The Fast Life Podcast Oct 31, 2025

The Texas Motorcycle Stampede #439

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RLNS Motorcycles

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Fso 125S

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Sprinter van

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restomod

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Harley Davidson

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patina

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Dodge Charger

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custom vehicle

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upholstery

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C10

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Chevrolet C10

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classic car

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Ford Model 32

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Ford Model 34

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Ford Model 40

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Chevrolet Chevelles

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Chevrolet Camaro

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Chevrolet Malibus

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Arlenes

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plug-and-play bagger mid-controls

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air cleaners

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forged wheels

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brake calipers

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Chrysler 200S

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Ford Thunderbirds

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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Fast Life Podcast.

On today's episode, I'm sitting down with Corey, the man behind the Texas motorcycle stampede,

which is going on in November 8th in the Fort Worth Stockyards here in North Texas.

And I'm so excited to do this and be a part of it and see how all this stuff comes

together.

So in this episode, we're getting a little bit of insight onto Corey, what his background

is in, how he started somewhat the Austin Speed Shop, he's a partner in that venture

down in Austin, as well as how he got into doing all these events and coordination.

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Now let's get into it.

Hey guys, you ready to let the dogs out?

Fast life, come inside.

I appreciate it, man.

I'm glad Ochoa leaked us together, you know what I mean?

Yeah, it's good.

It's good to be able to have a guy like you bringing this type of event

to, you know, North Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth, in general, and you know, and then

being able to be a part of it in some form or fashion is also pretty much an honor

on my part.

I'm glad you're a part of it.

But you know, you got your hands in a lot of stuff, it seems like.

I have, I have.

I was looking at, you know, the resume that you had kind of sent over.

And it kind of blew my mind that you, so you were a drum tech?

Yes.

Is that what it was?

That's how you got, like, a start into the music side of things?

Yeah, I played drums.

Nice.

And, you know, I was really good with them.

I don't know why.

I just can.

You just got it.

If you work on motorcycles, I'm really good with drums, making them talk.

Nice.

So I worked with Chris Layton from Stevie Ray Vaughn for years and helped him

out.

I worked at Tommy's drum shop in Austin, you know, when I was growing up there.

Yeah.

So I've always liked music, that's for sure.

And, you know, and this was, what, late 80s?

Yeah.

Mid 80s.

Middle 80s.

Okay.

And that's, I mean, that's Stevie Ray Vaughn.

That's a height.

You know, when did he pass away?

90.

90, that's right.

Yeah.

1990.

August 27th.

Dang.

Yeah.

Were you pretty close with the band and everything at the time?

You know, Chris I was, right?

Yeah.

I met Stevie several times and, you know, but they were kind of, they were on their

way up.

Yeah.

You know, I'd see Chris a lot.

Yeah.

They had, was it like a revolving door band kind of thing where you have like different

musicians kind of playing different instruments every once in a while?

Or was it like a, like a specific, you know, you ever seen that where like sometimes

there's a, like an artist, a singer, but they'll have, sometimes the musicians are not

always the, yeah, the exact same words.

Like players.

Yeah.

You mean what I was doing?

No, just like the guy that you were working with.

No.

Yeah.

He was a, on the band.

Yeah.

Chris Brighton.

Yeah.

He was in the band with Stevie.

He was the original drummer.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah.

And then after Stevie passed away, they started a band called the Arkangels,

which had Charlie Sexton and Dolbram Hall Jr.

And then it was Tommy and Chris, the rhythm section from Stevie.

Okay.

So not toured with them for years.

So that opened your eyes to how that whole mechanism works as far as being

on tour, you know, how it works with the event promoters.

And you just kind of get like an education in that.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

I mean, I, you know, I did drum teching, which led to production management, which

led to tour management, you know, into management.

Yeah.

So it just kind of was a natural progression.

Yeah.

I think it's interesting, man, and especially you growing up in Austin in a heyday of,

you know, what it's come to be, what it's become now is kind of a, I don't hate it,

but it's also, I think you would agree that like, it's just what it used to be or what

it was at one point.

You kind of like miss that, that simplicity of it or the, the very underground authenticity

of it.

I do.

I miss it.

There was, when I moved there in 82, there was 300,000 people there, 360,000 people

as a population.

Yeah.

It's over 2 million in the Metroplex now.

It's insane.

It's a different town.

But it's good.

You know, it's a good place.

What's good about it though, or what I've always enjoyed about it is it's down the

street, so I don't have to like live in it, but you, it is like a place for eclectic

ideas to come together and create, you know, art thrives down there.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

San Antonio is a big art town as well, but you know, Austin just brings the

other aspects.

He brings the music to it, you know, the painters then have the sounds and then

you get the visuals with, you know, like Robert Rodriguez being down there with

his studios and stuff like that.

So yeah, it's just, it's crazy what it's become over the last, you know, 20

years essentially.

It's such a big tech town, a food town, you know, it's, you know, all the

companies are there from Homeaway to Google to, you know, so it's Tesla.

Yeah.

Tesla.

Elon.

Yeah.

When did the love for, you know, cars, motorcycles and custom come into play?

You know, I, I, I got my first mini bike when I was five and I was just drawn

to it.

Yeah.

It was at my dad's friend's house.

There was one in the garage with stuff packed on it and I was like, what's

that?

Yeah.

You know?

And I was, I really wanted it.

And before we left, the guy pulled it out because my dad could tell I was

really into it.

Yeah.

I raced, rode mini bikes, you know, did that go-karts, you know, all that stuff.

I was just into it.

Where are you from originally?

Port Arthur, Texas.

Okay.

So down south, yeah.

Yeah.

Group went school in Niederland.

Mm-hmm.

Well, my Port Arthur area.

Southeast Texas.

Nice.

Almost Cajun.

Close.

My grandparents were full-on French Cajuns.

Yeah.

Oh, that's awesome.

Oh, yeah.

I'd go to their house and they'd just speak French.

I didn't know what was going on.

Yeah.

Kind of off topic, but every year my wife and I, Thanksgiving, we do a, we just

want to make a different type of food.

I'm not a big turkey and stuffing and that kind of guy.

And last year we did like a, just a really nice lasagna and this year we

want to do like a gumbo.

Yeah.

And so we're trying to get different recipes together to kind of like sit there

today, like together and just kind of brew something up.

Yeah.

So some of my favorite food is Cajun food.

Oh, I love it.

I love it.

Spice.

Yeah.

Not a crawfish guy though.

No.

I can't, I can't do it.

Mudbugs.

Shrimp all day long.

Yeah.

100%.

I'm spoiled.

I'm a shrimp snob.

Yeah.

They got, you know, growing up near the coast.

Yeah.

Always had good shrimp.

Yeah.

So you, you had, you got to race that, that they're kind of like evolved

into like different stuff like that.

Racing and everything.

Yeah.

So I got into, you know, my first XR75 and I switched to YZ80s and I was racing.

Like in Port Arthur, they had Pleasure Island motocross park.

Okay.

And I got into racing and did that all the way up through 125s and raced in Rio

Bravo, Conroe, the Astrodome, Superdome on an AMA kind of, you know, a lower

level of what in pros, but I had a good time, you know, just always rode so that.

That's awesome.

And of course, I'd always like cars and, you know, had a van like, had a black van

like the one on the side.

Oh, like mine?

Yeah.

And in high school, that's where I drove a black van, American Racing Wheels.

That, I mean, it's, it's a, my wife and I were sitting on the, at a point where

we needed something to kind of like transport our vendor space and you know, we wanted

something we could also like camp in if we go to like outdoor events and the

practical thing is like a Sprinter van.

You know.

There's a nice now.

They, I mean, they're definitely more expensive than what we got in that, but

they're just the thing is that like my wife and I will jump in that on a Sunday

and go cruise.

Sure.

You just don't cruise a Sprinter van.

So it's kind of like a utilitary purpose vehicle, as opposed to this thing

gives me a little bit of both worlds where we can kind of enjoy it, camp

in it, transport stuff, you know, do all that.

But the hard part about it in this, you know, with you owning Austin

Speed Shop and being in this world, I know how to make things glossy and pretty.

But when it has like some original old school patina, you know, a flavor,

something that time created, essentially, I don't know how to, I try

to, I try not to touch it because I feel like I'll just mess it up and

make it, you know, perfect.

Yeah.

And it's the imperfection that makes it cool.

You know, that is a lot of great cars like that.

I have a 1950 Mercury.

It's it's my favorite, but a lot of people like it because it's

the original patina.

And it was maroon and it's almost like brown now.

I redid all the engines all nice and the chrome's all real nice,

but I left the metal the way it was.

Yeah.

And the insides all knocked out in the Paul Street, right?

But it just has that great old look that patina.

Yeah.

You basically make it comfortable.

You know, and, and, you know, maybe rest or monitor a little bit or what?

What's no, this one's all original, all original, you know, but done really well.

You can drive it to California tomorrow, even as AC in it.

Oh, that's bad ass.

Usually a mark doesn't have that, but it's cool.

That's wild.

But I like the, you know, I like them a little worn like that.

Also, like nice paint jobs and stuff, right?

Sometimes you get, you can't even take them anywhere.

Yeah.

You know, it's working, drive it to the grocery store and not worry about it getting scratched.

Yeah.

Well, if you buy something new, like if you bought a brand new Harley Davidson right now,

yeah, it doesn't really make sense to make it look like it's old, right?

It's a different animal.

But if you buy an older, you know, you know, older tour glider or something

and it's got a cool patina to it, then it's that's that's how it should look.

You know what I mean?

So it's just something weird about seeing like a brand new Dodge Charger

that's got like a fake patina paint job on it.

This doesn't really work.

Was on half the car's plastic.

So how did that bumper rust?

Right.

You know what I mean?

My favorite bikes are the, you know, like Mike Wolf has bikes like this,

whereas the 36 to 39 knuckles and they look like they just get dirt on them

and they're cool looking, but they all run, you know, like that.

Yeah, I mean, dude, those things are they're they're pretty wild.

I've been, you know, as I've been going down the chopper, you know,

path and getting into the vintage motorcycles more.

It's it's such a everybody has like a that I've talked to in the world

has like a knucklehead story or a knucklehead, you know, I'm saving up

for a knucklehead, but then I had to buy a house, right?

So I had to put money down in the house or something.

You know, a nice knucklehead is good down payment on a house.

Yeah, yeah, 100 percent.

I just entered the wheels through time.

Oh, nice.

They have a rally, you know, a raffle.

They do run 39 knucklehead.

That's so beautiful.

I am about like $200 worth of tickets.

Well, through time, is that the one in Maggie Valley?

Yes. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, it's a great shop.

Yeah, I've been been through there.

I haven't been in the in the place yet.

They used to do what they call the FXR jam, which was like

a lot of people on the East Coast would go to Maggie Valley

because it's right on the foothills of the Smokies, right?

Some amazing riding.

And they would just get in some of those motels

and they just had these huge, like parking lot kind of

almost like a campsite at night.

Everybody's just hanging out in the parking lot

looking at bikes, drinking beer, you know,

and then the next morning they'll parkway.

Yeah, yeah, through there.

Blue Ridge. Yeah, yeah.

So beautiful.

What?

When did the idea for Austin Speed Shop come into play?

Like, how did that even become a thing?

You know, it I have two partners

that I knew in Austin, right?

They weren't they weren't partners yet.

And we knew this guy that was doing upholstery

and we knew a guy that was kind of working on cars and stuff.

And this is where it kind of took over like management of a band,

right, like putting a band together, right?

It was like, why don't we go lease a space

and get a place for these guys and get out of the garages

and just kind of create a cool little workshop.

Yeah, kind of a clubhouse for us, right?

And we did that and it just took off organically like that.

And then we started adding people to work there

and we've had a lot of people through the years who worked there

and come, come and gone, you know.

And we just started because, you know, we like cars.

You know, I worked with Jimmy Vaughan, who was a big car guy.

And we were just always around cool cars.

Steve Warthimer, that started the Lone Star Roundup Car Show.

Everybody just kind of was into it, you know.

So we just started it with really nothing, you know.

It's kind of silly, but it seemed to hold on and it's still going.

Yeah, that's really cool.

The analogy you put, it's kind of like putting a band together.

Like if you think about all the aspects

of what it goes into building a custom vehicle, motorcycle or car,

there's there's there is an upholstery.

There is a paint guy or a fab guy or a mechanic.

And they all come together to harmoniously build something, right?

Yeah. So yeah, it was, you know, we've had a lot of guys come and go.

It's it's interesting because like a friend of mine is Heath Murray.

He taught Rodson, but he's hands on doing it.

I'm I know what I like.

I like cool things.

I like to put things together and stuff,

but I'm not the guy doing the metal fabbing and stuff.

So it's a kind of a philanthropic thing having, you know,

the shop where we have all these guys come through there

and work for us and we treat them well and try to, you know,

take care of them really nicely and do good work.

You know, but it's different.

It's not like I'm in the shop every day leading the charge,

but I've provided this place where everybody can work and have a great job.

And yeah, you know, with my partners with that, that concept.

I mean, I've over the years known a lot of people that have come through

there and gone on to do things with themselves or build their own businesses.

Right. You know, Patrick Tilbury, Matt Jackson, you know, to name

name a few that are more motorcycle centric and, you know, to me,

I think that's that's also a good thing to like have a place where people

that are into the custom side of things can go and, you know,

you know, maybe practice isn't the right word, but play, you know,

do the thing that they do grow, you know, in all aspects

of what it takes to build, you know, machines.

You know what I mean? Absolutely.

So, you know, that's that's I think that's I mean,

we used to have this thing up here.

I think I was telling you at lunch the other day, a house of hot rods.

Yeah, I remember that huge con like literally like you,

like he had this huge block with just every building did something different.

And where was that?

It was in Mansfield, but I think he moved it out to like West Texas somewhere.

Right.

I think I saw it off the highway, like going towards Midland or Odessa.

But yeah, I've done a few things for him.

And he would have like an airbrush guy there, a metal fab guy

in a poultry shop, a paint body shop, the whole nine, you know,

and with the prices of, you know, just say C 10s now.

It's like I it blows my mind how much those like how many custom cars there are out there,

you know, but to think that there's a ability to make money on it still,

that that's kind of a mind blowing to me.

Yeah, it is.

You know, it's like it's damn near a hundred grand to get a good C 10 built,

if not way more, depending on what you go, right?

You know, it is.

They're so popular.

Everything, you know, kind of goes, comes and goes and waves, different cars and stuff.

But the truck, you know, that C 10s in the park.

Yeah, yeah.

Those guys, they it's like they have the event and the next day they put the

tickets on for next year and they sell out in a couple of hours.

Exactly.

I mean, people are into it.

Yeah.

I mean, it gets it's hard to get into the park over there.

I live really close to the park, actually.

But the whole weekend with all the trucks everywhere and all the other cars it brings

out, it just turns this town into a little car show.

Like like SEMA almost, you know, every restaurant is full of like bad ass cars.

So it's just like you walk through all these parking lots and see these amazing machines.

I haven't been, but I want to go.

Yeah.

Our manager at the shop, Nick, Mary has a really nice C 10.

So he's been up there.

I had a couple men.

I just never finished them and now I'm kicking myself in the ass because I sold

like really good baseline, you know, 66s, 65s.

That was my body style that I like the most.

Those the first C 10s.

Yeah, I like 72, 68, 72 Chevy Ford.

Yeah.

Oh, it's all good.

Like them all.

Yeah, they're all bad ass, man.

What would you say is like Austin's speech show?

What was kind of like the style of vehicles that you guys were doing originally?

Was it just kind of whatever came in the door?

Did you have like a?

Yeah, you know, it when we started, you kind of have these this kind of thing that you do where it's

like 63 and back, right?

Because that's when the muscle car era started.

Yeah.

And you didn't kind of be more of a traditional shop in the 50s, 40s, 30s cars.

Yeah.

Right.

Some early 60s.

What what era would you call that?

Like of cars?

Is it more just like classic car?

Yeah, classic.

Yeah, okay.

Everybody likes the 32 Fords, 34s, you know, 40 Fords.

Those are great.

Chevy's 51s.

You know, there's some great cars.

Yeah.

So, but as time goes on, like I was saying, you know, things kind of come and go.

And now there's some really cool cars in the 60s.

You know, we don't we're not real strict about it.

You know, at first we were kind of like, that's what you want to do.

But then you get people that want to come in and give you business to do.

Yeah.

Nice cool car.

Yeah.

I don't have any problem with it.

Yeah.

They were much more crude.

Oh, I guess I don't know.

I'm really ignorant to the pre 60s.

I'm not really that that educated on 60s.

And I've been a motorcycle guy most of my life.

But just thinking like it felt like the cars pre 60s were much more

coupe style cruisers, not so much like a sports car, unless you were to get into

like your Porsches and maybe, you know, those kind of things.

But yeah, the, you know, the fifties Chevy had a lot of great cars, you know, 58,

you know, and in the 60s, they just started changing where you started having

Chevelles and, you know, that kind of stuff.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Malibu's and the Camaro started getting real popular and that.

Yeah.

You know, so we've done, you know, we do a lot of different cars now.

That's cool.

But so bikes too in there, everyone saw, right?

Yeah.

I've seen some bikes come out of that.

A couple of the guys are great riders.

Alan Brown, you know, several of the guys that work at our shop used to work at

Revival.

Oh, Revival.

Yeah.

And they ended up coming over with us and great guys.

Revival still doing pretty good down there.

I don't know.

It's like, I know they had that one spot on Congress, like more of a

kiosk kind of storefront.

That's close.

Yeah.

Their shop's pretty cool.

I've been out there.

I've been a, you actually got them coming to the show this next weekend.

Fuck, what's his name?

He worked at Revival as a fabricator.

His name's just drawn a blank right now.

Cowboy.

Oh, Colt.

Colt.

That's right.

Colt Ragnar.

Yeah, Colt Ragnar.

He's fun.

Yeah.

We did a podcast a couple of years back down in Revival in his,

in the shop where he was doing all his metal fab work at.

So he's a great guy.

Yeah, he is.

Fucking wild story.

His life is pretty crazy.

Yeah.

But, you know, jumping way forward real quick, you know,

again, as we connected on this idea of, you know, the stampede or what Texas motorcycle

stampede, is that the proper term?

It is.

How did this come to be?

Like, what was the idea behind bringing it to, you know, Fort Worth rather than Austin

or something like that?

You know, I had, I bought the Texas motorcycle,

Republic of Texas Motorcycle Rally back in 2019 and it was right before the pandemic.

And that is my joke is don't ever buy a motorcycle rally right before a pandemic

because, you know, we needed it to go well and it got canceled the first year.

Yeah.

So that was a big slog through the two years of that.

And it just kind of died.

And like we were saying, Austin's changed so much.

Yeah.

The place it was always held was the Travis County Expo Center.

And it's a weird thing that Travis County owns the buildings in the city of Austin owns the land.

So during the pandemic, they just shut it down.

They're like, we need that for distribution and storage and for medical stuff for people, right?

Yeah.

You kind of can't do anything.

So I could never get a lease with them.

They would do a lease, but they said, if we need that, we can take it.

So you couldn't set up, you know, there's a lot of people with RVs and people plan this all year long.

And you just can't, you know, it just killed us, you know, whenever it got taken from us.

And we tried to move it out to the racetrack.

And that that wasn't very sexy.

You just like, you know, parking lot, you know.

And when we did move it, we did our best job to make it really nice and good.

But people have been going to the other one for 20 something years, 24 years.

And when you move it and then people aren't next to their friends and their stuff.

So it was tough, you know.

And I started coming up to Fort Worth a couple of years ago.

So that was gone, right?

The motorcycle rally is over with.

And I started coming up here and really enjoying Fort Worth,

feeling like it, like that's what Austin feels like 30 years ago.

You know, it's just easier for me.

So I just wanted to do something here.

You know, so it's kind of like reinvent, not do the same old rally.

I just wanted to change it up and just start something small

and try to give it new life up here.

Yeah.

So it's a different event.

It's more of a lifestyle event.

You know, I don't, I don't want it to be any kind of rally style thing.

Yeah.

Right.

You were in the stockyards.

There's a lot of real neat stuff to see kind of be in the city.

We got some plans to make it bigger, you know,

maybe outside next year in there, Billy Bob's and yeah.

So just working on it, just plant the seed.

Yeah.

I mean, indoor shows, man, they're, they're becoming very, very scarce, you know,

the ability to, or just sometimes even in the city that has like real financial backing

that, you know, I can think of a hundred shows where the city doesn't know this is

existing and you're just kind of going in there and just like hoping that you don't get like,

you know, but he's coming over there looking for some permits.

No comp controllers are showing up or anything like that.

Right.

But yeah, I find that like the city helps create the atmosphere for what the event's

going to feel like.

Like when you go to mama tried, like you feel like this industrial, you know,

town, this, this real blue collar town and then, you know,

Harley being from there, you feel someone told me a long time ago, it's like

Harley so ingrained into the culture of Milwaukee because generate generationally,

generationally, right?

It's kind of like a new word I made up.

Almost every family there has had somebody in their family over the course of time that

actually worked at Harley.

So it's a little bit, you know, brought into their, you know, their, their lives and stuff.

So something in Fort Worth, like especially the stockyards.

I mean, that's what Fort Worth is known for.

You know what I mean?

It's definitely going to bring an experience.

The stockyards have been great.

They have open arms and they want to help build it up.

You know, I've met with all the special events people with the police and fire

departments.

They're all wide open wanting to work to do this and have a nice safe event.

So I think it's going to do well.

What was your idea behind this?

Or what is the idea behind this?

If you were going to pitch it, I guess you would say, you know.

You know, it's, we're not reinventing the wheel.

There's, it's the same, it's a lot of the same things you see at other events, right?

I mean, you go everywhere and where's the wall of death?

Yeah.

So that I have the Austin Speed Shop, you know, of course we want to have cool cars.

It's definitely a motorcycle event.

We got to have good bikes and where I try to push hard on is the music and the

entertainment and bring some real top talent to the event.

I think that's what draws the people in.

Yeah.

And of course there's bikes and also art, you know, Fort Worth is such a big art town.

It's real easy to have a lot of great artists involved.

You know, we're going to have moto and auto inspired style things,

but just regular artists also.

Yeah.

So it's a, that's what I'm calling it.

It's like a lifestyle event, you know, where it's all the things we like, right?

So, you know, when you have like a, say if you have a musical guest,

but that brings people that are maybe not from the circle of motorcycles or custom cars,

it gives like an opportunity for someone to be inspired by it and maybe come into this world.

Absolutely.

Same thing with art.

Like you don't, you know, I'm coming here to see

Joe Blow on the stage, but you know, I kind of saw this, you know, these installations of,

you know, art from painting photography, things like that.

It kind of inspires people to either want to collect it or get into it.

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you know that are doing like chain stitching just you know good a lot of creatives yeah you know

which is real cool so no leds and yeah no no we're not gonna do that yeah those those uh you know

kind of tying back into the the rock rally in the kind of that kind of world it's I get it

that there's like a there's there's there's people that that's been there but that's been

motorcycling for them for 24 years like you said some rallies way longer right

but you know it doesn't it's not a one size fits all thing to where like everybody that's maybe

younger doesn't really get that vibe they don't really want to be in that kind of space you know

I've been saying this a lot lately I think we said at lunch is like the golf carts

in the mini bikes are a slippery slope yes they are because they are convenient and they help

out to for logistics while you're at a big space but when you stop wanting to bring your bike to

the rally or to the bike show or to the event it quickly starts to look like those other types of

things that everybody was trying to get away from yeah so you can see how this isn't like a

decision they made based on like you know they don't want to ride bikes it was a decision

made over the course of time that it's easier to just jump on a golf cart and put a stripper

pole trailer behind it and you know turn you know what I mean turn it to something completely

different you know what I mean so yeah that was the rot rally down there had a big reputation of

yeah just the the new the nude mile rally yeah it was wild it was wild for sure I'm not gonna say

I didn't have a fucking blast down there when I went but it wasn't like I what I would say is

that when I did go I didn't walk away going man I'm inspired to build a bike or I want to

have a cool bike like I saw it was more like like Mardi Gras with RVs and and some motorcycle

cycles sprinkled in right which you know yeah there's you know there's all kind of things you

can do yeah and that's you know going back to the event here in Fort Worth there's room for a

lot of different things to happen and I just I want to do it in the city where people can

enjoy the stockyards come down see great bikes the door show you know it might be some outdoor

stuff too yeah yeah but there's a lot of great things to see I wanted to you know there's lots to do

what's good about the stockyards areas that there's there's districts within pretty I mean you could

uber to them essentially fairly uh cheaply whether it's restaurants you know other bar

areas like I think the west seventh area I think is a great area to go hang out

haven't been down on the south side much lately like I think where you're kind of

more located near south side yeah I mean that's you know you're you're two and a half three miles

from downtown and then near south side is just on the other side it's easy to uber around

and the other thing is there's there's a lot I-35 is just east of the stockyards and there's a

lot of great hotels new stuff that is affordable that people can come down the weekend we're doing

is big I think TCU is playing Ohio State and the country music awards are that same weekend so

the hotel price is in the stockyards or through the roof yeah through the roof we found some decent

air bnb's not too far away from yeah so that's kind of we've got a group going in where we're just

going to do a big air bnb together be there Friday for those events and then kind of roll into

the Saturday morning stuff so yeah jo tease yeah I'm looking for I've never ate there before

oh it's good yeah so it'll be a good good experience and I got I got a lot of friends

coming here from out of town you know we got Booster Brad coming in from uh from Memphis and uh

you know not Memphis just north of Memphis basically so it's going to be a good time

man I'm excited about it but yeah I I was kind of thinking this morning when I woke up and I

you know knew I was going to do this podcast with you right and I I kind of spaced on like

this idea that or this conversation I kind of wanted to have but it is along the lines of like

just you know putting together an event like this the indoor event it's like there's part of you

that or it's part of me that thinks like okay there has to be like this reinvent invention

of the thing but also like a simplistic fall the fall the lines of cool cars cool atmosphere

you know chill environment and it'll usually works out to a good thing so it's like you

don't really need so I'm trying to what I'm getting at is like I had this idea but I'm trying

to figure out how to turn it into a question for you right if that makes sense um yeah I just wonder

I was like you know growing an event like this we had talked at lunch where you were kind of mentioning

like the south by southwest type stuff and growing into bigger types of whether it's this

or a subsidiary of this into some bigger type of music a draw to the Fort Worth area yeah so

well so your question is that's the problem I don't I don't know if it's a question man

it was just like like I said I you know formulating this like idea behind it just trying to wrap

wrap my head around it but is that kind of like the idea like how you want to grow this

into something that can be a little larger in scale if that makes sense I want to do it

but I'm dead set to do this where it's quality over quantity and you know next year move it up a

little bit have you know be able to have more attendance but to just bring in some really

curated things you know like I said earlier we're not reinventing the wheel but really

nice motorcycles and people that want to be involved you know nice cars music is is really

big up on my list you know have some bands that people you know some real touring bands

you know I think that brings the people you know so it's more than just a motorcycle show or a car

show you know Harley had me up for the homecoming back in June in Milwaukee and you know when they

brought in Chris Stapleton and Hank Williams Jr I mean people show up yeah you know it's

on a different level on a different level right so I think along with being in the stockyards

and just people being able to enjoy all that you know it's I want to grow it each year but I want it

to stay you know kind of have a grip on it each year just not sell as many tickets as you can

yeah have a limited number and just kind of grow it carefully each year work with the city

make sure it's a real good quality event yeah you know not you have to if you're going to

be down there in the stockyards you know yeah people will enjoy it and try to bring you know

premium things to the event that people enjoy so it can be art can be a lot of different stuff yeah

no that makes sense answer but no that that that does help you know and it does answer the question

and it is about bringing the bigger stuff but yeah working with the city you know I mean to

kind of get their support so that they want you there absolutely you know you have to yeah that's a

that's what I always wondered about rock rally I mean this the city of Austin grew so big that it

just didn't fit you know yeah it just didn't the city changed yeah and they didn't didn't want to

really do a motorcycle I mean hold down there was a heyday in the 90s yeah when Congress Avenue

and Sixth Street were all blocked off and it was motorcycles as far as you could see

and it was it I think it was number two and bringing you know money into the city right yeah so

it was a big event back then it kind of had a heyday but now there's backwards parking on Congress

and you know they're not going to have any motorcycle yeah things down there so it's just changed

yeah I wonder like Sixth Street is deaf I the first time I went through our ride we we did

ride down to Sixth Street and it was I mean being from here we don't really have a Sixth

Street like that and we have deep Ellen but it's not like Sixth Street yeah Sixth Street is like

bar bars with mute like music going on everywhere there's you know kind of more Nashville like

if that makes sense like a Broadway in Nashville I think they call it dirty six very six I mean

there's it's crazy down there yeah it's wild you know I think we went down there probably

fuck I want to say December of last year we were we went down there for an event down at Calboy

Harley Davidson yeah and we spent one night on Sixth Street and it was kind of dead

but like we all wanted to go see like we didn't go in we want to see the Rogan you know

the new comedy mothership thing yeah and it's pretty crazy in my head I thought it would be

bigger but it's kind of like a sliver in between everything but pretty cool yeah it's just it doesn't

feel like it used to down there like as far as there was as many people I feel like people are

going to the east side or they're going down to Congress or those other areas on the east side

you know my buddy runs the the white horse over there so we go out there quite a bit yeah

it's a good time bar yeah it's a it's a good vibe man you know well busty one of the guys

booked that the white horse forever and worked there was busty and he just opened a new place called

busties up north and it's the guys from white horse right oh nice it's a great new place

you should go check it out that sounds like a really cool strip club name it does

busties there might be some of that going on in there yeah that'd be nice

have you have you ever thought about getting into like the bar restaurant world at all oh

no not enough yeah we we've thought about it you know we've had people approach us about doing

something with the shop and doing some kind of bar restaurant thing yeah but

it's a that's a whole big world you got to be devoted to I didn't realize how much this

happens in the world and I don't think it's a bad thing but it just kind of like it pulls

the veil back like a company like gas monkey you know they don't originally I don't know

about the ones now but originally that their first bar and grill was just like you said it was

another company that like well hey what if we just co-brand with this and it's like a themed

yeah it worked right cafe exactly and so they don't really have to have like some kind of

the identity the who they are doesn't have to be you know right it's not as important as like

okay we partner with this thing and now this is the the gas monkey garage bar and grill right

and same way they do with like tequila's and and whiskey's now with a lot of people it's like

well we have a distillery and we have tons of flavors but we're gonna find you know Austin

speed shop and this is the Austin speed shop whiskey we've done a few little small batch things

yeah stuff like that just for special events yeah like I said it's not a bad thing but it just

kind of like it makes you there's just lots of other ways that people go about like collaborating

and in lots of aspects of the motor in all industries I guess you would say you know makeup

companies like yeah it's creative yeah it's like it helps you with the the whole like identity

like you know when you're when you're doing something like Austin speed shop or like my shop

the fast side garage there has to like what do we do like what is who are we right you know

uh we've got some paint shop or bike build bikes or build cars or do this like so

you know you find someone that has like some kind of name in that and you just kind of attach

you know the the existing structure and it helps bring in clientele and work

after the whole thing we do a lot of events at the Austin speed shop oh yeah just down two weeks

ago the weekend of born free I had a private event with mobile one during the formula one

or they bring up they brought over max for stopping and several other drivers

we've done it probably about nine years with them the track down there brought a lot more of

that race culture absolutely to Austin as well huh yeah we had you know even when MotoGP was in

town I think Mark Marquez right he came by just to check it out that's cool during some of those

weekends you'll see those sprinter vans pull up and all these guys will get out that they're

mechanics and stuff and they're just you know they're from Italy or you know Spain or wherever

and they come in they just want to see some cool hot rods that's all there's pretty neat what uh

so do they not do MotoGP there anymore they do they do okay yeah yeah I went to the very first

one they did when they first opened the track they had MotoGP there I was still kind of riding

sport bikes at the time a little bit so I went out to that and checked it out it's pretty

pretty insane yeah we did Kevin Schwanz you ever heard of him yeah he was a world champion 93

that's whenever they called him the unrightables there's a whole thing on youtube you can watch

on that the unrightables when the horse power on those bikes and then the suspension and all that

they were just not hooking up they were so dangerous to ride that's what it's a youtube video

called the unrightables damn so there was guys that just quit the series because they were so dangerous

damn but he was 93 champion and we several years in a row we did a little party for him

that friday night of MotoGP that's pretty good that's pretty cool yeah you like motorcycles

yeah you have to up here you kind of work with the Haas Museum much the guys that put

that on yeah we gareth roberts that wrangles kind of all the motorcycles for the event yeah he is

close with them and we both know Craig Rodsmith over there and they've been just real helpful

you know they got some great stuff and you know it's trying to work together with our brands

kind of bring them over and you know see some really cool bikes and the museum is fantastic

yeah yeah it's it's i haven't i haven't been in about a two years so i think they got some

new installation they got the new location now i think yeah so i haven't seen the new location

yeah i was a fan i just went over there a few years ago and checked it out before i even knew

anyone you know and then it was just a natural progression to work together to bring some

attention to them and us and i forgot to ask you did did you say that millburn was going

to be able to bring something out if he's in town he said if he's in town he's got a van

yeah yeah it's the uh satan cycles or something yeah yeah so hopefully

yeah hopefully he'll be around yeah that'd be sick he's doing some stunt work in

new york or somewhere dude's out everywhere but i know he's got a pretty cool gig though so it's

kind of uh it's kind of just fun to watch and a great gig in a cool place i was so blown

away i went over and saw him what a tidy setup he's got going on over there i think he has the

world's largest snap on toolbox it is yeah it's a wall it's fucking crazy man um no he's a good

dude uh yeah i mean i'm excited man this event is uh like it we we you know choa to bring him back

into the mix we've all been talking for years about finding a way to bring something back

to the city something indoor or something yeah you know you know when it's hot outside it's like

you want to be inside when it's cold outside you kind of want to be inside as well but this is

the perfect time in texas to be in and in both right the weather's been great you know like jackets

yeah so the wind's kind of fucking that needs to chill out but they pre yesterday was not good

but um you got some other people coming in front of town like who like you said will's

coming in yeah we got will thomas is coming in and he's he's he works with me for on the event

so he's a big part of it and garith roberts they're both with me on it um we got jeff decker's coming

that's gonna be really cool what's his art base like how would you describe it if you were he

does a lot of sculpture okay you know yeah you know he's done that big mountain climber at the

harley davis museum it's really impressive yeah i didn't know he did that actually oh yeah that's

badass yeah he's done i feel like his name is jeff decker sounds like the kind of guy that you

want to say his first and last name at the same time he did what's up jeff decker yeah right you

know what i mean and i've heard his name so much over time but i i didn't i didn't know that he

built that uh that that sculpture there yeah that's why he's done some great great art

you know and he's as they say he's a legend you know all the japan people all the you know

guys like jason mimoa you know that's running around doing their show that you always want

decker around okay just brings a lot of he makes it nice you know he's really good

then uh harley you got a deal with harley we're gonna be set up harley will be set up in there

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it's it's pretty insane um but yeah i i like the direction and then we you know they have the new

ceo now which is you know a dallas dude so i'm that makes me feel good we we got good people

down here i think uh you do yeah i'm excited i mean seeing where they're gonna go i love the fact

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right foundation to grow into something pretty you know you need to be great you know they've

been real supportive you know means a lot they're they're really showing up big it's it's cool

and it's a small event you know but they see that we can grow this into something yeah and

Fort Worth's kind of you know it's a cool place to do it for sure yeah yeah what are you like

you had mentioned like the idea is to sell a certain amount of tickets right to not like it's

just not is you know completely open to the public as far as you know so it can sell out the first

year correct is that kind of how you yes i mean hopefully it will yeah and what was the kind of

your thoughts or concept behind that you know like putting it at a finite amount well you know it's

it's sort of like you know Coachella you know with these certain music events you know

ACL does that in Austin you know they sell tickets out before they even announce who's

playing because people just know it's going to be a great quality okay so that's kind of the

premise behind it that we're going to try to bring something that's really nice and

you know it's got some style it's rolled together you know everything from the merge to everything

we do yeah inside it and to just kind of grow it so you just don't I mean it'd be fun to have

have it where people want to sign up because they know the next year it's going to they're

going to do a great event so it gives it's some quality to it right i'm just trying to have a

quality yeah yeah so that's it and you know I think just moving up each year because you got to work

with the police you got to work with the fire departments you kind of yeah the right venue you

got to get the right artist that'll sell x number of tickets for a venue and then you kind of cap it

right there and that's that'd be a successful year well that's what helps out with like security

things like that because you have a number yes that you can give them so they know how to price it

you have to do all that yeah because if you say hey we're going to we're going to do you know it's

going to be a 5000 people event and they give you their pricing for an insurance and all the stuff

that goes into it for 5000 and you have 10 000 people in there then it's like you'll get in trouble

you're getting trouble so yeah it makes sense yeah I've seen back in the old days of rock and

roll when they oversell you know venues and stuff yeah and that was more venues would do that

would promoters be more like promoter promoter so as much as you can yeah yeah that's pretty well

how's uh do you know where they're doing the country music awards is that like at the dickies

arena arena or something like that or no I think it's I don't know I don't know many like I said

I'm a Dallas kid yeah so I know like five spots in Fort Worth you know it's it's not the big

I think it's a certain level one it could be at Billy Bob's I'm not sure okay but they do stuff like

that it would seem they would do it in the stock yard somewhere it makes sense right yeah what and

where exactly is the stampede at in the stockyards stampede is in it's in the southeast corner

of the stock yard okay so the address is on exchange but it's if you turn off of main street

and you go east on exchange you go just kind of down past a few of the stores in the mule alley

yeah right and there's an area in the back called stock yard station and it's inside there that's where

the train comes in yeah every day that great vine train not every day but weekends there's a lot of

stores a record store chief records is back there there's a bunch of cool stuff back in there

so it's kind of an open air kind of big brick walkways you can go and we're kind of back in

the back corner yeah so we're definitely gonna have to put some signs up with arrows pointing

we're and basically the show's going on from 11 a.m yeah 11 a.m to 6 p.m 6 p.m portion of the show

and is there music playing all day long or is it we've got I've got this great DJ

Tropicana Joe that's coming from Austin he's super cool and he's gonna spend some stuff he does 45

records and then I've got a friend of mine from Berlin Germany he plays a great harmonica player

like a world-class dude that does blues and stuff he plays at the big band called Boss Haas in

Europe they're huge you know and he's coming in he's just gonna play so we're gonna have

different things going on yeah age we've got Mike elder trio from phoenix is coming out he's an

old friend of mine yeah and then the fabulous Thunderbirds nice even and I know that the

Reverend Horton Heats making a little appearance that's his wife Andrea is doing some chain

stitching for me for the event and she's going to be there at the event so he's coming I said

tell him to bring his guitar chain stitching is that kind of that old school uh almost like a

like trying to I see it in my head loop looking carpet yeah you know it has a different texture

than embroidery yeah so yeah they can kind of like you see it more in the in like western style

yeah clothing and stuff like that hats yeah I've been wanting to get like fast life hats done

like that in like a cursive like chain stitch or something like that I just didn't know where to

find people yeah probably over there yeah so as far as the motorcycles and stuff that you guys have

got is would you say it's more of like a showcase than it is anything yes or is there like a show

aspect as well that's attached to it no it's a you know it's a lot of different style bikes

yeah you know we got choppers we got some new stuff you know it's important you know with

Harley that you know you want to attract people also that are like all the old stuff's great right

but there's also a big market of guys riding the newer bikes that are going to the Harley

dealerships and buying things and fixing their bikes and stuff you know at the end of the

day it's about selling motorcycles yeah you know and you want to have an event that brings in

people that buy motorcycles and keep it going that is their bottom line right so

there's a few new bikes I'll have like we're gonna have some new Harleys in there we're gonna have

you know bikes from you you know Jason I like all the old vintage bikes you know yeah I'd like to

have some you know the classics you know yeah so um and Gareth has done a great job at you

know curating the different bikes we've got guys coming in from quite a ways yeah and bringing

some really unique pieces yeah so Deckers bring in some crockers oh shit and those are rare yeah

you know so he's got one that's like he customized and then one that's original so that's going to

be neat hmm where's he based out of uh Utah Utah there's a huge museum in Utah right like

there is it's like one of the biggest ones I saw it for the first time on some tv show and I was

blown away yeah it was nice yeah my buddies uh they do that two lane life stuff they they wrote out

there one it's like legends or something museum or something like that yeah I haven't usually when

I go through there I'm kind of in and out like I'm on the way to California or Washington so it's

like I'm only staying they got the best sushi in Salt Lake so I don't know if you've ever

had it there really there's some really good sushi it's kind of known for it actually

crazy it's like flown in right um and I could be full of shit because I'm not a foodie or anything

but I was told that and it was some of the best sushi I've ever had at a place there I don't even

know the name off the top of my head so it's kind of worthless information at this moment right now

but um yeah but yeah that's that's pretty that's pretty awesome but I'm excited man I again I

appreciate you know you guys you know leaning into us and and allowing us to be a part of

bring our bikes out and set up and stuff and all that type of shit my pleasure I mean it's nice to

get to know you guys and you know y'all have a great thing going on up here I felt like you

guys kind of let me in the y'all circle which is nice you know well we all I think I think the

first time we met you know I've told you how I have a lot of ideas of like wanting to put

like a a weird unique art show together yeah that's kind of rave like but I you know I

just don't know that world I don't know how that stuff works I'm a very visual learner sure

and so you know I see how things are done how how how people go about getting things accomplished

and I think it just opens up the doors for me because I think the thing that I love the most

and it's the one thing that does not pay any bills is just bringing people together right

you know what I mean but it's it feels good when you can sit back and see you know this

little house party or this this bike night or this event like you're doing when you see like

man like all this stuff all these little pieces came together to create this opportunity for everybody

yeah and that shit I love that feeling yeah I mean it's good it's rewarding to put on a nice event

yeah you know everybody has a good time and yeah safe time and no uh no no mosh pits no we got

blues yeah blues this year with the teabirds yeah the uh yeah that's that's basically you know my thing

is just seeing how these things because I feel like every time you go to an event you can kind of

take something away from it that you really enjoyed you know like whether it it's the same

way I would say that like if you're a musician like all the the musicians that you love the

bands you love the the that kind of creates you right so the events that you do and then the

experiences you have you you kind of gather all those together and create something that's

uniquely different even though it's still got elements of all the stuff that already exists

right you know what I mean yeah well I think that's you know that's where I'm at my life

you know it's all the things I've done in the past and you like bikes and cars and putting

on events and so that's what it becomes right make it that right yeah it's good so yeah if people

want to get tickets is that something they do on the website website dirwood.com

d-e-r-w-o-o-d is there a chance that there's tickets on like the day of at the spot yes

okay okay so they're selling they're you know we're we're moving some tickets so yeah I think

the art friday night's almost sold out nice nice it's not a real big place but yeah you know it's

going to be a fun time that's awesome it's a real unique place that love pachanga room yeah you were

telling me about it lunch the other day I was like man first off the never ate there before so

that's going to be the first experience and the second one is this uh unique art setup that

they're going to have to display all the uh you know some the silent is it a silent

auction is that what it is okay silent auction just kind of we got people donated some things and

we're going to give a portion of the proceeds to the peace love and happiness charity that helps for

responders okay so that's um out of austin nice yeah so well cool man I I appreciate you coming

out to do this man I I'm really excited for the event I'm I'm trying to get the chopper

done again right so I can have that one there that's the that's the main goal but

yeah we're excited man we're excited to get out there and and soak up the stockyards I've honestly

never had like a full night just staying in the stockyards like just bars restaurants all that so

you have a bar down there it's right it's just one corner right there from main street

on exchange and it's like the tiniest bar it's like this little buddy I gotta I gotta find out the

name of it yeah show it to you but it's pretty cool that's cool it's like underground yeah I think

I've been to that one it's like uh on the like going up the hill like going up to the west side

of the exchange street yeah yeah we there used to be a shop at the top of the hill called chopper

supply code and Kenny and that was like a that was kind of like a just a hang ever there was

always something going on or I used to see that online yeah if you basically went up there

you could park your bike up there hang out with them for a little bit maybe buy a t-shirt or something

and then your bikes are always good up there so then you can walk down into the stockyards

and kind of uh you know go have some fun down there so I I miss it man that it was a prime location

but you know it's it's also uh it was very specific to you know motorcycle people it didn't

really I don't think it fed into the tourism that goes down there as much you know so but yeah

I'm ready for it I'm excited to have you out all right man good yeah all right I appreciate it thank you

hey guys I hope you enjoyed that I want to thank Cory for coming out and uh spending a few minutes

with us to talk about this event and a little bit about his background I hope you guys enjoyed it

and I hope to see you there honestly uh indoor shows are very very rare and when someone goes to

the the hassle and the trouble to put one together I think it's very important that we

all support it that way we have something cool to do cool to go and uh getting out of the fields

sometimes which don't get me wrong is a good time but every once while staying clean indoors in the

city is not a bad time when it comes to motorcycling events so hopefully we'll see you out there

please guys take a minute check out our sponsors check out our patreon there's links to

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going to be coming strong I'm gonna try that again we're going to be coming strong in the last

two months of this year about to do a little podcast trip up to the midwest and pick up a

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and we'll catch you on the next episode or at the event November 8th see you there bye

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