Season 2, Episode 8. Our first fly-in guest. Brad Simms has, bar none, been our most requested guest and it just so happens that he won himself a NORA Cup Award...so I hit him up and we made it happen. Enjoy!

0:00 - Intro / Why Brad is here
2:19 - “For a while I was kind of angry”
5:30 - Brad’s torrid background
10:00 - Where the travel kicked off.
16:10 - Sleeping on dirt floors in Indonesia
19:45 - Getting stuck in Kyrgyzstan for a month
24:45 - Traveling having an adverse effect on his career. 
29:10 - “I’ve been told no by 90% of the companies in BMX”
33:15 - “If I can’t make it happen in six months, I’ll fade out…”
37:55 - Brad’s approach to the insta clips he films
43:10 - Doing it for the likes
46:50 - How did he end up on Fit
49:55 - “Do you think you’re a better rider now than ever?”
51:50 - Instagram sponsorship weirdness
57:40 - Filming a video part vs Instagram clip
1:00:40 - Surprising Brad with his Reader’s Choice Rider Of The Year NORA Cup

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