We talk about the ups and downs of this rollercoaster ride, revealing the successes, challenges, and hilarious incidents that have shaped us into who we are today. We also pay tribute to how our respective roles as coach or and podcaster have positively influenced those around us, offering a unique insight into the incredible power of commitment and teamwork. *Warning* Lots of drinks were had before and during this session. Enjoy!
Shoutout to:
Dan Fielder
Kyle Paulson
Al Moreno
Keanu Daos
Local Tri Cities Runners!
Eastern Washington Nomads
Runners of the Sage
We talk about the ups and downs of this rollercoaster ride, revealing the successes, challenges, and hilarious incidents that have shaped us into who we are today. We also pay tribute to how our respective roles as coach or and podcaster have positively influenced those around us, offering a unique insight into the incredible power of commitment and teamwork. *Warning* Lots of drinks were had before and during this session. Enjoy!
Shoutout to:
Dan Fielder
Kyle Paulson
Al Moreno
Keanu Daos
Local Tri Cities Runners!
Eastern Washington Nomads
Runners of the Sage
Alright, so let's play some guitar sounds, and the man.
Speaker 2:Nicholas Cohn.
Speaker 1:Man, it's been a while.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we haven't even really chopped it up together in a long time. We kind of got together with the Al Moreno show, but Emilio, emilio, but that was Al's show. I mean, it had to be about him, not about us so much.
Speaker 1:Was it Emilio, emilio? Was it Al's show, or was?
Speaker 2:it.
Speaker 1:Dan and Al's show.
Speaker 2:I thought it was AI and Dan's show.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, practice. Well, I can't wait for Al to make Kyle come.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know Kyle's been coming, dude.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I see it, I mean every time, I mean Kyle's been coming.
Speaker 1:Dude dude, hey, kyle is a busy dude right now, just like me, and you know Kyle is one heck of a coach. Yeah, and what he does for those boys at the local school is he's a good coach. Dude, god, you know I'm not gonna dog him. I will never dog him. I will never dog him. But God lay that. That program is elite, that a program that he coaches is top notch. I would say maybe one, two. There's some good ones, some great ones. On the West I would say they're one, two man, one of the one two punches in the state of Washington, wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dude, yeah, kyle's good. That's crazy. Yeah, that you know. Just to think that he coaches. You know a cross country team here in the Tri-Cities at sea level that you know. I've seen him actually have run into him with his team making him run. You know five and a half minute mile pace of Owens Road up top of Jump Off Joe Running to Kyle up there and he's like, yeah, those guys, some of them guys, are just rolling it out at five and a half minute mile pace up this Scrabble Road. Yeah, but yeah, no, I'm always excited to see Kyle. I think it's likewise.
Speaker 1:No, dude, but then you see him right, he's coaching, he has his kids. I think that's the greatest thing ever, man, his kids hanging out with him during, you know, the meets. And to see him run. I'm like, dude, are you hurt? He's like kind of they come to find out. I hear from other people that dude, he has like a, he has like a bone spur and his Achilles that he can't even do anything with. If he did anything, he would have to go to, like overseas somewhere. Yeah, and to see him run it makes me hurt, dude, and he's still old.
Speaker 2:Right, but with that said, even with that, he's still very competitive, godless. He still will roll out there. You know podium almost.
Speaker 1:Did you sign up for his new challenge?
Speaker 2:What was it? The Chase the Crown.
Speaker 1:Yeah, chase the Crown. You know the one person that we you know, we know, yeah, who doesn't really talk to me anymore, but yeah, he Chase's crowns and segments.
Speaker 2:We'll say BL is like a BM.
Speaker 1:A bow movement, exactly. Oh, you just opened something. What did you just open, dude? You got it, we got it.
Speaker 2:I had my man just call me. I was out on a run tonight.
Speaker 1:Who's the man?
Speaker 2:Nicholas Coleman. Oh yeah, and he was like hey. I'm heading out to bombing range. You want anything from out there and I'm like man I don't know he like seriously and I'm like I'm out here suffering.
Speaker 1:He's like all right, I'll get you something.
Speaker 2:And I'm like get me a mic drop. So shout out to bombing range and the mic drop One of my favorite drinks out there I appreciate it man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had one of those because I'm a member and then I got a sulser and I was like you know, sulsers, 200 episodes and 202. Actually, this is probably 203, 204. I'm sitting on four 204. He's never a sulser guy, especially when it came to craft brews. And I tried the sulser today, I was like, oh, it's not bad. Then he told me the deeds, so I was like, bro, that's not bad at all. So I had a mic drop tall one and then I had a sulser tall one. I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 2:I know you can come rolling up here with a smile on your face, yeah.
Speaker 1:Kind of molested you, but it's okay, it's all right. I saw the calf. I was like dude. We have the biggest cast in the state of Washington.
Speaker 2:Oh hey, I tell you what you're Girls love it.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:I got. You know I was no home or nothing, but you know pictures I've seen that Julie's son has taken every 12 hour twilight with your legs, just like bulging Dude, it's like gosh dang. You got some legs on you too.
Speaker 1:I try, man, I try. A lot of people think it's because you know we're big bodies, but nah, dude, I've been doing this for years, Right?
Speaker 2:Well, that's why I tell a lot of people just, you know I'm pretty slow runner on flats and on the ups, but when it comes to the downs, I mean my legs are strong enough to hold this fat body.
Speaker 1:Yeah, coming down. Yeah, yeah, so question.
Speaker 2:Yes, I got an answer.
Speaker 1:Can you believe it's 204?
Speaker 2:It's pretty incredible because I think you invited me on for the first time. Like what was it? 131, 130, run 30s in there somewhere, can't even remember.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And yeah, and I can't believe that we've connected so strongly in just a short amount of time. I mean, I don't know. It's just it's incredible to watch you just how the podcast has grown and how passionate you are about it, and just to be a part of that with you and I support you, you support me and I love it, man. Yeah, yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna tell you this, though, man I think this last, I think week and a half has been hell for me. I'm gonna tell you that, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm happy. I'm happy you're here. I really am. I'm happy to still be accomplishing something that I never thought I had to accomplish. Man, I thought this was dead on arrival. I really did, and I thought like a hundred was too much. I thought a hundred fifty was like God, what am I doing still? And then it started picking up. And then it was just picking up more. And then I'm at 200 and I'm like, and I'm gonna be honest with you, should I stop? And then it's getting in the way second year of cross country and I'm gonna go three years. I'm going three years on the podcast, next fall, next summer, actually.
Speaker 1:And I'm just like, why am I doing this? And I feel now, I feel like it is getting the way. I do feel that way, but I don't know. But I changed 200 was the changing point of the podcast to what I feel I'm more interested in Running. Guess, dude, larry Yellow, his episode that I put out yesterday is freaking, killing it right now. But then, on top of that, dude, I don't even like broadcast the, the Western sports guys, and they kill it too. So it's like, dude, what, what should I do? What should I do? So, like, right now, since I've been at 200 and I took a week off because, dude, I'm like burn, work, work, work, work, podcast, running, coaching, coaching, running, coaching, I'm burnt. And I'm just like, alright, so I have you, and If I was so burnt I wouldn't have you on. But, man, I just got that feeling like I gotta keep going. But then I'm like, god, I'm burnt. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:Well, you know I Support you, I support this.
Speaker 2:I've come out to rodeos with you and and been able to enjoy that and and just kind of you meet some personalities face-to-face with you at those rodeos and you know it's I won't say it's my thing, but I do enjoy going out there and I do enjoy watching it and it's really entertaining and you know I will continue to do that and it's wherever, wherever you want to take this and I just there's a lot of you support everybody you have on here and it's really awesome that you connect with so many people because of the podcast, right, you do. You know the amount of personalities you bring on and talents and athletes and To. If you didn't have the podcast, I don't know if you'd have that opportunity or would have had that opportunity as many of these people, whether it's through a zoom or however you and you know they're on these eastern states and that. But I hope that you keep this going and and I will be here until the day you say you're done with it. You know I'm not. I'm not going nowhere, neck, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah but you Proud to call you my friend and best friend and brother and I've been busy myself the last. I mean Shoot. We've been trying to connect the last month. Hey, you want to come over here. Hey, you want to come over.
Speaker 1:And then I finally going your neck of the woods this past weekend and we hung out and we listened to music. We went to two, two bars, didn't do much, but we just listened to music.
Speaker 2:It was awesome. No, I, I enjoyed it. It was good times and it was different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was different. I Was killing flies at one bar. I listened to man. That guy can sing man.
Speaker 2:What is it buckley? Jamie buckley I remember it like he's been around a while.
Speaker 1:Yeah so. Yeah, did you get that text that I sent you earlier today About this one band that's coming?
Speaker 2:up. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1:What do you old lady say? Is she gonna be around or no?
Speaker 2:I didn't have a chance to even talk to her. She's I don't. When she's out of town, I don't talk to her.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess you all wrapped up.
Speaker 2:And what she does? She wrapped up.
Speaker 1:You know she's partying right now.
Speaker 1:But nah, man to To, oh I man, I've been on that one. That might be two or three, or God I two or four for the longest time, before Pendleton, you know, and it's just like, alright, it might be two or three, it might be two or more, I might be two or five, might be two or six, I don't really care, because dude's love me hanging during, you know, pendleton roundup, but it's a good episode, it's a great episode and that's the route that I want. I want to portray this, you know this, this podcast, and and when I say I'm like dude, I can't believe 100, you know, my 100th episode was with naked and afraid, you know, and then, and then my 200th is when I want to be dude, sterling Drake. I can't believe I had him on, you know, and I'm talking to him on regular basis, right, I can't believe how many people I talked to, like Cody Custer, I've been trying to get him on for the past month and we just can't seem to get the right schedule.
Speaker 1:But it's like dude. I never thought in my wildest dream I would get the guy that I grew up watching Mm-hmm on the podcast. You know me. Half the people that I have on. Yes, I have a lot of high school your kids. I have a lot of kids coming up and up and coming kids, talent in the western sports. I have Great runners like yourself. Well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna say that I was extremely excited and happy that you got Eric on.
Speaker 1:I Couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2:That was awesome. Yeah, he actually just sent me a message. I was gonna send you the picture. But, yeah, he sent a picture. He was back hanging out with my friend, our friend, josh Cappuccino cowboy, yeah, and he was like I sent him a picture of me and Josh like packing a day. I was like, man, I miss these days. He's like. He's like, yeah, this was us yesterday. I was gonna send a picture to you, but I was like, ah, but yeah, that was cool, you got Eric sensemen on and yeah, I think that's one and done, dude, because I hit him up, I'm like, hey man, can I get you before the year?
Speaker 1:Yeah he's like I ain't doing any races, I'm laying low.
Speaker 2:He is, he is he's laying low. I think it was a Vermont 100 and then they canceled it because there was flooding back there and yeah. And yeah, he just, he's just enjoying life with Jackie and I think he's burnt. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think a lot of these guys that have so much Going for them and and seriously, you know, I tell a lot of the kids like, dude, just enjoy the moment, enjoy running, enjoy. If you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong, right, and a lot of the, the kids, the people that are doing this for For sport, for money, they get burnt really easily and I really feel that the more you get involved into the sport and get sponsored, I feel that you get burnt real quick, man. Yeah, because there's so much expectations. If you don't fulfill that expectation, I mean, what else is there? You know what I mean right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, I just want to say with that me knowing Eric, with that that I feel you are right, I feel that you know he's taking a step back, but it's Knowing him, it doesn't matter if he wants to run anymore or whatever choice he, he is a genuine, genuine person, dudes, the man, and he, yeah, he, he's sincere and and I can't wait to go to flagstaff and go visit him and hang out mother road, bro he down there at some point.
Speaker 2:But I feel, yeah, I feel that he's taking step back. I exactly what you're saying.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you know, I Don't know, man, I've been, I've been getting into that whole Nike world Mm-hmm. You know, and, and they're coming out, the ladies, the gentlemen that that worked in Nike, you know, on under the greatest coach that's ever been around. But dude, he was an alcoholic and also One of the worst coaches ever. You know, I grew up watching him, idolizing him. It's a bad world, man. It's a bad world to be sponsored. You know, I'm pretty sure a Lot of the sponsors out there you know are great. But, man, I'll let you know, man, nike messed up, nike messed up, and knowing what they've done and how they've done things, it's like, dude, I don't wear nothing Nike Mm-hmm. I.
Speaker 2:Am here and I I have some throwback Nike shoes that are Oregon Nike the new waffles that their throwbacks from like long, from ten years ago, that I had bought them but I wouldn't go out and just I, just they don't. Nike's don't work for me. No, nothing Nike.
Speaker 1:No, that, yeah, yeah, yeah so, but no, it's true, man, you know a lot of these kids that that are coming up. They're like man, I'm not doing this, I'm not doing that right, and I'm like dude, just have fun. The moment you're not having fun, the moment's over. And I Feel a lot of the people nowadays aren't having fun, you know, and that's when they take it. Step back, you know, but what do I know? Do well.
Speaker 2:With that and the things that you know, just the running into things with what you're talking about, for me I have to make it fun or I I'm not gonna enjoy it, you know, cuz I'm not competitive, I'm not, I'm not out there. You know, podium I'm not, none of that. But you know, because I'm not that you know, I have to make it fun, you know, and got to figure out a way for me to enjoy it but still suffer, you know. But yeah, I'm absolutely with you suffer four miles.
Speaker 1:What were you doing? Where were you running?
Speaker 2:I just had Packed clothes because I knew I didn't come out here and I wanted I need to get some miles in because Signed up for the Havilena hallucinations virtual run to put a hundred miles in not for the month, for the month for the month, and so that's Trying to average. You know where I was only doing like 30 35 miles a month. That you know. Right now I'm at 50 miles for the month oh.
Speaker 2:I'm a little behind, but I Just threw some clothes in and and changed it at work and just ran up and over to the cable bridge a couple times and On the path and yeah, yeah, you called me and let me know what you were doing and I'm like I'm a little running here. I'll be up there about six and you're like, I'm suffering. I was man. I.
Speaker 1:Swim, you were on the cup, the cable bridge.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that ain't suffering Well cable bridge run. No, I'm just the only hill. But anyways, yeah, I mean I did that before I got over here and you were gracious enough to have me a mic drop when I got here.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, what is it? Seven point six no that's just going straight into the head.
Speaker 2:No, uh, yeah, it's funny, there was this. This stuff ends up getting me messed up, like there was one time I was out there at bombing range.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I had probably five or six there.
Speaker 1:Short ones, I get the big ones and to and do a good job I on an.
Speaker 2:I was living out there, rich in at the time and I ended up getting one of these to take home and I got to my house out in Richland and Drink that and I was pretty pie-eyed. Yeah, I was toasted man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, even the sulser man. Six point seven.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no shoot, I just was gonna tell you, you know, but it seemed like we've done a, we've done a few thing, a venture this this summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, the thing is is to know that you know the season. Yeah, you know, I talked 202 James, you know, talked to his, talked about his 2023, or 23, 2023 season and your 2023 season. I mean, dude, you changed it as well. Yeah, um, you, I mean, dude, we went to hood.
Speaker 2:We finished him.
Speaker 1:It was. It was quite the experience. I had cock and balls, you know, on my arm, this arm, yeah, it was a draft. If you, if you don't like cock and balls, it was a draft To me, it was a cock and balls. To everybody else that I know was a cock and balls. Kyle is a cock and balls.
Speaker 2:I mean, you know the little scuff on your chin kind of look like a cock and ball right now that too?
Speaker 1:Yeah, thanks. Yeah, because I can't grow a beard. That's fine. But yeah, you went, you did hood with some other guy, you got out of your comfort zone with some other dude no homo complete complete home on.
Speaker 1:But no, I mean, dude, you, you went out of your shell. I went out of my shell. You know I got almost into a couple fights, you know Whitney and whatnot. But, dude, I mean, we conquered hood. That was your. How many, how many times have you done hood by yourself until you Hit it with me? We made hood our Biyatch.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm trying shoot it you, you were 10th or 11th, I can't remember what it is now, but it was only the first time I ever went the way we went. It was like Messing me on Tuesday we're leaving for Friday, that's like you usually is like two weeks. Usually for myself, when I do it by myself, it's two weeks. I get my stuff prepared, I have my stuff packed, I'm all ready. And here was just a fly by the seat of our pants. We went to Portland, got your new mountaineering boots Boom.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm like.
Speaker 2:I told you I was like dude, I need to take like a 45 minute nap. I've been and you're like, okay, and you're, you're chomping at the bit, looking at the mountain, like we need to go. There's people going, we're gonna be behind this conga line and and then we get up there and, man, my legs are tired.
Speaker 1:I'm just think you were struggling, but you were doubting yourself the whole time, didn't? Doubt it once we hit that stop. You were doubting yourself.
Speaker 2:Well, where I was having issues is once you hit the, the summit, the ridge up there, and I, looking at that, I'm like Should I stop now or cuz I'm?
Speaker 1:I'm moving, like the rich to the right when you yell down.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when you yell down.
Speaker 1:People are like what the fuck is he is? So is he falling down?
Speaker 2:No, that was a point to like okay, I know you made the summit, but then I'm like Okay, so it's gonna take me 45 minutes.
Speaker 1:Should I stay or should I go now much.
Speaker 2:And so I just kept kind of like plugging up, plugging up, plugging up, and I was like you know, no, I want to get up there. I think I said this in one of the episodes I want to get up there, I want to see, I want to see Nick on the summit. You know, and you know, bless your heart, you were still waiting up there. I came up on the, the freaking Knife's edge right there there was a guy freaking hanging out. Had to go around him and got up on that knife's edge, came across and and Came across there, just almost to where the true summit is, and yeah, you yelling down at me like Damn the man and I get up there and you know, have a beer and then finish my beer and then you were a rockstar dude, you were killing it.
Speaker 1:He's like this is straight up, this is Dan Dan the man. He's like I need drink more often. When I go to the damn summits I'm all like, bro, no, you don't, there's no way.
Speaker 2:I will tell you, it was like a 180 turn. I had that one beer and then that guy had brought up a pelican Brewery beer up there, a tall boy, and I hadn't had it and I was like, yeah, not one. He just cracked it open, didn't?
Speaker 1:you.
Speaker 2:And he's like here you take first drink. I guzzled like half. It was a tall boy too and I'm like man, that was good, thank you. And and you started down. Well, we went down and you started just in front of me going down and and Last one that I remember you telling me is like hey, left and left because you were down and I was like, shoot, I look, I see, because it's like yeah, it's coming down and Mike left and then I see you and I'm like shoot, I'm gonna go down there meet him, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Fantastic, waiting for you.
Speaker 2:I got on my gear off and then it was just like yeah, it was just like it was.
Speaker 1:It was oh, different dude, yeah, you got you got, yeah, different dude and you've been said I need drink more when you're in the summit. I'm like, do know, there's no way. What surprised me? Well, what shocked me was like you were struggling. You were struggle, bus right, but then totally annihilated going down and it's just like dude. I don't know if you guys know Dan has low center of gravity. He's a short little hobbit dude. When, when it comes to mountaineering, and he is the Freakin Billy goat gruff, yeah, and when he wasn't. So I'm gonna tell you Billy goat gruff, you were at that 12 hour.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Ah, billy goat gruff, you were not so much when it went going up hood, going down bro. I'm like who's this guy? You're like? Oh man, my heart rate, my heart rate questionable. My, my heart rates this. My heart rates that I don't know. You get a beer in them and this guy is like freaking Popeye, dude Popeye, and he masters the shit out of going downhill. I'm like dude, I don't know how. How tall are you, or?
Speaker 2:how short are you? Five? How short?
Speaker 1:yeah, five, nine, man, and on a good day I'm maybe six one. On a bad day I'm six and a half six, right, and I don't know. Man, dude, you conquered the shit out of that downhill and then you know we were going down. We're good bro.
Speaker 2:Come on, man, I thought it was crazy just with that, cause I couldn't see. Once we hit the Palmer, like towards the middle of the Palmer, that's where I lost sight of you. I like, shoot, I'll go down, I'll get my pack off everything and then probably hike back up to you. That's what my plan was. I get down to almost the truck and you're up there somewhere.
Speaker 2:I'm right there and like click, click, click, click, and then the truck starts flashing and I'm like, huh, all right, I give my stuff off everything. I think I got the chairs out and then I turn around and I can see you coming down. I'm like shoot you. Really, you gained. You needed, like you said, you were waiting for that soft.
Speaker 1:Once it got soft after the cocking balls incident, the draft incident. Once it got soft, man, I fly. Yeah, I hate when the snow is hard and dude. It's like unpredictable, unpredictable. I don't like it. But God, that wasn't the. That was the only. That wasn't the only mountain I conquered that year.
Speaker 2:This year.
Speaker 1:This year, I wanted to conquer more, so I conquered one other one. Did you conquer any other mountains? Okay, what mountains did you conquer?
Speaker 2:There was a I call it beer. It's beer Stein Beer stat Beer stat down in Colorado.
Speaker 1:Oh, my goodness, I say don't come up here, but you're coming up here. Tell me why you're up here, baby.
Speaker 2:It's your interior decorator. I saw it a couple of times ago.
Speaker 1:You said but I want to check on you. I can. Oh, really. Oh, you got the dude. You see the controller in your hand.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:Oh, because I don't want to know on the steal and watch something. So my question to you, lillian, is watching YouTube? What are you watching on YouTube? Are you watching Videos, toilet, skippity. I watch one of them. Yeah, skippity toilet. Did you know that's a thing, skippity toilet. You guys don't know. If you guys don't know, google Skippity toilet.
Speaker 2:Skippity toilet.
Speaker 1:So what are you watching right now? But what kind of videos? You're on air Willys, You're the interior decorator that I'm not watching that Tea cup studio, but it's a mess. Because Do I do Skippity toilet? Did you know that's a thing?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Skippity toilet. Yeah, this is where it's in there. So you conquered beer stat.
Speaker 2:Yep, that was in Colorado. I was down there for nine days with my equal better, my daughter. Yeah, I love her to death.
Speaker 1:That was pretty cool to experience that with you, man. You did a good job.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Highlighting all that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there was a gentleman that was a campground host that I actually passed coming down, that we've connected on. Um, yeah, there was a campground host that I connected with or didn't I connected with on Instagram because of that, because he had was just like two miles down the road from this trailhead of that and I actually passed him when I was going down. He was going up and he had attempted a couple of times, but yeah, Wait Tonight.
Speaker 1:I thought it was tonight, okay.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I was just trying to say is, yeah, running that 14er in Colorado. I was running back down and there was a gentleman I passed it Me and him are the only ones that had beards. I had a beard, he had one. I was halfway down Back to Denver to to my daughter.
Speaker 2:Well, he saw a campground yeah, softball for my daughter, but he was a campground host up there. And blue school he was a schooly. He had a schooly bus that's blue, converted to like a motor home and we connected because of that. But that that was the first part of the trip. Like I said, I was down there for nine days and then we were. The tournament was done a day early and we were still going to be down there a couple of days and so I started looking for another one. It would be relatively easy and not easy, but just something I could do. I could leave it three o'clock in the morning, go hit it, come back down and then still have the day with my daughter and I went and you could drive to the mountain, to top of Mount Evans in Colorado. It's one of the highest.
Speaker 1:And you did that.
Speaker 2:I didn't drive to the top.
Speaker 1:No, no I did Evans.
Speaker 2:Yes, I found a route from. I can't remember the name of the lake, but you basically started like 11,000 feet and I ended up hitting. I ended up hitting. There was Mount Spalding, the route that I took. Mount Spalding was a 13er and then all the way up and around it. That was like one of the most awesome like trips down there End up tagging the top of Evans on foot and then just made a loop about it and it was really awesome. That was an awesome trip to Evans trip Cause it felt like I was actually climbing a mountain.
Speaker 2:But you go from pretty much being acclimated here. Yeah, I was in Denver, that was like day eight. You know I was in Denver, but still that's not true acclimated. But you get up there and it's just like, once I got about 13,000 feet, it was on Evans, it was like shoot man, I was working, it was working me over, but, yeah, I hit Evans down in Colorado, two 14ers, okay, and that was pretty much my summer and just you know. And then you know we hit the steams together and it was awesome, Dude.
Speaker 1:that was quite the adventure.
Speaker 2:I am so happy that you came down there and I've been like we've talked about on the AI episode, right that was-.
Speaker 1:Emilio. I ate to this day. I call him Emilio.
Speaker 2:And he loves it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's crazy. It's like dude.
Speaker 2:Okay, I've been trying to get you know friends that go do that. So you know, for five years and you know you were first one on board. You're like I'll go, I'm gonna do it with you, let's go do it.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna do it again this year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you signed up for it. And then the dolls, stephanie and Charlie, signed up for it and it was cool. They're good people, man. Yeah, oh, yeah, they're awesome. Quiet, yeah Well, charlie, she'd get a little bit of Jim Beam or whatever he was doing, God damn.
Speaker 1:That dude was drinking a bottle. Never seen a dude drink Jim Beam. I drank Jim Beam when I was a freaking high school, or that dude was drinking Jim Beam as a grown adult, 50 years old or whatever. Yeah, jeez.
Speaker 2:Charlie, down to earth, they're both good people. Yeah, but I was. Yeah, those are some of my highlights for the summer was, you know the hood, the 14ers down in Colorado, the Steens? Now, there's probably some other stuff I did, but I know that you have, you know you-.
Speaker 1:I'm going back, yeah, and I'm gonna do, I'm gonna walk the whole thing.
Speaker 2:I think you know. If you wanna sign up for the walk, it's just. I feel, that you, you know, the first time. I have only done the walk one year and I ended up getting second in my age group.
Speaker 1:There's that one lady man, she was conquering it. I'm gonna take her out. I'm gonna take her out, dude, I'm gonna take her out. I don't care, I'm gonna push her in the bar, ditch let's go. What's that?
Speaker 2:You're gonna push her over in the bar ditch.
Speaker 1:Dude, that was a mother, yeah, that was a mother. Effort, dude. And to know that it's just there's, you can't get comfortable on that, you can't. The moment you get comfortable it's like, oh, dude, it's more up. And then you go up, and you go up.
Speaker 1:And then I heard a guy that I just had on the podcast, J Dubb Marriott. He sent me a message. Just like, dude, bro, I appreciate you having me on the podcast, because a huge contractor, Montana contractor, right, Huge Montana contractor, listen to the episode that he was on and offered him a job. So he's been busy, right, J Dubb Marriott shout out to J Dubb Marriott. You know, and I mean, this is 200, we're celebrating Dan the man right, and he says, dude, he offered me to be there. I'm gonna be there throughout the summer.
Speaker 1:And I'm like, bro, I'm so thankful, Bro, you pumped me up after I just did this gnarly mountain race, right. And I'm like, bro, what the hell, dude, you pumped me up and all of a sudden I go to the ridge of Steen Mountain. You know, I go to the. I finish with you, right, I finish with you. I go up and I'm like holy shit, oh my God, he's like what? Oh my God, I gotta show you this man.
Speaker 1:It is crazy. You know what it reminds me of. It reminds me of Rattlesnake Mountain, dude, the fact that it's a gradual uphill when you look at it from you know, on the way to Yakima right. And then when you go into, when you look at it, what is East to Vantage right, that's a cliff. Rattlesnake is a cliff, dude, and but this is rocky. The Steens Mountain, where we, where we summited, is rocky and I'm like, holy crap, if you fall you're dead. Dude, he's like what's going on? I'm like, bro, if only you can see what I am seeing right now. I almost fell off the damn mountain. Dude, Just celebrating his victory on, you know, earning his time, earning his time with the contractor, a huge Montana contractor, with bulls fighting bulls. Dude, I never, bro, I'll tell you this man. I never thought this podcast will do what it did.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I never thought that man being 100 to 200, having the Western sports crew, the world Western sports world, listen to this podcast and take a guy from Northern Northeast Washington I never thought it would get that big and when he told me what he received he earned was like holy crap, dude, people actually listen, right, people actually listen and are giving these guys that I put on a chance. It was huge, man. It was huge for the podcast, it was huge for me. It was unbelievable to hear that dude, what I'm doing is working.
Speaker 2:Right and it's you know connecting and networking and and yeah, it was huge, man, Like I said.
Speaker 1:You know, I said it's huge.
Speaker 2:The connections you've made through this, like we'll be somewhere, we'll be at a rodeo somewhere. Like you know, after the Steens, you know, I was going to hit Strawberry Mountain but, you know, dolls, and you were like, hey, man, I, you know, want to do your own thing. That was fine. And so nobody was going to go to the Strawberry Mountain with me to do that. The next day after the Steens and I caught the dolls and and Burns you had left because you were heading going to do your own thing and they said, hey, yeah, he's going to go do a. You know, go check out the rodeo at John Day. And so we're like we're going to go to the rodeo at John Day, and you didn't know I was surprised surprised the crap out of you.
Speaker 1:but Then you took a picture of my truck.
Speaker 2:I was like bro you here.
Speaker 1:Hey man, I'm in the grandstands.
Speaker 2:And you know to go down there and and you know, just to, that was probably one of the funnest little rodeos that that I'd been to and just you know to connect me with that and you know it's just networking and things that you do. I mean, like I said, you know, like I said, one of the episodes we did. You know, you just you know the running world and then you got the rodeo world and you know, as I'd right now, that you're, you're feeling wherever you're going with it, but you're connecting these.
Speaker 1:It's up in the air though man.
Speaker 1:Because some days the running world don't even hit right, right, and then the Western world don't even hit. But the Western world is steady. Is steady Running world? Not so much Running world, let's say, if I get it or local, that's when it becomes Western. If you know what I mean, you know when it comes to big, like I can put anybody on the Western and it hits. Running if it's local, it hits. If it's Eric, it hits. But internationally, if I put Ben Light on, not so much If I put Mike McKnight on, I put him on twice, it hits to an extent.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean. It's who, it's who promotes it the most, it promotes it the most. And James Larello, my friend, just like you, I don't say too many people are my friends they promote it, it hits. It is so weird, man, it's so weird and I hate it. I hate it. I hate it to the extent that, bro, I'm to the point that I'm gonna put anybody on. That is freaking top notch athlete who does what they do the best. They don't even have to be the top notch athlete at that moment. But, dude, I'll tell you this man the high with J Dub Marriott, right, getting the huge contract from Montana.
Speaker 1:Dude, I'm telling you the highlight of my year besides you guys, you and Ben bro, cade Madsen getting I don't know if I I kind of talked about him, cade Madsen, this year. He was on, he was doing CCT. Young kid, 17 years old, turns 18, and he gets drafted out of the PBR teams. Dude, missouri Thunder and Guy Lee, I'm all like what the hell? I'm like, yeah, man, I'm like I couldn't believe it. I'm like, dude, let me have you on. I'm like, man, let's just celebrate and then, dude, I'll let you know. Man, I was number one fan. I was like hell yeah man.
Speaker 1:Then I found out real life dude, and it was a kick in the rear. It was a kick in the rear because I'd noticed other people were joining in on what I was doing and they took what I loved from me. They took the excitement from me. I shouldn't have let them do that.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But the fact that they are high branded money talks. I felt like I was undercutted, dude, and I don't wanna talk about it that much. Right, but it's true money talks, and I had them going on to number episode two and it's like nope, dude, it's a having a podcast. Be so successful. Talking to you, right, dan the man, having a successful podcast is not that easy, man. It's not that easy. It is difficult. And to be undercutted by the Western sports world and be dogged the way I was Dude I did my best to turn it around, to make it my own and I feel I did that. But dude to know that I was celebrating a kid that's never been on a podcast before, never been on a podcast before. Right To be so successful, to be the dog that he is, man, the guy bro, 18 years old and killing it, killing it, slaying it.
Speaker 2:It hurt, it hurt man.
Speaker 1:It hurt. It hurt a lot and I learned a lot. I learned a lot. I didn't put all eggs in a basket, but to know that there's Western sports willing to just undercut the hell out of you, it says a lot to what I'm trying to do and what I'm doing. I'm a threat. I'll say I'm a threat.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, that's what you're saying. I feel that I gotta take your lead on a lot of things with this and just with the simple things that you had there in your right hand, just things that you've given caution about there. I'm not gonna say what it is that I haven't dealt with the stuff that you have or witnessed it. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, what the oh, the stickers.
Speaker 1:You know the stickers, as these point your thing. You've grown you've learned.
Speaker 2:you've learned the undercutting, you've learned that, where this it was a learning curve. It's a huge learning curve.
Speaker 1:This year was a learning curve, even at I mean dude, I'm going 200 plus right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so I mean I get that and you know every. You've grown. I feel you've grown with your podcasts and what this is and where you wanna take it. That you know I have my opinion, which isn't much. I've never listened to a podcast until you know you brought me on and you know I've only listened to yours Some Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1:You're welcome, some dude.
Speaker 2:That guy, I don't know how he does. He's like I went to a day or every day.
Speaker 1:He'll go like I've been listening to his four hour ones, post Malone. I've been listening to a lot of them lately because at work I've been having some time and when I have some time I'll eat my lunch and then some with some Joe Rogan, and damn, he's one of the best interviewers out there and I'm just like bro, if I can make it, if I can do half the shit he does. Yeah, he's been doing it for what? 14, 15 years plus. I think it was last year was 13, so 14 years. I mean, he's the God of podcasters, right, and I listened to him. And the Post Malone God, have you listened to that? Post Malone, four hours, four freaking hours, four. I don't know, man, I don't know if I can ever do that. And man, post dude, I was never a fan until he went on there the first time. And, dude, you ever listen to Post?
Speaker 2:I've listened to him. Yeah, not listened to the podcast, but the music.
Speaker 1:Well, listen to the podcast with Rogan. Dude Bro is pretty smart man for his age and man, listen to him. I listened to that guy. That was Amazon. I've been listening to some Rogan lately I took a break because of summer, you know, but dude Rogan is all I listen to. Man. Rogan's the best man, but go ahead.
Speaker 2:Well, I was just gonna say that just I've talked about, you know, mountain, suffite, concord, and we wanted to get back. I wanted to get back to Nick Coleman.
Speaker 1:Nick Coleman. So what did he do? My question to you, man Next year, next year, next year season and season, you know we gotta hit that season mountaineer time right. What's your next mountain? Are you willing? Are you willing to go out with me again and conquer mountain?
Speaker 1:That's the only question Okay, that means a lot, dude. That means a lot. So what do you think? I mentioned one mountain. I went, I mentioned one mountain. Would you be able to conquer that mountain next year with me? And then, on the way back, hit the highest point in Idaho and then go home and then call it quits. Call it quits, man. Would you be able to do that? Give me three, four days, Would you be able to? And then with me.
Speaker 2:I was gonna say what state was it? You said Utah. What was the other state?
Speaker 1:Idaho.
Speaker 2:And Idaho Nautipamp.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I said I'm the Pimp.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You said Idaho right.
Speaker 1:Idaho and Nautipamp.
Speaker 2:No, shut up which one in Idaho?
Speaker 1:Bora Utah.
Speaker 2:Bora.
Speaker 1:Bora Kings.
Speaker 2:Highest point in Utah.
Speaker 1:Kings is pretty large. It takes it's 23, 25 miles.
Speaker 2:So the one that you haven't brought up yet? What was that 22 round trip that you did this summer that you haven't brought up yet?
Speaker 1:Whitney yeah, I don't think I will.
Speaker 2:Okay, I want to. Okay, how many miles was that round trip on that one that you? Can you talk?
Speaker 1:about it. No, whitney did it in less than 24 hours. Man, not a lot of people do it 24 hours. There's a ton of people that go to the base. It's disgusting. It's disgusting To know that people shit in the water that people filter to drink. It's gross.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's nasty. Whitney, whitney, dude, there is no other mountain like Whitney. You don't, whitney? There's nothing like Whitney. You want to do it? Well, you want to do it.
Speaker 2:I want to do the Utah and Idaho trip over Whitney.
Speaker 1:The more I go to the busy sections, man, the more I just get turned off. If you want to do Whitney, I'll do Whitney with you. We can conquer that bitch like nobody's business. The person I went with God, I thought he turned a new leaf. No, I'm very particular with the people I go with. That person's not the one. I learned a lot. I learned a lot that less than 24 hours, I conquered it. I would say I conquered it alone. The aftermath the dude was threatened. I feel he was a piece of shit. He was threatened. I did what I did, called it, finished it. It is what it is. Right, god, it's one hell of a mountain, though, dude. Whitney is one hell of a mountain. There is nothing like it, dude. The fact that you go to the shoe right, the hood what 500, maybe 500 feet right, is it 500 feet for the ridge line to the finish when you're in hood?
Speaker 2:When you're in hood.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, you know when we're going up the shoe, it's 500.
Speaker 2:From hogs back to the top, I think 10-4 to 11-2, so it's 700, 800 feet elevation difference between the hogs back and the true summit.
Speaker 1:So the shoe, whitney man, is two times that. So, dude, it is gnarly. So you're on all fours for at least an hour, almost two hours, depending on what you do right? So you get that, you got 1.9 miles to the top and it is up and down, up and down, right? And then you're like, okay, there's a snow field, there's a rock field. You're like, whatever you feel comfortable doing, I did the rock field. Okay, did it Pick your poison, right?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, I picked my poison. I did what I had to do. I did what I did, stoked everything else. Persona was a buzz kill, buzz kill Killed. It went down, ended up being elevation and I had a elevation throw. You remember that? Yeah, dude, I had elevation throw for two weeks afterwards. You ever had that? Never, bro, I'd rather have COVID and strep. It was almost like strep, but for two weeks.
Speaker 1:And then, on top of that, I had to deal with an asshole that was all like, hey, dude, you don't know, you ain't nothing, you ain't nobody. And I'm like all right, man, whatever, dude, you know? And to know, when we were going up, I was having issues with my crampons. Right, I was having issues with my crampons. To know, I had issues with my crampons. To know that I was having issues with my crampons and to know that I was beating his ass up the fucking mountain Sorry for the F-bomb, it says a lot, right. And the guy little man syndrome, you know it showed didn't want to deal with him. God, there was so much shit that was going on. I was trying to enjoy the moment. I enjoyed the moment. I do what I had to do without the guy Afterwards said a lot never in my life will I go with that person again. Right, and when it comes to accomplishing the big feats, dude, I'm all for supporting you, the person. This one, not so much man Does that makes any sense.
Speaker 2:No, I get it. And to me, it all depends on the heart of the person. And for you, for me, I don't know this person, never met him, don't know him.
Speaker 1:I don't think you will.
Speaker 2:You will, I will, man it's like you know, I don't know, kind of biased Cause, you know, I think really I love you and we've had nothing but good times and I've had struggles with you and it's like struggle Just on hood, like whole time up there I'm like, I'm doing, I'm struggling, but you're constantly building me up Like you got this, let's go, let's do this. There's nothing but positive from you and it's like I don't know. It's just it's tough for me to think that if there's somebody out there that you went with up in the mountains, it put you in a spot like Bro, it was hell.
Speaker 1:It's like I'm going to tell you it was hell. It was hell, it was hell, and afterwards was even more. It was a nightmare. It was a nightmare Because I didn't call the person out. I didn't call him out, right. The thing is is that I conquered it with the shit throw right. He didn't want to finish. I finished, I kept going Right, dude, it was hell, I couldn't drink. I couldn't drink. It hurt to drink, it hurt to eat, it hurt to do whatever right.
Speaker 1:And to know that afterwards, the way the treatment was going on, though I didn't have to call him out, he called himself out To know what I went through and to know what I did, conquered it, minus this asshole that I went with, you know, who wanted to fight for the smallest thing Little man syndrome. Let's just say that. Little man syndrome. It said a lot. It said a lot and because it said a lot, it made me feel that the guy was way below my league, you know. And when it comes to people, who I am with, the person that I'm with is number one. It's me the mountain, it's my buddy, the mountain. He did not share the same, he didn't share the same thought process as I did. No, I get that.
Speaker 2:You know just, you know, major, just, I'm going to say just saying hood with you, doing hood with you. I absolutely you on the way up, like I was struggling on the way up, you take pause, time out. You know, take a break, wait for me to get up there, ask me. You doing okay, bro, you doing good man, you doing good, you crushing this, and you know, and on the way down, I felt that it was the same as me, it was coming down faster and you were like I was hanging out.
Speaker 1:You're fucking hobbit dude.
Speaker 2:Right, but I'm just saying that You're fucking hobbit, I mean. I don't know it, just low center of gravity, bro, with that beard, I'm just saying you're a great person, Nick, and I am glad to be friends with you, and it just I wish that your experience on Whitney would have been better with somebody that I will never do Whitney again.
Speaker 1:I will never do Whitney again.
Speaker 2:I have no desire to ever do it.
Speaker 1:If you want to do Whitney, I will consider, I will reconsider, but I feel that was one of the shittiest experiences. That and clouds rest when I went with shitbag, when I went with him. I've had some shitty ass experiences. You might say a common denominator is me, but, dude, when somebody is on empty and water need the necessities to get past and somebody's offering and somebody wants to fight, I don't know if I'm the common denominator, but, dude, when I go out and I have these issues, dude, and I'm the one that's able to say, hey, dude, you can take my water, I don't think it's me, dude, I honestly don't think it's me. And people might say otherwise. But, bro, I've been learning the past two to five years that, bro, I go solo for a reason. I go solo for a reason, man.
Speaker 2:I just wanted to know that I don't ever think there would be a conflict with us ever, because I get your kindness from you and I feel you and it just sucks that you've I don't know. It just sucks that the people you've encountered can't match that same thing with you. I just feel like we match that, like you have the same thought. You've been around, dude and we come together and I understand I almost say I understand you. I'm not going to say that.
Speaker 1:Come together right now.
Speaker 2:You know everything, it's just it's like I'll hear you out. You have a lot of experience. You've done a lot of things.
Speaker 1:I just don't talk about it. And that's. You mentioned that this year. Yeah, I don't talk about it. Why? Because, dude, you know what? I just want to have fun. Man, it's not my penis is bigger than yours, or that guy's penis is bigger than mine, it is. It's like, dude, let's have fucking fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you've done a lot of stuff. Like every time we go out on something that we've we're doing together or jogging together or running together, there's like you drop something, like you've done that, holy crap, you've done that. And it's like shoot, you've got a lot under your belt and you don't share that a lot.
Speaker 1:I don't, because it's not about me. It's about me just having fun, you having fun, the person that I'm with having fun, it's not. Hey, dude, you did. You did beer stat, bro. Hey, you know what I did, whitney, that is gnarly and that is way more than beer stat. And, dude, the reason why I'm bringing that up is because there's so many people that I've encountered in my time. That does not mean shit, bro, whitney man, you know what John Muir trail? John Muir passes way more than beer stat. You know what, dude, I hate that that shit is. Like my penis is bigger than yours, dude. Hear me, roar. Like I am woman, hear me, roar, you know what I mean my penis is bigger than yours, which you know. We haven't done that yet. I don't think we will.
Speaker 2:We'll refer to it as a burrito.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the burrito, you know, but you get what I'm saying, man, I'm not like that, bro. If we're experiencing the same thing at the same time, bro, let's have fun, let's have fun.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:If we're going to King's Peak you never done, you know, next year let's see the old ladies downstairs, as I'm like, you know, like hey, man, hey, and your lady, if she says yes, dude, we're doing it. And on the way home we're going to Sawtooth Mountains and we're going to do more. We're going to go chicken shit ridge dude, you've heard of that, right?
Speaker 2:Oh, let's do it.
Speaker 1:We're going to go there and then we're going to hit it up. We're coming back and I think we're going to be talking about that time. But, dude, it's just, it's crazy. The ego of mountain climbing, tracking, tracking. It's insane how fucked up the world is when it comes to tracking mountains, conquering mountains. It's sad, it's sad. It's like, dude, my penis has to be bigger than you, right? Bigger than your burrito, right? Then?
Speaker 2:it's insane.
Speaker 1:It's insane man, it's insane.
Speaker 2:Just go experience your own adventure and that but people don't know that.
Speaker 1:It's like dude. If you conquered something, it's the one uppers dude, the one uppers in the military. That I don't like. It's like dude. You did Whitney. All right, man. You did Whitney 19 hours. Shit. You know what? I did 18 hours, but I really did in 20. But I'm going to tell you I did an 18. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:It's the one uppers. I hate that there's so many. I had to get rid of so many damn Facebook posts. I don't even go on Facebook anymore. So many groups because, dude, you know what I did Rainier, which I didn't. But I can tell people I did Rainier. I did it in two hours. You know I did it bigger and better than Jack Kinzel and Jack Kinzel knows me. I've had him on the podcast, dude, dude did Mount Hood in less than two hours, two hours. You know what?
Speaker 2:Fuck it you know what 45 minutes dude up and down.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying, but there are so many people like that. It's sickening, dude, it's sickening. It makes the fun out of everything. I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, I get it, and this is things that I've told people. Just something similar to that that, you know, is it making sense though? Yeah, yeah, okay. So yeah, there's. You know I did the through Hike of the Enjamments Didn't just air over 12 hours with Evan Holiday and Steve Perry and we enjoyed it. We enjoyed it. And there's people I'll tell that to like, oh, shoot, we did it in nine hours or something Like good for you. Yeah, you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Dude, I did. You know what. It doesn't matter, fuck that. You know I did it in six hours, dude there you go. And I even saw Billy go gruff at its finest, and it wasn't you. Okay, right, dude, I conquered that six hours.
Speaker 2:But fuck it. No, we went, you know, and there's times I'll tell that story and I'll get that and I'm like, well, it doesn't matter, I had a great time. I mean, we've drank beers, I got to watch my buddy Evan, you know almost skinny dip, and one of the lakes up above I mean it's like In the core. Yeah.
Speaker 1:God damn, that's cold.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, he didn't last very long he went and back out.
Speaker 1:He's like oh God, Shrinky dink. Huh, Shrinky dink.
Speaker 2:It was funny because he wanted Steve to video it and Steve's like Steve Perry's, looking through the camera, the phone, the video at him jumping in and he was like well, it's not gay. If you're not looking, if you're looking through the phone, it is.
Speaker 1:No matter what you're doing is gay.
Speaker 2:But no, it was good times. It was good times. It didn't matter To me, we enjoyed, it was a journey and so, but anyways, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how's that beer treating? It was great. Did you bring beer? You brought beer, I would do.
Speaker 2:If we're doing a chop up, I have to bring beer.
Speaker 1:Hey, you know what time it is, beer 30. Absolutely you know what. So what are you drinking right now?
Speaker 2:Drinking high five happy High five happy. Heard a story of somebody that Iron horse. Yeah, iron horse, I heard somebody that a story about somebody that got all messed up on half a wisen on a some kind of wedding.
Speaker 1:Ah, dude, god, you gotta bring that up. Nope, I drink half. I drink any wheat. It's not good, man. I think back on a wedding that I was part of Well, not part of I, god Dude, I drank nothing but half. San Diego is my Vegas, I'm just gonna say this. And I drank half, and I drank half, and I drank half. I partied with somebody who had just a two-seater Mustang right and I sat in the back. I mean, that's how messed up I was on half right.
Speaker 1:I'm like hey bro, I was at a resort in San Diego All right and a high end resort for a wedding you know brother-in-law at the time and I ended up six, let's say I was on a good day six one Fittin' on the back of a two-seater Mustang and I'm like, dude, let's get some Blue Moon. I bought a 12 pack of Blue Moon, never even finished it, didn't even drink. I drank one beer but half Couldn't drink it, left it in the main hallway afterwards because I couldn't drink it. Because, man, I ended up just say I ended up with alcohol poisoning with half.
Speaker 2:Wow, I remember the story. I just didn't tell you. It's kind of crazy because I have a similar story, but mine with Blue Moon, and then the night with Blue Moon I ended up taking. This is before I started my journey, like 2010,.
Speaker 2:I went down to Clam-a-Fall Merrill your area went to school and went down there, I took my brother-in-law storage box from back in my super duty board. Yeah, and my plan was once we got that off there, he knew it. I was like I'm just planning on drinking all day and I was drinking heffa-wising.
Speaker 1:God, he can drink heffa Windmere all day. Yeah, 2005?.
Speaker 2:No, this was 2009,.
Speaker 1:I think it was oh, it's still in the Army, okay.
Speaker 2:And so we ended up going up and running Y ranch. Oh dude.
Speaker 1:Bro eating some good beers down there and you can get ham at running. Y yes, keep going.
Speaker 2:We left the running Y and the whole family. We decided to go up to what's that lake up there? You know I'm talking about Lake of the Woods.
Speaker 1:Lake of the Woods, lake of the.
Speaker 2:Woods and I'd been drinking all day and Lake of the Woods is like what? 5,000 feet, 6,000 feet, it's good, it's good feet.
Speaker 1:It's good feet.
Speaker 2:And it's a pretty big lake. I used to par you.
Speaker 1:It's pretty choppy, yep. Not too much choppy, it's not too choppy.
Speaker 2:Well, the wind was blowing.
Speaker 1:Wind is blowing. It's high up there, yes, and they had a dock the lofflin's right there and it's high, yes.
Speaker 2:It was a dock. It was out there Like, I would say, two-thirds of the way out to the center of it and, like I said, I've been drinking and thinking I was back in high school and so I was like I'm gonna go out to that furthest dock out in the lake and so just a little lightning pad is all it is.
Speaker 1:Guys, I'll let you know it is colder than the motherfucker, than anything throughout the year.
Speaker 2:Right, I go out there and my brother-in-law's there and I mean he's a wild land firefighter but he's kind of off season at that moment and I said I'm gonna go swim out there. Well, I get two-thirds of the way out to that and I'm like gassed because I've been drinking all day, my body's taking in alcohol. I'm like looking, there's another one closer, another little pad on the way back or at the shoreline, another little dock that's there. And so I was like, well, shoot, and then the water's choppy from the wind and just splashing my face and tired swimming. And so I was like I better go back to shore. I get back heading back to the shore and I'm like sucking water, I'm gassed, I am not good, I'm, I am. I don't have the energy. Been drinking heffa-wise and wind-a-mirro-heffy all day.
Speaker 1:How many do you think you had?
Speaker 2:Shoot.
Speaker 1:Cans or bottles, bottles.
Speaker 2:I don't think they had cans back then. Yeah, yeah and so I at least 30, I know that it's well over a case and that whole day.
Speaker 2:And it was, and so I'm swimming back and I remember I was like so I'm like taking in water, like like cause it's splashing over my face. It's splashing over my face, yeah, and I'm like, okay, I see the dock in my brother-in-law's there, like I said, he's, he's a firefighter and he wasn't drinking as much as I was. Yeah, I don't even, I don't even think it was drinking that much. But you know, and I'm like, okay, one last dish effort and I remember going in my face is underwater and I reached my hand up and I got the dock and I like sat up there right close to the shoreline and just recovered for like 10 minutes.
Speaker 1:Just hanging there, hanging there, and Lake of the Woods, lake of the Woods Between, was it Jack? Is it Jackson County? Is it Jackson County is between Klamath County?
Speaker 2:I don't think it's Klamath County, I think it's Jack.
Speaker 1:Jackson yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I finally get recovered. I get to the shoreline and I'm there and, like, gassed out, I'm like holy crap, I almost felt like I could have died there.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But on the way back to Merrill that's where my brother-in-law and sister lived we stopped at a place in Klamath Falls and I ended up getting like a six pack of Blue Moon because they didn't have anything else there and I think it had like two of those and I couldn't finish the Blue Moon and it was. It was shitty, it was all shitty. So it's your story of what you said you got the Blue Moon, Couldn't you, bro, couldn't do it.
Speaker 1:It was horrible. Yeah, two-seater Mount Mustang man, it was nice. It was nice. It was lady bro. To this day I couldn't believe I talked to, talked to the lady that was working at the resort. If her two-seater, I couldn't believe I fit in the back. Okay, you going sweets. Her two-seater, I couldn't believe I fit in the back. God, she does that on purpose. She doesn't first, but hey, she's the remodeler. You see this too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is your interior decorator. Bro, God the mump, I want to tell you this you are an amazing father with her. I've enjoyed rodeos with her coming out. I kind of bring me back to with my daughter, with Addison, and wishing that I could have that time back.
Speaker 1:Quite the young lady she is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh man, but yeah, yeah, I'm just letting you know that the ventures and the thing that the rodeos we've gone to and she's come out there, oh yeah, that little girl like, yeah, she's sweet, you're, yes, daddy's little girl, right there.
Speaker 1:Bro, she loves watching the ladies perform what, whether it's the horses, the queens, the barrel racers, the breakaway bro, anything woman, she's there. But you see how she owns the place, though, right, she's interrupted a few times.
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm gonna just say that first time I did a podcast here with you.
Speaker 1:In my first episode. You're like you're stable, she's stable.
Speaker 2:And if you're gonna be here as an in-person podcast here you gotta accept that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah and absolutely would 100%. So my question to you, man, my question to you, since I'm two, I put 202, been sitting on 203 for well over two months right, a month and a half, two months before Pendleton, right, because he said hey, don't, I would say August was when I recorded, I would say August. But let's say this, man, yeah, yeah, you'd be two, three, two, four. Would you want to be a regular, Just like bro, my boy or Alabama boy, would you like to be a regular?
Speaker 1:I know I'd like to be a regular.
Speaker 2:You want them day-by-dayers. You got the buzzer down right there.
Speaker 1:I'm saying, I'm asking you, man, I'm really, if you want to continue this journey, would you want or would you like to be a regular on the podcast?
Speaker 2:100%. I'm gonna tell you yes and just it's. But I don't want bullshit though, dude no bullshit, and you know how crazy my schedule is and shit.
Speaker 1:I do.
Speaker 2:And that's the only thing I want you to know and I know you understand that and it's just it's so busy with my daughter, my other personal life and things.
Speaker 1:The spring time. You're gonna be busy.
Speaker 2:Yes, but I love supporting you, Nick. I love you as a brother and anytime I get an opportunity that I can come on here, even come with guests, I would love to be a part of this. Continue to help, continue to be a part of this with you Not help you, but be a part of this with you.
Speaker 1:So Trevor Wells from Alabama, doloth bro, he's missing teeth, all right, he's got hooked. He's got horns a few, quite a few times right.
Speaker 2:And Nothing wrong with missing teeth. He's a regular yeah.
Speaker 1:We're gonna I'm gonna get him on this weekend, right, and he's gonna tell me what he has planned for the next year to two, right, I mean, he's in Doleth. I don't know if you've listened to his episodes, but he's in Doleth and you can be like what Say that again. He's in Doleth, missing a tooth. Right, get horned and hooked and everything else. A badass, a badass mofo of a bullfighter. Right, I'm gonna get on. Would you want to be a regular with or, I mean, would you want to be a regular on the podcast?
Speaker 2:dude, I want to be a regular and I would love to commit to that. Okay, and so, with all that said, I just I don't want to let you ever let you down.
Speaker 1:No, you're not.
Speaker 2:Man, I just I would love to, I want to, I would love to continue to help you grow this and build this and be a part of this. I'm going to tell you that right now, no bullshit, no more.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's it. Well, whether you're with or not, dude, if you're with, let's do it, if you're not, it's all right. Man, I'm pretty sure I'm going to go 300. You know why? Because, dude, I love it. It's tough right now. I love it. I got a lot of people. Okay, I'm going to tell you this. All right, I'm going to tell you this and I've had this sulser bro.
Speaker 1:It's 6.7 bombing range. All right, I finished Finish, all right, and that's, that's Dan's. I'm going to tell you this man. All right, I coach, but God you know, keanu Dose, the guy that I just had on.
Speaker 2:Keanu Dose. I've seen Keanu, keanu, reeves, keanu.
Speaker 1:Reeves Keanu Reeves right.
Speaker 1:Right, see you and I, man, we believe we think alike. Keanu Dose, right, the guy that was Pacific Northwest Kristen College right, okay, coach is the cross-country team he mentioned the other day. They can't really get a team, right? He's like, dude, if we have a club, would you be interested for track? Sign me up, bro. I never in my my wildest dreams would I ever consider coaching club at a college, right, he said that. He's like dude, don't think of it, just just know it's out there To think of somebody. Consider me as a coach, for college club means a lot, dude. Dude, it's crazy, it's crazy. I'm like, bro, are you kidding me? Hey, well, I told them first thing. I was like sign me up, man, sign me up, I will be there for you. The college God, it's crazy how much this has opened doors.
Speaker 2:Yes, I want to pull back just a little bit, yeah, and I want to ask you right now and I want to tell you this right now that I fully support being a part of this as much as I can be I want to ask you right now, what's on the hat that I have on right now? Coleman Fielder 24. What's on that hat?
Speaker 1:That's what I'm wearing in here Coleman Fielder 24.
Speaker 2:Yes, and we have never actually brought that up, and I thought about it right now. And this is the perfect time to do it and I'm like. You know I support you, nick. I always have, always will.
Speaker 1:I appreciate you.
Speaker 2:And you know we, you know I have corks, you have corks. We love the corks of each other and we'll continue to support each other. And I'm here and reaching out to me and I will always be honest with you, upfront with you, tell you what I got going on. Yeah, if I got that stuff going on, I will be a part of this. I will help you continue to grow this to hit, you know 333, you know, whatever you need, man, I'm here for you 333 plus 333.
Speaker 1:That's 666. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, I ain't even looking at that.
Speaker 2:But you know, and I'm here for you, man, I appreciate you bro.
Speaker 1:Coleman fielder 24, I mean 26, 28. That's it you think. Hey, you think we can withstand the time.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:My personality, your personality, we, I don't know. I just feel we mesh man.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you know it. Just it's been a long time into making it, just me getting here for a chop up. I mean there's like hey.
Speaker 1:How many chop ups?
Speaker 2:Three or four, I only had a couple, you know but dude last time we got together. I mean, we were in the studio with Al, but it was Al's show.
Speaker 1:Emilio.
Speaker 2:Emilio.
Speaker 1:But it's Merino.
Speaker 2:We love Al because Al's going to make Kyle come, because Al makes Kyle come all the time.
Speaker 1:I think I make. I make Kyle come. I think I make Kyle come. I think anybody makes Kyle come.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, and when he comes he'll be right out.
Speaker 1:Speaking of, I'm going to see Kyle come tomorrow and I'm going to, bro, you don't have a shit. I give that guy bro, I give him so much shit. I'm like when I see him he takes a lot of pictures, right. He's great as craft, he's phenomenal man, every time I see him.
Speaker 1:I'm like boo, you know, just inside, not in front of the kids. I don't do it in front of the kids, I do it just between him and I. And I'm like boo, anybody but that school, right. And I'm like, dude, you guys are the greatest team in the Eastern state of Washington, right? I give him the credit. And I'm like every time I'm like hey, paulson, that's his last name. I'm like thumbs down and he's like bro, whatever man, when he brings his kids, I'm jealous. You know why? Cause, dude, I wish I can bring my kids just like he does. And, bro, his kids rock his world when it comes to competition and when his kids are there, I'm like, hey, you taking pictures with, along with daddy. All right, you know what? You take better pictures than daddy. I know, I know, yes, you take better pictures than daddy.
Speaker 2:Okay, it is crazy with Kyle. I'm going to tell you this right now Paulson. With Paulson, yeah, he will banter with the best of you.
Speaker 1:Dude.
Speaker 2:I mean he like.
Speaker 1:He talks so much shit, but he's the nicest guy I know. Man Like you can talk so much shit, but he is the nicest guy that has walked the earth and it's just like dude. You see his kids and like bro hey, kyle, I envy you because your kids actually show up.
Speaker 2:It's like no, ever like, ever since I, you know, running, running her soul Like I don't know. That story We've connected Like we don't see each other, like we'll catch each other and passing, like I said I'll I'll be coming down. Like I'll be picked up, like I'll do a run like from 397 top of jump off Joe and be picked up top of jump off Joe, and I got down and his freaking team is running up there and we'll just like stop and bullshit.
Speaker 1:It's always pleasant Check it out man. Check it out Dude. He has the. He's coach of the best team in all of Washington man, and the way he does it, the way his, his crew does it, you can tell man Like I love having fun, I want the kids that fun, but you can't make them do 15 minutes 3.1, 2 miles.
Speaker 2:That's where it's like. That's why I say that you know, whatever he's coaching, whatever it is with the program that it can work in or wherever he's at, it just blows me away because I've seen like Henley down Klamath.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Henley.
Speaker 2:They're, they're country boys, the country corn fed boys live at 4200 feet and anytime they go down in the valley and and Cusco and that they just conquer conquer to where here we're still, we're at sea level here, and he gets those boys the fricking show up man it's interesting man they mean business.
Speaker 1:The team that we're talking about. They mean business and Kyle means business. Even though he liked he loves that fun and he loves it. Bro, his boys talk shit for him and I'll tell you this man Kyle's the best in business.
Speaker 2:You know there's an episode. There's an episode right there you, me and Kyle we gotta do it Make it happen.
Speaker 1:So Dan.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:King, speak Bora next year, you and me.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'll come in right now.
Speaker 1:Are we taking your top heavy?
Speaker 2:My boundary.
Speaker 1:Oh man, you're breaking bad there. It is Breaking bad trailer. Is the lady gonna come?
Speaker 2:If you don't know, who I am the next step should be.
Speaker 1:How many gallons is that dude?
Speaker 2:Lightly.
Speaker 1:How many gallons? How many gallons, yeah, how many gallons.
Speaker 2:Everything I looked at is 101 gallons on the fuel tank. We're filling up in Oregon, yeah, everybody so I yeah, I'm glad you brought this up. This is like a highlight of what I just like brought to you.
Speaker 1:We don't have to talk about how much it costs, as I'm flipping them off right now.
Speaker 2:That's about how much it costs right there. So this thing, I just happen to be in the right place at the right time and it is absolutely 100%. It is 100% identical to the breaking bad boundary.
Speaker 1:Minus the meth.
Speaker 2:Well, we could strip it out and we could start figuring it out Shrip what out?
Speaker 1:The bathroom, the bedding, the boundary, everything. Let's go with the back room, the back room, okay.
Speaker 2:And you know I'll get Walter White and Jesse Pinkman in there and you know Heisenberg.
Speaker 1:But this thing I haven't yet watched that show. Dude, I don't care for Brian Cranston, but go ahead.
Speaker 2:You know I'm with you, but I'm telling you what he could go from like the most weakest dude, like oh my God, yeah, into like the meanest, like holy shit, I'd be afraid of him. He came in here as Heisenberg but and then he's it. Just he's an actor, he, you know, I get it, but you know, but yeah, I it's. Yeah, I ended up getting this boundary. I guess I don't want to say how much on on air here, but I got it more. But it was a motorhome as a 87 boundary, as a year newer than the boundary Smells clean dude, how many miles?
Speaker 2:49,000 miles on it.
Speaker 1:On an 87?
Speaker 2:87. It has not been lived in, it been arbed. Good, there's, you know, a little bit here and there from sitting.
Speaker 1:It's clean. Yes, I will sleep right behind you as you drive in, and vice versa. It's clean.
Speaker 2:But no, I've had nothing but positive feedback from it. I mean, I got Julie's husband that wants me to bring it down to events, down at Chamna Soul Survivor and have a smoke.
Speaker 1:Jason.
Speaker 2:A smoke thing coming out like I'm cooking meth Jason.
Speaker 1:Will you be cooking meth out of it?
Speaker 2:No meth hey, I even I reached out to Matt Newton and I sent him and was like hey.
Speaker 1:Why do you have to say Matt Newton, dude?
Speaker 2:Because, because he looks a lot like Hank on Breaking Bad. I'll say, I'll say any of the pictures I was like come out just for a cameo, just just get a shirt close to what he's wearing.
Speaker 1:Question yes, what are you doing?
Speaker 2:tomorrow, tomorrow, what is tomorrow? You know what? You know what?
Speaker 1:I can't. Can you, can you do me a favor? What do you need? I need you to see Matt Newton's son finish his high school career.
Speaker 2:It's tomorrow, tomorrow, where at?
Speaker 1:Leslie Grove. Can you do it? What time? I'll let you know afterwards.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Let me know afterwards and I could let you know if I commit to that. Yeah dude.
Speaker 1:Zane's quite the young man. You know what, Dude, with J Dubb Mary, with half the things that I've done on this podcast, right With the young man Zane Newton, when he asked me to write a letter of recommendation for him to go to college, it's like, dude, it's an honor and that's all I'm about. Man, I don't care who you are, what you believe in, what you think for a young man like his, up to his caliber, to ask me to write a recommendation. I'm honored, dude. I don't care what you do, what you believe in, how fast, how slow, what you've done. Dude, I'm there for you. He is running his last race in high school. If you can be there, that'll be great. I'll let you know afterwards.
Speaker 2:Give me the logistic of it. I got stuff I have to take care of like. I have to take care of tonight, but maybe I can make that happen. But let me know. I'd love to support a Newton.
Speaker 1:Newton.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:He's a stud dude. Zane is a stud. I will always be in his corner, just like all the other Richland boys. I will be in his corner, just like God I don't want to say it but all the other boys that I watch through and through. Mr Paulson, even though it's Sunday, it's better pictures than them. I think it would be a wink wink Dude if you could make it. It would make my day, it would make his day. I think it would be Pop's Newton's day. So afterwards, bro.
Speaker 2:Let me know. Give me the info afterwards.
Speaker 1:Dan the man Bro, I love you. No freaking homo, Everybody knows you Completely homo. Yeah, kind of homo. Zoe Jane, right, I named her after her song, right? She's like Dan the guy with the beard. Yes, Are you ever going to buzz the beard?
Speaker 2:I don't know. I get more positive feedback from it, but I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Take it day by day. Okay, all right, so until then, guys. I appreciate you, I appreciate the support, the love. Dan, the man, you got anything.
Speaker 2:Not a whole lot. We hit on a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1:Dude, I support you. I love you bro.
Speaker 2:I love you.
Speaker 1:Not because Coleman Fielders 24. It was a joke, but, dude, it's hitting heavy. It's hit heavy. When's the next time we're going to see you, bro?
Speaker 2:I don't know I'm getting through. Oh hey, going from Burbank to Dayton.
Speaker 1:Are we doing it Friday or are we going to do it Saturday?
Speaker 2:That's the question. I thought we were doing it Saturday at three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1:Three o'clock in the morning, saturday, yeah.
Speaker 2:All right, I'm down with that.
Speaker 1:I drove that couple times after you and me did it you and me and whoever I hoped that we could get. You know, us, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Ben Beckett Bastion. Mr, I volunteer for everything to get free ride.
Speaker 2:Yes, it would be cool. We all get out there. Hell yeah For me, can you?
Speaker 1:imagine, dude, we're on Burbank to Dayton. We're chilling.
Speaker 2:Dude, it's going to be awesome. I'm putting the miles in right now. Yeah, I've already over doubled my miles right now.
Speaker 1:You have to be done by when.
Speaker 2:The 31st for this, and then I'll just put some easy stuff in and be ready.
Speaker 1:Easy Dude. There's no easy stuff, Nope.
Speaker 2:But it'll be good. What are you doing?
Speaker 1:What are you doing Sunday, Monday?
Speaker 2:I'll be up out of Curlew. Okay, I'm going cut for my buddy Frank.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Got to nurture that. The way the world's going, I'm going to nurture that. But I'll be back, you know, through this week, and we can make something happen and get some miles in or something.
Speaker 1:So Veterans Day weekend, on that Saturday we're going to Burbank, to Dayton, which is how many miles? 55, 56?. Between 54 to 56 miles 56 miles 56 on the high side and we're going to do it all and no ifs and no buts, but just our butts being on the side of the road. Don't have to worry about harvesters, no, worry about trucks. We're going to conquer them, bitch, and we're going to do those hours, those miles, and we're going to hit the bruise, yep. And we're definitely going to hit the pizza.
Speaker 2:Yes, okay.
Speaker 1:Yep and the cheese curds.
Speaker 2:Yep. I'm down with it.
Speaker 1:Dan Dan, it's been a pleasure bro.
Speaker 2:Always a pleasure.
Speaker 1:I freaking love you.
Speaker 2:Love you man.
Speaker 1:Guys, I appreciate the love, the support. I don't take it for granted, I really don't, and the fact that I'm going towards 250, 300 now is unbelievable. It's changing, it's ever changing and I can't thank you enough. Thank you so much, guys, dan next time.
Speaker 2:Yes, until next time, my brother. All right, bro. Love you, mister, love you.
Speaker 1:Bye.