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Chad Kerley sits down to a series of memorable questions while enjoying his “Smoke Show” old fashion. Highlighting past stories from his professional career, upbringings & all-around funny stories from the past, this episode is full of belly laughs.

Name: Bailey “Baggage” Painter
Age: 21
Hometown: Norwich, United Kingdom
Hook ups: Revolt, Quarter Forest, Under&Over.

The FAT FAVs list:

-Spot to ride: Anywhere where good vibes are.
-BMX video: Redbull Raditudes.
-Website: Wherever I can learn what I need to know.
-Food: Whatever delicious meal me and my girlfriend make.
-Person on insta: I enjoy everyone’s insta in different ways, so depends on the mood I’m in.
-Travel destination: I’ve been lucky enough to travel with my BMX since 14 and every trip was life changing, so I don’t really have a favourite because the whole world is my favourite.
-Riders to ride with: Everyone, everyone's got their own unique riding, which means new

Name: Darren Van Wyk
Age: 32
Hometown: Waterfall, South Africa
Hook-ups/Sponsors: Del Boys online shop

The FAT favorite list:

-Web video: Colt Fake (Banned 3)
-Food: Chakalaka

Name: Jordan Clark
Age: 24
Hometown: Chichester, England
Sponsors: Hyper bmx 

The FAT FAVs list:

Spot to ride: Asylum skatepark
Video: Any video with with bangers
Food: Pizza
-Person on Instagram: Rwilly 
-Travel destination: Barcelona
-Riders to ride with: All the homies
-Car: AMG GTR
-Movie: Deadpool 
-Colour: Pink
-Shoes: Vans 
-Bike company: Hyper 
-BMX contest: Fise Montpellier 

How did we get here? I had a brief conversation with Chris about potentially co-hosting a month or two ago and we landed on a single name: Harold McGruther. A true icon behind the scenes. Intelligent, polarizing, hilarious, and after 40 years of growing, building, and marketing brands, he's a true wealth of crazy stories, historical facts, and insight. Truly an honor to have McGoo sit down and run through his timeline and scratch the surface of his long history in the BMX industry....

The latest episode of the Union Tapes is live now featuring none other than BMX legend Taj Mihelich. In this episode: "What can anyone say about this guy that hasn’t been said? I'm not even going to try, you know why you're here and this is a good deep dive into some of the mystery surrounding Taj. Topics we cover on this one besides the usual stuff are first sponsor, how he got into jumping, the sponsor line up throughout the years, multiple S&M Holmes frames, moving around the USA, the infamous UGP Face Value part, going from Standard Bykes to Hoffman Bikes to starting T-1 with Joe Rich, where the name Terrible One originated.

Some of the ideals behind T-1 Airwalk shoe sponsor, Small bars, Primo signature parts, Backyard jam experiences, Etnies shoes BMX programme and signature shoes. Multiple trick inventions, his approach to riding BMX and how it should feel, injuries, riding for Giant and almost everything else you’d want to know!"

Click the link below to watch it now.

Name: Krists Kanuks
Age: 25
Hometown: Kuldiga, Latvia
Hook-ups/Sponsors: hoodshop.eu

The FAT favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Streets of Barcelona or skatepark in my hometown
-BMX video: Deadline
-Website: hoodshop.eu

-Name: Marek Beliak
-Age: 18
-Hometown: Vilnius, LTU
-Hook-ups/Sponsors: PARbmx shop, akieron.store

The FAT FAVs list:

-Spot to ride: My local skatepark
-BMX video: Federal FTS
-Website: parbmx.com
-Web video: Stevie Churchill; OSS 2014, Lewis Mills; fiending, Sean Ricany; no hype.
-Food: Anything
-Person on Instagram: Any BMX rider I follow
-Travel destination: Barcelona

Name: Ron Artur Kork
Age: 21
Hometown: Elva, Estonia
Hook-ups/Sponsors: PEOPLE U RARELY EYE

The FAT favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Elva Skateplaza
-BMX video: Sean Ricany “NO HYPE”

Name: Siim Ennuvere
Age: 28
Hometown: Tallinn, Estonia
Hook-ups/Sponsors: No sponsors, been riding for fun for about 15 years

The FAT favorite list:

-Spot to ride: Kopli skatepark & streets of Tallinn
-BMX video: Fiend Deadline & any Vans video
-Website: Sourcebmx & Kunstform
-Web video: Simone Barraco in Shadow's what could go wrong
-Food: Grilled meat and potatos with sauce
-Twitter to follow: Elon Musk