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Y'all Got Mad At Me For Saying Successful People Don't Retire! | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Sunday, everybody. It is the greatest day in
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  Motorsports history, as Mark Martin would say, history in
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  that Arkansas draw. I love Mark Martin.
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  All right, we starting off with the the Formula One race over
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  Monaco and then we'll come on over here to America and we got
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  the Indianapolis 500, the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500
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  in Indianapolis, IN. And then we're going to finish
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  it all off right here where I'm at.
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  I'm in Charlotte, NC right now. I'm at my mom's house and it's
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  the Coke 600. Now remember today at 12 noon,
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  we kick it off with trackside live right behind the main
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  grandstands on the big stage. You're going to want to show up.
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  It's going to be a great show. We got Ryan Priest, we got Ricky
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  Stenhouse, who else we got. Gosh, I did all my studying last
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  night. Check us out.
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  OK, One thing that I was thinking about, this is Memorial
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  Day weekend and I want to say thank you to everybody that
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  served. And you know, we get into this
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  every year. How do we say it right?
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  Are you saying it right? Thank you to everyone that
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  served in any military in any way, men, women, anybody.
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  So I did my best. I love you all.
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  We wouldn't be where we're at today without today.
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  Everybody that served and and saved this beautiful country.
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  God Bless America, greatest land of all.
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  All right, everybody, let's get started.
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  So one more thing. Hold on now, hold on.
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  Tomorrow is Memorial Day. I Google it, Google it.
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  It is Memorial Day weekend, but tomorrow on Monday, Monday is
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  Memorial Day. But it is a great day to say
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  thank you to everybody that served yesterday.
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  On Saturday, somebody talked about retirement and boy, oh
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  boy, did did it? Did it push a a nerve?
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  It's like Ann Schrader says, Herman, I had one bad nerve left
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  and you stepped on it. Ann Schrader, she teaches me a
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  lot. She's got some great sayings.
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  She really has taught me a lot. But so I said something about
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  retirement yesterday, said somebody said about Jimmie
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  Johnson or, or some great racers not retiring, right?
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  And I said the word retirement is not in a successful person's
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  vocabulary. I'm going to say that one more
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  time. This is what created the the
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  drama Saturday night. The word retirement is not in a
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  successful person's vocabulary. No, no.
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  Why did that piss some people off?
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  All right, so I'm going to say this.
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  I understand. I will admit that the word
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  retirement means that you have worked a factory job your whole
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  life. You have given your soul, you
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  have given your life to Anheuser Busch.
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  So in St. Louis, MO, you have a union job.
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  You worked at, you worked at Anheuser Busch, you've worked on
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  the railroad. Wherever you work, you worked 30
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  years and now it's time for you to enjoy life.
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  There you go, smell the roses. Mom's got some beautiful roses
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  out here, whatever that is. Plants.
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  I'm not good at horticulture or whatever.
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  You respond right here. You know everything.
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  But you know, I get it. I get it.
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  It means you have financial freedom.
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  The word retirement means you have financial freedom.
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  It means now the man doesn't got you anymore.
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  You can relax. You can relax.
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  That's what retirement means. Retirement means now you can
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  relax. You've got your money saved up,
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  you're going to get your Social Security.
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  You don't have to rely on the man.
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  Take here we go, ADHD kicking in.
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  Take this job and shove it. I ain't working here no more.
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  Remember that? Oh, what a great song.
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  Forever, forever. You work for a living and you
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  and you think it's you think it's their fault You're making
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  me work. I don't like where I work.
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  So for years there was that negativity over the people you
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  work for. Damn it, they're making me work.
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  I hate my job. I can't wait till I retire.
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  Sit on my ass and watch TV, drink some beer, I hang.
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  That's the way it always was. OK, now that I've explained to
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  you I understand what retirement is, let me tell you what I
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  learned. I was like that too.
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  I can't wait to retire until my life.
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  Coach Ashok Chagar from India, he said my friend in that thick
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  Indian from India accent, he would say this now Ashok ran
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  ACPA, you know company and he's still my CPA of 27 years.
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  I've been with the same CPA slash life coach Ashok.
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  He's got all these clients and here's what Ashok started
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  teaching me. My friend, client, the client or
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  retires, they move away. They come back two years later,
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  they say I'm getting ready to die.
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  I have to start company back up. See, when you retire, sometimes
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  that means you start dying. Let me explain.
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  What does Rodger Penske, Warren Buffett, the great ones, what do
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  they have in common? That's right.
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  They're almost 90 years old and they're still working.
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  I asked brother Rusty one day. By the way, it's a little cold
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  out here and I'm doing my best. Got my see here.
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  Don't worry about this hand. Worry about this one here.
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  Holding the phone. And I understand that you're
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  studying everything. I'm not an idiot.
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  He's shaking, but it's not this hand.
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  It'd be this hand. OK, now that now that we've got
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  that done, you can you can quit studying everything.
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  I love Sunoco. So I once asked my brother
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  Rusty. I said, Rusty, why does Rodger
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  Penske keep working since he's got billions of dollars?
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  One of the wealthiest man in the world.
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  Why does Warren Buffett keep working?
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  Why do these people, Charlie Munger, which was Warren
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  Buffett's dear friend, partner in crime, why do all these 80
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  and 90 year old people keep working?
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  Because they enjoy it and that's what they know to do.
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  My wife, Kim Edna, her grandma, she was 86 years old and she
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  would go back to work. See, here's what you'll find in
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  retirement. Now I'm retired and we all know
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  that. We all know that Don't don't
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  make me keep going on that. Some of you get pissed when I
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  tell you don't get, don't get pissed.
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  These are real life stories. My friend Eddie Balkovic.
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  Eddie. Eddie's a retired
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  microbiologist, but, but Eddie still, he runs the HOA down
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  there in, you know, Pinehurst down there by the Rockingham
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  racetrack. Eddie's got to stay busy.
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  He's got to have something to do.
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  You will learn, and I have learned that retirement means
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  just that. It means you are financially
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  stable now. But now it's time to go to work.
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  Now it's time to do what you want to do.
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  I'm as busier than I've ever been in my life.
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  Let me explain. Marcus Smith called me up.
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  He goes, Herman, I need you to come back to these race tracks
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  and do trackside live. At first I said no, you can ask
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  Marcus this. Then about three years went by
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  and I got a trophy for running the most dirt races and dirt car
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  UMP that year, that year. Now I don't hold the record.
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  I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it.
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  I don't hold the record. But about four years ago I ran
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  68 dirt races. I got it out of my system.
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  I got it out of my system. And then when Marcus Smith
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  called me again, I said, you know what?
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  I'm ready to come back to NASCAR.
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  So now I do 11 trackside lives. And of course, this coffee with
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  Kenny's turned into its own animal.
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  We got the Kenny Wallace YouTube show.
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  We got Kenny conversation. We do the charity rides.
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  Hey, it's a lot of fun. We're raising money for Kyle
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  Petty and the Kyle Petty charity.
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  We're we're motorcycle riding. I'm helping Big Brother Rusty.
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  We got the big charity ride out in Sturgis on that Friday.
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  I got a wonderful family. We're still making money.
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  We're retired, but we're digging.
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  So when I said retirement is not in successful people's
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  vocabulary, I meant just that. People that are successful do
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  not sit on their ass. However, I do understand.
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  You know, the beautiful couple with the with the Gray hair,
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  they moved to Florida. The sun is shining on them and
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  they're enjoying life. I get that.
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  But you got to have something to do.
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  Remember what Ashok said? I'll leave it like this, my
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  friend, my friend, my friends. They retire.
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  They retire two years. They come back because their
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  heart quit beating. They need something to do.
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  Respond right here, everybody. And by the way, respectfully,
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  this is an innuendo and I'm not going to tell you who this is
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  about. I choose to do this.
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  I choose to let you know my business.
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  I don't let you know everything. You know that health update we
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  did. You know the whole Mayo Clinic
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  deal over there on YouTube, over 60,000 views.
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  And at the racetrack on Friday night at Tri-City Speedway in
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  Granite City, IL, I had a line outside my trailer.
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  People smiling, older people smiling.
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  Herman, thank you so much for telling us all about your
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  health. You've really helped us.
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  I'm going to start eating vegetables and fruit now.
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  And yeah, you're right. I've, I, I don't do that enough.
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  I've, I've neglected my fruits and vegetables.
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  And hey, Herman, coffee really is the laxative, ain't it?
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  So for the wonderful people that worry about me, that I give out
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  too much information, I don't give out everything.
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  Have a wonderful, wonderful Sunday and remember tomorrow,
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  Monday, is Memorial Day. Lots of love, everybody.