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Shop Beers Live 8/4: RPM, 105 and Belleville Results and Nonsense · Pushin' the Cushion

• Slim Pushins: What's up everybody? Welcome to another live edition of Pushing the Cushion Shop Beers. We're live are we live now, Jim? Jim Gardner: Yeah, good to go. Slim Pushins: As always, my co-host, the king of Great Wolf Lodge, that's got insane feedback right now, Corby Sherb. Corby Scherb: Thought I asked for some nerve this week. why do you got the rally hat on, if we're being honest right now? Slim Pushins: We're we're going into the ninth inning, man. We're we're we're yeah. We Jim Gardner: We're d we're down three. Ne need to string together a couple hits. Slim Pushins: got two outs. We got two outs in the ninth inning. We gotta make this work. When have you ever said anything about you always say everything about everything, okay. Corby Scherb: I just noticed things like that, buddy. Slim Pushins: And the guy that can't figure out how to get us on live, Jimmy Gardner. Jim Gardner: It took three minutes, I got it figured out. Slim Pushins: Did you get a haircut? Jim Gardner: Coup a couple of weeks ago. Two weeks ago? Yeah. Slim Pushins: Looking tight there. Corby, not so much. But you're right there high and tight. You can walk into the recruiting office as we speak. Corby Scherb: What's wrong with my hair? Jim Gardner: That's right. It's too hot for the long hair. Sir, yes, sir. Slim Pushins: Not you. You're not Jim Corby, you're not exactly military what the military's looking for. No. No you can't. Don't disrespect those people. Jim? Corby Scherb: I can do it. I can do it for sure. There's no question. Like the Navy or something, I could do that. Slim Pushins: What T shirt are we wearing tonight? We got no hat. Corby Scherb: It's all black. It's just black. Slim Pushins: Nobody's talking to you. Corby Scherb: sorry. Jim Gardner: me? this is my cousin, Tyler Kendall. Four ten non wing up in Indiana. He rips. Yeah. He rips. He Slim Pushins: Shout out. Corby Scherb: Is he a ripper unlike you? Yeah. Jim Gardner: was blessed with a heavy right foot. Just go pound the fence at Slim Pushins: What happened to you? Jim Gardner: Lawrenceburg, four ten non wing. Slim Pushins: What happened to your genes? Jim Gardner: Me, I got promoted to crew guy and that's where I belong. So Slim Pushins: But yet Saturday night we're gonna run. Jim Gardner: Saturday night was we were fine. We weren't great. We weren't anything. Slim Pushins: No, this coming Saturday night. Jim Gardner: this comedy yeah. Might moon light as a race car driver. We'll see how it goes. See how the week goes. Slim Pushins: We'll get to that. Corby Scherb: Where at? Okay, yeah, well Slim Pushins: Your driver made a couple of enemies Saturday night. Jim Gardner: My driver didn't make enemies. He actually made a lot Slim Pushins: Yeah he did. Jim Gardner: of friends for people who had ownership interest in RPM Speedway. He saved them eight hundred dollars in pit pass money next week. they yeah, they have a Slim Pushins: You wanna tell that story and then I have questions. Jim Gardner: they have a deal where because Kevin Ramey gets it and he knows that the fans hate yellow flags. So he has a deal where if the main event goes green to checkers, then all the drivers get a free pit Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: pass. for the next race. And I think Bates spun out on lap sixteen to to bring out the yellow and and save RPM Speedway eight hundred bucks. So Kevin made it a point to drive down to our trailer and personally thank him for helping the bottom line. Corby Scherb: He's such a nice guy, such a nice guy. Jim Gardner: he is the king of the backhanded Slim Pushins: Doesn't that depend on who you ask though? Corby Scherb: Kevin is a nice guy. Don't ever I I don't care what anyone says. He's a super nice guy. That dude will literally help you do anything. Just don't piss him off. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: You know what he won't do? Let me drive the motor grater. That's the problem that I have. I'm Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Thank God. Slim Pushins: calling you out, Kevin. That's the problem that I have with him. He won't let me in heavy equipment. so is that did y'all know that they had that rule, that policy? Jim Gardner: Yeah. w when I when I raced down there a couple of weeks ago, they said it in the driver's meeting. that's why I pulled off so efficiently after I s tat tattooed the fence down there in turn three. So I was trying to save everybody some money. Slim Pushins: Photo mic's on It's the self proclaimed ol old man mic. Jim Gardner: That's right. Spring cars, Kennedale, Saturday. We'll be there. Slim Pushins: Devin Devin Dieberg wants to know, speaking of Kevin, where was all that exit grip he promised on the top side? Jim Gardner: I didn't say anything about it last week. I the racetrack was the I don't think anybody can ask for anything racier. I mean, five guys roll the top really, really well. It comes in and Kate Taylor comes out of nowhere to steal it in the last fifty feet. super racy. It wasn't hammered down that, you know, and everybody was out there searching for grip or real driver's track. Tire wear wasn't an issue. from what I saw, our tires are fine, minus the big hole in the side of the p one of them. Slim Pushins: That'll do it. That'll do it. That's an air pressure getter. Jim Gardner: yeah. but you know, you'll have you'll have slow and slick ones. There's nothing wrong with with you know, cooking a brisket every now and then, you know, low and slow is no big deal. Slim Pushins: Where d what is it with the cliches? Corby Scherb: I like that. I'd rather have a racetrack like that. I I I sorry, excuse me, I damn sure don't want no hammer down around the tires. Ever. That's horrendous racing. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Did you just excuse your cuss word? Corby Scherb: Sorry. I mean I can bleep it out this time. I don't ever want that. Slim Pushins: That one wasn't as good. What you got there? Just water? You getting ready for Saturday night? Jim Gardner: Yeah. Mixing in some waters. There you go. I got a pineapple white cloth for Slim Pushins: Not for me. Corby Scherb: What happened to the happy dads? Slim Pushins: K Taylor said the track was sick right on the wall. He would think that, wouldn't he? Jim Gardner: Yeah. I bet Kate had no problems with the racetrack. You know who else didn't have any problems with the racetrack? Michael Day. the kid from Midland that ran over Justin was fast until he did that. Corby Scherb: What was it Caden Trotter? Jim Gardner: no, he's from down south, isn't he? Slim Pushins: What is what exactly is there a name for it when you when you Bring you bring somebody up and then knock right back down. Jim Gardner: Nathan Hammond, never met him before. got it. Slim Pushins: But Bates met him on lap sixteen. Jim Gardner: So Nathan wa Bates, we weren't very good. He and Justin was just kind of rolling the bottom, making it work. We were gonna Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: finish ninth or tenth or whatever. and Hammond got the top going along with, like I said, Michael Day had it rolling and Cade Taylor obviously had the top rolling. And you know, Hammond was kind of running us down and and Justin was rolling the bottom, but he was kinda doing like a late entry into three to try to square up turn four and get going straight. And I was sitting off a turn two and it kinda happened going into three. I don't know if Nathan just kinda misjudged, you know, when Justin was gonna peel down to the bottom or or if they got into each other side by side. I couldn't really tell, you know, if what went on, but we had a a big gash in in the side wall of our right rear tire. So I think I think his left front torsion tube just got into us and turned us around, flattened our tire and ended our night, which has been really frustrating. just Slim Pushins: Go ahead, Corby. I see the hamster on the wheel up there. Jim Gardner: boy. Corby Scherb: Well, now Dean Dean said something. Probably get pr probably sitting Jim Gardner: so Corby Scherb: over there with a see apen. Jim Gardner: yeah, it's it's been frustrating with Bates for a couple weeks. You know, we've been pretty good. We've been in the fight and we just haven't finished a race, feels like all year. So but it's Corby Scherb: Is that mechanic or driver fault? Jim Gardner: me it's mechanics some. Slim Pushins: I was about to say if I talk to bases he'd be like, Yeah, I'm frustrated with my crew chief for the last couple of weeks. Jim Gardner: He he he probably should be. We were real worried about getting that car too tight, like we did the first month of the season with him. because it it would yank the right side, the right front up the racetrack and kind of make it darty. so we were trying to be on top of the racetrack and free and just didn't go far enough. The track took a really, you know, a a really big swing. So we weren't bad in the heat race, finished second. then just didn't go far enough. I mounted a new left rear tire after I had my mini corndogs after the heat race and I was anticip Slim Pushins: You went many corn dogs, huh? Jim Gardner: mini corndogs this time and I mounted a new sticker left rear tire and I was expecting based on the chalk mark for it to come in about an inch and a half bigger than it ended up doing. So, you know, I think that would have made our car a lot better. but those are the brakes. Slim Pushins: I'm a big fan of the Hail Mary. Cade didn't have anything to lose. He had the car under control. But I love, you know, just ripping the lip and and giving it getting everything that he could out of the car. You know, at the last second. There were some great finishes this weekend. We'll get to that. but that was that was awesome. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: You can't follow. If you're gonna follow, you're just you're you're accepting your fate. there was something up there and Kate found it. it was it was super like it always is, it it just gets real skatey coming off a two there. And entering three it was really good. He made up a lot of ground right there and then the same like sometimes it'll kinda lip up coming off a four and if you can bounce it just right. He did it and he got he got the old dog there, Chad Wilson. I'm kinda surprised that You know, I'll I'll call Chad out, you know. I'm kinda surprised that he rolled around the outside of me like that. I think Chad's been passed on the outside like five times ever. So that's Slim Pushins: There's the move. Corby Scherb: super rare. Chad's very, very in intuitive of what's happening behind him. He's extremely smart as a racer and he j he kinda I mean I I can't say let that one slip by, but at the same time, you know you can hear him coming usually and a lot of times you go up there and pinch off the wall. And Chad didn't, so Jim Gardner: So Corby Scherb: Cheers to Kate, that was a great run. you had nothing to lose. you you you was ripping. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it was awesome. So Slim Pushins: It was a hell of a run. Jim Gardner: when you watch it back, like I said, Bates was kinda especially going into three, really kind of swinging it wide and then trying to square up and drive it straight off of four. And Chad was kind of doing the same thing. When they're coming to the white, Chad's really down on the bottom on exit, and it was pretty cleaned off down there. and when Cade showed him the nose when he sent it into turn three on the final lap, Chad kind of missed the bottom. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: and kind of got into the slick and probably he saw him out of the corner of his eye and maybe thought about driving up there and kind of sliding himself and taking that line away and just didn't get there in time and got it in the slick. But I mean, what what more can you ask from a sprint car race, really? You know. Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: it was it was two lanes, one one lane's on the fence and one lane's around the tires, and and it it was really good. There were some good movers. Like I said, Michael Day was seventh or third. DJ S this went up eight spots. Slim Pushins: Where did our where did our power Jim Gardner: Okay. Slim Pushins: rankings leader end up? Jim Gardner: Casey third, right? Slim Pushins: Stubblefield. Third. Jim Gardner: No, fourth. I'm sorry. Corby Scherb: Third. Yes. Jim Gardner: Fourth. Fourth. And Bolden was fifth. Casey Merrill was up seven spots. I mean, there was a lot of passing. you know, especially for a race that, you know, had sixteen green flag rap laps right off right off the bat. you know, DJ Estes was up eight spots. So it was really, really racy. you know, it was just slow and slick. And you'll have that. RPM was Corby Scherb: My cup of tea. Jim Gardner: a good time. That's right. So, Slim Pushins: Right around the bottom, like Corby always does. Jim Gardner: So yeah, that was RPM. It was good. The mini corn dogs were good. A little hot sauce. Some fries on Slim Pushins: Wait, hold on, back up. Hot sauce on what? On your Jim Gardner: It was in the little basket. I actually n used it mostly for the fries, but got some on on the corn dogs and it was Corby Scherb: That was the move. Jim Gardner: It was it was wonderful. Wonderful. Had a great experience at RPM. You know, we didn't go to RPM a lot. I've been here for ten years. I haven't been to RPM, but maybe five, six times, because we always went to Canadale or Boyd or Waco or kind of the west side tracks. And but RPM's a racy little joint, a little tough to get to, for for some of us, but Kevin's doing a really good job there. Tom from Smiley's. Slim Pushins: now that now that you know that he's on, you're gonna boost him up, huh? Jim Gardner: I don't know he was on. No. I just tell it how it is, man. Corby Scherb: Always hydrated. Jim Gardner: This is this is the no spin zone. So Slim Pushins: Anyway, yeah, it was it was Corby Scherb: Yeah, it was good it was a good race. I thought that the racetrack was really good. I would prefer it to be like that than like I said, hammer down around the tires, no one wants to see that. and then there there's just a lot of places around here that it gets so good around the top that you just everyone falls in line and there's zero passing because you can only go so fast around the top. RPM, I said it when Kevin was on here, RPM's really good about being a two lane racetrack. I'm glad that I he I mean I think that he nailed it this last weekend. Like you said, it didn't hurt tires and it was slick. So it's methodical, you had to be smart, you can't just be a throttle jockey. Jim Gardner: Yeah, no, it was it was it was a good night. It it was a hundred degrees, but it was not super muggy, so it was pretty pleasant for August. And no complaints here. Slim Pushins: What? Jim Gardner: They're back they're back in two weeks. Next week. They run next week. So on the fifteenth. Slim Pushins: Kenneth Hill this weekend, RPM next weekend. Jim Gardner: That's right. yeah. Slim Pushins: You gonna make another attempt at RPM? Fifty one? Jim Gardner: Maybe or might go to Ardmore or might hit the lake. I don't know. So I don't know. I'd I'd like to maybe go Slim Pushins: Keeping your op keeping your options open. Jim Gardner: to Ardmore. Ardmore's got its last race of the season next next week. Let the old gal stretch her legs a little bit. but first gotta get through Kennedale Saturday. So Slim Pushins: Watch that front nose wing. Jim Gardner: thanks. Yeah, every inch matters. So as as a couple Couple guys found out at Bellville. How much did you pay Matthew to text that? You owe him like a Venmo, twenty bucks? Slim Pushins: Probably I probably owed him money before he said that, honestly. before we go to Bellville, one five You have anything queued up for one hundred five? Jim Gardner: Okay. Yep. No, I just got Thomas Johnson's win picture. He gets the win. His second of the year. Come on, pull up. There we go. I actually think that's an old picture. I found two of Corby Scherb: That's not one hundred five. Jim Gardner: Okay, Corby. Slim Pushins: And and not one five. Corby Scherb: That's not one of five. Jim Gardner: Guy wins one race at one five and now he's gotta be Golly, boy. Corby Scherb: To saying, I'm pretty sure it's red dirt down there. Pretty sure. Slim Pushins: Jim's Jim's done for the rest of the show. He's about to check out Jim Gardner: You know what, Corby, you can start face you can start Slim Pushins: okay. Corby Scherb: There we go. There's the sand pits. Jim Gardner: Facebook stalking everybody to try to find pictures and media for the shows. How about that? Slim Pushins: I do. I sent you most of the media that we've got tonight. Corby Scherb: If you was approachable, Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: they would just send you the feature wind pictures, you know. If you guys just wanna start Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: That's that's Corby Scherb: messaging to me, I'll make sure that Jimmy gets Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: That's a good s that's good point. Yeah. Thomas Johnson's the winner. Slim Pushins: We would appreciate it. Jim Gardner: He dominated. Lance Christie ran second. Caden Trotter was third. Tyler Harris. Channing Tankersley was third going into turn three and spun it out. look like he was trying to make a move on Lance and spun it out, did a three sixty, lost a couple spots coming to Checkers. that race went green green to Checkers too. So I don't think they have the free pit pass promotion down there. Slim Pushins: Free pit passes. Jim Gardner: But maybe maybe Corby, since you're Mr. One O five, you could pitch it to him. and go down there. But looked like a good race. I watched the highlights yesterday. heat races were pretty locked down. Yeah. Slim Pushins: The autograph seekers down there for Corby Sherb autographs. He doesn't like to go back down there. Corby Scherb: One five's a cool place, man. I I know that not everyone loves it, especially not people from up north. It's it it's super different. It's like an Abilene or like a Grayson or it's kinda just a one off. Jim Gardner: I was just kind of watching because Channing started the heat races were pretty locked down and Channing started eighth and Slim Pushins: Watching were you did you go back and watch the replay I'm assuming? On my race on? Okay. Did you have to log back in? Like it wasn't saved? Jim Gardner: Yes, on your account. And yeah, and I booted you. Yeah. And so Channing starts eighth and you know, it kinda took him you know, it went green to checkers, but he kinda picked his way through. you know, Thomas was gone. you know, he won that race by five or six seconds, but he kinda picked his way up through, but it took him a while to get there, like That that track's weird because it's racy, but I feel like you can still really get held up. I feel like traffic and passing Corby Scherb: think that it's well, it's no, it's Slim Pushins: You really gotta keep digging there. Corby Scherb: a place that you can light up the tires really quick. It's not that it doesn't have traction, but you can make it very hard on yourself. If you Slim Pushins: Is that because it's just a sandy base? Corby Scherb: I I would think so. It's just it's almost like you're saying, it's kinda got like a film on top and you can really easily stand on the gas too hard and cook yourself. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I didn't Slim Pushins: Didn't Christopher Townsend mention that when he we had him on? Corby Scherb: Yeah, he'll say the same thing, you know, and the top it kinda whenever it does have a cushion there, it's it's real powdery. And you can blow through it faster than you're actually using it to help. You kinda just gotta lean on it. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Thomas was just pounding the top both sides. He was hauling ass Corby Scherb: One yeah. Jim Gardner: for twenty straight laps. And like I said, you know, the other guys kinda pick their way through, but it's just it it's a unique style of racing. I I can't it's hard to explain when you just watch it. It just feels I'd like to I don't know how Corby Scherb: I agree. Slim Pushins: You need to go down there, Jim. You need you need to take the old fifty one down there. Jim Gardner: I don't know if they have any more races this year. They might have one, I'll have to look. But That was cool. good to see that good Corby Scherb: It's worth the drive, it's a cool experience. Jim Gardner: to see what they have. Slim Pushins: Well, congrats to him. He's a he's a back big backer of the show, so we appreciate it. Always good to see somebody that we know winning at these tracks. Jim Gardner: Yep. Absolutely. the down south, yeah. Slim Pushins: Probably because of the rally cap. Jim Gardner: The the southern guys run at another slick track, Cotton Bowl this weekend down in Page. Slim Pushins: That's a cool place. Jim Gardner: again, a place you gotta be able to hook hook the rear tires up. the world of outlaw shows down there are were really good. so Corby Scherb: It's weird, it crowns real bad at the top, the banking just falls off, and you have to be super aware of where you're at on the racetrack because when we did run there, it was around the top, it but you just had to keep wheels in line and keep your momentum up and it was super easy to to crest the crown. Jim Gardner: Hm. Would was that in Corby Scherb: I ran one time there and I I know everything there is to know about Cotton Bowl. Here we go. Slim Pushins: In two different cars on the same night. Jim Gardner: Was that in Corby Scherb: I did. I strapped in the other car for the feature. Yeah. Yeah. Jim Gardner: Was that in twenty four, I guess? Okay. Explains Yeah. I don't I don't remember you ever going there but Corby Scherb: Explains. Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: Jason Trotter said one hundred five September fifth, September nineteenth, and October Jim Gardner: shit. Slim Pushins: seventeenth. Corby Scherb: Yeah, the October's Jim Gardner: Okay. Corby Scherb: the October race is always a big deal down at one o' five. Slim Pushins: There you go, Jim. Put that on your counter. Jim Gardner: Let me guess. That's the one you won. Corby Scherb: No. Slim Pushins: We won a memorial, didn't we? Corby Scherb: No. It was still during IMCA points were going on. Slim Pushins: Look look at him, he's just s looking at his calendar and looking at their looking at their calendar. Jim Gardner: I'm checking out the schedule. One five, so October seventeenth, I got that one. September nineteenth. And did he say September fifth, too? Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Are they able to race on Labor Day? Maybe that's a non points race, because that's the nationals weekend. Corby Scherb: Nationals. Jim Gardner: I might to double check that. I don't I thought you weren't so Slim Pushins: Probably not the worst idea ever. If they're allowed to. Jim Gardner: I thought you weren't supposed to race on them. Or maybe you're you're not allowed to have a points race or something. I don't know. We might be exposing them. Slim Pushins: Just making things up. Jim Gardner: Yeah, but I thought I thought that was a thing. Corby Scherb: No, I I I I think that they've always ran that race that weekend. There's always been a race around here for during Nationals Week. Jim Gardner: Yeah, but that was like a unsanctioned race. That was when RPM or Greenville or whoever. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what the politics are Corby Scherb: Yeah. Or a non points paying race. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Jim Gardner: of that. but yeah, I'd like to try to get down there. It's just a hall hall for me. So is every every place is a hall for Corby Scherb: Everywhere is a hall for you. Jim Gardner: except for Rocket, which w doesn't have any sprint car races, even though it's an awesome track. Anyway, whatever. Yeah, so Slim Pushins: It is a hall. Grayson County's a hall. Hunt County's a hall. Jim Gardner: Need to get more I I'd like to maybe next year I'd like to get more north south races. You know, north versus south. And, you know, I know Waco's Not awesome. I don't know. Maybe I I just think it'd be cool if there was, you know, more Slim Pushins: This oughta be good. Just Corby just shut up and let him fall into this trap. Jim Gardner: I you know, I don't know if there's a a a good place to have it or if we get more two day shows or whatever and get some of those guys up here or convince Slim Pushins: You mean like a one off, like a like a tournament? Us versus them type of deal? Jim Gardner: No, I don't want a tournament. I just want a race that guys in Texas all want to come to. So maybe that's Speed Week. You know, I knew we were gonna get Thomas and and Christopher and a couple of those guys for Speed Week and it just didn't happen because of the rain. But Slim Pushins: Turned into speed day. Jim Gardner: it it feels more, you know, it feels more like a split. seen, you know, it like Lance goes down there, but Casey Merrill's been down there a couple of times, but you know, it's either like those guys run and then we run or but you know, vice versa. I'd like I'd like to see it mix a little bit more. So Slim Pushins: Thomas Corby Scherb: I mean I messed with Jacob Harris. Slim Pushins: Johnson said he's in. Corby Scherb: Jacob Harris was the first one to congratulate me whenever I won down there and I told him now he's gotta come up north. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Good. See if t Slim Pushins: He comes up here all the time, doesn't he? Jim Gardner: yeah, the Harris has come to Canadale. Yeah. Corby Scherb: They they've ran him and Tyler, yeah. And their dad, Mark, has raced a couple Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: of races. I know Thomas Johnson, I I believe I believe like like the first gobbler, he was there for that race. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, there there's a couple of one offs I just I I think Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: That's a good a well timed Corby Scherb: North versus south. Slim Pushins: race because it's like in the off season and everybody's ready to be away from the track for a few weeks, but then that comes around and everybody's wanting to get another one in before Christmas. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it it's it's a little weather dependent. You know, it could either be seventy degrees or forty two. and you know, that one year they we ran it Corby Scherb: And I don't race in the cold. Jim Gardner: we ran it in the afternoon and it was just peeling tires Slim Pushins: Corby, we all know that you don't like the cold. Jim Gardner: off in heat races Corby Scherb: yeah. Jim Gardner: and it was just no good. So but you know, we've been there Slim Pushins: Nobody complains more when it gets below fifty degrees than Filter Boy over there. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: I don't do the cold, buddy. Jim Gardner: So but yeah, it was good. a good race down in one five. And the crowd looked good. So like I said, ho hopefully Slim Pushins: They always bring a good crowd. Jim Gardner: they have a good show there at Cotton Bowl Saturday night. So Corby Scherb: It's a cool place. It it really is a super, super nice facility. Jim Gardner: Is that in Austin or San Antonio? Corby Scherb: Paint page Jim Gardner: Okay. Thank you, Kerbo. Slim Pushins: Austin. Austin ish. Corby Scherb: Tim Page, Texas. Jim Gardner: Thanks. Appreciate that. Corby Scherb: You're welcome. Jim Gardner: but yeah. All right. anything else I Slim Pushins: How about Belleville? Jim Gardner: Belleville was the j Slim Pushins: Belleville did not disappoint. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it was the Joey Danley show. he sweeps the weekend up there. I think he's from N Lincoln, Nebraska. Isn't he like an Eagle regular, maybe? I'm not I'm not entirely sure. Corby Scherb: Think so. Empire fence. Huge, huge fence guys. Jim Gardner: our Justin Fifield led most of the big show on Saturday night, Slim Pushins: All of the big show. Jim Gardner: twenty nine and nine tenths of a Slim Pushins: Three quarter Jim Gardner: lap. And Danley kind of bulldogged him up in there in the in turn four. let's see if I can get that played again. It's a little late on the actual move, but instole it there. at the end but really good race you know we were at rpm and and the the de Bricks had it on in their trailer and the yellow come out I guess the yellow came out with like eight to go for a car that was pretty well off the racetrack that probably didn't need to be a yellow and and they had a restart and and Danley ended up stealing it so we had some local flavor up there Braxton went up there Slim Pushins: Okay. Fifield had an absolute hell of a weekend too. I mean, he set the track record. was fast time both nights. and it was a heartbreaker. I hated to see it. We all know we all know Fifield. he listens to the show. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. new track record. Did you say that? I wasn't paying attention. Sorry, Corby Scherb: Yes. Jim Gardner: Kerbo. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: yeah, there I mean they were hauling Slim Pushins: You should pay attention to me more. Jim Gardner: ass. you know, Wes called me and and asked me some gearing tips when they were kind of struggling and I got I got Braxton going the wrong way on gear and I felt terrible about it Friday. I couldn't sleep. I was about sick to my stomach. making a bad choice for and and selling on a direction that was very, very wrong. But they ended up making the show Saturday and they had a they had a yeah Slim Pushins: I guess a a dirt clod not Jim Gardner: I I guess he packed packed the front end and and it went through the radiator, blew the radiator off the mounts and overheated the motor and You know, just one of them deals and it you know. Just when stuff's not going right, it's not going y right. And it's just it just feels like it gets worse and worse. But Slim Pushins: Why's Debbie Diebrick apologizing for your ears? Did she get loud? Jim Gardner: she screamed loudly, yeah, in the trailer. Luckily my one ear's got Corby Scherb: She's not super quiet watching a race. Slim Pushins: Ha ha. Jim Gardner: yeah, luckily my one ear's got a thirty percent hole in it, so you know, so it's it wasn't too bad it wasn't too bad. But Slim Pushins: yeah, we gotta talk about that. We got we gotta we need an a an ear update. Jim Gardner: it's fine. I'm on the mend. Slim Pushins: So while we're on while we're on Belleville, hold on, we'll get to your ear. And the things that leak out of it. Pushing the cushion zone, Kyle Jones had some adversity Friday night and got DQ'd. Jim Gardner: Mm-hmm. From qualifying. Slim Pushins: Yes. I don't remember what he qualified. I believe he was like top five. Got disqualified for his Jim Gardner: Yeah. here I could probably pull that up. Slim Pushins: front wing being too far forward. Jim Gardner: Mm. Slim Pushins: I talked to Jim Gardner: been there except my stakes were higher, you know. Slim Pushins: At Ardmore, yeah. I talked to one of his crew guys and I I from what I was told everything passed. They were the first car through tech and they did not check the front wing of their car at tech, but checked everybody else's. and I guess did they change the were were they not IMCA rules last year or did the r the rules changed a little bit? Jim Gardner: So I I think they used like you remember how RPM the last couple of years ran our ran raceaver rules, but they weren't raceaver sanctioned. It was most mostly Slim Pushins: Right. Jim Gardner: motor rules. And if the motors were sealed, you were good. I think whatever sanctioning body used to used to run Bellville became IMCA sanctioned. So it was true on IMCA officials there, which have the front wing rule and Slim Pushins: Right. Jim Gardner: rotating titanium and wing sliders and different stuff. You know, it's like the Lummock Lubbock Amarillo guys run raceaver sealed motors, but it's not raceaver sanctioned because they're running power eye, but it I it's it's stupid. But I guess this year it became a full on like raceaver race. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: So Slim Pushins: He s he said it was about an inch too far forward. Jim Gardner: Mm, inches matter. Slim Pushins: Inches matter, Jim. Jim Gardner: That's right. So Corby Scherb: You know about that live curve? Slim Pushins: Why do you laugh at his stupid jokes, Jim? Jim Gardner: I don't think I I don't think I I meant to play some any given Sunday drops so I don't think I loaded up. Slim Pushins: I thought you had it. I thought I saw it. No. We got this one though. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. man. Slim Pushins: You had all that stuff queued up, you sent them to me earlier. And you got nothing. N and whatnot even the whole thing. Did you just cut that short? Jim Gardner: No, I must have recorded it short. So there were three guys look like popped on Friday night for the nose wing. I'm seeing Mason Day, Colton Fisher. Slim Pushins: Super super truckers on all the way from Knoxville. Jim Gardner: Kyle Jones. Yeah, I'm seeing three guys were pot for nose wing stuff. Owen Carlson, so there's four. but yeah, it just is what it is. It it kind of sucks that they checked everybody else's nose wing and not theirs. I you know, how much do I really believe of that? Not really. I think I think racers are looking for any excuse to say they got screwed. So I don't know. Slim Pushins: That's not you're not wrong. Jim Gardner: you know, and you know, that was like and we're hopping off topic, we like that was my big concern with the deal at Kennedale last week is like you don't have to give racers an excuse to think they're getting screwed. Like, this passing point system at Chili Bowl, I'm getting screwed. this is a qualifying format tonight. I'm screwing my car done run good for qualifying. I'm getting screwed. You know. they're doing God knows what. I'm getting screwed. You know, it's like Corby Scherb: My crew chief sucks, I'm getting screwed. Jim Gardner: Yeah, my cruise rate like you don't need to give people excuses Slim Pushins: Just let him stay on his soapbox, Corby. Give him a minute. Jim Gardner: to to complain. 'cause w every a lot of people just do it anyway. So, you know, your wing was illegal. Sorry about ya. Slim Pushins: You know who I didn't I I did not see complain f place blame or anything was Fivefield's team. Which is great. You know, they they congratulated the winner. They had nothing to hang their head about, you know. It's a hell of a weekend. For for Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. So Slim Pushins: a guy that has raced probably not even a half dozen times this year. Jim Gardner: I think I mean he ran that one he he he won that race that Braxton got DQ'd for being light at the scales at Kennedale and I'm not Corby Scherb: Think that's the only time he's been in the car? Jim Gardner: and I'm not sure that he's Corby Scherb: Pretty sure that's the only time. Jim Gardner: yeah, run anything else ever since. So that guy stands on the gas. That's that's no doubt about it. They got their program tuned up out there, so Slim Pushins: It was fun to watch. It was fun it's always fun to watch. I didn't get a chance to go this year. but it's always fun to watch from the house and and local guys. Corby Scherb: Mm god, I love watching from the replenter. That's the move. Jim Gardner: It it reminded me Slim Pushins: Corby. Jim Gardner: it reminded me a lot of pavement racing, you know, which I I grew up Slim Pushins: Here we go. Jim Gardner: crewing on and pavement races are chess mass it chess matches. and it's more about kind of the car. It's really hard to pass. you really have to time it up and it's real qualifying dependent and things like that. But I was entertained, you know, when we had it queued up there at RPM until, you know, Debbie screamed me out of the trailer. So look like a cool event. Wesley said the corndogs were shit. I asked him to do a corndog review and he was like, No, it ain't worth it, trust me. So, Slim Pushins: I saw what did he w it what did he say about it? Did he say it was mushy? Jim Gardner: Yeah, he's bad texture, mushy. Just he he just said there was no no good part about it. And Wesley knows ball. Like he knows that the Kennedale ones are Corby Scherb: Okay. Jim Gardner: are the best. And so he he knows Slim Pushins: Like how you've turned this podcast into corndog connoisseurs. Yes. I mean, you did Jim Gardner: Jim's personal corndog diary. Yeah. So Slim Pushins: start you did start at the top at F one an F one race. So Jim Gardner: Yeah. So right now, if I had to rank them, if there was Jim's corndog hierarchy, it would be the OG Canadale corndog. Right beneath that, 1A would be the mini corndogs at RPM because they were dialed in. Right beneath that, I'm gonna toss up Formula One Slim Pushins: Here comes here comes. Jim Gardner: slash RPM, maybe. Formula One was really good, but it was 25 bucks. RPMs are they're rocking the foot long, which are good, but it's dicey because you can't cook I feel like they're tough to cook. And then yeah, well there's Wesley, crisp but absolutely no flavor. Belleville nationals. So n number five. So go to Belleville for the racing in the atmosphere, not the the pack of your own corndogs, I guess. So anyway. Slim Pushins: I'm a little disappointed that you prefer mini corndogs over the OG on a stick. Jim Gardner: I can't foot long corn dogs Corby Scherb: I I mean I'll I'll eat it I'll eat a sausage on a steak. I'm down with that. We Jim Gardner: Foot. Corby Scherb: can do sausage on a steak reviews. Jim Gardner: Foot long corndogs, I think, one, it's just heavy. That's a lot of that's a lot of cake, batter, and deep fry and it's it's just a lot. So by the end of it, Slim Pushins: Jim takes a lot of shit for Jim Gardner: Yeah, I didn't know I was gonna turn into this whatever. But the foot long corn dog's hard to cook it consistently and then, you know, by the end of it it's either cold or it's lukewarm, like it's just I don't know. I I'm not a big foot long corn Slim Pushins: All right. Jim Gardner: dog fan. Slim Pushins: So here's the question that all tens of our listeners want to know. When you're done with the corndog, do you do you gnaw off the crispy? Jim Gardner: No. I'm Slim Pushins: What? Jim Gardner: not a I'm not a Neanderthal. If I need Slim Pushins: That's the best part of the quarter. Jim Gardner: more I'll go get another corn dog. I it ain't that big of a deal. Slim Pushins: It's not about more, it's just like the completion of the task. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. No. That's weird. So weird. If you see me non n that's a you issue. Anyway. Slim Pushins: That's disappointing. Corby on a stick. That's disappointing. What'd you have for lunch Corby Scherb: Dude, I couldn't even tell you the last time I ate a corn dog. Couldn't tell you. Slim Pushins: today, Corby? No, not for lunch. Yes, what'd you have for lunch? This is a mistake. I'm gonna regret doing this. Corby Scherb: two two cups of grapes, third pound of chicken and a cup of cheese with a bottle of water. Slim Pushins: What did you did you just shoot the cheese or were Jim Gardner: Just straight straight cheese. Slim Pushins: you dipping? Corby Scherb: No, like you just little chicken, little cheese, mixes it up. Slim Pushins: Was that did you get that from QT? Or did you pack a lunch today? Corby Scherb: No, a pack of lunch. I have glass bowls that are separated for the grapes and the chicken and cheese. No more plastic. Slim Pushins: Jim look at Jim Jim Duh has no idea which way to go. Corby Scherb: doan to see one of my my letch plates? No. I can go get it, it's it's clean. Jim Gardner: I'm just let s no, we don't. We we definitely don't. Slim Pushins: I d no no nobody Nobody cares. Jim Gardner: Let's move on. Corby Scherb: But it's good. It's it's great. It's high in protein. It's got your fatties with your cheese and then carbs with grapes. you y'all y'all didn't want to ask me what I had for breakfast? No. Jim Gardner: No, we don't care. Was it a corn dog? Then we don't care. Corby Scherb: No, it was protein shake, like every day. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: You know the ultimate Jim Gardner: All right. Slim Pushins: goal ultimate goal for the podcast would be a corndog sponsorship. Jim Corby Scherb: It's easy, I'll just take the the corn part off. I'll just take the corn part off and eat the balogny. Jim Gardner: Just st state fair corn dogs. Slim Pushins: Yes. No. let's see. Jim Gardner: man. I wonder if there's good corn dogs down at one hundred five. That might be the selling point of me going down later this fall. Corby Scherb: It's good. It's delicious. I eat it every day. Or two packs of tuna, whatever whichever way it goes. Two packs of tuna work too. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: that's awesome. Corby, what okay. All b it's all business gym. Jim Gardner: Well, keep talking. We'll just leave it up. Corby Scherb: Corby what? Slim Pushins: No, we go that's typical you throw back up. Throw back up, let's talk about Jim Gardner: All right. Slim Pushins: it. Corby Scherb: Corby what? Jim Gardner: We're just talking about what's going on. Corby Scherb: Mm. Slim Pushins: Races this weekend, anybody that's you know, on the Indiana side of the Metroplex, Bloomington's racing. Jim Gardner: Three thousand to win and like eight hundred to start or five hundred to start or something like that at Bloomington on the Slim Pushins: thirty five hundred dollars in fuel to get up there. Jim Gardner: on the red clay. It's twelve hours to get there. Slim Pushins: Coming soon, RPM. Jim Gardner: RPM Ardmore got a Kendendale next week. so Bloomington Bloomington's Friday. It's three thousand to win, eight hundred to start, and then Perragon is fifteen hundred to win, five hundred to start, or something like that. So you know, go up there and make the show both nights. You make thirteen hundred bucks. I think that'll pay for the fuel. if you want to go check out some different stuff. So two cool racetracks up up in my neck of the woods. But yeah, then we got some more local shows. And you know, obviously Eagle is right around the corner. Everybody, if you're wanting to go, Justin Bates, you better let me know now. And Slim Pushins: To where? Jim Gardner: not to Eagle. He's not gonna go. So, but Slim Pushins: U Jim Gardner: what I don't need is to pull a Corby Sherb and decide on Monday that he wants to go to Eagle and then wonder why I can't leave and take off work Wednesday through Friday. Slim Pushins: There you go, super trucker. James Horton's calling you out in Knoxville. You need to have you need to have Ryder Ryder Corby Scherb: Yeah, I'm gonna call you Yeah, you got you gotta Slim Pushins: needs to do a corndog review. Corby Scherb: Rider can't eat that on race day. What are you crazy? Jim Gardner: Have have it Thursday. Yeah. Slim Pushins: He's got two days before race day. Corby Scherb: Well he's what are you gonna go to the racetrack 'cause they're open selling corn dogs today? Slim Pushins: You know they'll be out there. Corby Scherb: They're selling corn dogs with a concession stand? Have you ever been to Knoxville? Jim Gardner: Well so this is there's there that they got food trucks Slim Pushins: No, Corby, I haven't been to all the tracks that you have. Corby Scherb: Well Slim Pushins: Mr World class racer guy. Corby Scherb: Yeah, far from that. Jim Gardner: So so yeah, Ryder Ryder goes Friday. Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: Townsend goes Thursday. Anybody else on this list we know? Carney runs Thursday. Slim Pushins: No Jim Gardner: Wonder if he's got his own taco casa cups up there. Slim Pushins: yeah, we're gonna get into the Taco Casa Cups in a minute too. Corby Scherb: Scott Baguski. What a cool name. Jim Gardner: The three sixty nationals the three sixty nationals might be the Slim Pushins: What about Jai Jai Corbett's got the best name ever? Corby Scherb: Not the coolest nickname. Jim Gardner: The three sixty nationals might be the hardest race to like handicap and pick. 'Cause you have you know Slim Pushins: Kevin said they're still in South Dakota. Jim Gardner: you've got a lot of good three sixty guys that run three sixty stuff all the time, and then you get the four ten hitters, you know, like all these guys in group one and two on both nights, you know. Anthony Macri is gonna run two three sixty shows all year, and probably haul ass, you know. So this is this is a pool. If anybody was wondering, this guy on Twitter hosts these for all the big time races. Like twice a month he's got pools going. His name is Corey Neshaw. he's on Twitter and he sends these out in an email. Like he had one for USAC Sprint Week last week. He'll have one for he'll have one for the four ten nationals next week. He has one in Chili Bowl. That hi the Chili Corby Scherb: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Bowl's his biggest one. and Slim Pushins: So what what do you do do you put a number by each one? Jim Gardner: No, so you pick one of each of these groups. So and then basically you Corby Scherb: Jim, why'd you always fail yourself at the chili roll pigs? Cause you picked us. Jim Gardner: You 'cause Slim Pushins: Cause he 'cause he can't get out of his own he can't get out of his own way. Jim Gardner: I picked the cars I was working on. Corby Scherb: Terrible choice. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So you pick one car in each group and they get points for qualifying heat races, where they finish in the mains on the prelim nights and then on Saturday, and then Corey does like seasoned points. So like there's already been eight events this year. there's sixteen total for the year. And like I said, it's all the big ones. It'll be the Tuscarora fifty, the Nationals, you know, USAC Sprint Week last week. He'll do like world finals, and a bunch of different stuff. So it's Corey Nishaw on on on the social medias is where you can find these. So yeah. Thursday. Slim Pushins: All right, Jim, I'm putting you on the spot. Thursday group one. Jim Gardner: Thursday group one. I'm gonna go with Corey Day. Slim Pushins: Corby? Corby Scherb: This is why. Larson? You can never pick against that guy. Slim Pushins: I yeah, I mean I it'd be hard for me to pick against Larson. Corby Scherb: It's young money. Jim Gardner: Yeah. It's just it's hard to know like you know, I I'm sure these guys ha all have good three sixties. It's not that they have crappy three sixties, but you know, it just changes your front ride heights, it kinda changes your front shock settings. you know, and and I'm not saying Paul Silva's gonna be thrown a loop because he's got a three sixty in it. but I don't know. You just get some of these guys who Corby Scherb: They run the three sixties stuff out west too, what is it King of the Three Sixties or stuff like that? On the Silva's always got yeah, Jim Gardner: Yeah, out in California. So Corby Scherb: always got a car on that. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So I mean they they run enough and he's been doing it enough years. But like I said, this this is usually really hard to handicap because it's it's kinda like Chili Bowl where there's a big mixed bag of experience, you know. There's always, you know, Justin Henderson's in group two Thursday is a Knoxville regular, runs three sixties and four tens there every weekend. You know, is his stuff as good as group one? Maybe not. you know, but certainly has a notebook for getting around there. So three sixty nationals it's on Dirt Vision. Thursday, Friday, Saturday. Be pulling for our guys. Slim Pushins: Austin Mundy said Geo is crazy good at three sixty National. Gio's good everywhere he goes, but I'm gonna take I'm gonna definitely take Mundy's word for it. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So but yeah, so that is the three sixty nationals coming up and then next week we'll post the four ten nationals if you guys wanna carry along. This is kind of the inspiration for the what we did at the big show at Kennedale this year, was trying to mimic what these guys do it. Slim Pushins: If you want a copy of this, email Jim. He'll send each and every one of you a copy of this for you to fill Jim Gardner: per personally. Slim Pushins: out. Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's curbo at stomp and steer dot com. He's Slim Pushins: It's a weird email for you. Jim Gardner: ver he's very responsive. So three sixty nationals this weekend. What else you boys want to talk about? I just got some random stuff. Slim Pushins: Corby, let's talk about this last weekend. Corby Scherb: What about it? Slim Pushins: What'd you do what'd you do this last weekend? Corby Scherb: Great Wolf Lodge, man. Daughter's twelfth birthday. That's what she wanted to do. She wanted to go to a water park and I don't know if y'all know me very well or not, but I try to stay out of the sun as much as I can 'cause I have to work in it every day. So I said, Great, we can just go to Great Wolf Lodge and we can spend like nine thousand dollars for two and a half days there. But it was awesome. Slim Pushins: Get ready for it, Jim. The the the babies. Corby Scherb: It was great. Me and her we had a blast, water slides and and swimming in the pool. I think that I think we walked like eighteen thousand steps Saturday. and Slim Pushins: Corby called me Thursday or Friday and was like, hey, I got a question. And you never know when Corby drops that bomb, you never know what direction you're going. I said, what do you got? He said, Do you think that they've got a mini fridge in the rooms? I was like, I see where Corby Scherb: Yeah, think ahead. Slim Pushins: I see where you're going. if they don't, I guarantee you can request one. So they did have one. And you were prepared. Corby Scherb: Yeah, so I I honestly I'm I'm thirty nine years old to this day and I've never bought like an actual ice chest. Either people have always had them or whatever I just I've never bought one. Slim Pushins: Can you believe that, Jim? He told me that the other day. I was like, what do you mean you don't have an ice chest? Jim Gardner: Just Corby Scherb: Like I have like a I have a backpack, like an Arctic backpack that I put my waters in every day to take to work, but Jim Gardner: I'll tell you what, drive over to Bates' house because he has to have 18. Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: Every time I go racing with him, he's got a different cooler in the back of his truck. And it's like he forgets and then just swings by Bucky's and buys a cooler and two bags of ice, a case of Corby Scherb: Loaded up. Jim Gardner: beer, and five waters. And and then, like, Slim Pushins: Yeah, it's like your trailer. Jim Gardner: then the next week, it's a different color cooler. It's a different cooler altogether. And then he's like, No, it's my wife. My wife buys all these. I'm like, yeah. Uhhuh. Sure. So Slim Pushins: That's PS. Jim Gardner: but yeah, just go over there. He's got ten of Corby Scherb: No, it was good. It was a really, really good weekend. I'm glad that I had a weekend just just away from everything and you know, got to lay the phone down when we was at the water park and it was good. Me and her had blast. It's good time. She's actually super happy and I can't believe that I'm gonna say this on air, but she was more happy that no one was there that saw me or like walked up to me and tried to talk to me. That was I that was that was like Slim Pushins: You mean that recognize how famous you are? Corby Scherb: her biggest that was her biggest accomplishment of the whole weekend. So that was a win. That was a win. Slim Pushins: See, even she knows how famous her daddy is. Jim Gardner: That's good. Corby Scherb: She ate like fifteen hot dogs at fifteen dollars apiece and she wanted a pizza one Jim Gardner: They have corn dogs there. Corby Scherb: day. no, they actually Slim Pushins: Cory Corby told me he goes Corby Scherb: actually there they don't even like anyone who likes corn dogs. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Well probably the humidity in that place probably messes up the corn dogs. Slim Pushins: Corby told me, he goes, I told her she can get whatever she wants. I was like, Bro, I'm not lending you any money. Corby Scherb: Territ. It was good. It was it was money well spent though. She's happy. Slim Pushins: Yeah, Corby Corby checked out. He didn't he didn't return calls. He didn't return texts. Jim Gardner: that's what I was gonna forget to get. Corby Scherb: I I made it back, Slim Pushins: He Corby Scherb: you know, she's she's actually really good about the we can wake up in the morning and go do all this stuff and then we can make it back to watch racing. So we got to watch Bellville and then we got to watch Bellville gosh, where Viking, which is where Ryder was, and then RPM. Slim Pushins: Savannah said there is no wife out here buying coolers, asked Jeb. He has to buy styrofoam coolers when we forget one. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: Savannah, we're gonna Savannah came in clutch. Savannah posted a video yesterday, and I just happened to be I just happened to catch it. I was on TikTok about 15 minutes after she dropped it, and I called Jim and I said, Hey, do us both a favor and text Savannah and beg her to send you the video that she just posted because it is clutch. You have it? Jim Gardner: So yeah, I got it. Slim Pushins: So we talked last week, I was drinking out of my Jeb Jeff so So Jeb and Savannah Jim Gardner: Play it again. Slim Pushins: went to Taco Casa to get him a to get him a cup with his name on it. And then he he's he's just like beside himself that they need to have his cup. It was like the big letdown. Jim Gardner: Just bummed. Bummed. Corby Scherb: They knew they knew it was Jib. Slim Pushins: It's like Christmas morning and Santa not coming the night before. Jim Gardner: What they What Jeb doesn't know is they have his face on a picture just out inside Corby Scherb: yeah. Jim Gardner: the drive thru windows as do not serve. Slim Pushins: I told I told Jim, I was like, Jim's the most famous sprint car driver that nobody's ever heard of. He's at literally at the window. And he's he's such a good dude, he'd so quiet for the most part. You know he wasn't like, hey, y'all got any of them racing cups in there? I'm on one of those. He just ordered like a normal guy. He he had he had nothing taco casa on Jim Gardner: And they're probably like, Yeah, sure you are, bro. It's like talking to somebody's great grandma. Slim Pushins: Yeah, he had nothing Taco Casa on. And play that one more time. Look at Jeb's face when he turns around. He's like, son of a bitch! Jim Gardner: It's great music. Hey you got any racing cups? I'm I am I am him. Slim Pushins: I'll show you my driver's license. Do you know how many Jim Gardner: Sure you are, sir. Yeah, sure you are. Uh-huh. So Slim Pushins: times a day somebody tells us that they're Jeb Sesams? Jim Gardner: So she texted me that video yesterday and I didn't I downloaded it and I got it ready to play and whatnot and I didn't really think anything of it. And my daughter is on the you know 4 a.m. alarm schedule. So she got me up this morning and I grabbed my phone and took care of stuff. Well Savannah woke up in the middle of the night and texted me. crap, I gotta read this. She said Slim Pushins: Savannah, while you're looking for it, Savannah said he drove away. So we didn' Savannah, I'm glad you said that. We didn't know what he said. She said he drove away when he saw one on the counter. So they gave him they just gave him like the the shitty Jim Gardner: Ha Slim Pushins: normal cuffs. Corby Scherb: Basic standard. Jim Gardner: So Savannah texts me in the middle of the night. I wake up and I read it at four o'clock. It says L O L O L L O L realizing Jeb wanting his own cup is equivalent to wearing his own race tee. Which is absolutely true. You cannot wear your own race tee. It's so cool. I'm so Yeah. I'll tell you what, if you boys don't Slim Pushins: So listen, we're gonna bag on him about it, but I can tell you the three of us are jealous as hell that we don't have our names and a picture of our race car on a fast food cup. Jim Gardner: Don't show up at Kennendale this weekend. We're gonna start seeing these around town. Everybody's asking where you boys have been. Corby Scherb: That's I'm gonna I'm gonna just out Slim Pushins: You took the picture and Corby Scherb: I'm gonna out all of the Slim Pushins: You use Jim Gardner: You guys Slim Pushins: the picture of Corby and I looking like we're holding hands. Jim Gardner: holding hand you guys holding hands, that's cute. Corby Scherb: No, I'm gonna out all you car guys. Whenever you race motorcycles, you only wear your stuff or someone that you really support. Period the end. Jim Gardner: Yeah, well we are aren't aren't weirdos with a death wish. Corby Scherb: It's not weirdos with a death wish, like how can I not support my own brand? Jim Gardner: That's I've seen some of those pictures of you and your brothers back in the day, your weirdos with a death wish. Corby Scherb: I how how am I not gonna support some my own brand? Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: Kevin Laclant said Jeb's on the large cups and Carney's on the smalls. Jim Gardner: Well Kevin, my my mom was at the one by your house and she was pissed she got a carney cup. I think she tried to send it back. She wanted a Jeb cup real bad, but anyway. Slim Pushins: I tell you what though, Jeb is Jeb is missing the you you mentioned that Jeb that Jeb's gonna get a case of those things. He needs to keep a couple of sleeves in the trailer. Jim Gardner: He did I mean he he had a at Kennedale he had twenty twenty five and every every little kid that walked through the pits asked him to sign one and sure enough he was super cool about it. man. Slim Pushins: That's awesome. And I'm jealous. I was excited when I got one. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: Amy Amy LePlant said, I'm gonna run get Taco Casa and see who's on my cup. Jim Gardner: Our our show sponsor, Big Country, Kyle Kyle Buffington texted me the other day he was in Yukon, Oklahoma, and thanks to the show, went to Taco Casa for the first time and said it was incredible. Best bang for the buck he's ever had. Food was great. He is all because of the podcast. Yeah. He was twenty and he's a big Slim Pushins: And he he made the mistake of ordering too much. He made the mistake ordering too much. He was like, These things are huge. Jim Gardner: dude, you know. And so yeah. The cups are a hit. I know Jeb's our buddy. Slim Pushins: If you haven't had Taco Casa, which probably few and far between of people that are listening, but if you haven't had Taco Casa, give it a shot. It is not under any circumstances Jim Gardner: It's awesome. Slim Pushins: Taco Bell. Fresh ingredients, Jim Gardner: Yeah, it's awesome. Slim Pushins: lots of cheese. It's right up Corby's alley. Jim Gardner: I was pissed I gotta drive forty miles to the closest one here. But you'll have that. Slim Pushins: Forty miles? Jim Gardner: Yeah, either down to Melissa or maybe Whitesboro's not forty miles, but it's a journey. So all right, what else we got? I got some internet videos I found. Slim Pushins: I got a I got a show note here. All it says is Jim's nasty ear. Jim Gardner: It's not nasty. All right. So I I blew my eardrum out two weeks ago, jumping into a pool, and it was draining yellow, disgusting fluids. It looked like brake fluid coming out of my ear. And Slim Pushins: Right back to racing. Jim Gardner: yeah, and well, that's the best metaphor. And so got a little infection. My eardrum is ruptured. There's like a thirty to forty percent hole. they can't fix it yet. They are in the you know, great doctors. They're like, yeah, why don't you just come back in a month and we'll we'll see what it's like then. I'm like, cool. Thanks. I'm just hollow here. It'll it what they Corby Scherb: yeah, no problem. That's why I would never Slim Pushins: Does it not fix itself? Does it not fix itself? Jim Gardner: s it it will to an extent. So they want to before they try to patch it again, see how well it closes up. But like it feels like I got an earplug in one ear all day. Corby Scherb: What is your eardrum? Is it cartilage? Jim Gardner: I don't know. Corby Scherb: Carlos hasned regrew. Jim Gardner: I guess I I don't know. Slim Pushins: Carlish doesn't Corby Scherb: It's Slim Pushins: regrow? Corby Scherb: got no, it's gotta be a ligament of some sort. I don't know, I'm sure Jeb's probably on here, Jeb probably knows or or Savannah can ask Jeb. He would know that though. Yeah, what is your eardrum? Jim Gardner: Sure. They said it regrows and heals. Jeb is a trauma brain nurse. He doesn't deal with little inconveniences Slim Pushins: Savannah ask Jeb ask Jeb what is your eardrum made of? Jim Gardner: like an eardrum messed up. Let's see what else I can find here. So yeah, that's the story on my ear. If I can't hear you at the racetrack, I'm just ignoring you because I don't want to be bothered. Corby Scherb: Maybe it's a muscle, maybe it is, maybe maybe y'all alright. Maybe it's a muscle. Slim Pushins: yeah, trailer races. We got more trailer races. Jim Gardner: Wes sent us this today. I don't know where this is, but I already like the guy in that impala dumping a guy. Corby Scherb: That's me with curvo. Across the racetrack. Just launched it! Slim Pushins: Dumping the SUV. Look at that. Just Jim Gardner: Yeah, and then and but then he overshoots it, roll over. Slim Pushins: he had the old squad car, had the had the spotlight going and it does not end well. Jim Gardner: And No No. I just keep going 'cause this guy should Slim Pushins: Look at that guy. He's shooting the bird. Corby Scherb: Do we throw the red for flips? No? Yellow. Dr. Slim Pushins: Clearly not. Well, we have we we have another clip. I think we he's missing a tire. You think that's gonna stop him? Absolutely not. All right, watch this dude get dumped. Jim Gardner: Yeah. No, we're gonna run it back. So again, don't know where this joint is. looks like they maybe watered the track down, or maybe this is a rain or shine event. I don't know. But there's a lot going on when that white impala flips, there's actually a lot going on in the background here. So it textbook pit maneuver there. It's probably a cop. And then Kind of just overshoots and dorks it. Okay. But watch the guy got on the trailer, right? And then the trailer about throws him off and dumps it. Dumps him off the other side. Slim Pushins: See the trailer that adds a whole nother aspect to this. Mr. Trailer guys just bobbin and weaving. Now we the trailer's broken. Jim Gardner: Yeah, he's he's he's actively playing defense more than the other ones we've seen, right? He is zigzagging. Okay, so the other thing to check out and watch that pit maneuver, that pit maneuver Corby Scherb: I bet he's got an elbow hanging out the door too. Jim Gardner: is gonna be shown in sheriff's offices around the country. That was perfect. Slim Pushins: Look at this guy. Jim Gardner: So no safety, right? Here comes the safety guy sprinting over in red. He is not flipping them off, he's asking if he's okay. Slim Pushins: I swear he's he's shooting the bird. Jim Gardner: Right, 'cause that's the safety. I don't know i if he'd be dressed as Spider-Man just shooting him the bird. I'm pretty sure that's a safety guy. Slim Pushins: Alright, Savannah said Jim Gardner: And anyway, these look fun as hell. I don't want any part of it. Corby Scherb: c of course he had to get it back. Three layers of skin, exit tissue, and membrane, okay. Then yeah, then it'll definitely grow back. Slim Pushins: Three layers of skin, connective tissue, and membrane. She said that's per she said that's per Google. Jeb's on his way to get a mag. Corby Scherb: Typical mag, but Jim Gardner: Thank God. Corby Scherb: yeah, I can see that Savannah. Okay. Jim Gardner: Yeah. what else we got? Slim Pushins: Now you know Jim. Jim Gardner: I don't know how recent this is. This is a huge sprint car crash. I it's either in Canada. I Corby Scherb: is that Bull's gap? Is that Bulls Gap? Jim Gardner: so I can't really tell. I think there's one of those Oshwigan speedway cars. Obviously, they're up in Canada, but I think there's also one down in the Charlotte area. So this very well could be, and I think I recognize that 48 car. This might be three fives down in Charlotte, North Carolina or Tennessee. But Slim Pushins: Are those teammates? Corby Scherb: Fool's Gap, Tennessee is what it looks like, dude. Jim Gardner: it looks like I don't know Slim Pushins: They've got they've both got the same what do you call it, G B R logo. Corby Scherb: That's phenomenal there, Kerba. Jim Gardner: Glenn Steyres. So it looks like a steering Slim Pushins: Corby. Jim Gardner: gear failure. Also maybe a brake failure and a hung throttle because he doesn't slow down or try to stop at all. That wall juts out and it's basically like hit the wall head on. Then these two jabronies pile in. And then this guy in the back. Corby Scherb: Chapronies. Slim Pushins: Chevrony. Jim Gardner: This guy in the back, like, is the yellow not out? Is nobody on a receiver? Like, why is nobody checking up? Eight seconds, ten seconds. It's like that crash in that heat race at Bellville on Friday. Like how does a guy running last almost get mowed down by the leaders after he crashes? Slim Pushins: Was that Booback? Corby? Corby Scherb: Where? Jim Gardner: at Bellville. A back Slim Pushins: That the i yeah, the Jim's talking about Jim Gardner: a back marker crashed in the first heat race and was sitting down there in turn three. And then Kaylee Bryson about tattooed him. And then somebody else piled in and Slim Pushins: Yeah, she just missed him. Jim Gardner: hit him left with with like the left front tire. One of them went to the hospital. Like it was it was a bad look for how long that guy was out there. I wish I had that video. Slim Pushins: Chabronis is a northern term. Jim Gardner: I guess, yeah. Corby Scherb: Coming from the Browns guy. Jim Gardner: Yeah. he was trying to Slim Pushins: James Horton said yes. I'd like to think that he's talking about my question was if it was Jake Bubeck. I thought that's who it was and it tore it tore both those cars up. Jim Gardner: Yeah, 'cause you're hauling ass and one car's sitting there at a dead stop. So the other one hits them at a hundred miles an hour. all right. The last piece of media No. No. it's when they told me what gear they were running. Slim Pushins: You've never been Jim, you've never been there, have you? To Bellville? Place is crazy. And and that that Corby Scherb: All the Kansas fair races are like that though. All the Kansas fair races are super cool. Slim Pushins: Dude, I'm telling you, that Jim Gardner: All the Slim Pushins: entire track is banked. The front stretch is banked. Like, it's awesome. Jim Gardner: Feel like every track north of Tulsa and south of Eagle is five-eighths or a half mile. They're all massive, like Thunderbird and Muscogee, Hutchinson, yeah, Dodge City. Slim Pushins: Wesley said Drewski clipped him. Corby Scherb: Hutchison, Dor what's it? yeah, Dodge City Jim Gardner: Drewsky. Drusky hit him. Drewke. No, it's Drewke, not Druske. All right the Slim Pushins: It's a great last name. Great nickname, Drew. I'm gonna go with Drewski then. I'm going with him. Corby Scherb: Trukey. Trukey. Trukey. Liberal Kansas isn't. Liberal Kansas is a three eighth, it's been there. Sorry. I should have just shut my mouth. Sorry. Liberal Kansas is not. Jim Gardner: Let's see. the last piece of internet media I found, this is from a pavement race. This is North Wilkesboro last weekend, with the cars tour. And homeboy K Corby Sherbs it down there in the fence, and this Slim Pushins: Look look Look at the Jim Gardner: official is just disgusted with Corby Scherb: Just absolutely Jim Garter. Jim Gardner: this official Slim Pushins: Shak. Jim Gardner: is a no nonsense ball buster. Look how disgusted she is. Corby Scherb: That's Jim when he's watching me. Slim Pushins: What That chick watch at the beginning. Look at her standing there. She's like, these assholes promised me these assholes promised Jim Gardner: She sees him coming down the front street. Slim Pushins: me I was gonna be in the tower and you got me standing out here with a ping pong paddle. She's like screw this. Jim Gardner: Shut it down. It's gonna be a minute. Slim Pushins: I'm outta here. Z Max doesn't pay me enough for this shit. Corby, you think you could have beat me at ping pong with that ping pong paddle? Corby Scherb: For sure. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha Corby Scherb: I'll show up with a spoon and beat you. Slim Pushins: You listen, you talk all Jim Gardner: that's not what I heard. Slim Pushins: the smack you want. Two games in a row. I beat you two games in a row. Corby Scherb: No you didn't because you shortened the game. Slim Pushins: 'Cause I'm fat and out of shape, but I we went to Corby Scherb: That's not a me problem. What I eat for lunch. What'd you eat for lunch? What we're gonna talk about lunch. What'd you eat for lunch? Slim Pushins: No, we're not talking about what I Landon Thompson said twelve dollar corn dogs at the fair. Jim would have been screwed. That's the comment of the night right there. What it cost you'd have spent more on corn dogs than Jim Gardner: Well, n not if they were no good. It would have cost me twelve dollars to have one and and then I would have been out on Slim Pushins: That's bullshit. You'd have spent more on corn dogs than Corby did a Great Wolf. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Corby Scherb: I don't know about that. That was that's a pretty pretty hefty bill. Jim Gardner: I'm not seeing that that was a sprint car race at Bulls Gap. I don't know. Slim Pushins: What all there was more there was more media I know there was more media that I sent you. There was a another couple of trailer races. Corby's gone. There he is. Corby Scherb: My screen's black. Slim Pushins: Well you're there. You screwed it up, you don't see us anymore. Jim Gardner: We get it loaded up here. Corby Scherb: That's phenomenal. Jim Gardner: I've got I've got the last the other trailer race from Minnesota loading. Hang on. Slim Pushins: Justin said your screen's all black. Corby Scherb: Yeah, see, I'm with Justin. Yes, it's black. Black black. Jim Gardner: Yeah, let's talk about Slim Pushins: Yeah. Jim Gardner: power rankings while these are loading. Corby Scherb: There we go. We're back. Slim Pushins: We're back. Jim Gardner: Just in time for Corby Scherb: No. Just just the photo there. Jim turned off the cameras. Slim Pushins: Jim, why don't you like why don't you like Landon Thompson? You you got you got first and third highlighted. What do you have against Landon Thompson? Jim Gardner: That's silver. And the rest are gray. no changes Slim Pushins: It's not silver. Jim Gardner: up top. Slim Pushins: Carson Bolden up two spots. Corby Scherb: Kate Taylor didn't like wallably like slip into the top five or something 'cause he won a race. Jim Gardner: So yeah, he had texted me after Greenville and wondering where he was at and I was like, Man, he got you when I gave him his pushing the cushion feature winner sticker, I told him, Hey, that's how you move up in the power rankings there, that was a good run. but I don't think he's really raced enough to be up there. Slim Pushins: He said that was only his fifth wing race Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: ever. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So I have him at four races this year. So he's thirty third with a win. His point average is really good. Slim Pushins: Corby, I don't know what you push, but Debbie said all of our screen is black. Corby Scherb: No, I didn't push anything. I tried to turn my camera off. Now now we're back. Jim Gardner: We're back. Slim Pushins: Alright, bring that back. I wasn't done talking about it. I was bitching about Corby. Corby Scherb: No, we're still w it's Slim Pushins: Let's see, I want to look at let's see. Mundy's up one. Harmon's down four. Harmon missed a couple of races though. Jim Gardner: Dylan's up s Dylan's up a bunch again. Slim Pushins: Look at that. Jeb gets his Jeb gets his name put on cups and he drops two spots. Jim Gardner: Thomas Johnson moved up four spots. He's Slim Pushins: Rutherford dropped three spots. Jim Gardner: back up in the top ten. He's had a really good year. Slim Pushins: Look at Dylan Raimi up another six spots. Casey Jim Gardner: Yeah. So Slim Pushins: Merrill up four spots. Jim Gardner: So two two opportunities this weekend, probably about ten or twelve races left in the season. So that's kind of where we're at with those. The last trailer park on the trailer race. Slim Pushins: Look at that. What is that? Like a Jim Gardner: video that we have. Slim Pushins: timbered like a timber truck? Jim Gardner: So Slim Pushins: Lo watch this Mustang. Corby Scherb: Tempered truck? What is a tempered truck? Looks like Slim Pushins: Timber. Corby Scherb: an F two fifty extended cab. Jim Gardner: This was at Proctor Speedway in Minnesota. and again, looks like they watered the piss out of the track or this is a rain or shine event. guy in this Mustang. I would cons I mean Slim Pushins: He's hanging on. Listen, I Corby Scherb: Send them the old gal. Slim Pushins: still think the name of the game for this is front wheel drive. Jim Gardner: Well mean he's I I don't see how so there they I think they blow a trailer tire or something there, but I don't know how this guy in the orange isn't dumping this guy. There he goes. Now he finally shoves him out of the way. Slim Pushins: Look at him. That's some driving right there. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Corby Scherb: Dude, the Honda Odyssey, telling ya, that's Jim Gardner: And so Corby Scherb: the move. Slim Pushins: That's that's the Cadillac of all minivans. Jim Gardner: So this is the actual same same one and I don't this this must have gone on for a while because that's a different car that was on there who then gets de boned and tipped over. Slim Pushins: Dude, he just rushed But see I think they black flagged that. They all stopped. Jim Gardner: So that yeah. Corby Scherb: see that was a Ford F two fifty extended cap, huh? Jim Gardner: They Slim Pushins: I was talking about the orange truck. Jim Gardner: Yeah, they the the guy in the truck stopped immediately 'cause he was concerned for for somebody's safety. 'Cause I know they're not welding Corby Scherb: Orange truck. Slim Pushins: Watch this. BAM! For somebody's sake, it's probably arms and legs hanging out. Jim Gardner: Yeah, I know they're not welding roll but Corby Scherb: Did the airbag fly off the car? Did the airbag come off? Nice! Slim Pushins: Was that his yeah, was was that his hair net? What was that? Jim Gardner: I don't know. Slim Pushins: Bam! Yeah, watch this. The hairnet comes flying off. that came out of the driver's side too. Corby Scherb: That's that's the airbag I'm telling you. Bl blew the top off on another level. Slim Pushins: One more time, Jim. Watch everybody watch this. It comes out of the driver's side. I don't know w I guess you have to have all four tires square on this trailer to win. Corby Scherb: absolutely. Slim Pushins: Watch, here comes. And blam. Straight out. Jim Gardner: That's gotta be what it is, right? Yeah, Corby Scherb: It's an airbag. Slim Pushins: It's probably his trash bag with beer cans. Jim Gardner: but the the guy in the truck, the guy in the truck, you know, is probably the promoter of the place and is like, damn it, I just killed somebody. And so so Slim Pushins: This is this is not what we signed up for. Corby Scherb: Killed another one. Jim Gardner: he here's the thing about those is so that the first like I curbo sent me that that first one, and I like had to go searching for the billboards and try to figure out what racetrack it was because I was trying to find a longer video. And that place is called Proctor Raceway. It's in Minnesota. And when you like Google search it, hit number one is like race of the year candidate. And it's like a late model touring series up there. And they put on a great race and it was awesome on the Google search. And then hit number two is Proctor Raceway faces financial uncertainty due to low attendance. And you're like, damn it. But y then, you know, I I found a bunch of those videos just on Facebook and you know, from fans and whatnot trying to find like the one through the fence was from a fan. And these places are packed, packed and stacked for these nights of mayhem and days of destruction and all that. and it sucks that like hit number one is race of the year candidate from a late model series, and then you know, then it's track is facing financial uncertainties and stuff. And so, I like these events, they're cool. If they put asses in seats, I'm all for them. I I Slim Pushins: I sent I sent that video to Jim and he's he was like, I gotta find another video and I was like, Okay, what's wrong with that one? the aspect ratio is all wrong and I was like, What th this is that's that's Jim Gardner: Trying to run a professional program here. Slim Pushins: par for the course for pushing the cushion. Jim Gardner: but yeah, like every every one of those we found, the place is just nuts to butts packed in there and hoping they're making money. And like that place had like school bus races and they had a front wheel drive jump a ramp through a R V trailer. I don't think so. Slim Pushins: yeah, I thought you had that one queued up too. It was a bus that went through an R V. Jim Gardner: Yeah. It was madness, and I'm sitting there like, I'm I'm such a like a racing nerd and want to talk about stagger and Compression and rebound numbers and stuff like that. But people just wanna see shit get tore up is all that matters. Slim Pushins: No. All of our tens of listeners want to see a school bus drive through an RV. Jim Gardner: Right. So I don't know. yeah. Slim Pushins: Did you hear that do you hear that Kevin Raimi asses in seats? The pushin' the pushing Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: the cushion trailer park race, twenty twenty seven. Jim Gardner: Yeah. So I wish I wish we could like conjure up a north south sprint car race that would actually make tracks money too, you know? so we gotta keep working on that. but anyway, that was just kinda it i it kinda Slim Pushins: The the push and the cushion north south race. Jim Gardner: north south challenge, yeah. Slim Pushins: To go with the push and the cushion work area. Jim Gardner: That's right. We're gonna be out of money for sponsorship. But Slim Pushins: We don't have any money. Jim Gardner: yeah, I know. So anyway. All right. Corby Scherb: We got that going for us too. Jim Gardner: are you guys coming to Slim Pushins: What do you think, Corby? Back to you, Slim. Jim Gardner: Are you guys coming to Kennadale or I gotta put you on that milk carton? Slim Pushins: No we'll be there. Corby will be there. Corby will be there. Corby Scherb: I'll be in the Reconner this weekend. Reconnor. Jim Gardner: All right, well, I'm gonna go put it on the fence. Not in the fence, on the fence. Slim Pushins: That worked out well at RPM. Jim Gardner: RPM. Yeah. That sucked. But anyway, so yeah, I already changed it all. I Corby Scherb: Leave the car alone. Walk away. Jim Gardner: I I already changed it all back. So Corby Scherb: Walk away. Jim Gardner: I got most of it buttoned up this afternoon, so Slim Pushins: Landon Thompson said we need to have north south race at Waco. I think Waco's in the middle of hating sprint cars right now. I could be wrong. Corby Scherb: it just needs to be on a Saturday. It's tough on a Friday night, man. Really tough on a Friday night to make it to Waco. Jim Gardner: Tough on a Friday and it needs to be in April after seven straight days of rain. Slim Pushins: Mm-hmm. Jim Gardner: we're being honest. So yeah, I would like to see it. I think Slim Pushins: Cotton Bowl would be a cool place for that too. Jim Gardner: Yeah. I you know, I saw Casey Merrill w ran RPM and I saw his dad Danny in the Pit Grandstands and got a chance to talk to him for the first time in a couple of years. I know he was battle battling some health stuff. and it just kind of brought me back to, you know, wishing some of the series stuff we used to do was kinda still around, you know, to have those big races at Waco and to have big races at Abilene and and travel around. It was really fun. I don't think we all appreciated it in the moment. but it is definitely a big void right now. Yeah. Bangers at Boyd at three thirty in the morning. Corby Scherb: Big races at Boyd on a Friday night with them, you know. Yeah. Jim Gardner: My wife, who didn't know what a sprint car was three and a half years ago, I'd made the mistake of taking her to Boyd one night and there was, you know, four hour difference between the heat race and the feature, and she goes, I don't think I'm Corby Scherb: yeah. Jim Gardner: coming ever again. And I was like, Yeah, I know. Slim Pushins: Yeah, if you're gonna in if you're gonna introduce somebody to sprint car racing Yeah. She Corby Scherb: The next race she shows up to is is Ardmore and I get ballparked. Jim Gardner: Yeah, right. Yeah. Slim Pushins: asks Jim she goes Is this like a normal thing? Jim Gardner: Yeah, she like is it n normally four hours between when the cars go on track? I was like, No, you know, and so that that kind of wrote her Slim Pushins: Well, here it is. Jim Gardner: off from there. And like, she's new to this racing game. And the first thing she checks every time I go someplace is how many classes are running, you know, and and I will give, you know, we talked earlier about RPM four classes, hot laps at seven thirty, checkers drop at eleven. It was awesome. They're doing an awesome job out there. Like whatever business model that is. Corby Scherb: That's the way. Armor's really good about that too. Jim Gardner: Let's go. You know, Canadale's Corby Scherb: Yes. Jim Gardner: got the curfew they get their asses moving also. And that's what makes makes it enjoyable to go. Nobody wants to see the sunrise in Boyd, Texas on a Saturday morning. after we've been racing, you know. So, there's just some stuff that sticks in people's minds that they can't shake, you know. So, anyway, I'm gonna get that out. I'll get off my soapbox now about it, but You know, we just want these tracks to s prosper. We want people to prosper. we want it to be around for a long time. So Slim Pushins: Wha what I'm hearing is that we need an R V with a nice air conditioned living room. She Jim Gardner: That's not the solution. That's a band aid. Corby Scherb: I thought it was race Slim Pushins: No, that's Corby Scherb: savor sprints. Jim Gardner: Ha ha ha. Slim Pushins: Not not when you take your wife for the first time to Boyd. Jim Gardner: You know, and the bit Slim Pushins: And it was probably in like July at the time. Jim Gardner: You know, the people at Boyd are good people. They're trying hard, they're trying to make ends meet. They have to have run nine classes to to to figure it out and and and to get it going and Yeah. Yeah. Slim Pushins: And they've got a new promoter out there, I think, that seems to be seems to have things in order or more in order. Jim Gardner: And it's not it's not I ain't sitting here poo-pooing on on the last efforts. I don't want to promote a racetrack and and Friday nights are tough if you can't hotlap till eight, eight thirty because you you know, people can't get there. So it's just a it's a tough deal. But anyway, so but yeah, just another i I I meant that more as an attaboy to my experience at RPM Saturday, more so than trying to put down other places. So Slim Pushins: RPM keeps the show running. Jim Gardner: Yeah. That was good. That was real good. So Slim Pushins: Randall L Randall L said it's actually pretty nice. Boyd. Jim Gardner: Good. Good. I think they have a race this weekend, don't they? It's not a sprint car race, but but yeah, so and the tracks cool. Slim Pushins: Bates said his first his first ever wing sprint car race was at Boyd. They hot lapped at eleven PM. Remember that, Corby? Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yep. I remember that vividly when the wise county sheriff Corby Scherb: Yeah, yes. Jim Gardner: was coming into the back Pitgate area and asking us what time we were gonna be done. I was like, I don't know. How go ask them. I don't know. Slim Pushins: He goes straight to gym. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah, it's four thirty in the morning. So anyway, let's get out of here. I Slim Pushins: Huh. Alright, Corby, what else you got on the show notes? Look down at your show notes. You got anything else you want to talk about? Corby Scherb: Mm-hmm. Slim Pushins: Did we cover it all? Back to you, Slim. Corby Scherb: Think we're good. you know, I will say this, Mike Clement bought some of our old sprint cars and I know pretty much everyone knows that our our dad sold all the sprint cars. And he saw the sticker for my mom on the dash and he made me this really cool poster. He took the actual original sticker off that we won the inaugural Mike Melton with. But super super cool poster, like cheers to Mike. for doing that and thanking the way outside the box. man, I I really appreciate it. This is gonna go on the wall. My daughter's gonna love it because you absolutely put the favorite picture of me and her in it. And that's the original sticker right there that I think that's the first one Slim Pushins: That's pretty cool. Corby Scherb: that I put it on. So cheers to you Mike. I really appreciate that buddy. it it's stuff no it it's Slim Pushins: He didn't have to do that. That's a cool gesture. Corby Scherb: stuff it's stuff like that in racing and that's why you know it's such a small community and Like that the the tens of listeners that we have. But it it's stuff like that that means a lot to a lot of people and that that one's super special to me. I I have some cool trophies and steering wheels and stuff like that. Like I have a belt that Jimmy made me, but that one that one's really cool. Jim Gardner: Yeah, that is super Slim Pushins: Cheers to mister Clement. Corby Scherb: Some for sure. Jim Gardner: super nice. So good deal boys. Slim Pushins: Bye, fellas. Jim Gardner: we're gonna see you Saturday. Slim Pushins: Corby. He's not gonna be on race on. Corby Scherb: I'll be on race on. Race on. Jim Gardner: Crew crew. Slim, Corby Scherb: A hundred percent. Jim Gardner: are you coming and bringing your four wheeler so I don't have to pack mine and be a danger to society on seventy five South in my truck? Slim Pushins: Are there gonna be are there gonna be sandwiches involved? Yeah, I'm Jim Gardner: Probably. Definitely. Slim Pushins: in. I'm in. I'm in. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Yeah. I would bet every dollar I have that there will be sandwiches involved. So all Slim Pushins: Alright. Well, Jim Gardner: right. Slim Pushins: I'm tired of seeing Corby's face. Jim Gardner: Yeah. Slim Pushins: We appreciate everybody joining us every week. Thanks for all the thanks for all the feedback and and liking the page and the TikTok page and all the views. We really appreciate it. Next week we gotta get into what we're gonna do for the off season, during the off season. Corby Scherb: Cancel the show. Slim Pushins: It's not happening. It's like it's it's like Corby running the top. It's not gonna happen. Jim Gardner: Next week might be a little busy between Kennedale, Cotton Bowl, 360 Nationals, Corn Dog updates. Next week might not be the best week, because you know it's Knoxville Nationals week. There'll be plenty of sprint car stuff to talk about. Yeah, exactly. Maybe. Yeah. All right. Slim Pushins: it's gonna be a lot to talk about. You better get you better get all the videos queued up. All right, everybody. Thanks for joining us again. We really appreciate it. Jim Gardner: See you guys. Slim Pushins: Later.