Hey, welcome to the Pulpamex Racer X re-release of the Anthony Padgio podcast from 2011.

Long time ago, listen, I've been saying it over and over.

The archives that we have done since 2008 are gold, and you people should go back and listen to them.

The stories haven't changed.

The questions haven't changed.

There's some really great stuff. So I'm going to try to put some out here and there,

some of my favorites from the olden days. And yeah, maybe people can rediscover them all over

again, but all of the podcast archives are on Pulpamex.com under podcast archives and search

for a guest, search through through the years all of that man

there's some really good stuff in there like I said so this is with anthony padgio former factory

cowie mechanic I met Padge um in 1996 when I first became a mechanic he was already working on

the PJ1 extreme Yamaha team and then we became friends kind of because we were forced to.

I don't think he really liked me at first, but we got along pretty well.

And then he taught me a ton.

He went on to work for Chaparral in 97 for Jimmy Button.

He was working for Button in 96.

Then he went from Button in 97, right to Damon Huffman Factory Cowley in 98. Stayed there for a few years. And then he was buddies with Johnny O'Mara. Johnny O. was working for Oakley. Johnny O got him the job at Oakley when Johnny O. He left. And Padge has been at Oakley ever since. And I don't know. He's really important at Oakley now he's like sports marketing

guru he's uh really been around the sport forever and he's done all sorts of things as

a sports marketing guy for Oakley like a NASCAR and F1 and Moto GP and of course Modo he's

always been involved in Moto he he's the one who helped me well it didn't help me but suggested me to me over and over to do a podcast with. He, he's the one who helped me, well, it didn't help me, but suggested

me to me over and over to do a podcast with John Tomac. He's a big fan of JT. So I did that

years later. And yeah, man, I've also never paid for an Oakley product for a long, long time.

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