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Michael Jordan's Plane & NASCAR Aviation | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday, everybody. I think it's around 2:00 and
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  you're looking at it. Study it hard.
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  Whose plane is that? Whose plane is that?
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  The GOAT. The greatest of all time,
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  Michael Jordan. Look at that swish on the back
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  right there, huh? Michael Jordan's pilots are
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  inside here at the fixed based operation, we call it the FBOFBO
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  means fixed based operation. So we thought coffee with Kenny
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  would be obviously very late. But look at aviation in NASCAR.
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  These Gladiators race 39 races a year.
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  When you run 39 races a year, you cannot get on commercial
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  airplanes. It just doesn't work that way.
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  These guys get done racing on a Sunday night.
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  They got to be back to the shop on Monday working.
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  They're coming to take me away today.
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  Hey, hey, hey. Everybody's 60-70 years old.
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  You'll know that. Who was that?
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  They're They're coming to take me away today.
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  Hey, hey. Because you know, I'm crazy.
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  But anyway, I'll turn the phone around and I'll explain all the
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  aviation to all of you. Are you ready?
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  Are you ready to look at NASCAR aviation right now?
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  Remember, this is not a waste of money.
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  You can't take all the crew members and put them on
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  commercial airliners. It does not work that way.
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  So when you talk about the cost of NASCAR, you got to realize
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  that this has got to be factored into it, no different than your
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  professional baseball, football, hockey team.
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  They they can't fly commercial because they got a hell, they're
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  playing in Nashville, TN and tomorrow they might have to be
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  out in Anaheim, CA. Are you ready?
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  Put the coffee down. Here we go.
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  Of course, we all know that's the great Michael Jordan's
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  plane. Now, when you look at these blue
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  and white planes over here, there's 123456.
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  Then you got Hendrick planes. Now all the blue and white
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  planes, those carry all the NASCAR teams and even NASCAR
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  officials. So when you get on those planes,
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  it could be anybody. It could be crew members, it
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  could be NASCAR officials, it could be anybody with the sport.
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  Now, when you look here at these 200 Motorsports planes, those
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  are carrying obviously all the other hundred team members.
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  So you see N5O9, RHS Rick Hendrick, you look over here,
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  you're looking at Roger Penske's playing.
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  That would be the captain N 500 PR.
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  That might be the team playing. That's Penske Racing.
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  There it is, the one we've all been waiting for.
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  There's John, my dear friend. He went out.
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  John just done a safety check. He made sure the plane was ready
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  to go. This could be this.
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  Could this could be Kevin Harvick.
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  I don't know. Or Kevin.
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  Kevin could own the plane and he's leasing it.
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  Who knows that is Denny Hamlin's plane, DHR, Denny Hamlin Racing,
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  beautiful plane Denny Hamlin. You go over here, all these are
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  here's Joe Gibbs teams planes. So you got 2 Joe Gibbs planes
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  and remember these seat about I don't know what 6060 people.
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  Once again, you can never look at Michael Jordan's planes too
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  much or plane and 23 six MJ. His pilots are dressed
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  beautifully. His pilots are dressed to the
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  10s. They're in there.
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  They're very mature. They're watching the race.
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  Michael Jordan's pilots are very seriously looking at the race on
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  the TV, and Michael Jordan's pilots are dressed white shirts,
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  ties, NASCAR. It's not that people are
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  wealthy. It's that this is what it takes.
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  I hope you all understand and you don't make fun of this.
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  You don't. I hope you guys don't do that
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  redneck stuff. Oh, if I had that kind of money.
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  No, it ain't about that. This is what it takes, guys.
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  This is what it takes. You know, sometimes we like to
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  dumb NASCAR down like it's dumb, but it's a very, it's a very big
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  sport. We're talking billions and
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  billions of dollars. So Yep, looking good.
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  I used to have a King Air 200. It was a military plane, twin
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  turbos, prop turboprops. We put 10 people in it and all
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  the all the luggage you wanted to.
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  So we loved our airplane. We got rid of it when we knew my
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  racing career was coming to an end.
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  And here's the thing about an airplane.
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  An airplane is a necessary evil. You can only own an airplane if
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  you can afford it. And you know, like Michael
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  Jordan, that guy, you just go watch the movie.
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  Michael Jordan is still making like forty $44 million a year
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  just off of the tennis shoes that you kids buy.
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  So now, on the other hand, when you look at somebody like me,
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  this is what I fly. Don't laugh, don't laugh.
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  That's $1,000,000 airplane, $1 million airplane.
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  Let me tell you a story about this airplane.
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  It's fast, it's got an up to Rusty told me this, Herman,
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  better safe than sorry. So when you live your life,
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  whatever you do, I don't need insurance because I never use
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  it. I said that to my life coach,
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  Ashok Chadgar. I was bitching to Ashok one day.
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  I said I never use my insurance. And Ashok, in that thick Indian,
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  Indian accent, he goes, my friend, this is good.
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  We don't want to use our insurance, do we?
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  Damn, Ashok, you're right. You don't want to use insurance.
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  You have insurance for catastrophic regions.
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  Let me try that again. Hey, Herman, get the out of your
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  mouth. We have insurance for
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  catastrophic failure. So we have a parachute on this
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  plane just in case you need it. Little insurance.
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  We don't want to use it. This is called an SR22.
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  All right, I hope you all enjoyed this.
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  There's Denny Hamlin, there's John, John's Katoni.
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  Somebody came up to me and they said, Herman, you need to do
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  more videos with John's Katoni. I said, all right, so John's
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  Katoni is going to be on Kenny Conversation.
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  There's way more to John than a lot of people know.
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  John holds a world's record. My friend, my pilot investor.
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  John holds a world's record. He's in the Guinness Book of
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  World Records. This man right here, he holds
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  the Guinness Book of World Records.
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  He landed in 48 states in 38 hours, and he was on WGN News.
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  So we're going to have John on John, are you excited?
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  Come on, Kenny Conversation. I have never been more excited
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  about anything in my whole life. And we're going to talk about
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  everything you've done. We ready to go?
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  We're ready to go. All right, see y'all later.