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On this week's episode, the guys kick things off by diving into a humorous and somewhat frustrating tale involving Joe's latest kitchen gadget: an ice cream scoop that unfortunately arrived in a damaged state. This incident sparks a lively discussion about various other kitchen gadgets that can make cooking and baking more enjoyable and efficient. They delve into the impressive array of attachments available for the KitchenAid Stand Mixer, including the versatile cheese grater, which can turn blocks of cheese into perfect shreds for a variety of recipes. Additionally, they discuss the handy slicer attachment, which makes preparing vegetables a breeze, and even touch upon the usefulness of pizza peels, essential for transferring homemade pizzas into the oven without any fuss. As the conversation flows, Cody seizes the opportunity to share some quirky and seemingly useless trivia he recently stumbled upon regarding Minnesota's unique twist on the classic children's game Duck, Duck, Goose. He explains how this version, known as Duck, Duck, Gray Duck, adds an interesting regional flavor to the game, prompting a light-hearted debate about the various adaptations of childhood games across different cultures and states. Moving on from playful games, Cody then transitions to a more serious topic by informing Joe about an exciting new project announced by filmmaker Ryan Coogler, known for his work on the Black Panther franchise. Coogler's upcoming endeavor involves a revival of the iconic series The X-Files, which has piqued the interest of many fans. This announcement leads to a broader discussion about fan theories surrounding various movies and television shows, exploring how these theories can enhance the viewing experience and engage audiences in deeper ways. Joe shares his thoughts on a fascinating video he watched that delves into a plethora of fan theories, ranging from the whimsical interpretations of Peter Pan to the enchanting world of Mary Poppins. He recounts some of the most intriguing theories, highlighting how fans have crafted elaborate narratives that connect seemingly unrelated plot points and characters, enriching the original stories in unexpected ways. The conversation takes on a life of its own as they explore the creativity and passion of fandoms, ultimately celebrating the unique bond that these theories create between viewers and the media they love.Official Website: https://www.comesnaturallypodcast.comOfficial Merchandise: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/comes-naturally-podcast/iTunes: http://tinyurl.com/kqkgackFacebook: http://tinyurl.com/myovgm8Tumblr: http://tinyurl.com/m7a6mg9Twitter: @ComesNaturalPodYouTube: http://tiny.cc/5snxpy

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Today we catch up on social media updates & Recap the RHOBH!Calling all beach babes! Kathy's Oceanside, Calif., getaway promises to be a luxurious escape, but it's far from smooth sailing. PK's sudden silence causes Dorit to open up to Bozoma, but Garcelle and Sutton are left questioning this new friendship. Fun beach games bring the laughs, but the tension between Kyle and Dorit spills over at dinner, leaving everyone with a bad taste in their mouth.Join us on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/c/vanderpumprulespartyCome play trivia w. us on Saturday!

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Victor Varnado, KSN, and Rachel Teichman, LMSW, take listeners on a nostalgic trip as they discuss the classic children's game, Duck, Duck, Goose. They dive into the game's origins and how it has been played across different cultures. Did you know this popular game has variations like "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck"? Tune in for fun memories and surprising facts about this playground favorite!Produced and hosted by Victor Varnado & Rachel TeichmanFull Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck,_duck,_gooseSubscribe to our new newsletter, WikiWeekly at https://newsletter.wikilisten.com/ for a fun fact every week to feel smart and impress your friends, and MORE! https://www.patreon.com/wikilistenpodcastFind us on social media!https://www.facebook.com/WikiListenInstagram @WikiListenTwitter @Wiki_ListenGet bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Ahead of Pride Night, we welcome Ryan Adams to the show, the founder and managing director of the USA's largest LGBTQ+Allied soccer club, the Minnesota Gray Ducks. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-peoples-pitch/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-peoples-pitch/support

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Hockey. Zombies. Grapefruit-flavored vodka. What would possibly go wrong? Turns out, quite a bit actually. These kids should have stayed home, drank some Grain Belt, and played Duck, Duck, Gray Duck. We bring a special guest on board for this week's screening of what turns out to be...just a terrible dumpster fire of a movie. Not the State of Minnesota's finest hour. At least it's filmed in the US, so Steve can pronounce the names. Cocktail of the Week Pink Whitney Martini 1 1/2 oz Pink Whitney Vodka 1/2 oz Limoncello 1 oz simple syrup 1 1/2 oz lemon juice It's been a long time since we've had a drink this college-y. Our expert guest, Emma, describes it as "college in a bottle" and that sounds about right. It reminds Brandon of 20 years ago, when people used to mix UV vodka with lemonade. But, this one passes its 100-level courses with a C-grade, and you know what they say, "Cs get degrees." Notes about this episode: The Austin Bruins are a NAHL team in Austin, MN. The NAHL is a Tier II (out of three), USA Hockey-sanctioned, junior hockey league. With a 4.6-star Google rating, their home arena, Riverside Arena, is by far the highest-rated feature of this movie. The Spam Museum in Austin, MN is a great place to spend your Spring Break if you are a fan of the ubiquitous canned pork product, which Brandon was surprised to find is not made of pig ears and hooves. Barry Melrose has a semi-protected Wikipedia entry that does not include his heroic role in this movie. If you have a confirmed Wiki account, you should go on there and correct this oversight. We're not going to the trouble to get confirmed, but he shouldn't be allowed to hide from this abomination. Leave that five-star review here on Spotify. Contact us with feedback or cocktail/movie recommendations to: boozeandbmovies@gmail.com X: @boozeandbmovies Instagram: @boozeandbmovies Threads: @boozeandbmovies www.facebook.com/boozeandbmovies --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/boozeandbmovies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/boozeandbmovies/support

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Golden Bachelor in Paradise - Week 6 Double standards, horse girls, and new faces - this week had it all. We get a little into the Reddit muck again, but no spoilers! Sammi just keeps getting the annoying popups on her phone, and sometimes, in weak moments, she swims in the mess. Transcript - Please Forgive Typos! Sammi Hello I'm Sammi and you're listening to rose plate special the most dramatic almond mommingest Merry Goroundingest menschingist recap podcast     Steve Oh hello and I'm Steve.   Steve Ever.   Sammi Of the bachelor ever. Yeah, that was me not having any ideas again. Ah but I will tell you thank you? Um, first of all, we're well we're not that late I guess I don't have to apologize I was going to say but it was kind of interesting because we were both busy with different things. My battery.   Steve Um, good job.   Sammi Just decided to completely stop working on my computer and ah become very bulgy. So it's a good thing I replaced it the same day because I don't know what would have happened Otherwise yeah I It was weird because I saw.   Steve Um.   Steve Um, who yeah no I don't think I don't think like a lithium battery is supposed to do that. That's it's it.   Sammi Um, like I watched a video on how to replace my laptop battery cause I was like do I want to pay an extra $ to have someone else. Do it no because my whole goal is to like build a computer in  and I'm like if I can't replace a laptop battery. Do I have any business building a computer.   Steve Um.   Steve Right.   Sammi No, so I can do this and I watch like some videos and I bought like a little fix it kit and okay, are you familiar with the store micro center because I had never heard of it. Why why did I not know that this place existed until yesterday.   Steve Um, oh yeah, Microsoft is dove I mean there's.   Steve I don't know they're super cool I mean there's not  near me now. But when I used to live in ah Detroit there was there's  pretty close spy. So yeah, you go there all the time. It's awesome.   Sammi Yeah, like I had no clue but that place was bustling. It was like an hour before close and it was so busy and I did like an online order pickup and I got the battery and I got the toolkit and stuff and and the guy who behind the counter was like first of all before I could even say anything it was like I like your outfit. Was like thank you and then he and then he asked oh then he saw my last name and then he said it reminded him of someone from like the witcher and and he goes he goes have you read that I said no and then he said something like you strike me as an english person and I didn't know if he meant like I am english.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Um, oh ah.   Sammi I like the subject english or I like or I like english shows I had no I I mean yes to all  I guess but I was like so confused and he's and I was just like ah I'm not opposed to it and he said great and that was an okay answer.   Steve Um, like you Mary Poppins ah     Steve Me.   Sammi And then we continued and then he tried to he was like oh you know what? I would get is like the bigger toolkit because that thing has everything but I don't I didn't know how much I needed. But anyway it was It was very intense in a way I like and I'll definitely be back. Ah for some sweet sweet bundles.   Steve New.   Sammi When I build my computer but I was really proud of myself the video that I watched that demonstrated how to change the battery. It looked just like mine.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Said That's always nice too. It makes you feel better when you're doing it. You're like okay I could definitely do this. Oh.   Sammi Well I mean down to the like it looked bloated and so I was like what is happening but I mean this computer's almost four years old and the only thing I'd have I've had to replace is the battery so and with today's age of planned obsolescence.   Steve That's not bad.   Sammi Um, I think that's pretty good. Yeah, Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! a lot. Um, so anyway, yeah, so that's what I was doing yesterday. But now we're here today and I want to tell you that while I was watching the Golden Bachelor this last week I was.   Steve Um, yeah,  years a good run, nice work.   Sammi Flipping coupons which I think just doubles the Boomer energy. Yes I was getting really fed up because we just had a bunch of like you know mailers just stacked up in front and I was like.   Steve Um, real golden bachelor behavior there. Jesus.   Steve I.   Sammi You know what? this is the perfect time to just cut out the things I know we might actually use organize them by month and put them put them away So that's what I did while I was watching this fits up.   Steve Good act now Dear listeners I will have you know that I ah I watched intently I I did not blink I did not do anything else I didn't go to the bathroom I didn't eat I just I just watched the show because I care about what's more I got it. Um.   Sammi Oh okay, okay, all right all right? Yeah, okay I see where I was like where is this going? um.   Steve Um, what a great setup for a show too because I love how they basically lead off the show. It's hometowns. It's gonna be weird and different because it's just no, it's it's like a totally different vibe which.   Sammi Because there's no parents to please? yeah.   Steve But it starts off by basically setting Gary up for failure and I love this because he says in the beginning. He's like I do that I only want to say I love you to  other woman rest of my life bro I got to tell you it ain't going to play out that way.   Sammi Um, ah yeah.   Steve So I just as soon as he said that I'm like but.   Sammi I was kind of surprised I was like I can't believe he's getting himself into like Clayton territory over here sticky situation. Um, yeah.   Steve Yeah, yeah, it's like don't don't back yourself in that corner because it's not according you want to be and you got you got to leave as many options open as you can. Yeah.   Sammi You just get wrapped up in the moment production the vibes the family the grandkids going we'll call you pop pop and then you're like oh God I Want to be pop pop that sounds so nice. Yeah.   Steve We all want to be pop pop and masterful editing this week on golden bachelor too because the way this is set up and the emotional journey they take us on is as people just viewing the show. It's so good because as soon as he says that I'm like oh are you going to commit to that. And then you kind of watch where things go and it's it's really masterful stuff I love it. Juicy and also heartwarming.   Sammi Yeah, it was it was heartwarming. Um, so first we have Teresa and um I know we left on a cliffhanger but like I feel like Teresa's gone right.   Steve Oh she's done so well, it's it's great because if you watch just the first like  minutes of this episode. You're like oh Theresa is doing great and then you watch the other ones you're like oh no Theresa but.   Sammi So you think okay.   Sammi She lost compared to the other ones if you just heard a weird noise that was me pulling out my lipton. It could be the weirdest bubbly noise on my side anyway, um so Teresa is first. She bugs me was my note I don't know I just yeah, she's like.   Steve You.   Sammi She kind of channels the same energy that jes does like I'm just a baby you know and I just like no thanks? Um, but they're meeting so Jerry are Gary's meeting like the daughter son in law grandkids and sisters and oh this was sad.   Steve Um, you.   Sammi Okay, Teresa's grandsons kind of sold her out. They were like well she comes over a lot because she's lonely oh like damn all right and then and then okay this was like such a they have to have like at least  cornball like boomer moment in each of these episodes and the     Steve Ah, yeah.   Steve Um.   Sammi This episode was when he was talking to the grandkids and they're like she she does that thing with her lips and pictures and then they were all doing duck lips. Um, and I was like this just feels like a  joke but okay sure um and they're just like o oh like chick Chik Chicko Teresa oh     Steve Um.   Sammi So duck clips. Um, but yeah, so the reason I said alba mom do you think Teresa's an Alan Mom I just like feel like she is I don't know I'm getting Almond mom energy from her that's all I'll say um, but it was like yeah it was like a pretty benign.   Steve Um, she definitely could be I think there's there's there's potential there. Yeah.   Sammi Hometown like the grandkids were like you could be our new pop-up and you know everyone was like well she's just so sweet. She's just so sweet and you'd have a really good time with her because she's sweet.   Steve All I Love Gary's playing coy because it's just like we are you Pep pop now and you just look all I do't know maybe I will be oh who? Ah I love this. So yeah, it's It's mostly like.   Sammi And he's like I don't know maybe we can do ducklips together later. Ah yeah.   Steve Standard family time. Whatever it's going. Well it's going good and you're thinking ok like nothing bad here and and that's how it continues and then they they head to the jersey shore as you do little Jim Tan laundry they're on the Ferris wheel and she.   Sammi Ah, yeah.   Steve She drops she drops the I love you like she's she's fall in love with them and all this and he what does he say? Oh he's this is amazing. Um, because it's you got to like with the I Love used fair thrill.   Sammi Yes I said mary go round I meant I meant Ferris wheel I had to like Google real quick.   Steve So if someone says I love you on the bachelor and you're not ready to say I love you or you can't because the show has dictated that you can't you have to come up with like a way to be like that's so cool without like that like makes them feel validated but like without reciprocating.   Sammi That's amazing.   Steve And he says e wrote this down that makes me feel so special so like okay, there's this not answer because he can't say it yet and and this is me like based on the on what he says in the beginning and based on this I'm thinking ok gary is he's saving the I love you He's going to drop it that. During like the the grandpa fantasy suite or like the at the very end or we're going to get and I love you later but then but then he doesn't say it to her on the Ferris wheel. But then we cut to him just like getting the you know like the confessional style like.   Sammi Ah.   Steve Productions just interviewing him and he says that he's fallen in love again and they's in love with Teresa he says he's in love with Teresa and so my initial thought is like oh shit I do this this went pretty well. But I think go that it but that fuck it well so I guess it's done right? We're done because he said he's always saying I love you.   Sammi Well and he didn't just well and he didn't just say that. Okay, he said for someone who paid only attention to the show. Um, can't believe you miss this? Ah so he said ah I'm not just falling in love I'm.   Steve Right.   Sammi In love for the first time since  I'm in love again, that's what he said. yeah that's what he said     Steve Wow. Ah, you mean love with Theresa yeah, that's what he says? Um, so then so then we are led to believe and this is the mask for editing. We're like oh fucking done deal right? It's over. We know that he said he's only going to say I love you to one woman and it's Teresa.   Sammi Yeah, you're like time to pack it up and go we're done I Guess so.   Steve And I didn't think it was gonna be Teresa. But here we are all but here's are that little dirty dog. He yeah, he's he swerves us. He swerves us because it turns out this is a man who loves everyone and perhaps he loves tersa least of all.   Sammi He does.   Steve Right? ah.   Sammi Yes, at least yeah, that's at least that's a thing. Um, So yeah I mean it seems like it goes well and then and then he goes on the date with faith and he's like oh like ah she looks. Awesome and Wow like he's just kind of gets like stars and his eyes are on Faith. He's just like Wow and then they have like so they go on horseback and they have the most awkward horseback Kiss ever No, it looks like it hurts.   Steve Oh he loves that horse girl. Oh.   Steve It's not good and then and then she says the weirdest stuff faith is constantly doing weird stuff and I'm kind of into it but like only because I don't have to experience it directly. But at some point they're like doing their awkward like whatever ride around thing on the horses and. She's like she's like oh my my old horse is buried over there something like it's such a weird thing to say my horse is buried. There.   Sammi Um, ah yeah, she was like I can't move because my horse is buried over there and he was just like and he's like well yeah, he just goes. Well yeah, it's really tough that would be tough like.   Steve I Like think of like ominous things You don't want people to say to you and my horse is buried over. There is like top of that list for me.   Sammi I Mean yeah, it would be worse to say like my ex is buried there but you know yeah my horse is buried. There is like definitely up there. Um, yeah I mean it's interesting I Do think her family is pretty cool. Um.   Steve Um, yeah, yeah.   Steve M.   Steve Um, oh sure. Ah I don't think so I could be wrong. They do look a lot of like they could be oh know.   Sammi Question are her son's twins.   Sammi They look a lot alike. But yeah I just couldn't tell anyway. Um.   Steve Great. But I mean and and then you know other than the horse right? It's basically it's the same Teresa stuff. You know it's a lot of like you know are you are you? The new pep pep they they all have their pep pep moments pop pep pop pop papa plate. Let's play. Let's.   Sammi Pep Pep Pep Pep pop up and papa.   Steve To throw around the old Pig skin with the grandkids or maybe not grandkids. We don't know how this is gonna end up. But yeah.   Sammi Yeah, so yeah, so um, but yeah, they're just kind of like are you in love and then um and then he goes Yeah I kind of think I am um so.   Steve Um, great.   Sammi And then I wrote so he says in love with Teresa and then he also says like in love with faith or whatever and then um oh my gosh faith sister almost made me cry because she's talking to gary and she's just like it's ah it's a really rare thing for faith to trust people with her heart. So like don't. Get up you know and she's like ah.   Steve Faith. It's a little kooky and she's she's like yeah I don't even I don't even believe in love and he's like whoki but this is the interesting thing and this is what turned it for me is after they have that like weird exchange. Ah.   Sammi Um.   Steve With Beth the face sister they like Beth says something like she says like oh I can tell that you're in love with faith right? and instead of brushing that off because then face like oh you see out. Ah, ah. Gary instead of like just laughing and just like playing it. Cool. He's like oh would you see that and then she said I would say that and then they say they say I love you to each other. So now we have this bizarro position right? because he says he's only going to say it to  person. He says it off camera to Teresa. But now on camera he has said I love you to faith. So this is like and my my brain is just exploding at this point because like how how how what's going on my my my world has been shattered I'm ok with it because I don't think Theresa should win. But. It's just wild right? it's.   Sammi I I suppose it's wild. It's wild I don't know if I would use the word wild but you did so I'll let you use that word.   Steve Yeah I but like what is so the other thing is to like obviously it's it's edited in a way where we're allowed to like it's it's done this way intentionally to mess with me I get that. Thank you bachelor but like. When he said that he was only going to say I love you to  person like what is the order that this is going in who actually got the first I love you that is interesting to me and then at some point like.   Sammi Um, that's a good question because he did seem kind of hesitant to say it. But then he was like well yeah I mean I guess I am you know and then he was just like yeah you know what? and then I mean he looks at faith like like oh you know? so.   Steve Yeah, yeah, and the the wild part to me is at some point despite saying that he only wanted to say those words I love you to  other woman. He was just like oh well, you he just gave up on it. Ah.   Sammi Yeah.   Sammi Yeah, well I mean I think you know maybe that's just that comes with age. You're just like whatever okay is that gonna be something you get that upset about we don't have time. Um, yeah I mean it was interesting and they're like they're like kissing and stuff and the grandkids are like E Um, at the end.   Steve Um, whatever and I got time.   Steve Who is.   Sammi And that my only note was that he's gonna get himself in an entanglement. Um, yeah I can see it I'm excited because there is gonna be a women tell all. So if it comes up. It'll come up then but I was I wasn't sure if they were gonna do a women tell all so I was like actually kind of happy that.   Steve Um, this is straight up entanglement situation.   Steve Yeah, what? What do these women have to really they they don't much to tell other than like I guess they could be mad about that but they probably won't be and they're so nice to each other so it'll just make we're all best friends we play pickle ball in Fort Lauderdale now like that's going to be the whole thing.   Sammi They're doing it.   Sammi I think it's going to be a little bit of like the cathy. Well I don't know well I okay here's the thing if Teresa ends up going home then she might be there. You know hard to say though hard to say um, but yeah, so so that's that's the only thing I think I mean regardless Kathy is going to.   Steve Um, who yeah.   Sammi Her mind about it. It just depends on if someone else is there also listening or whatever. Um, so okay, so so now Gary's basically in my city essentially next door. Um, and and he's with Leslie and.   Steve I.   Sammi And she and Leslie calls him a mensch. Um, which is sweet and I love the minnesota accents. It just feels very cozy, very much like home very much love it and um, we find out a little bit more like um that you know her brother's the one who's going to be protective because.   Steve Martin Love that.   Sammi And this sounds like yeah so hard because he like picked her up from school or whatever and and she's like where's my dad and he's like not here. Ah, he's dead. Ah so that was messed up and so her brother like.   Steve Um.   Sammi Yeah, had like a major role in her life growing up and he's very protective and it sounds like she's been with a bunch of Zeros absolute losers and tools which I believe like I mean she's really I mean I hate to be like that like she's really pretty.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi And she's like a dancer and stuff and I'm sure she attracted some real chodes. You know so like not not shocking, not her fault but not shocking and ah her brother just is like a bizarro version of my dad. Ah so that was strange ah and.   Steve You.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi Ah, yeah I mean I think it's a good conversation that they had. He seems to like Gary so that wasn't like too hard to like prove you know I don't know being trustworthy or whatever. Um the grandkids are these grandkids are the best ones? do you. Love my grandma like they asked a bunch of but like weren't they the ones who who did the the scripted stuff like are you here for the white weasens I do like where well.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Oh yeah, because if you get a kid that like does that voice you got he got to exploit it and I agree with you % these are the best kids as someone who is like vehemently antich childrenre like I mean you can go have some I don't care I just don't want to like be around him.   Sammi You just don't want to deal them deal with them. Yeah, yeah.   Steve No, why are they always? They're always covered in like boogers or food and they're just they're not smart I mean? yeah yeah, what do you  Oh you are yeah I could tell like you know, um baby. Yeah, ah, but no these these kids are cute.   Sammi God just grow up already. What's your problem just be smart already. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, you you talk like you're  we like yeah I'm in third grade. Yeah, they're really key. Yeah, yeah, um.   Steve I Don't want to like be responsible for him. But I'm glad someone is.   Sammi Yeah, so then she went from saying falling love to in love and she's like I'm crazy about you and he says and he's like I love you and I will say in terms of the women into on paper Leslie makes the most sense because she's.   Steve Moon.   Steve Oh yeah, yeah.   Sammi Not that far away like they can find they could move to Chicago they could meet in the middle you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I mean it's like if you're already like in the midwest you kind of know the deal and like do you want to stay in Indiana like probably not.   Steve Yeah, yeah, our Milwaukee will welcome you with open arms here I'm I'm here for you. Gary.   Sammi Like you want to move to Minnesota or Wisconsin or something like that.   Steve Um, well and and Teresa especially like comes with a lot of the ah the the big I don't know the geographical baggage because the family was even like they were like oh she's lonely and but also she spends every single day with my children. How will that change here. He's like. I don't know we'll make it work. It's like bro I don't know if you will. Ah.   Sammi Yeah, yeah, and I mean with faith I Think if he's open to like moving I I don't think that there's any other way with her. It's yeah her horse necessary. Well and she's still working in stuff and.   Steve Um, yeah I mean her horse is buried there like what it.   Sammi I mean but I could see him saying I want to total change a pace and let's do this for a while and then like once we retire let's decide what else we want to do and I could see faith also changing her mind and moving or whatever but I feel like if they moved they'd move somewhere I don't know like.   Steve Um.   Steve Yeah, why? Why would anyone live in Indiana come on.   Sammi Not indiana like if it was the  of them I don't know I did it for a few semesters and that was enough um no offense to all of our who's your listeners. Um, but yeah, like it's. Yeah, if it was them I feel like they would probably just like live other places in like California or something like that you know or like they they do like you know hippie dippy stuff in Arizona. Whatever um, so that just it's like I feel like he would change his habits to be with her. Um, whereas with Leslie it's like yeah I think I don't know just from outside observation. It just seems like it makes the most sense it would be the easiest to adjust. Um, they would no matter what no matter where they settled if it was like somewhere in between or on one side or the other they still wouldn't be.   Steve Um.   Sammi Too far away from their families. So yeah, it just seems like that makes sense and Leslie also kind of seems open. She didn't say I she didn't say anything about like I would have to stay here right? I didn't think so so.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve No I don't think so.   Sammi That's so that's the only thing so I mean it wasn't surprising to me. Oh I also made a note that Leslie Looked awesome at the row ceremony cause she did um it wasn't surprising to me that he gave her the first rose like that made sense to me. Um.   Steve Um, yeah, um.   Steve V.   Sammi And then we're met with a cliffhanger cause he gets upset and he leaves the room duh da da.   Steve This is an extreme cliffhanger too like just absolute because the way that this is constructed is it's it's masterful stuff. He says the I love yous to everybody and then you give out the roast and then and then the other thing is is just like ok well Teresa has had. Such a I I don't know if you can say she's had the poll position but she has clearly been up there for a long time. Um, but then I don't know you know it's like faith is always just kind of buzzing around that same area and then you realize too that. Like Teresa didn't get the actual I love you on camera and does that matter and it's and it's really it's like I don't I don't know what's going to happen.   Sammi So yeah and he said in love to to faith and love to Leslie right? Just saying.   Steve Um, correct and I don't know if that makes a difference to him I'm not sure it's the bachelor. So oh batch nash for sure. Ah, but also gary if if I don't think he should be.   Sammi Makes a difference to bachelor nation.   Steve  I think you should be as open as humanly possible to moving because we mentioned the Indiana but also consider that he is currently living in what he thought would be a retirement home chosen specifically for his deceased wife and it is a constant reminder of his pain and trauma i.   Sammi Ah, yeah.   Steve Know if that's the best place for you to be gary. There's a lot of other places I I don't know.   Sammi Yeah, that's why I'm saying like if he wanted a major change I could see that with faith I think Leslie is like the most familiar thing that he could do so and and Teresa I just don't think it makes sense I think she's gone if she sticks around next week then it's.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Yeah, yeah.   Sammi Obviously Leslie yeah.   Steve Yeah I think Leslie has to win at this point I mean getting the first house here is huge barring some sort of incident in the next week which lord knows that could happen. Um, ah faith is intriguing to me and I I like having her around just because she's such a weirdo.   Sammi I Think she's the underdog. Yeah, she'd make a good golden bachelorette. Yep yeah, we'll see yeah I don't I'm not so.   Steve Yeah, yeah, total weirdo I would love that for her. She's got some quirks. It's good. But I yeah I don't I don't know.   Sammi Sure exactly what'll happen. But I think I think we're starting to see it take shape. Oh yeah, oh yeah, all right? So now.   Steve Um, oh yeah, so now that our minnesota gal is there. She's got her rose and you know there's  other gals. There's also a golden rose they show. Ah.   Sammi Oh do is that what the last rose is going to be. It's gonna be golden. Oh I love it. Oh hot dish. All you know what? Okay this is bad because I still live in Wisconsin right? but like base essentially minnesota.   Steve Oh yeah, just the the same same color as my tater Tat hot dish after I pull it out of the oven. Ah.   Steve Barely.   Sammi And the other day I was in like a a Zoom room and someone mentioned it was like a co-working space and somebody mentioned like duck duck goose and I was like well you know in Minnesota it's duck duck gray duck that I felt like yes yes.   Steve Ooh.   Steve Um, what is that true. That's so fucked up.   Sammi I Felt like such a traitor I felt like such a traitor I was like I don't even why am I defending because it was like a crossword clue or something it was like duck duck blank and there was one Minnesotan in the room as well and they were like gray duck and I was like I know that like there's there's actually a place. Um, in St Paul I Think where you can buy ah pint glasses that say either duck duck goose or duck duck gray duck on them to like pledge your allegiance but it makes no sense like why is it duck duck Gray Duck. It's and it doesn't.   Steve Um, a wow.   Steve Um, you know what? the fuck's a gray duck. That's not even a animal like what.   Sammi Like fool people anymore. You know what? I mean it's not like you're saying it to fake someone out. It's a great duck. There's like a lot of gray ducks too like you know like.   Steve Um, that's like what I would call a goose if I didn't know what a goose was right I Think what's that gray duck over there and they'd be like no dummy. It's a goose like what.   Sammi A lot of like lady ducks are of the gray persuasion or or graye their grayish.   Steve The great persuasion I don't know they general Earth Tones I don't know if I would call them fully grayed out though I don't know. Yeah I mean.   Sammi Okay, now I'm googling gray ducks but the problem the problem is gray duck has been co-opted by this area so you get a bunch of brands.   Steve Um, yeah, no I'm I'm looking at Gray ducks right now these are like like shades of charcoal and white and like brown. This is not a gray duck a gray dock is just a goose if you don't know what a goose is period I'm done with it.   Sammi There is a there is a Pacific black duck That's called the gray duck that duck is also brown but you know what to to tuck their gray. So just saying maybe maybe colorblind people name them. Yeah.   Steve Um, ah wow. It's so yeah, maybe I like Tuck so I'll I'll give him a pass. No one else gets a pass though.   Sammi Yeah I have no idea why? Okay someone said duck duck gray duck was scandinavian and origin I don't know Anka Anka Graanka yeah I don't know could make a great dissertation. Not for me.   Steve Whatever.   Steve And that for you.   Sammi Not for me I've got plenty to write about. Let's talk about bat I mean pay me days all right? Ah so oh God you know is I hope so I was ah I was just thinking about that the other day I was like I hope she pooped because I didn't give us an up tape.   Steve Um I would love to you think that girl's pooping yet.   Steve No, she's not like she's got like butt sesis or something at this point like she yeah they never gave us an update. The only update they gave us was that last rose ceremony where he was just like she didn't poop like you can't just say that and not give us a she pooped Update That's that's like really messed up.   Sammi Well apparently I mean the thing that's so weird to me is like why is this a book that she was going to write like why was that already in the works like what does that? What does that mean? yeah.   Steve Um I.   Steve I I have no idea no clue.   Sammi Oh apparently she went on Jimmy Kimmel and did like a breaking news I pooped thing.   Steve Um, oh good. Ok good for her but like why should I have to watch like a late night talk show that I'm not interested in to learn about the poop like this should have been front page headline like we should have got an update.   Sammi So this was interesting. Somebody said I think the storyline was all made up to promote the book. You're writing at least that's what I heard and she said you're entitled.   Steve Ah.   Sammi To think whatever you want. But I'm a pediatric ot and a lot of my kiddos struggle with issues related to poop fear of going in public fear of losing a body part sensory seeking behaviors etc. The book was an idea six months prior to paradise to normalize pooping and educate in a funny way. However, my experience on paradise helped guide my manuscript.   Steve Um, whoa.   Steve Hashtag Normalized pooping.   Sammi Um, yeah, yeah, normalizing Bowel movements not all Heroes wear capes.   Steve Um, didn't we I thought like didn't didn't the book. Everybody poops published probably like forty years ago didn't that kind of normalize the old dump a roof for everyone is that.   Sammi Well I guess maybe she thought she wanted it to just be human and not like animals or something. Maybe that's what she wanted I have no idea. Yeah, um, yeah.   Steve Um I don't know that's good. Yeah Hashtag normalized pooping for sure.   Sammi Apparently she's still friends with a and s that's another update. Yeah yeah, um huh.   Steve Ok, that's good. So. But she's still she's still looking for a poop father for her future Poop babies. That's good.   Sammi Yeah, but she said something like oh different. Oh god this is interesting. She said different views on faith took Aaron and I on separate paths but the twist were still the best of friends. We may not be soulmates but we're bullmates for life. My relationship with Jesus will always be my number one priority and I'm so.   Steve Um, you he's just that that into you faith like come on like.   Sammi Beyond grateful for I'm just free to get to you. She is really into Jesus but he did not want to help her poop. Um, so yeah I think he's not as into her because he was like I'm not going to let you poop but she's hanging out with.   Steve Button. Yeah, sorry Sam.   Sammi Ah, Jen so all is good genevive. So yeah, um, okay so that's our update on on on those things. Um so cat's pissy. Oh I this was terrible too I like turned on hulu and they were like.   Steve Um, moon.   Sammi For some reason even though I know I watched it on Hulu It was like here's the episode from the week prior and so I was like why is this so deja vu and then I was like wait a minute This is the same episode I got to go to the next and I was like oh God Um, but yeah cats like pissy because like her birthday is over and then.   Steve Ah.   Sammi Sleeping Beauty gets ah goes is awake and he's gonna chat with cat real quick and I'm sure that that's gonna be fine. Um I'm sure that that's gonna go really great and then I made a note because like so now I like looked at one subreddit about bachelor in Paradise and now my phone's like bachelor on Paradise especially in Paradise especially in Paradise and I'm like oh my god.   Steve Martin.   Sammi I don't want to see this because I'm trying not to see spoilers or whatever. Um, but some people ask questions on that subreddit about the bathing suit choices. For some reason though I feel like the whole ah theme of this week was like bathing suits like.   Steve Um, oh.   Steve So.   Sammi You'd get clips of people being like I Really like your bathing suit. It's very cute. Yes, thank you I am trying to attract someone with it. Um.   Steve I am interested in the bathing suit stuff too but only from like an editing standpoint so because sometimes they blur the bits in the bobs right? So like how much butt is too much butt. Yeah.   Sammi Um, yeah.   Sammi I Feel like they're really I feel like they're testing the limits of blurring technology.   Steve How much bulge just too much bulge.   Steve And then like when when Rachel and Braden went on that like let's paint each other date or whatever because Rachel's butt was covered in paint. It was like fine for all the butt which is interesting.   Sammi Um, yeah.   Sammi Yeah, well, it's like they're fin times remember when they've like painted their whole bodies and stuff. Yep and then they're like well now we can show it because we live in a puritanical country that makes no sense.   Steve Um, yeah, and then what I know that's the answer I Just want to know like who who sets the line who's the decider and then it gets even weirder when you get into the cleavage.   Sammi Ah, who decides.   Steve Because like standard cleave fine under boob. Umm no no no side boob. Ah, ah, not gonna work.   Sammi Sometimes it's sometimes it's fine though because whose suit was it that I was like you're not even I mean and it's fine. You can you could wear nothing I don't care but I was just like I don't even know how that stays in place. It was like it was like a structural like.   Steve Um, yeah, who was that there was somebody.   Steve Thank you.   Sammi Anomaly you know I was just like this defies physics in my mind. So I'm assuming there's a lot of tape happening. There's a lot of tape happening and I was just and I was also like but that's also not like and this is me being old I'm like that's not practical. You can you can go.   Steve Um, yeah, yeah.   Steve Um, I Forget who is wearing it it Maybe it was was it was it cat or was it it Maybe it was someone who got knocked out early like rear or something.   Sammi Go out into the water with that and it's like that's not the point.   Sammi It wasn't cat because cat really likes cat really likes to no this was this week but cat really likes doing like the cutout stuff. You know it's like oh I'm going to have this thing that like she she likes she likes one shouldered stuff in swimsuit form and she likes cutouts and she likes all that kind of stuff. Um.   Steve Um, oh yeah.   Steve Yeah, who what? no it was. It was somebody early on in the season but I had the same thing where I'm like I don't understand the physics like what do those hold on to so.   Sammi Yeah I can I.   Sammi There was another one this week. But anyway it kind of reminds. Well this is like slightly different but ah, kind of reminds you of this an old Archie Comic I used to read. Um yes I think we even established that.   Steve Ah, because you're  years old     Sammi I was clipping coupons crocheting a blanket and reading archie comics listen Archie is good. You don't have to like it but I do um okay, okay, good I'm I'm a weirdo just kidding. That's not a good junkhead. Um, so.   Steve And I thought about my favorite Archie comic. ah I'm ah I'm a jug head guy for life. Don't worry.   Sammi So okay, so Betty and Veronica are like at the beach or whatever or maybe it was just Veronica and Archie I don't know but Veronica's at the beach and she's like getting buying swimsuit after swimsuit and these are like expensive ass swimsuits and it's like  of them. She like. Couldn't get it wet like it couldn't go in the water and then she ended up getting like mustard on it or something like that and then she had to like go change and then like another one she couldn't get like sunscreen on it or something like that or like it wouldn't like maybe didn't fit quite right? I can't remember but she ah.   Steve Um.   Sammi Buying like  or  really expensive swimsuits in the course of like one beach day and for some reason all these interactions with the women where it's like they are trying to find the best swimsuit they could possibly wear to attract these men on the beach. Ah, and it's not working.   Steve Um, ah.   Steve The.   Sammi Ah, just made me think of that I'm just like I don't know maybe maybe we don't have to take it so seriously. But I think he did compliment cat's swimsuit when he talked to her this first time I I can't remember if he did or if or if John Henry did um but this was so weird. So so.   Steve M. Oh John Henry the simple man.   Sammi Tanner's talking to yeah tanner' talking to Catt and he's just like he's like giving her a corporate breakup and he's like I I it's been awesome getting to meet you and there's like all this like weird music going on like a lot of percussion. Whatever and then he's just like so I love you as a. Person and I was like this is the best and then and then she's like you know what? Ah don't that was let the record show that I also wanted to break up with him so it was mutual and ah he didn't break up with me first. Okay, we broke up at the exact same time and I didn't like him.   Steve Um.   Sammi And I was going to say the same thing but I just let him say it first because I'm really nice. Okay, so it's fine. Ah, and I was like sure Jan sure Jan this was mutual. Okay, yeah.   Steve I Love cat so much right now it was so good and then and then like like you right? It was a total like corporate breakup. It was just like your position as Beach Girlfriend has been eliminated and then fortunately we're going to have to let you go up.   Sammi Yeah, it's become redundant.   Steve But then she immediately goes into Pr mode. Um, and then my favorite part like I I know that like the only Jest that I've been that I've seen on the beach has been like like you like you say like that I'm just a baby but she says something.   Sammi Um, jazz.   Sammi Yeah.   Steve Really funny and I actually like rewound hulu to to catch this because it's like she actually just like do that but Catt is just like she you know she she runs over to all the other women. She's just like oh my gosh and yeah I we break up save time you know, but but but bu but but but spin mode. And then just just throw away lines. She's like I'm glad we clarified that but is like clearly like clearly like does dad believe her at all I'm just like ah I didn't know just had that in her so you know she's she might have a little something in there. But but even if she does have it.   Sammi Yes I remember that I did think that was funny.   Steve I Bet it's just easier for her to say I'm just the baby and not deal with stuff right? So fine.   Sammi I Just a baby? Yeah, um, yeah, that was so my God I Also ah did not surprise me that cat's the kind of person who like obsessively does her hair when she's upset I could not I was like get your confis out of your here just so annoying. So.   Steve Um, yeah, stop touching it.   Sammi Yeah I just like hate it. Um someone someone asked the question is cat a plant like the producers are are telling her to be extra.   Steve No, no, no, no, she is.   Sammi And people said I've read in multiple other posts of people who went to college and heard that she's  times worse in person and actually acts like this in real life.   Steve Yeah, and you can't you can't coach someone. That's the beauty of cat like there's there's coachable stuff and there's things that the bachelor does to try and heighten things. This is just the pure uncut good stuff. This is like you know. I feel like it's like  I'm watching like Elizabeth Taylor fight with like Richard Burton or something. It's just absolute meltdown mode. Amazing I don't know if she's actually going to kill someone It's so cool I'm very into it. Love this cat.   Sammi I Mean you know she is a nurse ah which I think is interesting because a lot of nurses were like former mean girls right? and they're like mlmmers up.   Steve Um, that's very interesting I don't.   Steve Um, I do find it very interesting.   Sammi There are amazing. Nurses nurses are the only reason I'm like existing in this body in the state. It's in today. But there's a lot of like nurses out there that are like that. It's like a very toxic weird industry.   Steve Um.   Steve It's so weird because yeah like I like some of the people that I know that are nurses are some of the most just like wonderful caring loving incredible human beings. Yes, yeah, also I know I've I've met a lot of traveling nurses just like bartending.   Sammi Yes I love nurses but not cat, not nurses like cat.   Steve And they're always the coolest super generous people like very very nice. So a lot of good nurses out there. But at the same time she travel I hope she doesn't travel to Milwaukee um, but every once in a while like I just don't get it because it doesn't make sense with what you do and I know a person who ah not.   Sammi Except for cat. She's also a travel nurse.   Steve Not like cat because cat's special but it's a person who I would describe like if so was like describe this person in  word I'd be like selfish or if I had more words I'd be like selfish dumb baby weird selfish person adult who acts like an  year old like she is just garbage and she only cares about herself and I'm like.   Sammi A nurse.   Steve How can you be the most selfish human being I have ever met and your job is to like give yourself fully to helping and caring about others like that's crazy right? Like what is that.   Sammi Yeah, sometimes sometimes I wonder if it's like compartmentalization and like compassion fatigue or something you know what I mean like um, it's like I you're like well I'm not bringing my work home with me So I'm gonna be a dick to you.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve Ah, yeah, there you go are just it's just balance. Yeah, it's balance I Well I I'm such a giving person in real life that as soon as I'm outside of my scrubs I'm going to be a little goblin. Sure.   Sammi You know what? I'm saying like that it could be that. Yeah.   Sammi I'm just saying there is I mean there's a lot of memes about like about like nurses being the the girls who are mean to you in high school and now they're trying to sell you essential oils while they're nursing I'm not saying that. That's true of all their nurses by any means but there is like a subsection of them that other nurses also hate.   Steve Um I Love that? yeah.   Sammi Um, and yeah, yeah, so I hope you all understand our loyal nurse listeners that we are not talking about you but you know just like when I say men are trash I'm not talking about you Lovely men listeners I'm talking about you specifically? Um, but it is.   Steve They'll try to sell you a cut co knife and if you don't buy  They'll stab you in the back with it. Okay.   Steve Um, yeah.   Steve She's talking about me specifically.   Sammi Interesting I mean I want to think that there's something redeeming in cat because she says that she and Olivia are best friends but we'll get early not hurt Olivia her and charity are best friends but we'll get to that later I was looking at the the little talking heads of her and Olivia talk or her and Eliza talking. Oh my god I'm getting everybody's name messed up today. She does not talk to Olivia that would be funny if she did.   Steve Um.   Steve Ah, that would be funny. Yeah.   Sammi Ah, they don't like each other. Ah okay I'm getting tired. Okay I love you as a person. So yeah, so she's like we broke up first. It was mutual whatever and then she's like um, you know what he doesn't even get open mouth make out with me so I hate him which.   Steve Um, yeah, what was that I don't even know what that is what.   Sammi But she was just saying that he doesn't like use tongue. So like they're not even like kissing it sounds like yeah, that's true. That's true. Um, and then I was trying to figure out what she was saying on the bleeps. It took me like a while to figure it out until they like made it very obvious later that they're like oh she's saying fuck Boy she's calling him a.   Steve Yeah I wouldn't kiss her either though like consider that like ah.   Sammi Fuck Boy um, and and then she's like I walked away from him. He didn't walk away from me and then no I don't think he's a fuck boy at all. He's just like doing the game but Braidden getting upset about her calling someone a fuck boy is the ultimate hypocrisy I think that is.   Steve Um, is he a fuck boy if he I don't think he's fucked any. But.   Steve Um, right? yeah why yeah yeah I was like yeah, let's talk about double standards bro and then what does he? What does he say because he she calls him a fuck boy and then Braden accuses her of.   Sammi Hilarious. Yeah, he's like oh oh my God I can't believe she would call but a double standard and I'm like I can see the future to braden. Um.   Steve Um, what is it homie hopping. That's it right.   Sammi Home me happy. Yeah Homeie happy. Ah, okay, yeah, and this is when there's more bathing suit talk because je has that like cool bathing suit on and I don't remember who she was talking to I don't have that note but I just remember their like cute bathing suit. She's like yeah I'm just trying to like I'm hoping that and this says me like oh so cute because like that.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi That like you know beige part like matches your skin so kind of looks like you're like not wearing anything like very is cool and she's like well I'm hoping he notices but he wants me to give him space today and I just don't know what's gonna happen and and and Blake's like well one of us has to be tested at some point I guess um. By the way Blake is playing the game perfectly. He is so strategic he is so good at pretending that it's kind of scary I have to say but I see through it.   Steve Eaten Wonderfully masterly.   Steve He has he has grown and by grown I mean I don't know as a person but he has grown as someone who understands how the bachelor works like that is too. Yeah, he is. He's got a Ph D in like dumb Bachelor Tv crap like he is so good at it.   Sammi He understands game theory.   Sammi Um, he is so good. He is so good. Um, so he's just like you know I guess one of us will have to be tested but I didn't want to see it go down this way, but it is what it is I'm kind of hurt I'm kind of hurt by what she did um but you know.   Steve What are you going to do.   Sammi We're just gonna have to figure it out and who comes on the steps but genevie and she's like this is my time to shine and she's real excited and she's like and I don't really remember what happened ah with her before.   Steve Um.   Steve With Genevieve.   Sammi Because my memory is so bad. Yeah, because she was saying like she got in her head and got anxious did that like play out on the show or am I forgetting something am am I forgetting something.   Steve Um I I am a hundred percent forgetting something because I I have no idea what happened to her.   Sammi Because when she when she alluded to that I was like there must have been something that happened right? like where she got like stressed out or something.   Steve Yeah, and in a show where people are on a weekly basis being very stressed out and just kind of melting down um hers doesn't stick out to me. So oh yeah, yeah, yeah.   Sammi Oh yeah, she had a slang remember that I forgot about that She had an injury. Yeah um.   Steve During a ah probably a a power powder puff football game of some sort I would imagine that's typically how the injuries are.   Sammi Yeah I think it was yeah it was. It was the bachelor bowl I think and then yeah and then her team didn't even win and they didn't even cover that she was like in the sling. She just like we just saw her at the Rose ceremony with the sling getting a rose Thank goodness.   Steve There you go.   Sammi Um, yeah, okay I didn't remember anything I'm not seeing anything like quickly and if you're yelling at me because I don't remember I'm so sorry I just I don't remember because I was like I don't remember anything controversial with her anything like that or anything that I don't know nothing really stood out to me in terms of like oh yeah.   Steve You.   Sammi That would be weird or whatever. So but she's she's maybe that was part of it. It's like we didn't really see her a lot so she's like you're gonna see me now. Okay, it's happening and so it's her time she talks to Tyler and to blake and.   Steve Button.   Sammi Um, oh and then and and it's obvious that she's like angling towards blake and then um, he's like okay well I got to talk to Jess or whatever and I felt like it the whole time he was just like what can I say to get out of this situation. You know and he's like ah maybe a shakeup. Is a good thing. Do you ever think of that I bet you didn't.   Steve Um, is this so good. He's just like I'm going to make you think that my idea is your idea and then you're going to think it's a good idea. It's really good, but.   Sammi Yeah, you like shakeups right? and she's like remember those salads for Mcdonald's that you could shake you liked those right? Maybe we can maybe we could do that again. Um I'll get you a free pedometer and everything and you know.   Steve I Love those? um.   Sammi Yeah, like I think Jes is treating Blake not well honestly and and she's like but I don't know why you would say yes because I'm just a jqe baby and and he's like listen I just got to go explore other options. That's what I got to do um.   Steve So no, no.   Sammi That's all I have on that because they don't go on their date for a little bit. Ah John Henry okay so let's talk about John Henry so first of all, ah he's like he's like talking about golf and like he did not. He did not strike me as a golf guy but he was like.   Steve Ah.   Steve No, he's a simple man. He strikes me as a I'm going to sit on the porch and whittle. What does he do.   Sammi But I am bad at it.   Sammi He's like well I do I I do like playing golf but I am bad at it and then olivia' is like oh my god because she thinks everything he does is the best because she just thinks he's really cute and so she's just like John Henry you golf I got.   Steve Um, he is like.   Sammi Um, and he's like yeah I mean I'm not good. She's like can we all calling together and he's like sure I don't Why could we golf together. Yeah absolutely, she's like yay. Um.   Steve It's it's so great like I don't John Henry is wonderful. He is beautiful and pure and and lovely but it he is so far out of his element here. He's just getting tossed around. He's just like an empty husk of a band getting chucked between these women.   Sammi Yeah, he's just like sure sure and then yeah, so cats just like oh I'm gonna go for him because you know what I want to I want to what's his what that tongue do to to call back to to many bachelor and paradises ago.   Steve Well, he's an easy man to get the attention of all, you got to do is like stand over there in a bikini and squeak a little ball or something it'll come running over. It's oh the problem is I don't think like he doesn't realize that he's being flirted with at any point with anyone ever.   Sammi Yeah, and he's like oh hi. How's it going? Yeah, we can. Yeah I'd like to talk to you. You seem nice.   Steve Like he's just like happy to be there like he has no idea that Catt is trying to flirt with him and she's just like oha it that you do a dangerous job for a living that's crazy. Ah, that's so cool you you go on know lot' wonderful stuff.   Sammi Yeah, he's like oh this is nice.   Sammi Yeah, and like this is when Braden's like oh she told me hopping and then he does like a really bad rap every time every time I go maybe I'll like braided he does something that makes me hate him so that's good. Thank you for doing that keep doing that brain and keep that energy up I love it.   Steve Um, ah we love that.   Steve Ah, is good. Listen there's there's nothing wrong with Braden he's just on the beach looking for someone that he can call my wife that's he loves his poor at ah.   Sammi Ah I hate him so much I really do hate him. Um, he's just soul cringe anyway. So so then so cat's like ah all right I'm going to cause more trouble and she's like hey Eliza. Um, so.   Steve Ah, is trash.   Steve Um.   Sammi Charity and I are basically bf fs. Okay, she's my best friend and so yeah, that's why I'm like some of some part of me wants to think that she has some redeeming qualities because I don't know why charity would be best friends with her but I also think she's probably exaggerating the best friendship between um, but she's like. All I saw so charity and I talked before I came up paradise and I was like who should I be worried about and he she was like stay away from an b and I was like oh my good what and she was like there's a cheating skinball and I was like us scandal just know that okay, just know that. There is a cheating scandal doll. Um, yeah, well we'll find out. Um, but yeah, and then there's oh by the way I made a note that Olivia and Eliza's cat impersonations are spot on much better than mine.   Steve Um, and I just made it up just now. Yeah, we'll see.   Sammi Ah, they both like impersonated a cat and didt like huge. Ah um, but yeah, ah so it's kind of like well why is she bringing that up now why out of the blue. Why at this what you know she's just bored. She's just trying to like take the heat off herself like don't know. Um, probably because she's awful. Um, and then I think this is something that Kat says she's like he's not actually country. He's a deepseed diaper. Okay, so he's like not country can't be country under the sea did you know that and also he's got a vibrating tongue ring. Okay.   Steve Um, ah you can't be a cowboy if there's no cows under a water.   Sammi And need I say more and I will say.   Sammi Ah I do love like Avan's always kind of like in the mix gossiping with the ladies and I really enjoy it. He's just kind of off to the side and he goes oh like gasps every once a while like you didn't no oh my god like.   Steve Um I like that too.   Sammi He's just like who I love this like this hot gas. You know, give it to me so he's just kind of doing his thing doing that stuff. Um, and it's very cute. Ah Becca comes down and I was like I have no idea who this is and she's like I only made it one night I was like that's why I have no idea who you are. And um, so she's here to add some more trouble to the beach and I just have a quote that says everyone thinks she's hot because she is ah and her day is choose someone and create a recipe for love? Yes, um, and so okay. There's some drama there and we're going like back and forth between like the like the cat and John Henry stuff and like these new dates that are coming in I don't remember was this cat who asked him what do you look for in a woman John Henry and he goes adventure. You know, doing stuff.   Steve Ah, you so precious.   Sammi And then he was like and then he was like sense of humor and then and then who said this was a cat my brother fishes so I totally get it and it's like that is not deep sea diving my brother fishes. So I totally get you.   Steve Um I love all of this. It's so good John Henry and John Henry what kind of food. Do you like I like pasta from the box. You know I heard you could put it in water and heat it up, but it gets soft. It's so good like John Henry     Sammi Deep sea diving.   Steve Did he say that no could he say that Absolutely you know.   Sammi Sure that's on my John Henry Soundboard already um and I think my other note is for Braden. Maybe I don't know I just said. They have  brain cells to rub together between the two of them. This seems like the perfect pairing must have been Brayden Becca and and the it was like could you see us vibing I think we're gonna vibe I think it's time for us to vibe together and then Braden's like     Steve Um, it's going to be good.   Steve We're gonna vibe.   Sammi Go on the state and then he's like I should probably talk to Rachel and she's like um I just got like naked and turned into a pinata with you and now you're leaving with some other check on the beast like what the hell. Yeah.   Steve Um, yeah, it's time to go to the horny kitchen with with Braden who are just previously accused a woman of homie hopping. Yeah and he yeah.   Sammi Yes, exactly that's why I'm saying he's such a hypocrite. Also we already know that this is something he does because one of his exes on Tiktok very kindly I will add called him out. Yeah, we know.   Steve And yeah, so and and with Rachel he was bor adding like big time and he's just like with such a magical day. So much born me lu more and then immediately. Yes, so excite.   Sammi So excite? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's like yeah your homie hopping because that's what you do? um so we go then we go to like the blake and Genevee date and he's like genevie makes me feel calm.   Steve Button.   Sammi And it's like really nice and I'm like oh you  you  are cute like whatever um and then Tyler starts talking to Jess while they' while Blake and jevi are on their date and I just wrote picking Jess over Mercedes is a wild joyce wild.   Steve Now up and energy. That's good.   Sammi Absolutely wild. Why would you do that? What are you doing tyler you can't in the real world. You cannot get a woman like Mercedes I can guarantee you that what do you do? What do you do when you throw on it away anyway. So he think very highly yourself, but he's just like you're so mut know and I just love your glitter and she's like oh what? So you do think i'm.   Steve Um, interesting, very interesting.   Sammi Cute me is like duh.   Steve But I love your glitter they they've like every wo but on this beach has been slathered and glitter for the past three weeks is there all that I just want to know if like.   Sammi I mean he didn't say I love your glitter but Jess is known for glitter. Obviously so it's implied.   Steve Just Jess is wearing the glitter and then it's rubbing off on everyone else if they're all just getting into the glitter game.   Sammi I think they were like we're gonna wear glitter like Jess. Um, yeah, there's a lot of eye contact that's happening in this part. It's also interesting because Blake and Jess both have very intense eyes and now they're like on dates with other people.   Steve I.   Sammi And they're just like looking at each other's eyes and there's a lot of smooching and and then there's like  of the most like like on brand songs ever played in bachelor history where it's like is it me or you or you and me I was like what is this? ah.   Sammi Play The background I was like damn. Okay, yeah, it's there was ah there were some tictoks I saw where it was like the extremely literal music of love is blind. It's so on the nose. It's like it's like someone in their you know department their media department.   Steve Um, really good stuff.   Steve Um.   Sammi Is just searching for song titles. You know where it's like you know it's like I'm indecisive and then the song's like I then decisive I can't decide I Just don't know which way to go of indecisive and you're like oh yeah, that's it put that in.   Steve Um.   Steve That's that's the mood.   Sammi Insert. Yeah, so it's very but which I mean listen when I'm just like I don't know which stock photo thing to do how many times can I put a scale on something or someone climbing the stairs or someone walking a trail I Just can't do it anymore I can't do it anymore. So I get it. It's fine. Yes.   Steve You make sense.   Sammi Sometimes you just have to pick pick the easy Rod but I was like is it me or you or you and me if you didn't hear that song I would encourage you to go back to that point in the episode and really listen to it because it cracked me up. Um.   Steve Loop it.   Sammi And then Braden just gets to go on like every sexy date and like is this what tntra is like not really whatever. Ah, but they're in this kitchen and they're like doing sexy stuff and he's like very excited um and that's all I want to say about that date. He had fun. Yeah I don't know if you have anything to say about that date. But I don't.   Steve No, it's I mean it's just like this is classic Braden right? Like yeah you go he goes out the sex kitchen date and he everything that had previously happened with Rachel out of his head but he's worried about what women are doing and if they're dating other people. he's he's trashed     Sammi And okay, yeah.   Sammi Um, yeah, he's shot.   Steve They tried they tried to rehab him and some of us I'm not going to name name some of us were we We were starting to you know, get weak knees here and and just and he's give in just give in I know he's He's the trash God and he will remain as such.   Sammi Not me, not me not me fool me once. Yeah, never again. Um I keep calling everyone Olivia but now I'm actually talking about Olivia um, so like I loved that what she's talking about cat. They put. Ah, her kron not a cat fan and then she just was like I'll vomit about cat I'm just gonna vomit about her and I can't believe she's talking to John Henry he is like or whatever and she's like yeah motorross m ya love that That's so great.   Steve Um, yeah.   Sammi You know and Sam is like she's the voice of the audience. The reason sam's here. She's voice of the audience and she's like John Henry just has a little hamster wheel in his head. Ah and and then there's like more gossiping with Cat Kylie and aven and they're just kind of like what. Talking about with Olivia what's going on over there and whatever. It's like this is like the whole John Henry has to choose who who he likes and what he's doing and but he doesn't know that yet and he's talking to Olivia and my favorite part was he was like is that limp lip plumper which means she's been wearing lip plumper on the beach and it burned his lips.   Steve Um.   Sammi Because I don't are are you? You're familiar with Lip Plumper I can't say that word.   Steve Oh yeah, that yeah, ah, only from the the standpoint of if you smooch someone and they got it on then you're like why does my my face hurt and that's why.   Sammi Yeah, yeah, yeah, can't relate because my lips are perfect. Ah no, Ah, someone did give me it once like because they're like oh you try it and I was like I don't really understand the point because now it just looks like I got stung because you know. So I'm just like I don't think that's cute, but that's just me but I have tried it before and yeah, like it feels kind of tingly and stingy and whatever and so he's I Just like that he looked at her lips and he's like is that lip plumper because I don't want my face to burn and I and I was like I thought that that was actually very successful of the smartest things he said.   Steve Ah, it's a good question. Ask.   Sammi Um, but then they're making out knees like it was lip plumper and it kind of went by fast but it was very funny. Um and then okay and then this was like the wildest thing. Okay, so so first of all cat and Olivia are not friends. We have established this um and cat goes. Why is my. Friend doing that like why is she? Why is she kissing the person that she's been dating hello are you delusional like what is going on. Ah yeah, so strange and so there's like this whole yeah love triangle thing going on of the beach. We'll see how that resolv

CAS 10 - 11 - 1-2023 Chad Greenway-Gray Duck Spirits/Vikings with Neil Graff as co-host by Calling All Sports

Amanda sits down with retired Vikings linebacker, Chad Greenway, to chat about his 11-year career in the NFL, lessons learned back at home on the family farm, and business tips for any entrepreneur or agricultural enterprise to utilize. To book Chad as a speaker, reach out to him on Instagram or Twitter @chadgreenway52For all Gray Duck products, including the newly released Spiked Nitro Cold Brew made with Caribou Coffee, visit grayduckspirits.comTo learn more about Chad Greenway's Lead The Way Foundation, check out https://www.chadgreenway.org/Presented by CK6 Consulting | CK6 Source | Real Tuff Livestock | Meats by Linz | Linz Heritage Angus

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CAS 9 - 20 - 1-2023 Chad Greenway-Gray Duck Spirits/Minnesota Vikings by Calling All Sports

Looking for a unique and challenging gravel cycling experience? Look no further! In this episode of the podcast, host Craig Dalton introduces the founders of Gray Duck Grit, an exciting grass roots gravel cycling event in Southern Minnesota. Joining Craig are Kris Jesse, Nate Matson, and Mark Jesse, who share their passion for gravel cycling and the origin story behind Gray Duck Grit. Kris Jesse discusses her journey into gravel cycling, inspired by a friend's social media post, and her background in distance running. Mark Jesse, having participated in the Day Across Minnesota event and other ultra-endurance events, shares his love for gravel cycling's magical moments in solitude. They also delve into the details of the challenging 240-mile Day Across Minnesota event, which takes riders on a scenic route from Gary, South Dakota, to Hager City, Wisconsin. The founders highlight the unique aspects of Gray Duck Grit, including atypical distances and the creation of an ultra-endurance event. They discuss the beautiful terrain of the Driftless region near Northfield, Minnesota, where the event takes place, and the challenges riders may face, such as unpredictable weather and relentless winds. The episode wraps up with a discussion about the event's inclusive atmosphere, its charitable aspect in supporting Fraser of Minnesota, and a warm invitation to join the Gray Duck Grit experience. Topics discussed: Introduction of Gray Duck Grit founders The inspiration behind Gray Duck Grit  The Day Across Minnesota event  The challenging terrain of the Driftless region  Weather conditions and preparation  Inclusivity and the event's charitable aspect  If you're a gravel cyclist seeking an unforgettable adventure and an opportunity to push your limits, Gray Duck Grit is the event for you. With its scenic routes, challenging terrain, and an inclusive atmosphere, this event promises an experience like no other. So, buckle up, find some dirt under your wheels, and join the Gray Duck Grit community. Episode Sponsor: Dynamic Cyclist (code: THEGRAVELRIDE for 15% off all plans) Support the Podcast Join The Ridership  Automated Transcription, please excuse the typos: [00:00:00]Craig Dalton: Hello, and welcome to the gravel ride podcast, where we go deep on the sport of gravel cycling through in-depth interviews with product designers, event organizers and athletes. Who are pioneering the sport I'm your host, Craig Dalton, a lifelong cyclist who discovered gravel cycling back in 2016 and made all the mistakes you don't need to make. I approach each episode as a beginner down, unlock all the knowledge you need to become a great gravel cyclist. [00:00:28]Craig Dalton (host): This week on the podcast. I welcome the founders of a grassroots cycling event in Southern Minnesota called gray duck grit. It's happening this upcoming October 6th and seventh. Yes. I said two dates in there because there's multiple distances. They're offering a 333 mile race, a 222 mile race. Uh, 111 mile race. And a 69 mile race. Each of these distances has a significance. That we'll learn about during the conversation with this trio. This is the first time I've had three guests on at one time. There's a lot of fun. I wanted to push the podcast out as early as possible. To give anybody in the Southern Minnesota and surrounding area, an opportunity to jump on this event. It looks like a lot of fun. It's presented by the angry catfish bicycle shop and has a lot of great local sponsors and supports a great cause. Before we jump in i do need to thank this week sponsor dynamic cyclist The team at dynamic cyclists offers video based stretching and strengthening and mobility routines focused on cyclists. As you can imagine from their name. They just recently dropped an updated injury prevention program. The one I like to follow, which is the six week low back injury prevention program. It's always timely. Getting an update from my friends at dynamic cyclists. Because it reminds me that I have absolutely no excuse. To not fit these 10 to 15 minute routines into my day. I waste 10 or 15 minutes doing something not productive for my body. So it's a constant reminder that I should be stretching. I've dedicated myself this year to try to strengthen my lower back. In particular to improve my longevity as a cyclist for these long gravel cycling events. And I've found the stretching routines, particularly the injury prevention routines of dynamic cyclists to be super helpful. It's very focused on what we need as gravel, cyclists for me. It's tight hip flexors. It bands everything around my low back seems to draw everything in a tight bundle if I'm not careful. So having access to a content catalog of different stretching routines has been super important to me and motivating to just kind of frankly, get off my ass. And do the stretching I need to do. If you're interested in giving it a shot, dynamic cyclist always offers free access to, I think, a week's worth of content. For you to check out what they're doing. I'm on an annual plan. If you're interested, just use the code, the gravel ride, and you'll get 15% off. You can do month by month. If you're just someone who wants to do it in the winter. Or they've got a pretty affordable annual plan. That's just kind of the easiest thing to do. To make sure it's always there. When you need it. So head on over to dynamic cyclists.com and remember the code, the gravel ride for 15% off. So with that business behind us, I want to welcome mark Jesse, Chris, Jesse, and Nate Mattson to the show. Hey guys, welcome to the show [00:03:44]Kris Jesse: Thank you. It's great being here. . [00:03:47]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: So let's get started by just, let's go around the room, maybe starting with Chris and just talk about, um, a little bit about your backstory and then we can get into, I'm going to blub it, flub it every time. Gray duck grit. [00:04:03]Kris Jesse: Great at grit. You got it. Um, I would love to start. Uh, it's kind of funny. Um, I fell into gravel cycling from, um, just seeing a post on Facebook. A friend of mine, he was going to ride this crazy ride across Minnesota. 20 some miles, um, called, um, the dam day across Minnesota. And, um, my background really is, uh, distance running. And so that is where I came from. Um, that's my passion. Um, I'm reaching Saturday. I'm heading to Utah tomorrow now, where it'll be my almost 40th marathon. And so I'm really, uh. runner at heart. And I thought, Ooh, I can do this, this gravel, uh, cycling. And so, um, after seeing his post, signed up quickly and then did my first 50 mile gravel ride and sold my race registration for that long one. So really it is, uh, that's kind of my cycling, uh, background a couple of years ago, but now just fell in love with it. Like it's my peaceful time. Um, uh, as you'll hear, Minnesota has amazing gravel, uh, to ride and to be, um, had, and so I just love it. I'm falling in love with it and kind of transitioning to just cycling. So that's my, my background. Um, [00:05:24]Craig Dalton (host): Well, I've got lots of questions about Minnesota, I'm going to table them for a minute to allow everybody to introduce themselves. So Nate, how about you? How did you get into cycling? Do you have a running background as well? [00:05:35]Nate Matson: Uh, wow. I do actually a little bit. Um, so I actually have a triathlon slash running background and, uh, it's kind of a curious fitness person and I, I fell into gravel cycling because I got injured and I couldn't run, so I leaned more into cycling. And through this one specific friend of mine, he, he also did the dam the day across Minnesota. And he was like, yo man, you should come out with me and we'll start gravel cycling together. So I got in with him, we started going out almost every weekend. And that is how I met Mark was actually on a gravel ride. So there you go. And, uh, I can run now, but I run a lot less and I cycle a lot more. [00:06:23]Craig Dalton (host): All right, Mark, your turn. [00:06:25]Mark Jesse: Yeah, I, uh, you know, Chris, Chris is a friend of ours who, who did sign up for the dam. Um, that was sort of my introduction to gravel cycling as well. Um, and, uh, it just. I went out and participated in the dam and 2019 that was my first big ultra endurance events and gravel cycling. Prior to that, it was a 50 miler with alongside Chris, as she mentioned, and it was. During that 2019 day across Minnesota that I realized how magical gravel cycling is and, um, you know, being in the middle of nowhere, not having any bearings as to what direction you were headed. All I knew is I was following, following this trail of blinking red lights and, um, it was, I would look up and all I could see were stars and it was one of the most magical. Moments I've ever experienced on a bike and yeah, go ahead. [00:07:31]Craig Dalton (host): Amazing. I'd love to just learn a little bit more about Day Across Minnesota, because that seems like it's, you know, it's the origin story of, for the three of you, and it sounds like you had friends who were drawing you into it. How long of a ride is it? And what is it? What is the experience like? [00:07:46]Mark Jesse: It's, it's a 240 mile distance. It starts in, it started, um, it is no longer for the record. Um, but when, when it was in existence, it started in Gary, South Dakota, and you would make your way across the state of Minnesota and you would end up in Hager city, Wisconsin, um, and Trenton Ragar is the. Race director. He is also the current race director of the filthy 50, which he was his first events. And, um, and I believe that started in 2013, um, uh, the filthy 50. So the dam was a five year event that took place and I participated in 2019 and 2020. [00:08:28]Craig Dalton (host): Okay. And how long does an event like that take a sort of average cyclist? [00:08:34]Mark Jesse: Well, you know, my first year, it took me 22 and a half hours. Uh, there is a cutoff, um, of 24 hours. So the expectation is that you would, to get an official finish time, right? You would need to finish, it starts at midnight on Friday and it would end on mid at midnight the, uh, the following day, Saturday. So that was the format. Um, and it was, it was pretty, it was a pretty amazing event. [00:09:00]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: And with those kind of early experiences that drew you into the sport, did you subsequently travel outside Minnesota to do events to kind of get an idea of what the flavor was in other territories? Or have you mostly been participating in Minnesota based events? [00:09:15]Mark Jesse: I. Haven't done a ton of official, uh, races or events outside of Minnesota. I did the Redfield Rock, Redfield Rock and Roll down in Iowa, my hometown or my home state, um, last year, and that was a heck of a challenge. Um, but I did a lot of other, um, I did some gravel cycling in Florida. I've done some gravel cycling in California and, um, mountain biking, uh, in Arizona and Oregon and places like that. Um, so I've done. Um, some cycling, some pretty long distances as well, um, over several days, but nothing necessarily official in other states as of yet, but I definitely plan on doing more of that because how can you not, there's just so much to be had now, right? [00:09:59]Kris Jesse: hmm. [00:10:04]Craig Dalton (host): to those longer Distance events right from the get go, whereas a lot of people come into the sports, you know, being conjoled to do their first 25 miler and then 50 miler, et cetera. So it's going to be interesting as we talk about your event, the distances that you offer as they're a little bit atypical from what I see out there in the world, with the exception of some of the, you know, the well known ultra endurance races. [00:10:30]Mark Jesse: Well, I think that has a little bit to do with our running background. Um, I, I also came from the running background. I, I have 17 marathons under my belt, I guess. Um, so the, our fitness level was there, I think. And so it was a, it was a, wasn't the difficult transition to make, um, because we had motors. We just had to. You know, adjust the legs a little bit and get those legs and those muscles used to pedaling as opposed to running. So it wasn't a difficult transition. And I grew up on bikes, typical 80s era child did, you know, so. You know, it wasn't, I was very comfortable on the dirt growing up in Iowa on a, on a giant RS 940, 12 speed on gravel was a lot more difficult than riding a high end carbon gravel bike on, on, you know, the gravel around most anywhere else. Right. [00:11:28]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah, yeah, for What made you guys think about coming together to put an event on? I mean, you've participated in events, you've seen the hard work, but there has to be something that really made you have this burning desire to put in the hard hours, the money, etc., to create an event. [00:11:48]Nate Matson: I'm going to give this to Mark, but I just want to say before he gives a very official answer that we were, we were just having a lot of fun riding our bikes together, you know, and, uh, we, we knew that we were riding with some really good people and we just loved, loved that the way it made us feel. And, uh, I saw marketing sort of a glimmer in his eye. So when, so when he started talking about this ride, uh, when he invited me to be part of it, it was not really, I mean, it was a surprise, but it also oddly made sense to, [00:12:26]Craig Dalton (host): Got it. [00:12:27]Mark Jesse: Yeah, that was, you know, I didn't know what was going to come of this idea I had to, um, consider doing something like this. Um, you know, it all, it all went, it all dates back to, so the, here's the official origin, uh, origin story going back to 2018, I was running the Anchorage. Anchorage mayor's marathon in Anchorage, Alaska, along with Chris here. And I was experiencing some heartburn, um, during the first few miles and it, and it subsided, I took some Tom's because Chris would, would carry Tom's with her as, as we run marathons. And so I took some times it subsided, but, um. And, and I ended up finishing, but I was really sluggish. Um, and when I finished the, the world was spinning. I thought I was going to kind of faint or pass out, but I just sat next to a food truck and gathered my bearings. But to make a long story short, about two weeks later, I went for a run, just a recovery run. Um, that was maybe a week later and I ran two blocks and I. Thought my heart was gonna pop outta my chest. It was just not good. And I knew something wasn't right. So I, I went to the doctor and, um, it, it, I just ended up having, um, essentially I was diagnosed with a 90% blockage of my coronary artery. And, and here I ran that marathon with that blockage. Um, so, you know, it was a miracle that I even survived it. And, um, had a, had a stent placement. Um, and I. Fully recovered, but it was during that when they were reading, anytime you go in for something like this, they, they read all the possible outcomes and that really freaked me out. I, I, and so I made this promise to myself that if I, if I make it through that. I want to focus more, not just on myself and to, you know, be in better health. It was a genetic thing for me. It wasn't because of my diet. It wasn't because of my fitness, I wanted to do more for others while I had this time, um, available to me moving forward and. I didn't know what that meant, but I knew that I wanted to do something. And so then it was just a couple of years later, um, doing the dam, I wanted to prove to myself that, Hey, I'm not, I'm not be, you know, I'm not too far gone. I can still do this. You know, I'm not, I don't, I didn't want to live my life in fear of never being able to participate in something I loved, which was that, that endurance, um, activity, because, you know, it was through running that I fell in love with endurance sports. Um, not just what it does for me physically, but it's, it's cathartic, it's therapeutic, you know, um, just like it is for people who ride bikes, you get out there and, and you forget, and you, and you solve a lot of the problems that you're, you're going through and that you're experiencing. Um, it's just a very special thing to experience. And so, um. That was the, the, um, the start of it really. And, um, COVID came and went, I saw some events come and go. And then the day across Minnesota, the, the gravel event that really, um, caused me to fall in love with gravel cycling, um, they announced Trenton announced that it would be their last event in 2021. And, um, or their last year of doing it. And I just felt like, you know what, there was a void that could be filled. And, and we are by. No means trying to be the damn, um, that isn't our intent, nor is that our goal. But I do feel like there is a demographic of, of cyclists out there that would truly appreciate what I appreciated in, in doing an event that is an ultra endurance events. So that's what we have created. And. Um, it started out by doing some Strava group rides with some of the friends that I, I, I followed on Strava. I announced it, um, a couple of weekly rides and lo and behold, I, I, I met some new people. Um, and I met Nate, I met a guy named Greg Simogyi, um, in the process. Sam and some other people. And, um, it was just a great experience just meeting these people who basically we like the same band, you know, and you're not strangers when you like the same band, you know what I mean? [00:17:00]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. Exactly. Well, thank you so much for sharing that story, Mark, and thank God you're still around to share it. It is a takeaway, I think, for all of us to think about, you know, how big of a void, if you're an endurance athletic participant, how big a void it create in your life. To not be able to do that thing, because as you stated eloquently, for so many of us, it's rolling meditation. It's where we process a lot of things that go on in our lives. And I know as someone who's faced challenges in my life, like the idea of managing the rest of my life without endurance athletics would be a real difficult pill to swallow. [00:17:44]Mark Jesse: Exactly. I mean, when I'm having a tough day, when I'm stressed out, the very first thing I think about as, as far as how am I going to deal with this, this stress, this anxiety, this pressure I'm feeling, I got to get on my bike. I got to go. And it's, it's the pressure relief valve. Um, you know, radiators have them. Why can't we have them? Um, so, um, you know, it's, it's, um, you know, on, on those days I go out on my bike or when I was running, I'd go run and I finish up, you know, after 25, 30 miles on my bike, it's rainbows and butterflies after that. So, um, it feels good. [00:18:23]Craig Dalton (host): there something specific about Northfield, Minnesota? Is that where y'all live? Or is it just where you knew of amazing terrain? [00:18:34]Nate Matson: I'll, I'll take this one and Mark, please interject or Chris. Um, so Northfield is awesome. First of all, it's a great, it's a great little city that it's a college town with. Coffee shops and a lot of green space, and there's a great bike biking culture there. Um, but it's also close to what is known as the Driftless region, uh, of Minnesota, which basically, uh, it's not just Minnesota, by the way, it's Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, parts of Illinois. And basically there were icebergs around this part of the world, uh, uh, during the ice age, except in the Driftless area, there weren't, so it's a very like specific little region. And that is full of caves and rivers and valleys and buttes and really, I think it has like more freshwater streams than anywhere else in the country. And it's just like this little pocket, this little area and Northfield sits right on the edge of that. So it's kind of like the gateway to this really beautiful sort of bucolic scene. And uh, it's a, it's a gravel cycling haven for sure. It's wonderful. [00:19:45]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: gotcha. So if you're a gravel cyclist in Minnesota, in sorry, Minneapolis, you might on occasion go down there as a starting point for a [00:19:52]Kris Jesse: Right. [00:19:52]Nate Matson: Totally. So Northfield, uh, is about 45 minutes. [00:19:55]Mark Jesse: from Minneapolis. So it's, it's [00:19:57]Nate Matson: So it's, it's a really, it doesn't take all day to get there. You just, you know, put your bike in the back of your car. You drive down, you can have a great ride. Mark and I were down there last weekend. So it's, it's an awesome place to be. And they have the infrastructure for cyclists there. [00:20:13]Mark Jesse: infrastructure and [00:20:14]Craig Dalton (host): all those geological attributes you described sound wonderful for gravel cycling. How does it actually translate to What the terrain feels like when you're riding, what kind of gravel, how would you describe it to people coming from out of state or out of the area in terms of how they would equip their bike and what they should expect? [00:20:33]Mark Jesse: it was really [00:20:34]Nate Matson: Well, it was really fast last weekend in parts, you know, uh, we were cruising. Uh, and at the, so when you're, there's also lots of farm roads and fields. So you can be. You know, being passed by combines and tractors, uh, one minute, then you can go down in these valleys. And you might experience something completely different. Uh, and, uh, Minnesota is known as a pretty flat state, but in the Driftless region, it's constant hills. Um, I think the, the, the 333 mile route that we have that, which Mark will talk about, I think that has almost 20, 000 feet of climbing. So, cause it's just constant up and down and up and down. And in those hills, like it can get pretty. Pretty chunky, pretty chunky. But what's really cool about the water runoff is the, the, a lot of the roads never really, uh, flood or wash out. You might get wet, but you won't have to carry your bike. [00:21:25]Mark Jesse: you won't have [00:21:26]Craig Dalton (host): Okay. So Mark was sort of describing how, you know, his passion for the sport, you guys started to get together. You find other members of the community. You have this interest in maybe putting on an event. What happens next? You form an entity. Do you set a budget? How do you get the original, the first version of the event off the ground? [00:21:50]Mark Jesse: Well, I, you know, we, we get, you get together at a bar over some drinks is how you do it. Right. That's, that's the right way to do [00:21:57]Nate Matson: That's what happened. [00:21:59]Mark Jesse: but before I did that, I, I reached out to Trenton, the filthy, filthy 50 and Dan race director. And I asked to get together with them and just go over my idea. And, and I figured if he liked it, then it gave me, it was going to get, and he may not know this and, and I apologize Trenton, but if, if he liked it, um, it was my green light to, to move forward. And, [00:22:24]Craig Dalton (host): can can I interject and ask a question about Trenton and the dam? Was it, he was just sort of tired of doing it or was there some logistical problem with doing the event? I'm just sort of curious what, since it was such a important event in your lives to see it end, if you understood what the end story of that event was. [00:22:45]Mark Jesse: I, I would, I hesitate to really comment. I just know that the, he had, you know, he's, he's, you know, uh, middle aged. He has a lot going on. Uh, he has, you know, a wife and kids, um, and he's, he's, he's a dad. And so, you know, he, he probably wanted. Maybe part of that back and, and already, you know, really 50. That's a very successful event. That's that sell, they sold out, I think, in, in less than 24 hours, a thousand registrations this year. So it's very popular. Um, and, and he's. Killing it with that event and um, you know, maybe he thought that it was something that you know, it isn't done done I don't think he he did announce that it was gonna be the you know, the last year But I get the impression he isn't done done with it. I have a feeling it could be resurrected at some point and the website still exists so and he does Encourage people to do it on their own, um, and, and he will record, uh, you know, um, any times in, in the record books or, you know, official times. So, you know, it is still a thing, um, it isn't gone forever, but, um, you know, I have a feeling it might come back. I don't want to suggest that it will, but, um, but yeah, that's, that's sort of, um, what I do know about, you know, it not being around. I, I don't want to. Speak for Trenton, but [00:24:12]Craig Dalton (host): got it. No, thanks for that with what I've seen about gray dot grit and the number of distances you do that first night at the bar. Maybe you had more than enough drinks because instead of just saying we're going to do 100 kilometer race. You actually offered a bunch of different distances and they're not short distances. [00:24:32]Mark Jesse: I'm a bit obsessed with the number three. I don't know if you could tell, um, you know, three ones, three twos, three threes, three is, you know, and numerology represents completion, uh, three strikes in a baseball game, three outs, um, nine, nine players, three outfielders. You know, nine innings, it's, it's, it represents completion. And, and I kind of being a baseball geek growing up, um, I, I, uh, it just made sense to me that, why not, you know, uh, 111, that's, that's no walk in the park. The 69 or that Nate and I rode last Saturday is no walk in the park. It's going to challenge you. [00:25:17]Nate Matson: We thought it was going to, you know, we thought it was going to be 70 miles. And we were both like, this is so much harder than we thought it was going to be. It was a reality check for sure. [00:25:29]Craig Dalton (host): So for the listener, just to put a pin in it, you've got a 69 mile race, 111 mile race, 222 mile race, 333 mile [00:25:39]Kris Jesse: Yes. [00:25:40]Nate Matson: Yeah. And as he's telling us these numbers over a beer, again, I could see his eye glistening. Like you could just kind of tell, like it's, it's happening, you [00:25:49]Mark Jesse: It's the mad scientist look. [00:25:52]Nate Matson: like, we can make this [00:25:53]Kris Jesse: And Craig, that doesn't mean I'm always like, what about a 50 miler? What do we think? And I'm not giving up that yet, that request. [00:26:03]Craig Dalton (host): I'm just imagining the kind of orchestration required, and I've seen the start times on your website from, I think it was 10 a. m. Friday for the 333, 9 p. m. for the 222, and then you start the next day for the 111 and the 69 Is the idea that theoretically everybody should be finishing around the same time? [00:26:25]Mark Jesse: Yeah, that was sort of the, the idea, right? Is that no matter when you started, you could be riding next to someone who just is a, is like they, they, they don't even know where they are because they're riding in the three 33 and, and you're, you're in the last 10 miles of your, your one 11 or your 69 mile route. Um, so to have that, you know, there is something special when. You know, by by the time you're coming around through the road to Burma, which is a section of the route just north of Northfield, um, When you, when you're coming back home, um, in the last 10 miles, um, there's something pretty cool anytime you come across someone on a bike and you know that they're doing it too, right? And so there's that instant bond that you have with that person and you've never met them before. You don't know their name and you may forget their name, but you're a brother now, or you're a sister of theirs because it's when you're out there, your family. [00:27:27]Craig Dalton (host): When you're starting at the, at the 333 mile distance. Are you offering aid stations? What type of infrastructure exists for those riders who are going to be doing it 24 plus hours? [00:27:43]Nate Matson: we, we definitely had aid stations and I would say last year was also a learning experience for what we need to offer writers and when in the sort of level of support that we should give them. Uh, I don't know, Chris, if you want to talk [00:27:56]Kris Jesse: I can, [00:27:57]Nate Matson: we learned a lot last year. [00:27:59]Kris Jesse: did. We did. I do the nutrition for the aid stations and I think what's unique about Great Oak Grit is that we do actually have, and we are thoughtful about our nutrition. I know, you know, and that's kind of what some gravel races are about is you're on your own and you know, we may supply a water stop. Or, you know, throw out some pizza or donuts or whatever. But, um, you know, so we are, uh, thoughtful about our aid stations and, um, have like, um, like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and pickles and things like that, that we had last year. Um, this [00:28:34]Craig Dalton (host): so even if I'm out in the middle of the night somewhere, [00:28:37]Kris Jesse: Yeah. So you will, you'll find us. Yep. Yeah, we'll have an aid station for you. And this year, um, we are, we were sponsored, we're sponsored by Kodiak and so we'll have like protein balls and then NOM nutrition and they're right out of Utah, um, Salt Lake City, kind of a new hydration. And so we'll have that, um, we're going to be really purposeful about the, and thoughtful about that long distance. Distance, yeah, nutrition, and so we'll have these aid stations set up for all the distances and, um, yeah, we'll have things like that and the finish and start. So we're really excited that we're able to do that, [00:29:15]Craig Dalton (host): that's great. Yeah, it's interesting as you sort of think about the spectrum of like bikepacking, [00:29:19]Mark Jesse: packing [00:29:20]Craig Dalton (host): Grand Depart, just start and fend for yourself. To something like this, where maybe somebody who may be a little bit intimidated to go off by themselves and forage and worried about, you know, if they're going to get the nutrition and hydration they need to be able to do an event like yours and have that infrastructure around, maybe a good starting point for people who want to. Attempt their first ultra distance event. [00:29:43]Mark Jesse: their first [00:29:44]Nate Matson: definitely, [00:29:44]Mark Jesse: Right. Definitely. Yeah. [00:29:46]Nate Matson: we also have fire pits. So [00:29:48]Mark Jesse: Minnesota in [00:29:50]Nate Matson: in October is cold and you never know, uh, what the weather's going to be. It could be, it could be 60 degrees. It could be 30 degrees. So it, it, we really don't know yet. So we're prepared. Um, but we had, we started a couple of fires last year and that was one of the things that riders, especially the 333 riders, where they were. By the fire just sitting there, you know, uh, heating up and we could tell that why not let's keep doing [00:30:18]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. Yeah. [00:30:19]Nate Matson: a vibe. [00:30:20]Mark Jesse: the year before our first event, um, so this would be 2021, yeah, 2021, uh, that very weekend, it was 70 degrees and sunny the weekend of, uh, you know, a year prior. So in Northfield and, um, you know, it ended up being a little bit colder than that. Um, but, um, and it, it does definitely impact at what. You as, as a cyclist and what you should prepare for. Um, but we're going to assume that we're going to have 70 degrees and sun this year. Um, and, but if we don't be ready, you know, [00:30:58]Craig Dalton (host): Was there, um, was there a reason for choosing an October event date? [00:31:02]Mark Jesse: it's beautiful. It's peak autumn foliage in Minnesota. So if you geek out on autumn foliage, if you appreciate, if you like Thomas Kincaid paintings or Bob Ross paintings come to Northfield in October, because you're going to see it. And you're going to see it like every other turn. It's absolutely beautiful. [00:31:23]Kris Jesse: that's another, in this region, this area, Craig, it's so beautiful. It's, it's just that fall crisp and you see, you know, you just look out in the leaves and the trees and it's really nice, [00:31:37]Nate Matson: It definitely has like Sunday morning PBS specials. You know, vibes when you're riding around, it's just really beautiful, you know, and there's tons of farmland and you'll be cycling past cows and [00:31:51]Craig Dalton (host): Is it a lot of, a lot of farm roads or are you getting onto narrower trails? [00:31:57]Mark Jesse: There's some pretty narrow roads. Um, there's some roads that you're going to go down and it's like, how, how do, how do cars pass each other on this road? You know, um, they're pretty, we have some MMRs, um, and, uh, yeah, some, that's the thing about it is despite how, um, remote it can be and how narrow some of the roads are, um, when it, it isn't a course that's going to punish you as far as the surface. Um, and, and we love unbound, um, but we're not going to, you know, if there's a storm the night before, you're not going to have to hike your bike three miles. Um, it drains very well. So, um, there's, there's the course, the distances are going to punish you more than anything. Um, the surface will not [00:32:42]Nate Matson: And the wind potentially, the wind can definitely be brutal. Um, and relentless until you get into a valley, then you get some, uh, some peace, but if it's a, if it's a windy day, that can be. [00:32:56]Mark Jesse: like any, like anywhere. [00:32:57]Nate Matson: any ride, but there's not a lot of tree cover in parts of the ride, so you're really open. [00:33:03]Kris Jesse: I always say if you're not cursing the race director halfway through your ride, they didn't do something right. [00:33:10]Craig Dalton (host): yeah, that's for sure. I haven't done an endurance event that I haven't wanted to curse the event organizer. Uh, man. So as you guys were thinking about creating this event, and maybe this goes to kind of Minnesotan cycling culture, were you thinking about, we're building a race and we want a competitive front end. We want lycra clad athletes to come all over this. Or did you have a different orientation? And maybe if it's differs from year one to year two, let me know. But I'm just curious because there's kind of, there's no right or wrong answer here. It's just curious, like what the intention was. [00:33:47]Mark Jesse: The intention was to get people to push themselves beyond what they think they're capable of. Because that's what my experience was. When I did the dam the first year in 2019, I had no idea if I could do it. And when I finished, I realized that was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. And then like, two days later, I'm, and I was thinking to myself, I got to do that again. And I did it. And I improved by five hours on my time the following year. And I realized I can't be the only one who feels this way. I'm also not the fastest, you know, out there. I'm a middle of the pack type of rider. Um, there are people I know who are far faster than I am. I ride with them pretty regularly. Um, Our motto and, and our, our mindset is you should ride your ride, ride your ride. That's literally everywhere on our social media, on our website, because it isn't up to me to tell you, Craig, how you should ride. Um, coming from a different background, a different experience, life experience. Some people are overcoming cancer. I'm coming from my own health issues, as I've talked about. Um, people ride for, uh, uh, for every person out there is a different reason that that person's on a bike and we want them to take away from our event, whatever it means to them, if you want to race it, race it, take first, make a name for yourself, do something that, you know, is going to the event. Thank you. You know, make you happy. If you just want to finish, do that. If you don't know if you're going to finish, do it anyways. Challenge yourself, push yourself. Exactly. Even more reason to do it than the person who might podium. [00:35:40]Nate Matson: And Mark will be there to cheer on every one of them too, by the way. It's kind of a magical thing to see Mark at a finish line. It's its own meme waiting to happen because he's there cheering. Literally every person on who crosses the finish line. It's, it's so great. [00:35:58]Mark Jesse: I can't, I want to see every person finish. Like every single person. I truly, I truly give a damn about every single person that's out there. Um, I'm thinking about what they're experiencing. I'm hoping that they're experiencing what I experienced. I'm hoping they don't experience what I've experienced in the dark moments because you do go to dark places literally and, and, and mentally as well, but it's how we come out of those dark places that changes who we are and, and, um, and we're, we become better for that. [00:36:29]Craig Dalton (host): What's the rough breakdown between the different distances, if you guys had to guess, in terms of the number of participants? [00:36:37]Mark Jesse: it dropped significantly as, as we go, you know, you know, we're, we're like right now about half our participation, just over half our participation or registrations thus far this year with our new 69 mile route. We didn't have that last year. This isn't, this is a thank you and ode to those who did participate last year because we only had. 69 official registrations last year. So that's why we have a 69 miler. Um, it isn't for what maybe other people might think it is. It is because we had 69 participants for the record. Um, but when you go past and when you get past that, yeah, it starts to drop off. We have about half of that for the one 11 right now. So, um. And, and then, you know, the 222 I think is our crown jewel, quite honestly, because you get pretty deep into that driftless region and you're going to be riding overnight. Riding overnight is, is something I think anyone who's, who's thinking about, um, you know, going beyond that 100 mile distance. It's, it's just surreal. I can't even describe it. I can't find the words to describe it. It's so special to me. [00:37:48]Craig Dalton (host): I to say, that's the slippery mental slope I've been going down lately. I've done plenty of night riding. But I've never asked my body to ride completely overnight, short of a 24 hour kind of team mountain bike event. And there's a curiosity there from talking to other people I know about like, what will happen when I have to ride all night? [00:38:11]Kris Jesse: Right. [00:38:12]Nate Matson: and there's something just so spooky and beautiful about rolling out in the middle, uh, of the prairie, basically, or the farmland with crystal clear skies. It's the moon, the stars, and you're, you're just kind of like, to Mark's point, you just take it in and you never forget it. And then just seeing them kind of roll out into the darkness. We're all wondering, I hope this all goes okay for everybody because, because they literally disappear. It's amazing. [00:38:45]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. [00:38:45]Mark Jesse: And, and that's why, you know, uh, where was I recently? I had on a damn jersey. Um, and I can't remember where it was. It was at an event and Oh, a young, a young guy came up to me. He's like, I want one of those pointing at my Jersey. And I'm like, Oh, I can't do it anymore. They don't, they don't sell them anymore. You can't get it. You know? And so, but he knew what having that Jersey meant. Um, and, and every, every time I see someone with that Jersey on, and this, this, the dam can't be the only event like this. Right. Right. But. Anytime you see someone with that kit on, there's a respect level. You know, it's kind of like You know, something that it's like you've been through, you've been through something together. It's a bond. [00:39:33]Craig Dalton (host): I think that's one of the interesting things in digging into your event. You guys starting out with these four distances, I think it creates sort of this aspirational journey for athletes attending to say, Oh, I'm going to do the 69. Oh, that went well. I think I can do the 111. I think I can do the 220 and just sort of inspiring people to go up. So not surprised at all to hear that kind of percentage breakdown between the different ones, but it's going to be curious to see how it changes over time. And from return participants, do they come back and do the same thing or are they changing their distances? [00:40:11]Mark Jesse: We found that there are, uh, a good number of people who, who didn't, uh, the one 11 last year and they're, they're trying for the two 22 this year. Um, or maybe they're doing the one 11 last year and they dropping down to the 69. Um, you know, it goes both ways, but I guess the, the, the idea behind it for me was. To especially this year with a 69 miler is to send a message that, Hey, we know we're not the 30 mile distance. We know we're not the 50 mile distance. There are plenty of other events and group rides that do offer that throughout the spring and summer months. We're towards the end of the season. Um, and we're hoping that people can maybe work up to that. And, and if the 69 miler seems like a lot, maybe we can be the final hurrah for you this year. Um, and, um, but you know, we're at the end of the season and, and people who are looking to do something beyond what they did last year, or maybe they haven't done a 200 miler this year or ever, maybe the 222 is what they're, they're, um, hungry for. [00:41:17]Craig Dalton (host): exactly. As the athletes complete the event, what kind of experience do they arrive to in Northfield when they hit the finish line? Are you building a kind of festival type atmosphere? [00:41:30]Mark Jesse: It is, it's definitely fest, it's definitely festive. Um, you [00:41:35]Craig Dalton (host): know we get Mark's hug first, [00:41:37]Nate Matson: It's Mark with a [00:41:38]Craig Dalton (host): then, [00:41:39]Nate Matson: bullhorn. It's Mark with a bullhorn. First of all. [00:41:42]Mark Jesse: yeah, uh, if, yeah, we should hand out earplugs as they're crossing the finish line, cause I feel like I am, they're kind of almost turning away from me, their heads to maybe, [00:41:52]Nate Matson: No, it's great. [00:41:53]Mark Jesse: I get excited about it, you know, I'm passionate about it, which is why we're here, but, um, because I've been there, I know what that feeling is and it's just like. Such a relief. I'm so glad this is over. And then it's just, we just want to be, we're all happy. One of the, one of the, um, one of the, my favorite moments is, is a gentleman who crossed from last year is, he crossed, he was one of the last people to finish. Um, maybe the last, within the last dozen or so people who finished and He finished, I, I ran up to him as I did with all the other, uh, finishers and I put my arm around him and his head was hanging. And I'm like, Oh, this, he's not in a good place right now. And maybe he's even upset. What's he going to say to me? How dare I, you know, kind of like I was expecting, expecting something negative. And he looks up at me and he says to me, you, you are proof that perception can become reality. And I had no idea. I like tears. I just had tears because I, I felt that from him, you know what that meant. And then he reaches in his wallet, who I've never carried my wallet with me, but this gentleman had his wallet on him and he reached in and pulled out a hundred dollar bill and handed it to me. He's like, I love what you're doing and I want to do more. And he said, you're changing gravel cycling. And obviously more tears. So that was very, it was very unexpected. Um, but it was, it was very special. And that's one of the moments I remember the most. [00:43:31]Craig Dalton (host): Amazing. If a listener was attending this year's ride in October. Is there anything else you'd want to share with them about how to prepare to be successful at the event? [00:43:46]Mark Jesse: That's a tough one. Be prepared to do something that you've never done before. Um, it's, it's as, as. Difficult as it can be physically, it's just as much mentally, but at the end, when you finish, you're gonna, it's gonna be one of the most rewarding experiences, I think, that a lot of people ever experience in their life. Um, you know, we do have big aspirations, um. We, um, we just want it to be, we, we're, we're sharing our, our, you know, our labor of love with the world we're, we're creating something, our own flavor of gravel. Um, this is our version of what a gravel, what, if we were to, you know, if we wanted to do an ideal event or create one, this is our version of it. Um, you know, we want to, we want to be all inclusive. We want to, um, you know, we give women 20 percent off their entry automatically just because you're a woman, because we want to create that diverse space. We want it to be an all inclusive event, as inclusive as we can be, despite the challenge, right? We realize that the challenge itself is not necessarily inclusive. It isn't all welcoming. Right. But we're hoping that people can understand and they get our message that, Hey, it's okay to challenge yourself and to push yourself. There's nothing wrong with that. Um, that's a healthy thing to do. And, um, That's, you know, that's what we want people to, I guess, maybe get out of it is, is that, that experience. And, um, as far as the prep, just, you know, put it in as many miles as you can. And, you know, quite honestly, we had, I had a cyclist email me the other day saying, Hey, you know, I signed up for this, this distance this year. And they, and they did participate last year. Right. But he's like, I signed up for this distance this year and I just don't have the training. I didn't, I'm not where I thought I would be. When I signed up, is there any way I could drop down to the, to the, you know, shorter, shorter of the next shorter distance and I gladly obliged him and, and made that accommodation for him. Um, you know, that's, that's what this is about is being able to, to, um, you know, do, do what you can do and, um, Yeah, let's ride your ride. [00:46:11]Kris Jesse: And watch the weather. [00:46:14]Nate Matson: I would say prepare for the weather too. Pragmatically be ready for anything almost, you know. Especially if you're flying in from another state. [00:46:24]Kris Jesse: Yeah. [00:46:25]Nate Matson: Be prepared for 72 or 32. [00:46:30]Kris Jesse: Or both. [00:46:31]Nate Matson: Or both! Yeah! [00:46:33]Mark Jesse: You could, there is a possibility of, of, yeah, maybe one day there, you know, we had a 20 degrees swing from yesterday's weather to the, to today. Yesterday it was in the 90s and, and today it was, I think it may have hit 70, maybe not. [00:46:50]craig_dalton-q2xxdhaa3__raw-audio_gray-duck-grit-ii_2023-sep-06-1110pm_the_gravel ride pod: Yeah. Well, guys, I love the energy of the three you are putting out there in the world. Um, if the event translates through your love of what you've intended to put on and what you're putting out there to the Minnesota cycling community and anybody who comes in to sample it, I'm sure it's going to be an amazing event this year and I can't wait to hear about it after the fact. [00:47:12]Kris Jesse: Thank you, Craig. [00:47:13]Mark Jesse: Yeah, thank you. We, we just. Yeah, we're just trying to build on, on everything that people here in Minnesota have already, you know, the foundation it's, it's rich, rich history of cycling with, with all the companies that have come out of here. Um, the, the cyclists, uh, you know, current pro cyclists as such as chase work, who's out there. He took second at gravel worlds just recently. Um, he's a great ambassador of the sports and he's a great, you know, home hometown talents. [00:47:42]Kris Jesse: my coach [00:47:43]Nate Matson: And her coach, [00:47:45]Kris Jesse: think he's a great guy. [00:47:48]Mark Jesse: but, you know, instead of just, you know, solely focusing on ourselves. Um, as athletes and endurance athletes and gravel cyclists, you know, we want people to know that, you know, this is a fundraiser. This is, you know, we are giving a portion of the proceeds to Frazier of Minnesota, which is a mental health nonprofit, and they, um, help families, um, who have, um, You know, children with autism, um, they have a school for those individuals as well. Um, they also help other people with mental illness and other disabilities. So, you know, when going back to, if I could just say just briefly, going back to why and, and that promise I made, that's the doing things for others. [00:48:28]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah, [00:48:29]Mark Jesse: Um, so yeah, you're gonna, you know, we, we do charge a fee. But know that every person involved with this event is a volunteer. I didn't pocket a dime from last year. In fact, I paid a little bit, you know, out of my own, out of my own pocket at the end of the day. But the point was, was we wanted to do something good for the community and give back in, in meaningful ways that, you know, in ways that are going to leave, you know, positive ripples throughout our communities. [00:48:56]Craig Dalton (host): Yeah. Thanks so much for making sure that you mentioned that because I was remiss and not asking you about the Frazier charitable donation and just another, another reason to flock to this event. Everyone. [00:49:10]Mark Jesse: Oh, well done. [00:49:13]Nate Matson: Uh, man! [00:49:15]Mark Jesse: We have a spot Open [00:49:16]Nate Matson: Perfect! Yeah! Thank [00:49:20]Mark Jesse: so, yeah, and, and people can find out more these, if they just go to www.gr grit.com. That's our website. You can find us on Facebook at GR Grit, Instagram on at gr grit. Um, and just check us out, you know, um, we just, we, we want people to, uh, It's just, we're just trying to share what Minnesota has to offer and, and continue that, that amazing community that is already here and share that with the rest of the world. [00:49:46]Craig Dalton (host): Thanks you guys. Have a great evening. [00:49:48]Kris Jesse: Greg. [00:49:48]Mark Jesse: Craig. Thanks for having us. [00:49:52]Craig Dalton (host): That's going to do it for this week's edition of the gravel ride podcast. Big, thanks to Nate, mark and Chris for coming on and telling us all about. Gray duck grit. It sounds like an amazing grassroots event out there in Minnesota. I love the challenge of those various distances. I wish there was something like that in my neck of the woods. Just something that year after year I could go back to and kind of up the distance and challenge myself in different ways. You'll hear from another upcoming podcast. I'm super curious about riding overnight. As I mentioned briefly, I've done it in some 24 hour. Mountain bike races, but I've never fully written the night. I've always sort of been part of a team and jumped in and done a lap or two while it's dark out. Anyway, go check out gray dot grit on the website. You can learn everything you need to know. And if you do it, make sure to ping me. I'd love to hear about it. Big, thanks to this week. Sponsored dynamic cyclist. Remember use the code, the gravel ride. You get 15% off any of their plans and they've got a free one week trial. So no excuse other than like me laziness for not stretching, but give it a try. I think you'll enjoy it. If you're interested in supporting the show, ratings and reviews are hugely appreciated and go a long way in the podcast game. 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