FINNing, Fighting & Listener Questioning - The Ride Companion Episode 57
The Ride Companion
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4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Olly and Davi are back to talk about one of the most exciting downhill races in a long time, Finn Illes stepping up to deliver when it counted and the lack of tigers in the Surrey Hills. Olly shares a crazy story about an altercation with a homeless gentleman and the lads get into a stack of your listener questions!
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| 0:00.0 | And then Valley came down, Valley, can I just say, |
| 0:04.0 | Valley is not, not only did she win, she also won the Stees Award. |
| 0:09.0 | He's, oh, that happened just as you started recording. |
| 0:23.6 | The noise of a can open. Yeah, that is good. |
| 0:25.6 | Welcome to the ride companion, number 57. |
| 0:29.6 | 57 dude. It's actually not a number that I'm particularly attracted to, 57. |
| 0:35.6 | Is it you? No, it's an ugly number in it it? It is a bit ugly, yeah. Why is that? Because it's not, because it's odd. It's really odd one. Really odd. Weird one with numbers. Some of them just fit together beautifully and they work. And I always initially straight away think of numbers on a race plate. |
| 0:54.6 | Do you do that? |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah. Yeah, imagine having 57 as you're... |
| 0:56.7 | Well, I think of them on basketball jerseys. |
| 0:59.1 | If you had 57, you get benched, I reckon. |
| 1:02.8 | Do you reckon? |
| 1:03.5 | You sat at the side of 69. |
| 1:08.7 | Those two suckers just sat on the bed. |
| 1:11.4 | Dude, I've got some, before we talk about the World Cup, |
| 1:14.2 | that was really exciting, right? |
| 1:16.7 | Fantastic race. |
| 1:17.5 | What a weekend of racing. |
| 1:19.4 | Mate, incredible, but I've got a story that's literally like, |
| 1:21.9 | it's just happened. |
| 1:23.6 | And it's, yeah, it's, right, so I've... |
| 1:26.6 | So we're recording this early as well, just for people listening. We're recording on a Sunday for the first time in a long time. We're doing a Sunday afternoon recording. Sunday afternoon, that's right. We're tuning in Sunday afternoon, drive time, okay. And I'm literally sat here covered in hair, and I don't know what's going on where all this is coming from. I often get, right? Just a quick one. Go on. Often get people messaging on YouTube now that message about orbs that are like, did you see that orb going past you at this time? And people like literally put the time reference of, did you see that orb on davy's camera at this time but we've |
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