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My Friend Was a Proud American, Then He Opened The Door To His Truck | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody.
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  I learned a lot yesterday. On Wednesday, I did coffee with
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  Kenny. We talked about my new Toyota
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  Tundra right there. We talked all about it and then
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  we talked a little NASCAR. But what surprised me was the
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  pickup truck became the topic of conversation.
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  I quickly learned that when you talk with people about something
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  everybody you know can talk about like, you know, I got a
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  car, everybody's got a car. So we talked about it.
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  Quickly there became an argument about the most American made
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  vehicle. So that is today's topic of
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  conversation. Did you know if you Google right
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  now and you say the most American made truck, do you know
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  what it is? Because I do.
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  I know what the most American made truck is.
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  It's a Honda. Oh my God, it's a Honda.
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  A Honda is the most American made truck.
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  And I think I said to myself, hell, I've never seen a Honda.
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  So after I did coffee with Kenny yesterday, I went up to Channel
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  2 to do a nice little interview. And as I'm going up, sure
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  enough, there's a Gray Honda pickup truck.
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  And I just looked and I thought, oh, it's probably like a Nissan.
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  I'm like, Nope, it's a Honda. So I got to tell you a story
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  about pickup trucks. Let's take a drink of coffee.
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  You'll love this story, or maybe you won't.
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  I'm thinking that you all and myself, we were formed.
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  You know what? When you're, when you're a, when
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  you're a child, you're molded, right?
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  So if your family's got Chevrolets like mine did back in
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  the day, it's like I'm a Chevrolet guy.
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  I was born in 1963 about one mile down the road here, grew up
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  in Arnold, MO, and I'll never forget being a kid like I'm a
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  Chevrolet guy. Chevrolet.
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  Well, as I grew up, I got a little wiser.
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  You know, there's an old saying, be careful.
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  Don't get too close to your heroes or friends.
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  They'll disappoint you. So through my racing career,
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  I've been very, very lucky and I know it.
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  But I grew up so middle class, didn't have anything that
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  whatever I get nowadays, I deserve it.
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  I deserve everything I get because I put I put my time in,
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  I paid my dues and I give a lot of money away to everybody.
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  So I give money away. I take care of everybody.
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  I love the Lord so I deserve what I get too.
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  I told my wife the other day, don't be so humble that you're
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  down on yourself all the time. I was teasing my wife.
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  We went to bed. I said look at me and say I am
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  awesome. She would've said.
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  I said look at me. She looked and I said say I am
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  awesome. Positive mental attitude.
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  I don't buy into that where you demean yourself to act humble.
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  I'm humble. I'm very humble.
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  I ask anybody around me. All right, So I bought the
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  pickup truck that I wanted to because I am awesome and I
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  deserve it. It reminds me of this Saturday
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  Night Live skit. So this story right here, a
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  puncher right in the mouth. It's it's unbelievable and it is
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  so true. It's unreal.
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  I have a dear friend. His name is Lauren Wright.
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  Lauren right now has dementia, and he's alive and I love him so
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  much, and I miss him so much. And he remembers me every once
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  in a while. It kind of goes in and out.
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  So whoever's listen to this and knows my buddy Lauren Wright,
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  please know that we grew up as children together.
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  Truly one of my lifelong friends of life.
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  Probably my Lauren's my oldest friend ever, I think.
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  Yeah, I think he is. So anyway, Lauren is, is a good
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  union man. Work for Laclede gas.
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  It's called Spire now. But and I, we always had fun
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  with that. You know how great unions are.
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  And Lauren would teach me a lot. He'd say, yeah, he says, man,
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  we, we had this one speaker and he and he stood up in front of
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  everybody and he says, guys, it's too late for me, but it's
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  not too late for you. Put your money away.
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  You know they teach you that in the union.
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  Put your money away. Match your 4O1K and Lauren.
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  Lauren did it and Lauren has a nice little nest egg.
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  Put away. This is what Lauren told me.
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  His wife's Terry and all the kids are watching this right
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  now. I love you guys.
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  I love the Wright family. They're wonderful people.
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  So anyway, you know, Lauren is rah rah and me too.
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  I'm we're all, we're flying the American flag.
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  We love America. Now, mind you, I'm a race car
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  driver and I've drove for all these, you know, I've drove for
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  Ford, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Toyota, and they've all been
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  wonderful to me. All the automakers, they're
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  wonderful and I love them all. I truly do.
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  I love Chevrolet, I love Ford. Pontiac's gone.
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  They were bad ass. So anyway, me and my buddy
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  Lauren, we're talking about America, and I'm sitting here,
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  you know, sipping my coffee. I said, Lauren, you know how
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  much I love you, right? Oh yeah, man, we tied.
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  I said, do me a favor, open to the door.
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  Open the door to that brand new Chevrolet pickup truck you just
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  bought. And I said right there it will
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  say made in. So Lauren goes over there, opens
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  the door to his nice new Chevrolet pickup truck, and he
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  puts his head down and he turns around.
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  He goes, I said, I already know this mother made in Mexico.
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  I said. I said I got a better one for
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  you. You can open up a lot of doors
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  to these Chevrolet pickup trucks and they're made in Canada.
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  Be careful don't get don't get too close to your heroes.
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  They will disappoint you. So most likely you were born in
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  your your your family and you were molded and Chevrolet and
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  Ford and rah rah, be careful. Don't open up the doors to your
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  vehicles. And then he then you asked
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  yourself, why don't they build these son of a bitches in
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  America? Because they don't want to pay
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  the labor. They go to other countries and
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  they get cheap labor. Be careful, don't get too close
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  to your heroes, they'll disappoint you.