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Shop Beers Live- RPM, Abilene and 105 Speedway Recap · Pushin' the Cushion

• Slim Pushins: What's up everybody? We're a day late and a dollar short. We'll get into that. I am I am Slim Pushins. Jim's over there on the dials. And ⁓ as always, there it is. He's got his own intro music now. A guy that has a guy that has voted the straight Democratic ticket since he was 18 years old, Corby Sherb. Jim Gardner: I forgot about that already. Ha ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: One hundred percent. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Can we get running this year? We're going downhill already. Slim Pushins: It's bad. Jim Gardner: ⁓ what's up boys? Slim Pushins: I always hit you boys with some ⁓ unexpected Why are we a day late? Corby Scherb: ⁓ man. How'sn't ⁓ Jim Gardner: No no reason. No specific reason. Slim Pushins: All b all both of our listeners are extremely upset that ⁓ they were yeah. Their week is thrown off. Corby thinks he's the only weird one with weekly schedules, daily schedules, shave schedules, workout schedules. But both of our listeners both of our listeners were really upset. Jim Gardner: Everybody's Zen is thrown off. Corby Scherb: Yeah, my shape schedule got pushed way back last night too. That was terrible. Jim Gardner: Albion, Nebraska is where they're Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's on my wrist bus. Slim Pushins: Albion? Yul you'll be in? Corby Scherb: No, I've been. Slim Pushins: There it is. Sorry. Corby Scherb: Houston's is on though. Got that going for it. Slim Pushins: I got Houston's on. Has Dirt Vision Jim Gardner: Should be watching Bridgeport. Corby Scherb: We messed up John's routine. It's not good. Slim Pushins: ⁓ yeah. Is ⁓ is Dirt Vision Is Dirt Vision giving y'all any issues? Jim Gardner: I don't think it's on my race pass. Corby Scherb: ⁓ no it it's called it's some speedway. Slim Pushins: Yeah, that's cool. Nobody works. Nobody's listening to me. Corby Scherb: No it's not. Dirt Vision? No. Jim Gardner: No, I'm ta no, I'm talking about just being able to track that race that Rutherford and Claude are at. Corby Scherb: I'm sure it's on IMCA TV if I'm a betting man. Mm mm. Slim Pushins: ⁓ y'all didn't buy I IMCA TV? Jim Gardner: But it's I wanna just look at the lap times. ⁓ whatever. All right. Corby Scherb: Boone County. Boone County Raceway, sir. Slim Pushins: He's are you in the wrong state? Were you looking at the wrong one? Corby Scherb: No, he it's not called Albion Speedway. Yeah, dude, Nebraska Speed Week, man. Nebraska's huge for the three ⁓ five stuff. Jim Gardner: They got forty three cars there tonight. Hell yeah. Slim Pushins: We had speed day. They have a whole they have a whole week. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Corby Scherb: John should have been up there. Jim Gardner: I just got a ring doorbell camera. I just got a ring notice my parents are here with Emma. I haven't seen her in a day and a half. Alright, everybody, we'll see you next week. Thanks for joining us. Slim Pushins: Suzanne Cranfell is on. You what? All right, well it was a good show, Jim. We'll talk to you next week, buddy. Corby Scherb: ⁓ man, we gotta go ahead and touch on it now. I guess the news is now public. It's on Facebook. ⁓ terrible, terrible news about Sonny Miller, man. ⁓ great guy, great ambassador to the sport to ⁓ not not just sprint cars to everyone, everyone knew Sonny ⁓ from Kennedale, smileys. ⁓ terrible news for Kyle Jones. Him and Kyle were super close. He's the one he's the reason that Kyle got, you know, involved in racing and capim same as the whole light on the back of his car and Sonny was a good dude. Slim Pushins: I hate to hear that. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I I've I've had limited interactions with ⁓ but all of ⁓ were good. And ⁓ just a pillar of the industry of the area. You know, now him and Smiley Sutton are gone. ⁓ it's been a tough year already and it's only June. So ⁓ thinking about think about all those people and and ⁓ Sonny's family. Tonight. ⁓ Corby Scherb: For sure. Yeah, for sure. No Jim Gardner: Yeah, ⁓ Kyle's racing tonight. Kyle's up in Nebraska. Guys speak Corby Scherb: Terrible. Yeah, he is. yeah. Slim Pushins: In ⁓ John Weber? John is it John Weber? It's Weber. I know it's the Weber's. He's in their car. Corby Scherb: Believe so. Jim Gardner: that it's that yeah the nine car the fast nine DJ Claude Caden Cole Dylan Baldwin's a gasser from ⁓ he's from like northern Kentucky up kind of where I grew up ⁓ he runs the Indiana series he's fast Lance Christie is obviously up there Lance has got they got changed the valve springs out on his truck he's just logging in the miles hitting every race in the country And a lot of the Nebraska hitters, Lee Goose, Vander Heyden, Drookey. It's a tough field. Corby Scherb: Danleys are up there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So anyway, good luck to ⁓ all the D F W contingent on there. ⁓ if they run well it'll be a power rankings race. If they don't, we won't deal. It's a arbitrary arbitrary thing. Corby Scherb: Webster, Jesse Webster, John Webster. Slim Pushins: W why? Why? Because we make the rules. The ⁓ Jim Gardner: That's right. It's not called power rankings are for nothing. Slim Pushins: So I guess before we really get started, I I have to owe Corby a debt of gratitude. ⁓ it seems that I didn't have any cash on me ⁓ when we got to RPM. Corby Scherb: That's the least of our worries for the whole night. Slim Pushins: And ⁓ Our media credentials didn't come through. So ⁓ we Corby paid for me to get in. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Corby Scherb: That's the smallest portion of the night that I even th no, that that yeah, for sure. Slim Pushins: That the of gratitude that I owe you? What else did hap what else happened? Corby Scherb: Braxton lives forty five minutes farther away from us and he beat us to your house then I still have another thirty minute drive from there. Jim Gardner: Wow. Slim Pushins: Okay. I told you, I don't have that's neither here nor there. It's because for years for years Jimmy and I did it. Drove to Decatur, got into a race hauler, drove past my street. I know you're not worried about it. Corby Scherb: We were there. I'm not worried about that. I'm not worried about that. No, I'm not worried about that part. We took the long way, then missed two exits, not one, two exits. Slim Pushins: No we didn't. ⁓ Miss I missed one Jim Gardner: I was so happy I drove myself. I'm so happy there wasn't a room in the truck. Corby Scherb: And it and it and me and the ti and it and it in me is a typical Texan, whenever we pass the exit, where the f you going? Slim Pushins: I missed one exit. The the main one from I twenty to thirty five. That's the only what other exit what that's 'cause he had only gotten like twenty five minutes of sleep. No I didn't. I didn't want to go that way. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I was so happy I drove home by myself. Corby Scherb: Wesley was sleeping the whole time. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: You missed the exit to take six thirty five to one eighty three. One hundred percent. Well, we went the long way. By a long shot. It took us over two hours to get to your place. One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Braxton lives in it's an hour he claw he ⁓ pulled it up before your ⁓ we even left. Slim Pushins: Okay. Jim Gardner: What's the way I Slim Pushins: It did not. No. It didn't. Jim Gardner: Mm. Corby Scherb: And it takes him an hour and fifty-one minutes to get there. He was walking in his house. That's after parking at a shop, now like a mile walk to his house. Walking in his house. Slim Pushins: I'll tell you what, I'll give you back the gas money that you give. ⁓ never mind. You didn't give me any gas money. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Corby Scherb: It's alright, you keep playing the ground game. Like I said, you were playing the game, but I won the war. Where's your foiler keys? Funny guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. You heard about that, Jim? Jim Gardner: Kerbo's four wheeler is going up north and south on ⁓ from Hazlitt to Justin. Every every day for this week up until Kennedow. Slim Pushins: one fifty six. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Tony Ga. Slim Pushins: Yeah, so I texted Corby like Monday. I was like, Hey, where'd you put the four wheeler key? And he's like, I gave it back to you. And I was like, You did not give it back to me. So we go back and forth for an hour and he goes, It's it was in my pocket. I I have I've had it the whole time. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Corby Scherb: Funny guy. Jim Gardner: Well s so I got there and I rolled into the Raimi trailer to go say what's up and ⁓ Dylan had new shirts and I was like hey ⁓ grab me an XL shirt and he goes Okay He comes out with my shirt and he goes ⁓ here's Kerbo's shirt but I saw him earlier he said he didn't have any money So I said Well just here here it is I don't need I Okay So he's like ⁓ yeah Corby Scherb: Figures. Slim Pushins: I don't Jim Gardner: I'll bring down. was like, okay. I he's like how do you how do you go to the how do you go to a racetrack without any cash? It's a cash business. You go to the entertainment district by the airport with no cash, Kerbo? Slim Pushins: If we had a run sheet, this would not be on the run sheet. Corby Scherb: No clue. No clue. Slim Pushins: I didn't I didn't I didn't intend to go with no cash. Corby got me all flustered at QT when I was gonna get some cash. Corby Scherb: One hundred percent. How? Whenever we both bought ice because I said I'll get the ice? Slim Pushins: Yeah, we had four bags of ice. Four four bags of ice. Corby Scherb: We threw a whole bag away. A whole bag. Slim Pushins: I have my brother's on. My brother's that bored that he ⁓ he's on the the live tonight. Jim Gardner: When Wednesday's work for Corey. Slim Pushins: Evidently. I think this is the first one that he's caught, but evidently if we delay it a day. Jim Gardner: Wow. Corby Scherb: Wednesdays work good for me. Clean shaved up. Clean cut. Slim Pushins: Yeah, that your hair's on point. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, we're going back to Tuesday next week. Corby Scherb: No, my hair is out of control tonight. I need to get a haircut. I'm just gonna shave it. Jim Gardner: all right, let's get let's get to let's get to racing. Corby Scherb: I think I'd probably break some hearts if I shave my head. Slim Pushins: Wait, I'm not done with RPM. I had been at RPM maybe fifteen minutes, and this cloud of dust just comes out of nowhere, and Kevin Raimi hands me a rib. And I should have known this is my fault, along with not having any cash. I should have known he had been he had sent Jim and I videos all week of of his barbecue and barbecue skills, and he sent us one of the videos he sent, he Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: went to pick up a rib to show us just the color and everything and he grabbed it by the bone and just the clean bone comes out. So Corby Scherb: Hundred percent router. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: Like an idiot, when he brought me this rib, I go grab it by the bone and it I mean I juggled this thing for 30 seconds, ⁓ trying to keep it off my shirt, trying to keep it off the ground. ⁓ but it was a good rib. And then ⁓ he wanted to be he and RPM wanted to be a part of the corndog review. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Yep, we got that done. ⁓ yeah, I was in when I Slim Pushins: So Mr. Unapproachable took some time out of his out of his wrenching to step into the trailer. Jim Gardner: Yeah, the ⁓ the old turf and turf corndog and mini corndogs. So it hit all the ⁓ food groups there and they they were good. They were really, really good. Slim Pushins: I don't know how I feel about many corn dogs. I'm not against them, but when comparing the two Jim Gardner: Well, so here's the thing. Are are you getting many corn dogs because they're shareable? Because no, they're not. You know, if they're good, they ain't shareable. So what are we doing? So appreciate Kevin coming down and bringing those since I spent all my money on curbo ⁓ from the concession stand. But ⁓ yeah, we got hopefully ⁓ Kennedale ⁓ we'll we'll get another corndog review in. ⁓ because I didn't have the guts to go read the comments but but I'm pretty sure I know. Slim Pushins: Well, you didn't share any. Jim Gardner: probably what they look like. So yeah. So ⁓ great. Thanks, Christian. Corby Scherb: Probably one of ⁓ came from Ryder, I bet. Slim Pushins: Not yet. Kennison though. Corby Scherb: Rami was s being being super nice, man. He took he gave me and Braxton a ride around and showed us everything he did to the racetrack and the racetrack looks good. ⁓ Slim Pushins: There's your answer, Jim. Your answer to where is Corby and our driver for forty five minutes. He was he was taking a diplomatic tour of the facility. Jim Gardner: That happened yeah. Just waving like the pope. Corby Scherb: We were hanging out with Raimi. Slim Pushins: Ryder said he'd take a McRib over any Raimi barbecue. I don't know if what that says about Ryder or Oklahoma barbecue. Jim Gardner: Well, that's just categorically false. Yeah. Have you seen like the social media clips of all these World Cup fans coming to Texas and being blown away by the rodeo and you know, discovering being blown away by Texas barbecue and Buckeys and all sorts of stuff. Yeah. ⁓ God, yeah. That's why we make our own chili. Slim Pushins: The cattle drive and the stockyards. Corby Scherb: Way better than that stuff you get in Ohio. Jim Gardner: That's special. ⁓ Yeah. It's what we're having Sunday, baby. My my wife goes, What do you want for ⁓ for Father's Day? Skyline chili. Slim Pushins: Over spaghetti. You put your chili on spaghetti. And again Corby Scherb: What do you get Father's Day, Kirbo? Slim Pushins: ⁓ what am I being gifted for Father's Day? Nothing. Jim Gardner: Yeah. A Dylan Ramey shirt. Slim Pushins: Yeah, Jim got me a Dylan Raimi shirt for Father's Day. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Corby Scherb: The armband to get in. Slim Pushins: That wasn't for Father's Day. Jim Gardner: Yep. All right. ⁓ let's talk about the racing. Let's start at Abilene. ⁓ I talked to Wes Cranville last week because I had to call and apologize for acting like a jerk to him when he disqualified me. ⁓ and he he w Yeah, he ⁓ he expected them to to only have, you know, ten cars or so. They ended up getting eight. ⁓ but Michelle Parsons, ⁓ Michelle Parsons, excuse me, took home the win, and I think everybody can agree that that's a win ⁓ that we're all Slim Pushins: He was fully behind your one your one show suspension. Jim Gardner: excited about and happy for. So congratulations to her. Levi Clement was the hard charger, went eighth eighth to fifth. ⁓ I didn't there's no video or anything that I saw. ⁓ it's not on yeah. ⁓ you know ⁓ Corby Scherb: Saw a little clip from practice, that's it. Slim Pushins: I didn't see anything. Jim Gardner: But ⁓ so anyway, ⁓ you know, I it sucks that Abilene only got eight cars, but you know, when you have two other tracks running, that's gonna happen. And we had a lot of guys like we were talking about Rutherford and ⁓ the Estes the Estes clan are up in Nebraska right now. A couple of guys just took the weekend off to get prepared for that. So ⁓ a couple of cars that may have gone out west, ⁓ stayed at home. Slim Pushins: Well, we had one we had one Estes at RPM and Rutherford scheduled like a warrior run the morning off. And, you know, he's not here to defend himself and he's doing race car stuff, but ⁓ Corby and I wondered whether or not he was gonna be able to bounce back. I s I after the weekend was over I saw some of his videos and ⁓ Jim Gardner: ⁓ Yeah, he's on American Ninja Warrior in the morning. Corby Scherb: ⁓ high rocks. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Corby Scherb: He he's crazy though. He likes to work out a race day. I would never, never in my life even contemplate going for a jog on a race day. Jim Gardner: Yeah. No shit. Slim Pushins: Suzanne Cranfield said that Michelle wore her dad's uniform to honor him for Father's Day. That's really cool. Corby Scherb: That's super cool. Jim Gardner: Now we're talking. See, I got it I I'd a w I think my wife stole my Michelle Parsons shirt. ⁓ otherwise I won't have worn it on the pod tonight. But ⁓ yeah. Like I said, ⁓ I think everybody in town, ⁓ when we saw the results at RPM were like, Hell yeah. That's what we're talking about. ⁓ Corby Scherb: For sure. Slim Pushins: Brand Brandon Murphy said that he flew I'm assuming out of DFW El Paso Monday and there was World Cup fans smuggling Buckys back home. That's what I'm talking about. I could spend a hundred thousand dollars at Bucky's. Jim Gardner: Some some beaver nuggets. I think we take I've watched it happen. ⁓ Down south at 105 in Houston, Tyler Harris was the winner. They had sixteen or eighteen cars there. top five were cat ⁓ Tyler Harris, Cassidy, LeJune, Caden Trotter, Thomas Johnson, and Jacob Harris were your top five. Lance Christie was the hard charger, 14th to 9th. ⁓ and he was involved in a caution with like six to go and was plugged up against the infield tractor tire. So ⁓ he had a good recovery there to get back up to ninth. I did see pictures of tires from there and it didn't look good. Slim Pushins: Yeah, Christopher Townsend posted some stuff and they were skinned and blistered. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. They were they were baldy, so hate it. ⁓ hate you know, that's nine nine hundred bucks a tire or nine hundred bucks a car to finish that race. ⁓ you just can't have that too often. That's gotta be ⁓ you know the RPM, you know, I would say ⁓ I don't want to get punched in the mouth by Kevin, but I would say they probably have some things to Slim Pushins: They were probably raceaber tires if I had to guess, huh, Jim? Jim Gardner: To work on as far as the track goes, but it didn't eat up tires at all. You know, I bet. Slim Pushins: St Stasa said he th he thinks ⁓ Lance Christie flipped in his heat. Jim Gardner: ⁓ d I I was just looking at the highlights on your race on account after I got home from work. So I only watched the main event. But yeah. So ⁓ but yeah, ⁓ if yeah, if if he did, that's a good recovery for Lance. Like I said, he was it stuck plugged in an infield tire with five ups to go. So ⁓ anyway, he's like I said, he's up in Nebraska now. He's logging in the miles, he's run Slim Pushins: On mine? Awesome. Glad I could ⁓ provide that service for you. Jim Gardner: All eleven available race dates this year. ⁓ and then ⁓ you know, RPM where we all were ⁓ Kobe Stubblefield gets the win, Austin Mundy second, Charlie Harmon ⁓ was third, Carson Bolden came from ⁓ fifteenth to finish fourth, and he was the hard charger. Yeah, and Chad Wilson ⁓ was fifth. He was out of the B too. And ⁓ like I said, I I Slim Pushins: Out of the B. Corby Scherb: That's funny, they added the B two. That was good. That was that was a cute one there. Slim Pushins: See what you did there. Jim Gardner: Yeah, like that. ⁓ like I said, the the the track was I thought the heat races were good. ⁓ Colby Stubblefield showed everybody the top in heat one. ⁓ there were some big charges. I think Colby was ninth to first in that heat. Braxton ⁓ was ninth to third in heat two. There was a lot of movement and passing. The track was really wide, the top came in and then by you know, the they watered it for the bees and I think they caught some guys with their pants down. Slim Pushins: He didn't mean to do it. Jim Gardner: 'Cause there were, you know, the the the bee it's a metaphor. And ⁓ you know, the bees were entertaining and and kinda too grooved, but ⁓ between all the late models that were there and all the sprint cars, the the track just just didn't hold up hold up and ⁓ it was a little bottom heavy ⁓ catfishing around. But ⁓ like I said, it didn't tear up any tires. So I'm sure all the guys down south would have killed to run on that racetrack, you know what mean? ⁓ so you know. Slim Pushins: This is a family show, Jim. Corby Scherb: I had twenty eight cars too, you know, it's good and they had it they had a big ⁓ late model field too, so Jim Gardner: It was hot. It was sticky. And like I said, I think honestly, I don't think the track missed it that bad. ⁓ because if the top comes in at all, then it's really, really racy. You know, it just kind of got the bottom a little too good and nobody ever got off of it. And then the middle was real dirty. ⁓ and the top just didn't have anywhere you could carry some momentum. But like ⁓ Landon Thompson was in the B. He gets spun out. Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: restarts at the tail and rips the top back into like third or fourth in the B. I mean the track was racy, just it yeah. ⁓ and it just got crowded on the bottom. Everybody's holding each other up down there on the bottom. So ⁓ like I said, I don't I you know I think a lot of people in the moment were kind of, you know, ⁓ wishing it was better. I don't think anybody woke up Saturday hoping it was going to be huggy pull around the around the tires. Slim Pushins: He's not afraid to run the lip. Jim Gardner: ⁓ but that is what it is and you'll have that sometimes, but ⁓ a pretty good showing at RPM. Like I said, I was I was pretty happy. A lot of ⁓ bent up bumpers and bent front axles after that main event though, because ⁓ guys were running each other over. Slim Pushins: Well it Corby Scherb: Double Delaware. I'll never be a fan of it. Never ever ever ever never Especially not if we can't make a lap stop DN Double Delaware, line us up single file. You got it like you said, you know dude, I'm telling you right now, if someone beats my bumper apart before we take the green, I promise you I'm already upset. Jim Gardner: Never a fan. I hate it too. Leap. What and the Slim Pushins: That's go kart stuff. That's that's th that's what it is. It's kinda go kart stuff. Jim Gardner: Yeah, and Well it Corby Scherb: It's hard when it's bottom dominant to be double Delaware because the person on the outside has to do something to force himself to the bottom, whether they're trying to run next to the leader or whether they're trying to break check the person that's right behind them. Like i I I I just I'm not a fan. Jim Gardner: That and ⁓ I I'm with ya. I hate the double Delaware. ⁓ as a principal, I wanna I want ⁓ to leave that to to stock car racing and modified racing. It works fine for them. ⁓ You you know when there's so many games being played on the restarts, just in lining up that you should abort it, you know. guys are refusing to line. Corby Scherb: Absolutely. When when people are lining up on the inside and they're not forced to go to their starting pick, ⁓ that we we you're you're already asking for trouble and then and there's a reason they're not going up there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. The lineup was a mess. The lineup is a mess. I'm sitting there looking, I think who who was I watching? It might have been Landon. Landon Thompson on My Race Pass is thirteenth and he's restarting fifth, you know, f what looks like fifth because everybody had just refused to line up properly and he filled the spot. Which good for him. I got no problem with it. Get what you can. But you're sitting there looking at my race pass under a yellow and then a car is literally eight spots in front of where he's supposed to be. ⁓ it's just not you know, we talked about ⁓ we talked about ⁓ Slim Pushins: Jim, bring up Angie's comment. I agree a hundred percent with Angie's comment. Corby Scherb: But it's it's the same concept, you know, when when it it's whether you're in the rubber or it's just bottom dominant, ⁓ w 'cause even whenever it's top dominant, I mean if you wanna, you know, throw caution to the wind you can always just go ahead and bomb ⁓ going into turn one. ⁓ but ⁓ Jim Gardner: Yeah, drinking problem. Sorry. Slim Pushins: Corby, did you see her did you see her comment? I think it's dead on. And I don't think that's like I think ⁓ I don't Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, ⁓ I just I man I think TSS had a great rule too. ⁓ the the concept of if we'll try it twice, if we can't do that, then we're going single file period the end. ⁓ the same th we will only do three double Delawares anyways throughout the feature. ⁓ you just you're you're gosh. I I just I don't like it. I'm not a fan because like I said and and I'm gonna I if I'm starting on the outside, I promise you I'm gonna do everything in my power and force my way to the bottom and I will drive you into the tractor tire if you wanna fight me for it. Slim Pushins: Stasa Stasa said choose cone. I love the choose cone. What don't you like about it, Jim? To me, it adds a little bit of drama. It gives the driver a choice. Everybody's car is better on the top or better on the bottom or set up differently. I like it. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, I mean Corby Scherb: It's Jim Gardner: I I like it better than force double Delaware double file. I I if if you're gonna restart double file, I would rather have the option of either deciding on the bottom or deciding the top. ⁓ so if if we're it if it's gonna be drilled down that we're gonna restart double file, then I would like a choose cone. The reason I kind of don't like it is it adds more caution lapse. You have to have Corby Scherb: I agree. Jim Gardner: somebody run out there and set the cone, you have to r have somebody run out there and go get the cone afterwards. ⁓ you know, do you gas up and get lined up? And i if for weekly racing, I think it's a tough operation. Or just rather do not do it, I you know, ⁓ I don't know, like Slim Pushins: The but you don't like the you don't like the long rope? Jim Gardner: No, it yeah, it's fine. You still have to send somebody out there, you know, under yellow and guys aren't always paying attention and you you know, like the whole point of like Corby Scherb: Call Landon Wilson. He's got an R C car, he'll run it out there. Jim Gardner: Yeah, ⁓ who did high limit start that or something and somebody ran it over? They had like a drone or something. Yeah, I I like the idea of it, but I don't want somebody to get hit for being out there and somebody wasn't paying attention. I don't want more caution laps. Slim Pushins: I think it's one track. Drone would be cool. Corby Scherb: I think something like that. It'd be cool till it got clobbered. Slim Pushins: What if it's what if it's like NASCAR? What if somebody goes out there what if somebody goes out there with like a chalk mark? You know. I just like the I just like the choice. I would think that ⁓ yeah Jim Gardner: Then you're still sending somebody out there, then just have a cone. I love the choice. I'd I'd I Corby Scherb: I I I see what Patrick's saying. I I get it that we run a lot of short tracks around here. ⁓ you know, ⁓ the luck of the draw in in my opinion. ⁓ if you drew bad and you didn't get through a heat or something dumb happened in your heat race, like ⁓ just it it sucks sometimes. It's to to me I don't I I've seen it hinder, I think, more people than it truly has helped. ⁓ same I know Carson Bolden jumped to the outside line when people wouldn't go up there. If we're gonna do double Delaware, you're forced to go up there, no matter what. And if you don't wanna support that racetrack, then don't go support that racetrack, you know what I mean? Jim Gardner: Yeah. I well the and I I didn't have a receiver, obviously, ⁓ 'cause I'm not a driver. ⁓ but some tracks and some series well you used to when you were locked in. You you, Mr. Slim Pushins, didn't push one car all night. Slim Pushins: Was that a dig at me? Corby Scherb: One hundred percent. Slim Pushins: We'll we'll get to that. W I know you wanna cover that. Hold on. I'm I'm gonna make a note real quick of that. Corby Scherb: Mm. ⁓ Jim Gardner: But we we need to talk about that. I I do want to talk about that. But ⁓ I now I lost my train of thought. ⁓ so some some tracks do a better job on the receiver of explaining how everything needs to be lined up. I think that on the receiver they should say 32, 1, 18, 6, 5 is all inside, then outside and list who should be there. Because when they try to just like list the order and you're sitting there running 13th like I always am. Slim Pushins: Good, good. Damn it. Corby Scherb: Uh-huh. Jim Gardner: You're like, okay, is that okay? Right. You know what I mean? I would just rather him say Slim Pushins: I could see where that part would be really confusing in the moment. Corby Scherb: Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. You don't literally the caution comes out and you start counting inside, outside, inside, outside, inside. You don't do that? Slim Pushins: He's gotta be talking to you. He's not talking to me. Jim Gardner: I I do, but it's backwards. So yes, so I I do. Corby Scherb: No, it's not backwards. You know that the l you know the leaders out front, so you count second to inside, outside, inside, outside, inside, outside. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's backwards of a normal start. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Right, so odd numbers are on the inside to start and on even numbers are on the outside to start a race, but then under caution we're gonna flip ⁓ Can't you can't you just have the race director say, Hey, the inside line are these five cars, the outside line are these five cars. Corby Scherb: Uh-huh. Just my opinion. I mean if we're honestly no, no, we're not back to the choose cone. If we're gonna do a double foul start, it's gonna be a double foul start. From s from first person to second person. Because and I I'll say this and and Austin knows that I love him very much and he did everything in his power to make sure that whoever was starting inside the second row couldn't get by him. You can pull up next to the leader. Slim Pushins: So we're back to the choose cone. Jim Gardner: I think that's great too, 'cause there's plenty of Corby Scherb: You can. If the leader is on the bottom, there's nothing you can do. Jim Gardner: I'm I I'm with Kyle. It's yeah. Yes, Corby. Yes, Corby. It's easy to figure it out when you're running fourth. All right. Us blue collar guys fighting for our life and sixteenth. It's it's it's challenge. Yeah. I played ⁓ music bingo with my wife a couple Saturdays ago. It was actually really fun. So I no, I'm not hating on him. Corby Scherb: Just tell me where to go. Just tell me where to go. Slim Pushins: Kyle's your spirit animal. Hey, Christian Kinison's at Bingo. Don't Kennison Kennison you better ⁓ you better make sure you have a bingo before you stand up and yell bingo 'cause them old ladies are not playing. Jim Gardner: They'll take you they'll take you to the tech shed. Corby Scherb: I just think if it's gonna be double file in sprint cars, it needs to be double file. And ⁓ you can let the leader choose the inside or outside and everything else falls in line. I I'm with Jimmy. Odds on the inside, evens on the outside. I just I just don't like the Delaware. I think that you're giving the person who's starting second row outside an advantage, no matter what. I don't care if it's around the top 'cause then they're in the meat. Slim Pushins: Ha ha. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it would be easier. Slim Pushins: Put put Ryder's com ⁓ Ryder's comment hasn't come up on our screen yet. Single fire f single fire requires more racecraft and thinking. Jim Gardner: I ⁓ yeah I don't want to That is astute. You're wise beyond your years, mister LePlant. I've got to agree with him. On this on this. He's good. Slim Pushins: Easy. Easy. He tried to tell Corby and I last week that he was an adult. Corby Scherb: Then we got pro we're not gonna bring it up, but he he got proven that he's not he's just a child. He will always be a child to me. That's why he's the kid. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ yeah, I don't wanna keep beating this horse to death. It yeah, everybody in town runs double w they're not gonna watch pushing the cushion on Wednesday and be like, ⁓ let's change. ⁓ Yeah, that probably. But ⁓ Slim Pushins: No, but they'd watch it on Tuesday. Angie said wing builders and parts stores love it. Corby Scherb: ⁓ I'm sure they do. Axles, shocks. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so so I think ⁓ and again this ⁓ we'll just put a pin on this. I I know Chad Wilson was red hot after the race about the red tractor tire. Which was yeah. Well, I so I had ⁓ who was the ⁓ old race director for TSS, the the modified guy, real nice guy, his wife ran the lineups. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Well, his car was twelve inches shorter at the end of the race than it was when it started. Jim Gardner: The modify he had he had the pool company out there. ⁓ Brad Shirley. I had a less than heated discussion barely ⁓ with him. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Brad Shirley. Slim Pushins: I'm starting to find I'm starting to see a theme here with Mr. Unapproachable. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I had I ⁓ he and I kind of got into it behind the grandstands at Kennedale one night, I think. ⁓ I think Lucas may have had the lead and lost it. ⁓ because they had the remember the little man, everybody's favorite little man, and they had like you you had a restart cone, then you had the little man, and you had to restart within those twenty feet, and literally the entire field knew where the leader had to restart the race. Corby Scherb: One hundred percent. Jim Gardner: And they try to cheat it from ninth and run into people. And I remember vividly having this conversation because Austin Berkham was standing there right next to me. And Austin goes, Yeah, I think I was in seventh, and it kind of sucks because you can't see the little man from the outside zone. I don't know where he's gonna go. And I said, That's my point. Why should the guy in seventh know where the leader is restarting the race? That doesn't make any sense, you know. So I think, yes, the track being one lane, it should have probably just been single file. ⁓ but ⁓ if you're gonna do double file, you need to widen the restart zone and give the leader an advantage. You know, the leader should have control of the field, say, going into turn three and restart the race wherever he wants to. You know, I think that would have saved everybody hundreds of dollars and rear bumpers on Saturday. ⁓ but Slim Pushins: Hashtag Jimmy Problems. Jim Gardner: Anyway, those are those are they that those are s Corby Scherb: Like I said, ⁓ there was a there was a race we we've said the story about at Abilene on a double Delaware that happened with me and my brother and I was on the inside and it's it's that's what I'm saying. Like you just in my opinion, it it helps no one but the guy starting on the outside because they can pull up farther than the guys on the inside. Period the end. I don't care who wants to argue with me. I w I will show you video after video after video of the guy who starts Slim Pushins: And leave at the same time. Corby Scherb: Second row outside is at least nerfed to rear tire. At least. Jim Gardner: Yeah. It ⁓ Slim Pushins: Robert Byron's behind he's he's on board with the cone. Jim Gardner: Yeah. And look, these all happen at RPM. We're all at RPM. ⁓ this is not an it's not an RPM specific problem. Corby Scherb: It happens th th this I'm telling a story about Abilene. No, it it's it is a double Delaware problem with sprint cars and any kind of start zone. Slim Pushins: No. Jim Gardner: Canada fights the same issues. It's it's something that I don't make the rules for good reason, ⁓ that I would change and that I would like to see better. I think Corby Scherb: We just need you to abide by the rules. Too soon. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Ha ha ha. Alright, well it's been a good show. Jim's about to shut our mics off. Jim Gardner: Good one. All right. Yeah. All right. Woo Yeah. ⁓ anyway, nobody should listen to us. You know, I'm ⁓ we're not I thought the race sa I had a great time at at RPM facilities great. I thought the track was fine, the track was the same for everybody and Colby was the best, you know. Bathrooms are awesome, the corn dogs are great. Corby Scherb: I just I I I think that For sure. It was it Slim Pushins: Corby, how were the bathrooms? Corby Scherb: ⁓ Colby was Kobe was really good, you know. ⁓ Bolden and Chad were really good. You know, they started deep and ⁓ I I think that it was definitely a racetrack that let a a bit of driver ability come come to show. It wasn't just ⁓ hammer down around the r the tires. ⁓ and I'll always support racetracks like that, especially like I said, if it doesn't tear up tires, you you can't complain too much. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's Yeah, and and look, Bolden was what plus eleven, plus fourteen, Chad was plus ten. There were big movers. ⁓ Charlie Harman was like plus eight to finish third. It's not that you couldn't go anywhere, you just had to be patient and ⁓ not wear it out. My cat's losing his mind. What do you want? ⁓ so yeah, it was fine. ⁓ I enjoyed it Saturday night, but ⁓ some overarching kind of things that are frustrating to be Slim Pushins: So another reason you don't have cats. Jim Gardner: either a competitor in or ⁓ or or working on a car or whatever. So ⁓ that's that. That was the weekend. Corby Scherb: One hundred percent I agree with Patrick Saucer right there and and saying it, you know, everyone's racing the same racetrack, everyone's dealing with the same rules. ⁓ until you can collectively come together and support everyone's decision. There is some racetracks that will try to listen to you. ⁓ I say it was good in the heat race, just just a little too late to to catch the top back up 'cause RPM's usually really good to be around the top. ⁓ there's just Jim Jimmy's getting murdered over there. Jim Gardner: Look, the racetrack My cat is pissed off. Hang on, I'll be back. Y'all finish this up. Corby Scherb: You mean to call nine one one now? What happened? We alright? Slim Pushins: Did he just did he just bolt to take care of a cat? Corby Scherb: How far is the closest like ⁓ fire station from Jim's house? Jim Gardner: I can still hear you. Slim Pushins: Damn it. ⁓ so I we handed out we handed out ⁓ the official tail tank winner stickers to those in attendance. ⁓ Stubblefield got a couple, Ricketts got a couple, ⁓ Landon Thompson got one. ⁓ Jim snuck over to Raimi's car, just slapped one on his tail tank, didn't even ask. Sideways, sideways, upside down. Jim Gardner: Yep, it was up that's right. Now it's nice. Right up top in the big trailer, the super trailer. Slim Pushins: That was all I gotta give credit to Jim. That was all Jim's idea with kind of a throwback. ⁓ and I didn't know how people would take it, but ⁓ those that I handed them out to seem to like ⁓ Jim Gardner: ⁓ Yeah, if ⁓ Corby Scherb: Y'all aren't even gonna talk about it. Did we say, yeah, I mean twenty eight cars at RPM? I mean it's huge, huge support. That was awesome to see. ⁓ I I'm glad like I said, I I'll tell this to everyone. I think it's like the last true short track that we have around here. ⁓ it was cool to see that many cars out there. Fast guys too, not just nobodies. Couple of the Devils Bowl guys are coming back. Jim Gardner: ⁓ it's a good it was a really good field. Yeah, ⁓ I mean the field was great. The field was super tough. ⁓ and and and like I said, the the racing is only gonna get better. I I don't think it was bad. It's only gonna get better with ⁓ Raimi's at the helm. So ⁓ I'm excited. I don't ⁓ when do they race next? Where's my schedule at? Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: We got Canadale this weekend. Hopefully it doesn't rain, it doesn't look awesome, but we'll see. Slim Pushins: It doesn't look promising at all. But this tropical storm in the Gulf could change that a little bit, honestly. Jim Gardner: Yeah, Canada Canadale this week. I don't s and then ⁓ it looks like Ardenmore next week. Slim Pushins: Pushing the cushion ⁓ will not be at Ardmore. We're doing something a little different next weekend. Jim Gardner: ⁓ ⁓ I'll be there. Slim Pushins: At Ardmore representing Jim Gardner: Yeah. You think just you think Justin Bates is gonna not let me go back to Ardmore? Look, I I already got some front wing post for it, baby. You're going there to whip some ass. Corby Scherb: Redemption engaged? Slim Pushins: Good. I'm glad you're I'm glad you're gonna be there. I'm glad you're gonna be there without us to run interference for you, 'cause I'm gonna post something else now that I have the ⁓ password to the podcast page. I'm gonna post Jim Gardner: You've always had the password of the podcast page. Your email is the email we use to set it up. Slim Pushins: Yeah, but that's not an email that I use. 'Cause you don't even like run sheets. Corby Scherb: Why didn't I get the password? Jim Gardner: Because you don't care. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Y'all just gotta let me lose on the Facebook page one day. Slim Pushins: No. Jim Gardner: No. No. Corby Scherb: Why? Slim Pushins: That's not gonna happen. Jim Gardner: No. ⁓ RPM's running three ⁓ five's next week too. RPM and Ardmore. Yeah. Slim Pushins: They are. We'll we're going to ⁓ Jim Gardner: Saturday the twenty seventh. Slim Pushins: We're going to Oklahoma for a tr big tractor pool. I haven't been to a tractor pool since I was probably six years old. Jim Gardner: Never been. Slim Pushins: ⁓ evidently you're missing out. Corby's excited. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so both RPM and Ardmore next week. on Saturday. Looks like July 4th weekend. There's a race in Waco Saturday night. I'll be in Cleveland, jealous for Fourth of July weekend. Cleveland, Ohio, not Cleveland, Texas at one. Corby Scherb: Static. Slim Pushins: Back to racing. No. Maybe they'll let loose a million balloons, Jim. Corby Scherb: Playing civil war? You gonna be playing civil war up there? Jim Gardner: No, no, we're going up to see Chelsea's family. That n they're not Civil War ⁓ players. That's in Cincinnati. That's all my buddies from growing up. Slim Pushins: Mm-hmm. You you're gonna have to explain that, Corby, 'cause everybody all both of our listeners don't Jim Gardner: ⁓ Corby Scherb: Th there is no there is no rules. That it doesn't matter. It's some form of like flip cup and beer pong mixed together with I'm just gonna tackle you and and if it ever happened in the state of Texas, there will be fists everywhere. Jim Gardner: It's So it's it's very simple. Let me Slim Pushins: Yeah, that's why that's why we don't play games like that down here. 'Cause we wouldn't have any friends. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: We just sit around campfires and enjoy the night. Jim Gardner: It's not You're boring. Corby Scherb: What are you doing right now? Just sitting outside drinking an adult beverage. Slim Pushins: Chillin'. Like do you wish Jim Gardner: I'm sitting in my garage that's ninety eight percent humidity, sweating my because I had to lock my cat out. Yeah, into a pool. Slim Pushins: Do you wish that we were tackling you right now? Yeah, do you wish that we were tackling you right now over a over a hot sh shaken up Corz Light? Jim Gardner: Not really. ⁓ Slim Pushins: No. Hey, you got some clips. I'm tired of talking about racing. Let's talk about other racing. The trailer race. I'm glad y'all brought that up pre show. I saw the it is it's gnarly. Jim Gardner: Okay. ⁓ so ⁓ okay, so you wanna do the trailer race? Corby Scherb: That's that we should do that. Jim Gardner: I don't Corby Scherb: I will build a car 100% in my driveway. We ain't beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Slim Pushins: So Jim Gardner: Okay, so this is this clip's been going around. I don't know if it happened last weekend or whatever. This is in Slinger, Wisconsin. ⁓ where's it at? Okay, here we go. Slim Pushins: I don't know when it was, where it was. Tell them that so hold on, hold on. So the premise the premise is there's a pace truck with a car with a flatbed car hauler type trailer on it with ramps that are just dragging the ground. And I guess th it's just no holds barred as this as this pace truck is pacing, these you know imports for the most part. I'm assuming they're probably front wheel drive, wouldn't you think? Jim Gardner: With a trailer. Yeah. Yep. With the ⁓ no, I the one who g well let's here, let's play the clip. So the goal is ⁓ this is the wrong one. That's second clip. My bad. ⁓ zip it. There we go. Okay, so the the the the pace truck is dragging a trailer and it's got a ramp down, and all these other cars and trucks, the goal is to land it on the trailer and park it. Corby Scherb: Here we go, we're going downhill. Slim Pushins: This is why we only have two listeners. There's the pace truck. Jim Gardner: And the whoever lamp parks it on the trailer wins. I don't know what he wins. Slim Pushins: That is awesome. Corby Scherb: The guy in the truck just got beat to death the whole time. Slim Pushins: Ha ha Jim Gardner: So I mean look at the the trailer Slim Pushins: I know a lot of people are gonna be listening to this without the video. You're missing out. ⁓ Jim Gardner: The trailer wheel is smoking, you know, it's blown out or something, so then this guy gets parked on it and one guy about right fronts it into the fence. Slim Pushins: It's I saw Uncle Mike I saw Uncle Mike put he loaded up his side by side exactly like that in Waco one night. Play that again while we're talking about it. Just fire it up again. Jim Gardner: That looks like that looks like just a straight up Mike George. That's Slim Pushins: It's for those of you that aren't watching, that you're just beating yourself up because you're in your car. This is the WWF of like local I this is asphalt racing. And these cars are trying to get up on this trailer, and every other car on the track is doing everything they can to not let that happen. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Well Corby Scherb: I'm sure Wesley McNorton can come up with the way, but I think that you need a driver, like you need a steering wheel guy and a throttle and brake guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Well, I have that question. We're gonna ask that question in a minute too. I wanna ask that of y'all. Jim Gardner: No Corby Scherb: Yes. I think we need one of those races. I I think we need one of those races around here and the old bombers with the old ⁓ driving instructor. That's that's what we'll call it, the driving instructor race. Jim Gardner: ⁓ that guy and that Yeah. So ⁓ Corby Scherb: And curbo is steering and I am putting it on the floor. No until we hit something hard. Slim Pushins: So Alright, so that's the question I want to pose to you two. If we were to do that, Corby, you pretty much already answered it. Would you want to be gas and brake or wheel? Corby Scherb: No, I'm telling you right now, you're gonna be steering 'cause you think that you're a driver and you could do all this stuff and I'm putting it on the floor. And I promise you, we I'm not letting off until we hit something hard. Jim Gardner: Trying to ⁓ how do I get out of here? Corby Scherb: I don't know. We're cooked. Slim Pushins: Jim, what do you what would you want to do? Gas and brake or Jim Gardner: So they're Corby Scherb: Why would you want to steer? You I mean we can you we do we need to relive the the go kart race? You claim you come from go kart racing and all that stuff and pretty sure I won that night. Pretty sure. Jim Gardner: There we go. Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Zero comments. Zero nobody's commenting. I think everybody they're like, what in the hell? What in the hell just happened? Jim Gardner: This nobody cares. Anyway, so I found that clip today because ⁓ our buddy Wesley McNorton had sent me another clip. Grayson County ⁓ had themselves a wild four banger accident. And ⁓ we only know about it because Wesley's older, better looking brother Randy, was in this race. And ⁓ you know, sprint cars get bagged on all the time, being called push and flips and ⁓ you know. Dune buggies and things like that. Here is a ⁓ yeah, four banger Slim Pushins: Where was this at? Grayson County? Corby Scherb: God, it's that that's such a cool place too. It I I'll I'll say it too. Grayson is a true short track. Jim Gardner: Had the juice to it, but here we go. Here we go. Squeeze three wide. Watch this guy take off. Slim Pushins: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: Yes. That's a big old ride in a two piece fire suit. Jim Gardner: The the guy put it next to a Saturday and was rocking a two piece fire suit. And I was like, man, I'm not sure about that. Yeah, and it had half the body off of it. ⁓ so I guess Randy's back here behind the wreck. So Randy's running fifth, and ⁓ homeboy gets turned and ballparked. And the sketchy part is is the lineup shoots right behind that so called fencing down there in turn three. Slim Pushins: Ha ha. Yeah he was. Yeah he was. He loaded up that car topless. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Not anymore, he's not. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: That was like always my deepest fear at some of these tracks pushing you guys to just sitting behind some place and it'll land it in. Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Just sitting there and then a and then a ninety five Pontiac sunfire comes screaming flippin' over the down the down the hill into the car and four wheeler? Corby Scherb: One ⁓ five's the same way. Jim Gardner: ⁓ that's a big lick in a four banger. ⁓ those are all Yeah. Those are ⁓ how the hell do I okay, here we go. Anyway, some ⁓ some action from around around town last weekend. Slim Pushins: In a two piece. Corby called him out for having a two piece. Good job. Corby's asleep. Corby Scherb: I'm listening, buddy. Slim Pushins: Jim, do you see Jim, did you see the ⁓ title that I gave Corby? Jim Gardner: What do we Yeah. Corby Scherb: Just call me the tired guy today. You could go with that. Slim Pushins: has been I don't know if Corby can see those. Can you see those, Jim? Corby Scherb: One hundred percent I can see him. Jim Gardner: ⁓ man. All right. Slim Pushins: ⁓ right, ⁓ so I have one more question ⁓ along the lines of the gas and brake and steering wheel. What about the chain races where the two cars are chained together with what like a ten, twelve foot chain? And the the guy in the front has steering and accelerator, the guy in the back has steering and brake. Which one would you want to be? Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. Steering accelerator. Slim Pushins: Corey? Jim Gardner: Are you sure that that's the breakdown? Slim Pushins: No. ⁓ Corby Scherb: It depends on who I'm sitting with. It it depends on who I'm riding with. I I think that that that really matters. Slim Pushins: It's you're riding with me. No, you're not riding with me. You're in we're a pair. We're an item. We're together. Corby Scherb: So I get the steering wheel or the brakes for the chain race? For the chain for the chain race I'll be ⁓ I'll steer for that one. Slim Pushins: Yeah, the car in the back. Jim Gardner: Duct tape numbers. Duct tape numbers for the win. Slim Pushins: Well both of ⁓ steer, but one of ⁓ the car in the front has steering and accelerator, no brakes. The the c Corby Scherb: No, in the You're not good. So I'm gonna I'm gonna get to do more than you. You just have to ride along and I'm gonna sling you over the fence. I don't care. I don't need brakes. Phenomenal. See, that's what I don't like. That's why I'm saying if we did the the driving instructor race, you're steering and I am I on the floor. Slim Pushins: But you don't have brakes. I have brakes. Don't eat You would do that to us. Corby Scherb: I would one hundred s I first slap, we're done. First first first slap. Boyd actually put the guardrail all the way around, but like before I would try to clear the guardrail while you're steering. Just to prove to everyone that you're not good at driving. Slim Pushins: Just sabotage you would sabotage the shit. That's the most Corby thing ever. That is the most Randy said he would be part of any of those events. That anybody surprised by that comment? Jim Gardner: Yeah. That's why we've that's why we've never done it. And that's why we're never going to do it. Yeah, do there you go. You y you can do it with Randy. Corby Scherb: One hundred percent. Slim Pushins: No, no no no. It's Corby and I. Jim Gardner: Anyway. Corby Scherb: I could put it on the floor with Randy and Ran and Randy will drive it out. Slim Pushins: Okay. Alright. We started the show with y'all we started the show with y'all bagging on me and ⁓ we'll just continue through the Corby told me I'm a no driving sack shit. Corby Scherb: Just every every single lap, your only hope is to run the slider line. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Mark that Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Had whiplash. Car sick. I don't even get car sick. Slim Pushins: Forty nine minutes, almost forty nine minutes exactly, Jim. We'll put that on the TikTok that you've never seen. Jim Gardner: I'm I'm so happy there was no room in the truck and you guys kicked me out and I had to drive myself. Slim Pushins: All right, Jim. ⁓ since we're talking about bagging on me, let's talk about the number nine cart, the red nine at RPM. Corby Scherb: Kervo. Jim Gardner: ⁓ yes. Okay, so ⁓ we had a whole mess of problems and ⁓ changing tires and and ⁓ motor wouldn't run and some some different stuff. So I did not get a chance to to walk down to see my guy, my favorite driver in town, Kurt Summers in the red number nine car. ⁓ and I so Slim Pushins: Explain it to everybody. Jim Gardner: So he pulls up, he's he's got a white Chevy Suburban pulling an open trailer. Trailer's got three spare tires and a sprint car on it. Corby Scherb: Old school, like true old school racing. Keep going. Yeah. Yeah, no. Slim Pushins: Like suburban, not beat up, not old, like straight from soccer practice. Jim Gardner: Yeah, no a nice late model one. Yes. Dr backs a car off the trailer, unhooks the suburban, and they bolted a push bumper on the suburban. Yeah. Slim Pushins: No, it was there. They drove it in. I saw ⁓ when I was when Corby was by my pit pass. They they had that Jim Gardner: Yeah, so sh sure enough, sure enough, like walking around the pits, motor heat, here comes a white suburban pushing pushing a red number nine car to fire it off. And I'm like, they're gonna yeah, they're they're gonna take that thing out on the racetrack. So we go out for hot laps, it's cur you know, it's Corby pushing pushing Braxton and it's everybody else, this crew guy pushing their guys. Slim Pushins: ⁓ I'll give I'll give y'all just a second. Clean. Pud and pop. Jim Gardner: Sure enough, here comes the white suburban pushing the nine car out. And I was like, hell yes. I am in for people who find a way. No. Find a way to go racing. I love it so much. If if that guy had t shirts for sale, I'd be wearing a Kurt Summers shirt right now. ⁓ I yeah, I probably I would have. Yeah. And if he doesn't have shirts for sale, I hope he finds this clip. I will make you a shirt. That's just a sprint car with a nine on it. I'm in. Slim Pushins: No hazard lights, nothing. Just just Would you have bought me one? Corby Scherb: You he already bought you a shirt. Slim Pushins: Stomp and steer. I mean d you have to put the suburban on it. That's part of the Jim Gardner: That's right. Yeah, I'll have to find a drawing of a suburban. ⁓ and so I'm like, hey, Slim, since you're not doing anything, why don't you walk down there or or drive down there on your four wheeler, the curb of and offer to push him onto the racetrack. And he's like, No, no, no, I'm not gonna do that. I don't want to get lumped into doing that all night. That's bullshit. Slim Pushins: Easy, easy. It was a I'm assuming I don't want to speak out of turn. I'm assuming it was a f Yes. Yes. Yes. Like an eighteen foot eighteen foot suburban. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Do you know how hard it is to get off the race to get off that racetrack in a sprint car, let alone in a full size SUV? Yes. Yes. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Man, I got so much respect for guys. You know, we there are some divas in the pit area. Two of them are on this podcast right now that will not go racing unless unless they have everything ready to go. And I got a lot of respect for a guy that says Slim Pushins: It was pretty cool. Two of them. Jim Gardner: You know, I know I need a four-wheeler. Like, we don't have one. This is what we're using. ⁓ and I really don't care. And I it was so refreshing to see. Then I got on my race pass and like looked him up. He's 47 or 48 years old. I guess he was a gasser like 15 years ago and ran Devil's Bowl in the 360s and 305s. Has a couple wins. Like I was thinking Saturday night, it was his first time. He's put it in the show. He finished like 12th. And I was like, Hell yeah, man, this is awesome. Then I found out he was like an old. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: Grizzly veteran who probably really knows what he's doing. And I kind of even had a little bit more respect for it. You know, got Slim Pushins: We probably have it all wrong too. The guy's probably worth millions. And like he's he's got like a he's got like back problems. He can't hop up on a four wheeler, so he just bought him a whole ass suburban to be his push truck. That's Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. AC, I mean, that suburban's got air conditioning in it. You take the whole crew out there on the racetrack and they're not gonna complain. But that was the best thing I saw all weekend. ⁓ was the you know, and ⁓ load it up, hook the hook ⁓ the the suburban back up to the trailer, push the car up there, down the road we go. It was the coolest thing I saw all weekend. I'm a huge fan. Slim Pushins: Tinted windows. Corby Scherb: I g I bet you I I'd almost bet you money that Russell Shoulders has gone to the racetrack like that and Carolyn has pushed him off in the vehicle they towed the car to the track with. Jim Gardner: No, like so Russell to load yeah, to load to load his car. So Russell had one of those ⁓ half enclosed, half open trailers curbo, and at his shop was a little it was a pretty long driveway and it had a left turn in it and it was probably Yeah, with a big hill. So he would drag it up the hill, p put it in gear, get in the car, pop it out of gear. Slim Pushins: It's an old school thing, like the Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. I thought you were gonna say a little hill. That's not a it's not a little hill. I mean Yeah Jim Gardner: And Fred Flintstone it down the hill, one shot, running about twenty miles an hour, boom, hit the trailer, up on the trailer, slam on the brakes, lock it in gear, go to Devil's Bowl. Slim Pushins: Bates said don't make fun of old people. Jim Gardner: I mean he's getting there. But ⁓ it was it was yeah and Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jesse Kelly says she thinks she that he might have run SST. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I looked him up. He had like one or two races a year, like in fifteen, fourteen, you know, before I moved down here. ⁓ you know, and then back all the way into the nineties at Devil's Bowl. So he's from Fourny. I bet he's ⁓ you know, I bet he's an old grizzly veteran, just like everybody else in Mesquite down there. ⁓ that I just didn't know about. Yeah. But yeah. ⁓ he definitely knows Russell. So anyway, I hope this video finds you, Kurt. I want one of your t shirts. It was ⁓ Corby Scherb: I need to call Russell. I need to get the whole story on this guy. If he's from Fourney. Jim Gardner: That was awesome. Corby Scherb: I'll say this on on air, man. His car sounded really good too. I don't know if he turned it 10 grand or it just sounded that good. It sounded really good. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I didn't ⁓ I forget where I was doing a bunch of you know, we had fifty cars race. Yeah. I was making drops. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Yeah. Drops. This is always scary when Jim's going after something. Jim Gardner: No, just seeing where he ended up finishing. ⁓ Thirteenth. Yeah. So anyway, that was the coolest thing I saw. What did you guys see this weekend that you liked? What was the best thing you saw? Corby Scherb: My driver didn't run out of talent. We ⁓ the car the the I I failed him but the driver didn't run out of talent, so it was awesome. Slim Pushins: The ribs. Jim Gardner: Yeah, the car did. No, you s you said ⁓ you said your neighbor put in some work with a weed eater. Corby Scherb: Yeah, ⁓ yeah, well, I got one neighbor, ⁓ the the new neighbors, ⁓ yeah, so ⁓ you know, ch change of pace over here. I you know, I I lived in my childhood home, right? ⁓ up until two weeks ago and I I've known all my neighbors basically my whole life. Truly. Like Dennis lives behind me, Brian across the street, Mark next to me. I I know I know everyone. I know we moved to a new place and ⁓ Slim Pushins: ⁓ yeah, Corby's got some great s weekend stories. Stuff happens to Corby now that doesn't happen to other people. Corby Scherb: Walked outside the other day and I ho I hope, I pray that they don't know who I am and see this podcast. And ⁓ dude across the streets pulling a three ton steel jack out of the out of the living room. I'm like damn pulls it out, pulls the handle off, picks it up, puts it in the backseat of the blazer, sets the handle in and goes sits down on the chair. I was like I it was aggressive. Aggressive. Then ⁓ Slim Pushins: Straight out of the living room. I wanna know what kind of furniture he was moving that he needed a three ton jack in the house. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Just keeps it in there to stay ready. That way I didn't have to get ready. Corby Scherb: ⁓ a couple days later I walked outside and and I heard a weeder going and I was like, Okay, right on and my neighbor, you know, sh or the person behind me, she really couldn't no, she could she couldn't really care about the grass or anything like that, but the weeders go in the yard. I'm like, ⁓ right on man, she's she's gonna weed in the backyard and I'm not like Lucas when it comes to grass, but I I try to to keep it down. And ⁓ I look over there and I'm like, Dang man, that's a that's an electric powered weeder and I kept looking. I'm talking Slim Pushins: Ha ha. You like peeking over the fence? Extension cord. Corby Scherb: I'm talking full suited hood all the way over, the mask, the gloves, the whole deal Not a l ready. Bubble wrap. Bubble wrap. So yeah, w I I haven't I haven't got to to talk to them yet, but one hundred percent didn't touch the front yard. Didn't need it. Still six foot up a giraffe's ass. Slim Pushins: Like the holy bola special. We needed the whole backyard. Jim Gardner: But like mow mowed the whole backyard with a wheat eater. No Lamar. Like a quarter acre. Corby Scherb: Yes. No, didn't need it. One hundred percent. It's going to town. The amount of string that she went through is probably impressive. Yeah, I gotta I gotta go talk to some people, ⁓ you know, ⁓ introduce myself and and see what's see what's going on. The three ton jack guy and three ton jack guy? Slim Pushins: Just just just pullin' that just pulling that extension cord as she goes. Yeah! Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: I'd start with that guy. Just take him a core's line and be like, listen, I got a question, buddy. Jim Gardner: Maybe offer your services. Yeah. Corby Scherb: I guarantee it, I bet you he's got a fifty five gallon barrel of crushed up Corz Light cans in the backyard and he will fight on site. Slim Pushins: ⁓ Yeah. You know he answers the door with a firearm. Jim Gardner: Ugh. That's awesome. Corby Scherb: Yeah, I mean we could talk about neighbors all we want, Coro. I'm pretty sure that I was sitting at your house one night, I think this was last winter, and we're all just sitting there and Chad Wilson was there and then we just hear this big crunch. Slim Pushins: Yeah, yo, we were building my push bar for the four wheeler that night. Corby Scherb: Yeah, so it was last year, for sure. La last beginning of the season last year. One hundred percent, because you just left the nine, like you nothing. And this guy this guy rips apparently. Jim Gardner: It never gets used either. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Whippo. Go ahead. Wilson, so Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: And we hear this big crunch and we look up and Kerbo's ⁓ Wilson just got his daughter ⁓ a car and she was parked like in the middle of the driveway. Like sideways yeah, right outside of the driveway. And the lady across the street backed up and boom didn't even know she hit. Put it in put it down down there in D for dominate and went to pull off and Chad took off running. And ⁓ yeah. And ⁓ no, you were you running? Slim Pushins: Like an SUV. A white one. Barefooted. Not this Chad. Not me. Wilson. I didn't take off running. No, I wasn't out running. He was pretty cool. He kept he kept cool. Jim Gardner: Was ⁓ was Wilson hotter than he was after that main event Saturday? Corby Scherb: No, he wasn't he wasn't that he was. Felicia was more like no y no, no. Felicia was a was a lot more heated about the situation than Chad was, but Yeah, poor Chad. Poor Chad gets gets ⁓ Braxton said that he ⁓ Chad Wilson's a spirit animal. Jim Gardner: ⁓ chat. Corby Scherb: He gets he gets he's super emotional about racing. You can't you can't take away Slim Pushins: Braxton had one Braxton had one goal. One goal all night long. And it it it wasn't to win. His one goal was to try to get Jim to smile once all night long. Corby Scherb: It didn't happen. Didn't have ⁓ I thought you were gonna talk about the arm pump. We can talk about that on the air too, 'cause it we've solved it. We've we've fixed the riddle. Jim Gardner: Nope, didn't happen. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Okay. Go ahead. Go ahead, protein boy. Corby Scherb: Hey, protein. Everyone who listens to this pod podcast, every single person, they make honey gel packs. You can buy ⁓ at Walmart, you can buy ⁓ on Amazon, you can buy ⁓ anywhere. You they have potassium and electrolytes in ⁓ That's all you need. Jim. While you're having a nosebleed before you push out for your feature. And then no, hold on, hold on. We're gonna we're gonna I'm just I'm gonna call Jim all the way out because Slim Pushins: Thinks you're weird. Corby went and bought And during the feature at TMS. Jim Gardner: TMS, that was no good. Corby Scherb: You had a nosebleed there after the heat race and then ⁓ you were like, Man, I just feel like I'm dehydrated, my you know, my peas still not looking good and then I turn around and this motherfucker's drinking a sun kiss, twenty ounce bottle. The whole thing. One hundred percent. One hundred percent. Since T MS. Since TMS. One hundred percent. One hundred percent. I Jim Gardner: No. I haven't had a s I have not had a sun kissed it s no way. Slim Pushins: Yeah. And so Since TMS Corby looked at me Corby looked at me and goes, ⁓ the night's going downhill. Jim Gardner: No way. Well So I don't I don't vividly remember that, but there's a chance because it was Justin Bates's trailer, there was only Coors Light or Sunkiss in it. That I mean so so which one which one do you want me to have? You know? ⁓ yeah, exactly. Because he's got 17 coolers. Every time we go racing, he's got a new cooler because he forgets to bring one and just bought buys one at Bucky's. Yeah. ⁓ Corby Scherb: He's drinking a sun kissed. Slim Pushins: The options were the options were cords like Corby Scherb: I would believe it. Slim Pushins: Cors Light or a Kids Drink. I went with the sun kiss. Corby Scherb: If you have a bad night and you need something to drink, find Bates. Slim Pushins: Hey, speaking of something to drink, we found we found moonshine in the pits at ⁓ RPM Saturday night. Wesley and I Wesley mean Gordon and I we had to make a quick rundown to ⁓ taste test and it was the real deal. My face was tingly. Jim Gardner: We know where the beer's at. ⁓ That explains how you missed a couple of exits on the way home. That makes me feel good. That's why I drove myself. Slim Pushins: I walked right into that one. Corby Scherb: Magic. Slim Pushins: ⁓ what I had something else. ⁓ d the gel packs. So you what's in ⁓ Tell everybody. Tell both of our listeners what's in ⁓ Corby Scherb: Yeah, what about him? It's just it's just honey based and ⁓ they put ⁓ they put salt, electrolytes, your sodium, that's what you need for your electrolytes, and ⁓ they put potassium in And they don't taste bad, they taste like honey and they're great. And magic I fixed his arm pump. Jim Gardner: Yeah. You missed it, Jordan. That was that was the first topic. Just go back to the video back to the start because Slim Pushins: Alright Jordan, we're gonna start over. Hey everybody, well Jim Gardner: Everybody's got the temperament of a fourth grader. Slim Pushins: Jim's a little salty. If y'all if y'all if you don't follow the page, if you don't follow the I guess everybody here follows the page, so there's been a couple of people that will remain nameless. You can figure it out, ⁓ that have still shotted Jim's corndog review, and ⁓ every opportunity they get ⁓ throws it up there. Jim Gardner: But yeah. I'm not I'm not I can't I I'll mention for for Kennadell. Corby Scherb: So Jim Jim Jim might need a honey pack right now. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Ha ha ha Yeah. Yeah, you'll have that. Slim Pushins: Debrick, I didn't drop your name. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: I was trying to be politically correct with all three of our listeners. Jim Gardner: ⁓ man. Yeah. All right. ⁓ we got w we do have Kennedale this weekend. ⁓ no, we're gonna be dodging rain. They should have a good field there. ⁓ it's the only thing going in town. ⁓ you know, Rutherford and the SS's are gone. ⁓ so we'll be missing a few cars from there, but that really shouldn't hammer ⁓ too bad. They'll still get twenty five cars or so. ⁓ Slim Pushins: ⁓ Jim Gardner: Take a look at the power rankings here before we wrap this up. Slim Pushins: Outlaws ⁓ I wasn't about to wrap it up. Outlaws are at Houstet's Jim Gardner: I gotta wrap it up and go feed my kid. ⁓ yeah. So ⁓ power rankings didn't really change much. The top five are the same. ⁓ you know, kind of, you know, who sneaks in there seventh through tenth, ⁓ kind of changes a little bit just based on some good runs, some bad runs. ⁓ you know, Ricketts posted this the other day and and said, you know, I should have stayed out because I ⁓ Corby Scherb: I know Kerbo, you stay here all night. I gotta wrap it up because I need to feed myself. Jim Gardner: You know, 'cause he ended up pulling off and having a tough night. ⁓ and he's like, ⁓ I was worried about, you know, the power rankings. That is not what this is for. ⁓ I don't want anybody staying out there. I don't want anybody staying on the racetrack because, you know, with a wounded car, their motor's running hot or something like that, because they're worried about where it's gonna shake ⁓ on the power rankings. The power rankings aren't that volatile. But they look at the season as a whole. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Slim Pushins: It's a absolutely what this is for. Kyle Jones, Kyle Jones already set the precedence on staying out there. So there's that. Jim Gardner: But ⁓ you know, one bad night is not gonna is not going to hammer ya. ⁓ it's an overarching look at your season as a whole. ⁓ there is room for error ⁓ in that. So please don't please don't torpedo your stuff ⁓ willingly to to hope hope to run thirteenth instead of nineteenth or whatever. So ⁓ Corby Scherb: It'll end up being like the night that I asked Wesley if the car was okay and he Yeah, it's great and I sucked. And I couldn't figure out why I sucked so bad and I got in the pits and I said, Hey man, when'd I lose my nose wing? He goes, ⁓ in the crash. You could have told me that Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. So Slim Pushins: Kevin Laplant said outlaws are on and this is getting boring. Jim Gardner: Yep. Yeah. That's me. I wanna go watch it. I wanna see my daughter and feed her. Where is ⁓ Team LePlant running this weekend? Slim Pushins: Big Chief's on. Big Chief said hello. What's up, Big Chief? I don't know where they're at. Kevin? You probably already shut us down. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he's back on the outlaws. Slim Pushins: No, I don't think they're running this weekend. They're at Bellville next weekend. Corby Scherb: Started, stopped. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Hey, do you want to mention ⁓ stompinsteer.com? You put some kids packs in ⁓ in the pushing the cushion. Jim Gardner: Okay. ⁓ there's just shirts. I I've I've got some stickers made up. I'm trying to make a sticker pack with everybody's face, but I haven't had time. Too much S going on. So but yeah, we got some stuff on there if you want to support the show. Slim Pushins: There's just what, logoed stickers? Didn't you say there's logoed stickers? Or there's no stickers? ⁓ I thought you said sorry. Go to stompassere dot com for all your ⁓ push in the Corby Scherb: So there they Jim Gardner: There's not yet. I'm still work there's no stickers yet. I'm working on it. Corby Scherb: Kevin said Kevin said is off weekend so I'm sure they'll be at the lake all weekend. Jim Gardner: Yep, good for them. Slim Pushins: Or the casino. Go to pushing the cushion or ⁓ stomp and steer dot com. Jim Gardner: So Corby Scherb: They always l They them and people like Jimmy always love to see us on the lake as wake surfers and stuff like that. Jim Gardner: God, get your wake surfing boat away from my boat that's just sitting there. Yeah, Jordan, I I I am a deadbeat and I haven't sent you anything. My bad. If I can ever end this podcast and go spend time with my daughter and get her to go to sleep, I'll send Jordan a shirt tonight. Because of the massive amount of and they like the massive wakes and they like to drive 30 feet. Slim Pushins: A lot of broken promises for ⁓ Mr Unapproachable. Corby Scherb: We're going slow. Why are why are wake surfers so bad? I don't understand. Jim Gardner: away from boats so they're just parked hanging out. Slim Pushins: In the middle of the lake. Corby Scherb: It's probably where the water's still. It's probably where the water's still. Jim Gardner: No, in a cove. Yeah. Yeah, you guys Slim Pushins: Exactly. Corby Scherb: Hey. Jim Gardner: Thank you. Thank you, Kevin. Slim Pushins: Right. Jim Gardner: Couldn't have said it better myself. All right. Catadale this weekend. It is Saturday. Appreciate everybody. Sorry we were a day late. ⁓ yeah, definitely all Kerbo's fault. So Kerbo, get your life together. We'll see you next Tuesday, 7 PM. Maybe we'll try to get a guest on. I don't know. We'll see. But ⁓ appreciate everybody. Corby Scherb: All right, we're getting out of hand. Slim Pushins: Stop it steer dot com. Corby Scherb: Kurbo's fault. One hundred percent. Slim Pushins: I should have gone live by myself last night. Corby Scherb: That'd be great. I wanna see it. Slim Pushins: Thanks. Thanks for joining us everybody. We appreciate it. Talk to y'all later. Corby Scherb: Go in Kennedy. Come on the podcast. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I gotta go.