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• Slim Pushins: It's seven o'clock. Do you know where your kids are? Welcome, back to another Another riveting week of pushing the cushion shop beers. not as always. My illustrious co host is still shaving his legs. but I'm being told he will log on at some point. So I dug up the second best guy that I could find to co host with me Jimmy. So we'll Jim Gardner: What's up, Kerbo? Slim Pushins: just go with we'll just go with bits and gimmicks until Corby shows up and Jim Gardner: Even better. Slim Pushins: talk smack about Corby. Jim Gardner: That's all right. Slim Pushins: You got you got a another crew chief notching your belt this weekend. at KSP. What are you umin' about? Jim Gardner: Well, I'm I'm gonna do crew member. I I want to make sure we give our buddy Wesley McNorton credit on on that and on Slim Pushins: The the brains behind the operation? Jim Gardner: the entire Braxton Weager KB racing team. He has been the glue that has held it together through a tough summer for those guys. They've been fast. but just had a lot of bad luck, tore up some stuff, some of it his doing, some of it not. but Wesley has been a steady a steady positive influence and he's the one who's who's really really held it together so I've just been there kinda kinda getting Slim Pushins: Babysitting? Jim Gardner: on there with some some fresh eyes and and giving them a little help on the on the balance and it was good to to stand in Victory Lane on Saturday. It was even my wife Chelsea was like it's nice to like see you win and be happy and not frustrated all day Sunday. I was like, Yeah, that happens. So Slim Pushins: Why why doesn't a wind make you more approachable at the racetrack? Jim Gardner: well I did I did slip back into being Mr. Unapproachable after the heat race. So we we weren't very good in the heat race. we were in heat number four and the track just kind of started taking a a late swing there. And we were okay, but we weren't great and ended up being third to third which we thought was gonna be even keeping us out of the A lock ins. We thought we were going to the B Slim Pushins: Well, mathematically it did, right? Jim Gardner: Yeah, we we thought we were going to the B main and then the twenty six car w got DQ'd. I don't know why. I assumed light at the scales maybe. and that moved us into not only, you know, the A main lock in, but into the last redraw spot and and and you know, then we redraw the front row. And you know, I've said it on here why I was so disappointed with myself at Ardmore about a month ago. You only get a 25% chance to redraw the top row. You have to make it have to make it count. And so, yeah, but I was I felt bad. I was kind of rude to a guy. We we pushed right back in to the pits after after that heat race, and I was kind of pissed and I was trying to figure out what was going on. 'Cause we missed something and checking staggering. The guy's asking me, Hey, where you guys been? Like, I'm a big fan. I was Hey man, like you need to give him a couple of seconds. so Braxton can get his bearings, he'll he'll come talk to you and the guy just I you know. Slim Pushins: Left? Jim Gardner: No, he was there, he was cool, but like Diana invited him into the Slim Pushins: You only get one shot. Jim Gardner: he wanted to buy a shirt and like it would just gotta give me gotta give us like five or ten minutes to cool off after these heat races. you know, so I Slim Pushins: You or everybody? Jim Gardner: Well, me in particular, but you know, I'm also trying to be protective of the kid if he's not interested in talking to somebody right away. He was disappointed too, you know. with you know, we we didn't know we got into the redraw at that point. So anyway. Slim Pushins: How do you how did y'all get notified? How'd you get notified you were in the redraw? Jim Gardner: No, I I told him like when we got back, like, hey boys, this format we need to be prepared for the B main. Like, let's let's make sure there's fuel in this, let's make some adjustments and see what's up. And Braxton was, you know, I at one point on my race pass, we were scheduled to start fifth in the B main. and then it got taken off. And then, you know, we drove up to to the pit board to see what was going on. They didn't really have answers, and so we were preparing to go out for the B main. you know, up until they posted the the the D Q of the twenty six. So it was a little hectic there after the heat races. it was a little hectic to start start the race, you know, his his car kept hopping out of gear as we tried to fire it up to warm it up so we had to to thrash on it and Slim Pushins: I was gonna ask I never asked you at the track. You had hollered at me to come pop him off and I it did not give the characteristics that it was popping out of gear. It was he would put it in gear and it was whining almost like it had maybe like mismatched gears or something. What was the deal? Jim Gardner: Yeah. The the basically they w they weren't the the shifter didn't all the way engage or disengage. It was caught in the middle or popped out. so that car he had run all spring and into the summer and he crashed it at RPM, the same night I crashed in RPM. and they kind of threw the car back together and it was the spare up in the trailer for Nebraska and for Belleville and and it It's lived up in the trailer for two or three months. And they wanted to get it back out and run that car here to finish the season to to mileage out the the engine. but it was not it was not fully it it you know, pulling it down from the top didn't mean it was ready to go. So we had a lot of work to do on it and put it together and they just the the shifter linkage wasn't adjusted properly. So it wasn't coming in and out of gear all the way. And I don't think it was engaging fully either. So little hiccup to start. Slim Pushins: Corby is it's shaving Jim Gardner: There's a reason there's a t shirt, yeah. Slim Pushins: it's it's it's shaving Tuesday. I think he's in the shower. He's still Jim Gardner: Yeah. He's coming in with with fresh arms. Slim Pushins: shaving his ankles and his legs. Did you get robbed? Jim Gardner: Yeah, for arrow. But so yeah, Slim Pushins: Did you get robbed there at the house? Did they take all your good hats? Did all your good hats get stolen? Jim Gardner: First of all, my Cincinnati Bengals are Slim Pushins: Ha ha. Jim Gardner: two and Two and So say it with a little respect. Slim Pushins: It's t it's two games. Jim Gardner: First of all, every win in the NFL is a good win. And the way the Bengals season has started the last five years, where they've like 0-6 every year, we'll take it. Going into Pittsburgh to whip that ass this week, it's gonna be great. I'm having a good Slim Pushins: Corby did tell me he won he won fantasy football last week, so it as of now it's not looking like he's gonna have to take the SAT. Jim Gardner: Yeah, we can just make do it anyway. anyway, yeah. So that was that was that. Slim Pushins: R Rickens is starting Rickens is starting a t a trend. Hashtag Where's Corby? Jim Gardner: Yeah, he he'll he'll be here. I we all know where everybody's allegiance lies. Corby is the most famous person on the podcast for a reason. So Slim Pushins: Absolutely. Corby I've told y'all a mil Corby's the most famous number that I have in my phone. He gets Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Slim Pushins: he gets recognized globally. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: what about what about Browns one too? Tony said the Browns one. What about the track conditions? Same? Different? I I thought it was Jim Gardner: I thought the racetrack Slim Pushins: good racing. Jim Gardner: I thought the racetrack was awesome. It was you know, th the only I love going to Kennedale to to to go race. They run a good show or out of there at a decent hour. Yep, you know, you can be out of there at a decent hour. We typically aren't. The corndogs are yeah. Slim Pushins: We could have been. Had we had we shoved it and packed up and left, we could have been Jim Gardner: Right. the corndogs are great. The competition's great. and this year, every sprint car race, the track's been awesome. You know, we'll take on the fence and slick every day. You know, yeah. I mean, could people bitch and whine that the bottom wasn't there? Sure, because people you could give some people a hundred dollar bill and they'd bitch that it's not five twenties. but man, anytime the the track is fast on the fence sprint cars are gonna put on a good show. So it was tough to pass. It was tough to get through traffic. I thought it was really racy. The B main was good. You know the the the heat races are are are a little bit of a parade, but you'll have that. you know Jeb was able to go sixth to fourth or third in our heat race. It's not it's not like you couldn't pass. You know, it's just tough and it's a tough field. So it's just tough to be a lot better than the other guys out there around. So Slim Pushins: John said the pace we had at KSP was very fast in my opinion. I I thought it was a good race. There were I felt like I felt like drivers had an option. it wasn't necessarily follow the leader. I think a lot of them did just follow the leader because it's safe and KSP gets gnarly. I I tell you Jim Gardner: But it was it wasn't rough, it wasn't it wasn't edgy, like it was just on the top and and and it was wide open on the top. I haven't gone back to look at lap times yet from that feature. But like, you know, I have in all my notes, I I usually keep just the pace of every race so we kind of know where you know, where our car kind of needs to be in that B main they were running fourteen flats, which is still pretty good pace. thirteen is is wide open qualifying laps and that's usually about where heat races are. But, you know, it was all the way to fourteen flats, fourteen twos for that B. that gave us an idea of where we needed to be. for the for the race. I I would imagine if I look back through my race pass here, if I look back through my race pass, which I can't get through right now live 'cause Kerbo put me on the spot. Slim Pushins: I didn't even bring up anything. I look while you're looking, I wanna give a kudos and you're gonna bag on me and everybody's gonna make fun of me. I don't even know the guy's name, but the thirty eight was on the hammer all night long. He might be my new favorite driver. And I don't even know his name. Jim Gardner: What's his name? Yeah. Thirty eight. Slim Pushins: A dude was committed to the top and he was ripping till he wasn't. Jim Gardner: Is he the one who flipped flipped it over in the B main? Slim Pushins: Yes. Jim Gardner: Billy Bachmeyer. Good race car name. Yeah, Billy Bachmeyer. That Slim Pushins: Bachmeyer. What a great name. Billy Bachmeyer. Jim Gardner: is a race driver name if I've ever heard of one. yeah, I'd I Okay. Slim Pushins: He came out of Winged Modifieds. I say came out of. I don't know if he's just moonlighting or gave that up. somebody told me it was his first sprint car race. Jim Gardner: He had the he had the he had the crawler hauler rig where it's like a half like kinda like ro Robert Byron's got where it's like a half a trailer and then it's flat on the back. Slim Pushins: yes. Yeah, you had like a one bedroom apartment up in the front of that that flatbed Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: trailer. Had a had a R V air conditioning unit on top. Jim Gardner: Beloved that. so yeah, like Braxton's best lap in that main event was a fourteen flat, but his last lap was a fourteen nine, and he's in traffic, right? So it slowed down a second, you know, three half a second, three quarters of a second, which is just slick on the fence. And and so, man, they've done a gr a good job down there. You know, we talked with Lopez at the end of it. He gave you that sweet summit racing hat that you're not wearing. and we talked to him a straw Slim Pushins: Yeah, we'll get to that here in a little while. There's pictures that exist of me and that s what do you call those hats? lawnmowing hats. Jim Gardner: yeah straw cowboy hat I don't know but him and Mike Ferrari came down got to talk to him for a while. you know I think they've done a really good job, all things considered, with the Sprint cars this year. the racetrack's been great. They've had, you know, two big paying races. the points battle was good. Colby Stubblefield wins that. He wins the track championship. He had locked it up when he made the main event. which he he got stuck in the B and and you know, we've we seen weirder things happen. but he's been incredible all year down there. And it's just the the the it the fields are always good. they do it they've done a good job. So we need to give them kudos for for another good sprint car season down there. So Slim Pushins: John said once again, I'm not saying it was a bad track. I'm saying the pace every car had was fast. I I agree. I mean, it was racy, Jim Gardner: Yeah. Well Slim Pushins: which i you know, I've never driven. So I that's all that you can ask for, in my opinion, as a spectator. So Jim Gardner: Yeah, it I you know the pace of the the field was fast because the field's really deep. You know, I it so that we had we'll have we're gonna wait till Corby gets on, but we have the video of the initial start and and Jeb and Braxton getting together. and then you know it goes green to check after the restart there. Twenty straight laps. I'll bet everybody was huffing and puffing at the end. and I Slim Pushins: I was thinking that same thing. Jim Gardner: And be and be a little mentally exhausted just from everybody being pinned up on the fence. I'll bet it was mentally draining, and and kind of nerve wracking to to run 20 laps there on the fence. and the whole field had Slim Pushins: So Jim Gardner: to do it. I mean, even even, you know, the the guys running in the dog pound were up there on the fence because that's where the speed was. And and you could throw sliders, but you couldn't roll the bottom. So the whole pace of the race was fast because the field's fast. Yeah, that's what I d Slim Pushins: No, not that one. He had another one. That was the same one. Jim Gardner: I don't know why our Facebook comments look different, but they're kinda kinda Slim Pushins: It it's John said we threw hundred mile an hour sliders rather than sixty mile an hour sliders. I thought it was a great race to watch. when you get Jim Gardner: Yeah. I mean Yeah, the top had a lot that top had a lot of grip. That's why everybody had to run up there. It's not like it was Slim Pushins: When the field gets strung out and into into lap traffic it it makes it makes it difficult for a guy with A D D to to pay attention to more than one car at a time. but course you know, my horse didn't make I don't think he made a full, full lap. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. yeah, we'll get to that. But Slim Pushins: speaking of restarts though, so we had a driver's meeting and everybody agreed to do Delaware restarts. unless unless there was some mix up and p people getting into each other and then they were gonna go they were so they were gonna give a one chance Delaware for every restart and if they couldn't drivers couldn't figure it out, they were they were gonna go single file and then the following they would do it all over again. I don't know how y'all feel about it. I think that that's a really good middle ground y you know, everybody's got an argument for Delaware, against Delaware, they've got an argument for for single single file restarts and against single file restarts. I liked it. I d I don't know if it had Jim Gardner: So I wasn't Slim Pushins: anything to do with the podcast or just people complaining online, but it all we could ever ask is that a track listens to to conversation. Jim Gardner: Well, th th those are six one way, half a dozen the other. Yeah. Just take input and it's it yeah. so I didn't I obviously didn't go to the driver's meeting and I didn't even I figured it was about that, but I we we didn't even get to that discussion, 'cause we were kind of behind, you know, making sure the cars were good. we are on pineapple white claws tonight. Jordan, I forgot to stop by and pick up some some Happy Dads, so rated the w rated the wife's stash here. Slim Pushins: Hey, speaking of speaking of picking up, I want everybody to note I know we we bag on Jim for being the math guy and Mr. Unapproachable, but when we stop for ice, you rode with me out to KSP and we'll Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: we'll we we'll get into, you know, hanging out all day Saturday and stuff here in a little while. Jim Gardner: I was exhausted. Slim Pushins: but yeah. you went in and got ice and gratefully got Corby and I beer. And when we started pulling out at the track, they were sixteen ounce Coors Lights. Why it's Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. You're welcome. Slim Pushins: twelve pack, twelve assuming a twelve pack. Why why were they not the traditional Texas Coors light? Twelve ounces. Jim Gardner: so yeah, what the the seven eleven or wherever we stopped, I I went in on cooler duty, which is no big deal. You drove. I I figured it was, you know, my duty as as your friend to to handle the Slim Pushins: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: accoutrement of the trip. And a twelve pack of of twelve ounces was seventeen forty nine and a twelve pack of sixteen ounces was sixteen ninety nine. So you're getting twenty five percent more beer for fifty less cents. That that's pretty simple math in my humble opinion. So made it a command decision right there. Slim Pushins: So so if any of y'all are if if any of y'all are thinking about kicking the math people out of your lives, pr keep around a little bit longer. Jim Gardner: You're welcome. You're welcome. Make made sure you don't get short changed on the ice cold domestic front. Slim Pushins: Corby Jim Gardner: But Slim Pushins: Corby got his first beard and he goes, What in the hell are Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: these? I was like, You're gonna have to ask Jim. But Jim Gardner: Yeah, I buy in bulk, man. I think I get ripped off at the seven eleven. So, now I forget what we were talking about. the the restart deal. Slim Pushins: Restarts. Jim Gardner: So I I didn't even you know, I figured the driver's meeting was about the restarts or about or about whatever, but I didn't actually talk to to Braxton about it or or anywhere else. Jordan Roop was fighting his car again. he's had the worst season I can think of, where he's just he's not even able to to to work on work on the race car because he's you know they've been just fighting something here or there. So we were kind of thrashing on it. And but I did notice when we were watching the B main that they they restarted one. You know, they re had a couple of restarts Delaware double file, then they went single file, and then the last restart was double double file. And I was like, huh, okay. I don't know what they're doing, but I guess When they didn't get a lap in, they went single file, which is fantastic. that's perfect. If if that makes the promoter and the fans happy, you know, I that's a good compromise for the racers. Yeah. For the for the under 21 trout. Slim Pushins: I just said can't forget the Yu ho's and apple juice. I don't know who drinks Yuho. It's chocolate flavoured water. Jim Gardner: Yeah. so Yeah, they like I said, Kennedale's done a good job all year. I think I've been I missed one show. I think when I was down in Miami for Formula One, I missed that race. Slim Pushins: yeah. Jim Gardner: But every every race I've been to Slim Pushins: With your nose in the air. Jim Gardner: all year, corndogs were spectacular, track prep was spectacular, racing was good, done at a recent ti at a reasonable hour, which is always good, so that we can either get out of there or partake in KSP after dark, which we did this this week. so Slim Pushins: Yeah, we stick stuck around for a while. Jim Gardner: yeah, it was you know, from from my personal perspective, you know, you you work so hard on cars and and on understanding things and study so much stuff that and each night is so frustrating that when you do find some success, you better celebrate it there and embrace it. And you know, as long as we stayed You know, I still got home and I was still pretty wound up for about an hour and just kinda had to hang out in the living room on my own before I went to bed. So Slim Pushins: Suzanne Cranfield said that's the way High Limits does their restarts. I like it. And again, it just shows that it just shows that Jim Gardner: Yeah. Very, very reasonable compromise. Slim Pushins: tracks yeah, it shows that the tracks are reasonably listening to to folks and you know, you're gonna take the hat off. Jim Gardner: No never. I might sleep in it till the Bengals lose. But Slim Pushins: It won't be too long. Jim Gardner: yeah, so yeah, it was it was good night. down there. So like I said, Braxton Weager got the win. Slim Pushins: His mom did her own corndog review. Did you see that? Jim Gardner: Yeah, I saw that she did it. I didn't watch it. was it good? Do I need to post it on the page? Slim Pushins: it wasn't I it wasn't like the traditional. It was it was like a point of view she ate ninety percent of it, so all you saw was the butt end and then mustard. but Jim Gardner: Yeah, it was good. She she went and got me one. Mine was fantastic, nice and crispy. And she's like, You sure you don't need mustard or ketchup? I was like, No, no, no, no. It's perfect as is. So Slim Pushins: Have you ever you've never given a under seven point corn dog review in any review that you've done? Jim Gardner: Nah. I I'm not trying to bag on subpark horndogs. Like the only one I w would have really bagged on it for being awful would have been the Formula One one because it was twenty five dollars. So Slim Pushins: Did you pay for it? Jim Gardner: Yeah, that's the one thing I spent my money on that entire weekend. So Yeah, let's see. Slim Pushins: D are we supposed to have a high le I mean a an outlaw race Jim Gardner: Outw Slim Pushins: tonight? It Jim Gardner: yeah, to Hanford. Okay. No. Slim Pushins: Is it rain delayed or something? 'Cause for an hour and a half it's told me coverage starting soon. Jim Gardner: California. Time zones and shit. It'll s yeah, it'll probably start probably eight o'clock, nine o'clock our time. So and I'll have to watch the highlights of the main event tomorrow. Braxton Wieger was the winner. Landon Thompson snuck by Kevin Rutherford late to take second. Kev Kevin Rutherford was really, really good to finish third, round out the podium. Marcus Thomas and Dalton Steed with a top five. looks like The hard charger was Colby Subblefield, your points champion, running sixth. And Yeah. Good showing. Good showing for their final show. So Slim Pushins: Ryan Debrick said it's California. I think he only said he I think he only said that because Jim Gardner: That isn't that is that not what I just said? Slim Pushins: I no, the the the comments are delayed like thirty seconds. Jim Gardner: gotcha. so yeah. Slim Pushins: Sean said Boyd Raceway will be having here, let me put this up while I read it. Where'd he go? Boyd Raceway will be having three hundred five next Friday. Hope to see a lot of cars there, especially the corndog man with his three hundred five cubic inch steel and sex appeal. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: He's not talking about you. Jim Gardner: No, he's talking about me. so Sean Slim Pushins: Stasi, you're not wrong. Hopefully they work the track. Jim Gardner: Sean used to Sean is the announcer, I believe, for the Texas Wing Modifies now, but he used to announce the Nathan Moore Elite Non Wing series when I ran it with Scott Evans. And I had a little steel block motor for that series. So I you know, I joked with him. You know, we only got 360 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal here. 360 cubic inches, I mean. But so yeah, he's he That that that's kinda stuck with him and I I appreciate that he keeps bringing that up. So I do not believe I'm gonna make Boyd next week. still reeling with some damage and damage shocks from Grayson County. So I'm probably not going up. not going to Boyd next week. But I hope they get a bunch of cars. I hope all the West Side guys get out there on a Friday night, pass on some football and hope they have a good show. out there and I Texas wing modified and I got a bunch of other stuff we talked about last week. So Slim Pushins: Dwarfs, I think. Jim Gardner: yeah. So yeah, that's that. Slim Pushins: This weekend, what have we got? Jim Gardner: Well, I was gonna wait. Well, so this weekend is we got two two big shows. the Smiley Sitting Memorial at RPM is Saturday, and I have their flyer here. And Slim Pushins: There it is. Jim Gardner: this flyer didn't show it, but two thousand dollars to win, two hundred to start. really good money for a three five sprint car race. Slim Pushins: Gotta bring some people in. Jim Gardner: And they got a bunch of stuff to give away also. yeah. Slim Pushins: Yeah, I saw a video earlier. Jim Gardner: They got tires and like a whole Wheelwood brake kit, which I could use in my car. again, I can't go, but Slim Pushins: Seven eight. Jim Gardner: yeah. Well, I check it don't let give you a seven eighths master cylinder. Freaking Jeb. Jeb texted us last Friday night getting ready to, you know, he was doing his one hour weekly maintenance on that car. And sure enough, he takes a picture. Seven eighths master cylinder. It says, Looks works good for me. Freaking jackass. So whatever. They don't Slim Pushins: Just just trolling you. Jim Gardner: but then I went and like I went down and talked to him about it. And he goes, yeah, it's got a little play in it. And I was Yeah, that's what I don't like. that's what I really hate about that deal. So anyway I don't I was gonna wait on Corby so we can talk about Jeb and Braxton getting together, but let's just go ahead and fire it off here, Kerbo. Yeah, Slim Pushins: Let's do it. We'll bring it back if we need to. Jim Gardner: so Slim Pushins: Jeb's on. Seven eight's didn't work this past weekend. We'll see how this works. Jim Gardner: All right, I'm gonna go back. So I pulled this video from Don Cook. We appreciate all the filming you do, Don, and posting it so we can all review the Kennedale races. Please don't sue me. I'm gonna let this play out and then we'll play it back in and and we can talk about it. That sucked. I was so freaking I was I was not happy about that. I was over in the hot pit trying to get that, but trying to get Jeb back up there Slim Pushins: Jeff broke a lot more stuff than what I saw what I thought he broke from across the room. Jim Gardner: So not really. So I'm gonna I'm gonna run this back here. So first of all, I'm gonna hit pause. we'll have to work with Braxton on where to rest to start the race because it was super slick right there, off of turn four. And you see that he gets no launch. And Kevin yanks him and Jeb yanks him, going down in turn one. Slim Pushins: And then he finds it right there in the middle of one. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I mean Braxton's in the grip and Kevin runs him down the racetrack as he should and chops his momentum and Braxton's you know, Braxton's coming up the racetrack. Slim Pushins: It looked like Jeb might have gotten a scooch out of sorts too. I mean not not unrecoverable, but it looked like he did have to turn back to the right just a little bit. Jim Gardner: So here's like It here's what I want people to know is that, boy. I don't want to be in there. So, like, like Kevin sees Braxton coming, and Kevin pulls left down the back straightaway to break his momentum. Kevin's trying to win the damn race, and he's not doing anything wrong. He's trying to fend off. He knows this is the race right here. You let Braxton go, you might not get a shot back at him, you know. but this does hurt. Both of their momentum, this angle, right? And and Kevin slides it and Braxton's maybe a little tentative to get through there. you know, like he's taking his time, but then he decides to fill this hole, and he's got no idea Jeb's there. And Jeb's coming with a huge head of steam. You know, he had rolled the top that entire corner. You know, Jeb's pounding the curb, huge head of steam, and Jeb's one foot away from clearing Braxton there, and maybe. you know, running Kevin down the front stretch and throwing a slider on Kevin into turn one for the lead and might be running away with this race, right? Like all three of these guys know this is the race right here. and they're all running hard and this is why people pay good hard earned money to go sit in the stands and watch sprint cars because Slim Pushins: See, go back like three seconds, watch Jeb here. Like Jeb got Jeb got some bite right there and Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: got the car I think I think Braxton came up a little bit. Now these are all my words. Jeb Jeb Jim Gardner: Yeah, well I I mean I mean Slim Pushins: kind of took he took responsibility. Jim Gardner: Well, you know, w we Slim Pushins: For his part in it. Jim Gardner: had this conversation about a month ago between Jeb and and Charlie Harmon, right? Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: And it it was just it was the other way around. Jeb was on the bottom, didn't really know where Harmon was. And and Braxton, you know, here knows he's had his momentum broken, knows if he doesn't get to the top and get it wound back up, he's gonna lose three spots, and that might be the race, right? So he better get there. and Jeb again, Jeb is two feet from clearing Braxton and maybe leading this race coming down the back stretch. So yeah. Slim Pushins: It right there, right where you've got it paused, it looks like it looks like Jeb maybe got a little bit of bite that he wasn't expecting and the car was just pointed, you know, he was just a l a a ten percent out of sorts and the car Jim Gardner: I mean Slim Pushins: the car got some bite and as Braxton Jim Gardner: Yeah, and and Slim Pushins: was kind of coming up. Jim Gardner: yeah, and and like I said, Braxton doesn't see him there and and they get into each other just slightly and they're going fast and and luckily Jeb keeps it out of the fence and stays upside down. I hate that Colby gets into him. Then somebody turned over, I guess. And so so the red came out. Slim Pushins: know if they was that the was that the caution that the red came out? We were looking trying to figure out why Jim Gardner: Yes. Yeah. Slim Pushins: the red why the red was out. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I didn't see a car maybe they thought Jeb got upside down and and in inadvertently threw the red. But it look it Slim Pushins: Jeb but Jeb said these are Jeb's words Jeb never lifted and had his fingers crossed. Jim Gardner: Look, so Slim Pushins: Jeb was one of the first ones there on the infield to congratulate Uyghur. Jim Gardner: So so yeah, so we Wes and I hopped down and you know busted our ass to get to the hot pit. We, you know, we had our tires there ready to go. you know, grabbed Jimmy and and Jeff Osmus from from the Takokasi racing team, like, hey, go get this. You know, we think we can fix it. And, you know, we we thought we just it just had a flat left rear. I mean, no, you know, no problem. Let's get it fixed and get him back out there. Hate that it tore them up. you know, in a racing deal, but we still want to get our buddy back out on the racetrack. So we're decked there, and then Jeb comes rolling in. He's already gotten out of the car. the left front's also flat and the left rear shock's hanging off of it. And so right there, we probably knew we weren't getting it fixed in time. And I was you know, I was bump a Slim Pushins: Jeb Jeb, you should've you should have hopped out of the car and went running to to Uyghurs car just to give him a high five. Jim Gardner: And and and look, Jeb Jeb was a good sport. He knew it was a racing deal. He he said, you know, that he shouldn't have put himself in that bad spot. He knew Braxton was coming up, thought he could get around him, right? He he took a lot of blame for it. I think that if it wasn't Braxton who, you know, Jeb went up to to Nebraska with us last month, and him and Braxton really hit it off. Braxton really learned a lot from Jeb. I think he really respects Jeb. you know, I think Jeb probably, if it's not Braxton who gets into him, Jeb's probably a little bit more upset about what happened. I know if I was just working on Jeb's car, I would have been pissed off about what happened. you know, but that was that was a racing deal, and he got the raw end of it, which sucks. but he was, you know, we went down into victory lane and I popped in just to say congratulations to Braxton and Victory Lane before he got out. And the first thing he said, is Jeb pissed at me? And I was like, no man, he's he's actually right here. you know, I'm not sure how they Slim Pushins: To kick your ass. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. I was like, I'm not sure they should have let the guy who got crashed in the infield, but whatever. so ye Slim Pushins: We should gotten a picture. Hold on, Wes's Wesley's comments c coming up. I I can't Jim Gardner: Yeah, so Slim Pushins: believe we didn't get a picture. Since we started the podcast we've realized that th small things that happen just in the course of a night or during the week we need to take pictures of. Wes said Braxton love the signed wheel you brought back to us. Jeb, Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: I d I forgot to tell you, Jeb, when we took it over to him, he he officially retired that wheel. He's gonna hang it up in the shop. So Jim Jim had stolen one of Braxton's front wheels and tires so he could put it on in an effort to it Yeah. Jim Gardner: Well it was our spare yeah, it was our spare in the hot pit in the pushin't the cushion power Slim Pushins: So Jeb Jim Gardner: rankings hot pit. And so we went ahead and put it on. Yeah. Slim Pushins: So Jeb before he he gave it back Yeah. So before Jeb sent it back to the Uyghur camp, Jeb autographed it and put an O one sticker on it. Jim Gardner: And gave him a nice signed photo of a victory lane celebration, which is now in the mule. In the weaker mule. And like Slim Pushins: Yeah. So Jim Gardner: I said, you know, I I know Braxton felt bad about that. It was the first thing he said to me in Victory Lane before he got out to celebrate was, I hope Jeb's not too too upset. And I was like, Man, he he's fine. Like it's i you get it. And then, you know, he gets out and celebrates. They're booing him. You know, there's some cheers up in the stands. But there are some booze and he goes, Am I getting booed right now? And I was like, Bro, you crashed the prodigal son of Kennedale Speedway Park. That is a crowd favorite. Somebody's up there sipping whiskey out Slim Pushins: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: of a Jeb Sesame's Taco Casa Cup, booing the shit out of you. Embrace it. Like Slim Pushins: I I've never told Jeb this. I just 'cause I always forget it never comes up. But you know, they introduced the drivers as they're coming through and out of the chute. And Corby and I were on the back stretch and we were talking and you know, half listening to to what they're announcing. When they announce Jeb's name, the front stretch goes crazy. And I don't know if I don't Jim Gardner: They love him. He's the product. Slim Pushins: listen. I'm gonna be let me just play devil's advocate. I don't know if they're Jeb fans or Taco Casa fans. I just know when Jim Gardner: Hey, right. Slim Pushins: Jeb enters the track, the the front stretch is paying attention. So Jim Gardner: That's right. Well the the car's is the best looking car on the racetrack. You can always find it. It's always out front, probably that's why you can find it. But yeah, I told Braxton, yeah. Slim Pushins: Corby hates it. Corby hates it because, you know, anybody that's not cheering for Corby, 'cause Corby's so famous. Jim Gardner: Yeah, exact exactly. So, but you know, I I told Brack you know, I think, you know, I know Braxton's mom didn't like him getting booed, which I get, my mom wouldn't like me getting booed. I'm forty. And but but like, I'm glad there's people up in the stands booing, you know, even though it's not Braxton's fault that him and Jeb got together and Jeb got the wrong end of it, right? And a guy sitting up in the stands eyes, who's a Jeb Sesams fan, right? only eats taco casa, yeah, he's gonna boo you know. I'd Slim Pushins: Kelly Gorm Taco Costa sells whiskey and Jeb Sesame's cups. Damn, I missed out. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I like the fact that somebody there is is is is booing somebody who's not this this whole sport is built on rivalries, right? Like and they can be healthy competitive rivalries. Jeb and Braxton are our buddies, right? They can they talked it out. It was no big deal, right? But the fans, I want somebody to be thrilled when Jeb wins and pissed off when Jeb loses. That's good. That's that's why we have the podcast. So we can talk about This sort of stuff, you know? Slim Pushins: Ian Kennedy Ian Kennedy said, Where does Jeb puts his fire suit on? Two legs at a time. Jim Gardner: Yeah. He yeah, he's a good man. He's he I we I so Slim Pushins: Hey Jeb Jeb, I've got a question since you're on. because you had a bad night, did you throw your underwear away? Or that shirt that you the was normally your good luck shirt? Jim Gardner: Burn it at the stake, yeah. He's no longer a Stony LaRue fan. there so the boot Slim Pushins: John said John said, that's true. Five hundred booing you, five hundred cheering you, a thousand watching Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: you. Jim Gardner: Yeah. The the the booze there was two boo birds. You know, most of the people were happy. you know, Braxton put on a hell of a show, pound on the fence. he was fast as hell. we're Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: so proud of him. and you know, maybe there was a couple boos and they you just you're like, really, booze, you know. But it's it it it it's respect to get booed. Nobody's gonna boo me. I'm I'm I'm Slim Pushins: I agree. Jim Gardner: too slow. I don't do anything n that negatively impacts. other guys except spin out in front of them. So you know, i it's just a badge of honor. So anyway that was a fun interaction. I hate Slim Pushins: The Claude The Claude Father's on, Jim. You better look alive. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Jeb said he's keeping that shirt. It has one win and one crash. So Slim Pushins: Andy Brewer, your your driver claims to be retired. He just he shows up for national events. Jim Gardner: Andy, your driver's maddening 'cause he doesn't race all year and then is just up front in Slim Pushins: And finishes on the podium. Jim Gardner: the Nationals races and up front you're like, okay, screw you. So I would boo him. anyway, so you know, it was bittersweet for me personally as I'm you know, I watched the fur I missed the first five laps of the race 'cause I was down in the hot pit trying to tr trying to get Jeb back, you know, in the race and Slim Pushins: Trying to play hero crew chief. Jim Gardner: Well, man, that's just those are my guys. I love the Taco Casa guys. and and Jeb's you know, Jeb's our our our our guy and so it it sucked to to have him be on the raw end of it with with with the other car with with the car I'm working on. Slim Pushins: Ice Mercer said you haven't made it big 'til you got haters. There's so I think Jim Gardner: Yeah, exactly. Slim Pushins: there's a lot of truth to that. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So you know, so I missed the first five laps of the race or so and then you know, got up to to the pit grandstands and thought I was gonna hurl all over the front of it. watching Braxton just pound the fence for fifteen straight laps in traffic, but he did a good job and I'm real proud of him. and and Wes and and and their whole team. So it was fun, man. it was a good deal. So Slim Pushins: I didn't know I didn't know on the back stretch because I didn't see it. Everything seems to always happen on the absolute opposite end of the track of of wherever I'm at. and I didn't know what happened. I didn't know if Jeb was gonna be it it takes a lot for Jeb to be mad. But I didn't know if he was gonna be mad or not. But when when he when I saw him on the infield, Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: I I figured it wasn't down to Jim Gardner: He's like, man, I th I'm surprised they let me in here. They probably think I'm down here starting shit. yeah, but it was funny, you know, you told me you were hanging you had your Taco Casa shirt on, and I expected you to be down in the push in the cushion power rankings hot pit with me trying to figure out how Slim Pushins: I was locked in. Jim Gardner: to get that locked into what? Slim Pushins: My G ride was locked in. I couldn't I couldn't get out. And yeah, everybody Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: listening knows I ain't gonna take off running around the track to the Jim Gardner: I I I made I made Wes drive me around in the mule and took out all the tools I thought we needed and then he went out to go get went out to go get Braxton to f fire him back off. Slim Pushins: Yeah, Dusty Jim Gardner: So Slim Pushins: Dusty said, How about Kobe S. He got the raw into the that that was Colby that kinda tagged him at the very end, trying Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: to miss him and I I I'm assuming he broke something something Jim Gardner: Probably in the left front in the steering or something like that. Like I said, Jeb had spun around and had a flat left rear and then Colby came in and kind of hit the front. You know, it I didn't see what damage he had. But but Colby's had a tough year. He's he's had a lot of bad luck. I think. I think he got caught up. Remember w whenever Ricketts was up front and spun out, and got the front wing ripped off and then came back out from the Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: work area. I think Colby was who hit him and flipped over maybe and tore car up. he's he's between him and Jordan Roop and a little bit of Devin Debrick, I can't think of three guys who have had worse luck this year of just stuff happening in front of So yeah, we did hate that for for Colby. Slim Pushins: Guys, who y who are you asking if they're gonna make the Smiley's memorial? Jeb and Braxton? I don't know if I Jim Gardner: I think a lot of guys are going I I jet Slim Pushins: I'm assuming Jeb's not gonna make it. He's Jim Gardner: No Slim Pushins: I'm sure he's gotta save lives. Jim Gardner: Probably. I know Ricket. Yeah, he Slim Pushins: Dusty said the whole front end was shot on Colby's car. Jim Gardner: there's plenty of damage to to the front end of Jeb's car, so I I imagine it. But and Jeb also ripped a spud off the or the stud off the left front, the left rear shock arm. just broken two, and that's ultimately what we couldn't get fixed. We couldn't get the shock off the arm to to replace it. So yeah, there's lots of damage, but Slim Pushins: Danny Dieber said they got a hole in the radiator from the jeb Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: incident. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So that sucked. Slim Pushins: Shev owes a lot of people some taco bucks. Jim Gardner: He was he was dishing them out in the trailer, so I walked over there. I snuck over after you know, after we were in tech and whatever, and he was talking to Chad Wilson's mom, who's the who is the driving force of the sprint car family of Wilson Motorsports, since none of the rest of came. You know, we know what Dana loves to do. And so I snuck into the front of Jeb's trailer and pulled out two happy dads and walked out to where he was talking with Dana and offered him one as a peace offering, you know, to new beginnings. And he goes, Hey man, did you just go grab two of my white happy dads and give me one of them? I was like, Yeah. You're welcome. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jeff said he doesn't talk like that. Jim Gardner: He does. Slim Pushins: Jeb's going to Jeb's going to the Miami of Texas, Galveston. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. I think they're gonna have a good car count down there at RPM. I the pay is really good. Ricketts is gone. it's not Slim Pushins: Yeah, I bet they do. I bet they have, I don't know, twenty or twenty five cars. Jim Gardner: a hundred and ten degrees out. Thank God, like it feels like spring break now instead of instead of just hot, sticky summer. I feel like we're g this is like false fall and we're gonna get another bad week of summer weather. And then it'll just be winter. So but yeah, I think it's gonna be a big show. I hope hope they get a lot of cars and people. I got to meet Smiley's son. Rick Verdick introduced him to me, up in the stands while we were watching the B. you know, Smiley was a big driving force in this town, of sprint car racing, of three five racing. and between him, French Grimes, you know, passing away, I'm sure they're arguing over who's running the show up there. at the at the races in the sky now. So anyway, but yeah, I hope RPM gets good show, good weather and yeah. they got another show in October is their finale. and they got a three sixty race coming up there too. So We'll see. And then the other race going on is a two day show in Lawton, which is the Lani Edwards Memorial. they got a race Friday and it's thousand to win Saturday. So I don't know how many guys might be going up to Lawton instead of RPM. So we'll just have to see. Slim Pushins: Guy said over six thousand dollars of other prizes for spring cars. Jim Gardner: Yeah, like I said, the whole brake system which I could use. So Slim Pushins: Who was do you still have your I know I'm bouncing around. Do you still have your My Race pass up? Who was the Who was the dog pounder? Jim Gardner: Mm. we have to tell people what the dog pounder is. Slim Pushins: So I'd I'd love to take credit for this, but Stackin' Pennies is the one that the pod to Stackin' Pennies podcast is the one that came up with this. The dog pound is just the guys not up front. Not in the top what ten or twelve in the NASCAR race. Just pounding it out, banging doors, racing for fourteenth place. Those are that's the dog pound. So Jim and I like to recognize Jim Gardner: I must say yeah. The bottom twenty racing for their lives for twenty six. Yeah. So we have taken that Slim Pushins: we like to recognize Dog pounders. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So we we will, you know, Slim Pushins: They don't get enough recognition. Jim Gardner: in addition to the feature winner stickers, which we've been giving out all year, and we appreciate everybody who's embraced those. next year we're gonna have some some dog bones to give to the dog pounder of the week. And that is going to go to anybody who is the hard charger but doesn't finish in the top five. So, Slim Pushins: Or or somebody that just absolutely stands out and Jim and I decide to just throw the rule book completely out the door and award the dog pounder of the week just to whoever the hell we want it to be. So we've got victory lane stickers Jim Gardner: Yeah. That's right. So if if you manage to Slim Pushins: that are few and far between, but the real prize next season is gonna be the dog pounder of the week that's gonna get a milk bone sticker for their tail tank. Jim Gardner: For the tail tank, yeah. which kind of sucks because he's already got plenty of feet pushing the cushion feature winner stickers, but Colby Stubblefield would have been our dog pounder of the week at KSP as he goes. He Slim Pushins: Where did he start? Where did he finish? Jim Gardner: started thirteenth, finished sixth. So he broke free. Slim Pushins: There you go. Jim Gardner: broke free and and Ricketts was right behind him fourteenth to seventh. So those two were putt Slim Pushins: Congratulations, Colby Stobelfield, the push in the cushion dog pounder of the week. Jim Gardner: Yeah. 'Cause it's a war it's a war back there. It's tough. Slim Pushins: Rickets, rickets, a little bit more tryin' Little bit more tryin'. You'd have been the dog pounder. Jim Gardner: Yeah, see. It's all about the midfield battle, back in the pound. It it's it's a war back there every week, man. And and I've been in it. you know, co Corby got a taste of it last week. you know, running up front is is fun and dandy and all, but the the real battles are back there in the midfield, and we want to make sure we highlight and and celebrate the guys who are are coming up. So Slim Pushins: Jordan Roop wants to know if we can get a dumpster sticker too for guys that are just stuck in the gutter. Jim Gardner: Well, my hope is for you, Jordan, that we can get you excited about maybe one day being a dog pounder. Maybe you could graduate to the dog pound. Slim Pushins: Maybe maybe we make like a hard luck Maybe we make like a hard luck sticker that says like student driver or something so everybody behind you knows. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Man, we were pitted next to Jordan. I saw him take the hood off and just fighting the injection, and it's a pain in the ass. And and been there just where you work real hard and you're just not getting anything out of it. It sucks. So Jordan, you and your dad, Jeffrey, just keep working at it, man. You'll you'll find a breakthrough. Slim Pushins: Tony, it's not it's not the dog it's it's like Tony, it's not it's it's b with but we have light rules here at pushing the cushion. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: It's more of kind of verbal agreements instead of like rules. But it would be a hard charger that doesn't finish in the top five. So if you start, you know, nineteenth and you finish eleventh, dog pounder of the week. Jim Gardner: Correct. So that criteria will will it'll be a very fluid it maybe it doesn't just have to be one per race, you know. you know, if we get get some big movers or or something going on. But like I said, only one guy gets a chance to win. you know, we want to recognize guys who are putting on the show through the the field. Slim Pushins: Yeah. The real talent is back there in the pound, just bumping wheels, just trying to trying to hold on to the real estate that they currently own. Jim Gardner: just trying to get out of there and get our pity money and go home and try again. So Slim Pushins: Jordan said Jordan said his whole tail tank would be filled with student driver stickers on the eighty six. Jim would never Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: go for that. Jim Jim has made it very clear that we did not start the podcast to highlight shitty performances or people down on their luck. So although you have a great idea and I love the Jim Gardner: Yeah, correct. Yeah, because like this is fun Slim Pushins: student driver sticker idea, we're gonna have to figure out So different criteria that doesn't just shit on somebody's, you know, overall performance. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So like when we started like it started when we started the power rankings. I was like, look, I'm not I'll I'll do the power rankings, but I'm not gonna list one through a hundred because I'm not gonna dog on the guys running nineth to a hundred, which by the way is me. But because this Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: is supposed to be fun, like everybody's spending their own money, time, energy, effort, and we're not gonna sit there and be like you underperform, right? it'd be like Us sitting in the clubhouse of a bar outside of a golf course and criticizing people on a Saturday morning playing golf and like ranking You were the worst golfer I've seen today, sir. Like that that's a bad look. Yeah, Slim Pushins: Here's your student driver sticker. Jim Gardner: right. So we're not gonna do that, but Slim Pushins: James James Horton wants to know what would be the tiebreaker if two are eligible. Well, per the rules that don't exist, we just choose one. Jim Gardner: Yeah. They're both worthy. So yeah, but yeah, we'll see. So like the one bit that I have considered doing, mostly 'cause I might have a shot at winning, is the Chili Bowl. Slim Pushins: Something. Jim Gardner: Yeah, the Chili Bowl has this guy on Twitter that does the Chili Bowl green jacket every year. And it is the guy who loses the most spots for the whole week. and he gives it to the guy the year after. But basically, like, you know, some somebody will start the prelim A main in third and crash and and get scored twenty-fourth and will be minus twenty one. And then depending on the other races, you know, th this guy will win the Chili Bowl green jacket and and he gets awarded a a a nice green blazer with a patch that looks kinda like the Masters logo, but it's the state of Oklahoma instead. And You know, I thought that would be a funny bit. again, for somebody who who, you know, ha has a good attitude about it, but we'll see. I might do some end of the year stats and examine who would have who would have won that. But anyway Slim Pushins: Ice Mercer said I'm using that this weekend. Student driver of the week about spit my Dr. Pepper out. Jim Gardner: Go for it. Go for it. anyway. what else is there to talk about? Slim Pushins: Dana's on. Jim Gardner: Daniel was good to see you. good to see you on Saturday. I know you're the only member of Wilson Motorsports who actually gives a rip. Nobody else was there to be found. Slim Pushins: Well, they're out for Chad's out for today's Felicia's birthday. So happy birthday, Felicia. I know y'all aren't watching. You're at dinner. Jim Gardner: Yep. Yeah. Yep. So Slim Pushins: Corby just called and said he's still shaving his legs. Or he just texted me, he's still shaving his Jim Gardner: Of course. Yeah. Slim Pushins: legs. Jim Gardner: no problem. what else came out today? Slim Pushins: we're getting I guess we can we can release the fact that we will I will have access to a T shirt cannon. Jim Gardner: Right. Slim Pushins: it was sprung on us so I don't we don't have any T shirts to put in said cannon. Jim Gardner: To to Canon yet. I guess I'll get on that. Slim Pushins: Yeah, so we need Jim Gardner: So what, you're just gonna push somebody out. So did you do any pushing Saturday? Slim Pushins: Ye no. Not onto the track. So the four wheeler's clean clean ish. Jim Gardner: Yeah, yeah, you broke my car trying to get motor heat and then Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: nothing. I had to load I I did load your four wheeler at the end of the night. So everybody could Yeah, Slim Pushins: Yeah, 'cause you won't let me load it anymore. Jim Gardner: never again. So Slim Pushins: So yeah, T shirt cannons. And we have I have no I've never fired a T shirt cannon. Shot a lot of guns in my life. Never one time launched a T shirt. So Jim Gardner: Sounds awesome. Yeah. Slim Pushins: that we could we could send some potatoes into the front stretch. so I don't know. Supposing Jim Gardner: That's true. So if you got shirts Slim Pushins: this thing's got a dial, and I can almost guarantee that we're going all the way. So we first Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: couple of T shirts might end up in the parking lot or a neighboring property, but Jim Gardner: In the parking lot. Yeah. So so what you're just gonna roll out, pushing a sprint car, holding a gun like you're the terminator, Slim Pushins: One hand I guess. Jim Gardner: off throttle hand, so probably your left hand, that's gonna be dicey. And then what you're just gonna park Slim Pushins: So what's the Jim Gardner: on the back stretch while he's locking it into gear and launch one. Slim Pushins: Guys Mercer said he's got t shirts. This is this might be coming together. This Jim Gardner: Ha Slim Pushins: this starting to look it's starting to look promising for the old RPM. I'm gonna send one Jim Gardner: Yeah, you're gonna need your own liability insurance. Slim Pushins: I'm gonna try to send one up to Dylan in the tower up there. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Slim Pushins: gimpy. so yeah, I don't Jim Gardner: I wonder how I wonder how he's feeling. Slim Pushins: what what what would you set the overunder on me wheel hopping a sprint car? Jim Gardner: 'Cause you're too while you're trying to reload. Slim Pushins: While trying to launch I mean, this like this is gonna be fun, but let's be honest. It's got disaster written all over it. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Maybe maybe I would say to you to just focus on the competition side when you're pushing on on the racetrack, but maybe during intermission, you know, venture on out with the old slim pushins t-shirt launcher. Slim Pushins: Jordan Roop Jordan Roop said grandma's gonna get a t-shirt to the jaw. Jim Gardner: People go ape shit for free t shirts, man. It doesn't matter what they say on them. It could be a blank white t Slim Pushins: I feel like I feel Jim Gardner: shirt. People go a apeshit for it. Slim Pushins: I feel like it's gonna go south qu like we only get one shot per track at this. So Jim Gardner: You're sp speaking of get speaking of getting booed, you're gonna get booed because you're gonna shoot it like towards turn one and the people in turn four are gonna be all over your shit. Slim Pushins: Well our tens of listeners are gonna have to spread the word that it's a full time job trying to push a car off with one hand. I've tried to film it before and like film not shooting t shirts, starting a car and it's a son of a bitch. You need both hands. Plus Jim Gardner: You need a GoPro, yeah. Slim Pushins: Corby used to brake check me just to be an asshole. James Horton said one size fits most. Yeah. Jim Gardner: Yeah. just shoot up XLs. Somebody'll find it. It'll be all right. Slim Pushins: People can sleep in it. They can barter with it. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So what else we got? Eric. Slim Pushins: Let's go ahead. I guess Corby's Corby's not gonna get out of the shower. Jim Gardner: Fair enough, no problem. So let's Slim Pushins: Let's let's go ahead. What are we gonna start with? We're gonna start with my picture of me in the hat. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so K KSP after dark. It's where the real the it's where the real racing goes down. Slim Pushins: So so we w we try to things happen. I don't know if this happens to other people, but funny shit happens randomly to me in life and Corby and even more so when Corby and I are together. Just d off the wall things. Jim Gardner: Or even better when Corby leaves us hangin'. Slim Pushins: And so we ended up late. We ended up being there late. I mean there was three or four trailers left and Jim Gardner: For the fourth for the fourth time this year we were the last people to leave the pits. Slim Pushins: Yeah. So fortunately Jim's Jim Gardner: And Slim Pushins: the one that rode with me and he wasn't in a massive hurry to get out of there. So we were to ha drinking and meeting people. Jim Gardner: That's still pretty wound up. But so we made our way down to Bradley Ivey's pit, the ninety nine, the beautiful ninety-nine. I think if we do a paint scheme power rankings, it'll be like Jeb's car, Braxton's car, Bradley Ivey's car. And so we went down to them. I'd never talked to to Bradley before. but Christian Kennison, Slim Pushins: Christian Kinison was in town. Jim Gardner: yeah. with his big Fu Manchu handlebar mustache. Slim Pushins: Didn't even tell us he was gonna be there. We're on the back stretch and he just shows up. Jim Gardner: Well he rolled down to my pit to borrow some blocks. and I was like, are you who I think you are? And so we walked down there and sure enough Kerbo fell in love as Bradley Ivey's wife had pet ducks in their pit area late night. So Slim Pushins: rolled up I rolled up and this chick came around the truck she came around the truck and two ducks were following her and I was like you've got ducks and so I was like I wanna hold a duck so that's my free hat that James Lopez gave me out of the back of his truck and Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: that's quacky. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: The duck. Jim Gardner: I did I I I gave the the duck a couple pets, but I did not hold the duck. I was back Slim Pushins: Jim could not get his phone out of his pocket fast enough. Jim Gardner: that guy behind you is questioning what your motives Slim Pushins: Disgusted. Jim Gardner: are with said duck. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: and I didn't know people had pet ducks. I know people have pigs and you know. farm animals and whatnot, but I was not expecting to see two ducks roaming around the pit area at one AM at KSP. I'd say Slim Pushins: I didn't either and they were like little puppy dogs. They weren't trying to get away. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: No, Bradley said Bradley said it's not he doesn't allow ducks. That's his cousin's ducks. All right, fair enough. But that's that that's what happens at racetracks Jim Gardner: exc excuse me. Slim Pushins: at one o'clock in the morning. you end up with a duck. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I think man. But yeah, Slim Pushins: That's that's good stuff. Jim Gardner: it was funny. It was a good time, man. So Slim Pushins: I had never held a duck in my life. I was like, I want to hold a duck. Was it going to shit on me? And they were like, not normally. And was like, well, okay, Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: then I want to hold it. What else we got? What other media we have? Jim Gardner: so Slim Pushins: James Horton said it was like an Aflack commercial. Jim Gardner: Yeah. we'll save y Corby's brother's text for next week when he's on. I did see this. This video's kind of grainy. So this is some pro golfer named Alejandro Tosti and his caddy. And you don't know how many times I wanted to do this when I was with Sherb Racing, but this caddy just quits in the middle of the fairway. He's had enough of this guy's shit. Drops the bag. Takes off the vest. Slim Pushins: He was like, the hell with this. Jim Gardner: And we're out. We're going to the nineteenth hole. Slim Pushins: It was at that moment he became a spectator of the golf tournament. And this dude's like, What do you do as a kid as a golfer? Play that one more time. Like he just heads up to the green like I he know like give me my putter. I'd love Jim Gardner: Yeah, he's he's got a got a bogey putt hit. Slim Pushins: to know what they were what they were exchanging right there. Jim Gardner: Alejandro Tosti. So I don't I don't know what tour this is on. Slim Pushins: Alejandro Tossis, if you're listening to the podcast, we'd like Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: to have you on. Actually I want to have the caddy on. Jim Gardner: Yeah, guy just quit dips out. the caddy's name is Cliff Ellis. And He's out. Slim Pushins: Dude, he like grabbed his wallet. Look, he grabbed his wallet and his phone. And he's like deuces. And this dude's old Alejandro starts reading his putt. Jim Gardner: The Biltmore Championship in Asheville on the eighteenth fairway. You can't even make it to the the guy's gonna make two more shots. The guy's on the green. that makes it even better. He quit on eighteen. Slim Pushins: He had had he had had enough shit for seventeen and a half holes. He was like, I'm done. Jim Gardner: He sat through s 74 shots. Slim Pushins: probably a smart move. 'Cause you know word travels fast, he would have had to go, you know, if he'd a quit on like number six he'd have had to walk Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Slim Pushins: back a bunch of holes. Jim Gardner: Evidently Tosti did not immediately know what happened. He told Golf Week he thought Ellis had just gone to the restroom. Slim Pushins: I doubt it. I guarantee he didn't there was no doubt. Whatever words were just exchanged. That's not what he thought. But he I I heard he tin cupped it. Like he just pointed at some dude in the crowd was like, Hey, can you carry a bag? Jim Gardner: For the rest of my putts here? Slim Pushins: Can you hey work your ma I'm just curious, where did old Alejandro finish in that tournament? I guarantee it wasn't top five. I bet he was a dog pounder. He needs to be our dog pounder of the week. Jim Gardner: Built more. shit, this might take me too long, Kerbo. da da da da Slim Pushins: Samantha said Samantha said Braxton had to work hard for that hat and you just get one. Did he didn't get a did he get one? Jim Gardner: He didn't even get one of those. No. Slim Pushins: No, he got like a speedway hat for like winning the race. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: He didn't get a he didn't get a cool duckmaster hat like I got. Jim Gardner: This like what How about this where's the results? Slim Pushins: Jeffrey a Jeffrey Roop said that he reminded me Big O scheduled a race for November seventh. I I don't like Jim Gardner: they actually Slim Pushins: to think negatively, but no way that's gonna end up Jim Gardner: They actually have Slim Pushins: going. Jim Gardner: two, I believe, and I'll put up. I I forgot to do power rankings. like I just realized it thirty minutes ago. Slim Pushins: God. Well I'm glad you I'm glad you waited 'til an hour and seven minutes into the show to drop that news. Now watch all the viewers Jim Gardner: Everybody's just been sitting waiting. Slim Pushins: everybody that's on's done. Jim Gardner: Frosty. I mean the guy made the cut, right? no, he got cut. So that was on Friday. We missed the cut. Slim Pushins: I hope he seven putted eighteen there. Jim Gardner: He might have, I don't know. But yeah, he missed the cut. Looks Slim Pushins: We need to start a we need to start a pushin' the cushion golf podcast. Jim Gardner: Yeah. he was plus one. It looks like the cut was Even yeah, anyway. Slim Pushins: Tony said, I thought Jimmy was the first one to coin dog pound last week. Jim Gardner: No, I very I'm not original at all. I steal most of everything that I have. So full disclosure. Most of the bits. Yeah. I I've picked them Slim Pushins: Most most of the bits. Now the bits we come up with. Jim Gardner: up from different areas or or anything like that. But all right, so I had that. Kerbo, this was the last thing I had for you. this was Ricky Stenhouse's pit board at Bristol on Saturday night. So his team was helping him keep Slim Pushins: He's from Mississippi. Jim Gardner: tabs, yeah. Big old Miss guy. and I figured I figured you were pretty locked into the old Miss L S U game Saturday and weren't really paying attention. That's why you weren't in the hot pit helping your your own race car. You were too locked in over Slim Pushins: Well, word had Jim Gardner: there. Slim Pushins: word had gotten back to me already that he tore up a bunch more than you were gonna be able to fix in the hot pit. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So Slim Pushins: I was just waiting for him to c meet me on the back stretch. Jim Gardner: Yeah. But anyway. Slim Pushins: Is that all what is that all go ahead and show we can talk about it next week in Corby. Go ahead and show that text thread. Well, 'cause we still gotta talk. So I had to pick Jim up 'cause Jim lives seventeen hours away and ended up in Keller and his wife needed the car. So I went and picked Jim up and we met Corby and his daughter and Justin Bates and seventeen other little league football kids at Jim Gardner: Yeah, peewee football kids and dads. Slim Pushins: Buffalo Buffalo Wild Wings and we were watching football and stuff. And so I guess Corby wasn't paying attention to his phone, so Corby's brother Merle kept texting me to tell Corby to call him Jim Gardner: They're business partners. Slim Pushins: back. He was working on yeah, they're they're in business together and they were he was Merle was working on so this is my text thread. Hey, Merle calls Corby Bob. Tell Bob to call me. Tell Bob to call. Bob Deco that wasn't it looks in that text thread that it was back to back text. That was over the course of about forty five minutes. Jim Gardner: Sequential. No. Two hours. Yeah. Two I was going to say two hours. But I mean Corby. Yeah. Kor Corby was on the phone FaceTime Slim Pushins: Tell Bobby Call. Bobby call. Bobby call. Bob Call. Jim Gardner: and I'm trying to walk him through a electrical project. And Corby wouldn't answer his phone for God knows what reason. and yeah, so Kerbo is now Corby's secretary, and that's just how that goes. But that wasn't even that wasn't Slim Pushins: That's par for the course. Where's Corby? Jim Gardner: even the most wild ass thing. So Kerbo picks me up. In Keller, and I don't know. He's like, we're gonna go to this Buffalo Wild Wings. I was All right, I don't really know where one's at, but Keller's not my hood, I don't know. And so and we're trying to text Bates where to go and and and call Corby where to go. And I'm like, Hey, do you know the address of this place or where it's at? And and Kerbo looks at me with a dead straight face and goes, It's over there by the CC's pizza. And I was like, Slim Pushins: Right off of three seven you the C C's. Jim Gardner: I'll just I'll just say that to the group text of yeah, it's over by the CC's pizza, idiots. You should know where it's Slim Pushins: It's over by the Jim Chim Jim Gardner: at. Like that's the landmark that we're using for the meetup. The CC's pizza. Slim Pushins: Jim goes, Are you did you legitimately just give me a landmark of C C's? Yeah. Jim Gardner: Couldn't have said a highway or an exit. No, it's where the C C's is in Calor. Anyway. Slim Pushins: C C's. I could have gone for some C C's, but they only usually have one T V and it was on you know it's not on college football. We had about fifteen TVs on. Jim and I were Jim Jim Gardner: Yeah, we were locked into Slim Pushins: and I were fully vested into the North Texas Texas state game. Jim Gardner: State game. Yep. It was a bore back and forth. But anyway, it was a fun day. It was a long day Saturday. great, great race day. I was exhausted, but Slim Pushins: Why didn't you invite your Jim Gardner: Good to Slim Pushins: why didn't you invite your croochie? Jim Gardner: He was with his daughter at her games. Yeah, he was. He was late to the racetrack. Yeah. Don't slow roll well. Slim Pushins: W he was at games, wasn't he? Yeah. That's why. We were trying to get you father and husband of the year. Jim Gardner: Yeah, don't slow roll me like that, Wes. Anyway. Slim Pushins: Slow roll me. Jim Gardner: Anyway. good time at Kennadale. It was a great season down there. the racing was good, if not great. Slim Pushins: Jeb was really hoping to sneak away with another track championship. so it would Jim Gardner: So yeah, the the Slim Pushins: have been mathematically really tough, especially with Stubblefield. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so going into it, Stubblefield had a thirty one point lead, which means that Jeb basically needed Stubblefield not to make the race, and Jeb had to run like eighth or better, should Stubblefield not make the race. But once Colby made the eight the main event and took the green, he was the champion up there at Kennedale in a in a good battle. I guess while we're here I can Pull up. The total points before we Slim Pushins: Tony said I can tear up some CC's. Jim Gardner: I'm sure. I I I I forgot CCs existed. I don't Slim Pushins: I love CCs, man. I don't go very often, but I like it. Jim Gardner: know how to work. here we go. Points. do we want to talk about power rankings, Brian Bolden's idea? Slim Pushins: he called me last week and had kind of bounced an idea off some people. I don't Jim Gardner: Yeah, just Slim Pushins: want to give too many details because he was just throwing stuff at the wall, but the idea was the idea was Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Slim Pushins: to make the power rankings worth something and pitch the idea of drivers paying in to a power rankings fund that would pay off at the end of the the the season. and we're not Jim Gardner: He he Slim Pushins: against the idea at all. I kinda like the idea. I personally would rather get somebody to sponsor it so that it wasn't just Jim Gardner: Yeah, he wanted a points fund and I said Yeah, right Slim Pushins: another expense that drivers had to, you know, had to pay for. But I'd I like the idea. And Jim and I had kicked around that idea. We would love to be able to do that. if we Jim Gardner: Yes. Slim Pushins: three weren't as broke as we are. but I I mean I I I would love for it to be worth something. Jim Gardner: The pa the power rankings pay no money, very clearly. It's all bragging rights. Slim Pushins: No. Yes, and stickers. And probably Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Slim Pushins: a T shirt. We did we did kick around the ide the idea of making a a Power Rankings twenty twenty six winter flag that you can fly proudly somewhere. Jim Gardner: Outside your pit on your on your front porch or something. But yeah, we'll see. What the power rankings Slim Pushins: We should get one of those banners like like High Limits has, you know, that like blows in the wind, like a sail. Yeah. Twenty Jim Gardner: Yeah, we could do that. Get Slim Pushins: twenty six Power Rankings champion. Jim Gardner: Yeah. yeah, so the power rankings will be refined over the off season. you know, having real concrete data to work with, I'm gonna be able to make it better and more thorough and that it's got some gaps and some holes and some stuff that other people have pointed out to me that I already knew, but we want it I would love for it to to pay some money and and mean something besides just bragging rights, but you know how that goes. So Slim Pushins: Or taco bucks. Jim Gardner: Or Taco Bucks, yeah. So but yeah, the sprint car points standings at Kennedale, Colby Stubblefield wins by thirty four over Ricketts, Jeb Sesams, Charlie Timmy, Landon Thompson, Westing Gorham Brine. Slim Pushins: It's time. Jim Gardner: Have I said that wrong all year? Probably. Yeah, I just do what the announcer says. Like deep Slim Pushins: Well, the announcer ha says it wrong which f flooded Jim Gardner: like the brig. Slim Pushins: To brick. Jim Gardner: Landon Thompson was fifth. West and Gorham was sixth. He Weston Gorham, this seventy one W put out a YouTube kind of vlog. It's fifteen minute long video about Saturday night. Yeah. which is good. Slim Pushins: His night. Did you watch it? I saw that he posted it, but I didn't have time to watch it yet. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I I watched it, it was good. I think anything, just like this podcast or or anything else, anything that helps bring the action on the racetrack to people that they don't have to pay for so that it's easy to to consume elevates everybody. just make it easy to consume. Share stuff on Facebook, tell your friends about what you do and and and things like that. And all of that generates interest either Directly or indirectly. So thank you, Weston, for doing that. Willie will post a link to it probably tomorrow. So Weston Gorham was sixth, Braxton was seventh, DJ was eighth, Devin DeBrick ninth, and Colby Sus was tenth there at the Kennedale for the track championship. So congratulations to the the two bunch. Colby Slim Pushins: I will be I will be at RPM this weekend. You will be Oklahoma bound this weekend, I think, right? Jim Gardner: Yeah. Most likely. Slim Pushins: And the the question that everybody everybody wants to know is where's Corby? And where's Corby going? I Jim Gardner: I've been trying to get to go I'm hoping that they go down to RPM, so we'll see. Slim Pushins: I d I don't know he he's got I know he said he's got some jobs this weekend that have to be done. he wants to try to make it, last I heard. But it's kind of up in the air right now. Jim Gardner: Thomas Johnson get your tickets Saturday night at RPM Speedways. Thomas Johnson's gonna mortgage Slim Pushins: Making the trek up. Jim Gardner: the house for his diesel bill to to ride up from Louisiana. Slim Pushins: Thomas come find me for making that making the the big trip. I'll I think I've got three or four taco bucks. I can slide your way, make that diesel price a little easier on you. Get a burrito on me. Jim Gardner: we also owe him some feature winner stickers. Give him I Slim Pushins: We do? How many? Jim Gardner: I believe two. Slim Pushins: Fair enough. Jim Gardner: I should know that. Believe it's two. So I'm glad you're coming up, Thomas. hope more of the down south guys come. Excuse me. Thomas Johnson. I'm looking at two wins feature, two feature wins for him, Kerbo. Get him hooked up. Slim Pushins: There you go. I've I've got a stack of on four wheeler. Jim Gardner: Here's Kelly Gorham. you know, give it a share. That's the the video of Weston. a little behind the scenes, you know, he talks about you know, his personal experience. Basically what we do here. He's just doing it on on YouTube in vlog form, about his night and Slim Pushins: Which we have we also have a YouTube for those of you that don't know. We are live on YouTube now. Jim Gardner: Well, yeah, but it's just a video of this. Yeah. But I think more behind the scenes stuff, let people see more than just cars going round around circles. Let meet people. you know, kind of meet the drivers and and get to know people. It it only helps all of us. So do more of that. Don't don't be too cool to to to not go interact with fans and and and bring our sport to more eyeballs. you know, Heart of Texas posted this afternoon it is for sale. we've kind of given Heart of Texas Speedway a Slim Pushins: Wait, hold don't go if y'all are listening, don't go buy a racetrack before you sponsor the power rankings. Just I just want to throw that out there. Jim Gardner: Ha ha Slim Pushins: If you've got the type of money that you're gonna go buy a racetrack, let's sponsor the power rankings and and make it worth something. Then go buy a racetrack. Jim Gardner: Well, we gotta have we gotta have racetracks to to run to have power rankings. But yeah. but yeah, Heart of Texas posted today that the folks who are running it are looking to sell. They hope to sell it to somebody who wants to keep it a racetrack. that property down there is probably growing exponentially in value, so that might be tough sluting, but hopefully good things and we find some Slim Pushins: Just my opinion. It's probably not gonna be it's not gonna be hard to sell. It it's gonna be harder to sell and continue as a racetrack. But that's just me. I I don't I don't know. It's right on I thirty five. Jim Gardner: So I was reading some of the comments, which is always yeah, I was reading some of the comments, which is always, you know, full of brainiacs. But apparently there is a large pipeline that runs underneath that property somewhere, like under the parking lots, that might inhibit development of anything other than a racetrack or an outdoor venue or anything like that. And then then there's also there's also that railroad right off the back stretch. So I don't know. who wants to live there. you know, but certainly commercial properties and and stuff like that. Anyway, I'm sure just like everything else, the commercial value of that property, Kevin Rutherford could probably tell us all about it, is gonna be very expensive. I hope yeah, Slim Pushins: The racing realtor? Jim Gardner: I hope that we can keep it as a racetrack. I know we haven't talked of it super favorably here. That doesn't mean we want to see it go away. We want to see new life and new blood and new enthusiasm go in there. and try to keep it going and keep improving it so that we can have good sprint car races down there 'cause it is a rowdy little little quarter mile. when it's right, it is fun. so Slim Pushins: Definitely a dog pound racetrack down there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So it's unique and Slim Pushins: Guys Guys Mercer said any driver that wants to come to the booth anytime and do an interview to promote themselves, my booth's always open to that. That's great to hear. I you know, I don't get a chance or we I guess don't get a chance to hear from track announcers and stuff at these various tracks. Some I'm sure are just as inviting as Geis is, some probably aren't. but I I love hearing stuff like that. and I'm sure that there's a lot of people that would love to go up and and promote themselves or what it what it is that they've Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: got going on. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Not even just just just embrace it. You know, I just I I got a picture of the little girl who did my redraw at Grayson County Speedway, who I broke her heart when I backed it in the fence down there. you know, I sent her a t shirt. Slim Pushins: Heartbreaker. Jim Gardner: I was emailing her mom back and forth. And got her size and and address and sent her a t shirt. She sent me a picture back of of of little patients wearing it, just made her day. And I think we all kinda, you know, sometimes take for granted where we are, and and what we're doing and wanna complain that tires are too expensive, fuel's too expensive, all that kind of stuff. But we didn't need to embrace how lucky we are that we get to be able to do this and we need to make sure that we're including the fans and everybody supporting us. So Slim Pushins: really enjoy when fans come into the pits, you know, after the race or not to Jim. We understand. We know your rules, Mr. Unapproachable. I I Jim Gardner: Yeah, just just not in between not two minutes after the heat race when I can't figure out why my car sucks. Slim Pushins: love I'm not as busy. Everybody knows I'm not near as busy as Jim is in the pit area. But I love when fans come down. They have great questions. most of them have never gotten the opportunity to to sit in a car, be close to a car. They've got a lot of questions about the motor package. a lot of questions about what exactly the top wing does, and and different stuff. And I promise you I don't know most of the questions, but I'm fairly close with a lot of people that can get you answers. so I Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: I love that. Jim Gardner: Yep. Encourage, you know, I know I I got the Tony came down to Kennedale and and hung out in our pit for thirty minutes after the races and it was great. you know, whoever was you know, whoever was in our pit who's a huge Braxton Weager fan after the heat races, I apologize. I know I was a dick to you. I was trying to figure out why my why our car wasn't rolling the way it should have been. you know, so that just w Slim Pushins: Did you eat did you didn't tell that we had a podcast? Jim Gardner: No, I I I didn't ignore but I basically ignored I was trying to read stagger and RPMs and check my ride heights and something our car wasn't as rowdy as it should have been. I was trying to figure out why. And luckily he you know, he was just asking me twenty questions about where we've been the last couple weeks. I was like racing. Why are you talking like I I don't know. So anyway, I I think I'm more unapproachable as a crew guy than I am as a driver. Slim Pushins: Jim's not your guy. I'm your guy. Jim's not your guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah, so Slim Pushins: Corby's too famous for you. Jim's not your g I'm your guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah. anyway, so that's that. Yeah. you know, fans bring you know the fans who aren't here. Tony, you know, Tony brings buddies to the racetrack. You know, get people involved. get get down. Slim Pushins: Wes and Suzanne always do a great job including fans, w whether it be fla handing out flags, picking Jim Gardner: Yeah. And Slim Pushins: drivers or picking kids out to to do redraw, a lot of that stuff. Jim Gardner: Kennadale gave away fifty bikes, I think, at intermission last week and a couple RC cars I saw going around. everybody's doing a lot of cool stuff. and we need to, if they ask us to get involved in it, we need to get involved and not be too cool or or pretend like we're you know, we we Slim Pushins: Alright, Mike. If they don't know anything about a race car and I call something a cat paw, d they're gonna take Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: that's I'm still giving them the information that they're looking for. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So anyway. thanks for coming to our TED Talk about getting involved and putting yourself out there. it it goes a long way with some people. So that's that Kerbo. Let's land this bird. Slim Pushins: What else we got? I don't think I have anything else. I don't have anything else on my let's see. Jim doesn't use CCs as a landmark Jim Gardner: Ha ha. Slim Pushins: and power rankings. So yeah, we killed it this week with power rankings. Get the get the Jim Gardner: I I'll get the power rankings out later this week. Slim Pushins: corndog review with dirt neck Joe out. Jim Gardner: Yes, I'll do that too. It is on my new phone. Slim Pushins: I'd I'd I'd like to keep that dude as a supporter. Jim Gardner: My bad. Sorry, Joe. I will get that done. I've fallen behind on some of my weekly activities for the podcast. But Slim Pushins: Don't treat our media like you do fans that come into the pits, Jim. Jim Gardner: I felt bad. Like the guy knew like it Diana invited him into the trailer so he could get a t shirt and I was like in there cutting the tire up and he was like, she said I could come back here. I was like, she's the boss. No, go. Like, I'm not gatekeeping you. Just let me do my thing, man. So it was good. And then he came down after the win Slim Pushins: Mr. Unapproachable. Jim Gardner: and he was stoked. So that's what we got. Slim Pushins: Alright, let's let's land this bird. Jim Gardner: Yep. See everybody this weekend make it out. Yep. Slim Pushins: Hopefully we'll see you this weekend in various places. We're gonna split the podcast up. Jim Gardner: Come say hey Thomas, come bug curbo and get your stickers for your tail tank. Slim Pushins: Absolutely. All right everybody. Thanks for wasting another Tuesday evening with us. we'll do it again next week after this weekend's races. Y'all have a good night. Jim Gardner: Yep, sounds good. See you guys.