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Should Parents Buy Their Kids A Race Car & Was I Wrong About NASCAR? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Monday morning everybody. We are still doing coffee with
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  Kenny. Maybe one day I'll get tired of
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  it, but for right now it's just part of my morning routine.
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  Why not, right? I have my banana, my 4% whole
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  wheat toast, drink a cup of coffees and slip in a little 10
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  minute video. And sometimes when I go to lunch
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  at 12 O clock in the day, people will say, hey, I watched your
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  coffee with Kenny and I'm like, what did I say?
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  It seems so long ago. OK, Yesterday I was on Facebook
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  and Michelle Unzinger, which is the wife of Illinois race car
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  driver Ryan Unzinger, the number 24, Beautiful family.
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  And Ryan's a good runner. Michelle's a bad ass.
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  She's right there slinging merchandise and helping her,
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  helping her husband. And they have a awesome son.
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  His name's a Brody. And I really admire this family
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  just because they're awesome. They're just awesome.
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  They just really are good people.
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  So very rare, but Michelle comes out with a post and basically
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  tells everybody how upset she is with handful of people because
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  they made a wonderful post that their their child Brody had been
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  running a kids mod. You know, a kids mod is a car
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  with like a smaller motor in it. Well, they bought him a pro mod
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  this year. They're just bringing him up.
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  You know, another class. And she just was really
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  disappointed how there were a handful of people just talking
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  crap about, oh, mom and dad help their kid with a race car and
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  then everybody else piled on Trevor Gundaker.
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  So Trevor Gundaker is Kevin Gundaker.
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  And Tammy Gundaker. They own Tri-City Speedway in
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  Granite City, IL Kevin and Tammy Gundaker, they owned the
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  racetrack. They got two boys ones.
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  You know they got two that race, let's put it that way.
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  Gordy Gundaker and Trevor or Trevor.
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  They must have hit a nerve with Trevor because Trevor makes a
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  long post about people being mad at him and talking crap about,
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  you know, mom and dad giving him a race car and things like that.
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  All right, that's the subject matter.
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  So I told you completely where this all came from.
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  What is it with people nowadays? You know, what's funny is when
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  you make a post, if you want to, you can, most likely there's
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  going to be some history on that person's page.
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  You click on that person's page, you go to photos.
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  You can see them now if it's the type of person that you click on
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  their page and go to photos and there's no photos of them.
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  They're they're pretty bad themselves, right?
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  If you, if you got a social media page and there's not one
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  picture of you, you're pretty much a loser, right?
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  I mean, you really are. You're just, you know what
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  you're doing. You, you, that's the type of
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  page where you're going to talk crap and you don't want to leave
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  no trace of who you are. So #1 don't even count those
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  people. But for the people that do leave
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  that trace of who they are and you're jealous and you're mad
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  that mom and dad gave their kid a race car.
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  Let's talk about that for a minute.
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  What? Why would you be like that?
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  It's like, OK, I have a child, I'm going to send him to school.
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  All that must be really nice being able to send your child to
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  school. I don't go to school.
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  Wish I could go to school. I mean, what are you supposed to
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  do? You know, there's an old saying.
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  I want to share this with you. If you cannot help family, then
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  who can you help? That's one of the biggest
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  phrases in American history. If you cannot help family, then
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  who can you help? What are you going to do?
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  Help a stranger? Help somebody else?
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  Well, there's time. You know, you can help
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  everybody, but there's an also another phrase.
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  It's sad to say, but you got to help number one.
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  It's sad to say, but you got to help number one.
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  It it. If you can't take care of the
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  homestead first, then you're making a mistake.
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  You got to take care of the homestead first, take care of
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  your immediate family. Think, think about some of these
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  famous people. I'm going to say right now, is
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  that what you say about Dale Earnhardt Junior when his dad
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  got him his first race car and built a whole Bush Grand
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  National team for him? Is that what you say about Dale
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  Junior? No, Dale Junior wouldn't be
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  anywhere near he's at if his dad didn't help him.
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  You know, I wouldn't be here if I if I wasn't born.
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  So I want to thank my mom and dad for having me born.
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  What about Michael Andretti? Michael Andretti wouldn't be
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  where he's at without his dad, Mario.
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  You know, Joey Logano wouldn't be where he's at without his
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  dad. See, this goes on and on and on.
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  Dale Earnhardt Senior wouldn't be where he's at without his
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  dad, Ralph. My brother Rusty wouldn't be
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  where he's at without our dad, Russ.
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  So to get on social media to talk negatively about people
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  that that makes you look bad and, and, and, you know,
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  especially if you leave a trace, maybe they confront you one day
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  and say, you know, I'm going to pray for you.
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  I love you. But boy, you sure are an ugly
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  person. You probably need to change your
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  crazy ways. Sounds like an Aerosmith song.
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  All right. I think I've beat that to death.
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  I want to talk about something in the last minute here.
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  I've seen a couple people, not many couple people said that,
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  hey, Kenny, you were the one that talked about how great
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  NASCAR was and now, now you're talking about how they need to
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  change and everything like that. I want to address that.
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  First of all, I think when Mark Martin come to town, right?
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  Mark Martin came to town, I looked you right in the face and
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  I said we got to get this out of the way.
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  I said, Mark, do you hate me? Do you want to beat me in the
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  ground? Do you want to condemn me?
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  Because I think NASCAR in 2025 was a great show.
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  Of course, we remember the famous quote.
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  See, that's where you people learn to need to learn how to
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  disagree without being so vicious.
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  I thought that racing in 2025 was great.
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  I thought it was very good racing.
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  However, you guys ran over me with a train about these damn
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  points. So I I still feel everything was
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  fine, but I wanted to see, I've said all along, I've said all
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  along I'm consistent in my verbiage that I wanted to always
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  see three points races. And Mark Martin said, hey, look,
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  there is a point system that I can get on on board with.
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  It doesn't have to be all 36, but it's got to be the real
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  players with a consistent playoff.
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  So Mark has said there is a system out there that he would
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  agree with. So as far as me, you know, all
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  of a sudden now I'm on board. No, I would say this.
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  You all ran over me like a train.
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  So I got on the caboose. You've all taught me that I'm
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  wrong and and and I don't admit I'm wrong because I'm not wrong.
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  All I'm saying now is that OK, this is what you all want.
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  And I think we documented all that on the Mark Martin coffee
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  with Kenny. So you can go back and watch
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  that. All I'm all I'm agreeing with is
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  like, OK, you all, you all don't like, you know, the one race
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  playoff. Let's let's go to a playoff.
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  And I said I'm all along, I'll take so many.
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  You know what I want basically is the whole year and then these
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  guys go to three races, a full 3 race playoff.
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  I I can get along with that because that way we crown a real
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  champion 3 races. Hell, I don't care, maybe go 26
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  races in the last 10 are, you know, the real champions like
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  the Chase for the championship. So as far as me all of a sudden
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  changed my mind, I didn't change anything.
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  I'm just saying, OK, you guys don't like that.
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  I wanted 3. So this is what it is.
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  And I documented that court case very well and I didn't like what
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  I saw and I said that too. All right, respond right here.