1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,280 Prime big Deal days is coming October 8th and 9th, which can 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:08,680 lead to involuntary deal squeals like the infamous deal on a new 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,880 massager squeal. Save big on prime big deal days 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:23,490 October 8th and 9th. Zippers, welcome to this episode 5 00:00:23,770 --> 00:00:26,970 of the tea with me podcast with me, she and Todd. 6 00:00:27,290 --> 00:00:29,330 There's a bunch of lights in the studio here. 7 00:00:29,330 --> 00:00:34,720 These guys are some crack and we we've got a real good episode 8 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,440 coming up for you today. Before we get into anything, my 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:40,880 leg's still broken. All right, don't worry about 10 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:42,800 that. Before we get into anything, 11 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,480 I've just announced a bloody tour of America. 12 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,840 I'm not a blood like not a war rampage. 13 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,880 I'm doing stand up all over America. 14 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:55,000 The tour is in March. I'm going to tell you where I'm 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:59,200 playing and you can go get tickets from the from the venues 16 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:03,080 if you want to go. 16th of March, Cobbs Comedy Club, San 17 00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:07,640 Francisco, 18th of March, the Hollywood Improv, Los Angeles. 18 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:14,040 20th of March, Chicago Zanies 22nd Laugh Boston 23rd, The 19 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:19,960 Comedy Loft, Washington DC 24th to Stan New York and then 26th 2 20 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:24,400 shows in Woodlawn, NY in Rory Dolan's and that's just a guy's 21 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,560 house, just Rory Dolan's gaff. I used to work in spar with him. 22 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,120 It's where long where like so so many expats live. 23 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,960 So if you know anyone in those places, send them my way. 24 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:42,000 Tell them there's a there's a kid coming to town from home and 25 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:43,680 you know he's packing a few jokes. 26 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,240 But yeah, buzzing for that tickets already on sale and I 27 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:49,720 mean it's anyone's guess. The guy's like many people to 28 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:55,360 the venue hold San Francisco 400 so so who knows, you know, I 29 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:57,440 could be out in the second. I could either be out in the 30 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:01,240 second show or there could be a people at that show, who knows? 31 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,560 But there you go tell anyone you know and I definitely would 32 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,480 appreciate that. Anyone you know who lives in 33 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,440 America, not like your mate that lives in Tomb is no good to me 34 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,560 at all. Or you know, you've got a 35 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,240 brother in Cairo or something. Whatever it is, you have a 36 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:22,760 fucking an auntie in down. Where's the place in America? 37 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:25,160 Anywhere in the world? Tasmania. 38 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,160 Tasmania. There you go. 39 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:27,760 Fuck it. To be fair, you've knocked that 40 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:32,480 out of the park. That is my American tour and 41 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,280 shows you've got locally because people ask a lot where you're 42 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,760 playing next. I'm doing the Opera House, Grand 43 00:02:38,760 --> 00:02:42,720 Opera House in Belfast at the end of June, start of July, a 44 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,680 few shows and then in September as well. 45 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:48,880 We'll put the link in the bio. Go to plug the Patreon, 46 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:54,720 patreon.com/tea with me podcast. Now people won't admit what is, 47 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,760 what is the Patreon? Is it a drink? 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,880 It's not. It's a site where you can get 49 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:04,160 more content for the podcast. You can support the podcast, you 50 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,200 know, because like we go through a lot of a lot of dosh here on 51 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,560 record days. You know, let's just say Don has 52 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:12,240 a habit and he needs it taken care of. 53 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:16,640 That's all I'll say. He just sent an alert to my 54 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:20,200 watch then Fuck up patreon.com/TV podcast. 55 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:22,040 We do a bonus episode on a Monday. 56 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,600 We do a thing also where in that episode where we guess what, 57 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:27,320 people look like people that are patrons. 58 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,360 I just get the boys to give me a random name and you know, it's 59 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:31,920 offensive. You know, I've got to say that 60 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:34,120 we've done two of them and they've not been kind to people, 61 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,160 but the Patreon's a lot of fun. We also do a live stream episode 62 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,560 on a Friday with some of your favourite comedians. 63 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,800 The last week we have Mickey Bartlett and Dave Elliott, an 64 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,000 episode for the ages. I hope they don't drop out 65 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:47,880 because we're recording this before that happens. 66 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,720 So I hope it's not like me and just Rory Dolan back back on the 67 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,400 pod. Sponsors. 68 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,200 We've got sponsors, don't we done what episodes this mean 69 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,440 148148 complete stop at the dark. 70 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:03,960 It can pull Tasmania out of us all. 71 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,400 But when it comes to the episode of the podcast, obviously no 72 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:10,120 chance. Yeah, it's episode 148 or so. 73 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:15,400 We are sponsored as always, as Power by Manscaped, the number 74 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,079 one in Man's Below the Belt grooming. 75 00:04:19,320 --> 00:04:23,200 You know what I'm talking about. You know, when you need to take 76 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:26,000 care of yourself down there. Maybe you're still using 77 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,080 traditional methods, you know, maybe you're going in with those 78 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,840 wee nail scissors hard open sometimes, aren't they? 79 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:34,480 You know, especially if you get water in them. 80 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:36,960 We bit rusty. I mean, you don't want to be a 81 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,320 guy that's trimming your pubic hair with rusty nails. 82 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:45,000 Like what do you do if you're if you're whipping out the rusty, 83 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:49,600 if you know, you mean the attractive lady or man or or you 84 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,120 know someone that defines himself as anything, It doesn't 85 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,920 matter. It doesn't matter. 86 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,640 What you don't want to say is when they say you know. 87 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,880 Oh, would you like to join me in bed? 88 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:03,200 Or if they're French, fuck, what's that thing? 89 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:13,520 This song, if you meet a French person and say, first of all, 90 00:05:13,640 --> 00:05:20,880 you say trivial Sava, what you do. 91 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:22,160 I'm not going to do the whole episode fresh. 92 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:27,920 What you don't want to do is say give me in moment why while I 93 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,920 get the rusty nail scissors and trim this Bush. 94 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,200 What you want to do is have in your back pocket the manscaped 95 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,360 lawnmower 4.0. This is folks, this is 96 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,160 technology on a different level. Look, first of all, you have 97 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,320 that in your pocket. You know, it looks like a we it 98 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,720 looks like a we see mobile phone for a businessman from space. 99 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,480 So that's kind of cool. You whip out it, there's a light 100 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,280 on it look. And if someone does say 101 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:57,200 Viluvukushevic Mosiswa, not bad to have in the back pocket 102 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:02,400 anyway, you know what I mean, eh, Mon le blue, I don't know. 103 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:05,600 What does Mon le blue mean? I don't know either. 104 00:06:06,040 --> 00:06:10,640 Umm shuna sequa. But but yeah, look, all you do 105 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:12,960 is you get the light on this and you can even do it in the dark. 106 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,400 Like if you meet like a French, a beautiful French person and 107 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,440 they're like, oh, you need to take care of your people care 108 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:22,000 first. You know what you can say what? 109 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,600 And they say you must go if they say it'd be so unreasonable. 110 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,320 But if they're like, you must go into a dark room to do this, you 111 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,320 know, to take care of that. And you go and you go in there 112 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:32,480 with a rusty nail scissors, it's going to look like the Texas 113 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,200 Chainsaw Massacre. But if you go in with a manscape 114 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,200 lawnmower 4.0 hello, LED light. You're sweet. 115 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,680 You're shorted. There's also fall deodorant ball 116 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,200 cleanser, ball wipes. It will impress the French 117 00:06:46,200 --> 00:06:48,840 person you're trying to curt basically is what I'm saying. 118 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:52,040 We have the discount code tea with me for 20% off and free 119 00:06:52,040 --> 00:07:01,120 shipping manscape.com Tribion. We are also sponsored by Panjana 120 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:08,960 for you making your tail a panjana is if manscaped are the 121 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:12,800 number one in men's below the belt grooming Panjana made by 122 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,960 Thompson's Tea or the number one in men's above the belt drinking 123 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,160 tea. The the Northern Ireland's 124 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,800 number one selling tea is basically what I'm trying to 125 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,920 say. These guys are on top of their 126 00:07:22,920 --> 00:07:25,520 game. These guys they take, do they 127 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:27,960 take a day off? Do they take a day off? 128 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:29,000 The Thompson's family with Panjana? 129 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,680 Yeah, they take a day off. You have to do in the day off 130 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:32,480 the make tea. That's what they do. 131 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,600 They don't take days off. Me and Don visited their 132 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,440 facility recently. Always nice to get invited to a 133 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,000 facility, isn't it? We went to a facility and then 134 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,560 like one guy pointed out, I think he's really high up in the 135 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:45,920 company that my car was quite dirty. 136 00:07:45,920 --> 00:07:47,080 I was like, well, I don't like you've done that. 137 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:49,800 You don't know me, but and I got my car washed the day after and 138 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:51,880 then after that I broke my leg. So my car is still sitting very 139 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:54,040 clean mate, but a week later. So if you want to come to the 140 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,400 house and see it have a go, you can anyway. 141 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:58,200 But don't stop sponsoring the podcast. 142 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,480 These guys love it. These guys love it. 143 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:05,720 Like Jamie from Thompson's literally cut cut his bag open 144 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,600 the show us didn't he done. He cut his bag open in the 145 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,280 middle, in the middle of the facility to show us what was 146 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:14,200 inside. And we couldn't believe it. 147 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:16,640 He let it like we put her hand, we got her hands in it and all 148 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,280 that sort of thing. Basically, it's pure tea in 149 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,240 here. These other guys, I don't know 150 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,760 what they're putting in it. There is tea, sure, But there's 151 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,640 also, you know, there was a, there was a dreadlock from MEC 152 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,640 Hartnell in one of the, in one of these tea bags that I saw 153 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,559 Tetley, you know, but pyjamas, Northern Ireland's number one 154 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:37,480 selling tea. Keep drinking it, keep 155 00:08:37,480 --> 00:08:39,960 supporting the podcast. We get videos all the time on 156 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:44,000 Instagram and stuff for people, you know, bringing Punjana into 157 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:46,880 work and saying, you know, the sippers need to be drinking 158 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:48,400 this. We love all that kind of stuff. 159 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,800 So just keep drinking it. If Thompson's family keep making 160 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:55,440 it, we'll keep drinking it. They are the sponsors of the Tea 161 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,200 with me podcast. My guest for this episode is 162 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,520 this has won the World Super Bike Championships 6 times more 163 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:08,000 than I have. He is genuinely like one of the 164 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,360 Goats when it comes to like international sport. 165 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:17,800 And he's from here, you know, And I think you could not 166 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,680 overlook these achievements. But when you actually sit down 167 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:23,400 and look at what this guy's won in the career he's had and still 168 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:29,200 continues to have, it's mad. I want to ask him about his 169 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,880 career, about his life, about being a professional motorbike 170 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:35,240 racer. I have a big family link to 171 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:40,600 that, which I'm going to talk to him about in my granny won the 172 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,800 Isle of Man TT 97 times. We're going to talk about that 173 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,680 and maybe he can give me some advice on my injury because I 174 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:51,040 thought he's done a serious injury quite as bad as the old 175 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:53,840 fracture of the hairline, fracture of the fibula playing 176 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,160 soccer, you know, So we could talk about that. 177 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,600 My guest, of course, is Johnny Ray. 178 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:02,480 Jonathan Ray who? Yeah, it's just a wonderful 179 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:05,560 ambassador for this place. I'm one of the one of the top 180 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:07,640 sports people in the world, full stop. 181 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:11,240 So please enjoy this episode. Please enjoy all episodes of the 182 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,600 Team with Me podcast. Go back, go back into the 183 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,000 archive and dig through all the episodes we've done and watch 184 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:19,800 them back-to-back. Put a nappy on and watch every 185 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,120 episode of the Team With Me podcast. 186 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:24,040 That's all we ask. This is a Team with Me episode 187 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,360 with Jonathan Ray. I've just spent 10 minutes 188 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:29,080 telling you about this terrible injury. 189 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,400 I've done football where I've done a hairline fracture on my 190 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:34,560 leg. Are you listening to me saying 191 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:37,200 that, thinking about the horrific injuries you've done? 192 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,520 No, but do you know what the most horrific thing is? 193 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,440 Is you're in a cast? Yeah. 194 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:43,640 Because you can't do nothing about it. 195 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:44,800 No. And. 196 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:46,560 I thought you'd be the same, I told. 197 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:52,720 So I was going. No, but genuine I've I broke my 198 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:56,880 femur in 2013. That's already way worse and I 199 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,560 feel. Miraculous. 200 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,000 Lucky it was done in Germany. The surgeons were incredible. 201 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:05,680 So straight and operate on the Sunday within. 202 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:11,280 I want to say within a week. I rode my bicycle outside now. 203 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:12,920 Why would you tell me that? Because I did this 2. 204 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:13,640 Weeks. You know why? 205 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:16,440 Because because your bones still broken inside there, they 206 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,760 haven't fixed your bone. So naturally they're waiting for 207 00:11:18,760 --> 00:11:21,200 the hail. Were they the basically cut me 208 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,240 open with a zip down my leg, hammered down in a big, big 209 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,960 nail, put 2 screws into my knee, one into my hip. 210 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,200 I've got it at home framed. Yeah, yeah. 211 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:34,960 I'll send you a picture after. But so you're not walking in the 212 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:36,320 broken bone, you're walking on the. 213 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:38,640 Yeah, yeah. You're walking on the nail. 214 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,640 But here's the difference in me and you. 215 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,560 If they had have done that to me, I wouldn't have left the 216 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:46,320 house for six months. I would not have thought to go 217 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,400 go out on my bicycle. No, but it's it's that mindset. 218 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,400 I had to do it. I had to walk within a couple of 219 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:54,360 days, right. Actually, the surgeon came, 220 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:56,840 right. I'm still plugged up to my we 221 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,280 morphine buzzer. Oh, yeah. 222 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:00,760 And he told me to get out of bed. 223 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:02,360 I said, what do you mean get out of bed? 224 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:05,040 I broke my legs. No, you can, you can get out. 225 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,320 And then he pulled me up off my bed and he says let me go. 226 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,680 Says when I walked to me right. I was like, I couldn't believe 227 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:14,640 what he was thinking. And then so I took a step, took 228 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,560 a step and that was an officers on my back for a few days. 229 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:21,320 Yeah, even getting a shower back then after like an aesthetic and 230 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:25,400 stuff was was tough, but. What's the worst injury you've 231 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:31,800 ever done coming off the bike? Possibly that for pain, right? 232 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,800 But I've had knee injuries like cruciate ligaments, which never 233 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,880 heal that well, and you've had always have we operations to 234 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,480 tidy them up or cartilage or whatever. 235 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,560 They're like the most recurrent because once you do a joint like 236 00:12:45,560 --> 00:12:48,800 a knee or a shoulder, it's never 100% where a bone will heal 237 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,040 really good again. Yeah, probably stronger than it 238 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:52,520 ever was. See. 239 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,880 I've heard this before, right? And and I understand that, but 240 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,560 then I'm thinking like, why don't I just break every bone? 241 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:03,840 Like why don't I clear like a couple of months in my diary, 242 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:09,480 like fall off like not like a Cliff, but you know, like a high 243 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,720 sofa like and try and break. Almost unbreakable then after. 244 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,800 Yeah, because then I'll be like a, like a, like an Iron Man 245 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,160 after. It just wouldn't be popular at 246 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:19,440 home, would you? No, no, that wouldn't be. 247 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,200 And that'll be a nightmare if you were like food. 248 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,480 Yeah. Have you done the injury like 249 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,720 that where you've been like food casts? 250 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:30,600 Kind of, but I did. Tommy being a bit of a burden at 251 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,240 the end of a season once I finished my last race and I was 252 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:37,480 living in the Isle of Man so years ago. 2012 rings the bell 253 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:39,640 and my wife was looking forward to the weekend. 254 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,160 After the last round. We were going out. 255 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:44,720 I think we had a Chinese booked and we were going out after. 256 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:49,240 But I'd done a motocross race that year, that that day, that 257 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,720 morning, and I got a severe dead lag. 258 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:57,880 I felt like I'd broke my femur again and I I got home and I got 259 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:02,040 she read me up and absolutely mental like I'd ruined her life, 260 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,400 not her weekend, her life. And it was it was disastrous. 261 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,760 So I made a big effort, stupidly had a hot bath, don't know why 262 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,440 the hot bath but that made it worse and then said a lot of 263 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,560 painkillers and I thought or else make the effort here. 264 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:19,320 So I'm a made-up. He had a crutch. 265 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,480 He says can I come and buy you a crush? 266 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:24,800 And I went to his house and his dad says you need to get the 267 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,960 hospital because that's not good. 268 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:31,800 And that went the hospital. They sobered me up straight away 269 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:36,800 and told me they're preparing a theatre they're going to do. 270 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,440 Were you still thinking about a chow Mein at this point? 271 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:44,080 So they're going to open me up to release the fascia for 272 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:48,480 compartment syndrome, right? So I almost ruined my own life, 273 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,120 not just. Did you get the Chinese? 274 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:59,720 I spent the night in hospital. Yeah, I mean the whole idea, 275 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,680 yeah. It's just it's inconvenient 276 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:05,200 going about. But then I like, I play 277 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:06,720 football. So if I injure myself playing 278 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:08,120 football, it's never going to be too bad. 279 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:10,920 What speed would you could you theoretically be coming off a 280 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:15,960 bike up? So when I broke my leg, broke my 281 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,320 leg, that was the second time I told you about in 2000. 282 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:21,120 Adequate. See the first time. 283 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,200 I quit my brakes fields and I was probably travelling at 160 284 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:27,920 miles an hour. Not ideal. 285 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:30,400 Not ideal. And say the runoff area was 286 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:36,160 about it was about 3 lanes of like motorway. 287 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:42,520 Like literally 20 metres deep was the gravel trap and then you 288 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:45,000 had a tyre wall and that's obviously what hit the impact 289 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,640 when you hit that, that breaks your bone. 290 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:54,640 And yeah, that was the most horrific and fastest injury if I 291 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:57,360 ever had actually had an engine brake in. 292 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:02,520 In Phillip Island in Australia, it's turn 3, which is fifth gear 293 00:16:03,160 --> 00:16:07,040 pretty wide open on a super bike doing 160. 294 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,600 So the engine broke and there was oil leaking over the rear 295 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,440 tyre. So that's like I'm like hooking 296 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,680 gears for 5th gear and tip in and there's oil in the rear tyre 297 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,240 and just like flicked me really hard and yeah. 298 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:24,800 The fact that racers just get back, like your first thought is 299 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:27,400 to get back on if you can. Like you see people come off and 300 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:29,840 then see if they can salvage the bike and get. 301 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,240 A bit bit like that, that's why. That's a crazy mentality. 302 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,720 They'll say I love football, my kids are mad about football, but 303 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:42,200 I hate the drama of appealing for a free kick or yellow car. 304 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:45,680 When you think you've been tapped, you know what I mean. 305 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,240 Not broke. Oh, you mean like the rolling 306 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:50,600 around after? And the big drama, it's like you 307 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:54,560 do disaster. Don't do that. 308 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,280 That's. I'll roll a minimum of 10 times. 309 00:16:57,280 --> 00:17:01,600 Don't be like shame disasters. But I know exactly what you 310 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:03,320 mean. It's like, yeah, like the. 311 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,359 I guess, I guess you're acting to get something your favour 312 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:12,359 where we think, fuck, I've lost points in a championship, I need 313 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:15,040 to salvage something. Yeah, like run with your dead 314 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:18,640 leg or had a teammate. We do this endurance race called 315 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,760 the Suzuki 8 hours and he broke his leg and he. 316 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,040 It's an 8 hours and I'm competitive. 317 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,640 I only want to win where the Japanese want you to to finish 318 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,440 like it's an honour to finish that race. 319 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,880 Yeah, so he crashed. He's like trying to bring the 320 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,200 bike back and afterwards we find out it broke his leg. 321 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:37,600 You're thinking don't bring the bike back. 322 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,200 Last thing I want to do is ride around for 50th, you know what I 323 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:41,720 mean? After the repair of the bike. 324 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,720 I thought I was mad for hitting a corner after I did this. 325 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:49,080 But no, you know what? It was a good corner, no joke. 326 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,000 See, if I had a gone in, I'd be talking about this way more 327 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:53,200 other people will be talking about this. 328 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:56,600 You know what that what we enjoy that you want the medical 329 00:17:56,600 --> 00:18:01,320 assistance trackside, right? You see, within minutes you have 330 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:04,480 you feel even better than you did before you started the race. 331 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,000 Well, to be fair, I had a pensioner with a bottle of water 332 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:08,760 squirting it over there, so I was like, here's me, that'll 333 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:10,360 that'll stop, that'll fix the brick. 334 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,640 And in Australia they have this crash once in Australia and test 335 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:19,360 in a private test and they give me a whistle to be Wesley sock 336 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:23,880 on. And so they basically soak this 337 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,680 foam or like cotton wool or something into the end of the 338 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,640 whistle and morphine, I guess, right? 339 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:31,560 Mad stuff. Nice, nice. 340 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,400 Nice. Those fellas offer me. 341 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:35,720 He's on the sideline after this, but it wasn't because it was 342 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:37,560 injured. They're just there. 343 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:42,800 It's in your corner. Do you Do you enjoy tea? 344 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,840 I do enjoy tea. I prefer coffee now to fair. 345 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,640 You enjoy coffee now. Do you think that's because 346 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,160 you've spent so long travel one year old? 347 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:53,600 In Europe I never drunk coffee. Never ate tomatoes either. 348 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,440 They were two rules. You had two rules in life. 349 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:01,080 Are you on the tomatoes? No. 350 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:02,160 Yeah. Flat out. 351 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,920 Oh, really? Coffee in the tomato every day. 352 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,840 I told my home economics teacher was allergic to them. 353 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:16,280 Can you be doing? That's a thing. 354 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:20,400 No, but what what's made you come around the tomatoes? 355 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:28,960 No, I don't know. One day you just fucking do you 356 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,800 think you're on the world stage and there's people that went to 357 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:32,920 school, you're watching, you're going. 358 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:35,160 People are like fuck I teach just one section or people. 359 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:38,160 He's never ate tomatoes at school because. 360 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:42,720 Oh, no one was allowed to bring them in? 361 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,480 I hear that when someone was like, you're not allowed to 362 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,320 bring nuts in. I did, just brought them. 363 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,560 On flights I do that. What? 364 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:51,960 You'll still open a bag of peanuts? 365 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,120 Yeah, for sure. Because, like, you know, come 366 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:54,760 on. Come on. 367 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:56,160 It's not. Real kind of smell them. 368 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,200 You're not going to like, have a fit for smelling my cashews, are 369 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:03,640 you? What do you bring? 370 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,840 Like if you're you know when the season starts and you're 371 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:09,120 travelling all around the world, is there anything from home you 372 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:11,160 bring with you? Like tea bags or? 373 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:17,080 Not really a pillow. Bring your ring. 374 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:21,760 Bring a pillow to hotels or. Like memory foam or something? 375 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,640 No, it's actually a pretty standard cheap pillar. 376 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,480 I don't really like them really. It's just a pillow you like. 377 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,000 Yeah. And you bring it everywhere. 378 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,920 Yeah, I like it. Like most people. 379 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:34,280 The Louvre. Tom, Wash back under the arm. 380 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:36,240 You're just walking in counter tomorrow. 381 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:41,640 From home after bit Wee bit in my motorhome. 382 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,880 There's a big name drop here. Good friend of mine has a 383 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,600 furniture company here from Balmoral Furniture. 384 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,600 Built mattresses, right and it belt. 385 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,080 I got a mattress from my house and it was so good. 386 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:55,480 I said oh, could you make me one from a motorhome? 387 00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,520 It's like a hotel in Wales pretty much. 388 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,000 So he done one for that. So I guess that's taken someone 389 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,800 from home, See. Here, here's why I couldn't be a 390 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:07,040 professional motorbike. Well, there's many reasons. 391 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,320 My dad was a was a road racer, Dennis told Right. 392 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:13,160 My dad was a motorbike racer for. 393 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:19,520 Wait, your dad be no. 72 He looks somewhere. 48 and 100 and. 394 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:23,400 He'd erased with your dad, I. Want to say he's coming 60 I so 395 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,120 he. I'm sure he would erase for your 396 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:30,120 dad, but he he did north where raced did it all for I think he 397 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:32,120 raced for. So you'd agree up and following 398 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:33,760 him around then I guess. Yeah, yeah. 399 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:39,880 I mean, because he's like, he's 70 old now, but I was very young 400 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:44,680 when he was racing and when I was three he did a he had a real 401 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,240 bad accident. I should know where I don't know 402 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,000 corridors and best was court. I don't know. 403 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:54,840 And but he's a road racer and he broke his neck, his back, I 404 00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:56,800 mean, everything you could think of. 405 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:01,440 And he so he never, although I sort of grew up around bikes, he 406 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,440 actively didn't incur like, yeah, yeah. 407 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,080 I was never on a bike as a kid. I went in a scrambler once and 408 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,840 thought I was going. I thought I had a flare for it 409 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,880 for the first time when the scrumbleers were the other nine 410 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:14,760 and then I watched a video of me on it back and realised I didn't 411 00:22:14,760 --> 00:22:17,000 have a flare for it. I was going 3 miles an hour and. 412 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,600 That's normal. I I feel like that. 413 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:20,760 You're right. We we go riding all the time and 414 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:24,320 send a photographer a mate to get a picture. 415 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:26,960 I'll go to this jump. I'm gonna like give it a nice 416 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,800 big whip. And then I see the bitch. 417 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,920 I feel like I'm supercross hero and I see the picture. 418 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,760 I'm like such an amateur. But I like he he like made sure 419 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:40,080 I think that I didn't get in the bikes because he like, you know, 420 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:44,120 he was like he tells me and loads of people tell me your dad 421 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,520 was brilliant, you know, and, and like he showed me all the 422 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:51,120 but he fell off a lot of times, like a lot like I think he 423 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:54,040 thought that was one of the object, like that was, you know, 424 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,400 a good thing. But he had so many. 425 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,960 So I like, I never got into it, but you look at, you know, you 426 00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,480 talk about the motorhome and the comfort. 427 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,840 I'm sure when you were starting you didn't have that level of 428 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,240 comfort. And anything but that. 429 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,440 But you go, when you go around the pits at some of these races, 430 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,400 once you get to the edge of the pitch, you see fellas, it's 431 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,160 maybe a two man operation. He's got to know he borrowed 432 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,240 someone's van. There's maybe a mattress in the 433 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,120 back. And it's just like, I don't 434 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:24,200 really like the colder it like I like, you know, when you you 435 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:28,400 just see how much goes into Yeah, you know, and yeah, you 436 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,120 might, it might just be the writer on the mechanic or 437 00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:32,440 sometimes the yeah. That's that's how we started 438 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:35,240 then motocross you. You're from, you're from Lauren. 439 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,520 Yeah, I said. Lauren, you ever had a cold 440 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,800 water kill water? You're too young. 441 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:45,280 Davidoff, that's an off shift. Cool water, remember that? 442 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,920 Davidoff kill water so. Here's Sam Pretty national 443 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:53,000 landmark in the late 80s early 90s rave scene. 444 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:57,280 Cold Water House Hotel. I was on my way home from a gig 445 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,520 and got talking to someone about this and I didn't know if they 446 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,560 were making it up, so I'm glad that you've told me it was like 447 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:07,200 an old country house. When I say small hotel, right, 448 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:11,280 Actually it looked like Crawford's Burn. 449 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,800 Yeah, like that kind of old, right? 450 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,360 All the way. And this is middle of nowhere 451 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:18,280 sort of thing. Think yeah, I think Crawford's 452 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:22,040 burn hotel with coach Barn bridge attached to it, right. 453 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,760 It was it was big deal, right. A lot of funny stories there 454 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:29,120 growing up because we like literally my garden are we 455 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:35,640 garden ran on to the hotel lawns and so we would see like all 456 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,280 sorts going on. We actually had this be wooden 457 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:41,240 house like a Wendy host called it, like a Playhouse outside. 458 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,400 I like the way you said you're the Wendy host and then change 459 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:47,000 it really quickly to Playhouse. Why do they call them Wendy? 460 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,560 That's what my mom called it when I was young. 461 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:54,600 So with a pad, outdoor toys, just storage stuff and find all 462 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:57,240 sorts in there. Well, people like fivers, 463 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,600 condoms, a belly, chin. Oh, why? 464 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:05,080 Like that's very nice and. Imagine walking this Indian 465 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,160 Mommy. What's this, Mom? 466 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,600 So yeah, Belly. You have a water balloon fight 467 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,160 like no, that's. Not not another true story. 468 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,320 So my aunt and uncle when I was really young were babysitting me 469 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:19,080 for mom and dad were out having dinner or date whatever. 470 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:22,080 They come home and dad reckoned I was snoring. 471 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,320 So he's like, he's walking upstairs thinking why is he 472 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,880 heavy breathing? He's only three years old and he 473 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,800 finds somebody sleeping on the landing of the stairs and he 474 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,360 kicked him stupid out of the house. 475 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:33,960 From like they'd walk from one of the. 476 00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,320 Roads drunk from walk down the garden pretty much into our 477 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,760 house and fell asleep but there'd be busloads to people at 478 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,800 cold water, but the. People will come from. 479 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,800 I had people come from. It was all over. 480 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,840 It was like. Kelly's, but in cold water. 481 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:49,560 And did you witness like we, what do we able to look at all 482 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:51,040 that like see this from where you lived? 483 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,320 Yeah. Like. 484 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:53,840 Must seen some states. Oh, wait. 485 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,840 Wait, there's a guy? Yeah, it was brilliant. 486 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:58,440 You can say anything in this podcast, by the way. 487 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,640 So if you're thinking anything and you're like I might be able 488 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,520 to say it, you can say. When I say thinking of it 489 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:08,640 because the bike was riding was a 60CC so it must have been 10. 490 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,040 My dad and my mates that were out in the guys working at the 491 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,160 bikes having a few beers late in a Friday or Saturday night and 492 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,040 we're running around with like woods, trees everywhere. 493 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,080 So we're running around the woods, me and my mate and his 494 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,160 Big Brother, and we've seen these two like snog in the face 495 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,760 off each other. I don't know why I would let out 496 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,520 one of these. And they chased us. 497 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:31,720 They chased us down through the woods. 498 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,200 They had no idea where they were going, but they chased us until 499 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:37,040 and I was. Me and Phillips, Big Brother 500 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,560 Chris got back to the guys first, screaming Phillip need 501 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,680 help and they caught my mate Phillip for the scruff of the 502 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:44,960 neck. I don't know what they're going 503 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,680 to do to him. Yeah, yeah, my dad was stood 504 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:52,680 there but I don't know. My dad had a hammer on his hand. 505 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,760 He says put him down and let him go. 506 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,880 But I was brilliant. But it's a shame because I think 507 00:26:57,880 --> 00:26:59,640 it's not housing. Right, right. 508 00:26:59,640 --> 00:27:02,520 And I was derelict for years. But it was, it's definitely 509 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,920 happening in my childhood. It was cool. 510 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,080 Is Rd like bike racing big where you are? 511 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,160 Like how did you know? It just because my dad raced 512 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:12,880 and. See you. 513 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,160 That's a difference in me and you. 514 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:16,960 I've gone to races with my dad, looked at that and gone. 515 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,720 Oh, no, and you've gone to that. It looks like a pretty crack. 516 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,640 Everything from like. That Road Rd racer. 517 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,520 Both circuits and road racing. So he did and he competed around 518 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:32,800 the UK, but it was made as sort of name here and like done 519 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,760 pretty well I think you reckon, Like prize monies and stuff and. 520 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:37,600 You won't take it. You're the. 521 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:40,520 One on elementary, Yeah, surprise money, some bonus 522 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,560 monies like furnished the family home or many bought the family 523 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,080 home and made all the renovations to it. 524 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,640 Right. So you've done, I think you've 525 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,480 done really well. Never got the chance like an 526 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:55,080 opportunity because, yeah, our sports, it's super expensive and 527 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,640 there's not a lot of opportunities knife for kids, 528 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:02,040 which is sad because it's a lot of it's not as bad as the F1, 529 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,360 for example, but it's, it's a wealthy man's sport. 530 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:07,840 Yeah. And we got into talking about I 531 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:12,560 have a nice big fancy motorhome now, but when we rode the like 532 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,040 in British motocross, we used to get one of my dad's little 533 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:18,360 distribution bands like a medium wheel brace sort of sprinter. 534 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:21,760 It was a fit, the Caro because he's in transport. 535 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:23,880 No. Of these pallets have upright 536 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,840 stakes. And then the whole textiles. 537 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,240 Yeah, we would just overturn one of them, right? 538 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,280 Put our mattress on top of it. And you'd woke up in the morning 539 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:33,680 with the condensation from the van coming down on you. 540 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:34,960 Yeah. But they were the best days. 541 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:36,960 I was going to say like I remember being great crack like 542 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,920 travelling as a kid. In the summer power washer like 543 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,960 and all the say all the English most like we went there because 544 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,960 we travelled for a good competition and then all big 545 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,320 fancy motor homes and showers and whatnot. 546 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:53,800 And we were we had this coke bottle with a drilled holes in 547 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:56,440 the bottom of it and taped it to the power washer to make a 548 00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:59,320 shower. So like we were shower like 549 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,000 after races and like it was, it was great. 550 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,840 Great times, good fun. And when you were, when you were 551 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,040 doing that, when you were travelling in those early days, 552 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:11,520 was this some you saw as a future career or was it just a 553 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:12,880 hobby then? Like what was your? 554 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,880 That was a Hobbit, but I wanted to be a motocross rider, right? 555 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,840 More than what I deny like a super bike rider. 556 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,560 Yeah. I felt like Rd racing was 557 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,800 boring, you know, because there's no jumps and the tracks 558 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:28,960 just the same every lap. Yeah, I mean to like, that's 559 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,760 looking out from a writer's point of view, because when I 560 00:29:30,760 --> 00:29:33,600 look at it, I'm like, you're on the like. 561 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,640 I also don't think people from outside here are people that 562 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,760 don't know Rd racing. I think, I don't think they 563 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:42,080 understand it's on the roads like it's on the public roads 564 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,800 that you go on and those speeds are as mad. 565 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,800 I didn't ever understand. Like say you sit in the ground, 566 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,560 I sat in the grandstand and watched that. 567 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,400 You'd still don't get. It's just like it doesn't make 568 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,280 sense. They're going fast and quick and 569 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,800 we stood for a thing. It was maybe a Northwest and 570 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:02,880 I've not been to many races at all, but we stood in like in a 571 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,480 bank and our eye level was level with the road. 572 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,360 So we're sort of in a, in a sunken bank. 573 00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:09,960 Yeah, yeah. And it was only then that I 574 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,040 really got a sense of the speed, the speed and a still you would 575 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,400 never have. Because that's where you get the 576 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:19,240 sensor speed is live because TV doesn't do it justice. 577 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,400 And then if you do it yourself, honestly, see one chef your 578 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,160 helmet on your earplugs, it's a wee happy place. 579 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:29,600 Like you wouldn't I wrote Pitlian speed limit I think 60K 580 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:31,880 and I was 40 mile an hour 60K is that right? 581 00:30:32,240 --> 00:30:33,840 I'd be the last person that would know that I. 582 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:37,200 Think it's 40 mile an hour and literally you feel like you're 583 00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:38,920 walking. Right. 584 00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:41,640 But I would feel, but if that was me, I'd feel like I was 585 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:44,960 going 200 mile long. So slow because like in Monza, 586 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,280 we do Monza, the F1 track, big, long, long front straight. 587 00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:53,680 You do 208 mile an hour and and it's an. 588 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,400 And you're describing that as your happy place. 589 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,360 You know, you're just. Not happy place, but I know. 590 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,720 But you're you're nice and warm, calm, you're good Leathers 591 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,880 keeping your warm hands and all you're thinking about, all 592 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:06,200 you're focused on is you see your pit board going past 593 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,760 because it's start finished strip and you're just focused 594 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,120 on. I think it's the 300 yard 595 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,560 marker, right? That's my break point for that 596 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,000 term. One first gear corner. 597 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:18,120 So you're thinking about is there and back to 6th. 598 00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,880 So you're focused on and it's not like warp speed, like yeah, 599 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,560 things are common. It's just actually really like 600 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,040 like driving down main. Street. 601 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,000 I just can't. Well, of course you can't. 602 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,760 And not many people. Can't speed your speed is not 603 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,840 the deal. It's actually the hardest thing 604 00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:40,040 is changing direction because they think somebody's got, it's 605 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:43,560 like some sort of arcade game. Yeah, like on the PlayStation 606 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:44,760 and you just turn the handlebars. 607 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:50,240 But literally bikes 100 and I'm say 175 kilos. 608 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:55,720 Right, that's what I bench. And you're good lad and you're 609 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,360 so you're 208 mile an hour and you're stopping the first gear, 610 00:31:58,360 --> 00:32:02,120 which is probably 50 miles. You can 40 miles you can very 611 00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,880 slow. So the G forces is ridiculous. 612 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:09,320 Then trying to go through a fast chicane at maybe in 3rd gear 100 613 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:12,040 miles, changing that weight from left to right. 614 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:14,040 It's hard. Like my heart rates are 615 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,600 ridiculously high, ideal my effort tests and fitness tests 616 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:20,360 and I can't even simulate the same heart. 617 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:22,960 Is it? Almost rich that I do when I'm 618 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,960 when I race, do more. Accidents happen when you're 619 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:29,080 going slower, like in in the likes of corners and that sort 620 00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,400 of thing. Yeah, Mostly, yeah. 621 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,520 Yeah, they don't. High speed accidents don't 622 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,280 unless you collide with somebody, which is, which is not 623 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,920 unheard of, but yeah, rare. Normally it's the most common 624 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,040 crashes. We call it losing the front. 625 00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:49,040 We crash on the front. Either too much break or too 626 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,080 much lean angle or whatever, but that's right close to the apex 627 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,720 to the corner and honestly with these airbags and are sitting 628 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,440 nice. So you blow up like literally 629 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:02,240 some all my torso area down to my arm here, all my front chest 630 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,920 and round my neck. Just this be gyro sensor. 631 00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:09,320 You know how it knows you're going to crash before you crash, 632 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,960 but some sort of movement that will inflate before an impact? 633 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,360 So see the DOMS afterwards from you just to feel like you're in 634 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,120 a washing machine now. The amount, the weight that 635 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:23,280 you're moving and also carrying. No, I mean like after you've had 636 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,120 a crash, normally the next day you wake up feeling rough as 637 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,160 hair, like you've been in a washing machine, where now with 638 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,440 this airbag, it sort of keeps you all together and. 639 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,520 I drive. I thought airbag already 640 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,120 inflated, Would you? I think 1000%. 641 00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:37,840 I know plenty of people that look like they've got an airbag. 642 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:44,040 All the time. And how did you go from those 643 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,160 days of, you know, travel in the UK or wherever it was and you 644 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,440 know, the Coke bottle Shah, really, how did you go from that 645 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,680 to to being professional? Like what was the point of your 646 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:58,200 life where you realised that actually this might be a career? 647 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:06,000 Pretty early I realised going from motor across the road race, 648 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:09,400 so I got this opportunity. It was like a newspaper ad and 649 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,199 they were looking for young writers, rookie writers. 650 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,080 So I applied for my dad fell out a lot. 651 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:17,000 Was the paper. You remember it. 652 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,520 Was called Motorcycle News. It's a weekly English paper. 653 00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:20,560 Yeah, I remember that being. Nice. 654 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:26,080 So it's a full back page thing and all I've seen was worth 75 655 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,520 grand. I thought my Christmas had come, 656 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:29,000 but that was the budget it took to run. 657 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:30,159 You didn't get paid. Yeah. 658 00:34:31,159 --> 00:34:33,840 So I got this free, pretty much free ride because I sent a 659 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,239 pretty cute CV. I had 40 words to describe 660 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,360 myself, so I did it in bullet point I. 661 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,600 Remember. I know it's. 662 00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,159 I it's tomatoes. And so it's like, it's like X 663 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:49,920 Factor. I remember there being like, I 664 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:54,840 want to say 30 or 40 riders at a selection day and then you 665 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,440 whittled it down to five and went to Spain and they select 666 00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,880 them in there. What age were you? 667 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,200 16 right, but that was late to the road race game. 668 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,880 Like these kids were, were young and I realised quite quick it 669 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:12,080 was like I was good, but and it wasn't that difficult. 670 00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,920 It wasn't as difficult as the other riders were, let's say, 671 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:18,280 because coming from motocross, I was riding a bike with the 672 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,440 clutch and gears from you're like 8 years old or 910 years 673 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:26,920 old. So you're in, you're in, come to 674 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:27,880 sport. Then when you feel like 675 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,000 sometimes it's more dad's dream and mom's dream than the kid. 676 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:34,120 Yeah. So I just found all this 677 00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,240 experience helped me if quite natural. 678 00:35:36,240 --> 00:35:38,320 Took to road race and then within a couple of years my 679 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,240 results were decent. Had that leg injury set me back 680 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:45,000 and then I actually qualified in pole position for a British 681 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,280 super bike race that was here in Dublin and Mandela. 682 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:49,800 Park you still a teenager at this point on. 683 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,240 My first ever year on a super bike against Yeah, I was a 684 00:35:53,240 --> 00:35:57,360 teenager. I think it was mostly 17 or 18. 685 00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,000 I think it's the youngest ever pole position. 686 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,600 Then last long. I got took out in turn 1 by 687 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:04,400 somebody else. Yeah, but somebody else. 688 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,280 So but then I realised that I was fast, but I was crashing a 689 00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,440 lot. I'm not doing too well. 690 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,760 And then I got my first Mom and dad were always very strict that 691 00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,880 I went to work. So I went and worked in a like 692 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,760 an engineer, my uncle's an engineering company so that they 693 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,480 release to do a manufacturing engineering degree. 694 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,400 And they were, until you get us like a wee bit of sponsorship 695 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,560 coming through, but not enough to call it a job. 696 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:32,240 Yeah. And so until you get a salary, 697 00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,360 you're going to work. So I've done that in O7. 698 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,640 I got like a salary to race in the British Championship and 699 00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:42,000 done that for a year with the factory team. 700 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,640 And then I went to World Championship in 2008 and I've 701 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,440 been there since. So you own not that you fell 702 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,840 into the sport by accident. But locked into it, Yeah, like 703 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:55,040 by a plan to use because if I didn't get that, like, we're 704 00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:59,640 like working class family, like mom and dad worked hard and we 705 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,240 couldn't never afford to do something like that. 706 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:04,600 Yeah, I was literally, if I didn't get that job, I was 707 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,080 planning to do motocross again. Because like like you said, most 708 00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:12,600 riders probably around that time were, you know, the your age 709 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,320 would have been the family have bought them a bike and had a bit 710 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,240 of money. Hard at that or now it's like 711 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:23,120 there's a lot of pay as you go rides like yeah, you have to 712 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:26,320 bring up big amount of money to the team right now. 713 00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:28,680 They'll run you. Yeah, that's become a more and 714 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,840 more popular. But back in O3 or 4I just yeah, 715 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,840 I got really lucky to get into it and fell on my feet. 716 00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:35,800 Really. What? 717 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:39,880 What was the first time you came off when you sort of when you 718 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:40,440 went pro? When? 719 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,080 Not the first on the audition. I thought I'd blew it. 720 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:47,600 So when they were selecting, when it was like 30, we're all 721 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,280 this track in the UK, that was a pretty crap day. 722 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,000 I remember there being wet patches everyone. 723 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:55,720 We had a borrowed bike and my dad's all borrowed Leathers and 724 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,240 stuff. And I went out and I was passing 725 00:37:58,240 --> 00:38:02,880 loads of people on my first go. Some honour here and I'd done a 726 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:07,040 test day before, like my dad got my some went to a race school in 727 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:08,560 England. The Ron hasn't race school. 728 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:13,600 So I'd rode so I knew what tyres felt like and whatnot. 729 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:19,080 So I was flying this first out and then the second night I was 730 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,040 like passing everybody. I felt like the fastest and then 731 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,960 I crashed. Oh no, we didn't have enough 732 00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:25,840 spares to fix the bike so that I fucked it blew it. 733 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,680 So we're driving home the whole way up there that a 75 up to Ken 734 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:34,840 Ryan boat and got a phone call send the they want me to be in 735 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,040 the last five so. They'd seen the potential. 736 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:38,760 Before we crashed on my first day, right? 737 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,360 Yeah. And is that maybe something they 738 00:38:40,360 --> 00:38:42,800 look at and go was willing to go that fast that he. 739 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,560 Well, maybe not. I think they like, they secretly 740 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:49,960 like the idea of taking someone with no experience. 741 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,320 Right, Because all the other kids have maybe had a couple of 742 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,920 years of club race in our DM whatever. 743 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:55,640 Yeah. By literally gone from Desert 744 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,200 Martin motocross track to Donnington Park. 745 00:38:58,240 --> 00:39:00,480 Was there ever, when you were getting into it more 746 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,560 professionally and more seriously, was there ever, did 747 00:39:03,560 --> 00:39:07,960 you ever sort of think about the, you know, because growing 748 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:11,040 up with your dad racing and knowing so many people, you 749 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,800 know, you're probably like, my dad would have shown me race 750 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:17,600 programmes back in the day and he would point out at some point 751 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,520 while he's not with us anymore, he's not, you know, and 752 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,000 sometimes it can be a photo of my dad and four other and 753 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,640 there's two of them. You know what videos say, I 754 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:30,000 don't know why I always said loads of coverage back then, but 755 00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,520 he's loads of videos and he could you're better name and the 756 00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:35,680 people that are still. Around, yeah, yeah. 757 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,280 Like. Did that play in your mind at 758 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:40,120 any point? Not really, no. 759 00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:42,880 It's a sick mindset really, because who's of a dog? 760 00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,680 Because I have two kids as well now, and horrible to say this, 761 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,440 but I I love them being around and whatnot. 762 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,240 But then you put your helmet on and you don't think about 763 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:55,240 nothing. You don't think about ever left 764 00:39:55,240 --> 00:40:01,400 the gardens cut or have I wonder they're not food or wonder where 765 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,280 they're going to be watching. Like you literally put help and 766 00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:05,440 you're like two people. Yeah. 767 00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,680 It's like it's it. I mean, obviously in a far 768 00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,160 different level and scale, but I can equate that to be on stage 769 00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:13,960 I'm performing. Like if. 770 00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:17,080 If you, if any other thought entered your mind like you're 771 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:20,400 not in the zone, you shouldn't be up there and doing it, you 772 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:21,800 can. It's it's adrenaline. 773 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,760 Yeah, it's. And that's why I'm telling you 774 00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:27,560 earlier about heart rates. Like literally I put when I pull 775 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,760 the zip and my letters up. I've I've used my computer and 776 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:34,200 put it in my hump, my heart rate strap on. 777 00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:36,000 I'm a coach. Just took the same 10. 778 00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:39,120 Breathe, breathe. This is why it is like 110 beats 779 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:40,800 a minute. Yeah, I'm just sat in my chair 780 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,560 done doing nothing. But I suppose if you it could be 781 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:45,560 dangerous if you didn't have. That it's adrenaline and you 782 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,280 didn't have the adrenaline. Maybe that's. 783 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:51,680 If I don't feel slightly nervous or adrenaline going on stage, I 784 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:52,760 know it's not going to be a good one. 785 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:55,680 Yeah, the times when you know you have you have to have a 786 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:57,440 good. One see, I love that and I think 787 00:40:57,440 --> 00:41:01,080 it's I think it's a way better not the big up ourselves here, 788 00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:04,120 but I think coming from here you've get even more of that. 789 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:05,160 You know I. Think you always have an 790 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,920 underdog mentality? Underdog mentality. 791 00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,640 And you like your back then against the wall. 792 00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,840 Yeah. And I I like that. 793 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,160 But the worst, I mean, if it goes wrong for me, the worst 794 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,720 thing that's going to happen is, you know, 80 people in Orma in a 795 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,800 week theatre go. No, I didn't love that. 796 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,200 You know, there's no the jeopardy is is nowhere near as 797 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,960 bad whereas you are going at such high speeds and I have it. 798 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,040 Emotionally, it can be tough. I think you're built. 799 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,880 Different than a big high side than people walking out on me on 800 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,040 stage. I'll get over that a lot 801 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,720 quicker. It's I think you just, you just 802 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:43,200 are obviously built different. The only time I've experienced 803 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,520 speed on a bike is whenever I was about 14, my dad took me to 804 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:51,080 his mate's bike around Craig Antler in Hollywood and I'm 805 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,080 talking single lane country roads. 806 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,120 The guy was going night. Now my dad is the most careful 807 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,440 driver of his car you could ever meet and has never really had 808 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,920 his own bike since he retired because he he doesn't enjoy, not 809 00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,440 really if you're on a bike. He wants to race and he took me 810 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,080 out, he said to really scare me and put me off it once and for 811 00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:10,680 all. Now it was never I was never 812 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,840 going to get in them. I'd show no interest in bikes 813 00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,840 and my dad was like, I'll throw you on here, we'll go out for a 814 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:18,600 wee run. He's gone 90. 815 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,720 I was calling him everything in the helmet. 816 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:22,560 He obviously couldn't hear me get off. 817 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:26,080 My legs are like Jelly, he said. You'll you'll not be a racer. 818 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:28,120 I was like, I know I could have told you before we did this. 819 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,160 But that's mad. Like anything could happen 820 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:33,240 because shit in the road. Yeah. 821 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:34,800 Some regular reverse light in front of you. 822 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:36,680 Yeah. And I think, like what I do, 823 00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,360 it's in a controlled space. I mean, you can't control the 824 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:41,320 other people you race with. Yeah, yeah. 825 00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:45,760 Like the laws of it's pretty alright, you know, I mean, yeah, 826 00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,640 airbags, that decent helmets. You're saying the PS and I 827 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:49,920 should investigate? Frigging right. 828 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,320 But you know what's worse? My dad was the same. 829 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,440 He has to with race bikes and they'd get something new and 830 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,920 he'd have to run it in. So take it around the local Rd, 831 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:03,280 cold water or whatever, and he'd have this, this farmer beside 832 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:05,480 us. He'd have this route that if the 833 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,280 police ever caught him or find them in the roads, he would lose 834 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:13,680 them and park the bike in the farmer's shed, quickly letters 835 00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,080 off and then walk down to the house because they'd know all 836 00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,600 that's Johnny Ray out there. They'll be back waiting for his 837 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,760 to be parking the lawn and every dad dandering down from the 838 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:24,960 garage. Were you in the roads? 839 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:29,160 No, and it would Take Me Out sometimes and I bet Marie 840 00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,800 Helmont Dad don't go faster than six. 841 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:35,520 It was 6 was 6000 RPM, right. As soon as it would get to that, 842 00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,880 I'd get dead nervous. But yeah, it was. 843 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:40,400 But that's meant. But that and that's the only way 844 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,520 back in the day people could practise and really get give 845 00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,880 bikes a run out was if you're Rd racial was the road. 846 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,400 Just remember the Dunlop so we see in documentaries with them 847 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,520 and there were they were really going forward on the roads or in 848 00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,240 Ballymoney like and because you had to. 849 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,920 Well, my dad wouldn't go for it. He was just running on his bike 850 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:57,440 and just in case, right? Yeah. 851 00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,680 Any case, I throw my dad under the bus. 852 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,760 Here, no, I actually have. Visited him once a week. 853 00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:07,560 I I. Sorry Dad busted you. 854 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,320 They're going back in the place. He's going to be in the Galbry 855 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:11,720 tonight. He's going to be in the Galbry 856 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:13,560 tonight. Or the historical team will get 857 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,120 him for sure. Him and my dad will be sharing 858 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:16,040 the sale. They can talk about bikes. 859 00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:20,240 It'll be sweet. I've I've I've actually, I mean 860 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:23,520 like, like your framer, I'm sure you've done some terrible 861 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:26,480 injuries, but on a bike I've actually done I've done a pretty 862 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,040 bad one. Oh yeah, I see. 863 00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,440 See this wrist? Holy shit. 864 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:36,040 Yeah, I was on, I was a, you know, biker, biker accent push, 865 00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,720 push bike. Like really. 866 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:42,040 Yeah, I was, I was cycling down to me a toast when I was about 867 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:47,120 19 and the front end, you know yourself from then when I was 868 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:52,560 doing a boat, 12 and 12 MPH and and just that whatever way the 869 00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,320 handlebars went, I went over the top, landed with my hand like 870 00:44:55,320 --> 00:44:58,160 this and the bone just went through my hand. 871 00:44:58,240 --> 00:45:01,760 But I had a hoodie on my sleeves up, so I didn't know that bone. 872 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,640 I was fine until I got home and. Was it broke? 873 00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:06,440 Oh yeah. That's. 874 00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:08,960 Just Jen, I swear to God, the doctor said. 875 00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:13,360 It's described as fucked, the doctor at Dundonald A&E said. 876 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,280 That is fucked. I was like, well that's not made 877 00:45:15,280 --> 00:45:16,800 me feel any better, but I you could. 878 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:18,000 Probably tell at yourself though. 879 00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,840 Oh, it was looking at me like I felt fine until I took the 880 00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:24,760 jacket off and saw the ball and then I like near fainted and 881 00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,880 passed out. But when I went to Dundonald to 882 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:31,080 the Ulster D&E the the receptionist said what have you 883 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,480 done? They said off falling off my 884 00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,760 bike and I've done this and she said motorbike, yeah. 885 00:45:37,680 --> 00:45:40,240 Yes, safer. I have it bicycles now. 886 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,960 Big some horror crashes. Well, you it's weird to me that 887 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,360 you cycle as a hobby because I'd be thinking just going at that 888 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,160 speed, not. What bad knees? 889 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:53,920 So running as training, like cardio training is not the best, 890 00:45:53,920 --> 00:45:56,160 right? So it cycles like low impact. 891 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,320 So I do a lot of cycling. And you just got your do you get 892 00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,840 your motorbike licence last year? 893 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,240 Last year, yeah. What was going through the 894 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:05,240 examiner's head? You showed up. 895 00:46:05,840 --> 00:46:10,160 I didn't think it sort of takes like if I made AI did do it 896 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:15,760 right and I'd really good training, but I thought it'd be 897 00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,560 pretty ballsy to feel me. Yeah, I suppose being AI suppose 898 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,040 you're a good trip, being a six time or super bike champion is 899 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:24,720 probably good training for. You for here but then I also 900 00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:28,920 thought maybe he'd see this is like his career maker. 901 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:30,360 You know what I mean, I. Feel Johnny. 902 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,640 Bike rider. So it's like 2 minds. 903 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,560 I'm trying Ballymena around loads of roads. 904 00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,520 Didn't really know so but I got through it. 905 00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,640 But that's crazy bike. I didn't have that. 906 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:48,280 I got a bike from Corey and Kawasaki actually and it's done. 907 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:50,840 No miles. I'm like a fareweller, right? 908 00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,120 Even in the bicycle, right, you see the people. 909 00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,280 I do a lot right in the indoor trainer just we see people like 910 00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,440 all like waterproofed up like yeah, all elements like. 911 00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,680 All the gears, yeah. I couldn't do that. 912 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,520 Yeah, they're weathered. Yeah, I mean cycling is 913 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,400 something like obviously since since you'll rest, I wouldn't, I 914 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,480 wouldn't be on a bike anymore after that high speed, high 915 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:13,880 speed accident. I'm actually looking to be here, 916 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,600 but and I'm still I'm doing a podcast with broken food, but 917 00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:19,120 it's warriors like also just get. 918 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:21,480 On with it, yeah. You know, we just get on with 919 00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:22,040 it. You have to. 920 00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:23,280 You've got to get back on the bike. 921 00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:24,960 See, I haven't back on the bike since. 922 00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:29,200 You see, I'm like that. But I do think that adversary. 923 00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,000 Adversary helps you. Yeah. 924 00:47:31,800 --> 00:47:34,720 Yeah. I mean, like, you can't wrap. 925 00:47:34,720 --> 00:47:37,160 We have two young kids and you can't wrap them in Commonwealth. 926 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,720 My miss the worst nightmare thinking our boys ride bikes. 927 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,000 Yeah, they can ride and I encourage them. 928 00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,520 To ride, I suppose if you really held it back, that would make 929 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,200 him almost more attractive to do. 930 00:47:48,240 --> 00:47:49,920 You know, if you were like, you're never getting on a bike, 931 00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:53,040 you know, your kids might then. Whatever even more had the shits 932 00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:54,800 with the others from once because he had always want to 933 00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,240 ride. So we'd take him someone and 934 00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:59,160 they would just have a Davis truck that I'm not riding. 935 00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,720 Like drove an hour and a half. To get here, set it all up, 936 00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:04,440 obviously. So I put a wee bit of pressure 937 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:05,720 on him. It didn't really work. 938 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,800 So the second one, I'm playing a game right now with him. 939 00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,160 He's like, don't want to write. I was like, that's alright, 940 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,560 because it might come Ryan Yeah, but they're mad in the football 941 00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:16,960 and there's not a football in my family. 942 00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:23,120 I I've started playing my Lord of dads from kids school 943 00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:25,800 something and turn up to the first night they've been asked 944 00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:27,200 along. They've been playing for years. 945 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,680 Happy. A lot of big fat old blokes, you 946 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,840 know, like really old. Yeah, because they've got kids. 947 00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:37,800 And then I realised and I realised like they're all super 948 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:41,760 young, super good. Like yeah not semi pro but. 949 00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,920 Yeah, good level. Really good level of football so 950 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:46,960 I can't kick a ball. I play rugby at school. 951 00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:49,840 Right. But I've got terrible first 952 00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:50,800 touch. But I'm fast. 953 00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:51,520 Right. Yeah. 954 00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,960 I don't think I'm the wakest, right? 955 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,200 But I'm not good. So I asked one of the other 956 00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:00,480 dads. Cool Dad, can you help me out? 957 00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,080 We went to my last playing field is there, took loads of cones 958 00:49:04,080 --> 00:49:08,080 and stakes taken dead serious and if you choose to, so I've 959 00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:11,680 got a wee bit of skill now I can control the boys to just run. 960 00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:14,240 The ball, is that your competitiveness, do you think? 961 00:49:14,240 --> 00:49:17,760 And in wanting to be really. Good at something you do. 962 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:22,680 So I don't, Jenna, apart from golf and this football, I don't 963 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,720 tend to do stuff that I'm not good at, right? 964 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:28,360 But I'm really not good at football. 965 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:33,000 If I were you, every week that you play, I'd show up in my 966 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:37,080 motorcycle boots and go. You said wear boots every week. 967 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,320 Every week I would be. I would be going with them. 968 00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,920 I put I was that do you wear? Your helmet. 969 00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:43,760 Wednesday, No. No. 970 00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,280 Wednesday nights has clean on goal. 971 00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,320 I put the ball over the net, I think. 972 00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:51,840 I think automatically that gives the other team a goal. 973 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:55,280 The way they work the rules, if you put the ball over the 3G 974 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,120 pitch, they get a goal. Get them. 975 00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,920 No change that kicks it gets. It's just a point. 976 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:02,520 It's just a goal kick. Like but yeah, they got a goal. 977 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:04,160 Do three corners penalty? I'm big fan of that. 978 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,120 Yeah, on what? Three corners of penalty. 979 00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,120 Is that right? Well it's just an interpretation 980 00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,520 of it where like instead of giving a corner and almost take 981 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:14,560 a corner and five aside, no, if it goes behind for a corner 982 00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:16,640 three times then that team get a penalty. 983 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:17,800 That's fair enough. Three corners penalty. 984 00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:19,600 Three quarter penalty is quite universally. 985 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:21,720 Excited I'll try and I'm trying to bring it in. 986 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,800 I'm new in this group so I'm like tip tone and can't really 987 00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,160 suggest. Make a statement. 988 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,520 So what's up? So WhatsApp grip as well, It's 989 00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,520 not active. I've got loads of grips or so 990 00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:34,160 and this one's not. So I feel like it's a it's a 991 00:50:34,680 --> 00:50:37,040 cool dad grip, you know that? Not really. 992 00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,800 Just right, right, right now. Three corners. 993 00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,400 I can just say. What about three corners? 994 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,080 I'm. Not Best Buy and then send send 995 00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:56,880 a picture of all your trophies, say hey guys been playing sport 996 00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,120 for a while. Three corners of penalty 997 00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:00,720 question mark. Sport. 998 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:03,520 They don't have been playing football for a while because the 999 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,160 first weeks I was getting loads of service, like oh I'm free and 1000 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:08,240 free. Like Wednesday night, I was 1001 00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,480 clearly way more free than he was down there and the ball 1002 00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,000 doesn't come to me. I know the feeling. 1003 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,560 I mean that's I mean to there must be a couple of guys there 1004 00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,800 maybe who like, you know, play as a one off or whatever who 1005 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:25,680 maybe might not know who they're playing against. 1006 00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,800 But like if I was playing against you, I would be so 1007 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:30,200 scared. No, they're not. 1008 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,040 In any way, they're not. Brought up guy down the penalty 1009 00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:36,600 box last night badly myself, right, But they're they're 1010 00:51:37,240 --> 00:51:38,640 they're. Tough they go for it. 1011 00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:40,600 Yeah, that's not my kind of game. 1012 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,280 No, I wouldn't say they're aggressed. 1013 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:44,920 They're not slide type, kind of stuff like that. 1014 00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,400 But they're right, like aggressive, like shoulder bars 1015 00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:50,960 and like big ones, Yeah. British Bulldogs sort of stuff 1016 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:52,520 at school, like coming at you, yeah. 1017 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,640 I see British Blue logs when people played that at school. 1018 00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:57,360 I would I'd just be the adjudicator. 1019 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,400 I'd stand with the board. And do I give you your stats 1020 00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,880 after? That that prepped me for rugby, 1021 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,560 right, right. Secondary school, then. 1022 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:09,640 I I played Robbie Touch. Did you exclusively scrum half? 1023 00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:12,920 Right. Then I stopped playing because 1024 00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,160 on Saturdays they played when I think in 3rd year you start 1025 00:52:16,160 --> 00:52:18,440 playing Saturday mornings. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1026 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:20,480 I was more across then SO. Right. 1027 00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:27,320 What, what is the support like you get from home and has it 1028 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:31,280 like as in from Northern Ireland and has it like was it there at 1029 00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:34,920 an early point like when you started in in in the Super bikes 1030 00:52:35,360 --> 00:52:38,240 where people really paying attention here and like getting 1031 00:52:38,240 --> 00:52:40,400 behind you or did that come after a couple of years? 1032 00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,600 Yeah, I think I helped because my dad was raced unknown here as 1033 00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:50,560 doing all right one on TT. So I wasn't really myself. 1034 00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:52,680 I was Johnny Ray's son. Yeah. 1035 00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:57,040 And then we're pretty lucky back here because we had like a 1036 00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,560 monthly magazine. There's a magazine called Irish 1037 00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:00,840 Racer. Yeah, I remember. 1038 00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,160 I remember all these being. In the road race in Ireland and 1039 00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,000 all that, yeah. So it was really well supported 1040 00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,400 and we're lucky compared to the the UK that if I do well on a 1041 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:16,480 Sunday, it's Backpage news on a Monday or news line or TV sport, 1042 00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,520 whatever it with me. I guess it's the same probably 1043 00:53:19,520 --> 00:53:22,440 county level in the UK, you know, like the Yorkshire news. 1044 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:26,360 I'll have whoever. Yeah, but so we enjoy that, but 1045 00:53:27,280 --> 00:53:30,120 not really. Since I start winning World 1046 00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,680 Championships, there's been like travel and support where people 1047 00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:38,600 would go to like a lot of races and like Super Bike is the 1048 00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,960 little brother. The Moto GP that would attract 1049 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,200 80,000 people will maybe get 2030 thousand people. 1050 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:50,240 Yeah, but more and more recently, like Northern Ireland, 1051 00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:52,280 flags and people from home are everywhere. 1052 00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:56,600 You know, the far number, far right number, just from a flag 1053 00:53:56,600 --> 00:54:01,800 point of view, UK flags or Spanish or Italian, and that's 1054 00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:03,760 pretty cool. I, I, I think part of that might 1055 00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:05,720 be a, don't you think? But I think part of that might 1056 00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:11,280 be we're we're getting better at almost like celebrating 1057 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:13,480 achievement here. Getting better, yeah. 1058 00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:15,920 Because we all like we're talking about the underdog 1059 00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,960 mentality, but I think we also have a mentality of like, if 1060 00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,200 someone from here is doing well, you know, it's like, let's keep 1061 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,200 it to ourselves or I'm not even. In yourself but suppress them 1062 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:28,120 yes like my dad was a bit like that when I was growing up he'd 1063 00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,600 never like me celebrating like when I was mortal crossing. 1064 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,120 I want to do like a big one hander over a jump or whatever. 1065 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:37,320 Yeah, it bollocked me for that. Right where you know, like here. 1066 00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,080 He's he's really good. Him I he's not too bad. 1067 00:54:42,080 --> 00:54:43,720 He's not half good. He's not too. 1068 00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:46,280 Bad. Yeah, I mean. 1069 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:48,280 Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. 1070 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:51,760 But you, you had you've, I'm sure you've had countless 1071 00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:55,880 opportunities to go to model GP. Not really, I've had loads of 1072 00:54:55,880 --> 00:54:59,840 conversation but I've never had a contract to sign. 1073 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,960 Right. Which is not not saying it's 1074 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:06,760 strange, like Planet down, but there was a few. 1075 00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:09,040 Like, I could have gone there and a few rides, but it was 1076 00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,960 bikes that finish last, like at the back, you know what I mean? 1077 00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,160 Yeah. And no matter how good you are, 1078 00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,760 you put Valentino Rossi on that bike at the back, it's probably 1079 00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:20,680 not going to win. Yeah. 1080 00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:23,440 So a figure and super bike, if you're going to move there, 1081 00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,160 you're going to go with the right team and the right 1082 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:31,160 opportunity. I mean, from I'm looking sort of 1083 00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:33,480 like Kawasaki, they don't ride more GP. 1084 00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,440 So all their effort was into us. Yeah, as a factory and. 1085 00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:39,920 As opposed to do some teams have like the Moto GP team and. 1086 00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:46,000 The team suffer 100% like that but most manufacturers have 1087 00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,680 both. For Kawasaki, don't say invest a 1088 00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:53,280 lot and it's it's all, but it's more business as well. 1089 00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:57,800 I went and did a couple of standing races for Casey Stoner, 1090 00:55:57,920 --> 00:56:00,360 an Aussie guy. He broke his ankle and they 1091 00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:04,280 asked me would I go and replace him in 2012 and I had a 7th and 1092 00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:09,440 8th and I thought that's quids in yeah like but nothing. 1093 00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:12,880 Right. They beat Valentino Rossi in the 1094 00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:14,360 second. In the second round, he finished 1095 00:56:14,360 --> 00:56:17,160 behind me. Made my, made my life. 1096 00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,440 You think like, well, that's it, you know, you're guaranteed. 1097 00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:20,160 Well, not really. I was. 1098 00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,240 I used to write for Honda back then and I thought they had a 1099 00:56:24,240 --> 00:56:27,080 stepping stone to go there. But again, it was more 1100 00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:28,560 political. Right. 1101 00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:33,360 Like the guy the two satellite teams that Honda ran back then. 1102 00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:38,240 One was a tally, a Spanish writer, Bautista, that was the 1103 00:56:38,240 --> 00:56:41,640 Iris with no, he was there and he was in the podium the week 1104 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:44,600 before and the second round. I was I race with him the whole 1105 00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:48,800 race, but the sponsor was there at the Italian race that he was 1106 00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,160 in the podium. He got all excited. 1107 00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:51,760 It's like I have to sign them for next year. 1108 00:56:52,240 --> 00:56:54,520 I'll sign a contract with your team, blah, blah, blah. 1109 00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:58,760 Yeah, the other kid, he was a German guy at the other Honda 1110 00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:02,560 team and that came with a good bit of Honda money influence 1111 00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:03,520 from Germany. Yeah. 1112 00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:07,040 So there's no real push for me from a like it's it is pretty 1113 00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,560 political and like everyone can say I should do this, you should 1114 00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:13,640 do that. But it's like it's like any and 1115 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:15,960 if anything like you can only do what opportunities you have. 1116 00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,360 Yeah, yeah. And you want to be the best. 1117 00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:18,320 And you want. To be good. 1118 00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,640 Yeah, exactly. So yeah, if I'm my way I'd pick 1119 00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,320 like the best bike and more GP and go and have a crack and see 1120 00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,680 what I could do. But right now it's sort of bike 1121 00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:29,160 and I've got a great team, like a Spanish people. 1122 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,160 Good, good people. You speak Spanish? 1123 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,520 No understand a bit. Book Way. 1124 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:38,400 Poco. I don't even know. 1125 00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,600 I don't even know Poke. It's like like why? 1126 00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:43,680 Oh, right. Or or because. 1127 00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:48,080 I thought it meant a little bit. Poco. 1128 00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:49,360 Poco. Like. 1129 00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:52,920 Yeah, see. They're they're Barcelona, so 1130 00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:55,000 they're like Catalan. Right, right. 1131 00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:57,200 Yeah. It's like French, Italian and 1132 00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:58,960 Spanish all like in a washing machine. 1133 00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:03,600 And yeah, they say mercy for thanks, Yeah. 1134 00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:08,240 But it's. It's yeah, yeah. 1135 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,400 Or. And they are strange. 1136 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:14,600 Yeah. And put the that in part, like 1137 00:58:14,600 --> 00:58:16,880 people from all of the writers from all over the world. 1138 00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:22,280 When you're, you know, in in super bikes like in the pits, 1139 00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,680 I'm sure that every language in the world is being spoken at 1140 00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,240 some point. Yeah, but we're so lazy here, 1141 00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:28,600 right? Because English is the 1142 00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:32,560 international language. So like I wrote for a Dutch team 1143 00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,680 for six or seven years and they speak better English than. 1144 00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:40,480 Yeah, for my family. Where and the Spanish speak 1145 00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:42,920 great English, like I think there's only one the team that 1146 00:58:42,920 --> 00:58:47,480 has broken English, right? A lot of Italian influence and 1147 00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:49,880 sort of bike, but I don't really understand that. 1148 00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:52,120 Bonjourno. Bonjourno. 1149 00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:54,680 And that's all I can help you with. 1150 00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:59,720 I want to ask you two things. One is BBC Sports Personality of 1151 00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:03,640 the Year. There was a huge clamour for for 1152 00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:09,520 you to get that. It was like a people were up in 1153 00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:11,080 arms. Is that the year it was here? 1154 00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,560 And specifically, I think the year it was here maybe, unless 1155 00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:15,680 I'm getting that wrong, not sure. 1156 00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:18,640 The year I was running out, yeah, that wasn't it. 1157 00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:19,760 Liverpool. OK. 1158 00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:23,320 Like do you feel you should have won that because anger? 1159 00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:24,600 No. No. 1160 00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:28,160 It all started, I think Steven Watson started threatening to 1161 00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:31,640 beat people up. He's like he Sports Personality 1162 00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:34,560 of the year on Twitter. Winker was getting into it with 1163 00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,200 people. Everybody thinks Wanker is 1164 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,920 Sports Personality year, so all these fans are like wanting his 1165 00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,040 head. He's under with it. 1166 00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:43,600 Yeah, but Wanker's game for it. Like. 1167 00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:46,520 But it's a bizarre, it's a bizarre event, nice event. 1168 00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:51,600 But it's just the fact that every every year you were when 1169 00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:53,080 I. Think I didn't get it because I 1170 00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,600 knocked them back the year before. 1171 00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:56,840 So this is my third championship. 1172 00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:59,120 Yeah, that one, I was invited there. 1173 00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:03,520 I think it was the year before when was in Belfast, remember? 1174 01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,200 It's a 16. Or signs about right. 1175 01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:09,920 And they invited, they've invited me just just do that. 1176 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:11,840 But it's. Just to go to it. 1177 01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:13,080 You mean them? But yeah, right. 1178 01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:18,240 And these events are like nice to go to, but it's also nice to 1179 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,160 be at home. We're family and have a weekend 1180 01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:21,160 with your mates. Yeah. 1181 01:00:21,440 --> 01:00:25,920 So for me it was I was like, right, sweet, come, my wife 1182 01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:27,960 come. No, it's athletes only one 1183 01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:31,760 guess. It's like, not so I can't come. 1184 01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:36,960 And then so the year they told me you're nominated though, you 1185 01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:41,760 have to go, I was like, all right, can I bring like my wife? 1186 01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:45,680 Yeah, you can bring like I think I had Tosh beside me and I had 1187 01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:47,840 like 6 minutes, right. And get for friends. 1188 01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:51,960 It's a weird event, you know, you see it in TV and you see all 1189 01:00:51,960 --> 01:00:54,360 the audience and the guest and the camera pants down. 1190 01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:57,760 They're literally like I'm in 2nd row and then they're picking 1191 01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,400 me up. Tend to move because Torvill and 1192 01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:02,960 Dean are coming to sit here. I wouldn't move for Torvill and 1193 01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:04,480 Dean and then. I don't respect. 1194 01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,600 That maybe I'm on the front row and then I'm letting 6 rows 1195 01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,200 back. It's like every ad so. 1196 01:01:09,200 --> 01:01:11,480 It's choreographed. I think award ceremonies are 1197 01:01:11,480 --> 01:01:13,280 like. So well the ones I've been to 1198 01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:17,040 aren't really pretty much loads of beer and stuck in but that's 1199 01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:20,720 meant to load of athletes at the end of their season. 1200 01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:24,040 The after party was mental. Right, because you can't blow 1201 01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:25,280 off that steam during the season. 1202 01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:27,160 I don't know why, it's because you're not like guests and 1203 01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:31,280 nobody had wives and girlfriends there, but it's like wide open. 1204 01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,040 I've never seen in that. Party who have you seen? 1205 01:01:33,040 --> 01:01:35,720 Blitzed gives a few names here, like who have you. 1206 01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:41,080 Seen really there's one there's one that sort of physical guard 1207 01:01:41,080 --> 01:01:44,240 me and it's like AD Lester, I want to say I'm not mention 1208 01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,360 their name, but. Callum Best. 1209 01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,240 Was he on Love Island? Yeah, or just remembered he's 1210 01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:56,600 not an athlete. So no, not so so D Leicester, 1211 01:01:56,600 --> 01:01:58,960 you went straight for what? Sport, not sport. 1212 01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:03,640 A Love Island contestant was fallen, like fallen or I never. 1213 01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:07,000 I was actually why they're here, because she was nothing to do 1214 01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:08,720 with sport. You're not with Diana Weaver. 1215 01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:13,000 From Bonnie Scotland, I think kind of, I don't even know her 1216 01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,680 name. Someone says there's that bird 1217 01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:15,880 from Love Island. Look at the theatre. 1218 01:02:16,600 --> 01:02:20,400 But Stamen, but I don't know, like the gig did because it was 1219 01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:22,320 in Liverpool, so she was in Scotland. 1220 01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:24,880 Did she get paid to go there or why was she there? 1221 01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:26,440 Just a night out? Yeah. 1222 01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:29,560 Instagram pictures or. See, I'm my policy and like 1223 01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,920 unless I was being honoured, I wouldn't like go to anything. 1224 01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:36,240 Like unless I was getting a lifetime achievement or the 1225 01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:37,880 Baftas or something, I wouldn't go. 1226 01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:40,640 But that's my policy. I'm like, I don't go to awards 1227 01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:42,040 things, but I've never been invited. 1228 01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:45,480 I've never had the. Decline like night. 1229 01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:49,160 So that the BBC thing, I thought so it's nominee so I had to go 1230 01:02:49,160 --> 01:02:51,880 anyway, which I was happy to go, but I thought that's a great 1231 01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:54,200 night. I just didn't want to be last. 1232 01:02:54,560 --> 01:02:56,800 Right. They changed everything when I 1233 01:02:56,800 --> 01:03:00,520 got running up the next year. They selected the nominees like 1234 01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,080 they selected six of them. Yeah, But when I was there was 1235 01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:07,800 12, right. And I think, yeah, voting opened 1236 01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:09,360 the night, but they changed loads of stuff. 1237 01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:13,400 But I thought for there's as long as I'm not last. 1238 01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:16,080 Yeah, I'll be like happy enough, but I've imagine getting like 1239 01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:17,240 10. Votes. 1240 01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:19,680 Yeah, but you Then you came. Run, Rob. 1241 01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:21,880 Yeah, More fire. More fire. 1242 01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:24,360 Should be more what's he doing? What about for it? 1243 01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:29,440 I was not even me all got loaded good votes because he is 1244 01:03:29,440 --> 01:03:33,560 connection around and he was calling He's doing a video feed 1245 01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,080 from somewhere training camp probably no more. 1246 01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:37,600 He wasn't even there. He wasn't even there. 1247 01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:39,440 Best kids were all climbing over them all in there. 1248 01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:40,920 And I should have Jake and Tyler there. 1249 01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:44,000 Yeah, yeah. What a good daddy. 1250 01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:46,560 Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, I just seen it as a 1251 01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,400 night out. Good reason for her to get into 1252 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:52,280 a dress and have better food in the BBC and whatnot. 1253 01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:53,960 Yeah. And turned out to be. 1254 01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,040 I just tell her all night. Stop. 1255 01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:57,840 Stop. She's like boating away. 1256 01:03:58,600 --> 01:04:00,200 I know. Texting around. 1257 01:04:00,560 --> 01:04:02,000 Fucking not cool. Stop. 1258 01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:03,240 Beside Tyson Fury. Here. 1259 01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:05,280 Put the phone down. You know what I mean. 1260 01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:06,600 Did you get chatting then? No. 1261 01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:09,520 He's a big dude in real life. Yeah. 1262 01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:11,440 I spoil. You know, it's actually good. 1263 01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,600 I could you spy with him. Did you actually? 1264 01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:19,240 Yeah. No, no, I had that. 1265 01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:20,360 You know many. But it does. 1266 01:04:20,360 --> 01:04:22,440 BBC Breakfast. Charlie Strait. 1267 01:04:22,560 --> 01:04:25,080 Yeah, I had a lot of beer with him, Right? 1268 01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,080 Good dude. Yeah, yeah. 1269 01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:29,680 Because I just see sports people. 1270 01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:32,240 So I actually find him just interesting. 1271 01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:36,360 So I was asking him loads about his stuff and his gig and then 1272 01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:41,240 was on BBC. But that's TV hard work, that. 1273 01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:43,480 As. In the other I was back at the 1274 01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:46,480 BBC for something breakfast. I'm not going to tell you the 1275 01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:50,600 guy's name. I sat in the coach at the 1276 01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:55,720 presenter and Holly was there and she was great. 1277 01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,680 Holly Hamilton. But the guy in the studio to 1278 01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:01,840 Trevor McDonald. No Trevor, mate. 1279 01:05:01,840 --> 01:05:06,440 Does he even do BBC Breakfast? He's like, all right, so I'm 1280 01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:08,360 walking in from all the lights to the sofa. 1281 01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:10,920 All right. So he's doing his piece and as 1282 01:05:10,920 --> 01:05:15,440 soon as the camera is on his phone and then as soon as he's 1283 01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:17,440 like getting as we countdown or whatever, then he's back onto 1284 01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:19,840 the camera. And Jonathan Ray sort of. 1285 01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:21,760 Am I? Yeah, like just. 1286 01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,040 You warm someone else pretty. Big deal, I thought. 1287 01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:25,360 Just. I know who it is. 1288 01:05:25,520 --> 01:05:27,880 Be a bit nicer. I know who it is. 1289 01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:30,520 I'm not say yes or no. I know, I think I know. 1290 01:05:30,520 --> 01:05:33,480 His first name is Dan. Yeah. 1291 01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:38,920 OK, It doesn't matter. Yeah, was there, said the 1292 01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:39,480 hammer. Callum. 1293 01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:42,600 Callum Best. Have you got something about 1294 01:05:42,600 --> 01:05:46,240 Callum Best? No, because that's the thing, me 1295 01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:48,840 and Callum have a history. Do you What happened? 1296 01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:51,200 No, not at all. Like celebrity football match or 1297 01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:52,000 something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1298 01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:53,880 Oh, he he did one at Windsor Park. 1299 01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:56,280 Did he? Yeah, like, but four years ago 1300 01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:00,000 and I, I tried to get the plan. That's my next venture. 1301 01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,840 I want to be invited not to spot it, but to play in a charity 1302 01:06:03,840 --> 01:06:05,320 football match. That's me. 1303 01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:07,680 What if we what if we just hired Windsor Park? 1304 01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:09,760 We'll just just mean you play long ball to each other. 1305 01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:13,160 You bring the cones. Yeah, we can actually train 1306 01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:14,680 there. I could get Garth that helps me 1307 01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,400 my training to come down. Like if we asked together we 1308 01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,760 could get permission for that or just if you guys by yourself? 1309 01:06:19,800 --> 01:06:22,680 No, actually you'd be fine. Like we'll March in together. 1310 01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:24,160 Yeah, I'd love that. Be cool. 1311 01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:25,520 We just had shots and all. Yeah, not. 1312 01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,600 And let's get to the night, the lights on. 1313 01:06:27,800 --> 01:06:29,680 Yes, we'll say the calm best when we just break. 1314 01:06:31,600 --> 01:06:36,240 The last thing I want to ask you about is like future plans. 1315 01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:39,160 And, you know, you'd want six in a row. 1316 01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,400 Yeah, the season that's just passed Kim runner up. 1317 01:06:42,880 --> 01:06:46,600 And that probably brings a lot of questions about, you know, is 1318 01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:51,760 that more motivation to to to go and win it or because you're 1319 01:06:51,760 --> 01:06:54,320 someone. You just pulled yourself back 1320 01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,840 there more motivation. I had a conversation that yes, 1321 01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:58,920 so you'll not believe this. I remember this is where your 1322 01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:00,640 questions go on I. Don't know yet. 1323 01:07:01,280 --> 01:07:02,440 I don't know my guess what's going. 1324 01:07:03,480 --> 01:07:06,400 On a guy I work with, he's retired, not work with directly, 1325 01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:08,360 but he's ringing me up the time he's retiring. 1326 01:07:09,880 --> 01:07:11,200 Great, great. Yesterday. 1327 01:07:11,800 --> 01:07:13,320 Still spin about it. Oh, great. 1328 01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:14,680 Thanks very much for all your help. 1329 01:07:14,680 --> 01:07:18,040 And I wonder about you that I'll be happening soon. 1330 01:07:18,800 --> 01:07:20,880 So I'm not sure. This isn't a Turkish boy. 1331 01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:25,480 Last year he was flying. You joking me? 1332 01:07:25,720 --> 01:07:29,040 You know what I mean? My question is, does that add 1333 01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:32,360 more motivation to win your title back? 1334 01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:37,640 I think so a little bit, but then but motivation doesn't 1335 01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:38,800 change. It's the same. 1336 01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:43,000 It's almost I'd say before it was the fear of losing because I 1337 01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,040 was winning. Yeah, it's automatic, but it's 1338 01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:50,440 not like it's not like though I loved your show with Kyle. 1339 01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:55,160 Oh yeah, but it's not like boxing where or you like the 1340 01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:59,080 character of Conor McGregor who can just mice off and back it up 1341 01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:01,880 with his one big UFC fight a year. 1342 01:08:02,120 --> 01:08:04,880 Like we're going to get beat way more than we win because you're 1343 01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,040 racing. Yeah, like 39 * a year. 1344 01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:10,080 So you can't be beaten. Yeah, you can't not go on 1345 01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:10,960 beaten. Yeah, of course. 1346 01:08:11,360 --> 01:08:15,440 So you get used to that. But I think it's the addiction 1347 01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:19,600 to 1 to keep one and then you get beat and that just keeps 1348 01:08:20,279 --> 01:08:22,160 keeps you coming back. And I think last year was a 1349 01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:28,720 good, was a good wake up call more for the team as well. 1350 01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:30,960 That's me because I knew how hard it was because I raced 1351 01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:32,800 against these guys. But it's tough work. 1352 01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:37,000 We need to keep improving. But I think motivation hasn't 1353 01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:39,840 changed. I'm not more angry or more not 1354 01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:42,760 training anymore or less. Yeah, but. 1355 01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:47,720 Could that be dangerous if you did suddenly get more motivated 1356 01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:50,319 and you've more adrenaline go on and you have a bit of anger and 1357 01:08:50,319 --> 01:08:52,680 you cannot be dangerous to go into a race? 1358 01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:56,520 I used to. I used to put like, sorry, music 1359 01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:59,240 is it? What, like heavy metal? 1360 01:08:59,359 --> 01:09:01,080 No, no, no. I hate heavy metal, like 1361 01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:05,720 country, nasty rap music. Oh, on the start line you're 1362 01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,479 thinking, you know, like you're Eight Mile, Eminem sort of 1363 01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:09,640 soundtrack. Yeah. 1364 01:09:10,240 --> 01:09:12,600 And you just go and crash in turn one. 1365 01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:13,640 Yeah. I mean, it doesn't. 1366 01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:15,080 Yeah, music doesn't work for. Me. 1367 01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:16,680 What do you listen to? No and yeah, nothing. 1368 01:09:17,319 --> 01:09:19,040 Oh, right now that you just. Well, have a wee bit of 1369 01:09:19,040 --> 01:09:20,760 background noise I'm getting changed so the. 1370 01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:22,520 James bit of Blunt. Blunt. 1371 01:09:23,399 --> 01:09:26,000 I'm just very quiet. I hate talking to people in the 1372 01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:27,479 grid. Just silence. 1373 01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:30,240 Yeah. And go about my work. 1374 01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:33,960 But now I think motivation is really good on this. 1375 01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:38,000 My last year of a contract. So I think within the next three 1376 01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:41,000 or four months I'll know what's happening next year. 1377 01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:47,120 Had person not beef but conversation with Tarsh at home 1378 01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:51,880 about, you know what's happening, what we're going to 1379 01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:59,800 do and because generally I'd spend 100 or plus -100 days away 1380 01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:04,360 from home and some conscious of that as well with the kids, but 1381 01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:10,200 I don't why is some doing well I want to keep doing like keep at 1382 01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:10,840 it. Yeah. 1383 01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:15,120 And I don't I want to get out in my own terms as well, which is 1384 01:10:15,120 --> 01:10:19,600 really selfish because most almost every racer has not chip 1385 01:10:19,600 --> 01:10:22,760 on their shoulder. Sometimes they decide to stop. 1386 01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:24,320 Sometimes it's a lack of opportunity. 1387 01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:26,080 Sometimes it's an injury that retires them. 1388 01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:28,520 So you can never have the perfect ending. 1389 01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:30,160 Yeah, but I don't see it right now. 1390 01:10:30,480 --> 01:10:32,520 Yeah, I'm fine. I wanted to ask people that had 1391 01:10:32,520 --> 01:10:37,400 retired with good insightful for me listen to Carl talk as well 1392 01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:40,440 about that. But he he knew it was common. 1393 01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:42,840 Yeah, right. I don't feel it's common. 1394 01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:43,960 Yeah. I don't know if it's something 1395 01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:47,680 that builds up like a train or it's it hits you like a tonne of 1396 01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:50,640 bricks. 1 morning you wake up, yeah, but at the minute the fire 1397 01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:53,080 is burning hard and barely get stuck in. 1398 01:10:53,440 --> 01:10:57,440 That's, I mean, also like to come second, like that's in the 1399 01:10:57,440 --> 01:11:00,640 world's championship and people are like me as that disposure. 1400 01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:01,880 That's it. Like, you're going to take it 1401 01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:04,800 easy, yeah. Put me in a bad mood all day 1402 01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:08,160 yesterday. And last question, what's the 1403 01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:10,120 coolest free thing you've ever got? 1404 01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:14,040 I'm not, I'm not. I'm not necessarily talking most 1405 01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:16,440 value. I'm talking about the coolest 1406 01:11:16,440 --> 01:11:19,240 free thing at an awards thing, or from a sponsor. 1407 01:11:19,240 --> 01:11:26,360 Or I got a travel mug with my own name on it at a Comedy 1408 01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:29,320 Festival. That's cool. 1409 01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:34,840 Is it cool? Spelt spelt over 3DS but apart 1410 01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:39,880 from that it was pretty cool. Find some that Asian fans always 1411 01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:42,400 bring you gifts when from food or. 1412 01:11:43,480 --> 01:11:46,040 Do you eat that food? Because I once got given food by 1413 01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:47,400 someone at a show and I did not eat. 1414 01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,040 It you know I did in Argentina this year. 1415 01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:53,800 I drunk I was thinking how water aren't here like get tested 1416 01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:56,840 after I've been contaminated, but it was a beer. 1417 01:11:56,840 --> 01:11:59,160 I don't know what the beer was called their local beer in 1418 01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,400 Argentina. And the guy goes, he had, he had 1419 01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:03,240 a. Quilms. 1420 01:12:03,520 --> 01:12:05,480 Quilms. Quilmes. 1421 01:12:05,480 --> 01:12:07,560 Yeah, yeah. Blue. 1422 01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:12,080 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fair play. 1423 01:12:13,240 --> 01:12:16,160 I had to come back to part for me after decently. 1424 01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,360 I didn't even win and I was all gonna have your niece. 1425 01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:19,960 There's that. Yeah. 1426 01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:21,480 Kind of a beer. Yeah. 1427 01:12:21,480 --> 01:12:24,920 It's like sweet beer for me. I like, chug the beer and part 1428 01:12:24,920 --> 01:12:25,800 for me. Right. 1429 01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:27,360 But it could have been a free thing. 1430 01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,720 I'd have to think about that. The real coolest. 1431 01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:31,400 See what? See what even I've like. 1432 01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,400 So you're you with, Yeah, Kawasaki, right? 1433 01:12:34,800 --> 01:12:36,760 Do what I'd love. What about when you're with them 1434 01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:40,120 and they go, we'll send you some some gear, some zip UPS, 1435 01:12:40,120 --> 01:12:42,120 T-shirts all up I'd like. I think that was it. 1436 01:12:42,320 --> 01:12:45,200 Yeah. Do they go get whatever you want 1437 01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:45,960 here? No. 1438 01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:47,160 Like how many fleeces you allowed? 1439 01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:51,680 Not many. 4. In the season, yeah. 1440 01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:52,840 Like your team gear? Yeah. 1441 01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:58,120 I get 4 T-shirts, 2 zip, 2 jerseys. 1442 01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:01,320 You should be getting so much more than a Colt AG lay one and. 1443 01:13:01,960 --> 01:13:04,800 Then they give you trousers by the treasures because the I 1444 01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:07,160 think they're made in Holland for Dutchies and I'm really 1445 01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:10,000 short ass. So right yeah, clogs. 1446 01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,960 Yeah, they're massive. No, no clogs team. 1447 01:13:13,440 --> 01:13:18,720 Coolest thing, coolest sponsor. I get loads of cool stuff off 1448 01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:21,800 his Oakley because they do awesome sunglasses. 1449 01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:23,640 Motocross Gargle. It's a perfect brand. 1450 01:13:23,880 --> 01:13:26,000 Yeah, like cool casuals and stuff like that. 1451 01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:27,440 I'd love to be sponsored by Oakley. 1452 01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,800 Yeah, when that, when my manager did that, then I say, oh, so 1453 01:13:30,880 --> 01:13:32,400 good. Yeah, don't tell them about I've 1454 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:36,200 been paying for stopper years. I've, I had, I remember every in 1455 01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:39,320 about 1999, everyone on my street had fake Oakley. 1456 01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:40,920 Yeah, all the boys had fake Oakley. 1457 01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,000 Just back from Tenerife. Just back from Tenerife. 1458 01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:44,800 Yeah, getting a sweet deal on the Oakley. 1459 01:13:44,920 --> 01:13:48,000 The sports like they're almost like the wrap around ones with 1460 01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:49,560 like the multi coloured lenses. They were. 1461 01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:51,440 They were unreal. They weren't really. 1462 01:13:51,440 --> 01:13:54,440 Don't remember them. Yeah, well, I think it was only 1463 01:13:54,440 --> 01:13:59,760 me that had them, to be fair. I'm so impressed that I quomus, 1464 01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:02,520 Quomus. It's because they sponsor Baca 1465 01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:06,080 Juniors and River Plate in Argentina, the football tops. 1466 01:14:06,080 --> 01:14:09,400 Yeah, Yeah, I think. Quilmers Yeah, it's definitely 1467 01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:17,040 MERS or yeah, Quilmers So posted that on my Facebook page after 1468 01:14:17,800 --> 01:14:20,520 and Lords, Argentinians were like loving the fact that 1469 01:14:20,960 --> 01:14:23,360 bigging up their beer. Yeah, I guess it's like somebody 1470 01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:26,120 come in here and given a big one for, I don't know, Harp or 1471 01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:26,800 Guinness. Yeah. 1472 01:14:27,480 --> 01:14:29,640 We we should definitely book out Windsor. 1473 01:14:30,160 --> 01:14:32,000 Yeah, for a kick about wait till my. 1474 01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,760 Although, as we've established, I can still play on it, when 1475 01:14:34,760 --> 01:14:38,200 it's broken, set that corner. So I actually bent the end. 1476 01:14:38,200 --> 01:14:42,200 Didn't you scored? I floated it in perfectly and 1477 01:14:42,200 --> 01:14:45,280 I'll not name a person on this podcast, but should have scored 1478 01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:47,200 and that would have been unreal. Imagine the goal he broke his 1479 01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:49,600 leg, but he played on. Then he assisted a goal, but I 1480 01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:53,640 just hobbled off after that. But as we say, back on the back 1481 01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:55,320 on the bike. Not literally though, because 1482 01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:57,240 remember also put my rest. So I would definitely not get 1483 01:14:57,240 --> 01:15:00,200 back on the bike. Cheers for coming on. 1484 01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:04,480 I would I would love to play. I want to join in your five 1485 01:15:04,480 --> 01:15:07,720 aside. 7. Seven aside and I really want 1486 01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:11,880 you to emphasise three corners ago, no three corners, a 1487 01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:15,040 penalty. Start it this week and see how 1488 01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:17,880 it goes, but you'll not look. Back they go for beers after. 1489 01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:21,960 So I haven't, I haven't yet, but maybe I'll do under AP. 1490 01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,880 I'm still, I'm too new to suggest stuff like that. 1491 01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:26,480 Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I have no idea what I'm 1492 01:15:26,480 --> 01:15:27,960 talking about and they know that. 1493 01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:31,040 So they'll be like, who's this? Yeah, yeah, it's the old 1494 01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:33,200 motorbike prick. Who's this guy showing up a 1495 01:15:33,200 --> 01:15:35,120 motorbike boot? He's only been a creative model, 1496 01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:39,760 just changing the rules. This guy just halftime. 1497 01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:43,080 Just eat 6 tomatoes. Johnny, cheers for coming on. 1498 01:15:43,480 --> 01:15:46,360 Really appreciate it. And I was going to say to see 1499 01:15:46,360 --> 01:15:48,720 you on the track, but I don't know why I would say. 1500 01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:50,840 They can come to race. I would love to. 1501 01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:52,800 Come to Donington. Can I jump on Can you? 1502 01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,840 Jump on, I sure why not. Where's Donington? 1503 01:15:57,360 --> 01:15:59,560 I want to say July. Yeah, I'd love that. 1504 01:15:59,560 --> 01:16:01,000 July. I would love that, yeah. 1505 01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:03,680 Can I have a lanyard? You got a lanyard? 1506 01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:06,600 Can I keep the lanyard? Yeah, can I have a Julie? 1507 01:16:07,720 --> 01:16:09,320 Yeah, a pair of Oakley. You could ask the team. 1508 01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:12,800 My team are very, very, very good at giving stuff out. 1509 01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:14,840 Brilliant. I genuinely got good. 1510 01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:18,720 Merchandise still, because yeah, everybody that comes gets nice 1511 01:16:18,720 --> 01:16:20,160 sweet goodies. Do you want the tea with me, 1512 01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:21,160 mug? I. 1513 01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:23,680 Will give you all right. Cheers, Johnny. 1514 01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:24,680 Appreciate it. Cheers about it.