Ep. 75 - Part Deux! The Official Trail Trivia Boardgame Adventure Challenge Prototype

Travy J is back… and it all comes down to this.

The board is set, the questions are tougher, and the stakes have never been higher as we dive into Part 2 of the Official Trail Trivia Boardgame Adventure Challenge! Who’s been paying attention? Who’s just been along for the hike? And who will make it back to the subie totally stoked?

Expect laughs, a little chaos, and some surprisingly intense moments as we wrap up this epic showdown!

Hit play and find out who conquers the final climb! 

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SPEAKER_03 0:11

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SPEAKER_02 0:42

And if websites aren't your thing, pop in on our socials at Busted Pretty at Blue Sky, Busted Knees and Pretty Trees on Instagram, and Busted Knees and Pretty Trees on Threads. Brad, does this sound like Patrick gets annoyed when he has to do that?

SPEAKER_03 0:58

Yeah. A little bit. Well, that's Patty Richardson right there who introduced us to our social media platforms. Ahoy there. And over there, Brad, who agrees with me about uh Patrick being annoyed. Uh that's Brad LeGreer.

SPEAKER_04 1:15

And I'd like it on the record that Patty popped off a salute when he said ahoy.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

Yeah. Yes, I did.

SPEAKER_04 1:21

Gotta add the visual.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Ahoy there. It's my disarming, engaging uh way to say hi. Ahoy. Ahoy.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

This man is definitely no threat. Let's go talk to him.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Yes, exactly. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:35

Or it's like, honey, let's get the hell away from this guy. This guy's really weird. Ahoy.

SPEAKER_02 1:41

We are.

SPEAKER_04 1:42

He's wearing socks and breaking stocks. And I hear the French theme song. He's gonna talk to me about some weird shit.

SPEAKER_03 1:48

No matter who you are, you instantly know whether or not you want to approach him and just walk away. I'm Travis White, and the News Panther got here before. Slow your roll there, Walter. Before we get to the News Panther, I just want to mention uh last episode. We kind of got uh stuck in the middle of this board game. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:11

Yeah, what was it? Was there a torrential downpour? There was some reason that we decided to set up camp overnight.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

I didn't make enough trivia questions. I think that's why.

SPEAKER_04 2:19

Well, I'm trying to keep it. I'm trying to keep it in the world of moving.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

I think it was definitely a storm. We had to batten down the hatches. We saw something climbing over that mountain range a couple miles from us. And Patty, you were just pumping along. Dude, I was pumping. These busted knees were feeling fine. Although I believe my Stokage dropped pretty significantly there towards the time we decided to take a break. But I'm feeling like that Subaru is out there in a, you know, I could pull my bins out and see the old boobaroo sitting in the parking lot.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

Right. And as you know, Stokage is the life force of the trail. Yeah. And uh to end our session last week, we decided that you guys could meet in the middle. Yeah. And uh so Patrick, you had to move backwards. Way backwards. Make a little sacrifice.

SPEAKER_02 3:09

I think always there for the fellow backpackers.

SPEAKER_04 3:12

I think I was on Agate Bridge, or I had just gotten over Agate Bridge.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Yeah. Agate bridge. Maybe not be mistaken. Um and Brad got to move up quite a bit. So, and I didn't mention this last week, but I'm sorry, Patty, you get minus five Stokage. Minus five Stokage. You lost you lost uh ground on the trail. That's okay. Brad, you get plus five. Son of a uh B-word. You're back with Patty, you're not alone.

SPEAKER_04 3:38

We're next to each other, so I can get I can toss a few stokages.

SPEAKER_02 3:41

You can do some trading. Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_04 3:43

But and maybe we'll get some stokage for having a full night's rest.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

Yeah. Oh man, I with a thunderstorm going on, you know I was cranking back episodes of friends just enjoying my. So maybe he didn't get a good night's rest.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

You have never you don't have any idea what because all the rules are in just a boiling pot right now, and whatever comes out.

SPEAKER_02 4:02

Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

Let's do it. Cool. Well, I guess Walter's in a big hurry to get this news panther going.

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Hey, I'm in. Lay it on us, Walt or Brad, or whomever.

SPEAKER_04 4:12

Well, that's why I think he's ready to get back to the board game.

SPEAKER_02 4:14

Yeah. Let's go. I mean, dude, I have jitters. I like it.

SPEAKER_04 4:20

Are we taking the RV out? Where are we going? First, we have some breaking news. Oh, breaking coming to you live from the Bested Pretty Studios.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

That was fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_04 4:31

It took me like it took me a very long time to find that that's that was fantastic. Well, uh, I know you gentlemen are familiar with the the Peregrine Falcons on the roof of the INM building in downtown Fort Wayne. Here in Fort Wayne, yes, sir. This is for non-Fort Wayneers. This is the tallest building in Fort Wayne. It's like 20 something stories. Um but there's been uh that's respectable. There's been a pair of peregrine falcons. Uh there's been a consistent nest there for like 20 years, like two decades, is what the DNR website said. Yesterday I was at this market selling like stuff, prints, and I was bored as hell. So I had this live camera up that's showing the nest of these peregrine falcons. If you want to see it, it's on YouTube. It's called INM Falcon Cam. And it's on it's like the Indiana Michigan Power YouTube channel. And like right now, I'm looking at a peregrine falcon that's in the nest.

SPEAKER_03 5:27

So that what you have on your computer right now? Oh yeah, I can see his head moving.

SPEAKER_04 5:31

So um so I was watching the the nest yesterday because they um I saw like three weeks ago on the news that said they were back this year, and so I turned it on and I told Sarah, I said, I don't know what a falcon looks like when they're about ready to lay an egg, but that falcon looks like it's about ready to lay an egg. And I checked this morning and there's an egg. Sure enough. So breaking news, a new egg. We got a baby paragraph falcon. Brad probably be Waiting 50. Probably, yeah. Because usually there's only like there's only eight people watching the stream right now. There was only eight people watching it yesterday, too. So uh yeah, one egg. I I don't know. I meant to look up look up to see how big a normal clutch is because sometimes they could lay them a day apart. So there may end up being like three or four eggs.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

Are they do they uh mate in pairs?

SPEAKER_04 6:22

Yeah, like stick around. I think so, yeah. And uh so and I don't and I don't know, this one is banded, so I don't know if this one they don't live to be 20 years, so I'd imagine that's generations use this nest. Yeah. So I don't know if this is one that was born there and is now it's the nest. But yeah, so uh check it out because they'll be I remember last year seeing the little eagle its growing up and then eventually they fledge, but it's it's kind of cool watching it.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

What was the website again?

SPEAKER_04 6:48

It's on YouTube if you search I and M for Indiana, Michigan. Uh Falcon Cam, it's on the Indiana, Michigan Power YouTube channel. Cool. Yeah. So congrats to the to the duo.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

I'm not way to go. I'm not quite certain if those uh are the falcons or the birds that I've seen around town because I work downtown a lot at the churches, and the churches have these big you know spires that rise up into the the city. But there's always these like predatory birds that are up there just watching. Oh yeah. And I was at I think like St. Paul somewhere downtown, and uh one of those I think it was a Paragon Fraucon. I'll have to go back and look through my pictures, but he was laying in the middle of the road, like all like rolled over. And I wasn't sure if he I don't know how it would have happened, it's not a high traffic area, and he just kind of appeared out of nowhere. But I went over there and he was very much still alive, and he was almost like he was like he would get up and put his wings up to make himself look bigger when I walked up to him, and I took a couple pictures. I was like, I don't want to mess with him. I seemed like he was hurt, but I don't know what to freaking do. But he flew away. I walked away and I went back to check on him and he was gone. That's funny, he's just like, dude, I'm trying to fucking chill. He wasn't like with an ant, he was on the pavement in the middle of the road. That's weird. Yeah. That's weird. But I wonder if that's what if we have like a pretty good population of falcons in the downtown area.

SPEAKER_04 8:26

Yeah. Well, and I'm sure there's always because I mean, hell, there's bald eagles on the along the river. So yeah, I imagine there's a little bit of everything. Cooper socks, because they eat um other birds, like they catch them in flight.

SPEAKER_03 8:38

The Cooper socks or the falcons?

SPEAKER_04 8:40

The Peregrine Falcons. I'm pretty sure. Um, but yeah, I do have another quick, like actual news story. Um, this one's pretty short. It's about a new way that Oregon came up with to help fund wildlife conservation. It seems like a it's almost like a new a new way that states might start looking at it to see how well Oregon does. So typically states get most of their wildlife conservation funds from the Pittman Robertson Act and the Dingle Johnson Act, which are taxing firearms, ammo, archery equipment, uh bait and tackle, uh marine gas. Hunting gear, just yeah, so like all that they then that gets divvied up and sent to the states.

SPEAKER_03 9:26

Does that include backpacking and stuff like that?

SPEAKER_04 9:28

That's been a constant thing is taxing backpackers, which I mean, fuck do it. Like, I'm okay with that.

SPEAKER_03 9:34

Yeah, and I honestly I'm kind of disappointed that my gear didn't go to anything.

SPEAKER_04 9:39

Well, that's what it's kind of like, because right now it's mainly on hunters and anglers that are funding the Dingle Johnson and Pittman Robertson Act. But then they say, like, come on, like mountain bike, mountain bikes, like backpacking gear, start taxing more stuff. And then most backpacking the community's like, yeah, go ahead and it's one government act that's like legit. Like it's they they made it in 1930s and 1950s, the two acts, and they're like almost untouchable. Like they can't borrow that money to do whatever. It's like it's pretty untouchable.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

So I wonder why that was never like with being with backpackers being so into that community and and you know taking part in all of it. I wonder why that never like overlapped.

SPEAKER_03 10:23

A backpacker probably would spend 90% of their time in some a public yeah, and think of a park.

SPEAKER_04 10:30

And think of every like so every time a suburban mom buys a Patagonia fleece, yeah, like one percent of that goes to like a conservation fund.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

And she and she probably has no idea.

SPEAKER_04 10:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:42

Suburban mom buying ammo.

SPEAKER_04 10:44

Just like a lot of just like the the country dads buying ammo probably have no idea that it's going to the Pittman Robinson Act.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

Well, I didn't know until about a year ago.

SPEAKER_04 10:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:55

I've talked with a lot of the hunters now that I know about that, and it it is it it it it always is kind of shocking that like my perception of going outside and being outdoors and how much I enjoy it, and I don't want to leave a trace and all these sorts of things, and none of the none of the thousands of dollars that I've spent on camping, backpacking, hiking gear has gone to that at all. But then you have the hunting side of it and the angling, where everybody shits on it constantly, but it like from the backpacker side, but then we you know like what a juxtaposition.

SPEAKER_03 11:36

Yeah, the I'd say the those trails are maintained more by the hunters and anglers than they are by the entry fee the backpackers pay to get in.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

Yeah. So what Oregon is doing is they passed a bill saying that or increasing the statewide transient lodging tax by 1.25%. Say that again. They decided to tax at increase the statewide transient lodging tax by 1.25%. Some some people transient lodging, like hotels. Yeah, some people it's all can also be referred to as um uh sh shit. Out of state? No, my uh hospitality tax. Okay, hospital that's part of those like taxes and fees when you get a hotel. Yeah. Because it's I think it's a bigger thing in a lot of foreign countries. That tax can be pretty large. Um, but 1.25%. So that's for every hundred dollars you spend on a hotel, it's like a dollar twenty-five, I think, goes to it. I mean, that's almost this day and age, that's insignificant. Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:41

Um, so the revenue for the tax increase will go directly to support wildlife and fish conservation. The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership estimated that it will raise around$38 million every year to be dedicated to uh fish and wildlife conservation. And like they say, that's one of the biggest benefits is with unw like the budgets being the way that they are, like state budgets for fish and wildlife. This is one revenue stream that they can constantly can count on every year in perpetuity. So it's a pretty big deal. And it was bipartisan, and like every group was on board, like hunters, ranchers, um outdoors, backpackers, like urbanites. I think they they said that's what I feel.

SPEAKER_03 13:26

I mean, that's just like a yeah pay an extra dollar for every hundred fucking dollars I pay.

SPEAKER_04 13:32

Well, and they're not paying it. Tourists are paying it. Yeah. So yeah.

SPEAKER_02 13:36

Does the hospitality act, does that go towards Airbnbs and I think so, yeah. Are they subject to I think so?

SPEAKER_04 13:43

I think but I think it might be only whole home RBs, not ones where you rent and like the owner still stays, I think. Right. Um that'd be creepy. One one one of the big sticking points that did get it like full support from everybody was they added more money to be available to pay for wolf depredation, like when uh for livestock. And that that was one thing where it was like there were some holdouts waiting, like saying we want more money for to pay ranchers for losing uh livestock.

SPEAKER_03 14:15

Oh, that's cool.

SPEAKER_04 14:17

Yeah. So there's gonna be more more money for that.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Um so we're kind of it's kind of helping maybe ease that that pain between the cattle ranchers and the and the wolves. At least you'll get compensated.

SPEAKER_04 14:30

Yeah. Maybe they need more of those uh range riders out there that they have in Colorado. The cowboys.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

Those guys are awesome.

SPEAKER_04 14:40

Um so uh the money generated will go towards uh like uh they have around 320 species that are identified as species of greatest conservation needs. And this is just an Oregon. And it it's everything from bighorn sheep, bull trout, coastal tail frogs, killer wells, and caddys flies. So it's like a whole range of things that like this is gonna go to support.

SPEAKER_03 15:07

How did how do they decide the the order of importance?

SPEAKER_04 15:10

I imagine it's um probably people putting proposals together to get money, like a kind of a grant proposal.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Who can bullshit the best?

SPEAKER_04 15:18

Probably, or which and then decide which one's most in need, like immediately most in need. And there's stuff too, like killer wells are pretty transient, so that that one kind of surprised me.

SPEAKER_03 15:31

Who decides on this? Is this like a the state government?

SPEAKER_04 15:35

I'm sure there's a board, like because it's the Fish and Wildlife, Department of Fish and Wildlife. But then I'm sure I'm I'm sure there's a board that helps like make decisions on uh where they allocate their budget and money.

SPEAKER_03 15:46

Well, uh yeah, I would imagine it would have to go through their government system if they're gonna raise taxes on shit.

SPEAKER_04 15:53

Um, but then it's also goes towards increasing habitat wildlife habitat connectivity kind of uh I'm assuming that's like the the bridges that go over highways and stuff. Oh, nice. And uh funding anti-poaching efforts, which that's that's kind of crazy. That's still a big thing.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Oh, that takes the news panther way back. Yeah, yeah. Because that was one of old Walt's No, the uh the bridges, the wildlife bridges.

SPEAKER_04 16:20

Yeah. That shit's badass. Um man, I nature corridors?

SPEAKER_03 16:25

Land bridge?

SPEAKER_04 16:26

Uh yeah, I think it is like a um Oh, yeah, corridor, nature corridors. It's like I can't it it's like a wide corridors or something.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

I don't know. But those are awesome.

SPEAKER_04 16:37

But for reference, so that that does only take that tax up from it was like what there it's increasing 1.25%, but now I think it's like 2.5%. So it's like it's even only barely raising it, or it's still low. And like compared to other states, I just searched Indiana's, and Indiana's is it's 7% for like the whole hospitality, but they sp sometimes split it up with like food and beverage and like just all kinds of random stuff. But I think it's like one to two percent in Indiana, so it's pretty close to Oregon. But there's some states that are up to like um Connecticut's 15%, Delaware's eight percent, and then states like Colorado and like other western states, it's like from two to six percent. So Oregon's like they're even kind of just keeping up by adding this extra 1.2.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

So are we are like Indiana's already has this?

SPEAKER_04 17:33

Yeah, every well, no implemented. No, these Oregon's the first one to put money from that towards conservation. Oh every other state has the hospitality. It's just going to who know like I don't who knows what like just whatever government programs. So this is the first time it's specifically been to conservation. Okay. Let's go conservation.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

I would like to see the um I'll have to take a look at that later just to see the breakdown of Indian. Well, yeah, to see if we can publicly see what they're using those funds for or if it's got gets thrown into a lump pile and you didn't don't know where it goes.

SPEAKER_04 18:12

I feel like there has to be some kind of thing showing where it goes. Or you'll see an or you'll see like a news story from when it was implemented, and that'll say what it was going towards. So Travis will be at the library on those newspaper machines where it's like looking at the microfilm.

SPEAKER_03 18:30

Watching old VHS tapes of news channel 15. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Hey, dude, that was great. Yeah, good. And I love the uh breaking news segment. That was cool, dude. Another quick shot.

SPEAKER_04 18:45

I'll throw in. There's a famous one that's Jackie and Shadow, they're two bald eagles at Big Bear Lake. That's another one that's like they're theirs is like they have multiple camera angles of the nest, and there's like a staff that monitors the cameras and changes between them, like especially when they fledge. Oh, like in the gimbal? Yeah, let's go. So check that out. That's funny. They have a clutch right now, too. So yeah, check it out.

SPEAKER_03 19:10

Patty, can you believe Brad just well, he just added on a bonus story. Wait, was that Brad or Wall? I can't I can never get these guys. Yeah, I don't know. We'll never know. We'll never know. But it's like it's so great because Brad goes through just everything's dying, and then he'll just blast us with three positive stories.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

That's why I always say I need I need Brad to tell me how to feel for the rest of the episode because he'll just lay in some shit, and you'll be like, the world is doomed. And then these stories are like, oh, the world's not doomed. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

We we're gonna get there.

SPEAKER_02 19:45

That's fun. Way to go, Oregon. I'm gonna be curious to see how much they actually raise, like what the numbers come out in like 365 days, what those numbers look like.

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Yeah, we're gonna have to do some scientists.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

That's on all hot sorry, uh we're we'll be done after this question. Like trans that's all hotels.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Yeah. Trans. Like anyone there for less than 30 days or 60 days, okay. It's like less than a certain amount of days.

SPEAKER_02 20:13

So it's not just like national park resorts or hotels around a resort.

SPEAKER_04 20:17

Yeah, you can go there for business, you go there for business.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

And you're still paying in. Damn, that's that's millions of dollars.

SPEAKER_04 20:24

Yeah, it's estimate 38 million, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:26

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Short any short-term stay. Yeah, basically. Why do they have to make it like sound stove like transient lodging? Because it's bureaucratic plain speech speech.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

If you're gonna be here less than 30 days, guys, we are finishing up our board game or Travis's board game. The official Trail Trivia board game adventure challenge prototype. We're finishing it up. Brad and I are even Stevens on the board.

SPEAKER_04 20:57

Version 1.1.

SPEAKER_03 20:58

Version 1 or 0.2. There is not a one. Oh 0.2.

SPEAKER_02 21:03

A.2, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

It is 0.2.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

Okay, this is 1.0 hasn't been released yet.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

Still a prototype.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

All right. Well, we are even Stevens. We have about a quarter or a little bit more than a quarter of the board to go until one of us gets to the Subaru.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

That's assuming a lot, Pat.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

So we have 23 new questions, as far as I understand it. I say we get going so we can uh see who is gonna be chilling in the back of this booby breed.

SPEAKER_03 21:29

Yeah, let's get this board game dialed in.

SPEAKER_02 21:31

Okay, let's go.

SPEAKER_03 21:32

Let's go. All right, fellas. Busted knees and pretty trees, official trail, trivia, board game, adventure, challenge, prototype, day two. Yeehaw!

SPEAKER_04 21:58

You gotta take a breath in between that.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

Good lord, that isn't aim. That's the second time we've said all that this episode, and I'm uh I'm feeling it.

SPEAKER_03 22:05

We have uh our two adventurers. Looks about to be two-thirds through the map, and they decided at the end of the end of the day last episode that you guys would just meet in the middle. Patrick took the sacrifice. Yep. Minus five stoke.

SPEAKER_02 22:23

I know. Didn't realize that last week. Brad gets a little busy.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

Not sure if I would have done it. Plus five Stoke for Brad. And because Patrick, you took the sacrifice, you get to decide who gets to lead the pack back to the Subaru.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

I'm gonna, you know, I'm sitting at 67% Stokage right now. Brad's quite a bit above that. 86. 86% Stokage. I need somebody to kind of help me keep the pace today. Get a little busted knees, Brad. You just start walking, I'll catch up.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

Well, I want to remind everybody that Patrick does have the Subaru key. And Brad has the bear spray.

SPEAKER_04 23:05

Yeah, and I ate my snack, I changed my socks, and I drunk drunk my water.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

You just no rationing at all for Brad. He just dove right into it.

SPEAKER_02 23:15

I I have a pair of socks left. Brad rolled two. He is on a red.

SPEAKER_03 23:20

Oh, red you say.

SPEAKER_04 23:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:23

Like a draw. Red is an event. Number one.

SPEAKER_04 23:28

Number one.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

You're deep in the backcountry. Your hiking partner suddenly collapses. Unresponsive. With no pulse.

SPEAKER_02 23:40

Oh fuck, man. Jeez Louise.

SPEAKER_03 23:43

What's the first priority action in a wilderness cardiac emergency? A. Immediately start chest compressions. B. Check for scene safety and ensure no danger to yourself or others. C. Give rescue breasts before anything else. D. Call for help on your phone, even if you don't have a signal. I choose B. Brad chose B and the answer is correct. Oh, nice. What was B again? Check your surroundings to make sure you're safe. Yeah. Make sure we're good to go because we don't want to add more casualties to the situation.

SPEAKER_04 24:21

Like the person just drops dead. I'm like, what the fuck? Look around, like, make sure nothing's about to give me. Is that me gonna fall on us?

SPEAKER_03 24:32

Come on. Let's be serious about this. Okay. Alright, what's he get? Well, what Brad's gonna get this time for getting his answer correct is he's gonna roll a eight-sided dice? D4? Oh. It's a four-sided dice. It looks like a pyramid. Four Stoke. Plus four stoke. Four Stoke. 90. Was this a new addition to the game? Red. Yep, new addition. Good. I'm at an A minus. Alright. Well, I felt kind of bad for not rewarding you guys for getting your questions correct.

SPEAKER_04 25:04

I was wondering about punishing you if you got it wrong. Yeah. There was one time I got negative two Stoke for a couple of rolls.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

I rolled a three and I am on a green. A sighting.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

A sighting out of the Pringles can? It wasn't until I was yeah, it wasn't until I was editing the episode that I knew that it was a sighting.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

We were real fast and loose, right? Number six. Oh, sighting number six. Sighting number six. You are walking through the alpine meadows, you hear a high-pitched squeak, and spot a tiny pika gathering hay. What's a fascinating fact about pikas? A. They are closely related to rabbits, but don't hibernate. B. They create hay piles of dried plants to store food for winter. C. They thrive only in high altitude, rocky, quote unquote talus fields in the western US. Or D. All of the above. I'm gonna go D.

SPEAKER_02 26:08

D all the above.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

No, he took the answer. That's probably you just decided that's the least amount of thought I have to do. Let's go ahead with it. Yes! Yay! Pikaas are climate sensitive, shrinking habitat, signal warming effects. And uh that's about all the information I had on this. The Pika. And they're cute. Yeah. Good job, Patrick. Did you roll for your bonus?

SPEAKER_04 26:37

Oh no, he didn't.

SPEAKER_03 26:38

Right.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Two plus two stokage.

SPEAKER_04 26:43

Plus two stokes. Hey, at least it's heading in the right direction.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

69. I'm in the perfect direction.

SPEAKER_04 26:50

And I rolled a six.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Six? And you are chilling, I think. Oh no. Brad, you rolled a six? Oh no. Oh, that's a green. You have a green sighting. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:59

What is Brad gonna see? Number one.

SPEAKER_02 27:03

Number one? Didn't you just pick number one?

SPEAKER_04 27:05

A red one. This is a green one.

SPEAKER_02 27:07

Red one. Red one. Isn't that a Christmas movie with the rock?

SPEAKER_04 27:11

I was thinking of Star Wars call sighting.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 27:15

I think it is too. Well, Brad's uh lumbering past the turn. Kind of looks like a good uh chicane he's getting into here on the trail.

SPEAKER_04 27:25

Switchbacks.

SPEAKER_03 27:26

Uh he spots a black bear. What's a key fact hikers should know about American black bears? A. They can run up to 35 miles per hour faster than most humans. B. They are strict carnivores and rarely eat plants. C. They hibernate for exactly six months every year without variation. D. They have poor I should have left that one out. That seemed very specific. There's no variation whatsoever. Pretty sure I know where you got these questions. They have poor senses and can't detect humans from afar.

SPEAKER_04 28:09

A. They run 35 miles per hour.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

Bradley, you are correct. Wow, great, dude. Black bears are surprisingly fast sprinters, up to 35 to 40 miles per hour in short bursts, and excellent tree climbers. They're mostly herbivores, 90% plants and berries. And hibernation length berries. Always store food properly and give them space.

SPEAKER_02 28:34

And you rolled your stokage die because you got it right.

SPEAKER_04 28:38

Three stokage.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Dude, Brad's Brad's gonna top out at 111. Where are you at stokage-wise right now?

SPEAKER_04 28:46

93. Woo! I'm at 69. Brad's almost fully stoked.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Yeah. Towards the end of the trail.

unknown 28:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:54

And then my stokage starts going down once I'm in the Subi. Oh shit, Daddy be chillin'.

SPEAKER_03 29:00

Yeah. I'm chilling though. Isn't that the rule I made? Minus five stokage if you're just waiting on the Subi keys. I think so. What'd you get, Patrick?

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Chill. Oh, you're chilling. I'm chillin'.

SPEAKER_03 29:11

Badly. One man, I'm chilling. Oh shit. Whoa. You guys want to trade anything? Uh them fresh socks, Batty, and the Subi keys. Yeah, but I'm the one that needs to give stuff to him.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. I'm sitting fine. Three.

unknown 29:30

One.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

Three star! What is the devil? Guess what? Secret passage! No way! Head over to uh you get to overlook the falls of eternal rest. That's awesome. So you're probably starting to smell the pit shitter that's uh heady on the game.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

I am, but right now I'm choosing to ignore it. I just got I feel like that should be a plus somethings token, should it not?

SPEAKER_03 29:57

It should, but you're not quite sure where you are.

SPEAKER_02 30:01

And now I'm looking behind me like, where the fuck is Brad? He's the only one with the garment. Which way should I go? Yeah. Alright, dude. That's what you know what? Hold on, really quick. Because I just got that, I'm gonna use my extra spare socks. I feel like I just got a little turn. I just got a passage. You know, I'm feeling good. I got up on the map a little bit. I'm taking an extra turn. Socks used. Here we go. Three. Trey. Siging. Face. Pit shitter. I'm at the pit shitter now. Oh. Are you gonna use it? You really you're right there at the pit shitter. Yeah, you know what? I am gonna use the pit shitter. I woke up, had a big breakfast. I'm at the shitter. Got a little bit of leeway between me and Brad. Plus two stokes. Feeling fine. Plus two stoke.

SPEAKER_03 30:46

Cool. Your bowels are empty. Feeling good. A little bit lighter.

SPEAKER_02 30:52

And I got a ten. I picked ten. Question ten, sighting ten.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

As you pull yourself out from the secret passage from the bushes and gnarly dirt. Yeah. You uh put on your fresh socks. I did. And just start humping it to the pit shitter. Yeah. And what do you see? You hear a hoot. You don't see anything. Then you do see it. It's a great horned owl. Yo! Perched up real high above the pit shitter. What's an interesting adaptation for hikers to note about great horned owls? Okay. A silent flight feathers allow stealthy hunting. That's cool. B. Tubular eyes are fixed, so they rotate heads up to 270 degrees.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

Like tubular, bro? Shit. I want that one just because.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

C. They can take prey larger than themselves, like rabbits or skunks. Or D.

SPEAKER_02 31:59

All of the above. You know I love the D, all the above stuff.

SPEAKER_03 32:04

You know you love the D? I love the D.

SPEAKER_04 32:05

You are correct. Alright. Yo! It almost sounded like he was trying to decide if he wanted to stick with D or not.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

I wasn't. I was gonna go B because it's said tubular. Yeah, but then you stopped me and I was like, cool, I'm glad for me. Do I get to roll the die for more stokage?

SPEAKER_03 32:23

You do, and just to let you know, these apex nocturnal predators, uh, they have fringed feathers for silence and asymmetric ears for sound location. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Cool. And I wrote a four for stokage. So, ladies and gents, I'm back up to 75.

SPEAKER_04 32:43

Oh man, it's coming down to it. And I rolled a six, so I skipped over the short path. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 32:50

Well, you rolled a six, that's pretty good.

SPEAKER_04 32:52

Yeah, it's two sixes so far. Really humping it. And I pulled out a number twelve. Ooh, wing on the siding. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 32:59

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 33:01

We've gotten every question correct so far. Shh. Come on, Brad. Knock on wood.

SPEAKER_03 33:08

So Bradley, as he's approaches the falls of eternal rest, he sees across the river a gaunt, emaciated creature with an insatiable hunger that minic It's Patty. I haven't had a snack in two days. It mimics humane voices. And it lures Brad to the edge of the river. The descriptions of this creature come from Algonquin indigenous folklore. What is it called? A. The Jersey Devil. B. The Wendigo. C the Chupacabra. D. The Bellwitch.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

Wow, I know which one. I know which one.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

Um I'm gonna guess the Bell Witch. That's what I was gonna guess. The only sa person sounding thing.

SPEAKER_03 34:01

D is wrong. Oh the answer is B. Wendigo.

unknown 34:07

Dang it.

SPEAKER_03 34:08

I've never heard of me either. It's uh the Wendigo is one of those creatures that sort of invokes isolation and paranoia. And when you're out there alone, you know you hear those n weird noises out in the woods and everything, and that's one of the the Wendigo was a uh native population. Uh kind of um, what do they call them, cryptid? Yeah. Yeah, kind of like kind of like a Bigfoot creature. So now I'm gonna have that in my head when I'm out there.

SPEAKER_04 34:37

Yeah, just one force.

SPEAKER_03 34:39

Uh the Wendigo spotted you across the river and just straight up just like saw you, and he's just booking at your way. Whoa. Oh, it's he's running so fast he basically just runs across the water, right across the top, and then he kind of I don't know, like gives you a good shoulder, runs by you. Shoulder check. And uh roll for stoke lossage.

SPEAKER_02 35:04

Lossage? Dude, minus two Stokage?

SPEAKER_03 35:07

Dude, the Windigo's a that's not a lot of Stokage to be lost. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 35:12

He just cold shouldered Brad.

SPEAKER_04 35:14

All this D20, and I and I shouldered and I shouldered that windigo back.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

Dude, not to mention the fear of watching a windigo run over the river toward right at you. And then the and I will that I think the stokage is lost with the fear because then when you realize that all it did was cold shoulder you, you're like, oh well.

SPEAKER_04 35:36

Then it just kept ratting into the woods.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

It's like uh okay, that was it would actually be a lot of climate. But it's such a good story to tell. You get plus.

SPEAKER_02 35:49

Alright, I'm rolling, dudes. Two. I'm on a red.

SPEAKER_03 35:55

This is our first red of the day.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

Uh uh, Brad had one, but this is my first red of the red. My hacking partner died.

unknown 36:01

Oh yeah, you forgot.

SPEAKER_02 36:02

Five. Five red. Red five. Oh no. No.

SPEAKER_04 36:10

I don't like that. The Wendigo saw you after he passed me. That suck.

SPEAKER_03 36:20

Unfortunately, Patty, this one is uh straight up grizzly bear grizz. And uh you're just minus five stoke.

SPEAKER_04 36:31

Oh no, I fuck because I have the bear spray.

SPEAKER_03 36:33

Oh what? Well, yo, and you're too far away to help to let him follow it. Uh you had a grizzly bear run up on you like real c close in the bush because you were real close to the pit shotter. Yep. And bears fucking off in there. Yeah. And uh so minus five. You kind of shit your pants a little. Yeah. So next round you're gonna lose minus two stuck because you still have a little poo. Oh, in my britches. If you make it to next round.

SPEAKER_04 37:07

If you make it to the next round, damn.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Alright, Brad gets a red. Brad's red in it. Man. Man, I'm gonna be at 68 stokage. That's a low. Nope, I was at 67 to start today.

SPEAKER_03 37:20

Bradley, as you're walking along the trail so elegantly, so sure footed, a stranger runs, screaming, help! Help, help, help. And then they fall down and twist their ankle. And you you're like, man, I probably take care of that first. Before they got to you, they twisted their ankle and fell down. And now you they can't bear any weight on this ankle, and you gotta go down a rocky slope because you're heading down to the pit shitter.

SPEAKER_04 37:50

Everybody knows pit shitters are lower elevation.

SPEAKER_02 37:52

Yeah. This is already Brad's nightmare.

SPEAKER_03 37:56

What's the best initial treatment for a suspected sprain or fracture in the backcountry? A. Have them walk it off to keep circulation going. Rub dirt on it, kid. B. Use rice. Rest, ice, compression, elevation. Wow. C. Or milking rice. That's what I thought he meant about. Gotta get the moisture out of this foot. C. Immediately apply apply a tourniquet above the injury. D. Give them ibuprofen and push on to camp.

SPEAKER_04 38:37

Ooh. Uh, real world, I would choose D, but I think the correct answer is rice.

SPEAKER_03 38:43

And you, sir, are correct.

SPEAKER_02 38:45

Yeah, that was good.

SPEAKER_03 38:46

And why do you do rest, ice compression, and elevation? Well, it controls the swelling. Uh, it's easier to use an improvised uh flint.

SPEAKER_04 38:56

Oh. No tourniquet and just cut it off. Four stokage? Damn, you saved that person. I mean, I saved a I've saved two people now. Yeah, you have. And I've only gotten four Stokage.

SPEAKER_02 39:10

This is the most I'd do this all for me.

SPEAKER_04 39:13

It'd actually be negative, probably.

SPEAKER_02 39:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:16

But you know, true heroes don't expect Stokage.

SPEAKER_02 39:20

Dude, the second that a stranger walked up to Brad on trail, he'd be like, fucking minus 28 Stokage. Like, God. I'd be down. I'd be down this.

SPEAKER_04 39:29

This is not where I want to be. Oh, and he fell. I gotta help. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

Just negative. Day one, Brad would be at like negative 10. 18 stokage.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

Alright, I I rolled. A four. And I got a four. Ooh, a sighting. Yeah, I like the I like the sightings. What does Patty see? Five. Five.

SPEAKER_03 39:54

Patty, you're uh although you just got away from the the river and the uh the pit shitter as I've mentioned. But there's a little stream that goes through this area that you're walking through. And what do you see?

SPEAKER_02 40:11

Giant salamander.

SPEAKER_03 40:12

But a river otter.

SPEAKER_02 40:13

Oh, that's even cooler.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

Playfully sliding down a muddy bank. Which fact highlights best their adaptability. A. They have the absolute thickest fur of any mammal. I don't even know how to calculate that.

SPEAKER_04 40:31

Absolute thick. The absolute thickest.

SPEAKER_03 40:34

And that's with a CK, not a C C. Yeah. Oh. B. They can hold their breath for over eight minutes. C. They have been successfully reintroduced in areas like the Great Smoky Mountains after near extinction. D. They are solitary animals. C.

SPEAKER_02 40:59

That is correct. Yes! Thank God.

SPEAKER_03 41:04

River otters are social and playful animals with dense ur. Close to one million hairs per inch. Is that fi is that nuts? Yeah, it's pretty crazy.

SPEAKER_02 41:17

One million hairs? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:19

That's nuts. And they can die for four to eight minutes. And uh they're very good at uh recovering from population loss, these others.

SPEAKER_02 41:28

I love that. Way to go, River Honor. My mother's calling me. One.

SPEAKER_03 41:33

Oh fighting! Patty, you are so close.

SPEAKER_04 41:41

You can smell it, patrulli. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:44

You guys are rolling like shit. I thought this would be like 15 minutes and we'd be out of here, but. Three! Bragg got three. Three siding. Yep. Alright, as if you were hiking in Yellowstone. You look out upon beyond the pit shitter. And behind it you see a bison grazing.

SPEAKER_04 42:08

Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 42:09

Which of these facts is not true about North American bison? A. They can run up to 35 miles per hour despite their bulk. B. They were nearly extinct in the late 1800s but have recovered significantly. C. They have excellent eyesight, but poor hearing. D. They wallow in dust to deter insects and shed fur.

SPEAKER_04 42:33

Oh, this is a tough one. I think I know my answer. Well, because they were near extinction but have rebounded significantly. I don't know how you determine what significantly is.

SPEAKER_03 42:44

That is a subjective word.

SPEAKER_04 42:45

Yeah, it is. Um we'll go with that one though.

SPEAKER_03 42:50

Okay. C? Yeah. They have ex excellent eyesight. Oh no, wait. No. B. They were almost extinct. They were nearly extinct in late 1800s. Wrong. The answer is C. Uh bison have poor eyesight, but keen hearing and smelling. Wait. I had to choose which one wasn't true? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 43:08

Oh shit. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 43:13

Hey, Brad just tripped a little bit on the trail.

SPEAKER_03 43:16

Well, you already lost three stokage. You lost three stokage. That bison was like you were trying to get a good picture of it. And there just happened to be a fucking snowstorm just right there, Blizzard. Beautiful. And he would just not give you the shot you wanted.

SPEAKER_02 43:33

I will, I will just say though, sitting on that porta shitter or the pit shitter, there's some sweet wildlife around that area. I know. See, that's leave no trace.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

Because you're just we're attracting wildlife all over.

SPEAKER_02 43:45

I rolled a five, I went five, got red. Six.

SPEAKER_03 43:51

Red six. Well, Patty, you've just been freaking pumping those big tree trunks.

SPEAKER_02 43:59

See big old.

SPEAKER_03 44:01

Heavy exertion But uh you start feeling like a pounding headache, a little nausea, kinda getting dizzy. You're not you're not even sweating it. What uh what heat related injury might this indicate? A mild dehydration B heat exhaustion C heat stroke life threatening D hyponatremia low sodium.

SPEAKER_02 44:40

I'm gonna go I'm do the ticker, headache, you go nausea, dizziness, and you're no longer sweating. And what were the what was B?

SPEAKER_03 44:49

Heat exhaustion.

SPEAKER_02 44:51

I'm gonna go B.

SPEAKER_03 44:54

Incorrect. Damn it, shit. Fart. These are signs of heat stroke.

SPEAKER_02 44:59

Oh, oh.

SPEAKER_03 45:00

Which is much more severe.

SPEAKER_02 45:01

Okay. So now I roll this 12-sided die to figure out.

SPEAKER_03 45:07

But what you need to do in that situation. And it's minus 10 stokens. This game just got real, dude. Minus 10 stokens. Well, I mean, heat stroke is a pretty big deal, bro. It is a big deal. Shouldn't have stayed hydrated.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

That's okay. My saving grace is that I'm at 62%, and I am real close to that super.

SPEAKER_04 45:29

You just drank your water bottle, too, and you still got heat stroke. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

Lord it might be.

SPEAKER_03 45:41

Like come down and start coming up with symptoms, you want to cool yourself rapidly and uh hydrate with electrolyte.

SPEAKER_04 45:48

Yes, out. Radly. I do a red two.

SPEAKER_02 45:53

Roll to three, landed on a red two. Question two.

SPEAKER_04 45:57

Man, I just can't roll. I've rolled two sixes, but. Just can't seem to catch up, dude.

SPEAKER_03 46:02

Right now my legs are taking me, you know? Alright, this kind of goes back to references one of our questions from uh the first half of this journey. But Bradley, yeah, you coming up. Just I can't you've just been hanging around the pitch here.

SPEAKER_00 46:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 46:19

The whole time. For real. But and then you're finally like, God damn, finally. Away from it. I finally upwind. And then the goddamn storm clouds roll in. Oh no. And a freaking lightning starts freaking striking all around. And you you're above the tree line. You're pooping your little pants. What is the safest position you should take, Bradley? Uh as there is an imminent lightning storm coming in. Uh hey, stand tall under a lone tree for shelter. And put a foil hat on.

SPEAKER_02 47:02

Hold your golf club in the air. Because you definitely brought one.

SPEAKER_03 47:06

Golf tracking points. Sometimes it's very good information knowing not what to do. Yeah. Somebody could be like, oh, tree, big tree. I just go under that. I'm safe. Good lord, don't do that. No. B. Crouch low with feet together on an insulating pad, minimizing ground contacts.

SPEAKER_04 47:26

It's almost like this is the first time he's reading some of these.

SPEAKER_03 47:32

C. Lie flat on the ground to reduce your profile. D, spread out arms and legs on the ground. Just spread an eagle.

SPEAKER_04 47:43

I mean, I feel like I have to go with insulating pad, right? Yeah, they kind of made it out of the Because all of them, I think, are good choices. Like when you lay on the ground. Yeah, that's a lot of things. There is like a lightning, there's a certain position.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

I don't like like child's pose. Like, definitely don't stand under the fucking tallest tree out in it by itself. But getting close to the ground, sure. All that stuff. But it does the question is what's the safest position? True.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

One. One stokage.

SPEAKER_03 48:16

I'll take it.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

Are you at 93?

SPEAKER_03 48:18

Yeah. Getting struck by landing. Patty looks like he's about 15 spaces away from the Subaru. Oh, now he's about 10. Roll the five on the red.

SPEAKER_04 48:32

His stokage is gonna be so low. He may just take off and leave me. Seven.

SPEAKER_03 48:37

So bummed out.

SPEAKER_02 48:39

Hey, what if I get this right though? Can I go up four? Top. I'm losing 12, maybe.

SPEAKER_03 48:46

Oh shit, Patty.

SPEAKER_02 48:47

Oh shit, man. You are almost there. Oh no. Am I taking a step back?

SPEAKER_03 48:55

You got lost.

SPEAKER_02 49:02

Bro, the 12th sided died. There is not a single trivia game that I can do right no matter what, dude.

SPEAKER_04 49:11

Slow and steady.

SPEAKER_03 49:13

Alright, Patty. What's the most effective first step for wilderness navigation and rescue?

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Oh, Brad's close with his Garmin.

SPEAKER_03 49:23

Hey, Brad's close with his Garmin. No, A. Keep bushwhacking downhill to find a road. B stop, stay put, and prepare to signal. Whistle, mirror, fire, if safe. C, climb higher for better views and phone signal. Or D. Discard your pack to move faster. I'm gonna go B. B is correct. Ah the gosh. That we talked about this before, the stop protocol. You stop, think, observe, and plan.

SPEAKER_02 50:01

Fucking one stokage.

SPEAKER_03 50:05

Because you don't want if you're lost, you don't want to fucking keep going. Yeah, what was that again? Stop. You're still gonna be lost when you stop, right? Stop. Let me go through that one more time.

SPEAKER_02 50:16

Yeah, this is important. Stop, think, observe, plan. Exciting. Brad rolled a whopping one. For some reason, I'm getting my ass kicked, and Brad just keeps rolling twos and ones and surviving. This board game has been brutal. Too.

SPEAKER_04 50:31

Yeah, it's brutal to me in a different way than it is to Patty. I just can't move. But you're seeing a lot of cool animals.

SPEAKER_02 50:38

You are seeing a lot of cool stuff. You're just strolling.

SPEAKER_04 50:41

Saving lives, seeing animals.

SPEAKER_02 50:43

Yep. All in a day's Brad.

SPEAKER_03 50:45

Well, Brad walked another 50 yards and he sees a moose. Oh my god!

SPEAKER_02 50:55

This is great for you.

SPEAKER_03 50:56

Yeah. You see him browsing near the lake here where uh old Blood Rock is. How much can a large male bull moose weigh? A. Up to 500. B. Up to 1,500. C. Up to 3,000. Or D. Up to 200 pound.

SPEAKER_04 51:19

I'm gonna say up to 1,500.

SPEAKER_03 51:24

You are correct. Whoa, nice! Bull Moose stand up to seven feet at the shoulder with six feet antler spreads. Six feet? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 51:35

Six feet.

SPEAKER_03 51:36

Damn. And make sure you observe these beautiful creatures from a distance. Yeah. Because they will wreck yo eh.

SPEAKER_04 51:44

You your stokage will drive fast.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

Walk up on a moose. I dare ye. No, I don't dare ya. Don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 51:53

Dude, I saw some guy lose some stokage to a bison on a video the other day at Yellowstone.

SPEAKER_02 51:59

What a fucking idiot. Hey, roll, hey, move my piece up three to that that red. Please. Alright.

SPEAKER_04 52:11

I'm at 96 Stokage now.

SPEAKER_02 52:13

I'm at 63. I'm still kicking, like, I feel pretty fine. Yeah, you're good. Four.

SPEAKER_04 52:18

Yeah, you one more roll, you can be at the Subi.

SPEAKER_03 52:21

Is this an observation?

SPEAKER_02 52:22

Four. No. Danger.

SPEAKER_03 52:26

One, two, three, four. And it just seems like the closer you get to that Subaru, Padre, the f colder it gets. Yeah? You're freaking freezing, man. Went from heat upstairs all within a day's walk. It's unreal. It's like you're hiking in Indiana or something. For the last week. But the conditions have become cold, wet. And you start shivering uncontrollably. Maybe a little confused. You can't tell the difference from your normal state. And clumsy. This is a classic sign of what emergency. A. Heat exhaustion. B. Hypothermia. C. Dehydration. D. Altitude sickness.

SPEAKER_02 53:12

The one that isn't the heat one. Hypothermia. Hypothermia is B. Hypotherpia. B. Hypotherpia.

SPEAKER_04 53:26

Hypothermia.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Hypothermia? Yeah, I know. I was getting the letters all mixed up.

SPEAKER_03 53:30

You're correct. Yes. Yes. You want to get dry. You want to insulate. And you want to drink some warm fluids.

SPEAKER_02 53:37

Plus three stoke. Just as the way to end it.

SPEAKER_04 53:42

Brad rolls over one. I may not have even, I think I just like spun the die. I didn't even like.

SPEAKER_02 53:48

Moly man. Brad's sitting at a whopping one roll. Ten. What's going to kill me is waiting at the Subaru for Brad if that's still a go. Because if I get minus five every roll and Brad's rolling one, I'm going to be, I'm going to die at my car.

SPEAKER_04 54:05

I'm going to try to get into a better position so I can actually roll the dice.

SPEAKER_03 54:09

Yeah, if you get to the state of bum to like it's game over.

SPEAKER_04 54:12

How about can I re-roll? I feel like I didn't roll that one.

unknown 54:16

Shhh.

SPEAKER_02 54:17

Sure. Go ahead. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 54:22

Did you you give what? I'll say I'll still go. I can still take that question.

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 54:27

Then if I move it, if I get it wrong, I have to go back.

SPEAKER_03 54:29

Okay. Okay, Brad. You've been trying so freaking hard to catch up with Patty. Like you got some weird ass blisters for me in your boots.

SPEAKER_04 54:41

I believe it.

SPEAKER_03 54:42

And uh they're starting to get red and swollen, maybe even pussy. What's the key wilderness treatment step to prevent worsening of these conditions? A. Pop any remaining blisters. B. Clean with soap, water, and antiseptic apply duct tape directly. D ignore and keep hiking. That's impossible.

SPEAKER_04 55:08

If I was out, I would probably do C, but I think B's the best option.

SPEAKER_03 55:12

Yep. B is red. Yes! Way to go. You want to keep an eye on those bad boys. You want to watch for any spreading infections, and if it gets too bad, get your ass out of there.

SPEAKER_02 55:23

Three Stokids for Brad.

SPEAKER_03 55:25

That could kill you. Those infections.

SPEAKER_04 55:27

99 Stokage.

SPEAKER_02 55:29

If I roll a six right here, dude, I'm chilling at the boob, dude.

SPEAKER_04 55:32

Yeah, and I gotta book it.

SPEAKER_02 55:34

It's insane how stoked Brad is.

SPEAKER_03 55:38

Yeah, I'm stuck. I'm stoked. I'm just lollygagging. Yeah. And you don't the Subaru is not even in sight. Yeah. I can't even really sauntering out there.

SPEAKER_04 55:47

I can't even smell them truly yet.

SPEAKER_03 55:50

Seven seven. Let's go. Alrighty. Patty, you're just about to the parking lot. And you see a you know a little majestic deer come hopping out of the bushes. Uh huh. It's got large ears. It might be a mule deer. Wow. Uh what is a mule deer's distinctive trait? A. It's enormous. Mule-like ears for heat dissipation and hearing. B. It uses a unique slatting bound where all four feet hit the ground simultaneously. C, it's more often found at higher elevations than white-tailed deer. D. All of the above. Ooh, that's that's a tough one.

SPEAKER_02 56:36

I'm going D all the time.

SPEAKER_03 56:38

D all the time? It's correct. Yes! They have big ears. Helps them cool their blood down. And um it helps them detect predators, obviously, because they've got big ears and they can hear them. And that uh that slotting, the way they hop around on four, it confuses. It's confusing to their predator.

SPEAKER_04 56:56

Oh, yeah. I think they're kind of in trouble right now, too.

SPEAKER_02 57:00

Mule deer?

SPEAKER_04 57:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:01

69 stokage, by the way, 69%. Nice, cool. Brad rolled a red.

SPEAKER_04 57:07

About flip the table.

SPEAKER_02 57:08

Only got a two, by the way. I just want to point that out. We're keeping this trend going.

SPEAKER_04 57:12

I'm assuming that's a six and not a nine.

SPEAKER_02 57:14

Yeah, sixer.

SPEAKER_03 57:16

Oh yeah, that's a you sixers. Red? Yep. God damn, Brad, you just I don't understand how you keep your stokage so high when all this shit just keeps happening to you. You freaking fell down. Being clumsy. Probably your baby angle gave out on you. And you got a a freaking gnarly laceration. You're bleeding heavily. Gosh darn it. Got a heavy flow. You see you're bleeding. Pretty brutal. So you naturally you put pressure on it for about ten minutes. Still. Gosh. What's the next step? A! Elevate and keep pressure. D. Apply a tourniquet. High and tight. C. Pack the wound with clean cloth and wrap loosely. D. Ignore it. And get the heck out of there.

SPEAKER_04 58:12

Um, I mean it won't stop. It's not it won't stop. Can't stop, won't stop. I'm gonna say apply a tourniquet.

SPEAKER_03 58:19

Bing bang boom, that's correct. Nice. You can't stop the bleeding. You gotta put a tourniquet and stop the flow, because if that flow don't stop, you ain't making it out.

SPEAKER_02 58:29

Brad's at 102% stokage.

SPEAKER_03 58:32

This guy is an optimal stoker.

SPEAKER_04 58:34

I'm about to lose a leg. Jeez Louise, and he's happy about it.

SPEAKER_03 58:39

No, stop the bleeding. You're like, God damn, I'm so self-sufficient. I've saved two lives. I could do anything.

SPEAKER_04 58:45

I beat up a Wendigo.

SPEAKER_02 58:48

I'm losing a leg. I rolled a five. I rolled a five. That takes me directly to the front seat of my Subaru.

SPEAKER_03 58:58

And let me check your inventory.

SPEAKER_02 59:00

I have one Subi Q left. That was a plight. Alright, you made it to the Subi plus two stuck. Plus two? This is the most stokage I've had since.

SPEAKER_03 59:16

You hope to get two stuck. Well, the only reason he gets too stoke is because his buddy's still butting around. Still has the stink of the pick pitch.

SPEAKER_04 59:29

Cutting my carotid arteries.

SPEAKER_02 59:31

I'm not leaving you yet, though, Brad. I feel like I'm gonna get down to 40 stokids before I decide, Jesus, could you roll more than one though? Your max roll today has been two.

SPEAKER_03 59:44

All I'm rolling is one.

SPEAKER_02 59:45

The worst you do right now is leading me to want to look.

SPEAKER_03 59:48

It would have been fucking plenty of trivia if it wasn't for Brad.

SPEAKER_04 59:52

13? Yeah, lucky number 13.

SPEAKER_02 59:56

Good God. And I take a minus five?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:00

Oh, every time I roll? I take a minus five. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:04

Oh, we have a little bit of a uh what do they call them? Um the Bigfoots and the Wendigos. Uh Cryptid. Cryptids. Yes. Like in the Southwest, there are Navajo legends of shaped shape-shifting witches in animal skins that mimic voices and stalk at night. Sounds cool. What's this entity known as? A. The Flatwoods monster. B Skinwalker. Or Yinaldushi. C the brown mountain lights. Or D. The Charman. I'm gonna go with Navajo Legend. B, the Skinwasher.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:46

That's what I was gonna say. Or ancient.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:49

Oh, that was good. Bradley, you are correct.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:52

Yes! Because that's the only one that you gave a Native American name with. That was my thought process.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:59

I kind of like adding these uh one Stokage for that. Like backpacker cryptids.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:07

Alright, now I lose a turn and go minus five.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:10

I didn't know Skinwalker went back to Native American.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:14

Yeah, neither did I. This is a great board game. Five, thank god! We should mass produce this and sell it.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:21

Oh, I almost landed on there's some kind of special thing right there.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:24

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:25

Oh, but I did I about the Spectre's Pier. I about fell down. Is that a ramp that falls down into the black ra blood rock? It's the Spectre's Pier. Well, what's that little thing right there? The Spectre's pier.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:42

I see it now.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:45

Alright, dude. That's a chill zone. He just chilled. Go ahead and roll again, bro.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:50

You take your minus five stoke, Patty? I did.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:52

I'm at 66. And now I'm at Brad rolls three.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:57

Sighting.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:59

Four.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:00

Four. Oh yeah. Just like our studio little mascot here, our big horned sheep. Brad sees one balancing on the rocky cliffs. Just in front of the parking lot of the where the Subaru is. What's distinctive about bighorn sheep horns? Without looking at the one directly above your head.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:31

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:31

A. Only males have horns. B. Both males and females have horns, though females are smaller. C. Their horns are shed annually like deer antlers. D. They primarily use horns for digging food.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:47

This is which one is true?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:50

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:51

That they both have horns, that the females are smaller. That is correct.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:56

Wow, that was great, dude. Yeah, boy. Four. Remember, you can only go up to 111.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:02

This is kind of unreal. Rams' horns can be up to 30 pounds. Wow. And they're used for headbutting battles.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:11

Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

And their uh specialized hooves can help them grip those rocky mountainsads.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:18

Apparently they're like it's really hard to get a hunting tag for those. And to be able to hunt to like a lot of times it's it has to be a full one full curl before they can be hunted.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:28

So they know they're old enough? Is that like an age?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:30

But imagine how hard it is to spID that.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:33

Right. It seems like that, yeah, that could be kind of wishy-washy.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:37

Oh man, so I rolled.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:39

No, you're chill. You're chilling, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:40

I rolled a four and I'm only three. Chillin'? Patty minus five. You're still chilling at the Subaru? I wish I could give you some of my 107 Stokage.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:50

I'm at 58%.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:52

Back to the Subaru.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:53

So fucking stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:54

That's okay, because I'm gonna hand Brad my keys. I'm gonna be like, you drive. I'm sleeping.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:00

That Subaru is gonna be running on Stokage. Here we go. Three! One, two, three. You gotta take a rest before you go on the Subaru. No!

SPEAKER_03 1:04:13

It's the parking spot right next to me.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:15

No, I'm at a picnic table in the parking lot. Taking your gear off? Yeah. Well, Patty's loses, he sees me just chilling. He loses. He loses five more stokage because he's so good's gone. Three! Hey, Patty, I'm to the soup. Yeah, baby! You guys gonna depart together? Yeah, we're departing together. I'm not gonna leave him. Can I choose to leave? Plus ten stokage for both. Plus ten. Oh, so I'm at 117?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:46

You can't go over 111.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:48

Okay. I'm at 61. Can I give Patty 11 of my stuff?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:53

I mean, Brad, you guys are heading home, and Brad is just like, that was the most fucking amazing experience of my life.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:59

Dude, I saw a guy die.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:01

At the end of that adventure, though, sitting at 71% or even 61%, like, I'm feeling pretty good. That's how I expect to be after a good old backpack of drinking.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:11

Then once we get some Waffle House or something, then you'll be back to normal.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:15

Back to norm skis, dude. Brad and I are in the Subaru. We're about to ship off. Play that horn sound, Brad, because I'm I'm lighting up the national park.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:24

I'm glad you guys made it out too.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:27

We're out of here, dude. That was fun AF, man. We got a little kinks to work out with this board game, but it is a prototype, which means we have room for fixing. Yep. And I enjoyed the ever-loving shit out of that. Made it a two-parter. Awesome, Travvy.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:45

That was fun. That was a hell of a game night. I'm glad it worked out the way it did. And it was fun for me because I get to do stupid artwork that means nothing and but everything to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:55

No, that's great.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:56

And we got to post a photo of it on the on our social photo.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:59

I will be. I took some photos. We'll get that on there. I hope we can get it for the future. Brad and I both lived, which is a game that I enjoy. This is a no-winner game.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:10

I think we definitely had a better trip.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:13

I think in terms of not getting any resistance, but Brad, he embraced the stuff. Yeah. And he got out of there with Max fucking stoked. That's what it's all about.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:25

Way to go, Brad. Persevered and overcame. Way to go, I'm there. Alright, guys, that concludes our two-part game night. I'm psyched. Let's get the hell out of here. Like we referenced earlier. If you want to follow us, Busted Pretty uh at Blue Sky, Busted Knees and Pretty Trees on Instagram, Busted Knees and Pretty Trees on Threads, or BustedPretty.com. If you want to check out our website, lay it on us, see some of the old guests, and maybe do some uh donating of your own.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:53

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SPEAKER_02 1:06:57

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SPEAKER_03 1:07:04

Patrick, Brad, good job on the game. I'm glad you guys both made it out alive, and uh I look forward to messing around with this in the future. And uh thanks for listening, everybody. Eeehaw on Saunter. See ya.