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All right, we rolling? We're rolling. All right, guys, the set looks a little bit different today because we're currently in British Columbia, Revelstoke, to get specific with it, set up on a podcast in our buddy Carter's garage right now. It's like a half gym, half bar, half...
Shop Garage. We figured all of our homies are in town, our Canadian buddies, so we should rip a pod because it's going to be pretty funny. Yeah, we're going. The LifeWide Open Podcast has gone international. We finally came to you. And we got Brad Turcotte on here, first guest in the hotspot over here, which is funny enough, this is your second time on the podcast. Yeah, thank you guys so much for giving me the shout out and getting me in on this one. It should be fun. I think you're the first ever reoccurring guest. That
That's pretty nice. Actually, you are. Whoa. No, but we got to thank you for bringing us out, showing us around. Well, we talked about it kind of like all summer, right? I feel like we planted the seed in the spring and I was like, man, the borders are going to open up and you guys are going to have to come and see what Revelstoke or Bursch Columbia for that matter is all about. So we flew in here, which was really nice. We didn't have to drive. VIP, man? Yeah.
Why wouldn't you? That's what it feels like, dude. Everything here feels like VIP. Carter's got the spot, dude. Stoked is the space. Stoked Mounted Ventures. Let's just talk about what happened today. Let's just get it out of the way. We could dive right in. Get everything out of the room. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we've been riding for the past three days and it's been really insane. Like deep snow,
insane mountains, steepness, pretty much the gnarliest of the gnarly you can get into on snowmobiles, right? So we're in basically the most flat level parking lot. The easiest thing we have done the entire trip, right? I go, hey, Brett, can I borrow your snowmobile
to take a thumbnail picture and he goes yeah buddy of course just be careful though the throttle has a little bit of ice in it so it might stick so just in case wear this tether around your wrist and i was like okay all right well it should be fine i'm literally just pulling it like three feet uh on flatness i shouldn't have much to worry about here right and uh
So sure enough, I hop on it and pulling it around and I'm like, oh shit, I can feel a little bit of stickiness in this throttle, right? And then there was like a little mound because I was trying to get up next to this measuring stick because I thought it looked good in the thumbnail, right? And to get up this mound, I give it a little bit more pepper. Throttle sticks. Wide open. Wide open on an 850 boost. The thing pretty much rockets out from underneath me.
It plows over this like landmark of a snow depth meter, right? Any snowmobiler in North America has looked at that camera and said like, how much snow is in Revelstoke? Yeah. Plows through this six inch tree that the measuring stick is.
bolted to. Keep in mind, this tree is 15 feet tall and it's buried about like eight feet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Breaks the tree clean in half and then the sled, luckily I had the tether on my wrist, the sled that dies after, but it had gotten so much speed. No, it was fully airborne.
It was totally airborne. I have like the perfect mental image in my brain right now. Like I'm waiting for Elon to just like pull my SD card so we can put that into the computer. Dude, so seriously, we need that. Honestly, yeah, we need that. We need that. So yeah, we have Mike. Mike is over there taking photos because we weren't planning on anything. Big bummer. I'm pointing a camera right at you.
as this all happened, pointing it at the scene with a wide angle. It would have got it all, but I'm in photo mode. Yeah, big bummer. Yeah, my jaw's never been lower on the floor than seeing you do that today. So I do that. The snowmobile rockets out, hits the pole, snaps it in half. I'm then laying on the ground in...
sheer disbelief of what just happened. And the first thing I do is like check my body like I'm good. I didn't get hit by the tree coming down or hit a tree in the process. Luckily, I kind of bailed early. Dude, you were white as a ghost. Yeah, I was extremely rattled. I was worried about Brett's sled.
it's like a $30,000 snowmobile and and I just launched it into a tree specifically built and also what brand new this week yeah I mean it's like not even out of break-in mode yet yeah I'm still continually putting parts on it which we put on a new bumper last night which is good timing but uh I'm like this the snowmobile and then I'm like oh my god what did I just hit I
I'm like looking over and I see two pieces of yellow laying in. I'm like, Oh, I just plowed through that meter stick. And then I look up and there's like 40 people in the parking lot. There's people like staring piling out of the cabin. Yeah. Then people start coming out of this cabin. So I guess to give a little reference, this cabin in British Columbia is like,
one of the most legendary spots to go to. Like everyone knows what the Boulder cabin is. If they've ridden in the area or like you said, checked the webcam. Cause there's a webcam on top of the cabin that points at this metering stick that is live 24 hours a day. So at any point you can check, Hey, did they get snow? I mean, look at the metering stick. Boom. Hey, did Ben hit? Why is it? Why is the metering stick all of a sudden four feet smaller? Did we get four feet of snow or what happened?
So I'm just figuring out what happened. I'm like, oh my God, this is insane. Right. And, and I'm like, Mike, throw that fucking camera on bro. Cause Mike was just taking pictures. I was like, record, record.
cord and Mike turns it on I'm like trying to figure out like still what's going on turkey comes up and he's like you good you good and I'm like I'm like looking around and then pretty soon I just see
A flock of people moving in and nobody was like smiling. There was a guy that was like, huh, nice move guys, idiots. And I looked at him and I was like, pardon? Like my $30,000 snowmobile just ghost road into that thing. Like you think that this was real? There'd be cameras rolling everywhere. And for one, am I going to loan you my brand new Polaris boost to just go
kamikaze it through a six inch tree like and also why the important tree of all of them so I like looked at this guy and I was like do you not realize the like severity of the situation here well man like somebody's got to come up here and fix this thing I was like we got it I have to go over there make sure my buddy's alive like it looks like all of the blood left his face and went to his feet like laying on the ground so that guy was just like he was so buttered because
I mean, jokingly so. He was probably going to wonder how much snow we got tonight because it's snowing right now. He's going to be so put off by the fact that the stick is like four feet lower now. People are going to look at the camera and go, holy shit, there's 13 feet of snow. The best part is everyone that was outside was hyped on it. Whatever. No, I mean, most of them that came up were like, that was crazy. And then everyone that went into the cabin
were like, they didn't want to see it. And then Ben was like, I'm not going into the cabin. I don't want to. And I was like, I think that's where the crowd gets a little upset. And so I went in there and then some guys like, yeah, Turcotte's always bringing all his amateur buddies around. I heard it from across and I was like, in that situation, it's really funny because we're the amateur buddies. But it was, I thought it was also pretty funny that,
that there was people coming up and they were like, hey, we're subs and everything. I was like, man, these people got to think that we're just so fucking stupid. You know what, dude? They got to be like, damn, these kids are always just doing this, huh? Yeah, but you guys are going to be able to back it up. It's not fake. They're not putting on a show acting like they are this stupid. You know? I don't know. I think it was just...
Probably came off like refreshing for them to know. Yeah. Well, you know what, dude, the video is going to come out and it's like,
you guys were shredding and where we were today was like you did a sick drop Evan did like a half a backflip off a drop Spencer hit a drop on his snow like like no I did you guys are like lack of skill that was just like man some things are just meant to happen or that was like camera was off unfortunately but uh it's just like it is what it is the people are talking about you you know like yeah you know they say uh no publicity is bad publicity nope
Bad publicity is better than no publicity. I knew it sounded like that. You know what, dude? I'm honestly just like, I mean, things happen out there and it's like all the gnarly things like,
And I've half underspun backflips and like stepped off and been fine and like no sled damage, nothing. And it's just like, it's always the, the quirky things, you know, that you're like not thinking about. When you have fans out here being quirky. Yeah. See, I was just goofing around. Like some people do backflips when they're goofing around. Some people accidentally, uh,
ghost ride snowmobiles into legendary metering sticks. I had gotten a message too on my Instagram like, oh yeah, I'd imagine the bills in the mail from the club. Of course it had to be on your sled too. Well, it either been on your sled or Carter's sled. So either way I would have been in the wrong. Do you think that it's easier to backflip in the back country knowing that you're probably going to be all right if you don't
land it completely or is it just way easier to do it off of a full on freestyle ramp? There's some confidence inspiring aspects of being in the backcountry. Flip side of that, you're miles and miles away from a hospital or medical care or
You know, you got to put some trust and faith in your buddies that, you know, they're going to take care of you and you have a rescue plan or you have a safety plan, you know, whether that's satellite communication, cell phone service, a direct line to the heli. You know, we were out on a ride the other day and I got an in-reach message from one of my buddies saying, dude, we're down in a Creek, like we're messed up.
And he's like one of my high level riding buddies. And so when I got that message, like light bulb, okay, he like seriously needs help. He's not one that would reach out and be like, dude, I'm in a creek. Come give me a ski pole. It's like, I showed up, there was a snowmobile 20 feet down into a hole that was 15 feet wide. Like it looked like a massive crater and there's water running through it. Like whitewater rapids,
running through the skid of the snowmobile and it was just planted. So having those like safety plans and for him to be able to reach me, luckily I was in cell service, but he had satellite communication to at least get me a text and be like, dude, we're on the same mountain. And so I just sent him another message back, said, hey, fire up your 7S dash. I'll come right to you. And Mater, Gerbs and myself,
Spencer came along on the snow bike. We dove down in there. I found their group on the 7S dash on the Polaris and rode right to the exact location that they were. How sick is that? That's crazy. Doing those rescues is fun, man. I mean, I've been on a few of them this winter and it's kind of been like the...
kind of going trend of my videos too is just like night rides and like night rescues. Dude, we should have done that. We should have gone for a night ride. That would have been sick. That would be sick. You guys are here for another night? I brought my headlamp. Yeah, dude. Night rides are so fun. Are they really? You make them look fun, but they sound terrifying. You make the most mellow of things feel so gnarly because you can't see outside of that 20-foot circle of yourself.
That being said, you go ride spots where you're like confident of like, so conditions are good, you know, relatively close to cell service ish. Yeah. I can barely ride in the daylight. Yeah. You gotta trust your buddies are like they're keen and they're down. Yeah. But, uh, yeah, it could be a ton of fun and it doesn't have to be super gnarly what you're doing out there in the night. And it feels so rad. Yeah.
Yeah, I bet. In your own bubble, it's like, I love that aspect. Even when I was competing, I way rather jump and perform at night where it's just like channel focuses into a central area. My buddy Jamie and I tried to connect two zones together one time. Nikki's eight months pregnant at home. We leave the house at like one o'clock. Like, oh, yeah, we should be able to loop this out and be back by four. We drop in this gnarly, gnarly drainage. I mean-
You guys hear me say gnarly and you're like, yeah, everything you do is gnarly. This was like, it put me on my, like the hairs on my neck were standing up and we were committed, you know, dropping bluffs and dodging willows and then into creeks and running water. Anyways, we're trying to connect these two zones. We got to go off of one mountain down to Valley bottom and up the other one. And we started, we got the descent and we got to the bottom. We high five and we're like, man, thank goodness. We're not going to climb back out of that.
And then we start ascending the other side and it's about three o'clock at this point. And we just get waterfalled out. There's no way we're getting up the next phase. We're like, man, this is gonna suck. And so we come back onto our tracks and have to navigate this like just pretty insane sort of boulder field and it's low snow conditions and it's starting to get dark.
Jamie doesn't have a headlamp. I do. He has a headlight delete kit on his slide because he wanted lightweight. I was on a Speedworks Supercharger. Anyway, from 4 o'clock till midnight, we spent trying to get back up our down track, nipping
Nikki's at home freaking out at eight months pregnant and she knows better to not call the search and rescue. She calls the neighbors around our area and be like, Brent and Jamie dove into this drainage and they're trying to connect these zones. Do you guys mind going to find them? Why not call search and rescue? I mean, the search and rescue was just not that skilled at that point to get to where Jamie and I were. And she knew that our neighbors were. Yeah, talented. And so they drop into the drainage at about one o'clock.
and they drop... They drop in our tracks, but instead of riding and they hike down because it's terrifyingly steep and scary, they go all the way to the valley bottom. And as Jamie and I are like working our way through, we do this like half circle around each other. So like...
We're going up and those guys are hiking down, but they didn't have radio contact or anything to us. They didn't know what channel we were on or any of you. They could hear us, but they ended up below us. Then we get out the drainage and we get up to where their sleds are and we start lighting a fire. At like 2.30 in the morning, we just hear them trudging up the hill. One dude is so beat, he's lifting his legs with his hands to get his feet up out of the snow. Oh, man.
So that was kind of like the start of the love of the night ride. One time I got stuck down there. That's when it became fun for me. I've never had an overnight experience. That was the closest that I've ever been. But I was like, I feel like there was a little seed planted there where it was like, this is actually kind of pretty cool. You've never done an overnight? No, I've never. I'm surprised by that. I've done an overnight. I've been like looking to do some intentional overnights. Like go up late, like super late.
stay in the cabin and then get up for sunrise and go ride oh that's cool or go up late and ride through the night and stay in a cabin and wake up in the morning you know there's lots of cool different ways i've been sick we had a video that we did like a couple years ago when we went out into utah and spent a night in the back country with uh the godfrey's and we went to like this
There was like already kind of like a lean to made in the mountain. And we spent the entire day, not snowmobiling, just building our stuff for the night. We had food, we had drinks, we had everything. It was super, super fun. The one of the cooler experiences watching the sunset and the sunrise, but sleeping in a sleeping bag.
With all my warm clothes, all the stuff in the snow cave, I'd spent six hours digging and it was still brutal. And I think about having spending a night after riding all day, like we did today where you're sopping wet and you're tired and you're hungry and all you want is a cheeseburger and having to spend a night out there would be, it'd be awful.
It's good fuel to get home. You're sitting in front of the fire literally drying your socks just so you can come back on. My will to survive or my will to conquer is way stronger than my will to just like, okay, we're staying the night. Until I'm bleeding out my eyeballs and my fingertips are wore off, I am scratching and clawing my way out of anything or everything that I can. Yeah, it's that fight or flight. Just...
grit man you can't teach grit I just I grew up in that sort of scenario you know like you Canadians are built different grew up in a logging family and it was just like when stuff breaks down on the log equipment you do everything you can to get it fixed because every every minute you lose is a hundred dollars or you know I mean and I feel like that's carried into my career whether it's competing or just like
riding natural terrain or just, you know, even when I'm like going for a ride and we're out in the trees, I'm like, I'm intentionally trying to punish myself. I'm like, I think I get my snowmobile through that little like spot right there. And then I'll get just wedged in there. Like, well, I guess that didn't work. Yeah, dude. We, I mean, we say that all the time when everything goes wrong that you can't even imagine going wrong.
uh, there's always some kind of way to fix it or make the show continue to go on. Totally. Cause like, I mean, we figured it out on like all of our weird contraption vehicles. Like we don't really show the, the process of them breaking in the videos just to keep them moving. But like, it's always such a disaster. And, uh,
we don't have any time to just be like, oh, well, we can't do it. Like we have to post on Thursday and we always figure out how to figure it out. Yeah. Separated. So there is something to be said about that. Like being a problem solver for anything. 100%. And just like. And just figuring it out. The will to conquer. Yeah. Like I feel like that's just something that it just gets ground with you. Yeah. It's like you just take, you just keep taking the beating, you know?
You come out the other side and it's like that, that sort of like fulfillment is what I'm after. Like all the time. I just love that feeling of like the satisfaction of just being absolutely ground down to nothing. And then coming out the other side and just like high-fiving your buddy or like your group and be like, man, that was absolutely gnarly. And we're like back of the trucks, you know? Yeah. What does David call it? It's tight type two fund.
Type two fun. Type two fun. It's when you're having a bad time, but you're with your buddies. And then afterwards, it's going to be really fun to talk about. But in the moment, you're... You made it at the moment, but you look back on it, it's...
Yeah. Type two fun. I go with like the Tyler Beerman quote, the Tyler Beerman quote, like that dude is gnarly on a dirt bike, but he's like, he's always just like team never quit. You know, like it's true though. All those top level moto dudes just get punished with injuries. And it's like, it's so cool to watch them come back and like rebuild and come back better. You know? And it's like, I try and keep that mentality in my brain. You see me in my vlogs where I'll be like,
I'll be so buggered up and just like everything that I've got, every ounce of energy to like not be stuck. Come out the other side. Like, Oh, so glad I never quit. Cause if I quit, it's concreted in and I'm going to be there for hours. Yeah. What's the worst injury you've had? A broken femur at man. What was I? 12 years old was pretty gnarly.
But when I broke my ankle and my tailbone in 2017 and then was hospitalized for two weeks because I lost 60% of my blood. Whoa. Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co-founder of Angie. And one thing I've learned is that you buy a house, but you make it a home. Because with every fix, update, and renovation, it becomes a little more your own. So you need all your jobs done well. For nearly 30 years, Angie has helped millions of homeowners hire skilled pros for the projects that matter. From
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I have fully done things around the home that I think look good and then a bang in the night and I wake up to a shelf collapsing, a painting falling off the wall. Like it, I've seen it all go south. I own a home and I can tell you, I know how much work it can take. Whether it's everyday maintenance and repairs or making dream projects a reality, it can be hard just to know where to start. But now all you need to do is Angie that and find a skilled local pro who will deliver the quality and expertise you need.
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give me crutches or anything. They just like straight off of the hospital bed into the backseat of the truck. And Nikki and Hudson was like newborn, like not very old at all. She drives me up over this mountain pass and we're trying to get home. And I'm just like laying in the, laying in the backseat of the truck, just excruciating pain. Hudson's crying. She's, I said newborn, but I think maybe she's like a year.
She's just like, she's crying, just doing baby stuff. I'm freaking out because my stomach hurts so bad and I haven't like pissed in 22 hours or something. And my stomach starts getting super, super hard. And I'm just like, I'm just begging Nikki, like just drive faster. Like we need to get to the next town. Anyway, this is a two hour drive between towns. Yep. And it got so bad that I...
told her like we need more help than this you know like so she calls my physical trainer and she's like what do i do and he got us like the hotline to the front desk at er at the hospital in kamloops call the front desk they dispatched an ambulance to meet us at the front of the hospital because that's the quickest way to get yourself in yep so they ripped me out of the back seat of the truck put me onto the the gurney in through er right to the trauma unit
And, you know, I get diagnosed and they're doing all these scans. And I was like, I'm going to say 100 mils away from like my bladder bursting and just going full septic. And so then they started running blood tests and I was like 60% low on red blood cells. I was internally bleeding inside so bad that I was just like my stomach was just filling up with fluid. And I was just like,
pretty much just driving around dead. Holy shit. And, uh, that was in 2017. I was hitting a freestyle ramp at Kyle DeMello's house.
and was just doing a whip and i whipped really hard in my hand for whatever reason came off of the bars and i grabbed back on and i tried to straighten the bike out and just wasn't coming back straight so i bailed and just went 90 feet to my feet and just crumpled and landed on the bike drove the foot peg through my ass and uh broke my tailbone broke my right ankle and uh yeah i guess that was
I'm going to say that's the gnarliest one. Dude, that is gnarly. That is insane. After that, weren't you like, man, kind of fucked dirt bikes? A little bit, but then I was like, I fucking love dirt bikes. Three months later, I was back riding ramps again. Six months later, I went double golds at Winter X. So it was like... So you didn't let it slow you down too much? No, but it slowed me down now. That ankle is...
Oh, really? Yeah. That seems to kind of be the general saying for most athletes that are performing at a high level. Injuries rarely slow them down.
Especially like 35 like me. And then you're like, yeah, I wake up in the morning. Like, oh, there's that 2017 ankle injury. Yeah. Or the tailbone, like any more than two hours on the airplane. And I'm just like, oh my gosh, this sucks. I need to stand up. Yeah. Not very often. I'm going to be that guy that packs around an inflatable donut. Oh, yeah. To sit on? Just like if I'm flying to Japan or Australia or something, that's me. That's my steez, dude. Really? Yeah. I'd probably have like rubber ducks or something. Something rad.
Dude, I thought that was going to have to be me this morning. I had like the spiciest Korean bowl last night. Oh my God, it was terrible. I was actually contemplating even not snowmobiling. Dude, you were. Because I was like, I don't think I can go out on the hill, boys. I've had such a rough morning. This just doesn't sound like a good idea for my pants. That Korean was gnarly too, dude. It was so hot, dude. I seen the three peppers on the menu. I'm like, I could do spice.
Yeah, this morning I was not doing Spice, dude. No, I think Carter's...
Toilet's actually filing an assault charge on me. Is that why the Mounties were here this morning? Yeah. They were asking questions. Yeah, it wasn't good. Well, I'm going to go finish tightening up the bolts on the front end of that snowmobile so it doesn't fall apart. Sounds good, bro. Sounds good. And then we'll run in there and just give it a once-off. Yeah, we'll come out for the final inspection and just see if it's up to your standards. All right, bro. Thanks for hopping on the pod. Yeah, thank you, guys. Round two.
Carter, you want to hop in? Yeah, Carter, you want to hop in? This is Carter Hill. He owns this whole place. It's called Stoked Mountain Adventures. I just have to say one thing about you, man. You don't skip steps anywhere. This whole place is so dialed.
You can even have stoked waters. I'm hanging right now, aren't I? Well, dude, Carter. What, stoked water? You're the most Canadian person I know, bro. And Ben tells him that every time. And I love it. I love it. I hope you take it as a compliment, but I just think you're so funny, dude. Like everything you say is just like effortlessly funny and it's got the Canadian accent to it. So it just adds like a little pizzazz to it.
It goes both ways. I think you Americans are pretty funny too, but you guys are basically Canadian where you're from. So every American friend I have talks all the time about how funny I am, but I don't think I'm like that funny. It's just how you say it. Canadians are different, man. We just...
Shit talk all the time, so... I feel like I've developed a little bit more of a Canadian accent being up here. Oh, definitely. I feel like now I'm playing into just the smidge that I have as a Minnesotan. You're day three here, right? Yeah, day three. In the last three years. It's like that. Another week. Yeah, give me a week. Yeah, dude, it happens fast. Because think, if we went to Australia, there's no way we would just start. I mean, we'd start a little bit. But my parts girl's Australian, so it's like...
There's days I want to talk bathroom Australian. It's be funny because we start sounding really Canadian. Yeah. A hundred percent. We came up here three years ago and Ben called you one night. I think that was after a long night at the bar. And he said, Carter, say the most Canadian thing you can to me.
And what did Carter say? Canadian to me. You were like, oh, some... Can I talk? Yeah. No. Oh, yeah. I had a friend that I played hockey with and he was from Tuktuk, like Northwest Territory. So they basically live like on the ocean over there. And it's like the Arctic. This is how this happened, how I got this line. We were at a hockey...
It was an all-sports event, tournament. It's basically called Arctic Winter Games. And it was in, where were we? Grand Prairie, Alberta. So Red Plate. Yeah, Red Plate. Do you guys know Alberta? Red Plate? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that why people have been throwing shit at us when we're driving through? Yeah, I was like, I think we're on a Red Plate. Yeah, you guys are on a rental Red Plate, though, so you're exempt. I don't give a hell where you're from, what you do, or what.
What you are, I'd support anyone's business. So if Justin Trudeau
walked in here definitely not him no i don't support his business would you would you let him rent a sled from you hell no i'm praying about it here really 100 and i'll call everyone i know so carter's how i got all of my uh my covid news for what was going on oh yeah no no no no no no no carry on carry on so sorry we were in grand prairie alberta and uh
they kind of make like an athlete's lounge at all these events when they do it. So we were in there and you're like, you get to hang out and meet like all other athletes, like wherever they're from. Right. And there was this team of like volleyball player, Russian girls. I think it was Russia. We were all in grade tennis times. Like these chicks were like dimes to all these kids from up North. Right. Of course. And our friend Kevin, like goes up to one of these chicks and he's like, Oh man, he's like no more than like five foot five, but he would like F you up. Like,
Like he was, yo. And he was like, like my buddy Evan. And, uh, he did 20 pull-ups today. Okay. Put that thing up close. He cheated. Uh, they were some, they were some pretty weak pull-ups. Have long story ever. Long story short says this chick says, Hey, I'm from tuck, tuck, tuck. You want to fuck? And she, no, like no shit.
like really turned around and kicked him right in the nuts no way what like just dropped it put him yeah i was like put him on the ground dropped him yeah all this is like piss ourselves laughing i bet thing i've ever seen and he was like this little like solid like in a kid and oh my god it was hilarious but he had no filter he was yeah he was crazy you kind of got to respect the guy for shooting the shot though yeah and it's funny because his name is kevin craig nuketuck from tuck
Kevin Craig, Nick Tuck from Tuck Tuck. It was always funny. That's some Canadian lingo right there. Probably one of the best hockey players I played with back then. He was solid. Dude, quite the setup you got here. Yeah, let's talk sledding. Good little spot. Thank you.
You like living in Revelstoke because you didn't grow up here, right? No, not at all. So I'm originally from Northwest Territories. So it's all... Just like way up, way, way north. Yeah, way up north. Yeah. 18 hour drive from here. So it's not as bad as... Crap. Everyone from Saskatchewan is further, Ontario and stuff. So I can't complain. There's... Yeah. We have a lot of clients that drive like 30 some hours to come here. So...
So we're just cool. We've met a lot of people that are like, yeah, drove here from wherever. And I'm like, nice. How far of a drive is that? Yeah. They're like, oh, it wasn't too bad. It was like 18 hours. I'm like, man, we got a different definition of not that bad. Yeah, we're used to it. I'll drive home in like one shot if I could. What's up with these roads?
Like, what's up with Canadian roads? Because the weather is so inconsistent. It's like you have summers to repair them and then winters to gong show. Yeah, but I mean, we got kind of the same weather as you guys. Yeah. And ours aren't this bad, but it seems like when we drove here from Minnesota, but from Minnesota, right above Minnesota and Canada, all the way to Revelstoke, it was like,
Some of the worst roads we've driven on. And we've traveled quite a bit. Like, quality-wise? Yeah, like, quality-wise. Yeah, well, both. And it's sketchy. Well, you guys don't even put, like, normal places put sand on the roads. You guys just, like, dump rocks. Oh, yeah. It's like sand and rock. They don't get, like, clean mix. For sure. In the cities, it's a bit better. Like, on the freeways between, like, cities. But, like, the mountains is just crazy. Like, it's, yeah. Yeah.
It's hard to maintain and keep up. Like, I can't even shovel my deck off, man. Well, that's the thing. My snowboard doesn't work on it. A ridiculous amount of snow. How much snow do you get a year? I don't even... I don't even keep track of that. A lot. Like... 550. Yeah, that's low right now. 550 inches? Yeah, like 8 feet... What's that today? 5... Did you even get to see it? Because you cranked it. What?
Something like that. Dude, so do you ever get upset that frat boys from the States take your lingo? Because I think your lingo is pure. I guess I'm kind of throwing it back to how everyone thinks you're funny. But I think frat boys and whatever, they talk like how Canadians actually talk. I think it was the Nelk Boys wave.
Like, like kind of transitioning. Yeah. For sure. Like, you could think like Steve's from like Canada. Do you? Yeah. True. Does that kind of piss you off that like all these frat boys are talking like that? Oh, it's, it's like a sense of, of, uh, uh, what's the word, Ryan? Ryan's my word guy. Oh, you're a thesaurus. Uh, like,
Like flattery. Flattery. Yeah. Like flattery. Yeah. Yeah, I guess so. I would say that. Yeah. I think Canadians aren't funny, man. Like American comedy, American movies, American commercials are way more funny than Canadian ones. Do you guys even have like TV and stuff up here? Yeah, we do. So what's like... What's your... Kevin from Tuck Tuck might not on the freaking article. We got TV. What?
what's like your third world country up here you can do it is not a third world uh what's your opinion on now like obviously you i i remember you watched them oh yeah i used to watch them hard yeah they're uh they're funny as hell it was just it's because i could relate to them because like he's like so canadian about it so like that's funny but like when it's like trying to be like uh
Like I said, like a serious movie that's supposed to be so big. And it's just like, ah, that wasn't funny. Like the American version of American actors would have been funnier. But we do have funny Canadian actors like Ryan Reynolds. Yeah, true. People like that and stuff, right? They're just getting so big now. It's like different. I mean, watching so long. Yeah, it's tough. I agree with that too, though. When they tried to get a little more serious. Yeah, because he was just legit. And yeah, just being a dumbass is just how all Canadians are.
We're all dumbasses because Trudeau is still our prime minister. Anyone under him is a dumbass. Yeah. We're obviously doing something wrong. It seems like most people say that because the couple times that, well, especially in our audience, but the couple times that we've mentioned, I guess, Canadian politics kind of fires up the comment section for us agreeing. Yeah, and actually there's a lot of Americans that agree too, but I guess you guys don't have much better, so.
I don't know. Still fortunate to be from Canada. That's for sure. I live in like the most beautiful place in the world. It's not tropical, but it's tits deep snow. So that should be Rebels. That should be Rebels. That should be Rebels. That should be Rebels. That should be Rebels.
You should put that on a fucking shirt. I love that so much. It's not tropical, but it's in cursive. It's a dream, man. It's in cursive over the, yeah. How many days do you have on snow this year? Two. Two? Yeah, that's... That's what's crazy. My first season, here I had like 120. But that was like a lot. Like I, like for example, like Muskoka, like that guy goes like
every day. So that's exhausting. Like I can imagine trying to work and do that. It'd be impossible, but he's huge up here. He's like a household name. I've got to get brought up like a hundred times. Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. It was no one else like, uh, doing big YouTube, like with sledding like that, other than like him and Brett and then Nick's getting some traction now, which is cool. So, um, yeah,
Yeah. Dude, that sounds terrible. Yeah. On the average, I'll still get 40, 50 days. That doesn't sound fun at all. Snowmobiling takes a lot. That's a lot, man. I couldn't go every day. Dude, every day, get home.
upload your footage, edit it, upload the video, have a thumbnail, get up the next day, do it all again. That sounds literally terrible. Hey, everyone's bred for different stuff. Yeah, I'm impressed by it, but I agree. I'm out here feeling sleds, oiling sleds, ranching on sleds, talking sleds, sleeping sleds, thinking sleds every day. You ever get sick of it? You ever get sick of people coming in here and partying? Or they're on vacation and you're kind of like, holy crap.
Well, I guess it's probably different because not everybody's your friend.
You're not always in here every night chilling. No, I don't hang out with everyone, but I love all the guests. I haven't had not one bad batch of guests since I started this place. That's good. It's been awesome. And then, no, they're here to, this is their getaway, right? So that's what I'm here to offer. I don't give a crap what they do. Five guys come sledding for the week. They get away from the Ys for a week. They sat in the hot tub and drank for like three of those days. I don't, whatever. They didn't go for it. Yeah, on a road trip.
That's what I built this place for. Hey, honey, I'm going snowmobiling for three days, but I find out you just went and hot-dubbed with your buddies and got drunk. What do you call the hot-dub? Oh, I don't know. No, dude. Carter did not call it that. Brett goes, yeah, when we're leaving the parking lot, he's like, what are you guys going to go head back to Carter's and sit in the wiener one? Oh, yeah, I know.
And I was like, it's not just run the jets at least. Don't be the guys that sit in there like bath water. Well, I think that was Evan and I. Yeah. Carter's got a rule board out there and it says have to run the jets if all guys in the hot tub. Oh, man. We bought a bath, mom. Like, uh, cause, uh, we don't put that in there. We can't.
No. That's saltwater hot tub. Don't you like it? Surprise! Yeah, there we go. Just bath bomb the sink in the kitchen. Evan's sitting in it like a little toddler. We put Evan in the kitchen sink? Yeah, I guess speaking of this... Wash your hinders. Laughter
All right, we're going to have Ev hop in, share his experiences. Oh, boy. Just in general. How many experiences did you have this weekend? Yeah, what do we got? Well, my favorite experience was watching my dear friend Ben take out a national monument. That was a good time. Yeah, you like that? Do you guys know that video of the guy going up the snowmobile ramp and then, like, blacking out and pinning it at the top? Then he falls off the side of the truck. And the wrap hit him in the head?
No. Um, how's there was a crazy, Oh, up onto the truck. And then the snowmobile like launches over the truck and the guy falls off. Oh, I got this year. Yeah. That was at Frisbee. I think. Oh really? Yeah. So the right next to the parking lot, like, like further down next parking lot. Do you get, do you think that guy was just like hammered? Dude,
Dude, he just grabbed a little throttle and he hooked him. There's no way that you could do that with being sober. Are you serious? No offense. There's people that, I don't know, maybe the throttle stuck. Who knows? It's too sad. It's every story. Or maybe he just had no freaking clue. Well, my question is, why was there so many people in the background filming it?
I don't know. It was kind of odd. Yeah, because that's where maybe he was effed up. Like, well, let's get this on video because he's completely whiskey-less. Yeah, that's my only... That's why you have Jody, Whiskey Throttle Power Sports. Oh? What did you just do? What? You just plugged? You plugged Jody at Whiskey Throttle Power Sports. Yeah, shout out. Weed's legal in Canada. How long has that... Oh, weed's been legal since I've been smoking it. The whole... 2013. What? In Canada? Yeah. Yeah.
Weed's been legal that long? Well, for me, it has been. I just walk around with it everywhere. Hold up. Is that how that works? I like that. I just love that. Yeah, it's been legal for me since I've been smoking it. Yeah, hell yeah. Weed's been legal since Trudeau came in.
Bring this country down. Wait a minute. That's gotta be one positive for you. One good thing. I almost don't want to say it. One good thing that he's done? Yeah, weed legal. Yeah. Yeah. That's what it. Well, like you smoke weed over drinking? I'm on and off of weed. I took like, I didn't smoke weed for a whole year last year just for my concussions. But like after I finally was concussion, like symptom free.
I started smoking again. So I was on and off for a while with that. How'd you get concussions? Just all from sports before. Really? Yeah. And then just a couple other incidents and then that's it. Yeah. Hockey? Yeah. Hockey at first. Yeah. That's CJ. You haven't met him. Micah was mentioned that. Yeah. Has a really bad concussion syndrome. Yeah.
Or symptom syndrome. I was like, that's a thing? No, I'd have that too. But yeah, bad concussion symptoms. And I mean, just like even the smallest stuff would flare them up. Yeah, even sledding, like I got to be careful too, right? I don't really go like too huge when I'm riding, but I just like to shred, but.
I just got to watch. Like, I don't even like doing bow ties. Like, I just fling my neck around all the time. Yeah. But depending on the snow, if it's really traction-y and, like, catches you off guard, then you can really whiplash yourself pretty good. So it's not worth it for me. Nobody's paying me to go do bow, like, ties on Instagram, so... What, like, what kind of symptoms do you have? Just horrible brain fog. Like, no headaches or anything, like, major like that. And then just, like, vertigo-y. Just brain fog and, like, head pressure. That's probably not even...
it doesn't even exist it's just yeah it just feels like it yeah i've been to brain centers i've been to orlando i've done a bunch of stuff so oh really yeah what all what what all have you tried i went to a neuroplasticity center in florida that fixed me after my like first few initial concussions so it's like a week long but they could they do it like three week thing but a week long is expensive it was like i bet 150 grand canadian oh my gosh what yeah
And what do they do? They just put you in machines all day and have your eyes connected with lasers and cameras and they put you in this spinning, crazy state-of-the-art, freaking down spaceship machine. And would you say that it helped? Yeah, it definitely helped me. Yeah, it fixed me completely. Crapes. Crapes? Crapes.
Frick Crepes would be good right now. I think you said Gripes. Oh, you said Crepes? Yeah, but a little thin pancake with some jam on it. No, but like a crepe factory, it's like dessert ones. Yeah, yeah. Sweet and savory. We'll take them. Hold on. What now? Crepe factory? Yeah, yeah. Like Cheesecake Factory? Kind of, yeah. Is that a Canadian thing? Crepe Factory? No, they're probably Crepe Factory. It's like a crepe. We got the food court in the mall with fancy crepes.
I don't know. You guys just talk about crepes. Do the other Americans here know what he's talking about? Yeah. I mean, I know what a crepe is. Everything I know about crepes is from Talladega Nights. Micah calls rockets Smarties.
Okay, and that's what I was super interested in. I'm pretty sure. Are you talking about Smarties? Smarties started in Canada. Yeah. And then America wanted to make Smarties, but they were like, well, we want the Smarties to be, they want them to look like the Rockets. Oh, are they called Smart Sweets? Those ones? What were you just eating? That candy that you were eating in the Rockets? No, those are Smarties. No, Smarties is a chocolate. No. Hershey's is chocolate.
But yeah, they call them rockets here. Hershey's all her cheese is chocolate. What? Hold up. What's a Smartie? It's not very good. Everything here is weird. They call Cheetos cheese pleasures. Where? All right. Now that's cheese pleasers. Or cheddar pleasure. Cheese pleasers. Cheese pleasers. Cheddar pleasure. I've got just the strangest assortment of snacks. What?
No, I have no idea. Dude, you guys, you can eat it. I've seen them because of... Does the Easter Bunny bring those? What's that? The Easter Bunny?
I don't believe in the Easter Bunny. You don't? No. What? Yeah, man. Who brings you your eggs? Man, ever since I stopped getting chocolate eggs, I just stopped believing. What about Santa? No, I still believe in him. I get presents. I was going to say. You're close. I was going to say. Dude, I think Canada chocolate is different in some way, though, because Kit Kats taste way better. Oh, the Kit Kats here are way better. What? Way better. You guys have way more junk food, though.
That's why I get Soxton bringing me Krispy Kremes. Your chip selection is bizarre. No way, dude. You guys have way more chips. Ketchup? What do you mean ketchup? Oh, yeah, you guys don't have ketchup. No, we have lots of ketchup, just no ketchup chips. No, we have ketchup. Just regular old-fashioned ketchup. We don't have Lay's ketchup chips. What? Really? Yeah, that's not a thing. Well, we don't have like spray cheese and 40 different types of Oreos. Spray.
Spray cheese. No one should have it in a third world country. Like cheese whiz. Yeah, but in the spray kind. Yeah. We never have that here. And no one should. No, I even. It's not good for you, but food in America is way too bad for you. Do you guys look at Americans like, man, those guys are idiots?
Like do Canadians... You gotta think about it. Honestly, man, there's like Americans that know nothing about their own country. That's true. Yeah. As in... Hold up. We learn about America in social studies here. I failed social studies, but I just know we learn about America a lot. You didn't teach us shit about Canada. I didn't show up for that class. You know what's crazy, bro? In the last podcast, who was it? Somebody thought that Canada was owned by England and you guys had a
a queen really yeah who was it I think it might have been Ryan yeah Ryan thought that Evan was gonna have to finger blast the queen to get in because his passport wasn't better I was at a hockey camp in Penticton and a kid didn't know who Wayne Gretzky was what yeah I was at a hockey camp in Penticton like I go there every summer and the kid in my hockey camp didn't know who Wayne Gretzky was what that's tough
Did you guys bully the shit out of him? No, I don't bully. I like friendly bug friends. I pick on Nick. I pick on Mater every day. I'm going to call it that. I'm friendly bugging. Yeah, man. I'm Canadian. But it's like you give the kid a hard time when he's cozy up to them, right? When he gets comfortable. The kid was a beauty. I was like, dude, you know where the fuck Gretzky is? What's wrong with you, man? They're just not into hockey.
Everyone's got to be in hockey. Hockey's like one of the smallest sports. It's underpaid too. Well, not like underpaid, but they just don't have that big of salary caps like football teams and baseball teams and NBA. Those guys make big money. What is your opinion of soccer?
I actually watched World Cup for the first time the other day because my barber, which is like, I got him in the sledding and his buddy. These guys are hilarious. Oh my God. I wish you guys were here to ride with these guys. Brett has some crazy stories with them. Brett even night rescued them on their last clinic. Really? Yeah. But my barber is from like England and his other buddy is like Italian. But like,
I can't remember. Luke's maybe born in Canada, but Enrico's born in like in Calgary, but his family is like hardcore Italian. So they're a little bit more like bougie guys like from Calgary or whatever. And I snow checked them two brand new matrixes. Like one of them like broke his whole like leg and had surgery. Their first time sledding. All of them literally came here, rented sleds.
obviously waivers were signed and all this stuff. Like I was legit when we started right off the bat, no funny business. And like, we had one, he like fell, like he was like, uh,
I don't know. Just like it was a socked in day. So like your vision was horrible. And he like went down like unexpected, like kind of drop, like kind of like a little bit of a gully. And he like, his leg came off the running board. He like snapped his leg. They had to like get him out of there. Like never been up there before. Like they just rented sleds. Like when you rent sleds, you're on your own, right? Like we're none of us are guides. We can't guide. So that's all up to great Canadian here that runs the guiding tenure. So,
Anyways yeah They like had a crazy trip That time And then I love the details That you add on these stories Like they literally came here And just rented And just wanted to go ride Because I met my barber In Calgary Last year They snow checked Slez off me And they're like Yo like Should we do Brett's clinic I'm like yeah You should do Brett's clinic 100% Like you guys are
clueless out there right now like which is whatever that's how not everyone starts everyone's gonna start somewhere yeah so they do Brett's clinics last year I think they did like two and they did one this year already and they are like absolute shredders that's amazing yeah they run like finger throttles and everything they've never been like on a sled in their life
What was the original question? They're not like just soccer. What is your opinion? Okay. I smoked weed before this damn episode. So that's how I got into it. Cause there's huge soccer fans. Dude. All three of us smoked a joint. All three of us smoked a joint. So.
Can we go to another? Oh, my God, man. Can we go to another? Hold on. This is my first ever episode, so I'm not used to talking on camera. Oh, no, no, no. Just finish. What are you doing? Let's go after that. They're huge soccer fans. Luke's from England and Enrico's from Italy. They're diehard soccer fans. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah. These guys go to the games. Enrico's in Italy right now, actually.
And they were here doing Brett's Clinic in December for Luke's birthday, and that was when World Cup finals were on. I never really ever put effort into watching soccer or football, as you'd call it. And it was pretty entertaining. No, we don't call it football. No, but as they call it. Oh, yeah. Someone does, not us. It was entertaining, but there was like seven or six...
I don't know. I've seen like eight pussies on the field for sure. They were all diving and just holding their shins and stuff. I played hockey and had my teeth smashed out four times. I got my teeth smashed out a fifth time getting kicked in the mouth at Cowboys in Calgary. And I still went to Denny's at 4 a.m. and had whatever drinks they served and ate pancakes. So, no joke story. They sell cocktails at Denny's? Yeah, man. Holy shit.
I don't know if they have one. No, no, no. They do not have alcohol at Denny's. I don't think. Have you, Bess? I don't think they do. Yeah. That's why I can't. They just have hash browns. Denny's has a bar in it in Canada. But I think they serve alcohol. I've been to Denny's. I've served alcohol. Maybe they didn't give me alcohol at 4 a.m. that night, but I don't know. But like it was, yeah, I went there for sure.
No one was surprised that it was your fifth time losing your teeth. I met the top of like five guys in the casino with my buddy, Trevor. And our whole hockey team. Yeah. Trevor, let's get on. Yeah. Let's get some crepes at the Denny's. Yeah.
Celebrate. Yeah, watching the soccer game, I don't know if people were getting hurt, but it was entertaining for the hype of it, like a big crowd. It was like a tie game, and that one guy on the other team, I don't know, he was like the superstar. Is there anything else? Should we call in Trent and David? Yeah. All right, okay, I think we're going to call in Trent real quick. Real quick. Do I got to roll one? Do I got to roll another? Okay. Okay.
I walked in there and was like, can we get Trent? They go, I don't know if you want Trent. Trent! What are you doing? Take a seat, dude. What? Just keep in mind. Keep in mind what? This is a...
Keep in mind. Family program. Whoever. I'm good. Oh, shit. Oh, God. I'm so sorry, Carter. I don't care. Like I said, you guys are here to enjoy yourselves. I'm not going to hook you. We'll see how this goes. All right, Carter. Carter's been hooking it up all week. It's been such a good time, haven't you? He's the most Canadian man we know. I love the stories.
I love this story. It's like going through like a maze following sometimes, but that's because I'm stupid. What's the... I'm not drunk. I just pretend to be. No, you're fucking drunk. All right. Okay. For the final segment of this podcast, it has been a bit random one, but it's been good. We have Trent and David, two of our...
Good buddies. Best friends, I'd say. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Paul, close that down. He's delayed a little bit on that. No, no, no. I just wasn't sure if you felt that same way, so I wasn't going to just say that and then have it be awkward. You know what does go a long way, though? You guys are the friends in the group chat that we use the most. I was just saying that. We use that the most. I feel like I talk to you guys all the time.
And I watch your guys' videos. So it's like I hang out with you all the time. But then when you guys see me, it's literally the first time you've seen me in a year. Hey, Trent. Yeah. You still cool then? Yeah. Somebody else has also said like, so I listen to the podcast and I watch the videos and everything. And then when I'm around you,
I don't really know what to talk about because I know everything. All my questions that I was going to ask you, so I don't even ask. I definitely talk to myself when I'm listening to your guys' podcast and shout things back into my radio. That's funny. I almost call you guys to be like, no, you're wrong. Why would I do it that way? We were talking about something that I called people at heydays.
And Hill Rods. Hill Rods. Hill Rods was the name. What did Ryan say? He said, uh, rat, uh, lot lizards. Yeah. I'm like, Ryan, that's so wrong. Yeah. And I wanted to call you guys. I'm like, wouldn't do any good. It was a week ago. You guys recorded this. So what's the story with both you and Mike having tendonitis in your arms here? I don't think Mike's is tendonitis. I think it's just.
Your forearm is huge. Your forearm is disturbingly large right now, Trent. I'm going to be honest here. Mike, what do we got going on over here? It's pretty big, bro.
It's pretty big. Oh my God. Here, come over here. What are the odds of you guys getting these specific issues at the exact same time on a trip? I've never had this before and it's brutal. It makes it not fun to ride. Yours looks a lot different than mine. Let me see. Dude, it's huge. It's on fire right now too. It looks so much different. What is it? I don't know.
That's a lot less hair. No, it's not. Yeah, it is. Look at. No. Look at. Dude. My arm is like. Okay, first of all, my arm is super fat. Oh, dude, you should sign this. Hey. I did not think you were just going to grab it like that. Hey, the comment with the most likes. What?
Signed KT Tape. Okay, well, you're saying, man, we're going to have you be the man responsible for that one. Yeah, I'll take that only. Oh, my God, that's gross. There's so much hair on that. Oh, it's stuck to my finger. Ryan. It's like the scene. Let me see that. It's like the scene in Monsters, Inc. when they get the dirty sock on them. What?
2319. I meant to make that a lot smoother, but I couldn't get a grasp on it. I don't know. It just seems like weirdly suspicious that Mike and Trent's forearms are both cramping and overused. Are you guys both right-handed? Yes. I've had an ongoing issue with bicep tendonitis. Why? What?
My weekly something. I don't know. Bicep tendonitis. It literally looks like my arm is broken. It might be.
Yeah. You got going up higher there. We don't know how healthcare works in Canada, so we can't even go to the doctor. All joking aside, that is a massive concern of mine when I'm up here. I've never Googled that. It's free, but a US citizen in Canada healthcare work. I'm sure they would still accept you going into a hospital. Could you go to a hospital in Canada as an American? Yeah.
Yeah. And then what? Yeah, that's a problem. You got to pay in maple syrup. Beaver pelt. You got to pay in maple syrup. Hey, actually, Carter, I have one more question for you. Here, you can just hop in right here. What's up with every business feeling that they need to put a maple leaf on their logo or just on the front of their building?
You can get real close. It's like all the Americans love their flag so much. Yeah. Look at my skin's hood. It's got two American flags. Yeah. Ben, do you think we're just desensitized to it and we just don't notice the American flag? Totally. Yeah, I never thought that. I suppose, I suppose. Hey, look at all your drops. You guys do so many red, white, and blue drops. We do. It's American. It's Canadian. Do you think that... Here.
Do you think that Canadians have the same sense of patriotism? If that's the right word. No, you guys are way more. You guys are Americans go hard. Very patriotic. Nice. All right. Have it. Thanks, bro. I like Canada. I like Canada too.
on that note this has just been a uh educating the americans on canadian culture try you can't have a sub conversation in a podcast no we can't no you can't we just did it's having a conversation about thin pancakes crepes
Are you saying crepes or crepes? I want to say one thing on a serious note. I told you guys numerous times this week, but like the videos, you guys will see in the videos, your riding the last four years, Ben did a pretty massive drop today, like a respectable proper drop today. Your riding has progressed so much and I am so stoked for you guys. Like originally it was a joke like, oh, let's see what kind of shit we can get him in. And now it's like,
We're in the shit and you guys are right there behind us. And I am so proud of you boys. Thank you, Dave. You too, Ryan. Hey, hey, hey. Hold up, hold up. Ryan, can you sit down actually? Ryan, sit down. Have a seat, Ryan. Here. Give me an angry run. First off, thank you, Dave. I actually think that we have progressed a lot more than the amount of time that we've put in would equate to. And I think it's just because we ride like...
four times a year realistically it's been 20 days a year 20 days a mountain since we first rode together in the mountains yeah so not a whole lot of time but I think it's just the fact of like being forced into the shit
And then also watching the best riders in the world do their thing and kind of just having to follow... Somebody call the cops. Oh, God. They shouldn't be far. They've been swarming the block. But anyway... Do you mean all of us? Or...
Or like most of us. Who are we eliminating here? I've had a tough trip, okay? Ryan had a bad couple days. I've had a tough trip. You know, I did... Ryan, you did struggle a bit. You did. But... It's so much. You can't let the anger get in the way, Ryan. Okay, today, I don't know if you saw my story. There was this screenshot of Ryan when he was straight up and down stuck next to like three trees. And I said...
The caption was dead inside. Yes. And he was just looking into the camera with these blank, like nothing in his eyes. I saw that more on this trip than I have in a long time. Yeah. It was just like a sign of defeat. It's just a bummer too. Cause I've been, I've been trying to be better vibes type of guy lately. It's not working. And that's, what's unfortunate is like when you are making an effort and then people go, Oh yeah, you've really been crabby this trip. And you go, fuck have I?
But, no, it's been a tough go around. And I honestly, I've done some of my best snowmobiling. Just not on the camera. Just not on camera. Yeah, because yesterday. Just down the side of the lens. Nobody saw it. Also, nobody was around. No, at the end of the day yesterday, I said that to you in the truck yesterday. I was like, dude, you were shrutting at the end. No cameras on, but I promise it happened. I kind of like get nervous, a little camera shy, you know? Yeah.
The irony. It's crazy because, yeah, I mean, we haven't been like filming for that long. So you still get like camera shy and I'm working on it. Did you guys talk about how Mike was lost all day? Dude, Mike's been lost for the last six years of our friendship. Okay. But we covered that topic earlier in the podcast. No, but I should talk about that. I mean,
I mean, what's to be said? He was gone. It was kind of like he wasn't on the trip. I know. Everyone's like, where's Mike? Like the whole... You lost us in the trail back to the truck. Multiple times. He did that because of me. My goggles were fogged up. I think I did. Dude, I was making new friends. Me and Kyle, 28 billion, were hanging out and...
Dude, Evan, I got to the parking lot today at the end of the day, and Evan was just hooked up to a random arty cat, and he pulled him into the lot. So, yeah. That's called making friends. Well, when Ev did that, he said, I just did that to get some good karma. I go, that was sure nice of you. Yeah, I just did it because I wanted some good karma with the mountain.
Dude, you gotta once in a while. Karma Mountain. I want more Karma Mountain. Mountain's a crazy place. We have a mirror in the trailer to check for vampires. Nobody gets that joke, Trent. It's a very specific joke, but you see it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you find a vampire, you don't stab it in the neck, you draw a dick on its forehead because it can't look in the mirror. Yeah.
But everybody else can see it. I feel like we got to wrap on that. Yeah, please. All right. Okay. On that note, thank you guys for making it to the end of the podcast. Subscribe if you have not already. And we'll see you in the next one. See you back at home.
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