Anaheim Two was badass. Here's the stuff that you didn't see on television.
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00:00Hey, I noticed you're a clean face today.
00:29What are you going to get at right now?
00:32Is that to improve the young tinder swipes?
00:35That's not your shit, dawg.
00:38Okay, on a serious note, I like the green highlights to match the monster, on the bike,
00:45the bar pad and the seat stripes.
00:48Why are you knocking stuff over?
00:50I don't know.
00:51The bike looks good.
00:52Huh?
00:53The bike looks good, huh?
00:54Even on you.
00:55You've got the green virus, you need like green shoelaces though.
01:02I'm going to have to mix it up.
01:03Huh?
01:04Yeah, I'm going to have to really add it to my kit here.
01:05So how's things going?
01:06Good.
01:07How's team manager life two weeks in?
01:08Busy.
01:09Yeah?
01:10Yeah, real busy, but hey, we all work together so well here that it's, I think it's going
01:16really smooth right now.
01:17Do you have a deeper voice over the intercom now because you're the boss?
01:22No.
01:23No, I definitely don't.
01:25It's just the same.
01:26I still haven't hit puberty, so until that happens, it's not going to change.
01:29And you had quite the debut as team manager, first and second.
01:33No, that was, I don't know, you couldn't dream a better performance than that.
01:37Did you get a sweet bonus for that?
01:40Yeah, high fives from the whole crew.
01:42That's what it's all about here.
01:44Yeah?
01:45Well, what's the Tinder account name?
01:49It doesn't matter.
01:51I'm not going to swipe right though.
01:54Two rounds in.
01:55I expect you on the box by now.
01:58Yeah.
01:59Expect yourself on the box by now?
02:01Yeah, I mean, honestly, my riding's been pretty well.
02:04Starts just haven't been too good.
02:07It's funny, like you expect me to be on the box now, but like coming up, no one really
02:11expected me to ride, you know, be riding as good as what I am right now.
02:14So we've definitely made progress.
02:16I feel good on my bike.
02:17It's all good.
02:18Like I said, just need better starts.
02:22So, after Anaheim won, when I did the How was your weekend with you and Adam?
02:26Yeah, yeah.
02:27There was like a tension there, right?
02:28Yeah, yeah.
02:29But then I saw a picture of you guys talking at Phoenix.
02:30Yeah.
02:31It's all squash?
02:32Yeah, no, it was, I mean, I got the call from AMA Sunday, which was like a surprise for
02:37me.
02:38But I said, I'm like, man, maybe he did protest, like someone protested.
02:41I thought it was him.
02:42And then Saturday down at Glendale, like I just kind of like, all right, he's like walking
02:46down the gates.
02:47I'm like, all right, I'll just walk by him.
02:48I'm like, whatever.
02:49I ain't there.
02:50Be awkward.
02:51I'm like, we're just kind of sitting each other looking at gates.
02:52And he's like, RJ, let's not make this awkward.
02:54And I was like, all right, well, what do you want to talk about?
02:57So, he didn't know he ran me that high.
02:59And then I just told him I was fuming.
03:01So, yeah, it's over with.
03:03So, I asked him the same question.
03:05If it came down to gloves and shorts and a boxing ring, who would take it?
03:10Oh, me 100%.
03:12What was his answer?
03:13You 100%.
03:14Yeah, yeah.
03:15I was going to say, I feel like I'm a little bit scrappy.
03:17Like, I don't know.
03:18He's tall and kind of lengthy.
03:20I mean, I think I'd have that one.
03:22Hey, good luck tonight.
03:23Thanks.
03:24All right, so, how's life changed?
03:27Life has changed in the fact that I'm coming to the races.
03:30And that's about it.
03:32I still love racing the same.
03:33I still live in the same house with my dad.
03:36I have a new car.
03:37That's great.
03:38Did you take the all out?
03:40Or are you taking payments?
03:41There's only one option.
03:42I know people like to think that there's like two.
03:44But there's no, they didn't call me up.
03:47Asked me.
03:48They just sent a check to my house with a film crew and a big limo and some champagne.
03:52Straight up, million dollar check.
03:53Absolutely.
03:54I got the frame, got it in my house.
03:55Oh, shit.
03:56On the wall.
03:57It's great.
03:58So, did you save the taxes yet?
03:59Dude, I haven't paid taxes, but I'm scared.
04:01But I haven't spent anywhere near enough to not eligible, like make me eligible to pay taxes.
04:06Yeah, yeah.
04:07So, I still got taxes, you know, in my mind.
04:09Set away.
04:10So, you're using the money to travel to the races?
04:13No, Monster Energy's helping me out with that.
04:15Oh, nice.
04:16Other than that, you know, I'm just doing what I like to do.
04:18I'm going to buy a bike, but I'd like to find a place out in Cali before I do that.
04:21Yeah, yeah.
04:22Because it's like snowing where I'm at.
04:23There's no way to ride.
04:24Yeah.
04:25So, what car did you buy?
04:26I bought a 2017 used Subaru WRX.
04:29Oh.
04:3014,000 miles.
04:31Pretty used.
04:32Did you go and talk to Cole Seeley about drifting?
04:34Oh, I know.
04:35Cole Seeley.
04:36I ran into him, but I didn't know if he wanted to talk drift, you know, at the races.
04:39But I saw him at the signing.
04:40Honda signing.
04:41He was cool.
04:42Nice, nice.
04:43Right on, man.
04:44All right, man.
04:46Nice meeting you.
04:55Check out the lit kit.
05:02Frank's pissed at you, Don.
05:04Why is Frank mad at me?
05:05Frank's pissed at you, dude.
05:06You're betraying him.
05:08Look at my shirt.
05:09Okay.
05:11All right.
05:12Let me see it.
05:16Oh, Neil.
05:18Just making sure.
05:20Just doing my job.
05:29Man, Weston, every time I see you, you look better and better.
05:32It must be good to be out and about.
05:34Yeah, it is.
05:35It's a slow process since the injury went up, but I can definitely say every week it's
05:41getting better.
05:43You know, I can start to do more everyday things, you know, like drive and get around
05:47better.
05:48And I'm starting to do a little bit of working out now just to kind of, you know, get off
05:51the couch and not be stuck on that all the time.
05:54And like I said, yeah, it's going well.
05:57The body's starting to heal everything and my face is starting to feel better.
06:01I got all the hardware out of my mouth and my jaw.
06:04Not my jaw, but everything that was lying in my teeth and everything is all out now.
06:08Just kind of taking it week to week and, you know, doing everything I can and doing hypobaric
06:13and like I said, everything I can possibly do to try to help the swelling and everything
06:19get better.
06:20Have you eaten yet?
06:22Yes, I've been actually starting to eat normal food for the last two weeks now.
06:27What was the first thing you ate?
06:30I was actually in Houston visiting my fiance's family and we went to this Rudy's BBQ place
06:38and they had the most tender brisket there.
06:40So that was the first thing I ate was brisket.
06:42And as soon as I could chew that, I ate that for five days straight for lunch and dinner
06:48because I was so sick of eating soup.
06:50So that was my first indulgence in some food.
06:54So you said you're driving.
06:56Has your vision improved at all?
06:58Yeah, so I started driving about two weeks ago and my left eye is definitely cleared
07:03up a lot.
07:05I can almost see 100% out of my left eye and then my right eye is still a little bit of
07:11a struggle.
07:12About three weeks ago, I went from having no vision in my right eye to now I have like
07:19I'd say like a 5% sliver of vision out of my right eye now.
07:22And it's been about the same for about three weeks.
07:25So I'm hoping that something is starting to happen in my head and the connection from
07:31my optic nerve to my brain.
07:33I'm hoping that it'll slowly start to get more and more as time goes on and that's
07:39all I can kind of hope for right now.
07:41So when you say 5% sliver, is it like just a blur of color?
07:46No, I have to close my left eye completely to even focus to see out of that right eye.
07:54But what I mean by a sliver is like if I close my left eye and I looked at you, I could only
08:00see your eyeballs and that's it.
08:03I couldn't see your forehead or your nose.
08:04It's like a very small partial vision.
08:07Dude, that's promising and encouraging, right?
08:09Yeah, I know it is.
08:10The day I was able to see out of that, I was like tripping.
08:13I was like, holy crap, is this happening?
08:16Is this real?
08:17So I was stoked to have that.
08:19But like I said, it's just a slow process and I'm hoping to have at least a full recovery
08:25in a few months.
08:27So how's everything else going?
08:31Road to recovery, all the stuff's going well?
08:33Yeah, everything on the road to recovery is going awesome.
08:35They've been killing it.
08:36They've been doing a lot of donations and a lot of auction stuff.
08:39So I'm super happy with everything that's gone down with them.
08:43We're still continuing to do stuff with them and they're continuing to do stuff as well.
08:47So I'm pretty happy with everything that's been going on.
08:50Has the fan support been overwhelming?
08:53Do you realize now that you have more fans than you thought you had?
08:56Yeah, the fans have been crazy.
08:58There's so much support and love out there and a lot more than I even thought.
09:02People reaching out and helping out and giving me positive feedback and prayers and all that kind of stuff.
09:08So it's been eye-opening of how much the community and how many fans have really came out.
09:13It's awesome.
09:15It's awesome to see you.
09:16Thanks for catching up.
09:17Yeah, thank you guys.
09:18Take it easy.