WEBVTT - “I GOT SOBER AND IT’S GREAT” 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.400 Hey, folks, it's Lyle. How's it going. Before we start 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.880 the show, I want to let you guys know that 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:13.880 if you live in the Pacific Northwest San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:21.280 or Minneapolis, I am coming to your town next week 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:27.960 to do my Therapy Gecko Live show. These shows are 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:31.320 a very good time. They are a combination of uh, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.480 you know, doing what we do here on this podcast, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:35.479 where we bring people up on stage, we do a 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:41.200 little group Gecko therapy, and it's also a storytelling show. 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.239 I've been living my life. I went to Iraq, i 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:46.600 went to Ukraine. I've been you know, doing a bunch 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.080 of interesting, cool stuff and I've written about it. I've performed, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.760 you know, created some material about it that I'm very 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:57.600 excited to present to you guys. So please get a 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.680 ticket and come to the show. I'd love to see it. 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:07.479 June fourth, San Francisco, Swedish American Hall, June fifth, Portland, 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:14.360 Polaris Hall, June sixth, Seattle at the Crocodile, June seventh, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:19.400 in Vancouver at the Biltimore Cabaret. June ninth in Minneapolis 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.959 at the Parkway Theater. You can get tickets to all 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.560 those dates, and I also have many other dates that 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.560 I'm doing this month and August and September, I'm going 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:33.000 all over the place. It's just next week I'm going 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.760 to the Pacific Northwest. So I wanted to shout out 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.720 those shows in particular. You can get tickets to all 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:43.600 of these shows at Therapy Gecko tour dot com. So 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.839 if you haven't gotten a ticket yet, you should come 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.760 to the shows cuz they'll be fun. All right, let's 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:50.560 get into the episode. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:52.880 Hello, Oh my god, it's the Gecko. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:54.760 What's up? Man? What's your name? 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.080 My name is Riley, Riley? 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.640 What's going on Riley's life? 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.880 You know, it's it's it's ever changing. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:13.120 It is ever changing. It is ever changing as much 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:13.600 as ever. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.680 But but it's good. It's like really good. I would 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:21.200 I would say it's good. Yeah, it's ever like super 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.200 really good. But like right now, it's good. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:26.919 So what is it that you wanted to talk about today? 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:37.280 I don't know, man, Like, uh, I don't know. A 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:43.320 long time listener of the show, a big fan. I've 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:48.200 been dealing with a lot of existentialism over the past 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:53.920 couple of weeks, which has been like interesting because like 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:58.200 I'm I'm twenty eight. My ten year high school reunions 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:06.160 this year. I'm currently starting school over going to paramedic school, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.280 which is like, I don't know, it's weird because like 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.680 ten years ago that I that was my goal to 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.639 start ten years ago, and now I'm doing it now. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.000 And then also I like look at people who also 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.919 graduated school like ten years ago and like where they're 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:25.800 at in life, and I cannot like jealous or like 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.840 feel bad about where I'm at in life. It just 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.919 is just it's just weird. You know. Does that make sense? Yeah? 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:37.200 You know what's funny. I had a dude, I don't 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.080 know what it is. I saw some like I don't know, 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:41.400 I don't know why I saw it, but I was 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.240 like looking at the linked in profile of this kid 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.560 that I had art class with when I was in 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.600 middle school, and he and I would like draw dicks 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.720 on the textbooks together, you know, and we would like 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.840 there was I think there was this girl that we 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.880 both liked and we were just trying to like get 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:03.640 a rise out of her by drawing dicks on the 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.800 on the textbooks and stuff and fright, and he was 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:11.640 just like a silly kid, right, And I was looking 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:19.920 as LinkedIn and he's like a fucking real estate agent guy, now, 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:21.960 you know. And I was looking at him and he 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.960 has any of these looks like a real guy. He's 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:29.359 got a suit, you know, he's like and all and 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:34.000 the essence of like just us drawing those dicks on 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.760 the textbooks, It's like, gone, it's like that guy is 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.479 you know, where is he? Where'd he go? It just 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:45.440 gave me a weird feeling. Yeah, it gave me. It 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.440 gave me a weird feeling. Is that is that sort 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.320 of the feeling you're getting where you're like, I'm not 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:58.080 jealous of these people. It's just interesting seeing where everyone everyone, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:04:59.920 everyone wound up in a place. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.200 Yeah, you know, I know I think that's I think 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.279 I think I'm finally at the age where I'm like 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:11.960 realizing that I'm not like a young adult anymore and 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.880 I'm more of an adult. Like there's like there's a 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.360 there's a definite like change of when you go from 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:22.120 like you move out and you're figuring it out and 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:24.080 then like and then all of a sudden, you're just 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.920 that's your life. And I feel like I'm at that 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.560 point too. I think part of that too, is I've 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:35.120 recently gotten sober. Oh, and I've had like a lot 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:39.000 of like self reflection on that. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:41.440 What's that? 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:47.440 Like, it's it's cool, it's cool to be sober. I 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.520 was a drinker and now I'm not. And I haven't 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.400 really done it like in like other stuff I do, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.120 like trooms and weeds, but I don't like getting stoned 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:02.480 like not, I don't get anxiety or I don't know, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.440 it's not as cool as it was when I was 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.960 in high school. I think, like fucking weed is like 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.400 I get bored easily, or I just like don't enjoy it. 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.599 So I just yeah, it's been like sober for as 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.400 long as I've been sober, since I was like eighteen. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.600 So what inspired you to What inspired you to get sober? 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.400 My wife, that's why you feel like an adult. You 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:31.599 have a you have a wife. 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:38.800 Yeah that but yeah, I mean, I mean I don't know, 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.040 like I never really had a drinking problem per se. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.960 Then like two years ago my uncle died and I 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:51.360 just kind of set me off the deep end when 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:56.359 I just progressively got worse and worse and worse, and 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:59.320 it was like it took a huge toll on my 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.320 mental health and that took a huge toll on my 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:09.640 wife's mental health, and so that was like step number 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.880 one was just like you know, trying to be happy 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.360 in my life and my marriage and getting sober was 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.000 the way to do that. And I don't regret it, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.960 and I'm like constantly every day is cool. And I 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:28.040 was listening to a podcast the other day, the bomb 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:32.320 Hole podcast, the snowboarding podcast, and the host of it 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:37.080 got sober and his like his talks and sobriety kind 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:42.800 of is what like started spinning, like spending the gears 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.920 in my brain without getting sober because he would talk 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.760 about it and it was very it hit close to home, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.880 like like when he was drinking and like when he 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:58.120 was doing drugs. Yeah, and so getting sober is been 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:00.160 really good. I had. I did have to relearn how 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.720 to snowboard and mountain bike though, which is interesting. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.120 How did you have to Why did you have to 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.880 relearn how to do it? Did you only know how 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.480 to do it when you were drunk? 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.880 No? No, I wasn't. Like it's just it's different, like 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.480 because like like because mountain biking is like it's a 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:24.560 very social part of like drinking is a very like 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.760 heavy part of it, like not like a bad way, 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.320 but there's a lot of like we're gonna go for 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.360 a mountain bike ride and then we're gonna go go 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.400 to a brewery and listen and like and drink beer. 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:36.120 We're gonna go to a rest, go to the happy 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:40.760 hour afterwards, and you know, or you'd have a beer beforehand. 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.000 So it was just kind of like a tool to 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.680 get ready to drink beer. H and so then like 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.400 I'd finished a mountain bike ride or a road ride 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.360 and be like, okay, now what I do. I'm not 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:58.600 getting deer and then snowboarding and then snowboarding like you'd 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.600 start the day sober and then I progressively drink more 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.840 throughout the day, trying to find the threshold of like 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:12.400 where I'm the best at the sport and so like that, 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.040 like you got looser and the confidence was a lot more. 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.880 So this is like my first year snowboarding sober, and 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.040 it was it was like a lot different because it 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:25.720 felt a lot more linear, like snowboarding throughout the day 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.080 of like you know, I you know, wake you know, 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.240 warm up, take a drink, have a beer, have a 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.880 shoot or whatever, do another lap, like kind of past 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.679 yourself off that, whereas without drinking, you're just like, oh, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.680 I just gotta just kind of stay in that headspace 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.120 all day because it kind of like it was like 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:48.720 a cheat code. You drink and then you go and 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:50.360 then you just be like where you want it to 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.960 be performance wise. Snowboarding. Mmm. 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.240 Yeah, So it's like you had to relearn it in 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.880 the sense that it's for you in activity that is 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:03.880 deeply tied to drinking. 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:09.160 Yeah, exactly. Yeah, is that like those activities are deeply 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.320 tied to drinking and not that I couldn't do them 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:16.800 without drinking. It's just it's learning how to do them 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.240 and not it's like unpavlopping yourself. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:25.600 Oh yeah, totally totally. I'm trying to think what I 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.400 have that way. I mean I have that with uh, 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:35.760 I have that with smoking weed and everything. Uh not 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.520 Like I mean a lot of people have that right 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.000 where they're like, Oh, I'm gonna go to the grocery store, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.280 let me smoke weed beforehand. Oh cool, we're gonna go 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:47.080 see them this movie. Let me get blasted beforehand. I've 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.160 had periods of time in my life where I was like, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:55.120 anytime I'm not working, I'm high, you know. Like it 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.680 was just yeah, it's like yeah, dude. And also I 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.560 feel that with dude, all all of my fucking like 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.439 addictions and ship, I feel that way about Like. 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.720 That was me with like beer, like like last year. 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.599 Last year, I'd be like, oh, my wife would be 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:10.160 at work and I'd be done for the day and 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.880 I'd be like, well, I want to watch Edie time. 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.479 I need to watch with a six pack. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.040 Right right right? Yeah you got Yeah, it's true. You 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:21.640 got to Unpavla of yourself. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.120 Yeah, I got unpavlov myself, which is like it was. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:29.760 It's been cool. It's seven months as of tomorrow tomorrow 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:37.080 is seven months sober, and that's like, uh and that's 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.000 a that's a cool a cool feat And I met 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.440 I met one of my heroes snowboarding who's also sober 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:50.040 at him at five months and he told me that 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.800 was the hardest, the hardest time. And it feels like 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.559 it's gotten easier every day and then I could take 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.520 away and have on the variety too. Is like being 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.839 sober isn't what's hard? Like staying fucked up all day 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.520 is hard, Like financially and like mentally of well, where's 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.160 the money going? To go to buy a bottle of tequila? 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:17.280 Where's the money coming from to buy you know, a 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.600 six pack of night to watch Adventure Time? And like, 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:26.679 or how do I how do I stay fucked up 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:30.760 and people not realize I'm fucked up? Oh? 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.160 The Yeah, the being fucked up is the hard part. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.480 And the staying that's a that's a fac that's a 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.520 fascinating reframing. That's a fascinating reframing. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:41.480 Yeah. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.439 Yeah, Like it's like it is hard to get sober, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.400 like that is true, but it is easier to stay 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.319 sober than it is to stay fucked up. 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.480 Dude. You know what, Dude, give me some fucking therapy, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.200 because I'm at a point I'm at a point right 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:58.000 now where I'm like, I'm so i feel like I'm 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:04.360 in a crazy the feedback loop of my addictions that 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.280 I can't escape from. Like you know, you know how 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.280 it is what you're like, every every day you go, yeah, 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:15.840 every day, every day you go, today's a day, and 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.640 then every night you go, Tomorrow's the day, and it's 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:22.040 just just and then it dude, it's the existential shit. 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.040 If you're just like, well fuck it, every fucking day 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.520 is fucking today. You know, it's just it's so hard. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.240 I don't even how to like get like I don't 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:35.720 even know how to get out of that like kind 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.440 of rat race of it. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.000 You know, Oh no, because I've been there too before, 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.720 because I like I like danced around the idea of sobriety, 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.880 and like I kind of like grew up around sobriety too, 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:54.400 because my parents both met an A and so like 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.320 my entire life was like I'm gonna be better than 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.160 my parents. I'm never going to be an addict, and 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:05.160 then here here I am in the same boat. But 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:06.760 it's like I don't know, it's like hard, It's like 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.360 a hard thing. I would do the same thing of 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.320 like Okay, I'm done, I've done drinking, Like this is 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.040 gonna be my last drink. And then I go to 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.640 work and I hated my job or I was just 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.520 overwhelmed by like existing, and I was like, you know what, tomorrow, 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.680 tomorrow is a better day to quit drinking. And then 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:28.160 like tomorrow never came for like three years, yeah, and 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.400 then like one day it finally it clicked. And for me, 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.880 it kind of like took getting closer to a rock bottom. 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.200 And I don't want to say, like, I think it's 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:38.800 disingenuine to say the only way to get sober is 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.120 to be at a rock bottom. And I think it 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:45.680 really depends on like the type of person you are, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:50.800 Like for me, it took getting close to rock bottom 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.880 to get sober, but for other people, like other ways 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.280 to like frame it too, is like for your health right, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:59.920 Like it's like, well, I don't want to feel like 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.800 shit anymore, and like the moment I stopped doing this, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:10.000 I can, uh sorry, I can stop feeling a little 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:14.520 less shitty. And then another thing too, is like finding 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:23.120 something to replace it, like healthily. Yeah, like uh, I 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.000 want Like when I first quit drinking, I really just 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.440 wanted to drink, So anytime I would drink, I would 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:30.640 I'd go on a mountain bike ride or I'd go 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.120 on a road ride. And I kind of helped too, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:38.960 like I was like, well, ah, but well, I can't 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.400 sit at home. I'm too tempted. I can't go out 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.800 so too tempted. So then they go do something I enjoy. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.840 And I've known people who like they uh, decide to 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.560 quit something and they need to keep their hands busy, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.800 so they got like a small craft going like I 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.280 know someone who started knitting because they wanted to get sober. 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:03.320 M hm uh, and so like that's that's something that 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.320 like I've looked into as well, Like it never worked 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.880 for me because I have ADHD and I just get 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:11.320 distracted by all the small little projects, right, I can't 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.040 like have like a craft's hobby like knitting or sewing 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.000 or making something just because I get so like, well, 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:20.520 I can do it bigger and better and do this 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.920 thing next, and I like lose all the all the 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.960 steam for it because something else caught my eye. 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.200 Yeah, it's hard to be Uh, it's hard to do 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.920 several things when you got this young ADHD. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:40.200 Yeah. So but yeah, that's where I'm at, like seven 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:44.440 months sober in paramedic school, which is like I'm really 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:53.160 excited for congrats men, and uh yeah, just living in 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.160 southwest Colorado and like the worst year to live in 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:58.240 southwest Colorado. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.800 Why is it the worst year to live in southwest Colorado? 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.960 Oh? We had a terrible snow path. Like I'm so 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.240 afraid of everything around us catching on fire. We had 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:13.320 like one like when I first moved here in twenty twenty, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.000 like we had snow on the ground from October to 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:22.520 till April. This winter, we didn't have snow on the 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.480 ground until I got back from a job in California, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.919 and then we had snow on the ground for like 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:35.199 into in duran in Duringo Colorado, where I lived like 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:41.600 maybe two weeks maybe, and that was in like February, 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:44.400 and then like a little bit in March, and then 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.640 come April, like everything in town was dry. We could, 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:50.080 we could. There's really no point in the year. If 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.800 stott on Viking it was like really bad. But we 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:59.560 already hit peak river flow for the year, like two 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.600 weeks to go, so the river's not gonna get any 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.920 high unless we get rain. So this is not a 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.080 that it's bad weather. You're living south with Colorado. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.959 Well, I should say, you sound like you know a 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.240 lot about the weather, and I respect that. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:22.840 I I mean when you like when like I love snowboarding, 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.840 I got maybe forty days this year and sixty days 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.080 last year, like last season. And so when you're like 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:36.000 looking at how the how that snowfall for like affects 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.879 your like how the weather affects your like one of 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.000 your favorite sports. When your entire sport is like weather depended, 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:44.800 you got you kind of gotta and it's. 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:45.760 Like, how does. 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:47.480 How's that? 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.879 How's that guys Sean White doing? I bought a I 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:55.080 played his Wii game that you know back in the 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:57.960 days on textbooks. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:02.240 Yeah, now I remember that game. Now. Sean White's like 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:06.199 a cool guy in the space. Uh. He's doing a 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.560 lot and a little for the snowboarding community at the 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:14.800 time right now. Like he no, he doesn't have an NFT, 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.040 but he he started his own snowboard apparel and snowboard brand, 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.400 and then he sponsors like a little dude who lives 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.600 in Tell Your Ride. He's like absolute ripper, like some 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:29.560 ten year old kid who's like better a snowbere than 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.880 I'll ever be. And then he started a competition called 0:19:33.880 --> 0:19:38.840 the snow League, which is pretty cool. It's like another 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:48.080 another contest space for half type snowboarders, which is good. Yeah, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.520 he's like he's finally getting getting back in there and 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.560 like helping help him advance the snowboard community. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.080 Fuck yeah, man, I've never snowboarded before because I no, no, 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.840 I like, I don't like the fact that your feet 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.760 are clamped to the board, you know what I mean? 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.359 I like, I like, I like, I like this freedom 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.720 of skateboarding. I'm always afraid I'm gonna like like, like 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.879 I like skateboarding. It feels like anytime you're on the skateboard, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:22.040 you can go back to you the option to walk 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.400 is right there, you know what I mean. There's nothing 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:30.840 between you and changing your method of travel from skateboarding 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.720 to walking. But with the snowboard, it's like your ass 0:20:34.800 --> 0:20:38.359 is snowboarding, and if you want to change from snowboarding 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:43.359 to walking, there was a there's a procedure, you know. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:46.160 I don't like having a procedure between me and walking. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.720 No, that's that's super fair. And I kind of like 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.840 I have like the opposite when I skateboard. Every time 0:20:52.880 --> 0:20:56.720 I go skateboarding, I get like super frustrated because I'll 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:59.760 be trying to drop into a bowl and it's no 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.400 near a step or as deep as a half pipe 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:07.159 like the local half pipe at our local ski resort. 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:09.760 And I'll do that all the time, do that, go 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:15.399 and switch going regular But on a on a skateboard, 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.560 I just sometimes a mental I can't and I like 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:20.800 be thinking like it'd be so much better if my 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:24.040 feet were just strapped to the thing right now. 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:28.760 Interesting. Interesting, Yeah, sometimes when I'm working at my desk, 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:32.480 my ADHD makes me want to go, you know, leave 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:37.840 the room and get a snack or get high or 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.680 you know, do whatever. And it would be easier if 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:46.680 my feet were strapped to the ground. That's how I 0:21:46.680 --> 0:21:48.520 feel about those things. And the most things in life 0:21:48.560 --> 0:21:51.520 would be easier to do if you had your feet 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:53.639 strapped to them. What's your name again? 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:55.480 My name is Riley? 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:00.439 Riley, right, that's about By the way, that's such a 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:04.159 name of a skateboard of a snowboarding guy. Riley. 0:22:04.560 --> 0:22:09.280 Thank you, Riley of the Year, Riley. 0:22:09.359 --> 0:22:10.679 Is there anything else you want to say to the 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:11.959 people of the computer before we go? 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.520 No, that's it. Thanks for thanks for answering, of. 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:17.639 Course, thank you, Riley. 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:18.240 Uh. 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:22.640 Good luck with your continued sobriety. You've inspired me. Maybe 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:28.800 tomorrow I'll stop eating cosmic brownies for breakfast every day. 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:32.040 That's those are so good, I understand. 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.399 That's the problem with That's the problem with food addiction 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.800 is it's so funny. It's like hilleous, like I'm being 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:41.400 serious and it's so funny. 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:44.800 No. I know I'm there too, because I have, like, 0:22:45.840 --> 0:22:49.880 since since quitting drinking, I've treated the want for alcohol 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.439 to like sugar. 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.880 But you know what's funny is is like we're also 0:22:56.080 --> 0:22:59.719 like conditioned, like the like when I was a kid, 0:22:59.720 --> 0:23:02.960 I would have the hot fudge Sunday pop tarts and 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:06.000 we're like we've been we've been conditioned to believe that, 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.240 like that's a breakfast. 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:13.520 Oh yeah, no, I yeah, I that that happened to me. 0:23:13.600 --> 0:23:16.600 I was like, I need, I need a better breakfast. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.760 I'm tired of oatmeal and I want something. 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:21.800 Healthy pop tarts. Pop charts are healthy. 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.800 They're not they're not at all. They're terrible for you, 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:29.840 but they're so good. Thanks rather, I'll see around the universe. 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:31.680 Man, all right, thank you Jack. 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:36.520 That was Riley, right, is a good fucking guy. 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:38.000 I love. 0:23:38.080 --> 0:23:40.080 I love one of the things I like about this podcast. Man, 0:23:40.200 --> 0:23:42.800 just meet a guy like Riley and you're like, damn, 0:23:43.720 --> 0:23:46.080 there's just a chill ass dude in the world somewhere. 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:52.320 It's pretty cool. How much Sunday ones are good. The 0:23:54.680 --> 0:24:00.240 rug Rats Go Wild had a wild strawberry pop tart 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:07.760 with the characters on them back in two thousand and something. Someone, 0:24:07.800 --> 0:24:09.159 how do we get those? How do I get my? 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.159 I want someone get how do I get my hands 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:17.479 on a box of two thousand and four rug Rats 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:21.560 Go Wild movie promotional pop tarts. Someone let me know 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:22.480 if they have leads on that. 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:27.639 Hello, Hi, is this therapy got go? 0:24:28.320 --> 0:24:29.439 Yes? Hi? Who is this? 0:24:30.480 --> 0:24:35.280 Bro? You can call me. 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:38.640 Jerry? 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:42.440