Crime in Sports - #411 - Crashing Your Life - Hector Barbera

Episode Date: June 4, 2024

This week, we check out a seemingly crazy guy, in a VERY crazy sport. This man races motorcycles at almost 200 MPH, and has the scars, steel plates & screws in his body, to prove it! Off the track, he beats up his girlfriend, sending her to jail, too. He also can't stop drinking while driving without a license, and finally begins his apparent next career as a thief, and fraudster!Come from Spain, all the way to Kentucky, follow your mom into the world of motorcycle racing, and do crazier things, in your everyday life than racing a motorcycle with Hector Barbera!!Check us out, every Tuesday!We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: [e-mail] Get all the CIS & STM merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS & STM!!  Contact us on... twitter.com/crimeinsports [e-mail] facebook.com/Crimeinsports instagram.com/smalltownmurderSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Let's get right to it here. Okay with our asshole of the week. His name is Hector Hector Barbera is his last name, but then he's from Spain So he's got a another last name that he doesn't use. The sister Hannah. Yeah, Val is his last name. Yeah, Barbera, exactly. Val is his last name, V-A-L-L, but he goes by Hector Barbera. So here we go. He is from Spain, Dos Aguas, Spain.

So two waters. Two waters. Yeah, both of them. Not just one, two. Maybe between two rivers or some shit like that. I don't know. He's born November 2nd, 1986. Oh, young man.

A younger guy, yeah. Now, he's from Spain, and this is weird with his early life because it's hard to find out a lot about his early life because his sport, he's a motorcycle racer. What kind of motorcycle? I don't fucking know. The motorcycles, where they go, and when they make the turns they're like laying on the ground. Those motorcycles, we're like, their physics can't, they're defying all sorts of physics when they're doing that. Those are wild.

Those people are insane. Yeah. Insane. To take one turn like that, you're like, that, you're gonna fucking die. There's no way you're gonna be safe doing that that's crazy speed that they do it and they whip that motorcycle like crazy it's crazy I mean there's a lot of motorsports where you see crashes none more than this one constant and there's nothing protecting them they crash they just fly off in another direction and fucking you literally see people pinwheeling through the air you're like

holy shit this is like they have a cage of some sort on their on their person underneath their their uniform that has like I mean there's skid plates and some some football padding I think yeah how much can you have well no when you're pinwheeling fucking right 18 feet into the air and you fly 30 yards that way and land you're it doesn't matter what you're wearing. Yeah, yeah. Bones are breaking. Yeah, your bones are breaking.

The impact of it's bad. Whiplash and neck problems. You're going to hit your head even though you have a fucking helmet on. It's still bad. And you're moving 200 miles an hour. It's crazy. This is one of those sports that if you grew up, you know, were like a little kid in the 80s.

Remember when ESPN didn't have a lot of programming? So they'd play like shit like this and you'd be like, I guess I'll watch this. That's how I know this exists. And I'd be like, what the fuck is wrong with these guys? Their knee is like two inches off the ground. Some of them, they have the pad so their knee touches the ground as they go. They just fucking crazy. So that's what I mean.

It's hard to find early stuff on him because it's not like he's a mainstream star, but in multiple places say the same thing, that this is very strange. His parents' names are Earl and Rose. Is that right? Which is not the most Spanish names you've ever heard. For España. And he apparently, when he was a little kid,

they moved to Kentucky, which is where your Earls and your Roses live. So that makes sense. That's true, yeah. Hotbed of Spanish culture too. That's what you want. Usually you bring small Spanish children and you really put them in Owensburg, Kentucky, because I believe that's where it was.

Yeah, it's Owensburg, Kentucky. So you know, that's a little odd anyway. There's five kids in all. He's the middle child. He's the third of five, Hector. And I guess everybody's into motor sports and his family. So this guy's like, I want to drive a motorcycle super fast and take these turns where you're practically laying on the ground. And his parents were like, that's good. It's good to have ambition.

Whereas most parents would say, fucking you're out of your mind. No, your dad does something so I'm gonna get after it. That's so strange. So Owensboro, would I say Owensburg? I meant Owensboro. Yeah, Owensboro. Which is also Johnny Depp's hometown as well. I was just going to say, I think that's the one.

That son of a bitch tries to act all French on us. You're from Kentucky, motherfucker. Hey, you know what all this European? Influence of people moving into Owensboro. Who knows if there's just a constant We don't know what kind of shuttle system is going behind beyond, you know, Western Europe and fucking and Owensboro, Kentucky It might be where all the expats are we don't know Fascinating as shit. We need to go there and find out. So his parents, and I say plural, both parents raced dirt track. Mom was a dirt track racer.

Dirt track in a car? No, motorcycles. Wow. So think about this. How many Spanish, how many parents in Spain are named Earl and Rose and do dirt track racing? Is that your normal Spanish upbringing? I've never heard of that before. How many of your moms do dirt track racing? It's so fucking weird.

So he started to race, Hector did at age 12. He starts racing, which is I think about right. That's what kids really get into that sort of thing. You start riding a 50 right around four or five years old probably. Yeah, my little nephew Che is five and he is, he tears up my back of my, my woods all the time. We made a track and he goes and loves it. He's on his little dirt bike and yeah, he's good. You know, so. PW 50s, the little CRFs, the little Hondas. I mean,

they're very popular for people to have for their kids. And then you can find out the, I don't know, interest they have in it based on one year of riding that damn thing, if they give a shit about it still. They're down low so the fall isn't as far, which is nice. That's helpful. And then you can tell if they're safe enough

to actually have one with a bigger engine. So he began his world championship career at age 15. Hell yeah. 15 in 2002. That's crazy. At the 125 CC World Championship. He's running 125s on the road, like Enduro. Yeah, no, yeah, these are, yeah. Wow. 125s move, man. I had a 125. It's fucking quick.

They'll do 60 miles an hour. Especially with a small 15 year old on it. Yeah, not a lot of weight probably. It's probably not a stock 125 No, no, no, it's juice. Stop built up. It's crazy. So he had a mentor named Jorge Martinez Again, very Kentucky Who Jorge Martinez teamed Hector Barbera up with another kid named Angel Rodriguez Really? I'm telling you I don't know what it is there's all sorts of It's gotta be so much

There and they also hooked him up with an experienced rider named Pablo Nieto So unbelievable He formed a little Spanish triad here with these three guys All three of them, all three of the Spanish guys from Kentucky from Kentucky And in the first season Barbara Hector was the best of all of them He kind of showed himself to be the the class the cream of the class here. So I found 2002 there is There's stats here now. I don't know shit about racing about motorcycle racing But I see that he raced 15 races in 2002 and

he didn't win any, but he had 50 points which placed him 14th in the championship series. Okay. How many points? 50? 50 in 15 races, 14th overall, so that's not terrible I guess. He's averaging better than three points a race, that's not bad. I mean if he's 14th, that's not awful. I don't know how many racers there are.

Hopefully there's not 15. That would be worse, but we don't know. You never know. So I guess when he was 16, now he can actually drive, then he started doing a lot better. He ended up clinching a title at the Daytona 200, not the 500, the 200, becoming the youngest AMA superbike champion in history. Wow. So yeah, he's kind of a shooting star here, this guy.

That's impressive. Good shit. It caught the attention of other teams, and so now bigger teams started kind of wooing him here. Game-winning for him. Yeah, earned him a spot on the Moto GP World Championship with the Rest Bowl Honda Factory team. Oh really, he's riding for Rest Bowl.

So there you go, he's doing alright. That's a damn nice bike. He's doing okay. So 2003, he has 16 races, wins two of them, and has 164 points finishing him third in the championship series. Son of a gun. He's 16 years old. This is 2002, incredible.

If these are like not all other children, then like if there's adults, I'm pissed if a 16 year old's kicking my ass racing. I'm upset about that. If he's racing AMA, he's gotta be racing adults. Well he's the youngest, so there's got to be racing adults. It's got to be, right? Well, he's the youngest, so there's no one else his age, obviously. So he won his first win in 2003, was at Donington Park, making him one of the youngest riders

ever to win a Grand Prix as well. And a strong finish to the season, he's third, so now he's like, holy shit, this is an up and comer in whatever the fuck this sport is. Racing until we die, I guess. Defying death, yeah. Because I feel like you don't just retire because you've had a good career, you retire because you're too injured

to do this anymore, right? Yeah, you retire because you can't shift anymore. Yeah, or your leg was snapped off at the hip and now it doesn't quite work anymore, can't fall again. It's harder to shift. Yeah, harder to shift, exactly. So they said a bunch of crashes and failures, though, derailed his hopes of winning the series.

But the final race secured the runner-up spot and a factory ride with Fortuna Honda in the 250cc class for 2005. Yeah, that's a real fucking bike, man. Those, that's a real bike. No, 2004 he finished second in the series, had four wins and 16 races. So it seems like they do 16.

He also did a couple of, it looks like world races because he won in Japan, in Netherlands, in Great Britain. So this is an international thing here also. He's doing pretty well. That's 2004, he's second. So he goes from 14th to third to second. 2005, he's in the 250cc now. So that's a different, that's obviously twice the fucking-

That's a whole bike, dude. That's fast, those fucking things. People ride those, street bikes. People ride those on the freeway. Yeah, that's a street bike, absolutely. So he does well in this. He has 16 races, no wins, but he finishes ninth in the series in points. So it looks like I have all of his races here.

He finished fifth, 11th, seventh, seventh, sixth, 16th, ninth, eighth, eighth, sixth, seventh, fourth, fifth, and fifth. So it's as high as he's finished. And that was, these are all in different countries too. He's all over the world here. Singapore, Spain, Portugal, China, France, Italy, fucking Netherlands, Great Britain, all over the place. 2006, he wins his first CC, 250 CC race here.

I don't, where is that? If I could find it, where does he win? China, goes to China and wins, yeah. So does that. This year he finishes fifth in Spain, fourth in Qatar, famous for their racing, second in Turkey, first in China, seventh in France. He's kind of full, he had a lot of cheese and butter

and heavy food over there, baguettes and just, it's a lot. Wine, too much. He retired in Italy, so he didn't even finish the race. He was like, I just did a lot last night. I did a lot. Fifth in Great Britain, fifth in Germany, fifth in the Czech Republic, so he's a constant thing, a fifth here, sixth in Australia, seventh in Japan,

tenth in Portugal, and- Wow, what kind of money can this make that- I don't know. He can travel the fucking world like this? Is Restful just, and Honda just needs a write-off and they're just dumping money into this? Well, yeah, that's probably a part of it. And it's also, it's a weird thing. I don't know how business-wise they do this,

because I know they sponsor things in these very niche race worlds to be the go-to thing in that race world, but how much money is in that? You know what I mean? Like to be in it. This can't be fucking millions and millions of dollars. I know that a guy went to high school with one, the Indy or Daytona? I don't know. There's nobody in the stands for these fucking things. Right. But he won a million dollars for the biggest fucking race that there is.

In a car. One million there is. In a car. One million, yeah. In a car, yeah. The team, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. One million, and you probably spent most of that getting there and working the car and all that. Well, it was Letterman's team, but for Honda,

but it was, it's still, I mean, it's a million dollars, and you're supposed to live on that forever? So yeah, I don't know what you could be making here, because to travel to all these different countries, bringing a whole team and motorcycles, and that's a lot. It costs a lot to ship all that shit at it. Sure isn't cheap, yeah.

Yeah, I don't think you can. It's not like here where there's a race in Oklahoma, then there's a race in Nevada. You throw in an 18-wheeler and you drive it. I don't think you can do that when you're going from fucking Qatar to fucking the Czech Republic. You can't even throw that in the back of your pickup truck. You're going to have to ship that.

Definitely not in Australia or Japan, you know what I mean? So you're going to have to float that shit there. So anyway, that year he finished his seventh in 2006 in the overall deal here and won his first race. So he's doing okay. He ends up moving to another team he gets off of Fortuna Honda and moves to team Toth or Toth T-O-T-H either one 2007 Grand Prix motorcycle racing here it's 250cc still no wins this year but five podiums and

he's fifth in the points actually oh so he's fifth in the whole five podiums I guess. That's I guess third. Yeah, because he's third, eighth, sixth, fourth, third, eighth, seventh, sixth, fourth, third, fifth, third, second, fifth. Oh, he got a second, huh? He got a second, yeah. How about that?

In Malaysia, he pulled off a second, so good for him. So he's fifth in the, which I bet the top four probably won a race, all those people. Yeah those people yeah yeah that's not bad he's probably would have to so he's doing great it's 2006 he's only 20 years old wow he's like 20 years old he's the hot up-and-coming hot shot motorcycle racer yeah he's already injured himself a whole bunch I'm gonna show you a couple of his accidents on video by the way So we can watch them because they are

Fucking crazy. They're absolutely bonkers. These fucking actually live after these things. It's crap. I mean dude, they're nuts. Honestly, it's fucking wild So those some of them look like they don't look real It looks like in a like a sketch they show and then they like throw a doll and it like bounces and its leg Flops over its head and shit. That's what they look like. They're in real life. It's fucking crazy. So I'm gonna say here just because This is the next year. He gets in a pretty bad accident. I'm gonna say grace at this point for him He's 20. He's a hot shot motorcycle guy Whatever chicks are in that world. I'm sure he's getting them. Yeah. Yeah, are there all this world hanging around? There's yeah, the pit girls. There's all kind of girls in this. Yeah. Oh, yeah, really like the the the girls that

Sit in pit row and spray fucking champagne on people and stuff. Fuck. Yes for the motorcycle race is interesting. For every, everything that's top tier like this. This is, I mean this is Grand Prix, so this is the top of the heap, you know what I mean? This is real racing. But still even top of the heap, the best you're getting is on like ESPN 4 at three o'clock in the morning, you know what I mean? It's not like there's a,

there's no big TV deal for this. She may be a Hooters girl that is aiming for NASCAR. She's working her way up to boat shows, is what you're saying. She can't wait for drag boats to come through town. Yeah, fingers crossed for Talladega next year. Drag boats. So 2008 in Grand Prix, it's again 250. It's the same team he's on.

He only races 12 races because he gets hurt in a pretty good accident here. Four podiums, two poles, finishes sixth in the points, even though he races much less than everybody else. Two poles. So we qualified first position. Yeah, yeah, I know he's doing great. That's awesome. And I can do I have the I do I have this thing here. Yeah, no wins, but he's second fifth eighth sixth 12th third fourth fifth second fourth third

And then a bunch of after he hurt himself. So here's his deal here. He survived this crash It was during the Italian round of the championship on June 1st, 2008 He was running second behind Marco Simoncelli on the on the last lap here actually, too And the guy was trying to defend his lead but on By changing his line on this like moving around on the straight lines here It says that Hector slipstreamed onto Simoncelli's back wheel and clipped it with his front brake lever

Oh, no his bike fucking flips through the air to Simon Shelley's back wheel and clipped it with his front brake lever. Oh no. His bike fucking flips through the air with somehow Hector not completely killing himself. He escapes somewhat. And the other guy lived too? Yeah, everybody was fine. Wow. He was bracing the next race after Italy.

He was fine. Unbelievable. But then later on, at a practice round, he takes another really bad spill and has two spinal fractures out of it. He's 21. He's got spinal fractures. This crash was at 160 miles an hour on a motorcycle. Think about that.

Nobody survives that. They should have huge like, they the fuck is he doing it? They should have giant crash pads on the side of the track. You know what I mean? Like for stunt men when they jump off buildings, like shit like that they should have for these people. Cause this is crazy. There's stuff for them to crash into all over the place,

but it's not gonna, I mean, it doesn't fucking matter unless the track's a pillow. You're in a lot of trouble. That's. Let me show you. It's a cheese grater. Let me show you. Okay, here, I'll turn this. You see in a lot of trouble. That's, it's a cheese grater. Let me show you. Oh boy.

Okay, here, I'll turn this. You see the whole video? Okay. I'm gonna show you the accident here. This is the one that he didn't get that injured in, by the way. Really? Oh dear God.

He went over the handlebars and landed on his face. Yeah, he went, yeah. That was terrifying looking. How the fuck? I don't even know physically how that crash happened. It looked like his front tire just fucking stopped and then it went over. How the hell does that even happen?

This is fucking crazy. Here's another crash. This is from later on. This is from later on this is from later on but is this a spinal spinal accident i don't think so that was during a practice round oh no well look at him crawl did you know how hurt he is the way he's crawling yeah remember when you got hurt that bad as a kid you just go oh He's programmed. I'm sure to crawl away from the bike in case it catches on fire or something but watch this He just went over watch this shit that flop is nuts. Oh my that's that's him landed right on his back

That's what we didn't see earlier He fucking launched and flipped and the bike landed on him like twice too. Look at this. How does that bike even do that? I don't even know what happened. He did a complete and fucking total flip in the air. Yeah. Landed just right on the fucking road and then had his bike fall on him like three times. He's lucky he didn't land on that peg. It's fucking crazy. There's more coming up here. We'll show you here. Oh boy.

Guys, this sport is insane. This is crazier than the ski jumping that we did, I think. This is more insane. Yeah. Look at this. The motorcycle just exploded upward. How do you do that? Yeah, boom, he popped it.

Yeah, I'd be mad too if I'm in his fist. I don't know how you did it either man. Nobody else fell over How did you fall over? See all the sparks flying and shit too. Yeah, there's eight guys Oh, he just went way down too low. He went down too low. Yeah So there's that one hit the ground Wow, and then here is one more crash. This is from 2015 so I'll save it for when it comes up 2015 All right. This man is he's going too fast and he doesn't know how to do it. Yeah, this is We get guys where they're like, you know, they're NFL players that like contacts

So they have these hard collisions all the time. We're like, yeah, there's a certain mental thing that you know, whatever This is way crazier than anything like that this would be the equivalent of if like if tackling wasn't the thing you were supposed to do no you're supposed to hit the guy with your car that's what it would be like that's that to be the level of danger that we're in this guy is like you're not supposed to fall down man no no doing it and when you do holy shit it looks like the way he crawled away was like, I can't breathe. I can't, you can tell.

The first two accidents didn't even look like, it just looked like the bike exploded and bucked him off. It looked like this is motorcycle riding mixed with rodeo. Yeah, like that was supposed to happen. The bike's just wild, sometimes it just bucks. Like that was supposed to, oh to how long did he last? You start checking your fucking stopwatch Second ride so his crash at a hundred and sixty miles an hour. He says God was looking after him. That's what happened

That's all it was he said he wasn't hurt he said God exists That's all it was. He said he wasn't hurt. He said, God exists. He said, I was going to lead into the last turn and shoot the bike out in a straight line, but I couldn't get close enough going into the turn, so I had to try and slipstream coming out of it. I have no idea what that means at all. He's trying to drift the guy in front of them.

We touched and I fell. We were going very fast and after the fall and lack of serious injury, I believe that God exists and when it's your time, it's your time. When it's not, it's not. Well, you could also add to that by driving 160 miles an hour on a fucking motorcycle while getting an inch away from the ground making turns. There's an old Ron Shock joke of a water skier that was skiing and a duck flew and hit him in the fucking face and killed him. And the family was like, yeah, but if it's your time,

it's your time. And he's like, yeah, but what if it was the duck's time? Yeah, yeah, not yours. What if there's a duck flying across this fucking racetrack and it's the duck's time? You're just collateral damage. and race track and it's the duck stop. You're just collateral damage. So he said, after the fall I was dizzy.

I moved my fingers to see if they were there and they were. That's helpful. Hey, look at that. Hey, looky-loo there. My fingers are out. There's fingers. I was stunned.

I tried to stand up but fell against the wall. Yeah, I would say. If you're doing something that goes awry and then you look to see if there's fingers and you're stunned. You're like, wow. Maybe you shouldn't do this. Yeah, I don't know if he means I was stunned

like I said, as I tried to stand up. So he was like, I fell down. Or if he was like, holy shit, fingers, wiggle wiggle. Look at that. I don't know which one that means. You're stunned you still have fingers. Wow fingers. This ain't the thing for you. Yeah it is mixed Spanish and Kentucky accent which would be the weirdest one of all because

if you took a kid from like five from Spain and put them in Kentucky he'd have a weird accent man that kid would talk funny. He said the race was going so well too. It was one of the easiest of my life right up until I fell. Well yeah, that'll do it every time that guy puts a damper on it. When you, when you tumble like that. So 2009, he races 16 races finishes second in the championship overall wins three races actually. Wow.

So he's pretty badass here. He won the 2009 Valencia Grand Prix, the final two-stroke 250cc race in Grand Prix history. Two-stroke 250cc. Yeah, the class was to be discontinued in favor of the four stroke class in 2010. So in 2009, it was announced that Barbera would move to MotoGP in 2010, riding for the Aspar team aboard Ducati customer bikes. He's riding real shit, man. Real fucking shit, yeah.

They said that he will, it was like a big deal, he's going to graduate to this now, they kept saying. So they announced that they will, that this team's gonna step up to the top class and they've signed a couple other guys and there's also Suzuki in here, I see, and a bunch of other companies. So one of the guys said, or this is Hector, I'm sorry,

I'm very happy to be going to MotoGP to do, to do so is the dream of every rider in the world. As a Valencian rider, I'm especially drawn to the idea of working in the Aspar team project. And the article said, the 22-year-old Spaniard. Said this very young man. Here's his dad, Earl. My little, tell you what, my son, this little Spanish feller here, look at him there, look at him, I'll tell you what, this guy here, he's something else on that track, boy. That just went above and beyond what I ever thought I could be.

Oh Hector, he really gives them heck, you know what I mean? You know, that's why we name them this, he's gonna give them heck, Hector. Right now the Ducati's a very competitive bike and the team and myself have a strong desire to do well. The goal for the first season in the premier class will be to adapt to the new bike and team as soon as possible. Now I'm gonna focus on finishing the season,

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You can binge all episodes of Happily Never After, Dan and Nancy early and ad free right now by joining Wondery Plus. So his boss here, Jose Jorge Martinez, said, it's undoubtedly great news for us to have signed Hector. In our previous association with him, we won the Spanish championship and various 125 CC Grand Prix's and I'm convinced we can have further success. I'm sure the next year we can get some great results and this will be a long team arrangement. Long team arrangement here. And then he says, hopefully Hector can become a factory rider, as this

will mean he will have earned some great results from us. I guess there's the customer. Is there like a, I don't know what that means. Is there different types of bikes? Probably a bike that's for sale. You can buy this particular bike, but then there's the custom one that, I mean, it's so souped up. It's illegal on the road, probably.

Well, they call it, hopefully he can become a factory rider so he's gonna ride the other ones first. The customer riders? The customer rides I guess that's where you start and then you go up to factory rider after that I don't know. Yeah something like that yeah so good year for him though he started out the year with a win and then went to Japan and was 11th 111 411 5 3 2 5 8 7 6 1 3 2 2 1 that's a whole one a bunch of them he won a run then he was third and second in a bunch to the last five races he was 1 3 2 2 1 he's doing not too fucking bad he seems like he's doing his deal here 2010 he wins no races now he's in his deal here. 2010, he wins no races. Now he's in the new.

I assume it would take a while to get used to racing these bikes when you change, you know? Yeah. If you graduate to a new bike that's probably 30, 40 miles per hour, maybe more, faster. Yeah. I mean, when you're going a hundred it feels super fast do 150 and it's it's crazy and then fly off your bike. Yeah That'll make you look for fingers right there. Yeah, holy shit. Yeah in a car a buck 50 would be scary

Yeah, oh my god I've gone pretty fast in a car, but motorcycles, I don't do that shit. No, that's terrifying. That's nuts, man. A pebble, one little, what if you sneeze? Like you're in deep shit. You're going to die. That's how it works.

I dropped a motorcycle at like 30 and petrified. I was not going to ride, I still ride. I'm not going to ride ever again. But you're very like, you're not one of these guys who's just like, yeah, I'm gonna ride it here, ride it there, you're very like, respectful of it. Like, I'm gonna ride this, a minimal amount, not crash. Like, you're very much like.

I'll ride it 30 miles away, have some lunch, and ride it 30 miles back home and park that motherfucker until it's done. And you're happy, because I've talked to you, you're excited that you didn't fuck it up or crash it at all during that time, you're like, oh man, pulled it off. Okay, good. That's good.

Did it again. Yeah, did it again. All right. So this year he finishes 12th in points and doesn't win any races here. He actually doesn't do that great. His races this year, 12-13, 8-12, 11-12, 8 or 10-9, 9-10, nine, 11, 13, 11, 14, 10, eight. So eight is the highest he finishes there. Yeah.

Doesn't do very well there. But I mean, like I said, he's brand new to this. So what are you going to do? Yeah. 2011 though, he still doesn't do as well. He's 11th overall and doesn't win any races either. It looks like sixth is his best to finish this year Yeah, and a lot of 11s and 12s in there seems. I don't see it. I've only seen

113 so I think a lot of these have 12 people in him probably I'm gonna say So he finished in 11th place and it was announced for the 2012 season He was moving to preamac Racing, Pramac Racing, P-R-A-M-A-C Racing for that season, maybe. So 2012 he moves to that. It's the same, a different racing team. He's still riding a Ducati and the same size deal. This year he runs 15 races, finishes 11th in points again.

And again, this year looks like seventh is his best finish. Lot of not even in the top 10. Sometimes you're stuck at a specific skill set, especially with this shit. I think too it's that thing where you get promoted to the point of incompetence and then you stay there. Like you're never kept where you're best, you're always promoted to where you're

being competent. That's why nothing works. There's a lot of bikes on that track. It is. What's the fuck? A lot of guys doing it. What's the name of that thing? Someone has, we've talked about this before, the promoted to your competence. There's a name for it as a theory. And then we've had people, listeners tell us, but I can't fucking remember the name of it now. So, but yeah, that's what I feel like he's got.

He's hit his ceiling. He went from a lot of first and seconds to here now. To 11th, July 22nd, 2012, he undergoes successful surgery on his broken leg. Oh. He's got a pretty bad broken leg here, a fractured left tibia and fibula. That's all of it.

Not both? That's, that's, that's of it. That's the whole thing, right? I think that's the whole thing. He suffered during a training accident. So this is during 2012. He has to immediately have surgery. He had a titanium plate and several screws inserted in the left leg. This is at 25. His leg's going to be fucked up forever. And that's your shifting leg. That's, man, that's brutal, man. So I guess, yeah, they had the leg surgery chief

at the Instituto Universitario USP Dexius, is where he was. University? Universita. The doctor said, the surgery had good result, I'm sure this is translated. We are confident that Hector will be able to leave the hospital in 48 hours and can begin light physical activity in seven day.

It is difficult to say how long the post surgery rehabilitation will take. We need to evaluate the progress of this patient, but I think we can reasonably think that he will be able to run a race in four or six weeks. Four to six weeks with brand new bolts. Having a fucking plate put in to hold your leg together. I guess now it won't break again. Not there anyway. Oh my god.

So their racing team said, Hector said, Dr. Meir and Dr. Jimeno have done a great job. I'm feeling good. Still a little dizzy from the anesthesia, but it's normal. Obviously, I'm a little disappointed about the incident. It happened in the worst period possible. I had a great feeling with both my bike and my crew. What, that you were gonna finish eighth this time and not 12th? It's all starting to come together, man.

Yeah, in the last three races I was able to enjoy while I was riding and fighting with the factory riders to achieve the best Result possible I could catch other brilliant results in the next round at Laguna Seca and Indy But it's the life and now I have to think about my injury and my rehabilitation So yes, he has it all behind him there doing well obviously he says that behind him there, doing well, obviously. He says that, you know, they said the team's doing well, everybody's happy.

So he stayed out the rest of 2012 here, not because of his leg though, because he was in Valencia. Yeah. And that's not in America, by the way, there. No, no. He's in Valencia. And he this is from a newspaper there. He was in an alcoholized state with excessive speed

in the urban area of Valencia, and passed through several red lights. He got a reckless DUI. He got shit-faced and forgot that he wasn't on a racetrack and just fucking drove his car. And then just went, yeah. Red lights, they don't have those on the track. I don't know what that's all about.

I don't know what they're trying to tell me. Oh my god, he apologized in an official, he officially apologized in a letter and spoke of his irresponsible behavior. And he has to sit out the rest of the team suspends him. Wow. Yeah, if it's a racing thing, like on a motorcycle, you can't have any booze at any time. Like, even though you can't have drinks the night before and have a little bit of hangover, none of that would probably be good.

I mean, there are NASCAR drivers that have DUIs and it's like... Yeah, but they're hillbillies though. That's a different breed. Other racers have them too. That's crazy that they have DUIs and all that. If there's anybody who's aware of what that car is capable of doing, the damage it's capable of, they should know. At the same time, and we've brought this up before, a NASCAR driver on the regular road

going 40, he could probably do that at like a.15, no problem. You know what I mean? Because his reaction times driving are way better than anybody else is on the road So they're probably twice as fast. We usually take half away that he's normal I feel like so you should with them the sliding scale. He knows yeah knows where it starts and stops That's what I mean like it's bullshit. This guy knows everything he could probably get away with I would say at least At least a 0.15. We should give him him a break maybe you know. Kyle Busch can't. He's bad at it. Crashing in the shit. Some of those guys what if they're terrible at driving regular cars? That's funny. They're only

good at driving. It's just it needs to be 160 miles an hour or else I can't control this piece. Pedal down fully concentrated every little move because if he's going like 45 with traffic he's like hitting kids he's not paying attention he's really bad at it maneuvering and we don't know if they can turn yeah we know they can turn gradually but we don't know they could just make a regular right turn can they pull into a parking space how the fuck do we know maybe they're awful drivers, how do you get in there? You can't just fucking drift in there. That's not going to work.

You're going to hit some chick getting off her shift. That's not right. With her six months pregnant belly hanging out of the bottom of her Hooters shirt. That's the type of damage you're going to do. Turning around that six inch long apron. Yeah. So, 2013 Grand Prix racing, same thing. He finishes 16th this year in the standings, which is bad. Lowest point total ever with 35. And he raced in 18 races actually too.

So he did not do well. He is a bit distracted though, we'll say. Tell me why. Well, the beginning of the season here in May, May 10th, 2013, he's arrested for beating the shit out of his girlfriend. Oh no, he's one of those douchebags. Yeah. Well, I would imagine some guy that likes to ride 160 on a motorcycle probably will backhand his girlfriend.

Maybe he thinks he's better than a gal. That's the type, you know what I mean? They kind of live by the by the seat of their pants, you know So it happened in the city of her eyes where they were Present to attend the Feria del Caballo the celebration of the horse festival We came in specially for the celebration of the horse and here we are Very very Kentucky. Maybe that he's in the horses, Kentucky. There's a connection. Yeah. Oh my god, I don't get it He dirt races with Earl, but he's also very European. It's so strange

His girlfriend was admitted to a local hospital and received medical treatment for contusions and bruises while he was placed in custody For what the source is called an expedited trial. We're going to just run them through. I guess there is not a word on press charges and similar legal actions from this article. I guess they said they're going to look into it here and so not doing well. May 11th, 2013, so the next day he gets a trial. It happened, boom. She's still wiping shit from her eye and he's on trial. They got SAV on it, yeah.

Wow, so May 11th, 2013 here, he goes to court. He was placed in custody. She spent one night in the hospital and received medical care. And he spent his night at jail. They said it looks like things got out of control during a heated argument, which came to blows on both sides. I guess they both just are wailing on each other and Those relationships the problem is they both end up arrested too. They arrest the girlfriend when she gets out of jail

I guess they both just went off on each other beating each other. So they're like Cuff them both. So Hector is sentenced to you, sir Cuff them both. So Hector is sentenced to, you sir, may fuck off six months in jail. He gets for this. Really? Yeah, fucking around. Spain? Yeah, six months, done. And his girlfriend, who's 23 years old, you ma'am, may fuck off five months in jail. She got a little bit of time too. They both got time. Yeah, looks like they decided mutual combat, he got the better of it so he gets an extra month. But otherwise, that's like, wow. They

believe though that both sentences will be commuted to community service time. Obviously, this isn't the best way to prepare for a motorcycle racing season, clearly. He posted an announcement on his Facebook page, Hector does, quote, related to the incidents happened today, just clarify that it is, it is, has just been a simple couple discussion. That it is, has just been, that's what he wrote. A simple couple discussion already solved by the Jerez Court and that both parts have accepted.

We apologize the way the incidents had occurred even if the Jerez Court solved equally for both parts. So what does that mean? We not much equal. She got five. You got six. So you got six. And also she spent the night in the hospital and you didn't.

So he's like, well, that bitch needs to fight better. I don't know what to tell you. He's like, mutual combat, sorry. Like, that's a little weird. I got a month more, so I win, evidently. Apparently I won the fight, that's all that means. So there they go. They're both going to do their deal here.

So May 13th, 2013, after he has been sentenced, it's the fucking two days later here, this is from AsphaltandRubber.com. That's a good website, I'm sure. Well, usually, the thing is, I must have missed it that day because usually it's like I get up in the morning, you brush your teeth, you make your bed, stuff like that, then I go right to AsphaltandRubber.com to see what's going on.

I usually get reminded on my email that new articles are coming out. Yeah, well I get up there. I obviously get notifications, Jimmy. Jesus, this is crazy. But I do that. Then I check the weather news, that sort of thing. Asphalt and rubber. He does an interview with Asphalt and Rubber. Really? Yeah. Well, they're going to get all the hard-hitting news items, I and rubber. He does an interview with Asphalt and Rubber.

Really? Yeah, well they're gonna get all the hard-hitting news items, I feel like. They get access. Yeah, they get access and I guess the case was handled by Spain's Special Domestic Violence Courts, so they talked to him about that. He released his statement and he said that,

in this interview, that he was a victim. Oh yeah. And was found by the court as a victim as well. He says that he would never think on hurting or damaging any person no matter what woman, no matter woman or men. So he's a Spanish speaking man obviously. Yes and sounds like he didn't learn English very well, even though he came to Kentucky as a small child.

Well, that's one. That's the problem, yeah. Because that's not English either. His parents kept him at home like, don't send him out there. That's not the English we want him to learn. We'll just teach him Spanish. We're going to teach him shit in here. It'll be better.

Broken English sounds better than what's going on out there. I don't know. It's also broken. There's no fixing it. No shit, yeah. It's fucking beyond repair. That is shattered. No factor of warning. He can still learn.

They can't. So he said also that he's firmly against any type of mistreatment or abuse to anyone. Oh, not just women. Everyone. Anyone, yeah. So now they're broken up, by the way, his girlfriend and he. That's enough here.

So she's had it. That's great. So he said that he suffered a form of battery, which makes the whole thing kind of justified, basically. Yeah, I was just defending myself. That's what it is. Now, Asphalt and Rubber goes on to say, looking at the story from American eyes and predispositions,

a man assaulting a woman, whether provoked or not, is automatically cast as the guilty party. It is perhaps the one ironic role reversal in America's own battle with sexism and misogyny and its socio-legal systems. No, there's a lot more. There are a lot of differences between men and women. What are you talking about, man? What are you talking about? legal systems. No, there's a lot more. There are a lot of differences between men and women.

What are you talking about, man? What are you talking about? This is the one ironic role reversal. No, it's not. I don't understand. That really doesn't make a lot of sense. It doesn't, no. He's trying to say that Americans are all misogynistic.

The way he wrote it, it's almost like he writes for Asphalt and Rubber magazine and not like Time or something. You know what I mean? Not like Motor Trend? Yeah, that's something. Not even the prestige of Motor Trend. Not even that. I'm from Asphalt and Rubber. Can I have a minute of your time?

I wouldn't give them an interview. To write for Dirt Wheels. Yeah. Someday. Yeah. If Asphalt and Rubber. One of these days I'm going to write for dirt wheels. Yeah. Someday. Yeah. If Asphalt and Rubber. One of these days I'm going to write for Auto Trader. Oh man. I'm going to put them all in there.

If Asphalt and Rubber called us for an interview, we'd probably be like, I don't think we have time for that. You know what I mean? Yeah. Why don't you write for Field and Stream, man? We could write, yeah, that'd be so much better. Isn't Boy's Life still in existence? Write for that.

Write for a children's magazine. So highlights, there you go. Yeah, highlights would be better than this shit. That's great. So one of the, this is from the article, as one of my legal colleagues said to me, a speedy trial and both parties getting punished, that would never happen in the United States.

Quite right. The issue has been an interesting one to follow in the MotoGP paddock as well as through the Spanish media. While we will never likely know the full extent of what really transpired in that hotel room, not to mention that ascertaining the quote guilt of what occurred can only be speculated on by media outlets, including us here at Asphalt and Rubber. Obviously we're not, you know, we can't see through walls or anything over here, you know

what I mean? Obviously not. I mean, that's Spain's far, so we don't, we can't really. It is interesting to note, Jesus, it's interesting to note the asterisks offered by many Spanish publications that this was only a quote lovers quarrel and not a case of actual domestic violence. I guess they they clarify whether it's like a an ass whooping or a quarrel. Yeah just because she fought back doesn't make it not domestic violence. No no but I Spain I don't know if it's different, because in Italy, I know Italian women in

my family, they will hit the fuck out of you. So it's like, I don't know if that's part of it, that they know in the culture that- Spanish women are fiery. Yeah, that's what I mean. So I figure it's similar. They'll start hitting you. So it's like, well, I mean, if they hit you, you got to smack them back. I don't know if that's like their policy over there or what.

I don't know what's going on. I'm very confused, but it's definitely a different culture. You know? Their policy. I don't know. Well, the relationships have different things. Like my grandmother- Based on the punishment that both of them got,

I don't think that's the policy. It seems like it is. Like they both got in a little trouble and that was it. Like it's fine. Is it in Italy? Is it like this or do they just fucking know the cops never show up, right? It's just I think they're like, yeah, they'll take care of it mind your own business But like my grandmother always would say like but what man doesn't cheat now, what do you want from people? Like if someone complains someone cheated she's like shut up. That's nothing So it's there's a different sliding scale of what's acceptable in relationships in Europe

Yeah, I don't fucking know what's going on So and he described it as just a simple couple discussion which Discussion discussion usually discussions don't end up with somebody spending the night in the hospital But yeah, there's usually not medical treatment for discussions. No night in the hospital but yeah there's usually not medical treatment for discussions no well our own culture automatically condemns Barbera's actions rightfully or not rightfully or not then in parentheses for a moment which for a moment and then it's so he's gonna try to for a moment would you think differently about the situation if it came out that DP lunge debts the woman

lunge at Bar debt Barbara with a knife and if her injuries were the result of Hector self-defense well that would be a completely different thing that would be attempted murder that you fucking fended off that's different than we were arguing and then she slapped me and then I punched her in the fucking eye that's not the same thing no that's not even devil's advocate. That's like super devil's advocate. I also would tend to think of it in another way. If he started the fight, she grabbed a knife to lunge down to stop it and then he beat the shit out of her further.

He's more of a monster. That's more of a monster. Yeah. The knife makes it all different. We'll put it that way. It's very different. It changes the whole thing. And then says, it is interesting to note the counterpoint in the Spanish treatment of the event in a country that is rife with serious domestic violence so much so that a fast-track

legal system has been put in place to combat its growth that's why he had the the next day trial is to so it doesn't linger both parties in this incident are found to share the guilt and are given by American standards a slap on the wrist for their transgressions Even more appalling to our senses is that those jail sentences have already been commuted to 14 months community service Which is a shitload From my own mind trained in both American and international Jurns jurisprudence, you, as we demand of all of our asphalt and rubber scribes, that they be trained

in both American and international jurisprudence. Know about tires, dumb fuck. TV laws of the entire planet. Jesus Christ, know about tires and fucking, how transmission fluid on them affects their ability to stick. It's hard to fathom that a state like Spain can at one point say that it's committed to turning around an epidemic of domestic violence and then hands out a punishment for a high profile crime that's more on par with misdemeanor vandalism.

I learned a long time ago that laws are made by the people they govern. And while the relativist point of view says that you cannot pass judgment on them, those laws are still by definition a reflection of the societies that create them." So now he's just the whole country of Spain are scumbags, he said. "'While I admonish our own American preconceptions to automatically assume the mail at fault and domestic violence incidents, it's even more troubling for me to see the handling of a case like Barbera's end with such a resolution knowing full well there are likely thousands more that will occur this year without such a high level of public scrutiny. In the end, Barbera's arrest and sentencing with his girlfriend speak to a larger cultural

issue in Spain regarding misogyny and while much of that is outside of what one would expect from a motorcycle publication such as ours, yeah, this is all weird that it's coming out of- This is fucking bizarre, man. Asphalt and rubber. Which sounds like that could be like a kink magazine, you know what I mean? It really does sound like a guy with a G.I.P. mask on the cover. September, here he is, GIP of the month.

I don't know if Golf Digest broke down the swings of Elan Nordegren on the back of her. I'm not sure. They were not positive. That's the thing, we're really not positive here. I didn't read that issue, I don't know. It's so weird. So yeah, it goes on to say that and easily goes beyond the microcosm of the MotoGP paddock. We have to remember the criticism that Grand Prix motorcycle racing is very much, motorcycle

racing very much so is Spain at this point in time, okay? We like to pretend that our passion of motorcycling doesn't exist in the dramas of real life But in earnest the truth is the other way around When I think about how this sport reacts to an event like Barbara's and what that says about us as a two-wheeled community I think to I think to to what my good colleague David Emmett pointed out upon hearing the news of Barbara's arrest and Sentencing quote so I asked about homophobia in the paddock and had one person deny they ever noticed homophobia or misogyny in the paddock. Then a rider gets arrested for beating up his girlfriend.

Connect the dots. What? What does that have to do with homophobia? I don't know what that means. I don't understand that at all. Interesting here. So they talk about his statement and his statement was, quote, about the information that have been published in different press media. I want to clarify with this communication how the facts occurred on that night. I obviously do not feel

proud at all of what had happened and want to express my apologies to all people, especially my friends and family and sport team members. In this procedure, I must assume my duties and responsibilities, but I feel myself and also stated to the court as a as a attacked and affected part. After the opportune denouncements, we strictly follow the protocol marked by the law for that kind of fact. Once in court, both parts declared we were visited by the medical examiner who certified the injuries I had.

In any case and been respectful, I renounced to provide more details than this." That's what he says. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. In my family, we are three kids, two girls, one boy. We've grown together learning the values of respect, fairness, and love. I would never think on hurting or damaging any person no matter woman or men. That's what he says.

So that's that. But you did. So he finishes fucking 16th in Grand Prix racing that year. 2014, 18th. He does even worse somehow. Oh no. Fucking terrible. Shame.

The problem is he's also arrested that year as well. This year he's caught by the police without a license while driving his Maserati. Oh, he's doing very well. Who the fuck doesn't have a license to drive a Maserati? Yeah, how do you buy one and then go, I'm just gonna drive this shit illegally? I bet these guys make a lot of money in sponsorships

for products, for parts and shit like that. Maserati, instead of paying him, just gave him a Maserati. Just gave him a car. Was like, he's fast. Here, give him a Maserati. So that year, he only raced in like five races that year and came in one race, he came in 19th. Jesus Jesus I think I could come in 19th for Christ's sake if there's 19 of them all fucking just have a nice little cruise deck it'll be real nice you go

like that's a smooth track that's a smooth track you can really take a Sunday drive on that shit if you wanted to really whoop through the turns bikes just flying by you're waving hi. Take it easy guys. Come on, slow down. Jesus Christ, there's fucking people out here trying to relax. Fucking smoking as you're going.

Have a nice day. Smoking a cigarette just hanging, hey guys. I've smoked a cigar on a motorcycle, that's really a nice day. That's a great day. It's not bad. I don't think you could do it while you're going a buck 75 though probably. That would be a little bit. That's a great day. It's not bad. I don't think you could do it while you're going a buck 75

No, that would be a little bit. It's easy. Oh, it's great feeling good feeling good. So 2015 he finishes 15 in points. He's never won a race since he stepped up to these bigger bikes, by the way Oh this year 2015. I'll give you his finishes 15 12 13 14 13 13 16 13, 16, 13, 15, 16, 13, 18, 16, 9. First top 10 of the year, 16, 13, 16. One top 10 and it was nine. It was ninth. How does he have enough money to live?

To have a home. To have a Maserati. Yeah, I don't, why does this pay so well? I don't know. The next year pay so well? I don't know. The next year he comes in 10th in points. It was the best year he's had so far in the Moto GP here, which is great I guess. That's good.

March 1st, 2016. Oh, 2015 was his big crash. I can show you that now. Good. Oh, here we go. He had a crash too. He got all fucked up in that Let's see here is this this is from

June 27th 2016 I will show you this it is gnarly I believe Okay, here we go Look at them line going down. It's kind of beautiful. Oh my god. Oh Jesus a line going down. It's kind of beautiful. Oh my goodness. Oh Jesus. Is that him? Yeah, they just didn't turn at all. That's him there. He just went straight through the dirt. The guy laying there with his hands on his head and knees is him. Yeah. And other people are... There's another guy over here who's they're still like they have to peel the bike off of him and they're coming with a stretcher.

He's dead? No, he's not dead. The other guy has like 12 people around him and a stretcher. The other dude has two people around him. So you knew, you know you're doing okay if it's only two people around you. Yeah. But that was quite the spill he took here. Wow.

We'll go back to it one more time here. Oh my god. Everybody is taking the turn and they just don't take it. They just didn't do it. Yeah. It just didn't, they just didn't lay it down. They must have got a clip somewhere. They must have clipped each other and then maybe trying to recover, they couldn't turn. Shit just didn't work. That's the, that's what it is. At that speed there's nothing. There's no mistakes. If there's a mistake it's over for you. There's no mistakes. That's what I mistake, it's over for you. There's no mistakes. That's what I mean. Like I was saying, even if you're going 150 and everything is straight,

any little wiggle, a sneeze, a pebble, you're fucked. Everything has to be perfect for that. So, 2016 here, he talks about what helped him become competitive in 2016. Competitive is 10th, by the way, in the whole fucking deal here. 2016 competitive is 10th by the way in the whole fucking deal here. Yeah. He said, yes, suddenly it looks like I am much better than a much better rider than yesterday. He said, I understand the situation because this is an elite sport and things work like

that. The results are what define your position in the big picture. When I arrived at Moto GP at 22, maybe it wasn't that easy to handle. When I joined the world championship, I was competitive from the very first moment. I won races and finished runner-up that first year. The same thing happened when I switched to 250cc." He said, and then things took a little bit of a different turn, and he got injured, and he said, until mid-season I pushed the factory riders, we were doing really well.

Then I suffered an accident and broke my tibia and fibula when I returned I was still competitive like in Valencia where I was the on the grid in front of Valentino Rossi and Nikki Hayden But the team had already signed the new riders. Okay, so He also says that he says there are guys they are guys like me with a special talent to ride a bike fast They are like me not better than me. Oh. Absolutely. So, he said he made a decision to quit in 2014.

He had joined a team that he didn't really like and he said it was a disaster. For example, the Japanese technicians, because I guess he did something with Kawasaki, that were sent to our team team set up gearbox ratios in which I couldn't even use sixth gear. I finished the race at Barcelona in tears. I knew that it wasn't a matter of my riding ability. Well, yeah, if you don't have the sixth gear, you don't have your extra gear. If everybody's got six and you've got five, that's not good.

Yeah. He also said the electronics we had last year were light years behind the ones in current use I'll give you an example last season. We had the option to split the circuits into a maximum of five parts Now we can set up every corner. I don't know what that means No, um, he talks about uh, some very specific race shit My winter training has changed this year before I tried to have as many hours as possible on different types of bikes. This winter instead I worked more on the muscles that felt weaker and I've noticed a difference. I feel much more agile on the bike." Great. Good for you. He said,

I've learned that the best thing to do is focus on the present. If your thinking is on something that may happen in the future, you may miss enjoying what is happening Remember Ferris Bueller said that Sometimes you gotta just you know sit back and take it all in here. He's basically yeah, so he said you know Think about the future too much. You're gonna miss what's happening now, right? My next focus is the cutter test after seeing how we finish, I can start thinking about the race. So 2016, he does another big interview, but it's so much about racing. I don't really think we need to touch on so much. He just says, the information in it is very specific. I don't

understand it. Here's one. He just says, it's obvious that you have to adapt. I used to have a riding style more suited to two-stroke motorcycles with the bike leaned over for a long time. This year I've started to change that indeed. I don't know if this style is more efficient or not, but the rest of the riders do it the same way and that's why we are working on it. When something comes natural to you, it's hard to change, but with every day it's getting easier." Okay, great. And then he just talks about, he said, my goal is anything from fifth to tenth tenth place that's what he's going for in points. Don't you don't you aim for first? No he's trying to fuck he's trying to finish in the top ten here. He's trying to make my bills. Just trying you know I'd

like to get rent maybe you know. Tenth place will pay for everything and fifth will let me splurge a little bit. It'll keep me in Maseratis, you know what I mean? But other than that, it's not doing much. He said he wants to end up the best rider of the satellite teams. He said I'm seven points behind Pol Espargado, or Espargaro, I'm sorry. Well if you're behind Pol Espargaro, I mean, you're set. Espararago. Espararago, or Espargaro, I'm sorry.

Oh, okay, all right. Aspargaro. But we have to be realistic and see that at this point, I am, I not, I not a mission easily accomplished. Okay. Yeah. Great, that's interesting. So, 2016, I guess he's a little better ninth fifth ninth tenth eighth twelfth eleventh sixth ninth

Fifteen thirteen thirteen seventeen four eleven. All right, it's getting good. Not that terrible next year though 2017 He's 22nd in points That's way worse than he's ever done before so, um not good. He, I guess, does some other shit too. He does some shit here. Trying to think what this is. Some other style of, I don't even know what style of bike this is. Oh, it's another motorcycle race.

And some other kind of motorcycle racing in here, but I don't know what it is. It doesn't sound like he's doing terrific in this one. No, not at all. So maybe it's a step down. Well, yeah, 2017, 13, 13, 14, 12, 14, 9, 16, 20, 17, 14, 18, 14, 20, 14, 15. Those are his races. So.

He's certainly figured out how to race against him. He hasn't figured out how to race against anybody else. Maybe he's terrified from crashing all the times. You know, I thought about that too, that first crash. You're a little skittish. I would never, I'd never think, I mean, I think about going down

every time I go around a corner. Yeah. I'm surveying the road, making sure there's, because I went down on gravel. And if you go down on gravel, you're always wondering or worried about losing traction. And I can't imagine, with the way that fucking front tire just exploded and the acid under the bike comes over,

how do you not think about that every time you grab the brake and go into a turn? You saw these accidents. These are things that you would think about in your fucking nightmares. Yeah, you'd think about that shit. As soon as I start that motorcycle up, I'm gonna think about that thing.

No, shit. So 2018, he's in about that shit. As soon as I start that motorcycle up, I'm gonna think about that thing. No, shit. So 2018, he's in Moto 2, which is not Moto GP. It's a different thing here, and he doesn't do very well in that either. Oh no. Not doing terrific here. And Moto 4 is good for him. Maybe, that's all we can imagine.

He's got 10 total wins in his life here, as you can see. So June 11th, 2018, he is arrested or he's fired after a drunk driving charge. So yeah, he's fired here. He recorded an alcohol level of, and this is per liter, this is a different breathalyzer scale, a level of 0.67 milligrams per liter. The legal limit is 0.25 so he was more than double that so yeah it's like a 0.25 here it's not good yeah he's shit-faced here he was convicted and ordered to serve 22 days of community

service and loses his driving license for a year and he gets and he gets fired as well shit so not good yeah I mean he probably didn't have shit anyway here. So they rescind the contract from him and they say they was, they say the racing team wants to thank Hector Barbera for his services and wishes him the best in the future. Fuck off, mister. Thanks for being here. Yeah, I guess he struggled in the moto 2 anyway. He wasn't doing that great. They said his season hit rock bottom

when he took out Tetsuya Nagashimi, Nagashima at the recent Italian Moto 2 event, an incident for which he was due to severe grid penalty. He was due to serve a grid penalty this week in Barcelona. Okay, he says, quote, I accept my mistake and I accept the consequences. The worst part is what has to do with my family, my friends and my partner, but also with my professional career. From the next Grand Prix of Catalonia, I will not continue competing with my current structure.

Even those that you think is deserved, that can be, you will understand that this is a very hard time for me Yeah, even if you think it's even you think I deserve the shit. It still sucks for me. Yeah, still sucks So that makes sense the word repentance falls short to express what I feel Okay, it's very repentant. I have taken my step to moto to very seriously, although things are not going well It might not look like I take it seriously But I'm actually trying here, which is weird. I am training more than ever and working very hard I insist once again that I assume the consequences of what has happened I will not stop fighting even though things are difficult and this will be the attitude that I will continue to maintain

I will apologize to maintain. I will apologize to anyone who has been affected by this situation, and I thank those who support me at a time like this." So he's very confused here. He's obviously, he's not a golden boy anymore. Yeah, he's a drunk. He likes to drink, definitely.

So he's- But he's probably doing that for the pain, right? I don't know maybe for the fun for the pain plus a guy who goes 175 fucking miles an hour on a motorcycle. He's a little loose. He likes to you know what I mean? That's a guy probably will drink to excess everything. He does is to excess probably yeah Yeah, he doesn't just go to the buffet and have a couple of things he eats. He's throwing up in the parking lot He's just he can't give me at all punches the gal till he's arrested. He does that. Yep. He's lucky He's the type of guy who's lucky. He's not into drugs because he would fucking kill himself

Cocaine would be crazy for he would absolutely kill himself with cocaine. So he's sitting around His girlfriend's mad at him his family's mad at him. He's fired by his racing team, he doesn't know, he just needs guidance. A little bit, yeah. Earl and Rose need to step in at some point and offer some advice, but they're not, they're not offering him advice, they can't get through to him, so there is one person who thinks maybe she can get through to him, and she's knocking on the door, and it's Vinny Pazienza's ma!

Yeah, she thinks she can get through to Hector. She thinks she's got the inside track and she says... Oh my god! Hector Barbera! Oh my goodness! Oh my goodness! Look at you! You're riding those! You know how dangerous that is? I would never let Vinny ride this. I tell you, I would never let him do it in a million years. You're gonna break your neck! Oh my god! Look at you, you're riding those. You know how dangerous that is? I would never let Vinny ride this. I tell you, I would never let him do it in a million years. You're gonna break your neck. Oh my God, look at you. Look, do you wear like a jacket when you go out there? It's gotta get cold when you're driving around. My goodness, what are you doing?

Jesus, let me make you something to eat, please. Do you can't, no, you need padding. So if you fall, you'll bounce better and you won't break your legs. You know what I mean? You're gonna catch cold without a jacket gonna you're gonna catch cold out there it's cold you fly in her 175 miles an hour my goodness you're gonna catch flight for God's sake I can't deal with this no way please stop doing it dead to the white

please tell him tell him to stop we get to do it for your children, please. My God. Ow, stop hitting me, Hector. What are you doing? I'm gonna get Vinny to talk to you. And poof, in a cloud of tomato sauce and anger, she's gone. And he's very confused, because he's like, what the hell is that? She wasn't even Spanish or from Kentucky.

I don't know what's going on here. So 2019, he races in the. Oh boy, he's back at it. For Yamaha here. In the Super Sport World Championship. This isn't in the, I guess this is in like a lower kind of tier of this shit. Only races two races, finishes fourth and seventh

in those in Australia and Thailand. And that's it here. Done. Yeah, April 8th, 2019, he retires suddenly and there's a reason for it. It is because his bike is stolen. Oh, he doesn't have a motorcycle. He doesn't have a motorcycle so he cannot. I've retired.

He retired from the race anyway and everything else so they had to scratch him from the world championship because someone stole his bike right before a big race. Hilarious. They used to have like three, four of them, don't they? Nope. They got one, one for him and that's it. Yeah, one bike. Yep. Give them that. That is fucking hilarious, man. So the...

He's retired. He had to retire. He said that he was... That day, he said he was retiring from motorsport too. He's like, that's it. They stole my bike. Now I'm done. I don't even have a motorcycle anymore. Can I bring my Maserati on the fucking track? No. That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. That's like a Jose can say, go say I'm retiring. I don't have a bat. I retired because I don't have a glove and they told me I had to have one.

They told me I wasn't allowed to catch barehanded so I said fine, fuck it, I guess I retire then. Michael Jordan retired because he doesn't have shoes. Yeah, they took his Jordans. Told him he couldn't play in socks and he was like alright fine, I'm done then. He stole my motorcycle, I retire. And he said this, this is fucking hilarious, man. He said that quote, that's what we've been driven to. For my own and other riders' safety, I can't race today. Well yeah, you can't run around the track. For my safety and theirs.

Yeah, you're probably not gonna win very, you don't have a lot of chances of winning. Unless you're sticking sticks and spokes. I don't think you're going to outrun these bikes, Chief. I don't think you're going to. For my safety and theirs. And theirs. I mean, they could hit a man running on the truck.

It's wild to have a pedestrian on a racetrack. It's so weird. A motorcycle track. There's no crosswalk. He's not even running hard. Just a marathon jog going. Slow and steady, guys, slow and steady, you know what I mean? I don't want my nipples to bleed.

Oh my god. Oh, I can't race today. We don't have the means, and what started out as a dream has ended as a nightmare. Oh, no. His career has, he's only 32, by the way. Yeah, he's a child still. He's a child, he's got nothing else. He's been doing this since he was a child.

This is what he does. And they said that the 32 year old also said that, problems with non-payment and failure to meet contract terms between what was supposed to be our main sponsor and the team also have made this event, this super sport adventure end today at home. He said he was especially excited about where about it and he wasn't even able to race.

God damn. He said we started out this project with real excitement using all the equipment for the first time in Australia without any training with a bike that was practically a street bike. And even then with the bare minimum of what we needed in technical terms, we managed to finish fourth. After that, the financial problems started and this meant we had to race in Thailand with hardly any spare tires.

He's out there with bald tires. What the fuck? You can't do this unless you have very good equipment. You gotta have good tires. Ugh, and an engine with too many kilometers on the clock. It's the same here, but we can't eke out what we've got any longer, and for reasons of responsibility, I can't go out onto the circuit. High mileage and bald tires and he's racing it.

My mom would barely take that thing to work. Yeah, she's like, it won't make it. I was gonna go to Laughlin, but I decided it's not gonna make it all the way up there. It's four hours. I can see the thread bearing through. This isn't okay. Oh my God. He says, the team was also excited

from the owner down to the most junior mechanic. It makes me so angry because I'm doing okay and working like never before, but I'm going to give in and just carry on training so I'm ready for if any chance comes of carrying on with what I love most. Just gonna keep riding somewhere else? He said he felt terrible for his fans

who had bought tickets to watch him. He's a big draw this guy apparently. Finished at 18th every fucking year, he's a huge draw. Both fans are heartbroken. It was in Spain though, so he was saying it was his big deal here. So he's had some problems though, obviously, 2012 for speeding and being drunk while running several red lights.

And then he and his girlfriend beat the shit out of each other, and then he was caught driving his Maserati, and then he got drunk again, and he's had some issues. He's had a few issues here, and it was also revealed by the news website that there was a search warrant Issued against him or a search and arrest warrant issued against him in 2019 for an undisclosed affair

But they never figured out so he was he's dodging some international search search and arrest warrant as well a vague one a vague one that we don't know shit about so 2020 he races a BMW here. Oh. In the British Superbike Championship. Hell yeah. And his finishes are 10, 10, 14, 15, 13, 10, 12, 18, 15, 14, 22, 16, 15.

It's over. I think it's about over. So May 11th, 2020, the stolen bike thing, it's all being whatever, I guess. He was accused of being involved in the theft of a world SSP bike after he refused to ride it on safety grounds. So the one with the tires, he's saying that they're now saying that he had it stolen so he didn't have to ride it. But then you have to ride it. But then you have to retire, man.

Yeah. He said he no longer wanted to compete on the team because there wasn't enough money to upgrade his engine and then the next day his bike got stolen. He said since there had been no sign of the motorcycle despite Spanish police getting involved while Barbera has gone on to compete in the British Superbike Championship. However, Team Toth has continued to pursue the theory that Barbera himself was behind the disappearance and are duly taking the matter to court in Spain.

He was blaming them for being cheap. That is fucking amazing. And then he probably chopped it up. Oh my God. So the team owner, Imre Toth, believes Barbera to have instructed two of his mechanics to enter the Aragon paddock and remove the bike. Evidence he says he can prove when the case goes to trial in Spain.

He said, for me, the situation, this is the owner, for me, the situation has been complicated by Corona because my, I got shit faced. I don't even have to put lime in it. I just drink it and I pound it. Because my lawyer is not allowed to travel. The police handed over all the findings to the court. Normally we would have had a meeting with all the lawyers in Alcáñez in April, but at the moment we can't do anything but wait.

I have an hour 40 minute testimonial from the Spanish mechanics saying they stole the bike because Barbera didn't want to do it himself. We can use that in court. Oh my god the campaign has cost me at least 50,000 euros. Jesus. Which I probably less than a new that's probably more than a new bike. It's like 10 million dollars. Yeah it's a lot and I also lost many sponsors. For Barbera it will be 100% bad that he did this to me and my team 100% bad That's gonna be the name of this guy's episode here According to Toth in an interview with speed week comm and that's no asphalt and rubber bullshit. That's a real one

I did what I had to do and inform the police. I hope it will be found It's a good motorcycle built by good mechanics. How can a motorcycle simply disappear on a modern racetrack between 8.45 and 10pm? It's a joke that only two cameras are installed in the paddock. In fact, at Barbera's request, our bike was pushed out of the box by two Spanish mechanics. Why do I know that? I myself, my father father and the other two mechanics in our team were eating and we handed over the keys to the box to the Spaniards." He

went on to say that Barbera called him and said that the bike was in a safe place and negotiations should take place between the two parties alone at an undisclosed location without cell phones. Maybe you can have it back. What is this a hostage negotiation? We're gonna, it's like a mafia sit down. Yeah to get a $12,000 bike. We're gonna meet at Nicky's down on Mulberry. And we're gonna fucking go in and we'll rule.

It's probably a $50,000 bike, I'll bet it is. It probably does make sense right? That seems about right. So they said we're guessing that Toth was furious at the time and went on to authorities for further action. So I guess the, it's going to the courts and all of that and it's still missing. So we never know what happens with that. I don't think so. April 21st, 2021. Another Sheeb Racing, Science Hector Barbera, Moto America. S-C-H-E-I-B? S-C-H-E-I-B-E. Oh, all right.

Yeah, so they said, they asked how the deal came together and Steve Scheib, or Sheeby, told Road Racing World, that's somewhere between Speed Week and Asphalt and Robber. He expressed interest in our program and he has outstanding credentials, so it seemed like a good fit. So they said that his team has been ever seen ever improving results over the last two Moto America Superbike seasons with Jake Gagney claiming the top two top five finishes and eighth in the championships and also Josh Herron getting on the podium. I mean we all have posters of him on the wall.

So this year Hector finishes 6-7-6-8-8-6-5-6-8-5-7-5-7-25-6-7-8-10. Seventh overall in points. Yeah, not bad. Not bad actually, not too bad here. He's doing pretty well and he says, I'm really happy to join this team. It will be an important year for me and I am confident of achieving some good results on the track. The team has a lot of experience

and we have good technical support. I'm sure we will work hard and that together we can have a good season for me. Sure, yeah. This season will be easier. I know the circuits and I expect to be faster and to be able to fight for the top positions I want to thank everyone who's made this possible. See you at the track I'll be I'll be the shit face guy driving around

Swerving guy driving with my left turn signal on that's the one boy and he does decent here His race is in 2022 57 4 6 9 3 17 5 5 6 5 5 7 8 6 4 5 10 fifth in the in the points here and i'm looking they're all in different states Texas Alabama Virginia you know Montana they run them all over the place. Everywhere, New Jersey, Alabama, everywhere. 2023, okay, this is fucking funny. By the way, he finishes 24th in points,

and 2023 doesn't do very well. January 30th, 2023, and this is a translated article, which makes it even hilarious. It says, Batlia, Batlia, I think that's one of the, I don't know what that is, investigates the Hector Barbera motorcycle pilot for scam and documentary forgery. What is this? I don't know but we're gonna have a fun time trying to fucking translate it. Batlia has opened a cause against Valencian motorcyclist pilot Heather Barbera-Vall. He has investigated for an alleged scam and forgery in commercial document as part of

a purchase sales of a vehicle that would have closed in June 2020, months after the residence authorization in the country expires. In fact, Batlia had already dictated against her the search and captured by another affair. Okay. Oh, so there's a fraud car around here somewhere. Somebody's frauding somebody in Spain and somebody's been captured by another affair.

The allegations made to him now is because he tried to justify the payment of the vehicle by exhibiting a bank transfer certificate he had previously handled. So he tried to pay with like a fake, he tried to show a bank transfer that he didn't make. That's what it sounds like. in the Batlia began following a complaint filed by the dealer of the principality where Barbera agreed to acquire a white and secondhand Mercedes Vito van. Apparently it says the operation was closed for 13,500 euros and the dealer no matter how much the pilot represented a bank transfer document for said value he never received, at least in the first instance, those money.

Those money. Those money. Those money. Never showed up. He got the Mercedes though. But he got a Mercedes van. Consequently, and in the face of the impossibility of being able to contact the pilot again, that in recent days he has announced that he leaves Moto America series to compete in

the British Superbike in 20 this 2023 on horseback of a Honda. That's going to be a he's going to lose all the time. He's never going to win a race. He'll never have a chance. That's going to hurt harder than the motorcycle. Yeah, he does crash it. Yeah, yeah. Way less dangerous around the turns though.

I'll tell you what weighs a lot more though. Yeah, if it falls on you turns, though. I'll tell you what. It weighs a lot more, though. Yeah, if it falls on you, you're in deep shit. Those responsible for the commercial establishment filed a police complaint that was it was in July 2020 and the claim was for a debt. The complaint incorporated the alleged bank transfer that had never reached a good port.

The police came to the conclusion with the necessary bank support when making the relevant analysis that Barbera had supposedly used a previous transfer justifier to alter some data And here is when he turned the crime attributed to him and was aggravated and how wow And now doing and how that's how I took it So now doing the appropriate diligence with regard to alleged scam crimes and documentary forgery.

Now he's in a serious fucking thing. Without being known to suddenly or how of those initial 13,500 euros with which he knew the deal closed, some small contributions would have made Barbera. But now what is being investigated or what is underway is not a debt claim but a crime that would continue to be investigated. It is heard as you wish Barbera for the purposes of Andoran justice is in an unknown whereabouts. Upon discovering the forgery and all in all the police already asked the battalion for two things to issue a research and capture order and to promote the Scariant actions to try to close the vehicle locate the vehicle subject to fraudulent purchase sales

Holy shit. Okay. They said it seems at some point it was in the Valencian community and now they don't know where it is so I guess they said that he established his residence in the principality thanks to an authorization of sporting interest in 2014. And then they go kind of go on his fucking deal a little bit. February 2nd, 2023, he's in trouble with the law and officially accused of fraud and forgery. Oh no. Oh yeah.

The Mayor's Office of Andorra is investigating a fraud charge into falsification of documents and it's for this thing. They have issued a search warrant and an arrest warrant and they're unable to find him. So at the moment, this is 2023 and I haven't heard any updates so either they found him or he's still on the lam from Spanish authorities. This must be a very terrible crime that they're the punishment is severe. It's fucking insane. I mean this guy he's still being looked for. I mean suppose your name is Hector Barbera. I feel bad for you if you're that. Not nearly though, as bad as I feel.

For these poor people, Hector Barbera, senior software engineer at DocuSign in Seattle, Washington. Went to college in Valencia, by the way. He's like, please, I can't go back. He's worked at Microsoft. Hector Barbera, owner of the Tango and Malanga dancing school in Orlando, Florida. Of course, and Malanga. He's teaching you both. He doesn't care.

So if you're those people, I feel very bad for you because the cops are currently looking for you. February 9th, 2023, still under investigation, all about this. I guess his residency card for Andorra expired in 2019 and hasn't been renewed. So they believed now that he could be maintaining a residence in Valencia. Kentucky not in the mix, I see. No, not at all. So apparently, they're also looking at him for the theft of the motorcycle from the team as well So he's got a bunch of shit happening then on November 21st

2023 he signs with with another racing team What's happening the 2023? Bennett's BSB grid after agreeing with a one-year deal with tag Honda racing Oh tag racing Honda Yeah, yeah, so it just says Tag, it doesn't, yeah. So he says that, that's he signed with that, and he's 36. They said he's wanted by the police and for two different things. A lot of scamming and frauding here.

In this article, this little fluff piece about how great it is that he's signing with this team, never mentioned that that they say it'll be a baptism of fire for the man from Andorra after completing two races at Thruxton with a best finish of 26th in one race. So yeah, he said I'm very motivated to get going this season with tag racing. Returning to the British Superbike Series is very exciting and is a move I am looking most forward to. Also, it's not in Spain where I'm wanted by the police, which is also helpful. Right. Thank God.

That's good there. So the team manager said, Hector is a quality rider. He's proven that in the past, and with his experience of different championships and machines, we feel he's the right fit for us going forward. And we lock our shit up at night, so no worries there. Yeah, a lot of hadlocks. Including on the bar. We have a packed testing schedule, which is important.

The last few years, we have lacked solid testing time. So these dates, so to have these dates set in stone with the increased support behind the scenes from Honda Racing UK we believe we're on the right path. Hector is good now I'm sure he's not wanted anymore and he's doing fine. Can't get enough of this thieving woman hitting idiot fucking drunken asshole you can get a 2015 Hector Barbera signed Scorpion EXO Ducati Des Mazda Dichi GP 14 moto GP poster. I was a poster. It's a sign poster of him on a motorcycle There's like lightning coming off of all of it. It's like one of those

1999 here I'll show it $ you. $20 for a autograph? $20 for his autograph. Signed, wow, look at that bullshit. You get signed gloves from an ex-boxer for 20 bucks. I think we got 45 Keon Clark autographs for that price, didn't we? It's so many. And then finally, a Hector Barbera hand-signed,

I hope it's hand-signed. It better be, yeah. Six by four photo, there he is. That's the little asshole? Finally, a Hector Barbera hand signed, I hope it's hand signed, 6x4 photo. There he is. That's the little asshole? That's the little asshole. Yeah. Jesus, he looks so...

Like a child. He looks like a pussy. Like someone's 13 year old. He looks like a little pussy. Looks like if he fell off a motorcycle, he'd totally die, doesn't he? He'd explode. Yeah. It'd explode and die.

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No, no, no, no, no, no. Other producers this week. Catherine Cumberland, Michelle MacSell. Sorry about Poe, Michelle I hope you're doing all right. Peyton Meadows, Gina Morrow, Janice Hill, Alyssa B, Kelsey Mueller, Sam, maybe it's Mueller, Sam, Sexinski, Sexyinski. Wow, that's a great name. I'm a sexy polo.

Good for you, Sam. David would know last name. Matthew Root, Kristen Marie Brincevic-Baron, I think, Georgina White, Karen would know last name, Pam Van Shie, Van Shie, Valerie Perrette, Karen Keaton, Mike Dorling, Robert Martin, Joshua Worthy, Jordan Hawk, Tracy Oliver Lewis, Colton Murawski, Liz G, Riley Powell, Jake Schellenberg, Donna Jones, Melissa Tepner, Brevik, Kevin Anderson, Peter Carmichael, all right, just Carmichael. All right, Brandy T. Tre, Treachay, Trich,

Justin Thrash, Chance Ferguson, Cody Theberg, Karen Lee, Jay Anderson, Luke would know last name, Samantha Garrett, Amber Sky C, Becky Shesher, Shesher, David, no that's Scott, what? Scott Mulder, Dustin Leper, Jeremy Peterson, Cindy Baker, Ashley Culpepper, hey Ashley, Stephanie Martin, Paige DePaula, Ann Joy Ruth, George Robinson, John Colmiller,

and that gobble gobble, Watson, Jessica Adams, Ryan would know last name, Julie Garcia, Job would know last name, Chris would know last name, swipe keyboard is faster than text. I don't know if you know that, James. I've been told. Vishal. Can't do it.

Body with no last name. Emily Osborne. Cat with no last name. A haunted Arby's in Florida. Peter C. Aislinn. Fearon. Fearon.

Brooke Ditmar. Kenny with no last name. Sarah Beth Stone. Sonny Arazo. Jamie Herder Polly Bacchetto barely know her yeah Don Beavers I love the last name of Beavers it's so good that's got beaver herder and Beavers right in the come on next to each other

emberley amber lay amber lie Greenwood, Mother Trucker, Angela N, Eddie B, Oversoul Gaming, Bobby Artist, Steven, Steven Russell, Alan Kay, Jody Leeson, Sean with no last name, Kelly King, Tyler Southam, Kylie with no last name, Thomas Tarazowitz, what is this? Corey Matzo, Kate Cooper, Rachel Littlefield, Edward S Edward s Jason Livingston Dustin Matheny Alina Casey Susan Nelson Amy Barton Jerry Mills Jessica Cagnellotti Eric D. Suzes Suzayas Suza's Liz live Liv Hudson Lex would know last name Stacy Turner Joshua McCollum Hannah Barrett's Colt Colt wrote rotor Rutherkraut's Wow, nice router coos router coos router coos is even better Joshua McCollum, Hannah Barrett, Colt Rutter Krause.

Wow, nice. Router Kooz, Router Kooz. Router Kooz is even better. Route that Kooz right over here, big guy. That's it. Colleen Wilson, Therese Yarborough, Emily McGrath, Chris Puglisi, Ziggy Phil, Anna Gunderson, Nova Judd, Chris Butler, Alex Truska Joe Copeland Hey Joe Julie Julie Robertson nope just Roberts Sarah Kennedy Austin C Rachel Watson Danny Ladeau

Jackie Emerson Christina with no last name Katie Harker Brandon Wilt Morgan Ford Drew Pandal hand Pandal Pandal Panhandle at a junior think you're going for panhandle there panhandleetti Jr. I think you're going for Panhandleetti. Panhandleetti. Letty, it's an Italian panhandle. It's a Panhandleetti, come on. Drew with no last name. Ashley Kurtzinger, Krista Keller, Jade Grand, Angie Nemer, Jay Pizzle,

Alicia, can't say charcuterie. Nieva29, Amy, Nieva 29. Amy would know last name. Duck Rick. Kelly, Huns, Speth, Nina would know last name. Colin Bayer, Diddy, Diddy Axeman. Test subject, US. I don't want any Diddy's money.

Yikes, I don't want anything to do with that. Oh boy, I heard he ate somebody's asshole. That's crazy, crazy talk. Well, a stranger or someone who. Fam a guy. OK, not a lady. I don't want to repeat it. It's crazy. Just a lady went out. I was like, well, good for him. Get in there. You know, another guy just just being a gentleman to him.

Oh, that's I guess that's polite. I prefer to offer somebody a beer, but I mean, to each his own. Good for you, bud. Melissa Dinnett, Amanda Whitcomb, Ted Michael, Teresa with no last name, Nancy Webster, Luke McIngles, Megan Pearson, Elizabeth Zink, Sharon Brighton, Bywater, Bywater Reyes, Ashley Haude, Jacob Dumbia, I don't know,

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