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Happy New Year! Here's My Advice For 2025 | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy, happy new Year everybody. I was getting ready to say happy
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  Wednesday morning, but it's 2025.
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  I'm jacked up on my high octane coffee fueled by Sunoco.
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  I I slipped that one right in there, didn't I?
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  We have a unique situation here this morning.
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  First of all, got a head start. I red lighted.
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  Instead of starting about 9:00 last night, I started dancing
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  738 o'clock. My feet hurt so bad.
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  We had a we had a damn good time.
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  But there's an after after effect.
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  All right, let's put the coffee down.
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  Look at this. You never see this.
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  Are you tired, baby? Just a little.
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  You're so little. I have.
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  No voice. You don't have no voice.
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  I have no. Voice.
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  You have a good time. I did really good time.
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  Kim, the You know, I've tried the Oh, honey, let's just go to
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  a casino. Listen.
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  Here. This right here is why I do my
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  own stuff. So.
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  Sad. What's that?
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  So it's very sad, yeah. You can't trust it.
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  Go anywhere. Yeah.
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  So OK, Yes, my prayers. I'm so sorry for everybody in
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  New Orleans. I woke up at 11:00.
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  I woke up at 11:00 and I come out here to this.
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  So sorry for everybody. New Orleans.
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  Oh, my. OK.
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  Deep breath. Great time last night.
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  All right, looky there, Sue Ann de Bo.
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  Sue Ann's from Canada. She's been in NASCAR racing for
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  years, but now she's a flight attendant with Southwest Air.
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  So if you see her, ask her for some free cookies.
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  And the hero, the hero of the show right there.
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  Dee Dee cooked so much. She made so many dishes.
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  Dishwashers we had about Sue Ann.
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  Did you work on Jeff Gordon's PR?
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  That's where she, besides her being famous, that's where she
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  really was famous. So she worked South side of
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  Charlotte, NC and she was Jeff Gordon, Jeff Gordon's PR firm
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  and and mine, too. Yeah, that's right.
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  Kim's telling me what to say. All right, you're saying who the
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  hell is these doggies? This is Allie.
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  We got we got 2 of Brooke. Look at this.
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  What? Hey, what is this romper room?
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  Is this romper room? My Lord.
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  Good thing they get along. So we found Louie and Lucy.
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  OK, we found Louie and Lucy. Let's get settled in here.
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  All right, We found Louie and Lucy up in Fort Wayne, IN and we
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  needed to get, you know, two dogs for Brooke and Jake up our
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  oldest, so we found Ellie and Yoda.
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  Yoda looks like a Yoda. Let let me see if I can get you
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  a picture of Yoda. Yep, Don't don't you look like a
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  Yoda. He's so cute.
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  What's that He's? So cute.
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  So they're in the same family, even though looting loose here
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  on the tan side. And this one here is this one
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  here is just like, give me food. It's all I want.
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  But anyway, they went to Disney World.
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  And, yeah, so we got the dogs. All right, everybody, here I am
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  4 minutes in. My feet are my feet are healing
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  up. They're not wrong with them.
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  Lucy, See. Are you excited to be on coffee
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  with Kenny? Say happy New Year.
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  So what are we going to talk about today?
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  I've been thinking about this one.
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  It's it's a New Year's 2025, so we want to start out fresh.
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  So what I've done is I've taken a couple things that have
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  happened to me over the last five days and I thought that's
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  what coffee with Kenny is going to be about.
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  South 2025 means you're a good person.
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  You're better than you used to be.
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  We all are. It's going to be a better year
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  for us. We'll start out on the right
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  foot. Of course.
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  I can't help seeing some of those meet those memes like, you
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  know, where the memes like, oh, I was, I was a jerk this year.
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  We'll hang in. There's going to be more next
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  year. Instagram.
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  Kim goes, Oh my God, you laugh so hard.
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  I said, honey, you ought to be on Instagram.
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  It's crazy funny. All right, so I got about Kim
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  knows about this. A lot of my friends know about
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  it. A lot of you know about it.
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  I got five older gentlemen that seek attention from me and
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  that's fine. They got my phone number and I
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  got one or two of them that would just, they go at me pretty
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  hard and I allow it. And these people, most of them,
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  most of them are kind of lonely anyway.
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  The one kind of, he'd been texting me for about 3 years and
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  it's been OK. Well, then he crossed the line
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  with me. He said, he said to me in a, you
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  know, one of those 3 inch texts, you know, when I'm text like
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  that long Sue and goes, oh God. And I'm up on the roof and I'm
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  taking the oh, by the way, Gretchen Wilson, Gretchen Wilson
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  has left the house. When we go outside to do coffee
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  with Kenny, the Christmas lights are no longer up.
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  They're not, they're not up all year long.
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  So anyway, I'm up on the roof and I'm taking lights down.
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  Dangerous situation. I said, that's the last time
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  I'll be up on the roof taking those lights down.
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  So I I say to the gentleman, hey, I'm on the roof.
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  You know, talk to you later. Now, it'd been going on for 30
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  minutes already. And I know a lot of you would be
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  like, hell no. I mean, try texting Dale Junior,
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  Tony Stewart, Rusty Walls, try texting them like that.
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  They won't even respond. So I'm the good guy, right?
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  I'm trying to make everybody happy.
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  This guy out of nowhere says, you know, you grew up.
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  He he's talking to me now. You grew up on basically the
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  coattails. And you know, we were nobody
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  when we grew up. And I'm, I didn't like the tone
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  of this. I'm like, oh, here we go.
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  And I've seen this movie before where you make and I had to get
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  rid of one. I told you all about that.
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  But now I'm on a second one where they, they get to be your
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  friends. They get in tight with you and
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  all of a sudden they go for the juggler.
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  I'm like, oh hell no. Oh hell no.
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  Uh huh. I was trying to help you.
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  I was trying to be your friend. So he comes at me in the middle
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  of this 3 inch, 4 inch, 6 inch long text.
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  Like, yeah, you know, you started out as nobody.
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  You know, you and like Kim don't like this right?
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  Now look at this. What?
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  I can't believe people say stuff like that.
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  Yeah, but remember, hold on. No, I don't remember when I told
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  you go to the races with me once, you'll see.
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  And you said, honey, they don't know what to say.
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  No. That's unexcusable.
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  What? That's unexcusable.
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  They get, they get brave, they get lonely.
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  These people are lonely and somehow, somehow I let him have
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  my damn phone number. OK, so that guy, that guy, I'm
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  sorry, he's probably watching us.
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  You know who you are. Blocked.
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  Got rid of. And it making me sad too,
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  because the guy's OK, but he just kind of showed his ugly
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  side and and I know all these people have it in them.
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  OK, happens now I go up to one of my local restaurants and I
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  sit at the bar and guy looks at me does does one of these deals.
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  You know when you you know when you're a Dick to somebody from
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  afar, but when you see them in real, you're like, there they
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  are. Oh my God, this happened to me.
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  So I'm at the bar all of a sudden he's my biggest fan ever.
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  So I become comfortable with him and I'm Kenny.
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  I'm just a talk in a mile a minute.
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  What? Here we go, make him happy.
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  And what's he do? He says to me, have you ever run
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  any road courses? I'm like, what?
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  I've only run the mall, bud. You know, he says something like
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  if you ever run the Daytona 24, I said two times and he goes, he
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  says have you ever run the Daytona 24?
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  And I said two times. The last time I run 8th.
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  Ryan evidently was our main driver.
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  We were in Porsche. I've told you all this for and
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  boy, he was just appalled because he thought he's going to
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  have one on me. And I said I've run Daytona 24
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  twice. I've run Suzuka circuit over
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  there in Japan. I've run Hermano Rodriguez in
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  Mexico City. I've run oh, Jacques Villain,
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  who's up there up there in Mexico, we've Watkins Glen,
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  Sears Point, you know, Rd. America.
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  I mean, I run my share of Rd. courses, right?
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  And I like them. So I mentioned yeah, I like I
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  like to Mexico City. Fun, fun place.
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  And somewhere out of him, he just had that Dick in him.
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  Have I said Dick 2 times? Stop.
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  Saying it. Hold on, what now?
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  Stop. Saying that word.
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  It's better than? Better than?
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  What word should I have replaced it with?
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  There's. Lots of words.
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  So you know what he says to me? He said.
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  All I remember about Mexico City was was you saying my brother
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  Rusty will fly me back and forth in the helicopter all he wants.
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  I looked at him and the guy's face turned cherry red.
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  Let's go over this one more time.
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  Guy says all I remember about Mexico City was you.
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  You did an interview saying your brother Rusty, fly you back and
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  forth in that helicopter all you want.
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  Now here's the innuendo. Here's here's the dickhead got
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  to be mean. You know, I looked at him and I
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  said my brother Rusty was sponsored by Bell Helicopter.
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  If you go back to Mexico City when Rusty ran, Rusty was
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  fourth, I was fifth or Rusty was fifth and I was 6th.
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  Good run for us. It was happy time.
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  But Rusty was sponsored by Bell Helicopter of Mexico City,
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  Mexico. And when we leave our hotel
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  room, you know, Mexico, largest town in in the world.
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  I think it's got the largest count in the world.
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  So Rusty had it set up me and he hey, I'm not going to apologize.
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  My brother Rusty, my brother Rusty.
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  That's you guys. That's some of you people saying
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  that. That's not me.
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  Me and Dale Junior have talked about this.
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  His dad senior, You know, we got there's a lot of racing family
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  out there. There's a lot of there's a lot
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  of baseball family, a lot of football family.
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  So this guy basically was was a little jealous, mad of me that
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  Rusty flew me back and forth in the helicopter.
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  But think about how think about how many years that man had to
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  have that in his crawl that that just bothered him.
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  In other words. In other words, you're not
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  allowed to be part of your brother Rusty.
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  You're the youngest one. You're not.
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  You're not allowed. I'm like, I'm thinking to
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  myself, this guy, here we go again.
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  What triggered me was the cherry red face.
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  He knew he was coming for the juggler once again.
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  And I'm not too sensitive. I'm super nice.
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  I welcome these people in hell. I got pictures out of my cell
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  phone showing him. I'm super nice at Christmas, as
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  Larry Macron was saying at Christmas.
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  So I was being really good. And I think of Kim all the time.
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  Kenny, don't get mad. They don't know what to say, but
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  I had explained to that man that that car response by Bell
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  helicopter, me and Rusty would leave Hotel International, we'd
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  go around the corner, go to the roof of this other big hotel and
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  we'd take off an helicopter. But this man was jealous of me.
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  That's something I did 20 years ago.
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  It's like, what the is wrong with these people?
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  You can't believe some of these stories, can you?
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  You can't believe. Hey, remember I told you I went
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  to South Boston for Dale Earnhardt Junior?
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  I rent that cars Tour race. Some man drove like 12 hours.
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  True story. My son-in-law, Brody was with
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  me. Brody.
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  Brody was like, there was a man that drove from like way S
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  because he heard I was going to run that cars Tour race.
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  He couldn't live with himself. He said you and I got into a
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  wreck when you ran All Pro 30 years ago and when you made it
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  to NASCAR, it destroyed my life. I'm like, what the fuck?
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  First thing I said is I get I said give me a hug.
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  Hey, these are strange. These are strange deals.
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  It ain't me all right now I've told you the truth.
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  It's. A new year.
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  Can't make it? Hold on, what do you think?
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  I think it's a new year. Right, Is it happy new Year.
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  All right, so I thought long and hard about what I was going to
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  say on coffee with Kenny Kim's. Right?
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  It's a new year. Everybody be nice, be nice.
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  Let it go. Think about what you're going to
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  say when you meet somebody new. Hey, how you doing?
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  You see William Byron. Hey, William, congratulations on
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  that Daytona 500 win. You see Alex Bowman.
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  Hey, Alex, congratulations. That was a hell of a street
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  course went in Chicago. Not not.
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  Oh, I remember. Hey, what happened when your car
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  was, you know, don't do that stuff, everybody.
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  So I told you my 2 messages. I told you, I told you what
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  happened to me. People get comfortable around
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  you strangers when you let your guard down.
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  That's why a lot of people like, you know, the superstars like
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  Tony Stewart. Rusty, you know, not so much
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  Dale Junior, but yes, now they're friends of mine.
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  But that's why they won't allow you all close because you get
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  stupid. And that's just the way it is
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  because I experienced it here. Believe you this Tony Stewart
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  said this to me one day. He said, Herman, he says they
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  walk right up to you because you're that type of person.
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  Kind of kind of I said thank you.
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  Tony kind of wore it as a badge of honor, but there's a price to
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  pay because when you let people come right up to you, they'll be
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  friends with you for a little bit, but they will say some
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  stupid shit. So my message to all of you in
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  2025 is be nice to people, be complimentary.
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  Don't, don't do something to them to make you feel better.
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  I already dealt with that guy up there at South Boston, drove
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  1012 hours because because we race together in all pro, but I
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  made it to NASCAR and it drove that man absolutely bat shit
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  crazy. Couldn't even live with himself.
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  My son-in-law, Brody was we drove home and Brody was
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  signing. He goes, I can't believe it that
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  that was unbelievable. So there's a lot.
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  There's a handful of you out there and you know who you are.
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  Take it easy on yourself. Hey, I've done told you I'll
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  criticize myself to make you feel better.
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  I mean, Jeff Gordon destroyed my life because I wanted to be him.
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  And when I and me and Jeff we're buddies, he's destroyed a lot of
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  race car drivers life. Don't you think?
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  So is you, Andy, one of the greatest of all time?
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  All the kids want to be Jeff Gordon.
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  But I got over it. I got over it and you can too.
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  Get over it. Quit going for the juggler,
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  Rein. Quit being pissed at somebody
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  because listen, I'm not going to apologize because Rusty Wallace,
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  my brother, and I can't help it. Anyway, all right, this was a
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  long one, but it was an important one.
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  Happy new Year, everybody. Be nice.
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  Wipe the slate clean because I'm a brand new man.