Our new studio, Olly's wild Mexico street race build and a £XXXX water bill
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
We're back...and in a brand new studio! (building site)
Olly and Davi sit down for a long overdue catch up. Olly shares stories from his Red Bull Cerro Abajo Guanajuato street race build trip, trail adventures in Madeira, and the shock of receiving a ridiculous water bill while he was away.
The lads also chat about the new studio space, ancient pyramids, the Telepathy Tapes, Davi's holiday, saving old people – and loads more...
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| 0:00.0 | Which one was the most nerve-wracking feature to test? |
| 0:03.0 | Weirdly the first, which caused everyone the least... |
| 0:07.0 | The road gap, or the steps into the road gap. |
| 0:09.0 | The steps into the road gap, weirdly was the one that caused the most stress. |
| 0:17.0 | We're back. Ladies and gentlemen, we are back, and we're back. |
| 0:21.5 | Ladies and gentlemen, we are back and we're in on the unnamed studio. |
| 0:27.2 | Nice. |
| 0:27.8 | Episode. |
| 0:29.3 | We're in. |
| 0:30.3 | We're in. |
| 0:31.1 | Hey. |
| 0:33.3 | It's been a while, dude. |
| 0:35.1 | It's been a while. |
| 0:36.3 | It has actually been a while, dude. I was thinking a while. It has actually been a while, dude. |
| 0:38.2 | I was thinking on the way down here how long it's been since we sat and recorded just me and you. Yeah, ages. Long time. And there's been a bit of a hiatus on the podcast, isn't it? I mean, I wonder what people do. Honestly, you're going to have to put in the comments. I know what I do. What? sit and do an episode on my own. |
| 0:53.8 | It was the hardest thing I have ever done. |
| 0:56.8 | It was the hardest thing I have ever done. Yeah. Horrible. Was it? So, so. But people actually liked it. Apparently. I didn't suggest that. I mean, I'm not big in myself up because I hated doing it. Did you? Yeah. But I think I just, it's a skill. It's one of those things. It's like a skill that I'd actually like to try and get better at. Is that bad? Yeah. Just to be like reactive to things. I'm trying to think of podcasts I know that are just. Theo Vaughn. Oh, he's a comedian. Yeah, there you go. There you go. And Bill Burr is the one I listen to that is... Delia. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah. I know these are just American comedians, but most of them are so low. They're just comedians. There's other... Chris Williamson. Modern Wisdom does a bunch on his own. Yeah, he quite likes the sound of his own voice, don't he? See, I don't. So it's really difficult. Yeah. I mean, I don't, |
| 1:46.9 | I don't. So it's really difficult. |
| 1:44.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:45.2 | It was, |
| 1:45.5 | I mean, |
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