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I Bet You Didn't Know This About Rusty Wallace | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning everybody down here at Brother Rusty's
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  place, Villa Las Palmas. You can stay here too if you
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  want. All you gotta do is go to go to
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  Google search Villa Las Palmas and you can stay here.
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  So it's up to you to find out what it's all about.
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  You can do it. Go to Google Villa Las Palmas.
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  This place is incredible and we love it.
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  It's got it all. It's got the putt Putt right
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  here, that's the entry to the house.
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  Beautiful swimming pool, hot tub, got a beautiful room with a
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  big old screen TV and a pool table.
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  And of course, you're just right up the hill from Sammy Hagar's
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  cobble wobble. Baby can't drive 55 S.
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  All right, going to do something today that I think is important.
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  I'm going to tell you all about my Big Brother, Rusty Wallace.
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  We've been having a lot of fun with with Rusty, my Big Brother.
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  Oh, here we go. Herman.
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  Going to talk about. Hey, Wallace.
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  Hey Kenny Wallace. Hey, Mike Wallace.
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  Hey, the whole Wallace family. You would have never made it
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  where you're at without your brother Rusty Wallace.
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  That's right. And my friends, today is a
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  tribute is a big thank you to my Big Brother.
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  Now, when I say my Big Brother, that's the people that are
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  envious of me. I would be too.
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  I would be too. My Big Brother, Rusty Wallace,
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  Are you ready? Are you ready 'cause I got a lot
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  to brag on Rusty about my brother Rusty Wallace.
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  When Mike and myself, we were just kids, I mean just babies.
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  I can remember in St. Louis, MO, big tornado warnings
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  coming and we're on, what was that South Broadway?
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  Dad had a race shop, Dad had a race shop, and it was one of
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  those race shops that was like an army shop where it was a
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  round type shop. Actually, Kevin Rumley, who owns
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  Kyle Larson's number Six Dirt Car has one right now.
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  Yeah, up there, up there around Winston Salem, It's got a round
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  roof. So anyway, I remember a big
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  tornado warning coming and Rusty being the Big Brother he is,
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  he's seven years older than me. Rusty is 7 years older than me.
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  And I think what is he four years older than Mike?
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  I think something like that. So the tornado warnings there,
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  sirens are going off. What does Rusty do?
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  He gets Rusty. Rusty gets Mike and myself and
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  puts us in the race car, straps me in the seat, puts Mike there
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  and put whatever helmet their dad had put on me.
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  And then Rusty got in the race car too.
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  Although that sounds funny. Think about it for a minute.
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  Think about it. Rusty's.
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  He's not 16, he's not 16, and we're at the race shop.
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  Nobody's there. It's just us three kids, but by
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  this time, I'm we're children. My God, I had to be, what, 7
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  years old? Maybe Mike, you know, a little
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  bit older. Rusty was smart enough at that
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  age. Tornadoes coming.
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  Oh my God. I get get my brothers in a safe
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  area. Let's put them in the race car.
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  There's a road cage. Put little 1 Kenny in the seat.
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  There's seatbelts for me. I got one helmet.
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  Let's put the helmet on Mike. Or I forgot who was wearing the
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  helmet. That's Rusty Wallace Smart.
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  Always, always fixing everything for the family.
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  That's Rusty. He's the best.
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  Now I've I've teased about Rusty being rough around the edges,
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  and I want to brag on that too. I wish I was more like Rusty
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  because I want everybody to get along my whole life.
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  I, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a mediator. I'm, I'm somebody.
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  I want people to get along. Rusty, he's like Michael Jordan,
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  the great basketball player. Rusty's like, look, I ain't got
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  time for this. You're in my way.
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  I wished I was more like Rusty. Rusty puts up with 0 bullshit.
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  And that, my friends, is why Rusty is a 55 time NASCAR Cup
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  winner, a champion, a Hall of Famer, 1982 ASA champion, IROC
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  champion. Rusty is simply a badass.
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  He puts up with 0 bullshit. He'll put up a zero year
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  bullshit. And you, you go in one of these
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  years or right at the other, I'll take a I'll take a, a word
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  from Jimmy Spencer. I was sitting on the TV set with
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  Jimmy Spencer one day and Spencer looked at me and he
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  goes, I could have never been as tough as your brother and Dale
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  Senior. I looked at Jimmy Spencer.
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  I said, what do you mean, Spence?
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  He goes Rusty and Dale Junior were the two mentally toughest
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  race car drivers I've ever been around.
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  You know when I say you're not going to get me, that's a
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  tribute to Rusty. You not going to ever get Rusty.
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  Usually when I act silly, it's kind of like, you know, when you
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  used to watch Saturday Night Live and you're like where you
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  know, what was it Dana Carvey or whatever his name was?
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  He do the church lady when I do comedy on here and I'm like, you
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  didn't when I do all that stuff. That's that is something that
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  I've seen that I'm doing. So when I do the deal, you're
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  not going to get me. That's from Rusty.
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  Strong as strong, Rusty Wallace. See that boulder?
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  Rusty's stronger than that boulder.
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  My Big Brother my whole life. I tell my family, I say, listen,
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  you owe our whole life to my brother Rusty.
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  I'm so thankful to have somebody like Rusty that it's ridiculous.
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  I'm proud to brag on my brother. The Wallace family is where
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  we're at because of Rusty, but Michael Andretti is where he's
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  at because of Mario. Dale Junior is where he's at
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  because of Dale Senior. It goes on and on.
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  Bobby Labonte is where he's at because of Big Bob and Terry.
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  It's family. I suppose that's where Hank came
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  up with Hank. What do you drink, Hank?
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  Why do you roll smoke? Why must you live out the songs
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  that you wrote? That song's about his dad.
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  Although it's a catchy song, Listen to the words.
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  Listen to the words. Forget about me singing that
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  song so I can go on and on about Rusty when it came to this place
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  down here. Herman, you need to go to my
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  place in Kabul. Really.
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  What's that about? Brother had no idea he was doing
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  this deal down here. It's kind of like when he
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  retired from race And he, I mean, Rusty's done a lot of
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  things that have surprised me. Happily.
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  Rusty's happily surprised me. He golfs now.
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  But I want to end like this with Big Brother Rusty.
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  And listen, I can tell you a lot more stories about Rusty, But
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  one thing he does right now, and I tell you, I'm just going to
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  tell you what he told me. NASCAR called Rusty.
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  Betty Jane France. I reckon it was one day.
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  I said Rusty. I said, you've been so tough, so
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  hardcore your whole life. You give away so much money.
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  You do so many fundraisers. He said, yeah, Betty Jane called
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  me up, said, hey, now that you're not racing, you want to
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  help the NASCAR Foundation out. I cannot tell you how many
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  millions of dollars Rusty Wallace has raised in charity.
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  So that reminds me, didn't even think of this, but it's a
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  thought right now in August, we're all going to Sturgis and
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  Brick Big Brother Rusty going to have his his charity ride on
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  Friday. Check it out.
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  He's raising money again. And the money goes to NASCAR
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  Foundation and it goes to the local Sturgis, Spearfish Canyon,
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  usually always helping out people that need it.
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  We're going to raise money and we're going to give it to people
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  that need it. That's my Big Brother, Rusty.
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  I think I've told you some things that you don't know about
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  Rusty today. I've always bragged on him.
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  I don't think you ever heard about how smart he is, how he
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  put me and Mike in that race car when we were children.
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  I I don't think I ever told you how what Spencer said to me, but
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  my wife always said you're too nice, Kenny.
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  I said damn, and I know. But then Don Pradom looked at me
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  and he said you can't change your Kenny Wallace.
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  God knows I'd like to be like Rusty.
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  I'll tell you that. That's some bitch that's got it
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  all. He owns his damn house.
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  All right, everybody, I can talk a lot more about Big Brother
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  Rusty, but he will give you shirt right off his back.
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  A boy in his competitive days, if he was in his way, you needed
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  to get out of the way. Love you brother.
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  Love you, Rusty, love you so much.
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  Thank you for giving our whole family the whole Wallace family.
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  We're we're basically following in your footsteps and it's true
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  when you know, when you're you're feeling like this.
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  That was me on your coattails, baby.
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  Look at there Gio in the house. Giovanni.
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  I love you, Gio. I'll end like this.
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  Gio loves his job. He said he he he says I love
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  working for Rusty. I said, well, Gio, what do I
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  call you call me a Butler. He said that he's thrilled to
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  death and be Rusty Wallace's Butler.
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  He said during COVID, Rusty took care of us, he paid us the same.
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  That's Rusty Wallace.