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- Slim Pushins: What's up everybody? I am Slim Pushins and this is another episode of Shop Beers. Thanks for joining us. As always, my co-host, the most heartless guy that I know, Corby Scherb. And Mr. Unapproachable that's having Wi Fi issues. Jim Gardner: Yeah, they're b they're they're bad. Corby: Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Then Dylan passed me. I Slim Pushins: That's the highlight. Jim Gardner: cut it off before Dylan passed me. So but Slim Pushins: What was the next line from from Geis? Jim Gardner: Here comes Dylan Ramey with a slider up the top. Gardner can't do anything about it. Slim Pushins: Gardner never to be seen again. All right. So we've been waiting for is that a truly? Jim Gardner: No, it's one of my wife's white claws. I'm save saving Slim Pushins: What happened to Happy Dads? Jim Gardner: the happy dads for this weekend. Slim Pushins: you're saving We can't go get new ones. Stock stockpiling? How many are you gonna Jim Gardner: Yeah. I just forgot to get been busy. Yeah. Slim Pushins: bring? Jim Gardner: I talked to Jeb about it. We each assured ourselves that we would take a little bit better care of each other and not each drink a Slim Pushins: Corby just quit. Jim Gardner: case. Yeah. So Corby: Not yet. Jim Gardner: we'll just have a little bit. Slim Pushins: Well, I I could be I could be talked into Happy Dads all weekend. Jim Gardner: Okay, let's do it. Slim Pushins: I don't know where to buy Corby: Course you would. Slim Pushins: Are you gonna supply? Jim Gardner: I guess I'm gonna have to with that comment. Slim Pushins: All right. Corby: I will be riding the pine this weekend. Slim Pushins: We're gonna you're gonna do the live with us though, aren't you? Corby: Mm, depends on what time. I'm pretty busy. I'll be busy then. Jim Gardner: He he's gonna be on the on the eighth, on the par four eighth probably. Slim Pushins: Well, you're gonna have to sit down at the turn and do a live with us. Corby: Doubtful. Slim Pushins: We can't do it without you. Corby: Why? Jim Gardner: Yeah, we can. It'd probably be Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: better. So Slim Pushins: All right, Jim, let's Jim Gardner: That's what it is. Slim Pushins: talk about RPM. Jim Gardner: Okay. Slim Pushins: You went out there C Corby and I didn't. What do you mean sort of? Jim Gardner: I did. Didn't. Yeah. we were and also ran again. Pretty mediocre in the fifty one camp. my car was a lot better. Corby: I heard you had a really good wrench winch there helping you. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, since my all my crew guys big timed me and decided not to come. I had Mike Clement on the wrenches Saturday night and it was by far the most enjoyable Saturday night of racing I've had all yeah. Yeah, Corby: I heard I heard he's already got a win. I heard he's already got a win this year. Slim Pushins: Are you firing us? Jim Gardner: it was so much I might as well, you don't show up, no call, no show. So thank God Mike was there. But I couldn't get the four wheeler to run. We lost brakes and hot laps, all sorts of issues and then Slim Pushins: What is it with you and breaks? How hard is this? I don't understand. Jim Gardner: I am embarrassed to say I did not bring a race car ready to race to the racetrack and left a bolt loose after bleeding them and then the brake pedal was swinging against my shin all of hot laps. So went ahead and pulled that in. and Slim Pushins: Just bouncin' the old shin. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, it sucked. And then so scrambled around before the heat race. Danny Debrick gave me a bolt to fix it. We got it figured out and then I ended up giving the old Jim Gardner trifecta to Devin Diebrick. I loaned them a faulty radiator cap that ended up knocking them out of the race. And I also cut him off and he ran in the back of me and then I flipped him off all the way down the back straightaway. then I realized he was spun out and backwards and I felt like a jerk. So yeah. Slim Pushins: You were just out of sorts all all night. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it was it was a rough week last week and had some fun Saturday night, but Corby: You'll have that with those big jobs. Slim Pushins: Let's hold Jim Gardner: yeah. Slim Pushins: on. Let's just back up a few seconds. Can we can we talk about the bird? The backstretch bird? Wha how come? Jim Gardner: Well, I so I restarted or I started the race on the outside and I tried to shoot the middle on Cade and Dylan and the hole kind of closed up on me, so I had to hop out of the gas and tried to jam it in there behind Dylan and and Devin Debrick was running it in there hard and I closed the hole on him and he pounded me in the ass end and I cut. gathered it up and then right away I wear those yellow gloves for a reason so that people see the finger and I had it out all the way down the back straightaway to the rest of the field 'cause Devin spun out. So Slim Pushins: Did you did you know in the moment that you that it Corby: Did it make you feel better? Slim Pushins: was that it was Devin? Jim Gardner: No, I don't r no and I don't care. But I got hit real hard. So I was a little worried that we had damage on the left rear. but it was all bumper, thank God. So Slim Pushins: Did you feel like Caden Clement at Boyd? Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Yeah, knocked my feelings out. And but yeah, then I like got off a four and got down the front stretch under yellow and saw he was turned around. I was like, man, that sucks. I'm pitted next to them. His dad just helped me out big time about an hour ago. Whoops. Slim Pushins: Yeah. You you literally have breaks because of them. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. So yeah, not my finest bit, but I'm I'm revved up and charged up in the race in the race car. So sorry about that, Devin. My bad. Slim Pushins: Jason Tyre thinks that anybody that shoots the bird should have to attend anger management classes. Jim Gardner: Ha ha Corby: how do we know that they weren't webbed fingers and that's what you were doing? Jim Gardner: Yeah, no. It was the bird, for good reason, so I didn't like getting hit. But anyway. Slim Pushins: Single bird? Jeffrey Rupe wants to know if it was a single bird. Jim Gardner: Just a single bird I was trying not to also crash. so I had my right hand still on the steering wheel, but Corby: If I ever see if I ever see your arm hanging out of the car I'll rough you up even more. Just to really Jim Gardner: Okay. Corby: get under your skin. Jim Gardner: Yeah, if you can catch me. Corby: Here we go. Jim Gardner: yeah. No, I've I've toned it down in my old age a little bit, but I'll still fling f I'll still fling the Slim Pushins: you're not a you're not a ruffian anymore? Jim Gardner: bird yeah, I'll still fling the bird at you down the s I think I gave it to Landon Thompson earlier this year at Kennedale. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Dylan had a great time. Jim Gardner: Yeah he did. He was awesome. Congrats again, Dylan, on the win. he he charged up through the field there. he and I had a good battle in that heat race. and I'm really kicking myself for not bringing a car ready to go to the racetrack and not having breaks and practice, because if we could have worked on the car a little bit better and and found a way to get around Dylan, then you know, we're re starting the race on the front row instead of the third row and kind of the whole mindset the of the main event. for me changes anyway, because I know I'm probably Yeah, Corby: Sometimes it helps going to drivers' meetings too, sometimes. Jim Gardner: I forgot to do that. you know, we were working. Again, I was thrashing. I was on my own. Slim Pushins: I did anything go right? Did anything all night go right? Jim Gardner: I've rolled the car back in the trailer and didn't have a whole mess of problems here. So my race Slim Pushins: Mm. Jim Gardner: car was better. Kevin Ramey helped me out a lot with with some stuff that I was fighting. we did get the brakes figured out after the pedal got, you know, b bolted tight and we bled one more time. And I was really happy with my race car. missed it a little bit. I was a little too snug on drive in the rubber for that main event. And I was just kind of riding back there, probably under driving a little bit. you know, I felt a lot better about my car, and then I watched the replay and I was like, Wow, you kind of drove like a pansy. Slim Pushins: Well you called me after the race. Those weren't my words and I didn't even insinuate that. But you Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: called me after the race and some of the things that you said that you saw from your point of view I felt like were different. And I I don't know if you remember, I told you you needed to watch the Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: replay just so you got a better eye of what was going on behind you and up in front of the pack. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so I did. Yeah, so I did Sunday morning. I I I realize I left a lot of meat on the on the bone, just on the driving front, 'cause my car was really, really good. it was maybe, you know, I've been having to fight it and drive the shit out of it all year and we got it driving so good, I think I took it too easy 'cause it wasn't fighting me. 'cause I had been driving a hundred and ten percent every corner just to make every corner. so I think my Slim Pushins: What do you got you got a cat fight behind you? Jim Gardner: I think he knocked over his bowl back there. But yeah, so anyway, it was a step in the right direction on my race car, which thank God, too bad it's the last, you know, probably the last race of the season for me, but just feel a lot better than Slim Pushins: Devin, don't apologize. Jim he already admitted he already admitted he had a plan. His plan fell through, so he checked up. You didn't Jim Gardner: So Slim Pushins: expect him to check up. I saw the whole thing. Jim Gardner: And so we restart after he spins out and I don't get a good restart and I wash up in the middle and lose two spots in the first corner and I'm going down the back stretch thinking, damn it, this is why I chopped Devin. this is why I bulldog my way down there. And anyway, but yeah, so overall I think it was a a a a good it was a it was a building Slim Pushins: Wait. Jim Gardner: night for my car that it's not just absolutely evil. So Slim Pushins: Dylan, Dylan, are you talking about are you talking about when the field came back around when he was still spun out? He was just waving at people. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I had put I had put my finger away by then, so anyway. Slim Pushins: Corby, something just happened with your mic. You went back to You went back to your array mic. Corby: Your face went back there. No, it's not. It's on my headset mic, bud. Slim Pushins: What just happened? Jim Gardner: Yeah, I don't know. So anyway that was my night, but Corby: Mm-mm. Jim Gardner: let's let's get to the the the st Slim Pushins: Wait, hold on. Tony said Tony said he had his eye on you all night long and you were good. Then Jim Gardner: boy. Slim Pushins: he said I thought he was gonna go to the top the top Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: at some point. Jim Gardner: Nope. Nope. So the the the what I Slim Pushins: That's awesome, Dylan. Just what else are Jim Gardner: so Slim Pushins: you gonna do when you're turned around facing the field? Jim Gardner: So that I rolled the bottom like on the tires really well. My car was really, really good and the slick. I thought I was gonna have a shot to win it. And I drove by Cade Taylor and I was thinking, here we go, man. I'm gonna eat him up on the bottom. And then a lap and a half later, Cade Taylor mowed me down running the rubber, which was about two lanes off the tires, you know, still the bottom of the track. but just drove by me like I was tied to a chair. And so I realized that, the rubber's right there. And I moved up and I never got out of that line. And then I started searching, trying to get around Cade. And a car width above Cade, there was no rubber. And I about wrecked the car and gave up a bunch of time. Ended up giving a spot up late in the race doing it. but I guess up even further was another lane of rubber that I didn't even venture off to go see. So the leaders Rutherford and and Cody and all Slim Pushins: So what does that mean? Did you get Jim Gardner: those guys were were up on the fence fence and I was down on the bottom. Slim Pushins: Did you get startled? Like not expecting somebody to be up there or Jim Gardner: No, I'd mean Slim Pushins: You s you said you kinda what you I don't remember your terminology, you kinda wavered or something when Cade I think you said Cade passed you. Corby, a little help here? Jim Gardner: Yeah, so I I was on the bottom on the tires. Corby: I'm I'm just listening to the story. I'm keeping my mouth shut right now. Jim Gardner: I was bottom on the bottom on the tires and Cade washed up off the bottom and I drove by him and then a lap later Cade rolled the middle on me and was a second faster than me. That it was very clearly rubber up there. But not at the top of the racetrack. Yes, Corby. Go ahead, Slim Pushins: Yeah, Corby Corby, you in the back? Jim Gardner: Corby. Corby: I if it's slicked off through the center, that's where I'm gonna go. if it's smoothed out like there's no marbles through the center, that's where I'm gonna go. I d I don't think that you fully understand Jim Gardner: Okay. Yeah, that's where I was. Corby: it or like watch the like Dylan ran basically like the short slider line and you just absolutely murdered him on entry. He didn't necessarily have the exit speed, but if you beat him to the center, you win every time. Jim Gardner: Yeah, well well we agree. I c I couldn't do that. My yeah. But there's some meat on the bone there. that I left personally. But yeah. the the leaders were up. Corby: I think you did good in the slick. I I'll just call you out right now. You're not really a slick track driver when it comes to that stuff. So I I I think you drove good and you drove smart, yeah. I know Rutherford was Rutherford was bouncing it off Jim Gardner: I haven't been all year 'cause I've had to two foot my car the whole time. Yeah, it was the first time all year I haven't been mentally exhausted. Corby: the wall. Cody Price was was Slim Pushins: Rutherford pounded the wall in three. Corby: was doing everything he could on the top and it's really hard to be the leader and kind of a sit and duck and Dylan found a line whether I think that he had like raceiver in one ear and then probably Kevin in the other ear. Dylan drove Jim Gardner: Well yeah, the Corby: great. man, it's not easy driving from the back like that. and just trusting the car. there wasn't a ton of cautions that really helped him either. He he found something that no one else could do. And Jim Gardner: Mm mm. Yeah. Corby: that's typically what it takes on nights like that. So tears to you, Dylan. Jim Gardner: Yep. No, he it was awesome. it was awesome for for them and and Rutherford and and Cody Price and and Mundy Corby: Austin Monday driving from the back. Jim Gardner: Mundy got up there. He started way in the back. who else was up there? and Michael Day, obviously. Michael Day can't not run in the top three there. they can't find a way to win. him and we're not even gonna talk about that shit. I'm I'm sick and tired of dealing with power rankings with these two. So that'll be another topic for another day. So but yeah Slim Pushins: You gonna have to do a little bit of explaining. You Jim Gardner: there's so the little bit of explaining on the power rankings, yet there's a fine line between constructive criticism and flat out bitching that Slim and Corby don't always toe. So Slim Pushins: Mark that. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I mean Slim Pushins: Sixteen sixteen thirty five. Just mark that. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So Sunday night was just a became a bitch fest and and I was not having any of it. So the power rankings are not perfect. I literally a minute ago figured out that there was a one five race that I didn't calculate from two weeks ago because they don't publicize their races well enough. But yeah, they're not perfect, but they are so much better than what these two maroons can figure out. So in their out. But anyway, I'm not I'm getting off my soapbox. I don't wanna talk about that shit anymore. Slim Pushins: Dylan said he missed the bottom and hit the rubber. Jim Gardner: That's sometimes the game comes to you. I'd love love for that to come my way. But yeah, I I missed the rubber and lost a spot and then never Never went back up. So anyway. Slim Pushins: Wesley said I woke up the other morning with seventy in the red Jim Gardner: Ha ha Slim Pushins: text about the power ranking from U three. Yeah, we had a lot Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: going back and forth. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So anyway, that will be a Slim Pushins: Jim got mad, didn't talk to us for a day. Jim Gardner: that will be an off season you know, on the off season we can happily have a show and I will bust open the sheets and explain why you're wrong about everything, but doing it while I'm trying to watch Sunday night football was never the deal. Corby: Hold on, I don't know. I don't I don't think I got a big enough notepad. I'm just gonna go buy like computer paper. Like the the the whole Slim Pushins: Not enough you don't have enough ink. Corby: thing. The whole thing of computer Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby: paper. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So anyway, but I will publish them tomorrow. the top five have remained unchanged. Then stop pretending Slim Pushins: Jason Tyres right. Math is not my strong suit. Jim Gardner: it is and arguing with me. Slim Pushins: What else it are the the toddler mods. Toddler mod nationals. Jim Gardner: They had again they had 40 of them. had a long intermission, which is fine. It it let the racetrack let the guys work on the racetrack a little bit. Mike Frieri got some great photos. you know, I I I can only imagine Slim and Slim Pushins: Look. Jim Gardner: Corby running the Lone Star 600. Slim Pushins: Look at the determination on that driver. Jim Gardner: These k these kids are loving it, man. Anything to get the kids out to the racetrack. it was Yeah. Slim Pushins: His little buddy is his little buddy's just living his best life. And the driver, the driver is just Jim Gardner: Leaning into it. Slim Pushins: Just hammered down. Jim Gardner: And that kid's driving the car harder than I rode drove my car in that main event, but Slim Pushins: That picture that pictured that pictured it Jim Gardner: Here's an here's another one. We got h helmet graphics and spikes and Slim Pushins: Look, we got GoPros. Jim Gardner: We got GoPros on it, full wraps on They the Tyler mods are a cool deal. I was that's been like it's been a frustrating year on my part, but every time we go down to RPM they got the Tyler mods. It's it's pretty fun for an, half hour or whatever it is that they let those kids go out there. Slim Pushins: How much of the how much of the frustration comes from Corby directly? Corby: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Most after he won Boyd, most of it. So no, it's it's Slim Pushins: We do we we just need to have we need to have an off season air it out episode. Like is that? Just Jim Gardner: No. Slim Pushins: lay it all out on the table. Jim Gardner: No. No, it's all good. No, it's been Corby: Legendary move. Jim Gardner: it's the Slim Pushins: Legendary. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's been just frustrating not being able to put nights together all the way. And and I you know, I've tried a bunch of different stuff on my race car. Reverse split, tons of positive split, weird front bars, Corby: What'd you change Jim Gardner: real weird stuff. Hmm? Corby: What what'd you change about what you ate Saturday to weekends before? Slim Pushins: You still knocking out sun kissed in the middle of every Jim Gardner: I ate the same thing I always did. Slim Pushins: race night? Corby: Sunkist and Jim Gardner: No, I had a cooler full of water. my my f my mom did make three different styles of chili, but they ended up not being able to go. So now I'm gonna have chili for the whole month of October. the rest of October into November. basically. Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: You should have loaded that picture. You should have loaded that that chili picture. Jim sent Jim sent our group text a picture the other day and Jim Gardner: I don't think I'm going to be able to get it. But yeah, mom was loaded for bear and then they had something come up. Slim Pushins: Just just deriving from the conversation that we had last week about beans and chilies, she made five gallons of three or four Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: different types of chili. Beans, no beans, hidden beans. Jim Gardner: She made one with chicken for Corby on race day, she told me. chicken all crunched up and fifty dollar bills in it. Slim Pushins: She still hasn't gotten over that. Jim Gardner: So, yeah. But Yeah, man. It was fun. It was a fun night Saturday night. Weather was great. They had a good crowd that like like I said, lots of toddler mods. And the racing was good and and we're really happy for Dylan. Slim Pushins: Boss wanted to know who was behind the wheel of the fifty one. Jim Gardner: It was consistently slow, Corby: Mm. Jim Gardner: so that's more up my alley. Yeah, that's been the thing. It's like it's been a new level of frustration for me because I'm usually just a tenth to fifteenth place car. And this year I found a way to have some really good speed but be out of control. And now I kind of swung it back there, you know. Corby: That's that's crazy that that that you say that and I I remember God, I remember there was so many nights that we were at the race track and you say that it's so easy to to make up the seconds to go from, making a feature to being a tenth place car and then once you somehow find your way into the top five to find those couple of tenths. like Dylan said, you know, you miss the bottom. Yeah, it's crazy that I remember like you like beating a in our heads as we're throwing a fit and throwing helmets across the pit area because we just don't understand Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Corby: why we felt so good but we can't win a race. It's it's crazy too, I and I will say and I have said this plenty of times, the talent level that's in North Texas in three fives is extremely deep. Extremely deep. It is. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it the shit's hard. Slim Pushins: I was gonna say that a while ago when Jim i it this yeah, the the talent is deep here Jim Gardner: The shit's hard. That's yeah. Slim Pushins: and you to to be to finish on the podium, you have to be hitting on all cylinders. Jim, you know that. That's why you're so hard Jim Gardner: yeah. Yeah, I know. Slim Pushins: on yourself about the the brakes and the bolt and like to be to to finish good around here, no matter who's yeah. Jim Gardner: yeah. It it put us a step behind, you know. It it put us a step behind to evaluate the car, make an adjustment, evaluate my drive and make an adjustment, you know. and you just can't miss. You can't miss. These guys will eat you up. Dylan and and Day and you know Mundy and and Cade and all those guys will eat you up if you're if you're not if you're not right there. And so that's fr and it's something that's in in my control and that was embarrassing. I was embarrassed to tell Mike Clement, hey, I I didn't tighten a bolt. So wins are so hard hard to come by, Dylan. That's why we made sure to go down and congratulate you and give you a sticker that didn't Slim Pushins: he said he needs another one. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I get Corby: I didn't get a sticker. Jim Gardner: I had to climb over, I gave one to Mike. I had to climb into my Corby: Why didn't you give it to me? Jim Gardner: trailer and go get it because I don't even like you. And Give Dylan one. We recorded it filming on him, but he had so much baby oil all over his tail tank, that it didn't stick. So Corby: Actually, talking about stickers and tilt tanks, I I have something for you. I can show you while we're on the podcast here. Slim Pushins: This oughta be this oughta this oughta be rich. Jim Gardner: Well, in make it fast cause in five minutes we got Nathan Moore coming on to talk about Amarillo. Corby: I'm I'm not sure why. Well I'm not sure why but but Slim Pushins: Talk about important stuff. Corby: Boyd, Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby: gave out cool stickers this year too. Jim Gardner: Nice. Corby: But they gave me two so you could have one as well, buddy. Jim Gardner: Great. Super. Is it a Boyd Raceway participation sticker? Sweet. Yeah. I love everybody's getting participation stickers, Slim Pushins: Dylan said his his PTC winter sticker stuck to the side of Cade's truck. Jim Gardner: That's awesome. I'll get you another one, Dylan. Slim Pushins: I told Dylan we'd get him another one. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I gotta go down. I'm hopefully getting some midget parts from them. Kevin's gonna b go look for me on some stuff that'll fit my Corby: I hear they got a couple of Jim Gardner: my old unique car that I might be able to use. So anyway, that was RPM. Corby: Great racing, great race track, good job Kevin, good job, Ren's family. Jim Gardner: They had a good year. that the the racetrack was incredible pretty much every every night this year. you know, it was a little rough and and bottom heavy that one first night, maybe, but man, Kevin got it figured out and the ev they feel like events there. You know, the place is nice and and it's clean and they run the toddler mods and it just feels it feels really big time getting down there into East Slim Pushins: He does. Jim Gardner: Texas. you know, it's kind of a chore to kind of get down there for Slim Pushins: Not East Texas. Jim Gardner: some of us, but Corby: It is the Metroplex. Jim Gardner: it was it was good. So Yep. Corby: What do you call Boyd? West Texas? North Texas? Jim Gardner: West. Boyd's West enough for me. Slim Pushins: He's he's from a Corby: Still the Metroplex. Slim Pushins: Corby, he's from a state that's not as broad as Texas, so w we have rules and that is not East Texas or West Texas. Corby: Am Abilene Abilene is West Texas. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. I agree with that too. All right. Corby: No, that's not that that I that's still the Metroplex in my opinion. Jim Gardner: Well, we are absolutely going to West Texas this weekend. going to going to Amarillo, Corby: West West True West Jim Gardner: Route sixty six Speedway for the Lone Star S Elite Lone Star Sprint Nationals. Is that the name? Slim Pushins: The first annual. Corby: See Kate Kate's from East Texas. He's a true East Jim Gardner: first yeah. Corby: Texas guy. Slim Pushins: First annual. Jim Gardner: Yeah, first annual. Corby: First annual. Yes. Slim Pushins: Elite. Jim Gardner: I don't first annual Corby: Yes. Jim Gardner: is not a real thing. Like that that is a pet peeve of mine. Corby: But I won the first annual Mike Milton race. Jim Gardner: It's the inaugur Slim Pushins: We have Jim Gardner: inaugural. If they have one next year, they can call it the second annual, but it's not an annual if you've only done it one time. Anyway, that's thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Slim Pushins: Well, we have a platform and we've just we've just made it a law. We've we've made it real. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: This is the first annual. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So Nathan Moore is coming on to promote that here in a couple of minutes. We did not Slim Pushins: He's got so much stuff going on. I I'm glad that he agreed to lower his standards to come on the show. Jim Gardner: W we did yeah, we did not we did not test his connection, which the last time we did not test anybody's connection, everybody had connection issues. So everybody keep your fingers crossed. But everybody who's in East Texas. Slim Pushins: Not everybody. Corby and I Corby and usually have great Corby: We're good. We're gold. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So he's coming on. I'm going out to Amarillo with Braxton Weiger. Corby, you're going out or Corby is staying home playing golf again. Working on a short game. Did you at least shoot under ninety last week instead of coming to help me? Okay. Corby: It's Yeah, I shot an eighty six. Shot an eighty six. At a brand new course, Falconheads super cool. We gotta go, Jim. It's way up close by you. It's super cool. Jim Gardner: I'd love to go. I'd love to be invited and not on race day. Slim Pushins: I should have gone to RPM gym like hindsight. I Corby Jim Gardner: I know I know. Corby: Yeah, I know. You didn't even come and meet us at Winstar. You did nothing. Slim Pushins: Corby stood me Jim Gardner: Mostly Slim Pushins: up. Corby stood me up Saturday night. Jim Gardner: mostly I could have used your race on account to give to my wife, but anyway you raise it. Slim Pushins: I was using it. That's the only reason you want me to track because I'm captive. Jim Gardner: Exactly. Anyway, but Slim Pushins: Yeah. I got stood up, ended up watching what did I watch? The Outlaw Race. Jim Gardner: me putt putt around the bottom. Slim Pushins: I did watch that. Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So but you're going out to Amarillo. Slim Pushins: I am, I'm looking forward to it. I think it'll be a good time. It's I d I used I lived in Amarillo for I made it one semester up until December. And it wasn't Amarillo wasn't for me. But I like Amarillo, it's cool place, got a lot of stuff to do. I'm gonna go up there and Jim Gardner: Yeah. so Corby: The town? The town? Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: When are you leaving? Slim Pushins: Saturday morning. Jim Gardner: Okay. You riding up with with Rutherford and T S or what? Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. team ru team Rutherford slash Estes, yeah. Jim Gardner: He was good. How how is he in the modified? here he is. boy. Slim Pushins: He got there he is. Corby: That's a good looking dude right there. Jim Gardner: There you go. What's happening? Nathan Moore: stupid. How you doing? Jim Gardner: Doing good. Doing good. This Nathan Moore: Good. Jim Gardner: is Nathan Moore, Slim Pushins: We were we were Jim Gardner: Promoter Extraordinaire. no Slim Pushins: The guy that needs the guy that needs no intro. Jim Gardner: in no intro, but Corby: Absolutely not. Jim Gardner: he's the promoter extraordinaire of the Elite Series and the big ten K to win Route sixty six raceway elite Lone Star Nationals this weekend. Thanks for coming on, Nathan. We appreciate you, man. Nathan Moore: Yeah, I appreciate you having me. Corby: What about it man? How how'd this how'd this race come about? Slim Pushins: Are we gonna do the w we gonna do the driver's meeting at the Big Texan? Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Nathan Moore: We're definitely gonna go to the big Texan a few times. I'm too fat not Jim Gardner: I think we're Nathan Moore: to. Jim Gardner: we're going Friday just to go to the big Texans. Nathan Moore: I'm leaving tomorrow or tonight. Slim Pushins: Tonight. Jim Gardner: af after our little program? Nathan Moore: Yeah, they they've had weather up there and I'm not I'm going up there to try to keep that together. I don't Jim Gardner: Inspect it? Okay. To Nathan Moore: know. Jim Gardner: to put up a balloon, to tarp the racetrack. Nathan Moore: Pretty much I'm a roll around in my truck for three days trying to roll that thing in, I guess. Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: With a leaf blower. yeah, so let's start there with the weather. I know it's rained up there a bunch and we're the the the the forecast for the weekend's Nathan Moore: yeah. Jim Gardner: iffy. so let's start there like you know, we're supposed to race Saturday and Sunday. what's the commitment level to to get it in? Should people wait and see? Or like what do we got going on? What's the plan here? Nathan Moore: it's hard this early because it's changed 42 times in the last 24 hours. So I know it's Corby: Texas. Nathan Moore: going to over the next 48 hours. As we get closer to the weekend, it'll get a little more, you know, realistic, I guess, and and more concrete. Once it does that, I can start making plans. I I plan to get the show in. I've had 12 non-wing shows up there in 12 years, and we've had weather every single year we go up there. the night of or the night before, and we've got every one of them in. So Amarello luckily is like a desert. So truthfully, I feel like they can take a little water. It's probably not a bad thing. what's supposed to be there Friday is like a quarter inch. That doesn't really scare me. I think anybody, you know, understands that that's not very much, but they had a lot this week. so I'm gonna go down there early just to try to get things handled, see if we can't get the show in. There's some weather Right now, forecast it for Sunday evening about four o'clock. And if that stays like that, then I'll all I'm gonna do is move all the times way up on Sunday and plan on running the show. I'm I'm pretty Slim Pushins: I like that idea. Nathan Moore: committed. Jim Gardner: Good. All right. Well we appreciate that and Nathan Moore: I don't I don't have a plan outside of that, but it if if things change, I will definitely make better plans as it changes. Jim Gardner: Okay. well, you know, a buddy of mine, his name Shame Carson was a long time sprint car promoter. He said he can do everything right and it'll come down to weather every time, every every race you book. It's just the way it is. And yeah. Nathan Moore: The only thing I can't play with. Jim Gardner: And so we're gonna f keep our fingers crossed and hope everybody stays flexible. And if we gotta run that thing Sunday morning during church time, let's go ahead and do it, you know. let's get it in. So Nathan Moore: That's what that's my plan. I plan to get the ten K in. Jim Gardner: all right. That's all right. We'll see ya on next week's show. Slim Pushins: That's the one everybody's waiting for. Jim Gardner: It might mess up our Nathan Moore: Yeah, they're not they're not coming up there for the fifteen hundred to win on Saturday, I promise you. There's Jim Gardner: Right. Nathan Moore: you know, I picked up three more cars tonight. So I I think we're really close to seventy right now. I I expect a couple more. I we really may get up over seventy and and seventy guys ain't coming up there for fifteen hundred, I promise. They're Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: there for the ten thousand. Jim Gardner: Yep. Okay. so s Slim Pushins: That's awesome. I love to see that it's going over like that. Jim Gardner: all right, so Nathan Moore: Yeah. Jim Gardner: so we got the weather figured out. Assuming weather doesn't affect us, what's going on? let's talk about the format with seventy cars. What are we doing? from a competitor standpoint, Nathan Moore: Yeah, so Jim Gardner: I'm gonna try to find the loopholes. So Nathan Moore: Yeah, the let's let's do it. So we're gonna qualify but we're gonna group qualify in their heats, just like you would group qualifying. The top five in the qualifying get points. Ten, eight, six, four, two. And then everybody else gets zero. So those points will go into their tied into their passing points. They'll run for passing points and finishing points, just like the ASCS format. It's a little different. It's not as much points. Making qualifying more important. a guy we're gonna invert the top four in the heats. So there'll be basically ten car or eleven car heats. And then we're gonna invert the top four. You know, I'm trying not to kill fourth place or the the top qualifier in that heat. So the passing points aren't as much. It's like a one point five or two points, I think, per position. trying to keep those guys, you know, you can have a bad heat race and still be okay if you qualify first, or if you have a great heat race and qualify bad, you can make some up. So try to make it a little more interesting, I guess. I like the power eye format that we were doing last year, but we can't single car qualify. And so that takes that away. I just I'm not doing 70 cars on that racetrack, single car qualifying. It's just we'll lose the racetrack if I do that. Ten ten laps. Corby: How how many laps are you gonna run for a heat race with with ten to eleven cars? Yep. Okay. Nathan Moore: So there'll be 10 lap heat races and then basically the top 12 will go straight to the A main out of the heats with the qualifying points added. And then Everybody else will go to B's and C's. The C mains are eight car right now. They're an eight car C. It's pretty small. two cars going in from each C. And then we'll pull three cars on Saturday to is that right? That's not right. Four cars out of each B into the A on Saturday. And it'll be a twenty-car A main on Saturday. We're gonna take six cars straight out of the out out of that. So the six cars, the top six cars will lock into Sunday's A main. they will be one through six. They are gonna dash for those top six spots on Sunday. However, that dash will be added also by their points from the A main, passing points, finishing points through the A main. So just the top six will get there, all their points. They'll have qualifying heat race and A main points. And then that's how we'll line that dash up. So the guy that wins may not actually be on the pole of that dash. And then they'll have to race for that. Whatever that top six comes out is, it'll be actually the top six. Everybody else on Sunday will completely restart. And we're gonna re-qualify, re-race them. So just because you have a bad Saturday night does not mean your whole weekend's junk. You can restart on Sunday. and then it's basically all gonna be based on your qualifying times. So your qualifying is or your hot laps are gonna be super important. Your quote your hot laps are your qualifying. And then just group Jim Gardner: Right. Nathan Moore: qualifying through that. And then do what? You can win practice this weekend. Yeah. Corby: So you can win practice this weekend. You can win pract okay, all right. Jim Gardner: That's right. Nathan Moore: That's a it's super important this weekend. Jim Gardner: Every lap is a lap of aggression. Yeah. Slim Pushins: I like that. Nathan Moore: Sunday that the we're gonna restart. So then we'll always obviously have a C main again and then we'll take the top, you know, the two C mains. based on what the car count is right now. We'll have two C mains. Top two will come out of each C main to the back of the B's. top four out of each B will go to the A main. So there are the let me back up. The top 12 out of the Heats will still go to the A main. And then the top straight out of the Heats and the qualifying will go to the A main. And then the C's, then the B's, the four out of each B will go to the back of the A main on Sunday night. There will just be one main on Sunday night. That's going to be the big one. So it'll be 24 cars starting Corby: And twenty cars. Twenty four cars. Okay. Nathan Moore: For seven hundred to start. Jim Gardner: I think it's twenty. You're gonna lock in top six, take twelve out of the heat races. That's eighteen. So top three out of the B's. Follow me for more math. These guys like to argue with me about power rakings math every week. Nathan Moore: that that's right. You're right. I top three out of each B. Yes. Yeah. Nine's terrible, man. Corby: Here we go. Jim Gardner: Trust me. Try me. Corby might be able to outdrive Nathan Moore: Yeah. I'm that's bad. Jim Gardner: me on the racetrack, but I got the math on lockdown. Yeah. That's right. you know Corby: That's a very nice thing of you to say, buddy. I appreciate that. Huh? Nathan's better looking than all of us. Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: And the golf course. Jim Gardner: what? Yeah, that's right. Nathan Moore: That is true. I'm I'm not I'm not taking that from you, bro. I definitely have you beat. Jim Gardner: I I love it. I love that every lap matters. I love that you're going to reward somebody who makes a big charge in the A main Saturday, with with a better opportunity to, you know, if they even run fourth or fifth, that they could start pole of that dash. that's really cool. Nathan Moore: Yeah, it's different than anything I've seen and I'm I like it too. Jim Gardner: Yeah. the the group qualifying against your heat race, is what they do up in Indiana. you Nathan Moore: Yes. Jim Gardner: know, when we go run non wing stuff up there. and Nathan Moore: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: I really love it. I think it's it it is a good balance. You can't sandbag it 'cause you you're not watching it. it's a really good balance of the show, but then putting the fast cars where they need to be. and you know, if you qualify in the back in your starting a heat heat race if you know, in those second The last row or the last row, sorry about ya. you know, you gotta bring fast cars to the racetrack that have brakes, which I learned the hard way last week. Nathan Moore: Yeah. Jim Gardner: So, I'm excited about it, man. I think it's gonna be a cool deal. I I hope the weather gods Nathan Moore: Yeah, I'm pretty pretty excited about it myself. Jim Gardner: cut you a break and and it's something to build on. So Nathan Moore: Place gets four inches of rain a year and all two and a half of it's this weekend is so sad. Corby: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. that's awesome. So okay, so Slim Pushins: Tell us what your what what do you have going on yeah, what are you going on outside the track? Corby: You got a bunch of other stuff, yeah, going on, not just the racing. Nathan Moore: So the hard thing is is timing. I mean, it's obviously Halloween weekend. It really, there's really not many weekends left at the end of the year to start stuffing stuff in. So they had two big shows this month. So timing was everything. I had to go all the way to Halloween weekend. I didn't want my big show on Halloween. And so I moved it to a Saturday, Sunday. I know some people were against it, but with my car count, I'm really thinking that probably I made the right choice. so Saturday with Halloween, we're gonna do a trunk retreat. We're gonna open up the pits. So basically from I think it's I have to look at the times, but I think it's 1 30 to 4 30 is the pits are gonna be open. That's where we're gonna trunk or treat. I'm gonna, you know, have everybody bring candy and pass out candy, all the drivers, let the kids walk around the race cars, talk to them, and then we're gonna close the pits up at 4 30 and then push everybody out, re redo the pit thing so we can all go back to racing without kids in the pits. I don't really not gonna let people be starting race cars in the pits when the kids are in there. So they'll have to do that before Jim Gardner: Appreciate that. Nathan Moore: or after. I don't want sprint cars rolling around with a bunch of little kids. we're gonna have some bounce houses and then we're gonna have a pumpkin contest. a carved pumpkin contest. So you gotta bring a cup pumpkin. I'm not letting people carve on there. I mean, I guess if you want to, but I'm not gonna have the stuff to do that. Slim Pushins: Hey, I like it. Nathan Moore: You just gonna have to show up with a pumpkin and then enter it in the contest. We're gonna give away a bunch of like squishy neato stuff, I'm I'm I'm pretty old. Jim Gardner: Got that? Yep. Nathan Moore: So that stuff's not really my thing, but I think every kid loves it right now. Corby: It's massive. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: we're gonna have costume contests for adults. We're gonna give away some money for the best costume for an adult. And then we're gonna have a kids costume contest, which is I think is we're gonna take the most serious. the winner of that's gonna get a PS5. And then clearly there's prizes Corby: has read. Jim Gardner: Hell yeah. Slim Pushins: Jeez. Nathan Moore: on down. So we're gonna have a lot of stuff for the kids, you know, because I want to draw some of the I I want to draw people in that I don't know, man. I I don't want to mess up their f their Halloween night and not have something for them. I want them to have something there. Yeah, pretty much. Jim Gardner: Right. Just bring Halloween to the racetrack, They can then they can have a unique Halloween s experience. I get it. I love it. It's great. Nathan Moore: In the in the we're all racers, so we don't see the MRLO community chat pages, but the Halloween stuff is being pushed out there. just the Halloween stuff, not even really the race. It's obviously a tied to it, but I'm hoping we draw a lot of people in just for that, kind of get some people into the racetrack or around the race cars, around race people, maybe get some excitement. I don't know. I gotta try something. I I d I don't know what Halloween's gonna be like. Nobody's doing that. Everybody is super nervous about it, in including me with the 10,000 a win. Check to have to pay for, Jim Gardner: Right. No, I don't understand that. And luckily my Bengals on Sunday are gonna go to Tennessee and just hang fifty on the Titans, Slim Pushins: Here we go. Jim Gardner: so I'm not super worried Nathan Moore: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: about missing the game. but you know, Corby: Almost like being a Cowboys fan. Jim Gardner: we've talked we've talked the last month or so about the toddler mods at RPM as just an excuse to take your kids to the racetrack and hoping they like sprint cars, and and and and get on there. So Maybe you're on to something, find find an excuse for a parent to to bring their kids to the racetrack and maybe they'll leave race fans and and come back the next week or or Nathan Moore: I hope so, man. Jim Gardner: next year or whatever. So that's a good it's a good plan. You know, my wife is not thrilled about it, but my kid just learned how to walk three days ago, so we're not going trick or treating and maybe next year I'll have to miss it, but we'll see. but yeah. Slim Pushins: Patrick Stasa Stasa said he's coming dressed as Corby. He needs to know where to get his get his hair done. Nathan Moore: but yeah. Jim Gardner: Get his hair done. He's coming to win for that PS five. Cor Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha Jim Gardner: Corby, what or Kerbo, where are you gonna go dressed as? You're headed up there. Slim Pushins: Dressing up. Nathan Moore: I can't wait for this. Jim Gardner: You're not nothing. Slim Pushins: Going I'm going as Jeb. Nathan Moore: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: You gonna wear stilts? Slim Pushins: Yeah. Nathan Moore: That's funny. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I'm excited. I just talking with Jeb and some other guys road tripping up there and trying to coordinate what we're drinking and eating Friday night and maybe Saturday night and getting a little away from it. these are these are fun trips, you know. It's not just a local Saturday night show down the street where hopefully we're making an effort of it. But that Nathan Moore: Sure. Man, that facility's just so beautiful. And and honestly, that's one of the nicest facilities we have in our state. We just don't race there because we're all from East Texas, you know, or or Dallas. I don't want to call it East Texas, I guess. Dallas. West Texas. So I I wanna Jim Gardner: Yep. Call it East Texas, that's what it is. You're from East Texas. Nathan Moore: I wanna see people there, you know, having race on back it is huge. Racewan's gonna Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. Nathan Moore: allow us to to to see it if you're if you can't go from Dallas, so you'll have that ability to watch it all. that makes it really big. I just I wanna see a lot of people in that place and I hope that happens. You know, their last couple of weeks and and fan count's been way down. I think at the US USAC show they had four hundred and eighty eight fans. yeah, it's scary. Jim Gardner: Oof. It was wasn't it like forty two degrees though? Yeah, let's let's let's just blame it on that. Nathan Moore: thirty seven, yeah, it was cold. It was freezing. Corby: Way too I promise you, I'm going home. Nathan Moore: It was cold and and that sucks, you know, and I I understand it. Luckily, you know, for rain it doesn't look fantastic, but for temperature it looks really good at like a low of like fifty five on Sunday Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: and a low of like fifty seven on Saturday. That's Slim Pushins: There you go, Corby. Nathan Moore: great. Yeah, Corby's coming. That's we're gonna do a live show Jim Gardner: Yeah. That's Corbin. Nathan Moore: there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. We're w so we are planning to do a live show up there. We talked about that, maybe doing it Sunday morning. it don't worry about canceling it if we have to move the race up to Sunday morning. we're not gonna be upset about that. definitely axe us first, but we're gonna try. We have kind of half the equipment to do it. I don't know that it's gonna be great, but we'll we'll try to get up there. We'll try to get Corby on from the the seventh hole of whatever golf course he's playing, to join us. Maybe we'll tr maybe we'll try to recruit some drivers Saturday to come hang out and talk with us about what the event is and and just kinda let anybody who didn't get to go to the race experience the race a little bit. So that'll be that's the only reason Turbo's going. I'm going Slim Pushins: Jeb said Jim Gardner: to Slim Pushins: Jeb said he's got s a couple of conspiracy theory. He's looking forward to being on s Sunday morning. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he better hope he's in the top Nathan Moore: I'm excited about it. Jim Gardner: six Saturday. Corby: Are you driving, Jim Gardner: I Corby: Nathan? Nathan Moore: No, I man, that's too much going on for me to Corby: Yeah. Nathan Moore: be driving. Ca Caden and Jacob Ewing are both gonna drive for me. They're both coming to race. Jacob Ewing did a he drove a car at the USAC race just simply because the car count was way down and their start money's pretty good. So I was already there. I figured I'd let him Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby: yeah. Nathan Moore: you know, run a car. And to be honest, Jacob surprised me. He's impressed me quite well. He did he did just as good as anybody on the track. He is way underpowered on three five, but he did a great job. And so I told him if he wanted to run this race he could too. So him and Caden both are gonna race. It took a little bit. Patrick had to fix a car for me since Chad crashed me. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we Slim Pushins: It happens. Jim Gardner: yeah, we we had your crash video from from the show over the summer up there. on here Nathan Moore: Yeah, so I Jim Gardner: we played where where that guy Corby sherbed it right in front of you and you had nowhere to go. And and but place anyway. Slim Pushins: That'll never get old. That will never get old. Nathan Moore: I love Chad, but why is that guy not signed up, man? I don't understand why he's not coming. Chad's not coming, that's sad. Jim Gardner: Yeah. These He he texted me on Saturday asking if I was going to RPM and I was like, Yeah, you coming? You want me to save you a spot? He's like, Nah, no crew. And I was like, I didn't get a phone call to come Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Jim Gardner: crew for you. I know where my crew is, probably hanging out at big shots with you. Slim Pushins: Corby and I Corby Nathan Moore: Same thing with Raimi. Slim Pushins: and I told him that we would crew for him whenever he needed it. He didn't he was looking for a reason not to have crew. Jim Gardner: Uh-huh. Nathan Moore: D Dylan and Kevin ain't coming, either one of them. Dylan's Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: fresh off a win. He's got a real shot at the ten thousand. Corby's got a real Jim Gardner: I think he's Nathan Moore: shot at the ten thousand. He's I don't know what he's doing. what are we doing, guys? Corby: I ain't got no shot at no ten thousand. I got no shot at no ten thousand. Jim Gardner: I think I think Dylan's used up all of his vacation time at work with his fake knee injury. Nathan Moore: Hmm. Jim Gardner: but Nathan Moore: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: yeah, we'll see. Hopefully, you know, hopefully there's a lot of FOMO on some of these guys not making the trip and they want to go out next year and you have a hundred cars. Nathan Moore: Sure. Jim Gardner: so but you know, sixty five or seventy or wherever we're at, there's gonna be plenty of cars there to put on a good show. Corby: E even fifty cars, let's be honest, it's super late in the year. There's a lot of people that have already parked their stuff. you Nathan Moore: For sure. Corby: you get fifty to sixty cars, in West Texas, that's huge. That's really big. And Nathan Moore: Yeah, I think so. Corby: You you put up the money like this and you put up a good format. it really helps everyone who especially the people that are on the fence about it, 'cause we're not all gym gardeners and just show up and expect to win. But Jim Gardner: I ain't I ain't driving out the West Texas to run second, so Corby: You gonna race now? Jim Gardner: no I mean with Uyghur. Yeah, Slim Pushins: He was talking about you behind the wheel, Jim. Corby: Yeah, come on. It's big, man. Jim Gardner: right. No. but Nathan Moore: Yeah. Corby: It's it's really huge. cheers to you for stepping up and and trying to d to pull something off like this. I know it's not easy, especially like it's Texas, it's the fall. The wind will be blowing out there no matter what, even if it is raining or not. So, Nathan Moore: Sure. That's true. Corby: and and it's good it's good for the racetrack to to get something out there. You're gonna put race on back out there. you have slim pushins going out there, so you'll have, you know, the most famous person from The Metroplex going all the way out west. Nathan Moore: I'm excited about that. He he told me a week ago he was not coming. He didn't care. And then now he's coming. So we're stoked about that. Slim Pushins: Nate's called me twice a day since I told him that and finally I got tired of him calling me, so I said, All right, all right, I'll go. Nathan Moore: Yeah, why why why would y'all not come? I don't understand it. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: Listen, if if this goes off well, Slim Pushins: It's I get tired of signing autographs. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: if this thing works well, the the the plan is me and Raison are gonna do several more of these over next year. I don't know that they will all be ten thousand a win. It's easy to do an Amarello because on an average night their fan counts are twice the size of everybody else's. so emerello seemed like the place to start. but our plan is to do more of these. I I would like to see more of it. I'm not really looking to promote a series again. I don't really want to get that far deep into it. that's bit that's 12 years of an ass whipping I don't want anymore. So Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Nathan Moore: truthfully, I I want to do some shows I can get in and out of. Do what? A lot more fun this year. Well, Corby: Have you had some more fun this year? Yeah, have you had some more fun this year? Yeah. Nathan Moore: I mean, I've taken a lot of chewing still, you know, a lot of chewing still. you know, I don't want to talk about that stuff. Ugh. Corby: Well, 'cause we we the I bring that up because we we've talked on here and man it is it th the promoter side of it, there's not people lined up to say I'm gonna go promote a race. So that that's why I'm saying that, Nathan Moore: No there's not. Jim Gardner: Or run a track. Corby: man. it this is a huge moment for you and to go out there and do something like this. this this could be an absolute staple in Texas racing. Nathan Moore: Yeah, I'm excited about it. I I personally have never seen a sprint car race this big in the state that has this many cars, not in one class. I mean, Devil's Bowl could do it with Corby: Right. Nathan Moore: 360s and 305s together, but I've never seen it in one class at one event like this. And not in not since I've been in the sprint car game, you know. so I'm pretty excited about it. I I was I didn't really expect this many cars. I expected closer to about 40 or 50, but it just kept on growing and we got We got one car coming from I'm pretty sure Minnesota. Jim Gardner: Wow. Nathan Moore: Owen Graff, you know. I don't know, man. I don't it's that's a long way with the weather chances. So if I if they don't, I understand. But Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: you know, most of the rest of us are within four or five hours. We can make a decision Friday, you know, and and still be okay. he's Jim Gardner: Right. Yep. Nathan Moore: not gonna be able to do that, so Slim Pushins: Sean Conrad Jim Gardner: I gotcha. Slim Pushins: said we better turn the volume down on the T Vs this weekend. Is he announcing Nathan Moore: He is announcing. I d I'm not I'm Jim Gardner: Good deal. Nathan Moore: not gonna miss a race with Conrad not announcing. It's just Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: if he's gonna be if he can be there, he's gonna be there. Yeah. Con Conrad definitely likes to scream. buddy. He's Jim Gardner: Good. Good. He's he's good. He brings a lot of energy. Nathan Moore: he definitely don't mind bringing the energy. And he knows all Jim Gardner: Yeah. No, that's good. So you did Nathan Moore: the drivers. He knows them well, you know. So Corby: That's the big thing I think with announcers, especially three five stuff around here. We talked about it before you jumped on, just how deep the talent is, just right here from from North Texas, the Metroplex. the the talent is beyond deep. just getting a win, let alone having a a multiple win. Same I mean you you've won a race this year and it's it's not easy. There's nothing easy about Nathan Moore: No, it's not. Corby: that. And then you're gonna put on this big race and you're gonna have some bigger names and some three five guys come from out of state that are gonna show up and try to and my money's always gonna be on the Texas guys. Nathan Moore: Yeah, to be honest, I I think there's some really good cars. I'm I'm not picking anybody, obviously, because I'm promoting and definitely not saying a name publicly. you know, I just hope that the races go really smooth and we're in and out pretty quick. we're gonna run on a schedule. We're we're basically scheduling every race. I'm gonna try to stick to that as much as I possibly can. You can't, you know what I mean, consider Corby: Can't be perfect. Nathan Moore: every variable, but we definitely are gonna try to To run the mains early, s I think the one on Saturday nights, an 8 30 or an eight eight forty-five main event for the sprint cars. And I expect it to be very close. And same thing on Sunday. I expect us to be, out of there by eight o'clock. Well, maybe not the guys getting tech, but they're not really gonna care. They're they're gonna be making pretty good money. So now there's two. There's Slim Pushins: You have we have one supporting class both nights? Okay. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Nathan Moore: street stocks are running both nights, and so are the limited modifieds now. They're running on their local purse, which is not very good. And I'm hoping that it keeps everybody from trying to travel down there in those classes. I'm I really want those classes to have 16 or 20 cars because they need to have we need to have something to break the night up a little bit for the sprint cars. But I don't Jim Gardner: Yeah. Right. Nathan Moore: want I don't want to be main in those classes. I really Jim Gardner: Right. Nathan Moore: it's not against those classes that they're they're there to help fill in the show. And I want a good show from them, but they're local guys. I just I really want their local guys and not a bunch of outside. I don't need a 45 car. limit mod Jim Gardner: Right. Nathan Moore: show when I've got 70 sprint cars, you know? Yeah, well. I'll just walk through there and start DQing DQing before the night starts. Get me down to twenty. Corby: You say that now and watch Jim Gardner: When they're call when they're calling heat six up for the modified at ten ten o'clock. Yeah. Yeah. No, Corby: Ha ha ha. Jim Gardner: I I appreciate that. that's that's what the outlaws and high limit do if they run a support classes that's by invite only or or something like that where it's real limited. So no, it's we're all hoping for the best here. y There's gonna be headaches and there's gonna be some stuff that pisses everybody off and you're not gonna make everybody happy. But if everybody's flexible with the weather and and can, you know, see the big picture and see the the forest through the trees, I think it's gonna be a pretty good show. So the the other, you know, Siri you were pretty well promoting the the Speed Week that didn't happen this year, right? Because of the rain. Nathan Moore: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: is that s Maybe this is too early to ask, but are we gonna do that again? Nathan Moore: Yeah, the first one was so fun. I I really enjoyed Jim Gardner: It was awesome. Nathan Moore: it. It it was honestly probably one of the more fun things I've done. we were in and out in five days. We got to race five days straight. At the end of the five days, it was over with. I didn't have to listen to the bitching for seven, eight Jim Gardner: Ha Nathan Moore: months. so truthfully I enjoyed it. When when I leave there, you know, when I left there, I really was like, Man, I I I really enjoyed doing what we're doing now. The series isn't as fun. The points fund, the series, the championship stuff, man, it just absolutely just takes the fun out of everything for you. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: and to be honest, it just we did it for so long. Daniel and I, you know, we we promote it for years. And because of that, it just man, it just took all the fun out of it for years. And now now I'm back to racing and I'm just out racing by myself and I I love it. You know, I don't I don't really have to deal with forty people or walk through there and tell everybody hi. I don't I don't. I really stay kind of to myself and I like it. You know, it's just nice and easy at the end of the night. I don't have somebody calling me on Monday at midnight, telling me who's cheating, I don't really have to deal with that stuff. So yeah, the Speed Week, my plan is to do the Speed Week again. My my plan is to do about 12 shows next year and they're all going to be, you know, fairly big money shows. Those are going to be part of it. You know, I think, you know, race on's on board with whatever I choose to do and and how I want to do it. And they're really ready to back it. and thanks to those guys for putting money back into our sport. where it should be, and so I plan on doing, you know, several big shows and then of course the speed week. And I'm I plan on ending the year again with this. I I mean, if this works, you know, ask me, ask me again next week. I I may have a whole different answer. But Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Nathan Moore: yeah, I mean I I kinda like the I've d there's a part of me that loves the promoting. I it's I don't think shows are gonna happen like this if you if I don't, you know. And I, you know, I I stepped out of it for a couple of years and really to me Things changed, it just seemed like things changed. And so I feel like obligated, I need to come back in and help. Corby: We don't have traveling series anymore, It it's go run a racetrack for a championship or go go run a one off race here and there. you know, the speed week thing or doing a couple big money races here and there, wherever, saying I'd love to see Rocket come back. with a couple three or five shows a year, just so I can, you know, kick Jimmy's ass there too. But Nathan Moore: We're already we're already planning on Rocket. That's with them with race on owning Rocket, it clearly Corby: Mm-hmm. Nathan Moore: is a, Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: a an obvious target at the start Corby: For sure. Nathan Moore: of the year. in their game. They want more sprint car shows. It's just there becomes a lot of politics and and honestly, that side of it most people don't understand, but the politics play a huge factor in where we're racing, when we're racing, how we're racing, because we're getting told Corby: yeah. Nathan Moore: no, all the regular stuff and and everything else. And so you gotta play the politics side of racing. it was probably a great year to let go of the series with gas at $78 a gallon, you know, and that's that's that'd Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: have made traveling series really tough. I it was it's tough to get car count Corby: For sure. Nathan Moore: traveling anyway, but diesel's been rough this year. Jim Gardner: Yeah. that's the truth. And the curbo. Corby: But you have races like that or yeah, you Slim Pushins: Yeah, it's bad. Corby: yeah. You have races like that that maybe someone Jim Gardner: Back to back to you, Slim. Corby: maybe someone can show up and and make a little bit of money. because let's be honest, i it it's really tough to race any form of racing and make any money, but in a three five you can show up and run a race like that. what run a top ten, you'll at least be able to to put some money in your pocket to make it back home. You know, you you win the Nathan Moore: Yes. Corby: thing and it'll make the year a whole lot better. Nathan Moore: absolutely. Jim Gardner: Nathan, you did some traveling. you've been at this sprint car thing for a long time. I think I first met you in the pits at Lawrenceburg Speedway in two thousand four for USAC Sprint Week. I don't think you probably remember that. Nathan Moore: Yeah, it w probably wasn't that long ago. I don't I was I was I wasn't up there till twenty thirteen. But I yeah, it was twenty Jim Gardner: thirteen? Was it the was it the big Nathan Moore: thirteen, the first year I showed up at Sprint Week. And I had raced a sprint car maybe five or six times. my dad was all about doing the four ten non-wing cars, so he bought one and then he was like, Let's go to Indiana Sprint Week. And there was like Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: sixty-five cars there, you know. Like the very first time I showed up, I've I've never even seen a non-wing four ten race at that point in my life Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: and we should we showed up to sprint week. Jim Gardner: Was that so was that the big Lawrence that was the Big Lawrence Burg by thirteen, right? The the Nathan Moore: The Yeah, that was the one that we're they're on now. Corby: Okay. Jim Gardner: the current one they have now? Okay. Then I'm dude. The widow Nathan Moore: Big hole going into three, yes. Jim Gardner: the widow Yeah, the widow maker down there. But yeah, you've been doing this a long time. I remember you showing up with a flatbed trailer up there, back Nathan Moore: Yes. Jim Gardner: when I was, you know, cutting my teeth too, and I I was smart enough not to go to the Sprint Week show in my pile. Nathan Moore: Yeah. Jim Gardner: but I know once I move down here Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, Slim Pushins: Now he's got that big fifty three foot haul or air conditioned lounge. Jim Gardner: it's about to be a podcast studio. But you know, I know Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: I know, you know, I ran your non wing series there for a little bit and and we had a bunch of fun with that. I know that there's a huge non wing hole in in our area. is there any non wing racing coming back? Nathan Moore: There is. it's not gonna be the same as it was, simply because I don't think there's the cars left. I don't think the people are here, but we're bringing back three or five non-wing racing back to our state. Yes. And there's about right now we're at about Jim Gardner: Let's all right, well that was not Corby: I think the three five the the three five non wing stuff, I know that we went to Kilgore and race that was my first ever non wing race and I I'll tell a short story after this. I it w it was big back then, but I remember Nathan Moore: It was. Corby: pushing out this first time I ever ran non wing and I told myself in my head, like you gotta be fast the first lap, like and we're gonna push out here in practice and I'm gonna hold it wide open. The whole first lap, right? So I've I'm old enough, I raced Kilgore on motorcycles when it was a true half mile and so we pushed out for practice And I lit it up going out the front street and man, dude, I got a a flat tire or something. And then we went to one and two and I lit it up again and I about spun it out. Just stomping on it one time and I'm like, holy man, total different game. It is way Jim Gardner: It's different it's a different ball game, man. Corby: different. Jim Gardner: It is a different ball game. Nathan Moore: They're a to me, they're a lot more fun car to drive. They're, you don't if you turn it over, you don't have fifteen hundred dollars on wings you tear up right off the bat. Now, I I love the wing cars. I I'm I tell everybody, everybody says something about me being in a wing car right now, and I I I'm a sprint car guy. I I the reason I went to the non wing Jim Gardner: That's what's around. That's the Nathan Moore: world was because it's the only thing I could afford. The sprint the wing stuff was way more expensive and I could buy Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: a four ten for a non-wing car. I was never gonna be able to buy a four ten for a wing car. So I went on wing racing and to be honest, I just as I got better at it, that's what I stuck with. And then I came back here, start the series. it was 305 for three years, and then we went to the 410 stuff. And honestly, it was probably its biggest through the 410 stuff through about now, I'm gonna say 2020 through about two thousand twenty-two or twenty-three. It was the biggest it was. It just kinda started falling off. But the Slim Pushins: I gotta make another drink while y'all are talking about non wing stuff. Nathan Moore: the the stuff coming next year is bad is is it's the US L group out of Oklahoma. We're just gonna we put in six races together down here. you know, hopefully some of us will get in interested in it and kind of go up there and support them and some of their bigger shows and stuff up there, as long as, you know, we do have the shows already kind of set and booked down here. They're they're not date booked, but they're the tracks are interested, you know. And I think that with their 10, 12, 15 cars that they're gonna bring and then add us 10, 12, 15 cars, we're probably have a pretty good size show, back to where it's supposed to be, you know. Jim Gardner: Good, good. Well I I've again I didn't prep that with you. I was just sending a feeler. I've s Corby: I cannot wait to wax Jimmy's ass, non-wing. Jim Gardner: I've I've got my non Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Jim Gardner: wing bird cages on the car. I just gotta make an adjustment right here. So we'll get we'll get back to to some real racing because Nathan Moore: Yeah, same. Corby: I can't wait. I won't even put a big axle in, I'll just turn the right front around backwards. Jim Gardner: okay. That's Nathan Moore: That's all right. That's what most people do. Jim Gardner: well, yeah. So I'm excited to hear that. I know that's a little off topic from from what we initially had you on here. Nathan Moore: Yeah, that's all right. Jim Gardner: for but being the non wing pope that you are of this town, we wanted to make sure I got those questions in because I know the people Nathan Moore: Sure. Jim Gardner: the people would chastise me for not asking them. Nathan Moore: No, that's Jim Gardner: but that's awesome. I'm excited to hear about hear about more of that here over the off season. But but first we gotta get through this weekend. Hopefully we stay pretty dry and and have a good car count and a good show up there and and I'm excited about it. Kinda cap off cap off the air. Nathan Moore: Yeah, if you if you're really curious about it, I n I know this is a bad way, but find me on Facebook. I'm not making a page just for this, but find me on Facebook. I'm I'm gonna keep keep it posted pretty regular as the week goes on because I really don't know where else to go with it. but I'm sure there'll be plenty of sharing. So if you don't wanna add me, then you'll see it on there somewhere from somebody. really I'm not bothered by Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, we'll be good. We'll share what we can Slim Pushins: Yeah, we'll try to we'll try to keep everybody up as as much as we can on our page too. Jim Gardner: to both of our followers and Nathan Moore: Sure. Yep. And Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: I've seen pictures of the track in the last two days and it don't look you know, the pits don't look fantastic, but I'm gonna go up there and we're gonna see if we can't roll this place in. You know. I've raced at this Jim Gardner: Okay. Sounds Nathan Moore: racetrack at an on-wing race while it rained. I mean, was pulling tear-offs with rain on So we it we never lost the track in all that. I mean, honestly, it can happen still if this place is capable of taking that. And honestly, they're probably a little bit of water probably help out. It's dusty and dry up there. Jim Gardner: How so I know like you sack went there, you've taken some non wing shows up there for for years. Do they get much winged racing up in Amarillo in general? Nathan Moore: they make get much what? Wing racing? Jim Gardner: Any any wing racing, three sixty racing or or Nathan Moore: No, not really. They they had high limit there this year, but they they do have 305 you know as a bi-weekly class up there. They just Jim Gardner: Okay. Nathan Moore: the car counts twelve to fifteen on a regular basis. They they run a whole different set of rules, and this is why our rules are a little different going into Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: this weekend. Our rules are basically you gotta have a race ever motor. Now it doesn't have to be a sealed motor, but if it's if you roll across the Top six or top five on Saturday or on Sunday and then you don't have seals on the motor, I'm gonna check it to see it's a race ever legal. We're gonna we're gonna tear them down. And then you know, if it's sealed, we're still gonna check them pretty hard. We're gonna we're gonna take the cars pretty hard. they Corby: Yeah, Jimmy. Nosewing Slim Pushins: Pushing the rules, Jimmy. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Y d are you gonna be checking front f nosewing locations? Corby: nose wing angle nose wing length, yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: Yeah. They allow titanium brakes and wing sliders. We're not allowing the wing sliders, but they can run titanium brakes. You this weekend you can run titanium brakes and titanium bolts. I'm not I don't care what bolt you have in your U joint, it doesn't really matter to me. that you know, it I don't think it has any fit. Yeah. That's what I'm saying, man. It probably it's probably not the bolts that did the job. So Corby: If you beat me because you got tie bolts at your U joint, then I probably sucked anyways For sure. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, it's it's more the principle of what they try to do, but I get it too, But they could DQ Nathan Moore: Sure. Jim Gardner: people for having tie bolts in their steering wheel by the rules. Nathan Moore: Yes. Jim Gardner: so y it's it's the thought that counts. But any of that stuff isn't gonna make a performance difference this weekend, so Nathan Moore: No, I I I think unless the track got super dry just right on the bottom, titanium brakes probably have no advantage, you know. Maybe if they get real dry and right around the bottom, there may be some, but I'm not changing the rule. I don't plan on doing that. You know, I'm I'm pretty much dictating the track prep. So, you know, as long as we're not fighting with time, I I expect the track prep to be pretty good. They and they Jim Gardner: All right. Good deal. Nathan Moore: they have had it great the last several the last couple of years. The USAC show was incredible. It was right around the top. So Jim Gardner: Yeah, it i it was. I just I caught the highlights and it it's unfortunate that they had bad weather that weekend too for the USAC show 'cause Nathan Moore: Yes. Jim Gardner: y I know you and I are of the same thought that USAC sprint car racing is the best racing on the planet, even though that bores slim pushins to death. Nathan Moore: Ha ha. Corby: I I can't wait. Jim Gardner: you can't Corby: I hope that Nathan does bring some non wing stuff back 'cause I'm gonna wax your ass without a wing on. Jim Gardner: Okay. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. Yeah. Keep talking. Keep talk keep Nathan Moore: There's definitely some coming back, so. Jim Gardner: talking. Well, we're excited to hear about that. I'm I'm now more excited about that than I am the actual race this weekend. But Nathan Moore: Yeah, well. Jim Gardner: we'll see how that goes. Slim Pushins: Jim's already Jim's already thinking about a spin off push in the cushion non wing show. Corby: Well, he Jim Gardner: That's right. On Wednesdays at seven. Corby: talk he talks about being a no, he talks about it a non wing stuff. Let like let's talk about let's talk about you, Nathan. Slim Pushins: All right, Nate, you're in. He's gonna need a co Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: host. Corby: Did you did you ever run Nathan Moore: That's funny. Corby: it did you ever run a mile? Nathan Moore: I did. I've ran I've run several Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah. Nathan Moore: of them. I've I ran the Corby: Springfield or Decoyne? Nathan Moore: I ran the whole crown series in Jim Gardner: There's yeah. Corby: Yeah. Nathan Moore: twenty-four. And so I ran the miles, I ran that mile and a quarter at Gateway in an asphalt cars. The absolutely stupidest thing I've ever done. Yeah, dude. There's nothing Jim Gardner: Yeah, going going a hundred and seventy eight miles an hour. Bro. Corby: Yeah. Nathan Moore: feels good about that. I don't I even know how to describe how stupid that is. Dude, Corby: Terra Halt's one thing, but that's a whole different story. Nathan Moore: it it like my face shield like like broke it. I didn't Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: know you could go that fast to break a face shield Corby: Ha ha Nathan Moore: on a helmet. We had to change it in the pit. It was it's different. I don't want to do that. But the mild stuff, that's you're still hauling ass. I I crashed one Corby: for sure. Nathan Moore: pretty good. And when I I knew I was going fast when it turned around backward and we backed into the wall, I was like, no, this thing really Jim Gardner: That's Nathan Moore: is hauling ass. Jim Gardner: yeah, it's bad news, man. Some of those champ car flips. I was at the last champ car race at the Indy Mile when Chris Windham flipped down the front straight away about ten feet from me and I was like, my god. there it Nathan Moore: It makes you think about it. Jim Gardner: it they're so big and they kinda, you know, rotate slow and stuff like that, but you kinda forget how fast they're going, until Nathan Moore: Yes. Jim Gardner: you see one stop real quick. Corby: the mile is super super deceiving. in any way you watch it, Nathan Moore: Yeah, because it's so big. Corby: for sure. And it's so wide. same like you go to Springfield, I mean Springfield's just about as wide as it is long. Nathan Moore: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: Keith Martin said it'd be a real sprint car show then. Corby: no, I just wanted to t to talk about that Nathan Moore: I don't know, what is he talking about? Corby: I never I never talk about nonwing stuff. Jim Gardner: Amarillo? Yeah. Slim Pushins: No yeah, non wing stuff. Corby: I I bet it I Nathan Moore: yeah. Corby: bet it's wicked driving a sprint car down the back straight away of any mile that exists. I don't care. Indy, Syracuse, Springfield that I I can only imagine just trying to keep it straight for that long. Nathan Moore: Man, and the the hundred laps is what makes it wild because, your car changes so much. For twenty-five laps, you have a good race car, and then the next twenty-five laps the thing drags drives terrible. You know, twenty-four, five more laps or so, you know, it's really good again. And then the last part of the race, you feel like you've drove something, you're driving something that's been raced all year, you know what I mean? Thing nothing feels good in the car again. And then you're trying just to hold it in the rubber and you don't have any tires left and you don't know how much fuel you have and to be honest, you have spotters and those spotters are up in there telling you how shitty you're doing, So it's really a good time. The spotter was my wife, by the way. So she had no issue telling me how bad I was sucking, you know. She Jim Gardner: Yeah. I I don't need that. I'm already telling myself how shitty I am. Yeah. Right. Slim Pushins: Corby, what would I be if I was your spotter, what would I be telling you the entire race? Jim Gardner: He would unplug it. Corby: I'm leading by a half a lap. Keep digging. What? Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Jim Gardner: Man, no, I'm out on that. But Slim Pushins: Guy Smurcer said he loves non-wing. Jim Gardner: Let's go, man. Don wings where it's at. Kerbo, you just the roll in the bottom Slim Pushins: Wednesdays it's seven PM guys. Nathan Moore: I like it too. Corby: He won't say that after I beat him non wing. He he won't say that after I beat him non wing, I promise. Jim Gardner: podcast went. Slim Pushins: Rollin the rollin' the bottom podcast with Nathan Moore: Man, I f I feel like non wing cars. Slim Pushins: Jimmy Gardner, Guy Smurser, Nathan Moore. Nathan Moore: I feel like got non wing cars on a slick track around the bottom is the worst thing to watch. I I'm a non wing guy. I think it's awful. Thirty two Jim Gardner: it's terrible. Yeah. It's Nathan Moore: miles an hour around the tires is way worse in a non wing car than it is in a wing car. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's Nathan Moore: just when the tracks juiced up and kind of rough, non wing cars put on a way better show. The wing cars Jim Gardner: Mm. Nathan Moore: just get kind of aero dependent and everybody's fast in like that. You know, it's just Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: that's how I feel about it. Corby: We talked about this before you got on, the the the wing stuff, it it's one thing to to make up from twentieth to tenth. It's a whole different story to make up from fifth to first, d find those couple of tenths with a wing Nathan Moore: For sure. Corby: on because you look up and you got someone like Cody Price leading or Colby Subbafield or any or Chad Wilson, any of these guys, Marcus Thomas and you cannot go any faster. It's impossible. You know what I mean? Nathan Moore: No, it's those guys are just as fast as you are, if not better, and it's it gets really tough to to catch those guys at that point. Corby: It it is and and non wing I think that the the slider roll comes in a a lot bigger and you can pill out and and throw a slider whenever you're running winged. I I don't care if you drove straight up the racetrack, you'll you'll junk each other no matter what. So Nathan Moore: Sure. absolutely. Corby: I I I'm I'm not a wing person or a non wing person myself, but I I do think that there there's a bit of a separation. Slim Pushins: Kick Jimmy's ass, you'd be you'd be one for a night. Nathan Moore: But your brother is. Logan Logan's won one with me at Grayson. I I'm pretty sure he did it Corby: yeah, that Logan. Logan won I know. I know. Logan's won a race in non wing. I know. And I gotta do it now at Non Wing. Jim Gardner: Speaking. Nathan Moore: in a three five against a bunch of four tens. Jim Gardner: Yeah, Corby: He was in Roger Oak's Jim Gardner: put putting Corby: car, that's totally different though. Roger knew what he was doing. I didn't have a clue. Jim Gardner: Speaking of putt putting the bottom. It's all right. It's the way it is. Yeah, it's the way it is, Nathan Moore: It was Grayson was pretty rough. We quit we quit going there 'cause of that reason. Yeah, it is. Corby: He beat Jim Gardner: the way it's always been. But all right. Well, we got a little off topic, getting into the non wing rabbit hole. Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Jim Gardner: just to spite Slim over there who's bored as hell. But Briley K Slim Pushins: Riley Kilmer said as a wing and non wing driver she prefers non wing. Jim Gardner: Yeah, she knows what's up. Slim Pushins: She's also had a lot of success in a non wing too. Nathan Moore: she's gonna win the ten thousand this weekend probably. She's she won the five thousand up there this year. Slim Pushins: where was that? Jim Gardner: That was a wild ass finish. Slim Pushins: In Lawton? Jim Gardner: No, it was at Amarillo. When they were crashing coming to the line. Nathan Moore: Yeah, no, she won She won it a lot and then she won the 5000 at Amarello. Slim Pushins: Up there in Amarillo. Nathan Moore: I'm gonna say it was it was a pretty good, exciting ending to watch. I I turned the car over in that Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, it was. Corby: For sure. Nathan Moore: race and then I got to go up in the stands and watch that part. And honestly, it it from the stand side, you know, it was great. If I if I was one of them two car owners, I probably wouldn't have been the most excited, but that you know, Briley's Jim Gardner: Yeah. No. Yeah. It's Nathan Moore: car owner was well, to be honest, I think She was driving for the same guy that had a car junked right there at the end. So Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: he had a junked race car and a and a car that won. So he was Corby: When lose situation. Jim Gardner: that was when when Slim Pushins: It was k kinda like Nathan Moore: yeah, Slim Pushins: it was kinda like Corby ran Boyd a couple of weekends ago. Jim Gardner: when Corby won at Boyd and Nathan Moore: Ha ha. Jim Gardner: roughed up his car owner's kid. Slim Pushins: Lap and his teammate tried Nathan Moore: David? Slim Pushins: to send him over the berm into the into the Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: into the sh river down there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: I wanted to go to a boy, but I was an Amarello politic and I'll call it that. Yeah. Jim Gardner: There you go. Well we we appreciate that. So doing Slim Pushins: Corby's Jim Gardner: the Lord's work. Slim Pushins: Corby's got the race on replay just on rerun in his house. Jim Gardner: Yeah, c call up your race on buddies and ask Nathan Moore: I f I understand. Jim Gardner: if there's really weird traffic from Decatur, Texas, watching the same Boyd show over and over again. It's just Corby's computer. Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: Riley said she owns all Jim Gardner: But Slim Pushins: her own cars. That's awesome. Nathan Moore: she she she may she may have a core. I don't I don't honestly know. I just assume Jim Gardner: Yeah. Anyway. Nathan Moore: by the number and who she is picking Jim Gardner: Gotcha. Slim Pushins: Yeah, Nate, see, ask your He's gone. He's Jim Gardner: boy, we lost him. Nope, he's back. Slim Pushins: back. Jim Gardner: He's back. Nathan Moore: Somebody's calling me. Crying about the race already this weekend. Slim Pushins: Yeah, ask your race on people Corby: It's probably a McCreary. Slim Pushins: ask your race on people if they've seen a spike in their replays of Jim Gardner: Yeah boy. Slim Pushins: recent recent races in the last, say, three or four weeks. Corby: No, I I typically Nathan Moore: Listen, Boyd loves that. I promise you, Boyd loves it. Corby: I I I typically watch more like the like the downfalls more than than the highs. You can you can win a race from the front row outside. It it's a different story when John Ricketts passes you on the last lap and you can't get back by him or those are the ones that hurt, those are the ones that you try to remember to never let it happen again. Jim Gardner: I burn the tapes. Throw it away. Nathan Moore: Yeah, how come Ricketts ain't coming? Is he on here? Corby: I don't know. Slim Pushins: he usually is. Corby: John's more than fast enough. I Jeb's going out there. Jeb's gonna support the the Metroplex guys. Nathan Moore: Yeah, Rick it's ditched on me too. Been talking about it for six months with him and he was coming. No. Slim Pushins: Jeb's gonna go out there and break Jim's Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: heart again and win this thing. Nathan Moore: Buddy, I I knew that I knew that having it on Halloween was gonna be a real factor with the family guys. I d I really couldn't I didn't have an option. like I said. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, Jeb j Jeb called me last night to talk logistics and he's like Well I think I'm gonna stay Friday and take ember trick or treating a little bit and I was like don't tell my wife that I'm leaving Friday and you're gonna make me look bad. Our kids Nathan Moore: Yeah. Jim Gardner: are like the same age. And Nathan Moore: yeah. Slim Pushins: James Horton wants to know if I'm gonna post my login info. I don't have to. Everybody's got my login info. For race on. I'm the idiot. I'm the idiot that pays Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: $40 a month to watch races that I'm at. Nathan Moore: we appreciate that. I I de I definitely appreciate that. Thank you. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, right. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Anyway. but that's good. Yeah. Catch the catch the shows on race on if you can't go. but we hope you know, hope we have a pretty large contingent up there this weekend. Slim Pushins: Bring the ten K back to the Metroplex. Nathan Moore: Yeah, I hope so. Jim Gardner: That's right. Nathan Moore: the plan is to get there. We just have to make sure one works. Slim Pushins: That'll buy a lot of taco bucks for Jeb. Jim Gardner: Yep, so good deal. I'm pulling up the entry list here now. See who the big competition here Nathan Moore: Pretty long. Jim Gardner: is. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Nate's got it tattooed on his arm. He can tell you everybody that's Nathan Moore: I've got it in my notes in my phone and I look at it like daily, and then I've and then I've got the actual registration on my race pass. I see that too. I really Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: don't know how to work all that stuff. So I had to get somebody to put it on my phone for me. Jim Gardner: I look Slim Pushins: If you hey you got Jim, you got Jim that's gonna do this Wednesday night show with you. He's he's Johnny on the spot. All we have to do is ask, and he pulls Jim Gardner: Yeah. Nathan Moore: Yeah, well that's good 'cause I'm not Slim Pushins: it up. Nathan Moore: I'm not very organized. I don't know how we get these done, but I'm not very organized. Jim Gardner: I yeah. to star local guys who are going based on this this entry list. Jeb Sesams, Paul White will will claim he's down from Waco, Bolden's in there, Stubblefield, Harmon, Mundy. Landon Thompson, Rutherford Corby: Jordan Roops on here. Jim Gardner: Well yeah, Dalla don't mess me up now. Corby: sorry, sorry buddy. Jim Gardner: let just let me flow Corby: Is the plant Uyghur Slim Pushins: Jim hates when Corby: considered? You mean to keep going? You mean Slim Pushins: Jim hates when Corby and I talk. Corby: to keep going? Jim Gardner: W Uygh, Casey Merrell, Caden McCreary, Jacob Ewing, that's your all your cars. Corby: Caden's my pick. Caden can win it. Caden's got it done. Jim Gardner: Claude is going. Carney will be Nathan Moore: He looked pretty good. Jim Gardner: out there. Jordan Rupe, Laplant, lots of our guys headed out west this weekend. So hopefully we'll pull it pull it back to the to the Metroplex here, but Nathan Moore: Yeah, we got a lot of really good cars. Carney Carney lives the probably four minutes from the track. Corby: Yeah. Nathan Moore: My ma matter of fact, my stuff is there at Carney's place now. I've already got a truck and trailer and a car down there. And then we had to get this other one back together. That's why I wasn't at RPM. I didn't get it back till Sunday. Yeah, just Jim Gardner: I was wondering where you were at, man. I was hoping to battle with you in the dog pound the whole time. Nathan Moore: Yeah, it was it was up in hammerello and the other one's here 'cause Chad. Jim Gardner: Yep, so. Nathan Moore: I'm not lifting on that. Slim Pushins: Carney's son Maverick's driving too. Did you Jim, did you I stepped Nathan Moore: Here's Slim Pushins: out? Did you mention that? Jim Gardner: no. I just Nathan Moore: But he didn't really race down here. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Carney's got, local ties here from running the Taco Casa car, but Nathan Moore: Do we claim him? Do we claim Corney in Dallas? Jim Gardner: We c only when he does stuff we like and then Yeah, like if he's running Nathan Moore: the national stuff and all that stuff that then we claim him. Jim Gardner: the high limit show, we're like, Yeah, it's one of our guys and then, you know, when he beats us and we're like, freaking invaders. Nathan Moore: We gotta we gotta claim him when he goes up to the nationals 'cause he kills them up there. Slim Pushins: let's be honest, we can be bought by Taco Bucks. I I could be I can be bought easily Corby: yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I think Slim Pushins: by Taco Bucks. Jim Gardner: I think Roy and the the Taco Casa crew are going up there was the last rumor I heard from from Jeb. So Nathan Moore: Yeah, I've got some parking spots saved. Jim Gardner: good deal. Good deal. So Slim Pushins: Tony said Nathan Moore: They're coming. Slim Pushins: Tony said forty five viewers. Is that a record? We've actually got more than forty five because we've also everybody that's on Facebook doesn't see the YouTube viewers. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Anyway, yeah. So so I ha so it happens when we bring on crews, but Nathan Moore: Yeah, well, you're welcome. That's funny. Slim Pushins: And it's all because of it's all because of Nate. Corby: Nathan. Nathan Moore: Everybody's curious about the weather. I trust me, my phone hasn't slowed down yet. Corby: How about Jim Gardner: Yeah. Well, we appreciate what you do for our area in terms of putting races on and dealing with all the horseshit behind the scenes. I know I don't want to do it. I get on here most weeks and complain about something and then qualify it by saying, Look, I don't want to do it and I know it's hard. but Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Nathan Moore: Well, as a racer, man, I'm a I'm a complainer. So I c I d I make sure I call Kevin every time I leave RPM and bitch about something just because I know what it was like. And he did that. Slim Pushins: So Nathan Moore: He had no issue calling me, so hell with it. Slim Pushins: usually usually on the show after every RPM race, it we'll obviously Nathan Moore: Uh-huh. Slim Pushins: talk about the RPM race and then w Kevin will send us a group text the following day to set us straight on on everyth on everything from track conditions Jim Gardner: Everything we said that was wrong. Nathan Moore: Does he? Slim Pushins: to corndogs. Jim Gardner: Yeah, and then he'll send a picture Nathan Moore: Funny. Jim Gardner: of the brisket he smoked on Sunday. Slim Pushins: He won't let me drive Nathan Moore: That's funny. Slim Pushins: the he won't let me drive the heavy Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: equipment. Can you believe that, Nate? Corby: Yeah. Nathan Moore: No buddy, I wouldn't let I wish I d I I can. Yeah. Good move on his part. He don't want to rebuild that Jim Gardner: yeah. No, we we know that's Nathan Moore: wall again. Jim Gardner: we yeah. We know that's a thankless job, from all those years promoting and stuff and appreciate you putting on you know, putting your neck out there, you know, financially and and doing all the stuff so that we can just prepare race cars and go race because that's actually the fun part of this deal. So Nathan Moore: Yeah, I appreciate that. Jim Gardner: We hope it's successful and anything we can do to help just let us know and Slim Pushins: You've this year you've talked a lot more shit than you normally do, Nate. Nathan Moore: Yeah, I don't have to I don't have to worry about who I'm talk who I'm talking shit about no more. I'm not promoting them, Jim Gardner: Ha Nathan Moore: I calmed it down over the last couple weeks though. I'm telling them all they're great again. That's it. That's the key, Jim Gardner: Right. Pr That's right. Slim Pushins: Get ready just getting ready for all the complaints. Nathan Moore: but I I call all the drivers and I tell them how great they are and how much they're gonna win and all this stuff. That's it's the ideal. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we know. Dick. yeah, but no, that's good. So I you know, we do appreciate that. You've done a a a lot for our sport and and and step taking a step back from the promoter side, I know the reasons why, but you're right, it has changed a little bit in the last couple of years. So you know, it's good to see you still still doing this. So we appreciate it. So Anyway, boys, let's let's wrap this up and let Nathan get on the road. He's got five hours ahead of him trekking out to Nathan Moore: Yeah, I do. Jim Gardner: Amarillo. Yep. So all right. Corby: Great tune. Way better in Tulsa Time. Thanks, Nathan buddy. Nathan Moore: Thank you all. Corby: Good luck this weekend, dude. my pick's Caden. Slim Pushins: Hey, thanks for joining us. It's g Nathan Moore: Yeah. Yeah. I hope so. It's gonna be weird if Caden Slim Pushins: it's gonna be a good time. I can't wait to to get out there. Nathan Moore: does win it, but I hope I hope he does too, 'cause saved me ten grand. Thank you all. I appreciate it again. Bye. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Nate. See ya. Corby: I'll fall out. Say buddy. Slim Pushins: Thanks everybody.