Speaker 1: Causer Media.
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Away Days podcast on the ground
Speaker 2: outside reporting from the underbelly with me Jake Hanrahan. To
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Speaker 2: eleven Studio and caol Zone Media. Back midway up the mountain,
Speaker 2: after the white knuckle grip rates down it, I catch
Speaker 2: my breath as the cars fly off again into the darkness.
Speaker 2: My adrenaline is peaked and probably will be for some time.
Speaker 2: One of the cross racing lads currently hanging out at
Speaker 2: the side of the road laughs and puts his thumb
Speaker 2: up a grin and put my thumb up too. This
Speaker 2: lad goes by the nickname Lil Noisy. He's tall, skinny,
Speaker 2: and wearing a set of thick black glasses through the
Speaker 2: ice lot in his battle claver. He comes over to
Speaker 2: me and starts to chat with the help of our
Speaker 2: friends who's translating.
Speaker 1: We have a long history. Everyone gets on everyone's cars
Speaker 1: of Chris and I think it's a very cool team.
Speaker 3: We're number one.
Speaker 2: What is it you love about the street racing here?
Speaker 2: Obviously it's very illegal, but you guys are all doing
Speaker 2: it all the time.
Speaker 1: I think it's fine so long as we don't get caught.
Speaker 1: It's fun to race with everyone.
Speaker 2: In Japan, life is quite conservative. People follow the rules.
Speaker 2: You guys obviously break the rules all the time. How
Speaker 2: do you think your average person in Japan sees you
Speaker 2: guys street racers?
Speaker 3: What anything to you?
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a nuisance. It's probably annoying.
Speaker 3: They find it annoying.
Speaker 2: The police are cracking down quite hard on a street racing.
Speaker 2: Are you not worried you might get into trouble since
Speaker 2: the prison have your car taken? You're not scared?
Speaker 1: Well, there is some worry, but having fun is more important.
Speaker 3: We run away. That's it, We run away.
Speaker 2: Can you describe what it feels like when you're racing?
Speaker 2: How does it feel to you inside?
Speaker 3: It's exciting. I just get so excited.
Speaker 1: It feels so good to be in a place where
Speaker 1: you are totally unable to think about anything else.
Speaker 3: You're so excited you can't think of anything else.
Speaker 1: Kids these days don't go out, so they don't really
Speaker 1: care about cars. Most kids think as long as it drives,
Speaker 1: anything is fine. I want the world to know more
Speaker 1: about Japanese cars, and I want the Civics B type
Speaker 1: engine to become more popular than turbos. They look bad,
Speaker 1: but the moment the v tech kicks in, it feels
Speaker 1: so good. It feels like I'm high. That's why I
Speaker 1: love Civics.
Speaker 3: I hate turbos.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 2: After this, little Noisy goes on to explain why he
Speaker 2: loves Honda Civic so much for about another ten minutes.
Speaker 2: If there's one thing we've learned for sure on this trip,
Speaker 2: it's that these lots absolutely live and breathe cards. Now,
Speaker 2: as I've explained in previous parts of this podcast, I
Speaker 2: strip it down to keep the narrative easy to follow,
Speaker 2: so therefore I only give my own perspective. Remember, though
Speaker 2: Away Days is a documentary series first and foremost, whilst
Speaker 2: I was in Japan, I was of course not alone.
Speaker 2: Me and my team were filming this whole thing. So
Speaker 2: I want to give some time to my very dear
Speaker 2: friend and creative partner, Johnny Pickup. He was there filming
Speaker 2: all of this as I was praying for my life
Speaker 2: in the front of these hundred Civics. To give him
Speaker 2: his full Jews here is a short bio. Johnny Pickup
Speaker 2: is an internationally published, multi award winning photo journalist and
Speaker 2: documentary filmmaker from London. Pickup's work focuses on the unseen
Speaker 2: and forgotten areas of society, using still and motion imagery
Speaker 2: to understand contemporary global issues. As a photo journalist, Pickup
Speaker 2: has covered world events current affairs for National Geographic, The Telegraph,
Speaker 2: Foreign Policy Getty. Pickup has won multiple international awards for
Speaker 2: his film and photography work, including the Platinum Remy Award.
Speaker 2: Person One Is include directors such as George Lucas and
Speaker 2: the Cohen Rogers. It's prowess working on the ground amidst
Speaker 2: chaotic situations is given to pick Up a.
Speaker 3: Raw but highly perfected style.
Speaker 2: Within his documentary work, He's largely responsible for the unique
Speaker 2: signature that Way Days is known for. Needless to say,
Speaker 2: Johnny is very good at what he does. He's also
Speaker 2: a really really good guy. Let's hear it from him.
Speaker 2: Had you ever heard of like the Japanese street racing
Speaker 2: scene or any of that before we did this film?
Speaker 4: Not really like obviously from popular culture like Fast and
Speaker 4: Furious you have, like you know, not that I really
Speaker 4: watched those films anything, but they're still mainstream.
Speaker 5: You know, maybe they gets put out about those.
Speaker 4: Kind of racing stories, but no specifics about like the
Speaker 4: kan joe specifically or toga. Like that was completely new
Speaker 4: when you said that to me, and especially the cultural
Speaker 4: bits that come along with that, like the style and
Speaker 4: ethos of the races, that was completely new.
Speaker 2: What was your first impressions of them, Like when we
Speaker 2: first met, like some of the lads there with the cars,
Speaker 2: what did you what did you think?
Speaker 3: Like what kind of struck you?
Speaker 4: I think what really struck me was mainly the attitude
Speaker 4: of the drivers and that culture, because you could tell
Speaker 4: that it was really out the realms of the ordinary.
Speaker 4: I think when people engage in that kind of thing
Speaker 4: in the UK or Europe, like it's slightly more accepted.
Speaker 4: I think in Japan you're really an outsider if you're
Speaker 4: doing that kind of stuff, Like it's really not accepted,
Speaker 4: and these guys are doing something that carries a risk,
Speaker 4: you know in terms of the law, but also like
Speaker 4: cultural risk as well that you might be looked down
Speaker 4: upon or you know, not accepted socially. So yeah, that
Speaker 4: was like super interesting. That came across to me straight away.
Speaker 4: I mean, as soon as we start getting in cars
Speaker 4: and like being around them properly, the speed at which
Speaker 4: we were traveling was suddenly like pretty mind blowing. I
Speaker 4: mean I was like I was like when we first
Speaker 4: even like getting like when I think we we took
Speaker 4: a ride, didn't we, And it was like not even
Speaker 4: like properly like racing the Caanjo, but it was like
Speaker 4: we're just gonna go on the Caanjo and me and
Speaker 4: you were like, holy fuck, look at each other, like
Speaker 4: this is serious, and it was nothing comparatible we're about
Speaker 4: to happen, but we were already like you know, checking
Speaker 4: we're strapped in properly like raising eyeb I was like,
Speaker 4: holy shit, like what's going on?
Speaker 5: And it felt like ridiculous, like just off the bat us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that first time when it was like, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna go here, and it's like, oh, we're
Speaker 2: on the loop now, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's like one hundred miles an hour and that guy
Speaker 2: was like.
Speaker 3: Texting at the same time. I was like, oh, we're
Speaker 3: gonna die. Like it was terrifying.
Speaker 4: Also, like the exhausts, like the sound that the cars
Speaker 4: make is just insane, isn't it.
Speaker 5: It's just like it just goes through you.
Speaker 4: And I think even whatever speed you're at feels like
Speaker 4: tice as fast because you've just got this ridiculous rattle
Speaker 4: coming from the exhaust.
Speaker 6: Wo yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you know what though? Something really weird?
Speaker 2: So like normally, like say I'm about just at home
Speaker 2: in England or whatever, and I hear someone tear down
Speaker 2: the road that it like actually drives me mental, like
Speaker 2: it pisces me off, but but I don't know what
Speaker 2: it was like halfway through, I was like desperate to
Speaker 2: hear it again, like I wanted to feel it.
Speaker 3: Like every trip we talk, I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: loved it. When the VTech kicked in. Do you know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Is addictive?
Speaker 3: Is that it's a weird Yeah? Did you did you
Speaker 3: feel that as well? Almost like surprised I was that
Speaker 3: I'd ever think.
Speaker 5: That, Yeah, for sure, And I think, like.
Speaker 4: I both have sworn I would never get in one
Speaker 4: of those cars again, and at the same time secretly
Speaker 4: would love the opportunity because it's just like I mean,
Speaker 4: it was and it was a serious adrenalin rush, like
Speaker 4: it was everything about it and it hit all of
Speaker 4: your senses, like you know you were you were overloading
Speaker 4: every sense that you have in your body.
Speaker 5: It was just all like on.
Speaker 4: Overdrive and it felt it felt ridiculous and you got
Speaker 4: out of the car and like that adrenaline s fight
Speaker 4: was like something else, I mean, not really comparable to
Speaker 4: anything else I've done.
Speaker 5: It was really unique in that way.
Speaker 2: No, it's same, like even like war or it was
Speaker 2: a very specific adrenaline rush. It was like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: I think the like man in Machine vibe was just like,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's something completely different.
Speaker 3: It really made me feel like I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say like I I understood it
Speaker 2: fully because I just I couldn't. I would be so
Speaker 2: scared to drive like that myself all the time. But
Speaker 2: very quickly I saw the appeal of it.
Speaker 3: Did you do you think that? Yeah, Like I get
Speaker 3: why people would do that.
Speaker 4: I'm not like a carn in any way. And it's
Speaker 4: the only time in my life I've been like, oh,
Speaker 4: I kind of get how your life could become that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if you're a teenager there you'd be like
Speaker 2: I think I want it civic now, and I think
Speaker 2: I want to do this because ultimately, like it's like
Speaker 2: we were saying the whole time, Like you made a
Speaker 2: good point to start, Like Japanese culture it really does
Speaker 2: not accept or favor outlaws or bandits in any way,
Speaker 2: do you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And you could really become a social prior as well,
Speaker 4: Like people could really ostracize you for that as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was what was the most challenging part for you,
Speaker 2: like trying to film.
Speaker 3: The racing and everything.
Speaker 5: Easy question.
Speaker 4: It was very difficult with and I think you would
Speaker 4: agree with this in a way that Japanese people are
Speaker 4: quite guarded and shy I think when it comes to
Speaker 4: especially being on camera and especially.
Speaker 5: When it's like a secretive world.
Speaker 4: And I think we both had moments of trying our
Speaker 4: best to get them to engage past one word answers.
Speaker 4: And that's just like I think that's just something that comes.
Speaker 4: If we went back and we were the same people,
Speaker 4: I bet you would be easier. It's just maybe requires
Speaker 4: more time on the ground or whatever. But they it
Speaker 4: was quite tricky to get them to speak openly and.
Speaker 5: Without embarrassment I think about what they were doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that was a big part of it for me.
Speaker 2: It was difficult because it's like you're going into this
Speaker 2: kind of underworld, but actually they're just mostly shy about it,
Speaker 2: which I didn't expect.
Speaker 4: And that's a lot of the other people that we
Speaker 4: go and film with, right, Like a lot of the
Speaker 4: times these people have like a bit of an ego
Speaker 4: trip and it's like that you can't stop them, like
Speaker 4: they just you can't stop them talking about themselves or
Speaker 4: what they're doing, And with these guys it was the opposite.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think apart from I think from a
Speaker 4: shooting perspective, like it's quite a tricky story to cover
Speaker 4: in a few ways. Because one, everything took place at night,
Speaker 4: so just from like it's like straight away, just from
Speaker 4: like an exposure point of view, everything you're shooting is
Speaker 4: like you're you're struggling for light the whole time. And
Speaker 4: number two, like you're shooting in the back of like
Speaker 4: a stripped out car that's going ridiculously fast and swerving,
Speaker 4: and like to get any kind of camera control requires
Speaker 4: hands of steel.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was like it was pretty hard from
Speaker 5: that point of view as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was trying to explain to a friend the
Speaker 2: other day about the rigs that we had in there,
Speaker 2: like you had like lorry straps you had, you had
Speaker 2: the tripod somehow in the back. Can you maybe just
Speaker 2: go into a little bit of that, because I couldn't
Speaker 2: even really fully explain all those kind of technical things
Speaker 2: that you did to make it work.
Speaker 3: I mean, I say technical. It was like Jerry rigged,
Speaker 3: but it worked.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shit, riggs is what you call it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: It was like making the best of of the situation.
Speaker 4: So, like we obviously put like GoPros on the side
Speaker 4: of the veguan and within so we already had like
Speaker 4: a few angles covered, especially with the togn which was
Speaker 4: more like set up we could rig a car way
Speaker 4: more than when we were doing the kanjo, but.
Speaker 5: With the toget like, so we set at the goprost,
Speaker 5: we had.
Speaker 4: A few angles, and then I was like, I would
Speaker 4: love to be able to get like a shot from
Speaker 4: the interior looking forwards and rig a camera at a
Speaker 4: certain viewpoint. And in order to do that, I decided
Speaker 4: to strap the tripod down onto the to the cage
Speaker 4: of the car and secure it with these with these straps, yeah,
Speaker 4: that you could tighten right up, and it got really
Speaker 4: actually we managed to get into a really good position,
Speaker 4: didn't We and then just fix the camera onto the
Speaker 4: tripod and it created a fantastic like camera angle.
Speaker 5: It was really cool.
Speaker 4: It was like, I think we had our widest lens
Speaker 4: on there was like an eighteen mil and just locked
Speaker 4: off on that tripod and then just went through it.
Speaker 4: And because of the way that it was rigged, it
Speaker 4: moved with the car, so if the car went up
Speaker 4: a little bit, it came went up a little bit,
Speaker 4: and that created quite an unusual, quite unusual footage. Didn't
Speaker 4: It felt felt very immersive and fast, and I think
Speaker 4: more so than the other like handheld stuff.
Speaker 5: It was really cool.
Speaker 2: Actually, No, definitely agree, And I think like for anyone listening,
Speaker 2: they'll see it on our YouTube when the dot comes out.
Speaker 2: But basically it was shooting out the front but from
Speaker 2: the back right, so it was like you can see
Speaker 2: my head, you can see the driver's head. But I
Speaker 2: think the shake is what actually made it work, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense. For some reason with filmmaking, it kind
Speaker 2: of hard to show how fast something is actually going right,
Speaker 2: and like the shake kind of made it work.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it's like the classic thing also, like you
Speaker 4: know slow motion for example, as soon as you're filming
Speaker 4: a car, slow motion is like the worst thing ever.
Speaker 4: Just it doesn't suddenly it just doesn't look it doesn't
Speaker 4: look great. It just looks just looks like very slow
Speaker 4: and boring. You want to be able to have a
Speaker 4: little bit of shake, a little bit of speed. You
Speaker 4: want to be able to communicate like that level of Yeah,
Speaker 4: just pure speed and violence, like going down the work road.
Speaker 4: I mean literally the car is like going at a
Speaker 4: ridiculous speed down a mountain pass, and like you don't
Speaker 4: want so much and you don't want like really controlled footage.
Speaker 5: You want something that's going to convey that. You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely in terms of like the cars themselves, Like
Speaker 2: what did you make of that?
Speaker 3: For me? I just couldn't quite believe how much they'd
Speaker 3: taken it apart.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was quite crazy on the way to that toga,
Speaker 4: Like we were in different cars, whonn't we? And I
Speaker 4: was like in with this other lad and he had
Speaker 4: it literally bare bones, like bare bare bones, Like even
Speaker 4: the gearstick was just like straight metal pole.
Speaker 5: There was nothing even on top. It was like just
Speaker 5: there and this, I mean it just felt unreal.
Speaker 4: I was like, surely you need more in this than
Speaker 4: like basically a seat rollcageing gearstick, and steering wheel like
Speaker 4: that was respectively. It even like the speedometer like didn't
Speaker 4: have like a plastic it was just like open.
Speaker 2: Any difference, but that's great, like just in case it's
Speaker 2: like a feather's weight. Fucking I the guy I was,
Speaker 2: it didn't There was no panels on the door, so
Speaker 2: the door handle was just like a wire like it was.
Speaker 2: It was absolutely mental, like all the backseats ripped out
Speaker 2: like everything. What was there anything that kind of like
Speaker 2: surprised you maybe you didn't expect from these people.
Speaker 5: I think like.
Speaker 4: Often I think it's kind of away touched on, but
Speaker 4: like it's kind of like when you go into these
Speaker 4: worlds often you get a certain type of person. And
Speaker 4: I just felt like, more so than ever with this story,
Speaker 4: the people engaging with it were just so your standard
Speaker 4: Joe kind of guy, like just surprisingly so like they
Speaker 4: weren't in any way like trying to be hard or
Speaker 4: like gangsters, and they were just like ordinary guys. Like
Speaker 4: a lot of them like video games and stuff, and
Speaker 4: they were just doing these crazy races but they weren't.
Speaker 4: They didn't feel like they didn't fulfill the persona of
Speaker 4: like an outlaw as much as some of the other
Speaker 4: stories that we've done. They just were ordinary guys and
Speaker 4: that was quite surprising. I to it sometimes like super sweet,
Speaker 4: like nice guys, like they weren't. There was no ego,
Speaker 4: there was no like trying to trying to be a
Speaker 4: hard guy. They were just just loved racing these cars.
Speaker 4: And yeah, that was quite surprising.
Speaker 3: Yeah that from me as well.
Speaker 2: Like even that like yakuza guy we met was still nice,
Speaker 2: you know, like he was a chill guy until he
Speaker 2: kind of, you know, vanished. I was almost expecting some
Speaker 2: kind of like petrol head vibe like you maybe have
Speaker 2: in the UK, but literally literally none was like that.
Speaker 2: Even Park Like he was so sweet. I feel like
Speaker 2: he really longed for the days of it, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And you could tell that was a part of it,
Speaker 4: like the history to it was. Everyone really respected that
Speaker 4: as well. It was like it was almost like this
Speaker 4: on a code of like respect towards the history of
Speaker 4: Kanjo and the people that had done it before them
Speaker 4: and stuff like, And that was cool as well.
Speaker 3: What did you make of Japan is your first time there? Right?
Speaker 3: Me as well?
Speaker 5: Yeah, wicked so cool. I mean it was like, you know,
Speaker 5: a culture shop, but in the best possible way. It
Speaker 5: was like just brilliant. It was like you were discovering
Speaker 5: something new on every street corner, a different way of
Speaker 5: doing it.
Speaker 4: Whether it was like you know, typography, colors, like they
Speaker 4: just did everything different.
Speaker 5: Like I remember when we first got.
Speaker 4: On the Tube, it was like the color system was
Speaker 4: just so crazily different to what we would expect in Europe,
Speaker 4: and you know, having like little cartoon character chures like
Speaker 4: used in signage everywhere, and like it was just, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's just so different, isn't it. Like, and that's fun
Speaker 4: to walk around and just discover those things. I feel
Speaker 4: like often when you travel a lot, that doesn't happen
Speaker 4: so much anymore. I remember when I was younger and
Speaker 4: I went to India and I found that like a
Speaker 4: real culture shock as well. And I think this is
Speaker 4: the only other time I've had that where it was like,
Speaker 4: oh wow, like this really feels like I'm like I'm
Speaker 4: traveling and I'm somewhere far like far from home.
Speaker 5: It was cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: I think with the way like everything's so globalized now,
Speaker 2: you can see the other side of the world in
Speaker 2: the click of a button. It's almost like you've been
Speaker 2: somewhere before, or even if you haven't. But for me,
Speaker 2: even though I've been looking at Japanese culture and whatever,
Speaker 2: probably my whole life, like being fascinated from very young
Speaker 2: due to like manga and anime and all of that
Speaker 2: kind of cool stuff, it did feel like a completely
Speaker 2: new place to me. And one thing that I just
Speaker 2: couldn't get my head around was like we were in
Speaker 2: kind of like what was like would be considered like
Speaker 2: the hood, but you know that really cheap little spot
Speaker 2: we had. People were saying, that's like a very relatively
Speaker 2: poor area for a saka, but it was absolutely lovely,
Speaker 2: Like no one had to change their bike up, everybody
Speaker 2: said hello, there was no trash on the floor, no,
Speaker 2: nothing like that.
Speaker 3: And the thing that got me was like everything worked.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 4: And like we remember like we got on that we
Speaker 4: got on the tube for the first time, like literally
Speaker 4: it was it was just spotless, like you could eat
Speaker 4: it the off. It was that clean and going, you know,
Speaker 4: twelve hours before like getting getting off the London Tube
Speaker 4: to go to heater, and it's just feel that you
Speaker 4: sit down, a cloud of dust comes up, and it's
Speaker 4: just such a difference, even on the micro as well
Speaker 4: as the macro.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, I think as well, the the kind of
Speaker 2: culture of the bath houses, like we absolutely ended up loving.
Speaker 2: I think they called it the Center right, Like the
Speaker 2: first I was I don't want to go there. It's
Speaker 2: kind of seems a bit weird. Whatever, day one loved it,
Speaker 2: absolutely in love with it. The total difference of like
Speaker 2: bath house culture versus like, you know, extreme speed street racing.
Speaker 3: It kind of said it all for me. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And they had that wild treatment in there where
Speaker 5: you got electrocuted.
Speaker 3: Remember that, that was, mate, I hate that. I was
Speaker 3: terrified that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was an old fellow said like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: like going there it's relaxing or something, and it turns
Speaker 2: out it was.
Speaker 3: A fucking electrocution. Man. It was terrifying, and he's laughing
Speaker 3: at me. I was like, yeah, thanks, mate, fucking horror.
Speaker 3: What was the point of it?
Speaker 5: Relaxed yours? You just got your love and balls absolutely
Speaker 5: sucked up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, like zapped by lightning.
Speaker 6: That.
Speaker 2: I hated that, mate, It was horrible. Now, it's a
Speaker 2: very weird thing. The strange bit for me though as well.
Speaker 2: When we went to like was it Kyoto for the
Speaker 2: day and like everyone it was just American like irl streamers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was just weird, very strange culture. Plus there definitely.
Speaker 3: One thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you felt this, like, but when
Speaker 2: I when I got home from like our trips, absolutely buzzing. Mate,
Speaker 2: the first time, it sounds like kind of coorney, but
Speaker 2: the first time I got in my car, Mate, I
Speaker 2: was like flying along the motorway back from the thing,
Speaker 2: and I was like, you know, I don't have like
Speaker 2: from v Tech in my car or anything like that,
Speaker 2: but I was absolutely buzzing about a week.
Speaker 3: I don't know, did you feel anything like that.
Speaker 5: Oh, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 4: Actually, since we've come back from Japan, the number of
Speaker 4: speeding tickets I've got.
Speaker 5: Is actually it's actually ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's just a coincidence, but maybe
Speaker 4: that's the lasting effect the hangover of Japan.
Speaker 5: I'm just like thinking that I'm on the Canja.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that says it all.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: What a trip though? It was great.
Speaker 4: It was just like a very very unique trip and experience,
Speaker 4: and I think like it's definitely stayed with me like
Speaker 4: maybe not racing the car, but like just I think
Speaker 4: about it a lot because and then if people ask me, like, oh,
Speaker 4: what's one trip that you you know you really enjoyed
Speaker 4: it was really cool for you?
Speaker 5: That one I definitely mentioned because it's like it.
Speaker 4: Is, it was sorry, just very unique in the way
Speaker 4: that I experienced it, Like it definitely has stayed with me.
Speaker 2: Just lastly, like, what what did you feel when we
Speaker 2: went up that mountain past and we're like halfway up
Speaker 2: there and they're like, yeah, we're going to go now
Speaker 2: what what were you feeling when you were in the car?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: I think when you were a kid and you're first
Speaker 4: like going a roller coaster, like proper roller coaster, and
Speaker 4: you don't really know what to expect, but you're like
Speaker 4: should I do it?
Speaker 5: Shouldn't I do it?
Speaker 4: And you end up like getting in the seat with
Speaker 4: your older brother or something, and like the seat belt
Speaker 4: straps in and you're like, do you know what? Actually
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get off, and it's like, no, mate, it's
Speaker 4: too late. You're what was hilarious. The funniest thing about
Speaker 4: it is like we were like both said to it,
Speaker 4: like we were like, okay, we just do one.
Speaker 3: We just do one.
Speaker 4: And we raced down the mountain and we came and
Speaker 4: then we like they turned around at the bottom and
Speaker 4: they raised back up and we got back to that like.
Speaker 5: Car park and we were I was like, fuck, thank god,
Speaker 5: that is over. Like that was and I was like
Speaker 5: looking at the drive.
Speaker 4: I was like laughing, like, oh that was thanks man,
Speaker 4: that was amazing, trying to like just unstrap my belts,
Speaker 4: like thank you so much. And he's like no idea
Speaker 4: what I'm saying, just laughing and noddy and he's turning
Speaker 4: the car around. I'm like, oh, thanks man, like can't
Speaker 4: wait to get out of here. And he starts reading
Speaker 4: the engine and they will start lining up and I'm
Speaker 4: like no, no, no, and then off again and it's
Speaker 4: like lap number two, not asked for.
Speaker 3: But wait, that same thing, the same thing happened to me.
Speaker 2: Like we're going back up and I think we did
Speaker 2: what like three or something like that, and I went
Speaker 2: back up and again I was like he's gonna stop,
Speaker 2: like I'll just get out, like like thank god I
Speaker 2: survived it. I'm like literally praying in the car and
Speaker 2: he just like I like looked at him and nodded,
Speaker 2: and he nodded, so I thought, right, he's got it
Speaker 2: straight down again, like wam.
Speaker 5: I was literally telling him like stop, like I wanted out.
Speaker 5: He was just nodding, yeah, yeah, He's like yeah, you
Speaker 5: like it.
Speaker 3: I was like no, no, no, like man.
Speaker 2: In the end, I had to like really grab his
Speaker 2: shoulder like not forcibly, but and like get him to
Speaker 2: look at me. And I was doing like the cut
Speaker 2: neck sign like I'm done, I'm done. Oh man, absolutely terrifying.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you.
Speaker 3: What as well.
Speaker 2: The I don't think I've ever felt g force, if
Speaker 2: that makes sense, Like I feel like that's as close
Speaker 2: as it probably gets, you know, in terms of like
Speaker 2: being in the car.
Speaker 4: Yeah, now you mentioned it, Like so I had all
Speaker 4: the cameras raked up, but I also had a camera
Speaker 4: on my lap and I was in the car behind you,
Speaker 4: I think, and my plant's trying to I could shoot
Speaker 4: some bits of.
Speaker 5: Your car through our window, and literally, like before we
Speaker 5: even got to the first turn.
Speaker 4: That was just evidently impossible because I like raised up
Speaker 4: the camera, the g fource hit properly, and it just
Speaker 4: like swung violently to the point where like I almost
Speaker 4: hit the drive and I was like, Nope, not going
Speaker 4: to try that again.
Speaker 5: He looked at me like I was absolutely crazy for trying.
Speaker 3: So were you just shooting out the front window?
Speaker 4: I was trying to Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it was
Speaker 4: very Yeah, I mean we're going so fast. So I
Speaker 4: think a lot of the footage we will use. Its
Speaker 4: just from the GoPro angles to be honest, and the
Speaker 4: and the car and the one that was rigged the
Speaker 4: camera in the back.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I felt as well that the well do you do?
Speaker 2: You tell me, like, I can you work out how
Speaker 2: that race worked? Like I don't know who was first,
Speaker 2: who was second? Like did you work it out?
Speaker 5: No idea?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 5: Maybe time?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: It was just like he was.
Speaker 2: I think he was saying that when you when you
Speaker 2: get to the bottom, it's like you you ever can
Speaker 2: quickly spin around and get the next spot. But it
Speaker 2: like it didn't make any sense to me. I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: it was absolutely crazy to me. It was quite an
Speaker 2: experience and I'm glad we've fucking lived through it.
Speaker 3: How far do you reckon?
Speaker 2: It was on you, you know the other side of
Speaker 2: like that little fence, like if you went off that
Speaker 2: I mean you know I've been saying throughout this series
Speaker 2: it was certain death like it was right for.
Speaker 4: Sure, for sure, it was like yeah, Ravine like it
Speaker 4: was Treed Cliff like it was yeah, you're not coming
Speaker 4: back if you went off that.
Speaker 2: No, definitely not all right, Mat, Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for coming along for that was absolutely mental.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no worries man until the next one.
Speaker 3: Yes, mate.
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