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Why Do Older Drivers Keep Racing? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning from a nice warm hotel room in West
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  Yellowstone. So every day I've been outside
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  putting on a show for all you. Yesterday it was 17° and snowy.
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  I decided that I would do it from my hotel room on this
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  Thursday morning. Kim's getting ready.
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  Today is our day off, but we are going to take a Canyon tour.
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  So there will be a handful of us getting on, getting on a coach,
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  and we're going to go see the Canyon, I guess kind of a
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  miniature Grand Canyon here in Yellowstone.
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  Yesterday was fantastic. I need a lot.
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  I need all of you to respond right here, man.
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  I'll tell you what, you know, I guess I've been, I've been like
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  a horse with blinders on. I had no idea that Yellowstone
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  sat on top of Volcano. I just did.
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  Hey, sometimes you just know no things.
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  I told everybody that on social media, you know, put some
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  pictures out last night and everybody's treating me like a
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  baby. What do you mean you didn't know
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  it sat on top of Volcano? Do you know that if that
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  Yellowstone volcano goes off, we all going to die?
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  I'm like, damn, I don't like hearing that.
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  But no, I had no idea that. Basically the way I put it, in
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  redneck terms, since we're all NASCAR rednecks now, Yellowstone
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  is constantly farting. Old Faithful, the old geyser it
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  goes off every 80 minutes and he goes then you go everywhere else
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  is maybe that's maybe that's why it won't totally pop off or
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  praise the Lord it don't it don't pop off.
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  Maybe just farting all the time. No need to pop off no need for a
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  volcano because it just constantly farting.
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  That's the way my mind thinks. OK, changing subjects, you know,
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  Johnny Gibson, that works for World of Outlaw Racing.
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  He's got, he's a great announcer.
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  And when you go local dirt racing, you don't say on the
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  pole, 'cause, you know, for years we said that, you know, I
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  guess on the pole. Now respond right here on the
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  pole, Man, a horse was running the pole.
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  Is that what I heard? I don't know.
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  Respond right here. Tell me so you know you'd sit
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  well now I want to say it. Johnny Gibson with the World of
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  Outlaws, he would say QuickTime and then like 1010 drivers later
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  another driver would say QuickTime and go QuickTime and
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  kind of had squeaky voice. But when I went NASCAR or I was
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  in ASA, it was always man, we're on the pole.
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  And people would say to me that didn't know a lot about race.
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  And they say, what does that hurt?
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  Being on a pole made me laugh. So anyway, yesterday, on
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  Wednesday night, we locked in two cars on the front row for
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  the Daytona 500. And QuickTime goes Kyle Busch in
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  the number 8 car. How about that?
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  You know, you want to say to yourself, oh, well, that's good
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  because he's been struggling. You know, that's a story right
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  there. Why is it that Americans, it's
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  changed in my opinion, they all say all America loves a winner.
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  I'm like, I I think that's changed because in NASCAR, when
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  you win too much, they start booing you.
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  And, and I mean, it's like Jimmie Johnson won all the time,
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  but nobody liked him because he was vanilla Jimmy.
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  Jimmie Johnson, too corporate. So that always shocked me.
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  It's like, I don't get it. What?
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  What do you all want? Oh, you want the perfect person.
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  You want him to win. You want him to be perfect.
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  But what is perfect? So Kyle Busch on the pole, he
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  starts front row for the Daytona 500.
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  And on his outside is Chase Briscoe.
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  Now, this Chase Briscoe is a hell of a story in my book.
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  I just think Chase Briscoe is one of those drivers that snuck
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  up on me. But that Joe Gibbs, you got to
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  give him credit. Well, I'll be damn look right
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  here as I speak. I'm not going to show you.
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  Don't worry there. Oh, well, damn it.
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  They just they just had Kevin Harvick come on Fox News and I
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  missed it. How about Harvick?
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  Harvick. Well, let me just go and start
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  what I wanted to. I saw Jimmy Johnson was lined up
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  28th and he turned 50 years old I think yesterday or today's his
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  birthday. Respond right here.
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  Straighten me out. By the way, that's another thing
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  everybody's been making a big deal out about me saying respond
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  right here. I've been saying respond right
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  here for four years. I just I don't think a lot of
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  you have made it deep enough into the videos.
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  Coffee with Kenny is about all of you responding and and all of
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  us making ourselves smarter. So when did Jimmie Johnson, our
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  seven time champion, when did he turn 50?
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  And that is the second. Oh, let me back up a little bit.
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  Justin Allgar and Corey Heim are the other two that have locked
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  themselves in. So once again we got we got Kyle
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  Busch and Chase Briscoe front row locked in, but the other two
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  drivers that got locked in on speed, Justin Algaer and Corey
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  Heim, now Corey Heim. Now Justin said this is his last
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  year on Kenny conversation. If you go back and watch the
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  Kenny conversation that I had with Justin Algaer, I don't
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  know, 5-6 months ago, Justin said this is his last year, that
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  he's moving back to Springfield, IL to run Hoosier Tower Midwest.
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  His dad, his Mama, you know, Gator and little Mama Gator.
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  Dorothy, she you know, they're, they're getting older.
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  And so it only makes sense for Justin to go back and take over
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  the family business. OK, so that that brings this
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  subject matter up. Jimmie Johnson, 50 years old.
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  How old's Harvick used to be a day a little bit ago where you
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  had all these drivers Retirement 42.
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  And you know, of course, when you, you look at all these
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  drivers, you know, what age do you retire at?
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  Now, listen, I don't care about my age, but I I have a strategy.
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  I'm a philosopher and I'm into psychology.
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  I've always been that way. You got to get people before
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  they get you. So there was a day when
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  everybody would just always ask the the NASCAR drivers when they
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  got in their 40s. It was an ongoing question.
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  When you going to retire? Hey, when you going to retire?
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  Hey, when you going to retire? And then you get to be 50 and
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  that's hey, old man, hey old man.
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  So now I just always say I'm old just, you know, to have fun with
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  people. And I think it was a couple days
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  ago somebody said why you always talk about your age?
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  I said, so you won't just, you know, hey, get done with it,
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  right? The moral story is this, it does
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  surprise me that Jimmie Johnson with all those championships,
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  you know, they, they say when you've done it all, you're
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  retired and you're done. You know, like a Michael Jordan
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  said, oh, I haven't shot a basketball in six years.
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  That's because he's great. There was always a theory that
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  the great ones don't race anymore when they're done.
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  That is not true anymore. You look at Tony Stewart, 3/4
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  time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart has literally won
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  everything and he's still racing and he run in the truck race.
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  What is that tonight or tomorrow night?
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  Respond right here. You look at, you know, Kevin
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  Harvick, we know he's going to he's he's racing right now.
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  I just I got done out running this boy.
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  I think Harvey's going to run a couple truck races with that Ram
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  truck people. So respond right here.
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  Why have the old drivers, why have they kept racing?
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  Have a great Thursday.