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The NASCAR Hall of Fame & The REAL Reason Carl Edwards Retired Early | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  I was very aware of my slurping. So in other words, listen to
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  this. Every once in a while somebody
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  will say Wallace slurping that coffee.
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  It's the little things that aggravate the head out of
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  people. I had a best friend and he would
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  smack his food and I wanted to smack him, but I loved him so
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  much that I let it go. My my mom got me this T-shirt.
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  It said I have so many wonderful qualities that it's easy to
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  overlook my few disgusting habits.
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  So that's the way I have friends.
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  I'm like, this guy's really nice, but he does this one thing
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  that aggravates me and I just deal with it because it's hard
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  to have somebody as perfect as me.
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  I'm awesome and I probably don't do anything wrong.
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  So as far as my slurping, I really don't slurp at all.
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  I guess the microphone is so good in this phone.
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  It just, the coffee is very hot. Coffee is very hot.
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  I guess I just kind of, you know, kind of like this, you
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  know, OK today. Why am I such a such a smart ass
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  at times? Dale Junior and Amy, they they
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  started that show called Bless Your heart, HHARDT, Bless Your
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  Heart. What we learned was they both
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  got to tell the truth about somebody.
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  And and Dale Junior says, well, I enjoy being a smart ass.
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  She goes, yeah, but you're a smart ass at the wrong time.
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  Sometimes it's really good because I I think actually they
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  wouldn't say something over the microphone.
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  And so she whispered it to him and he laughed.
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  He said you he called, he called Amy because it was she got she
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  got some tomboy in her. You know, Amy Earnhardt's over
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  there on Kenny conversation and she was a she's a good
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  cheerleader and she's she's got it together.
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  But I think that bless your heart over there and dirty
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  mommy. I think that it's going to be
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  good at least at least the first one was.
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  So all right, everybody, today we gonna I just love poking fun
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  at Larry McReynolds. I love him.
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  He's one of my best friends. But today we gonna talk about
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  the NASCAR Hall of Fame. All right, We got old Rooster.
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  Rooster's in in the Hall of Fame.
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  Does anybody know who Rooster is?
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  He gets pissed and he starts going like this, and that's
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  where he got his nickname from. I'll tell you one thing,
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  Wallace. You run over me like that again
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  here at Doral. Kinko, Rooster, Ricky Rudd,
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  Ricky Rudd. And then the next one is Carl
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  Edwards. What a listen, I am not mean,
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  but I'm going to tell you what a weird guy.
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  Holy crap, loving to death, got his phone number.
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  He'll text me right away. We both from Missouri.
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  But this guy, man, he is different.
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  Good thing he can drive a race car.
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  It's a good thing car all overs can drive a race.
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  You ever notice that about people, when people are really
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  different but they're good at something, You know, it's like,
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  Oh yeah. Oh, yeah.
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  So like, you know, if a guy is a good baseball player and he's
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  making $22 million a year, but he's really different, It's like
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  you, you get a pass right at. That's Carl.
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  I love Carl to death, but boy, he is different.
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  He's on his own island. But I like weird people.
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  Carl Edwards is weird, but a good weird.
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  So I'm going to go through them all here in a little bit.
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  And then the other one was is Moody.
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  I think from the old home and Moody days.
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  Home and Moody. They were Ford and they it back
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  in the day. You not, you know how some of
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  you people you just don't like these big teams.
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  You haven't seen big teams in the in the creation of NASCAR.
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  You you had a home and Moody. And so one of the Moody's is I
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  guess it's the Moody. I didn't do no studying for
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  coffee with Kenny. So I don't study for coffee with
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  Kenny. I didn't even know what I was
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  going to talk about until I got up and I was watching Fox News
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  and I was watching, I thought, oh, Hall of Fame.
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  So the inductions are course Rooster, Ricky Rudd and course
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  Carl Edwards and then Moody. What was it?
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  John Moody? Phil in right here.
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  I think you should like it that you can play along with me.
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  Help me. I don't know that, but Holman
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  Moody was they they fielded team cars.
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  It was you were a factory driver, I believe for Ford, a
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  factory driver and they were located over by the Charlotte
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  Douglas Airport in Charlotte. So I lived in Charlotte for 27
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  years and I heard a lot of stories about home and Moody,
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  how incredible they were and what great drivers drove for
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  him. So but yeah, let's talk about
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  all three of them a little bit. Well, we'll talk about two of
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  them. Let's go with Carl Edwards
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  first. So I did AI did I did like a 12
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  minute take that lives on the Kenny Wallace YouTube show.
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  It has our biggest view ever. It is closing in on 1 million
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  views. It's like at 900 and something
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  1000 views. And I gave my take on why Carl
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  Edwards quit NASCAR. To this day I still feel the
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  same until Carl tells us all. But this guy could be a card
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  player. Carl Edwards could play cards.
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  He holds the cards up his sleeve and he is not going to tell
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  nobody why he just immediately quit NASCAR.
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  However, it seems he's come to peace with it now and all the
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  drivers are showing him respect. Of course, you know, you got
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  Kyle Larson out there saying, man, I'll tell you what, when
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  when I run the when I run the Indy 500 and I want somebody
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  test my car, it's going to be Carl Edwards.
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  So that's really nice. But to this day, I still think
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  Carl Edwards left NASCAR with a broken heart.
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  I really do. I think that, you know, he had a
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  couple championships won. You have the you had the fake
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  caution, which we all know about.
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  We all talked about. It's a very controversial
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  subject. It was an article written by
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  Jordan Bianchi. And it's just, it was Jordan
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  Bianchi, not me. So it just, it just stated what
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  it stated. I'm not going to rehash.
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  When you saw me thinking for a little bit, I I was thinking, do
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  I want to bring this up again? How does it benefit me?
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  But I believe Carl Edwards, I'm not going to bring it up.
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  Actually, you can go to Kenny Wallace YouTube show and I say
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  it all there. I don't want NASCAR to get
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  pissed at me. I said it once, so I won't say
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  it no more. There's an incredible article by
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  Jordan Bianchi wrote about well, when Carl quit and it was
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  Toyota, it was it was Toyota, you know, so, but anyway, I
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  believe Carl quit of a broken heart.
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  He had two championships won and and he didn't get them.
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  And then he banged his head really hard.
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  And every once in a while he'll give a piece of information.
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  So let let's see if when Carl gets inducted in the Hall of
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  Fame and he gets up on there, is he is he going to say it?
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  Is he going to say exactly why? But right now, he's pretty much
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  got us all trying to just go, OK, he just quit.
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  But I think Carl quit NASCAR because of a broken heart.
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  You know, he lost both those championships and then he hit
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  that wall a ton. I was going to say a ton, but I
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  don't want Charlie to beat this out on YouTube.
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  See, I can cuss here on social media, but I I can't cuss over
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  there on YouTube. But Carl hit that wall so hard,
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  I think it made him go, oh, my God.
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  So, but I just think things went bad.
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  And he said, you know what? I don't need this anymore.
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  I got hundred, $200 million. Carl quit right before the
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  NASCAR salaries went down. So he shouldn't talk, Cotton.
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  Yes, he is. Hey, listen, can you all watch
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  your mouth, please? I mean, do you got to do this
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  with using profanity all the time?
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  That's me imitating some of you. Oh, come on.
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  I don't cuss all the time. But when I do cuss, it's good.
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  I put it all in the right place. OK, so Carl Edwards going in the
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  NASCAR Hall of Fame, then let's talk about our rooster, Ricky
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  Rudd. But I remember, listen, in 1984,
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  I was a Cup crew chief for Joe Rutman in the Levi Garrick car.
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  And what I remember about Rooster was number 1.
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  He was always very nice to me and to this day he's still very
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  nice to me. But his face was solid red all
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  the time. And buddy, when he was mad, he'd
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  do that open neck. So he got the nickname Rooster,
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  great race car driver. When Ricky got when Ricky Rudd
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  got hurt driving for Robert Yates, they put me in the car
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  for a couple races. Now listen, I have a great
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  relationship with Robert Yates Racing.
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  We lost Robert, but Doug's still living.
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  Maybe I should reach out to them a little bit, but I just, I'm,
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  I'm in Saint Louis having the time of my life and I've moved
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  on. But two times when a driver got
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  hurt over there at Robert Yates Racing, they called me.
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  When Ernie got hurt, I drove the car.
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  And when Rooster got hurt, Ricky Rudd, when he got hurt, they
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  called me and I drove the car and Ricky made me a compliment.
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  And that made me like him, right?
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  He said. He said I didn't think you would
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  do as good as you did when you got in my car because at that
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  time they weren't running that great and I peddled it as hard
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  as I could. But so shout out to Ricky Rudd
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  for talking nice to me. That was very nice.
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  And then Moody, we already talked about them all very
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  worthy people. So congratulations to everybody
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  in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. And just a shout out the end
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  here to Amber Wells at the NASCAR Alumni.
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  NASCAR still likes me. Everybody.
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  I haven't pissed them off yet. I mean, I'm sure I have, but we
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  all do. The NASCAR alumni has sent me a
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  hard card. Thank you so much.
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  I can go anywhere and do anything I want and I'm very,
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  very humbled. I'm not used to that.
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  I'm very humbled. Thank you so much to Amber
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  Wells, Mike Elton and Jim France.
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  It was Mike Elton and Jim France's idea to start the
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  NASCAR Alumni and then Amber on her own, said Kenny.
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  We love you racing that dirt car.
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  We're going to make a newsletter.
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  NASCAR is going to make a NASCAR alumni newsletter and they're,
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  and they're going to follow up and, and follow my, my dirt
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  racing. And I got, I got 2 NASCAR alumni
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  decals on my dirt car. And actually I talked to Nick
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  Hoffman and Darrell Hoffman and Rhonda Hoffman the last night
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  and I, you know, race was over. By the way, we finished second
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  last night, so that was nice. All right, everybody, I think
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  that was a good little talk. I gave you my opinion on all the
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  NASCAR Hall of Farmers and get shed a little inside light about
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  them. So I hope you like that.
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  And Groundhog Day is about over. Billy Smith was just texting me
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  just then, so I'll call him back.
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  Billy's a dear friend of mine took me to help me with a lot of
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  dirt wins. So whenever I'm doing coffee
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  with Kenny, you see my head turn sideways.
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  I mean, somebody is texting me. I'm going to go to lunch today
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  with Jennifer and Richard, Richard Marshall and Tim
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  Clawson, Brian Clawson's dad. So it's going to be a good day.
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  But Groundhog Day, Groundhog Week is about over.
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  We qualify tonight for the Gator and then tomorrow night,
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  Saturday night is our last night, and I'm flying home
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  Sunday. And I miss Kim, I miss my wife.
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  All right, everybody have a great Friday.