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Some of The Greatest NASCAR Drivers Ever Are Broke! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  With a little patience, happy. What is?
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  No, it's Monday. Hell, I thought it was Friday
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  for a minute 'cause I feel good like you knew that I would now.
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  Alright, it's Monday. I am leaving for Hot Planet
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  baby. I'm going down there for Fox
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  Factory. They make that the Black Widow
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  truck. Here's that bad boy right there,
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  boy, I'll tell you what they take.
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  They take a stock Dodge, Ram, Chevrolet, Ford, whatever it is,
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  and the warranty all stays good. And they take that stock truck.
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  They run it across and they pimp that baby out and it's really
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  nice. And I've enjoyed my Black Widow
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  'cause I have been towing my my Jags Performers dirt car all
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  year long with that bad boy. So I'm going to go down to
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  Atlanta, do some commercials for them and I don't know what
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  they're ever going to do with them, but I'll be down at the
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  Atlanta Motor Speedway for Fox Factory in that Black Widow, a
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  brand truck. All right, well, we just going
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  to keep on rolling with the flow.
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  I got my Angel raising kids who raising hell just like I did.
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  I'd say singing morning everybody all right.
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  So last night we had one person say he was teasing he said
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  Herman, you're winning all in dirt races because you still got
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  that NASCAR money. I've, I've never had so much fun
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  with something as I have with that.
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  We, we created a logo and said it's Kenny Wallace, but we had
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  like the NASCAR logo with money dropping off.
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  So anyway, on a serious note, you know, I've said this before,
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  but just a reminder and I decided to go ahead and talk
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  about this because I think it'll help people.
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  I really do. And, you know, sometimes people
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  equate money to to, you know, winning everything.
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  So last night Kim and I got on Netflix and this this Netflix
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  special really affected me. It was all about nature boy, Ric
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  Flair or his real name, Ric Fleer FLEIHR.
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  Anyway, did you know that that Ric Flair is still living?
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  But it was, it hurt my heart a little bit for nature.
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  Boy, what a legend. Wow.
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  Everybody knows I've always, you know, enjoyed celebrating, you
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  know, Ric Flair with my little dance and, you know,
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  championship belt. But Rick.
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  Rick got himself in trouble because he didn't take care of
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  his money. And so I want to, I want to talk
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  about money for a little bit just because I want to teach you
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  all something that I learned years ago.
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  Well, you know, I was born right here.
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  Hell, this property that I bought, I used to pass as a as a
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  kid on school bus. I'd come right by here and I,
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  and there was 2 houses on this property.
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  So years later I come back, they put me in the Fox High School
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  Hall of Fame and I bought this property.
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  Really strange for me to grow up as a child and, and not have any
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  money. And you know, I would cash soda
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  bottles in and ride up to the McDonald's.
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  You know, first of all, we go to 711, cash the soda bottles and
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  get that money, go to McDonald's.
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  And, and I'll never forget when I was a kid, I'm like, one of
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  these days I'm going to grow up and instead of getting a, a
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  hamburger, small fries and a small Coke.
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  And I was serious. I'm serious when I say this.
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  I said one of these days when I grow up I'm going to get me a
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  Big Mac, large fry and large coke.
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  Can't make that shit up. I'm serious.
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  So because of my early days of not having any money, when I got
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  my first money, whether it's my first job repairing vacuum
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  cleaners or cleaning, cleaning sewers out you, you could find
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  me in the city streets in Saint Louis.
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  What my first job was, I worked for Arnold Reuter, but we had a,
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  we had a, my job was to clean out the manholes under the
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  ground could see telephone wires run underground in the city.
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  Think about it. You don't see any telephone
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  poles in the city. So what you would do is you
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  would run the telephone wires underground in the city, in the
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  city. Everything's a song today,
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  Herman Yes, it is. Told you there's three of me,
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  but two right now because I'm answering myself.
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  So anyway, all my friends used to come by and see me in the mid
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  80s because I graduated high school in 81.
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  And I would, I would pump the water out of the manholes and
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  then I would maintain them. I would ground them so they
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  would not electrocute. I put new steps in them.
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  I'd clean them out with dawn dishwashing.
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  Anyway, my friends would see me down there.
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  So here's the point. Money was a big deal to me.
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  I always saved it when I was a kid.
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  I had grown-ups wanting to borrow money from me before I
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  ever went NASCAR. So you can bet your sweet ass
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  when I started making big money I rabbit hole it, I squirreled
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  my money away. So watching that Ric Flair deal
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  last night, I thought, you know, I know a lot of NASCAR racers to
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  this day, they were way better than me, but I got a lot more
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  money than them. And here's why.
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  Because they always felt like the money was going to be there
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  because they were doing so good. Some of my closest NASCAR
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  friends, they'll confide in me and I'll tell them how much
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  money I'll have. No, like, holy crap, how'd you
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  do that? I said, well, it's pretty
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  simple. I saved all my money.
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  I invested in real estate, then I cashed out.
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  I sold all my real estate, then put that money in the stock
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  market at 19,000. And today the stock market's up
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  to 42. So here's the lesson today, you
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  don't have to win everything to have money.
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  You have to be smart. More people when they win
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  everything. You mean one of the greatest
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  stories of all time? It's a cautionary tale.
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  Was Darryl Strawberry, the great New York Mets baseball player.
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  This guy had more money than anybody and ended up broke as a
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  joke because, yeah, you get an entourage around you and you
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  start handing money out, then all of a sudden you don't save
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  for a rainy day. And then Brother Rusty taught me
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  the biggest, biggest lesson in my life.
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  And Bobby Allison, you know, spun out, had that left her flat
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  at Pocono, Bobby Allison spun out that tunnel turn and Bobby
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  Allison sadly got hit the door. That changes life.
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  Forever, brother. Rusty looked at me, Goes Herman.
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  Hope for the best. Hope, hope for the best.
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  Prepare for the worst. Hope for the best.
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  Prepare for the worst. So I've always lived my life
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  very negatively with money. You will never, ever see my last
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  dollar. That's a how.
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  That's how afraid I am of going broke.
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  I will never be broke ever, because I never acquired the
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  success that I wanted. So I didn't win one NASCAR race,
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  not one. And I'm and I'm worth millions
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  and millions. Let me see million million
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  million million million million million million million million
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  dollars. Stop and think about that.
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  Let that be a lesson. And I want to encourage
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  everybody that that you can do that too.
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  I never won one NASCAR race. Well, I won nine Xfinity races,
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  but I got invested in real estate and all my friends that
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  won a lot. They're broke.
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  Broke as a son of a bitch. So Darrell Strawberry and Ric
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  Flair, their stories are, what are they?
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  They're cautionary tales. I hope that inspires all of you.
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  Just do good with your money.