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Hello From Tulsa & The Chili Bowl | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Tuesday around lunchtime from Tulsa, OK.
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  It was very chaotic this morning when we left Wichita, KS.
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  Just couldn't get it going. It was windy.
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  We were moving things around and I thought, you know what, let me
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  be patient. Let's get down to Tulsa and
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  we'll do something from the Tulsa Expo Center.
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  All you open wheel razors. You know where we're at.
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  I have a method to my madness. Kim's going to be involved in
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  this. All right, This is the Tulsa, OK
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  Tulsa Expo Center where the Chili Bowl is.
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  Oh yes, and the Tulsa Shootout. All right, Kim, you want to do
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  360? This is not scripted by the way,
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  I have no idea what's going on. One more it is so big in here,
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  it's unreal. And I want to show you.
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  Connie's going to be behind us. You don't want to make a gun
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  show. The gun shows are here.
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  This is want to make a gun show. Is here, Kim, get in right here.
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  It is the largest gun show in the United States.
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  It's right here in. This building the largest gun
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  show. Thank.
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  You want to make a gun? Show that is awesome OK Kim
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  let's take a walk we're going down to the racetrack and right
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  can you get closer to me sure you walk right behind me well
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  you. Got a soda in this hand and a
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  phone in this hand. Where am I supposed to fit in?
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  We had a wonderful day. John Kirsner Christener, who
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  sponsored slamming Sammy Swindell's car, bought us to
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  lunch and want to thank him so much.
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  Wonderful man who's been part of the Cow Petty charity ride
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  forever and very emotional today.
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  So thank you John. And I just love saying slamming
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  Sammy Swindell. I can hear the crowd roaring
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  right now. They didn't like him because he
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  won too much. Imagine that.
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  OK, so today's theme is this, Kim said.
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  What about open wheel racing? What did you say about me racing
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  open wheel cars? I didn't want you in one of
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  them. You need to leave me first.
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  I haven't seen every time I've ever watched it, which is rare,
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  but somebody in their whole car just.
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  Blew apart. They flip.
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  They do a lot of flip. And everything breaks off of it.
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  So you got to be a little bit of a dirt racer to understand it,
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  baby. But give me a kiss.
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  I'm. Not.
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  But Kim said, honey, you race NASCAR and asphalt for 32 years,
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  and now it's. My turn.
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  And now I go run the MO dirt cars and.
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  That's fine. That's local.
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  It's OK. So now the story begins.
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  So I go to Volusia and I won. There were seven possible A
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  mains and I won three. I won one night against 100
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  cars. It was very special.
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  It was 2012, very rare. I'm just, you know, probably my
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  6th year in dirt rate. I think I started in 2006.
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  So I I, you know, learned a little bit and I won 1A main.
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  The next night I won another. The third night we won at
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  Volusia 2012. Tony Stewart comes down and Tony
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  says, OK Herm, you won one. I thought, well, Herman got
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  lucky. The second one he's like, damn.
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  The third one, Tony said I had to come down.
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  OK, now remember, I'm learning how to race dirt cars.
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  And Tony Stewart knew this. He could have kept his eye on
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  me. So Tony is thinking about buying
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  our house and property. He stops by, knocks on the door,
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  and Tony Stewart says this to me.
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  Herman, you're not a real dirt racer until you run the Chili
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  Bowl. And Kim said what to Tony
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  Stewart? No.
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  Her nose and her nostrils started flaring.
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  He. Did not, but I said no.
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  It didn't. It anyhow.
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  No, he said he'd take care of me.
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  Yeah, he did promise me that. So we came to the chili boat.
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  We're making our way to the racetrack.
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  By the way we we made our way down here.
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  Tony took care of me. I think I made it to the J main.
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  I didn't know what the hell I was doing, but I wanted to fire
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  that motor up and roll down the hill and experience it.
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  So in the in the press conference, Tony Stewart said I
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  didn't think there was 320 open wheel midgets in America.
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  And I will never forget my experience here.
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  Now I want to say this, I'm not a professional Tulsa, you know,
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  Expo Center guy and I know you all are.
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  So I'm not going to tread on your turf, but I know all about
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  the Tulsa Shootout, Kim, the Tulsa Shootout the week before
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  the Chili Bowl is they look like open wheel midgets, but they all
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  got motorcycle motors on them and there's different cubic
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  kensions. You know, the 500 class or
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  whatever. You know, maybe I say it a
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  little wrong because you all are professionals.
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  You know way more than me. I sounded just like Kyle Petty
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  there. I'm all smart ass if.
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  That's the truck. How do you get a car down there?
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  Is there ramps up here? Yeah.
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  If the trucks are here. OK, So the Tulsa Shootout, then
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  the Chili Bowl, all the big boys.
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  Tony Stewart has one here. Christopher Bell, Kyle Larson,
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  Rodger Penske has come here and watched Jeff Gordon.
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  Everybody that's anybody has come here.
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  OK You ready? Yeah.
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  Kim. Kim sees it with amazement.
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  And she's like what? Well.
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  I'm just trying to figure. Out how you get.
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  OK, let me put my tea down. OK, so all right, come stand
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  next to me, Marie. All right, so here we are.
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  This is where the race tracks at.
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  So we are a good 20 feet. You see the wall here?
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  That's the wall, that's the ramp.
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  That's where the cars go down the ramp, Kim over there.
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  So we we drive down there and then you come on the racetrack
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  and now the, the grandstands are where you are right now and,
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  and, and the grandstands go all the way up to the roof.
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  So what makes this chili Bowl and the Tulsa shootout so
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  awesome? That's the front straightaway.
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  You got grandstands there. But this is where the mass is
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  and the grandstands almost go up to the roof up here.
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  They park all the truck and trailers there.
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  Now you. Now you've been.
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  I know. Not.
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  Been here, now you know. What do you think of that?
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  OK, so here we are. OK, so you need to go sign.
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  I hold on. Come here.
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  One second. What's that again?
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  You. Have to go sign autographs.
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  Connie, come here, baby. Connie, say hi to everybody.
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  Hi. Connie's a bad ass.
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  She she pays attention to me. And where did I see you?
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  Down in Muskogee. Muskogee.
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  Yeah. Salina.
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  Salina Oh, Herminator, the dirt racer, as brother Russy say we
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  run that old dirt car seem like it all dirty.
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  Herman, if you if you keep the left front on the ground, you
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  probably go faster. OK, where's my my baby?
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  OK, so I ran one time and I did it for Tony Stewart and I didn't
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  do it for myself. But I will never forget slamming
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  Sammy Swindell, saying, Wallace, you don't, you don't deserve to
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  be here. And I'm like, you're right,
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  Sammy. But I'm here because Tony
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  Stewart asked me to race here because he said you're not a
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  dirt racer unless you run the Chili Bowl.
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  And I'm going to enjoy with this.
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  Stay my lane. You look at slamming Sammy
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  Swindell. He's the best at this stuff.
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  Now, I know you all got some new ones, but that's my Chili Bowl
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  story. Respond right here with your
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  Chili Bowl story. But I know the only one out of
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  the stock car ranks that's not any good at the Chili Bowl is
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  Tim Mccreaty, or as I say, Barefoot Bob Mccreaty's boy.
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  Well, yeah, but yeah. But she said, oh, Christopher
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  Bell. Yeah, but we're talking, we're
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  talking, we're we're talking dirt, Super Late Models and Nick
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  Kaufman's starting to show up, but like Jonathan Davenport,
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  Superman, they come here and they make it to the queue.
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  Main or what? All right, everybody, hope you
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  enjoyed it and have a great Tuesday.
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  We're headed up to Johnny Morris's Bass Pro Shops in
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  Springfield, MO Say goodbye, Kim.
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  Goodbye, Kim.