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I Won Me A Gator & Are NASCAR Drivers Prima Donnas? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday, everybody. Tuesday is becoming my favorite
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  because I can pay tribute to all my Wisconsin family and friends.
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  Yeah, don't you know what? Yeah, Tuesday.
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  I can't help it. All right, We got a lot.
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  We got a lot of show and tell today.
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  Here's the notes, everybody. Ricky Stenhouse, Todd Gillen,
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  work ethic the hard way. And what's that say
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  documentaries. But before we do this, you have
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  been, you have been wonderful, everybody.
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  You have had fun with me all week long while I've been here
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  at Aunt Patty and Uncle Rusty's house.
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  The green bong, the vase. I mean, the vase is just a piece
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  of artwork. And of course, I got a little
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  lazy and we got the coffee mugs out at the racetrack.
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  Rhonda is selling them. And so Are you ready?
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  Are you ready? Oh, OK, here we go.
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  OK, let's let's put the decal on.
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  There we go. Let's go.
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  Everybody knows on running free. It's all center a little bit,
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  but it'll work. It's all right for the show, OK?
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  We won last night. That's not the story.
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  The the story is not me, not us, not my team winning last night.
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  The story is I'm going to be 63 years old, August 23rd.
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  I was born August 23rd, 1963. And as my mom always tells me,
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  honey, Hun, Ken, you were born the year Kennedy got
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  assassinated, Mom. So anyway, here it is.
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  Here it is. The legendary the.
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  You know how hard this trophy is.
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  OK, I got to tell you a little story about this.
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  There are 100 race cars out there, 100, and what they do is
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  they split them up. 20406080, a hundred, something like that
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  anyway, I don't know, maybe 16 cars, whatever it is.
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  And you, you qualify, you make single app qualifying, you earn
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  your starting position and you race to win these.
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  OK, you race to win them. This is my seventh win.
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  They say 6 Gators, but I won back in 2007.
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  Let me see 3 Yes, I won an Eagle before.
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  Before they gave away Gators. 2007 I won an Eagle.
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  So I guess Gators eat Eagles anyway.
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  So yeah, back in 2012, back in 2012, there was 115 cars and I
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  won three of seven in 2012, and there was only one feature back
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  then. So back then you'd qualify 115
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  cars and you ran one feature and we won three that year.
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  But 2007 we won one. Then they started this format.
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  So anyway, yeah, we lined up with Tyler nicely behind me,
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  David Strimming. And so a well earned trophy.
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  OK, switching subjects. Switching subjects.
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  Yesterday at Bowman Gray, Ricky Stenhouse was born in, you know,
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  down there in Mississippi. Damn, I forgot the name.
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  Respond right here. I love where he's from.
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  It's such a badass sounding name.
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  Something missus Olive Branch, Ms. Man, if I was an announcer,
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  I'd just say that all the time. From Olive Branch, Ms. Ricky
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  Stenhouse Junior crowd goes wild.
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  Ricky Stenhouse has got incredible work ethic, you know,
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  has some property, works hard on the on the ranch there.
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  And he puts out a social media post.
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  He goes, hey, you know, let's go 45 minutes up the road here to
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  Bowman, Gray, Winston Salem. And let's do like the Buffalo
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  Bill football fans do. Everybody grab your shovel at
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  your house and I'll meet you at the racetrack.
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  Well, what was it? Todd Gilliland?
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  Yeah, Todd Gilliland, the other great race car driver.
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  Love that kid. I've talked to Todd.
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  I like him. Todd Gilliland joins Ricky
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  Stenhouse along with maybe 20 other people.
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  There are some pictures out there that NASCAR has posted.
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  So they go to work and all of a sudden, you know, they're
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  they're doing what's right. They're cleaning the seats out,
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  they're cleaning the grandstands out for you fans so you don't
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  have to sit on snow. So I see on social media
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  somebody says, and this is the subject matter.
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  Somebody says, oh, good to see they're not prima donnas, Prima
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  donnas and they have a work ethic.
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  Brings me to this. Some of you don't know people
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  and you just draw conclusions and run that mouth from far
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  away. 9 out of 10 of those Cup drivers have worked their ass
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  off to get where they're at. And I hope one day that NASCAR
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  at at NASCAR at at their TV deal can do a quick three minute
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  documentary on each one of these drivers to show you what they
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  put in to get to where they're at.
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  I can tell you that I know all those drivers and you know, you,
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  you guys might have a valid point maybe to one or two
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  drivers, but but I'm telling you, every one of those Cup
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  drivers, they deserve to be there.
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  And now I'm sure, I'm sure that, you know, you can say there's a
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  driver, your racetrack that deserves to be there, but it's
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  just that's life. I mean, I'm sure there's
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  football players that deserve to be in the NFL and I'm sure
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  there's baseball players that deserve to be in Major League
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  Baseball. But that's, you know, life's not
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  fair all the time. So to spend your whole life
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  complaining about, you know, somebody that you know nothing
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  about is not healthy. Now I want to talk about things.
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  I watched John Elway. John Elway.
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  I watched his documentary John Elway.
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  Later in his career, he won two Super Bowls but ended up
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  divorcing his wife because it took him a long time to get
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  there. And John just became bitter and
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  and his life was not complete because he couldn't win them
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  damn Super Bowls. Watch the John A Elway
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  documentary on Netflix. So have you ever heard of this?
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  Our family does everything the hard way.
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  Yeah, that's my family. We, we do everything the hard
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  way. Everything the hard way.
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  Make yourself miserable. Earn it.
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  Do it the hard way. Well, the older you get, you
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  think about how tired you are of that.
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  It it, it's OK to do everything the hard way 3/4 of your life.
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  Well, when when you get to be a certain age, it's like, you know
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  what I'm about ready to kill myself physically, physically, I
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  can't do everything the hard way anymore.
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  So I'm going to do everything the smart way.
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  So sometimes when you see these cup drivers and they've earned
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  earned it and they got there. Hey, you know, that's a life.
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  They earned it. You just like I said, you might
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  point out a handful of Cup drivers, but for the most part,
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  9 out of 10 Cup drivers, they've earned it.
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  Maybe they got the talent, maybe they got a God-given talent.
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  All right, everybody, I'll see you tonight at a Volusia
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  Speedway.