‘Smokin’ Hot Wife’ Pastor Tells WTVF That His Infamous NASCAR Speech Was Off-the-Cuff

The Tennessee pastor who became a YouTube celebrity after thanking God for his “smokin’ hot wife” at a NASCAR race sat down with WTVF recently and said that he came up with his notorious prayer on the fly (video above).

“I didn’t know what I was going to say really until I got there,” Pastor Joe Nelms told WTVF reporter Adam Ghassemi.  “I had in my mind ‘okay, I want to thank God for some of the innovations in racing,’ but the smoking hot wife part and the boogity, boogity, boogity I didn’t know it was coming until it came out of my mouth.”

Here’s video of the original prayer…

And (of course) the auto-tuned version…

Combined, the videos have racked up nearly 5 million views on YouTube.