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Does Cleetus McFarland Deserve To Race In NASCAR? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning everybody coming to you from the Orlando,
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  FL International Airport. Let's take a look.
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  These are the parking garages, palm trees everywhere.
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  I told my daughters they love Disneyland and I said I was
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  coming down here and I heard. Where are you Wallace girls?
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  Brandy said. 27 more days, Dad. I don't know what they put in
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  the air over there at Disneyland, but it must be some
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  happy oxygen. My family eats that place up.
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  They love it. OK, Yesterday we took a break.
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  We did not do coffee with Kenny on Thursday.
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  And I thought, well, there's a lot going on.
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  We got we got everybody's opinion on Cletus.
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  Should Cletus McFarlane be approved?
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  Oh my God, Cletus just signed a three race deal with Richard
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  Childress in RCR. Hey Wallace, what do you think
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  of that? Respond right here before we get
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  started on Cletus. In my opinion on should Cletus
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  race in NASCAR? Somebody said something to me at
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  the broken spoke. We were, you know, at Southern
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  Country Custom. Listen to fans have been
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  wonderful. And there was about five guys
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  and this guy out of nowhere, real nice guy.
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  He said Herman. You know, when it when anybody
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  calls me Herman, that's usually greetings.
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  That means I know your nickname 'cause my name is Kenny Wallace.
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  But when people call me Herman, you know, that's a good way to
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  start with me. It means I know you.
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  So the guy goes, Herman, he says, man, he goes, how come you
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  do all that YouTube stuff? Do you need the money?
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  Made me think, and I kind of forgot about it.
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  But as I was on my way to the airport here, I heard a story
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  about Tom Brady. And Tom Brady's got this girl
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  and they're doing social media and they're like, oh, anyway,
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  made me think about Tom Brady. So here would be my response to
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  all the people that want to know why do you do all the social
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  media and do you need the money? Number one, I do not need any
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  money. I'm good to go.
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  I saved all my money. So that's that.
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  Why do I do social media? So I would ask you this and that
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  is your answer. So I'm going to ask you a
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  question and that's your answer. Why does Jeff Gordon work for
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  Hendrick Motorsport? Does he need the money?
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  Why does Kevin Harvick and Clint Border?
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  Why do they work for Fox Sport? Do they need the money?
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  Why does Tom Brady? Why does Tom Brady?
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  I mean, that guy's a what, 7 Super Bowl?
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  And that guy don't need no money.
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  Shaquille O'Neal. We know how wealthy Shaquille
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  O'Neal is. Charles Barkley, why do any of
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  these people that have millions and millions of dollars, why do
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  they do what they do? Well, because it's not time to
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  die yet. That's your answer.
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  It's that simple. It's still is as simple as this.
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  Don't let the old man in. You know, retirement is a word.
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  We've talked about this before. Retirement, you know, is it, it
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  means you, you're not you, you not chokehold no more.
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  Retirement means I'm not being chokehold no more.
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  I can do what I want to do. So that's your answer right
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  there. We're just, we're just having a
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  good time right here on YouTube. I'm like the Walmart greeter.
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  It's a little bit of money for me to give the kids.
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  I listen, any money I make, I give the kids and I give to Kim.
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  I have to keep Kim in the casino and I got to keep the kids at
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  Disney World. OK, Switching subjects,
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  Switching subjects, everybody. There's the arrow Piorto.
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  OK, Cletus McFarlane. Even brother Rusty asked me.
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  Brother Rusty said Herman, what do you think about that?
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  Cletus McFarlane And I said #1 I think about myself, how did I
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  get approved? I had to be approved.
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  Everybody has this story, they just don't tell it.
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  So in 9th November of 88, Rusty called me up and he said,
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  Herman, I want to start you a Bush Grand National team.
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  My brother Rusty, my brother Rusty, I've heard it all.
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  So Rusty says, Herman, I want to start you a Bush Grand National
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  team. We had sponsorship from Cox
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  treated lumber, but my first race was going to be Daytona.
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  Well, NASCAR said hold on, we got to prove you.
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  So Rusty and Earnhardt, Dale Senior, they got together and I
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  drove Earnhardt's car, Martinsville.
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  They wanted to watch me. I ran the full race and I
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  finished like 12th I think. Respond right here.
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  I think November of 88. Let me know.
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  I forgot I ran good. NASCAR said we like what we see
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  so far. Now come to Daytona.
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  Back in the day when we tested for two months at Daytona.
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  Oh yeah, we used to, we used to test like there was 2 tests.
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  We'd start like the end of January and then a little bit
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  before we'd go back to Daytona. So I, we camped our butts down
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  there at Daytona Speedway and I ran around that racetrack for
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  like 6 solid days, three days. Then we'd go back home, then
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  we'd come back. So then Les Richter at NASCAR
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  said we want to see your portfolio, Kenny Wallace.
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  So my Mama, Judy Wallace, and my wife at that time, my girlfriend
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  Kim, they put together this portfolio and I said, OK, I ran.
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  I raced an ASA at Michigan International Speedway.
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  I mean, buddy, that's a no joke. That's nervy.
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  I ran Michigan International Speedway in my ASA car.
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  I ran Winchester. I ran the high banks of
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  Winchester, I ran Salem. I ran the Milwaukee Mile.
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  And Les Richter said, hey, this is one of the nicest we've ever
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  seen. You know, portfolio.
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  We put it together. Why do I deserve to go to
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  Daytona? I laid out my case and NASCAR
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  said approved. I told that story to Rusty.
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  I said, think about it this way. Rusty Cletus has already ran the
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  ARCA race. He finished 11th.
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  He ran the truck race. He spun out.
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  Now he's won some, he's ran some other races.
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  You know, he got roughed up. But Cletus is a victim of this.
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  I'm going to slow it down. I want to explain this to
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  everybody. And I told Rusty this.
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  Cletus is a victim of the new society, the new cell phone.
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  Everybody's on their cell phones.
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  Cletus is too famous. That's the bottom line.
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  I was when I came in, it was like Rusty Wallace has got a
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  brother. Hell, we didn't have anything.
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  If you wanted to know anything, you had to read the paper, and
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  that was a week behind. Cletus is a victim of the new
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  quick moving. I mean, you announced something.
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  People know within seconds. So everybody's on there giving
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  their opinions. He don't deserve this.
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  They don't deserve that. Listen, people, Cletus has
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  already put to work in now. Has he been roughed up?
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  Does he got enough experience? Well, he's going to get it.
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  He's going to get it. There's only one way to get it.
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  You got to race. How's he going to get it?
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  Go to Rockingham. Go to Rockingham.
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  Listen, Cletus, we will talk. I'm the best at Rockingham.
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  Nobody better than me at Rockingham.
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  I won my last NASCAR race there. I can teach you the throttle
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  manipulation and what to look out for and the arcs and the
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  entries. But it's it's a tough track.
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  It's a tough track. But once again, the only way for
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  Cletus to shut everybody up is just go race.
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  And I think I think a lot of people in the industry are a
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  little jealous. They're like, he hasn't put the
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  time in. Listen, we've all got stories.
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  My story is unbelievable. Nobody's put their time in.
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  Listen, it's all about me. I'm the greatest, OK?
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  That's I'm having fun. That's the way all the other
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  drivers think. It's always about me.
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  Cletus shouldn't be able to race because I we all did it.
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  Everybody. Cletus has been roughed up, too.
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  Cletus has been put through the sawmill.
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  He started out with what, 13201230?
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  Hey, it's kind of like 6-7. The kids are mad at us now
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  because we stole their 6-7. Did you know that?
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  The kids are mad now because we like 6-7 and they're like, the
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  kids are mad because we stole their 6-7.
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  Cletus will be just fine. Everybody.
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  Number one, he's too famous #2 we got social media.
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  Everybody's giving their opinion.
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  Let me tell you what I think. Well, I'll tell you what, you
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  don't know what the hell we've all been through.