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My Wife, Kim Wallace | Classic Kenny Conversations · Kenny Wallace Media

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I thought it would be a great idea if I interviewed my wife
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and see what you had to say. OK, you look good.
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Thank you. And I love you.
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I love you too. I love my wife.
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And before we even get started, I want everybody to know that
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we've been married 38 years, 38 years.
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But we met each other in night November.
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No, Yeah, November of 80 or when we started school.
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So we've been together 41 years, 40, something like that.
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We've been together 41 years. And Kim is my high school
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sweetheart and she has you have been with me through it all,
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everything. Because we met each other when
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we're 16 and 17 years old. Right.
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OK, so let's start out like this.
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Where were you born and raised? Where did where?
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Where did you come from, Kim? Saint Louis I was born and
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raised here in Saint Louis all over St.
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Louis in the city. Well, everywhere.
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From the time I started kindergarten to graduating, I
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had been to nine different schools.
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Yeah. Whoa.
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It's a lot say that. Again, you were at 9 different
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schools. In 13 years.
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Yes. Why?
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Why were you at 9 different schools?
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We. Just we moved a lot and so I
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have lots of friends now everywhere.
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You know what, no, take that, take that as positive mental
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attitude. People always say to me, man, is
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that Kitty Wallace really happy. So to me, moving 9 * 9 different
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schools sounds crazy, but I like the way you put it.
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You said I have more friends, I do, That's fantastic.
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So what I do like about you moving 9 different times is
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because of that we met each other and you moved out.
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You were in the city. You moved out with us rednecks
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in Arnold, MO, and I was in photography class at Fox High
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School 1980. And all of a sudden you come
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walking in that room and I was like, holy moly.
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I always tell everybody you look like Bo, Derek, Beautiful or
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Raquel. Wells.
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Or Raquel. Or Raquel Welch at Rick Mast He.
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Still calls me Raquel. Because because I was on
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SiriusXM or something like that and I said my wife remind me of
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Raquel Welch. Well, you are.
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You're dark skinned. Where does the dark skin and
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black hair, where does that come from?
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Because you, you really do stand apart.
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I mean, yes, I can see that your family, you're all one.
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You all are kind of dark skin, but you're really.
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Well, it's Italian, dark German and that's it.
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You're are you got? You're not Indian.
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Somewhere along the line there's a piece of it that I don't know.
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Because your maiden name is Pool, but your mom's maiden name
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is Sunshine. But it's Sun, Sunshine, and they
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changed. The spelling somewhere through
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the. German.
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So anyway, you moved out with us rednecks and I drove you nuts.
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I was flirting with you. What do you remember about us
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getting together? I remember that I missed you
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once you were gone, but you did drive me crazy.
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Why do you miss me? Because the class was kind of
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boring. Journal journalism is more
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boring than photography. So you were bored because I
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wasn't around anymore? Correct.
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So. So I'm the same way today.
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I drive people nuts, but when I leave then they get bored.
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Yeah, it's I'm 58 and they're they're the same.
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Thing drive me nuts. I'm used to it by now.
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So we'll get to that point, OK, When we were in school.
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So we ended up, we ended up, I had to go to, you know, third
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period or whatever it was, you know, we went to it.
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We separated because of the way it was school.
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But then we are in our race shop one night, the phone rings and I
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answer. Poor boy Chassis.
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Rusty's business. Poor boy Chassis.
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And do you remember what you said to me?
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I do. What'd you say?
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Because I know. Something about being a crime to
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want to go out with you because once you were gone, I realized
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that I did like you. So you said, so I.
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Called you. I made the first phone call,
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yes. And you and I, I said, who is
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this? And you said, Kim Poole, is it a
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crime to want to go out with you?
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And I'm like, no. So so we set up.
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What made you say that? Just because I told a friend of
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mine, I said you're not going to believe who I think I like and
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she told me your name, so I'm. Like it makes me happy that you
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like me because I love you. I know so much.
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There's nobody like you. Yeah.
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What say that? There's nobody like you.
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That makes me happy. I'm going to cry if I don't
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stop. But anyway, moving forward.
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So we went on a date, you know, and now it's time to kind of
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Fast forward For a lot of people out there.
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I see it all the time. They they get married and their
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husband or boyfriend is a race car driver and they don't take
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kindly to the racing because the racing consumes my life.
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You never threatened me. You never said race car or me.
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Why did you? Why did you let me race?
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Well, there's a fine line there. You either accept it or you
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don't. It is a hard life, lot of
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sacrificing. But I don't know.
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I had the kids and I was busy. And we were boyfriend,
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girlfriend and we were leaving every week going.
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I was with Rusty every week. Nobody had to.
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Work. You worked.
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We were broke. Literally.
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I worked. You worked.
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What were your jobs? I worked in an accounting firm.
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I worked in. I was Jack of all trades at
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Pope's Cafeteria here in Saint Louis.
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You worked at a cafeteria. In bank buildings we did
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executive parties and we served the executives lunch so.
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Everybody always different. Everybody wants to know, did you
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so like say you made a whole bunch of spaghetti or what?
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Potato salad. How would you save it for the
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next day or would you just throw that food out?
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No, cause 'cause it kind of like you kind of like read a a
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cafeteria. Right.
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Well, some things were saved, some things went out.
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It just really depended. But you know, we knew how much
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to make based on the last time we made it or something.
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So we didn't have a lot of. Waste.
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So you didn't have a lot of waste.
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So I remember that you worked hard, You had a job.
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Tell me all your jobs. I worked at several of the
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different. Wendy's.
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I did Wendy's when I was 16. Well, I I was only I, I met you
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when I was. I know I was. 1617.
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Right. So I worked there, somebody that
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I had babysat for, he says. As much of A babysitter you are,
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we don't want to lose you, but I really need you at the store.
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I was a good worker, and so I worked at Wendy's, then I
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graduated, I went to Pope's cafeteria, worked at several of
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their different things, and then I worked at an accounting firm
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and then I was going. To a new.
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Job and you stopped me from going because you said we're
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moving. Well, you went to go to work
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downtown Saint Louis, rough area.
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And I came to pick you up after work one day and I went.
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No, no. It's one thing to work in the
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city, but you know, you were in a rough area.
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I didn't like that and it. Yeah.
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So we. So then you allowed me.
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When did you realize you were all in that we were going to
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race. Was there ever a point?
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Because I don't know if I remember that we were going to
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race like we like we were broke all the time.
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Yeah, it didn't matter. No, because we didn't care about
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money, we just were doing what we wanted to do.
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You did what you wanted to do, but, oh, I mean, inevitably I
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knew you were going to be a race car driver.
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I mean, it was in your family. That's what you were doing.
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I just didn't want you to leave me in Saint Louis and head to
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Charlotte. Oh yeah, So you, you knew I was
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going to race and we're boyfriend, girlfriend.
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And in 1984, I get I end up becoming the crew chief in the
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Cup Series. Joe Rutner was the driver, Levi
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Garrett was the sponsor. And I never really heard that
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part. So the reason you went with me
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because. Because what?
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Well, before that I kept thinking, you kept talking about
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going to Charlotte, going to Charlotte, and I thought I can't
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go to Charlotte. But then I was afraid that you
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were going to leave me here and go.
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So anyhow, you went, I know you went first.
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We were getting married in the middle of that year that we just
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assumed. 23rd 1984 we got married.
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Yeah. And so I came down about a month
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later and we found a place and stuff so.
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So time moves on. You went through some of my
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toughest times in racing. So, you know, I remember on the
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back of our hauler, it, it, you know, I painted this thing, it
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said tough times last a while, tough people last forever.
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I went through a lot of I mean, I was always happy, always
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going, but but I never really got exactly everything I wanted.
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So you dealt with a lot of my depression.
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I was bummed out that I didn't get exactly what I want.
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Did you? What was your process there?
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I mean, how did you help me? I'm not sure because they, they
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were pretty tough and, you know, you find out who your friends
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are, but it affected our whole family, not just you, you know,
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the kids, the kids. I mean, you know, people that
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think that oh, well, you just get over it and you move on or
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you go to a new ride or whatever.
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But emotionally, it affects you and affect the kids.
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And I'll never forget a couple times they told us leave your
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phones here, don't answer any calls, go to Charleston, go.
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And we did. We took our phones with us.
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But I think something good turned out or wanted.
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Well, you know what? So we we can't, we're not going
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to do this in a timeline. However, you know, we start out,
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you know nothing, right? We've been together way.
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I mean, we had nothing right? Like 0, not even a car, a
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passenger car. And you've been with me through
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it all. But we went from racing in ASA
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kind of like, oh, how are we doing this?
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You know, we had sponsorship, John Childs, Don Kern.
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And then when we made it to NASCAR, it was a dream.
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It was a dream to make it to NASCAR.
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But for me, it was a nightmare for me, it wasn't at the start.
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How would you say as a wife and a mother, how is it like for you
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to be a NASCAR, especially for a driver?
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I consider myself like a, you know, now don't get mad at me.
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I consider myself like AC plus driver in NASCAR.
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We had nine NASCAR Xfinity wins and we had a lot of great stats,
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but I wasn't Jeff Gordon. Did that work hard on you during
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that? Because I didn't want to marry
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Jeff Gordon. Yeah, so you you don't.
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No, I just we are who we are. We don't try to be anybody else.
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And I just, we just did what we did, you know, we had parties,
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we had friends, the kids had things.
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We always had something going on at our house.
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Yeah, you. You were.
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You were into me for Kenny back in high school.
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Yeah. So you didn't care about finding
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a sponsor? No.
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In other words, you met me. I didn't.
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Marry you because you raced. You met me because you loved me.
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You didn't meet. We didn't have any money.
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Actually, you bought my very first Dylan trailer.
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Yes, like $2100. You save that up.
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Bought my first trailer so so you never so when I didn't run
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good in NASCAR. No, I felt really bad for you
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because there was a lot of behind the scenes struggles that
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went on in your racing career, you know, and I thought we did
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the best we could with all of that.
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Yeah, you know, I mean, there was some really hurtful things,
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but we just, I don't know, we just, we're in our house and we
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did our thing. What?
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Pissed you off the most. Oh God, at least too many.
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Do you remember one thing that just, like stands out to you?
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Like for me, you know, the worst time in my NASCAR career was in
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1993 when when Felix Sabatas fired me.
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That was the greatest. Thing that happened to us.
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Yeah, it was. It was because my favorite
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filbert, Mertasi, came into play and to this day, that man is my
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favorite. And Filbert just passed away.
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He did. Very sad.
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What a good man out of Nashville, TN That was that red
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dog car and we won races and and when when Felix fired me Filbert
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hired me right away. We didn't miss a beat and we
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went on to have a killer year. We won, we won like 3 races and
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I think we won three races in 1994.
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And yeah, from then on, you know, it was just kind of it was
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just we were living. It wasn't just us.
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I I know other drivers, they, you know, go through that too,
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you know, and it's like, oh, this is rough, you know, But I
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will say this, the majority of your career was racing as we all
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knew it. It was fun.
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It's competitive. You weren't worrying about your
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job every week. You weren't, you know, it, it
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was fun. It was just the last four years
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that were a little bit stressful.
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Yeah. So basically it was a good life.
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So I'm looking at my notes here. I wrote some notes down.
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You're you're hardcore. So I'm AI pacify.
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In other words, I want people to be happy.
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You, you know, we're Ying and Yang, you know, opposites
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attract. So when people cock you wrong,
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you're done with them. Me, I like try to mend the
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fence. You know, I'm so having I'm so
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used to having a, you know, work with racers.
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You know, you see them in the pit air.
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You, you, you write people off. But you've always been that way.
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Why are you like that? Why are you so hardcore?
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I probably get that from my grandma pool.
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However, you can ask any woman out there and she will tell you
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that if you cross her husband or her kids, you're done right?
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And and that's it. Because you're a good person,
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Guinea. Nobody, nobody should treat you
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bad. You have helped more people from
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1 extreme to the next and I know that you know.
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So you know, I know. So what?
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What about, you know, the interview's about you, which you
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know, we just want to know your feelings.
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Well, go ahead. Those are my feelings, you know,
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that I some people get a second chance.
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It's kind of depends on what it is.
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But some people, they're just not worthy of a second chance,
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just. So you just write them off.
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I just write them off, I don't go on talking.
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About and I'm always trying to please them.
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But it's like, good guy, I never knew you, you know, only because
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I'm a nice person too. And I do a lot.
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And you know, I just, you know. So let's move forward now, OK,
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we have 3 awesome girls Brooke, Brandy, Brittany.
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But during that period you tied your tubes and you always told
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me you wanted to have seven kids because you came from a big
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family, correct? So we went back and we tried to
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retie your tubes, right? So we have 3 wonderful kids, but
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you wanted to have more, correct?
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You tie your tubes and here we are with these kids.
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What was going on during that time?
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I. I'm not going to talk about why
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I made the decision to do that, right, but I did.
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And when Brittany was 4, you were gone.
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And all of a sudden I'm picking her up in the preschool line and
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I'm like, oh, this is my last year.
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You want more kids? But I shouldn't have listened to
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that person. I should have just did it so
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anyhow. So somebody convinced you?
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Yeah. Which?
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Which we don't need to talk about that anyhow.
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So we did. And so we decided to check into
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IVF. Right.
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And it and it didn't take. It did not.
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Well, we did. That twice and yeah, it didn't.
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And then my sister decided to get pregnant and so we just
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played with hers. But we have 3 wonderful girls.
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We do. And that was you wanted a house
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full of kids. I did.
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I had a. Great.
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You're a great mother. I mean, we're running through
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the Indianapolis airport with three girls and there's Dick
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Trickle saying here, let me help you.
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I mean our. I have a lot of patience too.
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I don't. I do, and when it comes to
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motherhood and stuff like that, I'm very organized when it comes
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to that and my girls are great. Why do you listen?
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I'm with you. My life with you has has been
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awesome with the kids, but I just find it unbelievable now.
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Do you think you wanted too many kids because your mom is one of
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10? Your mom is one of 10.
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Yeah, it just kind of runs in our family.
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We're Catholic, so all these families, you have huge
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families, but I don't know. I just I love the kids that me
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having girls. All their friends were always
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over at our house so I still ended up.
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We all was these bonus daughters.
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We always had parties. I mean, our house was just
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party, party, party. Yeah, You know, not parties, but
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I mean birthday parties, you know.
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Yeah. Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving,
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I mean, every, every event. You.
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Well, well, you know, it was important for me.
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Like I missed quite a few couple few years in there while I was
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raising my kids and they're in school, but it was more
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important to me to be at home raising them so they didn't miss
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out on sleepovers or they didn't miss out going and doing these
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things. I did all these things with
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them. I I find it fascinating that you
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are the ultimate racer's wife. Like, like you could teach
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everybody else a lesson. I mean, I will brag on Kim.
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Kim is the ultimate I mean, if they're if we're going to have
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like a group, she's the queen of racing wise.
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So like, I mean, you've you've threatened to kick people's ass.
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You've lived at the race tracks, You've literally lived at the
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race tracks. But now that I go dirt racing,
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I'm not saying you don't want nothing to do with it.
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Why? Why don't you go dirt racing
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with me? Probably because we did asphalt
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racing for 30 years and it was all about him. 30 years of
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racing and when I decide to go dirt racing it, it's for a
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hobby. You're like screw this.
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Yeah, and I and I do go and you know, but I had you.
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Support me. I do, but my grandbabies came
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along and I was babysitting for them and now I'm kind of solo
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again because they're all going to school.
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So I can go with you. But you know me.
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I'm going to be pick and choose. So we'll kind of Fast forward a
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lot. Like I said, we're not my new
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word is time stamp. We're not time stamping this
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interview. We're getting to know Kim.
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So I've announced that this is going to be my last year racing
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all over America and and then I'm going to right size even
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more. And then in 2023, I'm going to
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race right around a home. Now you and I have talked about
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this over and over. What do you think about my idea
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that's? Funny, yeah.
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You, you, you good with me slowing my racing down?
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Yeah, yeah, I'm good. Yeah, OK, good.
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I I have. I have things that keep me busy
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when you're gone. So, right, So a lot of people
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like my face, like this is the real me.
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The way I'm talking, this is the way I really AM.
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And, and as I'm talking to you, I'm realizing that, you know,
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this is really me. You know, when people ask you,
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is Kenny really like, I mean, you know, I know and, and, but
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I'm dead serious about this. I, there's two or three of me.
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It depends what person I want to give to that person.
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Do they want the entertainment guy?
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Do they want the businessman? Who?
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Who is who? Tell them who is Kenny Wallace?
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You're all of the above. You really are like, you're very
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smart and you are fun. Always, never, never, ever a
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dull moment around here, you know, So I mean, you know.
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So when when I see people reach out to you on social media, is
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he as great? Is he as am I?
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Crazy number one question. When you were doing speed TV,
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they would ask me. And speed with entertainment.
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Is he as crazy that home at home and I'd sit back and I'd think
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I'm like, well, if you mean if he's jumps on my furniture, you
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know, I mean you're just fun and every day is you know, I mean
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even. So I'm not crazy.
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You're not crazy, but I think even when you had bad years or
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bad times at the race tracks, I we never felt that.
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I mean, we knew it, but you never come home and threw that
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on top of us. In other words, we never felt
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like you were. You hit a lot, I think.
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Or you could handle that better. I was, you know, you're you're
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right, though. You said it right.
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So during my whole racing career, it only got any bang,
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bang at the end, correct. Yeah.
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Because ASA was awesome. The Bush Series was awesome.
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You know, we had some good cup runs, but the cup rides were
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super hard to come by. And when we did get the good cup
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rides, we ran good, you know, like, like that Pennzoil car and
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the Havilland car. So those were good times.
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And, and it takes you to remind me.
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So the reason I asked you about am I crazy is because you know,
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it's, it's funny because there are racers that really know me.
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And but for the people that don't know me, they ask
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questions. I'm like, you know, people And
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I'm, I'm like, do you think I go down the straightaway?
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Like, you know, there's people like that.
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I know they really think that I'm crazy.
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You know, I know they do. It has always caught me off
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guard that you know I'm in the end of the day if you're.
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And I always know when you're stirring the pot when you're on
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social media. How do you know I'm?
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Because you start laughing and I'm like, what are you doing
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over there? But The thing is, is that not
25:43
everybody is laughing, you know? So like when you say or do
25:50
something and they come back with something, I think, oh,
25:54
really? You don't know Kenny better than
25:56
that. To know that he's just pulling
25:59
your leg or something. I don't 'cause you're not a,
26:02
you've never been mean to anybody.
26:04
So I find social media, I find social media fascinating from
26:10
the fact that when me and you were kids in Saint Louis, I used
26:15
to listen to KMOX AM talk radio. I've always said that you I love
26:20
debate radio. And, and when people debate,
26:23
that means it means they don't agree they're debating something
26:27
and it, it fascinates me. So I'll just, sometimes I won't
26:31
even bring up a subject. I'll just say a name and Oh my
26:34
God, all it takes is a name, like a name, like 4 letters.
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I just put it up. I just say it and everybody
26:41
starts fighting. And I find that funny because it
26:46
doesn't take anything for people to start.
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I won't say arguing, but just yes, no, yes, no.
26:53
Debating but some. It depends on the temperament of
26:57
the person. To some people you could really
27:00
get under their skin and laughs. So you know, that's why whenever
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anything is very controversial, I will try and tell.
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You. You tell me.
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I do tell you because I don't want people to get mad at you
27:12
because you're not that person. And.
27:14
You don't like really? You don't like it when I talk
27:16
politics? I don't at all because I'm not
27:20
right. So let's let's come to not the
27:25
end, but let's get to where we are right now.
27:29
We're downstairs in our 2600 square foot home.
27:35
I feel like we have a modest home, but you have done a lot
27:39
with this basement. You what got you into making
27:44
wreaths? When was that moment you said
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I'm going to make wreaths? Somebody just asked me if I had
27:53
done this and I said no, I haven't.
27:56
So I went and took a class at Ben Franklin Crafts when they
28:00
were in business. And I never ever thought, I
28:05
mean, I've had a lot of hobbies. I've always been active in that.
28:11
But I just went. I made my first.
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I remember you telling me, Dave. Wreath.
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I remember how it was. Pretty nice.
28:17
I remember when you said, Kenny, I'm going to Ben Franklin to
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learn how to make wreaths. I'm like, you're doing what
28:24
you're going to bet is Ben. I don't even think Ben
28:26
Franklin's all around. Anymore.
28:27
No, they're not. Darn it, they were a good they
28:29
were. They time stamped my life.
28:32
Ben Franklin. I mean kind of like Kmart or
28:35
Sears. Ben Franklin was the Hobby
28:37
Lobby. So you learn how to make these
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rates now. Did.
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And I didn't think that I would make them to the altitude.
28:45
I do now, yeah, but I love it, Yeah.
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I don't think I sold all my cake decorating stuff.
28:52
I sold all my scrapbooking and stamping stuff for this because
28:56
I didn't need it anymore. So you don't have to talk about
29:01
this, but I'm going to bring it up.
29:04
I tell people I, I tell some of my closest friends.
29:07
The reason Kim makes Reese is because you were diagnosed with
29:11
anxiety. One night we're laying in bed
29:15
and you're like, you feel this and I'm like, what?
29:18
And you and I didn't feel anything but when you went to
29:21
the hospital a couple times. Yes, we did.
29:25
You know, 1-3 in the morning and you end up being diagnosed with
29:29
anxiety. And I know a lot of famous,
29:31
famous people, a lot of people have anxiety.
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Do you feel like the wreaths help you with anxiety?
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I do personally, because, you know, I start with a wreath.
29:46
I just pull out, make it, and I don't know what I'm going to do
29:51
with it until it's all finished. I mean, it's hard to say.
29:54
Oh, Haiti, you got pictures of it?
29:56
No, not what I'm making because I don't know.
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I think it does help me with my anxiety.
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You're really talented. Thank you.
30:06
I mean, no, I mean, you're really good at that.
30:08
You know what? Though I put my heart and soul
30:10
into building these wreaths, I do so many custom orders for
30:17
people, and I don't think I've ever got a negative review at
30:21
all from anybody. I mean, like, they're like, you
30:24
captured it or whatever. I mean, they just start throwing
30:27
things at me and I'll go to the other end of the earth to find
30:31
what? I see, you know, so some of
30:35
these wreaths become part of our house.
30:37
So like, you have people that had been in war and they died
30:42
and I've seen you and Brandy Brandy's got a cricket machine.
30:45
Which I've learned how to use now.
30:47
Tell me about those wreaths where the people want a shield
30:49
and and they're. And then they came in the, yeah,
30:53
some people. I mean, I do them for
30:55
everything. And it's almost like my saying,
30:59
if you can dream it, I'll build. Your wreaths, you make memories
31:04
for people. They're, they're not just
31:06
baseball, football. I mean, these wreaths are like
31:08
these people's that you capture people's lives.
31:13
I do and you work. Hard at that.
31:15
I do because I'm trying to reach.
31:18
I'm trying to like reach into their head to see what they're
31:23
picturing because sometimes they don't even know until.
31:26
But you know, I don't glue nothing until it's done.
31:29
I let them see everything. If you don't like something,
31:32
please tell me because I have all of this stuff.
31:35
You're really, although you're having fun.
31:38
I think it it what you know, I'm a fan of yours.
31:43
So when I watch you, I'm like, you're like me.
31:46
You're like, we're racing and we're building Reese because
31:49
it's fun, but we're really serious.
31:51
No, we are really serious. And when when this pandemic
31:56
started a couple years ago, I was scared to death because I
32:00
also have diabetes and I spent, I couldn't take the news no
32:05
more. I spent either in my room
32:09
watching Hallmark or down here. And everybody else was in the
32:12
same boat I was. We were all afraid to go
32:14
outside. We were inside, so I was just as
32:18
busy as I am at Christmas time. I was getting wreath orders and
32:22
I was just down here. Happy you you mentioned that
32:26
you've always told me you don't watch the news.
32:28
You don't like the news. But.
32:30
But I believe in current affairs.
32:32
I watch the news. I watch it watch it and then I
32:35
turn it off and I leave. When in your life did you?
32:39
I mean, because I ever since I met you, you're like, I ain't
32:42
watching the news. What is it that you don't like
32:44
about the news you? Don't like anything bad so I
32:48
want maybe I live in a fairy tale.
32:51
No, don't you just don't. You know, but I always want to
32:56
think or find the good in somebody.
32:59
So I'm always that stuff is negative.
33:04
Yeah, and it's and it's worse and it's worse now.
33:06
Oh, it's terrible. And so I don't watch the news.
33:10
Did you ever hear that? Song about the news.
33:11
I don't watch horror films, you know?
33:13
That we'll go to scary movies. So everything we, I didn't let
33:18
my kids watch Ninja Turtles or any of that stuff, my kids
33:21
watched # puppies and My Little Pony when they were little.
33:24
And so I've always been like that to try and want everybody.
33:30
To be in our in our day. There was that song.
33:35
You got the bubble headed bleach pond.
33:37
She comes on at 5. She can tell you about the plane
33:40
crash with it. The leam in her eye.
33:43
People love it when you die. Give me dirty laundry.
33:46
So you're saying F song is accurate?
33:49
Yeah, I, no, I I just don't. Yeah, I don't watch any of that
33:55
stuff. Well, Kimberly, this has been
33:57
fantastic. I hope, I hope that you all
34:00
learned a little bit about Kim. And you know, I want to thank
34:07
you for letting me race. I think that our relationship
34:15
sometimes as work is so good because I go racing and I come
34:18
home and I think you love me more, no.
34:23
No, but it does give me a break to do what I wanted to.
34:27
Oh, no. But here's the reason for that.
34:29
OK, When you're home, I feel like my duty is to do whatever
34:38
we're going to do or whatever you need me to do.
34:42
You know God only knows your schedule changed daily before.
34:45
I want to say something though. I told your mom this.
34:50
Kim is tough. Kim is hardcore.
34:55
But our marriage is truly 5050. Because I don't ever tell you
34:59
what to do. No, you don't.
35:00
You're your own boss. I I don't tell you what to do.
35:04
You don't tell me what to do. It's always been like that
35:07
because I know what pisses you off, you know, and you know
35:10
what, But I, I truly think you know, people say how you been
35:13
married so long. I'm like, dude, you know, I
35:16
mean. It's a partnership.
35:18
Yeah, you know, I think it is. It is.
35:22
You're a bad ass. All right, So thank you for
35:27
letting me interview. I hope you learned a little bit
35:31
about Kim. So here we are.
35:35
We're both 58 years old now. It's only like this until
35:39
August. Then I turned 59, but we're both
35:43
the exact same age and so we are going to start.
35:49
So I, I want to talk about this real quick last week.
35:54
It's been happening to me a lot lately where I'll be sleeping
35:57
and I'm like in my mind towards the end of my sleep, I'll be
36:00
calculating ages. I'm like I'm 5868, in 20 years
36:06
I'll be dead. I'll be 78 and you tell me that
36:10
I'm totally crazy. You are totally crazy.
36:12
Yeah, that's like the news. That's news.
36:16
Why do I think like that? I I do everything that revolves
36:20
around happiness comedies you do when I watch movies every time
36:25
when it be a happy movie. Yeah, you do.
36:28
Good movie. Every movie has got to be about
36:30
my whole. House is comedy.
36:33
Yeah, you've helped me, because I'll tell you what I've laughed
36:35
at. 58 is young. The the life expectancy is so
36:39
much, yeah. Higher now Are we buying a
36:42
motorhome? Yeah, let's.
36:44
Do you want to buy a motorhome? Let's 'cause we're going to buy
36:47
one. Yeah.
36:48
All right then. Take them babies out.
36:50
Take our kids out.