Speaker 1: When your old career gives you lemons throwing some ice
mix in some vodka colored a podcast from the Mac
of All Trade studio in Fairport and driven by Victor
Chrysler Dots jeep Ram. It's Billified, the Bill Moran Podcast.
Speaker 2: Well, hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pot on,
Thanks for telling a friend. That's how we spread the
word about the pirate Ship. I am so excited today
because sitting in the studio, I think for the first
time in this studio.
Speaker 3: Second time.
Speaker 2: Okay, you have been here before.
Speaker 3: I remember here with David Brody.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I do remember that. Yep, Okay, that's what
I thought. It is racing Randy, you know Randy. As
I was coming over today, I've been getting up early,
and I was like, wow, I got a lot done.
I made protein muffins this morning. I had put together
another podcast for that'll drop later today. I folded laundry
and then I discovered I don't know where my head
was yesterday. But I wish this wasn't me who did this,
because then I could really bitch about it. But I
can't because it's my fault, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: So I had I was running around yesterday running all
these errands. You had my kid with me. Come home
and I'm like, let me throw in some whites. So
I do the whites, and then I go, well, let
me get some other things done too, so I'm not
stop backing up on me. And I'm like, I should
even wash the pants I have on. So I put
on some sweatpants and I take the pants off, and
I'm in such a like just go mode that I
don't even I didn't even take the belt out of
the pants, so I throw them in. I would go
to put everything in the dryer, and I go, shit,
I left belt, so I let the belt air dry.
Take that out. Put everything in today. I go because
I you know, I got late last night, and I'm like,
I'll just fold it tomorrow. So hey, go to take
it out of the dryer. I had a pen in
my pocket. Oh the pen melted, and now it's all
over the dryer like it looks like spin art inside
the dryer and on some of the clothes there's ink
like jeans stuff all just covered an ink like fuck.
So now I don't know if I have what I'm
gonna do about the dryer. So I went in there
with with alcohol and you know, not whiskey, just the
rubbing alcohol. And I was like trying to rub it
out and some of it came out, but not all
of it. And then I'm like, I better just let
this air dry because if I turn on the dryer
there's a chance it'll fucking catch fire because I had
the alcohol in there. So I like, let that fucking
air dry out. Let's see what happens. And I go,
but is this ink going to continue to melt in there?
Or is it now like just part of the dryer.
It's just a speckled dryer. And that's fine. I just
don't want to getting on all the clothes.
Speaker 3: That's my thing. I've done that before. I've left Penn's
and huh, I got lucky. They came out in the
washer and I found him before putting them in the driver.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I didn't. I did, not, fucking fucking buddy.
Yeah it does. Racing Randy is a guy I've known
for a number of years. Met him through the radio
when I was on w CMF. Randy is a NASCAR
enthusiast and he even brought this for our studio that
we will proudly display you can get all kinds of
stuff up.
Speaker 3: I gotta say that's brand new, never been hung. That's
a promo from the company, and uh, it's it's got
to be the minimum nineteen ninety four and ninety five
when that's.
Speaker 2: From who whose car was it?
Speaker 3: Hutch Strickland drove it first, that Jimmy Spencer was the
one who's really known for driving it. Okay, but hutch
Drickland and I have both die camps up, Hutch Jockland
and Jimmy Spetrick.
Speaker 2: You do you know I had yet? Yes, So we
met Randy because we were on CMF. Wes had left.
It was me and Tommy and I think everybody was
still there.
Speaker 3: No Christian Dan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there was a bunch of people. Yeah.
I think they were all.
Speaker 3: Phil Billailly, philil Billy, Sally.
Speaker 2: And so Tommy starts making fun of a couple that
got that were engaged and they went to a toy
show at the Village Gate mall. Yes, and this guy
was interviewed by the paper and Tommy He's like, what
a loser man? How could this guy get engaged? I
can't even get laid and this guy get laid that
at that, and so he goes if you collect or whatever,
and Randy calls up to defend collecting, and then I say,
I want to come out and see this and video it.
And we went out to Race and Randy's house and
it just became a thing, and we had Randy on
regularly on the radio. When I left CMF, Randy came
over to radio ninety five to one for a while
and then the podcast sporadically, and that's how it all
kind of began. But how much money do you have
invested in die cast?
Speaker 3: If I had to, if I had to get like,
if you could value it, well, what it's valued now,
it's not very shit. I'd be lucky. Truthfully, what even
all the stuff I got, Yeah, nobody will pay nothing
for it. I'd be lucky if I could get lucky.
If I could get five to eight grand for it,
and I probably got close to fifty to sixty invested. Wow,
But that's collecting from nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: Why why the disparity in the investment versus the value
just drip?
Speaker 3: Everything's dropped like baseball cards. They took a hit. I
remember they were I mean, I remember paying twenty five
hours for a baseball card. Ooh, this is great, it's
gonna go up. And next thing I know, it went
down to five dollars and now I was down to
a buck. And you know, some cards are coming back.
But racing is not the same as it used to be.
And the worst part about it is die Cast. Now,
when I was buying die Cast the top of the
Line back in nineteen ninety five, brand new in the package,
thirty eight bucks, thirty eight dollars, the top of the line. Yeah,
Now top of the lines are one hundred and twenty five,
one hundred and forty dollars sometimes more.
Speaker 2: Why is that? If the value is in there.
Speaker 3: It's just that the companies have changed. There used to
be Action and it was Motorsports Authentics, then it was
somebody else and now Linel Trains that own them. For
like the last five to ten years, Linel Trains has
owned them. Okay, I mean, and they're all upscared and
you can buy a cheaper version. Yeah, I mean you can't.
They very rarely. You see them in the like Walmart.
Back when Racing Champions was around and there was winter
circles around, you could buy them in Walmarts. You don't
see that anymore. In twenty four scale cars they're gone.
So now you still buy the little ones. Yeah, still
buy sixty four scale cars, but the big ones are gone,
you know. And it's just crazy how it all changed.
And like, I've got cars. I mean I was back then.
I was buying what was forty five bucks by I'm
buying I'm buying it. I'm buying it. I have bought
cars since then. True story. There was drags. I have
some drags. Was at home that when they came out
in nineteen ninety five there were thirty eight dollars and
they were so rare they skyrocketed three fifty four hundred
and five one with six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Why didn't you part with him? Then?
Speaker 3: I didn't have them? Oh I couldn't afford the prices. Yeah, yeah,
I got them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I have bought all those drags or within the last
five years and not paid over twenty seven dollars for them.
Speaker 2: Okay, And do you think they'll go up again?
Speaker 3: I don't care. I don't care. I bought them because
I wanted them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what because you are? I would say, I was
going to say a NASCAR enthusiast. But but I'll say this,
I think you're a race enthusiast, maybe a motor sports enthusiast. Uh,
you go to all the dirt track in Canandaigua. You're
a big supporter of the local guys to your race,
and Randy is sponsored.
Speaker 3: On cars right to me bored and Nick Cooper.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and and then you're you love drag racing yep.
Speaker 3: As you know, I helped run Sealth Butler drag right. Yeah,
there's my number one thing. This is my use of
Sunday Morning, Welcome to self, Butler here on August twenty eight,
twenty twenty five. That's when my call, that's my first call.
I'm helping everybody. Now. I used to do that about
a thirty quarter to nine talking and Mike and he
love that stuff though, Oh I love it. I mean
it goes crazy now. And since I've got Tracy involved
the last two years, it's even better.
Speaker 2: Than Tracy's your wife. What's the uh what what's better?
Does dirt beat asphalt in terms of racing?
Speaker 3: Well, you know what kind of does to me because
I couldn't go to them.
Speaker 2: Yes, ah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3: So it's fun and I got I know a lot
of the drivers of Justin Harris, Matt Williamson has been
the track champion there. Justin's the three time chief of CANDEGO,
Darryl Ruggles, who you mean you both know, his daughter Alisha,
Mike Minutlow, Blaine Smith, uh all kind of just Peter Britton, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know and gil Ted guy with the broke headed,
broke his neck, who got hurt the first first race
this year, got hurt real bad. You know, it's nice
to be you can talk to them guys to see
what's going on.
Speaker 2: Right, you know, talk, Well, you going to the pits
and they all bring some of these guys bring a spread.
The Phelps cement guys bring a whole spread. Randy's over, Hey,
you gotta come over here, tryna buddy, rubbers put out
of spread.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2: And Randy go and is invited to all of them.
He goes and dines nicely.
Speaker 3: We just to let you know. Remember Alex Payne we
first a sixteen year old kid. Yeah, he just won
a big race down in Charlotte yesterday. I think it
was yes modified, not big modified, had the dirt track
in Charlotte.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, Kid's on his way, Yes he is.
And the kid is on his way.
Speaker 3: They call him the slide Job Express.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite NASCAR memory? Do you have a favorite
nat because I know, like you have gone to a
couple different tracks and think you've been to Bristol.
Speaker 3: No, I've never been to Bristol.
Speaker 2: You've been to New Hampshire. Been to New Hampshire that
was okay, you weren't in the Poconos Pocono's and then
Watkins Glenn on the regular bit.
Speaker 3: And Dover and then Richmond I've been to. I mean,
the stories from Watkins Glenn back in the nineties are crazy.
And I told you before, but probably my proudest moment
is because I wanted to do this for my wife.
Tracy was two years ago. We got to be real
friends with the people that run Kyle Busch's trailer. We
got to talk to him. We talked to him the
year before before he had left Joe Gibbs and he
said he's gonna go somewhere, but he wasn't quite sure.
Then we signed with Richard JODI's Racing. So we go
back and the guy actually remember him and his wife
remembers us. We got Betsy. That was Betsy. God, what's
his name? God, I can't remember. We've got to be friends.
They know U when we come to walk, they know us.
All the tracks they go to all over the country.
The remember us. So we got talking to him, and
then he says to me on on Friday morning, Hey,
Kyle's going to be signing autographs on Sunday morning for
I think it. It's like ten thirty eleven o'clock for
an hour. You're gonna have to get in line. You
gotta get this band, Okay, he says. When we did
it at Lanta, the first one, there was people at
twelve thirty in the morning in line. No ship to
get a band?
Speaker 2: Really, how do where is this release? The information?
Speaker 3: Well, this will come, this comes out. I'm getting to
so and he says, but don't say nothing because Kyle's
supposed to release it Saturday morning on his Instagram.
Speaker 2: It'll explode, right.
Speaker 3: So we go over to So we go this is Thursday.
We go see him Friday. God, damn, Kyle freaking said
something on his Instagram. Now, So Kyle let it out early,
so you know, and I'm talking to him in me
andwhile me and trace you're buying. So we spent oh,
Bobby eleven hundred bucks on his trailer that year. I
kid you not. We had spend one hundred bucks, but
you had to buy fifty bucks with the stuff that day,
so we trace. You're talking about it. I said, well,
I'm going to get up early and go. Shea's what
time going to get up? I said, well, I'm not
going at twelve thirty. Ain't gonna happen. So we go
to bed Friday. I go to bed Saturday night. Okay,
I go to bed ten o'clock. Toss, turn, toss, turn.
I know. I got to get up, and finally ten
after two, it said I'm done. Get. I got up,
I got dressed, gave her a kiss, and away I
go with my chair, my sweatshirt and the bottle of water,
and I go walking up through all these people. We're
still just comming home to go to bed. Get even
going to bedget and walking through the campsites and all
that stuff. And I'm laughing. And I get up there
and I'm the only one standing there. Okay, at two
forty five in the morning, I'm the only person there.
So I'm looking around and said, that's okay, and you
still watch people down drunk fall down, and what didn't
fall down, well about about fifty one hundred feet. Awave
me somewhere. It's a bathroom and it was nice when
I went up there, really nice. Started to get cold
in the morning. It's a guy than I got a
sweatshirt on it, and I'm kind of getting a little
so I'm going into the bathroom and they got the
heaters you push on, and I got my shirt like this,
and I'm gonna heat down on my shirt. I've done
that with four or five times. Nobody else showed up
until six thirty to show up there, and the kid
showed up with a bike. He said, you're the first one.
I said, yeah, how long you've been here? I say
it's two forty five. He says wow, yeah. So then
we're standing in a couple more guys. It was like
four of us standard. Also, there comes this lady around
from the backside of the trailer. This is like seven
point thirty. She goes, you guys in line. Yeah, I'm first. Oh,
I'm on the wrong side of the trailer. I thought
it was over there, but she didn't get there untill
like seven o'clock. She was standing over there at seven
o'clock on the other side. I said, she was on
the wrong side. But it says okay, he said, you're
fifth in line. That ain't bad. She goes, what times
you can and I tell you, and she goes, God,
my husband wouldn't do that for me. He would even
do it with giving away cash. So I'm standing there,
you know. And then we're talking and then uh, Tracy
texted me a quarter after seven. She goes, how many
people are there? I said, no, right now, there's about ten.
I said, nobody got her. At six thirty. She goes,
would you like some coffee? As I would love some coffee?
And bring me my hood has sweatshirt out of the
truck ause I'm freezing. So she comes up there, gets
there about seven thirty and we're talking, and there's a while.
The line has gotten down if they partly. They're going
Parler trail and they go back around behind the trail
and I'm staying. I said, hey, you guys, mind if
I let her sneak in, we don't care. We're in line,
we don't get care. So she pops in line and
made her go first, so we got to be the
first two. Meanwhile, we're standing there. Here comes to people
that run the trailer. They're laughing if they see us
standing there. First, then these guys from NASCAR and then
from RCR there and they interviewed me. Okay, they find
out I was there at two forty five in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he said, how about that?
Speaker 3: I said, well, I did this for my wife. She
wants to meet Kyle Busch and she just get all
the grabbed. I said, at least we're gonna get all get.
Speaker 2: Her fantasy, right, I want her fantasy man. She dream
about him Randy at night.
Speaker 3: He used to be Casey Kanes. He's retired now, so,
but she wanted me, and she's always loved Kyle, and
Kyle was great. So you know, they're interviewing me stuff
and I the guy. The reps were really cool. They
were funny. Would hit him laughing, and Tracy goes, yeah,
it's all him. He can he's the talker. So we
go up, get the bands and I give Tracy my
credit card. Whatever, get what you want. She buys the
jacket she wants. I gotta buy something, give me two
of those sweatsress. We spent a couple hundred bucks right there. Yeah,
we get two bands and we go back to the
camper and I crash on the camper and I just
want sleep to all I want to do. And we
got to get up. You gotta get up at nine
thirty to get in line, at ten thirty to get
in the thing. Tracy's father call it nine thirty, calls
at eight thirty in the morning, wakes me up, end
up talking him for a while. Forget that. I'm also
just stay up. So we got to be nine thirty
and I did change from then in the short stuck
as it started to warm up. So we go up
and line and we get up there and all the
people around wis about halfway back. So we're just standing
there like it's no big deal, you know, and due
the guy comes around. Make sure you have your stuff
because you don't have to take it out. So Kyle said,
wait for you to take it, just sign it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I had bought this helmet, the three chi helmet,
which I don't really care about three chi, but it
was the only helmet they had. And Tracy had to
the guy who runs the trays, said, Kyle's got to
sign his first win our shair is California. He's likes this.
He likes people to get those signs. He signs up.
So Tracy brought that with her. So we're standing in
the line, no big deal. All of a sudden, this
guy comes walking, Hey, where's my two forty five? And
I go like this. She because you and your wife
come here and follow me. I said, okay, what's going on? Says,
Kyle wants to meet you. Mail Kyle had come in.
We saw him come in with his on the rides.
Go up in the trailer. He says, Kyle wants to
meet you. He said, I can't believe. He couln't believe
you were here a two forty five in the morning.
Said I got a timestamp picture. But when I took
it if he wanted to see what time I got there.
And we went up and he was the nicest guy.
He couldn't believe, and I said he I said, Kyle,
I did this for her. I said, she wanted to
meet you, and I had to make it happen. I didn't.
We didn't expect to get on the trail. We're just
good autographed.
Speaker 2: You're like a cuckhole there.
Speaker 3: When I was high school guys from wintertime. Like now,
cars are put away, motors are getting rebuilt. This is
getting done, this is getting painted. It comes springtime, it's
get it all out and AT's see what can do
what right, and all that kind of stuff. And it's
all you worried about. And it's funny because I worked
at I worked for Burning Pray years ago, and then
I worked at Sonoco Station and Lending Duert owned it.
And my buddy's hot ruts are always up on the lifts,
you know, doing something. You know, I go, you know,
I'm working on my car. I had a Nova SS
with my first hot rod I had, and I did
some work to the motor and all that stuff. I
was so anal about that motor that every Saturday I changed.
Speaker 2: Oil in that car every Saturday.
Speaker 3: Every Saturday, I changed fifty weight race and oil quicker
state and a new filter every Saturday. Every Saturday, I
changed the oil in that car. Okay, and back that
time would cost me like seven bucks. Why though, just
because I was anial about the motor. I wanted to
kept clean. I wanted to make sure everything was great. Yeah,
And then my buddies used to take my old oil.
They take and put it in their cars.
Speaker 2: Well, sure, because it was hardly used. The oil then
was what three thousand miles?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thus about three thousand miles lucky if I was putting
a hundred on it and dumping it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Fuck now I think you you could probably go ten.
Speaker 3: Well I don't even see. And I'm that's the biggest thing.
I'm still proponent. I won't go ten thousands. I used pier,
I use pennzoil. Okay, yeah, says right on a good
for fifteen thousand miles gets five thousand miles at all
is out of it. I just changed oil and Tracy's vehicle, yeah,
oil's out out. I don't care and brand new vehicle.
Change oil two thousand miles, get it out because I
want all the filings that are in the motor anymo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there is right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's I was brought up that way, and
my father taught me that stuff. I mean, not three
thousand miles anymore. But and I used full synthetic and
everything I use. Yeah, So I mean, as I'm proposing,
I read about that stuff. I've done testing for Penz oil,
I've done testing for Quicker State, you know, years and
years ago, buddy, you can't believe the people. Yes, do
you tell it for South Butler Race Track is open again.
Oh I raced their back in nineteen sixty three. Blah blah. Yeah,
but I raced there in sixty five and you're still running.
And you know what. We go to car shows well,
and my buddy Bill Aernald as a video sets up
shows the races there and the people that stop and
look and go, oh, well, you know, and it's it's
just ridiculous stuff that went on back then. Yeah. Like
I said, remember that was the first race track to
use the Christmas tree in nineteen fifty eight and hj
A never used till sixty two. We still have the
original stop places that they use for a Christmas tree.
We still have one of them. Really, we still have it,
and Ronnie Work still has it. We had it set
up for this will be our tenth anniversary coming up.
Speaker 2: Do you have the ability to give people the reaction times?
Speaker 3: Yes, we have the whole set up. We can get time,
We got time slips, we got the wholet maasche Yeah.
Speaker 2: Because what they can do in NASCAR, NASCAR, in drag
racing is you can actually see your reaction time when
the light drops, So how long how long does it take?
And I think even if it's two seconds, that's slow.
Speaker 3: Oh it's really slow, you say, I know, which sounds
so weird, right, because it's two seconds.
Speaker 2: We watch NFL games and then I go, I'm fucking
a maze when they go, hey, guy, I guess the
ball out of his hands in three point two seconds.
I'm like, three point two seconds, that's like amazing. You
have to just trust where that guy's going to be.
But with this, your reaction time is everything.
Speaker 3: We get reaction time trophies away in each class. Whoever's
got the best reaction you get a triple zero, and
it means you were right on the light.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there are I don't think I never
got a triple zero.
Speaker 3: The best I've done is zero zero five. That's the best,
and that's fast.
Speaker 2: God, I was gonna say I think the best I
did was zero. I think I did ten, not ten seconds,
zero point one zero, and then I was hoping to
get to eight. You know, I wonder, But I mean
it is like and I you know, I don't do
it as regularly as you, but it is as I'll
tell you what I'm not. I'm not big on watching
motorsports as much as I am in and participating in motorsports. Yeah,
I would much rather be dragging, you know, going that
one forty and a quarter mile or whatever I can.
There's something about it. And I'll say this for for
that kind of stuff, and maybe you'll even be able
to agree. I'm very into like being mindful and meditations
and that sort of thing. I don't think and all
it is is like just kind of clearing your mind, right.
You don't think of really anything else, right, and the
thought comes into your head, you kind of I always
think of myself as on an iPad, just swiping on away,
swipe it away. When you're doing that, there ain't a
fucking thing. You may not even be breathing. At some points.
You are just so focused, right, you know what I mean?
Holding that because you could lose the front end, you
could go, but and you are so like just in
the moment, there is not another thought in your head.
Speaker 3: You don't even hear the car running, No, I don't.
Speaker 2: I think you are absolutely randy. That is so true.
Until you start to slow down and the adrenaline is
wild and I every time I would just burst out
laughing at the end because I just it's fucking what
a thrill, what an absolute thrill. That is to me
one of the best. Like I had never done the
drag racing until I was down there at Empire, and uh,
because even you know, race car driving is I like,
because they're there, you have to think. You got to
think like going in here and there and and different
different turns, and you want to know, like if you're
seeing guys break early, maybe you break late because they're
going to put down a lot of sticky tack, right,
so you can kind of grip that turn and break
a little later out of it and that sort of thing.
But and by the way, watching a race with you
is a whole lot of fun. And I've done it
at Watkins, Glenn, and I've done it at your house, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the parties are memorable at the house.
Speaker 2: I believe, Oh god, the parties were great.
Speaker 3: They what is like I say too, and like you
go to Empire and you race there, Okay, I'm Jerry
and Claire people, Yeah, top notch, him and his son,
great people, the whole crew there is absolutely phenomenal. You
go there, your race, you get beat. You're out, Yes, okay,
by now come to South Butler. You pay, you race
all day. We just race for fun. When I call
your class, you come rice. Yeah you don't okay, I
call her class. I call your class and you come
up in the race. You just race all day for
one price?
Speaker 2: Is it? No prep?
Speaker 3: Ours? Is no prep? Water water burnout only? Yeah? You know,
like like you go to like some no prep races,
you'll see, Well, some guys they put the stuff. It's
called uh, it's called stripper glitter they call it, and
it's for a bite to burn your tires sticky. Like
if you go to like I went to Christmas class, well.
Speaker 2: They do that. Yeah, they usually do that at like
Empire stuff.
Speaker 3: No Empires water burnout only.
Speaker 2: It is what are they spraying down on there?
Speaker 3: Now there's a sticky stills down the track. It's a glue.
It's a special glue that they put on the track.
But in the burnout it's water burnout only. But on
the track it's a special glue.
Speaker 2: Help because there are times I'm walking on there and
then your feet are stick you're probably stepping out of
your shoes with it. But I walked down so that's
a no prep to that.
Speaker 3: No, he's not no prepps. Yeah, he preps the track right.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Jerry actually asked me one time, is what do you
use to do? We don't do it. We're on no prep.
We don't. You're kidding me, It said, no nothing. Yeah,
and we say we replaced the pavement there four or
five years ago. There was original painment from nineteen fifty eight. Yeah,
we just repaved off.
Speaker 2: I thought in the Empires water only in that.
Speaker 3: In the burnout, in the in the burnout. Now, I
don't know when they did the no prep kings there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what they know they did. Okay,
I didn't see the no prep I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I didn't go.
Speaker 2: But the sticky stuff I would. I thought it was
in the starting area.
Speaker 3: No, that's that's the water. That's what the eastream spray
water down. That's all this is water if we do
to burnout. But that's just from the tires burnoff grip. Yeah.
But I went to Charlotte, mean trees went to Charlotte
and O nine we went in October. The last race
was there in July. We're walking and I'm still sticking
with my feet on the drags, the still sticking, yeah,
you know, because it gets all hot. Yeah, the revere
that doesn't that doesn't happen at our place. But we
don't care, you know, We just water and you know,
sometimes you don't get enough water down. They get the
guys street car don't really need it. But the guys
that runs super Pro got the tires like this. Yeah, yeah,
get them hot, you get them big and hot. And
we've got new track records set there there again this year.
It's been broken again by Joe Joe Schmoe alias Joe
Williams is they ca him Joe Schmoe. And I've got
people to want that track speed record. That's a big
thing we're known for us a speeder. It's only a
tenth mile. Yeah now it's like one nine. I think
it's just the tenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the tenth of the month. That's that's pretty quick.
That's pretty quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I got a guy, uh, Sean Barney, he's out
to the Sema show. He's out there right now probably
coming back. Sea should be shutting down, I think after today.
And uh, he came out there trying to get the
record and he ran one. But I knew it wasn't
fast enough. But speed didn't work on it lane it
quit working, and I heard all about it. I said, listen,
I said, not a multimillion dollar corporation. I don't have
millions of dollars in wiring. But we're gonna have to
rewire all that this uh come spring, Yeah, we're gonna
have to We're gonna be wear all of it again.
And it's been ten years.
Speaker 2: So your whole life is really revolved around motors. Motors,
I'll just say motors, right, not mechanic all that stuff.
But you were also a referee for basketball and football,
high school game, baseball, baseball.
Speaker 3: Do you got basketball and baseball.
Speaker 2: Basketball and baseball, which I thought that's a lot. Did
you do that because your sons were playing or did
you just do that for the love of it.
Speaker 3: I did it for the love of it, and I didn't.
I did little league in Newark from like nineteen ninety
one till nineteen ninety nine. I did like over eight
hundred games. I did Newark Little League umpire, and I
did my kids were playing, and I did in something
And I really kind of got thrown into it by
somebody that needed an umpire. Hey will you please just
come and do this. And I did one game and
I got hooked and a hague will you come back?
Because people like how you did it, and you always
get the complaints. It doesn't matter, you know. But I
loved it. And when I did high school stuff, I
you know I did. I liked the high school stuff.
And don't get me wrong, there are some coaches that
are idiots. They're not gonna lie to you. But there's
all the ones most summer, right, there's a few that
we're idiots, you know.
Speaker 2: And what was the most chaotic moment we hear about
the worst part of youth sports being parents?
Speaker 3: My most but I never had too much of a
parent problem. They would get upset and I would just
look at him, you know. I just the biggest one.
I had a coach and I can't He was from
a uh Monroe County school, playing in Victor, doing a
JV game and sometimes on GV games and blind believe me,
if you want to umpire baseball, please hook up an
organization that they are really short at umpires. They wanted
me to come back, but I won't come back because
I've had cornea damage in both eyes. That's why I
won't go back and do it. But I was doing
a game TV game by myself.
Speaker 2: What are you blind?
Speaker 3: Ref Yeah, exactly what you got cornea damage?
Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, that was not a strike.
Speaker 3: So I doing this game by myself. And I said,
and I heard about this this coach that he was
kind of a hothead, but I didn't, you know, calling
the game, calling the game. And there was a college
second base where I got to come out from behind
the pig and I got to run, yeah, get out quick.
And I got out to the pictures mind and made
a call. Well, I turn around and here's it. Coach
standing next to me. I said, what are you doing there?
You get back over that line. I said, you better
get back over that line. You got asis a coach,
because you got two seconds. Get back that line, and
you're going to be going home. Do you understand me.
I'm going to call your call wherever you want. Let
me give you his phone number. Get off my field. Ah,
he got he got reprimanded. I heard he got reprimanded.
Speaker 2: All right, So let's go back to NASCAR for a moment.
Because every year you and your wife, that is your
annual vacation. Yes, to Watkins Glenn. Yes, and you've done
this for how many decades do you think I've done
I started in the eighties, okay, so almost let's say
three for almost four decades, right, so over forty years.
Some funny stories have come out of there, the time
your your son's took your money and went all kinds
of shit. But this year, what's going on?
Speaker 3: S and nine? Stupidest thing cart whatever?
Speaker 2: What is NASCAR doing? Because Watkins Glenn has been flexed? Right,
they flexed it. It was usually the first or second
weekend in August every.
Speaker 3: Year, anywhere from the sixth to the fifteenth year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right there, right in August, and it was kind
of a thing. And I used to go down and
broadcast from the radio and do stuff like that. Now
you've got they did it in September. But they were
doing that that was two years ago. Yeah, And that
was flexed for what reason they would put it in
the playoffs of the Olympics, or that they wanted to
put it in the playoffs. They did want Watkins go
on a road course in there in the playoffs, okay.
And then this year did they move it to May
for twenty twenty six tenth.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, stupid?
Speaker 2: Is that Mother's Day weekend? Oh hell yeah, Well that's
kind of cool for NASCAR because.
Speaker 3: They know it's not. Watkins Glenn is pissed off. The
whole town is pissed off. Why because it's not what
they expect. Watkins Glenn has a big deal on Mother's
Day weekend down there, and now they've taken that and
put NASCAR in there.
Speaker 2: What's the big on Mother's Day weekend? You can come
down and do hot laps.
Speaker 3: I'm not I don't know, but all I know is
that the town of Wackins Glenn's mad. Every single NASCAR
fan to goes to that races up in arms over this, buddy.
I'm telling you right now. You know it's New York State.
It's snowed in me. Yes, okay, you know many pictures
I snowplows and the racetrack at Watkins Glenn. Here we come,
getting ready to get the track ready and get your
study snow tires ready. I don't think we're going this year, truthfully, really,
Tracy has said we are not going on Mother's Day weekend.
I will not go. It's my mother's Mother's Day. I'm
not going so I've already spent money I bought, we
buy our stuff. So you bought ticket. I got seven
hundred and fourteen dollars wrapped up in tickets and camping.
Speaker 2: So what would you do.
Speaker 3: I'll probably sell my camping spots to tickets. I don't
know what we're gonna do with those. I have no idea. Yeah,
and I understand, Tracy. I mean I want to go,
but I understand it. I mean, it's there's a guy
I saw in our article. Guys, why from itsago? I
don't think it's that bad. Stupid hallings bens. You've been
in New York State, dumbass, because it snows it rains,
But we've been down there in August when it rains.
If it's going to be raining in April like it does, yeah,
right now, you better have fifteen tractors out there to
pull everybody out of the mud, because that's what's gonna happen.
Stupid move. I don't know what it's up. NASCAR is asked,
but that's the dumbest thing. And I know they've got
i'd put they've had over forty fifty thousand complaints right there.
Their office is no problem really because it's called Nascar.
Speaker 2: I've called there. There's a there is there is a
real possibility that it snows there. Yeah. I mean you
were just telling the story, did you. Was that two
years ago that you met? So was that September?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, so September you said you were cold at night
and sometimes down there you're right next to Seneca Lake. Uh,
one of the by the way, I think one of
the coldest finger legs. I think they used to do
naval submarine stuff in there. So I I don't know
if I don't know if it won't snow, but.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you right now. Mean Tracy went, could this be?
Speaker 2: I mean, if they had snow? Have they ever had
snow in a NASCAR race?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, Bristol happened at Bristol in the nineties, yep.
And I can remember a picture of Aila Kowiki walking
around with his helmet on and his fire sewed on
in a jacket because it was snowing at Bristol, Tennessee.
And his dad was in April.
Speaker 2: And that's an April so.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, like I said, me and Tracy
the first time, mean Tracy went together to watch this.
Glen was two thousand and six. Yeah, the first night
we were there went down to thirty eight degrees at night.
We were in a tent. Oh next year we had
a camper.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. I gotcha. So
it was a little well what did you do to
stay warm that night? Right here, I'm Buddy Robin's racing
because the Times of Wayne County is known. I only
found out about it when I was doing afternoons and
somebody called me up and goes, you got to get
a copy of the Times of Wayne County. And I
think they must have been online because how would I
get it? And the guy goes, you got to check
it out. And it's these two police officers standing in
the bedroom of a house like this was there. This
was their you know ten point buck right, this is
their ten point buck picture. They're posing because they just
did a big drug bust. And over their shoulder on
the dresser is a giant dildo and it was in
the Times Wayne County and I just remember and that
was when I started like, you know, three one fivers
and all this stuff and the Times Wayne County. I mean, look,
there's a story in there today about uh or this
this latest issue about a woman who uh, and this
is a country thing. I would think, I would say,
this has got to happen in rural areas. She uh,
she got pissed at her husband and whipped out a machete.
Now I'm going who has a machete? I happen to
have a machete. I do happen to have one for real,
because it was given to me by Mike the Dead.
Speaker 3: Okay, hey, hey, Billy, you need a you need protection.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I but the this woman whipped out a
machete and then she choked her husband, like put her
hands on it, and then she went around and just
started smashing the machete into bags of cement. So I'm
sure there was just cement powder everywhere. Who the hell
knows you get? You know, you just get a synopsis.
So I used to like to call people who were
in the times Wayne County to get the other side
of the story, because I always go, Okay, this sounds
too funny, but I'll never forget one more. A guy
got pulled over for having a taillight out and who's
found to be in a pair of green silk underwear
and had a bottle of West and oil chicken, and
he was on his way to Ontario Video News, which,
by the way, well they had they had the buddy
booths back there. You could go in and in the
back of Ontario and Video and News, which had At
first it was a smoke shop up front. Then it
was an adult store in the back, and in the
way back they had movies. And I remember going there
once to pick up something for a stag party. And
I'm curious person, so I got to know what's going on.
And I see all these people and they're in the back,
and it was I think it was gay guys. Like
they would wait till the movie started, and then then
the one guy would open the curtain and pop in
and they two guys would be in there watching whatever
they were watching. And I was like, oh, And then
some guy followed me around the play. I've told this
story so many times, but I'll give it to you
because he made a face I was looking, so he
started he came out and he just kind of locked
the eyes on me, and I got really nervous. Now
this was bringing back everything for me, because don't forget
I was sexually molested by a guy. I'm like, this
is freaking me out. I mean, like, I am twenty one,
twenty two years old, and maybe I'm around there and
i'm i'm I'm like really nervous. So I can't say
don't look at me, right, because the guy could deny it.
But I could feel his eyes on me. I could
feel him following me around. So I thought, what do
I do? I find a video VHS with the woman
on the cover that has the biggest tits ever. I
just felt like that screams heterosexual, leave me alone. That's
really what I thought. So I buy this shitty tape.
I didn't even want it. It could have been nine dollars.
So I get it and I leave and I walk
out and the guy is now he's out in like
the vestibule area, and he smiles at me, and I'm like, fuck,
so I don't know. So it's freaking me out, Randy,
Like I could tell that this guy was interested, which now,
if it happened, I'd be like, that's flattering. I'm an
old man now, but that's okay. But even then I
should have been more flattered and like, oh, flattering, not
interested probably would have ended it, no problem, right, But
I am all like I'm up in my head. I
don't know what's going on. So now there are there's
an entrance on each side of this vestival stairs come
up in Ontario video notes out in Ontario off one
oh four. So I decide, okay, I'm parked. When you're
looking at the building on the left side, I will
go out the right door and then juke duck down
and get to my car. So I do that, and
I'm out of the car, and I still had a
key to unlock my door, and I can hear the
gravel crunching slowly like it's honest to god, it would
be like a horror movie. And and this probably isn't
even what happened, but this is what's going on. My
I am so nervous. Now I drop the fucking keys.
I drop them, I pick them up. I'm all nervous.
Speaker 3: I finally get in the car.
Speaker 2: I slam it down. I turn on the headlights, and
the guy is standing right in front of my car,
right in front of my car. I fucking back out,
kicking up dust in a little Volkswagon.
Speaker 3: Rab it.
Speaker 2: I'm fucking shit in my pants. One oh four. At
that point is two lanes headed east and two lanes
headed west. Yep, the ones. So this is on the
east side.
Speaker 3: You have to go east.
Speaker 2: You have to go east to get off Ontario Video News.
I'm sure if you're going west there's a way off.
But so I am so nervous. I punch it. I
punch out. I fished out, and I start going west
in the eastbound lanes. Now this is like, I don't
even know what time it was. I think I had
been out drinking. So this is really helpful. And I decided, oh,
let me go get my friend Scott, who I'm his
best man. I'm gonna go get the stuff for the
stag party. And now I'm driving and then all of
a sudden, I see cars coming and people beeping, so
I cut through and I keep driving. I'm like, holy shit,
my heart was racing. I was sweating, and that that
was my uh, that.
Speaker 3: Was my hes been since folks.
Speaker 2: No, I haven't that's that's a true story.
Speaker 3: I have not. I've never heard that story. But sometimes
you can tell, you can feel, you can feel.
Speaker 2: Can't you tell when someone's like you could feel it,
like you just you know, normally I close with John
Hyatt's Tennessee plates but I think I'll do this John
Hyatts song. This is called Detroit Made, which I believe
is a I think he says in this school refers
to the car as as sheep. I think probably does. Yeah,
well that's the uh. We'll just listen to just a
second one. But I don't think many people do.
Speaker 1: Santa quandab she will lad you there you go, you
up about half past high.
Speaker 3: We can't ride all around there it is.
Speaker 2: I came out from the country made. The city is
where I'll say.
Speaker 3: You got me a dud. Saquara Babe, That's all I
got to say. She's a yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Stay good all American Maid Automobiles, Randy and right, that's
right for race and Randy. I'm Bill Moran. We'll see
you tomorrow.
Speaker 3: All the work until we can't ride in Stade and
around those fucking seats coming up.