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Thus ends the 2025 Moonshine 400. The other racers gather around winner Garrett and hoist him up on their shoulders to carry him to the Boar's Nest.

I have a group of friends in Chicago to see Manchester United play today.

Not a fan. Tractors replace mules and I'd rather plow the back 40 with Maudeen.

enos IN trouble

Christmas

I've just watched that scene about a dozen times and I'm not convinced by this one. Luke and Bo look over their shoulders when they first hear the siren. Luke then looks straight ahead and gradually turns toward Bo as he's talking. When he says "diamonds", he very briefly looks straight ahead before turning to look over his shoulder again. Bo has a couple of quick sideways looks, but I don't think any of Luke's glances are toward an imaginary door mirror.

I found one in Season 4 Diamonds in the Rough. It's when they're in the General Lee and Cletus comes out of the speed trap chasing them after his speed limit sign changed numbers when he pressed the button on the electronic gizmo. Bo:"Oh great. Cletus. Where the heck did he come from?" Luke:"You got me. It don't hardly matter though. We can't let him catch us with these diamonds." After Luke finishes talking, just before he turns around to look at Cletus's car, he appears to be looking in a mirror first. The General Lee doesn't have a passenger side door mirror. So what's he looking at? 😂

Season 4 The Great Bank Robbery Boss Hogg:"This is J. D. Hogg callin' Deputy Cletus Hogg! Where in blazes are you, bird brain?!" 😂 Deputy Cletus Hogg:"I'm right on them Duke Boys tail, Cousin Boss!" 😂 Boss Hogg:"Bless you Cousin Cletus, bless you!" 😂

Present

Christopher HENSEL played Jeb Stuart Duke

Past

Bo and Luke liked chasing GIRLS.

Homer the sign painter from Season 4 Goodbye General Lee. He was painting the National Safety Week Commissioner Hogg says Drive Carefully sign when the Dukes was trying to return the General Lee to Hobie Hartkins car lot. Homer is never seen or mentioned anymore after that episode.

Any fans here?

plowing the back FORTY

Games only go to penalties in knockout tournaments, so here's how tonight's shoot-out went: ETA. The original video I posted got blocked overnight, so here's a less good video filmed from behind the goal.

With the help of Jeff Foxworthy, I'll remind y'all that Europe isn't a county, but France and Hurgary (and Turkey) are countries.

Congratulations to the England women's football (soccer) team, AKA. The Lionesses, who won the Euros final earlier tonight. Victory came in a dramatic penalty shoot-out when the match ended 1-1 after extra time. This means that they retain the title which they first won in 2022. They beat Spain who won the World Cup against them in 2023. Over the past few years, the English team (men's and women's) have adopted Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline' as an unofficial anthem, so I'll post this to celebrate.

Hogg Real ESTATE Development

There was rain before the race, and although the cars lined up on the grid, they followed the safety car for a lap before the race was red flagged. Lewis Hamilton and three others elected to start from the pit lane after making setup changes. After a 90-minute delay, the race finally got a green flag with a rolling start. Oscar Piastri got past team mate Lando Norris on the first lap. Lewis also picked up a few places before being the first driver to switch to slick tires. After the rest of the field pitted, Lewis was in the top 10. Lando pitted the lap after Oscar and went for the harder tires. Despite catching towards the end, Oscar's medium tires didn't degrade as much as expected and it finished 1-2 for McLaren with Oscar extending his lead in the drivers' championship. Charles Leclerc held off Max Verstappen to take third and George Russell got fifth. In sixth, Alex Albon had a return to form for Williams, and Lewis got driver of the day finishing seventh after starting 18th. Even with the wet conditions, all 20 cars finished, and only one was lapped by the two leaders. I don't think I even saw a spin, and only a couple of cars briefly left the track. With two cars in the points, Ferrari are now solidly in second place in the constructors' championship, although with less than half the score of McLaren. You can see the race highlights here. There's only a week until the next race in Hungary.

Watching through 'Along Came a Duke' earlier, I remembered that it was the episode which used the Warner Ranch as a filming location - see my earlier posts here. Sadly, all the famous buildings on the ranch e.g. the Bewitched house, the Lethal Weapon house, the Christmas Vacation house, the Friends fountain etc. were demolished a couple of years ago to make way for additional sound stages. I found this video which documents some of the other buildings on the ranch. This longer video shows the buildings mid-demolition, and highlights the ones I mentioned above.

The silver/gray Gran Torino in 'Along Came a Duke' dates from the mid-70s (there were very few exterior changes between 1974 and 1976). It has redundant trim across the roof, so I'm guessing that it once had a vinyl roof of some kind. I think that one of the rocker panels comes off when it rolls, revealing red paint underneath. The car that Luke pulls the bad guys from has body colored door jambs, so either the props guys did a really thorough job respraying the car or there were two different cars used. Did anyone notice how Jeb Stuart Duke fell off his bike when he arrived at the crashed car? The car that Daisy drives in 'State of the County' is a 1975 Mercury Montego - a sister car to the Gran Torino. Although I'm sure that many cars were reused, I doubt that it would have been worth their time reusing a cheap rolled car.

Hey y'all... The Gray Gran Torino that Harry Joe and Tiny had hidden in the bushes and drive in the end of Season 3 Along Came a Duke, is it the same one Daisy rolled over in the end of Season 3 episode State of the County?

The first time I saw the Season 4 episode with that bad guy Holneek who had the alter ego Harry in his head and went around screaming "You!!!" In that creepy voice, it gave me nightmares. 😂

That's a good mention Hoss. 😀