that's

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Speaker 1: not a noose. I'm in no position to do that,

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Speaker 1: and neither are you. I don't know what the intent was.

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Speaker 1: tell me that. But I can't sit there and say

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Speaker 1: to Bubba, come on, you know, I know what a

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Speaker 1: new symbolizes. But you know they didn't mean any harm.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that. But that's where I wanted to

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Speaker 1: hear from people who have been covering this sport or

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Speaker 1: they've been involved in this board for decades. Richard Petty

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Speaker 1: is the one who came out and said it was

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Speaker 1: the news and a hate crime. So I don't Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't trust Richard Petty if you say, well, you

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Speaker 1: can't believe everything NASCAR says, Okay, I can't believe everything

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Speaker 1: the FBI says, all right, okay, who am I believing here?

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Speaker 1: And now Bubba Wallace is overreacting to this, given the

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Speaker 1: sensitivity of what's going on right now, I understand why

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Speaker 1: white and you're looking at boy we're getting all this blame,

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Speaker 1: you're going to react too. I understand both sides here,

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Speaker 1: and it could be a misunderstanding. I've always tried to

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Speaker 1: apply logic here. I don't have a desired result here.

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Speaker 1: And I will I have one in this. I have

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Speaker 1: was brought to your attention on Sunday night, and no

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Speaker 1: one else saw this. Our other garage doors a fixed

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Speaker 1: with this type of rope. These are just you know,

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Speaker 1: these were common sense questions that I had about this,

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Speaker 1: And you know, part of this job is to ask why.

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Speaker 1: any other information. And the FBI comes in, They didn't

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Speaker 1: find anything. Okay, but we'll talk to Bubba Wallace about this.

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Speaker 1: Your phone calls are welcome. I want to move it

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Speaker 1: forward if we can. That's always been my philosophy when

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Speaker 1: we have topics like this, like what are we saying here?

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Speaker 1: It's not oh yeah, typical overreacted or whatever it might be.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to be too woke. You know, I've already

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Speaker 1: heard everything today. And you know, if you're gonna tweet,

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Speaker 1: just be respectful. You can have your opinion, and I

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Speaker 1: give you the opportunity opportunity to have an opinion. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but be respectful in what we're talking about. That's all

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Speaker 1: I ask. Because Marvin, who answered the phone and looks

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Speaker 1: at our email, should not be subjected to things. No

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Speaker 1: one should be subjected to things. You want to talk

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Speaker 1: to me, That's one thing. Tyler, who is moderating chat

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Speaker 1: row just be just be fair. Okay. If you say

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Speaker 1: I overreacted, you want to put blame on me, fine,

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Speaker 1: I can take that, but just be respectful. Try to

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Speaker 1: All right, eight seven seven three d P show email

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Speaker 1: address DP at dan Patrick dot com. We'll talk some baseball.

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Speaker 1: back that up one hundred percent. But Bubba feels like

427
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: there's something else involved in this, like it do you

428
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 1: think this investigation. Do you think this story is over?

429
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,080
Speaker 1: Can we just move on from it? Yeah? I believe

430
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: it's I believe it's over. But somebody had to tie

431
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 1: that intentionally, Yeah, unintentionally tie that. Somebody knows how to

432
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,840
Speaker 1: tie that, and that's that's on them. That's what they

433
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,119
Speaker 1: can go and live with. I'm not worried about that person.

434
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,200
Speaker 1: I got enough of my plate to worry about. But yes,

435
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: people know how to tie nooses and and it just

436
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,239
Speaker 1: so happened to be in my garage stall that day,

437
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 1: which is unfortunate. But we're gonna, We're gonna, I'm gonna

438
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: move past this, you know, after about eight more interviews

439
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: today I have talking about it. I'll hopefully move back

440
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,560
Speaker 1: to to tomorrow and then talk about a little bit more.

441
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,640
Speaker 1: But by Pocono, I'll be I'll be ready to roll.

442
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: Are you capable of handling this? We'll find out. But

443
00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: I uh, I'm good. This is a more positive interview

444
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,960
Speaker 1: I've had this morning, which has been good. I've been

445
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: getting a lot of guidance on how to do these

446
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: things and whatnot. And I don't want to give you guidance.

447
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,680
Speaker 1: I think just hearing from your heart and you know,

448
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: I saw other interviews where people want to give you guidance.

449
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if you got here by speaking your heart.

450
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 1: I wanted to know the details, but this is that's

451
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,960
Speaker 1: different than what you're saying to me and what I

452
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,199
Speaker 1: say to you. I want details. You're gonna give me

453
00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: your emotion because it's personal to you. I move on

454
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: from this. This will stay with you the rest of

455
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 1: your life. Yeah, It'll always be there, you know. And

456
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: I think the more negative side will always be there,

457
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 1: just because I've given a little too much time into that.

458
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: But knowing hopefully I'll get some good sleep tonight. Last

459
00:26:48,520 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: night wasn't very good obviously, but you know, moving forward,

460
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,680
Speaker 1: knowing that I can lay my head down at night

461
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,440
Speaker 1: knowing that I'm not a fake or a fluke or

462
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,199
Speaker 1: any any of what you know, the allegations say. I

463
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: will move on from this. And you know, it's as

464
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 1: bad as it is. I've gone through a lot of

465
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,919
Speaker 1: bad things in my life to rebound from. But it

466
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: will always stick there, for sure. But it's always in

467
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 1: these moments you always become out the stronger and better person.

468
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for that venture. Yeah, I just see,

469
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: you know, certainly in that there's not a similar parallel,

470
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,040
Speaker 1: I don't think. But Colin Kaepernick, you know, he gave

471
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: up his career because something he believed in and it

472
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: stayed with him. You know forever. You're still able to

473
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,880
Speaker 1: race and in this sport um you know, it's hard

474
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: enough to win, Bubba, and tell me about it. I'm

475
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,200
Speaker 1: winless in the last three years, my friend. But you're

476
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: now you carry this like you know, you got to

477
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: have a separate winnebago to put all of this in

478
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: to carry when you go there your motor home. I mean,

479
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot. I hope you understand that. It's

480
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: it's a lot that you're gonna take everything and you're

481
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:57,360
Speaker 1: gonna say, now, I'm good, I filed it away here.

482
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: It's gonna be there in every play should go here.

483
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: Just think about, just think about how this this is

484
00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:05,679
Speaker 1: gonna be a hell of a story at the end

485
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,280
Speaker 1: of the day. Thank you for your time and absolutely

486
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: and good luck and keep fighting a good fight, Yes, sir,

487
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: I will I appreciate the time. That's Bubba Wallace And

488
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, and I said that he finished fourteenth of Talladega.

489
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: I said, no, he won. I think he won that

490
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: day in my opinion. All right, we'll take a break,

491
00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: we'll come back. We'll get phone calls here, we got

492
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,360
Speaker 1: a pull question, and we got play of the day.

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Speaker 1: All that coming up here on The Dan Patrick Show.

494
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be

495
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: sure to catch us live every weekday morning nine until

496
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: noon eastern six to nine Pacific on Fox Sports Radio,

497
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: and you can find us on the iHeartRadio app at

498
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: FSR or stream us live every day at YouTube dot

499
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: com slash The Dan Patrick Show. I still have questions

500
00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:55,040
Speaker 1: about this situation with NASCAR with Bubba Wallace, the number

501
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: of times his crew members were walking in and out

502
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,000
Speaker 1: of that garage, and Bubba said he wasn't in the garage.

503
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: She doesn't go in there because of COVID nineteen. He

504
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,280
Speaker 1: stays in his motor home. But his crew is there

505
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:13,520
Speaker 1: for days, probably Wednesday through Monday. And nobody noticed this,

506
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: and it's the pull down for the garage. No other

507
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:22,920
Speaker 1: garages have this. I don't know what Steve Phelps, the

508
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: president of NASCAR, was told when he talked to Bubba.

509
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: But according to Bubba, the president of NASCAR, who would

510
00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: be their commissioner, was very emotional and he may have

511
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: been told a noose was found in Bubba's garage. I

512
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: don't know if it was an overreaction to an odd

513
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: not a slip knot. I don't know that. All I

514
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: know is NASCAR said it's a noose and they were

515
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: investigating a hate crime. Richard Petty, who owns the car,

516
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 1: talked about it being a hate crime and it's a noose.

517
00:29:56,680 --> 00:30:00,720
Speaker 1: The FBI said it was a noose, and they didn't

518
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: say alleged news. Possibly a news. They said it's a noose. Okay.

519
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: Just feels like there's who had that garage prior to

520
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace, like last year. I'd just be curious about

521
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: those things. And I know that Bubba's being accused of

522
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: staging a hoax or perpetuating a hoax, an opportunist. Hey,

523
00:30:28,320 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: you're going to get all these sponsors now. He was

524
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: already pretty popular because of Black Lives Matter. I don't

525
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: know what the reaction is going to be at Pokonon.

526
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 1: You don't have fans there. The reaction I've seen on

527
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 1: social media is not kind. All this goodwill that he

528
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: built up, it's not he's getting blamed. I get the

529
00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: feeling NASCAR overreacted. But maybe they were overreacting because the

530
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: sensitivity of what is going on not only in their

531
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: sports but in the world. And I hate crime a news,

532
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: it's Bubba Wallace. We got to act and then subsequently

533
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 1: we got that information and we're like, Okay, I didn't

534
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: know that. NASCAR maybe didn't do as this thorough of

535
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: an investigation as they probably should have. I wanted to

536
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 1: know where it was. And you might say, well, if

537
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: you've seen one news, you've seen them all. I wanted

538
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: to know where it was in the garage. I just

539
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: asked for context. I wanted the facts. That's all we

540
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,440
Speaker 1: get emotion. There's motion attached to a lot of this.

541
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: Every single day, there's emotion attached to a lot of things.

542
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: We talked about, nothing quite like this, but NASCAR was

543
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: It wasn't facts, it was emotion as well, and it

544
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: felt like it was more emotion than facts. And that's

545
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: all I wanted to know. Any other garage just had this.

546
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: Nobody else saw this in the previous days. Those are

547
00:31:56,760 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: just things I'm curious about. Who had that garage before

548
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: Bubba had it? Was it unintentional? But it still goes

549
00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: back to what I said to Bubba. Who am I

550
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: a middle aged white guy to say to Bubba Wallace, Hey,

551
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: come on, you're overreacting to this or question his interpretation.

552
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,360
Speaker 1: I don't know the miles he's walked in those shoes,

553
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: driven in that car. I don't know that. But he's

554
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: gonna it's hard enough to win, as he said, because

555
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: he has it one in three years. But this is

556
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,120
Speaker 1: this is going to be there every stop of the way,

557
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: and maybe something else comes out and then it takes

558
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: it to another level here again he thinks Bubba thinks

559
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: sits over. I don't. I think that there'll be more information,

560
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: and I'm asking NASCAR. I asked Fritzie if they could,

561
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,400
Speaker 1: if he could reach out to NASCAR to say is

562
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: this an ongoing investigation or are we closing up shop

563
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:53,440
Speaker 1: here on Talladega. Feels like there's a little bit more

564
00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,840
Speaker 1: to this. At least I have questions to it. Whether

565
00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:01,240
Speaker 1: I get those answered, that's probably different. Dashing Ohio joints

566
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: us Hi Dash, What do you have for me? Hey? Dan,

567
00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: longtime caller and listener. I'll just give you my perspective.

568
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: I don't have a dog in the fight, but I

569
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: grew up in a garage racing all over the country.

570
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 1: It's not what I do for a living. I'm a physician.

571
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 1: But the I've seen the actual pictures of what was

572
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: there and the and heard the story and heard Baba

573
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,680
Speaker 1: Wallace's interview on the Today Show at all the short

574
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 1: version is. And like I say, I don't have a side,

575
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: but what was there. It wasn't a rope. It's a

576
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: cable and it had metal like you hooks bolted, so

577
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: it was It's a cable coming down, it goes back up,

578
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: it's bolted in place. It's not a slip knot. It's

579
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: not even a knot attached to the garage door. They're

580
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: all over the racing garages and the towing trucks and

581
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: everything else. It was in garage number four and that's

582
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: not his garage. It's the one he was assigned to

583
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: for that race last year in October. They have footage

584
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: of the exact same garage, same pull holder, different driver

585
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: in that garage. So I don't know how it became

586
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: what it is. But the actual pull, the cable pull,

587
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: isn't a news, isn't a slip knot, isn't something that

588
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: was put there. It's been there for a long long time.

589
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: But Dash, why did the FBI and NASCAR call it news? Well,

590
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: if you watch the Today Show interview of Bubba Wallace,

591
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: he dances all around that and he says, it's a noose.

592
00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: It's a noose, it's a noose. And he said they initially,

593
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: he said he's talked to them two times. The first

594
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: time when they called him and said we've got the

595
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:40,319
Speaker 1: report of this, we're going to investigate it deeply and all.

596
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 1: And then he said he talked to the FBI again

597
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: after the fact, and they said they've investigated and that

598
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: there's no question that it wasn't a hate crime, wasn't

599
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: related to you whatsoever. It's been there a long time.

600
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:57,080
Speaker 1: There's no reason to continue to follow it. I my

601
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: question at this point. I I like Wallace. I'm a

602
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: fan of Bubba Wallace. I think he's a very good

603
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: driver and don't have a single bad thing to say

604
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: about him. I think he's caught in the middle of it,

605
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't want to be him. I think now

606
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:15,840
Speaker 1: he I think he was trying to measure his words

607
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,399
Speaker 1: and defend himself because he's getting so much hate. Yea,

608
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:22,319
Speaker 1: even in the Today's who interview, and I understand that,

609
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: but what he said wasn't good. He should have just

610
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 1: he knows what that is. He knows it wasn't directed

611
00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 1: at him. Well, no, and it's not his fault. No,

612
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 1: and it's not it wasn't intended for him, thank you, Dash.

613
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean he doesn't see something that we

614
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,919
Speaker 1: don't see or feel something, and he's probably hypersensitive, give

615
00:35:43,320 --> 00:35:48,640
Speaker 1: given what's happened here. Yeah. He What that person is saying, though,

616
00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: is that not only does Bubba Wallace know what that is,

617
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:53,319
Speaker 1: his crew knows what that is. And then even the

618
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: people from NASCAR who looked at it, they also know

619
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: what it is and still chose to run with this

620
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: story knowing that it's fake that and then somehow got

621
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: the FBI to also call it a news when everybody

622
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: knows that it's not. I just I don't see how

623
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,640
Speaker 1: that's plausible. I want to see it, That's all I

624
00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: asked from the beginning. Where was it? What's it look like?

625
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 1: How was it used? Did somebody throw it in? There?

626
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: Are there camera like that? That's all I asked from

627
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: the beginning. I think that the I think NASCAR overreacted,

628
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: but they overreacted because they probably thought that they needed to.

629
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: And when the President of NASCAR, Steve Phelps called Bubba,

630
00:36:39,320 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: Bubba said that he, you know, he was emotionally. He

631
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,439
Speaker 1: had a hard time saying what exactly had happened there.

632
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if the president saw the news. I

633
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: don't know if he went to the garage. Those are

634
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: just questions that I have and I and I, you know,

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Speaker 1: we want to have Steve Phelps on I'm just curious

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Speaker 1: when you saw it. Where is that now? Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: think on the other side, a lot of the NASCAR

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Speaker 1: fans and sports fans are upset with the generalization of

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Speaker 1: the NASCAR fan by the media on Monday and Tuesday

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Speaker 1: without giving a little bit of wiggle room that it

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Speaker 1: could be a mistake, it could be a misunderstanding that

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Speaker 1: was never ever brought into the conversation, because it's very

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Speaker 1: dangerous to poo poo anything when you're just trying to

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Speaker 1: be objective. And I think a lot of NASCAR fans

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Speaker 1: feel that because specific media people said I'm not surprised

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Speaker 1: that this happened in NASCAR, and there's I'm guessing there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of Nascar fans. I'm a NASCAR fan and

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Speaker 1: that aren't going this direction with hot things they believe,

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Speaker 1: and I think they think they weren't giving a fair

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Speaker 1: shake to let the investigation play out for a declaration.

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Speaker 1: That's NASCAR who said the FBI, and we reacted by

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Speaker 1: what NASCAR and the FBI said. I'm not talking about

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Speaker 1: we in this room. I'm talking about a lot of

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Speaker 1: media people that didn't give even one bit of wiggle

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Speaker 1: room that we got to see how this plays out.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what the investigation. Well, I know it's easy

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Speaker 1: to after the factors say this, but allegedly if NASCAR

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Speaker 1: said it's allegedly a news or might be a new

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Speaker 1: they were definitive. They were declarative, and then the FBI

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Speaker 1: said it. So that's why the media ran with it. Now,

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Speaker 1: if the media wants to run with it and feel

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Speaker 1: like that's symbolic of every NASCAR fan, which is unfair.

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Speaker 1: And I understand the anger that NASCAR fans have today,

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Speaker 1: and I would be two because of how the media

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Speaker 1: members of the media portrayed you on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I understand it completely. Yeah, see, and I think NASCAR

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Speaker 1: fans have every right to be upset about the way

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Speaker 1: they're being portrayed, but their focus is at the wrong person.

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Speaker 1: You know, when this news was found in his garage,

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Speaker 1: there was a plane flying above the stadium the racetrack

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Speaker 1: that day carrying a Confederate flag because people were upset.

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Speaker 1: They're not allowed to show it at races anymore. That's

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Speaker 1: the person you need to be looking at for. Hey,

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Speaker 1: it's not fair that we're being trade as as racist.

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Speaker 1: Call that guy with the plane or whoever took the

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Speaker 1: extraordinary step to rent a plane to do that. That's

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Speaker 1: the person who's giving you a bad name. It's not

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Speaker 1: Bubba Wallace, and it's it's certainly not NASCAR themselves. There's

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Speaker 1: gonna be questions, and I don't know if I'll ever

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Speaker 1: get answers, but now we'll continue to pursue just to

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Speaker 1: find out how this happened, because it went from zero

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Speaker 1: to sixty very quickly. Andy in Chicago, Hi, Andy, Hey, Dan,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call on the one point that

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to make is watching that interview with Bubba,

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Speaker 1: and I think you did a great job interviewing him.

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Speaker 1: The guy just seems exhausted, like you could just tell

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Speaker 1: and like you know anyone that says he's trying to

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Speaker 1: perpetuate a story here, Like, I think that's total hogwash because,

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Speaker 1: like you can tell, he just wants to move on.

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Speaker 1: The guy just wants to race, and you know, he

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Speaker 1: just looked exhausted and just wants to move forward and

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Speaker 1: wants it's all to be over with. So I give

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Speaker 1: him a lot of credit. And you know, it's not

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Speaker 1: like he was making up the story or anything. It's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, his crew member came to him with the story, Like,

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Speaker 1: how do you expect him to react? So whether it

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Speaker 1: was intentional or not, which I don't think it was intentional,

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Speaker 1: but like your present know, with this information and your

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Speaker 1: crew member says that to you, like, you know, how

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Speaker 1: do you how are you supposed to react? So yeah, men,

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Speaker 1: thank you Andy, and we'll continue to follow. We reached

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Speaker 1: out to Steve Phelps, the president of NASCAR. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: some baseball. Jeff Passon's going to join us. More phone calls.

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Speaker 1: One hour in the books, Two more to go. Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick Show