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They Put Me On Ritalin! NASCAR's New Cell Phone & The Midway is Back | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I'm laughing to myself because, you know, I'll sit on the couch
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  for a couple hours and then I'll go to work and later in the
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  night I'll start scrolling through my social media or
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  around lunchtime. And there's always that one
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  person, always that one person that is just pissed at me
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  because I'm happy. Hey, Wallace, nobody walks
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  around with a coffee cup like that.
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  Put that damn thing down. They're mad.
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  They're mad at me. And I'm thinking to myself, hey,
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  this is awesome. This must be a new guy because
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  I've been holding this coffee cup up like this for a damn
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  year. So they're just it's just goofy
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  as hell, right? So anyway that I just it just it
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  it, it works reverse for me. When people get mad at me for
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  holding my coffee cup up, I'm like, oh, they're brand new
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  because I've been doing this for a year.
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  All right, a couple things to talk about today.
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  So Consumer Cellular, Consumer Cellular, the cell phones
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  breaking news this morning and NASCAR, NASCAR, people are going
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  wild on social media. Who would have thought that a
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  cell phone coming back with Brad Keselowski's name all over it
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  for $20.00 a month. So Adam Stern reports that
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  Consumer Cellular never heard of them.
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  So that means that's working because I've never heard of
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  Consumer Cellular, but Adam Stern reports that that company
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  has got a phone and it's got Brad Keselowski on it.
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  It looks cool, just like the old days.
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  You know, we used to, as they say, as they say, study your
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  history because it repeats itself.
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  You know, cell phones were huge in NASCAR and they made cell
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  phones of all the drivers. But looks like it's back.
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  So that's exciting. Check that out leads me to this.
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  I went to Atlanta and Charlie Marlow is going to download my
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  trip to Atlanta very soon. I made it a little difficult on
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  him because I it was like in 30 second or one minute and 32nd
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  little snips, little you know, videos.
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  So he's got to edit it all together, but look out for that.
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  It's coming out soon. It, it shows me leaving the
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  airport, getting on the plane, landing in Atlanta and
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  everything I do what, what does it take me to do to go do
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  trackside live? So, so when we were circling
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  around the racetrack in John Scootoni's airplane, you know,
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  we're getting ready to land right next to the Atlanta
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  Speedway and I noticed, I, I, I noticed all the, all the
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  souvenir trailers. And I really noticed how later
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  in the day people were lined up at the souvenir trailers like
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  the old days. Then you, then you tie that
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  together where everybody, I mean, I don't know if you've
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  noticed it, but I've been signing literally thousands of
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  trading cards. So respond right here, everybody
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  there, there was a day that you know, and, and this is what did
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  happen to NASCAR, right? The the die cast industry was
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  overinflated. We've done plenty videos about
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  that. So that the die cast went
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  downhill. But then they they took those
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  souvenir trailers out of the midway, which made the midway
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  look empty. They got rid of, you know, our
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  show NASCAR Race Day Fueled by Sunoco, NASCAR Race Day Fueled
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  by Sunoco, then, you know, they got rid of that.
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  So when you went behind the grandstands at the race tracks,
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  there was this crazy six years or so where there was nothing.
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  There was no souvenir trailers. There was no NASCAR Race Day
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  Fueled by Sunoco TV show. And you looked around, you're
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  like, what? What the hell happened in
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  NASCAR? The optics look bad.
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  So I noticed when I went to Atlanta, the circus was back and
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  it made me smile, made me happy. And there were so many people
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  lined up at those souvenir trailers.
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  Hey, Louis. Louis, the legend.
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  But anyway, what really made me happy is is the drivers.
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  The NASCAR drivers were out at their souvenir trailer signing
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  autographs for all you fans. I just think that's awesome.
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  I just thought I'd, you know, bring that subject up.
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  I've been signing thousands of trading cards.
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  We've been documenting it. We've been making videos of it,
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  showing you all and then looking at Atlanta now with, you know,
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  we bought we, we've brought back trackside live.
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  We'll be at Circuit of the America this this Sunday from
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  11:12. So isn't it weird the whole
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  NASCAR arena just really up like Hogan's goat?
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  They, I mean, they, they screwed up so bad years ago and now, now
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  they're making it right, Right. The souvenir trailers are back,
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  Trackside Live is back. And the Midway's hopping, man,
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  it's the place to be. Just made me happy.
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  All right, the last thing on the docket today.
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  Something went pretty, pretty cool yesterday for me. 20 years
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  ago, you know, everybody thought Tom Cruise was going crazy.
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  He went on the NBC morning show with Matt Lauer and he kind of,
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  I guess you could say Tom Cruise at the time kind of scared
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  people. Tom Cruise made a big deal about
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  how you know Adderall. All Adderall does is cover up.
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  What's really wrong with you and how Ritalin just covers up
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  what's really wrong with you? And these drugs are very
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  dangerous. And when these doctors prescribe
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  these drugs, it's just really covering up what's really wrong
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  with you. It doesn't get to the root of
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  the problem. And somebody put that up there
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  on X and I thought, I'm going to watch this because they they put
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  me on Ritalin for a couple weeks.
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  Now I want to be clear about something.
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  This is very serious subject to me.
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  And you, you know, I'm used to people laughing at me, but
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  that's OK. But they, you know, Tom Cruise
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  said to Matt Lauer, Matt, they're they're not getting to
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  the root of the problem. Why are these people on
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  Adderall? And we know the college kids
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  take it, they call it Addie. Listen, I know all about
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  Adderall. I got some friends that are on
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  it and it destroyed them. It destroyed them.
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  And I'm not going to go any deeper.
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  And then the Ritalin I have they, they put it on me.
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  God, how old was I? I was in about 5th or 6th grade.
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  What was that? 910 years old?
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  I don't know, something like that, 1112.
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  But anyway, Tom Cruise says, you know, they're not getting to the
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  root of the problem. You know what the root of the
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  problem for me was? I was diagnosed, no lie,
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  excessive happiness. Kenny Wallace, the child, he's
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  too happy. He's too excited about life.
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  He's just, he's so happy all the time.
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  He he, he's, he's, he's excited, he's making friends and he's
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  just driving us nuts. Can you calm this kid down?
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  My diagnosis with my hand on the Bible My hand on the Bible,
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  Kenny Wallace was excessive happiness and I my mother took
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  me off of it right away after about two or three pills because
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  it changed me right away and we talked about this before but
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  it's all over X right now and if you go to my timeline there's a
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  lot of people listen when I do autograph sessions or I do
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  speeches, family members come up to me.
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  Kenny Wallace, thank you so much for talking about your mother
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  taking you off Ritalin. My kids, my kids real happy.
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  He's he's jacked up on sun drop too.
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  But you know, when you give people pills, I've never.
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  And this is the truth. My hand on the Bible, on the
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  death of me. This is the truth.
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  I've never taken pills in my life.
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  I've never taken pills in my life.
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  This is me now here lately I've been taking 20 milligram
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  pravastatin sodium just to make sure my cholesterol stays good
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  because when you get older, you don't want your arteries to clog
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  up. And, and I've been keeping my
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  cholesterol under 200, but man, I eat like a rabbit and it's
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  right around 200. The doctor said, well, Are you
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  ready? I said, Yep, I'm ready because I
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  I've run, you know, I run, I work out and I've broke my foot,
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  I've fractured my feet and I'm like, I ain't running no more.
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  And boy, I eat like a rabbit. So I'm finally for the first
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  time in my life at almost 62 years old, taking a 20 milligram
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  pravastatin sodium. But respond right here.
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  I got somebody very close to me that got hooked on that Adderall
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  and I know it's for you college kids and I know it's the focus,
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  but it will you up. So kids, everybody, if
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  somebody's too hyper and they're aggravating you, don't put them
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  on drugs. That's dumb.
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  That's dumb. All right, everybody, that was
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  some mashed potatoes today. Mashed potatoes.
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  We talked about damn cell phones.
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  We talked about the souvenir industry, and we talked about
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  stay off drugs, kids. Stay off drugs if you're
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  aggravating your Mama. Hey mom, Dad, don't take your
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  kid to some damn psychiatrist like they did with me because I
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  was diagnosed. Excessive happiness.
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  Kenny's too happy. He drives me crazy 'cause I'm
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  miserable. Damn it.
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  Have a great Tuesday, everybody.