Moonshine & Motorsports Racing Podcast Rick Houston and Daily Downforce
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The Moonshine & Motorsports Podcast is a special limited podcast series brought to you by North Carolina’s Moonshine & Motorsports Trail and the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (NC DNCR). Hosted by veteran journalist and historian Rick Houston (The Scene Vault Podcast), each episode takes you on location to one of the stops on the Moonshine & Motorsports Trail, where Rick meets with a local expert on the history and impact of that location on the sport of NASCAR. Come along with us on this journey through the rich history of running shine, racing cars, and the storied backwoods of North Carolina.
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When Moonshiners Go Racing
This is a collaboration between The Scene Vault Podcast and North Carolina’s Department of Cultural and Natural Resources made to spotlight the history of moonshine, motorsports, and the state of North Carolina.
You can also listen to every episode of the Moonshine and Motorsports Racing Podcast on all your favorite podcast apps.
For more, visit https://dailydownforce.com/moonshine-motorsports/ -
The First Moonshine Speakeasy in Charlotte
In this episode, Rick sits down with Scott McClure of the Seven Jars Distillery in Charlotte. McClure tells the absolutely wild story of how the distillery came to be. It's a story that involves everything from buried treasure to drunken pigs to the young Elvis Presley.
This is a collaboration between The Scene Vault Podcast and North Carolina’s Department of Cultural and Natural Resources made to spotlight the history of moonshine, motorsports, and the state of North Carolina.
You can also listen to every episode of the Moonshine and Motorsports Racing Podcast on all your favorite podcast apps.
For more, visit https://dailydownforce.com/moonshine-motorsports/ -
What's Inside the Moonshine Cave w/ Jessica Fickenscher
North Wilkesboro is one of NASCAR's most historic tracks in North Carolina, and in this episode, Rick sits down with Jessica Fickenscher to get the inside story on how the track was restored, along with what exactly went down with the recent discovery of the long lost Moonshine cave.
This is a collaboration between The Scene Vault Podcast and North Carolina’s Department of Cultural and Natural Resources made to spotlight the history of moonshine, motorsports, and the state of North Carolina.
You can also listen to every episode of the Moonshine and Motorsports Racing Podcast on all your favorite podcast apps. -
Troy Selberg on the REAL Moonshine Capitol of the World
Troy Selberg is most known to NASCAR fans as a crew chief for legends like Todd Bodine and Morgan Shephard, but he also moonlights as an accredited bourbon steward. What all does that entail, and how does it connect to the history of North Carolina's moonshine trade? Find out in this episode of the Moonshine and Motorsports Racing Podcast.
This is a collaboration between The Scene Vault Podcast and North Carolina’s Department of Cultural and Natural Resources made to spotlight the history of moonshine, motorsports, and the state of North Carolina.
You can also listen to every episode of the Moonshine and Motorsports Racing Podcast on all your favorite podcast apps.
For more, visit https://dailydownforce.com/moonshine-motorsports/ -
Daniel Pierce on the Origins of Moonshiners
This week we welcome Daniel Pierce to the show. He's a UNC Asheville professor who's written a book on the history of moonshiners in professional racing, and he sits down with Rick to clear up some of the fascinating history behind these wheelmen in North Carolina.
This is a collaboration between The Scene Vault Podcast and North Carolina's Department of Cultural and Natural Resources made to spotlight the history of moonshine, motorsports and the state of North Carolina.
For more info, visit: https://dailydownforce.com/moonshineandmotorsports/ -
Winston Kelley and the NASCAR Hall of Fame
Welcome to the Moonshine & Motorsports podcast. This is a collaboration between Scene Vault and North Carolina's Department of Cultural and Natural Resources made to spotlight the history of moonshine, motorsports, and the state of North Carolina. In this first episode, Rick visits with Winston Kelley at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
For more info, visit: https://dailydownforce.com/moonshineandmotorsports/