I met Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart.. (one disappointed me)

I met uh Jimmy Johnson once okay and I was working on like a set and we were doing a bunch of different photo shoots and different things and uh bunch of people came up and talked to him and stuff and whatever and then he kind of just sat down on the bucket I was like Jimmy Johnson I'm pretty sure I heard his name before the Lowe's Motor Speedway Lowe's car whatever and he turned a bucket upside down and sat on it and I walked up to him I was like hey man like I can get you a chair you know he was like no no it's good to be humble sometimes and I was thinking like it's probably good to be humble all of the time but like it hit me I was like man you're like apparently a big deal and yeah oh yeah and uh you're being nice to me I'm just some kid wearing some Vans or whatever just managing a studio you know yeah and it just struck me I was like huh this guy then then I Googled him later I'm like oh he's like one of the best Nascar drivers like he's like he's in the he's a big deal he's on the Mount Rushmore of NASCAR drivers same thing with Richard Petty I met him on a shoot with h what's the guy that did the song uh bonon but ton oh um that's uh Trey Atkins Trey Atkins yeah and I met him and I have a really funny story about that guy and it's probably not as good of a light because he was kind of dumb yeah and like I ate lunch with them Trace Atkins yeah oh we walked into the uh this photo shoot we walked by a NASCAR that we had in like the you know the set and he's like what's this I'm like well sir that's a fake headlight it's like oh I that's a sticker you know and then some the the producer was like a dick and this guy Trace Atkins is like 65 dud huge a big dude and the guy was like barking a lot and like trying to be like passive aggressive about getting the shots he wanted but like being a dick but a small little guy and then Trace picked up on it was just like they got into it I don't remember the details but they got into an altercation in front of everybody and Trac like hey man if you want to go outside like I'm there for you buddy I'll knock your ass out he's like no no like manipulated his way out of like no no I'm just trying to be nice and he's like nah you're being a dick yeah but it was pretty funny but um Tony Stewart he was he was my favorite growing up really the Home Depot car really I loved the I was a little kid all I knew was the The Home Depot car I liked the color orange of the Home Depot car one of the biggest douchebags I've ever met in my life yep all of the NASCAR drivers that came to the set drove their own car their brand likewise Chevy pretty nice pretty cool for the most part humble super cool regular dudes Tony Stewart showed up and a uh Chevy not an Escalade be a Suburban yeah with a driver the driver was in the 70s and he walked around pampered like hey do this for me do this for me do this blah blah blah walking around with the ego like he's this big dick then we went to this ESPN shoot and he started flirting with the secretary in front of like 15 to 20 people just like making weird out in the open just weird comments and everybody's just like huh and she was like pretending to like H yeah she's married and this guy just gives no yeah he was just an arrogant piece of interesting damn that sucks they never meet your Heroes he was kind of my hero [Music] really

Channel: 5to9

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Keywords: nascar, racing, raceday, race, racecar, tony stewart, jimmy johnson, nascar clash, nascar race, racecar driver, nascar driver

Id: d-BUiTJ--Ys

Length: 4min 28sec (268 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 03 2024