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Shop Beers Live- LT Wins Hunt Co and Tankersley Scores KSP Win · Pushin' the Cushion

• Slim Pushins: Yeah, dummy. What's up everybody? Welcome to another Energized Garage Beers. As always, my co host, guy with great hair, that gets recognized everywhere that he goes, Corby Sherb. Corby Scherb: Why can't we do that as the intro? I like that so much more. Slim Pushins: 'Cause it's it's copyrighted and or copywritten and Jim Gardner: Okay. It's copyrighted and I don't need Pantera owning three acres in Denison, Texas. Corby Scherb: probably call Jordan Davis from Corn well, I could probably call Jordan Davis from Corn and he can do the backpipe intro to his song. Slim Pushins: So that it's copyrighted too, we have to stop using that. Corby Scherb: Now th they'll they'll they'll let us use it. We go way back. I've yelled at my walls many a nights, listening to corn. Slim Pushins: And my other co host, who's always on brand with shirts and hats, mister Unapproachable himself, Jimmy Gardner. Corby Scherb: It has a hell of a shirt. Slim Pushins: He loves the drops. Corby Scherb: I like that shirt. Where'd you where'd you find that shirt? Jim Gardner: What's happening? Hm? I made it. I you know, I figure I'd support you since I spent all weekend busting your ass. Corby Scherb: Yeah, I like that. Here we go. Wasn't me in the seat, so it doesn't count. Jim Gardner: with the excuses. Slim Pushins: You might as well tell the story. You can't drop a bomb. What did you help with? More than I helped with, but go ahead. Jim. Corby Scherb: What me? Or Jim Gardner: Do what? no, I you just looking at the results of my cars versus Corby's cars all weekend. Corby Scherb: gi No, Jim was ripping Friday night, I'll give that to him, but he better be glad I wasn't in a car because I'd I'd have drove through the infield to clean his ass out. Jim Gardner: Yeah we Yeah, it's Yeah, nobody raced the Sherbs harder than the Sherbs, so Slim Pushins: Yeah. Bragging rights. Thanksgiving Day bragging rights. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Exactly. So Corby Scherb: man. Slim Pushins: We had a great weekend though, a lot of racing, doubleheader. I slept on and off all day Sunday 'cause Jim Gardner: No. Corby Scherb: A lot of racing. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I didn't get my my daughter was being wild ass. Yeah, but I was not very productive Sunday. Corby Scherb: Yeah, some us have kids, you know. Good, good, Kerba. Glad glad that you got something done. Slim Pushins: I was in the middle of a great nap and Corby like Corby does, calls, wakes me up, wants to talk. Corby Scherb: Ho I hope I have that same effect on you. Merle, I I swear like every time that a song is about to drop, like into the bridge or something, like a big guitar riff, Merle calls every time. Never fails. Slim Pushins: I like to call while you're working out, just so you raise hell about it. Corby Scherb: I don't even answer any more whenever you call during the workout time. If Jimmy called I'd stop, or Wesley, or Braxton, or Ryder, or pretty much anyone else, I would stop what I was doing. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. It's like man. Corby Scherb: No, it was good racing this weekend. a lot of fast cars. I know Hunt didn't have a huge turnout, but the top about eight or nine were really faster than the guy that ran fourth. other than that, they w they were, you know, real real good racers around here, especially locally. Jim Gardner: It was a it was a good field. Hey, sometimes the game comes to you boys. we w you know, we we got to we got to restart on the top and or we got to start on the top and got a spot. Slim Pushins: That that fourth place car got lucky. Let's talk let's talk about that real let's we're this is a show of honesty. Corby Scherb: Now let's talk yeah, let's Yeah, so let's let's do it. No, hold on, we're gonna backtrack some No, we're gonna backtrack some. Hold on before we get there. We we got to the racetrack with Braxton's car and thought that we set the fueling system. And I'm not gonna call any names, but someone forgot to tighten up a jam nut, and so it came in Jim Gardner: Okay. Late. Slim Pushins: He's just setting the tone early, Corby. I can see where this show's going. Corby Scherb: after hot laps I went about forty eight hundred. And so we knew we had big problems and we couldn't find the a gauge or a gauge that was reading right and it was like it was like the barrel valve wasn't opening and we tried and tried to get it to start and couldn't keep it running. And so we just called off the heat race. Jimmy went out there and he ran a good heat race. you know, he had lucky draw, who'd have guessed it. And did pretty good, did alright. I'll give him that. Slim Pushins: What'd you draw, Jim? Jim Gardner: Like forty five. I was in the second row. Slim Pushins: That's half of what we drew. Corby Scherb: Okay. Okay. And so Mr. Heat Race and then still kept chasing it during before the feature and luckily enough we were pitted next to Jim Gardner. And Jimmy came over and we borrowed a gauge from Kevin Raimi. Jimmy came over. Appreciate that. Jim Gardner: Okay. Yeah, thanks Kevin for coming to the racetrack prepared. I brought a barrel vave barrel valve checker, but no hose. Corby Scherb: And Wesley's entire face and body was red at this point, like so frustrated with the moment. And it was it was it was just a bad little deal and Jimmy came over with his sweaty hands and couldn't even like put the air couldn't even get the the gauge on. And helped him do that. You know, I I won't lie to anyone, I'm not a motor guy, I can probably tell you what's wrong with your car. I can't tell you how to fix it. And Jim Gardner: Wesley was the new Mr. Unapproachable. Yeah, I could I couldn't. Yeah. Ha ha ha. Yeah, it's just like Kerbo. Well there's your problem. It ain't running right. Corby Scherb: Yeah. And so so Jimmy got to start basically front row outside for the feature. And we started super deep, seventeenth, and Braxton put on the best charge that he could and ended up blowing out a right rear shock. It just a bad night for us and the whole team. Jimmy had a really good night. I'll I'll give him respect. He rolled around the top better than I've probably ever seen him roll around the top. But I heard, and this is this is just hearsay, I wasn't there like in that moment. I heard there was like a like a I'm we talked about it last week on with Rutherford on and you know, like my my number one rule is don't ever get out of that car and tell me you're tired. And I heard, I don't know, I don't know, I wasn't in the infield. I heard someone was fr Slim Pushins: Gaston. Gast Jim Gardner: I thought I was gonna puke all over my left front tire. I think the only thing that Corby Scherb: So Jim Gardner: kept me from getting sick is I also was unprepared to be in tech and like had to go hunt around looking for tools to not get disqualified. Yeah, exactly. But like Mike Priery's in there just busting my chops for how worn out I was and Suzanne Cranville was like, you look tired. I was like, Yeah, I was I was pretty tired. I was I was without that that yellow halfway, I was Corby Scherb: It was that it was that moment like you just had to keep moving, couldn't stop. Slim Pushins: Jim Jim gets out of the car. Jim gets out of the car and he looks at me and he goes, Hey, did you bring any tools? I was like, I'm gonna be brutally honest with you, I didn't expect to be here. Corby Scherb: I like what Aunt Sam said right there. Jim Gardner: He Corby Scherb: Just more. Jim Gardner: thank God, you know yeah, they they had to come they had to come we we had to move the nose wing back again before the races started. I saw Wes Cranville at the driver's meeting and I said, Hey, drive over to the fifty one car now and I started drilling holes in my wing. but we were barely legal. So on that front. Slim Pushins: Hey f thank God for tech. Jim Gardner: But yeah, even like after the heat race, I roll into tech and Wes is checking it and he goes, Did you move this wing? And I was like, my God. And then he had that cheeky little smile and walked away. And I was like, I don't need that shit, Wes. I really don't. Anyway. but now it was fun. Thank you, to Colby and Junior Stubblefield, who expect to be in tech every night and had the tools we needed to Yeah, right. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Very well prepared. Jim Gardner: Just looking around like Landon Thompson and Raimi and Colby Stubblefield, everybody expects to be there and are prepared with the right equipment. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I just have to put a magnet in the cockpit. So my Corby Scherb: You used to do that. There there was another guy that you helped and it was like you were always ready. You always had what was it, nine sixteenths in your back pocket and seven sixteenths ready to go? Slim Pushins: Mike was Mike was asking Mike wanted Italian Italian sauce recipes. Jim's about to hurl. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he he he told yeah, he Yeah. Anyway. Slim Pushins: Hehehe Corby Scherb: It was good racing. the racetrack actually we were kinda all I I think everyone was a little bit nervous that it wasn't gonna widen up much and i it got it got rolled in really well for the feature. It was good racing for watching from the outside. Jim Gardner: It was really heavy and heavy and three and four. Like it was everything. It that's what the side that beat me up. because we were way too tight down there, but I was able to kinda really bulldog it through and make some pretty good speed. And then it was dicey down in one and two. It was really, really slick and then it was thin on top. And I'm telling you what, Landon Thompson, Colby and and Kevin were just Corby Scherb: It Yeah. Jim Gardner: killing it on the top and I was unwilling to make a mistake, but it was thin. really, really good racetrack. They did a really good job all night. And we were done by like ten. you know, starting at eight on a Friday night. And you know, I had a ninety minute tow home and I was home by one AM, you know. So can't ask for better than that. They did a great job. They had a good crowd. it was awesome. So good tech. Corby Scherb: yeah. Huge. yeah. Jim Gardner: Good good field. Friday night was was a fun time. So Slim Pushins: How many laps how many laps how many green laps green flag laps did you where did where at what point did you start thinking about pulling off? Corby Scherb: Is is that Flag. It was probably when he reached up and realized shit, we made a big mistake. We made a big mistake. Jim Gardner: and I had one Slim Pushins: yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I had one tear off 'cause I was too busy spending the time in between the heat race and the main trying to fiddle with somebody else's motor. and I forgot to put tear offs on, so we went to push off and I had exactly one. and I was like, Well, this is rookie move. And on top of yeah, like right when I pulled it down, I was like, we're in big, big trouble here. Slim Pushins: Did you use it immediately or did you know did you know immediately you only had one? Jim Gardner: I think I pulled one under that yellow and I was like, Well, okay, it's clogged up, I'll pull off. Whatever. But yeah, I I had a lot of rookie moves, no tear offs. I didn't put my transponder in for my heat race because I was worried about it dying after hot laps. And it was a shit show. My f my four wheeler wouldn't run. there was all sorts of nonsense going on. So ended up everything ended up alright. So it was fun. But yeah, under that yellow with about eight to go, I was like you know, Jeb called me the other day and asked if I would come crew tomorrow. I think that sounds that sounds fun. Like I'm I'm done with this. I'm exhausted. Slim Pushins: I'm not nobody wants nobody wants to give me the responsibility of putting on their tear offs. Jim Gardner: No. No. So anyway, Friday was really fun. It was good to get a good run in. I think I'm gonna try to go to RPM Saturday. and I'm gonna try some different stuff. Race car and tow, that's right. So and I r rip roaring, ready to go. Race car driver. Slim Pushins: With race car in tow? One top one top five and he's hooked again. Just knocking out Sunkiss all the way to the racetrack. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So Corby Scherb: Yeah, it was crazy at the high limit race last night during the redraw. I it was it was crazy. They were talking about how do you get through these long weeks of racing and I I I coulda swore the most common thing they said was hydration. Jim Gardner: I hydrate just fine now. I passed out at Chili Bowl. I spent one night in the hospital and everybody's busting my balls about what water I'm gonna Corby Scherb: We're at Texas Motor Speedway, he's running Justin Bates Midget, and he's like, Man, like, my stuff's still not clear, and I turn around and look again and he's over there chugging down a sun kissed. I'm like, Jesus. Slim Pushins: Mm. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: Knocking out a sun kissed. Jim Gardner: We we we talked about this. There was only sun kissed and coarse light in that cooler. Fair enough. Fair enough. Anyway. Corby Scherb: I would have drank I would've ate the ice and drink drank the water. Slim Pushins: The water. The water out of the b just So anyway you put up you put a great race together. It was a good it was a solid Friday night. it's a long trip up there for those of us on this side of the Metroplex. Corby Scherb: I think KSP as as always. Yeah, for sure, man. Congrats. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: After after we're gonna say this, you know, after you know you threw your whole fit after hot lap saying that this thing won't turn and went back to a little bit of basic standard on the setup stuff and I I just don't think anyone knew it was that heavy. Or it it really wasn't heavy. It was super, super slimy and then it just it's like we said, you know, you just Jim Gardner: It was slimy. Corby Scherb: you can't ever have the moment in three five where you're just turning to the left. You're j you're killing too much speed. You're just you're you're never gonna make any headway. I think that I try to anyone I try to help, I I wanna watch their arms and if I see too much of this, we we gotta do something different. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Well yeah, I Yeah, I I the big change is I took my bump stu bump rubber stack off the left rear 'cause I think I was because Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Why? I mean what what went into making that decision? Jim Gardner: The thing was real darty. Like it was either wrecking loose or it was plowing, getting ready to knock the fence down. and when stuff starts going sideways, you just take all the unnecessary stuff off. Like if your motor doesn't run, take off the secondary bypass and the stumble valve and everything and just run like a a main pill and a high speed. Like get it simple. And so Slim Pushins: So that's not a you didn't feel you don't you didn't feel in the moment that was a click fix? Jim Gardner: it very c well could have been, but it was something new that I haven't run all year. So I put on this different bump stack. I was on a different set of shocks. and I this one had a different set of bump rubber stuff and I just took it off because it didn't need it because the track was so heavy. So and I wasn't really sure, you know, when I run my own stuff, somebody's gotta like check some measurements for me when I'm ri sitting in it and Like our bump gap was way off, you know, at the shop compared to what you guys told me it was for going out for hot laps. And so something had changed. Either my dad, who I love and is very supportive, and I was so pumped for him to get to experience a good run Friday, didn't know how to read a tape measure sa but when we left and we measured bump gap, or I'm a lot fatter than I thought I was and the ride heights were lower. It in either way, yeah. And Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Maybe it's just your fire suit. I think it's your fire suit just weighs that much. Slim Pushins: Mark that. Jim Gardner: And it Slim Pushins: Fifteen fifteen twenty five. Jim Gardner: in either case, it's a precision fine tuning tool and the car was so bad I wanted it out of there. So that's what I spent most of that time doing and not putting my transponder back in. Corby Scherb: Sometimes and and everyone knows this as racers, it's it's a mental game as well as it is anything else and y your first thought is like you said you're trying something new, remove that. Just take that out. You know. I I really like the the bump rubber stuff and the spacing in the in the non raised rail cars. with the raised rail stuff I liked more of just I d I don't know, I'm gonna I'm gonna just just the cushion inside the cup. Not Jim Gardner: Yep. Yep. So 'cause Yeah, just a s a s standard soft bump rubber just to make sure it's not really abrupt. Yeah. And so my my car the tw the two times I've run it this year has been badass when the track's heavy. you know, we were really fast the first night down there at Kennedale and we were really fast at the big show and then when it got slick the car was just evil. So I was trying to build in some left rear drive to calm it down on the slick and it was just that was not the solution. So Corby Scherb: Yes, there we go. Yeah, I Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: Yeah, that was the big thing that I that I had to really change. So Slim Pushins: I was proud of you for not just taking big swings and trying to outsmart the field. You kinda kept it pretty simple and it worked out for you. Jim Gardner: yeah, yeah, so Yeah, so I I actually didn't make one adjustment from the heat race to the main event. So I Yeah. Well, mostly 'cause I was thrashing on something else and didn't have any time. But I wasn't gonna you know, if I sucked if I sucked, I was gonna use that against you. But anyway. So but yeah, when you pull into tech and Kevin Ramey gets out of his car and goes, Where did you finish? I was like, All right. You're right. Slim Pushins: Cour it's amazing. It's amazing what happens. Corby Scherb: Those are those are great nights. Those are great nights. It it's wild. Well, maybe that's a good thing. it a good racing Friday night. Slim Pushins: Why are you on the in did you pull off? Corby Scherb: No, it a good racing Friday night. Jim Gardner: Anyway. Corby Scherb: It good racing Saturday night. Slim Pushins: That car of his that car o his is pretty cool looking. I don't know a lot about it other than it's it's got all the appearance of being a thirty five year old car. It's pretty cool. Jim Gardner: Yeah. well that was just the graphics. It's pretty high tech. here, I got a picture of it. thanks Mike Frieri for for posting these. Mike's a a a good supporter of of the show. and he takes good shots. And but yeah, so it's a full coil on the front car. It's pretty standard in the rear. from from just the lap I took around it. Kevin Kevin's Kevin likes going cool different stuff. So Slim Pushins: well yeah. Corby Scherb: Those headers are so cool. He's a thinker. Jim Gardner: I like it. Yeah. If and we would go back to confidence. you know, if you build something that you think's faster than everybody else's, probably you're just gonna get more out of it, you know. So it was it was cool. He ran well. He he said he was on top of the racetrack and struggling as he was walking away from me. So anyway. I was combat breathing down the straightaways. Corby Scherb: You were struggling to breathe at this point? Jim Gardner: trying to keep it together. So but yeah, he he he brought his cool piece. I when I talked to him during the driver's meeting, I was like, Hey, you bring that new car? He goes, Yeah. We'll see how it goes. So I think I think he was doing a lot of experiment and didn't have didn't have full confidence in it, but it looked good. So Slim Pushins: Sam said she was proud of you when she opened my race pass. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. I think a lot of people are like, yeah. So that was good. speaking of the drivers meeting at Hunk County, I think pushing the cushion had some influence in the positive direction on the rules down there at at Hunt County. So I know during the Speed Week, Speed Day show, there was an issue with Kevin spinning out and Braxton was in that. and they ended up giving Kevin his spot back, which is a dirt late model rule. And I know the Boldens were up in arms about it. And we talked about it on this show, how kind of pointless it was. And they ended up making the adjustment and saying, Look, if you stop on the racetrack, you're going to the tail. And we all were like, Yes, thank you. That like it's easy. You don't have to explain it. people sitting in the stands don't have to ask why guys are getting their spots back. So I thought that was a giant step in the right direction. the officials need to make their jobs easier. and it's just real easy. If you stop on the racetrack and it's not a safety thing, you're going to the tail. Sorry about ya. If you have bad luck, you have bad luck. Sorry about you. Try again tomorrow. So that was cool. I and and I was standing there right next to Kevin, who was the benefactor of that weird rule back in May, and he goes, Yeah, okay. You know? So Corby Scherb: For sure. Yep. Yeah. You gotta listen to the driver's meeting, you gotta know they're talking about. Jim Gardner: Yeah, that's the only reason I went. Anyway. Slim Pushins: was a that was a plus though. And you know, because we're because we're high on ourselves, we're just gonna we're gonna attribute it to the show. so then K S P. Saturday night, which I've got the replay on one T V and I've got the high limit race on the other. Jim Gardner: And luckily nothing happened and we didn't have to go through that. Say it was us. That's right. Corby Scherb: It was good racing, man. It was a good field like always. Jim Gardner: Wait, hang on, before we go to KSP, Landon Thompson whipped everybody's ass Friday night. I yeah. yeah. And I would wanna make sure we don't skip over that. Him he he Corby Scherb: He was rolling. He's going really good right now. For sure. Slim Pushins: talked to Kevin Rutherford about an hour ago. He just made the comment that he thinks Landon Thompson's probably the fastest guy in the field currently. He's rolling. He's got he's got stuff dialed in. We always knew that he could once he harnessed just the emotion and and you know race craft, which he's clearly found. Corby Scherb: He's going good right now. Jim Gardner: Yeah. He's got it going on. Yeah. Yeah. yeah. Yeah. And Stubblefield was was fast as hell again and you know, but Landon for whatever reason has got another gear and then you know, like we go to Kennendale the next night and Landon drew a three, you know, 'cause when it's going good, it's going good, you know. And so, you know, he's pole of heat one, you're like, man you know, we're climbing an uphill battle, but yeah. Corby Scherb: For sure. Me and Stubblefield actually talked about that a little bit Saturday too. We just w when everything's clicking, it's just clicking and it's easy and it doesn't matter if you you get it you pull a big pill it's okay or it's even better when you pull a small one. things are just going your way and I hope that it stays that way. Colby's having a really good year this year and I hope Landon c continues his success right now. They they both deserve it. it's just nice when things are clicking and going right and It's like no matter what, whenever you push up or you you pull out on a heat race or a feature or wherever you're at, you're like, Yep, I know that I have a car. It's it's up to me at this point. you know, it's really easy. I watch on YouTube all the time. All you gotta do is close your eyes for a couple laps, and it's easy after that. But it was good racing Saturday night. Braxton kinda dug himself out of a hole 'cause he's really good at drawing as high as possible. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Corby Scherb: in heat race, made redraw and got kinda lucky there with a with a late race caution that actually cost sland in a spot. Channing and just got around in whenever they got into lap traffic. And it first off the racetrack at Kennedale was was amazing. Was super, super good. the bottom was there if you wanted to, if you were super tight, but it wasn't on the wall, but about a car length off, it was rough, it's like it's supposed to be, not too rough or dangerous. The the racetrack was absolutely amazing. Jim Gardner: yeah. And it looked like it maybe took rubber very late, you know, three laps to go, four laps to go, but it didn't take rubber to the point that the rubber dominated. You know, Jeb Corby Scherb: Right. No, I d I don't think that the rubber was necessarily faster if you could roll the top good enough, you know. It was it was it was more like an old school Kennadell where you just had to get to the center and then you were you were great on exit. Jim Gardner: No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jeb tried to roll the bottom in one and two on the final restart and try to catch everybody with their pants down in the rubber and it just wasn't there yet. So no, they did a really good job considering the heat. and the racetrack was incredible. So both both nights. Track prep both both nights is great. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Yeah, I I I had a I had like a good f yeah, I had a good feeling about, you know, being being a a setup guy, you know, not very good at that stuff, but I look we we all looked up there was like six of us all parked together, Chad Wilson and Carson and Colby and we looked up and we just saw a bunch of dust in the feature before and everyone came down and just panicked. And all I heard was, Don't make me too tight Jim Gardner: Yeah. Ha ha. Corby Scherb: So I just killed a little bit of air pressure and we pushed out there and Yeah, Wesley ha actually had was videoing us pushing out on the racetrack and you could hear me say, I I yelled at Braxton. I Dude, you got the car to beat tonight. and he he was Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: More than once. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Yeah. He I he he was fun to watch, man. A kid stands on the gas and it it feels like he's not getting like the breaks, you know, like with the pill draw and just bad bad bad timing on yellows, but now that we're you know, in in his corner and keeping an eye on him, man, he he drives the shit out of it and and it's fun to watch and and and yeah, I thought you got he you know Corby Scherb: For sure. Yeah. yeah. Jim Gardner: Channing and and Landon were kind of going at each other there with five or six to go and and Braxton closed in a hurry. You know, Braxton got by us. I was working on Jeb's car, got him too tight. and and y'all went by us and you know, it looked like you were just gonna kind of cruise the third and then all of a sudden just in lap traffic, you know, Braxton's there. So it was really good. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. He he went for it, he tried. he kind of got tangled up there with Landon Thompson and just a racing deal and I you can't you can't hurt the kid for trying, you know. I pretty much just about anyone else in that position that's a front runner would have done the same thing and at least tried. More than anything, you know, in in that moment, me as a is a racer, I'm trying to let you know that I'm there more than I'll ever try to I'm trying to get into you. Jim Gardner: Yeah, racing deal. Yeah. yeah. Yeah, no, no, no, no. He he yanked it hard left because he he saw he wasn't clear and and spun himself out. I I would have liked to see him not stand on the gas and drive it backwards across the racetrack in front of my guy. But you know, like we're racing for a th a thousand to win and two hundred to start. Like let's not let's not teep. Corby Scherb: You know. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Was that Wilson that made the comment that he thought that he thought that he was gonna end up just T boning Braxton? Jim Gardner: I mean it there he was playing chicken with Jeb off at the bottom of turn two. you know, it could have just ended really badly. Ended up not, which is fine, but maybe, you know I I applaud the kid for never giving up and driving it and and g you know, but they're they're gonna throw the yellow and send you to the tail. Everybody in the country's gonna throw ya, you know. So yeah. Corby Scherb: the biggest thing is with him, man, yeah. It it's patience. Patience is not easy to come by with him and he sat behind Jeb for quite a few laps until Jeb kinda got bottled up in some lappers. I was super proud of him and his drive. I hate that it ended that way, but Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: I can't believe Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: he didn't get into pe he was running what, third or fourth and spun out in the in front of the entire field, went all the way across the track into the infield and he didn't he didn't cause an accident. I don't I Jim Gardner: Yeah. well, yeah. It we we got away with it there and you know, there's people it there's photographers in the infield and you know, all sorts of stuff. You just just just lock it down. you know, but hindsight's twenty twenty and you can't fault the kid for for trying trying real hard. So but Corby Scherb: for sure. Slim Pushins: Tony Nichols said I took a screenshot of the video of the race and Weaker got right up to Tankersley between one and two right before he went around. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I mean it he almost two for one sl slid him down there in one and two. You know, it was badass. Corby Scherb: yeah. I I I would have done the same thing. I I'd try, you know, I I think a lot of the veterans know it it's really tough to throw a slider into one and Kennedale it gets kinda marbly on exit. If if he had a little bit of patience he kinda should have just rolled the top and then tried to pull that going to the back shreddo, but it like I said, it's you finally caught them and it's last slap you got the white flag and might as well. So it was good racing. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So Slim Pushins: There were some guys there were some guys that were out of real estate in one and two. I mean, all the way at the top. Jeb was one of on a couple of laps. Corby Scherb: yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, we Jeb and I stayed at the racetrack. We were one of the last trailers to back out and leave because we were having happy dads and trying to figure out what we're missing. we got him really, really Slim Pushins: Happy Dads does not sponsor the Taco Cossa car, it's just become a thing. Jim Gardner: But he's got me on him now. So 'cause Kerbo went to the racetrack both nights with no beer in the cooler. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Let's let's see the let's see the can. Corby Scherb: Who'd guess that? Slim Pushins: It looks like the most generic like lucky strike. Jim Gardner: I was fighting for my life for twenty laps Friday night thinking at least I'm gonna get a top five beer out of this. No, nothing. but yeah, so but no so Jeb and I were trying to figure out like what what we're missing that clearly the seven cars got what Braxton's got, and channing tankerly announces his presence with authority and what he's got. and yeah, I mean the the the y'all three were just pounding the top. Slim Pushins: It's crazy what I end up with the responsibilities of. Corby Scherb: For sure. Dude's a stud in a car, dude's an absolute stud. Jim Gardner: And you know, Jeb would kind of get in the holes and lose the the right front, you know, and about knock the fence down every corner. And, you know, he we're just missing something. We're missing something in our balance that you know, because he was really on top of the racetrack and free when it was in the heat race, when it was real heavy, you know, and something's wrong. He Savannah, I guess, had like made his his wife made a comment. It like, hey, does your front end is it broken a couple of weeks ago and he found a bunch of stuff bound up, a torsion bar was bound up and stuff. So he he went to work on the actual frame and chassis, and it's just changed something. And he didn't have the feel he wanted all night. And then we made a big swing, just so he wouldn't have to be real defensive on entry and it he ended up having to be real tight and defensive the the other way. So you know, but it was super technical. and I I just enjoyed. I did not get a corndog. It was about the only negative I have about f Saturday night. Again, yeah, thanks, Kerbo. So I didn't even s Corby Scherb: Kerbo. Thanks a lot, buddy. Appreciate that, buddy. Slim Pushins: I understand Jim sends a meme to the group text with two corndogs kissing and somehow somehow at the end of the night it's my fault that I didn't read between the lines and go get you a handful of corndogs. Jim Gardner: They were cheersing. Ha Corby Scherb: What did you actually Jim Gardner: ha ha Corby Scherb: do? Slim Pushins: Corby, why do you always bring this up? Jim Gardner: He pushed. I I heard you drove right pa right past the seven car again. Corby Scherb: When That was Friday night. That was Friday night. I drove all the way out, across Slim Pushins: That was Friday night. Corby Scherb: the racetrack, turned around, came back and picked up Landon. Slim Pushins: That's Corby's just doing Corby shit. Corby saw him. I didn't. Corby Corby to go when y'all were working Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: You y I was going this way, you were going this way, and I pointed and I pushed Braxton out, bump started Braxton, turned around, came back, and I drove right by him. What were you doing? Stit sitting at the fence? Jim Gardner: So Mark, I got a bone to pick with you. A an the Estes car changed Tankersley wins again, and there's no shoey in Victory Lane. We got no shoey videos. I thought for sure I would get one from you, Mark. instead we just got forty seven people in Victory Lane. it was a lot. Slim Pushins: This oughta be good. Let's see that picture. Corby Scherb: Forty seven. I I thought it was forty nine is what I counted. Slim Pushins: There it is. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, ten. Jim Gardner: And it should be. You know. Corby Scherb: Super cool to see him show up and win like that, man. he was an absolute ripper. I think everyone around here knows that he's always been fast anytime he sat down and it wasn't just that he was starting towards the front. like like you said, him and Landon were truly able to pace each other and just be gone. And I I think he sat there and he did his job very well of just not showing his presence until it was time. And then I think he had a little bit more than Landon. I I do. And it's probably because he sat behind Landon and watched him for so long. it's super it's super tough to be patient in those moments because you wanna take the lead and you want to gap him, but a lot of times it was good to do what he did and just sit there and when the time was right go ahead and make the pass and then gap Landon and I I I think that I think it was really good. Smart race. Slim Pushins: Veteran move. Jim Gardner: Happy for that camp. Those are those are good people, as as Debbie says. So yeah. Saturday, the whole weekend was great. It was hot. but I got no complaints. how to get yeah. You know, it it's hot. A lot of motors are are are he he should have sent a video of him doing one from New Zealand. Corby Scherb: for sure. Real man stuff down here down here in Texas. Slim Pushins: Graham wasn't available for shoey with Tankersley. From New Zealand. Jim Gardner: Isn't that where the shoey's from? Maybe Australia? Corby Scherb: Maybe I'm not sure. Somewhere over there. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I think it's from one of them ones. So anyway, Mark, we're disappointed in you. The next time we better see a shoey. Slim Pushins: Well he made up for it. He made up for it and recorded a video of of Tankersley putting on his official push in the cushion winter decal that we're not prepared for. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah y Yeah, I don't have it loaded. I'll just post it on the page tomorrow or Wednesday or tomorrow or Thursday or something like that. So yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: It was a fun weekend though. A solid weekend. Doubleheaders are always tough. more tough for Jim evidently 'cause he resorted back to crew chief on Friday night, or Saturday night. So Jim Gardner: Yeah. There was other things in play, but mostly I was just tired. Slim Pushins: Corby I did I did wi f with Jim what I did to you a few weeks ago. He was clearly out of breath, out of sequence, and all I had Jim Gardner: Go on. Corby Scherb: We lost him. Team Greybeard. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: We lost him. Slim Pushins: Are we back? Jim Gardner: Yeah, there you are. Slim Pushins: Everything went quiet and dark. I had I had like a quarter of a water left on the old forler. I was like, I've got this and he dude he like a man dredging across across the desert. That was that was good stuff. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: I believe that. Ate the bottle. Jim Gardner: Ha ha yeah. Yeah. Corby Scherb: It's a good weekend man and Bradle Plan he had a pretty good weekend. I mean not not exactly what he wanted. He had a good one. Townsend went pretty good Friday night too. So it was it was a good weekend for a lot of local guys. Slim Pushins: yeah, Townsend did he have a he had a podium, didn't he? Corby Scherb: He ran third. He ran third Friday night. Mm-hmm. So Slim Pushins: Yeah, it was a solid it was a solid weekend for team pushing the cushion. Do we want to get into power rankings? Jim Gardner: we can. Another thing that I don't have loaded. Slim Pushins: We'll just wait. Dead air, we'll just wait for you. We'll just not talk. Jim Gardner: Sorry. It Corby Scherb: Just just whatever. We're on your time. Drink your beer, buddy. Jim Gardner: it should look it's a happy dad. Slim Pushins: When I talked to brought to you by Happy Dad. When I when I was talking to Rutherford earlier, he called at like six thirty and said, Hey, dude, I'm sorry to bother you. I know you're, you know, in the middle of show prep and I was like, Yeah, pretty busy doing show prep here. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha I'm surprised your secretary didn't didn't answer for him. Slim Pushins: There we go. Let's talk about this. Jim Gardner: So I feel better about that's that's gold, silver and bronze, bro. Slim Pushins: Why's DJ highlighted? Does that mean anything or is that just how you snap the picture? Corby Scherb: Naturally. Slim Pushins: that's God omati, you're such an overachiever. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I know. After I posted, I was like, that looks weird, but whatever. Now we're committed. Yeah, right. Yeah. yeah, so the the power rankings has been a work in progress kind of all year. and honestly, it's up to like a hundred and twelve drivers now, you know, adding channing and kind of these guys doing one off. So you know, when we first started doing it, I wanted to Slim Pushins: I'm just gonna tell everybody that DJ's highlighted because he's your favorite. Jim Gardner: be very clear, like I only wanted to highlight guys having a good year, you know, 'cause it's this is this is we're supposed to be having fun. It's a sport. we're supposed to be enjoying it. It's a lot of time, effort, money, sacrifice. And like I don't need to kick people while they're down if they're struggling. So I'm not gonna post the whole list and say you're a hundred and ninth or myself, I'm seventy second now. I charge thirty spots on Friday night. You know, because like if we were playing golf and three blowhards were sitting in the clubhouse just critiquing our golf games, we'd quit. And I don't want to do that. I want people to enjoy it. But I want to make sure that we are highlighting guys like DJ Estes who even when they struggle run ninth, you know, and are having good years. There's only sixteen nights that we get to celebrate somebody having a win. so we're just trying to make sure we're we're keeping track of who's who's doing well, and that's what the power rankings are really about. So but now that we have a hundred and ten drivers, we'll post the top twenty-five. and it there'll be more changes week to week than just the stale kind of top five because Colby Stubblefield could stop racing for the rest of the year and probably still win this thing. So Corby Scherb: man, he hustled the he he went ahead and finished off the race this last weekend that the he had he got sent to the work area at Kennerdale and then came back out and the the wing tree broke and laid his wing down. Jim Gardner: I gotta be honest, I I forgot that Kennendale even had the work area for sprint cars. Corby Scherb: didn't I don't even I don't know that many people have ever usually Kennadell's so quick with getting everyone back in line and pushed back out that you don't ever y you don't even have time to make it to the work area, let alone have time to do anything. Slim Pushins: Well Jim Gardner: I've Yeah, they're Yeah. Correct. Yeah, I mean, there's not haulers parked with spare tires and stuff like that. we've never prepped for it. and so Saturday, we're just like sitting on the backstretch going, why the hell aren't they restarting this race? And here, you know, here comes Colby out of the work area, here comes I think Charlie came out of it. yeah, a couple of sitting there. We all kind of looked at each other and go, Is this because of the power rankings? Like people are refusing. Corby Scherb: Right. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Charlie Thomia. It's a hundred percent. Jim Gardner: There's a bunch of wounded soldiers out there on the racetrack, trying to limp it to the finish line. And I'm here to tell everybody, for the love of God, one race is not going to affect your power ranking standing. I promise you. I Slim Pushins: That's not that's not true. That's not Corby Scherb: It won't affect your power ranking standings but y you know what it you know what it will do? If you have any desire to run no if you got any desire to run top ten at KSP Slim Pushins: true. Go to the work area. This is a big deal. Jim Gardner: It's now the push in the cushion podcast work area. Slim Pushins: The official the official Slim Pushins power rankings work area. Jim Gardner: Yeah. you know, and I saw that w here's the picture. The the picture of Colby with the wing falling down. I'm sitting there thinking, just pull it off. Your dad's gonna come down and whip my ass if something happens. God, man. Like I don't need people out there with their motors running hot and trying to limp stuff home. Like it ain't it ain't gonna affect it much. I I do I I do embrace that. Slim Pushins: Hey, it is what it is. It's a competitive sport. And if if if the ranking the rankings are bragging, we everybody knows that it's kind of jovial, but at the end of the day, we're everybody's a competitor and you want to be able to give the next guy, you know, shit. You know, we when you posted it earlier, there were a lot of comments. Dylan Ramey was like, Hey, look, I made it. Jim Gardner: Yeah. And it's not going to be perfect. You know, and the big snub on the power rankings is Kevin. Kevin's 29th, fun fact. he's run three races, he's won one, he finished third in the other, and he crashed out of the other one, right? So you know, but he has only run three races, and there's a there's a participation metric in the the algorithm so that low races like John Carney runs run one race, finishes fourth. I don't need him in the power rankings. He's not part of the scope of our weekly racing, right? And so there's just some outliers that should be there, shouldn't be there, or whatever. It's not perfect. but yeah, we don't have like a series, and not everybody races all the time. And so it's hard to really tell who's who's who and and whatnot. So that's what it's really about. It ain't it ain't personal and it ain't trying to kick people all they're down. It ain't trying to boost everybody's egos and stuff. But definitely definitely don't put yourself and others in harm's way with awful stuff when you should just pull off and watch the rest of the race from the infield. So Slim Pushins: I disagree. Hey, it pays well. The winning the year in power ranking pays extremely well. Makes it all worth it. Corby Scherb: I think there was a night, I don't remember for sure, but I think there was a night that it like it blew a radiator cap off or something like that, and Jimmy and Wesley are standing in the middle of the racetrack telling me to pull off and I just no. Nope. Not today, we're not hot yet. Nope. Slim Pushins: Yeah, he does. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yep. See Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Ba Bates was at TMS and the radiator tabs broke and the whole radiator fell into the into the drive on the water pump and it machined out a whole hole in the middle of the radiator and we couldn't get him to pull off. Sure enough, three weeks later that motor's scattered about eight pieces across the pack stretch at RPM. What are we doing? So anyway, yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah. yeah. So speaking of hitting the wall a ton, I found this picture. I don't know if Stasa's watching. That's from Terra Haute last set Sunday. I don't think that thing's very fixable. Slim Pushins: Well, he s he scattered a lot more than one of those nights at TMS too. That was a ride. Corby Scherb: How was it that was he hit the wall a ton. Slim Pushins: Some of those some of those cup teams would love a chassis that looked like that. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right, right. Yeah, it's all skewed out and crabbed out. And I'm sitting there looking at it. I'm such a nerd. I'm like, I think that's an LS motor. anyway, that kid was alright, but Yeah, I don't think there's much fixing that. boy, Kirby or Cor Corby we lose you? There you are. what other stuff we got to talk about? Slim Pushins: What a nerd. Corby Scherb: Yeah, blowtorch and pry bar. Just just slug it. Slim Pushins: Trailer races. Jim Gardner: So one, my my wife was Slim Pushins: That's we just mentioned this. Like we were sent a video and mentioned it and it has gained so much traction that it has it has now become between power rankings and trailer races and Corby being recognized, which we'll get to that story shortly. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Corby Scherb: Here we go. Slim Pushins: so famous that he gets the employee discount at places now. the trailer races has taken on a a life of its own. I think Jim is Jim's doing everything he can to talk me out of making an attempt to making this come to fruition. but there's there's a lot of it's getting a lot of traction. I think it'd be cool. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so my w my wife was just busting my chops 'cause on the promo for for tonight's show I put trailer parking races and I don't really even know what these are actually called. Slim Pushins: Corby called him something. What'd you call him this week? Trailer Park the trailer park race? Corby Scherb: The trailer? The trailer? No. Jim Gardner: Is it a trailer? Yeah. So I don't I don't even know what Slim Pushins: I like that. The official p pushin' the cushion Jim Gardner: Trailer Park Boys. No, not first annual. If you call it the first annual, I'm out. Inaugural. anyway, so I found two that this one's from two weeks ago. Slim Pushins: First annual, isn't that what you hated? No we're going to know. Can we call it like the thirty second annual? Jim Gardner: And so this video is going around for two weeks. This is actually the tr Yeah, mine's mine's super choppy on this end too. My internet's brutal trying to stream the outlaws. Hang on. Slim Pushins: Look at look at Cherokee. Back that up. Can you back that up? Hold on. All right, watch watch the inside front row. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, he he it's like he forgot which way his which way his wheel was turned. In a s in a sprint car race. Yeah. Yeah, it's like he had the wheel clocked wrong. Anyway, this this track Corby Scherb: not a game. That that's how I would drive Jim that's how I would drive Jimmy if I was on the racetrack. Slim Pushins: Old number sixteen. Look at this guy. Straight right. Corby Scherb: Hundred percent. Slim Pushins: Like he had a he had a plan and it backfired bad. Corby Scherb: Let me Dakota Marshall's in on this. Jim Gardner: my video's so choppy. This track is Lake Cumberland Speedway in Burnside, Kentucky. This is where I fell in love with this sport. it's a dirt late model track. It's in southern Kentucky, right in b like on the lake that separates Kentucky and Tennessee. And th sitting here where this video was taken is where I fell in love with this sport. So well, Kerbo, you put up a Dakota's shot over the video. We got one on fire. Slim Pushins: See that's what I'm talking about. Kevin, we'll get to that in just a second. Jim Gardner: Guy got parked on it sideways. boy. I lost Corby. Here, we'll we'll let's run that one back one more time. Corby Scherb: I'm still here. My internet is not junk. Slim Pushins: Alright, if you're just if you're just now paying attention, look at number sixteen. BAM! Jim Gardner: He had a vendetta. Yeah. He has Slim Pushins: Like he had a plan. Let me tell you something. He's got two buddies. He's got two buddies like you two that went, hey, here's the deal. That the drop of the green flag clean out the whole front row and this race is yours. And it backfired on it. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. So this is the second or third one of these we've now watched. I'm kind of shocked. I I I can't decide whether I'm shocked at how quick they end or that they would end sooner. But this guy gets parked sideways, the civic gets absolutely trunked, and the electric fuel pump is probably still running on that thing. Then it catches fire. And this is why I don't want any part of it, because it looks like an insurance nightmare in a lawsuit deal. Slim Pushins: I do like the I want all parts of it. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Slim Pushins: But I think I think that we you got for that very reason, for that comment alone, I think that you have to make a reason to win the race you've got to get all four tires off of the dirt. Like it's gotta be on the trailer. Or like you just saw, it's over in, you know, a lap and a half and Corby Scherb: Dude, the Honda Odyssey, man, I'm telling you. I got you guys. Jim Gardner: Well, I mean that guy what's that guy gonna do? He's he's high sided on it. He's on it sideways. He got spun out while he's put it on. Okay. okay. So this is what you want, Kerbo? Here's this is this is another one in Sandusky and it's it's over. And a guy gets flagged for fifteen yards for a late hit. And Slim Pushins: Somebody's gotta knock him off. Corby Scherb: Come get me. Come get me. You can't touch me. This is it. This this is this is Ryder LaPlant just absolutely ballparking me. Slim Pushins: BAM! Corby Scherb: Mm. It's fly. Jim Gardner: I think that's I think that's I think that's gonna cost you fifteen, sir. Slim Pushins: Replay that. That Yaris that Yaris just gets yeeted. Here it comes. From the back BAM! Jim Gardner: I mean yeah, I mean he's up there, he's arca brakes, just running people over from the back. Slim Pushins: Why did old why did old American flag Winnebago stop? Why'd he stop? Jim Gardner: The Winnebago, the the E the E fifty tow vehicle. Not too many people are gonna get that reference, but if you did did get it. Slim Pushins: I like the I like the gooseneck trailer though better than just that old dual axle flatbed that we saw first time. Jim Gardner: What Yeah, well that one fell apart because it probably couldn't handle the the weight and the impacts, but that dual axle, you know, heavy haul you know held up a little bit. It wouldn't be any different than a sprint car race. You guys run each other harder than you run anybody else. You'd forget what the objective is. Corby Scherb: What are you gonna do if all four Sher brothers show up to run this race? Merle Merle commented on here and said truck. I remember there was a night at Grayson County, he pulled up to the inside of me going the back straightaway. He was clearly faster than me. And I gave him the spot. Like, go ahead, go ahead. And I guarantee you he hit me six times going on the back straightaway and I'm dude, I done moved over, let you go. Just bam, bam, bam, bam. Slim Pushins: The the harmonator the harmonator said he's in. Corby Scherb: yeah. Jet Hayes says he wants one of those shirts. Slim Pushins: Shen Hayes. Jim Gardner: Here. I'll pull up Dakota's comment since I since I yeah, since I put it off earlier, but Corby Scherb: Dakota Marshall. Magnolia Fence. Slim Pushins: The the the thirty second annual Magnolia Fence trailer park race. Jed Hayes stomp and steer dot com. Jim Gardner: Charlie Harman. I don't know if these are on there or not. These are one of one. I tell you what, you know, if maybe maybe if maybe we'll make one for the push in the cushion power rankings winner. Yeah, we'll make a stubble field one 'cause it's on brand for for him, you know. Slim Pushins: Well, they're about to be. They're on there. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Right. Riders got jokes over there now too. Jim Gardner: Charlie Harmon's c catching strays in the comments. Slim Pushins: Ride home. Ride home be just like Abilene except with a neck brace. Jim Gardner: man. Yeah. The tr so Slim Pushins: See, we have just we have just Corby Scherb: Look there there's Corey Pennington Slim Pushins: open Corby Scherb: timing in. Slim Pushins: we have open comments on a live podcast and you're worried about you're worried about how people are gonna react to trying to get into the top ten of the rankings. Jim Gardner: I don't know, man. I just don't want to piss people off. I mean Slim Pushins: Can we get one that says Where's Christian Kennison? Jim Gardner: He's still put him on a yeah, we need to have Christian on. We feel bad, you know, two weeks ago we he he had to cancel and we haven't had him on yet. But Yeah, that's right. Slim Pushins: We tried, but he was playing Smoky and the Bandit. Moving moonshine across state lines. there's gonna be the Kevin mentioned it just a second ago. RPM's gonna have a I d I don't remember what he called yeah, spectator race. Just rung what you brung. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So Spectator races. Yeah, spectator. And I wish I wish I would have paid attention and tried to find the video. They run those up north on the pavement too. And I've seen, you know, Bran No, that was something different. I'll see, keep talking. I'll see if I can find it real quick. Slim Pushins: I thought you had it in your cache, said I thought you had it. It was it was like a suburban that just pounded the outside wall or a Tahoe or something. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Like a it's like a it's like a denali. It's it's a late model high dollar denali. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. It came straight from soccer practice. Blankets Corby Scherb: Talking about the dude that that Slim Pushins: blankets and cleats in the back. Corby Scherb: cooked her to the back to the left or back to the right and then just doored himself. Jim Gardner: Yes. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yes. Corby Scherb: Ooh. Jim Gardner: wait, I think I found it. Here, hang on. Slim Pushins: Imagine that phone call to the insurance company. Now can you explain to us one more time exactly how this damage occurred? Jim Gardner: and it was well, this is gonna be a copyright violation, but it was on flow too, so there's probably not much here I'll I'll Slim Pushins: Well, Flo got it off of I saw it on YouTube. Jim Gardner: Maybe. Yeah. Or somebody ripped it off on YouTube like I'm about to. Slim Pushins: Or TikTok. Jim Gardner: All right. We might get Slim Pushins: Hey, the podcast has a TikTok page too. The Push in the Cushion Is it the Push of the Cushion podcast? On TikTok. Corby Scherb: I don't know, is it? Jim Gardner: I don't know. I don't manage that one. I'm not on the tic tacs. Slim Pushins: No, no, How can how can a guy that's ten years younger than me be so old and grumpy and unapproachable? Corby Scherb: He's the same age as me. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I'm younger than him. Better better looking too. Corby Scherb: here we go. I don't know about that. Jim Gardner: All right, you might get some background audio here. Hang on just a second. No, it's not called kick rails. Corby Scherb: Hey, Merle wants to know if it had kick rails on it. Jim Gardner: God, that's a huge hit. All right, I'm gonna have this video up and Slim Pushins: Thirty minutes. All right, everybody everybody reconvene in a half hour. Corby Scherb: Do me sound asleep and Merle said something at a kick reel. Jim Gardner: We'll do pot part two of the podcast again. Corby Scherb: Mm. Slim Pushins: Well, we could talk about that too, mister Poke Your Head in and ruin everything. Jim Gardner: Ha man. Slim Pushins: Five hundred to win spectator race. Jim Gardner: Are they gonna race together or is that like a a time trial? Okay. Slim Pushins: he said two at a time. Two at a time and it'll be like I I believe he said it was like King of the Hill type deal where like winner goes on to the next one. Or some sort of a bracket. Jim Gardner: Mm. How nice. Y yeah, Kerb hang on, it's coming. Slim Pushins: No, Rider. Jim Gardner: Lo we're loading up. Sorry, my bad. I lost my train of thought. Corby Scherb: Red. Slim Pushins: we're loading. See that's communication. That's how communication works. Jim Gardner: Yeah. All right, here we go. Slim Pushins: Let's see this. There we go. Just corrects, over corrects. we're not going back to soccer practice. You're not gonna make soccer practice tomorrow. Jim Gardner: Ha Corby Scherb: That was a hit. Jim Gardner: And the can the cameraman pulling away from it probably 'cause that guy's got T four and T five injuries. Slim Pushins: hanging out of the driver's side window. Kevin, since you're on, what what do we require? Like, is there any requirement or are these cars literally just coming straight out of the parking lot? Like just like being strapped in is the only requirement. Corby Scherb: Absolute lick. Jim Gardner: God, man. luckily on dirt everybody will be going slower because that's Slim Pushins: That Ryder wants to know if he can enter super trucker in big black for the spectator race. Jim Gardner: They had back in the eighties they had like big rig oval track racing. Like there'd be ten they'd be ten big rigs running Dover. Slim Pushins: They still do. Corby Scherb: Yeah, dude, if anyone on here has ever watched Crash Impact, that was the greatest crashes they had because they'd have barriers. They'd have barriers and they drive through ten of Slim Pushins: Yes, and they walked away. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: Aaron Kaufman, I think, from originally from Fast and Loud from Gas Monkey Garage built one and raced one. But they still do it. Jim Gardner: I Slim Pushins: It's like it just I d we it never happens around here. Kevin said out of the parking lot, street legal. So no helmet? No hel I mean Jim Gardner: gotta have helmets. Like smiley's has gotta have Slim Pushins: Warrantied helmets that's people turned in. Jim Gardner: well I'm going to watch that show and probably go back to running fifteenth in the sprint car race. So I'll be there. Slim Pushins: That's What's it gonna take to what's it gonna take to put the Prius in the spectator race, Jim? It's only my guess is it's only a few laps. Jim Gardner: The Prius has already taken a beating. It's probably w two, maybe. I don't know. I I Yeah, maybe. No, I when I went to up to La Plant's shop last week, I got to talking to Bobby Kraft about some setup stuff. And he gave me the entire notebook of what to do and I decided not to do it. And Corby Scherb: I think it's just green checkered. Slim Pushins: You wouldn't be you wouldn't be throwing up after two laps, would you? I would. Corby Scherb: Who would have guessed it? Jim Gardner: Yeah, and 'cause I'm stubborn and and anyway, but I am gonna try it all this weekend. Bars, ride heights, everything. So Yeah, right. The local state farm rep and Candle and Crandall's got his booth out there in the fan zone, getting hot and getting corn dogs. Slim Pushins: James Horton said insurance is gonna love that race. Actually, James, it's sponsored by State Farm. State Farm five hundred dollar the the State Farm spectator race. Yeah. That'd be awesome. What else we got? Jim Gardner: Yeah. the only other piece of media Slim Pushins: yeah, Corby getting recognized. He was hoping I wouldn't forget. Corby Scherb: Didn't happen. Slim Pushins: So Corby Scherb: There we go. Jim Gardner: This is the only other piece of audio. Was the the helmet toss, just throwing a thousand dollar bill across the track. That was the only other noteworthy thing I saw. Corby Scherb: Yes, you yeet it. Slim Pushins: Look at that. Corby Scherb: No worries. Slim Pushins: Kevin Raimi said soccer mom doesn't have a helmet in the suburban. It's no helmets required. Jim Gardner: I gotta be honest, I mean, you drive home from some of these tracks through D F W, you see way more sketchy stuff than than you probably will in a spectator race. So Slim Pushins: So, I mean let's does a spectator race does that rank right up there with like you know, in the eighties you'd go to races and they'd somebody would like wrestle a bear. Like does that rank right up there with like with that? I think it's cool. Jim Gardner: I guess. Yeah. That's good. It's a good idea. Get people get new people to go. And take to a sprint car race and they'll they'll be fans, you know. Slim Pushins: So anyway, what is it? Listen to the push in the cushion podcast and they just instant fans. Yeah. So I'm on the phone I'm on the phone with Corby Saturday and he's going to get his oil change. He pulls into this oil change place and I hear him roll the window down and I hear this guy go, Hey, you're Corby Sherb and I'm like, I lose my mind. I was like, You've got to be kidding me. And Corby's trying to ignore me. And he's like, Man Jim Gardner: Tuesdays at seven. Corby Scherb: Used to be a gorilla. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: I I watched you and your brothers race. You guys were so fast. Are you still racing? You need to be racing. You're Corby Sherb. So Corby's giving him these answers. Corby's trying to be cool, Corby. And I'm I'm in his ear. I'm in his ear going, Hey, we have a podcast. Like every Tuesday we have a podcast. You know, so he steps out and he's like, Hey, Corby Sherb, bay two, full synthetic. Jim Gardner: The guys in the business too. Ha ha. Ha ha Slim Pushins: And I was like, you have got to be shitting me. You get recognized. And this dude's got sounded like an awesome dude. He you know, he's like, my kid's got a junior limited you know, we race out there at KSP sometime. Corby Scherb: Mm. Junior Limited. Jim Gardner: I didn't want to show it. there was a huge junior limited crash at Kennedale after our sprint car show. Slim Pushins: Bring it up. Race On's been posting the hell out of it, on Facebook. Corby Scherb: Yeah, in this conversation. Jim Gardner: So s so I so I well it's gonna take it's gonna take me a minute or two here. Zip it. Bobby Badfingers is on it. Don't worry about it. Corby Scherb: Yeah, in this conversation. That'd be great. Slim Pushins: No no no, we're not done. Thirty. Thirty minutes. We've already established the Jim Gardner: go on with your story, Kerbo. You were talking about corp Slim Pushins: sorry I'm reading comments. yeah, so turns out Corby goes to pay employee discount at the five minute lube place. Corby's so famous that he gets the employee discount just you know, pretty much wherever he goes. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Internationally known, locally respected, or we should. Corby Scherb: Not real. Slim Pushins: We did actually get recognized at KSP. Corby Scherb: Just I've just lived in the same place my whole life, that's why. Slim Pushins: Okay. Well that's what we'll he didn't he didn't say anything. He he he didn't go, Hey, you're Corby Sherb. I remember when you were in kindergarten. No. It was all race related. Don't you can yes, you've lived in the same place all your life. That's not what this was about. Corby Scherb: Mm. That's a big ride. That was a big ride for a kid. Slim Pushins: Look at that. Jim Gardner: here let's let's find the kid's name. Camden Shepherd, fourteen years old. That's a big lick. I Slim Pushins: And he walked away. We knew we were in the pits and we just heard the gasp from everybody, and that's how you know something big. and that's a ride for a junior limited. Good for good for him and his safety equipment. it looked like it looked like he kinda got crowded. He was running the top and he kinda got crowded. And you know, if you hit right with those cars, you kinda wheel hop and nose went under, tail went over. that was a ride. Jim Gardner: track officials, all that sort of stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's a big lick. Yeah. But I I don't think that's very fun, but Slim Pushins: That was fun. Jim Gardner: But yeah, so Slim Pushins: The younger the younger guy. So what we got this weekend? RPM, Abilene. There it is. Major events. Corby Scherb: He was ready for that one. Jim Gardner: yeah. RPM and Abilene Saturday. I'm going to RPM. it's my daughter's birthday coming up. So we got some family stuff going on during the day Saturday, so I'll get out there and then I know there's a big hopefully they get a bunch of cars to go out west to Abilene and support West Cranville and the rowdy fans of Abilene Speedway. For their final sprint car show of the year already. So Slim Pushins: Great fans at Abilene. Love sprint car racing. Jim Gardner: And then Slim Pushins: It's always a fun place to go. They do driver intros out there, which is always fun 'cause you guys think y'all are so awesome and then somebody puts a mic in front of you and then you don't have anything to say. Jim Gardner: Yeah, you got to do them. Yeah. Or or they put you on the the horn. Slim Pushins: Yeah, they did that last time. On the spot, with nothing to say. Jim Gardner: Yeah. next week, Ca Canadale, and then we got five K to win non wing three fives out in Amarillo at Route 66. So that's a Nathan Moore show. it used to be a four ten show, it is three fives this year. And in true Nathan Moore fashion, the rule book is four sentences long. It's like three fives, no shock adjustments, open tire, no weight rule. Slim Pushins: There's a video of that somewhere. Well, they've got they've got a big like a ten thousand to win, I believe, that people are talking about in October. Jim Gardner: Yeah. In October. Yeah, two day show. Yeah. And the the West the the Lubbock Amarillo guys have a little bit different rules on like rotating titanium, but I don't think they have wing sliders anymore. I think they're more right in line with the raceaver stuff that we run here. outside of maybe titanium, which is not it's not really a big deal. So, but yeah, ten K to win further out. I think that's in October. October, like the second week of October. And then obviously I know guys are getting ready to go to Belleville. Our buddy Kyle Jones is the defending champ. and then there's a couple other races. Yeah. back to back to bay, right? And you know, and everybody knows about the race over nationals, it's over Labor Day weekend, and they're running two of them this year because remember last year's got rained out. so a lot of money up for grabs there. Slim Pushins: Back to back. Almost yeah. Corby Scherb: I'm with you, Landon Thompson. I got you though, Boo. Jim Gardner: And then you know, my buddy Andy Bradley is the promoter at Bloomington Speedway in in Indiana. And they have yeah, they have it's called the Huntley Memorial. Last year it paid seven grand to win, and I was talking to him yesterday and he didn't exactly have the financials locked down. but it's gonna be multiple K's to win and good money to start for a single day show and then Paragon, which is Slim Pushins: I thought we were past that. Corby Scherb: Rad racetrack. Jim Gardner: 30 miles up the road from Bloomington the next day we'll run a big paying show. Last year it paid three thousand dollars to win. So a kind of a good sneaky way to to to go chase some money at some really cool racetracks up in the Midwest. So just wanna try to get these out there so they can be supported. You know, do it doesn't help you if you learn about the race three days before. you know, people gotta make plans and stuff like that. So that's what we got coming up. we'll try to post that every week just to kind of give an idea of of where everybody's going. Slim Pushins: Okay. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: I saw Corby point. I thought Corby was pointing behind me. Jim Gardner: Anything we can do to slow you down, LT. Slim Pushins: I thought Corby was pointing behind me. Jim Gardner: We need L T late to stage and get docked a couple of rows. Corby Scherb: To what? Nothing? Slim Pushins: Well, 'cause every time that I saw Landon out there, he had the little one ten behind him. so I didn't know if he was waiting or what happened. James Horton said Carson Bolden has the poll for the first race at Eagle. Corby Scherb: Who'd guess it? Yeah, the makeup feature, the rain up from last year. Slim Pushins: What are you laughing at, giggles? Jim Gardner: I'm not h sure who Angie is, but okay. I I've I thought about it for two or three days and now I'm bought in. So we're gonna we're gonna try the old Bobby Craft special on the fifty one car to see if we can't make it go well on Saturday night. So James is right. Slim Pushins: It's Bobby's wife. Corby Scherb: If you need a driver. Slim Pushins: Okay. Everybody's Everybody's got jokes. Kerbo was looking for the hot dog review guy. Corby Scherb: Slow minute. Jim Gardner: Corn dogs, first of all. And we didn't even get any. So no, he said hot dogs. Yeah. Well, I don't know I I don't know what you're into. But yeah, James Horton James Horton reminded everybody that Bolton is on the poll for that nationals race. Slim Pushins: It said corn dog? It says hot dog. I'm not a good reader. Lana said his grandfather left him. To watch him. I just said that. Jim Gardner: The the makeup. Yeah. Ma I don't pay attention to you. I try to tune you out most of the time. So Slim Pushins: Clearly. Jim Gardner: That's what we got. I turned my outlaw stream off. Where are we at here on at the outlaw race? Slim Pushins: So you're going to Corby Scherb: Feature. Slim Pushins: looks like they're yeah, they're introducing drivers for the feature. Jim Gardner: Nice. My internet can only handle so much going on, so up here in the sticks. I did, but between probably what my wife is streaming inside, we got the live here, another stream, I got the second screen pulling up video. It's a lot of bandwidth we're hogging up in here. Slim Pushins: Didn't you get Starlink? You got you got two screens you got two screens and a laptop in the old shop? Jim Gardner: Yeah. Spent a lot of time out here. Slim Pushins: let's see. Corby, look at your show notes. See if there's anything else. Jim Gardner: Which is just our group text thread. It's wheels off. Corby Scherb: Palm pilot. I'll just use the palm pilot. Jim Gardner: Yeah. it is Mike Friery night at Kennedale. this week. Yeah. Yeah. He p Mike Frieri night at Kennedale. So I'm sure he's supporting that. And I he he he gave a hundred dollars to the hard charger of every class last week at Hunk County, which was cool. and we certainly appreciate all the support, the f the photos. Corby Scherb: Huge supporter of racing in general. Slim Pushins: It's what? I was reading. Corby Scherb: Always James. Always water first. Jim Gardner: I have not found Yeah. No, it's Major League. no no, you're right, it is Major League. Bull Durham. we have not done found anything to sacrifice for Devin and and your team, Danny. for whatever reason, Devin's a magnet to trash it. And I put the voodoo on him. Yeah. Slim Pushins: What's is that f is that from like major league? Or is that Bull Durham? I know the reason. His luck his luck changed after he T-boned you. Exactly. No Jim Gardner: It seems so Slim Pushins: wonder he's asking you for the live chicken. Jim Gardner: just seems like they're, you know, just keep getting punched in the face. you got it they got stacked up Friday night and knocked the front end out, and then I think whatever happened down there in turn one, Devin got a piece of, got a huge piece of. I mean it knocked the right front out of it, and I think he was trying to drive it. drive it around but the right front was hanging up by the header so they need change of luck in a bad way they need they need to just catch a break. So we will find something to sacrifice for some voodoo for you there. Danny. Yeah sacrifices for poor dogs. Yep. Slim Pushins: Corn dogs. Corby Scherb: Corn dogs might work. Slim Pushins: I guess i if if we split the podcast this weekend, if some of us end up in in Abeling you're going way back. yeah, if some of us if some of us end up going west this weekend, we'll see if we can't do a corndog review from Abilene. Jim Gardner: So Yeah, definitely f see what and if it's not corn dogs, if if Abilene specializes in I don't know, fresh steaks or whatever. Slim Pushins: Do you trust Corby and I with a corndog review? You're kinda uppity when it comes to corndogs. Jim Gardner: I I I was just kinda hoping you I we'll see. but yeah I I'm hoping you can it's it's not on your it's not on your macros. Yeah. Yeah, maybe maybe you can get the pushing gals to get some content too. Ask people if they've ever cried in their trailer or something. Yeah. Corby Scherb: I'm not eating corn dog. You can, but I'm not. Slim Pushins: Nobody's surprised by that, Corby. Not there's not one person. There's not one of our tens of listeners that's yeah, that's surprised by that. Corby Scherb: No. It's terrible on macros. Terrible. Slim Pushins: I'm sure we'll have some moon landing questions. Corby Scherb: I don't know if I've ever cried in my trailer, I've definitely thrown a couple helmets in my trailer. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. I've been I I did that at Ardmore whenever Bates got DQ'd, I was pretty pissed off at myself. Through the threw my notebook. I threw my binder in my notebook and then I couldn't find it. And Bates called me the other day. He's like, Hey, I found it. It's destroyed in the trailer. I was like, but yeah. Corby Scherb: You weren't even wearing a helmet? You still found one and you threw it? Slim Pushins: Give me something to throw. Angie said have rider eat a corndong. Jim Gardner: That now we're talking. Corby Scherb: Try. Slim Pushins: We'll get Ryder. We'll get the push in the cushion zone Ryder the plant to corn dog review. Jim Gardner: Is he yeah. is he officially made a declaration of where he's racing this weekend? Corby Scherb: Of course not. It's way too early in the the week for all that. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So I I would imagine like I said, I'm going to RPM. I would imagine I I figured one of you would probably go out west, but we'll see kinda what what shakes out. Corby Scherb: I don't know, wherever Kerba's going, I'm not. Slim Pushins: That's the plan. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: That's always the plan. Somehow we end up in the same place. And everybody wants to ask me where Corby is. That's how that that's how that goes. Do we hey do we want to talk real quick about the disaster of a podcast last week when it had to go into two parts? Jim Gardner: man. Corby Scherb: It's a win win. I wonder who did that? Jim Gardner: Well Corby Scherb: The producer? Jim Gardner: Yeah, it was me. It was my f well, it was Cor it was Kerbo and it was me. when I cause I wasn't on there, Kerbo had to log into he logged into my account as the administrator. And then when I wanted to chime in just to say hey to Kevin and tell him I appreciate him covering for me on short notice, I tried to log in as a guest and the administrator didn't let me in like a jackass. Slim Pushins: He knocked and I wouldn't let him in. Jim Gardner: Twice I don't know who he thought had the link and wanted to get on our podcast in front of tens of listeners, but he shunned me out. So then I just logged in as the administrator. Yeah. Then I just logged in as the administrator. We were both logged in. And then when I tried to leave, it shut the production down. Slim Pushins: I thought it was spam. I thought it was a call center from India. No, instead of just closing your laptop, you pressed stop and it ended our it ended the life. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I I was trying to stop my involvement in the stream. My bad. It's the first time, man. Warrior. This is a learning experience. Slim Pushins: Yeah, that's not you just close the laptop. Corby Scherb: It was the facial expressions for me. It was absolutely the facial expressions for me. Slim Pushins: we're gonna screenshot those and we're gonna use them in group text and it's gonna come up here. Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: go for yeah. Slim Pushins: Since you like to since you like to throw up the drop of me. Jim Gardner: wait a second, I do have one more piece of media. It's gonna take me a minute. Corby Scherb: This'll be good. This'll be good. Really good. Slim Pushins: of course. This is where this is where the live this is where they just start dropping, numbers just drop. I hear something. Jim Gardner: Ha ha Well, we can we can clip it. Slim Pushins: Yeah, you'd love to just drop Corbinar just here for the chicks. Jim Gardner: I'm looking for it. Slim Pushins: Somebody's mic just got loud. Jim Gardner: That would be Corby's. Corby Scherb: How is it fine? There's nothing in going on. The TV's on zero. Slim Pushins: You got Corby Scherb: I had this rad belt that someone made me one time. Slim Pushins: We have to Jim Gardner: Damon, I got no idea where it's at. Slim Pushins: We have to tell Corby every single pre show to mute his TV. One hundred percent of the time. Like this is the first time he's ever been on a mic. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: I just like to hear what's going on. Slim Pushins: You don't listen to us. Corby Scherb: I would never listen to y'all. Slim Pushins: What what media are you trying to find? Jim Gardner: Hm, it's nothing. Slim Pushins: it's something. Corby Scherb: Lucius starting towards the front tonight. Good for him. Slim Pushins: Look at the Kors Light Car. That's always awesome. I tried to get Jim I tried to get Jim one time to Jim Gardner: That's Brad Doty. Slim Pushins: To wrap his car in Lone Star Light and he was too afraid that Lone Star would send us a cease and desist. Jim Gardner: I just didn't feel like spending a thousand dollars to wrap my car to go to run seventeenth. People would be like, Man, Lone Star sucks. Yeah, now I can. I can tell you why I ran fourth. It was 'cause I was pumped up from my crew who didn't leave me in the lineup shoot because he's the best pusher in the area. Corby Scherb: Mm. You ran fourth. No, Lone Star is a shit. Lone Star Light is the beer. Slim Pushins: Yeah, you rank. Corby Scherb: Wesley show the built. That was the coolest trophy I've ever got in my life. yeah, there it is. There it is. Leaving people behind. Jim Gardner: And it's that man right With his game face. It's hard. It's hard no matter how badly I wanted to pull off because I was exhausted. I didn't want to let that face down. Slim Pushins: Look at that. Corby Scherb: No, I wouldn't either. I wouldn't either. Who you mad at, bro? Slim Pushins: zoned in right there. I turned around and I saw Mike I saw Mike taking a picture, so I made that face. Right after that I pointed at him. He didn't get me pointing at him. He j this is what we ended up with. He also promised me he was gonna make me look skinny and that didn't happen. Jim Gardner: There will be hero cards at my trailer. Not this week, but probably by next week. They'll be down at probably in the Braxton trailer, Jeb's trailer. Come get one. Kerbo's sign it. Corby Scherb: for sure. Slim Pushins: The lines the lines for autograph will be horrendous. No, it shouldn't be on a shirt. Jim Gardner: I had to text that picture to my wife just now so I could download it on my computer and she's probably inside going, What the hell is this? Drinking her white claw. All right. Slim Pushins: Giggling. Giggling. Yeah. Giggling. Jim put her on the headset during pre race earlier and she was all excited. I was excited because I thought she was replacing Jim tonight. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Well she I was talking to her about doing the the WAGS podcast at the end of the year. Get her and and get Caitlin Dixon and Savannah and try to find Yeah, yeah, get Felicia, just get the ladies out here talking about how how Corby Scherb: I wish. Slim Pushins: Chad's wife Felicia. did lay the groundwork with Kevin Rutherford's wife and she wasn't about it. Corby and I Corby, were you part of that when we were at NASCAR when we were talking to her? She was not about it at all until I kind of explained it to her and then she was less not about it. Jim Gardner: Could just be all the ladies talking about how they put up with all the nonsense and Yeah, right. So, anyway, but yeah, she's probably wondering why I sent her that picture just now. Whoops. So anyway, this race is on. Let's hop off here. Let's hop off here and and thank everybody you know, we'll see everybody at RPM or Abilene this weekend. Slim Pushins: What a horrible podcast this is. Well now she knows. The thirty second the thirty second delay. How did we go an hour and twenty minutes? Talking about nothing. Because we let Corby on. All right. We appreciate everybody being on as always. Thanks for all the support. y'all coming up to us at the track and stuff. it's pretty cool. Gives us something to talk about and it kind of gives the conversation piece of people to come up and recognize Corby. Corby Scherb: 'Cause you were talking. Jim Gardner: It's like What do you get what are you laughing at, Chuckle House? Slim Pushins: No. Nothing. Corby Scherb: Look at the colour. Slim Pushins: Merwayne Merl Wayne doing Merl Wayne shit. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Anyway. Slim Pushins: There's Chelsea. That's hilarious. Looking good, Kerbo. She's my biggest supporter. Jim Gardner: Ha Corby Scherb: I'd be the only supporter. Slim Pushins: th yeah. 'Cause everybody else wants to know where Corby's at. All right. We appreciate everybody. We'll do it again next week. He he started twentieth last night. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: Look at the shirt. Jim Gardner: Who's gonna win this? Larson gonna come from fourth? Corby Scherb: I dunno. He's got a shot. I like to see like I said, Bryce Lucius doing it for the three two. Yep. Yep. Jim Gardner: the local. god. I thought you wanted the local to to win, but no, it's gotta be number thirty two. god. Alright, we gotta go. All right. Corby Scherb: Well yeah, I mean yeah, that'd be nice, but doing it for the three two. Yeah. All right. See you guys. Slim Pushins: Lucius. That's I knew there was something behind it. We'll see y'all next week or this weekend. Talk to you later.