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Stop Complaining About Electric Vehicles & My Xfinity Starts Record Will Be Broken | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday, everybody. Man, it is beautiful in St.
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  Louis, MO 70° song of the day. I'm gonna I'm gonna say the
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  words wrong so you can straighten me out.
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  Respond right here. I've been downtown.
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  Voices carry. Oh, and out of Sabu Dhabi voices
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  Carrie. All right, look at there.
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  No snow anywhere. We back baby.
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  Damn, it's been nice for like 5 days.
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  OK, I am getting ready in the morning.
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  Saturday morning I'm headed down to Austin, TX for trackside
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  live, so I will see you there Sunday morning, Sunday morning
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  this Sunday, 11:00 to 12:00 and boy, we got some great drivers
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  interview. So I'm excited about that.
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  Danny Hamlin or as or as Juan Pablo Montoya say, I see Danny
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  Hanglin. All right, couple things I'd
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  like to address today. We're having fun, first of all,
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  so don't get jacked up on sun Drop on me, OK?
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  Number one thing is electric. It's electric.
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  That's a song too. Electric race cars.
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  Innocently, I was very innocent. Innocently, I went down to Saint
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  Louis University to see these young, brilliant students
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  designed their own little electric race car just a little
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  bit bigger than a go Kart, kind of like a buggy.
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  And I did a beautiful YouTube special on it.
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  I posted everything right here on X.
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  And it's, it's funny how people get angry right away when they
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  don't believe in something, you know, anymore.
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  If I don't believe in something, I just, I just, I just don't
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  even say anything. It's like, it's like, let's say
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  I, let's say I don't believe in electric cars.
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  Well, I just, I just keep on scrolling.
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  If I'm reading the paper, if I'm watching, I just scroll.
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  Just keep on going or watch, watch something.
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  However, there are some people that decided to tell me, you
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  know, I innocently announced, hey, I'm going to Saint Louis
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  University to see these young brilliant kids design and race
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  this little electric race car. Well, I, I got attacked by two
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  people. I don't like electric Wallace.
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  That's dumb. If I ever see an electric car,
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  I'll never watch racing again. People are wired.
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  Some people are wired to argue right away.
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  I'm like, my Lord, all I said as I was going to Saint Louis
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  University to see these young students design and race and
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  compete against other schools. This electric, you know, go
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  Kart, you know, it's a little bit bigger than a go Kart.
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  So that that leads me to this up in my race shop or at your
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  house, they make electric lawn mowers, electric blowers to blow
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  the dirt off of your driveway. They make electric impacts.
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  If you go to any NASCAR race right now and go into the garage
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  area. If you go into a NASCAR garage
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  area, all the tools we use are electric.
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  I don't know anybody that has a look at that.
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  Did you see that damn fly laying right on my head?
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  He's blessing me this morning. But I mean, you go to any
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  garage, I bet. I bet in well, first of all, if
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  you have a well, how do you make a drill?
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  How do you make a gas drill, dummy?
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  I'm thinking to myself, do you have a drill in your house?
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  Is it on a cord? That means that's electric.
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  You know, you got to plug into your home.
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  So be careful hating everything electric because everything we
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  have right now is electric. Now we do have cars that run on
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  gas and diesel fuel, but everything we use in racing the,
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  you know, the electric impact, the electric, everything's
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  electric. So here's the last thing I have
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  to say about electric. OK, calm down.
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  We were all and, and I, I did not like people telling us that
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  you must, you must have all electric car.
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  That's I didn't like that. You know, out there in
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  California, they're saying, you know, there there was a law at
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  one time by 2040, all cars have to be electric.
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  I'm like, you don't have a big enough electric grid to hold all
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  electric cars, so quit talking stupid.
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  So anyway, here's what I had to say about electric.
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  Electric is awesome. Let the kids alone let them
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  design an electric car. Just don't tell me what to do.
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  That's what that's about. Don't tell me that the only
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  choice I have is an electric car.
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  That's all that was about. But electric is awesome OK, I
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  see people driving around in Teslas they're beautiful cars
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  and there and I got an electric blower I got electric impact.
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  I got electric grill drill Hey, do they make electric grills?
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  I guess they do, huh OK, I think I made my point so respond right
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  here. My bottom line is there's
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  nothing wrong with electric. Just don't tell me what I have
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  to do to make you happy because you know you're doing what you
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  want to do too. All right, I saw something come
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  up yesterday that made me smile and I want to respond.
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  I just all of a sudden I'm seeing all these people on X on
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  social media going wow, Kenny Wallace, I didn't know you, you
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  were that great. I said hold on, I'm not great,
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  I'm good. So the point is this Dustin
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  Long, NASCAR media, Dustin Long put out a post yesterday that ma
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  me, Kenny Wallace has the most NASCAR Xfinity starts at 5:47.
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  It's funny because it's like, you know, he makes this up to
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  date, you know, 2024 post. What is it, 2025?
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  My God, time's flying. And up there at the top, it's
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  me, Kenny Wallace 547 starts. Don't make me read the rest of
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  the stats, but the top fives and the top tens are pretty good
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  too. And then the story is Jeremy
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  Clements will make his 500th NASCAR Xfinity start this week
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  at Circuit of the America. So congratulations to Jeremy
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  Clement making his 500th NASCAR Xfinity start.
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  I was going to joke. Keep trying, little buddy,
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  you'll get there. Somebody said that to me years
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  ago. I'm just stealing it.
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  I believe it was Michael Waltrip.
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  I got the like 900 NASCAR starts and he said keep trying little
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  buddy, you'll get there 'cause Mikey's got like, you know, 1000
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  or I don't know, he's got a lot of starts.
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  But then they also said Justin Algar at I think at the roll,
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  maybe it's Charlotte, Justin Algar, we'll get to 500 NASCAR
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  Xfinity starts. So I was honored kind of made me
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  smile. And here here's my response to
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  that. Remember that I ran 300 and
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  something cup starts too. So all together, as I remind you
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  all, that's 905 NASCAR starts. It is kind of neat for the young
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  group, you know, the generation gap, the people that don't know
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  about me, they're like Kenny Wallace raced in NASCAR.
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  That much it reminds me of brother Rusty Herman.
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  It's sad to say. You got to remind them, 'cause
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  they remember what they want to. So yes, I am the mayor of the
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  NASCAR Xfinity Series and yes, it does feel good and I will be
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  honored to pass over the baton next year because there's not
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  enough races this year for them to get to my mark of 547.
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  However, I will be honored to go to the NASCAR Xfinity race and
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  congratulate Jeremy Clements and not long later congratulate
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  Justin Allgaier. Now, Justin Allgaier's father
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  has called me two times about it.
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  So it is very important to Justin Allgaier to break my
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  record. I will respond like this.
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  Remember, I'm still the greatest.
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  Can't help it, guys. It's all about competition.
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  And if I would have stayed in the Xfinity Series that long,
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  I'd have had 9900 starts, right? 800, something like that.
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  So congratulations to Jeremy Clements, your 500th NASCAR
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  Xfinity start this weekend. And yes, next year I will come
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  and hand over the baton to Jeremy Clements and Justin Agar.
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  All right, everybody, I think that's it.
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  We talked about electric and longevity, and let me leave you
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  with this. There's only one way you run
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  that many NASCAR starts. You got to get sponsors.
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  You got to stay in the game. So I'm very proud of my
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  longevity. I was in NASCAR a long time and
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  I'm still around. Have a great Friday, everybody.