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Why Don't I Have Any Help With My Race Car? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  Herman, what the heck you doing, buddy?
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  I don't know why I said that. Just had to say it all right
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  last night, Friday night, Tri-City Speedway in Granite
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  City, IL. It was a good night, but it had
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  a weird vibe. Now this this race track is run
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  by Kevin and Tammy Gundaker and they are wonderful people.
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  I truly love them. They're great people, but this
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  race track has a dark cloud over it.
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  I told Roy last night who helps me, I said Roy.
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  I said we need to get a father to come over and bless Tri-City
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  Speedway. No rain.
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  But out of nowhere comes this dark cloud and like for 5
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  minutes just start sprinkling. Just a little bit of a delay.
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  Then it's like, OK, we're going to race now.
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  In between here, we're keeping the car loaded.
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  We're unloading a little bit because if you know anything
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  about dirt racing, you don't want to be caught with your car
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  outside when a big rain comes. It becomes like Porky the pig.
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  Let's let's load the car up in the sloppy mud.
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  Let me get my boots on. I'll tell you what, racing on
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  dirt is awesome until it rains. Then like brother Rusty says,
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  it's like, what the are you guys doing?
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  Oh yeah, you think you're cool until you stomping around mud
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  loading your up and you get home and you're just wiped out.
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  Look like an old pig, pig pen. So I'm kind of unloaded, loaded
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  and all of a sudden, literally 10 seconds, not even 10 seconds,
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  maybe 8 seconds worth of just catastrophic downpour and it
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  stops. Pop up shower.
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  Now listen to this Tri-City Speedway, Granite City, IL.
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  Now we're in the middle of July. They've only raced 2 times this
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  year. They have been rained out every
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  single Friday night. It's like, is this a joke?
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  No, no, it's not a joke. It's it's true.
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  It's real. It really is raining out every
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  Friday night at Granite. We went over there like 2-3
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  weeks ago for a summer national race.
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  Sunny 100° everywhere and I mean just pouring a black cloud right
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  over the racetrack. It 2 to 3 inches of rain in like
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  30 minutes. So we finally got it going last
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  night and we started our front row outside in our heat.
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  We want our heat. So when you win the heat, what
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  that does is that that puts you on, you know, front row of the
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  feature. The heat races are where it's
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  at. So when you line up on the front
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  row with your other competitor and you're not running, that
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  really helps. So we lined it up on the on the
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  pole for the feature next to my buddy Ryan Hamilton.
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  We took the lead, we LED half the race and some son of a bitch
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  started getting on my inside. I'm like, I'm running pretty
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  good. Who is this?
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  Sure enough, our eight time champion, Mike Harrison.
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  He's so good. He he is so good.
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  He'd come by me. Typical Mike just ripping the
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  lip like like a 18 year old kid and he was just better than me.
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  He he drives better than me and he there's a reason he's an 8
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  time UMP dirt car champion. But but he had, he had to pass
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  other cars too because he started like next to last.
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  So he had to pass everybody else until he got to me.
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  It was it was a reminder by Mike Harrison.
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  Hey faces, I've been giving you all a break lately.
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  I just came and just a little reminder.
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  Mike Harrison has been running late models, driving for some
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  other people, and he's been working on a new car design.
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  And so congratulations to Mike. I never doubted you in a million
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  years. Actually.
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  I'm a big fan of his and I help Mike every once in a while with
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  some things. And you, you recognize talent.
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  He's damn good. So we run 2nd and it was a good
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  run for us. OK, out of nowhere over the last
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  couple days on the social media site X, there's been a couple
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  people concerned about me. Doing everything by myself made
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  me happy. So it it's kind of like Darryl
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  Walter once said to me, I'm worried about you.
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  Well, I thought I'd turn it around and just say it right
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  back to him. I said, well, Darryl, I'm very
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  happy you're worried about me. He's like, you know, when people
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  say I'm worried about you, you can take that two ways.
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  You know, I'm really worried about you.
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  They're either really worried about you or they're being a
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  smart ass. So people say to me, you know,
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  I'm really worried about you. I don't want you to wear
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  yourself out. You're where's all your help and
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  you know part of me wants to go well, nobody likes me, everybody
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  hates me and you know what I'm going to eat some mother worms.
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  So the real story why nobody helps me anymore.
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  I don't want no fucking help. I don't want no help.
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  And here's why. When somebody comes and they say
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  they going to help you, all it takes is for them to think
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  they're helping and they do something wrong.
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  And I've had people help me before.
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  I had, I don't know what I was doing, but years ago, I don't
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  know why I was thinking wrong. I was busy and I said, yeah,
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  bolt the right front shock on. Well, I had the shock on.
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  Course they forgot to tighten the bolt.
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  I mean, here it was a mechanical inclined person, but I guess
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  somebody got the talking to him. I go on the racetrack, I don't
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  get a little bit through the race and the shock falls off.
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  It's easier. I'm organized, it's easier for
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  me. Just do everything myself.
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  Because then when you train the people, then they start, they
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  start getting in with you. And that's like you pay for my
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  pit pass, you give me a little money, you buy all my food.
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  These people that want to help you, it's their way of getting
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  in with you. Then all of a sudden you become
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  Michael Jackson. Now you get this entourage that
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  you got to pay for. And I just don't like help
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  because they're a pain in the ass.
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  It's it's they're in the way now.
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  The other real story, the real reason nobody helps me anymore.
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  I'm 62 years old. I think Mike Harrison's the
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  second oldest driver at 50. I'm 12 years older than anybody
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  I'm racing against. So what's that tell you?
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  Everybody that did help me, like Billy Smith?
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  Billy's got bad arthritis. He's roughed up.
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  I love Billy Smith, but Billy can hardly take care of his own
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  son right now at the racetrack. I love Billy Don Schaumburg, Big
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  Don. His wife died of Alzheimer's
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  dementia. Don's almost 80 now.
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  Tommy Boyd, Tommy down in Farmington, Tommy and Blake
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  Hudson, they all had kids. Now they're they're just, they
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  just fell right into that old, you know, I'm a dad.
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  I got to take care of my kids. So it's pretty simple.
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  This help outgrows you. Help outgrows you.
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  It really does. They get older and they're like,
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  I ain't going to that old dirt tracks, nasty dust flying in
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  there. Get home at 1:00 and 2:00 in the
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  morning. You even see it with Mike
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  Harrison. Now, I'm sure Mike's not going
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  to mind me saying this, but like, you know, Brett, his son,
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  he, he's got a girl. He's she's pregnant.
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  Mike's other son, you know, he's married, got a kid.
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  All of a sudden they all quit. They quit helping Mike Harrison
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  too. Everybody just runs out of help.
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  Everybody grows up. Dirt racing is a young man's
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  game. And not just is it a young man
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  game, you need like vagabonds to help you.
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  It's a dirty sport. Sport.
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  It's it's, it's late at night. You're dirty, you're nasty,
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  you're shitty. You got to love it.
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  You got to love dirt racing. And I love it.
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  I love it. I really love it.
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  So hopefully told you what happened last night and told you
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  why don't look for help. They just up or you spend your
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  whole night telling them how to do it.
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  And then I told you, you know, I mean these dirt lame all racers,
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  they can't find any help either. And when you find them, they
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  bitch and Mona, you know all that dirt racing is for a
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  different breed of people, different breed of people.
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  All right, everybody have a great Saturday.