Greg Nix

EXT. WONDERCON - DAY

Isaiah (dressed as a Jedi) and Harri (dressed as a Sith) exchange looks from across a table as intense orchestral music plays. The LEGO Smart Play Throne Room is set up between them.

This is ROUND 1: THRONE ROOM BATTLE

Harri

Isaiah… I am your father!

Isaiah

NOOOOOOOO!

Isaiah grabs LEGO Luke and Harri grabs LEGO Darth for an epic lightsaber battle in the throne room set, complete with lightsaber SFX and flashing smart bricks. Whichever host knocks the other player's minifigure off their pedestal celebrates!

Both hosts turn to camera to explain what's happening.

Harri

What's up, guys! We're here in Anaheim at one of the world's biggest fandom conventions!

Isaiah

And today, we're competing to see which side of the Force is stronger: the Light side…

Harri

…or the Dark side.

The hosts reveal a scoreboard, which looks like a Face Pain Chart between "light" (blue) and "dark" (red) with a Darth Vader LEGO minifigure in the middle. For each game that Isaiah wins, Vader moves towards the light side. For each game that Harri wins, Vader moves towards the dark side.

Harri

Every time one of us wins a game, our side of the Force gets stronger. And whichever one of us is more powerful at the end of this video gets a mystery Star Wars LEGO trophy…

Isaiah

Since [I/Harri] won the first round, that means the first point goes to the [light side/dark side]. But we're just getting started. Let's go!

NOLAN (Narrator):

Lloyd Seay found himself lying in the dirt. He was bleeding. Badly. He looked over and saw blood similarly gushing from his brother's neck. They had both just been shot by their own kin. And he wanted to know… Why? Twelve hours earlier he had won the biggest stock car race in the sport's short history. And now he was dying in a feud over moonshine.

You probably know that alcohol was illegal in the United States from 1919 to 1933, an era known as Prohibition. You might even know that a group of bootleggers went on to help found NASCAR. But the intertwined histories of moonshine and cars go a lot deeper than that.

It was four redneck rum runners in particular that basically invented engine mods and as a result brought both backwoods hooch AND stock car racing to the masses. Who were they? And how did their efforts to outrun the law turn into a modern day racing behemoth? Grab a mason jar of White Lightning and settle in, because today on Past Gas we're talking about bootlegging and burnouts… This is the story of stock car racing's very first pro team.

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