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My Brother Mike Wallace! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning to everybody.
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  Actually, it's Tuesday night and I'm with my brother Mike
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  Wallace. It's your birthday.
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  Today it is my birthday. Mike's 67 here.
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  I got a reversal program on my birthday start 10 years ago.
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  I'm not anywhere close to that. I'm 40 something.
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  So Mike's 67 years young, but how old are you?
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  67. 676. 7. So it's Tuesday night and I said
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  brother, we did Big Brother Rusty last week down in Daytona
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  and everybody says when are you going to do brother Mike?
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  And I said, you know, I'm going to see Mike next week.
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  So we are in the town square, Birkdale.
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  What is Birkdale? Is that North Carolina?
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  We're in Huntersville, NC in the shopping development of
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  Birkdale, right? And we just left Red Rocks from
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  eating dinner. Yeah, yeah.
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  And we had a good time. Oh my gosh, the stories that
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  were told. Happy birthday to you.
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  I love my brother Mike. OK.
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  Love you too, brother. Everybody, thank you.
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  That means, you know, I'm lucky I got two brothers that love me.
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  OK, so everybody says to me, what is your brother Mike up to?
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  Well, we found out what Rusty was up to last week.
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  What have you been up to? Well, I wish I had a whole lot
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  of great, crazy exciting things like you always have to say that
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  you've been up to, but just spend a lot of time with the
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  grandkids and with my kids. They live 3 miles.
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  If I pull out my driveway, go left to right, they live 3 miles
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  each side of me basically. But along with that, I've done a
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  lot of travelling, been a lot of different places.
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  I went to Key West, FL a few weeks ago, hang out there.
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  I'm going to the PGA event down in Florida this week at The
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  Players Championship. Been invited to just crazy
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  amount of fun stuff that you just go have a good time at.
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  You know, it's totally different than what I'm used to doing and
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  what I've done in years past. So people say to me all the
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  time, what's Mike up to? And I'm like, brother Mike can
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  survive on the land itself. I always tell people, I say Mike
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  will go to the now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I will say
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  this. I say Mike will go to the say
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  the County Courthouse and there'll be a $2,000,000
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  building for sale and you'll pay like 50 grand for it.
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  You'll fix this up over two or three years and then sell it
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  again. How far am I off?
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  Probably would have sold it for a little more, more money, but
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  we paid about the amount you said.
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  So, you know, we worked really hard, smart, my family and I,
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  you know, Matt, Chrissy, Carla, Lindsay, everybody for over a
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  period of years and you know, Lindsay, Carla's not with us any
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  longer. So that really sucks a lot.
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  But the end result we we've done really well in real estate,
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  cheap real estate. I want to say something.
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  You know how much I love you. And I'm so sorry about you
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  losing Carla. Mike lost his wife.
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  How long has it been now? Two years.
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  It was January 22nd of 2024. Yeah, I didn't want to gloss
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  over that. We all miss Carla very much, as
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  I know you. You know, there's so much to say
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  there. OK, so you are very savvy
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  businessman. A lot of people don't understand
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  how NASCAR drivers can survive when racing is over.
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  But you. Well, I don't have NASCAR money.
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  There's only one. Person only me.
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  Only one person in our family that's really got NASCAR money,
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  older brother got absorbing stupid money so it's.
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  Rusty doesn't have NASCAR money. He's got car dealership money.
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  How do? You only end up with NASCAR.
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  In mind, the fans told me. But anyway, you know, I just
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  like poking because people want to know and I'd like bragging on
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  you. And I remember when you
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  graduated high school early and you went to Hillsborough and you
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  graduated way before all of us dumbasses.
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  You were always smarter and always more.
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  I don't. I don't believe that.
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  I don't believe that at all. You're we're we're all very
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  fortunate. We had a great mom and dad
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  taught us a lot of work ethics that a lot of people aren't
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  taught today. How did they teach us?
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  I don't know. We as hell we we used to deliver
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  newspapers. Can you believe us?
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  Delivered newspapers out of a truck to everybody's house, you
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  know, so we, we worked our butt off along the years.
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  It hasn't all been just that easy.
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  NASCAR money that you made. The community press, we
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  delivered that up there of Creve Coeur, MO.
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  The papers would come, me and my buddies, we would insert them
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  with like true value hardware store inserts, like
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  advertisements. Give them to Rusty and Mike.
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  Now, did you roll them or did both of you Rusty?
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  Both. Rolled both.
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  Rolled them. It was it was never, nobody ever
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  wanted to roll them. It was easy to throw them out
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  the window. That was fun.
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  Did you always like aim them in houses?
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  Yeah, yeah, after a while. But you know the biggest thing?
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  None. You want to get done and get
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  home. And so we actually used to cheat
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  now and then on the on the papers.
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  You, you got paid by how many you threw.
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  So we threw like 2500 papers a night, but we'd only throw like
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  2000 because we'd throw the other 500 in a dumpster.
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  And got caught, yeah. Some things we got got away
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  with, some things we didn't. But you know, I say that you
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  learn in life. Just don't get caught, yeah?
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  So you're doing a lot of travelling, you've got friends
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  that got airplanes. I like your relationship.
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  Is that Doug Herbert? Doug Herbert.
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  And I yeah. Doug got some airplanes, got
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  some really nice jets. We we go do some fun stuff.
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  Nobody ever hears about it. We'll make a little video or
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  something if we're taxing down the runway or we're landing or
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  whatever, just to say we're somewhere.
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  But we've had a great time. But you and Doug, Doug started
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  breaks after he lost his children.
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  And I think that's a really worthy cause.
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  I I saw Dale Junior maybe got involved here lately.
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  Dale Junior did get involved with breaks through the
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  Nationwide people Nationwide backed the deal and for what?
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  Everybody what Kenny's talking about?
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  Good. Friend of yours.
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  Yeah, very good friend NHRA. Dr. Racer had Herbert
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  performance for many years. Doug lost two children in in a
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  car crash right down the street from where we're at right now,
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  actually. And he wouldn't take that as
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  the, you know, the what could be the life sentence to your own
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  life and soul. And he took and created breaks
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  and that's an acronym for be Everyone, Be careful and all
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  that. And it's a driving school for
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  teenage kids. It's highly donated to it has to
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  be because they don't charge anybody anything.
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  If you have a child that's 1516 years old, you need to send them
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  to brakes. They do them all around the
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  country. Look up the acronym, acronym you
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  know, on on your social media pages and it's everything's got
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  a period B, period R, period A period KE.
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  And it teaches kids how to learn how to drive and be responsible.
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  Responsible. It's kind of like you've seen
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  the Dale Junior commercials that he did with the nationwide
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  people. I heard about that seen it it's
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  just getting the word out there everybody needs it.
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  Doug and I have become very good friends because I guess that
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  would be what I call, we call our mutual bond between each
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  other. If you ever lose a child, it's.
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  Yep. Strategy, you know, so I lost a
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  son when he was two years old, Mikey and I've lost a wife so
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  I've I've been beat up on all size angle and so Doug and I
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  have that common thing and Doug's got a beautiful wife Mimi
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  Mimi Sabatis. I love her.
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  Her father used to be. Felix Sabatis's daughter.
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  Yeah, so we we all get along well.
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  It's not like we hang out all the time, but we always got
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  something to do and they're always a blast to do it.
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  Yeah. So you've made all your money,
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  you're doing good and and I save.
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  A. Lot of money, got a lot of
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  money. We do that just to have fun
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  with, you know, a lot of people that think they know what's up,
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  but you're, you're, you're doing great, you're traveling and.
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  Going to a big golf tournament this week, that's going to be
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  fun and I'm going to go to Buffalo Trace over in a couple.
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  Weeks. Oh, you get bourbon and.
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  Bourbon going to go pick out a a barrel of Blanton so we we have
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  a relationship there with the folks of sacres and what's.
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  The deal with bourbon, everybody collects it.
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  Hey. Respond right here.
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  What's the deal with bourbon? You you tell your version.
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  Yeah, well, bourbon is. It actually started with my
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  son-in-law, Thomas Van Wingerton, who just loved
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  bourbon. I I didn't know much about it.
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  I thought it was an old man's drink and I didn't want to get
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  old only to find me. Another drink, Bobby.
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  Pull her up to the bar. As I say, yeah, I I just didn't
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  know much about it. Except we couldn't get it for
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  Thomas. We wanted Blanton's and it
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  become a yuppie drink is what it has.
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  But as you know, millennial drink and we were fortunate
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  enough to meet some very nice people over at Buffalo Trace and
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  we are going over for our second barrel tasting.
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  So not many people get a barrel, but we got 2 coming so don't
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  tell anybody. You know when you're having fun
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  and you ask people what you're up to and you're you're going to
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  a golf tournaments, what's going to happen in Nashville you.
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  Go to Nashville, then I go to Nashville just a few days later.
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  Right when I was out in Houston, TX back in October, I met
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  Mattress Mack. A big game.
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  Legend. Owns Gallery Furniture Mart,
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  Yeah. I mattress Mack.
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  I also met Joel Osteen when I was out there.
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  The preacher. And went to went to the church
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  and hung out with him for. For a while I got to interrupt
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  you right there. You have done some of the most
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  unbelievable stuff. I think during the Kuwait war
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  you were on a a big plane. You were with Robin Williams, a
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  famous comedian. The general fill that story in
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  for me. Quick story is Vern Clark, who's
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  the CNO of the Navy, introduced me to Admiral General Myers.
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  The Admiral General Myers, he was chairman of the Joint Chief
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  of Staff, invited me to go with him as the general 4 star
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  general. What chairman of Joint Chief of
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  Staff means? He runs the whole U.S. military.
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  He's in charge of all. And you got I saw.
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  It all. So we flew over there on Air
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  Force 2, super badass blue, Chrome white United States of
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  America down to side and you walk inside and who's sitting in
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  there up front with you? The late, great Robin Williams.
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  Yeah, the great, great comedian. Yeah, so that was many years
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  ago, but that that impact from that trip has never left my
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  life. What I mean is, and we certainly
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  not on our political side here, but the soldiers in our country
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  give us the freedoms to sit around at Birkdale, talk about
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  NASCAR money and going going over to get some bourbon, things
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  like that that we we take for granted.
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  Don't ever take it for granted because all those troops are are
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  some of them are given their life for us to have those
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  freedoms. But.
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  Yeah. So the end result I I'm over and
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  I'm over in Houston, TX, I meet Mattress Mack, I meet Joel
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  Osteen. I meet Aaron Barker, who is a
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  famous songwriter for George Strait, right?
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  Wrote some of the greatest song he's ever had.
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  And he goes, hey, I live in Nashville.
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  I said, well, I'm coming to Nashville in March.
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  He goes, we're going out. Then we might just end up with a
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  Bluebird Saloon. So the Bluebird is a famous
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  everybody uses. That's where Taylor Swift was
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  found, you know, But places like that, we're going to spend 3 or
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  4 days over there. Just hang out, Nashville style.
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  So there you go, everybody. I'm taking Doug's jet or Doug's
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  taking me and dropping me off. Come back.
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  Hey, hey, I'm going to leave you with this.
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  I always say this, If you've made it this far, don't worry
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  about Mike. He's doing great.
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  Yeah, fake it with first class or private jets it's.
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  OK fake it with first class or private jets.
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  I love you. Love you too, brother.
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  Say goodbye everybody. Hey, goodbye everybody, it's a
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  pleasure seeing y'all and I have a blast watching your show all
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  the time.