Latest / Kenny Wallace Media / Pick Up The Phone So You Don't Die With Guilt | Coffee With Kenny

Transcript

Pick Up The Phone So You Don't Die With Guilt | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

• 0:02
  Fast like a NASCAR race car. Fast like a NASCAR race car.
• 0:10
  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
• 0:14
  Tate Bomber from up there in Wisconsin.
• 0:17
  He's a buddy of mine. He's off centered just like I
• 0:21
  am. That's why I like him.
• 0:23
  Hi, Tate. So he sends me this video from
• 0:28
  YouTube out of nowhere, just sends me a video and I click on
• 0:31
  it and it it's 17 years old. It's a rapper.
• 0:36
  And he's like fast, like a nice car, race car fast.
• 0:41
  I said Tate is it's goofy as hell, but it's kind of catchy.
• 0:45
  He goes, Yep, Oh, it was funny, man.
• 0:50
  All right, King Louie on his perch today.
• 0:55
  Today's topic is it might not go 8 minutes.
• 0:58
  We'll we'll see how it goes, but you know, I told Charlie Marlowe
• 1:05
  Charlie every coffee with Kenny is not going to be a winner.
• 1:09
  They're all not going to get thousands of views and it's hard
• 1:14
  for me to talk racing all the time.
• 1:18
  I'm, I can talk racing 99% of the time, but you know, I'm, I
• 1:25
  am a, I'm not a great philosopher, but I am I, I
• 1:31
  remember and I'm a good study. I study stuff.
• 1:35
  So returning people's phone calls, the older you get.
• 1:46
  I want to address this subject. I realize that, you know, we all
• 1:52
  don't want to return some phone calls and some phone calls we
• 1:55
  want to return. Let me explain myself.
• 2:00
  So there are people. Now listen, I I've addressed
• 2:06
  this subject two years ago and I remember when I did.
• 2:09
  But this, this one's a little different.
• 2:13
  Chris Blair, the general manager of the Worldwide Technology
• 2:18
  racer. Chris is a good friend of mine
• 2:21
  and I addressed this subject couple years ago and he calls me
• 2:24
  and he goes, hey, I always return your phone calls.
• 2:26
  I said yes you do, yes you do. However, there are a group of
• 2:33
  people that think that if they take their time returning a
• 2:37
  phone call that that makes them look busy and it makes them, you
• 2:41
  know, in their own mind they think they're big time.
• 2:45
  Well, it makes me think you're unorganized and you don't got
• 2:48
  your together. You should easily be able to
• 2:51
  return a phone call that day, OK, If not a quick text.
• 2:57
  You're you're not that important.
• 3:00
  You are not that important. OK.
• 3:03
  I don't care who you are. I don't care if you're Jeff
• 3:06
  Gordon. You're Ray Everingham.
• 3:07
  You're Ray Kennedy's Rodger Penske returns my calls all the
• 3:11
  time. Yes.
• 3:13
  So you're not that. You're not that important.
• 3:16
  All right, Just remember, I just those are not the names.
• 3:20
  I'm just saying those are famous people.
• 3:22
  So they all return my call. But there's a there there's
• 3:26
  something that that bothered me that I did.
• 3:32
  And I don't want you all to make the same mistake.
• 3:38
  My dad and the great Dick Trickle and I'm guilty of this
• 3:44
  and I want to share my guilt with you.
• 3:49
  Dick Trickle late in his life when he would call me, I knew, I
• 3:54
  knew it would be a one hour phone call.
• 3:56
  And there's times that I didn't have an hour because I was
• 3:59
  young. I was in NASCAR steel and I was
• 4:02
  in the game. It pains me to this day that
• 4:06
  sometimes I'd look down and it would be Dick calling and I'm
• 4:08
  like, damn, you know, I'm in the garage area.
• 4:13
  You know, I'm somewhere. But I should have took that
• 4:16
  phone call, said, hey, Dick, I'm in the garage area.
• 4:20
  So Tuesday night I'm in the movie theater, my insurance man,
• 4:26
  Adam Callaway. Adam calls me and I, you know,
• 4:31
  the previews are starting. I answer is Adam, I'm in the
• 4:35
  movies. Oh, shoot, man, sorry.
• 4:37
  Let you go then. Oh, Ryan Hamilton, a good friend
• 4:44
  of mine, race car driver from around here calls me.
• 4:48
  I don't answer it, but I look down.
• 4:50
  He goes, sorry, forgot it's movie night.
• 4:55
  You see what I'm saying? If you're not going to answer
• 4:58
  somebody's call, just respond. Say something.
• 5:03
  Don't do like I did. You know, I should have said, I
• 5:08
  should have texted back real quick.
• 5:09
  I should have said something to Dick Trickle.
• 5:13
  Now I I answered his calls 99% of the time, but there's a
• 5:16
  couple times I didn't because I didn't have the time and I knew
• 5:20
  that it was going to be an hour long phone call.
• 5:24
  Same with my dad Russ. To this day, I, I still feel
• 5:29
  some guilt, but I'm OK with dad because Dad and myself, we'd go
• 5:33
  to lunch just about every week, every other week at Mcalister's
• 5:36
  Deli. They're on Bruton Smith Blvd.
• 5:41
  But there's a handful of you out there that need to hear this.
• 5:46
  When you get old like me, you get to be 62 years old.
• 5:49
  A lot of people want attention. They're bored and they're
• 5:53
  thinking, you know what, Now this is the most important part
• 5:57
  of this. I want you to hear.
• 6:00
  When you're heroes like AJ Foyd, Mario Andretti, when they get
• 6:05
  older, you know what's going on in their head.
• 6:08
  They're like, you know what, I've been in a hurry my whole
• 6:12
  life. Now that I'm retired and I don't
• 6:15
  compete anymore, I'm going to call some of my friends that I
• 6:18
  neglected. Sometimes some of those friends
• 6:24
  are younger and they're busy. Always answer people's calls
• 6:31
  now. If you don't like them, I get
• 6:32
  it. Don't answer them, you know, Or
• 6:35
  if you're busy and you can't answer, you can't answer it.
• 6:38
  Don Perdon calls me all the time.
• 6:40
  I answer. I answer it every time.
• 6:43
  The snakes retired. Hey, Don, somebody's going to
• 6:48
  tell you about this and you're going to be listening to this.
• 6:51
  I answer everybody's calls all the time because it's the right
• 6:58
  thing to do and we're not too busy.
• 7:03
  Well, we're at 7 minutes and 11 seconds and I'm done.
• 7:06
  But I'm going to go ahead and stroke it out because that would
• 7:08
  make Charlie happy. I'm sorry that this is not about
• 7:13
  racing. I'm sorry it's not about
• 7:15
  controversy. But sometimes in life, you know,
• 7:20
  it's not always about what you're doing.
• 7:22
  It's not always about racing, racing, racing.
• 7:27
  You know, it's a light. It's like people that make hit
• 7:30
  songs all they got all these hit songs and they make a song that
• 7:34
  they just wanted to make and it's not a hit, but it's got to
• 7:37
  be made. And all the other people in the
• 7:40
  music industry was like, man, I dig that song and nobody likes
• 7:44
  it because man, I just had to make that song.
• 7:46
  It's a good song. So with today, this is something
• 7:50
  that I had to say. So my message to all of you is
• 7:54
  pick the mother fucking phone up one way or the other and he
• 8:00
  can't pick it up. Respond quickly with why you
• 8:02
  can't pick it up. I don't want you to regret it
• 8:05
  like I did. Have a great Thursday,
• 8:09
  everybody.