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Music All right, everybody.

Welcome back to episode nine of the Gluckcast.

And, you know, sometimes I like to tell you guys some personal stories here since

my show or my name's in it, I guess.

So I want to start with this one.

In 2005, I was working for

a local newspaper in Southern California. It's called the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and my

sports editor at the time, the late Louis Brewster. He sent me to the Phoenix NASCAR race that fall.

And one of the things he asked me to do was go check in and do a story about this local driver we had, this

dude from Chino Hills. He was running in like total backmarker Bush series equipment.

And so this dude finishes last. I do the story. He comes back next year for like part-time

schedule and I keep writing about him because that was like our only local connection to NASCAR at the newspaper, right?

So writing about this guy, whether I was at the track or not, like Phoenix, Vegas, you

know, I'd be there or I'd just get on the phone with him after the race.

So 2006, he starts out and he's doing like a part-time Bush schedule again for this like backmarker

team finishes 39th, 29th, 33rd, 30th. But we're doing stories every week still covering him. Then something

crazy happens. Fifth race that this guy's in that year. Same back marker team. I'm watching Kentucky

Speedway, the race from my rented townhouse in California.

And I'm watching this. And like the guy wins the race out of nowhere, one of the biggest

upsets in NASCAR history. Like I can't even tell you how surreal this was. It was like the only

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