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Me & Justin Allgaier Were Trading Sliders Last Night, Being Dehydrated & Happy 4th of July! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy 4th of July, everybody. Land of the free, home of the
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  brave. United States of America.
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  Man, old man, you can do anything in America.
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  Isn't that awesome? I mean, you can do anything.
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  Whatever you want to do. As strong as you are, you got
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  this, man. You can start a company, you can
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  do it all, own a house. We even got air condition.
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  Damn, America's awesome. We even got air conditioned.
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  It's just, it's just that awesome.
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  So happy 4th of July to everybody and be safe out there.
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  Don't be blowing your fingers off.
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  We've seen a lot of bad things happen on 4th of July, so make
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  this a good one. Relax and celebrate the greatest
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  time in America, 4th of July, the greatest land of all.
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  All right, well yesterday I went up the link in Illinois and
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  found myself throwing sliders with a Kenny Conversation
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  graduate. Who could it be?
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  That's right, Justin Allgaar was there and we both started on the
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  front row of our heat race. Crowd was on their feet.
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  That's Justin Allgaars home man. Brandt is from there.
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  You know, Justin Auger told us on Kenny Conversation not long
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  ago that next year, 2026, he's going to turn 40 years old.
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  And he said that will be his last year in NASCAR.
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  And Justin Auger is moving back to Springfield to run his mommy
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  and daddy's business. That was a that was a tribute to
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  all my friends down South. Dale Junior called, called his
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  dad Diddy, Mom, mommy Diddy up north here.
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  Well, Midwest, we're we're not northerners, we're not
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  Southerners. We're Midwesterners.
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  We call our moms mom and dad, Mama, dad.
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  But down South, it's my Diddy, my Mama.
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  But anyway, Justin Allgar, he's going to move back here in a
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  couple years. Next year, 2026 going to be his
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  last year running the Xfinity Series.
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  He's he's going to run his mom and dad's business, Hoosier Tire
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  Midwest. So he started his started his
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  journey last night. And Lincoln is his home track.
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  Lincoln, IL is Justin Auger's home track.
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  I started outside. I went down into one.
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  I drove that son of a bitch down until I saw Jesus.
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  It was a Dick waving contest. I took the lead off him.
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  Well, we went down the back straight away, pretty much side
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  by side and he threw a slider, went slid across track.
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  I got back underneath of him. I went into one, I threw a
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  slider on him. He come back underneath me.
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  I guess how about after two laps he got the best of me.
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  I got loose, I got loose but finished second in the heat
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  race. Justin started on the pole and
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  blew a motor. I think we were maybe lap 3 and
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  we come off at turn 4 down into one and his, his motor started
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  puffing smoke and he had to pull off.
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  So it would have been, it would have been a great race.
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  But I'll tell you, it's like, it's like Dale Senior says, Dale
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  Senior told me years ago, the man in black #3 he said, Herman,
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  there's thousands of great race car drivers all over America
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  just because they cannot make it to NASCAR, you know, you never
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  know what happened. You know, you got thousands of
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  race car drivers and they only start 40 every Sunday.
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  So just because you're not in the NASCAR Cup Series doesn't
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  mean you're not great. So we had some hot rods show up
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  last night. And buddy, we pounded that high
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  side and yes, the old man had to get up there.
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  It was a dominant lane. We finished third.
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  I finished third. Bernard had a hell of a battle
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  for fourth. Was Ryan Hamilton, one of the
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  Stein King boys? The number 24.
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  He won a local #50 was second. I was third.
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  Hamilton was fourth. There's the queen.
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  Why don't she look good? Look at that skin.
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  Look at him legs. God, I wish my she's got the
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  most beautiful skin. My wife does.
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  She's beautiful. Minds me.
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  Minds me. That song, you're beautiful for
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  sure. All right, so we ran a third
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  last night. I am tired, that's all.
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  There's two got a little bit of a cold too.
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  One of those everyday colds, you know, just a nice normal cold.
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  You know, there's versions of having a cold.
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  So this side of the nose gets clogged up.
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  I think what happened? We went out to Brookie's for for
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  Mila's birthday. Mila turned 7 about two days ago
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  and July 2nd, so Mila turned 7. Well, we had all the grandbabies
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  out there and Kim and I got on the trike and we were riding
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  back home and I'm on that trike up in that helmet.
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  I'm like, uh oh, I think I caught man.
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  Whenever you get around in grandbabies, you, you, you
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  better muscle up because you're going to catch something.
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  Then kids, man, they throw them colds around like like you're
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  getting free cars from Oprah. You want a cold?
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  You want a cold? You want a cold?
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  So got back about 1:00 in the morning that that that's a damn
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  problem with doing all that damn travelling with that dirt car.
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  The older you get, it's like, hey, let's just go up to
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  Lincoln, IL. It's only, you know, 2 hours, 20
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  minutes up. Well, that's fine.
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  That's fine. It's only two hours 20 minutes.
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  Well, races did good last night. They got over.
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  We was out of there, 1036103611361236 got home at
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  midnight or no one in the morning.
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  That ended up being rolled up that driveway one in the
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  morning. So yeah, got to bed and so here
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  I am wore out. All right, I think that's it
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  with that, but one of the couple minutes on being hot.
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  So about being hot, man, when I started racing and as my kids
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  got older, my daughter Brandy, she grew up and Brandy looked at
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  me and she goes, God, dad, how do you wear that fire suit in
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  this 100° weather? I see.
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  No, it really is a good question.
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  How do I do that? And it's just mind over matter.
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  It's sitting 100° outside and the fans are like, I'm hot, I'm
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  hot there. I am putting that fire suit on
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  and I got, I'm wearing fireproof underwear and man, I just, I'm
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  so focused. I just put that sumbitch on and
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  you know, because I've seen man, you don't want to you catch on
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  fire that fire suit, that fire suit to give you 7 seconds is
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  what I think it is. You know, you don't want to
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  catch on fire, but you want to be safe.
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  Let me leave you with being hot. 1986 Cincinnati, OH, I I was so,
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  so hot before I even went NASCAR.
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  And you know, at that time I'm I'm busting my ass.
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  It's ASA, American Speed Association.
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  I'm racing Mark Martin, Dick Trickle, Bob Seneker, Mike Eddy,
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  all the big boys. Well, you know, you have crew
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  members, but they were helping me.
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  They just showed up at the racetrack and I'm working on
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  that car. I jump in that car and I run
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  that race and boy, you know me like Rusty said, brother, Rusty
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  says, Herman, you're a wiry little son, bitch, and I am.
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  I go, I go hard. So I run the race and I get home
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  and can you remember this? I mean, I couldn't move.
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  I couldn't move. And I said, what is wrong with
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  me? So Kim runs me up to Saint
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  Anthony Hospital. That's what it was called at the
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  time. Now it's called Mercy up there
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  on 21. She runs me up the hospital.
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  They said you're dehydrated. And I'm like, I'm like 2120, I'm
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  2222 years old and I said, what is dehydrated?
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  Hell, I was I was 22 years old. I didn't know what dehydrated
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  meant. I've been drinking my Coke and
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  Pepsi my whole life. Sweet tea, chicken Nuggets,
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  waffle fries. I was completely drained.
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  Couldn't just couldn't even move.
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  So they they put a needle in my arm and filled me up full of
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  saline and buddy, I could feel my body from my toes all wet,
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  just getting cold. I started getting cold.
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  They filled me up. They filled me back up.
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  I was dehydrated. And when you're dehydrated,
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  you'll you'll be going down for the count.
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  It's dangerous. All your organs start shutting
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  down. Gamble on that.
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  Get the out of here kick its ass.
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  So anyway, stay drinking water. Boy, if I I've got a lot of
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  stories about being dehydrated, but I can tell you this.
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  Drink water. Drink the ever living shadow
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  water. I'm like a little factory worker
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  now. You know I got my Toyota Tundra
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  pickup truck. I got my little show car trailer
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  that I stole from brother Rusty and I go to these dirt races and
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  I pack a little lunch. I got a little cooler and in
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  that cooler I put 5 waters and I put an apple and a banana and I
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  get that racetrack and when the night's over, there's usually 1
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  water left and I'm so focused. I just drink the hell out of
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  water. Just drink it.
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  Drink, drink, drink. And I don't even care that it
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  don't taste, it's just that I need it.
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  All right everybody, happy 4th of July.
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  Have a great weekend, stay safe.