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Racing On Easter & Mother's Day Is Dumb | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning, everybody. My Oh my Kim and myself got on
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  her Kimberly Marie Trike, a three Wheeler.
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  And like Kenny Schrader says, I've never fell over on a three
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  Wheeler. We rode that trike 3450 miles
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  because when we were out in Sonoma, CA, Kim and I, we went
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  over to Sacramento and it was like 25 miles over 25 miles
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  back. So that's where the other 50
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  miles comes in from. I will tell you one of the
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  greatest trips of my lifetime. But as they say about travel,
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  you know what they say about travel, you know what they say
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  about travelling. It's not for the weak.
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  The older you get, you have to be more organized and more
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  deliberate and know what you're going to do makes it easier.
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  We're getting ready to do Herm and Schrader, Kenny Schrader and
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  Ann Schrader, they, they drove their trike all the way
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  everywhere. Now, Kenny Schrader drove his
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  trike all the way out to Sonoma, arrived at 4:00 the evening
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  before we took off. So he arrives at 4:00, he's
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  there for the pre party, wake up at 5:00 in the morning.
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  We're on the road like at 6:30 or seven.
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  He drives out there, sleeps for 8 hours maybe and drives all the
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  way to Charlotte. We had a wonderful time, a nice
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  party now and gets on the trike with him and they drove it back.
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  Kenny Schrader is a a monster. I have I say Kenny, why are you
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  abusing yourself like that? Take it easy on yourself buddy.
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  See, I don't, I don't want to be a biker.
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  I don't care about, you know, you're not a biker unless you
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  ride your bike everywhere. Well, guess what?
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  I'm not a biker. I enjoy life.
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  I'm in the fun. I love my life, I love my wife,
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  I love my three daughters. I love my 6 grandbabies.
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  So 3450 miles is enough now, Schrader, I think he put on
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  about almost 7000 miles. So Kenny Schrader for being
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  crazy, everybody. Oh, I love him.
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  He is wild. My God.
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  OK, I think it's my, that's my monologue.
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  Couple things on the docket today #1 a really nice person on
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  X on social media just said, Herman, give me your opinion on,
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  you know, racing on Mother's Day and racing on Easter.
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  I said, well, that's a good one. Another subject we're going to
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  talk about today is my mother-in-law, D.
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  She was really concerned. She said, do you ever look at
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  your comment section? I sit every once in a while when
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  I go to lunch and I'm by myself, you know, waiting for my food.
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  I will scroll the comment section.
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  Absolutely. But I wished I could look at it
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  as much as I could. Did you know we are at 5 /
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  500,000 followers and friends on Facebook?
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  We're at 499,000 fans, friends, followers on Facebook on the
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  Kenny Wallace official page, then over there on my private
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  page were over 200,000. So I want to thank you all so
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  much. And then over there on the
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  social media site X were right around 355,000 friends and
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  followers. And then the granddaddy of them
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  all, we are at 165,000 followers on YouTube.
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  Never in a million years did I think that we would make a
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  business out of this. And oh, yeah, it's two-part, by
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  the way, you know, Kenny Wallace Media.
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  make good money there, but we work hard for it.
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  figures. So Kenny conversation well over
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  120, over one hour interviews, of course, coffee with Kenny and
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  then the Herman Schrader show over there on Dirty MO.
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  There's a lot to this, so I want to thank you all.
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  Thank you very much. OK, my opinion on racing on
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  Mother's Day and Easter, I don't think it's necessary.
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  I think it's wrong now. I do know that.
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  What is it? Minnesota and Detroit play on
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  Christmas Day. I think that's dumb, too.
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  So I'm consistent, all right? I just, I think there's 365 days
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  in a year, OK, 52 weeks in a year.
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  I think people overdo it. I just don't see the reason why
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  you, you got to do it. Now.
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  Do I care? Absolutely not.
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  I don't care. Nice gentleman on X asked me.
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  Kenny, what do you think about racing on Mother's Day and
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  Easter? I think it's dumb, OK?
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  The reason I think it's dumb is because there's plenty racing.
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  We don't. I mean, we can take a week off
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  and, and I say it all the time. I'm repetitive as we know.
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  I'm working on repeating myself. Dale Junior says it perfect.
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  He says the great thing about the NFL is they only they only
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  play 16 games a year. That's 16 weeks.
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  That leaves you wanting for more.
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  My philosophy, NASCAR races too much.
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  You want to make people like the sport race less.
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  Certainly you can take off Easter and Mother's Day.
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  I just I think it's an important day, Mothers and Easter, super
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  important day. And my God, the restaurants
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  yesterday you could have never told me that there were $4.00 a
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  gallon gas prices. My God, the people got the
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  money. Jesus, them restaurants is lined
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  up out the door. Every restaurant.
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  I mean, that tells you how important Mother's Day is.
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  You couldn't get into a restaurant if you tried.
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  Yesterday, people were begging, let me spend money.
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  Like, please let me spend all my money.
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  I'm like, these guys are crazy. OK, I see.
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  We made it to 8 minutes too quick.
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  So Kim's Mama, she says there's a gentleman that wants to know
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  on one of your, one of your, you know, coffee with Ken's.
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  You said you was afraid of Richard Petty.
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  I am afraid of Richard Petty because he's bigger than life.
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  I once said to Kyle Petty. I said, Kyle, I'm afraid of your
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  dad. He said, hey, man, I'm afraid of
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  my dad too. Aren't we all just a little bit
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  afraid of our dads? You know, if your dad is doing
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  it right or your mom is doing it right, you going to be a little
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  afraid, little respect. If mom and dad are raising you
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  right, you going to be a little bit afraid of them because
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  because they're the boss. Now for the grand finale, we
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  arrive at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, you know, on Saturday.
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  And Kyle Petty wanted, wanted Kenny Schrader.
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  He wanted myself and he wanted Richard Petty to lead all 150
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  motorcycles into the Charlotte Motor Speedway for some pictures
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  and videos. I sat there and Richard Petty,
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  we parked. We turned our trikes off.
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  He was on a trike, too. And he looked at me and goes,
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  when was the first time you raced here?
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  I got off my bike and you know, I was a little scared.
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  I went over there. I said, I said my first time
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  here. 1984, as a Cup crew chief on the Levi Guerra team of Joe
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  Rutman. He looked at me.
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  I just kind of rejogged his memory.
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  Seemed like it caught him off guard.
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  And he said, well, I guess that'd make you a better driver
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  once you know the car. Richard, 8889 years old, super,
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  super smart. He lost.
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  Like Kyle said, Diddy is wrecked so much.
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  He's broke every bone in his body.
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  But it's like, Richard, do you feel any pain ever?
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  No, man, I mean, the guy is skinny active.
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  I mean, Richard's going to live to 100, I'm sure of it.
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  Or more. OK, here I go.
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  The big three, Mario Andretti, AJ Floyd, Richard Petty, all of
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  them have drove race cars and wrecked their asses off one time
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  or another. They all got great stories of
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  big wrecks and here they all are, 90 years old, walking
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  around. Not a damn thing wrong with him.
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  Then you got a guy down the street playing racquetball and
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  eating vitamins and and hell, he's dead.
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  There's a lesson to be learned. Live your life, be happy.
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  You'll probably live longer. Can you believe that all those
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  guys are 90 years old and still kicking ass?
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  So Richard's perfect. His mind is sound riding that
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  trike right next to me. So to end, I told Richard.
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  I said, Richard, thank you for talking to me on this ride.
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  I said, you know, I've always been a little afraid of you.
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  He took his finger and he goes, you should be afraid of me, he
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  says, but you've never got the finger.
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  And I looked at him. He goes, Yep, if you've got the
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  finger, that means you've done something wrong.
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  That meant he liked to me. Yeah, so that's what I meant.
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  I'm afraid of Richard Petty. I guess I should have used the
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  word. I'm nervous.
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  I'm not really afraid of Richard Petty.
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  I guess I'm just a little. There's Richard Petty.
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  When I grew up as a kid, it was AJ Foyt, Mary Andretti, Richard
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  Petty. Bigger than life.
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  All right, everybody have a great Monday.