258: Top O’ the Trail

Episode Transcript

[0:00:29 – 0:00:48] Adam: hello thank you welcome to tumbleum boundary waters podcast are we live no okay good not two and i can’t have two in a row like that two in a row like what
[0:00:49 – 0:00:53] Adam: Well, the last time I brought this in, it was kind of like that, where I was like, wait, are we actually recording?
[0:00:53 – 0:00:56] Adam: I was sort of half-joking entering the show, and you’re like, no, it’s on.
[0:00:56 – 0:00:58] Erik: What if I told you we are actually recording?
[0:00:58 – 0:00:58] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:00:58 – 0:01:02] Adam: Well, I don’t have any art supplies out here yet, so we’ve got to restart that.
[0:01:02 – 0:01:02] Adam: Okay.
[0:01:02 – 0:01:05] Adam: I wasn’t prepared.
[0:01:05 – 0:01:08] Erik: He is going.
[0:01:08 – 0:01:09] Adam: Can you still hear me?
[0:01:09 – 0:01:09] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:09 – 0:01:10] Adam: We’re over here by the fridge.
[0:01:11 – 0:01:12] Erik: We can always delete this.
[0:01:12 – 0:01:13] Erik: That is always an option.
[0:01:13 – 0:01:13] Erik: Oh.
[0:01:17 – 0:01:17] Adam: I think it’s this one.
[0:01:18 – 0:01:19] Adam: It’s this big one here.
[0:01:19 – 0:01:20] Erik: We’ll do it live.
[0:01:20 – 0:01:21] Adam: All right.
[0:01:21 – 0:01:21] Adam: We’re doing it live.
[0:01:21 – 0:01:22] Adam: All right.
[0:01:22 – 0:01:23] Adam: Just keep it rolling, actually.
[0:01:23 – 0:01:23] Adam: We’re good.
[0:01:24 – 0:01:25] Erik: Oh, just one big can.
[0:01:25 – 0:01:26] Adam: Just one big one.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:26] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:26 – 0:01:28] Adam: I had her under control the whole time.
[0:01:28 – 0:01:29] Erik: Yeah.
[0:01:29 – 0:01:30] Adam: Welcome.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:32] Adam: Three, two, one.
[0:01:32 – 0:01:36] Adam: Welcome to Tumblehum, a Boundary Waters podcast.
[0:01:36 – 0:01:39] Adam: This is episode 258 of Tumblehum.
[0:01:39 – 0:01:40] Adam: Thanks for being here.
[0:01:40 – 0:01:42] Adam: I’m joined in the shed tonight by my dear friend, Eric.
[0:01:42 – 0:01:43] Adam: Hello, Eric.
[0:01:43 – 0:01:44] Adam: Hello.
[0:01:44 – 0:01:45] Adam: Can you believe the size of this can?
[0:01:45 – 0:01:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:46 – 0:01:48] Erik: My God, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that big.
[0:01:48 – 0:01:50] Erik: Is that like a double crawler?
[0:01:51 – 0:01:51] Adam: Who knows?
[0:01:51 – 0:01:54] Adam: I haven’t pulled it out of the Quick Trip bag yet, but it feels huge.
[0:01:54 – 0:01:56] Adam: I had to use both of my hands.
[0:01:56 – 0:01:57] Adam: I saw that.
[0:01:57 – 0:01:57] Adam: All two of them?
[0:01:58 – 0:01:59] Erik: All two hands.
[0:01:59 – 0:02:04] Adam: I had to use all two of them on here for this big old bad boy can.
[0:02:04 – 0:02:05] Adam: Let’s just open it up right away.
[0:02:05 – 0:02:06] Erik: Yeah, I need to see that.
[0:02:06 – 0:02:10] Adam: It is in a Quick Trip bag, which is delightful.
[0:02:11 – 0:02:11] Erik: My Lord.
[0:02:12 – 0:02:13] Erik: Hold on.
[0:02:13 – 0:02:14] Erik: They just keep getting bigger.
[0:02:16 – 0:02:17] Adam: Got a note that says open me.
[0:02:18 – 0:02:19] Erik: Oh, I thought it said eat me.
[0:02:19 – 0:02:19] Adam: Eat me.
[0:02:20 – 0:02:21] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:02:21 – 0:02:22] Erik: What could be in there?
[0:02:22 – 0:02:23] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:02:23 – 0:02:28] Erik: Or it’s just something that would be offensively scrawled onto like a truck stop.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:28] Erik: What is going on?
[0:02:28 – 0:02:30] Erik: Partition in a bathroom.
[0:02:31 – 0:02:31] Adam: Okay.
[0:02:31 – 0:02:32] Erik: Nothing.
[0:02:32 – 0:02:33] Erik: There’s nothing inside.
[0:02:33 – 0:02:35] Erik: That was like an envelope.
[0:02:35 – 0:02:36] Erik: Oh, it’s filled with white powder.
[0:02:37 – 0:02:38] Adam: We got anthraxed.
[0:02:38 – 0:02:39] Adam: Live on 258.
[0:02:41 – 0:02:41] Adam: Howdy.
[0:02:41 – 0:02:43] Adam: Howdy ho, boys.
[0:02:43 – 0:02:45] Adam: There it is.
[0:02:45 – 0:02:51] Adam: This premium can here may not look like much, but it comes from the best brewery in Wisconsin.
[0:02:51 – 0:02:51] Adam: Wow.
[0:02:52 – 0:02:53] Adam: This is an orange cream ale.
[0:02:53 – 0:02:57] Adam: Easy drinking that will become a favorite of yours like it is ours.
[0:02:57 – 0:02:57] Adam: Cheers.
[0:02:58 – 0:02:59] Adam: Exhausted Horty.
[0:03:01 – 0:03:02] Adam: Thank you.
[0:03:02 – 0:03:06] Adam: Well, they also signed their real names.
[0:03:06 – 0:03:08] Adam: Am I allowed to use the real names then?
[0:03:08 – 0:03:09] Erik: Redacted.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:10] Adam: Yep.
[0:03:10 – 0:03:12] Adam: I said them, but we bleeped it out.
[0:03:12 – 0:03:14] Adam: Thank you, Exhausted Horty, dear friend of the show.
[0:03:18 – 0:03:19] Erik: Wait, what’s going on here?
[0:03:20 – 0:03:21] Erik: Oh, my God.
[0:03:21 – 0:03:22] Erik: Do we have to delete this whole track?
[0:03:22 – 0:03:24] Adam: Is this the wrong one?
[0:03:25 – 0:03:25] Erik: No.
[0:03:25 – 0:03:31] Adam: They were going on the Granite River trip, but why is it Exhausted Horte, but on the board it says…
[0:03:33 – 0:03:34] Adam: Glovebox warmies.
[0:03:34 – 0:03:36] Erik: Well, you got it wrong, I think.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:37] Erik: Is that what it says?
[0:03:37 – 0:03:39] Erik: That’s what it says on the note that was attached to it?
[0:03:39 – 0:03:40] Erik: Yeah, I guess I had it wrong.
[0:03:40 – 0:03:41] Erik: And it’s an orange cream ale?
[0:03:41 – 0:03:43] Adam: This is the orange cream ale, correct?
[0:03:43 – 0:03:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:44 – 0:03:45] Adam: It can’t be wrong.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:45] Adam: Look at this can.
[0:03:45 – 0:03:47] Adam: All right, let’s just move on.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:50] Adam: Thank you, and I hope you enjoyed the Granite River.
[0:03:51 – 0:03:54] Adam: I enjoyed our conversation in front of the deli case.
[0:03:54 – 0:03:55] Erik: Who’s the brewer?
[0:03:56 – 0:03:57] Adam: Let’s see here.
[0:03:57 – 0:03:58] Adam: It has their picture on it.
[0:03:58 – 0:03:58] Adam: Look at this.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:00] UNKNOWN: What?
[0:04:00 – 0:04:00] UNKNOWN: What?
[0:04:02 – 0:04:02] Adam: Mr.
[0:04:02 – 0:04:05] Adam: Friendly Oatmeal Cream Ale with Orange and Vanilla.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:07] Adam: And it’s just got a picture of Mr.
[0:04:07 – 0:04:10] Adam: Friendly on it.
[0:04:10 – 0:04:12] Adam: This is a one quart can.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:17] Adam: From Some Nerve Brewing Company in Manitouish Waters, Wisconsin.
[0:04:17 – 0:04:19] Adam: You ever been to Manitouish Waters, Eric?
[0:04:20 – 0:04:20] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:21] Erik: Probably.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:24] Adam: It’s way up there on the top of US 51.
[0:04:24 – 0:04:26] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:04:26 – 0:04:29] Adam: It’s like north of Monaco and Boulder Junction even, I think.
[0:04:29 – 0:04:30] Adam: It’s way out there.
[0:04:31 – 0:04:31] Erik: Yeah, I have been there.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:32] Erik: I’ve driven through.
[0:04:32 – 0:04:33] Erik: That’s just north of Rhinelander.
[0:04:34 – 0:04:37] Adam: Yeah, it’s north of Rhinelander, north and a touch west.
[0:04:37 – 0:04:42] Erik: Yeah, it’s on the way to Sylvania.
[0:04:42 – 0:04:44] Adam: Yeah, it’s pretty close to Sylvania.
[0:04:44 – 0:04:45] Adam: It’s near the Paulding Light.
[0:04:46 – 0:04:49] Adam: We’ve talked about the Paulding Light a lot on the show.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:49] Adam: A lot.
[0:04:49 – 0:04:50] Adam: A lot.
[0:04:50 – 0:04:50] Adam: A lot.
[0:04:51 – 0:04:56] Adam: I like these big cans where it just says with marker what it was bottled or canned on.
[0:04:57 – 0:04:58] Erik: Yeah, Jed in the.
[0:04:58 – 0:04:58] Adam: 61524.
[0:04:58 – 0:05:00] Adam: This honestly looks like my handwriting.
[0:05:00 – 0:05:02] Erik: It kind of does, yeah.
[0:05:02 – 0:05:03] Adam: Am I Mr.
[0:05:03 – 0:05:03] Adam: Friendly?
[0:05:03 – 0:05:04] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:05:07 – 0:05:12] Erik: That’s interesting that that is the claim that it’s the best brewery in Wisconsin.
[0:05:12 – 0:05:14] Erik: That’s a bold claim.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:15] Erik: That’s some nerve.
[0:05:15 – 0:05:18] Erik: You got some nerve making a claim like that, Horty.
[0:05:18 – 0:05:20] Erik: That sticker with Mr.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:28] Erik: Friendly on it kind of looks like those… You remember back in the day where your grandparents would sign up for the… Or I don’t know.
[0:05:28 – 0:05:29] Erik: Maybe they got them sent for free.
[0:05:30 – 0:05:34] Erik: The little mailers that had their address already printed on it.
[0:05:34 – 0:05:43] Erik: So then they could easily… Because they wrote so many letters this generation that they needed to have quick form stickers with the return address.
[0:05:43 – 0:05:43] Erik: Yeah.
[0:05:44 – 0:05:51] Erik: And it would have a little picture and sometimes it could be you or it would be like a nice fall scene.
[0:05:51 – 0:05:53] Adam: This is very easy drinking.
[0:05:53 – 0:05:54] Adam: Can I just smell it?
[0:05:54 – 0:05:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:54 – 0:05:57] Adam: It’s got a very good amount of vanilla in there.
[0:05:58 – 0:06:02] Adam: Eric’s got a vanilla, cherry vanilla pop over here.
[0:06:03 – 0:06:05] Erik: It claims it has a bunch of fiber in it.
[0:06:05 – 0:06:10] Adam: It’s got 12% of its daily fiber out of this soda.
[0:06:10 – 0:06:11] Adam: I was joking.
[0:06:11 – 0:06:13] Adam: It’s got the whole vanilla bean in there for you.
[0:06:13 – 0:06:15] Adam: You just got to eat the bean at the end.
[0:06:15 – 0:06:18] Erik: Yeah, it’s got the tequila worm on the bottom.
[0:06:18 – 0:06:20] Erik: It’s a cherry vanilla olipop.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:20] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:06:21 – 0:06:22] Adam: Plant fiber?
[0:06:22 – 0:06:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:06:24 – 0:06:25] Adam: We’re both eating the bean tonight.
[0:06:25 – 0:06:27] Adam: Oh, yeah, we are.
[0:06:28 – 0:06:31] Adam: Tonight on Strange Wilderness, we’re eating the bean.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:32] Erik: Oh, God.
[0:06:32 – 0:06:34] Erik: Yeah, we have to talk about Strange Wilderness later.
[0:06:35 – 0:06:36] Erik: I’m pretty excited to talk about that, actually.
[0:06:36 – 0:06:38] Erik: I am pretty excited.
[0:06:38 – 0:06:41] Adam: I was laughing my ass off watching Strange Wilderness last night somehow.
[0:06:42 – 0:06:43] Erik: I also was, too.
[0:06:43 – 0:06:51] Erik: I was not expecting it to be nearly as funny as it was, and it may have had something to do with the state of my mind, and it sounds like yours as well.
[0:06:51 – 0:06:54] Adam: We were both in the right state of mind to watch Strange Wilderness.
[0:06:54 – 0:06:56] Adam: Thank you to Hopalicious for suggesting it.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:57] Erik: Yeah.
[0:06:57 – 0:07:02] Adam: And it is going to be your next episode of Tumble Home Cinema Classics coming to you live from the mezzanine.
[0:07:02 – 0:07:04] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:05 – 0:07:10] Erik: In the best way possible, I think it’s maybe the stupidest comedy I’ve ever seen.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:11] Adam: Really.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:15] Adam: I mean, it is like a 2% on Rotten Tomatoes or something insane.
[0:07:15 – 0:07:19] Adam: I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything in the single digits before.
[0:07:19 – 0:07:21] Adam: And it’s 2%.
[0:07:21 – 0:07:22] Adam: It’s awful.
[0:07:22 – 0:07:24] Adam: But somehow like so bad that it’s funny.
[0:07:25 – 0:07:26] Adam: I don’t know what was going on.
[0:07:26 – 0:07:28] Adam: I was laughing quite a bit though.
[0:07:28 – 0:07:37] Erik: I was laughing so much for so many different reasons that I don’t even know if I have the proper mindset to eventually try and explain.
[0:07:37 – 0:07:37] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:38 – 0:07:49] Erik: I think it’s just one of those movies that it just… Yeah, for better or worse, need to exist for when you’re in a certain state of mind.
[0:07:49 – 0:07:51] Erik: I’m sure it’s not…
[0:07:51 – 0:07:53] Erik: Probably didn’t win any awards, but…
[0:07:54 – 0:08:18] Erik: i highly doubt it won any awards yeah i mean it literally ends maybe for cinematography yeah cinematography special effects yeah yeah the bigfoot murder scene yeah i’m sure that was uh spoiler alert i’m sorry just gave away the third act i asked everybody at work today and they were like never heard of that movie what are you talking about i kind of tried explaining like who’s in it i was like
[0:08:19 – 0:08:19] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:08:19 – 0:08:22] Adam: It’s like… Can’t even name half those guys.
[0:08:22 – 0:08:22] Erik: I was like, I don’t know.
[0:08:22 – 0:08:26] Erik: It’s like the dregs of the Adam Sandler days.
[0:08:27 – 0:08:33] Erik: Some of the guys from Grandma’s Boy and one of the dudes from the… Super Trooper?
[0:08:33 – 0:08:35] Erik: Super Trooper’s clan.
[0:08:35 – 0:08:36] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:08:36 – 0:08:39] Erik: It’s like this weird sub comedy crew that…
[0:08:39 – 0:08:42] Adam: It’s a real who’s who of C- list.
[0:08:42 – 0:08:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:43] Adam: Yes, it is.
[0:08:43 – 0:08:45] Adam: Poor comedy actor.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:46] Adam: Yeah, yeah.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:47] Adam: Steve Zahn’s funny as hell, though.
[0:08:47 – 0:08:54] Erik: He’s pretty funny, and also the TV guy who is Larry David’s friend and manager from Curb is hilarious.
[0:08:54 – 0:08:54] Adam: Yes, he’s great.
[0:08:54 – 0:08:55] Adam: He’s so amazing.
[0:08:56 – 0:08:56] Adam: He’s so good.
[0:08:56 – 0:08:59] Adam: That scene, I watched those scenes over again.
[0:08:59 – 0:09:00] Adam: I had to replay them.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:01] Adam: I went back and rewatched them.
[0:09:02 – 0:09:03] Erik: Was it playing?
[0:09:04 – 0:09:05] Erik: Did you add that?
[0:09:05 – 0:09:07] Erik: Did a safe get dropped on your head?
[0:09:08 – 0:09:09] Erik: What the?
[0:09:10 – 0:09:13] Adam: Well, I’m going to start using that in just everyday speech, I think.
[0:09:13 – 0:09:14] Adam: Thanks, Larry David’s friend.
[0:09:15 – 0:09:16] Erik: What’s his name?
[0:09:16 – 0:09:17] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:09:17 – 0:09:18] Erik: Jeff something?
[0:09:18 – 0:09:18] Adam: Jeff.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:19] Adam: We’ll look into it.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:20] Adam: He’s funny as hell.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:26] Adam: I’m going to give this Sumner Delicious Orange Vanilla Ale.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:27] Adam: Is it an ale?
[0:09:28 – 0:09:29] Adam: It’s a Mr.
[0:09:29 – 0:09:29] Adam: Friendly.
[0:09:31 – 0:09:32] Adam: Yeah, it’s an oatmeal cream ale.
[0:09:33 – 0:09:38] Adam: I’m not detecting any oats, but I am detecting a lot of vanilla and a touch of orange.
[0:09:38 – 0:09:40] Erik: You think you’re getting a little fiber from that too?
[0:09:40 – 0:09:41] Adam: Oat fiber?
[0:09:41 – 0:09:43] Adam: Yeah, I’m getting a little bit of fiber on this one.
[0:09:43 – 0:09:47] Adam: I’m going to give this one 51 out of 51.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:49] Adam: I’m giving it nothing but perfect scores.
[0:09:50 – 0:09:51] Adam: Give them the gold medal.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:54] Adam: Did you see the guy in the surfing contest that did the…
[0:09:54 – 0:09:59] Adam: hit the top of the wave and just flew straight up in the air with the number one.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:02] Adam: I’m your number one.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:04] Adam: I’m your number one.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:05] Adam: The Brazilian, I believe.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:06] Erik: Is Mr.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:08] Erik: Friendly holding a football in that picture?
[0:10:08 – 0:10:09] Adam: I would hope so.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:15] Erik: What kind of a printer is still making those little tiny… Yeah, it is.
[0:10:15 – 0:10:16] Adam: He’s holding a little Mr.
[0:10:16 – 0:10:17] Adam: Friendly’s holding the football.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:20] Adam: Yeah, I’m giving it a 51 out of 5.
[0:10:20 – 0:10:22] Adam: I said earlier it’s close to the Paulding.
[0:10:22 – 0:10:28] Adam: I think you got to take 45 north to Paulding, north of Watershmeet.
[0:10:29 – 0:10:30] Adam: Watchers Smeet.
[0:10:30 – 0:10:31] Adam: Watchers Smeet.
[0:10:31 – 0:10:34] Adam: 51 is a little bit west of there, actually.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:35] Adam: But it’s still close enough.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:38] Adam: You’re just a hop, skipping a jump away from the mystery light.
[0:10:38 – 0:10:38] Erik: Yes.
[0:10:39 – 0:10:41] Erik: Watchers Smeet is the little intersection.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:42] Erik: It’s like an intersection of a gas station.
[0:10:42 – 0:10:43] Erik: And that’s where the Sylvania is.
[0:10:43 – 0:10:45] Erik: And that’s right near.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:46] Erik: I remember that.
[0:10:46 – 0:10:51] Erik: Maybe I was confusing Manitowish, Waters, and Watchers Smeet.
[0:10:51 – 0:10:53] Adam: No, they’re all in the same neck of the woods there.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:54 – 0:10:55] Adam: All real good stuff.
[0:10:56 – 0:10:58] Erik: Is there any explanation as to the name of the brewing company?
[0:10:58 – 0:10:59] Erik: It looks like a nerve.
[0:11:00 – 0:11:01] Erik: It’s just some nerve.
[0:11:02 – 0:11:02] Adam: Some nerve.
[0:11:02 – 0:11:03] Erik: Just some nerve.
[0:11:04 – 0:11:08] Adam: I guess it is a nerve, but maybe it’s a kind of also looks like it could be a lake.
[0:11:08 – 0:11:10] Erik: What are the brain cells called?
[0:11:10 – 0:11:12] Erik: Are those axons or dendrites?
[0:11:13 – 0:11:13] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:11:14 – 0:11:14] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:11:14 – 0:11:16] Erik: Throwing out all kinds of old… Dendrites?
[0:11:16 – 0:11:19] Erik: Deeply buried dendrite.
[0:11:20 – 0:11:22] Erik: Isn’t that the terminology?
[0:11:23 – 0:11:25] Erik: That’s a terminology.
[0:11:25 – 0:11:26] Adam: You got it.
[0:11:26 – 0:11:27] Adam: Yeah, you got it.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:28] Adam: It doesn’t really say.
[0:11:28 – 0:11:30] Adam: I can read a little bit more here.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:33] Adam: This tasty craft beer was brewed just for you.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:36] Adam: And they got it really.
[0:11:36 – 0:11:40] Adam: They literally some nerve brewing company dot com.
[0:11:40 – 0:11:41] Adam: All one word.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:41] Adam: Wow.
[0:11:41 – 0:11:43] Adam: But they have that on there.
[0:11:43 – 0:11:49] Adam: Yeah, one of the more homemade-looking can labels you’re ever going to see.
[0:11:49 – 0:11:50] Adam: Yeah.
[0:11:50 – 0:11:54] Adam: I appreciate the size of a one-quart beer.
[0:11:55 – 0:11:55] Adam: Thank you.
[0:11:56 – 0:11:57] Adam: It’s about time.
[0:11:57 – 0:11:58] Adam: This should be the standard.
[0:11:59 – 0:12:00] Erik: Yeah, I guess.
[0:12:00 – 0:12:00] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:12:00 – 0:12:04] Adam: Any other beer I pick up and I’m like, what is this, a beer for ants?
[0:12:05 – 0:12:06] Erik: Yeah, I guess.
[0:12:06 – 0:12:18] Erik: It seems like the major downfall to that, I mean, and you are from Wisconsin and you probably are a higher speed when it comes to drinking beer, but weather like this, you got to be careful.
[0:12:18 – 0:12:20] Erik: I don’t want that getting too warm towards the end.
[0:12:20 – 0:12:21] Adam: No doubt.
[0:12:21 – 0:12:22] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:22 – 0:12:25] Erik: Jumbo silo can koozie for that thing.
[0:12:25 – 0:12:28] Adam: I pedal and I sip at a high RPM.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:28] Adam: Wow.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:29] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:29 – 0:12:30] Erik: That’s good.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:31] Adam: That’s how you go up hills.
[0:12:32 – 0:12:32] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:32 – 0:12:35] Adam: Do you have a favorite Olympics meme so far?
[0:12:36 – 0:12:40] Adam: I mean, who doesn’t love the guy from Turkey shooting with his hand in his pocket, right?
[0:12:40 – 0:12:41] Erik: That’s the one I was picturing.
[0:12:41 – 0:12:42] Adam: Yeah.
[0:12:42 – 0:12:48] Adam: Plus the Korean lady with the scope on her eye and everything like total casual.
[0:12:48 – 0:12:48] Adam: Yes.
[0:12:49 – 0:12:53] Adam: And then you can combine them both into like a dual meme also.
[0:12:53 – 0:12:54] Adam: So that’s great.
[0:12:54 – 0:12:55] Adam: Yeah, I don’t understand.
[0:12:55 – 0:12:56] Erik: The shooting memes.
[0:12:56 – 0:12:58] Erik: This has been an Olympic sport in the past, right?
[0:12:58 – 0:13:00] Adam: Yeah, I mean, they’ve been shooting on skis.
[0:13:00 – 0:13:03] Adam: The old skiing shoot’s been a long-time standard in the Winter Olympics.
[0:13:03 – 0:13:10] Adam: I assume just pistol-earing has been a long-time Summer Olympics sport.
[0:13:10 – 0:13:11] Erik: It’s just shooting a gun.
[0:13:11 – 0:13:12] Erik: That’s all it is, right?
[0:13:14 – 0:13:15] Adam: Yeah, you got to look cool doing it, though.
[0:13:15 – 0:13:26] Erik: Did you see the Onion did a little thing about the science behind what keeps the archers from just pointing their aim towards the crowd?
[0:13:27 – 0:13:36] Erik: And there’s one of those CGI renderings of a faceless, clothingless, just white bodies running from arrows flying into the crowd.
[0:13:37 – 0:13:38] Erik: They probably have a net up.
[0:13:39 – 0:13:43] Adam: They got a net up to protect the crowd, hopefully, from the bullets and arrows.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:13:44 – 0:13:47] Adam: I’ve been watching some surfing, obviously, pretty cool.
[0:13:47 – 0:13:50] Adam: And I was like, what part of Paris is this break?
[0:13:51 – 0:13:51] Adam: Well, yeah.
[0:13:52 – 0:13:53] Adam: That’s what Tori said.
[0:13:53 – 0:13:55] Adam: It’s not on the River Seine, that’s for sure.
[0:13:55 – 0:13:56] Erik: Yeah, I asked her.
[0:13:57 – 0:13:58] Erik: She’s like, I’m watching surfing.
[0:13:58 – 0:13:59] Erik: I’m like, where are they surfing?
[0:13:59 – 0:14:00] Erik: And she just said France.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:01] Erik: And I was like, what?
[0:14:01 – 0:14:04] Adam: Yeah, I mean, when I was younger, I was in Nice.
[0:14:05 – 0:14:08] Adam: And also a nice pebble beach similar to home here.
[0:14:09 – 0:14:11] Adam: And there were some insane waves.
[0:14:11 – 0:14:13] Adam: I guarantee you we shouldn’t have been swimming in that.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:16] Adam: No, nobody else was in.
[0:14:16 – 0:14:18] Adam: Nobody else is in the Mediterranean.
[0:14:18 – 0:14:24] Adam: And just these teenage white boys from America are diving right in and super riptide warning.
[0:14:24 – 0:14:26] Adam: And we all survived somehow.
[0:14:26 – 0:14:28] Erik: But do you think all those flags on the beach mean?
[0:14:28 – 0:14:33] Adam: No, I think it means it’s time to swim, swim, time to get that gold medal.
[0:14:33 – 0:14:35] Erik: You were going to say, though, where they were actually surfing?
[0:14:35 – 0:14:38] Adam: Some nerve jumping in there.
[0:14:38 – 0:14:42] Adam: Yeah, they’re in French Polynesia, which is not anywhere near Paris.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:42] Adam: No.
[0:14:42 – 0:14:44] Adam: I think it’s on the complete opposite side of the world.
[0:14:45 – 0:14:47] Adam: Do you know where French Polynesia even is?
[0:14:47 – 0:14:53] Adam: Is it over by the Philippines or something?
[0:14:53 – 0:14:54] Erik: Probably.
[0:14:55 – 0:14:57] Erik: Is French Guyana still a country?
[0:14:57 – 0:14:57] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:14:58 – 0:14:58] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:14:58 – 0:14:59] Adam: Just south of Guyana.
[0:15:00 – 0:15:01] Erik: Just south of Guyana.
[0:15:01 – 0:15:01] Erik: Yeah.
[0:15:03 – 0:15:05] Erik: I haven’t actually caught any surfing.
[0:15:06 – 0:15:08] Erik: I just saw the other one.
[0:15:08 – 0:15:15] Erik: I saw this all happening live, and then I feel like it’s kind of turned into a mild internet thing.
[0:15:15 – 0:15:19] Erik: It’s the fifth member of the men’s gymnastics team.
[0:15:19 – 0:15:21] Erik: The pommel horse guy.
[0:15:21 – 0:15:24] Erik: The whole night we were watching, and he was just sitting there resting.
[0:15:25 – 0:15:26] Adam: I was like, is that an athlete?
[0:15:26 – 0:15:27] Adam: What is this guy going to do?
[0:15:27 – 0:15:28] Adam: He’s getting ready.
[0:15:29 – 0:15:53] Erik: yeah it’s just like the one calm like quiet like sharply dressed like like asian man in the background of a ninja movie we’re like i don’t trust that guy he’s up to no good and then he just like all he does is pommel horse that’s all he does and then he just like took his glasses off woke up from a nap and just like hammered out yeah just like i was like i don’t know i guess that was good oh yeah there’s the score real good yeah
[0:15:53 – 0:16:00] Erik: And then he just started celebrating like he was the age he was, which was like 19, even though when he was sitting there on the sidelines.
[0:16:00 – 0:16:04] Adam: He was doing like more than 360s while spinning on the heel of his palm.
[0:16:04 – 0:16:05] Erik: One armed.
[0:16:05 – 0:16:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:06] Adam: Give me a break.
[0:16:06 – 0:16:07] Adam: That was amazing.
[0:16:07 – 0:16:08] Adam: Yeah, I know.
[0:16:08 – 0:16:09] Adam: Matt showed me all that.
[0:16:09 – 0:16:12] Adam: The pommel horse man made an appearance in the office at the co-op today.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:13] Erik: Yes.
[0:16:13 – 0:16:17] Adam: We had to pause business for five minutes to enjoy the pommel horse routine.
[0:16:18 – 0:16:20] Erik: Yeah, that was one of my favorites where I was like, what is happening?
[0:16:20 – 0:16:23] Adam: Made me proud to be an American at least for a little bit again.
[0:16:24 – 0:16:26] Erik: A lot resting on that one person’s shoulder.
[0:16:26 – 0:16:29] Erik: He’s just got to sit there in the gym all day.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:31] Adam: You might want to limber up or something.
[0:16:31 – 0:16:32] Adam: Do something for 30 seconds.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:34] Adam: Yeah, he’s not going to limber up.
[0:16:34 – 0:16:35] Adam: He’s just going to walk out to the pommel.
[0:16:36 – 0:16:37] Adam: And he’s horsing.
[0:16:37 – 0:16:38] Adam: He’s horsing.
[0:16:38 – 0:16:38] Adam: And he’s done.
[0:16:39 – 0:16:40] Adam: And that’s a gold medal.
[0:16:41 – 0:16:41] Erik: Nailed it.
[0:16:41 – 0:16:43] Erik: Well, I think they got the bronze, but…
[0:16:43 – 0:16:44] Adam: For that routine?
[0:16:44 – 0:16:45] Adam: Ridiculous.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:46] Erik: Well, it was the team.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:55] Erik: He might be doing some individual stuff later, but they were making a big deal about how it’s the first time that the team has gotten onto the podium since 1998.
[0:16:55 – 0:16:56] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:16:57 – 0:17:04] Adam: I guess I’m just used to the U.S. women dominating all the time in gymnastics that I just assumed the men were also going to be good somehow.
[0:17:05 – 0:17:07] Adam: What a foolish assumption, Adam.
[0:17:07 – 0:17:08] Adam: Yeah.
[0:17:09 – 0:17:10] Adam: What about the beach volleyball?
[0:17:10 – 0:17:12] Adam: I’m a big fan of the beach volleyball.
[0:17:13 – 0:17:13] Erik: Why would that be?
[0:17:13 – 0:17:15] Adam: Because I love volleyball.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:16] Adam: Fundamentals?
[0:17:16 – 0:17:20] Adam: No, I’ve always enjoyed playing beach volleyball, and I wish I was that good.
[0:17:20 – 0:17:21] Adam: Just how smooth they are.
[0:17:21 – 0:17:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:17:22 – 0:17:27] Erik: The sand is a thing where it’s just like you think it’s easy because they make everything look so easy.
[0:17:27 – 0:17:29] Erik: It’s been said a thousand times.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:33] Erik: But the thing about moving around in sand like that, it’s crazy.
[0:17:34 – 0:17:34] Adam: I know.
[0:17:35 – 0:17:35] Adam: It was incredible.
[0:17:36 – 0:17:38] Adam: Plus, the stadium’s right underneath the Eiffel Tower.
[0:17:38 – 0:17:39] Adam: Which is insane, too.
[0:17:40 – 0:17:41] Adam: I like the beach volleyball All-Olympics.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:44] Adam: I mean, it’s always one of my favorites.
[0:17:44 – 0:17:48] Adam: But yeah, this stadium is probably the best beach volleyball stadium ever concocted.
[0:17:49 – 0:17:49] Erik: It’s good sand.
[0:17:50 – 0:17:53] Adam: Good stand there in downtown Paris on the Champs-Élysées.
[0:17:53 – 0:17:54] Erik: Yep.
[0:17:54 – 0:17:56] Erik: The badminton is always fun.
[0:17:56 – 0:17:56] Erik: I like that.
[0:17:56 – 0:17:58] Adam: I haven’t caught any badminton yet.
[0:17:58 – 0:18:11] Adam: Did you see the ping pong and the guy, the one that doubles, like a reporter broke his paddle after the doubles championship, and then he ended up losing the singles championship because he had to use a replacement paddle in ping pong.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:14] Erik: Oh, well, he can’t be that good if the paddle’s going to take you out like that.
[0:18:14 – 0:18:15] Adam: You don’t have a backup paddle?
[0:18:16 – 0:18:17] Erik: What is it, like form fitted?
[0:18:17 – 0:18:20] Adam: I’m awful at disc golf, and I have like 50 discs, and they’re all about the same.
[0:18:20 – 0:18:21] Adam: Yeah.
[0:18:21 – 0:18:22] Adam: I’m not going to blame that.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:24] Erik: Well, he’s got a good excuse now, I guess.
[0:18:24 – 0:18:25] Erik: He’s superstitious.
[0:18:26 – 0:18:27] Erik: Where was he from?
[0:18:27 – 0:18:28] Erik: China.
[0:18:28 – 0:18:29] Erik: Oh, the reporter’s done.
[0:18:29 – 0:18:30] Erik: He’s done for.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:32] Adam: That’s not good.
[0:18:32 – 0:18:33] Adam: State media, too.
[0:18:34 – 0:18:35] Adam: You’re done.
[0:18:35 – 0:18:35] Adam: Sorry, buddy.
[0:18:37 – 0:18:39] Adam: What about any mountain biking?
[0:18:40 – 0:18:41] Adam: Have you caught any mountain biking?
[0:18:41 – 0:18:46] Adam: I’ve been riding a lot this summer, and so I definitely caught a few of the mountain bike races.
[0:18:46 – 0:18:47] Adam: That course is insane.
[0:18:47 – 0:18:51] Adam: I did the pincushion loop with Brother when he was up, and that was nuts.
[0:18:52 – 0:18:55] Adam: And then I watched the one they’re racing on in Paris, and it’s like, Jesus.
[0:18:55 – 0:18:59] Adam: I saw a lady just kind of get knocked out cold in a race.
[0:18:59 – 0:19:04] Adam: She went over the handlebars, and even with wearing a helmet, was just kind of laying there.
[0:19:05 – 0:19:12] Adam: You don’t usually see that kind of move other than an NFL game, where they just are knocked out cold on the field of battle.
[0:19:12 – 0:19:17] Erik: Yeah, or unless you watch a lot of Fail Army videos online, but that’s different.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:19] Erik: So it’s timed, I’m assuming.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:26] Adam: It’s a course where you just have to go from point A to B. Yeah, they’re all racing together on the course, and then I don’t know how many laps they even do.
[0:19:27 – 0:19:29] Adam: I’m just getting the highlights.
[0:19:29 – 0:19:32] Adam: I wish I had a little bit more in-depth on how the course lays out.
[0:19:32 – 0:19:34] Adam: They just sort of show the race, so.
[0:19:34 – 0:19:37] Erik: Is it like a wide track or is it?
[0:19:37 – 0:19:41] Erik: There’s some parts where it’s skinny and or you can take like multiple routes through sections.
[0:19:42 – 0:19:47] Adam: And then there’s just like rock fields where you’re going down the side of a steep hill like over boulders.
[0:19:47 – 0:19:48] Adam: And that’s where this lady just bit it.
[0:19:49 – 0:19:52] Adam: But then like she almost got run over because there’s somebody right behind him.
[0:19:52 – 0:19:57] Adam: And it was amazing skill by the person behind her to like avoid running her down.
[0:19:57 – 0:20:23] Adam: home unconscious body over god and uh yeah i’ve not seen that that’s crazy they like the first couple laps they’re all just together and then by the end like the really strong riders are just sort of riding away from them the peloton yeah i don’t know if they call it a peloton and mountain bike race there’s no yellow jersey it’s just one race the jersey is awarded at the end and it’s a metal that you hang around your neck it’s true that was pretty good have you watched any of the canoeing
[0:20:23 – 0:20:25] Erik: No, did they even play that?
[0:20:25 – 0:20:28] Adam: I mean the stand-up paddleboard or whatever that they call a canoe.
[0:20:29 – 0:20:29] Adam: No, I haven’t.
[0:20:30 – 0:20:30] Adam: Tiny kayak.
[0:20:31 – 0:20:33] Adam: In like the fake rapids that they had to build?
[0:20:33 – 0:20:33] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:36] Adam: I’ve seen it, but I haven’t seen any this year.
[0:20:36 – 0:20:37] Adam: I can’t get too excited for that.
[0:20:37 – 0:20:39] Adam: I’d much rather watch surfing.
[0:20:39 – 0:20:42] Adam: I think if we’re talking like boat, I don’t want to see the rowing.
[0:20:42 – 0:20:44] Erik: You don’t want to see crew?
[0:20:44 – 0:20:50] Adam: I don’t want to see the guys that tried to sue Mark Zuckerberg throwing a boat.
[0:20:51 – 0:20:54] Adam: And I don’t want to see the tiny canoe in the fake river.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:55] Adam: No.
[0:20:55 – 0:21:00] Adam: But I think the most compelling boat in the Olympics is the surfboard somehow.
[0:21:00 – 0:21:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:21:01 – 0:21:04] Adam: Seems the most natural sport when it comes to the waters.
[0:21:05 – 0:21:32] Adam: to be like judged you know yeah that’s the only problem with it though is like it’s yeah you get the judges yeah i get that i’d be interested in seeing like some kind of a long distance like real long distance when it comes to like they should have had like a paddle around the world or something going yeah actually paddled a french uh guyana or whatever yeah and then like in the end of the like time it so the like the paddlers would arrive during the opening ceremony
[0:21:33 – 0:21:36] Adam: Here they come up the river from the sea.
[0:21:37 – 0:21:41] Adam: First one to the bridge by Notre Dame and they win it.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:47] Erik: The river flows out to the English Channel?
[0:21:48 – 0:21:49] Adam: I don’t think it’s quite to Normandy.
[0:21:49 – 0:21:52] Adam: I think it goes like whatever’s west of Normandy.
[0:21:53 – 0:21:54] Erik: But it does flow out to the ocean at some point.
[0:21:54 – 0:21:56] Adam: I think, yeah, it just goes out to the Atlantic proper.
[0:21:57 – 0:21:59] Adam: It would be my number one guess, but I’m not sure on that one.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:22:00 – 0:22:08] Adam: But, yeah, you could, like, have it start in Iceland and they row all the way to Paris, like, during the Olympics and then arrive.
[0:22:08 – 0:22:11] Adam: That would be… Yeah, and you could have GPS trackers on them.
[0:22:11 – 0:22:12] Adam: That would be fun.
[0:22:12 – 0:22:13] Erik: Yeah, that’d be dope.
[0:22:13 – 0:22:16] Adam: Hopefully no killer whales take a stab at them on their way in.
[0:22:17 – 0:22:19] Adam: White Gladys is out there patrolling the waters.
[0:22:19 – 0:22:20] Erik: Is that where that’s happening?
[0:22:20 – 0:22:21] Erik: I thought that was down.
[0:22:21 – 0:22:22] Adam: That was more like in the Straits of Gibraltar.
[0:22:22 – 0:22:26] Adam: Yeah, we’ll have to have them start in the Mediterranean and go through the Straits of Gibraltar.
[0:22:26 – 0:22:26] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:22:27 – 0:22:29] Adam: Tempt fate with white Gladys and her crew.
[0:22:29 – 0:22:31] Erik: Yeah, intangible.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:37] Erik: I don’t even know how that would get qualified for in terms of like judgment or time.
[0:22:37 – 0:22:37] Adam: Yeah, I agree.
[0:22:37 – 0:22:46] Adam: All right, so if we’re going to include new Olympic sports, we’re going with a long-distance paddle and not a silly river canoe contest.
[0:22:46 – 0:22:47] Adam: They can keep that one, honestly.
[0:22:47 – 0:22:48] Adam: It’s not that silly.
[0:22:48 – 0:22:50] Adam: It’s not that silly, but it looks like… Why can’t they find a real river?
[0:22:51 – 0:22:52] Erik: Yeah, it looks like something…
[0:22:52 – 0:22:54] Adam: It always looks like a water park.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:56] Adam: Exactly, that’s what I was going to say.
[0:22:56 – 0:22:57] Adam: It looks like they’re in the Wisconsin Dells.
[0:22:57 – 0:23:02] Erik: Like some new ride that you can go to at the Dells next to the Tommy Bartlett Experience.
[0:23:02 – 0:23:04] Adam: Yeah, and the Crooked House.
[0:23:05 – 0:23:06] Adam: Yes, the upside on Believe It or Not.
[0:23:07 – 0:23:25] Erik: believe it or not this isn’t really shrimp i don’t know is it to control the scenario like if you’re going down a river you know surfing is all about picking the right wave yeah that’s true they’re not they’re not out there on like a synthetic pool where they make the waves perfect every time exactly which those do exist those are crazy
[0:23:26 – 0:23:31] Adam: Yeah, I mean, I’ve never been on a cruise ship, but if I ever was, I’d try the fake surf.
[0:23:31 – 0:23:33] Erik: Oh, I wasn’t even thinking of that.
[0:23:33 – 0:23:45] Erik: I was thinking of the place where it’s like a massive pool and it just has one thing that just goes like whoosh and it makes like a huge waves and you can actually like, as a surfer, feel like you’re kind of really surfing.
[0:23:45 – 0:23:46] Adam: Tsunami simulator.
[0:23:46 – 0:23:53] Erik: Not like the clothing stripper, which is the cruise ship thing you’re describing, which is basically like…
[0:23:54 – 0:23:56] Adam: My shorts would definitely fall off.
[0:23:56 – 0:24:03] Erik: 60% of people that go on those things just get like de-clothed in front of all their friends and family and strangers.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:06] Erik: Hell yeah.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:07] Adam: Hell yeah.
[0:24:08 – 0:24:09] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:24:09 – 0:24:12] Adam: I would hope to see disc golf would make it into the Olympics at some point.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:18] Adam: It’s shocking to me that they haven’t broken in yet with some of the insane sports that are currently considered Olympic sports.
[0:24:19 – 0:24:21] Adam: Disc golf is not yet in, but
[0:24:21 – 0:24:25] Adam: I would think by the time that Pike is 18, disc golf will be in.
[0:24:25 – 0:24:26] Erik: Sure.
[0:24:26 – 0:24:31] Adam: So that’s my future sport I would like to see that’s actually sort of realistic.
[0:24:31 – 0:24:32] Adam: I can see that.
[0:24:32 – 0:24:33] Adam: Yeah, I would love it.
[0:24:33 – 0:24:38] Erik: I’m sure pickleball will be an Olympic sport sooner than disc golf.
[0:24:39 – 0:24:44] Erik: If any of the growing popularity of it is any indication.
[0:24:45 – 0:24:47] Adam: There’s so many damn sports.
[0:24:48 – 0:24:49] Erik: Too many sports.
[0:24:49 – 0:24:50] Adam: Too many.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:55] Adam: Yeah, brother was up.
[0:24:55 – 0:24:56] Adam: Brother Alex?
[0:24:57 – 0:24:58] Adam: Brother Abraham.
[0:24:58 – 0:24:59] Erik: Brother Abraham.
[0:25:00 – 0:25:01] Adam: Brother Al.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:03] Adam: Oh, Brother Al.
[0:25:03 – 0:25:10] Adam: He’s trying to decrease his online presence, so I probably shouldn’t have been using his real name, but…
[0:25:11 – 0:25:13] Erik: Well, if he’s trying to decrease his online presence, will he ever know?
[0:25:15 – 0:25:15] Adam: Probably.
[0:25:15 – 0:25:17] Adam: He does listen to Tumbleum, though.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:17] Erik: Oh.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:18] Adam: Well.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:20] Adam: Anyways, brother is up.
[0:25:20 – 0:25:22] Adam: We did do some mountain biking, which was awesome.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:23] Adam: The Fluvial.
[0:25:23 – 0:25:25] Adam: We did the Fluvial loop.
[0:25:25 – 0:25:26] Adam: I’ve never been out to the Fluvial.
[0:25:27 – 0:25:34] Adam: And we did also the whole pincushion loop and then stopped and hiked out to the Overlook, which is always a treat.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:35] Erik: Big day.
[0:25:35 – 0:25:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:25:35 – 0:25:40] Adam: Yeah, it was my longest day ever, according to the GPS app I use.
[0:25:40 – 0:25:42] Adam: Longest ride ever on a bike, yeah.
[0:25:42 – 0:25:44] Adam: Nice.
[0:25:44 – 0:25:46] Adam: I thought I was going to be much more sore after that.
[0:25:47 – 0:25:52] Adam: It’s pretty bumpy, and I don’t have any shocks on my bike at all.
[0:25:52 – 0:25:52] Adam: None.
[0:25:53 – 0:25:53] Adam: None.
[0:25:53 – 0:25:54] Adam: Don’t need them.
[0:25:54 – 0:25:55] Adam: I want to feel the dirt.
[0:25:56 – 0:25:58] Adam: Yeah, Fluvial’s sweet, though.
[0:25:58 – 0:26:03] Adam: They’ve got that kind of smoothed out, and there’s a bunch of almost, maybe I’ve caught some air.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:04] Adam: I might have caught some air.
[0:26:05 – 0:26:27] Adam: hmm and i anybody out there who’s coming up and enjoys the bike i would recommend bringing it and trying it out either before or after your trip it’s you’re going right by it on the gunflint trail uh it’s pretty premier they’re really doing a lot of work on it still to this day we did go all the way down and do the tilt-a-whirl is that another name of a trail
[0:26:27 – 0:26:28] Adam: That one’s like the crazy trail.
[0:26:29 – 0:26:35] Adam: I think that one’s also rated blue, but it’s like it sounds.
[0:26:35 – 0:26:36] Adam: It’s a tilt-a-whirl.
[0:26:36 – 0:26:39] Adam: You’re just constantly going back and forth on like bermed corners.
[0:26:40 – 0:26:43] Adam: And it kind of goes down a hill and then back up a hill that’s pretty steep.
[0:26:44 – 0:26:47] Adam: And I did have to get off and walk a few times on that one, just going up the hills.
[0:26:47 – 0:26:51] Adam: I don’t have low enough gearing on the bike I have to make it up those hills.
[0:26:52 – 0:26:52] Adam: Sure.
[0:26:52 – 0:26:53] Adam: Blame it on the gears.
[0:26:53 – 0:26:54] Adam: Sure.
[0:26:54 – 0:26:57] Erik: It’s like the ping pong guy blaming it on the paddle.
[0:26:57 – 0:26:59] Adam: Yeah, my poor paddle coach.
[0:27:00 – 0:27:01] Adam: That’s what he sounded like.
[0:27:01 – 0:27:02] Adam: I heard the interview.
[0:27:02 – 0:27:04] Adam: My old bowl coach.
[0:27:04 – 0:27:09] Erik: In this case, you don’t have a photographer that you can blame it on and have disappeared.
[0:27:10 – 0:27:35] Adam: they were working out there and they had like a little like mini excavator out in the woods yeah digging them up i was like hmm these guys are really putting in work who does that uh superior cycling club or something like that i yeah i think it’s volunteers that are all in an organization to you gotta have an llc of some sort to have a club like that getting access to national forest lands probably would have to imagine yeah
[0:27:35 – 0:27:41] Adam: But they kind of overlap with the ski trails, and they have their own club for the ski and run club, but they’re not affiliated with the bike club, I don’t think.
[0:27:43 – 0:27:43] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:27:44 – 0:27:51] Adam: My only gripe was the signage is a little confusing, and I’ve been out there skiing before, and I still was like, wait, which way are we going here?
[0:27:51 – 0:27:55] Adam: Especially the signage for the green and blue loops is just nonexistent.
[0:27:55 – 0:28:00] Erik: Yeah, there’s a couple of places where there are posts where there should be maps.
[0:28:00 – 0:28:01] Erik: All the maps are missing.
[0:28:01 – 0:28:07] Erik: All the maps are missing and there’s one spot where a map is missing and somebody just wrote on it with a big pencil, why?
[0:28:08 – 0:28:08] Erik: Right.
[0:28:08 – 0:28:09] Erik: They’re all missing.
[0:28:09 – 0:28:09] Adam: Why are they all missing?
[0:28:10 – 0:28:11] Adam: I don’t know what’s going on out there.
[0:28:11 – 0:28:17] Adam: For all the work they’re doing on the trails, I would think top priority would maybe be making some maps.
[0:28:17 – 0:28:21] Adam: We were leaving and I watched a family get out of their car with their bikes and everything.
[0:28:22 – 0:28:24] Adam: They just sort of wandered around and I was like,
[0:28:25 – 0:28:28] Adam: pointing towards that, and they went the complete other way.
[0:28:28 – 0:28:35] Adam: And then when we were leaving, we just saw them kind of walking out of the woods with their bikes.
[0:28:35 – 0:28:37] Adam: Yeah.
[0:28:37 – 0:28:41] Adam: Because one of the harder trails is right by the parking lot.
[0:28:41 – 0:29:07] Adam: it’s like called rock in a hard place and it’s a black diamond geez and nobody like other than olympic athletes should be on that trail i don’t think yeah and then the real easy trails are kind of up like behind the stadium where you would normally like ski you know but if you haven’t been there skiing you would not even go look up there maybe and then the signage plus they have different maps for the ski trails and the bike trails that don’t match up right yeah
[0:29:07 – 0:29:11] Adam: And then I also had a map on my phone, which is the only reason we ever figured out where we were actually going.
[0:29:11 – 0:29:14] Adam: Because like I said, I’ve actually been skiing out there a lot.
[0:29:14 – 0:29:15] Adam: But I don’t know.
[0:29:15 – 0:29:20] Adam: Once you figure out where you’re at and get it going in the right direction, then it was a real delight.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:22] Adam: So check it out.
[0:29:22 – 0:29:23] Adam: The Pincushion Mountain Trails.
[0:29:23 – 0:29:27] Adam: We can’t believe we’re talking about that on Tumble Home.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:28] Adam: But we are.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:31] Erik: We don’t have anything else to talk about if that has not become apparent yet.
[0:29:31 – 0:29:32] Adam: What?
[0:29:32 – 0:29:35] Adam: 30 minutes of… Oh, we’re getting to the meat, Eric.
[0:29:35 – 0:29:36] Erik: What’s the meat today?
[0:29:38 – 0:29:40] Adam: Trails End Campground.
[0:29:40 – 0:29:41] Adam: That’s the name of the episode.
[0:29:41 – 0:29:42] Adam: Trails End Campground.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:46] Erik: Trails End Campground, just to get the algorithm going.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:46] Erik: Exactly.
[0:29:46 – 0:29:51] Adam: We’re not going to go with a goofy, abstract title on this one.
[0:29:51 – 0:29:53] Adam: It’s just called Trails End Campground.
[0:29:53 – 0:29:58] Erik: Yeah, if you followed us long enough, you know that all of the titles of our episodes are designed specifically.
[0:29:59 – 0:30:03] Erik: This is the one thing that we had Trevor doing was for SEO…
[0:30:05 – 0:30:30] Erik: exactly optimization that’s why he got the job actually it’s because he is a specialist in this field yeah you wouldn’t think that some of those titles would lead people to finding the show based on what they’re actually looking for yeah but it does i’m pretty sure i saw trevor in the crowd at the beach volleyball stadium oh he was also wearing a thong oh no yeah i mean i believe well it’s france
[0:30:31 – 0:30:54] Erik: when in when in paris when in paris yeah i mean he’s probably yeah he’s close enough last we heard he was at least on the continent so yeah he was at least he wasn’t wearing a beret eric yeah but he was smoking two cigarettes that’s fine and starting something on fire probably in protest for some purpose for a good cause they were protesting people
[0:30:55 – 0:30:55] Adam: I wish we were.
[0:30:56 – 0:30:57] Adam: Yeah.
[0:30:57 – 0:31:00] Adam: Yeah, we’re talking about trails and campground.
[0:31:00 – 0:31:03] Adam: Can’t talk about too much because brother was on the trip.
[0:31:04 – 0:31:06] Adam: He refused to let me take any audio.
[0:31:07 – 0:31:12] Adam: And at one point I tried and he swatted my phone straight into the Seagull River.
[0:31:12 – 0:31:13] Adam: Oh, no.
[0:31:13 – 0:31:16] Adam: So I don’t have my phone.
[0:31:16 – 0:31:17] Adam: I don’t have any pictures from the trip.
[0:31:18 – 0:31:19] Adam: But I do have the memories, though.
[0:31:19 – 0:31:20] Erik: That’s all that matters.
[0:31:20 – 0:31:21] Adam: Yeah.
[0:31:21 – 0:31:22] Adam: It’s a beautiful campground.
[0:31:23 – 0:31:29] Adam: It’s two years in a row we’ve gone up and done just a nice, easy car camping trip up there in the middle of summer.
[0:31:30 – 0:31:38] Adam: You’re in a hub of both excellent boundary waters paddling and really good swimming opportunities, especially in the summer.
[0:31:40 – 0:31:44] Adam: Famously good for berry picking, although I only found a couple blueberries.
[0:31:44 – 0:31:45] Erik: Is it still early?
[0:31:45 – 0:31:48] Adam: I think it was a little early, but I didn’t actually try too hard.
[0:31:50 – 0:31:51] Adam: Because the raspberries are out.
[0:31:52 – 0:31:54] Adam: The raspberries are out like gangbusters right now.
[0:31:54 – 0:31:54] Adam: No doubt.
[0:31:54 – 0:31:59] Adam: And the whole driveway here outside the tumble shed is just festooned with raspberry.
[0:31:59 – 0:31:59] Adam: Nice.
[0:32:00 – 0:32:10] Adam: And, yeah, I didn’t realize because last year we stayed down like, I don’t know, 20 or something like that, 19 or 20 on the lower loops.
[0:32:11 – 0:32:12] Erik: How many sites are there total?
[0:32:12 – 0:32:14] Adam: I think like 32, I want to say.
[0:32:14 – 0:32:15] Erik: That’s not too crazy.
[0:32:16 – 0:32:20] Adam: And a lot of them are first come, first serve, no reserved options on them.
[0:32:21 – 0:32:24] Adam: And frankly, when we got there, it was the middle of the week.
[0:32:25 – 0:32:29] Adam: I want to say we went up on a Wednesday and there was a lot of open sites.
[0:32:29 – 0:32:36] Adam: Even the ones you could reserve were just seemingly a lot of them were just open or like they had a reservation posted, but it wasn’t until like two days from now.
[0:32:37 – 0:32:39] Adam: So you could have just grabbed any of those, I guess.
[0:32:40 – 0:32:42] Adam: But they do have some there you just are not allowed to reserve.
[0:32:43 – 0:32:44] Adam: So you always have a chance there.
[0:32:44 – 0:32:48] Adam: So I don’t know how many people are using this like before or after a trip.
[0:32:49 – 0:32:55] Adam: I get the feeling that most people are kind of doing what we are doing, which is just that’s the destination and you are just car camping.
[0:32:55 – 0:32:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:32:56 – 0:32:59] Adam: But I mean, it would be a great spot to stay before or after a trip.
[0:32:59 – 0:33:00] Erik: I can see before.
[0:33:01 – 0:33:10] Adam: Sure, I just don’t know, like, for what you’re paying for one of those campsites, like, maybe you could just probably get a bunkhouse almost for that at the Outfitter you’re probably leaving from.
[0:33:11 – 0:33:11] Adam: Yeah.
[0:33:11 – 0:33:23] Adam: But, you know, if you are your own Outfitter and got your permit already, like, you have access to both SAG and Seagull directly from that campsite, which is two of the greatest entry points in the entire park, so pretty good.
[0:33:24 – 0:33:24] Adam: Yeah.
[0:33:24 – 0:33:29] Adam: The, like, lower-numbered sites, so we were on 11 for this trip,
[0:33:30 – 0:33:36] Adam: And all those, like 1 through 13, all have their own water spigot, which I was not aware of at all.
[0:33:36 – 0:33:37] Adam: So we got water right in camp.
[0:33:37 – 0:33:42] Adam: I guess if you had a little camper, you could hook your hose up there and have yourself running water in the kitchen.
[0:33:42 – 0:33:44] Erik: There’s no other hookups, though?
[0:33:44 – 0:33:45] Adam: No, there’s no.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:46] Adam: Just water.
[0:33:46 – 0:33:50] Adam: I don’t think there’s a dump station anywhere, and there’s definitely no electricity out there.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:51] Erik: You’re right there on the Segal River.
[0:33:51 – 0:33:53] Erik: Sounds like a dump station to me.
[0:33:53 – 0:33:54] Adam: Hydroelectric.
[0:33:55 – 0:33:57] Erik: Wave of the future.
[0:33:57 – 0:33:59] Erik: It’s flowing into Segal?
[0:33:59 – 0:34:00] Adam: That’s Segal’s problem.
[0:34:00 – 0:34:02] Adam: No, it flows into Gull.
[0:34:02 – 0:34:03] Erik: Yeah, it flows north.
[0:34:04 – 0:34:15] Adam: Yeah, so the water basically, you got both landings for the Segal and Gull Lake, technically, which then goes up the channel towards VCO and into SAG proper.
[0:34:15 – 0:34:15] Adam: Mm-hmm.
[0:34:16 – 0:34:20] Adam: And, you know, a bunch of weird like little cabins out there.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:23] Adam: There’s like power lines hopscotching across some islands.
[0:34:23 – 0:34:24] Adam: It is an odd little spot.
[0:34:24 – 0:34:29] Erik: A couple of crazy properties out on some islands out on that lake.
[0:34:30 – 0:34:32] Erik: where it’s like, that looks like a lot of fun.
[0:34:32 – 0:34:34] Adam: Yeah, there’s definitely a lot of people.
[0:34:34 – 0:34:53] Adam: We saw numerous people because we were just like, one of the best spots to swim, which was close to our campsite, was not actually in the river itself because the campsite sits up above the river quite a bit, and you have a magnificent view there of the rapids from the Segal River coming down into this little mid-river pool.
[0:34:54 – 0:34:56] Adam: But you’re kind of high up above the river there.
[0:34:56 – 0:35:06] Adam: But if you just walk down to the landing, like where you and I both started and ended our long Quetico trip, it looks different now than it did back then.
[0:35:06 – 0:35:08] Adam: But it’s a great spot to swim.
[0:35:08 – 0:35:10] Adam: It’s like kind of a gravel beach slash boat launch.
[0:35:11 – 0:35:17] Adam: And there’s a ton of like traffic going through there, which could be mildly annoying when there’s like multiple.
[0:35:17 – 0:35:19] Adam: What’s the water slide camp up there?
[0:35:19 – 0:35:20] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:35:20 – 0:35:21] Erik: Like Birchwood?
[0:35:21 – 0:35:22] Erik: Birchwood for boys camp.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:23] Erik: Pinewood or something like that.
[0:35:23 – 0:35:24] Adam: Yeah, no, it is Birchwood.
[0:35:25 – 0:35:27] Adam: And there’s like numerous Birchwood groups.
[0:35:27 – 0:35:29] Adam: It must have been like transfer day or something.
[0:35:29 – 0:35:32] Erik: They like barge them in on some massive pontoon.
[0:35:32 – 0:35:34] Adam: They have a huge pontoon with like a drawbridge.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:38] Adam: And they had a huge like brand new Minnesota state flag.
[0:35:38 – 0:35:39] Adam: No laser loon.
[0:35:39 – 0:35:39] Erik: Oh, wow.
[0:35:40 – 0:35:42] Adam: Just the standard Minnesota state flag.
[0:35:42 – 0:35:44] Adam: Like a pirate ship almost.
[0:35:44 – 0:35:49] Adam: They came charging in and dropped the drawbridge, and then all the kids just ran up on the boat and they took off.
[0:35:49 – 0:35:50] Adam: Dang.
[0:35:51 – 0:35:53] Adam: Yeah, Pike tried to jump on the boat with him.
[0:35:53 – 0:35:59] Adam: He went up on the drawbridge like, hey, scout, you’re not quite old enough to go to Birchwood yet.
[0:35:59 – 0:36:00] Erik: Can’t go down the water slide yet.
[0:36:00 – 0:36:02] Adam: You’re not tall enough to go down the water slide for one.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:05] Adam: And for two, you can’t portage a canoe yet.
[0:36:05 – 0:36:07] Erik: I don’t think I’ve ever gone by that camp when it’s been operational.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:09] Erik: We always go by late in the season.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:10] Adam: Off season when it’s all shuttered.
[0:36:10 – 0:36:15] Erik: Yeah, the water slide, it’s like 45 and drizzling.
[0:36:15 – 0:36:20] Erik: It’s like, that doesn’t look like fun, but like this last two weeks where it’s been like… Dude, it was so hot.
[0:36:20 – 0:36:21] Adam: We were up there.
[0:36:21 – 0:36:23] Adam: It was like not a chance of rain the whole time.
[0:36:24 – 0:36:24] Adam: Just…
[0:36:24 – 0:36:50] Adam: hell hot humid too and very humid and uh yeah i brought the pool toys out we had the canoe we got the baby out in the canoe me and brother paddled him around a little bit and he was sitting up front with me and i got like four paddle strokes in and he just like grabbed the paddle out of my hand and then refused to give it back and frankly wasn’t doing a very good job of help actually helping brother paddle at all but he was trying his best
[0:36:50 – 0:36:52] Erik: Yeah, it was calm, though, right?
[0:36:52 – 0:36:52] Erik: It was calm.
[0:36:52 – 0:36:53] Erik: It was pretty calm.
[0:36:53 – 0:36:59] Adam: It was a little windy the second day, but where we were sitting in Gull Lake there, it was totally protected, just idyllic.
[0:36:59 – 0:37:04] Adam: Spent a lot of time just, like, floating around out there with, like, a slip bobber and a pool toy.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:06] Adam: We caught some nice bass.
[0:37:07 – 0:37:14] Adam: I was shocked we did some actual fishing, and I was shocked we didn’t run into, like, a big pike or maybe even a walleye.
[0:37:14 – 0:37:19] Adam: I was throwing a—I had a husky jerk out, just trolling around with a husky jerk, casting that.
[0:37:19 – 0:37:20] Adam: I had a slip bobber with leech.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:44] Adam: nothing but like i said it was super hot and we focused focused way more on the fishing than on the uh we focused way more on the swimming than the fishing as you should as you should like that with a uh a youngster i brought a watermelon that was like bigger than the kid both in size and weight and we almost ate i would say we almost ate a half of it
[0:37:45 – 0:38:11] Adam: that’s between we had six of us up there uh natalie’s folks were up and brother was there and me natalie and the kid so we all did our fair share and that watermelon uh did not even come close to getting taken out so i still have a pound at the co-op there was such a good deal we had uh yeah from mississippi yeah cooperatively grown seeded watermelon on a great promo 49 cents a pound it’s
[0:38:12 – 0:38:14] Adam: Such a good deal, you can’t afford not to buy the whole thing.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:15] Erik: It’s almost free.
[0:38:15 – 0:38:17] Adam: We’ll cut it in half for you, sure, but just buy the whole thing.
[0:38:17 – 0:38:18] Adam: Quit being a baby.
[0:38:19 – 0:38:19] Adam: Grow up.
[0:38:20 – 0:38:21] Adam: Eat more melon.
[0:38:21 – 0:38:22] Erik: Yeah.
[0:38:23 – 0:38:27] Adam: Kirsten had one at work, and she was just eating it just with a spoon on the desk.
[0:38:28 – 0:38:28] Adam: Sure.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:29] Adam: As you should.
[0:38:30 – 0:38:31] Erik: Leave it, come back to it.
[0:38:32 – 0:38:33] Erik: Not a huge fan of watermelon.
[0:38:33 – 0:38:34] Erik: The longer you leave it, the better it is.
[0:38:34 – 0:38:35] Erik: If I’m being honest.
[0:38:35 – 0:38:39] Erik: But let’s just say I can take it or leave it.
[0:38:39 – 0:38:40] Erik: Most of the time I leave it.
[0:38:41 – 0:38:42] Adam: You should take it.
[0:38:42 – 0:38:43] Adam: This is a really good one.
[0:38:43 – 0:38:45] Adam: We’ve got one more bin of them, actually.
[0:38:45 – 0:38:48] Adam: That’s probably the last bin from that melon supplier.
[0:38:48 – 0:38:48] Adam: And that’s it?
[0:38:54 – 0:39:04] Adam: Yeah, my brother’s never seen the Northern Lights, apparently, or a moose, and we did not see a moose, but we did see some mild Northern Lights.
[0:39:04 – 0:39:08] Adam: There was like an X-16 flare off the backside of the sun.
[0:39:09 – 0:39:12] Erik: Yeah, I was just thinking, wasn’t there something else happening recently?
[0:39:12 – 0:39:19] Adam: There’s a new record for solar flare, but it was unfortunately completely opposite of Earth-directed.
[0:39:20 – 0:39:22] Adam: But they’re still like residual.
[0:39:23 – 0:39:28] Adam: This is probably the same compound or what did you call it that’s in the brain?
[0:39:28 – 0:39:29] Adam: The dendrites?
[0:39:29 – 0:39:30] Adam: The dendrites.
[0:39:30 – 0:39:32] Adam: Solar dendrites were so strong.
[0:39:34 – 0:39:52] Adam: pulsing electrons through the magnetosphere that we had a faint like purple glow going the first night and brother and I stayed up pretty late and the stars were really nice saw a lot of cool satellites you know always a treat to get like twinkling stars like that and
[0:39:53 – 0:40:05] Adam: mild glow but it’s still for somebody who’s not seen the northern lights it’s still not like you know what you want to see the the dancing yeah tendrils the little lights aren’t twinkling yeah um but you know
[0:40:06 – 0:40:08] Adam: Overall, pretty good.
[0:40:08 – 0:40:15] Adam: I thought maybe I even saw a bear the second night because everybody else had gone to bed and I was like just tending out the fire and I heard some footsteps.
[0:40:15 – 0:40:17] Adam: I was like, oh, you know, I shine my light there.
[0:40:18 – 0:40:19] Adam: There’s like eyes right there.
[0:40:19 – 0:40:23] Adam: But it was just like dense brush and then they went away and I never got a clean look at it.
[0:40:23 – 0:40:24] Adam: But like, what else could that be?
[0:40:24 – 0:40:25] Adam: A fox?
[0:40:25 – 0:40:25] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:40:26 – 0:40:28] Adam: It’s really hard to tell if it was like large or small.
[0:40:28 – 0:40:31] Adam: I just saw the eyes and heard the footsteps, but when it’s quiet and calm at night.
[0:40:32 – 0:40:35] Adam: So then I did have some like garbage still in camps.
[0:40:36 – 0:40:40] Adam: I quickly like ran that up to the dumpster and then put everything else in the truck and went to bed.
[0:40:40 – 0:40:41] Erik: Nice.
[0:40:41 – 0:40:42] Erik: That’s the nice thing about car camping.
[0:40:43 – 0:40:43] Adam: Throw it in the truck.
[0:40:43 – 0:40:46] Adam: Just throw it all in the truck and climb in the sleeping bag and you’re good to go.
[0:40:46 – 0:40:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:48 – 0:40:50] Adam: So, yeah, it’s a lovely spot for a camping trip.
[0:40:51 – 0:40:54] Adam: Now I’ve stayed there twice and it’s just in the last two years.
[0:40:55 – 0:40:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:40:56 – 0:40:59] Adam: And shocking to me, though, because, I don’t know, is it shocking?
[0:40:59 – 0:41:02] Adam: There’s a lot of, like, great spots to camp around here and, you know.
[0:41:02 – 0:41:08] Adam: But I would just say this, and Andrew would say this, too, is that for, like, a national forest site,
[0:41:11 – 0:41:23] Adam: Yeah, I’ve been in so many campgrounds, like when we were in Acadia or, you know, in Zion or the Grand Canyon, like, rim campsites where you’re just literally stacked in there, like, as close as you can get to one another.
[0:41:23 – 0:41:24] Adam: Sorry, computer.
[0:41:25 – 0:41:27] Adam: I was stacking and I hit the computer.
[0:41:27 – 0:41:29] Erik: Yeah, well, I mean, those are national park sites.
[0:41:29 – 0:41:30] Adam: Yeah, but even, like…
[0:41:30 – 0:41:40] Adam: Brother was saying in Wisconsin, the state parks in Wisconsin or whatever, any established campsite, you can see multiple other parties from your tent usually.
[0:41:40 – 0:41:40] Adam: Sure.
[0:41:41 – 0:41:43] Adam: You see that in some other spots.
[0:41:43 – 0:41:47] Adam: You ran into a bunch of yahoos on Kalishui in that little campground one time.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:53] Adam: Some of them, even up here, the sites are really close together.
[0:41:54 – 0:41:55] Adam: That’s what you’re going to get.
[0:41:55 – 0:41:56] Adam: You’re in a campground.
[0:41:56 – 0:41:56] Adam: Deal with it.
[0:41:57 – 0:42:01] Erik: Well, that one’s got such terrain that I feel like they did a good job taking advantage of that.
[0:42:01 – 0:42:14] Erik: So even though they are like kind of close, the sight lines and because I’ve never stayed up there, but I’ve like walked around time waiting for multiple different groups over the years.
[0:42:14 – 0:42:19] Erik: And I am always surprised at how many sites there are, but like you said, how not.
[0:42:20 – 0:42:27] Adam: Yeah, it’s enough like variation in elevation where you got like big rocks and big trees kind of in between everybody.
[0:42:27 – 0:42:35] Adam: So where we were at site 11, I mean, there was an older couple like at 13, which was there in a little tiny camper, but you couldn’t see them.
[0:42:35 – 0:42:38] Adam: And obviously you couldn’t hear them because they went to bed at like seven somehow.
[0:42:39 – 0:42:39] Erik: Sure.
[0:42:39 – 0:42:50] Adam: That’s the only real problem with camping with like a two-year-old is it’s, especially in July, it’s still very much light out at bedtime and just sticking them in the tent and expecting them to sleep like no.
[0:42:51 – 0:42:57] Adam: Brother and I were like down fishing the second night because 11, you can kind of like walk down the hill to like a nice little narrows spot.
[0:42:59 – 0:43:06] Adam: You know, there’s like a little kind of a mini lake in between Gull and Seagull where the rabbits dump in.
[0:43:06 – 0:43:09] Adam: So it just looks like there’s beavers everywhere, Eric.
[0:43:10 – 0:43:10] Adam: It was incredible.
[0:43:10 – 0:43:12] Adam: Like this looked like it should have been such a good spot.
[0:43:12 – 0:43:15] Adam: And they have all the signs up like this is a fish sanctuary in the spring.
[0:43:15 – 0:43:18] Adam: You know, it’s a walleye spawning haven.
[0:43:18 – 0:43:19] Adam: Right.
[0:43:19 – 0:43:21] Adam: And you’re like, this looks so good.
[0:43:21 – 0:43:29] Adam: Like you can just feel like the ancient energy of people’s fishing there like a thousand years ago, back when the pictographs are still fresh.
[0:43:30 – 0:43:35] Erik: It’s like the Ham’s Lake ad slash any of the promotional stuff that Sig used to do back in the day.
[0:43:35 – 0:43:37] Erik: It’s kind of got that feel to it in there for sure.
[0:43:37 – 0:43:42] Adam: But yeah, we fished for like an hour down there in the narrows where this little like current’s going through, but it’s still deep.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:44] Adam: I mean, it just looks ideal.
[0:43:45 – 0:43:49] Adam: We got some night bass and come back in the campsite and the fire’s about to go out.
[0:43:49 – 0:43:53] Adam: So I’m walking over to throw some logs on and I just hear from the tent.
[0:43:53 – 0:44:20] Adam: dad dad dad got a bed yeah it’s still light out you know it’s like well this is just helpless like we’re not going to sleep uh so i don’t know i need to like uh just put a put a uh what do you call them a mask yeah you need a sleep mask or something yeah i was gonna say just put a just put a bag over their head yeah that ain’t legal black plastic bag maybe a blackout tent or something
[0:44:20 – 0:44:22] Adam: Sleeping, getting a kid to sleep.
[0:44:23 – 0:44:23] Adam: Yeah, there’s no.
[0:44:24 – 0:44:30] Adam: Yeah, the drapes in my Eureka Timberline are just not equipped to properly black out the sun.
[0:44:31 – 0:44:32] Adam: So that was rough.
[0:44:33 – 0:44:36] Adam: But, you know, other than that, it’s a really fun time being up there.
[0:44:37 – 0:44:38] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:44:38 – 0:44:39] Erik: It just got me thinking, though.
[0:44:39 – 0:44:44] Adam: As far as just established campsites go, it’s got to be the tops.
[0:44:44 – 0:44:50] Adam: If we’re going to rank them, I’d say that’s my favorite actual established campsite in the whole area.
[0:44:51 – 0:44:51] Erik: In the whole area?
[0:44:51 – 0:44:52] Erik: Yeah.
[0:44:52 – 0:44:59] Adam: I mean, just the way it’s the location, the prestige, and just the general layout.
[0:44:59 – 0:45:00] Adam: Prestige.
[0:45:00 – 0:45:00] Adam: Yeah.
[0:45:00 – 0:45:01] Adam: Oh, it’s got the prestige.
[0:45:01 – 0:45:02] Adam: It’s Trails End.
[0:45:02 – 0:45:03] Erik: It’s got the cachet.
[0:45:04 – 0:45:04] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:04 – 0:45:08] Adam: I mean, what a great name.
[0:45:08 – 0:45:10] Adam: I mean, it’s got a lot going for it.
[0:45:10 – 0:45:12] Adam: Entry points galore.
[0:45:12 – 0:45:13] Adam: A lot of options out of there.
[0:45:15 – 0:45:17] Adam: And, yeah, just the general layout is excellent.
[0:45:17 – 0:45:20] Adam: And then, yeah, some of those campsites even just have, like, running water right to them.
[0:45:20 – 0:45:22] Adam: I mean, it’s a life of luxury.
[0:45:23 – 0:45:23] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:23 – 0:45:25] Adam: Eating watermelon in a lake.
[0:45:25 – 0:45:25] Erik: Sure.
[0:45:26 – 0:45:27] Adam: Yelling at Boy Scouts.
[0:45:27 – 0:45:29] Adam: I mean, it’s quite special, Eric.
[0:45:29 – 0:45:30] Erik: I mean, you can yell at Boy Scouts anywhere, though.
[0:45:31 – 0:45:33] Adam: Yeah, but you’ve got a lot of Boy Scouts going through here to yell at.
[0:45:33 – 0:45:34] Adam: It’s true, per capita.
[0:45:34 – 0:45:38] Adam: It’s a really good spot to watch and yell at large groups of youth.
[0:45:39 – 0:45:41] Adam: That’s how you get them interested in the sport.
[0:45:41 – 0:45:42] Erik: Yeah, that’s the intangible there.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:43] Adam: Yeah, that’s how you get them in the Olympics.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:47] Erik: Yeah, just harass them from shore, from behind a bush or something.
[0:45:50 – 0:45:51] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know, though.
[0:45:52 – 0:45:56] Adam: After I saw the drawbridge boat and everything, I came around finally.
[0:45:56 – 0:46:01] Adam: I was like, it’s okay if they’re being loud and grouped up in 20 of them at a time on the landing.
[0:46:01 – 0:46:02] Adam: Who cares?
[0:46:02 – 0:46:03] Adam: It’s the future of the sport.
[0:46:03 – 0:46:06] Adam: I’m not going to be a curmudgeon.
[0:46:06 – 0:46:14] Adam: I did briefly get annoyed at the large group sizes and the amount of traffic, but we were the ones hanging out at a boat launch.
[0:46:14 – 0:46:38] Adam: and frankly there’s plenty of room for me to float around eating watermelon and uh and for everybody else to use the landing so who cares yeah i like that you can just basically just abandon your boat there for a while and go back to the campground uh sure come back down like it’s uh pretty much a free-for-all up there gotta love it that is nice no cell phone service up there yet nothing yeah i did um
[0:46:39 – 0:46:45] Adam: I think brother checked and he maybe had like a bar at one point and was able to, I don’t know what he was.
[0:46:45 – 0:46:46] Erik: Oh, we were just trying.
[0:46:46 – 0:46:53] Adam: He was able to check the KAP index and he must not have the service provider I use because we didn’t get nothing.
[0:46:54 – 0:46:57] Adam: But that was kind of a similar thing when you and I were out on crab.
[0:46:57 – 0:46:57] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:57 – 0:46:59] Adam: You were getting bars and I was getting nothing.
[0:46:59 – 0:47:01] Erik: So I was streaming.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:02] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:03] Erik: You were streaming.
[0:47:03 – 0:47:05] Erik: Finishing up a better call Saul.
[0:47:05 – 0:47:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:47:05 – 0:47:07] Adam: And I was, uh, I don’t know.
[0:47:07 – 0:47:08] Adam: What was I reading on that trip?
[0:47:09 – 0:47:10] Erik: Not enough reading.
[0:47:11 – 0:47:14] Adam: Yeah, it’s overall, though, pretty quiet at night.
[0:47:14 – 0:47:16] Adam: I mean, really, after 10, you don’t hear nothing.
[0:47:16 – 0:47:17] Adam: Zilch.
[0:47:18 – 0:47:23] Adam: I threw a couple sparklers in the fire at one point, but that was about as wild as it got after 10.
[0:47:23 – 0:47:25] Erik: Yeah, I imagine it’s probably pretty quiet up there.
[0:47:25 – 0:47:26] Adam: Yeah, it’s really good.
[0:47:27 – 0:47:28] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:47:28 – 0:47:29] Adam: It’s definitely one of my favorites.
[0:47:29 – 0:47:31] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:47:31 – 0:47:31] Adam: You want to…
[0:47:33 – 0:47:33] Adam: I was joking.
[0:47:33 – 0:47:38] Adam: We could like rank the national forest campgrounds, but I’ve only ever stated like a handful of other ones.
[0:47:38 – 0:47:41] Adam: So I’m not prepared to do that at all to rank them.
[0:47:42 – 0:47:46] Adam: But I would just say that this episode is called trails and campground and it’s okay.
[0:47:46 – 0:47:49] Erik: I guarantee you it’s not going to be called that, but yeah, it definitely is.
[0:47:49 – 0:47:50] Adam: And, uh,
[0:47:50 – 0:47:54] Adam: Everybody who’s listening to this could enjoy a night at Trails End Campground.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:54] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:55] Adam: It’s excellent.
[0:47:55 – 0:48:02] Erik: I mean, just off the top of my head, I couldn’t think of a place that I’d rather stay at if somebody was like, let’s go camping this weekend.
[0:48:02 – 0:48:03] Adam: Car camp.
[0:48:03 – 0:48:04] Erik: Car camping, yeah.
[0:48:04 – 0:48:11] Erik: They’re like, I don’t know, maybe there or, I don’t know, Twin Lakes, but…
[0:48:12 – 0:48:13] Erik: You never know what you’re going to find.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:15] Erik: The free ones out there.
[0:48:15 – 0:48:16] Erik: That’s different though.
[0:48:16 – 0:48:21] Erik: It’s kind of like, well, there’s so many varying degrees of campgrounds.
[0:48:21 – 0:48:22] Erik: Depends what you’re looking for.
[0:48:22 – 0:48:27] Erik: So that’s why it’s kind of hard for me to even start comprehending how to rank them.
[0:48:27 – 0:48:34] Adam: Yeah, there’s so many good just like random one-off free spots out there that are in National Forest Land that are awesome.
[0:48:35 – 0:48:37] Adam: But, you know, a lot of those you do have to paddle to.
[0:48:38 – 0:48:48] Adam: And then there’s some other ones that are just good like free spots to camp where it is sort of a couple different campsites, loose campsites grouped together where you do have a fire ring and maybe a picnic table.
[0:48:49 – 0:48:50] Adam: And then there’s the legit.
[0:48:50 – 0:48:52] Adam: These are more, I would say, geared towards RVers.
[0:48:53 – 0:48:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:53 – 0:49:05] Adam: Honestly, you do feel a little silly putting just a normal tent up in one of these sites because you’re basically pounding your Coghlan’s tent posts and pegs right into hard pack gravel.
[0:49:06 – 0:49:06] Adam: I mean, it works.
[0:49:07 – 0:49:07] Adam: Sure.
[0:49:07 – 0:49:09] Adam: But yeah, you do.
[0:49:09 – 0:49:15] Adam: But also, we had a huge air mattress and a battery pack to blow it up with because why not?
[0:49:15 – 0:49:16] Adam: You’re bringing everything in the kitchen sink.
[0:49:17 – 0:49:23] Erik: I mean, out of the Gunflint Trail campgrounds, you know, Trails End, Iron Lake, East Bearskin, Flower Lake.
[0:49:24 – 0:49:27] Erik: Yeah, I don’t think there’s even a question in my mind that it’s Trails End for sure.
[0:49:28 – 0:49:31] Adam: I do kind of have a soft spot in my heart for Iron Lake campground.
[0:49:31 – 0:49:37] Adam: There’s only like seven sites there, and they all have pretty good direct water access, except for maybe one or two of them is on the other side of the road.
[0:49:38 – 0:49:42] Adam: And I think a couple of those are non-reservable, but the other ones are.
[0:49:43 – 0:49:43] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:49:43 – 0:49:49] Adam: There’s some other good ones like the Devil’s Track one and Two Island Campground are excellent.
[0:49:49 – 0:49:51] Adam: And you can’t reserve any of those.
[0:49:51 – 0:50:00] Adam: I think they’re all first come, first serve, which is also another nice option if you’re just kind of coming up on a whim and need to find something.
[0:50:00 – 0:50:03] Adam: Especially on a weekday, you’re probably going to be in luck at those.
[0:50:04 – 0:50:05] Adam: There’s a lot of…
[0:50:06 – 0:50:09] Adam: There’s a lot of sweet, free camping to be had that’s not Boundary Waters.
[0:50:09 – 0:50:14] Erik: Yeah, and considering every state park along the shore is going to definitely be booked.
[0:50:14 – 0:50:16] Adam: I wouldn’t even consider going to one of those.
[0:50:16 – 0:50:17] Adam: But, I mean, I’ve never tried it.
[0:50:17 – 0:50:19] Adam: I guess I probably shouldn’t diss it too hard.
[0:50:19 – 0:50:34] Erik: I mean, they’re definitely not quite to the level of like your national park where you’re just like, unless you book them right when the system opens five months in advance or whatever, you’re first of all, A, peak season, not going to get one.
[0:50:34 – 0:50:35] Erik: Yeah.
[0:50:35 – 0:50:42] Erik: And then B, like you said, they’re just stacked in there and you’re just going to feel like you’re…
[0:50:43 – 0:50:45] Erik: It’s kind of wild sometimes.
[0:50:46 – 0:50:48] Erik: On that road trip, we were at a couple of places.
[0:50:48 – 0:50:53] Erik: We were way off season, and they were quiet, but you could tell it was still just like… That was full?
[0:50:53 – 0:50:56] Adam: You’re just surrounded by people on all sides.
[0:50:56 – 0:50:57] Adam: This is camping.
[0:50:58 – 0:51:03] Erik: The Grand Marais Municipal Campground is like that, where if you get in the wrong loop, you’re just like…
[0:51:04 – 0:51:09] Erik: There’s a campsite on each side of us and there is like a four-year-old balsam.
[0:51:10 – 0:51:12] Erik: That’s all that’s separating us from everybody.
[0:51:13 – 0:51:19] Erik: But I feel like the state park campgrounds are a little bit of a step…
[0:51:20 – 0:51:46] Erik: up from that in like a good way they’re very crowded and they’re very busy but they’re still like small enough that you don’t feel like it’s overrun and you’re surrounded by people like cascade is pretty good the way they’ve got it laid out but it’s always full like anytime you even think about looking at like a reservation to even stay there overnight it’s like booked out until the farthest out it’ll go in the summer
[0:51:47 – 0:51:53] Erik: So that’s the nice option about the Superior National Forest’s Gunflint Trail first-come, first-served ones is they…
[0:51:55 – 0:52:04] Erik: Most likely aren’t going to be all the way full, but if you do find one full, there’s usually another option kind of close to.
[0:52:04 – 0:52:10] Adam: I wonder how many actual campsites are on this map.
[0:52:10 – 0:52:17] Adam: How many latrines, how many fire grates, how many actual campsites are we talking for this whole area?
[0:52:17 – 0:52:19] Adam: Not just the Boundary Waters ones.
[0:52:19 – 0:52:21] Adam: There’s a lot of those, but…
[0:52:21 – 0:52:30] Adam: All these unauthorized secondary campsites available, either these one-offs or established campgrounds.
[0:52:30 – 0:52:32] Adam: I mean, geez, there’s a lot of camping to be had up here.
[0:52:32 – 0:52:33] Adam: What a wonderland.
[0:52:33 – 0:52:34] Erik: Yeah.
[0:52:34 – 0:52:35] Erik: I mean, they don’t make it…
[0:52:35 – 0:52:39] Erik: The witch witch I like is, depending on how hard you want to work, you can always find…
[0:52:39 – 0:52:40] Erik: I mean, there’s…
[0:52:42 – 0:53:04] Erik: disperse camping too if you’re really willing to sure drive in certain areas you can park off of roads down like dead end gravel pit roads and just camp there like i’ve done that yeah especially like some of that stuff like down on the soft underbelly like off the grade between basically the gunflint trail and like the sawbill and then west of the sawbill
[0:53:05 – 0:53:20] Erik: That stuff is all just like, I mean, in my opinion, it’s pretty much comparable to like, you know, you hear about all the van lifers and everybody that goes out west, the desert southwest and all the BLM lands, which is fine and good, but I mean, a lot of times…
[0:53:20 – 0:53:48] Erik: well that’s i don’t know there’s a weird vibe on some of those places but the superior national forest and their rules for dispersed camping and then even like we’ve talked about the places that are technically they’re not unauthorized they’re legit campsites and campgrounds but there’s not like tons of information on them so if you really want to find it you have to be like a little bit more diligent you do you gotta do a little work to find those and a lot of that work is just driving around sometimes
[0:53:48 – 0:53:49] Erik: Totally.
[0:53:49 – 0:53:51] Erik: I found places where I was like, I had no idea this was a campground.
[0:53:51 – 0:53:52] Erik: This isn’t on no map.
[0:53:52 – 0:53:54] Erik: Yeah, but it’s a little campground.
[0:53:54 – 0:54:00] Adam: Yeah, there’s a lot of neat little finds out there if you just wander the back roads, which is one of my favorite things to do.
[0:54:01 – 0:54:01] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:54:03 – 0:54:09] Adam: Anyways, thanks to our brother for coming up and experiencing the Trails End Campground.
[0:54:09 – 0:54:15] Adam: It was pretty special, and I would like to make it a trip that we do kind of every year.
[0:54:16 – 0:54:24] Adam: The bugs were actually still a little obnoxious, especially right around sunset, and he was definitely not thrilled about the amount of bugs still.
[0:54:25 – 0:54:28] Erik: Well, it’s the warm nights this last two weeks.
[0:54:28 – 0:54:29] Erik: That’s what keeps them out.
[0:54:30 – 0:54:30] Erik: They love that.
[0:54:31 – 0:54:31] Adam: It was nuts.
[0:54:31 – 0:54:53] Adam: humid hot evenings it’s like that is what made it what made it such a good trip for like floating in the lake or whatever swimming yeah it was mostly floating was the the same reason we had some bugs still to deal with at the very end of july so we’re recording today it is august it’s officially august we haven’t even said that my god in bulk
[0:54:56 – 0:55:02] Adam: Yeah, I think he was like, well, I’d do it again, but we should do it in September next year.
[0:55:02 – 0:55:04] Erik: You can’t float and eat watermelon, most likely.
[0:55:04 – 0:55:06] Adam: Probably not, but you might be able to.
[0:55:06 – 0:55:07] Adam: It depends on the day.
[0:55:07 – 0:55:12] Adam: I mean, Labor Day last year was like the hottest we got was in September.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:13] Adam: Yeah.
[0:55:13 – 0:55:19] Erik: Well, yeah, and there’s been Augusts too where you try going up there and it’s like 55 and misty for four days straight.
[0:55:19 – 0:55:20] Erik: That happens too.
[0:55:20 – 0:55:35] Erik: So there’s never a guarantee, but odds are in your favor that last two weeks of July, first two weeks of August, if you want to float in a lake and eat half a watermelon at the pool noodle in between your legs, that is your frame of time to do it.
[0:55:35 – 0:55:37] Adam: I could have laid in that lake all day.
[0:55:37 – 0:55:38] Adam: It was so nice.
[0:55:39 – 0:55:40] Adam: So, yeah, it was a really nice trip.
[0:55:40 – 0:55:46] Adam: A little bit of mountain biking, a lot of floating, and a lot of melon.
[0:55:46 – 0:55:47] Adam: A lot of melon.
[0:55:47 – 0:55:51] Adam: It’s, you know, s’mores, burgers, melon.
[0:55:51 – 0:55:53] Adam: I mean, sparklers.
[0:55:53 – 0:55:55] Adam: Burgard candy, burgard meat.
[0:55:55 – 0:55:59] Adam: Yeah, I mean, I was feeling like we were living the life of luxury for sure.
[0:56:00 – 0:56:01] Adam: Burgard malo.
[0:56:01 – 0:56:07] Adam: Thanks to Natalie, the baby brother, and Natalie’s folks.
[0:56:07 – 0:56:08] Adam: Thanks for all the going.
[0:56:08 – 0:56:09] Adam: That was a lot of fun.
[0:56:10 – 0:56:18] Adam: And anybody listening to this that sounds ideal, I mean, you could do that and then do a boundary water strip if you’re driving up here from a long ways off.
[0:56:18 – 0:56:23] Adam: Even just a night or two in Trails End is a magical experience, I would say.
[0:56:25 – 0:56:26] Erik: Yeah, check her out.
[0:56:27 – 0:56:31] Adam: Anything else on the agenda for tonight, or are we going to hop into Strange Wilderness?
[0:56:31 – 0:56:31] Erik: Check it out.
[0:56:31 – 0:56:34] Erik: What else is new with you?
[0:56:34 – 0:56:35] Adam: Nothing.
[0:56:35 – 0:56:43] Adam: All right, well, thank you for being here for episode 258 of Tumble Home, a proud independent podcast.
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[0:56:52 – 0:56:52] Erik: Hat patch.
[0:56:53 – 0:56:53] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:56:54 – 0:56:59] Adam: So we can identify each other out in the field and give a hearty hello or a hey, comrade.
[0:56:59 – 0:57:01] Erik: Or a sly wink.
[0:57:01 – 0:57:04] Adam: Just a sly wink on the portage.
[0:57:05 – 0:57:08] Adam: Just sort of run your tongue across your lips.
[0:57:08 – 0:57:10] Erik: Yeah, a jaunty smile.
[0:57:10 – 0:57:11] Adam: Or, you know…
[0:57:12 – 0:57:39] Adam: just share a slap of the bag or uh what if you ever see me out there with my tomahawk patch i hope somebody just pulls a pizza biter out of their hoodie pouch and just hands it to me on the portage like this like on the sly like upside down palming it yeah like uh what’s this some kind of a you’re coming in for a a drug transaction yeah you’re coming in for gapping me up oh yeah i’m saucing you up oh yeah uh here’s a biter on the trail friend a friend in a little mini pillow
[0:57:40 – 0:58:01] Adam: so a lot of neat options uh neat i can do better three we’re deleting this whole track yeah this whole track we gotta start over from the beginning now after that oh that was quite the gaffe yeah we can’t have that uh there’s a lot of really fun options on there for the it’s fun better than neat eric i mean i’d say it’s um on par
[0:58:03 – 0:58:03] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:58:03 – 0:58:10] Adam: There’s a lot of homies out there with great ideas, and they’re all ones I would wear on my hat.
[0:58:11 – 0:58:14] Adam: Thank you for your ideas, and get out there and check it out.
[0:58:14 – 0:58:23] Adam: Cheap Dancer and Crowd over there are probably going to, it looks like, make some merch, and then we’re going to be able to ID across the way.
[0:58:23 – 0:58:31] Adam: Because we’ve had a few stories this summer of people who are all tumble homies meeting on a portage but not realizing it until after the fact.
[0:58:31 – 0:58:32] Erik: Yeah.
[0:58:32 – 0:58:34] Adam: Due to like, hey, you were the group with the puppy.
[0:58:34 – 0:58:36] Adam: Like, yeah, that was us.
[0:58:36 – 0:58:36] Adam: We’re homies.
[0:58:36 – 0:58:37] Adam: We’re all homies.
[0:58:37 – 0:58:38] Erik: That was us.
[0:58:39 – 0:58:39] Adam: That was us.
[0:58:40 – 0:58:42] Adam: So check out the thread.
[0:58:42 – 0:58:45] Adam: It’s worth a look, I’d say.
[0:58:45 – 0:58:50] Erik: Just a perfectly golden browned biter.
[0:58:50 – 0:58:53] Adam: Yeah, just a biter is what you’d vote for.
[0:58:53 – 0:58:54] Adam: I like the peakers.
[0:58:54 – 0:58:57] Adam: I’m currently wearing a Never Peak Alone shirt.
[0:58:58 – 0:59:01] Adam: I’ve got a couple of them at this point, and I don’t know.
[0:59:01 – 0:59:02] Adam: Does the peaker really are a symbol?
[0:59:03 – 0:59:04] Adam: The laser loon eyes is tempting.
[0:59:04 – 0:59:06] Erik: I don’t want a latrine to be the symbol.
[0:59:06 – 0:59:06] Adam: I mean…
[0:59:07 – 0:59:25] Erik: I think it’s a horizon of very picturesque and noticeable boundary waters ask boreal trees and instead of a sun rising it is just a golden brown biter rising over the lake like the Teletubbies sun exactly except for you can eat it yeah
[0:59:26 – 0:59:28] Erik: You could be the Teletubby son, couldn’t you?
[0:59:28 – 0:59:29] Erik: Oh, no, that was a baby.
[0:59:30 – 0:59:32] Adam: Well, that baby’s not like older than us.
[0:59:32 – 0:59:33] Adam: We just get canceled.
[0:59:33 – 0:59:33] Adam: Yeah.
[0:59:33 – 0:59:35] Adam: That baby’s probably a Tumble Homey.
[0:59:35 – 0:59:37] Erik: I was the Teletubby baby.
[0:59:37 – 0:59:38] Erik: Ask me anything.
[0:59:38 – 0:59:41] Adam: Teletubby baby, if you’re out there, hit us up in the DMs.
[0:59:41 – 0:59:43] Adam: TumbleHomeCast at Instagram.com.
[0:59:43 – 0:59:46] Adam: TumbleHomeCast at Gmail.com.
[0:59:47 – 0:59:50] Adam: Join the Discord, Teletubby son baby.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:50] Adam: Yes.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:51] Adam: We want to hear from you.
[0:59:52 – 1:00:01] Adam: I guarantee you in the next week, now somebody’s going to join the Discord as Teletubby’s son baby, and everybody’s going to send their Robert Redford GIFs and Forrest Gump GIFs.
[1:00:02 – 1:00:02] Adam: Hey.
[1:00:02 – 1:00:03] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[1:00:03 – 1:00:04] Adam: Shrimp boat man.
[1:00:04 – 1:00:06] Adam: Shrimp boat man.
[1:00:07 – 1:00:08] Adam: And it’s going to be glorious.
[1:00:08 – 1:00:11] Adam: I cannot wait for that to happen.
[1:00:13 – 1:00:17] Adam: All right, well, that’ll do it.
[1:00:17 – 1:00:19] Adam: We both win the gold medal tonight.
[1:00:20 – 1:00:26] Adam: Brother really wins the gold medal for the heroic charge on the mountain bike up the bogus lake road.
[1:00:27 – 1:00:33] Erik: His presence is even more amplified online now, even though his wishes are to have…
[1:00:34 – 1:00:39] Adam: At least I didn’t use his voice and I didn’t ever really use his real name.
[1:00:39 – 1:00:41] Adam: We’re always using fake names on this show, obviously.
[1:00:41 – 1:00:44] Erik: Who’s to say what his real name is even?
[1:00:44 – 1:00:45] Adam: What is reality?
[1:00:45 – 1:00:48] Erik: I’ll go back and redact everything and anything.
[1:00:48 – 1:00:51] Adam: You got some nerve giving me a fake name on the internet.
[1:00:52 – 1:00:53] Erik: You got some nerve.
[1:00:54 – 1:00:55] Adam: Thank you, Manitouish Waters.
[1:00:55 – 1:00:57] Adam: Thank you, Exhausted Horte.
[1:00:58 – 1:01:00] Adam: And some nerve brewing there.
[1:01:01 – 1:01:02] Adam: What was the guy’s name?
[1:01:02 – 1:01:02] Erik: Mr.
[1:01:02 – 1:01:03] Erik: Friendly.
[1:01:03 – 1:01:03] Erik: Mr.
[1:01:03 – 1:01:04] Erik: Friendly and his football.
[1:01:05 – 1:01:06] Adam: And his football.
[1:01:06 – 1:01:06] Adam: I love this.
[1:01:06 – 1:01:08] Adam: This is one of my favorite cans of all time.
[1:01:08 – 1:01:09] Adam: It’s still half full.
[1:01:09 – 1:01:09] Adam: Nice.
[1:01:09 – 1:01:11] Erik: I’ve been pretty going.
[1:01:11 – 1:01:13] Erik: I’ve been going pretty good on this thing here.
[1:01:13 – 1:01:13] Erik: You’re going to need it.
[1:01:13 – 1:01:14] Adam: I’m pretty thirsty.
[1:01:14 – 1:01:16] Adam: It was a pretty rough week at work here in town.
[1:01:17 – 1:01:18] Adam: And I’m off tomorrow.
[1:01:19 – 1:01:21] Adam: And this beer, this right here.
[1:01:21 – 1:01:22] Adam: This beer is serious business.
[1:01:23 – 1:01:25] Adam: Thank you and appreciate it.
[1:01:25 – 1:01:27] Adam: It is the greatest brewery in Wisconsin.
[1:01:27 – 1:01:28] Adam: I’m on board.
[1:01:28 – 1:01:29] Erik: I can’t argue.
[1:01:29 – 1:01:31] Erik: And thank you to the Paulding Light.
[1:01:32 – 1:01:33] Adam: Absolutely.
[1:01:33 – 1:01:37] Adam: The greatest light in the state of Michigan or wherever.
[1:01:37 – 1:01:38] Erik: Well, yeah.
[1:01:38 – 1:01:39] Erik: It’s right on the edge.
[1:01:39 – 1:01:40] Erik: It shouldn’t be.
[1:01:40 – 1:01:41] Erik: It emanates from Michigan.
[1:01:42 – 1:01:43] Adam: Yeah.
[1:01:44 – 1:01:47] Adam: But you can feel it in your heart no matter where you go.
[1:01:47 – 1:01:48] Adam: It’s just traffic.
[1:01:48 – 1:01:50] Adam: You look up at the right moment.
[1:01:51 – 1:01:51] Adam: All right.
[1:01:51 – 1:01:56] Adam: As we always say in Tumble Home, life is precious and every day is a miracle.
[1:01:57 – 1:02:02] Adam: And these beautiful summer days, they truly are a miracle, Eric.
[1:02:03 – 1:02:04] Adam: Bird of the Week?