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Welcome to the dirt life show with your host, George Hamil. Yeah, welcome to episode 124 of the dirt life show live at s3 powersports. in Shreveport, Louisiana man bringing it down to Louisiana. Yeah, I'm your host, Georgie Hamill. And we have some fantastic guests joining us today. Obviously, my far left we got Dustin Jones. In the middle. We got the most important man of the hour misspelled that's true story. How are you? How are you boys doing today? Great. Good. Have you been on a podcast before Mr. Mouth? No, this first podcast ever. Thanks. I feel totally special now. Which is shocking because he owns a podcast that we do. That he's never even been on. Yeah. So he owns a podcast. This is his first time to do one. Yeah, exactly. We had a couple people say they can barely hear us. Hey, turn up your volume, Josh. Yeah, turn it up. I can hear us good. Yeah, I can hear us good too. So let's see if I can give a little bit more audio. There we go. We got to fully crank Now Josh. So hopefully, it helps out a little bit here. And we got another guy that says yeah, good PPE coming in. Can hear you guys. About half truths Caden? Danbury, though. He's questionable. Okay. Danbury is a good dude. Of course he is. unplug it and plug it back in and see if that helps a little bit there. Somebody give us a thumbs up if you can hear anything. Yeah, let us know. Almost sounds like something's not plugged in. Well, maybe it isn't. Let's see here. Hang on one second, guys. We were we'd be around in a real tight ship over here. many of y'all saw all these wires going every which direction? Can you hear Josh? Yeah, let us know if you can hear more. Now. Josh, you need to listen on your phone so you can plug replug it back in. It might be this little audio pieces. These things when Instagram. It's like so difficult. In here. Good now. All right. So hopefully it's good now guys. Welcome to Episode 124 of the dirt life show. We really appreciate you guys joining us. Let us know what kind of stuff you guys want to talk about with all the guys here at ESRI. powersports. Logan, unfortunately didn't make it to work today. I know he's slacking. Yeah, he said he was sick wasn't at work, but now he's on Instagram. Just like Logan. I'm gonna need an explanation. In the morning. Actually, you know what? Just put your explanation of where everybody can see why he wasn't at work. But you're on Instagram watching this. All joking aside, though, we're gonna talk about some fun stuff today. I'm pumped. Dude, I'm happy to just have you down here. We've been trying to get you down here for a year or two. Now. I know. Right? Yeah. You know what's funny, though, is I've been looking for tacos can't find it. Well, you're in Louisiana. So if you're looking for crawfish and alligator bites, you can find that oh, now we're getting scared tacos. tougher to find. So like I said before, my name is Georgie Hamill. This is the dirt life show episode 124 And we're at s3 Power Sports live in Shreveport Louisiana. Let me see here we're gonna give our sponsors a little bit of love we share some mutual sponsors if we do we really do. All right, how about you give some love to one of our mutual sponsors camps, let's just say a KMC with the baddest wheels in the world and only know this is because I have to run them. No, I choose to run them. Yeah, and I put them to the test. So if anybody can tear up a set of wheels, it's gonna be me KMC all forged in the corner back holler at you boy this is the same ones that we ran the man 400 on they still are brand new. I was gonna say and you should have just said me tearing up stuff also a man 403 time winner. Yeah, I just feels different you know three times just gets a little different. Thanks to the guys over at Moto really appreciate them sponsoring the show. Please. If you get one any good oil products, go purchase moto you get that Cycle Gear, or any of your local dealers. Thanks guys over at shock therapy. Justin all those guys do a fantastic job helping out all the racers, and obviously all your enthusiasm as well. You can use code dirt life and go pick up some limit straps or maybe a steering rack or anything like that. You can also get stuff from Zondra racing products with the code dirt life and match up some tie rods or something to your steering rack from shock therapy. Thanks to the guys over at JL Audio for becoming a part of the show those guys make actually some fantastic products for Ken Ham. The roof stereo system for Mr. MT Mr. Brown ran a full JL Audio Setup in his extreme amounts in the dash years sound good? Oh yeah, it's louder. get louder. Do you want to listen? Yes. So those guys had a playlist that the man 400 just banging away and one of those systems Dude, it sounded so good. So thank you to the guys over at JL Audio please support them as well. Thanks guys. The FX tires and Hey, who's bringing you some power and racecar evolution power sports of course everything in the shop has evolution on it. And it's getting close to Todd's birthday. So shout out to Todd's the CO and one of the owners of his evolution power sports. My man's birthday is getting close dog Todd. So Oh yeah evolution power sports so please grab their coach shooter products you can tune your car and get a little bit more horsepower out of it from your cell phone. Super cool products. Thank you guys over at Vision canopy. Man if you need to represent your sponsors get some custom canopies made hit those guys up at Vision canopy, they got some fantastic Instagram, they're really giving back a lot to the racing community. So please support them because they're supporting all of us in the racing community thanks to the guys over at cryo heat. And thanks guys a solder well to use the code dirt life at solder weld.com Get yourself an off road repair kit. So a couple of things I want to talk about well now that we got that crap out of the way let's reintroduce Mr. Mal in case the audio wasn't working whenever we whenever we did it the first time the legend Mr. Mao. Yeah. So I asked Mr. Malla. If the if you guys didn't hear it in the audio before if he's ever done a podcast? Nope. Never even one. Nope, you're the first. I mean, these dudes are doing Podcast. I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed. I feel really blessed. I've never been invited I've never gotten the phone call. You know, I sit there and watch him and think maybe next week I'll get it maybe they'll ask me one day I don't know I finally bought a pet bike so fit in now. Being part of the crew for sure. So this is how when and so people that follow us on Instagram know we went bought a bunch of paid bikes just the other day. You know when I say a bunch like we went and bought six pit bikes. So we're doing some Instagram Stories crews and go in to pick them up and Mr. Mao calls me he's like, Hey, we're where y'all going? What are y'all doing? I was like, picking up eight bucks. He's like, they got any more. So now we bought the 110s We bought all the ones shout out to Forest City power sports hooked us up that we bought all their one tans. He's like, Well, what are they got that's a little bigger than that. Say, well, they got a 125 big wheel and little wheel. He's like, You know what, give me one of the little wheel. 120 fives. So we went down there for six came back with seven. As soon as we got back Mr. Mao made a trip to town with us. So let's get a round of applause for Mr. Miles stepping up born here. I grew up here. And I didn't even know you could go those places are quite beautiful. Yeah, because you can go exploring on him. But you can also really get hurt on those things. Well, no, your limitations. Follow them. Wait till one of them the cleanup crew takes what a wipe out. When they want it up. Yeah. Hey, so real quick. I wanted to thank George White and Eddie Ensign from W racing because they gave me an Uber ride all the way from textbooks over here to Shreveport, man best it's pretty cool. Uber was pretty big though. Toder with a stacker. Yeah, that's a nice Hoover. Yeah, he he probably had some good conversation too. Right? Not that real weird. Uber conversation. He didn't say that. Louisiana is really like Shreveport is not really Louisiana. Is that what he's saying? Yeah, he was totally getting that you guys like we're Yankees or something? Well, he's more from Cajun country. Kind of like we were talking earlier. You know, there's kind of a line across the state between Baton Rouge and Alexandria somewhere. And anything north of that line were considered rednecks. Oh, is that how it works out there your cage? Yeah. Okay. A bit of a battle back and forth. Does that mean that if they race against you on the track, you guys really really got a good battle going? Oh, yeah, we're arch enemies with the Cajuns, rednecks in case he's just bad along if I tell you what both of you guys are nice, because they gave me a ride all the way over here. So thank you to those guys. Please share the show. So if you guys are watching right now share the show. Help support everybody that supports us obviously helps support these guys. We're gonna get into some really cool stuff. Tonight we're gonna share some stories about how ESRI started. Kind of get a little bit of a backstory, see where they're going, what kind of parts they make, there was a lot of stuff that I learned already today that I really want to have you guys understand about the stuff that they do here, fantastic company. And so please share the show and help us support these guys to the Texas Outlaw Series. We're gonna have a recap on Thursday. Since we got the opportunity to hang out with these guys tonight. We're gonna focus on these guys but Thursday join us for that. Texas Outlaw Series recap show fantastic racing. And man, Kyle Chaney took home extra 2000 Surprisingly boy came out there and put it down, man, Josh did it definitely cut off. He's alive. He cut off on Instagram and Facebook, on Facebook and YouTube. Yeah, they're both at like 221 or something like that. And it says it's over now. Okay, let me restart it real quick on on Facebook real quick. All right, so running. Yeah, Instagram still run. I'm still alright, Instagram just hanging out for a second here. We got some technical difficulties. We're trying to make sure everybody gets to enjoy Trinko out there saying Miss Mr. Mal at the races. up what's up Tracy? How are you man? I get a lot of people say that when we go out to the races like man Where's Mr. Mao coming out of retirement gonna make a run at the title again? When was last time you been out to the races 2018 He got second for the championship. Is that right Josh? 18 Oh really? Yeah. How was that man I probably had to feel pretty good. Yeah. Rice until I was 54 seasons Had you already been into it when you got that? Three yeah maybe race three years and so I had a couple of bucket list things was when a Besson desert race what you do what won the silver state maybe what race? Yeah 150 That year? Yeah. And then and then get second for the best desert championship and the sportsman class. What car were you driving at that time? I think I remember you got three it wasn't by the by you. Yeah, that up being dumped on score. Yeah. Which you raised for two years? Yeah. Yeah. By you absolutely. 500 miles on that motor saying some things might just change a motor out Yeah. Because I had too many miles on it. Yeah, let's keep riding was draw. He runs runs good. I said let's keep running in it. That's that thing hit 100 miles an hour the very last race that we ran the motor, swapped it yeah. Is the motor really tired or was it doing that fresh it had the proper compression can lay down every now everything really it was one of those factory freaks Do you know you get a good read every once in a while that just man it was one of those two wrong till the day you put it down, hit three foot oops and just hold her on the floor. That's the reason you don't want to keep racing. Let's see. Back to my Well, I'm old all fail. So I was already pretty busted up. I actually went to the year I quit raising I had five surgeries a year. Oh man, Caleb barber just chimed in and said, been a big fan since visions of victory. 2015 when Dustin and Shane. Were in the car video racing, the only turbo at UTV world. I mean, that was a long time ago. That was when they first dropped the cane and with a factory turbo were the only people raising it. So we had a sealed room back here with the key code and only three people were allowed in there. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. That was a secret stuff. Yeah. So you know who I saw this weekend? Did you really talk to him a little bit. He just built this on a brand new 170 I think it was second or something. Dude, he was boarded. It was cool. It was cool to see the progression because the first you know, he was real timid on Saturday, kind of like not do but on Sunday. He was full Wood Man. That's what I heard going as fast as he could so super cool to see. Honest. Dad was definitely proud. You could tell Yeah, and love. What a lot of people don't know is Shane was my original co driver in the best desert. And now Dustin Henderson is but both of those guys are really talented racers. Dustin won a championship. Shane's won a bunch of big races. Shane actually got in the driver's seat, crazy story and one of the best in the desert. races in Henderson 250. The last year they ran it. And Shane, just because we didn't have a good season, we had a couple of DNS. So Shane got in the driver's seat and one that best in the desert race entered from CO driver to driver. That's crazy, right? Yeah. Yeah. And then we got protested the very next race at the Parker 250. Like a whole big crazy thing happened? No way. They made a swap or ECU at the start line, because they remember that and we won that race. Yeah. I remember that. I walked up to Dustin when they made us change at ECU if you don't ever win another best in the desert race when they win this race. And we went out there and did it. Yeah, that's crazy, though. I totally remember that. And I remember you being like, Dude, it's not a big deal. And everybody else was like, Oh, we got him this time like everybody else so stuck. And I was like, Yes, we do to work, man. It couldn't work better to kind of work better. Everybody thought we were cheating. And we were running well within the rulebook. Yeah, we was. Yeah. Don't you love that feeling though? It's like, almost River. Right? So we were just talking about these chairs. These chairs are old. They've got ideas in business. Like I just business level. Yeah. What do you mean, these are the fresh shop chairs. Look at all this panning left. If you reach into there too, right, you push in on that handle and it locks. So it'll get you you can't trust these things. You know what I mean? That's hilarious like a gym fort. You know, you just can't trust them, though. Yeah, it was Yeah. By the bottom, so I'm getting a little bit closer to getting this stuff, relaunched on Facebook and YouTube but give us a little bit of background on I don't know how you want to lead into it. But how did you miss your mount me to be able to understand that you want to start as three because you used to be in the oil business. You And then Dustin used to just be a professional MMA fighter. I mean, he was kicking tab was asked all over the place. But now he's doing motorsports actually, that's not a very good job. He's a mechanical engineer by trade and right working for one of the big mechanical engineering companies here in town. Yep. And that's in the oil field. And his brother actually worked for my brother in a different oilfield business. And we kind of started Mud Run and bumped into Dustin, you know? And, yeah, so definitely started as friends and kind of that like, same enjoyment stuff first. Well, yeah. I mean, I had a big shop maintenance facility. And, of course, you know, at night after everybody got off work, they'd all come over there and work on their bikes. And because back then, you know, we had the big, I had an 800 s man, was the big bodywork. Yeah. And we tear them up, so we'd have to work on them at night. This much travel Exactly. And we thought we were so dialed, but what was cool to me is, I was fresh out of college. And so just got my first job and like, didn't have much money. But with Mr. Mal having a whole field company and like it was doing really well. He always had the coolest parts. And so like I would get off work at night, come to his shop after they got off work. And they'd be installing brand new intakes and brand new, big Yeah, they just just, you know, a new billet fuel rail and fuel injectors and full exhaust. So for me, it was cool to just go over there because they had the coolest parts, and they were installing brand new stuff all the time. And so yeah, really, one evening, everybody took off, and I was upstairs in the office and Dustin come up there to tell him I wanted to talk to him. Because some of the components which we were running were in part, yes. And I knew Dustin was an engineer by trade and said, Hey, look, you know, I've been thinking about this. Why don't we start a little company and you know, build some good quality products where people don't have trouble don't have to work on them all day after riding all night. They didn't think long. Now that a day or so. And then I get a phone call said let's do it. It was it was a tough decision though. Because like Mr. Weiss What year was this? 2000 Oh, 2010 is when that that happened? Yeah, cuz that was kind of the I don't know what you want to call it. But like the beginning heydays of it have all the side by side stuff, right? Because you guys still I mean, you still to this day, play around in the mud on what you call bikes. Everything's a bike. Yeah. So what's the reason for that? It just how it is. Everybody's calls on that? Yeah. Just whatever buddy called. Yeah, it's just our slang term. So honestly, like an ATV or a quad. We call that a bike. When we go ride, and those are little pit bikes, and we go round and round town. Like we call those bikes. And then honestly, the all the side by sides, is we call them bikes. But when you're talking to your buddies, you just kind of know, like, which one they're referring to, like, Hey, you want to take our bikes and go out to muddy bottoms this week? Everybody's like, Oh, you wanna take the quads out? Got it? Hey, you can take our bikes and go down to textbooks and run them out there. Oh, you wanna take the side by sides? Yeah, let's let's go race. You want to take your mini bikes? Yeah, so I don't mean it's just always been a thing down south and it's not just us in our shop like everybody Yeah, downing himself that refers to him as bikes and as a sweet bike he got on that trailer, and you'll have one quad two side by sides and then the pit bike in the back of the truck. You know, that kind of started I remember the first year I went to mud nationals and I just bought 800 S. And everybody else was on quad. Yeah, they didn't know what the heck to call it. They just call it a bike. Yeah. Okay, it's all we always get that same question like, West Coast. We're like, why did they call them bikes? And it's like, well, that's just what it is. And we get so much grief. Oh, it's like everybody calls like soda drinks coke or pop or pop? Yeah, so like around here I guess down south it's everything's coke. It's bright is coke Doctor Pampers? Coke. Coke is coke. And so they just call it that. You know what I mean? It's like, oh, man, stop by the store and get a coke. Well, you actually mean stop by the store and get a Dr. Pepper but yeah, exactly. Let's talk about store and get a coke. Want to get me a soda? Yeah, yeah, so just everything's a bike down here. Calling them bikes on the Internet creates a huge uproar. Yeah. My main is right about that. And to be honest with you, like I don't get hung up on this stuff. If you got time in your day or that day to make an uproar about somebody say in a bike. I don't care. I think you call them unicycles and I would still think they were cool. So I'm just surprised that people get so worked up over something that's small here the West Coast. Do you guys say like do the whole dirt bike thing like prop like, no, no, we didn't really know what that was that tall black socks black Dickey shorts. We didn't know about none of that. showed up out there I remember If we had talked to Ken Ham, and well, I might not have back up a little on that, you know, we've been in business couple years and so we sit around a campfire one night Jane was there and Dustin was there and we were producing some products we'll I wanted to expand on that. And always hurt you know, if you got into racing, you'd sell more stuff. And so I go hey, I want to start a little mud race day. Sam mud races. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's how really that's how Dustin and Shane got known. And Dustin got so P queued about it I thought it was the biggest waste of time and money really? And so anyway started mode rice and then stuck this guy in something and wow, he actually dry. Um, but anyway. So that's how right it's kind of weird to think about now though, right? Like after all the championships short course races, desert races, all this different stuff like, back then it was probably 2012 or something. So like to think about it then like, I guess at the time you guys are probably like, we don't know what we're doing. Like right now. It's like, oh, that's just a drop in the bucket doing one everything. Yeah, either. Shame. One first and one division Dustin. Oh, dude. With a car full of trophies. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. It was a lot of competition. And I guess can em some got we had sand cars at one time. Yep. And we had met the Diem out in California, Kevin McPherson and didn't even know it. Yeah, no. Oh, really? Yeah. They were having dinner needed another desert racer and said well, why don't you call those guys are? Fell into your lap then. Nick Baron me crazy. You can drive wheels off anything? No, I can't drive a bike to anything. Well, yeah, I found that it first year. And Josh, who runs s3 media for us now and does a lot for Ken. So you're welcome to say Hi Josh. And we got Josh on a microphone. We got my handle in the laugh track, but I've been missing it. I've known Josh from another deal at me and a buddy we're in. And like I said, I'm in my mid 50s And so called Josh and said, Hey, dude, look, we're gonna go desert race and race to cars. Dustin wants to be in one and wants to come along and just shoot video we'll call it whatever. Did you understand? Like what you were getting into? Because that's a whole lot of work, man. Well, yeah, a lot of money. That too, but I just want in the main reason that I wanted to do it. I've got five grandchildren. And when the boys got a little older they could look back and they love granddad. I had a cool grandpa. Yeah. stuff you know. Yeah. And how the race and really started the reasons he Mr. Mallow it right here just holding this championship trophy a Christmas man. Like, I see this kids. You see this? Check it out. Talk to me with some respect grand kids. But how it was supposed to work was because we ended up getting a deal with Kenny and Mr. Man was like, hey, look, this is what I'm going to run the sportsman class because I want to get out there and do some rice and it's fun. If y'all break anything. If y'all have any problems, I'm going to stop and I'll help y'all I'll give you all parts off my car to keep y'all moving. First race there's a solid move though. Well, first race that we raced together was the Silver State Well me and Shane broke a rear axle and had a flat tire and he came by him and coin just waving at us on the side actually. I think his co driver was waving at us and Mr. Mal was looking straight ahead like he never saw us and so we were like learning by what what happened to the game blind of you stop and Mr. Miles Gao didn't even check I just kept rolling. That is hilarious man. But I was so against our race team dude. I was adamant that it was going to waste money for power sports and we shouldn't do that. We shouldn't be out there race and we did. And he was like, man, it's went on Sunday and sell on Monday. Yeah, but it was the perfect storm. Really because you know we started rice and there were two other cannamd Rice and yeah those 333 I don't know if you'd call it other less tree was Mark cars were they they Marie's Marie's Sappington leppington and Michael Lansky. Yeah, I remember that because I actually co drove for him one time. That was the only three key names whenever we started, but what what platform was it what vehicle the regular Maverick four seater right in We started again with like three inches of travel, right? Yes, yeah, almost. And then we started the year they released the turbo Maverick. And we built a two seater that he raced. And then we we built a four seater for us. Not long after that, yeah, I remember that. I remember seeing those things. And I remember that at the time, like I was, like, I don't know, like, is this desert racing thing and a kick off, because it was like at the beginning of it right on the forefront of it. And it just started, everybody started doing it. And it was like, all of a sudden, it just ramped up so quickly. I mean, I feel like it was just right after we got into it that it really started. really started case it was all you Yeah, just we were keeping an eye on Canada and wasn't cool. Yeah, what actually happened was people saw, hey, I can afford this. I can't afford a buggy or truck or something like that. And parks were fairly cheap. Yeah. And you can go down to your local dealership and buy one with some minor modifications, you could race in the side by side class. And so that was appealing to a lot of people. A lot of people started. And that was like, to me, that was like, in my opinion, that was the beginning of it, right? Because that's like what really started the trajectory of desert racing and all of these other series like coming really to the forefront. It was pretty cool. At that time. It was about 2013 1415 area is when it really started growing fast. Yeah. Because like that off road in desert racing was so unattainable to everybody. Because you just, you were familiar because of the coverage. You were familiar with trophy trucks, class ones class tins, and some people thought the bugs were cool, for sure. But there just wasn't much love out there for you TVs. Well, when college golf carts. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. golf carts, so no love and little respect for him. Yeah. And so when it started catching traction, and like UTV underground was a big part of that. Yeah. Daily brothers were a big part of pushing that, you know, AD and all those guys. Yeah, the Oh, geez, man. I remember those times. It was so cool. And so like, right around that time, you guys are probably like, well, obviously, you want to do the desert racing stuff. But on the back end, you guys are probably thinking, well, there's a little market. Yes. Like, yes. Like maybe the parts that we were thinking about developing is a little bigger than we thought. Yes. Yeah, it was a lot bigger than we thought. So what are some of the things that happened behind the scenes during those times? Are you guys sitting back here at the shop like, oh, shit, we broke this thing. And now we can go back to the shop and redo it or? Well, first of all, from the jump, we we fully committed to build everything ourselves. So we had never built a long travel, we'd only built lift kits. We had never fully wired or built our own wiring harnesses. And so with our cars, we literally built the chasis built our own suspensions fully wired a car, we don't send nothing out shopping, you do not walk there are shops. First to car. Yeah. And so we walk we walk to the shop today. And you see we've got to best meet a short course car in a mist and desert Gorgon bill right here. The prep shop for our race cars, a king of the hammers car getting prepped, all these cars that are coming through here, we fully built fabricated wired sheet metal, everything. And so on the front side, we fully committed like we're going to do. Yeah, there's a brand new short course chassis Fix and Go to powder coat best and desert for Cedar fix and get built. And so we just committed we were going to do everything ourselves in the stuff that we didn't know we were going to figure it out. So we had to build our own suspensions and all that it's kind of trial by fire. But that's almost the best the way that things work out the best, especially in the context of racing and motorsports, right. Like you can't build something unless you know how it's gonna break almost well. And we didn't foresee it, but it was so beneficial to us because it has made our parts better throughout throughout the years of us building stuff. So like, right now the suspension that I run on the car that I won the mint 400 In just a few months back in December, the car, the car right behind me that we won them in 400. And that's literally our production off the shelf parts that sit right over there in shipping, like our wind just grabbed a set of a arms, a set of trailing arms and put it on the car, like just straight out of our production line. So that's actually a good question that trade Borgman just asked, he said is ESRI racing the same building as s3 power sport? Yeah, so we've been fortunate over the past couple of years right now we started power sports with that first building that you walked into Georgia whenever we walked around. And that's where we had the fabrication. That's where we were building cars. That's where we were mechanic is just in that building. So maybe four years ago, we bought the two businesses beside us and the next shop. So Nick to like make it sound a little bit more simple. There's different buildings that are connected to each other, and they just have openings that go into each other building. It's pretty cool because everything is set up pretty seamless. So you have one spot here and it just kind of goes around and then all of a sudden, when your guys package ships out the door to FedEx, it just came through all these cool places. It's it's pretty cool. And we Dustin was gracious enough to give us a shop tour. So we're gonna have that come out on YouTube, probably in the next you know, four weeks or so like that. So it'll be cool for you guys to check that out too. So thanks for doing that dude. Yeah, absolutely. It's a really handy set. up. So like he said, there's a building just wrapped behind camera. That's our fabrication area. This one that we're sitting in right now is, I don't know, probably 120 550 foot long Shippings right up there prep shop, the mechanic shop is right over there. I mean, the mechanic bays are right over there. So yes, all the race shop, the mechanic or custom shop, the shipping department and the manufacturing facilities, all right here in one big building all the sheet metal on these cars we do in house, but one of these cars rolls out 100% of it was produced in house. Yeah, that makes you feel good, though, too, right? Like it's proud. And so we saw a couple things, you guys should go check out the s3 powersports Instagram page. One thing that I really think is cool, and we'll talk about other stuff other than what I think is cool, but is I call it a tub. But it's basically a chassis with all of the aluminum and stuff on it that you just built for racer named Ryan Tewkesbury. Yes, that's right. And that's a really good understanding of the level of detail that you guys put into the finished product. Like, if you see it in person, like you got to zoom in on the Instagram, right? Yeah, looking at it in person is totally different. Like, it's so cool to see. And it just shows goes to show exactly what we're talking about now, like, being at the beginning of side by side racing to what we see now is why that level of detail exists. Because you guys know what it means. Yeah. Well, and it's it's evolving all the time. You know, Desert Car from two years ago, not the same Desert Car we produced today. So drastically different. And we're really is we're fortunate that, uh, you know, a lot of guys that we work with, and like some of our designers race and our salesman's race, and we're fortunate that everybody that works up here is passionate about side by sides off roading jeeps and all of that stuff. And so they love what they do. So they try hard for our chases to be the best fitting the nicest the strongest, like they put effort into making sure our stuff is the best, right? And then it's tested on the track, right. Alright, let's go back a little bit to so. I don't know what s3 stands for. You guys, can you tell? Yeah, my name is Malcolm Sneed, and I'm a third. Okay, when we started our Oldfield company, I had to think of a name needed something short and sweet. And my wife said, we'll just call it s3. Yep. So it was s3 Pump service. And we were all over the US. Was that was easy. Now all of a sudden, you just throw power sports on the end of it. Yeah, everything ended up with s3 on the front. And it makes for a good logo with a shirt short, catchy thing. Like it worked out good. But But yeah, a lot of people ask us that we're What does s3 even mean? But it's Mr. Miles last name is Sneed and he's the third. I have two brothers. So everybody initially thought it was me and my two brothers in the business. I like how simple like that, though. Right. And you guys did start local, right? Like most of the stuff that you guys did was to service the things that you guys were I don't want to say having fun with participating in that, you know, even early in the desert racing, that mud deal was just blowing up. I mean, there's a huge Orfield infrastructure here that had you know, serve his hands. They were making more money. I mean, I had hands making a quarter million dollars a year with school education. And so these guys liked to party like to party and they liked the mud. And so the mud industry was just blown up on crazy. Yeah, and that's a lot of our audience doesn't know very much about that. So I want to talk about that, because that's a good business model to start with, especially in the location of the United States where you guys are, and so um, I don't even know where to ask or what question to ask. But like, on the southwest, it's going to the sand dunes, right, going to Glamis and stuff like that. But you guys literally go play in the mud in the water. Yeah, well, we had Sam cars, we'd go out west and go to Glamis and spend a week. berm way too much 110. But around here specifically, that's probably 50 bucks a gallon. Yeah, probably. Right around here. Specifically though, the mud riding is huge here. So have you ever seen like trucks Gone Wild or mud nationals are these big events. There's 1520 Sometimes 30,000 People at private mud parks where they host them and really so while we're kind of a niche market right around here in like East Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and then over in Florida. It's huge. Like we have crazy turnouts at the mud rats around here do 30,000 People 20,000 People and so for I mean five years that first five years we're business we did nothing but build mud bike, mud quads and nobody else was doing it so I bought a 53 foot trailer Got it had bolts fuses radiators diffs for all the different stuff belts it fit everything axles fit all the parts authority events Yeah well it was kind of weird how that started we actually went to the East Coast mud national that one yeah, they had it and I don't know if you know Dustin but he's a way better sponsor than you are and he started holding this towards the sky he's had axles and belts and everything we needed for our group we probably had 10 different vehicles in our group. Yeah, we got the races rocked up and you know he's got two little blond headed kids and it's first day of the ride and he needs rear ride axle now crud Okay, look, I paid this just pay me that that's kind of how that got started. And man we knocked it out of the park for about five years. Yeah, the only ones doing that but you know as well as I do. That's a business handshake that you get a customer for lifetime. That was a huge impact on our business that we were helping people at these events and then going in and made them happy. And always when we got back in town they were calling us for other stuff that they needed because we missed them key Brian, we literally dismantle some of our personal bikes, Rob radiators dis. Hell, we robbed an engine and a trainee. One night. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I hated it. And so when they come back in the shop, it was gutted. Okay, well, y'all put it back together. How many times have you been like, Alright, we're gonna take three cars out to the races. And then when you get back, you got one that works. That's not what happens with us. It's like pit bikes, we take two cars out to the mud, right and come back with five and I'm like, because when you go out there, tear something up, take hours apart, fix other people's and they're like, You know what, let's just buy that. And let's read his for the rest. We can break down one of the boss. Oh, there's been multiple times. I had somebody hit a fence with my us back in the days we were Polaris toward the back end of it up. I had a buddy that had a 900 that walked over there. I said, What do you want for it? Well, I didn't fix it. I said nice sale, everything's for sale. off some price. And I said okay, it wrote him a check. And so she wrote rest. We never came back with less risks. We always came back with more than we went with, you know what I'm saying? But that's one help people out there long way to Yeah, and it's so funny how it gets started, man because we were originally just because we tore up so much stuff. We were just taking parts for us to keep riding. But people started knowing all those three guys. They got some extra parts. So they come do you have a belt? Do you have an axle? Do you have a spare clutch? And we did. And it literally was just to keep us random. But Mr. Mao was like smart, super smart businessman that he is he's like, why don't we spend a little more money, bring a little extra parts. We'll keep our stuff going and we'll take care of everybody else. Yeah, totally. I don't know how much technicals we're gonna technical stuff. We're gonna talk about Caleb tonight but does Ken Ham have a new chassis? To one up the new Pro RT Hey, you remember like for the Ford and Chevy battles everybody's always got some new did everybody's always got something so you can slide into my DMs I'll just tell ya seen it in a disappearing message. So you can only look at it once. Yeah, absolutely do not screenshot it though. Because I can see when you screenshot and why this game works. So thanks Brian Attkisson for joining to Boulder co himself show. So during those times, I mean, like you're helping out people. Yeah. And you're really seeing like a type of racing like all the off road racing. You guys both know that the camaraderie is like what really keeps you there, right. I mean, like the resources that you have to extend to be able to keep racing and the amount of time that you have to put in I mean, it's phenomenal like it you never think it's going to be that much time and it's always three times. It's always what it is right. But the camaraderie and the friendships and all these things is really what keeps you there, right. I mean, it helps but still the eureka moment of that. We were at the Blue Water one year and I wouldn't had something done. I had a back end plant put in so I laid off part of the year yeah, it was in the pit and Johnny Anglin was pitted right next to us. And you know we're running a race for Johnny pulled them got blown where your transmission Oh shit, and his guys are like, well, that's the end of the race and we're all sitting around. Well, we know a little bit about Polaris products. You got another trainee is Yeah. Oh, we jerk that transmission out, got it back in there putting back together and got him back going again. And some other cannamd guys came up. So what are you doing? What do you mean? What are we doing? We got Johnny racing again. Yeah, well, he's a competitor. We want to be Johnny in the desert. We don't want to beat him like that, bro. 100%. And that's the exact thing that's so meaningful in any of the stuff and there are some dudes that are jerks and they don't help out like that. But I think for the most part most people are the same mentality right? Didn't used to be that way. It's definitely come around to where like you'll, you'll see people gladly help hit each other. Yeah, it's there's, as it's grown, there's also it's grown with camera in camaraderie to where I've seen tons of teams helping each other. And every time we come into the pits, and even like at the man, like we're being pitted besides dudes that were freaking running off on and we potentially are winning them in, and they're coming up when they see us be it to check our car, man. And it's like, you kind of give him that head nod of like, yeah, man. And if anybody has looked at my Instagram or even craniums Instagram in the past couple of days, like you saw that video of us pulling Cody Miller back over on his on his feet at King namers. And we gave up two, I think two race positions doing that. Yeah, but still that deserves around. But that is that's what it's all about. Right? Because if you didn't have that, then you even you guys would probably get you put yourself on an island. Yeah, probably don't want to go to the races because you're just out there just being a jerk. Right. So nobody wants to be that way. Yeah, I got a question that change it up a little. You guys go to these, these events and I'm talking more of the mind events, right. So we talked a little bit about the food that you guys eat down here. What kind of stuff are you preparing at the races? Like, what's the hamburgers and hot dogs? Is it you know, I like to go for a Chinese buffet the day before long race. You know what I mean? Just go straight to the top. So families are acclimated to so many places. Everything out there shrimp on a stick? Yeah, Turkey. Yeah. Pizza. Yeah. Jump at the Fae, gumbo. All the cages stuff for sure it all these events are literally everything that the Southwest has zero idea what? Oh, yeah, it's all. It's all that you're missing it. Yeah. It's so crazy, right? This weekend, like I still don't know why it's called a hot dog on a stick. Is it not a corndog? Is it different? Oh, are you serious? That's not even a question. It's a hot dog on a steak. It's literally a hot dog on a stick. That's it? Yeah, there's no braiding on. It's not fried. It's just a hot dog. So one of the guys in the production crew goes you want a hot dog on a stick? I'm like, No, is that a joke? And he goes here, here's a ticket for your dog on a stick and I just walked over somebody else gave it the trust. I do not trust this. So it was funny to see that Troy Boardman Are you all strapping coffee Coleman grills to the back of your bikes do you already know Coleman grills YETI Coolers like we've got we got dinner and and drinks all the time. Whenever we go Monrad first time I ever went to Tex blacks. I don't remember what race was for. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I think it was for the $40,000 bonus race or whatever it was called. I go out there and you and shamed out and are sitting there you got your American Evil Knievel. And I'm like Dustin, are you racing this weekend? He's like, Yeah, kind of and he's like, we got this Renner ride and it's a cannamd it's got a cooler in the back the cooler is filled with you got like I don't even remember what music you were playing. It's probably some AC DC. You got had the music crank and you're on the starting line and I was like he's bullshitting me like there's no way and then all of a sudden I turned around and you're launching MT mid low it's got to be 75 feet by 15 feet in the air and radio to the moon ice chest slam full. I couldn't get my phone out quick enough to get a video that was telling me and Shane literally every lap or pulling the PIDs jumping out swapping driver and CO driver seat just shotgun in a monster and taken aback also ICS Obon gram on shotgun and Swapsies go again and I you know I could tell because you didn't even go back to the pits. You just came back to the starting line switched out and then went back. We just lined up for another race. I didn't know what class it was. We were just out there racing. I was laughing so hard man. I was like I have zero idea what he's doing but this is really entertaining. I didn't know what I was doing either to be honest with you, you know what I mean? When you get in that zone sometimes you just lose it and use go for everything is Tracy over a tradeshow said gainer on a stick because you don't even know what that he is. He's just saying words and putting them together. Yes Gator on stage. I was told that textbooks Ghana tastes like chicken is similar to chicken but it's a more dense meat for sure. It's more close. Yeah, it's real wide. It's more close to frog legs than than chicken meat. Alright, so let's get back into some of the serious questions about s3 in general. So you guys have done some really wild builds. I mean, we're talking extra wheels like a six Wheeler. We have had like super tall builds. We've had some, like one drill build. I saw it was a really, really clean bill. Let me see if I can pull up the picture of it. But what has been some of the most memorable builds that you guys are being proud of? Man? I think probably the physically largest build that we ever did is that one that you got on screen right now that we built that one man a crazy story. So Matt Tantra at Ken Ham, that design that fender design the x three, he called us and he said, Man, you know, I want to build something that will generate like a legacy for me after, after I retire from Kingdom and amazing designer, super, super smart engineer. He said I want to design physically, the largest production vehicle that's ever been built. And so that one that you see in the picture, how big was this thing though? Like, let's just say you're parking it next to a full size. Oh, it's it's longer than a Ford or long midroc taller than my G Yeah. And actually, that vehicle cannamd did not produce it. It was not in the production lineup. Okay, and so the one sickly r&d department built that six seater out of a four seater. Yeah, so their big thing was Matt wanted it to be the largest production vehicle ever so they built it in the house before they sent it to us because Jesse really took a four seater X Mr. Defender cut it in half or cut the back off of another one join joined a second one to it to build a four seater six by six because they have the two seater six by six version and the four seater with only four wheels. Well, that was one that they actually built at caninum Senate us and then we fully customize it gave it to cowboy Cerrone. He still got it to this day. How was it to drive we drove it through tech in the mid 400 we loaded the dirt bike that we raised up in the back of it so it's falling like for a cruiser that thing in cowboy drag stuff all over his ranch with it dude, super tough like Oh, dude, you can't stop it. It would drive up that wall over there. It's just big heavy like you don't want to get in an abandoned interior. That thing was all of that was hand painted guy we use at Arkansas. And I mean we got it it was just a tube chassis. And so everything you see on the outside and the inside the wheels we had custom built Yeah, everything's one off on that thing. Everything just looks cool. I mean, it looks production, right? Like it was so good. So yeah, that level of detail is like is exactly what I was talking about. One of the I was scrolling through you guys Instagram stalking your guys ESRI Instagram page. But this is one of the coolest builds that I like I like What's crazy is that Quinton is just trail rad and car and saying is simple. And it's super clean. It's got our evolution power sports cage on there. Which is like a B pillar case like a really light race cage. Quinn did a cool color on it and did 30 fives with no lift he actually put race shocks and 30 fives and so that's a really simple car. But do people love that car? Just look so clean, right? Yeah, yeah, it's simple and just sweet and it's not super crazy over the top but man it's such a good looking MRI and so you guys are big cannamd Guys, but you guys also do other stuff as well. Kawasaki Honda. So this is yeah, this is a vehicle that we saw over the weekend. Eddie Ensign thanks again for giving me a ride in the Uber but this is one of the Honda talents that you guys build to this car actually looks really beautiful car right yeah, that was our first big run at a fully built a fully built Honda dude in that car is beautiful and in tears beautiful in that car freaking re up so you saw on this weekend. Dragon everybody on the whole shot. Yeah, whenever we were done with that car they had to add weight to it to make it pass tech. Yeah, but that's the way to go right? Yeah, kid and Mac that guy with a long hair is fast man you better know it. You better make it ain't just because I can drive good it's because of this is long hair when he catches the wind and he just starts when he just gets it. Somebody said low blow so a lot of people know us for that low bill that was the one with the super low. Okay, yeah, yeah, that defender that we built and so man that was probably our most popular Bill Josh if I remember did we get like a million something views on that video? Yeah, the first video when they built it. Yeah, I walked out. Dustin you don't hit your head on the cage. He hits. No, I'm not. We sit around there is we were over. Jackson over playing in the river. Yeah. And there was a tree laid down. Oh. Oh. Like a speedboat. Oh, like somebody thumping a watermelon. Freaking forehead. Oh my god. My head against the cage. But that's probably one of our most popular builds. That was the first video that we got a million views on. Yeah. So something like this. Like imagine going through something like that. Because this is the guy who does. Yeah, that's going through something like that. And then to hit. Let's just say a 16 inch law. Stop. That is the oldest defender. Probably still run and that was actually a prototype. Yep. Before defender came out, and Ken Ham approached me. We had some marketing products. We were designed pining for can em they said if you'll put all those products on that thing and drive it all week at a national you can keep it. Oh look at that. Yeah, so that thing is actually got a prototype number it doesn't even have an MA no no VIN number no nothing on it. That's pretty cool man. While we're going through some of these pictures you guys have a pretty good gang over here at s3 I'm not sure but yeah if you guys have any time go check out the s3 Instagram page who's so proud of those dudes man that's what's crazy is I think that was a trip out to San holo where we took everybody everybody from now dude and just everybody get on board by the local picture you guys you took everybody on trip? Yeah, gosh, that was a fun week to designer everybody had had a Jeep Yeah, just wanted to go Yeah, sound hollow for a week and Logan since you're sitting at home I don't know if you're still watching man. But you're probably out actually doing this. That I know. What's funny. Is there somebody on Instagram and Facebook that always dogs him about about never ridin in so this is the all elusive picture of Logan actually going deep on his renegade on his quad on his bike. It's on his bike. Just that weekend, it was a blood bike. Let's see here. Caleb asked if there's any commander builds. Yeah, do we just built a six four seater commander kind of like that one of Quinn's like it's on 30 fives stretched full cage full cab custom paint job like a sick commander. So yeah, we're stereo. Yeah. The most built you can build it so yeah, I think he's using it to just like trail ride and pre run a little bit of the 1000 they do a big trail ride out there. But yeah, we built some sick commanders lately. A few to to cedars on 30 sevens when no Lily smokes 37 David we do our stretch kid and 30 sevens with no lift and they look so gnarly like that dude, that's one of the things that I always thought was cool is like, you don't copy you're on the forefront of it. Right? Like you always think of the new ideas that come out with like, most people would think Alright, if I'm put 30 sevens I need to make this thing for freaking Yes. So high. But you're thinking a little different outside the box. We do, man. It's a mixture of because we do some rock crawling. We do some racing. And we do a lot of mud run. So naturally, a lot of versatility. Yeah, we can call it that if you want. We can call it like that is easy. Yeah. The front suspension takes a while. Yeah, I mean, because it's like a car. If you make a turn in a car and you let go with a steering wheel, it's supposed to come back straight. Well, we like to do that with all our off road equipment too. And that takes several tries and moving things and reengineering to get it straight. All right, Trey Boardman actually asked What about the maverick trail you built? That was so sweet. He can be talking about the billy goat the 50 inch Maverick trail which one is it? I don't know if we did a rat in Tennessee like a little group right? It's one of our visions victory videos. It's a cool video and like we had fun. Yeah, yeah, but when you lay it on its side I don't know how many times I flipped that thing that weekend. Dude is that was a borrowed bike. Yeah, it was a maverick trail a guy a guy gave it to us. Dennis boy gave it to us to build and customize to use on the video and then give back to him. And I dude, I had that thing. So Torah. By the time we get back to my bed, I flipped it four times that weekend out there on that ride. It was a 50 inch so it was super narrow. I left all sway bars still hooked up. So literally you drop off of a speed bump. It started three wheeling. Really it's like driving a Honda Civic. Like driving a Honda Civic. That's hilarious. Was a handful out there. This is a fan submitted question. Let's get it Is it true that they call girls at the mud events? Mud bunnies? No no that it couldn't be farther from the truth but they call the girls in the motivates is mud crickets? Cricket mud crickets? Oh, so the rodeo girls are buckle bunnies. Welcome bunnies. Okay, mud rides. They're called Mud crickets. Okay, if you want to know what a mud cricket is go to YouTube search mud cricket song and watch that and that was filmed? Or don't if you're younger, definitely do it. You need to learn kids Today's the day. Go YouTube mud cricket. That's one of the parks that we ride at consistently, really. And the whole music video is still there. It's amazing. And then you'll notice this might be something that we pull out of the workflow as a as a you should search that for sure. Okay, so do you guys remember another fan submitted question? Do you guys remember your first ever s3 Project slash build? Let me thank the biggest so we built a bunch along the way. But in other people's, it's hard to delineate because you're putting parts on it with our own original part. I know which one it was do you? Yeah, it was a mine. Which one? Do you remember which one? It was a red and white one? Yeah, the red K? Yeah. Okay, so give us a little bit more info on that. Build what was it? It was a first gen bug lift was a razor knife. It was a player's razor 900 XP two seater in 2000. Maybe 12. Maybe? Maybe 12. Probably. And I don't mind telling you we, but way too much lift in it. Yeah. And we sold. I mean, what are we talking so Oh, that means what the tire seals sitting on the floor the top of the bed but hit me above my eyes and the torch. There'll be on the grill. Yeah, it ended up unbeknownst to us. Yeah, it was really our first run and a big lifted suspension. Like that was our first run in it. And I bet it was probably a 10 inch lift. With with not much longer than factory axle. So it was not great design. You know, we're talking about the center of gravity. Like I'm not good, not good. Not good. It goes on some deep mud and stuff. But we we actually had issues with that. And I personally went back and we came out with our gym to lift Yeah, where are we? Okay, we're gonna limit the degrees of the axles here and stop what we ended up with what we ended up with. Yeah. And basically went back bought all those lifts back from those people and gave them a gem to add about brokers. Yeah, that was gonna say that's a bad business. A good duty about brokers by brokers, but it paid off. Yeah, we almost didn't make it through that one. That's all that's good, though. And, okay, so going along that I want to ask a more detailed question. So all of us out in the southwest, we don't know what portals do as much as you guys out here. So explain to us a little bit more about when you're having to build those big cars, you put in all those big tires, what is a portal for, so a lot of people are running portals now because you get a you get some ground clearance out of them, but B you get a lot of some gear reduction out of them. So they basically hook at the hub mounting point. So at your ball joints in the front and like your trailing arms or your where your knuckles would hook drops the center of where it's like it's a gear driven, billet housing that drops the hub center down for six, eight inches doesn't mean some of them are eight inch portals now Oh, but it dropped your hub center down and you have a gear reduction built into that. So it takes a lot of strain off of the inner drive train up to that point of the axle but it also gives you a lot of ground clearance. So they're a little bit they're really good on straight axle vehicles and they work really well when you have trailing arms and like a really strong fixed point. But we've seen countless a arms torn out of frames because it puts so much torsion on the on the outside portion. Yeah, so a twist on the frame so they're really good design for straight axles they work really well on like unit hogs and big lifted Jeeps but independent suspension is really hard on them. That's why you see a lot of people with track boards but it's a good it's a good design to get some gear reduction in lift kid. Oh, I just got a message to come in. Dustin Have you ever spoken while they said a mud bunny but a Mud Creek? Correct. I want to be honest with you that is my kryptonite is mud crickets. It's hard as I try to avoid them whenever we get to the rides. You know especially since now we're three times in 400 champions you just you just can't hardly go to a mud ride without having some run ins with mud bunnies and it's my kryptonite. That's hilarious. Mr. Mal gotta break it up. Yeah, yeah, he's like Dustin Let's go this way buddy. has happened. Yeah, I miss Linda mainly ms Linda's the one that rules me back here and like get a lot out of hand over so funny man. Mud nationals just ended so from what I heard and the guys that were asking me they want me to go out there to experience it what kind of stuff can I expect if I go to one of those? Let's start with mud cricket. You can expect that one of those. But man it's it's it's like the races to where you're it's a lot of like minded people that are out there to have fun. They want to they want to have a good time. They want to laugh. They want to, you know, share their drinks. We share moonshots we used to call it the bid jars, the COVID jars, because later they'll just walk around with open moonshine just handed to people everybody that makes their own. I don't think you can get COVID because it kills everything right? Well 70% outcome This is something I learned when cowboy and I were doing the podcast together apparently you can go blind from moonshine if they mix it incorrectly. There's like no, that's what happened. What what Mr. Miles an expert on this. Well, yeah, actually, what causes they would use old radiators for the condensers core. Oh, and and so you'd end up with antifreeze in your moonshine and make you go blind? Yes. So you had that there are some very reputable people around here that make good moonshine. Yeah, they got almost all their teeth. So you guys are in the market. Mr. Mouse got you got Yeah, I'm a moonshine than that. Look man, my man. Wait stop break the jar out and pass it around especially at Apple Pie. Because it doesn't mean tastes like it's got alcohol in it. Okay, I have had Apple Pie moonshine the whole time that will come but I remember just dragging myself through the dirt after that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah it just sneak up on you. Yeah, you can expect a lot of that a lot of people that are just out there to have a good time. You're not dragging themselves through the dirt it's mud right if you've ever gone to some dragon passed out in the mud. Lots of hot dogs on the stage that's a mistake and you can just count on that a lot of that Thanks Jessica. Tommy and I used to call it people come up man I just bought this and it broke them silver bullets. We call them we call them blue gills you know but you're also going to oh wait you call it mud crickets right yeah there's the sound voice Oh man that just touches my heart. I want to be honest with you. But you're going to Yeah see if you've ever been to Pep Boys and been down the crawl mile where they've got the chrome tips the lights the under oh that's what the mud flames that's what the mud mud rats are like now they're like the chrome aisle in a rallies are literally literally. So make stereos as bad as big stereos big tires, big wheels. Now it's mainly big stereos in lights. It's the thing that JL Audio stereos Thank you very much. Yeah shout out Jay all y'all just be out there. The mud rides jam and making all the mud crickets dance. This show is going so good, man. I'm glad that you guys have us over here. Let's see here. So my nationals just finished. And I can expect that. I mean, honestly, I've really wanted to go to one of these events. I think they're super fun, but I've never been to one so like, I mean, I've been to the races. I've been to all kinds of UTV events like listen call Casey curry, and all his guys called cowboy Cerrone. All his guys called Dominic Ray is all of his guys. And you ask who you need to go to a mud ride with if you want your mind to get blown. And you want to really be shown a good time you need to go the mud ride with us. And so you tell me when you want to go. A couple of months. I'll schedule one we'll go out to like muddy bottoms. We get to reserve that cabin. We get a hot tub, it's on the lake. And so bro, when we go do mud rides, it's on. It's on another level. That sounds like a lot of crickets gonna be photographed. You saw there that vendor minute ago. Last time we were at Mud Creek. Matter of fact, it's kind of weird use. I don't know who was shooting the video. Yeah, probably Josh if I had to guess. Yes. Neil's brother in law. Oh, yeah. Well, hey, Rob. And anyway, I started out through this deal. And literally, there's that much of the roof. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. It was floating. Yeah. So how do these things even dry? I mean, you gotta have a snorkel but like, how do they not suck in water? Everything snorkel? Yep. So literally, um, take a snorkel the depths are snorkeled. You have a snorkel as well, because that's your head is underwater at that point. You kind of start holding your head out the side, you hold the bar and you run the fuel when you tiptoe. The sounds wild man. Oh, dude, if you want to have a big 10 million views? No, it was 1.5. Yeah, that will get a bunch of us. So Caleb, actually, I was gonna ask a similar question their price of the most expensive mud UTV I've seen. And so Oh, there's some that we built in the shop. And then like when we've gone out to the mud rods, there's some wild ones you really need to go take a look at some of our pages and these things yet. For custom paint jobs, a custom paint job or loan on some of these, these rigs that we build are eight grand a set of custom like a GTX wheels, or some of the full billet wheel setups. This guy didn't even get invited or he just showed up on this thing. It's like, oh, wait, it's like like the magic. Genie. So Hunter Miller, what's your monster? Can you rub it on your monster can and I have here? Like a genie in a bottle. So hey, thanks for joining us Hunter. We really appreciate it. Hunter was I don't remember what you said to me at the races this weekend. But we were like go over there. And he goes, he gets a couple cookies and I go. So look what Hunter Miller eats after the races. He goes, this is a treat you get after getting fourth. That's the trick to get in fourth. Just keep eating good. Oh, yeah. Make sure I'm fit. There you go. Man. You had a crazy weekend, didn't you? Yeah, it was gnarly man. Everybody was going for it. Bro. Y'all are getting rough over their textbooks man. One may know it's not usually I will say I've raced with Hunter a few times and I'll be honest with you last year you and I raced in one of the heat If I had a lesser color than what you had it at that time, and Hunter raised me so clean and I blog, I was blocking every insect corner every outside corner to where he had every excuse to for sure give me the bumper. And never one time did he touch my car and that stuff. That's the first time that I was like, You know what, I really respect Hunter Miller every time before that, I was like, Nah, Screw that guy. You know? You know what the sad part of that deal is, is I was actually trying to run into you and my man that's so funny, man. But this is the camaraderie that I'm talking about right because you guys helped their program quite a bit actually building some of those assays and stuff now so it's pretty cool to see that everybody can have these labs battle on the track and do all this stuff. But the reason that I actually wanted hunter to join was not because of the racing portion of it. I wanted to see if he's ever been to one of these mod events. No, snakes. What do you wait no, what do you mean? I've only been snake bitten one time at one of these events. What do you mean too many snakes? You know what you know I remember one time me and Dustin were at a photo shoot long time ago and where was that it was What's that place everybody all muddy bottoms? Yeah, yeah. And I show up in the mosquitoes are like that big. Oh, not a big Oh dude. They're like pterodactyls and all I'm walking around out there and I'm watching them just freaking bogging through all this stuff. And I'm like, that doesn't look like any fun to me whatsoever you have to clean all that after they're not all over you so the mosquitoes don't bite Oh, that's That's true. Yeah, but you thought man that doesn't look fun at all I wouldn't want to do that. But then what did you end up doing? Yeah, no that's true didn't really totally smokes did look at those sides of those bow Yeah, that's that's like Hunter Caesar. Wow, did you got hit by one of those? Yeah, did Hunter if you don't know that's what we call it. Nope. Rope. Are those Yeah, did you buy snake? Are those boys? Never know. I don't remember. I don't remember. You're here. Yeah, tell you that. Yeah, I got it one Josh has got the video of me getting bit by snake. I tried to pick it up. And I grabbed it like it's waste what you would consider not I do not I'm with you. 100 No, thank you. I was caught mouths those those specifically are but I grabbed one. Grab one by what you would consider the snake waist. And I felt like I could pick them up and keep them away from me. Like I've watched Steve Irwin, you know what I mean? And so I kind of shook it nope, spun around by him beat me and I was like, Oh crap. Don't let that happen. You spun around. Bam. Hit me again. You know what, we did get hit by a snake but Brandon just reminded me in the comments that I have been bit by Wolf. So you wind up that? Yeah, yeah. Wow. How did you get bit bow Wolf? responsible. I like you. I like your style. I mean, what parent doesn't raise their kids around wolves? I think 100 ride this wild animal. Let's see what happens. I'm gonna start calling you What's that little kid from Jungle Book? What's Mowgli Mowgli raised around wolves like that. What on earth? Yeah, I was I was two years old actually. Oh, so you're just a quick snack for that dude. I'm telling you is about I don't know 200 yards that direction. We we didn't have anything out here. We lived in Rockwall about 30 minutes from here. My parents had just bought their first 10 acres out here. Yeah, we just come out here and camp and everything and like two in the morning I decided to sneak out of the tent and off to the wolf pin. My dad had about a 10 acre compound setup for him and I was trying to feed a potato chip through the fence. Yeah, who doesn't want to feed a wolf potato? Yeah. Two year old arms were going out to eat that's all areas where I can just picture it like in my head. I like what you're talking about Mowgli. I can just picture 100 parents being like give them a week. Yeah. Yeah, I spent a good amount of time with the Millers and the parents yeah hammers yeah they while they would do that yeah how they would do that yeah Josh knows no experience are you know Hunter was sneaking out of TN and your dad was like no baby let him go he's gotta let him out there with the wolves for a while he's got to learn baby coming back or he's not Yeah, he's either gonna make it or Yang but look at you now Hunter I mean, in fourth place and stuff. So much. Hey, technically eighth overall, okay, proud of you, buddy. Proud of you for what you did. It was it was a pretty wild weekend though, man. It's good. It was good to see you out there did and I mean, just under granting the stories in those times that you guys have spent but going back to s3, because that's what the show is about, right? What was the reason that you decided to work with the guys here at s3? Oh, man, I was like flip a coin and it was either don't race or it was lack of options is what you're saying. Yeah. Last Resort I think we, man before they really started getting into fabrication, we were buddies with one of their guys there Cody Taylor. And you know, I think when you guys first started out, you were just doing some maintenance on stuff and then started doing fabrication and it started kind of slow. Honestly, we were racing GNCC at the time, and we're needing some some aftermarket parts. And man, those guys jumped in and designed to some stuff and then look where they are now then I think that was about the same time y'all got into desert racing and really started going full force with the race program. And it's just built from there. Since then they've done all of our chassis has meant I was trying to add it up the other day, I think y'all have probably built close to 20 chasis. For us at this point. It's, it's wild. Does it even feel like you built that many cars like God? Yes, yes, it does feel like oh, man, but to be honest with you, dude, it's been such a great relationship with us in those guys. And they have pushed us to be better builders. They have done so much r&d for us, because it's so how does that relationship work? You like to have a debrief and be like, hey, this could be better if you change this. Yeah, absolutely. Or after they run a chassis for a season. Like they're, they're very good at what they do. And they know how to set their cores up. So they run a chassis for the season and Something's just not right, and they can't get it dialed in, or they get a car up or better. They're like, hey, for our next chassis. We want to do this a little different. And then they've made us better builders, man. And honestly, we couldn't be more proud of me. Dustin Logan talked about this the other day, man we couldn't be more proud that they let us build chasse ease and race cars but it's the versatility to right because you're not talking about just a short course car you're talking about a king of the hammers chassis or maybe not in their case a desert chassis but like a short course chassis, a desert chassis, there's all kinds of different stuff that they can provide feedback on right? Yeah, dude, it's invaluable their feedback as drivers and racers is invaluable so coming from the other end of the spectrum, then Hunter that's probably really cool because there's a lot of builders out there and just be like nah man you get what you get like Sorry dude, but you're able to like work together? No 100% And generally the first time I go to him with what I want to do deck so they say Nah, man sorry, you're out of luck I'll say no, no, I really want to do this and no, they always pull it off. Like I said, Cody Taylor, you're not talking daily and we're always coming up with ideas and you know, generally the first idea is pretty crazy. And we kind of scale it back till we've kind of get to the point where we feel like something's realistic and and what we want to do but no, s3 always always pulls it off to be honest with you. I mean, we couldn't be happier with with all of their products and the stuff they build for us. You know, Ryan to experience said that Hunter Miller just doesn't want to Dustin Jones yellow my dude. Thanks very bringing the heat at the last race. So he led ours is the real yellow Why do you say real yellow Why does everybody keep saying that? Why is yours not the real yellow that's what everybody says is ours is yellow. Now I mean to got real yellow y'all know the one beside it is yellow the one to the left. Well, yep, it's a little bit more orange. Yeah, they got short bus yellow a little bit more orange. They got short bus yellow on their cars, man. I got to get the real yellow. I'm not thinking it's a little bit more orange. So one thing I gotta say from a media standpoint, I couldn't tell who you guys were on the track and that gives it's just a sea of yellow in that first two corners I'm just trying to guess I'm like throwing names out there. I don't even know what to say. So maybe one of you guys could throw like a pink or a blue in there. You know this is our strategy because every time I race with the Miller brothers I claim the win every time pictures of the car without showing my face and I'm like to getting on the one home you know what I want first and second thing about that is that he's not joking. If you listen to mommy and 400 interview with two T PQ he was like man Dustin's coming off of a huge win at the king and hammers and I was like, Oh, really don't. And I was like, Yeah, you know what I did when King Cody wanted to end the year. exactly the problem. I'm telling you I'm fighting man. It's so crazy. I'm just throwing names out there just like he Yeah, I mean Guess it's a good marketing perspective right for camera for you guys because it doesn't really matter at that point it's just like yeah the yellow was upfront why when every time because I'll be just taking their pictures and posting them on my wall saying took another went home so basically what Brian Atkinson saying is that you also want a textbook right? You know what Brian You just reminded me I need to do a post right now about winning first and second. The Bounty a textbook 200,000. Matter of fact, Brian, if you take all Kyle's glory Yeah, she I never heard her. Just go ahead and see me there. Check buddy. Oh, that's hilarious man. In this this is the exact camaraderie and working relationship that we're talking about. Right? Like, you guys have a real professional escalating business relationship that that keeps pushing these businesses and his and his racing program forward. But you can always rely on the laughs and the camaraderie and stuff it's so cool man like it off road doesn't do us any dis justice. It's really the vibe of the industry. And that's why Mr. Mao wanted and still wants to be part of it. Yeah, no doubt about it. Super cool, man. A so do you have any funny stories about being with the Esri guys other than the stuff that we've talked about? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, let's not let's not let's just say it was fun and we remember let's Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, better. Comment on that on I think crickets if I just want to put it that away. Hunter What do you own right now? You got like a zip tie on the floor and just eat it. Oh, is it one of those hoverboard things? That's what Trey Warren just said. Yeah, you know, everybody, it's uh, you know, this is our race shop here. Our glass shops over there. And I'm constantly going back and forth. walk ins just walking is for chumps. That's exactly what Doug was saying earlier. Dustin uses a mini bike to go around the shop. I'm not walking. I'm gonna walk in for cavemen walking is for old caveman. I'm not a caveman. Hey, so since I'm like, just on the search for tacos, and Dustin said it doesn't exist out here. What do you think these guys are going to try to feed me because we're going out to eat later. Oh, hopefully just excuse me crawfish. My man. See that's exactly what I was saying. Dustin Are you coming to Mid America? Yeah, I plan on going out there. I love that place man. I think oh, I was talking about coming in EMC in it the next race. Oh, we're in so shout out to Jason Joey Tripp. All you boys. You know what? You just need to bring me out there and let me help him see okay. Because my boy my boy hopefully y'all Carwin so Dustin say? Seen him my boy Hunter Miller is getting second. It doesn't matter. We've actually even race you're still getting first cloud your person in tow. At least I beat Cody and girl there and so it's all good. That's true. That's true. What's the biggest tire you guys have ever seen on a side by side? Oh 660s No, there's there's that. That 1x Three Two that do does bounding holes in that has like 60 or 60 tubes or something on it? Are you being ridiculous dude, it's like, like, is that? Are you trying to trick me or is that a serious? I'm serious? Serious? Really? It's ridiculous. Holy smokes. 62 Yeah, it's ridiculous. Dude, it only drives in a straight line. They just unloaded driving in a straight line. So what if you get sloppy and you just smashed into the wall or what? You don't you don't get sloppy enough and it will go about 17 miles an hour. Holy smoke. Could you imagine that? 162 That's as fast as you want to go with 62 truck tire that's as holy smokes and then is it blue? Yeah, I think I saw a picture that thing yet. Yeah, yeah. Okay, that is. Yeah, that's, that's impressive looking. Actually. Yeah. Okay, turn. So here's a good example of one. I don't think it's got 60 twos only it's 50s or something like that. You're really gonna need some evolution power sports power behind that around. Dude, look at that. Oh, no, no, no, I saw one ward three times. That's not the one I was just saying. For example, how big do you think those are like 50s? Yeah, 50s Maybe? Holy dude. 62 Yeah, it's ridiculous. I mean, yeah, it's the rallies Carlisle. I'm telling you. That is just insane. Alright, Hunter, so if if I ever go to the mud nationals, you gotta guarantee to be there with me. When's the next one? A year from now. You got plenty of time to prepare big dawg. Man, I got a lot of projects. You're out. Back out. You got a year to be prepared for this. And all of a sudden you got projects that just came up. I got a year to be ready for Koh next year too. And I'm behind already. So That's I should say you're. Yeah, no, it doesn't look like much of a race Jesse anymore, bro. No, at least we got it to you. Oh no, I just got it sandblasted for you. Look how much stuff he has going on. He's good traveling around my shop pretty fast like I'm kind of wondering if he's gonna eat it. I know he's trying to do he's trying to flex on this and make us feel like his shop is huge, but he just keeps driving in little circles. He's like, Man, my rice shop just never ends. It's just so big. Y'all know, y'all know the bad thing is in our glass shop. We had these real nice entry doors. And you know you get a little cocky on these things every once awhile or just kind of forget how good I am on it. But anyway, I was I was going wide open up to him and I lean back slow down and the power just shut off and that thing eject it out from under me and went right through shattered glass. Exactly what I pictured right now is when you go as fast as you can full speed through a screen door. Yes, like just what it was. Yeah, but still y'all were it was good thing you own a glass shop. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we own a glass shop. But that's about like, you know, an electrician. Light bulbs are always out. Those wired Yeah. Everything's always leaking the body man stroke is still in prime or five star chef? Burger. Yeah, exactly. The guy that runs the runs has three drives the stock is far out. We were just talking about has an ice chest and a radio on it. And they're trying to race it. Oh, funny, man. I love that was one of the things that attracted me the most attacks blacks. I'm like this place. Wow, that went down out here. It takes Blake's. Yeah, there used to be two here. Oh, now there's just said you know what? Just put some duct tape over it. It's like one of those cars with a trash bag and tape around the doorframe. Yeah. Just just tape it up. It'll be good. was the only police seat in the house with air conditioning. And now I don't even have that. So Daddy, go make your sweat for doing that. yourself. You go swim. Luckily, I'll stay in the office too much. All right, Hunter. We got a couple more questions that we're going to ask these as three boys. But thanks for joining us, man. Hey, tell everybody what you got going next. I think actually, you're gonna join us on on Thursday. Probably for the recap of the the text flex weekend. But for anybody that doesn't watch that. Tell him what you got going next. Yeah, yeah, I think let's plan. I'll see y'all on Thursday. Our next race is man, I guess it's back out at text flex for around five and six texts outlaw so yeah. I think that's what five weeks. Yeah, something like I think it was May I forgot. I have to look at it again. But 15 sixteenths maybe? Right. If you're if you're there, you can put it in the comments. But yeah, that's gonna be a good race for sure. Yeah, absolutely. It's gonna take me that long to fix up the carnage from this past weekend. And I can't wait to win that race to me. And that's gonna be fun. You got so many victories under your belt. Yeah, matter of fact, Connor, can you go and send me some pictures from this past weekend. So I can do my post. Just Robert, just screenshot it off my Instagram. Drop it, you should tag you and give you the photo grades or just don't say nothing. Yeah, just keep it to yourself. Notice. Oh, man. Thanks, Brian. So yeah, May 14 and 15th. We'll see you there. 100. Thanks. But I appreciate it. I like to go in and drill this girl first. Yeah, fine. So I love those conversations like this man, it makes me feel good. Like it really makes my heart feel good. Being able to see like the the way that all of you guys interact. And this is probably something like, what really Mr. Mouse gave you the ambition to keep going with the business and seeing all the interaction with all these different human beings. Whether it's at a mud event, desert event, whatever it is. Well, you know, I mean, we kind of got to saying do it the right way? Yeah, it's kind of like that first suspension, the right thing was the right thing. If I sell you something, or we sell you something, it needs to be right and correct. And if it's not, we'll fix it. So I always tell everybody as a kind of off the off road subject. If anybody asked me I always tell them life is just a session of choices. That's great. And if you make the right choices, your life will be better no matter what it is. And if even if it's a little choice, it'll end up getting you further along in the in the long run, right? And that's something that you guys really stick to and stuck to at that point. And I've got a saying around here we all make our own destiny in this life good, bad nor different, you know, so if you want a good life, you got to work at it. Those are some like things that you probably learned along the way to Dustin especially having a Mr. Mouse teach you those things right man, it's been a great opportunity to get fast tracked on stuff like that life lessons, business, business lessons and learning this stuff. And he's always taught me like, make money, lose money. breakeven, you have to do what's right by Apple 100 At the end of the day, you have to do what's right by people made or not found just in general in life, dude, it's so much nicer. And it's so much more enjoyable to get along and be happy and like, yeah, Hunter and I raced hard together, man, he and I raced hard. It takes place a few times together. But there's no there's, there's always a gentleman's respect in there. Like, I know, he won't get into me, I don't get into him. And, and even if something does happen on the off chance, you guys can understand that you have that level of respect for each other that when you get off the track, you go, you know what, dude, I know, you didn't mean to mess up. But you know. Yeah, that's rising stuff out. Exactly. Yeah, Hunter steal it, man. It's, uh, please keep sharing. We'll call it this life knowledge. Right. But yeah, that's the exact thing. The reason that we'd like the dirt life show is to get behind the scenes, right? Like, almost, I mean, Mr. Now, this is the first time you've ever done a podcast, right? And we've seen you guys on social media, you guys have the visions of victory episodes, you guys have your own podcast. And really, like we see all of this stuff on the front end of things. And people think they know who we are you guys are. But these are things that we talk about to get to know who the real people are. And you just saying that and understanding your moral respect for your business and your customers. A lot of people may not get that unless you tell them well, it's all about core values. And, you know, it's like everybody the work, this is the weirdest place for people to work. When we get people that come in here and go, these guys all work together. There's no arguing there's no one raising a voice. You have a problem. Let's discuss it. Let's move forward. In people outside to me, and you know, it's like I've told my wife when I'm dead and gone. If my epithet is, you know what, you never screwed anybody at all boy. Yeah, and that's sad man. Just said that he said, You got to be able to sleep good at night. I love it. I live and die by their own that when I lay down, lay down my head at night, I know that I made the right decisions, even if it lost us money. Sometimes, like us buying all those suspensions back that almost put our sports out of business, not pumps, or has nothing to do. But almost. But at the end of the day, when we lay down at night, I could sleep good because I knew we made the right decision as bad as it hurt. It's like what Ryan said, Yeah, 100%. And that's what the Duralife is to the Duralife doesn't make any money and support yourself. And we're out here doing these things that we love, because it's awesome to be able to get back to our sponsors to give to the people that watch the show, be able to come hang out with you guys and talk about these stories. Like it's awesome, dude. So I'm glad that you know a lot of the power sports or or off road industry is all on the same page here. So a couple other questions that we had was what was the transition to? I've told you this before Dustin, I see you more than I see most of my really good friends. Yeah. And you live halfway across the country. So what was the want or transition to get into desert? Because that wasn't a necessity for the business? No, not at that time. It wasn't we didn't know it was gonna be but it wasn't something we looked at often own. And then can em kind of challenges. You know, Dustin, and Jane and all of them and in this part of the live thing that you're talking about, you know, when they go hey, we'd like y'all race desert next year. Well, that's a door. Yeah, it's like kind of like riding the wave, I guess. Okay, well, if we don't open that door and step through it, and we, we don't know what will happen, so you got to be brave enough in life to step through those doors. You got to have some components to open that door, though. I mean, like, did you guys were you guys naive? Or were you guys like, you know what? We're gonna go all in on this because like, that's a pretty big door to open. We went all in. I'd hate to tell you how much money I spent the first year. Yeah, but I think we were too dumb to know what we're stamping. That's kind of what I'm saying. Like we didn't know No, or Yeah, the same way that their live shows. I mean, we show it we literally went out to Henderson last race before the first race of the year. Just to walk through tech and witness a race. Yeah. Before we raced two months later. Yeah, that's the only desert race we've ever been to in our lives is winter Henderson to 15 December. Race Parker to 15. January. Yeah, I mean, first car we built all photographs. Yeah. From Google image. We had no idea what we were doing no idea what we were doing, dude. You guys need some s3, neck tats. No dog. Boy. Boy already got his dialed in over there. He went. He went through hand tattoos to straight Mike Tyson. He might as well put six nine. tattooed straight out on his throat. aggressive, aggressive stance going from six to 12 is what we call that. How has it been taken? Like how's Oh, we get in fights regularly now. So really? Yeah. yeah we get in fights once in a while it gets wild with the neck tat Yeah, people just assume that you're probably ready to get down every time you want to place with a neck while before the day was well before but it just escalated. I don't know if we're gonna actually be a proponent of that we don't want we don't condone fighting here. Oh, let's go back though that this new says tattoo. So a couple of years back, I don't know, one or two years back, one of our guys shaved his arm and got I guess what was Chris's tattoo was a fake tattoo of sorts. It was Hiner or something talking to Mike. It was that story logo. I know. But what kind of tattoo was it henna tattoo or something, but it looked real. And so he posted on Facebook and like, it was Chris Mashburn. Our our web guy that you saw on there. He goes like Bro, are you kidding me? That's crazy. I was like, Dude, I can't believe you get a tattoo. Well, you let it go on for like two or three days. And then he came in one day and was washed off. And I was like, bro, you're so crazy. So I took that picture of he has posted it up. I made the challenge that if anybody would get an s3 tattoo, I would pay for it. Brian like four days later, two dudes said, I wish I could remember their names. I gotta show them to you after the event. One dude got s3 powersports tattooed all the way under his arm. And one dude on his thigh. Got Homer Simpson. With a mullet with a pair of glasses on they were s and three for the sunglasses. Kanye Homer and amalan one tattoos sickest white Kanye why Kanye wears glasses at night. Thus, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, gotcha. The sickest tattoo I've ever seen. But uh, yeah, two dudes end up getting an s3 tattoo. Shout out to them dude skin. Show. And holy cow. Caleb said pansy. Hey, I don't know about you guys. But pan. That's pretty gnarly for those needs to do that that's going to 100 for sure. Okay, so you talked about like the employees and everybody around here, that's one of the things that I want to talk about is we showed a kind of a group photo of, of everybody that works here at s3, give us a little bit more of an understanding of the people around here in the organization. And well, how awesome everybody is because even when I walked in, man, I didn't get nothing but smiles. It was awesome. Yeah, I mean, you know, if I can, how can I say that? Like everybody here just seems like so not gonna do things, right. And if we're not gonna have fun, then let's go do something else. You know what I mean? And most of the people that work here, are avid enthusiast or racers are. It's, it's, it's strange, in a weird way. And we've been we've been so so fortunate and so blessed along the way that there's a lot of things that you can attribute success to. But there's one thing that you cannot attribute success like this to and it's, it's not having good employees, right? The human factor is always the biggest day has to be so largest asset is your employee, right? Mr. Mao told me early on whenever we started going down this road of you can do it all. You can't be the smartest, you can't be the best look, and you can't be the best spoken. You have to put people around you that can help you. And in the beginning, Mr. Mao was doing all the hiring and firing and locating employees for us. But along the way, he taught me to surround myself with good people that can help us all work together to move forwards. Man, we've been so fortunate just to find good people to work with Hunter Miller if you're still watching another thing you can steal from me is teamwork makes the dream work. So I heard you say that before I didn't quite and I'm just messing with him. But like, but that is a huge thing though. Right? Like on a serious note. That's a that's a business. Exactly. Central domain without a team. Without communication. You have chaos, right? You have to have communication. I like that without communication. You have chaos. That's correct. I like that a lot. Let's see here. So we actually had some someone chime in. I forgot to Caleb I think it was I said, I'll get ESRI tattoo if Dustin pays for it. Oh, no, that was Daniel Adams. That tag that was 10 new items. But no problem, big dog. I'm gonna need you to go and get that done. Send me the invoice I'll take care of but don't be sending me your own invoice for you the amount you decide, send it to me from the tattoo shop. I'll pay that I'm saying it's got to be the aggressiveness like half cheek all the way down to the neck. 100%. I mean, like, you can't be putting it on the bottom of your foot or nothing like that. I'm paying for No, no elbow tattoos. It's got to be straight throat Nick side, back in the head. Something Wait, who was I talking to? I was just talking to somebody the other day that they all like their whole group got tattoos of something. I forgot what it was and it was covered in Prasanna and those guys Yeah, it was Dude your band was similar to that but like their whole group got the same tattoos most of them got them like I don't know what it was just say a tattoo on their arm right? And the other dude the front guy that got it last he was like got it all the way across his belly, right like a big one. And he they go dude, why did you get it? so big and right there and he goes I'm trying to hide it from my wife I don't I'm gonna go like two years like how does that happen like what is your hide different your wife leave the lights off all the time or what what are you wearing a hoodie 24 first thing my wife noticed I know right trade war but actually says do what is d h do d h but he he's taken over like our new product development so like working with the guys like our vehicle comes in like we've got a new shout out to Joey back we've got a new turbo are out there in the shop. Yeah and it's getting all the everything scanned and everything built for it and so Dustin handles new product development what parts we need to do first as far as for day arm kits or gusset kits or tie rods or our axles or whatever. So Dustin is handles all of our new product development basically a scientist basically Alright, so let's see here Ryan Tewkesbury says Logan has been one of the biggest helps to the Crown team. Ya have great people on the team so yeah, the dude man let's do that let's let's go through and maybe give a shout out to some of the people that are behind the scenes because a lot of these people might see the show and have talked to some of these guys on the phone or we're seeing at the races or like Ryan says you know, whatever it is so maybe go through and see if you can give a few of these guys a shout out yeah for sure. What a lot of people don't see is the girls in the front office that process all our orders So Erica that you met a minute ago but Shawn is right beside her. And then Sierra that handles all making sure actually everything gets shipped to you everything gets ordered from other companies or everything gets taken care of so she was in line Yeah, the emails my saying they're coming from me but they are not coming from me they're coming from the girls I have we have a process here. Every customer calls in and orders it and it goes in a database from the time the order hits back there they produce it shipped out or coat comes back when shipping ships. It's all tracked and so a client can call in and go hey, just checking on this another one of those girls can immediately tell him exactly what's going on with the product and then answering the phones you've got Logan and Boone those dudes are always answering any questions may not hear them just as much as taking orders. I hear them just answering people's questions people they want to just want to learn something like hey man Oh my experience doing this and like helping them troubleshoot like my guys just do. They're always answering the phone. Yeah, but those that's exactly what they're talking to you're talking about to is like they're out there doing it right. So they know like they literally know what the product does where they learned it from some of the racing stuff, dude in there around there. People like Tewkesbury that dude can freakin tear some stuff up. So like he's made our cars better or like Logan's like Man, we need to do this to your car. We need to we need to add this to your to your build sheet. Not just for like brand Tewkesbury but for other people that are calling in I was like man, I don't know how to build a text blitz car. Logan has built so many turnkey desert cars king of the hammers cars short course cars, that literally you can call log and say hey, man, I don't know how to get in this. I have this budget. Can you set me up and Logan's like Yeah, dude, I know exactly what you need to optimize your money. If you do a you have to do B and C or Yeah. Or if you say Man, I've got a$10,000 budget. I've got a$50,000 budget, whatever Logan's like art, I will get you the very most and the most competitive car for your budget. If your budget is 5000 Logan's can tell you you need to spend your money on this, this and this. I mean, those who just just absolutely kill it. And then what a lot of people don't see and he's off camera right now he's talking to the mic couple times is Josh like if it wasn't for Josh, we would be the best stuff that nobody knows about. Josh handles all I mean, he owns a media company with us and so he does all the videos all the edits, he did the visions of victory from the very beginning. He does tons of our social media contents all the little nonsense that I post all my stuff Josh does and so he produces the podcast like do Josh is the unsung hero because we would just have the best guys the best parts the best race cars that nobody knows about. If it wasn't for John put out content. Take I can't take all that credit. I mean, Chris Mashburn is a huge part of making sure all this up makes it down. You should be like Dustin and take all the credit for all the wins. Tomorrow like he wanted to see 100 for a while. Yeah. Chris, man, Chris Mashburn I gotta go check. Make sure he still works here. Yeah, it was so quiet. But phenomenally talented. Unbelievable, young man. So that's those are all like do the teamwork just makes the dream work. And hopefully you guys really enjoy the shop tour that Dustin was able to give us earlier it shows some of the talented individuals. I mean, you have Cody Taylor back there designing parts you have all of the talented fabricators that we got to meet today and not one of them was shy or disrespectful they all had a smile on their face and we're ready to go at a moment's notice. I mean, I most people get pissed off and I put a camera in their face all these guys were like hey, you know what? I forgot what his name was. I was welding over there he goes, You know what? I'm gonna be on video. Let me go grab some safety glasses the best answer I've heard all day. Yeah, yeah, I'm proud of those guys, man because there's so many more back there. Anthony that runs a fab shop Cody and Luke that are designers that design the sick parts man, but the unsung heroes are the guys on the shot Yeah, crank these parts cord that coordinates the custom car builds and the chassis builds man filled the wheels are cages Chris that Bill helped build this short course for those two dudes that were shipping boxes because honestly I've never seen hands move so fast boys buy into Yeah, dude, our shipping department kills it man dealing is a guy that we've had for a few years now. box that was probably this big in a matter of like maybe 30 seconds like with parts wrapped it up all that I was like holy smoke while came out here and work beside him on nights when we were way behind on shipping and like I'm trying to package and I'm watching him I'm like, Dude, how do you do this? How do you do it so fast? And so good, man. So just, he's a prime example. He came in here had never done shipping. But he just I have a high school education. Yeah. Okay. But I taught myself Business Law taxes that and Dylan did the same thing. He came in here he'd go home every night and research the proper way to ship so forth and so on. And he's became an indispensable Yeah, for sure. Great employee is the bomb shipping ultimately, man it's been we've been fortunate enough to surround ourselves with people that are hardworking that are dedicated that care about what they do you know, if it wasn't for those guys, man, we would be scrambling around here just trying to keep it open. Yeah. Ryan Tewkesbury saying the same thing just surround yourself with the best people right and it makes your business that the best as well. So alright, so gonna go on a little bit more forward than you guys have a good operating business you guys are doing some really cool stuff. Is there any stuff on the you know in the pipeline or in the future that's coming out that the audience would be interested to know about because you just mentioned the pro our stuff that's cool. Yeah, for sure. Man we get which we're always getting new cars. We just released a bunch of Honda parts you showed Eddie's who a race car so we're just fixing to start releasing our our short course full bill chassis for the Honda Kawasaki parts we released a bunch of those the big thing for us man is you saw it earlier on Mr. Miles Jeep is we just released our own line of Jeep parts that we build here and here in house so that's Front Winch Bumper, rear rear bumper rocks ladders with built in rock lights like some of the triple A and he's running our bumpers Joey back he's running our bumper and our bumpers and sliders like Mr. Mouse out there testing parts he's literally yeah be known him well you saw it Yeah. Join on his accident. He does that on his own it's not because he tested our parts he does that on his own just hard on equipment. What are we sure that Jeep Okay, Mr. Mao broke it we got to be able to Yeah, yeah, so g parts man that's a huge thing for us. You saw our new warehouse we just built humongous warehouse out there about 12,000 square feet. I'm excited for you guys I've placed we've been so fortunate. Well first of all, we're gonna just burn down some pitbike Lance and there before we feel the main Insta bangers Yeah, we're gonna rush over there with the camera we're gonna do that and we were looking at buying this place I had the key that I just got that commander X Yeah. And we come over here and there was nothing in that shop in refrigerator Yeah Oh really? Well refrigerator Yeah, there was a refrigerator and so we're just drifting around in here. Four or five of us. Two of us anyway, I miss judge that last turn and took out the refrigerator knocked a hole in the wall. So I ended up having to Bob if it's not on video never happened. He literally full drift around that huge shop and they're doing probably 30 Inside this building full drift clip the side by side. Oh yeah. Clip the refrigerator with his rear tire center refrigerators through the office wall. Oh my god seriously behind where the cubicles are now blowed the refrigerator through the wall who's like, well, guess I'm buying this building. That is hilarious. No exaggeration. Legitimately happened so it doesn't go over there. He's like, Yep. Well, I still I could definitely work with this guy. Yeah, yeah, that was before he's all in as when we were working at a one day shop over there just across the street. And we were just looking at this place and we were looking at a couple more blue the refrigerator through the office wall. He's like, Well, I guess I'm gonna buy it. Yeah, that's so wild, man. Alright, so let's do like the wind down the show a little bit. We got some rapid fire questions. You probably answered a few of these but We're gonna have Mr. Mouse on these two. So before we go, though, I'd like to know, like, who's been some of your guys's best supporters, not just the people that sponsor the race team, but, you know, customers that have given you bills or anything that's just comes to mind off the top of your head. Because when you go to sleep at night, you got to really count your blessings, so to speak, right? You just be like, Man, we are at a point in our business where it's successful. And we have so many supporters, we have so many good customers now. Like, are there any things that you come to that come to mind when you're in that position? You know, before you go too badly, and like, what? For me, and we pass them around the office, but it's emails we get from customers, customer reviews. I mean, those come in constantly. Manny's call them had a problem, they took care of it or just a multiple Gambit. I think Mr. Mao nailed it man. What people don't realize is some of the some of the private messages I get through social media. And some of the emails like Logan gets, or Shawn gets or Erica gets up at the front office. Literally, me, Mr. myomas, Linda, and everybody in the office, even some of the fab guys that have computers and have email setup, we send it to our whole company. So anytime somebody sends a nice message to us, if it's like, Hey, man, you did an awesome job getting my parts out, the communication was great, thank you for being a great, we literally send it to every employee in the company that has to just say, Guys, awesome job. This is the feedback we're getting. So that's what like Mr. Miles said immediately that comes to mind of man, just I know we're, we're appearance wise or like, perception is we've got all this stuff going on and all the race and then when in the mid 403 times, I don't know if you knew that. Three times, like we've got all Miller's race in our chassis, like all this stuff going on, people don't recognize how nice it is to get a little bit of words of affirmation from people just in casual passing. But that's, that's 90% of your life, though, right? I mean, you, you sit here and you support this business, and you support the people that are working in the business and you support the customers that are buying the products. I mean, we do see all the great stuff on social media about all these things that you're talking about. But the real enjoyment has to come from being the person that you are on a daily basis, which is what you're getting back and the feedback that you're receiving. It's like, man, Dustin, meet at least once a day, when I'm here. Yeah. And it may just be us about whatever. But you know, at the end of the day, it's about being yourself, right? Remember where you came from? Because you can always end up in that 100% I'm sorry. And yeah, got a little fame and a little money and business is good. That can all disappear tomorrow. Yeah. 100%. So, you know, you, you have to be the guy that you want to be at the end, whatever you can say about you bad and different, especially the haters. That was probably one of the hardest lessons I had to teach you. Yeah, it's actually a good lesson to bring up though because it let's just say that, that there is somebody listening to this episode and either a maybe they're starting their own little UTV company, maybe they're UTV business, that the buying parts from you guys in selling it or whatever it is. Don't ever get discouraged. Because if somebody comes at you with negative connotations, or comments, or whatever it is, even the dirt life show receives all kinds of backlash, right? Like, oh, you're doing this and you got this and whatever it is, and I go, Dude, you know what? That's fine. I just respect everybody that appreciates what's going on around me. Because if they don't anymore, and that gets taken away, I will feel like I haven't done them justice. But right now, I'm doing the same thing. And I take so much respect in the people that send us messages that we're doing a good job like, so the haters actually give fuel to the fire. So I understand that we're doing a good job. Our deal with haters is, do not touch it. Yeah. Let it die. Because the moment you chime in on it, here we go. Yeah, that's a good point. Now it's in social media. It's in print, it's out in the air. And the best thing to do with haters. I mean, if you have a problem with a product, please pick phone and call us. Yeah, that's not what I'm talking about. Because you will rectify the situation. Of course, immediately, of course. There's a couple of things that I've that I've learned along the way. A lot of it from Mr. Mail about that is I'm big on self evaluation and figuring out how I can be better every single day. So I don't put any weight or value on people that are haters of mine. And it's grown more and more over the past couple years is we've been in the spotlight, but because you hold yourself accountable already. Yes, but I do read what they put, evaluate it and see if there's any validity to it or if I can take something from that and the next A person that would have been my hater for me, if there's something I can change about me to where I have zero, God or I get my haters zero. So if there's like, man, you just, you're, you're so arrogant and you're podium speeches. I try not to be. But if I was perceived as that I go back and I watch that speech and I say, like, where did I give that perception? Sometimes I didn't give that perception all I'm just like, Okay, this guy's just trying to get a job, right? But if you can fix then I'm gonna fix it every time. So I don't just throw away those comments. You say I'm not a Marine, that sorry, tell you that statement right there makes me so happy to hear because that doesn't just mean that you're a good person. Those qualities go to be the mid 400 champion, because you live your life by that to be a better racer, a better employee with Mr. Mao a better business person, a better person in general, with anything that you do. And that's probably stuff that you've learned from him. Of course, of course, that's so cool, man. So there's nothing I was taught that. Yeah. You know, that's why I was brought up. I'm so glad that you guys are bringing this stuff up. I know, it's not necessarily dirt related. But these things are such good qualities for anybody that's watching the show in life, and then to make yourself a better racer, or a better person at all, because you're holding yourself accountable. And you're reaching and furthering yourself as a person. So I don't let those guys affect me and my happiness, but I do evaluate what they say I consider it and I'll see if I can make sure that doesn't happen again. So good. And second to that man. One thing that I always like to to nurse says he hates your hair. That's okay. You know what hunter? I know Hunter, you're just being a hater dog. There's nothing wrong with his hair. And this is perfect to be you're just being a hater. So I'm not cutting it if that's what you're getting at. The other thing that's always been big to me is kids that I run into, and a lot of their parents say, We love that your kid our kids can watch your social media can watch your videos, and we don't even consider if they're gonna see something inappropriate that they shouldn't see. Yeah. You already have a child of your own. His name is Gunnar. But you're but you're letting Ryan Edwards Yes. Shout out to Ryan Edwards for taking care of my kid and not making me pay child support. I've actually where my grandkids go school store, I was walking out and this young man but malefactors named Hunter, literally next door to us now. But his dad owned a big store here in town and he was on the phone, the granddad now walk past the young man. And he goes, Hey, Mr. Mao, you know, and he's six. And so we start talking and then he will watch his vision to victory and oh, cool, you know, and his granddad kind of looks gets off the phone looks at me fun asset. He watches visions of victory. All that y'all. I said, yeah, that's, yeah, I need to bring him by the shop. But those things mean a lot to OSHA for sure. And it's important to have always thought to take time with with kids at the races to acknowledge them to tell them congratulations, tell them they're doing good job because one day I was that kid and I was just dreaming of being who I am now. And so I try to be a good steward of the opportunities that I'm given. Yeah. 100% Our BOYNTON I think your Boynton says thank you for building a great car still racing and winning in Hunter Miller's jncc final car my man that's what I'm saying those chances are still getting around dude, it's solid, right? Yeah. Shake that so much more than more than you know, buddy. I appreciate you taking time to Yes, there you go. There's one of the things that makes you happy, right good. Good job for giving us some positive influence. But that is really cool. And I want to end the show on a good note because to me that's what everything is about like life is literally about that because if all of a sudden this stuff was taken away like what Mr. Mouse said, you still can rest highly on your morals and your morals right like you still have that it's it's such a good way to operate live so I'm really proud of you guys for doing that. And I know that the customers definitely appreciate it too. All right, Mr. Manoj, are you ready for some of these rapid fire questions? They're good ones. Okay. We all bear with me. Alright, so you want Mr. Mal to go first? You want to go second? Dustin? Yes, sir. All right. Rapid Fire question number one. tacos or hot dog? Tacos. carnitas out here get really with it. Carl, how about you Dustin? Tacos? For sure. I'm going the honeycomb ones. We always call them the honeycomb was this one's I cooked by the fire and then freaking scrape it off? Yeah. What is it called? Yeah. Yeah. It's portal. Pastore. Yeah, got your Pastore. Oh pastor doesn't they're so good. Tacos Blondo down in Stanford Center. If you're I don't even know what you just said. I couldn't understand none of that wants that further though. El Paso tacos or hot dog on a stick? Oh, I don't understand this whole hog on a stick. Is it at a mud ride? Or is it just general public? Oh no. It's gonna stick every time hotdog. Masters involved give me give me a little bit of a description like is it like a big sausage or like just the girl a theist sausage you can imagine just it's a sausage. Only a stick, dip it in something and then you just eat it. Mustard. Yes. Good God. Well if you're really on pro level, you put mustard into like a napkin and you roll it in there so every bite has mustard from top to bottom. Oh you're going all the way around all the way round top to bottom holy smokes that's a pro level move you don't know none about it yet. This does sound pretty pro level All right, actually this one this is a question we usually have dudes are the river but let's go with dunes the river or is it called the mud? Yeah, we should say yeah. Dunes a river or the mud. guy you know that's gonna pick if you gotta go tomorrow, where are you going? Buddy? bottom button. There you go. All right. What about you decimal? It's more like that's where that's where I was born. That's where I was conceived. That's where I'm just pull it all the way. All right. action shots or still shots. Actually, we should let Josh answer those first. action shots are still shots. And we're talks. We're talking like shots. That's what it's fast. But I'd say Josh knows it's neither one of those for me. Oh, really? Josh knows though. Yeah, action shots are still shots. I mean, like, were you talking like the nice clean brand new car build on a really nice like high resolution picture? Or are we just talking the raw nasty coming through a sand berm or something? Like he went on with life for sure what you got on Mr. Mile? What do you think he's got action or steals? Ah, man. I don't know. I'd say I want to say stills. But I don't know. Because he's like chrome back in the day. I remember that. Yeah. Yeah. He's boys in the Chrome. Gun. Look at his truck. It was all chrome. But now Chrome and Chrome wouldn't cool now. So if have you ever met Arnold Schwarzenegger? He's got a chrome Hummer. Oh, really? Yes. Don't Don't do all chrome jams. Don't do this. We can have a chrome Jeep sitting in the parking lot. Stop. Just stop thinking that we're not alone. No. Yeah. Yeah, I do actually. So we want to take you to the next level. We might get a chrome Hummer for Mr. Mouse action shot. I mean, how sick would that be? Well, I mean, who's funding this project? Georgia is what I'm wondering if you're funding the chrome armored cool let's get some action shots. I would love to be able to say I could Yeah All right, so action are still shot. Like that. Yeah, action ones are definitely good. I'm on the fence man. I'm a big fan. Josh said it a minute ago of candid shots. So I like the shots when people are having fun together and they don't know somebody's taking on 100% That's the way I'm candid shots all day. That's my jam. That's the way I've always approached the dirt life so I appreciate that comment there. Let's see here. Dunes are extra shots. Oh three wheeler or quad but how much Chrome does Mr. Male have on his dog? Three wheelers back in the day. Yeah, I had a what kind of three will you raised? In here we got had a 250 R but but a bigger jug and piston 350 Are the Ducati came that the Honda had a five speed and let the coffee came out. God ate myself. Oh, I remember that. We actually had a conversation with somebody about this coffee had a six speed so I had to upgrade up the size of the cylinder bore to a 350 and add some chrome redo the sprocket? Yeah, but I'd eaten copies for lunch on the three wheeler road when you go and get Chris Robinson on the horn. Oh, he's got one I would kill to have that GM. Oh, it's 200x. No. He's also really but he's got a beautiful all original toolkit. Dr. freewheeler was a 200 deck. Yeah, so Mr. Miles go to three women. Yeah, clearly. As much as you read that's not what I've heard before, but I'll go with it. Oh, no. Yeah, yeah. I can just see this watch someone rice a three wheeler. Yeah, I can just see Mr. Malley slid. He's got off. Yeah, he's got all his gear on. And he's like, You seen him where they had their butt cheek on the pegs. All the way down, dude. Yeah. So what are you going with? So I don't want to get coloring books for Christmas but rest of my life. So I'm going on. Okay, I'm sticking a four wheel bike with the bikes. Not the three wheel bike. Okay, well then let's change it up quad. Like a I don't know a West Coast squad or like a mud quad. Oh, my quad like the Renegades up there. Yeah. I'm there. Yeah, always. Alright, so Oh, pizza rolls or jalapeno poppers? Ella Pena. i This is my guy right here. What are you going on with the rolls all day and I don't even put them in the oven I like a mushy and kind of soggy from the microwave Yes What are you dipping them in rage? Is that even a duty rain try it with all garden Italian dressing cash that's pretty level move right there yeah pro tip coffee or tea Mr. Mouth coffee. Is it sweet tea? like green tea or what is it? This is a discussion that everybody yells at me for like I just drink regular unsweetened tea and every single time I come to tell us the devils child. Exactly they reply I get every single time it's like something happened like I just are you trying to go? Drinking moonshine? time you get the text? Generally sweetie? Yeah. Let's see Kelly wasn't coming for you sooner or later and the man who said that? Cali boy AZ tech caliber Boise tech I swear, even if he wins, you're gonna claim it. Yeah, just paint your car yellow and come race me and I don't care if you win or you don't. All right, Mr. Mao are actually did you? Did you answer coffee or tea? I feel like I said sweet tea. If it's not sweet tea, I'm going straight golfing. Correct. I'm already condemned. And I like my coffee. Just like I like my whim. Way. No, that didn't work for guys. Yeah, yeah, nevermind. Doesn't work the same. All right here. Let's see her favorite movie, Mr. Mouse? Oh, oh, man is all in one. And yeah, well, you can only one. I was gonna say you could. The greatest movie ever made the Blues Brothers. That is a good movie. All right. So what about you does Talladega Nights everyday. That's my go to I put it on every night before I go to bed. I mean, I could see it. And I go straight to the scene where he talks about pacing. Excellent. That's where I started Talladega Nights. You start every morning, every morning watching that? That scene. So Talladega Nights. That's how you live your life, man. Alright, sketchiest moment of 2021 Don't wait. Let's go with let's go with this year because we're already halfway through the year. Oh, what's your scariest moment of this year? I mean, oh, Dustin had about 18 A moment demand for Hunter but he still pulled it off. Yeah. My sketches was on that. 25 the other day back in, came around. Mr. Miles place. He hopped around here for about a week and a half. I think he dislocated his hip. Yeah. So let's preface this you guys got any bike so to speak, right? Yeah. So Mr. Mao is getting wild or what? Clover growing on the levee and there was a turn to slow down. Oh, I think we're better at writing anything than we are. Okay. Yeah. We immediately went to 12 o'clock whenever we got our pit bike. So two people wire wiped out in the parking lot. They did and the conqueror. were patting it leaves. Yeah, I mean, we got t shirts only shorts. So we're kind of got a hoodie for extra protection. Yeah, we wear our hats backwards. So that's like a D O T helmet. I didn't wear a half helmet. Yeah, Mr. Malley actually does miss. keeping it safe safety. Like this, though. It's a baby. That's to put a salad bowl on his head and said mostly not being safe. Okay, so the sketchiest moment of 2021 Sounds like it's probably going to continue but what's your Scotch is that we definitely had some sketchy moments in the domain 400 For sure. During the races when I'm in the car, it is Wild Wild. Walk it on the nose. But the sketchiest moment probably is me and Quinton wrecked his 950 horsepower Corvette a few weeks back and so like record into what Ah, yeah, we just got Yeah, we wrecked it. When I say we wrecked it. I was just third Corbett direct. Second here. Yeah. So my boy decided he was a drift master. And a Philly Bill supercharged 06 throws it into the corner slides. It ships fourth gear, so he thinks he's Vonnegut Jr. Thanks. He's bgj hits fourth gear in this slide. And now the car is accelerating so hard because it's I mean, I feel like that's above 50 miles an hour eat dog. We was way above 50 miles an hour in the car washed out and so we blew some street signs. blew the whole backing off the Corvette and blew all the airbags out of the driver's side so you just got back the other day we wrecked that truck to kind of drifted around the exit up there but so fell asleep coming across the bridge. Oh no. It didn't hurt anything when he did that. Oh. The wildness just keeps escalating. Yeah. So just on a funny note Oh, I did have somebody I'm not gonna name names. Tell me when I got out of the Uber. Yeah, that watch out for Quinn. Yeah, you gotta watch out for him because he will get a neck tattoo if that tells you anything. You know, what goes my brother was and one of the main reasons is because at some point that MacBride he is truly going to try to kill him. For sure. He will just like when he went off that 25 foot and back. Oh, yeah. Oh. That didn't hurt him. It sounds like we just need to have a podcast just with Quentin. Yeah, he got some good stories. We'll just call it like in deep yeah, see what comes next for sure. All right, if you guys could have one superpower what would it be? That's easy for me. I mean, we're talking anything time travel fly. X ray vision I'm pro go back in time you want to go forward like where are you going? That's actually a good good one. Is any of you come? Well actually What if you get trapped you can't come back. No then you make the best way yet? Go on down the road. Lou. That would be a hard decision to make man as your mouse feet are out there that's all good one liner right there. All right, what about you? That's what superpower you taken. Huh? Yeah, I'm torn between x ray vision. And is it because of the McKercher Yeah 100% I want to be able to see what you're getting into safety purposes I've got to be able to see through clothes Oh, oh if I see through the skin Oh, it's like that I don't know I don't want that there man. I just want to fly. Okay, look, I thought he could see through clothes like I thought it was layered X ray vision you know what I mean? Well, that's your answer layered X ray so what I want layered X ray vision dot O so you can turn it back? Yeah. Oh, this just from a personal safety I want to make sure nobody's caring so when you're around dudes you can just turn it off. Yeah, definitely shut it off completely. Netflix or YouTube Netflix comm coming out with some fire stuff, but YouTube's always got the stuff that's like, I don't know. Like this is victory. There you go. Doubt. I would have to say I do watch. My wife has a Netflix idiot. Yeah. Have you seen me learn a lot for you too. Yeah. That's what everybody says Google first and then YouTube. He goes through college like that for sure. Yes. I have to be learning things all the time. And I can hop on youtube I have a college degree in it but yeah, end of the day 100% Yep. Especially fixing Sprinter vans I got my college degree and washing machines saved myself $1,000 on one little board in there that Samsung puts in all their washing machines that bought off the 180 5 million instead of save money you go Netflix or YouTube does YouTube and chill all day YouTube and chill all day. Oh here we go. So kind of going on the action shots associates will let Josh answer this first videos or photos Josh man you got about another 45 minutes Okay, so you did show me this and that you have a few expensive cameras over there I'm pretty jealous but so I think he's gonna probably pick videos 100% Oh he's making video video all day Michelle What are you going with videos or photos video because while you Josh shoot stuff that tells a story yeah stories manning them still looks great. Hang it on the wall but with a video you can tell an entire story yeah guys lifetime 30 minutes or you can learn how to fix a washer on YouTube yeah oh wait we had a question coming in from Cali Boise tech said forward to what future are you going to? I don't know multiple kind of like is layered X ray There you go. Jump ahead little move around. That's what my first things out. That's what my superpower would be. Have you ever seen that movie jumper where you can get up to those different like dimensions or whatever he's not really traveling in the future he just go on to different places. Like that's my jam. I feel like I'd be like just like that. Because I love exploring. Yep, it's see everything. Although if I didn't do that, I would probably have to open up my diet a little bit to include crawfish and all of these Did you already answer video for Odessa? I didn't. So this is what I'm going to tell you about this. Oh, there we go. I prefer video. Can you go back and enjoy it and watch it but the reason I don't prefer photos and started trying to train myself to do this, as I learned several years back that when you go to places like the Grand Canyon or like at the st Khalid Arad and you take a picture of something on your phone, your mind doesn't know retain that as much as if you just sit there and look at it and take it in your mind teaches yourself that hey, I can brain dump this because I've got something to go back to and look at it. So for me, whenever we go places I don't often take pictures of views that we are right where we're at. I like to just sit there and take it in. But because we do so much with jobs like I really liked the video documentary stuff, that's mainly so I can show other people the experience, right so in a roundabout way, I guess it's video for me. So I'm gonna go halfway in between and say reels because you can include all things you can just have a mash up of everything. Yeah. Let's see here. So most memorable race, Mr. Mallya go first? Oh, Lord have mercy. Most memorable race. And when we get to any, it doesn't even have to be in a side by side. bar down there. Yo. Yeah. Was a co dog and for him. Oh, really? Yeah. And we got down. We weren't too far out of applause. And if we run it through, oh, God didn't work for that tall. Man in my time, but all you see your fire ants and everybody waving on and here comes from lights in the back. That nerved a little we pull over. Oh, God, who was Mark Burnett, Burnett passes. And so I'm sitting there looking up. And every one of these. Whoops, he is casing the back of the car. And I told us and I said we're gonna pass him here in a little bit. Yeah. And sure enough, he broke that chassis and half. Round mark. We went yesterday wouldn't five miles later. Yeah, it's crazy how much these UTVs can handle nowadays. All right. Sure, most memorable raised us and I mean, other than the three men, four hunters that you want. So there's probably two that are really really memorable. To me, the most memorable and the most important to me was winning the mint. 400 the first time Yeah, so for me, that was a defining moment for our winner. Yeah, that was a defining moment for s3 race. I can see because that solidifies. It really puts your place in the record books or in the history books, right. Like it's like I've done this in the side by side racing community. Yeah, I mean, for me, it was all these guys had been doing this go. Where are these guys from again? I remember saying the same exact thing, Mr. Mouth. Yeah, I was wondering the same exact thing. Yeah. That was the one that was the most defining race for us for sure. So probably my first most memorable second is is the year that we crashed at x three at the I remember that I was so heartbroken and scared at the same time. Yeah, man, that really made an impact for me. And I never told anybody but a couple of years following that and made an impact on me driving in the dust. It I couldn't it was involuntary and subconscious. But for two or three years after that, I couldn't drag the same in the dust. Yeah, well, there you go. James Morgan. There's your answer, buddy. Let's see here. Oh, my favorite snack. Favorite stat. I mean, you're going all the way across the country in a truck. What do you eat, buddy? We need to have some Millennium Ice cream. Oh, what is this? You've never had Bluebell asking No. Why don't I don't eat sugar. Oh, oh, you're Louisiana. So you can do sugar all this stuff? They only make short runs of it. You only get it every now and then. Yeah, yeah, wheels the jam. All right. So what's your favorite snack? So mine's kind of a moving target and a dog hotdogs let's take for sure you go to but if I'm talking sweets right now, my go to is the new nerds that they released. That's the little pieces of chewy nerds with the little nerds things stuck to it. Okay, so like you just we just became best friends because if I did do sugar that would be my that's my jam right now. So basically took the Nerds Rope and cut it into little sections. So it's like a gummy chewy thing in the middle with nerd stuck to my mouth has already well that's my jam right now. I shouldn't have asked you to listen to this question from last because I'm getting hungry now. Let's see here. This was gonna be a desert racing or short course but let's do a mud event or a desert racing event. Mr. Mao, I kind of feel like you're leaning towards the mud but maybe I'm wrong I mean, we're really like going into the desert race working in the pit stats and that kind of stuff. Well, there's a whole nother logistical level right people have no idea Yeah, like rice and Vegas to Reno I mean, it's a concerted effort got three or four Chase be able to calculate at one year king of the hammers you weren't gonna take fuel and I put my foot down. Stop. Think was We'd put fuel in it because I'd calculated oh really great run out. So that's one of the things that we always talk about too is that it's not always the decision in the car. That's the best decisions a lot of times it's the logistical decision behind the scenes. Certainly. That's certainly true. That's crazy. Well what next desert race are you gonna go to the smell? I don't know what you have on the on the on the schedule, or stay in Vegas to Reno is next year you're gonna go and check it out. Sweet man. All right, so what about you? Are you going mode? Are you going desert race so if I'm competing around driving, it's desert racing 1,000% of the time, but if it's just to show up to be a part of the VPN, it's it's McGrattan because the camaraderie and the fun and like the experience in McGrattan is Yeah, slightly different. It sounds like yeah, Li Li diff out here we go. We just had man you got a long name Raza power sports nerd gummy clusters. Yeah, he knows my dude knows Mike from progressive that helped us out in Vegas Reno last year. Thanks very much James. Dustin had always been awesome and all the races so you guys make it a mark even to other speaking of awesome at the races when me in cowboy Dustin Henderson. Eric Yep, signed up to race dirt bikes. Actually. Ryan Edwards race with us. This news stepped in and took him driving because it was the day after we born the man and I physically couldn't race a dirt bike Yeah, it's a James stepped up take your spot dog put it in that day someone boy James making some laps putting in the heat for me. All right, one other form of racing. Mr. Mao, would you like to try? God? Is the car in the background a new Desert Car? That's the king of the hammers color that we won them in? 400. And just the other day, it's a very versatile car. Yeah, we race King. They resented twice I've raced in three desert races. And then this one over here is like an EVO built big motor, big turbo play core. It'll blow your socks off. It'll definitely Thanks, Todd. Over at EVO power. Yeah, holler at your boy. Question again. What other form of racing? Would you like to try on? Drag Race? We're talking Hey, you gotta have something else you'd like to write? Have you ever seen those sketchy ass speedboats that they have over the guy? The guy in the passenger seat goes like this and they gotta like, those guys are freaking nuts, man. Like, I was thinking maybe that would be cool. I want to do monster trucks like Todd will do come into that. Yeah. Yeah. So anything. I mean, we're talking anything. Geez, I don't know. I've done so much. Everybody always answers f1 I feel like that's I mean, it's cool. But it's so fun. I mean, have you ever racing it has to be NASCAR. Oh, you're going NASCAR? Yeah, I mean, just you get to beat and bang and push and shove I mean, that is pretty cool. Have you guys seen those? There? It's my boggers but they have like the 60 inch tires and big old Ford trucks. Yeah, Florida buddies that have you guys done those. Now that now that'd be fun. That's popular. That would be wild. Yeah, that's big in Florida, but those Yeah, those guys look like if they lose it. They would just cartwheel Oh yes. All right. So what are the fundraising you want to try? Man? I'm for sure go in those sad cart dirt bike races. Oh, those guys who is your partner? Who's the guy? How are we Cerrone? Are you guys gonna switch can you go like driver? We're running half the race in the swamp. And the only reason I'm not putting Dustin Henderson with me which is my freakin co driver and homeboy is I don't want nothing to happen to him. Yes, so cowboy Cerrone is ran passenger with me and we're sad card dirt bike racing. Holy smokes. That would be so wild. That's what I that's what I'm trying to get into next. Dude, I'm like, I don't even know what to say. That's where I'm at. All right, we got two more questions left. Mr. Mao, Who is your celebrity crush? Oh, God celebrity crush. Yeah. crushes. Well, I mean other wife of course. We have Dustin answer this one first. All right, Dustin, thinking about it already. No. idea. I know her name, but I know who it is. The girl from Wolf of Wall Street. Well, who is that one? The Josh. What's that girl's name from Wolf of Wall Street. I'm gonna look it up right now. Margo. God, Raquel Welch from back in the day. You know she wants to have bad brother Yeah, I don't know. She was the Raquel Welch was was for me. She was the Elvis for women. redhead. Oh, yeah. Rock Hill. What mine Jennifer Connelly. I say it like every time you know the girl from beautiful mind or Requiem for a Dream because those are also my favorite movies. No, never even heard of that. Better. Yeah, that's her name mark. Margot Argo. Margaret Margaret robic that's your girl that is my jam. Robbie. I'm sure you listen to the dirt life Show podcast yeah call him up. So if you are like my answers he boiled slide and then be alright it's the last question of the night and I'm not going to talk about Hot Dog on a Stick we're giving you guys a question chips and guacamole or french fries and ketchup chips and guacamole french fries and ketchup. Whoa, we got two different answers here. I know dozens already answered that on the show but man french fries and ketchup What about French fries and ranch? I would every once in a while you know what I mean? I just put the tip of it in so I'm not going full french fry you know just you're not going full wrap it in like you would have not been saying all right. Is there anything you guys want to talk about before we bail out and go get somebody? I don't think so. I think you did a pretty solid job tonight. I'm gonna be honest with you. I thought this was a lot better than all of your previous dirt life show shows me number 124 is the best. sure this has been far better. Some of the other ones put me to sleep like this year Romo one. Man, what a great episode with Dustin and Mr. Mao here at ESRI. powersports in Louisiana. We appreciate them having us hospitality was awesome. Appreciate you guys hanging out. We love you guys. See you next week.