Brandon Motorsports Park is the race track where they’re filming this episode. Different tracks can change how the cars hook up and how teams set up the car.
NHRA is the big U.S. organization that runs drag races. If they say “NHRA debut,” it means this event or series is happening for the first time under NHRA.
A “pass” is one drag-race run. When they say they were close to their best pass, they mean the car ran almost as fast as it ever has, even though conditions weren’t great.
The oil pan is where the engine’s oil sits. Taking it off usually means they’re checking or fixing something inside the engine area, not just doing a quick adjustment.
The cylinder heads are the top parts of the engine where the combustion happens. Removing them is a big job, usually done when something needs serious inspection or repair.
A connecting rod is the part that connects the piston to the crankshaft. It has to be strong because it’s under heavy stress while the engine is running.
“Testing” is when the team runs the car to see how it performs and whether the updates are working. It’s basically practice with measurements so they can improve before the next event.
A one-piece suit is a full-body protective outfit racers wear. It’s designed to be safer than regular clothes if there’s an accident, and it usually works with the rest of the racing safety gear.
Wheelbase is how far apart the front and rear wheels are. If that distance is longer, the car can feel more stable, but it may also turn differently than a shorter-wheelbase car.
Rear steer means the back wheels can turn too, not just the front wheels. The hosts are saying that, in their case, it adds extra resistance and makes the car harder to move straight down the track.
Friction is what makes motion harder—like resistance when parts rub or don’t move freely. They’re saying rear steer adds extra resistance, so the car doesn’t roll down the track as easily.
“Lifting off the throttle” just means taking your foot off the gas. The car slows down, and on some cars it can also change how the tires grip and how the car feels in the moment.
Qualifying is the part of drag racing where drivers make runs to set up the bracket. Your results help decide who you race first and where you start in the competition.
This means one part of the engine isn’t doing its job—so the engine is making less power. It can still run, but it’s not running smoothly on all cylinders.
Term
lit
“Lit” here means the power system is actually working the way it should. They’re saying it wasn’t staying on consistently at first, then it came on later.
Nitrous is a system that adds extra gas to the engine to make more power quickly. It’s usually used for short bursts during a race to help the car accelerate harder.
The air conditions can change from one day/location to another. That affects how much “stuff” the engine can use to make power, so the car may behave differently than it did during testing.
“Lock up” usually means a connection inside the drivetrain tightens so the engine’s power goes through more directly. That can make the car accelerate differently when the nitrous is working.
In drag racing, “60-foot” is how fast the car gets to the 60-foot mark right after the start. It’s a big deal because it shows how well the car launches and hooks up to the track.
Term
70 flat
“70 flat” is a quick time for the first 60 feet—basically how the car launched. A “flat” number means it hit that time without showing extra decimals.
Plug wires carry the electrical spark from the ignition system to the spark plugs. If they’re worn or damaged, the engine can misfire, which hurts performance.
An injector is a part that delivers fuel into the engine. If you swap or change it, the engine may get the right (or wrong) amount of fuel, which can make the car run better or worse.
“Leaning a cylinder out” means that one cylinder isn’t getting enough fuel compared to the air. That can make the engine run rough or run hot, so racers try to keep the fuel mixture right.
“Qualifying three” means they placed third based on their best timed runs before the elimination rounds. That placement can determine who they race next.
In drag racing, the “lights” are the start signals on the tree. Your timing matters—how you react to the lights can affect your launch and your result.
In drag racing, “cut a light” means you time your launch so you go at the right moment on the starting lights. If you’re early or late, you lose time (or can even get disqualified).
“Incident green” basically means you wait for the green light on the drag-race start and then launch. The idea is to be fast without going early.
Term
MPK
“MPK” sounds like a racing shorthand for a launch/timing method the hosts use. In this clip, it’s connected to how well they’re timing their starts, but the exact definition isn’t spelled out here.
“Eliminations” means the actual bracket races where you race someone directly and the winner moves on. It’s the part of the event that decides who advances.
Term
burned down
“Burned down” here means the run went really badly—like you got outperformed or the car didn’t launch right. The speaker is saying their mood lined up with a bad result.
On a drag strip you race in either the left or right lane. Track conditions can be slightly different, so your results can change depending on which lane you’re in.
Term
040, 020, 028
Those numbers are likely how fast the car reacted to the start lights. In drag racing, even tiny differences in reaction time can swing the race, so they’re talking about which start timing they prefer.
A “whole shot” is when you get a great start off the line in a drag race. If you beat the other car right away, you’re said to have the whole shot.
Term
017
“017” means a reaction time of 0.017 seconds to the start signal. That’s very fast, and in drag racing it can be the difference between winning and losing.
“Four wide” means four cars are racing at the same time in neighboring lanes. It can be confusing at first because you have to watch the start lights while other cars are beside you.
A “qualifier” is a timed run used to determine who gets better starting positions for the elimination rounds. You’re trying to post your best numbers so you face an easier path later.
Drag races have multiple lanes, and the start lights are positioned differently for each lane. The speaker is saying that if you’re in lane 1 or 2, you have to watch the lights that match your lane.
On the drag-race start lights, the “second light” is one of the earlier bulbs before the race goes. If you react too late or too early, your launch suffers.
“Pre-staged” means your car is set up at the start line and the system has detected you, but the race hasn’t fully started yet. It helps drivers time when to launch.
The “chip” is the start-line sensor/timing point that the track uses to know exactly when you’re staged and when you launch. If you hit it at the wrong time, your timing gets messed up.
Term
120 something on the light
That phrase is about how fast the car reacted when the start lights came on. They’re basically saying their reaction time was really bad.
Term
front end up longer than normal
When a drag car’s front end lifts, it’s because the car is putting more weight on the back wheels as it accelerates. If it lifts for longer than usual, it can change grip and make the run less consistent.
Drag races use a set of lights at the start. When the light comes on, the time it takes the driver to react is recorded, and being slow can make you lose even with a fast car.
Term
68
The “68” is a timing number for how fast the driver reacted at the start, measured in hundredths of a second. Lower numbers usually mean a quicker start.
Term
nine
That “nine” is the last digit of the reaction-time number. It’s still about how quickly the driver reacted when the start light came on.
The starting line is where the race officially begins. If one car gets off the line quicker, it can build a lead early that the other car may not fully catch later.
The margin of victory is how much the winner beat the other car by. In drag racing it’s often measured in tiny time differences, like tenths of a second.
A “Pro Charger” is a type of forced-induction device (a supercharger) that pushes extra air into the engine. More air usually means more power, especially for quick acceleration.
The Dodge Charger is a performance car that’s built for quick acceleration. Some owners add aftermarket parts like a supercharger to make it even faster. It’s the kind of car people talk about when they’re discussing power and racing-style upgrades.
A “turbo” is a device that uses exhaust to force more air into the engine. More air can make more power, but it can feel different when you try to launch hard.
Term
delay
“Delay” usually means adding or changing timing so the car launches at the best moment. The goal is to make the start consistent and avoid messing up the launch.
Qualifying is the timed part before the head-to-head races. “Qualify eighth” means your car was the 8th fastest in that session, so you’ll be matched up accordingly in the bracket.
“Chevy” means Chevrolet. Here it’s being used like “the Chevrolet team/program,” not just the car brand in general.
Term
went as 66 at two 18
They’re quoting a timed checkpoint from the run—basically how fast the car was at a certain point on the track. The “66” and the “2 18” part are shorthand for those timing markers.
“Mile per hour” here means how fast the car is going at the end of the run. If the car doesn’t accelerate efficiently early on, the top speed can drop.
A “radar gun” is a tool that measures speed by bouncing radio signals off a moving object. They’re saying the speed here isn’t measured that way.
Term
two cones
They’re describing a timing/speed measurement done over a short stretch of track. Instead of a radar reading, they measure how fast you travel between two markers.
The Rolls-Royce Phantom is a very expensive luxury car designed to feel smooth and comfortable. It’s usually associated with high-end driving rather than racing. The podcast mention suggests people sometimes take it to events like NHRA even though that’s not what you’d normally expect.
Brand
KB Titan
“KB Titan” is the name of a racing team/brand. The host is saying they were shown around that team’s setup with multiple trailers.
The speaker says “Clay” has been a friend for a long time. The excerpt doesn’t include a last name, so we can’t be 100% sure who Clay is from this snippet alone.
Brand
Jack Beckman
Jack Beckman is a real NHRA drag racing driver. The host is saying he’s cool and that they’ve talked.
Drag racing is a race where cars line up and race straight down a track to see which one accelerates faster. It’s usually a short sprint and the cars try to launch cleanly and consistently.
John Force is a famous name in drag racing. When someone says “John Force’s guys,” they mean a team connected to him in professional drag racing.
Company
Jeff Lutz
Jeff Lutz is a real person in the drag-racing world. The hosts are basically saying they got to meet and talk with someone important from that scene.
Term
blower hat
On many drag cars with a supercharger, there’s a scoop/cover on top of the engine that helps feed air in the right way. If it falls off during a run, it can be a big sign something went wrong.
A “funny car” is a type of drag-racing car. It looks a bit like a normal car from the outside, but it’s built specifically to launch hard and go fast in a straight line.
“Top Fuel” is the top class of drag racing. These cars are built to be insanely fast over a short straight track, using a special fuel and very powerful engines.
A “dragster” is a drag-racing car that’s shaped more like a long, low rocket. It’s built for racing in a straight line, especially in the fastest drag classes.
“Pro Mod” is a drag racing category for heavily modified cars. The rules let teams build cars that still resemble real vehicles, but they’re tuned for extreme straight-line speed.
Warren Johnson is a famous name in drag racing. If someone worked for him as a crew chief, it usually means they were part of a top-level Pro Stock team.
Pro Stock is a type of drag racing. The cars are built for quick acceleration, and the driver’s skill matters a lot because races are won by consistency and precision.
A burnout box is the spot at the drag strip where the driver spins the tires briefly to warm them up. That helps the tires grip better when the car launches.
In drag racing, the “field” is how many cars are competing. A “16 car field” means there are enough cars to run a bigger tournament-style bracket instead of cutting it down.
“Quarter mile racing” means the cars race down a track that’s 1/4 mile long. It’s the classic drag-racing distance most people think of.
Concept
half track
“Half track” is the speaker’s way of saying the race feels shorter or less complete than the usual drag-racing format. They’re basically complaining that it doesn’t feel like the full event.
Original equipment parts are meant to be the same kind of parts your car came with from the factory. They’re usually designed to fit correctly without modification.
Aftermarket parts are replacement parts made by other brands, not the car company itself. Some are great, but quality can vary, so it helps to choose reputable options.
General admission is the basic ticket option. It usually gets you into the event, but not the best seats or special areas.
Topic
outlaw syndicate race
They’re talking about a particular race event they’re going to at the track. “Outlaw” usually means it’s a bit more unconventional than the most standard racing categories.
Term
muddy
Muddy means the ground is wet and covered in mud. That can make it harder for cars to grip and can also make the area more difficult to move around in.
Concept
you can't script these cars
They’re saying you can’t predict a race like it’s a planned show. Real cars and real drivers react to grip, timing, and problems that can happen during the run.
Concept
turn into the wall
It means the car loses control and hits the barrier. In drag racing, that can happen fast if something goes wrong with grip or the car’s setup.
Term
red on purpose
It means intentionally starting wrong so the “red light” comes on. In most races, that’s basically a penalty and usually ruins your chances.
They’re talking about a particular drag-racing series called the Outlaw Syndicate. This is the second race in that series, and it has its own rules and prize money.
They mention a “small tire series,” which means the rules limit how big the tires can be. That affects traction—how well the car grips the track—so cars don’t all launch the same way.
Concept
king of the South
“King of the South” sounds like a specific drag-racing event. They’re talking about getting the car ready in time and wondering who will show up to race.
Concept
duke it out
“Duke it out” just means they’re going to race each other directly and settle it on the track.
A “small tire class” is a drag race class where the rules limit tire size. Smaller tires usually mean less grip, so the cars have to be tuned differently to compete.
Concept
outlaw 530 class
“Outlaw” usually means a drag racing class with its own rule set, sometimes less strict than the usual categories. “Outlaw 530” is a specific class name that ties to a performance limit so cars compete more fairly.
A “daily driver class” is for cars that are meant to be driven on the street, not just built for racing. The rules typically keep the cars closer to what you’d actually see commuting.
Topic
Darlington in July
Darlington is a specific race track. Saying “in July” is about the time of year, which matters because weather and track conditions change how the cars behave.
If it rains, the track can get slippery or unsafe, so the race might get delayed. Teams then have to adjust their plans and car setup for the new timing.
Topic
Tulsa
Tulsa is where the next race is happening. Different tracks can feel different, so teams may need to adjust their cars.
In drag racing, “pro line” usually means the more official or competitive lane/line for the real runs. It’s a way of saying they’re getting ready to make proper passes.
A drag strip is a special racing track for drag racing. Cars line up and race down a straight stretch while officials time the runs.
Term
11 or 12 hours
They’re talking about how long they’ll be driving—about half a day to most of a day. Long travel can mean less time to work on the car before the next race.
A trailer is the vehicle used to transport the race car and equipment to events. The segment suggests they had a failure (“the jack ripped off”) and need to repair/replace trailer hardware before the next trip.
The Chevrolet Blazer is a mid-size SUV meant for everyday driving and family use. Some people modify them with performance parts, especially engines, for car shows or events. In the podcast, it sounds like this particular Blazer is still being worked on.
They’re talking about the wheel studs—small metal bolts that hold the wheel to the car. If those studs break, the wheel can come loose, which can lead to the wheel flying off.
They’re discussing modifying the wheel by enlarging the holes so it fits the studs they want. This can be risky if it weakens the wheel or doesn’t line up correctly.
When someone says the motor is “locked up,” it means the engine won’t turn over at all. That usually points to serious damage inside, so you may be looking at a costly repair or a different engine.
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We good?
Yep.
We are good to start episode 11 of Moral Nation Unfiltered.
Live.
I need a jacket I think.
Man it's like borderline.
I thought I'd put my hoodie on before we came.
But I didn't know how stuffy it was going to be.
Oh man it's been a lazy not doing anything all day.
Yeah it rained last night, it's gloomy outside, it's cold outside.
But we are here at the track.
Brandon Motorsports Park, we're getting ready for race 2 of the ALS Syndicate series.
Yes.
And just a couple days early.
Yeah it's us.
We show up places early.
Yeah.
Just like this podcast is on time.
Yeah we're always on time.
It actually is Tuesday when we're recording.
It is.
It is.
But before we jump into the next race of that, this first, this last weekend was the very first ever.
Ever, ever, ever.
NHRA at all streets.
Yeah I don't really want to talk about it.
Shawn's a little upset about it, we're all a little upset.
Shawn probably more so than anyone.
But we'll touch on why shortly.
I'm sure you all have already seen.
But man hey, despite that, it was a good time.
We had a good time.
Testing, testing, obviously the video of testing is coming out tonight.
Was it tonight?
Tonight.
Tonight.
They'll have already seen it hopefully by the time they see this podcast.
Yeah.
So it started out slow.
But we tested good.
We did.
The car was fast.
We were within two numbers of our best pass ever.
In way worse air.
Way worse air.
And man, we had to change some parts too.
We did.
We went through some parts testing.
Had the oil pan off a couple of times.
Had the heads off a couple of times.
A couple new pistons, one new rod, lots of new rings, new bearings.
Yeah.
But we don't mind that.
That's part of it.
We're going to do whatever it takes to keep on going.
So we ended up, like he said, we ended up going 67 in testing.
I was happy with that.
There was a lot left in the car, especially early.
There was a lot left.
Out the back is always out the back.
It's always going to do what it does out the back.
But even in testing, we went, what, 212?
212, 3 mile an hour faster than we've been before.
The fastest before was 209.
Yeah.
So we were happy.
Everything seemed pretty good with the car.
It felt good to be back in the car.
Lots of room.
Lots of room in that car.
And with all the bitchin' that I do about my one piece suit.
You're onesy.
My onesy.
You're power rangers.
I'm going to be honest with you guys.
I'm probably going to get another one for this car.
Really?
Yeah.
But just, man, getting in the car and having everything bunch up in the car.
And I've said this before, I hate it.
I hate the one piece suit.
You don't get much gayer than a one piece suit.
I'm just going to say it.
It is what it is.
Why is it gay though?
I don't understand.
I don't know.
You don't have to tie it around your waist like all those guys do.
I know.
If you don't do that, then the arms track the ground.
So it's, I don't like it until you get in the car.
And then it's the greatest thing ever.
And I've even said that about blue's one piece.
But if I can make it just a little bit bigger, get fitted for a one piece, I'll probably
end up doing it at some point.
It's just, once you get in the car, I literally am like this and I'm strapping in.
And to get my crotch strapped and everything, it's just bunched up right here.
It is just bunched up.
And you get in the car, you slide in and it comes up in the back.
So you can literally, I can literally feel my lower back touching the seat.
Dude, I hate it.
It's the same way in my truck.
And plus my suit that I have is so freaking big now it's even worse.
So everything's just all bunched up in the front.
Like you said, your back's touching your seat cover.
It's just.
My jacket itself is fine.
But yes, my bottoms, my pants, they're too big.
They're way too big.
They're too big.
So I'll probably end up doing that just because whenever you get in the car, I have to push
everything down just to clip everything in.
And then you're not really tight in there.
Yeah.
And then you're not tight.
It's just a whole bunch of extra material everywhere and it's not, it sucks.
So, you know, I don't know.
That's just part of it.
But it was very good to get back in the car.
I do love blue and I do love racing blue, but you know how it is.
There's just something about this car that is different and then it takes care of us
and we take care of it.
Well, it's, it's still, I don't know, no one may understand and I may not may be speaking
out of turn because I've never driven either one of those cars.
But it seems like it still drives like a real car where blue is, it's just different.
Blue, a pro mod is just different.
Even though these are basically the same chassis, it just hits steering this car around.
It's totally different.
For sure.
There's no doubt about it.
And the wheelbase is a little bit longer on blue.
Not, not much.
Barely.
Yeah, not much.
But I don't know.
It's almost like I assume dragsters drive, you know what I mean?
Front tires kind of do this.
And then, and then it's kind of turning.
It's not, it's not turning.
It's pushing.
Yeah, it's pushing.
Yeah.
So they are different.
They are a little bit different, but, and any chance that we get to take rear steer out
of a car, which we were able to do, I'm all for it because rear steer is just friction.
There's, there's lots of friction.
It's tougher to push a car that has a lot of rear steer.
And if it's tougher to push a car that has rear steer, it's tougher for it to go down
the track too.
I mean, you're just basically, you're binding the car up more, the more rear steer you put
in it.
Yes, yes.
And it, it brushes off speed anytime.
So if you have a whole lot of rear steer, you can definitely tell by pushing the car.
So anytime you, I mean, lifting off the throttle is the same as pushing the car.
And you can literally feel it brush the speed down whenever you lift off.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So it just, everything drives better.
It's easier to back up.
It's, it's everything.
It's easier to back you up.
Because blue backs up very, very weird.
Yeah, it does.
So I feel like I could back this car up pretty easily.
Luckily, because you had to one time.
I couldn't hear anything.
And I'm looking at Brandon.
He's literally looking at me out the window and I'm going, I can't hear, you know, but
it's part of it.
But once we got to the race, it was really cool.
I mean, let's be honest, usually when we go somewhere for MPK and stuff like that, we're
the show.
And so for us to show up, we feel like just this little bitty, tiny part of this whole
bigger process.
And man, it was very cool.
Like that track, we'd never been there before.
First time we ever even went into that place.
Massive.
Massive, massive place.
And everybody, it was a good time.
Everybody seemed like they were happy that we were there.
I didn't feel any hate that we have 100% felt go in places before.
It was just, man, it was a good experience all around.
The racing was just a different, different thing.
We qualified well.
I was happy with how we qualified.
There was a problem with the car, but we still qualified good.
The car still ran good even though we were losing a cylinder.
Yes.
So number six, whatever the case may be, it was not staying all the way lit or lit at
all right off the button.
But as soon as we cut about 600 where the nitrous on, it come alive.
It did.
It did.
And you could feel it in the car.
And even the first pass, which is crazy because it did not do this in testing.
Not one time.
The air was so much different from testing to, and it was literally four hours away.
And the amount, it was just crazy the difference in air.
And I don't know that that had anything to do with it, but it could have.
It seemed like number six was just so fast that it wasn't staying lit.
Just as soon as the nitrous kicked in, it picked up, which made it seem like it had
a lock up and all that nitrous.
Have you seen any of the videos from the front of the car?
No.
Man, it's pretty cool.
You can see when the nitrous comes on because it's just chucking down through there nice
and flat.
And then it just picks the front end up, you know, and I can just tell, you know, that
you know, it's on one.
So, but it just felt like the first couple of passes.
I just thought, man, he had that thing neutered to the 60 foot.
Well, that wasn't the case.
It just, it was down a hole.
So, and we still qualified number three with, we went a 70 flat with that like that.
Yeah.
It was pretty amazing.
Branch was pretty impressed that it ran that well with it running like a dog early.
Yeah.
But man, we replaced every box in the car chasing this deal, looked over all the wiring
three times, changed the plug wires, whatever.
Oh, yeah.
We could change everything that we could.
We just threw parts at it and it still did it.
And then after that, we ended up changing the injector and either the injector did it
or him leaning that cylinder out, did it one or the other.
But on the final pass, so we ended up qualifying three.
So first round, we had to race Clay Cole.
We go up there and you guys know, I'm always concerned with lights because man, you gotta
remember where I came from.
I came from the streets and they're, I'm not an ex bracket racer like 90% of the people
that we race with, you know, Scott's bracket raced.
I'm sure Clay Cole's bracket raced.
I don't know.
Probably.
I don't know that.
Page, all those guys come from backgrounds that they're going to go out there and they're
going to cut good lights.
Did you see Page went 006 against whoever she raced first round?
Yeah.
Scott, I think, wasn't it?
I don't even know who she raced first round.
Yeah.
Was it?
Yeah.
So it's just a lot of, and that's what it takes to win these races and we've talked
about this with blue and I've done fairly well cutting lights with blue.
I should have paid more attention while we were.
So I've just, I've learned to cut a light on incident green and I feel like I did pretty
good at MPK with that.
It should be the same thing.
I focus on the green light whenever I see green, I let go.
It should be the same thing, but I sometimes, man, my brain just gets in the way, I think.
And I don't have a steady routine of how I cut a light.
I've done fairly decent in, you know, and I've messed up every once in a while in blue.
Not a whole lot in eliminations.
Obviously, whenever I was very upset in the car, whenever I got burned down.
Other than that, that's the first time I've ever done like a one something in eliminations,
wasn't it?
Not blue.
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I mean, with the really quick light when we won that race at XRP, both of you went one
plus, remember?
But on a normal, normal light, no.
So I just, anyways, we'll talk about that whenever we get to it, but I drew, I get Clay
Cole and we go up there and I was in the right lane and what did I cut a 040, 020, 028 and
I will take a 028 all day long.
If I go 028 and I lose on a whole shot, eh, it is what it is.
But I went a 028 against, uh, against Clay Cole.
He went a 017, you know, which is fine, but man, it seemed like it was very, very fast
light.
Uh, it was coming down what I felt like it was faster than normal, but also the four
wide deal, it was a little bit weird, especially the first time I went up for a qualifier.
But then after that, I wasn't too worried about it.
Um, cut a good light against him and then I go up for second round and I get Scott Taylor
and the car had been messing up and Scott was number two qualifier with what, a 68?
Scott had won a 68 in qualifying and so we knew that we were going to have to, the car
was going to have to run to full potential to run that and it was the heat of the day
and we go up there and as we're pulling in, I don't really care if I go in first or second.
It doesn't really matter to me, but being that it is that fast of a light, there, there's
a couple of different ways that you can look at it.
There's a couple of different ways that I look at it anyways, and that is I can boop,
boop, and go in really quick and then I can just sit there and wait and you have plenty
of time, you should, or you should have plenty of time to sit there and think light, light,
light, light and that's all you should be focused on.
But the way that it is, there's one, two, three, four.
If you're only using the lanes one and two, which is what we were doing, then if you're
in the left lane, your lights are under one.
If you're in the lane number two, yours are under number four.
So to look at it, it's further over there.
So you have to look at Scott as soon as you see, okay, Scott's in, or I'm just using that
as an example.
It wasn't necessarily Scott because Scott went in double on me.
So you have to look over that way and then glance back over at your yellow ambers and
by then it's close to the ambers are on because it's so fast.
It's just, I don't know, I wasn't in the driver's seat.
I've never been in a driver's seat on a four wide, but it seems like you're looking a lot
of places, but I don't know, usually they're side by side.
I get it.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'd have to be in the driver's seat to see it.
And I'm not blaming it on that, you know, but so as soon as I go in the top one, then
Scott, actually Scott went first and I was going to poop, but then I was like, man, I'm
still going to try to go in as shallow as possible.
So Scott ended up beating me to his second light.
Well, then I'm already rolling in.
I hear him up on the chip and it's not, he didn't go all the way up.
It was like half throttle or something like that.
He started to and then he realized that you weren't going in as quick as what he thought
you were going to.
And I, man, I'd give anything if I could take that back and just slow roll it because
I'm going to be honest with you, man, I don't care who's next to me.
If you go up on the chip before I am pre-staged, that's your fault.
I mean, so basically, but then I don't know, man, it just melted my brain.
Whenever all that happened, I ended up going 120 something on the light and man,
that that's, that's, I don't see how you could get much worse than that.
Um, let go of the button.
Obviously I was already mad in the car.
It made a killer pass, picked the front end up longer than normal and just carried
the front end, the whole pass.
And I, I saw Scott's light come up, which is very, very weird because it's so
far across, but I saw his 68 come up and I thought, Oh, hell man, I wasn't going
to outrun that anyways, come to find out.
I did, I want a 68 with a zero, he went a 68 with a nine and he killed it on the
tree and I did not.
So man, it's just, it's tough, very, very, very humbling to put yourself and your
team out of it because you couldn't cut a light.
Car did its job, team did their job.
Everybody did their job with a driver, you know?
So in it, and it sucks, man, like, I'm sure that I've been treated before and I, I, I
mean, I know I've been treated before, but I'm sure that I've lost on a whole shot
before in no prep games.
Oh yeah.
We just don't know.
I mean, we've seen it.
We, like, well, like we visually, you can see or I can see, you know, a lot of times
we had the power to drive around people too.
Well, now we've all got the same shit.
So, but there's never been a clear case on paper that says Sean sucked.
Sean's car went faster.
Sean's ET was better, but his light was worse.
So there's never really been anything that's just in your face.
How bad I sucked until this, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's definitely glaringly obvious
now that it's on black and white.
You know what I mean?
Like that does, it does definitely see it in the video.
I try not to watch it.
I'm tired of watching how fast he, he left before us.
It was brutally bad.
And then even watching the pass, it looks like he went faster ET than me because he
had such, uh, you gave him a head start, basically, he had all the momentum on me.
So it doesn't even look like I stopped his pull.
Yeah.
I mean, I put a number on it, but he had you by a tenth on the starting line.
And that's what the margin of victory was at the finish line.
So that like a tenth is a full car link at the finish line or a little more.
So it, uh, it was just bad guys.
Like I, I, I failed is what happened.
Uh, could I have to do a better job, man?
Like that, if that right, if that, the way that that made me feel, if that doesn't
do it, then I don't know what would, you know, make you cut better lights.
I don't, I feel like I gave away the lolly.
Now anything could have happened in the finals.
Anything could have happened in the finals.
So I'm not taking anything away from anybody and saying that we should have won.
I obviously Scott ran a good number and I would have had to cut a very,
very, very good light, but you're capable not get a whole shot.
Yeah.
And, and, and, you know, I've done it, but damn, it just sucks.
Yeah.
I mean, it's, uh, it's, it's something that you can't forget it.
You know what I mean?
Like it would be tough to forget it.
Um, I think you just got to put it aside though.
And just like you, like, you know, you know what I mean?
That you've, that's your thing.
Well, this weekend starts the, no matter what I'm doing, focus on the lights.
Uh, the car was where we needed the car to be.
When I'm in that car, I don't think of anything else.
Usually accept the lights.
I know it's the greatest thing about that car.
I mean, all winter we were comparing blue to that car, especially when we went
into the pro charger in blue, it's like, all right, you had too much to think
about when it was turbo.
Well, now this is just the white car, but blue and not as much room.
I know.
And, and in that car, that's all I thought about at MPK was green, green, green, green.
And now it should be yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow.
So I want you to get so good that we got to put delay in that thing all the time.
I'm just going to have to figure that out, you know, part of it.
It just sucks, man.
Sucks.
It does.
I mean, definitely not saying that we gave the Wally away because that's what's
why we rate as well.
Okay.
Let me get it something.
That's why we raise is to figure out who's the better racer.
Who's the better team.
But, um, even though we did qualify third, we did have low E.T.
of each round that we were in.
I mean, we're on the Ryan qualified eighth Ryan qualified.
Ryan barely got in the field barely.
If Chevy could have just got his shit together just a little bit, Ryan wouldn't
have even made the field.
I know.
And then he wins his Wally, you know, so, Hey, it is, it is what it is.
There's three more.
I want to win two of them.
I like those numbers.
Uh, I'd be fine with three also, but it's going to be tough.
Um, it's going to be very tough because obviously Ryan's car was hauling
ass there at the last, it was, and everyone else is going to get faster.
And then you can't forget Kyle Canyon.
I mean, number one qualifier went as 66 at two 18 or something crazy,
which we're capable of that too.
The two 18 is false for the record, for, for the record, the two 18 is false.
Uh, I remember we had talked about this, uh, whenever Ryan did it at Canada.
Yes.
The, the, the, the two 18 is a false number.
The 66 is real.
And it's for real for real.
It's for real for real.
Uh, these cars probably aren't going to go faster than two 13, two 14 and,
and Kyle's car, and the reason that we even gave Ryan's car, some of that two
18 is because he has a lockup and because he has a five speed Liberty in the car.
Kyle Canyon does not.
He may have a Liberty lockup.
He does.
He's, I had, I heard at one time they turned it on and it slowed down.
So they hadn't read it again, but I don't know that.
So the, the, the, the, the 30 speed is, is it not, it's not going to go to 18.
So, uh, especially, and the reason that I believe that it said to 18 was because
he went 980 to the 60 foot 980 and then I think he went, what, 249.
So he did it all out the back.
He did it all with a back split and that the mile per hour can be tripped doing it
that way.
If, if he goes faster to the 60 foot, his mile per hour will slow down.
There's not a radar gun out there radaring.
It's how fast you go between the two cones.
Yes.
From the, from how fast you pass this one until you get to this one.
And then there's a whole bunch of math that goes on in there, boom, mile per hour.
And it can be tricked by going slower early.
Yes.
So it's all math.
We don't want to get real technical.
Yeah.
Look, you guys probably can't comprehend it all.
We're not going to try to get over your heads.
I can't either.
Yeah.
I can't talk over anybody's heads when it comes to math, but it's, it can be
tricked that way.
So now overall though, man, the, the whole NHRA experience, um, I walked around a
lot in the pits before we really got started each morning and just kind of took
it all in.
I hadn't like, I hadn't been to an NHRA national event and actually walked
around in God, 25 years, probably, or more.
And, uh, it was, it's just cool to see, just, it's just cool to see everything.
And everything there is so, the place is just massive, man.
Like our next one we go to, it's going to be way more cramped up than that.
We're going to be a lot closer to everybody else.
Yes.
So, well, it was very cool.
And even though, uh, most everybody like Phantom used to go to NHRA events, I've
told you guys, and I've explained this to you guys before, I was never a racing
fan growing up.
Like I didn't know anything about racing.
If you're usually your, your family gets you into stuff like that.
Um, we were car show people.
Like my dad didn't know anything about racing.
My dad never took us to races.
My dad never watched races.
I've never, the first national event I ever went to was whenever me and
chief went to play Millicons, uh, the, the, the same year that we started
street outlaws.
So, uh, I don't know a whole lot about it.
I don't know what goes on there.
I don't know a lot about pro stock.
Even though I watched a lot of pro stock this weekend, uh, Keith Haney took me
over to the KB Titan, uh, whatever you call it, compound, eight trailers together.
And it was all impressive, man.
And I do have some, some favorite drivers.
Uh, obviously Clay has been a friend ever since we started this.
Uh, Jack Beckman is very, very cool.
And, and he talks to me on the starting line, Ron Capps was like, Hey buddy,
where are y'all parked at?
And asked me where we were parked and said, Hey, I'm going to try to make it
over there.
And he did say, I'm going to try to make it over there.
He was busy winning.
He was busy winning the race, you know, so, uh, but I do like Ron Capps.
He's, he's, he's always been awesome.
Jack Beckman is funny.
Jack Beckman is funny.
I like Jack Beckman.
Uh, a lot of the, the drivers are cool and everybody was very, very cool to us.
Man, you know, uh, I talked to Greg Anderson for a little while, obviously
being over at, uh, at a KB Titan, I was talking with him and all their drivers.
I got to meet all the drivers from KB Titan, you know, and every one of them was
cool and, and I think one of the, the coolest things about, and we just kind
of realized this, or at least I just realized this, most of the crew guys are
younger guys and they all watch street outlaws growing up.
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I feel like, I feel like that is a bunch of them that are there.
They grew up watching street outlaws and that's what got them interested in
drag racing and that may possibly be why they're in a position that they're in.
Could be, but, but a lot of the crew guys came up to us and all of them were really
awesome. Um, and it was just cool to be there.
One of, one of the crew guys, I believe he's on a Jordan Vandergrift's team.
Um, one of John Forces guys, he, uh, has one of the cars that y'all built at
Midwest when you first started Midwest.
Yeah, pretty crazy, man.
So that was pretty cool.
Yeah.
It was cool though.
We had a good time.
Obviously we went over and talked to Jeff Lutz.
He is, uh, over, uh, keeping all them kids in line over at, uh,
Oh, Papa Jeff, Oh, Papa Jeff over at, uh, Clay Milliken's place, you know,
and the amount of mess ups that I saw happen this weekend, even on
proteins, it makes it a little bit better about our situations.
Man, I saw some stuff that I thought, Oh my God.
Yeah.
Did I wish I could have seen the blower hat bounce off?
I saw a blower hat fall.
Like a dude tried to pick it up and it fell on the concrete and I went, Oh my God.
And so did the driver in the car.
He looked at it and he went, Oh, and I seen his face and he didn't want to
just run over there and start yelling at people.
But man, yeah, he wanted to, he just, I'm sure he wanted to, you know, but it
was just a mess, but yes, I, I got to go around a little bit.
Uh, obviously we stood on the line and watched, uh, funny car, top fuel, both
top fuel classes, funny car and, uh, dragster, dragster, uh,
stood behind Clay's car, stood behind, uh, a couple of the, the funny cars also.
I made it up there, but I only got to see one fuel race.
And he's busy working on the car.
I was, and I, and I'm cool with that.
Like did I, I'm, I'm living a dream doing that.
Like I had driver drivers that I liked as a kid, but man, I always liked, uh,
the crew chiefs and stuff, like fuzzy Carter and people like that.
I think for the next one, the next one that we go to, it won't be as, it's
still going to be busy, but there's going to be no pro mod at the next one that
we go to, because believe it or not guys, a lot of the pro mod drivers, man,
I'm fans of all them too.
You know, and I've, I've said this numerous times, man, Billy, Billy, I'm a
fan of Billy.
A lot of him, I did, I love pro, pro mods the coolest.
I'm, I'm telling you, uh, uh, somebody that I'm, I'm really liking a whole lot
right now is, uh, I like Justin Bond.
I like him.
He's cool that we had an inner, or you had an interaction with him at the
winter series of the first race.
And, and that, that made me like him.
I don't even remember exactly what it was, but it was like, you didn't
lift whenever everyone else thought you should lift.
And we were talking about it, joking around how we normally do.
And, uh, I don't know.
You said, I don't know, man.
I don't know why I didn't lift.
And he said something about, I don't know, something about your manhood or
something like that.
It was funny.
So that made me start.
I'll tell you who else I'm starting to really like too.
And that's all Derek Menhold, I like him too, man.
He's cool.
He's cool.
So, which I like a lot of the drivers, man.
Lyle was out there.
I talked to Stevie, man, I talked to Stevie like this, you know, I talked to
Stevie for a while, you know, like, and, and they were all, they all seemed
happy that we were there.
Uh, the pro mod people, I'm not a hundred percent sure of because I think that
they are a little bit threatened by maybe we're getting treated a little bit
better at NHRA than them.
But they were, but not one time did anybody act like it was a, a, a problem
for us to be there.
Nobody did.
No, nobody did.
Like it's always kind of like, even at MPK, there were tracks that we would go
to that we were just not welcomed.
Like the officials were assholes, the, or whatever it may be.
Like, but, but that just wasn't, but not at this place, man.
Everybody, you know, I've talked to, to Richard for a long time on the
starting line, Richard Freeman.
Yeah.
I'm always a fan of Richard Freeman.
And I even told him, I just like it because he just doesn't give a shit.
He does not tell you whatever he's thinking.
That's right.
And I even told him, I said, man, I sure do like to see you on the internet.
And he goes, Oh, I don't get on there very often.
I go, but it's gold when you do, it is gold when you do, you know?
So it's always a good time to, to talk to Richard on the starting line, you
know, and obviously Aaron is a big Erica Enders fan.
Aaron Ellington, Erica Enders.
They're the, they're both.
They're the both of them.
I never realized that.
Uh, and I had told Keith because Keith is a partial owner.
I don't know if, if everybody knows that, but Keith Haney, that owns blue is, he's
a third partner in KB Titan.
He is some ownership of KB Titan.
So it's funny because we're sitting over at KB Titan and I literally told him, I
said, Keith, Erica, but I said, Keith, Aaron bought two Erica Enders shirts
since we've been here and Keith went and just looked at her and he goes, no, I
like Erica, but Aaron is a big Erica Enders fan.
You know?
So of course she goes in there and she buys, you know, that, but that, but it's
funny because what Richard Freeman does, uh, elite, elite is direct competition
to KB Titan.
Like their, their engine programs are huge rivals.
Yes.
And so it's just funny because I'm over at KB Titan and I look over and I see
Travis over at, uh, Stan, he, he works for Stanfield in the elite pit.
Yes.
Hey, and I'm waving over at him, you know, I like them all.
I don't care.
It doesn't matter that, uh, that I'm tied to Keith Haney, who is, yeah, he's not
really tied to KB Titan.
He, he's kind of KB Titan.
Yeah.
I know he is.
So he is, but it was really cool.
Uh, even Greg Anderson's wife come running up to us on the starting line and dude,
hey, that would, that, she didn't have to do that, man.
Yeah.
Very, very, very nice of her to run over and introduce herself to us.
Man.
You know, he killed it this weekend too.
He did good.
Greg is a legend.
So I remember him when I was a little kid, he was a crew chief for Warren Johnson.
Like he hasn't always been a driver.
Oh, I didn't know that.
He's not always been a driver.
He was Warren Johnson's crew chief, which is another pro stock guy.
And then sometime I think in the mid nineties, maybe the late nineties, maybe
earlier than I can, anyways, he started being a driver and just instantly was a
bad ass.
Well, I haven't watched a whole lot of pro stock until this weekend.
And I watched a lot of it at the line and no, I think that, I think that, uh, all
the cars are the same and he who wins is the better driver.
I mean, the pro stock is more about driving than it is anything else.
Obviously I saw one guy lift because the card didn't go straight.
So, you know, that wouldn't be you, but no, I shouldn't have even thought about
why'd you lift, you know, but it, it was a good time.
I really enjoyed it and I think it could be something special.
I think our program turned the dial just a little bit and I think a lot of people
were happy to have us there.
So people knew that it was going on.
Um, I don't know if you ever looked up in the stands, you were pulling
into the burnout box, there were people there and there were a lot of people there
and you can't necessarily tell it because that place holds like a hundred
thousand people, but those stands were still very full and that doesn't usually
happen in HRA unless the fuel guys are up there.
Yeah.
So I, you know, when we would go up there, I'd look up in the stands and, and
man, there were people there and that was cool to me.
It was just cool.
Like you don't get on it.
I mean, we've been on some very, very big stages.
Oh yeah.
I don't know that we've been on a stage that big.
NHRA is the, the, the biggest man that plain and simple, every, every other
organization, like that's what they want their stuff to be.
Yeah.
So, and that's not a, that's not a dig on anyone else.
I mean, it's, it's the gold standard, plain and simple.
Yep.
So, um, let's touch on some things.
Like we know a lot of you watched our updates.
Do you watch any updates you could find?
You're not going to find a YouTube live stream of this deal.
No, I saw a whole bunch all weekend.
Oh, they showed the pro mod guys.
They didn't show y'all.
It's because anything that they show on TV, on FS1, they're not going to show
you on the other stuff.
So, is that correct?
Right?
Okay.
Not, not on the YouTube live feed.
So promo on the NHRA.com on, on NHRA.TV or dot com or whatever it is, you
can, you can buy a weekly pass or you can buy a yearly pass.
I don't know the number.
I don't know the price on it.
It's 25 or $160 bucks a year, a year or $25 a weekend, whatever it may be, if
you want to watch it live, that's how you're going to have to do it for now.
But try not to get upset and say you're not going to watch it.
If you can't watch it for free.
Because it is on TV.
Well, then it's just going to go away if no one watches it, period.
So try to have an open mind.
Try to support this deal as, as much as you can.
It's, it's, it's really cool.
It could be really good for the guys and anyone else who has a still body of
card moving forward, but we have to, we have to keep turning the dial.
Hopefully like we did this weekend and there's going to be a big meeting on
Thursday and they are going to let us know what they thought.
But there was a couple of times that NHRA officials came over and at one point
they came over and just asked if we were being treated good, if everything was
okay, and what we thought of it so far.
And from my understanding, that's huge.
That does not happen.
Really?
Yes.
They literally, and Michael Scott is really the only person that we know that
has been in NHRA long enough to know the ins and outs of everything.
Yeah.
And he said that right there doesn't happen.
He, unless they're happy.
So he, he thinks that they're pretty happy about how it went.
And if they're happy, then, then they'll invite us back for more next year.
And if they invite us back for more next year, more cars, we need a 16 car
field and I saw a whole bunch of, can't even get any cars to show up.
We could have had as many cars show up as what we wanted to guys, just to let
you know, they only wanted eight, an eight car field.
So we tried to bring 10 cars.
Well, obviously Jerry Byrd's back, uh, he had surgery on it and he didn't make it.
So we had nine cars.
Uh, they don't want anybody to break and they don't want to have any buy runs.
So that's the reason that there was only as many cars as what they wanted there.
Those of you who want to, whatever it, there were as many cars there as that
was invited.
So don't worry about filling the field.
It will be filled whenever it can be.
I don't read a whole lot of, of NHRA posts, obviously, because they're not,
they're not, they don't deal with us.
But the amount of grown men that are old grown men that are on NHRA's Facebook
page are the biggest cry babies I've ever seen in my life.
Well, the only round half track, the quarter mile versus eighth mile people kill
me, kill me.
They're the people who have nothing going on.
They don't race.
They just said, I won't watch it.
If it's eighth mile, then don't fucking watch, man.
You know, the, it's just blows my mind.
The people who you're only running half the track and real men run quarter mile
and get the hell out of here, man.
I've seen, I've seen somebody say, you don't deserve a walley unless you
run quarter mile.
And someone said, well, I guess top field don't get a walley then.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's unbelievable the cry babies that, that the quarter mile versus eighth
mile people, I'll just stop watching, stop watching then.
Yeah.
Don't watch it.
Who cares?
You know who runs quarter mile?
People who can't get it done to the 60 foot, that's who runs quarter mile.
I mean, yeah, you don't have to run fast to the 60 foot to be fast in the
quarter mile.
That's pretty big deal in the eighth mile to get, to get it.
Yeah.
Like quarter mile is cool.
Don't get me.
No, I like quarter mile.
It's, uh, but, but it's all the people who just don't have any sort of
reference to know what they're talking about.
Like they just, they're just regurgitating what the last guy said.
That's right.
And it's not that I don't like quarter mile because I do.
I like quarter mile racing.
I don't even mind racing, uh, quarter mile or watching quarter mile racing,
but I will never say, I'm not going to watch it because they're only
racing half track.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's a stupid argument and it just makes you look silly.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's unbelievable.
And then it's even just as bad with the four wide.
I never knew, I never knew that.
I knew the racers didn't like it.
I didn't realize people that bitched about four wide.
I won't watch four wide.
It's half the racing.
Are the, are the ticket prices half the price because you only get half the
racing.
That's not true though.
You still, two people from each of the four go on from each quad.
Yeah.
From each quad.
Got the link.
So it's not like three of those racers go home.
That's not the case.
Two of them go home.
Which would be the same thing as watching two races.
I understand that you can't watch every car that goes down whenever it's four.
I mean, you really can't watch every car that goes down when it's two.
You pick one car and that's who you watch.
Uh, I mean, you could go back and forth, but you're still going to miss
something that this car does.
Yup.
So I, I, I get that, but so many people, I won't watch four wide.
I won't watch four wide and it's just unbelievable.
I mean, there were a thousand comments of that.
It was, it was pretty crazy.
Are they, are they testing out here?
No, I don't, that's, that sounds like a dirt bike.
I don't know.
So, and, and, and another thing, and another thing, and another thing.
You know what really grinds my gears?
Yeah, I don't, what do you people, what, what do you people that get on the
internet and lie about ticket prices from one organization to another get from
lying about ticket prices?
There was a dude that said, you price normal people out of this because
your tickets are a hundred and sixty something dollars and they're not, they're
not general admission on Friday was like $52.
It was seven, I think 72 or 76 Saturday.
Like, why are you lying?
Like, what do you get out of?
Isn't it like $50?
When am I 50 bucks for general admission?
General admission.
That's what I thought.
Every, every ticket is a pit pass.
Yeah, there's, there's probably are some tickets that are 170 bucks.
It's to park your RV for a day with hookups and stuff like that.
Like, I just, I don't get what you get out of trying to run down.
Well, and, but, but what the deal is, is that person probably got it from another
idiot that said it.
Yeah.
And none of them idiots actually looked to see how much it was.
He probably saw some other idiot bitching about how much it cost.
And then just said, oh, he's right.
And then he goes somewhere else and starts posting the same thing.
Well, when I seen that guy say that, I went to NHRA or the, the, the
four wides website and looked at tickets and at that point it was $52.
I'm like, where, like, where are you?
Like I could, I, truthfully, I didn't even see anything for a hundred
something dollars.
So I, like, I don't know, I don't get it, man.
I don't understand how do I, I just don't understand some of you guys.
I just don't.
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's just everybody wants to bitch on that.
No matter what it is, everybody wants to bitch about something.
You know, I, I've never seen, and, and I know that a lot of people bitch towards
us, but grown men and bitch and, and shit on people like Erica and things like
that, like she gets so much hate and I just don't understand it, you know?
Man, she gets it.
I know she gets it pretty bad.
So yeah.
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Okay.
So we have no way of knowing or
have any kind of input on what ticket sales are zero
to complain to us, you know, is, is, well, you know, who did price everybody out
in PK.
I mean, it was a problem.
And we even said that we, we knew that that was, that was too much.
Our people weren't going to pay that much to, to come and watch us and some of
them, but I think, and it's kind of like this same situation.
I believe that everybody thought they had to have a VIP pass, which was a
hundred, a couple hundred bucks.
It was expensive.
Nobody goes to the track by themselves.
So by the time you take your family and everybody, we get it, man, you're going
to spend 500 bucks on a weekend, but you didn't have to have the VIP stuff.
You could still do everything that you need to do from a, from a general
admission.
Yeah.
Hey, look, man, not everybody is a VIP type cat in, in all facets of life,
whether it's the racetrack or the gentleman's club or whatever.
Like, you know what I mean?
It costs three bucks to get in the club.
You don't have to go back and spend the couple hundred bucks to get
it, man, go to a concert, go to a concert.
How much are the tickets at a concert, Aiden?
What the?
Well, you ain't going there.
Who was that?
Who, who was that for?
That's George straight slash show.
Oh, I went to George straight.
You know, he's not, he's not him, but me and Phantom both paid.
So where did you get on 50, 60 bucks for Burt Cresher?
And that was an amazing show.
Who Burt Cresher?
The comedian, the comedian.
Oh, y'all went to that?
Yeah.
When?
Uh, Mallory took me.
It was after SEMA.
It was after SEMA.
Oh, where was I?
I wasn't around.
You drove your blazer.
I drove my blazer.
Remember when I went downtown on my blazer?
When we just, we just lowered it.
Yeah, this is the first time here is this.
No, I took Peyton.
We had just lowered the front end along with the rear end.
I thought it was for my birthday, but maybe not.
No, no, no, no, it was, it was, it was before.
Were they good tickets?
Yeah.
Okay.
And that was somebody that, you know, nobody really knows.
Yeah.
How much do we pay for Paul McCartney?
I don't know.
I'm sure it was two, 300 bucks.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, regular concert is going to cost you a hundred bucks no matter who it is.
Yes.
And I'm not even real sure you get seats.
I went to March Madness basketball game and that was 70, 80 bucks ticket.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
So anything that you go do nowadays is going to be a, it's going to be expensive.
Yes.
Like, but there's also layered levels to that, you know, like, like you said, not
everybody has a VIP.
Otherwise they just all be VIP.
Yep.
Yep.
So like, you don't have to have anything special to come and meet your favorite
drivers most of the time.
Now, if you want to spend extra, you probably get a little extra, but like,
yeah, don't, don't get upset because the most expensive ticket that you don't
have to have is out of your price range or you don't feel like paying that money.
Like, yeah, you could come and see us this weekend for like 25 bucks.
Yeah.
Like general admission here in, uh, we're sitting at a track right now for the
record guys, we're sitting at a track at brainer, Georgia, uh, where we're having
our outlaw syndicate race this weekend.
We don't want to drive all the way home.
So we drove from there here was, was what, six hours, five and a half hours,
five and a half, six hours, six, seven hours, whatever.
And, uh, and now we're going to sit here for a couple of days, kind of go over
some things in the rain, in the rain and sleep.
It's muddy outside.
So part of the worst spot ever here.
So, but anyways, um, yes, the NHRA was pretty amazing.
We had a good time.
We're going to, we're going to be back.
We're doing three more this year.
Yeah.
And one of them is Indy.
Ah, man.
So Indy's going to be a marathon.
I don't know if you remember or not, but our, our next one is actually in
Brainerd, Minnesota, the zoo.
Have you been to the zoo?
You've been to the zoo, right?
I hear that one more time.
I know you guys like to party, man.
Not really.
No.
Why try to stay away from that place.
Yeah.
They say all the stuff, man, that is, is horrible.
Yeah.
If you mentioned karaoke or a live band as pluses for me to go somewhere, you
just sealed the deal that you won't see me.
Yeah.
I'll see you there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah.
So, uh, what if I got karaoke and a live band?
Oh, right on.
Perfect.
Obviously.
I, thanks for securing me not, not being, I
about made a bad decision to tell you I'd be there.
So, yeah, no, Brainerd, Minnesota, can't race at night there because
they ain't got no lights.
No lights.
Um, I don't know how they're going to park everyone.
I don't either.
They've been doing it for 30 something years though.
So I'm sure they'll figure it out.
It's not even that big of a place.
I'm trying to remember right now.
Remember that dude died on the golf cart last time we were there.
Yeah.
I watched it.
Ew, man, that's terrible.
I know you, but I watched it.
Man, you're going to get some questions from some people now.
You just admitted to it.
You were in a situation.
I don't know anything about it.
I don't know what happened.
It's the first time hearing of this.
Yeah.
So, but, uh, NHRA is anything but dying.
I see that a lot.
Oh, yeah.
Um, that place was packed for three days.
Uh, there were a lot of people.
It's just massive.
The amount of things that were going on in such a big place.
Yes.
I felt like a lot of people came out and saw us and I'm not saying that they just
came for us because obviously who would do that?
Well, there were a lot of people that came and saw us and said,
I didn't even know you were going to be here.
I know.
So, so that's cool.
Yeah.
Obviously, uh, we need our fans to be their fans and their fans to be our fans.
And a lot of people I, I've also seen on the internet, well, the clowns are in
town, you know, NHRA turned it into a final show.
NHRA's, what is it?
Is there, you know, whenever you're in a bad way.
Oh yeah.
Uh, yeah, they, uh, reach them for straws.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Grabbing, grabbing for straws and things like that.
Yeah.
Okay.
Like whatever.
Yeah.
I don't, yeah, what, like, people are just haters, man.
And like, you should just come out, spend, you know, 50 bucks on a ticket and enjoy
yourself and see the fun that everyone else is having instead of sitting on your
couch or your grandma's basement.
Like, it's so easy just to get on there and complain.
Yeah.
There was one dude.
I'm telling you, there's people out there running.
Okay.
Uh, so I literally told one dude on the internet this weekend and I don't get on
there and say a whole lot guys, but I literally told this dude, you're a fucking
idiot.
And he was, he was an idiot.
I confirmed it.
He literally said, well, of course, Ryan beat the number one, uh, qualifier.
Ryan was number eight qualifier for the record and he raced the number one
qualifier, which was Cal Canyon and I saw somebody say, well, of course he
beat him, man.
Nobody knows Kyle.
That's the way that they wrote it out to be.
Ryan had to win.
Sean or Ryan had to win this is what this guy said.
Oh man.
The amount of fucking God didn't get the script, I guess.
Yeah.
The amount, the amount of people that believe that when you, you can't script
these cars, no, there's no script in these cars.
You let go of the button.
Whatever happens is going to happen.
Well, I'll do did break nothing, I was, I was just going to say that like there's
stuff you can script like wrestling, like it's easily, I'm saying you can't
script a car that I mean, there's just so much stuff that you could turn into the
wall, but racers aren't going to do that stuff or you can go red on purpose or
you could do all this stuff and no one's actually going to do even if I
promise you if you told someone, look, you're going to lose this race.
They're not going to do it.
No.
Once they're actually in the seat, they're going to try to do that.
No, you're dumb if you think that and if you lift, people are going to know
you're going to, people know that you lift.
There's all kinds of stuff like Kyle's car did break, but it looked like Ryan
was going to go around him, but I don't know that.
So yeah, breaking and all the other kinds of stuff.
Like there's just so much, there's so many factors that you can't control.
Yeah.
That it'd be hard to control in the first place.
Ah, anyways, in HRA was good.
I feel like it was a success.
Uh, now we're going to move on to our race this weekend.
Yes.
So as, yeah, as we've touched on, we're already here on the property,
Brainerd Motorsports Park in Ringgold, Georgia, uh, which is basically
Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Yes.
Like you can see the Chattanooga, Tennessee sign right out there.
It's like six miles down the road.
We did.
Oh, that's right.
Cause we're in Georgia right now.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're in, you can literally see the Chattanooga, Tennessee sign,
like the big neon sign right out here.
I went to go get some Chick-fil-A and I went to Tennessee for it.
And then I came back to Georgia and we're literally on the line.
So race number two of the Outlaw Syndicate series, small tire series,
uh, $20,000 to win.
Uh, and that's real money.
Yep.
You guys paid it out to Scott Taylor.
Yep.
He didn't give you no discount last time.
No.
He wanted it all.
Yeah.
Uh, Ryan did bring his car this time though.
Uh, obviously, uh, he didn't fix his.
His bill of LT motors are hard to come by.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He did not fix that.
And so he brought his small tire car, which he's getting it, you know,
ready anyways for the king of the South still.
Yeah.
So I don't know who all's going to show up for that, but man, him and,
him and Scott are both going to be tough.
We're going to duke it out.
So we have no idea what the 55 is going to do guys.
Are, are any of those guys from Florida coming up that said they were going
to have a very big thing on radios, right?
Like getting at the thing, we're pretty quick bringing his car on a radio.
Oh, shit.
Is he?
He said he was.
I talked to him about those guys that said that they wanted to run Scott on a
slick version of the radio.
Oh, he would do it.
So, huh, but, uh, we changed a lot on the 55.
We don't know what it's going to run.
We lost 200 pounds.
We swapped it over to methanol.
We're just going to go out there and we're going to let go of the button and
we're going to see what happens.
Yup.
I don't really don't know if mine's going to stay together.
Should.
It will.
So, uh, it was a good time at the last one.
It's going to be a good time at this one.
It's, it's very, uh, laid back and that's what I like about it.
So, uh, everybody asked why I don't bring the OG and running this.
Well, first off, there's no motor in it.
Second off, uh, it's very simple to race the 55 and I can, I have more time, uh,
to deal with the fans, the crowd, the other racers, whatever it is, yeah,
helping put on the event, whatever it is that I have to do.
And I don't mind doing that.
Um, I don't always have to, you know, be in the biggest class of racing.
Come out here and chop my head off on the tree.
Obviously it's not that hard to do.
So he's still taking that pretty hard.
So yeah, no, there, there is a little bit of something for everyone.
Uh, there's the $20,000 to win small tire class.
That's pretty much anything on 28, uh, one power adder, one power adder.
Um, then there's the outlaw 530 class that Sean's racing the 55 in and I'll
be racing shop truck in, uh, that pays 5,000 to win 200 to enter.
Then there's also 60 and 70 index classes and then there's the daily driver class
that we're still paying too much, still paying too much money to win.
Is it?
Yeah.
Might enter that.
Yeah.
And then there's also a junior, junior dragster classes.
Oh yeah.
And the junior dragster.
Cause this track is like, I guess known for junior dragsters.
That's cool.
So, uh, the, the little lady Amy that runs this place is, is really good at running
things.
And if things go well this weekend, way better than what they were the last
weekend, she may help us run the rest of them.
Oh nice.
Every time I see her name come up, I think it's Amy Farrah Fowler.
I don't know why.
Cause in her name, like Amy.
Something like that.
You know, from, uh, uh, Sheldon's girlfriend.
Yes.
Um, Farrah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, uh, I don't know, it's going to be a good weekend.
It's going to be nice and cool.
Uh, not hot.
So that's always fun to be in a track when it's not hot.
Yes.
Uh, we're not going to have that luxury in Darlington and a couple months.
So after Darlington, Darlington's always.
Darlington in July.
Darlington in July.
Yeah.
So obviously after this weekend, we go home and we get prepared to race blue.
Finally, uh, the first race got postponed due to rain at XRP.
So the very first race now is going to be the throw down in T-town and Tulsa.
So blue is ready, but hopefully sort of, hopefully we get to go.
We're going to go by pro line tomorrow.
We're an hour, hour and a half away from pro line right now.
We're probably going to go down there.
Hopefully, uh, blues engine will be ready.
If it is, we'll take the motor that all we did was fire up, pull it out, put blues
motor in it.
That would be nice.
It would be nice.
Um, really for no other reason than to just our spare motor just sitting there
as a spare motor.
Yes.
Cause everything's new in it now.
Oh man.
So it's going to be a rough few weeks guys.
And then after that, we come right back out this way, right?
We come back out here to seven, 10 drag strip, which is somewhere in North Carolina.
So basically when we get home, we're going to be home sometime Monday because we'll
drive all day Sunday and that'll put us real close to home.
How far are we from home now?
Oh, 11, 12 hours, something like that.
We're running something 11 or 12 hours.
I may make it home.
I'm, I'm going to be home Sunday night.
And then Monday, I have to go to Texas.
What?
I got to go to Texas on Monday.
By car.
We'll talk about that later.
Um, and then Tuesday, hopefully the motor is ready for Aiden's blazer.
And we can get that put in.
And at some point we need to put the motor in blue.
If not blue, we'll just, we'll just take, you know, the NHRA car out of here.
Yup.
Swap it out with blue, pull the mini out of this, put the whole smart car right up
in here.
I think the smart cars broke probably.
And then after that, we still got the whole, uh, jack deal to figure out after
this weekend, after next weekend, we will take this whole trailer right here, drop
it off at our trailer place, get a new jack put on it.
We didn't even put that in our video.
We can.
And now we can't.
It's the video is coming out tonight.
Well, we can put it, we can put it in something else.
Is that a pro stock?
Sounds like it.
Cause I know Aaron put a lot of that in her video.
The jack ripped off this thing.
Yeah.
It was a mess.
You go watch one eight seven farms and see what happened on the trip down here.
Giant mess.
What a mess.
So when are you all going to put this one out?
Uh, this podcast Wednesday, tomorrow, tomorrow, okay.
Yeah.
Thursday, Friday, tomorrow, yeah, yeah.
So come out Tuesday.
What else do we want to talk about?
Man, I don't know.
I don't know.
Is there anything?
Can you think of anything?
Aiden's got a whole lot of stuff going on.
He's got to go to LS Fest, whether it be with my truck or with his blazer.
His blazer is not ready.
It could have been ready.
We had a problem with the motor.
We haven't really talked about that.
So we had to yank the motor back out and it had to go back to the machine shop.
So that bad deal.
Yes.
It's all bad.
Yes.
None of it is good.
So he's going to go to LS Fest without us because we will be out here at 7 10.
Right.
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Yes.
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I don't really want him to take the blazer to the first one without me,
but I also don't want him still beating on my truck.
He's going to beat that shit out of it.
I know, especially when I'm not there.
Wheels falling off of that thing, catch it on fire.
He did all that at the last time.
Yeah, but now we got 17s.
No exhaust.
Oh, yeah, it's still really high.
I haven't even lowered it down yet.
Yeah, if I'm saying without the big old Detroit steels in the back,
the wheels shouldn't fall off.
I don't know that that had anything to do with the weight of the wheels.
Saw those little studs, it broke the studs off.
That's the reason we fell off.
Who told you that?
And that's why I went to some of the next morning and got the big old
thick five eight studs and they never came off again.
They're exactly the same studs.
Yes, they are.
You think that we drilled out that wheel to put a bigger stud in it?
Oh, okay.
No, we didn't.
Oh, we got the black ones.
Okay.
What does that mean?
I'm just saying the other ones were football and
you know why they were sheared off?
Cause it had to have been loose.
That doesn't happen.
If they would have been tight, they would have held up, but they were bent.
They are clearly not as good or strong of a material as what we put in it.
But if they were tight, they probably still would have held on.
Man, I'm pretty getting excited about
your Texas trip.
I think that's, I think that project is going to be pretty cool.
Uh, Aiden's blazer has potential to be pretty cool if it runs.
I mean, if you guys watched, uh, my wife's YouTube, then you saw the
PPV that I went and bought and, uh, we're going to do something really
cool with that car.
So when we have time.
Yeah, we have a lot of time to work on that.
Yeah, we do.
Lots and lots and lots of time.
Motor is locked up.
So I bought a car with a locked up motor.
So it was that locked up pattern.
Dick said, man, boy, I'm kind of hoping that monkey goes over there
and messes with it a little bit, but I don't know that he has yet.
So ask him if he was going to come to Tulsa next week.
He's going to get his priorities.
I know.
So, but other than that, we're going to have a good time here.
We're going to go to pro line tomorrow.
We'll, I'm sure we'll film a little bit of that, uh, with whatever we're
doing the next couple of days here, why we're not doing anything.
We'll, we'll film some stuff.
And, uh, we've been slacking a little bit on some things like that.
Cause it's like Aaron thinks that her videos are more important.
Yeah.
So, so anyways, we'll, uh, we'll go to Atlanta all the way to Atlanta.
Oh, is there anybody that has like a helicopter that can come in?
Man, it'd be nice.
It'd be nice.
We need to make some money.
Man, you know, Dillard got a helicopter.
So, yeah, anyways, that's going to do it for episode 11 of moral nation unfiltered.
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