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The Teardown

Is Cleetus Ready for the Rock?

The Teardown

Dirty Mo Media & SiriusXM

News, Sports News, Sports

4.6864 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

NASCAR Cup might be off this weekend, but we are at the dawn of one of the most highly anticipated O'Reilly Series debuts in history. You may be sick of hearing about Cleetus McFarland already, but motorsports reporter Jeff Gluck is charmed with the Youtube celebrity's earnest efforts to prepare for his high pressure opportunity. Jeff invites Cleetus to this week's edition of the Gluckcast to talk preparation and expectation ahead of this weekend in Rockingham. He also sits down with Casey Mears to discuss the quest for 500 Cup starts and the Athletic's Formula One liaison Luke Smith to catch up on the turbulence the series has dealt with thus far this year.

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0:00.0

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Music All right, everybody, welcome back to episode seven of the Gluckcast.

0:42.5

We are here on a Cup series off week, but there's still some racing to be done at Rockingham Speedway this week.

0:49.9

So we're here with another episode.

0:51.7

And on the first part of today's show, we're going to be talking

0:54.2

about a man named Garrett Mitchell, better known as Cletus McFarland.

0:59.1

Now, in fact, he said this week, I asked him, he prefers to go by Cletus because it makes it

1:04.8

easier.

1:05.1

It helps avoid confusion, even though obviously his given name is Garrett.

1:10.1

Now, maybe you already know plenty about

1:13.1

Cletus. Maybe you're Cletus fans right here. Maybe you've watched his videos for years. You love

1:17.1

his content. Maybe you're like me. You hadn't really caught wind of him until he started doing

1:21.7

ARCA last year. He had that viral interview with Caitlin Vinci after his ARCA start at Daytona, the bald eagle stuff. Everybody's like, wow, this guy is really interesting.

1:31.2

Maybe you didn't know about him, though, until his friendship with Greg Biffle. You obviously

1:36.0

know that Greg Biffle and Greg Biffle's family were on their way down to visit Cletus when the

1:42.3

plane crashed.

1:47.5

Cletus gave a eulogy at Biffel's Memorial Service.

1:50.3

They had been really close friends in a short amount of time.

1:54.0

But still, maybe there's a possibility you didn't connect that.

1:59.9

You hadn't heard of him at all until he wrecked on lap six of his truck series debut in February,

2:04.3

Daytona, and sparked a debate about the driver approval process.

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