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The Time Dale Earnhardt Surprised Us With Brooks & Dunn | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Friday morning, everybody. Every once in a while I dream
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  about the man in black, Dale Earnhardt, senior.
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  I will never forget going to the Waldorf Astoria in New York
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  City, downtown Manhattan for the NASCAR banquet awards ceremony.
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  Those were the glory days. Those were, those were epic
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  award ceremonies. They were really good.
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  The Waldorf Astoria, one of the most famous hotels in the world,
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  dating way back to, you know, 100 years ago.
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  Did you know that during one of the wars, they opened the
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  Waldorf Astoria for people to live in?
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  I think when people came off the ships, they put them up there.
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  The Waldorf Astoria has a lot of history.
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  It's a lot more than just a hotel.
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  It's almost like a mini city. Earnhardt Dale Earnhardt senior
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  was so powerful. But you know, you just when
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  you're around and it was like bigger than life.
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  So I'll never forget when Earnhardt said, come on, come
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  on, Wallace, let's go. So Rusty and his wife, Patty,
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  Kim, my wife and myself, we follow Earnhardt.
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  We go down one of the streets not far from the Waldorf, and we
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  walk through these doors. I'm like, where are we going?
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  We go in this little room, just a small setting.
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  And I'll be damned if Brooks and Dunn, the country group, I mean,
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  this real small setting there, there's Brooks and Dunn.
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  That's how close Earnhardt was to them.
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  Never forget it as long as I live because it was so
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  unbelievable. Most people would pay hundreds
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  of dollars to go to arenas or, you know, stadiums, to see
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  Brooks and Dunn. When the sun goes down on my
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  side of town, a lonesome feeling comes through the room and the
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  whole world turns blue. I spend most every night beneath
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  the light of a neon moon. Oh, if you lose your one and
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  only, go ahead and finish it, man.
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  I'll tell you what, those days were awesome.
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  I have so many memories of it, Dale Earnhardt senior One time,
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  Rusty said. Hey, Herman, get Kim and get the
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  kids together. We're going to take my plane and
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  we're going with Earnhardt. We went up to the Northeast and
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  we went to the toy company Hasbro.
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  I'm like what? Sure enough, I don't know where
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  it was up in the Northeast. We landed and we went to the toy
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  company Hasbro and they we toured and then after that they
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  took us into this other like building and it was like a fake
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  toy store and they gave us fake money, but the toys were real.
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  So in other words, it was, you know, I guess when they just did
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  things, you know, like entertainment.
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  So sure enough, we had like Monopoly money or whatever the
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  hell it was, and with our children, you know, we went
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  Christmas shopping and I'll never forget it.
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  We took all those toys back home, all because of what
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  Earnhardt did, and he invited Rusty Patty.
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  Maybe Greg was with us. Rusty's oldest boy.
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  My kids never forget those days. Tell me your Earnhardt story.
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  All right, everybody remember November 8th?
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  November 8th, 9:00 AM, That's a Saturday.
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  Kim's craft show starts right up here.
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  We're going to have waffles and they're going to make them the
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  way you want them. Whipped cream, bananas, nuts,
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  whatever. Kim's got some drinks and all
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  types of things. We're going to do some more
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  videos and show you what we got going up there.
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  But remember that Saturday, November 8th, Kim's craft show.
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  All right, everybody, it's Friday.
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  Have a great weekend.