Welcome to the Andrew Short.com podcast with none other than Andrew Short himself of the Honda Red Bull Racing team.

Shorty, what's going on?

Not much.

I've been doing a lot of two-day workouts.

Rowing on a rolling machine, a little pedal bike action for my ankle to get my foot better.

And doing some weights and stuff. Just trying to get my foot better and doing some weights and stuff just trying

get my body back going online again make sure uh just basically waking it up i guess yeah what's it

like being out for so long like i guess you get over the pity part right away and you just sort of

just wait to heal huh i mean is it drive you nuts are you nuts? Are you okay with it? Yeah, no, I'm going crazy. And I didn't really have much, like, a pity party at first that I've been racing for so long. And it's kind of like a breath of fresh air, but not really. To not be traveling. It was like all that energy was focused and to find out as much

information as I could about my foot to get better. But it was kind of an opportunity to get

my mind to go from there. So I'm a tack dog with the house.

I can hear it. Yeah, get Mark Barnett.

Bombers here building a track, but. Yeah, I saw that on Twitter. He's, he's actually there and he's, uh, he's, uh, getting ready, huh? Get, getting everything up and keep up. Yeah, I'm hoping to, yeah, I'm hoping for riding next Monday, so we're trying to get all of our tracks going. cross Supercross track got just finished, like, a couple days right before I broke my ankle. So that was not so good timing.

But he's back down here just getting stuff from the, and to get back to, like, the pity party thing,

I was like bombed at first, and it really gets depressing watching the races.

That's when it really sits in.

Yeah.

As I'm getting able to be able to start riding again and it's becoming a reality,

knowing that I could be out there, it's hard to watch.

And you know what's funny is I did the, well, the Moto show with RV.

I don't know if you heard that one or not. And I was telling him, like, hey, Stanton was criticizing you for, you know, gaining some weight and sitting on the couch after your knee surgery and everything. And I was expecting him to unleash. Instead, he was like, yeah, dude, it was nice. It was nice to have a break. I mean, I'm not going to wish it on anybody, but it was really nice. First time he had quit in a long time, you know? Yeah. So, I mean, in a sense, it's not a, I mean, it's a bad thing, but it's not all that bad, right? Yeah, and that's the honest truth, what he said for his situation.

And I'm up the same way.

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