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Tyler Reddick's Contract Is Ending: How Much $ Should He Get? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  We are still in the beautiful Florence, Italy, and man, it has
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  been fantastic. But today's a big day.
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  We're getting on the aeroplane and we are headed up to
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  Frankfurt, Germany. Going to get there around 536
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  o'clock tonight, get the rental car and tomorrow's the big day.
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  Thursday we are going to Nerburg Ring in Nerburg, Germany.
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  Boy, we're going to have a good time and go around that
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  legendary Rd. course. I'll have my camera all charged
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  up. Can't wait.
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  Right now it looks like I'm going to rent ABMW is what I'm
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  looking at. Rent ABMW.
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  We've talked to him and take 4 laps.
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  I think 4 laps would be enough. Hey, listen, I don't want to set
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  a speed record. I don't want to be on one of
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  those YouTube videos. Kenny Wallace loses control at
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  the Nurburgring. Not going to happen.
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  Not going to happen. So yeah, while we're up there
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  going to see a museum. There's a museum.
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  It's got a lot of the European race cars in it right now.
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  We're looking at maybe, maybe, I don't know if there's a tour.
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  Respond right here. Help me out.
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  Look at it. Maybe driving 2 hours down the
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  road to Mercedes and maybe Porsche.
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  Let me know what do you know We're we're Googling the heck
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  out of everything. All right, before we before we
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  finish this coffee with Kenny, one more look.
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  It's cold out. Put my coffee down all right.
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  Love these old wooden windows. There we go Got that window
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  open. One more look at the beautiful
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  Florence, Italy, and look how close we are.
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  There's the the famous cathedral, as I said yesterday,
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  and isn't that something? Look here.
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  Got nice backyards at this hotel.
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  Yeah, ho. One thing I got to tell you, let
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  me shut this. Shut this right here right now.
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  This is just my opinion as I have been over here in Europe.
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  One thing I've learned is their timing is advanced.
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  I believe they eat lunch at 2:00 and dinner at 8.
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  Hey, respond right here if I'm wrong, but I've been here for
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  almost 10 days, 9-10 days, and that's what I see.
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  You know, everything's just what I call advanced.
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  You go down, people are eating breakfast at 10:00, lunch at
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  2:00, dinner at 8. So respond right here.
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  But that's so I mean this listen, this is my second year
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  here in Europe. I've been to Rome back-to-back.
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  Just can't get enough of Rome. And Florence is beautiful
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  Everywhere we've been. We've been to Greece, we've been
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  to Sicily, we've been to Rome, we've been to Florence.
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  And now we're headed up to Frankfurt, Germany, because
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  that's where the large Arrow Puerto is.
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  And then, yeah, on over to Nurburgring in Nurbur, Germany.
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  OK everybody, today's coffee with Kenny is something that
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  they brought up on actions at detrimental.
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  So once again, I read it, I listen and I respond.
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  This one is something nobody really, I mean, they didn't say
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  much about it. Denny Hamlin and everybody there
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  at 2311, they joked they had fun.
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  Ha, ha, ha. Oh boy.
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  This is Tyler Reddick's last year of his contract.
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  And boy, they had fun. Tyler Reddick, he's going to get
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  what he earns. So let's have fun with it.
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  Let's break it down. What do you think Tyler Reddick
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  should make per year driving at the highest form in America?
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  So the NASCAR Cup Series, whether you like it or not,
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  whether you like it or not, I just repeated myself, NASCAR is
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  the highest form of Motorsports in America, much bigger than
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  anything. And that's just the way it is.
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  The numbers say it. TV ratings say it.
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  So Tyler Reddick is 30 years old.
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  He's in his prime. That is perfect because now he's
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  learned it all and he's rolling. He's won four races already and
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  what? They've only run like 8 or 9
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  races. So one could say he's won half
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  the races. Denny Hamlin.
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  Denny has said, listen, I'm 45 years old.
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  So Denny Hamlin is 15 years older than his driver Tyler
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  Reddick. So Michael Jordan and Denny
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  Hamlin, some of the wealthiest people in racing.
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  Denny Hamlin by far. I think Denny's making the most
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  money right now in NASCAR. That's my opinion.
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  Respond right here if you think I'm wrong.
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  Now, Denny, I know you watch these.
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  I show a lot of respect, but I think it'd just be fun, right?
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  It's like sitting in a bar. How much you think that guy's
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  going to make? I'm betting Denny Hamlin makes
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  north of 10 million a year right now.
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  Just just what I think. I think Denny Hamlin's making
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  north of 10 million a year. Denny Hamlin's won 62 races.
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  He's 45 years old. So if I'm a betting man, which I
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  know Denny Hamlin and I know I know Michael Jordan are betting
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  man. I've won half the races.
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  I'm the hottest driver in NASCAR.
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  I've won before. That's why they hired me.
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  Why did, why didn't Michael Jordan, why did Denny Hammond,
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  why did they hire Tyler Reddick? Why he didn't bring a sponsor?
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  Tyler Reddick, I don't think he brought any money.
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  Respond right here. Now, I know they all got money.
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  I know Tyler Reddick's family is in the music industry, or
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  grandpa is something like that. None of my business, just
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  conversation. They hired him, so they must
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  have thought Tyler Reddick was somebody when they hired him.
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  And like, Jed's a millionaire, they struck gold.
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  So I think Tyler Reddick should make $10 million a year at 30
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  years old. And he's the hottest driver
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  going right now. He's won on everything.
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  He's won at Daytona. He's won on a road course.
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  If if, if you could win at Daytona.
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  OK. And you can win on a road course
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  or not. Yeah.
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  I mean, that's that's polar opposites.
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  He's covered everything in between.
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  So, yeah, respond right here. I think Tyler Reddick is worth
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  $10 million a year, and if he does that and he keeps that up,
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  he'll be in Max Verstappen's place right now.
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  Have you noticed what Max Verstappen is doing?
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  The great Formula One racer? He's made it.
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  He's made a killing. Max Verstappen has made hundreds
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  of millions of dollars winning everything over the last 10
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  years. Now he's getting pissed and he's
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  like, I don't like these battery cars.
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  I can't drive them the way I want to.
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  Hell, I think I'll go run NASCAR.
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  So when you make that kind of money, it makes life easier
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  towards the end or when you want to start fooling around.
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  It's kind of like Charles Barkley said, He said I've been
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  retired longer than I played basketball and Charles Barkley
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  said I like doing TV. So my advice has always been
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  make the money, why you can make it and be like me, enjoy
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  yourself. That's what I did.
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  I made all my money in NASCAR and real estate and I still
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  hustle, have a good time, but I do whatever I want to do.
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  If Tyler Reddick gets that $10 million a year, like I said, and
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  he should be north of 10 million, you know, I don't know
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  if that's 10 million base plus percentage of what the car
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  makes, you know, are they going to give him?
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  You know, they usually don't give you part of the percentage
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  of the TV money. And I don't know how that broke
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  down, but in my day, I got a base salary.
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  I got a percentage of, you know, my earnings.
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  And then, of course, you signed a couple endorsements here and
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  there and you're rolling, baby. So like Michael Jordan, like
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  everybody says, and if Big Mike's watching this man do it,
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  we're just a pimple on Michael Jordan's ass.
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  That guy killed it. He did good playing basketball.
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  And then if, if the movie Air is anything close, his Mama made
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  the deal. So hey, Denny, let me know.
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  Is that movie true? Did Michael Jordan's Mama, did
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  she tell you know, the people at Nike?
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  If you believe in my son that much, you'll give him money per
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  shoe with everyone that's got his swish on it.
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  You Mama Jordan, she negotiated a hell of a deal for a big Mike.
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  All right, everybody have a great Wednesday.