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Introduction and Event Announcement
00:01:27
Speaker
Welcome everybody to another edition Speedway Stories. It's your host Wally and Johnny Longs. Hope you guys all had a great weekend and everything else. Real quick, I want to shout everybody out that can make it Friday night for my kind of throw together shop talk ordeal called Wally's Motorsports World.
00:01:44
Speaker
um We'll probably be going to do that for a few Fridays here up until race season really kicks in up here around Ohio and everything else because I know up here Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays are usually busy and everything else, and then fair season kicks in. So that's going to be something to kind of kill the time with each with Friday nights if you guys want to just come and
Off-Season Activities and Vehicle Updates
00:02:05
Speaker
hang out. um Tonight I got a returning guest. i got Brock Talbert coming back tonight to talk about the 2026 season.
00:02:12
Speaker
Let's welcome. What's up, Brock? How's it going? What's going, buddy?
00:02:21
Speaker
Thank you, everybody in the chatter's box. What's up, Jamie? So how's your off season been there, sir? You get your chassis redone and everything after the end of the year last year? It's coming along. It's been busy. I can tell you that. I've done a lot.
00:02:40
Speaker
I've seen your ah senior old body ah made its debut over and indian over in Fort Wayne this past weekend. Yeah, Dale bought that off of me. He actually, i was impressed, dude. He fixed that up thing that thing up way better than I would have imagined because it was tore up after Cushokton.
00:03:00
Speaker
Oh, yeah, especially the whole front end and through the hood the way it was. Yeah. And he said he had to add 10 inches to the roof, which I was kind of, I didn't realize, but it turned out really good. I was i was happy it turned out good for him.
00:03:13
Speaker
That's the best that truck's looked. I like that body on there, man. It makes it, that square body, don't get me wrong, look good, but that thing was patched so many times between him and Springston and shit. It wasn't funny.
00:03:26
Speaker
remember That truck looks way better.
00:03:31
Speaker
So with everything going on, um what's your goals for the 2026 season this year, man? Uh, ah I'm going put you on the spot right off the rip. Coming out swinging. I can tell you that.
00:03:47
Speaker
oh yeah yeah i I want to be very, very competitive. And ah just i just hope everything holds together like I think it should. And i just, my goal is i want I'm there to win this year. Try don't give but try to give everybody a run for their money this year, huh That's the goal.
00:04:09
Speaker
I've done a lot in the offseason. I've put a lot of money into it and I just don't see why you would put this kind of money into something if you aren't there to win. That and plus still, go besides winning, you've got to have some fun in the process. oh Winning. Winning for fun, but the end goal is is the win. Yep, to get that first place.
00:04:29
Speaker
If I don't win, I'm still going to be there and have a blast.
Racing Community and Camaraderie
00:04:32
Speaker
I'll be driving. It's just what I like to do, but the end goal is to win. Well, if you didn't notice, I got you. I got your brother to take his Jeep down for sale.
00:04:41
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
00:04:44
Speaker
He's now and ready to go. I was like, i'm like I had Wes on there that Monday, and he's in the comments. goes, yep, time to get the Jeep all redone. I took everything and done this with it. I'm like, dude, we just talked over the weekend. It didn't take much chance to do that. No, it did not. It took like june took two days, two and a half days.
00:05:04
Speaker
sir Tyler decided he was going to keep it. We were talking because his kid's playing ball and everything else. I'm like, dude, I've been there, done that. Take your time and everything else. It's just fun. I think he realized that you know all of us are doing it. and It's just a big family atmosphere. We've got me, Brad, him. had Kyle.
00:05:27
Speaker
it's just It's just fun. it's something that's goes Honestly, the most fun part to me is just going with Brad and Tyler and Kyle to all these races and just hanging out and just, it's a family of affair, just having fun. Don't sharing the passion and enjoying it and competing against each other.
00:05:45
Speaker
Yeah. Win or lose. It's just, so it's always fun. Sad part is, is Brad had more bragging rights last summer and out of the family. Oh, absolutely. As he should.
00:05:58
Speaker
As he should. He earned that. Oh, hell yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Like when I had him on the show, like I told him, the last last two races of Tyler wasn't having the issues that he was having, man. It was going to come down to winning the Shopton.
00:06:18
Speaker
going to be the best driver win, that's for sure. It's unfortunate what happened to Tyler because yeah we all we all know Tyler can drive with the best of them.
00:06:29
Speaker
yeah ah Oh, yes. Especially now that he's got got that damn truck dialed in, man. Oh, yeah. jesus That truck is fast. So, part of, besides hitting the fair circuit and doing the points for that, are you going to hit any of these monster truck shows coming up?
Challenges and Strategies in Fair Racing
00:06:44
Speaker
I think I'm going hit a couple. i' I'm going to stick st strictly with the fair stuff. Okay. I'm going to go see you what it's about. I'll make my decision there, but as of this year, I think I'm going to stick with the fairs. just I want to see what it it's about. I know what Tyler and them have going on with the fairs and Al and all them.
00:07:04
Speaker
I just think right now that's more of a developed group. i it's right it's like think it's to be a little more competitive. I'm not saying that what they have going on is not going to be competitive. now Well, the thing of it is it's a trial error, but also with that kind of stuff going, as you've seen personally, running Croton's monster truck show, they're on a time schedule. yep You know, they've got a certain time window, so it's kind of not like the fair the fair points races. I mean,
00:07:34
Speaker
Yeah, it's badass. They're doing side-by-side racing. I mean, it's cool. What's going to be neat is, you know, go to get to race twice in one week at a couple of fairs and shit if they have them, you know, that at the same fairs.
00:07:49
Speaker
But, yeah, I get where you're coming from. It's just – I like the fair aspect because it's best driver win. It's all a different track all the time.
00:08:01
Speaker
You never know what to expect. where the monster The couple that I went to last year, they all seemed like they had kind of the same layout. You knew what you were getting into, you know i mean? Right, yeah. and with And with the fair circuit, you know, the fairs hitting them, there's all different kinds.
00:08:17
Speaker
But like we like we talked the last time there at the end of the season, some of these fairs, man, Jesus Christ, I don't know even how you mod guys still was able to hold your trucks together on a lot of those tracks you guys raced on.
00:08:30
Speaker
Just close your eyes and hope for the best. Or get pissed off and just whiskey throttle it. That's right. ah That's one thing do not do this year, dude.
00:08:42
Speaker
if it dies If it dies, take a deep breath. I know you're in the moment. It's one of those things. You say it now, but yeah, when you're in the moment, i' I'd probably done the same thing, dude. it Trust me. We've all been there. I've gotten a bad tutor for like the last 15 years. i don't know if you know my cousin or not, but it's hold it to the floor and go.
00:09:00
Speaker
Yep. Oh, yeah. It definitely is. It's one of those deals. But, yeah, I mean, well I don't know if you got to catch the show with JR before he lost service with us.
00:09:12
Speaker
I mean, I like the i like the i like the concept. You know what mean? No, i like the idea. I'm not hating on it or anything. I just know i want to go see what it's about before I like just go and jump ship.
00:09:23
Speaker
Well, the thing of it is, too, it's one of those deals. Like I said, the double dipping thing, you can go, you know, you got You're going against the best of the best during the fair part.
00:09:35
Speaker
ye Then you can go find out. You don't have to worry about the breakdowns or anything at the monster truck shows with the stocks being there. It's modified. I do not i do like the aspect, if that is true, that if you show up to the monster truck show, say there's 16 of you and there's only eight that can race, they're going to have a qualifying. So it's a best man win.
00:09:57
Speaker
I do like that aspect of... That's what it is. That's what they're going to do. They're going to qualify. And if you, you may get, you may get, if you don't, you don't. Yep. So I think that'll be a better show on their end.
00:10:09
Speaker
Well, and the thing, the thing of it is, is it's going to, it's new. And I know it kind of a new ordeal layout things. And I hope it works on both ends. But yeah, the fair, the fair thing, the fair thing though, like you said, it's a guaranteed because that's been there since day one. So, right.
00:10:27
Speaker
Zip, get a new fucking phone or quit drinking, dude. youre quick You can't type this shit on your phone.
00:10:35
Speaker
but but cat fingerer again But yeah, I mean, I thought it was... I liked the idea, but it also gives you mod guys a little more locally to the double race if you got the time to do it. You know what i mean? yeah some of you can't Some of you can't, but at the same time, like you said, if they do...
00:10:55
Speaker
16 you guys show up and they're only taking eight. I mean, it's freaking, it's going to be bad. Yeah. You're going to find out out of that 16, which eight are the and the best that's going to be there that night running. I mean, there'll be. Absolutely.
00:11:09
Speaker
But also it comes back to, like JR said, not anything. What size of track is the fair board going to give most of these things with the monster truck shows? That's what's going to hurt.
00:11:20
Speaker
Absolutely. yeah that's That's the only thing he said the only downfall is because some of these fairs do not actually give them a big enough ordeal. That's why i loved I loved Hartford because you could you could open it up there.
00:11:34
Speaker
Oh, yeah. oh It was fast. I mean, down that first backstretch against the fence, you could lay into it. grand Grandstand side, dude, you guys were all fucking singing when
Technical Issues and Solutions
00:11:46
Speaker
you got down through on that side, man. I mean, it was just...
00:11:49
Speaker
it it was It was a speed track, man. I mean, it was there. But yeah, if you could have, I mean, if they could get fairs like that where they let them open up, and if Knox would be nice enough, the Monster Truck show, kind of open it up like they do Wednesday night, that'd make a hell of a show.
00:12:07
Speaker
Yeah, if they only had like half of the track, if they really opened that up, it'd be a lot different. Yeah, and and but that's the thing you got that's the thing. Like he was saying, he's worked with a lot of fairs.
00:12:18
Speaker
They ain't given much space for a lot of these fairs for them to do, so it makes it even tighter for you trying to do a modified rough truck track, too, on top of having the monster truck track. Absolutely. next And that sucks.
00:12:31
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:12:35
Speaker
So is there anything new and exciting in your world that's happening in the offseason other than getting the truck rebuilt? They're vacation boys. I went on cruise last week. That was about the only exciting thing so far. Other than that, it's just been swipe the card and get parts ordered and put them together.
00:12:52
Speaker
Was that your first cruise you ever been on? Yeah. How'd you like it? It was awesome. Anybody that hasn't been, i would recommend 100%. That's awesome, dude. I'm glad you enjoyed yourself on that.
00:13:06
Speaker
Yeah, it was good. it was a good little break. Needed, especially after the cold and up and down weather we've had here in Ohio, man. Poor Johnny up there in New York. They got more than we did when it comes to the snow shit, so.
00:13:19
Speaker
We went from snow to warm and no snow the last last two days. hey That doesn't surprise me. Yeah, you guys are. I've been looking around, man. there's ah It's going to be interesting to see the trucks this year in the mod class, man.
00:13:37
Speaker
i mean, we've already seen Seen three of them already run this past weekend. It's going to be interesting. Everybody holds together. so Yeah, i and I think this year is going to be extremely competitive.
00:13:53
Speaker
I think there's all of us are have done a lot of things, and you already got the guys that are already competitive coming back too. Mm-hmm.
00:14:04
Speaker
Yeah, see – Yes, Cecil didn't go much. know he's done some modifications and shit and updates on his truck, I guess, from after that West Virginia ordeal. Yeah. Cecil's the one to watch for. He can run with the best of them.
00:14:24
Speaker
And that's just out of the blue. oh yeah he He came out of nowhere. i mean, he's a first-year guy just like I was, and he came out swinging. You were, you finally got yourself, it was getting yourself there, especially once you changed your cheetah brakes around, man, and i actually got you a set that worked.
00:14:42
Speaker
Yeah, the, I had just a dual Amazon special, and I had to yank the crap out of that thing to even get it to engage, and I switched over to a Willwood, and first time we've put, I mean, you pull it just a tad bit, that truck spins around right now. Yeah.
00:15:05
Speaker
And it was Shorty and Logan that told me, they were like, you to get a Willwood. You need to get a Willwood. And I was like, eh, whatever. And then I found out. You found out. I've made the switch, and I was like, holy crap.
00:15:18
Speaker
Oh, yeah. those are Those are – they are pricey, but, man, are they – they make you – It's a night-to-day difference. Well, the bad part with the Amazon ones, I got looking into those because actually my cousin's got one.
00:15:31
Speaker
Those proportioning vows in there suck. Yeah, they're not great. No, they're they're actually, that that's actually the weak point of that whole thing. If they had basically the concept of the Wilbur, dude, they'd be great for the money, but but you get what you pay for off of Amazon, which sucks. Yeah, I didn't know how much I would like just the single stick. Honestly, I think if I could go back, if Wilwood made a dual stick, I think I would run duels, but they don't.
00:16:00
Speaker
Yeah, they only do the single. Yeah. Yeah. Just because then you sometimes you get confused and that way it's automatically, if I pull the right one, I'm turning right. If I pull the left I'm turning left.
00:16:12
Speaker
Because then that one's forward and the one's backwards on them? Yeah, mine. The way they're doing? I have mine. You can switch them however you want, but I have mine set up. If I'm turning right, I pull back. If I'm going left, I push forward.
00:16:26
Speaker
Yeah, that would be nice. Somebody needs to take take that design and give it to them and say, hey, here, take this and make it make it for this for us, please. Yeah. who are Yeah, because everybody, I mean, anybody that races a modified or cheaters, especially, I know the Pennsylvania boys, Foy
Regulations and Fairness in Racing
00:16:44
Speaker
Toy and Company and all those guys, they run the world words.
00:16:47
Speaker
Pat Winchester ran them in that before he sold the truck to Springston. That actually had that set up in it. Okay.
00:16:58
Speaker
Yeah, those that's one of the best things I've purchased since I've started doing this.
00:17:07
Speaker
So, Jeff, main question, you sticking with the same motor or did you go through and get you a big boy toy? Motor's the exact same. Carburetor will be different. That's the only difference.
00:17:18
Speaker
going to let her eat? I switched to a 950. I had a 750 on it last year. oh Give her a little more fuel on that throttle.
00:17:29
Speaker
That's the goal. And then transmission got redone. That should hopefully fix my shifting issue because it wasn't shifting at all.
00:17:41
Speaker
You guys, the bad part is is you found that out what late in the season, didn't you? No, I knew the whole time. I just didn't want to i didn't want to give up my whole season for it. Gotcha. Gotcha. being I mean, I probably gave up the whole season. It was just kind of, the truck was work it was working. It was running. So I just kind of stuck with it. And it wouldn't be very catastrophic. If it didn't, it didn't. It just happened to not.
00:18:05
Speaker
Yeah. it worked It worked for you at Morrow County, man. Gotcha. I'm not sure what gear. I think it was stuck in second gear. I could be wrong, but all I had was park, reverse, and drive.
00:18:17
Speaker
Or one gear. That's all I had. Yeah. Yeah. yeah You ain't going to know how to act now with it all working. Uh-oh. Look out. We're all in trouble now. pick
00:18:30
Speaker
But, yeah, so it pretty much still same setup, everything last year? same setup, pretty much. i beefed up the act front axle little bit. but Oh, no shit.
00:18:41
Speaker
Yeah, just because it needed it. I got a whole i had had to get a new axle, so I just trust it and trust it a little better than the last one was. Sweet. <unk> hill yeah
00:18:54
Speaker
Oh, yeah. besides winning this year, worst case scenario is you want to try to dethrone Brad this year if you can? ah I would love to, it's going to be tough.
00:19:07
Speaker
I can tell you that. It's going to be a nail. I think it's going to come down to last race of the year again. I really do. Two years experience, 24. I'm going to go with the guy that's got 24 before, too. Well,
00:19:24
Speaker
bad part of it is, man. You know how it is. It could be anybody's. It's anybody's game at any time. and just yeah The main thing that plays a part, Brock can attest to this.
00:19:36
Speaker
Track conditions. Yeah. And And over judging. Yep. That's like Morrow County. I just, I don't know. I couldn't repeat that run if you told me to. You just drove. You just drove. That's all you did. You drove. If you would have told me going into Morrow County, you're going to win this race, I would have told you you're full of shit.
00:20:01
Speaker
I was top 10, cup one or two top fives. all year, and then all of a sudden just came out of nowhere. And that was right after Tyler ran, too.
00:20:13
Speaker
That was the thing. Yeah. Tyler just took over first from Brad in that race. I still don't count it fully because it wasn't a timer, and there's, you know how that is.
00:20:25
Speaker
I know, because technically that wasn't even one of the points race, but. Yeah, was it fast? Yes. Do I think I beat everybody by two seconds? Maybe. I'm not guaranteeing that, though.
00:20:37
Speaker
No. Well, they were... I talked to the... I actually know the guy that's in charge of the fare board up there. Dave Pierce. he Him and his son Evan have Stormer.
00:20:48
Speaker
yeah they use They use fucking stopwatches. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They go old school stopwatches up there when they when they run up there at Morrow County. I'm like, dude. I said, you can't do that, man.
00:20:59
Speaker
No. Well, other thing is they said something about is once your front tires hit... And I launched my truck off the long jump. So I know there was no way I had two seconds on everybody because most of everybody else was just tapping their tires.
00:21:16
Speaker
Yeah, they were getting it just enough up and over that last jump. And I went for it. So there was maybe, but it completely I think. i think a lot of the fares, don't know if it's your opinion, off they need to go to like what Croton and then Mount Vernon have.
00:21:33
Speaker
Yeah. everybody need They need the laser timers. Well, that's why the point series set up that way. That makes it the most fair. You can, it's, it's all on a laser. There's no if, ands, buts bitching about this bitching about that.
00:21:48
Speaker
There's a laser there. What your time says is what automatically happens. And that's what I like about. I like about Knox and Croton at the end of the finished jump, your time's done that when you jumped, at the end, that's just
Preparations and Excitement for Upcoming Races
00:22:03
Speaker
extra show. Your time's already done.
00:22:05
Speaker
it yeah never front oh Yeah. As soon as the front, as soon as your front nose or tires hit that beam on the long jumps, it's your time's already done. You're just putting on a show after that.
00:22:17
Speaker
Yeah. I never knew that. Cause at Knox, I came out for the top 10 and I sent it off that long jump and I'm watching everybody else and they're just hitting it. but I'm like, what's going on? And then I found out the timer was at the end and I'm like, well,
00:22:31
Speaker
Yeah, it's right there at the mouth it was right there at the mouth of it. right right yeah Actually, right before you go up on, they have it sitting right there. And Curtin was the same way. So yeah, you guys are just putting on a show for that.
00:22:45
Speaker
But yeah, it's yeah I almost got the blown up motor out of my silver Jeep out and got another one getting ready to go in it. Then it's got the gut the inside of it and get my shocks for it and shit and get a decent set of 16s to put on it, and I'll be ready. Get the cage welded in. so There you go.
00:23:06
Speaker
I'm going to come play with you guys and try to give you a run for your money on short tracks. Try to give Jared run for his money. Only if he unhooks the bottle. I don't know anything about that.
00:23:22
Speaker
I do.
00:23:25
Speaker
I've seen it personally. Oh, man. yeah No. and but his His thing is, even without the bottle, he's running the stroke in line six. That Jeep runs good, man. Wildfire does, too.
00:23:40
Speaker
Wildfire runs good when the driver wants to run good. ah I haven't watched it that much, but every time I've seen a run this year, it ran good. Yeah, there was a couple. He had a little hiccup at Critton.
00:23:54
Speaker
i He must have been late because I don't remember watching him. Yeah, he was fuck he was right before Kyle ran. oh Maybe I did watch it, but I was so out of it. it was like oh well i mean he I was to say, it was like, what, 3 o'clock in the morning when Kyle finally pretty much got done running? yeah He was like the last 10 people to go.
00:24:15
Speaker
Yeah, but I tell you what, I couldn't believe there were still, how many of us fans were actually still there at that late Friday night for that. I would rather go late than early.
00:24:27
Speaker
That's just me personally. well That's probably anybody. But I would rather be the farthest I can from the pack. I think that's that everybody.
00:24:37
Speaker
Well, that's the thing. That's like, like at Coshocton, Brad got lucky and got far back as he did, and then here you Al and Tyler are all right there in the top first ten.
00:24:49
Speaker
First five, really. that was like There was five or six mods in the first 12 trucks. Yeah. Because think Tyler was second.
00:25:00
Speaker
Al was right behind him. i was sixth. And then there was like two or three more right behind me. Yep. Right off the rip. Oh, yeah. This year's going to be neat. It's just...
00:25:13
Speaker
It's going to be interesting to see how things pan out. um See what everybody's offseason looks like. Looks like Marion's going to be where we're going to find out with a lot of them. Yeah. that's ah My plan is to be there. I didn't go last year because it was monsooning.
00:25:29
Speaker
And I was like, eh, I'm good. yeah We're going to find out this year. Hopefully the Jeep's done. I'll see you guys at Marion with it. So that'll probably be the debut of the Jeep. Heck, yeah. yeah ye But yeah, I'm going to run myself with the Jeep. If I make it to Marion, Marion, Knox, and Morrow County, Coshocton, I'm going to put one of the kids in.
00:25:58
Speaker
He got a phone call. Oh, shit. You there? Yeah, you just got a text message or a phone call, didn't you? You there?
00:26:12
Speaker
Hang on, Brock. what the heck Can you hear me? Hello?
00:26:19
Speaker
Oh, the heck.
00:26:28
Speaker
There goes. He's going to come back in. little technical difficulty. That's the only downfall using your cell phone streaming. I learned the hard way. Oh, yeah. That's what I got going on online.
00:26:40
Speaker
So, yeah, that was, that was like, As soon as I seen that, I knew what happened. I'm back. That's the only downfall streaming on your phone. Yep. I got phone calls. I knew as soon as your screen went black, I'm like, phone call.
00:26:56
Speaker
cousin Cousin Kyle called. the ones i'm on here Okay. Okay. But no, I'm going to try to run Marion and Knox and then going to probably turn the kids loose at one of the kids loose at Croton.
00:27:09
Speaker
Let them run Croton. And then I'm going to I'm going hit Mario in Coshocton County. But I'm going to be ballsy. I might hit a couple of monster truck shows with it, even though it's a stock G. I would.
00:27:22
Speaker
I'm going to give it a shot. More the better. I plan to run as much as I possibly can. kind of slacked last year, to be honest with you. Well, some the... also broke seven axles last year, or so... and then And then end out at the end of the year.
00:27:39
Speaker
yeah At least it was the end of the year. not I can recall two or three times I put an axle in in the shop, went out to the field, and within five minutes it was broken again. Damn, dude.
00:27:54
Speaker
You sound like you had to look like Wes did with his steering knuckles and shit on his. Except yours was the axle. I broke seven axles. The ball joints came out of it two or three times and do it.
00:28:08
Speaker
It was all bad. Sorry, you got you got it out of your system now. You should be good to go. Yeah, I'm hoping that the lucky twos come around. yeah You never know, man. it's it's ah It's a driver's game when when we're doing this stuff,
Community Support and Collaboration
00:28:23
Speaker
man. it's It's how bad we want it and how bad everybody else wants it and track conditions and all that stuff. So, I mean, it' it'll just vary.
00:28:34
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:28:37
Speaker
But... You going to do anything else this season besides racing, besides working and racing? hello Probably not. To be honest with you, you know just as well as I do, these things are a full-time job.
00:28:53
Speaker
Yeah. You go to a race, you look it over, you go back to another race, you look it all over, you go to work. they Once that race season starts, the beginning of the season is bad, but it seems like right after Knox, it's hammered down.
00:29:08
Speaker
Yeah, Tyler, we know we know you put a front end underneath the Jeep all the time after you ran it. Let's run the family, I guess.
00:29:20
Speaker
You guys, I swear, it's something always either the axle or steering because that one year, but ah Brad lost the steering. The tie rod came off right at the finish. I'm like, Jesus, dude.
00:29:33
Speaker
And he had a run that year, but he could have easily took Knox that year and hear the damn tight rod comes undone on him. I'd say he's going to be fun to watch at Knox because he's itching for that one.
00:29:46
Speaker
Oh, yeah. He told me. I talked. Actually, I ran into him today. He was just getting the motor back together. he just got all the stuff for it back together. nice Getting ready to go back in the truck.
00:29:57
Speaker
Good. It's getting there. It's coming it's right it's not as far away as it seems. Oh, no. It seems like these last couple months, the offseason kind of takes a while.
00:30:10
Speaker
It's like once you get a month or two away, it starts flying, and you're like, I'm behind. haven't done anything. Well, and the other thing is, though, you're only doing one truck. He's doing two.
00:30:21
Speaker
Yeah. That's the other thing. he He's got a lot. Yeah. But if anybody, you know, you know as well as I do, if anybody can do it, Brad can do it. I mean, but he's also got a good support system, you know, that can help him when he needs the help and shit. So that's the plus side of stuff. We were out there one night, me, Kyle, Will, Jamie, we were out there until like 3 a.m. putting transmission in that thing one night, putting the transmission and all of it back together.
00:30:53
Speaker
Hell, the one night you guys, Kyle came in and seen me like three different times for universals just for that thing when I was working at O'Reilly's. yeah I mean, it's ah I seen you guys on the regular. I mean, it was awesome.
00:31:05
Speaker
But yeah, most of the time it was for stuff like that. so Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're going to see what happens with mine this year. I know it's kind of just a stockish ordeal. I'm going to put a decent set of shocks all the way around and some tires and cage it.
00:31:18
Speaker
It's not a bad way to go. I can guarantee it's a cheaper than what we got going on. sad part is is I get it It's cheaper, but if I'm going to do it and had the money to do it, I'd want what you guys has got.
00:31:30
Speaker
Honestly. yeah For comfort-wise, yes, but i do there is times I miss my Jeep. It was just fun to go out there and just beat the hell out of that thing. Well, you never know. If it stays together by critting, maybe you'll double dip a Friday night at Croton. my good ah You can play on me and run stock that night, too, the besides the mud.
00:31:53
Speaker
I'd be okay with that. we'll We'll see what happens and see see what one of the kids is up to then if they don't want to drive. the front ends out from under it afterwards, i don't want to hear though. Dude, the junkyards, I know a place that I can get all kinds of front ends out from underneath it. so right i just I can go get them. It's all good.
00:32:14
Speaker
But, yeah. What was going to end to it? Dude, when I'm going have the way this cage is going to be done at endos, if the fucker comes down, roof and stuff comes on you, shame on me.
00:32:25
Speaker
Because I got a guy that's going to be doing my cage that he does this shit for a living. Nice. And he's doing it as a favor because we're doing a doing a collab between my personal YouTube channel and his YouTube channel. this's my One of my buddies that has that We Broke Garage that I hang out with.
00:32:47
Speaker
he's a We're doing a collab on the build on that. so Safety is never anything to shy away from. light Nope. i will appreciate I got cage, suspension seat, and my five-point harness.
00:32:59
Speaker
Yep. I'll say that from just anything. Safety is always key, no matter what you're doing. that well that's like That's one thing I really don't like about stock stuff.
00:33:13
Speaker
is You guys would go and put a cage in and everything, and they want to just consider it modified. And it's like, we're just trying to, you guys are just trying to be safe, you know? I'll come play, you know what? I don't care. I'll come play with the mods if they want to bitch because I got safety in there. Fuck it. Right. But you know what I'm saying? That's the only thing I look at it is is like, they're just trying to be safe. They don't want to get hurt.
00:33:34
Speaker
but they Well, that's the the other thing is, they look at a mod. They consider it a mod. You got to cut or break. All that's doing is help. It's a turning break. I get these other people don't want to spend their money. They're just buying their $500 jalopy to go run.
00:33:50
Speaker
But there's a lot of these stock guys like Jared, like Wildfire, the Irvings, when they were hot into it, all their jeeps had the cutter breaks, and they were still stock shit.
00:34:01
Speaker
It was funny. Tyler, my brother, figured out how to pull the handbrake. I don't know how he did it, but he was turning with the best of Yeah, I mean, if you you you do it just right with those handbrakes, if it works right enough, you can do that shit.
00:34:19
Speaker
Yeah. You don't need it. But, yeah, they do put us in different categories just for the safety aspect of things. They need to they need to have a cheater stock class, and that's that's just the fact of the matter.
00:34:30
Speaker
Yeah. Too much in between, here's a little gravy, and this is a little not good. Right. there's They need to just have a cheater stock like the Jamborees did.
00:34:43
Speaker
Yeah. yes yeah Yeah. And I mean, yeah, we'd have to deal with the Bronco in the class, but you know what? and Not every time that Bronco's going win. Brad's not going to win or whoever, or Kyle's going to win with that Bronco.
00:34:55
Speaker
But the bad thing is... I could be wrong, but none of these fairs post a set of rules. yeah yeah You know what I mean? and but they but don'll But they'll have people, once you show up to the fair, go cry to the fair board and stuff. Oh, he got a cheat he' got a cutter breaking his in his stock with shocks.
00:35:16
Speaker
You can go buy it off the shelf. It's no fucking different than anybody else. They need to figure, make, if they want to complain, and they need to make a set of rules. Right. And justify what is stock and what is modified. Because there's too much gray area in between of what's what. Because Shockton's a prime example.
00:35:38
Speaker
You'll go to one place and you'll be stock. And then you go the next week to the other place and they're like you're modified. And it's like, what do you I just ran stock the last five weeks. Right. They tried to pull that shit with Jared at a couple of the races he went to last year.
00:35:51
Speaker
That Jeep I had had just a built front end in it, and they put me in modified at Croton. Huh? Yeah. It had a roll gauge, and yeah, it was a joke.
00:36:05
Speaker
See, that's what I don't understand with that kind of deal. All those years, Dalton and all them, Ryan Smith, all those guys, all they did is had aftermarket.
00:36:17
Speaker
Why off-the-shelf suspension shit with the cages? and ah and a cutter break, and they ran so c Croton Sock all the goddamn time, and people, they're one of the ones that they bitched about.
00:36:29
Speaker
And they still let them run in there, but you do it one time with a decent front end, but you're running mods. Yeah. I know. Oh, it was, the I could, but I just, I was like, whatever, I'm here to have fun. I'm not winning. I just want to race. don't care. Right. But, I mean, it's just, the the fair boards, that's one of those things. I got out of there early, so that worked out for me.
00:36:50
Speaker
But like you said, the fair boards need to come the kind of the together, especially the the points race fair board. Because, you know, there is some couple of stock people. We'll get into it.
00:37:02
Speaker
But just to keep it just in case, hey, this is cheater stock, this is stock, and this is modified. I mean, if you can't – that's what they need to – where they need to go through. And, I mean, it just takes a little time.
00:37:18
Speaker
like going through a demolition derby, dude. Show up an hour early, go through tech, or a couple hours early, whatever. yeah Go through a tech, be done. Yep.
00:37:28
Speaker
But have somebody knows what the fuck they're looking at to consider cheater stock, or we're going put you in a mod class. Yeah. not Now, Coshocton, White XJ, V8 swapped LS swap motor.
00:37:45
Speaker
Yes, that's a modified truck. yeah But Jeeps did come with the 4.7s and the 5.2s in them. so Right. There's a lot of VA Jeeps out there now.
00:38:00
Speaker
All because I put sheet metal to enclose the inside of mine to keep the interface from getting me if it blew through. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I know, Tyler. then Yeah, he put a box in like all of us Mod have to cover up all the stuff, and they threw a bit. It's like, it's just a safety aspect.
00:38:20
Speaker
know yeah Get under the truck and look at
00:38:27
Speaker
I'm getting messages from Bobby and about Jamie telling me I need to learn how to drive that thing. Uh-oh.
00:38:37
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys can talk all shit you want. Jamie, I've seen how you drove the Bronco the one time you got to drive it. want to talk about driving?
00:38:50
Speaker
I'll call you out right here on my own show on that one. I remember that. must No, there's still one. It's just Bobby hit me up and told me about it.
00:39:07
Speaker
They're giving a shit. But yeah, I mean, it's just dumb.
Safety Regulations and Technical Strategies
00:39:11
Speaker
They want you to be safe, but yet they want to critique the shit because like you said, they don't have the set of rules set there to follow.
00:39:20
Speaker
I forget where. I think it was Medina. I went up to it. It was a pain. I'll admit it was a pain in the ass. Really? You try it.
00:39:31
Speaker
No, the the show, the track was fun and everything. Everything was all right. But they they tech you there. and madina yeah and you have to be teched by 650 or something yeah but it is a cluster to even get in there left left and sat in line for like 45 minutes and pulled in and i had to hurry up get out of my truck pull everything off all because they wanted to see that i had a helmet
00:40:06
Speaker
Which I get it. Safety things. I get it. Right. All they wanted to check was I had a helmet and all my safety gear. and a fire walk around They could have walked around to the fucking trailers. Took the time to do that.
00:40:21
Speaker
Yeah. Because I remember it was Karen and Mike. I was just walking around talking to people and they were like, do you tech yet? And I'm like, what are you talking about? Did Hero tech this year?
00:40:34
Speaker
Up at Norwalk? No. I thought they were going to be teching because of that bullshit that happened. I think they they teched the stock guys, but they didn't tech as mods.
00:40:44
Speaker
Okay. cause they but they long they have fair board people that do walk around there. They did this year. Because there was a couple fair board guys that walked around in my truck and looked at everything. That's what they need.
00:40:56
Speaker
they Honestly, they need to do that at all the fairs, man. Because we don't want incidences like that to happen. Right. But yeah, my diet... Medina did, they teched you fully.
00:41:09
Speaker
Well, because Shoften did for the stock class. Yeah. I get it for the stock guys. I mean, I think, was it Brad that was on the podcast and was like, just make, like have us pull up and like hit a little run and use our brakes right before we go. Yeah.
00:41:24
Speaker
That's intelligent. that That's ah smart as can be. Well, I mean, i mean you see them, they want you to stop at the end of the run. Yeah. It doesn't matter. Dude, you can have breaks. I get it. You can have breaks the whole run.
00:41:38
Speaker
But some of these guys, like the incident incident at Norwalk, motherfucker knew he didn't have shit and still ran. Yeah. That was a joke. Yeah. He almost cost to ah two people that we know their fucking lives because he wanted to be an idiot.
00:41:51
Speaker
That was stupidity. Yeah. I mean, I get it. but and And that's the thing, too, with Knox. When you look when they post... They have a little thing of rules, must have operating brakes.
00:42:04
Speaker
But you know what? You can pinch all the lines off and have one side working. Yep. That's what they don't realize. You need at least both front brakes or both back brakes working.
00:42:16
Speaker
Especially coming off something like that. Yeah. I mean, there's I'm pretty sure 90% of people do it on purpose, but there's always that opportunity chance to go in the pond.
00:42:27
Speaker
well but i happen It seems like most of them do it on purpose, like to stop Jeeps and everything. Well, go go look what happened with Travis Stevens. Who would have thought that was going to break the way it did?
00:42:40
Speaker
Tireful loss, brake line. i mean, yeah. but But yeah, you're right. a lot of them at Knox, they do do that shit on purpose. yeah You can tell who's serious about trying to get stocked and you can tell the ones that are basically trying to get the crowd going get two years ago there was literally walls and then a little gap and this guy's just going and then just whips it into the opening i'm like yeah you definitely did do that on purpose yeah it's just like yeah i i mean it's fun it's funny to watch don't get wrong i laugh it's stupid but at the same time it's like all right come on like let's get it going
00:43:19
Speaker
Well, and that's the part of the giant... Because then sit there and wait 20 minutes and... Right, and you guys has already got heat in your trucks and shit and everything else, and then they're like, oh, you need to shut them off. It's like, no, no, no, I'm not shutting this off because it's a big stuff. And a lot of these trucks, once they get warmed up and then they get shut off and cool down for a little bit, it takes them a minute to get those motors back up to temp.
00:43:40
Speaker
Well, had a major issue. Like, if I shut mine off after I got it, I could charge my battery fully before I went. Once I got it fired up, if I shut, like I get fired up and warm it up on the trailer and everything, get it off.
00:43:55
Speaker
Once i was sitting there staging, if I had to shut it off eight out of 10 times, somebody had to run to get my jump box. Cause it would not jump box. Yeah. It was Corey. There's a lot of wiring stuff in mind that was ugly. So I think something was pulling out of there or something.
00:44:14
Speaker
Yeah. And a draw. Yeah. Because it was, I mean, you could it would be fully charged, put it in there, and it'd be done. Johnny, is your phone going off or something?
00:44:25
Speaker
Yeah, hear that, too. Oh, yeah. I didn't see that. Sorry, gentlemen. Hang on. Give me one second. right back. Yeah, you're fine, dude. I just felt the vibrating in my ears. but I was like, yeah i'm like ah no But, yeah, I mean, it just simple little things like that, man. It it goes a long way.
00:44:42
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:45
Speaker
And I mean, honestly, any of the guys out there that are watching it runs the stock that don't have it and run the normal seatbelts, reach out to people. Look on Marketplace.
00:44:58
Speaker
There's five-point harnesses that are giving the fuck away that are still good. They're just exp yeah expired for, like, drag racing and shit, you know, that can still be used. Put you a bar or something behind the seat.
00:45:10
Speaker
Give yourself a little more safety to hold you in your damn seat, even if you don't buy a suspension seat or anything else. I had never used one until then, and it's crazy how locked down they put you. like I'll tell you what. Once you're in there, if you tighten yourself up, you ain't moving.
00:45:30
Speaker
Yeah, that's like what last year running for when I ran Lance's Jeep. I told him to find out I am not running the stock seat belt. Yeah. He's like, okay, do what you got to do. I said, I'm putting a five-point harness in there, and I'm wearing it because I learned my lesson before.
00:45:47
Speaker
Fucking the seatbelt shifting doesn't hold you in. You're flopping around everywhere. I mean, oh yeah it was it was almost worse than being in a derby, dude, getting flopped around in there with a stock seatbelt. I've never been in derby, but i've I'd like to. man.
00:46:02
Speaker
You'll feel it the next day. so I'd like to try it. I'll do it.
00:46:08
Speaker
Yeah, you'll feel the next day bad. Trust me. I can imagine.
00:46:16
Speaker
But, yeah, it's a one of those deals. I mean, just reach out to a local racer or something. I mean, they'd be safe. I mean, ah it it's going to happen. you're gonna get You can still get hurt, like the back incidences and everything else. It'll happen.
00:46:33
Speaker
yeah But at least you're not going to get flung into the steering wheel and all that shit like you do or laid over in the passenger side or something like that. Oh, yeah. It's easy. Those guys that don't even pull out their airbags and just go off knock, oh, that's got hurt. Yep.
00:46:47
Speaker
Oh, yeah. It's fucking crazy the way they do that shit. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, they just... ah They just go through the process. I get it, man. It's just something to go out and have fun, but at the same time, you've got to put that little extra safety in there.
00:47:03
Speaker
Absolutely.
00:47:07
Speaker
so But, yeah, other than that, man, I mean, there's it's going to be an interesting season all around for all around for Rough Trucks because we've got, hell, the Monster Truck Show going to be adding that besides the Point Series for the the Fair Series coming up.
00:47:24
Speaker
Hopefully Tyler will ah announce a meeting and shit. I actually think I'm going to jump in on that this year too because my buddy Corey here with the collab too, and he's going to be my one of my primary sponsors.
00:47:38
Speaker
Nice. So I plan on trying to hit at least six to eight races this year
Strategic Planning and Community Engagement
00:47:43
Speaker
if possible. so There you long as that way. and It gives us both content for our channels and shit too on top of that. Absolutely.
00:47:54
Speaker
But I also want to sometime this spring and summer, you're here and you'll be the first one I'll bring it up to. I'm going to get a day where I go over to Corey's for my personal channel.
00:48:06
Speaker
I kind of want to do like a shop deal. You know what I mean? Kind of go around, talk with you at your you know at your shop and stuff and just do a hangout video. Kind of think, you know, during the summer once the season starts and stuff.
00:48:22
Speaker
Yeah, you're right, Corey. As long as it holds together, you are correct.
00:48:27
Speaker
That's always the name of the game. um I think I can get that for you, Jamie. I'll have to go back through. think I actually have that on my old phone, believe it or not.
00:48:39
Speaker
Oh, God. Yeah. I know somebody's got Yeah. i remember I remember when he ran that. so But, yeah, it's – that's the plan. If I can get it to stay, like like Corey said, we get it to stay together. Um, I definitely got going to try to get that many races in. So we'll see what happens. Um, yeah. yeah Other than that, man, I really, you got anything else you want to talk about other than just the racing aspect of stuff or?
00:49:10
Speaker
No, I think that's all I got. I think I hit everything I needed to. Sweet, dude. I'm looking forward to this season and everything else, bro. That and, uh, Everybody, i know it's, what, three months away?
00:49:25
Speaker
Marion, stay tuned. Go over to Brock Talbert's Facebook page. start Send him a friend's request or start following him. He's got a big surprise in store that he's going to unveil for Marion County. You heard it here first.
00:49:40
Speaker
Nobody knows about it but him, but I figured I'd get it figured i'd get it out there here for everybody else. So, yeah. We'll get it taken care of and everything then. Maybe, hey, maybe we can do a debut over on Pierce Motorsports, too, the the day before the race.
00:49:59
Speaker
We'll get together. So... Alrighty, everybody. This is Brock Talbot. Brock, thanks again, buddy, for coming up stuff. I will be in touch with you here in a couple days. Yeah, thank you.
00:50:10
Speaker
Yep, we'll see you later on, man. See ya.
00:50:14
Speaker
Nice, Zempheus. Two high limit, dude. Hell yeah, man. That's fucking cool as hell. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in and stuff tonight on Speedway Stories. Thank you, Brock, again for coming up, talking about your upcoming season.
00:50:28
Speaker
It's going to be, a on the Rough Truck side, it's going to be an interesting season, especially on the Modified side. These guys has got more than just the fair races this year. Get to know you. Thanks for stopping in. I appreciate with him, Johnny, streaming over that you came in and hanging out over here.
00:50:45
Speaker
That's awesome. but Oh, yeah.
00:50:50
Speaker
<unk> Good to see you, brother. Oh, so you get to see the High Limit guys regularly. That's nice, Zempheus. Fuck yeah, you asshole. I definitely got to come out there and spend ah about a month with you.
00:51:02
Speaker
Go out. But yeah, the modified season, it's kind of a with that new full throttle like JR said last Thursday on the show and everything that he's going to do with the monster truck show gives guys in the modified trucks a point series and some money to run for, let alone we got our County Fair Point Series where you're against, you know, everybody, best of the best that signs up for it and everything else.
00:51:28
Speaker
But they get a chance this year to prove not only one time, but maybe twice a week to show what they got and everything else. So it's going to be an interesting race season on the modified side and just rough trucks in general. It's going to be a fun year. um But yeah,
00:51:46
Speaker
We appreciate you all tuning in and everything else. Like I said, Johnny, once again, dude, thanks for co-hosting with me as always. Always a pleasure, brother. Thank you. So you all have a great Monday night. Make sure you tune in to all the other shows. The bio links down in the bottom and stuff.
00:52:03
Speaker
Check out every show. We got shows pretty much seven days a week. We've got three new shows now on here um and everything else. Glick's got Glick's drive in.
00:52:16
Speaker
On Monday nights, right before my show, unfortunately, tonight, his guest ended up with the flu. Yes, Corey, I will see you tomorrow night, brother. Have a good night, buddy. Thanks for coming in, man. Glick's House of Music tomorrow night. He's got a guest. Oh, I can't remember who it is.
00:52:34
Speaker
And then Wednesday is Glick's Comedy Lounge, which he'll have a guest on that show. Thursday, Johnny and i we're still kind of in the air on either doing cold-blooded conversations, or I'm going to try to talk to Mr. J.R. Roush or somebody else to see. We may do another Speedway of Stories.
00:52:55
Speaker
But I think this Thursday we're going to do a cold-blooded conversations. i've got some updates on some new things happening through U.S. ARC, some new laws in some other states, and nice and share some information on that and everything else. So Thursday night, be back here at 8 o'clock with me and Johnny for cold-blooded conversations, talking all things animals.
00:53:15
Speaker
um Friday night, your boy and Johnny is back again. We're going to do Wally's Motorsports World. It's basically shop, talk, hang out.
00:53:27
Speaker
Just have a group of people. It's strictly motorsports and the car hobby, dirt bikes, motorcycles, all that stuff. Anything that has a motor and stuff, we'll talk about it on Friday. It's at 8 o'clock on Friday night.
00:53:42
Speaker
up until I'm going to give it until... Probably the middle of April because here in Ohio race season starts around here and stuff. I'm going try to hit some some events up and stuff and get videos and stuff for my personal channel on Friday. So it's a temporary thing for now. It may take off even more dependent.
00:54:00
Speaker
And then Saturday, of course, is Nonsensical Nonsense where we have the open panel challenge here. We open at the door to everybody come hang out and do a bunch crazy shit and hang out together and bullshit for six hours.
00:54:14
Speaker
And Sunday is Unnecessary Roughness with Glick and Rick. Talk everything sports. And this next Sunday, if I'm correct, Sunday night is Glick and Kayla. They're talking the veil. It's basically paranormal activities and stuff here in the state of Ohio they talk on.
00:54:33
Speaker
And then we're back here Monday night. We have another special guest. Oh.
00:54:44
Speaker
Mark DeGromolo will be on the show to talk about the car hobby, drag and drive events, what got him into the hanging out with his dad and stuff and everything else, being in the car scene.
00:54:56
Speaker
We'll have him on there. And then, of course, if you didn't see on the Facebook page and everything else, the 23rd, will have Talon on here. It's Florida guy.
00:55:07
Speaker
He was on here last Friday, kind of gave him a taste of what the podcasting scene was. He may be a regular on my Friday night stuff too, the garage shop talks hanging out. But he'll be my guest, and we're going go through about the Florida call culture and his hobby and stuff and what got him the passion into it and stuff and talk a little bit more about his Nova and everything that he has um and some of his upcoming projects and races he wants to do.
00:55:35
Speaker
But you all have a great West Year week. Like I said, again, thank you all for tuning in Johnny, stick around after the show. I'll talk to you a minute. You guys have a great week.
00:55:45
Speaker
Enjoy this nice weather, especially here in Ohio. I'm fucking loving it. Hopefully, Johnny, it keeps getting warm over your way too.
00:55:55
Speaker
We will see you guys Thursday night for Cold-Blooded Conversations. We'll talk to you all later. Bye. Good to see buddy.
00:56:16
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you