Host Jessica Kleinschmidt interviews 15-time AMA motorcycle champion and NBC analyst for the Monster Energy AMA Supercross series Ricky Carmichael. Jessica and Ricky discuss a wide range of topics including hating racing as a kid, his displeasure with the "GOAT" nickname, racing in NASCAR, and more.For even more discussion, head over to awfulannouncing.com and follow us on Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, TikTok, Bluesky, and YouTube: @awfulannouncing.-2:51: Welcome Ricky Carmichael to Short and to the Point-3:03: Transition from racer to commentator to host-5:59: Starting out in broadcasting-8:08: Evolution of social media during Ricky’s career-10:41: What is Ricky not good at?-13:56: Importance of having confidence, or lack thereof-15:51: Respecting opponents/being hard on yourself-16:49: Hating racing at the beginning-20:14: Racing feeling like a job-22:40: High school-24:04: Giving advice-27:31: Revisiting the GOAT farm-31:39 Baseball-36:19: Catering to younger crowd in motorsports-37:56: Being called the “GOAT”-41:27: Hall of Fame voting talk-43:40: Retirement-48:06: Comfortable with embracing retirement-48:31: NASCAR racing-49:49: Difficulty going from motorcycles to NASCAR-51:48: Keeping racing mentality going from motorcycles to NASCAR-53:11: Daytona race track design-56:22: What goes into track design?-57:37: James Stewart's growth as an analyst Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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