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My Take On The New "Earnhardt" Documentary | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Happy Saturday morning. Everybody look like the rain.
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  It's just missing St. Louis, MO.
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  It's, it's just missing Saint Louis.
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  Look, look at the legend today. Look at Louis.
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  He finally found his spot. You know, sometimes he gets up
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  and he's a nervous Nelly. He just, he's like me, OK, We
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  have some business to get to before we talk about the new
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  documentary out called Earnhardt Number one across America right
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  now. That documentary, Earnhardt out
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  on Prime, it's number one everywhere.
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  So it must be really good. I have not watched it yet.
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  If you've watched it, respond right here, somebody said
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  Herman, we're going to make some decals as that say respond right
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  here. OK, first thing is I am leaving
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  today at 1:30 and I'm headed to Charlotte, NC OK, no more racing
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  with me nowhere tonight. There's Pevely is not racing.
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  Highland is not racing, Brownstown is not racing, no
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  racing around here in Saint Louis.
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  They, they just feel like the crowds are no good during the
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  Memorial Day week and they give you give you some time off.
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  There will be no swimming in Saint Louis.
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  I got the pool cleaned up for nothing 'cause it's cold.
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  But I was talking to my buddy Billy Smith and that's pretty
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  normal for this time of the year.
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  Always the end of May you're it's either feast or famine.
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  I can remember plenty times it being cold and rain kind of that
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  winter feel. So I am headed to Charlotte, NC
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  for Trackside Live. So I'll see everybody at
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  Trackside Live tomorrow at noon. Let me see we got Ryan Priest,
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  Ricky Stenhouse, we got some good drivers.
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  So come on out to Trackside Live tomorrow behind the main
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  grandstands at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
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  I sure do enjoy doing that. So we're going to have a good
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  time. All right, I want to talk about
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  Dale Earnhardt Senior now. You know, you already know that
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  Dale Earnhardt Senior was a friend of mine.
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  What I'm doing is I'm giving you the disclaimers.
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  You know, Herman, how can you talk about the man?
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  Well, Big Brother Rusty was good friends with Dale Earnhardt,
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  senior. And if you remember, before I
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  became a race car driver, 1984, I was a crew chief in the Cup
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  series on the Levi Garrett car driver Joe Rutman.
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  So I had no, I've known senior either way and I think I think
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  Dale Senior had a little respect for me because he remembered me
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  doing everything. And my buddy Bobby Labonte,
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  Bobby and me are me and Bobby and McGee.
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  There's that, there's that ADH brain again.
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  By the way, Bobby Labonte called me yesterday.
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  I love Bobby. He is so good to me.
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  He called me and he'll just say, I love you, Herman.
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  And I'm like, Bobby, you're awesome.
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  You know, not, not very many people like me.
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  A lot. A lot of people don't know how
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  to say I love you. Do you remember when Bobby
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  Hamilton died and he did that interview with Wendy Venterini
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  and he knew he was going to pass away when he was talking to
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  Wendy Venterini and he looked at Wendy and he said, you know, I
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  used to not be able to say I love you to people that I really
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  liked. But now that I'm in this
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  position, you know, Wendy, I really love you.
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  So sometimes it's strange. It takes people to go through
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  tough circumstances, you know, take the edge off of them.
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  You know, sometimes people are on defense, you know, they've
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  been roughed up in life and they just feel like everybody's out
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  to get them and and, and they don't have a, you know, they're
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  just, they're just on edge. But anyway, I love Bobby Labonte
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  too. He's such a good guy.
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  But Bobby Labonte and myself, we were crew members, we were
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  fabricators, Then we became race car drivers.
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  But Bobby Labonte and myself were super good friends to this
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  day. Talk all the time.
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  Talk all the time. He called me yesterday.
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  I was in the grocery store. And Herman, of course, I answer
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  the phone right away, you know, and he wanted to talk all about
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  my health because Bobby's into his health too.
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  Bobby Labonte's just like me, except maybe Moore.
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  Bobby, you know, he was a he would ride that that bicycle and
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  you know, he would do his deal do to keep his health going.
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  Maybe that's why Dale Senior took a liking to me, because he
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  remembered me from 1984. He also remembered me from St.
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  Paul, MN when he ran his ASA car.
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  That's right, Dale Earnhardt, Senior, had an ASA car, popped
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  me in the ass, moved me. I saved it.
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  I told you that story before, he said, Herman, I like you.
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  I said why you like me, Earnart. He said, 'cause when I hit you
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  in the ass, you had two choices to save it or spin out.
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  I say that son of a bitch. St.
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  Paul, MN turn 1-2. Then I made it to the Cup Series
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  and he was good to me. I remember when I drove that
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  deal #40 Dirt Devil Cup car, I was trying to get going at
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  Bristol and I was bottoming out and Earnhardt come flying down
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  and looked at Jeff Hammond. He and he said, Hammond, get
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  this damn thing off the ground so that me and Herman can race
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  each other. And Earnhardt's driving the
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  number three GM Goodridge Chevrolet.
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  But you know, Earnhardt knew I was pretty good at Bristol
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  because he'd watch me in in the Bush series.
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  Back in those days. I said Bush series used to make
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  you all happy. Today it's the Xfinity series.
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  What is the mystique of Dale Senior?
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  What is the mystique of Dale Senior?
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  Respond right here. Tell me, but I'm going to tell
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  you this movie come out and I'm going to tell you now.
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  This is about the 3rd or 4th movie.
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  It ain't like this is a new movie, but this one is a true
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  documentary, is what Chocolate Meyer said on X.
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  I haven't watched it, but Chocolate Myers had a lot of
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  heart. On Friday night I looked on X as
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  I was going to bed and I'm strolling, Chocolate Myers said.
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  My favorite documentary of my life was on any Sunday and I'm
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  old enough to know what that was.
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  That was a really kick ass movie slash documentary of a
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  motorcycle rider. It was real.
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  It all real documentary of real film.
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  No actors. You know, they did like that.
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  They did a documentary like that with Ayrton Senna where it was a
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  movie slash documentary. So I'm taking it that this
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  Earnhardt movie is a real documentary with real, real
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  time, you know, film. They searched around and they
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  found real film and put together a nice movie.
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  I'm here, I'm hearing raved reviews.
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  I'm here and everybody really likes it.
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  But but kind of like Elvis. How can you make respond right
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  here? I'm thinking this is the third
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  or fourth Earnhardt movie. It's hard for me to watch
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  because it's very sad to me. Earnhardt was so good to me.
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  It's it's a moment in life where just damn it, you know, Superman
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  died. How can how can Superman died?
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  He had all the kryptonite. Earnhardt ain't supposed to die.
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  He's the man. Just goes to show you that we
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  all ain't so tough, are we? But what is the mystique?
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  What is the deal with Dale Senior?
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  Well, one thing, He was a man's man.
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  One of the biggest things about seniors.
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  Every man wanted to be him because he was so badass.
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  Earnhardt defied everything. I'm going to keep my full face
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  helmet on while all you kids wear these full face helmets.
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  Let me say that again, Earnhardt.
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  I'm going to keep my open face helmet on, Earnhardt said.
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  I'm going to keep my open face helmet on and my bubble goggles
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  while you all wear your full face helmets.
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  He said that he told NASCAR. I'm going to keep my old
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  Corvette seat while you all were use the safer seats.
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  I remember Dale Junior saying I'm going to wear, I'm going to
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  keep wearing my open face helmet like my daddy did.
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  So Earnhardt defied everybody because he was a badass.
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  He he he raced in an era where Jeff Burton was the one that
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  said, let's run these seat containments, Let's run a Hans
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  device, let's put all the safer walls up.
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  And during that time, Earnhardt said, drop the rag, let's race.
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  We all like that. He was rough around the edges,
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  although that now that you look back, respectfully, this is very
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  hard for me to say, but I'm going to say it.
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  Dale Senior was wrong about all that.
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  Dale Senior was wrong about all that.
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  He should have had it all in his car.
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  But he was the John Wayne. He was the James Dean.
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  Because I'm going to wear my open face helmet.
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  I'm going to run my seat the way I want to run my seat, He told,
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  he told NASCAR. He said if I get hurt, I'm going
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  to sue you. Well, he didn't get hurt.
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  He got killed. What was it about Earnhardt?
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  The pass through the grass where his car went into the grass and
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  he didn't wreck for that All Star race against Bill Elliott?
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  What was it about Earnhardt? Was it that everything was
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  black? His car was black, His pants
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  were black, always wore black pants.
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  He was the man in black. He was in control of his car.
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  Most people weren't in control of their car.
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  They thought they were Big Brother Rusty.
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  My brother Rusty Wallace would say, Herman, I can't do anything
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  that Earnhardt does. When he wrecks a person,
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  Earnhardt would wreck a person. The rest of us, when we would
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  try to wreck somebody, we'd wreck ourselves trying to wreck
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  that person. Earnhardt could pick a point out
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  the wall and he'd say, I'm going to make you wreck right there.
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  And Earnhardt would wreck and you'd land right there where he
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  said Earnhardt was a badass. He wore cowboy boots.
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  He listened to Lynyrd Skynyrd. Punchy Whitaker told me that,
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  ah, I lived 27 years in Charlotte, NC, I know everybody.
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  Punchy Whitaker, did you know that Dale Senior, when he was
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  getting going, Dale Senior lived above a garage and I believe
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  Punchy Whitaker rented him that little garage.
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  Punchy loved Senior because he goes.
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  I know, he says, I know that Dale Senior came from nothing.
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  He had nothing. Dale Senior came from nothing.
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  Is that what it is? Dale Senior came from nothing.
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  He's the man in black. He direct you because you was in
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  his way. That's why when I saw Senior
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  coming, I moved out of the way because I didn't want to get
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  wrecked. He wouldn't give you a half a
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  straightaway. He would not give you a half a
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  straightaway even though he said he might.
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  That's where he learned in the Intimidator nickname.
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  How did Dale Senior get the nickname Intimidator?
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  I just told you he got the nickname The Intimidator because
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  when you looked in your mirror, you moved the hell out of the
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  way 'cause he wasn't going to spend no time with you.
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  If he got to you and you didn't move out of the way, he, he, he,
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  he'd bump you. And if you wrecked, it was your
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  fault 'cause you didn't save it. Remember, for all these reasons,
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  I, I still think he's ultra famous.
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  I'm going to leave you with this.
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  Dale Earnhardt senior is a man's man.
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  You want wanted to be him? He wore cowboy boots.
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  He wore black pants. Johnny Cash.
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  He was like Johnny Cash. He was like James Dean.
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  He was like Elvis. He was simply America a badass.
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  He raced and he, he was just so cool.
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  I'm a wreck. You man Can't believe he's gone.
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  Cannot believe Dale Senior's gone.
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  He was so good to me. He took an interest in me and
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  maybe that's why I it's hard for me to watch the movies.
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  Dale Senior let me drive my very first NASCAR race car, he said.
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  Herman, come down and drive my GM Goodrich Chevrolet, the
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  number 8. I finished 12th at Martinsville.
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  Big Brother Rusty Wallace and Earnhardt were so close.
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  I'll never forget that day at Martinsville.
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  I hope you all enjoy the Earnhardt documentary.
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  And by the way, they made that so you would watch Prime.
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  I'm not getting prime. I'm 60 years old.
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  I'm not paying another dime for prime.
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  Hey, dummy, you've already got it and you don't know it.
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  Did you know that if you order Amazon or you're buying all that
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  stuff Amazon or, or you are a Prime member, you get it free.
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  So if you get a lot of Amazon packages delivered to you and
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  you're you're a Prime member, you most likely got it.
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  A lot of people are starting to simmer down.
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  What you're complaining now? I'm not paying another dime for
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  Prime. You've already got it.
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  You just got to learn how to work your TV, dummy.
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  You're liking me. You don't know what the hell
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  you're doing. Let me show you.
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  Let me show you something. See that TV?
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  It's called a smart TV, and you're not smart.
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  Watch this. OK?
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  See that home button right there?
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  Look. See that?
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  Look, children. Look.
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  See that? See that?
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  Prime. Kim, I've got Prime.
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  Grab your remote children. Let's see if we can find it
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  together. Oh, I messed up.
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  Let me go back, Prime. No, that was Netflix.
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  Son of a bitch. See, I mess up too.
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  Prime. I've got Prime.
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  Let me go back. Let me go to search.
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  Let me put in E for Earnhardt E I'm searching A.
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  Ear let me see if I can get the end earn there it is look
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  children it's called a remote episode 1 Well what do you know
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  what do you know dummies? I can't watch it.
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  All right, everybody have a great, great Saturday.