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We Had Another Terrible Storm & Why Do NASCAR Drivers Retire Around 40 Now? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning everybody. I will tell you what I have
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  about. Had enough of this horrible
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  weather last night. What Monday night we had another
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  Armageddon event here. This conveyor belt of this
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  tornadic weather is truly getting exhausting.
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  We're not complaining, but we're a little concerned.
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  We was a little afraid, Kim said.
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  We got to go in the basement around 10:30.
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  Rains so hard that I'm, I'm draining the pool right now, or
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  as we would say, I'm, I'm back washing it, but I'm getting rid
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  of some water. It rained probably, oh, an inch
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  or two last night. So draining the water, draining
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  the water because this Memorial Day weekend, the families
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  wanting to swim so well, today's the big day.
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  I'm headed up to the Mayo Clinic and I want to thank everybody
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  for calling me. I want to thank John Dotson,
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  Barry Dotson's brother. We lost Barry, but John
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  basically is the boss at NASCAR Tech.
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  So anyway, thank you to John Dotson, John said.
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  Herman, I've been through that, that issue where your esophagus
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  feels like the food's going down in your esophagus.
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  And John tells me it's that damn coughing.
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  It's the acidity in the coffee. So we go find out.
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  We're going to find out. Who knows, We might have to have
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  tea with Kenny. If the doctors say, hey, it's
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  that, it's that coffee, then we might have to have tea with
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  Kenny. But today's the big day.
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  I'm leaving at 138 headed up to the Mayo Clinic.
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  Basically, I'm going to spend Wednesday and Thursday up there.
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  And then on Friday we're going to talk about it.
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  We got about 12 appointments set up.
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  We got, you know, the colonoscopy.
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  We got the treadmill for the arteries.
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  You know, we get, we got all types of stuff set up.
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  We're going to get what's called an executive physical.
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  Brother Rusty got me the appointment.
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  And yeah, All right, then we all don't know what we're talking
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  about until we talk to the the best doctors in the in the
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  world. So remember, I'm going to the
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  Mayo Clinic because it's one stop shopping.
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  In other words, if I'm in Saint Louis, my doctor sends me over
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  here, then they send me over here, then they send me over
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  here. And it take couple, couple
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  months to get this stuff done. If you do it normally, go up to
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  the Mayo Clinic, get it all done in 2 days and you're done.
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  So I, I know Saint Louis has got some of the greatest hospitals,
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  but it, it takes too long to get this, this stuff done.
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  So, yeah, All right, The reason we're going to check my arteries
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  is because most of my family. Hey, he made it through.
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  He made it through the day. He found a slot.
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  OK, So we're going up there because we want one stop
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  shopping. We're going to get it all done
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  in two days. None of this go here, Go there
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  over the course of two months. All right, All right, I know
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  Saint Louis has got great hospitals.
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  La, la, la, la, la. I don't want to hear it.
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  I, I know we're going to Rochester, MN to the Mayo Clinic
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  so we can get it all done at one time.
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  Check all my arteries because my family all died of clogged up
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  arteries. Brother Mike had his chest cut
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  open because you know, the the widowmaker, whatever it was all
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  clogged up. So anyway, me and mom are the
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  only one clear so far. I just want to make sure I live
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  long time. OK, I made a little news last
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  night switching subjects. I sit on the chair here.
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  I was checking to see if it was dry.
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  We already got a little water right here.
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  OK, last night I made a little news.
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  So yesterday we did a new Kenny conversation with Mike and
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  Justin Algar should be coming out this Thursday.
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  I think that's when Charlie's going to have it.
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  About a damn hour and a half with Gator and little Gator.
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  So I had a great conversation with with Justin and the subject
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  is this Clint Boyer. I talked to Clint Boyer a couple
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  years ago out of Sturgis and I said, Clint, why did you quit
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  racing so early? So listen to this.
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  Something I never knew, Clint Boyer, Ryan Newman, Bobby
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  Labonte, Jeff Burton, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, you know
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  what they all have in common? They all quit NASCAR at a very
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  early age. Google it.
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  Check to Google her. NASCAR is a very tough sport.
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  You live inside that circle. You're in that motorhome, you're
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  on airplanes, You're never home. So one thing that that I said to
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  Clint, I said, Clint, my God, you quit at like 42 years old.
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  Yeah, Clint Boyer quit like at 42 years old.
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  He goes, man. He said, I've been racing my
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  whole life. I started when I was like a kid.
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  I started studying this phenomenon that's kind of new to
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  me. So I so I studied it and Justin
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  Allgar. Now you're going to want to
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  watch this episode with Justin and Mike Allgar.
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  Justin has some news that I think is it's it's breaking
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  news. I do, but I'm not going to
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  mention it. I don't want to get in trouble.
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  Wait for Kenny conversation to come out this Thursday with
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  Justin Algar and his dad Mike Algar one of our first time
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  where we do you know all three of us on the screen it it turned
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  out beautifully. So anyway Clint Boyer said I
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  quit racing early because that's all I've done since I've been
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  five years old. I've raced my whole life.
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  Well, as a little teaser last night on Facebook and XI put out
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  this, I put out that statement. I said if you start racing at
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  five years old, by the time you get to 40 you've raced your
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  whole life. Now that's all I said, That's
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  all I said. If you start racing at 5 when
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  you turn 40, you have raced your whole life.
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  However, I started dirt racing at 44 years old and I guess
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  that's why I'm still going at, I'll be 62 in August.
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  Dirt racing is kind of new to me because I started doing it at
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  44. Well, Shannon Larose, so wimpy
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  decals my car. Well, they got their boy who
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  started at 5:00 and she took it wrong.
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  She took it as you know, Xander. Xander started at 5 and we're
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  all big fans of Xander and we love Xander and we love Shannon
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  Larose and we love Wimpy. But she's like, that's, that's
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  your opinion. I'm like, well, she took this
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  totally wrong. Shannon, you took that totally
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  wrong. What I'm saying is Clint Boyer
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  and these guys that are quitting NASCAR, they're quitting NASCAR
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  because they started racing at 5 and by the time they got to 40,
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  they've raced their whole life and they're just tired of
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  racing. Now, if if Xander wants to race
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  till he's 70, that's fine. But the point is, is I'm
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  bringing up the subject matter that the subject matter is this.
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  If you start racing at 5, by the time you get to 40, you've raced
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  forever. And, and these guys decided to
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  quit NASCAR because it's 365 days a year.
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  It's not like racing here and there everywhere, you know, and
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  your son's five and you're 38, most likely when Xander gets to
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  be 40, you're going to be 80. But anyway, it was meant as a
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  subject matter. It's a subject matter.
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  Why did some of the NASCAR drivers quit at 42 years old?
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  That was the subject matter. Not Xander needs to quit at 40.
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  All right now that we got that straight, a lot of these NASCAR
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  drivers, they quit at 42 years old because they started at
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  5:00. That that is a new phenomenon,
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  brother Rusty, Kenny Schrader, Ricky Rudd, you know, Bill
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  Elliott, Dale Earnhardt, all these guys they were getting,
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  you know, Earnhardt said he was quitting at 50.
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  Rusty quit at 50 because, you know, it just seemed like the
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  right thing to do. They had lived inside that
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  circle long enough. You go to the NASCAR races, you,
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  you got the circle and you're in your motorhome, you're in your
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  airplane. You don't do anything.
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  All you do is race. You burn out.
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  You need a break. So that's all it is.
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  And I think I'm going to, I'm going to deem this.
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  Why do NASCAR racers quit at 40 years old?
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  All right, everybody have a great, great Tuesday.