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B4evaKool "race a motorcycle" Podcast Ep. 12 · B 4EVA Kool "Race A Motorcycle" Podcast

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  Let me tell you one story about something.
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  Let me tell you something. I'm gonna hit you hard with the
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  Fast and the Furious making mouth.
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  Drop Like Jordan and Julia stepping on the court.
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  Doggone dangerous, get in the store like Bobby DeNiro.
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  Don't approach us like an ugly role leave.
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  You looking like Eddie nor done store in your world like while
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  the Marshawn want to know why the gods and we are, you
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  bellyful, are your mind empty. All sound alike on BET.
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  How many naked girls? Do you see?
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  I miss her a lot. We can't believe me eyes.
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  Won't stop rocking to The mocap side in the holy water wash off.
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  This guy's always go back to you dirty Pig.
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  Goddamn big. You left them in the car by
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  soldiers and welcome back to another edition
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  of the be forever. Cool podcast, my name is Rex 45
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  and I'm fortunate enough. Enough tonight or this evening
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  to have the one and only Bobby sheikhs, who looks to be hiding
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  behind his microphone? You know on the podcast I was
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  going on Bobby shakes chilling that now I was just was that
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  slim pocket. Oh my goodness, you know what it
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  is shakes man. You know what it is man.
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  Wow. Yeah right wow, dope missing and
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  you know What can I say? Well let's talk about slim
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  pocket, right? Okay so I remember you and the
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  band kind of have you guys run into some problems and you guys
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  kind of broke up correct and used to come to my crib in
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  Somerville. Uh-huh.
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  We should get on our pedal bikes.
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  Yes. And we used to go for these
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  crazy bike rides through traffic.
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  Late at night, I was on the single-speed, use on a ten-speed
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  21 speed whatever I had. I don't think I don't think if
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  you're under 70, if you have gears on your bicycle that's
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  just me, right? I think gears on a bicycles for
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  dudes that are 70. No, no disrespect to Lance
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  Armstrong, but that's what I think it is.
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  And we used to go on these crazy rides and one day I think we're
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  downtown and you said, yo shakes, this is not fast enough.
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  And I'm all like well not really I mean we're probably doing what
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  20. Yeah, probably 20 hours we wish
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  I was in shape so probably 20 2014.
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  Yeah. Exact 25 through traffic to red
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  lights in and out. And you were like yo this isn't
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  fast enough. And I said, okay, it's not fast
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  enough, I'm still not getting a bite with gears, right?
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  I'm good. And then like a couple months
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  later, you showed up at the crib in Somerville with the, with a
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  street fighter? Yeah, what was it wasn't 848 on.
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  It goes 8 48, 48 Street Fighter? Yeah, wrap and I just remember
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  us in the back, chopping it up, chopping it up.
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  And at that point you didn't really have a job either, right?
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  You would like trying to look for a job and well, I was
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  working. For myself and which I was able
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  to do with the been years and stuff like that.
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  And I was at a point where I was tired of doing this sales and,
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  you know, decided to go, you know, just go work for somebody
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  who don't have to worry about that and employees, and that
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  type of thing. So yeah.
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  So, and, you know, also wanted to get in this Bike World.
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  So yeah. So, I went off and got a job
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  again and and you you went off and and Took your photography to
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  another level to where it was supporting yourself.
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  And I think, you know, we both decide well, you got a
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  motorcycle afterwards. Yeah, it was crazy because it
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  went This is not fast enough, right?
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  Pedal bike 2011. Yeah to and 848, brand-new
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  Ducati, 2012, Yahoo. A 1099.
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  Is that, is it? That's what 1099 is what?
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  I is a tax form. That's the tax for me.
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  And it was like at that point I'm thinking, okay.
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  So clearly a single-speed bike, can't keep up with this with a
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  motorcycle clearly. So then I went and I took the
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  test, you told me to go to this to the motorcycle school.
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  So I'm going to the motorcycle school and In Hyde Park.
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  Okay. And I said to myself, I always
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  wanted a motorcycle always wanted like a Harley though,
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  right? Right, well, I'm gonna say this
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  is how we differ, right? Because, you know, I went full
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  to the 911, Porsche and you in for the 64 Impala.
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  So I but I said I love motorcycles, but do I really
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  love motorcycles? I think you're the one that told
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  me. You said, if you're going to get
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  into motorcycles, you cannot take your test in the
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  summertime. You got to take your test in the
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  winter time, I think. Yeah, you told me that.
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  And so I went and I took my test, the last test dated
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  November, and that happened to be the day that I got, I was
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  taking my test was the first snow storm of the year.
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  So basically I was learning how to ride a motorcycle in the
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  snow, the leaves were wet, it was a good, you know, like a
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  good little, a little frost on the on the ground.
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  Uh-huh. And it was like, okay, if you
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  love motorcycles that much, you can behave and react, and still
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  have fun right in the cold. And I remember hugging that
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  little 250 engine to stay warm in between I've done it a bunch
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  of times on different bike sticking, my hands on the
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  engine, when it's cold out, just to stay long and that was it.
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  And then after that, I said, I got to get a bike.
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  So I wanted a Harley. So my ex she's all.
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  I know you want a Harley. But do some research.
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  Uh-huh. So, I did some research and I,
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  and, and Harley Davidson had a thing called, it was all the
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  black clubs. Okay, iron Italy?
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  It was, I an elite and I watch every single video of iron Elite
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  and literally I would stay on the couch.
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  I didn't I didn't know how to ride.
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  I was just like switching in my hand and I'm like, A, my girl
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  would look at me from the kitchen.
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  Like, is this dude really riding a motorcycle on the couch then?
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  Like, so once and I said to, my girl said, yo, you came over
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  again and I my I got to do this. So, we went to the Boston
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  Harley. Uh-huh.
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  And I had like three grand in my pocket and I said, I want this.
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  I want this. It was a 1200 customers.
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  Custom and I go, this is the bike I want.
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  It was yellow, it was crazy and deduce it, let's run the credit.
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  So I said fine, let's just run the credit, that's it, that's
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  it. So I went around and with the 3
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  Grand, I brought to the dealership.
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  I'm I was walk around the deals with the helmet on jacket.
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  Gloves, boots. I had everything I put me in the
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  game. I'm ready.
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  And let me take you guys back. This was before I took the
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  motorcycle test. Right?
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  Right. So if I had passed, if I write.
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  So I got all the gear on and the Duke come up to me and go, mr.
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  Shakes, I'm very sorry. You have a credit score of
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  three. Your credit scores are three.
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  You don't qualify for this bike. So, on your way home, did you
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  have the window down with your biker gear on?
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  So, So I said, fuck it. I bought all the gear, but all
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  the gear, I bought all the gear I had.
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  I had a jacket. I had had a three-in-one
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  jackets. It was spring, winter fall,
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  right? I had heated gloves, non-heated
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  gloves. I had a full face helmet.
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  I had all the Gear boots, everything right?
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  No motorcycles. When I'm going to go take the
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  test, like I'm the only dude that actually showed up to the
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  motorcycle exam McGee who can like Rossi.
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  Like, but you I wanted to Manifest this, right?
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  You have to and the funny thing was I was watching you from a
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  distance, manifest yourself, right?
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  And by that time so I'm watching you ate you guys.
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  You guys really understand. To go from 848. 279, a 11 98.
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  On a 1099, not a W-2, and then so and I, and what I did was, I
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  watching you manifest and I just said, you know what I'm gonna
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  do? I'm gonna start paying my
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  Crimson start paying my credit, pay my credit, pay my credit,
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  pay my credit, got my credit score to I think a six hundred
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  and one day, I'm just driving in my car and I'm on you I really
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  want to bike but I don't know what to do at that time now.
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  I was jobless right right, right.
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  So you guys Gotta understand 45 was going through a transition
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  and I was doing the photography. Then you manifested and then as
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  you're manifesting is like I'm on the back end now.
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  Hmm. And like used to come over there
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  and be at you have to give me like 20 dollars for lunch and
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  I'm all like yo 45. I really think I want to get
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  into this business and I think I want to work for a motorcycle
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  dealership. So I'm driving confused.
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  No money broke and I'm all like how am I gonna get into this?
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  So I said you know, let me try, let me listen some rock and
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  roll. So I turned the radio station
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  from inside the dance hall, whatever, baby 7087.
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  And I turned it to WAAF. I'm listening to some rock and
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  roll and listen to like, I don't know, Metallica And I'm like, oh
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  whatever. And then the commercial came on
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  and it was like, Mom, South. We will finance any idiot.
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  You're like, I resemble that I was assembled a time that idiot.
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  So I went home. I got 2,500 dollars, I went
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  straight to the dealership. Uh-huh.
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  And I saw my Harley the red one and and of course it doesn't
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  start right. It doesn't start out.
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  It's not an ominous. Yes, it's a Harley, it's a
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  Harley this It's not supposed to start.
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  And the guy said, Hey listen, your credit is shit but what we
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  could do is you could put some money down and you can do like a
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  layaway program to you. So this was like in the summer
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  and he said, all you got to do is come in and put like a
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  hundred dollars a month. Right.
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  Right right. I'm by I guess we're not into
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  that some thinking okay, the bike is four grand.
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  Let me try and do like a hundred bucks a week which was
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  impossible. Sounds like fuck it.
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  I got to do a hundred dollars a month, right?
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  Right. So then the photography picked
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  up. And then I got, and then I got
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  some money and then I'm like, okay, I'm going to $100 and 100
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  on, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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  By that time now, I passed the your license past my license.
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  You came back around, it was, it was a day, like today, it was
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  freezing cold and you had the 848 and I took the 84-84 ride
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  the first bike. I rode, after my exam was an
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  eight for eight and a gold. In fucking mesh gloves, my hands
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  were like freezing and I was thinking, you know, I'm gonna
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  do, I'm gonna take the suck on the highway.
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  Hell's, no, you ain't taking that on the highway as I'm going
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  down River Street. My hands is freezing.
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  I'm like, this is too much bike, right?
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  This is it. 848 is too much by and I know a lot of you big-time
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  bikers, at listen to this podcast, is going to say, Mike
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  This bike wasn't 1200 Hayabusa with no helmet.
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  Don't be a pussy 1400 but your clothes.
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  Yeah. Right.
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  I should know this. She's not like I didn't work in
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  the motorcycles. You for five years, okay?
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  We're gonna get you that, that we go get to that just died.
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  So I'm like I couldn't do this. And so as spring started to come
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  around and went and I picked up the bike 88-83 rodent from
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  Foxborough to the crib and that was probably the stupidest thing
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  I've ever done. Er done.
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  Okay. Well, it's not that bad.
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  I should have started with a 250.
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  I'm not I would never if I'm gonna do this again I will go
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  moped first. What is it?
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  The Pooh children with a punch or whatever, they work your way
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  up the scooter and I finally get the Harley.
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  Uh-huh. Then by that time now I'm doing
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  bike interviews. Yeah so me and you we wrote out
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  the next weekend I only had my bike for know that we can we
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  roll out to Fall River right. You was on the left and not the
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  the laminate level 98 Yura I'm on the 8832.
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  Harley Harley Sportster. Listen there's two twins running
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  down the road right to twins but remember how loud it was went to
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  the gas is you like yo can you turn that shit off?
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  I can't hear myself think. So loud and we rode out to chop
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  a head shop ahead. Yeah out to chop a head and then
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  chop a head looked at my bike. He's like yo your fork sees you
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  for your fork seals it's leaking.
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  So I go. What does that mean?
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  He goes what that mean? Is that the liquid that's coming
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  out? The fork seal is getting onto
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  the disk. So when you hit the brakes, not
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  good. It doesn't stop someone like
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  that's the reason why the bike didn't stop.
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  I just thought Harley's didn't stop, I didn't know there was,
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  there was a problem. Now, I didn't know that was
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  fucking suspension liquid Forks, it liquid.
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  And, and that's the biggest thing getting into this.
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  And almost industry that what? We don't know, right?
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  But the motorcycle industry. Is it, you know, obviously, you
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  put your life on the line when you don't know these things
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  about the bikes, I mean, you know, we were green and just
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  kind of like we're going bikes. We got Bikes, let's go ride
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  them. And you know, but you know, you
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  talk about Chopper head, like, you know, between getting the
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  bike and getting the gear and all that, you know, you
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  obviously, you lean towards the hiring Harley.
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  And, and how did you connect with chop ahead?
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  And how did you navigate that, that that area?
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  Because, you know, Do I end up going, the sport, bike route,
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  the racing route, you know and and you went the other route and
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  I've been trying to get you to go to the track and you still
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  haven't showed up at the track yet.
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  But you know, we'll get to that part.
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  Now, it's so like, you know, what made you decide to like you
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  know try to fix see who these people are in the industry.
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  So At this point, I was in completely hardly had.
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  I was watching iron Italy and I was just cruising the internet
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  at that point looking for guys to chop the bike up, right?
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  Right because Harley what a lot of people don't understand why I
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  love Harley-Davidson so much is because it was the first company
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  that allowed a black person to sell their open up a dealership,
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  you know. So we're talking 1903, 05 1910,
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  they were messing with the black community, so not to be racist
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  or anything but just to say It is all the things that you love
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  about a Harley Davidson was done in the hood, right?
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  All the gang life and all of the nonsense and all the bar fights
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  are come that with that. That was done through certain
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  motorcycle groups, the motorcycle gangs got you.
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  So and you're saying they mostly black, the gang stuff was the
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  white guys, the chop, the Rams, the powder, coat, all of that
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  nonsense was done by the black dude.
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  So the games are in, Nonsense. So the so I was just doing my
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  research and doing Harley-Davidson and just looking
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  at Harley and, and figuring out like, oh, I can really rock with
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  this company because a did only coming to did the iron Elite
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  which is just they just focus on black B Cruise, which is pretty
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  dope, which is pretty dope. They had a black woman racer.
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  Yeah. Back in the day that had the
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  taper titties down, right? You ever seen Top Gear that had
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  the Stig they had. Add this black woman, right?
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  They would tape her titties down and she wasn't allowed to remove
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  her helmet. Oh, wow.
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  Okay. Because Harley-Davidson was
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  like, yo, if they find out that you're black, you're a woman and
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  you're a woman. She was beating these dudes on
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  the track. She was murdering these dudes
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  and nobody knew that she was a woman or a black woman.
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  Imagine think about this folks, back in the day, a black woman.
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  Beating your white ass on a motorcycle and it was a Harley
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  right, right? Not a good look, not a good
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  look. So Harley-Davidson, hit this
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  woman for a long time. That taper TD's down, cut her
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  hair off and she always had a helmet on at the interviews.
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  Like, when you gonna take off your helmet, they're like, oh,
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  she has like, you know, she's like parent, he's paranoid of
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  blah, blah, blah, blah blah. So nobody never knew.
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  So all of this culture I was like, okay, so I did my end, I
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  did my Research. And I'm all like I found chop
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  ahead, right? And then I just loved that
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  culture and I mixed. And then while I was doing the
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  Harley-Davidson research, I started watching Sons of
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  Anarchy. And, and Sons of Anarchy became
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  like, I know it's all I know. We're getting there, we're
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  getting it. Right?
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  But Sons of Anarchy was like intro intro, my intro to lie,
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  okay? I kind of like this lifestyle.
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  I know it's a movie, but I like it and I really wanted to be a
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  part of that Harley Davidson boom, right?
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  You and then you jumped in. I jumped in so funny story.
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  When I interview chop ahead and just started going into all
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  these bike parties and I just want, I just started digging.
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  Mmm. And then all of a sudden, the
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  bike world came crashing down on me.
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  So meet 2015, we're talking about Rossi and divisio so and
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  bought my kiss, I'm going to fix it.
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  They had my bike for like three months didn't fix.
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  My Forks, has summertime, is the worst time to have your bike?
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  Not working. So now I'm thinking now, it's
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  like Father's Day and I'm going up, then I'm all like, yeah.
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  Oh, the I've just bought this bike from you.
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  This Fork still leaking and my boy.
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  Chop had was like, yo, if this takes longer than 10 seconds to
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  do that pain, you So I put my black face on, man.
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  You can take it off. Yeah, yeah, right.
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  Sometimes you can tell, I went up to the dealership, like, yo,
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  what the fuck? What the fuck, fix my shit,
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  right? And now my yak, like, you want
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  to fuck his you, you dissing me? So as I'm walking out, mom South
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  this is white kid. Fast asleep at the photo booth.
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  Okay, fast asleep, snoring feet up a my God.
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  Damn. That's white privilege.
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  And I said to the two Junior might yo, when you guys fired
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  this dude, right, could you hire me?
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  Uh-huh. He says, what do you do?
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  I do photography. He said, give me a resume.
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  Ran home dropped off the resume right?
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  Called them. Every day for a month.
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  Guess what came first? They hired me before they fix
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  the fork. Seals can't believe that.
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  So I got hired Right? So I got hired.
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  Uh huh and now it's like oh wow! This is great.
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  So now I'm working in the motorcycle dealership.
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  I'm doing photography, videography and jr.
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  Jr. Was the one that really like,
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  push me like yo, we want our, we want this dealership to be like
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  this. We need you to get video
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  equipment and start to help us promote the brand.
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  So, now I'm like, As things come crashing down, come crashing
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  down. So now I'm like, oh wow.
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  So now this thing is beginning to pick up right?
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  I'm writing I'm interviewing bike Crews on the side.
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  I'm working at the biggest motorcycle dealership in the
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  country. Uh-huh!
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  And now on the east coast and now like things are just popping
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  popping popping and I just started to I went to um there's
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  a dude named Larry in New York. I should know this stuff.
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  I'm so sorry Larry. Something he died.
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  He should write you to do the crucifix on the bike.
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  Yeah, I think I heard there's a documentary on what's his name
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  really? Wow.
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  You look them up Larry something.
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  Larry he did. He does be custom bikes.
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  So I went to his show in New York, then I went to the then I
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  went to the, the the Brooklyn Invitational, which is super
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  dope, which is just like Elaine. What's his name?
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  Put Larry New York Rat, Fink Larry.
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  Um yes. I'm going to the Brooklyn infant
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  Invitational, which was like a row of custom bike built Indian
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  Larry then we go, right? And then Larry has happened to
• 23:08
  the Indian Larry. He has a street party, went to
• 23:10
  that Street party, then that same day, there's a Brooklyn
• 23:13
  invitation and then I just started to become consumed with
• 23:18
  the custom bikes. And then I started to find out
• 23:22
  that. Oh shit chop ahead.
• 23:25
  My boy Jay he's more of a Triumph guy.
• 23:30
  Dan a Harley guy. And that's when I started to
• 23:34
  figure out that, although people do cut, all type of custom
• 23:37
  bikes, they do custom Honda's Suzuki's and then that and
• 23:41
  that's when it just I became all in.
• 23:45
  I was I was completely completely engulfed by the
• 23:49
  thing. So now what else is it left to
• 23:54
  do in the bike industry? So much so one night, right?
• 23:58
  Uh-huh. My next door neighbor.
• 24:00
  Whose father taught my sister. He has a little daughter.
• 24:06
  And then I go. Hey, you want to come to work
• 24:09
  with me? And she said, yeah, she had a
• 24:10
  little 300 ninja and we just started riding together.
• 24:13
  Yep. So we wrote to my job, at
• 24:15
  Emerald Mountain. I was taking photography.
• 24:17
  We were just kicking it and end of the night after I'm done,
• 24:21
  click my pay, as we're coming out the garage, she wipes out.
• 24:24
  Wow, she wipes out, crashes or bike.
• 24:27
  We get on the bike, we get it started again.
• 24:30
  I said this, what we're going to do, we're going to go through
• 24:31
  the tunnel because everybody likes to go through that tunnel.
• 24:33
  She didn't really know how to ride, right?
• 24:35
  Right. Crazy thing like motorcycle,
• 24:39
  dudes, always want to bring beginner dudes, on some crazy
• 24:42
  shit. Let's go through the tunnel.
• 24:44
  How was he going to learn how to write data, right?
• 24:46
  So we go through the tunnel and I lived in Somerville but she
• 24:51
  lived on the corner from my mom's.
• 24:53
  So we go through the tunnel and I said we get off and we go to
• 24:56
  the gas station, fill up the bikes because I'm gonna escort
• 24:59
  her back home, right, then? Right back to Somerville.
• 25:01
  Can I get to do the tunnel three times?
• 25:04
  Yeah, I get to go through it. Back.
• 25:06
  And then back to, to go home. Something, this is great.
• 25:10
  We get to the gases, her bike won't start.
• 25:12
  So then I get on the phone, but then I'm called Harley-Davidson
• 25:15
  Progressive and they're all like, yeah, we could come and
• 25:17
  help you as well. Harley I'm like, I don't know
• 25:19
  what the fuck it is. It's like a black.
• 25:23
  And we're trying to figure out, we can't get the bike on the tow
• 25:26
  truck and then a Toyota Camry pulls up.
• 25:29
  And the dude jumps out of it. And he says to me, are you
• 25:33
  niggas, good? And I'm looking at this fucking
• 25:38
  gorilla. And I'm like, I got to make sure
• 25:44
  that I bring back. This dude's daughter in one
• 25:46
  piece right now you say, girl this black dude.
• 25:49
  Nah, he's a Dominican. Okay now I didn't know what he
• 25:51
  wants. Okay, you just look like a
• 25:53
  gorilla. So I'm thinking I can I have two
• 25:58
  options because he came off real aggressive.
• 26:02
  Uh-huh. And I'm thinking I gotta get him
• 26:05
  on the first shot. If I don't get him on the first
• 26:08
  one, this shit is over. I gotta get them.
• 26:11
  You're at right now. They're like, I'm cause I used
• 26:13
  to train UFC's. I'm like, sizing them up, and
• 26:16
  I'm thinking, do I do it at? I kick that leave with an elbow.
• 26:20
  Do I try and grapple? Um, do I shoot the Gap and pick
• 26:23
  them up with that, right? This is all going through my
• 26:25
  head light. How am I gonna get rid of this
• 26:27
  gorilla? Cuz this motherfucker is Big
• 26:29
  right, right, right, right. And While I'm going through my
• 26:34
  mind. How am I gonna?
• 26:36
  I'm looking at a trash. Can that running get the trash
• 26:39
  can and break it over his head? Like do I punch them?
• 26:42
  Do I kick him in the nuts? Do I like shoot the Gap?
• 26:46
  Hmm. He looked like that.
• 26:47
  Could put him in an arm bar. Can I get him in a rear naked
• 26:50
  choke? So I'm going through all my
• 26:52
  ways. How to destroy this dude and he
• 26:55
  says to me again, nigga. Are you good?
• 26:57
  But I don't hear him. All right.
• 26:58
  I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna kill him, some gold to my
• 27:01
  mind. How I'm trying to kill this
• 27:02
  dude. He starts screaming at me,
• 27:06
  nigga. Are you good?
• 27:07
  That's what I woke up out of my fantasy world.
• 27:11
  I'm like, no, no no I ain't good.
• 27:15
  I've been thinking. I'm going to kill you but I
• 27:17
  haven't come with the reason I got to go.
• 27:23
  What the fuck is going on? I'm all like, at that point.
• 27:27
  Now I'm like, sir, could you fucking help us?
• 27:28
  Because I ran out of options in my mind to kill you. and, He
• 27:36
  says again, nigga, what the fuck is going on?
• 27:38
  I said, then I'm all right. Sir, we can't get her bike to
• 27:41
  start, right? Right.
• 27:43
  He goes, you know, how to pop the clutch?
• 27:45
  I'm all like, no. He goes at the ever drove
• 27:50
  standard shift. I go.
• 27:51
  Yes, they goes. It's the same fucking process.
• 27:54
  Nigga. Why is this dude so aggressive?
• 27:58
  Like, what the fuck? The tuna morning, like, tuna
• 28:00
  morning at this times, like three in the morning?
• 28:05
  Problem, he goes, put the put the bike in second gear, you
• 28:09
  know, how to put the bike in second gear, nigga, I'm on.
• 28:11
  What the fuck. So I put the bike in.
• 28:14
  Second gear. This motherfucker, grabs me by
• 28:16
  the shirt and just pushes me and the bike rolls popping in second
• 28:21
  bike. Starts, I bring it back to her
• 28:23
  pop. Put in the neutral bike is
• 28:25
  running and he's all like. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 28:28
  I'm glad that you. Goodnight could get home safe,
• 28:30
  right, right. Right.
• 28:31
  And he goes, do you know who I am?
• 28:33
  I said, no, you were fucking 8. Foot 500-pound fucking
• 28:37
  Dominican, ugly. Motherfucker he goes, I'm an
• 28:41
  Outlaw. Oh, okay, I go.
• 28:44
  What an outlaw? And I go, this is my ignorance
• 28:50
  to the motorcycle industry, right?
• 28:53
  I go like the guys on, what's the TV show Sons?
• 28:57
  I go like, some guys, on Sons of Anarchy.
• 29:01
  This motherfucker got pissed that this shit ain't no show.
• 29:13
  Bang. Bang out of his trunk, and
• 29:17
  there's a cut and it's an outcast cut.
• 29:21
  Uh-huh. And I'm all like, okay, what's
• 29:25
  that? What the fuck is that?
• 29:27
  And he goes, you heard about the Hells Angels and I said, yeah,
• 29:31
  everyone heard about the herds, ain't ya?
• 29:33
  And he goes. Yeah, well, I guess, white,
• 29:35
  dude, in the black dude, went to the war white, dude?
• 29:38
  Comes back. Start the Hells Angels, black
• 29:40
  dudes are. Yo, can I join the Hells Angels?
• 29:42
  He's not like no black dude started out Castle.
• 29:45
  Hells Angels and Outcast from their documentary from the
• 29:48
  outcast documentary. There the two oldest black one
• 29:51
  percent by gangs in the world. Wow, dropping knowledge man.
• 29:55
  Somehow like okay. Okay he goes got to come by the
• 29:59
  club house. You're like, okay, like okay so
• 30:06
  I used to work at Emerald Lounge as a photographer and my mentor.
• 30:09
  Was this pimp And he's to see if you want to go there Mentor,
• 30:17
  everybody needs a pimp as an echo, if not you're working for
• 30:20
  that motherfucker. And like he was he was like an
• 30:27
  old-school like Pimp My from my God, I don't know what it looked
• 30:31
  like, from the 60s, the whole, getup the Hat, the jewelry, the
• 30:34
  shoes, the suit, the pocket square, the fucking cufflinks,
• 30:38
  the whole shit nothing's changed, nothing chain like
• 30:41
  this. It look like they took this dude
• 30:44
  out of the 70s and drop them in 2000 and he just you should just
• 30:48
  sit and just watch the ladies dance and he would buy alcohol.
• 30:52
  Sip is a sham Pain and he wasn't, he didn't really try and
• 30:55
  talk to girls and everything. He would just sit there and
• 30:58
  everyone will just come to him. Like he was like a giant cat, a
• 31:01
  gigantic peacock. In that motherfucker,
• 31:04
  peacocking, just chilling and I used to take this picture and
• 31:08
  became good friends, and you should give me cigars, right?
• 31:12
  Because he had these dope-ass cigars.
• 31:13
  And the next time I come on, we'll talk about the cigars out
• 31:16
  smoking for some crazy places, but be trying to keep this show
• 31:20
  under the under 10 hours under 10 hours and But all the other
• 31:25
  things, you've done Bobby sakes, so it gives me a cigar I said,
• 31:30
  you know what? I'm gonna take these cigars to
• 31:32
  the to the clubhouse, okay? So go out to the club house and
• 31:36
  I walk up to my man and I'm all like, yo gorilla the gorilla at
• 31:41
  this point. Now we've talked every single
• 31:43
  day, we become really close friends and then I finally said
• 31:47
  I, let me go out to the club house.
• 31:48
  It's crazy how that front. Their friendship happened in 30
• 31:51
  seconds, right? I met him one night.
• 31:53
  Unlike by Friday where best friend because from like the
• 31:56
  Wednesday night to the Friday go to Saturday morning, go to the
• 31:58
  club we talking for 30 hours on the phone it's like a
• 32:01
  recruitment video motherfucker trying to recruit me because
• 32:05
  that's how they get you. Oh yeah yeah come by the club
• 32:07
  house so I go by the clubhouse I bring him some cigarettes and
• 32:15
  cigars to say thank you very much for what you did for us.
• 32:18
  Now I'm in the club house and I'm seeing and I'm looking
• 32:22
  around. Not my like holy shit - scene of
• 32:28
  the Sons of Anarchy. Felt like it, huh?
• 32:32
  I'm like, oh shit. What I like this?
• 32:38
  You are a prospect. Yeah, I'm like, holy shit.
• 32:41
  I like this. So, that became my spot and I
• 32:45
  would just bring him to God's will be outside smoking a cigar,
• 32:47
  right? Right.
• 32:49
  I never notice every time a cop drove by he would turn his back.
• 32:53
  Back, but I didn't know. Okay so I'm there with my
• 32:56
  fucking fat ass monkey ass smoking in the cops.
• 32:59
  Look at me taking my picture like an asshole, every time the
• 33:02
  cops will buy these dudes turn their back.
• 33:04
  Because at this point I really didn't know what was going on.
• 33:07
  All right, you're green. I'm green as fuck.
• 33:09
  I just this is fun and About a month later, go by, go back to
• 33:17
  the clubhouse ago. And you don't want to sound like
• 33:20
  a bitch, but I'm all like, never never.
• 33:24
  But I'm all like yo, what the fuck is going on, man?
• 33:27
  Every time the cops drive by and the cops are just driving by
• 33:30
  driving by driving by and I'm like, yo why you turn your back
• 33:33
  to the police like that? He goes.
• 33:35
  Oh, you didn't tell you, I go. No, he goes.
• 33:38
  I'm the president of this chapter.
• 33:40
  Oh, wow. Okay, excuse me.
• 33:43
  You're the boss. He was the president of the
• 33:47
  fucking ER, wow. He stopped to help you.
• 33:52
  He stopped to help me. So now I go back to the pimp, in
• 33:55
  the club are going. I'm going to the club house
• 33:57
  again. I need somebody, some banging
• 33:59
  cigars. So he gives me a long cigar and
• 34:02
  then a desert cigar, which is shorter, right?
• 34:04
  So that go to the clubhouse while Saturday night, because
• 34:07
  after the club is too, but the clubhouse is still jumping, go
• 34:11
  to the clubhouse and I'm online and we outside I go.
• 34:13
  What are you? Are you a gangster or a ladies,
• 34:15
  man? He goes.
• 34:17
  Hmm I'm a ladies man. So I give them the desert cigar,
• 34:21
  right? I said fuck that.
• 34:23
  I'm the ladies, man. You're the gangster.
• 34:26
  Take the fucking long-ass cigars.
• 34:27
  We just smoking cigars, and our friendship.
• 34:31
  Just fucking gelled from there. Yeah.
• 34:33
  And then all of a sudden, I'm going to all these bike clubs
• 34:38
  and I'm just watching like a fly on the wall, like the patch
• 34:41
  overs and everything else. And then he leaves.
• 34:46
  He leaves the club, right? When he retired.
• 34:49
  Door he called because we won't be having these deep
• 34:52
  conversations about yo, dawg. Like, you're bigger than this
• 34:56
  lifestyle. He convinced the man to quit.
• 35:00
  I don't if I keep his the quit but it's like he just said, fuck
• 35:03
  it, I'm out. Okay.
• 35:04
  So I said, bumi quit and then it became really cool because then
• 35:09
  we would hang out. We can actually hang out.
• 35:11
  Go to cook outs in this backyard then he's not posting face on
• 35:14
  Facebook and then he starts to like to come alive and then he
• 35:19
  disappears. Well, I got to say that, that is
• 35:21
  a different life. When you're, when you're, when
• 35:23
  you're, you know, for lack of a better word, you know, in a
• 35:26
  Black Market, I guess, and, and, and Dibble.
• 35:28
  UND dabbling and wrongness, right?
• 35:31
  Yeah. Like it sits It was a it was a
• 35:35
  fascinating time. It was like, it was really cool
• 35:39
  and then, And then people the dealership because I remember I
• 35:44
  just started in the motorcycle game.
• 35:46
  This is like six months later. I'm like a fucking
• 35:48
  sergeant-at-arms for a club and whole time.
• 35:50
  I'm trying to get you to come racing.
• 35:52
  Yeah he's like I'm I'm learning how to put guns together.
• 36:03
  And then I'm at the motorcycle shop and then one of the dudes
• 36:06
  at the motorcycle shop was an ex Hells Angels Prospect.
• 36:10
  Okay, and he goes, I'm going to teach you how to ride because
• 36:15
  People started to wash me from the far left.
• 36:17
  Hmmm this dude used to be really nerdy.
• 36:21
  Mmm, and really green, yeah. Now, all of a sudden he's like,
• 36:26
  have helmets, hot, have helmets and like that shirt, plaid
• 36:30
  shirts, buttoned up and it's like, what the fuck is going on
• 36:34
  with this, dude. This dude that's completely my
• 36:37
  glasses. My glasses and like, everything
• 36:40
  starts to change. It's one of the dudes came up to
• 36:42
  me is all I was good. My all was good.
• 36:46
  He goes. I'm a teach you how to ride
• 36:47
  because I've know that you're different.
• 36:49
  Hmm, you became different. I'm going to teach you how to
• 36:51
  ride somebody. What does that mean?
• 36:54
  I'm gonna teach you how to ride. So he grabs like me and like
• 36:59
  four other guys, from the shop, and we're riding two by two by
• 37:02
  two. So basically, we're riding like
• 37:04
  how we're talking right now, but were 2 inches, 2 inches between
• 37:07
  each other, right? Two inches off the front tire
• 37:09
  and are not in this life, but yeah, I'm okay, so 2 by 2, so we
• 37:12
  write it like this, right? I'm to, I'm 2 inches 2 feet off
• 37:17
  the back tire in front of me. Mmm, and the dude behind me is
• 37:21
  two feet off of my back tire. And then mean you were two by
• 37:24
  two and this, two by two. We wrote it and I was scared as
• 37:30
  fuck because we're in one lane. So, when you come into a dip,
• 37:35
  yeah, it's like, what the fuck? Cuz I gotta stay in one lane.
• 37:39
  Right. Right.
• 37:40
  It's you gotta eat. So you in this puts a lot of
• 37:43
  trust on the people around you, right?
• 37:46
  Because y'all, are you all right in this one?
• 37:49
  All right, in this one and I'm like, this is crazy.
• 37:54
  So I break formation and I'm like This is crazy.
• 37:57
  We going to AB and there's only two of us and I'm like, how are
• 37:59
  we both going to make this band? It's crazy.
• 38:02
  Ya sigh break protocol. I drift out of the fucking lame?
• 38:06
  He reaches out, grabs, my fucking handlebars and pulls me
• 38:12
  back to him, oh no shit, oh my oh shit, I like this lifestyle.
• 38:22
  It is a, it is a, you know, I'm not trying to disparage.
• 38:26
  Any women when I say this but it's a Brotherhood or Sisterhood
• 38:30
  is so human Hood, I mean, the motorcycle Community, whether
• 38:34
  you're racing or in your case, you know, on the break and I'm
• 38:41
  just kidding. You know, if you're on a bike
• 38:45
  and other bikers see you, they stopped for you.
• 38:48
  And and and you know and I've said this on other episodes
• 38:52
  before I was in a car, I don't care if the most expensive car,
• 38:55
  no one's stopping. Me if I'm on the side of the
• 38:57
  road. Nobody, but if I'm if I'm on a
• 38:59
  to 50 or 150, somebody stopping another biker stopping and
• 39:03
  making sure you're good and that's a beautiful thing.
• 39:06
  And you know to hear that on that side you know, as well,
• 39:10
  it's just across the board. You know, if you're on two
• 39:12
  wheels regardless I think for the color your skin, you know,
• 39:17
  people look out for you. Yeah.
• 39:18
  And and then, It's wild. So then we go on a ride.
• 39:26
  Hmm, I can't say, who, what, where, when and who, but we on
• 39:29
  the highway, I know, we like 50 D, but I never joined any crew,
• 39:35
  right? So at this time now my boy has
• 39:37
  left the crew and he's like he's out and I'm riding with these
• 39:42
  dudes. So be riding Two, by Two, by
• 39:44
  Two, by Two, by Two Down The Highway, 80 miles an hour.
• 39:47
  And you can see the traffic in front of us just shelling off
• 39:51
  into the middle. Elaine.
• 39:52
  Mmm. Because when you got that many
• 39:54
  Harley's together, it's like it trailer truck.
• 39:58
  It's true. It's vibrating the ground,
• 40:01
  right, right? So you and your little car, your
• 40:03
  life and you looking, you looking in the rearview mirror
• 40:06
  and you see a whole bunch of angry motherfuckers with that
• 40:08
  face screwed up like fuck you, fuck the law.
• 40:11
  I hate my mom and my dad, you getting the fuck out of the lane
• 40:17
  so you just watching the traffic show off into the middle and
• 40:20
  I'ma, oh shit. Like this lifestyle.
• 40:25
  I look in my rearview mirror. Remember now, you gotta remove
• 40:28
  one you mirrors. Right.
• 40:28
  Okay. Why did these are reason behind
• 40:31
  it? Yeah I think I removed my left
• 40:33
  one. I only had one mirror of my
• 40:34
  body. I noticed that.
• 40:35
  Yeah, because, you know, you don't want to be your living on
• 40:37
  the edge. Only goofy guys have two mirrors
• 40:40
  on the motor side. You gotta remove once I remove
• 40:42
  one, right? So I'm riding.
• 40:44
  I look in my mirror and I see you.
• 40:46
  Massachusetts State. Police Light us up.
• 40:48
  Hmm. And I'm not gonna lie, I think I
• 40:52
  felt a little drop of pee or poop in my underwear because
• 40:57
  now, we talking RICO charge, right?
• 41:00
  This is organized crime. This ain't no fucking right.
• 41:05
  And I'm like, I'm looking around and I'm like, and I'm like, I'm
• 41:10
  the only nigga in this pack. I'm documenting the duck.
• 41:14
  No, I'm docking. All this.
• 41:16
  I'm just filming all this. The cop comes up passes, me goes
• 41:23
  to the front of the pack, lights up, and gives a fucking escort.
• 41:28
  No doubt bullshit. As we get through to bend the
• 41:33
  cop, then shells off into the middle Lane, and he just Cruise
• 41:36
  back. And as we're Ryan everybody is
• 41:38
  against the cop, the nod. Okay, then let's what's up?
• 41:40
  And I'm like, holy shit, different life, that's fucking
• 41:44
  respect. Yeah.
• 41:46
  Because I'm cop knows, I ain't fucking with 50 these dude.
• 41:50
  But he also might live that life.
• 41:52
  He might live that lifestyle to. Yeah.
• 41:54
  And and it was like it's the only time I've ever been with a
• 41:57
  gang of Misfits. where the cops were like, yo, that's what's up
• 42:04
  and And then I'm on youku, but I never joined because everybody
• 42:09
  that I knew that, I wrote with knew who I was right?
• 42:11
  And I think that's why they respected me.
• 42:13
  I'm a photographer. I'm that's all I am.
• 42:16
  I love the lights all document that.
• 42:18
  Yeah, or yeah, all that. Just do reggae.
• 42:21
  I'll I'll ride with you. If I'm out with you, and we got
• 42:25
  a bang, I'll bang, but you ain't calling me past nine talking
• 42:29
  about. We got to go bury somebody.
• 42:30
  No, no, no, that's not me. That's not my lifestyle.
• 42:34
  That's not who I am. Am that's not who I want to be
• 42:37
  right? But it's like I didn't I never
• 42:40
  showed up to be a prospect. I never showed up to wanted to
• 42:44
  join because I never became a prospect.
• 42:46
  I never even thought about joining but it's like all these
• 42:50
  all these dudes just like gravitated to me.
• 42:53
  I'ma tell you something real quick, okay.
• 42:56
  So now I'm an expert on all the 1% cruise and I just know them,
• 43:01
  but I want. Well, I'm riding around now.
• 43:03
  I know what neighborhoods to go into and they will not to go
• 43:05
  into when when I see your crew. I know who their the who they're
• 43:09
  affiliated with, who the not whether they're black, whether
• 43:12
  they're white. It don't matter.
• 43:14
  So, now I'm like, I'm like the motorcycle fucking connoisseur.
• 43:17
  You got the, you are So we at Mom's South and there's white
• 43:22
  boy come in with with lightning bolts all over his face.
• 43:27
  Mama, gotta love that. And I walk up to him, he's
• 43:32
  talking to the sales manager and I said to him, I go I know what,
• 43:36
  who the fuck you are? And he's looking at me like
• 43:43
  Okay. And it sounds like yo, man.
• 43:46
  Don't do it. He just likes to fuck with
• 43:48
  people at the dealership, that's all he is.
• 43:51
  Don't worry about him. We're trying, we're trying to
• 43:54
  train this dude, how to sell motorcycles.
• 43:56
  Mmm. Because every white dude that
• 43:58
  came to the dealership. I always run from say, you look
• 44:00
  like a trump supporter. You motherfucker, I'ma beat your
• 44:03
  ass after work. That's how I used to.
• 44:05
  I used to shake them down and then we'll live.
• 44:09
  The white ones are your? What the fuck is this dude
• 44:11
  problem? Like I'm just working here like
• 44:14
  I don't even Donald Trump. But why do you assume I like
• 44:16
  Trump? Because I'm white.
• 44:17
  So they just thought I was a weirdo, your Widow shamble
• 44:20
  weirdo but when the managers would say, don't mind him, I
• 44:23
  think that she said in the orientation, there's a black
• 44:26
  dude, in the back, he's gonna come up with you.
• 44:28
  With some racist bullshit, try your best.
• 44:31
  Not to knock him out, just ignore him.
• 44:33
  We liked him, we liked them. So this do got the lightning but
• 44:38
  it's a hot day. So the his makeup is fading
• 44:42
  because he make up his face a The fucking so I see lightning
• 44:48
  bolts all over his face. I'm on haiku.
• 44:52
  So I walk up to him again. In the complete, they used to
• 44:54
  buy lunch for us and we're in the he works there, he works
• 44:58
  there and it's the the shop. The service here is the service
• 45:04
  Bay that world peace in the service area.
• 45:06
  So I walk in, I go up to him and I said out loud and go.
• 45:09
  I treat this fucking cafeteria the service Bay like his general
• 45:14
  population. And if any of you white boys is
• 45:17
  in my pocket, you in my fucking pocket but they're all laughing
• 45:21
  because they know the A team. Well, here comes shakes with
• 45:24
  this bullshit at lunch, so I just knew that I was just a
• 45:28
  dickhead but this one dude was kind of nervous because he's
• 45:31
  got, he started, he got the ball, lightning bolts and then
• 45:34
  he will you I would see him, I watch him.
• 45:38
  He won back in the bathroom. Come back out.
• 45:40
  Face lit up again, nice and smooth new makeup on the face.
• 45:45
  So I go to my go, you're in my fucking pocket and he's like,
• 45:50
  listen man. I don't know what you're talking
• 45:52
  about. I go motherfucker, you know what
• 45:53
  I'm talking about? I'm in your pocket, it's in the
• 45:56
  sales manager, because now, I'm in his face, right?
• 45:58
  I'm in his face and the sales managers came up to me.
• 46:02
  He's like, yo, People only Shake, shut the fuck up.
• 46:06
  He never spoke to me like that. But at this point now they see
• 46:09
  that is. He's coming, he's uncomfortable.
• 46:11
  Yeah he's uncomfortable and it's like you're bullying somebody at
• 46:14
  work. So shakes.
• 46:21
  So all right. Boom boom boom.
• 46:22
  So now the shops closing I'm down.
• 46:24
  I'm down in my booth, good, man. I have the booth and yeah, back
• 46:27
  at the shop and I'm doing my pictures.
• 46:29
  Homie comes up to me and he goes man.
• 46:32
  Listen man, I don't want any problems here.
• 46:35
  Can I share something with you? And you never tell anyone.
• 46:39
  I said, yeah, I know what you about.
• 46:42
  He pulls out his federal inmate card.
• 46:45
  Oh no kid. It was locked up in Baltimore.
• 46:47
  Got you and he said, yes, I am a white supremacist but I'm
• 46:53
  trying, my he goes, you know what it is.
• 46:55
  I know what it is. I know what it is.
• 46:57
  You have to join the white supremacy because you lock up
• 46:59
  the whole bunch of black dudes and you want to come out.
• 47:01
  So you gotta do you do? Yeah affiliation right.
• 47:06
  And he goes, listen man, I'm out.
• 47:09
  Now, I did my time and I think did like fucking mad years, you
• 47:14
  know I'm saying? I can't imagine that life.
• 47:16
  Yeah, I don't even want to and, um, this crazy and he goes, yo,
• 47:26
  man, I'm trying to keep this job, raise my family, I don't
• 47:29
  want no bullshit from you, please.
• 47:33
  So I said to him, I go I Know Who You Are.
• 47:37
  I won't say the crew by so I know what crew you from and he's
• 47:40
  all like, okay I go I know who you are and I said I'm gonna
• 47:44
  make a call to the Head dude of that club to see if you really
• 47:50
  official. Hmm.
• 47:53
  He's booking Mila how the house is black dude.
• 47:55
  Going to call a white supremacist and check me the
• 47:58
  fuck I am. I called ahead fucking
• 48:04
  motherfucker full of club and I'm all like, yo, what's up with
• 48:07
  this, dude? He goes.
• 48:09
  Where is he at? I go, he's here.
• 48:11
  He's all like, he's all right. What is he saying?
• 48:14
  I said, he says, he's such a such he goes, oh yeah, he's a
• 48:17
  jailhouse Duty. Became join the club through the
• 48:19
  jailhouse. He's done some work for us.
• 48:22
  He's good. Got you.
• 48:24
  So Sunday? Right?
• 48:26
  I see you. And he's wiping the bikes down
• 48:29
  because all the new employees gotta wipe the bikes down and
• 48:31
  shit. Cause I got to bring them up to
• 48:32
  the front. Doesn't sound fun, right?
• 48:34
  And I walked by him and jokingly says to me, yo, shakes.
• 48:39
  Are you able to were you able to make that call?
• 48:42
  I said, absolutely. I did, you're good and I walked
• 48:45
  away and I left it like that he up until this day.
• 48:48
  If he hears this park is going to say this.
• 48:50
  Dude's a motherfucker. He doesn't know that I actually
• 48:55
  made the call right, right. and, It's I just really love.
• 49:04
  I really love that 1% lifestyle like just being around it and I
• 49:08
  like when we go for a ride, I watched you guys on the sports
• 49:12
  bikes and it just looks like utter confusion.
• 49:15
  You got one, dude, doing a wheelie over here.
• 49:18
  You got one dude, over there riding on this front time, you
• 49:21
  got to do it in front doing a burnout.
• 49:23
  You got this, dude. I had weaving anyway.
• 49:31
  Why? I'm not in that pie slice of the
• 49:35
  pie. Okay.
• 49:36
  You know we might do burnouts at the end of races you might do
• 49:40
  wheelies because we're racing Sosa power wheelie.
• 49:44
  But that's a that's a stunt crew.
• 49:45
  That's a whole different crew and we got a reached out to
• 49:48
  those people. That's a crazy part about this
• 49:49
  whole motorcycle thing because we've known each other for a
• 49:52
  long time. As you mentioned, at the
• 49:54
  beginning of the show, we talked about getting to this motorcycle
• 49:57
  thing we got into the motorcycle thing and I'm racing.
• 50:00
  And and you're hanging out with gangsters and custom bikes and
• 50:05
  you know monkey bars facing it down the highway and and and
• 50:13
  that's the crazy thing about this in this expression, right?
• 50:18
  Because we're expressing ourselves and and how we you
• 50:24
  know we all have a love of motorcycles for whatever reason.
• 50:28
  We just love it and we all express it differently.
• 50:31
  I'm we're not part of that stunts stunts crew.
• 50:34
  But you know, there's an appreciation there because I
• 50:37
  think them people they they messed themselves up a lot.
• 50:41
  I mean, racing bikes you fall, right?
• 50:43
  But you know, all those stunts, your fault raise a thousand
• 50:47
  times before you get it right. Give me some of y'all might be
• 50:50
  lucky but we're gonna get those people on but you know there's
• 50:53
  there's this whole many different communities right in
• 50:58
  the motorcycle community so little subsection I guess for
• 51:01
  lack of a better word and that's the part that's crazy and we
• 51:05
  still in 2023 just still trying to get you to the racetrack, get
• 51:08
  you out of 300, or 400 do some laps and and it is chaos.
• 51:12
  We, you know, we all gotta out real, got our own lines.
• 51:15
  We tend to all have our own lines and we and we tend to once
• 51:17
  we're on a road race track, where, you know, we tend to try
• 51:20
  and beat the person next to us or behind us a weird.
• 51:23
  But when we're done, It's all love.
• 51:27
  I'm astounded that. Like, like, like every community
• 51:30
  and we're all done, it's all loved is a mutual respect.
• 51:34
  And you know, it's simple to say, we're putting our lives on
• 51:36
  the lines, but I think we are living Our Lives.
• 51:41
  I don't think we put it on a line where we are living.
• 51:44
  And and and and when we get on these two wheels, if you haven't
• 51:48
  been on one, you wouldn't understand.
• 51:52
  It's let me tell something I don't know if they still do it,
• 51:54
  but every Tuesday night, On Newbury Street at the top and
• 51:57
  you Berry Street Cruisers sports bikes, all type of bikes cafe.
• 52:04
  Racers, we all get together and we just ride right?
• 52:08
  And it's it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful culture and
• 52:19
  It's something that everybody has to do in your life and you
• 52:22
  don't have to go to an extreme. No, I truly believe after
• 52:26
  working to my motorcycle injury for five years I think every
• 52:32
  single person if you're gonna buy, if you're gonna buy a bike
• 52:38
  or sports bike, I 100% you got to do a track day because this
• 52:43
  thing, this isn't this is not a hobby, this is a skill set and
• 52:49
  you taught. You taught me that right riding
• 52:51
  a bike. Is a skill set.
• 52:53
  It has nothing to do with anything else, besides your
• 52:56
  skill set and working at the motorcycle shop, Because when
• 53:00
  you come out and you go in the back, there's like a wind eat
• 53:02
  railroad. Like the it's it's through the
• 53:04
  woods, but it's like a community and that's what we do.
• 53:07
  Like the motorcycle training and such demo days.
• 53:12
  Yep. So I was the, I went from not
• 53:15
  riding at all to becoming the fucking.
• 53:18
  I was the head demo guy. I used to lead the demo rides.
• 53:23
  Oh wow, okay. So what I worked at the
• 53:25
  motorcycle shop like Yamaha will come through, Indian will come
• 53:28
  through victory would come through and I would be the dude
• 53:31
  on the front because of my experience riding two by two,
• 53:38
  with a lot of the crews, right? You guys comfortable, my skill
• 53:41
  set just jumped through the roof and I rode a bike every single
• 53:46
  day in Massachusetts. I rode a bike every single day
• 53:51
  for five. Yeah, because I had to move the
• 53:53
  bikes in the dealership, so you're always on a bike life.
• 53:55
  Reading there isn't the only bike I haven't ridden is the is
• 54:01
  expensive sport bike. What are they called?
• 54:03
  Ducati's not to call this a road.
• 54:06
  All yours. Perlier not Aprilia.
• 54:10
  The other one, I don't know the other one, the other expensive
• 54:14
  exam W note, other attempt expensive, Italian come on, MV
• 54:18
  Agusta MV Agusta never ridden one.
• 54:20
  Atolls I've ridden every single I've ridden, there's not because
• 54:25
  at Mom's they have every single bike in the warehouse pretty
• 54:29
  much, I've ridden every brand dirt bike that they make besides
• 54:34
  MV Agusta because nobody trades in MV Agusta, know everything
• 54:39
  and you got something you buy it you put it on your shelf. and
• 54:43
  it's just, it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.
• 54:48
  Beautiful thing, man. And it was great, it was really
• 54:52
  cool to to get into that industry friend.
• 54:59
  And we gotta go for a ride because I was going to sell my
• 55:01
  bike and I'm glad you didn't. I remember, you know, you had a
• 55:05
  he had a couple of years where you were, because you've moved
• 55:08
  on from the the Harley and went to an Indian.
• 55:11
  So now you run an Indian. Yeah, I got a victory highball,
• 55:15
  you know, and and and running. We definitely got to go for a
• 55:17
  ride and get you to the track. So, that's two things gotta
• 55:20
  happen. I and I got plenty of race bikes
• 55:23
  now. So we just gotta get you a suit.
• 55:25
  My problem is my problem is He's Mine.
• 55:28
  He's ma'am. I got arthritis in my knees, my
• 55:30
  knees going so high bail. I goddamn you go.
• 55:33
  You don't figure something out. But yeah, I mean it is crazy.
• 55:40
  And just working at the shop. And you just watch these guys
• 55:46
  come in. Hmm, you could tell you could
• 55:50
  tell you could tell a do that does attract day and a dude that
• 55:55
  doesn't. Yeah.
• 55:56
  When they pull into the dealership you can see the
• 55:58
  different. You could see the difference.
• 56:01
  Even how people like you can tell.
• 56:04
  You can tell a club dude. From a non club dude.
• 56:08
  Right. I'll Club do when they come into
• 56:09
  the dealership. You didn't have to cut off
• 56:10
  because you don't want to put your cut on.
• 56:14
  And they always back there bike in great because if something
• 56:18
  goes off they want to be able to go out forward.
• 56:20
  Now I'm Club dudes Drive their bike club, dudes.
• 56:24
  Back at him, right? Right.
• 56:26
  I've seen people come and you might as well.
• 56:28
  You see people pull in and they forget to put the kickstand
• 56:37
  dudes dudes, that do track days. You can hear them.
• 56:41
  Decelerating the bike, has it coming to the parking lot?
• 56:44
  Yeah, four five, six, not four, five, six, five, four, three,
• 56:49
  two, neutral Colston kickstand out, drop the bike, come off
• 56:56
  Fonzarelli day long. And then the other dudes, I
• 57:00
  don't do track dates neutral. Turn the bike off.
• 57:03
  Yeah and and I just think that you it was and then after they
• 57:06
  put the bike down there, check the bike to make sure it's
• 57:08
  stable. Yeah, It's crazy, but it's all
• 57:19
  of its all allowed, man. It's all love and you have to
• 57:25
  You have to have to try riding a bike.
• 57:29
  You do I everybody at least and there's plenty of safe
• 57:32
  environments to ride a bike right?
• 57:35
  As we say the track and you know, not on the road.
• 57:38
  So if you're one of those folks that are a little afraid, we're
• 57:41
  all afraid I was all right. Well afraid, you know, and you
• 57:45
  know, all those folks that are afraid like you know, this safe
• 57:47
  environments for you to go and go try it because at least gotta
• 57:51
  try it once. And for most people I think
• 57:54
  they'll love it. Yeah, I think.
• 57:57
  It's been the five years has been amazing and now I was like
• 58:06
  I'm not really into it. I'm into real estate photography
• 58:09
  now so I don't really do anything with the bike world and
• 58:14
  the other day, like the other day like couple months ago, over
• 58:18
  the summer, I took my bike out for a ride and I was terrified
• 58:24
  because I haven't kept my skill set up.
• 58:26
  It was like For years, I went from riding every single day,
• 58:29
  right? 24 years going by and then me
• 58:31
  Ridin. Yeah.
• 58:32
  And it's, and it's a different feel because everything is new
• 58:35
  all again, and it's like, oh my God, like the world is the trees
• 58:39
  are flying by and all of this stuff and I didn't check the, I
• 58:43
  didn't check tire whether whether tire pressure weather
• 58:48
  and I brought my my dark glasses out.
• 58:52
  And you know, when you when you write every day, you're like,
• 58:55
  okay I'm going to be out four five, six, seven, eight hours,
• 59:00
  hmm. I know it's gonna get dark some
• 59:02
  room. I clear glasses or if I'm going
• 59:04
  to be out that late, I'm gonna bring my dark glasses and pop
• 59:07
  out the lenses, right? Me with my dumbass, I brought my
• 59:10
  dark glasses out and I ended up in Rhode Island like at 9:00 at
• 59:14
  night on my. I can't see shit.
• 59:16
  See nothing. And it's like these things that
• 59:21
  was like a Part of you like just you just remember I'm just
• 59:24
  remembering muscle memory. You got to learn all over.
• 59:26
  So you're the key to. That shakes is yaki.
• 59:28
  Pride got to keep riding. So now, at least 5,000 miles on
• 59:31
  your bike every year you have to at least none of these two
• 59:34
  hundred miles, A Thousand Miles business at least 5,000.
• 59:38
  And and it's funny right now that I'm a dad, I'm driving and
• 59:42
  I'd be looking. I've been looking at the do's
• 59:45
  and you sell it. There bike is old, but oh yeah,
• 59:47
  he just a summer dude. Oh yeah, you can tell by April
• 59:50
  May. By April May, you know who's
• 59:53
  just a summer do because a shaky?
• 59:55
  Yeah, no doubt. And and by September the bikes
• 1:00:00
  up, that's the one thing I was always amazed about like, When
• 1:00:04
  September Comes, the amount of people that come off the right.
• 1:00:07
  There's like you go outside and it's just like, you know, just
• 1:00:10
  Timber weeds and and and you on your bike, me like wizard,
• 1:00:13
  Buddy. L said it's not even that cold
• 1:00:15
  out and what you don't want this.
• 1:00:16
  That's just fine fine. But you but you gotta
• 1:00:19
  understand. September October November is
• 1:00:23
  really good. Riding with a, we don't want to
• 1:00:26
  turn to a science project, but we all know is a lot easier to
• 1:00:28
  compress colder than hot air. So the bike runs better.
• 1:00:32
  Mmm, you could wear all of your gear down comfortably, spent 10
• 1:00:35
  grand and all your gear, you can finally use it and it's like,
• 1:00:40
  October November. I remember, in 2015, when I
• 1:00:44
  bought my bike, I rode up up until like January 1st, you
• 1:00:48
  know, I think I've written just about Every month generally I
• 1:00:53
  try to get out. You know, if the weather is
• 1:00:55
  clear lately I haven't been I mean I honestly say last couple
• 1:00:58
  of years, I haven't ridden in the winter as much as I've done
• 1:01:01
  it before. But, you know, if I don't ride
• 1:01:04
  and in the wintertime, I'm probably gonna buy a bike right
• 1:01:08
  now. Yeah.
• 1:01:09
  You're buying bikes in the winter.
• 1:01:11
  So I got a ride just to get that fixed, you know what I'm saying?
• 1:01:14
  So, getting out even once a month, you know, on a nice hat.
• 1:01:17
  You know, 40 degree 30 day, everything took 20-degree
• 1:01:20
  weather so on. Lee, you know, I don't have a
• 1:01:22
  problem with that but it is, you know, it's one of the best
• 1:01:27
  therapies out there for a long day.
• 1:01:30
  It's and let me tell something. I know when you on that bike,
• 1:01:33
  man. And you're riding, you got to
• 1:01:36
  remember the road cuz road conditions changes every 15
• 1:01:39
  minutes to say, forgotten a bite, it would take.
• 1:01:41
  So if you go down the road, if you go down Main Street, you go
• 1:01:46
  back up, Main Street, you go back down Main Street.
• 1:01:48
  Again, like might be always spilled trash.
• 1:01:50
  In the road and wrote and you just locked in and you don't
• 1:01:54
  have time to think about nothing else.
• 1:01:57
  Nothing else matters. Besides you the sound of your
• 1:02:00
  bike, the wind the scenery, right?
• 1:02:04
  And and the no mental pressure cause you gotta pay attention to
• 1:02:10
  the road. There is no, there is no feeling
• 1:02:13
  about that and the only problem that when these work at the
• 1:02:16
  motorcycle shop, and we would like Ride Like the Yamahas or
• 1:02:18
  the BMW, Out. And when we going through the
• 1:02:22
  woods and you hear the birds chirping because those Motors
• 1:02:25
  are really low, hear the birds chirping and you hear the
• 1:02:30
  squirrels and the trees break the branches break in and you
• 1:02:34
  can hear the leaves falling and you hear the stream and you just
• 1:02:38
  ride, oh, that's like you, bring people got their, their, their
• 1:02:42
  wood stove, wood stoves burning, and you can smell all that.
• 1:02:45
  That's, it's an amazing time to be out.
• 1:02:48
  Riding, you know, I Being in the car is not the same like Ridin
• 1:02:53
  and getting just being part of the environment.
• 1:02:56
  It's a beautiful thing man and it's so crazy that when me my
• 1:03:00
  girl is driving all the windows are down in the car.
• 1:03:03
  She goes, I can't hear nothing. It's just I love that wind in
• 1:03:07
  the face and I think now, when I'm 49 this summer, I think my
• 1:03:13
  days of have helmets and t-shirts.
• 1:03:16
  And yeah, I think I'm going to invest in a full face.
• 1:03:22
  Way to go. I think that's the way to go.
• 1:03:24
  Gotta get a full face helmet. I'm going to miss a lot of that
• 1:03:27
  wind in the face. Do you still get it?
• 1:03:28
  It's not the same full force but you definitely because I only
• 1:03:32
  wear full fist. Full face helmet and I can still
• 1:03:35
  appreciate the outside so definitely do that.
• 1:03:39
  And it's a for just in case. Yeah, just you always ride for
• 1:03:42
  the crash. Do you dress for the crash?
• 1:03:44
  Not for the ride? Exactly.
• 1:03:46
  When you want to Cruiser, you dress for the ride.
• 1:03:49
  That's true. T-shirt bullshit-ass Nazi
• 1:03:53
  helmet, dumb shit. I would never ever ever.
• 1:03:57
  What the fuck was I thinking I will never wear that stupid ass
• 1:04:01
  helmet, against a black man, wearing a Nazi German Helmet,
• 1:04:05
  and it's plastic. If you fall, it ain't saving
• 1:04:08
  your ass. Now, they just come and sweep
• 1:04:10
  you up in the helmet. It was there to the be forever.
• 1:04:14
  Cool podcast, my name is Rex 45 shakes.
• 1:04:16
  I want to thank you for coming up on, man.
• 1:04:19
  I'll tell folks how they can connect.
• 1:04:20
  Shook as you do a lot of things period.
• 1:04:25
  Yeah. So right now, sell the listing,
• 1:04:28
  we got the podcast called, sell the listing, were getting into
• 1:04:31
  real estate investment. So if you want to get into real
• 1:04:34
  estate investment, you could just watch me from afar and be,
• 1:04:37
  I like that sounds cool. Well that guy's an idiot, no
• 1:04:41
  matter what it is and you can stop.
• 1:04:42
  Find sell the listing on YouTube, sell the listing on
• 1:04:46
  Instagram. There's also Bobby shakes Bobby
• 1:04:50
  shakes world, Baby, Bop just Bobby shapes.
• 1:04:52
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  Sing, I talk about you been on Twitter who Tang Buju Banton
• 1:05:01
  Jesus is list, goes on. Oh yeah, every music.
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  Now, here's a flex. Every music that you like, I
• 1:05:09
  guarantee you. I broke the record say no more
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  Boom-Boom as they say. Thanks man, thank you so much,
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  peace. Peace.