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My Big Announcement | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning everybody drinking my high octane coffee
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  fueled by Sunoco. Would you look at that.
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  Hey Herman, why you hold that coffee mug up?
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  Finally, we got to sponsor everybody and it was all of you.
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  I'm sitting there drinking that coffee mug and everybody's like,
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  Herman, you need to get a sponsor on that coffee mug.
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  Well, you know what, my dear friend?
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  Fred McConnell, senior executive to marketing.
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  Fred McConnell, he heard all of you and he heard all of us
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  having fun, he texted. Me we talking.
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  Back and forth, he said. Herman, I think I'm going to
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  sponsor that coffee mug. I said that would be awesome,
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  that would be awesome. And here we are today.
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  Oh, look at that Sonoco Race Field.
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  Been with me forever. So thank you, Fred McConnell.
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  And it just doesn't stop there. Jags said that they wanted to
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  just sponsor the YouTube show only.
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  So Jags is still with me. Jags is still with me.
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  But Sonoco Race Field, you see those pretty colors, blue,
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  yellow, red. That's going to be on the dirt
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  car this year. I will be wearing the Sunoco
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  Race Fuels fire suit too. So Sunoco Race Fuel right here
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  on coffee with Kenny and Sunoco Race Fuel going to sponsor the
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  whole dirt car. It's a beautiful car.
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  Like my wife said, she said that's a pretty race car.
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  Look at those colors. So Sunoco Race Fuel going to
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  sponsor the whole dirt car. I'll be wearing the Sunoco, you
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  know, fire suit. Jags is going to primarily be on
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  all the YouTube shows and Jags will have a a small associate
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  decal on the dirt car. So there you go everybody.
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  I want to thank Fred McConnell. You know what?
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  I went down to Crescent, Texas, remember a while back, I drove
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  those little Rd. course cars down there, those Rush race
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  cars, and we had a time of our life and got to put a face to
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  the phone. That was old Fred McConnell met,
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  met Fred down there and we had a blast.
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  And wouldn't you know, we closed the deal weeks later.
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  Sunoco race fuel. I run in my race car.
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  I run the Sunoco blue 112 octane so it's easy because that's the
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  only. Race fuel I've ever.
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  Run is Sunoco race fuel. That Sunoco Blue 112.
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  I run that in my dirt car. All right, everybody so excited.
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  Good looking logo, ain't it? Oh, all right.
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  Moving forward, it's raining out.
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  King Louie, he start, Louie started the show out right there
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  and then he look at him. There he is.
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  Right there. All right, moving forward, more
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  breaking news in the garage area.
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  As a lot of you know, about two years ago, I quit going to
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  Volusia. It's a lot.
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  Going to Volusia's a lot. Got to get all those tires
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  ready. Got to get your car ready.
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  You go down there for two weeks. So about two years ago, I
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  decided to quit going to Volusia.
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  So one year I said, Kim, let's go to Cabo.
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  So I make sure I don't go to Volusia, Schrader said.
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  Oh, you scheduled a vacation in Kabul?
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  So you make sure you don't go to Volusia, I said.
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  Yep. I sure did well when I was in
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  Cabo. Got good Wi-Fi down there.
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  Phone rings. I look down, it's Nick Hoffman
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  and Kelly Kofsky. Kelly's with him.
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  But Nick Hoffman who owns Elite, you know, he builds the Elite
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  race cars. Nick owns Elite.
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  That's one of the that is the fastest modified in UMP.
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  So Nick says, Herman, we sure do miss you down here.
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  It ain't the same. I said, oh, you, you boys miss
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  me, Tell me more. So Nick said Herman and ain't
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  the same. We're used to your used to you
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  doing all the social media and making the race more fun.
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  So I said Nick, I said it it, it ain't that I don't like going to
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  Volusia. I said it's just too much on me.
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  I said I've told this story 100 times, 17 hour trip from Saint
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  Louis, fighting that traffic through Atlanta.
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  Then I get to the racetrack and you know, it's a lot.
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  So Nick said this was two years ago.
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  Nick said how about next year I just field your race car.
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  I said, OK, now we're talking. So did you know that Nick
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  Hoffman's dad, Daryl Darryl Hoffman, built my motors when I
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  first started racing in a in 1986?
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  1986, Darryl Hoffman built my motors.
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  So I've known the Hoffman family forever.
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  How about Uncle Dean, Nick Hoffman's uncle?
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  He builds motors. He's the motor builder up there.
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  Chad Mullins. Like my gosh, I run a Chad
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  Mullins motor and I also run the Daryl Hoffman motor.
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  So I got 2 motors. But anyway, my ties with Nick
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  Hoffman, they go deep. I've known, like I said, Daryl
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  Hoffman, Nick's dad since 1986, he built my motors, Kern Racing
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  engines. So Daryl Hoffman worked for Kern
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  Kern and then, you know, Nick's dad built my motors.
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  And then Fast forward now, Uncle Dean, Nick's Uncle Dean, he
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  builds my motors there at Chad Mullins and he probably builds
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  your motors too. But his sister, Nick's sister
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  Ashley and her husband Jeremy and you know, Rhonda, the mom,
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  the whole family, they're wonderful to me.
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  So last year we went to, we went to Volusia and we won.
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  And boy, it was a it was awesome.
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  So we're going to do it again this year.
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  This year I'll be driving Nick Hoffman's modified and it will
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  look just like my race car. And one thing I like about it is
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  Nick already has one of my seats.
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  So I'm going to fly my butt down there with my helmet bag and
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  I'll and I'm going to get in that car like I did last year
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  and it's going to feel just like my race car.
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  It's going to look just like my race car.
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  And I feel comfortable driving for Nick.
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  Plus, Nick's cars are fast. All right, everybody, I think, I
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  think we covered it a lot this morning.
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  Once again, want to thank Fred McConnell at Sunoco Race Fuels.
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  I'm driving for Nick Hoffman at Volusia this year and we are
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  getting ready. It's it's cloudy out today, got
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  tornado warnings but I'm getting ready for.
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  Herman Schrader. Yes, Sir, we're going to do
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  Herman Schrader and boy. Do we have a lot to talk about?
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  All right, everybody, thank you so much.
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  And we'll see at Volusia. But coffee with Kenny, it's
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  going to keep on rolling every single day.
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  And boy do. We have a lot to talk about.
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  As the old raging Cajuns say down there, what?
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  We talk. About tomorrow.