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The 2 Most Important Things You Want NASCAR To Change | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Friday morning, everybody. I am back in my happy place.
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  Look at this. Look at me.
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  I asked my mom. I said, mom, when you get back
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  home, what are you gonna do? She said.
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  Ken, Hun, I'm gonna put on my robe and just be happy I'm home.
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  And I've got to tell you, the great Dick Trickle told me
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  something that I will never forget as long as I live.
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  Maybe one of the biggest and greatest quotes of all time, and
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  so, so easy to understand when you get to be my age at 62.
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  The great Dick Trickle said. My boy, do you know why we go on
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  vacation? I said.
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  No Dick, why do we go on vacation?
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  He said, so we can go back home. When you stop and think about
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  how simple that is to understand, we go on vacation so
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  we can get away from our house and then we go on vacation and
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  about halfway through vacation we're like, man, I can't wait to
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  get back to my bed, my surroundings, my comfort zone.
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  And boy, I thought a Dick trickled.
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  I loved being gone for 9 days with my wife.
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  But I got, I got on that cruise ship about day 5 and I was like,
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  get me the off. I love the cruise, but I go with
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  my wife because she loves it. But yeah, I, I sure wish Kim
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  would go on a 5 day cruise because I just kind of, I've had
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  enough. I've seen it all.
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  OK, everybody back in my hop or happy spot.
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  Lucy. Lucy.
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  Hey, what you doing? Louie up there?
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  What you doing, Louie? It's cold outside right now.
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  It is, but it's going to get up in the 50s.
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  OK? Everybody got a really nice
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  note. Got a really nice note from Bob
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  Thompson. OK, Bob.
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  It says Robert, but it's Bob and he writes me a wonderful letter.
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  I'm not going to read it all. I'm going to paraphrase it, but
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  I'm just going to read the first couple lines.
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  Long letter Dear Kenny, As a former Herman Haller, I wanted
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  to reach out and tell you how much I enjoy starting each day
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  with Coffee with Kenny on Facebook.
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  I was a corporate pilot for Square D Company from 1979 to
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  1999. I first met you in 1995 when you
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  flew into Chicago to visit the Square D headquarters to sign
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  the sponsorship deal for your 1996 Cup season.
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  And it goes on. But this wonderful letter, so
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  long and I've read it all. Bob, thank you so much.
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  So Bob is a wonderful pilot, and he wanted to let me know that he
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  enjoys coffee with Kenny. Thank you, Bob, but he's also
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  became a collector just like all of you.
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  Check this out. He's got the legendary Square D
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  stand up. Looks like I've signed it.
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  Pretty cool. And then one last thing here.
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  Let's see. Look at that.
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  Does your room look like that? Everybody look at that, huh?
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  Remember when we were younger and old people would lick their
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  fingers and you're like, what the they doing when you get
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  older, you need to lick your fingers to get to get the paper.
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  Yeah. So thank you, Bob.
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  OK, everybody, the letters roll in.
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  We've got thousands of letters now.
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  I'm not bragging on myself. I'm just telling you.
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  I'm not bragging. I'm just letting you know.
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  A look inside Herman's world. Thousands of letters and
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  thousands of things to sign with.
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  Don't make me get up off the couch.
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  We did that about a month ago and we got about twice or is
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  twice a word. Respond right here is twice a
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  word. But I want to thank Bob for
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  sending that OK coffee with Kenny yesterday.
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  On Sunday I got off the cruise ship and I didn't have enough
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  time to do a coffee with Kenny because they was getting us all
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  off the ship early. Very hard to download with no
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  Wi-Fi. So I said let me do my very
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  first ever Verbatim style coffee with Kenny.
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  So I put out this list and I said things you want changed
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  from NASCAR and I went one through 10, but 9 and 10 I left
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  open for you to fill in. And I I, I strolled it all this
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  morning and it is very interesting to learn that
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  although you want everything changed in NASCAR, you know, in
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  your heart, a lot of it can't be changed.
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  I put things like you want the old drivers back and, and
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  everybody's like, well, we know that can't happen.
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  I'm like, I know you can't. So why do you all talk like
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  that? And then it's like, you know, I
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  want the old cars back and you know, the old cars can't come
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  back to hell. They don't even make carburetors
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  anymore. And it goes on and on.
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  You're like 1 lug nut. I want 5 lug nuts back.
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  And things that really don't make a difference to you.
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  But you, you see it and just because you see it has nothing
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  to do with the competition on the track.
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  Like the old drivers can't come back because most of them are
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  dead and you know that and 1 lug nut versus 5 lug nuts.
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  You just, you just want 5 lug nuts because it reminds you of
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  the old days. But a pit stop is still a pit
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  stop and, and some guys are still faster and some guys
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  outrun each other on pit stop. So it just don't matter really.
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  It's just that you got it in your mind that they got 1 lug
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  nut. You want the five lug nuts back.
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  So this goes on and on. Yesterday and today, so many
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  people kind of got what I was saying.
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  They're like, OK, we get it. Most everything we asked for we
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  can't have back. It was very refreshing to hear
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  you all say that. However, there were some things
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  like we really do want 1000 horsepower back because we, we
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  hear the drivers say that we want so much horsepower that we
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  have to let off the gas. That I agree with.
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  But I got to remind you before the big NASCAR lawsuit, NASCAR
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  said we're going to add 60 horsepower because all the motor
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  people, all the motor rooms, they said OK.
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  And that's what we feel like we can do without spending money
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  right now. So it wasn't NASCAR that said
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  let's just do 60 horsepower. The all the motor builders,
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  Roush, you know, Hendrick Childress, they're like, OK, we
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  could do 60 horsepower and it won't cost us any money.
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  So we're going towards that now. It's not enough and we know
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  that. But to go from whatever, 6-7
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  hundred to 1000, they said it would cost $40 million.
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  So I think we're going to get that way.
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  But for right now, let's go with what we can do that you think is
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  going to make you happy. And right now, the number one
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  thing you're screaming about, you say it will change your life
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  is if they bring different points back.
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  So respond right here, keep it up, but let's be a little bit
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  more reasonable. I know it's been fun.
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  I want Earnhardt back. Come on, Jesus.
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  So we all want 1000 horsepower back.
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  We do. But let's be reasonable.
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  So we, we already are headed that way.
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  We're going to have 60 horsepower at and on, you know,
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  at certain places to make the tire where you let off the gas,
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  things like that. But the brakes are better, the
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  cars are lower. That's the biggest problem that,
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  you know, I don't agree with NASCAR lowering these cars and
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  having no height rule. Now the cars are so damn low,
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  they just stick to the ground. So you're kind of defeating your
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  purpose. Now you're saying I want a lot
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  of horsepower so I can so the tires give up and I got to let
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  off the gas because I'm entering the corners too fast.
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  Well, now you've you've lowered the cars so much that they
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  handle they stick like glue. All right, everybody, respond
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  right here. Keep it up.
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  I like reading. What else do you want changed?
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  Oh, kid me. Oh, sorry, she ain't got no bra
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  on. We did.
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  Start it over. Start it over.
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  Why? Didn't see?
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  She said. Oh great, start it over.
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  Have a great Monday, everybody.