I can't believe I've done 50 of these. I wanted to make this one special and include Jason, who is the dude I'm talking to and having a beer with at Sick Week a few years ago, and when I decided to start doing something like this to highlight the stories of people far and wide. Jason is a hoot though. He's got the chicken coupe and of course Angel the amazing wonder dog! This dude has fed me, offered me a bed, and even the shirt off his back. We have a very cool story about a fellow vet that was...
May 13, 2025•2 hr 9 min
Raj is KNOWN for huge ass burnouts in his Olds powered 442, but who knew he had like 6 of these things?!??! He's a guy I had the pleasure of having a few parking lot beers with and we had some good conversations. This dude is a pilot from the Yukon Territory up in Canada, like on the Alcan highway kind of stuff. He's a nitrous fiend, and of course that makes him cool in my book, but what got him his start in Oldsmobiles? What gets in this dude's head as he heads south for just a ton of racing? A...
Apr 02, 2025•2 hr 2 min
Steve is a gangster with a couple of badass rides, but who knew he got his start in VW's and Honda's? I do now! A NYC based guy, he's got a 6th gen camaro with twins that runs well in the 8's, but it's tech limited to 10.0, where he typically runs it on RMRW. He purpose built a Grand National to come terrorize the 8.50 field though, and he's done just that, and got himself a big ol win at the shootout of 2024's FAF from Raceweek??? (I can't remember, these all start melding together at some poin...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Alan is hilarious and also wheels one of the baddest/heaviest street cars in the land. His 1970 Gulf Green Monte Carlo runs in the 6's and weighs 4000 lbs!!!!! SMX powered, he drag and drives this thing like it owes him money, and we'll talk about what got him his start with the Monte and what it's like having one of the baddest street cars in the land!
Apr 02, 2025•2 hr 11 min
Dane is a super good dude that does a kickass youtube channel called "burndown." You'll find it when you find the one with the rooster holding a lollipop. He's a down-home mechanic on his show that builds cool stuff for low money and shows you how to do it too! He's the driver of the maliboom, that unfortunately had a water pump let go and get water under the tires at Thunder Valley Raceway in Oklahoma City, OK on a raceweek and stuff the nose into the wall at about 800 feet. Fortunately the car...
Mar 11, 2025•2 hr 29 min
I met Danny a long while ago in the Colorado drag racing scene. He's been a staple out there for as long as I can remember. Fast forward a few years and Danny married WAY up and in the process got himself a cool as a cucumber step-kid, Makayla. She grew from a shy kid to an absolute force to be reckoned with at any Rocky Mountain Race Week event, and even earned herself a Wally trophy at Pueblo Motorsports Park. This one is awesome and super family oriented. If you've been trying to get your kid...
Mar 08, 2025•2 hr 7 min
Owner of the self proclaimed "slowest twin turbo big block fox body on the planet", Gary is an OG drag weeker and racer out of the Kansas/Missouri area. He's also cohost of the Heads up racing podcast. We had a blast talking about hanging with superstars on our shows, and blasting around his ride with his friends. Gary was a blast, and this was a super fun show.
Mar 08, 2025•2 hr 58 min
Danny is a globetrotter now, he's been on Rocky Mountain Race Week with his truck, and he's the dude known for selling it all to go racing. This one is special timing because he just announced that he MOVED to Thailand, and likely will be doing all sorts of stuff with the BAS shop there doing some diesel promod racing, and some diesel longboat stuff as well. Check out his page(s) and see what shenanigans he's into now! (yes I am a little out of sequence here, I wanted to get this up for Danny an...
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Travis and Amanda have both been drivers and co-drivers in drag and drives, and even brought Kendall (still in a child seat) along as a rider in Amanda's G8. Travis' "show mod" Camaro has terrorized the rowdy radial category for years, we catch up with what they've got going on now, and talk about when we'll see the show mod back out!
Dec 18, 2024•1 hr 36 min
THAT'S COOL... DRINK!!!! EPSIODE 41, CHRIS (MFN) STORY! A photographer that quit his corporate job to snap photos for a living, as well as an Army Veteran, Chris is a buddy of mine that I keep running into all over the place, and I keep seeing his watermark on all sorts of absolutely gangster photos of the peeps doing the thing country wide. Dude is one of the real ones, and it was fun sitting down with him.
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 58 min
A regular of the show, Matt is back on the 40th episode of That's Cool... Drink!!!! It's always good to catch up with the dude, and this one was just a few weeks before RMRW in June of 2024, so we discuss what's happening for the week coming up, and overall just a good one to watch if you're doing a drag and drive in the near future! Love this dude, and it's always fun to have him on the show.
Nov 18, 2024•1 hr 45 min
Chad and I (and Daphne and Cole) became fast friends on Rocky Mountain Race Week in 2015 and we ended up at a bunch of the same stuff from there on forward and had some super good times, but I never had a chance to pick Chad's brain about how/why he quit his high-paying corporate job to seek out automotive journalism at the highest level in the forum days. He can now be found all over the country, nay, world doing all sorts of bangshifty things and bringing it all to you, the viewer! This one wa...
Nov 18, 2024•2 hr 31 min
This was neat to be a part of, Pittsburgh State in Kansas is very close to the Mo-Kan dragway, and decided to not only throw a little money at the class, but offer each racer in the Jr. Street Class on the podium a scholarship to go to school at Pitt State! How awesome is that? Give it a listen, and thanks to them for supporting Jr. Street racing!
Sep 11, 2024•35 min
Dino and his co-pilot Gary join me and it's my FIRST CASUALTY! Admittedly we were sipping on some hot rod soup (whiskey) before this episode and we lost Hot Carl by the end of it! Luckily Gary kept it together to finish up the episode, but I'm told that Dino was found passed out in the yard during a bathroom break and his wife scurried him into the house and she actually comes and sits in for Dino for a bit! This one was a blast, and we got way off the rails super quickly but it was so much fun ...
Sep 11, 2024•2 hr 5 min
Out of Minnesota, Jason and Liz met while street racing in Jason's uncle's Willy's that he still wheels today, although now it's LS3 powered. He's also got his head's up small tire/small block mustang that's still Ford powered that he's also brought out to the drag and drive world, and he even took that mustang to a first round win over Bryant Goldstone in the shootout for Rocky Mountain Race Week in June of 2024. This one is long, but it was amazing to talk to these folks. They live and breathe...
Sep 11, 2024•2 hr 33 min
Ebben is one of the Rocky Mountain Race Week Jr. Street kids, and he rolls around in a Miata with the plate "zeropwr" and it has a stick shift to boot! We'll talk about getting into Jr Street racing, and what it's like for Darrin to co-pilot for Ebben's antics in the Miata! Check it out, this was a fun one! Plenty more coming after this as well!
Sep 11, 2024•1 hr 6 min
These dudes are great friends of mine, and I've been lucky enough to cruise around the US with them a bunch... REALLY fast. This was a fun time, and Rich even had a couple of coronas, so he got a little loose, and I had to even change his name in the middle of the show. These guys are both quick stick shift dudes, and Rich went 8.51 on his 8.50 cert with his GTO and Bill has been in the 8.7's, but is looking for some more performance for 2024 and beyond to put some more pressure on Rich. We had ...
Aug 19, 2024•2 hr 13 min
You probably know Mark from his turbo LS LIMO, yes the one he took the whole 1320 crew for a pass in on a Rocky Mountain Race Week. A few years later he brought a super low mile turbo T/A Firebird with his daughter Mackenzie to run in Jr. Street and an index class and they had the time of their lives! This was a cool one to check out and if you're on the fence about bringing your kid to one of these, watch this one and prepare to be ruined!
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 32 min
I sat down with Clint Sodowsky, a former MLB pitcher and talked about going to the bigs while cruising his cool old Monte Carlo around during, and stepping WAY up into his Camaro, and having as much fun as he's ever had drag and driving that stuff. He's since put Jazzy, his daughter, behind the wheel of the ride and just listed the engine and turbo setup for sale and it'll be interesting to see what's next for that badass 1st gen! Check it out!
Aug 19, 2024•2 hr 1 min
The Pickett's are gangsters. They showed up to a drag and drive a few years ago without a care in the world and with a kid in a mini seat in the middle of the back two sets of doors. The Buick Roadmaster sported a procharged LS in it's early iterations, and now is twin turbo and has the extra fun of the coffin trailer! It's a 7 second capable ride that turns heads everywhere, and they're an awesome family steeped in hot rodding. This is a good one. Check it out!
Aug 19, 2024•1 hr 57 min
My first rookie of the year recipient, Danny is the dude that sold EVERYTHING to pursue a race life. It's not all ups in this life and he doesn't mix words, this life is hard, but it's a super rewarding way to live for sure. We talk his diesel cummins Dodge truck, his AWD DSM stick shift ride, and his trip to India to race a 3 wheeled cushman with 10 horsepower 2700 miles across India! Wild stuff.
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 16 min
I finally caught up with Jaycobe after having Alan and Hank on earlier. He's working crazy hours so we had to figure this one out, but I'm happy we did! Jaycobe is one of the 301 street car dudes, and he's Hank's kid, so you know he's got the sickness in his blood. He pilots the Silverback C10 squarebody truck that runs Big Block power. He's one of the cats we got to grow up at these things, went from a kid on the sidelines to a copilot to getting down with it with the big kids in the c10. Check...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 2 min
A stick shift OG, and a drag week regular, John is a super cool racer, but also a super cool dude. He Coyote swapped his fox Capri (with the cool bubble back window) early in the coyote game, and of course it's got a stick, but his is a box stock magnum t56, and it runs in the 8's! He's also got Goldie, a gold-colored Fairmont with the same program as the Capri, but without the blower, and it does some insane burnouts. We talk hot rods and living a new life after losing literally a whole person ...
Jul 16, 2024•2 hr 5 min
Pat sits down with me and we talk about doing a Rocky Mountain Race Week on a GROM??!?!? This dude is a gangster and also at the exact same time, insane! I loved talking with him and getting some of his background and if you want to do a drag and drive on a bike, you should tune in!
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 40 min
Jason is one of those dudes... just a down to earth regular everyday dude, with an unlimited winning 6 second firebird! Owner and driver of the original Meltdown Firebird we'll talk about building that ride, wrecking it on RMRW, rebuilding it and ultimately swapping to a much better chassis for what he's wanting to do with it. Jason is one of my dudes, and I dug talking with him over a couple hours of beers (for me!)
Jun 03, 2024•2 hr 22 min
Mike has been through a lot in the last couple of years, and most of it is because Drag and Drive did it to him. A 2020 RaceWeek competitor, he uprooted his life, quit his job, and started preaching the word of Drag and Drive from the highest mountain he could. He also puts on his own event called The Circuit! He's joined here by his brother, Stephen, the man behind the 2.3L turbo 4 MG, and Narxoleptic customs! This is a good one and I had a blast catching up with Mike and Stephen.
Jun 03, 2024•2 hr 11 min
Matthew Frost joins me again, this was a pre-event driver's meeting for the 2023 RaceWeek event. Matt is always a good time on the cast, and this is a good one to watch for anyone about to go on a drag and drive, any of them. But Matt is always a good time on TCD!
May 02, 2024•1 hr 49 min
David Williams is son of Robert Williams and has been in the Drag and Drive world for quite some time now, but he's also moved into a bunch of different varieties of motorsports, mainly Transcontinental racing, where he met Bradley. These two did Alaska speed week with an LS turbo 3/4 ton suburban, and they're amazing friends and it was a blast to talk to them about weaponizing their autism! Check this one out! It was a great one.
May 02, 2024•2 hr 46 min
Denn Angelo and Justin Gilbert are a riot. They just show up to Rocky Mountain Race Week to slay the roadweek awards year after year. First the candy man van, that has a great backstory to it, and you can watch this one for that story... it's wild! But they showed up with this candy van, did a huge burnout, and tossed a literal pallet of Nerds Candy clusters at everyone throughout the week... THEN they one up themselves and bring something like 10000 otter pops and a trailer that has 3 a/c units...
Mar 29, 2024•3 hr 12 min
Robert Williams is an OG of drag and drive out of the "porkchop motorsports" stables located in Fort Meyers, Florida with a slew of cars, but mostly 2nd gen camaros and firebirds, a disco era nova, and the bizbomb, famous from roadkill. Robert and I have become friends through libations and cars, which are two of our favorite things. We also have our better halves as co-pilots now on this journey as well as life! This is a special one because not long after this interview, Robert had himself a b...
Mar 29, 2024•2 hr 56 min
