Turned Down $2 Million To Do What? | Stacking Pennies Podcast
Stacking Pennies with Corey LaJoie
NASCAR
4.8 • 850 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week on Stacking Pennies, Corey LaJoie sits down with a guest fans have been asking for: his dad, Randy LaJoie.
Randy talks about being on the NASCAR Hall of Fame ballot, why the Hall should recognize more than just Cup Series greatness, the Cup deal he turned down after his Busch Series championships, the backyard go-kart track where Corey learned to race, and the seat company that became a major part of his legacy.
Plus, Corey, Randy, and Ryan Flores break down Connor Zilisch’s wild Watkins Glen win, SVG’s road-course dominance, Formula Drift, IndyCar push-to-pass drama, Buckshot Jones stories, Dover memories, and the safety lessons short-track racers still need to hear.
Drop your favorite Randy LaJoie memory in the comments, and let us know: Does the NASCAR Hall of Fame give lower-division racers enough respect?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Stagg and Penny. I'm excited about this one because we've been on a heater with some guests last couple weeks, man. |
| 0:04.6 | We've had a lot of feedback on Ryan Blaney's. A lot of good conversation on that. Okay, let's go. |
| 0:13.8 | Stacking them deep, selling them cheap. |
| 0:18.4 | It tastes like gasoline, rubber, and victory. |
| 0:21.6 | Where's that here? |
| 0:22.1 | Stagged back. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm joined by my right-hand man, Ryan Flores. |
| 0:31.3 | Happy to be here. |
| 0:32.7 | And a familiar face to most who have been around now NASCAR in the last 40 years. Please help me welcome. One of NASCAR is 75 greatest drivers and also my dad, Randy LaJol. Hall of Fame Ballot. Hall of Fame. He's on the ballot. That's right. Nominated. How does that, how does that work? No clue. Does somebody like, does like Mike Helton say, hey man, you're on the ballot again? Well, you're always on a ballot. |
| 0:55.5 | Once you get brought up, you're always on a ballot. |
| 0:57.5 | I remember last year, me and mom were down at a function for the Hall of Fame after I got nominated. |
| 1:05.4 | And Ricky Rudd got put in. |
| 1:07.1 | He's getting put in. |
| 1:08.5 | And he said it took him seven years, you know, being nominated. |
| 1:12.6 | That's been a hot topic. Dale Jr. was at odds against his other co-host or something. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah, he said that Justin Allgaher wasn't a, he shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame because he just ran the Bush series. |
| 1:22.9 | And Dale was like, what? Like, I've seen this twofold because when we talk about guys in the Hall of Fame, |
| 1:28.7 | we talk about Richie Evans, Mike Stefani, Larry Phillips, right? |
| 1:33.2 | There's a lot of people that never made it to the Cup series, |
| 1:36.0 | but it's not the NASCAR Cup Series Hall of Fame. |
| 1:38.2 | It's the NASCAR Hall of Fame. |
| 1:39.3 | And our sports unique in that. |
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