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Kim & I Remember Our Trips Racing in Japan! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  What shall I call this? I don't know.
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  Coffee with Kenny is in the mornings.
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  Dinner with Denny. Since I'm Kenny, Dinner with
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  Denny will call me Denny. Dinner with Denny.
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  All right, listen, because we talked about NASCAR, going to
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  Mexico, got a lot of people, you know, wanting to know about my
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  experience in Japan, so I thought I'd make a quick video.
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  My experience in Japan was wonderful.
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  Kim and I went over to Japan two times, flew over on JAL,
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  Japanese. What was it called?
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  Kim? Japan Airlines.
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  Yeah, Japan Airlines. The people are so polite, so
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  wonderful. Everything that we did in Japan
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  was just a pleasure. I'm telling you, they're so
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  polite and so nice over there. It really is shocking.
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  Even so much to where when we landed back in Chicago, people
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  in the Chicago airport were like rude.
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  And I'm like, Oh my gosh, you know, just, you know, I'm not
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  going to give any examples right now.
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  Just very aggressive. So the food, I couldn't find
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  anything to eat. I'm yelling because, Ken, did
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  you eat anything over there? French fries.
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  French fries. So listen, Kim ate French fries
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  in Japan. I ate straight.
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  What? And I lost a lot of weight.
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  She said she lost a lot of weight.
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  If you can make an appearance, please.
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  I brought her back. What did I get you?
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  What are you eating? Salad and sea potato.
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  Yeah, I got her. I got her a potato at Texas.
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  There she is. Come here.
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  Put your beautiful face right here.
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  So there's a lot of talk about Japan because, you know, the Cup
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  series is going to Mexico City and people are asking me a lot
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  of questions. So tell me about, you know, you
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  and I went to Japan. You and KK Craven.
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  She was married to Ricky. You guys went on a train.
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  Tell me, tell us about that experience on the train in Japan
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  where you couldn't figure the words out.
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  Actually, it was like a bus, not a train.
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  And they told us it'd be like 30 minutes for us to get into
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  Tokyo. And we were on there like 10
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  minutes. And it stopped.
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  And a lot of little school kids got on.
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  And of course, you know, we stuck out like a sore thumb.
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  But anyhow, they got on and they thought we should get off.
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  And I said no, no, we still have another 20 minutes to get there.
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  So we started following the the drawings of their letters or
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  whatever. Somehow.
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  We we got there and we had a good time.
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  We went and watched all the lady divers diving for.
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  Pearls. Pearls.
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  Yeah, you. We could buy pearls or tell us
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  about your Pearl experience. I can't remember the exact, but
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  they either drop the younger ones closer to shore and the
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  older ones out further, or they drop the older ones closer to
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  shore and the younger ones. There's a significance to that.
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  But anyhow, they go. They go diving for all of the
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  pearls. Real pearls.
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  OK, so another thing, you know, like over here we have our God
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  is I'll tell you one thing I learned about religion.
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  This one here is a true Catholic.
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  I mean, when I married her, everybody's Catholic, and that's
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  just the way it is. And I'm a Lutheran and I love
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  the Lord. But when you go over to Japan,
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  what they got like a Buddha it one thing Japan taught me is
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  that there's a lot of different beliefs all over the world.
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  That was really awesome. And then and then the shoguns,
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  like, that was interesting, too. Yeah.
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  We went to like the palaces and their floors, like, like, OK,
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  see the floor here? So like the floors over there,
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  they would have little hooks in them.
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  So like if somebody broke in your house at night, the floors
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  would go. That would be their alarm.
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  So you would know, well, the, what do you call them?
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  Shoguns? Yeah, they, they would climb up
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  into the roof and that's how they would.
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  They were very, they were, they were soldiers.
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  But, you know, that was different.
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  We did a lot of touring, but the food, everything they do over
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  there, Kim and I went to a a grocery store and and OK, just
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  so they don't think I'm lying, tell them what you remember
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  being in the grocery store. All kinds of raw fish,
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  everything was cut open with the guts.
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  Nothing. I don't know.
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  You just have to acquire a taste for that, I think.
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  But. Yeah, they, they had a octopus
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  like we went in the grocery store.
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  Like, I mean like an octopus, I guess.
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  Let's eat an octopus tonight. Well.
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  But some people do, you know, And so that's their culture and,
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  and that's fine, but not for me. Yeah, so anyway, the whole time
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  I'm on X here, I'm trying to be polite.
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  I eat scrambled eggs the whole damn time I was there, and they
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  have McDonald's there. So listen, Miller.
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  Our regular. McDonald's.
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  Yeah. No.
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  So they don't have hamburger over there.
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  Like if they do, it's a it's a big deal.
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  It's like you're wealthy. So Miller Brewing?
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  Rusty asked. You went right.
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  Did you go to the Miller Brewing dinner?
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  Oh, I did, though. So Rusty invites me and I go
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  with the Miller Brewing people and just tell you a couple of
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  experiences. So we go over there and, you
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  know, we take our shoes off at the restaurant and, you know, we
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  cross our legs and we sit down on the ground.
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  And so I had chopsticks and, you know, you know, I'm not real
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  good at using them, but, and they had rice.
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  Well, I had to, I had to go to the bathroom.
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  So I took my chopsticks and I just stuck them in the rice.
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  I come back and they're like, Kenny, hold on, are you leaving?
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  No, I'm right here. And and so they said, Kenny,
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  you, you don't take your chopsticks and put them in the
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  rice. That means the food's shit.
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  No good. I went, Oh no, I didn't mean
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  that. I just thought, I thought
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  there's a pile of rice. I stuck, stuck my chopsticks in
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  there. So if you go to Japan and you
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  got chopsticks, don't stick them in something.
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  Lay them down. So meat.
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  So, so Japan is the size of California.
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  Look at the king. But anyway, Japan is the size of
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  California. So they don't have a lot of land
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  over there, you know, So like cattle, that's, that's not
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  there. You don't see cattle over there.
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  I didn't see cattle over there. So they, I mean, minnows, like
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  minnows are like French fries over there.
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  So like, like if you want to eat French fries, you can eat
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  minnows, like little bitty fish eat minnows.
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  It was a great time. I think I finished 7th at Suzuka
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  Circuit. I ran really well.
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  My my car was sponsored by EA Sports.
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  It's in the game and my buddy Tex Pal who died last year.
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  I saw Tex's wife, Tex Pal's wife.
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  Is it? Is it Tex Pal's wife?
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  Isn't she a isn't she Chuck Bounds sister?
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  I think so. But anyway, I saw miss, you
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  know, the lady that was married to Tex.
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  I saw her at the end of the Cal Petty charity ride.
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  But anyway, Tex was my he owned the car and he was the crew
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  chief. So I had a real good experience,
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  ran real good. Now then that sure went back.
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  I didn't do any good at Motiki. We were no good, but it was a
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  wonderful experience to see culture different.
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  But but here's the thing about Japan.
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  They are so nice, very, very respectful people.
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  All right. Hope you enjoyed that.