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My Mom Judy Describes What It Was Like Raising Us Wallace Brothers | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning, everybody at Mom's house in
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  North Carolina. What you doing, Mama?
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  Hey, there she is. This is coffee with Kenny.
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  Yeah. Hey everybody.
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  Yep. So Mom, mom is a complete
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  badass. She is not to be messed with.
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  Are you're not to be messed with?
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  Are you mom? What you're not to be messed
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  with. No.
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  So when we raced, Mama, you know, raised us three boys, but
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  she was a great powder puff racer.
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  What what do you remember? What do you remember about those
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  powder puff races when you won all those races?
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  They. Didn't last long enough.
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  Was a six laps. About.
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  About, yeah. It was exciting.
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  I can see why you guys get hooked on it though.
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  Yeah, I can sure see why you get hooked.
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  And then later on, you, hey, let me ask you a question.
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  Do you feel like you gave up your career for us three boys?
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  No. No.
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  No, I would. I I've always been kind of open
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  minded about, yeah, never driven in one particular area, just
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  curious about a lot of areas, you know, just, but I enjoyed
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  that a lot. How old are you now?
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  87. The reason I asked for her age
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  is you. You will not see a better
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  looking physical specimen. 87 years old.
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  Look here. Who gave you this Mom?
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  Well. Thank you.
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  Look at this. Hold on.
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  That's bad ass right there. That's right.
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  So yeah, I want to. I want to.
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  I want to do as good as my mom does at 87.
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  So how do you stay in such good shape?
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  Well, I don't know it it, it just must be jeans because I, I,
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  I'm very rarely sick. If I get a cold, which I've kind
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  of got a touch of one, yeah, it lasts 2 days, then it's gone,
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  then I'm OK again. But it's nice to have boys that
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  are so thoughtful and kind, and I'm so grateful you guys turned
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  out like you did. I love my Mama.
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  You know why? Because I'm a spitting image of
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  her. Whatever you don't like about
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  me, you're going to have to put up because I'm just like her.
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  Yeah. He's a little kinder though, I
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  think if. You.
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  If you cross me, I really don't like that I'm I'm straight out
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  honest with my feelings and my words.
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  They know this. I get in more trouble for
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  telling the truth than I do. I don't lie because I, I, I
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  don't like to lie. I, I, it's against my nature, I
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  think. And, but Kenny's so sweet
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  everybody. He is the way he is.
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  He he is just from the heart. Michael is too rusty.
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  You got to pull it out of him. We're all three of us a little
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  different. A little different, yeah, you
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  and Mike are closer in feelings and.
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  When, when, when we were growing up.
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  Rusty and Mike, you know, there's, there's an age
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  difference. Rusty's seven years older than
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  me. Mike's 4.
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  So when, when I was growing up, you took me everywhere.
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  Oh yeah, 'cause I couldn't go in the pits or things like that.
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  So my Mama took care of me and they guess what else they did?
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  Remember when Sue Sifford would pay me a dollar to shut up?
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  On the trip to Rolla Rolla, MO from from Saint Louis.
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  She would say Kenny. Sue Sifford from Saint Louis.
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  She'd say, Kenny, I'll give you a dollar if you can shut up to
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  the red, red barn. And was it Sullivan or Saint
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  Clair? I said, and you know what I'd
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  do? I'd shut up.
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  And that's how that's how I learned how to make money.
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  Shut up. And now I'm making money for
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  talking well. I the one thing I keep thinking
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  when we're talking like this, and you know what, I'm you might
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  know what I'm going to say. For years, Kenny didn't give
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  himself the credit he deserved. Through his career, through
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  dealing with people, he was always, like most racers,
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  obsessed with the fact that he didn't win a championship.
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  Oh my God, look what he did. And Mike would say about that.
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  He would say, well, there weren't that many people that do
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  what you do either. Look what you've done.
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  You know, he'd pump him up. And I always used to get so hurt
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  that Kenny didn't give himself the credit he deserved.
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  And I, I just knew he was going to end up very happy, very
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  comfortable, very satisfied. And I think he's learned to live
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  with the fact now that he didn't need a championship And he he's
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  an all round damn near perfect kid.
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  I have to say damn near because don't want to give him too much
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  credit. So I have great, I have great
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  NASCAR drivers and I'm not going to say their names.
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  It's funny mom, when I do Kenny conversation, I'll I'll tell
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  great drivers how good they are. Perfect, perfect.
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  And then you know what happens, I'll say you won all these
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  races. When I tell you that, what do
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  you think about? And all these athletes, you
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  know, they the thing they say, they go back to the races that
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  they didn't win. I think, I think human beings
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  are their own worst enemies. You know, they never celebrate
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  the goodness. They always celebrate the
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  Vadnais. Well, you did the same thing for
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  years and years and years and and and I can't.
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  That's competition, competition. Competition will kill you, Mom.
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  So us, us humans, well, especially people that compete,
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  we want to be the greatest of all time.
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  It's like you, you don't want nobody to get you.
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  You want to kick their ass. You want you want to be right
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  about every damn thing. I mean, we all.
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  I grew up in Baltimore. Now we're getting there.
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  Now we're getting there. On the streets of South
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  Baltimore and if you didn't stand up, you got knocked down.
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  There you go. That was before I was 13 years
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  old, so that early. Yes, you got to have it.
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  You got to have it because they'll run all over your mom.
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  They think they're going to get you and no, and like I tell
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  everybody on coffee and kidding, you don't get me.
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  It's because I learned from this one.
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  But we have great conversation. You know, we, you and I talk
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  about a lot of things and we work things out and I am lucky
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  to have my Mama because she, she, she's just awesome.
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  And she won a lot of races and she grew up with us and took
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  care of us boys. I love you, mom.
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  Thank, thank you for taking care of us.
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  Yes, I'm, I'm a privileged and proud mom, no doubt about it.
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  And I, I, I keep telling Kenny the the reason people you've
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  become so popular is because you're honest, you're caring,
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  you've got a good heart, You really are happy for these
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  drivers. Well, it's, it's just the truth.
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  He's happy for the drivers he interviews that have done well.
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  And we, we celebrate their careers, you know?
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  That's it, and they know he will not throw them under the bus.
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  That's right. He will not do that and and he
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  will he actually, you are all heroes to him and and there's no
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  doubt about that. You all know that because you
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  know Kenny now. Even though I'm awesome and I'm
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  really good, all right, So every time I get to 8 minutes, mom see
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  right there my clock 8I. Wondered how you did that?
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  When I get there, I got to start ending coffee with Kenny because
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  people are hyperactive nowadays and they, they usually watch us
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  going to work. And when they start getting 8
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  minutes, well, you, it used to be two minutes if you did a bit
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  back in the day, like a year ago, I, I had to train everybody
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  that I, I can't say what I want to say in 2 minutes.
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  So we're at 9 minutes now and I love you.
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  I love. You too, baby.
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  You're. The best I'm going to pick up
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  Kenny. I'm going to leave here.
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  Go pick up Schrader. And Kenny was with his children
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  last night, which was awesome. Sheldon and and Dorothy and I'm
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  going to go pick up, straighten out and I will see you all at
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  Rockingham, downtown Rockingham in the city Tonight.
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  We're starting five to seven, then the Marshall Tucker Band
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  and then tomorrow, Friday at 2O clock.
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  So there's a look at my Mama. So if you ever want to get
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  inside somebody's brain and go, why are they the way they are,
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  say goodbye mom. Bye.