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I Have Something Important To Say · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Swore I put my hand on the Bible.
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  I am not going to do a coffee with Kenny today.
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  And then all of a sudden Uncle Bob's in town.
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  I sit on the couch with Kim's mom, Dee, and we start talking
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  about always being in a hurry. Uh, urgency.
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  And I want to share this with you all.
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  I grew up in a family where my brother Rusty.
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  Now first of all hold on. It was bad enough that I was
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  born and diagnosed hyperactive by psychiatrist.
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  They they sent me. They said Kenny talk about
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  myself now remember there's three of me so it's fair.
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  It's fair game there's three of me.
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  So I get to talk about me They they said that Kenny he he's a
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  good kid but he he's always, always seeking attention and I
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  was you know diagnosed hyperactive.
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  They said I had a sibling rivalry anyway.
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  I'm all I'm all messed up that's not where I'm going with this.
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  Where I'm going is I was born hyperactive.
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  I wear myself out. I've told you all before I've
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  looked in the mirror and said would you shut the fuck up
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  Herman. Jesus.
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  I wear myself out. Now Fast forward my brother
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  Rusty, my nephew Steven. I would say us three.
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  Mike is calm, but Rusty and Steven and me, we are like the
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  three Amigos. We're crazy in real, you know,
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  crazy people can be successful because we think differently
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  than all the normal people. So anyway, this is about urgency
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  and there's that fine line. So when we would work in the
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  race shop, I mean, Rusty's, we're racing, USAC, we're racing
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  AJ Foyt, We're going to Milwaukee, we're out running AJ
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  Foyt. Rusty's making a name for
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  himself. We're going to Milwaukee.
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  We beat AJ Foyt, we beat Joe Rutman.
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  And we're in the shop and it's 8:00 at night.
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  OK, You you see that right there?
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  That's that's 20 feet from me. Rusty would say, Herman, go grab
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  me a nine sixteenths wrench. If I walked to that toolbox.
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  If I walked to it. Damn it.
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  Run, run. Damn.
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  You see, my face brings back memories.
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  Everything we did back in those days with was with urgency.
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  I mean, we're talking 8:00 at night on a Tuesday night.
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  We're just working. Everything we did was with
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  urgency. Hurry, run.
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  I mean, it was run all the time. Run, run, run, run, run.
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  I often thought to myself as I got older and I probably, I
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  probably got deep into my 30s. I thought, if I keep this pace
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  up, is it going to be hard on my heart?
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  When my heart start pounding, I'm wearing my heart out.
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  Is it going to be hard on my my joints?
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  I don't know yet. I still feel really good at 60
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  years old, but I am able to calm myself down.
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  When people say they they'll, you know, when I'm being
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  interviewed, they'll say what don't people know about Kenny
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  Wallace that you want them to know?
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  I'm like, well, what I want people to know is I love
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  massages, I love candles and I do like to relax and I falls.
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  I fall dead asleep when I go to bed.
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  I don't need nothing. I don't need no pills.
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  I don't cut no shit in half and take a quarter of a pill.
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  I hear these stories. I hear them.
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  I'm not making fun of them. I'm just saying I I think I go
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  so hard the day that when I go to bed at night, I'm like, the
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  last thing I hear is my eyelids shut.
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  So respond right here. What kind of person are you?
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  I read. I read a book by Tony Larussa,
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  the Great manager for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
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  He says when we compete in sports, you do with urgency,
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  there's no time. And then Kobe Bryant said what's
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  the, you know, what's the biggest, you know, what's the
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  biggest crock of shit? And he said people thinking we
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  have time. So I believe there's different
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  times, right? In other words, boy, we need to,
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  we need to, we need to cut this grass.
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  Well, it might mean tomorrow, not right now, that that's two
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  different times, right? Or you know, there's a tornado
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  coming. We need to get to our basement.
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  That's right now. So there's different things in
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  timing. Now the reason I'm bringing this
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  subject up is I I think I've been able to master calming
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  down. Yes, I do put on a show and yes
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  I'm crazy and yes they took me off for it when and I've learned
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  hell, I'll get in a race car now and I'll say a prayer to calm my
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  calm myself down. All right.
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  Just want to let you all know that there's here's what this
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  video is all about. There's two different urgencies
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  and I explained them to you. So for all my crazies out there,
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  all my crazy people like me breathe.
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  They've checked my blood pressure before races and they
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  said Kenny Wallace, how are you able to stay so calm but appear
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  so crazy? And I said I can calm myself
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  down.