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The Ride Companion

Ben Deakin and the BIG reveal!

The Ride Companion

TRC Media House

Sports, Wilderness

4.9533 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

After Brendan Fairclough's 4th place finish at the 2019 Red Bull Rampage he insisted that his dig crew had to spend the winnings on something they really wanted. Olly Wilkins chose a jet-ski, Ben Deakin decided he wanted a hair transplant...

On this episode Ben Deakin (aka The Deakinator) talks about why he decided it was finally time to commit and go for the procedure, this is the full story... 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is to the point.

0:01.0

This is what we're talking about today.

0:02.8

What are we talking about today?

0:03.8

So, so we, if we've already established, Rampage, you've got what you wanted.

0:10.2

Jet ski.

0:10.8

And what did I want, Ollie?

0:11.9

You wanted a hair transplant.

0:13.0

Hair transport, right?

0:27.9

Right. He's no stranger to the podcast but it's this first time hair in the studio i thought about that it too much ben deacon everyone thank you thank you thank you

0:35.2

that good yeah really good. That's great.

0:38.2

How are you, Diggs? Mate, can I just say this thing is all of a sudden quite professional, isn't it? It's good, isn't it? Yeah. We've got these things. We haven't got, you know, mold in the ceilings or any of that. It's true. You've never done the podcast in the studio. No. And you've also never done it, not with, like, at Ollie's house or something.

0:57.5

We've never had Dietz just like, oh, he's at home. Oh, maybe we have once actually, because I remember the trade's cabinet in background. Yeah, we had micro machines when he was selling micromachines. Yes. Wow, that seems true. What's that? Four years, three years ago. All sort of selling something, aren't you?

1:11.7

Always all promoting something like BDK 200, you know, but we're going to this. You keep saying that. Why do you keep dropping that to it? They will all be revealed. There's got to be a builder. Yeah, you'll do a build on. Firstly, one thing've noticed is, I managed to nick a lovely rampage sign from

1:29.9

somewhere, which goes nicely in with the story.

1:32.1

And I'm a bit disappointed that it's not on display, to be honest.

1:35.1

Fairly heavy branding from one particular energy drink.

1:38.0

So it will eventually, yeah.

1:42.0

It will eventually.

1:42.9

Oh, is that the one we had in the other one

1:44.2

behind the scenes no we had so much branding in the other one yeah we did the energy drink

1:49.5

and it's sort of like yeah we're almost you chilled it out a bit haven't we still i mean i literally

1:53.7

nearly got banned for a lifetime you did deeks actually a lot of people don't know a few

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