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S3EP12; Death Ride: Unfinished Business
The countdown is on! Team Peach reunites after months apart to prepare for the legendary Death Ride - a grueling 103-mile cycling challenge with 14,000 feet of elevation gain across six mountain passes in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
What makes this year's attempt special is the unfinished business from last year. As the team recounts, they were tantalizingly close to completing the full course when an unprecedented mountain storm forced many riders, including some Team Peach members, to abandon. The disappointment is still palpable, but it's transformed into fierce determination for redemption.
This episode offers fascinating insights into different training approaches. While some members have logged thousands of feet of climbing in preparation, others like Daryl and Eric have focused on ultra-running events, demonstrating how cross-training and overall fitness can compensate for cycling-specific training. Their experiences highlight an important lesson for endurance athletes: consistency in general fitness sometimes matters more than sport-specific volume.
The mental aspects of preparation take center stage as the team discusses strategies for the big day. From JR's powerful mantra "I'm just going to keep going until I can't go no more" to the teams commitment to avoiding negative self-talk at rest stops, their psychological preparation is as thorough as their physical training. They share practical wisdom too - like packing emergency rain gear despite favorable forecasts, a lesson learned the hard way.
What emerges most powerfully is how their objective has evolved from individual completion to a shared goal of finishing together. The camaraderie and support among these athletes transcends competition, revealing why training with the right community can transform an endurance event from merely challenging to deeply meaningful.
Whether you're preparing for your own endurance challenge or simply enjoy stories of perseverance and teamwork, this candid conversation provides both practical tips and inspirational fuel. Subscribe now and join Team Peach on their journey to conquer the Death Ride!
Hey, hey, hey, welcome to the Peach Podcast. Just a couple of dudes and an occasional guest breaking open topics from everyday life on purpose, energy, attitude, commitment and health. So if you're ready, listen in as we live, to learn from our losses, gain from our gratitude and laugh as we level up. Always remember, if you ever feel stuck, all you got to do is just start. Come on, let's go. Hey, welcome back to Peach Podcast with Doug and Daryl. We've got an awesome week lined up for you, a great episode. We've got some special guests going on. Daryl, you and I aren't going to go back and forth a lot on this one, just you know what. Real quick, daryl, before we you start going into the whole garment thing and all this other stuff, tell me who are the guests we have on the show today we have a what used to be called um E train, or easy E has trained himself, is changed his name to ultra E.
Speaker 2:We got Eric, uh, we got Dave the fixer, we got three spoke Jr, we got the entire team peach minus DC and we got the band back together.
Speaker 1:Nice, wow, and Daryl you've been. You know you're really good. One of the things you're good at is letting us know you know how much time before our next event. I think you have it in your Garmin app so that Garmin notifies you. And when you get notified, you're like oh shoot, I better tell these boys what's going on. So lay that down for us, darrell. What's going? What's the countdown to? Uh, we got the death ride coming up. Um, what's the countdown man?
Speaker 2:And give us some stats Events death ride, two weeks, three days, toward the Alps, california 103 miles, 14,000 feet climbing. July 12th at 5.m. But we always start at 3 am. Doug wants to start early and, just as we all remember, this is the 44th year of Death Ride. It's up in Sierra Nevada, outside of Markleyville. Basically it is six different passes. There are three big, big mountains Monitor, ebbetson, pacific Grade. Everything is pretty high. We get up to 8,000 feet plus in each of those and it's just an awesome day. It's an awesome day and, you know, super excited. You know, doug, we've had a busy year, but you know what, other than Dave's 60th, which was awesome we haven't all been together has it been that long.
Speaker 2:So I'm excited.
Speaker 1:You know, darrell, that's crazy. So Dave's 60th birthday was back in early March. March, yeah, first of March. So since January 1,.
Speaker 2:what you're saying is that the whole team has not been together since with the exception of dave's birthday yep, yep, I mean like uh, we, you know, like I, I've missed a couple that you guys have done up in uh. Soco right, um dave wasn't able to make because of uh prior commitments uh a couple weekends ago and oh, the gold country challenge that Go. Country. So we got the band together, we got Weekend Boys, trip Tahoe shenanigans. Multiple pictures of Eric peeing on the side of the road. Just kind of team peach at its finest.
Speaker 1:Eric, I think you should pee behind the guy playing the bagpipes on top of a monitor right there. That'd be an iconic photo, Eric.
Speaker 4:Yeah, we can make that happen for sure. That'd be an iconic photo, Eric.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can make that happen for sure, but oh yeah, by the way, with those shenanigans we just got to get up 14,000 feet of climbing.
Speaker 1:So, daryl, I want to pause on that point. And, guys, you know you guys can chime in on any of this stuff, but I was going through Strava because I noticed Strava did a little facelift on a couple of their categories and you know Strava is now big into using AI to talk about how well you did it or where you can improve. And so I saw this. I was going through my bike rides and looking up total elevation and I'm like, oh, I wonder what total elevation is this year compared to last year. And so I got this your progress at a glance. So I did a one-year thing.
Speaker 1:It says it's not always about pushing yourself further. You took it a little easier over the last year, tackling 120, 352 feet of elevation gain. That's 22 less than the prior years 154 724 feet. Yeah, I have definitely climbed a lot less this year preparing for death ride. But you know what, man, I'm feeling. Okay, my mindset has shifted. It's like I know what I'm up against and I know I got it mentally and I know I got it physically. It may not feel as good as I want it to, but it's going to get done. That's where I'm at. How do you guys feel about where you're at?
Speaker 3:Yeah, after last year it's the first time I went to hit that hill, those mountains. I feel this year it's going to be. It doesn't scare me as much, but I still fear the pain and the struggles. But I think it'll be okay.
Speaker 2:Let's put it that way hey, of all that was jr three spoke. Thank you time on the podcast. Welcome, oh, thank you three spoke man.
Speaker 1:I wait, wait, it wasn't. I thought three spoke was on the podcast before one time oh yeah, we did that.
Speaker 5:One group, one the group one yeah oh, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah, after asking, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Dave was all slurring his words. I think he was just tired out.
Speaker 2:Hey, jr, last year when you were going into it, you were pretty honest. You were like, hey, I'm going to give it my best shot, right? Yeah, you know first time and we'll talk about we had some weather and all that. But, um, man, I'll tell you what. Um, I'll just speak for for me and everybody else. Dude, you seem locked in, you, do you? You this year versus last year? We'll get to a few of the other questions. You're pretty locked in. So, um, the uh, dave the fixer, uh, and this is dave's, is Dave's. This will be your fourth time, correct?
Speaker 2:doing that yeah, yep. So how are you feeling?
Speaker 5:Like Doug's stats show, I've climbed a whole lot less this year and that's primarily because of weather we just had so many rainy weekends but I am way way less less. I mean, you guys at least have an excuse.
Speaker 5:You were ultra running, but I feel stronger this year because of you guys, derrick, I mean uh daryl uh eric we got to get him a jersey that just says derrick one, derrick two but, uh, you know, all those exercises you guys are doing for your ultras and stuff, it's um, I've just been implementing that stuff and jerry, he's been working on forever in the gym. But, um, all that strength training stuff that you guys are showing on strava man, I've just been doing that. I've been using weights, like all that stuff you get. I'm like trying it and I'm feeling like way more confident on hills and stuff. Like I mean, I haven't gotten 14 000 feet yet, but 14 000 feet of climbing done, but I feel stronger climbing stuff than I than I did the previous years.
Speaker 5:Um, and last year, as you guys know, I had to stop. I had to pull back because I was moving and stuff I couldn't climb. I was up to maybe 6,000 or 7,000 feet of climbing in a weekend. I said I was going to just keep going because, jared's first time, I ended up almost doing the whole dang ride just by cruising it and I surprised myself. So I feel pretty good, you know, with Jer, with Jer and I, if we, you know, stick together, if you guys do your thing. I don't know what's going to go on, but I feel like we'll definitely conquer it this time. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Ultra E, ultra E, e how you feeling um, I'm feeling pretty good.
Speaker 4:I mean, you know, like uh david said, we've kind of got some ultra running under our belts and so there's a different, uh different mentality, I think, this year than last year. We were really focused on climbing right and all that seat time that we had. I think this year, just our overall fitness is going to just, um, really make a difference uh, throughout the day. I don't think it's going to be as as much of a challenge as it is just a uh for me. I just want to enjoy the day riding. I think I want to try and ride with you guys a little more.
Speaker 4:I know sometimes we get a little spread out on the climbs and, before you know it, you spent 75 of your day by yourself, which is not a bad thing. But, um, you know, you always wonder how's everyone else doing, how they feeling, and, uh, I'd like to try and get it to where we, uh, we kind of regroup more often before we start heading down the hill or up the hill and see how it goes for us all as a group yeah, I like and daryl what about you, daryl?
Speaker 1:how are you feeling?
Speaker 2:I feel great um.
Speaker 1:I know I'm very unprepared cycling cycling, cycling, wise, but I mean, you did a 50 mile ultra prepared uh, physically.
Speaker 2:Yeah, um, it was really nice to um, uh have a nice long ride with jr. Jr brought, uh, you know, got us out uh last weekend and it wasn't as fast as I would have liked, but I felt good, so I feel strong and I'm excited. So, you know, just just like you, I just way under trained on the cycling part of it, but overall feeling good about where we're at.
Speaker 3:If I let me re-spoke again. But I was going to say I don't know how Daryl and Eric are accomplishing these feats, but Gold Country and when we did the ride last weekend, these guys don't look like they have any issues at all. They are just strong, hardcore. I'm like what have they been doing? I don't understand where they're biking or what, but they are pumping and they look like they haven't lost a step at all. You know.
Speaker 3:Right and they just barely squeak, but we're able to squeeze their feet into their, their shoes. Last weekend after their ultra run, you know, before the swelling got down enough where they could put their shoes on, and they still look. They look healthy man Like dang. I don't know how these guys are doing it, but they're amazing. So I have to throw that in. And every time I watch him I'm like this is what your third ride of the year and you're doing these uh, 6,000 feet elevation, no problem, so it's amazing.
Speaker 1:Then you're running a half marathon for training afterward, exactly next day, it's like, yeah, you guys have definitely, uh, have gotten your bodies and your minds to really learn how to adapt. Man and uh, you know, and it's just the consistency, man, the consistency you've both been putting in on the in-between stuff you know, like the kettlebells, the barbells, the, you know the hit classes you guys are doing and all that stuff, the, the ice baths, everything, it's all you know, it's, it's man. You can see how it all. Just that, that simple consistency showing up every day, doing a little bit, is really powerful, really powerful, big time.
Speaker 2:Hey, one of the big items and I don't remember this growing up is oh, I'm keeping receipts the revenge tour unfinished business. You hear that all the time these athletes have to almost pump themselves up. You hear that the revenge tour we don't have. The revenge tour we basically have, and I think I'll just outline it by the way, 1,500 to 2,500 people start off off and less than 500 every year do all six climbs.
Speaker 2:Uh, dave, you are probably in just mad, mad shape. Two years ago, um and dude, you just, I've never seen any, I've never seen anybody get altitudes like this, like that. You just literally like just crushed. You just were going up, you know, we were just about to cross 10 000 feet climbing and you got this head head thing that you just couldn't get out of. By the way, you only did like 90% of the ride last year. We've documented, doug, and I'll let you talk about it, the crazy weather, it just depended where you were on the course, right, that's what the determining factor was. So, um, but um, you know, our, our job is to go out there and see. You know, god willing, that we can finish this. So there is a little bit of unfinished business. So maybe Doug Dave and JR talk about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, for me, the unfinished business is to have the whole team come across. I mean, we haven't this particular event. The whole team hasn't done it, you know, and again we're still going to be minus DC. You know, I'm just throwing, just throw him. He's got a jersey, he's on the team, he's official, he ain't just a, he's not a DC. If you listen, you ain't just a A token, a token. Yeah, you are, you're part of the team, man.
Speaker 5:That was from JR man I. I'm gonna leave that on. There'll be no editing on this tell us from jr um director says cut.
Speaker 3:We're editing.
Speaker 1:Okay, just want to make sure, eric, we know that we're editing this part, so we ain't we ain't editing that's too good they will dig it.
Speaker 5:They will dig it, yeah, yeah, will dig it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, he will, but yeah, so, just to really get you know the core, the original core team, you know, to get us all across the line to go up together, to finish together. And I kind of like this, you know, I like that Daryl and Eric have been into this ultra mode because had they not been, they would have been cycling their butts off looking to break some times, break some records, see how much faster they can go up, and that's all good, we all cheer them on and support them to do that. But because they've been, they haven't been on the bike so much. I hear them saying things like you know what, I want to kind of ride with the guys and I want to, you know, and and just experience, you know, do it as a group kind of a thing, and that'll be nice because I think they're kind of forced into that position and, again, nothing wrong with them trying to get up and break records and and who knows, you know who?
Speaker 1:I know daryl and you know he may, he may want to ride with the group, but he's got this engine inside of him. He just can't stop sometimes and so he may be off sprinting up a monitor or whatever anyway. So, but we'll, we'll deal with that when that comes, uh, but I like, I think, uh, we're going to. We're definitely going to all start the ride together at 5.00 AM, daryl, not no, 3.00 AM, and we're all going to come across the line.
Speaker 1:It'll be nice if we can all wait for each other at the top of Ebbets to finish on the downhill, you know, if we're all within close proximity to make that happen. That'll be the one thing I will say is I want to encourage us all and plant a seed now that, just because we're riding together, I think one of the things that we really got to focus on is really commit to keeping the rest stops, brief rests. You know we got to get plenty of rejuvenation and rehydration and all that stuff, but I know last year I spent like over an hour at the lunch stop and that was ridiculous. That was ridiculous.
Speaker 5:Probably because you were waiting or something. Maybe I know Jared was waiting.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, I was definitely waiting. I wanted to wait and I was waiting for DC. And what's his name? Zach DC and Zach.
Speaker 1:But you know, zach, finally dc showed up and zach never came. But then, uh, then I finally went up but yeah, um, it was. You know, I just know that that that can kill you. Man, I still got the ride done. But you know, we just want to encourage that we do strategic rest stops and uh, so get each other, let's get each other through this ride, but at the same time, I mean, let's go at a pace where we can enjoy the ride, right where we can enjoy.
Speaker 5:I think it's cool. I think when we came back, when I waited for you guys I remember that was the year before, but, um, when I rode in with you guys in that last shift was really cool, yeah I'm like oh, man, oh hey, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 5:you know it's kind of cool to regroup and then just ride together. It was a lot of fun, right? Yeah, I like that there's no time crunches or times to meet with these guys right now, cause it'd be kind of cool. If we can ride, we can see more, more of everybody.
Speaker 1:Right, right.
Speaker 5:Right yeah.
Speaker 2:Hey, I want to throw something out. I noticed it especially the first year, dave, you've talked about this. We've all been at one of those rest stops, especially Abbott's, and you can hear people almost talking themselves out of the ride. Yeah, civic grade is going to be hard, man. Man, our language and our I mean, dave, you've talked about it, you're like man, you know. I just we can't be around that negativity and if we do, we just self-correct and we, uh, you know, doug's good at that, you know, overall, so I think the five of us have a really good mental frame, but man, people talk themselves out of finishing this race. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3:You know, my model last year was uh, cause I didn't think I had the training. Uh, I got late training in and and uh, thankfully, doug, uh took me with them to do a couple of those passes well, a week, the week before the, the event, I think right, and which helped tremendously. But uh, I didn't think I was going to finish the event. But my motto was I'm just going to keep going until I can't go, no more. I'm going to be proud of where I stopped. Those hills ain't no joke, they're a climb man. If you could do one, tip your hat and say thank you, thank you God, I made this, you go on. That was my motto.
Speaker 3:And you know, before I got to the, we almost did it. I was got got it done last year, except for for the storm, but but that was it. I was like man, I feel good still. I guess I'll just keep going. I just and it was funny Every time my body felt like we're going to stop the, the incline, even though it still looked like a steep incline, would just like level out or something, and it'd be easier, and I can also you get your breath back and you start. You start pumping again and go okay, well, we'll keep going until we stop. So, uh, I think that's kind of my model will be this year too. I like that.
Speaker 1:Hey, david and JR, um, you know, I always have a a saying that if you show up to the starting line, you've already won the race, because that that just means you were prepared, you did the work and you're ready to, and you're ready to go compete or or do the event or whatever it is. So if the fact that you show up to the starting line no-transcript Is there, was the? Is there or was there any bit of unfinished business feeling in your hearts and your minds? And what did that feel like, what did that sound like in your brains? And and what are you doing this year to kind of just move through that?
Speaker 5:Well, I remember, you know, we got, we just like you said, we're, like Darrell was saying where you're at. You know, we were at the end where there's only like probably six or seven people coming back and then we got hit with that storm. So we had to go climb, you know, and so, um, and then just hit us and we were freezing and rain and storming and we're just like, oh, and then you know, and then we see these people, we're climbing and you know there was talk about, you know, we're gonna have to quit or whatever. We, you know, and roads are gonna close, whatever.
Speaker 5:And so, uh, we got to the tent and the guys on the, the two, two ways or whatever, you know, there's people standing there, they're freezing, they're shaking, and so we get on there. So we're there, and then, uh, we get on that damn bus it took him so long to load bikes and we get on that van and and then we're in there, we're and we're appreciative, we're, it's warm, we're getting cuddle with warm bodies, right. And then, uh, as soon as that van started rolling, and then I saw people going still, and I saw this old lady with the freaking uh thing on the, the garbage bag, whatever yeah, yeah I'm like.
Speaker 5:I was like Jer, we should get out of this van. I was like what if we can get off and just finish this? And then Jer was like no, no. And I was like, well, we can ride an extra seven miles at the end, whatever you know, I was like I was ready to get out of the van. I'm like I want to finish that damn thing. I was like Jer, I was like I'm just going to keep going until wherever I stop, I'm going to keep going. I'm going to go a little more. And then I got one more hill to do and I'm done, and it's downhill and so, and then the storm hitting all this and people are getting rides, and so for me I was like dang Jared and I I'm sure Derek feels the same we kick ourselves in the butt that we didn't just keep going.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was a. I mean it was a race. We had a, we had a sprint to get to that last station down at the bottom of that hill remember day at the time they were cleaning up and
Speaker 3:we just barely got the stamp. Person was ready to get in the car and uh, take off. And we just got there in time to get that stamp, that uh, fifth stamp I. So like I go, oh man, you know it's kind of downhill before we go up that big hill, let's just, you know, let's knock this thing out of here. You know we're so close, yeah right, and then that rain came and hail and stuff and uh, it changed everything but um, and then they were kind of saying that they were thinking they were going to stop the because it was too wet for the downhill part of it Right right.
Speaker 3:So I was like, man, I'm not going to struggle up the hill just so they could tell me I can't go down, you know. And so it was. And yeah, david was right Once you got in that warm van man, it made you weak. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 5:I remember racing down that and I sprinted. I was excited, I'm like what I'm going to finish this? I raced to that end and I held that lady up Stamp lady and I said I got two more, use two more stamps, don't move, don't move. And wait for these guys to catch up, get up, and then she stamped. I get up, and then she stamped. I'm like, yes, we're all stamped, now we can go back. And then that dang storm hit and everything. But yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:We were like, just cut that line so you guys it sounds like you guys got some unfinished business and uh, you know where. I'm so glad that we get to. We get to uh group up as a team and get it done together. And get it done together.
Speaker 3:That'll be yes big time because, I'll tell you, all I had in my mind was I am so close to finishing this rate or this event, and I will never have to come back here again and I was like oh, I can't believe it. I could taste it.
Speaker 2:Man, I don't have to come here anymore, I just got hey, hey, if I bring us back to last year, first of all, when we all got back together, we were just happy, we were all safe, right, yeah, right, I mean that was a pretty epic. You know sierra storm, you know high mountain storm, so we were just happy there. The next day, there is the man you know. You know we were happy, we were safe, and the next day there's a little bit of doubt man and that's. You know, that's 364 days ago by the time we get up there and uh, I think we're gonna come flying colors. You know eric talks a lot about eric. Remember you said you saw doug left and you knew if you stayed more than like another two, three minutes you weren't gonna finish right. So it's a, it's just a timing thing yeah, doug took off.
Speaker 4:I was up there contemplating on getting sagged out and finishing the day because it was cold, rainy, I was freezing, miserable and man. Just Doug's confidence about getting out on the bike and say, hey, I'm going to just head out soaking wet. We just both climbed that monster last climb in the hailstorm and we were in the same position and just him leaving just got me to thinking all right, what am I going to do? Am I going to be a sheep up here? Am I going to be a buffalo and head down the hill? So you know, following doug was kind of an easy decision. Thank god he was there to help me, uh, make that decision.
Speaker 5:So I headed down and down and no regrets for sure yeah, I think I was telling JR about my I wish we had seen Doug, and he said that Buffalo thing to us we would have just been plowing through.
Speaker 1:Hey, you know we're talking about Hailstorm and it was a pretty epic storm. It was pretty cool, it was freezing, but, let's not forget, in the first half of the day it was sunshiny and beautiful and we had all our warm.
Speaker 1:We dropped all our. It was such a nice day. We dropped all our warm gear off down at the other side of topaz, like, okay, we're not going to need this warm stuff later on today, so let's just leave it here. So what, what's your guys's? Uh and I'd love to hear from everybody, because I'm kind of I'm kind of torn and mixed up now. I don't know what the hell to expect on that mountain. What do you guys, you guys have any ideas about that? Have you been thinking about that? Like, how are you gonna press?
Speaker 2:I'll speak for eric and I okay we've already dismissed this we are just wearing normal clothes and we're putting one garbage bag in the back. That's it. Oh we're. We're packing the most, the cheapest Walmart you know generic brand in the back. That's our strategy.
Speaker 1:I like that. I like that. You said garbage bag. If I had my arm armors.
Speaker 5:I would have been fine those arm armors. They do enough for me to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm going to get the cheap. I'm going to get the cheapest uh rain, raincoat, and I think you get them for like uh three bucks, cause that comes with the hood too. You know, those little plastic cheapies like for three bucks just to get down the hill, right.
Speaker 5:I mean, that being said, that storm was, didn't they say it was like in 44 years, whatever it is, yeah, uh, that big storm like that that's. I think they said that's the first time or maybe the second time in 40 years that that's happened.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it goes. It goes to show. With that event you have to be prepared for anything and everything, cause you know you do all that training, whether it be elevation sickness, not enough, uh, electrolytes on your start out or or sleep, or whatever weather, all that cramping, uh, it could be anything to take you out of that event. It's uh yeah and, believe me, it's welcoming, because you're burned to get it.
Speaker 3:But, like you said, the next day, you're like God damn it. Yeah, I will also be getting a cheap raincoat just in case.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's the issue. We get peach colored ones, or what. Yeah, there you go, we should.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, I don't know if they make peach colored garbage bags.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, I think we got. We're gonna be searching Amazon tonight.
Speaker 1:Caltrans, caltrans, caltrans, all right.
Speaker 2:Hey, doug, before we wrap this up, we're going to go around to each person and you either get a word or a small sentence when you cross a finish line. I'm going to go to doug first what's, what are the words that are going to come across your mouth? Yes, I'll start. I'll start, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 4:Okay, I, I think, uh, the first thing that's going to come to my mind when I cross that finish line this year is I'm going to thank the lord for putting me in a position to be where I'm at in my life in my mind, mentally, physically, like the whole thing, not just the bike ride, not just the mileage, the elevation, and then kind of hanging out with a pretty cool group of guys, I might say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, right Love that Love it. I will. I'll kind of piggyback on what Eric says, but immediately following thanking the Lord, I'm going to say let's get back to the hot tub. That'll be the next thing on my mind.
Speaker 3:JR. Uh, I think, yeah, I like, yeah, I will definitely thank the Lord, and then, uh, yeah, I think that first word coming out of my mouth will be done, and that's it, man.
Speaker 5:Drop my bike and never ride again, I'm right there with uh, you guys are like looping this Perfect. I'm right there with thank you God. And then with there, I am done with this ride. I am done If I get this done, I'm done for a while.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I'll go with thanking the Lord and when I cross it, I kind of I, even though it would be difficult to do, I feel like we should like just let out a big team, because I think this is going to be a big team weekend. Yeah, Good job.
Speaker 1:Yeah, nice It'll be good. Yeah, it'll be the first time we're all together this year yeah, that's unusual.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's very, very interesting hey guys with every go ahead, dave go ahead.
Speaker 5:No, I was going to talk about saturday plans, sorry, go ahead yeah, we'll do that after the, after the episode we're recording right now come on, people.
Speaker 1:This is. You got a live, people listeners, you just got a live thing of what happens on our rise. Man d Dave just goes off on these tangents, man yeah.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, we're going to end the show with deep and deeper.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:And you guys get to participate. So I got some questions here, so I'm going to go to JR first. This is a deep question Describe your favorite childhood vacation.
Speaker 3:Are? Are you talking one that I've been on or that I wanted? Okay?
Speaker 1:Childhood vacation.
Speaker 3:Childhood vacation, I think it was when we in the family we got up and we went to Great America for the first time. And we went to, uh, great america for the first time and uh, and it was great. Uh, I thought that was a I don't know, it was a vacation. We, I think we went down there for a weekend or something like that, but it was. I thought that was a fun and a blast, that's nice, that's a good memory.
Speaker 2:oh, all All right, dave, the fixer deeper. What keeps you up at night?
Speaker 5:Mostly if I eat sweets after dinner.
Speaker 3:Right now.
Speaker 5:I mean, I want to say I'm very blessed that I'm in a place now where I give it up. You know, I give it up to God and I, the stresses and worries are just don't. They won't keep me up. You know, I'm honestly the only thing that's keeping me up these days is if I have, you know, a decaf coffee or some chocolate.
Speaker 1:Or a 14 percent, or a 14 14 beer with coffee and chocolate in it that keeps you up till the next morning yeah, yeah, exactly all right, um douglas.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, if you could compete on a game show, what show would it be, and why? Oh, that's a good one I would.
Speaker 1:You know what? Uh, I'm all I'm gonna gosh. That's a good one, ninja. Oh yeah, I would, man, it would be if I, if I could. Yeah, you know, I got messed up shoulder and feet so I can't right now, but if I, could it? Would definitely be ninja, because I just love doing that would be so cool to be able to swing around and do and do all that stuff and hit that buzzer.
Speaker 4:Very cool, very cool.
Speaker 2:All right, and I just pick these randomly. Sorry, Ultra E. What are you most grateful for in your life? Oh boy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I've got a lot of things, but I think the thing that keeps coming to mind on a daily basis. I wake up every morning, I go to bed every morning, it's my wife right next to me. Uh, she's my rock. She's been my rock through tough times and now, these times that I'm enjoying life with her, with you guys, she is definitely what, what, what keeps me going every single day. I have to say I love her.
Speaker 1:That's beautiful, that's beautifully okay daryl, you got to grab a card from the bottom of the deck and you got to ask the next question for yourself.
Speaker 2:Man, you ain't getting away I will, I will, I will, god it's got to be random. Don't be peeking and I don't want to tell you, that one that says tell me the sexiest part of me, you know why don't we just go with that?
Speaker 5:We know it's not your feet.
Speaker 1:Not now, anyways.
Speaker 2:All right, this is one, oh man, all right, all right. Come on, Put it out Just you could go back and experience something again. What would it be, and why? Oh?
Speaker 1:that's a good one.
Speaker 2:I need some like jeopardy music. Okay, all right, I don't know, we're all. We're all fathers, right? Um, or we have nephews or something. I remember the birth of my first son, hayden man. I don't think there's any more magical thing than seeing the birth of your first child. Yeah, and just God, miracle responsibility. Oh shit, you know, my life just changed. I feel like there's a million emotions there, but overall I would say that the birth of your first child, or the birth of any of your children, there's no better feeling in the world. So that is what comes to my mind Nice, very nice, good stuff, fellas Good stuff.
Speaker 1:What a great episode. Great fun, casual episode. I love it. I love it. I love it. I love it, I love it. Thank you guys all for being on here tonight. Any last minute things before I sign us off. Anybody want to just get something on their mind or their heart about this episode, or you want to make a shout out to somebody? This is your time.
Speaker 3:I'm good, thank you.
Speaker 1:All right, everybody else.
Speaker 2:Real quick shout out to John Erickson. We actually, dave, we met the race director for Death Ride at Gold Country. Oh yeah, it was really cool. Eric and I kind of ran into him. I might have offended him because I was talking about some marketing things, but I became Facebook friends with him. He's super excited about this. So just John Erickson I know he's probably heads down getting busy, we'll see you up there and he wants us to definitely come by and say hi, I told him about the podcast and we've been texting back and forth.
Speaker 2:So real cool guy and uh. So, John, I will see you in a couple of weeks. Yeah, Nice.
Speaker 1:Cool, awesome, awesome. And maybe us as a group can do the recap of death ride when we're all done for that episode at uh towards the middle end of july yep, that's good all right, yeah, we definitely gotta get.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I'm sorry, we definitely gotta get that update from jr how it went for him yes, yes.
Speaker 1:So, without further ado, I'm gonna sign off, like we always do, and say god bless and peace out each out we're out good stuff, guys.
Speaker 5:All right, thanks, guys.