Latest / Kenny Wallace Media / Why Toyota Is Winning Right Now | Coffee With Kenny

Transcript

Why Toyota Is Winning Right Now | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

• 0:02
  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
• 0:05
  There's John Scintoni. John, what time is it?
• 0:11
  7 something, 40 AM. 7:40 AM. We're downtown Athens, Greece.
• 0:17
  This is my monologue. There are the police right
• 0:20
  there. And then here is Acropolis.
• 0:25
  Look at that view, huh? On top of the hill.
• 0:29
  So today John is taking me. Where, where are we?
• 0:33
  Where are we going to, buddy? We're going to Delphi.
• 0:36
  Delph, what is that? It's it's another set of ruins
• 0:39
  way out. In the country, way down Yonder
• 0:41
  in a Chattahoochee, who's this girl right here?
• 0:44
  You know her, this girl right here.
• 0:49
  All right, everybody. So once again, I've introduced
• 0:53
  John 100 times. And while the cabbie was
• 0:56
  punching his cab. What's going on here?
• 0:59
  Hey, you're looking live. You're downtown's Athens,
• 1:03
  Greece. You're looking live.
• 1:04
  And there's Acropolis. OK, So John Scotoni.
• 1:09
  I met John about 10 years ago. He's a dear friend of mine.
• 1:13
  And how come? How come our you your girlfriend
• 1:18
  Terry did? Did she get kicked off this trip
• 1:21
  or what? She was nervous.
• 1:25
  Terry, we love you so much. It kind of started with my wife
• 1:29
  Kim going. I am not going out of the
• 1:30
  country and me and John started this a while back, but we've
• 1:34
  been traveling how many years we've been He's a great pilot.
• 1:39
  Hey, is it can I brag on you? John is a teacher besides a
• 1:46
  world class pilot. He owns an SR22.
• 1:50
  Tell me about that airplane. It's a.
• 1:53
  Time Machine we'll also play in him and I fly in yeah 2019
• 1:58
  Sirius SR22 and it takes me to every.
• 2:01
  State in great avionics and when people want to go, what kind of
• 2:06
  airplane is that? I'm like, it's the one with the
• 2:07
  parachute in case things get in trouble.
• 2:10
  You set a record, a Guinness Book World Record.
• 2:14
  You landed in how many states I. Landed.
• 2:17
  I landed the air. Not that airplane.
• 2:18
  A different one in all 48 states, The entire country,
• 2:22
  every state in the country. And 30. 8 hours and 13 minutes.
• 2:26
  And it's recorded by the Guinness Book of World Record.
• 2:29
  Or go on YouTube and punch in. John Scotone sets world record
• 2:35
  on WGNWGN. Fastest time ever recorded by
• 2:41
  any machine to land to to travel to all 48 states.
• 2:45
  Thank you, John. I just wanted to give everybody
• 2:47
  an inside look at who you really are.
• 2:49
  A lot of people go, who the Hell's that guy?
• 2:51
  But John also handles my money. You know, sometimes you all want
• 2:57
  to know about money, you know? So I'm embarrassed right now.
• 3:00
  Even saying that is because Mama taught me never talk about money
• 3:04
  and religion. But there you go.
• 3:05
  There's a little bit more about who John Scootoni is.
• 3:08
  He's a dear friend of mine. OK Should we keep walking?
• 3:11
  All right, We're going to start coffee with Kenny.
• 3:15
  Here's the headlines, everybody. Is Toyota the one to beat in
• 3:20
  NASCAR? Well, I got a lot to say about
• 3:23
  Toyota. As you all know, John, you just
• 3:26
  leave me and I'll follow you. I'm following you.
• 3:30
  So Toyota sponsored me for seven years.
• 3:33
  So that's the disclaimer. But they don't sponsor me
• 3:35
  anymore. But you know, as they say, Ray
• 3:39
  Charles can see what's happening right now.
• 3:44
  Yesterday it was World News at Toyota.
• 3:48
  They invested $1 billion into Kentucky and Indiana.
• 3:54
  And I'm going to tell you what, I went to the Corolla plant down
• 3:57
  there in Blue Mound, Mississippi.
• 3:59
  And those Americans, they love working for Toyota because they
• 4:06
  do everything so perfectly. I wished that we could get
• 4:11
  people to brag on Ford and Chevy like we do about Toyota, but it
• 4:16
  just seems like Toyota just does everything right.
• 4:19
  One thing I do like about Toyota is that Osaka Toyota, I guess
• 4:25
  you could say he owns Toyota or he's the head cheese.
• 4:28
  Osaka Toyota. He's a racer himself.
• 4:30
  So kind of adds that vibe that, you know, Toyota is a racing
• 4:36
  manufacturer because Osaka, he he's a racer, you know, I don't
• 4:42
  know anybody, you know, the only names I remember was Chevrolet
• 4:45
  were like Herb Fishel. And Herb is a good guy, but he
• 4:48
  he was just a, you know, he just repped.
• 4:51
  He didn't race in Osaka. I mean, he's like a racer.
• 4:54
  He's got a fire suit on. So the other reason Toyota's
• 4:59
  head and heels above Ford and Chevy is because they got a
• 5:06
  program to grow these kids. You just saw what happened, you
• 5:09
  know, Harvick, Kevin Harvick. Harvick was Chevrolet, then he
• 5:25
  went to Ford and now he's with Toyota and Harvick came out and
• 5:30
  he said, listen, Toyota's got the best game in town right now.
• 5:34
  You know, now I know Paul Doshall at Toyota very well,
• 5:40
  good friend of mine. They just are racers.
• 5:46
  That's all there is to it. I think the headline should be
• 5:49
  Toyota executives are racers, and that's the reason right now
• 5:53
  they're doing so well. But like anything, when you
• 5:56
  start getting your ass whipped, you're going to get up on the
• 5:59
  wheel and you're going to start figuring, well, this is clean.
• 6:02
  Look at this. It kind of looks a little oh,
• 6:06
  there's cats right there. Them cats are everywhere.
• 6:09
  There's another one over there. Pigeon ain't afraid.
• 6:13
  Look how clean everything is. Oh, look at that.
• 6:16
  Cats all up in there. OK, I'm just a little, it looks
• 6:22
  gnarly, but it's very clean. Look at this.
• 6:31
  So anyway, I just, I know my redneck friends out there,
• 6:35
  they're like, man, Toyota, they're from Japan.
• 6:37
  And you know that. Listen, I just call it the way I
• 6:41
  see it. But I'm just explaining to you
• 6:43
  why Toyota is winning right now because their culture is racing
• 6:50
  and they really understand business.
• 6:53
  You can go as deep as when COVID happened.
• 6:59
  Some automakers had to get bailed out and some didn't.
• 7:04
  Which ones had to get bailed out?
• 7:05
  Respond right here. So you look at Tyler Reddick,
• 7:11
  what he's doing right now, and some people are just tore up.
• 7:15
  How the hell can Tyler Reddick just on a roll?
• 7:19
  He's only the third driver. Oh, look here.
• 7:22
  Damn, I'm getting this is ruins. Look at this.
• 7:28
  How old you think that is, John? You know, at least 50.
• 7:32
  Years. Old, at least 50.
• 7:35
  That's some. That's something Schrader would
• 7:38
  say. All my dirt racing buddies are
• 7:40
  like, oh, I don't care about that old.
• 7:42
  I'm like, good, stay home. Bunch of rednecks.
• 7:46
  Look at there, you know, that's one this is like when you go to
• 7:50
  Rome, they're always unearthing things.
• 7:53
  It's amazing that dirt over 3000 years dirt can get like 100 feet
• 7:58
  tall and things will be poking up out of the ground and they
• 8:01
  start unearthing it. OK, so in ending Toyota's got
• 8:10
  their together and you're we're just you are just going to have
• 8:13
  to get over it. Have a great Tuesday, everybody.