Boost & Bullsh * t King, Harris and Miliante reflect on success of Pro Mod podcast By Rob King
Walk through any major Pro Mod pit area in 2026 and you’ ll hear it before your own name.“ Boost & Bullshit!” That’ s the moment Steve King knew. The 2025 World Series of Pro Mod champion has spent more than three decades around dragstrips, and he’ s used to fans shouting at him through the ropes. But this was different. This was the title of a podcast he started with Jason Harris in early 2025 echoing back from strangers in lawn chairs.“ You hear a lot of‘ Boost & Bullshit’ hollering from the fans, a lot more than I ever expected,” says King.“ When you’ re walking through the pits and you hear the fans hollering‘ Boost & Bullshit’ before they holler your name, that’ s a big part of it.”
Just over a year into its run, the Boost & Bullshit Podcast has broken through in a big way. Hosted by Harris, the inaugural PDRA Pro Nitrous world champion and back-to-back PDRA Pro Boost titlist, and King, who took the closest final round in WSOPM history against Stevie“ Fast” Jackson aboard the Gene Pilotowned, screw-blown“ Savage” 2018 Corvette for a $ 150,000 winner-take-all check, the show has become required Monday-night viewing for the
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doorslammer crowd and a growing slice of fans.
The pitch is simple. Two of the most decorated active Pro Mod racers in the country sit down with no script and talk. The chemistry – country and blunt and funny and occasionally unprintable – does the rest.
“ Two drivers that’ s been doing it for quite a few years with different combinations, so you get two different sides to the story, but they’ re real-life stories,” says King.“ In the trenches. Very involved with the programs, both been doing it for many years. Very, very similar personalities.”
Harris frames it as yin and yang. King runs a screw-blown Pro Mod with Pilot Racing money behind it. Harris built his career on the nitrous
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side and now races Pro Boost out of his North Carolina shop, where he still wrenches between race weekends.
“ I think they listen to us because they see two ends of the spectrum,” says Harris.“ They see Steve’ s version, somebody who’ s got a really good race team and screw blower, and me and him are more approachable maybe than some other people that are a little more guarded or take it maybe a little bit too serious. I take it serious, but I have fun with it, too.”
That mix of technical talk one minute and locker-room storytelling the next is the whole bit. It’ s also the part that has Pro Mod’ s notoriously guarded operators talking on the record about
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