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Here's How Racing is Different For Me Now · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning to everybody, man.
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  I'll tell you what it is. Standing room only here in the
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  living room. There's the queen over there.
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  Look, 222 of my bosses. My Mama.
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  If she tells me to jump, I gotta jump.
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  If Kim tells me to jump, I got to jump.
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  And my other boss, Louie. Louie, there he is.
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  Charlie Marlow. Charlie, what are we doing
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  today? We are, to quote Dave Portnoy
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  and Barstow. We're unboxing.
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  We're unboxing the 100,000 subscriber YouTube trophy.
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  That's right. But all right, coffee with Kenny
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  this morning. First of all, they all invaded
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  my space. I made a coffee and I was
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  sitting on the couch and they all start showing up.
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  So Matthew Elder, he's a local racer.
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  This this coffee with Kenny is for Matthew Elder.
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  Matthew came by the shop and I gave him 3 tires that had one
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  race on them, 20 lap feature. And Matthew just sent me this
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  long, long, maybe 3 inch beautiful text.
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  You can tell he put a lot of effort into it.
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  And he said, Kenny, he said, I see how hard you work, you know,
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  as a 60 year old man. And I, he says, I see how you go
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  and win these races as a 60 year old man.
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  And, and it was really a unique thought process.
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  And I said, OK, I'll do the coffee with Kenny for you.
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  He said, what is the difference between the effort that you put
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  in when you won those nine NASCAR races when you were
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  racing for a living in NASCAR between now?
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  You know, my my mom used to have this little statue sitting on
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  our coffee table. It was and it was The thinker.
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  Some of you older people will remember the Thinker.
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  And it was a statue. And the statue was like this.
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  So you know, the great Dick Trickle was a philosopher, too.
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  I think a lot of you are catching on now.
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  This is the one. Don't get mad at me.
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  Blame it on her. The reason I'm the way I am is
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  because of this one. If you're around her at all, you
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  go, oh, now I know why Kenny's the way.
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  He is her. I'm a carbon copy of her.
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  So I am a thinker. I'm a philosopher.
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  I can come along. I can come across as a goofy
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  bastard, but I'm super smart. I've been breaking my arms so
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  much lately. Hey, calm down, calm down.
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  We having fun? I said on another video
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  yesterday, I had a couple people going that Wallace has been
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  sarcastic. I don't know if I like him.
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  We're having fun. We're having fun.
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  You know, when people like to bring, you know, debate in
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  school, that's, you know, debate.
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  You know these to battle debates.
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  Come on, let's battle. I'm going to be right.
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  It's called debate class. So that's where we get it right.
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  You want to be right and I want to be right.
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  So I make fun of it. I'm right, you're wrong.
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  You're a dumb ass. I'm the best.
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  She goes, oh, you should hear yourself.
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  I said I do. I do hear myself, Mama.
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  I love me. So anyway, this is for Matthew
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  Elder. Matthew, I'm 60 years old and I
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  went through that period where I should quit.
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  And then I talked to the greatest race car drivers to
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  ever live. I talked to Don Perdom.
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  I talked to Walker Evans, 12 time off road champion.
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  I talked to Kenny Schrader. They all said to me, Oh my God,
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  don't quit racing because if you quit racing you're going to miss
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  it so much. I had my whole family on my ass
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  to stop racing and it was my own family.
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  It was that one over there, Kim, my daughter.
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  They all said no dad we don't want you to stop racing because
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  we think you'll go crazy, but we just want you to slow down and
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  attend our daughters birthdays and things like that.
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  So here's my answer. I'm long winded.
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  I know you all tell me that too and I'll get I'm getting to the
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  point now. The difference between me back
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  in my NASCAR days as a race car driver and me now is now I don't
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  beat myself up as bad when I run bad.
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  So if I run bad now, I mean by the time I'm loading the race
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  car up, I'm over it. Although it does bother me.
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  So years ago when I was in NASCAR and I did bad, you can
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  you can ask that one over there. It was devastating.
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  So when I did bad in NASCAR, I would break out and welts on my
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  neck and in in my career was over and I was going to live
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  under a bridge in a cardboard box.
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  It was I don't want you to go through it because NASCAR is the
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  highest form of Motorsports there is.
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  And here I am a little redneck kid out of Missouri, and I'm
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  thinking, holy shit, I made it the NASCAR.
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  So anything that happened to me when I raced the NASCAR was God
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  awful, just horrible, because that's where I made all my
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  money. OK, so that's your answer,
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  Matthew. I'm not going to belabor the
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  point. Nowadays I work, I work as hard
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  on my race car right now at 60 years old than I did back then.
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  And the difference is just that I'm not going to keep explaining
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  to myself I'm bad at repeating myself.
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  Finally, here's the difference between now, now and then.
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  Now when I run bad, I'm over it. Don't bother me because I'm at
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  the end of my career anyway. Back then, I could never, never
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  got over to. To this day, it still bothers me
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  that I never won a Cup race, but I run second three times and I'm
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  still a badass. I'm still a badass.
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  And I'll tell you who taught me that, Mark Martin, he would say,
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  Herman, you are the man. Mark Martin is a badass and he
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  carries himself like that and that's why he likes that rap
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  music. So you got to tie all this shit
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  together. There's a lot of psychology that
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  goes into athletes. Listen to the Demi Hamlin
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  conversation. All athletes got to have that
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  edge. And if you don't think you're
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  somebody, you'll lose. Even if you're quiet, you still
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  got to think on the inside. I'm going to kick their ass.
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  So I don't run around the pits going.
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  I'm going to kick your ass. I stay in my own trailer and I
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  race. She likes that because she's a
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  badass. She watched my mom watched that
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  Kenny conversation with Danica Patrick.
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  OK, speak up a little bit. Tell me about that Danica
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  Patrick conversation. I just loved it.
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  I, I, I, I just loved it. I love her grit.
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  I love her determination. I hate all the bad ass guys that
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  got on her case. Mom, they're they're male
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  chauvinist. They don't have a clue.
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  They sit on their ass. Well, somebody should tell him.
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  But anyhow, I I it was a super super super.
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  Conversation. My mom was a race car driver.
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  That's why I like Hayley Deegan. Mom raced.
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  She won everything. I don't know what to say about
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  that. I said it all, all right?
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  We made Charlie happy. We're they 8 minutes and 30
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  seconds got to go?