The "Bros" talk with Steve Ticknor, the West Coast's premier performance boating event, the Desert Storm Poker Run and Shootout, scheduled for April 23-26, 2025. 

The long running event brings tens of thousands of people to the town of Lake Havasu City, AZ to experience all of the festivities, including the world famous Street Party on downtown McCulloch Blvd., the exciting Poker Run and the high speed, high adrenaline Shugrue's Shootout that showcases some of the fastest boats in the country. 

Ticknor, along with his partner, Jim Russell, has elevated Desert Storm to unprecedented proportions and has just teamed up with the largest unsanctioned race in the country, the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, to become a joint Shootout circuit where particpants that run both could be crowned a National title. 

In addtion, local super entusiasts and reigning 'King and Queen of the Desert,' Tim Jones with daughter Amanda, along with previous 'Queen,' matriarch Miranda have offered a prize purse of $20,000, to be distributed across several designated classes, and the new Jones Family Cup. 

This is Desert Storm! And this is Steve Ticknor. 

Myrick Coil is the driver for the National Champion Monster Energy / M CON Class 1 team, Speedboat Magazine Test Team Driver, lead shop foreman at Performance Boat Center and a dedicated family man. 

Ray Lee is the publisher of the national/international publication Speedboat Magazine, where nine high quality issues are printed each year with global distribution, and popular social media platforms on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. 

With all of the "bros" experience, knowledge, and friends and colleagues in the industry and sport, this podcast is sure to entertain, enthuse and educate the powerboating community.