Nascar and the Art of Revenge

[Music] when you're stuck in traffic it's easy to lose your temper sometimes we encounter other drivers so insanely idiotic that they make us question who decided to give them a license driving this poorly should be a crime sometimes it is and the problem elegantly solves itself but most of the time the idiot just gets away scot-free not content with the unfairness of it all a few of us will try to take justice into our own hands often with less than fortunate results before you plan an act of road retribution you may want to seek out wisdom from the dale earnhardt experts that ain't going boys motorsports feature the most talented drivers in the world but they still succumb to the same emotions as the rest of us with potentially millions of dollars on the line patience on the racetrack runs very thin auto racing provides a unique opportunity for drivers to destroy each other's vehicles without any legal or financial repercussions in series like nascar the cars are durable enough to dish out some serious punishment without jeopardizing themselves most racing accidents are just that accidents but in nascar a few wrecks are not just intentional but premeditated on track the best drivers are just as skilled at retaliation as they are at racing revenge in nascar comes in many forms some more elegant than others well rule number one in stock car racing is learn how to wreck someone without wrecking yourself the most proficient retaliators are discreet enough to make you think twice over whether or not it was even on purpose but by far the most entertaining revenge is the opposite of discreet in this video i'm going to talk about seven cases of revenge so outrageously blatant that nobody could see it as anything other than pure unadulterated retribution [Music] our first tale comes from the winding turns of sonoma california one of the few road courses on the nascar schedule these types of tracks give nascar drivers the opportunity to do something they rarely ever get to do turn right that can't work and sonoma's most eventful right turn is without a doubt turn 11 a tight hairpin that forces drivers to decelerate from 120 to 40 miles per hour in just a few seconds in one race two drivers are about to get very familiar with turn 11 and each other it's lap 37 of the 2011 toyota safe mark 350 tony stewart has a fast car but he's stuck back in traffic tony's getting a bit frustrated with brian vickers who refuses to give up his position by the time they reach turn 11 tony has had enough and dumps him oh during this time tony stewart is one of the most formidable and aggressive drivers in the sport if you raced him the wrong way he would not hesitate to take you out of contention over the years dozens of drivers have fallen prey to stewart's retaliation and for a moment vickers looked to be yet another victim the race continues and tony works his way through the pack by lap 85 he's cruising to a top five finish when the broadcast cuts to commercial when they come back tony stewart has been sent to the shadow realm [Music] it took brian vickers more than 50 laps to get back to stuart and when he did he sure made the most of it vickers hooked tony at the precise speed and angle to strand him on the tire barrier knocking him out of the race entirely a well-orchestrated act of payback but one that would ultimately prove inconsequential in the grand scheme of things vickers may have won the battle that day but it wouldn't stop tony stewart from eventually winning his third and final cup championship that season at the very least though tony didn't wreck anyone else for a while after this they say that revenge is a dish best served cold and in nascar some drivers prefer to buy their time before dishing out their payback jimmy johnson gets turned right in the front of mark and he's not waiting to get in the ambulance i don't think i think he's waiting to to wave to his favorite driver right now in the 2000s robbie gordon was possibly the only nascar driver more aggressive than tony stewart robbie was the racing embodiment of chaos his decisions on the racetrack seemed to be governed entirely by impulse he would do things on the track that seemed completely pointless to anyone else but him this is just what drives me crazy robbie gordon is worried about a left car and he lets tony stewart take the lead these loose cannon antics made him one of the most entertaining drivers to watch he was the driver to boldly go where no other driver had gone before robbie gordon california kid is going dodd 350. robbie gordon was most well known as one of nascar's best rogue horse racers but his most bombastic moments would come at the magic mile in new hampshire in 2001 robbie would infamously score his first ever nascar victory there by moving jeff gordon out of the way in the 2004 race he would get spun by greg biffle and then hunt him back down like a heat-seeking missile taking out two other championship contenders in the process but believe it or not this wasn't even the best example of robbie getting revenge at new hampshire so based on what we've seen so far it's generally a bad idea to piss off robbie gordon on the racetrack in the 2005 sylvania 300 michael waltrip did just that by this season robbie gordon had become fed up with answering to any team owner above him so he opened up his own team he would run the 2005 campaign as nascar's only owner driver financing your own race team comes with a lot of autonomy but at the cost of a lot of well money any on-track mishaps would now have to come directly out of robbie's own pocket considering his track record at that point it was a pretty risky spot to be in so how did robbie do in his first year as his own boss pretty awful by september he has only one top 10 and has failed to qualify for four races he's sitting a dreadful 36th in points but he has a pretty decent run going at new hampshire that is until while under caution michael waltrip hooks him into the wall and totals his car needless to say robbie gordon is not happy about the 15 then he said nascar i hope you're listening i will pay michael waltrip back robbie vows revenge against michael but after many months of inaction everyone has pretty much forgotten about it the following july the cup series returns to new hampshire in 2006 waltrip had become the co-owner of his own racing team and just like robbie the year before he was struggling late in the race michael finds himself lined up behind who else but robbie gordon everyone else may have forgotten what happened the year prior but robbie sure hasn't robbie gordon didn't have many victories in his nascar career but when he did win he made sure to do it in a way that was unmistakably his drivers like robbie are all but extinct in nascar today but back in the day it was common to see lots of drivers march to the beat of their own drum if you were looking for a driver to inspire excitement then perhaps you'd find it in mr excitement jimmy spencer it's gonna be a drag race to the checkered flag jimmy spencer would get into a litany of fights and altercations over the course of his career but none was more heated than his feud with kurt bush at the turn of the millennium kurt busch was one of the fastest rising talents in the sport in 2001 he was promoted to a full-time cup ride at just the age of 22. in his rookie season as nascar's newest phenom kurt busch got rocked he finished 27th in points with seven dnfs and his biggest highlight of the year was being the last guy dale earnhardt ever flipped off it's tough being a rookie at nascar's highest level a lesson kurt learned in the 2001 phoenix race where he got turned by jimmy spencer in front of the entire field welcome to the big leagues kid at this point in time jimmy spencer is in the opposite position of kurt busch he's in the twilight of his career and his best days are long behind him but in the 2002 food city 500 at bristol jimmy spencer has the opportunity to do something he hasn't done in nearly eight years win a cup series race he's running second with just 60 laps to go and reeling in the leader the only problem is that the driver running first is the same guy jimmy spencer wrecked just five months earlier of course kurt doesn't cut jimmy any slack bush got under him and muscled jimmy spencer you don't see that often now kurt busch is a first-time winston cup winner at bristol on this day youth prevails over experience after the race however spencer ominously warns that the young driver still has much to learn there's a lot of things you can and can't do and one thing you can't do is just beat and bang with people and some guys have to learn they just have to learn the hard way five months later at indianapolis spencer punted bush at over 180 miles per hour kurt is absolutely livid and trashes spencer in the post-wreck interview we spawned and that put us in a bad position back there with the decrepit old has-beens i guess the feud continues to escalate until it reaches a boiling point in the next year's race at michigan kurt swerves into spencer trying to cut down one of his tires after the race spencer reportedly marched over to kurt's car and punched him in the face jimmy got out of the car approached kurt busch and actually punched kurt bush kurt left with a bloody nose and a chipped tooth prompting nascar to suspend jimmy spencer for the next race now at this point it's important to recall that jimmy spencer has thus far demolished two of kurt's race cars and his face and the fans love him for it the next race is littered with free jimmy spencer signs and mr excitement is arguably the most popular he's ever been sometimes a nascar feud represents more than just a simple disagreement between drivers kurt bush and jimmy spencer symbolized a clash of generations in a changing sport in the eyes of many fans at the time kurt busch embodied a new wave of prima donna drivers who lacked the struggle and grit of seasoned veterans like jimmy spencer i mean what happened last week was an assault after the race and what had happened leading up to that in the past was i've got two wrecked race cars out of it and i don't respect jimmy spencer back in the day drivers would settle disputes among themselves without any interference from the sanctioning body many felt that nascar was babying down the sport to conform to a more mainstream image too bad for them nascar was entering a new age whether they were ready or not just one year afterwards kurt busch would sit atop the sport as champion not long after that jimmy spencer would retire and find a new home on the speed channel while kirk got the best of him in their time as competitors jimmy spencer always finds a way to have the last laugh it's time for kurt bush radio sweetheart despite starting off as polar opposite rivals kurt busch and jimmy spencer didn't end up being so different after all nascar is always changing cries you might you can't stop the future boy kurt bush and that two got such a run through the middle of three and four here comes his brother kyle to the inside and almost wrecked him [Applause] one of kurt busch's many career rivalries was a sibling rivalry with his brother kyle if kurt was a can't miss talent the younger bush brother was a generational prodigy while it took kurt until age 23 to win in the cup series kyle did it at just 20 in his rookie season currently he's in the conversation with jeff gordon and jimmy johnson as one of the greatest drivers of nascar's current era in 2007 all three of these drivers raced on the same team hendrick motorsports unfortunately such great amassments of talent don't tend to stick around for very long and come the middle of the season kyle bush wants out at hendrick just like his brother kyle busch had the tendency to lose his temper and had reportedly worn out his welcome with team owner rick hendrick despite his skirmish with kurt in the all-star race kyle bush's greatest rival wouldn't come from his brother it would come from his replacement mcmurray by the mid-2000s daler and her junior's race team was on a downward spiral and he was about to become the biggest free agent in all of nascar as the sport's most popular star dale jr would provide an immediate boon to any team that signed him naturally one of the first team owners to approach junior was rick hendrick beyond the appeal of joining nascar's most successful team junior bonded with rick kendrick on a very personal level both had suffered tragic losses of family members earlier in the decade with all that considered earnhardt and hendrick were a match that seemed destined to happen it's the 2007 samsung 500 at texas on lap 252 tony stewart spins and kyle busch rear ends junior in the scramble kyle thinks his car is total and retires from the race unbeknownst to him however his pit crew repairs the car and wants to send it back on track to pick up some extra points the only problem is that kyle bush has gone awol the team scurries to find a replacement driver just as dale jr is pulling his wrecked car into the garage long story short dale jr ended up finishing the race in kyle busch's car that day and so today it is with great honor to introduce my new boss for 2008 mr rick hendrick was it a bizarre coincidence or perhaps a covert audition for his next ride we may never know all the answers but one thing's for sure it wouldn't be the last incident involving dale jr and kyle busch that season six months later kyle bush is in a fierce battle for the point lead heading into kansas while junior is out of championship contention by this point it's well known that earnhardt will be replacing kyle busch at the end of the season but kyle is still trying to make the most of his lame duck run by going out with a bang just 30 laps in however junior runs over kyle busch on the back stretch and takes him out of the race after it was over junior apologized and said it was an accident but kyle busch would not so easily forget the driver who cost him his first shot of the championship i'm sure these guys that he's going to be working with next year don't really appreciate this because they've got a championship they can win this year and he doesn't it's the spring of 2008 and dale jr wants badly to win for his new team he is currently in the midst of a 70 race winless streak meanwhile kyle busch is riding high in his new joe gibbs racing toyota winning two of the first nine races on the season in the final laps at richmond dale jr is just a few miles from victory kyle busch however has other plans i believe he's got him this time oh he's turning no you know what daryl i saw the wheels on the 18 car turn to the right just ever so slightly one could say that the end of this race profoundly shaped the next few years in nascar kyle busch finished 2008 with eight victories and was instantly rocketed to public enemy number one in the sport a lot of people hated it you know i guess those are the ones with 88's tattooed on their arm for dale jr the incident would mark the beginning of the worst stretch of his career after 2008 junior would not see victory lane for the next three seasons in some cases revenge can end up having far more influence than just a petty comeuppance it can go on to define a driver's legacy this event cemented kyle busch as a dominant villain and dale jr is a lovable underdog who can never seem to catch a break two perceptions that neither driver could ever really overcome do you think that if dale and kyle could go back to this moment history could have turned out differently well the next time they went to richmond history repeated itself instead [Applause] revenge in nascar can greatly influence how we perceive other drivers but very rarely does it influence the actual outcome of a season [Music] ryan newman is gonna get in with that move on we said what would drivers do to make it happen we just saw what they would do in 2014 nascar introduced the controversial elimination style playoff format an unintended consequence of which was giving drivers tremendous leverage and potentially spoiling the competition if you're going to have a feud in nascar you absolutely do not want to start one of the playoffs so let's talk about martinsville it's the oldest remaining track on the nascar schedule which really shows from its unique design remember turn 11 from sonoma well double it back and that's basically the entire martinsville racetrack of course the close quarters racing creates the perfect breeding ground for tempers to flare with the added pressure of the playoffs the fall martinsville race turns the intensity up to 11. denny hamlin had always been one of nascar's most consistent drivers but he could never quite put it together when it counted most every time he found himself in position to contend for the championship he would always end up suffering some inexplicable mishap heading into the 2017 playoff race at martinsville he's sitting sixth in points if he wants to advance to the championship finale he's gonna have to catch a serious break chase elliot is in quite a different place than denny he's not just looking for his first career championship he's looking for his first career win at age 21 he's in just his second full-time cup season but the expectations surrounding him are about as high as any other prospect the sport has ever seen chase elliot is a part of racing royalty the son of nascar legend bill elliott he has spent the past half decade as nascar's most anticipated young star by 2017 he's next in line behind dale jr as the sport's perennial most popular driver but more than 70 races into his cup career he still has yet to win at nascar's highest level today at martinsville chase has a pretty good shot at finally breaking through to victory lane winning here wouldn't just validate the talent of the young phenom it would punch his ticket to the championship race he's led over a hundred laps so far and with just four laps to go he pulls ahead of the field and looks to be cruising to a fairytale ending too bad for chase the driver behind him is denny hamlin who is not about to let another opportunity go to waste the bumper to the back of the 24. elliot goes around hamlin takes the lead and the caution comes out chase elliott did not win on this day but luckily for our story neither did hamlin denny swung for the fences in the closing laps of this race but in doing so he just made himself the biggest target in nascar racing hard for the win here danny what happened trying to get uh trying to get a race win but you know it's uh everybody wrecked everyone there at the end it was i'm not sitting here uh saying that i wrecked him on purpose and i tried to move him out of the way and spun out it's now one race before the championship finale in the closing laps denny hamlin is holding on to the final transfer spot by the slimmest of margins it was at this point that chase elliot taught hamlin a lesson and why you should never mess with racing royalty the 24 pinched the 11 into the wall and now tire spoke coming out of the 11. junior and that could be the championship hopes going up in smoke for denny hamlin believe it or not this wasn't the first time the driver of the 24 car got revenge at phoenix for something that happened at martinsville the 40th career victory and the 11th win of 1998 goes to jeff gordon and the rainbow warriors of course the former driver of the 24 car was none other than jeff gordon who was in the conversation for the greatest stock car driver ever in 1998 he drove the greatest statistical season in nascar's modern era scoring an unthinkable average finish of 5.7 his 2012 season on the other hand was not quite as spectacular after the first five races he is sitting a dismal 25th in the point standings he's looking to turn his luck around at martinsville winning here would have extra significance because at this point hendrick motorsports is sitting at 199 wins for the whole season everyone has been wondering which hendrick driver will take the honor of scoring win number 200 for the team so far no hendrick driver has won in 2012 but on this day it certainly looks like it's gonna happen with 10 laps to go jeff gordon is in an amazing battle with his teammate jimmy johnson so it looks like barring a completely preposterous turn of events that rick hendrick will get his 200th victory just as gordon makes the pass on johnson with five to go the caution comes out for reasons we still don't understand to this day david rudeman doesn't come to pit road during an obvious mechanical issue and stalls out on the front stretch the field lines back up and the two hendrick cars look to settle it on what should be the final restart the only problem now is that they're on worn tires and are sitting ducks to the pack behind them who pitted for fresh tires looks like the me possibly clint boyer in the 15 won the battle off pit road that's the guy you better keep an eye on well the green flag drops and both hendrick cars get a poor jump off the line simultaneously ryan newman gives one of the biggest shelves in martinsville history to clint boyer who's directly behind the hendrick cars with nowhere else to really go boyer makes the split second decision to dive bomb inside of jeff gordon three wide in a turn one at martinsville this went about as well as you may have guessed that was not pretty clint boyer was a driver who always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time he is perhaps best known for finishing the 07 daytona 500 upside down he was still talented enough to occasionally win a race or two but whenever clint found success misfortune always seemed to follow the 2012 race at martinsville is no exception looking back it's hard to say clint did anything wrong in this situation but he still ended up bearing the brunt of the controversy well clinton our friends you know and i i have a lot of respect for him he's a great race car driver and i'm glad i talked to him before i talked to you guys because i was pretty mad at him after the race jeff gordon is merciful their next altercation however wouldn't be on such pleasant terms six months later the cup series returns to martinsville and the complexion of the season looks very different with just four races left the championship picture is wide open after the worst start to a year he's ever had jeff gordon has made a remarkable late-season comeback to put himself within striking distance of the title right in the hunt with gordon is clint boyer who is having the season of his life late in the race at martinsville the two make contact in a hard-fought side-by-side battle this time jeff gordon is not as forgiving after a second run in on the season clint boyer is skating on thin ice two weeks later at phoenix clint foyer is closer to the championship than he's ever been late in the day he's running in the top five and is less than 30 points behind the championship leader it's at this moment when boyer runs into who else but jeff gordon unfortunately for boyer this is the straw that broke the camel's back where is he i'm getting this ass he's turning flink boyer into the wall he basically waited on flint boyer to come around and took him out it's still surreal watching this back today nearly a decade afterwards jeff gordon hunted down boyer like a dog and erased his championship hopes and one flick of the steering wheel what ensued was possibly the biggest melee in the history of nascar but for as many punches that were thrown that day it didn't change the outcome clint boyer would go on to lose the championship by just 39 points if gordon doesn't take him out it's very possible he could have won the whole thing boyer would never again come as close to winning a cub series title jeff gordon is a racing god he can give and he can take away it's hard to imagine a moment in nascar more savage than gordon's revenge on clint boyer but believe it or not there is one incident that tops it mostly because it came from such an unlikely source matt kenzen comes to the line finishing fourth and matt kenseth is the 2003 nascar winston cup series champion if i could use one word to describe matt kenseth's career in nascar it would be overshadowed if you asked fans to list off the best drivers of the 21st century many of them would probably forget to mention him in 2003 he put together one of the most dominant seasons in recent memory only to have it continually discredited because he only won a single race many have inferred that kentz's 2003 season directly persuaded nascar to overhaul the entire championship format to make sure that a performance like it could never happen again so what exactly is the problem with a guy like matt kenseth nearly leading the points wired a wire well the thing is that matt kenseth was not exactly the most exciting driver he had a rather milk-toast personality which many considered to be downright boring to watch but matt's relative non-intrigue served more as a testament to how good he was at staying out of trouble he always played it cool with the media and avoided drama like the plague on track he was one of the cleanest and most respectful drivers out there it was really difficult to recall any examples of matt kenseth intentionally wrecking someone in a race on the very few occasions he did end up in an altercation he always seemed to take much more punishment than he dished out so remember brian vickers from chapter one well getting revenge on tony stewart must have awoken some kind of demon within him because later that season at martinsville vickers went on possibly the biggest rampage in nascar history throughout the race vickers takes out regan smith montoya jamie mcmurray and then starts beating and banging on matt kenseth who at that moment is battling for the championship lead kenseth tries to put an end to vicar's reign of terror by punting him out of the way but that only makes him the sole target of the wrath just a few laps later vickers plows into the back of kentuc who goes on to finish outside of the top 30 not content with just one act of vengeance however vickers would take out kenseth again two weeks later at phoenix needless to say matt kenseth didn't end up winning the championship this season keep in mind this happened just one year before jeff gordon caused clint boyer the championship at the same track and nearly started a riot after vickers did the same thing to kenseth this is what matt had to say it's just unfortunate but we'll just move on keep working on it and you know hopefully a better wait next week that's just the kind of guy matt was it was that hard to make him mad in 2013 matt kenseth departed from long time team owner jack roush to race the 20 car for joe gibbs racing the driver he replaced was joey logano who is far and away the most controversial driver in the sport today and boy tony stewart is after legano what the hell do you think i was mad about dumb little she runs us clear down to the infield he wants a bit about everybody else and he's the one that drives like a little i'm gonna bust his ass there's just something about legano that really rubs people the wrong way he was at one point the most highly touted nascar prospect ever literally earning the moniker of the greatest thing since sliced bread the immense amount of media hype surrounding his rise through the ranks made it tough to root for the guy early on it didn't help that his racing style got on the nerves of many fans and drivers when you get right down to it joey logano is a dirty driver when the chips are down he will resort to cheap tactics if that's what it takes to win he'll block someone with a huge run and risk wrecking the whole field he'll slam someone into the wall if he knows they're going to pass him he'll move a 53 year old mark martin out of the way rather than going through the inconvenience of racing him clean for the win i got dumped flat out just drove straight in the corner and wrecked me it's the same thing somebody throws a stupid block that's never going to work rex half the field then goes you know i'm tired of these guys doing that stuff and and especially out of a kid that's been griping about everybody else he's run his mouth long enough he sat there and done this double standard and he's nothing but a little rich kid that has never had to work in his life being a recklessly inconsiderate driver isn't necessarily a bad thing but the difference between legano and someone like dale earnhardt is that joey doesn't own it in a cool way he still likes to carry himself as the innocent babyface who's never done anything wrong i'm sure that off the track joey logano is a really great guy but when he gets behind the wheel it's hard to find the driver less likable middletown connecticut's joey logano wins the daytona 500. by 2015 the hatred for joey logano was reaching an all-time high he's having the best statistical season of his career and looks poised to take the championship one of his biggest challengers for the title is matt kenseth who has won five races through 28 events the most in the series in a playoff format where winning races is practically the only thing that matters the season's winningest driver has a pretty good shot to take the championship the drama begins at charlotte joey logano wins locking himself into the next round matt kenseth finishes almost dead last after wrecking early putting himself in a virtual must-win situation the next week at kansas he's looking to do just that he's dominated the race leading more than half the laps in the event the only other driver who's been able to contend with him all day is joey logano now let me reiterate here that joey is locked in to the next round he has nothing to gain from challenging matt kenseth for the win it just doesn't make strategic sense to escalate things here but in this situation joey logano is probably not thinking about strategy he's been around for a while now and knows that matt's an easy target a guy who got pushed around for his whole career and never once did a damn thing about it joey doesn't do what he does next because it's a smart racing move he does it because he knows he can get away with it and around goes to 20 sideways in front of the 22. many modern nascar fans consider the 2015 season to be one of the worst in recent memory a combination of subpar racing inconsistent meddling from the sanctioning body and season-long dominance from the sport's least popular drivers left most fans desperate for something to be excited about unfortunately for them the following race would be the most miserable yet the race ended under dubious circumstances after kevin harvick wrecked the whole field on the final restart dale jr came gut-wrenchingly close to saving himself from elimination but he never even had a chance to race for the win as the caution flag flies the sport's most popular driver is just edged out by joey logano amidst the chaos and controversy matt kenseth is quietly eliminated from his last great shot at winning the championship in this moment nascar is entering the dark timeline the fans have been beaten and broken down if they want to salvage any hope out of the season they're gonna need a hero you make decisions every day you make decisions every minute behind the wheel um to me strategically that doesn't seem like such a great decision for him but it's the one he made and that's how he wanted to win [Music] maybe no [Music] statistically speaking there's no doubt that joey logano was the best driver of the 2015 season in hindsight it's difficult to imagine a scenario where he doesn't win the championship he would have to succumb to a cataclysmic event and a stupidly gimmicked point system unfortunately for joey he was a victim of both but only one of these things was out of his control joey logano always wanted to have his cake and eat it too and he would find out that doing so is a quick way to end up with no cake at all immediately afterwards nascar suspended matt kenseth for two races not that it really mattered at that point joey logano would go on to miss the championship race and he learned an important lesson the problem with taking from someone when you have nothing to gain is that one day that person may wind up with nothing to lose throughout his career matt kenseth was never really a popular driver but in that moment all of us were matt kenseth fans in a way matt kenseth helped everyone get revenge on joey logano well unless you were a legano fan but nobody really cares about them revenge tells many different kinds of stories across racing stories about greed ego respect legacy change chaos and justice these stories are all unique in their own right but most of them end in the same way this story of revenge is ultimately a story of forgiveness although revenge can provide us with some of the most captivating moments in auto racing there's a reason it's ultimately rare in nascar vengeful vendettas inevitably leave behind a trail of wrecked race cars poor finishes and shattered dreams in the game of revenge everybody loses most drivers simply choose not to play so the next time you're on the road and feel like carrying out your own piece of revenge it's probably best to just turn the other cheek [Laughter] hey everyone amp media back again to bring you another fantastic toy review as if the downward spiral couldn't get low enough today i'm pleased to announce that i've partnered with the fine people at youtube's collectible figurines to bring you the emperor lemon youtubes so i worked with youtubes to design everything you see here the figurine the packages so go ahead and give them some of your hard-earned cash because a percentage of it goes to me hopefully i get enough royalties from this to cover the lawsuit from disney but i do like this box like it has your colors you know the green the purple the downward spiral they sculpted the tongue and teeth individually that's a nice touch i can really be tasting the money with this one yeah i'm actually really impressed by uh the way that they that they make these i mean this is kind of cool because this is like your your avatar character oh god avatar i'm gonna get sued by nickelodeon too but you know you gotta love the attention of detail it's even got a little mini downward spiral on the microphone do i have your disposable income now and keep in mind this is a limited edition figure meaning that once the initial run is over they're gone for good wow i guess there will never ever be another collectible figurine like this one [Applause] well you better get one while you still have a chance because these are probably gonna go really fast i imagine these are gonna go faster than i left the sodi podcast so head out to the website and start hoarding these things like fat housewives at walmart on black friday man hopefully these will sell better than my nfts i'm awfully glad for you how exciting i mean it makes sense right because having a youtubes figurine validates you as an actual public figure of course nobody knows who i am so i mean why would they reach out to me that'd be ridiculous why would you twos reach out to me and offer me a figurine i mean everyone else has one even you have one sorry rusty this is something only youtubers with youtubes can understand i just remember he's gonna have to have 42 laps so he's going to be close on fuel he's really slowing down too larry i mean 28 looks to be like really close enough two laps to go this time tony stewart draws a bead on terry labonte for third place i heard him i heard somebody say and i think it was they do that something was happening to the car there's stuart makes the pass for third place our pull sitter and what happened

Channel: EmpLemon

Views: 1,180,518

Rating: 4.9531665 out of 5

Keywords: EmpLemon, Nascar, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Kyle Busch, Joey Logano, Kurt Busch, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer

Id: 7RjAWFDL3fA

Length: 38min 20sec (2300 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 10 2021

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He also did an excellent video on Dale Earnhardt a few years ago, as part of his "Never Ever" series

[u/Nate2680]

Dude makes some kickass video essays aside from the two NASCAR ones he’s now done.

Wish we had more NASCAR fans with the ability to put out content like this, seeing such a source of information come from someone who doesn’t really interact with the NASCAR community much is damn surprising. Makes you wonder how many people can actually put out content like this but elect not too for reasons of their own.

[u/seanvettel-31]

I can’t believe I used to watch this guy make YouTube Poops 7-8 years ago and now he’s making 40 minute videos. Pretty cool evolution

[u/jopo1992]

One of the best NASCAR YouTube documentaries I’ve seen in awhile.

[u/Leuel48Fan]

"The problem with taking from someone when you have nothing to gain, is that one day that person may have nothing to lose!"

This is excellent writing and a perfect description of the Logano/Kenseth incident.

[u/mac_attack09]

“Unless you were a Joey Logano fan, but nobody really cares about them.“

god damn

[u/SuperT3]

Nice. He did one about Dale Earnhardt too a while back.

[u/Nas160]

I really like that big name non NASCAR people are making videos like this

Edit: Is the Brad/Carl feud from 2009/2010 in this?

[u/SPICYBOI222]

Emplemon should start a second channel for NASCAR Content because his videos are 𝓐𝓻𝓽