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• Slim Pushins: What's up everybody? Welcome back to Pushing the Cushion Garage Beers, the Speed Week edition. As always, my co-host, the king of stupid flat bills, Corby Sherb. Where's your flat bill tonight? Corby Scherb: What's happening? I don't ever wear a hat for this. Doesn't look good with the headset. Slim Pushins: And Jim, Jim, the ⁓ spokesman for RaySaver tires over there on the dials. Corby Scherb: We got nothing from you, Jim. Slim Pushins: And Jim, we just, he, Jim's not even there. He's gone. Corby Scherb: Nothing. Now, we're spiraling. Slim Pushins: This is going to shit. ⁓ he just gone. He just kicked us out. Corby Scherb: We're spiraling. No. As what we say, shit. Slim Pushins: Shit Sorry Corby Corby Scherb: So are we supposed to close out and go back? Because we're not live anymore? Slim Pushins: No, no he's, we're live. Corby Scherb: Okay. Speed Week, man. It's gonna be a huge week. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: You back? Jim Gardner: Mic check. All right. Woo. Corby Scherb: There you are. We got you now buddy. Slim Pushins: Okay. Damn it. Corby Scherb: Yeah, we're supposed to have Speed Week this week. We only had one local race technically last weekend at 105. Slim Pushins: So we're- Jim Gardner: Yes, 105 ran. was an official DFW 305 Power Rankings race. Thomas Slim's DFW. Slim Pushins: ⁓ that's not the name of it. completely fictitious. Jim Gardner: Unimportant, whatever, whatever adjectives chat GPT can give me that week. Um, Thomas Johnson was the winner and the hard charger, which is the two for one special. Kayden Trotter, Lance Christie, Sean Jordan and Kent Lewis Jr. Were your top five down there at 105. I did admittedly have not watched the race. I've been busy. Uh, Slim Pushins: Super Bowl. Corby Scherb: Good for Kent Lewis Jr. Slim Pushins: You've been busy doing caricatures of slim push-ins with Hoosier logo, Hoosier logo stuff on. Corby Scherb: Those are good. Those are really good. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yep. I do those while I'm sitting on the toilet. Corby Scherb: ⁓ what, ⁓ but, ⁓ Christopher Townsend proved Kerbo wrong with his curse. Jim Gardner: Yep. Slim Pushins: No, I never brought that up. I'm not that guy. That was all you. The push and the cushion, no, you're the one that coined it. I'm the one that debunked it. Well, CT had a lot to do with it. Jim Gardner: Absolutely. Corby Scherb: I thought that was you. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Yeah, Townsend debunked it went down to Florida and ⁓ put a hurting on the 360 boys down there Yeah, took the back row challenge the second night for an extra thousand bucks or whatever so came from the tail to win that I saw I saw some videos that ⁓ the Speedway posted where They had a video of the crowd as Christopher took the lead in the second night from the tail and the crowd went Corby Scherb: CTD. Slim Pushins: like cleaned house. That's always a crowd pleaser. Jim Gardner: just bananas. ⁓ It was really awesome. ⁓ For one, the track putting up the money, two, Christopher taking it and then making it happen. So, and then, but it was really cool. So good job CT. Slim Pushins: What are your core views? Is that hard for a driver? Like, would you ever consider that? Like what goes into your decision? Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm No, I just know I'm that much faster than everyone that night It's actually easier. I think mentally if you don't know all the racers and don't try to like predict Some of that stuff at Kennedale. She Ain't gonna happen not a chance For someone to go to the back At of Kennedale guaranteed 2000 Slim Pushins: So. What would it take? for you to go to the back. 2,000? Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: No, no. No. No. The only guarantees like a corn dog. 2,000 to win from the back. Would you take it? 3,000. Corby Scherb: If it was... Yeah! Because it would be stupid, it would be murder. No, not at Kennedal. Not a chance. Not a chance. You can't, you can't win it. You can't, you can't win it. No, that's, I, Kyle Jones even proved it. Jim Gardner: Just the regular show two weeks ago. Slim Pushins: You can't say not a chance. No, just a regular Saturday night show. Jim Gardner: Sorry, did I do? Corby Scherb: Okay, so we got Jeb Sessoms, Chad Wilson, John Ricketts, Claude Estes, DJ Estes, Kevin Rutherford, Carson Bolden. You want keep going? Colby Stubbefield, Absolute Ripper. You want me to keep going? Justin Fifield can walk off the couch and win. Jim Gardner: Stubblefield. There's there's 12 right there Slim Pushins: I'm not. Why are you? I'm not the bad guy here. I'm just asking questions. What would it take? $4,000. Corby Scherb: No, I'm just- Jim Gardner: when turbo when they ran when when kennedale ran the standard imca point draw deal and put the points leader starting 12 every night it was a war to get to the top five and i kind of pardon me pardon me kind of wishes they went back to it but it is what it is but Corby Scherb: Yeah, I agree. Slim Pushins: What is it? It's not a war now? Corby Scherb: I think that you have good racing, you know, ⁓ to make some of those guys pass the same. I know that like the before it became a TSS the SST they had I don't know if it was like a rule or you could do it but you could always go to the back row being the points leader and man it just it takes it takes a lot of good things to follow your way to go Jim Gardner: Ooh, I like that. Some of the, maybe some of the long time veterans of the SST can chime in on what the old gimmicks were. Corby Scherb: That's what I'm saying. know Jason how I we used to go to Boyd and watch and I watched Jason how do it? From the back row. I was just like blown away like there's no way that anyone can do this and then I go race Kennedy on I'm like that that was so fake. It was absolutely made up Jim Gardner: I would like to see Slim Pushins: You pretty much did it the night that we won 105. I mean, you started in the middle, but you lapped the field. Jim Gardner: there's our weekly Kerbo and Korbi win at 105 segment. Corby Scherb: We were just fast that night. Yeah. We were just good that night. I think that Christopher was doing it ⁓ up on the top where no one else was. And that's the big thing is you have to go where traffic's not. And Kennedyl is so notorious for being so fast around the top. then just like as soon as the rubber shows up, you can smell it from nine miles away and you chase it. ⁓ Somewhere like Arbor, you might be able to do it. ⁓ Slim Pushins: There it is. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ The races are too short to only a 20 lapper. It's probably not happening. If it was 25 to 30 laps, uh, you might see a little bit more. Big deep charges just cause you can just get kind of bound up behind people that you're faster than and need to time it. Right. Um, I would like to see, um, maybe not, Hey, go to the tail of the feature, but maybe like Corby Scherb: Yeah Slim Pushins: That's a good point. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: You know, go to the tail for your heat race or something like that. ⁓ gimmicks, you know, for a pit pass or a hundred bucks or something. Yeah. Give, give again, you know, kind of why we're doing the podcast showcase personalities, give the fan somebody to pull for not just eight cars riding around in circles for a heat race. You know, if the guy who's supposed to start pole goes to the tail, then the fans can pull for a big charge there, you know, and have a little incentive. So. Slim Pushins: I'm a big fan of the gimmicks like that. Corby and I are doing the podcast, Corby and I are doing the podcast for the chicks. I guess that's why you're doing the podcast. Jim Gardner: Yeah Corby Scherb: No, I think that you can at some places. ⁓ Places you can be really aggressive in a heat race. Somewhere like Grayson or Abilene, if you really feel good that night, you could probably do it. I do agree that, see there's Jesse. He's allowed to go to the back. Jim Gardner: Thank you, Jesse, for somebody. Corby Scherb: There you go. Thank you, Jesse. Yeah, it was always cool. Like I said, I was just a fan whenever I went and watched Jason Howell do it at Boyd. I didn't have a clue and it was cool to see someone do that. I'm like this guy's a freak. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. A lot of the... Slim Pushins: Not a lot's changed, huh? Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: A lot of the, now that we don't do it anymore, a lot of the stuff that kind of just rubbed us the wrong way up from TSS, the drivers interviews and, ⁓ things that just seemed really inconvenient at the time. ⁓ I have now gotten wise on, ⁓ and why they did it. And, ⁓ I should have shown more appreciation back in the day, ⁓ for doing some of that stuff, going behind the grandstand after we run second. I'm just pissed off. I want to drink a beer. ⁓ Corby Scherb: For sure. Slim Pushins: That was a beat down at the time in the moment, but it was a really cool thing. That and the driver introductions. like I said, I'm a fan of the gimmicks. I'm a fan of the stuff that, that changes the norm. Yeah. Like I like, I like qualifying. hardly ever do qualifying. Jim Gardner: Change it up a little bit Corby Scherb: Dylan, your dad could do it in a street stock while everyone else is running late models. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Remember that show at Waco were you guys there that night work where Kevin raced? Or Kevin race like modified and late models in his sprint car and that and To and yeah, and Kevin still beat him all by like two laps that was a cool bit Slim Pushins: I haven't even seen, I don't, I haven't even seen Dylan's. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, and the modifies got like three laps and then the late models got like two laps or something like that ahead. It was in Waco. Slim Pushins: Was that in Waco? Corby Scherb: Yeah, Jeb borrowed a wheel and a tire from us that night to go because we smoked off the rest of them. Jim Gardner: Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah, I don't know. Slim Pushins: Was that the night that he sent a front wheel up over the train tracks? Jim Gardner: No. No. No, because I wasn't there that night. Corby Scherb: I'm not sure I don't think so. It was a top three from each class. Yeah the top three from each class Could run that race ⁓ And I mean I think the modifies got like five laps I'm probably gonna get spot checked on this and the the late models got a lap or two something like that to see who was truly faster and There you go the big three Yeah, and it was it was cool to see and I would have been absolutely petrified being next to a late model Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, the big three at Waco. Yeah. Slim Pushins: The big three at Waco. Corby Scherb: or a door banging modified guy. Not that they would do it maliciously, but it doesn't take much to... Yeah, I opted out. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: Well, we elected you have the opportunity and elected. Our car owner wasn't a huge fan of. It was cool to watch. Don't get me wrong. It wasn't a. It wasn't a bad idea. Right for the fans, it was a great idea. Jim Gardner: You just I just get kind of mowed down by a 3,000 pound modified Corby Scherb: I'm not a huge fan. Yeah. No. Jim Gardner: No, it's great for multi-class, but the Sprint car is way so much less. You get jacked sideways and somebody runs you down. I don't know. Slim Pushins: Casey Merrill said, watched Kevin Dora late model guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah Jordan I'm with you man. I do miss all that fan interaction stuff. Like I said, I ⁓ About having a fake rivalry with Cory that was fun that shit was fun. That was the whole point is Yeah, you know Corby Scherb: Well, Kevin, Remy doesn't care. The guy was probably scared of Kevin. Slim Pushins: You don't miss intros. The only thing you miss about intros is talking shit about Corby. Corby Scherb: It was cool. It gave people another reason to talk. Yeah. Did you ever beat me at one of those? I don't think so. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Getting into that. ⁓ I hit that incorrect. Hey Jordan. Appreciate you being on here. Yeah, my bad. ⁓ Slim Pushins: Look at Jim. Look at Jim quick on the trigger. We look so professional. Jim Gardner: Anyway, ⁓ yeah, good job. Christopher towns. And, ⁓ he, he went through like three semi trucks to try to start heading his way up north this week. ⁓ it was just on his Facebook page, broke another truck, broke another truck, broke another truck. And I texted you guys like, he's going to go through all this and sit up here for two days and watch it rain. Slim Pushins: ⁓ the kid just woke up from his nap. He just joined. Corby Scherb: No. Slim Pushins: Ha Well, I mean, what do you expect? The guy's had nothing but extremely good luck for eight days. I mean, that's just normal stuff for the rest of us. Corby Scherb: I know. I like that Dylan. That'd be good. It's really good to just like I said even just this podcast is a lot of people know race car drivers by their number or their ⁓ dumb helmet like Jimmy wears, but ⁓ But ⁓ there's not everyone knows faces Slim Pushins: Yes. Jim Gardner: What's wrong with my Bengals helmet? Can a spray paint and a $20 eBay decal kit? It's awesome. Slim Pushins: Nothing for an eight-year-old. Corby Scherb: And that's what it is, man. It's giving back to the kids. mean, these kids, the older people, they could care less to see us. ⁓ It's for the kids just to get a chance to talk to one of the sprint car guys. Because I still do think that sprint cars is truly separated around here, especially in North Texas, about just not a weekly thing. And so it's good to... Slim Pushins: Zoolander Zoolander ask if we've got the I've got I've got Millbridge on one TV and the high limits on the other Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's a Grandview Thunder on the hill, the OGs of Thunder Girls. So we're lucky that Kerbo took time out of his day to not hunt for Thunder Girls. Slim Pushins: The Thunder Girls. Well, I'm only here to pitch y'all the idea on heaven pushing the cushion girls. Jim Gardner: hahahahah Slim Pushins: Just have a set of big gals. in victory lane. Jim Gardner: Dylan, Dylan, see if your dad's interested in pushing. Corby Scherb: Yeah! ⁓ Slim Pushins: So yeah, Dylan, see if your dad's open to cushion, cushion gals. Corby Scherb: some greater chicks. Jim Gardner: You Corby Scherb: Definitely, we could do some greater chicks. Slim Pushins: They can do 50-50, we can put them to work. Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: UGH Slim Pushins: I know a couple. Corby Scherb: Do they get to do the corndog testing since Jim's too busy to? Slim Pushins: Jim got mad at me last week. I mean, you know, I ran like shit. I embarrassed myself and you just completely forgot about the corndog challenge. I was like, at what point of the night do you feel that you were approachable enough to have you stop what you were doing and throw you a corndog? Changing. He was changing everything. Corby Scherb: What was he doing though? Too much. Too much. Jim Gardner: that's true. Slim Pushins: You don't get to talk. You don't get to talk, Jim. Just listen. Corby Scherb: And he's gonna, I know, he's gonna sit there, he's gonna keep blaming me and... Jim Gardner: I just know that you guys are correct for the first time ever. Slim Pushins: We were correct before the race started. Corby Scherb: It's crazy, know, Jim's only honestly beat me straight up one time and he had the opportunity to do what I've done before and win that big show. Like the flag blowing on the moon, just let it go. Jim Gardner: What? How the hell has it turned into this? Slim Pushins: just. This is a podcast of honesty. If we can't be honest with ourselves, then why would anybody else expect us to be able to be honest with them? And we're about to get into some honesty when we get to the ⁓ tire portion of the podcast. Jim Gardner: ⁓ Yeah. ⁓ boy. Corby Scherb: We'll get there. Ah, it's Speed Week, you know? Super excited. It's supposed to be a huge deal this year. I know we had a bunch of drivers coming from a lot of places. And wouldn't you know it. Just what everyone feared. Tis the season in May in Texas. Jim Gardner: So I... ⁓ Yeah, I used to work at the driving at the rich pay driving experience with Shane Carson, who's a big promoter. Slim Pushins: Look at that. Hey, Mr. Trigger Puller, Jordan Roupes comment up. Let's talk about that for just a quick second. Mr. I think I'm, there you go. Jimmy was upset the whole night. Even my wife asked if he was always mad. Corby Scherb: He is that way. He's not mad typically, he just looks that way. Slim Pushins: He's not mad, not mad, but not happy. Not mad. Corby Scherb: You it's like Wesley McNorton is the same way. He will drop what he's doing and go and help you, but you gotta play with the devil to go and talk to either one of them at the racetrack. Jim Gardner: That is so far from the truth. I'm the first guy to go help in the hot pit. You need parts. I've worked on more cars in the pit area, putting mags in. Slim Pushins: Wait a minute, hold on, that doesn't... That doesn't make you not an asshole. Jim Gardner: UGH I've mellowed out too. When it was four Sherb cars fighting for our lives for ninth place. Yeah. Yeah. It was probably not. Corby Scherb: I agree Casey, rockets always fun. Slim Pushins: There it is. There it is. He's placing the blame. Jim Gardner: ⁓ when it was not not the greatest person to be around. That doesn't mean I'm not generous and giving. and approachable and fun. Slim Pushins: So what should we, so what is it, what is it that we should tell Root to tell his wife? Corby Scherb: Do we need to have like a sign? Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah, just hanging around your neck, I'm not pissed. Corby Scherb: Maybe we can make that shirt Turn it on the back. It I'm actually a nice guy Slim Pushins: ⁓ put that on a shirt. Corby Scherb: Cause there's no doubt that you're a nice guy. It's just the race faces is a lot different than this face that we get right here. Slim Pushins: The nicest. Jim Gardner: is Louise. Slim Pushins: I am the number one helper. don't help much. I'm a hell of a flashlight holder. Everybody, everybody knows that. Jim Gardner: Ha. Alright, let's get back to Speed Week and pumping this up and not just busting my balls. Slim Pushins: Wait a minute. I don't, we weren't done. We liked that, I liked that, I liked that t-shirt idea. Corby Scherb: Yeah, Speedweek is huge deal. Jim Gardner: Well, that's the guy who makes the t-shirts. I'm not making it Slim Pushins: Well, we know a guy. Corby Scherb: Speed Week was looking great in Tis the Season in Texas. It actually dropped like 30 degrees today. I don't know why you guys don't have hoodies on. It's wickedly cold outside. Slim Pushins: It did. Seriously? Jim Gardner: It poured at my house in Denison today. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. He's still working on him Ryder. Jim Gardner: So we're supposed to have like 35 guys registered. It's supposed to be like 35 guys registered to run speed week. Now I don't know if that's trying to make every night or, you know, a couple ⁓ picking here and there. ⁓ certainly this weather tomorrow's already canceled. ⁓ Thursday doesn't look great. The weekend looks better. It might be speed weekend. ⁓ I'm hoping that. Slim Pushins: The Where's Corby shirts are up. Jim Gardner: plug doesn't get pulled for the whole week. ⁓ I'm hoping like, even if it does RPM will still run, ⁓ without kind of, you know, but what does that do? Like there's point fund money and, ⁓ the pre-entry money and kind of all sorts of stuff. This is, this is why I'm not in the race promoting business. It looks like it sucks. Like Corby Scherb: Right. Slim Pushins: Hey, that big ass trophy's gotta go to somebody. Jim Gardner: You can do everything the right way. You've got a lot of momentum. It's a really cool event. then mother nature just pisses on you. So. Corby Scherb: Yeah, it's a super- Slim Pushins: Do you think that you would be in a better mood or a worse mood if you were a race promoter at the track? More or less approachable. Jim Gardner: worse worse there's nothing yeah Corby Scherb: Way worse. Way worse. I'm a very nice, approachable guy right now, and if I was a promoter, I wouldn't talk to anyone. Not a chance. Clearly. Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. It takes a takes a special type of person to be an official or ⁓ a promoter. And then in most cases it's the same person. Yeah. Slim Pushins: That's one nobody likes you. Corby Scherb: Because who likes someone who enforces the rules? Slim Pushins: What was the game that we used to play with Wes Cranfield, who's gonna bitch at Wes tonight? Jim Gardner: You just... Corby Scherb: thought you were talking about a game we played as kids. I don't know. We wasn't kids at the same time. Slim Pushins: Okay, all right. I guess the merry-go-round's come around to me now. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Slim Pushins: So, all right, let's talk about, so Paris got rained out. Paris was supposed to be tomorrow night or tonight, if you're only listening to this when Jim drops it. Or last night, if Jim does Jim stuff and drops it like Friday. Corby Scherb: Well his tomorrow day got opened up by a lot. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Corby Scherb: So tomorrow will be like Laster Day. Not the other day's morning, that's different. Jim Gardner: See look how much patience and kindness I'm showing Kerbo right here by not lashing out at Slim Pushins: Do I try your patience? Corby Scherb: Does Kerbo actually do anything that would take time when Kerbo needs everything right now? Jim Gardner: Maybe not. Yeah. Slim Pushins: What do mean, like in my real life? Corby Scherb: It's a quick question. Yeah. Slim Pushins: No. Jim Gardner: Uhhh... Corby Scherb: Thanks. Slim Pushins: So Paris tomorrow night rained out. Big old Thursday night. Jim Gardner: Yep. Which sucks because I think it's the only race at Rocket this year. Corby Scherb: does not look good. No, that place is so cool. It's, ⁓ man, it's, it's kind of forgiving. Jim Gardner: that I mean that we had that race in the fall where that where it was 40 mile an hour winds and we probably shouldn't have been racing and the track got chunked up and chewed up a bunch of tires. ⁓ But typically that's one of the most fun racy places to go and I'm really bummed that we don't have any more Sprint car shows there. Sucks. Corby Scherb: Right. You could you could be super unique at that place man. You could roll the top you could square it off You could pull the slider line. You could just roll the bottom Kerbo ⁓ It's it's always cool. It's super unique Around here. I think the only place even closely compares to it would be TMS TMS is just so big in a 305 It's really tough to make ground and rocket doesn't race that way Jim Gardner: It's big enough to... Slim Pushins: That's all Corby ever does is run the damn bottom. Jim Gardner: Yeah, Ardmore's got some space to work ⁓ to work on too, but it's shaped a little bit different. But yeah, I'm bummed. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: Dylan Ramey said Hunt County RPM at 67 said they're gonna do everything they can to get their shows in. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I put his comment up here and if Speedwik does cancel RPM still running sprints. So Saturday night Get your asses to RPM come hell or high water Yeah Yep, ⁓ That's good to hear Dylan we appreciate all the work you guys are putting in over there. I hope hope I hope it works out. So we'll see Slim Pushins: Look, there it is. Corby Scherb: We appreciate that, the Rameys. Slim Pushins: I'm pretty busy that night. Corby Scherb: They gotta get one in. Good nut, it's been brutal for them this year. I agree with Casey. Give us another shot at Rocket. Slim Pushins: Rocket people, I know you're one of our tens of listeners. Schedule some sprint, another sprint car race this year. Give us a chance. Jim Gardner: You Yep. Yep. Yep. Corby Scherb: I think we've always had pretty consistent fields there too. I know it truly is kind of off the beaten path, ⁓ but I've always felt like we had decent, really decent car counts there. Jim Gardner: his cool place. Like it's, go, it's fun to go run. You just got to find a date that works and doesn't irritate a lot of people and pile on a bunch of stuff. anyway, ⁓ yeah. So anyway. Slim Pushins: So then, where were we? Big O. So Big O canceled this last Saturday night. And we can hypothesize why they canceled. And there's a lot of rumors. But do we know for sure why they canceled? Jim Gardner: Huh. No, well, they had that four 10 race a couple of weeks ago and the track wasn't great for that first night. And then the weather moved in. was the same night as a Kennedy. show. ⁓ and the weather was all over Kennedy. ⁓ remember there were the big storms hit late night over in Fort Worth, the West side area. And so they canceled on the threat of weather. It probably had a little bit more to do with the overall big thing down there, but it, it's a cool, it's a, it's a. Slim Pushins: Hmm. One, ⁓ Jim Gardner: Big, you know, we're talking about rocket where it's kind of big and high speed and stuff. ⁓ I hope it gets, no, I'm, I'm, I'm, we're not on here to bash people and, and, and be super critical of people. hope it works out and I hope the track's great and it's racy. ⁓ we'll see, you know, Slim Pushins: At this point, I just hope that they can race. Then we'll worry about great and racy. Jim Gardner: Yes. Yeah. but. then Friday Nights Greenville, the show last year, I think was probably the best show of Speed Week. The track was great most of the night. It was super racy. ⁓ It's put on some really good sprint car races the last couple of years to. Corby Scherb: Everyone's got to race the same racetrack. I will say this, Greenville and Hunt County is one of the only places that truly will let it curb up. I mean, it ain't no up north curb or anything like that, but at least it's something to lean on. Slim Pushins: Dylan said the track wasn't ready. Jim Gardner: Yeah, and it's a kind of unique D shape. You can take some unique lines. can hammer the infield tire like I did the last time I was there on Thanksgiving. ⁓ Yeah, going to the going places ⁓ to the to the infield, know. On the hook. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. You're ripping. Then in. Slim Pushins: The bag on Jim segment was about 10 minutes ago, but we can restart it up if you'd. Jim Gardner: No And then Saturday Again, rpm they need to get a sprint car show in bad. We need sprint cars at rpm like I need air to breathe so Yeah And then Sunday night everybody makes a journey up I-30 or in my case highway 82 to Texarkana again really good sprint car track with with The crawlies know what they're doing. It's cool. It's a hike Corby Scherb: It's been good racing there this year too. Slim Pushins: Damn, that's aggressive. I like that place. That's a cool place. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: ⁓ and I hope that this early weather doesn't scare off cars for the week and then make the kind of car, you know, I'm a little worried about the car count up there Sunday night, ⁓ regardless of weather. So. Corby Scherb: for Slim Pushins: I actually thought the opposite. I figured that I was more worried about car count Wednesday and Thursday and maybe Friday in that Saturday and Sunday would have a lot more. Corby Scherb: Because you're not a racer. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's just, I don't know. I hope for good things and it's a cool place. Like you got, mean, if you can make it, it's a cool, it's, it's a fun joint to run. ⁓ anyway, who's your, all's pick for the champion. Slim Pushins: I'm a racer. ⁓ I'm going with last year's champion. Jim Gardner: Ryder LaPlante won the championship last year. He nudged out Kevin Raimi. It was tight. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Rider's tough. Slim Pushins: Ryder the Kid LaPlante. Corby Scherb: kid. Jim Gardner: ⁓ you know, if the Corby Scherb: Ramy says that he kind of planned on racing him up until rpm to see where he's at in points. Kevin will be super tough. ⁓ Carson Slim Pushins: I think, I thought he told me, Dylan, you can tell us. thought he told me that, ⁓ Crowley was, they were trying to work something out where Tim Crowley could be in, in, in one of those Ramey cars on one of the nights. Is that true? Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: I agree, Casey. Jim Gardner: When I, uh, when I talked to Nathan Moore, it made it sound like Kevin was going to try to run, run them all. um, hopefully again, this, this weather's throwing everybody into, uh, you know, into everybody's plans, but I don't know. Uh, Bolden looked really good in the OCRS race last week that I saw the highlights of, um, that's not an official DFW 305 power rankings race, cause I don't have that kind of time, but, uh, Slim Pushins: What Casey say? I'm behind. Corby Scherb: Right. Slim Pushins: I mean if he would stop doing caricatures of slim push-ins maybe. Jim Gardner: I don't know if I can post that media No. Corby Scherb: Braxton Weiger's been really fast all year. Braxton Weiger's got a good shot at doing it. Slim Pushins: Well, hey, when Jim kicks us off of here looking for how he can do this, we really appreciate y'all tuning in. Jim Gardner: No, no, it doesn't look like I can put a picture up yet What's gonna suck No, Jeb, I texted Jeb earlier this week. He said he could only maybe run Friday Just because of work Yeah, and I think he's on shift this weekend too, so Slim Pushins: You can post it or you... No. Corby Scherb: Is Jeb running them all? Uhhhh Slim Pushins: Jeb's a highfalutin nurse, daytime nurse now. He's out there, that's the difference between you and Corby, that's the difference between you and Jeb. He's out there saving lives and you're just smoking in-field tractor tires. Jim Gardner: Yeah You know like I know Rickets Rickets made a post that he wasn't gonna run all week So a lot of these names that I have here. You just don't really know what their commitment is Maybe they hit them all now that there's only gonna be four ⁓ You know, so we'll see, you know, I don't know if car knees Corby Scherb: No, I'm saving the world one access point at a time. Slim Pushins: One access control gate at a time. Corby Scherb: Access point, just an access point. It's tough, it's tough to go. Jim Gardner: Carney's on this list. don't know if he's signed up for the whole week and he's certainly one that can. Yeah. He missed the first race last year. ⁓ I think his kid graduated or something last year, but he was upfront the whole rest of the week. So, ⁓ the format's good. Just straight passing points. Corby Scherb: for sure. Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: That's what it was as kid, as kid had graduation. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so it was straight passing points last year and then invert the top six, which no problem with that format. That's fine. It's efficient and pretty fair. We talked about it with CT last week. Passing points has got its holes, but overall for efficiency, it's a pretty good, fair format. You get a fair shake out of it no matter where you draw. ⁓ Corby Scherb: For sure. Yeah. And Dylan, I said Ramees. I used it plural. Slim Pushins: I think whatever we get in. Jim Gardner: What's that? Did we not get Dylan any love? ⁓ Corby Scherb: No, Dylan. You can do it. It's about being consistent. It's not about race wins. think Ryder, what, he only won one race last year, had some engine problems at RPM. It's about being consistent, finishing all the features, and a lot of points can be handed out and making the features. A lot of points can be handed out just ⁓ running in the top five, running in the top three. It's not always about just wins. Slim Pushins: making the features. Jim Gardner: It, ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: I think whatever we end up getting in is going to be a good time. ⁓ We, think we're going to try to do some, some ⁓ track interviews that are unlike, not normal track interviews, cause that's not really us. I don't care how your car handled. I don't care. We don't, we don't care about any of that stuff. We don't care what changes you made. ⁓ Jim Gardner: I'm not approachable, so I have nothing to do with this. Corby Scherb: What your mom made us all for dinner? Slim Pushins: Well, yeah. So we're going to try to do at least one set of track interviews ⁓ a day. We'll see if that's four days or a day. But we're going to try to have some fun with it. All three of us will be out there. ⁓ If you see Jim, go talk to him. Just pull him aside from whatever he's in the middle of. Jim Gardner: I'm just editing content in the morning, I guess. Corby Scherb: absolutely if he's in middle of something. Slim Pushins: and go talk to him. If he wants to change this persona, then he's unapproachable. Jim Gardner: ⁓ definitely. Definitely when I'm counting clicks on shocks, that's my favorite. Slim Pushins: Yeah, go talk to Jim. Ask him about his superstars. Ask him if we landed on the moon. Corby Scherb: That'll get it started. That'll get it started. Slim Pushins: No, I think it'll be. Jim Gardner: In between hot laps in the A main pushing off, maybe not, but absolutely. Anytime after that. Corby Scherb: Ahem. Slim Pushins: Jim's not doing interviews. Wesley's not doing interviews. I'll tell you what, if I get the opportunity, maybe I'll sneak around with a camera and we'll give you the real bird's eye view of Jim on race night. That could be a fun exercise. Jim Gardner: Hahaha. Corby Scherb: No. Jim Gardner: Yeah. ⁓ Slim Pushins: He's been known to throw duct tape at people. Corby and I got wrenches thrown at us. Jim Gardner: Don't leave shit loose on your race car, man. Corby Scherb: I remember he chewed someone out at Wichita Falls thinking it was a different person. Slim Pushins: Corby and I were busy making TikTok videos. Yeah. Jim Gardner: What'd do, Corby? Corby Scherb: Which still falls. Slim Pushins: when you belittled Austin Saunders. Corby Scherb: You... You... Yeah... Supposed to be drinking at someone else. Slim Pushins: Hahaha Jim Gardner: Ooh, that was a bad night. ⁓ Sorry about that, Austin. I apologize to him ⁓ profusely after that though, because I felt terrible. And he was being, yeah, he stood on the gas and he was being super nice and lending us something. Corby Scherb: Yeah. Good kid, he was a ripper too. in a typical gym fashion. Jim Gardner: ⁓ man, that might be, that might be one of my, that might be like my most embarrassed I've ever been in a racetrack. Yeah, that was bad. He chased me. So I needed, I needed duct tape of all things that we didn't have because ⁓ we crashed in a B main or we bent up a front end and we, and we Slim Pushins: ⁓ Skypilot, hey, Skypilot's gonna be out there with y'all. Really? Jump, jump and dance. Corby Scherb: I think it was in the heat and then you were going back out for the beat. Jim Gardner: We had long like too long a radius rods on the front and we didn't we had no way to fixing it So I just had radius rods that were like two inches too long So we ran the the rod ends into it and I was trying to get them to lock in Just so we could push out and make this be made or feature or whatever And austin was put it next to us and I was like, man, you got duct tape He's like, I don't think so, but i'll check and I was like, all right great and we're sprinting around rushing around and ⁓ And didn't get it. And so we just sent the car out and I was like, Hey, this thing might break and destroy the race car, but whatever. So I'm like running back over to that lineup shoot down behind three and four. And as I'm sprinting through the pits, cause I think I forgot to adjust something or something, you know, it's kids yelling at me, for a hundred feet. I said, I turned around. said, I Slim Pushins: And he heard him. Jim heard him for 100 feet. Jim Gardner: Yeah, and ignored him and he just got louder and closer and so I just stopped turn around what god damn it what and turned around it was Austin holding me holding duct tape that I really needed And I was like, my god, thank you and then I got back to the trailer and felt like the biggest jackass at a Hole of all time. So Austin, don't know if you watch but Sorry about that. My bad. No Slim Pushins: We'll get those t-shirts made for all of our fans. The Jim Gardner, please don't talk to me at the racetrack t-shirts. Corby Scherb: For sure. For sure. Slim Pushins: He's not one of the 10. Jim Gardner: I don't know. Is he, is he, he's just done? See back in micros, maybe does he still run like the Tulsa shootout? Maybe. Corby Scherb: He was good, he was fast. Slim Pushins: I see his name every once in a while. I don't know. Corby Scherb: He ran some stuff I think he ran some yeah, I think he ran some stuff for Johnny B actually ⁓ But yeah, he's still he's still around Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. He, he was real fast there. think we bought some parts from, doesn't he live out by you Kerbo? Didn't you go pick up parts or something from him? Yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah, well, yeah, they sold that house. But I think they still live somewhere close. Closer to me than you. Corby Scherb: Yes. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Anyway, yeah, everybody's closer. But, Slim Pushins: what else? Do we want to talk about the Facebook fiasco last night? Actually, there were two. We're not talking, we're not going to talk about one of them. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so Kerbo gas lit me on tires last night and I took the bait and I was up with my daughter most of the night the night before and kind of cranky and Kerbo Kerbo pushed a button and I don't know why I'm so Slim Pushins: He was still sauced this morning. I called Jim out. Jim Gardner: Tight about the tire deal like I am just open-minded about the new race saver tire I know everybody else has already drawn conclusions, you know, we're in the middle of May of their first season these tires suck throw them away their junk and Admittedly, I've not touched one. I've not laid my finger across a block. I've not touched one All I'm saying is I'm trying to keep an open mind that we have another tire option and it might not be awesome Slim Pushins: Jim? Jim Gardner: But let's give it some time. And Kerbo took that personally. He put on his, he took on his purple Hoosier hat and put on his purple Hoosier t-shirt and was Barney for Hoosier tire all night playing devil's advocate with me on a group text. So I guess Corby fell asleep. Slim Pushins: That's not what you posted. You Carby, how many text messages did you wake up to this morning? Corby Scherb: I had a super long day yesterday. We put down a lot of units and I was laying in the recliner and I actually had fallen asleep probably, I don't know, like 9, 9.30, something like that and I woke up like, okay. And I woke up. Slim Pushins: No, it was 830 when you just ghosted it. Three or four different text message threads and you just disappeared. Corby Scherb: I woke up at like 1002 or something and was like, oh shit man, I need to go get in bed. I'm beat. And I looked down and I said, 109 missed texts. Jim Gardner: We were on one. And Kerbo is just poking the bear. And I was not having any of it. I was sitting there thinking, like, all right, keep coming at me, Kerbo, because I'll put you on my leg and turn that ass red. You are wrong about this tire deal. Corby Scherb: I just closed it and went to bed. couldn't Slim Pushins: Sh- Jim was wound up. So let me give you a basis. Jordan Root posted a comment on, think John Ricketts, John Ricketts shared the RaceSaver post about ⁓ a reduction in price on the RaceSaver brand tires. Jordan Root posted a picture of a blistered ass. RaceSaver tire and Jim Gardner: I guess it was from, it was from Houston, right? It was from one ⁓ five last week. I I didn't know, recognize the car, but I guess it was from Houston to me. It was an out of context photo that doesn't warrant the, the criticism. Slim Pushins: Yeah. So. Jim responded within like a thousandth of a second of root post in that. Jim Gardner: That's false. Slim Pushins: and said something along the lines of, ⁓ it's not the tire, it's the racetrack. Okay? So... Jim Gardner: Correct. We are not, everybody needs to take a pause. We're not supposed to race on rubber. I understand rubber happens, but it's not supposed to. It's supposed to be a rare occurrence. It's like, we're not supposed to rain when it's, or run when it's rainy and sloppy. Right? So why are we, don't compare how tires would operate in my backyard. Corby Scherb: Zero, Aunt Sam, zero. Slim Pushins: So. Jim Gardner: right? And don't compare tires of how they operate in the rubber. We shouldn't race on rubber. It's a track issue. Tires are going to take a beating. Even tires that look okay, that race in rubber are junk. They are sealed over and hard. Slim Pushins: So we have an extremely exclusive degenerate racing alliance text group. Jim Gardner: First of all, it was not personal to you at all in the slightest, It just happened to be on your... Slim Pushins: Jordan has already unfollowed the podcast. I told you, you have disgraced the podcast and then we're never gonna, we're never gonna bounce back. Yeah, if your last name is Rupe, there's no good reason at this moment in time to even follow the podcast or to continue listening. Corby Scherb: His wife thinks that you're angry all the time. Jim Gardner: All right. This was nothing personal about Jordan just posted the picture and I commented on it like, this is an unfair comparison. It's a bad litmus test to compare the tires of how they handle the rubber. It'd be like me. It'd be, it'd be like me. Slim Pushins: So. He's a race car driver. He's not a scientist. He's not doing litmus tests and data driven. It was a, it was a opinion. Jim Gardner: Why? No, I understand. Slim Pushins: So I texted the DRA group text and just baited the shit. I told Corby, I said, watch this, hang tight. This is about to go down. And I said, something along the lines of only Jim would publicly make a comment defending what I personally believe. My opinions are my own. They are not that of the podcast, a subpar tire to. the greater tire that everybody else uses. Jim Gardner: And you made ⁓ comments about how it's made overseas. Slim Pushins: It is. It came in containers. Jim Gardner: Yeah, know. Yeah, true. Okay. okay. No, no, but that's fine. But I mean, my, you know, my livelihood, I sell lights built in China, the best ones you can get built in China at the lowest prices without without light. You cannot see. Yeah. Ask me after the feature. But anyway, I, I, I Slim Pushins: Well, but that's an easy argument. You can't fault me for taking that road. For all your light needs, come see Jim. Don't do it at the racetrack. So anyway, I posted that and Jim unhinged. Jim Gardner: I am in the like international manufacturing world. That's what I do every day. We, we source stuff from China, bring it over here. That's consumer goods. One-on-one. is the manufacturing epicenter, manufacturing epicenter of the world. You're telling me that they are not capable of producing a tire that competes against the Hoosier tire. That's just factually untrue. Yeah. And. Slim Pushins: That's where everything's made, I get it. Capable? Capable? Yes, they are capable. Right? mean, like, huge brands are made over there. Jim Gardner: They're doing it. Yeah, the computer you're talking on right now, the cell phone you texted me with, basically everything else. And that was my point. And my point also was a lot of the stuff that we use on our race cars is built overseas. Let's stop pretending that everything is made here. Right. And so. Slim Pushins: Yeah ⁓ I wasn't pretending. It was all. Corby Scherb: I install US made parts. install US automatic. What's up Nick storms? I install all the medic whenever it comes to commercial. What's up fontino? Slim Pushins: He's not one of the ten. He's not listening. Fontino's not listening either. Jim Gardner: Yeah, great. I'm very happy that Hoosier Tire say Made in USA and they're built in Lakeville, Indiana. That's wonderful. We can't live in a... Corby Scherb: unreal that you know that. Slim Pushins: That's what I was just thinking. Jim Gardner: We cannot continue to exist as a sport that we love only having a single source tire manufacturer, the number one consumable without with it going unchecked. Corby Scherb: Unreal. Slim Pushins: Kyle said just give us an open tire rule. Jim. Jim Gardner: That's my point. We have to have competition. Some guys have to run CSI's and some guys get to run FK's and that competition keeps prices low and competitive. And that is. Corby Scherb: I mean, I will agree with you. I'm just saying this. Slim Pushins: That's all factual Corby Scherb: I'm gonna agree with you on that 100 % I grew up in the motorcycle world and we had ⁓ Goodyear's ⁓ Continentals and Max's and all three of them had a different compound all three of them reacted differently everyone liked them in certain conditions and then the AMA the AMA Outlawed all that you had to run Goodyear's and then you had to stop cutting them and then you had to stop Siping them or we called it traction eyes and then we took like little pins and Jim Gardner: Thank you, Devin. That's a good point. You're a smart kid. Corby Scherb: poked a bunch of holes in them and I do agree that it No, we're talking about just tires in as a multitude whenever we could run three different tires It did it it affected the price on a major level the same as Slim Pushins: ⁓ wait, I'll stop listening. Are we talking about motorcycles? Jim Gardner: Needler. Slim Pushins: ⁓ okay. Jim Gardner: And I bet you got sponsored tires at a discounted price. And I bet there was competition and I bet there was engineers. Corby Scherb: Yes. Yeah. Yeah, this dude named Greg Tizer had continental across his chest and he got all the continental tires he wanted now he sucked it a couple of the racetracks because they sucked but You know Jim Gardner: Yeah. So, you know, if, you know, if the tires a little softer, if it doesn't handle the rubber good, but you're on that plan, then it's just a disadvantage, just like everything else. Slim Pushins: There it is. Corby Scherb: Well, let's be honest here. Well, Roger Hayden said it the best, you know, the same as like sipin or cuttin heat slits in them. And there's a lot of things I think that it's I my personal opinion is give me a set of Hoosiers at the same. A lot of people run the medium left rears. I always ran the race over left rears ⁓ and give me a set of those and we'll go to the racetrack. And that's the only way you can compare. It's the only way you can know which ones are which. Slim Pushins: I sent when Jim this morning, we all woke up and Jim lit right back into me where we started the night before and I sent Corby a text and I said on a scale of one to ten, how much do you think Jim is over me right now? And what did you say? Corby Scherb: but Jim Gardner: Are you that? Corby Scherb: All you said, if you had from a scale to one to 10, I said all the way. Slim Pushins: He's all the way over me. There couldn't be any more. Jim Gardner: Yeah, just about. Slim Pushins: Anyway. Corby Scherb: I just think that, you know, is it siphon? Slim Pushins: What's the difference in price? I've never bought a tire. What's the difference in price right now? Is it considerable? Jim Gardner: I would say the Hoosiers were 260, 270 something last year. I'm sure they went up. Now the Race Savers 250. I don't know if Hoosier, like the Hoosier 410 tires are 350 bucks a piece. know, they are cutting the Race Saver guys a deal, but it's still gone up. Anyway, I just think you have to see the forest through the trees. It's not perfect, but it's at least a step in the right direction of having some competition. And yes, the whole field might still be on Hoosiers because the Hoosiers are the best. That's fine. As long as there is an option if you want to go run and take your money somewhere else. And Roger Hayden... Slim Pushins: Throw, throw Jordan's comment up there. Corby Scherb: You can, you know. Slim Pushins: Don't sigh at me. Jim Gardner: So fourth place tire was unprepared and still runnable afterwards. Could have used a light grind. That was it. Is that a, I'm guessing that was the Hoosier Jordan? Slim Pushins: Well, I was talking about his other one. Yes, that's what he told me earlier when I was preparing for the podcast. Jim Gardner: What you made a put where Jordan said that Devon is a suck up. Slim Pushins: No, after that. He was asking, he was asking. Jim Gardner: That ⁓ was Jeffrey. Corby Scherb: I mean, man, you can point the finger at anyone and I mean... Slim Pushins: ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So, so Jeffrey is dead. Ask what I asked you, Kerbo. Did any other cars have the same track of Hoosier tires blister like that? And that was a lot of my argument is that we are cherry picking tires that look bad without looking at what the competition looks bad. That first night at Waco, when they, when they posted race saver wins its first race and they posted clods right rear and it was torn to shit. That was alarming, but I never saw pictures of the Hoosier. Slim Pushins: That's it. Jim Gardner: I didn't see any pictures of the Hoosiers after Cannondale two weeks ago, right? Online. People just want to bash this new tire, just to bash it without giving it a fair shake. And I think that is, we should embrace it a little bit more. We should embrace change and, and, and we should at least keep an open mind here. We're not even two months into the damn season. Corby Scherb: I mean I could get myself in trouble and talk about motors and and components inside of motors and something that we got ⁓ Not necessarily in trouble for but told to change The same I mean you got it. You got to understand, you know race saver. I believe their intentions are to save money We've gotten a little ridiculous on what we can do with shocks nowadays and some of the motor stuff with intake plates and blah blah Slim Pushins: Do it. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Same as we had some valves that were perfectly legal and became illegal because they wasn't IMCA stamped or however you want to say it and it's not it wasn't to help Any type of performance it was also just not from IMCA and they are spec heads This is what they have to be so you can't argue with those points of they were generous to us and didn't Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yep. Corby Scherb: pull points at night but had to be changed. Jim Gardner: Right. and you know, Brodix or Brodix, however you say it, right. Is, is sponsoring there in there in a deal with, with race saver, which is fine. Just like Hoosier was or is right. ⁓ and that's why you have to run those, those vows. That was an issue with my engine and I had to get it fixed. you know, Rick Burdick who, who facilitated that, you know, I had a Corby Scherb: Right. Right. Correct. Jim Gardner: Talk about me not being the most approachable guy. He and I had it out in my trailer. That was at rocket. And then we figured it out. And I understand where they're coming from, ⁓ on that front. And I understand where they're coming from on the tire front. I think that Roger Hayden and race, they were in the business to make money and they're protecting the long-term interests of their business, which is the racers. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. For sure. Jim Gardner: from not pricing themselves out. just asked where Austin Saunders was. Never heard from him. He's out. Right. There's plenty of racers who would just fade off into the, into the twilight and go do something else because it gets too expensive and it's not fun and all that sort of stuff. So I applaud race saver for at least seeing that there is an issue that maybe that can be addressed. Corby Scherb: There's there's Slim Pushins: Well, I'm doing my part to keep it fun. Corby Scherb: I'll just I'll shoot from the hip here and I'll keep getting myself in trouble You know if you go to a racetrack and you smoke off a thousand dollars worth of tires and you're winning eight hundred dollars that night you know at what point if Jim Gardner: Yeah. That's a problem. That's what we can't accept. And that's my point is why are we comparing tires and the rubber? Stop giving the tracks a ton of grace on that front. You know what I mean? If the track is too abrasive for the tire, what are we doing? Let's address the actual issue and not just blame the tires. That's my point. Corby Scherb: Right. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Are we done with tire talk? Jim Gardner: I could keep going on this. was this is a third of the material I have planned I'm just kidding. But anyway, there was I know a lot of the listeners I'm sure it just said tires. I was trying to post my picture of you wearing a Hoosier shirt, but I can't do it I'll do it later from the page Corby Scherb: No, reading. Slim Pushins: We know. We know. Y'all didn't get my run sheet for the night? on live. Jim Gardner: I can't do it live. I can't even do it in the comments. Slim Pushins: You notice we're still not getting, ⁓ I guess I am. It says I've missed 75. Y'all should know, anybody that's watching, Jim, didn't you make the comment when we did this the first time that... There's a 30 second delay. Jim Gardner: Uh, it's not really a 30 second delay. There's a delay. Like, I have two screens and if I pull it up on the other screen, it's a little behind. It might be 7, 8, you know, 7 second delay. At whatever the FCC standard is. Corby Scherb: Patrick Salsa just sent me some pictures of Landon's tire who ran third that night at Waco and he says that their stuff was new and theirs wasn't ⁓ And there has to be a way to if they're gonna chunk apart It's bad, even if it's not in the rubber because a lot of times it's slick getting across to the curb, you know ⁓ If the tires are just like I said disintegrating that's not good But like I said, mean, I will, what if they are harder? What if they're better in the hammer down? What if they had more forgiveness there? You know, like I said, we had three different tires to pick from and you went with what you felt and that in the same as cut sipes, everything else you do to your tires and your tire game. ⁓ Some people believe in grinding them every single time that you come off the racetrack. Some people believe in. Whenever you get back to the shop, you gotta wash them and then you gotta let them dry in the sun and then you gotta roll them inside without touching any type of dirt on them and yeah, and lot of people wrap them. ⁓ I will always believe that if you think it's gonna take rubber, I would never, ever, ever, ever push out on a sticker right rear, ever. Not a chance. Nope. Jim Gardner: Wrap ⁓ Yeah. Yep. We never did. But, ⁓ yeah, I just, we'll put, we'll put a pin. I don't know where, yeah, maybe she sent it to Corby. ⁓ shout out, ⁓ shout out AMP to, ⁓ Amber ⁓ and, ⁓ and Patrick, Patrick did me a huge solid and brought me a Sprint car frame. He repaired for me. ⁓ he had to drive up to sh he's so that Slim Pushins: Did you get his picture? Corby Scherb: Yeah, he doesn't like you Kerbo, he sent it to us. Slim Pushins: Well, they don't have my number. But not that they don't like me. He did you a huge favor by not charging you storage fees. ⁓ Corby Scherb: Dude's a G. The dude's an absolute G. he's, he, he, now he rides so under the radar p- Jim Gardner: That I know he that thing's been done since like the Kennedale outlaw show and I just haven't Been able to get down there and I felt so bad about it But he he had to come up to Scott Baylor. So he was like, hey, I'll throw this thing in the truck and I was like, That guy's an a-plus guy and the work on the car I'm a little worried Bates is gonna make me build it tomorrow. He's like, ⁓ we got an extra day I want to go ahead and put that maximum together Slim Pushins: Should. Corby Scherb: So he sent pictures. ⁓ for sure. Wicked good welder. Patrick just said that he didn't siphon his ⁓ and Patrick flies so far under the radar that dude absolutely ripped in a car Jim Gardner: Yeah. the, didn't see the picture, but does, is that, is the, ⁓ is it junk? Is there. Okay. Corby Scherb: He texted it to you. It's a big difference. It really is. The race saver is, I mean, it's junk. Don't get me wrong for the most part, but ⁓ it's still drivable and has a lot of tire left. ⁓ We'll say that Landon just started too deep and that's why he couldn't catch the Estes boys and pass them, because the tire still looks really good. It is a race saver. Slim Pushins: He said he was about... Jim Gardner: Yeah. So if there. If the race saver, if the race saver tire is, is not handling the rubber, does that mean it should be better in the slick? Like, is it just chemically softer? Does it wear better in the slick? Corby Scherb: Grayson County would be a perfect tire test for that. Abilene, know, places that don't rubber up, they just get slick. Jim Gardner: Yeah, exactly. Right. So. Again, I'm going to get back to my point because I don't want to just be the only guy defending the tire. I am defending the right. I'm the defending the free market of having options. So Hoosier doesn't just keep. Okay. Slim Pushins: ⁓ now you're defending the tire. That's what you should have posted. Corby Scherb: Like I said, that's just my opinion on the whole valve thing that we all got done to us. I think that there is times that it can just be cheaper and if it's not a performance enhance. Jim Gardner: So I mean, running a spec class is more expensive than running an open class in the short term, right? So we all have 500 horsepower sprint car motors where for the money we could probably build, we could probably build, we could probably, that's why I can't hook it up and drive it in the slick. Corby Scherb: I agree. Yours makes five? Yours makes five? Slim Pushins: You have a 500 horsepower sprint car motor. The rest of the field has like 390. Corby Scherb: Here we go. Slim Pushins: That's what it was. Jim Gardner: We could probably build 750 horsepower 410s for the price, but then you wouldn't be competitive. So and that was. Yeah, geez, Louise guys. Anyway, so. Slim Pushins: Kyle said 500. It's it's it's law now. You can't take it back. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so. Corby Scherb: I've gone to the dyno like three times and they just said, just put it back in the trailer. You're done. Jim Gardner: the 410 stuff has fizzled out in the area because it's too expensive to be competitive, right? RaceSaver is only successful because the rules are very tight because there are spec parts and very hard limitations on the parts that you can put in the motor. Tires are the same way, right? But we can't just... Slim Pushins: ⁓ Just keep hitting in-field tractor tires. Corby Scherb: I agree. Slim Pushins: We'll just let that one mellow. Jim Gardner: That's, that's just an engine dyno number. It's not a chassis dyno number. Slim Pushins: Okay. Jim Gardner: Anyway, you get my point. Yeah, you get my point. So. Corby Scherb: I'll go ahead and say it, damn. Slim Pushins: Claude wants to know why you're not winning every single weekend. Jim Gardner: Because I can't drive a hot nail through a snow bank. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, I mean... Well, I do agree that some of the stuff should be open and like we said, know, like shocks have gotten ridiculous at this point and what's legal and what we can do and send your shocks off to have valve to exactly how you want. There's always going to be things that can be better or worse and I'm not against the tire. I would like to give it a fair shot with cuts and sipes. Not everyone believed in the sip. Me and my brothers did. Like, I mean, Logan would just be going Logan be siping his front tires. But we'll see. I'm sure as the year goes on. Jim Gardner: Sorry, I'm looking at, I got. Corby Scherb: Jimmy you're cooked. Jimmy you're cooked. Jim Gardner: What? Now what? Slim Pushins: Rutherford got called out by his wife, Becca, last weekend for being at a wedding and watching racing on his phone. That's my man. Corby Scherb: Everyone. Everyone. Jim Gardner: I see no issues. Corby Scherb: I I'll always believe that my stuff was never that fast. I always believe what Kyle Jones told me the first time. He said to make his car shake, he just puts really light bars in it. Then he'll video it. Then he'll put the race bars back in it. I didn't have no 500 horsepower. A 305. Jim Gardner: What does that even mean? Slim Pushins: to make it sound like it was a motor like yours. Jim Gardner: ⁓ okay. My motor's not nicknamed the Lope Show. that's so let's yeah. Yeah, I'm looking at Stosser's pictures now. Yeah, the Hoosier held up pretty good. I mean, you still, the Hoosier held up pretty good. You still have to work that tire, but it's probably Slim Pushins: That's fact. Corby Scherb: That thing did sound good. Man, that thing sounded good. Slim Pushins: Go. I'm sorry, one more time? Okay. Thanks everybody for joining us. It was a great show. Jim Gardner: But it's probably only good for another rubber race because it's hardened up. Corby Scherb: Well, read his comment too. He didn't go out there with a brand new and like I said, I would never do that. If I go to some of these racetracks, especially like Waco, like I always had a really good used tire. If I thought it was going to take rubber, I would always put that one on. There's no question. You'll blister just about anything. Jim Gardner: ⁓ sorry, I'm texting. Slim Pushins: There it is. Savannah, Savannah Sessoms is calling you out. And then Claude, she knocked you right back down. Then Claude picks you right back up. Jim Gardner: Thanks, Savannah. I've always thought the world of her. She knows ball is what she does. Slim Pushins: These are, I love, I love episodes like this. I'm tired of y'all always bagging on me every day. Now, this has been a great episode. Corby Scherb: I agree, Jeffrey. Jim Gardner: I did tell Chelsea Savannah's idea of a ⁓ wags episode of Pushing the Cushion. Corby Scherb: No, you don't to knock me yet. Not yet. Slim Pushins: She did Savannah, Savannah came up to me at KSP and we had already thought about it, ⁓ having a wives, girlfriends, daughters ⁓ episode ⁓ at some point and just firing questions at them about what it's, what the emotions, what it's like, the time consumption. Jim Gardner: Pfft You never You never know when you have to measure something Sam Especially around this group Corby Scherb: Aunt Sam? She would be a great one to have on that too. She would be a great one to have on that episode. Slim Pushins: That's a fact. He had a stagger tape in his pocket in his what tuxedo or suit at the altar during his wedding. Corby Scherb: He had a stagger tape, he probably still does, in his toolbox that said, not for Corby. Jim Gardner: You Slim Pushins: Why was that? You broke... Jim Gardner: Cause you, cause he didn't have one and he didn't have one. And that was in the height of Corbyn. was budding on track rivalry. Corby Scherb: Because I always steal them. Slim Pushins: Not for Corby. Corby Scherb: Me and Wesley beat you that night, don't worry. Jim Gardner: Patrick, I appreciate you. Slim Pushins: We swung by Jim's house last weekend and Wesley needed a stagger tape and Jim said, hold my beer, watch this. And Jim comes out, Jim comes out with a brand new, still in the package, stagger tape. Jim, what's the product number of that stagger tape? Jim Gardner: Here's three, brand new. Three of them. Four of Corby Scherb: What's the part number? Part number? Jim Gardner: Stanley 33-115s. And I won't use a different one. Throw the other pieces of junk in the trash. Especially the ones that... Corby Scherb: Those little yellow plastic ones we had were great, man. And they had a little belt loop, and you could see. Jim Gardner: You guys had a... I will say, the guy I bought my midget from, he gave me all his racing tools because he was just done. He's like, take the whole top tray of my toolbox. I was like, okay. And he had some cool ones that have the little clips on them. ⁓ But you can't read shit for numbers. What are we doing? Slim Pushins: I got those off Amazon. Four of them for $10. Jim Gardner: Stanley 33115s. Tell them Jim sent you. Slim Pushins: Today's episode brought to you by Stanley Tools. How many do you think that you order in a season, or in a year? 10? ⁓ here we go. He's got his receipts. Jim Gardner: I think like I only got two left because I gave gave them to the West but ⁓ I get them on like six pack ⁓ Amazon I'll get I'll get 20 beginning of the year because I Break them. I lose them like 20 Corby steals them Corby Scherb: Here we go. This just went downhill. Slim Pushins: Still in the package. One more time. Corby Scherb: Do not. Jim Gardner: So. Slim Pushins: Speaking of Corby Steeling, we're all going different directions for Speed Weeks this week. Jim, where are you gonna be? Jim Gardner: I will be on the 916th for the Bartonville bomber, Justin Bates in the 21 car. I just ran the valves on her. I got to print some graphics for her tomorrow. Some numbers. It'll be bare only numbers because that's how we roll. And ⁓ we're going to go try to give them hell. So. 21 car to the front. Slim Pushins: We're going. Corby? Corby Scherb: Good luck to you guys. Slim Pushins: I'll be out there with Ryder the Kid the Plant. Jim Gardner: So if he doesn't win the title, know whose fault it is. Corby Scherb: Always a heavy hitter. for sure. Slim Pushins: Okay, so hold on. I just want to make sure that I understand. I just want to make sure that I understand so moving forward, I know where I fit in. All y'all do is talk to, talk, tell me that I don't do shit. But then if, but then if somebody loses, it's my fault. Corby Scherb: 100%. Jim Gardner: Not true. That's not true. You first of all, you've got the steadiest flashlight hand of anybody in the game. Yeah. And honestly, when Logan broke that driveline at Chili Bowl in Hotlaps and we still made it to the heat after we took the seat out and took the whole driveline out and everything, and Kerbo had one objective, one talk to the ⁓ TV reporter that was standing right there. Slim Pushins: That's... ⁓ I'm up. Corby Scherb: Hell of a Zeus tray holder. Hell of a tray holder. Jim Gardner: two, hold the bolts and. Yeah, that's right. But hold the bolts. Just give me the bolts, you know. Don't ask him to give you the, you know, three eights, 24, one inch long bolts. Just say, give me the tray, get the bolts you want, give it back to him and then they'll be right there. And and Kerbo, nobody can can the leadership and just the vibes you bring. Slim Pushins: She wanted to know about the Johnson rods that we were changing out. Yeah. Corby Scherb: Don't do not confuse him. Yes. Yes, do not ask him for a wrench. Slim Pushins: That's actually a true story. Jim Gardner: And when I brought you around the first time, you know, in 21, when I was running non-wing, I told you, I was like, I just need the vibes. I need you here. Cause sometimes I just need help. So. Slim Pushins: Well, evidently the vibes aren't working anymore if you're that unapproachable. Jim Gardner: But I'll tell you when you went to when you went to ⁓ Kansas with Rutherford and Claude last year, I talked to Kevin like the week after he goes, yeah, I had no idea. Kerbo literally doesn't do anything. He's like, you're like, I see why he's just slim pushings. Like that's all he does. I was like, yeah, I mean, but he'll he'll go get you a beer or, you know, he'll go he'll go get you a water. Slim Pushins: He doesn't do shit. Yeah. Yeah. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah, well I have drank water. Corby Scherb: We won't talk about the water situation right now. That comes into later. Jim Gardner: The first, I had Kerbo. Slim Pushins: It's it's been dictated that way. Y'all won't let me touch anything. Y'all don't want me to touch anything. I'm perfectly fine with that. It's a we've had a great relationship in that regard. Everybody wins. Jim Gardner: So we ran the first year I ran the wing car in 22, we ran Ardmore and I broke a left rear arm off and I could feel it sink down on the left rear just on the bump stop the whole time and we got a red and Corbo comes out there putting around and I yelled from the cockpit, Corbo, what's broke back there? And he goes, no, you're all good. And I was like, all right, 10-4, thumbs up out the window. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah, ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Okay, I'll see where this is going. He was bottoming out for the rest of the race. Gug, gug, gug, gug, gug, gug, gug, Yeah, that's one of my, that was one of my more shining moments. Jim Gardner: Sure enough, the whole car is laid over. Yeah, like it broke the rod end or something. The whole arm was dragging back. Corby Scherb: His other brother Darryl? Kevin? Slim Pushins: I don't want to be the guy responsible for losing a race. So I just don't touch anything. Jim Gardner: Hence the keep digging signs. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Slim Pushins: Rutherford said, put Rutherford's comment up there. Corby Scherb: What's his name? What do you call him? Slim Pushins: My other brother Darrell. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah. Jim Gardner: You Slim Pushins: We went racing the first time together ever in Kansas and thank goodness my brother came too. His brother was a hard working son of a bitch that trip too. I feel bad for him, he was sweating. Jim Gardner: I mean, at KSP, I about miss my qualifying spot because you know, slim push-ins who's a one trick pony wasn't in my pit anywhere to be found for qualifying time. I had to call them. Hey, where you at? Get your ass back here. Slim Pushins: you I did, that's a fact. Samantha broke down. Corby Scherb: But now you're going with the kid. ⁓ I'll always ⁓ be the kid's biggest fan. Jim Gardner: You Slim Pushins: I mean it doesn't show but okay. I'll be out there with the kid. Jim Gardner: We got to wrap this up for wide on the high limit race. Corby Scherb: ⁓ No, so so I walked by a pit area at the big race at Kennedale and I heard what the car did and I walked by and I gave my opinion and It's not that they didn't believe me, but I told him I said I've heard this sound before I know what it was we pulled the torque tube back to torque tube forward and I realized that it pulled snap ring off a ball and spine drive shaft and So I took my hat off and I got to work and we got it fixed and we made him out ⁓ Struck a conversation with his dad talking about work and gates and stuff like that. And next thing you know, his dad called me and said that ⁓ they want me to come and crew chief for him, which I think is a terrible idea. And I don't know why anyone would ever trust in me. ⁓ But Braxton Weger, and the kid's been absolutely ripping. ⁓ It's not that he had any type of bad situation ever in his life, but. ⁓ Jim Gardner: Who is this? Slim Pushins: I love it. I love it. Corby Scherb: His parents think that it was time for a change and see if he can't bring some fun to the racetrack. So lucky for me, know Jimmy was taken, so I picked the better option, which was Wesley McNorton ⁓ to come and help me throw some wrenches on this thing. And so glad that one of them is because my hands don't usually get too dirty. Jim Gardner: That's good. you You get this, ⁓ Wes, ⁓ Wes doesn't get enough credit. Wes is about the only person in hundred mile radius. I trust with a wrench, ⁓ that I don't go behind and double check whatever work, ⁓ was done on it. And, ⁓ he's a good dude. So I'm excited for you guys. No. Corby Scherb: No. Absolutely. Slim Pushins: I thought that was just me. I thought I was the only one that you double checked. Corby Scherb: Wesley Wesley is is that guy and Wesley listens to motors? He's super smart with all that stuff and he was always really good at ⁓ Talking me off the ledge when Jimmy whenever I'd come in and throw a fit and Jimmy kind of like go that way Wesley be like dude You're just being a little bitch stand up be proud of yourself and Kerber will stand over there. Just give me to keep digging sign So I'm jazzed that me and Wesley are gonna go and do this with Braxton and hopefully we get to run some speed week See where he is. I the kids an absolute gasser Jim Gardner: You Yeah. Slim Pushins: Diggin'. Jim Gardner: It man, I think he, think between him breaking all those times at Kennedale, he passed me nine times. So I was, every time I looked at my right, he was like, Hey, blowing by me on the top. So, ⁓ Corby Scherb: He's got a good shot. Slim Pushins: Blowing past you. He's fast. Yeah, I did. Corby Scherb: Did it make it worse that I was over there tuning on his car? Jim Gardner: Yeah, and then I'd get back to the pit and be like, where's my crew guy at? Corby Scherb: Now Braxton rips man. He's got he's got a shot. He's 17 the same as I took rider under I helped with Carson some and now I get a shot with Braxton and Hopefully I can teach him the things that you don't do which is Drive the bottom and hit infill tires Which I'm pretty lucky with him. He's a he's more of a gasser. He's gonna rip the top. So It'll be cool to see Yeah Slim Pushins: Jim looked up. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, throw a turn in the right rear and tell them to stand on the gas. It'd be just fine. So. Slim Pushins: He's a ripper. Corby Scherb: It'll be different, know, I helped Rutherford some last year and said it's just a major change of pace to be standing on the outside of the car looking in and ⁓ who knows. Jim Gardner: I, ⁓ I felt, ⁓ you know, I've told you this, the, the, the, the juice you get from, from taking care of somebody and, and, and watching your stuff go to the front is, is kind of a different way of going racing. And it almost like makes it makes me more animated. Like you almost get more out of it. So I'm excited for you to, ⁓ to go on that, ⁓ new challenge. That's that's We're gonna whip your ass, but So ⁓ Slim Pushins: Wow. We have a little we have a little PTC bet going. ⁓ Corby Scherb: I gotta fight with the kids. Jim Gardner: You Slim Pushins: But, yeah, we'll see at the end of Speed Weeks. Corby Scherb: Best in-house. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: ⁓ Man, you know, I love the kid. The kid will always be my first choice. ⁓ I get more nervous watching him race than me ever racing, but it Jim Gardner: Yeah. That's kind of, that's kind of, yeah. I mean, you get this weird sense of, you know, of pride and accomplishment, just watching your guy go to the front and I'm feeling like you had a little bit thing to go with it. So, ⁓ it's fun. Slim Pushins: I used to feel that I used to get a lot of anxiety with Corby on the track, but Ryder is such a so much better of a driver. The anxiety is just a little bit. I have so much more faith in Ryder than I do ever did with Corby. Corby Scherb: So much more talent. Jim Gardner: Yeah Right. Well, I mean, once we push Corby out away from the trailer, we just go start getting the front end out of the out of the closet. So anyway, Sean, to answer your question. No. You will not see all three hundred and five cubic inches of steel and sex appeal. The 51 car is Justin's backup car for the week. So that's right. So. Slim Pushins: There it is. All 500 horsepower. Jim Gardner: And that my motor is kind of spoken for as a spare in case somebody has an issue or if we have an issue. ⁓ but I am more, ⁓ I'm better suited to be the help and, ⁓ the wrench than the actual racer. You know, somebody's got to run 17th, but it doesn't have to be me this week. You know what mean? Corby Scherb: and Jordan Roop to answer. Slim Pushins: Put that on a t-shirt. Corby Scherb: Jordan Roop, to answer your question, I am always open to help anyone. I'm not Jimmy. You can always walk up to me and ask me a question. Same, I helped Devon Debrick. I talked to Jordan quite a bit at Kennedale. I'm for sure a better teacher than I was a doer. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so. Slim Pushins: It makes sense now that KSP Jordan Rupp was pitted next to Jim. And it makes a lot of sense now that his wife was so standoffish when I was around Jim's trailer. Corby Scherb: sure. 100%. Slim Pushins: because, you know, she just associated me with Jim. Corby Scherb: Look at him right now. He's getting serious right now. Jim Gardner: I'm getting a bad rep. I don't think it's warranted. Corby Scherb: Someone's got to be the bad guy Wesley is too Wesley could care less who you are Wesley is there in that moment for that person if someone catches him when in downtime He'll happily go and help you do whatever Jim Gardner: What's? Slim Pushins: Ha ha! Jim Gardner: He, ⁓ I said this, think on like the first show, Wesley has got like the temperament of a serial killer. Also he net he's, he is so even keel that you don't know if he's ready to punch you in the face or, take the shirt off it off of his back and give it to you. Like he could, he could do either and you have no idea. It'd be the worst person to play poker for with like, but he is. Corby Scherb: ⁓ for sure. Slim Pushins: That's a, I never thought about it, but he is so even keel. Corby Scherb: For sure. Slim Pushins: Swim. from his car flipping down the back stretch and knowing he's gonna have to fix it to like winning a huge race. Same guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah, you have no idea. He is it is actually terrifying. So and his wife's a piece of work. So hey, Sam. Corby Scherb: Absolutely. Aunt Sam's always, got Uncle Wes's back. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yep. But, um, all right. Well, it's going to be a good week. Hopefully mother nature will calm her, uh, calm herself down. So we get some racing in. We appreciate everybody tuning in and watching, uh, no, no contest. know we ran the pick them contest for Kennedy. Um, I was trying to put one together for this week, but it's just really hard to see, like to feel who's going to be at all the races and, and, and make something that wouldn't, wasn't going to be a shit show. So Slim Pushins: She's always got our back. And Jim's time is consumed with making caricatures of slim push-ins. So there's just not a lot of time. You can post that. You have that picture. You can post it, I guess after we're done, can post it on here so everybody can see it. That and the camel. Jim Gardner: You Corby Scherb: It is a great one with the camel. Lots of room for storage. Jim Gardner: ⁓ I will. Yeah, yeah, so Nobody's gonna understand the camel but all good Yeah, so that's it Slim Pushins: You didn't understand the camel. Corby Scherb: Just ask Ryder. Just ask Ryder. He'll tell you. Slim Pushins: So anyway, if y'all are coming out, come out and see us. Come out and see Jim first. That way it makes Corby and I look that much more fun and personable if you start with Jim. Jim Gardner: ⁓ yeah, pit meltdown section. It could very well be in my pit between me and Bates. I think it's just me and him most of the week. So that actually might keep it. ⁓ OK. Yeah. All right. Well, if Taylor's coming, that might calm me down a little bit because he's wheels off and and ⁓ he just can't. ⁓ Yeah, so ⁓ now I'm looking for. Slim Pushins: Skypilot said he was gonna be out there with y'all. Corby Scherb: Have we thrown wrenches? You're safe now. Slim Pushins: Does it calm you down knowing that I'm not gonna be like right there on top of your pit? You know I'll come down. Jim Gardner: Yeah, well, calms me down that I know pulling into the pit gate that I have to push him on the four wheeler, but that will definitely not miss our race. So that's, I'm actually good on. Slim Pushins: Okay. I just set myself up for that one. Corby Scherb: I think it's gonna be really tough to... You got Kevin LaPlante and Kerbo. Then you got me and Wesley. Then you got Brian Bolden and John Binns. I mean, dude, it might just turn into a battle of the mechanics. Slim Pushins: My money's my money's on Bolden and Benz. Corby Scherb: I'm been practicing. We're good. We're ready. Just watch. Jim Gardner: What does that even mean? What is that? West side thing. Slim Pushins: There you go. Wesley just said, Wesley just said you needed to post a collage of the camel shirts and you know what the hell that means. Corby Scherb: Just watch, just the special touch. Jim Gardner: You Slim Pushins: Jim gets a kick. think I told the story about the slim push-ins shirts that he sent. Jim sent like this was what a couple of years ago. Jim was sending us, Jim was sending the DRA group text a like versions of the slim push-ins shirts and every single version that he sent slim got bigger and the four wheeler got smaller. Jim Gardner: You is on their way back home from the bachelor party. Corby Scherb: Great time. Slim Pushins: and he's now done the same thing with his damn camel. The last one I saw, Slim's feet were dragging the ground, you can barely see the camel. Jim Gardner: Persons got a flat here. Corby Scherb: Yep, you're a cook. Jim Gardner: Yep. All right. Let's wrap this up. Well, hopefully we'll see everybody Thursday and definitely come down and see us. Uh, these boys are, are definitely upselling my grumpiness at the racetrack. It's not that bad. Um, like I know Thomas Johnson is coming up from. Yeah. Uh, I Thomas Johnson's coming up from Louisiana. He was messaging the podcast. Like absolutely come down and see us. Like, trust me, we know where the beer is. Uh, if anything else. So. Slim Pushins: He ain't stopping though. Hey, prove them wrong. We're setting you up to prove them wrong. Corby Scherb: 100%. Jim Gardner: They're all ice cold domestics. That's where the fancy beers are. The ice cold domestics will be in my trailer. ⁓ Slim Pushins: It'll be in the RLR trailer. Corby Scherb: I hope. Slim Pushins: Well, Kevin the plants beer is fancy. Corby Scherb: ⁓ yeah Bates Bates reef now come on now now Bates Bates is gonna show up probably with more than anyone else there Let's be honest Jim Gardner: Yeah, but it's only Coors Light. ⁓ we might, if we know Jeb's coming, we'll bring Bush lattes because he's got a gluten thing going on. ⁓ yeah, I don't know if that just violated hip of rules, but whatever. ⁓ but yeah, come on down and see us hang out. Let's have, let's like, let's, let's get after everybody's ass, you know, until the checkered flag falls and then let's, let's shoot the bull and hang out, you know? Slim Pushins: New job? Y'all come see me and ask me where Corby's at. Corby Scherb: Not during load up time. I might have got busy during load up time. Slim Pushins: That's all anybody cares about. Jim Gardner: Yeah, exactly. All right. Let's wrap this up. Watch the, watch the rest of this race. Slim Pushins: Alright, well, good luck to everybody that's racing. We appreciate it. Thanks for joining us, ⁓ as always. ⁓ Like Jim said, if you're out there, come see us. Jim Gardner: Yep. All right. Y'all have a good one.