350. What Are We Doing ?

Uh, I just wanted to sta- start off like this.

Um, we didn't get a chance to talk about it last weekend.

Um, you know I've been a NASCAR fan forever, right?

Yeah.

Correct? Okay.

I'll give you a bit-

Yeah

... a little bit of a backstory here.

Um, it's 1979, they did the first live Daytona 500.

Um, so I, I remember watching it, and the guy calling the race was this guy named Ken Squier, a very famous announcer.

Okay? And so that's what got me into racing.

Now, Ken Squier was from Vermont, and he owned the track in my hometown.

And, um, my mom was on the board of Selectmen in Milton, Vermont, where Catamount Speedway was.

So I got to meet Ken Squier, you know, when I was really young, and got to meet a lot of the drivers at the tracks.

My mom would go to the track on the weekends, and I became a fan of racing at a very you- young age.

And 1979 was also the year Dale Earnhardt came up.

Mm-hmm.

And Dale Earnhardt was always the bad guy to whoever my favorite driver was, whether it be Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, and Rusty Wallace.

So I was always rooting against Dale Earnhardt, except in the last few years, because you began to appreciate what he did on the track.

At the same time, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was coming up, and I became a fan of Dale Earnhardt Jr. because I sort of felt like I missed out on being a fan of Dale Earnhardt.

So now I'm a Dale Jr. fan, my favorite driver, and along comes, um, Kyle Busch, who's from Las Vegas, the younger b- brother of Kurt Busch.

And Kyle Busch comes in, so much talent as a race car driver, like you've never seen the type of talent that this kid had at a very young age.

But he w- he would always get into skirmishes with Dale Jr.

He would wreck...

I remember this one race in Richmond that he just wrecked Dale Jr. on the last lap to win the race, and I did not like Kyle.