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I'm Headed To Greece & I Got A New Main Sponsor | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning everybody. I slept till about 9:10.
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  It is 1030 and I am watching a video right now about Athens,
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  Greece and seems that there are cats that roam the city like
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  cats like meow. There's the Hellenic Automotive
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  Car Museum, and there's a lot of things to do there, but I
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  thought I'd get up off the couch, come out here and and
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  tidy up a few things that I want everybody to know.
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  Number one thing that I want everybody to know is that I love
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  racing. And I guess you could say that I
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  am the ambassador to the I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway
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  Park. What that means is I'm not going
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  to race there all the time. So, for example, maybe I've
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  confused some of the people. I'm not saying people have said
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  I have confused you. I'm just saying that as much as
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  I advertise I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park, one would
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  think that I would be there every single race.
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  Well, that's not true. I just love the race track so
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  much. Look here, 15 minutes from my
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  house South on Interstate 55, that's the racetrack and they're
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  trying to make the racetrack more famous that they wanted to
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  succeed. So I am here to help them.
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  So my first race at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway
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  Park will be Saturday, April 18th.
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  Now it's Friday. It's I I need to take this
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  jacket off. It's it's very warm, man.
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  We got lucky as all get out. So go out to the racetrack
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  tonight. They're trying something new.
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  It's $5000 to win. It's it's an awesome race.
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  So tonight is qualifying heat races and then tomorrow on
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  Saturday night is $5000 to win for the A mods and the B mods.
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  So basically there's a lot of money up for grabs.
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  So just wanted to clear that up. I, I will be racing anywhere
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  from 30 to 36 races this year. I'll definitely be, there'll be
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  sometimes only race 4 * a month. I'll probably make it to I-55
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  about 10 times this year. Stay tuned and I'll let you
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  know. But as of right now, I will be
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  at I-55 April 18th and then the very next week.
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  What is that? April 24th, 25th, And I'll also
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  be running Brownstown that week. That's the Mars race.
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  So I will race 2 weeks in a row and then off to the Kyle Petty
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  Cherry ride. So I just wanted to, as they
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  say, clean up some things before I head to Athens, Greece.
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  I'm super excited. Kim said to me last night, Are
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  you excited? I said I'm really excited, but
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  I'd be more excited if you would go with me.
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  So I want to let everybody know that once again, Kim is not
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  going. It will be me and my dear friend
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  John Skatoni. John is a true Italian.
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  Skatoni John. John's got a wonderful
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  girlfriend. Her name is Terry Terry Brooks.
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  Hi, Terry. And Terry and John.
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  Well, I'm not going to tell you everything about them because
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  it's not my business, but we've been to cobble together with a
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  lot of our other friends. But it seems like John Scootoni
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  and myself, we're the only ones brave enough just to do go.
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  I'm sure Terry would go too, but she's got a lot going on.
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  So Kim, Kim said this. So it's official.
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  I finally got her coming in. I told him.
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  I said, Kim, please let me take you to Rome.
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  Kim, finally, you know, I got to say this, OK?
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  It's got to become Kim's idea before she starts playing along.
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  She's the boss. I'm the leader.
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  Does that make sense? In other words, what she says
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  goes, but I'm the leader. I I lead the whole damn family.
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  And. And Kim says I am ready to go to
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  Europe, but I want to go with a group.
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  She says she will feel safer with a group of people.
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  Now, me and John, we just take off by ourselves and we, we, we
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  listen to Rick Steves Audio Europe and we put in earphones
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  and we're not part of a tour group.
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  And Rick Steves and there's another lady.
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  There's like two people. It's an app that I already have
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  downloaded on my phone. And you put the nice earbuds in
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  and boy, it's so good. It will say, welcome to Athens,
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  Greece, you're going to Acropolis, go stand right here
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  and you do what the audio tells you to and then they'll say look
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  up. That has been standing there for
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  2500 years and it is an awesome audio by Rick Steves, Audio
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  Europe. So John and myself, we just
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  explore. We love exploring.
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  So we're going, we're going to flight from Chicago.
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  I'm going to in the morning, I'm leaving Saint Louis, going up to
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  Chicago, going to enjoy the British Airways lounge.
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  Flight takes off around 6:10 tomorrow night.
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  On Saturday night, we're flying over to home of The Beatles and
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  Led Zeppelin and Queen Elizabeth or Ozzy Osbourne.
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  We're headed over to the UK. We're going to land at London
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  Heathrow Airport, get on a plane.
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  We're going to fly to Athens, Greece.
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  We'll be flying over with the Swiss Alps and Germany and
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  Italy. And when we get to Athens,
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  Greece, we're going to, you know, there's a lot more than
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  just the city. The city's beautiful, but
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  there's islands. So we'll be there quite a while.
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  I think John says maybe four days.
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  John Scotone is my tour director, so John's worldly.
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  Then after that, we're going to fly and see his family right
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  there on the island of Sicily. I really like that.
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  I want to go to, I want to go to Sicily.
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  You know that that's where the mobs from, that's where the
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  tough people are from. I don't know.
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  But I just said, John, we got to go to Sicily.
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  Then we're going to fly on over into Italy and we're going to
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  rent a car. I said, John, we got to spend 2
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  nights in Rome again and then we're going to drive past the
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  Leaning Tower. Just want to take a look at it.
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  The Leaning Tower of Piazza I guess is the way they say it,
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  and then down to Florence on the water, I guess Florence's.
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  Hey, respond right here. The more information the
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  merrier. The more I know the better off I
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  am. Probably about 3 or 4 days over
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  there. Then the granddaddy of them all,
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  everybody get on the aeroplane, fly up to Frankfurt, Germany.
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  I tell you what, those airports over there are nice.
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  We're going to get rent a car, we're going to Nerburg, Germany
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  and we're going to go race around the Nerburg ring and the
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  most famous Rd. course in the world.
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  I think I read. Where is it?
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  Max Verstappen, somebody some they're still trying to set some
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  records over there. So I'll be doing pictures every
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  day. When it turns night time, I'll
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  be downloading. Remember, we're about 9 hours
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  ahead of you all. Something like that, almost like
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  1/2 a day ahead. So I'll be posting at night and
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  I think you all will just be waking up just like I did last
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  time. OK, I think I've cleaned a lot
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  of stuff up and to end remember my first race in the if you've
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  made it this far everybody, my new sponsor Mobile One, want to
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  thank Mobile One. It's going to be a good looking
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  car. I've been with the Mobile 1
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  lubricant and grease since 1986, so it's going to be a blue and
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  white car. Waiting for Wimpy to get the
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  design. All the same associate sponsors,
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  Sunoco still going to be on the car, they're just not going to
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  be the major sponsor. But I'm excited to see this
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  Mobile 1 Dirt car. Have a great weekend everybody.