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Billy Moyer is Still Winning, Being a Minimalist & a Mole Drowned in My Pool! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  My voice is a little rough today.
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  Sounds like Kermit the Frog. There's Kim and Aaron.
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  Aaron's a relative of ours, but he works for two men in a spa.
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  Just a coincidence. And he and he cleans the hot tub
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  for us and the swimming pool. He takes care of all that.
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  I ain't got time for that. I don't want to hear how you
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  guys do everything. Well, the reason I don't do all
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  that stuff is because I'm busy. I'm racing my old dirt car.
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  There's Lucy. Lucy.
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  What you doing? Crazy.
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  Anytime. Lucy.
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  She's the guard dog, you know, get your ass out of here.
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  Who are you? OK, A lot on the docket today,
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  so this could go a little over 8 minutes.
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  I don't know, though. First of all, oh, that's wet.
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  Jesus, my ass is soaked. OK, last night something
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  happened. Really inspiring.
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  Billy Moyer and Scott Bloomquist.
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  You know those two names. Those are the Mac daddies of
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  dirt racing in the 80s. Well, Billy Moyer, 67 years old
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  and Billy Moyer had had been still racing here and there.
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  I guess you could say Billy Moyers kind of been getting it
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  out of his system, kind of been weaning his way off racing.
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  Like, you know, Billy's quit. You know, you haven't seen much
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  of him. Yesterday, yesterday, last night
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  in Brownstown, IL for night number one of the summer
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  nationals. Now Billy Moore and Shannon
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  Babb, they are the Mac daddy guys.
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  Those are the guys with like 100 wins last night, Billy Moyer at
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  67 years old. Listen, against Brandon
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  Shepherd, against Turbo, against the greats, against Mike
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  Harrison, Billy Moyer. I mean, up there was 43 of those
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  late miles there. I saw him in the drivers
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  meeting. I saw Billy Moore in the drivers
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  meeting. I said, Billy, you look good.
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  He goes, thank you, harm, But I mean, his face was smooth,
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  standing erect, standing like a soldier.
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  And he just like if you were going to put a sign on him, the
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  sign would say I feel good. He looked peaceful but strong.
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  He sat QuickTime and kicked their ass, lost the lead for a
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  little bit and then drove through the middle and got by
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  Mike Harrison, who is really good there.
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  Mike Harrison got more wins, more laps of that racetrack than
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  God. But anyway, I call Billy Moyer
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  this morning and he answered right away.
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  And I said, Billy, I got to tell you a couple of things.
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  I said, do you Remember Me telling you how good you looked
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  in the driver's meeting? He goes, I do.
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  He goes, I really do. I said OK.
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  And I said you taught me a lifelong lesson.
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  I said years ago at Tri-City Speedway, you came in for a big
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  race and you had a right rear flat and you just let the car
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  idle until they changed it. Most people would go wow, wow,
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  wow, wow. They'd Rev the motor up.
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  They'd be crazy. I said that taught me a lot in
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  life. As hyper as I am, you realize
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  that those boys were changing that tire as quick as they
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  could. And by you, by you revving up
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  the $60,000 motor, it ain't going to help.
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  And I said, you just letting the motor idle while they change the
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  tire taught me so much in life because I'm hyper.
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  And it taught me calm down, Kenny.
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  And then I said, the other thing is, man, you drove like you were
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  20 years old. Billy never dirt tracks the car.
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  He just drives around it like asphalt, like, you know, him and
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  Bloomer made that famous. You know, we lost Scott
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  Bloomquist. But anytime in the 80s, it was
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  always those two names were said in the same sentence, Billy
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  Moyer and Scott Bloomquist. And we sure do miss Bloomer.
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  But I'll tell you what, it was a it was like a dream last night.
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  Actually, I dreamed of Dick Trickle last night.
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  In my dream, I was telling Dick. I said Dick.
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  Yep, What you taught me, I teach the kids nowadays.
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  And then the dream went away. Damn it.
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  That's the part I forgot. What?
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  What did I tell Dick Trickle in my dream?
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  But Dick was always a philosopher and Dick always
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  taught me things. So I take tidbits of information
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  from everybody, even Billy Moyer, even when he doesn't know
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  he's giving it out. So congratulations.
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  Damn, 5 minutes of Billy Moyer this morning and didn't even
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  plan on it. All right, for the real subject,
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  I'm not going to say my, my very good friend's real name, but
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  John is a very smart man and I knew this was coming.
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  John's got a lot of money, but John don't want to spend any of
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  his money and I admire that. So all of a sudden John piped up
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  the other day and said, looked at me right in the face and said
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  I'm going to be a minimalist. I, I kind of laughed at myself
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  and I said that don't surprise me.
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  I knew that was coming. Do you ever know people that got
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  money but they're afraid they're going to live to 100 and they
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  might need it all? That's John.
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  Hey, I'd rather John be like that than to go broke.
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  John is a very smart man, extremely smart, great friend.
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  And he said I'm going to be a minimalist.
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  And I thought to myself, what makes a person become a
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  minimalist? Now let me explain to you what a
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  minimalist is. First of all, the word minimal.
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  Minimal means very little. OK, minimal means very little.
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  You know, just put in the minimal amount, the minimum
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  amount and then you add IST onto it.
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  I'm going to live my life like a minimalist.
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  Everything I do is going to be right sized.
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  That's where I come in. I've right sized my whole life.
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  Oh hell, I could have spent a lot more money.
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  I could have had a lot more things.
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  And did you know this year I have become a minimalist.
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  There's things that I wanted and I told my wife Kim, I said, Kim,
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  this year we are going to we're going to take it easy.
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  We're not, you know, last year I bought her a suburban.
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  I spent a lot of money last year.
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  I didn't acquire things. And when I spent that money last
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  year, I didn't get all this stuff, but I just spent some
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  money last year on good things. But just you know, I spent some
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  money. So this year I said to myself,
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  and I haven't announced it to my family, but I did tell Kim we're
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  going to right size this year. But I've already been right
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  sizing. But this year we're not going to
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  spend money on stupid that get out of here.
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  I'll kick its ass. Another gnat come around me.
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  I'm a kick its ass. And they better know, 'cause I
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  will, I'll kick an ass ass if it's so much comes around me
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  next time. So a minimalist means that you
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  know what? I got money.
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  I'm going to keep it. So I'm going to have very little
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  in my life and it's going to make me happy because I won't
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  have stuff. Check out that that joke by
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  George Carlin. It's a monologue and boy, it's
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  good. It's called stuff.
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  And he's like, what do you got in your attic?
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  Stuff? What's in your basement Stuff,
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  What's in your drawers? Stuff.
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  It's like, it's like when somebody gets ready to move and
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  they're like, oh, we don't have very much stuff.
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  And then you start moving. You're like, holy SH, where did
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  we get all this stuff? Stuff.
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  What is the word stuff? Stuff.
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  It's like, why do I have this stuff like me in my closet?
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  OK, I understand John wanting to be a mentalist and then I'm
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  going to keep an eye on and I'm just, I will never see him being
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  a mentalist, but I'm going to ask him about it.
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  But I want to tell you about me and right sizing.
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  Ashok, Chuck Garr, my CPA accountant, I always tell you
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  he's my life coach. I said, Ashok, I'm going to I'm
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  going to downsize. You know, in America, the word
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  downsize, he's going broke. He's going to downsize.
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  Oh, he's downsizing. He ain't got no money.
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  And I told Ashok, I said I want to downsize.
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  He goes, no, no, my friend in that India accent.
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  No, my friend, you're going to right size.
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  You're going to make things right.
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  And I've told this story before on here and I told it to Kevin
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  Harvick and Harvick, Kevin Hart stared me right in the face.
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  He went, he goes, I like that. So I want to share a story with
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  you about minimalizing and and right sizing.
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  I've told this story before but y'all probably weren't
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  listening. I had a Harley, I had a
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  motorhome, I had an airplane and I had a Rolex watch.
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  Let's start with the motorhome. The motorhome I needed because I
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  was racing and there was 200,000 people in the grandstands and
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  you could not, you could not stay in a hotel because you
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  couldn't leave early enough to get the racetrack.
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  So once you got to the NASCAR tracks, you had to plant
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  yourself there inside the circle because if you left the circle,
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  if you left the racetrack, you you couldn't get back in because
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  it was packed. Try to leave Bush Stadium with
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  30,000 people, 20,000 people. You know, it's funny when people
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  joke, hell, there ain't nobody. There's only 60,000 people.
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  I'm like, OK, dummy, try to leave a racetrack with 60,000
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  people. Listen up, dumb.
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  You sound 60,000 people is a massive amount.
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  A lot of people. That's that's a lot of cars.
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  So anyway, I justified, like Dick Trickle said, as long as
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  you can justify it. I justified having the
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  motorhome. I had an airplane.
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  I justified having the airplane because I had to fly around and
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  do all the Square D appearances, and I couldn't do it with a damn
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  commercial airplane. I bought that Rolex watch, and I
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  bought that at Harley-Davidson because, as Schrader said, now
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  this is a joke. If you want something bad
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  enough, damn it, you must need it.
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  So I realized my career wasn't going where I wanted it to be,
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  and I was. I was making killer money.
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  I was making millions of dollars a year.
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  That's just a little innuendo, but I don't mind telling you
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  because I'm not going to tell you what I made, but I'm going
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  to just tell you I was making millions of dollars per year.
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  And I owned a King Air 200, which was a great airplane, by
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  the way. I owned a beautiful motorhome
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  and I had a motorhome employee who drove it.
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  I had a pilot and I had all these things and it was
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  glorious. And I was not out spending
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  myself. I had plenty of money making all
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  the making, you know, paying everybody.
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  And one day I went to watch my daughter, my daughter's Brandy
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  Brittany. Brooke doesn't like playing
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  sports, but I watched Brandy Brittany, I watch him play
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  softball. And I was really getting into it
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  and I thought to myself, this is what life's all about.
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  This is what life's all about. So I, I decided after talking to
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  Ashok, I'm going to right size and I put my watch up for sale.
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  And then you guys know this Barry Dotson bought it.
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  But I want to tell you a story about that watch.
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  I go to I go to Vegas with that Rolex watch on 10 grand gold,
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  real gold. And I go to the blackjack table
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  and I got that damn Rolex watch on here.
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  And I sit down with some other wealthy people and I'm like, hit
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  me, hit me, split them. And I got that damn watch like
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  this. Nobody said a word.
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  Nobody said a word about that Rolex watch. 10 grand for the
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  watch. It's what it cost.
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  That's just what they cost. They cost way more than that.
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  But mine was just a simple gold Rolex watch.
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  I thought was some bitch. Nobody, nobody told me how
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  awesome I was. So I had these.
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  I was I was I'm a watch collector.
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  I got, oh God, lots of watches. So I get the I get these Fossil
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  watches in the Bahamas. They're $55 watches.
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  I go back to Vegas and this Fossil watch I got.
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  What'd you find there? Oh, my God, watch.
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  Look at this. Everybody, hold on.
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  This is great. What's that called?
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  A mole. A mole.
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  That's what I that's hold on everybody.
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  That's what I saw go in there. The other Oh, my God.
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  So let me see his face. Hold these.
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  He drowned himself. Oh my God.
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  Hey, y'all were making fun of me thinking I was, which I am.
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  Remember the other day I did a coffee with Kenny.
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  I said I think I just saw a frog.
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  I was right. He found it in the skimmer.
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  I'll be damned. So anyway, get him back to the
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  watch. Let me take a drink.
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  Coffee that was that was a highlight of the damn whole
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  coffee with Kenny right there. So anyway, I go back to Vegas
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  with that $55 watch and I'm like, hit me.
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  And I'm not even thinking nothing of it.
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  Some man goes, hey, I like your watch.
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  I'm like, I'll be a mother. See, when you have expensive
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  items, people are jealous and they don't want to give you any
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  approval. They're like, that
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  motherfucker's got money. I hate him, but I but that guy
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  had to know that was a $55 fossil.
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  And he's like, hey, I like your watch.
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  That, my friends, is a life lesson.
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  That is a life lesson. You know, it can go this way
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  with homes, everything, you know, 13 foot ceilings, good
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  crown molding. But does it change if you're if
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  your ceilings are 8 or 9 feet tall and you just got small
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  crown molding? You can't get me.
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  I'm whirly. I've seen all this.
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  I've seen granite floors, I've seen granite countertops.
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  I've seen it all. Look at my house.
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  The problem with this house is that it sits on top of a hill.
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  So because I'm on a hill, everybody goes, oh, look at that
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  house. It's a 2600 square foot home is
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  all it is. But Schrader goes, you got a
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  basement. I'm like Schrader, stop it.
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  But here's what you know, I got a big roof.
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  See, look how big the roof is. So the roof gives this illusion
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  that this house is bigger than what it really is.
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  But when you come into my house, it's just a nice home.
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  I have right sized my life. I sold the airplane, I sold the
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  Rolex watch, I sold that motorcycle and I and I I got rid
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  of my 1963 Chevrolet pickup truck and I'm a cheap ass now
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  look at that. See that, that's, that's what I
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  said. My, that's my daily driver.
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  That, that Suburban right there, that's a 2003 Chevrolet
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  Suburban. That thing got 202,000 miles on
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  it. Now, I could buy a $500,000 car
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  if I wanted to and drive it around town, but all that would
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  do piss people off. Wallace driving his wealthy car
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  around. But you know what?
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  That motherfucker gets me right where I need to get to.
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  I just had Joe Rudy charge air conditioner.
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  It's still leaking the damn plastic Tees for the heater core
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  they broke. We fix that, right?
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  It's getting to where I might have to buy a new vehicle
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  because it's like every every year.
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  But spend 2 grand, that's better than spending 80 grand.
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  Kim's new Suburban was $73,000, but I had no problem buying that
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  because that's for her. She's the queen.
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  See, I always want everybody to have more than me because I'm a
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  leader. That when I tease what you are
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  and I go, I'm a leader. That's it.
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  OK, everybody, my message this morning is it's it's you don't
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  got to be a cheapskate like me. I, I spend money on everybody
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  else. Like I don't mind spending money
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  on 1st class. I'm going to fly first class on
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  a plane because I deserve it. I deserve the wizard in in, you
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  know, premier, you know, rental car.
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  Like like when I go to Avis, I don't do that.
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  Wait in line. Both.
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  No, no right to my car. Mr. Wallace, your car is ready
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  in spot C10. I go to my car, get in and I
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  drive off while the peasants, while all the peasants are in
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  line because they're too dumb to get the app.
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  See, you can act any way you want.
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  You can be a cheap guy. You can be a cheap guy, which
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  I'm cheap, but I'm not waiting in a line for a rental car.
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  I'm going to get the app and I'm going to go straight to my car.
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  And you know, it doesn't cost any more money.
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  It's cheap because I travel a lot.
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  So I've learned. Here's what I've learned in
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  life. It's not about spending money.
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  It's about being streamlined. I know this was long, but it was
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  one hell of a coffee with Kenny and it's a great message.
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  Don't worry about spending money.
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  Streamline your life, make your life easier.
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  Have a great Wednesday, everybody.