LTN RADIO NETWORK - November 23,2025

LTN RADIO NETWORK - November 23,2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
The lt at Hour.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Let's talk Nascar with your host Todd Bayling, co hosts
Brian Schmidt, PJ Newdleman, and producer Dangerous Dan Margetta. Call
the show anytime at four one four four two one
seventy nine oh one. And now the creator and host
of the fastest hour in radio, Todd the Bailing.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
If you thought for one minute this was gonna be
a boring off season, ha ha April fools. December first
isn't even here yet, and the shit's hitting a fan already.
It's wonderful. Hello there everyone, Todd Bailing and Rainy Cool Phoenix, Arizona,

(01:00):
where the temperature is not much, unlike the beautiful state
of Wisconsin, where my three co hosts are all standing
by to beyond the program. Starting with Outsburg, Wisconsin's own
Brian Schmidt, Hi, Brian.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Good morning, Yeah, sunny, oats nice here. It's not too bad.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
You sound really good. I should just mention it. And
of course PJ over on the other side of the state,
PJ Newdleman on our left coast, Hi.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Good morning forty two and sunshine in Trumpalo, Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
It's the sunshine that makes all the difference in screaming
back across the state to beautiful Saint Francis, Wisconsin. Our
producer and longtime cohort, Dan Marguetta, Hi, Dan.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
Hey, good morning. Yeah, this is quote the off season. Hey,
it's just just started. We're not even getting into this
whole trial thing, and already it's the stuff that's coming
out is making you like, wow, where.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Do we begin? First of all, there's just too many
damn Steves over there. There's Phelps and O'Donnell and of
all the stuff that got released this week, I'm not
sure how or why this stuff is being released in advance,
but geees. For instance, one of them, I think it

(02:17):
might have been O'Donnell called Richard childress a. That was Phelps, idiot, Oh,
that was Phelps, PJ. Phelps. How would we discern between
these Steve's who if either one of them is employed
by the time this trial is over, I will be surprised.

(02:39):
How do we discern who is home?

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Well, Steve Phelps is the president of NASCAR, and I
think Steve O'Donnell is like the CFO or the CEO
or something like that. So they just have titles, but
that also gives them the pleasure of making decisions such.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Which one is the um um um um um guy
from the sport Okay, he's the show why he was
so nervous.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Bryan is talking about the state of the sports speech
that Phelps did in Phoenix with the media and with
all the looming crap that he's got to deal with now,
much of it self inflicted, especially if you read some
of this crap that he didn't know how to answer

(03:30):
questions without just absolutely tripping over his own tongue with
all the uman and that he was doing, at the
very least talk about Richard Childress. Dan, there's a reason
he called Richard Childress a redneck idiot. What the hell
was it?

Speaker 6 (03:50):
I think at the time they were upset when that
came out that children had gone on a serious radio show,
I think, and it made some comments about the negotiations
and how they were going. I think one of the
i'm says, will this you know, uh new deal be beneficial?
And his response was yeah, well for who you know?
And what wasn't me like, wasn't there some times the
NASCAR was kind of like the.

Speaker 7 (04:10):
KGB kind of thing.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
It was, I mean, there was it was not a
very good time negotiation wise, and he went on a
radio show and I think that probably probably what kind
of driven drove that conversation there. And and I gotta
understand too that that happens all the time. I mean,
there are lots of text messages between people where they
say stuff that they don't think anybody's gonna see it.
And I'm sure the teams have a lot of text

(04:31):
messages going the back way With NASCAR too, is that
when you get in the court case like this and
discovery comes out, it's all out there. I mean, it's
all out there in his public Whether it makes it
the court case or not, who knows, but everybody's got
access to it, and of course it's gonna go out
there and everybody's gonna, you know, look at we found,
look at we see you, look at all this, And
it kind of gives you an idea how the how
how contentious those negotiations were at the time.

Speaker 5 (04:53):
And the deadline for the release was just I think
yesterday and that or maybe it was Friday, and that's
why all of this stuff is coming out now. And
that's kind of a strategy too for some of the teams,
if you will, in a legal case, is to wait
until the last minute and then just dump a bunch
of the crap that you have to release, so that
it's so much it's hard for everybody to get through

(05:15):
it all. But apparently it didn't take long to find
some salacious things to release it.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
I just never thought that NASCAR even thought that SRX
was a pimple on their ass. I didn't think it
was anything they would worry about because they're racing on
little short tracks where the most people you can put
in is, you know, a couple of thousand. But oh

(05:41):
my god, they were really pissed off about SRX. We
want to put a knife in. A part of it
was they were getting better television ratings than the Infinity
or Truck series. And if you didn't think that that
bothered NASCAR, omfg did it ever?

Speaker 5 (06:07):
You know, they're almost acting like jealous boyfriend or girlfriend,
and then it's like if you can't if we can't
have the fans, then neither can you. You know, It's
it's it's kind of sick.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Actually. That just goes to show how important the TV
ratings are versus fans in the stands that that bothers much.
You've got one hundred thous Most of your facilities, you know,
back in the day, held at least one hundred thousand people,
if not more, and you're worried about these tracks that
hold five, six, maybe twelve thousand people, and that bothered
you that much. That's that goes to show why the

(06:39):
TV ratings are everything to them and it doesn't. And
we see the things that they do at the track.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
And the reason for that, though, is because they keep
trying to be NFL. If they quit trying to be
the NFL and quit trying to eat eat the doughnut,
not the hole. That's what my father in law always
used to say.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
The live gate is the icing on the cake. It's
just pure profit for the tracks because it means, you know,
they're gonna get something ridiculous for beers and hot thing,
yeah and all of that.

Speaker 5 (07:10):
That's money in the bank when you get seats in
the seats.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
Think O s Rex kind of came about throughing that
Jim Franz runs NASCAR right now. Act he actually is
a big part of IMSA too. Does he run IMSA completely, Brian.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
Or he's he's one of the main guys there. But
there's a different guy that's the head of it.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
And if you look at IMSA, drivers don't mean much there,
they really don't. I mean, it's all about the manufacturers.
It's all about the cars.

Speaker 7 (07:32):
Can you tell me. I can't even tell you who
drives the whaling car right now?

Speaker 6 (07:35):
You know, right, aren't that big And it was kind
of going that way NASCAR wise with the Cup guys.

Speaker 7 (07:41):
They were kind of trying to steer it that way.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
And I think a lot of those guys, like drivers
like Tony Stewart and guys that had retired suddenly were like,
you know, star power matters guys, and they weren't thinking
about it. So that's what SRX was that was kind
of there to send a message to him. It say is,
you know, we take you know, twelve guys, you know,
star drivers and put them on little tracks and get
a TV deal. We can make a dent and this
look we can do. And it showed them what they
could do. This the business model vester AX was never sustainable.

(08:04):
It was never gonna last a long time, but it gets.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah, that's it exactly. And then they would have active
NASCAR drivers come over there and race two like the
Legono raced over in that series, didn't they.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yes, Yeah, any Hamil and Chase Elliott and a lot
of those guys went and did it because it was fun,
and that's it.

Speaker 7 (08:23):
They kind of racing.

Speaker 6 (08:25):
We got into racing because it was fun, and they
kind of were forgetting about that sometimes. And then STX
kind of brought that back when they got the messages.
Instead of looking you know, self reflecting and saying, boy,
maybe we should work together these guys and figure out
how this all works. Maybe we can make something work,
they kind of doubled down and one against it and
now it kind of led we we're today and now
we're in court.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
And this is where foolish pride gets us.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
That seems to be NASCAR's thing as far as working
with They don't want that. Either they're going to purchase
your operation like they did with the you know, with
the article series back in the day, like they did
with ARCA. Now they either purchase it or the hell
with you. It seems to always be their mo and
that's not how racing works because in the short tracks,
for the most part, at least definitely on the dirt,

(09:09):
the series try to work together and it makes for
a better product.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
Overall, don't you think that, Like, for instance, NASCAR tried
to make legitimate sounding cautions, Oh, there's debris, even though
everybody in the house knew it was a bunch of bullshit,
but they would say this and then you were supposed
to believe it. And the thing about SRX, they would

(09:34):
come right out and says, matter of fact, not only
did they have competition cautions, but they had when I
have to remember this, when Luke Fennhouse was kicking everybody's
asset Slinger and they came on the radio and told
him to slow down and wait for Tony Stewart to

(09:57):
catch up. And remember all those laps side by side,
how spectacular. It was spectacular, But oh Luke could have
lapped the field and they didn't want that. So because
he had to slow down and wait and fart around,
here comes Marco Andretti of all people, to go and
win at Slinger Speedway. It was contrived. It was absolutely manufactured.

(10:24):
Everybody in the house pretty much knew it. Anyway, did
it matter. It didn't seem to bother the TV ratings,
The live gate was never affected much. They wanted to
see Tony Stewart race and all these guys that supposedly
retired and actually had all his star power. Yet you
know who wouldn't want to go see Chase Elliott battle

(10:47):
against his dad at Nashville. I mean that was the
show right there. Everybody else was on that track just
to fill it up and make a story out of it.
But all those people filled that place up so they
could the battle of the generational Elliot and it worked.
All right, We're running just a little over. We've got
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(11:10):
and it hasn't even started in court yet. We'll be
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Well, one thing I really like about watching Facebook out
of the corner of my eye here is that people
correct me when I make a mistake. And it turns out,
according to Jerry, that Legano never raced. I thought he did.
He announced a race, but he didn't race. Didn't he
race up? And what the hell is the name of

(13:22):
that track in Connecticut?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Stafford?

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Stafford? I thought he raced? Maybe? Yeah, I can't remember
getting a handful of cup drivers that came over, and
I couldn't remember what they all want. When was that
Dan twenty one twenty two?

Speaker 9 (13:35):
Correct?

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Yes, they lasted what two years? In their third year
was when they went under? Yep, Yeah, you gotta remember too.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
Like, like Aaron points out to just too that the
information is released this week because this was all was
needed to be too inflammatory. I won't be part of
the case, but it was because they kind of they
kind of weeded out all the all the drama out
of the case.

Speaker 7 (13:55):
And this is what it is.

Speaker 6 (13:56):
But it's public record and it was there, so that's
why this all came out. But It just kind of
gives you an insight of what things were like and
how while we were racing week to week and doing
press conferences together and stuff, you know, behind closed doors,
they were really pretty far apart.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
One of the things that came out and I don't
really understand the logic behind this. They were talking about
cutting back to thirty two charters. Where did they How
were they going to take four charters away from somebody who, uh,
these things are worth upwards of fifty million dollars each.
I don't how would you have done that? Does anybody

(14:34):
know that?

Speaker 6 (14:36):
I don't know a one of the options that will
put out there in this whole thing. That was an
option that you know they're talking about. They wanted more money.
Well if we decrease the number of charters, and well
that you know, splits up more money per charter for
teams and you probably.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
Have to go. Stuart host was gone right, There was
three there, so just.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
As they as they disappeared, just don't replace them or
don't allow them to be sold. Hmm. Interesting And by
now you've heard it they called Richard Childress need to
be taken out back and flogged. He wouldn't be anywhere
if he didn't have racing and he's just a redneck idiot,

(15:16):
and how is this guy? How are they gonna face
each other? Although you get the feeling Childress knew about
this a long time ago.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Well, allegedly he did. Allegedly Phelps told Childress ahead of
time that there's going to be some inflammatory stuff coming out.
Just know, I said it in the heat of the moment,
and I was very frustrated, as if that's an excuse.
It's like, those are the times when the truth actually
bubbles to the top.

Speaker 6 (15:41):
And I understand if we get the Daytona when you
have the guy next to you hold you watch and
you see me.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Yeah, I'm not kidding. Oh, here's a good one. What's
the name of that driver's council? I can't remember.

Speaker 7 (15:53):
I mean Racing Alliance was out, that's it.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Maybe that's it. Apparently they had talked about taking all
the Cup drivers to church held downs in Louisville and
putting on a dirt race.

Speaker 4 (16:11):
Why come on.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Now, there's a lot of things thrown out there. I mean,
look at all the crazy stuff that actually did happen.
You know, we built a we built a race track
at the Coliseum, We raced the streets of Chicago. I
mean that was some things that were out there. They
could go and do other deals. They talked about going
to what Oman which is over in the Middle East,
and bringing all the cars over there if he had
some oil sheet that was willing to pay for it.

Speaker 7 (16:31):
You know, Oh yeah, it was out there.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
And then amazing to me, how involved in all this
that justin Marx is hey, and he's the guy from
track House. I mean, that's he's got a lot of
crazy ideas. But you know, someone come to fruition.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
And he's got a lot of money behind it too,
which you know makes all the difference in the world.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
So I wanted to quick add according to because I
thought I saw this Matt Weaver had posted that yesterday. Well,
actually it would have been Friday. Friday was the unceiling
deadline for summary judge material that could be used at trial.
So it could be used at trial.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
So a jury is going to hear the president of
NASCAR call Richard Childress a redneck idiot. Boy, That's that's
just great. How in the hell are they gonna find
in North Carolina? Right a jury? That's well, it'll probably
be I don't know now that I'm thinking, no, no,

(17:32):
it can't possibly be. It has a bigger women audience
than it ever had, it has a bigger minority audience
than it ever had. You're not going to find people
that don't follow NASCAR in North Carolina, or you.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
Know, you might find enough that don't know anything about
this stuff though, that aren't into the weeds of it.
And if they don't really know, they just know there's
a lawsuit between the two of them, but don't know
all the nuts and bolts, because I don't think there's
a lot of mainstream media that's really talking about it.

Speaker 5 (17:58):
So but you don't have to be a NASCAR fan
to recognize somebody's being an asshole, all right, right?

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Absolutely, And that's where we're another one that came out.
And I don't really know why this would be a thing.
Uh twenty three to eleven and front Row Motorsports, the
two who are holding NASCAR's finger to the flame here,
talked about a merger four years ago. Why would that

(18:26):
be important to anyone? I'm not sure the.

Speaker 6 (18:30):
Way to expand the teams is that and get more
charters that you merged together. I mean, front Row was
kind of out there and a lot of things, I
mean there was they were always kind of the fringe
Ford team really and then lately they kind of got
a little better when they started getting some more help.
But for a while they were out there, I mean
they were There was talk about them going to Toyota
and and maybe merging with somebody, even the whole the
whole Blue Oval thing years ago at four that was

(18:52):
behind them as well in that deal that they seem
to have a lot of flexibility to do things there,
and one of it was to you know, maybe talk
with and looked like the merger they would give the
front row owners what like twenty percent of one of
the charters or something like that. When they all merged
and had some kind of you know, saying things that
the agreement was all laid out there. It never came
to happen, but I think at the time they were

(19:16):
looking to survive too, and maybe merging with Jordan would
have been a way to do it.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
It seems though if you stayed separate, you could buy
up to eight charters, right and that way you would
only be able to have four charters and they were
chartered up well maybe not in twenty one though, were
they that probably.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
What kind of money was behind front Row? I mean
at the time, and they didn't have they'd have Jordan
money behind them, you know. And their sponsorship wasn't spectacular,
I mean it was you know, they weren't one of
the powerhouse teams.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Really lots to it for sure. If you would like
to call this program and weigh in with all the
ship that has hit the fan here is we're getting
ready to go to court. You can do so at
four to one, four, four to two, one seventy nine
oh one. We'd love to hear from you. We're going
to sneak away for break. We'll be back in just
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Speaker 3 (22:08):
There are a couple of things going on. We thought
we'd dimensioned since we're doing noosy items here. Why is
it a thing that Joey Legano got a haircut. He
has something called oh what the hell is that? Bald?

Speaker 5 (22:23):
Basically where you start to lose your hair. Women get
it too. It's just you have these these really bad
bald spots. And I think he just decided to embrace
it and go bald by shaving it all off because
it's too much to try to keep up. You know, yeah,
you can do hair plugs.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
I thought he did that. It was an expensive deal.
And he did it.

Speaker 5 (22:44):
Though it's not a one and done. You have to
not No, you got to keep maintaining that stuff, and
that gets to be pretty expensive. It's like women who
do all of the fancy hair coloring. You're you're probably
gonna end up having a hefty bill every three months
to keep it.

Speaker 16 (23:00):
Write.

Speaker 3 (23:01):
I had no idea. I thought once you get plugs,
they stay there. I didn't know plugs fell out for
Cranton Loud. All right, Well, this is the new look.
And if you haven't seen it yet, it's I know, he.

Speaker 4 (23:13):
Looks like you, looks sophisticated.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah. Yeah, he grew someome hair on his chin to
make up the difference. You know, he looks like two
and a half men. Charlie's a younger brother Alan. That's
so he kind of looks like there. I don't know, maybe.

Speaker 9 (23:28):
It's just me.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
I think it looks good.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
All right, And this week I can't believe that this
was actually a story. But because the ice raids are
a big deal right now. That's in immigration enforcement and
you know this, you've seen it in the paper. As
these people are throwing illegal alien criminals out of the

(23:54):
country and it's somehow there are people. I think this
is a bad idea. Therefore, when we find out that
Rick Hendrick Chevrolet of Charlotte, North Carolina sold twenty five
suburbans to Ice, it's a news story. Why would that
be a news story? Twenty five suburbans for two point

(24:16):
two five million dollars and they actually made a deal
about it. I don't know why, but they kept saying
it came from Hendrick Motorsports. Maybe that's what the story is,
that they beef up.

Speaker 9 (24:27):
The engines or something.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
So, no news media that doesn't know what's going on,
you know, see.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
They're trying to get everybody in.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, they tied Hendrick Motorsports to Hendrick. I mean, Hendrick's
got dealerships all over the place. So it's just people
that don't know how. You know, these news people sit
in those newsrooms and oh, I think I got a story.
Well it's really not, because he's just a dealer like
everybody else, you know, like we have we have van
Horn up here, you know, and they have all sorts

(24:55):
of stuff going on.

Speaker 5 (24:56):
It's like it's nothing burger is what it is. But
they they were hoping that people would get all riled
up in Boycott because of it. But I don't think
they realized that the NASCAR community is like.

Speaker 6 (25:07):
The size of Hendrick does stuff like that. They do
supply vehicles and have a separate division that does that.
A lot of guys that retire from the race side
go work there for a regular job.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
That's what's on the side of Kyle Larson's car Hendrickcars
dot Com. That is a real thing. A lot of vehicles.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Also, I think that they install wraps on those vehicles.
Of course, I think they all were just black, weren't they.
You don't want to marry, have everything saying welcome to
the neighborhood, Here comes ice. I don't think that says
it on there either way. Kind of strange. Front Row
Motorsports Johnny Rotten died now to me, without being real

(25:52):
up on everybody that works for every single NASCAR team.
When I hear Johnny Rotten died, I think he's some
kind of punk ass band member from the nineties or something.
That's not true. Front Row Motorsports director of Performance. His
name was Johnny Rotten, believe it or not, and he
passed away this week. So rest in peace, sir. And

(26:16):
if i'd known that Johnny Rotten worked for front Row,
I probably would have had some fun with it over
the years. One leaves us and one joins us. Ryan
Blaney and his wife Gianna had a little boy this week.
While she had a lot more to do with it
than he did. Actually, Charlie Bennett Blaney, the kid's name

(26:36):
is Charlie.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
That's what the question is. Is that kid going to
be a dirt racer or is that kid going to
be an asphalt racer.

Speaker 5 (26:48):
I'm going with both.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
I'm going with both.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
You to be like Grandpa and run wing sprint cars
or going to be like dad and never run on
the dirt.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
The start we'll start on Earth.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
He's going to do both because Ryan knows that you
got to be almost like ambidextrous when it comes to racing.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Now, assuming that after the court date, that there's still
such a thing as NASCAR, and that they're actually going
to be going to Daytona, that there's the track house racing,
as you'll remember, had an experimental deal where they ran
a car that was unchartered and they had SVG. That's

(27:27):
where they brought up SVG, and that's where we learned
who he was, and that's how he got himself a
full time gig in NASCAR. And well, they decided to
bring Project ninety one back next year. And what is
important about that is that Red Bull has a lot
to do with it. And the hope is and the

(27:49):
rumor is that Max Verstappen is going to get a
tryout and get a ride a one race deal at
least a one race deal to race in ASCAR, which
I think would be really cool.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
You can put that together, but I mean that's kind
of so far out there right now, and there's so
many things that has to going to have that happen.
That car besides this Meg that drove it number Kimmy
Reraik and then drove Project ninety one. So I got
the car that Helio Ye he drove that.

Speaker 4 (28:17):
Yep.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Here's something I mean, Ell EO's ride wasn't that big
of a A lot behind it. I mean, I don't
know how much was. It wasn't the greatest car. Obviously,
he didn't do so well in.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
It until they got to Chicago.

Speaker 6 (28:32):
Yeah, but that this now that that currently ran at
Daytona last year.

Speaker 7 (28:36):
That was it for Helio. I don't think nine year
long did it.

Speaker 6 (28:40):
So, I mean, if Red Bull puts money behind it
and they're serious about it, and if you do put
something together to get the guy, like we're stopping in there,
you better have a good effort behind him to make
him look good, because he's not going to do it.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
If he looks bad.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Right exactly, by the way, I think I want to
bet against somebody there, didn't I oh cash? Yeah yeah, yeah,
I forget. Nobody have paid me anything. Of course, I'm
not sure I would get it either way. Let's see,
here's here's another thing. We found out a way to
bring the name Dale Earnhardt back into racing again. Some

(29:14):
guy named Bobby Dale Earnhardt who just turns out to
be Carrie's oldest kid. He's Jeffrey's older brother. He got
himself a full time archer ride in the well known
Rise Motorsports car Uh, Brian or Dan? What do we
know about Rise motor.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
It's it's it's not the greatest operation out there, you know.
It's it's one of those archae teams you have. You
have your handful of really good archae teams, and then
you have the ones that are not so much. And
that's one of the not so much archae teams.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
No, No, Bobby Dale.

Speaker 6 (29:51):
Bobby Dale has been around for a while and done
some races, hasn't really done a whole lot.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
We'll see.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Having that name there just so nice, isn't it. As
we get ready to go to a break, a little
programming note, we're going to come back with results a
little early today because we Brian was able to get
Corey Heim for the program and he'll be on in
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And now the LTN Hour Presidents Turn on the Dirt
with Brian Schmidt.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Pretty quiet week of dirt track racing across the country here.
Only a handful of events to speak of. Will start
Friday night Magnolia, Mississippi, the Pike County Speedway for the
Jumbalaya one hundred night number one, three thousand to win
for the super Light Models. Clayton Stuckey was the feature
winner there. The USAC Midgets continue their West Coast swing
which wraps up with the Turkey a Ground pre next week.

(32:38):
There in Merced, California Friday night and Kennon McIntosh was
your future winner there. They had they were supposed to
have a race or two during the week, but the
weather in California it's been raining a lot and washed
out those events. Last night Barbarville, Florida, Lucia Speedway Park,
the Dale and Emil Rudeman Memorial. That would be David
Rudiman's grandparents. I believe Big Ump Modified Showcase there. Drake

(32:59):
treel And won the big event last night Magnoia, Mississippi,
Night number two at pike Cony Speedway for the Jumbalio
one hundred and seven thousand dollars a win for the
Superla Models. Spencer Hughes grabbed the win night number two
in were Said, California for the USAC National Midgets. Logan
Cev grabbed that feature win, and Corey Day won the
three sixty sprints. And that is all of the results

(33:20):
so far. At one news worthy note, it was released
this week that in two weeks they have the Big
Gateway Dirt Nationals, that's the Dome down in Saint Louis.
As of now, there are thirty eight thousand tickets sold
for that event. Do we ever think there would be
a dirt race that would sell that many tickets.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
After what we went through in Indianapolis years? No kidding, right,
make that work.

Speaker 7 (33:42):
That's good for them.

Speaker 6 (33:42):
And do you see the people had you had your
reservation at the holiday and you better go check again.
Apparently that hotel got sold and all the reservations got
canceled and you got a rebook.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
Hey, what's the date on that dome race?

Speaker 4 (33:53):
That's the exact same time as a Snowball Derby. That
would be two weeks from now, so you're looking at
December the fifth fourth event six Yeah, yeah, fifth fourth,
fifth and sixth. But the best part about it is,
and I'm glad to report this that, yeah, you have
all those tickets being sold, but the purses increased as well,
because it's seventy thousand dollars to win the Super Late

(34:14):
Model feature on Saturday night there, So it's not something
that they're just putting in their pocket. They're they're actually,
you know, turning around and giving it back to the racers,
which has got to be applauded. And an event that
I thought was going to be a farce. I mean,
it's unbelievable. It's turned into one of the supreme offseason events.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
So supreme, I like that word.

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yeah, that's it for me. It's all I.

Speaker 5 (34:37):
Got, all right, I got very little too. We had
the South Carolina four hundred last night at Florence Motors Speedway.
A winner was Caden Quopple. His brother Carson was second.
It was a Quopple one two punch good night for.

Speaker 4 (34:52):
Day because he was on the show with us last week, right.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
And then just fyi QL and Harvick was in that
race too. We finished fifth, So not bad for a
little sprightly little boy.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
A couple things. Kenny Schrader raced at Volusia. By the way,
I don't know if you knew that, Brian, I knew.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
He didn't see where he finished though.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
I think he had a problem early in the going,
which happens once in a while. Now, PJ and I,
by the time we do this show next week, will
have been at the Freedom Factory this coming Saturday night,
which is in Bradenton, Florida, and they're going to have

(35:33):
the Billy big Lee Memorial Race. It's turned into quite
the event, hasn't it.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
PJ thirty thousand to win twelve hundred just to start.
It is only a four tire race. Last year we
had an all Wisconsin podium, and we've got a lot
of Wisconsin heights heading down this year.

Speaker 3 (35:50):
It's a it's one hundred and twenty eight lapper, I think,
isn't that big Bigley himself was number twenty eight. That's
where that came from.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
That is correct, all right, and.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
So that will be good now, Brian. When Brian mentioned
I asked the dates for that Dome thing. Part of
the lure, part of the attraction of that thing is
because Kenny Wallace races at that's his home. I mean,
he lives in the in the sent in, Missouri isn't

(36:19):
very far away from there. I think it's a suburb,
and I don't think he lives there anymore. He does
live somewhere close Spy and so he's going to race
is modified. They're going to have all kinds of divisions, right.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
No, No, he's not running his modified in the Dome. No,
you're kidding. Nope, he passed on that. I don't even
know if he did it last year. But because he's
not racing in it, he's going to open up his
shop on I believe Thursday and Friday for fans to
come and take a tour and he'll have memorabilia for
sale and all that stuff. But no, last I have

(36:50):
not seen him say he's in it, and I believe
he's not running in that race.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Okay, Well, here's something to consider. That's the weekend of
the fifth and sixth, I think right on the seventh,
the Kenny Wallace Fan Club Cruise leaves from Miami for
seven days and I'll be on the cruise and it'll

(37:14):
be big fun, I'm sure. So maybe that's why he's
not right now. He could race Friday or Saturday and
then make it there.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Oh No, he'd never get his stuff out of there
in time, and he doesn't have a big crew. So yeah,
he's definitely not running in that race. Then, Okay, but
he talked about Friday, Thursday and Friday having a shop
open for fans that are in the area.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Okay, and you're gonna miss the snowball therey, then Todd,
because that is Sunday, December seven.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Yes, it is the seventh, and this cruise leaves on
the seventh and comes back on the fourteenth, which for
me anyway, I won't be able to do radio those
two Sundays, but I should have some pretty good stories
involving Kenny Wallace because we'll be going where they they
canceled our trip to Jamaica because that the hurricane just

(38:01):
went through and wiped that place flat. And then they
canceled our trip to Haiti because somebody finally opened their
eyes and said, Haiti, isn't that a isn't that what
Trump called one of those shithole countries? Yes it is,
and I think that there's enough civil unrest there where
the cruise line what's the cruise line? I forgot is

(38:23):
not going to go to the port in Hayes.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
Discretion is the better part of valor, as you would.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
Say, I guess. And they added that little island off
of Mexico, which I've been to a couple times, and I.

Speaker 5 (38:35):
Can Stein Island.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
No, no, no, oh no there no. That'd be a
place to write some stories about.

Speaker 9 (38:43):
No.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
But so we're gone seven days and I think we
only have three cruise stops. That doesn't matter. It's gonna
be a good old time with all the Kenny Wallace
fans and I'll be able to report on it first Dan.
That'll be good stuff. Let's do this break, No.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
Oh, let's do the Midwest tour schedule got released this week.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Oh my god, I'm sorry.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
At eleven races. They added one.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
It's gonna be a Slinger again that'll open up on
the twenty sixth of April. Super Late Models plus the
seventy five lapp Late Model feature and the debut with
the Crown VIC series. That's a big way to kick
that season off there. Basically, the Midwest tour schedule is
pretty much the same, adding Slinger for the opener and
a flip flopped Elko and Grundy right Brian yep.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
And Norway is a lot earlier too. Norway is like
the first weekend in June instead of right our own
right before the fourth of July. I think last year
it was really really hot up in Norway.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
So yeah, since we're sneaking in some things Wisconsin related here,
the Dodge program for Colleague in the Truck Series, you
may have heard, is going to have a It's been
rumored so far, there's been nothing official about it, but
they're gonna have a Gong Show type of thing gonna happen,

(39:58):
and that's going to provide a driver for a weekly
for what all we know, it's a different driver every
week for a twenty five week schedule. I'm not sure
they're talking about bringing Tony Stewart into race once in
a while, especially now that he's in bed with Dodge,
you know, for the for his drag racing deal. But
they are going to do a press release tomorrow talking

(40:23):
about the Gong Show. I don't know what the hell
they're going to call it. And then a week from
tomorrow they will announce the drivers who will be participating
in the contest. And we know of a Wisconsin driver
who will be in it. We've been sworn to secrecy
about who it is, but it'll be a name everybody

(40:44):
knows and you'll see that that'll that will be announced
a week from tomorrow. Okay, So we'll sneak away now
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this year's Craftsman Truck Series champion, Corey Heim, visiting with

(42:55):
us from his home. Corey, Uh, welcome to let's talk
now Scarts. The first time we've had you, and we're
we're pretty thrilled to have you.

Speaker 17 (43:04):
Hey, how's it going, guys? Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
This has been an absolutely kick ass season. Eleven wins
for that number, eleven, twelve wins twelve I thought it
was eleven. Thank Yeah. Let's not forget that championship race
where you took it seven wide. I mean, it wasn't
a spectacular enough season until you had to go seven

(43:31):
wide to win a championship, but you did it. And
if they didn't know your name before, they certainly do now.

Speaker 16 (43:38):
Yeah, no doubt. You know.

Speaker 17 (43:39):
That's why, as you mentioned, a really good season for us,
and the cap it off was kind of an exciting
finish like that for the fans was really cool. You know.
I had a lot of people talking about it for
days or weeks after the race, and that was that
was way cooler than if we were to just go
out and kind of lead every laugh, I guess.

Speaker 16 (43:55):
So yeah, I mean, you know, as you mentioned.

Speaker 17 (43:57):
We had a really good year. We were uh, sort
of up and down to start the season up until
probably you know, a couple of races before the playoffs.
We you know, had our luck kind of go our
way towards the end of the year, and it seemed like,
you know, in the beginning of the year we really
couldn't catch a break, and then at the end of
the year we started catching breaks.

Speaker 16 (44:13):
So it's kind of how racing goes sometimes. You know.

Speaker 17 (44:16):
We definitely caught that break at the right time during
the season and you know, obviously able to cap it
off with the championships. So just really thankful for kind
of everyone that's been a part of it. And yeah,
it's definitely a season to will remember for a long
time personally for sure.

Speaker 4 (44:30):
I mean, just talk about your that Tricon group that
you have there. I mean, you've been there a couple
of years. You guys really got going, you know, last
year had a really good season, but to come out
of the box this year, I mean, you had twelve wins,
but let's be honest, you could have had fifteen sixteen
wins because there were a lot of races early in
the year you were you were dominating it, and bad
luck happened. I mean, just talk about Gillilan and that
group that he's put together over there, and how special

(44:51):
that group is.

Speaker 17 (44:54):
Yeah, I mean I knew they were special from the beginning.
You know, we started in twenty twenty three. That was
my first full time season as a Drive and also
my first you know season working with Scott'sabadelli and the
eleven team as a whole, So you know, we had
a little bit of growing to do as a team,
but I think, you know, all the all the pieces
were in place from the very beginning. Is just a
matter of you know, growing as a team and learning

(45:17):
each other, our feedback and our adjustments and everything that
kind of worked for us individually, and the fact that
we're able to retain that team and keep everyone in
place for three years in a row, you know, leading
up to twenty twenty five, I think we all knew
what we were capable of coming off of you know, good
seasons objectively, from twenty twenty four winning six and then
twenty three winning three, I knew we were capable of

(45:39):
at least matching that if not doing better. So the
fact that we're able to kind of put all the
puzzle pieces together and make it a twelve win season,
I don't think it.

Speaker 16 (45:48):
Was a surprise to at least us, but you know the.

Speaker 17 (45:51):
Fact that we're able to keep everyone in place, and
knowing that we already.

Speaker 16 (45:55):
Had a good team.

Speaker 17 (45:56):
We knew we were capable of doing that from the
very beginning. So yeah, definitely a lot of really special
people that you know, came from different teams at first,
but for the last three years have all been together
with us a tryc on. You know, a lot of
good people involved for sure, from top to bottom.

Speaker 5 (46:11):
You have a guy out of your team that is
from Wisconsin, Adam Wilcox is here gas.

Speaker 17 (46:16):
Man for the truck No, he's our mechanic.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
Okay, mechanic. I know he's super proud to be a
part of that, and I'm friends with him, so I
get to watch all the stuff that he posts. You're
still going to be dappling in the Truck Series a
little bit yet in twenty twenty six, but you're also
obviously doing some Cup and some Exfinity Series things. Do
you look at that as a good challenge or is
it a little frustrating for you to not be able

(46:41):
to have a full time one thing to just really
stay focused on. In twenty twenty six, I don't really.

Speaker 17 (46:49):
Find myself getting frustrated, you know, with my opportunities. I think,
you know, of course, this year I was able to
run for a championship in the Truck Series, and I'm
not sure kind of where my stuff lies next year.
But regardless of whatever you know, presented, I think I'm
going to be with really good organizations and have chances
to win races, and you know, as a driver, at
the end of the day, that's really all you can
ask for. So I'm kind of a week by week guy,

(47:12):
you know, I look at it as you know, what
is the job this weekend? What do we need to do?
And you know, I kind of think of myself, you
know what that is, and then I go get it done.
So I never really project, you know, what, what my
opportunities are. It's just it's life. At the end of
the day, whatever you're presented, you have to, you know,
take it in and do the best you can isdate.
So that's kind of always been my mindset, and I

(47:34):
certainly want to keep that going and do.

Speaker 5 (47:36):
You know who your crew chiefs are going to be
with twenty three eleven and with Spire that way you
can try to develop the relationship kind of like what
you have with Zippadelli.

Speaker 17 (47:46):
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what my creachy situation is
at the moment. I'm kind of still waiting to figure
out all out at the end of the day. But
regardless of who that is, I'm looking forward to trying
to get that samba and stuff and not easy to
come by. So anytime you work with a Creugie if
you definitely want to, you know, make that relationship stable
and work both ways.

Speaker 16 (48:05):
And I think, you know, that's what I've been able.

Speaker 17 (48:07):
To do with Scott, you know, these last three years,
and I hope to do the same going forward as well.

Speaker 6 (48:12):
Yeah, and Coury, you're you're twenty three, so you're still
relatively really young, and they have a season like that
is pretty spectacular and you got a great future ahead
of you. A lot of people don't really know how
you got into the whole racing deal. You know, did
one of your family owners race? How you started doing
that and you kind of worked up the ladder right
was like Legends, super Lates, Late Model, Stock ARCA.

Speaker 7 (48:29):
You kind of went that route. Is that how it
all worked?

Speaker 17 (48:32):
Yeah, you could say I had a pretty typical NASCAR route,
if you will. I mean, I know, Logano kind of
did the same thing, and Elliott and some of those
guys they started in quartermage just like I did, and
then you know, worked up through Bandealaira's Legends Cars, lay Models.

Speaker 16 (48:46):
That was sort of my route. Sprinkled in a little.

Speaker 17 (48:49):
Bit of different things here and there, but for the
most part, you know, I race quarterback is for a
long time. Actually, I started when I was five years old,
and then I think I went to Bendeleira's around twelve
or thirteen, which is objectively pretty long for you know,
a NASCAR I guess up upcoming, if you will. But yeah,
I wouldn't call myself a second generation racer.

Speaker 16 (49:09):
By any means.

Speaker 17 (49:10):
But my dad did race as a hobby. I grew
up going to Linear uh and Georgia watching him race
Legends cars, and then I knew my dad would kind
of want me to go that same path. Eventually he
thought of you know, the Legends cars were very good
as a learning learning tool, and whatnot.

Speaker 16 (49:24):
So once I was I want to.

Speaker 17 (49:27):
Say, thirteen or fourteen, I got my Legends car for
my first time, and I feel like that's really where
I learned how to We're like how to race in
a sense, I quartermit just were great for growing up
and kind of learning the ins and outs of how
to race, you know those but it's very conceptually simple.
I feel like Legends cars is where I really started
to blossom and really learn, you know, race craft and

(49:49):
different techniques and whatnot, shifting of course.

Speaker 16 (49:51):
And stuff like that. So but yeah, at the end
of the day, I feel.

Speaker 17 (49:54):
I got a pretty normal upbringing as far as NASCAR stuff.

Speaker 4 (49:58):
You have a race the whole I haven't raced a
whole lot up in Wisconsin, but you did make a
couple stops up here. You got to run at Slinger
with your super late bottle a few years back for
the Slinger Nationals and the Milwaukee Mile up here. What
we're what were your experiences like when you're up here
running at these tracks.

Speaker 17 (50:13):
Yeah, it's definitely a different world, you know. I feel
like it's interesting to me to go to Slinger for
the first time. That was one of the most unique
Late model experiences I've personally had. Actually, Like you show
up to the racetrack and you know a lot of
times when you go to the Snowball Derby, or you
go to the Snowball Derby, or you go to any
sort of Southern Southeastern race or anything like that, I

(50:34):
feel like for the most part, you know, you kind
of know what you're up against, and you kind of.

Speaker 16 (50:38):
Know the names and you know the faces. You know
who's got the nice stuff and who doesn't.

Speaker 17 (50:42):
But when you go to Slinger, like you're you're racing
around guys I've personally never heard of because they just
sort of stay in that area look all that nice,
but uh, you know, they haul out. For the most part,
it's pretty interesting to see those guys and what they
make work up there, and how different the the rules are,
the lay baels and stuff, and then really just everything

(51:03):
is very fascinating. We had a race against those guys.
It's a totally different culture. So, and not to mention
that Slinger is a very very challenging racetrack in itself
as well, just you really never get a break. You're
always in the turn and on the gas. So it's
definitely fun place.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
We'll see it back up here again.

Speaker 17 (51:20):
Good question.

Speaker 16 (51:23):
One more time.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Any chance you could get a late model together again
and come back up here in the near future.

Speaker 17 (51:31):
It's not the top of my buget list right now,
but I certainly would like to. I haven't really gotten
much late model opportunities in the last two years or
so of kind of you know.

Speaker 16 (51:41):
Focused on the NASCAR side of things.

Speaker 17 (51:43):
But I think the number one priority for me would
be trying to get to the Snowball.

Speaker 16 (51:47):
Derby again at some point.

Speaker 17 (51:48):
It's not gonna happen this year, but I'm hoping next
year I will be able to. But yeah, I think
Slingers on the short list of tracks that I would
definitely go back to. I definitely felt like I never
quite figured it out until the end of the race,
and it made me want to go back because I
kind of struggled all weekend and by the end of it,
I finally started to figure it out. So as a driver,
that makes you want to go back and try to

(52:08):
get redemption, you know, So I hope I get to
go back one day. It's not really on my on
my uh you know, top nive uet list, but it's
definitely on there. Somewhere, So yeah, I'd like to one
day for sure.

Speaker 5 (52:19):
There's a lot of skills that do make drivers great drivers.
And what would you say is your superpower that you
really bring to the table for all of the excellence
you've been able to showcase.

Speaker 16 (52:33):
That's a good question for me.

Speaker 17 (52:35):
I think this year I did a really good job
of just trying to be you know, mentally consistent and stable.

Speaker 16 (52:42):
You know, anytime we had, you.

Speaker 17 (52:44):
Know, some sort of issue or set back in a race,
I feel like it did a pretty good job of
just remaining calm and collected and making sure that I
could rebound from that. You know, in my past and
as most drivers can probably agree, you know, it's really
easy to get flustered when something doesn't go your way because,
you know, racing is one of those unique sports where
there's so many things that are out of your control.

(53:06):
You know, you look at football, baseball, hockey. Of course
you have some bad luck in there here and there,
but I feel like, you know, for the most part,
you can kind of control most things that go on,
whereas racing there's just a lot of curveballs that come
out of nowhere and can set you behind. And it's
really easy to get flustered. So I think this year
kind of had a conversation with myself at the end
of the year and knew that if I was going to.

Speaker 16 (53:28):
Have success throughout the year and be consistent, I was gonna.

Speaker 17 (53:30):
Have to deal with those, you know, setbacks very well.
I think I've lived up to that this year.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
I guess you have Corey, do you know very much
about or what do you know about your Cup team?
You're going to be in how many races this year?

Speaker 17 (53:48):
I'm not too sure to be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
Okay, I thought I saw something about a sponsor just
getting announced in all a sponsor yet.

Speaker 17 (53:58):
No, I don't, man, I'm sorry, I don't know much
by next year yet.

Speaker 3 (54:01):
All right, Well, we're certainly going to keep a close
eye on you. You've you've shown that you belong in
the Cup Series for absolute sure. It's been great following
your career so far. Being twenty three, you got a
great upside to you, my friend, and we'd like to
thank you for being on in a program and hopefully
we can have again sometime.

Speaker 16 (54:23):
I appreciate you, guys.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Thank you, all right, Corey him this year's Craftsman truck
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considering relaxing their ban on the single source provider, getting
away from single source providers. They want to make it
easier for some some guys to make some parts.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
You know that doesn't that send mixed signals. I know
it's a good thing. It'll it'll bring more creativity back
into NASCAR the way it's supposed to be. But boy,
I don't.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
If they if they do it, they're just floating stuff,
you know how.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
They'll probably something to do with the lawsuit if you
look at it close. I don't know. Hey, do you
remember here enough Phoenix, when Sydney Sweeney came up and
had something to do with us opening ceremony. She came
to the driver's meeting and somebody introduced her to William

(57:00):
Byron and said, you guys got to go out, which
I think is freaking hilarious for those who were wondering.
And I'm sure there's someone we had heard that Byron
was going out with Blaney's sister, Aaron Blaney. They had
been together for a long time and they had just
broken up. But he does have another new one named

(57:22):
Haley McGregor, and nobody year ago.

Speaker 6 (57:26):
That was a year ago already, right before he won
the Daytona five hundred and twenty four.

Speaker 7 (57:30):
So he hasn't been come on.

Speaker 3 (57:32):
And really that's how long they've been broken up. Well,
these stories I get on the internet sometimes aren't real
timely either way, Haley McGregor is his main squeeze now,
and so you know, Sidney Sweeney Haley McGregor. I don't know,
let's figure that out. Here's a good one. The governor
of Alabama has fired the entire Motorsports Hall of Fame

(57:54):
Commission what she apparently listed as financial issues. Oh, somebody's
stealing from the Hall of Fame plus legal compliance and procedures.
I don't know what that all means.

Speaker 7 (58:11):
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Speaker 3 (58:14):
Palladega's where it was. Yeah, isn't that something else?

Speaker 7 (58:18):
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