Latest / Pushin' the Cushion / Episode 11- Kevin Rutherford (Part 2)
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- Corby Scherb: Tim's better. Kevin Rutherford: That's hundred percent how it went. ⁓ we're ending something or starting something. Slim Pushins: ⁓ We're back live n I think we're back live now. I don't know what happened. We're ⁓ what happened? Corby Scherb: Jimmy. We're back live again. Second time. Good job, Jimmy. We're going downhill. This is it. This is how it ends. Kevin Rutherford: The wheels fall off. Corby Scherb: Because Jimmy showed up. Just turn your phone off at this point. Just turn it off. Slim Pushins: What did you do to us? Kevin Rutherford: Let's turn it off. Slim Pushins: Just shut it. Just shut it. It's counting up again though. I think we might be back live. Corby Scherb: Hmm. Kevin Rutherford: We're we've got it no, we've got we're back on Facebook Live. Yeah. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, brand new chat, everything. It's all brand new. Slim Pushins: We are? ⁓ we got w we got Wesley texting us now. Jim. Wesley said, Jim, you killed the live. I don't know if I can Kevin Rutherford: And he he's supposed to be our IT guy. But but we have some new viewers now that that happened, so there you go. Just look at it that way. Corby Scherb: Nan yeah. That's it to win. Now and I'll say it, man, the Estes family just just absolute some of the best people that you'll ever meet. not saying that any of ⁓ were given given the world Slim Pushins: Hey Chase is on, the long haired friend of Jesus. Kevin Rutherford: Yeah, Chase Amit. We were just talking about you earlier. I don't know if you were on when we were talking about you on the last live before it got screwed up, but we were just talking about you. Yep. Slim Pushins: Live number one. Corby Scherb: Yeah man, that that's just family. ⁓ and it's such a just a staple and racing around here. I mean, ⁓ Daniel DJ and Colby's dad and Claude, what they were racing wing modified in like what, like fifty nine or something like that? They've been around forever. Forever and ever. Yep. Great people. Kevin Rutherford: Yeah, I was gonna say like the nineteen forties. Like I swear they've been racing for a hundred years. Forever. Slim Pushins: ⁓ so Jim brought it up. Let's talk about last weekend. I'm over I'm so tired of talking about Kevin winning. Let's talk about the other the other people that won. ⁓ Lance Christie won. Okay. Kevin Rutherford: Agreed. Corby Scherb: Hold on, l before before we just say that, you know, it wasn't given to Kevin, you know, I mean, you know, you had Landon there in Nipnicher Hills, you had Claude all over you, you know, it it wasn't an easy win. So so hats off to you. Slim Pushins: Landon was on a second ago. I don't know if I don't know if he made it to live two point ⁓ we're back up to Kevin Rutherford: The new live. Corby Scherb: But ⁓ hats off to you, Kevin. That that that's a big one, man. ⁓ I never got to win at Ardmore. ⁓ so that that one's big. Kevin Rutherford: I appreciate it, man. That's a tough track to win at. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. Corby Scherb: For sure. For sure. Slim Pushins: ⁓ Waco. Waco had a huge field Saturday night with five. One just one hand. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Kevin Rutherford: You know it ⁓ listen, I I mean, there was five cars, right? ⁓ it's Slim Pushins: I don't take it away from Lance Christie. A win's a win. He still had to put everything together to pull it off. Congratulations to Lance Christie. Kevin Rutherford: Yeah. Absolutely, man. That guy is ⁓ he's always fast. Always fast. Corby Scherb: For sure. And Chance Cody's another one that we haven't really touched base on. He he's a young kid that's an upcomer and he does a race every weekend. ⁓ I think he helps on a midget team or something like that. Kevin Rutherford: Yep, yep. Corby Scherb: ⁓ he he goes good. He's he's got he's got a shot to go somewhere in this. ⁓ but sadly, yeah yeah, Zayn Zane has always been fast. ⁓ Zayn's super super underrated name around here. I got a lot of respect for Zayn that. I I've never he's another one that I've never had to say anything to, even I said something to you, Kevin, and I shouldn't have 'cause I should have known better, but Kevin Rutherford: Zayn Lawrence. Mm. Corby Scherb: And Zane's another one of those racers, man, he'll he'll race you hard and super clean and never do anything wrong and if he does he'll he'll be the first one to apologize. So it wasn't easy for for Lance there. Kevin Rutherford: Absolutely, I agree. Yep. No, that was a tough you know, I I think at the end of the day it's just hard with Fourth of July and scheduling and and then other tracks running and and, you know, Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. We were shooting fireworks. Kevin Rutherford: Yep, yep, Corbia Corbia was my real friend was at my house. I don't Corby Scherb: Yeah, Kerbo didn't make it. Who'd have guessed it? Slim Pushins: Okay. All right. The pa this podcast was such a mistake on my part. ⁓ Patrick Stossa said that Kyle Jones, pushing the cushion zone, Kyle Jones just won the ⁓ his heat race at I'll tell you in a minute where they're at. ⁓ 'cause I've got it on. I got Corby turned me on to the women's rodeo final last night. We talked on the phone for like an hour and a half and it was wheels off fun. ⁓ Kevin Rutherford: Awesome. Corby Scherb: You have no idea. This is dude, if you if there's nothing on Float, turn on the P V R channel and I'm telling you, man, it is Kevin Rutherford: Yeah. I I will say one of the if I've learned anything in the last year, like somebody asked me like what's the number one thing you've learned in the last thirteen, fourteen months? It'd be the bromance that you two have. It's insane. It's in you guys love each other so you guys love each other so much it's insane. Slim Pushins: It's the opposite. It's a hundred percent the opposite of that. We live to piss each other off. Corby Scherb: Mm. I can't stand him 'cause of the gray in his beard right there. Slim Pushins: Stasa, there's so much I can't stand about you. ⁓ Stasa said they're in Sweet Springs. Stasa's you know what? We need to we need to ⁓ substitute Stassa. We need to substitute Stasa for Jim. He's got all the stats. Tony Nichols said I was in Waco. I felt bad. Lance killed the post race though. I don't know what that's about, but I sounds like there's a backstory there. I know he lost, he posted today he lost to a crew member. Corby Scherb: We need Patrickon. We need Patrichon. Kevin Rutherford: I agree. You talk about a wealth of knowledge. Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. Slim Pushins: Tamerson Axem's team, which is ⁓ I guess sucks for sucks for Lance Christie, but that's awesome for ⁓ for that kid. Kevin Rutherford: Super cool. Yeah, super cool opportunity. He told us that ⁓ that when he came over in Ardmore and told us that Kid was getting interviewed the next day about that. So to see that all pan out and ⁓ I know it sucks for Lance and I'm sure he'll he'll figure it out. He's got plenty of you know, he's such a nice guy. He'll have friends and people step up and people he can count on, but he'll be f Corby Scherb: For sure. Slim Pushins: Who's the best crew chief Kevin Rutherford ever had? I think that goes without saying. Belleville last year. Kevin Rutherford: Mitchell Shutter. You you guys never met ⁓ yeah, it was Kerbo. It was Kerbo. Mr Hey Daryl, you go set that right rear tire pressure? I think Kevin wants it at twelve. Slim Pushins: That's what good managers do, they delegate. Kevin Rutherford: I had other tasks for Daryl to do at that time. That's why I asked you to do that. Now, I've had some good crew crew chiefs between Mark Zoller, Corby Sherb, Chase Hammett, Mitchell Shutter, Claude Estes, you name them. They've all been really good. Mitchell. Yep, yep, absolutely. They've all helped me a lot. Mitchell's. Slim Pushins: A whole lot of ⁓ many bunch of ⁓ Corby Scherb: And what was he doing? Nothing. Джей Коби Дэніл Slim Pushins: What about old Steve? Corby Scherb: Yeah, you're dead. Kevin Rutherford: Well I was gonna say, are you talking about Steve Go Lightly or Steve my dad? ⁓ 'cause see, that's another one. ⁓ the the Go Lightly's have been huge to the to the ⁓ Esse family racing. Corby Scherb: Well see see, there you go. That's that's a good point. Good point. Right? Slim Pushins: Zoller Zoller said he wants to know the truth. Kevin Rutherford: I I think the truth the the truth on on Mark Zoller is he probably is the best tire washer I've ever met. Like that's what he's probably the best at is is washing tires. Slim Pushins: ⁓ he said t Go ahead. ⁓ Tony Nichols said Lance had the crowd fired up. Great interview. Waco's got a Waco's got a great track announcer too. ⁓ them you're gonna have me okay. Corby knows if it's dirt track related, Corby's been there, raced there, knows everybody there. Kevin Rutherford: Is it still Joe Spillman? Corby Scherb: Yes. Whatever. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Kevin Rutherford: But but our but our host over here doesn't have a clue. He's about to like brag on him and doesn't have a clue who it is. Slim Pushins: No idea. No idea. I did. That was the brag. He's really good. Kevin Rutherford: I don't know who that guy is, but but dang, he's good at his job. Slim Pushins: No idea. Well, y'all have to understand nobody wants to talk to old Slim, so ⁓ y'all are the ones that Corby Scherb: We had that moment, you know, last weekend or ⁓ two weekends ago. Tractor pull whenever you thought that this was the moment, but they just asking if we can walk across the racetrack. Yeah. Slim Pushins: You heard that, Rutherford? Everybody know everybody recognizes Corby wherever we go. He's the most famous guy that I know. Cl clearly it's the hair. Clearly clearly, you know, everybody recognizes him. He's the most famous number that I have in my phone. So at the tractor pool, I saw these two people, they kept looking over at me and then they'd look back and talk, and then they'd look over at me. Well, they finally started walking over and I kinda glanced over at Corby and I like, Hey, this is this Kevin Rutherford: No, I haven't heard that story. I mean look at that smile and that hair. I get it. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Somebody the podcast is coming through. This is what's happening. And they come up and they're like, excuse me. And I go, Yeah. What's up? And they go, Can we cross the track right here? Corby Scherb: Had no idea who he was. This is after the third person already walked up to him and said something about me. Kevin Rutherford: That's hilarious. Slim Pushins: Ask me about Corby. Kevin Rutherford: Okay, you you know, since the wheels are already off and we've started a whole nother show, ⁓ podcast. Corby, I think you'll get a kick out of this. I you you you you guys had called me and said, you know, hey, I know you had a podcast, etcetera, a couple of years ago and whatnot. ⁓ we're t we're thinking about doing one. Slim Pushins: Kevin Raimi said Geis Mercer, sorry. That's how A D D works. Geis Mercer. I'm assuming he's talking about that's the same announcer as Waco that they have at RPM. Kevin Rutherford: Roop just asked the worst question in the whole chat. Whose hair is better, Corby or Kevin's? It's definitely Corby's. Like it's not even up for debate. No, I'm being serious. It a a a blind person can see that. Corby Scherb: Whatever. Slim Pushins: Roop Ruop, you have no idea how sensitive a subject that is with Corby. Even comparing him to anybody of the lesser hair. Alright, go ahead with your story. Kevin Rutherford: Like so, so you know, I was like, all right, look guys, here's here's some advice on a podcast, right? Like, and I don't care if you take it or not, but here's what I would have done differently. Y'all did none of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. ⁓ I did the ⁓ Accelerating Through Life podcast. It's still available on all platforms. I still pay so that way ⁓ will the one or two people want to go see it. Slim Pushins: Because you did a podcast in the past. Corby Scherb: No, none of it. N didn't even think about it. Great, great podcast. ⁓ g get it out there. It's super huge. Great. Slim Pushins: Future future generations. Kevin Rutherford: No, we'll we'll probably bring it back someday. ⁓ just wasn't the time right now when ⁓ having kids and doing different things got busy with racing and and real estate and different things of that nature started flipping houses. So there was just a lot going on. Slim Pushins: So the accelerating what you call it's called accelerating through life. So y after you had kids the acceleration just kinda like it packed down a little Kevin Rutherford: I yeah. Sh Corby knows this. Corby knows this. You think time goes fast? Wait until you watch how fast something grows that you created. Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. Ugh. Yeah, we made cheesy potatoes last night when I was asleep. Stop. Yeah, when I was asleep. Stop. Stop. She could hear me. Slim Pushins: At midnight? Kevin Rutherford: She said stop. That's funny. Slim Pushins: She bur she sh I was on the phone with him on the way home. He said, How long did you cook ⁓ She said, I googled how long to microwave potatoes and it said seven to ten minutes. So she cooked them for seventeen minutes. Kevin Rutherford: I love it. Slim Pushins: glad she can't she wouldn't have let that story get out if she could hear me. Kevin Rutherford: Yep, that is hilarious. No, but I I gave you guys some like really good advice on the podcast on how to I on how to like get ahead on the show, etc. Slim Pushins: ⁓ Corby Scherb: I agree. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Smooth. Record three or four episodes, you know, so you g always have one in the hole if something comes up. So not only did we not take that advice, we just started doing it live. Corby Scherb: Like this. Kevin Rutherford: And I'll say it worked out. Like it's w it's one of the best raciation shows in in Texas. Slim Pushins: ⁓ I doubt it. Corby Scherb: I mean man, like we want too, and the same, like bringing people on like you, like you're talking about racist shows is just just getting other classes. It's not just about sprint cars. I'm so glad that Jimmy's not on here right now. ⁓ there there's just th it's such a huge thing, you know. Slim Pushins: Sure. Corby Scherb: I grew up racing flat track motorcycles and I no idea, no clue how big the car world was around here and like like we say, like you can go to Kinnadale every single Saturday night. The stands are full, the pit area is full. Every Saturday night. It is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life. ⁓ but you know, we should have taken some of Rutherford's advice because then Jimmy wouldn't have jumped on tonight and then I wouldn't have been late. ⁓ but Kevin Rutherford: I the soon as I knew that there was like Corby's gonna be thirty minutes late, Jim's not gonna be able to make it, I was like, It's just gonna be me and Slim? No, we Slim Pushins: Mm. Yeah, I knew what he was I knew what he was thinking. He like, If Kerbo podcasts like he crew chiefs, we are in trouble. Kevin Rutherford: One hundred percent. Slim Pushins: So speaking of last weekend, I have to give a shout out because one of our ⁓ one of our biggest little fans is Brant Whitley's son Colby. He won ⁓ his feature in junior three ⁓ last weekend and ⁓ I saw that, saw some video that they posted. That was pretty cool. I know he works hard at it. ⁓ I just happened to be around when he kind of started in the young guns and ⁓ that's awesome to hear that ⁓ Corby Scherb: Same didn't Slim Pushins: that he's winning features now. So congratulations, Kobe. That's awesome. ⁓ Yeah. Corby Scherb: Didn't DJs boy get get one too? Kevin Rutherford: Yeah, yeah, Weston won a micro race as well. Yep, yep. And I I I think ⁓ yeah, and a micro sp I think it was his third start is what I read on Facebook. Yeah, so ⁓ the the the future of racing is bright, like we said earlier and ⁓ especially Corby Scherb: Yep. Slim Pushins: Did he really? It was a mic micro. Corby Scherb: That's awesome. That's awesome. Slim Pushins: We we have a lot of we have a lot of cart kids and cart parents that listen and I I know that we don't do them any justice because we're so our time is so filled with sprint car racing and and you know traveling here and there. I none of us have have the ability to get out to ⁓ to Cam. Cam's well, Cam is across the street from you, Kevin, and it's ⁓ you know, twelve minutes down the road for me. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ actu yeah. So Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Kevin Rutherford: From each of you. Slim Pushins: I I wish I could get out there more. It's always fun, man. It's just wheels off. It's like watching T ball sometimes, especially with the young guns. You know, it's just they just kinda throw the green flag and let it rip. ⁓ but yeah, there's a lot of cart kids. Corby Scherb: ⁓ they just wanna you know, ⁓ th there's a lot of kids that just wanna see someone like Kevin Rutherford walk in the pits and be like, ⁓ my god, that's Kevin. That's him. That's him, that's the guy right there. You know, ⁓ I I think it's good to try to get back to the sport. It's not just kids climbing in sprint cars. I should probably go to Cam more often than than I have. ⁓ I've only been there just a couple of times. Slim Pushins: In his driver's suit. Corby Scherb: ⁓ we've actually drove midgets there. It w it was very small, very tight. Like you the chili bowl is tight. Try to drive Cam and a midget, but I think that the future is really good. I absolutely absolutely he didn't. I'm surprised he didn't knock it down. Slim Pushins: Jim hit the outside wall at Cam in a midget. Kevin Rutherford: And to do Jim justice, he had one other thing he wanted us to talk about, and that was Zimmerman and Lawton. Corby Scherb: Yeah man, the the out-of-date belts. ⁓ out-of-date belts. So yeah. Slim Pushins: What did he get DQ'd for? After the race. Kevin Rutherford: Yeah. A after the after he had won a a lot of thousands of dollars, ⁓ for a yeah, I don't remember the exact it was a lot of thousands. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: A lot of thousands. ⁓ we're gonna start I'm gonna start using that one. Of a lot of thousands. Corby Scherb: Well man, the the the out of date belts, in my opinion, I'm huge on safety. Massive, massive. And ⁓ man, it's just such a touchy subject to me because it to me it's it's more of the belts being stretched more than the belts being, you know, still inside a fire. ⁓ I I agree. I I think that you should have one good stretch in your belt and you should replace them anyways. But there is tons of times that we just don't pay attention. Slim Pushins: Safe. Corby Scherb: to something like that. Like I said, ⁓ it used to be that the data manufacturer now it's the date that they expire. And a lot of people don't even know that and they'll look the same I I'm sure Claude's still listening to us. Claude probably looks down and be ⁓ man, these things are great for another five years. they were actually made they they went out of date last year, Claude. So Kevin Rutherford: Yep. Yep. Well and and I think it's a tough like you said, it's really a tough situation. ⁓ I I would have loved to seen that get addressed before the races. ⁓ and in my opinion, I I I think the way I would have personally handled that is hey, I'm gonna let this slide. This like you're gonna get a swat on the wrist this time. Because they were less than a year out of date, if I'm if I understand correctly. ⁓ so I'm not gonna take the win from you. ⁓ because to me that just sounds like, you know, we're we're looking for a reason to DQ somebody. ⁓ but you know, hey Corby Scherb: Yeah. For sure. For sure. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Right. Kevin Rutherford: next time like if I didn't get to a pre race and now it's post race, hey, next time you come here, you race with my series, whatever that situation is. Yeah. And and all the money. I mean, that was, you know, like I said, it was a do you what did it pay? Five, five or eight thousand? 'Cause there was a lot of lap sponsors too. Slim Pushins: I I hate that they took the win away. Corby Scherb: Yeah. I I think yeah, I think it paid f I think it paid five. Five to win and it was up close to like eight with with lap sled and stuff like that and man that's that's that's such a tough one, like I said, like I'm just I'm I'm super big on safety, but it's just such a such a iffy situation on I agree, like your your belts that you were wearing, ⁓ what was it in twenty four at Kennerdale? Slim Pushins: A lot of thousands. Corby Scherb: whenever you went for the big tumble, I think those belts need to be thrown away and that's, you know, just my personal opinion. But the out of date and fire because there's there's so many times that people wear older helmets or older fire suits. Like when are we gonna start really focusing on what or wearing, you know, unders with with your fire suit, you know, you can't always trust every you know, every zipper and every stitch is gonna stay on. So Kevin Rutherford: We had that conversation this Saturday while we were watching the neighbors catch the grass on fire. We started talking remember that remember that, Corby? Corby Scherb: We we even saw ⁓ Kerba's other brother Daryl had to take cover underneath ⁓ behind the car at one point. Kevin Rutherford: ⁓ one of our fireworks fell over. Like worst case scenario, and it was one of those that was like a multi-shooter, you know? And like the first or second, the first or second firework, it just tumps over and there's like fifteen to go. And I've got a video, it's hilarious. It's like a five second video because I freak out as soon as it starts happening, but it is so fun. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, great time. ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Це не верс. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Thankfully he was a sprint car racer, he had fire extinguishers on hand, like we were safe. Don't worry about it. We didn't have to call the fire department. We didn't we didn't have to, but Kevin Rutherford: Yeah. Slim Pushins: ⁓ you did you actually use them? You had to pull the pin and use them? Kevin Rutherford: No, well we did earlier in the day before Corby got there, one of our neighbors actually this is a swear. One of our neighbors caught the grass on fire where we live in our subdivision. And I'm talking about like a big fire, had everybody nervous and me and my little or my little brother and my dad ran over there with fire extinguishers and put it out. It was it was crazy. Yeah, we always keep fire extinguishers around if you a race car shop you have to, right, Corby? ⁓ Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. Kevin Rutherford: But and then what was even funnier, so we had that firework fall over. This is something I feel like Kerbo might do, but my little brother Daryl insisted, didn't he, Corby? So we had I bought two of those, like this same brand type deal. And so I was like, hey, I'm good with just letting that money go to waste. I didn't like the way the first one went. Like we live in a subdivision, and while we're on a little bit, you know, acre lots and more room, et cetera, it's still you're still shooting at other people out in the area, popping their fireworks, people's houses. We did Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. Mm-hmm. Kids riding by bicycles. Kevin Rutherford: Well, we caught the grass on fire a little bit. I mean, we went over there and stomped it out. We didn't have to get the fire extinguisher, but ⁓ there was definitely flames. And so I said, Hey, let's just not like that second one. And of course, you know, my little brother was like, Now I got my he was like, You bought it. We gotta blow it up. And so I said, Okay, you know, I told Corby, I said, This just feels like one of those fool me once, shame on you type stories. And and I'll be dang Corby'd if it didn't fly fly over like the first or second shoot again, and here it goes. Corby Scherb: Yeah, for sure. Slim Pushins: My other brother Daryl was like no. Corby Scherb: It's time. ⁓ yeah. Same thing. Same thing. Kevin Rutherford: I mean shooting at cars, doing all kinds ⁓ so yeah. I know what fireworks this just goes back to experience though, because I'm not very experienced at firing fireworks and so I just know which ones I'm not gonna buy next year. Corby Scherb: It's about being prepared. Slim Pushins: My neighbors across the street had a whole arsenal. I got home from ⁓ I got home from where I spent the fourth of July and ⁓ it was like little Beirut in my neighborhood and like it was ⁓ it was actually pretty cool driving home. We closer you got to ⁓ not Fort Worth where the Tarrant County starts, ⁓ or the county starts. ⁓ it's pretty cool everywhere on the horizon. Corby Scherb: Not from Rutherford's house where we were supposed to be. Yeah, but we we did see this and w I'm gonna touch on this. Like we need to meet a couple of your neighbors around you, Kevin, 'cause some of them people gotta have a lot of money. A lot. Kevin Rutherford: Hey. These guys popped fireworks for hours, didn't they, Corby? Like we we ran out of fire we thought we had a lot of fireworks, like a a garage full it seemed like. Like we're gonna we're good. And of course we ran out like that because my other brother Daryl and Brooklyn, like, they were going to town. Corby Scherb: Dude. Slim Pushins: I don't remember fireworks being so expensive years ago. I mean j like I know un obviously everything gets more expensive in time, but like I don't think that ratio is like other things. Corby Scherb: Dude. Kevin Rutherford: ⁓ it's a thousand percent profit for sure. Like it it is. It's a ton of profit. There's no way it costs that much to make that stuff. But yeah, we had a good time, good time on the fourth. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: All right. Let me let me check. Corby, what else do you have on the show notes that we need to get to since you were late? Fourth of July shenanigans, Waco. ⁓ Rocket. Rocket unexpectedly raining out. Have y'all seen those videos? I mean it was like a gorgeous day. I think they had already started I know they started hot laps and maybe heats and they got like an inch of rain in like a half hour. Trucks, trailers were stuck. Corby Scherb: That's that's pretty good. Yeah, that was pretty wild. Kevin Rutherford: Yeah. Slim Pushins: ⁓ they didn't know what to do. ⁓ I think they've re rescheduled it. They were they were mudbanger cars, so I g you know, doesn't really matter, but yeah. Corby Scherb: You're not helping me get into a modified, you're not helping my my possible ride opportunity. Kevin Rutherford: There is this. There's no sprint cars in the pits is what you're saying, Kerba. Hey, I think it's really cool that Chase just did probably his first ever comment on the push in the cushion podcast. I I I think that's worth ⁓ worth throwing up on the screen too. That okay. I'll read it to you. Yeah, racing with good safety equipment equals racing harder. Being able to trust your equipment definitely lets you not have to think so much about what could go wrong. Corby Scherb: Exactly. Slim Pushins: Right. A hundred percent. Can't. Jim screwed that up, but we can read it. You wanna read it? Corby Scherb: For sure. Kevin Rutherford: Chase was there that night that I got hurt at Kennedale a couple years ago. So he he he actually drove me home. I think, if I'm not mistaken, it was he'd been racing with me a long time, as you guys know. ⁓ we've been friends since for twenty one years now. And ⁓ we have the same birthday and we were roommates out of high school and all the things. And ⁓ I he drove us home that night. I think it was the first time he had ever driven the race car trailer because like, you know, as that adrenaline started. I I'll be honest with you, I I think he he can Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: You pulled over, didn't you? Like you started the drive. Kevin Rutherford: He can comment and correct me because ⁓ I don't fully remember. I know I think I did start the drive, but it maybe even in Kennedale, like in the track, or maybe just right outside that I I was like, hey man, I don't know what's going on, but I'm the adrenaline's wearing off, and I don't think I'm seeing things correctly. ⁓ what's crazy is like it didn't really set in until a couple of days. ⁓ like I ended up Sunday, I went to Claude's, disassembled the car, looked at the frames, like, ⁓ yep, that's gotta go to Patrick Stazza. and Slim Pushins: Ha ha. Kevin Rutherford: was fine and then Monday I was headed to show a house and I'll never forget it was like a twenty five minute drive and I turned my head and like my eyes didn't keep up. It was one of the weirdest moments ever. ⁓ and that's when I was like I should not be driving. And so I started to take it easy and and then it just, you know, progressively got worse with it there. But I was definitely glad Chase was with me to be able to drive me home because ⁓ there's a lot of nights that I drive home by myself. So that situation would not be good. Chase just commented, he said we got a mile Slim Pushins: Yeah. Kevin Rutherford: A mile down the road and then he took over. Yep. We went to Whataburger and then I even think I ⁓ I don't know, I was I was like checking in with him through the night 'cause I was like, Man, I'm telling you, I don't know what's going on in in my body in general, my head, et cetera, but I don't feel right. But I can only tell you this 'cause we're not telling anybody else. Slim Pushins: That's scary. Corby Scherb: Now I r I remember I was right behind you. Yeah, for sure. I I was I I was right behind you and ⁓ Colby Colby's Toubblefield kinda threw like a like a short slider on me, and it just kinda like checked me up just enough. And ⁓ like I said, I was following you into turn three and I I saw the bottom of your car. Slim Pushins: Statute of limitations is up now, we can be honest about it. Kevin Rutherford: That's right, that's right. Slim Pushins: You go hear it from Rebecca though. Corby Scherb: And luckily Colby just threw like a little short slider on me so I was able to turn down and I pulled up next to Colby when the red flag came out and ⁓ I was telling him I was like, dude, that was big. That one hurt. 'Cause like I could see, you know, you like you can see when things just stop and like your car just stopped moving. Right? And ⁓ Colby actually like right then in that moment thought that I was like upset with him and I like, No man, like you were fine, like I'm actually glad that you did that because it checked me up. Kevin Rutherford: Yeah. Yep. Yeah, right. It's perfect timing. Yeah. Corby Scherb: You know, or I would have got right into the back of you and it just it was one of those crashes that was really weird, like I said, like it it just it bicycled up and then all of a sudden it just stopped. I was like, Man, that one was big. And so that it's not it's not the you know, the impact that really gets you, it's the sudden stop that'll wake you up and and like you said, you know, the next couple races after that it it makes you think about it. You got a wife and kids at home and Kevin Rutherford: Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Well and and I certainly, you know, if I had to list the order of things I want to be known for, it's first foremost as a child of God, right? Like I want to bring people to Jesus and and ⁓ try to be a better example of that every day. And then, you know, after that, I want to be a great husband, you know. After that, I want to be a great father, you know, and and a family member, friend, etc. And then, you know, obviously we want to achieve our careers and succeed at those. And then I want to be a good race car driver. Corby Scherb: Right. Yep. Right. Kevin Rutherford: Right. Like there's a lot of ⁓ things in order ⁓ that we want to be good at and ⁓ and like you said, the safety's a huge aspect of it. Corby Scherb: I agree, you know, I I wear a Simpson hybrid, it it feels a little bit better on me. ⁓ some people wear a Hans. ⁓ I know Claude still believes in the the whole you know, the old nets and neck rolls, he thinks that that might have been a little bit safer, that the cars are getting a little too rigid. Kevin Rutherford: He tells me all the time, he's like, We used to Zeus the seats in, and I'm telling you, less people got hurt. And I'll be honest with you, I I know he's telling the truth. I'm not saying he's not, but it blows my mind. Corby Scherb: I I mean right. I mean and maybe because we had a little bit more room to move and stuff like that, but yeah, ⁓ th there is times ⁓ Kevin Rutherford: Here's another good you gonna read that comment? Slim Pushins: Wesley Wesley McNorton said Kevin did not listen to my advice when we pushed him out. I forgot about that part. He told you where not to go. Kevin Rutherford: So yeah, what happened? Well, what happened is I think I you know, I pulled a gym and I changed how I was gonna do the setup last minute. And so like I got in the ch in the car and I had Chase doing something and then Wesley came running over and was like, Why are you not in the shoot when we're like pulling out on the track, right? ⁓ and long story short, I was like, Hey, put a round in here, do something. I don't even remember what it was and he's like, Okay, well just track looks like this, so don't do that and the next thing you know, I was on my lid. Like five minutes later. Corby Scherb: That's the good thing about Wesley, you know, ⁓ Wesley Wesley he'll do it. He'll say you know, I'll go ahead and do this, you know, but ⁓ probably shouldn't do that. For sure. You know that's the same th that's the that's the same thing. Slim Pushins: He told you to bob and you weaved. Yeah. Kevin Rutherford: Tried to tell you Y you lead a horse to water, you just can't make him drink it. Slim Pushins: I love that ⁓ I love that it's turned into like the term like ⁓ you gimmed your car, ⁓ Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. 'Cause Jimmy's gonna do that to himself. Kevin Rutherford: ⁓ here we go, here we go. Here here's a good Chase comment. He said, I thought Corby's an eagle was about just as bad, but he was out of the car yelling at the guy that put him in the wall within thirty seconds. Kid What's funny is I don't think Chase knows all the history on this show of that situation. So that makes that even that much better. Corby Scherb: I was mad. There was a lot of adrenaline. Right. Yeah, man. I I was I was pretty upset. I was pretty upset, man, and I thought that I gave him enough room and clearly I needed to give him a racetrack worth of room and ⁓ Slim Pushins: All the history in the world with that dude. We told Corby, but Wesley and I both told Corby, You know who's starting out outside of you. You've got to give him more room than you've ever given anybody in your life. And he goes, I got y'all. Corby Scherb: The inside of me. A man in that thing. ⁓ man, I thought I gave him plenty enough room and it and then man. It did it was it was weird too, 'cause I got a really big bruise like on the right side of my outer thigh. Like I don't know if like my legs were like trying to go out whenever I hit the wall or what, but that or mad and it was one of those like it same like you, like it happened so fast I couldn't even get to the brake pedal quick enough and it it that that one hurt. The the next couple days was pretty just Slim Pushins: Green flag dropped, corner number one, we're in the fence. Kevin Rutherford: You landed right in front of where me and Chase you landed right in front of the in the fence when me and Chase were standing. Yeah. Yeah, pretty stiff. Yeah. I I tell everybody, I mean, y I never rode bulls. I don't know if you have. I I never had the courage to do that. ⁓ but sprint car racing to is about the closest thing I've ever done. Corby Scherb: Turn around like this. ⁓ yeah. No. Yeah, it's Slim Pushins: Jordan Jordan Roop said, I remember I remember this like yesterday. Old Squirrel needed a Sherb whipping. That was the year that was the year that Jordan Jordan loves me telling this story because I think it's one of the greatest racing stories ever. At Eagle, somebody got into Jordan Roop and he hops out of the car and form tackles a driver to the ground. I mean, like Kevin, you played linebacker. Straight linebacker form. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Service. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Form tackled this dude. Turns out it was the wrong dude. It wasn't the dude it wasn't the dude that ⁓ that that dumped him. Corby Scherb: ⁓ je ⁓ Kevin Rutherford: That's awesome. You asked Chase, like that's one of my biggest things that I hope to get to do, right? It's like I miss football. I don't ever get to do that. So getting that exact scenario sounds awesome. Just getting to take somebody out like a linebacker, that's right up my alley. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Wesley said we gave away two good tires that night to that driver after we got the car in the trailer. Corby Scherb: ⁓ man. Yeah, I was I was pretty I was pretty pretty distraught after that. The worst part about it was I think that it happened right in front of Texas and so after I got out and I threw him a little fit then I turn around and lean on the guardrail and all of Texas is standing right there just just agoning not y'all weren't agony on but I was just like ⁓ like if if I knew my dad wasn't watching right now 'cause like there is one rule that my dad in I mean beat in our brains. Is you never do something stupid, especially when you're on T V. And I knew my dad had it on. And I I wanted to man, I wanted to hurt that guy. So bad. I couldn't believe that that happened. The first time we were in like the Z feature or something like that. I knew it was gonna be a long day. We had fuel stacked up. We were ready to go. And sure enough, man. Slim Pushins: We lasted we lasted almost through the front front first corner. Corby Scherb: Yeah, and it I don't I don't remember I don't remember which one. I think it was Chad was like, Get back in the car, we can fix it and I'm like, No we can't Chassis broken half in like three spots, now we can't fix this. But yeah, that that one that that one hurt my heart more than it hurt my neck, 'cause it might my neck hurt pretty good for a couple of days. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Kevin Rutherford: You know, you say that. Slim Pushins: We don't talk about that. Evidently we do. Kevin Rutherford: I I think you know we've been talking about the racing community here and the local community. ⁓ I think vice versa. You look at the national teams and I think that's one of the coolest things. Anytime there's a high limit or World of Outlaws race and somebody crashes, and I'll be I'll sit there watching and be like, Up that guy's done for the night and next thing I know the Casey Kane race in and everybody else is over there working on it, you know, Tony Stewart racing and then they're back out on the track. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: People don't realize it's a traveling circus, right? And they are fierce competitors, but they travel together. They they're at these same racetracks, you know, ⁓ eighty, ninety, a hundred shows a year. And you're exactly right. Everybody you know, everybody if you have the ability to help somebody out or toss you know, g give ⁓ a b ⁓ a jug of fuel or something like that, we don't give we nobody'll give Corby ⁓ stagger tape anymore 'cause he loses ⁓ I've got a stagger tape in my truck right now. Kevin Rutherford: Man. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Came out of Corby's pocket. We have no idea whose it is. Corby Scherb: I think I have I think I have three from my career with Rutherford that made it home and never made it back. Kevin Rutherford: Claude, I just figured out where our tire stagger tapes went. I swear he thinks I just take everything. That's hilarious. I I do I swear I like every time I'm working it over at his shop, I'll do a pocket check before I leave. Cause I'm like, all right, here you go. Here's your nine sixteenths. Here's your tires tape. Yeah, yep. Yep. We all do it. Corby Scherb: No, I'm pretty sure they were in my pocket. Pretty sure. I need to. I need to do that. Slim Pushins: Pour out pull out Zeus's. So before we leave, w we kinda got off of this, we gotta get back to it. The question the question that everybody wants to know, do you believe that we landed on the moon? Kevin Rutherford: ⁓ absolutely not. No, not not back. No. Slim Pushins: Not back. Not in Kevin Rutherford: Nope. Not not back in the day. Not before, yeah. Nope. Nope. Corby Scherb: No, nine sixty nine. Slim Pushins: All right. I'd have I'd have to agree. What else you got, Corby? Late, Corby? We're on to we're getting close to two hours now. Jim's gonna be so mad that he has to edit all this. Corby Scherb: No man ⁓ Kevin Rutherford: I I've people are definitely tired of hearing us talk. A hundred percent. They're they're over it. Corby Scherb: Now my my daughter my my daughter is beyond mad that I haven't made her dinner yet. You know, we had to get the haircut We had to get the haircut, we had to get her hair done real pretty and she looks Slim Pushins: ⁓ we we can hear beating on things. Kevin Rutherford: Just tell her if sh if she puts potatoes in the microwave, it's seven to ten minutes, not seventeen. Slim Pushins: Seven two ten. Corby Scherb: Kevin said, remember seven minutes tonight. Okay? Slim Pushins: Jordan a Kevin Rutherford: Hey, Rube's got a Rube's got a good question. Go ahead, Kerba. Go ahead. Corby Scherb: But Slim Pushins: Rup wants to know how much conditioner you use in a week. That's a good question 'cause all every time he goes, Man, Sundays, we'll be talking on Sundays, he'll go, Man, I gotta go to I have to go to Walmart. I gotta I gotta get shampoo and conditioner. ⁓ he goes through a bottle of shampoo and conditioner a week. Corby Scherb: No, I don't use any conditioner, ma'am, and I have naturally greasy hair. So my my hair's super flat and greasy. It's just why do you have conditioner in the shower? It's just I don't I don't just for you. I don't use conditioner. I never do. I I wash my hair every day, Tresame Gold, ⁓ actually. And then ⁓ just put a little bit of hairspray in it. Just and go on about my life. Just natural. I just wake up like this. Slim Pushins: Ha ha ha. I get what's on sale. There's not a there's not a brand. It changes every single time that I go. I'm the guy I'm the guy. I'll flip the top and squeeze and go That's the one. Kevin Rutherford: I d I don't think Brooklyn's buying it. She definitely thinks you use the conditioner. Corby Scherb: No, I used No. She needed some new ⁓ shampoo 'cause she I got bought her ⁓ a new bottle of mousse actually. This was last week and this is it's gone. First day. The whole thing. I think she just poured in the bathtub. I'm not sure. Slim Pushins: I did learn this week that Corby's a dapper dan man. Your hair cream. ⁓ I got a circle. Am I still good? Am I still alive? Corby Scherb: I mean I mean I mean I mean I just do my hair the exact same way that I had since high school. Like I said, the same lady cuts it whenever I was in high school. I it's not as shaggy now, but I didn't I don't know, it just works for me. Dad, did you know I didn't trust her until you told me that? Kevin Rutherford: Yeah, you're still live. We can still hear you. We just don't Slim Pushins: Why forty two days? Kevin Rutherford: Can can you hear Brooklyn, Corby? Okay. I gotcha. I gotcha. I go every three weeks, two and a half, three weeks, so I get it. We've all kind of got our our number. Yep, yep. Corby Scherb: Trust her. Yeah, I can. I'm just not paying attention to her, so hopefully she stops. See? Yeah. Slim Pushins: High and tight. All right. We we're gonna have to wrap it up at some point. I know we didn't get into everything. Kevin Rutherford: Yep, it's time. Corby Scherb: Rutherford, man, I really appreciate it, dude. ⁓ like I said, I think there's a lot of people that don't know you. We didn't even get to touch on the real estate stuff, like what you really do for work, but dude, yeah, man, ⁓ you're you're a great guy, you're a great ambassador for the sport. I love what you do for the the younger generation and ⁓ I appreciate it, man. Slim Pushins: The racing realtor. Kevin Rutherford: Yeah, no, I appreciate you guys. Slim Pushins: Always got a smile on your face. Kevin Rutherford: Hey man, life is what you make it. I'm gonna try to make it the best we can. This is ⁓ it's life's a lot of fun. I I think we're kinda in our prime, me and Corby are anyway, you know, I know Kerbo's a little past it, but ⁓ Slim Pushins: I'm pa well, I've been past my prime for a long time. Kevin Rutherford: We're we're in our prime. We're enjoying it. We're trying to make the most of it, right? Trying to make the most of it. ⁓ we've got a beautiful wife, beautiful kids. It's hard to ask for much more. So I appreciate you guys having me on the show. ⁓ hopefully we help the show c grow and ⁓ hey, maybe you guys maybe you guys will have us back on and and we'll be here for it. Corby Scherb: For sure. For sure. Yep. Slim Pushins: Absolutely. Corby Scherb: Cool man. Appreciate it, man. Everyone have a good night. Slim Pushins: Absolutely. Thanks a lot. Hey everybody, thanks for ⁓ two lives tonight. We really appreciate it. Y'all have a good one. Kevin Rutherford: All right, guys. Corby Scherb: See ya.