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Whatever Happened To Jimmie Johnson? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning everybody. I am in Austin, TX.
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  Big weekend down here. We have Fandango tonight.
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  You know there is a really nice amphitheater inside this
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  racetrack Circuit of the America.
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  So tonight we are going to celebrate the first responders.
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  Man oh man, they are some awesome people.
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  So tonight we have 4000 people. We are going to entertain them.
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  A Fandango has been around for a long time.
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  You know, Texas Motor Speedway, Circuit of the America, they're
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  all one team. It's a really big deal.
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  So we're going to interview some drivers.
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  And then Tim Dugger, the country western superstar, he'll be up
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  after us, put on a nice concert. And then tomorrow I'm going to
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  roll through the garage area on Saturday and then Sunday is
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  trackside live. OK everybody, that was a really
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  quick monologue today. Richard Petty, the king, seven
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  time champion, he made news. Did you know that?
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  Richard Petty and Dale Inman, his crew chief, man, they are a
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  duel. They made NASCAR history,
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  winning 7 championships. But Richard Petty says that
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  NASCAR is missing that that guy. I'm like, keep going Richard,
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  keep talking. He said something like they're
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  missing a fox. You know, he's, I think.
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  Tell me if I'm right. Does this sound right?
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  Do I? Did I hear him right?
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  A dog chases after a fox or a fox chase?
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  Anyway, there was something there.
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  I understood what Richard meant. He meant we don't have a driver
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  that stands out Now. That's what Richard Petty said.
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  So let let's talk about it. Everybody respond right here.
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  Is Richard Petty right? Is there a driver that stands
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  out? I got to tell you, I love
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  everybody, but I have to agree with the great Richard Petty.
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  I agree with Richard. There is no driver that stands
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  out. But there was a driver that
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  stood out, Jimmie Johnson. Whatever happened to Jimmie
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  Johnson? I think that's I think that's my
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  headlines today. Whatever happened to Jimmie
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  Johnson, the race car driver? Stop and think about it for a
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  minute. You had Richard Petty, you had
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  Dale Earnhardt senior and those guys, I mean, they're Richard is
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  still celebrated to this day. So it, it begs the question,
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  whatever happened to Jimmie Johnson?
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  Really a strange phenomenon. You know, I'm a big fan of
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  Jimmie Johnson. Jimmy flew, flew Kim and myself
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  on his airplane with Jimmy and his beautiful wife.
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  I really like Jimmie Johnson. Super nice guy.
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  But it's like Jimmie Johnson should not be able to walk
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  through the garage area without fans chasing after him.
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  Jimmie Johnson was that driver. He was, he was that driver that
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  was so fast. They were chasing him.
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  It just seems like Jimmy won those championships and left and
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  he's back, but it's like he should be doing things for the
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  sport. What's going on here is, is
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  NASCAR dropping the ball or is Jimmie Johnson don't want to do
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  it? Somebody said last night on X
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  that Jimmie Johnson was on Happy Harvick and nothing to tell me
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  this. This is all of us together,
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  Jimmie Johnson said. Well, I guess I could do more,
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  more marketing, but I just haven't.
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  Why? Jimmy owns a NASCAR team.
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  He owns a legacy. Why would he not?
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  Is it? I don't know if that's true or
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  not. Here's the bottom line.
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  The King Richard Petty said we just don't have that person in
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  NASCAR. We are missing that person.
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  And when I thought about it, I thought well it it ended with
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  Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy was that guy.
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  He was that guy that was so damn fast.
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  I mean he rattle off with four or five championships in a row
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  respond right here. All right, now that we've talked
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  about that, I'm going to give you my opinion.
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  I think Jimmy Johnson won those championships and he felt like
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  there was more to do in his life.
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  I think Jimmy wanted to see if he was really that great.
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  So when when you rattle off that many championships, you start
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  saying to yourself, damn, am I that good?
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  Am I really that good? Or is it the car that's fair for
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  Jimmy Johnson to ask himself that?
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  So Jimmy said, I think I'm going to go to IndyCar and I'm going
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  to see how damn good I am. That was a really hard
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  transition. Sometimes I think that, you
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  know, I, I tell some people, I say they they say, hey, Herman,
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  I'm running a dirt modified and I want to go to dirt super late
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  model or, you know, I say, hold on now, be careful.
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  You're winning everything. Stay your lane, stay your lane.
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  You know, I'll never forget Warren Buffett, the the
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  wealthiest man in in the world, Alex Rodriguez, the great
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  baseball player, you know, Alex had, you know, millions of
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  dollars and he goes to Warren Buffett.
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  He goes, Warren, I got all this money, man, what should I do
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  with it? Warren Buffett said it perfect.
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  He said do what you do best, just play baseball.
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  So when I look back on whatever happened to Jimmie Johnson, I'm
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  going to take it. I'm going to take a shot of
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  this. I think Jimmy won all those
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  championships and he wanted to see if it was him, so he went
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  the IndyCar. He should have stayed his lane.
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  I mean that with love, man. I love Jimmy Johnson.
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  I'm sure I've said that about eight times right now.
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  Maybe Jimmy should have stayed his lane, but he went to IndyCar
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  and it just didn't turn out. Spend a little time doing what
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  he does, going overseas. When I watch Jimmy, he likes,
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  you know, like some of these IndyCar racers.
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  He kind of likes the Formula One type people, hangs out with
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  them. I don't see.
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  It's kind of like Jimmy left the NASCAR type people like they
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  upset him. Did NASCAR upset Jimmy Johnson?
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  If so, why did he come back and why does he own a A-Team?
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  It is so strange. Jimmie Johnson owns a NASCAR
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  team and he's not celebrated that one driver that Richard
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  Petty was talking about that we don't have today.
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  So that got me to thinking, whatever happened to Jimmie
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  Johnson? Respond right here.