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Rexy interviews Harrio/Two wheel 1 chain S6 Ep 27 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  You listen to the Be Forever Cool podcast.
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  My name is Rex 45. And you know, every time I say
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  that I it reminds me of a time when I was in Boston.
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  I used to always say I'm on the mic every Monday from this time
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  and all that. But it's different.
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  But every once in a while I want to, I want to slip that in, but
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  it's the Be Forever Cool podcast.
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  And this is a Tuesday night and I'm excited I get to interview a
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  fellow motorcycle rider, racer, track day guy, motorcycle
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  community guy, 'cause he does do things in the community as well
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  and spreading the love of, of the two wheels, which we we all
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  love. And, and, and that's kind of
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  what he goes by on social media, you know, two wheels, 1 chain
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  and, and, and I like it 'cause without a chain, you know what
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  I'm saying? You only got 2 wheels and all
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  the things two chains too. So it's I feel like I'm already
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  in good company and I haven't really got a chance to notice
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  dude yet. But with no further ado, let's
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  bring him in for sure on on the beef of a cool podcast.
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  Welcome to the show. What's up, brother Ricks, man
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  Welcome, man. I I appreciate you coming on and
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  taking the time and also being flexible.
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  Believe it or not, it doesn't normally happen.
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  Keep asking someone to change their schedule for me, but I
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  really appreciate that to the utmost because I do I do value
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  everyone's time and and being punctual is is a good thing.
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  So man, I, I, I, I thank you for taking the time out and I know
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  you told me his name initially and I'm bad with names.
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  That's why I go by Rexy and not my government, because I'm.
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  Very bad with your name, but yeah, Ariel.
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  Ariel is my nickname. It's not my government.
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  Name we got to Hario 2 wheels 1 chain no doubt man.
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  Welcome to the show man. How you doing tonight?
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  Man, I'm doing great, man. I'm, you know, I've been been
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  following you guys for a while, man.
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  I like you guys content and I've been so anxious to like jump in
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  the mix with you all, especially when you guys talk about the,
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  the Moto GP racing and all that, because I've been following that
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  ever since I was like a youngster.
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  So like, so I've just been so excited to jump on this podcast
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  and try to get in the mix with you all.
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  So hey, I'm looking forward to it tonight.
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  OK, that's what's up, man. I, I, I, I appreciate the words.
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  And you, you definitely been following, as you know, if
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  you've been following, you already know you've been
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  watching Moto GP before I was watching you already on the mic
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  before I was. So I'm a late bloomer man, and
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  I'm not trying to pretend otherwise.
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  So yeah, you know, like how did you get into two wheels, man?
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  How was it for you? As as you already know my spiel.
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  So like, you know, how was it for you when you first got on 2
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  wheels man? OK, man, Like is so that we can
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  go back to the 80s bad? So like.
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  To the beginning man. To the.
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  Beginning OK, so I'm originally from Birmingham, AL and my dad
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  really got me into to motorcycle racing, right, motorcycle
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  racing, motorcycle, all that stuff.
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  Like even before I was born, my dad raced motorcycles in
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  Alabama. So drag racing.
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  So I think I have a picture of I think I have a picture on my on
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  one of my Instagram pages where one Christmas my dad got me like
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  a three Wheeler Kawasaki, man. It got me my red helmet and my
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  dad had a motorcycle and he's the could be in between his
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  legs. Man.
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  I I can remember some of that stuff.
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  Right. Let's talk about the years,
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  though. We got to listen on my 80s.
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  Babies, babies. Let's talk about the years, man.
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  When, when, What year was that? Maybe like I was born in 1980s,
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  so like 8485, maybe like because that's, that's the furthest I
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  can go back in my history of consciousness is like 1984 for
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  sure. 19841985 around that time, right?
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  And man, I just, I fell in love with it, man.
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  And ever since then I just been like chasing it.
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  And then growing up and being, you know, going through my
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  teenage years, I really wanted a moped, but my, but I don't think
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  my parents trusted me with a moped with my granddad, though,
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  he had like the he had a maybe a 1975 Honda CBR450 right at his
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  office where he worked at, right.
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  Man, I have probably spent hours beyond hours on that motorcycle
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  a little bit imagining me on it, right?
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  Like, and I'll tell you a crazy story about that because last
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  year I was enrolled Atlanta, they had one on display, that
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  same exact motorcycle that I used to play with as a, you
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  know, as a youngster. It was there at the race.
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  And it was. It was a nostalgic feeling
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  because it was just it brought back memories.
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  My granddad is not with me anymore, but just remembering
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  that like, man, I remember I used to be on this all day like
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  hours. My mom didn't even care.
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  Like she like, you know, I was just doing something like, but
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  ever since then that just like been like, you know, I still
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  wanted, I still wanted to purchase that bike.
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  But it's, you know, I probably had to do a lot of work and keep
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  doing a lot of searching to look for it.
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  But that's definitely something that like, I want to get to,
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  yeah. I, I feel yeah, because like I,
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  I there's some oldest bikes and some cars that I'm like, I'd
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  like to rebuild, but you, you don't know what the parts is
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  like. So, but like, you know, when,
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  when did you like first like jump on, you know, your first
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  bike and and learn how to ride like, like what age were you
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  and. Let me tell you this one quick
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  story, right? So I'm a retired veteran, right?
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  I've probably been retired out the Army.
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  I did 26 years active duty and I probably been, I retired 2024,
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  right? So let me tell you, I, I, I this
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  story go collaborate with where I'm going.
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  So I was stationed in Germany. I got stationed in Germany in
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  1999, right? And I went to a place called
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  Kaiser Slot in Germany and they had the green ZX7, right?
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  And I wanted it so bad, right? And I went there, I went to
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  Kaiser Slaughton K town. I went one weekend, got approved
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  for it and everything, right. And I was so excited.
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  I was so excited. I came back home.
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  I came back home and called my mom.
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  I mean, I came back to my barracks while I was stationed
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  at in Germany. I called my mom was like, well,
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  I'm about to get a motorcycle, right?
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  And man, my mom flipped the word out of me.
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  She said if you get a motorcycle, you're not going to
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  be my son anymore, right? Man, I was, I was 19 and and it
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  was probably good. It was probably good at that
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  time because like I'm stationed in Germany.
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  Yeah, Autobahn the Germans, they always in 4 Leathers.
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  Man, we're going to talk about the Autobahn because that's my,
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  that's all my bucket list of places.
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  So it's interesting. I was probably, I was like a BMX
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  kid and I was probably, I must have been like 13 and there were
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  kids starting to ride dirt bikes or, or the Honda, I think it was
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  the XLXL 50 or something or whatever.
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  And I remember coming home and wanting one.
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  And, you know, I'm from Jamaica, originally migrated here or
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  immigrated here in 81. And I remember going home and
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  telling my mother I wanted a bike.
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  And yeah, there was, there was none of that.
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  There was no, it was like, you're not going to, you're
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  going to kill yourself. And, and like you is probably, I
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  probably would have because I I, I, you know, I was a daredevil
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  as a kid. So.
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  Yeah. So.
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  So it's crazy that, you know, our parents got some kind of
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  like, full sight, like, you're going to hurt yourself.
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  Oh yeah, for sure, for sure. I definitely was out of control
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  around that time, but I probably probably would be on this
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  podcast if I probably purchased it there.
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  Yeah, yeah, so, but it's OK for 19 years so.
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  So when did you finally get to jump on a bike?
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  Because. OK, so I got, I end up getting
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  stationed in Hawaii from 2005 to 2010 and I purchased my first
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  motorcycle in 2007. OK, when I was when I hadn't
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  turned 27 yet, I was 26. That's what I purchased yeah.
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  And I had a 2008 ZX6R Yeah in. 2. 1007, yeah.
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  Nice. And which island in Hawaii were
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  you stationed on and and how long were you there for?
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  I was stationed in Oahu and I was there five years, five
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  years. And I would tell you something
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  right after every place I've ever been stationed at, that's
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  probably the most place that I have put the most miles on my
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  motorcycle, on a motorcycle. OK, OK.
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  What are you talking about for numbers?
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  Huh. What are you talking about for
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  numbers? Maybe man, maybe close to like
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  6000 miles, man, I rode every day, every day from that
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  particular time when I got my motorcycle.
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  Maybe because it's it's it's perfect weather.
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  It's no bad weather there, right.
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  So like right in Hawaii and and and the motorcycle culture is
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  something serious in the eight O 8 man and I I picked up with a
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  lot of guys there that had man, we had AI had a blast, Man.
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  I, I, I will never forget the rider that I did in Hawaii, man,
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  Never, never forget. No, we, we, we, we, we have one
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  of our guys that come on the show, Jordan, he was also
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  stationed out there. A couple of people actually
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  that's been on the show has been in Hawaii and and kind of jumped
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  on a motorcycle for the first time.
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  So it seems like it's a place that people can get introduced
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  to motorcycling. But, you know, let's talk about
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  Germany for a little bit on the autobahn because, like, were you
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  able to, you know, put your foot to the metal pedal to the metal
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  on the Autobahn while you were there?
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  Oh. For sure.
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  Oh for sure. I had a like AI think a 94 Acura
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  Integra and it had 140 on the dash and I probably did every
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  bit of 140 every time, every time. 5 speed.
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  I'll never forget, man. And yeah, I, I, I, yeah, you got
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  you. 120 K is like 80 mph, right?
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  And in some places that where we used to go where it's just like
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  a just a long extended period of road with no speed limit, man,
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  it's all the way down to the floor.
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  So it can't go anymore. Right, right.
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  Yeah. You know, you know, I, I could
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  talk about Germany for a while, but you know, I was, I'm, I'm
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  going to go see Moto GP in Germany at some point And I'm,
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  I'm probably going to like, I, I, I remember looking at the,
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  the, my itinerary, like trying to figure it out.
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  So I was going to do it last year and, and I think I was
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  going to fly in like Frankfurt and just drive, which was like a
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  5-6 hour drive. And I was like that might be
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  fun. It will be it will be break for
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  tonight's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  So, OK. So, so you know, you're in,
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  you're in Hawaii, you know, you got a bike and you're riding and
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  you're putting in the miles and stuff like that.
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  You know, when did you start or, or, or did you already start
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  paying attention to like, you know, Moto GP or, or yeah, Moto
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  GP back then or a world super bike or any of the racing in the
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  in, in the US Motor America, AMA.
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  Like when did you start paying that stuff track days or even
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  start just like, OK, Cuz for me, like I, you know, I got into,
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  like I said, I got into riding late and I was fortunate that
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  the guy, one of the guys that I knew from the car, cuz well,
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  like I was, you know, before Fast and the Furious, it was us.
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  It was us. We always look at because we,
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  we, we, we had, we, we were Volkswagens and, and whatnot,
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  but it was us. And like every other person
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  probably says that, that, that they'll play with cars and stuff
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  like that. But like, you know, when did you
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  start like seeing like the racing side of things?
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  Cause for me that was like later on and, and, and seeing that as
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  an opportunity to even just get to the track and, and maybe
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  2000. OK. 2000, yeah, yeah, 2000 was
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  like, like really when I start paying attention to it because
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  that was, I think that was and Moto GP, that was Kenny Roberts
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  junior run the Moto GP, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah. And Rossi was on his way, man,
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  you know what I mean? And and I started picking it up,
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  pick it up around that time. And it was this the Brazilian
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  guy, what was his name? Alex Barrows.
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  No Barrows, Barrows. Barrows, Barrows.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Barrows, yeah.
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  And I only knew that going back and watching I I didn't live it
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  in real time. Yeah, so and and I just used, I
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  was just so fascinated with it, man.
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  Just like just the amount of, you know, skill and talent that
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  it takes to like really ride a motorcycle at that high
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  performance, you know, leaning like taking the turns at that
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  particular speed. And it was just intriguing to me
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  at that time, you know, like especially being a young, young
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  man and, you know, into speed like that, you know, and able to
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  actually see it in fruition, like somebody on a machine
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  that's taking it right, a motorcycle to the limit, man.
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  I just, you know, basketball and sports.
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  That is cool. That is cool.
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  I like it, but man versus machine and pushing it to the
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  Olympic man, that's that's what my heart is truly at.
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  Yeah, no, I I agree, man. I agree.
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  I, you know, it's, you know, I, you know, I don't think I've
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  ever said this, but I got into cars because of my dad and, and
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  he didn't race, but he knew how to drive.
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  And, you know, in Jamaica, you know, I, I always like everybody
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  fix their cars because you can't afford a mechanic because you
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  just, you're out there renting. So it, it, it, it, it was always
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  cars. So for me, like as a 12 year
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  old, you know, I, it was cars, cars, cars, cars.
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  So like, but it but once I finally got to drive, you know,
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  I knew that was like, yeah, this is my thing.
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  This is me and this machine. We understand each other.
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  We're talking, we're on the same page.
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  It's I can't explain it You. It's just it's, you know, it's
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  just a feel, right? So go ahead.
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  No, go ahead. Yeah, it was just, I know that
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  feeling because like my, my dad, my dad was in the cars too,
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  because he had a, he had a, a Trans Am man that was with the
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  amber lighting inside. And it was like, I think it was
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  a 5 or 6 speed with the Phoenix on the hood.
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  And man, I used to love that car bad.
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  I used to love that car. And I tell you, my dad still
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  rides. My dad still rides.
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  And I remember when I was stationed in Germany, I came
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  home and my dad had the first he had, I think it was maybe 2000
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  or I think it was 2000 or 2001. I came home.
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  He had the first Gen. booster. He had it, man.
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  Yeah, first jet. He had it, man.
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  And it was it was a monster, man.
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  It was a monster. Nice.
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  So, OK, so now we're, we're, we're, we're in the early 2000s
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  and, and you're following Moto GP and, and, and, and, and the
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  restoration and stuff like that. And you're, and you're riding
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  and, and stuff like that. Now.
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  When did you get to the track and and how did that happen?
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  OK, like Fast forward, that was like maybe 2000, 2011, 12.
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  No, no, no, no, I was, I was in Afghanistan maybe 2013, 2013.
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  That's when I really got into it.
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  And it was the a female that passed away that I was supposed
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  to actually link up. Man, she was an actual SJ
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  Harris, right? I don't know, like she she she
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  passed away on on the set of what was the name of that movie?
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  SJ Harris. She passed on us.
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  What's the? What's the?
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  What's the? Deadpool.
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  Deadpool. She passed away on on Deadpool,
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  right? And I was stationed in New York,
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  right? I don't know but I I heard about
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  that. Yeah, she passed away.
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  She was. She had raised a little bit in.
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  AMA also, right? Yeah, she was a stunt woman,
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  right? Yeah, she was a stunt woman,
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  right? And we asked our corresponding
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  together on, on what is it? We asked our correspondent on
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  Facebook around that time, and she was trying to get me to New
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  York to come there to try to link up with her.
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  She's like, yeah, just come down here because I was, I was in
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  upper state New York, like Fort Drum is like past Syracuse,
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  right? And she kept on trying to get me
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  to come down to the city to try to like to learn from her,
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  right? And I was like, so eager to
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  learn from her. And, you know, unfortunately,
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  you know, what happened to her and ended up linking with some
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  guys in New York and just got on a little state track and just
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  learned a couple of things. And that was just like my first
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  taste of it, right? And, and I just just fell in
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  love with it. And it was just like, this is me
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  doing something that I wanted to do and, and, and to be
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  completely honest with you, at that particular time of my life,
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  I was in like in a standstill in my military career.
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  So I really, really, truly, truly, in my heart of hearts,
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  really want to go get out the military and try to pursue that
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  because I was in my mind, I was thinking, I can always come back
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  in the military, but at the same time, I had kids.
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  So it's just like, like, how could I?
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  And I was just like, man, I need to provide for my kids, man.
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  That's, that's a hobby. That's something that I'm
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  passionate about, but that's not something that I need to put too
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  much interest in. You know, I need to just, you
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  know, and when I get the opportunity, pay the money to
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  get on the track, do what I need to do.
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  My responsibility came forward. But I I retired now, so I got
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  time, you know what I mean? You listen man, and, and, and
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  you know, you're not alone in that.
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  I, you know that, you know, I, it's funny, I was just in Rd.
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  Atlanta this past weekend and you know, I've said, I think
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  I've said on the show once or twice that like I would like to
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  race in Motor America. And you know, one of the guys
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  from Loudon let Sergio, you know, he's been fortunate enough
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  to be able to race in Motor America a couple of rounds,
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  although he had some bad luck, at least he, you know, he had
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  the opportunity to get there. So it, it, it, it there's a lot
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  of folks that like, you know, feel we got the skill set, you
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  know what I mean? And, and life, life happens,
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  right? And, and for one reason or
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  another. And you know that you, you know,
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  but you know, you're tempted by like, yeah, you know what?
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  I like to see how I stack up, you know that, you know what I
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  mean? And stuff like that.
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  So I, I get where you're coming from, you know, from, from that
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  mindset because I, I think there's in all categories of, of
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  in all walks of life, that people, that life happens and we
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  don't get that chance to be like, yeah, but I think I can
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  compete at that level. So now you, you get past that
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  and, but you've been to the track and stuff like that.
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  So like when did you start racing?
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  Me personally racing I I have never like actually raced.
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  I just did like a couple track days.
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  Oh man, we got to get to racing, man, we got to racing.
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  Yeah, I. Need to got you got you so like
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  what what what is it like going to the track for you, you know,
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  being on the streets for so long and stuff like that, Like what
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  what what what's that like going to the track and and where do
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  you see yourself now as far as like, you know, I guess what's
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  holding you back from racing, but like.
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  Maybe because I want another motorcycle right?
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  I only have one motorcycle now right, so I have a 2016 Ducati
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  1299. That's the only motorcycle I
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  have right and I've told myself this year I want to purchase ARS
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  V4 so I can make my 1299 my track bike right.
• 20:33
  So once I get my second bike, because I like right now, my
• 20:39
  bike is right currently right now in the Ducati shop in Austin
• 20:42
  and I'm supposed to pick it up sometime this week and just get
• 20:46
  some stuff done. But once I get the second bite,
• 20:49
  I'm really looking forward to making the the 1299 my official
• 20:53
  track, right? Yeah, you know, I will say this
• 21:00
  and probably a lot of some listeners listening, you know,
• 21:04
  I'll, I'll probably say keep you 1299 and, and, and, and buy a
• 21:09
  small bike, you know, get, get it, get it, get a, get AR-3 or
• 21:14
  Ninja 400 and or, you know, I, I race a couple of small KTM RC3
• 21:19
  nineties, you know what I mean? And, and I, I didn't start that
• 21:22
  way when I started racing. I started on SV650.
• 21:25
  I went to AR-6, did R6 for about 5 years, you know, it got
• 21:31
  bruised up and battered up and he, he realized I wanted to work
• 21:34
  on my body position and stuff like that and riding.
• 21:36
  So I went down to the RRR, the, the RC three 90s and they've
• 21:41
  been great for me, you know, because it, it's forcing me to
• 21:44
  do all the right things. But the other cool thing is that
• 21:48
  man, you know, on a small bike you can get a set of tires and
• 21:52
  them tires can last you for a little bit, you know?
• 21:57
  What I'm saying? So like like can I, should I
• 22:00
  change tires every weekend or can I add more races to a
• 22:05
  weekend on a smaller bike? You know what I'm saying?
• 22:07
  So like you can get, you know, like I got into my SV like you
• 22:11
  know, for like 2800 bucks right back in 2013, right And it's
• 22:15
  already race ready. So, you know, all safety wire,
• 22:18
  all the holes are drilled, 'cause that sucks.
• 22:21
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you're not done that, you
• 22:23
  know it sucks, right? So it's like it it, you know,
• 22:29
  you can move, you can always get the bigger bike.
• 22:31
  But I think that like getting into racing, if you get on a
• 22:35
  small bike, you don't have to worry about modulating your
• 22:39
  power. You can just be full power.
• 22:42
  You just got to worry about your bottom position.
• 22:43
  Am I tuck? Am I coming off the bike?
• 22:45
  Am I hitting my breaking markers, my entries, my exits?
• 22:48
  Am I doing all the right things? And once you master that for a
• 22:51
  year or two, and I was probably always say keep a small bike
• 22:54
  because you can always just go to the mini tracks just to train
• 22:56
  on and then get the bigger bike. And then you don't have to.
• 23:00
  Me like when I went from my SV650 to the R6, I mean, I was
• 23:05
  in the last place for like a year and a half, two years just
• 23:08
  trying to learn how to just ride that bike, you know what I mean?
• 23:11
  And and I, I had to buy a street bike just to get more St. time
• 23:15
  because I mean, I got a track in my backyard.
• 23:17
  So like with my practice, right. So I, I bought AI, bought a
• 23:23
  second RR 6 so I can just get used to riding AR 6 and changing
• 23:28
  gears and get comfortable and all of the stuff where like if I
• 23:32
  was on a smaller bike, I wouldn't have to worry about the
• 23:34
  power, you know what I mean? I just got to worry about just
• 23:37
  learning how to ride. And, and that's the cool thing
• 23:40
  about like, you see these young kids, they're all on small
• 23:42
  bikes. So they all get to learn how to
• 23:43
  ride and then they move up to the big bikes and they don't
• 23:45
  have to worry about learning how to ride.
• 23:46
  They just got to worry about the power and when they're going to
• 23:49
  turn on and off the gas. You know what I'm saying?
• 23:53
  So which, you know, like I said, if you've only been on the track
• 23:56
  track a couple of times, you know, get a ninja 400 that
• 24:00
  somebody's selling, ride it for a couple of years, learn how to
• 24:03
  ride, you know, Chuck it down the road a couple of times.
• 24:07
  And and then like I, I'm gonna put, I'm gonna put my 12999 out
• 24:10
  on the track and you'll, and at that point you'll like that.
• 24:14
  I don't know how much riding you have.
• 24:16
  You like street riding, but the street, you know, St. riding is
• 24:19
  different than track riding. You know, track riding is, is
• 24:23
  being able to do same thing over and over and over and over and
• 24:27
  over and over because it's the same thing now.
• 24:32
  I want to say this, I even though I'm not, you know, I
• 24:36
  haven't brought it out here. So to say like since I've been
• 24:40
  like like since I retired in Texas, like, but listen, like I
• 24:45
  will drag my knee. I got 4 Leathers.
• 24:46
  I will get busy on the street. I've done it before.
• 24:49
  I've done it before and I no doubt you said what?
• 24:54
  No. No, I said no doubt.
• 24:56
  Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
• 24:57
  Yeah, but I know it's not safe. I know it's not safe, you know?
• 25:01
  But it's fun to do every now and then and I really want to get
• 25:06
  back into just like teaching people how to ride too, because
• 25:11
  there's a lot of youngsters out here that don't know how to
• 25:14
  ride. They just know how to swing the
• 25:16
  throttle. No, no body positioning.
• 25:19
  No, they don't understand body position.
• 25:22
  They don't understand what they do with their legs.
• 25:24
  Like even taking it even deeper to learning how to work out
• 25:28
  properly to ride your motorcycle.
• 25:31
  Yeah, yeah. And and I wasn't saying it, I
• 25:33
  didn't say all that to say based on your skill set.
• 25:35
  It's more more like on the cost second side, just the oh,
• 25:38
  absolutely. Oh no.
• 25:39
  No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, I'm not.
• 25:40
  Yeah, yeah, it was definitely not my question.
• 25:43
  Your skill set. It was more like just get the
• 25:45
  cheapest bike and go ride, you know, That's all I was.
• 25:50
  I know I need to, I definitely need to.
• 25:52
  It's just, I think like just to be completely transparent, I
• 25:56
  think my ego gets in a way because I if I pass, I've talked
• 26:00
  a lot of trash about people that ride 4 hundreds and three
• 26:02
  hundreds. And I think it's just like
• 26:04
  something that I need to just retract back from having that
• 26:08
  mentality to get one to really, you know, spend the money to
• 26:12
  actually get on the track and actually ride for real.
• 26:15
  But I think that's that. I think that's what the the
• 26:18
  issue is. It's my ego.
• 26:19
  It has nothing to do with anything else with that.
• 26:21
  Because I've been running my mouth talking trash about like,
• 26:24
  you got a 500, you, you got a 400.
• 26:27
  But in all actuality, that's really what I need.
• 26:30
  You know what I'm saying? Like, listen man, I.
• 26:33
  I. Yeah, I like, in hindsight, I, I
• 26:37
  wish I would have kept the 6:50 for a lot longer and just learn
• 26:40
  how to be quicker because I spent a lot of years and I also
• 26:44
  got injured. But I still spent a lot of years
• 26:46
  just kind of like, you know, learning how to ride but also
• 26:49
  trying to control the power. And, you know, and that's just a
• 26:52
  600, you know, not even 1000, right?
• 26:54
  And and you know a 601, when you wind a 600 up, it's like the
• 27:00
  Tasmanian devil. Yeah, it is, It is.
• 27:04
  And you know, like I went from that 2008 ZX6R to R1 and the
• 27:11
  reason why it was just time for me to upgrade because I just, I
• 27:15
  was just doing, I was just being totally ultra ignorant doing
• 27:20
  stupid stuff on that 600. And I was just, I needed to be
• 27:23
  humbled. I needed to be humbled again.
• 27:25
  And I ended up getting a 2012 R one right after that.
• 27:29
  I had, I think it was like, yeah, I ended up getting that
• 27:32
  and that humbled me. Oh, yeah, no, same here.
• 27:35
  Same here. I mean, like my, my, my first
• 27:38
  bike was at 8:48. My second bike was my 1198.
• 27:41
  You know what I'm saying? It was like, you know, I didn't
• 27:46
  buy three hundreds until 2021 and I've been around.
• 27:49
  Oh, OK, same thing. Same thing, you know.
• 27:54
  What I'm saying, so that's what I'm saying like, you know, I had
• 27:56
  to like, you know, I, I, you know, I crashed in 2018, you
• 28:01
  know, I illustrated my spleen got, I had to get cut open and
• 28:04
  get surgery, got screw in my hand and all that stuff.
• 28:08
  And, and you know, I, I went back racing the next year
• 28:11
  because I just was stubborn and, and so while my hand wasn't
• 28:16
  healed, I was still racing. But then I was compensating.
• 28:20
  So by that, like by September of the following, yeah, I was like,
• 28:23
  OK, I don't feel any pain, but now my body position is all off,
• 28:27
  you know what I'm saying? And and so I had to like, you
• 28:30
  know, it was like I can continue on the 600 and try to comp fix
• 28:33
  my body position or go to a smaller bike.
• 28:36
  And and so it took me almost like, I mean, I guess I started
• 28:39
  riding 2012 racing 20/13/2021. I bought my first small bike.
• 28:48
  Yeah, yeah, no, no doubt. Ego, ego for sure.
• 28:51
  And, and in hindsight, looking back, it was like, yeah, I
• 28:54
  should have kept the 6th SV for like a few more years and, and
• 28:58
  just for you to learn how to continue to ride and stuff like
• 29:00
  that. But, but I'll say this, going to
• 29:03
  the small bikes and doing that for a few years now I'm like,
• 29:07
  OK, I feel good because now I like, I'm doing all the right
• 29:10
  things now I can break later, you know what I'm saying?
• 29:12
  Now I'm getting on the gas sooner, I can carry more corner
• 29:15
  speed and, and stuff like that. So, you know, and, and for some
• 29:19
  people, they can jump on the big bikes and figure all that out,
• 29:22
  right? I'm not going to, I can't speak
• 29:23
  for anyone. I can, I can only speak for
• 29:25
  myself. But going back down to a small
• 29:27
  bike that really folk kept me tough because trust me, you hold
• 29:31
  your head up just a little bit, you're going slower.
• 29:36
  I will say this, like you, what was this?
• 29:40
  I got stationed in Korea from 2017 to 2019, right?
• 29:46
  I did they. Told Nice places so far I.
• 29:49
  Have I? Agree man.
• 29:54
  The first year I got the career they had like it had a track day
• 30:00
  at this tracking career right, You can rent the Leathers 600
• 30:04
  and I I remember this like it was yesterday right.
• 30:09
  I came out there roll did everything I needed to do and
• 30:13
  the guy you know, at the translator like because it was
• 30:16
  it was through like the MWR thing, like for like you have to
• 30:18
  have a licensed military welfare and recreation, right.
• 30:22
  And I do mean to cut you off. I people say not to cut you off
• 30:25
  and cut people off. But I had somebody else on the
• 30:29
  show, Jordan. And that's the thing apparently
• 30:32
  with the military like like covering like safety for going
• 30:37
  to the track and track day stuff.
• 30:40
  I don't think that's been told that like it's not known more
• 30:43
  because I'm pretty sure a lot of kids here and like listen to go
• 30:45
  to the military, you can learn. Yeah, so it's a weird thing that
• 30:50
  happened, right? So like, you know, you got young
• 30:52
  men and young women, they deploy, they deploy, they go for
• 30:56
  a year and they come back and have probably the most money
• 30:59
  they ever seen ever in their life in their account.
• 31:01
  And all of a sudden they got money to burn and they buy these
• 31:04
  expensive motorcycles, right? And, you know, they never really
• 31:08
  had proper training to ride. And, you know, a lot of
• 31:11
  fatalities and injured soldiers that ended their careers ride a
• 31:15
  motorcycle. So the military caught up, you
• 31:18
  know, the MSF course, and they caught up to try to help
• 31:22
  soldiers, you know, to ride better.
• 31:25
  So like, hey, look, we can't stop you from purchasing this,
• 31:27
  but we can help, aid and assist you to learn how to do what you
• 31:31
  want to do better. And, you know, I'm just
• 31:33
  fortunate, fortunate to be in some, you know, great places and
• 31:38
  to know enough people to network, to let me know about
• 31:41
  certain things that was going on while I was in the military.
• 31:43
  And I took full advantage of it, full advantage of it.
• 31:46
  Awesome. Yeah.
• 31:48
  Yeah, yeah. No, that's, I, I mean, you know,
• 31:51
  I almost went to the military. I, I, I had a kid young and I,
• 31:55
  and I didn't go, but like, but that's cool.
• 31:58
  Like it's just like, you know, cuz for, you know, again, I'm
• 32:02
  not saying that's the reason to go, but like it's good to know
• 32:04
  if you're into bikes. Oh yeah, for sure.
• 32:08
  They, they recently just had one of the guys and the, the big
• 32:11
  post down here not too far, maybe 20 miles from me where I
• 32:14
  retired at it's Fort Hood. They had a, they had the guy to
• 32:18
  bring the big simulator out there, man, the big like Moto GP
• 32:22
  simulator and it was like a big ordeal.
• 32:24
  OK, that's what's up. That's what's up.
• 32:28
  Yeah, man, It, it, it so. Yeah.
• 32:30
  So. So where else have you gotten to
• 32:32
  ride motorcycles? You know, besides, you know,
• 32:37
  Hawaii, Korea, US. Well, New York.
• 32:43
  Taylor the dragon. Taylor the dragon.
• 32:46
  I haven't. Done that yet?
• 32:47
  I've been invited and and I know some friends that have gone and
• 32:51
  scheduling wise it hasn't worked out for me but I know that's the
• 32:53
  place I want to hit. Oh yeah, for sure, babe.
• 32:55
  My, I've done it and my dad has done it.
• 32:59
  My dad did it before me and I was stationed there.
• 33:02
  Get in, get in. Yeah.
• 33:05
  Nice, nice, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:07
  So. Yeah, go ahead.
• 33:10
  All, all of Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina,
• 33:16
  Virginia, Texas, and maybe that's it.
• 33:24
  That's it. Like, you know, I did some stuff
• 33:26
  overseas, but that wasn't like actually my motorcycle, but you
• 33:29
  know, scooters and stuff with that.
• 33:31
  It was fun. I rode scooters in Thailand.
• 33:33
  That was fun, though scary before.
• 33:36
  Got you, got you. You know, I, I went to Italy to
• 33:39
  go to Moto GP and drive around. I, you should go.
• 33:45
  I saw it. But like I did about 20, I did
• 33:48
  over 2400 miles in a Fiat standard.
• 33:53
  And I started from Venice and went all the way down to the MI
• 33:57
  Fi coast, stopping off at different places and then went
• 34:00
  to Florence and then drove back and forth from Florence to the
• 34:02
  racetrack. And let me tell you the the
• 34:05
  people that go to the racetrack, they be they be on it.
• 34:09
  Oh, yeah. So let me ask you a quick
• 34:13
  question. So did you go to CODA this year?
• 34:18
  I did not go this year. OK.
• 34:20
  Have you been to Coda? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:21
  I went last year and I went in 2019.
• 34:24
  OK, I, I, I, I, I was there last year too.
• 34:27
  So like, how is the crowd, the fans, the American crowd versus
• 34:33
  the European fans? How is it?
• 34:35
  Well, I'll say this. So I I've been fortunate enough
• 34:38
  to go to Aston. So Aston was my first track.
• 34:40
  I did that in 27th Union Rossi won.
• 34:43
  That was that. I mean, that was it was chilly,
• 34:45
  it was cold, but you know the scene on the podium after a long
• 34:49
  time. This is last as I think that was
• 34:50
  the last win that it's a different crowd.
• 34:55
  When I went there, you know, it was just, it was chill and, and
• 34:59
  I did VIP there and it it was stuffy and I'm not chill.
• 35:03
  It was stuffy. It was just like I'm, you know,
• 35:05
  you know, I don't know if you, you know, you go to any like, I
• 35:09
  don't know, any training session already assembly and there's
• 35:12
  people from everywhere and it's just kind of like tight.
• 35:17
  And then I go to Mojelo and Mojelo was, you know, like if
• 35:23
  you, if you know what dream weekend is or anything like that
• 35:26
  in Jamaica, Mojelo, you know, party.
• 35:33
  I, I so I, I, I had a hotel in Florence and I was going back
• 35:37
  and forth to that. And I wish I had a, a camper and
• 35:40
  just stayed at the track. That's how much I was like what
• 35:44
  I I leave in I'm just like, oh, this looks like it's going to be
• 35:46
  fun you. Know.
• 35:51
  What I'm saying, and I didn't realize you could camp out at
• 35:54
  the track at A, at a like a Moto GP weekend.
• 35:58
  So I think if I get to go back to Mojelo or some of these
• 36:01
  tracks, I'll probably camp out at the track.
• 36:04
  And, and like you hear the stories of, you know, France,
• 36:10
  the, the, the, the, I don't know what the track is called, but
• 36:13
  the, the French GP, you know, the partying that's going on at
• 36:16
  3:00 in the morning, we hear these writers complaining that
• 36:18
  they hear the singing and everything that's going on.
• 36:21
  Like you want to be part of that.
• 36:23
  Right, right, right, right. Because last year, when Zarko
• 36:28
  won, Yeah, exactly, yeah. Yeah, when he was.
• 36:31
  Yeah, exactly. So when he was when he was
• 36:33
  saying all that, right. So so you so for me so far, like
• 36:39
  Mojelo is that track like I think it's an experience that
• 36:42
  you you should experience the fact that they when they run
• 36:44
  down like I was on the start finish line and like when they
• 36:48
  ran down after the after the you know, and you know, Rossi was on
• 36:53
  on on it was I think it was Rossi Divisioso and and Lorenzo
• 36:57
  or somebody was on the track or something like that one that
• 36:59
  round or something like that. But when they when they all
• 37:03
  leave the hill and come down to the start finish, you know,
• 37:05
  that's crazy to see and the atmosphere like that energy.
• 37:10
  I mean, it's like college football, like level when they
• 37:13
  got like 80,000 people in the stadium or something like that.
• 37:16
  That's what it that's what it you like.
• 37:17
  You can like you can feel the energy.
• 37:20
  And I don't think we are there yet at at Assen.
• 37:24
  You know, I'm not asking that Austin.
• 37:26
  I don't think we're there yet. But I also heard like some of
• 37:29
  the, the, the, the, the tracks in Spain, also unbelievable to
• 37:33
  go to. I heard Valencia is unbelievable
• 37:34
  to go to at the end of the year as well, you know, But you know
• 37:39
  the records that they have in their tracks now, you know,
• 37:41
  100,000, I think when I went, it was over 100,000 people when I
• 37:44
  went. But we having over 100,000
• 37:46
  people at an event, it's going to be insane.
• 37:51
  And you know, this is one of the things we talked about on the on
• 37:54
  the show is in, in as far as the US.
• 37:57
  We got to build that out. You know what I'm saying?
• 37:59
  We like like that needs to have that.
• 38:00
  We, we need to get to college level in attendance because I
• 38:05
  know that I don't know what it was this past year.
• 38:08
  I think last year was under 60,000 or something like that.
• 38:11
  And we need, we need like 40,000 more people to show up.
• 38:14
  Oh, absolutely. And, and, and, and show out, you
• 38:17
  know what I'm saying? Because, you know, the US is,
• 38:21
  you know, one of the premier countries from for Moto GP, you
• 38:26
  know what I'm saying? Like, you know, in the 80s and
• 38:28
  90s, you know, we were sunning everybody.
• 38:32
  But but the thing I think that would really help Moto GP, it is
• 38:39
  the, the, the, the grass roots like support Moto America.
• 38:44
  Like a lot of fans don't support Moto America.
• 38:47
  And, and I think like if they supported Moto America, if more
• 38:51
  fans would be likely to come out to a coded race like I'm, I'm
• 38:55
  going like I'm looking forward to, I think I'm going to be able
• 38:58
  to make the race in Birmingham next, next month.
• 39:02
  I think the one in Barbara's. I think.
• 39:07
  And I'm looking forward to when they come here to Texas.
• 39:09
  I think those are two races I'm going to make.
• 39:12
  OK, I'm hoping to, I'm hoping to be there for both.
• 39:15
  So yeah, definitely, if you make it, man, definitely let's
• 39:18
  connect. Yeah.
• 39:20
  And, and I think that's nothing. That's the goal of this show.
• 39:26
  I know that's the goal of like, you know, Penguin and Woodcraft
• 39:31
  and a lot of track days people track day organization there a
• 39:35
  lot of folks that are invested in building back up racing in
• 39:39
  the US because it it, it, it's a huge decline from a sport as far
• 39:45
  as me. When when you look at the global
• 39:46
  sport and especially where, you know, where these riders were,
• 39:50
  you know, before, before, you know, us now and, and we see
• 39:53
  with the young riders and stuff like that.
• 39:55
  So I, I think it's going to get there.
• 39:57
  I don't know how quickly it will get there, but I do feel like,
• 40:02
  you know, there's enough, there's people who are, are, are
• 40:05
  thinking about that and, and trying to do it.
• 40:08
  So, I mean, I think that, yeah, I think it's, it's, it's getting
• 40:11
  better than it was. And, and hopefully, you know,
• 40:15
  we'll, we'll be a, you know, we'll be a one of the main
• 40:19
  stops, right, Like it used to be, you know what I'm saying?
• 40:21
  Like, you know, when, when you know, you know, you think of
• 40:25
  these riders in the US, that's change that, you know, that
• 40:28
  change motorcycle racing globally.
• 40:32
  And then, you know, now we're seeing that what, you know, safe
• 40:34
  to say what Spain, Italy's doing, you know, but the US used
• 40:38
  to do that. Right.
• 40:41
  Yeah, they they had the the what was the the four Kings where
• 40:45
  they just ran it all like, you know, seen bringing Roberts,
• 40:52
  Robert. You know, Roberts, Swans, you
• 40:58
  know these guys. You know, obviously Blake,
• 41:01
  great, Nikki, Hayden later, you know, we saw, you know what, you
• 41:10
  know, and and and yeah, you know, we saw what these guys
• 41:14
  were able to do and stuff like that.
• 41:16
  So I mean, I, I, you know, it, I, I again, I think that it's
• 41:21
  changing. I don't know what the mindset
• 41:23
  was to not have kids on bikes, but I think it was more parents
• 41:29
  sitting here saying you're not going racing.
• 41:32
  Oh, they're right. That's exactly what it is than.
• 41:35
  Anything else, it's. Not cost effective.
• 41:40
  It wasn't. Anything I think we got to get
• 41:42
  behind some. I think the the only person you
• 41:45
  know, like we were hoping Joe Roberts was, was going to be
• 41:47
  able to do something. But I think the only person
• 41:50
  that's you know, in line to do something is the young kid with
• 41:55
  KDJR. Yeah, I, I, I think, I think, I
• 41:58
  think so I think he's, he's a guy, but I think there's a lot
• 42:01
  of kids in the US too now. And, you know, I think he's in,
• 42:07
  you know, he's in the AAU right, of motorcycle racing.
• 42:10
  So he's in the best place to, to take advantage.
• 42:14
  You know, I think, I think I, I, you know, I, I think any kid in
• 42:19
  the US that's racing a motorcycle that's on asphalt
• 42:24
  want to be in Spain or Italy right now.
• 42:26
  Oh. Absolutely.
• 42:27
  You know, they want to be put, you know, the cost and and and
• 42:32
  these things is is what's limited in limiting, you know,
• 42:36
  families and stuff like that. And that's the biggest thing.
• 42:40
  You know, looking looking at the race at Rd.
• 42:42
  Atlanta and and seeing Darren Bender and I'm sitting here
• 42:45
  saying Darren Bender is the benchmark for the highest level.
• 42:49
  But the guys been in Moto 2, Moto 3 and Moto GP right.
• 42:54
  So if if we're going to compare anybody to just.
• 42:57
  Like SDKSDK was right there. Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
• 43:01
  And and we see the talent that's able to run with him, right.
• 43:05
  So, so we know the talent's here like after this weekend, like
• 43:08
  we. And again, you know, he's, yeah,
• 43:10
  Darren Ben is not Marc Marquez. But you know, you don't have to
• 43:13
  be Marc Marquez to make it to Moto GP.
• 43:16
  Absolutely. Right, so you know, so I looking
• 43:21
  at that and and walking away from that and this is just
• 43:23
  middle weight, right? It's like the, the, the talent
• 43:27
  is definitely here already. It's the financing.
• 43:31
  It's the financing, right? Because at the end of the day,
• 43:33
  it's like if you can get a rider in there and give them, give
• 43:36
  them and everybody evolve at different times.
• 43:39
  But if you get a rider in there and give them enough time where
• 43:42
  they don't have to worry about, you know, is my lights getting
• 43:45
  turned off this weekend, you know?
• 43:48
  What I'm? Saying, yeah, we, we're going,
• 43:52
  we're going to see something different.
• 43:55
  Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
• 43:58
  You know, so I, I, I do see like we're getting better and, and,
• 44:02
  and I'm wishing like, I don't know him.
• 44:05
  I, I've chatted to the dad a couple of times on social media
• 44:08
  and stuff like that. I, I do hope he does.
• 44:11
  I, I wish just for every kid. I, I, I, I hope that you get to
• 44:15
  live out your dreams, right? I mean, that's what.
• 44:16
  We all, absolutely. You know, I mean, that's what we
• 44:18
  all, that's what we all do, what we do for and stuff like that.
• 44:22
  But you know, the reality, it is reality is the kids that jump on
• 44:28
  the sport the soonest gets the most chance of getting there,
• 44:34
  you know, 'cause they just got more hours, like as Kobe said,
• 44:36
  right? It's just, you can't catch up to
• 44:38
  me if you're not putting in the same hours.
• 44:41
  And, and, and so we see that. So I'm, I'm, I am excited for
• 44:45
  what things are, but I do hope in the future that their MO
• 44:50
  American and, and, and Moto GP do have funding and stuff like
• 44:56
  that to, to try to get more Americans in.
• 45:00
  I mean, you know, it's, it's, it may not be enough to convince
• 45:04
  somebody to take that chance, but at least they recognize that
• 45:08
  they got to do something out there.
• 45:09
  So I think if, I think if corporations on this side can
• 45:15
  see the value in having the US on the world stage again in a
• 45:22
  motorcycle racing and Formula One, you know, I, I, that's what
• 45:27
  it's going to take. It's going to take who it is to,
• 45:30
  to get into that to, to get to that level.
• 45:32
  So hopefully we'll see. But I know the people are doing
• 45:36
  everything they can. We see kids now doing more
• 45:39
  racing than ever. So therefore that that that fear
• 45:43
  is not the same as it was I think 1520 years ago.
• 45:47
  So we see the kids are trying and now we just got to get, we
• 45:50
  just got to finance and figured out.
• 45:53
  So they get the opportunity to really shine.
• 45:56
  Yeah, I believe that too. I think it's if it can match the
• 46:01
  cost of, you know, enough sponsors to somebody to like
• 46:05
  spot their talent, to help aid in the system, then we could
• 46:08
  have something, some someone to represent on the world stage.
• 46:14
  Because you think about it like Cameron Boubier and Mark Marquez
• 46:18
  were teammates. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:22
  No. And, and you know, I, I give him
• 46:23
  a little crap on the show. He doesn't know it, but I give
• 46:26
  him a little crap on the show because I I wish he would have
• 46:28
  stayed. Yeah, I wish he would have too.
• 46:30
  We we need it and it's not fair for me because I'm just sitting
• 46:33
  at home. So I could, yeah, man, Josh.
• 46:36
  Josh had the opportunity. Josh Aaron had the opportunity,
• 46:39
  too. You know what I'm saying?
• 46:41
  So it is, it takes a, you know, I'm not, I'm not fault.
• 46:45
  I get why you want to come home. I get it.
• 46:47
  And it's easy, you know, like, listen, I like I said already
• 46:50
  and I said on the show, I sat in the back of the grid for a long
• 46:55
  time and so I noticed like it doesn't feel good, you know what
• 47:00
  I'm saying? So it's much easier to get to
• 47:04
  walk up on those three steps than it is to pack up and, and
• 47:08
  wonder what happened, right. So, but you know, you know, but
• 47:15
  I, it's where it is and, and everyone has to make a their
• 47:20
  sacrifice. And I know he's made the
• 47:21
  sacrifice because he was there already.
• 47:24
  Same thing with Joe Roberts. I know you mentioned him
• 47:26
  earlier. And I think the Joe Roberts, I
• 47:28
  think that, you know, if, if I'm understanding it correctly, I
• 47:33
  think he had the opportunity to go when the early year was kind
• 47:36
  of bad, maybe bad, mostly bad and, and do a lot.
• 47:40
  There was some Moto 2 riders that were like, we ain't going.
• 47:43
  And I think, you know, that they're being, they're being
• 47:46
  held by that decision to not go, even though they have the skill
• 47:50
  set to go. And I think Joe Roberts is one
• 47:52
  of those riders that they're just sitting here, you know,
• 47:54
  they're just icing them out because he didn't take the
• 47:57
  opportunity. And, you know, look, I, I know,
• 48:04
  you know, I know we got to stand on business because there's a
• 48:08
  lot of good that goes with standing on business.
• 48:12
  But sometimes we got to make exceptions to the rules.
• 48:15
  And, and I think, and, and I think in Joe Roberts case,
• 48:18
  that's an, you know, that's an exception to a rule because, you
• 48:21
  know, mentally, if you're on a bad machine, not everybody, not
• 48:26
  not everybody could be on a bad team and still get up every day
• 48:29
  and give 100%. OK.
• 48:31
  What you do in life, no matter whatever it is that you're
• 48:33
  doing, if you know your team is bad, you going to wake up and
• 48:36
  give 100 or you going to wake up and give 60 or whatever.
• 48:39
  Right. It just depend on how you feel,
• 48:41
  yeah. So you know what I'm saying?
• 48:43
  Like, you know, and I don't think that's something that
• 48:45
  should be held against them, but I know the Grayson community is
• 48:48
  that community that listen, when you're no matter what you do, if
• 48:52
  you're with us, no matter how bad you are, you're always with
• 48:55
  us, right? And so they do do that and, and
• 48:59
  and and so. But if you go against us, you
• 49:01
  also know we're not with you after that, right, I think.
• 49:05
  I think Joe Roberts and Aaron Connect probably go retire in
• 49:08
  Moto 2. Yeah.
• 49:10
  No, I, I think that, you know, I, I, I think, I think connect
• 49:15
  will be, I, I hope connect will be in Moto in world super bike
• 49:18
  next year. And I think he probably had the
• 49:21
  opportunities too, but I think he probably said, I'll give it
• 49:23
  one more. And so I hope he gets to world
• 49:27
  Super bike. I hope the same thing for Joe
• 49:29
  Roberts because after watching this past weekend and seeing all
• 49:33
  these Moto 2 and Moto GP riders in it, it's it's different than
• 49:38
  when Tito Roubey was coming over and and stuff like that.
• 49:42
  There's some killers coming out. So I think that Joe Roberts, you
• 49:48
  can still, I mean, he's, I mean, he's in the books anyway, but
• 49:51
  like, I think he could still got a chance to go win, you know,
• 49:54
  world titles on the Super sport on the Super bike stage.
• 49:58
  Same thing with with Kinet and and stuff like that, because
• 50:02
  Kinet's pretty much the same weight as Batista.
• 50:05
  So, you know, I like, I like person on a bike is always going
• 50:10
  to be faster. That's one thing for sure.
• 50:16
  Maybe not downhill, but definitely anywhere else.
• 50:22
  So, so yeah. So we'll, we'll, we'll see what
• 50:24
  happens with that man. So, so, yeah, man.
• 50:28
  So with, with that said you, you've done some track days and,
• 50:31
  and you're looking to come out and, and, and, and race and, and
• 50:36
  be competitive. And it sounds like you're doing
• 50:38
  a little bit with a little bit of coaching as well.
• 50:41
  So, you know, and, and not only that, but you know, I, I you're
• 50:44
  also on the social media piece as well.
• 50:46
  So talk a little bit about that, you know, the the, the other
• 50:49
  things that you're doing in the community and stuff like that.
• 50:53
  Yeah, so one thing I wanted, I think like I've been riding for
• 50:59
  a while and like following Moto GP and I just, I think it was
• 51:04
  like closer. I was like going through the
• 51:05
  retirement process. And I think I posted something
• 51:09
  about me doing something on my motorcycle on my Instagram page.
• 51:12
  And I just got the wild idea of just just starting to do
• 51:16
  something on YouTube. And I posted my first post was
• 51:20
  like I think like Dakota race maybe like 2 years ago when I
• 51:24
  was getting ready to retire. And.
• 51:26
  Man, I got like maybe like 45,000 views and I was like
• 51:30
  whoa, maybe I'm on to something. And you know, I follow the sport
• 51:35
  and I feel like just just me of who I am.
• 51:38
  And every day that I wake up, I feel even though I know other
• 51:41
  people know the sport, but I feel like nobody knows the sport
• 51:46
  like me. That's not me, I feel.
• 51:48
  Like I had nobody as far as like history of the sport and, you
• 51:52
  know, just watching the riders and like, especially Bodo GP
• 51:55
  because I've just been following it for so long and I'm just, I
• 51:58
  have truly indulged myself into the sport of like actually
• 52:01
  loving the sport outside of anything else that has to do
• 52:05
  with any other sport. And I just really zoned in and
• 52:08
  start to like work, work on something different because, you
• 52:13
  know, me being in the military, you know, I've never really had
• 52:17
  the opportunity to pursue my passion.
• 52:19
  It was always, hey, get up in the morning, 6:30 to whatever
• 52:23
  time o'clock I get home. And motorcycle racing has always
• 52:28
  been a part of me. So I just took upon myself that
• 52:31
  like really, you know, indulge myself into learning how to do
• 52:34
  edits and music and, you know, adding certain stuff and adding
• 52:39
  a little commentary to it. But and I attempted to do what
• 52:42
  you all did too, would be able be forever cool, but it just
• 52:45
  didn't work out for me. Like I couldn't I couldn't find
• 52:48
  a a a copilot that knew the sport like me and me trying to
• 52:52
  carry it by myself. I just couldn't do it.
• 52:54
  And so I just look forward to just like, you know, doing like
• 52:58
  cool videos and like catching some of my friends that do some
• 53:01
  cool stuff on motorcycles. But, and, but The thing is that
• 53:06
  I love to do is like edit videos for Moto GPI really love doing
• 53:09
  that. I really like capturing the
• 53:12
  sound of whatever's been going on leading up to the race.
• 53:16
  And, you know, and I like to do funny stuff too, because I feel
• 53:19
  I feel like I have a good sense of humor also.
• 53:22
  So I like to like if I see somebody do something funny, I
• 53:24
  want to try to edit it and add some kind of like motorcycle
• 53:28
  funny to it, you know? Yeah.
• 53:31
  And but I just, I, I just really like, you know, just giving a
• 53:36
  different face to certain stuff that's haven't been seen to the
• 53:39
  sport. Like you.
• 53:40
  Know not to you know, deep dive into that but a lot of people of
• 53:45
  color really don't go into the sport you.
• 53:49
  Know what I mean? They have things.
• 53:50
  That intrigues them far as and I just you know, I just found
• 53:54
  something that I like to do that I'm passionate about it
• 53:56
  regardless of what is going to do as long as I can tell you
• 53:59
  know my kids. Hey, look, regardless of
• 54:02
  regardless of what you have and going on in your life, if it's
• 54:06
  something that you want to do in your life, you got to at least
• 54:08
  try at least once. You got if you fail you, I mean,
• 54:11
  to me, you never really fail. You just not unless, you know,
• 54:15
  and and I feel like if you can't, you know, like, like, you
• 54:21
  know, the more mature and older people say like it's a lot of
• 54:23
  ideas in the grave, you know, and I don't want to be I don't
• 54:26
  want to be one of those people. I want to be able to be tell my
• 54:29
  kids at any time. I never want to tell them, Hey,
• 54:32
  don't do that. I don't know how it's going to
• 54:34
  come out. Nah, I want to you tell me how
• 54:36
  can I support you? And I want to be the example for
• 54:40
  Hey, hey, dad, dad went on a on a limb and try something that
• 54:44
  nobody has done before he did. OK.
• 54:47
  So like, I just want to be the, you know, try to be the example
• 54:50
  of, hey, if you're something that you want to do, try.
• 54:53
  Yeah, no, I I agree. I mean, you know that I agree.
• 54:57
  I agree with everything you just said because it's like, like I
• 55:00
  said, I, you know, like I saw racing on TV because I remember
• 55:04
  watching it on, on ABC World of Sports or whatever.
• 55:08
  I remember seeing that in the 80s, right?
• 55:09
  So I knew like racing was a thing for motorcycles.
• 55:12
  And it's crazy because I was a kid, like I wanted to race cars,
• 55:15
  so I knew racing was possible. But if whatever, I never made
• 55:18
  that correlation between that and racing motorcycles.
• 55:21
  So when I when like my friend told me about it, it was one of
• 55:24
  those things like, oh, you can do that, you know, and I
• 55:27
  realized, and then when I talked to more people in the in, in our
• 55:30
  community, it's like, yeah, they don't know you can do that.
• 55:34
  You know what I'm saying? And, and, and it's huge and, you
• 55:37
  know, so, and it's one of the reasons why this show got
• 55:40
  started because, you know, this, this like in Boston, I was doing
• 55:43
  a different show on, on the radio, you know, you know,
• 55:48
  cannabis and, and poetry and undiscovered music.
• 55:52
  But I was racing. So I wanted to talk about, I had
• 55:56
  this 5 minute segment where I'll talk about, you know, call
• 55:59
  motorcycle Corner, where I'll try to get like, you know, 5
• 56:03
  minutes of motorcycle stuff in right.
• 56:05
  And, and that kind of thing just to just to spread the word, you
• 56:08
  know, because it is, is, is there's a lot of people that
• 56:11
  don't know, like you could even motor America, like you can go
• 56:14
  watch a race, right? There's there's people that
• 56:17
  don't know you can just go do that and go hang out, camp out
• 56:20
  for the weekend and have a good time and stuff like that.
• 56:22
  And you know how, you know, comfortable or cool?
• 56:25
  The motorcycle community is as far as like, you know, it's like
• 56:28
  a, it's, it's a, it's a brotherhood, a sisterhood,
• 56:30
  right? You know, you, you, you know
• 56:33
  what I mean? And I didn't learn about it till
• 56:35
  my 40s, right. So it's kind of like, you know,
• 56:38
  and I'm talking to other people and they didn't know about it.
• 56:40
  So it, it's definitely like the word needs to get out and I know
• 56:45
  it is by you doing what you're doing, by what we're doing and
• 56:48
  stuff like that, because we recognize it.
• 56:50
  It's important. And you know, you know, I'm
• 56:53
  Jamaican first because I was born there, but I'm American.
• 56:56
  But I want to see a Jamaican emoto GP one day, you know, you
• 57:02
  know what I mean? Like that, that's, you know what
• 57:03
  I'm saying? Like that's, that's, that's what
• 57:05
  I want to see. But it doesn't matter because,
• 57:08
  you know, there there are a lot of skillful people, regardless
• 57:12
  of their color that don't get the opportunities to go do the
• 57:16
  things they love. And it's when you love us
• 57:18
  something like, you know, car race and motorcycle race and
• 57:22
  some of these other sports that's very expensive.
• 57:25
  It makes it very hard, you know, when you see these kids in the
• 57:29
  communities in in the cities and stuff like that, you know,
• 57:32
  riding their dirt bikes up and down and not knowing they can
• 57:35
  get a trailer or can't afford a trailer and truck or the time or
• 57:39
  anyone to take them anywhere. You literally can go somewhere
• 57:42
  and just have fun and not have to worry about whether you know,
• 57:45
  you know, you're going to hurt somebody or somebody going to
• 57:48
  hurt you. Because at the end of these kids
• 57:50
  just want to have fun. They just want to ride.
• 57:52
  They just can't. They just can't dirt or they
• 57:55
  can't get to a track, you know what I'm saying?
• 57:57
  And, and you know, and, and like, you know, I, I hope one
• 58:00
  day that like, you know, cities will, you know, build instead of
• 58:04
  a, you know, instead, but just build a place for dirt bikes to
• 58:08
  go to or you know what I'm saying?
• 58:11
  Because if you did that, these kids will show up.
• 58:14
  They, they'll be off the street. Once that open, they'll be off
• 58:16
  the streets. This is simple as that, because,
• 58:19
  you know, it's one lesson. They got to work.
• 58:21
  We have a. Lot we have a lot of I think
• 58:25
  it's like right outside of maybe 15 minutes down the road for me,
• 58:29
  it's a dirt track right down the.
• 58:30
  Road, Yeah, yeah, yeah, You know, I'm playing, right?
• 58:34
  But when I'm in Boston, man, dirt track is like 2 1/2 three
• 58:37
  hours. Yeah, I can imagine you.
• 58:39
  Know what I'm saying and like like I was fortunate in Boston
• 58:42
  because we had Loudon, but my next race track was Jersey,
• 58:46
  which was 6 1/2 hours. Wow.
• 58:48
  You know what I'm saying, New York safety, you can do track
• 58:50
  days, but you couldn't, you did not racing and, and even New
• 58:54
  York safety was still probably like 5 hours for me, you know
• 58:57
  what I'm saying? And and so, and that's the
• 58:59
  thing. So as an adult, that's why I
• 59:01
  could do it. I couldn't do it as a as a
• 59:03
  17/18/19 year old, you know, you got to do something.
• 59:07
  Else. You know what I mean?
• 59:11
  And, and so, and I think that like, like, look, so these kids,
• 59:14
  I mean, you know, it, it, I, I recognize that, that it's a
• 59:19
  problem, you know, and, but I think that hopefully like adults
• 59:23
  will solve it in the future. And, and a lot of cities where
• 59:27
  they don't have, you know, power line areas that they can go
• 59:31
  right up and down or enough acreage that they can ride up
• 59:34
  and down and not harass anybody. You know, they'll, they'll
• 59:37
  create these parks and, and these places where kids can go
• 59:40
  ride. You can have a ambulance, you
• 59:42
  know, parked up, a couple of ambulances parked up outside,
• 59:45
  just like the track. You know, there's enough grants
• 59:47
  and stuff out there to cover that stuff.
• 59:49
  So, you know, I think, I think there's enough funding that it's
• 59:53
  just having the right people look at it and see the
• 59:56
  opportunity to really help these kids.
• 59:58
  And trust me, like, like you know, it it it the.
• 1:00:02
  And it will look a lot different if if the the the motorcycle
• 1:00:05
  community will look a lot different if you know folks that
• 1:00:08
  can't afford to go ride and got the opportunity to go riding.
• 1:00:12
  Oh, for sure. You know.
• 1:00:14
  And I think like, I think one thing I love about the
• 1:00:18
  motorcycle community that, you know, like, especially the
• 1:00:21
  people that I hang around, I always want to give back to the
• 1:00:26
  people that like, I always want to give back.
• 1:00:28
  Hey, like, hey, you want to look, you want to go riding?
• 1:00:30
  You want to learn, like I saw you do something, you didn't
• 1:00:33
  take that turn good enough. Hey, you want to go ride?
• 1:00:35
  Let's let's go work on that. And that's one thing I love
• 1:00:38
  about the motorcycle community because like, man, I could just,
• 1:00:41
  and I don't want to, you know, go too personal, but man, the
• 1:00:45
  motorcycle community really, really, really, really help me
• 1:00:50
  out last year, man, help me out, man.
• 1:00:52
  Like man, I'm getting a little most of them, man, really helped
• 1:00:57
  me out last year. I lost my mom at the end of 2024
• 1:01:02
  about Thanksgiving, right, Man, the, the motorcycle community,
• 1:01:06
  they looked out for me, man, they you know what I mean?
• 1:01:09
  Like because I stay in Texas, I'm the only one in my family
• 1:01:11
  here in Texas and they really just like gathered around me
• 1:01:15
  like because there's a lot of times I used to have a help me
• 1:01:18
  full of tears, man, that's all I mean, because, you know, like
• 1:01:20
  when you're dealing with certain stuff like that, it's only a few
• 1:01:23
  people that you trust to talk about like who what's really
• 1:01:27
  going on with you emotionally, especially as a man.
• 1:01:29
  And there's a lot of times I highway 35 is like go from
• 1:01:33
  Dallas to Austin. I probably there's no, I, I know
• 1:01:37
  I burned up a lot of gas that's driving up and down 35 ahead.
• 1:01:40
  But, you know, when I finally opened up to talk to, you know,
• 1:01:44
  somebody about, you know, outside of like, you know, a
• 1:01:47
  therapist or something. Right, right, right.
• 1:01:48
  Sometimes therapist can be kind of robotic.
• 1:01:51
  They're going down the checklist, whatever, right?
• 1:01:54
  It's not no real emotional attachment to what you bring it
• 1:01:58
  to the table. Yeah, I think them and judges
• 1:02:01
  and the court system, they need like sabbaticals.
• 1:02:04
  Yeah, absolutely. So, so they can recharge, yeah.
• 1:02:08
  But the motorcycle community was there for me though, man.
• 1:02:11
  Yeah, they were there for me, man.
• 1:02:12
  They, they, they, you know, they, they were there for me.
• 1:02:17
  They were, they were able to like, you know, get me back on
• 1:02:20
  track, like, you know what I mean?
• 1:02:21
  Not saying I was had any mentally thing going on, but
• 1:02:24
  exactly. But just at the birth, you move
• 1:02:26
  somebody important like that in your life and you're looking,
• 1:02:28
  you're looking for comfort, you're looking for empathy,
• 1:02:31
  you're looking for it a certain level of, of love and affection
• 1:02:34
  towards you to help heal that inner part of you.
• 1:02:37
  And the motorcycle community was there for me, man.
• 1:02:39
  They were there for me, man. Like that still, I call it call
• 1:02:42
  anybody in my crew right now. They hey, man, I'm dealing with
• 1:02:45
  something. They'll, they'll pull up to the
• 1:02:46
  house, man. Hey, you know, but no, I
• 1:02:48
  haven't. Done that, but I.
• 1:02:49
  Know they would. But you know what I mean?
• 1:02:52
  Yeah, I've said this many times on the show.
• 1:02:54
  Like if the whole world's like the motorcycle community be a
• 1:02:56
  beautiful place because I like like I, I get so much love and
• 1:03:01
  I, you know, like I go, I can go stop anywhere on a bike and
• 1:03:04
  somebody be like, yo, you good. I do the same thing in my car.
• 1:03:07
  Ain't. Nobody stopping ain't.
• 1:03:10
  Nobody stopping. So it it, it, it's it.
• 1:03:13
  And I didn't realize like that level of what it was when you
• 1:03:17
  when you don't know about it and you haven't seen it, you know,
• 1:03:20
  first hand, like you don't know, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:03:23
  But like, once you're in it, it's just like, you know, and,
• 1:03:25
  and in raising community, you know, guys will give you parts
• 1:03:28
  just to go race next to you. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:03:31
  Or you know. Whatever.
• 1:03:33
  Yeah, yeah. It's like, yeah, it's, it's,
• 1:03:35
  it's, it's, it's amazing. You know, it's not perfect.
• 1:03:38
  I'm not sitting here trying to say it is.
• 1:03:39
  But it, you know, for the most part, the effort that people go
• 1:03:45
  through and, and I, you know, I, I can equate this to just go in
• 1:03:49
  and, and you can correct me if I'm wrong.
• 1:03:51
  It's like going into battle, right?
• 1:03:54
  It's, it's the, IT, you know, because for me and the reason
• 1:03:57
  why I say that, like when I first got to the track, you
• 1:04:01
  know, you know, there was a certain air in, in the paddocks,
• 1:04:06
  right? And, you know, and, and, and,
• 1:04:09
  you know, took a while to look for me to kind of like wrap my
• 1:04:11
  head around what was going on. And I knew it was different cuz
• 1:04:13
  it was a different movement. And, and what I realized is
• 1:04:16
  like, they're present, they're in the moment, Everybody's in
• 1:04:19
  the moment at once. It's a different, it's, it's a
• 1:04:22
  different, whole different thing when all of us are like in the
• 1:04:25
  moment, right? You can just feel that.
• 1:04:27
  And, and, and, and I think a gladiated movies and, and stuff
• 1:04:30
  like that. But you've been in, in, in, you
• 1:04:32
  did service and I'm sure you saw some things, but I, I, I soon
• 1:04:35
  you can tell me right or wrong. It's like it's that moment you
• 1:04:37
  feel what you're going to battle.
• 1:04:39
  You just move differently. Yeah, you do more precision,
• 1:04:43
  man. You see stuff different, man.
• 1:04:44
  It's, it's, it's like a laser focus, laser focus.
• 1:04:49
  And it's that you're absolutely right.
• 1:04:51
  It, it's that feeling that you have, man.
• 1:04:53
  It's just and, and everybody's on one accord.
• 1:04:57
  Like you can feel that everybody's on one accord.
• 1:04:59
  Everybody want to win like you, you, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:01
  Everybody, nobody, everybody want to win and nobody wants to
• 1:05:06
  see anybody get hurt, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:09
  Like everybody want to see you come back to the paddock.
• 1:05:11
  I might beat you, but I don't want to see you hurt, you know
• 1:05:13
  what I mean? Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 1:05:16
  So it is a beautiful community and I think that's why, you
• 1:05:19
  know, you and myself and others, I think we recognize that and,
• 1:05:24
  and West Coast guys are doing it every like, you know, that we,
• 1:05:28
  we like, it is a beautiful community and you know, like any
• 1:05:33
  other community, things happen, but it is a beautiful 1.
• 1:05:36
  And I think we're all trying to do to do our part in that.
• 1:05:40
  None of us are. You know, I'm not sitting here
• 1:05:41
  saying I'm going to retire off my podcast or anything like
• 1:05:43
  that, You know what I mean? Hey, hey, hey.
• 1:05:46
  You probably you weren't here to wait.
• 1:05:50
  That's how I think. Yeah.
• 1:05:51
  Yeah. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
• 1:05:53
  But you know, it's like, you know, I drove to Atlanta and
• 1:05:56
  it's weird for me because like, I like to be on a track, you
• 1:06:01
  know what I mean? Like, you know, for me, I, it's
• 1:06:04
  weird to go to a track and I'm not racing, you know, or riding
• 1:06:08
  on it, you know what I mean? Just like being a spectator is
• 1:06:10
  weird because, you know, I want to be on the track first.
• 1:06:15
  Like, it's not, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:06:18
  It's like if, if I could, if I can, if I can hang out with
• 1:06:21
  Rossi, Lorenzo, Marquez and, and we're eating at dinner.
• 1:06:25
  I'm like, if we can go to the track together, I'm like, sign
• 1:06:28
  me up. Yeah, you know what?
• 1:06:31
  I'm saying, come on, Rossi, let me come to the.
• 1:06:33
  Ranch. Exactly, Exactly.
• 1:06:34
  It's like, you know, I want to be.
• 1:06:35
  I'm a doer, you know, saying like, so you know, it, but it,
• 1:06:39
  it, I, I, you know, like I said, I'm a late bloomer to this
• 1:06:42
  community, but I like it a lot. And you know, we're, we're, you
• 1:06:45
  know, we're putting in our time into, into building it.
• 1:06:48
  And I'm trying to do my part in this thing because I, I really
• 1:06:50
  do think that more people need to know about it because it, it,
• 1:06:56
  it does it, it makes you feel better it.
• 1:07:01
  Does it does? You know what I'm saying, right?
• 1:07:03
  It's. It's and it's addictive too.
• 1:07:06
  Yeah. Oh.
• 1:07:10
  No, I, I know. Go ahead.
• 1:07:13
  No, go ahead. No, I talk all the time, man.
• 1:07:15
  Go ahead. Yeah, yeah, it's, it's
• 1:07:17
  addictive. I wish like after I left, even
• 1:07:21
  being at CODA, I was like, man, I wish I could be out there
• 1:07:23
  like, you know what I mean? Like, I wish I could be out
• 1:07:26
  there with Maverick. I was like, man, Maverick, let
• 1:07:29
  me let me jump. All right?
• 1:07:31
  I don't know. I was a little hung up after the
• 1:07:36
  coda, like because like we were there like the whole from
• 1:07:40
  Thursday to Sunday and man, it was man, I was just hung up or I
• 1:07:46
  was just like, and you I, I still talk to a couple of guys
• 1:07:48
  that's in a different cities and they're like, man, I, I miss
• 1:07:51
  Moto GP, but it was a good time. We had a blast, right?
• 1:07:54
  Every day, every day, just just hanging out at the track,
• 1:07:58
  spending money buying Birch. But it was fun and.
• 1:08:02
  It and. It's crazy, like how like, you
• 1:08:06
  know, like like you say the motorcycle community, like it
• 1:08:08
  was just and I seen old people like I mean like he was like had
• 1:08:12
  to be in like Amy's they out there with the Apria shirt, old
• 1:08:16
  Apria stuff on out there, man. I'm like, man, this is this.
• 1:08:21
  The whole world is here. No for sure.
• 1:08:24
  Yeah. No, no, for sure.
• 1:08:26
  It's funny, you know, when you, when you said about Vinyalla's.
• 1:08:29
  I got a good friend that he's always saying, look, man,
• 1:08:31
  listen, we'll just kidnap Marquez.
• 1:08:33
  You jump in his letter, keep your helmet down.
• 1:08:35
  Nobody knows you. Don't know.
• 1:08:51
  What's wrong with top good? There's something wrong with top
• 1:08:57
  good, right? Right.
• 1:08:59
  But he said. Like I don't know what the hell
• 1:09:02
  I'm doing. He hit a false neutral.
• 1:09:09
  Yeah, man, but no, I hear you about that.
• 1:09:11
  Like, you know, we all, we all, we all want to get out there
• 1:09:14
  and, and, and have fun no matter how old you are and just even
• 1:09:18
  like the experience. So even last year, you talk
• 1:09:20
  about the different folks that go watch it.
• 1:09:22
  I remember taking the, the, the ride from the Uber drop off to
• 1:09:27
  the track last year. And I was, you know, I really,
• 1:09:31
  you know, believe it or not, I don't, I usually don't talk to
• 1:09:33
  people. But for whatever reason, you
• 1:09:36
  know, I started talking to this guy and older guy guy gentleman.
• 1:09:39
  And he, you know, I just happened to ask like, you know,
• 1:09:43
  why, you know, how come, you know, brought you here?
• 1:09:44
  And he was just like, you know, I don't like motorcycles at all.
• 1:09:47
  But my son invited me. And, and so I decided to go
• 1:09:51
  because my son invited me. And I'm just kind of like, yeah,
• 1:09:54
  right. Because like there are people
• 1:09:57
  here or at events, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:09:59
  And they're there because there's someone they love to ask
• 1:10:03
  them to come or suggested going or something like that.
• 1:10:05
  So it is all walks of life that do come in and experience, you
• 1:10:10
  know, Moto GP, all Moto America and stuff like that.
• 1:10:14
  And, and, and it's pretty cool to see as a fan.
• 1:10:18
  It's pretty cool to see covering it as well.
• 1:10:20
  And, and hear stories like that and hear stories from different
• 1:10:22
  people because you know it, it's different for everyone.
• 1:10:25
  You know what I'm saying? Why?
• 1:10:26
  Why they show up to an event? Yeah.
• 1:10:30
  And it's a it's just cool to do like, next year.
• 1:10:34
  Like, so you've been to Coda. So next year they're trying to
• 1:10:37
  make that area a actual amusement park to, like, bring
• 1:10:40
  more people. So like yeah, but they about to
• 1:10:43
  privatize CODA though. Yeah, I heard, I, I heard that
• 1:10:48
  as well, but I also hear, heard they're going to build a second
• 1:10:51
  track. So sort of like Jersey where you
• 1:10:54
  got the 2 tracks at Jersey. So I so you may not be able to
• 1:10:58
  get on Coda, but you might be get on, you know, little Coda.
• 1:11:01
  Yeah. But they have they have they
• 1:11:03
  have a couple tracks. They have a couple tracks not
• 1:11:06
  to, you know, in San Antonio, I think they have a track.
• 1:11:08
  They got a track in El Paso. So it's it's places where people
• 1:11:12
  can race here in Texas, you know, but you know, you won't
• 1:11:16
  have that feeling like you about to overtake, overtake Marquez,
• 1:11:22
  like a coda or, you know, riding by the tower.
• 1:11:25
  But you know, like they said about to privatize it And, and
• 1:11:28
  you know what I had when you know, I had did the research on
• 1:11:32
  it, I did the research on how much it cost and I think it was
• 1:11:37
  like like for everything. I think it was like 70,770
• 1:11:43
  thousand for like to for CODA, right.
• 1:11:46
  And I was like, Hey, look, I think I forgot what I was like.
• 1:11:51
  I think I said like if we get 700 people to, you know, I mean
• 1:11:56
  a certain amount of people to pay $700.00, then we could do
• 1:11:58
  it. And even if even as I was like
• 1:12:01
  in the group saying like, man, that's a lot of money.
• 1:12:03
  But I'm just saying that the opportunity, man, it's.
• 1:12:06
  The. Opportunity like who?
• 1:12:07
  Who wouldn't pay? I know it, you know, sometimes
• 1:12:09
  $700.00 might be steep for some people, but it's an opportunity
• 1:12:14
  to ride on a professional track, man, that's, that's something
• 1:12:16
  that you could take to the grave with you or tell your great
• 1:12:19
  grandkids, hey, look, I've been on that track before.
• 1:12:22
  Here's what I was on it, you know.
• 1:12:24
  Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll say sign me up because that's exactly
• 1:12:27
  what I want to do. I got a bucket list of tracks
• 1:12:30
  that I want to go to and code is 1 of them.
• 1:12:33
  My pentagali's built being built just to go through track days
• 1:12:37
  and I just wanted to go get all on the big, all the big tracks
• 1:12:41
  in the US once I'm done in the US shipping that bike to Europe
• 1:12:43
  and I'm going to do the same thing.
• 1:12:45
  Yeah, You know what I'm saying? So I think there are a lot of
• 1:12:48
  people that would jump on situations like that because
• 1:12:51
  they got bucket list tracks that they want to go to.
• 1:12:55
  And, and, and so, yeah, there's definitely an opportunity there.
• 1:12:58
  And it's, you know, I, I mean, I, you know, I get it, You know,
• 1:13:02
  why they want to go privatize and stuff like that, because,
• 1:13:05
  you know, when you make it exclusive, it's easier to put
• 1:13:08
  the money up, right. Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
• 1:13:11
  You know what I mean? Because everybody wants it.
• 1:13:13
  And so, you know, it's going to be easier for them to to, to
• 1:13:16
  make the same money they're doing with less effort.
• 1:13:20
  But you know, I think you. Got to you, got to you got to
• 1:13:23
  pay taxes and everything else. And if nobody's there using it,
• 1:13:27
  they did not make any money. But they should do it for the
• 1:13:29
  love. You know, you know, you think of
• 1:13:31
  you think of the places, you know, when you know, you look at
• 1:13:36
  all the different. I didn't get this until maybe a
• 1:13:40
  year ago and or, or, or whatever.
• 1:13:42
  I think I was at like I was at, I was at an event and you know
• 1:13:47
  it. It just made me realize, like
• 1:13:49
  people that put events together, like they need a lot of credit,
• 1:13:54
  a lot of applause, a lot of things because it's like they
• 1:13:57
  could just stay home and just do the same thing for themselves
• 1:14:02
  and not put. The effort in.
• 1:14:04
  To make other people happy, right?
• 1:14:06
  Or play. Yeah, right.
• 1:14:09
  You know, there's a poetry event, comedy event, music
• 1:14:11
  event, whatever the case is, the people that say, hey, you know
• 1:14:14
  what, I'll put that event on. They don't.
• 1:14:16
  There's like, yeah, they, they, they walk away with something.
• 1:14:19
  But like at the end of the day, the effort, you know what I'm
• 1:14:22
  saying, you could just turn on the music and just not deal with
• 1:14:25
  it. And, and so I realized, like,
• 1:14:27
  man, you know, what if, if nobody put a track day on, I
• 1:14:30
  wouldn't have a track day to go to, right?
• 1:14:31
  If nobody put, if no one decided to have a race organization that
• 1:14:35
  you can come and race your motorcycle, I wouldn't have that
• 1:14:37
  place to go to. Same thing in the dance hall or,
• 1:14:40
  or whatever thing. Like if they didn't decide to do
• 1:14:42
  this thing, I wouldn't have this thing to go to.
• 1:14:44
  And it's not, you know, it's not easy, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:14:48
  And, and, and so I give a lot of credit to people that do these
• 1:14:51
  things because if they didn't do it, we wouldn't have NASCAR, we
• 1:14:55
  wouldn't have the NBA. We wouldn't have these things at
• 1:14:57
  the highest level because somebody decided like, hey, you
• 1:15:00
  know, this might be something that we should do.
• 1:15:02
  And I don't think the people that started it sat here and
• 1:15:04
  say, oh, we're going to be a billion years.
• 1:15:07
  Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, they just, they, they just
• 1:15:09
  want to find people in their community that that share the
• 1:15:11
  same password. You know what I mean?
• 1:15:13
  So it it, it, it's a beautiful thing.
• 1:15:15
  So I do hope that they figure out a way that they can make it,
• 1:15:18
  you know, available and, and maybe by them doing this, other
• 1:15:22
  people decide to do something else.
• 1:15:24
  And, and that allows people to have a place because you always
• 1:15:27
  got to have that stepping stone so we can progress.
• 1:15:30
  Because if there's a disconnect between the people at the top
• 1:15:33
  and the and everyone else, then the people at the top eventually
• 1:15:36
  just going to get old and they ain't going to see nothing.
• 1:15:40
  It is that it's not going to be anything to do anymore.
• 1:15:42
  No, it ain't going to be anything to do anymore, man.
• 1:15:45
  Man, I I really appreciate you coming on.
• 1:15:47
  I definitely would love to have you on and and chop it up about
• 1:15:49
  Moto GP and world Super bike and all for sure, man.
• 1:15:54
  I'm all Hey, look, man. I'm retired, man.
• 1:15:57
  You send a message. I'm ready, man.
• 1:15:58
  I'm always ready all. Right.
• 1:16:01
  No doubt. You know my name is Rex 25.
• 1:16:03
  It's to be forever Cool podcast. 2 wheels, 1 chain peace all.
• 1:16:08
  Right, brother.