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The NASCAR Diecast Industry Ruined Itself | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday morning to everybody as the raging Cajun,
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  the cook over there on Instagram would say what we talked about
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  today. Well, this is an easy one.
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  Last night I'm watching the dirt race out there at Ventura.
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  Corey day one, Kyle Larson got spun out getting into Turn 1
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  about 53 laps to go is what I remember.
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  And all of a sudden, you know, people just like to be mean to
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  me, which is fine. It's kind of a sport nowadays.
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  People, I'm convinced that people that are depressed, they
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  just get on their phone and they go.
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  I'm not, I'm going to go over to Wallace's account.
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  Just say something mean. So this man out of nowhere
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  brings up a good subject. He says Herman, NASCAR's dying.
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  He said I have a die cast souvenir store and I was very
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  depressed that on I guess Black Friday, whatever it was
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  yesterday. Well that would have been 2 days
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  ago right? Friday he said nobody come into
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  my store and maybe the people that did all they did was buy 2
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  Joey Logano championship hats. I thought to myself, why ain't
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  that funny? Because supposedly nobody likes
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  Joey Logano because because he won.
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  But I don't like the way he won. So the conversation in hand is a
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  long one. I'm going to try to make it as
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  quick as I can. Whatever happened to souvenirs?
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  You know, you buy a hat and AT shirt, that's not a souvenir,
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  that's clothing. Respond right here if you think
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  I'm wrong about that. But you know, when you buy a a
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  hoodie, if you ever buy a coffee with Kenny's shirt, you buy
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  anything like that, that's clothing, NASCAR souvenirs and
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  die cast, that business went to hell in a handbasket.
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  And here's why. Because they lied to you.
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  What they did was they, they make a Dale Earnhardt die cast
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  and boy, you're all excited. You got that Dale Earnhardt die
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  cast. And they say this is only one of
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  10,000. Well, what would happen?
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  Them souvenir companies, they'd get greedy and they'd make more.
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  And you know, you're sitting there thinking, I've got 1 of
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  10,000 Dale Senior die cast, the one that he won, you know, one
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  of those big races in and, and all of a sudden you look up a
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  year or two later and hell, they made 200,000 of them.
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  Now that die cast is not worth anything.
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  I got a friend that I basically lived 27 years around Charlie
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  Springs and Trish, I know you're all going to hear about this.
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  Charlie and Trish. I miss you all.
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  Love you guys. They lived right across the
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  street from me down there in Charlotte, NC.
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  You'd go in their living room and there would be almost
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  thousands, not hundreds, thousands of die cast he they
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  would buy the bubble pack. They had a a living room that
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  was made of good wood. You know, instead of sheetrock,
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  it was wood like good, you know, the walls were wood And and they
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  would take those bubble packs and Charlie and Trish, they
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  loved racing so much that they would staple those bubble packs.
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  And I remember Charlie saying it's going to be worth a lot of
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  money one day. I got a lot of friends and fans
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  say, boy, this can be worth a lot of money one day.
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  And all of a sudden it was worth nothing.
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  Hell, I remember when people would have NASCAR souvenir
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  stores and that's what that man had.
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  He had a souvenir store and he was so depressed.
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  And you know how I responded to him 2 days ago on Friday, I said
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  I am so sorry buddy, I love you. Put a little heart next to it.
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  Now remember this man was coming at me.
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  He wanted to be mean to me. He said Herman, NASCAR is dying.
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  I have a diecast store and you know souvenirs store.
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  All the trinkets, all the gadgetry NASCAR and sports had
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  to sell. This is a brave man.
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  As Rodger Penske said, be careful having all your
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  portfolio in brick in mortar. In other words, be careful
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  investing in brick and mortar. Now a home is an investment.
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  This is an investment. They they nickname it brick and
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  mortar. But if you going to go rent a
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  store to sell souvenir die cast, there was a day that that
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  worked. Those days are gone because the
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  souvenir industry themselves, they got greedy and they killed
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  it. It wasn't NASCAR.
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  That was not NASCAR's fault. So what I would say to that man
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  is I love you. And you know what happened?
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  Thousands of people started getting online telling that man
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  and they were all very nice and became a nice conversation
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  because I told him I said I am so sorry, I love you.
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  And everybody's like, buddy, you know, better than having a
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  souvenir store for NASCAR. Those days of collecting all
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  them, that gadgetry, it's over now.
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  They still got that die cast. We're specifically talking about
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  die cast right here and all the gadgetry and all the little
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  people, that little pit stop people.
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  But I mean, respond right here. You know what's funny, I just
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  told somebody this the other night.
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  As people get older, they start getting rid of their collection
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  and they want to send it to me. Well you know what?
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  I'm older now and I don't collect nothing.
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  I don't want anything. Don't send me anything Mike.
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  I have 3 girls and they don't want none of it.
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  It was a sad day when I told Kim, you know, Kim, the girls
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  don't want any of our junk. Be careful thinking what you got
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  is going to be valuable and somebody's going to want it.
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  I told somebody in that conversation yesterday, I said
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  I'm, I'm, I'm getting, I'm getting a mage now too.
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  And I don't want to collect nothing.
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  I don't want nothing. All I want is a family, a home.
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  And I won't run my dirt car and do these videos and give
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  speeches and go on vacations. I don't want to collect
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  anything. So the days of die cast and
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  collecting things and having souvenir stores, they're gone.
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  Now you're going to you're going to have some collectors out
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  there still to this day. And and listen, I got a pile in
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  there that I got to sign right now, but they're basically
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  diecast cars, cards, cards, CARDS, believe it or not, it's
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  like all this Fortnite stuff and all these kids, you know what's
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  still going good collector cards, not the die cast.
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  I still to this day sign lots of lots of cards like Panini
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  America. But the day of collecting all
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  that souvenir of those die cast people, they destroyed it.
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  Oh, you've got 1 of 500. Come to find out, it's one of
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  100,000. I know you all got lots of die
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  cast story. Tell me your story right here.