Shaun Newman Podcast - Ep. #179 Part 3 - Bike for Breakfast

Episode Date: June 5, 2021

June 4th - 6th a group of 9 bikers are leaving Lloydminster & heading to Tuffnell SK raising money for breakfast programs in Lloydminster & surrounding area (35 schools to be exact)  On today's episode we get to know part of the team. Ken Rutherford (Lakeland College), Tracy Matthews (Endevour Machining) & Becky Grassle (Catholic School Division). We talk about how they got involved, their limited road biking experience & what they expect from 48-ish hours of non-stop cycling     Here's our Go Fund Me: https://gofund.me/2f67bf26       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 Saturday. I got to say, in all the podcast history, I believe this is the first Saturday episode. I don't think I've ever released one here. So we're doing a lot of new things.

this week. This is part three of the bike for breakfast crew. So if you haven't listened to part one or part two, I highly suggest you go back and get a feel for the group that is riding to Tuffinels, Saskatchewan back. And then, of course, a couple of ladies who've been instrumental in behind the scenes, which you got to listen to P on the last one. And she's been just as huge a part as the people biking. And of course, Trisha Hunter with all the social media and making us, you know, kind of a household name in a month's time. It's been pretty unreal what she's been able to accomplish. I got to give just like so many shutouts. It's like, you know, we announced May 1st we were doing this and within, you know, 30 days,

32 days, we had surpassed our goal of $200,000, which is just mind-blowing. And that comes from, you know the hard work of the 11 of us the 10 people that i can't speak highly enough about they've they've all come on board on this and just pulled with everything they got and it's been really cool to watch the the business owners in town just continuously step up for us like it is just really cool to be a part of to be honest and i know i probably say that over and over again on these episodes but it's just a bit surreal to see our community rally around this and And then, of course, the individuals, too. Like, it just isn't business owners.

I do a ton of work with my day job, Baker Hughes, out at Serafina. And the crew out, I got to give them a shout out. Robert Sainamatt and Stephanie Rogers rallied the troops, and they donated a bunch of cash to this. And once again, that's just, it's super cool that they think highly enough of what we're doing to put some money into this. So a shout out to them. I got to, Ken brings it up, leading the way for a, We've got a charter bus, right, for safety purposes, and that's polar bus lines.

And Richard and his dad, Dale, haven't had a paying job in the bus industry. Think about this since last March, and they're giving us the bus and their time for free. And that's just amazing. And then, of course, T-Bar-1 transport has given us the pilot truck, the fuel for the pilot truck, and the fuel for the bus for this as well. And once again, those are just some of the... the small parts. I got to give a shout out to Lou Stang. He's a guy

I approached the kinsman, him specifically about handling the money and everything else and he was absolutely all on board and now I think he's chuckling like if he'd known how intense this was going to be for a month he might have rethought his position but I truly appreciate Lou

hopping on board and then of course driving the pilot truck out on the opening day so all nine of us could ride at the same time like shout out to just everybody I'm missing tons of people. I know I am. Hopefully by now on Saturday,

we're closing in on Tuffnell, Saskatchewan, our interview with Quick Dick McDick. And if you're wanting to donate at all, the show notes have the GoFundMe page. Please don't feel like we've hit our goal and the funds are not going to a worthwhile cause. This fund was only meant to top, not top up to help start the next school year

with all these schools. There's 35 schools in total. And so when you do the math on that and all the students, the more money we can have, the better. So keep pushing the pedal and just a huge shout out to everyone in Lloydminster, the area, or wherever else you're at, if you've put money or donating, listening, man, just like hats off to everybody. This has been really incredible to be a part of. Now here is part three. Let's get on to that T-Barr-1 tale of the tape.

Professor, Brewmaster, and Mum. Extraordinaire. Buckle up. Here we go. Well, welcome to the Sean Newman podcast for the third edition of Bike for Breakfast. I'm looking around the room and I'm wondering, I got home last night after popping a tire, not drinking any beer, to the Friends reunion. Has anyone here? No. I mentioned it to Becky and Natalie and they were over the moon on the bike ride. They were talking about how they're going to try and download it for the bus and replay it like 20 million times. Nobody in here? No. What is this?

Yeah. You know, the show Friends. Brad and I, we were talking about our new babies being up last night. I haven't watched TV in the last year and a half, so. We put the TV on at my house and I sleep. Like, I'm like, yeah, me too. I'm the same way. We're not big TV buffs at our house.

Well, imagine the cast of friends, and I don't want to get people who love friends, but imagine the cast of friends reuniting after how many years and how many plastic surgeries and a few pounds put on, and they went and relived the good old times. And I walked in, and I love you, my lovely wife, but I couldn't get a word of her and she's like, if you're going to bring negativity in this, just go to bed. I'm like, all right.

Was it good? I watched part of it and I went to bed. It was funny. Like, I mean... I guess you talk about negativity suggests that you didn't like it. Well, I don't know. Like Courtney Cox has had a lot of facial things done. She looks odd to me.

And I've never understood the Hollywood, like let's get everything fixed to try and stay like I look like I'm 20. Plastic. Yeah. It just is unattractive and... Kind of weird. Now I have to Google her because I haven't seen what she looks like. You haven't seen Courtney Cox in a while?

No. Like I said, I'm just kind of like disconnected with that. Maybe we should do a friend's reunion after this. Like in 10 years from all those come out together, we're going to talk about what we're going to look like. Remember when Sean said you didn't like plastic surgery? I'd like at them now. Now, this is not why I brought you in.

You're the final installment of the part three of Bike for Breakfast, getting to know the group. So all I want to do, Ken, you've obviously been on the podcast several times, but we'll start there anyways. Give me your name, your current occupation, and then yours cycling. Okay, name Ken Rutherford. Sorry, I'm too tired, Sean. Occupation.

I brought them all in early in the morning to pull this up. Yeah, sorry, I teach business school at Lakeland College. I also have my own real estate appraisal company. And years of biking experience? Yeah, yeah. How many years you've been cycling? How many? Jeez, I got my fingers.

about a week. That's not yours. So I have to divide 7 by 52 I guess or 1 by 52. Well then one that follow up on that is who convinced you and why did you say yes if you have zero cycling experience? Sean, I was driving in and you know

actually we probably have a conversation every morning and you called me one morning and said I'm thinking about doing this Ken, don't give me the answer now. and I think, well, it's not very hard to say yes to helping kids. So you phone me and said, would this be something you'd be interested in? And it took me about 30 seconds to say yes. And you suggested I asked my wife first. And that was a wise move because I asked her.

And she said, absolutely you're in. So that's why I'm doing it for kids. It's easy to get behind kids. I just, you won't get to, well, actually today, as of today while we record this, The first one is up, so you can actually go listen to what the other people said. And I just find the stories fascinating of how this group got formed because we're not a biking club. Our experience is pretty varied, but most of it is very similar to what Ken just said of. And I look around this group of, you know, of the biking experience.

Brad will be a little different, but it isn't this long. I've been biking for 20 years. We've done the West Coast whatever trail, 13,000. times. We've been across Canada once and whatever. It's just, yeah, I started a week ago. And, well, we were laughing. Were we not? At the media conference at grinding gears, Ken gets on his bike for the first time.

Right. I'm sitting there telling the paper, like, that's Ken's first time on his bike. Like, I don't think he's been on it before. There he goes. Necky last night, very, he found out he can switch gears with both handles. Oh, that was so funny. So when we were going down the highway on all of him, he was like, my chain fell off. And I was like, what?

So we stop and look, and I'm like, well, no, I think it's because you switched your gear. Like, it probably feels different because you use that other gear. He's never used it before. I don't know. He's going to kill me for saying that. This is going to be, I love Becky. Yeah, he's got like this childhood innocence to him about biking that he's just so enthralled with it. Like, he's going to be fun.

It's going to be interesting to watch him on the road. You'll watch it. They'll tear it up. For sure. Now, Trace, you're next. Name occupation, you're cycling. Okay, Tracy Matthews, occupation. I run my household of children, but I also work with my husband.

We have endeavor machining solutions. And year cycling, same as can. I think I calculated out my hours last night, and I was like looking on my Strava quickly, and I'm like 420 hours. But that's like all in like three weeks. You put on 420 hours. Or kilometers. Oh, close.

Wow. Okay. Hours? I'll do hours. Yeah. Okay. Clometers. So that's not bad.

No. I've never, I cried the first time I got on my road bike. The person who lent it to me had to hold it up. Well, I was like, don't let go. Don't let go. And then I screamed the whole way down the street. I can't turn. How do you turn there like this?

Trace, I'd heard a story. Well, no, maybe it wasn't a story. Maybe it was when you first got in the group text of you falling just to see what it felt like. Is that true? Well, okay, so let's be honest here. I didn't just try to fall. I was like, oh, I'm going to fall. I stopped.

Couldn't get my foot unclipped. And I was at a, like a, like, there was a car coming, right? So you can't, you have to be like a car. So I had to stop. I'm like, oh, crap, there's a guy coming. So I stopped. Couldn't get unclipped. My kids were ahead of me.

I just fell. And I kind of just committed to it. I was like, what, I couldn't like panic because you can't. You're clipped onto this bike. Just had your face at that point. Stopped his car. He's like, oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

Because I think he almost thought it was him that caused. I'm like, no, I'm good. I'm good. why would you try to fall? Like, well, I got to figure what's going to feel like because I'm pretty sure this is not going to be the last time. Have you fallen since? Yeah.

Have you? After that 60 with Nigel. Yeah. Was so proud of myself. We didn't even mean to do that. Get home. I clipped my left foot. Road all the way up to my front door.

Fell on my right side. Right into the, like into my bushes. Because my right foot was clipped in and I couldn't get it out. It's not a normal feeling. No. You don't realize that you can't move your foot. Yeah. Like, you can't save yourself.

So that's fine. It's kind of a helpless feeling when you're like, uh-oh, uh, here it comes. You just have to, like, commit to it. Like, I don't know what you do. I always think when I'm riding down the road, I'm like, okay, do I, like, jump into the ditch? Like, legitimately, my mind goes through that because it's like, what to you, what's it going to feel like when you're going to fall? So when you had your flat tire last night, I was like, that's great. You just got a flat tire.

Like, you didn't fall into the ditch. You just were like, oh, my tire. So I'm like, okay, now I know what that's going to be like. because I was kind of panicking about. Yeah, it's no big deal. Popping a tire. No big deal. Now, I got to ask too now.

I'm going to follow it up with the same one I gave Ken, right? Who convinced you? And why did you say yes? Because, you know, both of you have literally no experience biking before you come on this, sign up for it. Is it the adventure piece to it? Is it the kid piece to it? Who got you? And why did you say yes?

Right. Okay. So my person would have been Becky. I'm trying to remember how this went down. I was talking to her on the phone one night about something completely different. And she was telling me how her dad was helping her learn how to bike. Like she didn't say what was for. Like she was just, I'm like, oh, good for you.

That's awesome. Like that's kind of scary. I've never done that before. And a few hours later, she's texting me. And she's like, hey, do you want to, remember I was telling you about learning how to bike? Like, do want to do this with me or whatever? And I was like, oh, sure, I guess I could try. Like, I'm always up for a new challenge.

my phone went on to do not to serve it with late at night, whatever. Wake up in the morning and she's like, Necky's so pumped. And all I thought is, if there's Necky involved in this, this is something bigger than just riding a bike. So then he's phoning me first thing in the morning and then he's explaining to me the whole what we're doing because I didn't understand from her text.

Like what were we biking? Like what are we doing? Like I thought we were just going for a challenge. And so for myself, same as Ken, for the kids. Like I have four kids. I volunteered on multiple sports events. I did a hot lunch at school for 10 years. So I was like, it was a no-brainer for me for sure.

But yeah, like the excitement of it though, too, got to admit, it's there. Well, I think it's, I can't speak for everyone, but everyone who's come in here has talked a lot about, like, it's given them purpose again and found a way to have some fun and a little bit of drive to do something in the middle of a time where we're told to just do nothing. And it's been cool to watch everybody. Because, I mean, Tracy, you've been,

well, actually, everybody in this room has been a really big part of, like we're over 200k like we talk about it on today like I'm talking today the first part one we knew walking in there that by Wednesday we're going to be a 200k and as we know such a cool feeling this comes out Saturday by the time Saturday comes we'll be over 250 oh like think about that that's that's enough to make the hair on your arms raise uh considering um everything you know it's like getting rookie people into this and how many clover does you say you've done you Don't know? I don't know. I think like 420. Who knows? What's your longest ride since you started?

Well, that day that Nigel did his hundred, I went with him to do the 100. This is my, like, terrible story. So I started out with that, but my fear of the hills going down was mentally taxing on me. So as we were going towards Kit Scottie, they just kept being more hills, which was fine going up. But I'm like, I have to come down all these hills. So I got the 75 in. So that was my biggest. But I did a few 60s in there. That's still amazing, right? That's huge. Yeah. Like, does every. Everybody remember when we started this out and people were like...

10. 10, maybe. 10 was like huge, yeah. Yeah. And I mean, you're rattling off a person who didn't know how to steal a budget. And you rattle off 75. Like, it's a really cool piece to what we've been doing, you know, on a personal level. Like, it's really cool to see somebody hop into something that they know nothing about,

have tons of fear about and just, okay, here we go. And then rattle it off like that. Yeah, I guess you're right. I would never have thought that I would feel like this. I think you know another thing too, which we probably can all say, is that to bring the community together like this has been great. Because at the beginning, no one really knew. And now I just feel like it's just like everyone's talking about it. And I think that's what we want it to do, right?

Like, it's a community effort. It's been kind of fun. Yeah, it's been really, yeah, I 100% agree. Now, I've been leaving Brad Bradley quiet. Brad, name occupation, year cycling. Brad Hoffman is my name. I'm owner-operator of Fourth Meridian Brewing Company. been mountain biking for well when I was a kid I did it all the time but found an engine when I was like 13 or 14 and to heck with the bike after that for years but then a couple years ago I picked it back up again it's just something you don't have to insure and license and all that jazz every year you just get on it and go and you know it's nice and it's kind of like freedom you don't have to follow the rules of the road so much you can ride in the ditch or anywhere you know it's so for me that's that's the most fun part about it but it's only been a couple years

as an adult here back into it and never as a road biker. I'm always mountain bike, so. I just bought my bike. We got one week, one month, and I rode a mountain bike, no road biking. So who convinced you? And why did you say yes?

Well, it was you, Sean, phone me up and said there's this thing we're going to do, raise money and ride a bike. And I heard bike and I'm like, I'm in. But I now further interest, I can't imagine being a kid and hungry at school. So totally awesome cause. It was a no-brainer to get into this.

And it's exceeded my expectations of what we've already raised. I didn't know what we'd be able to do or how much we'd be able to do. And crazy, awesome. You know, one of the nights, and feel free at any time now to hop in, guys. This is a round table. So don't worry about it all coming back to me. But one of the cool nights that everybody talked about, including myself, was one that you helped put on Brad.

We were saying, if this was nothing else, but the Fourth Meridian night, it was probably a success because that brought out the community, the entire town talked about it at some point in time. Are we allowed to talk about it? Yeah, I think so. Oh, yeah.

We're past that. I think, Sean, the most common thing I heard is that fed my soul. Totally. The best night in my life in over a year. Yeah. Open, or music, beer, people smiling. Nope.

I didn't hear the world. word COVID once. No. Never. It was beautiful. No. Yeah. It was really cool.

Yeah. Well, but you're the guy, you know, you had to. Here's what nobody saw except for Brad because nobody was there. Like I was there. Well, I don't know, one o'clock. And I was just like, I was antsy. Like, okay, we got to. And then I talked to the cops and, you know, whatever.

And Brad just was, yeah, no, not a big deal. Like, whatever. And I had to give him props because I'd, I'd probably said a few different times. Like, you sure you want to do this? You sure you want to do this? You sure you want to do it? Oh, yeah. Not a problem.

Not a problem. Like, and that's, if this had been nothing else, remove everything else, that night was pretty, pretty cool. Yeah, that's what we're all about, getting the community together and giving them a fun place to be. That's not a bar, you know, offer something more than that. If it wasn't COVID, we could have packed that entire parking lot, I'm sure. Yeah, for sure. When COVID's done, we're doing it again. We're doing it again.

We're doing it again. Yeah, absolutely. There's something special about sun, beer, pizza. Kids, dogs. Live music. Live music. Old young. Old young.

Yeah. You know, it was wonderful. And let's not forget, there's so many people that have partnered with us, as we all know. But Spiro's is going to be kind of repeating this and partnering with us on June 10th. I think, Brad, you're, you're a car in a sub year and they're doing pizza and kids night. And so I'm kind of excited to watch kids chewing on snow cones and kind of a repeat of that on June 10th. It's been Spiros in the parking lot. which was right across the road for me.

So do you mind if I back up for a moment? Because yes, why did I, why did we get involved? I mean, that's how I got involved. It was through a phone call from you saying, do you want to get involved and help kids not be hungry at school? That's just kind of a no-brainer. Everybody can clear time and their schedules for that. But we all had different jobs coming out of this,

and one of mine was to call all the schools. And if I don't, you know, where you at? Do you have a food program? Do you have kids trying to learn hungry? How is the funds? Right? And there was one or two schools that said, you know what we don't really have that much, but for the most part, it was, yes, we have

hungry kids, yes, we're short of funds, yes, we have teachers bringing stuff in their backpacks to give to the students, you know, we're trying to cover this up however we can. Would you like some help? The answer was yes, we would love help. You know, and we've got Onion Lake involved, we've got Paradise Valley, Maidstone, Paradise Hill, Lashburn, Lloyd Minster, you know, we've brought the whole community into this. And I think for us, it's been pretty special because we were the spark that brought it together. Let's not forget, it's been a tough economic period for this community and the people of this community are the ones that are right in the checks right we're we're we're going to pass a quarter million dollars in a tough

economic climate like man hats off to this community in a month you know in a month in a month right yeah yeah well uh i i like that word we may have been the spark but in the last like two weeks i've got to watch uh people like tracy just go out and kill it and i just sit back and i don't know i'm clipping well i'm going to get my uh you know i'm i tease about one one way you know i'm i tease about one week, one month, whatever. I wrecked my clip-in shoes, so I go to Emmington today to get new clip-in shoes. So I haven't used clip-in shoes in a lot. That could be interesting. John's talking like he's the pro and he's giving you the first one to wipe out. Elbow pads. That's why he's wants the first ride. He wants to get it out. We fall. We fall, folks. I'm not too worried.

We're not planning on stopping. We're not stopping for you. Pick it up and get going. Can you imagine? I appreciate you bringing it up, Ken, because I actually, you know, that's a good point. You were the guy who called all the schools and that's where the number of 200 grand started to come from was the population of all the schools and how to make that work and jive.

And so, yeah, it's once again, a month. You know, it's as we sit here and talk, it's June 2nd. And, I mean, it's hard for people to fully understand, But I think like we first started talking about. I always talked about Ken as when I first came up with the idea, I was going to bike too tough and on the back by myself because I just want to get on the bike again and go. And he told me to dream bigger.

I don't know. Like I would love to say this is what I thought. I had no idea, right? Like getting NECI involved in this spiraled into all these wonderful people sitting in this room and then being on the bike last night and everything else. Like it's created our own little community, which has been really cool to be a part of and see everybody. pull like in the beginning I think it was like Natalie and them saying I can't I don't know how to go

and get money and now they're like they've got tons of companies donating like it's it's crazy to watch you don't realize your connections yeah it's kind of funny too because when I was asked and I was like who else is doing this it's like you kind of hear of people I'm like oh I know of all these people right but I never really knew everyone that's part of this so it's kind of cool that we all have these new found relationships it's kind of neat well I think I'm enjoying that other than can I I knew of most of you, but nobody really well. Right. Now, like, we're all superstars.

Yeah, I consider it pretty close. Friends reunion. Yeah, there we're going. We're in the same bubble now. Yeah. But maybe Sean, this could be a lesson of the people is do this. You know, dream big. Come up with a plan to help the community, pick five, six, seven people and come together

because we're all from different social groups. But totally. You know, here we are. You know, you do something good. You put a plan together. put your backs to each other and go do it. This has been a lot of fun. And we can have fun doing it too.

It's not just working a job at the end of the day. No, yeah. I think too, I was just thinking back when we were talking about like the organization, like the plan. There was no plan. I remember coming to the first meeting or whatever. And I'm like,

so what's going on here. Don't really know what we're doing. So it's like kind of random all the time. But then we all kind of like, okay, we all had our ideas and we all kind of, you know, we just have just made it work. And we all have,

like you said, different social groups and different connections. different ways of approaching things. In year one, it's hard to know if Tufnell was the greatest idea or the worst idea until you go to do it, right? Right now it's feeling like a pretty good idea. Yeah. Right?

And we'll wait and see. But as I always tell everyone, the proof of concept here, right? Like you just got to get through year one. And then from year one, you can start to, oh, okay, that didn't work. That did work or whatever. Because I've had, what do you guys think the bus concept? I won't give you what the other group said. Do you think the bus should be a factor in it year after year?

that you're biking and people on a bus and you're going wherever. Or are you like, well, no, the bus is specific to COVID, and by hopefully next summer, we're biking somewhere and you don't need the bus. What's your thoughts? Don't care. Don't care? Nah.

As long as I'm biking, I'm happy. Good. I don't know. That's a good question. Do you mean like the whole event or just using the bus? Using the bus, having a group of people being stuck on a bus for a period of time while you bike. I think that the bus is a great idea. I don't, because how else would you do it?

How else would we all just keep biking for a thousand kilometers? I don't know. It's more fun. Well, the original idea was this motorhome, which would have been the same concept, but way squish here. I don't know. I like the best idea. I think it'll be fun.

I was just actually thinking this morning how uncomfortable it's going to be to sleep, though, but it's all good. The chairs. The chairs didn't look like you can like lay out on them. They have like little divvits, like, you know, so. We'll get you, we'll get you figured out. Sorry, I'm good. What do you think, Ken?

You think you need the bus year after year? 100% have to have it. It's, in fairness, you know, Sean, wasn't that many years ago. You were playing senior hockey and I was coaching the Hillmont Hitman. And the bus trips are maybe not quite as fun as playing the game, but pretty damn close. You know, it's where the relationships happen, right? You get to play cards, get to know people. You know, Tracy, I've spent, you know, we've been in meetings.

We've done, you know, the Fourth Meridian. But you're going to be in a bus for 48 hours together, right? And there's some relationships that happen there where the friendships deepen. And we should mention that bus line. Like, talk about cool stories. Like, I'm looking forward to that bus driver is going to be part of the team. You know, we've met them a few times. Dale and Richard, yeah.

But the name of the company, Sean, what's? Polar bus lines. Polar bus lines. You know, Sean, you and I drove down to Edgerton to take a look at those buses. And, of course, they specialize in trucking hockey teams around. he told us they hadn't have a paid trip since March of last year, right? And here he is offering his bus line of no charge, right, to truck a bunch of Yahoo's around. With two drivers, and they're paying for their hotels, and they're doing whatever they've got to do to make it work.

Man, I just got some chills up my spine on that one, right? This is this community coming together. So that's another person of the team. So you get to know the bus driver and the people that have hearts of gold like that. So to me, the bus has to happen, in my opinion. And Richard, Richard keeps thanking me for making them a part of this. I'm like, you're making it happen, right? Like, without you, I don't know how we pull this off because a lot of people have steered clear of what we're doing because of the times we're in, right?

And I think, too, like you said, because it's been COVID for so long, like someone like Richard probably same as us, it's like it gives them purpose. Like, okay, we can have something to do now, whether or not it's, you know, gives us just that thing to look forward to. One person who didn't make it on these episodes, and wherever you're at, Trisha Hunter, she's sitting in Red Deer with her son. who's graduating. But we should we should bring Trisha up just for a quick sec because I hope to have her on at some point.

I tried my darndest to get her to come back to do this, but she's away right now. But I think we all agree without Trisha Hunter. I'm not so sure we're as successful because our social media presence went from zero on May 1st to like, wow, like...

Yeah, she was hitting it hard. Seeing it on non-stop. Yeah, like, and you go back to like the fourth meridian night with Domino's and she's back in there getting pictures of just like everything. She did, has done a fantastic job since day one. Would you not agree? Oh, amazing. Like, you think like Jim created the logo, right? We've had zero administer expense.

Just so everybody understands. There has been not one dollar spent on anything. The logo was created by Jim at Grinning Gears, right? And then Trisha gets on and takes over the social media and this thing. I mean, I have a Facebook account, but if I would have been in charge of social media, it would have been dull at best, right? Maybe Sean had a plan here to get us together. You know, it's amazing.

Trish has been amazing. You know, you think of, I don't know what it is because I'd love to say I sat and sat back with two people and we handpicked everyone. But I just heard how Tracy gets involved and I'm like, geez, I just assume Becky was like, no, this, she needs to come, right? And I remember sitting in one of the meetings going like, man, we are like bad news bears, right? Like none of us have played baseball before. Regrats.

We're starting a baseball team. And saying that, it's worked out beautifully. The Jim Taylor's story about the logo is hilarious because I called him that morning and been like, listen, we need it by 4 o'clock safety. Now that can't happen. It needs to because we're called race to and hunger right now and we need a logo to make this look and feel right. And within like half an hour, that's done. The one that Brad's wearing right now that everybody sees is done. I'm like, oh, God, that that's it.

Like, that looks really good. And like, you know what? The last few days I've been wearing my shirt too everywhere. And I'm just like, because it's just like, we should be. 100%. We're promoting our event and people are grabbing onto that. Everyone wants a shirt. It's recognizable already.

Totally. It's been online enough. Well, and with Trisha Hunter, I took, I'm pretty sure it was Deanna Wanler, who's like, oh, she's really good at what she does. And I looked at a couple things. I'm like, yeah, getting up, right? and I just trusted what people told me and trusted people. That's all it was, it was trust.

It's brought together, and I won't speak, I'll probably speak over and over and over again about how highly I think everybody in here, but like it's been a really tight, cool group to be a part of, and we've talked about a bunch of different things in here. But once again, hats off to everybody. Now, I want to know the bike story. Everybody's bike they're bringing. Because you've kind of alluded to it, Trace,

and we're going to start with Trace. How are you, what bike are you bringing in? How did you get it? Okay, so first I have to say when Becky first asked me, I was like, okay, so, like, can I read my mountain bike? She's like, well, you can, but you might be kind of slow because I'm like completely not a clue. Like not. So, like, I'm a runner. And so in the running world, I have Ross Thompson. So I was like in my mind or like, you know, Randy Bieber.

I'm like, okay, I'm going to call one of those guys and see if. And then I don't know why. I was like, why wouldn't I think of my really great friend Jackie Bender? and the vendors have always been into that kind of stuff. So I phone, I text her up. I'm like, do you have a bike I can borrow? She's like, yeah. And I have shoes.

And I have like, okay, can you come and help me? Not only can you give me the bike, but can you teach me what to do? So the bike that I borrowed from her, she, and I forget this lady's name, I feel awful, but she had had it as her first bike from another lady from town that donated it to her. So now she has like a new, whatever. I don't even know the names of bikes. but so the first day I went with her, I walked over to their house and they were helping me with the shoes and stuff. And so Anthony's holding the bike while I get on and I'm like, don't let go,

don't let go. Like, because I'm clipping in and he's like holding on to the bike while I'm pushing me down the driveway. And so it's nice. And they like been helping me with like if I ever need anything or she was my first couple rides. But yeah, that's my bike. And I love it. But I have to give it back. You're going to have to go buy one. I'm going to have to go buy one. Yeah. Yeah. Brad, you got a cool bike that I'd love to hear the story on. I got to hear Jim Taylor's in part two, which is a cool story. So I'm not sure if mine's older than his or not.

I'm pretty sure he said 1983. Okay, well, mine's in 1984, so same era. Two days ago, I was driving past my house, leaving to go to work, and seen a bike at a garage sale, take a hard left, parked and jumped out with my wallet, and through the bike in the back about five minutes later. That's the bike you're taking? I paid $40 for it.

Get out of town. I refurbished it quickly and it's in really good shape. So yeah, $40. That's the bike you're taking? Yeah. I had no idea. I thought you had a bike from before. No, I have mountain bikes.

I was going to take a bike that was worse than this one. But it wasn't a full-on road bike. It was like it was meant to be driving by a... This one will be way more efficient. I'll be a lot faster. But yeah, so it's all, I kind of quickly restored it. It's an Apollo. So it's a Japanese-made bike from the 80s that has high-end 80s components on it.

So, yeah, $40 of steel. And the guy selling it was like, thank goodness for getting this. He has no idea. That's sweet. Because Jim's, I think Jim talks about his being found in the ditch down in California and being brought up to him and then hanging on the wall. And then when, you know, he's starting to get ready for this, he's like, well, pull it off and refurbish it

and this is the one I'm taking. Yeah. Right? Like, pretty cool. The bike story is pretty cool. Kenny, where did your bike come from a week ago? Well, I started the same journey. I'm like, oh, we need a, I need a fast bike.

So I started, what is a fast bike? And sort of researching them and figure out, like, oh, this is a deep pool of knowledge that I do not have. Like, do I want 52 inches, 68 inches? I have no idea. And money. And money. And money.

Exactly. like $2,000 and I'm like, oh my, I'm going to buy something. Somebody's going to tell me that's the stupidest bike you could have bought. I don't know, right? So the type of bike I'm taking turns out mine has gears like Necky. I didn't know that, but it's also has gears. Poor old Beck. No, I'm with you, Necky.

I didn't even know how to change gears on the doggot thing. No, I feel like my bike that I'm using is not upset with me. It's like it's a horse that was used to a rider that was a very good horseman. And I'm hopping on this thing. So it's your brother's bike. It says bike has been across Canada. Harley. No,

this one hasn't been across Canada. Oh, this one was bought raid after we did Canada. Oh. And he wrote it around. And, and it's a, I can't keep up to it.

Like, you get good at it. You won't be, I won't be able to keep up to it. Yeah. So it just happens like Harley, Sean's brother. You know,

I coached Monhock. And he coached with, we coached together on hip. And so good friends with all the Newman boys. And so he graciously lent it to me. And we have almost identical body types. Like I didn't even just a seat. Like,

same height, critical, same weight. You know, and so basically jumped on and apparently you can clip your feet into these things too. I didn't know that. Yeah, so here we go. That's my bike. So Harley lent it to me. It's a good bike and appreciative of it.

So I was just going to say one thing really quickly, though. Like we do have expectations of, you know, apparently this bike is fast. It is. So I expect that you're going to be on the 35 kilometer. I hated Harley. The summer after we came back from Canada, me him and Dustin were out riding and when Harley stepped on it, I couldn't keep up to him. Like, whether that's his bigger frame, whether that's the thinner tire,

like it could be a multitude of things, but it's fast. Well, no, there's a lot of pressure on me. I was thinking. I expected to be number one. It's out there. No, it's, I think it's a good bike. I don't know my bikes really well, but it's a cool color. I think it's a cool color.

That's just it, right? And it has gears. Yeah. As long as they look cool. Breaks too, proud. So in this room, we have a bike history of two days, one week, and a month. It goes right in line with your biking history, minus Brad. Everything's been mountain bikes, but that's...

Two days, I love it. This is... This is... I brought up, probably the first time maybe I brought this up, but Sam Saeed, when he did the world's longest hockey game, I was on him about not training enough, right? And then he went and did it, and he inspired me to come up with all. this and everything that's come from it. I just look around. I hope when people hear this,

like, oh, I don't need to be an excellent runner to start running or an excellent biker to start biking or whatever you want to throw in there because it's pretty cool that everybody just got over their little fear of whatever it was going all the way back to Natalie and Necky not wanting to leave their cul-de-sac and now riding, you know, like 60 plus K, Tracy with, I don't know, zero-bike experience and doing 75K. crying the whole way crying down the 619 hill if anyone knows any bikers out there know the 619 hill it's big it's big and i cried the first time and mikey dubbs videotaped us coming down and like delete that like the second time down wasn't so bad because the wind was coming at me so it was like natural

like yeah natural brakes don't you love that feeling i don't but let me tell you i could ride up any hill i will like grind it up there no problem but turning around and going back down, I just, I don't know. God, there's nothing better than just like tucking and let's see how fast we can get going. I want to go fast. Hey, I don't love the, Ricky Bobby. Getting out of control.

I was with Tracy is, I like going fast too. Like these bikes, I had no idea how beautifully smooth they are. You know, like, I'm used to a mountain bike and it's like, oh, it's just a hum and it's you in the nature and you can walk, you can get 20 feet from a deer and it doesn't even look at you. Like it's, it's, because I'm biking a hillmont area, right? And the nature you see it and they look at you. as though you're harmless.

But, Sean, if you, if you blow a tire, because that is when I'm humming down those hillmon hills, I'm like, if I blew a tire, like I am leaving skin for like half a kilometer. I don't think so. But if you blow a tire, no. Would you just still blow a tire and just keep?

Like how you did last night. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so it doesn't. The only time I've taken a really, really, really bad spill was in a rainstorm when I tried stopping absolutely abruptly in the middle of Quebec City or whatever. And I took a bad spill on the,

and hop back up and acted like nothing going to happen and a guy could start speaking me in French because he was worried because I just barrel rolled it for, I don't know, a block, right? But I tried hammering on the brakes in the middle of a rainstorm where I couldn't stop. That's personally my only time I've ever had a really bad spill. I don't know. Brad, what's your thoughts?

Oh, I fall almost every time I bike. But on the road here, the only thing I foresee is being an issue is a huge pothole or like some big crack or something that these skinny tires can fall into. because that's the only thing I'm not used to, but as far as crashing, yeah, it's pretty normal at this point. I'm always scratched up every time I go out, so part of the fun.

What are you most excited for for getting on the road? I don't know. We'll see when we get there, I guess. I mean, it's going to be fun, chilling out with a bunch of people and getting to ride the bike and somewhere I've never been before. Are you excited to be away from work for 48 hours?

Oh, well, anytime, for sure. Yeah. This isn't quite a holiday, but it's an interesting way to go about getting away from work for a few days. Oh, yeah, for sure. You're the one person in here who on the weekends is your busy time. So this is a little change for you. Yeah, a couple days off. So nice.

How about you, Trace? What are you excited for on the road? I don't know. I'm thinking about that. Like, I'm excited for a lot of things, like the whole experience. But I think, like, last night when we were riding, it was like you talked about how it's like just so like, and it was such a beautiful night last night and the sun was setting. and like I'm excited to hopefully have a chance to ride either in the dark or like when the sun's setting and or when the sun's coming up. Like I'm excited for that.

I love being outside. I love that kind of the feeling of just being out there. So I'm hoping that my turns kind of align with that. That'd be super cool. That'd be like a dream come true, which sounds kind of weird. But for this fight. Well, I just think in life, where we're at in society, we go. go so fast. You just never stop to pay attention to, you know, the beauty around you. And on a

bike, no matter how hard you pedal, you're not going that fast. We're not getting away from that. Right. Yeah. You can see the same duck in the slew that you're beside for a long time. You Kenny, what are you excited for? I think the thing I'm excited for is also the thing that I'm fearing the most, which makes it is what happens to people and a team when you're kind of pushed to the edge. You know, when it's 3 o'clock in the morning, it's been. raining for 12 hours straight and somebody's fallen and skinned up their knee and there's tears and their eyes and they get up and just keep pushing on you know like you know Tracy's rubbing her out don't we do stressing you know no that's the beautiful stuff like I'm I'm like you know like

hockey teams right I mean I always get back to sports it's when somebody's got a sore shoulder and they shouldn't be playing and they get out and they grind it out and they dig the puck out of the corner and win it for you an O.T you know like it's it's kind of like that's the stuff that brings you together so like the thing that makes it the scary so me too like I'm uh you know, I'm not 22 anymore, you know, so I'm like, how's the, how are my muscle is going to hold on? I mean, I keep pretty active, but it's like, I kind of want to feel that. I want to feel my like, and I'm like, no, I'm only half an hour and I'm not quitting. You know, I want to feel that. I want to feel that to the edge. I want to see Tracy get in after she's, you know, uh, you know,

really like that's, this is, it's going to be hard. It's, you know, I don't, I'm not saying it's going to be incredibly difficult, but it's three o'clock in morning and you're cold and it's raining and you, you, you, you're packed out, you know, it's, it's, and we keep going. I think that's going to some mental stress yeah i think that's going to bring us the thing that's the thing that's going to bring us the closest together to getting up you being that person it has to ride at three o'clock in morning getting a tap at 2 30 saying you're up in half an hour yeah we're talking about that it's like i think sunday two will be taxing on all of us because by then we'll have two nights of really technically sleep crappy sleep yeah so meeting up with uh ross and mikey will

probably i think be good for our morale i don't i don't think mike's common name oh he's not well is ross still coming i actually don't know that Mike and, well, I think I can spill the beans on this now. Yeah, sure. Mike has a test he has to do. I can't remember where I apologize, Mike. You told me, and I can't remember what it is. It's something to do with blood work.

It doesn't matter. But him and a group of runners are supposed to be running the Vermillion Hills at two in the morning on Friday while we're biking is what their plan is. And then they're supposed to conference call us while we're biking is the plan to try and show. solidarity with what we're doing. Oh, okay, okay. Because they can't meet us in Langham on the way back because of this test that he has to go do. Oh, okay.

So we're solo. We're solo. So now this is even better. We have to just work together as a team to like, I think we'll be fine. But it'll be definitely test our, that'll test all of our patients to with each other, I think. That'll be like the moment of like, well, you know what? It's going to be a big bus for a reason. I brought it up in part one, but what Ken talks about with hockey is, is the pressure

cooker of playoffs. and playoff hockey's happening right now. And it's where the best relationships form because you get to see how people deal with stress and then how people rally around people who deal with stress. Because, you know, whether it's, you know, everybody talks about the wind and the rain and, I don't know, cold weather.

All right? What happens when it's plus 30 and it's just relenting heat? Right? That's a different type of stress. What happens when we pop five tires in a row and now we have four people working on bike tires and one person biking off by themselves and you just got to figure it out, right?

Like, that's the part I'm really interested in because this isn't sitting on a stationary bike in a closed room where you just, you go, we're going to deal with some things that there's no way you can prepare. You can prepare, but you can't know what's coming until it happens. And that'll be fun to watch.

You have a good team of problem solvers here. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like, I'm excited. It's been really cool to watch everybody how hard they've pulled through the month of May, and now we're, you know, we're at when. We're a couple days away and we're not on. And I think that's awesome.

Are you nervous for anything, Brad? I know we've kind of... Not really. The only thing is maybe like a terrible headwind or like you say, rain might make it a little more taxing, but that's the challenge we're up against. I'm going to say it right here. I personally hope for a thunderstorm.

I personally want it. I will be the first to take over anyone's ride when they're like, I'm not getting out there. I will be out there because I've got to bike through two or three storms. And I don't know, there's something exhilarating about it. You watch, I'll get struck by lightning and that'll be the end of Sean Newman. But if that's the way I go, so be it.

Who's going to take your place? We've got to figure out who's going to be your occasion. Because I don't know. I think you see some of the, there's a different type of beauty when there's a thunderstorm going on and nobody's out there in the world. I know if you don't know who David Goggins is, he says that's the time to get out and when nobody's there and push your body to the limit. Like those are some fun times.

Now, can I catch you off for one second? You talked about the fellow putting together the bike or the running. We should always remember Katie Clark. Oh, yes. Yeah. Right? So she became inspired by this. And every time there's something to do in the community of Hillman, she's up and running.

So she's bringing together kids to do their own biking on Saturday morning. I think they're getting together at 10 o'clock, I think. So anybody out in the Hillman area or anybody. I think you just get a hold of Katie Clark. She's on Facebook. She's a teacher out in Hillman. And she's leading a group of kids down the, 10 mile, I believe, to raise money for this and kick in, and not just for Hillmont,

it's going to kick into the pot for all, right? All this money has. Yeah. Well, when I talked to her about it, I just said, like, if you come with us, it's not about Hillman, it's about the community, right? We've talked about this an awful lot, right? Like somebody could just walk into their hometown tomorrow and stroke a check. By coming with what we're doing, this is going to everybody else, except your hometown

almost, right? Like the way the percentages break down, which is super cool. you're right with Katie Clark. Another one coming on in June is we mentioned Spiro's. PWM Steel is going to have its steel bin all June. Arbys. Arbys, if you're out this weekend while you're listening to this, drive to Arby's, get a sandwich, a dollar off every day.

Sandwich is coming here. Three trees. Three trees, yeah, a beef dip and the growlers, all the proceeds from this weekend coming back towards this. Three guys car wash. Yeah, there's going to be a three guys truck wash. car wash. I'm not sure.

I'm not sure. I'm not sure what's going on. I feel bad. I don't really know much about that one. But one of the 100 companies that have come in. Just check out social media. It's all over like all these companies trying to find creative ways to bring money into this. And I got to give a shout to Brandy Hofer's painting that Tracy, your husband bought.

Oh, he did. He did. He wanted that. He wanted that one. I was like. Can I ask how much it went for? Uh, 1700. Cool.

That's a cool painting. Yeah. It's pretty pumped. Well, one of a kind, right? Yeah. and from a super talented artist right here in town. Oh, that's good. That's on your wall.

And that's part of the event that you were in. And art. And art and soul framed it. Like, it wasn't just like, sorry. Yeah, like it's nice. It's. Yeah. Yeah.

Like, it's done up beautifully. Yeah. Funny, he says, she was really nice and she was messaging nothing else. And she was like, well, good luck on your bike. And he goes, I didn't have the heart to say that I wasn't part of the bike. I'm like, you scammer. Taking your credit for you. Totally. I'm like, you haven't even been on a bike this year.

What movie on the bus are you most excited for? Do you have one picked out or maybe not a movie person? Everybody saw my picture of like the 30 movies. I'm like, well, I'm bringing all these and we can watch whatever we want to watch. Is there a movie that you haven't been on a bus? Because for most of us, whether you've got kids in sports or not, at least a year of none of us being on a bus. For a few of us, probably even longer than that,

is there something you're like, I can't wait. You know, Becky was talking last night about National Lampoon. She's bringing all of them, which I was like, that is a good choice. Is there something that you're all interested in watching, throwing on? Or are you got a book you're bringing along or, I don't know, throwing darts here? Right. Any Jim Carrey movie would be good, one of the classics? Which one of the classics?

Me, myself and Irene. that's always good. Watch that like a dozen times over my life. Watch it again. You best bring it then. I don't know if I have the DVD anymore. Those are kind of the things that have worked away out of my life and lost a bunch of years.

I'm not going to need this disc again. It's all online. Except for when you take a... Except when we take a bus. Right. No, just I'll keep all DVDs in case we do. Well, next year we'll be taking movie donations so that people can give us their old movies to watch.

How are you, Trace? Oh, I'm yawning. You know what? Like, I don't really watch a lot of movies and TV. Like, I probably am going to enjoy a conversation. Maybe play some cards. But I think of your movies that you laid down, like old school, wedding crashers, like I like to have a good laugh because if not, I'm usually having a nap.

Oh, for me, I'll probably watch a movie, but I'm not a big movie watch. I'm more looking forward to interacting with the people and doing some reading, maybe some podcast, reading some podcasts. And I'm going to take a journal because, you know, when you get older, you know, when you have kids, as we all know, you don't have a lot of quiet time. And this is going to be a time where it's going to be hours on a bike quietly, just wind and you and sun and nature and then kind of push the edge and then doing something good. I'm just kind of, you don't get very much time I find for myself where you can just think.

And I just want to see what kind of comes out of the brain, you know, like kind of at a midpoint in life right now and just say like, what do I? I don't want to do over the last half of life here. I think I'm going to do you one up. I think what I'm bringing all this with. So the thing I'm going to do is set up a computer with one mic. So after you come in off your stint, you can talk about it. I think is what I want to do.

I think it's a great idea. That way there's an audio log of what went on. And then if I can piece together something that works, I will. And if I can't, it's just there for record. And it's fresh in your brain. And when you have an hour on the road, a lot of things. Yeah. Yeah, you mix downtime with some stress, with doing something.

something good mixed with, you know, a pen and a paper in your hand. I'm kind of excited to see what comes out of that. It feels good to make the legs burn. It does. And do good for people. Like, you know, there'll be an energy on the bus doing something good. Okay, your final one then is how many hours does it take us to go there and back biking? Here's the, just so I can give you the breakdown of where people are at.

Necky's the highest at 56 hours. He's saying we get back Monday morning at 1 a.m. Natalie's 52 hours, which would be, I don't know, 8 p.m. I believe, something like that. P at 51, Jim at 50, Becky 49, Sean at 48, Nigel at 44 hours, 44 minutes. Nigel, for honest opinion. Go ahead. I'll go last if you want. I'm saying 50 hours. You got to go either a touch higher or a touch lower.

Jim's at 50 on the button. Oh, I'll do 52. 52 is also taken. Oh, 55. 55? Yeah. All right. Brad of 55.

I should have just left him at 50. He gave us... You want to go last? You pick. I'll let you pick, Tritze. Okay, so I'm going to say like 52.75. Okay, so 52. Stole my idea.

Brad wants to take that one. I'll take that. 52 hours. Point 75 is 45. 45 minutes, yeah. Okay, and Kenny. I'll do the prices rate. I'll go 56 hours and one minute.

And I think nothing, nothing, when you have this many moving parts, there's the chance of nothing going wrong is 0%. So I don't know what it's going to be, but it's going to be fun. It's going to be something you've got to work through. So I'll go 56 hours and one minute. Sorry, Necky. I look forward to us smashing the stuff. out of the park. That's what I look forward to, because I think we're going to surprise all of

ourselves, even if tires go flat and everything else that I'm sure will come, I think we're going to be faster than everybody thinks. That's what I think. Did anyone ever like actually like work out if say we maintained a speed of, yeah, what did it work out to being like? Best case scenarios, what? What was like the, I mean, obviously you have to work in transition and we're, what, tough, no for an hour? Sorry, I'll do, I'll do it quick. So everybody on, on, so 1,050 kilometers divided by 48 hours is 21.8 kilometers per hour. Now that's factoring in stops and everything. So just for everyone's brain, every bike we've done at this point, we've never gone that slow.

Never. Never. And so in my mind, even with transitions and everything else, that's factoring in an hour for, like, to me, to me, the absolute worst has to happen for it to be 56. And I personally, I hope I'm right on that. But at the end of the day, I'm not worried about it because we didn't set we have to be back in Lloyd at 2 p.m. on Sunday and cause that stress. I mean, we get back at 5 in the morning Monday.

I mean, everybody will be happy to be back, but life will carry on. Like, it's not going to be the end of the world. I do have an interview Monday morning at 9 a.m. So, like, was Nigel, like, joking when he said 44? Does he really think that, like, what was his, what was his, like? Or Nigel was 56? No, Nigel was 44. No, Necky was 56.

Yeah. Necky thinks we're underestimating transition times, weather, everything. He was very much on, we have to factor in everything. And Natalie was bugging Nigel about being the eternal optimist. And Nigel said, you're right, I'll be the eternal optimist in 44, 44. As long as it was ready, it's just hop on and go. Yeah. I think the first few will be messy, and then I think we'll get the hang of it, right?

Absolutely. I hope it's shorter, but whatever time. To me, when we get back, that whatever time it is, you can be exhausted, we've completed it. You know, it's the time where you high five in the parking lot and say, we did it. We did it. So we better get back early enough so we could have one beer before we pass out. Are we ending at Fourth Meridian? Bradding and if it's one o'clock in the morning, are we, are we, are we, oh, I got keys, yeah.

Awesome. Man, that's private party. Yes, connection. If it's nine in the morning. You're nine a.m. You're nine a.m. You're just one trick. It would be the best one of your podcasting career.

Well, the cool thing... Take a cab from Fourth Meridian over to your... The cool thing is I won't spoil who's on the 9 a.m. because it won't come out that Monday. But it's a guest that I've been trying to get for a very long time. Once you need to... And I get nothing but time on a bus to research and everything. Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah, it should be super cool. Anyways, I don't want to keep you any longer. Thanks for coming in and doing this. When this airs, it'll be Saturday. It'll come out at 3 in the morning. but I mean all day Saturday. Where do you think we're at at 3 in the morning? Three in the morning, like Sunday or Saturday?

Saturday. On the highway. We'll be Radisson. Radisson? I don't know. I was going to say North Battleford, but hopefully further than that. I feel like we're going to be the Borden Bridge. That's where I feel like three in the morning.

As long as I'm not on that one, I'm good. In best case, you know, just Tracy end up on the board bridge. It's a shallow hill. No, I'm not. I'm pretty sure. We're going to Saskatchewan. Less hills. I think Tracy, even best case scenario, we'd have to be clipping for her to hit board and bridge. You know what?

There's a best case scenario will be Jim or Brad. I feel like you guys are really going to try and screw me over here. Tracy, you should YouTube, Sean and I were in a book reading club. But there's a philosopher named Nietzsche. You should YouTube Nietzsche and you should hope that you hit that board and bridge because you'll overcome your fear. Well, this is just that that'll be exhilarating. Same, same, this thing is not scare me no more. I'm going to conquer this SOB, right?

That's what you should do. You should hope for board and bridge. In the pitch block. In the pitch block. This is just it. I'm telling you. We're not going to kill you. Here's the crazy thing.

No matter what we do, unless we ride like 50K an hour, we're getting board and bridge in the middle of the night. Yeah. There's no getting around it. Right now, as it times out, mediocre scenario, it's Jim, well, Brad, Jim or myself in the middle of the night. Really worst case scenario, Nigel in the middle of the night. There's no getting around the board and bridge. It's going to be in the middle of the night. So we've got the experience.

boys are. Which you'll be interesting. Looking at the back of a bus anyway most of the time. That's right. Yeah. Is there any hills? Like, we keep talking about Borden Bridge, but I'm like, is there any hills between Saskatoon and Tufno? Like, does anyone know what that looks like? I'm thinking not. It's pretty flat. Is it? Yeah, I don't know. Toughnull's in Saskatchewan. Well, so is Borden.

Cool. Well, thanks for coming in, guys. I'm looking forward. We only got a, you know, a few more hours. I mean, a couple of days, but, you know, it's, it's into under 100 hours now. What are we at? June 2nd. Start stretching. Yeah, a little over 48 hours. Awesome.

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