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You're listening to the Be Forever Cool podcast.
My name is Rex 45. It's the room Room Wednesday
edition. We're going to do it a little
different tonight. We got the some long time people
who have not been on the show coming back on the show.
So we don't have a good old time.
But first let's bring in the guests one at a time.
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Let's start with Jordan. Welcome back, Jordan, man.
How are things, man? Oh, things are going good, man.
Can't complain. Can't complain at all.
I mean, if you can't complain, you know you're living life
above ground. That's a good thing.
God bless. Right, But you know, you get to
listen or watch motorcycle racing, so it's not all bad.
Even if all of the rest of the world is chaos, You got
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motorcycle racing to watch. And, you know, at least you get
to smile some weekends. Yes, yes.
And you know, some weekends we can smile bigger than other
weekends, but we'll get to that later on.
Oh, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.
But we're going to keep the lineup going.
This young, this guy keeps tapping in and out.
Smitty what's good, man? What's going on?
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What's going on, man? Finally back online.
Been a little hiatus, been busy just working, raising kids,
racing, riding bikes, fixing stuff.
That's it man. So I'm back for a little bit.
Well, it's nice to have you backand you know, I'm pretty sure
you know you found some time nowthat you know Marquez is 1 and I
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I know you got I know you got a lot to get off your chest.
Probably more like I told you so.
I told you so. I told you so, but it's.
Day one, but you ain't believe me, so it is what it is.
I still don't believe it. I'm in denial.
We're going to keep it moving. Bobby shakes.
Welcome back as well. I mean, it's like, man, it's
like, did y'all get, you know, got picked up by ice and, and,
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and it's just, you know, you know, you got out.
What's good, man? Yeah, I mean, ICE did a huge
sweep, grabbed all of us, put usthrough the shifter, and I fell
through one of the cracks. Now I'm back.
It's been, it's been unbelievable.
Listen, we're going to hear moreabout it, man, so it's going to
be a good show. Welcome back, fellas.
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Yeah, I don't even know where tostart, so I'm just going to kind
of throw it out there. We'll start with Jordan and get
caught up. You know, let's let's let's kind
of have you do a quick recap of the Moto GP season, the things
that, you know, you might have wanted to say earlier if you
were able to come on the show, because you definitely were
checking out our post and and commenting and stuff like that.
So we kept a conversation going,but you know, what are your
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thoughts on on how the season panned out and and I see you got
your Yamaha shirt on. So is that because of V4 or just
team Yamaha? Oh, it's actually definitely
Yamaha. You know, I'm not mad about the
V4. I'm I'm kind of mad we didn't go
through the V4 earlier. But you know, obviously they
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have to do some testing and theyhave to do some more testing.
Had to do some qualifications, how to go through FIM, how to
get mallocated, how to go through all the rigor rumors to
making sure everything's, you know, to spec.
Even though we're changing complete motorcycles in the next
year and a half, that's kind of OK.
But you know, we want to make sure that this bike is going to
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be top tier for the next 3 rounds.
Need to say above that we all set it from what USA that
Marquez is pretty much going to win the championship, which he
did. And I would almost say
spectacular form with three round 3 rounds left to go or
actually 2 rounds now got left to go.
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You know, he clinched it up overthe fourth.
Yeah, you know, with the sprints.
On Yeah, yeah, well, the. Numbers but it.
Don't matter. We we knew he was going to win.
We knew a Ducati was going to win it regardless.
So the the the season went is not went is going off pretty
well. Congratulations to all of the
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Champions that are all through FIM, whether it's Moto America,
Moto GP, Moto 3, we're not goingto do any spoilers right about
now. If you haven't seen the season,
I don't want to do any spoilers,but you know, if the season was
really good and it's still goingoff for Moto 2.
So we want to see who goes off for 4th, 5th, 4th, 5th, 3rd and
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2nd for Moto GP and then we still got a crown of
Championship for Moto 2. So we can still a lot of more
racing to go through as well as up and coming with Royal Super
Bikes. So said a lot of stuff going on,
a lot of moving and shaking, nottoo many seats that's going to
be available for Moto GP, even for Moto 2 which Moto 3 riders
is trying to move up into. So what I said we got a lot of
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talk about a lot of stuff to cover.
But yeah, I have been covering, I have been watching all the
races, even though I haven't been, you know, behind the
scenes, you know, or actually onthe scene.
I've been doing my things behindthe scenes.
No doubt, but you've been staying cool.
So that's the best part about itall Smitty man, let let let's
let's get your recap. I mean, I I know you have done
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some recaps on on your channel on YouTube and stuff like that.
So I know you in the game, yeah,like he's mentioned, you've been
at the track and, and, and racing and and stuff like that,
which is a beautiful thing. But you know, what are your
thoughts on on the season itself?
And, and you know, I know Marquez obviously won, but you
know, what about the other manufacturers and, and riders
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and stuff like that? So I have a couple of thoughts
on the season and not to rub it in good I told you so, but I'm
saying one time since week 1. I told you so.
However, it makes it for a weirdexperience.
Yeah. Like, you know, you know, you go
into the race weekend, you know who's going to win.
So it becomes kind of non exciting almost because it's
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like Marc Marquez. And then what's exciting is
second through, you know, after that.
And I think once, I think now that he's hurt, sadly, to say a
bit more exciting now because now you have no clue who who's
going to win. I'll say this, I disagree with
that non exciting, the exciting part because you know who's
going to win. It was still exciting.
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It was still exciting and you know, I'll leave it there but
continue. Well, OK, tell you what, maybe
non exciting is the wrong word to use, but it's it was easy.
It was easy to guess. OK, Marquez, maybe Alex.
Then who else after that? Now, you know, from from this
point on the next couple of races, it's a total dice roll.
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It could be Petco who has a great weekend in Japan, you
know, last race and then a turboweekend again this past weekend.
It could be, it could be freaking Alex coming this time.
It could be Bez. We have no clue at all was going
to win next the next few races. Can I, can I do what can I do?
What I told you so that Mark is going to destroy the bike
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because the bike is starting to seem unrideable for some folks.
It's not unrideable man all. People just can't ride.
All right, all right. I mean, you know, the same thing
happened at Honda, you know, so it's not.
Unrideable at all. Man, OK, all right, all right.
We. We.
Because that last Honda night, it was a bad bike.
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Because even Mark couldn't ride.Mark couldn't.
Even Mark couldn't with, you know, man, so the bike was bad
itself. Well, yeah, but that that, you
know, the bike doesn't get bad in one year.
Just keep that in mind. Thanks, Todd.
You know, so we'll keep it moving.
Let's get to Bobby Shakes. Shakes.
Welcome back, man. You know, you you are a non
really racer kind of guy, but you follow Moto GP and world
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super bike and and you like the smell of gasoline, but you
prefer something with apes goingdown the highway.
We we just the way you look. Hey, listen, I'm only in true
blue tonight only because I wentto the Ducati shop.
I bought an extra, I got a 5X Ducati shirt.
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And when I looked at conversion chart, a 5X in men in America is
a woman's medium in Ducati language.
So I had to get true blue, something that could fit me.
Sorry. So, so I look like I just came
out of the paddock and I'm goingto lie and say I did.
I've been working on the V4 development while Jordan's been
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doing nothing. And just this minute, just a
quick little, little chemistry here.
So this is a motorcycle, right? Nice and nice and straight.
You can see that when you crash,you bend the motorcycle like so
right now the motorcycle is no longer straight.
It's it's, it's bent, right? Every crash, something bends.
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This is just physics. So now the Ducati has become
completely unwriteable. The same thing that happened at
Ducati with the same writer. Now everybody wants to say I
told you so, but I'm the only man that said Ducati should have
been one through 6. This has been the worst year for
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factory Ducati in the history ofMoto GP.
They should have been one through 6.
I don't know where the hell they're fine.
See, the Ducati guys don't let you get it out.
Ducati coughed it up. I don't know where Busecki came
from. You shouldn't even be in the
running. Busecki is a is a is a is a
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stand in for Aprilia. He he's he's just a stand in.
He's only good for photo OPS. He's actually not good for
racing. And now he may take third place.
And I've been Tony Wall year that big Nya echo see you later.
And look where we're at now. It should be one through 6
Ducati. We have the machine and I and I
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also will say something that nobody I, I, I, I listen to all
you Moto GP clowns out there. And this is the realist show on
the Internet talk about Moto GP.Everything that these panelists
have said has come true. And I like to say the only bike
that had the power for the Ducati has been KTM could go
back to the first episode, couldgo back to the pre shows.
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You could watch behind the scenes.
You could come join us on, on the, the Twitter group, the
Twitch group, the Instagram group, all of the groups.
And I've, and I've been saying that KTM has the power and, and
that's the racist drawing there.And you can smell the buns.
You got to smell the buns, right?
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Finally, smell the buns. The word KTM is.
OK, they're they're fifth in thechampionship and moving
Aprilia's fourth in the championship.
And you know, you're absolutely right.
Ducati did not get one through 6, but the the factory guys are
one and three and one of the satellite guys is 2.
So I mean it, you got to look atVR46 and Aldergear.
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Aldergear is a rookie, so for him to even be 8th is is pretty
impressive. I mean, he did win this past
week and just so impressive. Second youngest guy to win a
champion a race since Mark Marquez, probably in the
youngest. So I mean that it that's but
that's what racing is, right. And and I also said that at the
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beginning of the year that, you know, since we were talking
about what we said that, you know, riders are going to try to
beat, they're going to they're going to cut, they're going to
step their game up. And that's what we're seeing,
we're seeing Bazeki do that from, you know, the beginning of
season to where he is now, because at the beginning of the
season he, he was, you know, like, like Smitty, say, if you,
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if you're fifteen, 14th or whatever, trying to get a new
contract or, or get out of Moto GP and, and, and, and Bez
figured that out. You see Acosta as much as he's
crashing because he wants to win, he's figuring it out.
But I think that's help of Vinyala's being able to help the
KTM. So, you know, for fans of Moto
GP, it's good to see other manufacturers in there so it's
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not all Ducati one through 6. And trust me, I I'm not going to
complain about Ducati one through 6.
No, I I have to disagree with you in Smitty, nobody likes the
underdog. You only like the underdog when
you're betting. Everybody loves dynasties.
Everybody loves. When the Celtics win 100,
everybody love when the Lakers win 100, everybody love Michael
Jordan back-to-back, the triple back, the back, the back, the
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Tripoli back. Everybody loves Golden State.
Everybody loves the Patriots. Nobody loves.
Loves surprises. Well, shakes.
I got nobody shakes. This is a individual sport like
golf, like tennis. This is this is where one person
says, hey, I'm tired of losing. It's not the whole team.
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You're not waiting for four other guys on a basketball team
to show up and play or let otherguys on a football team to show
up and play. And you just get sick of it.
You get up, you put your letterson that morning and and you say
I'm going to find something today.
Nobody likes that. Nobody.
Happen on motorcycle racing. Shakes nobody like nobody likes
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a surprise. People want to see dominance.
People want to see human beings go to the apex of their
creativity. Nobody wants to see KTM win
anything. Nobody wants to see a Honda.
We want to see Ducati one through 6.
We want to see take. That shirt off, take that shirt
off. I I can't take it off the only
shirt I could fit in. All right, Smitty, what do you,
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what do you want to add to that?Because I was waiting for you to
chime in. I was like, I can't believe
Smitty just sitting back lettingshake.
What? He wants to Hondo, man, That's
you. I don't care about Ducati and
their fanboys like Rex and everybody else.
Not a fanboy. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm one of them,
OK? OK, you know what, Yes, you got
a bite. Yes, you are one of them.
But no, I mean, so I get what you're saying.
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People do like dominance, you know, But people like dominance
when their guys dominated. No one like.
No one like the Patriots winningsix rings except for the Patriot
fans. No, no, no, no, no.
No. Secretly, secretly, it's good
for the sport because you're going to the reason, only reason
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why Floyd Mayweather same sports, different sports, same
topic 150, right. Everybody tuned in to watch
lose. I'm coughing.
It's a quit smoking. Everybody tuned in to watch
Mayweather lose. Everybody tuned in to watch the
Patriots lose every day I see you Smitty.
I got a camera inside your housewhen I went to visit you last
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weekend. I put a camera in your house and
you have a voodoo doll and I'm watching you you're you're
watching Moto GP more intent leave now as the season is
ending and you're sticking the pins.
You love the pain. You want to crash out.
You want to see oil leak. You want to see Ducati fits
allowed, but you're. You.
You're. The hate that you have, the
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dominance is the love that you have for dominance.
I'm going to say that freaking it out.
I'm going to say everybody lovesthe dynasty when they're coming
up, when they're at their peak or when they're at their their
top form. That's when the next rider, the
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next group, the next Clippers orthe Miami Heat or something like
that, that's when they're going to be up and running, but be
like, I'm going to take them down.
That's when you have the target on your back.
So I mean, maybe Ducati doesn't have a target on the back right
now, but they've had their run. Honda's had their run.
Y'all must have their run. I'm not saying Ducati hasn't had
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that run. They haven't.
Been in Moto GP. Well, I mean, they're, they're
at their peak right about now. And I mean, everybody's been
following them for the past fiveyears.
So it's just, it's just just theway it is.
This has been the worst race. This has been the worst season
ever. I I wanted to see complete
dominance because y'all, all of y'all had your dominance.
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And you know what, I'm going to shut up because I'm going to cut
my nose off to spite my face. The fact that the other two
Ducatis we're in the dumpster from the Moto GP God and I've
got the the PEKKO and I got the PEKKO killer and I got the
Marquez killer. Your team sucks bro.
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I mean, come and think of it. Look at it like Marquez won what
in in Japan? And where was Pekko?
Pekko was dead last. No, no, no, no.
The whole weekend. Pekko won Japan and Pekko.
Won Japan, but the one in the the the weekend after that.
Yeah, Indonesia. Yeah, Indonesia, he was dead
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last. The whole, the whole Sprint
race, Yeah, warm up the race, everything.
He was dead last, I mean. But they all struggled.
They all struggled, including Marquez.
They all struggled. The only one that was the Alex
was probably the, the, the better of them, but they all
struggled. And and and that's, that's, and
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I'm not, you know, you know, andI think that's the thing, like
the, the issues with Ducati, youknow, it's starting to show with
other writers. It's only so long.
You can, you know, it's only so wrong.
You could be Michael Jordan on a, on a, on a young Bulls team
putting up 63. You can only do that for so
long. And and I and I and you can we
can see it because the all thoseguys struggled this past
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weekend. Yeah, but it's Mark.
It's Mark Marquette's fault, right?
But, but, but. No, no, no, it's Ducati's fault.
Ducati hasn't, Ducati hasn't peaked yet, right?
They've been trying, they've been there, but this was the
year to set. We're, we are undisputed
champions and now we're going togo to a different, different
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bike next season. It's it's like we're here.
We we, we got to, we got to go one through 6.
Well, I, I agree with you One I grew to one through I grew to
one through 6. But I think they'll be happy,
you know, with one through 8 andgiving up two spots to some
other riders. I mean, I think I still think
that's that's that's really goodfor Ducati.
And you know, the 25 bike, I've already been on record saying
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this is is probably the worst bike since the 2020 bike, which
they did the style light team didn't use in 21.
They had a 19 bike in 21 and yousee Alex Marquez doesn't want a
25 bike. I don't think any of these guys
want a 25 bike for next year. Um, so there's something there
and Marquez is is, you know, he's one of the top three riders
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we can do you can you can say what order he's in with the with
Rossi and Agostini, although Agostini got 15.
So like Wilk, you gotta you know, it is what it is he.
Got he got 15 when there when there was no motorcycles and
nobody watching. Right.
Again, and not much padding in the Leathers either, right?
So. I mean, you don't need padding
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on a 50CC super bike, come on. So you know what I mean?
So he's able to do that, like Quatarara was able to do that
with Yamaha. But we see Yamaha, but we see
Quatarara now it's like how manytimes he has to crash or or get
upset that he just can't. He doesn't have the power.
So and I and I, and I think we saw that towards the latter end
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when Mark got hurt at, at Honda,you know, eventually it became
unwritable for him. And like I said, we saw that and
maybe he was to party too much and that's why he struggled at
Indonesia because because of the, he won the championship the
week before and had to do a lot of TV appearances and whatnot
and whatnot. So I won't throw Mark under the
bus as far as saying the, you know, it's not completely
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unwriteable, but I think the ducat, there's something there
and and it's and we see it more with Pekko.
But you know, the other guys, they're, they're, they've been
up and down and, and to say all that to say, they're still in
the topic. So I mean, you know, it is what
it is, but Ducati got to figure that out.
Let me ask you a question. This is a serious question, not
it's kind of a rhetorical question, but I don't think
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Mark, Mark, Mark has struggled this whole season.
He threw the bike away. He threw the bike down.
We you could, you could go back to our first five shows.
He he was saving that bike. Still goes in the middle of the
season. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, so so I think this has been a very disappointing season
for Ducati. Marquez should have won every
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race. So I don't think he saw the
Ducati campaign, you know, they they showing a few different
team members and engineers. But the point of it is like in
one of the clip, it's just like we make it look easy, but it
wasn't. And, and so you know, it, it,
it's the, you know, when you're more prepared than the rest of
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the paddock doesn't mean it's, it's, it's easy, it just means
you're more prepared. Hey, listen, man.
Hey, listen, if I'm stroking that check, it's got to look
easy, bud. It's got to look easy and it's
got to be easy because for me tocome with those millions of
dollars, Jordan, for me to give you millions of dollars, that's
not easy. Easy, brother you.
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You. Yes, I have.
You were throwing that bike in the beginning of the season.
Right now, Marquez should be have such a lead that he should
get on the the the grid on a tricycle and race that that's
how far we should be ahead. He should have took the last.
He should honestly be taking thelast month off because the four
races that he dropped the bike and should have won, he's.
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Taking the last month off no. No, no, it should have been
complete. Dominance.
Yeah. Well, again, I mean, it's it
doesn't work like that. And it didn't happen like that.
Some other riders won and and so, but it was close.
I mean, you know, he has the highest score.
He scored the highest points than any other rider in a
season. He's broke.
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He's broken a lot of records forsure.
You know, he is hurt right now because he got taken out by
Bazecki in the last round and and I think something he got.
Spear. So.
So, yeah, yeah. That's always.
Well, well, well, they had different lines, man.
No, no, they got spear. Teammate.
What's his teammate? That That's all I'm pro.
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What's his teammate? Martine.
Martine. Martine.
The Sparrow, no. No, no, no, no.
They were, they were, they were,they were on different lines.
And he? Was on different lines.
He came in hot, he came in hot and rear wheel wasn't even off
the ground. He speared him.
And, and, and well, he tried, hetried to keep it up himself, but
nonetheless, Martin Marquez had a long life penalty in the
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Sprint race because he punted somebody out the way.
So let's let let let's you know what I'm saying.
Like, you know, that's why there's there's no, there's
nothing because, yeah, so, you know, it's, you know, Bazecki's
not that kind of writer, right? And, and it's unfortunate
because the the Prelia doesn't have a great start and we and
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we've seen him struggle with that as well.
Maverick complained about it last year and stuff like that.
Alesh complained about it and we're seeing it and and, you
know, but, you know, if mobile deli did something like that,
I'll probably be like, I you know what I mean?
But like Bez, it it was a racingincident and you know
overzealous probably because youknow when you when you're pole
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position and you drop 5 positions or whatever you're
trying. To make it up in turn 1.
Yeah, you're trying. You're trying.
So what are your what are your thoughts, Mitty?
Kamikaze. No, I mean, look, I think it was
just like race, like race movement, you know what I'm
saying? It got a little bit too hot,
like you said, did a little too much.
But Bez, like you said, it's nota dirty rider at all.
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And to add, we just I mean to toto like piggyback of what you
just said, not that Frankie's dirty, but Frankie is kind of
like erratic to had it been him?Oh yeah, Frankie, you know,
that's probably his writing style.
He's been penalized a lot before.
But Bez, not Bez, is a clean, normal rider.
So honest riding mistake. You know, it sucks that it
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happened to get her, you know, after you get the damn trophy in
in your hand. But.
Right, no, it it definitely does.
It definitely does. Well, you guys thoughts on what
Honda is doing? They've been looking really good
lately and you know, the, the, the points don't show it, but I
I think they're them and Honda probably got the the best bikes
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on the grid. They're slowly coming up.
They're they're finally getting their stuff together.
I don't know if they got a new mechanic or a new engineer, but
they've been slowly progressing with with grip.
I remember a lot of times they was arguing a lot about with
grip and I believe it was not turning, but I think it was
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their their corner exit, which they wasn't getting a lot of
grip. It was getting, you know, real
good grip coming in, but coming out it was just kind of just
just sliding too much from and now they finally figured it out.
I don't know if it was if it wasaxle change or some maybe
simple, maybe a degree or two, who knows, But I think they've
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actually found something to actually help them to solve that
issue. And we'll see how the points end
up right about now because it's still 10th and sooner.
So they still got some work to do.
But hopefully, you know, they can get it together and I'm with
some some better finishes. Nice shakes, I see you shaking
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your head man. What your thoughts?
I know your team Ducati, so thismight be tough even though you
got on a Yamaha gear, but you know Honda Brillia, what are you
thinking? The only thing Honda's done this
year, if you, if you take a satellite picture of Japan,
there are lighting tires to increase global warming, which
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then gives us rain. And that's the only way Honda
could win if it rains. That's the only engineering that
they're doing over there. I've been I've been consistent
all season. They only could win in the rain.
That's it. The bike has no power.
We all know that. And, and if it didn't get the
flute winds in the rain and there wouldn't be a problem.
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I think the real dark horse is not KTM because we've been on
this podcast, everybody said that KTM has the power.
It's a prillion. It's a prillion.
Nobody in their right mind thought this was going to
happen. Nobody thought this in their
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right mind that this would happen.
No dude and and Bizeki. He's the only one outside of
Alex that challenged Mark. Well, I mean challenge running
the guy off the road the last round, but.
He did beat, he did beat Mark so.
Yeah, bad day I. Mean bad day is what it is the.
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Sun was in his eyes, you know. What's?
Going on with that win. A win is a win, man.
You can't. We can't.
It's not. We're not going to do that.
The win is a win, no matter how you get it, because.
Whether in a wet or not. Yes, that's what she said.
Smitty, what are your thoughts man?
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On Honda? You're a true Honda guy.
Honda Red. You know what?
What are your thoughts on how they doing?
Did you did you sit here and go?Man Mark should have stayed with
Honda when he won the title and Mia was on the on the podium
with him on a Honda. No, look, Mark had to make a
business decision. Honestly, man, it's safe.
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In his mind, his safety was at risk.
I need a safer bike that a bike,you know, people got to push his
heart to win. So he left.
No hard feelings there at all. However, it's good to see Honda,
Honda making progress. You know, a couple of rounds
ago, I forgot what round, but they got some chassis upgrades,
things like that and they've been doing good since then.
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They've been a consistent, you know, top five bike in the past
few rounds. So are you happy with what Luca
is doing? Because I mean, these are guys
you were mentioning, you know? Because I'm like, yo, this guy's
getting getting by on some like Roski's name almost, you know?
So he seemed like it. Yeah, he's he's his own man.
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Honestly, he's doing great. So Luke over, he was tough.
He was fifth place in the past race and that's not bad at all,
you know, And let's say 5th. Crash and 7th so I mean it's not
bad. Say it again. 5th crash and then
7th. Yeah.
Not bad man, not bad so. Nice.
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All right, I'm I'm, I'm looking forward.
Let's talk about KTMI know, likeShake says, they got the power.
They seem to be kind of somewhata little bit all over the place.
I mean, you know, look, Acosta wants to win.
I'm pretty sure it burns him that that Alder gear won a race
before he did. So I I can't imagine that he's
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flipping over tables after that.And it's, it's tough because,
you know, we see it in the NBA where, you know, people want to
win and they start looking at teams, other teams and moving
around and stuff like that. So I, you know, I know these
riders, they give 100 and 100% until, you know, they're out of
that contract or whatever the case may be.
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But it got to be tough for, for,for Acosta's going through right
now because he's, he's close, You know, he's nipping at that
the podium. What?
What are your thoughts, Jordan? I mean, the last one he got
second place with. So I mean, they, they, they're,
they've been constantly making upgrades and constantly putting
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that package together. They've been doing it for a
while. Not to say it's, it's due, but
you know, it takes time to develop a bike, the power, the
traction, the electronics, the geometry of it, the putting all
that stuff together, getting a rider on there that can really
push the limit without breaking the bike or without crashing.
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So I mean, it, it's, it's reallygood that you got Pedro Costa
getting second then you know, besides all the gears getting,
getting, getting a win, you know, they've been making a lot
of progress. And mostly with that, that KTM
power that couple years ago people said that Ducati couldn't
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handle, Ducati couldn't manage. Now KTM, once they've been doing
their their homework to say to actually be able to put that
power down eloquently and be able to manage that power and
doesn't take them three or four or five seasons to have that
same power, but to get everything else in line.
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I think they're going to be really good in in the next year,
even though, like I said, you know, we're going to 880.
That's not a stupid story. Won't go down that rabbit hole.
But what I mean, they're, they're making strides and if
they can keep everything together, you know, they've
they've, they're, they're prettygood right about now. 11th and
was 11th and 15th, 11th and 16th, 11th and 16th, 11th and
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16th. So I mean, not too, too bad, but
you know, yet it could have donea little bit better.
But like I said, you know, Rydermistakes crash 11th, you crashed
again. It's like, you know, you got to,
you got to be consistent to, to,to be, to develop more.
And if they can do that, then I think they'll be you'll be all
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right. I agree Smitty, it looks like
KTM is struggling with grip in the latest stages of races.
That's where they seem to kind of struggle and the bigger the
races they seem like they can push but it seems like it's grip
where the rear grip. It looked like the crashes that
Pedro have it like usually low side, so corner and grip.
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You know, they got all that power, but you know, it they
still kind of struggling. I mean, it is it's probably
something very simple or maybe something maybe it's too much
power and then they haven't figured out how to control that
power and and it's just, you know, eating up the tires.
What are your thoughts? I don't know some, so I'm no
engineer, but I think having toomuch power, it's easy to tune it
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down then then is to have too little power and try to find
more. So I don't think that's the
problem, honestly. But in terms of the KTM and the
struggles for, you know, I don'tknow.
But to piggyback and wait on what you just said, Pedro has
been running in the top 3 here and there and crashed or #1 in
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practice and just, you know, couldn't keep that same pace
throughout the race. But it sucks that he's always so
close. And I guess in his mind, you
know, I'm still young and I'm losing, you know, to guys that
the guys like Mark Marquez and Alex Marquez and and veterans,
that's easy pill pill to swallow.
But losing to Ferwin out the gear a rookie.
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Yeah. That would eat me up bad.
I'll be pissed about Pedro but that's like yo why is he doing
it as a rookie and you this is year 2 and you ain't do it yet.
And he, he, he came in like a superstar.
Alligator didn't. Right also.
Was, you know, Moto 3, Moto 2 coming in like it was business,
so. He was the next Rossi Marquez,
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supposedly, You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, I agree. And and, you know, and and and
that didn't happen. So that and and he's not and
Aldigiz on a satellite team, noteven I mean, he has a factory
contract, but he's still on a satellite 24 bike.
So yeah, it has to burn for sure, for sure.
Shakes, man, you know, you know you're, you're an engineer.
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What tires do KTM use? The same tires as the rest of
the grid and. What tire brand is that?
What am I? What am I?
What is it? Michelin's?
There are Michelin's or Bridge Jones.
OK, well Pirelli has a thing that says what is power without
control? Change the tires then.
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Yeah, I think they're on Michelins.
I got to, I got to, I got to hang on.
Let me bring the guys in. Somebody might know.
What are you? What are you on Michelins?
Yeah, so. And I agree with what Smitty
said. Hey, listen, it's always you can
control power. You can't find it.
And I believe if Bender wasn't throwing the bike in the gravel
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every week, it seemed like for the first the whole the whole
season, the bikes and the gravels.
It's a yard sale. I actually went to Moto GP once
and after a Bender crashed I wasable to get a fresh pair of
boots achieve. It's a yard sale, right?
Shit everywhere, right? Gloves, helmet, boots, pups.
It's crazy. It's crazy.
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My buddy got my buddy at the last race.
My buddy got a racing helmet forlike $3.
It's crazy, that inconsistency, it troubles the team and then it
puts more pressure on the lead guy, right?
It it it, Yeah, we do know you put on the suit by yourself, you
get on the bike by yourself. But you also need your team.
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Don't smoke. You need your team to get you
across the finish line, right? It's like the Africans when
they're running the marathon, those five guys, those are just
the pace guys. They're just there to just to
break your will because they know the top guy is going to
take it home. And that's how racing is, right?
It's a tandem. I help you push, you help me
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push, but you got to keep the bike upright because those
points add up as the season progresses.
So now when you look back and your teammates throwing the bike
and is having a yard sale every week, puts a lot of pressure on
you, takes you out of your game a little bit.
And I think that was a problem with KTMI.
Think that the whole team dynamic could have been a lot
better. I get it.
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But the bankruptcy, non bankruptcy, Lewis Hamilton, no
Lewis Hamilton, BlackRock is going to give them 2 trillion.
They're buying Bitcoin now. All the rumors that could have
kept KTM afloat. I get it, there's a lot going on
in the paddock. But if we're going to be
consistent on the show, 1 man onthe bike, one man on the grid,
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one man on the podium. Let's go all.
Right, no team order. I like it.
Let's move over to unless somebody else has something to
say on in in Moto GP. Let's move over the world.
Super bike as guys know. Just Congrats to the rookie on
his first win, that's all. This is dope.
He's he's going to have many more to come because that boy
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fast. You're a man of principle and
you're a gentleman. That's right.
And I agree with with with shakes.
I mean Bender the last couple ofraces has has barely even broke
10/12. He he got lucky and got a
fourth. I think that was his best
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outgoing in GP in like 3 years. So I mean, like, dude, come on,
you know, not say is the the thebest, but if you look at
Bastanini, you know, the beast was supposed to be, you know,
right along with, you know, upfront and he's crashing 11th
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crashing, no podiums, no nothing.
So it's kind of like, you know, you, yeah, I don't know.
Hopefully they can get their stuff together.
It is best if not for sure on ona KTM.
So I mean, I think he gets a little pass, but they but
they're doing really well. Him and Maverick are doing
really well for being first yearguys on the bike.
Same thing with with Bez becauseusually we see a bigger struggle
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and and we're not seeing that. But let's talk about Top Rock
coming to Moto GP as you guys know, you know, what are your
thoughts on that? Is he going to be someone that
that might be in the top five inthe first year?
Or you think he's going to hang out around 12 and, and, and, you
know, for the season just to gethis feet wet?
We start with Smitty. I say he'll be probably around
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10th ish because because coming to GP, as good as he is, it is a
whole different ball game. Like people think.
It's motorcycle, two wheels, throttle breaks the same.
No, it's just like driving a sports car versus a truck.
It's not the same experience at all.
And going by what Ben Speed saidabout his his experience, that
bike is so stiff. It's like riding a freaking, you
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know, just a plain piece of steel.
You know, it has wheels on it and the adjustment is very
difficult. And we you rarely ever see it
happen. Now that guys come from, you
know, royal super bike and do well, it just doesn't happen
like that anymore. This is no longer the days of
Mickey Hayden and Ben Speeds andConnor Edwards doing it.
This is a different type of bikeand I don't see him doing well.
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As talented as he is, I don't see it.
Don't, don't tell Gonzalez that in Moto 2.
I mean, he might. He might get the Moto GPI.
Mean true Canada same Moto 2. That's not where you know where
a super bike, right? Same sport, yeah, but he came
from World Super Sport. OK, true, true.
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He came from 300 Super Sport, then he came into World Super
Sport, and then he came over to the stiff chassis of Moto 2 and
he's fighting for the championship.
So you know, Jake Dixon came over from Super Sport as well
and you know, Jake has yet to fight for a championship.
Like how Gonzalez is doing this,and I believe it's Gonzalez the
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second year, just to say he's one of the few.
He's really the only one that that's been able to do it and
and maybe get to Moto GP. So, you know, but but you're
right, normally there's not a lot of writers that has been
able to do it. And if they come into Moto GP,
you know, they might win a race in their career, they might get
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on their podium, but they don't have the same dominance that
they haven't had the same dominance.
Obviously some writers have thatYou mentioned, I'm thinking, you
know, Cal and some of these guysthat just, you know, they won
races and they were very competitive.
But we see the difference and, you know, so, yeah, yeah, you're
right about that. What are your thoughts, Jordan?
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I'm glad you came to me because I do kind of agree with Smitty.
He'll be in the top 10, but I'm going to think if it's going to
be for a different reason. Hires, He's so used to having
the Pirelli's. He's been doing great with
Pirelli's with the Yamaha and the BMW.
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Now he's going to Michelin's. Not just because of the bike,
because of the tires. I think they're switching the
Pirelli's, you know? Well, they're supposed to be.
I'm not going to go to the tiresbecause everybody needs to
switch tires. Oh my gosh, Mode America need to
switch to Pirelli's. I'm I swear I'm not going to go
there, but I think they're supposed to be switching out
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tires also, but hopefully they do hopefully the the tire ward
needs to come back. I think we said that on like one
of the first interviews me and you had.
It's just like they need to be atire war that I won a tire war
back because. Yeah, because it's Michelin next
year, Pirelli 20. Minutes.
So I mean, it's going to be a little bit of a learning curve
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for him. Not because of the machinery.
Yeah, World Super Bike has some top tier electronics.
That kind of company with Moto GP, not really Moto 2, Moto 3,
but kind of with Moto GP. But yeah, there's still some
learning curves that he's going to have to do.
He's know how to do that. You give it to him, let him ride
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the bike 30-40, maybe 50 laps. He's going to tell you, hey,
this needs to change. That needs to change.
I'm good here. I'm not good there.
Fix this, fix that. Let me go back out and I'll show
you I can do better. He's that type of rider.
I mentioned something about MattMcladden couple years ago that
he can ride the bike, tell you what you need to do to it so
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that he can do the lap times he wants to do.
You do that? He's doing the lap times he's
saying he's going to do and thensometimes even attempted to
more. So I'm just kind of like, he has
that skill, that talent that if you give him what he needs,
Sky's the limit. Right.
And he has a great teammate JackMiller is going to be able to
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teach you a lot as well. A.
Lot of experience. Yeah, Bobby shakes man.
What are your thoughts on? Go ahead, like sorry I cut you.
No, go ahead on on top rock coming to Moto GP.
Obviously it's a new market for Moto GP.
You know, his fan base is prettyhuge in over in the Middle East
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and and so I got to imagine that's good for for it's going
to be great, really good for Moto GP.
Hey, listen man, I used to sit on my couch.
I watched football and they do the kickoff and I would see
these idiots drop the kickoff and I go, I could do that.
So I went to an XFL exhibition and I the only thing, the only
position I could play was kick return catching, catching that
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ball off a kicker's foot. It's like trying to catch a
razor blade. You have to catch it with all
hands and you got to be a dog. So it looks easy on television
to actually do it with top rack.He's not a poser, as we know.
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The suspension is tighter, The bike is stiff.
It only bends. You got to be on it.
And Top Rock is that dog. He's going to be on that bike
and we've seen it. No Fear.
He's going to use the suspension.
I think he's going to. I know the tire, like we say,
power dog, the dog control. I think he's going to adjust.
I think he's a dog. I think he's crazy.
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I think he's crazy and I think he's nuts.
And and the only thing that's going to stop top rack is top
rack. And it's I know it looks easy,
man, when you're watching these guys on Moto GP looks easy when
you're sitting down drinking a soda.
But he's a different guy. I agree with Jordan.
He's a different, different guy.So put him in 8th place, the
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guys going to go one through 6 again and then pull some shit
out of his ass. So put him in.
Smitty, what are your thoughts on Jonathan Ray retiring, you
know, at the end of the season? I think there's a couple more
rounds Esterrell this weekend. Shout out to Bobby Fong who's
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going to be racing this round and next round with the Tak
Yamaha team. Wish them the best.
What are your thoughts about Johnny Ray?
You know, six time world title for world super bike, the most
the most in a row and the most overall.
He had three with Honda, right? Something like that I think it
was. No, no, no.
All all Kawasaki. I forgot, but yeah, right, he's
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a legend and simple as that. He's the best to ever do it in
World Super bike. It's a shame he didn't really
get a real shot at riding Moto GP, you know, which sucks also,
but I mean, and also what sucks is I hate seeing champions like
great players, and this is all sports.
Like the last couple years it washed up.
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I hate seeing that, you know, like I like, like I enjoy seeing
guys who are great leaving the prime, like Barry Sanders, you
know, retired early. Everybody hated.
That too early, Too early. Too early.
He left when he wanted to and hewas when he left too early.
Instead of being like Emma Smithgoing to the Cardinals and like
with that, you get 2 yards of carry.
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You see that? You think Barry Sanders didn't
want to at least didn't think for one, Like maybe I could have
played one, say a little bit longer.
You think Casey Stoner didn't go?
Maybe I should have. I mean, obviously he had health
reasons. Maybe not.
But. You know it.
It's the thing with the thing with motorcycles, motorcycle
race and basketball or any physical sport you're against
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for all the time. If you're if you, if you're a
musician, you can take time off.If you're an actor or whatever,
you can take time off and and find your way back.
But when you're in your prime, you have to be 1 with God when
you walk away because, you know,we saw Michael Jordan struggled
when he came back, so you know what I mean?
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And I hated seeing Rossi last two years.
It just it just looked like. Yeah, the mic, the Yamaha was
bad. It wasn't Rossi.
No, I was here, man. No man, the mic was bad.
Come on. Like because he was saying
morbidly was struggling. He was struggling, but Rossi
wasn't. Wasn't even the best Yamaha when
he was riding. The years Rossi won in Rossi got
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on the podium in 2018, all right, and I think he left what
so the last three years that that bike was struggling, man,
the Yamaha was struggling and. And even but OK, but but let's
say you know the bike was bad. It still looks bad seeing him
running 15 place by himself, youknow, Reasons are not regardless
if it's him or the bike, knowingwho he was, it just don't look
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right seeing him in the back of the pack of that, you know,
yellow and blue bike and Patronus bike.
It didn't look good, you know. Yeah, I mean, it's tough because
I see Venus out there playing now and I like seeing her play.
You know, I'm rooting for her. So I don't know.
I mean, I get, I get what you'resaying from a fan perspective.
You, you want, you don't. You don't want your, your, your
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the the the people you look up to to look like look normal.
Yeah, it's like seeing Jerry Rush playing for the Seahawks.
It was terrible, Randy Moore. So the Titans and the Niners was
horrible, man. I like seeing that.
You know, I, I get, I get what you're saying there for sure.
How are you thinking, Jordan? You feel the same way.
Walk out on top or don't. Don't stay too long in the party
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that you know you don't want to go out with the lights when they
shut the lights off at the afterparty.
Shut the lights out on you and you're stuck on a dance floor by
yourself where everybody go. I mean, I think Johnny had a
very good run. My bad, my bad.
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I'm jacking you. Oh, it's all good, it's all
good, it's all good. Not to say that he tapped out
too early or even too late, you know, after his sixth run and
you know, everybody else startedcatching up to him.
Not say Kawasaki was doing something spectacular.
I don't know what, they put somein their gas tank or something.
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But Johnny was just just doing adaggone thing.
He was just on money every single race, every single time,
every lap. And no one could could answer
that. So once everybody started, I
don't know, getting his number, you know, figuring out whatever
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he was doing, started catching him every little 10th here and
there. And then, you know, top rack
being top rack, you know, he's he's top rack.
He's an alien. I don't know if everybody's
heard that term before, but he'san alien.
You've you've gotten really nothing for that.
Even Bautista. Bautista got lucky, got a
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championship, didn't hold on to it for too longer, but he got a
championship out of that. You got 2, you know we got
another. Well, he wouldn't go
back-to-back though. He go back-to-back.
He went 19 and 20, didn't go 1921.
No, he got because it was it wasit it, it was Top Rock that got
it on to Yamaha, then then Bautista went back-to-back, and
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then Top rack. I thought it was.
I thought it was top rack, Bautista, top rack again.
We'll look at it later on. But since we got back-to-back,
when Pekko got back-to-back. OK, So I mean not so he got
lucky. I'm not going to say that, I'll
retract that. But I mean, with that happening
and then top rack switching off,I mean, like I said, the whole
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thing has just been like, you know, either you adjust whether
it's the biker yourself. No, it was it was definitely the
bike. I don't know if you caught the
video video podcast with Ray anda Top Rock was on it and Alex
Lowe's was on it and Alex was saying, you know, like I.
Missed that one. I missed that one.
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I'm I'm finishing 10th on Akawi and, and, and he's finishing on
on the podium or for the win. And I'm sitting here like we're
on the same bike. Like how is he making this bad
bike? You know, you know, do work.
You know what I mean? And, and so, you know, but I
think it's the same thing. Eventually these guys like
Marquez, at at some point the white becomes too bad for them.
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Maybe it's just that you don't want to take the same risk.
You know, I I'm I'm obvious. And he did get hurt with the
Yamaha when he switched to Yamaha.
So I think for him, you know, that recovery at an old age, you
know, as he, as he mentioned, you know what, you know, like
watching his kids and stuff likethat.
And, and, you know, and, and he even said this, he's like, you
know, there was one time where he where he crash or some crash
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that he had, I forget which, which, which race it was that he
crashed. And, and you know, and he's just
like, you know, he thought of, you know, not being there for
his kids. So all of a sudden he's also
thinking, you know, like I can be hurt.
So you know, once, once, once you once you can't lock in and
give 100% motorcycle race in like you, you you have to walk
away at that. Point.
And I think that's what it was, and I agree with you.
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I think that's what it was. It's like, you know, he had the
hyperbaric chamber in his house because he wanted to try to heal
and recover as fast as he could to get back onto the bike.
And then once he got back onto the bike, he still wasn't where
he I get wanted to be at and where he expected to be at.
And it's kind of like, OK, I'm going to give him my best.
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I'm going to give him my best shot because I want to give the
best to my fans, to my family, to the sport.
He's very sport conscious of of world super bike and everybody
in it. So once that happens, it's kind
of like, you know, I got to tap out and that's, that's pretty
much what he did. So I mean, not saying he didn't
give 100%, he gave 120% to the support.
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And you know, I wish him best ofluck and hopefully he does a
whole bunch of coaching to the Yamaha group because I believe
that's what he's going to contract for right about now.
I saw him doing something with the USA Yamaha school here.
I don't want to say their name because they're not going to get
any monetization from us. So but he's been doing some
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coaching and stuff with them. So who knows, We may see him
here on the West Coast. I believe he actually has a, a
Airbnb or a house here in California.
So I think, I think he tapped down him in a perfect time.
Yeah, and, and he also said he didn't want to, he didn't want
like, like Spitty, you know, wanting to see the top guys go
out. He didn't he, he wasn't
comfortable sitting at sitting around 10th or 11.
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He's like, if I'm not fighting for the podium, I like I I don't
want to be out here. Time to check out exactly.
So there is that as well. Bobby shakes man, you know, I I
know you know who Jonathan Ray is made Cowie a lot of money for
sure, because you know, everybody wants a Cowie.
You know, 1000 to like the the ZX10R.
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You know, people love that bike.What are your thoughts?
I mean, you know, one of the greats walking away from the
sport as far as racing. Just going to take my hat off to
him and his career. My issue with motorcycle racing
and car racing is, is different from basketball and football and
everything else. Those are more physical sports,
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right? So you could heal quicker.
Racing, it starts to deteriorateyour cognitive, you, you, you,
you. You're just not seeing the track
anymore. Like there's just this breakdown
and and and we're just seeing it.
And I think once you once the cognitive starts to break down,
once the brain starts breaking down the G forces, people don't
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understand that that part of racing is the nasty part about
racing, right. When you see in Hamilton in the
F1 car, it's, it's, it's like hehas a disease now, like you
can't you lose it over time morequickly than other sport?
And I think once your cognitive starts to go, it's time to go
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because you, you're not seeing the game anymore.
When we talk about football and basketball, there's only so many
things that can happen within that game, right?
You've seen all the plays, you know everything.
You know the defense, you know the offense, you know
everybody's skills. Been playing for a long time
with motorcycle racing. It your, your nervous system
starts to break down and then when you have these young bloods
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coming who could see the track like it's hats off to him in his
career at that part of the racing needs to be highlighted
more just like getting on a bikeand learn how to ride.
It's the strength training, the neck training, core training,
all that stuff that is crazy. Like I took my son for an an ear
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infection and they gave this a go.
This is like a, we're putting you through an F1 balance test,
right? Like we, we don't think about
that. The balance in your eardrum, the
loud noise, the paddock, all that stuff start to deteriorate.
And that's what's sad about thatsport, that it happens
overnight. Like Michael Jordan, you saw the
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decline slowly. The motorcycle racing, it's like
115 overnight. You're like what the fuck?
It's hats off man. Love you and and all you need to
do is be a couple of tenths off right.
You like you don't need to be much.
And so that's the other part. It's like, you know, it just
it's just a little bit and that then over the course of laps
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obviously adds up and and it's tough.
You're absolutely right. And don't get me wrong, they
they need to be like a senior league, like like some of these
other car racing and stuff like that or golf tournaments where,
you know, some of these guys canstill ride.
Maybe they're on, you know, prototype whatever kind of
bikes, you know, But it it it's still, you know, like the the
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sport does a pretty good job of celebrating the Champions, but
it can like I think that if people would sign up to go watch
that senior. A senior world world world super
bike. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, because you look at they got the senior, they got
the seniors TT. Chichi.
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Yeah. So you know, they're not slow
just because it's called senior,right?
You know what I'm saying? So, you know, and, and at least
some of these guys can ride around the age, so everybody
will be kinder at the same speed, sort of speak, right.
And and and still, you know, youget to still see these like it'd
be nice to see Casey race, right?
I don't know if he'd want to, but it'd be nice to see him race
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and and some of these other guys, you know, come out and
race. That's that's a business pitch
to Dubai. Dubai.
We just pitched you something. Just I heard that Tom Brady's
playing flag football in Dubai about a trillion dollars.
I don't know if that's true or not.
Maybe we can pitch Dubai to havea Seniors Cup.
No, honestly, what I want to seelike a four round exhibition
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race between our top ten riders in the States versus the top 10
BFB riders. Well, there you go.
There you go. Yeah.
Like like a world, like a World Cup.
Two rounds in the States, two rounds in the UKI would love to
see that one. Day.
Yeah, I remember Bradley Smith is still here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But not not that that, you know,
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like a World Cup would be would be cool 2 riders, you know, and
then then it's just the states that I mean, the countries that
are pushing the riders forward, you know, that'll be kind of
cool. I mean, the Spanish and Italians
might win it all for the first few years, but.
You know, I don't think so. I don't think so either.
I don't think so either. Like, Bradley's still here in
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the West Coast, so I mean, we can make that happen to a couple
phone calls all. Right.
Gotta call Wayne Rainey, man Make it happen.
Man, yeah, for real. There you go, both them.
Together and send it off to Dubai.
Let's get let's get this thing cracking.
Well, you know, just like Wednesday, the room room show
is, is, is coming to a close fortonight and it, it's nice to
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have you guys back on and chopping it up and hearing your
point of views in Moto GP and world super bike.
And you know this, you know we'll we'll start the senior
World Cup of motorcycle racing. I'm a senior.
My name is Rex 45. We got Smitty's from Smit Shot
Racing. We got Jordan Long in the
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building from Jordan Long Racing.
We got Bobby Shakes, the one andonly.
He's everywhere, doing everything.
Peace. Adios, uh.
You're listening to the Be Forever Cool podcast.
My name is Rex 45. It's the room Room Wednesday
edition. We're going to do it a little
different tonight. We got the some long time people
who have not been on the show coming back on the show.
So we don't have a good old time.
But first let's bring in the guests one at a time.
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Let's start with Jordan. Welcome back, Jordan, man.
How are things, man? Oh, things are going good, man.
Can't complain. Can't complain at all.
I mean, if you can't complain, you know you're living life
above ground. That's a good thing.
God bless. Right, But you know, you get to
listen or watch motorcycle racing, so it's not all bad.
Even if all of the rest of the world is chaos, You got
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motorcycle racing to watch. And, you know, at least you get
to smile some weekends. Yes, yes.
And you know, some weekends we can smile bigger than other
weekends, but we'll get to that later on.
Oh, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.
But we're going to keep the lineup going.
This young, this guy keeps tapping in and out.
Smitty what's good, man? What's going on?
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What's going on, man? Finally back online.
Been a little hiatus, been busy just working, raising kids,
racing, riding bikes, fixing stuff.
That's it man. So I'm back for a little bit.
Well, it's nice to have you backand you know, I'm pretty sure
you know you found some time nowthat you know Marquez is 1 and I
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I know you got I know you got a lot to get off your chest.
Probably more like I told you so.
I told you so. I told you so, but it's.
Day one, but you ain't believe me, so it is what it is.
I still don't believe it. I'm in denial.
We're going to keep it moving. Bobby shakes.
Welcome back as well. I mean, it's like, man, it's
like, did y'all get, you know, got picked up by ice and, and,
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and it's just, you know, you know, you got out.
What's good, man? Yeah, I mean, ICE did a huge
sweep, grabbed all of us, put usthrough the shifter, and I fell
through one of the cracks. Now I'm back.
It's been, it's been unbelievable.
Listen, we're going to hear moreabout it, man, so it's going to
be a good show. Welcome back, fellas.
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Yeah, I don't even know where tostart, so I'm just going to kind
of throw it out there. We'll start with Jordan and get
caught up. You know, let's let's let's kind
of have you do a quick recap of the Moto GP season, the things
that, you know, you might have wanted to say earlier if you
were able to come on the show, because you definitely were
checking out our post and and commenting and stuff like that.
So we kept a conversation going,but you know, what are your
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thoughts on on how the season panned out and and I see you got
your Yamaha shirt on. So is that because of V4 or just
team Yamaha? Oh, it's actually definitely
Yamaha. You know, I'm not mad about the
V4. I'm I'm kind of mad we didn't go
through the V4 earlier. But you know, obviously they
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have to do some testing and theyhave to do some more testing.
Had to do some qualifications, how to go through FIM, how to
get mallocated, how to go through all the rigor rumors to
making sure everything's, you know, to spec.
Even though we're changing complete motorcycles in the next
year and a half, that's kind of OK.
But you know, we want to make sure that this bike is going to
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be top tier for the next 3 rounds.
Need to say above that we all set it from what USA that
Marquez is pretty much going to win the championship, which he
did. And I would almost say
spectacular form with three round 3 rounds left to go or
actually 2 rounds now got left to go.
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You know, he clinched it up overthe fourth.
Yeah, you know, with the sprints.
On Yeah, yeah, well, the. Numbers but it.
Don't matter. We we knew he was going to win.
We knew a Ducati was going to win it regardless.
So the the the season went is not went is going off pretty
well. Congratulations to all of the
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Champions that are all through FIM, whether it's Moto America,
Moto GP, Moto 3, we're not goingto do any spoilers right about
now. If you haven't seen the season,
I don't want to do any spoilers,but you know, if the season was
really good and it's still goingoff for Moto 2.
So we want to see who goes off for 4th, 5th, 4th, 5th, 3rd and
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2nd for Moto GP and then we still got a crown of
Championship for Moto 2. So we can still a lot of more
racing to go through as well as up and coming with Royal Super
Bikes. So said a lot of stuff going on,
a lot of moving and shaking, nottoo many seats that's going to
be available for Moto GP, even for Moto 2 which Moto 3 riders
is trying to move up into. So what I said we got a lot of
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talk about a lot of stuff to cover.
But yeah, I have been covering, I have been watching all the
races, even though I haven't been, you know, behind the
scenes, you know, or actually onthe scene.
I've been doing my things behindthe scenes.
No doubt, but you've been staying cool.
So that's the best part about itall Smitty man, let let let's
let's get your recap. I mean, I I know you have done
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some recaps on on your channel on YouTube and stuff like that.
So I know you in the game, yeah,like he's mentioned, you've been
at the track and, and, and racing and and stuff like that,
which is a beautiful thing. But you know, what are your
thoughts on on the season itself?
And, and you know, I know Marquez obviously won, but you
know, what about the other manufacturers and, and riders
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and stuff like that? So I have a couple of thoughts
on the season and not to rub it in good I told you so, but I'm
saying one time since week 1. I told you so.
However, it makes it for a weirdexperience.
Yeah. Like, you know, you know, you go
into the race weekend, you know who's going to win.
So it becomes kind of non exciting almost because it's
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like Marc Marquez. And then what's exciting is
second through, you know, after that.
And I think once, I think now that he's hurt, sadly, to say a
bit more exciting now because now you have no clue who who's
going to win. I'll say this, I disagree with
that non exciting, the exciting part because you know who's
going to win. It was still exciting.
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It was still exciting and you know, I'll leave it there but
continue. Well, OK, tell you what, maybe
non exciting is the wrong word to use, but it's it was easy.
It was easy to guess. OK, Marquez, maybe Alex.
Then who else after that? Now, you know, from from this
point on the next couple of races, it's a total dice roll.
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It could be Petco who has a great weekend in Japan, you
know, last race and then a turboweekend again this past weekend.
It could be, it could be freaking Alex coming this time.
It could be Bez. We have no clue at all was going
to win next the next few races. Can I, can I do what can I do?
What I told you so that Mark is going to destroy the bike
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because the bike is starting to seem unrideable for some folks.
It's not unrideable man all. People just can't ride.
All right, all right. I mean, you know, the same thing
happened at Honda, you know, so it's not.
Unrideable at all. Man, OK, all right, all right.
We. We.
Because that last Honda night, it was a bad bike.
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Because even Mark couldn't ride.Mark couldn't.
Even Mark couldn't with, you know, man, so the bike was bad
itself. Well, yeah, but that that, you
know, the bike doesn't get bad in one year.
Just keep that in mind. Thanks, Todd.
You know, so we'll keep it moving.
Let's get to Bobby Shakes. Shakes.
Welcome back, man. You know, you you are a non
really racer kind of guy, but you follow Moto GP and world
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super bike and and you like the smell of gasoline, but you
prefer something with apes goingdown the highway.
We we just the way you look. Hey, listen, I'm only in true
blue tonight only because I wentto the Ducati shop.
I bought an extra, I got a 5X Ducati shirt.
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And when I looked at conversion chart, a 5X in men in America is
a woman's medium in Ducati language.
So I had to get true blue, something that could fit me.
Sorry. So, so I look like I just came
out of the paddock and I'm goingto lie and say I did.
I've been working on the V4 development while Jordan's been
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doing nothing. And just this minute, just a
quick little, little chemistry here.
So this is a motorcycle, right? Nice and nice and straight.
You can see that when you crash,you bend the motorcycle like so
right now the motorcycle is no longer straight.
It's it's, it's bent, right? Every crash, something bends.
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This is just physics. So now the Ducati has become
completely unwriteable. The same thing that happened at
Ducati with the same writer. Now everybody wants to say I
told you so, but I'm the only man that said Ducati should have
been one through 6. This has been the worst year for
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factory Ducati in the history ofMoto GP.
They should have been one through 6.
I don't know where the hell they're fine.
See, the Ducati guys don't let you get it out.
Ducati coughed it up. I don't know where Busecki came
from. You shouldn't even be in the
running. Busecki is a is a is a is a
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stand in for Aprilia. He he's he's just a stand in.
He's only good for photo OPS. He's actually not good for
racing. And now he may take third place.
And I've been Tony Wall year that big Nya echo see you later.
And look where we're at now. It should be one through 6
Ducati. We have the machine and I and I
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also will say something that nobody I, I, I, I listen to all
you Moto GP clowns out there. And this is the realist show on
the Internet talk about Moto GP.Everything that these panelists
have said has come true. And I like to say the only bike
that had the power for the Ducati has been KTM could go
back to the first episode, couldgo back to the pre shows.
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You could watch behind the scenes.
You could come join us on, on the, the Twitter group, the
Twitch group, the Instagram group, all of the groups.
And I've, and I've been saying that KTM has the power and, and
that's the racist drawing there.And you can smell the buns.
You got to smell the buns, right?
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Finally, smell the buns. The word KTM is.
OK, they're they're fifth in thechampionship and moving
Aprilia's fourth in the championship.
And you know, you're absolutely right.
Ducati did not get one through 6, but the the factory guys are
one and three and one of the satellite guys is 2.
So I mean it, you got to look atVR46 and Aldergear.
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Aldergear is a rookie, so for him to even be 8th is is pretty
impressive. I mean, he did win this past
week and just so impressive. Second youngest guy to win a
champion a race since Mark Marquez, probably in the
youngest. So I mean that it that's but
that's what racing is, right. And and I also said that at the
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beginning of the year that, you know, since we were talking
about what we said that, you know, riders are going to try to
beat, they're going to they're going to cut, they're going to
step their game up. And that's what we're seeing,
we're seeing Bazeki do that from, you know, the beginning of
season to where he is now, because at the beginning of the
season he, he was, you know, like, like Smitty, say, if you,
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if you're fifteen, 14th or whatever, trying to get a new
contract or, or get out of Moto GP and, and, and, and Bez
figured that out. You see Acosta as much as he's
crashing because he wants to win, he's figuring it out.
But I think that's help of Vinyala's being able to help the
KTM. So, you know, for fans of Moto
GP, it's good to see other manufacturers in there so it's
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not all Ducati one through 6. And trust me, I I'm not going to
complain about Ducati one through 6.
No, I I have to disagree with you in Smitty, nobody likes the
underdog. You only like the underdog when
you're betting. Everybody loves dynasties.
Everybody loves. When the Celtics win 100,
everybody love when the Lakers win 100, everybody love Michael
Jordan back-to-back, the triple back, the back, the back, the
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Tripoli back. Everybody loves Golden State.
Everybody loves the Patriots. Nobody loves.
Loves surprises. Well, shakes.
I got nobody shakes. This is a individual sport like
golf, like tennis. This is this is where one person
says, hey, I'm tired of losing. It's not the whole team.
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You're not waiting for four other guys on a basketball team
to show up and play or let otherguys on a football team to show
up and play. And you just get sick of it.
You get up, you put your letterson that morning and and you say
I'm going to find something today.
Nobody likes that. Nobody.
Happen on motorcycle racing. Shakes nobody like nobody likes
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a surprise. People want to see dominance.
People want to see human beings go to the apex of their
creativity. Nobody wants to see KTM win
anything. Nobody wants to see a Honda.
We want to see Ducati one through 6.
We want to see take. That shirt off, take that shirt
off. I I can't take it off the only
shirt I could fit in. All right, Smitty, what do you,
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what do you want to add to that?Because I was waiting for you to
chime in. I was like, I can't believe
Smitty just sitting back lettingshake.
What? He wants to Hondo, man, That's
you. I don't care about Ducati and
their fanboys like Rex and everybody else.
Not a fanboy. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm one of them,
OK? OK, you know what, Yes, you got
a bite. Yes, you are one of them.
But no, I mean, so I get what you're saying.
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People do like dominance, you know, But people like dominance
when their guys dominated. No one like.
No one like the Patriots winningsix rings except for the Patriot
fans. No, no, no, no, no.
No. Secretly, secretly, it's good
for the sport because you're going to the reason, only reason
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why Floyd Mayweather same sports, different sports, same
topic 150, right. Everybody tuned in to watch
lose. I'm coughing.
It's a quit smoking. Everybody tuned in to watch
Mayweather lose. Everybody tuned in to watch the
Patriots lose every day I see you Smitty.
I got a camera inside your housewhen I went to visit you last
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weekend. I put a camera in your house and
you have a voodoo doll and I'm watching you you're you're
watching Moto GP more intent leave now as the season is
ending and you're sticking the pins.
You love the pain. You want to crash out.
You want to see oil leak. You want to see Ducati fits
allowed, but you're. You.
You're. The hate that you have, the
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dominance is the love that you have for dominance.
I'm going to say that freaking it out.
I'm going to say everybody lovesthe dynasty when they're coming
up, when they're at their peak or when they're at their their
top form. That's when the next rider, the
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next group, the next Clippers orthe Miami Heat or something like
that, that's when they're going to be up and running, but be
like, I'm going to take them down.
That's when you have the target on your back.
So I mean, maybe Ducati doesn't have a target on the back right
now, but they've had their run. Honda's had their run.
Y'all must have their run. I'm not saying Ducati hasn't had
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that run. They haven't.
Been in Moto GP. Well, I mean, they're, they're
at their peak right about now. And I mean, everybody's been
following them for the past fiveyears.
So it's just, it's just just theway it is.
This has been the worst race. This has been the worst season
ever. I I wanted to see complete
dominance because y'all, all of y'all had your dominance.
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And you know what, I'm going to shut up because I'm going to cut
my nose off to spite my face. The fact that the other two
Ducatis we're in the dumpster from the Moto GP God and I've
got the the PEKKO and I got the PEKKO killer and I got the
Marquez killer. Your team sucks bro.
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I mean, come and think of it. Look at it like Marquez won what
in in Japan? And where was Pekko?
Pekko was dead last. No, no, no, no.
The whole weekend. Pekko won Japan and Pekko.
Won Japan, but the one in the the the weekend after that.
Yeah, Indonesia. Yeah, Indonesia, he was dead
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last. The whole, the whole Sprint
race, Yeah, warm up the race, everything.
He was dead last, I mean. But they all struggled.
They all struggled, including Marquez.
They all struggled. The only one that was the Alex
was probably the, the, the better of them, but they all
struggled. And and and that's, that's, and
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I'm not, you know, you know, andI think that's the thing, like
the, the issues with Ducati, youknow, it's starting to show with
other writers. It's only so long.
You can, you know, it's only so wrong.
You could be Michael Jordan on a, on a, on a young Bulls team
putting up 63. You can only do that for so
long. And and I and I and you can we
can see it because the all thoseguys struggled this past
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weekend. Yeah, but it's Mark.
It's Mark Marquette's fault, right?
But, but, but. No, no, no, it's Ducati's fault.
Ducati hasn't, Ducati hasn't peaked yet, right?
They've been trying, they've been there, but this was the
year to set. We're, we are undisputed
champions and now we're going togo to a different, different
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bike next season. It's it's like we're here.
We we, we got to, we got to go one through 6.
Well, I, I agree with you One I grew to one through I grew to
one through 6. But I think they'll be happy,
you know, with one through 8 andgiving up two spots to some
other riders. I mean, I think I still think
that's that's that's really goodfor Ducati.
And you know, the 25 bike, I've already been on record saying
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this is is probably the worst bike since the 2020 bike, which
they did the style light team didn't use in 21.
They had a 19 bike in 21 and yousee Alex Marquez doesn't want a
25 bike. I don't think any of these guys
want a 25 bike for next year. Um, so there's something there
and Marquez is is, you know, he's one of the top three riders
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we can do you can you can say what order he's in with the with
Rossi and Agostini, although Agostini got 15.
So like Wilk, you gotta you know, it is what it is he.
Got he got 15 when there when there was no motorcycles and
nobody watching. Right.
Again, and not much padding in the Leathers either, right?
So. I mean, you don't need padding
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on a 50CC super bike, come on. So you know what I mean?
So he's able to do that, like Quatarara was able to do that
with Yamaha. But we see Yamaha, but we see
Quatarara now it's like how manytimes he has to crash or or get
upset that he just can't. He doesn't have the power.
So and I and I, and I think we saw that towards the latter end
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when Mark got hurt at, at Honda,you know, eventually it became
unwritable for him. And like I said, we saw that and
maybe he was to party too much and that's why he struggled at
Indonesia because because of the, he won the championship the
week before and had to do a lot of TV appearances and whatnot
and whatnot. So I won't throw Mark under the
bus as far as saying the, you know, it's not completely
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unwriteable, but I think the ducat, there's something there
and and it's and we see it more with Pekko.
But you know, the other guys, they're, they're, they've been
up and down and, and to say all that to say, they're still in
the topic. So I mean, you know, it is what
it is, but Ducati got to figure that out.
Let me ask you a question. This is a serious question, not
it's kind of a rhetorical question, but I don't think
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Mark, Mark, Mark has struggled this whole season.
He threw the bike away. He threw the bike down.
We you could, you could go back to our first five shows.
He he was saving that bike. Still goes in the middle of the
season. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, so so I think this has been a very disappointing season
for Ducati. Marquez should have won every
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race. So I don't think he saw the
Ducati campaign, you know, they they showing a few different
team members and engineers. But the point of it is like in
one of the clip, it's just like we make it look easy, but it
wasn't. And, and so you know, it, it,
it's the, you know, when you're more prepared than the rest of
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the paddock doesn't mean it's, it's, it's easy, it just means
you're more prepared. Hey, listen, man.
Hey, listen, if I'm stroking that check, it's got to look
easy, bud. It's got to look easy and it's
got to be easy because for me tocome with those millions of
dollars, Jordan, for me to give you millions of dollars, that's
not easy. Easy, brother you.
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You. Yes, I have.
You were throwing that bike in the beginning of the season.
Right now, Marquez should be have such a lead that he should
get on the the the grid on a tricycle and race that that's
how far we should be ahead. He should have took the last.
He should honestly be taking thelast month off because the four
races that he dropped the bike and should have won, he's.
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Taking the last month off no. No, no, it should have been
complete. Dominance.
Yeah. Well, again, I mean, it's it
doesn't work like that. And it didn't happen like that.
Some other riders won and and so, but it was close.
I mean, you know, he has the highest score.
He scored the highest points than any other rider in a
season. He's broke.
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He's broken a lot of records forsure.
You know, he is hurt right now because he got taken out by
Bazecki in the last round and and I think something he got.
Spear. So.
So, yeah, yeah. That's always.
Well, well, well, they had different lines, man.
No, no, they got spear. Teammate.
What's his teammate? That That's all I'm pro.
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What's his teammate? Martine.
Martine. Martine.
The Sparrow, no. No, no, no, no.
They were, they were, they were,they were on different lines.
And he? Was on different lines.
He came in hot, he came in hot and rear wheel wasn't even off
the ground. He speared him.
And, and, and well, he tried, hetried to keep it up himself, but
nonetheless, Martin Marquez had a long life penalty in the
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Sprint race because he punted somebody out the way.
So let's let let let's you know what I'm saying.
Like, you know, that's why there's there's no, there's
nothing because, yeah, so, you know, it's, you know, Bazecki's
not that kind of writer, right? And, and it's unfortunate
because the the Prelia doesn't have a great start and we and
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we've seen him struggle with that as well.
Maverick complained about it last year and stuff like that.
Alesh complained about it and we're seeing it and and, you
know, but, you know, if mobile deli did something like that,
I'll probably be like, I you know what I mean?
But like Bez, it it was a racingincident and you know
overzealous probably because youknow when you when you're pole
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position and you drop 5 positions or whatever you're
trying. To make it up in turn 1.
Yeah, you're trying. You're trying.
So what are your what are your thoughts, Mitty?
Kamikaze. No, I mean, look, I think it was
just like race, like race movement, you know what I'm
saying? It got a little bit too hot,
like you said, did a little too much.
But Bez, like you said, it's nota dirty rider at all.
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And to add, we just I mean to toto like piggyback of what you
just said, not that Frankie's dirty, but Frankie is kind of
like erratic to had it been him?Oh yeah, Frankie, you know,
that's probably his writing style.
He's been penalized a lot before.
But Bez, not Bez, is a clean, normal rider.
So honest riding mistake. You know, it sucks that it
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happened to get her, you know, after you get the damn trophy in
in your hand. But.
Right, no, it it definitely does.
It definitely does. Well, you guys thoughts on what
Honda is doing? They've been looking really good
lately and you know, the, the, the points don't show it, but I
I think they're them and Honda probably got the the best bikes
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on the grid. They're slowly coming up.
They're they're finally getting their stuff together.
I don't know if they got a new mechanic or a new engineer, but
they've been slowly progressing with with grip.
I remember a lot of times they was arguing a lot about with
grip and I believe it was not turning, but I think it was
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their their corner exit, which they wasn't getting a lot of
grip. It was getting, you know, real
good grip coming in, but coming out it was just kind of just
just sliding too much from and now they finally figured it out.
I don't know if it was if it wasaxle change or some maybe
simple, maybe a degree or two, who knows, But I think they've
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actually found something to actually help them to solve that
issue. And we'll see how the points end
up right about now because it's still 10th and sooner.
So they still got some work to do.
But hopefully, you know, they can get it together and I'm with
some some better finishes. Nice shakes, I see you shaking
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your head man. What your thoughts?
I know your team Ducati, so thismight be tough even though you
got on a Yamaha gear, but you know Honda Brillia, what are you
thinking? The only thing Honda's done this
year, if you, if you take a satellite picture of Japan,
there are lighting tires to increase global warming, which
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then gives us rain. And that's the only way Honda
could win if it rains. That's the only engineering that
they're doing over there. I've been I've been consistent
all season. They only could win in the rain.
That's it. The bike has no power.
We all know that. And, and if it didn't get the
flute winds in the rain and there wouldn't be a problem.
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I think the real dark horse is not KTM because we've been on
this podcast, everybody said that KTM has the power.
It's a prillion. It's a prillion.
Nobody in their right mind thought this was going to
happen. Nobody thought this in their
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right mind that this would happen.
No dude and and Bizeki. He's the only one outside of
Alex that challenged Mark. Well, I mean challenge running
the guy off the road the last round, but.
He did beat, he did beat Mark so.
Yeah, bad day I. Mean bad day is what it is the.
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Sun was in his eyes, you know. What's?
Going on with that win. A win is a win, man.
You can't. We can't.
It's not. We're not going to do that.
The win is a win, no matter how you get it, because.
Whether in a wet or not. Yes, that's what she said.
Smitty, what are your thoughts man?
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On Honda? You're a true Honda guy.
Honda Red. You know what?
What are your thoughts on how they doing?
Did you did you sit here and go?Man Mark should have stayed with
Honda when he won the title and Mia was on the on the podium
with him on a Honda. No, look, Mark had to make a
business decision. Honestly, man, it's safe.
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In his mind, his safety was at risk.
I need a safer bike that a bike,you know, people got to push his
heart to win. So he left.
No hard feelings there at all. However, it's good to see Honda,
Honda making progress. You know, a couple of rounds
ago, I forgot what round, but they got some chassis upgrades,
things like that and they've been doing good since then.
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They've been a consistent, you know, top five bike in the past
few rounds. So are you happy with what Luca
is doing? Because I mean, these are guys
you were mentioning, you know? Because I'm like, yo, this guy's
getting getting by on some like Roski's name almost, you know?
So he seemed like it. Yeah, he's he's his own man.
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Honestly, he's doing great. So Luke over, he was tough.
He was fifth place in the past race and that's not bad at all,
you know, And let's say 5th. Crash and 7th so I mean it's not
bad. Say it again. 5th crash and then
7th. Yeah.
Not bad man, not bad so. Nice.
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All right, I'm I'm, I'm looking forward.
Let's talk about KTMI know, likeShake says, they got the power.
They seem to be kind of somewhata little bit all over the place.
I mean, you know, look, Acosta wants to win.
I'm pretty sure it burns him that that Alder gear won a race
before he did. So I I can't imagine that he's
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flipping over tables after that.And it's, it's tough because,
you know, we see it in the NBA where, you know, people want to
win and they start looking at teams, other teams and moving
around and stuff like that. So I, you know, I know these
riders, they give 100 and 100% until, you know, they're out of
that contract or whatever the case may be.
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But it got to be tough for, for,for Acosta's going through right
now because he's, he's close, You know, he's nipping at that
the podium. What?
What are your thoughts, Jordan? I mean, the last one he got
second place with. So I mean, they, they, they're,
they've been constantly making upgrades and constantly putting
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that package together. They've been doing it for a
while. Not to say it's, it's due, but
you know, it takes time to develop a bike, the power, the
traction, the electronics, the geometry of it, the putting all
that stuff together, getting a rider on there that can really
push the limit without breaking the bike or without crashing.
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So I mean, it, it's, it's reallygood that you got Pedro Costa
getting second then you know, besides all the gears getting,
getting, getting a win, you know, they've been making a lot
of progress. And mostly with that, that KTM
power that couple years ago people said that Ducati couldn't
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handle, Ducati couldn't manage. Now KTM, once they've been doing
their their homework to say to actually be able to put that
power down eloquently and be able to manage that power and
doesn't take them three or four or five seasons to have that
same power, but to get everything else in line.
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I think they're going to be really good in in the next year,
even though, like I said, you know, we're going to 880.
That's not a stupid story. Won't go down that rabbit hole.
But what I mean, they're, they're making strides and if
they can keep everything together, you know, they've
they've, they're, they're prettygood right about now. 11th and
was 11th and 15th, 11th and 16th, 11th and 16th, 11th and
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16th. So I mean, not too, too bad, but
you know, yet it could have donea little bit better.
But like I said, you know, Rydermistakes crash 11th, you crashed
again. It's like, you know, you got to,
you got to be consistent to, to,to be, to develop more.
And if they can do that, then I think they'll be you'll be all
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right. I agree Smitty, it looks like
KTM is struggling with grip in the latest stages of races.
That's where they seem to kind of struggle and the bigger the
races they seem like they can push but it seems like it's grip
where the rear grip. It looked like the crashes that
Pedro have it like usually low side, so corner and grip.
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You know, they got all that power, but you know, it they
still kind of struggling. I mean, it is it's probably
something very simple or maybe something maybe it's too much
power and then they haven't figured out how to control that
power and and it's just, you know, eating up the tires.
What are your thoughts? I don't know some, so I'm no
engineer, but I think having toomuch power, it's easy to tune it
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down then then is to have too little power and try to find
more. So I don't think that's the
problem, honestly. But in terms of the KTM and the
struggles for, you know, I don'tknow.
But to piggyback and wait on what you just said, Pedro has
been running in the top 3 here and there and crashed or #1 in
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practice and just, you know, couldn't keep that same pace
throughout the race. But it sucks that he's always so
close. And I guess in his mind, you
know, I'm still young and I'm losing, you know, to guys that
the guys like Mark Marquez and Alex Marquez and and veterans,
that's easy pill pill to swallow.
But losing to Ferwin out the gear a rookie.
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Yeah. That would eat me up bad.
I'll be pissed about Pedro but that's like yo why is he doing
it as a rookie and you this is year 2 and you ain't do it yet.
And he, he, he came in like a superstar.
Alligator didn't. Right also.
Was, you know, Moto 3, Moto 2 coming in like it was business,
so. He was the next Rossi Marquez,
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supposedly, You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, I agree. And and, you know, and and and
that didn't happen. So that and and he's not and
Aldigiz on a satellite team, noteven I mean, he has a factory
contract, but he's still on a satellite 24 bike.
So yeah, it has to burn for sure, for sure.
Shakes, man, you know, you know you're, you're an engineer.
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What tires do KTM use? The same tires as the rest of
the grid and. What tire brand is that?
What am I? What am I?
What is it? Michelin's?
There are Michelin's or Bridge Jones.
OK, well Pirelli has a thing that says what is power without
control? Change the tires then.
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Yeah, I think they're on Michelins.
I got to, I got to, I got to hang on.
Let me bring the guys in. Somebody might know.
What are you? What are you on Michelins?
Yeah, so. And I agree with what Smitty
said. Hey, listen, it's always you can
control power. You can't find it.
And I believe if Bender wasn't throwing the bike in the gravel
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every week, it seemed like for the first the whole the whole
season, the bikes and the gravels.
It's a yard sale. I actually went to Moto GP once
and after a Bender crashed I wasable to get a fresh pair of
boots achieve. It's a yard sale, right?
Shit everywhere, right? Gloves, helmet, boots, pups.
It's crazy. It's crazy.
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My buddy got my buddy at the last race.
My buddy got a racing helmet forlike $3.
It's crazy, that inconsistency, it troubles the team and then it
puts more pressure on the lead guy, right?
It it it, Yeah, we do know you put on the suit by yourself, you
get on the bike by yourself. But you also need your team.
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Don't smoke. You need your team to get you
across the finish line, right? It's like the Africans when
they're running the marathon, those five guys, those are just
the pace guys. They're just there to just to
break your will because they know the top guy is going to
take it home. And that's how racing is, right?
It's a tandem. I help you push, you help me
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push, but you got to keep the bike upright because those
points add up as the season progresses.
So now when you look back and your teammates throwing the bike
and is having a yard sale every week, puts a lot of pressure on
you, takes you out of your game a little bit.
And I think that was a problem with KTMI.
Think that the whole team dynamic could have been a lot
better. I get it.
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But the bankruptcy, non bankruptcy, Lewis Hamilton, no
Lewis Hamilton, BlackRock is going to give them 2 trillion.
They're buying Bitcoin now. All the rumors that could have
kept KTM afloat. I get it, there's a lot going on
in the paddock. But if we're going to be
consistent on the show, 1 man onthe bike, one man on the grid,
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one man on the podium. Let's go all.
Right, no team order. I like it.
Let's move over to unless somebody else has something to
say on in in Moto GP. Let's move over the world.
Super bike as guys know. Just Congrats to the rookie on
his first win, that's all. This is dope.
He's he's going to have many more to come because that boy
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fast. You're a man of principle and
you're a gentleman. That's right.
And I agree with with with shakes.
I mean Bender the last couple ofraces has has barely even broke
10/12. He he got lucky and got a
fourth. I think that was his best
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outgoing in GP in like 3 years. So I mean, like, dude, come on,
you know, not say is the the thebest, but if you look at
Bastanini, you know, the beast was supposed to be, you know,
right along with, you know, upfront and he's crashing 11th
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crashing, no podiums, no nothing.
So it's kind of like, you know, you, yeah, I don't know.
Hopefully they can get their stuff together.
It is best if not for sure on ona KTM.
So I mean, I think he gets a little pass, but they but
they're doing really well. Him and Maverick are doing
really well for being first yearguys on the bike.
Same thing with with Bez becauseusually we see a bigger struggle
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and and we're not seeing that. But let's talk about Top Rock
coming to Moto GP as you guys know, you know, what are your
thoughts on that? Is he going to be someone that
that might be in the top five inthe first year?
Or you think he's going to hang out around 12 and, and, and, you
know, for the season just to gethis feet wet?
We start with Smitty. I say he'll be probably around
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10th ish because because coming to GP, as good as he is, it is a
whole different ball game. Like people think.
It's motorcycle, two wheels, throttle breaks the same.
No, it's just like driving a sports car versus a truck.
It's not the same experience at all.
And going by what Ben Speed saidabout his his experience, that
bike is so stiff. It's like riding a freaking, you
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know, just a plain piece of steel.
You know, it has wheels on it and the adjustment is very
difficult. And we you rarely ever see it
happen. Now that guys come from, you
know, royal super bike and do well, it just doesn't happen
like that anymore. This is no longer the days of
Mickey Hayden and Ben Speeds andConnor Edwards doing it.
This is a different type of bikeand I don't see him doing well.
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As talented as he is, I don't see it.
Don't, don't tell Gonzalez that in Moto 2.
I mean, he might. He might get the Moto GPI.
Mean true Canada same Moto 2. That's not where you know where
a super bike, right? Same sport, yeah, but he came
from World Super Sport. OK, true, true.
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He came from 300 Super Sport, then he came into World Super
Sport, and then he came over to the stiff chassis of Moto 2 and
he's fighting for the championship.
So you know, Jake Dixon came over from Super Sport as well
and you know, Jake has yet to fight for a championship.
Like how Gonzalez is doing this,and I believe it's Gonzalez the
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second year, just to say he's one of the few.
He's really the only one that that's been able to do it and
and maybe get to Moto GP. So, you know, but but you're
right, normally there's not a lot of writers that has been
able to do it. And if they come into Moto GP,
you know, they might win a race in their career, they might get
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on their podium, but they don't have the same dominance that
they haven't had the same dominance.
Obviously some writers have thatYou mentioned, I'm thinking, you
know, Cal and some of these guysthat just, you know, they won
races and they were very competitive.
But we see the difference and, you know, so, yeah, yeah, you're
right about that. What are your thoughts, Jordan?
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I'm glad you came to me because I do kind of agree with Smitty.
He'll be in the top 10, but I'm going to think if it's going to
be for a different reason. Hires, He's so used to having
the Pirelli's. He's been doing great with
Pirelli's with the Yamaha and the BMW.
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Now he's going to Michelin's. Not just because of the bike,
because of the tires. I think they're switching the
Pirelli's, you know? Well, they're supposed to be.
I'm not going to go to the tiresbecause everybody needs to
switch tires. Oh my gosh, Mode America need to
switch to Pirelli's. I'm I swear I'm not going to go
there, but I think they're supposed to be switching out
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tires also, but hopefully they do hopefully the the tire ward
needs to come back. I think we said that on like one
of the first interviews me and you had.
It's just like they need to be atire war that I won a tire war
back because. Yeah, because it's Michelin next
year, Pirelli 20. Minutes.
So I mean, it's going to be a little bit of a learning curve
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for him. Not because of the machinery.
Yeah, World Super Bike has some top tier electronics.
That kind of company with Moto GP, not really Moto 2, Moto 3,
but kind of with Moto GP. But yeah, there's still some
learning curves that he's going to have to do.
He's know how to do that. You give it to him, let him ride
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the bike 30-40, maybe 50 laps. He's going to tell you, hey,
this needs to change. That needs to change.
I'm good here. I'm not good there.
Fix this, fix that. Let me go back out and I'll show
you I can do better. He's that type of rider.
I mentioned something about MattMcladden couple years ago that
he can ride the bike, tell you what you need to do to it so
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that he can do the lap times he wants to do.
You do that? He's doing the lap times he's
saying he's going to do and thensometimes even attempted to
more. So I'm just kind of like, he has
that skill, that talent that if you give him what he needs,
Sky's the limit. Right.
And he has a great teammate JackMiller is going to be able to
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teach you a lot as well. A.
Lot of experience. Yeah, Bobby shakes man.
What are your thoughts on? Go ahead, like sorry I cut you.
No, go ahead on on top rock coming to Moto GP.
Obviously it's a new market for Moto GP.
You know, his fan base is prettyhuge in over in the Middle East
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and and so I got to imagine that's good for for it's going
to be great, really good for Moto GP.
Hey, listen man, I used to sit on my couch.
I watched football and they do the kickoff and I would see
these idiots drop the kickoff and I go, I could do that.
So I went to an XFL exhibition and I the only thing, the only
position I could play was kick return catching, catching that
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ball off a kicker's foot. It's like trying to catch a
razor blade. You have to catch it with all
hands and you got to be a dog. So it looks easy on television
to actually do it with top rack.He's not a poser, as we know.
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The suspension is tighter, The bike is stiff.
It only bends. You got to be on it.
And Top Rock is that dog. He's going to be on that bike
and we've seen it. No Fear.
He's going to use the suspension.
I think he's going to. I know the tire, like we say,
power dog, the dog control. I think he's going to adjust.
I think he's a dog. I think he's crazy.
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I think he's crazy and I think he's nuts.
And and the only thing that's going to stop top rack is top
rack. And it's I know it looks easy,
man, when you're watching these guys on Moto GP looks easy when
you're sitting down drinking a soda.
But he's a different guy. I agree with Jordan.
He's a different, different guy.So put him in 8th place, the
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guys going to go one through 6 again and then pull some shit
out of his ass. So put him in.
Smitty, what are your thoughts on Jonathan Ray retiring, you
know, at the end of the season? I think there's a couple more
rounds Esterrell this weekend. Shout out to Bobby Fong who's
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going to be racing this round and next round with the Tak
Yamaha team. Wish them the best.
What are your thoughts about Johnny Ray?
You know, six time world title for world super bike, the most
the most in a row and the most overall.
He had three with Honda, right? Something like that I think it
was. No, no, no.
All all Kawasaki. I forgot, but yeah, right, he's
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a legend and simple as that. He's the best to ever do it in
World Super bike. It's a shame he didn't really
get a real shot at riding Moto GP, you know, which sucks also,
but I mean, and also what sucks is I hate seeing champions like
great players, and this is all sports.
Like the last couple years it washed up.
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I hate seeing that, you know, like I like, like I enjoy seeing
guys who are great leaving the prime, like Barry Sanders, you
know, retired early. Everybody hated.
That too early, Too early. Too early.
He left when he wanted to and hewas when he left too early.
Instead of being like Emma Smithgoing to the Cardinals and like
with that, you get 2 yards of carry.
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You see that? You think Barry Sanders didn't
want to at least didn't think for one, Like maybe I could have
played one, say a little bit longer.
You think Casey Stoner didn't go?
Maybe I should have. I mean, obviously he had health
reasons. Maybe not.
But. You know it.
It's the thing with the thing with motorcycles, motorcycle
race and basketball or any physical sport you're against
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for all the time. If you're if you, if you're a
musician, you can take time off.If you're an actor or whatever,
you can take time off and and find your way back.
But when you're in your prime, you have to be 1 with God when
you walk away because, you know,we saw Michael Jordan struggled
when he came back, so you know what I mean?
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And I hated seeing Rossi last two years.
It just it just looked like. Yeah, the mic, the Yamaha was
bad. It wasn't Rossi.
No, I was here, man. No man, the mic was bad.
Come on. Like because he was saying
morbidly was struggling. He was struggling, but Rossi
wasn't. Wasn't even the best Yamaha when
he was riding. The years Rossi won in Rossi got
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on the podium in 2018, all right, and I think he left what
so the last three years that that bike was struggling, man,
the Yamaha was struggling and. And even but OK, but but let's
say you know the bike was bad. It still looks bad seeing him
running 15 place by himself, youknow, Reasons are not regardless
if it's him or the bike, knowingwho he was, it just don't look
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right seeing him in the back of the pack of that, you know,
yellow and blue bike and Patronus bike.
It didn't look good, you know. Yeah, I mean, it's tough because
I see Venus out there playing now and I like seeing her play.
You know, I'm rooting for her. So I don't know.
I mean, I get, I get what you'resaying from a fan perspective.
You, you want, you don't. You don't want your, your, your
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the the the people you look up to to look like look normal.
Yeah, it's like seeing Jerry Rush playing for the Seahawks.
It was terrible, Randy Moore. So the Titans and the Niners was
horrible, man. I like seeing that.
You know, I, I get, I get what you're saying there for sure.
How are you thinking, Jordan? You feel the same way.
Walk out on top or don't. Don't stay too long in the party
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that you know you don't want to go out with the lights when they
shut the lights off at the afterparty.
Shut the lights out on you and you're stuck on a dance floor by
yourself where everybody go. I mean, I think Johnny had a
very good run. My bad, my bad.
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I'm jacking you. Oh, it's all good, it's all
good, it's all good. Not to say that he tapped out
too early or even too late, you know, after his sixth run and
you know, everybody else startedcatching up to him.
Not say Kawasaki was doing something spectacular.
I don't know what, they put somein their gas tank or something.
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But Johnny was just just doing adaggone thing.
He was just on money every single race, every single time,
every lap. And no one could could answer
that. So once everybody started, I
don't know, getting his number, you know, figuring out whatever
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he was doing, started catching him every little 10th here and
there. And then, you know, top rack
being top rack, you know, he's he's top rack.
He's an alien. I don't know if everybody's
heard that term before, but he'san alien.
You've you've gotten really nothing for that.
Even Bautista. Bautista got lucky, got a
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championship, didn't hold on to it for too longer, but he got a
championship out of that. You got 2, you know we got
another. Well, he wouldn't go
back-to-back though. He go back-to-back.
He went 19 and 20, didn't go 1921.
No, he got because it was it wasit it, it was Top Rock that got
it on to Yamaha, then then Bautista went back-to-back, and
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then Top rack. I thought it was.
I thought it was top rack, Bautista, top rack again.
We'll look at it later on. But since we got back-to-back,
when Pekko got back-to-back. OK, So I mean not so he got
lucky. I'm not going to say that, I'll
retract that. But I mean, with that happening
and then top rack switching off,I mean, like I said, the whole
(50:15):
thing has just been like, you know, either you adjust whether
it's the biker yourself. No, it was it was definitely the
bike. I don't know if you caught the
video video podcast with Ray anda Top Rock was on it and Alex
Lowe's was on it and Alex was saying, you know, like I.
Missed that one. I missed that one.
(50:36):
I'm I'm finishing 10th on Akawi and, and, and he's finishing on
on the podium or for the win. And I'm sitting here like we're
on the same bike. Like how is he making this bad
bike? You know, you know, do work.
You know what I mean? And, and so, you know, but I
think it's the same thing. Eventually these guys like
Marquez, at at some point the white becomes too bad for them.
(50:58):
Maybe it's just that you don't want to take the same risk.
You know, I I'm I'm obvious. And he did get hurt with the
Yamaha when he switched to Yamaha.
So I think for him, you know, that recovery at an old age, you
know, as he, as he mentioned, you know what, you know, like
watching his kids and stuff likethat.
And, and, you know, and, and he even said this, he's like, you
know, there was one time where he where he crash or some crash
(51:21):
that he had, I forget which, which, which race it was that he
crashed. And, and you know, and he's just
like, you know, he thought of, you know, not being there for
his kids. So all of a sudden he's also
thinking, you know, like I can be hurt.
So you know, once, once, once you once you can't lock in and
give 100% motorcycle race in like you, you you have to walk
away at that. Point.
And I think that's what it was, and I agree with you.
(51:41):
I think that's what it was. It's like, you know, he had the
hyperbaric chamber in his house because he wanted to try to heal
and recover as fast as he could to get back onto the bike.
And then once he got back onto the bike, he still wasn't where
he I get wanted to be at and where he expected to be at.
And it's kind of like, OK, I'm going to give him my best.
(52:02):
I'm going to give him my best shot because I want to give the
best to my fans, to my family, to the sport.
He's very sport conscious of of world super bike and everybody
in it. So once that happens, it's kind
of like, you know, I got to tap out and that's, that's pretty
much what he did. So I mean, not saying he didn't
give 100%, he gave 120% to the support.
(52:24):
And you know, I wish him best ofluck and hopefully he does a
whole bunch of coaching to the Yamaha group because I believe
that's what he's going to contract for right about now.
I saw him doing something with the USA Yamaha school here.
I don't want to say their name because they're not going to get
any monetization from us. So but he's been doing some
(52:46):
coaching and stuff with them. So who knows, We may see him
here on the West Coast. I believe he actually has a, a
Airbnb or a house here in California.
So I think, I think he tapped down him in a perfect time.
Yeah, and, and he also said he didn't want to, he didn't want
like, like Spitty, you know, wanting to see the top guys go
out. He didn't he, he wasn't
comfortable sitting at sitting around 10th or 11.
(53:07):
He's like, if I'm not fighting for the podium, I like I I don't
want to be out here. Time to check out exactly.
So there is that as well. Bobby shakes man, you know, I I
know you know who Jonathan Ray is made Cowie a lot of money for
sure, because you know, everybody wants a Cowie.
You know, 1000 to like the the ZX10R.
(53:29):
You know, people love that bike.What are your thoughts?
I mean, you know, one of the greats walking away from the
sport as far as racing. Just going to take my hat off to
him and his career. My issue with motorcycle racing
and car racing is, is different from basketball and football and
everything else. Those are more physical sports,
(53:51):
right? So you could heal quicker.
Racing, it starts to deteriorateyour cognitive, you, you, you,
you. You're just not seeing the track
anymore. Like there's just this breakdown
and and and we're just seeing it.
And I think once you once the cognitive starts to break down,
once the brain starts breaking down the G forces, people don't
(54:16):
understand that that part of racing is the nasty part about
racing, right. When you see in Hamilton in the
F1 car, it's, it's, it's like hehas a disease now, like you
can't you lose it over time morequickly than other sport?
And I think once your cognitive starts to go, it's time to go
(54:39):
because you, you're not seeing the game anymore.
When we talk about football and basketball, there's only so many
things that can happen within that game, right?
You've seen all the plays, you know everything.
You know the defense, you know the offense, you know
everybody's skills. Been playing for a long time
with motorcycle racing. It your, your nervous system
starts to break down and then when you have these young bloods
(55:02):
coming who could see the track like it's hats off to him in his
career at that part of the racing needs to be highlighted
more just like getting on a bikeand learn how to ride.
It's the strength training, the neck training, core training,
all that stuff that is crazy. Like I took my son for an an ear
(55:22):
infection and they gave this a go.
This is like a, we're putting you through an F1 balance test,
right? Like we, we don't think about
that. The balance in your eardrum, the
loud noise, the paddock, all that stuff start to deteriorate.
And that's what's sad about thatsport, that it happens
overnight. Like Michael Jordan, you saw the
(55:44):
decline slowly. The motorcycle racing, it's like
115 overnight. You're like what the fuck?
It's hats off man. Love you and and all you need to
do is be a couple of tenths off right.
You like you don't need to be much.
And so that's the other part. It's like, you know, it just
it's just a little bit and that then over the course of laps
(56:06):
obviously adds up and and it's tough.
You're absolutely right. And don't get me wrong, they
they need to be like a senior league, like like some of these
other car racing and stuff like that or golf tournaments where,
you know, some of these guys canstill ride.
Maybe they're on, you know, prototype whatever kind of
bikes, you know, But it it it's still, you know, like the the
(56:28):
sport does a pretty good job of celebrating the Champions, but
it can like I think that if people would sign up to go watch
that senior. A senior world world world super
bike. Yeah.
I mean, yeah, because you look at they got the senior, they got
the seniors TT. Chichi.
(56:49):
Yeah. So you know, they're not slow
just because it's called senior,right?
You know what I'm saying? So, you know, and, and at least
some of these guys can ride around the age, so everybody
will be kinder at the same speed, sort of speak, right.
And and and still, you know, youget to still see these like it'd
be nice to see Casey race, right?
I don't know if he'd want to, but it'd be nice to see him race
(57:11):
and and some of these other guys, you know, come out and
race. That's that's a business pitch
to Dubai. Dubai.
We just pitched you something. Just I heard that Tom Brady's
playing flag football in Dubai about a trillion dollars.
I don't know if that's true or not.
Maybe we can pitch Dubai to havea Seniors Cup.
No, honestly, what I want to seelike a four round exhibition
(57:33):
race between our top ten riders in the States versus the top 10
BFB riders. Well, there you go.
There you go. Yeah.
Like like a world, like a World Cup.
Two rounds in the States, two rounds in the UKI would love to
see that one. Day.
Yeah, I remember Bradley Smith is still here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But not not that that, you know,
(57:56):
like a World Cup would be would be cool 2 riders, you know, and
then then it's just the states that I mean, the countries that
are pushing the riders forward, you know, that'll be kind of
cool. I mean, the Spanish and Italians
might win it all for the first few years, but.
You know, I don't think so. I don't think so either.
I don't think so either. Like, Bradley's still here in
(58:18):
the West Coast, so I mean, we can make that happen to a couple
phone calls all. Right.
Gotta call Wayne Rainey, man Make it happen.
Man, yeah, for real. There you go, both them.
Together and send it off to Dubai.
Let's get let's get this thing cracking.
Well, you know, just like Wednesday, the room room show
is, is, is coming to a close fortonight and it, it's nice to
(58:39):
have you guys back on and chopping it up and hearing your
point of views in Moto GP and world super bike.
And you know this, you know we'll we'll start the senior
World Cup of motorcycle racing. I'm a senior.
My name is Rex 45. We got Smitty's from Smit Shot
Racing. We got Jordan Long in the
(59:00):
building from Jordan Long Racing.
We got Bobby Shakes, the one andonly.
He's everywhere, doing everything.
Peace. Adios, uh.
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