The 2008 classics podcast remix and remastered continues for you with the great Mickey Diamond two-time 105 national champion and a guy that's a deep thinker in our sport, somebody different.

Always been a unique and different guy Mickey has been over the years, even after he quit racing and he started getting into the freestyle thing, and he started

designing ramps, and then he works for All Access Stage.

And of course, now in 2017, he's getting ready to go with Wardy, Doug Henry and David

Bailey to go a race across America.

And I had him out a little while ago to ride my project bike and everything else.

And the guy's,

the guy's just cool, man.

Diamond is just a cool dude.

Now,

when this podcast first came out,

I remember getting hitting up,

hitting up with,

hey,

is he on drugs?

What's wrong with him?

This and that.

And you've got to understand that he's a different dude. And he thinks about the question and gives you an honest answer. And that's why the pauses and that's why he sort of rambles a little bit. The guy, he's a unique individual, Mickey Diamond, and a really cool guy, a really nice guy. But every time I've spoken with him, every time I've ever done something with him, I'm always struck by, you know,

he's just not your, I had an ordinary average cat.

That's it.

Different guy.

So listen to this podcast, and he talks about the pain of being picked over twice for

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