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From Speedway Champion to School Vice Captain: Anika Loftus
Anika Loftus, Australia's youngest female Speedway champion, joins us to discuss her remarkable journey from racing motorcycles at age four to becoming a three-time national titleholder while balancing life as a high school student and performer.
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Speaker 2:You may notice we have a little bit of a different setup than usual, and that's because we are joined by a very special guest, which I'm going to let you introduce because I can't say her name Annika Loftus, welcome.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the podcast. Say hi to your camera, babe Hi.
Speaker 2:Annika is the youngest female Australian champion for Speedway, am I correct? Well, yes, so humble, because I did do some Google, because if we've learned anything is that I am a stalker. You hold three of the four Australian titles. Yes, I do, and you were the youngest perlue to do so.
Speaker 1:Yes, oh, she's so humble, guys, she's so humble. But before we obviously get into interviewing you, we always, as everybody knows, we start our podcast off. How was your week? Oh, we're starting with me.
Speaker 2:How was your week?
Speaker 1:Oh girl, it's been a week. It's been a week, um. I have just been so overwhelmed and stressed lately and it has like I know. Last episode I said that, but like today, it's gotten worse it's gotten really bad.
Speaker 1:Last night I nearly cried. Oh babe, I had a rant to my parents and I I had to stop myself from crying. I was like stop, like you're not like this. I was like this is a bit dramatic, like you don't need to cry, like stop. And I got myself a hot chocolate and I was like, shush, you don't need to cry, shove the emotions down. Yeah, so I've had, I've had a week. Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 2:You know what this week has really tested my will to live. I don't know what's in the air. It certainly isn't love, but I cannot feel the love tonight. Instead, all I feel is this unbridled rage and hatred and murderous intent. You know actually what I was thinking. I was talking about this this morning in the car ride to school. I say some pretty unhinged things. You will soon find out. I say some pretty questionable things which, in the context of the podcast, is like oh, lol, hashtag funny, but it's, you know, not to be taken seriously. But let's say, I accidentally get involved in a murder trial and then they take quotes from this and they're like you said that you had a bad week and you woke up with murderous intent and I'm like, I plead the fifth, like what am I?
Speaker 2:supposed to say?
Speaker 1:to that Just quickly on that note, Annika, if we, if she not we, if she says something and it makes you uncomfortable. You don't have to answer it. I have no, you don't have to answer it.
Speaker 2:I have no. You read my questions. Thank you very much. I feel targeted. Is it because I'm an immigrant? Is that what's happening here, solan, oh? Welcome to the already like Well, we are overdramatic and we are problematic. And in saying that, annika, how was your week?
Speaker 3:I have had such an eventful week. Oh, it's been so busy. Tuesday was like hectic for me. We had like awards evenings at school and everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:So that was pretty fun, I think you have something to announce. Oh, I got school vice captain which was very cool.
Speaker 2:That's very exciting. She has a badge guys. We saw the patch today. It's shiny, it's gorgeous, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1:We love not only is she sporty and talented and we will also get into the other talents later but she is now a vice captain of our whole school represent.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's amazing. I'm so proud and honored um and then I had my birthday on Wednesday which was really nice happy birthday, thank you. And then I got my peers. That's so exciting. Oh, you've had your peers for a week a little, I think it's been like nearly a week yeah oh god yeah how do you feel it's a lot of having you out here on the highways? Yeah, yeah, oh, it's hectic, the trucks scare me, yeah, like even on my L's.
Speaker 1:They scare me but um yes it, does it taste like freedom?
Speaker 3:freedom. Yes, you guys need to get your piece as soon as possible.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited. So I have had my L's for about a month now and I'm very, very proud to announce that I have an entire 43 minutes to my name. I'm proud, I'm proud, it's a start it's a start, okay, look, you know what I try and that's the most I can do. Some of my car rides have literally been five minutes long, like it's.
Speaker 1:That's so I had my birthday like three months ago and I have 52 hours. You are bragging.
Speaker 2:This is learn from Annika. Do you see how Annika is humble? Learn, Teach yourself.
Speaker 1:Learn woman Today interviewing her. Maybe I'll be able to learn some like key things to help me become more humble. Some kindness, god, key things to help me become more humble Some kindness, God, we have our week out of the way and obviously, like whoever's listening, I hope your week was good. Yes, how?
Speaker 2:was your week no.
Speaker 1:You don't say oh my God Were you also waiting this whole time to listen to Annika on this podcast?
Speaker 2:Oh my, God, that's so exciting. No, I get that. I feel that Well, since you were so excited, why don't we get started?
Speaker 1:and ask some questions. Okay, I think we need to start off with a really basic question what is Speedway?
Speaker 2:Because I did look at, like I said, I did google you and I still don't know.
Speaker 1:And the reason we have Annika on this podcast as well. Not only is she incredible, but, you probably know, we don't know anything about sport Neither, so we need to know what Speedway is.
Speaker 2:Genuinely, I get winded going up a flight of stairs Like it's bad.
Speaker 1:I have to pretend that the stairs at school don't take me out.
Speaker 2:No, literally I sit in class.
Speaker 1:I'm like Okay, annika Speedway yes, explain.
Speaker 3:What is Speedway? Okay, so Speedway is obviously a motorcycle. It has no brakes and no gears.
Speaker 2:Oh, no brakes. Yes, so you enjoy toying with life and death. I wouldn't say that.
Speaker 3:I just like the thrill, you know.
Speaker 2:Adrenaline donkey over here. Whoever would have thought.
Speaker 1:What's the difference between Speedway and like motocross? What is motocross? It's like motorbikes.
Speaker 3:It's motorbikes.
Speaker 2:It's like vroom vroom, yeah, like vroom vroom, yes.
Speaker 3:So motorcycles, they have brakes.
Speaker 1:To start with.
Speaker 3:They have brakes and they have capacities up to 450 cc's and my speedway bike is Is that cubic capacity?
Speaker 1:No, what the hell is that You'll?
Speaker 3:get it. What cc's I actually don't know myself. Wait, how such.
Speaker 1:Wait, I told you though, annika, actually, just so you know.
Speaker 3:I'm having a mind blank guys.
Speaker 1:So she's not embarrassed. Annika actually taught me what CC is and I didn't remember. Um, oh, it's a. I was right, it's cubic capacity. Cubic capacity is a measurement of volume of a motorcycle's engine chamber, which is cubic capacity. Yes, you say that, like I know what any of that means. Well, hopefully whoever's listening they know what it means. Okay, well, but anyways. So you were saying the cubic capacity is different?
Speaker 3:Yes, so on a motorcycle like a dirt bike, which is what they refer it to as 450. I'm pretty sure it goes higher as well, but that's all I know, so is this how fast you can go on the motorbike? Mm-hmm, that's how fast it can go, but normally you're only go up to like 70 or 80 kilometers per hour, okay, mm-hmm. And then on my speedway bike that I race is 500 CC, yes, but obviously there's no gears.
Speaker 2:so Wait, this just gets worse. Yeah, again, this feels like a sport that was invented because someone was accidentally trying to not accidentally, was purposely trying to kill their cousin, and then their cousin survived. It was like, oh, dude, that was kind of fun, give it a try. And they were like, oh my God, yeah, let's turn this into a sport. So Like, oh my God, yeah, let's turn this into a sport. So how?
Speaker 3:many people die from this? Oh oh, there has been. It's a pretty high-risk sport, so there's heaps of like crashes if you, you know, aren't riding correctly or you get hit by someone, just like I was. So, you know, there's heaps of racing incidents, but try to avoid them. Well, you would hope so how do you stop? So how I stop is basically just you've got to pull the clutch in clutch control and then bring it to a stop.
Speaker 2:You pray for the best, basically.
Speaker 1:So you just keep on like rolling until it comes to a stop.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or you can like dig your heel in and do a little like whip. What about break your?
Speaker 2:heel.
Speaker 3:No, we wear these really good like protective gear.
Speaker 1:I wear a suit, so I feel like a superwoman half the time, and you know what you will really love Maria. What Her suit is? Pink, hot pink.
Speaker 2:Oh, as it should be. And her bike is pink. I love that I. And her bike is pink. I love that, I love that so much.
Speaker 1:I recommend looking up Annika Loftus on Instagram and looking at her bike, because genuinely you look like a Barbie doll.
Speaker 2:and then you're riding around in this pink bike and like you're wearing your little pink suit, like okay, mongo Robbie, I see you. Yeah, such a baddie.
Speaker 1:Like I don't know. Like do people act differently when you tell them that you're this champion at motorbikes? Well, speedways.
Speaker 3:I feel like they just they're a bit shocked actually, because they look at me and they think like, oh, you're not, you don't look like the type to race a motorcycle because I'm not saying anything against like girls and racing or anything, but like I love feminine things, yeah, like I love my earrings, earrings, I love my gold jewelry and I feel like they expect someone who's more like, yeah, like a drunk boy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, hardcore, yeah.
Speaker 2:So you mentioned that you had an accident like you look like the princess or expecting the poor, but like that type of vibe, you mentioned just before that you had an accident.
Speaker 1:Yeah, where, where did that happen? What, what happened?
Speaker 3:so at the time I was competing in the world championships over in Germany.
Speaker 1:Okay, yes, representing Australia. Yes, oh my God.
Speaker 3:And I had this really cool Australian suit on and everything. Yeah, very stylish.
Speaker 2:See, that's what happened. She was wearing the pink suit. It was bad luck.
Speaker 3:I think the same thing, but we're over there and I made it all the way through to the finals Amazing, which was really good, because I was the youngest competing and it was open, so I was racing 30-year-old females.
Speaker 1:Wow, yes, I was pretty proud and you were 16 at the time. Yeah, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:So it was pretty cool to be the youngest competitor. And then when I got into the final race, we all have to choose, like a helmet color. So red is the inside, blue, white, yellow, yeah, moving out, um, and I chose yellow because at the time the track was so difficult to ride, it had been rotted out so much so I was just trying my best to keep it on two wheels. Yeah, um, and we went off the start and as we're going around the first corner, um, the girl in front of me, we um, clipped tires. And when we clipped tires, that threw me off my bike and I went under the airbags. And then the girl in front of me.
Speaker 3:The bike doesn't have brakes, doesn't have gears, but it has an airbag well, they have airbags around the circuit which stops us from hitting the wall.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, unfortunately. Yeah, so it was on the like wall of the circuit.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but unfortunately the girl who was in front of me. When she came off she went into the wall. Oh my God. So she was worse off than me, so I was very lucky that I didn't have as bad breaks or anything, but it was still unbrushed, but you did have breaks. Yes, so what did you break? So I snapped my collarbone. No, no.
Speaker 2:Immediately would have quit, would have quit. Would, have quit, would have left.
Speaker 3:She came back to it.
Speaker 2:She hasn't quit In the first place, Wouldn't have even done it in the first place. You're a tempting. Done it in the first. You are tempting fate, Babe. Literally take this as a sign from Beyonce herself. No, why, it doesn't have brakes, it doesn't have gears. All you do is ride at 500 cc's an hour, whatever that means, and you zoom, zoom and you can't even brake without breaking your ankle, Her collarbone, and you break your collarbone. And then the literal track is like is it even a proper track? Is it like a dirt track.
Speaker 3:What does that look like? So it's a dirt track.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, unacceptable.
Speaker 3:No, I was basically just laying under these airbags for like a solid hot five minutes and I was just like under there and I was talking to myself. I was like I wasn't passed out, like under there and I was talking to myself.
Speaker 2:I was like I wasn't passed out, I wasn't unconscious, which was really lucky yeah, that's impressive.
Speaker 3:I hit my head pretty hard, oh my god. But um, I was just laying under there and I was like moving. I was like you're okay, you're fine, like you're fine, you don't have anything broken. And then all of a sudden I feel these like people pulling at my feet and I'm being dragged out like from under this airbag. Can you imagine the feeling of being stuck under a jumping castle? That's what it was, basically.
Speaker 1:And they're being dragged out With a broken whole bone.
Speaker 3:Wouldn't that have made you worse, pretty much so when they started dragging me.
Speaker 2:Shouldn't they have lifted the?
Speaker 1:thing. Oh no, Is it possible to lift it?
Speaker 3:It's so heavy, so you just have to drag them.
Speaker 2:No, no, no See, at that point I would have accepted my fate. I would have rather have died. So they take you out the easy way. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:Babe, no, they dragged you out, so they started dragging you out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and as I was being dragged out, I could feel that something wasn't every bone in my body. Okay, so you know the feeling of like what it feels like to have your bone detached from? No, it's just like no, no, no, no, no, no no, it's horrible, oh my God. And your collarbone, yeah. So I had a break that snapped like this, and then I had a piece sticking up into my, to my skin.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, sorry for the gory detail.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, not gory but like shocking what happened, they pulled you out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then I basically sat up, took my helmet off and my parents, you couldn't move. You took your helmet off with your arms. Yeah, I was a little bit of a baddie, but.
Speaker 2:Superwoman Jesus, I shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 3:But then I could like look over and I just saw my parents like running over to me. Yeah, oh my God, which was really like emotional yeah. And then I had obviously the ambulance coming out and I was like okay, I'm going to hospital.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not ideal. But the eye were like oh, my God, I can't finish, I'm going to hospital because, like my dog, I was so disappointed.
Speaker 1:So inconvenient. They saved my life. What place were you coming at?
Speaker 3:that point. So I was sitting in third, so which then, as I like, they took all my gear off and then I was carried into the ambulance. I was sitting in the ambulance and they were like putting an IV Fentanyl into me.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, With a needle in my hand. So fentanyl is like a hard drug for those of you that don't know.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, which can make you vomit really badly, that's insane. But I was sitting in there and all of a sudden the guy, the adjudicator, comes over and he enters the ambulance and he goes. You got third in the world and I was like no way oh my god. What.
Speaker 2:They hadn't given it to you at that point I would have thrown hands.
Speaker 3:I'm like no way.
Speaker 1:I just like died and you don't give me the place Are you? Kidding. Were you excited or were you a bit disappointed? Because do you feel like? I don't know if you're allowed to say this, but do you feel like you would have come like I was disappointed because, you know, I felt like I wasn't like at my full potential on the track. Yeah, you didn't get a chance Just because of the conditions and everything.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, it sucked, but I was just happy that I was alive.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely, and you were in Germany.
Speaker 1:So you had to get surgery in Germany.
Speaker 3:Hectic. So then, yeah, went in the ambulance. Oh my gosh, sitting in the back of an ambulance in like another country.
Speaker 2:It's terrifying, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 3:And then I was being driven to the hospital. First hospital wouldn't accept me, so we went to the second hospital.
Speaker 2:Can they do?
Speaker 3:that yeah, why my collarbone was too broken for them to fix it.
Speaker 1:Are you joking, are you?
Speaker 2:joking, as if yes A hospital. Did you say client sued? I would have sued.
Speaker 1:So they're going to take someone with the sniffles, but they're not going to take someone who's about to die, because there's a bone sticking out of them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know right, but I'd rather be like fixed properly yeah, yeah, yeah. So then we were in the next hospital and then I got brought in. They're all speaking a different language and I was like, just please, just please, be gentle with me, please, don't hurt me. And then I'm just sitting in this hospital room for four days being told okay, so we're going to do your surgery today and then they come back in Sorry, we can't In the afternoon, broken bone for four days, pretty much, and it hurt so much.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it would, oh my god, and then also like having to be like pretty much starved, waiting for your surgery because you can't eat before and you can only have like little bits of water.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so see me personally and again I say sue, I would have sued. If you're seeing this, I'm coming for you. I may not be annika, but like I'll put on a blonde wig and pretend, I would have sued and I would have sued them. I would have sued the doctors. I would have sued the first hospital. I would have sued the second one. I would have sued the country. I would have sued the track. I would have sued everyone and their mother for good measure but I you're too nice.
Speaker 3:I'm so grateful for all of like the, the people at the hospital and everyone who looked after me, even my surgeon. They did such an amazing job and I was only in for two hours and came out. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:What do you have now? Like how did they fix it? Like what's going on?
Speaker 3:So they wanted to make it as cosmetic as possible. I did as well, because you know a massive ugly scar here is not nice. So I was in there for two hours and they just did stitches, like on the inside of your skin, yeah, okay, which I don't really know how that would work.
Speaker 2:I watched enough Grey's Anatomy that I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but then I had like healing and recovery for like a couple weeks after that, so I couldn't even have like a shower.
Speaker 2:Oh my God For like a week. It was so bad Weeks.
Speaker 1:Plural.
Speaker 3:Oh my.
Speaker 1:God Wait, did you have?
Speaker 2:like metal in your yeah, so they put so she was now broken and unclean. What was worse, let's be real.
Speaker 3:So I had a plate that was about this thick. Like three, four centimetres Something like that which is apparently in Australia. They use half the size. In Germany they've got like proper engineering. You're like uh, what's it called um a cyborg? Yeah, maybe um. And then I've also got uh, six screws.
Speaker 2:I I know they're still in there, sorry, okay, so all of that happened and you went back.
Speaker 3:Well, yeah, so I actually haven't ridden in a while. It's probably been a couple months now but that's only because I haven't been able to ride, because everything's still healing. Yeah, and then. But are you going back? Yes, wow.
Speaker 1:Of course.
Speaker 2:That's so inspirational.
Speaker 3:It's my life. I've lived it every single day since I've been four.
Speaker 2:So how did you get into that? Well, how does a four-year-old get into that? Yeah, true.
Speaker 3:So my dad? He raced Gymkhana, which is another form of like motorcycling, is it?
Speaker 2:safer. Yeah, oh, okay, so he was like. You know what I have children Might as well, put my four-year-old into the riskier version of what I do.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but with awkward intentions.
Speaker 2:I have a question. Were you an accident? No, I was first born. No, I just meant in the way that that'd be a pretty easy way to accidentally eliminate your unwanted child.
Speaker 1:What Like, I'm just saying I would just like to apologise to Attica's parents right now. We know you have good intentions. I'm sure you're amazing parents.
Speaker 2:But like what went through your head when you said oh, I'm going to put my four-year-olds on a bike that doesn't break.
Speaker 1:How did you, as a four-year-old, even know how to work this thing?
Speaker 2:Girl, I couldn't even like. I can't even ride a scooter and I'm 16. I can't ride a skateboard and I crash.
Speaker 3:I can't ride a skateboard either, it's so hard. It's so hard, but, um, yeah. So basically, my dad bought my brother a motorcycle well, a peewee, which we call them 50 cc. Oh no, 50 cc, maybe it's less than that, but training wheels, everything was cute, yeah, um, and then how old's your brother? He is 15 and he's in year 10.
Speaker 1:Okay, but how old would?
Speaker 3:he have been Like two, three and a half.
Speaker 2:Around that age.
Speaker 3:This gets even better so. Right, if I remember properly. Okay, continue. And then obviously I was like I want a bike.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that looks cool. I want a bike.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that looks cool, I want a bike, yeah. So then he bought me one, and so we were just riding around together for a couple of years, just on this little like paddock across from my primary school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, you were like that kid in primary school. You're in kindergarten. You're like I ride a motorcycle. Wait, is it crunch and sip yet, or whatever it's called? Is it like snack time? Is it fruit break yet?
Speaker 2:Is it fruit break yet? Because I'm trying to like cross over to the paddock guys and ride my motorbike. You wish you were as cool as me. Hey, chad, do you want to come see me ride my motorbike?
Speaker 1:No, I'm sure it's not.
Speaker 3:you Come have a play date at my house and you can watch me ride my motorbike. Yeah, you can't ride because you're not cool enough. If you come to my house, you're riding a motorbike. Oh my god, that's scary. Yeah, so, yeah. So it started off as like that. And then we went to this track um, it was on the gold coast, um, really like nice track, nice people, um, and then we just like raced there for a solid, like gotta be like six years oh wow, yeah, on like a 50 cc, or did you get higher 50?
Speaker 1:cc 65, 85 just kept on moving up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so as you get older, you basically go up in bike capacity, um, and then we went to a bigger track that was in Brisbane, which was for more experienced riders, and by that time we had heaps of experience.
Speaker 2:So it was good to get on the open track. They've been doing it since they were born. They popped out on a bike.
Speaker 1:You know when, on resumes, people are interviewing you and they're like, oh, how many years of experience do you have? She can literally be like, oh, I've been doing it since birth.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's cool, it's cool.
Speaker 1:Does your brother also do? Still speedway.
Speaker 3:Yes, so both him and I are like we're kind of like a duo, oh cute, and we're kind of known for that, which is really cool, and we used to race each other a lot.
Speaker 2:Yeah, throughout our whole thing.
Speaker 3:I actually have beaten him which is really cool.
Speaker 2:Has he beaten you? Yes, he has.
Speaker 3:And he doesn't like it when that happens, if I beat him.
Speaker 2:You let him win Every time you've won. She's like you.
Speaker 3:I didn't want to make you angry, but yeah, it's actually been so good racing alongside him and growing up with him in the sport.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you must have really like bonded together as siblings doing like the same sport.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we have. We're very close, which I love. Yeah, hopefully we can just keep doing it in the future together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, it sounds like you have a future I hope so.
Speaker 2:Well, actually, maybe not if she continues riding bikes with no brakes. I can't get, I can't get past that. I genuinely I can't. You're riding it like a million miles an hour and you can't stop you. I get scared if I'm driving out of my driveway and I like I, there are other cars on the road, like that freaks me out. You're in a, a dirt track with like 50 other people with a bike. That can't stop I would die.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's really cool, you guys. If you ever like ride a motorcycle, you just feel like the freedom it gives you.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Like that's what I feel, and it's just the best.
Speaker 1:Can I ask you, because you've said you've represented Australia for Speedway, but in my mind that kind of means like the Olympics, yeah, but I know it isn't. But like what were you doing if it wasn't like Olympics? Do you know what I?
Speaker 3:mean. So basically, you know how there's like heaps of like other sports that aren't in the Olympics. Yeah, it would be lovely if it was in the Olympics, because BMXs and all that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there are bikes in the Olympics.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but it's more of just a quieter sport. I feel like Too dangerous for the Olympics. Yeah, maybe, yeah, but have you guys heard of MotoGP? No, okay, well, it's kind of like a Speedway version of that.
Speaker 2:I'm sure Google will inform you. Is it in Olympics? Yeah, no, I'm going to do a little deep dive. Is?
Speaker 1:that one in the Olympics no.
Speaker 3:So they're just like separate Grand Prixs, yeah, right.
Speaker 1:I know that from Mario Kart. Yes, doing a Grand Prix, grand Prix, grand Prix. I always thought it was pricks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I thought that at the start too, but then my dad corrected me.
Speaker 1:So I actually won one time against my brother in Mario Kart doing a Grand Prix, just saying Not to brag.
Speaker 2:She's clearly learning to be humble. So, okay, hold on With. Obviously that's like such a major part of your life and but you know you, obviously you go to school, you have a social life. You still have friends, you relationships. It's complicated, believe it um, is it like because obviously is that like the biggest part of your life, would you say, oh, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3:It takes up 99% of it.
Speaker 2:I feel like how do you Weekends, like when do you train? Like how do you so? Do you like eat, sleep, breathe, speedway, Pretty much yeah.
Speaker 3:So every weekend we used to just be out on the track training racing. You know, just getting better and better. But at the moment in my off season since I've obviously recovering I've been taking up mountain biking, which is kind of cool.
Speaker 2:Another high-risk sport. I can't let myself catch a break.
Speaker 3:But you know I just love the thrill of it all and the adrenaline and the freedom you feel.
Speaker 2:Look at that face, look at that pretty princess face and tell me that looks like an adrenaline junkie to you.
Speaker 1:And what is so cool and the reason I only know this about you is because I know you, yeah, but you're obviously like we're talking and you're saying that this, you're this like speedway motorbike, like baddie, you know, but you are also so incredibly talent at talented at singing and acting and performing. Thank you, you're a performing artist and those are like two different cliches. Yeah, yeah, complete opposites. Yeah, what's happening there? Two different personalities.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's crazy. I got into singing at the end of year six when I did my first Got Talent show with my friend.
Speaker 2:I fear that's like a what's it called Canon event.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it definitely is. And I did that and I was like, oh, maybe I could be a singer. And then, ever since then, I like got lessons, and then I started doing lessons and I got better and better, and then, oh, and then I applied for my school and then I got into a music excellence program. So ever since then I've just been singing and getting the amazing opportunities that I do to be able to perform in front of heaps of people, which I'm so grateful for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. And is it like? I know your dad is the one who introduced you to like this. Like, yeah, like. I actually don't think I know your dad, insane sport, but like he's like the way he's out. He's like a bloke, like a motorcyclist. How does he feel that you're this like, really also like dainty singer?
Speaker 3:like every day, every day, he will walk into my room and be like why aren't you gonna be a singer? When you go up like you're gonna waste this talent and I'm like I don't know what I want to do with my life, so he's like saying that you should be a singer, not motocrossross.
Speaker 1:Sorry, speedway yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they, I think they just want to give me as many opportunities as I can, yeah, which I'm so grateful for. Yeah, that I have all of these opportunities, but, yeah, it's hard keeping up with it all.
Speaker 2:And you're like the different lives and personalities, yeah.
Speaker 1:How do you actually manage your life? Because you are doing this speedway at a champion level, like you said, you're going against 30 year olds. You have school, you have, friendships you have maybe relationships, you have like we said, it's complicated, yeah, yeah singing, acting. You are still a teenage girl. How do you manage all?
Speaker 3:this. Oh so, yeah, it's hard, that's for sure. Um, I was asked the other day if, like, I keep it all on like a calendar or anything. No, I actually just gotta wing it. Yeah, I just go with the flow. I'm pretty organized, like, if I know something's coming up, I'll just, you know, do it and get ready for it, like assignments and all of that. I do have to say, school is so stressful yeah keeping up with all, especially starting year 12 now. Oh yeah, which is hectic.
Speaker 1:Are you an academic person?
Speaker 3:Not like your typical like specialist maths type of girl, but I get good grades in the arts guess yeah.
Speaker 2:so I guess that's like different don't you think yeah I think it's so hard to be like do you get good grades and you're like well, what does like? What do you mean by that?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, because I know that sometimes I like for for me, for example, if I get like anything less than like a b minus, I get really disappointed in myself and literally anything less than a b and I'm kind of sad, yeah, whereas I have friends where their highest grade is a B minus and they get so proud of themselves and I'm proud of them as well because for them that's a good grade and I think every person's different and it's so hard to just classify like, oh, this is a good grade or this is a bad grade, and also subjects like a lot of time you like I.
Speaker 2:There's not been a single term where I've not topped drama. I'm like drama captain in my school and love, love, love little sex there, guys, um, but but every time I say that to people, it's they're not. They're never as impressed as when you say that you're topping like an academic subject, like, yeah, if you tell someone like a few, like last, not last time, at the time before term two, I topped legal and drama and film and when I was telling people that I was like, oh yeah, I'm drama and film, they were kind of like, oh, okay, but then the second you drop an I top legal.
Speaker 2:They're like, oh my god, you're smart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, writing essays for drama and film also makes me, yeah, like people don't actually know, but you have to be academic in like music and drama, otherwise, like you can be so talented in those subjects but you won't get like an A because half of your marks is writing analytical, yeah, yeah and analyzing plays and all that stuff.
Speaker 2:So it's like you, you know, you tell someone you top English, you tell someone you top drama.
Speaker 2:They're gonna be more impressed by like English, where I'm kind of like, hey, babe, drama's actually harder yeah like my, my most recent exam, like I had to analyze a play and then I had to perform the play and then I had to take photos of us performing the play and analyze them and correlate them with scenes from the play and do like what's the dramatic element and tie it into the dramatic meaning, whereas with English I'm just kind of like Willie Shakespeare was saying that Romeo and Juliet is a shakespeare for life and death.
Speaker 2:let's talk about it and I waffle on for an hour and my english teacher reads it, she's like, oh yes, the symbolism behind the red lipstick and the kiss and the forbidden love, and I'm like I was actually just thinking that the color is kind of cute.
Speaker 1:But you do, you boo yeah, yeah, do you like still honestly, like feel that school is still important, even? Like a you even though you live such like a big like you're, you're already a professional.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and if you if you did, because obviously, like someone said, you're already a professional, you've already got three out of four titles, which is like, what does it even take to get a title? But that's actually a question I have I'll go back to. But, like um, if you wanted to just do this full-time professionally forever, you wouldn't technically need school for that.
Speaker 1:So like, yeah, do you still feel that it's important?
Speaker 3:yeah, it's hard because I I see a career in speedway that I would love to pursue in life, but it's not a career that will last me my whole life yeah, it's very physically demanding, yes, and I'm not going to be 25 forever.
Speaker 2:So you know, like spiritually, in the sense that it can take your spirit, it can take your soul, it can take your life, because the bike has no brakes.
Speaker 3:I can't get over that yeah, so obviously school, school is pretty a big part of my life and I also, so obviously school is a pretty big part of my life and I also like I want to do well and I want to try and go to uni and see if I can get any like a degree in journalism or maybe even pursue something in the arts.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Just as a backup, you know, because you always want that little extra. But yeah, at the moment, being 17 and I just don't know, yeah, that's fair, because I've had so many things in my life that I've been able to do. It's just like, what do I do?
Speaker 2:and I feel like there's also so much pressure like this is the path I'm going to take. This is what I want to do. My life is entirely planned out and you're like 16 your brain's not even fully developed.
Speaker 3:I know yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Like you're telling me, I have to make my major life decisions at 18, yeah, but my brain doesn't even develop till I'm like 25 yeah honestly, I don't think that you need to make your major life decisions.
Speaker 1:I don't think you need to freak out about that until you're like 30 something live your life till you're like 40, then if you don't know what you want to do, that's problematic, like you're still living on like your mom's like basement, that I'm kind of like, oh well, which actually?
Speaker 2:so okay, I had two questions that I want answered simultaneously. So the first one, um, because so I'm like semi superstitious. And so my first one thing is do you have any superstitions or rituals you do when you're racing? Like um me, for example, like before I go out, like if I'm doing a performance, because I'm like obviously big theater kid, if go out, like if I'm doing a performance, because I'm like obviously a big theatre kid, if I'm going out and I'm doing a performance, I have my little like ritual that I do because otherwise I'm like this is not going to be a good show. Or like if I'm going to an exam, I have a little ritual I'm like otherwise I'm not going to pass this exam. You know clearly there's something wrong up in here, but do you have anything like that?
Speaker 3:um, I'm very like an affirmations girly yeah, I like to talk to myself. Um, I like like breathing. Obviously that's a part of life, but like, like breathing and just like because I'm sure you don't get to do much on it on the motorbike, yeah but um, and I I just talk to myself a lot, um, because it's all up here like Everything in life is all up here and you only perform well if you're, you know, 100% up here.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:If you have any doubts, which you know when I'm racing, I shouldn't, because you know I should know what my goal is when I go out.
Speaker 2:And clearly, if you don't, you'll break your collarbone.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I do have to say for that race I wasn't 100% there, yeah, but yeah, I have to just believe in myself.
Speaker 1:Amen, that was really inspirational. Yeah, believe in yourself, guys.
Speaker 2:Second question, which is probably bad timing coming from something so inspirational have you ever had to ride against or with someone who you're just like? I fucking hate this bitch. I wish I could take her out on the track. Have you ever just been riding with someone that you hate and you're kind of like if I could just bump into you and you could? Just kind of fall into an airbag and break your collarbone. You know Maybe her brother.
Speaker 3:I never wish anything bad upon anybody.
Speaker 2:No, never, of course not, of course not.
Speaker 3:But. But I have. There is a but. I have, like, obviously, met heaps of girls over the years in the racing industry, heaps of lovely girls, heaps of girls that I don't know very well and want to get to know, and I'm sensing a heaps of bitches coming. But you know, I try to be positive about everything, guys.
Speaker 1:Very different people. She's like no comment, but comment. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to pass.
Speaker 2:She's media trained.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she is media trained, it's okay, we got an answer from no answer Because I know that me personally, like again, I don't do sports, but sometimes I'll be out on stage or sometimes I'll just be like existing in life and I'll think if I rigged one of these stage lights, they could take someone out, if I and again which is what I'm saying like watch this get used against me in like a court trial. I promise I've actually never genuinely seriously considered like murder. However, however, do you ever meet like, even out of the context of racing, do you ever meet someone where you're just kind of like ooh, natural selection didn't act quickly enough, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there are those people.
Speaker 2:Well, you know.
Speaker 3:Life is full of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah absolutely, but, like on a very different note on a asking question that's very different to this one, um, but I do appreciate your answer. Do you feel passionately about any other sports or is this like? Has this only been one sport, your main sport, or like any other activities?
Speaker 3:well, when I was little I was I was in so many sports I'm gonna classify dance as a sport absolutely um, I was doing dance gymnastics. Yeah, I've just been in heaps of sports and like overall, that, like motorcycle racing, has been my number one yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And do you think like obviously? It's not, it's more like a solo thing, it's not like a team sports. Do you think, having well experience, like how do you think like obviously? It's not it's more like a solo thing, it's not like a team sports. Do you think, having had that experience Like, how do you feel?
Speaker 3:Well, I actually, like Jordi and I do team racing together. Wait, that's a thing, yeah, so we have solo racing and team racing. Ooh, yeah, so we've actually competed together and we won a Queensland State Championships.
Speaker 2:Slow. When does this girl not win?
Speaker 3:Which was really cool, and I think that was like one of the first things we'd ever won together, so we're both really proud of each other.
Speaker 1:And they allow like different genders in teams.
Speaker 3:Yes, so I'm actually the only girl in Queensland that competes. Oh my, God Wow. Yeah, and then we have a couple, couple girls in new south wales, south australia, and then the rest of them are in europe and all over the world america.
Speaker 1:So do you think it's bigger in other countries than australia?
Speaker 3:definitely um, poland is the biggest country for racing, I believe. Um, just from my experience and being there, like, oh, you know, like how the footy is over here and how there's that like spirit and there's like they're all yelling, that is like they have drums overseas for speedway and they've all got these chants and these like loud speakers and they're yelling in another language.
Speaker 1:And I'm like.
Speaker 3:I love this.
Speaker 1:Take me back, so it's really well known in Poland.
Speaker 3:Yes, it's like the number one sport. Why do you feel?
Speaker 1:it's not so known in Australia, sadly, because people don't like to die over here maybe.
Speaker 3:Sadly, it was actually like it originated here in Australia.
Speaker 2:Oh, actually yeah.
Speaker 3:Can you believe that? Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, so it originated here, but obviously Poland took it on as their sport and you know we blossomed in football.
Speaker 1:Yeah, did we take that from like UK? I don't know.
Speaker 2:Well, are you talking about like NRL, afl or?
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm so uneducated.
Speaker 2:Okay, so here's my time to shine as a sports enthusiast. Guys I actually witnessed Actually hold on, let me double check what they are.
Speaker 1:She's about to tell us, but she's actually Googling it.
Speaker 2:I watched a rugby game. I watched a rugby game like a month ago. I watched Sydney versus the Titans, the Roosters versus the Titans. I watched it here up on the Gold Coast in like the Rubina, near the Rubina Stadium. I watched it here up on the Gold Coast in like the Robina, near the Robina Stadium. I don't know if it's the Robina Stadium, but it's near Robina?
Speaker 1:Wait, I thought that was in Melbourne. I thought there was a Roosters again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I watched before they won things. Oh, like the thing before. Yeah, I didn't watch like the finals. God, no, sorry, no relatable.
Speaker 1:No, I just watched like sorry.
Speaker 3:No relatable. Relatable yeah.
Speaker 2:No, I just watched like a little game, because who forced you there? My ex, okay, no, it wasn't forced. His family was going because his dad had like a corporate box and he was like, hey, there's like a ticket for you if you want it. And I was like I'm actually at work, boo soz. But then I was like I actually felt really bad because I was always busy every time he asked me to do something with his family and I was like so they're actually going to hate me and pray on my downfall and my biggest fear is people's families hating me, not them themselves hating me like their families. So I would actually be utterly gut-wrenched if your family turned around and was like I don't like Maria. That would. Family turned around and was like I don't like Maria, like that would be the end of the world for me.
Speaker 2:If you were like I don't like Maria, I'd be like, yeah, okay, but like you know, we're friends, so like whatever, because I feel like your family's influence is. I don't know, I don't know why it's such a big deal to me, but I was when we were dating. I was so terrified like genuinely're actually going to prayer my downfall and make a little voodoo doll of me and like stab it with pins because like how dare I? So I was like you know, you know what I'll go.
Speaker 2:So I went to the game and it was actually really cool. I understood nothing that was going on. It was a bunch of men in little shorts towards the end of the game, though I was actually like okay, purr and so. But I genuinely don't know what's bigger in AFL if it's like this NRL. Nrl, which is rugby, which is the national rugby league, then AFL, which is the Australian football league, then you've got American football and then you've got the UK version, which I think, is kind of like rugby no no, this football is soccer, so okay, when you say football, you're talking about like American football style no UK soccer, oh UK.
Speaker 1:When they say football, it means soccer yeah, that's the same.
Speaker 3:I get so confused because when I went over I was like so, do you play like football? To like one of the guys that was over there, and he was like, yeah, and he's like you guys call it soccer, don't you?
Speaker 2:And I was like yeah, but football actually soccer, football, whatever you want to call it it as big in the uk as it is in like lots of latin countries, especially south america, like it's huge there. It is still really big in the uk. But, like I, I come from brazil and generally the one question I get asked every time I'm like oh, I'm brazilian, is people being like, oh, do you like soccer?
Speaker 2:no, no I actually don't know how it works. Well, I have no idea, my little oh yeah no, you go my little, take on our little.
Speaker 1:Like oh, how good are we in sport. Like what do we know? I used to be a soccer player. Oh, hold on.
Speaker 1:Sorry, this is new. What do you mean I've never heard about. I was a really good soccer player. Okay, who did you play for? I might have played you, oh, no, probably not. So I, as everybody knows, if they remember, I grew up in byron. Yes, so I played for eureka soccer team and we were called the lionesses and yeah, I know, and we were actually the winning like girls soccer team in our little age group.
Speaker 2:Well, I have a question when you say you play, do you mean you played, or do you mean you were like a bench player or a goalie Like, more like? A footballer on the sidelines I was yeah, annika gets me Annika's like oh girl, what do you mean?
Speaker 1:So I was either defence or goalie, because nobody really on our team wanted to be like goalie. So they bring in like a lady.
Speaker 3:No, I wanted to get kicked in the face with a ball.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they bring in a lady to like train for goalies, and I was like the only one that got trained, and so most of the time I was goalie, which actually I broke my wrist because of it. I despise sports.
Speaker 2:Can I put this out there in the nicest way possible? They're so unnecessarily dangerous.
Speaker 1:The story behind that is actually so funny. It was very sad, sad, but it's really funny. So my team there was, um, there was this big team that you could, you could, um, not audition for what do you say try out for? You could try out for, and me and a few girls from our team went to go try out for it and the best girl on our team, who was like the best striker ever, like she was incredible she was trying for striker I.
Speaker 1:I was trying for goalie and like a minute before the trials we were like practicing and she went and kicked the ball and I went to go grab it but I just put my one hand out and she broke my wrist a minute before the trials and I was like crying and sobbing and my mom was like what's going on? I was like my wrist, my, my wrist, my wrist, and I still did the trials, but I couldn't try out for being goalie. I had to try out in defense but I couldn't even move myself. So I obviously didn't get in, but I was so disappointed.
Speaker 3:Wait, do you class it as her breaking your like or the ball?
Speaker 1:no, she broke it, it was her. It was her because she had the most incredible, like strong kick and I was a victim to it, um, but yeah, so I I was on a team and we were young but like we were the winning team and I was actually a really good soccer player and I never knew this.
Speaker 2:I actually play soccer at lunch every day at school like shocking, okay, the since we're sharing athletic stories the most athletic I've ever been like we're talking about sport, sport, which so many people. Every time I say this, they laugh at me. But I used to play netball and so many people don't treat like I don't know why it's so like, oh, you play netball, bitch. I broke my finger three times, the same finger Three times. I fractured and dislocated the same finger. Netball is hard though Netball is so hard Especially if you can't catch.
Speaker 1:Because netball Maybe you shouldn't play netball I can't catch.
Speaker 2:But netball the thing is, it comes with so many rules. It's like you can only hold the ball for a certain amount of time, you can only stand for a certain amount of time. You have to stand a certain amount of time far away. You can only pass the only go in certain areas. Like netball has so many rules. Yeah, um and okay.
Speaker 2:So the first time I broke my finger was I used to play with. It was in primary school. I was in grade like six and I was playing in school and we it was like what we called tsp, which is like the school sports, and I was center or goal attack, but I mainly played a center because I was nine percent time. I was team captain don't ask me who made that decision, but this girl who would like beef with me. She was on the. She was, we were from the same school but we used to play like opposing teams. Do you know what I mean? Like practice, and she'd pass the ball to me and the way that ball works is if you're gonna get, if you grab the ball, you have the ball.
Speaker 2:You can only pivot, pivot Like you can't walk, so you have to keep at least one foot on the ground and you can only like move around. Oh, and you guys think I'm sporty.
Speaker 1:We literally bring Annika on the podcast to talk sport, to talk about sport and we're educating her.
Speaker 2:But, um, and she had to pass the ball to like the person in her team, but she had committed a penalty, so she ended up having to pass the ball to me and when she went to do that, I was ready to catch the ball because I wasn't gonna move. I was already in position and when she went to pass to me, she purposefully threw it at an angle oh, no, and when she threw the angle no, I'm not kidding, she genuinely like I saw the thought process go through her wicked little mind.
Speaker 2:And when she went to pass the ball to me, it hit my finger and it bent my hand back and balls are hard right. So it bent my finger back and it kind of like this finger kind of went and then it went back and it kind of like collapsed and it dislocated and fractured my finger and I kept playing and then, because I turned to see she's like oh, it's probably just like stunted, which is when you just kind of hit it and it kind of hurts for a bit, and then my fingers started swelling and I started hitting black and I was like babe.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's stunted Like.
Speaker 2:I think something's happened. And she's like oh, let's go get you some ice pack. Because isn't that what schools always say Babe, an ice pack is not going to help me just a nice bike, it'll pop the bomb.
Speaker 1:Tell me why, though that like primary schools? I've never been to. Like sick bay in high school, yeah, but primary schools, they genuinely didn't want to care for you no, they would. They didn't even want to give, like people at my school, an ice pack. They didn't even give them an ice pack.
Speaker 2:You had to give like a full, like petition and like a full audition as to why you deserved an ice pack. I know just give me the ice pack.
Speaker 2:It's frozen water you'll be okay, but um yeah, so that happened and then, once you know, I recovered from it it was really, which is why I'm still like, oh my god, like you went back, because for me, like even just from that, I played netball and I was like, nah, fuck this, I'm not breaking my finger again. She was scared of my talent, guys, she's manipulating the ball. So you know I could have been Olympic, but Beyonce, she had it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm really impressed that, like you know, you want to go back like that's amazing that's like, so like inspirational.
Speaker 3:I I fractured my finger playing netball and I was like no, that's it, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done with sports forever yeah, I actually like in my like years of racing in general, I've only broken two bones, but they've been major breaks, like I snapped my humerus when I was 10.
Speaker 2:What I did read that. I did read that when I was Googling you.
Speaker 3:I don't know what a humerus is.
Speaker 2:At first I thought you said hummus and I was like, oh, that's not that bad.
Speaker 2:The humerus bone is literally like the full bone that's down here your arm, so it was a huge snap, because this bone is not small. Easy to break, yeah. So straight through and then I had like my shoulder was like off and it was gruesome and she went back and then she broke her collarbone and she's going back and in the meantime, because she's too injured to speedway, she's just taking up mountain biking. It's like a nice and breezy activity because you know, that's something that a normal, mentally sane human being would do.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly teenage girl yeah well yeah, no, to be fair, you are just a teenage girl, so like who am?
Speaker 3:I, I'm just a girl, guys.
Speaker 1:I'm just a girl exactly, and I fear that we will have to start wrapping up. But I just want to ask you you don't have to answer this question but how do you find time for relationships, if you have them, or experiences.
Speaker 3:This is such a tough like situation for me as well, um boys hate them hey, it has a whole time unless you listen to us, then you're amazing.
Speaker 3:I have obviously like spoken to heaps of boys and like gone to know them and everything, but they all just want the same thing at the moment, at the moment, at the moment, yeah, but, um, I'm hoping that in the future I can find someone that you know likes me for me and yeah, yeah, maybe even racist speedway I mean, you're super cool, I can picture like a meet cute, where you're like racing on that, you're just practicing on the track and then someone comes on and they're like trying to outrace you and you kind of look at each other in your like little helmets and you can't see and you meet eyes
Speaker 3:and you, but you can't see.
Speaker 2:And then we zing yeah, and then you guys are like trying to speed each other and then you race each other and then, yeah, and you, I feel like you have to be there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you win, you win, obviously you win and you take your helmet off and you're like oh, ha-ha, Wait, you have to have the slow motion, like helmet off with the like hair in the wind, flipping your hair like the full, like Megan Fox turnaround like oh ha-ha. And then he takes his off and it that are funny. Okay, the most like I'm, let's say, dirty blonde, because that's kind of in the middle, like a mouthy brunette, kind of like we'll stick with that gorgeous man. He takes his helmet off and he looks up at you with like so impressed and he's in love and he's like it's the eyes, the eyes will get me guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's the eyes, he says chica, they never lie.
Speaker 2:He said something really like funny about you winning and you laugh. But then he's like I'm blank, blank, blank, nice to meet you. And you're like I'm I'm annika lotus flower I don't know how to say her last name, so she's annika lotus. She's like I'm annika lotus flower, nice to meet you.
Speaker 1:And then and they get married and have kids.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that's like your meet, cute. And then you can come on this podcast again and tell the story and I can be like oh, so did I, or did I not call it?
Speaker 3:someday, someday, guys, it'll happen, but surely I believe so you still experience, obviously like teenage things like I.
Speaker 1:I know that's a weird thing to say, but like I mean, you are already racing these like 30-year-olds and you're pretty much an adult in this world but, then obviously you're still experiencing teenage life.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's hard, like there's just so many things you go through in your life and being a teenage is hard. Amen, preach. It's hard and, along with all the other factors that come with it, you know wanting to find someone, have teenage romance and you know which we've talked about so much. Yeah, it's hard, but you know, one day, surely?
Speaker 1:I mean you're like insanely cool. You know people are just scared of how cool you are. Like I mean like no, you're like this super cool biker chick, and then you start talking to a guy and you tell them they're're like, she rides motorbikes for Australia Like, and I play like football.
Speaker 2:Oh, I have a joke, but it's so inappropriate. Oh my God, I might have to come down and say it for now I was going to say, because you were like, oh no, it's so bad. Because you were like she rides motorbikes, that's oh no, it's so bad. Because you were like she rides a motorbike, so that's so cool. I would have been like, well, yeah, but don't they think like, oh, you know, she's got experience riding, surely she can ride me.
Speaker 1:I have no words, and in saying that I think that's the perfect thing to come to our conclusion.
Speaker 2:We'll leave you with that, that little tidbit, in saying that, annika, we are welcoming you into our tradition of your quote of the day. Do you have anything that you would like to share with the masses? Believe in yourself.
Speaker 3:Amen, I feel like that was. Yeah, yeah, believe in yourself and be patient, because not everything will happen for you straight away. It took me a long time to get to where I am now. Yeah, since birth Exactly. And you know, just be yourself, because people love you for who you are. And you know, enjoy the ride. I've got to say Enjoy the ride which ride?
Speaker 2:No pun intended, no.
Speaker 1:I was going to say no pun intended, but there was three like connections there.
Speaker 2:Okay, solan what is your quote of the?
Speaker 1:day I'm not going to lie Mine's kind of on the same level as Annika's, but not as kind. I'm just on the vibe today that I'm just like just don't take anyone's shit, amen. Like I'm going to steal Annikaika and I'm just going to be like be yourself, not steal. Annika Steal her quote Kidnap her, Like be yourself.
Speaker 2:Annika goes missing.
Speaker 1:You know where to look. But like just don't take people's shit. Like you are who you are, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Don't let them grind you down.
Speaker 2:Look, I had a quote and, as usual, I forgot it, but now I fear I found something even better, which is enjoy the ride. Which ride you choose, that is up to you. No judgement from me, but if it leads to messy stories, you know where to email them, because I would love to read them. In saying that, this is our second to last episode before we, release our season and we feel so genuinely honoured, Annika, that you came to our podcast. We're very happy, thank you.
Speaker 1:To be in the same room and space breathing your air of this magical being.
Speaker 2:How dare we have the audacity to even co-exist in?
Speaker 1:the same universe as you. Well thank you.
Speaker 3:That was a thank you, love, thank you.
Speaker 1:well, I'm gonna say thank you very much of course, and we hope anyone who listened to this um could be inspired by you, yeah, and so inspiring like. You are genuinely like. Not only are you this incredible person and have all these talents, but you're also like a stunning, beautiful human being inside and out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, In saying that we're very, very excited to have our last episode. It will, as usual, be an amazing one, but hopefully with a bit of extra spice. I have some story times that I'm wanting to share and that today has inspired me to share.
Speaker 1:that will probably get me killed by a few people. Is it about just ride the waves?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's about riding ride the waves. Oh, it's about riding something, that's for sure. Not me, not me, guys, not me, not me. Well, stay, they call me Virgin Mary for a reason.
Speaker 1:Anyways, stay, stay, overdramatic and problematic. We love you, bye.
Speaker 2:Bye.