


3 May 2026 · 1h 8m · 27 chapters

Episode topic: Mathew Pritchard (Dirty Sanchez) recounts how the MTV prank/“shock” show began, the group’s drug-and-booze fueled stunts, touring and nightclub life, near-death incidents, and his later shift toward endurance sports and sobriety after hitting rock bottom.
Pritchard is one of the Dirty Sanchez stars (described as three Welsh lads and one Englishman). He started with skate videos (Pritchard vs Dayton), then MTV signed the group for a shock-based TV show and later they toured for years, earning money via clubs and festivals. He’s now in his early 50s and runs a tattoo and barbershop in Cardiff.
Dirty Sanchez was MTV’s biggest-selling show; the crew pushed “more boundaries” to drive attention. Cocaine/pills/“bruise” were common, and he says he didn’t hit rock bottom until about three years ago. He credits endurance training (Cardiff Half, then Ironman events) with mental clarity.
“House of Doom” in Cardiff; stunts like a stepladder crash (neck injury), shotgun “point blank” with a bulletproof vest in Prague, and a knife attack in Norfolk with ~30 internal stitches. He also describes a Gumball Rally incident where he says he urinated on Dolph Lundgren after taking Xanax.
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Explore the origins of Dirty Sanchez and its unforgettable antics.
“I'm your host, Dodge, and I'm the founder of Bournemouth 7s, the world's largest sport and music festival.”
Hear about the outrageous stunts that made Dirty Sanchez notorious.
“And I think they were looking for the British version.”
Dive into the wild lifestyle and party culture surrounding the show.
“josey put his balls in a pool table pocket and then fired into the bar just squashing his balls was going in.”
Understand the dynamics between the cast and MTV while filming.
“Was the cameraman in there the whole time?”
Learn about the initial MTV deal and its surprising success.
“Do you remember what the deal was like with MTV?”
Explore the wild experiences and challenges faced during the European tour.
“Someone's going to do, you get electric shock.”
Discuss the thrill of celebrity status and the challenges that followed.
“What would normally happen in a group of four like that?”
Understand the tensions and conflicts that arose within the group over time.
“Do you remember how much you were getting a gig back then?”
Hear about the chaos and excitement of the first live show they performed.
“I remember going there, and this was our first ever live show.”
Discover the wild and outrageous antics performed on stage during shows.
“So all the popular things that you knew people were talking about, we'd sort of do it live in front of an audience.”
Learn about the infamous game that led to hilarious and shocking moments on stage.
“Oh, and then to finish, we'd have a posh wank before going on stage with a condom and stuff.”
Listen to the wild experiences during the Gumball Rally, including a notorious plane incident.
“fish hook, whack it in one of your ears.”
Explore the vibrant party scene and memorable experiences in Ibiza.
“So example on the Gumball rally, you did five Gumball rallies.”
Discover the highs and lows of party life in Ibiza and beyond.
Explore the transition from partying hard to seeking a healthier lifestyle.
Understand the journey from addiction to running and overcoming challenges.
“That was my problem when I started doing it because I remember seeing footage of myself on TV, and I thought, these are cool, because I'm a professional skateboarder.”
Hear about the intense physical and mental challenges of completing Ironman events.
“I can finish on my birthdays, March 30th.”
Listen to a harrowing story of survival after a violent encounter.
“And then that's like, we can't just brush over this, because let's just fit another level.”
Learn about the personal experiences of hitting rock bottom due to substance abuse.
“You said a while back that you hit rock bottom three years ago.”
Explore the journey into addiction and the frantic lifestyle that led to it.
“And then COVID hit, and everything just sort of, everything just sort of went overnight.”
Discover the moment of realization and the steps taken to seek therapy and recovery.
“I just want, I just couldn't be around people.”
Understand the importance of establishing routines and discipline during recovery.
“And the most important thing to me at the moment is my, uh, is my sobriety.”
Learn about the new ventures and relationships formed post-addiction.
“So a lot of people smoke it in a joint, right?”
Examine the crucial role of loved ones in the journey of recovery.
Explore the journey of achieving celebrity status through humor and friendship.
Learn about the upcoming 'Dirty Sanchez' movie and the changes in the cast dynamics.
“Pan still likes to drink, but I mean, I think it's going to be a bit more wholesome.”
Discover how the cast plans to navigate comedy while sober in the new movie.
“Most part is like chopping fingers off and limbs.”

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2:18Was that kind of the mindset?
2:19Mathew Pritchard: We got told it was MTV's biggest selling show. It was black and blue from bruises. It was carnage. I think one of the security guards fainted. It was just mental. Come with me. Took me upstairs to VVOP. Gave me an envelope. This is amazing. Was there any point where you hit rock bottom? I didn't hit rock bottom until three years ago. Tell me about the time you got attacked by a knife. Then they just lost it. Just boomf. Everything just got on top of me. Fucking lost the plot. That's the one drug everyone goes, whoa. Isn't it? That's the one that everyone points at and goes, whoa. Don't go near that.
2:51It was only on special occasions in a certain place, so I'm not going to mention it. But I don't know.
2:58I love crack. That's crazy.
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3:28Rich, welcome to the show, mate. Cheers, Dodge. I finally made it. Yeah. Happy days. Let's roll all the way back. What is Dirty Sanchez?
3:37Mathew Pritchard: well the actual term Dirty Sanchez means what's a sexual term stick your finger up your arse top lip make the woman gag and then yeah but that's what it actually is but when we were filming when we started filming Dirty Sanchez we were giving Dirty Sanchez's out to one another and hence why when we said how are we going to call this show and then Dirty Sanchez or Joycey actually said let's call it Dirty Sanchez so so explain to the listener and watcher out there what actually is dirty centuries four welsh lads yeah it's um for well three welsh lads and one englishman as they say on the tv and the three lads are not from the welsh valleys as they say because i think everyone sort of pigeonholes the welsh into valleys are you from where are you from the valleys are you No, I'm from kind of this capital city.
4:34Mathew Pritchard: I'm not from the valleys. Pancho's from Port Alba. It's not in the valleys. Dayton's more in the valleys. And Dan Joyce, I think, sort of London, Plymouth. Yeah. Cornish, I mean. But Dirty Sanchez was... Oh, I've forgotten the question again. And Dirty Sanchez was what? You ended up having an MTV show. Yeah, well, it started with Pritchard versus Dayton because we made a video, a skate video, called Pritchard versus Dayton. um it was loads of really good skateboarders at the time back in 1999 and uh we started putting it together and with that video it wasn't just skateboarding it was me dinked winding each other up because it was always me versus him panchu falling asleep joycee doing his lunatic sex stuff and then we put her all into one video and uh it just you know it took a while to come out to the hype the hype was built a lot and people just couldn't wait to see what it was and and it finished the main the main shocking thing that really sold it was dan joyce shat in his hand which was loaded diarrhea by a lake in cardiff a beauty spot in cardiff and smashed her in his face in his home face in his own face so i mean back then yeah before the internet yeah everyone's like whoa yeah and then it was all what year roughly you're talking early 2000s sanchez come out 2001 i think it was 2000 2001 so what were you doing to build up to build up to get you go right so mtv to come and say right you have now got your own show well i was working for a distribution company called double overhead who who were distributing globe skate shoes an australian skateboard shoe brand and brad hockridge who owned the distribution company asked me oh would you like to work work for us and you can be the team manager looked after look after the skate uh team i was like yes that's what i was doing and whilst i was at work i got a phone call off a talent scout called martha de lapp and um she said oh can you come to empty because jackass had hit the screens in America at the time.
6:45Mathew Pritchard: That's right. Massive jackass, weren't they? And I think they were looking for the British version. Yeah. And they called me and said, can you come in to MTV? Phone Dane. I thought she was winding me up. I phoned Dane and Dane thought I was winding him up. We went to MTV. They said, we're going to do a show, shock idol. We're looking for Britain's most shocking people. We said, here we are. And we gave them the picture of this dating video. Okay, yeah. And then two days later, call. Right. can you come in again? But this time, can you bring Pancho and Joyce? Yeah. And then we went in again and that was it.
7:20Mathew Pritchard: And they just said, right, we want to do a TV show with you. And then, we were over the moon stoked and I thought, to celebrate, I got absolutely bollock naked and ran around MTV offices, me and Joycey. And then I remember Tate saying, ah, we've almost lost the show before it's even started. But, that's how it started. Okay. Completely, that's how it started. And they told me to go and find a base in Cardiff where we could, like a house where we could go base and I found this place in Out of Bella Street, 122 Out of Bella Street and it was perfect because on the other corner it was a pub and a lot, if you've watched Dirty Sanchez the first series, all the stuff in the kitchen, all the stuff in the house was in that house.
8:05Mathew Pritchard: We renamed it the House of Doom because the the fucking shit they went down so you're all living in there and filming 24-7 pretty much so were you inspired by Jackass is that where it came from well we're all skateboarders so I guess it's the kind of thing as skateboarders we were sort of doing at the time because Bam McGeer had Camp Kill Yourself and that was out just before Jackass and then there was a big there was a magazine called Skateboard Magazine called Big Brother and they found Johnny Knoxville. Yeah. And that's when Johnny Knoxville is shooting himself point blank range of the bulletproof vest on.
8:50Mathew Pritchard: And so all these campkines of Bam and all these sort of came together and they made jackass. So what they were doing in America, we were doing in the UK as well. Yeah. So it just seemed perfect. So when they called us in, it was... Perfect timing. Yeah. Tell me, give me some examples of what you boys got up to. ah jesus well i think the first series was like we want to follow almost like follow you guys in uh what you get up to in your daily in your daily days i've had the you know camera shoved in your face 24 7 and we were just oh we were so much younger then we just didn't give a shit and we just were doing the craziest stuff.
9:38Mathew Pritchard: A lot of it was booze and narcotics based, especially when it was in the house. If you look closely, you'll see the state on our eyes and our jaws if you actually really look. But a lot of the ideas were MTV ideas as well. We'd go outside. They were mainly the sober things that we did. Like the first stunt we did was the stepladder. I'd go on top of the stepladder and say, dink, if you drive into the stepladder, take it out, I'll land on my feet. Brilliant. but that didn't happen he drove too slow i landed on the roof and it broke my neck but then it was perfect because that made better footage than if i landed on my feet and he just started we started off with stuff like that and it just kept getting worse put him josey put his balls in a pool table pocket and then fired into the bar just squashing his balls was going in.
10:35Mathew Pritchard: Joycey puking into Pancho's mouth. It was... Some of the stuff was proper, proper sick. And Joycey, just like... Because we moved into that house and there was a next door neighbour and as soon as we got in, the first day, the next door neighbour had all their washing, drying on the line. Joycey has a shit in his hand again. I go, meh. He starts laughing, chucks it in the air. It went all over the next door neighbour's shit, all over her clothes. And eventually, after a few months of us just driving them absolutely batshit crazy, there was, we'd had police cars parked outside the house 24-7. And if there was any sign of any noise, we were straight in the slammer.
11:17How old were you boys? 26 when we first started. But it was good times. Were you like, all together, getting larrapped in the daytime, using gear, and then just were you just the more boundaries were pushing the more views were going to get on telly was that kind of the mindset I was so naive and then I didn't really think of that it was just well I guess the more shocking stuff he did
11:47Mathew Pritchard: the more people would talk about it I guess and it was Sanchez's rule was if you come up with the like you'd always I wonder if we do this but if that was your idea Sanchez's rule was you'd have to do the first one you'd have to lead the way yeah you'd have to leave the way well you said it you do it yeah and then the rest follow but um ah it was just every day was just fun place just like how i didn't break a main bone i don't i don't know but my head's trying to remember all the stuff i'm sitting i'm sitting here i'm going there's there's loads of stuff yeah my head's just It's just gone blank.
12:29Mathew Pritchard: I wonder why. Brain damage. Was it? Was it? Tell me the sort of the extent of, I'll take it, what sort of drugs was it? Cocaine, pills, bruise. That was it really. Every day? Not every day, no. But most days. because we'd go in we'd go in the night and then sometimes we were still going into the next day and then the you know Becky who was the director at the time she said oh we're filming tomorrow but we were all still awake but we still had to go and film but we still got on we still we still did it and I remember once we had a massive party in the house and I'm not going to name names but one of the MTV staff we had a wheelchair in the front room we'd done so many pills we just plonked him in the wheelchair and he just looked, oh his face was just he's going like this and he just and that was about 8 o 'clock in the morning and Becky comes in from London, let's go film in she walks in the front room goes oh what's happened what's happened to the cameraman Man, it's like, absolutely right off.
13:54Yeah, good times. Was it you being filmed? Was the cameraman in there the whole time? What was the deal with MTV? Who structured the deal? Do you remember what the deal was like with MTV? To say, right, boys, you're going to come on here. We're going to create a show around you, and you're all on that amount of money. You're all going to be doing this. This is what we need you to be doing every day. The deal's one year or three years. What went on there?
14:17Mathew Pritchard: We didn't have an agent for the first one. Okay. they didn't want us to have an agent either so I can't remember how much we got paid but the deal was it was just one one episode not one series yeah for the first series I don't get me wrong it was more money than I'd seen at the time and we just went and filmed I think it was six six episodes and then I honestly thought that six episodes was going to be a back to your day job. But then we got told it was MTV's biggest selling show. Yeah, I remember. They've had for a long time. Yeah. They were like, right, we need a second series. Yeah. So, oh, I better get an agent.
15:02And they've tried and told him, no agents, can't have agents. So I waited for obvious reasons. Yeah, right. They wanted to wrap it up cheaply.
15:11Mathew Pritchard: Yeah. Well, then we jumped with, we got with John O, John O management and he started looking after our deals. and so and then off the next one then the episode the series was Jobs of the Boyos and then off the the third one was European Invasion and then the film then and then after that after that me and Daint did sort of went back to the Pritchard versus Daint and Daint did a show called Wrecked where I'd have a member of the public he'd have a member of the public and we'd give him tasks to do and whoever lost the other person got to wreck his prized possession example for that I think one of them he had his surfboard smashed it a bit but I wasn't really that fond of that show tell me about European invasion where were you what went on you know those tour buses you get like the Rockstar people get door buses jumping on one of them and just going around Europe visiting different the four of you the four of us I'll never forget it because I mean I'm living in Penteuane in Cardiff and this Rockstar bus turns up I've never been on one of them before I've almost seen and I was like oh well I'm going on a Rockstar bus full of excitement like oh yeah get on and they've got they've got bunk beds and all that kind of stuff.
16:46And then Johnny P, who was tour manager,
16:51Mathew Pritchard: he sits you down and touted the rules of the bus. And then we just hit the road. And it was just, we went to Sweden, we went to Denmark, Italy, but Portugal, we went to loads of places. And we just never left that bus. But it was, oh, I got, did not stop drinking. I was just on it for the whole five weeks. Yeah. And by the end of it, oh, puking blood and everything. Oh, man. And you couldn't go to sleep because every time we go to sleep. Someone's going to do something to you. Someone's going to do, you get electric shock. When we were in Sweden, we did stuff with the Swedish house hockey team.
17:34Mathew Pritchard: And I popped my collarbone. So then I was injured. so I couldn't when I was in the bunk beds could barely move because I made my arms so I just had to sit there and just go electrocuted prodded me with a yeah was there any times when you were like I could lose my life here doing some of these stunts um there's one time in Prague and uh I always wanted to get shot point blank range with a shotgun and they said oh yeah we can do that in Prague I was like oh shit here we go so I put I went to this place I put a bulletproof vest on and then the guy got the oops the guy got the gun out oh man it was the most and I just had these shitty little sunglasses on and looking down the barrel of the gun knowing he's going to shoot you it was just proper gnarly and in my head then i thought it's good could die for this yeah anyway he shot it blew me back it went some of the some of the bullets went through the thing and scarred my chest but i was all right it was just proper winded that's a hell of a buzz and then um i got up the cameraman went um i think we're gonna have to do that again i didn't press record i was like you are i said i'm fucking doing that i guess and the guy who shot me went I am not doing that again.
19:09Mathew Pritchard: But it was only the camera on the floor looking up, not record, but the other one was. Yeah, yeah. How would you explain those years? What were the years, the maddest for you? What year was it at the start of the MTV program? 2003? 2001. 2001. And how long did that last for? from when we started to when we stopped was 2014 was when i 2014 when i wrapped it all up yeah with dirty centuries well we did all the shows start with but we were then living off the back of it by doing nightclub stuff okay the live gigs you're doing the pas yeah and that just went on for years and years yeah because mtv kept re replaying it that's right so it was still fresh in people's heads.
19:56Mathew Pritchard: And those live shows, like festivals, live shows, nightclubs, it was, it just went on and on and on and they were good, good earners. Did you enjoy, did you enjoy the celebrity status you got for being known to being an absolute lunatic? Loved it. Yeah. Absolutely loved it. Yeah. At the time. Yeah. It was like, oh yeah man, this is, this is brilliant. Soaked it all up. Like, and I'm not ashamed to say it, it was just, I bet. It was ace. Yeah. You know, like I, in my head, I, When I was younger, I thought I'd never succumb to anything. And quite a few people said that you most probably wouldn't because I wasn't the cleverest people.
20:32So to get that, to get to what I did and live in the life that I did.
20:38Mathew Pritchard: Good for you. You know, we took the piss out of the system, really. I'm getting paid to get pissed with my mates and travel the world. I thought, this is, I can't complain. So I'm sitting there and I'm going to reap it for everything and get out of it. Yeah. So at the beginning, I loved it. So, but as I get older, not so much. How old are you today? 52. 52. Yeah. So how long do you reckon that went on for then? Do you reckon that was a good 13-year stint you had at that, of doing the TV programme and doing the clubs and festivals? Yeah. When did it start to dry up and why? Well, like any, I know we're not a rock band, but I guess we're a rock band without the instruments.
21:24Things started going a bit pear-shaped, arguments, you know. Yeah, arguments, egos, money, this, that. It all stirs the pot and creates trouble. There was...
21:41Mathew Pritchard: We were having arguments on stage in front of everybody. And, you know, when you're doing that many drugs and that much booze, your head's not in the right place um you're living in each other's pockets and you have been for many years so little things do your head in yeah which don't need to arguments but me and daint sort of left panishing joyce and like i said we were doing the pitch emphasis dating thing so me and him just went and did that and it was good but then it was sort of I could see it was, we were getting older. The crowds were dwindling. And getting younger. And getting younger.
22:24And I'm like, I just remember doing these student gigs and I'm standing on stage, sticking a drumstick up my shitty ass and rubbing it on my mate's top lip. And I was looking in the audience and I'm like, man, these people are young and we look like dads. and it just it just seemed wrong and I was just like ah this has got to stop
22:46Mathew Pritchard: and and and drinking and everything was getting out of control anyway in 2014 I remember writing an email to Daint and to our tour manager at the time and I said oh look I don't know and that's when I that's when I left and what money I did save I opened a tattoo and barbershop and Cadre City Centre yeah still got it today still there now yeah what's it called SWID Tatooine Barbershop lovely sleeping in death so let's roll it back then so there's four of you like a rock band without the music doing crazy stuff banging loads of bugles loads of pills booze doing just mad stuff and getting paid for it living the dream how do you how do you then if it's four have two of you taking sides and the other two are taking sides or was it always three against one how did that dynamic work when you actually you get to a point where you're getting boozed every day, you're hungover, you're sketchy, you're raggy with each other.
23:43What would normally happen in a group of four like that? What, at the beginning or towards the end? No, just towards the middle. Because the fun bit is your party and having fun, getting paid. Amazing, amazing. But there must be a point where you're like, I don't really like his character. I don't like him doing that to me. Or it must have been something that triggered a couple of things. It's the same kind of thing with you and your missus and stuff. you know each other's you know each other inside out and some little things she'll do and most probably niggle you and same you know you do stuff niggle her and it was the same with last fall it was
24:23Mathew Pritchard: I don't really want to drop people in it because I can't be arsed what's been done has been done and it is what it is and I've forgiven all that now I'm just intrigued I'm just intrigued to find out the dynamic we started losing of that marbles yeah and just things like I'm not going here because of this and this and this and you know I had agents got pissed off because they have to keep doing stuff and looking after us like chasing you know the money wasn't that good for them to be going through hell just trying to babysit us so when you're doing like the nightclub world you would obviously get someone like Luminati go right you're in 40 nightclubs and you're doing a tour or whatever it may be What was the first leisure back then?
25:08Luminar and what have you? Oh, they were. They were big. Well,
25:13Mathew Pritchard: yeah, because we did a deal with Chicago Rocks. I don't know if it was Luminar or whatever. Yeah, I remember Chicago Rocks, yeah. And there was like 45 of them. Yeah, that's right. So me and Dane got the contract to do all 45 Chicago Rocks. Yeah. It was a mental bloody summer. And it was really good. But I remember Luminar booked us for 500 places or something ridiculous. It was like, wow, this could be amazing. But so the first, this is first time we went into, there's a place in Leeds they had and we were on stage and we used to play this thing like you get a cucumber and get people on stage, crowd participation, and then whichever girl gives it the best blowjob wins.
26:00Mathew Pritchard: Yeah. Do you remember how much you were getting a gig back then? well because it was four of us i think we were getting about grand and a half each yeah and then when it came to just me and daint depending where it was and how big the crowd was then it was anything between one and a half two two and a half for having fun tell me about tell me about some festivals you've done
26:27um the redding was the redding was the first festival we did I know.
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28:30Mathew Pritchard: We did for a fact. I remember going there, and this was our first ever live show. So we'd never done one before, and Redding was our tester. and I remember being backstage and there was a band on, it was empty and I thought, oh, this is going to be shit. Anyway, we were backstage just drinking, getting loaded, it was per usual. And then, I thought, it's sounding quite, it sounded quite loud out there. And I looked, pulled the curtain back, and they'd seen me go like that. Wow, it was raw. And I went, holy shit. like goosebumps and everything was like fucking went running back to the chain to boys boys it's fucking mental and they were like no one no fuck off is it and then they had a look they were like holy shit but it was i mean we went on that stage and we were supercharged yeah we went absolutely batshit crazy there was blood everywhere there was i was black and blue from bruises there was shit all over the stage piss all over the stage the stage manager's like I am not tidying any of this shit up it was carnage I think one of the security guards fainted it was it was just mental and the crowd were going wow and they were loving it how charged would you get before going on stage?
29:58Mathew Pritchard: oh well this is the thing at the start we do and it would never work because you know it's like you do a lot of coke one person is talking more than the other and it just sounds like you're not talking over one another yeah what's my turn my turn yeah yeah and it just sounded like shit so i we made a deal where no sniff before stage only after okay and uh and we we tried limiting the alcohol to just two beers before stage in the end i think all four of all three of us did Pancho didn't he died yeah it was fuck good times tell me what they would pay you to do to go on stage what were you doing on stage how long were you on there for what were you booked for what were you what was your what were you actually paid to do to go on stage and recreate the stuff that we were doing on the show.
31:06Okay.
31:06Mathew Pritchard: So all the popular things that you knew people were talking about, we'd sort of do it live in front of an audience. We'd have the light tubes, smashing that over your head. We had the bullwhip. Yeah. So that noises, a sonic boom. So we'd have that on our backs. I'd pick up, I used to have a pierced, I used to have Prince Albert and I used to pick up a bucket of coal and swing, swing, swing down. My knob was just like this big, yeah. What else do we do? Oh, and then to finish, we'd have a posh wank before going on stage with a condom and stuff. And then when you come in the condom, you sort of tie it up.
31:53Yeah.
31:53Mathew Pritchard: And then leave it in your back pocket. Yeah. And then at the end, then, of course, the thing was called Spunky Dungy. and then we'd all we'd all have to reveal at the same time and whoever had the least had to have all the other boys in their hand and then oh no all over their face so that was the other oh mate there's levels right but we figured out Dane never lost Dane never lost to Spunky Dunky and we clicked we thought why doesn't he lose all the time and we're like he's cheating because he was putting filling up with like a little bit of water so he was always so he never lost so we clicked and we went right okay we'll get you back we went to Birmingham and before Deng turned up we all went early and we had a shitload of condoms and walked into the bar asked all the doormen doormen can you do us a favour can you have a poshwank barman can you have a poshwank give them all these people and then we managed to get i don't know fucking 20 blokes come and me honestly i know it sounds wrong but we were me joysie and parents are backstage sharing like 20 bears come into our into our condoms so we had like a whopping load of cum each and but dink didn't know about this and then when he got to the spunky dunky on stage went right reveal you Dave's face this is cheating this is cheating me you've been cheating for the last so he had no choice because all the crowd was like so he basically had 20 men come in his face
33:51Mathew Pritchard: we used to go fishing for each other on stage as well we put like fish hooks in our ears I didn't go fishing, the first one to snap. So you'd walk, hold on a minute, you'd get a fishing rod, fish hook, whack it in one of your ears. Yeah, whack it in the air. And then you'd reel in. And then the two of us would fight for one another. And so our ears would go... Mate, your pain threshold must be like ridiculous, right? All four of you. Who had the most pain threshold out of all four, would you say? It was probably me, I think. Yeah. Yeah. It was, well, I'd seen that. Dayton was pretty good, actually.
34:31Dayton was, Dayton would do all like needles and all that kind of stuff. You'd have all the blood coming down his arm. Oh, I mean, look at his arm, what, needles going?
34:41Mathew Pritchard: Well, you know, piercing needles. Yeah. You put, you put them through. Yeah. And then they leave like a, like a clear, yes, thick hole. Yeah. They do all that on stage and it was like, yeah, and everyone's going, yeah, another one, another one. I remember he did it once and he left he left the things in there so we with the with the straw we used them as straws to sniff so we sniffed a load to sniff through his arms it's all coming back mate this is quality yeah
35:21is there ever a time you got in trouble at the nightclubs I know the one you got in a blowy on stage and stuff. Was there any trouble with the doorman? Anything happen there? Have you ever been in trouble when someone started a fight on you? Yeah, in Hereford once somebody started. But I was so pissed I went to hit him and missed. Yeah. Why was he starting? I've just been a prick. Okay. Yeah, but to be honest, not really. Doormen were always sound with us. Yeah. And we just, normally we'd end up going back to one of the doorman's houses and having a party. And having a party, yeah. Or somebody's house and just go stuck again.
35:57Give me another time where you've been, someone's employed you to go somewhere to someone's birthday or to someone's big event abroad or out in Ibiza or have you done the Gumball Rally or have you done anything along those lines? Gumball Rally? Yeah. I did the Gumball Rally five times. I did it five times with you? Hmm. I don't know if you, well the Gumball
36:20Mathew Pritchard: Gumball Rally for me was like a highlight of my, yeah, absolutely that's it well the first max invited us at the height of sanchez but we're just so busy doing our stuff we couldn't get around to doing it and as the years went along and we had more time max max many had said yeah can you do an hour we're like yeah cool i was meant to do the one rejoicing going around the world in his angry pirate car but cut a long story so something happened couldn't do it i went to the start and had to go home which was gutting anyway we because I wasn't because we were meant to be filming a pilot me and Pancho meant to be filming a pilot but he said he was ill and then I found out he's actually on holiday in Tenerife, I could have killed him so I couldn't go on the Gumball Rally because he was on holiday in Tenerife anyway, doesn't matter but we went on we did five and a lot of I mean I've told this story quite a few times so but we Dolph Lundgren was on one of the flights it was from
37:34Stockholm to Ibiza we started off in Stockholm making our way and on our way to Amsterdam a few stops and Amsterdam was the last stop so we jumped on the plane to get to Las Vegas and then start the American leg. And I was flat out on it. And this was when I was sort of introduced to Xanax. So every time I woke up, I barely slept anyway. On the gumball, I used the car to sleep and then party all night and then keep going. And then to take the hangover away, I used to take a quarter of Xanax. Felt bloody great. All right, let's go again. And we got to Amsterdam. I was like, oh, this is going to be a long flight.
38:20Let's take a full Xanax, like one of those, the pearly sticks. Because it's the last thing I remember. Last thing I remember, until I go, I woke up on the back of the plane, not that far from Vegas. And I was like, what are you doing here? I didn't, I didn't sit in this place. And everyone just looked at me around. Where do I start? I'm like, oh no. I was like, oh, that's all I done. They were like, oh, you've pissed all over Dolph Lundgren. I was like, what? Shut up, you're winding me up. No, you fucking pissed all over him, man. You lost the plot. Apparently, I was, I fucking, I just went nuts on a plane.
39:05Mathew Pritchard: There was Bumby, the gangster rapper Bumby. Pulled all my clothes off, started teabagging him when he was sleeping. when he found out he said Pritch if I didn't know you'd have a cap in your ass and then the pilot came out and I grabbed one of the pillows and smashed the pilot across the head and started a massive pillow fight and then because I was so out of it I thought I thought the toilet was Dolph Lunder and he was sat in the front by the door so I just started pissing all over him and then I collapsed and then they parried me and put me in the back of the plane and then we got off in Vegas went to Vegas and I woke up and I thought I felt so angry I was getting bad anxiety as well I don't know what this is it was the not having the withdrawal or some having the Xanax so I was in the hotel room my phone was going mental I thought what's going on here it was it was on the front page of the new york times that pritchard from dirty sanchez pissed all over dolf london so everyone back home was like what the fuck have you been doing and then you walk up walking out onto the streets in vegas and everyone's everyone's like oh my god it's the naked guy and i'm like fucking hell what the fuck's happened here but thanks thanks to dolf Thanks to Dolph, he took it really well.
40:40Mathew Pritchard: I apologised to him. Yeah. He likes to party, though, doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah. He's a good egg. Yeah. So tell me, so you did five. So example on the Gumball rally, you did five Gumball rallies. Were you just doing the whole, did you do the whole thing or were you just going into different countries and having a party? Did the whole thing. Did the whole thing. Yeah, start to finish. So for example, for the listener out there or anyone on YouTube, give an example from Gumball start to finish. Gumball is 3 ,000 miles and it starts in one place finishes in whatever it finishes 3 ,000 miles later and every night it's stay in a five star hotel have massive parties and then start again the next day repeat, repeat, repeat and it's just full of supercars, hypercars celebrities you name it it's just proper adrenaline Yeah.
41:38Madness. But,
41:39Mathew Pritchard: yes, good fun. We had Mike from the Cuban Brothers on here. Oh, yeah. I did it with him once. Yeah, did you? Yeah. He was telling me about the Gumball Rally where he ended up in North Korea, like telling a story like this, mate, it got so twisted on everything. He ended up in North Korea and ended up with, what's his name, Knight Rider. The Hoff. The Hoff. Yeah. Mate, some of the stories he was saying were properly funny. Yeah. It's a mad, it's a mad, I've done one before, not the Gumball well I did another one I flew out to Barcelona and you party around the clock and people I can't feel anything worse of being hungover in a car travelling for 3 ,000 miles I'd rather just fly in for the party a couple of days than fly back yeah it's just like it's the proper I've heard it's amazing it's just a mission and everything and the hotels are nice everyone on it that's right even though they're rich people they're not rich people up their arses they're just cool people having fun yeah everyone's just having a laugh getting on with one another so it's ace tell me some other country you've been to what you absolutely love tell me a story about ibiza ah you spent time out there yeah i spent i always wanted to go to ibiza um because enjoy a party and i thought well there's no other there's no better place to go for a party than ibiza and we were doing sanchez and i remember a agent phoned up saying all right uh we've gone a residency with ibiza rocks and this is when ibiza rocks was in bar m by san antonio yeah for the bay there and uh i was like ah yes going to ibiza not just once like a few times over the season and uh i landed there i've never i was like a kid in a sweet shop i couldn't wait like let's get stuck in and we did the gig it was all sold out made the atmosphere and everything was just amazing and this was on a sunday and as soon as i got off stage i'm like right where do i go space like where do I go for fucking party and somebody said go to Eden because it was Judgment Sunday I was like oh wicked it was over the road so I went in there and I didn't know him then but Big Nick who used to look after jewels and stuff and look after Judgment Sunday he said come with me took me upstairs to VVRP gave me an envelope in the envelope it was just party products I was like this is amazing I've got a fucking envelope full of shit I just just went for it and I was like yeah this is amazing and then every two weeks and we went the island then I did exactly the same thing so I just got to know all the everybody at judgment and just and that was it then I just fell in love with the island and I just kept coming all the time just kept coming coming and then 2012 2013 I started my own boat parties sleeping your dead boat parties it was called what sleep when you're dead sleep when sleep when sleep when you're dead okay yeah and they were sunset boat parties and they were ah they were so much fun and then in 2013 I went to the season there because there was no point just going back and forth into the boat parties and I'll just stay there so I stayed there and it's just I had all intent because I had to I signed up for Iron Man Wales at the end of the season, September.
44:58Oh, in 2013? 2013.
45:00Mathew Pritchard: So I thought, well, I'm going to have to train. So I took my bike to Ibiza. I'm everything to train. Never happened. Well, it did once or twice. But I mean, riding a bike through San Antonio that time of morning, which is just hilarious. You just bring people good and everyone. I'm like, what am I? I'm on a fucking bike in Ibiza doing fitness stuff and everyone's screwed. But anyway, I got back home. and I failed that I failed the Iron Man but you live in there Amsterdam you like that place yeah yeah been a few times yeah went there for my brother's stag so it's been there loads of times yeah but I do like it but it's not yeah it doesn't hit like Ibiza yeah or anywhere like that yeah yeah so tell me what so your journey now is like do you find like from 2001 it's going on partying partying partying you're getting to a point now we're even talking about doing and we'll go into what you're doing now which is amazing but you're talking about doing an iron man etc was there a point where you were partying so hard you're going i can't carry on with this lads were you waking up again i can't carry on this i've got i've got to change my lifestyles i'll end up brown bread like was there any point where you you hit rock bottom i didn't hit rock bought until three years ago okay so but yeah before that there was a few times how long can i carry on doing this for and um hi it's page from giggly squad and this episode is sponsored by experian boost summer glow up check credit glow up even better boost your credit scores instantly by getting credit for bills you're already paying.
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47:38I just loved it. That was my problem when I started doing it because I remember seeing footage of myself on TV, and I thought, these are cool, because I'm a professional skateboarder. I skateboarded all my life. I was fit, healthy, and then I looked at myself and said, Jesus, look, what have I become? I'm an absolute mess. And then that sort of made me think, I can just sort myself out a little bit. I wonder if I could still run the Cardiff R. This is 2009.
48:05Mathew Pritchard: So I set myself a mission to run the Cardiff R, and I did it. I really enjoyed it. Enjoyed the journey up to it as well, the training. and then you know I got an addictive personality so I wasn't just happy doing the Cardiff half so I thought let's run the country from John O 'Groats to Land's End so did you yeah ran it with two mates Dyke and Neil Sharpe so we went drove up to John O 'Groats and ran back to Land's End at 30 about 34 miles a day for 30 days my god yeah that's that's that's a marathon a day plus for 30 days on the bounce. Yeah. Bloody hell. Yeah, it was... Fair play to you. And we did it in a...
48:50We did it in a caravan. So we had this hired caravan, Leo's missus, doing the cooking and stuff.
48:57Mathew Pritchard: So every time they pull up in a lay-by... Yeah. The deal was every 10 miles, she'd find a lay-by nearby. Have a feed-up. Have a feed-up. Repeat, repeat. 30 marathons in 30 days. About 30 ultra-marathons, yeah. and that's when i knew yeah well actually before then what year was that we did 2009 nine okay before that i actually did something with daint with longboards we skateboarded from cardiff to newkey and cornwall and i found that i had this thing where i i had so much energy i could just keep going like they'd want to stop and i was like no no go go go go just kept going and that's when And I realized I sort of had something special.
49:44Yeah. And when I did the John of Grosland's End, that's when I started looking for something to push me. What's the next?
49:55Mathew Pritchard: Looking for the next thing. And my mate, Butsy Butler, he sent me a YouTube video of Rick and Dick Hoyt, father and son. The son's disabled in a wheelchair. Father's actually got a heart problem. But they do Ironmans together. And there was a video. And I thought, oh, come on, that really hit me. Maybe quite tearful. I was like, that's amazing. If they can do that, so can I. So I started scrolling for Ironman in the UK and stuff. And there was Ironman UK in Bolton. So I signed up for that in 2011. A few of us, my brother and two other friends. And that was literally at the time the toughest thing I've ever done.
50:36and it was but one of the most enjoyable things because I loved the fact that I had to really dig deep to get over that finish line and after doing that then I thought I want to do that again so I did in 2012 this time I didn't really train for it but I managed to do it anyway and then the next one then was Ironman Wales which I messed up but I wanted yeah it is a tough one just a brace there we can't just sort of brush over this
51:07Mathew Pritchard: yeah because a lot of people might not know what an Ironman is can you just explain the three it's two and a half mile swim yep 112 mile bike ride and a full marathon to finish to finish all in one day and you've got to do it within 15 16 hours from that that's another that's another level anyone who competes at half a half Ironman fair play but to do a full Ironman is another level of fitness two and a half mile swim in a lake or wherever it may be or the sea or wherever it may be and then you jump off you finish that and then you jump on a bike and do 112 miles and then you finish that you've got to finish off with a marathon yeah but after failing Ironman Wales I went for a run and a few a few weeks after I was going for a run I was just thinking of stuff I always get my best ideas when I run and I was like I'm going to do 30 half Ironman in 30 days.
52:07I thought, what am I going to do? I can do that in March. I can finish on my birthdays, March 30th. And I told a few people, I was like, what the fuck? You can't do that. I was like, is it a world record? Yeah, it would be a world record as well. So I was like, yep, let's do it. So what I did, I think it was March 14th, 2014, started March 1st, swam in a pool, 51.5 miles, and then got up the pool, cycled 57 miles. And then with Peter Allen, back home, we've got a state agent called Peter Allen. They sponsored it. And they've got almost 30 Peter Allens. So I'd cycle to a different Peter Allen every day
52:55Mathew Pritchard: and I'd start my run from the half marathon. And then every day then, and then there was a vegan restaurant in Cardiff that sponsored it. So I'd go there, feed up, put all my calendars back in, get a massage, go back home, sleep, and repeat. Still have 30. He did 30. He did 30 halves over 30 days. So he had 30 days, yeah. Bloody hell, man. And then that's like, we can't just brush over this, because let's just fit another level. You know, that's crazy. yeah i don't know it's just i love it man yeah i know you do i know you do i can i can yeah what i like about it does it clear your mind yeah yeah okay i feel a peace yeah when i'm doing it like all the endorphins i lock i lock into my my i just switch off yeah good and it's almost like a form of meditation for me so it feels brilliant tell me about the time when you got attacked with by a knife uh in norfolk yeah that was in dirham in uh norfolk he was um i was going for a run my girlfriend at the time she lived in she just lived around the corner and um i was going to wait for a six mile run remember how long it was as well and then um went in the local shop to go and get a drink and there was a bit of commotion happening there was a lot of women and children in the shop and there was a guy screaming at the woman behind the counter where he was trying to get his check cast obviously it was a sketchy check or something a sketchy looking dude and i was just trying to i'm sifting through the drinks i could use it and i went oh i've got really frustrated because i thought you can't speak to people you can't speak to people like no when the shop's full of women and kids it's just not fair so um i just lost it I just grabbed him I'm not a fighter I can't fight this in my life but I just grabbed him and chucked him out the front door said fucking get out don't speak to people like that and he came in and he had it was like half a moon with a little blade he went this is all down there down the chest I didn't feel it I turned around and I'm like girlfriend saw her and she just dropped to her knee hysterical.
55:26I was like, what? I was like, oh fuck. And then that's, and I thought, oh no. I literally went, I just sat down. The women behind the shop thing, they got me a tea towel. I mean, I didn't know how bad it was when you was bloody bleeding. And I just, I just thought, oh, I'm gonna I'm gonna go sleep here. that's all I could think but the ambulance came I thought I'm still not asleep so and they got in the ambulance
56:02Mathew Pritchard: you know when because I could see the extent of the damage I was looking at the faces of the paramedics to see like and when they pulled it back and I went oh fuck it's not good yeah so I went to hospital I had I had about 30 internal stitches and then external or some across my chest as well. But yeah, survived. He went to jail for five years. I think he's actually passed away. Started. Wow. Oh yeah, lucky. Yeah, very lucky. You said a while back that you hit rock bottom three years ago. What happened?
56:52you can live this life of excess for quite a while everyone's different I guess and I was living the life of excess putting the candle at both ends because doing the fitness stuff and wrecking myself really and it just caught up in me because we we started in 2018-2019 I started filming with the BBC to do the dirty vegan stuff the cooking program and everything because I was the first person to have the first vegan cooking show on TV and I was you know I was stoked I was really I was really enjoying it I felt like I had a second chance after everything that happened and it was and I was loving doing that job and then there's a few things I found out that I was getting ripped off.
57:49And I thought, ah, that again. And then COVID hit, and everything just sort of, everything just sort of went overnight. And I don't, well, I don't think, I know, I just couldn't, I couldn't handle it. And I just sort of gave up, really. Just started smashing all kinds of stuff. And then it just went from coke, cocaine, booze. I was drinking like four bottles of red in the night. And there was loads of... I remember drinking Brewdog IPAs like it was growing up in fashion. Smoking again. And then I was doing morphine. I was doing Dazipan, Coldomols. I just swam a handful every morning. I was constipated.
58:40I was having trouble down there. because obviously the opiates and everything was in there and i just i just went and then i started heroin started smoking heroin i didn't get uh addicted to heroin because i only did it a few
58:56Mathew Pritchard: times but i knew in my head that and where i was getting it from i was welcome whenever i wanted and i could have gone keep going for more and more and i know that only leads to one thing Yeah. That's, I did not want to go down that road. And then, then I just lost it. Just boom. Everything just got on top of me. I fucking lost the plot. My anxiety was just through the roof. Like so bad. I just want, I just couldn't be around people. Like it was just, I was just hiding. I was doing it all on a secret as well. Most of it. In my house. I know. I went, right. Something else, something else to get from.
59:37I'm going to have to stop. I have to stop. On October the 6th, 2022, I said to my agent, Nick, from John Noe, he said, oh, look, do you want me to get you a therapist? Because they work with a guy called Chip Summers.
59:56Mathew Pritchard: And so I went to go and see him in London, in Harley Street, darling. And I started working with him. and uh the first three months were pretty hard i did uh but it was working it was good you know i didn't i didn't touch any i know look when i get something in my head i'm i'm i'm locked in i'll do it but um it was uh it was hard and i did a few plant medicine ceremonies as well which which was a massive help so everything i sort of did from there on I did it religiously and still do up to this day because I know at the moment I've never felt this good for a long time all the hard work that I've done over the last three years and being stripped of myself and the consistency and it was all paid off really because I remember like two years time I mean, I couldn't, I thought he was talking out of his ass, but then I can't see it now.
1:01:06And the most important thing to me at the moment is my, uh, is my sobriety. Yeah. And, uh, long may it continue. Yeah, mate. How long have you been claimed for? Six of October, maybe three years. It's the next month. Respect, man. Yeah. Massive respect. Cheers. Massive respect. Don't get me wrong. I, I, I've had, I've had my fun. It's been great. Yeah. It's been a fucking amazing laugh. but I've done it. Yeah. I don't need to prove to myself. You've done it 10 times over, mate. Yeah. Yeah. What a ride. Yeah. What a ride. But yeah. So what made you try Brown?
1:01:50I always wanted to try it. Yeah. Okay. Weirdly. Yeah. You know, when you do like, cause I've done pretty much almost every other drug, crystal meth, pills, this, that, all of it. There was one thing I never did was brown. And I always said to myself, I'd smoke, never inject it, but I'd smoke it and give it a go. And I was like, of course, fucking lovely, isn't it? Oh, I'll do that again. I think I did it two or three occasions. And then I started nodding. Suddenly I had to wake me up. And so I remember waking up the next day and it's like, I can't do this again. Yeah. because uh well we all know what happens what feeling what feeling is it like when you take heroin um it's like a big cut you know cutches as well for a hug yeah yeah it's just nice big but i was completely absolutely loaded on loads of other stuff at the same time so it was just that's just a really nice feeling yeah and then yeah but that's the one i can say that's the one drug everyone goes whoa isn't it that's the one that everyone points at go whoa don't go near that but crack as well i really like crack but i know i know what crack continued on that road yeah were you smoking were you smoking crack yeah yeah yeah how many joints did you ever crack it was only on special occasions in a certain place i'm not
1:03:19Mathew Pritchard: going to mention it yeah but um i love crack i know it sounds daft but it is the whole process of it the the plasticky taste that it gave you yeah and it was just and you held it in and then and you're off and then next thing you know what another another another so yeah um but um yeah Yeah, I'm not going back there again. No, definitely not. Yeah. That addictive personality you got, when you did try crack and you were banging bugle before, bang, bang, lines after lines after lines, the difference between doing a line of cocaine and having a joint of crack, what was the difference? Is it a big difference?
1:04:02I didn't have a joint of crack. I put it in a crack pipe. You put it in a pipe, okay. A pipe, yeah. So a lot of people smoke it in a joint, right? Mm, mm. Do you just bang it in a pipe? Yeah, in a pipe, yeah. Okay. and that hit compared to doing a line of cocaine is completely different oh yeah it's like instant yeah that's god knows how many times more powerful as well
1:04:23Mathew Pritchard: yeah you get to where you want to be straight away and without the clogged nose and all that kind of stuff I know it's most probably weird to say and I'd say crack is cleaner than doing cocaine because it's just it's just pure and clean yeah the rest of you don't know what bloody cocaine has been cut with yeah and all the shit you stick it up your nose but um yeah they were the days man yeah mate amazing unbelievable that's some ride you've had that's some ride you had how are you how are you feeling today are you happy yeah yeah yeah it's good because i mean my day starts before i said like the people who really helped me get to where i am today
1:05:13my um my missus who is uh
1:05:20Mathew Pritchard: she could she could have easily left but she i don't have to get her out she could have easily left but she stayed and she helped me through it through it all really and my dog my dog let me because I remember in lockdown you know my dog would be looking at me and he'd be lining up and he'd sort of have that ashamed look almost like a human and that ashamed look at me like what are you doing and it was weird and I thought he knows didn't he he absolutely knows so without those kind of you know my like my therapist Chip and my Mrs. Kira and my dog and a few others then I guess I wouldn't be with a smile on my face because at the moment I'm in a really happy place I'm sort of from And it might seem weird to say this as well, but I went through a massive spiritual awakening and it all just happened in this one block.
1:06:42It almost feels like so much shit was happening, like little weird things. Like I'd have to change tires on my car like eight times in a few months. Like life just kept throwing the shit at me. And I'm like, fucking hell. And I remember my missus saying, Christ, not again. Like I got tested big time in so many different ways. but I just kept coming back, kept fighting. And my regime every day is four o 'clock in the morning. I wake up, I do my morning workout and I just, just to keep myself, like routine. Yeah. Routine is important. Discipline, routine. Discipline.
1:07:23Mathew Pritchard: I get it. You fucking gotta do that. It works. Every single fucking day. Don't, there's no time for slacking. Yeah. The moment you slack, that fucking devil's going to take you away again go you fight fight fight fight fight tell that kind of fuck off i'm sorry i used to see what but it's just that's what it is that's what that's what you've got to do man and you've got to keep yourself busy you've got to keep doing stuff like the moment i sit down in my in my head oh i mean i you know you need rest as well that's very important if you're going to be constantly going you need rest but you know i'm just i'm i'm happy with my relationship and i've just i've just started a new business with um craig armstrong called uh dirty health which is um a business based on food sensitivity tests nutrition plans training plans and we we've just started doing um wellness retreats and stuff in the go peninsula which is we're on our did our third one last week and uh we've all been booked out and everyone's enjoying them.
1:08:29And it's great because I'm sharing what I've sort of learned with other people. And there's a lot of people who have come of this sort of ex-parties as well. So we've all got something in common. Well, that's the way the world's going. Ex-parties have all gone clean. They want to find calmness and peace. And do you know what I mean? And actually go, what's good for me? You know, we're all growing up in the 90s. Everyone's had it. Partied hard.
1:08:52Mathew Pritchard: Kitchen talk at the mountain. They're walking. Yeah, perfect. Mate, I just have to say just one thing. what you're speaking here. I can see that you're happy. I can see that you've gone through a lot of pain. I can see that from banging that amount of drugs and booze for all those years to really knock it on the head three years ago. But I've got to give a massive shout out to your Mrs. Kira. Yeah. Wow. Wow. Yeah. For her to stick by you and get you through what you've got through now, it must be a beautiful feeling knowing she's right on your side, yeah? Well, she's Iris. She's from Dublin. Yeah.
1:09:26So in lockdown, we didn't see each other for over a year. And when the restrictions changed, she now lives in me in Cardiff. So she's there every single day. And we've been together for 15 years last week, and most of that was long distance. And we thought, well, if we've lived long distance, how are we going to live with each other so close? But it's been wicked. Yeah. It's been absolutely amazing. she's ace how do you want to be remembered by her no oh I don't really give a shit mm
1:10:10I don't know guy who like to have a laugh yeah I was going to say yeah I just like to have a laugh and can't stand cunt
1:10:23quality well that's true for all of us right
1:10:26Mathew Pritchard: yeah but there's a lot of them around
1:10:31Pritch I've really enjoyed this mate cheers mate yeah it's good thanks for having me yeah mate my pleasure thanks for honesty yeah cool you know when I do these shows I don't like to do too much homework because I'm intrigued I'm curious and for what you've gone and what you've achieved with three other mates to get celebrity status worldwide for just mucking about and having a laugh and doing silly things fair play to you well there's some news on that yeah as well is there yeah go on well sanchez the movie too is another step closer to being signed off you're joking me yeah so i spoke to my agent last week was another step closer paramount of giving it the green light to be able to use dirty sanchez um Vertigo Films who did the first Sanchez movie Alan is in the middle of the it's just basically the legal the legal talk is now going back and forth okay but then folks across think next year we're going to take Sanchez the movie too so what the four boys four lads will come back together again all four of us come back but you weren't going to do the stunts you were doing right no we're going to do worse
1:11:42Mathew Pritchard: no no I'm joking no no we're all four different people yeah okay I mean I know Dane's sober. I think Joycey is what I am. Pan still likes to drink, but I mean, I think it's going to be a bit more wholesome. Yeah. I mean, the comedy will always go there because it's just the way we are. Most part is like chopping fingers off and limbs. I don't think that's going to happen. But I spoke to the director yesterday. I actually had a Zoom call with him. So as soon as everything gets ticked off, we'll be hitting a room and start knocking ideas out. then we'll get on the road and stuff but doing it with no booze no drugs but still having the right laugh yes mate quality mate yeah imagine how fun that would be imagine doing it sober it'd be weird right it'd be like it'd be so weird because you're so like you think back to when you did it we would have like I said earlier in your 20s yeah full on yeah like madness haven't it I know we're all sober sober Sanchez it's overseen Sanchez happy days Pritch I love this mate thanks mate actually love you gentlemen I wish you all the best mate I really do yeah thank you good luck with the movie as well cheers take care if you'd like to see someone on the show leave a comment below and if you haven't already do us a favour show us a bit of love press the subscribe button and it allows us to grow the show even bigger and bigger each week nice one
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Mathew Pritchard opens up about a life built on chaos, extremes, and reinvention - from skateboarding in Cardiff to becoming one of the most recognisable faces of Dirty Sanchez. What started as mates pushing boundaries on camera became an MTV phenomenon, taking them from the House of Doom to packed festivals, nightclub tours, Gumball Rally madness, and a world where the more outrageous it got, the bigger the reaction became.
But behind the laughs and carnage was a darker reality - years of heavy partying, pressure, fractured friendships, anxiety, addiction, and a lifestyle that eventually caught up with him. From wild nights in Ibiza and live shows across the country to finding himself at rock bottom years later, Matt reflects honestly on the cost of living at full speed for so long.
Now sober, disciplined, and focused on health, he speaks about rebuilding his life through routine, endurance, fitness, therapy, and the support of those closest to him. It’s a story of madness, survival, and finding peace after years of pushing everything to the limit.
This is the eventful life of Mathew Pritchard.
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