Ryan Villopoto, Multi-Time Supercross Champion and Josh Hill, Professional Supercross Racer – UNLEASHED Podcast E321

A special double interview from the 2023 SuperMotocross World Championship finals! Monster Energy is proud to welcome Supercross racing stars Ryan Villopoto and Josh Hill. In the interview originally streamed on Twitch, multi-time Supercross Champion Villopoto and Professional Supercross racer Hill analyze the races and share their insights with The Dingo, Danny, and Brittney.

Tune in for a special episode recorded during the Monster Energy SuperMotocross World Championship finals inside the legendary LA Memorial Coliseum with two equally legendary guests: Hailing from Washington State, Ryan Villopoto is a four-time 450 AMA Supercross Champion and three-time Motocross Champion. He is joined by professional SX racer Josh Hill, whose track record includes a World Supercross Championship race win and the title of 2012 Australian Supercross Championship Vice Champion. Together, the racers provide commentary and insider perspective on the big season finale in Los Angeles. Hear about the biggest rivalries, racing tricks, and background stories – only on UNLEASHED!

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Like when we would show up at Washougal. I'd say nine times out of ten, I'd get beat there against Josh. He was. He was always really good. There. I was good there, too, but he was just better than I was. And we live there. I get my ass chewed by dad, you know, on the way home, you know, got beat again. You know? Oh, my God. Yeah. So I peaked at, like, 14 four. It was like this guy. And then I just kind of chased him after that. That was what shaped us. I mean, it was like I would say when we were by the time we were like, 11, 12 like that, you had the pro class where everybody would drop their doing, go watch. And then I'd say like, Ah, 80 classes. Everybody dropped their doing to go watch, because if Ryan wasn't there, I would go race the pro, you know, intermediate pro class on my 80. We like to look for competition. But then when, you know, when we'd show up at the same place it was on. That's funny how firm we are live. Look at that, guys. We are. We're not on we're not in Studio M, We're on location. And if you look behind us, there we are in the Coliseum. That's right. This is where they had the 1984 Olympics. Not only that, the they did the iconic Memorial Coliseum was here, which was originally called the Super Bowl Motocross in 1972. My guest, Josh Hill and Ryan Phillippe photo, correct me if I'm wrong at all in my motocross talk today, because we know that that's not what I do. But I try. Well, you can try. How are you boys doing today? Doing good to absolute legends on set right now. Josh Hill, you're actually racing today. Yeah. Funny enough. How did that happen? I scored enough points to be here in supercross and then had to go and hit a couple of nationals just to try to squeak a couple of more points to make sure I was in and Yeah. So explain to us why you had to go do some outdoors and how the points came from indoors to outdoors. And so power here. Yeah. For this championship, this three round playoff, it's that they take the top 20 amount of points from supercross and motocross and they combine them so whoever's in the top 20 scored the most points between both of those series gets a direct transfer. You're straight into this race and then there's ten more spots where they have an LCU with two extra spots to get in. So it's kind of cool, you know, big payoff all the way down to 22nd in the championship. So million dollars on the line today for you. I don't know about me, but I think I'm mathematically out of that equation already. But there's still a good chunk of change for for a dude like me. And then guys, listen, there's going to be sounds going on where literally in the stadium they are setting up for today. There will be sometimes music, there'll be sometimes flame throwers, there'll be sometimes maybe a motorbike. And we have four time champion, Ryan Villa Polo, Polo. It's good to it's good to be. It's good to be in your presence. I saw you kind of gazing out over the track this morning and that that looked it looked like you were enjoying you kind of soaking it up. What was going on in there? I mean, the lighting's just perfect right now. But no, it's it's L.A. Coliseum, very iconic place that we're kind of supercross started and we're back here. It's been a long time since I've raced, so I'm excited to see what this championship come down to the end. Like you said, there's$1,000,000 on the line for the 450 class. There's 500,000 on the line for the lights class, and we have three winners in each of those classes that are eligible for that, you know, for the championship. So three, four, 50 riders are eligible and 3 to 50 5 to 50 lights guys are eligible for their class. So it's winner take all tonight. Who do you take like you know, both of you guys like and always as we got Britney here is always Danny here stepping in guys I have a video of Ryan Phillippe photo that I'm going to hit the screen with right now, too. This video is of Ryan. When Monster Cup. I believe this is when you won the million dollars. Yeah. 2011, I believe, right? Yeah. Good times. And how was that process? It was three races. Yeah. Yeah. Some monster came up with the idea of running out at Sam Boyd Stadium in Vegas. It was $1,000,000 on the line, and they had three motos at the time, so it's 310 lapper. So a total of 30 laps, three gate drops. Best of best winner at the end of that was was was the winner of a million bucks in the happened to be me. That was a good feeling. It was a good feeling. Yeah it was good feeling. Yeah. I believe no one else has done that right. So they had changed it up a little bit. So I was so the very first year I won it and then they weren't expecting that to happen right away. So they brought in they brought in the Joker Lane, they called it. So it was actually a slower lane one year that you had to take at least one lap per moto and it really made it a lot harder. So I they believe Marvin won it one year and I believe there's three of us that have won the million Tolmach and Tolmach. Yeah, but they had changed some of the rules or the track, you know, they brought in the Joker Lane was what they had called it. So what's the Joker? Lane Like I said, it was either a slower lane one or two years, it was a slower lane that you had to take at least one lap of the ten. And then one year they brought it. It was actually a quicker like it was a faster line around and you, but you had to do it one lap. You couldn't do it too. You could plan it on any time where you wanted to take it one lap, two from ten, you could have taken taking it, but it had to be within those ten laps. I forgot at one time what happens if you forget it? You're out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're. It's done. Yeah. You're millions. It's over, Joseph. You missed the lap. Yeah. If he makes that lane. Yeah. And then correct me if I'm wrong, we're not doing the monster cup anymore. I don't believe so. From a fan, from an outsider, I believe. Kind of like this. Super motocross world championships to me is. And there's $1,000,000 on the line. It's, it's kind of similar and there's three rounds. So maybe this is the new the new monster cup. Yeah, it kind of seems like this is the way the sport's going. Yeah, it's they're stretching it out. You know, before it was three, it was a million all in one night. And now it's kind of a little bit more build up, a little more lead up with three unique rounds, you know, and they kind of mixed motocross. One track was kind of a hybrid supercross motocross. And then, you know, here this is basically a supercross track without loops. So this little behind us here, this kind of is a supercross track without loops. And I was asking you earlier, this track feels like you got to get out in front first. If you're not out in front, it's hard to overtake. I think they built the track. Good. You know, it's pretty it's it's fairly wide, very supercross track. There's some good options. You know, the whips, usually if you're getting the websites, that's pretty much where you plan your passes every lap. So not having that, you're going to have to take a few more risks to to make some moves. But I think it's going to be passable. They've got a couple of split lanes that will probably change like throughout the course of the evening. Like what lines? Actually the better at line because we got to split those columns going up and out of the peristyle they called it, you know, that's like an iconic section in in supercross that they would have once a year back in the day when they had all the the supercross races here in this coliseum. So we split that two lanes there and then two lanes to the sand. So that'll be kind of interesting to see how those play out because one line will be faster and then that line will get rough and then you'll have to figure out, you know, how to maneuver the other one. Guys. Like there's been a lot of kind of changes this year and and you know, who who is who we look in like who the top three kind of people in the 450 that have that you guys are looking at right now that that you guys really think will sit out front today. I mean it's it's we've kind of had between Charlotte, Chicago and now L.A. Coliseum you know we have we have Jet Lawrence, you know, just had an amazing outdoor season 22. And now, you know, we kind of figured that's what we were going to see at Charlotte. But then, you know, the revolt, the roles were reversed. Chase went one one standing on top of the podium. So and then Bad Race by Chase at Chicago. Right? So but Kenny was able to come up. So honestly, those three are really close. And I think that we're now that we're here in the L.A. Coliseum, more of a traditional supercross track. Like Josh had said, separation is going to be it's not there's not going to be a big separation here. So between Chase Kenny, you know, and and Jet, I think it's going be very, very close racing. And as the track gets Hard pack, this is L.A. I was told this dirt is or was X-Games dirt. So if that's true, it's going to get hard pack you know how hard and dry and in slippery against fail to do a better job putting water on it. But still it's going to be it's going to get nasty by the by the end of the night show. So before I go back into motocross talk, this is X-Games dirt. That's what I was told. I was told, but don't quote me on that. Whose house does it? House is hanging out with in this chamber. Vince Blades, 20 I heard about 20 miles away is what dirt work said is wherever it was sitting. So don't quote me on that. I don't know if it was. I'm assuming it's very similar. If it's not X-Games dirt, regardless, it's going to be blue group. I didn't realize we had that much dirt in Ventura. You didn't? I was there was there was just that the quarter air and then the freestyle motocross it would have been mostly the BMX style. They probably had to find some more. Yeah, but what about the rally? Rally? Some of the rally stuff? You go, Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Going X-Games. Yeah. Wow. That's. That's all done. Don't quote me on this. This is he's the next guest after you guys. And this is where everything happened for him. Yeah, this is like he's coming in. Puffy. The Ghost Rider. Oh, the Ghost Rider and everything. Like, it was like the Degan era was all kind of around here. It's, um. It's. It's guys. It's beautiful to look at down there, isn't it? It really is. No, it's. It's. It's really cool to be in this stadium and then obviously over to go over and check the peristyle out and, and where they're running the track up through and they have all the, all the memorabilia up on the wall and then That's all right. Just put that there. Yeah. Sorry if anybody stabbed somebody. But now it's really it's it's awesome to be here. It really is funny, man. ESPN called Jet Justin Bieber of Motocross. What are your thoughts on that? Josh Ryan, I guess, is pretty accurate at the moment. You know, he's young. He's he's like, that's going to do this right, guys? That beeps is cool. Yeah. Yeah, Beeps is cool. Yeah, I think it's pretty accurate. He's the superstar of our sport right now. He kind of just jumped up out of nowhere and and just became this superstar. And it's like you definitely there's too you hear the you know, the young girls like Go wild for two riders and that's Hayden Degan and Jet Lauren. That's cool though. We need a future like as you to like like you're still riding but like you were getting older you're retired it you were retired at a child age. It's crazy. I look at your age, you're younger than me. And every time I'm like, goddammit, But you're you retired at 26 or 27. Is wild like that. Does that do you feel like it's been a long time since that moment has happened? Yes or no? It definitely. I look back at 35 now and, you know, when I was in it racing, like it felt like it was going slow. People, you know, guys would always say that were older, that had been in that position, like, you know, enjoy it while you can because it's going to it'll be gone before you know it. And they're 100% true. I think the older I get the the I when I look back like at my career, you know I totally stoked on how it how it turned out. And I think that having somebody like jet coming in, I think we need that you know his story from starting in Australia moving to Europe, Europe here to the states and now being that he's I mean he's he's the most marketable rider in our sport right now. ESPN just wrote up that story of him being Justin Bieber of motocross. And and I think that's what we need. That's what our sport needs is is more outside influence. And and, you know, like let's let's face it, like guys like myself, I wasn't very marketable. I was marketable because I was winning. Eli La not super personal marketable. Well, but he's marketable because he's winning Jet has totally reversed that you know he's he's fun character he's he's happy go lucky I think that really brings in I think outside sponsors when that time comes I just think it's it helps us grow it's a good foundation for what our next step is. Yeah. Because let's go back to like the early days of when it was McGrath or Bubba or Chad Reed or these people that were all kind of rock stars in their own mind and there was outside, you know, there was like you, you're on Jay Leno. All these kind of bigger talk shows all make a regular occurrence. And it seems like that last ten years has that it's been a a bit of a crossover And even talking about that now like, you know, you're nearly ten years retired, you're still in that Josh Which is fucking awesome. Oh, right. But it's like that change of the God, right? Eli Tolmach He's not going to be racing that much longer. No, You know, it's like even this year coming. He'll be back next year. But it's like, is he going to. And it's, it's, it's and then, you know. Chase what are you that guys had that guy kind of like I would have not had him in you know win in the championship this year. He fucking did. And then he's here today and there's those points system. There's there's been that big come up and it would be cool to see you know it's today it's with Jet and then Kenny too like Kenny's come back this year and that buildup has been really awesome to see to it has now I think it's it's it's what the sport needs and I think with the the way that Feld and pro motocross have come together and and built out this point system. You know when they started at Charlotte it was it was there was 25 points on the line and we went to Chicago. It was 50 points on the line. And now we're here in L.A. Coliseum and they're 75 points on the line. So been that it's escalated like that, it's it's kept every one of these riders in the mix. I mean, I know mathematically there's there's more than three riders that could win. But, you know, not very often do we go down to the last round in a championship setting where we have three riders. That's basically winner take all. Like that doesn't happen ever in our in our sport. So they've done a good job with with sorting out the points and figuring out how to bring it down to the last round and have three potential winners. And then here in L.A.. That's right. You know, it's like it's the Mecca of it is right down the road there in Anaheim. That's where you guys always start your season. But you'll be back here. And I'm pretty sure, like they said, it's going to be pretty full in here tonight. That's going to be bad ass, you know? So we need we need to bring it back. Yeah, right. I feel like all old school is coming back a little bit. Yeah. I mean, this, you know, you watch all the old X-Games stuff, like in the height of it, and this place was full. And, like, if this stadiums fall, it's going to give me chills down on the line. Just because this is my first time racing in the stadium. But, I mean, me as a kid, I had every race on VHS that I could possibly find. And this is like, this is so iconic for our sport. So have you race in the stadium? I have not, no. Never will and you know, haven't yet. So. So, gosh, what do you do? So you're racing tonight, of course. What are you doing? Like after this show? What are you going to go do? Probably go get some go get a little bit more food. Relax.

I don't ride until 2: 15:19

00 and just get ready for qualifying the race and then. Yeah, then after this, I got to go try to be a freestyle rider again at the Imagination event and we've Monday so just. Oh wow. Yeah. Back to back. Yeah, it's awesome. Is there a pre-race kind of a ritual? You got a soundtrack that's can be pumping through your head like what's going to get you fired up for this one? Not really. Like, I don't know. I just, I try to stay calm when I go to the line. I just like to hang out, relax, try to stay in, stay in the flow. Like my my brother is my teammate now over at Team Tedder. So he'll he'll pull up and he'll probably pull up late or ask him a little bit mass with him. And then I feel like you'd be really good at kind of like talking some shit around the line. It's nonstop. But again, I think I've only beat my brother twice this whole year. He's just been whipping me and like, it's not from lack of trying. They're like my success this year. Like, you know, I got success, I got, I got six at the last supercross and it's pretty good for for me being pretty old. And I attribute all of that to me, just trying to beat my brother. And on that night he got third. So yeah, it's incredible. But that was one of the questions we had of how is it like working with your brother? That was one of the questions I gave up working with my brother, but I've been working on beating my brother, competing. Yeah, well, he don't listen to me. Family and businesses. We've been told that it doesn't work out. Yeah, not always, but it's awesome. I mean, like my brother quit racing and became a sheriff's deputy in the county. That we. That we lived in. No way. Yeah, and yeah, you can because his hair and hat and just carrying around a nine mil is like he was like £200. Like he was pushing like 275 bench press is he was trying to be, be a little bit a hard ass then. Yeah. We got him back. He's back. Race it. Yeah. Yeah he had to drop a little weight, limber up again a little bit, you know, start stretching. Yeah, but he's just like, that kid's so naturally talented. It's crazy how. How good he is. Like, if he. If we just get him just. Just strictly focused on, on supercross, Like, he could still be battling for wins, But he's. He's funny. He's. He wants to be a rancher as well. So he beat about 300 acres out in Wyoming. And yeah, we built on a supercross track. He's got a little compound out there. But yeah, I don't know. He's fun. He's been watched too much Yellowstone or something. I think this is a good Segway right here. You guys found Hill Brothers, too, and I've got that right here that I'm going to put up on the screen right now. Just got to the end crashes. That's that's. Oh, I just love that one where he doesn't do it twice. Like don't they put him back up and then he just goes down again. Explain how Hill Brothers two kind of came about. Where are we Right here. This is where me and Justin grew up in Young Collar, Oregon. So this is basically right. When I got my first pro contract, we moved up to kind of the middle of nowhere in Oregon to just build a the most insane moto compound we could come up with. And like, this used to be a fold outdoor gnarly motocross track that we'd ride in the summer. That's why there's so many trees. It kind of keep it shaded. And now that racing is like my only thing I do, I kind of do some freeride stuff and and videos. I've kind of just turned it into like a fun mountain bike style free ride course, kind of like a slope style course for dirt bikes is what we were calling it. You know, just I'll just go out there with the chainsaw and take, you know, dying trees, cut them down and turn them into jumps. And you also had like a few of the other crew out there. I was actually out there, Tucker out there, just Axel came out for this one. So we did we did this the week before. I have this event out at my parent's property every year called the Big Hill Jam. And we have like a it's a part of like the national hill climb series that's around that. We have like a big pit bike race. And then the whip contest we have is it's next level. It's we pretty much had everybody from X-Games pull up plus like five or six, more like East Coast kids and the dude from Australia that we're I guess a little less known but can throw with the best of them and well they're Jacko raised kids right. Some of them, yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's a whole different breed explained to us too. Like, you know, we're watching Whole Brothers too. You had the first one, but like, what I noticed too, with, with, with you over the years, you were kind of the first person. I feel like that took your motorbike to the street and you started doing stuff in theme parks and like, you really kind of went outside the realm and did a couple of those big loops. Like, where did those ideas come from? I, I just seen. So for that kind of stuff, I don't really ever take a gas bike out on the streets, just draws too much like negative attention. But I started developing electric dirt bikes with this. First is this company called Alta. They're based out of the United States up in San Francisco. And I was just like, Man, there's so much untapped riding that you just get in trouble for on a dirt bike, because as soon as you rev it up, like people from five blocks away, you're going to like kind of be up in arms. And then you get an electric bike and you can be going like 60 miles an hour without making a noise. And then somebody sees you flying through the air and they're like, Well, that was cool. You know, it's just a whole different reaction. So that was kind of what led to me doing like some street riding. I think we have the screen right now. We're here to the main park. What happened here? Well, what happened here is already through the whole crew out of the side by side earlier this day with with. So we were going to do a sunset shoot at the top of the hill. And I was a little worried about flipping my buddies side by side, going up the steep hill. Yeah, as naturally as you are. But it's a good dirt bike rider. Oh, no, he really is. No, he rips. Yeah, he's not a bad dirt bike rider. So him falling down, riding up this hill, really. It wasn't expected, but I think Axel dusted him out and he ended up hitting a rock and didn't realize that it was like a drop right there. Yeah. By the way, those are BlackBerry bushes in the in the in the thorns that are on them. They're like they're like that He pulls. Yeah. It's like he getting stuck in barbed wire. He's in a lot of pain right there. So we'll hear your brother's ripping him out. Yeah. So he's he's coming This gets this video just gets better, though. It's the video that just keeps on giving because he's. You're about to get him out here. Still got this dog. Yeah. Yeah. Get. Stop. I mean, what a legend. Yeah. And yeah, look, he can't even get out of it because it's so it's got a hold of his pants and his shirt. And the harder you pull, the harder they pull. You know, he just get wrapped it up. He's got some. Yeah. He's pull it out areas. He's acting tough, he's got cuts everywhere and now he gets back on the bike shirts, shirts off. This is where he I think the second time is where he's gets where it gets him in the face. He's got blood running down his face. So he you know, he wasn't going to let this help beat him. You know what I'm saying? Like, we're already almost the top. Like, we could have just went, Yeah, right back up. Yeah. But was like, No, don't give me that bike, dude. Yeah, no, he's back on. Yeah, he's, he's probably some, some sort of concussed maybe. I think it was a pretty soft landing other than I think the thorns caught him pretty good. Yeah. So. So should we not put it back on like, these bounces right here? So I'm watching all this, you know, this time he's so I'm watching this all play out through Instagram, right? I don't see the whole lead up that he actually fell twice into them. I only I only saw this the second crash where they pulled out of out of the brier bushes and he's all bleeding out. But I didn't know he fell first into it the first time. And then we picked they picked him back up and he forgot to pull the clutch in or start it and it fell back over the other way. Yeah. He, he didn't even get his hands out this time. I think what we cut out of this is he was going for try three an actual had to, to plead with him pretty heavily to, to just you know chalk this one up, chill out. I wasn't sure if he wasn't just going to take my bike and see how many BlackBerry bushes he could get rid of. Yeah, he was that. Yeah, he's really in there. Oh, so that's that's cool. So you don't want to go off the track on this horse here? Yeah. You see there trees are brier bushes. You know, it's, there's some obstacles. That's, that's Hail Brothers too. If you guys want to finish it, go to the Monster Energy YouTube page. And it's your brothers, too, by Dirt Shot guys. You're both, like from similar areas. Yeah. Yeah. No, we we grew up together. Racing Washougal would be my home track for the National. I was about 3 hours north. Josh was was. That's where we'd kind of meet up a lot would be Washougal. Yeah. Close, like eight years old. Yes. You guys race against your whole lives? Pretty much, Yeah. Yeah, pretty much. You know, hell of like when we would show up at Washougal, I'd say nine times out of ten, I'd get beat there against Josh. He was, he was always really good there. I was good there too, but he was just better than I was. And we'd leave there. I get my ass chewed by dad, you know, on the way home, you know, got beat again, you know? My God. Yeah. Oh, so I peaked at, like, 14, bro. It was like this guy. And then I just kind of chased him after that. Yeah. Was your dad yelling at you like that, too? Oh, yeah. I mean, that's. That's what shaped us into. Yeah. And we became our our battles growing up. You know, there was a couple other guys in the mix too, like Justin Keeney. Yeah, he was a little bit older than us, but like, that was what shaped us. I mean, it was like, I would say when we were by the time we were like 11, 12 like that, you had the pro class where everybody would drop what they're doing, go watch. And then I'd say like our 80 classes, everybody dropped their doing and go watch. Because if Ryan wasn't there, I would go race the pro, you know, intermediate pro class on my 80. We like to look for competition. But then when, you know, when we'd show up at the same place it was on That's funny When when was both your first years riding back then was it was it still 250 would have been like the intro in? Did you guys go into the 250 class around the same time? I was, I did the last three nationals in oh five. Oh six is my first year. Yeah. Then I did the last three nationals and I was 619 seven was my first year. Okay. One year younger than Ryan. Yeah. Danny, what's going on over there? Oh, just hanging. I mean, you're looking at some champions here. You're a champion yourself. There are any, like, champion questions you want to throw at these guys? I mean, I think it's just it's it's fascinating to kind of, like, hear the background of it, you know? And I think knowing that, like, there's so much money on the line, I think it's like I want to know more about like what goes on a little bit between like the rivalry, right? Because the top three guys who are kind of competing for that million dollars, are they going to be is there going to be a little camp rivalry going on? Well, I mean, I think we saw some of that at Chicago right, Jet Kenny, you know, all over Jet riding his coattails, Jet, you know, pulling his big brain moves as as he said on the podium, you know, trying to, you know I guess affect the points in a way championship points. Meanwhile, it didn't actually work out. It only affected the the points of of the actual night, not the actual championship points. So honestly, I think a lot of these guys, you know, the last thing you want to do is have at least for me, is have some major beef with a rider. And now we have three guys that are in this championship hunt. So say you start a beef with, say, Chase and Jet. Well, now Kenny's the odd man out that's watching everything happen from behind or, you know, like he has there's no you know, there's no pressure on him, you know? So they let them duel it out and fight it out like dogs. And, you know, it's easier for like Kenny Wright to to sit behind and watch all that play out. So but as as racers, I mean, I can't speak for Josh, but I think like we don't want to have like good hard trust, you know, being able to trust the racers is the best way of racing for me. That's what I want. And I'd had the most fun racing against somebody like, I'll use Jason Lawrence, for example, you know, or Justin Barcia. Like it does suck to have to really watch your back every turn. If you got somebody, you know, breathing down your neck because you're not expecting what's going to happen next. And some of it could just completely blindside you. So having that utmost respect for these guys, but being able to race them super hard, bar to bar, you know, running them high, but not not, you know, deliberately taking them out. I think that's the way that's what we see. I think that's what we're going to see tonight is just true. Hard racing. I think that I think it's just going to have to see what happens is a night plays out, right? I mean, if there's a shot that one of these guys can take, I think any of them are going to take it for a million bucks, You know, and with how fast this track is, it's going to have to be a pretty aggressive move. You know, if there's contact involved where, you know, some of the older supercross tracks, I think we'd see more like, you know, deliberate take outs because the course is where a little bit slower speeds. But here, I mean, we're probably, I'd say on average like five miles per hour around this whole track faster than a normal supercross track. So to to do some, you know, dirty moves, you can have to do it at speed and it's going to be kind of gnarly. But it, you know, a million bucks is a million bucks. Let's talk about some of these features, I believe. Do we have a video that we're going to play? I was going to talk about these features. All right. So I heard earlier, Josh, you were saying that from yesterday, from when you first practice that these triples are now going to be a little different. I yeah, that we rode yesterday, did two sessions and they added a roller like a three foot single to the rhythm section. Right after the start. So I don't know, like as much a run as you have into it. It'll be interesting to see if anybody tries the quad on to that table top because you could I mean, he could honestly be in like third gear by that point, which third gear goes pretty far. So yeah, then I mean, these things are almost 70 horsepower. That's crazy. You know, to the rear wheel. That's 60 something probably. Yeah, I heard. I don't know for sure, but I heard, like, some of these bikes here, they're getting up to like 60 something miles an hour in second gear. That's crazy. Okay, so it's pretty much flipped. I flipped a see to that last summer, going 60 miles an hour. That feel now I went over the top. Sit down. You got to sit down. Okay. And I was standing and I was like, pull me. And I hit a and I and I hit a I hit a I, I didn't I got like there was like a water bump when I hit it. And I was like, all right. I could like and I should have just probably jumped off. But I tried to manhandle it and buck me up and it had me like standing like a cop, like a stint like, like a stand up and over. It was shook me, shook me. Yeah, I bet, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hitting the water at 60 is like hitting the concrete. You. I'm not going to. I didn't. I didn't. I stopped pain in the seat at that point. Okay. They did a celebrity Yamaha did a celebrity. Yeah. Yeah. Yesterday And it was cool. You know, there was some some old two old timers out there. Cory Hart was out there. We had your buddy, right? It's just me we get to. Okay. Yeah. It was shoulder injury. Yes. So I get a call yesterday. Baze, who's the basis and producer for Machine Gun Kelly Kelly's like he's big into writing hobbies and being into bikes and he rides a little bit of dirt bikes, but he's like, Yeah, no, I'm going to. He's coming down to do the ride. And I and, and he gets dressed up and I'm looking and yeah, there's some other people that it's, they're taking it easy and I'm he can ride a little but he, he did one lap good around second lap good around and then disappeared on the third lap and on this table here, he rode up he caught a little bit of air, but then basically hit the knuckle and then bounced to the flat and then popped this puffy shoulder out and up to this. Yeah. Oh, gosh, it's rough. It's a rough sport. It really is. I mean, there's a lot kind of on the line there, right? Yeah. I mean, yeah. For, you know, like, yeah, it's interesting to see like, okay, we get these celebs out to, you know, Yeah, a little bit of time on a dirt bike or, you know, anything. But to get them on a supercross track and to have them ride up some of the takeoffs like they're way steeper, I mean, we're sitting up here on the fourth floor, but like if you get down there and you've never actually walked on a supercross track, like the shit's really steep. And if you're not, you know, like if you're not that versed with the clutch and the throttle together, like it could be a problem. And we seen some of that yesterday with some of the celebs. How bout how about the sand? We got out. We got a sand line in here. Yeah, we do. Yeah it's it comes down out of the out of the peristyle there and like Josh said, it's a split line. So once you go up to the peristyle, it makes a right and there's a little straightaway and then it starts your option line as you make the next right hander, which then comes down into the Colosseum. So you kind of got to pick on, you know, where you're going to end up. And like Josh said, it's a lot of the guys yesterday were running the inside line. It's going to get rough. It's the sand actually is pulled back up a little farther on the inside line. So like like like it's going to get rougher and then guys are going to start looking for different lines. So I think that's going be a good passing opportunity point. You know, supercross, we've been having sand for probably the last, I don't know, 12 years or so. It's it's basically an almost every supercross track. So that's that's what new supercross is, is with a little bit of a sand section. Is it beach sand or desert sand. That's it feels like beach sand. Yeah. You know, and it no, it makes a difference. So it does actually like people that go has a sand. I'm like, well some sand is like big, bigger, granular, granular sand and it's heavy and it kind of packs up this stuff. I walked in it yesterday. It doesn't, it'll, it doesn't form anything. It's always a different line when you ride through it, Right. So it's always different. Pillowy. Yeah. Okay. Once it wants to suck your bike into it. Yeah. Yeah. Where sometimes like the desert sand it kind of packs and, and Yeah. Like, like Ryan said, lines form and you don't have to, like, hang off the back is bad. So when you're kind of inspecting the course right in like for a lot of the riders, what is there like a few things you remind yourself of? Like minor mistakes you don't want to make or like areas of the track. I mean, and I I've been doing this for so long, it's kind of like I get out there, I assess the course. Yeah. I mean, sometimes there'll be a section where it's giving me problems after qualifying, where I go out for the for the heat race and I'm like, okay, you know, like I got to make sure I clean this up. And then, you know, sometimes you go to a track and there's so many rhythm sections that for the first couple of times out, you have to really remind yourself of the combination. Like, okay, through this section, I got to go three, three, three on to this table top, you know, like, or they'll be a second option that is just as fast that, you know, requires you to go to in, you know, it's like you're doing math while you're out there riding a little bit. Mm. I think the good thing about with with when when we show up to race or ride in a track like this or any supercross track is, is the Dirt Works crew is the same crew between round one and round 17. So when we have a stadium triple let's say, or a finish line like we will walk down there and look at it and say, okay, this is about 50 or, you know, 45 to 50 feet or and, or you look at it like, okay, this one's bigger than normal. So like on average, like a supercross triples about 72 feet long and they try to keep them that way. Now they'll change the tyranny of the take off in that battle. That can be a different like trajectory of like either height or distance. I was never that good at like, you know, reading stuff like, like just phenomenal heat. Just go out and jump something first, the first or second lap. Like I've seen him do it in the desert. Yeah, Yeah, I would. I've been there, Jeanine said. I swear, dude, I'll follow somebody like even that supercross triple, you know, maybe not this one, but there's been jumps where I'm like, Yeah, I've hit it a thousand times, but I'm still going to follow Brayton off of it. Yeah. You know, follow somebody off your spot. I think part of it, I think part of it is, is I never play rode as a kid and I know like Josh play road way more than I did I think so I didn't I was always used to hitting stuff at race speed so I didn't have like how slow can I jump this jump and actually make it? I didn't have any like, you know, it was it was either zero or a hero, right? Like, I would follow or, you know, I could hit that race speed. I didn't have that happy medium. Let's go hit and have fun and like, jump these jumps. And and so that's where I think I could have been better as as a kid, you know, doing a little more playwriting. So I'm a little more free on the motorcycle, like I was just race, race, race. So there's no whoops, there's no whoops in here. Noticeably like that that in the the indoors is, is that's part of it. Right. Yeah. That's usually like the make or break section, you know like if you're really good in the Woops. You can be mediocre on the rest of the track and still be in the mix you know Yeah. A lot of times we'll set our bikes up for the loops mainly because that's such a important section. So like this, I went out for the first practice yesterday and I had my full supercross set up and I realized none of the transitions are as steep, is normal, and it was kind of more of a rough, choppy track than normal. So I ended up switching to it's not motocross setup, but it's much softer than we'd normally run in supercross because you have to have your suspension so stiff for loops because you just hit an, you know, walls that are 15 feet apart, that are three feet high, like curbs that are three feet high as fast as you can go into them. So your suspension light has to be so stiff or else you'll, you know, you'll get like three or four in and your suspension will bottom out and it'll just buck you straight over the bars. Right. So you basically to set your suspension up to the way the warps are or are not. Yeah. I mean if there's, if there's big loops, most of the time you're going to see guys going stiffer with their suspension. But it doesn't turn good. You know, you want your bike to to, you know, the front forks to go down as you enter the corner and grip the dirt where if you go real stiff, it makes your suspension. If there's a little bump in the run, it could deflect and pop over that rut. And then you'll see guys tuck in the front and go and down. Crazy. Yeah. So this this weekend, a softer set up might be a little better, but the speeds are high. So that's it's kind of crazy that you're saying they're going to be going five miles an hour faster overall. That's kind of wild to think about. Yeah. No, I mean, look, from the peristyle down to basically right below us. Yeah, it's got a little dogleg in it and, you know, big single that you jump into the sand. But by the time you enter this bowl, turn right below us here, like I would say at least like, yeah, five miles an hour faster than average then compared to like if we were had this track and, you know, Anaheim Stadium, for example, the floor space is smaller than this. So our straightaways, you know, aren't that long. Like the longest straight away you would have at Anaheim would be from home plate to like either first base or third base. That's kind of your longest run. And normally those are rhythm sections or, or, you know, woops, with a ton of combinations of what, you know, depending on what it is. So it's a definitely it's this floor is much bigger. So our speeds are going to be higher here. Yeah. And it was crazy to being down there yesterday and being so used to seeing the pros out on the track always. And then to see the difference of norm pros and people that and then really like those guys are going really slow and they're like scared and you can kind of tell. And then when you guys are out there, you guys obviously make it look easier. But the perspective I had yesterday from being down there and watching the difference between pros, the non pros, it's like all this shit. And like you said, Ryan, it's like from up here, the warped and the section and whatever else, it looks mellow. But when you're down there going up that hill, steep is shit. No, it is steep. Yeah. Ah, your depth perception up here is completely different than when you get down there. Your place tricks on you when you're up here. Like all the fans that are going to be sitting in the stadium tonight or any stadium watching supercross race or like it's when we have these VIP walks that come down at a normal supercross where they bring some of the fans down for a vibe track walk. They're like, Holy shit, how big are these works? And I'm like, These are average, you know, like, I've seen bigger ones and they're like, you know, kid's to walk through them and they're up to their, up to their chest. Yeah. Or a parent's to walk through them or they're up to their waist. Yeah. When you're like yeah, no but normally you lose a toddler in there. Yeah. Well we have a couple questions that are coming in in the chat and it seems you are so passionate about it still. And one of the questions is if you missed this at all, do you miss pressure of racing or anything else about lining up? You know, I miss I miss a lot of the perks that come from racing. What are the perks? I mean, we're going to celebrate lots of free stuff. And I still, you know, but honestly, I I'm pretty involved now with with Yamaha and doing day live now for or you know, like a live show today that will be like four and a half hours live the to the question no I don't miss racing being that I'm able to still be here and be very involved. I love to just hang out and see all the people that I basically grew up because this is where I mean, we turn pro at. I think I was just 17, so from 17 to 27 they watched me all through my prime. So I still have tons of friends and things like that. So I love to be involved. But no, I don't miss the racing part. I don't miss the the travel grind, you know, like these guys have been gone for. What? This is 32. This is like the race 32 or something that while you know, a couple of races in between. But I think the biggest problem is is but the biggest thing difference in our sport is that I think other sports is is you know, like for let's use NASCAR for example, you're pretty versed on that. It's like you have guys come in and say, hey, we have a fifth place car tonight, and no matter how who's driving that car, if the car's a fifth place car, it's a fifth place car. Like where the rider here in our scenario is much has way more influence on your overall finish than the motorcycle. Yeah. So no matter how you slice it, like, yeah, if you're if you're feeling a little off the bike setup is not on perfectly right or whatever the case may be like you were expected to make up that difference with the motorcycle being a little bit off like that's, it's so much more put on the rider than it is the machine. But I think it's interesting and I like that you brought it up. So the traveling schedule, I mean, I travel a lot, you travel a lot. And it really does affect not only your body, your brain, your tired, and then you have to perform. How do you get through that? Like what? What are the things that helps you stay grounded? I guess. I think for me, I just love it so much. Like I've stepped away from the sport, I've tried to quit and it's just so fun to be here and like it's stressful as it is the race and be out there and know that, you know, things could go sideways at any point. You know, like injuries are a huge part of this sport and I'm getting a little older, so like I'm a little more brittle and it's like I just got to stay off the ground. But there's nothing like, you know, doing this, getting out here in front of the crowd and and, you know, it's put up or shut up when that 32nd word goes sideways and it's it's pretty amazing. And for me and I'm kind of in a different part of my career where if I have a great night, everybody around me is psyched. And if I have a subpar night, everybody's like, Oh, hey, get him next time. Yeah, yeah. Good work, tiger. Yeah, Well, it's like, we don't have to be here. We get to be here, and it's like keeping that mindset. It helps a lot. Now speaking, I want to know the injuries because that's always a good question. What injuries do you have? Oh, man, I've I've racked up a few. You know, I've. I've broken my femur twice. I've broken both pelvises. I mean, I've broken every limb multiple times, and then I've got a foot that I got compartment syndrome from a crash back when I was 20. And I never regained feeling back in that foot. And it's kind of fuzed. Yeah. Comfort. Yeah, Yeah. What was that movie that Mr. Clubfoot I'm going to try that out on you later. You could get away with it. Yeah, I stepped on a stuck in the car door. Yeah, I've walked him when I lived in Newport. I remember walking home, I was talking to my neighbor and I was didn't realize I was standing on a metal grate and just completely burned my foot off is in the hot summer day. I got back, got walked home, got the shower, look at the bottom. I thought, Oh, oh, wow. Yeah. Now it's. But yeah, that that happened for me trying to do a backflip for X-Games. I was supposed to come here in 2010 to do X-Games here. I think you're Josh Grant one. You were trying to do freestyle. Yeah. It was going to do. I was going to do supercross. They had a supercross race and then I was backflip in for speed and style. Ride in style. Yeah. And then that's crazy. Yeah, me too. Sounds done now, right? Yeah, ish. I mean, I think they still do it. They don't do it. X-Games. I feel like speed and style, correct me if I'm wrong, was like it came around when like the freestyle, that group of freestyle guys got old. Yeah, you can say that. Yeah. But then, but then you had like Pastrana who is still like if Pastrana showed up, it was kind of like it was okay for everybody. Yeah, because he's still fast, you know? Yeah, he's a crazy like that. His I remember his dad. It must've been a documentary. And you guys obviously relate to that Father and his dad was tearing because all he ever wanted was his son to be a racer. And he was the complete opposite. Opposite? Yeah. You think he would have done if he had just focused and tried to do a full race career? Would you think it would have worked out? I think yeah, I do. I think his height would have ultimately probably been hindered him in the end. Yeah. Like when, when, when, when. How tall is he. He's Travis has got to be over. Yeah. He's tall six something like. And I think like as speed started to really progress there. I know like he's won some TV races and things like that but I think as like for instance like when Ricky was kind of on his way out and then James stepped in and that pace really elevated. I don't know how, you know, that would have worked in his favor with with being the height, you know, because he's a he's a tall dude on a dirt bike. He's a very tall, gone. He's a dangerous man away from him. There are certain people I stay away from Jeff Tremaine and Travis Pastrana in my top five. They're going to AG. You want to do something right? Stay the fuck away from the guys. Just draw on his raw speed. It is. Peak was pretty insane and his problem was, is I think with like you said, with his height, like the consistency. Yeah. Like he would, he would just come into something and have zero respect for it. Exactly. Lay it over and then like just barely dab his foot and they have a torn ACL because he was so big. Yeah. Yeah, I think. But he probably would have had a championship. I like the zero respect for it. No, I mean, go back and watch them all videos of TP man. Like he'll hit some stuff and you're like, Dude, I would never hit it that fat. Like we come in a woops and we try to set our front wheel at least the second calculated decision, third loop. You watch him and you know he was tall so the bike could get squarely on him and he wouldn't set his front wheel down sometimes. So like the sixth loop coming in, like just, yeah, a whole different approach. Then we have different ballgame. You guys keep him. Carson Is Deegan going to win? Everyone keeps asking, not Brian Deegan. It's if everyone here is Danger Boy going to win. Brian Deegan hasn't stopped winning. Yeah, he's still winning. Yeah, that's a good that he's winning. They're his kids now. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's going to be a good one. Man like Jet. I mean, sorry, Hunter is. He's on it right now. Schmidt is on it. There's so many guys in that class that are on it. But Hayden is that kid. He's. He's got that thing like Ryan Ryan had growing up. Like, when you get into these pressure situations and some people might tense up, that kid's right arm goes down further and he just pins it and know what I mean? Like he steps up in these pressure situations, he seems to be thriving on it. So round two finished in Chicago for the two fifties. Hunter Lawrence claim first. So that's one and one I had a Joe Schmo two into and then Hayden Deegan three three for the overall win. So it's it's between those three guys right correct from wrong are all three of those guys eligible to for the 500,000. Yes. Wow. So we just have a full slot bank today. Yep. Is money all around? Yeah. No. Those three riders have their eligible in the points situation that the parents winners take winner takes all essentially. So whoever wins tonight, you know is more than likely going to end up with that 500,000 in the in the SIM X championship. Are you going with 4 to 50. Man that's such a hard one. You know, I'd love to see Joe do it. I honestly I all of them kind of like also I don't that is not a good answer. It's not a good answer but I don't he's being so political over here. I am. Okay, so let me pick one. I'll go. I'll go with sushi. Yeah, Yeah, we got sushi. All right. Digging that. He's going to launch into the crowd, too. Yeah. Oh, that's another you think he's going to goes because his father famously he goes rode ghost whipped his bike off to finish off the finish here in the Coliseum many many moons ago. And the moon that will be over it tonight is going to be shining on Hayden. Dig in to see if he wins and he's everybody expects him to whip it. I love seeing the cockiness and I think it's great. I think the sport needs it and I love it, man. You know, it's one of those things like there's a good chance that he he won't win. But that kid is he's so driven and he's got to know that this is like, you know, how iconic it would be for him to win this event that I know he's he's thinking about it a little extra. Yeah, like you said, like his his his little bit of his arrogance or cockiness. Like, I think that's one thing that we need more of in our sport. Like jets bring in his side of everything that he's bringing to the table. That is, that is great for our sport but also to like I think one thing our sport is missing is more characters like, you know, like I wasn't a very good character. Well, no, not like that. You were just a very you were. I mean, I hate to even throw that way, but like a max Verstappen, you were. Yeah, you're a winner. And people didn't like you because you were winning and you didn't give a shit about winning. Is that like, is that something to do with the industry too, though, where like, you want to have a voice and you want it's kind of an almost it's kind of an underlying root, not rule, but like I feel like we're all developed to say the right things and to do the right things as as at least the era we came up into now, I think was social and how everything is like people are looking for more organic, more you, you know, like really you who you are. And I think that's what's different. You know, I feel like there's way more leeway. People are okay with with, you know, people writers really saying what they want to say instead of living inside this box. And I think that's what we need more of. You know, we need more of that. WW You know, well, no goes Vaseline type like you have see, like Britney's being a part of your ceiling. You have seen from the beginning. And I think that maybe not so pre kind of maybe a little bit but Conor McGregor created this like this it was larger than life and the fuck you and the way that he dressed and the back talking. Yep. He created this around character you create like an entertainment value is exact not only just being talented but having that like wow factor. Like that's a superstar. There's something even like style benders the same way. Like he kind of has this sound. A lot of them. All they do, they are. And it's smart to do that, but they've played that up now and it's like you tune in for the weigh ins or the press conferences and it's a fucking comic show. Yeah. And I think I feel like with with Jett and with Hayden, like they're they're kind of they're pioneering that in our sport. You know, it's not going to be the same as UFC. I don't think it can be. It's all it should all have its own little, you know, category. And I think those two are really doing a good job at like, you know, bridging that gap into, you know, building a bigger fan base outside of just who you are in the stadium. But then it goes back to selling seats in the stadium. Yeah, yeah. Sitting every week and you're in big arenas and it's all about selling tickets out. That's right. And that's what those guys are doing. All right. So in Chicago, Jett Jett finished first. Jett Lawrence, Ken, Roxanne finished second and then Chase finished third. What's going to happen today for the million dollar race, guys? Who's taking it home, too? I don't know. It's going to be. I don't know. It's hard to bet against Jett as good as he's been. But I mean, those other guys like Chase is on it. And I don't know, there's something that makes me think Kenny might something to these guys like. Yeah. For him, the pressure is not on him. If he pulls this off like the upside for him and his team, like, you know, he's on a Suzuki, a bike that people have written off for a while now and yeah, why is that? But they haven't changed in the really it hasn't been developed know really since Stu Yeah. You know it's one of the only bikes still with a Kickstarter on it. Really. Yeah. Which you know it's that's what we all grew up on. It's, it's, it's actually probably better than than electric start in a way because it you know it won't break but from our standpoint from our racing you fall in a turn you got to start your bike it's it could be you know a second or 2 seconds that you're trying to start it or where an electric start makes that up. So, no, I think Kenny has a great opportunity to, but I'm really interested to see who's going to shine with this because at this tracks can get Blue Groove and we haven't seen that. Jett hasn't raced a 450 on True like Blue Groove, Hard packs, you know, track material. Chase, as we know is is look was looking forward to the supercross you know getting back supercross suspension being back on you know in a stadium and then like like like Josh said, like Kenny is kind of like he's flying under the radar. And last week at Chicago, you know, he went he almost won the thing. So what happened there? The like what the been a controversy three why did he why do you let him pass? I don't know. I mean, I have my opinions on it. I think I think he was trying to figure out how to skew the points in a way I don't think I think and also to figure that out, like I if he would have mentioned it prior to the race, the team would have said, hey, it's doesn't work out like that. So I believe this all happened while he was racing. Yeah. And, you know, Kenny was able to bridge that gap. I mean, I can't count laps, let alone figure out what the points are because, like, while racing. Yeah, that's a lot of numbers going back in your head. Going back to a NASCAR, you've got a spotter and you got someone in your head talking to your talking to the team manager. Yep. You guys don't have any of that. We have. We have no outside the guy. Yeah, we have a pit board. So him to be able to do that math while racing, like, I mean, definitely slowed him down, you know? And I think that, you know, the other thing that people are asking, well, did he say while he was doing that math, did he he obviously had to slow down. And then at that point, Kenny was all over him and he let them did he let them by? Does that was that the problem or was he really trying to figure out the points in the situation? I think he was it didn't work out. I think just made more more a little bit of controversy. I think it made the show bigger coming into this weekend because of what we had last weekend in Chicago. You know, that's not normal for guys to let guys buy. He got it. So he got a talking to from the AMA for it. Yeah. Warning. He hit a warning. Yeah. There's a rule in the rulebook that you're not allowed to affect the outcome of the race. As a racer if you're a betting man. Yeah. Oh, so maybe there was a little Vegas thing? I don't know. There's not any betting in our sport. I know. They've been trying to get it in it. Be. Yeah, why not? But it's hard because it is like, like, you know, with that situation, you can affect it a lot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So team sport in a sense. Yeah. I think it was more of the gesture, right? Because who's to say if you let somebody by like. No, he was just faster. He admitted it on the podium was the problem like he said. Oh yeah. I was trying to work the points out in my head, but you know, big brain moves and let him by. That was where that's where you in trouble because. Well, I think he admitted it at that point. Right. So I think they probably would have just had a talking to him and maybe still a warning if that was the case. But like Josh said, a few to just like kind of like acted like he fell over or like, you know, like, here you go. Like but he took his hands off the bar and waved him by. And that's where the warning came. And then he also admitted it. Who's going to win, Ryan? Philip Harder. Oh, I'd love to see Kenny win. I would. Yeah. Let's go. Kenny Hill. It'd be cool to see Kenny win. I know it. You know, Larry Brooks and that whole team has been working hard to make it. And it's the underdog story, right? But I don't know if I can really the way Jet looked yesterday, you know, I think my money's on Jet. And then I'm also just curious to see how Cooper Webb does on more of a supercross setting, because I know like the last couple of races have been more like a motocross race and he was kind of in my boat. He had supercross suspension and it wasn't really ideal. So, you know. COOPER Webb's on the new Yamaha. He's back with Monster Energy, and I'm curious to see if he can turn it on and be a factor and be, you know, a top guy in the class. I know by January, I would bet that he will be, but we'll see if he can do it this soon. Well, Brittany, Danny, any last questions for these guys before we let them go? No, I think you covered all of them. This is great. I mean, I want I want the Cinderella story. I want Josh to win this one. Hey, if you take the million, Josh, you intend to stand on the board and I. That's. Yeah, Yeah, but that's Brat Rule is in full effect, guys. Ryan, Josh, thank you so much for being a part of this. This, this. It's beautiful. Like, what a beautiful morning to be sitting above the supercross track at the Coliseum for maybe one last time. That's right. Now it's a it's an amazing, amazing feeling to be here. Glad to be here. Glad to be on the show. Um, you know, I might. We might catch you down there by that monster banner down there in the grass in a in a Speedo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Watching the race right there. Speedo. Speedo on right now get your lawn chair. Even the flag that your lawn chair out in the cooler of, uh, Unleash the Beast. It's going to be a it's going to be an awesome night, guys. Josh, thank you so much. How.