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The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Guest: Chris Jonnum

The Steve Matthes Show on RacerX

Steve Matthes

Pulpmx, Professional, Steve Matthes, Supercross, Racerx, Motocross, 051142, Sports & Recreation

4.8842 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

We talk to Chris Jonnum about his Jonnum Media company, doing Honda PR, his path in the industry from Cycle News to Road Racer X to Ducati, living in Europe, his favorite assignments, PR in our SX/MX world and more.

Transcript

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Before we get too far into this podcast, thanks to folks at Racetek,

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They will give you a deal on suspension work, on motor work, whatever it is. They got it going on. Get the right springs in your bike for your weight and or speed. Racetech.com. Privateeer proven. Thank you to Racetech. All right, on the show. A Pope MX network production.

0:02.6

Welcome to the Fly Racing Steve Mathis show presented by Thank you to race tech. All right, on the show. I'm Pope MX Network production.

0:21.1

Welcome to the Fly Racing Steve Mathis show presented by Maxis Tires, Renthall, and Motosport.com on racerxonline.com.

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we're thriving at over 1,800 podcast delivered with over 20 million downloads.

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And as always, enrich your Moto lifestyle by working with the sponsors who support us.

1:00.0

The original Moto podcast featuring Legends of the Past, stars of today, season previews, race reviews, introspection, opinion, facts, and laughs.

1:15.7

Here's the voice bringing it all to you, Steve Mathis. Welcome everybody in the Fly Racing RacerX podcast.

1:34.7

Chris Johnham.

1:35.3

Johnom Media, really interesting career in the sport,

1:39.1

Moto and, well, I should say, on and off road.

1:41.8

And now one of the jobs is responsible for the Honda Supercross, motocross team, PR. So we'll talk to him about access to the riders now, the media nowadays, and get into his own personal journey. Thanks for listing, man. Appreciate it. FlyRacing.com. 26 gear is out. The code Pulpamex saves you at flyracing.com across the board. So whether it's a great Formula Helmet, Formula S, they got the Formula CC, different shells, whether it's the Evo gear, off-road gear, women's gear, kids gear. 2026 designs are out. Some of the stuff looks great. And yeah, head to toe, flies got you covered. Cooper Webb, of course, winning the championship. And the Coonin Brothers doing really well. Langefelder leading MX2. Fly racing, man, a lot of racing success for those guys in 2025 more than they've ever had, I would say. So use the code and save. Great stuff. And Maxis, Motorsport, Brunt Workwear, all on board with us. We'll tell you more about them later on the show. And thank you to the folks at Renthal, Factory Honda, speaking of them, using Renthal products,

2:40.1

fat bars, 7-8s bar, Twin Wall bars, all of it available. Renthal.com, KTM, Kawasaki as well.

2:47.0

And lots of things at Renthal that you know about and lots of things that they're coming. Really exciting mountain bike product coming soon from the folks at Renthal, renthal.com. And the lock-on grips crushing it, by the way. If you're a fan of lock-on grips, you've got to get the Renthal one, all the different patterns, all the different compounds available. And it's the first and only lock-on grip that no modifications needed. So thank you, Renthal. I'll tell you about the other guys later on. But here's a conversation with myself and Chris Johnham talking shop. Thanks for listening. All right, everybody. Next up here on the Fly Racing Race Rex podcast, the gentleman I've known for a long time. And we were once co-workers, sort of kind of over at

3:24.2

Racer X, and now with John O'M Media, he's very involved in the sport. From Johnom Media, PR man, extraordinary. Chris Johnham, what's up, Chris? How are you, man? Hey, doing great. Thanks. How's it going, Steve? I'm good, man. Thank you for doing this. appreciate a lot of questions for you uh you've you've done a lot in this industry media

3:24.3

side and now you kind of on the other side of things where you're working with the media. So it's interesting. John of Media, I guess. You've done that for a while. Talk about starting it and what it is and what you're doing.

4:00.6

Yeah, so it's about seven years in now.

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