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Ive listened to almost every one of his podcasts with riders and i love them. He does bait these guys a little though. Especially when hes talking about the bikes. He tells them ". If you were on a factory Honda, you wouldve won right? Everybody knows you couldn't win if you didnt have a Honda". And the riders usually love the excuse and embrace it. Oh yeah if i had Stantons bike i smoke him. Really Matiasevich? Only Denny Stephenson said, "you know, i gotta say, my Suzuki was the best bike in 1990..,". He didnt let matthes tell him his bike was shit
That's like taking all the effort and skill out of being an interviewer and placing the entire burden of intrigue on the interviewee.
I found it interesting that during the Jerry Bernardo podcast, Jerry specifically commented about this as being poor interviewing and it's what Matthes does a lot of (although to his credit he's getting a lot better at avoiding it).
Now if we can only get Steve to not talk over his interviewees. (you guys hear the Max Anstie MXdN pulpcast?)
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it tends to train the riders to respond to those questions with the same memorised autopilot answer.
I mean Matthes isnt perfect. i noticed a couple times hes made a moment a bit awkward, or ignored something someone said and started talking about something else. but fuck im sure if i was in his shoes thered be a list of things people notice i do "wrong"
His show and his usual suspects that join it are great. Him, JT and Weege could be the Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May of anything moto. I really enjoy Weege on the offroad side and really think the show can trickle over to more on the offroad pros side. Theres a lot of GNCC or Enduro riders Id really love to listen to. The shows theyve done so far with Offroad guys have been great!!
also the first time i heard some of those custom commercials i was laughing. the toto africa remix was awesome good for you Matthes
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