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The Whiskey Throttle Show

Nuts and Bolts Episode 9 - Blake McCarthy

The Whiskey Throttle Show

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4.7697 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this series we set out to talk to mechanics and industry folks who keep things running behind the scenes. In episode 9, our host Brent Bowser catches up with Muc-off/FXR/Club MX Yamaha mechanic Blake McCarthy about growing up in Australia, moving to the States full time, life as a mechanic and more!

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What's up, guys?

0:00.7

Welcome to another podcast series here on Whiskey Throttle Media. I'm your host, Brent Bowser. Before we get in the podcast today, I want to give a shout out to the sponsors that make it happen for us. Without these guys, all the things that we do would not be possible. So we appreciate those guys. Check out motorsport.com for all your products. Free shipping on anything over $79. Zoolsco check out Zoolsbackco.com for your custom travel bags and roller bags

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golf check those guys out and here we are with the podcast what's up guys welcome back to another

1:21.2

episode of our nuts and bolts podcast series here on whiskey throttle media i'm reals bret

1:25.5

bowser we're here today with club mx guru blake m. What's going on? Blake, how are you? Good, man. How you doing? Hey, dude. I appreciate you hopping on and chatting with us today. Obviously talking to you before we eight record, you have a lengthy history in the sport. We'll better get into it all day, but appreciate you having you on and chatting with us today. I'm stoked to hear from you and your side of the story, you know, about the life you live in Moto. Yeah, man. Yeah, it's been, it's been crazy, dude, the last couple of weeks. I'm glad I was able to, you know, voice all this stuff. And, you know, it's been a wild ride since I've been here for 10 years. So it's been pretty crazy. that's cool before dive into all that, just give us a little bit of background yourself. You're obviously from Australia, where you grew up, how you got into this crazy motocross thing, and how did you end up here in the States? Yeah, so basically, man, I grew up, you know, we weren't rich, but we went to pork kind of deal. I had boxed my whole lot growing up and, you know, I'm you know, we weren't rich, but we weren't poor kind of deal.

2:21.6

I had bikes my whole life growing up and, you know, I'm from Sydney, Australia.

2:25.7

So it's pretty much the most well-known place of Australia, in my opinion.

2:29.1

Yeah, other than that, yeah, I'm 35.

2:34.6

I live at ClubMX and it's a pretty nice place to live if you want to, if love dirt bikes you know so but yeah basically history on me is just uh you know I uh I worked my ass off in

2:41.2

Australia and uh you know really really did a lot of uh you know a lot of racing back at home

2:47.5

and work for a little you know a couple of teams and stuff like that and a couple

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