GYPSY TALES

Chapter 413

Luke Tarrant

31 July 2026 · 3h 17m

With Luke Tarrant

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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.

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Chapters 48

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 3:45A week together at the Isle of Man TT
  3. 12:41Cardo Ad
  4. 16:30The start line, the goodbyes and the cemetery
  5. 20:15Racing a car at the TT with half a leg
  6. 22:30Two crashes in one day on the mountain road
  7. 27:27Back to the start
  8. 29:19The London School of Economics and the Wolf of Wall Street
  9. 32:02Walking into his boss's office and quitting
  10. 33:45Landing in the US with no plan and a Suzuki DR650
  11. 36:00Buying a house versus buying freedom
  12. 40:30Ten days in the dirt and how little you need
  13. 44:15The present self and the remembering self
  14. 48:00The post that blew up by accident
  15. 52:08AG1 Ad
  16. 53:06How he got into motorcycles
  17. 55:30His dad gets a bike licence and a tattoo
  18. 1:01:25The Vietnam tour company that changed both their dads' lives
  19. 1:04:30The Ho Chi Minh trail and the bomb craters
  20. 1:07:48Venezuela, the caravans and the Darien Gap
  21. 1:12:49Selling the American dream
  22. 1:17:15Why he would choose Mexico over the US
  23. 1:20:15Why it has to be a motorcycle
  24. 1:25:49The crash
  25. 1:29:28No memory and no vision attached to it
  26. 1:31:30Waking up in a different part of Colombia
  27. 1:33:33The leg comes off or you die
  28. 1:34:29The Instagram story that got him out
  29. 1:36:00Sepsis
  30. 1:41:15A month of deciding how much more to cut off
  31. 1:45:05The air ambulance and the prince's plane
  32. 1:48:45Going back to find out what actually happened
  33. 1:57:48Motosport Ad
  34. 1:58:30Coming home in a wheelchair
  35. 2:02:59The night he realised he had become disabled
  36. 2:07:30The beach in Mexico
  37. 2:10:41The prosthetic, and what is actually left
  38. 2:14:56Kurdistan and back in a wheelchair
  39. 2:18:45Disabled, and who actually is
  40. 2:22:30Jase on the bike he could never have as a kid
  41. 2:29:15Half a million followers and the dopamine
  42. 2:36:45Losing the warehouse in the fire
  43. 2:42:04FIST Ad
  44. 2:45:00Why he turns down most brands
  45. 2:50:56Mexico, and why he keeps going back
  46. 2:53:15The night he followed a stranger to a cartel party
  47. 3:03:00Corrupt police and the fake driving licences
  48. 3:10:25Devil's breath and getting roofied

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