Episode 19 of “The Kenny Conversation” is 9-time NASCAR race winner Mike Wallace!
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48 Comments
All we need now is Mike interviewing Rusty and the cycle will be complete.
It's wonderful like all three of your brothers had great talent and your dad and he could make it at racing
Mike was a great race car driver
Not just but great rusty was great but i think mike was better in my opinion that's why mike lost the 12 ride !!!!
Not too many people get the follow there
dreams and make it
I was at Dover when Mike won his first race in 94 i believe it was
Mike was a great driver and if he would have consistently been with a top tier team he would have put up winning numbers 👌👍👍👍🙌🏁🏁🏁🏁
sorry herm now mike is my favorite wallace boy
Great podcast HERMAN
Mike best drit around for ever when Trac puts bounty on you that's saying somthang
Was it Mikey or Kenny that tried to challenge Old Dale?
I most remember Mike in the #90 Heilig-Myers car. What always impressed me was how tough he was to pass on the track. He'd race fair but if you wanted to get by him you had to earn it. A very tenacious driver.
Great interviews Herman. Listening to you interview your brother was awesome.
God bless Mike my brother and sis in law lost my middle niece in the womb the week she was to be born Kenny I too had 3 brothers all older
Really enjoyed the conversations with your brothers. Let's see if we can get you three in the tv booth to call a stage at Darlington next year for NBC. I think it would be fantastic!
I hear Mike is the 3rd best Wallace driver, coming behind Rusty and Bubba, but better than Kenny. 🙂
Awesome 54:24
Really enjoyed these stories from Mike! I could’ve listen to more of it. It’s so amazing to hear what went on behind the scenes back in the day. Keep up the great job Herman and I’m looking forward to more shows like this. 👍
Lots of respect to your family, I hope people realize how tough getting into the top tier of any sport is but NASCAR is tougher because of the huge amount of money you have to find and keep finding! Three brothers from the sticks to make it, well that's Damn impressive I don't care what anyone says,lol
This is ironic because just Sunday I was thinking "I see Kenny and Rusty all the time but I wonder what Mike is up to" ….. Guess now I'll find out
I remember two things about Mike. Tougher to pass than Ryan Newman, If Mike rolled up behind you at a Super speedway, you were going to win. Great, real racer.
MIKE WALLACE – what a NEAT guy 🙂 !
That is so awesome to watch and listen to you Kenny ❤️! Listen to you and your brothers is really cool! Being a Nascar fan for a long time it's awesome to just listen to the real conversations. Thank you Kenny.
This was the best interview yet. Listening to Mike speak about losing his son, and how he tries to help those with his own experiences really hit hard. My family and I just had a huge misunderstanding or disagreement occur. Things don't seem that bad now as I definitely needed to hear this. Mike is still helping people just sitting there doing this interview. Thank you Mike and Kenny!
That was AWESOME, been waiting for this episode also. What a great family.
Great to hear these inside stories.. thank you
I was/am a fan of all 3 Wallace brothers.
Yeah Penske closed the 12 team at the end of 2001 but brought it back in 2002 with Ryan Newman.
Dale Earnhardt Sr was a totally different animal than everybody else. There's a reason why he became the greatest racecar driver in NASCAR's history. His main focus was winning. Cheating was never a part of his program. He always physically inspected every racecar that he ever drove. Anything not right got corrected or he'd refuse to drive it. I worked at Daytona, Darlington, and Talladega NASCAR tracks 1996-2006 as part of the security/safety teams. I also raced in NASCAR North for many years and did fairly well. IMHO, those were some of the best years of my long life.
The 43 in 2003 instead of fittipaldi would have been a good fit for mike.
One of my favourite episodes Herman. Mike is an awesome dude. Well done Bud!! Cheers from BC
Mike Wallace's daughter was the best female driver in NASCAR I've seen so far…imo
I wish she could've got the right opportunity to drive for a good team, I think she would've been a NASCAR Winner too!
Great show Kenny!
It was a pleasure to watch Mike drive.
I worked on a late model that ran a Lefthander Chassis in the early 90's…lol
Herm, great great show with Mike, and Rusty really really enjoyed Mikes show great job keep’em com’in!! Thank You!
Mike was kind of "the forgotten Wallace" of NASCAR. Much like Brett was with the Bodine brothers and I often remember that…aside of any other families in NASCAR…your family and the Bodine family are the ONLY TWO to get ALL THREE brothers entered in the same race/show.
I'm GLAD that you clarified…rather your brother did…about what happened to him because I always thought that that bad crash at Daytona in the…if my memory serves me right…the #4 Monster Energy truck that Ricky Carmichael had just lost the ride the year before it.
But I always thought that that crash had made a major impact on Mike.
I laughed pretty hard when he said, "Still got the same mom and same dad."
Typical Wallace humor.
Not to goad you along Herman, but you really DO need to get Geoff; Brett and "the Onion." on your program too!!!
ESPECIALLY Geoff because he got into a "…different form of racing." altogether after NASCAR and not everybody knows what it was or how it came about so HIS story would be FASCINATING!!!!!
I met Mike at Martinsville Speedway, He was very decent to take the time to talk to me and signed an autograph for me
I laughed my a$$ off at the Earnhardt spin story 😂
Kenny, another great interview with one of your brothers. Is mom next? 🙂 I think Mike's saying needs to be on a t-shirt.
Another AWESOME "Conversation" Herm! Your brothers are great, but you are more gooder! Lol
Speaking of sponsors, we need another video of how to find a sponsor!
You Rock!
cool!
Kenny, You and both your brothers are great drivers and really good men. Thanks to all of you for all the race memories I have of watching all of you!
I've always been a big fan of the "Rich Kid" from St. Louis Mike Wallace! I was so excited when he drove the 12 cup car, I knew he could do it!
I was at Mikes house in Arnold the day before that tragedy happened. Mike was my dads boss at OK vacuum and he was doing some work on my dads car. I always will have memories of mike racing at Pevely on Saturday nights and riding my bike over to his house on Krueger lane to hang out at the shop. Great guy.
I understand completely what Mike is saying I lost my 2 daughters in a house fire 17 years ago and it's something that changes everything that you feel and think and I'm still recovering today and it's exactly right on about Missouri guys and our toughness keep up the good work Mike and Herman
GREAT VIDEO.😍
love mike wallace he is such an amazing guy.
Great show Kenny! Great to hear from Mike! Big fan of you guys and the whole Wallace family. Part of my childhood, just a guy from Georgia who enjoys racing over the years. Recently bought some Stacker 2 a few months back and thought of you and the old Stacker 2 commercials 20-22 years ago in the 2000’s and you running the Stacker 2 23 car. Made my childhood memories. God Bless you ,Herm.
Hope you get back on TikTok cause I just found your channel. Thanks for all you do
Kenny your positive attitude and fun personality is awesome and drew me to your channel. The videos and drivers you interview are awesome. Love hearing from Mike and Rusty.
Kenny, I love what you are doing and I would love bringing Rusty and Mike back on together to tell stories from when you guys were just starting out in racing. I would also like to know more about your dad.
Wow….i mean Wow ! Kenny, i think this might have been your best interview yet. I am a "middle brother" myself and as a huge racing fan, i have always thought of Mike as "the forgotton" or "overlooked Wallace". An incredible driving talent he was and it's good you brothers all get along today.