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With me today, Mike Dylan and Mitch Class. Welcome to The Man Up Show.
Well, thank you. Thank you for having us. This is an honor.
Well, it's great to have you guys here. And I don't know what all we're going to talk about today. We might talk about a little, little, a little NASCAR racing, maybe, and maybe racing motor outreach or Did I say it right either? Close. Close enough, motor racing outreach.
Motor racing, racing, motor outreach. You had it right. It's all right. You had all of it there. Racing is greatly advanced from those days of Earnhardt, Dale Earnhardt, and Richard Petty and the dirt track racing and all that, right?
So, Mike, how long? Let me start with you.
So, you've been a part of racing, like for how long? And how'd you get into it? Let's start with that.
Well, to be honest with you, I probably have to say I married into it.
Okay. Richard Childress is my father-in-law. And Earnhardt drove for Richard all six of his championships. Really? Excuse me.
Yeah. And.
So that's how I got in, but I worked I've worked every job and every position there can possibly be at RCR.
So have you like like are you at the like the live races and you like changing tires and no, no, I don't change the tires. No I tried driving for a while. Have you really? Because I've seen those guys like like I'm impressed and amazed at like that car rolls into the pit, right? And man, they jacked that thing up.
It seemed like you probably know. Like how fast did they change, Mitch? How fast do they change those tires? What are we down to now? 10 8 seconds.
Eight and a half seconds. Eight seconds.
Okay. So the problem is now we can't get the gas in quick enough. Can't get the gas in quickly. No, so we either wait on fuel, yeah, and so you manage your fuel according to the number of laps you have left.
Okay. Yeah, but we can do a stop in eight seconds.
So we actually practice and we can bust, we can get under eight in practice, but it's always about a, it's almost a second slower in the race for some reason. Nobody knows why. Do you think? You got to go around the car. Usually it's in a stall, and you've got to get back, you got to exit around one.
Gotcha. And there's just a lot more, just a little bit more going on.
So we don't want to run anybody over. We don't want to run anybody over unless they're in the way. Unless they're in the way. Oh, my gosh.
Okay, so let's pause there for a moment.
So you married into the race. Yes, sir. Mitch, so let me come over to you.
Okay. Your involvement. How did you get involved in all of this madness? Yeah, well, my involvement is actually with Mike here about three, four years ago with Mike's foundation, Hometown Foundation, and we started putting on men's events, men's fellowship events. And so, yeah, that's led to our Bible studies, which we'll talk about more here, I'm sure.
Absolutely. First of all, I'll just lay this rate so people know who they're listening to. The whole racing foundation. And then we'll, yeah, then I definitely want to get to that. And so that's how you got introduced.
Were you a racing fan prior to that? Yeah, I'm local, so I've always grew up with racing. Local being where? What's his title? Winston Home.
Really? Yeah, that's his home right here. Yeah, this is the home right here. And you must walk to the station for a while.
Well, we both are. Yeah, we both are. You are too. I'm Western Salem in kind of in Clemens area. And now I live down towards Baden Lake.
Okay. Okay. You know where that's at? I've heard of it. It's between Winston-Salem and Lexington.
It's between Winston-Salem and Lexington. Okay. We've got two stoplights over in Wellcome.
Okay. And so and it's it's a it's a great little community, and that's where our race shop's at. Two stoplights? Yep, we got two. One on each side.
We might have three. We got one down there at the three. Rip the three down. Which is bigger than the church I was at, the town I was at in Little Louisiana last year, who has one caution light.
Okay. Slow them down a little bit. Yeah, slow them down. And I mean, like, you can't get there from here. Like, I had to fly into Houston and drive two hours just to get to this little town in Louisiana in order to do a men's conference and preach at their church.
Amazing, loving people.
So, okay. All right.
So, okay. So, four years.
So, how many years then Mike involved in the racing business? I've been around the family, in the family about 40. 40 years. Yeah, yeah, I've been in the. Wow.
Yeah, so my wife and I have been married 38 years this year. That was going to be my next question.
Okay, 38 years. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank God. In today's world, that is a milestone.
Thank God that she listened to the preacher when we were going through our classes before that this is a marriage. Prince of Hon. Yes, Prince Bond with God. Because if it wasn't for that, she had reasons to not be with me. And so I just thank her for that.
Thank him for that.
So on that note, and then, bitch, I'll come to you.
So on that note, that she listened to the preacher. I mean, out of curiosity, you grew up in church, you didn't grow up in church, or when did that walk of faith? Begin for you out of kiosk. I I I grew up in church, I would say. My grandmother was uh Salem Baptist Church over here.
Yeah, praying grandma. Salem Baptist Church. over in Winston Salem.
Okay. It was a as a b as a big church and went to school over there for first um I it was like kindergarten first grade. I tell everybody when I when I give my testimony or something, I learned the uh twenty third Psalm And one of them two, kindergarten or first grade, I'm not sure which one it was, but I've had that the rest of my life. Then uh uh obviously my grandmother was hurt. She was the rock, always reading her Bible and I and it was just a me seeing her doing it and uh and we talk about God.
But then I was saved when I was seventeen years old at Calvary Baptist Church, which is over in Clemens. and at a summer camp that they had. And uh my friend and I Went over there and went to a summer camp and Was saved there, and then I can keep on going as far as what the next things happen. But life did come into play. The world came into play, I say that.
Yeah, I can understand that.
Now, let me ask you before I come over to Mits.
So, married 38 years, how many kids? I got two boys.
Okay, two boys. They both drive in Cup Series in NASCAR. They do? Yeah. Okay.
And any grandkids yet or just a two-year-old? Five grandkids. Five grandkids, yeah.
Okay. Seven-year-old to a one-year-old. Wow. And about just about the perfect ages in between. You know, you talk, I want to say what's in my head because sometimes I have to do this.
You know, you mentioned the memorizing the 23rd song. Yeah. So I have a full quiver. I raised four girls and I have currently 14 grandkids with one on the way, right?
So it's crazy. But the other day, my, my, uh, Well, over the over the holidays, oh, excuse me, over the holidays, my eight-year-old one of my grandsons, eight years old, and and my daughter said, his name's Jack, said Jack has memorized the first and second song. Like, so Psalm 1 and Psalm 2, like memorized. I'm like, that's pretty amazing. I said, wow.
I said, yeah. I said, hey, Jack, out of curiosity, do you know all the books of the Bible? He goes, I don't. I go, tell you what grandpa will do. And one of my other grandsons had already done this, memorized in order from Genesis to Revelation, all the books of the Bible.
I said, well, you know, your cousin Story has memorized all the books. Jack, if you'll memorize them, Grandpa will get you a special reward for doing that, right?
Well, my daughter, like three days later, said, Jack's already memorized, like, all I said, excuse me, yeah, yeah, no, so they FaceTimed me, and Jack, from Genesis to Revelation, said, said every single word of the Bible in order correctly. And so, of course, grandpa sent him his reward. And then the latest thing is, Mike, she sent me a picture. She said, Our church is doing a one-year Bible reading program.
So Jack has decided he's going to read the Bible in one year as well. Right. Eight years old, right? Wow, that's a good one. What a blessing, right?
Yeah. As a grandpa. Oh, yeah. All right.
So let me bounce over to Mitch for a moment, Mitch.
So kind of same questions for you.
So family and when did you, you know, how faith walk? Absolutely. Kind of similar to Mike. My grandparents were the first ones that took me to church.
Okay. Another praying grandparent. Yeah, more of a, it was a Methodist church here in Thomasville. But yeah, just grew up with that and constantly, you know, just learning from them and which really helped me. I think grandparents, they have a big effect.
I mean, we'll be up to 15, it sounds like you're shortly, and Mike's. And so, you know, it's really, they're a rock always to, you know, stand by. And then your walk of faith.
So when did your faith become like real for you? Like at what age? Yeah. Would you say? I would say later.
In life, because it kind of, as Mike said, you know, I feel like I've gone to church. my life, but though until Certain things, maybe when you get got married or, you know, they have I have one daughter, uh, she's fi you know, fifteen, and okay. I think you, you know, i it starts sinking in, you start realizing you want to teach them. What you know, or you know, hopefully that they'll follow in that same footsteps. How long have you been married?
That will be 25 years this year. Wow. 2001. For real? Yeah.
So I wouldn't have guessed that. Like, if you had not told me, like, I'm just looking at you. You look about 25. Maybe slightly older, like for real. But to be married 25 years, I would not have guessed that.
I honestly would not have guessed that. That's pretty cool. The the church at Thomas is it it is it the massive Methodist church there or a smaller church? It's a real small uh Methodist church on Old Greensboro Road.
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So So let's Let's bounce back to Mike, let me bounce back to you. F 40 years in in in the re you said he drove?
Some as well. Every aspect of it, basically.
Well, before I met my wife, I raced motocross.
Okay. And then. When I met her, I just kind of got into a little bit of it because of the family, they were into it. Richard was the guy.
So I said, I'm going to play with this a little bit. And so we did, and he saw me dinking around with a car, actually a car that we brought back wrecked. He said, if you're going to do this, you got to do it right. He got me with some people, and we started doing it, and we won a bunch of races, and I ended up getting. an opportunity to run into in the Bush series is what it was called.
Now it's now today it's is actually today it's called the O'Reilly series, which is the X what used to be the Xfinity series, which it's the Saturday race. And you have your Sunday, right?
Okay. So that's uh my little b I had a little stint and that and uh uh I did I did I I was probably the best thing uh I got to do was a test Dale's cars. I did a lot of the testing on super speedway stuff. Dale Earnhardt. Uh-huh.
Okay. So I got to do some of that.
So so a little quick, funny side note, fun fact here.
So when they did they did the movie on his life, yeah, on Earnhardt's life, he's from Kinnapolis, North Carolina.
Somebody went and saw the movie and they said, Nikita, I saw your house in the movie. I go, I go, what? They go, yeah, there's a scene in there where they turn a corner or whatever. Apparently, Erin Hart grew up pretty close to where my house is. I have a little home in North Carolina.
I mean in Kannapolis. Yeah. And they're like, you know, dude, like like your house is like in the movie. I was like, well, that's cool. But little fun fact there.
Do you live over there now? I've got a house in Canapha. All right, right, cool. The same one, the same one that was in the movies. I've had it since, like, I think I bought it in 1998.
Right. That I've had that little house there. Yeah. Right there by, you know, just from off of downtown, from where everything is going on and happening.
So, yeah, a little side note there.
So, um,.
So every every aspect, do do you have Do you have a quick favorite story from one of your driving days? I've got one of his favorite days. What do you got, Bish? Let me hear your story.
Well, this will help maybe help him get going. Darlington, where you. That was that was probably the one I was would be my that was my claim to fame. I love this story.
So uh Dale, we were at uh Darlington Saturday I raced Saturday the day before and finished fifth. And I had We used to be able to test two weeks prior to every race.
So we tested a lot. And I got to do some testing in his car. I did an engine test. while they were doing, uh working on making the car faster, right, and driving better. And so I uh had a lot of laps on the track.
Anyway, Dale had broke his neck, I think it was at Pocono, years before, but he had an issue and he actually passed out before the race. Started on a parade lapse. We're sitting there watching on top of Motorhome. My friend and I watched on top of motorhome. Here comes they're coming around.
You know how they pay slabs. Yeah. And all of a sudden he just kind of eases up to the wall, starts skipping off a wall. And we're like, what's going on? Mm my wife come out hollering, she was listening on the radio, she said, Hey, he's not responding.
And so anyway, long story short, caused some people to panic, right?
Somehow he he got it to Pit Road and they he had passed out, he had pinched him a nerve or something here. And Well, then they came down looking for me. And I'm on top of it, I'm in shorts, no shirt on, standing on top of Motorhome, ready to watch. Shut it. The Southern 500, okay, which is one of the big races.
Yes, one of the jewels. And they said, hey, you got your fire suit? And I said, yeah. And they said, well, you got to get in the car. I'm like, what?
You got to always be prepared.
Well, sure enough, we went out, and so I got in the car. And I got to finish the, you know, it already lapsed down because it had tore the right front up a little bit. Yeah. But they fixed it and got it to where it was driving great. Manu.
Threw you in. Threw you in the middle. Threw me in. Jeff Gordon, that was the first time. running for the million.
Jeff Gordon was running for it and he won it. And um He was in the race. And I'm driving the Black Three around there.
So I got to do that. And the next week, Yeah, we go to, I believe it was Loud in New Hampshire the next week.
Okay. And on my car over the door, instead of my name, they had, you know, Dale, they used to call him the intimidator.
Well, they had me the imitator.
So over my door. Come on. Oh, my God.
So that was, you know, if I'd have been thinking, I could have probably sold two or three shirts. You could have marketed that. Marketed at least two of them. Yeah. You could have marketed that.
And, you know, I always found it interesting. You know, obviously, of course, Kinnapolis has his bronze statue there, the little park memorial there for him. And so I always remember because people they find out live with Kinnapolis, like, and they're racing fans. Yeah. We want to get a picture with, yeah, take you down there, get your picture with the statue, you know, whatever.
So, well, that's a pretty cool story. It really is. Other memories, Mitch?
So you were a racing fan before getting involved with these guys? Yeah. I mean, my dad had taken me to races when I was a kid and you know, I've followed it all along my life and you know, so uh just really cool to uh you know to meet Mike and hear some of his g great stories and Our Bible study is actually in The um the original three car shop.
Okay. And it's all it's set up so when when the accident happened, Richard shut the building down. We moved everything out to Harvick. He drove the cars that we had, moved it to another building we had and w that building is exactly like it was when we when the accident happened.
So it's a it's the race shop and we actually have our Bible study in the middle of the race cars in the f in the at the shop. And I don't even know yet. I don't know if we you mentioned it. I don't know.
So Richard Tildas Racing is the. Organization? Yes, sir. Yes, it's the organization and located the headquarters. And welcome, North Carolina.
Okay, welcome, North Carolina. Mitch, you come aboard with Richard Chillis Racing because of the ministry, because of Hometown Foundation. Exactly. Yeah. Okay.
Mike's Foundation.
Okay. So that's been your connection.
So, Mitch, take a moment and tell our folks about. The foundation, what's the call involved with it? The Hometown Foundation, it's basically we're just trying to strengthen the men in the communities, get them in the Bible, get them to learn how to be men at home. And we've, again, we first kicked off in, I guess, 2023. We had our first big fellowship event.
And we had over 700 men come to welcome at the new shop. Over 700? Yes.
Okay. Yeah. And Mike gave his testimony. We have Mark. Cook there, the author of the first hour book that we will probably get to and talk to.
And it was just a great turnout. And so then we followed it up year two. We had a little NASCAR driver. uh personality come in Michael McDowell Uh and so uh had seven fifty, eight hundred that year. And so kind of after that, All the guys, we got a lot of feedback saying, Hey, you know, we love these fellowship events.
We love, you know, you've done these two great big events, but why don't you do a little more? You know, what else is there?
So, we said, Hey, we're going to do some Bible studies, and we're going to do those in the RCR Museum, as Mike said. And so, uh, funny thing is, we said we're going to do four, okay? And so, our big this fellowship event with Michael McDowell was in October. You do those once a year, yeah, yeah. And so, we said we're going to do four Bible studies the next four Tuesdays, and so basically, we'll finish out November with these Bible studies.
Okay, okay, well, that was in 2024. Yeah. And so Long story short, now we're still going every Tuesday night strong. And our Bible studies, we're getting anywhere from, you know, on average, you know, 70. To 80 guys every Tuesday night.
Every Tuesday night. And Mike, where do they come? They come from all over or just kind of more local. We got an old boy named Bush who is down in Hickory. Uh uh that c he comes up and got uh Ronald Queen out of North Wilkesboro Speedway.
He comes down and there's guys out of King. Um they're they're coming from all over, from uh just inside of Virginia. Word gets out and yeah, you know, what what it was is The point the point of it all was to get men You know, understand and get on there, start their day in the Bible on their knees praying first, and then hence the book that you brought me that sits before me: A 30-day boot camp for men, the first hour unleash God's.
So it's just like the kind of the foundation, like guys each get a copy of this when they come, and then that's free.
Okay, the whole thing's free. And we so what we we wanted to get men and also men they need to get in church. You know, it's like, you know, like the families, we can have a church right here, us three. But they need to get in a church, they need to get in their local church. And so that's how the Bible study we said, hey, we're going to do a Bible study and try to get we had these pastors that came too.
Okay. And so we had about five or six, we've had five or six pastors regular for the last year, how long we've been doing this now, over a year that join us in our Bible study. And we're trying to get these guys to go, hey, you need to be in your community church because we're supposed to be helping our community. We're supposed to be 10, 24, 10, 25, right? And so that's the point.
And then. So I tell you something funny about the Bible study. We had some guys say, you know, well, it'll work out, start off pretty good, and you'll get 20 or 30, and then it'll fade. Peter off. Yeah, it'll fade.
Like men do. Yeah, Peter off. Men can't come in. We're a year and two months or more, actually, longer than that. Yeah.
A year and five months, six months. And we're probably getting stronger every single week.
Somebody new comes.
Okay. At least. Three to four new guys come. And then we're last week, we had over 100. Yeah.
Last week we had over 100 there. Our average is somewhere around 65. But it's no surprise at all to have 80. And then, like last week, why did we have 100? We had a special guest last week, Super Bowl champion.
Yeah, we had a football player that came and he was awesome. He played for the Raiders and he spoke. We try to do that once a month or once maybe every two months. Have a guest speaker. Yeah, just something, you know, something a little different.
But it's just an honest. Way to sit around and talk about God and these guys. You think you're a small group? It's like a massive small group. And we started with the book of John.
We thought, hey, how are we going to start this thing off? And so we said, we're going to go. We've only been doing it that long. And we're going to do chapter 16, I think. We're doing 16 tonight.
We're doing that second half of 16. Second half of 60. Yeah. So technically, we have been in it since October, November 2024. John?
Yeah. No, we started out something else. Tim guys were talking about that the other night. Maybe the first couple weeks. I have to, but I have to go.
You've been doing it for a while. We've been doing it for a while. I say that. Yeah, which is amazing. To me, obviously, it sounds like God's got His hand on it.
It's in reality. It's unbelievable.
So for those listening out there, within an hour or two, it's every Tuesday night, right? Every Tuesday night. Tuesday night, 7 p.m. at the RCR Museum. We open the doors at 6:30.
It starts at 7. We say we end at 8. We'll start slowing, getting off at 8, but it usually runs past. But the guys will stay around and talk. I have to start flashing lights.
Hang around, fellowship. Yeah, and I have to start flashing lights and say, okay, guys, we've got to go. Got to go home. Got to go home, guys. Fellowship's the big thing in what we found.
I mean, we do. We get into the Bible or we have someone speaking every week. But you can tell the guys enjoy this as a fellowship event having it every night. And guys need that. And I'll just say this before we run out of time because I say it all the time.
Like, Mike, I agree with you that, you know, we need to be involved in the body of Christ. But then I'll stick next and I go, and you should be involved in a Bible study because you need a small group or, you know, guys you can do life with on another level. Yeah. And then the iron sharpens iron in Proverbs 27, 17, right? You know, you need that.
You need our main.
Okay, yeah, you need that accountability partner, as we call it at our man camp, that battle buddy. You need that battle buddy, you know, that's in there with you through thick and thin, right?
So, okay, so how do people, we only got a minute left here. How do people, how do people find out more? Is there a website or how do they find out more, man? Yeah, yeah, on Facebook, we got the Hometown Men's Fellowship.
Okay, Hometown Fellowship. Men's Fellowship.
Okay. And then on YouTube, we have Hometown Foundation. And what we do there is we post all of our weekly Bible studies and we posted our big event. We live streamed our October 2025 event for the first time. We actually live streamed it.
And we had tremendous success this year. It was 800 people again. We had Edward Graham, Samaritan Spurse. We had Ty Dillon speak. And so just all those can be found there.
Again, Hometown Men's Fellowship, Facebook, Hometown Foundation on YouTube. Incredible. And they show up. I know they're going to be blessed by being there. You're going to put a copy of the first hour, Unleash God's Power into their hands.
And that becomes kind of the format from week to week to week to week to week to week. And we brought you some t-shirts, too. All right.
We gave them one of those, too. Come on. You're just full of gifts today. Yes, sir. I feel honored.
So, well, Mike Dylan. Richard Childress Racing, 40 years, and Mitch Class, part of the foundation as well.
So, if you have an interest, man, if you're within an hour or two or three, I just did a men's breakfast. One of our camp alumni got up at 4 a.m. and drove three hours to come to the 8 a.m. breakfast the other day, right?
So, commitment. Men, we're going to challenge you to be committed to being men of God, godly husbands, godly fathers.
Sounds like that's what you guys are doing. Fellowshipping and sharpening iron with one with another, right?
So, thank you guys for being here. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, just an honor. And for each of you out there, every week, you're so faithful to dial in.
Hope you enjoyed some of the story today with Mike Dylan, with Mitch Class. Until next time, go out and have a Godfield and just live a God bless.
