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The Truth About Me & Kenny Schrader | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Thursday morning everybody.
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  I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park March 19th, 20, and
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  21st Mods Gone wild $5000 to win for the A mods and B mods.
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  I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park, right here, 10
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  minutes from my house. Pevely, Missouri, $5000 to win
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  March 19th, 20 and 21st. Be there.
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  All right, everybody. I had to take the grandbabies to
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  school today, so Poppy's all dressed up, but I pulled one of
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  those old people deal. I just brushed my teeth, put
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  some deodorant on. Probably going to get in the
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  shower a little later on here. So in a little bit I am going to
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  take Kenny Schrader and his team, Joey Walsh.
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  I'm going to take them to lunch. Kenny Schrader is going to take
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  my helmet bag with my fire suit and everything I got, and he's
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  going to take some of my merchandise down to Volusia for
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  me. We will have my merchandise for
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  sale on Nick Hoffman's trailer behind the main grandstands
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  right there at the Volusia Speedway.
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  OK, so today's subject matter is going to be titled Kenny
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  Schrader and me. Kenny Schrader and me.
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  So I got this weird text yesterday from a guy named Mike
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  Vaughn. I guess I'm supposed to know who
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  he is, but I really don't. So I went on Facebook and I
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  pushed it, and I think he's a friend of Schrader's.
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  I recognize the name, but he wasn't in my phone.
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  I think he's from the South. Schrader drove his car.
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  Maybe it's white, black. OK, I'm supposed to annoy him,
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  but I don't. Anyway, he, he sends me this
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  text and it reads something like this.
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  I'm going to paraphrase it. Racing is better when Kenny
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  Schrader wins. And you just need to know that
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  I'm like, what? I just need to know that.
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  So you know, when Kenny, when Kenny Schrader won out of the
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  Wild West shootout, my God, I, I blasted it all over my social
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  media. Congratulations, Kenny and team.
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  Good job, Joey. Then I see like one person on my
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  timeline says, Hey, Wallace Schrader one, what do you think
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  of that? And there have been some people
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  that I, I feel like they tried to make us compete against each
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  other. Kenny Schrader and Kenny Wallace
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  compete against each other. That ain't going to happen.
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  I'll steal one from Bob Pockras. And here we go.
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  What, you kids don't know? Have you ever wondered why Dale
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  Junior and Mike Davis called me up and said, Herman, I need you
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  to call Schrader up and see if you guys will start a podcast?
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  We eventually did and we it's named Herm and Schrader.
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  What I need to tell everybody is something that I didn't think I
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  would need to tell everybody, but I believe there's a
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  generation gap. So let me explain something.
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  When I was about 5 years old, me and Schrader, we laugh about
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  this, but when I was five years old, I was put on Kenny
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  Schrader's lap in a truck in Licking, MO, and Kenny Schrader
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  taught me how to drive a vehicle.
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  Now I'm 62. Right now I'm 62 years old,
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  Kenny Schrader's 70. Schrader's eight years older
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  than me. What you kids don't know is what
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  Bob Pockrass would say is that Kenny Schrader is family.
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  The reason I guess I don't go on talking about Schrader is
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  because I, I put Schrader, you know, it's brother Rusty,
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  brother Mike and Schrader. When my dad died, when my father
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  died. You see how serious my face is
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  getting right now. When my father died, Kenny
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  Schrader wasn't just at the funeral.
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  He came to the burial. OK, let's smile a little bit.
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  That got a little too heavy. Kenny Schrader is so much more
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  than me that I don't even put myself in that realm.
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  I was on Kenny Schrader's airplane as I grew older and
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  they said, Kenny, teach me how to race dirt cars, Schrader
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  eventually said. Herman, you're right in the
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  middle of your NASCAR Cup career.
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  Your career looks good. Why do you want to learn how to
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  run dirt cars? Took me a couple weeks to get
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  back to him. Even though I flew with Kenny
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  Schrader to the NASCAR races every week with him and Ann and
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  the kids. I said, Kenny, I want to learn
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  how to dirt race because AJ Foyt, Mario Andretti, I've told
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  this story before because they're, they just didn't race
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  asphalt. They ran dirt.
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  So Kenny Schrader took me under his wings.
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  He taught me how to race dirt cars.
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  Schrader and myself, the first eight years we were a pair.
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  We showed up at all the dirt races together.
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  So everywhere Schrader goes, it would be, hey, Schrader, where's
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  your brother Herman? Or wherever I went, it was hey,
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  hey, Herman, where's your brother Schrader?
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  Kenny Schrader is not just my friend.
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  He he's, he's my brother. What I need you all to know is
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  that Kenny Schrader and myself, we are closer than close.
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  We don't race each other. I tell Joey Walsh all the time.
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  I'm saying, I say, Joey, what heat are you in?
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  He goes, oh, we're in the fourth heat.
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  I said, I say, thank God I I don't race Kenny Schrader.
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  I don't race Kenny Schrader. Kenny Schrader here, I'll tell
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  you this. I'll I'll never forget this.
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  This is a true story. And I know Kenny's watching this
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  because I'm getting ready to take the merchandise, and I'm
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  going to buy Schrader's team lunch here in just a little bit.
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  Go watch this. I told Schrader one time we were
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  talking about something. I said, no.
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  Why do you want to know that? Kenny Schrader looked at me.
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  We were out West. We were in Colorado.
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  I said, Kenny, why do you want to know that?
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  And he says, because we're equals.
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  I'm like, Kenny, what do you mean we're equals?
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  I will never be you. Kenny Schrader is one of the
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  greatest race car drivers of all time.
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  All time Kenny Schrader. If you go to YouTube right now
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  and Google Kenny Schrader Eldora, you'll see him passing
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  people on an outside where there's no outside.
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  Kenny Schrader's 70 years old. He's an American icon.
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  Kenny Schrader is the last of the Mohicans.
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  There is nobody else like him. There's a book out that Schrader
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  wrote with Joyce standards and it says got to race, got to
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  race. It's like, what the hell does
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  this mean? There's nobody like him anymore.
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  I don't see anybody else like him anymore.
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  We were. Me and Schrader were doing an
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  appearance at one time. Because for the people that know
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  us, a lot of you don't know me and Kenny Schrader.
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  Schrader was kind of depressed one day and I looked at him.
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  I said, what's wrong with you? And we were getting paid a lot
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  of money to do an appearance. Kenny looked at me.
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  He goes, I'd rather be at a quarter mile dirt track, peel
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  and tear us. None of us will ever be as great
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  as Kenny Schrader because he's an American icon.
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  He is a legend. He I mean, we could be anywhere
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  in America. And he knows somebody off this
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  exit and off that exit. It's like we're in Canada.
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  Yeah, I know somebody. He knows everybody.
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  I don't know everybody, although I'm a people person.
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  See, here's the difference between me and Schrader.
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  I like to stay at home. Schrader don't like to stay at
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  home. He's out and about.
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  Kenny Schrader will drive to Vegas.
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  I'm flying to Vegas, so hopefully I've understand all.
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  Hopefully I've explained to you all is that me and Kenny
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  Schrader, we don't compete against each other.
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  That is illegal in my book. He is my bigger brother.
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  It's Rusty Wallace, Mike Wallace and Kenny Schrader.
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  I'm going to leave you with this.
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  Remember, Schrader was at my dad's burial.
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  Me and Schrader, we will show up together, but nobody will ever
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  be Kenny Schrader. OK, so we don't race each other.
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  Schrader and I don't race each other.
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  Schrader taught me how to race dirt.
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  OK, have a great Thursday and I love you all.