Matthes, Gypsy, GL8 Drama 🍿

6/14/2025 9:38am

It’s a shame Aaron didn’t reply with: 


“Eli to KTM? Is that confirmed?? What a dumb question- come back to me when & if that gets confirmed.”

 

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6/14/2025 9:39am
dboivin wrote:
GL says stuff usually unfiltered. nothin wrong with that IMO. i think steve should go back to canada and try to reach the success he has...

GL says stuff usually unfiltered. nothin wrong with that IMO. i think steve should go back to canada and try to reach the success he has here. kinda sucks that he hates on so much shit here the minute he talked politics on his public profile (twitter) i tuned him out which was years ago. hopper is a toolbox too. only one i would consider a journalist is weege. and ping is an amazing writer. very gifted IMO. 

Ping is quite political on his socials as well..

Ping is quite political on his socials as well..



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Ping reminds me of AB. Maybe some CTE issues there. 

 

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6/14/2025 9:41am
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That would suck if GL is broke, didn’t he just open a sandwich shop in Murrieta?

Booze, pills, living an unsustainable life style and divorce can leave you broke 

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Man, 15yrs away from moto boards and nothing has changed. 🤣

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6/14/2025 9:52am

Imagine being Hopper and asking a question that's disrespectful to Eli, and then going on Vital and posting about it again to cause even more drama, while thinking no1 knows your Vital name.

 

That's some A grade loser shit

 

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motokiwi wrote:
Imagine being Hopper and asking a question that's disrespectful to Eli, and then going on Vital and posting about it again to cause even more drama...

Imagine being Hopper and asking a question that's disrespectful to Eli, and then going on Vital and posting about it again to cause even more drama, while thinking no1 knows your Vital name.

 

That's some A grade loser shit

 

How is that question disrespectful to Eli in any way? Wtf

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6/14/2025 10:00am Edited Date/Time 6/14/2025 10:03am
Mavetism wrote:

How is that question disrespectful to Eli in any way? Wtf

Because obviously he has test ridden the KTM, that goes against his Yami contract.

Also he is currently signed with Yami who have done him a solid and it's seen as déclassé to talk about your next contract until the current one is finished.

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6/14/2025 10:08am
Herr Lich wrote:

Please, please can people stop referring to these individuals as journalists. Most of them can barely write, let alone be called journalists. It's insulting to journalism. 

Bro, gypsy's latest pod he literally says he journals every morning now. Bro is so fucking evolved. Hes basically the fucking buddha, and he journals. Cant say he's not a journalist. come on bro. Brought to you by a multivitamin dumped in water. AG1. Heard theres a trend to piss in your own face about to be launched. Soo next level bro. 

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“Far left liberal shit”

Yeah, far left, with such opinions as “do your thing, I’ll do my thing, and we’ll all like supercross.” Truly radical stuff. lol

This is what always baffles me when they call him far left. He's about the clearest cut example of a centrist there is, he's an entrepreneur who advocates for hustling/doing unpaid work/living in a van until you can seize opportunity when it presents itself, lives in the national capitol of capitalism/consumerism, and holds some socially liberal views. If that's not the middle, what is?

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6/14/2025 10:59am

@Pulpmx is an a hole. Johnny Hopper is awesome. GL is a badass. 

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“When you little scamps get together, you’re worse than a sewing circle.” - Mia Wallace, Pulp FictionVitards, having a thread about moto journalists having drama........75% of...

“When you little scamps get together, you’re worse than a sewing circle.” - Mia Wallace, Pulp Fiction

Vitards, having a thread about moto journalists having drama........75% of VitalMX posters are nothing but drama queens. True story.

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Maybe one day day Vitards will be as cool as you, Hand Luke



 

Not a chance.........

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6/14/2025 11:08am
Motodude wrote:

Man, 15yrs away from moto boards and nothing has changed. 🤣

Were you thinking they would?

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6/14/2025 12:14pm Edited Date/Time 6/14/2025 12:14pm
Money wrote:

Just shows you the type  of person he really is 

neysbo wrote:
Yep, Jerry sticks to his good ole Midwest American values, just cause Steve does good thing for privateers does not mean you have to support his...

Yep, Jerry sticks to his good ole Midwest American values, just cause Steve does good thing for privateers does not mean you have to support his far left liberal shit.

“Far left liberal shit”

Yeah, far left, with such opinions as “do your thing, I’ll do my thing, and we’ll all like supercross.” Truly radical stuff. lol

To them not being 100000% behind whatever trump says at all times no questions asked even if it directly contradicts the last thing he said is far left. 

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“Far left liberal shit”

Yeah, far left, with such opinions as “do your thing, I’ll do my thing, and we’ll all like supercross.” Truly radical stuff. lol

davis224 wrote:
This is what always baffles me when they call him far left. He's about the clearest cut example of a centrist there is, he's an entrepreneur...

This is what always baffles me when they call him far left. He's about the clearest cut example of a centrist there is, he's an entrepreneur who advocates for hustling/doing unpaid work/living in a van until you can seize opportunity when it presents itself, lives in the national capitol of capitalism/consumerism, and holds some socially liberal views. If that's not the middle, what is?

Because he doesn't wear a red MAGA hat and worship the orange cult leader, that's their problem, just like the idiot who posted that he tuned Steve out when he got political but loves Ping even though Ping is way more political than Steve has ever been. Americans always go on about free speech but it's obvious they only care about free speech if they agree with it, if they don't agree with it they all want him to shut up or fuck off back to Canada.

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Deegan joins in on the fun. 

Deegan joins in on the fun. 
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“Dude uses his platform to try to intimidate riders that don’t have his beliefs”

How crazy cooks is this conspiracy theory crowd!! Deegan senior now making up crap just to add fuel on the fire. Why are so many of them people,  like Deegan - who constantly tries to preach his ideology to others, even making his son pay respect to child molestor/human traffickers on the podium - but when someone has a different political opinion (which has nothing to do with the sport) these peoplw always try to politicize everything. scary to live in a world where everything is dictated by ideology, what a waste of lifetime.

Dude uses his platform to try to intimidate riders that don’t have his beliefs”… but this takes the cake and wins it all! “intimidates riders” 🤣🤣🤣🤣😱

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6/14/2025 12:39pm Edited Date/Time 6/14/2025 12:43pm

The post is now deleted. Probably smart by Grant but I don’t understand how you can’t stand behind what you post and have to delete it? To me that shows you don’t have the balls to back up your beliefs or claims.  But it’s today’s society in a nutshell. Caused a lot of havoc nevertheless which was the point behind it. 
 

To me this is just so silly and immature, really sensitive persons involved. 

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6/14/2025 12:44pm
Mavetism wrote:

How is that question disrespectful to Eli in any way? Wtf

motokiwi wrote:
Because obviously he has test ridden the KTM, that goes against his Yami contract.Also he is currently signed with Yami who have done him a solid...

Because obviously he has test ridden the KTM, that goes against his Yami contract.

Also he is currently signed with Yami who have done him a solid and it's seen as déclassé to talk about your next contract until the current one is finished.

Yamaha knows he’s leaving, since THEY are not resigning him. Soooo… not sure what the issue is. 

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The post is now deleted. Probably smart by Grant but I don’t understand how you can’t stand behind what you post and have to delete it...

The post is now deleted. Probably smart by Grant but I don’t understand how you can’t stand behind what you post and have to delete it? To me that shows you don’t have the balls to back up your beliefs or claims.  But it’s today’s society in a nutshell. Caused a lot of havoc nevertheless which was the point behind it. 
 

To me this is just so silly and immature, really sensitive persons involved. 

Guess he sobered up. 

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The post is now deleted. Probably smart by Grant but I don’t understand how you can’t stand behind what you post and have to delete it...

The post is now deleted. Probably smart by Grant but I don’t understand how you can’t stand behind what you post and have to delete it? To me that shows you don’t have the balls to back up your beliefs or claims.  But it’s today’s society in a nutshell. Caused a lot of havoc nevertheless which was the point behind it. 
 

To me this is just so silly and immature, really sensitive persons involved. 

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Guess he sobered up. 

My thought also but didn’t want to say that as I believe GL is in need of help for it. But it’s definitely not a excuse for him. I think sober he’s also not a good guy. 

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“Far left liberal shit”

Yeah, far left, with such opinions as “do your thing, I’ll do my thing, and we’ll all like supercross.” Truly radical stuff. lol

davis224 wrote:
This is what always baffles me when they call him far left. He's about the clearest cut example of a centrist there is, he's an entrepreneur...

This is what always baffles me when they call him far left. He's about the clearest cut example of a centrist there is, he's an entrepreneur who advocates for hustling/doing unpaid work/living in a van until you can seize opportunity when it presents itself, lives in the national capitol of capitalism/consumerism, and holds some socially liberal views. If that's not the middle, what is?

MX690 wrote:
Because he doesn't wear a red MAGA hat and worship the orange cult leader, that's their problem, just like the idiot who posted that he tuned...

Because he doesn't wear a red MAGA hat and worship the orange cult leader, that's their problem, just like the idiot who posted that he tuned Steve out when he got political but loves Ping even though Ping is way more political than Steve has ever been. Americans always go on about free speech but it's obvious they only care about free speech if they agree with it, if they don't agree with it they all want him to shut up or fuck off back to Canada.

https://www.vitalmx.com/features/PING,6943

Funny to read now afterwards with what we know now. I don’t care if your right or left, everyone has the right to their political beliefs. But when you can’t be friends or even get along with someone because they have different political views then you then your the problem no matter left or right. I’m far more right but here I’m talking about ping being a hypocrite saying Steve was the one who couldn’t stay friends because of political views. Both Ping and Gl think anyone that isn’t extremists like them are leftist.

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Nystrom wrote:
My thought also but didn’t want to say that as I believe GL is in need of help for it. But it’s definitely not a excuse...

My thought also but didn’t want to say that as I believe GL is in need of help for it. But it’s definitely not a excuse for him. I think sober he’s also not a good guy. 

Saw that he liked his own post and then got a lot of backlash in the comments section so I guess he took the easy way out. 

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Ping is quite political on his socials as well..

Ping is quite political on his socials as well..



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Wow, that's bad. I thought Matthes was being a little overboard about Pings politics. He's right, dudes a nut. That's 'Boomer who ingested too much lead' level of partisan hack hypocrisy.

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Ping is quite political on his socials as well..

Ping is quite political on his socials as well..



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ADynes wrote:
Wow, that's bad. I thought Matthes was being a little overboard about Pings politics. He's right, dudes a nut. That's 'Boomer who ingested too much lead'...

Wow, that's bad. I thought Matthes was being a little overboard about Pings politics. He's right, dudes a nut. That's 'Boomer who ingested too much lead' level of partisan hack hypocrisy.

These guys are nuts. Scary.

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It’s pretty inter3sting that Gypsie allied himself with that group. I understand the MX podcast wars, it’s a very small market, they’re all hunting for the sem ads budget and in tiny micro-demographic like this, they’re don’t bring new sponsors, new ad clients, they can only make it by stealing budget from the other medias, other podcast guys. So makes sense that jealousy, ad budget, personality differences, guys like Gypsie acts like a hyena everytime he can get an opportunity to attack Matthes. 
It’s the sad thing with these micro-demographic markets, they’re businesses don’t bring new customers, they don’t growth the pie, they just keep dividing and stealing from the same pie.

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davis224 wrote:
This is what always baffles me when they call him far left. He's about the clearest cut example of a centrist there is, he's an entrepreneur...

This is what always baffles me when they call him far left. He's about the clearest cut example of a centrist there is, he's an entrepreneur who advocates for hustling/doing unpaid work/living in a van until you can seize opportunity when it presents itself, lives in the national capitol of capitalism/consumerism, and holds some socially liberal views. If that's not the middle, what is?

MX690 wrote:
Because he doesn't wear a red MAGA hat and worship the orange cult leader, that's their problem, just like the idiot who posted that he tuned...

Because he doesn't wear a red MAGA hat and worship the orange cult leader, that's their problem, just like the idiot who posted that he tuned Steve out when he got political but loves Ping even though Ping is way more political than Steve has ever been. Americans always go on about free speech but it's obvious they only care about free speech if they agree with it, if they don't agree with it they all want him to shut up or fuck off back to Canada.

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https://www.vitalmx.com/features/PING,6943Funny to read now afterwards with what we know now. I don’t care if your right or left, everyone has the right to their political...

https://www.vitalmx.com/features/PING,6943

Funny to read now afterwards with what we know now. I don’t care if your right or left, everyone has the right to their political beliefs. But when you can’t be friends or even get along with someone because they have different political views then you then your the problem no matter left or right. I’m far more right but here I’m talking about ping being a hypocrite saying Steve was the one who couldn’t stay friends because of political views. Both Ping and Gl think anyone that isn’t extremists like them are leftist.

This is a reasonable post on pings part of taken at face value. We don't have Matthes side, obviously, but I would contend saying anything critical about Kavanaugh given what little substantive evidence there actually was against him, is grounds for suspicion and Ping is reasonable for calling it out. Maybe there are other reasons Matthes didn't return pings call, but I don't think you can find fault with what he wrote. 

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I like Steve’s content but definitely disagree with his personal and political views. I think for the most part he provides good content. I think where...

I like Steve’s content but definitely disagree with his personal and political views. I think for the most part he provides good content. I think where things went south in the last couple weeks was the whole supercross pride post and Steve sticking up for them saying “sorry if your gay and you like supercross and you had to witness some of the top riders bash you”. I think that pissed off a lot of people (GL8, Ping, Deegan) so that with the comment about Hopper probably made them pop there top. I think when you operate a business in the public’s eye you should try and keep your personal and political views to yourself. We live in a day and age where if you say anything like that you immediately loose have your followers. I feel more than less of the industry is of republican views so that’s why it looks like people are ganging up on Steve. Again all this could be avoided if you just don’t comment on shit like Gay Pride month or Trump or Biden. Like I said before my beliefs don’t line up with Steve’s at all but if he just kept it professional and didn’t comment on the other shit it would be smoother sailing. Saying things like Deegs rips but he’s a real ass hole on the podium I 100% support because it’s relevant to our sport and is true. But commenting about political shit or getting in to a middle school argument calling someone out for being broke just makes you look just as dumb and the people your arguing with. 

Well, it you're following your own logic the riders Steve is calling out shouldn't have been commenting on the Pride stuff either. You could say it involves moto because it was a post from SMX in which case the riders are discussing moto related topics. Further, Steve commenting on their comments is also moto related. In reality it is political.

Leaving that aside, I found it outrageous that in this day and age people could be that bothered by gay people. Further, there is not a single major sport or motorsport in the world in which top or former top athletes would could out and say that stuff. I'm surprised the companies they worked for didn't sanction them. I wouldn't advocate that by the way, as I'm not a supporter of cancel culture or cancelling of free speech. 

But as for the riders involved. If they have a problem with being gay, lesbian and so on, I have to ask why and on what basis? If their problem was not with being gay as such, but there being a Pride month, that is a different question. If that is the case they should have put that in their posts. 

If you want to ride a Suzuki, ride. 

 

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I liked the question by hopper.  Maybe some would prefer he asked about track conditions, setup, next weeks race like everyone else?It wasn't out of line...

I liked the question by hopper.  Maybe some would prefer he asked about track conditions, setup, next weeks race like everyone else?

It wasn't out of line in the slightest.

It was only 'out of line' for those waiting in the 'deepthroat' lines leading into the trucks. 

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Ping is quite political on his socials as well..

Ping is quite political on his socials as well..



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ADynes wrote:
Wow, that's bad. I thought Matthes was being a little overboard about Pings politics. He's right, dudes a nut. That's 'Boomer who ingested too much lead'...

Wow, that's bad. I thought Matthes was being a little overboard about Pings politics. He's right, dudes a nut. That's 'Boomer who ingested too much lead' level of partisan hack hypocrisy.

Shenzi wrote:

These guys are nuts. Scary.

Yeah man nuts as they come…. He’s posting memes, so so scary.

 LOL

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MX690 wrote:
Because he doesn't wear a red MAGA hat and worship the orange cult leader, that's their problem, just like the idiot who posted that he tuned...

Because he doesn't wear a red MAGA hat and worship the orange cult leader, that's their problem, just like the idiot who posted that he tuned Steve out when he got political but loves Ping even though Ping is way more political than Steve has ever been. Americans always go on about free speech but it's obvious they only care about free speech if they agree with it, if they don't agree with it they all want him to shut up or fuck off back to Canada.

Nystrom wrote:
https://www.vitalmx.com/features/PING,6943Funny to read now afterwards with what we know now. I don’t care if your right or left, everyone has the right to their political...

https://www.vitalmx.com/features/PING,6943

Funny to read now afterwards with what we know now. I don’t care if your right or left, everyone has the right to their political beliefs. But when you can’t be friends or even get along with someone because they have different political views then you then your the problem no matter left or right. I’m far more right but here I’m talking about ping being a hypocrite saying Steve was the one who couldn’t stay friends because of political views. Both Ping and Gl think anyone that isn’t extremists like them are leftist.

Tyler D wrote:
This is a reasonable post on pings part of taken at face value. We don't have Matthes side, obviously, but I would contend saying anything critical...

This is a reasonable post on pings part of taken at face value. We don't have Matthes side, obviously, but I would contend saying anything critical about Kavanaugh given what little substantive evidence there actually was against him, is grounds for suspicion and Ping is reasonable for calling it out. Maybe there are other reasons Matthes didn't return pings call, but I don't think you can find fault with what he wrote. 

If I remember correctly Steve versions why not having Ping on the show was that he was demanding a lot of money compared to others hosts at the time. Obviously we will never know the real reason 100% but it’s word against word and it’s Steve’s show so he decides who he has on and if that hurt Ping maybe someone should check their ego. 

I liked Ping earlier, but he’s been a really sensitive and whiny the last years. The Roczen bike debacle was such a shit show and how he hates Ken since then. 

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I think this is all more than a little weird. These men are adults, if they have differences they could speak to one another about it...

I think this is all more than a little weird. These men are adults, if they have differences they could speak to one another about it rather than air it to the public. It seems they are all desperately seeking affirmation from the public, despite the fact that the vast majority gives very little shit about any of them. The talk of professionalism is so laughable from this group. Jace can't interview anyone without spewing profanities every third word and using the word dude as a verb, noun, and adjective. While Matthes has Keefer on his show often times nonstop jerk off talking and being that creepy middle aged creatin hiding under stairs at the high school looking up girls' skirts. Please if any of you weirdo podcasters are reading this, and I think you do, you are all just the clowns of the circus of pro motocross and your chosen career is to entertain us, nothing more. Please do not tell us whom of your competitors you approve of or not, most of us do not care.

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