American Road Trip

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3 jet setting through the neon lights from Tokyo to Rios glow
riding high, the beef drops low.Number one everywhere he goes,

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made nice with stories, bold gold plated entails untold
microphone. His mighty Sword podcast world
he can't ignore. Welcome to the Up in the Clouds
podcast featuring your host Adrian Hustling.

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Alright, so you'd have more things ready.
So you're just running all this shit off the cuffs still?
Everything's off the cuff exceptfor the speed round questions.
OK, cool. Yeah.
And sometimes it's better off the cuff, sometimes it's better
if I plan, but it sounds like too robotic if I plan
everything, because then I'm just like reading.
Yeah, but you need like rough like, I know, I know me did it.

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I liked having like, little things to bring up or think
about, right? Yeah, I'd like to do that.
I just didn't do it. Just I haven't had a lot of
time. I'll be honest, it's it's hard
to like get the time when you'retraveling or in a hostel to like
find your own space and actuallyget some shit done.
So anyways. Yeah, it's nice you guys have

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the Airbnb, but yeah. Exactly.
Fucking fullsend.com. Well, this time I am pleased to
welcome on our next guest to theUp in the Clouds podcast.
He really needs no introduction,but I'll still give him one.
He's the guy you'll find in all my older pictures.
The tall, lanky bastard. Yeah, that one.
We first met in college. He was getting pushed down the

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hallways of Rez. He had his shaggy blonde hair,
nice bright pink shirt on. I think I actually had the same
exact. Shirt.
We had the exact same shirt, Yeah.
Exact same shirt and yeah, both moved to Calgary, became fucking
best friends. We were just having the best
nights out, best times. We've done some trips, we've
done some camping, we've done some epic ski weekends, and
we've always had a good time. We did three weeks down in the

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States together and managed not to kill each other.
So that just shows you how good the friendship is.
But without further ado, welcometo the pod, Lucas Price.
And what the hell? I got an alarm going off.
Wow. The mic didn't actually pick it
up. OHT didn't.
OK, perfect. No.
No. So yeah, thank you for the

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introduction. So yeah, well, I was the tall,
lanky 1. You were the shorter, slightly
rounder 1, little bit more stunned.
Short and stubby is what I like to say.
There you go, short and dirty. Jordan Jersey, Yeah.
Yeah. So the three weeks in the US,

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that's what we're going for. Well, that's what we're going
for. But as you know, before we even
get into the stories and all thefun stuff and all the
reminiscing, we like to do a segment called Speed Round
Questions. I believe you are familiar with
this concept. I am, yeah.
I've done in the past on other endeavors.
Yeah, different format on the former podcast, which we will

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not mention. Alright, well, you know the
drill. So here we go.
Nice and quick. Alright, window or aisle seat?
Ooh, that's actually a tough one.
Most of the time window. OK, uh, hop on a bus or take a
flight? Flight.
A thrill Cook for yourself or eat out.

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Eat out all day but. Different kind of, you know.
Sorry, food. Yeah, I would eat food.
All. That allowed on here.
Yeah, that's fine, let it fly. But it's all good.
Uh, get after it or take it easy.
Get after it. Island based or touristic tour?
Adrenaline. Go with the flow or plan ahead.

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Planning most of the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Come on, this is a tough one. Travel with the homies or with
the girlfriend. I actually really like traveling
with her. Ah, fair enough, fair enough.
I just wanted to put you on the spot.
Spotless motion, but less bullshit than trying to handle
you guys so. That's that's fair point.

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Fair point. Camping, road trip or skiing
weekend? Camping.
OK, jump out of an airplane or race on the track.
Track. Yeah, gringo for life or man of
culture? Go manic culture.
At this point I'm doing pretty good.
Ohkay, well we'll see how your Spanish is one year when he gets

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to Peru. Have we been to more than one
country? It's just, you know, being a man
of culture isn't just knowing the language, it's experience in
in cultures. That's that's fair.
That's. More than two languages in the
world, just Spanish and English.Yeah.
Well, no, obviously, but I mean,Spanish is pretty, pretty
useful. There's a lot of countries that
speak Spanish, so. Well, 100% it's it's, it's

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actually one of the reasons why I want to learn it is because
it'll be so much more useful going anywhere.
Yeah, exactly. So 2 Hablas Espanol.
See. See Sibal.
See Senior Well, OK, well the reason we got you on today and I
just realized this about 5 minutes go for everyone

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listening. I thought we were doing a total
different thing, but that just shows how much I pay attention.
This is a professional podcast. We're going to talk about our
camping road trip through the USA, which we did back in 2019.
September 2019. Wow, see, I I still remember a

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little bit, still got a little bit in that noggin.
It was the the last thing we were really able to do before
COVID fucked everything up so. That's exactly what it is and
I'm glad we got the chance because it was a hell of a trip.
For those listening, if you everget the chance, do yourself a
favor, do a road trip through the states.
I would say biased opinion West Coast, but the landscapes are

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incredible and they change in every single state.
Yeah, I would agree. I granted I haven't done the
East Coast here, it's quite interesting to you, but I feel
like the West Coast you gotta way better variety of shit, you
know? All absolutely.
Like East Coast. You have all your major cities.
You got the Bastions, you got the Chicagos.
Bastard. Bastard.

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I'm from Boston, Mass. I thought, who shit?
Too Shit, all beers are here, baby deers are here fucking.
Now we're talking. Now we're talking.
Let's get one nice and cool, buddy.
Shut up. You're lying.
Yeah, I could see the smile on your face.
Real. A real friend would have gone to
another store. Yeah, exactly, Exactly.

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Send them back out. I'll take a club please.
Are they are they cool? Yeah.
Alright, sex XXXX Alright, so anyways Luke, do you want to
start us off? You got the whole timeline you
got sitting on your Google Maps or whatever.
Where do we start? We started Montana, right?
Ah fuck, where? It's a good question.

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The first stop we did in the States was, uh, the loaf and
jug. All hold on.
Great Falls, Mt. Oh, that's a good noise.
It didn't pick it up. I'd really love some yeah
terrible microphones. I gotta get new.
Ones when I when I crack my nextone, I'll do it in front of my
mic. Then we'll get the proper, hmm,
that nice crisp air. Yeah, a beer in the air.

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But anyways, OK, so we started in Montana, which I gotta say,
one of my favorite states reminds me a lot of reminds me a
lot of Canada. Yeah, 100%, absolutely.
Like we've gone there on other trips and it's more of like a,
it's a little more red necky. I mean that in a good way.
Because like, it's, it's more fun people a little looser, you
know? Oh yeah.

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But really all we did was stop over in Montana to get down to
we ended, we went all the way toUtah.
Like we drove all the way through Utah that night.
I think also build something stupid.
Like what the fuck was it? Oh my.
This shit we stopped at 7:00 AM somewhere to to sleep I think.

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At 7:00 AM. Why don't I remember that?
Oh no, it looks like I don't know.
I remember we stayed in this fucking field and we woke up to
cows around our our tent in the morning.
All that was Montana. Yeah, yeah.
All that was Idaho, so there's like a chunk of Idaho that comes
across. If you go down Montana, you hit

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Idaho. Am I thinking about this right?
Yeah, I do. Yeah.
We went Montana down through Idaho and then we ended up in
Utah. OK, well, yeah, I remember, no,
that that was a different night because there's the one night
where we were literally like, hey, we just need to pull over,

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set up camp and just sleep for alittle bit because we've been on
the road for so long. So we ended up setting up the
tents personnel and then we wokeup in the morning and there's
like a bunch of motion around the tents and we're like, what
the hell is going on? We look out and it's just a cow
field. There's just cows everywhere
down. The first night, that was that.
Was the first night, yeah, Luckily we didn't get trampled
by them. They were friendly cows.
But. Cows don't get fucked.

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Well, not usually, but that was a funny little surprise to wake
up to. Was like, oh shit, yeah, there's
cows everywhere. Yeah, we left.
We left Calgary at 3:00 PM that day.
Jesus. Yeah, because we're like, fuck,
we gotta make as many miles as we can.
And the plan is just basically can involve the Utah which we
did. Yeah, OK.
But that's why we were like literally had no cell service.

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We were just like looking up random spots to pull over and
camp. Were found us by a lay down a
tent, slept for like 4 hours andthen fucking drove down to
Google Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City, while Utah again, absolutely loved it.
Salt Lake City, though, no Salt Lake.

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City, it was kind of a downer. All major donor dude, it was
getting get out. I remember we went for a meal
and buddy was asking us how longwe planned to stay there and we
said, oh, we might stay here like a night or two.
And he's like, don't bother. He's like just keep going.
There's there's nothing here to do.
It was that, yeah, it was that the meal.
Another guy at the cell phone place, like we went to go get
SIM cards, but he's like, yeah, no, just get out of the city.

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Like go do something else. If we're like, what the fuck?
Everybody's down in their city here.
Yeah, it's true. Exactly.
I I thought Saul Lake like hosted the Olympics back in the
day. Maybe it'd be cool to check that
out or they won't. Something to do, but.
But that's something we wanted to do because there's like a big
water park or Olympic Park or some shit there, but we were
going to go to. But it was closed literally the

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month we got there. Like literally the time we went
to roll through that venue was shut.
Yeah, yeah. Outside.
So we was like, fuck it, we left.
And where did we end up? Was it Saint George?
Yeah. Or we went down to Zion.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We went to uh, yeah, because we
went to Zion first, right? And then one of my favorite
spots after we'll talk about like how?

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But I think we want to design first to do that epic hike.
All the Angels staircase. Angels Landing.
Angels landing fuck. Memory.
Gnarly is take. I've got wow, yeah, it's pretty
early, but you wanna tell peopleabout the hike then?
Cause I was actually like one ofthe highlights of the trip I'd
say. Yeah, I'm trying to.
I'm gonna try to bring up some pictures here to, pardon me,

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flash my memory going. Yeah.
So when you get down in this area, it's like I think it was a
daytime high of like 38 or 40. Yeah, she was scorching.
But to get in the park, you haveto you can only take buses to
check check spots. So like we totally actually guy
used to work with messaged me upand he's like, you have to do

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the Angels Landing hike. Like OK, cool.
And this was now if you tried todo that hike nowadays, you have
to actually book it out like wayin advance, like it's overbooked
and overfilled. There's limited spots.
Oh, that's one of those now. Shit.
Oh yeah, it's gotten way overrun.
Well, it's fucking epic. Like it was sick, right?
Now, Oh yeah, well, for what I remember from it.
So you're in Zion National Park.For everyone listening, when you

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picture Utah, you're probably thinking of Moab.
Unfortunately, never got to Moab, but it looks very similar
in terms of the landscape. Like you have the big canyons,
the red rock, all that kind of stuff.
I remember pulling up to this hike and the initial climb was
an absolute killer. And keep in mind, again, really
warm temperatures and just as super steep ascent.
And I remember Luke, they were walking up and.

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Couple of degenerates that just drink beer all the time.
Well, that too in my short ass legs and I remember like I went
off the hall and these two girlsare walking down just started
laughing at us. I was like, oh, that's a good
start. But yeah, from what I remember,
like super steep ascent. And when you finally work your
way to the top, you think, OK, this must be the summit.

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But then you look over the horizon and there's this massive
rock that's like shooting out ofthe cannon, and it's not
surrounded by anything. And there's this this chain link
section where you actually have to do is cross onto this rock,
go up the chain link section forabout a kilometer.
Now you're supposed to hold on to the chain link because
obviously there's nothing aroundyou.

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Like there was there was a sign there that like 12 people have
died since like 91 or some shit like that, like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I mean, 12 people in the
span of how many years is that? Like, I'll take those odds.
Oh I would absolutely, but it's just to put it in a little
perspective that they don't haveany safeties in place or
anything for you. It's you follow your fucked.

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Oh yeah, you follow your dad. Like it's on you, yeah.
Yeah, but so there this chain link fence, but I remember like
I was being all, you know, whatever, and I didn't even
bother the chain link. I just started fucking spider
monkeying up this up this hike. But the views were absolutely
insane, especially when you finally got to the end.
Like I said, there's nothing surrounding this rock.
You have all the best views of this massive Canyon.

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You gotta Creek going down the bottom of it.
It it was insane. And yeah, it.
Was stellar. Used too.
Yeah, you're pulling up picturesright now.
I'm looking at them, yeah. Can I share my screen?
Yeah, probably I I should post pictures for the people you
know, with the tarp sauce. I was looking pretty good that
day. That means sure.
Oh, here we go. Sure.

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OK. So yeah, we said Hurricane Rim
the night before and then we went to Zion.
Remember Hurricane Rim? We stay there 2 nights.
Is that where we set up? And it was like in the middle of
the desert? We were the only ones there and
it got super windy the one night.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that.
Was that's that exact name? Hurricane Rim is sick, but well,
I think we'll see pictures of that again after.
So here's the beginning of fucking because we got there

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pretty early too, and I was already like, well, early by our
record, so like 9:00 AM or some shit.
And it was already like scorching.
Ohhhhh yeah she was cooking yeahwe could easily got there like 6
and probably saved her so. I really like, we each had a
camelback and we went, but I remember we got to the top and
there's people there that literally brought 2 bottles of
water, 2 little bottles of water.

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Was their plan for hiking in like a 40° day?
Ohhhhh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, there's always people out around prepared.
Jesus, that look so young there.What?
Does it say, yeah, you look likea child?
What happened? How?
I don't know. Only six years ago.
Oh my God. The fucking school boys dance.

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Not a young man anymore, although I started telling the
the locals here I'm 29. That's yeah, that's probably
passable. Well, I've gotten, I've gotten
people come up to me and say I don't know how old you are.
You're anywhere from 22 to 42. And I'm like, yeah, fair enough.
I'm right in the. Middle valid.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

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You just gotta shave, then you'll like a kid.
Yeah, but the the I've been getting some positive reviews on
the beard, so I think I'll keep it for a bit.
OHP ohhhhh yeah Kelsey still doesn't like well, she's used to
mine now, but I think she would still prefer if I was clean
shaven, but that's a lot of workso.
Yeah, that is a lot of work. Then you gotta shave every other
day. Come on.
I grew up pretty good beard So what the fuck.

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Yeah, exactly. Rockwall again, buddy.
Same with me. Rocket Well, yeah, if I change
jobs and might have to cut it, but.
I'm pasty there too. Geez.
Like Casper the ghost. Was our first time out in the
wilderness is September. Fair enough.
Not bad, but not bad. Well, yeah, so that was uh, that

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was definitely one of the highlights of Utah for sure was
that angels landing. That was an incredible like I'd
still rate that is probably a top three that I've ever done.
Yeah, it is for like the how interesting it was like the
coolness factor. Absolutely.
All exactly the what the wow factor.
That's the word I'm looking for.Wow factor.
Fucking wow. And I don't know if you had

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other highlights from Utah. My other highlight from Utah
after doing the Angels Landing, and it was somewhere that we
didn't even plan to go. We kind of just stumbled upon it
was Lake Powell. Do they power sick?
But that's actually it's Arizona.
No, that was Utah. No, that's Arizona.
No, no, no, no, no. No, look at the fucking map.

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Buddy, come on. Come on.
You ready for this Lake Powell? Page Arizona is the town that's
right near it, which is where the dam that makes Lake Powell
is. Hold on, people listening are
probably banging their heads offthe steering wheel right now.

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Ah, what the fuck, really? I kept telling people you talk
like for fucking five years. Yeah, you're wrong, but.
It's like, right? At the border, Yeah, it's still
wrong. Yeah, it's fucking close enough.
OK, I guess it lives across bothborders, so.
No, Oh my God. No, I think.

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I think you were still correct actually.
There we go. Yeah, I don't think you were
totally wrong, and I don't thinkI was totally right either.
Oh yeah, because I think we wentto Lone Rock Beach.
Was it on the Utah side? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Yeah, you weren't wrong.
OK, proof. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, because Paige was the nearest town, but you had to

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crossover to Arizona. Yeah, but, but yeah, we ended
up, I don't even know, like, whywe decided to go there.
I think we just saw like, Lake Powell, like, oh, let's go check
it out. Super random spot and ended up
being this gorgeous, gorgeous lake with this massive
beachhead. And I remember we got there and
everyone set up right on the sand, right on the beach, right

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at the edge of the water. And we went, hmm, yeah, we might
have to stay here for a night ortwo.
Yeah, I think that's what it ended up being because the plan
was to go, well, we planned moretime in Utah, right.
So kind of like exacerbated all of our exacerbated our timeline.
That's that's a big word there about exacerbated, I don't even
know what. Exacerbated, I might be using

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the wrong word. Eggs masturbated.
Make a problem. Bad situation.
Now you're feeling worse. Oh yeah, is using the wrong word
for sure then. OK, alright, that's why we use
spell check here. Yeah, grammar check spells

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there. Yeah, something like that.
So you gotta spell check means Spanish bro.
That's all you. Got Yeah, that's right.
I just got Google Translate for that.
Yeah, we ended up there. I remember people getting their
huge fucking rigs stuck in the sand.
Ohhh yeah, that's right. And again, it was just gorgeous

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but like it was such a weird it only cost like five US at night
to camp. There was dirt cheap I think is
another reason we ended up staying. 100% OH.
Yeah, it was the weekend, so everything was closed.
Yeah, I think was the big part. Well, not only that, just the.
I kept whooping yet crib. Yeah, yeah, I was getting my ass

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kicked in crib. It wasn't even close.
But yeah, no, we, we ended up staying there two nights.
And yeah, I remember, like you said, it was the weekend, so all
the Americans were there. They had their trailers set up.
And I remember, I don't know if it was the first or second night
and this was kind of a theme of the trip, but you ended up going
to bed. And I was like, yeah, I'm not
ready to go to bed. I was trying to like party
mindset and the people beside us, our neighbors, I could tell

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that they're partying and havinga good time.
So I remember I grabbed 2 Coronas walked over the campsite
and there visits family just sitting there like not expecting
any visitors. And I walked right in.
I'm like, Hey, what's up everybody?
I'm Canadian and I love to drink.
And they're like, alright, they're like welcome to the
campsite. They're like, what's your party
favor? And I'm like, oh shit, I don't
have a party favor. What do I do?

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And then I see the two Coronas in my hand.
I go, I got you took them both, poured them right down my
fucking gullet there, chugged them back, right back.
And then I just looked at the atthe family and went, that's all
I got. And they said good for us buddy.
They're like coolers right here.It's full of beer.
Have what you want. And I was like fucking so
absolute beauty of the family ended up drinking with them the

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whole night. We were playing beer pong.
I remember actually like the onedaughter was pretty hot, but I
was fucking buckled at this point.
I actually ended up blacking outwith this random American family
And then I remember someone backthey sent at like 3:00 in the
morning just fucking destroyed. Did the old Irish accent.
Didn't even say goodbye, just got so.
Drunk say thanks for let me drink.
All your beard is piezo. No, I just pieced out.

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I just got to the point where I was so drunk.
I was like Nope, you're done andjust just left.
Just rude. I know, but they're yeah, yeah,
super, super nice people. You know what people say about
Americans usually, but super hospitable and just a random fun
house night. And just just to go back on your
comment about me going to bed early all the time, that's
because I had to drive. Well, your ass slept.

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Yeah, well, I offered to drive, but come on, you weren't letting
me drive the big rig, so I just figured you.
Know you were drunk half the time.
Yeah, yeah. For people listening and we got
one minute here before you starta new, new meeting.
But for everyone listening, yeah, we we did a three-week
road trip through the States andI did not drive for one minute,

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Luke. Just over 7000 kilometers.
What a trip though. What a trip.
For me as well. And we're back thanks to our
recent sponsor. Uh, let's continue the plot
here. Yeah, yeah.
Which sponsor? Looking Gin tonic.com, that's

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what. Tripadvisor.ca by
ginandtonics.com Yeah, maybe, um, no free ads, but maybe Club
Club Colombia, maybe they can sponsor us.
We're drinking a lot of those. Columbia, but you're in Ecuador
now. Wow is the decent beer.
Wow, the Ecuador has also got a club beer.
I guess it's just called club. I don't know, but it's a pretty

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good. The only beer you can have at
the club. There's a, there's a bar here
actually, we like going to, it'sa rooftop bar and they got beers
that are 10%. So you have a couple of those
before your night out and you'refeeling good.
Sets you off right? Or you there 10% Jesus.
Yeah, and that should taste good, man.
We had one the other day. It's 10% and had like a like a

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honey flavor and it didn't tastelike a 10% beer at all.
Like it didn't taste like heavy like an IPA.
It was actually really. Nice name, I'd like to see if I
can get one. It's called kamikaze.
Yeah, that's real. Yeah.
So they were going to love it. Yeah, that's the damn.
Where the hell is that from? So that's one in Page, AZ that

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makes Lake Powell. That's all Lake Powell in the
background. Ah OK, OK cause yeah, I remember
going to the damn too. That's the iconic one that all
the movies are shot at, right? No, you're thinking of the
Hoover Dam, which was outside ofLas Vegas, which is further down
the same river. Oh OK, so that's the Huether and
this one's the fucking no name. Can't remember what the fuck the

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name of this one is to be honest.
Fair enough. For everyone listening, we're
just kind of reminiscing and looking at old pictures.
So like, you know, just uh, justsit back and enjoy and maybe
crack a beer. Glen Canyon.
Glen Canyon. I wouldn't be the damn though.
I'll Glen Canyon dam. There you go.
Glen Panning Dam. Hot damn.

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Yeah, yeah, it's pretty nice, man.
It's pretty nice, you know, Like, nice damn, nice damn.
Real nice there. Yeah, no.
There's the old set up on Lake Powell.
Play ping pong in the water under the shade tent because
it's the only way. You weren't dying in that.
Weather Ohhhhh yeah, I was crazyabout it was crazy.
Wow, That is it's nice to look back and forth.
I don't have any of these photos, I don't think.

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But yeah, I remember us. I remember I was trying to play
beer pong too, on that table. Yeah.
Yeah, and it's an absolute failure on that table.
Oh yeah, Big time, Big time. Was there anything else from
Utah, though? I think we did the hike.
That was the Hatley Powell. That's all I really remember.
For you, kind of oh, we did. Well, we went and did the
southern rim after that, they'resorry, northern rim of the Grand

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Canyon. Yeah.
So that was Arizona, Arizona, Arizona.
Yeah, we we were like the poorest people at that campsite.
It felt like we had like a shadetent and two tents.
People are rolling up with fifthwheels and jet skis and weight
boats and shit. Oh yeah, Oh my God, look at that
guy. This son is just reflecting
right off. You're literally brighter than

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the sails of the background. Ohhh my gosh.
Wow, wow. Yeah, that looks about.
Look at the bicep on that kid though.
Holy shit, what happened? Damn, it's the Old Town square.
Yeah, I don't have those anymore.
I fucking. I lost it all.
Looks the same. OK, I'll take it.

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But yeah. That just means more.
You never had it for then you kept it.
Yeah, one of the two depending on the perspective.
But I mean, I guess we can, we can flash forward now, uh, to
the old Grand Canyon, AZ Oh my gosh, look at that setup.
Yeah, we were poor as fuck. I loved it.

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And this ladder ball that you brought across the country?
Ohe buddy, I love me some ladderball.
You guys made fun of me back in Calgary cause I'd bring it on
dates and have it in the back ofthe Volkswagen.
Be like, oh, you wanna play someladder ball?
And we're still gonna make fun of.
You ohe yeah, fuck bear enough. I'm actually don't need to go
into that, but. It's not for this podcast.

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Not not for this podcast. Not for this podcast.
We're going here. Yeah, that's all.
That was nice. Fucking sunset.
God do you? Yeah, it's a six sunset,
actually. Alright.
Little wet. The old truck still got the old
girl. No, no, of course you did.
But you taking good care of it last year, 20 years at this

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point. It's made it 13 so far so.
You got another 7 easy. These appears, Oh yeah, this
Remember, Remember driving into the coming into the Grand
Canyon, it became more like terrain, like at home.
Yeah, which we. Didn't we got higher in
elevation? We started getting like, you

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know, more trees were normal, like you used to, like pine
trees and shit and like normal fields, like everything wasn't
dried out. It was such a weird terrain
change. Well, because what we didn't
realize is the the side that we were on, that northern rim is
actually a lot greener. While we were expecting was the
more desert dry, but that's the southern rim.
So yeah, it was it was like a not nice National Park almost

(27:56):
with all the trees, greenery andeverything.
And we're like, is this what theheck?
Where are we? The fuck am I here?
Oh yeah, and then this is where I did the Titanic.
Pose. Where the hell is that?
Which I've still done kept doingin South America.
That with buddy when we were on a cruise or on patient's wedding
in Cabo. Oh yeah.
I was standing in the front of the catamaran, like hanging out.

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I didn't really know him that well at the time.
And like I said to Calcium, like, you got to get a picture
of this. And I went up behind him, put my
hand on his hips. Yeah, yeah.
He stuck his arms like the Titanic.
Fucking good. Yeah, we've been doing that.
So I don't put my hands on the hips, I put them right on the
breast. You know, get a nice gonna nice
hole there. Make sure they're secure.

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Jesus. Christ, how you get close when
you're traveling, you know? Yeah, that's true.
Very hot, yeah. Yeah.
Nothing. So yeah, Grand Canyon is a, as
most people listening know, obviously, I've probably seen
pictures of it. It's a pretty famous spot.
And there's a pretty breathtaking.

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When we got there, not going to lie, you kind of had to just sit
there and just kind of take it all in for a moment and kind of,
yeah, just admire the beauty of it and they're all there.
It is the classic. Yep.
Yeah. The big thing too is I wasn't
expecting just how like fucking huge it was, right?
Because like you can't like we didn't get the huge expanse like
you do from the South Grand Canyon.

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Like did the fact that it just kept going into?
Thoughts. And you can see that I don't
even know how fucking far down it was, but you just see so far
down. You can see so far away.
Like it just it ran out in the horizon.
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was quite, quite breathtaking
for sure. Just the sheer size of it, Yeah.
That's what she said. A.

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Minor bumps. What else we got there?
That badass cabin that was builtthere?
Like restaurant thing. Yeah, Brand.
Hurricane Ramma enjoyed. That's where we were camping,
right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No Grand champion ain't bad. No nice.

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Oh my gosh. Chick-fil-A.
Overrated. Overrated.
But I really liked it. I got 1 here now actually I
haven't tried it yet. Chick-fil-A and in and out and.
In and out, It was like a burger.
But Chick-fil-A, I thought it was pretty damn good.
Yeah, I think in and out. I think the burger was OK, the

(30:27):
fries were shit, if I remember correctly.
And then Chick-fil-A, yeah, I don't know.
I just was like. Whatever wasn't open on Sunday
so you were disappointed. Yeah, exactly.
What's up with that? I gotta go to church, don't you
know? I gotta go to church on Sunday.
Yeah, no, I wouldn't know. Uh, yeah, that's.
I wouldn't either. This was when we slept outside

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of St. George, UT, and it was so hot
overnight that you didn't put the fly on your tent.
You didn't even bother with blankets.
Yeah, because it maintained like26 or 28 overnight.
Like it was just, it was almost gross.
But that that's my like favoritekind of camping is when you can
take the top off, just stare at the stars and just have that

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like open air. Yeah, but this was just you're
trying not to sweat. Yeah, exactly.
Well, look at this guy. Oh yeah.
So this was. Remember your gym, your gym guy.
Yeah. Where was it in Arizona?
You said the name George St. George.
That's right. Yeah.
So we went to Saint George and the reason I wanted to go there
is one of my favorite fitness influencers at the time, Steve

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Cook. He he lived there and had a gym
there. And I was like, oh, I want to go
workout at the gym and meet my hero.
I remember I actually not to jump on Instagram, obviously was
never actually going to hear from the guy.
You were hopeful though. You were like, oh, I messaged
him. Probably hear back there so you
know. Yeah, exactly.
I'm just a pigeon. Probably never even saw the
message. But anyways, we still went to

(31:53):
the gym and I think that was like, what?
Maybe our only workout the wholetrip?
Or like maybe one of two? Yeah, I think one of two and
honestly it was nice to work out.
And actually the the shirt I gotfrom there was pretty good.
I still run that shirt. Yeah.
It's like it was a nice fitting shirt with a clean logo, like it
was good. Yeah, I've got that shirt still
back in in Calgary there. And like you said, yeah, it was

(32:14):
kind of nice to work out becausewhat I've noticed even with the
trip I'm currently on, right, it's been four months.
I think I've worked out maybe like 3 or 4 times.
But like there's just some days where it's like I just need to
get a good work in workout in right now.
Even if it's like not that oftenonce in a while, it's just nice
to go have a sweat and lift someweights.
Exactly different pain than a hangover.

(32:35):
Yeah, exactly. Look at my Oh my gosh, My legs
look so skinny in this though. Jesus, focus.
Look at that high. Ohe yeah, tough guy, crazy man.
Oht my gosh. Yeah.
It was a nice gym, doll. Very nice gym.
That was a beautiful gym. Yeah.
And you signed your name on the.Wall.
Yeah, that's right up on the ladder.

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Oh my God. The little guy on the ladder.
There will Little guy on the ladder.
Yeah, little fella. Ohe my gosh.
Oh, yeah. There you go.
That's a nice shot. Yeah, I don't even remember what
I wrote. Probably something stupid.
Can we zoom in on that? David hustling at Up in the

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Clouds. Calgary, AB.
Of course I threw my Instagram. In there, yeah, you're getting
exactly 0 followers out of it. All 100%, yeah, yeah, no
followers. Unless they thought Adrian was a
girl. Maybe you got some.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go.
Fuck that's crazy. I look way different with short

(33:38):
hair. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, little more. Little Speed Vegas was the next
stop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that's really it for Arizona.Yeah, a lot of these places we
were only staying like a few nights, right, But.
But it was all off the cuff too.Like, like you said, like we
didn't even know Lake Powell wason the radar.
It was, it's like, let's go drive somewhere.

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We had a couple what do we have booked?
We had vet that's what it was. We had to waste time till Vegas
because we had Vegas booked. Hmm and we had like 2 camp sites
on the West Coast book. Everything else was off the
cuff. Yeah, I think we have Vegas and
the Redwood National Park those were.
Booked Redwood and then there was another one, a big Sir.
What's the other one? We had the book Big Sur

(34:22):
California because it books up like months ahead.
But yeah, we end up sobbing in Vegas for two days and I mean,
before we get to the nightly activities cause I'll share some
stories for those which are crazy, but we can talk about
Speed Vegas first. I'll let you take that one away.
Eat Vegas I love because I've never had.
I'm obsessed with cars, fast cars, whatever.

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Been like that since I was a kid.
But Steve, Vegas is so cool thatyou could just go rent whatever
car well, that you can afford orwanted to pay for.
And they put an instructor in the car with you buddy gave you
instructions depending on how you were like taking your
feedback and such and like how you're driving was.
And they would just let you unleash on this track if you

(35:03):
showed the skills. Yeah.
So I think you took a Porsche GT3 Rs I think it was, which is
a very fast, very sweet car. So if you drove it slow as fuck.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean not as fast as.
You. I was on a slower car and I
whooped. Yeah, boy.
Yeah, I know. I always think I'm driving so

(35:25):
fast and then I'm like a grandma.
I felt, I felt fast. But.
Well, that's what counts, right?Is it?
It's your experience at the end of the day.
So but if anybody ever goes to Vegas, I would highly highly
recommend go to Speed Vegas. But go there on your first day.
Don't go there hungover, don't go there feeling like shit or
lack of sleep. Like be 100% on it ready to go

(35:45):
because it's so worth it. And at the time, a tip that
pissed me off that we figured out later was if you paid.
So say you paid for three laps, if you paid for more laps after
they give you 50% off. So I think I paid for like 5
laps and then I found out you could get a discount.
So yeah, something to keep in mind.

(36:05):
Over. Sure.
Yeah. No, that was.
America MG thing was deadly. Rear wheel drive, twin turbo.
We ate unreal. I remember you saying that your
instructor was like, do you got one of these at home?
Because you're driving this thing like you own it, and
you're like, no, I just have a pickup truck.
Yeah, he's like, yeah, what do you, what do you drive at home?

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And I was like, I got a half tonout of the parking lot.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I also remember my
instructor fucking what a, what a job, what a gig.
I'm talking to him and the guys from Ontario, Ontario, Canada
and I'm like what the fuck you doing out here buddy?
Right. You're living the dream.
I would. I would fucking do that as like
a retirement gig. That would be sick.

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Wow, even as a gig if you want to live in Vegas for a bit,
actually they got guys out here man, and Banyos Ecuador, their
guides for the whitewater rafting.
I'm like, I would freaking do that 100%.
You wanna pay me to go white water rafting everyday?
Done. Dude, we met guys when we did
Jamie's bachelor party in Jasperbefore it froze or before he got
on fire. Yeah, same thing.

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We went up and there it was likeall these young guys just
hanging out, like barely cuttingit, just being raft guide bums
essentially. Oh yeah.
That's like we gave the guy like100 but dollar tip because like
between like the five of us, whatever, like 100 bucks isn't a
big deal, but like that let thatguy party that night right like.
100% said he's having a good time.

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But yeah. And the other thing I remember
about the the cars, when you're doing the track, it's like,
yeah, you have the the paddle shifters, so you got those and
then yeah, but he's basically telling you when to shift, when
to break around the corners. And then after like the first
lap or two, he's like, I just like go like let's.
Get rid. Yeah, now exactly.
But uh, yeah, I'll share a couple stories, I guess from the

(37:50):
the two nights in Vegas. So once again, my boy Luke here.
Well, the first night you went out with the.
Second, I'm not I'm not a two nights in a row guy.
I'm a one night. I can't do 2.
It's I struggle or I gotta control myself the first night,
which I never do. So you gotta get your 8 hours
and yeah, if you, if you have the one big night out the second
night and I'll go. But the first night was an

(38:11):
adventure buddy, because I remember, and you can kind of
fill in the gaps here because mymemory is obviously not the
best, but I do remember we got we got separated at one point.
We were, you know, off at various casinos gambling.
And I actually met this met thisgirl.
And so we started hitting it offand we're having some drinks and
we're doing some gambling and I'm having the time of my life

(38:33):
and, you know, ended up getting some party favors and whatnot,
but end up hanging out with thisgirl for like an hour and a
half. Like you know a good amount of
time, like having a great time, like you know all all all signs
are pointing green. Had the mad wheels going.
You thought everything was smooth and it it sounded like
and felt that way, right? Like it was just, yeah, I need

(38:54):
somebody and having a good time.That's exactly what it felt
like. I was like, oh I made a new
friend like. This she was a local too, right?
Yeah, yeah, Oh yeah. She was a local girl from Vegas.
And yeah, after about an hour and a half of drinking and
gambling together, she just literally turns me like out of
nowhere. And she goes, alright, so here's
the deal. 100 bucks for the restof the night.
And I remember like as the wordscame out of her mouth, it just

(39:17):
like hit me right in the face. I was in shock.
I was like, wait what? And then I went, wait.
So we just spent the last hour and a half together.
We're having a great time. I thought.
I literally just like met someone.
You buy her drinks and stuff. I don't really remember, yeah.
So yes, the proper answer is probably yes.
Probably yes. And yeah, I remember she says

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that and I just looked her and went what the fuck?
And then without even saying a word, I literally just spun
around 180° and just walked away.
I was like so disgusted and in shock and like, what the hell
just happened that I literally without saying a word, spun
around and just started walking the other way.
I was like, Nope, fuck that. I'm a but that would that was
that was a crazy experience. I've ever had something like

(40:03):
that happen to me, but I guess it is pretty common.
Occurrence in Vegas. That that was the first night,
wasn't it? That was the first night, yeah,
because. That's where the hell was I
gambling? No, so that's when we were
separated. So you were off gambling and I
guess I don't know how we got separated, but we did.
And then I met this girl. And then, if you remember Luke,
after all that happened, I endedup taking a cab and that's when

(40:26):
I called you. Oh fuck.
That wasn't even that was the daylight dude.
That was during the day. No, no, no, because I got to the
Bellagio and it was blackout brois that night.
I could have sworn at Bellagios during the day.
Not OK. It must have been that night

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alright. So, so for people listening,
what happened? Yeah, I end up jumping in this
cab and I'm going to the Bellagio.
But I didn't realize I had no money.
And it's like, it's like a $4.00cab.
Like it's literally. Nothing $8.
I think it's an $8 cab. Or $8 cab.
But I did. I had legit no money left like
obviously for this girl. And so I remember I get to the

(41:08):
Bellagio like I have no way to pay you, he looks.
At you didn't have a card or anything, right?
No, I didn't. And he looked at me like so
disgustingly like oh shit. So I remember I called Luke and
I'm I'm pretty buckled, right? So I, I called Luke and I'm
like, hey, man, like I took a cab, like I, I'm at the
Bellagio. Money for a cab?

(41:31):
No, no, no, remember. So I call, you know, like I need
you to pay for this cab. You're like, where are you?
And I'm like, and I go to the cab driver.
I'm like, where am I and the cabs Like you're at the
Bellagio. I'm like about the Bellagio.
And I always remember this bit because I happened to be walking
across like I used to. I was across the street from the
Bellagio somehow. Yeah, stumbling over there.

(41:52):
I've ever like running over maybe.
I think it was a $4.00 cab because I remember I get over
and I see the guy and I like, I think I apologize to you, but I
give him a 10 and he just got inhis car and left.
He. Didn't know he.
Changed or nothing, he just fucked off.
He was so disgusted and it was such a small amount that I
remember you were like, seriously?
Like, you don't have that. Like what?

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You have $4.00 in Vegas buddy. Oh my God.
So yeah, lucky you bailed me outthere and then.
I don't. Honestly, I couldn't tell you
what happened the rest of the night.
At that point. I was.
I was in one for. Sure.
No idea we got there's a picturewe draw into St.
Tour. All I remember that, yeah, we
crashed the street tour. So there's a street tour.
There's a guy at a bunch of old folks and he's like showing them

(42:37):
around the main strip of Vegas. And I remember like, interview
all drunk with one of those big slushy cops.
Like I started asking some questions, like, hey, man, like
what's what's the story behind this?
And everyone's looking at me like, who the fuck is this guy?
Like the picture I'm showing right now that just shows Adrian
standing beside the tour guide. Like looking at what the tour

(42:57):
guys pointing out. Like we were just absolutely
slammed doing this. Just cut.
Remember we did a little photo shoot and one of the beer.
Oh yeah, it's coming up. It's coming up.
Yeah, you're just trying to fucking.
Oh my God, look. So here we are, Adrian's in a

(43:21):
bright pastel pink shirt. Let's call it salmon.
Yeah, trying to blend in with this tour guide of 40 plus year
old people. Ohhhhh my God, your Fanny pack
on too, didn't you? Oh yeah.
Oh, there it is. Wow, what a lucky Oh my, the

(43:42):
Popeyes Fanny pack she's as. I don't know how these people
didn't fucking. Here we go.
There it is there. The photo the photo shoot in the
walk in freezer in the CVS I believe it is.
As iconic what? But like it was the only cold
place in the strip so. I think that picture has to be

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the the cover picture for this episode.
I could send you the whole albumso you can choose whatever you
want. I'd be fucking wicked.
What up? Wow, wow.
Yeah. The beer gods.
Oh my God. Hell yeah.
Well. Buddy.

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Yeah. Oh God no.
The Venetian. We went stumbling through there,
my God. Yeah, this is This is all stuff
I don't remember now, so this isall my.
Got another slushy drink? Now we were loving this last

(44:47):
year. Drinks.
Ohhhhh. Fuck man.
And they're usually stiff. Ohe yeah, they're, they're,
they're deadly. They're dead.
Ohhhhh my God, we're. Sorry you guys can't see this,
but the other, the one picture is Adrian.
So it's like A to conveyor belt more or less, but it's like a
moving ramp, not an escalator, but a moving ramp.
So Adrian's doing a walk like anEgyptian.

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Yeah. I'm doing the what do you call
that? Drop my first album.
Drop my first album, Yeah. Yeah.
Well, drinking a slushy drink given would be symbol.
With the with the camelback on classic Lukey.
I make somebody watering. I think it was a sad life saver.
Not really, but. Oh my God.

(45:32):
I don't know if that was sunset or sunrise from the room.
I'm going to take probably Sunrise.
Yeah. Oh, it tells you the time,
doesn't it? 6:03 AM Yeah.
Wow. That's why you didn't make it
out the second night. Jesus Christ, what time were
these Venetian pictures at? Oh my God.

(45:55):
Yeah, the selfies in the mirror.Ohg Jesus.
Once this 8:00 PM. Ohk, OK, it's not even.
So we got a picture from 8 PM. 8:30 PM. 6:00 AM.
There's a big gap there. Oh my God what a time tag is a

(46:16):
wanna. Play Jesus.
Here's the Hoover Dam. So we did go to the Hoover Dam,
OK, Yeah, yeah. But before we get to the Hoover
Dam, I'll share some stories from that.
Site. You got another Vegas story?
Yeah. I've got another story from the
second night because I ended up going out on my own.
I went solo and I realized it all starts at the hotel because

(46:36):
I remember getting out, went down to the lobby and I was
gonna get a taxi, but I saw the line for the taxi.
The line is freaking huge and like where all these people
coming from? So I'm like, alright, here's the
strategy. I'm not going to wait for my own
taxi. Excuse me, I'm going to jump in
line and make some friends. So sure enough.
Start talking. You made some friends.
Oh my gosh. So I started talking to this

(46:56):
group of people. It's two guys and a girl.
Girl was like, yeah alright, butwhatever.
I was literally just looking fora cab to get in so I could
quickly get down on the strip, so I started.
Hanging out with two, right? Yeah, exactly.
So I started chatting them up, Good conversation, super
friendly. They're like, hey, you wanna hop
in the cab with us? I'm like, yeah, let's do it.
So we hopped in the cab and we go to our first casino.
So we're having some drinks, we're gambling, we're having a

(47:18):
great time, great vibes. Like I said, super friendly.
And you know, at this point there's nothing going on the
radar. Like I'm just thinking, oh
great, I made some new friends. Like I got people to drink with.
This is going to be a great night.
Why does the night progresses and the drinks continue?
I notice that the two guys startlike buying me drinks.
So like, like let us buy you a drink or let us buy you a

(47:39):
cocktail. And I'm like, oh fuck, you guys
are so nice. Like, thank you so much.
Like. Never one to refuse a free
drink. Yeah, no one refuses a free
drink. And so this kind of progresses
for a couple hours. And then I remember
specifically, we're at the second casino.
I'm sitting down at the blackjack table.
The two guys come back with a cocktail they just bought for

(47:59):
me. And as they put the cocktail
down on the table, they get behind.
The one guy gets behind and he'slike, like, how's the blackjack
going, man? Like, here's a drink for you.
And he starts, like, massaging my fucking shoulders.
He's like, hey, man, like, how'sit going?
Like, is it going? And as he's doing it, I'm like,
oh, that's like, nice of you. And then I'm like, wait a second
and I kind of like look at both of them and I'm like, oh shit.

(48:21):
And that's when it all clued in.I was like, the two guys are gay
and they've been hitting on me the whole night and I didn't
even. Thought they were just being
nice. I thought they're just being
nice. I thought we were just broken
out and it turns out they're basically just trying to get me
drunk. And so buddy starts feeling me
up and I'm like, oh shit, I'm like, I'm in one right now.
So I pulled the classic evacuation route.

(48:44):
So what I did is I'm sitting at the table.
I got this fresh cocktail. I'm like, I'm not even touching
this thing cause who knows? And I'm like, hey boy, it's
like, I'm like, thanks boys. Like thanks for the cocktail.
I'm like, yo, I gotta hit the washroom real quick.
I'll be right back. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
no worries, no worries. So I go, I go towards the
washroom and justice, before I get to the washroom, I like look
back to make sure they don't have like a vantage point.

(49:04):
They can't see me and they're long gone, can't see me.
And I just do a quick fucking 180 and absolutely book it out
of this casino. I'm like, I'm outta here.
Goodbye, Iris. Exit.
See you later. Being a blast.
But I gotta go. So yeah, I end up peeling out.
I'm like, Get Me Out of here. And then I remember I go to
another casino and again, I'm gambling and I'm making friends

(49:27):
at the table. And I actually ended up meeting
this guy who had actually built the gym that we went to in
Arizona. Oh shit.
Which is, which is absolutely crazy small world.
So we started growing out. He was with his wife, but
obviously his wife was like not really interested in the
gambling. So me and him started gambling.
We were, we were growing out talking about the gym.

(49:47):
I was like, man, I just went there.
He's like, yeah, I'll build it. I was like, that's incredible.
And yeah, the, the rest of the night was a good time after I
got away from from the original pack there.
And then the last part of the night, I remember I'm walking
around the streets and classic Adrian, like I, I don't want to
shut it down. I want to keep partying.
But at that point, like the party had kind of died down and
I remember running into this girl and she starts chatting me

(50:09):
up. Well, we know what happened the
first night. I'm already on guard.
I'm like right away, Right away.I'm like, hey, where are you
from? She's like, I'm from Vegas.
I'm like, Nope, no, I'm good. I'm good.
Have a good night. See you later.
See you. Bye.
Wait, no, no, wait. Can I get your number?
I'm like, yeah, sure. Cause I just want to get rid of
her. So I gave her my number.
I was like, OK, see you later. And I remember I got back to the

(50:30):
hotel and she actually texted melike, hey, like, what are you
doing? And I was like, no, not
happening. I know where this is going, I
know what you're doing. So yeah, shut that down.
But a crazy solo night in Vegas,it was a hell of an adventure.
But I mean for the most part A good time.
Yeah, I think it worked out wellfor you, minus the, well,
honestly, like, you know, I think nowadays if you'd known

(50:52):
those gay guys are hitting on you now, you'd be like, hey,
man, like I'm not gay, but I'll hang out.
Like, yeah. Then you were, like, freaking
out. Be like that.
No fucking beast. I I think it was more because
like I'd had some drinks and like I was on my own and I was
like, yeah, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna get out of.
This just gonna get the hell outof here.
Yeah, well, like you said, maybebuddy put something in your
drink. You never know.

(51:13):
Well, yeah, exactly. So yeah, I didn't touch that
cocktail, but yeah, that's the that's the, the the story is
from Vegas. What a what a place.
What a place. You need another beer there,
hottie boy. No, I'm here.
Yeah. You need that beer.
You mean you're fucking fall asleep over there?
Look at you. You and your sweatpants.
What do you want? You want Pilsner or club?

(51:34):
Club cat. All right, Luke, so where are we
off to you next. Oahu, Hollywood.
Ohe God Hollywood, what a dump. Right.
Yeah, so bad. My only good, only good memory I
have it is I took a picture of Bob Barker's star on the

(51:55):
Hollywood Walk. No, yeah, Bob Barker.
What a legend. Yeah, yeah.
We showed up after Vegas. We got to that hostel and
everybody's partying in the hospital.
We were so dead from Vegas we literally just went and slept in
the hostel. Well, if you if you remember, I
slept that whole car ride from Vegas to LA, I.

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Was yeah, I remember. Yeah, of course, I remember.
And yeah, like you said, we got to the hospital, everyone's
looking at us like, oh, who's these guys Wanna be social?
And we're like, no. And I remember I went straight
into the bunk bed and straight into the fetal.
Yeah, yeah. It was pretty miserable.
It was then we went to, what wasit?
We went to the Santa Monica Pierwhich is funny that it does the

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literally the only pictures I have I've Bob burgers star.
Yeah. One from Santa Monica Pier.
Hmm. And that's it.
And then we got the fuck out of Hollywood.
Yeah, it was, It was a dump. I remember we went to what's
the, what's the Main Street withall the Hollywood Ave.

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Uh, the Walk of Fame, I don't know what the hell it's called.
The Chinese theatres there and stuff, like all the supposedly
famous part. Yeah, it was a dumb.
It was not fun at all. Honestly, I would.
I wouldn't go back to that part of that city again for sure.
Like I'd want to go somewhere way different.

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Yeah, maybe there's a nicer part, but I remember, yeah,
going there and we thought it was going to be, you know, what
you expect from Hollywood, But it was disgusting, dirty, tons
of homeless people. I was like, where the heck are
we right now? Yeah, it was not, not all the
glammed up to me, but Next. Next was one of the best spots I
think. And we're talking about.

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Pismo. Beach.
Ah man, Pismo Beach. What a freaking place I was
actually looking at. I was actually looking at visas
because I just wanted to say. Yeah, you were that.
I think this is what started your obsession with wanting to
be somewhere else. Yeah, that's a good point.
That's a good point. But for those listening, Pismo

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Beach, CA, beautiful little beach town.
It's one of those beach towns where everyone goes surfing,
then in the morning before work and then after work they go play
beach volleyball. They're like 10 beach volleyball
courts. And if you know me, there's
nothing better than a little beach volleyball.
Or the classic Mac and hot dogs on the on the grill.

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Oh my gosh, what a meal. Yeah, I remember that.
Ohe yeah. Geez, what else we got?
Man I look scary without any facial hair.
Yeah. Yeah.
No facial hair, no hair. No man's terrifying Jesus.

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Yeah, because. I was sick.
We just stayed there. Like your camp say, it was
almost on the beach, like you had to walk over a little sand
pile essentially. But it was quiet, it was
beautiful. It was exactly what we needed
after Vegas and LA. Oh, hundred percent, 100%.
Did all the big city go to the small beach town?

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And yeah, it was, it was a nice little stop.
It was, it was one of my favorites.
I'd say the two favorites for mewere Lake Powell and Pismo
Beach. Yeah, the two places to just OHS
you didn't hear it. Didn't come on.
Then we went up the West, yeah. Then we started driving up the

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West Coast, doing the the hills,the name of that highway.
Um. This was on our way to like the
West Coast Highway between LA and this is saying that Cabrillo
Hwy. But I don't think that's the
name we're thinking of. Pacific Coast Highway.
Yeah, I was gonna say I thought Pacific was in the name.

(55:51):
Yeah. Pacific Coast Highway.
And that was, that was a beautiful holly.
All the seals. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And on the coast? Yeah, if people less thing ever
get the chance and you want to go down to to Cali, make sure
you drive on the highway, not the one that's more inland.
It's it's it's gorgeous, beautiful beaches all the way

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along. It's a bit more of a long drive,
but it's definitely worth it. Absolutely worth it.
The rig there only. Yeah, because this should take
us to, um, Big Sur. Big.
Sur that that drive is just beautiful little twisty Rd. and
the time of year we went it wasn't busy either which was

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awesome. Oh yeah.
And if imagine being on that road on a bike or something like
that, it would be an absolute blast.
Would be amazing. Yeah.
And then then Big Sir, that was one of the big ones on your last
year, really looking forward to,but uh, yeah, Fast forward to
Big Sur, that was, uh, is that the start of the big trees or

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was that Redwood? That's Redwood.
So we had to go further north. So we still stopped over in, uh,
what the hell was that town where we ended up?
Like camping you have to pay like a nightly fee and they were
like kicking homeless people outof the campground and shit.
I remember that, but I don't remember big Sir.
I maybe refresh my memory. But, well, Big Sur was like this

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little beach area, essentially. OHK.
OK, we did that hike in the morning.
It had like a big view of the ocean.
Yeah, I don't, I don't remember that all.
The only thing I remember from like that section of the trip
was when we were driving towardsRedwood and we saw that guy that
was sitting in front of the treecross leg.
And you could tell he was clearly tripping from shrooms,

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probably because he was just sitting there on the side of the
highway just staring at the tree.
That was driving through, so that wasn't big, Sir.
That would be like the start of the redwoods, which is the
Humboldt Redwood forest right now.
So as we're maneuvering through those trees, yeah, you saw a
buddy just tripping balls chilling in front of a tree.

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But that that campground in the redwoods, ohhh man that place
was gorgeous. Oh my gosh, then ohe yeah, the
sky. Skydiving.
I. Think we paid?
We paid like 40 bucks US on a Groupon or something to go
skydiving. Yeah, it was a Groupon.

(58:21):
Yeah. I mean, 40 bucks, yes, to go
skydiving, that's a hell of a good deal.
What was? That we probably should have
played, paid more. Where was that?
Yeah. Santa Cruz.
Ohm, Santa Cruz. That's right.
And for, for people as saying like I'm afraid of heights, I
actually thought I'd be a lot more nervous for skydiving, but

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only enough when we got up in the air and like you had the
open door there and you even getto the point where obviously
you're attached to your instructor.
So I'm actually hanging like in the middle of the air, like I'm
not even in the plane anymore. He's the one in the plane still.
And I wasn't even nervous. It was weird.
It was like this calm came over me and I was like, alright,
we're doing this. Well, you don't get time to
really think about it. And it's not like without making

(59:04):
a big stir or like something like once you're in that plane
and it starts taking off, like you don't have a choice anymore,
like you don't have time to to think about it.
Like fuck it, we're doing it. You're so excited and that
planes just climbing the entire time now, then all of a sudden
they're lining you up and they're shoving your instructor
and people out of the plane. You're like oh shit, alright,

(59:26):
here we go. Boof.
And out of the plane you go. The only part I was nervous
about, the freefall, was incredible.
The only part I was nervous about is when we finally opened
the shoot and you're hanging there and you're just suspended
by your, um, you do all the straps or whatever because if
you remember. The harness, anyway, we went to
go do this and you were getting suited up, getting harnessed up

(59:49):
and you're standing outside and you're about to get hooked on to
your instructor. You started asking him what's up
with my harness? Feels a little funny.
Yeah, she was way too loose body.
All the straps were loose. I was like, there's no way this
is legit. And sure enough, the guy that
put my harness on, I think it was like first year or
something, and my instructor proceeded the entire flight up,

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he kept tightening all my straps.
Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing. And I'm like, Oh my God, dear
Lord, I'm going to die. Give you that little extra
gentleman rush, tell you all your shit was loose.
Oh, my God, yeah. So that was a bit of a panic
moment. And that's why when we were
hanging there after he opened the shoot, I was like, man, I
really hope I don't fall out of this thing.

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Yeah, but. But an incredible experience.
Now it's interesting because I've since bungee jumped and
people say they're actually moreafraid of bungee jumping than
skydiving. Um, I think skydiving still
scarier, personally. Yeah, I've done both.
Um, I don't know, they were kindof equally scary.
So like the, the bungee jumping I did was over big like core,

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like an old Corey that was filled with water.
Like if your harness failed nearthe bottom, you at least weren't
going to die, but you might drown because your legs are
hammered together. Oh, true, yeah.
But skydiving, if something fails, you're just going to and
that's it, you know? Yeah, but at least it's like,
you know for sure. Like, it's not like you're gonna

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be like paralyzed or a. Vegetable or there are people
that have survived skydiving without with their parachutes
failing. While parachutes failing but
like usually that means like it doesn't open all the way or
something. It's not like they're just free
falling. But there's, there is a, there's
actually it's one woman I think fell off an airplane and died
and hit the ground without dyingwithout a parachute.

(01:01:38):
So. That's insane.
So it's possible, but pretty damn slim.
Yeah. But really, really, if you think
about it with skydiving like andespecially when you go with an
instructor is that guy's life ison the line too.
So you know the parachutes from packed correctly.
That's why most everybody packs their own shoots, right?
Yeah, yeah. Then it's on you.
Yeah. But yeah, it did.

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Did your guy do flares with you when you're on the parachute?
So like we free fall for 20 seconds or whatever.
Yeah, he did flares. We did a couple flips because I
was like flip, flip, flip, flip,flip.
In the air, you did flips, yeah.Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I remember when we opened the shoot, he actually
had me take over the controls interms of steering it, and I was
like, holy shit, what am I? Doing yeah, sick, right?

(01:02:24):
Sake, but also like, shitting mypants, yeah.
I remember, I remember my guy being short.
So I remember him saying to me as we were sitting on the
airplane because I they like shove us all in there and they
kept telling me to move back andI was like, I can't physically
move back in the plane. Like there was nowhere for my
knees to go or anything for me. It buddy didn't have it.

(01:02:46):
My buddy getting ready and he's like alright so there's one
thing we gotta figure out is when we go to land is you go to
hike your legs up as high as youpossibly can.
It's like why? He's like cause I'm like 6-8
inches shorter than you so if you can't get your legs up while
we land, we're both eating shit.So I remember basically as soon

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as we got near the ground is he slowed us down and got the
parachute drew. And then like I stood like, what
do you call it? Like was like half, half, half
sitting, half standing, like fucking crouched and he's like,
we fucking nailed her butt. Yeah, I don't think our landing
was quite as smooth because I kind of confused right at the
end. I was like oh fuck, what am I
doing? But we're going to the ground.

(01:03:29):
And. You're like, what?
We're going to the ground. Yeah, exactly.
It's like, oh, it's over, what do I do now?
And he's like, yeah, like, oh shit.
But you see though. Oh my God.
So yeah, that was, that was a wild time.
Amazing experience. Bucket list item for sure.
There's the in and out San Francisco bridge.
We wanted to stop in San Fran, but it was just too God damn

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expensive because I wanted to goto what's the island called?
Chaz Alcatraz. Was it was booked out like 2
months prior so we couldn't evengo.
Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point.
It was. Because we tried.
We kept looking. That would be incredible though.
I would love one day to be able to do that.
It's one of my favorite movies. Growing up with The Rock, with

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Sean Connery, um, hell of a movie.
But yeah, that would have been cool.
But no, San Fran, we didn't end up stopping because it's just
too darn expensive. Just drove over the Golden Gate,
got some In and Out burger and went on our way.
We're on our merry way. And then I think, I think the
last couple stops here were the old Seattle and Portland.

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No, we haven't got to the redwoods yet.
Oh fuck. OK, never mind, I'm getting out
of myself. Oh yeah, there's the redwoods.
There you go, there's your redwoods it looks like.
What the fucks the the planet that you ox live on and Star
Wars? I know we.
Talked about the name of the planet, but that's where it was
all recorded. So it looks like you're in a
Star Wars scene when you're hanging out.

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Yeah, it was there which I thought was sick.
I was actually keeping an eye out for the walks, but
unfortunately I didn't see any. We saw some deer.
Awesome, dear. Yeah, that's close.
Pretty close. What an unbelievable spot dog.
Beautiful place to camp right inthe middle of the forest there.
Massive. Freaking trees.

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Yeah, Humble Redwood State Park.Yeah, that's.
Along the Avenue of the Giants, where trees are 300 feet tall.
Massive. Like the height of office
buildings in major cities. Good comparison.
The one tree. I take a picture of it here.
Like when does it show from counting the rings?

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It started growing like it was already growing for.
Like it would put ugly would have been like 2 feet across in
the year 1000, which is when Vikings discovered North
America. Like, that's how long these
trees have been growing. Crazy.
Like when does it say, like the Ming dynasty in China started

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after this tree was growing? Yeah.
And these trees didn't get discovered till the 1850s.
And these were like 7 feet across.
No, this one was more than 7 feet across I think.
I don't know why one of the timeline items is University of
Paris founded. Who gives a?

(01:06:20):
For the University of Oxford. And there's one for Paris too,
but I think unless I'm. Oh yeah, you're right.
Yeah, weird. Right.
I didn't know that. Was like way cooler Ming dynasty
Cortez conquers. I don't know what that is.
Pilgrims. I think Cortez was a, I wanna

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say a Spanish explorer. Sounds sounds right.
And it conquers the Aztecs in like central South America.
You're being. Caught on that fucking rights,
but what I did a little sports betting I got the game on on the
side and one of the guys that. You're fully invested in this,

(01:07:03):
is what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know a lot of the Spanish conquerors and all that, but uh,
I gotta make money too. But.
Jesus Christ. But yeah, Redwoods, for those
people listening, you ever get achance, go check it out.
It is breath. Taking do it.
I remember getting a heartbeat. There's a picture you took of me

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with the truck in front of a tree and I look like a freaking
Ant. Try to find it there you.
Go. There it is.
That's crazy. Yeah.
And that wasn't one of the big ones like that's, that's another
thing is if you do go into that park is they're not, they might
be listed now, but there is a there's a group of these trees
that you can go to that they tryto keep as a secret essentially.

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But you can find your way to it if you do enough research and
you can do hike into these and they're literally like, like
their world record trees and they don't tell anybody about
it. Yeah, Yeah.
Well. Over 300 feet tall, like it
would take 20 people to hold hands to get around it kind of
thing. They're just, they're so

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insanely massive and and the pictures don't do it any
justice. Like the one we're showing here
is It's a picture of my truck parked between two of the trees.
The truck is about 7 feet wide. Both of these trees the trunks
are wider than the front end of my truck.
Yeah, your truck looks like a hall wheel.
It does, it looks like a toy. Hmm like it makes no sense how

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huge these fucking trees are. Yep, Yeah.
Just beautiful landscape, great place.
Yeah. I would, I would love to go
again in a heartbeat. It would be so cool.
Yeah. And they're fire resistant,
which is neat too. So if a if a forest fire rolls
through on these trees, they cantake a whole bunch of burning on

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the outside and they won't come down.
Usually it's very, very hard to burn one of these trees down.
Which makes sense why they've been around for so long.
Yeah, exactly because they have to.
Be around for the the regrowth of the forest, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at you.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, like I'm, I'm 6 foot 3 and

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the trunk of these trees are probably a foot on me.
And this is some of the ones that were cut down I don't know
how many years ago. Yeah, there's a good one.
I can, I can. I can't even reach the top of
it. No, no, it's.
Over 8 feet across the trunk. Yeah, it's probably like close
to 10 feet. Absolutely insane.

(01:09:32):
Insane in the membrane. Go insane.
You've got you doing this, uh. Oh my God, yeah.
Doing the splits on a fallen one.
Oht my gosh, look at that high. Wow.
I don't want to look at that anymore.
No, no, I don't blame you. We got Where is that fucking?

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There was the one tree that had like, held the record, like in
the early 1900s. There's the deer again.
Back in the 19 Hondas, this treeused to be the world record.
Nowadays, though, there's a bigger tree.
Yeah, yeah, I'd be a good guide.You'd be like that guy with the

(01:10:19):
mustache in Vegas. Oh fucking rights.
But ohe yeah, that's me and 20 years.
Tall tree. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, this is just one of the random trees.
So the circumference of the trunk was 42 feet.

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The height of the tree was 359 feet.
That's insane. And that was measured in 1957.
Yeah. So obviously it's grown quite.
A bit. It's had 50 years of growth.
Here's that tree here. Tall tree.
Oh yeah, yeah. Nice classical picture.

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The boys giant tree. There's tall tree and giant
tree. Yeah, real, real original naming
they did. Yeah, very, very original.
I like that. Yeah, very good descriptors.
363. Feet tall.
Shoot that puck. Yeah, boy.
Come on, boy. What else?

(01:11:25):
The Redwood. Was there anything else we
didn't really talk about like that town we stayed in Monterey?
We were we stuck out to the locals because we had brightly
coloured shirts on. Oh yeah, we ended up staying
there too, what we were planningto.
Yeah, well, we ended up finding a dirt cheap campground.
It was like 20 bucks a night, first come first serve.

(01:11:47):
It had everything you needed. It had showers, which was
deadly, but remember, was it a it was a liquor store or a
grocery store we went to. We're hanging out in line and
this old lady started hitting onus.
I don't, I don't remember. That you remember that.
No I don't. Ohhhhh.
Shit, So we're standing in line in a grocery store or something

(01:12:10):
buying beer and this lady started chatting you up I think
it was. And what was it?
Couldn't tell. Like she was just like half cut
or something. But as we're about to leave,
she's like you boys got room forone more in there.
We're in the truck. No, we gotta go.

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No, no, I don't remember that atall.
Yeah, that's great. Don't.
Probably. The the 2 girls there was 2
local girls that like asked us who we were.
Yeah, yeah, I remember that because we were walking by them.
I had that stupid salmon shirt on and.
I had a blue one on. Started a conversation and

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anyways, they asked where we were from and I was like, how
did you know? We're not locals?
And she's like, no one here to wear that shirt.
And I thought that was weird at the time because I'm like,
weren't Callie? Why would you not wear like?
A Nobody was wearing colourful clothing.
It was strange. Yeah, exactly.
But she's like, yeah, no, You say you stand out like a sore
foot. But we ended up chatting with
them a little bit. We ended up going to the bar
with them, No. Uh, I don't know.

(01:13:14):
We ended up drinking a pilot. Yeah, cause we went to that Dust
Bowl brewery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, friendly folks
time, actually. Yeah.
That that shirt always gets recognized when I when I have it
out. I remember I wore to the famous
treehouse party in Nicaragua and.
You still have that shirt. Yeah, I have it here while I'm
traveling, man. It's got a whole now in the one

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arm because it got caught in thesuspension bridge.
But it's still, it's still lives, man.
It still lives on. It's time to make that baby
sleeveless. I think at some point actually,
I'll just make it sleeveless andbring a marker and go to a party
and just have people sign it. Just send it.
I'm gonna be pretty, pretty cool.
Well, this is when we drove. We couldn't find anywhere to

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camp and it was raining. So this is, yeah, this is on our
way to Portland. We couldn't drive any further,
so we ended up just like taking off in this mountain pass.
Yeah, isn't that when we woke upand they're like site was
getting flooded and we had. To it was just pouring like a
motherfucker. Yep, no cell service.
We were like. Nope.

(01:14:19):
Good 20K in the Bush. Yeah, yeah, again, same thing.
Found a ram spot to camp but then we woke up to the the heavy
rainfall and realized like our tents were getting flooded like
the whole. Areas was.
Going under water. So we had to, we had to bail out
in the middle of the night. It was, it was crazy.
And then Portland. Portland, Portland.

(01:14:42):
Yeah, because we went to the. Portlands first, yeah.
Yeah. Portland.
That where? Yeah, that's where that homeless
guy got mad at you for giving him money.
We we got two stories from Portland, right?
We got the homeless guy and we got the strippers.
Strippers are terrible. All awful, awful.
I mean, we can talk about that first.

(01:15:02):
So I, I had heard through the rumor mill that Portland had
like some great strip clubs. So we're like, alright, we'll go
check one out. And I remember we got to this
one, we had to pay like, what was it, $20 to get in or
something crazy? Then or something like that,
yeah. And so right off the hop we're
like, wow, OK, that's pretty steep.
This must be like a nice place. I remember we get in and we're

(01:15:24):
literally the only clients thereand has some like Dungy Club.
Like it just felt dirty and we're the only ones there.
And we're like, OK, no, this is not the vibe like we should.
Not and then there was you had to spend a minimum amount of
money if you wanted to sit at like what I call sniffers role,
which would be like this near the stage.

(01:15:46):
Sniffers row. Yeah, we call a perv, but yeah,
same. Burros, different rows, same
thing. Yeah.
So like, if you wanted to sit there, you had to be spending so
much money throughout that time or you weren't allowed to sit
there. And then drinks were crazy
expensive. I think we ended up leaving
within like half an hour. No, we were not.
This is not a vibe, it was just this gross, dull.

(01:16:09):
Yeah, it was, it was terrible, terrible experience.
I don't know what, whoever recommended me the Portland
Strippers, bad recommendation. So that was that was a weird,
weird vibe. Actually, Blake, kind of most of
Portland was a weird vibe, to behonest.
And then, yeah, we had that interaction with the homeless
guy. Yeah, which was insane because
like, there's a lot of homeless people around there.

(01:16:30):
We've met one the first day whenwe got there trying to find
parking. Turns out it's hard to park a
truck in downtown fucking Portland.
Who to thunk it? Not us.
So anyway, we had chatting with this one guy and he tells me
about, oh, if you go further up,there's a different parking
spot. And I was like, oh, thanks.
But then as I got closer to him,I could smell like throw up,

(01:16:51):
like puke on him. And I was like.
Oh shit. Oh yeah.
Is yeah, I would have a couple bucks to help me out.
I was like, you know what, that's totally reasonable.
That gave the guy a couple bucks.
Now. But later that night, we were
coming back from soccer game, wasn't it?
Oht yeah. That's Seattle.
Seattle. Seattle.
So he makes. Up Seattle and Portland.

(01:17:12):
We're mixing up Seattle and Portland, dude.
I don't know what the homeless guy was.
Portland. I thought maybe it was Seattle,
though I can't remember, but anyways.
It doesn't matter. Whether it's Portland or
Seattle, we're walking down the street, going back to our
hostel. It's end of the night, no one's
really around. This homeless guy approaches us.
We start chatting and I was like, you know what?
I feel like helping this guy out.

(01:17:32):
So I remember I opened up my wallet and obviously I had some
20s. I had a 10 give him a 10 and I
guess he must have seen the 20 in my wallet and start screaming
hey like he took my 20, he took my 20 and I'm looking at this
guy going buddy, I just gave you10 bucks like what the hell.
We both have that same look, like we're kind of looking and

(01:17:52):
buddy chapter yelling and yelling.
I'm like what the fuck? And you're giving me the what
the fuck? I just turn you on.
What? Run.
Yeah, like you're like, what thefucking run?
So we just booted her for, I don't know, three or four or
five blocks. Yeah, to get the hell away from
this guy. Yeah.
And then we got approached by two, I think they were

(01:18:14):
strippers. And there are two more homeless
women. Yeah, 2 homeless women.
They're like, hey, like are you bothering him?
Like he's our friend and we had to explain to these two homeless
woman like, no, we tried to givehim money and then he basically
wanted more. And they're like.
And they didn't believe us at first.
It took some convincing, and then finally they're like, oh,
OK, OK, like. I told him like, we're like,
we're Canadian, why would we do this?

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And that's what we have. What do we have to gain by
taking money away from this guy?Exactly.
Absolutely nothing. So I'll try to do a good act.
And yeah, buddy just wanted more.
So anyways, we got out of that situation that was sketchy.
But yeah, that's honestly, that's all I remember from
Portland. Like I don't.
There's no big highlights. Not a big highlight, but.

(01:18:56):
Battle did the the soccer game was cool there.
Yeah, the soccer game, there wasa lot of fun.
It's the Seattle Sounders. Yeah, yeah.
And I remember too, like, so it was a whole atmosphere we didn't
expect because I remember we went downtown before the game,
Everyone's out at the bar pre drinking, so we ended up having
some beers. There's a whole parade going

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down to the stadium. It was epic as heck.
They had like a whole band and everything.
And I remember by the time we got to the stadium, like I was
pretty buckled. And we're taking the elevator
and there's Buddy from the from the band on the drums and
there's like a female reporter. And of course me, I start
hitting up this female reporter like, hey, what's going on,
blah, blah, blah. And just a super, super random

(01:19:38):
interaction. But just a lot of fun.
And then watching that game was a hell of a good time too.
Yeah, it was. It was super good environment,
just a super. It was just a cool ass place.
Yeah. Cool place.
And then of course, the public market, I think one of the more
famous aspects of Seattle, we went there that's it's a whole
lot of fish, basically a whole lot of fish.
Yeah, I got some fresh shrimp. What else did I get?

(01:20:01):
I got some smoked fish I think too.
Now. About it that's been really
didn't really have a means to cook anything so.
No, exactly staying in the hostels, but I think yeah, like
Portland, Seattle, not not huge highlights.
I think Seattle is a pretty nicecity.
And again, like, we had a couplefun experiences, but I think at
that point it was Kanye near theend of the trip and we were.

(01:20:24):
I think we're pretty worn out. Yeah, exactly.
The budget was getting low. Yeah, that too.
Yeah, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, States is not easy on the
wallet. No.
Yeah. I mean, um, we'll probably wrap
her up here shortly, but anymorehighlights or any other stories
you can think of from the trip there, Luke?

(01:20:47):
I don't think so. It shows we used 1042 liters of
gas. Hmm, makes sense.
Yeah, we. Travel 93 hours of drive time.
That's 7000 kilometers. Now it's.
Crazy. 7000 kilometers, yeah. Wild how much we drove.
Yeah, we put some. We put some time in for sure.

(01:21:08):
Wow, you did I? I just wasn't timing, I think, I
don't know. I I guess my take away from it
is like I didn't really enjoy any of the cities.
No. It was too busy.
I think you're gonna do that. You gotta like, fly in and
really have an itinerary. Yeah.

(01:21:28):
Like we didn't have an itineraryfor any of the cities, which I
think is something if you're gonna travel to a city, have an
itinerary. Yep, 100% yeah.
My take away would be go to LakePowell.
Yeah. Spend some more time there
drinking beers. Hang out, drink your water.
Stranger Yeah, make sure Audrey thanks for hydrate.

(01:21:49):
Sportacus Hydrate. God, yeah, I'd be careful with
you. Watch you hanging out with
although I still can't believe that woman off like 100 bucks in
years for the night. It's like what?
Which honestly, now that I look back at it and people are
getting like, Oh my gosh. But like, she was pretty hot and
like 100 bucks is a pretty good deal.

(01:22:15):
But anyways, anyways, yeah, and we're getting off track, but no,
I, I'd say the same thing. Like, and that's what I've
experienced a lot in Central South America is the cities just
don't do it for me. Even though it's a big city,
you'd think there'd be a lot to do.
It's, it's really not the case. And it's just, it's usually too
touristy, too many people, I just don't enjoy it.
So it's definitely nicer to justthose small beach towns or the

(01:22:38):
small mountain towns or, you know, the outskirts rather than
being in the city. But my take away, the biggest 1
is just the different landscapesin the United States, right?
It really surprised me. I wasn't expecting that and just
the fact that throughout each state and from state to state,
the landscape changes so much and there's so much beautiful
scenery that it really is nice to be able to do a road trip and

(01:22:59):
really experience it all. Yeah, and one thing they do
really well in the United Statesis their national parks.
Their park system is incredible,yes.
Like I think we paid, I think itwas 80 bucks US to get into
every one of those parks. Same with the camping at Lake
Powell. Like on it was because we had
our National Park pass, but on top of that it was like $5 a

(01:23:20):
night to camp there. Yeah.
That's just stellar deals, beautiful places that you go
explore. Like completely worth it.
Worth every penny. Everything's very well
maintained. They do a good job preserving
the parks, which is which is nice to see, right?
Because, you know, the states has a certain reputation, but
they really do take care of their country.
So that was good to see you. Yeah.

(01:23:41):
Well, I don't, I don't want to make this political, but I hear
they've been getting rid of a lot of that department, so I
hope that isn't changing in the States.
Fair enough. OK, well, we'll.
Leave that where it is and hope it's not changing.
Exactly. Exactly.
Yep. Laura.
Yeah. For everyone listening,
hopefully you enjoy listening tous just reminisce and share some

(01:24:02):
stories from our trip. It was a hell of a time and
yeah, I would recommend it to anyone.
Do do a summer road trip and also do a winter road trip if
you're in a skiing, snowboarding.
That's something else I did. Maybe I'll talk about that.
One, that's probably a good time.
Yeah, that'd be good to talk about.
Could you go on with that trip? Who'd you go with?
Not true. Wow solo bro.

(01:24:22):
But who could you interview along the way?
I guess if you. Oh yeah, my buddy Cole from
Calgary, we met up in Utah. I could definitely bring him on.
Same with Paige we met up. As well.
That's right, page 2. So maybe we'll make that an
episode one day, but I think I think that's good for today.
All right, man. All right, fucking right spot.
Well, fuck. Thanks for listening, everybody.

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Yeah, the shores. He fucking shores he.
Fucking Shorty, buddy. Well, hehe, yeah, ohkay there.
But so anyways, yeah, thanks forlistening, Luke.
Thanks for coming on buddy. Yeah, buddy, no problem.

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