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How Does My Brother Mike Wallace Get Approved To Run The Daytona 500? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning, everybody.
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  I think it's 12:00. It's lunchtime lunch with Lenny.
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  All right, everybody, We coming out front.
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  We got the big snowstorm moving in.
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  I'm going to bring the generator down here.
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  I got a neat little heater. I expect the electric could go
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  out because they're talking about big ice.
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  And I'm, I'm laughing because what I heard just now was not
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  big ice. I heard big ass.
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  That's that's the way my brain works.
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  So anyway, yeah, we looking good here.
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  Still got a little remnants of Gretchen Wilson's lights being
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  left up all year long, but we took the lights down.
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  And so, yeah, we're looking good here.
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  All right, everybody, Lunch with Lenny, coffee with Kenny.
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  Today's subject matter is once again three days in a row.
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  Brother Mike, I was talking to Mike last night and I said I'm a
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  little bit like Robin Williams. Sometimes I'm funny, but I'm
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  very smart. Hey, they say you what you think
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  is what you are. So if I think I'm smart, I'm
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  damn smart. Brother Mike said Robin
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  Williams, all his content come from news of the day or what
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  people are thinking. So the conversation is this.
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  A lot of people, they're saying Mike's 65 years old.
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  I don't know if that's a good ideal.
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  I don't know if he should be jumping right in that race car.
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  So I'm going to D bullshit it. Did you know that the word D
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  bullshit come from Andy Petrie? And here's how it started.
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  I was, and I think time has gone on long enough or Andy's not
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  going to get mad at me. Hi, Andy Petrie, somebody will
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  tell you about this. So I got to give credit where
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  credit's due. Andy Petrie was saying, my God,
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  we'll just be bullshit this right now.
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  We were at Daytona and my crew chief with Jimmy Elledge in the
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  square D55 Cup car. I mean, it was the July race and
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  we qualified like not good, like almost 30th.
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  And my crew chief Jimmy Elledge told Andy Petrie, it's the
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  motor. Well, Andy got pissed cause Andy
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  builds the motors and you know, boy, if you want to start a
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  fight in NASCAR, just say it's the body and then the, and then
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  the body man's mad at the crew chief or say it's the motor.
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  See, in NASCAR, all the departments are like, it's like
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  a civil war. You'll start a fight in the
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  garage at your own garage in a heartbeat.
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  All you got to say, well, the crew chief doesn't know what
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  he's doing. And then it's like, well, then
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  the the motor guy don't have enough power.
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  Then the well the body, that's the way it was.
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  It's not that way much anymore with this new next Gen. car.
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  So anyway, Andy Petrie said, well, by God, what do you think
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  we ought to do? And he was reared up.
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  He was pissed. Jenny Ellis's dad built the
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  motors for Ward Burton, Remember Bill Davis, you remember the
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  award Burton won that won those races?
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  And so anyway, Jimmy Elledge's dad built some killer motors.
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  So Jimmy Elledge looks at looks at Andy and says we'll just go
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  put one of my dad's motors in. Well, by God, just do that
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  'cause that's the way Andy talks.
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  Andy be laughing at this. By God, we'll just do bullshit
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  this So he knows kind of Dun Dun, Dun Dun, you know, and you
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  watch those Dale Junior downloads now and the rest of
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  the Dun Dun comes out. So anyway, we take the motor out
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  of the car and we put the, we put the, you know, Jenny
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  Elledge, we put the Elledge motor in the car and we go
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  second round qualify like 4th overall.
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  Overall, Although it was nice when in, you know, the little
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  battle, it was like, Jesus, what have we been qualifying with all
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  year long? It kind of puts you in
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  depression. And all I could think about was
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  Andy saying, well, by God, we'll just D bullshit this right now.
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  We took Andy's motor out of the car, put in the Elledge motor
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  and went like, oh, Jesus, almost a second or more quicker.
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  By God, we D bullshit of that. Of course, I never told the
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  story because that's not smart, because I'm always the middle
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  man. I always fix problems.
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  So that's where D bullshit comes from.
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  All right, now, you know, maybe one day we'll put that on the
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  Kenny Wallace show. And that's one thing I really
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  like about Dale Junior's download.
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  Just stop and think about some of those people that kept those
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  secrets to themselves and it hurt them.
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  But you know, 1520 years later it comes out on Dale Junior
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  downloaded. But those people accepted making
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  themselves look bad all those years because it, you know, you
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  just didn't want to mess everything up.
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  Just had to, you know, eat shit basically is the way it was.
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  You ate shit just to keep a job. So my career was a little bit
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  like that. But when those drivers got hurt,
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  I got in their cars and I hauled ass.
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  And that's the reason I was able to keep my ride for so long.
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  Ernie Irving got hurt, I got that son of a bitch and hauled
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  ass. Steve Park got hurt.
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  I got that son bitch and all that.
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  So that's why I was able to run 905 races.
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  So that's the back story of by God, we'll just be bullshit this
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  right now. And we did.
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  I won and Jimmy Ellis, you did too.
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  All right, we're going to follow up here with some everybody.
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  Are we going to D bullshit this right now?
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  Everybody, not everybody. It's like I told Mike last
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  night, my content, my content comes from the two percent, 98%
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  of the people. They're awesome.
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  It's that 2% that give me the content.
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  I see him. So we had a smart ass on X and
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  he's like, I don't know if that's a good idea about just
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  letting Mike drive a car. And I almost wanted to put the
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  the more you know, you know, the commercials years, years ago,
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  you're like, you're a smart ass and you're like, OK, dummy.
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  The more you know knowledge is powered.
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  So did you know that you acquire NASCAR license?
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  Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson, the best.
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  If you're going to go to Daytona this year, you know what you got
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  to do to get your NASCAR license.
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  You have to go through an A complete physical.
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  Yes, you got to go through a physical by a doctor, get your
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  eyes checked, get your blood drawn, look at all your sugar.
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  Look at you. You have to put an EKG on you
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  look at your heart rate. So for anybody to go to Daytona
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  and get your NASCAR license, they you just don't give them 10
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  grand and go give me my license. Ain't the way it works.
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  It's a little bit like the DMV. You got to pass a written test,
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  you got to have your eyes checked.
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  But in NASCAR they do it right. And and I'm going to tell you
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  what, that's one reason I'm so physically fit to this day when
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  NASCAR years ago, see, I raced the NASCAR when you didn't
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  really have to do nothing but take an eye test.
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  And then all of a sudden they said, Oh no, we're going to
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  start doing physicals because, you know, some drivers get out
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  there and they have a heart attack and they got a weak heart
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  and they, you know, they mask it.
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  Look at the story with, with Dale Junior telling you.
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  I remembered my buddy Dale Junior, he ran a couple races,
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  you know, concussioned and, and he tells the story and that,
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  that book's out right now. Katie Mast, Rick Mast's
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  daughter. She's on X saying, boy, I just
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  read that book and something else.
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  So you can't mask anything. It's hard to mask if there's
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  anything wrong with you nowadays.
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  So Mike, Mike Wallace will go through a NASCAR physical
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  approved, but he'll go to a doctor.
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  NASCAR's got the paperwork. NASCAR sends you the paperwork.
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  I did it. And I pay attention to my blood
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  work. I get my blood drawn every year
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  and I sit down and I talk with my doctor about it, you know.
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  So for Mike to go to Daytona, he's going to have to get a
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  NASCAR physical and it's going to be a complete physical blood
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  work, EKG, heart regulation, eyes.
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  The more you know. So today we D bullshit something
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  all right now, the more you know.
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  Have a great Saturday, everybody.