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Ride it Until the Wheels Fall Off | Travis Pastrana | Ep. 439
30 Mar 2026
Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Okay, got the red smoke.
Gun runs north and south, west of the smoke, west of the smoke.
Okay, copy, west of the smoke. I'm looking at danger close now.
Come on, win it, baby, give it to me, I need it. Get cleared hot. Copy, cleared hot.
Let's go more modern day first. I want to hear about... Are we already filming? I don't know. It depends. Michael, did you hit the button? Yeah, we're going. Perfect. NASCAR. How'd it go?
That's the most recent thing you did, right? You know, I think my daughter said it the best. So I convinced her to come down to watch this NASCAR race. Anytime you race Daytona. I mean, I won my... I met Evel Knievel there. I won my first ever Supercross there. Daytona is just kind of a special place as far as racing and bike week and everything. Plus, it's warm in the winter.
So it's where our family kind of always went. My dad always had a Harley. So...
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Chapter 2: How does Travis Pastrana approach racing strategies?
30, my daughter, she either was going to go to cheer to watch her sister or she was going to come down with me to Daytona. And she's like, ah, it's a, which didn't seem like a toss up to me, but she's like kind of playing it back and forth. She goes, okay. She's like, but dad, are you going to be competitive? Because I know you're really not good. No, she's honest.
Like rear wheel drive and pavement. She's like, you're pretty bad at this. Like, am I just going to be bored watching you run around on 15th? And I'm thinking 15th will probably be decent for me. But I'm like, no. I'm like, we're going to get up there. We're going to get in the fight. But our strategy is to stay in the back. And while all these guys take each other out...
like the top 10 or so people will generally crash out. So they start with a field of 40 or 42 and usually 25 finish in general.
So I'm like- This is like the lead up to the late mullets that I, this is the brief I got from Bucky. Right. He was like, dude, if you can just get me a car that isn't totally jacked. Also, by the way, I'm not a good race car driver. So I'm like, yeah, I'll hang out in the back non-consensually. But you did great. We'll get to that in a second here.
Let's finish this.
But what you're describing though is the same thing. He was like, dude, they're all, he's like, we're going to start with a bunch of cars. He goes last year, like six finished.
Now let's take one step back and say to stay on the lead lap at any event with the best drivers in the world is difficult. You have to, they are fighting, especially Daytona. Yeah. So Daytona, if you miss the draft, you're gone. And everyone in the back of that field is trying to get as few cars on that lead draft as possible. And it's,
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Chapter 3: What insights does Travis share about his daughter's perspective on competition?
The drafting is something that didn't fall into any motorcycle racing or any rally or anything I've ever done.
And just for clarity, you're talking about tucking up behind somebody and getting a little pull behind them when you say drafting?
So I had a 400-page brief before the Daytona 500. 400? 400 pages on where you could slow down cars, where you could draft to slow down your whole row. Because they're talking about, hey, we want to get our teammates up here. So how can I slow down this row?
So you can slow down the person in front of you, which slows down the person in front of them by simply being off different sides and different manufacturers actually draft slightly different. So if you're an afford or it's anyway.
So this is well past the days of what people think it was just rednecks making left-hand turns, just banging into each other.
Now, it's still rednecks making left-hand turns, and I tell you, they're really, really good at it. Like, really good. It's down. In every other sport that I go to, people say I'm over-competitive. It's like that meet the Fockers, like, it's just a game, Focker. Yeah. When I go to NASCAR, and this is a, we've already been on five teams.
I haven't got to my point, but I'm going to finish this story. So I go down on a team, Team USA. I've got basically Kyle Busch. He says, look, we can't beat this one rally driver. He's just, he's faster than us at everything. You know, but I heard his buddies are here. They all want to drink. They're using this as a party weekend. He's like, you're the best drinker on the team.
I was like, he's like, Let's just be realistic here. We need you to outdrink these guys. I was like, all right. We want Petter Solberg so drunk that he cannot stand up tomorrow. So at 4 o'clock in the morning, I did everything I could and had all my friends and all his friends. Petter Solberg, I mean, one of my heroes. Great dude. But he could not stand up.
He would not have passed a breathalyzer. He could not physically... walk out of his hotel room the next morning. Well, I get a call at 6 a.m. from Kyle, and he's like, where are you? I'm like, I did my job. We're not supposed to be there till nine. He's like, Get over here. So we get to the venue. He has every single of the different manufacturers for race champions.
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Chapter 4: How does Travis manage risks in action sports?
Let's bring as many people around as we can. But again, different tangents. So.
you have Cleese McFarland I kind of talked him up and got him bypassed a few rules and we are in the race we got him a good car you know he out qualifies me he out qualifies Stenhouse on our team so he does he's very as a student he's like all right get through the gears lock your elbows even if power steering goes I mean the entire field separated by three tenths of a second
So it's no mistakes. And he nails his lap. Absolutely perfect. Qualifies, you know, 12th. I think I qualify 14th.
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You know, we have really similar cars and restricted plate racing isn't what the talent level you need for the other races. I'm a mid back of the pack guy. NASCAR driver. I don't do pavement drafting. I don't really understand. But anyway, we were in there. So Cletus McFarland goes out and I'm like, Cletus, drop to the back.
I'm like, it acts differently when you're two wide, when you're three wide. Figure out what these drafts, how the poles work. It's just, it's... Oh, because when he qualifies, he's out there by himself, isn't he? So he's never driven a truck in traffic. He qualifies... Except for that day. And on lap seven... Cletus had the option, so he's three wide. It steps out. It stepped out for me.
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Chapter 5: What does Travis Pastrana say about decision-making at high speeds?
You just shut everything off and do exactly what the person in front of you is telling you what to do.
It's also scary because you have to make sure that you're, you know, and I guess you have to understand, you have to know the people that you're listening to are the people that.
Your resume is pretty well established.
I appreciate it.
And again, the people in the shooting world, you're talking about like IPSC, three gun, multiple time, like grand masters and world champions. When the dude shows up, the resume can be put to the side because it's like, here's the last 30 years of him crushing everybody. And when that guy says like, hey, this is how I hold a gun, I don't know. Maybe just do exactly how he holds the gun.
Maybe that won't work based off the gear you're wearing or whatever it is. But if you can take those fundamentals and principles, you blow people out of the water. The whole job is about your ability to learn and solve problems. That's actually what it comes down to.
And I think the training pipeline on both of those pathways, Navy side or Army side, it looks for those people that are willing to do that and can kind of get out of their own way. That's no ego.
Oh, there's plenty of ego there, but they can turn it off for a little bit while they're learning. well, they understand what it takes to get there. No, and to be fair, so I'm going to take a step back on this too.
So I've been honored, blessed, fortunate to work with a lot of really cool people that are kind of a lot of athletes, a lot of Olympians, a lot of, and since, so my dad had always done just a dinner or whatever he could for Walter Reed. And we started doing it bigger and bigger as we, you know, a lot of them missing limbs, missing stuff.
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Chapter 6: How does Travis Pastrana balance family life with his extreme sports career?
And a lot of those were actually motorcycle. crashes actually, uh, that end up at there. So we're only like 16 miles from Walter Reed hospital. Um, so we brought into Montana and some music, uh, guys and whatever. And then black rifle started being a part of it and allowing us to kind of help more and more veterans through the year and in different times of the year.
And, um, black rifle kind of uses, we call it Pastrana land, just my backyard. Basically. Um, we've got motorcycles and can-ams and four wheelers and, um,
shooting range and pretty much whatever you could want to do as far as rednecks are concerned and they say look so they bring over you know people like like we were just talking about and they said we can't film anything today nothing gets filmed like give them a good show bring shoot bike tommy over to barbecue for them shoot the shit and this is just kind of a and brcc has given me
which is really, really cool. Like kind of carte blanche on whatever this costs, whatever vehicles are destroyed. Hubert doesn't like it as much, our mechanic. Dude, and even just. We can break some stuff.
I will have to say I've never had a day when more vehicles have been broken or that I've had more fun in my life than last year when those boys came over and not one bit of it was captured on film. And that was almost the most refreshing thing that I've ever done. I did need to sleep for two days after that 24 hours, but it was pretty amazing.
Yeah, they come from a world where when the vehicle breaks, you just like, hey, I'd need another one of those. And they say, okay. Our mechanic Hubert was not as excited as I was.
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Chapter 7: What are the challenges of owning a wind tunnel?
Well, when you have an unlimited checkbook somehow tied to taxpayer dollars, it makes it a little bit easier to just go ahead and there's a dent or a scratch on the paint of the helicopter. Like, oh yeah, just get another one. It's totally fine. Put that one somewhere else. I don't want to see it again. But they were extremely respectful. They're awesome people.
A lot of people think, and you probably can attest to this with your time with them, people think that they're almost like superhero characters. They're some of the most normal people. They're very average in a lot of ways. I would say they're outside of maybe... I don't even necessarily want to say average. They have a different skillset.
They're trained and refined to go down a different pipeline and a different skillset, but they're still just your normal person. And most people would walk by them every day and not even know the difference.
and they get it done. And that's- They do get it done. It's fun having people over that when something flips down a hill and lands on them and they jump back up, durable, with a smile, going, what's next?
Speaking of durability, Michael, you know what picture to pull up. Uh-oh.
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Chapter 8: What life lessons does Travis Pastrana share about pursuing passions?
I just, no, I think this is probably, if it's what I think, this is not accurate. Nope. I've got way more metal than that.
Are you telling me that this is AI or this is just not up to date?
And I feel really bad actually now saying this because I've had multiple people come up to me and say, hey, man, I didn't think I was going to make it through this injury or this whatever. And I saw your x-ray and I see what you're doing now. And they cry and they're like, give me a hug. I don't have the heart usually to say like that. is not actually my x-ray.
I keep trying to get it taken down or pulled. No way. But no, so. This has fooled me many times. Is at least that accurate? I mean, I've got a lot of that same stuff, but no, I mean, that is, so I do have a right knee, a left hip, A lot of that stuff through the pelvic area. I've got two longer screws through the back, but not as much up the back.
Do you have any idea whose body this actually is?
I feel bad for him.
Someone that got hit really hard by something. I mean, God, if this isn't you, I want to know what this person does for a living. Like, did you get run over by a steamroller? This had to be one accident. Or it's total BS and somebody just made this. How did this catch? When did you first see this?
Oh, so probably about two years ago, it started showing up. But the bad part is now I've had a lot of people that I know that have like reposted it. Guys like Ryan Sheckler. And I'm like, I don't. Your own homies are spreading the rumors? Yeah.
I mentioned it once on a podcast and then I talked to a few of my buddies and now I'm like, I get it so often where people come to me and they're like, literally give me a hug. And like, I saw the x-ray and I just, it gave me the motivation. So I almost feel bad even saying no to this now, but I am not a liar, but yeah, but yeah, that person, I feel horrible for that person.
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