00:00Fame is most probably one of the worst drugs out there.
00:04One minute, everyone wants a piece of the potty, and then the next minute, it's all, you know, it's gone.
00:11I met Pritch skateboarding in Cardiff, early 90s.
00:15Pritch was all in the magazines and stuff, you know, like a godlike figure.
00:20He's a gnarly guy. We were all gnarly, and we're known for it in the skate industry.
00:24And then one day we got a call from a talent scout for MTV.
00:27We're looking for the UK's most fucked up people. We're all like, well, that's us.
00:31And Dickie Sanchez was born.
00:35One minute you work in the skate shop, the next minute, everyone's just like,
00:38it's you guys off that show.
00:40Bulls struck up on billboards, sightings.
00:43Biggest TV show MTV you've ever made, it's everywhere. You've made seven seasons, a movie, everyone loves you.
00:48It's like finding the golden ticket in the Willy Wonka chocolate bar.
00:51But you can't carry on like that.
00:53The tour got cancelled, then it just comes crumbling down.
00:59But I was still drinking heavily, doing drugs heavily. Plus I was getting older.
01:04Running around with a crew of people that are not really your mates.
01:08Blokes on steroids, just wanting to stay up all night and make you do more gear.
01:13It just like had something in your head, just goes, phew, bam.
01:16Get off! Get away from me!
01:17That's around the time he rang me and said he was going to kill himself.
01:21Just wanted to run away.
01:23But then in 2011, I signed up for my first Iron Man.
01:29I swapped one addiction for another addiction.
01:33I'm going to cycle round wheels, I'm going to do an Iron Man, and then I'm going to do another
01:37Iron Man.
01:38I ended up doing 10 Iron Man in 10 days.
01:42Then I'm going to row the Atlantic.
01:443,200 miles across the Atlantic Ocean.
01:47He's not happy going for a swim or just going for a row.
01:50He has to row across the Atlantic.
01:53Clearly you're running from something or trying to escape something.
01:55Have you got a row in background?
01:56No.
01:57Mental?
01:58I said to you, I'm swimming wrong.
01:59You do not want to lose contact with the boat.
02:01If you're in the water and you're seeing that boat disappearing, that's the last thing you'll see.
02:09The boat's kind of falling apart.
02:11Oh, you knew it snapped?
02:13Fucking hell.
02:15Is this row going to sort my life out?
02:17I don't know, I'm just forever looking for this thing.
02:23I don't know what I'm looking for.
02:25But to get to the other side and see land.
02:28That's what I have a dream of.
02:30And hopefully, I can start again.
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