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Welcome to the official Kibbe and Friends Show with myself, Justin “Corndog” Cornette, and Show Producer Bernie McPartland! With this show we’re basically setting up the Boars Nest for the entire automotive media world to swing through for a couple watered down beers, stale popcorn, and fantastic waitresses. You can find every episode here on The MuscleCar Place as well as iTunes, Pandora, iHeart Radio, and Google Play. From time to time we’ll also be posting video clips and full shows to The Kibbe and Friends YouTube channel. If you click the “Download” link at the top of this post you’ll be able to stream it on your phone directly. You can also pull the RSS feed as well.
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Late Model Racing Lessons, Lightning Rod Shifters, and the 4AM Flood Alarm
We kick things off with the new-ish reality of being on camera (and learning that 4K doesn’t forgive… anything). Rob’s battling the never-ending shiny forehead war, Corndog is trapped in an extreme close-up he didn’t consent to, and Bernie is fully committed to being the internet phenomenon—broken wing and all. Add in Rob’s busted finger and Bernie’s ongoing “I’m not allowed to drive” status, and you’ve got a crew that’s operating at 70%… with 110% confidence.
From there we slide into spring season vibes: car show season is waking up (Amelia Island is on deck), and the conversation detours into some peak 80s GM goodness—including the Hurst Olds and its legendary Lightning Rod shifter setup (yes, the one with multiple levers like a spaceship). The guys trade stories about oddball muscle-era and 80s performance cars that are finally getting the respect they deserve, along with the kind of obscure magazine memories and car culture nostalgia that always seem to pop up when G-bodies enter the conversation.
Then it’s classic K&F whiplash: Rob gets woken up by a smoke alarm, only to discover the nightmare scenario—water pouring out of it thanks to an upstairs bathroom flood (thankfully not… that kind of flood). Bernie delivers the weather like a man reading a town charter in 1798, the guys fire off a perfectly savage job interview PSA, and we close the first half with Celebrity Automotive Ancillary Birthday—featuring everything from Ron Howard to Ferris Bueller, plus a Ron Francis Wiring LS-11 low voltage sensor that officially brings “idiot light technology” into the modern age.
Dallas Gets Seat Time in a Late Model on Slicks
Rob also shares a proud dad update as Dallas recently got the opportunity to test a late model race car and experience slick tires for the first time. For anyone unfamiliar with the jump from Legends cars to late models, it’s a massive step up in both power and grip. The car Dallas tested was powered by a sealed Chevy 604 crate engine producing around 400 horsepower, running on full slicks—something very different from the smaller, twitchier Legends car he’s been racing.
The goal of the day wasn’t competition but seat time and learning. Dallas logged multiple runs of 10 laps at a time while the crew coached him over the radio, helping him adjust to the smoother driving style these cars demand. Unlike a Legends car where you’re constantly working the wheel, late models reward patience and smooth inputs. The biggest lesson of the day? Tires are everything. Early laps feel planted and fast, but as the tires wear, grip fades—and the driver has to adapt rather than overpower the car.
For Rob, it was one of those proud racing moments every parent hopes to see: watching Dallas settle into the car, respond to coaching over the radio, and start understanding the rhythm of a completely different type of race machine. Safe to say the experience left Dallas wanting more laps—and already looking forward to the next time he gets behind the wheel.
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The Dukes Of Hazzard – Episode Review:
“Swamp Molly” S01E06
This episode matters for a reason that has nothing to do with the plot: it looks like Dukes. You can feel the show snapping into the version most of us remember. The colors pop harder, the lighting is cleaner, the roads and hills finally match the “Dukes mental picture,” and the whole thing carries that early-California crispness that Corndog points out immediately. Even if you’ve seen it a hundred times, “Swamp Molly” hits different because it’s one of those episodes where the picture is so sharp you start noticing details you normally never see—badges, tags, background cars, and little production tells.
Rob calls out what’s really happening under the hood of the show: this is the transition into the California era (and possibly the first aired California-shot episode), meaning the second-unit B-roll is fresh. The “General Lee blasting by on a country road” shots aren’t recycled yet. They’re new, they’re clean, and they give the episode extra energy. Add in the early-season habit of actually putting actors in the car for in-car shots (even when being towed), and you get a more “real” feel than later seasons where things become more formula-driven and the trickery gets more obvious.
Plot-wise, the setup is classic Dukes manipulation: an old family friend (Swamp Molly) shows up with a debt Uncle Jesse “owes” her from back in the day. She lays it on thick—nostalgia, guilt, “remember when I saved you from the feds?”—and Jesse caves. The job sounds simple: the boys pick up a truck at the county line and run it down to the swamp landing. Molly sells it as prime moonshine, and the whole thing plays like a standard early-season shine run… until the curtain gets pulled back and the cargo reveal hits.
Because it’s not moonshine. It’s a rolling armory. Machine guns, rifles, grenades, and enough illegal hardware to make you wonder if Molly’s side hustle is supplying a small war. The fun part is how the show handles that moral line: Boss and Roscoe are always “bad,” but they aren’t portrayed as irredeemable monsters—there’s a code, even if it’s crooked. And when the Dukes get busted, they’re panicked because they genuinely didn’t know. Meanwhile Roscoe is offended—not because he’s suddenly a saint, but because to him this is “un-American” criminality. That moment is pure Dukes: the crooks are mad at the crooks for being the wrong kind of crooks.
Then we get the episode’s signature gimmick: the ice cream truck. Molly’s plan (or the scramble plan—depending how you read it) involves disguising the run with a painted-up box truck, and the show leans into the comedy of it. The painted “babies” (cherubs) on the side are ridiculous in a way that only early Dukes can pull off, and Rob even references that if you handed a real-life body man/artist the keys to that truck, he’d probably paint the same madness without blinking. That disguise leads straight into the kind of chase sequence Dukes lived on in the early years—more raw, more physical, less polished.
There are also a bunch of production/fan-detail nuggets sprinkled through the review that make this one a “rewatch for the nerds” episode. Rob mentions seeing an R/T grille badge at one point, plus the oddball detail of the General cruising around with the rear windows up—something that becomes rare later, and Corndog explains the practical reason: once you’ve got a roll bar in the car, the window crank becomes a pain to reach, so later episodes default to “windows down forever.” They also point out Beau/John Schneider still figuring out the choreography of getting in and out of the car smoothly—tall and lanky, steering wheel in the way, and you can see him still working it out before he becomes “smooth as butter” later in the run.
The background-car spotting is fun too. Daisy pulls up to the Boar’s Nest in Uncle Jesse’s pickup and there’s a seriously cool hot-rodded VW Bug sitting there—bobbed fenders, stinger exhaust, the kind of thing that feels like a crew member’s weekend toy. Corndog makes a solid point that early episodes often feel more “real” because they’re likely using crew cars and whatever’s around, before the show settles into that later pattern where you keep seeing the same handful of background vehicles on repeat.
Action-wise, Bernie’s rating bump comes from the driving itself—sliding sequences, quick turns, that early “we’re still doing stunts like we mean it” vibe. There’s also a great moment Rob flags: the General pulls up hard, Beau bails out fast, grabs the bow/arrow, and pops the roadblock for the escape—classic “Dukes physics” that somehow still feels satisfying. And the episode ends with one of those signature California-era running gags that becomes a recurring theme: the swamp/quicksand that basically goes to China. The guys even hit the classic question—“is quicksand real?”—and land on the truth: yes, but it’s not the instant death trap movies pretend it is… which only makes it funnier that Dukes treats it like a bottomless pit.
Episode Stats
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Show: The Dukes of Hazzard
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Season / Episode: Season 1, Episode 6
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Title: Swamp Molly
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Original Air Date: March 9, 1979
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Writer: Catherine Nicolean Powers
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Director: Don McDougall
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IMDB Summary: Swamp Molly asks Beau and Luke to deliver “moonshine,” but the shipment is actually illegal firearms.
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KF Ratings: Rob 9, Corndog 7, Bernie 8.75
National Parts Depot Presents: Bernie on the News
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Ron Francis Wiring: The Celebrity Automotive Birthday
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