Shaun Newman Podcast - Ep. #174 - Brady Rach

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

Brady is a biking enthusiast who on May 14th will be going from Lloydminster to Edmonton in 9ish hours. He is raising money for heart & stroke foundation and we get into why this means so much to him & how he got into biking.    Let me know what you think Text me 587-217-8500

This is Glenn Healing. Hi, this is Braden Holby. This is Daryl Sutterin. Hi, this is Brian Burke. This is Jordan Tutu. This is Keith Morrison. This is Kelly Rudy. Hi, this is Scott Hartnell.

Hey, everybody. My name is Steele-Ferre. This is Tim McAuliffe of Sportsnet, and you're listening to the Sean Newman podcast. Welcome to the podcast, folks. Happy Hump Day. Happy Wednesday. We had a little change in plans. Today was supposed to be an SMP archive episode.

I've pushed it to Friday. So we'll get that out Friday to you guys. Today is, well, the guest is biking Friday. So I wanted to give you guys a little bit of extra time. So if you want to pay attention on Friday to when he is biking and see how he makes out on his journey from Lloyd to Eminton, that way you kind of get, you know, that way you get a little bit of a heads up so you know what's going on.

Now, his goal is to raise $1,000 for Heart and Stroke Foundation by riding his bike 220 kilometers from Eminton to Lloyd Minster and under 10 hours. He'll be carrying this ride and loving memory of his uncle Al, who recently passed away from his second heart attack. Also memory of his grandma, Rock, who succumbed from lasting effects of her stroke in 2020. He wants to, you know, take the time to thank everyone who has encouraged him and supported him in the past. And to thank everyone who will be supporting him through this event. He says, making a positive change in life can start by something as simple as choosing healthier food options or adding a 15-minute walk into your daily routine.

He's truly inspired when I see people when he's. sees people. He loves making positive changes to their lives. The best way to predict your future is to create it. So that's from Brady. He's got set a goal of a thousand as I sit here right now. He's already hit his goal. So let's see if we can help

him out and showing some love. I'm excited for you guys to hear this and I'm excited to see how he does. You know, we're starting our own little bike track which you're going to hear a little bit about June 4th, 6th doing some good for the community and anytime there's a guy who's

putting himself out there trying to do some good for, you know, some people and for a cause that's near and dear to them. I think it's cool to fan that flame and I hope that's, hopefully that's what I did here. Anyways, I won't babble on anymore. Let's get to the T-Bar-1 tale of the tape. Originally from Macklin, Saskatchewan, he's a Jeremy Milder, a biking enthusiast and is attempting Lloyd Minster to Eminton in under 10 hours. I'm talking about Brady Rock. So buckle up. Here we go. This is Brady Rock. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. Well, welcome to the Sean Newman podcast today. I'm joined by Brady Rock. I was about to say Brady Ratch and fuck it up. But thanks, sir, for hopping in here. Yeah, thanks for having me. I'm excited.

Now, I brought you in because I, you know, in the process of like starting what's on the board over there, the bike trip we're about to attempt, accomplish, whatever we want to say here in June, I was walking around talking about a few different. people and one of their versions was kind of like actually there's another guy biking i think it's lloydibbitton i'm like oh do tell me more and we started talking about it and uh it led me down this rabbit hole and and now you're here so brady first off just give the listeners a little background on on you maybe there's some people who know exactly who you are but other than being a boy from mackland saskatchewan who is not a hockey player uh what else should the listeners uh know about you oh not a lot Like, I'm a pretty basic guy. Like compared to some of your other guests, I feel like I'm just a regular civilian.

But, yeah, I'm from a small town. I married my high school sweetheart. I work here in Lloyd at T&T, tank trailer. I'm a B620 tank inspector and vessel inspector, and I'm a welder. So I have a little bit of a background in personal training. You know, I like to stay active. It's a pretty normal guy. Yeah, a pretty normal guy that's still doing, I don't know.

I think it's cool what you're, what you're, what your boat to do, right? Like, bike him from, I guess I could say what he's going to do. He's biking from Lloyd Tammington to raise some money for heart and stroke. Yep, heart and stroke. You bet. And I don't know. You could just be, you call it a regular guy.

I call myself a regular guy too, right? Like, I'm just, I'm just Sean now, man. I just go about my daily business, working the oil patch like everybody else, and get up at 6 in the morning and have a coffee with people and try and chat about things. but you know, I don't know, it might seem small to you to bike from Lloyd Tammonton because certain people bike from all over the place, right? But for somebody who's never biked, you know, 5, 10K, that'll seem like a pretty monumental task.

And I don't know, I just think, I wonder where it sends you in life by doing something like this because once you accomplish this, as we all know, you're going to want a little more. And that's how it goes every time. start with a 50. Last year I did 100K and yeah, it was hard and challenging and it just was so rewarding when I was done. I just had to keep going.

So, I'm at now. So when you do 100K, are you like balls to the wall as hard as you can go? Oh, yeah. I pedal downhill. I try and stop like the least amount I can just to fill water, grab a snack from my backpack and keep going. Like I don't really make it a leisurely thing. I make it a challenge.

myself so yeah well that's where you know um you were talking that you'd listen to bike in canada that's the one thing we met people of your makeup going across canada that were like trying to do like 200 and i don't know 50k a day and they just wanted it over and we and we were doing you know it's quite a least a leisurely 110 120k a day just kind of like tootling along and i call tootling along at like 20k an hour i mean you still got to bike it but i just Just, I don't know, it was a tour. And you're essentially about to race to Eminton then, is what you're saying. Yes, yeah.

I want to, like, at first I thought I wanted to do it in 10 hours. I don't want to aim for more like nine hours. Google Maps says it should be a little over 11. So, yeah, I'm going to really try and push myself. And that's, I think that's like when people, I'm biking, they're just like, oh, well, biking's easy. That's awesome. Well, like, I'm trying to make this like an, like, full exercise.

Like, I'm trying to push myself. and do continuous, like work myself continuously for the full nine hours or ten hours. So that's the challenge I want to put on myself. Who the hell is telling you it's easy? There's so many people. There's so many people who appreciated who have got on a bike and actually done it. But first thing people say, like when you start saying you're biking, well, I heard biking's pretty easy. And it's like, well, I'd like to take those people on a bike and just go for 20K.

you know, it's pretty tough when you're doing it for exercise. I don't think anyone who says that has ever been on a bike and felt their ass want to fall off after hour one, let alone hour nine of going as hard as you can. Yeah, big time. And just being by yourself too. Like, that's another challenge. Yeah, mental part of that.

Yeah, big time. But it's just funny because some people are like, well, I took my bike to work the other day. It wasn't too bad. Like, well, I mean, good for you. Like, that's awesome that you're getting on moving, but it's quite the challenge. especially like so when you biked across canada like how did what did you do for recovery like

you did sound like you guys just kind of went and you stayed in a hotel room and slept like i'm taking ice baths i'm stretching i'm getting a theragon from my wife like like listen i don't know how to explain this right like jim taylor from from grinding gears was explaining all these different intricacies of bikes and blah blah blah and i said jim just give me a bike i'm just going to go bike. Okay? Like, well, I mean, fix my bike. I'm going to go bike. And he's talking about pedal size and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I said, Jim, I don't

care. Just put me on a bike. I'm just going to go bike. When we bike Canada, we were naive, we were green, we were dumb. There wasn't no talk about recovery. There wasn't no talk about nutrition. You know, on this bike trip with the nine people and just hearing you say it, everyone's like,

well, what are we going to eat? I'm like, we're going to stop at a grocery store, we're going to get some food. We're going to 48 hours. I don't want to hear about nutrition. I just want to go do it. To me, it's like you can overthink all these little things. And saying that, you can also wreck yourself.

And like, listen, I don't know. When we were biking, no, there was, we ate tuna out of a can. Okay? The flavored tuna, because you got, you got tired of everything else, and you rip the top off, turn it into a scoop, and you just eat it out of the can on the side of the road. I don't know. It was, we just figured it out as we went.

Yeah. But things have changed immensely, like immensely with anything to do with sporting, exactly what you're talking about. Like, there's just so many different avenues to make sure your body's at peak performance. Yeah, big time. And like when I biked home, well, I biked to Macklin last year, I said I did 100K. It was the same thing. I kind of just flew by the seat of my pants. For about two and a half months, I just went out on my bike, peddled as hard as I could until I couldn't go, went home, slept, tried to stretch a little bit.

I wasn't like I was kind of playing around with my diet a bit and how much water to bring but like this time I'm a lot more prepared. You're dialed and in. Yeah my getting my recovery done like two days after my bike my legs aren't really that sore like they're a bit sore. This weekend I biked a 160 kilometer bike ride. I did my first century to vermillion and yeah like I had my backpack was stuffed right full of stuff like I had carbohydrates and I had just enough water and snacks and I'm learning when to take breaks and you know it's. It's way different. I feel like I should be asking you for advice then because I'm always been, don't overthink it. Just get on the bike and ride.

Oh yeah, and I'm a trial on air guy myself. Like I'll go out and I'll do a 40K and I'll be like, hmm, well, I didn't really have that much energy this time. Maybe this time I'll bring this kind of snack or... So what's one of the things that you found has helped the most then? I would say just getting the right amount of carbohydrates. Like I was always just drinking water and now I take a carburember. carbohydrate powder drink or I take some of the gel packs along.

And surprisingly, for food-wise, a peanut butter and jam sandwich, I can't find any better energy. Like, I pack three of those and I usually plow through about two and a half of them before the end of my bike. And I can just feel it getting back on my bike. I get that sugar bump and I get the insulin spike in my legs and the lactic acid goes down and I just, I can fly after that. No kidding.

Yeah. That's been my best thing. You sound like Mikey Dubbs talking. That's exactly what I feel like. Because Mike always, when he gets in here and he starts talking, well, he's already been bugging me. Him and Ross Thompson want to bike from Saskatoon back with us. So they want to like, you know, what does Mike say? He wants to encourage everybody.

He doesn't want to worry about pushing anyone. He just wants to help him get on their bike and encourage them to keep biking and whatever. And I'm like, oh, that's awesome, right? And he's like, I got all these things for you guys. You guys can stay healthy and nutritious. And I'm going, uh-huh. Uh-huh. I don't know.

I guess I look at 100 kilometers a little differently than most people, but that's obviously because I've done it before, and I just, is it going to hurt? Yeah, it's going to hurt a little bit, but I'm looking forward to the pain. Like, bring the pain on, like, too much of life these days is, I don't know, Netflix and chill, and that's fine too, but I could use a little bit of hurt in my days. Yeah, it kind of makes you feel alive as well. Like, even this weekend when I was biking, I was, like the wind was at my back a lot of the time, and it was freaking gusty out.

And I was going down a hill for probably like, I don't know, two or three K. And I was like, well, you know, I got to just turn around. I got a bike against the wind up the hill. I had to challenge myself because I'm going to be doing a 220 kilometer bike ride. And if it's easy like this the week before, like, I don't know, it just makes me feel alive. I bike into the wind.

I scream like a crazy man. I'd turn up my music. It just feels good. I've been saying I read a, oh, God, or maybe I watched a thing on Netflix. I beg on. Netflix and chill, but I think it was a Netflix documentary on a soccer team in Europe. And they were like the lowest seed and they got to draw. And I don't know all the inner workings of soccer.

So I don't think my audience, nobody, none of you guys care about soccer either. But anyways, it was a cool story because they were low seed and they, and they get drawn to who they play. And so the coach built them up and said, we're going to play the best team in the world. And you watch and that's what we're going to prepare for. It was Manchester United. And they drew Manchester United But instead of being deflated Because they walk in

And now they got to play the best team Everybody's fucking psyched Because they'd been preparing We're getting the best And then they went and beat the best And ended up winning the fucking thing And I'm like When it comes to biking

You got to pray You gotta prepare and pray Like I'm getting the worst headwind ever Bring it on Let's do this And then if you get anything better than that You were already pissed off Because you wanted the worst right

Everybody keeps saying What if we get to be a rainy day. Oh, fuck, love biking in the rain. Bring it on. Oh, I love it. I seriously love it. And I feel like you go a little bit faster as well. You do. Well, less friction on the tires, right? Like, I hate, you know,

I'm not the, uh, I've done one partial triathlon in my life. Showed up in board shorts to swim, right? Like, maybe not the smartest thing. And they talked about drag and I was like drag. I'm swimming around a pool a couple of times. It'd be fine. Almost drowned. That was tough. Look at my body size. I'm not built for swimming.

But you understand when you do things, when you bike to work, mountain bike is just fine. Like, it's not a big deal. When you bike 200 and some K, every little thing does help, right? Especially when you're doing it for speed. So like, what you wear is going to matter.

What probably you fuel yourself is, as much as I go, it's not that big a deal. It's going to matter. What type of bike you have certainly matters. And if you get rain, that little bit of moisture just causes, less friction or whatever on the tires and you can feel it like absolutely gliding yeah well there's

no no restriction or no friction to slow you down or something like that mm-hmm it's funny if you actually saw my bike you'd probably laugh like I don't got a two thousand dollar bike I don't have an expensive bike with drop down handlebars I have a hybrid bike it's got skinny tires on it and I bought clip-in pedals this time this year for the first time so that's helped a lot what did you what did you think of the clip-in tires oh I wiped don't so many times. The last two rides I did were the only times I didn't wipe out, but it's almost impossible to bike through town. If you're got to stop at a light or something, I just wipe out. Like, I wreck my bike. I think I was doing a hundred kilometer bike ride, maybe four weeks ago,

and I stopped by the kid Scotty corner there, and I hit a bump trying to slow down to take a break. I packed out and I jam my shifter up against my tire and oh, yeah, it's tough. It's a weird feeling to be clipped in like that. Yet once again all the little things all that little extra energy you lose if you're not clipped in. Did you notice that when you first start? I definitely did yeah. Going up hills, being able to have that upstroke is a life changer. So I've been biking training for this bike and I wrecked my clip in shoes like a long, well, I never got a new set. So you can imagine what 15 year old shoes look like. They weren't in an exactly great condition. Well, I've been biking in my running shoes and I'm like,

Frick, this sucks because you can feel it. Once you've had it, even though you're not worried about packing out, which I don't have to worry about that. But you lose all the energy and you're like... Yeah, it kind of makes you feel like mechanical with the bike. Like, even if your knees out to one side, like you're still

getting that like nice stroke as compared to a pedal where your feet come off the pedals or you're only pushing down. That's different. Now I've got to go back to your bike. What type of bike So you got just, where did you get it from? So maybe about four years ago I bought it from Sport Check. It was a $500 or $600 bike.

It's a hybrid bike. It's kind of like a mountain slash road bike. And it's got thin tires on it, but it's got 21 gears. It's when people see what I'm riding on, it's laughable really. Like for the distance that I'm traveling, like I need to get a new bike. And I was planning on buying one this year, but bikes are so damn expensive right now. So I thought I'd retrofit this bike. to a road bike so I bought drop-down handles I bought the brake pad or the brake handlebars with the shifters in them and I bought a different

I don't know handlebar stem like and my bike just wasn't able to be transitioned to a road cycle because it wasn't built for that so I had to return five hundred dollars worth of parts maybe and I ended up just welding a bar on the front so I could rest my elbows and it just it looks pretty funny but it works does the trick That might be the most painful thing about your entire story, and people probably won't realize that unless they bike a lot. But that's super cool. Yeah. You know, you talk about nutrition and getting the right clipping pedals

and all the things to make sure you're fastest and you've got a bike that... Yeah, it's not suited for what I'm doing, that's for sure. You realize you get... And I could be wrong. Some expert biker will tell me different, but you realize you get like a full-on touring bike or a full-on bike that's set up to do what you're doing, like a road bike, you'll probably be even faster, like immediately.

Can you say that again for my wife just so she can hear? Well, happily, I bought my bike well before I ever met my wife, so she never had to see that bill come across. Although, you know what, I shouldn't say it. You know, we spend in today's age, this is specifically to your wife, We spend money on silly things all the time. And if you're going to use, think about, so I spent $2,000 on a bike, and I remember being 19, 20, and going like, I don't know why I'm spending this much money.

But here I am 15 years later, and this bike that somebody, my son said to me, he's only five, said, Dad, you need to get a new bike. Looked at him like, he just shot me. I'm like, I ain't getting a new bike. You kidding me? This thing, I hope, well, last. like another 40 years like it's been money well spent so your wife it'd be money well spent especially if we're gonna keep doing it oh she's pretty good I just like to give her hard time

if I really wanted to buy a bike she'd let me like the amount of money that I've spent just trying to gear my bike up she's been cool with so you should you should stop in and talk to Jim Taylor Jim Taylor's owner grinding gears he's coming on this bike okay he's using a retrofitted it's like a What year did he say? 1983 something. You want to talk? You know, I laugh about your bike, but honestly, I'm like, you should see the bikes that are coming with us.

So it's a 1983. I hope I'm getting this right, Jim, if you're listening. And he loves it because of the story. It's originally a bike from California. There was only so many of them made. The guy who made them all he's been in touch with because he kept track of where they all landed. And he found it. Now, I might be butchering this, but I believe he found it in the ditch.

and Jim, obviously being a guy who owns a bike store, found it and went, this is a nice bike, and, like, refixed it up, and he can fly on it. And when he's biking on it, you're like, everybody, but he's so fast, right? Like, he's going to ride that? I'm like, that's pretty kick-ass, right? Like, that's a story. That is a story.

Yeah, it makes it interesting, too. So maybe you just need to get in, and maybe Jim can help you out because, I mean, Jim's getting his, tires pumped here a little bit, but if the man can hop on his bike and do what we're doing, you know, and saying that, you know, we met, we met, we met going across, it was like in the first two, three weeks of bike in Canada, and we were going east to west, which I don't suggest doing that, but definitely not. Definitely not. But we were, we were coming, I don't know, I can't I remember if that was in New Brunswick or somewhere over there.

And there was this overweight, heavy guy. Like, probably, I don't know. I don't want to be too rough on him. 40-something maybe. Look kind of like Hagrid from Harry Potter, right? Like, I mean a big guy with a little trailer on the back of his bike, and he was riding a mountain bike across Canada. Holy shit.

And I remember thinking, like, even as little knowledge as I had then, I'm like, imagine how much energy he loses all the time. from his shot like just like every tire shocks everything just gone and he was having a grand all time so what do I no timeline I mean yeah just tour yeah it's it's a hell this morning I I always forget this that somebody said they me and well me and Jim again have been having their argument he thinks it's boring to do long distance on a on a road bike and I because he's a mountain bike guy right they're mountain bike whatever I'm like I love the peacefulness of it honestly this morning I was out and

And going down by like Diamond 7, there was like, my wife will love with this, but there was like eight deer ran across in front of me. And I was like, man, there they are. You know, like in a vehicle, you're like honking at them. You're like, get out of the way and you're slamming on the brakes because you don't want to wreck anything. I run into that deer, I hurt, right? Like the deer is going to laugh at me. But I don't know.

So are you riding any, like, are you riding a few times this week to ramp up? Or you? No, Friday was my time. my last bike, or Saturday was my last bike before. So now I'm going to be doing stretching, meditating. I'm going to be just doing a little bit of core exercising. You're a meditator, are you? Just for this bike, just what I've read. So I've been trying to do it about three times a week. And it's helped. It's a mind game, honestly, when you're out there by yourself, pushing yourself. If your head's not in the right place, I mean, it's, it makes it two or three

times as hard, I think. But, yeah. I am. Well, I can't say, you know, I'll bike in the mornings, but that's only like 20K, right? Like nothing. And even back when I came back from playing hockey, I'd bike maybe 40K by myself and whatever. 40K is like an hour, well, not an hour, just depending on the wind, I guess. But let's call it two hours by yourself, which isn't that big a deal. What you're talking about, yeah, is going to be a little bit of lots on your mind. Yeah, if you have something on your mind and you go and you bike for four or five hours,

hours. By the time you come home, I just, I'm exhausted and I'm thinking about it. And I'm sure my wife can attest to it. Like, I'm a mess. If my brain is in the right place and I'm like calm and relaxed and I'm trying not to use as many calories as I can on my actual thoughts, rather just use it towards my legs and my energy on my bike. You know, like, I'll start my workout even with just some like slow acoustic music, kind of just relax and get going. And my second half of the bike, I'll really bear down. I'll listen to a podcast or I'll start listening to some music. But I just like to conserve energy and I feel like when my brain is spinning, I'm just burning so much energy on nothing. Like you really think about some weird things when you're alone for that long. So what do you,

what is your go-to? Like when you're on the bike and you're tossing on the tunes or a podcast, what are you flipping on? Yeah, I'm a big podcast guy. I listen to Joe Rogan. I listen to starting nine baseball. I got to, Joe, all right, all right. Joe Rogan, love Joe Rogan, okay? Love him. Have hardly listened to him since he switched over to Spotify. I don't know what that is with me, but it has really bothered me.

Why did he have to, not even the money thing? I get it, I get it. I just don't know why Spotify is such a hard thing. Are you still loving on them with even Spotify? Yeah, yeah. I'm still listening to him. I mean, I get a little bit distracted now. Like, I actually stumbled across your podcast and that's really eaten.

into my podcast time. But I probably listen to 10 episodes and I'm always wanting to listen to something different. I listen to a little bit of Dax Shepard. I listen, just pick the brain, like all sorts of podcasts. Fuck, Dax has got some great guests too. Yeah, he does. I just, I don't know what it is.

It's just I loved listening. Well, I don't think you're, well, for sure you're not the only one, right? Like, I drive every day for work right now probably, I don't know. four hours like. Oh, that's a lot. And in the beginning, I would listen to a podcast or an audio book at one speed, right? And people who just start out, maybe you're still at one speed. And then somebody said, you know, you can listen at one and a half. It's actually pretty good. And certain podcasts,

if you listen at two speed, is really good, just because of the way they talk, right? And all of a sudden, now in a four hour period, you can hit two Joe Rogans, you can, like, you can hammer out some things. Not that you need to hammer. Like, I love to enjoy, but sometimes, like, some guys are just slow speakers. Hell, I'm a slow speaker. What am I talking about? But, like, you get on a podcast and you turn it up just a little bit, and holy crap, it can be really enjoyable. I need to focus on one speed. I usually listen to them while I work, so, like, I'm trying to do two things at once, and if I'm plowing through something, it's going to be tough for me to focus on two things so I'm gonna give it a try but yeah I usually listen to about four hours of

podcasting a day so that's more than enough I don't want to run out of content that's fair that's fair now why why I want to kind of get it into this and I told you me and brandy had kind of talked about it but why are you why are you biking and what are you raising money for them why does that mean you know so much to you yeah so um about a year and a half ago my uncle passed away from his second heart attack and my family on my dad's side has a history of bad tickers so like more or less I wanted to be raising awareness

for heart health and people's personal well-being um yeah unfortunately after my uncle passed away my grandma rock she finally had succumbed to her long-lasting effects of her stroke as well and it kind of just hit me all at once like I was really scared for my future. And, you know, I just, I just don't want that lineage of heart failure and, you know,

stroke to just keep going down the line. It really, I don't know, it hit me weird. And I just felt like I had to do something. I, I couldn't just be another statistic. I, you know, it's, yeah, that's, that's, that's pretty much what I'm doing this for. You know, my, my, my grandpa rock passed away at the same age as my uncle. How old? 55 years old.

And my uncle had two young kids, I think 14 and 9, or in 9, sorry. And it was just sad. Like, you know, it's too young to be having a heart attack. But it kind of sent me down a rabbit hole. I went to the doctor right after that and I was super scared because my, my dad told me, like, you know, I don't need to quit smoking or I don't really need to change my diet because all the men in our family died before 60. anyways and that scared the shit out of me. So back to the doctor. I went to the doctor and I got to check up and I kind of told him my family has a history of heart disease and I just, I'm worried.

And he asked me three questions. He said, first he took my weight and then he asked how my diet was and then he asked if I smoked and I don't smoke. I keep, maintain a healthy weight and my diet's fairly clean and he wasn't really that concerned about me and I that kind of you know took me yeah it just kind of felt weird well my genetics are bad so like you know I'm sorry I'm fumbling around with no no it's it's it's it's quite all right um you're uh you're trying to figure out like if you got 50 years left on the old planet or whether um you know it's shorter than that uh for myself, one of the things that I, you know, like I say about COVID is, or this, not a COVID, but the pandemic here is like, I've been a guy who's tried to maintain something similar to you.

Probably, I got three young kids and so, you know, we, the gym comes and goes and I know I wish I was a little, wow, I ended up building one in the garage because I found out that trying to get out of the house and away from things was becoming tougher and tougher and tougher. The reason, the reason, well, it was probably three years ago, I got to the heaviest weight I ever was. And I was like, okay. And this is coming from a guy that, you know, played competitive hockey all over the place and like for 90% of my life maintained a very healthy weight.

To put whatever he wanted in his body and not ever have to worry about it. And then, you know, as you take away the competitive side of things, where you're in the gym every day and you're on the ice once or twice a day and you're really active and you draw that back a little bit. You know, sitting in a vehicle for four hours a day doesn't really do anything for you, you know what I mean?

Definitely not. And you're probably, you know, drinking coffee or whatever else while you're doing it and not that coffee's into the world, but you kind of get the... Well, my dad had a hard attack at 42. And so I, I think about that all the time, right?

Like, 42, that's, for me, that's only seven years away. Yeah. Like, geez, if you don't play your cards right, not that that's something that's happened all throughout our family, but, you know, like, at the same time, you can tell yourself whatever you want, that's part of your bloodline, your lineage, right? Right. At 42, somebody's had that, right? It's like, okay, so let's not, let's keep our body in a better, I don't know, a better shape.

Let's try and keep the stress, if possible, to a minimum because, you know, dad at the time, actually I'm going to talk to him about her father's day. I'm excited to talk about his trucking days when they almost lost the farm and the stress that came with it and everything else because I can't imagine. And that's how I actually run my life. So when I hear you talk about understanding what your bloodline, I totally get that. I admire what you're talking about.

Yeah, and sorry, it's hard to convey. Like, I don't really talk to too many people about it. So when I'm trying to talk to this podcast about it, it's really important to me. And what I was really trying to say there is like, with my doctor not being super concerned about me, when I heard that heart disease is really genetic, Like it's it's one of like the more preventable things like compared to a cat I would say cancer or something like that like you can really take care of your heart and unless there's like basically what he said to me is he wasn't going to do any advanced testing because in my lineage it nothing really pointed to any like specific genetic heart disease it was like a lot of the people in my family who were affected were overweight or they smoked or they didn't exercise one or two or three of those things right right and those are

all just easy changes you can make to your life, even if you don't go hardcore, you don't bike to wherever in Saskatchewan, a thousand kilometers away, or you do a 220 kilometer bike ride. Just, I don't know, just taking care of yourself is so important. And some people don't realize that they'll go buy a big fancy house and they'll keep it clean and change the siding and they'll buy a big fancy truck and put rims on it and polish it. And they'll take care of their kids and their mothers, but they don't take care of themselves. And, you know, it's okay to take care of yourself. And it's okay to work on yourself because if you don't, you can't take care of all those other things. Yeah. So. Well, wouldn't you, it's kind of where we're at in society, like across North

America, maybe even into other parts of the world. But like for so long, if you go back 100 years ago. I mean, even if you wanted to drink and smoke, it was all manual labor. Like, you were, not to say people didn't die young, they certainly did, but like, as far as, uh, you know, your body, everything was coming from like gardens or off the farm. Like, you weren't getting for the most processed food. Right. Right. Like, you think about like a hundred years ago, KFC wasn't around. So you weren't getting no fried chicken. Right. And so like, It's crazy, and we'll speak here. Just think of how many fast food, quick, easy things to get food to you is.

When I was in Finland, I was amazed at how little of that there was. It just wasn't fast food there like there is here. And fast food is so, well, I mean... It's convenient. Very convenient. Very convenient. Too convenient, actually. Well, in our society, is built around convenience, right?

Like, you know, we're all so busy that let's pick up something that's quick and easy so we don't have to make anything. And then plus there's dishes and everything else that comes to. I know all about that because, you know, with kids and everything, your dishes go from here to like to the roof and you're like, oh, my God. You know better than anyone. That's right. But that's society, right?

Like we want things to take less time. We want to get there as fast as humanly possible. We want the next, well, I mean, look at the eye. What are we on to now on the iPhone? Like 11, 12? I think, yeah. 50? Can't keep up.

Right? And that's, I get that. So are you saying then that after talking to the doctor, you're not worried anymore? No, like, he was, he obviously said, like, you know, it is partially genetic. But, like, as long as I'm, like, checking my blood pressure, I get my checkups, like, he said, like, the way that I take care of myself, I shouldn't have to worry. And, you know, if something down the line, if someone in my family were to have, I don't know, someone were to actually have a bad heart, well, then that's like very concerning to him. But when he started talking more about my family members and, and what they did and their habits,

like he was right away saying that, like, you're a product of your environment. Yeah. You kind of, that's really going to affect you if you follow down the same lineage. And I don't know. he followed down and do the same things that they do. Yeah, I'm going to be very concerned about your heart, is what he told me. But if you continue to make good life choices, like,

your heart. Don't smoke. Yeah, don't smoke is huge. Yeah, yeah. Be conscious of what goes in your body. Yeah. They seem like really easy steps, right? Like the, you know, so I interviewed my mom for Mother's Day,

and she was smoking at 13 years old. It blew my mind because my mom is like, I'm like never, even knew, well, I shouldn't say I never knew she smoked. I'd heard stories about it, but I mean, like as kids, never, like ever. She hardly drinks, right? To hear she was smoking by the thing, then, everybody smoked. Yeah. Right. So like, the smoking thing in today's world, there's still a ton of people that smoke. But overall, like I think in Baker's world, you can't even smoke inside, geez, what's the word I'm looking for? Like, their property. Like, you can't smoke on their

property. Think about that. Like there's not a smoking area anymore. Like you just, you just can't smoke. It's like, oh man, it sucks to be a smoker these days. And then it's like, well, whatever, right? Like, but I mean, that one's easy. The one that that is really, really, really tough, in my opinion, isn't even the exercise. That's a conscious choice to make. It's the food one. The food, even today, even if you want to be like, okay, I'm going to make sure I don't put X in my body or try. do man that's a tough ask right like big time yeah that's what do they say 70% of your makeup is diet and 25% is exercise and then 5 or 10% of that is sleep so I mean diet's huge huge yeah people often neglect it and they think oh I'm going to go out and go for a walk and don't get me

wrong that's awesome if you're going to go out and move your body that's amazing but like it's got to start in the kitchen for sure well you want to know a funny story about Canada. I don't know if this was in the podcast. I tell this one all the time because, so we go from Newfoundland all the way across. We get to Calgary. And I see some of my best friends from high school, right? I am two years from high school removed. And Curtis Clark, guys, but on the podcast comes on or meets up, and we're having a couple beers in Calgary. And he looks at me and goes, I'm not going to lie. I thought you'd just be smaller. And it actually like, you know, you see my body, everybody knows my body frame, right?

I'm like five, six, and three quarters, and I've always been somewhere between 180 to like 200 pounds. I'm just this like small stocky guy. Yeah. But he's thinking, you've just biked three quarters of Canada. I thought you'd be 80-bitty kind of thing, right? And I took it and I'm like, fuck you, right? Like that kind of stings.

But then I sat and thought about it. I'm like, okay. Like I'd been eating whatever I want it, right? Like, it doesn't matter. I'm biking. Like, imagine the calories. So the only thing I cut out over the next, I think we had from Caliaries.

to Vancouver I think it was seven days so I think in a week all I did was cut out one thing french fries just one thing French fries lost 10 pounds lost 10 pounds in seven days and I was like oh oh okay right and so like diet's huge and saying that small changes too I know that and it's still tough because you get in your head and you just want what you want right like nah but I want that, right? Instead of, and that's, that's, you know, you talk about mental. Dietary is a lot of mental, man, coming over, like, just beating yourself, like, I don't need the third piece of whatever. I don't need dessert every single meal or, I don't know. I mean, that's a lot of it. Yeah. And it's okay to treat yourself. Like, you don't need to just eat clean all the time. That's not living life.

You need to reward yourself for the hard work you put in. But like, it's okay to have a donut. It's not okay to have a donut for a month straight every single day. Like, you know, but yeah, I hear what you're saying for sure. I think that's what people struggle. Hell, I struggle with it. I don't have to say about people. I struggle with it, too. Like, I'm a, I'm a damn salesman. I take out donuts all the time. It's like, God, I got to put them in the far back corner of the truck. Just don't look at me, stop talking to me. I don't want you. I don't want you. Just let me hand you off and let me get out of here. Right? Yeah. No, it's, it's easy to get carried away too, especially when you're doing something like that every day bringing donuts to customers like we get them out at our shop a lot

and you got to try not to eat them but yeah some people i don't know they have no self-control and it's it's a tough thing to learn something that can't be taught really but you got to start small too you know i shoot was i listened to a podcast it doesn't matter i listened to way too much as well uh not too much like i love it right but they were talking about like even when it comes to exercise like getting up in the morning. Stop focusing on, I got to do this for like 80 days straight for it to mean anything or for it to like actually impact me. It's like, no, just win one day.

Just win one day. And when you win that day, just win the next day. And when you win that day, just win the next day. Because if you can start to string those together, then what will happen is, you know, my body used to like crave a donut, right? Because it knew what it was going to taste. Like, oh, it's going to taste good.

Let's get to have one of those, right? and when you start biking or running or lifting weights or just eating the proper things, your body will tell you that too, right? Like, ooh, that felt good, right? Like, you know, when you talk about recovery, one of the craziest things about my legs is so bike this morning and they feel freaking great right now. They're like, ooh, we could probably do that again, right? Like, that's pretty cool.

And the first time, like three weeks ago when I first started biking after 5K, ready, My butt legs are like, what are you doing to us? Right? Like, don't do that again. Yeah, for sure. I wasn't going to say, sorry, I forgot. How can people follow along with you? You know, are you going to be like no hand in it?

Instagram story, like, hey, guys, kilometer 10? That's where I'm going to go is my Instagram story. I can't update a bunch of things. You know, my wife's actually going to try and follow along with me to refuel me so don't have to carry so much water. and stuff, but yeah, I'm just posting to Instagram as I get to certain towns, every 50K kind of just so people can, you know, keep along with me and see where I'm at and I'm feeling. What's your Instagram handle?

Brady Rock, 33. Now, ladies and jents, when he says Brady Rock, he actually means Brady Ratch, R-A-C-H. I don't know how that turns out Rock, but Brady Ratch, Brady Rock. I get that a lot. So Brady So B-R-A-D-Y R-C-H-33 On Instagram

Yeah I'm excited That's this Friday Yeah that's this Friday Took the day off It's coming up And I'm not gonna lie I honestly

Was more nervous to come here Than I was to do the bike So I think I'm ready Yeah there's nothing to be worried About stepping into this room You know when you finish We'll just get to have Instead of some coffee

We'll get to have a celebratory Sasparilla But we'll wait until I'm done my our trip as well because at the end of the day I should be consuming less of that is what you're telling me so that I'm in the best possible shape. That's actually something I've cut out, I should say.

With my diet, that was one of the major changes. I haven't had a drink since Easter. Not like I'm a huge drinker, but yeah, I just cut that out of my diet. I thought if I want to be serious about this, I got to push myself to reach a new goal and I never went that long without a drink. So I thought, you know, I'm just going to try and cut it out and see how I feel.

And I got to say, I feel pretty damn good. Like, that could also be part of my recovery and that could also be why I have so much energy. So, well, so part of a book club. And now this has got to be, geez, we've been doing meeting once a month for, I think it's three years now. And it was like, I can't remember. I was journaling and I was trying to like change a bunch of things in my life. All the stuff you talk about, I've fiddled with, you know, here and there, right? Some of them have I been better at.

Some of them have fallen off the face of the planet. But one of them was drinking. I was like, you know, drinking really impacts a lot of your life. And if you just cut it out, all these things will start to come in line. It'll be easier. Like mentally, it'll be easier to be like adjust things. In saying that, that's tough because I love just like a lot of people, a good social drink.

I love going on with friends and, you know, us having kids. It doesn't happen as much anymore. But when you do, it's nice to sit and have said beer. The reason I bring up the story is, I remember approaching the book club saying, hey, like, anybody want to do like a month?

No drinking. I remember, it's like, a month? Oh, my God, that's a long time, right? And then you do a month and you realize, A, that it is the shortest period of time ever. You just got this mental block. Right? And I forget.

it what I ended up doing because it was when I did the live stream I did I don't know 50 some days or whatever it was and the one thing is is you never wake up hung over like ever you can wake up a little sleep deprived but other than that you always wake up with a smile on your face I would say which is pretty crazy and the weekends feel longer like for me that's been huge if like I don't know how many times I've woke up on a Sunday feeling it was work like it was mom going to work and it's like shit it's only Sunday because I don't know like you burn away a lot of your weekend laying in bed or recovering from a night out of drinking obviously I don't drink two nights a weekend like I used to but if you go with some friends or you have a couple of drinks and I have

a game night well the older you get the harder that gets and you just I don't know it's been awesome so well I can I can attest to that yeah because I don't know it's the same thing with getting up early in the morning like we're doing right now it's just extends your day. You don't realize, I mean, sleep is very, very, very important. Don't mean to say that you don't need to get two hours of sleep in the day. But if you go to bed a little earlier and get up a little earlier, your days become, it'll be crazy how you're like, man, I didn't realize a day can be this long.

And I feel like when you're young, all you want to do is sleep in and piss away the day, so to speak. And that's a hard, that's a hard routine to break yourself out of as well. Kids do it for you quite quick. Yeah, I wouldn't know, but I am up every morning. That's when I train is every single morning. What time you up in the mornings? Usually like 5 o'clock, I would say.

I like to, I don't know, just start my day, really hard things first, and the rest of the day is easy from there. So it's just something I've lived by for about the last two and a half years. I used to work out in the afternoon, and I'd come home from a hard day of work, and I just, everything was slacken, and I would show up to work, tired, and now I get to work and I'm bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

And I feel like I'm just more productive all day. It's awesome. So it's changing my life. Well, as for biking, what time are you starting on Friday? I wanted to start at 7, but I'm not quite sure because I know that my sister-in-law and brother-in-law is they kind of want to be there at the finish line and they all have to work on Friday so I might actually start at nine now so I can kind of they can be there at the finish line for me because they want to support me so I'll bend a little bit for them but oh seeing I uh I was

gonna wake up really early yeah that uh so I love well how here we sit at six in the morning you're getting a piece of my world I love early morning so uh by the longest day of the year you know there's pretty much light at 4.30 in the morning and No vehicles on the road and away you go. Yeah, that's the best. Right? Like, what was your first experience like when you got on the highway and you had vehicles whiz by you?

Was that a little bit for the first a little bit or were you fine with it right away? No, it was a little bit scary at first. And like a lot of the times I would ride and I'd hear a rumble strip from a kilometer behind me and I would slow down and turn right off to the side. But people are actually pretty good. Like the shoulders are nice and big. like I bike to Macklin and the shoulders are maybe like two, three feet and that was a little bit scary. But biking along like to Edmonton, like it's awesome.

I don't know. It doesn't scare me anymore. Semis are always a little bit of a shock when they come by. But I use them now. I kind of use the wind that they kind of suck you in a bit. So I kind of sit up straight and try and get all the wind and get some speed. We get a little cheat in there. I was just going to say the semi bump, right?

Like if you can get the wind off that, it bumps you up probably like 5K and out. You're like, oh, saying that, they do suck you, right? So you've got to be the first time it goes whizzing by, you're like, oh, my God. It's a little scary. But you even notice that if you drive on like a single lane highway, if there's lots of vehicles coming on the other lane, like the drag from their wind really slows you down. So a semi on your side definitely sucks you in. Now, have we missed anything on the bike itself? No, I don't think so.

Okay. Okay. Well, then... Covered most of it. What we're going to do is we're going to slide into the Crude Master Final Five. We can keep going. I just look at it and I go, well, work is slowly approaching. I'll give you five questions.

We can go as long or as short as you want on this. I was mentioning to you before you started, you didn't realize by coming on here, you've now a reserve biker for the bike trip to Tufnell. Can we actually talk about that a little bit? Sure. Yeah, by our way. No, I actually brought some questions. So I don't need them.

I can just ask you. No, fire. So how's it going to work when you guys are, I guess you could explain it if you want and then I can ask questions from there. So June 4th to June 6th, we are biking from Lloyd to Tup, Gatchewan and back nonstop, but we're doing hour long stints. So not everybody's biking. So there's 10 of us, which means you bike once every 10 hours or you get a nine hour break, right? So to me and probably to you, uh, you. You can go over as hard as you want for an hour,

and then you get nine hours of recovery. Now, that's if everything plays out perfectly, meaning... So it's one person at a time? One person at a time. Okay, okay. And following behind the bus or something? Yeah, so with COVID, COVID's really throwing a wrench in this because people want to say you can't do anything.

Stay at home, you can't do anything. It's like, well, no, there's rules everywhere. Just read the bloody rules and let's work with them, right? And so what we got is we got Tiber your coaches at a Wayne rate or Edgerton donated us a bus so it can that's where we're going to sleep that's where right but there's going to be at any one point anywhere between like I don't know seven to eight people on a 50 passenger bus all spread apart like we're not going to be around each other at all and they've got a driver who's going to drive for us and then we got a pilot truck

so we got to drive the pilot truck herself one person biking and you just go so I've never I've never had pilot vehicles from me before. I'm very much the way you talk, where it's just like you get on your bike and you go, and people on the road have been very good to me, and away you go. This one's a little different. Bus and front, pilot truck behind to ensure we don't have any issues.

And then out of the 10 of us, this is what makes, you know, to a seasoned biker, somebody who probably bikes every year, they're like, oh, that won't be that bad. Well, here's the, Here's the, maybe the twist then, is seven of the people coming on this bike trip have probably never biked longer than 5K in their life. And so we're asking a lot out of them.

And even myself, yeah, sure, I biked a long ways, but that was 15 years ago. And so it's going to be a challenge to bike, you know, and see how it goes. And if it doesn't go perfectly, now you've got 10 people to help support the load. So if somebody does get hurt or can't go or their body falls out on them, then there's people to pick that load up and carry on. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah. And you guys are going to sleep on the bus and eat on the bus.

So pretty much like no cooking, really. No cooking. So I should say Spiro's is going to donate us a hot meal when we leave, so we'll have a hot meal and leave. And then we bike to Quick Dick McDick in Tuffington, Saskatchewan. Do you know who Quick Dick is? I've heard of them, but I don't really know who. he is. Oh, God. You get YouTube after you leave here. You'll have, you'll have a chuckle. Anybody who doesn't

know who Quick Dick is, he's been on the podcast three times now. So I mean, geez, go back and listen to, oh, he's a hell of a guy. So when we get to Tufnal, his, uh, Tufnal, I don't know, probably the ladies of Tufnel, right? Like it's a Hamlet. They're going to make us a hotmail for the way back. So we, I mean, it's going to be. That's nice at least. Yeah. I think it's going to be, you know, at 48 hours, I think it works out to be, oh, no, I'm going to do the math real quick because I'll butcher the math here. But I want to say it's, here, 150, it's 22 kilometers an hour pace is what we have to, for 48 hours straight. Now, for rookie bike riders, don't get me wrong to do that even on their hour after hour. Maybe that's asking a lot, I'm not so sure.

Like the things you can't predict are weather, right? We get a horrendous headwind and somebody, rookie riders, maybe they're, you know, maybe they're a little slower and whatever. How about those Saskatchewan highways? Oh, I tell you what. That's going to be another thing. But, you know, I don't know. I rode on Manitoba highways.

There is no shoulder. So to me, even the Saskatchewan highways aren't that bad. You're on 16. It'll be fine. Yeah. That'd be good. But I don't know, it's a stupid idea, right? Everybody goes, where's Tufnell?

Exactly. I mean, it's a destination. We go there. I've never heard of it, but. Well, that's because it's a Hamlet, right? Like, it's, it's like Hillmont. If you've never been around this area, how many people have heard of Hillmont? Zero.

Right? Like, so it's just a fun destination for the first year to see, you know, what happens. And then to get around COVID, we got a bus so that we can ensure that nobody's, you know, because the idea started with biking. I was going to bike. a thousand sixty k I was going to do it over a few days and really test the old body

and see how it worked and it's just kind of evolved because the more people you get involved well I mean I think I think on the weekend we were up to $80,000 and on the go fund well go fund me and corporate

sponsorship but it's all coming back into the area right like it's an easy I think it's an easy sell but I don't know yeah that's awesome yeah it's such a good cause. Yeah, good for you. I don't know. Good for you guys, I guess. All the ton of you.

But I look, I look at you as well, right? You, like, I think it's really cool what you're, what you're, what you're about to do. Um, I'm going to follow along because, because I, I think it's really cool. And I said this, you know, at the start is you're, you're tying together a couple things I really, really like. Uh, I don't bike nearly as much as I used to, but I love biking. Like, I think it's fun. I think it's, like, peaceful. I like to just kind of be out of the vehicle and see the sounds and see the, you know, the area on your own legs. But then, too, you're a young guy.

I mean, you're not 15, but, I mean, you're under 30. And you're starting to raise money and do things that aren't for your own benefits, so to speak. And I think that's really admirable. And I think the more I can push you to keep going with that, you know, I have. hoping, I don't know, five years you're, I don't know, touring the country, raising money for whatever, or maybe just getting people out and biking with you. I think that's, for sure. Right? That's really cool. And I think the more people that do things like this, the better off we will be, like as a town, as a community, as a group of people. Yeah. And it's something that I

want to do. Like, starting here, I can't preach about raising awareness when I'm not going to be doing this, something like this every year. If I can get a couple people to come with me next year even for half the distance, that'll be awesome. If I can raise money once a year till I'm 60 years old, that'll be awesome. I don't know where I'm going to go with this, but I'm definitely going to be doing something every year. So, yeah. Well, I tell you what, I could hook you up with about seven guys that would probably do this with you tomorrow. Like, there's, you know what has been crazy about the bike that top and all that I didn't, like, I kind of realized, but I didn't really realize, it was how many people bike in this town, like a ton. Like, there is a

ton and a lot of them are biking 100k a weekend and stuff like that like i don't think you know i don't think you have an issue next year if you want to have 20 people come with you uh yeah like i don't know if that'd be that big of an issue i could be wrong on that i mean it's always devils in the details right but at the same time i think there's a ton of people around this area that love biking yeah that's really cool i'm anyone who ever whoever wants to reach out to me like feel free. I'll go for a bike with you any time. I'm always looking for somebody to do it with,

but, I mean, unfortunately no one really wants to bike the distances that I'm going usually that I know. I'm sure there are people out there that would, so, yeah. Oh, we can get you hooked up with a couple guys. I'll make sure I leave you with a couple contacts after we're done this, because I know there are guys who go for long rides all the time. Yeah, like tons of people on town.

So we'll get you hooked up with the right people, and then you'll be leading the charge. Yep. They'll get you hooked up with a with a 1983 something bike that can really give you some flare. Yeah. Hey, I'm always down. I need a new bike. So if anyone wants to help me out with that, feel free.

How are your Dodgers doing this year on a side note? You know, as a baseball guy. Not good. A lot of injuries. It's been a slow season compared to last year. But my favorite player is out, Cody Bellinger. I'm Bellinger guy. Yeah, yeah.

I've been following him since he's a rookie. He's my favorite player. I got a ball from him when we were down. in Arizona at a ball game. So, yeah. I got to say L.A. has, they got a great logo. Like, they really do. The color's great.

Everything's great, but they're, they got a great logo. Some of the logos in baseball are just like, like it's two letters, but how do they make two letters look at it? They somehow make it work. It's like, man, that's sharp. Not like the Mets. Their logo's a little bit ugly. The Yankees can do it, though.

Pretty popular logo. Yeah. Okay, well, let's slide into, unless you got any other questions, you want to fire you? Yeah, like, let's see what else I have here. Well, yeah, I guess another, one last thing I kind of wanted to talk about was, like, people are so quick to make excuses. And I really found out, so about three years ago, four years ago, I was doing personal training professionally. And so many people, like, had excuses for everything. And I just, I noticed that more and more every single day as I was training.

My knee hurts or this hurts or I have trouble doing, I have trouble doing cardio because I'm overweight or I have, I'm too skinny. So I'm, I can't really push this kind of weight. I can't go to the gym three times a week. Like, I'm too busy with my job. Question for you is, how do you stay so motivated? You have a full-time job. You have three kids and a podcast. Like, you know, how do you find the time and energy?

Okay. Okay, that's a large question. Sorry, it's a bit loaded. No, I actually just, so I'm trying to get better at, I have a lot of thoughts that go through my brain. So I try and write, but I went with a four-month stint where I didn't write anything. And then I mentioned Vance Crow a little earlier. I'm in a book club with him, and me and him got talking one day.

He's like, you should really write it, like write that down. I'm like, all right. So two years ago, I wrote about time in my journal. It's just kind of my, you know, pack of thoughts to try and unpack it, so to speak. And I wrote that time is everywhere around us. We just have to recognize it and then, you know, use it to, you know, the benefit. So that's the way I've approached even doing the podcast. People ask all the time, how do you find the time?

And it's like, whoa, I don't know. You could sit down tonight and I got no issue with this because in the playoffs, I will do it. And it's probably no different than your Dodgers. Is every, you know, the Oilers played, I think it was 56. games this year and if I sat down and watched 56 games do the math with me that's you know a hundred and some hours of hockey and it's like I don't judge that it's like listen I wish I could watch more oiler games but I've made a conscious choice of I'm using my free time at night to do interviews sit down and podcast right right I've learned that before work if I get up at

435 in the morning, which I have not been great at lately. I'm not going to lie. COVID has not been friendly to me. I say this all the time. One of the things about the bike trip that I wanted to do was put a cattle shocker off my ass and get going, right? And I've been laying around too long. At least I feel I have. And so in the mornings, if you get up at five, kids aren't up yet, wife ain't up yet, and you get this like one to two hours of like extra time, right? And so to me, That's what I mean by the time is all around us. But I've learned something in the last two months because you felt it. You know, I meant to say this at the start.

We were supposed to have done this a week ago, right? And what did I do? I slept through it. And I do really appreciate you being like, no, man, it's not a big deal, right? Because for the listeners, Brady shows up here last week and I'm nowhere to be found, right? Like, I took that, like, man, if I say I'm going to be somewhere, I'm somewhere. And what I've learned over the last two years, two months, is although the time is all around us, if you don't have the energy, it don't mean shit.

And so that's when it comes back to what you put in your body, your sleep, all that stuff. Because although you've got the time, if you don't have any energy to do anything, it doesn't mean a hill of beans. And that comes with making those life changes as well, you know. Right. So when you talk about not drinking and how you feel every month, morning and how your weekends are extended everything. I remember that. I'm like, ah, I love that, but that's a violence because at the same time, uh, I love sitting around with somebody and having a beer or two and I don't want to feel guilty about that, right? So it's like getting, get it,

get your mind around that because to be like so hardcore to one side, like David Goggins, right? Like just extreme. And it's like, man, he's amazing, but I don't want to live my life like that. Like, They just don't. But to be, I don't know, on the other side, Bob Stauffer, I'm going to pick on Bob Stoffer, 630 Chad, right, oiler guy, you're not a hockey guy. I'm seeing the days luck. All the hockey guys get it.

Bob Stoffer's a radio guy for the oil. Everyone's turning this off right now. That 630 Chad, and he's like a heavy set, you know, like, in my opinion, overweight guy who talks hockey all the time. It's like, okay, well, I can find the balance here. But to go back, I guess, to your name, I don't, like, I just, I try not to make excuses, but that's easier said than done. I don't know.

For everyone. For everyone. Did that answer it? Yeah, that answered it. Yeah. No, because I was going to say, like, if somebody were to come in when I was training them and they'd be like, well, my knees really sore, so I don't have time to do cardio, or I can't really do any cardio.

It's like, there's a row machine or, you know, say you're out of service, your back is all jacked up. well, you can just try and focus on other things like eating healthy or you don't always have to be exercising or you don't always have to be like maintaining a weight or it's like, I don't know, I just, excuses are so tough for me and I just, when I look at you and I see all the stuff you're doing, you're just a prime example. For me, it's tough to explain to my family. So when they, I say, mom, like, you should be exercising to my dad or it's easy for them to say, it's easy for you to say you're 28 years old, you're in shape. And that's part of the reason why I'm doing this bike. too is because this is my way to show them that it's not just me doing the easy things because it's easy for my body to do. Like I want to show them that it's okay to push yourself and it's okay to, you know, work on yourself and it's okay to be uncomfortable, even if like it's, it's tough to do. I've given up every single weekend for the last eight weekends and so was my wife. So shout out to her for that because she's been kind of my support person. But yeah, like you can

push yourself to whatever you want to do. So well, the thing is is that people think, you know, take yourself, for example, right? Well, he can do it because he's young, or he's been working at it for three years, and how do I, people get in their own head all the time and go back to the thing, just win the day, just win a day, right? You ate like, you know, take me, for example, we had McDonald's with the kids on the weekend.

I never eat McDonald's, but I went, ah, whatever, one time. And then we had Spiro's that night, and I go, oh, God, now I'm back to back. And you can see the rap all while I probably, but you know, here it is Monday. Let's get back on it. You're holding yourself accountable to it too, which is what people often don't do as well. So it's easy to lose track. Like you said, McDonald's, Spiro's, then you feel bad about it.

And you don't have to feel bad about it. I mean, you're doing all these other things. But if you are kind of aware of what you're doing, what you're putting into your body, it just makes it so much easier. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, sorry. No, no, I agree with you.

I just, for the general. general population, anybody listen to this, it's like, the uncomfortable part is very true. There's like a fear uncomfortable of like, what are people going to think of me? And I, earmuffs to my mother who's going to be listening to this, I don't give a fuck, right? Like, but I have to remind myself of that all the time because in today's world, social media, everything is there all the time to remind you if you're doing a great job or not a great job. So to give you, when I first started biking back for this trip, like three, four weeks ago, whatever it was. I got up one morning and it was like five and it was like minus nine outside and I went for a lap around. I went, ah, I'm not doing that.

Like, it's too cold. And then I got back, I'm like, you're such a wuss. Like put on some winter coats and go for a bike. So then the next day I went for one and got out on the highway and remembered what that was like and came back to the house after like 10 minutes. and I went, you were such a wuss. Like, you used to do this. Like, come on. And then I tell this story.

I had the lights of the 16 and the ring road. And I'm sitting there and it's five in the morning. And I mean, I don't look like a biker at this point. I got so many, like, I got big gloves on, a tuk, a helmet, goggles, like, just so I can stay warm. Because it's like minus nine hours. And I look over and a guy pulls up and my brain goes, I don't know anything.

He probably thinks he looks ridiculous. And I caught my brain saying that, and I went, who the hell cares? It's five in the morning? He's going, holy man, this guy's nuts. Not because the way I look, because it's five in the morning, it's minus nine out. There's like frost on the ground, and I'm out biking. It's like, you're trying to do something good. Remember that.

Remind yourself that and carry on. Because you just, I don't know, when I first started the podcast, I had buddies go, you're going to do what? But now the same buddy, you know, your episode 174 go, yeah, keep going. Keep going. That's all you can say to, like to anyone starting, just keep going. Yep. Start simple.

Yep, for sure. And just do the small things. Don't try and like set such a big goal for yourself off the start. Just do the small things, see how you feel. And like you'll see where you end up. And it's just like this. You'll have a full pause and you'll have people listening to you and tuning in. Like, I don't know.

Point yourself in the right direction. Yeah. And start small, right? Right? Because, yeah, I used to, as a young guy, Brady, I used to hate small things. I didn't think they amounted to much, which I feel like I sound like a complete nutter moron. But like, I remember thinking, and I'm speaking specifically hockey, a guy wanted to get

a go horn. We were in Northern College who raised a bunch of money and they wanted, I thought we needed something practical. We need practice jerseys or something like that. He's like, no, we need a goal horn. Like, we don't need a goal horn. Who cares? I got overruled, which was a good thing, because that little sound, which happens, you know,

during a game and not every game because some games you don't score, some games you're playing on the road, whatever. But that little sound, oh, man, you can feel that in the entire building. It's like, that's a small thing, and small things count. And when it comes to your life, going to the gym, you know, it's funny people can't make time for three times a week. Three times a week is, I don't know, for the hardcore isn't that much. And you don't even have to go to the gym. I haven't been to the gym since November. As soon as COVID happened, I didn't really want to wear a mask in the gym.

It's not that I'm against wearing masks. I just, I don't really want to be heavy breathing in my own face. So I went out and I spent about 200 bucks on weights, free weights in the basement, and that's not what I'm used to. And I got weights and backpacks, backpacks for doing squats. I got my buddy who's a machinist to build me a bar. You know, everything's been out of my basement. And then when it warmed up outside, I got outside and I started biking.

Yeah, it's just different ways to do it. You don't always have to go to the gym or you don't, if you can, I mean, they have all the tools there. It's probably the easiest way to get started. But yeah. Well, the gym, for me, is how I got back into it. But even that comes with uncomfortable.

You know, when I first went back into the gym, I got a, I had a partial tear in my meniscus on the one knee. So I started doing like squats again. And I was like, done a bunch of reading on it. And I'm like, I'm just going to start super light. but super light was like the bar for me right at the start right just like the bar just almost body weight yeah just so i can like make sure that i'm not overdoing it because i didn't want to mess anything up my knee because i the knee sucked there for a while and i remember that being embarrassing like being in

the gym and being like everybody's looking at me i'm like what a stupid thought no one in the gym gives two craps about you right like they're just all in their head especially five in the morning yeah but everybody gets into that everybody's staring at you everybody's wearing at you everybody's worried about what you're doing. Nobody cares, right? When I was training people, like, that was like a big thing. Is there like a room we can go to to work out? Like, they didn't, they thought people were going to be watching and they had to be embarrassed. And right away, once you get talking with them, they start to feel better. Like, you know, they're not watching you. They're doing their own thing. They have their earbuds in. Like, you're just getting out

here. Like, people are proud of you. People are happy that you're making the right decision to, like, start working on yourself. Like, I don't know, people, you can't get in your own head about that kind of stuff. That's one of the things that like CrossFit or I did a jujitsu for a little bit and I really enjoy the team aspect because people actually talk and they're really proud of you for coming out. We're in a gym aspect. Nobody really talks. It's almost not taboo but it's kind of awkward, isn't it? And so you can't see or hear what people are thinking but everybody's really excited for you to be there. And if people would just say that, more people would be in the gym, 100% because that'd become a culture in my mind.

And some of the smaller gyms do that really well because they can. But the big box gyms, nobody's putting in that effort to really change that culture. Because a lot of people, I mean, especially if the rookies walk in, it's overwhelming at times. Like, where do I even go? I don't even, like, whatever. Yeah, and you don't really want to walk around and give people advice. Like you feel like you're kind of intruding on their personal space. But I don't know when I was training it was like easy for me like people I would walk up and I like people would come ask me questions. They were shy. Hey, it's kind of embarrassing. But how do I do this? And I'd just be wearing a trainer shirt. So I'd go over and spend five minutes showing them. And I like, thanks, man. Like I just felt so I feel so awkward here. I wasn't locking my elbows on this or I'm doing this. I was like, don't worry about it. No one's watching you. Like the more you come here and you watch other people do it. And the easier it'll get. So just good that you're coming. It would make them all smile. So.

It feels good to help people, so. It certainly does. It certainly does. Well, let's hop on to the Crude Master Final Five, okay? Five questions, long or short as you want to go, shout it to Heath and Tracy, supporters of the podcast since the very beginning. The first one I love to ask is if you could sit down with somebody like this

and pick their brain, who would you take? I guess I'd probably sit down with my Grand Parach. You know, this whole journey is kind of about him, so he does. when I was, I think, 10 years old, maybe even a little bit younger than that, and I never really got to know him. So I'd love to just sit down and, like, see the man he was and, you know, even if I could teach him some of the stuff I learned today and he could teach me all the stuff he'd learned in his life. Like, I just feel like I, because of heart disease and because he actually

had prostate cancer as well, our time was cut short. So that's something that I've often thought about. Where, when you're done this trip, what's next? Have you even given a thought? I'm like pretty one-track mind. Like I just want to crush this out and I feel like if I focus on too many things at once, I'm not really going to be able to expend all my energy just on this. So I don't know. I know I want to do more,

but I don't really want to start setting targets on something until I've crushed this one because I say I'm going to do it, but I haven't finished it yet. So that's where I'm at. Well, I look forward to when you're done, where you go to next. I'm excited to see that because I can sense it in you that I feel like this is going to, well, maybe it already is. It's going to become a little bit of a healthy addiction where you're going to, you're going to, that felt pretty good.

Now, where to next. And you get hooked up with the right people in Lloyd, which are a lot. There's a ton of people that ride a lot. And I think that's an interesting little community, a bunch of interesting souls, so to speak, that I think you'll fit into immediately. When COVID is done, and you can pick your bike up and haul it anywhere to go ride, would you stay in Canada or would you go somewhere else?

Well, I don't really have the time to go too far with it. And if I had someone who would want to go with me, I would take it elsewhere. But I don't know, I've always wanted to do like a long mountain bike in Canada. So like maybe that's what I'll do next year. I'm not too sure. but I would like to start somewhere in the mountains and end on the other side of them. That's something I want to do, whether it's next year or the year after.

That's something I'd really like to do. Mountains on a bike? That's a lot of fun. You want to talk about some interesting roads when you're going down on? There's some interesting roads there. Yeah. No, that'd be a fun once again. I don't know how much time I'll have, but I would gladly throw my hat in the ring if I had time because those are some of the things that I would like to get back to,

and I hope someday, if I go long-term thinking, I hope someday to have my kids come with. I think it's a hell of a way to experience the world is on a bike. And people just don't realize if you get on a bike, you don't have to break the sound barrier. You can just do it along, and all of a sudden you've got half the world in your rear view mirror just by stepping on a pedal. it's pretty crazy, honestly, once you get going.

I'm seeing it with the seven people that are rookies on this bike trip. They didn't think they could bike 20K. Now they've all done 20K, and it's like, oh, oh, that isn't so bad. So I look forward to seeing where you go with this. Now, do you, are you a big reader? I know you said you're a podcaster. Yep, I usually read about a book every month. All right.

Recently, it's been about that. So what book are you either, ah, go over the last year. What's been one of your favorite books you've read? Hmm. Well, I read Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. I really like that book about split decisions and why you make them. And right now I'm actually reading for the second time Can't Hurt. Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins. Because I really wanted to get that done again before I started this bike because I started because I did that, I read that book before I did my 100 kilometer bike. And it just, yeah, it drove me to even get started more. So David Gaggins makes me want to run through a brick wall. I listen to him. him the first time on Rogan and I was like oh my god like I'm I'm going out today and we're doing something like yeah and his book is fantastic it is uh did you did you read or do you got the audible I read it yeah I read it sorry I read that book in about seven days I couldn't put it down I just started going and so I want to do that again before my bike here I'm about a quarter into it

so uh Malcolm gladwell is a good one as well I haven't read the uh blink blink blink uh I was thinking I've read two of his outliers and one other, and they're all fantastic. Finally, I know you listen to a lot of Joe Rogan, so I haven't been listened to him on Spotify. I've listened to like two episodes. So if you were going to say you got to listen to this episode in the last like two, three months,

give it to me because I'm going to listen to it today on the road trip out to North Battleford. Oh, I don't know the lady's name. I actually just listened to a really interesting one and I kind of shared it to my family. it was this lady who was talking about your reproductive organs and like how all the parabins and plastics in our society are kind of like really hurting our reproductive organs and like slowing down the population of our planet like I forget who it was it I think she was some doctor I don't know exactly before we leave here I'll let and I'll make sure at the start of this episode I go old Brady Ratch I'm kidding. I couldn't remember the name and this is who it was.

I'll make sure I put it in the notes or talk about it. It's really interesting. Well, thank you, sir, for indulging me at 6th in the morning and coming in and sitting down. Best of luck on your trip. I look forward to seeing you complete it. And honestly, man, I look forward to seeing where you go with this because I think it's a pretty cool endeavor. And honestly, in the biking world, you know, you can go anywhere in the world. And there's roads everywhere.

So wherever you want to go, the road will take you there, and you just got to step on the pedal, and I'm excited for you. Perfect. Well, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it. This is fun. Hey, folks. Thanks for joining us today.

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Hey, Keeners. Me and Brady talked about it after we're done, that he didn't actually say how you could donate to him. So I'm going to post it on my social media. It's not a funky website by any stretch of the imagination, but I could try and rattle off the entire website to you, but it's quite long. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to post the link on social media.

That way, all you've got to do is search the Sean Newman podcast, and find my social media pages. And if you're looking to donate and help him out, I think that'd be super cool. I hope he does well. I hope he, you know, hammers us out. He seems like a pretty motivated guy. And just a cool, another guy here in Lloyd doing some good,

which is, like I say, at the start, and I hope I put across throughout it, is you just want to fan the flame of that because that's super cool for someone to take that on themselves and try and do some good and raise some awareness. So best of luck to him. I hope you enjoyed it.

Now, it is Wednesday. We got an SMP archive coming up Friday. I'm excited for that, for you guys to hear it. In the meantime, it is kind of warm. If you would like a beverage and a slice of pizza, tomorrow night, Thursday night, 4 to 10 p.m. at 4th Meridian, weather, well, actually, the weather doesn't really matter. Rain or shine will be there.

Pizza, be there. beer, 10 bucks, bring your cash. All the proceeds are going to bike for breakfast. All right. Now, if you're the champ, feed off the desk, buddy. I know you got a sore little wrist there and a little boo-boo, but it's time to go to work. All right.

We'll catch you guys Friday.