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I'm Hanging Out With Dan Wheldon's Sons | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Wednesday morning, everybody.
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  So where am I at? Where am I at?
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  That's right, New Smyrna Speedway.
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  Or does the northerners say, hey, Wallace, you at New Smyrna?
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  You at New Smyrna? Smyrna.
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  Alright, listen, it is who's your hero day?
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  So who's your hero? From what they tell me, this
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  started a year ago where I guess people that promote the sport,
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  so they, you know, get like hundreds of these people, then
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  they whittle it down to like 12 and the 12 finalists.
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  So anyway, I want to thank all you fans for choosing me to be a
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  Hoosier hero. So today's a big surprise.
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  We have, you know, Sebastian Weldon, of course, his mama's
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  here, and his brother Oliver. And we're going to take a little
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  tour here at New Smyrna. And let me get rid of my coffee
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  here in a minute so we can say hi to everybody.
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  But yeah, so if you've never been to News Smyrna, I will give
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  you a tour right now. Let's let's go put the coffee in
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  the trash can. Relax, simmer down.
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  I'm not reporting on anything. This is a show.
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  All right, so we're doing content today.
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  We're doing interviews and and getting things ready to support
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  the Hoosier Hero program. Remember, the 12 people that won
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  were people that promote the sport.
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  So I guess I promote the sport a little bit.
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  All right, here we go. So you would walk in here, new
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  Samirna, no food or drinks or pets.
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  All right, that leaves me out because I'm a pet.
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  All right, look at this. Huh?
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  I know, I know. I get it.
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  I've been there. I know everything.
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  I know you know everything, and I know you've been right here,
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  but just calm down. I'm such a smart ass.
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  OK, so that's if it's cold. It's not cold right now.
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  Look at this, huh? All the big boys, track
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  champions. Brad May, Jason Vale, Wayne
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  Parker. This is really nice.
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  Legendary racetrack. And of course, I guess this is
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  the beer. The beer area.
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  We'll go see the Weldon's real quick.
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  I warned them. I said go, Go along with me.
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  Don't go. Oh, what are you doing?
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  All right, We're all in here signing.
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  I signed autographs. OK, here we are.
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  This is coffee with Kenny. This, this is this is something
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  that I do. It's really good to meet you.
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  Yes, you as. Well, the first thing I told
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  her, I said you should be a model.
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  You're tall. Do you work for the Ford agency?
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  No. Get out of here.
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  Fine, there's Charmer over. Here and look at there.
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  There's the legend. That's Sebastian.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  So what? You are becoming a superstar
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  really quick buddy. Yes.
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  That's right. Positive mental attitude.
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  Hey, no, you, you, you have to believe in yourself.
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  So you're over in Europe? Yeah, yes, Marina and well.
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  He was in. You're in the Middle East.
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  You just wrapped the Middle East championship.
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  And you won Abu Dhabi. I won a race in yes, Marina,
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  yes. Hey, I, I asked him earlier.
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  I said. Sebastian, I said that Abu Dhabi
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  track just looks like it's perfect, and you said it felt
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  like. What It felt like you were
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  driving on the putter. 'Cause it was so smooth, right?
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  Yeah, that is so awesome. Everybody's really excited for
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  your whole family right now. So do good buddy.
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  Thank you. Well, so you're a Hoosier hero.
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  How? They said I was too.
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  Hold on. Let me see.
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  Yeah. What's it feel like to be a
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  hero? Feels great, you know.
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  Hey, you're going to make it 'cause you're fun.
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  Feels like you won the Indy 500. Yeah, and you probably will win
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  the Indy 500 and somebody will find this clip and they'll
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  they'll play it to you. How old are you now?
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  16. Gosh, that's great, 16.
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  OK, so let's keep. Where's Oliver?
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  Oliver. I'm coming to see you, buddy.
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  So look here, how about the whole whole welding family right
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  here? How lucky am I?
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  Look at this beautiful family, so nice to be.
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  Where do you all live? We're in Saint Pete.
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  Saint Pete and you guys just had the race there.
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  Yes, we. Did through the streets.
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  Yes, we did, yeah. Yeah, Do you?
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  Is that like invade your home? You're like, get out of here,
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  people. It's.
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  Great. It's actually.
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  Lovely. Yeah.
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  It's nice when everybody's there in town.
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  I get to see a lot of a lot of friends and people.
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  Yeah, it's kind of a let down when everybody leaves actually.
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  But it's good And and they actually it was a special
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  weekend because we celebrated Dan's 20th win.
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  So he won the inaugural race in 2005 and now 20 years later.
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  What an incredible race car driver.
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  Nobody had the nerve that he had, that's for sure.
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  Man, he could go fast. I'm getting goosebumps saying
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  that. OK, so let's we just got we just
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  did. They put us through torture.
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  We had to sign 150 postcards. Watch this.
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  This is what are you all going to do with these?
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  Speak up. Don't.
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  Know give. Them away, give them one.
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  So we signed all these postcards all the way around there.
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  And so this is like, I you didn't hear me earlier, but this
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  is. I do this deal just about every
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  morning. It's called Coffee with Kenny.
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  You want to walk out of the track with me?
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  Sure. Yeah.
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  However you want to go. Come on, brother.
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  Hey, I'm always stay positive. Oliver.
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  I'm. I'm the third brother.
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  It's Rusty Wallace, Mike Wallace and Kenny Wallace And I, I I
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  said Remember Me and I made it. So you'll be the next.
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  Hang in there. That's right.
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  Hold on. OK, You're the boss.
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  It is. Tell me what?
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  Let me let me turn it around like this.
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  Tell me what the Hoosier hero is.
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  We we want the perfect explanation.
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  The Hoosier. Hero is a racer that embodies
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  our mission of. Passion.
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  Pride and success, you guys embody that.
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  Yeah. All right, let's go sit,
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  bastard. We'll go out here.
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  Let's let's check this race track out real quick.
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  Come on, Oliver, have you guys ever ran here?
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  I've never raced here. I raced.
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  There's a small track here. I think we raced me and Wally
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  practice. Quarter images, Yeah, Mark
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  Martin. I think Mark Martin built it.
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  Do you Have you ever heard of Mark Martin?
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  No, I haven't. That's when you're young man
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  Mark Martin, one of the greatest of all time.
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  He's an incredible Cup driver, but he built this track down
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  here for his son Matt. Yeah.
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  So here we are. Everybody, as the Northerners
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  called it, New Samyrna. This is a, this is a gangster
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  track, man. It's got a, it's like a big
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  Martinsville. It's got long straightaways,
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  tight corners. They wrecked their ass off here.
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  Look at all the donut marks for Victor Lane.
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  Go to the top of his stands here so you smell rain.
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  It's going to rain. Yeah, it smells like a lot like.
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  Rain. It smells like rain.
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  I almost busted my butt just then.
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  Here we go. Oh, yeah.
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  He almost did. I almost.
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  Did as well. It's all right.
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  I almost did. So all right, let's look at
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  this. There's a background right here.
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  Come right here, hot Rod. Let me get up here.
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  I don't want to. Oh, man, we're way up here.
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  Look at this. OK?
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  There's turns one and two. Look how long these
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  straightaways are. All right?
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  How old were you when you ran that little track?
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  I was about over there I think. 1010 or 11?
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  10 or 11 that means he must. Have been 12, 12.
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  Yeah, maybe you were 10. Do I hear 13?
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  Don't say 1313's bad luck, they say.
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  Did you? Do you guys think 13 is bad
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  luck? The number Taylor Swift has it,
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  I'm not sure. I don't really like the.
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  I mean, I never really ran 13 / 98.
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  You're damn right it's a good number, buddy.
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  It is. OK, so we're coming to the end.
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  Let me get right over here. All right?
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  So come here. Oliver has to look.
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  Come right in here. Say goodbye everybody.
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  Bye everyone. See you later.