S1 Ep93: Smokey Yunick: The CHEATING Mechanic Who Became A BILLIONAIRE (REPLAY)
Past Gas
Donut Media
4.9 • 7.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Catch our episode of Smokey Yunick yet again, on this exclusive episode revisit (with special Hi Low catch up with Nolan and Joe!) It’s time for the story of NASCAR’s greatest cheater, Smokey Yunick! From humble beginnings building a tractor as a child, fighting in WWII, to operating a dubious smuggling operation, Smokey might be the most interesting man in history! This guy lived five lives before he ever stepped foot on a racetrack.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up? My name is Nolan. I'm from PastGas by Donut Media. We're an automotive history show. |
| 0:04.8 | This week, it's Santa's cold bag. We took all of our listener submissions that we've gotten over the years here |
| 0:10.5 | and we put them all into one episode. Little ideas that weren't long enough for a normal one. |
| 0:15.0 | We put seven ideas into one hour episode. This is super fun. A real grab bag of different |
| 0:22.0 | stories and letters from our listeners, maybe even you. So check out PastGas wherever you get your |
| 0:29.1 | podcast today. PastGas. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey everybody. What's up? It's Nolan and Joe here once again. What up? |
| 0:46.4 | This is a rerun of Smokey Unic Part 2. We reran Part 1 last week because we're shooting |
| 0:54.3 | high low at the moment. They don't have microphones in the trucks. No, we can't record new episodes |
| 1:01.0 | for at least a couple of weeks. Yeah, we did not like podcast studio, portable podcast studio |
| 1:06.1 | was not part of the high low build sheet this season, maybe next time, but we were not able to do that. |
| 1:12.0 | Wouldn't it be, it would not be pertinent to anybody else but us if we decided to make rolling |
| 1:19.0 | podcast studios, there's got to be a trucker out there that does a podcast. There's a market that's |
| 1:24.2 | definitely not being cornered right now that we're sure. We could build pre fab podcast studios and |
| 1:32.0 | people could go to like, you know, NASCAR races and record. We just cracked the code, dude. That's |
| 1:38.2 | second income stream. Joe, this is how we do it, man. This is how Richard Branson became a billionaire. |
| 1:44.2 | Yeah, we're going to fly not necessarily to the moon or even low orbit, but I'm going to build a |
| 1:48.9 | rocket and launch it out of my apartment parking space and explode at like 150 meters up. It's |
| 1:55.2 | going to be great. You'll hear about it on the news. Yeah, speaking of Unix, what are, what are, |
| 2:00.7 | what are we in this episode to talk about? Yeah, this is smoking unique part too. So last week, |
| 2:06.5 | we talked about his humble origins being just the hustler of a man, just a great historical figure |
| 2:12.5 | in his own right. But what happens when those scheming ways come to NASCAR? Well, that's what we're |
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