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Speaker: Welcome everybody to another edition of Speedway Stories. It's your boy Wally and Johnny Bong's here tonight. I hope everybody had a great weekend. um Hopefully everybody that was racing and everything else had a good good successful weekend, came home in one piece. yeah and we got a We got a special guest tonight again for you folks to come on and talk about their career in motorsports and rough truck racing.
Speaker: We'll bring up Branson up here for you guys. How are all doing? How's everybody doing? Good, man. Thank you again for coming up here, joining us to share your stories and everything else with us and some highlights in your racing career. I really appreciate you taking the time tonight to do that with us.
Speaker: Yep, no problem. I'm going to go ahead and turn the floor over to you and you can introduce yourself to everybody and kind of give us a rundown on your your career and everything. Okay.
Speaker: All right. Yep. I'm Branson. readit I'm from Chesapeake. I'm 25. So I've been racing for a few for a few years now. I started with stock Jeeps, like doing nothing to them and racing them with no roll cage, anything.
Speaker: So I came from a long way, that's for sure. freaking I raced stock Jeeps for like two years, and I'm like, it's time to switch because it's dangerous, nothing done to it.
Speaker: So I was like, it's time to Get something built. And so the Jeep I got now is built pretty good and it handles everything good. It's so fun. It's that's awesome. for that So one of my questions to start off with, like I've asked everybody else, what got you into to the hobby?
Speaker: Especially racing tough trucks. who who Who was the ah the one that injected the ah racing bug into you to get in into rough truck racing? So I've always liked to go to Dennis Anderson's down in North Carolina. I know y'all heard of Dennis Anderson's in Carolina.
Speaker: So I've always went to the mud bogs down there and I'm like, I've seen them Jeeps race and I'm like, that ain't hard. You can do it. Put some money into it. It ain't that expensive. Like I want to do the mega trucks one day.
Speaker: That's my dream for sure. But taking it, taking it slow, step at a time. I'm loving the Jeep stuff right now. That's for sure. So I was just watching everybody else do it and freaking little Phil. I was watching Brad when Brad was racing Twister at the time.
Speaker: That was freaking cool. I was like, I got to get into this. It's so freaking awesome, man. Hell yeah, man. So I've been doing it for a few years. it's I'll be honest with you. I've done done quite a bit and I got actually me and my son right now are actually a bit I came in from working on my rough truck right now. I got a Jeep Cherokee that we got, uh, that we're building this year. So I know the whole thing.
Speaker: Um, I actually took a, almost a 16 year hiatus. I got back behind the wheel last year up here in Ohio, at one of our fairs and, uh, got bit by the bug again. So now I'm passing the bug down to my son and everything else. And me and him are going to share driving responsibilities on it. So,
Speaker: It's a good time It's fun. It sure is. it's It's the freaking family out there. Everybody racing. The group of people we out there is just family. Everybody helps out.
Speaker: It's a good racing culture out there, if you know what I mean. Yeah. I've talked with other guests about it. i mean I've been on both sides of the spectrum from drag racing following truck and tractor pulling all my life.
Speaker: But once I got into the rough truck side of things, the the truck and tractor pulling community and the rough truck community
Speaker: is so tight knit. Everybody will drop at a dime to help you. Oh yeah. If you need something.
Speaker: It's like that. Like when I was racing at the beach in May, freaking It's harsh. It's real harsh out there on the beach when you're racing. you freakin ah here I break something every time every time I go out there, but I like to give it a show for the fans.
Speaker: that's my I'll send it out there in the air. I like doing that every you now and then. You break some stuff every now and then, but it's for the fans, man. I love it. It's just so much fun. Oh, yeah.
Speaker: Oh, shit. I'm sure Wally will be back, and i'm here in a minute. Uh-oh, I lost sound.
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Speaker: You good? Can you hear me? Yes, sir. i can't I can't hear anything right now. No?
Speaker: Oh, boy.
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Speaker: yeah we appear to be having some technical issues y'all very well listen and we'll get it together shortly
Speaker: Sorry about that. Freaking computer froze on me. I can't hear anybody. Can you all hear me? i can hear you just fine. I can hear you. Okay, I hear you all now. I hear you all now.
Speaker: Okay. Yeah, I guess we're all having technical difficulties tonight and everything. It's breaking in and out. It's breaking in and out.
Speaker: So you were saying about right before I got cut off, you were talking about. me let go up Let me try to go outside. Okay. boy
Speaker: yeah Oh boy. hold um It might be better out here. There you go.
Speaker: You hear us okay now? Okay.
Speaker: Can you all hear me? Yep, I hear you. Go on and clear. You hear us all right?
Speaker: Oh, boy. Can you hear us?
Speaker: He's to have to come back in. think we're good. i think we're good. you hear me Can you hear us, Branson?
Speaker: What's up, Pat? We're having some technical difficulties all the way across the board. Be patient with us. Oh, shit, I just had a power surge. Yeah, that's what mine just did.
Speaker: That's why it froze. Oh, boy.
Speaker: oh yeah i had a powerage
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Speaker: Are we good now? Are we good? We can hear you. You hear us okay?
Speaker: Can you hear us still?
Speaker: I've got wagging bad. Johnny, how's everything on your end? I hear you clearly, and when he's coming in, I hear him.
Speaker: Well, mine's been, for some reason, it's being freaking laggy for some reason tonight, and I don't understand it. I do not know, sir.
Speaker: we good? Are we good? don't know. I can hear you.
Speaker: hear us okay now?
Speaker: We can't hear walk Chris. Wally. Can't hear me. shit. Man. Dude, what is going on? Oh, a man.
Speaker: Oh, shit. Yeah, i don't get what's going on. Can you hear me now? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, where have we're having technical difficulties, and I don't get it, man. you Yeah. sucks.
Speaker: Yeah, it's good doing it on the phone is kind of a pain in the butt. There he is. so back Can you hear me now?
Speaker: Oh, come on, phone. not one It's not wanting to cooperate for him tonight, folks. Sorry about this. I'm even having difficulties on my on my laptop, too, so.
Speaker: Mine's freezing on both ends. isn it? glad I don't get it. Oh, I got good bars right here. You hear me now?
Speaker: Can you hear me?
Speaker: Can you hear me, Branson?
Speaker: Oh, man.
Speaker: Dude, this is not good. I hate this is happening.
Speaker: Sorry, guys. We're dealing with some technical difficulties on my end and on Branson's end. I don't know what the heck's going on, with especially on my end. Let him get his stuff.
Speaker: I think you're not new, sir. It's just one of those days today. I think everybody and their brothers are not cooperating. Yeah. I kind of hear you all a little bit better right now, but I don't know how long that's going to last.
Speaker: You can hear us okay? we Yeah, right there. I can hear you all all right right now. I got to stay right here. but So what you were talking about racing racing on the beach,
Speaker: i um Was that yeah and a different experience than racing on dirt and mud? Oh, yes, that's for sure. It's way different. in It's a different type of racing. it's a straight light It's a straight line racing with little jumps. And then the last one's a big jump. And That one picture I showed you when I sent you a couple pictures, I freaking sent that thing, broke my drive shaft. I broke that Jeep. But I had a good i had a good weekend.
Speaker: it was um I raced. I got eighth out of 25 trucks one night. And then my buddy got in the truck. And then my buddy got in the truck. And he got fourth out of like 20 trucks. So that was pretty cool.
Speaker: Hell yeah. That's awesome, man. I did some damn it. I did some.
Speaker: Yep. I've been doing some good. I've been doing good recently. I've been getting in top 10 a lot. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. I just needed to do a couple more upgrades on the Jeep and I'm right there.
Speaker: Yes, sir. That's awesome, man. Yeah. So at the beach, I freaking. or yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead. No, you're fine. you were I was going to ask, is there anybody actually running paddle tires when they were running the the tough trucks?
Speaker: ah Not out there. We usually we usually like do use like street tires and you lower down the um pressure out but lurrred down the pressure a lot so you get some traction getting up there.
Speaker: Because that sand is soft. If it's not wet or anything, that sand is soft. But it's definitely a fun experience it's a fun it's it's a fun experience out there because you race and then you get to freaking watch monster trucks out there at the same time.
Speaker: Hell yeah. Well, and that's another thing I was going That's got to be something to see, the let alone racing on it, but to watch the monster trucks race on the beach like that too, that had to be an awesome experience, man.
Speaker: Yeah, it's so fun. I so i try to do it. It's my favorite thing to do. That's my favorite race. Every year. Tear the Jeep up a little bit, but it's worth it. It's for the fans. I love having fun.
Speaker: got to bring it back to the shop and get it freaking on worked on. My buddy, Steven Taylor, I don't know if y'all ever heard of him.
Speaker: ah he um He works on my Jeep. He's out of Gates, North Carolina. yeah um he but He's the one who built my Jeep, did all the welding on the cage. I got to give him credit.
Speaker: He helps me out a lot on that thing. Heck yeah, man. That's the thing. Like were talking earlier with the tight knit group you got. I mean, like you mentioned, you got being around Brad, being around Hunter. Yes. You know, you couldn't ask for... Little Phil. Yeah. He was a trip on the show. He was a blast. I loved having him. Little Phil funny, man. Yeah.
Speaker: and then then That's why I'm trying i'm trying to trying to get my Jeep right. I want to arm North versus South. I want to race them and in September at Dennis Anderson. says That should be a fun time.
Speaker: ah That'd be great. That should be a good time. well Between him and fricking Josh Phillips, those two I had them back-to-back shows. and like that's like You guys are insane. They're good people. yeah john They were good people just Yeah, they were.
Speaker: They are some great people. Josh Phillips, his buddy is the same. His guy that built Josh's Jeep is the same guy that built mine and did a lot of work on his Jeep. So we're real good buddies.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. well on that and it's And it's awesome, like you said, having that where everybody helps everybody. So my other question for you, besides the beach race and Dennis Anderson, what's one of your bucket list tough truck races that you want that you want to hit that you haven't done yet?
Speaker: I want to – I really do want to explore. i want to go to, like, Pennsylvania and Ohio. I've been seeing the races out there. That looks that looks real fun out there.
Speaker: i want to explore – I try to ah want to go to Uary in North um Carolina on the 27th. I might be making a trip to go get me a spare tough truck so I can go race that one, but we'll see. We'll see.
Speaker: see how things play out? That'd be awesome. yeah Hell yeah, man. There's this guy and talk a guy in Pennsylvania I'm talking to right now with a Grand Cherokee DJ.
Speaker: I'm thinking about getting it. I think um' for a spare, might as well. Good deal. You can't beat it. Oh, no. yeah Well, and like you brought up about Pennsylvania and Ohio, when they were yeah the jamborees back in the day were the big thing.
Speaker: um It was the battle of Ohio, especially for the modified guys. And even in the stock classes at the jamborees, it was bragging rights between Ohio and Pennsylvania because you have the foy toy crew that's there in PA that are well known. Mm-hmm.
Speaker: charles Charles Wagner that has the 4x4 Midnight Madness on YouTube. He's got him. a He got the old No Boundaries modified rough truck now and been racing that. This will be the second or third year of it. yeah there there We're all bunch of tight-knit groups in an Ohio, PA. We all get along and have fun competition. and
Speaker: we've been We've been contemplating trying to get an East Coast Midwest and West Coast, if we could find a happy medium and make the pay where it's worth it, do a battle of, ah to find out who the best of the best is in the country.
Speaker: That would be fun. That would be awesome. Yeah. Yeah, because it's like, everybody I've talked to, like, the yeah, we'd love that. I'm like, well, the thing of it is, for us, it'd be, like I said, kind of the middle grounds for everybody. It would be, like, Missouri or Oklahoma where everybody's kind of of in the middle even though there'd be a an advantage for the Oklahoma boys, but It'd be neat to get get the big get some of the big names out there in the stock and modified the pro pro-modified trucks and everything and run them off to see who's got the best best drivers in the country for real instead of You know just every now and then getting together we actually have
Speaker: One of the guys that actually just got done running and the 45th anniversary out there at Mommy, Oklahoma for Matt Motorsports, Mr. Pat Pulley.
Speaker: The guy's going to be 70 years old, Bronson, and still out there racing rough trucks like he's fucking 15 years old, dude. Dang, that's crazy, man. And having fun. That's crazy. Well, I...
Speaker: Every time he comes in here, and I'll tell you what. But you love it, if you love it, you got to do it. You love it, you got to do it. Oh, yeah. Oh, for sure. He sets the golden standard for us racers, man. He's living proof still at 70 years old, out having a good time.
Speaker: That's awesome, please But so with your Jeep setup and everything else, hu Do you have ah is it do you have like a four-inch lift in yours, or do you run hard lift in yours?
Speaker: I got a three-inch lift on mine. Three-inch? Okay. A three-inch, yep. yeah Nice. Nice. It's pretty cool. got ah got the it's It's a pretty nice well Jeep. I got to get the rear axle truss. I don't have that one truss yet, but it's going to go to the shop and get the get the final upgrades, get it getting ready.
Speaker: I'm a bigger guy. I weigh like 300. So I'm trying to get the Jeep right. yeah You're my build. That's my thing. It's trying to get my Jeep for me. So you know us bigger guys. So we're freaking we put the weight up a little bit on the front. And I i always like to nosedive a little bit. after when i had a top I always like the nose because our weight up. there So I'm like I got to figure out put some weight in the back a little bit on the side. I was told to get like your dumbbell weights and stuff and make them. ah
Speaker: And I saw somebody i doing that stuff. Yeah. That are putting in lead, getting and making the lead pucks and stuff like they do for drag cars and stuff. I've contemplated that, but it's like, man,
Speaker: as much as I'm going to be driving, it's more or less going to be my son and he's like a fricking twig, but he's like six, three. So he's going to be, he's going to pretty much, this is my last year.
Speaker: i think going to be running at least the stock style, uh, Jeeps and everything. I'm, I got, uh, got to that's something up my sleeve. Hopefully things pan out for me this winter. I'm coming out with a little more purpose built for myself and let him run, running stock Jeeps and stuff.
Speaker: until he gets comfortable and then he's going to have full reins and I'm going to be the crew chief eventually. So yeah but definitely got to give it out to my pit crew, man. My buddy Gavin, he freaking, he's a help killer. Keep the Jeep at his house. And when we need to get done doing some work on it, he's there at the freaking beach freaking every night. We mess something up, broke the drive shaft, had a restrict,
Speaker: Fixed that. Helped out. Everybody's a racing. If they got parts, they're going to help you out. And that's what I like. You help them. It goes around. Comes around. you know what I mean? Oh, yeah. And and that's and that's what's so nice about um about it, man. You get to get your tight-knit group where everybody helps everybody.
Speaker: And so it it makes it it makes it more enjoyable, too, oh yeah when you go racing. I mean... And that's what about, like them, about Jeeps, man. They're, I'm starting to learn a little bit. They're simple. Like, I've been learning, trying to learn, freaking, if it's something simple, you can get it fixed and go back and racing. I freaking broke my, freaking, i broke my motor mount.
Speaker: Buddy was like, get a, cut a, block of wood, get a, get a strap and strap that thing. And we kept going racing a couple more times. That's how my buddy got fourth place. I was surprised.
Speaker: Yeah, they are. For them Jeep motors, man, they laugh or they're strong. It's crazy. Well, not only is that, the only, the only downfall that I run into here in Ohio, when we find the Jeeps, we got to go south because majority the the back half of the unibodies rotted out up here on a lot of the ones we find.
Speaker: So it's your You're either going to run it and plate the hell out of it or, you know, actually do some modifications to it or just send it. It'll last maybe one race and the back end blows out on you.
Speaker: You find that problem here in New York a lot, too. Well, when you're in the snow boat, what do you expect? You got sold a whole time. Right? But, yeah, the Jeeps are, this stuff especially the XJs, they're a simple build and they're fun. Oh, hell yeah. yeah and so I can't believe how I started freaking stock everything, launching that thing. How many times i had a freaking rusty one, man. The frame was like freaking rusted. I'm like, dude, I'm going to send this thing too hard one time and I'm going to go through the bottom of the Jeep.
Speaker: But it's fine. That Jeep lasted and then that's the motor of my Jeep now. Because I blew the motor up, my old motor up at the beach last year, my first race.
Speaker: Okay. I freaking came back. I think I lost some oil pressure, but I freaking, I got some work to do. I'm to bring it to my buddy. That beach hurt my Jeep. I crushed the oil pan, oil filter, distributor. got a little, buddy got some work to do it, but I'm going to try be back out for North versus South at Dennis Anderson's. That's in September.
Speaker: Or I'm going to try to get, yeah, my buddy's going to help me out. Or I'm going to to get that spare Jeep. I want to get out there for Uary in North Carolina or possibly go to the um July 18th race at Virginia Motorsports Park.
Speaker: I've been hearing about that place. That's pretty cool. And did Winnie, Virginia. Yeah, that's the one. That's another premier mega trucks puts on and everything else.
Speaker: I think that's awesome you guys have the platform to race with the mega trucks and stuff like you they're giving you guys that most places wouldn't do.
Speaker: It's crazy how how everything works out. like It's just family everywhere. Family everywhere. Hell yeah. So what style mega truck do you want to build? Do you want to do like the one ton like Jackson Coach did or do you want to go the big boys, big blowers and everything like Kingsling?
Speaker: ah I would like to do that, but you got to you got to start somewhere. Start cheaper and go go bigger. i want to i like I like Brad Kovacs. I like those old four body styles. Those are my oh yeah favorite oh hill favorite body style. I want to start something like something like that one day. Not as big as Brad's. Start start something like that, if you know what I mean. You got to start somewhere. yep It's fun. oh That's my dream for sure one day, but keep racing them Jeeps.
Speaker: Keep racing them Jeeps. You got to keep them Jeeps around, man. Them Jeeps. We put a show out for everybody. oh i i watched I watched this year's first race it there that Dennis Anderson did for their spring race.
Speaker: You guys freaking... I thought we were crazy up here on a tough track course. Shit, you guys with your stock jeeps make us, most of us guys look bad. It's crazy. Balls to the wall.
Speaker: It is so fun, man. It's but Dennis Anderson's. I just got that's the home track where I always just got to give it out to that track. That's my favorite track to race at.
Speaker: But the beats every year, you can't count that out. That's the that's the fun race, too. But Dennis Anderson's the home track and I give my heart out to that place. I love that place.
Speaker: Yeah, that's actually that's on my bucket list here within the next couple years before I decide to hang up the driver's seat and I want to make the trip down for at least one of those races to race with all you guys at least once before before I fully hand the reins over to my son, but yeah, I've always wanted I've always wanted to go down um I've met Dennis Anderson one time and That's when he first debuted Kingsling. He was actually up here about 45 minutes away from me at a mud run when he debuted it. can't believe it's coming a long way. Did you see the the last race letting Wade Anderson get in the Kingsling truck? The 13-year-old. Man, I can't believe how far that they came. It's been...
Speaker: It's a family ride for sure out there. Seeing everybody grow up is insane. Oh, hell yeah. spirit And it was it was neat the pictures that Misty took of Wade and Jackson together after they were both done and running. the thing That's the future of our sport that's already like miles ahead of everybody else.
Speaker: Smiling ear to ear and the adults are just as excited as they are. I mean, you yeah can't go wrong with that. Yep. we know we know We know they're going to be in a monster truck one day. That's for sure. We know that. that's it It's in their blood. It's in their blood.
Speaker: know he like But, yeah, i and but i mean e you know it's the coolest experience you've all got to rub elbows with the Anderson family to be on their property to race one of the, in my opinion,
Speaker: one of the best races in the country and you, and you get to, you get to have fun doing it. Why you got actually the Anderson family, they're cheering everybody on, not just certain people. They're just cheering everybody.
Speaker: Speaking of Brad, what's happening, buddy? everyone Yeah. Love that dude, man. Brad is awesome. Yeah, I've been talking with him for a while.
Speaker: Getting really close with him the last year. We've been talking through Messenger and stuff. and is here He's like, when I get back home, I definitely got to be on your show. And then they the day but the day day before he leaves Japan, he goes, we got to get this done, man. We got to do this before I leave. I'm like, okay.
Speaker: And it was just It was just like us talking through Messenger except getting to see each other face to face. It was like we long lost friends. It was freaking just the history that that man has alone.
Speaker: oh yeah. And hearing the stuff he's done in his life, it's it's just crazy. It's awesome for sure. It's awesome. To watch everybody grow and succeed. It's cool.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. Yes, sir.
Speaker: i You're all good, Brad. at least this time you're actually here, but I forgave you last week because go you guys were working on the mega getting it ready, so you're forgiven.
Speaker: But yeah, it would be... i would love it if we could within the next two or three years, i think it'd be awesome if I could get a bunch of my guys together and we can make the trip down there to play with you guys down at Dennis Andrews one time. Oh, y'all would love it. Y'all would love it. We would definitely invite y'all out there for sure. Y'all know it. Y'all would love it out here.
Speaker: Hell yeah. and this and And the same goes for you guys. If you ever venture up to the Ohio area or even close over to the PA area, man, it's ah it's an open invite our fairs and everything else to – anybody to come in and race with us. And that'd be awesome to have, you know, some outside competition and actually get to hang out together face to face instead over a computer screen. Yeah. right my ro For sure. For sure.
Speaker: But yeah. So on that, on that grand Cherokee, you're looking at in PA, is it got the four, the straight six in it too, or is it got to, yeah, it has the straight, has the 4.0 in it
Speaker: Nice. Yeah, those are those are like the Ford 300 straight sixes. You can't fucking kill them. and oh them motor i love the motors now I love them love them.
Speaker: Hell yeah. So, so on on um back to the beach situation. ah the way that The way they had the... How the hell did they mound the last jump for you guys?
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: thank you thats steve wants that That's the steep one. They fixed it a little bit, but um the left side was definitely a little bit higher than the right side. though the The lane I was in with that beats jump, man, when I sent it.
Speaker: the the left The left lane was a little bit higher, but that that last jump is gonna is steep no matter what. If you freaking give it give it gas, you're going to be in that air. but That's what I love. I love being in the air.
Speaker: It's fun, man. for year ah yeah when you That was the first picture you sent me, and I'm like, I'm looking at that picture, zooming in, I'm like, man, how far off the ground is he really from that jump? That is amazing. We all like to send it out there. It's so fun.
Speaker: So fun. Well, and that's the thing. I mean, it's just, and I happened to stumble across a couple videos on Facebook that somebody posted. I'm like, that would be a blast. That is something totally different. You wouldn't think of anybody putting something together and having an off-road race and monster trucks racing literally right there at the oceanfront property. So crazy. Yeah.
Speaker: It's so cool. They've been doing it for years now. It's freaking... It's crazy. so It's freaking an event every year that they do. It's pretty big. It's sold out. Usually sold out crowds every time. It's a so really big show.
Speaker: then I like... otherwise It's so much fun out there because you know how sometimes when you you don't get to race like Dennis Anderson's or some other places you race, you race a couple times and that's it. like At the beach...
Speaker: you keep racing, racing. Like if you qualify, you keep going and going and like, it's not like just one and done. You're like, it's so fun. That's what I like. I like about it out there. You're constantly racing. It's like a, it's absolutely a blast out there.
Speaker: That actually sounds, that sounds like fun because it keeps, it keeps the pace going and, but it keeps the entertainment as well for not only the fans, but you drivers, um,
Speaker: keeps you guys on your toes and everything else. And you're out and having a good time. Like you said. Yeah. it's And it's awesome. One thing too, to talk about, we get to race them only like once a year. You have, I know you've seen some of the videos, like some of the high horsepower trucks with the V eights and like, and, and that's some cool stuff to talk about. Like our Jeeps are getting real, real close competing with them. And it's,
Speaker: crazy to think about our jeeps are competing with them yeah oh yeah that's all that's like up here i got i actually got a couple buddies that uh one of them's got a got a grand cherokee he went and put had a four liter built with a stroker kit in it It is right there. It is right there on the ass of these built modified trucks. I mean, he's last two years that he's had this put together. He's been top 10 right behind like 10th or a little higher.
Speaker: He's beat some of the best drivers we have in mod class. So it's just. Yeah, it's neat, though, what we can, how far along those four leaders has come to with the capability of putting horsepower to them and everything else to run against V8s. I mean, like you said, even a stock stock four leader with the right driver and the right setup on them, like you were saying,
Speaker: You're right there, damn near neck and neck with the new boys. It's crazy because our our trucks, like, usually our rules and stuff, you can't really do that much to the modified, like, to the engine, but you can do a little bit.
Speaker: Like, you can't have, like, no turbo on it or anything, but you can do a couple modified, things but it's crazy just we're keeping up with those trucks and sometimes we win and it's freaking cool my buddy got um the opportunity he won a race out there it was freaking cool to see because It's hard to beat them trucks, but when you're out the beach, we give it a fun show. when we We try our best to beat them trucks. It's so fun. yeah
Speaker: It's a once a year thing. We race those trucks. and and that's and that's And that's awesome. You guys get that get that chance. It's kind of also besides the once in a life, you know, once a year thing, but it's also a chance to prove how much better you got driving skill wise, everything else, because you're going out Competing against stuff like that. So, I mean, it that's a great experience for for everybody. yeah Oh, for sure.
Speaker: It's a great time for sure. Brad, you're still listening. He said he wants your mega truck. You're done driving. He's taking over now. Hopefully Brad will let me drive that thing one day.
Speaker: Hopefully will. Hopefully. You never know. You never know, man. I want to go on a ride with him in it. That would be fun. Oh, i'm sure I'm sure Brad could make possibly make that happen sometime. Oh, he's laughing. He's laughing. He's got you out laughing in the comment. I know he will give me a ride for sure. I know he would. Oh, yeah. So with...
Speaker: so with With that coming, now, like you said, you you're gonna look with the older Ford bodies and everything, are you going to stay Ford-powered when you do your basic base, what I call the base mega truck getting started out? Or are you going to do the crossbreed and go more for bang for your buck motor-wise?
Speaker: I'll probably start like how Jackson is, like start start like that and move up. Something like that wise. You got to start from somewhere.
Speaker: you got to start from somewhere. I want to do something like that. You got to start. like There's some freaking small block trucks. I like some small blocks for sure. Oh, hell yeah yeah. You can get a lot of RPM and horsepower out of small blocks if they're built, right?
Speaker: Yeah. Yeah, Brad. I think i think Branson will agree and I'll agree and Johnny. Yeah, a field race would be freaking awesome to get everybody together. Yeah, man. That would be fun.
Speaker: That would be a blast. But yeah, I mean, it's cool because I got looking with Jackson and I got looking into some doing some research on that.
Speaker: I mean, that's it's a little higher than budget friendly, but it can be it's it's reachable though, unlike some of the other stuff out there.
Speaker: Yeah. And you know what? You want to know something quite crazy too? the um The Jeep, that the Grand Cherokee that Jackson started racing, I gave it to him. That was my first tough truck, stock tough truck that I raced. And that's how he started racing. Really? Yeah, I thought I would tell you all that. Hell yeah, dude. That's how he started racing.
Speaker: And I've seen him grow up. That's like that's freaking awesome. Hell it you you You gave him his first injection of his first vehicle and everything else from the race.
Speaker: Yeah, but yeah looking at looking at that, I mean, I think it'd be cool to do. do a one-ton Mega with an XJ body on it.
Speaker: Yes. Just something different. i I've seen some some crazy builds. I've seen a couple. like and that would be put oh That would be cool, man. kind of like kind of Kind of keep with the role of the Jeep theme and everything else. and just You've got your horsepower and everything else and better axles and suspensions. That would be i would be sick for a build to have the only XJ body out there playing around.
Speaker: That would be cool. That would be cool. Yeah, that would, that would be James. This is my buddy, James, one of my other ones. He's, he's big. He's got an XJ, rough trucks and everything else too.
Speaker: Um, but yeah, But yeah, he said x an XJ on tons would be wicked. That would be you would be awesome. I mean, he i mean I've seen seen up there in Michigan this past weekend, guy debuted his mud truck, and it actually a was a Cherokee body for a mud truck. I see him all the time.
Speaker: But to actually see a mega truck done with a with the XJ body would be it would be awesome. Yeah, There you go, Branson. There's your goal down the road. You can take your old XJ when it's time to retire and get the bodies not beat up too bad. Build your mega out of it. That would be cool. but That would be cool. about you Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
Speaker: I've been seeing them freaking. I see the videos all the time when the people are out there with the XJs on the paddle tires in the desert. Yes. Bro, like, that looks like some fun racing. Like, I would like to get into that. Like, that would be cool. you'll see then you'll see the ones see a couple that's, like, a single turbo. Then you got the guys, like, oh, like the thing says, so you you that you think you're the big dog until this guy pulls on. He's got triple turbos on this sand and everything else. It's like, what? It's crazy how those power on a freaking 4.0 that you can do to get that much power.
Speaker: Yeah, and that's the thing. These guys are running they're running, Johnny, literally twin turbos on a semi-built 4.0 motor. They're not V8s, nothing. And they're out here stomping ass.
Speaker: How the hell? oh it but we got a We have a mega truck that goes around, comes around here every now and then that has a 2JZ motor in it.
Speaker: Oh, no. Seriously? Yeah. it's It's called, it's called trimming time. Y'all need to search it for real. And that thing is freaking cool. Like 2J, 2JZ motor in a freaking mega truck. And all you hear when the thing's going, it's so quiet. All you hear the turbo. Like it's so freaking awesome.
Speaker: now yeah That would be nasty to have, man. Those 2Js are... there's so Those motors are something else. when i saw that When I saw that, I'm like, gosh, that thing, like, that freaking 2JZ has some power behind it for a pushing them Megatruck tires around.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. Because on those Megatrucks, those are what, like 54-inch tires? Those V-cuts on them, isn't that what the size those are? I think so, yeah. Yeah, you got to have some horsepower and some torque to turn those bad boys the way they do.
Speaker: it's It's insane to see that stuff. Yeah, that's a bad little truck. Yeah, now that after I get off the show, you got me, I'm going to be looking for videos for this. I want to see this. Well, it's called trimming time or trimming something like that. Trimming time, something like that.
Speaker: I'll definitely look at that. I'm here at this research.
Speaker: Johnny, you got any questions you want to ask, buddy? or honestly they Honestly, dude, it sounds like y'all have achieved some craziness out there. It's like some really cool shit. And I look forward to honestly see where y'all go next.
Speaker: It's so awesome, man. It's awesome. ah it's awesome and well The other thing is, that's another reason like I kind of wanted to start this show too. is yeah i I like the motorsports aspect and I'm loving that I'm able to give guys like you and myself and And Johnny here changed, especially Johnny, because his motor sports was his family was a motocross family growing up. i got you
Speaker: But now he's now he's expanded out to truck and tractor pulling stuff like that and everything. else du It has been something awesome to get into. I love the whole new feel of it, man.
Speaker: It's awesome. It's awesome. Hell yeah. Broaden my horizons a little big, you know? Yep, yep. Hell yeah. but I tell you, that when the first time I jumped a Jeep, I'm like, I just did that crap. Like, once you get that feeling, you always got that feeling.
Speaker: Oh, yeah. then and and that's ah And it's a great, and it and it's a, honestly, it's one of the best adrenaline rushes you'll ever get. I mean, I can only imagine the rush you get.
Speaker: yeah You always get that always get that little bit of nervous and nervousness before you start. Always. he want to I like having it fun. It's all for the fans. it's all It's all about having fun. I love it. Oh, hell yeah. well and and Branson can vouch.
Speaker: Once it starts not becoming fun, that is the time you hang it up. Because get them you're either A, going to hurt yourself. Yes.
Speaker: Or b you're going to hurt somebody else because you're going to make a mistake and it's going to cost yourself and the fans or whatever. Some people out there just don't know the limitations you have. I've heard the stories around here, guys, still doing it.
Speaker: I just want to get out. I'm not enjoying it no more. Like I've asked them, I said, then why do you keep doing Well, I got it sitting here. I don't i just don't want to sell it.
Speaker: i said I've told a couple people, I said, put it back in the garage, cover it up, take time away. It could be five, ten years down the road. It's still possibly still there, and you might get that joy back again.
Speaker: ye start over. You'll still have your stuff right there. even start fresh.
Speaker: I know Tough Truck ain't like super big yet, but it's starting to get there and we're doing places, starting to do races everywhere. everywhere And it's it's definitely getting up there. It definitely needs to continue for sure. for sure Well, and that's the thing with the Tough Truck community where I'm at and I love seeing it now finally going south.
Speaker: It's hitting you guys. It's growing bigger down there. Yeah. It's always been a big thing in Ohio. It's been a big thing in Pennsylvania. Um, so parts of New York's been that way.
Speaker: you Definitely, definitely out in the Midwest, Oklahoma, Missouri area, like where Pat's from, it's been a big deal. Um, California, Larry McCormick, guy I follow. He's a promoter and racer.
Speaker: Um, he's doing big things, bringing it back. it's It's amazing to see, um, to see the growth of it finally catching on and traveling further down and opening people up to more stuff other than mud trucks, dirt, you know, sand drags, dirt drags, whatever, or mega trucks.
Speaker: You can still have fun on balling. Basically I call it balling on a budget, running these jeeps and everything else. And you're hanging out, like you said, with everybody close, tight knit,
Speaker: And you're getting the experience stuff. Most people sitting on their couch going, man, I don't want to do that. but But they don't want to get off. They don't want to get off their ass and put forth a little effort to do it. And here we are living it.
Speaker: And now I'm living it through being, becoming friends with you guys on Facebook, seeing your success, let alone sharing my success and stuff up here and everything. And my friends, it's nice to have that community.
Speaker: It's awesome. it's For sure. It is awesome. For sure. So, Branson, before we wrap up here and everything, you got anybody, sponsors or friends, family, you want to shout out for helping you all the time, everything else, man? The floor is yours. Give them a shout out.
Speaker: Yes, sir. I definitely want to um shout out my pit crew member, Gavin Taylor. He's always by my side when I'm racing that thing. something happens, he's going Get it right for me the best I can. And i it was his first time racing it at the on beats this year. And he took fourth place.
Speaker: And then he got, match he got matched up with the, one of those V8 trucks, but he got up there. So that was, that was pretty cool to watch. And I'll shout out, shout out Steven Taylor from Taylor motor sports. He's the one who built my Jeep.
Speaker: Definitely huge shout out to him. He's about to do some more work to get it right, but he's the guy. he freaking you um He started out like with dirt cart dirt car track racing and did those kind of cars, making those cars, but he built he made some mud trucks and does roll cages and everything. and He definitely hooked me up on my truck, and I'm grateful, appreciate him. and Definitely in the Tough Truck community, everybody out there racing with you, it's family.
Speaker: It's for sure. And then I got um a new sponsor this year, um Coastal Breeze, where my buddy um Gavin works at, heating, cooling, and plumbing. They're helping me out a little bit this year.
Speaker: And then hopefully so hopefully soon I'm going to um have another sponsor, Punga Home Improvements, um my buddy Charlie Grimshed. I've been talking to him about it.
Speaker: So that'll be pretty cool. But... It's just family. It's a fun time hanging out with your buddies racing. It's just oh yeah it a great old time. oh yeah that's That's the way to have it. um I'm going to throw the invite out.
Speaker: At the end of the season, um up here, we're usually done in October. I would like to get you, Hunter, Brad, I kind of want to do a panel with all you guys for an end of the year kind of deal.
Speaker: It'll be fun. Yeah, getting everybody on the show, that's kind of fun. For sure. But and but i but I'll definitely ah stay in contact through Messenger throughout the the summer and race season.
Speaker: I'll keep you up to date on how we me and the boy do this for our fair season and everything else. And I'll find out how you do and stuff. And we'll definitely get together this fall again. and we'll have We'll have a community panel up here on the show and everything willll get where we can get everybody together on a Monday or Thursday night.
Speaker: and have everybody up here. So I really appreciate you ah coming up, even with the little technical difficulties you and me both had to start the show. is awesome yeah ah We got it to work out. We got it to workout that's what the work out.
Speaker: Thank you again. And I appreciate it. Good luck the rest of this season, man. And, uh, Hey, if you got the opportunity, I'm going I'm going to push the button, go get that, go get that DJ man. And, uh, I'll show it to you on messenger. It it needs a little bit of, it needs like some trust axles, but it's another project to go or to get me going for a spare right now while my other one's getting fixed. Yep.
Speaker: I think I'm going to make the trip. I love racing. I and I appreciate talking appreciate talking to y'all. It's definitely an honor to be on the show. and I'll see y'all next time. I'll go ahead and drop you down. um have good Good luck this race season.
Speaker: Yes, sir. thank you ma'am Talk to y'all soon. Talk to you soon, brother.
Speaker: Yeah, man. Thank you all again. Sorry about at the beginning of the show where we had, you know, our little hiccups, technical stuff, but we got it figured out. I want to give a shout out in the chatterbox. Of course, you guys being supportive on the show and everything.
Speaker: Oh, thank you. I love hearing, love hearing different sides of the rough truck community. Any of the mother sports community from different States and everything else.
Speaker: I appreciate you guys giving me the chance and opportunity to put you guys out here to share your stories. Always appreciate y'all, man. Oh, yeah. It's it's awesome.
Speaker: and um And it's... moving Oh, dude. It's made the community even tighter for me now that the we're bringing everybody... I'm bringing i'm bringing the motorsports world together.
Speaker: Yes, sir. And Johnny, you're you're along for the ride. I mean, i in love her second of Well, that and you're learning so much different stuff too. So, I mean, it's, it's so many different points of view of just knowledge in general. Uh, I love it, man. Like I was saying, I've been writing notes on every episode.
Speaker: Right. But yeah, they, uh, tune in the rest of the week for, uh, tomorrow night, Glick's house of music. g but I can't remember. I bring dead as always for guests. Uh,
Speaker: It happens. And then then Wednesday night looks on Glick's Comedy Lounge has a guest. um This Thursday, I am working on getting a couple guests, the one or two guests lined up for this Thursday night on Speedway Stories.
Speaker: If not, we will have... the have another bullshit session like we did last week with me and Johnny catching up on stuff. And yeah, thank Brad, man. I appreciate you, man. Yeah. For being a big supporter this show and stuff and being a guest, but I love it.
Speaker: But yeah.
Speaker: And Saturday night, cash is corners back. Glick and his son cash talk WWE wrestling. And then of course, Saturday night, nonsensical nonsense. We have the orphan open door challenge. We put the panel, the link in there.
Speaker: Branson, thank you, man. I appreciate you a lot, buddy. I appreciate it I'm glad you enjoyed yourself after we got our stuff straightened out. everybody Good to hear from you, Branson. But yeah, we'll get, we're definitely going get the group together this off season ah when it gets closer.
Speaker: um And next week, either Monday or Thursday, or we're going to have Mason back on the show from that motorsports. Nice. He is going to talk about the mommy race and the Missouri Springfield, Missouri race coming this weekend that he's doing.
Speaker: And we're going to catch up on all the, the excitement from those on his point of view and everything else. So follow the, all our social medias is down there in the link.
Speaker: Um, Make sure you like, share, and subscribe. Thank you all again so much for tuning in and stuff and being supportive of the network and my channel and everything of all the shows.
Speaker: You guys all have a great night and have a great week. We'll see you Thursday night. Later, Johnny. Later, brother.
