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Will Denny Hamlin Actually Retire in 2 Years? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday morning, everybody.
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  Look at Louie. It's cold outside.
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  Usually when it's cold, he's on the couch.
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  He's usually waiting for the fire to be burning.
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  But man, oh, man. Like I said yesterday, they said
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  summer temperatures, summertime type temperatures, going to be
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  in the low 90s here starting on Thursday.
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  All right, today's subject is Denny Hamlin.
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  Denny's done something that I haven't seen done in a long
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  time. Usually when a NASCAR driver
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  retires, he'll say, this is my last year and every track he
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  goes to gets a rocking chair. They give him plaques.
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  I'm thinking about Mark Martin. He did that one year and then he
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  he decided to keep racing. I renamed it the Just Kidding
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  Tour. Mark Mark was given all this
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  stuff and decided to keep racing.
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  So it brings up Danny Hamlin. Danny won his fifth race of the
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  year race #59 he's won 59 Cup races.
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  That's incredible. He's definitely a Hall of Famer,
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  definitely one of the greatest of all time.
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  He's won the day, he's won all the races, he's won all the big
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  stuff. So it leads me to this.
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  After the race here in Saint Louis in the, you know, the had
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  a press conference and they started talking to him about
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  races and he says, well, he says, you know, right now, you
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  know, I signed A2 year extension with Coach Joe Gibbs and that's
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  it, That's it, huh? And he said Denny Hamlin said,
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  I'm thinking about I have about 70 races left in my NASCAR
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  career. I guess he's of age.
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  Respond right here. What is Denny?
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  Is Denny like? Is he 44 years old?
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  How old's Denny Hamlin? Respond right here.
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  Let me know. You're part of the conversation
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  too. I don't know everything.
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  Like I tell you all, I'm not a media member.
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  I'm a dirt racer. So Denny says, I'm thinking to
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  myself, I have 2 Daytona, 5 hundreds left, 2 Southern, 5
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  hundreds left and he went on and on about that.
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  Imagine your whole life you race race cars and you say I got I
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  got two years left. So my question all of you is can
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  Denny Hamlin really retire after two years?
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  Respond right here. Will he, knowing that when I
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  talked to Big Brother Rusty, Rusty quit at 50, Rusty said I
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  should have never quit at 50I kept going.
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  I said Rusty, 5052. It's all the damn same.
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  Once you get into life, two years, whatever.
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  But I've learned a lot about myself.
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  When I retired from NASCAR, what was that, 2015?
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  I retired. My very last race was Iowa.
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  I drove the US Cellular car for coach Joe Gibbs.
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  Who was it? Bubba Wallace got into my left
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  first, spun my ass out late in the race on a restart.
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  No big deal, not even a thing. But I knew that I wasn't going
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  to lay my tools down and go home.
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  I knew that was the star of my next chapter and I had that dirt
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  car. I knew that I was going to do
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  TV, run the dirt car, got three wonderful daughters, grandkids,
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  vacations, Sturgis bike week in Daytona, Kyle Petty charity
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  ride, go to Europe, see what I mean?
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  So when I retired from NASCAR, I just quit racing NASCAR.
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  But I never quit. What about all of you?
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  I know a lot of people that say when they retire from their
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  work, their heart quit beating so they had to keep doing
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  something. I think Denny Hamlin can do it.
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  I think he can, and here's why. But then again, I don't know,
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  you know, right now, will Michael Jordan, will 2311 with
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  Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin, the owners, will they will, will
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  that team keep going? That's another big one.
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  Will 2311 and and Denny Hamlin, Michael Jordan, will they be
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  able to keep that team open? How mad is Jim France at those
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  guys? Little Birdie tells me Jim
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  France, he's really upset with Michael Jordan.
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  Will, will they sell one of their charters?
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  What's going to happen? What's in what's in Michael
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  Jordan's head? Will there be a team for Denny
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  Hamlin? So let's say Denny Hamlin really
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  does quit at 46 years old. Seems about right with with
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  nowadays. Nowadays you look at like Tony
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  Stewart, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Jeff Burton, Bobby
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  Labonte, All those guys quit like 42 years old.
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  How about the ones that quit while they were young?
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  Clint Boyer, Ryan Newman. But you see Clint Boyer doing
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  TV, you see Ryan Newman still doing like me and Schrader, Ryan
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  Newman's running those those modifieds.
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  When I look at Denny Hamlin, I see he's got that wonderful wife
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  of his and three beautiful girls.
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  He's a sportster. Hell, I, I, I wouldn't leave it
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  up. I bet Denny Hamlin be part of a
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  sports team. He loves basketball.
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  So my question to you is, Denny Hamlin says he's got 70 races
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  left, but the way he looks at he's got two chances to win
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  another Daytona 500, two chances to win a Southern 500.
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  Will he really quit? Respond right here.
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  Let me know. All right, everybody, this is
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  the first week where things are finally calmed down.
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  That Saint Louis race, that was awesome.
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  But boy, it's a lot on me when everybody comes to town.
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  My phone was ringing off the hook.
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  I told him I said I love Saint Louis, I'm glad Worldwide
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  Technology's got it going on. But but when that's over, I'm
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  happy it's over. So I'll see you all at Bristol
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  Saturday trackside live with John Roberts going to start at 4
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  O clock in the evening. It's going to be a banger.
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  We got some great guests. See you at Bristol this week.
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  One of my favorite race tracks. I got to win there too.
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  Happy Tuesday everyone.