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MotoGP Germany 2025 Round 11 Recap S5 Ep 15 of the B 4EVA KOOL "Race a Motorcycle" Podcast · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  I need to put some cucumbers over my eyes.
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  I have baggy eyes. You might have to.
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  Man, said my eyes baggy. Hey boys, we live.
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  Welcome back to another edition of the Be Forever Cool podcast.
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  My name is Rex 45. We got the crew in the building
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  on Vroom Vroom Wednesday. We got Cheetah, 740, Smitty, and
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  the one and only Bobby Shakes. What's going on, fellas?
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  What's happening? Today.
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  How's everything going? Not bad, not.
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  Bad, nice, nice. You know, as always, guys, we're
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  starting to in in our orders, but yeah, how's it going today,
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  Cheetah man? Good man, good, good man.
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  Just happy to be back, you know? I couldn't, I couldn't come on
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  earlier bro. But this is, it was a lot of
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  racing to catch up on this weekend.
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  I couldn't do it honestly all in the weekend 'cause I was busy
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  and I had to get a lot done. I did watch a few of them live,
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  but man, there's a lot of lot of crashes, man, a lot of crash
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  drama going on that we can we can really unpack here in a
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  second. Nice, nice.
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  Yeah, there's a lot man 'cause it was 3 days of not three days,
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  a weekend of three different major series going on, Motor
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  America Moto GP and World Super Bike.
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  So there's definitely a lot to talk about and a lot of action.
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  I was packed into that to this past weekend.
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  Smitty, what's good man? How you doing man?
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  Pretty good. I can't go playing this weekend.
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  I caught probably all of you know, the GP racing some of
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  Motor America and worse and worse by I didn't catch much
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  much at all this weekend though. But Moto GP was great man.
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  I love very many of you, you know so.
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  Yeah, no, it was definitely Action Pack and you know, it was
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  one of the few races that in the main GP race that ended with
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  only ten guys. And so we'll definitely dive
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  into that. Bobby shakes, man.
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  What's good, man? I know you got like, how many
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  podcasts are you doing right now, man?
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  55, man, man's a busy man. What's good, man?
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  I'm I'm out of Moto GP and super bike I'm done what?
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  Do you mean? Guys, this right here is worth
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  nothing. Money has no value.
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  Hype has no value. I see when I see Marquez do the
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  Internet meme dance after winning, I've lost all respect
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  for Marc Marquez. You are a champion, you are a
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  leader. You're not supposed to follow
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  the hype. You set the trend, you don't
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  follow the trend and that's what it means to be a champion.
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  Very disappointed. Top rat could do it because he's
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  not one of us. He's not a winner, he's in the
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  lower division. Once you get into that winner's
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  circle, you have to behave like a leader.
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  I think I'm out on Ducati. It's been a while since I've
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  done a thing with Bobby. Man, I forgot.
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  He's a nut case. Yeah, we, we're, we're going to
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  have to get Bobby on his, his meds, man.
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  But you know, it's going to be an interesting show for sure.
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  But let's talk about the show guy.
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  Let's talk about the Moto GP. You know, I ask a general
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  question with your thoughts of the overall weekend.
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  You know, it's record-breaking crowd for the Saxon ring, over
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  250,000 people. The, the qualifying was
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  ridiculous, you know, a lot of a lot of competitive, competitive
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  riders, competitive manufacturers outside of Ducati.
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  Obviously it was some crashes that happened and stuff like
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  that for some riders and you know, they didn't get a chance
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  to race over the weekend. So definitely a lot.
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  And the main GP was crazy. Moto 2 was crazy.
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  So we'll start with Cheetah. What are your thoughts on over
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  all weekend? Man, it was a it was a crazy
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  overall weekend. The most memorable things are
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  just you know, the stuff that happened in the Sprint, you know
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  all the cup. The good manufacturers doing
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  great right now, Aprilia, Yamaha, KTM, they're doing well
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  in the rain right now. We're seeing the comeback with
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  from 93 when he ran wide in turn one had to come back through all
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  the pack and easily made it happen.
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  Everyone expected that. And then the the drama from
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  Sunday. Oh my goodness, everybody went
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  down putting people in positions that they've never been in in
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  this whole series. You got people in the upfront
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  category they shouldn't really be in because half the grid went
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  down. There's only 10 people.
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  So you know, it was just a, it was a crazy weekend, crazy
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  track. Situations, conditions that they
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  push through. These are killers, these are
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  warriors. They push through everything and
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  and gave us a show at the end of the day.
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  Nice. They did.
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  They did man. Smitty, what are your thoughts?
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  No, I kind of, you know, left piggyback of what Cheetah just
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  said, but it was odd because of this past weekend.
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  If you take Saturday's Sprint race and you know prior to that
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  turn 8 was taking everybody out turn 8, but then the actual race
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  on Sunday was turn 1. So I'm trying to, I still can't,
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  I still can't understand why it happened because the races were
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  dry, right? So the turn 8 just killed
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  everybody Saturday and turn one on Sunday.
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  But like you said, 10 guys finished, which was like the
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  second lowest ever since like 19, like 90 something a long
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  time ago. So very, very, very historic
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  weekend. Also what was cool because it
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  was Mark Marquez's 200th, 200th start.
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  It was Alex's 100th start, and then it was also Marquez's ninth
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  win, which is the most wins at one track ever.
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  Also, he took over second place officially by passing Augustini,
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  so he's #2 now in all time minutes behind Ross.
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  So this weekend, you know, like it.
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  The week was historic in many ways, you know.
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  So, right, right. Yeah, I, I think, and, you know,
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  we'll talk about it some more with the crashes.
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  I think because they had, Saturday was wet and I think
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  they usually figure out a lot of stuff in the Sunday GP on in
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  the, in the Sprint race. But you know, Saturday was such
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  a, a wet day. I I think that's the issue that
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  he just didn't have enough time, But you know, we'll, we'll, like
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  I said, we'll dive more into that Shakes man.
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  What are your thoughts of, of the GPI?
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  Know you said you're done. So, you know, I, I don't know
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  how this is going to go. I think somebody walked into the
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  paddock, knocked on Jorge Martin's door and said what are
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  you going to do now? Aprilia's hair.
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  It's a winning bike. We're we're seeing the momentum
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  as as we get deep into the season for seeing a Prillion
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  making that run. That's all I was worried about
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  because we know it's we know it's an Alex and we know more
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  Badeli is going to fail me again.
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  It's been my dark horse all season.
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  We know that. We know Alex is going to do his
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  thing. We know Marquez is going to do
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  his thing. We I thought that Honda would
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  have won with all the crashes because the only way Honda could
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  really win is with the crashes or train more friends, an act of
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  God. So that was the most surprising
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  thing. But I think Jorge Martinez got a
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  he got a wake up call. What are you going to do?
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  What are you going to do? It's the bike can win.
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  Can you win? That's it.
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  Yeah, we'll see next. Week.
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  We'll see. I I completely agree with that.
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  And we'll talk about daddy. I mean, I think the big boss
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  also gave him a few choice words.
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  But yeah, man, like, you know, Cheetah, I know it's your turn
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  to ask the question. So we let's see what you got
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  man. Oh man, I hadn't even thought of
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  one. But if we had to bring one up, I
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  guess I'm going to ask, was Mark Marquez dropping oil on this in
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  the race? Because everybody behind him
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  that was in leading behind him, Bez Digi besides Alex.
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  Alex was behind him too. Maybe he gave him the brother a
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  little pass. Maybe he told him I'm going to
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  drop oil on lap 2, lap 3 on the right side or something because
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  Zarko, Acosta, everyone behind him, boom, went down 567 people
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  and then all of a sudden you got Marini Binder all of a sudden in
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  top 10. The second place curse.
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  Yeah, so I mean, what's going on, man?
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  Is it Marquez Manor right now? That's what they said, right?
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  It's Marquez Manor and he's not putting his foot off anyone's
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  neck right now. Right, you know, I I agree with
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  you as far as it is. It is Marquez what we already
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  knew the saxoring as Marquez is. But it seems like the the title
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  is coming close to the summer break Smitty.
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  So I think the title, you know, might be out of reach for anyone
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  else. So I might, I might, I might
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  finally throw in the towel, I've said.
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  It says race. 1 No, I, I, I feel, I feel really bad for
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  Bazecki and Digia because one Bazecki had a rough year last
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  year on, on trying to get that 23 bike right for, for on the
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  Ducati. So for him to be back up front
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  like he was in 2022, I know he feels really good.
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  So that I mean, even though he had the one the win in
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  Silverstone and he had the the two podiums in Aston, he was
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  close and he seems to be the closest guy to push mark at the
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  moment. DJ is finding his way.
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  And I think it's the same thing these guys are are getting.
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  They're riding the fastest they've ridden all year and now
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  they're seeing they're finding out their limit limitations or,
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  or they're finding the limits or trying to manage the limits.
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  Because you know, when you're back in 8th and 9th place or 7th
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  place or anything like that, you, you still have to deal with
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  the rider in front of you, But but when he's out out front like
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  that, So I feel really bad for those two crashing.
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  Also Acosta, you know, Acosta, that was that was, you know,
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  that's that, that like that was that was really bad because you
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  know, same thing. He's had a tough time last year
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  and you know, to see all those guys go down, you know, out.
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  On the plus side, it helps out Marini because coming back,
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  getting a 6th place for Honda, you know, that's a good look
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  because Arco is another guy that, you know, he was second on
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  the grid and crashed out as well.
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  And, and so that that it, it's I don't think it's Marquez's oil
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  coming off the right boot. But you know what?
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  I'm. Saying, I mean, listen, Mark,
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  Mark was on a different level, man.
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  He was the only person hitting consistent 20's the whole race
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  and nobody could get into the 20s.
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  And then he started dipping into 20 ones later in the race.
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  But Rossi's only chance Digi went down.
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  You know what I'm saying? He was right there and he was up
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  there giving everyone a shot for that podium, but unfortunately
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  he goes down. So it would have been him and
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  Bez probably battling it out honestly.
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  But unfortunately, you know, both those guys went down.
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  So yeah. All right, Smitty, what do you,
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  what do you want to add to that? No.
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  No, no, I mean, I kind of agree with Green.
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  You know what I thought he said. But like I said, I still don't
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  understand why people kept crashing.
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  Honestly, just it doesn't make any sense.
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  You know, probably they saw Marquez and try to match his
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  pace. It couldn't do it.
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  And and you know, they kind of wrote above their limits and
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  that's why they crash. But it was always turn 1.
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  So but it can't put my finger on why it kept crashing, you know,
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  and then but hold on Marquez, as usual.
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  I'm not saying hold on. Well, Rex, so you just said that
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  they're trying to push to get closer to him.
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  They aren't. They're just happy to get second
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  place, that's all. Honestly man, I think those guys
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  are all fighting for 2nd place now 'cause they know they're not
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  beating Mark. They might not win, they might
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  not win the championship, but they're not fighting for 2nd
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  place. None of those guys are none of
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  listen man, I I know it's easy to say, but there's nobody
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  fighting. Maybe some cat Tantra, but
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  there's nobody else fighting for 2nd place.
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  Like you know, Bez is out of the VR46 Academy.
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  Did you? He's on the bike.
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  Them guys are not trying to fight.
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  Rossi don't believe in second place.
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  Come on man. That's that's Rossi.
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  It's a different. He's the owner of the team, so
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  he's not going to have riders who are trying to phone at home.
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  OK, Rex, all right, listen, it's racing, you know, racing.
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  There's their pockets of racing, right?
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  There's Group One through 5, six through 10 and so forth, right?
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  And those first five guys are trying to get first place.
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  Those, you know, six through 10, they're kind of seeing OK, you
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  know, what can I can I hit the third spot on the podium?
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  They may probably a best top five right now.
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  There's one pocket and that's Mark that everybody else is
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  their own pocket of racing. Be honest with you this it ain't
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  going to happen. Mark is the only guy that could
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  beat himself so far this year. But but has Mark lost like like
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  yet? I mean like get gun and beat
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  straight up yet. Has he?
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  Not yet. He's been close.
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  OK. Then but but you know, I mean,
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  if he, if you know, he crashes out so other people have won.
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  I mean, there's three, there's there's two other winners.
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  So I mean, you know, it is what it is.
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  What are your thoughts? So different sport, but on
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  topic. 50 days before the NFL season start and you have the
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  Cleveland Browns. You have the Rams, you have
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  Chicago Bears, you have the Patriots.
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  Everybody goes to mini camp thinking we're going to the
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  Super Bowl. Right.
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  Every team thinks that they're going to go win the Super Bowl,
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  So why would a raid, a writer, a professional think you know
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  what? Yeah, I'm a professional.
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  I'm going to go for second place.
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  Come on. Another thing I'd like to add to
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  our friend Cheetah here. Welcome back, Cheetah.
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  I love you. But it there seems to be a
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  terrible, terrible conspiracy with everybody on this show.
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  Every time Mark wins, it's oil from his boot.
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  And he waited for the last minute to run off the track to
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  change tires. He's he's going really hard and
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  then he's slowing down so Alex can catch up.
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  Why can't we just be legendary guys?
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  Why? Why can't we just be legendary?
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  Why can't we just give the man his props?
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  He's great, everybody sucks and that's it.
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  There's no conspiracy. He's not cheating.
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  He's just legendary. I just want to hear that one
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  from everybody on the panel. Nah.
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  He is legendary. No, no doubt.
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  I mean, he's he's one of the greatest writers to ever ride.
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  No, he's not saying he. We're not saying he's not.
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  He's the goat, but the goat. But at the end of the day, you
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  know, magic was nasty. Jordan was nasty, but if you're
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  in Boston, you know you're rooting for Boston.
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  It is what it is. I mean, you know, so and I have
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  nothing. I have nothing against Marquez
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  at all. But at the end of the day, those
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  other riders on the grid, you know they want to win.
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  Yeah, yeah, they do. And I want to respond.
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  I want to get a chance to respond to Bobby Shakes.
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  The thing is, you comparing football to motorcycling First
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  off is a sin. Right.
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  Because one, you're talking about a team sport versus
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  individual. So every team may come together
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  and bond together and say we're going to make it to the Super
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  Bowl, right? But when you out there by
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  yourself on the bike you've been on and you continue to push by
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  yourself and your team is just sending you messages that you
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  see on your dash and at the every start finish line you see
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  a message saying how far someone is behind you or in front of
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  you. That's all you get.
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  So at the end of the day, you might have to settle for 2nd
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  place. If you know racing, that's how
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  it goes. You just.
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  Know the better man is the better man.
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  It comes out and qualifying pretty quickly starting the 1st
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  5 minutes. You can tell if you're watching
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  the time there's a guy out there that's just putting it down
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  early. Still 3 seconds off race base
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  but you just out there already faster than everyone.
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  So let's just cancel the season and give give Marques a trophy.
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  Nobody gives up though. People are still going to go box
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  if it's a boxing match, no matter how good the other person
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  is, right? You don't give it your all, but
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  there is a reality on not to chase Mark Marquez because
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  you're going to burn your tires out chasing a guy like that.
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  Yeah, you're going to crash or you're going to burn your tires
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  out. Not be ready to push the half
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  the rest of the day's distance to keep Pekko behind you.
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  If you're Alex, right, you can't chase your brother.
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  You know how fast your brother is.
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  So does the rest of the grid, though.
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  So it's ain't a team four man. It's different.
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  You get humbled pretty quick. But but that could be the
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  problem with the sport. You ever seen those NBA teams
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  where the bench is still talking about they got a ring, they
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  never played it? How many minutes?
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  You play no minutes, But they can still brag about it because
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  that's a team sport. The team carries you.
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  Right, but there's also Team 2IN Racing, there's a.
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  Kind of, yeah, but. There's a team if you're a
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  boxer. Annex.
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  There's engineers, there's a whole team behind you, and I get
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  it. Yeah, it's you on the grid, but
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  I don't think anyone on that level, if you're on that level
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  and you're just going to do the the the bare minimum and you're
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  not going to push it. Fans want to see pushing it.
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  I want to see you push it on ball tires and crash.
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  And I say that's what I want. I don't want to see.
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  Guess what? The difference is the difference
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  is you want your team. Your team can you can fumble the
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  ball. Your team will pick it up and
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  might make the goal. Right.
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  You crash out there or you lose that boxing match 'cause it's a
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  one-on-one boxing. Is not.
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  Racing or similar? No.
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  Guess what? Your team blames you afterwards.
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  You do that a few times. Now what?
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  They want to kick you off. That's your livelihood.
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  That's what you're putting money on.
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  Food for your family down right? So it's totally different bro.
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  It's like real. It gets real up there.
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  They are struggling and fighting and clawing for every seat they
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  have up there. And 2nd place is better than no
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  place in Richmond. Right.
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  But yeah, as we saw in all those crashes, I don't think the top
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  three guys we're trying to finish second because they,
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  they, they, they, they would have slowed down a little bit
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  And and they were not and and and not only that, the, the day
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  they're going to want you. They don't want to see that
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  you're pushing. They don't want to see that
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  you're not full gas. All right?
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  They're just, they're not, they don't like, you know, so at the
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  end of the day, they ain't got no choice but to send it or, or
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  get on the podium. You know what I'm saying?
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  Shakes man, you got you got one for us.
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  I got one for you. Yes, I got one for you.
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  And I think, I think you're going to love this.
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  One, I have to stop this after tonight.
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  Can we finally, according to Cheetah, right?
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  And if we all, everybody agrees with Cheetah, can we finally put
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  Pekko to sleep? Can we rock him to bed and say
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  it's over? And after this show, I don't
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  want to hear Pekko's name again until we get second or first
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  place. Rex won't do that.
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  No, I I need to know he. Gave him a chance to ask a
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  question Rex, and this the question he brings.
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  I need to. Know I'll let you guys go first.
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  No, no, no. This is directly for you.
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  I want to know, are we? Are you going to agree to me and
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  say, Pekko, it's over? Just manage the race.
• 19:34
  Don't go for first or second because the paddock is going to
• 19:37
  be mad at you. Can we put Pekko's name to rest?
• 19:40
  Smitty, You, you want to hear? You want to see Pekko's name to
• 19:42
  rest, right? We don't want to hear.
• 19:44
  Him talk. How, how, how?
• 19:45
  Wait, wait. What is how many?
• 19:49
  How many? How many points is he behind in
• 19:50
  the championship? Like 100.
• 19:53
  Yeah, it's like 100. Like 100.
• 19:55
  So he was so he was the first time he won was he was down 90
• 20:00
  came back after the the summer break and you know, didn't make
• 20:05
  too many mistakes after that. So until until there is more
• 20:10
  points than fewer races give. A straight faced hand this shit.
• 20:14
  He it's it's it's possible, man. Anything is possible.
• 20:18
  Anything is possible. So, you know, Tom Brady was
• 20:23
  down, you know, to you boys down in Atlanta by whatever halftime
• 20:27
  and they came back you anything is possible.
• 20:29
  So, you know, in sports, you know, there's there's not a lot
• 20:32
  of Cinderella stories, right? But this would be a good one if
• 20:36
  there's ever to be won in Moto GP, right.
• 20:38
  So all I'm just saying is when there's fewer races than points,
• 20:43
  then I'll say it's over. Yeah.
• 20:46
  I don't believe you mixed fixed football games in with racing,
• 20:50
  but that was that, that that was good.
• 20:53
  I like that that was. So not yet, but soon.
• 20:57
  I, I, I will say this, right, I think that Digia is helping
• 21:02
  Petco in the sense that he's figuring out a way to go fast on
• 21:06
  that 25 bike. And since he, Digia did that
• 21:09
  what, 3 rounds ago, Petco's been getting a little bit quicker
• 21:13
  later in the, in the beginning of the races and stuff like the
• 21:15
  main race, the, the Sprint race. I don't know what to say about
• 21:18
  that. You know, anything is possible.
• 21:21
  You know, that's all. That's all I'm going to say,
• 21:22
  Shakes. You know, to quote the great
• 21:25
  Kevin Garnett, anything's not possible.
• 21:29
  You haven't. Answered my question are you put
• 21:31
  I mean it was great I loved it what are they called that in
• 21:35
  Congress when you get up and you just talk and talk and talk
• 21:37
  filibuster. That was a great filibuster.
• 21:39
  The question was are you putting back peko to sleep or not, yes
• 21:44
  or no as far. As far as beating Marc Marquez,
• 21:47
  it's what? You're it's over for him for the
• 21:51
  year, yes or no? I think that I.
• 21:53
  Think that Peko has a better chance of beating Marquez in a
• 21:58
  race than he will in a championship?
• 22:00
  I'll give you that if. Mark crashes.
• 22:03
  Yes, yeah. You are correct.
• 22:04
  Yeah. Just listen man.
• 22:06
  What is the win like like like don't the last time I put
• 22:09
  stipulation on wins. I know it's difficult down
• 22:12
  there. I don't I don't want to say bad
• 22:13
  things. A lot of people that.
• 22:15
  Put in front of Petco to win. Honestly if even if it wasn't
• 22:19
  for Mark, Alex is better right now.
• 22:21
  You got you got, Alex. You got Digia and you got Abez
• 22:24
  right now, right? And.
• 22:26
  Acosta is is. Starting to get in there right
• 22:28
  so there there there are a few more people he's going to have
• 22:31
  to battle with for for this whatever is leftover from the
• 22:34
  Marquez brothers OK Rex the. Answer is yes.
• 22:37
  Or no, I I mean he's it's a no. It's a no, man.
• 22:42
  It's a no. It's like until it's over, it's
• 22:44
  over, man. I mean, I, I, you know, that's,
• 22:46
  that's how I look at it. So I'm sorry man, it's not over
• 22:50
  yet, but Rexy. Run to the crowd now.
• 22:53
  And cornea? There, check it out.
• 22:56
  I got to push back some. You can't say that a win is a
• 23:00
  win. That's how everybody.
• 23:04
  Around the world says a win is not because.
• 23:07
  All wins don't feel the same to who?
• 23:10
  The guy. Listen to the people that's.
• 23:12
  Winning or the people that's watching people winning if Pekko
• 23:15
  wins. Because Mark and Alex both
• 23:17
  crash. I think it feels the same.
• 23:18
  I said beat the mark straight up.
• 23:20
  No, it doesn't. Yeah.
• 23:22
  Yeah, the point. So, so, So what?
• 23:23
  You're trying to say is then. So based on that, what you're
• 23:26
  trying to say is the last year's championship.
• 23:30
  Since Mark has been out and hasn't won, they should be
• 23:34
  asterisk next to the championships.
• 23:37
  I'm not saying that, but. I don't feel the same.
• 23:40
  You know I'm right, man. No, no, no.
• 23:41
  But I think I know what both of y'all are right?
• 23:43
  I think the case is like if someone crashes out, like mark
• 23:46
  crashes out and somebody else wins, they deep down know that
• 23:49
  they wouldn't have won that right under that under any other
• 23:52
  circumstance, right? Only other circumstances
• 23:55
  possibly has the worst start, botches the start and has to
• 23:57
  make his way back up or he has a a shitty qualifying or he
• 24:01
  doesn't mistake in qualifying, get super penalized and get sent
• 24:03
  back to the grid, right? That's the only chance you see
• 24:06
  someone like this not just coming out there on 1st every
• 24:09
  single time. This is the Michael Jordan of
• 24:11
  this time right now. Do you think those those guys
• 24:15
  say it on camera when somebody crashes out and they don't feel
• 24:18
  it? You think they feel bad cashing
• 24:20
  that check for sure. Or not.
• 24:24
  They still won the race, you know, because you have to finish
• 24:26
  the race, guys. Yeah, you got to.
• 24:28
  That's what I mean. It is.
• 24:29
  That's part of race and it's finishing.
• 24:30
  And yeah, you know, we can say this in every sport.
• 24:34
  The best team doesn't win. The best players don't win,
• 24:36
  right? And, and, and the other teams
• 24:39
  that that beat, you know, I don't want to, you know, the,
• 24:43
  the, you know, the, you know, I don't want to call out too many
• 24:45
  teams, but it's sometimes the best team don't win.
• 24:49
  And, and, and and that's that. Yeah, yeah.
• 24:52
  But that's. The thing, right Like the
• 24:53
  fastest rider doesn't win either.
• 24:56
  It's the most consistent fast rider.
• 24:58
  The guys can't just be fast for three laps or five laps or 10
• 25:01
  laps or 15 laps. You have to manage the tires at
• 25:03
  the very beginning of the race. You have to manage in the middle
• 25:06
  when you suddenly get the itch to chase someone or someone puts
• 25:08
  a pass on you. You might want to burn up your
• 25:10
  tires. But you got to understand
• 25:11
  there's still 1015 more laps to go because these GP riders are
• 25:15
  racing 2628 laps. So you have to manage the same
• 25:18
  set of tires for that long. The fuel load's changing, you
• 25:22
  know, everything's changing. You're changing your mapping
• 25:24
  along the way. You know, everything's working
• 25:26
  through. So these guys are like surgical
• 25:28
  the way they race, you know, so they have to manage all that.
• 25:32
  You can't, you have to be very smart, man.
• 25:33
  You can't just burned it all up in the first 5-10 laps, that's
• 25:37
  for sure, like we do in club racing, right Smitty?
• 25:40
  We got 6 laps, 8 laps, 10 laps at the longest burning tires.
• 25:46
  Yeah, I use same. Set for second set of second
• 25:49
  race if I need to, you know what I'm saying?
• 25:50
  So you can't do that in in this kind of league, man.
• 25:53
  It's a different thing. What do you think about that
• 25:55
  Bobby? You know Rex left his.
• 25:57
  Peckle, though, yeah, I didn't. Know Rex's camera went off I'm
• 26:00
  I'm still here though. I'm sorting that out.
• 26:03
  Unbelievable. Come on man, sort it out.
• 26:09
  Man, right, I mean. You know this is ridiculous.
• 26:11
  Take off the lens cap. That'll help.
• 26:13
  No, no, it's. Not that it's, I know, I know
• 26:16
  it's something else. But go ahead and Ben and I think
• 26:19
  it's your turn to ask a question.
• 26:20
  I'll get I'll get it sorted out. Oh, OK.
• 26:23
  A. Question.
• 26:23
  Let's see what I got for you. So with Pedro.
• 26:27
  Costa lying up Moto 3 and Moto 2 and supposedly was crowned as
• 26:33
  the next guy in line behind, you know, the Rossi and the Marquez
• 26:36
  and why is it struggling so much Is it him mentally or is it the
• 26:40
  bike that he's not doing that good on like what's wrong he?
• 26:44
  Came to the GP class and met a few aliens at a UFO encounter.
• 26:50
  Like, you know, that might have been part of it because he is
• 26:53
  still top five, top 6 right now. You know, I truly think that's
• 26:56
  the case, You know, so when you come to Moto GP, guess what?
• 27:01
  The top six people were probably front runners in Moto 2 some
• 27:05
  some years ago. Zarko, you know, he's a
• 27:08
  champion. So you have guys like this that
• 27:10
  are in there running top seven, top eight that that can't make
• 27:13
  it the first or second. So this is the best of the best
• 27:16
  of the best. And so you just you, there's no
• 27:19
  BS ING in this, right? And to take it back to teams
• 27:22
  versus individual sport, at the end of the day, when you're out
• 27:25
  there, there's no team to save you, bro.
• 27:27
  The team can't fight for you and the team can't race for you.
• 27:30
  They're sitting back there, praying and hoping with their
• 27:32
  fingers crossed, like Mark's dad, right?
• 27:40
  Yeah, that's like Rex. On Acosta.
• 27:43
  I'm sorry. I missed that cool question.
• 27:45
  Can you say it again? The Acosta.
• 27:47
  Was the man in Moto 3 the man in Moto 2 by a long shot.
• 27:51
  He was supposed to be the next, you know, alien to come in and
• 27:53
  kind of just challenge Marquez or be at least be close to where
• 27:57
  Marquez is and beat everybody else.
• 27:59
  Why? Why is he not doing doing that?
• 28:02
  Is it the team? Is the bike?
• 28:04
  Is it him? Is he just not there mentally?
• 28:06
  Like what's wrong with Acosta? It's the bike.
• 28:09
  The bike. The same reason why.
• 28:11
  Marcus on a Ducati and didn't stay with Honda, I think.
• 28:15
  And, you know, we can't sit here and say that Bialis is a slouch
• 28:19
  or Bastianini or Bender who's been there forever, you know?
• 28:24
  So it's the bike. I will say it's good to see the
• 28:27
  KTM as far as they've been this past round and stuff like that.
• 28:31
  So there's hope for that. Will they get to the will they
• 28:33
  get over the hump to challenge Ducati?
• 28:36
  I don't, I don't know. I mean, you know what I mean?
• 28:38
  Right now, Aprilia is looking really good, but they're they're
• 28:41
  still in the mix. So, yeah, I think it's just it's
• 28:43
  the bike and that's why the rumor mill is out there saying,
• 28:47
  you know, he wants to he wants to go to VR46 Academy.
• 28:50
  But did you and Frank and and Frankie are like, Nah, Nah, we,
• 28:54
  we, we happy right here. We're good.
• 28:56
  We're. All in, right.
• 28:57
  Now, right? You know what are your thoughts?
• 29:01
  Shakes on that 2. Thoughts.
• 29:04
  I agree with. I agree with Cheetah.
• 29:08
  He's just around other aliens. Everybody has an idea till they
• 29:11
  get punched in the mouth. And.
• 29:15
  I think the issue is it is the bike.
• 29:18
  There's a small little component in the motor.
• 29:22
  That's failing. Like really tiny, small, like
• 29:24
  you can't really find it. So until they find that little
• 29:27
  little part and the bike will be fixed, Come on 45, stop with the
• 29:31
  excuses. The bike.
• 29:33
  Come on, come on. You're a professional supposed
• 29:37
  to ride that thing. I don't want to hear it's the
• 29:40
  bike, but I get it. I I think.
• 29:45
  You make a lot of excuses. You have to be a little bit
• 29:48
  more, you know, lenient with your, with your talk.
• 29:51
  Do you think that's what it is? I don't think that's what.
• 29:53
  It is. It could be on the bike's been
• 29:55
  great on the bike's been there KTM.
• 29:59
  Yeah, KTM, No. No KTM.
• 30:00
  Has not been there. KTM is not they.
• 30:03
  They haven't been on the podium. I mean, besides Maverick, I
• 30:05
  should say. He's in and they got taken away
• 30:08
  from him. They haven't been on the podium.
• 30:10
  So it is definitely when when you got 4 riders, well, I'll
• 30:15
  give Bastion in your pass. You got three riders that that
• 30:19
  that can that are really competitive that are kind of
• 30:21
  all, you all see them kind of fall back towards the end of the
• 30:23
  races and stuff like that. So they're they're having issues
• 30:26
  with that bike and KTM knows that and the the what's his
• 30:30
  name? Brett Pitt, Pitt Pitt Pitt
• 30:34
  Brier. He do he, he.
• 30:37
  The the. CEO Well, he stepped down.
• 30:40
  He he just runs the race program now, you know, and the guy in
• 30:43
  the wheelchair. Oh yeah.
• 30:44
  The the prieto or something like that.
• 30:47
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he even said it in an
• 30:49
  interview that, you know, because he was asked that over
• 30:52
  the weekend, you know, about the rumors about with, with Acosta.
• 30:57
  And he kind of says when you're young, you know, you, you don't,
• 31:01
  you don't realize that you should you should marry, you
• 31:04
  know, you're married with your wife and you have to stay with
• 31:06
  them. When you're young, you want to
• 31:07
  still look at girls and stuff like that.
• 31:09
  And that was his analogy about Acosta being being young, that
• 31:13
  he wants to flirt and look at other options.
• 31:15
  But, you know, when you get older, you realize where you
• 31:18
  need to be. So.
• 31:21
  But he also said that, you know, the bike is not where it is yet.
• 31:24
  And and so that's kind of what they're trying to, you know,
• 31:28
  sort out. And, you know, they're a young
• 31:30
  program still. You have to remember they're,
• 31:32
  you know, they're still a young program compared to Honda and
• 31:34
  Yamaha, right? They're still a pretty young pro
• 31:37
  and Aprilia, right? They're still a pretty young,
• 31:39
  young program. So yeah, man, it's still, it's
• 31:42
  definitely the bike. I would have to.
• 31:44
  I would have to. Disagree with you, I know they
• 31:46
  haven't got podium all season but we can't be a prisoner of
• 31:50
  the moment right? Previous coming Honda's stolen
• 31:54
  some but the bike that has challenged Ducati year to year
• 32:00
  has been this season has been has been KTM.
• 32:06
  For some reason they fall apart. But if you were to look at the
• 32:11
  standings without Aprilia showing and Honda stealing some,
• 32:16
  you would say the second best bike on the grid.
• 32:18
  You'd have to give it to KTM and for some reason they can't
• 32:22
  finish the race and they can't get on the podium.
• 32:25
  But to me, in my opinion, I want to be consistent all season.
• 32:28
  KTM to me looks to be the second best bike on the grid.
• 32:33
  Well, not the second best bike, the 7th best.
• 32:39
  Now you want to. You want to.
• 32:42
  Answer him Cheetah. I want to say something.
• 32:46
  No, I mean I. Think it's it's going to be
• 32:48
  interesting the the way the season finishes just because all
• 32:51
  these brands are coming up. But to Smitty's point, I mean,
• 32:54
  yeah, I think I answered that that question.
• 32:55
  But like, if we're talking about brands, KTMI don't think is is
• 33:01
  there yet and they keep trying different things.
• 33:05
  They consistently are trying different arrow packages for all
• 33:08
  three riders, consistently testing out different rear ends
• 33:11
  to try out the chatter issue to tame that down.
• 33:14
  So obviously they're in a battle and a struggle to figure that
• 33:17
  that bike, that perfect setting. And once they get that, they try
• 33:20
  to keep that and maneuver around that setting for a little.
• 33:23
  The Gray area around it. They don't try to deviate too
• 33:26
  much from what I've heard, but once but right, it sounds like
• 33:29
  they're really haven't found that thing yet because once they
• 33:31
  do and one rider likes it, like when Maverick was doing well on
• 33:34
  it, granted the tire pressure issue I think is caused him to
• 33:37
  get DQ back or something like that.
• 33:39
  He was, they used the setup, I believe the next time they like
• 33:42
  talked about it. So they were looking at his
• 33:43
  data. How how's it clicking?
• 33:45
  How's it work? How's he up there right now?
• 33:47
  So clearly that stuff helps when a rider does get that click and
• 33:51
  it works and he steps ahead in that race, they will use that
• 33:55
  and they will find that nugget. Maybe that's the right hand
• 33:57
  corners track. And they were like, OK, we know
• 33:59
  how to set this bike up for that way, right.
• 34:02
  But that that's how they build and and grow in my opinion.
• 34:04
  They're not there yet though. No, I don't, I don't think.
• 34:06
  So and shakes Ducati's battling Ducati for the title.
• 34:11
  This year they did it last year, they did it the year before and
• 34:15
  before that Katwara got one. So you know, there, there hasn't
• 34:20
  been any bike close to Ducati in a little bit.
• 34:24
  And and that second place is still a little ways away.
• 34:27
  Now. You know, like I said, Aprilia
• 34:28
  and KTM are are very close in the sense of like, you know,
• 34:32
  they're they're starting to get on the podium and stuff like
• 34:35
  that. And who knows what they're at
• 34:36
  the second-half of the season is going to look like.
• 34:38
  And you know, hopefully when, oh hey, Martin comes back, we may
• 34:42
  see some leaps and bounds with with with Aprilia.
• 34:49
  I think the leaks of bounds. Are happening now without Jorge
• 34:51
  Martin. I I think I've been saying this
• 34:55
  all season. I think KTM has been the 7th
• 34:57
  best bike on the grid. We can talk about that on
• 34:59
  another show a previous making a move and I think Bez is like
• 35:04
  man, this is my time to shine. You know, it's, it's it, you
• 35:08
  know, it's like you're, you're breaking in the houses and then
• 35:11
  you find one when the door open and you just go in and it's
• 35:14
  like, Oh my God, they left the door open and and they and they
• 35:17
  left cookies on the table and there's milk and there's,
• 35:21
  there's a pair of slippers and a robe for me to take a bath.
• 35:24
  It's what Martine has done to Bez.
• 35:27
  Is is, is crazy. It's like, here you go, brother.
• 35:31
  It's it's not. It's not the same exact same
• 35:34
  thing with what happened to Lorenzo, but at the end of
• 35:39
  Ducati and Lorenzo's spent even though Lorenzo was winning the
• 35:43
  the relationship was already severed.
• 35:45
  So even if Martine comes and have a beautiful second-half and
• 35:49
  next year wins the title, I don't think Aprilia will keep
• 35:53
  him after that. No no.
• 35:54
  Agreed. Agreed.
• 35:58
  So that's the. That's the tough part.
• 35:59
  But let's talk about the, the you know, I, I mean, I know
• 36:02
  Smitty's question, why the, the, the only 10 riders finish, but
• 36:08
  you know, there's some crazy crashes.
• 36:11
  You know who's Morbidelli's hurt Maverick?
• 36:16
  Hurt Maverick. Is hurt just.
• 36:17
  Had surgery. It was great to see Luca back,
• 36:20
  but Luca was, it looked like he was in a lot of pain.
• 36:23
  Alex's back looked like he was in a lot of pain.
• 36:25
  What do you guys thought about just, you know, seeing, you
• 36:29
  know, the beginning of the race, how it was going and then, you
• 36:32
  know, you know, up to 4 laps left, you know, dudes that was
• 36:35
  on the podiums were crashing out.
• 36:38
  Yeah, yeah, It's just. Unfortunate man like.
• 36:42
  I mean, I'm. Sure.
• 36:43
  They all have a collective thing to say about what went wrong
• 36:45
  there on that track or what's causing them to crash that much.
• 36:48
  Cause a lot of those crashes were in the same areas.
• 36:51
  So it's interesting, a lot of manufacturers down.
• 36:54
  It's not just one thing going on, not a right or mistake that
• 36:57
  put everyone down. Definitely was happening
• 36:59
  consistently. So did anyone, I don't
• 37:02
  understand if anyone ever really understood what was going on
• 37:05
  with the track that was making that happen.
• 37:07
  But I know track conditions change when it rains and it gets
• 37:10
  hot again and all that. They may not have gotten the
• 37:13
  chance to get that optimal set up on qualifying for this
• 37:16
  specific race. So I don't know.
• 37:18
  Yeah, very interesting. Frankie but his crash was pretty
• 37:22
  bad though. Frankie's.
• 37:24
  Oh yeah, yeah. So he'd.
• 37:26
  Probably be out for a while it looks like you know, but luckily
• 37:28
  one race then they got the summer break.
• 37:30
  So he's, he's been having a. Tough luck with crashes.
• 37:34
  You know, you know what I mean? From last year to this year, he
• 37:37
  he might be the new Miguel because and, and you know,
• 37:40
  again, when these guys, you know, I think they feel that I
• 37:43
  think they taste that they can get on a podium, you know what
• 37:46
  I'm saying? And, and, and those guys are are
• 37:47
  taking a little bit more risk than some of the other guys for
• 37:50
  sure. Gotcha.
• 37:56
  All right, well before we. Move on to World Super bike.
• 38:00
  I want to talk about Moto 2 and what were the crashes with?
• 38:06
  Well, crashes. And also Dennis on 2 won the
• 38:10
  race, which, you know, it's just one of the first time I've seen
• 38:14
  Dennis smile 'cause he, even if he's on the podium, if it's not
• 38:17
  first place, it's like he just wants to break the trophy.
• 38:20
  Like he's allergic to 2nd and 3rd place.
• 38:24
  Did you guys see Moto 2 and would you think of that?
• 38:27
  Also, the crash with Maria and who was it?
• 38:35
  Who did he take out? Well, there's one with Maria
• 38:37
  Alonso Lopez, right? I believe it was.
• 38:41
  Alonso Lopez. There's one with Albelina, not
• 38:43
  Albelina Arenas, right? There's another one with Arenas
• 38:46
  as well. I'd always with Davio Alanza.
• 38:50
  Davio Alonso who? Who ran into the back of Maria
• 38:56
  Diego Maria. Yeah, I didn't get to watch.
• 38:59
  Auto 2. I'll be honest, I'll let Smitty
• 39:00
  go. No, I saw the.
• 39:02
  Highlights. I think I.
• 39:09
  Think the. Way we could correct this in
• 39:10
  mortar to just put the blinkers back on the bikes so we can know
• 39:15
  when the guys coming back on the track.
• 39:16
  Or you can just implement your your hand signals right?
• 39:19
  So you just come off the handlebar and you go like this.
• 39:22
  That means you're making a right turn and you just everybody,
• 39:24
  everybody knows that you're taking the right turn or just
• 39:27
  put your blinker on right, because we all hate people that
• 39:30
  just comes out of the left lane into the right lane without
• 39:33
  using the blinker. We want just use your blinker.
• 39:35
  That's all. And then we can fix motor to
• 39:37
  just put the blinkers back on the bikes because clearly been
• 39:40
  watching motor to all season. Those guys need blinkers.
• 39:44
  This guy got to wipe off after. That right we charged.
• 39:50
  Today I I was called. Back of.
• 39:54
  Water too right there, too right it.
• 39:56
  It was pretty. Cool to see again Dennis Anshu
• 39:59
  winning. His brother won in in World
• 40:02
  Super Sport. And then obviously Top rack one.
• 40:05
  Let's talk about the Super bike races over in, I forget where
• 40:09
  they were. Huntington.
• 40:11
  Yeah. Dunnington Park.
• 40:12
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you guys think of of, of
• 40:15
  the racing and, you know, the struggles that happened with the
• 40:19
  Lowells brothers? Yeah.
• 40:20
  I mean, it was the Lowells brothers crashing, struggling
• 40:26
  early and crashing early in Race 2.
• 40:28
  I mean, Top Rank just simply dominating, you know, just
• 40:30
  completely hat tricking everything and then winning,
• 40:34
  winning all three races and then just securing even Super Bowl
• 40:36
  qualifying everything, right? It's just all handed to him.
• 40:40
  You had the drama, the crash one that I was talking about
• 40:43
  earlier, that was Wildman, Bautista and Sam Lowe's and
• 40:47
  everyone get crashed out. No, no, I'm sorry.
• 40:49
  Bautista. Yeah, that was Bautista.
• 40:51
  That's right. Bautista, Sam Lowe's.
• 40:53
  And it was another rider that went down.
• 40:55
  I forget who was Montella or something like that.
• 40:58
  Yeah, man, it was crazy. It was crazy just to.
• 41:00
  Watch all that drama. Very exciting race man.
• 41:03
  And are we surprised that Sam Lowe's crashed out?
• 41:08
  Now to hear Lewis tell her, Nah. Yeah, Lewis was.
• 41:12
  Bashing him he. Doesn't let all.
• 41:16
  Yeah, yeah. What are your thoughts, man?
• 41:20
  Smitty what my thoughts is I was.
• 41:22
  Kind of shocked to see how I was talk right down later, you know,
• 41:24
  because last year we thought Bulleger was, you know, the new
• 41:27
  guy in town and talk right, OK, well he's on his way out going
• 41:30
  to GP. He's not the same anymore.
• 41:32
  But he came back and said, Nah, I'm still a talk, right, that I
• 41:35
  was the year before and this this is still my show.
• 41:38
  So you got to beat me and he proved that he's still the guy
• 41:41
  in the beat and were and were super bike and what and Buttiga
• 41:44
  Bell. You know, he's still solid, but
• 41:46
  he's not top rack. So right, right.
• 41:49
  Yeah, I mean, I, I think that he's, he started in a, you know,
• 41:52
  I'd have to look at the grid position exactly.
• 41:54
  But he didn't he, he wasn't on the 1st row Buliga, you know,
• 41:59
  and so he had to come through on some riders and there was some
• 42:02
  fast riders. Granted, the Lows brothers
• 42:04
  crashed out, but Petrucci was fast.
• 42:07
  Ray was fast in the beginning as well, you know, so you know,
• 42:12
  that's the unfortunate side, but he was able to, you know, to at
• 42:15
  least minimize the damage. I think he's just down 4 points
• 42:18
  going into the next round. And I think he also had bad luck
• 42:22
  at the previous race and was and was taking out one of the races
• 42:25
  and didn't score any points and stuff like that.
• 42:27
  Bulaga and also had an engine failure at another round.
• 42:30
  So you know. You know those things happen.
• 42:34
  But I, I, I think Buluga has the pace to, to, to, to fight with
• 42:39
  top rack. If he's starting on, on, you
• 42:41
  know, the same row, you know, if he's starting from the back,
• 42:44
  then it's anybody's game. Gotcha.
• 42:46
  But then Gerloff had a solid weekend also.
• 42:48
  He had a top six and won the races.
• 42:51
  Yeah. This was just, this was just Top
• 42:53
  Rack's circuit, right? He won there.
• 42:55
  He's got the most wins there now.
• 42:57
  At this point, I think they said it was like 12 wins, 12th win on
• 43:00
  at at at Donington. So I mean he's you're expected
• 43:04
  to win there. I I think Bulliga will come back
• 43:06
  though this season. I think he's definitely got a
• 43:08
  chance. He's he's too strong and given
• 43:11
  those failures he had and all that happening, he's only four
• 43:13
  points behind. I think the next rider is 100
• 43:16
  plus points again, just like Moto GPI mean.
• 43:18
  These guys are like Mark and Alex right now as far as Bulliga
• 43:22
  and Top Rack, right? They're like Mark and Alex,
• 43:24
  except there's not much of a gap there.
• 43:26
  You know, it's going to be much more interesting in World Super
• 43:28
  Bike on who really wins that championship.
• 43:30
  I think it's going to be much more.
• 43:31
  Interesting, and I'll ask this, who do you think is more hungry
• 43:34
  out of top rack or Buliga 'cause you know it's Top racks last
• 43:38
  year as he's going to Moto GP and so this is his last
• 43:41
  opportunity to get a win and Buliga hasn't had one yet in
• 43:45
  World Super Bike, I think top rack.
• 43:47
  Man, he's just built that, got that dog in him, just like that.
• 43:51
  Pure dog, man. And he's going to prove a point
• 43:54
  by winning this season to come into Moto GP real strong.
• 43:58
  You know, I think he's just going to do that.
• 44:00
  But again, he's going to come there and have another UFC alien
• 44:04
  encounter, man. He's going to run into these
• 44:05
  fucking UFOs and be like, what is this?
• 44:08
  You know it's going to be. Interesting.
• 44:11
  Let me go back to worst. Super bike.
• 44:13
  And then Al. Rose complaining again about the
• 44:15
  whole weight the weight thing. Well, I mean I.
• 44:19
  Think that's so that's a good point for a small guy, man.
• 44:22
  I mean, you know, I think you know, there's something about
• 44:29
  getting used to your machine to make it feel like it's like it's
• 44:32
  it's an extension of you. And this guy's been racing his
• 44:35
  whole life a certain way and he's a he's not AI think if he
• 44:39
  was a younger rider, he probably would adapt a lot easier.
• 44:42
  But he got too many miles on bikes And, and I think that he
• 44:47
  just needs more time on the bike.
• 44:49
  And, and I think that's the downside because he's not
• 44:51
  getting another year. So, you know, that he may go to,
• 44:55
  I don't know. I he'll probably go to Honda
• 44:57
  somewhere. I can't see him going to a, a
• 44:58
  satellite team. But I I think for him that's a
• 45:01
  real struggle. And it's a pity though, because
• 45:03
  you know what I mean, It like that has to be frustrating for
• 45:06
  him, right? Yeah.
• 45:08
  I mean. Yeah, I get it.
• 45:10
  But. And he's a dog, right?
• 45:11
  He's not a he's not a slouch. He's definitely, you know, I
• 45:14
  mean him it was him and top Rock, right.
• 45:16
  I mean he had two, two back to backs and and and he was the guy
• 45:19
  to beat Top Rock. But you know.
• 45:22
  You are correct, but you know what what what?
• 45:25
  Folks fail to even realize that even though he's adding weight
• 45:29
  weight to the bike he has, it brings with one advantage him
• 45:34
  having these ballots of lead or whatever metal they use.
• 45:38
  You could put it where you want. Which in a sense.
• 45:41
  OK, so say the bike bike like but the corner of like exit and
• 45:50
  really is too much. OK, add, add add you know, more
• 45:54
  weight to the front. Or let's say you know you're on
• 45:57
  the brakes, any kind of unstable.
• 45:59
  OK, add weight to the back so you have some play in there.
• 46:03
  It's got a total like habit. Hammer to the guy, the ways to
• 46:07
  work around it, you know, But I got to assume.
• 46:09
  Then you messing with the suspension and the geometry
• 46:12
  because that's going to change. Other thing.
• 46:13
  It's not as simple as just but correct.
• 46:16
  But you think about this, right? How long how how you like to
• 46:20
  figure out where to exact? I mean, I'm pretty sure because
• 46:22
  they've been adding weight to bikes for a while.
• 46:24
  So it's not like starting from the beginning, but at the same
• 46:27
  time you're going to have to be putting it on separate parts,
• 46:30
  separate different sections of the bike and go out there and
• 46:33
  test it and test. And I don't know, they might
• 46:35
  have to put in 100 laps before he's like, all right, it feels
• 46:37
  good. You.
• 46:38
  You. It's not he's.
• 46:39
  I don't believe you know what I mean.
• 46:42
  It's like, it's like trying to balance the tire you put on the
• 46:45
  response to the you know, it's balanced.
• 46:47
  It takes time, but but adventure.
• 46:48
  You know. Cars don't care about.
• 46:50
  Feelings and bikes don't care about feelings, but we humans
• 46:53
  do. It's like don't feel right.
• 46:55
  I mean, you know that, you know, I guess in the car it's a little
• 46:58
  different because it's just the vibration.
• 47:00
  But I don't I think for him it's a struggle and you know, and for
• 47:05
  other riders it may it may not be because I mean in motor
• 47:08
  America, they've added way to to the Yamahas, the R Nines, right
• 47:12
  and Blake Davis just went out there and was killing it and you
• 47:15
  know, you see the I don't well, it's motor America.
• 47:18
  So I mean, I think that for everyone, it's going to be a
• 47:20
  little bit different how they adjust the things.
• 47:22
  We saw that with with more Bodelli coming over to Ducati
• 47:26
  and and the first year, how long it took him to get quick on on
• 47:29
  the bike and stuff like that. And there's some other riders
• 47:31
  that it just takes a little bit longer for them to get up to
• 47:34
  speed and than others. And, and you know, that's the
• 47:37
  downside, but he's also an older rider and you know, but I think
• 47:42
  if the bike was less weight, had the weight he had when he was
• 47:46
  winning, I think it would be a three.
• 47:48
  It would be a three dog fight instead of A2 dog fight.
• 47:52
  Yeah, I don't know. I think he's aged out a little
• 47:54
  bit, you know? After a certain age, it hurts.
• 47:58
  So you don't. You don't like falling down
• 47:59
  after a certain Yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
• 48:02
  Like Johnny Ray. Yeah.
• 48:04
  Skill does go man it. I mean skill not necessarily
• 48:07
  goes, but the ability to put that skill down.
• 48:10
  You know what I mean? We all have flexes and skills,
• 48:14
  you know. I remember I I used to train a
• 48:16
  lot in Muay Thai and boxing and I used to hit the bag a lot.
• 48:19
  All of a sudden I took like 6-7 years off and I go back and
• 48:22
  start hitting the bag. I'm still hitting it hard but
• 48:25
  but my my fists were not ready. My.
• 48:29
  My wrist. My.
• 48:29
  Fist everything was sore and I couldn't even hit the bag for a
• 48:32
  while. So it's just like you have to,
• 48:34
  you have to take your time into that and then skill will go,
• 48:36
  man. I mean, hand eye coordination is
• 48:38
  a big one in motorcycling. And I don't know how fast I
• 48:42
  would have been if I started when I was 20, right?
• 48:45
  But I started when I was like 28, you know, so and I was
• 48:49
  luckily able to pick it up quickly, but I I wish I would
• 48:52
  have started when I was 20 because you you have much more,
• 48:55
  you know, cojones is what they call it.
• 48:57
  Yeah, look. Right now my kids are grown.
• 49:00
  So right now I'm kind of in grandfather mode.
• 49:02
  You know I told my I told my kids one day look y'all need
• 49:06
  kids man. And many of that kid is born
• 49:09
  Project Marquez, I'm telling you.
• 49:12
  Maybe we can talk about. That man, I don't know if you're
• 49:14
  open to that, Rex, just pace and age and everything we were
• 49:17
  talking about earlier. You can you can bring that up
• 49:19
  again if you want. Yeah.
• 49:20
  And. I mean, I, I think that's the
• 49:22
  thing for sure, obviously, because we see, I mean, we see
• 49:26
  older riders leave, but then we also see we're at an age where a
• 49:30
  lot of tennis players playing at high levels in their 30s.
• 49:35
  You know, Tom Brady played high at a high level later in life.
• 49:39
  Michael Jordan played at a high level later in life with the
• 49:41
  Wizards. Even though he was on the
• 49:42
  Wizards, he was still averaging ridiculous points.
• 49:45
  Look at the stats, look at the stats.
• 49:46
  He's averaging like 29 points a game still, you know, So he, he,
• 49:50
  I mean, I want knee, you know what I'm saying?
• 49:53
  So, you know, and you, you know, you've mentioned this before,
• 49:57
  Smitty, Josh Hayes started, you can come if I'm wrong and you
• 50:00
  know, started racing at like 26 or whatever.
• 50:02
  So he was an older guy racing and he's in his 50s and, and
• 50:07
  he's still, you know, running with these guys in, in super
• 50:09
  sport. You know what I mean?
• 50:11
  So I. Think for every person that's
• 50:14
  different, but usually people over a certain age start to tap
• 50:18
  out, don't want to, you know, don't want to get up at whatever
• 50:22
  time, don't want to make the drive, don't want to do a lot of
• 50:24
  things. And and once that creeps in,
• 50:27
  then yeah, I, I can see that. But for somebody, you know,
• 50:29
  who's still hungry, that that fire is still burning, you know,
• 50:34
  you know, they and with motorcycle again, the high I, I
• 50:37
  don't, I don't think they'll be racing, you know, a Moto GP bike
• 50:40
  because Albert is not, you know, and and so forth.
• 50:43
  But I think he, he, you know, he's finishing third.
• 50:46
  And I mean, outside of crashes and stuff like that, he he'll
• 50:50
  finish top five. I mean, that's that, that that's
• 50:53
  still good. No, I agree.
• 50:56
  So. But and the medicine they have
• 50:59
  today is, is ridiculous to keep you young you, you know what I
• 51:03
  mean? And the tech that they have.
• 51:04
  So I think it's just the, you know, if you hurt yourself,
• 51:08
  what's that recovery like? That's that's the biggest thing
• 51:11
  in motorcycle racing. If like if you to break up
• 51:13
  yourself at, at you know, like John McGinnis, right?
• 51:17
  You know, it's kind of like, you know, if after 40 and, and you
• 51:21
  know, you, you break up a lot of bones, you know, no, it's
• 51:25
  different. Yeah, different, you know.
• 51:26
  What I'm saying? So, so right now I'm 48 and I
• 51:29
  was telling my kids, like when I was, you know, 20 years old, I
• 51:32
  was like, you know, like freaking else dude's name but
• 51:35
  Wolverine. I'll get hurt, I'll bounce up
• 51:38
  and no problem at all, man. Injuries, like I'm fine now.
• 51:42
  I'm like old man Logan, man. Like my heel piles don't work
• 51:44
  anymore, you know, so. I'm hurt for that.
• 51:47
  Long now with the smallest, the small, the smallest thing you
• 51:50
  know, your back hurts like 10 three straight sometimes for no,
• 51:54
  for no reason. It's terrible.
• 51:56
  I mean, I mean, what do? They say they.
• 51:58
  Say your talent is day-to-day, but your class is permanent and
• 52:02
  if you have good class, you could always compete at the
• 52:05
  highest level. And I don't think it's an age
• 52:08
  thing. I just think some of these guys
• 52:10
  didn't have the class to maintain.
• 52:13
  They had the talent which is day-to-day and didn't have the
• 52:16
  class. Like a guy like Tom Brady has
• 52:19
  the class, Marc Marquez has the class like so there's a
• 52:23
  difference. I don't think it's age, it's
• 52:26
  your talent is day-to-day, but your class is permanent and some
• 52:30
  guys are just a one of one. Right.
• 52:33
  No. I think you can explain that in
• 52:35
  many different words. Class is 1 just naturally
• 52:39
  gifted. Just naturally gifted.
• 52:41
  Like Tracy McGrady talks about it.
• 52:43
  I will listen to my podcast. If you guys remember him from
• 52:46
  basketball. He's like I could hit AI, could
• 52:47
  hit a golf ball. This.
• 52:49
  Far. Away I could hit a baseballs out
• 52:52
  the out the thing and I could shoot a basketball from wherever
• 52:55
  and he's like right now the interview was like right now
• 52:57
  he's like no, I could do that right now because some people
• 52:59
  are just gifted like that now. When he said that, I was like,
• 53:02
  that's so true, man. I just remember in high school
• 53:05
  there's just some gifted athletes and these guys don't
• 53:08
  even make it to the big leagues. So I'm thinking like, this is
• 53:11
  the we don't even have the best, the best in my high school, but
• 53:13
  there's still levels to this, right?
• 53:16
  And you take the best guy from every high school and there's
• 53:18
  one best guy in that school out of all those people, right?
• 53:21
  That's just elite. That guy's college ball.
• 53:23
  Yeah, that guy becomes a star. So we're all built.
• 53:26
  Differently and and yeah and some people have everything it
• 53:29
  takes I definitely I know people like that as well that can they
• 53:32
  they they you know, I got a buddy can hit a golf ball.
• 53:35
  I mean, when he first started playing golf, his shot was ugly
• 53:37
  as ever, but he can hit it straight as ever with like, you
• 53:40
  know, there's some people who just naturally talented and can
• 53:44
  do these things, but you know, that's enough to just say, Hey,
• 53:47
  you're that good. But you know, Josh Schmidt is a
• 53:49
  good example that played for Atlanta, right?
• 53:51
  He if he's a guy that could has the same gift and you know, to
• 53:55
  hear Jeff Teague talk about it, he he just never practice and he
• 54:00
  was able to do everything that he was doing.
• 54:02
  And so imagine if he was practicing in the sense of like,
• 54:05
  you know, team ball and stuff like that.
• 54:07
  It's just he he just couldn't he could just hit a shot and make
• 54:10
  create his own shots. So but sometimes you need to be,
• 54:15
  you know, polished, right? You need you.
• 54:16
  It's it's it's like that's going to get you so far.
• 54:19
  But to win championships and all those things, you have to learn
• 54:22
  how to play team ball as far as basketball is concerned.
• 54:25
  But you know, obviously in motorcycle racing, you still can
• 54:28
  have all those talents. We've seen it in Moto 2.
• 54:30
  We've seen it in Moto 3 guys that were killing it.
• 54:33
  And then you know that for whatever reason, they get to GP
• 54:36
  and you know, we see Raul Fernandez.
• 54:38
  A little bit right, he's he was killing it and and he's having
• 54:40
  struggles. But in Moto 2, if he would, to
• 54:44
  me, if he stayed one more year, he probably would have won the
• 54:45
  title the following year instead of coming out with Remy Gardner.
• 54:50
  You know what's? Really crazy since we're talking
• 54:51
  about class and talent. It blows my mind.
• 54:55
  If we go back 30-40 years like Michael, yeah.
• 54:57
  Can we? Is it 30 years for Michael
• 54:59
  Jordan? Probably, right?
• 55:01
  Yeah. 90s, yeah. Yeah, jeez.
• 55:03
  Yeah, it's a long. Time.
• 55:05
  Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan?
• 55:07
  No shade. I mean the guy.
• 55:11
  Smoking cigars and drinking alcohol, yeah.
• 55:14
  I mean. So I don't know, I, I mean,
• 55:16
  these young athletes, they're, they're eating, right?
• 55:19
  They're, they're, they're going to the Academy.
• 55:22
  I mean, these guys back in the day, they just picked up a bike
• 55:25
  in one Grand Prix. Like it's, it's crazy.
• 55:28
  So like some guys have the class and some guys don't need to
• 55:31
  practice it. It blows my mind that not a lot
• 55:34
  of younger athletes are not shattering the records of the
• 55:39
  old guys who were drinking, smoking, having sex with 10
• 55:45
  women before the race. Like like.
• 55:48
  What is going? On yeah, and that was a.
• 55:51
  Car racing in bike racing too, back then, smoking cigarettes.
• 55:55
  Smoking cigarettes. I mean drink sprained champagne
• 55:59
  with a with a whiskey nip in your back pocket.
• 56:02
  Like think about it. They were drinking.
• 56:04
  Coke in the 80s. They weren't drinking Gatorade.
• 56:08
  With. Actually, probably.
• 56:10
  Coke in it, Coke in it, right? Exactly.
• 56:12
  I mean it's. It's crazy like like talented
• 56:16
  day-to-day classes permanent like a guy like Michael Jordan.
• 56:20
  LeBron James should be shattering what Michael Jordan
• 56:23
  did in a short amount of time with the medicine and all of
• 56:27
  that. And all these guys, all these
• 56:29
  young guys like Top Rack, he's going.
• 56:32
  To come. To Moto GP and he's going to be
• 56:35
  fighting for the 10th place. Which blows my mind.
• 56:39
  Because he's such a young talent.
• 56:41
  But there's a guy named Marques who just has permanent class and
• 56:46
  that's it. It's interesting you say.
• 56:48
  That Bobby. I'm not the biggest NBA fan.
• 56:51
  I don't watch all the games. I don't know all the players,
• 56:53
  but I'm a fan of greatness and greatness transcends all sports,
• 56:56
  right? It just goes into everything.
• 56:57
  So watching Jordan, I was listening to somebody talk about
• 57:01
  the story on the team and he was like, we dropped him off.
• 57:04
  He's like, drop me off right here at the bar and he's in his
• 57:07
  sweats and and everything and he has a couple beers.
• 57:09
  I'm going to go and drink some beers.
• 57:10
  And like we got practice. Like, yeah, yeah, pick me up
• 57:12
  before practice. So they pick him up and he's on
• 57:15
  the court and he's buzzing. They could smell the beer off
• 57:18
  him and they just smelling everything.
• 57:21
  And these the players telling the stories, he goes to the
• 57:23
  practices like look, I'm seeing 3 rims, I'm going to shoot for
• 57:26
  the one in the middle and he's dropping them, training them.
• 57:29
  Some people are just gifted, man.
• 57:31
  Like some people just have it. But then you had another person
• 57:34
  like Steve Kerr talking about when he was on the Bulls, the 98
• 57:37
  Bulls and he was talking about how he didn't have that natural
• 57:41
  giftedness so he had to have everything perfect.
• 57:44
  That like tire management is done in Moto GP.
• 57:47
  He had to manage though his life perfectly to be in the NBA.
• 57:51
  He had to practice all day. He had to get the right amount
• 57:54
  of rest, get the right amount of sleep, the right amount of
• 57:56
  nutrition and be smart with all of it and use his head for all
• 57:59
  of it. Some people are just naturally
• 58:01
  gifted and they don't have to do that much.
• 58:05
  That's that's cigars. And everything, Yeah, yeah.
• 58:07
  And then other people have to. Work really hard at it 24/7 and
• 58:11
  you know it. It was.
• 58:12
  And you know, what's interesting is the Steve Kerr's they tend to
• 58:15
  make it because they get, they get the, I don't want to say
• 58:18
  work ethic, but they, they, the hunger is different for them
• 58:21
  because it's not coming as easy. It's you know what I mean?
• 58:25
  And so you, they got to spend more time doing that.
• 58:27
  And, and we've seen that with, you know, as you know, the, the
• 58:30
  story says, you know, LeBron James wasn't the best kid coming
• 58:33
  out. And you know, we're seeing, I
• 58:34
  think the guy was on Showtime, I forget his name, but like he
• 58:37
  wasn't the best coming out. What you.
• 58:38
  Mean there was another kid that was.
• 58:40
  Better than him, but like, bad decisions, just bad decisions,
• 58:44
  you know, and, and just, you know, didn't get him to to to go
• 58:47
  play, you know what I mean? And and that, yeah, I figured.
• 58:51
  His name? They show they did the thing on
• 58:52
  him on Showtime, I think. And you know, he's a big guy.
• 58:56
  I forget. Yeah, yeah, it.
• 58:57
  It which was unfortunate. So like that, you know, and we
• 59:00
  see it a lot. You see it a lot with musicians.
• 59:01
  You see a lot with with a lot of athletes.
• 59:03
  Like you know, if not if they don't have the right guidance,
• 59:06
  they don't have the right people around them.
• 59:08
  You know what I mean? With all the talent, you mean,
• 59:10
  you know, you know, they, they still can't get there.
• 59:13
  So, you know, the people that just put in the work and, and,
• 59:17
  and, and they get there because they have to put in that work
• 59:20
  ethic. I I, I I.
• 59:22
  Don't know, I, I, I, I heard about that guy, but I, I just
• 59:25
  want to say this for my basketball purist guys.
• 59:30
  LeBron James at 15 years old cooked Michael Jordan in the
• 59:34
  summer camp when they played. He's been, he played.
• 59:38
  Jordan and LeBron played together.
• 59:40
  LeBron was 15 and Cook Jordan. I heard about that, too.
• 59:44
  Yeah. So this guy.
• 59:45
  That was better than LeBron. That's fake news.
• 59:48
  I don't believe it. Either fake news, we'll go with
• 59:55
  that. What are you guys thoughts on
• 59:59
  reading and his struggles and it looks like he might be going
• 1:00:01
  back to BSB or going to BSB or go back because he did win a
• 1:00:05
  championship and and just what's going on with the team.
• 1:00:10
  Yeah, I think he's. Done man, he needs to go to BSP
• 1:00:13
  and turn off all the electronics and see how he can handle it
• 1:00:16
  there, because all the all that crying man I'm I'm tired of
• 1:00:20
  seeing that stuff from him and you know you just you just don't
• 1:00:24
  got it bro like it's it's OK. You know you once had it and you
• 1:00:27
  don't have it. You do have to adapt.
• 1:00:29
  You have to adapt and keep it moving, right, but to expect
• 1:00:32
  yourself to still have it and and and blame everything else or
• 1:00:36
  you know, thank you. You need this bike or that bike.
• 1:00:38
  Sometimes you do need to test yourself as a rider.
• 1:00:40
  I'll say you do. You might think that because
• 1:00:42
  that other riders on the Ducati or whatever bike he's on that he
• 1:00:45
  has the you know, it's taking him further.
• 1:00:48
  So you have to get on that bike and see.
• 1:00:50
  But he did it and he nothing changed.
• 1:00:52
  You know I'm. Going to say, but you know what?
• 1:00:56
  But so. So oddly enough.
• 1:01:01
  But I started Moto GP in terms of like a series for a country,
• 1:01:04
  you know, MO, America, BSB and those things type of things.
• 1:01:07
  BSB by far my favorite series. You know that series is so.
• 1:01:12
  Close together, like the top six riders.
• 1:01:15
  Every week it's somebody different, you know, that wins
• 1:01:18
  the race. And BSB is amazing.
• 1:01:19
  Those guys ride with no freaking rider aids, no electronics.
• 1:01:23
  Those guys are freaking elbows freaking hitting each other the
• 1:01:26
  entire race. Those guys ride hard and beat
• 1:01:29
  and they're insane. And the tracks are narrow as
• 1:01:31
  hell too. So I don't know how to do this
• 1:01:33
  shit over there. But BSB, if you can go watch it,
• 1:01:36
  It's it's that good. Seriously, you know it really
• 1:01:38
  is. No doubt I would.
• 1:01:42
  Agree with Smith. Smith Yeah, I love BSB.
• 1:01:44
  It's it's. Like what, Moto?
• 1:01:45
  Two's aggressive too, you know, real aggressive.
• 1:01:47
  It's it's, it's like watching Moto 2 without people not using
• 1:01:51
  the blinker and crashing it to imitating people.
• 1:01:53
  No BSB is like. That yeah yeah BS.
• 1:01:56
  Is narrow. Cleaner.
• 1:01:57
  Narrow tracks, real is a cleaner, harder race.
• 1:02:00
  And I think that's the reason that we want to see Moto GP
• 1:02:02
  right, right, right. We, we, we want to lower the
• 1:02:05
  CCS, get rid of all the assist that Ducati has, you know, the
• 1:02:09
  oil assist going into Turn 8, the bike drop oil, everybody
• 1:02:13
  flips. We want to get we want to get
• 1:02:14
  rid of all electronics in Moto GP, like Mario Kart.
• 1:02:17
  And drop the oil on the track. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:20
  All the all the assist, hey, when all that stuff goes.
• 1:02:22
  Away. Who's going to excel?
• 1:02:25
  The guy with the most. Balls, it's still going to be.
• 1:02:27
  Mark, it's going to be Mark even better probably because like
• 1:02:30
  that that guy is used to the bike shaking and moving around.
• 1:02:34
  He comes from that motocross background.
• 1:02:35
  There's going to be a few of those guys up there.
• 1:02:37
  It's going to be so fun to watch the bikes fully stripped down
• 1:02:40
  and down a few horsepower and just more aerodynamic.
• 1:02:45
  It's going to be so fun. Hopefully it gets more like
• 1:02:47
  World Super Bike and BSP like Bobby shakes the Sand.
• 1:02:49
  I think that'll be more fun. Yeah, shout out to Chris from
• 1:02:53
  Pin the Gas podcast. He's the he's commenting on
• 1:02:55
  Facebook. He's he said the BSB is proper
• 1:02:59
  mega. Definitely go check it out.
• 1:03:01
  He did go to Catwell Park in 23 and I've had Chris on on on the
• 1:03:05
  show and. Chris.
• 1:03:09
  Is dope, man. I've been on his show.
• 1:03:10
  I interviewed him too on his own show.
• 1:03:12
  That was a pretty cool time. Yeah, I love BSP.
• 1:03:14
  No, yeah, definitely. So it's it's definitely to watch
• 1:03:18
  BSP and hopefully it'll get there.
• 1:03:20
  So also, and I spitio, I think we were talking about you were
• 1:03:24
  talking about this in in the chat because red and talked
• 1:03:29
  about, you know, pro riders shouldn't be paying for their
• 1:03:33
  ride. What are your thoughts on?
• 1:03:36
  I find that odd, actually you. Know I never understood why that
• 1:03:39
  happens, you know, so I started to watch racing years ago.
• 1:03:44
  You know, back when there was. Mickey Hayden, like Eric
• 1:03:48
  Bostrom, Curtis Roberts, Duhamel, you know, Matt, I'm
• 1:03:52
  Aladdin. That's how I started to watch
• 1:03:54
  racing. And back then Ryan's got paid
• 1:03:57
  even like the middle guys got paid something.
• 1:04:00
  And this whole new thing of you got to spend 200 grand to to get
• 1:04:04
  a ride. I don't see how how it makes
• 1:04:06
  sense at all. I understand that's what it has
• 1:04:09
  become, so you have to adapt to it, but I don't see wise to that
• 1:04:13
  point. It's just it becomes a sport,
• 1:04:16
  you know, for rich kids. Honestly, yeah.
• 1:04:19
  That is true. It's unfortunate.
• 1:04:20
  Yeah. I mean, if I may, I I think
• 1:04:23
  it's, it's, it's the the bikes continue to just evolve in class
• 1:04:26
  and technology and everything. And it costs more and more to to
• 1:04:30
  own a bike and race a bike. And you know, you have to have
• 1:04:32
  multiple of these bikes. So it's not even like the the
• 1:04:35
  racing used to be back in the day.
• 1:04:36
  And and also back in the day, I think there was a splurge of
• 1:04:39
  motorcycle sales in the 80s, nineties that just allowed them
• 1:04:43
  to just put more money into racing.
• 1:04:45
  And maybe that just didn't work out the way they thought it
• 1:04:47
  would. But it obviously sales have
• 1:04:48
  slowed down a lot. And so is racing money into
• 1:04:52
  racing Rather, you know, that goes hand in hand pots of ships.
• 1:04:56
  What's that? No, I mean this big.
• 1:04:58
  Name sponsorship. Yeah yeah.
• 1:05:00
  Sponsorship. Alcohol sponsorship.
• 1:05:01
  Right, OK, I get it. Yeah, they don't want to put you
• 1:05:03
  they. Don't care to put their they'd
• 1:05:04
  rather put it on NASCAR or something else like F1, right.
• 1:05:07
  So it it does come with the eyes and sales and everything goes
• 1:05:11
  hand in hand, I think. OK, so the question.
• 1:05:13
  Is NASCAR the same way? Like do guys pay for cars?
• 1:05:19
  Probably not in NASCAR I. Think so.
• 1:05:22
  I think in motor racing if he has a motor, I think they're
• 1:05:27
  paying 'cause you can, you know, the privateers are paying,
• 1:05:31
  riders are paying to, to, to ride on the privateers.
• 1:05:34
  Some of them, I had a, a good friend who raced as well and
• 1:05:37
  he's like, yeah, a lot of guys are paying.
• 1:05:39
  And even sometimes you know, they'll, they'll get the guy
• 1:05:42
  with all the money and give him the second car while they pay
• 1:05:45
  the guy who's fast and give him the other car.
• 1:05:48
  So gotcha. It it's, it's, it's brutal that
• 1:05:51
  way. And it's unfortunate, but you
• 1:05:54
  know, we all love Motorsports. And if I had the money, I'll pay
• 1:05:58
  you, I mean. They just, they just did a stat
• 1:06:02
  right that New York has has New York Cologne has added so many
• 1:06:07
  more millionaires to their demographics or to the
• 1:06:10
  citizenship of New York City. There's a lot, there's a lot of
• 1:06:13
  money out there. And I know everybody probably
• 1:06:17
  wants Pirelli on their front, or you want Goodyear or you want
• 1:06:21
  Michelin, but there's money out there for you to go write some
• 1:06:27
  proposal and get some new faces and some sport, because that's
• 1:06:29
  the only way the sport's going to grow, right?
• 1:06:31
  If everybody has a Pirelli and a good wrench and and and this and
• 1:06:36
  that and a Michelin, maybe we should have Wayfair.
• 1:06:41
  Right, Wayfair's a. Billion dollar company, maybe
• 1:06:43
  Walmart, maybe Apple. Maybe Apple?
• 1:06:47
  Can give you some of their AI tools to help you with your
• 1:06:50
  racing and get away from the the PC setup right.
• 1:06:53
  Apple has has 2 trillion in cash, right?
• 1:06:57
  So I think. I think that the way the.
• 1:07:00
  Sport's going to grow is if the riders go out and attract new
• 1:07:05
  people into the sports. Only way it's going to grow
• 1:07:08
  Pirelli, Pirelli Pirelli my mother doesn't know what the
• 1:07:10
  hell of Pirelli is she has no idea what the hell of Pirelli is
• 1:07:13
  but I bet if my mom was watching TV and she saw a guy in a home's
• 1:07:17
  good outfit to go oh I just saw a motorcycle guy in a homegood
• 1:07:21
  outfit and my son has a motorcycle let me TuneIn to the
• 1:07:23
  race and see what's going on right.
• 1:07:25
  We have to expand through sponsorship.
• 1:07:27
  We're not going to expand through viewership.
• 1:07:29
  We have to expand through sponsorship and I think.
• 1:07:34
  There's a lot of money. Out there, a lot of money and
• 1:07:37
  you can get it. I think it's viewership.
• 1:07:39
  Too, man, because this year has record viewership in Moto GP and
• 1:07:43
  Moto America and I don't know why I haven't kept up with World
• 1:07:46
  Super Bike, but I would assume there too.
• 1:07:48
  So there is an upward trend in viewership which will result in
• 1:07:52
  sales, which will result in sponsorships getting more eyes.
• 1:07:55
  I think it's a cycle, man. I truly believe it's a cycle
• 1:07:58
  that will, you know, hopefully comes back to where motorcycling
• 1:08:02
  is up there. I hope so, man.
• 1:08:04
  And and. When you.
• 1:08:06
  Say that, though, we're really saying in the US because in
• 1:08:09
  Europe motorcycle and is sure, yeah, it's in the it's in the US
• 1:08:12
  and US people, people in the US watching the shows.
• 1:08:17
  I mean, Moto GP now is, you know, TNT is, is now at Moto GP
• 1:08:22
  rounds and stuff like that. And that's huge.
• 1:08:25
  So I think, you know, more TV deals will come, but you, you
• 1:08:29
  need that and but obviously you need the eyes to, to to to to
• 1:08:35
  watch the shows. If not, it's hard to get ATV
• 1:08:37
  deal, but is, you know, is I think where teams get to set
• 1:08:41
  their own terms as far as the relationship with the rider.
• 1:08:45
  But it's not a, it's not a, it's not a, it's not a, there's no
• 1:08:48
  union like the NBA or the, I think the NFL even have a union.
• 1:08:52
  I don't know if it's a writers union and, and, and Moto GP and
• 1:08:55
  stuff like that. And they use that to negotiate a
• 1:08:57
  lot of stuff because the NBA had to fight for all the money that
• 1:09:00
  these young kids are getting. And now and even we see that
• 1:09:02
  with NFL, obviously European football is out the roof.
• 1:09:07
  So what these people are getting and stuff like that, you know,
• 1:09:10
  So what's European football? I I didn't want to.
• 1:09:13
  Say soccer. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:09:14
  But you. Know no, we just call it
• 1:09:16
  football and that's I forgot I was.
• 1:09:21
  Talking to a brick, Yeah, yeah. Yeah, football.
• 1:09:23
  I don't know what the fuck the Americans do, but football?
• 1:09:27
  European football. Football.
• 1:09:30
  Football. Fucking European audience man.
• 1:09:32
  What the? Fuck is that?
• 1:09:36
  So yeah, so I do. Think the the numbers will come
• 1:09:39
  around, I think at some point, but it's going to be hard when
• 1:09:43
  teams get to set their own standard.
• 1:09:45
  And it's not like, or donors going to have to do something or
• 1:09:50
  the new owners are going to have to do something because
• 1:09:52
  obviously F1, we see it, we see the ride, the drivers are
• 1:09:55
  getting good money. And I think that I think that
• 1:10:00
  will trickle down because obviously Liberty Media Group
• 1:10:03
  owns Moto GP or a good percentage of Moto GP and
• 1:10:07
  they're in the, I believe they're in the business to make
• 1:10:09
  money. So I think it will come.
• 1:10:11
  But I, it, it, it, it needs to like it.
• 1:10:14
  It's, it's really hard for families to, to keep their kids
• 1:10:19
  who are fast. We know, we all know a lot of
• 1:10:21
  fast people that can't race in motor America and they have the
• 1:10:25
  skill sets too, but they can't afford to because they they
• 1:10:27
  haven't got a ride or they don't have the money to pay for a
• 1:10:30
  ride. And, and it's tough when you,
• 1:10:32
  when you know, you know, you guys were mentioning, you know,
• 1:10:34
  being 20 and being able to get race and these kids are racing
• 1:10:37
  from 4:00 and you know, the only thing that's stopping them from
• 1:10:41
  going to that next level is not having enough money.
• 1:10:44
  Now I'm telling you. If I have grandkids, he'll be a
• 1:10:47
  Moto GP all right. Yeah.
• 1:10:51
  And then if you look at I follow Tour de France stuff too their,
• 1:10:55
  their teams, you would imagine cycles, right?
• 1:10:58
  They're cycles. Just think about a cycle.
• 1:11:00
  These cycles cost fifteen, $20,000.
• 1:11:02
  They're not cheap cycles, right, but just.
• 1:11:04
  Think about the. Lowest budget on the team if you
• 1:11:07
  guys don't know I I would be laughing at your guests the
• 1:11:10
  lowest budget teams like 35,000,000 a year the.
• 1:11:14
  Higher one of France like. UAE.
• 1:11:16
  Yes, UAE, the UAE team Everett's 120 million, a 150 million from
• 1:11:21
  from UAE, they're bringing all their money and putting the best
• 1:11:23
  rider in the best seat. And it's a team of like 20
• 1:11:26
  riders. So they have to pay them all a
• 1:11:27
  salary. The top rider gets millions.
• 1:11:30
  They they, they get rich out there, man.
• 1:11:32
  So I know it's possible to kind of look past in Moto GP level.
• 1:11:37
  I know it's possible to get all the funding to fund all the
• 1:11:40
  bikes on the grid eventually, right?
• 1:11:42
  But I don't know if that's going to trickle it all the way down
• 1:11:44
  to Moto America and World Super Bike to that point, because
• 1:11:48
  racing's expensive, man. At the end of the day, these are
• 1:11:50
  bikes technology constantly updating, so it's a lot of money
• 1:11:53
  they have to throw at them. I don't know if he'll ever get
• 1:11:55
  to that point. It's crazy.
• 1:11:57
  Right, like when you talk stay on Tour de France, the United
• 1:12:00
  States Postal Service used to sponsor a team.
• 1:12:03
  Yeah. They were.
• 1:12:05
  That that it's the money has gotten really crazy and
• 1:12:10
  unfortunately now. I coach girls to.
• 1:12:15
  Cross out in Belmont, and my problem with Belmont is because
• 1:12:18
  it's such a rich town, all my talent goes to private schools.
• 1:12:23
  I still have talent that. Goes to the public schools, but
• 1:12:25
  a lot of my high end talent goes to the private schools.
• 1:12:28
  So that means Belmont Public system, the lacrosse team is
• 1:12:33
  not. It's still great.
• 1:12:34
  No shake to my girls, still great.
• 1:12:36
  But we're losing talent to the private schools.
• 1:12:39
  We're losing talent to the AA us.
• 1:12:42
  Remember those days when you're like a poor kid in the hood and
• 1:12:46
  you know, you see these stories, I just wanted to play
• 1:12:49
  basketball. Those days are over.
• 1:12:53
  If you're not a millionaire, your kids not playing in the
• 1:12:57
  NBA, forget about it. Just not happening.
• 1:13:00
  And and it's happened to all sports. 1st at first it starts
• 1:13:03
  with a high end sports like F1F1, forget about it.
• 1:13:06
  Lewis Hamilton is probably the last Negro ever to friggin race
• 1:13:10
  a car, right? It's over.
• 1:13:13
  And then it trickles down to Moto GP and then triples down to
• 1:13:17
  the next sport will be football, American football, even football
• 1:13:21
  in Europe. Forget about it.
• 1:13:24
  It's it's, it's it's it's it's sickening, but it is what it is.
• 1:13:29
  And this is what it is. It's over and wow, it's the
• 1:13:33
  private. Yeah, and and we're.
• 1:13:34
  Seeing that in America now too, because I mean with the talent
• 1:13:38
  cup, I think it's called talent Cup or I forget what it's called
• 1:13:40
  now. You know, they're setting up
• 1:13:42
  these bikes to BGP bikes as far as you know, the, the, the feel
• 1:13:47
  and stuff like that. So these kids will have a
• 1:13:49
  fighting chance. The Cramers, right, because over
• 1:13:52
  there it's already, it is like the the football program over
• 1:13:56
  there and stuff like that. They you can go ride bikes
• 1:13:59
  everywhere over there and everywhere you can learn over
• 1:14:02
  there. So, and we've seen that in in,
• 1:14:05
  in Moto GP with the nationalities that are in the
• 1:14:07
  sport right now. So yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely
• 1:14:10
  right. It is it is it is very hard for
• 1:14:14
  someone without connections or money to to be in the sport
• 1:14:19
  right now or any sport, because that's the it's hard to compete.
• 1:14:23
  I mean, you know, the talented ones will compete, right?
• 1:14:26
  They will shine through. But, you know, when it comes
• 1:14:30
  down to I need money to go to all these places and nobody.
• 1:14:33
  And that's where it, it's like, you know, it's almost like, you
• 1:14:37
  know, back in the day, maybe even still happens, you know,
• 1:14:41
  you know, lawyers would, would, will drug dealers used to get
• 1:14:44
  locked up and lawyers will take their case for years and just
• 1:14:47
  bleed them, bleed their money out, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:14:49
  And then, and then they have no money, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:14:52
  So it, it, it's, it's really difficult for, for parents to,
• 1:14:57
  to provide, you know, for, for, for their kids at that level.
• 1:15:00
  And and that's the unfortunate side and, and, and one.
• 1:15:03
  Parent has to stay home. Like you can't have two working
• 1:15:06
  parents if your kid is in athletics and you're chasing
• 1:15:09
  that because one kid, one parent has to be on the road with the
• 1:15:12
  child you're. All over the place.
• 1:15:15
  You're, I mean, that's a fact. Clinic, Clinic.
• 1:15:18
  Clinic you're all over the place so man my buddy my.
• 1:15:23
  Buddy Riston, Greg, shout out to him.
• 1:15:25
  He's a Moto America. He he's a teammate with Cam
• 1:15:27
  Peterson. He he's injured himself in
• 1:15:29
  qualifying the first race of the season.
• 1:15:31
  He's been out had a fusion. He's just getting back on a
• 1:15:34
  track this weekend. NC bike to test out.
• 1:15:36
  But his dad man, shout out to him Steve.
• 1:15:39
  He's spending all his weekends just travelling up and down the
• 1:15:42
  US, the coast, everywhere, driving, driving the trailer,
• 1:15:46
  right. So that's that's a dad's job if
• 1:15:48
  you're an athlete. It's it's, it's it's man.
• 1:15:53
  Where have we come? I mean, you know, I.
• 1:15:57
  I think that, you know, we, we have to, I think that, you know,
• 1:16:00
  we have to talk about it like we're doing and find a different
• 1:16:06
  way for these for folks to, to get capital.
• 1:16:11
  You know, there are a lot of, there are a lot of people with a
• 1:16:13
  lot of money that do want to give it away and it's just a
• 1:16:16
  matter of figuring out how to connect with them and, and, and
• 1:16:19
  make it where it makes sense to help riders.
• 1:16:23
  You know what I mean? I think so because at the end of
• 1:16:25
  the day, it's like the teams, like some teams again, you know,
• 1:16:29
  will they'll, the, the riders can't have their own personal
• 1:16:32
  sponsors, right? And, and so now the team has all
• 1:16:34
  the sponsors and they're getting all the money.
• 1:16:36
  So, you know, you know, that that's an issue right there, but
• 1:16:39
  get past that, you know, it has to be the community that comes
• 1:16:44
  together and figure this thing out because it, it, it does take
• 1:16:48
  away from the, the motorsport, especially when, like when we
• 1:16:51
  know people and, and, and we see the struggles and, and it's a
• 1:16:54
  lot for, for young riders to, not to say they shouldn't be
• 1:16:58
  doing it, but it's a lot to, to reach out to a lot of companies
• 1:17:03
  to try to get sponsorships right.
• 1:17:04
  And it's one thing if the company's into motorcycle or the
• 1:17:07
  owners are into motorcycles, but if they're not into motorcycles,
• 1:17:10
  it's really hard to say, Hey, let me, I got, I can bring, you
• 1:17:14
  know, 1000 people to your shop or 500 people to your whatever,
• 1:17:18
  right? Because they're, they're,
• 1:17:19
  they're not doing it just to say we're doing it.
• 1:17:21
  They're doing it with the expectation that they're going
• 1:17:23
  to get a return on the investment and and so they
• 1:17:26
  should. It's a business.
• 1:17:27
  It's it's, it's racing, but it's a business right there.
• 1:17:30
  The reason why I give you Ducati to to spin around a track 12
• 1:17:34
  laps is so that Jimmy could go and buy one of those things,
• 1:17:39
  right? The reason?
• 1:17:40
  Why I give you Yamahas to do the same exact thing.
• 1:17:42
  So yeah, it's a business. Yeah.
• 1:17:43
  I mean, you got to put asses in the seats, you got to put
• 1:17:46
  eyeballs on the TV, and we got to get these things shipped.
• 1:17:49
  We got to get these bikes shipped.
• 1:17:50
  It's business. It's a business.
• 1:17:52
  Get them shipped. Get them out of here, right?
• 1:17:54
  Right. Chris is saying maybe we need to
• 1:17:57
  get cigarettes and beer back on the bikes.
• 1:18:00
  I agree 100. Percent, man.
• 1:18:01
  Not a bad idea. That that would be great.
• 1:18:05
  Never happened. Never happened.
• 1:18:10
  Smoking Joes, Yeah, I mean. I mean you.
• 1:18:14
  You. I mean, the the, the the guys
• 1:18:18
  that I think I mean that this is this is AI shouldn't even say
• 1:18:21
  this aloud. I don't know why even the fuck
• 1:18:23
  I'm even going to say this aloud.
• 1:18:24
  But like marijuana dispensaries have money that they can't burn.
• 1:18:30
  But do you want to see a weed leaf on on a bike?
• 1:18:33
  So I mean, it's how do we, how do we get the sport to eyeballs?
• 1:18:42
  All getting the same amount. Of money but we all know that
• 1:18:44
  the people that have all the money are just bad sponsorship
• 1:18:48
  for the sport like do you want to see mark Marquez ripping
• 1:18:51
  around the track with Ozempic written on his shirt like you
• 1:18:54
  know I don't want to take an ozempic I think they pushed it
• 1:18:56
  with only. Fans, that's not as far as
• 1:18:58
  they're going to go. Jesus.
• 1:19:00
  Christ, only fans got money to burn, but I think I think A-Team
• 1:19:04
  like Apple if you approach Apple and say hey listen, you got you
• 1:19:07
  got 2 trillion in cash. Let's, let's use your resources,
• 1:19:12
  your AI to compete with Hewlett Packard or Dell.
• 1:19:19
  And you know, let's build another, another revenue stream.
• 1:19:24
  And then now maybe we could stream that on Apple TV.
• 1:19:29
  Maybe while the race is, while the riders going around the
• 1:19:32
  track, you could flash a, a iTunes link to buy a hot, hot
• 1:19:36
  album. There's a lot of ways that we
• 1:19:38
  could increase revenue in the sport.
• 1:19:40
  It's just the fact. I think the number one problem
• 1:19:43
  is with all these sports is the fact that the team principal
• 1:19:46
  wants all the money and the rider can't do is do jail and
• 1:19:49
  get his own cash. I think that's the problem if
• 1:19:51
  the rider can get his own sponsorship and make his own
• 1:19:54
  deals. Fucking 200 grand.
• 1:19:56
  For a bike that's piss money and some riders.
• 1:20:00
  Can it comes down to the deal you make with the team and, and
• 1:20:03
  stuff like that. And when it's and when it's mom
• 1:20:05
  and dad helping with the deal and, and somebody's offering you
• 1:20:08
  150 grand and you're giving up, you know, your rights and name
• 1:20:12
  and likeness and stuff like that.
• 1:20:13
  You're happy to get the 150 grand versus a lawyer might say,
• 1:20:16
  let's let's figure out all these other things and stuff like
• 1:20:19
  that. And, and, and that's the
• 1:20:20
  education part. So, you know, but it, it has to
• 1:20:24
  happen because this, we love the sport.
• 1:20:27
  I think the sport and I think we know the sport took a hit in the
• 1:20:30
  90s on and, and, and you know, for the last, I think 5-6 years
• 1:20:35
  we've been trying to bring it back in the US and stuff like
• 1:20:37
  that. You know, when I talk to people
• 1:20:39
  and tell them I, I ride bikes, you know, they, you know, you
• 1:20:43
  know, one in one in five, tell me how scary it is.
• 1:20:47
  And they won't let their husband or their kids ride or anything
• 1:20:49
  like that. And, and that's a, you know,
• 1:20:52
  that's a different, that's a stigma.
• 1:20:53
  We have to, we have to change because, you know, it's better
• 1:20:56
  for kids to go ride motorcycles than to be on social media.
• 1:20:59
  At least your self esteem will be intact, right?
• 1:21:05
  I mean I also. Too, like I worked in most high
• 1:21:07
  industry. That's just an industry that
• 1:21:09
  dies one 1% a year. It's it's, it's just
• 1:21:13
  motorcycling. It's just something that just
• 1:21:15
  dies 1% every year. It's it's just an industry that
• 1:21:19
  can't. That just.
• 1:21:22
  Can't get. Forward now in the US, the only
• 1:21:25
  thing that's going to save. Motorcycle.
• 1:21:28
  Racing. What you got there, it's the
• 1:21:34
  baggers. It's it's Harley.
• 1:21:37
  Davidson Oh man, that's. Crazy that might be the only
• 1:21:41
  thing to save in Moto America dealership.
• 1:21:44
  And and and what's going? To happen is too, because that's
• 1:21:47
  real racing. Like if you know the history of
• 1:21:49
  Harley-Davidson and Indian, like that's racing.
• 1:21:53
  I mean, this Moto GP shit that's coming from Cafe Racing guys
• 1:21:57
  driving around to get cappuccinos, right?
• 1:22:03
  That's where Moto GP comes. From bunch of cappuccino guys.
• 1:22:07
  America. Is balls to the wall, the twin
• 1:22:12
  power and I think once the baggers go into Moto GP, you're,
• 1:22:18
  you're going to see an influx that might be the savior.
• 1:22:21
  That might be the savior. Harley-Davidson HD for life, it
• 1:22:25
  seems, it seems like. It and I was giving you crap so
• 1:22:28
  many years ago. Shakes man.
• 1:22:31
  Hey, listen. I, I and I, and I don't want to
• 1:22:32
  get all historical. I shoot Nikon because Canon was
• 1:22:38
  the best camera. I'm I'm always going against the
• 1:22:40
  grain. And when we were shopping bikes
• 1:22:43
  and me Rexy were on pedal bikes one night.
• 1:22:45
  And I mean, we're going at a clip, right?
• 1:22:47
  Kind of like 20 miles an hour. And then Rexy said, you know
• 1:22:51
  what? I got to go faster.
• 1:22:52
  I go, I mean, shit, I mean we blew through every red light.
• 1:22:55
  What do you mean go faster? So I got to go faster and that's
• 1:22:58
  when he started. He's going to go and get a
• 1:23:00
  Ducati and he got bought the Street Fighter.
• 1:23:01
  Then I started doing my own research and I just went down to
• 1:23:04
  Harley-Davidson rabbit hole. And as a black person,
• 1:23:09
  Harley-Davidson has done so much for the black community that I
• 1:23:12
  just thought, shit. I want a Harley-Davidson.
• 1:23:16
  The the customization comes from black culture, the racing.
• 1:23:19
  They had a black female, they used to tape her tips down and
• 1:23:22
  all type of crazy shit because the white boys would kill her.
• 1:23:25
  The first, the first man to own any type of dealership was a
• 1:23:29
  Harley-Davidson dealership. Like Harley-Davidson sold a
• 1:23:33
  franchise to a black man back in the day, which was just crazy.
• 1:23:37
  So I think and Harley-Davidson understand this because
• 1:23:40
  sometimes they do a thing called Iron Elite.
• 1:23:42
  Well they do documentaries on black riding over the last 200
• 1:23:46
  years in this country. Well, I'm lying not 200 a
• 1:23:49
  hundred. I should know this 100 and 18120
• 1:23:52
  years to Harley-Davidson has been around.
• 1:23:53
  I think that if Harley an Indian.
• 1:23:59
  I think that's. It you see it in the streets,
• 1:24:02
  you see it on Instagram, you see kids Wheeling FXR, you don't see
• 1:24:06
  kids really Wheeling sport bikes anymore.
• 1:24:08
  You see guys Wheeling baggers. I think that's the next phase
• 1:24:13
  and I think Moto GP is doing the right thing.
• 1:24:15
  Like, shit, let's get some baggers in, let's get a whole
• 1:24:18
  different market. They got 12.
• 1:24:20
  Rounds next year, yeah, I mean. So, so, you know, I mean, I love
• 1:24:24
  you cappuccino guys. But you know you.
• 1:24:27
  Guys are all skinny and look weird.
• 1:24:30
  Hey, Jessica's. Jessica's drifting got popular.
• 1:24:32
  You ain't never seen a drift car in F1, have you?
• 1:24:35
  Right. No, no.
• 1:24:36
  No, I see no bagger, you ain't. Going to see a bagger in Moto GP
• 1:24:39
  that's for sure. Like that.
• 1:24:40
  No, no, no. No, I know they're there, but
• 1:24:42
  yeah, yeah, but not. Not on replacing, not replacing,
• 1:24:45
  not beating in on super bikes are.
• 1:24:47
  Going to be super bike and. World Super bike the future.
• 1:24:51
  Of motorcycle racing is the baggers.
• 1:24:56
  That's the future. Sports bike stuff is is it ain't
• 1:24:59
  going nowhere. I kind of see that in some.
• 1:25:01
  Ways there's a trend, it's a trend thing, maybe trend it's
• 1:25:04
  it's the new. Thing a lot of young kids are
• 1:25:05
  riding. Why?
• 1:25:07
  Because I remember at one point, I mean, what is an R6 now?
• 1:25:10
  The last time I left an R6 was like 15 grand.
• 1:25:15
  Brand new R6 was. 15 grand, that's crazy.
• 1:25:20
  But now you can get you can get a motorcycle, you can get a a
• 1:25:24
  1200 Sportster for 1500 bucks to 2500 bucks.
• 1:25:29
  So we're seeing because of the because.
• 1:25:33
  Sport bikes and. Super Bikes has priced everybody
• 1:25:36
  out. Shit, man.
• 1:25:38
  Hey, Dad. What are you doing with that
• 1:25:39
  bagger in the garage? Nothing but at the end of the.
• 1:25:42
  Day Those baggers, you can race them, you can spend a lot of
• 1:25:45
  money to race them. They're just not built to race,
• 1:25:47
  man. They don't feel good racing.
• 1:25:49
  You can take a factory bagger and you just ain't gonna feel
• 1:25:52
  good on the track, man. That's not.
• 1:25:54
  True, man. Yeah, it won't.
• 1:25:56
  It's not a sport bike. It's not a sport bike.
• 1:25:58
  It's not. A sports bike.
• 1:25:59
  But man, sport bikes are made to.
• 1:26:01
  Lean they're everything is made to be.
• 1:26:04
  The shape of it The shape of. It isn't meant to sit on it for
• 1:26:06
  hours like a bagger. It's meant to go fast,
• 1:26:09
  comfortably. There is, there is.
• 1:26:11
  No feeling, you ask? Anybody that rides baggers and a
• 1:26:14
  sports bike. There is no better feeling than
• 1:26:16
  scraping a foot peg. There is scraping.
• 1:26:20
  Your elbow, No. Yeah, scraping your elbow is
• 1:26:23
  pretty dope. No, I'm.
• 1:26:25
  Telling it's not, I'm telling it's not.
• 1:26:27
  A lot of guys and a lot of guys that we know, Rexy, they went
• 1:26:31
  from sport bikes. Indians.
• 1:26:35
  Right. It's happening here.
• 1:26:37
  It's just a better feeling, man. It's it's, it's, it's, it's more
• 1:26:40
  power up, just just raw power. It's it's, it's power that you
• 1:26:44
  could slide instead of power that you can really and I guess,
• 1:26:48
  but we'll see it's. The future it's.
• 1:26:50
  The future and and I know you guys hate it, but you know the
• 1:26:53
  future all right. Speaking of.
• 1:26:54
  Future we're going to get out of here pretty soon and let's talk
• 1:26:59
  about Bruno, Czech Republic. Any surprises that we're going
• 1:27:04
  to see? You guys just going to say
• 1:27:06
  Martine? You're gonna see Martine.
• 1:27:10
  Back Let's see that Bez's day might be over.
• 1:27:14
  Bez's. Bez's He's family.
• 1:27:17
  Now. He's up there.
• 1:27:20
  He's up there now. He's he's definitely a
• 1:27:22
  contender. And and I'm not, I'm just saying
• 1:27:24
  Martin's going to have a struggle.
• 1:27:25
  I think, I truly think he's going to struggle a little bit
• 1:27:27
  there getting on back on the Aprilia and he looks smooth.
• 1:27:31
  He looks great in those photos. But I, I don't know exactly how
• 1:27:34
  it's going to go in the, in the race.
• 1:27:37
  Very interesting to see that. That's all I'm going to be
• 1:27:39
  focused on too. So for Bruno, that's like I'm,
• 1:27:41
  it's like when Mark came, got on the Ducati and the Valencia
• 1:27:44
  test, all eyes were on him. That's how it's going to be for
• 1:27:47
  him. Man, I I can't wait to see that.
• 1:27:51
  Yeah. And I kind of kind of for the
• 1:27:53
  same way it's good seeing our team back on a bike that he
• 1:27:55
  thought wasn't good. That is good, but he's been out
• 1:27:58
  so long, has ridden at that pace in quite a while, so I doubt
• 1:28:02
  he'll be, he'll be, you know, like up to speed from, you know,
• 1:28:05
  this first week, but maybe the race after that he'll pick
• 1:28:09
  things up low. So to be honest, if he's in the
• 1:28:11
  top ten, I'd be surprised. Put a little money.
• 1:28:21
  Cinderella strip club man what's?
• 1:28:22
  That heels and some dollars there you.
• 1:28:25
  Go, Martine. There you go.
• 1:28:26
  What is that? That looks like the trophy.
• 1:28:30
  They gave that wood trophy. That's it, That's it.
• 1:28:34
  Money and a pair of high heels for that guy next talk with.
• 1:28:41
  Oh man, let's see. I mean, Bez, you going to anyone
• 1:28:45
  else has a shot besides Alex Marquez?
• 1:28:48
  Yeah. I mean, do you think Bez did?
• 1:28:51
  She did. She was racing.
• 1:28:52
  So he'll he'll did you may. But Alex Beko Costa.
• 1:28:59
  Maybe a KTM up? There, as I was going to say,
• 1:29:01
  could be Maverick, could be Acosta.
• 1:29:03
  Oh yeah, and Polo. Sparker is a place in Vinales,
• 1:29:07
  so yeah, right. Right, right.
• 1:29:11
  OK, that's right. Vinales is out.
• 1:29:13
  Yeah, Vinales is out. So the test rider, so obviously
• 1:29:17
  he raced in, for those who don't know are in Moto GP and became a
• 1:29:21
  test rider. He actually gave up his seat for
• 1:29:23
  Acosta, you know, which is, and, you know, he's doing TV and, and
• 1:29:29
  being a test rider for KTM. So, yeah, I think Bez has a good
• 1:29:34
  shot. You know, I think it's the usual
• 1:29:36
  suspects. Dizzy has a good shot.
• 1:29:38
  I don't know if Mobideli's going to be back this, this round.
• 1:29:41
  So I, I think he, you know, depend on, you know, his
• 1:29:44
  recovery and, and how healthy he is, you know, where he'll be at
• 1:29:47
  and stuff like that. It'll be interesting to see
• 1:29:50
  Alex. I mean, he did ride well, but
• 1:29:53
  it's a quick turn around, right? And, and so I, I know that hand
• 1:29:57
  has to, it might have been hurt. And Monday, Tuesday after racing
• 1:30:01
  and stuff like that. So it'll.
• 1:30:04
  Be interesting to see. How, how, how this track plays
• 1:30:07
  out for him. But it should be a good round,
• 1:30:10
  yeah, And Quaalude should be. Good in the morning.
• 1:30:13
  Quatararo too. It's.
• 1:30:15
  Interesting to see if he's going to get another pole, you know,
• 1:30:18
  so he might be up there somewhere.
• 1:30:20
  Yeah, it was. Good to see Quatararo before we
• 1:30:23
  get out of here on the podium too, you know, cuz he has had a
• 1:30:27
  lot of bad luck, even though it's just a Sprint race he's
• 1:30:30
  had, he's had a lot of bad luck and and for him to at least get
• 1:30:33
  one little something. I don't know, I don't know if
• 1:30:36
  his, you know, it's makes him feel really good, but at least
• 1:30:40
  it's you know it, it's not just going down anymore.
• 1:30:43
  It's starting to go up a little. So good morale boost for.
• 1:30:46
  The team for sure, for sure. Hi fellas.
• 1:30:50
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