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Coffee With Kenny | Sometimes You Have To Get Rid of Friends · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  Today's Kenny conversation is about friends, good friends and
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  friends that suck the lifeout of you.
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  What kind of friends do you like?
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  Do you like good friends or do you like the ones that are high
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  maintenance? They want to be your friend, but
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  every time they call you, they just suck in the lifeout of you.
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  They got issues, they got problems.
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  I got a good friend. His name's Joe Rudy.
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  Joe owns a AL's Auto Service up there in Kirkwood.
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  Joe and I call each other and we're like 2 little old ladies.
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  We'll be on the phone for 30 minutes or longer and it's
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  always about it's always a subject matter, you know, about
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  somebody that is maybe doing him wrong and how should he deal
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  with it and or it could be about racing, it could be about our
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  race cars. But we, we, we always find
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  ourselves, even if I go up there to get my cars inspected or get
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  my my stuff serviced, I find myself, it's very hard for me
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  to, to leave AL's auto service because we just got so much in
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  common. We're just talking all the time.
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  So Joe Rudy is a good friend. He's a lot of fun and he's the
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  type of person I want to hang out with.
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  So I don't know how long ago it was, but I ended up I was in
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  Daytona and some guy walked up to me and he goes let me have
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  your phone number. I'm like, hold on, what?
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  I've hardly known this guy and he's like, let me have your
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  phone number. And I'm like, I'll give you my
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  phone number. But I swear to God if if you
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  suck the life out of me, I'm blocking you, I'm getting rid of
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  you. So then I got this, I got these,
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  I got these six or eight older men all over America and damn
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  it, they just have a tough time in life and they just want to
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  suck the life out of me. And they call me and, and some
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  of them, you know, if I feel like sometimes it's my job to
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  help them. I'm like these, they're texting
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  me, they're calling me and they're just, they're just
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  sucking the life out of me. Nothing's good.
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  So recently I had this guy that I want to make sure I don't give
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  it up who they are. I had this guy, he he started
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  texting me these long messages. Like I don't like who you're
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  having a conversation with on Kenny conversation.
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  You don't need to have a conversation with him and here's
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  why. And he starts just bad mouthing
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  a guy that I interviewed on Kenny conversation and it pissed
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  me off. Now let me go back and tell you
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  a little bit more about this person that just wanted my phone
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  number. Just wanted wanted my phone
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  number. So every time I would do a Kenny
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  conversation, it you could go 543 and there it was.
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  If I had a conversation with Kelly Earnhardt.
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  Oh, he knew Kelly Earnhardt. He knew Kelly Earnhardt.
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  If if I went to Indianapolis and I hung out with AJ Foyd, oh, he
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  knew AJ Foyd. If I had a conversation with
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  Mark Martin, oh, me and Mark Martin, I'm like, OK, you
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  something. It's like, OK, now this guy's
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  sitting this pattern with me. I could interview Tony Stewart,
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  Dale Junior, and he knows them all more than me.
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  And he don't. OK, now, now I'm dealing with a
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  crazy man. And you meet these people and
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  and you know, you just, you take this chance and and and that's
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  not the one that walked up to me just wanting my phone number.
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  So here's the bottom line. I've got another friend.
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  Now, this is an innuendo. I'm answering everybody's
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  question right now about a certain person.
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  When you have friends, you want it to be beneficial.
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  You want it to be mutual. You want it to go both ways.
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  When people suck the life out of you and they become very
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  aggressive with you and they start.
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  In other words, they bring nothing.
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  They bring nothing. And it becomes my job to help
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  them. And then all of a sudden, they
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  start telling you what to do and they start fucking you.
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  It's like, hold on, Bob. It's not about you right now,
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  OK? It's not all about you.
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  So coffee with Kenny this morning is this.
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  I, I lead. I lead a healthy life.
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  It is very hard for me to stop on the side of the road and pick
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  up every dog. I'd love to pick up every dog
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  I'd like to. I love dogs.
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  There's Louie. Louie.
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  Everybody wants to see you, buddy.
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  There he is right there. Louie's got the best life.
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  He's he's a boy. Look here.
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  I leave this door open all morning long.
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  He's in and out, in and out. Louie loves me.
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  He makes me happy. So if you're going to be my
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  friend and I'm going to be your friend, it's got to be a two way
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  street. I have about eight of these old
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  men and I have about eight of these men that want my phone
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  number and they suck the life right out of me and I and I
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  don't like that anymore. OK, so read between the lines
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  all you want, but I every once in a while I do a little house
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  cleaning party right here in my head.
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  So I'm just going to say, you know, sometimes you got to clean
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  your head out too. You know, you clean your closet
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  out. I don't wear these.
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  I haven't wore these, this T-shirt in 20 years.
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  Get rid of it. I know all you dirt racers got
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  them T-shirts. I go through my closet 2-3 times
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  a year and I go through my head two or three times a year and I
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  just pull the trigger. I'm good at that shit.
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  I just pull the trigger. I just change it.
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  Your life will not change until you change your life.
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  I get so tired of dealing with people that are damned just
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  constant maintenance. Oh, they're oh, me.
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  Oh, oh, I'm like, what about me? I'm exhausted trying to fix you
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  up. You're exhausting.
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  So you know what I do when they text me something bullshit deal.
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  And they need help. They don't need help.
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  They just they, they chew my ass out.
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  That's the point I'm getting to. They chew my ass out.
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  They asked for my phone number. They want to hang out with me.
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  Then they become too much and then they start.
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  I had one me right? I had one MF me and I'm like,
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  they're weirdos. Be careful giving your phone
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  number to people. They're weirdos that they they
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  suck the life right out of you. So you know what I did?
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  I went to my phone, went up here to edit.
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  I went down and I blocked their number.
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  Go to edit, then scroll all the way down, block their number,
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  then go back to their name and delete their their phone number
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  and then go everywhere on social media.
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  You can go to Facebook X Instagram, Snapchat and get rid
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  of their ass. If they are not bringing you any
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  joy and they're sucking the life out of them out of you, get rid
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  of them. And I'm and I'm truly going to
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  leave you with this. Steve Jobs said this.
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  Now I know he was a crazy man. He created Apple and and this is
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  how I live my life. He said, every morning you get
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  up, you're most certainly going to go by a mirror.
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  You're going to brush your teeth.
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  Certainly there's going to be a mirror.
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  Or you just ask yourself, am I doing what I want to today?
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  And if that answer is no, too many times change your life
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  because life is short in ending. If you don't add any value to my
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  life and you just have been sucking life out of me with your
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  negativity bullshit, I'm done with you.
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  I love you all. Good morning.