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Gypsy Tales · August 1 · 3 hr 17 min

CHAPTER 413 Ft. Luke Tarrant

Luke Tarrant left a great job in finance and walked away from the corporate world, knowing he didn't want to spend his life stuck in an office. He sold everything he owned and spent years riding his motorcycle across the world, chasing the kind of adventure few people ever experience. On a ride through Colombia, everything came to a screeching halt when he was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him fighting for his life. After weeks in a Colombian hospital, Luke ultimately had his leg amputated. Since then, he's grown a massive global social media following by sharing his journey, inspiring millions with his adventures, resilience, and outlook on life. In Chapter 413, Jase and Luke dive into the motorcycle crash that changed everything, the incredible strangers who came together to help save his life, crossing the Darien Gap by boat, ending up at a cartel party in Mexico, learning to walk and ride again with a prosthetic leg, and why he refuses to move on until he returns to Colombia to finish the ride. CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:45 A week together at the Isle of Man TT 00:12:41 Cardo Ad 00:16:30 The start line, the goodbyes and the cemetery 00:20:15 Racing a car at the TT with half a leg 00:22:30 Two crashes in one day on the mountain road 00:27:27 Back to the start 00:29:19 The London School of Economics and the Wolf of Wall Street 00:32:02 Walking into his boss's office and quitting 00:33:45 Landing in the US with no plan and a Suzuki DR650 00:36:00 Buying a house versus buying freedom 00:40:30 Ten days in the dirt and how little you need 00:44:15 The present self and the remembering self 00:48:00 The post that blew up by accident 00:52:08 AG1 Ad 00:53:06 How he got into motorcycles 00:55:30 His dad gets a bike licence and a tattoo 01:01:25 The Vietnam tour company that changed both their dads' lives 01:04:30 The Ho Chi Minh trail and the bomb craters 01:07:48 Venezuela, the caravans and the Darien Gap 01:12:49 Selling the American dream 01:17:15 Why he would choose Mexico over the US 01:20:15 Why it has to be a motorcycle 01:25:49 The crash 01:29:28 No memory and no vision attached to it 01:31:30 Waking up in a different part of Colombia 01:33:33 The leg comes off or you die 01:34:29 The Instagram story that got him out 01:36:00 Sepsis 01:41:15 A month of deciding how much more to cut off 01:45:05 The air ambulance and the prince's plane 01:48:45 Going back to find out what actually happened 01:57:48 Motosport Ad 01:58:30 Coming home in a wheelchair 02:02:59 The night he realised he had become disabled 02:07:30 The beach in Mexico 02:10:41 The prosthetic, and what is actually left 02:14:56 Kurdistan and back in a wheelchair 02:18:45 Disabled, and who actually is 02:22:30 Jase on the bike he could never have as a kid 02:29:15 Half a million followers and the dopamine 02:36:45 Losing the warehouse in the fire 02:42:04 FIST Ad 02:45:00 Why he turns down most brands 02:50:56 Mexico, and why he keeps going back 02:53:15 The night he followed a stranger to a cartel party 03:03:00 Corrupt police and the fake driving licences 03:10:25 Devil's breath and getting roofied See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Luke Tarrant left a great job in finance and walked away from the corporate world, knowing he didn't want to spend his life stuck in an office. He sold everything he owned and spent years riding his motorcycle across the world, chasing the kind of adventure few people ever experience.

On a ride through Colombia, everything came to a screeching halt when he was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him fighting for his life. After weeks in a Colombian hospital, Luke ultimately had his leg amputated.

Since then, he's grown a massive global social media following by sharing his journey, inspiring millions with his adventures, resilience, and outlook on life.

In Chapter 413, Jase and Luke dive into the motorcycle crash that changed everything, the incredible strangers who came together to help save his life, crossing the Darien Gap by boat, ending up at a cartel party in Mexico, learning to walk and ride again with a prosthetic leg, and why he refuses to move on until he returns to Colombia to finish the ride.

CHAPTERS:

00:00:00 Intro

00:03:45 A week together at the Isle of Man TT

00:12:41 Cardo Ad

00:16:30 The start line, the goodbyes and the cemetery

00:20:15 Racing a car at the TT with half a leg

00:22:30 Two crashes in one day on the mountain road

00:27:27 Back to the start

00:29:19 The London School of Economics and the Wolf of Wall Street

00:32:02 Walking into his boss's office and quitting

00:33:45 Landing in the US with no plan and a Suzuki DR650

00:36:00 Buying a house versus buying freedom

00:40:30 Ten days in the dirt and how little you need

00:44:15 The present self and the remembering self

00:48:00 The post that blew up by accident

00:52:08 AG1 Ad

00:53:06 How he got into motorcycles

00:55:30 His dad gets a bike licence and a tattoo

01:01:25 The Vietnam tour company that changed both their dads' lives

01:04:30 The Ho Chi Minh trail and the bomb craters

01:07:48 Venezuela, the caravans and the Darien Gap

01:12:49 Selling the American dream

01:17:15 Why he would choose Mexico over the US

01:20:15 Why it has to be a motorcycle

01:25:49 The crash

01:29:28 No memory and no vision attached to it

01:31:30 Waking up in a different part of Colombia

01:33:33 The leg comes off or you die

01:34:29 The Instagram story that got him out

01:36:00 Sepsis

01:41:15 A month of deciding how much more to cut off

01:45:05 The air ambulance and the prince's plane

01:48:45 Going back to find out what actually happened

01:57:48 Motosport Ad

01:58:30 Coming home in a wheelchair

02:02:59 The night he realised he had become disabled

02:07:30 The beach in Mexico

02:10:41 The prosthetic, and what is actually left

02:14:56 Kurdistan and back in a wheelchair

02:18:45 Disabled, and who actually is

02:22:30 Jase on the bike he could never have as a kid

02:29:15 Half a million followers and the dopamine

02:36:45 Losing the warehouse in the fire

02:42:04 FIST Ad

02:45:00 Why he turns down most brands

02:50:56 Mexico, and why he keeps going back

02:53:15 The night he followed a stranger to a cartel party

03:03:00 Corrupt police and the fake driving licences

03:10:25 Devil's breath and getting roofied

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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