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- Slim Pushins: Are we live? Jim Gardner: Yep. Looks like it. Slim Pushins: What's up everybody? Corby Scherb: One shot at it this time? Slim Pushins: Welcome to another exciting episode of Shop Beers. We've got a lot to go over, a lot of public interest over the last week that we're gonna get to. my co host just got in from boarding up windows from the big tropical storm down on the Gulf, Corby Sherb. Corby Scherb: What's up everybody? He's gotta be more punky, man. It's gotta be more punky than that. Slim Pushins: Got his knee up he's he's got his leg up on the dash, like when he drives. Jim Gardner: If if you'll notice his audio is better, we just spent three minutes helping him select the correct microphone for the first time in six weeks. Slim Pushins: Did it feel like did it feel like an eye exam? Is this A or B? A or B? Jim Gardner: that was that hearing exam I took last week after my little ear procedure and you just second guessing yourself twenty four seven. Slim Pushins: I guess we're live 'cause we've got people on there it is. Bam. Jim Gardner: yeah. Slim Pushins: Hello from Nebraska. Corby Scherb: What up? Slim Pushins: Doctor Horton's on. Jim Gardner: Good deal. Slim Pushins: All the way from Nebraska. Thanks for taking time out of the busy team. Corby Scherb: And there's a lot there's a lot to talk about. You know, man, Slim Pushins: Where do we start? Corby Scherb: Let's let's just start right right here at home, you know, RPM. Great racetrack. surprised. I thought I thought it was a little little fishy there how he had it dry on entry of both corners. making you you know, K Kevin Raimi right now, I think he's making these drivers maybe it's second guess Slim Pushins: Work for it? Corby Scherb: it. Yeah, it's second guess yourself because it it was a little bit sketchy and I I looked at Colby Stubblefield after the heat races were over and I was like, dude, like I think the track's gone, man. It's gone. Like tighten up, full tight. And Chad Wilson came over and asked me what I would have done to the car and I said I I'd be full tight. Full tight. And it the the track kinda I I told you that Jim Gardner: Then how come you didn't suggest that to me? Corby Scherb: we we need to be tight, but like Slim Pushins: Because she wouldn't have listened. Corby Scherb: you know I don't know. It was I I second guessed myself whenever y'all all first pushed out. but it turns out that it was it was for sure it need to be full tight. Because it was one of those racetracks that that you just if if you ran the bottom, you had to be able to keep it rotated at the center, but you couldn't slip off the the the bottom. And if you were gonna rip the top, like you had to go in almost like a madman on the top just to make it to the center. Like it was so It w it was dry on entry, like I said, so it w it Jim Gardner: yeah. Corby Scherb: was one of those tracks you really had to think, as you were driving and it's Jimmy Gardner's like worst nightmare. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah. Thanks. That's true, but Corby Scherb: So it it was it it was a good racetrack. I I thought the racing was really good. Kevin Raimi magically started, you know, pole who would have guessed and I I can't I can't I can't wait for him to say something about me saying that. Slim Pushins: Everywhere. Jim Gardner: It was outside the front row. It's it's like when you have the answers to the exam and you purposely miss one, you know. So Corby Scherb: now Kevin was ripping, man. he he put in really good laps right off the start every every start and it's the same concept, you know. I I know that y'all have heard me say this a hundred times about if you can just put in two good laps right at the start, you just make everyone second guess if they're fast enough, but Slim Pushins: Like Jim did for the first ten at Ardmore, just setting the pace. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: Yeah, and that's what Jimmy did, you know, he he jumped out, you know, quick early lead and everyone behind him, including Ryder, is it Ryder will start over driving to a to a point and the same as Gary Owens was behind him and if you can gap him on the first two laps, it just as a racer myself, it it makes you think like, dang man, like I don't have anything for this guy. Like we gotta get lap traffic, we gotta get another caution, like something's gotta change. ke Kevin did good. Not not bad for for Jim Gardner: Yeah, racetrack was awesome. Corby Scherb: a older fellow. Jim Gardner: Yeah. What's he he was giving me a bunch of power ranking shit yesterday. I think he's thirty second now. after f after Corby Scherb: What a great number. What a great number. Slim Pushins: Wow. Jim Gardner: four races. He's only run four of the twenty two race nights and is still like twenty five spots better than me, which you'll have. But yeah, so Slim Pushins: Photo Mike's on. His Jim, are you looking are you looking at comments on the on the screen? I'm curious if Mike's on live with YouTube 'cause his name looks different than what it normally does from from Jim Gardner: Yeah, he's on YouTube. Under the comment, you can see where they're at. Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: it says YouTube. Huh look at there. Thanks, Corby. Back to you, Slim. Corby Scherb: Hm. Dead giveaway. Jim Gardner: yeah. so Kevin gets the win, protecting the home turf. I mean, it would have been really embarrassing if he gets beat on his own track that he's prepping and knows where all the water is. no. No. Slim Pushins: Would it? Would it though? I mean, are people expecting the the promoter of the racetrack to win every race that he starts there? Jim Gardner: No, what is kids, the the race director. no. There's no black helicopters. They he just did a damn good job and kicked our ass. So you know, Kevin wins, Kobe Sublefield was second, Michael Day was third, another strong run. Wilson had a huge charge from thirteenth to fourth. and Austin Mundy rounded out the top five. Slim Pushins: After after debacle heat race. Corby Scherb: Little little Jim Gardner: Yeah. I yeah. Corby Scherb: one of those moments. Jim Gardner: we I could only we're we're in the lineup shoot and saw him go into turn one and I was Slim Pushins: Yeah, Jim and I didn't see it. Jim Gardner: like I think Chad might have just crashed 'cause the yellow came out you know and I saw Wilson crossed up. So you'll have that when you're trying to go Slim Pushins: What I heard from behind Jim Gardner: fast. Slim Pushins: what I heard from behind him sitting on the four wheeler was a okay. I'm surprised that y'all can hear what what you do hear when when I try to talk to y'all, but it's not reciprocated. It's hard to hear. Corby Scherb: I was standing next to Brandt when he did that and I just grabbed his shoulder and said, Chad Slim Pushins: He doesn't Chad doesn't make many mistakes and he took the blame for that one. I I didn't see it. Jim Gardner: Hey. Corby Scherb: Yeah, it was it definitely a rare one. Yeah, for sure. Slim Pushins: I can't even argue with it, but i if he's gonna take the blame for it, I'll accept it. Jim, do we have There it is. Jim Gardner: Do we have? Corby Scherb: He's gonna hate us forever. Slim Pushins: Jim's big finger right in the middle of the screen. Corby Scherb: McMackin kinda jumped the start there and then let Jim Gardner: yep, my bad. Corby Scherb: off and let Colby go and then Chad ran him down and then Chad kinda just caught himself in a real bad spot in the middle of the racetrack and Nathan Moore caught real bad end of that deal. hate that for the Jim Gardner: Yeah. I was hoping to get audio. Corby Scherb: non wing guy trying to be a wing guy all of a sudden. He's really good with a wing on too. But Slim Pushins: So he he showed Jim Gardner: I was Slim Pushins: me he showed me the GoPro video from his phone and it's a lot longer, but he la I just wanna give him props. He had a hell of a steering wheel toss. Jim Gardner: Well, see, I pulled this from his Facebook and I was hoping for some aftermath, some four letter words and a steering wheel toss, but he cut it off before Slim Pushins: He I don't he wasn't mad. Jim Gardner: that. He does have a a a a big Corby Scherb: B Nathan, what size is that steering wheel? Jim Gardner: a big visor flip at the end. which you don't you you see often, but you know, not with as much force here. You gotta be careful with those visors and ripping out those aluminum bolts. Slim Pushins: He I I might be mistaken. Jim Gardner: Well watch this visor flip. Slim Pushins: He told me he told me after everything was done we were talking and I think I think he Corby Scherb: That's a big steering wheel. I'm sorry, I'm consumed by it. Slim Pushins: I think he told me that's the first time he's flipped in like ten years. Which I find it hard to believe. Jim Gardner: Didn't we have his art his Amarillo crash? Did he not flip there? Did he just tattoo that guy? Remember remember homeboy, homeboy went in there and Corby shirfed it, Slim Pushins: I don't think he flipped. When he went in and Corby sherbed it? Corby Scherb: I don't think he went upside down. Yeah. Jim Gardner: and then Nathan piled in. He didn't flip after that. Yeah. Corby Scherb: I don't think so, actually. Jim Gardner: Anyway, that sucked. They tore up five cars, only three cars finished that heat race. Slim Pushins: Tony Nichols wants to know if the video it's on you can re watch it on Race On, I think. Jim Gardner: Yep. Yep. And if you don't have a race on account, email Kerbo and Slim Pushins: Yeah, just call Jim. He gives everybody my login. Corby Scherb: Just Jim Gardner: the race was really good. It was either on the tires or on the fence and it was slick. our car my car was awful. I was awful driving it, but it was bad and I couldn't figure out what where I wanted to be worse at, either in the way on the bottom or just letting people drive by Slim Pushins: In the way on the top. Jim Gardner: me. Yeah. At least that if I ran the top, people could just go by me, like 'cause I was a moving chicane the whole race. But Slim Pushins: The racing realtor said he's he's with Mark Zoller. They're they're making the Jim Gardner: How did Slim Pushins: trek they're making the trek to Eagle currently. Jim Gardner: I didn't see I didn't see how he went mud turtle racing. Slim Pushins: I didn't either. I was gonna send him a text but he's a busy guy and I don't like to you know, I don't like to hamper close closing deals and title companies and stuff. Jim Gardner: Well, I mean we could figure this out pretty quickly here. Corby Scherb: Hey Aunt Janet Hey Uncle Lloyd, I'm sure y'all are both watching. Slim Pushins: Hey Aunt Janet, we miss you. Jim Gardner: So they're already on the road to go north, huh? I'm looking I'm looking at a Slim Pushins: Ye they're not messing around. Jim Gardner: solid tenth top ten in the Toms race at Slim Pushins: They had forty three cars last I looked. So that's not too bad. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I'm looking at a solid a plus twelve tenth too, hard charger. Slim Pushins: Twenty-fourth to tenth. Corby Scherb: Twenty four to ten. What's up now? Jim Gardner: Twenty second to tenth plus twelve curbo. Slim Pushins: Well, I'm gonna go by what he says because after Ardmore I don't Corby Scherb: Racers never lie. Razors never lie, you know, like the fish, right? Slim Pushins: After Ardmore I don't trust my race fast. So Jim Gardner: Well, I guess Yeah, good point. Yeah, I guess. Slim Pushins: So I'm going with the racing realtor on this one. Jim Gardner: Twenty second to tenth for not bad for a push and flip guy in the in the mud turtle world. Nice run, Kevin. Slim Pushins: I've made that trip a few times. I bet he doesn't I bet he doesn't have service enough to catch us all the way up the highway. Depending on where they're at. Jim Gardner: Yeah, well. Corby Scherb: Like with the where the rivers where they where they make their own rivers and stuff, like the Mennonites? The Mennonites. Slim Pushins: Corby Who makes the rivers? That's yours, Jim. It's your turn. Back to you, Jim. Corby Scherb: Hmm. Jim Gardner: Okay, cool. Slim Pushins: The Minnonites. I got a whole lesson. I got a whole lesson. Corby Scherb: Did you see that? You see it you see it dude dude. Man, next level. We won't even get in there, Jim's already I can see his frustration, but like man, the I'll mention Slim Pushins: Jim Corby Scherb: the Mennonite they they got something figured out. Slim Pushins: Corby says the Mennonites can flow can make water flow upriver. Jim Gardner: I don't know what any of that means. Corby, you got too much time on your hands. Slim Pushins: Which which Corby Scherb: They're normal people. The Mennonites Slim Pushins: part? Corby Scherb: can still have phones. They can have like gas powered things. Slim Pushins: Race cars? Corby Scherb: I don't know. I don't know. They were all over the tractor pole whenever we were up there with the Uyghurs. but yeah, great ice cream. Great ice cream. I didn't eat any of it, of course, but Jim Gardner: Of course not. It's not on the macros. I did have some Corby Sherb honey packs on Saturday. Probably Corby Scherb: And they work. Jim Gardner: had me too pumped up and stabbing the throttle. Slim Pushins: Jim was wired. Is that why he was wired, Corby? Corby Scherb: Jim was it man, it the magnesium electrolytes in these little honey gel packs is is so worth it. They don't sponsor me, they have nothing to do with me, and I am a massive supportive supporter of them because it helps. This is what we all need. We all are deficient in this. Keep shaking your head, Jimmy, because it worked. Because you got out of the car and you still had the energy to throw a water bottle away. Actually it was a water bottle, not a sun kiss. I watched you throw it in the trash can. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. I had plenty of energy because my car didn't make any G forces at all. and to wear me out. It was just on top of the Slim Pushins: Hey, did you hear that, Rutherford? You and Jim Gardner: racetrack. Slim Pushins: you and Zoller need to get some honey packs. Text Corby, he'll give you exactly what they Jim Gardner: No Slim Pushins: are. Jim didn't even balk at it. Normally Jim doesn't buy into Corby's bullshit, but I Corby was like, listen, I know Jim Gardner: You Slim Pushins: all you drink is happy dads and like sun kissed, and you're not hydrated like you Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: should be. So I'm gonna run back in the house and get you some honey packs. Jim Gardner: You said you'd send me the Amazon link and I haven't got that here. Corby Scherb: Sorry buddy, I'll get it to you. The Uyghurs Slim Pushins: Right now. Jim Gardner: Anyway. Corby Scherb: bought bought stock in this stuff, man, 'cause it worked for Braxton. This guy Slim Pushins: Dude, they bought cases. Corby Scherb: this guy lives on Dr. Pepper and Dr. Pepper. And this stuff works, man. It really does. Everyone needs some potassium and electrolytes in that moment, especially if you can eat it with honey because it's good and it's a liquid, so your body will absorb it faster. And I know that Chase Brewer is losing his mind right now at even the thought of something like this. Chase Brewer. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: So here we go. Jim Gardner: man. Slim Pushins: all right, Jim, let's talk Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: about your night. I have questions. Why this is what we do. We Jim Gardner: Let's not. Let's just not say we did. Slim Pushins: expose ourselves to ridicule and laughter. I why were you so pissed off? What were you so mad at? When you got let me just give a background real quick while you're thinking of some sort of politically correct answer. I was the first one back to the trailer because I've got wheels and I there was a split second that I had thought about following Jim into the trailer and that w would not have been a stellar idea in the moment. Why were you so mad? What was it that that made you mad? Jim Gardner: those that was probably the worst twenty laps I've run in my whole life. Going back to nineteen ninety eight at Lightning Valley Motorsports Park in Junction City, Kentucky, running go-karts. I can't remember a time that I was that inconsistent as and bad at driving the race car. And the car was not very good. It was not as bad as I was making it look like. I just I Slim Pushins: What what does that mean? Was that what does that mean? Decision making was bad? Line run the lines you were Jim Gardner: Yes, decision mak Slim Pushins: running were bad? Jim Gardner: yeah, consistency, de si decision making, like almost like maturity, you know, instead of just just taking what the race was giving me, trying to do too much and you know, bled a bunch of spots to start and then got some of them back under yellow, which we could talk about. Which was, you know, I that was the only time I ever passed somebody was under yellow. but just making bad choices, letting those choices affect the next corner, making another bad choice, and then just the wheels come off. And it was different than than Ardmore, where it was kind of like these pinpointed three mistakes. Like I can't remember one good corner that I felt was like, all right, let's do that again. Like I it was just it was just really bad. It was if it was embarrassing. And you know, just there's a lot of time and effort that goes into it and not just by me, but by y'all coming and my family and stuff like that. And it was just it's just pissing in the wind. It's just a waste of time. so I was pretty lost. Slim Pushins: Corby, what did you're really good at breaking down races. What did you see that he's talking about? Corby Scherb: Man, it's it's mental in those moments, you know, you come off of Ardmore and absolutely ripping, like I said, you gap the field. that's that's what you're supposed to do, and then you show up there and you run good in a heat race. you made some good passes in a heat race, and then you make some setup stuff. We talked about it. like I said, I I told Chad walked up to me and asked me, to me, I thought that you were tight enough for your likings and how you like the car to feel and I will say that It was like lap six or seven right before the first caution. So actually that would have been eight or nine. you really opened up your entry, getting into turn three, and you was able to keep the car rotated to the center. But I i from what I watched, that was about the only time that you was able to correctly do it. And as we started, Kevin was really smart about making it super slick on entry and it was such like a trust game to get there. And This is we've talked about it before and I know that y'all call it different things. I call it quicksand. And you know, one one thing happens and then it's another and another and another until you're back there fighting for ninth and tenth with people you know you're not supposed to be racing with and then you start over driving back then and it's just like it you can't unravel yourself until like I said, I know you wasn't watching me on the back straightaway, but I was trying to tell you to breathe to relax. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: And because Slim Pushins: Did you see that, Jim Gardner: Well I was looking Slim Pushins: Jim? Jim Gardner: I was looking for you under yellow during the heat race and you didn't tell me anything, so then I just gave up for the rest of the night. Yeah. So y no you're you're exactly right. Corby Scherb: I didn't have to tell you anything. You're you were you were ripping. And that's actually a lie because I was I was standing next to I think it was still Brand at the time and I was giving you a thumbs up and I was telling you I was clapping for you. But Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: it's it's those moments as a racer when you come off what you feel is a really good night and you go into another night and you just feel like y everything you're doing is wrong. And Jim Gardner: Yeah. It it Corby Scherb: you Jim Gardner: w we talked last week about how we were inching towards it and figuring some stuff out and the cars have been really, really good. Had a chance to to to lead a race. We're in contention to win. there at Ardmore. And then it felt like it was not two steps back, but it was five. on Saturday night. Like it just it felt there was I I was lost all the way home and pretty much all day yet Sunday. Corby Scherb: We were worried about you, buddy. Jim Gardner: It was it was such a Slim Pushins: Nobody heard nobody heard from you. Jim Gardner: there was no there there's no rhyme or reason for why the car was so different to my knowledge to to to why we had what we had at Ardmore and then we had nothing else at RPM and it just really baffled me and and then again I didn't do a good job of managing what I had for twenty laps and just let it get worse. You know, we could have just toned it down and ran ninety five percent and probably stayed in seventh and eighth or ninth or whatever, but instead I had to go be a rowdy cowboy and go try to do stuff and just had the parachutes out and just went backwards. And it was just like I said, like it's just wasting everybody's time. You know? So yeah. Corby Scherb: Th this is when like I'm I'm I'm gonna call you out on this. Well I'm gonna Slim Pushins: It's a humbling sport. Corby Scherb: call you out on this and say what I do in those moments, and this is the God's honest truth, that actually most of the people on here know that I'm a weird cat. But like if we're under caution and I'm Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: just falling backwards, I'm gonna sing a song to myself. To like totally Jim Gardner: That sounds about right. Corby Scherb: separate from what's happening right now. I I remember at Kennedale championship night. Slim Pushins: Tulsa time? Corby Scherb: I I knew I had no god no. I knew I had to run eighth. and nothing could change and I looked up and we're like in ninth. And I was just like being too slow, being too cautious and it was just like seeing a song. I mean typically my go go to song is Fallout Boy Phoenix. You know, don't even play that Slim Pushins: No. Corby Scherb: stupid stuff, Jimmy. And just just just relax in that moment and and enjoy the moment because just like you Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: said, this is supposed to be fun. We're all supposed to be able to enjoy this and nothing worse than looking up and like that guy passed me. And then that guy passed me. And then that guy passed me. Slim Pushins: Did you have fun Saturday night, Jim? Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's i i it's not even that it's not even that, you know, whoever it's just not living up or performing to a standard that I set for myself. and it doesn't matter, you know, you you could do everything perfectly and and and achieve the standard and run fourth and feel good about fourth. or or fourteenth or wherever it is, and it what it is for me personally right now is I don't feel like I'm achieving the standard that I set for myself and with the race cars, with the driving. And there's a reason, you know, we talked last week. I was I'm hardly ever critical of drivers when I'm crew chiefing because it's really hard. I make it look really hard every Saturday night. Right. So like like you know, we we bust Jeb's balls because under red he would never come up to us to for to ask for advice. You know, he'd always park way down on the infield where you can't get to him or tell him anything. And it's because like what is he gonna listen to me about driving? You know, like I don't have yeah, right. Like I make it I make Corby Scherb: I mean I never threw a fit de curbo under red or anything like that, you know. Sometimes I but Jim Gardner: it look really hard every Saturday. So, you know, I'll try to give the guys when I work on them the best cars they can, but I'm not gonna sit Slim Pushins: Most guys most of the Reds. Most of the Reds Jim Gardner: here and bust your balls for for not being good through traffic or making bad decisions because I I got no legs to stand on, you know. Slim Pushins: Most of the reds that Corby had were a g like he was saying, it was a good break from a middle break. Corby Scherb: I that's that's the way that I try to race is is be able to to separate yourself from that moment 'cause like we said, it's supposed to be fun. I mean I I show up there and I want to run good but a lot of times I just need a curbo to show up and just just talk about something way off base. Slim Pushins: There you go, Jim. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: There's you some advice from one of the best. Jim Gardner: I appreciate that, Austin. We're trying, I mean, you know, we're trying to match up in that heat race and and think, all right, we can kind of keep up with the four. I think we're pretty good, you know. so it it and I appreciate that. And and I'm a lot harder on myself than than anybody's gonna be, you know, on me on that front, but I just try to pay it forward. And it's just It's getting, you know, starting to to see little glimpses of the car being really good and us having a lot of speed and then just not being able to capitalize and and have those results at the end is an entirely different sense of frustration than just running 15th, right? And just not having the pace, right? Like having the pace and not being able to do anything with it is a totally new sensation for me. Usually I'm just back there running it back in the dog pound, right? And You know, but now we're like up. Yeah. Slim Pushins: What a great name for the for the air for those the dog pounds. Jim Gardner: But now we're like kind of able to mix it up, you know, and and you know, I did that interview with dirt neck Joe. We'll talk about that later. And he's like, Who are these guys that you like racing against? And I'm like, Well, if I can catch the 20 and the two and the seven and you know, all these fast guys that, you know, I I really don't get to race around that much because they're always way away. So anyway, that's kind of the frustrating part. We're gonna keep at it. you know, like I said, the just the little tastes of little success here or there, heat race wins or running second, or or you know, making redraws over and over again and then pissing it away is a different style of letdown than just not being fast, you know. So we're gonna keep working on it and enough talk about our swan song Friday night. I think we're gonna probably get after their ass at Grayson County here in two weeks and we'll try again. Corby Scherb: Well, this like track setup. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we'll try again. you know, luckily we rolled it into the trailer and and had a good chill day Sunday and life goes on. It's no big deal. And I didn't I wanted to. Just rage quit. Just but yeah. Slim Pushins: And you didn't you didn't pull off. All all all twenty laps. Cost me twenty bucks. Jim Gardner: Right. So anyway. Slim Pushins: All right, let's talk about tires. Anybody want to talk about tires? Corby Scherb: Let's do it. Let's go ahead and get it. I know this is why everyone's here. Yeah, Jimmy's gonna go ahead and just kill the computer right now, just be done with all this. Jim Gardner: No, I'm good, I'm on. My battery's not charging. Corby Scherb: man, Slim Pushins: We're gonna lose in mid show. Jim Gardner: Nope, I'm here. I'm back. I got it fixed. Well let's let's do a reset here Corby Scherb: I understand I I understand what's going on Jim Gardner: before we talk about it. So Tuesday or Wednesday, Raceaver Enterprises, who is our sanctioning body and who you know coordinates everything from engine rules to to format and insurance and and everything has brought out a new tire. rear tire all four tires. but next year they are going to mandate their right rear tire. you can run Hoosiers or American racers everywhere else, but you have to run the race saver branded right rear tire which for the last 30 years has always been a Hoosier tire that is stamped raceaver but now it it has totally changed to their new tire that they brought in. So there was a lot of talk at the meeting, you know, at the races on Saturday. There's been tons of Facebook back and forth, and that's the big thing. By June one of twenty twenty seven, everybody has to be on the raceaber right rear tire to run a race saber race. So go ahead, Corby. Corby Scherb: bold move in my opinion, especially in a in a series that we try to keep it somewhat in the affordable stance. they can do stuff like this. you know, there there was a a an incident, I don't know, it was in like twenty one or something like that where there was a little bit of a valve issue. And Ray Saber said that this is not legal. This is why you have to run this for this reason. Not for any performance benefit, but this is what you have to run. I kind of feel like that is being pushed back on this right rear. I'm not I I have not ran this right rear. Yes, of course, they went to Waco here in Texas. The the track took rubber, so like that is such a hard thing to try to compare anything to. I don't care if they mandated shocks that we gotta run whenever something takes rubber. I d I don't trust it because you know, I know I told Kerbo this story about motorcycle days and and they had there was three tires that were legal and then all of a sudden they wiped out two of these tires and this is what you had to run whenever you went and ran a national. it's hard for me to support forcing us to do it because it doesn't help us with the cost. It it's basically the same amount of money. What is it? What is it? Twenty dollars cheaper or something like that? Jim Gardner: So so now to be fair, the race saver tire right now is forty two dollars, forty seven Corby Scherb: Okay. Jim Gardner: dollars cheaper than the Hoosier. what is all that feedback? Is that just me? Okay. It might be curbo breathing. Corby Scherb: I don't know. All I can hear is curbo breathing. That's you breathing. Slim Pushins: I'm not getting any feedback. That's not me breathing. Jim Gardner: so to be fair, the the Corby Scherb: Fixed it. Jim Gardner: I think it's your ears, Kerbo. I think we're I'm hearing myself through ears. Slim Pushins: My it's my ears breathing. Jim Gardner: Anyway, so the the raceaber branded tire is forty seven dollars cheaper than the Hoosier right now. some issues guys have with this move just right away is that if there's not a raceaber distributor near them, which we have one here in DFW, kind of near Smiley, so it doesn't really matter. but some of these guys down in Houston have to have these tires shipped. and that kind of eats that price up, right? So it is cheaper, but there are some longevity issues. There are just some some there's some unknown there's some unknowns. Let's put it that way. Slim Pushins: They're not as readily available. Corby Scherb: Yeah, you know, th that yeah, that's for sure. You know, i it is is it gonna, you know, last the amount of time and are you gonna be able to, you know, scuff the edge off with grinding disc and it be okay? Is it gonna chunk? How do you cut it? It's just I know that they're trying to give everyone till twenty twenty seven, but you're basically forcing us to start running them now so that we can be ready when it is mandated. Jim Gardner: Well there's and there's also just a backlog of tires. I mean I have got a shed full of tires from LePlant's, from Uyghurs, from Sherbs, from Roger Oaks, from I'm I have got tires Slim Pushins: That was the point that I was gonna bring up. So now so now using used tires from other series that are legal to run that are scuffed or whatever, now what? Now the ultimate Jim Gardner: Correct. Yeah. And I've I've given truckloads of tires to other people this year. I gave a truckload of tires to Dakota Marshall for for nationals. Like here. I've I'm tripping over these, right? And now all those tires are illegal, right? So there's a little bit of just Slim Pushins: I don't know what this means. Jim Gardner: the e economics and batlo backlog of just having tires and it's just an unknown and a lot of people are afraid to run something new. You know, I get to I've raced seven times this year. Right. And I've tried a different bar package in all of them, like a moron. But like, are you gonna give up one? Are you gonna give Slim Pushins: We're not gonna touch that one. Corby, no. Jim Gardner: up and just go experiment on this tire, you know, and spend the money and put your car in a bad spot? Maybe, you know, maybe you miss your setup and tear up the car or something like that. Right. So like people are just very weary to change anything up front, like just period. I, you know, we had a big debate in March about these tires. I because Kerbo was heavy on the Hoosier side. Slim Pushins: When I rage baited you? Jim Gardner: Yeah, Kerbo was hoo heavy on the Hoosier side wearing his purple shirt. and I just kind of took the raceaber side and I said, Hey, let's just kind of wait and see how this plays out. because at least there is some let the market kind of dictate what's going on. If the raceaber tire is good, more people will go to him. And then it'll be really healthy to have this this competition. and I don't know, you know, certainly around these parts, I haven't seen many race saver tires out there. I know Kenny Venable was running one, I know Claude's run run them a couple times. and it's fine. I ha I have not personally run one. I haven't bought a tire in two or three years. and Mark Zoller brings up a good point. There is Mark Zoller says My deal is why Roger didn't say it was gonna be mandatory, then open it up making it mandatory. I saw that screenshot, it was floating around this week, Wednesday or Thursday. Slim Pushins: You wanna you wanna explain the Jim Gardner: yeah, that's Slim Pushins: screenshot? Jim Gardner: so the screenshot was from Maybe around Chili. So this this tire came out around Chili Bowl. So maybe it was from around Chili Bowl. I forget who it was, but a couple people posted it over the week and it basically was a Race Saber Enterprises, who's Roger Hayden, saying there's no plans to make this tire mandatory in at this time or in the near future or something like that. And here we are five months later. Slim Pushins: It didn't it didn't age well. Jim Gardner: And and you know, we come on here every week, you know, whether it be about restarts or or rules or whatever saying, hey, you know, let's put the officials in a good spot to be consistent, right? Like you don't have to do that. And kind of like you don't have to make that comment because then you it only looks bad when it goes the other way. So I am sure that from a business standpoint this makes sense for Race Saver, but it is going to piss off Hoosier. And you know, in our area, Smiley's is the Hoosier tire Southwest dealer. They have a lot of influence. Obviously, at RPM, a track they own. Obviously, at Lawton, a track they either own or kind of partner with, with the Edwardses. I'm not entirely sure. They have a lot of influence at KSP. They have a lot of influence at Grayson County, at Rocket, everywhere around town. Smiley's is a huge influence of all these tracks. And they're also the Hoosier dealer. Right. So they have to protect their best interests too, their business interest and and racing from For for the last 80 years, racing has been controlled by tire companies, right? Like watch a NASCAR race on Sunday. The whole field comes down pit road. Every team spends four grand in tires and and NASCAR gets a kickback from Goodyear for $35,000. Right. That's the way this business works. Hoosier has bought a lot of series and a lot of tracks loyalty over the last 20, 25 years, paying the point fund or kicking them back money and kind of created this this monopoly, this big monster they are now the big player in the game. And now somebody else is kind of doing it to them and they're, you know, you what what's gonna be the play that comes after this? Because there's a lot of game theory. This is a chess match between two really huge entities. Raceaver is a big entity. You know, I think RaceSaver outside of like four ten racing, and those guys just run a lot of races to go through tires, RaceSaver has probably the most sprint cars under their kind of jurisdiction in the country. Right. Like if you think about the power rankings, I've got A hundred and thirty-six guys on the power rankings, just that have run in Texas or Southern Oklahoma this year. Right? So that's a lot of cars. And we're not even considering cars that are in the Dakotas, in Nebraska, in Indiana, in Ohio. There's a ton in Pennsylvania. They get like 60 cars a night to run Port Royal, which is ridiculous. And there's a can Corby Scherb: For no money. Jim Gardner: yeah, and there's a contingent out in California too. There are tons of race saver cars out there. Now we don't all run. a hundred races a year like the four ten guys do, but that's still a lot of tires to sell. and obviously Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Hoosier Hoosier is in the business of making money too. So you kinda got I y I can see both sides of it, you know, and it's we're kinda caught in the middle because we just have to go buy tires to go race. And, you know, we'll see. Slim Pushins: I don't see that happening. My whole Corby Scherb: think the problem Jim Gardner: No the Corby Scherb: is even with smiley like we're saying with smiley selling the new tire, it it got a really, really bad name the the first outing this year with it and people watched it not just Blister but Jim Gardner: I think that was unfair. Corby Scherb: just I and I that's what I'm saying. I I do agree, you know, who knows? if you go somewhere like Ardmore that doesn't really take rubber till the like the last three laps or four laps, five laps of a feature, or you go to Kinnadel and the track stays really good or you go to RPM like it was this last weekend. I don't know. I haven't ran it. I have put my hands on them and they don't feel amazing to me. That's just me, but I've also touched the same tire for the last twelve, thirteen years. So it's different. You don't know how the oil expands. You don't know what cuts it likes. You don't know if the oil seals itself back over, if you're supposed to grind it. You know, I don't wanna act like I'm smart with tires and stuff like that right Slim Pushins: Anything? Corby Scherb: now, but there's a lot of factors that go into a certain tire and what works for that tire. It d does it work all the way down to the cords? You know, I know that a Hoosier really it's got like f Jimmy's gonna throw a fit whenever I say this, but it's got like five heat cycles on it and it's done, in my opinion. Jim Gardner: No, I I proved that on Saturday too. Corby Scherb: You know, that's that I I think it's got five good heat cycles on it and it you you throw it away. there's certain tires, like I said com from the motorcycle world, like a Max's tire, I'm talking you could run this thing down to the cords and it worked just as good. So y we just don't know and but who's gonna go out here and yeah, and who's Jim Gardner: Yeah. It's just it's unknowns and yeah. Corby Scherb: gonna go out here and really start testing it when you got people like, you know, Kevin Ramey who Probably cuts his tire a little bit different than everyone else, the same as Chad has certain cuts that he likes for certain nights. You have to change all that, so you the only way to change that is to go out and try this. Well, you're talking about for sure. No one tests on race day. Period DN, I don't care what anyone Jim Gardner: An experiment. Right. And and that just takes away your race day, you know, and y yeah, so yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Well my whole deal is this Corby Scherb: wants to argue. Jim Gardner: I've tested on race day and it hasn't gone well. Slim Pushins: Jim, you made you made the comment a while ago. You made the comment a while Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: ago that you haven't bought a tire. You've been fortunate that that people will give you tires, use tires and stuff. So now what? Jim Gardner: Well, I also had like a backlog of tires 'cause we we had some cars to get destroyed and put us out for a while. So I I I was pumped up. You go buy yeah. I've got I I've got a whole Slim Pushins: No, I g I I get it, but my my point is that you've had tires. That's that's my point. So Jim Gardner: fifteen by fifteen shed full of tires. Yeah. Corby Scherb: You know, John Rickett's the same, he cuts his tire the same way. Yeah, I know. You had Logan on that whole cut there for a while and Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. So there's yeah, I in general run the same stuff. I if I want to make the tire do one thing, I cut them one way. If I want to make it do something else, I cut it a different way. But track to track, it doesn't really matter. But yeah, I mean there's just no like I said, there's I'm not the only one in town who's just got stockpiles of tires. I know two people that have a whole truck full of tires because I delivered them to them to get them out of my way. And, you know, there's there's people out there who who can run five, six nights on them and and and And be great with them. And there's other guys who who are putting new stuff on all the time because they're on a different program. And that's okay. That's that's racing. But that just adds kind of another fall out, you know, residual effect to this mandate. and before like before we like r really get into it, there's supposed to be a big meeting tomorrow night up in Eagle. that Slim Pushins: Allegedly. Jim Gardner: that Kevin Ramey was was telling us about, him and Roger. You know, Kevin's obviously the promoter at RPM, it's owned by Tom the Lorenz family who owns Smiley's, who is the Hoosier dealer, right? And so they're all supposed to get together and try to hopefully come up with a middle ground. This mandate doesn't go into effect for ten months. You know, now six of those months aren't race season, or four of I guess. hopefully some some middle ground can be found because I really don't want it to be a race saver deal and then split with Hoosier running something and just kind of the ping pong battle of politics that we're all gonna kind of have to sort our way through. I think I don't know. It's just kind of one more bigger picture thing that we don't any of us really have control over that we just have to follow and and Slim Pushins: Deal with. Jim Gardner: yeah. And it's just I get it. You know, you know, we we all work to go race. These guys are this is their livelihood is selling parts and tires and This is big business and there's big investment. There has to be big investment in this raceaber tire. There had to be big investment in the relationship between Hoosier and Raceaber for the last thirty years, you know. to where who you know, Race Saber kind of put put this was gonna come to a head because they've been taking taking you know, in partnership in cahoots with Hoosier for so long that the the divor Slim Pushins: Cahoots. Jim Gardner: it the divorce was gonna be a little messy, you know. So I'm sure there's gonna be sprint car racing next year. I'm sure it will look ninety percent what it looks like right now. with just some little headaches in between. So interesting I'm interested to see what comes out of this meeting. It kinda put a damper on nationals. I think. I think it's gotten nationals gonna have this kind of you know, dark cloud over it, this this elephant in the room over it all weekend, but we'll see. So but yeah, that's kinda our thoughts on Slim Pushins: All right, there's your tire talk hour. Jim Gardner: tired talk, yeah. Corby Scherb: I mean I I'm not I'm not a fan of the the the the strong arm stuff. I I don't I don't like that. Jim Gardner: Well how Corby Scherb: i if it's cheaper and it's a better option, then why are more people not running it and it's just like you said, half of it, fifty percent of that is this is what I've done. John Ricketts has been racing sprint cars for that long, this is what I've done. I run this left rear and I run this right rear. This is what I do. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: And the other half Jim Gardner: And and Corby Scherb: of it is is is this truly a better option? The few people who have tried it around here hasn't had the best of luck and it's it's I just don't like the strong arm of it and they What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? You gonna go chase h h who who watching this podcast right now can afford to go out and run a four ten program? Jim Gardner: No, but trust me, and it the solution is not let's go run three sixties or let's go ro run four tens because the the Corby Scherb: Correct. Correct. Jim Gardner: the economics of the tracks can't handle it, right? Like we can't all Corby Scherb: Correct. Jim Gardner: of a sudden go race for three thousand to win and three hundred to start to justify the higher expenses of four ten and three sixty stuff. Like Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: and you know, for the other people who are like, I'm not running that made in China crap. Well, it's it's actually made in Vietnam, but I got news for you. Slim Pushins: Okay. There it is. Jim Gardner: a lot of stuff, a lot Corby Scherb: There it is, Naam. Jim Gardner: of stuff is made overseas that are on your race cars. like you need to get over that. Just because it's not made in Fortville, Indiana, doesn't mean that the tires junk. They're they're working on it. So w you know, the left rears in the fronts are open. I don't see many people on American racers, you know, probably because it's hard to get you know, I know my buddy Andy's a distributor up in Indiana, but I don't know where to get an American racer left for your sprint car tire in town here. you know, so there those options have always been out there. We just always put the Hoosiers on there at Smiley's, go get them. You know, there's a smiley's 10 miles from my house. So you know, it we'll we'll see what happens. and I'm hoping the pendulum will, you know, it's swayed this way. I'm hoping it comes back a little bit and there's gonna be some middle ground. Corby Scherb: See, 'cause a at E E Eel Nebraska, don't they have to run that right now? Jim Gardner: No. No. The raceaber Slim Pushins: What? No. Corby Scherb: No? Okay. Jim Gardner: rules this year, you can run the Hoosier or the Race Saber. Yep. Corby Scherb: Okay. Okay. Jim Gardner: And even through June 1 next year, it's wide open. Ricketts said, My thing is, I don't care what tire we run or have to run. I agree. My question is if we have to run a tire that is hot Hoosier stamped, does that mean RPM and KSP will allow that tire? If so, then great. If not, then what will happen? My understanding. Is that the current Hoosier tire will always be legal until the RaceSaver's mandated? I don't, I don't know. So Tony asks, what does RaceSaber do for the racer in the track? What is their stronghold? Is there a big payout? So RaceSaver is our sanctioning body. They who write our motor rules, they write our chassis rules, our suspension rules, they have our insurance. They do state, local, and national points. They pay tech tech officials. They keep everything really regulated. And I've been I've said Slim Pushins: We got a jacket. Jim Gardner: I yeah, I've Corby Scherb: I got a couple of them, buddy. Jim Gardner: I've said this many times. the raceaver platform is a really fun and good way to go sprint car racing. it is a good balance of the competition being really good, the engines being You know, you can buy a really expensive one or you can buy a a decent one and you can be good. The cars are are can be challenging to drive. I prove that every Saturday. The competition's really tough. RaceSaver has really threaded the needle on building a good competitive package that only works with good tech. And you know, Rick Burdick and Wes Cranville and Bobby. Slim Pushins: Here's the here's the question of all questions. Will Hoosier still make a race they retire? Corby Scherb: Hold on buddy, he was going on a great rant, you know, praising some of our officials who just have Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: the absolute worst job that there ever was and they enjoy it for whatever reason. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. They they and and it would only the the racing is only as good as the officiating in the tech. we've seen people just dominate and win races by ten seconds and then all of a sudden tech gets good there and then they're competitive and only win by half a second. So tech is what makes it go round and round. The the raceaber guys have done a really good job at that. I I I've been lucky enough I hadn't had to deal with the insurance. but that's a big thing. and that all kind of plays into it. So you know, the Race Savers had some stuff that the one time I've ever talked to Roger Hayden was a discrepancy in my motor six years ago, and we got it figured out with their database and some stuff like that. So they they do a good job in the bigger picture. I'm sure there's a reason that they want to do this tire. It's probably financial, which is fine, but it you know that the th there is going to be a response from Hoosier 'cause they're getting forced out of the market. So Corby Scherb: Great. See look at Jebby just just dropping absolute bombs. Slim Pushins: Casa King coming in with the hard hitting questions. In theory, the raceaver right Corby Scherb: I it should but it's it's still it's still supply and demand. Jim Gardner: So Jeb said and Slim Pushins: rear should become cheaper if more people are purchasing them. Corby Scherb: I I would Jim Gardner: Well Corby Scherb: think that if this happens and this whole deal I I'm I'm gonna just call myself out here if if this whole thing does happen. I bet you it does, Jeb. You know, it's to it's it's supply and demand, you know. Like I said, Jimmy, you you don't always have to agree with me, you know. I was more of a a three heat cycle guy, especially on a right rear and no matter what the tread looked like, you know, we're not allowed to spray anything on them whatsoever. So it was three heat cycles for me and the tire was junk. and Jim Gardner: Mart Martin, who is more in the no than I am, said Race Saver only handles the rules and seals. Everything else is handled by IMCA, and I appreciate you saying that and correcting me. Thank you, Martin. I don't know if IMCA would continue on with a with a Hoosier deal or not, but yeah, so I I appreciate the comment, Martin. I I am not in the no. So on that front. But Slim Pushins: There you go, Jeb. If it doesn't become cheaper then it proves the earth is flat. Jim Gardner: I don't know. Slim Pushins: you know Jim Gardner: I don't know how much if more people ran them, if they would be cheaper. That's not always how mass production goes, even overseas. You know, I I am in a business of selling lights manufactured overseas. I kind of know a little bit about how that works. and in general, costs don't go down like that. So you know, I think the I think the goodness gracious. I think Corby Scherb: It's the tariffs. It's all of Jim Gardner: I think somet something that yeah, I think something that Slim Pushins: The moon it's the moon tariffs, Jim. Do you know what it costs to get tires back from the moon? Jim Gardner: I don't know. Corby Scherb: Cameraman's still up there. Slim Pushins: Making raceaver tires. Jim Gardner: goodness. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so you know, the thing I I worry a little bit about RaceSaver being both a the sanctioning body and the seller of a product is that they are mandating their own product instead of working with a partner and there's not really a a like a checks and balances system there. you know, if Raceaver could just say, Hey guys, price is going up and there's not really anything anybody can do about it, right? Because we're not gonna be like, we should go look at other options. We're like, No, that we're gonna sell our par our tires that we've invested probably Slim Pushins: Jab, are you looking for a podcast gig? Jim Gardner: Probably six zeros four. Yeah, Corby's looking to quit. Corby Scherb: Can't wait. Can't wait. Slim Pushins: Bobby's not quitting. Jim Gardner: anyway, so I think that's it. I it's all over my head. Slim Pushins: All right, there's tire talk again. Corby Scherb: I I don't know, like I said, like I said, I I I'll say this, you know, there was Continental There's Maxis and there was Goodyear and then Dunlop bought it out and you had to run that tire and it it just it makes it tough like y'all are saying on who's gonna show up or spend the time, maybe it's throw away three or four or five races to to prove that this tire works for this because if it's at it right in the middle of the season, you know, what happens? Slim Pushins: There you go, Jim. Savannah said, Jeb's still got time to leave your ass at home. Jim Gardner: Yeah. yeah. Ten hours of conspiracy thought talk. I'm sh I'm looking forward to that. Yeah. Slim Pushins: All right, what else do we have? Corby Scherb: I can't wait. I'm gonna be texting Jeb the whole time. All the Slim Pushins: I told Jim, I called Jim on Corby Scherb: way up the Slim Pushins: the way home from work today and I said, I'm gonna I need to holler at Jeb. I need nine straight hours of conspiracy talk all the way Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: to Nebraska. Jim Gardner: Not sure about all that, but anyway. Corby Scherb: I d I mean apparently we gotta get John back on 'cause he's starting to you know, he's saying that we're making stuff on the moon. Jim Gardner: That's right. man. Slim Pushins: Corby Corby, why do I have a note that says everyone's mesmerized by Corby? Corby Scherb: I don't know. That's not good. Slim Pushins: What what were we What were we talking about? That's my that's the whole note that that's a whole show note that I have. Everyone mesmerized by Corby. I need to take better notes. Corby Scherb: no. It's not everyone. It's it's not everyone. I don't I don't remember Jim Gardner: All right. What else? Corby Scherb: where we was at. I don't remember where what I was doing or something and and there was someone that like you could tell like didn't even want to speak to me. Slim Pushins: Just staring at you. Corby Scherb: Yeah, just just lost. And I'm not a good looking guy. I'm not tall. I'm not athletic. I I I I have no, not at all. Not at all. Yeah. Jim Gardner: That's true. Yeah, you're not your brother Lucas. Slim Pushins: He's gotta use filters. let's talk about did I do that? Who did that? Did you do that, Jim? Jim Gardner: I did that. In all seriousness, my hoping they get the Rickett says product should do nothing but get better. I agree. you know, the I think the jury's still out. Yeah. Slim Pushins: problem is it depends on how it was ordered. Jim and I j one thing that Jim and I kind of disagree on what's going on behind the scenes is this is my theory. They ordered 5,000 tires and they came over in a container and now Raceaver's sitting Corby Scherb: They sold two hundred. Slim Pushins: on sitting on five four thousand nine hundred and ninety-five of them Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: and and they need to get rid of them. So that's my theory. Jim Jim's along the school of thought of supply and demand and that th that you know, they've got ordering yeah, it's all purely a guess. Nobody talks to me. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we're just guessing, you know, I yeah. The the the the screen Slim Pushins: I don't know anything anybody else doesn't know. Jim Gardner: Yeah, the the yeah, so it it is what it it I'm hope it's gonna work itself out so one way or another. It's it's a little worrisome. Yeah. Corby Scherb: It's just like we said. I mean who's gonna who's gonna build a three sixty program and go chase ASCS or, you know, build a four ten. You can't even race a four ten around here. You you Jim Gardner: You you can if you want to truck to Montana and then run in Arkansas the next weekend. Like I the the the little plants travel schedule is outrageous. It's incredible. They want it bad. I know. Corby Scherb: That's also because they got super trucker. This dude'll run forty eight hours straight Slim Pushins: I'm jealous I'm jealous Corby Scherb: through. Slim Pushins: though. I'm not married, don't have any kids. I'd love to I'd Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: I could o I couldn't do it for years on end, but I'd do it for a couple of seasons. Jim Gardner: No. No, it's it's awesome. But no, I just I'm not doing but any Slim Pushins: All right, before we get in before we get into the media that we've got, the the videos that we just wanna heckle and harp on, I wanna Corby had Jim Gardner: Our weekly video breakdown. Slim Pushins: a Corby had a big night last night. He had a night that he's been stressed about for a f it's a solid week. Corby got thrown this is gonna surprise everybody. Corby got thrown into fantasy football. Corby Scherb: Terrible. Jim Gardner: Did you get Joe Burrow? Slim Pushins: And he called me he called me last Corby Scherb: No, God no. God no. Jim Gardner: I hear baby. Slim Pushins: week and he was like, I need your help. And Corby Corby's pretty self sufficient. I think I think Corby helps me much more than I ever help him. So I was like, This oughta be this oughta be really good. What what do you need my help with? And he's like, I need you to draft my fantasy football team. And I was like, Bro, I think that you dialed the wrong number. I don't think you meant to call me. Jim is your guy. And he goes, Jim's busy. He's got it he's got the baby. There's so much going on. He's Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: he's, you know, changing bars on his car every week. He doesn't have time to be doing this. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: And I Jim, did he even reach out to you? No. Jim Gardner: No, he knows better. I I would have just told him to dra draft the Bengals as much as he can. Corby Scherb: The problem is and this is what I said so no, so like Slim Pushins: Wait, hold Corby Scherb: I got Slim Pushins: on hold on, Corby. Let's what is it tell tell all of our tens of viewers what is at stake. So in fantasy football Corby Scherb: So that's what I'm saying. So the the problem is is like it it's with a bunch of work guys, you know, like people that'll actually go play golf with me, Jim, you know, unlike you. and so I got roped into this deal and I watch zero football. I don't care for it. I'm I'm probably gonna get a lot of flack for this. I I just I just don't. I don't watch it. I would rather watch the air outside than watch football. Anyways, so I get roped into this deal and it's fine, it's whatever, it's gonna be fun, funny. Then I hear that the winners get Slim Pushins: Booby. Corby Scherb: paid out so so you get first, second, and third, even third gets their money back. It's a hundred dollar buy in, and I'm like, whatever, that's not that big a deal. Well Slim Pushins: Then there's a booby prize. Corby Scherb: then the loser has to take their SAT. Okay, so this is every Jeb, John, Tony every single racer in here. Jim Gardner: That's a good bit. That's a good bit. When when when I was teaching I thre Slim Pushins: That's a great bit, isn't it, Jim? Jim Gardner: when I was teaching I threatened that with the league every week every year. Nobody would ever take me up on it. Corby Scherb: I'm not saying that I'm a dumb Jim Gardner: Awesome. Corby Scherb: person, but there's probably nothing more degrading than walking out. And what do you get like six hundred points just for signing your name? Everyone walks out like six two. Jim Gardner: What so we're all kinda old dogs now. I think now you have to write an essay too. W what is Corby Scherb: gee about my name? About why I got my name? Slim Pushins: No. So Corby was Corby was as stressed Jim Gardner: That's awesome. Corby Scherb: So that's what I that's it that was like the Slim Pushins: out as I've ever seen him yesterday. Corby Scherb: So that was the debacle with Kerbo, I was like, Bro, like we don't have to win 'cause he was like, No, like I don't wanna do this and I was like, We don't have to win, dude, I just can't get last. That's it, that's the only thing. Slim Pushins: I got I got a text midday from Corby yesterday and all it said was I'm an absolute wreck. Corby Scherb: Dude, I was a wreck, man. I was Jimmy on race night, man. Palms are sweaty. Had to t had to take off the shirt, put on a cut off sleeve, like I was I was I was a wreck, man. I feel like we got a decent team, right? And so like the draft goes through and everything was great. And then this morning I wake up, injured reserve, injured reserve, injured reserve, injured reserve, we're fucked Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: again. Unbelievable. So who knows? Who knows? Like I said, as long as I don't get last, we're okay. Jim Gardner: the the standard SAT has no essay anymore. They discontinued the optional SAT Slim Pushins: What Jim Gardner: essay in twenty twenty one. Damn. Slim Pushins: Is it the high score eighteen hundred? Jim Gardner: Sixteen, I believe. Yeah, sixteen no, sixteen hundred. Sixteen hundred. Slim Pushins: It I thought they moved it. I knew it used to be sixteen. Corby Scherb: Do you know how do you know how degrading it'll be if everyone knows that I got a four hundred on SAT? Slim Pushins: Wait, do you have to divulge do you have to divulge your score to the rest of the Jim Gardner: Was it like when I Slim Pushins: the Corby Scherb: No, but like anyone can ask me. Slim Pushins: And you're just gonna be honest, that's when you start lying. Corby Scherb: I mean I never took an SAT, A C T what's there there's nothing el I d dude, like I didn't Jim Gardner: Man, we gotta find out. So you'll be taking that in the springtime? That's gonna be awesome. So it's it it says here it's 98 Corby Scherb: See, here we go. Here we go. No, I'm not losing. I'm not gonna get last place. Jim Gardner: 98 total questions, two hours and 14 minutes, where there's a 10 minute break. So that seems like about two and a half hours that curvo and I can go play cornhole and drink beer out in the park. Corby Scherb: Do you understand how many times I get in a bind inside of this window because I'll be a nervous wreck? Jim Gardner: That's a good bit. Corby Scherb: Can I bring my own porta shitter? I'm unneeded. Jim Gardner: That's a good bit. There was Slim Pushins: Corby's power squeeze tips. Corby Scherb: Dude, I'll be a wreck. Jim Gardner: We like that. Slim Pushins: So starting starting this week, we will give a Corby Fantasy League update on the podcast. Corby Scherb: First the first matchup is not looking good. Slim Pushins: So if any of you listening I'd Jim Gardner: Why didn't like Slim Pushins: I I I know most of you, I wouldn't take SAT advice from ninety eight. I take it from Savannah Savannah's probably the one that you probably need to maybe sit down with for an hour or so. Jim Gardner: So I on the Corby Scherb: I'll be done. There's no way. Jim Gardner: on that punishment, I came across this on on Twitter today. There's a there's some guys from Barstool. He is personally guaranteed that Ohio State's going undefeated. And these are the payoffs, if they lose any of these games. All right. So Ohio State, if they lose to ball s lose to ball state on Week one, he has to get a vasectomy. If they lose to Texas week two, he has to spend twenty four straight hours at a McDonald's. And each Big Mac Eaton takes off an hour. If they lose to Kent State in week three, he has to go out in a storm and hold a metal bat for as many minutes as points lost by. If they lose to Illinois week four, he has to get a spray tan until he's orange. Slim Pushins: Corby's already there. Jim Gardner: If the if they lose to Iowa week five, he has to lay in a field covered in bird feed for as many points as Iowa wins by. And this is this was my favorite one. If they lose to Maryland in week six, if Ohio State loses to Maryland, he has to walk on a a mile on the treadmill for every point Maryland scores and may not go over zero point five miles per hour. Slim Pushins: that's brutal. Jim Gardner: Indy if they lose Indiana, he has to do 500 up up and back sprints in the Hoosers gym. if they lose to USC, another guy can tweet can tweet USC. And if he's not in the ocean or sea within 24 hours, he's fired from bar stool. if he if they lose to Oregon, he has to eat 10 marshmallow peeps for every point that Oregon scores. if they lose to Northwestern, he has to take the ACT until he gets the average admission for a score at Northwestern, which is a 34, which is incredible. I think the highest score you can score on the ACT is thirty-eight or something like that, or thirty-seven. they lose to Nebraska, he can only eat corn for a week. And if they lose to Michigan, he has to get his nipples pierced. So Corby Scherb: Boy, I got aggressive. I'm really aggressive. Slim Pushins: We Jim Gardner: It's quite Slim Pushins: We ended yeah, we ended pretty aggressive. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so yeah. fantasy football bits. I'm I'm glad you're in, Corby. Slim Pushins: Savannah said, believe it or not, I scored a nine hundred. I'm living proof you can get three degrees with a trash score. Look how well she's turned out, Corby. There's there's hope Jim Gardner: yeah. Slim Pushins: for you. Corby Scherb: Shit, y'all don't want to see me take a test. I can't even read. Jim Gardner: I that is God. You know what? Text me for fantasy football update t tips week to week. I will steer you in the right direction. Slim Pushins: He'll set some time he'll set some time aside for you, Corby. Corby Scherb: You even said that you're not good at fantasy football and I don't know. I don't know. I I I feel pretty good I I feel pretty good with the the league Jim Gardner: I suck at it. I've been playing for like seventeen years and I've never won. It's like my sprint car career. Corby Scherb: that I'm in. it was kind of diabolical last night with the drafts that we had. We had the you know, the Indianapolis Colts backup Slim Pushins: There you go, Jim. Corby Scherb: quarterback go first. Slim Pushins: Jeb said nipples being pierced, isn't too Corby Scherb: Ya ve Slim Pushins: bad. Jim Gardner: Ha Slim Pushins: That right there, that is the absolute Jim Gardner: Mm. Slim Pushins: epitome of why we started a podcast, so that people people can get to know these drivers that Jim Gardner: Mm. Slim Pushins: don't normally get to know Jim Gardner: Yeah. Jeez. Slim Pushins: I'm just picturing Savannah and Jeb being in the same same living room, sitting on opposite couches, watching from two phones, just com Corby Scherb: Hundred percent. Slim Pushins: commenting away. Jeb's over there giggling to himself, Savannah's giggling. Jim Gardner: Comp back and forth, yeah. Slim Pushins: Completely different reasons. Jim Gardner: Geez Slim Pushins: all right, so that's so in in the near future we're gonna we'll give you we'll give you Corby Sherb pushing the cushion fantasy football league updates. There's ten there's ten in Corby Scherb: I'm nervous, man. I'm a wreck. I'm a nervous. Jim Gardner: Perfect. Slim Pushins: his league. There's t Jeb said he's he's driving home from work. Alright, so they're not in the same living room. so there's ten there's Jim Gardner: Yeah, that's safe. anyway. Slim Pushins: ten people in in Corby's league. So he just has to be better and I'll be honest, we joke about him taking the the SAT. He's only gotta beat one guy. And J and Corby told me on earlier one of his coworkers that's in this league chose he drafted four kickers. So So there's that. Corby Scherb: So we're doing we're doing good. Jim Gardner: Somebody's doing bits. Corby Scherb: Someone someone drafted the Indianapolis Colts backup quarterback before before the starting quarterback was drafted. Slim Pushins: As their as their first round draft. Jim Gardner: Well yeah. Corby Scherb: We're we're we're doing okay right now. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: I don't know, they must they they might know something that I don't know. They're probably Jim Gardner: Man. Corby Scherb: if they listen to the podcast and hear that it'll be like broadcasted to the the twenty four people that listen to this, then they would probably just make sure that I lose. Jim Gardner: Yeah. man. Well maybe you'll enjoy it and we'll have our DFW sprint car league next year. Corby Scherb: What's gonna be the punishment for that? Gotta show up to Jim Gardner: I don't know. Corby Scherb: the first rate as an address? Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. all right, let's talk let's talk about nationals here. Nationals coming up this week. Slim Pushins: Tony said ten man drafts are easy. Wait, hold on. Well, okay. Jim Gardner: Yeah, let's we're at an hour of this nonsense between my sobs. Slim Pushins: We still gotta we still gotta get to dirt neck Joe. Jim Gardner: yeah, yeah. all right, so last year it was just awful with the weather and rain. They rained out most of the week. Slim Pushins: You w you weren't there. You weren't getting rained on for three straight days. Jim Gardner: including the finale. I've never been. No. Yeah. so they have to run Thursday night, the thirteenth running of the Race Saber Nationals pays 13K to win. And our guy, Carson Bolden,'s on the poll. after he dominated the first prelim night last year. So Slim Pushins: Yeah, he did. Jim Gardner: the front row is Bolden, John Carney and Joey Danley fresh off of Corby Scherb: No will. Jim Gardner: Bellville, thank you. Kevin Ramey, Slim Pushins: What we're here for, Jim. Jim Gardner: again, again, one of our guys. starts fourth. Adam Gillian, Stuart Snyder. and then who else is running? DJ Estes. Slim Pushins: Stuart Snyder. Jim Gardner: Yeah. DJ Estes starts 15th. He's in the fifth row. Chase Brewer starts in the sixth row. Stubblefield is in the seventh row. He is in a different car than he was last year though, I believe. It's showing here eleven JX as the car, but I thought I saw a picture of him in a different two car entered this year. So I'm I'm not sure what the rules are. Corby Scherb: Didn't he drive I I think I know, I think he drove a a Joey car last year, I thought. I might be wrong. A Joey Starnes car. I I yeah, if I'm not mistaken. Jim Gardner: That would make sense. An eleven J X sounds like a Joey Starnes car. So I Yeah, Slim Pushins: Speaking of Joey, he's gonna give her a stab this year. Jim Gardner: he he's entered in it. Wyatt Miller's entered, right? I would think. Corby Scherb: Yes. Jim Gardner: They r they race last week. So I don't know if the car makes the show or if the driver makes the show. Corby Scherb: It's tough, man. You it it's really, Slim Pushins: John Carney would be an example of that too. Corby Scherb: really, really tough to to try to say that the car makes the show because I mean, how many people have junked chassis since then and I get what you're saying. Jim Gardner: No, no, no. Like the the entry the the car owner. Corby Scherb: Right, I Jim Gardner: I don't know. Corby Scherb: I don't know. Jim Gardner: maybe somebody can enlighten us again, about what the rules are. Slim Pushins: So there's a lot of hometown Corby Scherb: Martin where ya at? Martin Slim Pushins: talent. Corby Scherb: Martin where ya at? You'll have the answer here. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Somebody somebody who's in the know, let us know if Stubblefield Slim Pushins: Martin left Martin left during moon talk. Jim Gardner: Or fantasy football talk. anyway, so we're hoping hoping our Texas guys can take home the money Thursday night. so Thursday is open practice at five o'clock. they're gonna get the track good and wide and then run last year's main event and then I guess rework the track, practice again and then run the heat races for race of champions. so Corby Scherb: There ain't th th they they have it in the schedule, they're gonna let have a practice again. Jim Gardner: Yes. Yeah. So Yeah, 'cause they w Slim Pushins: Right it. Jim Gardner: they're they're gonna redo the racetrack and then they're gonna have open practice to widen the track back out for the Corby Scherb: I'll be impressed if they do that. I'm not calling out Eagle, but they usually just the race of champions heat races are just like this is it is what it is. Good luck. Jim Gardner: This says grandstand 530 to 730 practice hot laps, 730 track prep and driver interviews, 8 o'clock 2025 makeup event to follow in order, track prep, half hour of practice sessions, race of champions, qualifying heats, pit party featuring rock heats with DJ shower tunes with karaoke contest by the Mellon Bar. Slim Pushins: Hey, Jim, make sure you catch those after hours parties. That's something that Jim Gardner: Mm. Slim Pushins: That's something Jeb and I Jeb and I went last year. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we'll see. Probably be. I Slim Pushins: Ryder just texted us a screenshot of the of the live podcast. I guess he just logged on, all he saw was nipples being pierced isn't too bad. Wanna know what in the hell's going on? Jim Gardner: yeah. So we'll see. I can't even stay up late at nine thirty to watch High Limit run out in California, thinking I'm gonna be up partying. Yeah, we'll see. Slim Pushins: Well, it's different out there. But they've always they've they've always got some sort of jello Jim Gardner: Mm. Slim Pushins: wrestling or spaghetti wrestling or something that you don't want to miss, Jim. Jim Gardner: Well, they're probably gonna be missing you, Corby Scherb: Or you could just go to sleep Jim Gardner: Corby. Corby Scherb: and you're up there for a duty. You know. Jim Gardner: That's right. I ain't Slim Pushins: Duty. Jim Gardner: up there to make friends. Bring my own. Slim Pushins: So good luck to all good luck to all the local guys. A lot of speed up there. Corby Scherb: Jebby. Yeah, Jebby Jebby with the conspiracy talk. I cannot wait for this ride. I cannot wait. Jeb, Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Well right. Corby Scherb: you're my guy. Slim Pushins: Yeah, w we had a lot of the Jim Gardner: So yeah. Slim Pushins: all the weather delay last year, Jeb and I got a lot of conspiracy talk in. His dad just left. He just hopped on the side by side and just headed off in the rain. Jim Gardner: what does the weather look like? Slim Pushins: Jesse Jesse Kelly said that they get crazy with the jello shots at the Melon Bar. Corby Scherb: It's a whole experience, man. Nationals is cool. Nat it it's it's a it's a cool week. I I've been to the Chili Bowl a couple of times. Jim Gardner: Again. I would that reminds me Jeb Jeb's supposed to call me after this so we can arrange who's bringing the happy dads that we got a mule up there. Slim Pushins: What do you what's to arrange? You both bring ample amounts. Jim Gardner: Yeah. yeah, weather looks pretty good. Corby Scherb: I mean I do like a good cold beer. I I I like I like cold beer. I even like room beers too. Like whenever we get back to the hotel. You know, maybe one of the shower. Jim Gardner: Yeah, looks like Slim Pushins: Jim likes to put pediolite in his beer. Jim Gardner: maybe something Yeah, that was bad news. That was a bad Slim Pushins: I didn't Jim Gardner: idea. That was a bad idea. It wasn't pediolite, it was it was a it was a a liquid IV. A liquid IV pack. Horsepower hydration. Corby Scherb: my god. No Good night. Poor trash can at the elevator. Poor trash can. Liquid IV. I had to you had to you had to you had Slim Pushins: Just quick. yeah, liquidiz yeah. Jim Corby Scherb: to bum some alpha brain off me the next day just to Slim Pushins: Jim was Jim was a little bit sauced. Corby Scherb: survive. Slim Pushins: Jim was a little bit sauced and in typical Corby fashion, Corby's giving him health advice at two o'clock Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: in the morning. He's like, Bro, you need to get you need to be hydrated. Like you're gonna be hung over tomorrow. Jim's like, absolutely, you're right. So Jim's deductive reasoning was to just drop a liquid IV into a room temperature Corby Scherb: And of course I Slim Pushins: core's light. Corby Scherb: man. Jim Gardner: Yeah, weather looks pretty good for Nebraska. It looks like maybe a rain chance early in the afternoon Friday, but Slim Pushins: Savannah said I'm starting to see why Jeb told me I wasn't allowed to go. I'm assuming she's talking about the Jell O wrestling. It's not much to see. Savannah you wouldn't you're not missing much. Jim Gardner: Anyway, yeah. Slim Pushins: All right, let's talk about dirt neck Joe. Wait, was that all the Nationals talk? Jim Gardner: Yeah, I guess. Corby Scherb: Exciting man, like I said, y'all cut me off, but it it's a super cool weekend. I've been to the Chili Well a couple of times and Slim Pushins: Sorry buddy, back to you, Corby. Corby Scherb: and I I don't know, Nashville's is just really cool, man. Everything that goes on in it and I really think this is super like we talked about before with braceaver and stuff, it's super level playing field. whether you go out in the first heat, I I'm not a huge fan of how the point system is, but you can go out in the first heat compared to the last heat where it might be taking rubber the race check tra changes a lot. Roger does a good job about changing the racetrack as well from Friday to Saturday night, which runs a a whole different complete schedule. it's a cool weekend. Really is. And they and they do their best to Jim Gardner: Didn't they change the format last year? Slim Pushins: Corby, do you want to do you want to give Jim tips on the waterfall practice? Corby Scherb: No not yet. Not yet. Slim Pushins: Just Jim, if you I know you and Wes are going up there with the Uyghurs. If you're gonna be the one pushing him, practice hot laps is an absolute free for all. There'll be forty cars funneling into one lane getting onto the track. Corby Scherb: Forty? I'm gonna go I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with sixty. Jim Gardner: That's that sounds like the back stretch of RPM Speedway under Yellow when they said, All right, go ahead and choose now and it was just a free for all Slim Pushins: There it is. Jim Gardner: mess last week. Slim Pushins: There it is. Little jabs. Jim Gardner: But Corby Scherb: No. Yeah, no, man. practice practice just Jim Gardner: that's an that's another talk for another time. so Corby Scherb: trying to get out there and you wanna at least cut like three or four good sessions from the the racetrack at the beginning to middle and then at the end and you go up there and you're gonna try to cut some laps in the middle and then it turns out that you look up and now the moon's out because it took you four and a half hours to make it because someone wouldn't push you fast enough and like junk Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: four right rears and bend a front axle just to get out there. Slim Pushins: Jim, it's like putting a it's like putting a stoplight on six thirty five. Corby Scherb: It's it's wild. Practice is wild there. There just absolute chaos. It's like it's like whenever Nissan Slim Pushins: They Jim, they just open practice. They just just the green light. They're like, All right starts now. Corby Scherb: The it's whenever nissan came out with the Ultima, right? This was like twenty Slim Pushins: yeah. Corby Scherb: three years ago and it's been just absolute mad chaos on the highways ever since. That's what practice is like at nationals. Slim Pushins: Corby's wait's been waiting for three weeks to drop that one. Well done. Well played, buddy. Jim Gardner: Didn't they change the format up there for the heat races a couple of years ago, last year? Slim Pushins: No. Back Corby Scherb: No, it is Slim Pushins: to business. Jim's back to Corby Scherb: no, it is no. Slim Pushins: business. Corby Scherb: No, it is. Winner makes it straight to the A, second goes to the B, third goes to the C, so on and so forth. If you start in a stacked heat race and eighth and the track is hammered down, you are cooked. Just take it back to the trailer. Jim Gardner: Mm. Corby Scherb: No. Slim Pushins: West said absolute shit show. West knows Corby Scherb: yeah. yeah. Slim Pushins: Jim, you think that you think that you understand what we're telling you. We're gonna holler at you. I wanna talk about this again like Friday. When you're like it was kinda like the death wobble on my truck when you're like, yeah, yeah, whatever. It's it's just a shimmy. No, no. It is all out chaos to get a driver onto the track. Jim Gardner: Well we'll we'll figure it Slim Pushins: Part of it's part of nationals though. Jim Gardner: out. Slim Pushins: It's part of the beauty of it. Corby Scherb: And they do they take care of the the drivers and they have food for you a couple of days and autograph signings and it's a really cool like intro to the big A. same like the race of champions. I don't even know why they necessarily run that race if I'm being really honest. It's basically the exact same guys racing and that one there is you run a heat race, no B, no C, no D, no nothing. Either you make it out of the heat race or you put it in the trailer. So it it's a cool experience. Slim Pushins: What shirt are you wearing, Jim? Who Corby Scherb: And good luck on your draw. Slim Pushins: you s who you sporting tonight? Jim Gardner: This is Shane Carson. National Sprint Car Hall of Famer, general, good dude. was a big promoter. And Yeah. So big Chang Corby Scherb: The kid. Jim Gardner: Carson fan. All right. Slim Pushins: Kids talking about jello wrestling. Most of had more arm hit arm pit and facial hair. Jim Gardner: Great. Slim Pushins: yeah, let's talk about Dirt Neck Joe. Jim got interviewed. W that's essentially your first interview ever. Appeared that way. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I guess I guess he was down there talking to Devin Debrick Devin's like, you need to go down to the fifty one car who's buried in all the dwarf car pit areas with all his new friends and and interview him. He's super approachable. So thanks, Devin. And no Joe came down and did an interview and he is he's doing a good job. Yeah, he Slim Pushins: He's all about racing and all facets of racing. Jim Gardner: He's doing a good job of making videos every week, telling everybody what's racing where and what nights to go places and things like that. And he's doing a good job, you know, with you know, we're sprint car snobs here on pushing the cushion, but you know, at least somebody else is trying to do what we're doing for the other classes and and showcase some personalities and just make make racing more consumable for people. So we had fun with him. He came back and did a corn dog review with us. which I'll probably post tomorrow. I kind of forgot about it that it was on my phone. I I had some S Slim Pushins: yeah. Jim Gardner: going on. I had fifty one problems. so yeah. Yeah. Corby Scherb: And the setup was one of Slim Pushins: We had we had fifty one problems and the setup was one of them. Jim Gardner: So yeah, no, I'll probably post that tomorrow. That was fun. it was good to meet him. Slim Pushins: Good guy. Corby and I have been Jim Gardner: And yeah. Slim Pushins: watching his TikToks for a long time. And he's been he he supports the podcast whenever he can and he tagged us Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: today on your interview that the world got to see in your Justin Bates duct tape t shirt. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: It's available on stomp and steer dot com. Jim Gardner: Right. So yeah, no, that was cool. appreciate Joe and you know, it's just good to see the enthusiasm around the pit area and and guys kinda trying to trying to get back to the sport a little bit. So I'm I'm on board for that. Slim Pushins: All right, we want to hit some of this media real quick. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I guess we're seventy five minutes Slim Pushins: okay. Jim Gardner: into this thing. But yeah, I got so I got some non racing stuff. I got some racing stuff that are a little long. we've been doing these videos. This is a boat figure eight race. Corby Scherb: Big flip. Jim Gardner: With a big flip and a big Slim Pushins: And fire. Jim Gardner: and a big fire that the video cuts off before I mean, they got a fire truck there, thank God. looks like it's pouring rain there. Or they watered the truck down. but yeah, this is a big boy. No, this is a different one I found. This is a bit Corby Scherb: That was a Yeah. Slim Pushins: Look at this. Jim Gardner: so this was really close to being a video that we don't show here because if that guy misses ten five feet to the right, he's going right through the top of that cage of that car. that was sketchy. Slim Pushins: That's a show that one more time. I th that's a lot to take in. So this car so it's two like one off crazy wrecks. This dude flips off of the track and then all of a sudden this this other car comes behind him and absolutely creams. What are those stock cars? Jim Gardner: The the Yeah, th like drives right through the carburetor. And there's nothing scarier than being like upside down with your head towards oncoming traffic. that was sketchy. Another big crash we saw. This was out at Lake of the Ozarks, Slim Pushins: Look at this. Jim Gardner: the dirty duck, two hundred and thirteen miles an hour. Slim Pushins: I give I give the landing I give the landing a nine point five. They absolutely stuck the landing. Corby Scherb: People don't see this but man, like on that water, that water becomes concrete, man. That was a impact Slim Pushins: Yeah, it does. Corby Scherb: coming back down. Jim Gardner: Food. Slim Pushins: Two hundred I think it was two hundred and sixteen miles an hour at the point that he went over. Jim Gardner: Yeah, Lee. Slim Pushins: That is nuts. Corby Scherb: Big impact. Jim Gardner: That's probably a million Slim Pushins: There's another there's another view of that. Show the other view. The other view Okay. I'm just gonna quit sending you videos. Jim Gardner: I don't have the other view. Slim Pushins: He look at the air this thing gets though, right there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. What is that? A million dollar rig flying through the air, Corby Scherb: Right. Slim Pushins: at least. Jim Gardner: at least. what else we have? We have another trailer race we found. This was in Norway Speedway or something like that. And this was pretty diabolical. The guy in the truck is Slim Pushins: Weaving. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he's driving like Corby. Slim Pushins: So if we were to pull this off, I don't know how mu I'm not behind the driver them it's difficult as it is. Corby Scherb: you gotta do it. You gotta do it. Keep guessing. The the minivan, the the double one there. Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Guys just textbook Pittman over by that truck though. He got Slim Pushins: You gotta what? Jim Gardner: two of them two for one. They're gonna be playing that down at the sheriff's office. Yeah. Corby Scherb: He's just outside just bumping the cushion in the four door. Jim Gardner: And then I mean look at this guy totally hitting the brakes. Slim Pushins: Look at him. Just ninety degrees each way. Corby Scherb: What is that what is that a a mid nineties F three fifty dually right there, too, pulling the trailer? Absolute Jim Gardner: Yeah, it looks like it's Slim Pushins: Look at that. Corby Scherb: tank. And then the one one puts it on. Slim Pushins: That's the Cadillac of all minivans right there. Jim Gardner: The minute You know the best part, that dually's for sale. Check this out. No, no, no. Slim Pushins: Surfer says on it. Corby Scherb: Absolute high quality. Jim Gardner: It's got look at the front windshield. It's like from a used car lot. Corby Scherb: yeah. Picked up two day. Jim Gardner: It's a n it's a ninety six. Slim Pushins: I guarantee you it gets returned. Jim Gardner: It's a ninety six. Slim Pushins: Twenty what is that? Twenty nine seventy five. For less than three thousand dollars this can be yours. Corby Scherb: Flat black zero won double zero. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Flat black looks looks like it's rhino lined and then this Corby Scherb: it's a nice ride too. yeah. yeah. Now it is on sale, not for sale. Slim Pushins: yeah, they're not gonna be able to return that tri The Cadillac of all minivans on his lid. She is stoked. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: It was a chick. Is that a chick? Dawh dude, cheers to you. Jim Gardner: Yeah, she was driving the minivan. I I was gonna re record it with the audio, but it's nothing special. Corby Scherb: The absolute Slim Pushins: it's twenty four seventy five. That's gotta be down. That's twenty four seventy five down. I know how you use carlots play that game. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's cheap. Slim Pushins: Does it come with the does it come with a Dale Earnhardt? Jim Gardner: It should. So this is this is Bowman Gray. This is this is pretty Slim Pushins: Lic front license plate? Look at this shit. Shit debacle. Corby Scherb: yeah, Baum and Gray. yeah. Jim Gardner: on par for them every week. so the I think the thing that's crazy here is they get like fined for being in the grass because that's Winston Stalem Salem State's like home football field in the fall. but apparently race car parts are free in North Carolina because these guys Slim Pushins: Dude. Jim Gardner: will just trash each other and there's like official in a in a orange shirt. Like he almost gets run over right here. Th there's a there's a k with the k kicking the Corby Scherb: Just chillin'. Just no big deal. Right on watch out, watch it yeah, the cop give gives him gives him a little little heel. Slim Pushins: Smack in the middle of it. He's not fli the cop the cop kicked him. He kicked it. Jim Gardner: bumper like Big Country's dad did at Chili Bowl. Slim Pushins: Watch him watch him kick this. Stop, you stop. you almost Corby Scherb: yeah. listen. Jim Gardner: where Robert Bell rolled into Big Country's dad at the bottom of the ramp at Chili Bowl and he turned around and kicked the right front tire. So this is was my favorite part of this video. Here this dude's too old to be Slim Pushins: Grandpa gets out. Jim Gardner: like what do you got to be mad about? You're still living, sir. Like what are you mad about? Slim Pushins: He's gotta be a hundred and eleven. Jim Gardner: Here and then here comes the granddaughter, I assume, in their striped Slim Pushins: Great granddaughter. Jim Gardner: pants. Yeah, like coming out. Come on, grandpa, let's get some oval teen and get out of here. Like Slim Pushins: Look at the Look at the official shirt says clean up crew. Jim Gardner: Yeah. But he's storming off and then, you know, the police are escorting this other guy out. Look at the he just grabbed like a little pinch of his suit. what a shit show. Slim Pushins: That's gold right there. Jim Gardner: That place is packed nuts to butts every Saturday for a clown show. The racing is the racing is secondary. Slim Pushins: If that's what you're gonna watch. It's a cult a a religion down there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I think I'm gonna save the hot dogs for next week. Slim Pushins: Hey, we found a girl we found the perfect we found the perfect wife for Corby. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so this is this is this will be the last one to wrap it up. You know, Corby's been single and I was keeping tabs on the US Open and this this came across. This came across Slim Pushins: Historically Corby doesn't choose that's Corby. In the in the maroon. Just Corby Scherb: That's her. That's her. Right there. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. I we will square up every night. Every night. She just walks in the front door. She Jim Gardner: And I saw this clip on Twitter. Slim Pushins: Corby's not happy. Corby Scherb: she walks in the front door, throws her whatever she was holding down and just absolute just fisticuffs. Just right there. Yes, that's her. Whoever you are out there, sweetheart, if you come Slim Pushins: Look at this Right up It doesn't even matter. Jim Gardner: It looked like it was probably me in the trailer Saturday night. Corby Scherb: across this podcast I'm looking for you. Slim Pushins: It doesn't even matter what she looks like. Corby is absolutely Corby Scherb: Yep. Slim Pushins: in love. Corby Scherb: She's probably like six two as well, so she could absolutely just manhandle me. That's the one. That's the one. Slim Pushins: Sweetheart, if you're watching, Corby's been looking for you for a long time. Jim Gardner: I didn't I watched that video twenty times today and I didn't even catch her name. I'm gonna have to have Corby DM her. She Corby take. Slim Pushins: We need to start going to some tennis matches, Corby. Corby Scherb: Apparently violent. Down with it. Jim Gardner: anyway. Yeah, well I got Slim Pushins: All right. Jim Gardner: the I got some more stuff, but we'll save it for a little for down the road. We've worn out both of our listeners tonight. Like too many. Slim Pushins: How many videos did I send you this week, Jim? I had to I had to tell Jim, like, listen, if I don't send when I see I'll forget and we'll never be able to find again. So I'm just gonna start shooting to you. I think he used one. Jim Gardner: Anyway. Corby Scherb: Alright boys, it's dinner. It's time to hit the shower. Slim Pushins: That's good stuff. Corby's gotta start looking for this chick on the internet. Jim Gardner: Every everybody be safe going up to Nebraska. I know down in down in Houston they're running at one five. Hopefully they get good car count of those guys. I'm not sure that I've seen many of the Corby Scherb: Got a tropical storm coming in, so good luck. Slim Pushins: Do we wanna make Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: picks real quick? National picks. Jim Gardner: So I don't have I don't really have a full list. Slim Pushins: See Jim's go Jim's d Jim's balking 'cause they're not handicapped. He doesn't like Jim Gardner: Mm I don't know. I just I I hope our contingent of guys go out there and and and put it on I know Brewer and Bolden, and a couple gu and a couple well, Brewer and Boulder Bolden ran Slim Pushins: Ramey, Estus. Corby Scherb: Weager, Ramey, all the SS guys, Brotherford. Jim Gardner: last weekend up there. and they always had they had to start in the back 'cause of points and stuff. So it's kinda hard to really tell what they got. But certainly that show Thursday night, we're pulling for for Bolden and Raimi to get away and and get gone and and John Carney to be in the mix as well. Slim Pushins: The deuce. Jim Gardner: and you know, all of our other contingent, the Estius clan, you know, DJ's probably, you know, starts 15th in that first first race. Let's see if he can get up there and start mixing it up in the top five of the top 10. and then we're just hoping for a good showing from our guys. We think we got a a pretty good scene down here. Let's go up there and prove it. so Corby Scherb: John Ricketts. Jim Gardner: Ricketts is going, Uyghurs going, Ramey's going. Jordan Roop's going. Slim Pushins: Jordan in the middle linebacker Roop, he's going. Jim Gardner: Yeah. trying to think of who else. I know Dakota Marshall's going. go up there, have some fun, enjoy it. Like you know, we talked we talked about it Slim Pushins: Rutherford, the owner of the Rutherford team studio is gonna be up there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. you know, we talked about it earlier. It's gotta be, you know, enjoy it and and and racing should be fun and and you know, but also time to get to get to business and and put it on those boys up there. So the Eagle locals are tough. Slim Pushins: Corby, can you make a phone call, get Jim involved in the get Jim involved in the jello wrestling? Make a quick phone call. Corby Scherb: Probably. Probably. Jim Gardner: Nope. So Slim Pushins: What about spaghetti? Jim Gardner: no. So Corby Scherb: Skyline. Slim Pushins: yeah, maybe you can get you some skyline chili while you're up in the mid west. Jim Gardner: That's not even close. Corby Scherb: Here we go. Here we go. Jim Gardner: We gotta go a thousand miles this way, then you gotta go a thousand miles this way to get to a skyline. So it's it's it's Corby Scherb: Thousand? Is it a thousand? Back to the east? Is it? Slim Pushins: so it's two thousand miles from here? Jim Gardner: a thousand miles from my house to Cincinnati, yeah. It's like nine hundred and sixty one. So Corby Scherb: I didn't know if we were in a thousand, thousand. I don't I don't know, I'm not very good at maps, but Jim Gardner: Anyway, all right. Slim Pushins: All right. Well, good luck to everybody. Thanks for tuning in. We always appreciate it. Corby and Jim Gardner: We'll see you up there. Yep. All right. Slim Pushins: I are gonna buy the package when neither of us can make it up there. speaking of the package. Yeah, so it's if there's four nights, Corby Scherb: It's i it's actually it's a discount, right? You know, like it's it's twenty five God. Slim Pushins: it's twenty five bucks a night if you get if you order by the night. But if you order the package for all four Corby Scherb: But wait, there's more. Slim Pushins: nights, it's a hundred bucks. Corby Scherb: Deal. Deal. Got that one. I'll take that one. Slim Pushins: So yeah Jim Gardner: Yeah, definitely Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: definitely want to shell out all the money up front then. You know, just in case there's no rain. Corby Scherb: I bought it twice last year. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: I forgot about that. Jim Gardner: man. All right. Slim Pushins: So I C A T V for anybody listening that's not on, hundred bucks or twenty five dollars a night. Corby Scherb: Either way you wanna go. Whatever. You Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: might be paid daily rather than weekly. Or bi weekly, however. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So anyway, I'll be a good time. So Slim Pushins: Savannah says Kroger and Burleson sell skyline. Jim Gardner: Yeah, cr you can get it in a can at basically anywhere 'cause it's fantastic. Slim Pushins: Savannah might not know that it's an actual restaurant. Jim Gardner: It's the greatest place on earth. Slim Pushins: I will give it to you. There's no good reason, there's no logical reason on earth that chili on top of spaghetti with a year's worth of cheese per plate should be good. But it is really, really good. I put four. Corby Scherb: I will stomp on my plate just because Jimmy likes it. Slim Pushins: I put faith in Jim years ago. He'd been telling me about it because if he's not talking about racing, let's be honest, he's talking about skyline chili. So I finally tried it, and it was really good. Savannah, you should try give you feed it to Jeb one night. Jim Gardner: Maybe the last race at Cadadale will we'll fire some up in the old trailer crock pot. Slim Pushins: When is that? Is it gonna be cooler outside? Because there it is. So what Jim Gardner: September twenty ninth. Look at that glorious plate of food. Slim Pushins: There I'm telling you, that right there does not look good. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: I I would have loved to have been in the boardroom at Skyline Chili in the beginning when they were like, Hey, I've got an idea. Y'all follow me here. A huge plate of spaghetti with our chili on top, with Jim Gardner: That's fantastic. Slim Pushins: with a pound and a half of shredded cheese. Jim Gardner: Now I want one. Been a while. Been a while. It's been too hot for it down here. So anyway. stop. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Alright. Corby Corby, Corby Scherb: It hasn't even been that hot this summer. It has not been that bad of a summer. It has not been. Slim Pushins: stop shut your mouth. It's been Jim Gardner: All right. Slim Pushins: brutal. Maybe we'll get some rain from this tropical storm though. It's gonna cool it down three degrees. I'll call that a cool Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: front. Jim Gardner: All right, you boys have a good weekend. I'll give you the full report. Slim Pushins: All right, everybody. Thanks for joining us for another week. We appreciate it. Jim, enjoy yourself up there. Finally getting up to N Nebraska. Jim Gardner: Yep. Yep. Sounds good. We'll see everybody up there. Slim Pushins: We'll see all y'all later.