282: Temu Helicopters

Episode Transcript

[0:00:14 – 0:00:18] SPEAKER_04: Let’s dance in style, let’s dance for a while.
[0:00:19 – 0:00:22] SPEAKER_04: Heaven can wait, we’re only watching the skies.
[0:00:22 – 0:00:25] SPEAKER_04: Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst.
[0:00:25 – 0:00:27] SPEAKER_04: Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?
[0:00:27 – 0:00:31] SPEAKER_04: Let us die and let us live forever.
[0:00:38 – 0:00:41] Erik: Clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose.
[0:00:41 – 0:00:42] Erik: My name is Eric.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:42] Erik: It’s Tumble Home.
[0:00:42 – 0:00:45] Erik: Welcome.
[0:00:45 – 0:00:49] Erik: 282 Studio V. I’m speaking in bullet points.
[0:00:49 – 0:00:51] Erik: My good man Adam is here with me.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:52] Erik: Hello.
[0:00:52 – 0:00:53] Adam: After dark.
[0:00:56 – 0:00:56] Adam: Howdy.
[0:00:57 – 0:00:58] Erik: Howdy.
[0:00:59 – 0:01:00] Erik: Salutations.
[0:01:00 – 0:01:02] Erik: Salutations and greetings.
[0:01:02 – 0:01:03] Erik: And greetings.
[0:01:04 – 0:01:04] Erik: Of course.
[0:01:07 – 0:01:08] Adam: We’re a proud independent podcast, of course.
[0:01:08 – 0:01:09] Adam: There we go.
[0:01:09 – 0:01:10] Erik: Continuing.
[0:01:10 – 0:01:11] Adam: That’s right.
[0:01:12 – 0:01:16] Adam: And we are fully recovered from playing an all-nighter.
[0:01:17 – 0:01:18] Erik: Oh, my God.
[0:01:18 – 0:01:28] Erik: Talk about one of those experiences that you just think you’re just so good at.
[0:01:29 – 0:01:30] Erik: I can do this.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:31] Adam: Yeah.
[0:01:31 – 0:01:32] Erik: And we did it.
[0:01:32 – 0:01:33] Erik: We did.
[0:01:33 – 0:01:36] Erik: But it’s one of those moments where…
[0:01:37 – 0:01:45] Erik: You know, there’s a, I mean, everybody always, I think, feels like they’re like 17 to 21 forever, you know?
[0:01:46 – 0:01:53] Erik: I don’t know what it is, what horrible mechanism got embedded in our ape brains to make us feel like,
[0:01:55 – 0:02:01] SPEAKER_04: That’s what you need to start the show with.
[0:02:01 – 0:02:03] Adam: Everybody’s just like, I can do it.
[0:02:03 – 0:02:04] Adam: I’m still 17.
[0:02:04 – 0:02:11] Erik: Cut to 9 a.m. and you are bleary-eyed on the side of the Bear Grease Trail after not sleeping.
[0:02:12 – 0:02:16] Erik: Not even one of the old pronto pup lodges where you get up real early and go.
[0:02:17 – 0:02:18] Erik: This is a full all-nighter.
[0:02:18 – 0:02:20] Adam: Yeah, it was a true all-nighter.
[0:02:20 – 0:02:24] Erik: I haven’t gotten my ass kicked by an all-nighter like that in a long time.
[0:02:24 – 0:02:25] Adam: Do you feel like you’ve recovered?
[0:02:25 – 0:02:26] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:26] Adam: I’m fine.
[0:02:26 – 0:02:27] Adam: It’s Saturday now.
[0:02:27 – 0:02:28] Adam: I’m fine now.
[0:02:28 – 0:02:30] Adam: This was Monday night going into Tuesday.
[0:02:31 – 0:02:34] Adam: We’re out on the trail, and I don’t know.
[0:02:34 – 0:02:36] Adam: Usually, I’d say two good full sleeps.
[0:02:36 – 0:02:38] Adam: I’d usually be right as rain, but…
[0:02:38 – 0:02:42] Adam: Well, you’re plus 40, so you might be a three-night guy now.
[0:02:42 – 0:02:44] Adam: Maybe it is.
[0:02:44 – 0:02:47] Adam: I still feel like a little half-tired yet today on Saturday.
[0:02:48 – 0:02:48] Adam: Sure.
[0:02:48 – 0:02:50] Adam: Not totally recovered, I don’t think.
[0:02:50 – 0:02:55] Erik: I mean, I’m always kind of tired in the winter, you know, for whatever it is.
[0:02:55 – 0:02:55] Erik: Truly.
[0:02:56 – 0:03:00] Erik: It’s the lack of exercise and being fully healthy.
[0:03:00 – 0:03:06] Erik: There’s always just like a vague back of your head sense of like, I could lay down and sleep.
[0:03:06 – 0:03:07] Erik: I could, yeah.
[0:03:07 – 0:03:09] Erik: It sounds pretty good right now.
[0:03:09 – 0:03:10] Erik: It sounds pretty good right now.
[0:03:12 – 0:03:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:13 – 0:03:15] Adam: Nobody laid down and napped while we were out there.
[0:03:15 – 0:03:22] Adam: We did find our derelict attorney sleeping in the snowbank trying to get groomed.
[0:03:23 – 0:03:23] Adam: When we arrived.
[0:03:24 – 0:03:25] Adam: But other than that, nobody slept.
[0:03:26 – 0:03:28] Erik: Yeah, it was a real connoisseur’s crew this year.
[0:03:28 – 0:03:30] Adam: Yeah, nobody showed up either.
[0:03:30 – 0:03:32] Adam: That was just the core crew.
[0:03:32 – 0:03:36] Erik: Core crew, hardcore, back to our roots.
[0:03:36 – 0:03:40] Erik: It’s like you’re working the sequels on the original.
[0:03:41 – 0:03:43] Erik: You’re like, all right, well, we’ve got to push the envelope.
[0:03:43 – 0:03:46] Erik: Get some more people involved, up the ante.
[0:03:46 – 0:03:47] Erik: Yeah, new characters.
[0:03:47 – 0:03:48] Erik: And then you get to part five or six.
[0:03:48 – 0:03:50] Erik: You kind of got to go back to your roots.
[0:03:50 – 0:03:52] Adam: And that’s really what it felt like.
[0:03:52 – 0:03:53] Adam: We were out there.
[0:03:53 – 0:03:55] Adam: It’s like we’re going back home, Eric.
[0:03:55 – 0:03:55] Adam: Yeah.
[0:03:56 – 0:03:56] Erik: Yeah.
[0:03:56 – 0:04:00] Erik: We were out there, I mean, right at midnight.
[0:04:00 – 0:04:02] Adam: We arrived exactly at midnight.
[0:04:03 – 0:04:03] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:04 – 0:04:05] Adam: Perfectly timed arrival.
[0:04:05 – 0:04:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:06 – 0:04:09] Erik: We already had a napping lawyer in a ditch.
[0:04:09 – 0:04:09] Erik: Yeah.
[0:04:12 – 0:04:13] Adam: Such as it was.
[0:04:13 – 0:04:14] Erik: Such as it was.
[0:04:14 – 0:04:20] Erik: We only were then subsequently greeted by one other companion, which was great.
[0:04:21 – 0:04:24] Erik: It was great to have at least the people that we did have out there.
[0:04:25 – 0:04:33] Erik: But, you know, compared to how things were progressing, it was like, this is becoming like kind of… Like a lot of people.
[0:04:33 – 0:04:34] Erik: It’s kind of turned into a big deal.
[0:04:34 – 0:04:35] Erik: Kind of turned into a big deal.
[0:04:35 – 0:04:36] Erik: But then…
[0:04:37 – 0:04:42] Erik: You bump the race up, six hours, and it really weeds out the people who are serious about it.
[0:04:42 – 0:04:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:04:43 – 0:04:46] Erik: It’s like, oh, I have to be out there at midnight?
[0:04:46 – 0:04:47] Erik: No thanks.
[0:04:47 – 0:04:48] Adam: No.
[0:04:48 – 0:04:48] Adam: What?
[0:04:48 – 0:04:49] Adam: What are you doing?
[0:04:50 – 0:04:50] Adam: Sounds a lot crazier.
[0:04:51 – 0:04:52] Adam: Yeah, it was crazy.
[0:04:52 – 0:04:55] Erik: It was actually, yeah.
[0:04:55 – 0:04:57] Erik: I am a little disappointed.
[0:04:57 – 0:05:02] Erik: Well, you know, it’s a mild bear grease recap this week.
[0:05:03 – 0:05:04] Erik: I mean, it’s not mild.
[0:05:04 – 0:05:06] Erik: It’s pretty much all we’re doing this week.
[0:05:06 – 0:05:08] Adam: It’s a full, well, it’s a full bear grease recap.
[0:05:08 – 0:05:10] Adam: Full bear grease recap.
[0:05:11 – 0:05:14] Adam: And we do have some bush lights left over.
[0:05:14 – 0:05:20] Adam: They didn’t all get drank or consumed by the mushers because there’s only eight teams that made it by.
[0:05:20 – 0:05:21] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:22 – 0:05:25] Adam: And even of them, not all of them got a Bush Light, unfortunately.
[0:05:26 – 0:05:30] Erik: Well, some out of just pure choice and or denying.
[0:05:31 – 0:05:35] Erik: Also, some just out of like, it was pitch black.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:36] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:36 – 0:05:37] Erik: It’s hard to see what was going on out there.
[0:05:38 – 0:05:44] Adam: Honestly, I gave Nathan Schroeder a Bush Light, and I didn’t realize it was Nathan Schroeder until they were passed.
[0:05:45 – 0:05:49] Erik: No, you didn’t notice it was Nathan Schroeder until you stopped and asked for a second.
[0:05:49 – 0:05:49] Adam: Wait.
[0:05:50 – 0:05:51] Erik: Can I get another one of those?
[0:05:52 – 0:05:53] Adam: That’s when I knew it was him.
[0:05:53 – 0:05:53] Adam: Yeah.
[0:05:53 – 0:05:54] Adam: I was blinded though.
[0:05:54 – 0:05:56] Adam: And yeah, it’s hard to see.
[0:05:56 – 0:05:57] Adam: It’s hard to tell who’s coming.
[0:05:57 – 0:05:59] Adam: You can’t really see the bib number.
[0:05:59 – 0:06:05] Adam: Their headlights are a million candle power minimum, I think is the rules.
[0:06:06 – 0:06:07] Adam: It says it right in the rule books.
[0:06:07 – 0:06:10] Adam: You got to have two of them with a big battery pack.
[0:06:10 – 0:06:11] Adam: They got to be that minor style.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:12] Erik: Miners.
[0:06:12 – 0:06:14] Adam: Yeah, it looks like you’re going into the mine.
[0:06:14 – 0:06:18] Erik: What was the 80s lady musher that we were talking about?
[0:06:18 – 0:06:19] Erik: Susan Butcher?
[0:06:19 – 0:06:20] Erik: Yeah, Susan Butcher.
[0:06:20 – 0:06:23] Erik: She had the big miner headlamp on in 88.
[0:06:23 – 0:06:24] Adam: Complete with a hard hat.
[0:06:25 – 0:06:27] Adam: Also the hard hat.
[0:06:27 – 0:06:29] Adam: You’re not going down any tunnels on this trail, I hope.
[0:06:30 – 0:06:32] Adam: You might end up in a culvert, though.
[0:06:33 – 0:06:34] Adam: You might.
[0:06:34 – 0:06:36] Erik: Yeah, so it was a different experience.
[0:06:37 – 0:06:39] Erik: We’ve gone out plenty of times.
[0:06:39 – 0:06:54] Erik: Anybody who’s a listener and or a fan of this show has probably heard of our previous adventures out on the Bear Grease Trail at Pronto Pup Lodge and the various times we have gone out there.
[0:06:55 – 0:06:56] Erik: And we’ve gone out early.
[0:06:57 – 0:06:58] Erik: Sometimes too early.
[0:06:59 – 0:07:03] Erik: You know, set up the wall tent, fished, hung out, kind of camped a little bit.
[0:07:04 – 0:07:04] Erik: Yeah.
[0:07:05 – 0:07:11] Erik: And then the last couple of years, we just went out there like at sunrise about when they would be coming through.
[0:07:11 – 0:07:12] Erik: This was the first year that it was like a…
[0:07:14 – 0:07:30] Erik: an in-between where it was like when we used to go out but also sub any camping options it was just like we had to go out there because that’s how the race changed so we’re out truly yeah we’re out there at a time when usually it’d be like all right we’ll hang out for a
[0:07:32 – 0:07:33] Erik: Right.
[0:07:33 – 0:07:40] Erik: Which isn’t, you know, those were never like healthful spats of sleep, I can assure you.
[0:07:40 – 0:07:43] Erik: But at least some shut-eye did occur.
[0:07:45 – 0:07:47] Erik: This was just a straight full-blown all-nighter.
[0:07:47 – 0:07:48] Erik: And I don’t know the last time I pulled one of those.
[0:07:49 – 0:07:50] Adam: I don’t either.
[0:07:50 – 0:07:53] Adam: I was up at like 6 in the morning on Monday.
[0:07:53 – 0:07:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:07:54 – 0:08:02] Adam: And so it was like well over 24 hours of just pure race adrenaline and excitement for me.
[0:08:02 – 0:08:04] Adam: I had a half day of work in there.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:05] Adam: Yeah.
[0:08:05 – 0:08:07] Adam: Got up at 6-ish, did a half day of work.
[0:08:09 – 0:08:12] Adam: Went and got supplies and then went home.
[0:08:12 – 0:08:14] Adam: And then, like, it was beautiful out that day and really warm.
[0:08:16 – 0:08:20] Adam: And, yeah, hung out in the yard for a while, had a nice dinner.
[0:08:21 – 0:08:25] Adam: And then I did try and, like, lay down and put the boy to bed.
[0:08:25 – 0:08:28] Adam: But I just laid there thinking about the tracker.
[0:08:28 – 0:08:29] Erik: That’s essentially what I did, too.
[0:08:29 – 0:08:31] Erik: You were like, I think I want to try to get some sleep.
[0:08:31 – 0:08:32] Adam: I was like, yeah, that’s not a bad idea.
[0:08:32 – 0:08:33] Adam: It was like 8.30.
[0:08:33 – 0:08:42] Adam: Yeah, I did set an alarm for 10 p.m., and then I just laid there staring at the ceiling, thinking about the race flow.
[0:08:42 – 0:08:44] Adam: I couldn’t escape the flow state, Eric.
[0:08:45 – 0:08:46] Erik: Pretty much the same for me.
[0:08:46 – 0:08:51] Erik: I don’t know if I was quite as keyed in on the actual race flow, but just thinking about where I was going to be.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:52] Erik: Yeah.
[0:08:52 – 0:08:55] Erik: I was like, I’m going to be out on the trail in like two hours.
[0:08:55 – 0:08:56] Erik: I can’t sleep.
[0:08:56 – 0:08:57] Erik: I can’t sleep right now.
[0:08:57 – 0:08:57] Erik: I’m too excited.
[0:08:58 – 0:08:59] Erik: I just got back up.
[0:08:59 – 0:08:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:00] Erik: I pretty much did the same.
[0:09:00 – 0:09:06] Erik: I mean, I laid in darkness with my eyes closed and maybe nodded off for like, I don’t even know.
[0:09:06 – 0:09:10] Erik: It was one of those things where you get that progression of sleep.
[0:09:10 – 0:09:12] Erik: Where you’re like, I’m on the precipice.
[0:09:12 – 0:09:14] Erik: Now I feel like I could fall asleep.
[0:09:14 – 0:09:14] Erik: Right.
[0:09:14 – 0:09:18] Erik: And then when you notice, you’re going to like, I’m about to fall asleep.
[0:09:18 – 0:09:19] Erik: I did the same thing.
[0:09:19 – 0:09:21] Erik: Then you like kind of get almost like re-excited.
[0:09:21 – 0:09:21] Erik: Yeah.
[0:09:22 – 0:09:23] Erik: It’s like, oh, no.
[0:09:23 – 0:09:23] Erik: Damn it.
[0:09:24 – 0:09:25] Erik: I thought about it too much.
[0:09:25 – 0:09:25] Erik: Yeah.
[0:09:26 – 0:09:27] Erik: Psyched myself out.
[0:09:27 – 0:09:29] Erik: I psyched myself out of a two-hour nap.
[0:09:29 – 0:09:31] Erik: And then all of a sudden, yeah, it was 10.30.
[0:09:31 – 0:09:32] Erik: Then I was up.
[0:09:32 – 0:09:33] Erik: And then you were here.
[0:09:33 – 0:09:34] Erik: And it was midnight.
[0:09:34 – 0:09:34] Erik: And we were out there.
[0:09:35 – 0:09:35] Erik: And it was…
[0:09:37 – 0:09:40] Erik: It was one of those things where like kind of going into it, I was very excited.
[0:09:40 – 0:09:44] Erik: And then as we were driving, I was like, oh, man, this might be a long night.
[0:09:45 – 0:09:47] Erik: And it didn’t really ever feel long.
[0:09:47 – 0:09:48] Erik: No.
[0:09:48 – 0:09:51] Erik: Until it was like nine in the morning.
[0:09:51 – 0:09:52] Erik: Until the sun was up or whatever that was.
[0:09:53 – 0:09:55] Adam: It wasn’t really like a sunrise.
[0:09:55 – 0:09:59] Adam: It was just sort of all of a sudden you could sort of see the trees in the distance.
[0:09:59 – 0:10:02] Adam: And then the sky was mildly dark gray for a while.
[0:10:02 – 0:10:04] Adam: And that was morning.
[0:10:04 – 0:10:04] Erik: Yep.
[0:10:06 – 0:10:10] Adam: It had to have been one of the bleakest sunrises I’ve ever been a part of.
[0:10:10 – 0:10:11] Erik: Yeah.
[0:10:11 – 0:10:12] Erik: I think I said that at one point.
[0:10:12 – 0:10:16] Erik: I was like, it was much more magical out here when it was dark.
[0:10:16 – 0:10:17] Adam: Yeah.
[0:10:17 – 0:10:18] Erik: It was black.
[0:10:18 – 0:10:19] Erik: The stars were out.
[0:10:19 – 0:10:24] Adam: We never did get the rain or the freezing precip we were maybe going to get.
[0:10:24 – 0:10:25] Adam: Just the stars were out.
[0:10:25 – 0:10:26] Adam: It was nice and dark.
[0:10:27 – 0:10:31] Adam: When Buddy Josh showed up after his shift at Skyport…
[0:10:32 – 0:10:33] Erik: Just showed up in the darkness.
[0:10:33 – 0:10:34] Adam: Just walked up in the darkness.
[0:10:34 – 0:10:35] Adam: No headlamp.
[0:10:35 – 0:10:36] Adam: Just appeared.
[0:10:36 – 0:10:38] Adam: Just appeared at the edge of the firelight all of a sudden.
[0:10:38 – 0:10:39] Erik: Like, hey, Jesus.
[0:10:39 – 0:10:41] Erik: Hey, buddy.
[0:10:41 – 0:10:42] Erik: One in the morning.
[0:10:42 – 0:10:45] Adam: Got a galactic face slap for you in the box over there.
[0:10:47 – 0:10:47] Adam: He’s like, sure.
[0:10:49 – 0:10:51] Adam: I believe he was on an all-nighter.
[0:10:52 – 0:10:53] Erik: Yeah, of course.
[0:10:53 – 0:10:58] Adam: Derelict attorney was coming off a saw bill, but I believe he had gotten to go home and sleep a little and then
[0:10:58 – 0:11:02] Adam: He went to Skyport and hung out with the Sawbillies there for a while.
[0:11:02 – 0:11:12] Erik: I don’t think he was on an official all-nighter, but it sounded like based on his volunteering down at Sawbill, he was on much less sleep than all of us.
[0:11:12 – 0:11:12] Adam: Oh, no doubt.
[0:11:13 – 0:11:21] Adam: He was sleeping when we got there, and he was asleep because I felt like we were making a lot of noise because we were just dragging our sleds on pure gravel, warm gravel.
[0:11:22 – 0:11:27] Erik: That was the other thing about the daylight that just revealed just how horrible that section of trail was.
[0:11:27 – 0:11:30] Adam: Yeah, we had been out there on Sunday even just digging out the fire pit, and it looked rough.
[0:11:30 – 0:11:34] Adam: But then when it became light on Monday, it was like it looked double rough.
[0:11:34 – 0:11:35] Adam: I was like, this is just a road.
[0:11:35 – 0:11:37] Adam: It’s a gravel road.
[0:11:37 – 0:11:39] Adam: I wonder if the dogs want to stay down in the culvert.
[0:11:39 – 0:11:42] Adam: That culvert ditch that threw off like half the teams.
[0:11:42 – 0:11:43] Adam: Half the teams, yeah.
[0:11:43 – 0:11:47] Adam: So we have a scorecard we’ll be going over arrival times tomorrow.
[0:11:48 – 0:12:07] Adam: Some dog names that we were able to catch, a general estimate of who got beer and who got corndogs, and another category encouraged by our attorney was the score of whether or not they rode the road properly or if they stayed in the ditch and went renegade.
[0:12:07 – 0:12:08] Adam: Who’s to say what’s proper, though?
[0:12:09 – 0:12:21] Adam: Well, you know, technically there’s one little sign down in the ditch with a reflective tape on it indicating that teams were to move up onto the road for that section, but…
[0:12:23 – 0:12:28] Adam: You know, neither route is considered illegal by Bear Grylls standards.
[0:12:28 – 0:12:30] Adam: So, in truth, they could go either way.
[0:12:31 – 0:12:34] Adam: But there was moving, like, open water down there in the ditch.
[0:12:34 – 0:12:37] Erik: Yeah, neither option was really great.
[0:12:37 – 0:12:38] Erik: No.
[0:12:38 – 0:12:40] Adam: Ride the gravel or go through a culvert.
[0:12:40 – 0:12:45] Erik: Or go through the ditch moguls with a little bit of open water.
[0:12:45 – 0:12:47] Adam: It was pretty bumpy down in there.
[0:12:47 – 0:12:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:12:47 – 0:12:49] Adam: So, yeah, we got some stats, of course.
[0:12:50 – 0:12:57] Adam: Jotted down with a Sharpie onto a piece of cardboard that was in my pocket the whole night, which I was glad I hadn’t lost it.
[0:12:57 – 0:12:58] Adam: I almost came over here without it.
[0:12:58 – 0:13:00] Adam: I went outside and started the truck and then realized…
[0:13:01 – 0:13:06] Adam: I had not grabbed the scorecard, and luckily it was still where I left it in the house.
[0:13:06 – 0:13:08] Adam: So I do have the official scorecard.
[0:13:08 – 0:13:10] Adam: We have some leftover bush lights.
[0:13:13 – 0:13:17] Adam: I’ll share this one more detail, and then we should get into this art supply, I think, but…
[0:13:18 – 0:13:30] Adam: So I got home on Tuesday, and then I took a nap for a little bit, and then I got up and I went for a walk because I was like, I can’t just sleep all the way through to Wednesday at this point.
[0:13:30 – 0:13:32] Adam: That’ll be too much of an overcorrection.
[0:13:33 – 0:13:43] Adam: So then it was time for I’ve got to eat something, and I wasn’t terribly hungry, but I just ended up baking off more mini corn dogs for the whole family.
[0:13:43 – 0:13:43] Adam: Yeah.
[0:13:44 – 0:13:48] Adam: And then I ate a bunch more mini corn dogs for dinner that night.
[0:13:49 – 0:13:51] Adam: So can’t get enough.
[0:13:51 – 0:13:52] Adam: I still got a few, though.
[0:13:52 – 0:13:56] Adam: We had plenty of provisions when it came to corn doggery.
[0:13:56 – 0:13:58] Adam: 284 packs.
[0:13:58 – 0:13:59] Adam: 284 packs of mini honey glazed.
[0:14:00 – 0:14:01] Erik: The pronto puppies.
[0:14:01 – 0:14:04] Erik: And then we did start with regular corn dogs.
[0:14:04 – 0:14:06] Erik: Regular stick-in dogs.
[0:14:07 – 0:14:08] Adam: Sticked dogs.
[0:14:08 – 0:14:12] Adam: All, of course, fried in sawbill bacon pan grease.
[0:14:12 – 0:14:13] Erik: The whole bucket.
[0:14:13 – 0:14:19] Erik: Literally, I have one picture from Bear Grease, and it is a picture of the tongs stuck…
[0:14:20 – 0:14:41] Erik: wrist deep into that bucket of bacon grease brought up from sawbill what did they what did he say that they fried up 30 pounds of bacon at least yeah yeah pure ass bacon grease in that jug though it wasn’t like you know the dirty scraps i don’t know they filter that it looked like you could make a candle filters it for sure
[0:14:42 – 0:14:42] Erik: My God.
[0:14:43 – 0:14:50] Adam: That’s one of our top secret secrets is using the sawbill bacon grease to fry the corndogs.
[0:14:50 – 0:14:52] Adam: And that’s Eric’s special move.
[0:14:52 – 0:14:53] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:14:53 – 0:14:54] Adam: I feel like that’s a…
[0:14:54 – 0:14:55] Adam: It’s a no-brainer.
[0:14:55 – 0:15:01] Erik: It’s a Saw Billy volunteer chief move, bringing up that bucket of bacon grease.
[0:15:02 – 0:15:05] Erik: It helps the mushers feel like they’re…
[0:15:05 – 0:15:06] Erik: Connected.
[0:15:06 – 0:15:12] Erik: It continues on with that ingenue of bear grease flavors.
[0:15:12 – 0:15:16] Erik: You don’t want to shock a musher out of his groove or her groove.
[0:15:17 – 0:15:17] Erik: Right.
[0:15:17 – 0:15:18] Erik: So, you know.
[0:15:18 – 0:15:23] Erik: Bring a little bit of that flavor from down trail up to pronto.
[0:15:23 – 0:15:26] Erik: Helps the whole process move along smoothly.
[0:15:27 – 0:15:35] Adam: Yeah, I mean, when we started doing pronto, it was kind of with the idea of we want something like Sawbill that’s on the last day of the race.
[0:15:36 – 0:15:41] Adam: like a cozy hospitality stop with something nice to eat.
[0:15:42 – 0:15:44] Adam: And so we don’t have bacon.
[0:15:45 – 0:15:46] Adam: We had to do our own thing.
[0:15:46 – 0:15:49] Adam: We got corndogs, but it is fried in the Sawbill bacon grease.
[0:15:49 – 0:15:50] Adam: It’s perfect.
[0:15:51 – 0:15:53] Adam: Yeah, it really brings the whole race together.
[0:15:54 – 0:16:00] Adam: We got ourselves a cardboard box that was dropped off at the co-op, and it says, Attention, Adam Art Supplies.
[0:16:02 – 0:16:09] Adam: Perishable items open soon in a small cardboard box with a Skull and Crossbones sticker on there.
[0:16:09 – 0:16:10] Erik: Skull and Crossbones sticker.
[0:16:11 – 0:16:13] Adam: And so we’re going with it.
[0:16:14 – 0:16:15] Adam: I’m not sure what’s in here.
[0:16:15 – 0:16:17] Adam: I had it out on the porch.
[0:16:18 – 0:16:20] Adam: We got some bourbon barrel…
[0:16:22 – 0:16:29] Adam: Rock Filter Distillery Barrel Age Peru Smooth Coffee with Bourbon Nose from Wilderness Coffee.
[0:16:29 – 0:16:31] Adam: Have you ever heard of this, Eric?
[0:16:31 – 0:16:31] Adam: No.
[0:16:32 – 0:16:33] Adam: Wilderness Coffee.
[0:16:33 – 0:16:34] Erik: Where are they out of?
[0:16:40 – 0:16:41] Adam: Houston, Minnesota.
[0:16:42 – 0:16:43] Erik: Houston, Minnesota.
[0:16:43 – 0:16:44] Erik: All right.
[0:16:44 – 0:16:44] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:45] Adam: That’s what this says.
[0:16:45 – 0:16:47] Adam: I don’t know why there’s a secondary note on here.
[0:16:47 – 0:16:49] Erik: Oh, it’s from Loon’s Nest?
[0:16:49 – 0:16:50] Erik: It’s from Loon’s Nest.
[0:16:50 – 0:16:50] Erik: That’s up the trail.
[0:16:51 – 0:16:51] Adam: Yeah, but…
[0:16:53 – 0:16:54] Adam: Interesting.
[0:16:54 – 0:16:57] Adam: There’s a post-it note on here that says Wilderness Coffee.
[0:16:57 – 0:16:58] Adam: It’s a medium roast.
[0:16:59 – 0:17:03] Adam: It’s a nice sack of very nice coffee beans.
[0:17:04 – 0:17:06] Adam: And it does say to use…
[0:17:06 – 0:17:07] Adam: Hold on, where did I see that?
[0:17:07 – 0:17:08] Adam: On the back, it’s stamped.
[0:17:09 – 0:17:10] Adam: It was roasted on February 25th.
[0:17:12 – 0:17:13] Adam: Of this year?
[0:17:13 – 0:17:15] Adam: Yeah.
[0:17:15 – 0:17:17] Adam: Best within six months.
[0:17:17 – 0:17:18] Adam: So is that the perishable thing?
[0:17:19 – 0:17:20] Erik: It was roasted eight days ago?
[0:17:21 – 0:17:21] Adam: Apparently.
[0:17:22 – 0:17:22] Adam: Wow.
[0:17:23 – 0:17:24] Adam: Hang out of that for our spring trip.
[0:17:24 – 0:17:25] Adam: There we go.
[0:17:25 – 0:17:28] Adam: That’s coming with us.
[0:17:29 – 0:17:34] Adam: I was looking at some permits today for Memorial Day area.
[0:17:35 – 0:17:36] Adam: There’s more.
[0:17:36 – 0:17:36] Adam: Hold on.
[0:17:41 – 0:17:41] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:17:42 – 0:17:42] Adam: Packing peanuts.
[0:17:43 – 0:17:43] Erik: Oh, no.
[0:17:45 – 0:17:50] Erik: I haven’t had a sip of the brownest of browns.
[0:17:51 – 0:17:54] Adam: Is this the same whiskey that’s in the coffee, Eric?
[0:17:56 – 0:18:00] Adam: Rock Filter Distillery Organic Giants of the Earth Bourbon Whiskey.
[0:18:01 – 0:18:02] Adam: Holy moly.
[0:18:02 – 0:18:05] Adam: It’s got handwritten notes.
[0:18:05 – 0:18:05] Adam: 94 proof.
[0:18:06 – 0:18:10] Adam: There’s an old couple on here.
[0:18:11 – 0:18:17] Erik: About the lightest pour you could possibly… Spring Grove, Minnesota.
[0:18:18 – 0:18:19] Erik: Farmer owned.
[0:18:21 – 0:18:23] Adam: Very independent spirits.
[0:18:23 – 0:18:26] Adam: And this is a proud independent podcast, so thank you.
[0:18:26 – 0:18:29] Adam: I had this one out on the porch all day, so it’s nicely chilled.
[0:18:30 – 0:18:31] Adam: Tell me there’s a note in here.
[0:18:33 – 0:19:01] Adam: tell me there’s a note guys you gotta especially if you’re dropping off on the weekends i mean you gotta leave a note uh filter distillery no other clues thank you kind friend of the show for your contributions um whoever you are eric’s got his finest uh
[0:19:02 – 0:19:03] Adam: The schnifters.
[0:19:03 – 0:19:04] Adam: Plastic schnifters?
[0:19:05 – 0:19:07] Erik: You didn’t have to say that out loud.
[0:19:08 – 0:19:08] Erik: What?
[0:19:09 – 0:19:11] Erik: It’s going to be pretty obvious that they’re not glass.
[0:19:11 – 0:19:12] Adam: I suppose, yeah.
[0:19:12 – 0:19:15] Adam: It doesn’t matter.
[0:19:17 – 0:19:18] Adam: He’s having a sip.
[0:19:19 – 0:19:20] Erik: Oh, yeah, look at the legs on that.
[0:19:22 – 0:19:28] Adam: Yeah, when’s the last time we had a fine booze as the show sponsor?
[0:19:28 – 0:19:28] Adam: It’s been a while.
[0:19:29 – 0:19:30] Erik: Yeah, I don’t know.
[0:19:30 – 0:19:33] Erik: I think it’s been… For sips.
[0:19:35 – 0:19:38] Erik: When’s the last time we’ve…
[0:19:38 – 0:19:44] Erik: I don’t even know when the last time I’ve consumed brown booze.
[0:19:45 – 0:19:46] Erik: I think it’s been over a year.
[0:19:47 – 0:19:48] Adam: Really?
[0:19:48 – 0:19:49] Adam: Since I’ve had whiskey.
[0:19:49 – 0:19:50] Adam: It’s not something I do often.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:51] Adam: Yeah, no.
[0:19:51 – 0:19:52] Adam: It’s a rare treat.
[0:19:52 – 0:19:53] Adam: Yeah, I’m not trying to say…
[0:19:54 – 0:19:56] Erik: Adam knows what he’s doing there.
[0:19:56 – 0:19:58] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:19:58 – 0:19:58] Adam: Pass it over here.
[0:19:58 – 0:20:01] Adam: He doesn’t know anything about rock bourbon.
[0:20:01 – 0:20:02] Erik: He doesn’t know anything about bourbon.
[0:20:03 – 0:20:04] Adam: Smells like bourbon.
[0:20:09 – 0:20:10] Adam: Could have used some of this on the side of the trail.
[0:20:12 – 0:20:13] Adam: Hey-o.
[0:20:14 – 0:20:14] Adam: Wow.
[0:20:16 – 0:20:16] Adam: Wow.
[0:20:17 – 0:20:17] Adam: That’s nice.
[0:20:18 – 0:20:22] SPEAKER_01: It actually is Spring Grove, Minnesota.
[0:20:22 – 0:20:23] SPEAKER_01: Pretty good.
[0:20:23 – 0:20:27] Adam: As John Bear Grease used to say, that’s quattro quattro.
[0:20:27 – 0:20:28] Adam: Come and get them.
[0:20:32 – 0:20:33] Adam: Quattro quattro.
[0:20:33 – 0:20:38] Adam: All right.
[0:20:38 – 0:20:42] Adam: Did you hear that Rhonda Hirschkamp dropped her mailbag?
[0:20:43 – 0:20:45] Erik: Is that why she wouldn’t get to see her?
[0:20:45 – 0:20:47] Adam: That’s not a rock fact.
[0:20:47 – 0:20:48] Adam: I’m just making that up.
[0:20:49 – 0:20:54] Adam: And didn’t get to see Rhonda Hirschkamp because she probably dropped her mailbag.
[0:20:55 – 0:20:55] Erik: Yeah.
[0:20:55 – 0:21:02] Adam: Or she failed to yell out quattro quattro and she crossed the gunpoint trail and was immediately disqualified.
[0:21:03 – 0:21:08] Adam: There’s some extra rules in the back of the book that we did not go over last week on episode 281.
[0:21:08 – 0:21:10] Adam: So there’s some little tidbits for you.
[0:21:11 – 0:21:11] Adam: Some sub rules.
[0:21:12 – 0:21:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:21:13 – 0:21:15] Adam: A lot of tradition in the race.
[0:21:17 – 0:21:18] Adam: My tongue is like tingling, Eric.
[0:21:19 – 0:21:20] Adam: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
[0:21:20 – 0:21:21] Adam: I think it’s great.
[0:21:21 – 0:21:22] Adam: Okay.
[0:21:22 – 0:21:23] Erik: He says it’s good.
[0:21:23 – 0:21:23] Erik: It feels great.
[0:21:24 – 0:21:33] Erik: We are, as always, minute 22 brought to you by our fine friends on Patreon.
[0:21:33 – 0:21:34] Erik: Thank you, Patrons.
[0:21:34 – 0:21:35] Erik: We’re finishing up alone.
[0:21:36 – 0:21:38] Erik: We did it.
[0:21:38 – 0:21:41] Erik: Whether you loved it or you hated it, it is ending tonight.
[0:21:42 – 0:21:43] Erik: It is.
[0:21:43 – 0:21:45] Erik: I think I am happy that it’s over.
[0:21:46 – 0:22:09] Erik: um i loved it i’m great that i i it was pretty good i’m i’m happy that i chose the season that i did but i am going to be happy to take a break from it as well maybe it was just the fact that this last episode was damn near a movie that was pretty dang long i got things to say about that did you watch the colby donson garage show after
[0:22:10 – 0:22:25] Erik: Yeah, all I wanted after an hour and 45 minutes of watching people eat the three-month-old insides of a muskox and… Boiled hoof.
[0:22:25 – 0:22:31] Erik: Boiled hoof and pick at hardening purple blisters on their toe.
[0:22:32 – 0:22:35] Erik: Yeah, I wanted to spend another 30 minutes with Colby Donaldson.
[0:22:36 – 0:22:39] Adam: How much did you eat during the watching of the show?
[0:22:39 – 0:22:40] Adam: I’m curious.
[0:22:40 – 0:22:43] Erik: Just a bucket of cottage cheese the whole time.
[0:22:43 – 0:22:44] Erik: Just shoveling.
[0:22:44 – 0:22:53] Adam: I ate a whole thing of stuffed pretzels and an entire rotisserie chicken and two bowls of cereal while I watched this.
[0:22:54 – 0:22:57] Adam: Yeah, it was cottage cheese mixed with…
[0:22:58 – 0:23:00] Adam: steamed spinach.
[0:23:00 – 0:23:04] Adam: I’m shocked I didn’t eat some mini corn dogs last night while I was watching this.
[0:23:04 – 0:23:05] Erik: Out of a bread bowl.
[0:23:05 – 0:23:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:23:05 – 0:23:08] Erik: To simulate a musk ox stomach.
[0:23:08 – 0:23:09] Adam: That’s my pouch.
[0:23:10 – 0:23:10] Adam: Yeah.
[0:23:11 – 0:23:13] Adam: It’s filled with biters and mini corn dogs.
[0:23:13 – 0:23:14] Adam: Oh, God.
[0:23:14 – 0:23:18] Erik: Hey, well, that would be the one halfway decent thing.
[0:23:18 – 0:23:28] Erik: You had to dig around through the rotten, putrefied, sour, intestinal tract workings.
[0:23:29 – 0:23:32] Erik: If there was a couple of biters in there, I’d dig around.
[0:23:33 – 0:23:34] Erik: Double dare style.
[0:23:34 – 0:23:35] Erik: You got to find the flag and the goo.
[0:23:35 – 0:23:36] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[0:23:36 – 0:23:37] Erik: There’s a biter.
[0:23:37 – 0:23:38] Adam: There’s a biter in there somewhere.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:39] Adam: Keep digging.
[0:23:39 – 0:23:39] Adam: I’ll dig.
[0:23:41 – 0:23:46] Erik: So we’re finishing up Tumbalone tonight on TCC.
[0:23:46 – 0:23:51] Erik: And then we’re going to move back into movies with Submonth.
[0:23:51 – 0:23:52] Erik: Submonth.
[0:23:52 – 0:23:53] Erik: Submonth is coming.
[0:23:54 – 0:23:57] Erik: We got to start high, maybe as high as it gets.
[0:23:58 – 0:24:00] Erik: I’ve actually never seen it, but we’re going to start with Crimson Tide.
[0:24:00 – 0:24:02] Adam: I’ve never seen Crimson Tide either.
[0:24:02 – 0:24:03] Adam: This is going to be pretty exciting.
[0:24:04 – 0:24:05] Adam: Gene Hackman, rest in peace.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:06] Adam: All right.
[0:24:06 – 0:24:11] Erik: Him starting it out, and then maybe we’ll plumb the depths with Down Periscope 2.
[0:24:11 – 0:24:11] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:24:12 – 0:24:22] Adam: I looked at our submarines had a post on best submarine movies, which there are 248 submarine movies listed on Wikipedia.
[0:24:22 – 0:24:22] Adam: Officially.
[0:24:23 – 0:24:35] Adam: And they debated on our submarines the best submarine movies, and Down Periscope was widely voted as the number one upvoted movie suggested.
[0:24:35 – 0:24:41] Erik: And technically, we have done a submarine movie already with Life Aquatic.
[0:24:41 – 0:24:41] Adam: Yeah.
[0:24:42 – 0:24:44] Erik: Which would probably be in the list if we hadn’t done it.
[0:24:45 – 0:24:46] Adam: Oh, no doubt.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:46] Adam: Yeah.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:46] Adam: Deep Search.
[0:24:46 – 0:24:46] Adam: Deep Search.
[0:24:47 – 0:24:47] Erik: Yeah.
[0:24:48 – 0:24:49] SPEAKER_01: What happened to Jacqueline?
[0:24:49 – 0:24:50] Adam: She never really loved me.
[0:24:50 – 0:24:51] Adam: There it is.
[0:24:52 – 0:24:57] Adam: There’s a French submarine movie from 2019 called Tears of the Spider.
[0:24:57 – 0:24:59] Adam: Wait, I got that totally wrong.
[0:24:59 – 0:25:00] Erik: What was the other one?
[0:25:00 – 0:25:01] Adam: Tears of the Wolf.
[0:25:01 – 0:25:02] Adam: Tears of the Wolf.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:02] Erik: Wow.
[0:25:02 – 0:25:05] Adam: That’s apparently a really good one.
[0:25:06 – 0:25:08] Adam: I thought that you were just, I thought that you were getting.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:08] Adam: K-19 Widowmaker.
[0:25:08 – 0:25:13] Erik: Yeah, I was going to say, I thought you were getting one confused with K-19 Widowmaker.
[0:25:13 – 0:25:15] Erik: This might be sub two month.
[0:25:15 – 0:25:16] Erik: This might be sub spring.
[0:25:17 – 0:25:18] Adam: Spring of the subs.
[0:25:18 – 0:25:19] Erik: We’re going to try to watch as many.
[0:25:19 – 0:25:20] Adam: The Wolf’s Call.
[0:25:21 – 0:25:22] Adam: Not the Tear of the Wolf.
[0:25:22 – 0:25:23] Adam: Okay.
[0:25:23 – 0:25:27] Adam: 2019 thriller action featuring Le Champ de Loup.
[0:25:28 – 0:25:29] Adam: Oh, yeah.
[0:25:31 – 0:25:31] Adam: Looks pretty good.
[0:25:32 – 0:25:33] Adam: Looks pretty good.
[0:25:33 – 0:25:34] Adam: I want to get in on that one.
[0:25:34 – 0:25:42] Adam: Another one I saw that I think I mentioned to you, Eric, was On the Beach with Gregory Peck, 1959.
[0:25:42 – 0:25:48] Adam: Based on the movie by, or based on the book by Neville Shute.
[0:25:50 – 0:25:50] Erik: Shute?
[0:25:50 – 0:25:51] Erik: Shute.
[0:25:52 – 0:25:53] Erik: Shute.
[0:25:54 – 0:25:55] Erik: Dwight’s great-grandfather.
[0:25:56 – 0:25:57] Adam: The original beet farmer.
[0:25:58 – 0:26:02] Erik: Yeah, the original most depressing apocalyptic book of all time.
[0:26:02 – 0:26:03] Adam: Yeah, I tried to read that book.
[0:26:03 – 0:26:04] Adam: I don’t think I made it through it.
[0:26:04 – 0:26:05] Erik: Yeah, it’s rough.
[0:26:06 – 0:26:08] Adam: A lot of good sub-movies coming out, though, on TCC.
[0:26:09 – 0:26:11] Erik: Yeah, we’re finishing Alone.
[0:26:11 – 0:26:13] Erik: We’re going to find out once and for all who wins.
[0:26:15 – 0:26:22] Erik: And never talk of it ever again until we next winter do a different season of Alone, I’m sure.
[0:26:23 – 0:26:24] Adam: I want to do one live.
[0:26:25 – 0:26:27] Adam: Whenever they start another season of Alone, we should just jump in.
[0:26:28 – 0:26:30] Erik: One that we both don’t know what happens.
[0:26:30 – 0:26:30] Erik: Exactly.
[0:26:30 – 0:26:31] Erik: That’s the way to do it.
[0:26:31 – 0:26:33] Erik: I agree completely.
[0:26:33 – 0:26:42] Erik: This one was a little tough for me because it had been a few years, but I knew essentially who won and kind of how it shook out.
[0:26:42 – 0:26:51] Erik: Some of the details were lost to the sands of time, so the conversations I still feel like were fine, but there were multiple times where I had to just be like…
[0:26:52 – 0:26:57] Erik: you know, talking out of one side of my mouth and knowing in the back of my head.
[0:26:58 – 0:26:58] Erik: Yeah.
[0:26:58 – 0:26:59] Erik: Yeah.
[0:26:59 – 0:27:02] Adam: I got some extra questions for you though, just in general on alone.
[0:27:03 – 0:27:09] Adam: And, uh, yeah, I can’t wait to discuss the finale, but, uh, it’s been a lot of fun.
[0:27:09 – 0:27:14] Adam: I hope that the Patreon members have enjoyed, uh, the, the concept.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:15] Erik: Sure.
[0:27:15 – 0:27:22] Adam: And, uh, it’s really the first time we’ve like done something like that as far as watching a whole, you know, a whole show.
[0:27:22 – 0:27:49] Erik: yeah yeah no i totally agree i think it uh helps me get through you know a little bit of the winter so look forward to something to take notes on something to pay attention to a little bit more and yeah i mean at this point it’s gotten us mostly through the winter i’d say we’re we’re still in winter obviously it’s northern minnesota but i’m going edge i’m taking the kids ice fishing tomorrow the edge is you know it’s not as sharp anymore
[0:27:50 – 0:27:54] Adam: Now the side of the driveway is always softened this time of year.
[0:27:56 – 0:28:02] Adam: We also should say, I would think, and mention that the question of the week is up right now.
[0:28:02 – 0:28:04] Adam: Lure.
[0:28:04 – 0:28:05] Adam: What’s your best lure?
[0:28:06 – 0:28:16] Erik: The question that came in last week was the top five lures that you would suggest for a bunch of boys from the south coming up to essentially the border waters.
[0:28:17 – 0:28:19] Erik: And we boiled it down to…
[0:28:21 – 0:28:22] Erik: Your one lure.
[0:28:22 – 0:28:24] Adam: What’s your best lure?
[0:28:25 – 0:28:28] Adam: Hopefully, it looks like there’s a ton of responses in there already.
[0:28:30 – 0:28:44] Adam: Using the responses from that question of the week, as if everybody who comments on that thread is then a member of the committee for Selection Sunday in the lure tournament.
[0:28:44 – 0:28:45] Erik: The Lurnament.
[0:28:45 – 0:28:46] Adam: Lurnament.
[0:28:46 – 0:28:47] Erik: Is that good or bad?
[0:28:47 – 0:28:48] Erik: I can’t tell.
[0:28:48 – 0:28:49] Erik: I’ve been going back and forth all week.
[0:28:49 – 0:28:50] Erik: I’m like, that’s horrible.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:51] Erik: I love it.
[0:28:51 – 0:28:52] Adam: That’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard.
[0:28:52 – 0:28:53] SPEAKER_01: Lurnament?
[0:28:53 – 0:28:54] Erik: Really?
[0:28:55 – 0:28:58] Erik: But then, you know, also on one hand, it just kind of rolls off the tongue.
[0:28:58 – 0:28:59] Adam: What about Turnalurnt?
[0:29:03 – 0:29:04] Adam: Turn alert.
[0:29:06 – 0:29:09] Erik: I definitely feel better about learnament.
[0:29:09 – 0:29:11] Adam: My tongue is really tingling now.
[0:29:11 – 0:29:12] Erik: Yeah.
[0:29:12 – 0:29:13] Adam: All right.
[0:29:13 – 0:29:20] Adam: Well, the learnament’s starting in a couple weeks here, but I would say Selection Sunday is right around the corner on that one.
[0:29:20 – 0:29:21] Adam: I can’t wait.
[0:29:21 – 0:29:27] Adam: to build the bracket using the upvotes and comments from the committee.
[0:29:28 – 0:29:31] Adam: This will be a first-of-its-kind Selection Sunday.
[0:29:31 – 0:29:42] Adam: We’ve got a lot more people in the committee, and Eric and I, of course, will be serving as tiebreakers on that one, but I’m thinking that’s going to just play itself out real easy-peasy.
[0:29:42 – 0:29:53] Erik: I think it’s going to be basically taking those suggestions and then filtering it down from the main committee to the subcommittee, which is you and me, and then seeding them.
[0:29:53 – 0:30:00] Erik: And I guarantee we could easily get 32 lures slash teams into this tourney.
[0:30:00 – 0:30:01] Erik: We’ll decide once and for all.
[0:30:02 – 0:30:08] Adam: I was out snowshoeing around today, and I was definitely trying to think of all the different conferences in the learnament.
[0:30:10 – 0:30:12] Adam: You know, you got your soft plastics.
[0:30:12 – 0:30:13] Adam: You got your hard bait.
[0:30:13 – 0:30:15] Adam: You got your… Topwater.
[0:30:15 – 0:30:16] Adam: The metallics.
[0:30:17 – 0:30:18] Adam: The metallics, buzzbaits.
[0:30:18 – 0:30:19] Adam: Oh, my God.
[0:30:19 – 0:30:20] Adam: Buzzbait conference.
[0:30:20 – 0:30:22] Adam: So, yeah, there’s a lot, you know.
[0:30:22 – 0:30:25] Adam: Pretty obnoxious, that conference.
[0:30:25 – 0:30:27] Adam: I can’t wait to find out.
[0:30:28 – 0:30:29] Adam: We’re all going to find out together.
[0:30:29 – 0:30:34] Adam: So get in there and add a comment in for your favorite lure.
[0:30:35 – 0:30:37] Adam: Zanier name, the better, probably.
[0:30:39 – 0:30:40] Adam: You know how the tumble homies like to vote.
[0:30:40 – 0:30:47] Adam: So lure with a funny name, probably going to have a strong resume when it comes to Selection Sunday.
[0:30:48 – 0:30:54] Adam: We’re going to be checking out the DPI versus the RPO and all the other metrics.
[0:30:54 – 0:30:58] Adam: You can’t overestimate the amount of metrics we’re going to be bringing to the table.
[0:30:59 – 0:31:05] Adam: Trevor has been building a spreadsheet with all the different specs and hook sizes and…
[0:31:08 – 0:31:27] Adam: uh you know all the different knots you’re gonna need too so it’s gonna be really exciting and then at the end of the day hopefully we’re gonna help this um this group of khaki scouts really tie into them yep with the best lures that have come from the hive mind that is that’s what it’s all about the community the hive mind will select the five for you
[0:31:29 – 0:31:32] Adam: But, I mean, I have a list already in mind.
[0:31:32 – 0:31:34] Adam: So, like, that’s going to come into it too.
[0:31:34 – 0:31:37] Adam: But I cannot wait to get out the blazer and check it out.
[0:31:38 – 0:31:42] Adam: Now, that’s going to be a real highlight for Tumble Home Sports Network, Eric.
[0:31:43 – 0:31:50] Adam: But, unfortunately, Jim Sofa and Terry Davenport straight up ghosted us out on the trail.
[0:31:50 – 0:31:53] Adam: And they stole the field mic.
[0:31:55 – 0:32:01] Adam: We don’t have any Tumulam Sports Network coverage live from the side of the Bear Grease Trail, which is disappointing.
[0:32:02 – 0:32:03] Erik: Yeah, what happened there?
[0:32:04 – 0:32:05] Erik: They said they were coming.
[0:32:06 – 0:32:15] Adam: They said they were coming by a miniature helicopter that they had purchased on Timu for like $400, Terry told me in a text message the day before the race.
[0:32:15 – 0:32:16] Adam: They did buzz us, though.
[0:32:16 – 0:32:18] Adam: They buzzed us on Sunday.
[0:32:18 – 0:32:20] Erik: It was almost like a slap in the face.
[0:32:20 – 0:32:21] Adam: They’re like, there they are.
[0:32:22 – 0:32:23] Adam: They weren’t kidding around.
[0:32:23 – 0:32:27] Adam: So they were following the race in their $400 helicopter.
[0:32:27 – 0:32:31] Adam: It was powered with a miniature lawnmower engine.
[0:32:31 – 0:32:33] Erik: They were controlling it with an iPhone.
[0:32:33 – 0:32:55] Adam: that’s crazy yeah it seemed ill-advised especially with the spotty service up there on the arrowhead trail and we saw them and then we never did hear anything back from them so i hope they’re okay but they did have the field audio recorder and so we didn’t end up getting any but it’s honestly for the best yeah what kind of audio are you really going to pick up at three in the morning yeah
[0:32:56 – 0:33:00] Erik: I mean, I think you guys have all heard those tracks at this point.
[0:33:00 – 0:33:03] Adam: Nobody needs any more Madness of Winter on Tumble Home, I don’t think.
[0:33:04 – 0:33:06] Erik: Well, maybe, but not at this point in the year.
[0:33:06 – 0:33:10] Erik: This is no longer Madness of Winter season either.
[0:33:11 – 0:33:12] Adam: Daylight Savings is tomorrow.
[0:33:13 – 0:33:13] Adam: Today.
[0:33:13 – 0:33:14] Adam: Oh, God, no.
[0:33:14 – 0:33:15] Adam: It’s tomorrow.
[0:33:15 – 0:33:19] Adam: When this episode comes out, it’s going to be light until like 7.30 tomorrow.
[0:33:19 – 0:33:19] Adam: Today.
[0:33:22 – 0:33:25] Adam: Well, but then we also lose that.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:25] Adam: I actually.
[0:33:25 – 0:33:28] SPEAKER_01: I’m all for it.
[0:33:28 – 0:33:29] Erik: I want to swear right now.
[0:33:29 – 0:33:37] Erik: I just don’t really feel like going through the process of bleeping it out.
[0:33:37 – 0:33:39] SPEAKER_01: You want to try my buns?
[0:33:40 – 0:33:42] Adam: He’s really on one over there.
[0:33:42 – 0:33:44] Adam: Three, two, one.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:45] Adam: I hate it.
[0:33:45 – 0:33:47] Adam: I mean, who doesn’t hate it?
[0:33:48 – 0:33:50] Adam: I love it when it’s laid out until 7.30.
[0:33:50 – 0:33:51] Adam: It’s one of my favorite parts about March.
[0:33:51 – 0:33:52] Adam: What are you talking about?
[0:33:52 – 0:33:59] Erik: Oh, you love it when it’s laid out until 7.30 in March, but you also still don’t have sunrise until quarter to eight again.
[0:34:00 – 0:34:03] Erik: All of a sudden, your mornings just get completely effed all over again.
[0:34:06 – 0:34:11] Erik: It’s taken me all winter to get to a point where I can walk the dogs before going to work in the light.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:12] Adam: Yeah.
[0:34:12 – 0:34:16] Erik: There’s a point in the winter where I have to walk my dogs with a headlamp on.
[0:34:16 – 0:34:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:16 – 0:34:17] Erik: And I’m just out in the woods.
[0:34:17 – 0:34:18] Erik: I’m like, what am I doing?
[0:34:19 – 0:34:19] Erik: This is insane.
[0:34:20 – 0:34:20] Erik: What am I doing?
[0:34:20 – 0:34:22] Erik: I hate this.
[0:34:22 – 0:34:22] Erik: Why am I here?
[0:34:23 – 0:34:28] Erik: And we finally get to a point right about now, for the last few weeks, we’ve had enough light.
[0:34:28 – 0:34:28] Erik: Yeah.
[0:34:29 – 0:34:32] Erik: That you can get up at 7 and walk right away.
[0:34:33 – 0:34:39] Adam: I would counter that I’ve been walking the dog with a headlamp at night lately, and I can’t wait until I don’t have to do that.
[0:34:39 – 0:34:44] Adam: I’d rather do a longer walk in the evening than do a short, brisk walk in the morning by headlamp.
[0:34:44 – 0:34:46] Erik: No, they need a walk in the morning, though.
[0:34:47 – 0:34:48] Adam: You got to get your steps in, dogs.
[0:34:48 – 0:34:52] Erik: You’re going to abandon them for eight hours without a walk?
[0:34:53 – 0:34:59] Adam: You just do a short, quick walk with a headlamp in the morning, and then you do the nice, long walk in the afternoon when it’s warm and sunny.
[0:34:59 – 0:35:00] Erik: No, I hate it.
[0:35:00 – 0:35:02] Erik: I hate daylight savings.
[0:35:05 – 0:35:06] Erik: I don’t think it should exist.
[0:35:06 – 0:35:07] Erik: I don’t really know.
[0:35:07 – 0:35:08] Erik: What is it providing anymore?
[0:35:08 – 0:35:15] Erik: And this is, you know, what do you need me to explain any more than you already know?
[0:35:15 – 0:35:22] Erik: What a hoax and a sham and a joke that Daylight Savings is at this point.
[0:35:22 – 0:35:27] Erik: It is a dead horse that I do not need to beat anymore.
[0:35:28 – 0:35:29] Adam: It’s dead already.
[0:35:29 – 0:35:30] Adam: It’s dead.
[0:35:31 – 0:35:33] Adam: Stop clubbing it like a porcupine, Eric.
[0:35:34 – 0:35:36] Erik: He’s already dead.
[0:35:38 – 0:35:41] Erik: Yeah, but winter’s pretty much over at this point.
[0:35:41 – 0:35:42] Erik: It’s going to rain next weekend.
[0:35:44 – 0:35:46] Adam: We’re all living in, essentially.
[0:35:46 – 0:35:49] Adam: Probably going to be in the tumble shed by next week.
[0:35:49 – 0:35:51] Adam: Probably doing Selection Sunday from the shed.
[0:35:51 – 0:35:56] Erik: Six weeks of, I don’t know, shinter hell?
[0:35:56 – 0:36:01] Erik: I don’t know what you call this in-between now that we’ve got even more than we ever used to.
[0:36:01 – 0:36:03] Adam: Steelhead season, that’s what you call that.
[0:36:03 – 0:36:06] Adam: There’s somebody who’s making fun of my steelhead skills on the Discord.
[0:36:06 – 0:36:07] Adam: I think it was Happalicious today.
[0:36:07 – 0:36:08] Adam: I’m going to show them.
[0:36:09 – 0:36:10] Erik: I’m making fun of the kid for being short.
[0:36:11 – 0:36:11] Erik: It’s like, yeah.
[0:36:12 – 0:36:13] Erik: I’m going to show them this year.
[0:36:13 – 0:36:14] Adam: This is the one.
[0:36:15 – 0:36:26] Adam: I’m going to get myself a big stick and some wire that I found on the beach and then tie on some porcupine liver to that and just pitch it into the Devil’s Trek River.
[0:36:26 – 0:36:27] Adam: I can’t lose.
[0:36:27 – 0:36:31] Erik: I think we’re just going to walk out into the shallows with a clubbing stick.
[0:36:32 – 0:36:33] SPEAKER_01: Forget the rod.
[0:36:33 – 0:36:33] SPEAKER_01: Smash it.
[0:36:34 – 0:36:36] Adam: Yeah, just smash.
[0:36:37 – 0:36:39] Adam: I think that’s probably the play, actually.
[0:36:39 – 0:36:42] Adam: Get them with the stick.
[0:36:42 – 0:36:44] Erik: Just get them when they’re trying to reproduce.
[0:36:44 – 0:36:45] Adam: What kind of lure is that?
[0:36:47 – 0:36:49] Adam: What, big stick?
[0:36:50 – 0:36:53] Adam: 16 seed, big stick, ooga booga.
[0:36:55 – 0:36:59] Adam: Men can’t even walk and stream and club fish anymore.
[0:36:59 – 0:37:02] Adam: Go ooga booga because woke.
[0:37:02 – 0:37:05] Adam: Must need lure.
[0:37:05 – 0:37:12] Adam: Oh, somehow Brad Pitt’s better than me because he can shadow cast.
[0:37:13 – 0:37:14] Erik: Well, he did have Tom Skerritt.
[0:37:16 – 0:37:17] Adam: To each their own.
[0:37:18 – 0:37:20] Adam: Well, anyways, that’s the end of Fishing Talk for the week.
[0:37:21 – 0:37:23] Adam: I’m going to have another sip of this.
[0:37:24 – 0:37:25] Adam: What is it?
[0:37:25 – 0:37:26] Adam: Giant’s Earth?
[0:37:26 – 0:37:28] Adam: Giants of the Earth.
[0:37:28 – 0:37:28] Adam: Delicious?
[0:37:29 – 0:37:29] Adam: Poison?
[0:37:31 – 0:37:32] Adam: Tell you what, buddy.
[0:37:32 – 0:37:36] Adam: If this is wrong, I don’t want to be right, Eric.
[0:37:36 – 0:37:38] Adam: Nobody’s saying it’s wrong.
[0:37:38 – 0:37:40] Erik: Except me.
[0:37:41 – 0:37:41] Adam: Poison.
[0:37:42 – 0:37:44] Adam: And probably a lot of doctors.
[0:37:46 – 0:37:46] Erik: What do they know?
[0:37:48 – 0:37:52] Adam: Nine out of ten doctors will tell you don’t go pulling all night around the side of the trail when you’re in your 40s.
[0:37:52 – 0:37:53] Adam: What do they know?
[0:37:53 – 0:37:53] Adam: Look at me.
[0:37:54 – 0:37:55] Adam: I’m thriving over here.
[0:37:55 – 0:37:57] Erik: It only took me three days to recover.
[0:37:57 – 0:37:59] Adam: Are you still feeling weird?
[0:37:59 – 0:38:00] Adam: I worked through it.
[0:38:01 – 0:38:02] Adam: I just worked through it.
[0:38:02 – 0:38:05] Adam: Wednesday was a little rough, but my soup turned out just fine.
[0:38:05 – 0:38:09] Adam: And Thursday was a little bit better.
[0:38:09 – 0:38:11] Adam: And then Friday, I had Friday off.
[0:38:12 – 0:38:13] Adam: I had to make a run down to the Twin Ports.
[0:38:14 – 0:38:18] Adam: But I came back with a whole truck full of salmon and syrup.
[0:38:18 – 0:38:19] Adam: So it was a pretty good run.
[0:38:20 – 0:38:22] Adam: And then today was Saturday, so I’m back off.
[0:38:22 – 0:38:24] Adam: So perfect timing, really.
[0:38:24 – 0:38:26] Adam: I don’t know.
[0:38:26 – 0:38:29] Adam: It would be great if I could take the whole week of the bear grease off.
[0:38:29 – 0:38:30] Adam: I just can’t make that happen this year.
[0:38:31 – 0:38:55] Adam: no yeah that’s fine maybe at some point in the future we can and we will we will once we find that helicopter then we’ll take the helicopter and follow the race doing that greg and bruce just needs a couple new rotors probably and maybe a new plastic carburetor it’ll be fine yeah we’ll be a regular uh greg and bruce out there on the trail on our team helicopter i’ll bring the pressure washer spray the blood off the windshield
[0:38:59 – 0:39:07] Adam: Yeah, get a nice boom mic and, you know, maybe one of them gyros for the camera.
[0:39:08 – 0:39:09] Adam: A gimbal?
[0:39:10 – 0:39:11] Adam: Yeah, we’ll gimbal them up.
[0:39:11 – 0:39:12] Adam: Gyro gimbal?
[0:39:12 – 0:39:16] Adam: Just fly down the trail, getting some really nice aerial footage of the teams.
[0:39:16 – 0:39:17] Erik: I’m sure they would love that.
[0:39:17 – 0:39:24] Adam: One of my favorite things about the dog sled racing is when they get the overhead camera views of the team just trotting down the trail.
[0:39:25 – 0:39:25] Erik: It’s nice.
[0:39:25 – 0:39:26] Adam: It is so nice.
[0:39:26 – 0:39:27] Erik: It is nice.
[0:39:28 – 0:39:34] Adam: So we got out there at midnight and found the derelict attorney sleeping on the side of the trail.
[0:39:36 – 0:39:42] Adam: And Eric got right to work, like, hooking up the camp stoves that we had stashed out there and getting corndogs going.
[0:39:42 – 0:39:45] Adam: And I worked on getting the signage out, which…
[0:39:47 – 0:39:49] Adam: They look pretty good, all things considered.
[0:39:49 – 0:39:51] Adam: That trail looked rough, though.
[0:39:51 – 0:39:51] Adam: Yeah.
[0:39:53 – 0:39:59] Erik: And it was kind of… Usually that’s a pretty okay spot on the trail.
[0:39:59 – 0:40:03] Adam: It’s a great spot because of the culvert in the little creek there.
[0:40:04 – 0:40:07] Adam: The snowmobile trail does temporarily divert up onto the road.
[0:40:09 – 0:40:29] Adam: right where we sit so it’s like perfect because they’re sort of forced to come up right next to us but there’s also just enough room for everybody to operate and there’s no crowding it’s honestly a perfect spot to watch the race um but yeah there was just like i mean we’re at like 60 couple inches of snow at the tumble shed right now and
[0:40:30 – 0:40:35] Adam: Didn’t look like they had gotten a whole lot more than that up there at Pronto.
[0:40:35 – 0:40:37] Adam: So, I mean, it just looked rough.
[0:40:37 – 0:40:41] Adam: Normally that snowmobile trail is like up at the same level of the road.
[0:40:41 – 0:40:47] Adam: But it was sunk down quite a bit and super rough and bumpy and sticks coming through it.
[0:40:47 – 0:40:48] Adam: And then you had the open water.
[0:40:49 – 0:40:53] Adam: Just that the road itself was just bare gravel because it’s March.
[0:40:54 – 0:41:00] Adam: And you’re not going to have this nice snow-covered, icy, dark road in March.
[0:41:00 – 0:41:01] Adam: You’re just not going to have it.
[0:41:01 – 0:41:10] Erik: Yeah, also like a medium to light-ish winter in terms of snow.
[0:41:11 – 0:41:14] Erik: And then also, yeah, like you said, it is also just March.
[0:41:14 – 0:41:15] Erik: You know, you get a high angle of sun.
[0:41:16 – 0:41:21] Erik: The snow is all, a little bit of snow melts every day regardless of what’s happening.
[0:41:22 – 0:41:26] Erik: Just because that sun gets up so high, if it comes out, it’s melting some snow.
[0:41:26 – 0:41:33] Adam: Yeah, the day before we got out there, it was hot and sunny the whole day, so we probably lost a couple inches off the base right there.
[0:41:33 – 0:41:37] Adam: And the veer-up section to the road was set earlier.
[0:41:38 – 0:41:48] Adam: Normally, it’s just a real quick little curve up onto the road and back down just right over the culvert, but they had to veer it up onto the road much sooner because of how rough and bumpy it was.
[0:41:48 – 0:41:49] Adam: Yeah.
[0:41:50 – 0:41:56] Adam: Yeah, they’re asking a lot of the runners to take their dog up and over gravel for that long.
[0:41:56 – 0:41:58] Adam: I don’t know how much of that was there out there, really.
[0:41:59 – 0:42:06] Adam: Was that a pretty common thing to be running into on the trail, or was that just a unique situation right there?
[0:42:07 – 0:42:08] Adam: I’m not really sure.
[0:42:09 – 0:42:17] Erik: Yeah, it’d be interesting to have asked any of the mushers how that stretch compared to the trail as a whole.
[0:42:18 – 0:42:22] Adam: Yeah, was that kind of common, or is that just an outlier this year?
[0:42:22 – 0:42:23] Erik: Was that a bad spot?
[0:42:23 – 0:42:26] Erik: Because, like, it’s a weird section of the trail.
[0:42:26 – 0:42:27] Adam: Where you got the plowed roads.
[0:42:27 – 0:42:30] Erik: Because, like, there’s cars that drive down it, too, kind of.
[0:42:30 – 0:42:35] Adam: Yeah, there’s, like, one house down there, and they’re the ones who, like, keep that road open like that.
[0:42:35 – 0:42:38] Adam: Because that is being done privately.
[0:42:38 – 0:42:39] Adam: Like, that’s not being done by the county.
[0:42:39 – 0:42:39] Adam: Yeah.
[0:42:40 – 0:42:41] Erik: But so there’s not as much snow to lose.
[0:42:42 – 0:42:45] Erik: You know, you’re always kind of – it’s like your driveway.
[0:42:45 – 0:42:51] Erik: It’s like, well, there’s snow on it, but like you get a couple of sunny days in a row, it’s going to be down to gravel pretty quick.
[0:42:52 – 0:42:57] Erik: And that whole road, that whole stretch for a while there was just straight gravel.
[0:42:57 – 0:42:58] Erik: And as we were walking back –
[0:42:59 – 0:43:18] Erik: abandoning our post there was multiple spots where you could just see like the little curlies the little plastic curlies that come off of runners or the bottoms of skis or anything like that’s running across rocks like that in the winter like damn
[0:43:19 – 0:43:21] Erik: They lost some plastic off of their runners there.
[0:43:21 – 0:43:22] Erik: You could see it.
[0:43:22 – 0:43:23] Adam: Yeah.
[0:43:24 – 0:43:27] Adam: So, like, half of them did get up on the road, and a couple of them never did.
[0:43:27 – 0:43:41] Adam: And it was kind of interesting to watch how the different teams handled this, like, unique and rough section of trail that is normally in a good year or normal year, just mint and easy to navigate.
[0:43:42 – 0:43:48] Adam: So that was a whole new twist as well, along with us just being out there in the middle of the night like that.
[0:43:49 – 0:43:53] Adam: The timing was all screwed up, but also by far the worst trail we’ve ever seen at Pronto.
[0:43:54 – 0:43:55] Adam: By far.
[0:43:55 – 0:44:02] Adam: But yeah, we had by that point gotten the Maurice Champagne going on the little mini speaker.
[0:44:02 – 0:44:04] Adam: We had the Christmas lights out.
[0:44:05 – 0:44:07] Adam: Got a nice fire going in the fire pit right away.
[0:44:07 – 0:44:09] Adam: We had stashed like a good amount of wood.
[0:44:09 – 0:44:13] Adam: And then, you know, more wood was brought out with us that night.
[0:44:14 – 0:44:15] Adam: So we had like plenty of firewood.
[0:44:16 – 0:44:18] Adam: We had a really nice bonfire going the whole time.
[0:44:18 – 0:44:19] Adam: The stars were out.
[0:44:19 – 0:44:21] Adam: We thought we saw maybe northern lights right away.
[0:44:23 – 0:44:26] Adam: Or is possibly the glow of Thunder Bay in the distance?
[0:44:26 – 0:44:27] Adam: I’m not sure what that was.
[0:44:27 – 0:44:28] Adam: It had to have been a city.
[0:44:28 – 0:44:36] Adam: I was kind of in the wrong direction to be Thunder Bay, but it also is like too bright to just be natural phenomenon, I thought.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:36] Adam: Yeah.
[0:44:36 – 0:44:38] Adam: There’s nothing else that really could have been.
[0:44:40 – 0:44:48] Adam: Maybe our compass was just a little off, but yeah, it was an interesting night sky for sure and very dark.
[0:44:49 – 0:44:53] Adam: There was a very small moon, but it had set as we were kind of like driving out there.
[0:44:54 – 0:44:54] Adam: Yeah.
[0:44:55 – 0:44:57] Adam: A couple of really good planets still there.
[0:44:58 – 0:45:01] Adam: They’re always in alignment, but we were able to still spy a couple of them.
[0:45:03 – 0:45:06] Adam: And we had estimated, like figured, we’d get out there by midnight.
[0:45:06 – 0:45:11] Adam: First team should be arriving about 1.15 was our kind of prediction.
[0:45:12 – 0:45:13] Adam: And it wasn’t too far off.
[0:45:14 – 0:45:15] Adam: Should we get into it?
[0:45:16 – 0:45:16] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:16 – 0:45:17] Erik: Are you ready?
[0:45:17 – 0:45:20] Erik: I mean, we’re at 45 minutes here, so yeah, I don’t know what else there is to do.
[0:45:21 – 0:45:26] Erik: I will just say I did appreciate middle of the night.
[0:45:28 – 0:45:34] Erik: Typical Bear Grylls experience is pretty cold.
[0:45:35 – 0:45:41] Erik: I don’t think we’ve ever experienced anything like life-threateningly cold.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:42] Adam: Nah.
[0:45:42 – 0:45:43] Erik: But cold.
[0:45:43 – 0:45:43] Erik: Cold.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:44] Erik: Yeah.
[0:45:44 – 0:45:47] Adam: But this one was like… Super balmy.
[0:45:47 – 0:45:48] Erik: I didn’t have gloves on.
[0:45:48 – 0:45:51] Erik: It just felt nice to not have to struggle with anything.
[0:45:51 – 0:45:56] Adam: Yeah, we had a good fire going, but like, yeah, I was just in my light coat and no gloves on.
[0:45:56 – 0:45:58] Adam: Yeah, just a hood up kind of.
[0:45:58 – 0:45:58] Adam: Yeah.
[0:45:59 – 0:46:01] Erik: It was just nice to feel like you were just kind of…
[0:46:02 – 0:46:05] Erik: At this point, too, in the winter, you’re just so seasoned to the cold.
[0:46:05 – 0:46:05] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:05 – 0:46:06] Erik: You’re like, oh, it’s 25.
[0:46:06 – 0:46:07] Erik: Yeah.
[0:46:07 – 0:46:10] Erik: I mean, I might as well have shorts on in the middle of the night.
[0:46:10 – 0:46:16] Adam: I did end up putting on the heavy Fall Raven at one point by like 4 a.m.
[0:46:16 – 0:46:18] Adam: I was like, I’m kind of getting a little chilled.
[0:46:18 – 0:46:21] Adam: Maybe the wind was starting to pick up just a little at that point.
[0:46:21 – 0:46:28] Erik: The wind did definitely pick up as the sun kind of came up, but then also, you know, you’ve been up for 40 hours straight.
[0:46:28 – 0:46:33] Erik: You’re just like, eh, I can’t really regulate my body temperature anymore, so I’m feeling cold.
[0:46:33 – 0:46:40] Erik: But in general, like, it just felt nice to be hanging out, comfortable, even though it was the middle of the night.
[0:46:40 – 0:46:42] Erik: That was one of my biggest takeaways is it was just like,
[0:46:42 – 0:46:43] Adam: This is just nice.
[0:46:43 – 0:46:47] Adam: The trail was the worst, but that was by far the nicest conditions we had.
[0:46:47 – 0:46:47] Adam: Yeah.
[0:46:47 – 0:46:52] Adam: Even though it was the middle of the night, like it was maybe 29, 30 degrees the whole time.
[0:46:52 – 0:46:54] Erik: It was pretty optimal.
[0:46:54 – 0:46:57] Adam: With almost zero wind while we were out there.
[0:46:57 – 0:47:01] Adam: As we say on Tumble Home, it was variable out of everywhere.
[0:47:01 – 0:47:01] Erik: Yeah.
[0:47:02 – 0:47:03] Erik: Variable out of everywhere.
[0:47:05 – 0:47:05] Adam: One.
[0:47:06 – 0:47:07] Adam: Well, I got the score sheet here.
[0:47:08 – 0:47:26] Adam: 1.26 a.m. Bib 16, Aaron Ailey, former champ and a former winner of the Golden Corndog Award in 2021, came through, and we rated her as road plus, handled it very nicely, and did take a beer.
[0:47:28 – 0:47:28] Erik: No dogs.
[0:47:30 – 0:47:30] Adam: Just beer.
[0:47:30 – 0:47:35] Adam: Yeah, didn’t want the dogs, just wanted the beer, and we did have corndogs ready for the record.
[0:47:35 – 0:47:36] Erik: No puppies, just the beer.
[0:47:37 – 0:47:40] Adam: And yeah, I took a beer though and just kept going.
[0:47:40 – 0:47:42] Adam: I barely slowed down, but just enough to get the beer.
[0:47:43 – 0:47:46] Adam: I’ll note too, I was like trying to like get pictures too.
[0:47:46 – 0:47:53] Adam: It’s almost impossible to get any pictures of a dog sled team or dogs in a race in good like daylight conditions.
[0:47:54 – 0:47:58] Adam: All my pictures I tried to take at the night were just complete nonsense.
[0:47:58 – 0:48:06] Adam: Other than a few nice pictures of us around the fire with some stars in the sky, most of my pictures were garbage from the whole night.
[0:48:07 – 0:48:08] Erik: Another downside to the night.
[0:48:08 – 0:48:08] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:08 – 0:48:12] Adam: Then I was looking back at Sarah’s pictures from 2023, and they’re so nice.
[0:48:13 – 0:48:18] Adam: There’s a big crowd there of people having fun, and you can see what’s going on.
[0:48:18 – 0:48:20] Adam: You can tell who the musher is as they’re approaching.
[0:48:20 – 0:48:26] Erik: I think I would prefer, in general, going forward, the daylight crossing.
[0:48:26 – 0:48:27] Adam: Yeah.
[0:48:27 – 0:48:36] Erik: But I am happy that we do have the midnight to 6 a.m. stretch of the hardcore.
[0:48:37 – 0:48:38] Erik: These guys are on sleds.
[0:48:39 – 0:48:39] Erik: I don’t know.
[0:48:39 – 0:48:40] Erik: They’re out here doing it.
[0:48:40 – 0:48:43] Adam: I don’t know how they’re all upright at that point in the race.
[0:48:43 – 0:48:45] Adam: That’s day three for them.
[0:48:45 – 0:48:49] Adam: It was rough just being out there for one night.
[0:48:50 – 0:48:50] Adam: I ain’t no musher.
[0:48:50 – 0:48:51] Adam: I’ll tell you that much.
[0:48:52 – 0:48:54] Adam: Me and Eric, we’re tough.
[0:48:54 – 0:48:55] Adam: We’re not that tough.
[0:48:56 – 0:48:56] Adam: Not anymore.
[0:48:56 – 0:48:57] Erik: Definitely not anymore.
[0:48:59 – 0:49:28] Adam: uh so yeah uh aaron eiley went by the winner 126 and the eventual winner for sure aaron ultimus they had left hold on i do have stats we’ll go backwards now so when we went out there we say we’re in the dark you know when we get out there i do have the ability to text on my phone now on the satellite but i wasn’t really getting i didn’t have nobody else is awake to be giving me tracker updates so i wasn’t like i wasn’t trying to get tracker updates on the phone
[0:49:29 – 0:49:35] Adam: I always just had that on every once in a while just in case or, you know, kind of giving updates backwards.
[0:49:35 – 0:49:41] Adam: But we did have the outtimes from Skyport.
[0:49:44 – 0:49:50] Adam: And Aaron Ailey left Skyport at 10.01 p.m. on Monday.
[0:49:50 – 0:49:55] Adam: And Aaron Altimus left at 10.14.
[0:49:56 – 0:50:00] Adam: And she had 11 dogs versus Aaron Ailey having 9 dogs.
[0:50:01 – 0:50:09] Adam: and they had roughly the same amount of rest required, still very close, and they only were leaving 13 minutes apart.
[0:50:09 – 0:50:17] Adam: I mean, we knew going out there that those two teams were going to be one and two more than likely, and that it was very close.
[0:50:18 – 0:50:24] Adam: And it honestly wouldn’t have surprised me to see, you know, Aaron Altomus come through first because they were that close.
[0:50:24 – 0:50:26] Adam: And it’s like a three-hour run up to Pronto.
[0:50:27 – 0:50:28] Adam: And anything can happen on that run.
[0:50:28 – 0:50:30] Adam: There’s some, you know, decent elevation in there.
[0:50:30 – 0:50:34] Adam: And it’s a long run in the middle of the night, and everybody’s tired.
[0:50:35 – 0:50:36] Adam: And you never know what’s going to happen out there.
[0:50:37 – 0:50:37] Adam: Anything can happen.
[0:50:38 – 0:50:42] Adam: So the gap was 13 minutes leaving Skyport.
[0:50:43 – 0:50:51] Adam: By the time we got to Pronto, it was 1.33 when Aaron Altimus went by, and so that was down to seven minutes.
[0:50:51 – 0:50:57] Adam: So she basically had cut the lead in half, but there’s only like an hour to go from us to Mineral Center, so…
[0:50:58 – 0:51:05] Adam: Didn’t see him from that time, you know, stamp that they were going to have enough time to catch her.
[0:51:05 – 0:51:14] Adam: And then, like, the rest factor remaining at Mineral Center was, you know, about even and slightly in favor of Eileen, so…
[0:51:15 – 0:51:16] Adam: Anyways, it didn’t really matter.
[0:51:16 – 0:51:26] Adam: Aaron Altomus got stuck in a ditch, and her dogs were kind of not having the road gravel, and they were just not listening.
[0:51:26 – 0:51:29] Erik: It was a rough stretch there for everybody.
[0:51:29 – 0:51:31] Erik: I don’t think I saw really anybody go through there seamlessly.
[0:51:31 – 0:51:32] Erik: Nobody had fun going through there.
[0:51:32 – 0:51:36] Adam: It was kind of rough, though, because we’re, I think, it’s no secret, we’re cheering for Erin Altomus.
[0:51:36 – 0:51:39] Adam: We want to see our neighbor finally win one.
[0:51:40 – 0:51:42] Adam: She’s been top five pretty much every year.
[0:51:42 – 0:51:42] Adam: She’s raced it.
[0:51:43 – 0:51:46] Adam: And they’re right across the road from the tumble shed, basically.
[0:51:46 – 0:51:50] Adam: And we, you know, same home trails as them up in the historic Musher District.
[0:51:51 – 0:51:52] Adam: And they’ve always been right there.
[0:51:53 – 0:51:56] Adam: And so every year I’m just like, well, maybe this is Erin Altomus’ year.
[0:51:56 – 0:51:57] Adam: But…
[0:51:57 – 0:52:11] Adam: Came through, and it was, like, clear that she was just still a little too far behind, and then she got, like, stuck in that damn ditch and, like, took out one of the signs that the groomer had hastily stuck there to indicate the open water, and…
[0:52:12 – 0:52:39] Adam: yeah just kind of was stuck just like out of reach from us but we could see the whole thing unfolding you know and it’s like every minute counts at this point in the race and nobody needs any extra delays there and then so she finally got it all started out and went by and was just like i don’t want a corn dog nothing and just went right past us yeah and uh yeah usually she stops and at least like take something but yeah it was like you know
[0:52:41 – 0:52:44] Adam: It was a rough section of trail, so no judgment.
[0:52:44 – 0:52:46] Erik: No, it probably would have been my move too.
[0:52:46 – 0:52:47] Adam: Get out of my way.
[0:52:47 – 0:52:49] Adam: I got to go and catch her.
[0:52:51 – 0:53:02] Adam: I did get a video of the musher’s banquet on Wednesday morning, and it’s a video of Aaron Altomus describing this scene and was able to be laughing about it actually.
[0:53:03 – 0:53:06] Adam: And it was just basically like, yeah, damn dogs were in the ditch.
[0:53:06 – 0:53:08] Adam: And I ran over a sign.
[0:53:08 – 0:53:12] Adam: And it just was, I said curse words about the trail.
[0:53:12 – 0:53:15] Adam: And then I get around that.
[0:53:15 – 0:53:18] Adam: And then here’s Josh with his dang corn dog stand.
[0:53:21 – 0:53:25] Adam: And like the whole room erupts with laughter on the video.
[0:53:26 – 0:53:36] Adam: So you can tell it’s not just like just the mushers who are now aware of the, you know, of the corndog and pronto pup stand that we have running there.
[0:53:36 – 0:53:40] Adam: Like that’s, you know, now part of the knowledge of the race.
[0:53:40 – 0:53:45] Adam: So yeah, that joke landed pretty good and got an applause and a laugh.
[0:53:45 – 0:53:49] Adam: So I was glad that she wasn’t still mad about the corndogs and then,
[0:53:50 – 0:54:12] Adam: she even said she’s like i didn’t take a corn dog but then i did apologize to josh when i saw him that i didn’t stop for a corn dog i was just mad to the finish ah josh was down there yeah and he did i guess run into her so anyways they can all laugh about it now and ended up like it probably none of it would have mattered really it was just um it was a very close race in the end between those two as much as the
[0:54:12 – 0:54:14] Adam: Yeah, the 2021 year was like minutes.
[0:54:14 – 0:54:18] Erik: Envelope of money that you almost foiled the victor.
[0:54:19 – 0:54:21] Adam: So we still stand.
[0:54:21 – 0:54:23] Adam: Our record’s impeccable.
[0:54:24 – 0:54:30] Adam: Yeah, first one through Pronto always wins, and it does help if you take a beer or a corndog, obviously.
[0:54:32 – 0:54:40] Adam: Jesse Terry, dear friend of Pronto, Jesse Terry, multiple appearances there now, came through about an hour after
[0:54:41 – 0:54:49] Adam: All that happened at about 2.30 and did get it into the road, it looks like here, according to this, and immediately threw down the snow hook.
[0:54:50 – 0:54:55] Adam: Jeeped him over back onto the main trail right by us there and then threw the snow hook and stopped him.
[0:54:56 – 0:55:03] Adam: And immediately took a corn dog out of my hand and then just started walking up and down his team and checking on the dogs.
[0:55:04 – 0:55:06] Adam: And I got to stand on Jesse Terry’s sled runner.
[0:55:07 – 0:55:30] Adam: and like hold the the handlebars and like make sure that snow hook didn’t come out on them and that was pretty cool and i did have my camera like in my hand at that point and could have had a really good opportunity to get a picture of jesse terry with his team at pronto and i was just like mesmerized and transfixed and never snapped a picture at that moment i just stood there enjoying my moment getting the stand on the sled and
[0:55:30 – 0:55:32] Adam: It’s kind of how it goes sometimes.
[0:55:32 – 0:55:33] Adam: Yeah, I was jangled.
[0:55:34 – 0:55:37] Adam: Jesse Terry seemed, frankly, jangled as well.
[0:55:38 – 0:55:39] Adam: We weren’t sure.
[0:55:39 – 0:55:44] Adam: They may have found somebody to help handle him, but they may have been mostly handling that race by themselves too.
[0:55:45 – 0:55:51] Adam: He seemed super tired out, but he was still in really chipper spirits and a really good mood.
[0:55:51 – 0:55:56] Adam: Josh did have the wherewithal, I think, or was it you, to ask, what are your lead dogs’ names?
[0:55:57 – 0:56:02] Adam: And he answered, he said, that’s Hans and Moonwatcher.
[0:56:02 – 0:56:03] Adam: Great names.
[0:56:03 – 0:56:05] Adam: Wow.
[0:56:06 – 0:56:08] Adam: Hans and Moonwatcher?
[0:56:08 – 0:56:11] Adam: And then he goes, also that little black one there, that’s Jitterbug.
[0:56:11 – 0:56:12] Adam: She’s great.
[0:56:12 – 0:56:15] Erik: She’s usually in lead, but she’s being naughty.
[0:56:15 – 0:56:16] Adam: Yeah, she was being naughty.
[0:56:16 – 0:56:23] Adam: So Jitterbug wasn’t in lead at the time, but those were the three dogs that Jesse Terry shouted out, which was great.
[0:56:24 – 0:56:25] Erik: Yeah, great names.
[0:56:25 – 0:56:26] Erik: Moonwatcher.
[0:56:27 – 0:56:47] Adam: yeah classic i wonder what that litter is uh themed after interesting uh fourth place uh sean mccarty came through at 3 13 so it wasn’t a whole another hour until sean came through got two corn dogs it says here and he got a ditch plus rating
[0:56:47 – 0:56:49] Erik: He definitely rode the ditch, I remember.
[0:56:49 – 0:56:50] Erik: I did well with it, I guess.
[0:56:50 – 0:56:53] Erik: I could hear him cursing out the team and the situation.
[0:56:53 – 0:56:58] Adam: I think you handed him the corndogs on that one and he immediately recognized you in the dark somehow and was like, thanks, Eric.
[0:57:00 – 0:57:07] Erik: We were talking about it because I used to work with Sean over at White Wilderness and I was like, I don’t know.
[0:57:08 – 0:57:09] Erik: It’s dark out here.
[0:57:09 – 0:57:10] Erik: It’s just all headlamps.
[0:57:10 – 0:57:11] Erik: How are you going to recognize anybody?
[0:57:11 – 0:57:15] Erik: It’s also been like 10 years since I’ve seen him talking about how it was like…
[0:57:15 – 0:57:17] Erik: As soon as he showed up.
[0:57:17 – 0:57:19] Adam: Peter did the same thing to you, though.
[0:57:19 – 0:57:20] Adam: It was like daylight.
[0:57:20 – 0:57:21] Adam: It was daylight.
[0:57:21 – 0:57:25] Erik: I was also still kind of in the way that I looked when I used to work there.
[0:57:25 – 0:57:27] Erik: Yeah, it was years ago.
[0:57:27 – 0:57:29] Erik: I’m kind of down to the mustache now.
[0:57:29 – 0:57:32] Erik: Look at the dapper out there.
[0:57:32 – 0:57:32] Erik: Headlamp.
[0:57:33 – 0:57:36] Erik: And I was just like, ah, he’s not going to recognize me, guys.
[0:57:36 – 0:57:37] Adam: Oh, he recognized you.
[0:57:37 – 0:57:39] Adam: And then immediately, hey, Eric, how’s it going?
[0:57:39 – 0:57:40] Adam: Yeah, it was funny as hell.
[0:57:41 – 0:57:41] Adam: Okay.
[0:57:41 – 0:57:42] Erik: Hey, Sean, how’s it going?
[0:57:44 – 0:57:45] Adam: Yeah.
[0:57:45 – 0:57:51] Adam: Fifth place, Bib 19, Mary Manning, a Hoveland hero, finally made it.
[0:57:51 – 0:57:57] Adam: Mary Manning, I think, has been in the race pretty much every year and has never made it to Pronto, always scratching beforehand.
[0:57:57 – 0:58:02] Adam: I mean, when we were there, she lives right down the road from Pronto.
[0:58:02 – 0:58:23] Erik: musher that lives closest to pronto pub lodge absolutely mary manning at least mushers that are in the race for sure there’s a lot of mushers up in that section but uh i mean in the five years i mean probably six seven eight years total but the actual five times we’ve done it yeah um i don’t know like
[0:58:25 – 0:58:35] Erik: What is the… At the end of the high school football season where they give out the award for most improved or whatever.
[0:58:35 – 0:58:36] Adam: Yeah.
[0:58:36 – 0:58:41] Erik: And not to subject her to such a…
[0:58:42 – 0:58:46] Erik: I don’t know, kind of a weird childish award.
[0:58:46 – 0:58:57] Erik: But in general, I feel like over the course of us following the race, to actually see her come through pronto is pretty cool.
[0:58:57 – 0:58:58] Erik: Team look great.
[0:58:58 – 0:59:02] Erik: Because it was always like in the first few years, like, ah, Mary Manning.
[0:59:02 – 0:59:04] Erik: Just in for having fun.
[0:59:04 – 0:59:04] Erik: She’s great.
[0:59:04 – 0:59:05] SPEAKER_01: But you’re not going to see her.
[0:59:06 – 0:59:06] Erik: Right.
[0:59:06 – 0:59:09] SPEAKER_01: She’s probably not even going to make it to like…
[0:59:10 – 0:59:31] Erik: skyport i don’t know she makes it to skyport i’m not gonna hang out long enough to see her come through for the red lantern right and now this last year i mean she’s cruising right along even yeah fifth place whatever like gotta be your best finish ever maybe your first finish ever honestly i have no idea but like the trajectory it’s like i don’t think she’s finished in like the whole time i’ve been paying attention in the race
[0:59:31 – 0:59:43] Erik: It’s a cool thing to see, and it’s not one of those things where, I don’t know, dog sledding, dogs, and dog sled training, that all takes, it’s not like your typical sport.
[0:59:44 – 0:59:49] Erik: I mean, it can be, I guess, if you want to throw all of the money in the world at it, sure.
[0:59:50 – 0:59:55] Erik: You can be like the Yankees and just buy a bunch of talent.
[0:59:55 – 0:59:58] Adam: Buy a bunch of dogs and buy a bunch of interns to train them for you.
[0:59:58 – 1:00:01] Erik: But most of the time, it takes a long time.
[1:00:01 – 1:00:01] Erik: Build it up.
[1:00:01 – 1:00:02] Adam: It takes years.
[1:00:02 – 1:00:02] Adam: Yeah.
[1:00:03 – 1:00:05] Erik: It takes a long time to be like…
[1:00:06 – 1:00:09] Erik: It’s slight progressions.
[1:00:10 – 1:00:11] Erik: And that’s one of the coolest things.
[1:00:11 – 1:00:21] Erik: It’s one of the things that I miss the most about dog sledding is the aspect of it that is as close to coaching as I feel like…
[1:00:23 – 1:00:24] Erik: I could even imagine.
[1:00:24 – 1:00:25] Erik: I’ve never coached humans.
[1:00:25 – 1:00:27] Erik: I’ve never coached a team.
[1:00:28 – 1:00:29] Erik: But like the…
[1:00:31 – 1:00:33] Erik: The running of dogs and the coaching of dogs.
[1:00:33 – 1:00:34] Erik: It’s not even a coaching thing.
[1:00:34 – 1:00:35] Erik: It’s just like knowing.
[1:00:36 – 1:00:39] Adam: And if you’ve ever run dogs enough… You’re not coaching them.
[1:00:39 – 1:00:40] Erik: You know…
[1:00:42 – 1:00:48] Erik: What dogs work good together, which dogs are going to be able to make this run, what dogs are going to be able to make that run.
[1:00:48 – 1:01:00] Erik: That’s like the most interesting and fun part about it is getting to work with the dogs and put together a team, assemble a team, and then hopefully, based on your training and their training, put together a good run.
[1:01:01 – 1:01:22] Erik: put together another good run and then all of a sudden you’re putting together a half marathon a full marathon and that doesn’t just happen in a season that takes four five ten years sometimes especially if you’re like mary manning is essentially like doing this all on her own like she doesn’t have a whole crew of people like helping her out at the kennel
[1:01:22 – 1:01:36] Erik: So to see her do what she’s doing now based on what it used to be like when you’d see her on the call sheet or whatever, and it would be like, well, good for her that she’s in it, but we probably won’t see her at pronto.
[1:01:36 – 1:01:40] Erik: And now she’s running through with a mostly complete team that looked great.
[1:01:41 – 1:01:41] Adam: They look great.
[1:01:42 – 1:01:43] Erik: That’s awesome.
[1:01:43 – 1:01:46] Adam: She got two corndogs and a beer, I think.
[1:01:46 – 1:01:47] Adam: She got a beer.
[1:01:48 – 1:01:50] Adam: That was 3.58 a.m.
[1:01:51 – 1:01:51] Adam: Still going strong.
[1:01:52 – 1:01:53] Adam: Top five.
[1:01:54 – 1:02:02] Adam: Soon thereafter, at 4.04 a.m., Clayton Perry, Katy Perry’s father.
[1:02:02 – 1:02:04] Erik: While we were talking, yeah, maybe.
[1:02:05 – 1:02:07] Adam: Came through real smooth.
[1:02:09 – 1:02:11] Adam: I can’t tell here what the grade was if it was ditch.
[1:02:11 – 1:02:14] Adam: Mary Manning was rated as a road runner.
[1:02:14 – 1:02:16] Erik: She was for sure on the road.
[1:02:16 – 1:02:19] Erik: It almost seemed like she knew exactly what to expect in that stretch.
[1:02:19 – 1:02:23] Adam: Yeah, it’s like she lives right down the road from that culvert.
[1:02:23 – 1:02:25] Erik: She was like on the in-between.
[1:02:25 – 1:02:27] Erik: She like rode the berm somehow.
[1:02:27 – 1:02:29] Adam: Yeah, she was in the berm.
[1:02:29 – 1:02:58] Adam: I was like oh that’s actually how you’re supposed to do it that’s why you don’t put your signage in the berm yeah so she did great I don’t know I think Clayton Perry was I can’t tell at all what my mark here means so who knows but he did get two corndogs but he didn’t really slow down that was like a real handoff and he was just through because it was like we were just Mary Manning had just come through and that was exciting and then it was like six minutes later
[1:02:59 – 1:03:01] Adam: It was too fast back-to-back, so I don’t know.
[1:03:01 – 1:03:09] Adam: I didn’t get a lot of notes on Clayton Perry, and we don’t really know anything about him because he had no musher bio available on the website.
[1:03:10 – 1:03:13] Adam: But whatever, finished too.
[1:03:13 – 1:03:15] Adam: Top six, Clayton Perry.
[1:03:15 – 1:03:16] Adam: Watch out.
[1:03:17 – 1:03:33] Adam: uh then it was a bit of a break and then we had 431 nathan schroeder came through four-time champ multiple years of coming through pronto he knows the drill he got two corndogs and it just says one beer but i do feel like he got multiple beers too
[1:03:33 – 1:03:33] Erik: Oh, yeah.
[1:03:34 – 1:03:35] Erik: He asked for a second beer.
[1:03:35 – 1:03:41] Adam: Yeah, he stopped after and got more supplies for that last hour run into Mineral Center.
[1:03:43 – 1:04:00] Adam: Always fun to see Nathan, and it was odd to see him not being at the front, but somebody had said that, wow, it just seemed like he’s really relaxed and enjoying himself in this race, and he really did seem to be having the most fun of anybody that we saw that night.
[1:04:00 – 1:04:03] Erik: Yeah, sometimes that’s… And he went right through the dam.
[1:04:04 – 1:04:05] Erik: He went right through the open water, I think.
[1:04:06 – 1:04:07] Erik: I have no idea what he did.
[1:04:07 – 1:04:08] Erik: He just all of a sudden appeared.
[1:04:08 – 1:04:16] Adam: He was definitely bumping through the ditch, and then I believe just went right through the open water, but did it smoothly and didn’t really have any issues.
[1:04:16 – 1:04:17] Adam: He just went right through there.
[1:04:19 – 1:04:20] Adam: So there you go.
[1:04:20 – 1:04:22] Adam: That’s a sign of a pro right there for…
[1:04:22 – 1:04:25] Adam: 4.31 a.m., still very dark at this point.
[1:04:25 – 1:04:29] Adam: And then that was another one where it was like two mushers back-to-back like that.
[1:04:30 – 1:04:42] Adam: Two minutes later, Colleen Wallen, who is the only musher who’s been to Pronto all five years we’ve had it open as a hospitality stop, the only musher now left that has been there every year.
[1:04:43 – 1:04:44] Adam: The Freckings usually go.
[1:04:44 – 1:04:48] Adam: Yeah, there’s just no Ryan Anderson this year, so…
[1:04:48 – 1:04:54] Adam: Colleen Wallen came through and she got the first of the experimental kebab mini corndogs.
[1:04:54 – 1:04:58] Adam: You had a stack with six or seven mini corndogs on there.
[1:04:59 – 1:05:06] Adam: She was expressing love, gratitude, and also marriage proposals to the entirety of our camp as she went by.
[1:05:06 – 1:05:08] Erik: She’s always great when she comes through.
[1:05:08 – 1:05:11] Adam: She’s a real joy and a ray of sunshine even in the middle of the night.
[1:05:12 – 1:05:21] Adam: And then, yeah, we thought Rhonda Hirschkamps was going to be coming with that group in that series of three, but we never did see the 13 bib.
[1:05:21 – 1:05:22] Adam: She didn’t finish either.
[1:05:22 – 1:05:25] Adam: She had scratched at Skyport, yeah.
[1:05:25 – 1:05:31] Adam: And then I have a little marker here indicating that the sun came up or whatever that was that we saw.
[1:05:31 – 1:05:32] Erik: Yeah, whatever that was.
[1:05:32 – 1:05:34] Adam: We missed out on a couple.
[1:05:35 – 1:05:37] Adam: David Burge.
[1:05:37 – 1:05:38] Erik: Missed out on him by about an hour.
[1:05:39 – 1:05:43] Adam: Well, apparently he got a beer from Josh after we left.
[1:05:43 – 1:05:45] Erik: Wow, it was even closer.
[1:05:45 – 1:05:47] Adam: So we just missed him by like a matter of minutes, actually.
[1:05:47 – 1:05:49] Adam: I was so mad when I heard this.
[1:05:49 – 1:05:52] Adam: So we finally left at, I don’t know, 8.30 or 9.
[1:05:52 – 1:05:56] Adam: We finally started packing up and leaving, and we got to the truck and loaded up and like…
[1:05:56 – 1:06:22] Adam: josh was messing around and we got in the truck and left and bid him adieu and uh i guess as soon as like we left and went down the trail then here they came like we missed him by like two minutes i guess and josh was still out like packing his truck and managed to like grab a beer and get it to the the the saw billy david burge nice who did finish uh on his rookie run uh bit before so congratulations
[1:06:23 – 1:06:25] Adam: Alice White did get through and finish.
[1:06:25 – 1:06:26] Adam: We just missed her.
[1:06:27 – 1:06:30] Adam: And Mary England, I believe, got the Red Lantern.
[1:06:31 – 1:06:33] Adam: And we did not see Mary England.
[1:06:34 – 1:06:36] Adam: Morgan Martins, the young kid.
[1:06:37 – 1:06:39] Adam: Did you see what happened on the tracker?
[1:06:39 – 1:06:41] Erik: All of a sudden, the tracker was at Pronto.
[1:06:41 – 1:06:44] Adam: It just looked like he was stopped at Pronto for like an hour.
[1:06:44 – 1:06:50] Adam: And a couple people, when I got home and took a nap and woke up, had texted me like, you guys hanging out with Morgan Martins?
[1:06:50 – 1:06:51] Adam: Yeah.
[1:06:51 – 1:07:10] Adam: yeah for like an hour i was like a young kid all riled up yeah he had like 12 corn dogs yeah uh no we never saw him and i did go back and like watch the replay and it looks like he’s running fine and then like before the uh road crossing like slowed down and got passed by a
[1:07:12 – 1:07:20] Adam: And then like really slowed down and like kind of crawled over to Pronto or where Pronto had been and then did sort of stop there.
[1:07:20 – 1:07:29] Adam: But then it appeared like the tracker was like walking down the trail for a while and then stopped and then sort of came back and like walked all the way back to the road crossing.
[1:07:30 – 1:07:33] Adam: But yeah, for a while, it looked like the trackers was parked at pronto.
[1:07:33 – 1:07:35] Adam: We never did see the kid.
[1:07:35 – 1:07:41] Adam: I haven’t figured out or heard anything as far as why he scratched, but he didn’t end up finishing, unfortunately.
[1:07:42 – 1:07:45] Adam: He was having a pretty good race, and it looked like he was going to finish.
[1:07:46 – 1:07:51] Adam: That’s the entirety of who was left in the race as of when we had gone out there.
[1:07:51 – 1:07:55] Adam: There’s some other scratches, but we knew there were scratches when we departed.
[1:07:56 – 1:07:57] Adam: We got it.
[1:07:57 – 1:07:59] Erik: Yeah, we got it.
[1:08:01 – 1:08:04] Adam: So eight teams in…
[1:08:05 – 1:08:09] Adam: Between 1.30, essentially, and 4.30 a.m.
[1:08:09 – 1:08:17] Adam: There was a three-hour window where we had eight teams, and then we kind of sat there from 4.30 till 9 with nothing.
[1:08:17 – 1:08:18] SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
[1:08:18 – 1:08:27] Adam: That was, like I said, that was kind of bleak, watching the sun sort of rise and just growing more and more weary with every minute.
[1:08:28 – 1:08:33] Adam: It was hard to stay much longer than we did, but I am a little mad that we did miss out on a couple minutes
[1:08:33 – 1:08:36] Adam: Presumably by minutes, but at least Josh got him a beer.
[1:08:36 – 1:08:41] Adam: So congratulations to everybody that finished, and it was a hell of a race.
[1:08:42 – 1:08:45] Adam: I have one more thing to add, and then I think it’s time for us to get out.
[1:08:45 – 1:08:50] Adam: I saw at the finish line Aaron Ailey came through, won her second championships.
[1:08:50 – 1:08:53] Adam: Congratulations to Aaron Ailey.
[1:08:53 – 1:08:59] Adam: Multiple-time Golden Pronto winner and multiple Bear Grease champion marathon sled dog race.
[1:09:00 – 1:09:02] Adam: Quattro, quattro.
[1:09:04 – 1:09:06] Adam: At the finish, they always give out, I don’t know what you would call this.
[1:09:06 – 1:09:09] Adam: I said it’s like a floral wreath.
[1:09:10 – 1:09:12] Adam: Is it a necklace?
[1:09:12 – 1:09:14] Erik: You kind of put it on horses at races, don’t you?
[1:09:14 – 1:09:15] Adam: Yeah, I don’t know what.
[1:09:15 – 1:09:17] Adam: There’s a name for this wreath that you put on animals.
[1:09:19 – 1:09:20] Erik: Yeah, the neck wreath.
[1:09:20 – 1:09:33] Adam: But I don’t know what it is, but it’s like a floral, beautiful piece of artwork that is given out at the Grand Portage finish line to the Frank Bishop Lead Dog Award.
[1:09:34 – 1:09:39] Adam: And that went to Aaron’s dog, Juliet, who is in lead as they cross the finish line.
[1:09:39 – 1:09:40] Adam: Juliet.
[1:09:40 – 1:09:48] Adam: And Juliet did look very, very pleased with herself upon receiving the floral dog wreath.
[1:09:49 – 1:10:15] Adam: so i want one honestly i wish i could win a lead dog award because they’re incredible just put one on after you get out of the shower walk out into the kitchen in front of your family just strutting what the heck what is going on i’m the lead dog i’m the lead dog now and i smell great i do so anyways shout out to aaron eiley uh yeah it was a hell of a race and uh
[1:10:15 – 1:10:35] Adam: they look great you know those two teams at the top were very evenly matched but it was a great race and uh yeah the 40th running of the bear grease so it’s in the books and uh you know there’s always a couple days after those where i’m like i can’t ever do this again i’m so tired like what am i doing yeah
[1:10:35 – 1:10:36] Adam: This is crazy.
[1:10:36 – 1:10:42] Adam: What a crazy way to spend a couple days in the middle of winter, but that’s what makes it so great.
[1:10:42 – 1:10:58] Adam: It’s the middle of winter, and it only comes once a year, and it’s always fun just to, no matter what is happening in the race, that you know that you can count on this small group of friends to appear around the campfire,
[1:10:58 – 1:11:20] Adam: when the race reaches pronto whenever that will be yeah so um i don’t know you know if i can pull another all-nighter maybe we do have to relocate next year but i’m glad we stuck with it for the fifth uh running of the pronto and then we did see some great teams in there even though we were mostly blinded by headlamps and sleep deprivation and pure janglement eric
[1:11:21 – 1:11:22] Erik: Yeah, just mostly darkness.
[1:11:22 – 1:11:23] Erik: I don’t know.
[1:11:23 – 1:11:28] Erik: I felt like I was pretty sharp the whole time, right up until about the time that the sun came up.
[1:11:28 – 1:11:30] Adam: Yeah, once the sun came up, that’s when I really…
[1:11:37 – 1:11:43] Adam: It was that phase change in the morning where I started to just also just degrade very quickly.
[1:11:43 – 1:11:43] Adam: Yeah.
[1:11:43 – 1:11:44] Erik: Yeah.
[1:11:44 – 1:11:51] Erik: I’m not sure if it would be like healthy for you to just keep sitting in the dark and feeling like you’re good to go forever.
[1:11:51 – 1:11:58] Erik: But yeah, there’s a precipitous drop in excitement and overall energy when the sun comes up, which, you know.
[1:11:59 – 1:12:07] Erik: Tracks back to my old high school and college days when you’d pull the all-nighters and you get to that point where you’re like looking at each other.
[1:12:08 – 1:12:09] Erik: The robins start chirping.
[1:12:09 – 1:12:10] Erik: Yeah.
[1:12:10 – 1:12:10] Erik: The light.
[1:12:11 – 1:12:13] Adam: You’re like, wait, is that getting light?
[1:12:13 – 1:12:14] Erik: Is it getting light out?
[1:12:15 – 1:12:19] Erik: All of a sudden, that fatigue just kind of slaps you in the face just out of nowhere.
[1:12:21 – 1:12:28] Adam: Me and Josh went out onto the lake like, I don’t know, 8 in the morning.
[1:12:28 – 1:12:30] Adam: Just like, I got to walk back there and check it out.
[1:12:31 – 1:12:36] Adam: And there was like these wolf tracks just going along the edge of the shoreline in the lake.
[1:12:37 – 1:12:37] Adam: It looked pretty fresh.
[1:12:38 – 1:12:40] Adam: I was like, I wonder when that thing went by.
[1:12:40 – 1:12:40] Adam: That was crazy.
[1:12:41 – 1:12:41] Adam: Yeah.
[1:12:41 – 1:12:43] Adam: So, anyways, really good race.
[1:12:43 – 1:12:47] Adam: Thanks to everybody who came out, all three of you and all the racers.
[1:12:48 – 1:12:49] Adam: Yeah.
[1:12:49 – 1:12:50] Adam: Yeah, it was awesome.
[1:12:50 – 1:12:53] Adam: And we’ll do it again next year in some form.
[1:12:53 – 1:12:53] Adam: For sure.
[1:12:53 – 1:12:54] Adam: I think we’ll leave it there.
[1:12:54 – 1:12:57] Adam: Episode 282 of Tomahoma, a proud independent podcast.
[1:12:58 – 1:13:02] Adam: As we always say in Tomahoma, ha, NG, and on high.
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[1:13:40 – 1:13:41] SPEAKER_04: Thank you.
[1:13:55 – 1:13:59] SPEAKER_04: Water, did you say that?
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[1:14:46 – 1:14:49] SPEAKER_04: We’ll be right back.