20 Million Views and 47 Degrees: Iffy's Tour de France Debrief

Let's talk about the numbers.

You know, we've collated them all.

You're talking 20 million views for the Tour de France.

Now, obviously, normally when you plan to go to the tour, it's months and months in the making.

There was obviously the, ideally you were going to get over the tour, but it was very much a last minute thing.

Give us a bit of an insight as to how much went into the whole planning side of things.

It won't take long.

Look, as you know, we looked at the numbers, and I just couldn't justify it to go over there.

I've done 26 tours.

That was my 26th tour, so I couldn't justify it.

But then at the last moment, we've got a couple of sponsors, and probably, yeah.

Anyway, so I decided to go.

But Vazzy was going to America.

anyway with family and going to watch the soccer world cup and all that i said listen it could be it could be back on he was on his way to the airport he said oh bloody hell johnny make up your mind and i said yeah it's on so uh we didn't have tickets or anything it's only a week before so we we got a really good deal on tickets and um vazy uh my right hand man and i headed off and uh You come up with a plan for VAS.

Frank plan.

It was a Frank plan, but it was brilliant.

And whereas we just do little short little grabs and post them direct on Insta and Facebook, which VASI managed to do, you know, with a little bit of help from me, as in zero.

And, yeah, it worked.

As you know, those short little grabs have changed everything, really.

Well, the thing that blew up the internet was obviously the famous video of the punch-on.

Now, everyone was talking about this on socials.

We had to actually rip into a few accounts that were trying to take credit.

This is the clip here.

But this was actually taken 10 years earlier.

It wasn't from that stage at