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It's Important To Take Vacations · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Well, today's Friday. Joe, this is Joe Rudy.
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  Joe is a dear friend of mine and a lot of people around the Saint
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  Louis area. Joe owns one of the best auto
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  services in the Saint Louis area.
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  It's called AL's Auto Service. And And Joe, when people get all
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  jacked up on Mountain Dew about their car and they get nervous.
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  What? What do you?
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  What do you tell them? Don't get nervous, call our
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  service. That's right.
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  So this morning's coffee with Kenny is about vacationing.
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  Can you vacation? Do you feel guilty when you take
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  a vacation? Do you not know how to take a
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  vacation, Joe? Years ago I went on the Miller
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  Genuine Draft Cruise, and the great Rodger Penske was on that
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  vacation with us. It was the Miller Genuine draft
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  cruise and Rusty Wallace and all these superstars on and Roger
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  Rogers used to, you know, working and it was like a seven
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  day vacation. But like like day three, he had
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  to get off. Roger had to get off.
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  You know, he can't vacation anymore.
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  So my uncle Manny, he worked at American can downtown Saint
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  Louis, you know, made all the beer cans for Ann Ass Bush and
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  Uncle Manny always wore, you know, Levi blue jeans and AT
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  shirt. It was like that's what he wore.
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  And and uncle man, he's like, man, I don't know about this
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  vacation. And you know, just I don't know,
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  you know, you start feeling guilty.
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  I'm on vacation. I should be home.
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  I should be taking the trash out.
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  My point is this some people just can't vacation.
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  They can't relax. So you told me something earlier
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  that I want to share with everybody.
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  It's heartfelt. It's awesome.
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  You said I've never really vacationed.
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  I you know, I've really never done this.
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  You run your own business. You worked your whole life.
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  So let's talk with you about that.
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  I've set the parameters. How did you vacation?
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  Did it go OK? Yeah, it's going good.
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  But. Every once in a while you go,
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  man, I need to be back at the shop.
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  Or is it going to be all right? You know is still going to be
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  there when you get back, you know?
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  Do you, do you feel guilty? Like like God's going to be mad
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  at you? You shouldn't be vacationing.
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  I feel like I robbed a bank once in a while but.
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  It's a good point. Couple days being here kind of
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  went away. How old are you?
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  39. So you're 39, you're a business
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  owner. You, you're a hell of a
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  mechanic. My God, you can fix anything.
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  You're a great racer. Our whole family takes
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  everything to AL's Auto Service up there in Kirkwood, MO.
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  And you, you just grew up working.
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  Yeah. So when it's like when it's
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  going, when you go on vacation, it's like, oh, God.
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  So. But I thought, I thought you did
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  really good. I mean, you went to this, you.
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  You went to the swimming pool. I thought you were relaxing.
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  Got. The went to the beach, went
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  fishing, even got time to go to O'reilly's when.
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  We worked. A little generator repair.
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  So this is Rusty's place and it's called Vila Las Palmas and
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  you can Google it and you can stay here and you know, we kind
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  of treat the place like it's family because it is his brother
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  Rusty's place. So we tuned the generator a
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  little bit, put new plug wires on it.
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  Rusty said hey, while y'all are down there and we had a good
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  time and Joe, he just he attacked that damn motor like he
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  was at work. Now did that make you feel good?
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  Oh. Yeah, I felt like I was at home.
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  Again, did you a little work in OH?
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  Yeah, I got a little work. Well, I just, I've been around a
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  lot of people that feel guilty when they vacation and, you
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  know, respond right here. You know, listen, let me, let me
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  respond right here. So I, I saw somebody on my
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  comments, I don't know if I like that, respond right here.
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  What that means is just join the join the vacation, join the
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  conversation. You know, now we, we left Monday
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  and we were up at 3:45 and we were here at like 11.
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  So we were gone. Our vacation was Monday,
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  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and now we're going home today.
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  You could say it's a four day vacation because it's super
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  early in the morning. Now we're headed home.
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  So was it too long for you? Was was.
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  Was. I think it's about right.
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  Yeah, me too. Get back to the racetrack.
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  Tomorrow we're going to race Saturday, OK, So let me know.
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  No. Dirt tracks down here so.
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  We're going to get back so we can.
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  Get our fix. All right, that's a tough
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  conversation. There's going to be a lot of
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  people that go, oh, hell, on vacation, but there's a lot of
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  people that just cannot do it because it's a Midwest thing.
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  See, unions are big in Saint Louis.
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  A $10.00 bill is everything in Saint Louis.
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  Everybody says, tell me about Saint Louis.
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  They said, oh, it's simple, it's all unions.
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  And if your buddy says, hey, man, can I borrow $10 on a
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  Monday and you don't play that shit back on a Friday, we're
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  fighting. That's Saint Louis.
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  Saint Louis is where we're very frugal.
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  We have a nickname for it. It's called Missouri Frugal.
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  And yeah, a lot of people have a tough time vacationing.
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  All right, So Chase, did you have a tough time vacationing?
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  No, but now you're, you're, you're you're an Arnold girl and
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  you're in Phoenix now. Yes.
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  Do you feel like you're a world traveler?
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  I try to be got to get more experiences as you can while
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  you're young. Are you going to move back to
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  Saint Louis? Eventually I will.
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  Yeah, that's awesome. She's a good vacationer.
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  Yeah, I could vacation. Terry and Lauren, they're good
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  vacationers. This was the best vacation.
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  You like this. This was the best.
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  This was the best. All right, you'll never meet a
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  better family than the Wright family.
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  Terry has saved our life, moved back to Saint Louis.
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  And I said, Terry, invite us to everything.
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  We've been gone for 27 years. So.
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  So that Lady right there, Terry Wright, she's a blessing to us.
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  All right, everybody, that's it. We're going back to Saint Louis
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  today. We land around midnight tonight.
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  I will arrive at the pit gate at Peaveley's at Federated Auto
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  Parts Raceway tomorrow night. On Saturday I will arrive there
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  at 5:30. When do you get there?
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  About 4:40. You know, everybody kind of, all
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  the locals do their own thing, like to get parked and get your
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  car loaded.