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All right. Hello. And welcome back to another episode of the Chase Thomas podcast from Still,

the A for mention Chase Thomas coming to you live from Knoxville, Tennessee. Over there,

not in Tennessee, was once in Tennessee, Jackson,

Tennessee. We'll be picking his brain a little bit about that. Alex, Ray, I'm Super Cross Live.

Alex, good afternoon, sir. How are you? I'm good, man. Yeah, like you said, I'm not, I'm not

in Tennessee anymore. I'm in beautiful, kind of, kind of sunny California right now. But,

but yeah, I, man I I kind of miss I miss

Tennessee a little bit what do you miss most about it just the slow pace sometimes

it gets a little hectic out here as you can imagine mm-hmm yeah in the snow like I

know there was like a cold front that like went over it was snowing here yesterday it was

crazy we haven't seen that in years so it was it was definitely definitely something weird

have you ever ridden in the snow yeah yeah so um like growing up in Tennessee like there's maybe like

a couple days there where where we got to ride in the snow a little bit.

I've ridden up north a lot, like just everywhere around the world, I've ridden in the snow a little bit, yeah.

Is it easier or harder to ride in the snow?

Oh, it's harder.

It's definitely harder.

Why?

So, I mean, let's see, I mean, like we're on tires, right?

You know, and sometimes the ground can be frozen and you not know it. And then, yeah, you bike can slide out from under you and hit the dirt. Yeah. Interesting. What's your, what's your preferred? Like you can have your ideal conditions, obviously not in a dome for any race or anything like that, but you have your ideal conditions. What is it for you? Shoot, man, ideal conditions. I'd rather just be summertime, hot, sweaty, dirty. Really? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's easier, especially like whenever you have a guy like me who's a little bit older in age, I'm 29, which isn't a lot older, but I mean for our sport it's it's pretty old. And, uh, you know, like I've, I've had quite a bit of injuries. So, you know, it keeps the, keeps the joints warm whenever it's nice and hot out. Interesting. Do you know how many injuries you've had? And since you've been racing, do you know? Yeah. I mean, it's a lot. I mean, you name it, I've broken it or, you know, I've had it fixed or anything. Like, I've had, I was counting the other day. I think I've had like 12 surgeries just on both my wrists. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. 12. Yeah, just on my, just on my two hands. Uh-huh. Yeah. Interesting. Well, what's going on with your thumb? How's your thumb right now? Thumb's good. I just got some x-rays yesterday. So I ended up breaking my thumb there in Tampa, Tampa Supercross whenever we were there. It was, I actually got lucky with, you know, how gnarly the crash was. And then I just came away with some scratches and then you know I broke my thumb which I immediately you know message

the surgeon I'm like hey man like I needed I need to get this fixed ASAP so I got

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