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JCW ARCHIVE: Rattle & Roll
JCW ARCHIVE: Rattle & Roll
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About this episode
John Clay Wolfe and his crew reminisce about their long-running radio show and dive into highlights from last year's Rattle & Roll car show, including a special Hot Wheels Twinmill display. They discuss the event's success, local community involvement, and the challenges of hosting car-related activities like burnouts and rev contests on public roads. Plans for future events and local business developments, including a new cantina, are also shared, capturing the vibrant car and bike culture in Walnut Springs.
Topics:
rattle and roll car show
hot wheels twinmill
car culture
community events
burnout contests
local business
walnut springs
event planning
car clubs
radio show archive
We're going to kick off our 2nd annual Rattle & Roll car show tomorrow, so let's take a look back at the first. Everybody came out with their motors and had a blast but apparently there wasn't enough hell on the highway for at least one of our listeners, but even the haters had to give John his props on a job well done. Let's rally up and do it again!!
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The John Clay Wolf Show has appeared on Terrestrial Radio for a really, really, really long time.
So we dug into our pockets, and on the other side of our d***, we found something funny.
And yes, it's contagious.
Gather round as the Wolf Pack goes on this throwback adventure.
What's the damn deal, is your boy DJ Pre-K with the John Clay Wolf Show up in the archives
and we are on the eve of our big car show.
So let's take a look back at last year's.
I was out there, man.
It was popping and it was good vibes all around.
And we only getting better, baby, because now we ain't new to this.
We trued it is.
Check it out.
What video is going to be up today?
Do you have a new one?
Yeah, the car show video from last week is going to go up at noon at 12 central.
And it has clips of Rollins and Collins, Richard Rollins and Dennis Collins went to Connecticut
and bought this Hot Wheels Twinmill.
And Collins put the video up on his coffee walk site that gets gazillions of views.
And before he's very squared, clean jelly bean, Dennis Collins is.
And he has sponsors and he doesn't cost and all that.
So the pre the preface of the video, he's like, I'm so sorry that there's so much cussing
in this video.
I could not bleep it all out or would make sense.
He's basically talking about Richard.
So so people started like comedy.
So Richard's like, well, just take it down.
Just take it.
I mean, they're good buddies.
Sure.
But he's like, just take it down.
If you're too good for me, then just take it.
If I can't be around the preacher in his presence, then just take the video down.
So I've got the role of that video and I put it up at the end of this part of it.
And I said, leave all the F Bob's that Richard throws in there.
Leave them live and all the ones that Dennis, if he did any bleep them out.
Right.
So we're going to see that.
Yeah.
Okay.
Cool.
Well, that's at the end of the video.
We're putting up at noon.
That's a recap.
But the Twinmill car, the Hot Wheels car was in town.
Dennis sent it over for us to display at the Rattle and Roll car show, which
was very fun.
Like our listener, we need to do this real quick if you want, you lost the listeners about
the car show.
Oh, yeah.
You just lost a listener.
It's about the Rattle and Roll car show.
I was there.
This is Ralph Poindexter from Waco.
I was there and it was great with one exception, no smoking tires.
All the cars were great.
I saw no action next year.
It should be easy to have the town rope off the street where the cars can race
up and down that strip of the highway right there.
I had a lot of fun.
It's a Texas highway, dude.
It's like a real highway.
They won't, they're not going to allow that.
But they think you own this town.
I don't.
I think you can do anything.
All the side streets aren't good enough to run burnout contest on.
They hit the dirt.
They rip all the damn chip seal up.
I think it's cool.
I'd love to see drag racing in a hundred miles an hour in your town, John.
I can tell you what happened at the end of the car show when everybody was leaving.
They pulled up in front of the Rattlesnake and lit them up.
So the burnouts were there, but it was on the way out of town.
On the way out of town.
Really?
Yeah.
When's the burnout show?
When y'all doing burnouts?
I'm like, no, I don't think there's going to be any burnouts going on.
I think that'd be a great idea.
I just got to figure out where to do it because you cannot have a burnout contest in the
middle of the highway.
They were being pretty cool with us anyway.
We don't want to push it that far because I remember when we did this in Vernon at
the summer's last blast years ago when I had the Wolf Ward Dodge up there.
We had a, I put, we had water hose and I was spraying it in front of the dealership
and having people light it up.
Sure.
And man, that caused a lot of problems.
Oh yeah, that got me in trouble.
But they love that.
What was the problems?
State highway, you're not, this is not the burnout strip.
Stop doing that.
Stop doing that.
You're supposed to be a pillar of the community.
Don't be such a jerk, John.
And endorse bad behavior like this.
Put this in a language you can understand.
Surely Las Policia.
Las Policia.
Well, there's also the Rev contest too.
Everybody's like, when's that going to be?
And it kind of happened.
Yeah.
This is our first one.
I think there were a thousand people in town.
It was awesome.
And we figured out what to do next time and I think we're going to do another one Easter
weekend and then we're going to do the big rally, the, the bike, the bike week is going
to be in May.
May.
Texas rail snake rally.
Was it bigger than you thought?
Because I really turned out a lot better than I figured the first one would be.
But it was a lot of folks, man.
I pushed it hard.
Richard Rollins pushed it hard.
The promoter pushed it hard with the car clubs.
For only two weeks.
I know.
Two weeks notice.
You know how it happened.
People came from town.
Rollins wanted to do a pilot.
Actually, you did the video on the pilot, the podcast.
So he's like, I'm coming out on Friday.
We're going to spend Friday afternoon working.
Why don't we do something out there?
Why I'm out there?
I was like, well, let's just have a car show.
And we put a thousand people together that fast.
That was pretty cool.
That was very fast and very cool.
That was cool.
People came from everywhere.
Town was super happy.
All the businesses, even the guys, the haters were like, hey man, they called.
They're not haters, but they bitch at me a little bit.
Sure.
They called saying thanks.
Good.
Yeah.
And I paid to pay one of the side roads so that it was better for the car show that, you
know, it's there today.
It was city property.
So gave a little bit back and, you know, we're just, I think these people are starting
to understand the guys, the locals in Walnut Springs that I'm not trying to turn their
town upside down.
Exactly.
All I'm trying to do is finish what they'd already started because it already started.
It was a strip of in the middle of nowhere.
It's like a little baby strip on an island, you know, and there's nothing there.
And then a couple of people put in some bars and it just kind of turned into this little
bar and restaurant strip, but there's not enough flow there for anybody making money.
Sure.
So we got to create flow.
We got to make this town work.
It's got to be car town, bike town.
Actually, I see those two side streets blocked off every weekend when the weather's
pretty and just have that vibe rolling all the time, all the time.
That's what I would want.
That's why we put the garage where it is.
That's like, I can make this work.
It's that strip.
Slightly off the street.
In the Felipe Armenta and I are putting in a Mexican restaurant here called the Cantina
at Bosque Cantina.
It'll be good.
It'll be good.
It'll be good.
Well folks are asking too.
Alright.
Y'all know what to do.
Hit us up on JohnKlayWolf.com.
You can check out old episodes on there.
You know, stay up to date with what we got going on.
Get cool gear.
We got hats, shirts, all that.
Hit us up on Facebook, you know, search John Clay Wolf Show.
We're on Instagram, John's on Twitter.
know you can holler at all of us, okay? And you know how to spell it, okay? We appreciate
y'all listening. Keep on rockin' with us.
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