Phil Keoghan

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

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4.5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2017

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Phil Keoghan has been the host of The Amazing Race television show since 2001. The New Zealand native recently completed the documentary, Le Ride. The film follows Phil and his friend Ben as they try to recreate the 1928 Tour de France route on original bicycles from the same year. Phil joined Lance for a screening of the film in Austin and taped an episode of The Forward. They discussed the difficulty of riding the route, Phil’s discovery of cycling while living in Antigua and his passion for making lists. Le Ride is screening globally on November 9th. Details can be found at http://philkeoghanleride.com/

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to the forward podcast. It's Lance, your host each and every week.
0:05.0	My guess this week is Phil Kogan, most famously known as the host of the Amazing Race,
0:11.0	been on network TV for gosh I don't know more than 25
0:15.6	seasons really really interesting guy interesting conversation loves to ride
0:20.9	most of the most of our talk focused on his new documentary called La Ride,
0:27.0	where he went back and rode the same course as much as he could.
0:31.0	Obviously the roads in France have changed but the same course as
0:35.0	the 1920ate tour to France 3,300 miles keeping in mind my friends the current
0:42.0	versions are around 2,000 miles. So he went and found the
0:48.1	night you know a circuit 1928 bike with another buddy of his Ben and they rode the route. It's a pretty
0:56.9	interesting film. It's going to be in theaters or they're doing like a mass
0:59.5	screening this week, 150 theaters across the country coming out, that'd be tomorrow. So check online,
1:06.3	La Ride, L E, space, R I D E for Phil's ride with his buddy.
1:13.0	The other interesting thing we talk about is the eight years he spent as a young boy in Antiga.
1:21.0	And obviously that country, Antiga and Barbuda, were massively hit by Hurricane
1:27.6	Irma. So he's super involved in trying to help, especially the island of Barbuda rebuild and get their lives back to
1:36.6	back to normal. So before we get to fill a couple things one registration for the Texas hundred is open go to we do sports
1:44.8	dot com what else Houston Astros who would have thought game seven 7, winning the World Series in L.A. My God, congratulations.
1:58.0	You talk about hurricanes and talk about people and communities that need things.
2:03.2	Boy, I mean, how about that for that city?
2:06.1	What a boost.
2:07.3	And so congrats to everybody in Houston.
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