TALLADEGA: Nascar's Most Feared Track

Sweet Home Talladega.

Contents:
0:00 Talatigi
2:21 Open for Business
9:06 The Talladega Curse
13:44 Delinquents
17:31 Underdogs
20:05 Speed
22:32 Unwelcome Territory
24:48 New Era of Mayhem
26:15 Out of Bounds
28:26 Airborne
31:35 You Can't Stop What's Coming
35:34 Manifest
36:37 Destiny
39:11 Shake 'n Bake
41:23 Runaways
43:01 We Kinda Lost Control
52:55 This is Talladega
54:59 Grief
56:36 Unconquered
57:27 Full Circle

References and Further Reading:

[noodlefunny]

How the hell have you gotten me to watch three Nascar videos to completion despite me not caring about nascar, and yet I enjoy each one more than the last. I might be a Nascar fan now. What the fuck

[Azeria]

“While unpopular in its time, many fans today look back on the era fondly”

If that ain’t sum up NASCAR fans I don’t know what does

[tambourland]

Man, I know Emp was punching the air after writing that last line, “The funny thing about NASCAR is that if you watch long enough, everything comes full circle.” Masterpiece of a video as a whole.

[DukeSSB]

The Miccosukee car was being chased by the Army and National Guard tandem and was forced to stand its ground against the leading car to ultimately win the race, absolutely surreal

[CAMELOT]

This is easily the best thing about NASCAR to come out. EmpLemon did what NASCAR couldn't. Made the awesome auto sport actually interesting to new folks.

[ilovesalazar]

"The Miccosukee car has only one driver in its way to glory. The tandem is pursued by the Army and the National Guard cars, but they are not gonna catch'em." Holy shit man, what a great line. I am glad to see Jon Bois school of story-telling flourish.

[SapShoes]

Thanks for having me onboard for this, and holy shit that final bit about the Miccosukee car being pursued by the Army and National Guard until it can go no further was just ridiculously poetic.

[toptextbottomtext]

30:00 "the number 38 M&M's Ford must have covered the length of a football field without touching the ground" oh. my. god.

[MrBWhite]

"The funny thing about NASCAR is that if you watch long enough, everything always comes full circle."

What a damn quote to end this video on. Great job as always EmpLemon! You always make NASCAR sound cool to outsiders in ways the sanctioning body never has.

[supremeleadergnkdroid]

I still can’t get over that emplemon, the guy that did an incredible YTP has now done three nascar videos. what a ride

[EricEstepp]

The final 2-3 minutes was one of the best payoffs I've seen in any YouTube video ever. What a journey.

Loving the NASCAR content!

[slightlyistorical]

The absolute pure poetic justice of the Miccouskee car in it’s first ever cup race standing his ground against all odds and beating the Army and National Guard in the final lap left me in complete awe. It’s stuff like this that makes it so much harder to believe in just coincidences, it sounds straight out of an over-the-top Hollywood blockbuster. The entire situation almost makes you see the souls of the Seminole warriors themselves riding alongside Keselowski, pushing him on to symbolically relive their legacy and to forever cement their immortal, unconquered legacies

[HOOTwheelz]

NASCAR's been trying to do historic content to get new fans in tune with the history of the sport, but they're not nearly as effective as NASCAR YouTubers have been. Keep it up Emp, both you and Slapshoes are doing great work to gather interest in NASCAR even when NASCAR itself struggles to figure this out itself.

[Dominion]

59:35 one thing to note: Edward almost went into the crowd just as Allison had done in 1987, just barely clipping the wall with his car at the last second.
It really does always comes full circle

[brandonlehman]

"god help all of them cause there's no place to go" gave me chills, truly one of the best works of storytelling ive ever seen

[CocoHutzpah]

I watched a video about Nascar and learned that the Seminole tribe was formed out of runaways, rebels, and rogues. That's pretty badass.

[jasonwhigham]

Holy crap, I have never realized and put into perspective about the sponsors of that '09 race, I've seen that race a bunch of times. I didn't think that it would be possible for a nascar race to be so symbolic and truly go full circle

[humbletreestump]

"Produces no winners only survivors." Fucking great line

[Jazzosaurus]

a man representing a people who stood their ground and fought, standing his ground and pushing through to win. the only driver seemingly unaffected by the curse as he drives for the native people. a fitting conclusion to a tumultuous story

[baratanky]

The thing I recently found out (and now love it to bits) is that in the end, every feature Emp ever told about the track (the favorable rookie instance, the fence crash, the double yellow line and the natives' NASCAR team) all came together in that race's finish.