Latest / Kenny Wallace Media / The Chili Bowl Is The Best | Coffee With Kenny

Transcript

The Chili Bowl Is The Best | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

• 0:00
  What up is where do your mother and everything?
• 0:08
  Here's my room I got is in the living room getting it on.
• 0:15
  They ain't leaving till 6:00 in the mound. 6 in the mound.
• 0:21
  Hey Britt, you getting ready? You what you going to come get
• 0:25
  on coffee with Kenny. Say hi to everybody.
• 0:28
  Are you live? Good morning.
• 0:31
  You're looking live. Where you going?
• 0:34
  You going with the boats? We're going to go to brunch.
• 0:37
  Oh, going to brunch at this point because we're going to
• 0:41
  brunch. Have a good time.
• 0:45
  So I got my room, Brody and Brittany got their room and we
• 0:49
  got the door open because they any, you know, they share like,
• 0:54
  you know, you can go through their to their room and
• 0:55
  everything. Listen, I had a great time last
• 1:02
  night at the Chili Bowl. So just a quick little something
• 1:08
  real quick. So a Windham and all the big
• 1:14
  boys, you know, they're very nice to me last night.
• 1:17
  But there is a generation gap. Let me take these damn glasses
• 1:21
  off. Well, no, we just go like that.
• 1:22
  Yeah, that's nice right there. Look, see like that.
• 1:26
  OK, so handful of people last night.
• 1:32
  So we're doing a little show and tell and there's this generation
• 1:37
  gap and guys are like, damn, Herman, I didn't know you won
• 1:42
  all those dirt races. And I thought of Rusty right
• 1:45
  away. I said here we go.
• 1:48
  I'm 62 now and I'm getting ready to experience them.
• 1:51
  I said for all you dirt racers out there, I've ran more dirt
• 1:55
  racers than you'll ever run. So like I for years, hell, I'd
• 1:59
  run 60 to 70 dirt races a year with that old modified.
• 2:04
  And I was talking to some of the racers.
• 2:07
  I said, you know, everybody's got their lane.
• 2:09
  The old bangle racers are here, the dirt super late model racers
• 2:13
  are here, us some mod guys are here, wing Sprint guy, you know,
• 2:18
  it's just on and on. So yeah, hell, as Rusty says,
• 2:25
  Herm, it's sad to say, you got to remind them because they
• 2:28
  remember what they want. So yeah, I've run well over
• 2:32
  thousands of dirt races and went a lot and run really good.
• 2:40
  So there's that generation gap. But I'm having the time of my
• 2:43
  life down here at the Chili Bowl because I started meeting all
• 2:47
  the open wheel people around 2012, I guess.
• 2:52
  So I ran the Chili Bowl and I posted all the pictures this
• 2:55
  morning. I, I, I ran the Chili Bowl 2015.
• 3:00
  Now I went into Sammy Swindell's holler and he said, what are you
• 3:05
  doing here? You don't belong here like that.
• 3:09
  So last night when I did my interview with Flo, I I didn't
• 3:14
  do a good job prefacing, but no, Sammy Swindell is is I'm all
• 3:20
  good with Sammy and I admire Sammy Swindell to the maximum
• 3:23
  peak. But so that's how that went.
• 3:26
  And and Sammy was right, I did. I had no business being at the
• 3:30
  Chili Bowl, but damn it, I wanted to try it.
• 3:33
  I wanted to be part of those hundreds when when I was there,
• 3:36
  there was 320 something mentries for 20 something spots.
• 3:42
  So it's like not, not, not, not one of these son of a bitches
• 3:46
  going to make the race, you know, sort of speak.
• 3:48
  You know, there's what they going to start 2024 and there's
• 3:51
  320 cars. I remember we was in the Media
• 3:55
  Center and Tony Stewart taught me something.
• 3:59
  We're in the Media Center in 2015 and Tony Stewart looks at
• 4:02
  everybody and goes, I didn't know there was 320 open wheel
• 4:05
  midgets in America. But listen, this, this chili
• 4:12
  bowl is something else. And I said what I said on Flo
• 4:18
  and I meant that what I what I said was, listen, one of the
• 4:21
  greatest events of all time, Every race matters.
• 4:25
  It's like throwing a pack of meat to a bunch of dogs.
• 4:31
  Flip like every Oh my God, there it went.
• 4:33
  There it went. Brittany, I cussed for the first
• 4:36
  time in over a week. I'm sorry, damn it.
• 4:41
  I had it going on too. I told somebody last night in
• 4:46
  the infield, I said open wheel midgets.
• 4:51
  They flip like we spin out like like if like normal race cars,
• 4:55
  normal race cars, when we spin out, it's like, Oh my God, he
• 4:59
  spun out. He spun out here.
• 5:02
  They just flip and they just flip like it's nothing.
• 5:06
  Poor Jesse Love. Hell, I, I told Jesse Love last
• 5:09
  night. I said Jesse, you know, he's,
• 5:13
  he's the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts champion last year.
• 5:18
  If you remember Jesse love #2HE won the NASCAR Xfinity
• 5:24
  championship last year at Phoenix.
• 5:26
  I looked at him and hell, he's a great race car driver.
• 5:30
  I said, Jesse Love, I had no idea that you were a dirt racer.
• 5:34
  So I think this coffee with Kenny is about how big racing
• 5:39
  is. It's very hard to know
• 5:41
  everything. I will tell you it is it is hard
• 5:44
  for me to get used to this, this NASCAR media thing.
• 5:51
  We ain't doing no media. We're just pulling the old cell
• 5:53
  phone out and recording some stuff.
• 5:57
  But I appreciate you all liking it.
• 5:59
  We sure do do good with it. We sure do do good with it.
• 6:03
  And the NASCAR media thing, you know, it's a joke, everybody,
• 6:07
  but we're we're going with it. Charlie Marlow had to have a
• 6:11
  name to get credentials to go to the NASCAR tracks.
• 6:15
  NASCAR proved him for everything.
• 6:17
  And NASCAR says, well, what is your name?
• 6:20
  What's your company's name? Charlie said NASCAR, Kenny
• 6:24
  Wallace Media. So, so we put, we put Kenny
• 6:29
  Wallace Media. Then we started growing and we
• 6:32
  got some kids to go to the tracks that were in college.
• 6:36
  So that's what happened after in Phoenix.
• 6:38
  We got this really good kid a pass and he raises his hand and
• 6:43
  Jeff Gordon goes, yes. And the kid goes, Oh yes, Joe
• 6:46
  Don Baker from Kenny Wallace Media.
• 6:51
  And then I didn't realize it, but you know me.
• 6:54
  I'm all over X and Facebook and Instagram.
• 6:57
  I don't even have TikTok and Jeff Gordon and Rick Hendrick
• 7:02
  and those guys are all, they all live on TikTok.
• 7:05
  So that's where that hold it. They, you know, Jeff Gordon's
• 7:09
  like, well, I didn't know Kenny Wallace had a media company.
• 7:12
  I just saw he make TikTok videos.
• 7:14
  I'm like, Jeff, I only got TikTok.
• 7:19
  So anyway, yeah, the generation gap.
• 7:22
  I ran here in 2015 and yes, I ran 50 dirt races last year and
• 7:30
  I just can't help it, guys, I'm still winning.
• 7:33
  I look good. Look, barely got a belly.
• 7:37
  Look, I work hard at it. I just, I just showed you my
• 7:45
  damn belly. I was trying to show you I'm a
• 7:48
  badass. I don't mess around.
• 7:55
  OK, so as we get ready to leave here, two things you need to
• 7:58
  know. As Bob Pockrass would say on his
• 8:01
  little special, he does 2 things you kids don't know.
• 8:04
  I ran the Chili Bowl and I've run thousands of dirt races and
• 8:08
  I'm a winner. I win.
• 8:12
  See, at the Chili Bowl tonight. Hey Wallace, where's your
• 8:15
  sticker?