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Rexy interviews Khayden of 2_bonesracing in S6 Ep 24 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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Welcome back to another edition of the Beef Forever Cool
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podcast. My name is Rex 45.
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And then this evening I have a young man on that we don't get
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to talk to and get to hear his story.
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I'm pretty excited to to chop it up with him and, and, and see
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how he got into racing. I was fortunate to meet him on
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connect with him on on IG and I and I see he's racing and stuff
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like that. So I'm I'm very curious and, and
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see how he got into it and all that fun stuff.
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So with no further ado, let's get this thing rolling.
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Welcome to the show Kaden Kaden Brown, how you doing to this
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evening? I'm good, I'm good.
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How are you? Likewise, man, I can't complain.
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You know, it's, I mean, you're a lot younger than I am, so.
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But you know, the, the I'm, I'm sure you're pretty motivated.
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So every day you're getting up and you got, you got a fire in
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you. So I, I still got the fire on
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me, so you know what I mean? So, so also man.
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So welcome to the show. So yeah, man, let's talk about,
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you know, how you got into writing.
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What was your first memory? You know, for me, I got into
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riding a lot, a lot later in life, a lot older than you, but
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about in 2012. So I guess like 14 years now
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I've been riding and stuff like that might be similar depending
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on what you say. So like when when did you start
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riding and. So I started riding when I was 4
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which is 2014. I got my parents got me APP dub
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50. Yeah.
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And I rode that for a while, not really competitively.
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I didn't start getting into competitive dirt bike racing
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till I was 7. Yeah, I did some races, try to
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go national and stuff. I wasn't super successful in
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dirt bike riding, but I I started getting hurt a lot.
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Yeah, so. So you got the P, you got the
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the P Dub 50 as you called it. Like, I mean, did you like, you
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know, like what state do you live in?
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Were you like riding through the neighborhoods?
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Did you, were you able to go to like a open field and learn how
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to ride? Like what was that like?
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So I believe we got in Virginia and we lived kind of next to
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this, like open field. And I just rode around in the
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field just messing around on it, getting used to bikes.
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Yeah. Well, my, my parents were
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military, so we moved a lot. We moved to Belgium.
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I don't really remember how old that was.
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And they got me a 50 or KTM 50. And I started riding that at
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like actual tracks and stuff. Right, right in Belgium.
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Yeah, that was fun. It the weather over there, it
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was from what I remember, it was really rainy, cloudy, yeah,
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yeah. But yeah, that that built me
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towards when I started racing competitively.
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We moved over to North Carolina and my dad bought me a 65 and it
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was AK team. It was a beater bike.
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We went to my first race. The track was called Half Moon
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MX. Believe it or not, I won my
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first race. That's pretty cool.
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Yeah. So now did you?
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Did you? Does your dad or your mom ride?
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So my dad, he's been riding since he, I don't know, for
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forever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So my, my dad ride. My mom knows how to ride.
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She doesn't really ride though. Got you, got you.
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And, and, and so like what was the thing that made you like, I
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mean, I guess just cause your dad rode and stuff like that?
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Like, like, was there a thing that you said, OK, I'm riding,
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you have to track now I want to go race or it's just like from
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day one you just wanted to go race?
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I think it was from day one, watching my dad, watching it,
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watching races with him, stuff like that just kind of, you
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know, gave me that that bite to want to ride so right.
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Right, right. So, OK, so he's nice.
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OK, so now age 7, you're you're racing dirt bikes and you won
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your first race. I mean, I mean, like, do you do
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you remember what that feeling is like?
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I mean, because you you now, I mean you, you're 15.
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So you got like 7-8 years of racing under your belt?
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That it was really good. I I was super excited.
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It took me a minute to process like first race, I'm on a beater
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bike. I won so to call my trophy.
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And then from there we just, we are riding a lot.
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We moved out, we lived on the middle of nowhere.
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We have like 15 acres of land and we, we built a track on it.
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But the first time we built it, he, my dad took his riding lawn
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mower and he dropped, he dropped the deck all the way down and he
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just drove around, made a little track and I was riding on that
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and he brought in some like dirt.
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It was terrible. I'm going to be honest.
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It was a lot of rocks and stuff in it.
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We made 2 little jumps. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And just having fun. And then we actually, we
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actually started building stuff. We had a guy that we knew can
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come out and build it. Yeah.
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Yeah. And I was super stoked about
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that. At the time.
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I was getting in a lot of trouble at school.
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I'm going to be honest about that.
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OK, OK. I'm just experimenting.
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I guess I was immature young. You're still 15, but yeah, sure,
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I'm mature, young. I'll go with that.
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Younger than I was before, I wasn't as mature so.
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No, like, like, like, I mean, if you can see on camera, but like
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what kind of trouble, you know, Normal kid stuff, I assume.
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Yeah, just talking in class. Yeah, getting in fights, like
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just little stuff you do as kids.
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Yeah, yeah, no. And I I get, I get that.
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And it's around that age that that happened.
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So so now you're mature and no longer talking in class, no
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longer getting in fights and, and, and you and you're racing.
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So you know, you, you mentioned, you know, being on on, on the 15
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acres and, and having that track and, and so I mean, is that
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like, I mean, were you like riding every day pretty much at
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that point since you could? Yeah, I did ride a lot since it
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was in my, like, my front yard. I'd go home, I'd do the work,
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and then I wait for my dad to get home and stuff because he
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don't want me riding by myself because something would have
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happened, right? Yeah.
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And I'd ride, be trained. I've had my friends come over
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after we'd like, actually built the track up.
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It was just fun times out there. Some of it's on my Instagram.
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Yeah, OK. Yeah, and then I started getting
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hurt. I broke my thumb.
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One crash, I fully recovered and everything I went back for my
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first race back at this track called E Bin and it's starting
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gates with motocross. So we all came off the line same
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time, all even and I was on the inside and the kid came from the
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outside and kind of chopped my nose off trying to get to the
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inside right. And that this was after like a
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whole day of practicing. Oh yeah, After a whole day of
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practicing, like there's we get breaking bumps and I got on the
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brakes a little too hard and I came, my nose came up and my
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bars chopped to the side and it hit me in my stomach knocked.
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The wind out of you. Yeah, well, knocked the wind out
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of me. I lacerated my spleen, I had
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blood in my pelvis, and I bruised my colon.
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Oh man, we're, we're like, we're like twins.
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I lacerated my spleen in 2018. You know what?
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That means. Yeah.
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That's. That was not a good feeling.
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I was in the hospital for, I think, about a week.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I did 9 days.
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So yeah, I hear you. Wow.
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And so do you. Do you remember a lot of the
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accident or was it, I mean, I know for me, I like, I was
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fortunate that at the time I was living in Boston and, and it
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happened very close to a trauma hospital.
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And I think, and I think I was fortunate for me and I was on
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the streets when it happened for me.
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But I mean, at the track I got EMT and everything there.
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So I mean, I mean, I assume they they got to you right away.
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Yeah, they got to me as quick as as possible, you know, because
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they got to stop the race, get everybody off before they can go
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out there. Yeah, they got me back in the
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the ambulance and it's kind of disturbing.
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But before that race, I ate lunch and I had a purple
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Gatorade and a hot dog. I got in the ambulance and
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because it hit me so out of my stomach, I took my helmet off
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and everything. I was crying and I threw up on
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the bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Oh, dude, that's that same. I mean, I, I was at the hospital
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when it happened to me, but they were like, they'll Get Me Out of
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my gear and the same thing like. It was, it was terrible.
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Like I was doing all my gear. They were doing a, they were
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redoing the race. Whole bunch of noises.
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My mom was in there. She was trying not to cry.
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I know at one point I asked her if I was dying because the pain
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was just so crucial. Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah, it was bad, yeah.
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Then we went to the hospital. We're there for about a week.
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My dad stayed with me. Yeah.
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So one member I had from the hot, it was around COVID time,
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My mom and sister, there was a parking garage right next to my
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window and they went to the very top, like right next to helipad
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and they were standing out there and I got to go to the window
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and say was up to him and stuff. Oh, that's.
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What's up? So yeah, that was that was
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really fun. Well, not fun, but it was a good
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memory to have. Right, yeah.
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And I mean, and I assume you have changed your diet since
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because you now you got to eat certain things because not
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having your spleen, although you know last right now spleen, I
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don't know if the doctors told you it's like they'd and more
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likely they probably still parts of your spleen in your body.
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So there might be a bunch of small parts still in there still
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doing work so. No, they didn't tell you I was.
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I was scared. I'm honest.
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When I went in there, I told him I'm scared.
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I don't really know. I don't want to know too much
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technical stuff. Just let me know the borderline
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and got you. Yeah.
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So. Yeah, they didn't tell me
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anything. I mean, I, I just didn't tell
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me. They they, they, they, they told
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me they had to operate, but they didn't tell me what was wrong
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with me. And, and so they were just like,
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who can we call? Gave them a number and next
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thing they had to is they put me to sleep.
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No, I'm I'm glad I didn't have surgery.
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They said that was an option towards the beginning.
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OK, I guess it healed or it wasn't too badly damaged.
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Got you. OK.
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OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I had to have surgery. So that's that's portion it
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then. So then if it healed, then it's
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still working. That's awesome.
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Well, yeah, but so, so you, you know, you, you, you got into
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this accident on, on, on the dirt.
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You, you, you had some time to recover and stuff like that.
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Did you say, OK, I'm getting on the bike and I want to race or
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did you have some time off? After that, So yeah, I actually
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took some time because for a while I kind of walked hunched
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over and stay kind of healed. You know how you're in the
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hospital bed? You have it sitting up?
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I slept like that and I stayed in the bed like that because it
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was most comfortable. Right.
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So it healed like that. So when I came out the hospital,
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I was kind of walking with the hunch in my back.
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You got you got you. I couldn't really lift nothing.
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I couldn't strain my back like it just I wasn't in good shape.
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So I took a a while and bikes are just sitting there and my
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dad eventually asked me if I still wanted to race and I took
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some time to think about it and it was hard for me to say I
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don't want to anymore. Right, right.
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No, I hate. It like I didn't want to
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directly tell him, but I kind of just, you know what I mean?
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Right, right, that recovery period.
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I mean, I, I guess I was, I don't, I, I knew I wanted to get
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back on the bike. Like I like I knew that even in
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the hospital, like, you know, and you know, it was like it
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happened in August and I mean, I club race and I, I was, I raced
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the following season. I also, you know, jacked up a
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bunch of ligaments in my hand and fractured a bone too.
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So I, I had to deal with that. But like, I, I think, I mean,
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you know, I knew I wanted to get back on.
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I didn't knew, I didn't know like, you know, how healthy I
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would be and stuff like that, 'cause I had surgery and, and
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all that fun stuff. But like, I think by like, but I
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end up racing probably sooner than I probably should have.
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So, so you have some time to think about it and then what
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made you decide to say I'm going, I'm going to race?
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Well, so I actually, I stopped the dirt bike racing.
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So bikes are just sitting there. I, I kind of indirectly told
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them I didn't want to race anymore because I was just, I'm
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tired of getting hurt. It wasn't getting fun anymore.
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Right, right. I.
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Mean like I was, I was just racing, racing, racing, not
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having fun. And to me, having fun is one of
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the key factors to actually wanting to do something right.
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So I stopped racing around I think 12 when I was 13.
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And I remember my dad came home from him riding from a track and
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he'd bought AI believe it was a art, a 300.
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Well, he, he actually pranked me.
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It was a 300 frame with the all the parts and stuff.
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So he was like, I got you his bike.
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We got to build it for you to ride.
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And I was, I was all for, I was like, yeah, let's go right.
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Then he, he actually opened the trim.
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There was a, a real bike. Yeah.
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I, I would have been fine with building a bike, if I'm being
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honest. That would have been, that would
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have been an experience for me. So yeah, then I started doing
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track days and stuff. I started racing with a Moto
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Gladiator. Yeah, OK.
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Yeah, yeah, I heard of them. Yeah, I started racing with
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them, just having fun racing, trying to really progress to
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what I really wanted to, because at the time I was not doing out
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of fun to see if I really wanted to do it.
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And I found a lot of enjoyment and I felt dedicated to that.
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Right. And and So what, and like, you
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know, going from dirt to to asphalt, like if you said you
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you started going doing track days, like what was your first
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experience at the track? I mean, you know, did it just I
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mean it is different kind of grip with dirt and asphalt.
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So like, what did, what did it feel like for you?
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I did skip a part, I'm going to be honest.
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So we actually got a volley. OK, that's what's up.
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We had no volley and it was like volley 110.
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Yeah. So we went out to where was it?
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What was my first VR? It was either VR or CMPI, can't
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really remember at the time. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. But we went out and I believe it
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was CMP. I it's a smaller track.
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Now we were on the cart track and I went out and I was just,
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it was just a completely different world, like from speed
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to how you treat the bike, how you're riding style is it wasn't
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a hard transition. It was, it was easy, but it was
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all just so different. That's hard.
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So yeah, I started riding and of course I'm, I'm trying to go
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faster. So I crashed.
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I low sided coming on. Well, two corners, the second to
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last corner I low sided and I didn't know what to do because
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in motocross the bikes are built sturdy.
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So when you crash, you get up, run to the bike, keep going and
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road racing you, you just kind of got to walk off.
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So like I didn't know what to do.
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I was like running back and forth, like looking at my dad,
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looking at my mom, like I didn't know what to do.
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I was. So I went over to the bike and
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we just pulled it off whatever. I wasn't really upset.
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I kind of knew crashing was going to come.
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It's bound to happen. So just mistakes to learn from
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so. Nice, nice.
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And and so now you're and so you know, you had the Ovali, which
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we what do you do think of that 110?
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I that was a bike I was thinking about maybe like either the 190
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or the 110 or one of them to get.
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Did you did you like riding that bike when you were riding it?
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Do you still do you still have it?
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Do you still ride it? So we don't have it anymore.
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It was a 110. It was fun.
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I think I have more fun on it now.
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Yeah, but it was it was fun for my first bike.
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It's a good learning bike. They're they're built, they're
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built for racing. So got you.
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And and then so now you got the 300 at some point.
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And and so now at this point you're thinking, I'm I'm going
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to go race with this 300 and you start racing the club series or
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so and, and gladiators. Is it is it like a track day
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organization or they a racing organization or both?
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They're they're more of a track day organization.
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Like they, they throw in two races and it's a mixed classes.
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So everybody's on the grid. Yeah, they throw in two races.
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That that was fun. It was fun.
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I definitely like like the mode America stuff and Azure stuff
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more since it's a little more organized.
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Right. Yeah, yeah.
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So, so you went to the so I was going to say, so where did you
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go next? So did you start doing Azra
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after that and, and, and and then when did you get into Motor
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America or like how did, how did that happen?
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So I raced the Motive Gladiator for a while, starting to get
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faster. I got a 400.
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Then I started racing with Azra because my dad was, well, we, we
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actually raced with Weira some we raced with Weira and then we
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went to Azra on my 400. And that's, that's really,
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that's where I really excelled because it's, it's a, it's a
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race organization, everybody there to race.
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But at the same time, it's not like Mode America competitive
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where you can still talk to people and get hints and tricks
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and stuff like that. Right, right.
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Yeah, No, I, I raced the, I, I raced, well, I started up in New
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England and I raised LRRS, which was part of AZRA CCS and then I
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21 and 2223 I think I raised, I raced AZRA after they, they
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moved on and stuff like that. So no, it's, it's an awesome
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organization. So what was that like for you
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racing And now were you racing up and down the East Coast?
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Were you racing at like Atlanta, the Southeast?
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What regions were you racing in AZRA?
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This, this is going to sound terrible.
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I don't know the regions, but I know we were like, well, what's
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North Carolina, Virginia. We went down to Atlanta a few
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times. Yeah, VIR, real sneak, yeah.
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Alright, well, you said CMPI, don't know.
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Did you race CMP? We did.
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Roblin Summit. Well, yeah, I did do Summit.
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That's a fun track. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like, I, I
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haven't been in a few years, but it is, it is a fun track.
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Every track is a fun track, you know, Yeah, unless you got to
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pick one the same day, you know, 2.
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So, but like, yeah, I, I like Summit a lot.
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How about Pitt? Have you raced Pitt?
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I have not. OK, Yeah, I only raced there
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once. It's I like it a lot.
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It reminds me of So how like Barbara?
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Have you been to Barbara? I've been to Barbara.
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So it reminds me of Barbara a lot with all the turns and the
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elevation changes and stuff like that.
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But I'm, I'm, I'm sad to see it go.
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I only, I was only there to get get to go there.
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Once I raced, I I ran it on the KTM.
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So a small bike, but still it was a fun track.
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So, you know, do you have a favorite track?
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Oh, favorite track. I would put Barbara up there,
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but I only raced there when it was kind of cold.
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So I didn't get the full experience up there.
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But I can't put, I don't know. My top three would be VIR Rd.
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Atlanta. Yeah.
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And I don't know. I haven't been to VIR yet so
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it's on my it's it's on my bucket list.
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You should definitely go that's that's attractive.
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B Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've I've heard good things and I I I do,
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you know, ride game. I do, I do, I do use ride it on
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it on a video game, but it's not the same.
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But it's like, I'm pretty sure I'll I'll like it when I get
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there. So so you got VIR Atlanta,
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Barbara nice. And and so, you know, what is it
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like racing in Azra? And it sounds like you're also
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racing mode of America as well. And, and so you know, it was the
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competition like for you when it, when you got to Azra and
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stuff like that, racing because it's all ages, right?
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It's all based on times, you know what I mean?
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And you see, you're racing against, you know, where with
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dirt bike, you're kind of racing in the age class where, you
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know, you could be racing against me in Azra.
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So what was that like for you being a a, a, a young person?
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It, it, it felt great. I, I don't know it, it felt
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good. As I started progressing up
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towards the front. It took me a while, but as I
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started getting up there, meeting new people, it was just,
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it was overall good. Nice.
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It was nice. Yeah, yeah, I, I, I can, I can
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see that. And so let's talk about training
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and stuff like that outside of what you've said so far, you
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know, going to karting tracks and the different bikes and
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stuff like that. What is your training like?
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And then also just talk a little bit about Motor America, like
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how long have you been in Motor America and what, what has that
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been like for you as well? So this is actually my first
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year with Motor America. Nice.
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Yeah, we just raced the Daytona. That was fun.
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Nice, nice. Was that the first time at the
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Daytona track? No, it was my third time.
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OK, so yeah, you might. You probably did a race the
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champion, so yeah. Yeah, that was yeah, they told
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us really good too. Yeah, it, it, it's, you know, I,
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I think for any racer, it's a track he at least got a ride on
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once either because it's just, you know, it's just hard to tell
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people what it's like. The banking I don't need that's
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it's looking at it, it looks crazy, but when you're on it, it
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feels like a straight line, but you could feel it pulling you
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into the bike. It's.
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Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's pretty wild.
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It's pretty, it's pretty wild. I I like it a lot.
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It's something of most tracks to ride, I mean, and and I do enjoy
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it a lot, you know what I mean, But I would it's not, I wouldn't
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say it's my favorite track, but any, any opportunity I get to go
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on, I am going. So is it It kind of is.
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So now you know, you, so you raced in Azra for how many years
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did you race in Azra? And then like, what was what,
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you know, made you decide to say, OK, it's time for me to
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race motor America? Or were you always just kind of
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like just kind of waiting for, I assume your age to, to, to, to
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get there to go race? Yeah.
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So I raised ASA for like 3 seasons, Four Seasons.
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And I just, I was never old enough for Motor America.
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When they had the the 400 cup, I was like 13 and 14.
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I wasn't old enough because you have to be 15.
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And then they got rid of that and put in the talent cup.
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And we didn't really do that because we had bought a twin, a
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660. So you're like, you're old
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enough. We we can get sponsors and
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everything. We can just do the Twins Cup.
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So we went in pretty confident. Well, we went in Daytona with
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with very little expectations since first mode America race
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different league, not really knowing where I'm at on the twin
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because I haven't really raced like that on it.
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So we went in with just try to try to qualify and just make
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some noise. Right.
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So we we went in, we qualified. Thank thank God we got into the
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first race. I placed eighteen, which that
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night I set a goal for top 20. Got you.
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OK. So that's what's happening.
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I beat that goal. I was happy about that.
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So second day we went in and I was like all right, 18 or
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higher, I know I can do better. So we came up the line,
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everything was good. I believe we had a race restart.
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So we restarting everything. We went out again and I I
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believe I was in 18 and then I came around and I was in like
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like 16th and I bumped up to 15th and I was, I was running
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good pace for 15th and my clutch burnt up.
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Wow. Yeah, it was.
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We were coming around to check to last lap to White Planet.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like.
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It was right like right there, like 2 more laps and we could
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have adjusted it, but at the time I didn't really know that.
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Right, right, right I was. Just done so I was just upset I
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just started losing losing spots as it was going out.
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I was getting frustrated so I I eventually came off to hot pit
26:46
and I like a blurred mind. I was upset, I was confused, I
26:52
was frantic and I was like, I was just telling my dad the bike
26:55
won't go. So we had AI hopped over the
26:58
wall and I actually kind of calmed down a little bit and we
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figured out it was just a clutch, like just no power.
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Right, right, right. Yeah.
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Spike but bike would go nowhere so I was kind of bummed about
27:10
that. Yeah, no, you know, it's, it's
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one of those things when you have mechanical, I think you'd
27:17
prefer to crash out and have a mechanical, you know, even
27:20
though mechanical sometimes could cost less, but it's just
27:24
kind of like it's, it's the worst to and I've had that
27:27
happen. I I figure which track I was at
27:29
and the same thing my bike with my KTM was cutting off and it
27:32
was like cutting off the whole race and, and the same thing.
27:36
I was just wasn't sure what it was.
27:37
And, and I'm like, do I keep going or do I come?
27:40
You know, I wasn't sure if I was going to do something to the
27:42
motor. And I, and I pitted like like
27:44
this. Like I think it's like the same
27:45
thing second to last lap or something like that.
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And I was leading my, my class and, and it was, you know, it
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was one of those things like, I still remember it.
27:52
So, you know, the mechanicals are the worst, you know, to, to
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have happen to you, but you also learn from it and, and, and it
28:02
makes you stronger. I mean, you're still really
28:04
young. So you do have a, so you have a
28:06
lot of years in front of you to, to, to, to put it all together.
28:11
But that, I mean, I think that's one of the hot that one of the
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IT, I'll say this for racing. I mean, I, like I said, I've
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been, I've been racing since 2013 and, and like, I think 21
28:19
was the first year where I'm like, you know, I'm trying to
28:22
fix my bike and go back out. Normally my bike breaks and just
28:26
put it in the trailer and, and call it a kind of thing.
28:28
But then you learn tonight, you learn this and somewhere along
28:31
the line, you just learn this. Never give up attitude where
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like you, you, you're gear, whatever you're, you're, you're
28:37
getting everything. You use a hammer to bang
28:39
something out. You got to use tape like
28:40
together and, and that's, and and that's, you know, that's,
28:44
that's life in general, man, because, you know, things are
28:46
always going to come at you and as as long as you never give up,
28:50
you know, you guys, you have a fighting chance.
28:53
So seeing that for me, going through that and, and seeing
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where I am now, where it's just kind of like, all right, I'm
28:58
getting my bike together. So even though it's the, you
29:01
know, like your first round at Daytona and motor America and
29:04
having these things happen, it's just going to make you stronger
29:07
through the rest of the season. So I, I assume you're, you're
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going to be on your way to rode Atlanta in a in a few days.
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Yeah, we're, we're leaving tomorrow.
29:16
It's it's a couple hours pretty long drive for me at least it
29:23
feels long. Got.
29:25
You passenger. But yeah, we're heading down
29:27
there tomorrow to get in and everything, get everything set
29:29
up like it needs to be. Got you.
29:31
Yeah, we'll get there on on Friday for media stuff, but but
29:38
you guys need to get there and do and do all the all the things
29:40
you need to do. So now do you feel after the
29:44
first round that you kind of have an idea what to expect at
29:49
at Rd. Atlanta?
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Yeah, I do. Yeah.
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I just, I'm just hoping and praying.
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I I feel like I've put the works to to be able to qualifying
30:03
everything so right. Just hoping to do that.
30:06
All right, all right, no doubt. And and you know, like I said,
30:09
that that's something that's definitely going to come.
30:10
So I'm I'm looking forward to seeing you out there on
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Saturday. So now, you know, with racing,
30:16
and it sounds like you've been you've been racing now for
30:18
several years. Like, how are you managing like
30:22
school and imagining you know, all the stuff that doesn't
30:25
pertain to racing? What really keeps you going with
30:30
the school work is my parents say if I don't do my work I
30:33
don't race. So I just I wake up, go to
30:37
school, get it all done, bring it home if I need to and for
30:41
waste race weeks like this I might well my school requires to
30:46
like send in a note to like be pre approved and everything.
30:51
And then my teachers they have the option which I find weird to
30:54
give me the work or to not give me it.
30:56
Gotcha. Most of my teachers are cool.
30:58
So I get the work and I either do it like tonight I would do it
31:03
so I don't have to take it with me, or I take it with me and do
31:05
it over the few days. Gotcha.
31:08
Just just so I'm not falling behind and I'm still with the
31:11
material like the rest of the class.
31:13
Right, right. And, and So what do you, what do
31:15
your friends think about you going racing and stuff like
31:17
that? And do they ride as well or they
31:20
they're in other sports? So I have a couple friends that
31:23
are that ride. They they're on the same boat,
31:28
but like my friends like inside of school and stuff.
31:32
I don't, they, I don't know how to wear this.
31:37
They have this like weird mindset where it's like, why are
31:40
you going if you're not getting paid?
31:43
And I just have to put in terms is like, especially like the
31:46
kids that play football and stuff.
31:47
It's like, why do why do you play middle school football?
31:49
Why do you spend so much money on cleats and give stuff like
31:52
that if you're not getting paid? And that kind of evens it out a
31:56
little bit. But everybody, I mean, for the
31:59
most part, most people think it's cool, but you still have
32:01
those feelers. Like I raised their bikes.
32:03
I raised their bikes, you know, they just have that ego, so.
32:07
Great. Yeah, no, you know, as as they
32:10
should have. They have any of your friends
32:14
come watch you race or anything like that?
32:17
Nah, I don't. I don't really like to invite a
32:20
lot of my friends because I know if I do that I'll just get
32:23
sidetracked and not do what I need to.
32:25
Got you. But yeah.
32:27
So, and, and, and so like my, my, my daughter plays tennis and
32:31
you know, she plays, she practices six days a week,
32:35
weather permitting and, and stuff like that.
32:39
And, you know, we were asked her if she wanted to be homeschooled
32:42
and she's, she wants to know part of it.
32:43
So have you thought about being going be doing homeschooling
32:47
instead of going into school? I'm going to be honest, I have
32:52
not because I'm, I feel good where I'm at.
32:56
I'm already in high school. I'm in 10th grade.
32:58
I only have two more years so not much time left, but I don't
33:05
know about my parents. They probably have, but I don't
33:09
see the need in it. OK, and and so you know, this is
33:13
your first year in in Northern America.
33:17
What are you? What are you what are your goals
33:19
for the year? Like?
33:20
What do you know? It comes Jersey in in the end of
33:24
September, October. I don't know what exact calendar
33:27
date. What are you hoping to, you
33:29
know, see yourself finished in in in the series?
33:33
I I, me personally, I want to get at least a point or two.
33:39
I just, I just don't want to have my hopes too high to where
33:45
I I start beating myself up because I tend to do that often.
33:49
Right, right. Because I know what I'm capable
33:51
of, but like, you know what I mean?
33:54
So I'm just I'm hoping to get through the year, stay in one
33:58
piece, score a point or a couple points, just.
34:04
And, and so even though it was only Daytona and I don't know
34:08
how much seat time you got on the R660R660 and, and I don't
34:12
know if you ride, rode any other bigger bikes since the, the
34:15
danger 400, you know, and it, you know, at the end of the
34:20
weekend and you know, and, and getting up to 15th place with a
34:23
couple of laps to go. Like, how do you, how do you
34:27
feel yourself, you know, against the competition?
34:29
Do you like, OK, I, I, I wasn't giving, you know, 89%.
34:34
So if I give a little more, I might do something.
34:36
Did you did did did you have that in the back of your mind?
34:38
A little? Bit yeah, after, yeah, it's
34:41
always like that for me. After thinking about, it's like,
34:43
I could have done this better. I could have done that, you
34:46
know? Yeah.
34:48
It just, I don't know. It's weird how it happens.
34:52
Listen, man, you're, you're really young.
34:54
So like you said early on, you know, it's all fun and enjoying
34:58
and then and having fun because you're, you know, I mean, you
35:02
know, we all, you know, take it serious to a degree, but when
35:04
you're 15, you got to have more fun than take it serious.
35:08
You know what I mean? You worry about that like when
35:11
you're in your 20s, as far as, you know, making certain
35:15
decision, but you got to, you have to love whatever it is that
35:19
you're doing and, and, and, and as long as you stay with as long
35:22
as that love, is there like anything possible, you know, so,
35:27
so that's pretty awesome. I'm looking forward to seeing,
35:31
see what happened this season for you, man.
35:32
And so, you know, tell folks how they can find you on social
35:36
media and you know, if they're, if you're, if you're looking for
35:39
sponsors, tell the sponsors how they can find you.
35:41
All that fun stuff. You can find my Instagram at
35:45
Facebook at 2 Bones Racing. I want to thank on the way
35:53
racing OTW, racing Lejeune power sports.
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Gosh. Yeah, man, I really appreciate
36:19
you coming out, man, and, and taking the time and, and sharing
36:24
your story. I'm looking forward to it, man.
36:25
You're still pretty young. So you know, you have, you have
36:29
a, you have some ways to go. So that's the beautiful part
36:31
about it. My name is Rex 45.
36:33
It's the Be Forever Cool podcast.
36:35
This evening we had Kaden Brown on.
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Thank you for coming on man Peace.