Latest / Pushin' the Cushion / Episode 10- Impromptu Shop Beers (without Christian Kinnison)
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- Slim Pushins: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to another live Garage Beers. This one's band-aided together, and we'll tell you about that shortly. As always, my illustrious co-host, a guy that eats corn dogs sideways like a corn on the cob, Corby Sherb. And Jim Gardner: Sorry, I was a little late on it. Slim Pushins: Where was he on that one? Last but not least, Mr Unapproachable. Corby Scherb: Easy there with the cold trickles. Slim Pushins: James Hollywood Gardner. Jim Gardner: Going on. Yeah. ⁓ just us three tonight, boys. Yeah, our our date stood us up. Slim Pushins: I can't bring up are we live live? Jim Gardner: So like Kerbo on prom night. Yeah. So we had ⁓ plans to have ⁓ our buddy Christian Kennison on to talk about high limit and ⁓ he was doing some heavy hauling, some big rig stuff up in Montana and ⁓ Montana DOT caught him. Caught him and ⁓ wanted to do about a three hour inspection on the side of the road. So he's he's running behind. But ⁓ old Smoky and the Bandit up there. Corby Scherb: Yeah, he had he had a little little technical difficulties there. ⁓ yeah, one hundred percent. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Dude, ⁓ I got a funny I got a funny story about ⁓ being in being in Montana. ⁓ my dad used to promote motorcycle races and like monstruck races and like freestyle motocross, like a bunch of stuff, like arena cross and ⁓ it was called Checker Flag Productions, it was Ed Beckley, Beckley family. And ⁓ we were in Montana, we went to Montana every single year, and ⁓ we were headed to Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: calling moonshine across state lines. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: I don't I wanna wanna say it was Billings. I can't remember where we was headed to in Montana, but we got pulled over and we were in the Regency van, you know, with the T V down low and the VCR. Clean. Clean. Super clean. ⁓ 100%. Electric bed in the back. It was so rad. And ⁓ we got pulled over, ⁓ because back then they didn't post speed limits in Montana. I'm probably gonna like butcher how you pronounce this, but like reasonable intrudent, I think is what the speed limit sign said. Well the cop said that ninety-three was not Slim Pushins: Fold out bed, fold out bed. Corby Scherb: Feature in Trudan who had three kids in the back seat passed out. Slim Pushins: do they write the ticket? Like what were you like like what were you going over? Corby Scherb: I don't know. I don't even think he got a ticket. I swear, I d I I don't think he got a ticket. Jim Gardner: Reasonable and prudent. Reasonable and intrudent. I was in there. Corby's making up words. We're three minutes into the podcast already. The ⁓ the old Slim Pushins: You know Corby Scherb: There you go, there you go. That was it. Slim Pushins: Go with Trudent. Corby Scherb: Come on. Slim Pushins: Lightning Lightning Fingers Gardner over there's already done Googled it. Corby Scherb: Yeah, that's what it was. Well ninety three was ⁓ was unacceptable. We got pulled over. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Reasonable and prudent. Law was a famous daytime speed policy in effect until nineteen ninety-nine. It required drivers to self-determined safe speeds based on conditions. Slim Pushins: So Corby Scherb: Yeah. It probably was it probably was Billing. It's like we used to stay on at a lake house off of Glacier National Park. It's absolutely beautiful there in the summer, man. ⁓ you know, highs in the eighties. Yeah, it's cool. Jim Gardner: I'd have taken that to court, man. I've never been. It's one area of the country I wanna go. Slim Pushins: Jim, did you ever stay at a lake house? Have you ever stayed at a lake house off of Glacier National Park, Jim? Corby Scherb: It was cool, man. Got to go see Yellowstone every year, Glacier National Park. It was cool. Jim Gardner: No. Yeah. I've been telling Chelsea I wanna I wanna go up to the Black Hills and and ⁓ South Dakota and Montana and Idaho, I think. Wyoming. ⁓ I'd much rather go up there than go to Mexico or Europe or whatever. Slim Pushins: Glacier? Corby Scherb: Yeah, glacier. ⁓ yeah. Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: So you can annoy all them with sprint car racing knowledge? Jim Gardner: Well that ⁓ and they are there's already sprint car racing up there, Kerbo. Slim Pushins: You got this w marriage thing done figured out, don't you? Jim Gardner: I can just Well, so I I'm going to Ohio this week. I don't think I'm gonna make it to Wayne County, unfortunately. ⁓ if the race wasn't on the fourth, I could probably swing it, but you know, if it was on the third or the fifth, no, I might have been able to I'm gonna do family time. Slim Pushins: What are you gonna you got hopes and dreams of you got hopes and dreams of losing a digit with some fireworks or what? Jim Gardner: No, no, Terry, I don't. I'm not a big fireworks guy. I've never been. I don't it's not my jam. And ⁓ mostly I'm the one who has to take care of the dogs who's, you know, losing his mind over it. So I don't know. They're they're fine. I just I now I'm out. Corby Scherb: We'll see, you know, I well I don't know yet. Yeah, Waco's running. ⁓ a lot of people have plans, you know, it's it's tough being a race on the fourth, let alone fourth weekend. You know, it it I I just think that's a tough one to to pull off unless you're just brutally gung ho to go out and race, you know. Slim Pushins: Corby, what are we doing for the fourth? Jim Gardner: Say yes. Little balance. A little balance. So like I said, I yeah, I would s you know, I would definitely try to get out to Wayne County Speedway up in Ohio, but you know, the fourth is the big party and the big shebang with family. You know, if it was the third or the fifth, we'd probably be able to sneak away. So I get it. Kerbo, what are you doing? Corby Scherb: Yeah. It's tough. That that's a tough holiday. For sure. Yeah, what are you doing, Kerbo? Slim Pushins: I don't know. I have some options. I haven't ⁓ do you? Do you? Corby Scherb: Do you? No, I don't have anything I told you. Slim Pushins: I well Rutherford Rutherford invited Corby and I over. They're having a shindig. What do you mean, Diddy? You're on that group text? Neat. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Did he? Noted. Jim Gardner: Mark that down. I'm not on that group text, Kevin. You just made the list, buddy. Corby Scherb: Huge win for him this weekend. Huge win. That's cool to see, man. ⁓ especially with someone like Landon chasing him down. You Landon Thompson's going really good right now. He got the the last win Ardmore. ⁓ huge props to Rutherford and He kinda struggled there at the beginning of the year, just couldn't it wasn't necessarily motor or chassis or setup, it was just all of it combined and finally finally put it all together, man. Had a good had a good starting spot and Jim Gardner: It was awesome. It was awesome. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Rutherford's on my thumbs down list because he sent us a text saying that ⁓ Corby and I not being there is good luck. So Jim Gardner: ⁓ huh. I mean Corby Scherb: You make him nervous. Jim Gardner: You guys are the superstitious ones, so you know. Kevin's probably gonna wear the same T shirt and stuff. Slim Pushins: I don't make him anything. But that was a big win. He was excited about it. We ⁓ Corby and I weren't there. Corby and I weren't there and and I w I w s somebody that was with us made the comment ⁓ that Rutherford had won and I immediately tried to call him. He didn't answer, which makes a lot of sense. You know, he was doing the hat dance and victory lane photo ops and shaking hands and kissing babies. But ⁓ I did talk to him later in the night. Jim Gardner: I he said something to me like he sold a couple properties that morning. It was like the best day of his life outside of his kids selling ⁓ his kids being born. So he ⁓ yeah, he was he was pumped up. Yeah. He was pumped up. Claude came up from behind me. I went I went down to to congratulate him, give him his push in the cushion sticker, and Claude came up and grabbed me on the back of the neck and scared the bejesus out of me. Corby Scherb: That's cool man. Always a happy guy. Always a happy guy. Slim Pushins: Look at that. That's a good picture. Jim Gardner: ⁓ he was pumped up. You know, Claude ran third, ran second for most of that race, and Landon came from the fourth or fifth row. ⁓ yeah, ⁓ Landon had a huge charge to get up there and it threw some big bombs at at ⁓ you know, some good clean sliders at at Kevin, and Kevin was good and patient on the top, drove back underneath them, and then stretched it out and made some good moves in traffic. And ⁓ Kevin was pumped up, Claude was pumped up. ⁓ the whole crew down there was Slim Pushins: Eleventh? Jim Gardner: Really jacked up. ⁓ we're we're super pumped for you, Kevin. that was awesome. That was Slim Pushins: He's on. And I said it, Rutherford, I said it out loud, you're on my thumbs down list that you said it was good luck that Corby and I weren't there. So Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Yeah, so it was ⁓ it was good and I was really impressed by Landon Thompson. We were pitted next to him. ⁓ he came over and asked, you know, a couple of questions and stuff. He's really come a long way. ⁓ just in his understanding of the cars and and making good decisions. You know, he's not he's super fast and he used to, you know, be a little impatient, but he's really he's really coming on strong with his racecraft and running people clean and he was I was very impressed with him Saturday too. So ⁓ it was a pretty good race. The track was a little weird. It was kind of like a plowed horse field, ⁓ for for the heat races a little bit. It was a little fluffy and kinda throw like like it's yeah, it was like throwing big rooster tails, like it was just not packed in. ⁓ it was just different. It had grip and then it was slick and Slim Pushins: What exactly does that mean? Corby Scherb: Love you, you got some cushion. We call that in motorcycle racing cushion. Jim Gardner: ⁓ it was a little hard to wrap our heads around. Then they had ⁓ they re reworked it before the main and ⁓ it it was still really fast. I mean they ran about the exact same lap times in the main event as we did in our heat races to so ⁓ you know it was right around the top and I got just in too tight. I got way too aggressive, like always. And ⁓ we just couldn't carry the top with any momentum whatsoever. We had to kind of roll the bottom and it just wasn't very good down there. So ⁓ we were trying to catch everybody with their pants down and it just track didn't come to us. So ⁓ I think we ended up tenth, so Slim Pushins: Well he was he was rolling in the heat, ⁓ and he texted me this week. He said it was just all his fault in the heat. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he you know, he he's been getting a lot better and a lot more confident and and just just missed it, made a mistake, we all do it. So ⁓ coming to Go ahead. Corby Scherb: And it's hard, man, it's it's it's really hard to start in the back of a feature, ⁓ and not be around like the the the faster guys like the pacemakers. If you start in the back then you're like it seems like you're trying to build up to that speed when if you started behind Rutherford and you went out there and said this fastest slap on the first lap, well I know I gotta match that. It makes it a little bit easier towards lap twenty. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Hard to just get clean laps. Hard to really know where your car's good. Hard to just build a any sort of rhythm ⁓ just back there in traffic. And our our car wasn't bad. ⁓ it was just a little one dimensional. ⁓ you know, and like I said, we went for it and the track just didn't go away like I thought it was going to, like it did, ⁓ you know, a month ago. So ⁓ really good show there. ⁓ eighteen or nineteen cars. and ⁓ Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: I had a good time. It was ⁓ it was good. Slim Pushins: You know one thing one thing that I wanna note and it does not surprise me at all about Rutherford and I called him out on it. I called him ⁓ yesterday on my home from work. ⁓ of all of the congratulations, tech or ⁓ posts, ⁓ responses that I saw, he he thanked every single person that I saw. ⁓ and that's always, you know, the respect of, you know, ⁓ somebody appreciating going out of your way and and congratulating on a somebody on a big win. It's always fun to see. Corby Scherb: Telling man, it's it's it's one of the happiest guys I ever met. Seriously. Such a good dude. He deserves that. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yep, so. Slim Pushins: Solid dude. The guy does high rocks competitions on race days, so well Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: There's no way. There's no way. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I gotta get on that plan if it's gonna make me roll like that. He was pounding the top like it owed him money. It was awesome. It was awesome. It Slim Pushins: Well, and then the the celebration continued on into the pits. And you know, the Estes clan the Estes clan's a big group, ⁓ and they always roll deep. He did tell me that ⁓ his wife Rebecca was really upset. ⁓ they had some prior plans and ⁓ she came very close ⁓ to heading north instead of south to her plans, ⁓ but was kicking herself that she didn't meet ⁓ she didn't make his ⁓ his big win to celebrate with a shoey. Jim Gardner: ⁓ yeah. Yep. Yes. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. So ⁓ so this kid that helps Kevin. ⁓ his name's Gra Graham and his dad Vance have helped him. I think they live around him. ⁓ Graham's my favorite junior limit limited modified driver because he's the only one I know. ⁓ he is a good kid and and we you know, we've been around him a lot. Yeah. And and so he had a unique celebration here. Slim Pushins: Graham. Just build ⁓ up, ride back down. Jim Gardner: And ⁓ there he goes. He's only I think he's fifteen or sixteen years old. Hit the shoey curbo. Have you ever done a shooey? Slim Pushins: No, no, I've never done a shoeing. I it is look at that. Look at that. Bottled water straight in straight into a ten hour ten hour old racetrack shoe. That's pretty cool though. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ Yeah. Yeah, I c I don't know why I can't get it to fill. Corby Scherb: Gra Graham and Vance are great people, man. They they they have ⁓ hu super huge big beliefs and Yeah. Big big supporters of Rutherford, the same as Rutherford's big supporters of Graham and his racing and and getting him involved and getting him into racing, ⁓ they're great people. Jim Gardner: There's Claude having the time of his life. Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Mark Zoller said she wasn't the only one that missed missed the win. He was kicking himself. Where were you, Zoller? Corby Scherb: I know, Mark. Where were you at, buddy? Slim Pushins: Go kart racing maybe. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Anyway, that was good. ⁓ Corby Scherb: It was cool, it good racing that was that was really good racing RPM too this weekend. ⁓ the track. I I'll just be honest, didn't look super promising in the heat races and it it opened up and it was nice. It was racy, it was it was rough where it needed to be rough and the the top was there if you did it right. and ⁓ God, heartbreaker for Carson Bolden. Carson, I've been there, I've been by the same guy. So, ⁓ cheers to John Ricketts, of course. of course Slim Pushins: That's a Jim Gardner: Yeah, Ricketts with another win. ⁓ I th I ⁓ again pirated Kerbo's race on account and watched it ⁓ on Sunday. And ⁓ I thought the track was much racier ⁓ than it was a couple weeks ago, which was good. We we all got on here and were like, hey, the track wasn't great, but give Kevin some time and it's gonna be good. And it was. ⁓ you know. Corby Scherb: Yeah. For sure. Jim Gardner: Carson leads most of that. Ricketts kind of snickers him running the top down there at three and four late. ⁓ but the show was our guy Cubble Colby Stubblefield, who, you know, the box scorels say he started second and ran fourth. But the if you watch the race, he gets spun out. ⁓ I forget who it was. Kid got in the back of him going into three there. ⁓ maybe. Yeah. And and not maliciously. They were just all trying to roll the bottom and and and got dumped and and and Corby Scherb: Some of Trotter. Yeah. Nah. Jim Gardner: Trotter stopped on the racetrack too. And Colby restarts 13th or 14th with eight to go and runs fourth. And you only do that, I don't care how good your car is or how good you are if the track is racy and too lane, you know. So ⁓ the track really came in and ⁓ you know, they had 18 cars there too. ⁓ so good field, you know, 37, 40 cars running within a hundred miles of each other. It's that's pretty good. Corby Scherb: For sure. Well the same, you know, like I say, ⁓ give give Ricketts all the credit, you know. ⁓ Bolden did exactly what he was supposed to do and that was keep doing what he was doing and it was working for that long and Ricketts sat there and just kept it in his back pocket and it was for sure worth the shot. He tried it a couple laps before that and it seemed like it was going to and that's truly what you have to do a lot of time. Th the surprise factor does more than anything else. Slim Pushins: What? Jim Gardner: Thank you, Landon. Slim Pushins: That's it's weird That's what I was gonna say. It's weird. I don't know what you did. I know you didn't smile because you don't smile at the racetrack, but you've done something to LT that he's so discombobulated about who you are. Corby Scherb: Landon, you don't you don't have to do that to him. Jim Gardner: ⁓ that's not the first time I've talked to you all ⁓ Landon. There was a very distinct moment at Boyd, I think, right off the racetrack where I probably was inappropriately in your cockpit yelling at you. but Corby Scherb: No, it's a safe yeah, we g you gotta give you gotta give Landon you gotta give Landon a lot of credit. Man, he's he's grown up a lot and matured a ton as a race car driver. He's always been fast, but ⁓ he the the mistakes had really been cleaned up and ⁓ very respected ⁓ as a racer. ⁓ dude dude's been up front every time he's been in the car this year, so Slim Pushins: He can turn on a dime, Landon, like it happens fast. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it really has. I ⁓ yeah, I it I I gave him twenty bucks. No, it was good. You did a really good job Saturday landing. It was ⁓ that was a good show you put on ⁓ from the middle of the pack. So yeah, I I believe it. Slim Pushins: I think somebody hijacked his account. He doesn't use words like the sweetest guy. Whoever you are, get off of Landon's account. Corby Scherb: Yeah, for I believe that. Slim Pushins: Kobe went through the field after the caution like three laps. Kids on rails. Jim Gardner: The ⁓ you know, we just watched on race on and that, you know, the announcers picked up on how far up he was. And like I said, ⁓ you can only do that. I don't care how good you are or how good the ⁓ the car is, if the track is able to do it. So him running the top and John running the top probably cleaned it off for both of them and helped them both. ⁓ you know, when we were there about a month ago, I was kind of thinking that if some guys would just go up on the top and clean it off, they might be able to to get it worked in. And nobody just really went up there because it you know, it was probably gonna take five laps. You need really like five guys that are running in the back to kind of blow all the dust off that comes up from the bottom, ⁓ and and make the top roll in. So, ⁓ but yeah, Colby Slim Pushins: ⁓ Ry that week Ryder and Landon were your guys. Jim Gardner: Do what? Slim Pushins: And Art is you talking about at Ardmore? ⁓ Corby. Corby? Jim Gardner: No. No. No. It's Ricketts and Colby Stubblefield. Yeah. Corby Scherb: No, Kerbo. Pull it together, buddy. Pull it together. Slim Pushins: Corky, you're already on thin ice. Hold on, I gotta throw I gotta throw photo Mike's comment up before it gets lost in the ⁓ before it gets lost in the mix. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ⁓ Mike, we we have sauce down in Keller about once a month or once every six weeks. Any excuse we can have to to have the old Pavona family sauce. ⁓ my father in law takes the opportunity to do it. So any celebration, flag day, veterans day, Labor Day, Arbor Day. Yeah, right. It's like I think we should have some sauce. Okay. And it's my favorite new thing, new part about being Italian. So Slim Pushins: Third Wednesday of the month. Whoa whoa hold on. You can marry an Italian doesn't make you Italian. Let's just what you hey, I eat a lot of Italian. I'm not Italian. Jim Gardner: I beg to differ, Kerbo. ⁓ man. Anyway, good good Slim Pushins: ⁓ Corby Scherb: Same, I I agree with what Ricketts is saying here, man. That that's the the good thing about not just cat just the Raimi family and Lorenz and everyone that's at RPM right now. They're they're gonna do their best to figure out the dirt. ⁓ like I said, it was never always, you know, the the greatest surface. It typically was two line because the top wasn't always the quickest. And I I I agree with John. They went to work and they made it they made ⁓ the top and then it's what Jimmy says too, like you gotta have people that roll it up a little bit. You gotta have someone that's pushing. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So that's good. John, congrats on your ⁓ Slim Pushins: There you go. The s the the obligatory mom comment. I love it. Kid's got so much talent. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ Yeah. Corby Scherb: He does. He's a good kid. Like I said, I I've known known them, known their family for a long time. ⁓ great kid. Jim Gardner: I keep f I keep forgetting 'cause he feels like he's been around forever. He's twenty four years old or twenty five years old. He's got a lot yeah. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Yeah, he's like a you know, like a rider or a Carson or, you Braxton that showed up when he was super young and he's been around for a long time. Jim Gardner: Feels like he's been beating us up for ten years. Now I'm starting to think, was he fourteen when he started? ⁓ but anyway, so Yeah, right. But ⁓ no, John, it was a good win. Anytime. Slim Pushins: Yeah. When he started just hammering on us. Graham said thanks for the shoey recognition. That's worth trust me, Graham. That is worth the recognition. That's worth the price of admission right there. But you've now you've started a tradition. You've definitely started a tradition now. Now it's you're obligated to it. McFadden couldn't stop either. Jim Gardner: I expect ⁓ Yeah, exactly. So hope you're feeling okay and didn't get sick. That's right. So ⁓ I I I wish he ⁓ I wish he would have told me. I we would have went live on ⁓ the page for the shoey win. I wish yeah, yeah. So ⁓ but yeah, Ricketts gets the win at RPM. He's been really feast or famine all year. I think that's his third win of the year, right? And it's either he he's winning the race or or he has issues. and ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: That it was that it was common. Corby Scherb: I agree. Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: We got enough stickers, John. I got I got a whole bag of stickers. Brotherford got his. You did that live. Jim Gardner: That's right. So we can always get more. So Yep. Yep. Yeah, it was good. I ⁓ appreciate Kevin being ⁓ being willing to do that. That was fun. That that whole scene down there was it was live. ⁓ they were pumped up. Claude was pumped up and it was it was awesome. So ⁓ but yeah, down at RPM, Ricketts gets the win, Bolden second, Austin Monday third, Colby Stubblefield with an adventurous fourth, and Dylan Ramey ⁓ scored the top five down there. And I want to just hit on Slim Pushins: Which got a ton of views. Huh? Corby Scherb: ⁓ I'm sure it was with them, the Estes family. Jim Gardner: ⁓ the rest of the guys up at Ardmore in the top five. Rutherford with the win, L T second, Claude was third, Jeremy Allen had a good run in fourth, and Casey Merrill ran fifth. And it was really good seeing Casey and Danny ⁓ back up at Ardmore. So ⁓ Slim Pushins: Nice. So full disclosure, I think all three of us have the ⁓ B C rates on and the push in the cushion zone Kyle Jones is starting on the pole of this heat. So if we ⁓ Jim Gardner: Let's let's let's hear it live, Kerbo. Just give people what they want to hear. Corby Scherb: Yeah, go ahead. Give it lay it down. Thornton Junior. Slim Pushins: If we veg out for a few minutes it's because Jim Gardner: We're not gonna veg out, you're gonna call it live. Slim Pushins: We're vegging out. No, it's not live because this thing's delayed. We've proved that. Jim Gardner: Get this get this mud turtle guy off the screen. Let's get back to the racing here. Slim Pushins: ⁓ you're upsetting some people. We got a lot of Corby Scherb: This dude this dude this dude rips in any car he's ever been in. Thornton Jr. Jim Gardner: All right, Kerbo. It's take it away, Kerbo. Kyle Jones leading us to green. Slim Pushins: First of all, I can't announce a a n a sprint car race and you want me to announce you want me to announce a race where I can't even see anybody's Jim Gardner: Kyle Jones brings it on the third. Kyle Jones. Kale Coons pinches him close. Drag race down the back, and Kale Coons will take it. A little back back further in the pack. And Kyle sideways in turn three gets plowed into. Corby Scherb: Is that coont on the outside of him? ⁓ no, Kyle. ⁓ no. Slim Pushins: ⁓ I must be I must be delayed. Jim Gardner: By Cooper Miller and somebody else. Corby Scherb: You're way behind, Kerbo. Yeah, you're way behind. Fix your internet. Jim Gardner: Doesn't look like much damage on Kyle. I wonder what happened down in turn one. He's just sideways er down in turn three. Ugh the Slim Pushins: Fix your face. ⁓ we got we got a flat we got any flat what can we we restarting where we at? ⁓ we're going back to the replay. Damn, he went in hot. Corby Scherb: ⁓ man, you drilled right in the left rear. See about that. Jim Gardner: He's alright. Yeah. Pushing the cushion curse. The announcer's jinx. Good job, Kerbo. Slim Pushins: It's not a curse unless you unless you speak of it, so Corby Scherb: Yeah, good job, Jimmy. Jim Gardner: Well it Corby Scherb: ⁓ I went in there and Kale kinda came down. It's just one of those but that was a pretty big lick there in the left rear. Jim Gardner: Nah, he's all right. Slim Pushins: Speaking of wheelmen, old Jetman Hayes is ⁓ on live tonight. Corby Scherb: Jetman. Jet was always wicked fast. Hate that he doesn't race much anymore. Hasn't raced in a while. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Kale didn't cut him any slack, but probably should have seen that coming. I don't know. I who am I? What am I talking about? Yeah. He's all right. Car's fine. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Calls an absolute beast on the bottom. Absolute. Slim Pushins: Well he's starting on the top here. Where'd you go, Corby? Jim Gardner: Yeah, maybe we'll take the old the old Twister F five up there next year. It was fun. I went up a couple years ago with ⁓ Scott Evans for not the inaugural one, but it a second. It's it ⁓ Corby Scherb: Seems like really cool experience there. Same, Indianapolis. I I went to the to the speedway when I was younger. So it's crazy. Absolutely nuts. Jim Gardner: Yeah. It the the the tracks go ahead, Kerbo. Slim Pushins: I talked to Wout Hoffman's earlier and he said that there were I mean, this was earlier this morning. I think he said that there were like eighty cars already registered. Jim Gardner: Sixty five, I think. So ⁓ K Kyle's gonna get a break. He gets to restart here in the third row instead of last because those two guys stopped behind him. Corby Scherb: Good job, Kerbo. Slim Pushins: I'm going with eighty. I don't care what you say. Jim Gardner: ⁓ yeah, the track's cool. It's sm it's tight. It's a lot tighter than it looks on TV. ⁓ you know, it's not port city tight. ⁓ Slim Pushins: He must have messed something up. He's in Jim Gardner: But I mean ⁓ the like the radius of the corners. Radius of the corn. I bet it's a lot like the TMS. I'll I'll bet it's a lot like TMS. Corby Scherb: As in Nero Is it narrow? Okay yeah. It does seem really ha really paperclip. Slim Pushins: ⁓ did he just get pushed up there? Jim Gardner: Yeah, something ain't right, he's in the back. Did he pull off? No. No. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Ugh. C V C V's just ⁓ absolutely chewing his fingernails, these don't take the each other out. Slim Pushins: And there's still four laps to whoa. Still four laps to go. This is riveting live live broadcasting right here. Jim Gardner: Kyle must have pulled off. That sucks. Yeah. ⁓ sorry everybody. So, ⁓ Corby Scherb: But ⁓ yeah, no, ⁓ th Go ahead. Jim Gardner: You talked to Wout today. Is he still punching air from the Netherlands loss last night? Slim Pushins: He's yeah, he told us that we needed a moment of silence for the Netherlands losing last night. There's not gonna be any more there's not gonna be any more orange marches and left, left, left and right, right, right. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I t I'll I'll tell you what's cool is they were in Dallas today, the ⁓ the Norwegian row, the Viking row that the whole stadium does when they win. That's pretty cool today. But ⁓ Slim Pushins: I saw a video of the Dallas Police Department as before they escorted ⁓ their flight. We're all rowing. Man, these guys are hammering each other. Jim Gardner: Yeah, they were doing it. Yeah. Corby Scherb: They let's just say this, you know, like we're talking about ⁓ the the soccer games and stuff and ⁓ so we're at we went to the Uyghurs, they hosted a tractor pool at their land. Super cool, great people treated treated us like absolute royalty when we were there. ⁓ it was fun. The the Laplant Amy Laplant came, ⁓ Ryder's girlfriend was there, ⁓ Chad Wilson came Saturday. Of course Jimmy was too good for us, he couldn't come. Jim Gardner: I went racing, sue me. Corby Scherb: But so we're at a so we're at a tr so we're at a tractor pool and so you know you just gotta think and you gotta remember and like this isn't a knock at anyone who's a farmer or who's a redneck, but like this is some of the most rednecked stuff you've ever seen. Like these guys just have way too much money to spend on these tractors and they gotta drag this heavy sled across this straight line track. Yeah, a massive. I couldn't believe how many fans were there. It's crazy. It was one of the coolest experiences I've ever to see. And so we're all sitting there. Go ahead. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Slim Pushins: Huge following, huge following. Jim Gardner: That's So here, let me yeah, go ahead. I'm no no no, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Go on. Corby Scherb: Yeah, this this is this is off topic of what like you're gonna say. So we're all sitting there and it's it's not like quiet or anything, but then it it was it was quiet on the racetrack at this point, and then we just hear a bunch of yelling and we turn around. So they have a lot of Argentinans that work there on the farm, and then all of a sudden you see these Argentinas running up and down behind the stands with with their flags over their back. Like it it's super cool, super cool. Like these these guys like it they didn't have a a clue that not a single person there had ever even Slim Pushins: Waving their fly like Corby Scherb: Thought about watching a soccer game. Slim Pushins: Cory wants to know where Kennison is. Kinison got caught up by the DOT running moonshine across state lines. Jim Gardner: No, seriously. He was he's he sent us pictures of the Slim Pushins: Smoky the bandit. Smokey the bandit. Jim Gardner: says pictures of the berries and cherries behind his big rig. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Held him up for two hours. That was the difference in him making the podcast or not. Yeah. Mm. Mm yeah, moonshine moon running moonshine's not what it used to be back in the old early NASCAR days. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. And he's in shambles about missing it too. So No, he's o he's okay. They're they're they you know yeah yeah, he's fine. But ⁓ Slim Pushins: He is okay. He didn't go to jail. And he wasn't doing ninety six in a what was it called, Corby? Jim Gardner: Reason Corby Scherb: Well ⁓ reasonable ⁓ what would we say? Reasonable and prudent? Slim Pushins: Yeah. He was trudent. Jim Gardner: No, we want what you called it, reasonable, imprudent. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Slim Pushins: ⁓ yeah, so he got he that the the the factual part of that story is that he was doing something DOT related. They they got pulled over. He was an escort for an oversized load and ⁓ the it it it didn't it it DOT caught him for a couple hours. It detained him. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Coy said only things things that would only happen to Christian. That's factual. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. So ⁓ I pulled this I pulled this video from the tractor pole there. ⁓ this is not Braxton's dad, but ⁓ somebody else, I guess. But that's like the that's like that's like the sprint cars. So that's like the top class, right? But they have like they have like yeah, ⁓ they have a bunch of classes, right? Corby Scherb: No. He had he had brutal luck. Slim Pushins: Dude, those things are gnarly. Give it another give it another go, Jim. Dude, they had a they had a jet powered they yo, ten or fifteen. They had a jet powered. Well it was turbine. Is turbine not a jet? Is Jim, a little help here? Corby Scherb: No. Yeah, ⁓ a ton. ⁓ it wasn't jet powered, it helicopter helicopter motors. Helicopter motors. Helicopter motors. Jim Gardner: Okay, sam same thing. Yeah, I'm with Curbo on this is not one pushes forward and one spins a prop. What's the difference? It's a mo it's a a different propellant. Go on with the story. I wanna I want to get Logan on to talk about a restart at Abilene seven years ago. Corby Scherb: You wanna get Logan on and ask him if there's a difference? Slim Pushins: No I don't want to get Logan on di it was not Corby Scherb: Helicopter motor. Okay. Alright, Jim. Alright, Jim. Slim Pushins: Do you want me to get Logan on? Do you want me to get Logan on? Mark this. Mark this, please. Corby Scherb: Did you just phone him in? Face time him real quick. Slim Pushins: No, no, no. All right. Jim Gardner: You wanna get fried, Corby. All right. ⁓ so yeah, so they have a bunch of classes, right? Yeah, it was Slim Pushins: Pushing the cushion zone, Wild Hoffman's about to take the greenery. He spun it he spun out by himself in hot laps. Corby Scherb: But yeah, it w Yeah, yeah, it was cool, man. It was it was a it was a like ⁓ just a super different experience I've ever seen, like I said what Kerbo is saying, just the ⁓ amount of people who wanna come and watch that and I'll be honest, the hardest thing the ha the hardest thing I ever had to do was when do you cheer? Like you can't hear anything. Then all of a sudden all the fans would cheer. I guess he went six inches farther than the last guy. 'Cause Jim Gardner: The crowd looked huge. Whew. ⁓ Slim Pushins: This is no lie. Corby would look at me and go, You can clap now. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Yeah, 'cause like you don't the craziest thing is there was people there from Iowa there's people there from all over and you get one pull. You get one shot at this. For two nights. Yeah. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Seems a lot yeah. It's like it it's kinda how I th I used to view drag racing. It's like, man, that seems like a lot of work. And then you go to one, you're like, This is pretty badass. Slim Pushins: Well, it's not that it's it's it was funny because we were just we were just in the dark. Like clearly f at the very basics of the sport, the it's good to pull as far as you can. What threw us for a loop a little bit was that i a lot of the full pulls were so close by feet and sometimes inches. So ⁓ and it could have been from our vantage point, ⁓ Corby Scherb: Yeah. Inches. Yeah. Slim Pushins: It was limited and, you know, we were socializing and stuff which some great story came out of that. Corby Scherb: Dude, ⁓ are you ⁓ yeah, like ⁓ beer delivery? Great. Great greatest invention there ever was. Slim Pushins: Yeah, we're gonna get into that too. Jim Gardner: So so you it was like an all weekend. So I know the big shows were Friday and Saturday night, obviously, but like during the day they had other activities too, right? Slim Pushins: Saturday they had Corby Garden Tractors. Corby Scherb: They call it garden tractors. I was so jazzed about this once I found this out. These people there there's people who show up in your average everyday lawnmower to there's some of these things like these kids were driving that were just absolute bumper cams. Slim Pushins: Th look at this. You my boy blue! Bro the Jim Gardner: So that's Slim Pushins: This is this is a like two and a half horse like cub cadet that he was mowing his neighbor's lawn in two hours before this. Corby Scherb: For sure. He no he yeah, and he hung a couple ⁓ plastic ⁓ you know, lead filled weights there on the side and just let her go. Slim Pushins: This is ⁓ they got a whole mini sled. Jim Gardner: So you sent me this video and the guy goes eight inches and I was like, ⁓ that's the video Corby sent me. And then I didn't realize you sent me another one where the guy actually rolls. Corby Scherb: And it's same. Yeah. He got it going, he was in the wrong gear. And ⁓ I I'll be honest, like this dude was like super jacked up after it was over, like fist pumps, the whole deal. Like that that's why you go to races or ⁓ if you want to call this a race or a pull or whatever, like it's it's cool to see the excitement. 'Cause yeah, for su the same there was there was still fans sitting up there and it was hot. It was so windy and there was people sitting in the stands. It it was wild. Slim Pushins: Well I told Jim Gardner: Did he do a shoey after it? Slim Pushins: No Shiwi. Jim Gardner: A a booty. Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Send that again. Roll that back through, Jim. Bro, this guy mute that. That was us talking before the show. Look at like Wes's daughter Wes's daughter and I left to get a snow cone and we came back and it we saw half of this guy's pull. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Look at that. There's a guy walking next to it. Faster than he's pulling. This is all like this was the the garden tractors was the highlight of our weekend. And those those guys were hunkered down behind I don't know what they were behind. I mean there were they were transferring weight from one side to the other in the back. Arrow. Jim Gardner: I love it. Ha ha So you got you guys Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: For arrow. Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. Jim Gardner: ⁓ so you guys texted me. Yep, thank you, Patrick. Patrick is trying to ruin my life actively, but at least he gave me a free t shirt Saturday. So Slim Pushins: It was awesome. Stasa said he loves your shirt, Jim. Graham Graham's mom Graham's mom said Corby Scherb: Tractor, pull not a race all right. Yes sir, Lacey. Sorry, yes sir. Slim Pushins: Sprint car Sprint car wins only. Jim Gardner: Anyway, so you guys texted me Saturday ⁓ that there was tractor racing, you know, or or garden tractor racing, and I thought that it was ⁓ excuse me, polls. Yeah. Well, you guys used the wrong vernacular because I was under the impression that that there that it was circled track lawnmower racing. Watch the back stretch. Corby Scherb: No, th they just said it. They just corrected us. It's not racing. It's a pool. There we go. I didn't know. Slim Pushins: Remember ⁓ that it was this? No. Corby Scherb: big one. Slim Pushins: Wow. Jim Gardner: ⁓ sorry, the sound was on. I recorded that. But ⁓ yeah, I thought it was circle track lawnmower racing because that's in Oklahoma too. ⁓ and then you're like, No, no, no, it's tractor pulling. That's what we're doing. Slim Pushins: It was? No, it was it was awesome. The whole weekend was incredible. ⁓ the the event that they put on ⁓ a month and a half ago was legitimately a sod field and they turned it into I mean it was it was the most professional operation. I had I we were amazed just driving around. We were amazed. They had everything dialed in. ⁓ and I I talked to Jim Gardner: I'm bummed I missed it. Another Corby Scherb: I got I think I spoke like seven words to Lacey the whole weekend. He was just super busy, just see him just just ripping by in the side by side. ⁓ Diana absolutely took care of us the whole time. ⁓ it was Slim Pushins: He was he was blowing and going. And somehow be somehow like running this entire event from a side by side and then also a legitimate tractor puller at the same time. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Yeah, you know, and Braxton was doing Braxton things. ⁓ Caden Caden pulled pretty good. ⁓ he had a better run sa ⁓ Saturday than he did Friday. ⁓ that it was just a cool experience. It's something that I've never Jim Gardner: That's gotta be They ha they have two of those big red tractors. It and Slim Pushins: Yes. Corby Scherb: They have two of those and they have another one and if Braxton was on here, I'm I'm gonna butcher the name of the other class that they run. They let one of their welders ⁓ run that. But ⁓ Jim Gardner: Is he a better welder than you? Slim Pushins: ⁓ we don't know how he welds and I'm gonna go out on a limb and say yeah. Corby Scherb: I don't know. You don't know how I willed or he wills? Jim Gardner: Ha Slim Pushins: I've seen your welds. I don't need to see his welds. If he's working for Lacey, he's a hell of a welder. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. I'm I'm bummed I missed it. ⁓ I that was the first one they've done up there, right? But it's hopefully gonna be o on the tour now, so they'll be Corby Scherb: It was cool. It was really cool. That was the first one. ⁓ I I would think they do another one. it was a big hit on the saying like they had they they made breakfast burritos for everyone Saturday morning. Kerbo didn't do that because he would he chose Sonic over ⁓ a home cooked one. You know, farm fresh eggs, potatoes. Just it was it was amazing. There we go. Limited light light limited pro is the other that they have. Jim Gardner: That sounds about right. So sounds about right. Slim Pushins: No, I chose not assuming. I ch I chose assuming that that they didn't have enough that people more important than me needed breakfast. So I stopped at Burger King of all places. Corby Scherb: Well, I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna sound smart for just a second because I'm pretty sure I'm gonna say this right. I think the Light Limited Pro just runs a different size turbo. Same motor, same tractor, different turbo. Those turbos, I mean whistling. When it was over. Whistling. Jim Gardner: What's pr well, that's true. That's Slim Pushins: You can stick a basketball through him. Jim Gardner: ⁓ ⁓ I bet. ⁓ Slim Pushins: It was in it was insane. And a the the at the single greatest fi personal fireworks show that I've ever seen. Two two forty foot trailers, ⁓ one for each night, and then extras that just wouldn't fit on the trailer. Jim Gardner: Yeah. And so hopefully hopefully it's ⁓ yeah. Do I have that? Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Yeah, honestly, if y'all didn't go this year, if y'all miss it, absolutely go next year. It was just it was really cool. Yeah. Yeah, Caitlin came out there. Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: We did get some sprint car folks out there. Caitlin Dixon and her family was out there Friday night and then ⁓ Chad Wilson and ⁓ Mrs. Chad Wilson and their niece was out there ⁓ Saturday, all day Saturday. Look at that. Corby Scherb: I mean and Braxton like, ⁓ we didn't have a grand finale there so we gotta do something different I'm like, What are you talking about? The whole thing was a grand finale. Jim Gardner: Back up, back up, Terry. Slim Pushins: ⁓ Yeah, I got I thought I was far enough back and Lacey came wheeling up. He's hey you ever want to see that four wheeler again? I'd back the hell up. Yes, sir. This is I'm I wasn't about to question that. He's seen he's seen his kids light fireworks, so I'd was I welcomed the comment. But yeah, Corby and I Jim Gardner: Ha Corby Scherb: Mm. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Corby Scherb: No it was cool it was really cool. It was a really cool time. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Corby and I they're such like the greatest people on earth. They were incredibly accommodating to two people that they did not have to be accommodating to and it in any form or fashion. ⁓ Corby and I kind of set up camp at the end of the track and and we're watching we'd been there well, after the pool started, we'd been there I don't know, ten minutes, and some kid that we didn't know wheels up on a golf cart, hands us a sack of coal beer, and he was like I'll see y'all in about forty five minutes. ⁓ so yeah. It was awesome. Corby got you know, in typical Corby fashion, Corby got recognized by complete strangers. ⁓ Corby Scherb: It's awesome. Absolutely awesome. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Old motorcycle racing people. Corby Scherb: No, someone someone from Decatur ⁓ actually walked up and goes, Man, you're one of the Sherves, aren't And he Corpy, right? And I was like, Yeah, man, what's up? And ⁓ like he told Kerbo he knew he knew the the earrings Slim Pushins: Well Jim Gardner: ⁓ and it Yeah. I got I got called. Slim Pushins: Of course he is. Sat there and talked to him. I remember when you ran ⁓ I remember when you ran like the Milwaukee Mile back in eighty six, man. You were so fast. Corby Scherb: ⁓ he said he recognized the earrings the Flatville had and then yeah. Slim Pushins: That's what it was. I said, Did you recognize his face or was it that ugly ass flatbill that he wears? And he's like, I'll be honest, it was the flat bill. And the and the Yeah. So and then and then I'm sitting No, I'm sitting there and this kid this kid nice guy. Nice guy. He ⁓ he was I was sitting on the four wheeler like I do and Jim Gardner: ⁓ Corby Sherb, internationally known, locally respected. Corby Scherb: And I guess someone someone recognized me and they they didn't speak to me, but Kerbo can tell that story. Jim Gardner: What was her name? Slim Pushins: He was standing next to me talking to somebody else for a few minutes and you know I I didn't think anything of it and then like it he's just like Hey ⁓ Corby still racing? Complete stranger and I was like So I look over I look over and I was like, No? And he goes, ⁓ okay. I raced with the Toms last night. I got caught up and pretty much totaled my car and he showed me that video and he was correct. He got he kinda got turned and some nobody had somebody had nowhere to go and T boned him. Corby Scherb: Mm. Jim Gardner: Well, so so secondarily they recognize you. You're internationally known, locally respected as well. They knew you as Corby's side piece. Slim Pushins: Well it's almost ⁓ I it's like I'm it's like I'm a zookeeper. Like they just know that they just know that where Corby is, I'm usually close, evidently. So yeah, so and then like after that, you know, I'm just reeling. I like, you know, I tell Corby he's the most famous guy that I know. And so I'm watching these two people. They were probably fifteen feet in front of the the four wheeler and I'm watching, you know, I'm watching them Corby Scherb: They're more approachable, I guess. Slim Pushins: I they they would look at me and then they talk, you know, and then you know, a couple of minutes go by and they look at me again and then they talk. And well, they started to walk over and I was like, All right, you know, Slim Slim's Slim's about to get recognized. Like, all right, Corby Who? Right? So they walk up and they're like, excuse me, and I go, Yeah. And they go, Can we cross the track right here at this opening? Corby Scherb: Ha ha This is the big moment. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Ha ha ha Slim Pushins: I was like I think so. So yeah, Corby gets recognized everywhere you go. Slim? Not so much. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha ⁓ That's awesome. Corby Scherb: No, it was a cool weekend, man. you know what Jim Gardner: I ⁓ I got I got called the fifth Sher brother for years. ⁓ Scott Evans, before I knew him, walked up into our trailer and goes, Hey, is your dad here? And I was like, No, he's out somewhere. He goes, ⁓ well, I owe him money here. Will you give this to him? I was Yeah, sure. And took 800 bucks because Scott had sold him something. And I just turned around and I was like, Here, here you go. And they're What was that about? I was Yeah, he he thinks I'm Corby, probably, or Merle. ⁓ you know, down at KSP, Jana still thinks I'm Corby Scherb: What do you get now? Jim Gardner: My last name's Sherb. So I got that yeah, I mean I got that going for me. Jimmy Sherb or Jerry Jerry Sherb one year at Chili Bowl. Slim Pushins: A lot I think a lot of people do. Corby Scherb: Well, I mean there was four there was four of us brothers, so I mean ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Jerry. You g we gotta tell we hold on, we're gonna tell that story. ⁓ there's a couple of comments that I wanted. ⁓ Diana said the the five point ⁓ big pro is around thirty four hundred horsepower, and I believe every bit of that. You you can feel those things as they come down the track. It's it's really cool. I think I think tractor pull has is extremely undervalued. Maybe it's just this part of the country. ⁓ we don't we're not exposed to it very often. She also said night two of the fireworks was underneath my Jim Gardner: Yeah, I'm just a city slicker from Cincinnati, Ohio, you know. Slim Pushins: She said night two of the fireworks was under my four wheeler. It was close. It was close. And I was a long way back. Corby Scherb: Hundred percent. Hundred percent. And I heard I I I talked to Lacey Sunday, ⁓ after it was all over and I told him that ⁓ I could hear his voice. That's all I don't want none of my overhear. Cause I Lacey cleared out the hole everywhere within a thousand feet of him, cleared out everything that he had and I heard I heard his voice say it. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Lacey's Lacey Weager's the type of guy that can just from a distance he you don't even he doesn't he doesn't have to use words, he just points he just point at you and go that way. Very extremely clear. Yes, sir. All right, let's what about the Jerry Sherb comment? We were at Chili Bowl and Jim was wearing Jim was wearing ⁓ Lucas' fire suit just to confuse so many more other people. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I'm trying to find a picture. I don't know where it's at. Yeah, so I I I ran Friday. So I ran our spare car. We entered it Friday. That way if any of the boys, you know, blew up or or anything, we could withdraw yeah. Yeah, yeah, we could withdraw them and then they could re-enter in my car. ⁓ and so and ⁓ Scott Sherb is just he's very ⁓ visual. So ⁓ I tried yeah I wanted to wear a Sherb suit to fit in and Slim Pushins: And ⁓ Corby Scherb: No or did anything the Sherbway. One hundred percent. Jim Gardner: ⁓ at the time I guess I best fit in Lucas's. I tried Corby's on, but I think his pant legs were about six inches too short. And heaven forbid the fuel pump leak. ⁓ my f my shins would be fried. Yeah, right. So ⁓ I think I was wearing Lucas's shirt and you know on the belt that said all their first names. So I grabbed some orange tape and wrote Jimmy in cursive and Slim Pushins: On your ankles. Corby Scherb: There's too many of us so we did put our you know, like most people like put their last name across our we put our first name across our belt. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. And so I'm standing there and Lucas is sitting there with his wife. ⁓ I'm wearing his suit and Slim Pushins: He put Jimmy wrote he wrote Jimmy Sherb on on the belt on a piece of duct tape and put it over Lucas's name. Jim Gardner: What yeah. Yeah. As and ⁓ so he's sitting there drinking a coarse light with his with his wife and he goes, Who's Jerry Sherp? Slim Pushins: Who the hell is Jerry Sherb? ⁓ we laughed our asses off for like those are M's. Luke. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Slim Pushins: So ever since then the fifth Jim Gardner: He's gonna call me tomorrow, be pissed off. Slim Pushins: So ever since then, Jim's been Jerry Sherb. Corby Scherb: I think that's the same year that I think that's the same year that Lucas walked in the trail and goes, ⁓ chilly again. Jim Gardner: Jerry Sure. Director of Team Nutrition took chili bowl literally. We had it for six days in a row. Nice one there, Slim. Slim Pushins: Okay. Corby Scherb: I'm telling you, man, my daughter thought that it was like they they judge chili every day if we just raced at night it but the whole race was about chili. Slim Pushins: Yeah, it was a it was a chili cook off that just had racing in between in between judging. Yeah, Lucas walked in and I'm you know I'm on day five of and it wasn't just chilly, but it was also chilly. So Jim Gardner: And Corby Scherb: I swear Brooklyn believed that. Jim Gardner: ⁓ man. It was just canned whoremel chili. It wasn't custom like chili whatever. Whatever. You know, it wasn't like Kevin Raimi making his own custom chili where it was a delicacy or anything. It was canned chili for five days in a row. Slim Pushins: ⁓ it was Wolf Brand. Don't do it don't do that to us, you Yankee. Corby Scherb: No. I d it wasn't none of that nasty skyline whatever people try to say they eat. Jim Gardner: Easy. All right. Shut your mouth. You know what? I'm I'm muting you, so Slim Pushins: Yeah. It was So Lucas walks in and goes Corby Scherb: Huge fan of steak and shake. ⁓ look, there we go. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Slim Pushins: ⁓ we can hear him. We just can't see him. That's actually better. ⁓ Lucas walks in, he goes, Chili again? And I'm like, Well, that just ruined my entire Chili Bowl week and I'll I vowed I would never I would never disappoint Lucas Sherb again. I had two jobs. I was a hell of a bolt bin holder on the Tulsa News, too. Jim Gardner: Ha Corby Scherb: Mm. Jim Gardner: You had one job. You had one job. Also it's true. ⁓ that was that was the good old days that we didn't know we were in, man. Those are some wheels off nights. Golly. Slim Pushins: Bates said JW's still in his car on the front stretch. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. I was wild, you know, and ⁓ we got, you know, the the last one in, the the first one out, I mean such a long push from from where we parked our trailer to this good night. You know breathing mass to make it that far. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. ⁓ thank God our presenting show sponsor Big Country showed up. Slim Pushins: Well, and in typical Sherb yeah, in typical Sherb fashion, you never ⁓ pushing it back to the trailer, there was a solid at least one flat tire, which made it about seventeen hundred pounds heavier. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ man. ⁓ Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. One hundred percent. We just didn't drive midgets enough, you know. I I I wish that we would had some better results there. Logan probably raced it more than anyone. He drove actually for Roger or for ⁓ Rick Bailey one year. we d man, we just I don't know, we just never had the opportunity to get comfortable in a midget, yeah. And ⁓ I think that's actually the best that Logan did. And man, we just Jim Gardner: Goodness gracious. Slim Pushins: I'm looking at Jim Gardner: Yep. I was there that year. Corby Scherb: Not I don't know. If if we would have just trolled because it's the same, like every year we went there, we and we didn't race the cars, we didn't drive the cars, something stupid happened to just about every single one of Yeah, I mean Logan Logan. For sure. You know, that w that was stuff like, you know, power steering pumps falling off. Yeah. Lucas ⁓ having a weld break, Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ yeah, still eight years later, you know, the weld the weld breaks on Slim Pushins: That's the kind of stuff keeps Jim up every night. Corby Scherb: motors starting to try to fall out. ⁓ that just just something dumb happened every at to almost every single one of our cars. Merle broke what I'm gonna say I'm gonna butcher this, what happened to his Mopar, but you know, they're all they're gear driven, yeah. And ⁓ it it broke up. There you go. And ⁓ it just just just dumb stuff and it maybe maybe if we would have got to drive a little bit more it it would have helped but Jim Gardner: Yeah. Cam timing set. Cam Cam timing set. Yeah. ⁓ it seemed like by Saturday we kinda had it had ⁓ all figured out and then it was too late. You know, we're in we're in the J main. So is what it is, but Slim Pushins: I'm looking at my Corby Scherb: And we was yeah, we were starting the Z feature. Yeah. Slim Pushins: I'm looking at my show notes on the run sheet here at what we've missed. RPM went single file, five to go. Corby Scherb: I do. I like that. I love to see that. I don't know if it was fluke or not, but ⁓ got away for the double Delaware there, especially being bot bottom dominant to most people. You know, John was just saving it the back pocket there for the ⁓ high line. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: That's the influence. That's the influence that this that our tens of listeners have, the pushing the cushion listeners. Absolutely. What else what else is on here? ⁓ Gracie. Jim Gardner: this this program has. You know what? I'm gonna get on Kerbo's race on account right now. Slim Pushins: Gracie the missing giraffe was found. No thanks to Jim. Jim didn't even look for it. I mean Corby Scherb: ⁓ a hundred percent. Yeah, no thanks to Jim. Couldn't even care less. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: You know? It was found, Jim. You can stop looking. In Denison. Jim Gardner: I I'm happy. Corby Scherb: What happens to a gira d did you know that like what do giraffes do during like a big storm? Where are they gonna hide? They can't do anything. I know. I I'm still I'm I don't know. They did though. The majority of pets nowadays are they're all chipped and you can find ⁓ You can like like GPS trackers and we got a giraffe just running around. Jim Gardner: You asked us last week, we don't know. How do you lose it for five days? Is it high it did it burrow Slim Pushins: ⁓ it was lost for like two weeks. Jim Gardner: How come yeah, how come zoo animals don't have chips? Corby Scherb: I don't know. I don't know. I ⁓ we I don't know. That's probably like a like a touchy subject to some people, honestly. Jim Gardner: I think I it's my new business, so I'm gonna start tomorrow. Slim Pushins: So speaking of zoo animals, yeah, I don't think I've ever told y'all this story. My I had a buddy that's a was a he's a retired police officer now, and ten, twelve, fifteen years ago a a gorilla got out of its enclosure at the Dallas Zoo. So they cleared everybody out, they brought like Corby Scherb: Might be the one. Jim Gardner: And now he's on a podcast on Tuesdays. What? Slim Pushins: Okay. Jim Gardner: I thought your screen froze. Slim Pushins: Corby, that wasn't that funny. Corby, that wasn't that funny. But I'll give you the moment. Jim Gardner: Where were we? Slim Pushins: So this thing gets out and they call they they call the Dallas SWAT team, right? So this thing, this thing gets out, this thing gets out, and he ends up, they find him is just sitting on this big metal park bench that's bolted to the concrete, right? So the zookeepers are like, hey, like we're we're we're running, we're gonna get a tank gun. He's good. We'll tank him, we'll drag him back into his enclosure. Corby Scherb: Come here, Lord. Come here, Lord Jesus. Slim Pushins: Like don't do anything, don't get any closer. You all the SWAT team guys are 60, 70 feet away. Don't do anything at all until unless he gets and he unless he gets rowdy and starts you know b becoming dangerous. And they're like, all right, ten four. Zookeepers take off. After the zookeepers take off, this gorilla stands up. He turns around, grabs this park bench that's bolted To the concrete, pulls it out of the concrete, folds it in half. They unloaded on it. They're like, okay, that's an aggressive that's an act of aggression. So I don't know how a giraffe gets out. I don't know how a gorilla gets out. ⁓ Karen Hines said that it belonged to a resort. ⁓ So That's your that's the giraffe s that's the giraffe talk segment. That Jim was that on your run sheet? Jim Gardner: ⁓ man. ⁓ No, it was not. Right now I'm going back through ⁓ Slim Pushins: Any more any more zoo comments? ⁓ you might as well mark that 'cause I know what the hell's I know what the hell's about to happen to that in the next couple of days. Stay tuned. Jim Gardner: Sorry. Corby Scherb: Jesus. ⁓ Lord, please be with me. Please, Lord. Jim Gardner: I well you took it personally. I did not s say you, but ⁓ you know what I'm Slim Pushins: Yeah. I didn't take it personally. I just know you two. I know you two well enough. Jim Gardner: You know what I'm taking personally is I've got the feature from race on from RPM up Saturday and Kurt Summers has got a ⁓ it's yours. And ⁓ Kurt Kurt Summers has got a four wheeler behind him pushing out for the main event. And I am I am in shambles. Corby Scherb: ⁓ man. Slim Pushins: Who's race on? Okay. Corby Scherb: ⁓ man, that's a bummer, dude. Yes. Slim Pushins: Four wheeler? Jim Gardner: Yeah, four wheeler. Not you. ⁓ Slim over there. ⁓ that was another thing, Landon and I talked. Landon Thompson's trailer isn't big enough to bring a four-wheeler, Kerbo. And I was like, hey. Yeah. And I was like, hey, flag Kerbo down when he's here and he will he will push you. It's no big deal. And he's like, Yeah, at RPM, I you know, we were trying to flag somebody down. He just drove right by me. And I was like, He Corby Scherb: Dang No not you. Dude out there pushing off the Tahoe. And Kerbo just leaves him hanging, like it's no big deal. You know. Yeah. I believe it. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. Slim Pushins: Nobody was trying to flag me down. No nobody was trying to flag me down. Jim Gardner: But anyway, I volunteered your services. I volunteered your services. But ⁓ Kurt Summers, you're you're dead to me. I don't where'd your truck go? Yeah. I was gonna buy his shirt last week. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Real. Slim Pushins: Wow just like that. That's how quickly the tides turn. 'Cause he's not pushing with like the soccer mallmobile. Corby Scherb: Dude, man, like talking about stuff like that, I I know that Russell Shoulders used to show up and bump start ⁓ he had to. And also, like, if you ever have been to Russell Shoulders' house and like try to bump start a car in his ⁓ driveway, first off, he will hook you up while you he pulls you backwards up the driveway, and I mean flat scootin'. Scoot across the driveway. Guarantee you Russell used to used to unhook the the old truck and ⁓ and Carolyn would push him off, I promise you. But Slim Pushins: Jones is about to start the sea main. Jim Gardner: Gotta watch out for the ⁓ the the Priuses in the yard, in my experience. They'll they'll jump out at ya. So ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Well, you had that thing hook up hooked up and you just hammered your parents' Prius. Jim Gardner: Yep. Destroyed the right front. Corby Scherb: But man, before we get like towards the end and it g just gets like super sad, you know, I I gotta say, ⁓ grew up in the flat track world. there was a guy named ⁓ Dan Bromley, he was quite a bit younger than us. I think Lucas is actually the only one who raced with him. ⁓ Lime Ohio, one of the coolest racetracks they go to. Dan actually was involved in a three rider crash, first slap of his heat race on Saturday night, and ⁓ he ended up passing away from his injury, so Shout out to the Bromley family, I'm really sorry, the whole Flat Track community is mourning. ⁓ it's a terrible, terrible thing. ⁓ he was he was a tall drink of water, he was super, super nice. Anytime that you ever saw him, he was always smiling. great dude, terrible. Jim Gardner: Yeah. It I heard about that on the on the way back home Saturday. I think Flo posted about it because I think that race is on Flo now that whole series. And ⁓ you know we you know ⁓ we we get on here and and and joke about the flat track stuff and how you guys got out of it and into sprint cars and the only the only people I know got into sprint cars because it's safer. ⁓ but that's why and and that's that that's that sucked. So Slim Pushins: It's yeah, it's such a travesty. Corby Scherb: Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah, for sure. You know. Yeah, it's a terrible, terrible thing. You know, he he he was he was a good guy. The dude rode like I think every single class. I I think he won a basic twins championship, ⁓ raced four fifties for a long time. I think he actually won a four fifty championship and ⁓ was in the Super Twins class and terrible. Hate that to the ⁓ Bromley family, ⁓ to especially his wife and his two kids. ⁓ he's got two young kids, so hearts go out to them for sure. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Yeah. Yep. So I know ⁓ at since we had tire on, we have a lot of flat track people follow you know, our our our little program here and and so we're in that community and ⁓ I hate it, hate it for you guys that you're all going through that. So ⁓ and on the same note, yeah. ⁓ on the same note, Sprint Car Racing lost the legend this week. Doug Clark ⁓ was the flagman at Knoxville and then the ⁓ Hall of Fame and Corby Scherb: Yeah, for sure. Slim Pushins: It's always rough. Corby Scherb: Yep. Jim Gardner: This is noteworthy because when I was a kid growing up watching The World of Outlaws on TNN, I don't know why Doug Clark had the biggest flags I've ever seen in my life. ⁓ it's like Yeah, it's like he forgot the white flag and took the queen size bedsheet off his hotel room. and and I remember being eleven years old and thinking like, God damn, those are huge flags. and so Slim Pushins: Sounds a bed sheet. From the hotel. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I guess he was a a a larger than life guy, ⁓ loved the Miller light. And I saw like Brian Brown bought a thousand dollars worth of Miller lights for the for you know the stands at Knoxville and another driver bought like six hundred dollars. Like they gave away like five thousand dollars in Miller lights, ⁓ celebrating his life last week, ⁓ which is cool. But ⁓ been a tough year already for ⁓ June thirtieth, ⁓ losing people. It's it's Slim Pushins: That's pretty cool. Corby Scherb: I agree. Jim Gardner: I don't know if we're just noticing more ⁓ or or I don't know. It's just just hadn't been good. So ⁓ Godspeed Godspeed Dan ⁓ and ⁓ and Doug. James, I will follow up with ya. Corby Scherb: Probably Kerbo's fault. Slim Pushins: We got people not getting their merch. Jim Gardner: I think it's on the way. Da ⁓ I will get right back with you on that. Slim Pushins: This is why Corby Scherb: Yeah, but Slim Pushins: This is why I like doing live people can air out their grievances, Jim. He's looking into it right now. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I'm gonna get the tracking number. I'm gonna post it the comments. Slim Pushins: Good. This is the place to do it. And we really appreciate you ordering it. You know keep the stomp and steer lights on. Jim Gardner: Yeah. You got it. Where's Corby shirt? Yeah. Which keep the pushing the cushion lights on. DHL Global Express ⁓ it shipped on June seventeenth, though it should definitely be there by now. I'll look into it, James. I'm sorry you're you're going through that. ⁓ so I will figure that out. Slim Pushins: There it is. Corby Scherb: It's curve's fault. Don't blame Jimmy. Kurvo's fault. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: I love I love when I when I put comments up like this, it covers Corby's face, makes it a whole lot more pleasant. Corby Scherb: Covering your face on my screen, but Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: ⁓ next weekend three ⁓ five's at Waco Dare Corby Scherb: Yeah, yeah, we talked about we we touched on that, you know, ⁓ four being being on the fourth, ⁓ man's tough. It's tough. ⁓ a lot of people like to go and enjoy the fourth. un unlike Father's Day, it's a very celebrated holiday. You know, Father's Day is really low on the celebrated holidays to all the the wives and girlfriends out there thinking about it. Fourth of July's a big one, man. It's it's like mid summer. It's it's finally warm in Texas. A lot of people spend it on the boat, on the lake. ⁓ some people go to the river and then don't respond to our text messages. Slim Pushins: ⁓ they FaceTimed me earlier. Not that they're listening. ⁓ they are alive. ⁓ barely. Kyle Jones just ⁓ barely making a transfer spot with one to go out of the sea after getting into ⁓ his deal. Yeah it is. But he's still racing. A lot of people aren't. Mitchell Moles didn't make it. Corby Scherb: ⁓ gotcha. Gotcha. Well, it's gonna be a long night for him. Slim Pushins: Bunch of people. ⁓ what else? The only thing I had left speaking of of just the level of courtesy and going out of their way, Corby calls me ⁓ Saturday morning and he was like, Hey, I for anybody who didn't know, Corby Corby stayed out at the compound this last weekend, ⁓ where ⁓ the all the tractor pool and everything went down. Corby calls me Saturday morning and it's like, Well Corby Scherb: Sunday morning, but Slim Pushins: That too, yeah. And it was like, Hey, just went out to my truck. ⁓ they left me two cases of beer, ⁓ at my truck. So there's that. I'm not gonna I'm not I'm I'm n yeah, I know. I'm not gonna say that they that they think that we're alcoholics or not, but we really appreciated the gesture. Corby Scherb: And we got some putting the ratio up. We got some putting the ratio up too. Pushing it. Pushing it. Slim Pushins: Yeah, we're ⁓ right on that line, I guess. So what else, Jim? Jim Gardner: What? I stopped paying attention. I was trying to I'm I was trying to hunt down this package. Slim Pushins: What else? Corby Scherb: I'm sure our buddy Aiden that ⁓ was bringing him to us was like these guys just don't quit. Slim Pushins: Who's that? Corby Scherb: Our buddy Aiden that was that was swinging over to us. Slim Pushins: ⁓ yeah, he was impressed. Corby Scherb: These guys just don't quit. They got no Slim Pushins: Well he was a great he was a great kid. He they he had a ton of jobs. ⁓ yeah. ⁓ one more thing that I had on speaking of a lot of jobs, Braxton was in charge of the drone and got all those awesome drone shots if if you saw any of ⁓ through the week. And Corby Scherb: Crashed into a tractor at one point two. Slim Pushins: That I didn't see that, but he claimed he said he he said he hammered the side of a tractor. Thought he had more clearance. ⁓ but yeah, I I was watching it fly around at one point and it kept it kept getting closer and closer and then he just absolutely buzzed me sitting on the four wheeler. So that was cool. And he said he didn't even get a video of it. So Jim Gardner: That's frightening. I forgot to hit record. Corby Scherb: Yeah, we've been talking about racing and ⁓ we we gotta we gotta talk about the ⁓ Ryder and we gotta talk about Ryder and Supertrucker. Boy, what a weekend they had. ⁓ Ry Ryder did pr pretty you know, ⁓ he's not happy with the results and it's tough running the National Series, especially at Bellville. Belleville's so big, but good not they just had just problem after problem. Slim Pushins: It would have been a cool video. Man. Trailer caught fire on the way up to Bellville. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Thanks to ⁓ whoever the ⁓ civilian was that flagged him down to tell ⁓ to stop. Jim Gardner: All right. Slim Pushins: A bear yeah, it was a bearing fire. Normally yeah, normally it's a like a brake fire, you know, if you're if you've been on the brakes a lot, but it was it was a a bearing fire. ⁓ so they they made some phone calls, somebody was v nice enough to lend ⁓ their ⁓ truck and trailer, just no questions asked. ⁓ and then, you know, they race in Belleville, finally got the the trailer, made it to Bellville. ⁓ Jim Gardner: Would it burn a wheel bearing down? Mm. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: Saturday Race Belleville had not a bad showing ⁓ coming from the back ⁓ Saturday night. A solid showing. Yeah, ⁓ yeah, and he'll tell you that. ⁓ and then on the way home, an airline breaks and almost simultaneously ⁓ their ⁓ exhaust broke. ⁓ so you know that pushed them, that set them back. Corby Scherb: 'Cause you he's so great at qualifying. Jim Gardner: Goodness gracious. Slim Pushins: And you know, there's nothing worse than a long weekend. You've already been through some issues. You want nothing more than to get home. They were supposed to be home like seven AM. Didn't get in until like nine thirty. ⁓ you know, with zip ties and duct tape a and a lot of ⁓ bubblegum chewing. ⁓ Corby Scherb: And let me guess, a super trucker showed up Sunday morning like nothing happened. Slim Pushins: I stayed at their house over the weekend and ⁓ Jim, do you have the volume up? Is Jones dropping pushing the cushion? Corby Scherb: I doubt it. I'm sure he's I'm sure he's pretty frustrat frustrated right now. Jim Gardner: About what I'm gonna check here. Pushing the cushions. Slim Pushins: Kyle Jones. ⁓ yeah I'll bet he is. ⁓ W hey Woudhoffman publicly proclaimed to us that if he wins this ⁓ this thing, ⁓ he's going to drop the push and the cushion name. And we have to put his name in the credits of every show if he does, so we'll see. Jim Gardner: There we go. Geez. Slim Pushins: Look at he does he ca he's a whiz with a computer, but the remote control the remote control throws him for a loop. Jim Gardner: I got no audio. Corby Scherb: There, Patrick there to to clean up your ⁓ your little spill there. John Freeman to the rescue. Slim Pushins: John Freeman. That's who it was. John Freeman. ⁓ lend him a truck and a trailer. No questions asked. ⁓ and I know that they appreciated it. ⁓ but yeah, I got up Saturda Sunday morning and Supertrucker was like tank top, flip flops. I don't know what how he was still standing up. He'd been up for like, you know, twenty four hours. And ⁓ I was about to hit the road and head back home and he was like, Well, Kerbo, let's go to breakfast. I you know, I don't know if y'all know this about me, but I ain't gonna turn down breakfast. So I did. See, Jim went in for a punchline. I did buy him breakfast. It's the least that I yeah, it was the least that I could do. Okay. ⁓ you bought two armbands. I bought you two pulled pork sandwiches at the tractor pool. Jim Gardner: You you bought ⁓ breakfast? That's nice of you. Corby Scherb: I'm sure. I'm sure. Did you? I bought your breakfast like twice, I bought like four armbands for you. I got nothing in return. Nothing in return. Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Any of ⁓ Any of our ⁓ Any of our west side ⁓ fan contingent, you'll find Kerbo Saturdays at about nine AM at the the Texan Diner on Avondale Hazlitt Road. Tell ⁓ Kerbo sent you. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. Yeah, great all meat ⁓ all all meat ⁓ omelet there, it's really good. Slim Pushins: Both of both of you jokers have been known to frequent the Texan diner with me. Jim Gardner: I ha well, since the beacon close, yeah. Corby Scherb: It's good. Slim Pushins: Yeah, they did. Rest in peace, Beacon. Jim Gardner: ⁓ yeah, I did not get any sound there, but I'm just gonna assume Kyle dropped our name at least three times and then. Corby Scherb: Hundred percent. Jim Gardner: Anyway, ⁓ Slim Pushins: I I'm almost certain ⁓ Kyle Jones makes up ⁓ he's our eleventh listener, so we have eleven now. Jim Gardner: So we're down this you can yeah. ⁓ the last piece I have for today, Kerbo, I got some pavement racing for you. ⁓ the pavement sprint cars, the non-wing cars were at the biggest, baddest, scariest joint on the planet, Winchester Speedway on Saturday. and Chase Cobre, ⁓ who I used to work with at the driving experience, fun fact, posted this and Corby Scherb: Little Winchester Wiggle. Slim Pushins: I'll just Jim Gardner: I don't know how c clear that's coming through. Slim Pushins: Well, that's a gnarly view right there. Jim Gardner: ⁓ is this playing clean? It's not playing well on my end. But man, Winchester, I'll tell you what, man. Corby Scherb: It's clean. Slim Pushins: It's perfectly here and it's loud in my ear. Jim Gardner: You can go, well, I want you to hear that V eight singing, baby. ⁓ Winchester is worth the price of admission. I I can't even begin to explain when you're standing in the middle of one and two and you're looking down through the top of the cage at those guys and they are hauling all sorts of ass. ⁓ Jackson Basinko from Cincinnati, Ohio got the win. ⁓ pavement racing, man. It's super cool. I wish it was down here. ⁓ I don't know. I thought that was cool. ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Jim, is this indie dirt track inside the indie motor speedway? Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's it's inside turn three. So it's right behind where the snake pit is during the five hundred, which I might have frequented back in my younger days. ⁓ during the five hundred. No. Everybody told me I enjoyed it though. So ⁓ but yeah, it's right inside turn three. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Yes. Slim Pushins: Okay. Not that you remember any of it. There was a There was a day and time where Jim used to not he used to actually drink beer and have a good time, not just Trullies. White claw. There it is. Corby Scherb: Mm. Just have fun. Just have fun. Jim Gardner: Pineapple. It was the last one in the box. So I probably have to leave here and go get Chelsea some. But ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Landon Thompson said three ⁓ five non wing and Amarillo at the end of the month. Is that that flyer that you sent the group, Jim? Or somebody Wesley's who? Yeah, okay. Corby Scherb: I sin it, buddy. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Cor Corby sent it. And ⁓ Bates also sent it to me. It's piqued my interest. We'll see. I think I'm I'm going out of town this weekend. I don't know if I'm racing or if Bates is racing Greenville and Arp and ⁓ Kennedale next week. ⁓ and then I'm like I ⁓ i if I run, I'm gonna try to run both of them. Slim Pushins: Greenville and or Greenville or? Jim Gardner: kill two stones with one bird. and yeah. So and then maybe a week off, but ⁓ I talked to Nathan Moore because I asked about the rules. ⁓ because one of my biggest pet peeve is ⁓ like, hey, here's this race. And then they don't tell you anything about rules or format or procedures or anything. ⁓ so then everybody has to ask questions. ⁓ Corby Scherb: More of a two stones one bird kind of guy. Slim Pushins: Not sure if that's how that goes. Jim Gardner: But I talked to Nathan more about it. I forgot it's his date. It was a four ten race. ⁓ and so he's kinda organizing it and he's whipped up some good money for it. And ⁓ I might go. We'll see. I'm not sure my truck will make five and a half hours, but it there is no wing racing in town that weekend. ⁓ so no Kennadales or anything like that. ⁓ makes it a possibility. We'll see. It'll be fun. Well throw in my non wing axles and put on some tricks from ⁓ from my younger days, but Slim Pushins: Are you ⁓ Jim, are you gonna are you planning on trying to make Nebraska this year or no? Jim Gardner: ⁓ we'll see. Bates asked me if I wanted to go to Bellville and I pretty much shut that down. ⁓ that didn't look like very much fun. I think the event is probably awesome. I just don't know that the racing is worth a ten hour drive up and back. ⁓ but I've not been to the Nationals, so I really want to go. ⁓ you know, if Slim Pushins: I'll take that as a maybe. Probably a good idea. Corby Scherb: It's cool, man. Really cool experience. And and I have never been to Bellville, ⁓ the ⁓ Braxton says he wants to go to it this year. So, we'll see. it it looks cool. It's like an old state fair. ⁓ we we did a lot of motorcycle races and stuff like that, so it would it would be cool to go s experience that ⁓ Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: It's a it's an awesome place. Great event. ⁓ it's a lot of fun. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I I it you have to unload and pit in the infield, right, Kerbo? Or did or did you guys pit outside? Slim Pushins: ⁓ d w everybody well, unless they change it, yeah. Everybody pits outside and then crash carts inside, yeah, during and you're Jim Gardner: Inside. Yeah. I don't have like my trailer's not very mobile to get stuff in there and I don't know. Slim Pushins: tr it's a legitimate worry, but you know in in typical in typical, you know, race family tradition, there's nobody nobody hot pits alone. You know what I mean? There's a lot of people around and that place is gnarly though. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right, right, right. Well, I I know I know when they when they had the midget nationals, everybody pitted pitted, you know, you unloaded at two o'clock in the afternoon in the infield and and didn't go back out and Corby Scherb: You're helping? You're helping too, Carbo? Slim Pushins: I'm helping I'm in. Yeah. And that's that's pretty much what they do. You have opportunities ⁓ between heats or di you know, different ⁓ times to cross, but you know, you you kinda you you kinda set up camp. Most everybody had I think if I'm not mistaken, ⁓ they let us they let us set up tents, you know, ⁓ in the pit areas, but it prohibits view. Jim Gardner: Cross, right. Slim Pushins: So I think we had to take ⁓ down as soon as racing started or I I I believe I could be wrong. Jim Gardner: Yeah. When right. R Yeah. So ⁓ we'll see. I'm probably out on that this year, just baby and being away too many weekends. But it's like, you know, I'll pick one or two of ⁓ to go. So maybe Amarillo, probably not Belleville, and then hopefully Eagle, ⁓ for the Nationals. So we'll see. I I need to get my car, Bates' car a little bit more consistent before I really feel good about going up to Eagle. Like we just just have been kinda all over the place with it. The cars are just really edgy. ⁓ they don't need ⁓ much Slim Pushins: Eagle's not for the weak hearted. It it it there's a lot that goes into it and you know, the best of the best are up there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah and Corby Scherb: Got a great ⁓ crew guys like ⁓ Wesley and ⁓ Randy McNorn. always have been there for me at Eagle. Not so much Kerbo, but ⁓ Wesley has always been an absolute trooper. Slim Pushins: There it is. There it is. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: There it is. If it wasn't for me, y'all would have just sat in the dark. Nobody would there been in there to hold your bolts. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So Nobody would have any chili. Corby Scherb: As Wesley's changing a motor plate at the track. Jim Gardner: ⁓ he brought ⁓ he brought me some lead ⁓ Saturday morning. He saved the day with ⁓ some old sport mod lead ⁓ to put on the old twenty one car ⁓ big old block of it. Still had the number nine on it, so if it fell off, Rutherford would have got DQ'd. So anyway. All right. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Yeah. Port Mod. Well it's good to it's good to hear that you didn't get DQ'd. You play by the rules this weekend. Jim Gardner: That's right. That's right. ⁓ yeah, we were ⁓ barely legal, ⁓ according to West Granville. So he came over and said we were right there. So Slim Pushins: Did you look him dead in the eye and Hey, barely legal's legal bum ba my man. Jim Gardner: No. No, I did not. I was not. ⁓ he actually checked it before I even got there. ⁓ when Bates was unloaded. So anyway, let's wrap this up. Yeah, exactly. ⁓ anyway, let's wrap this up. You guys have a good fourth of July. Everybody be safe. ⁓ keep the digits. Everybody still be able to count the twenty ⁓ come Monday morning. And ⁓ Slim Pushins: Yeah. You're on the lookout list. All right. Corby Scherb: Keep the fingers. Jim Gardner: Everybody have a good, safe week and have fun down at Waco. Hopeful hopefully Waco gets a ⁓ a good field. Slim Pushins: Play us out, Jim. He's been waiting for a month. Look at him giggling. The drop guy. The drop king. Jim Gardner: Ugh, I love drops. Yep. ⁓ I don't think I have the outro here, so I have to put it in in and post. So anyway, that's that. Appreciate everybody tuning in. It is. It is. Slim Pushins: Wow. It's the professional operation we're running. Thanks everybody for another ⁓ week. We're sorry that we didn't have Christian Kinnison on. ⁓ I know since we announced that he was gonna be on, there was a handful of people that ⁓ started following us. But he'll we'll definitely we had we had some pretty good topics ⁓ in regards to have you know what it takes to put on to bring in a national ⁓ touring series in, what, you know, from the tracks perspective what they have to go through. So Jim Gardner: We'll get him on Slim Pushins: ⁓ definitely something, you know, behind the scenes stuff that ⁓ a lot of the reason that we made the that we made this pup the podcast. So ⁓ we'll definitely have him back on. Jim Gardner: Yep, exactly. So it'll be good. We'll get ⁓ on here. Yep. So we'll see. But ⁓ y'all have a good week. Appreciate ya. Slim Pushins: Thanks for joining us. We'll talk to y'all later.