Special Guest: Calirado Kid, Comedic MTB Video Superstar Answers All The Questions... Ep 102 [Podcast]

 

[Music] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the MTB podcast episode number 102 and I would like to

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preface this episode with the fact that the last episode was very dense with bike knowledge and bike nerdage and

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suspension and technical stuff from a true mountain biker World Cup mountain bike racer Nico malali and this podcast

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we're going a bit of a different direction uh we have instead of Nico as

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a guest we have the CaliRado kid CaliRado kid how do you pronounce it calirato kid calirato kid in my sultry

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voice I give you my sultry voice right there the CaliRado Kid Perfect yeah and

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Jared how you doing I'm doing fantastic how are you uh and it's just us three and we're you know we're gonna we're

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gonna be a little bit lighter on the bike nerdage and more on more on the goofy mountain bike humor because that

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is what Cali Rado Kid Joe is known for kind of tell us about yourself Joe it's

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kind of my specialty actually the truth is like I know a lot about bikes I just don't want to divulge that to my fans

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like it's really it's really just it's just play just tricking the fan base is really what I'm doing uh no so my

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background is interesting it's uh it's kind of the comedic aspect uh there's a couple great creators in this industry that are doing it like sea bass normal

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mountain biker Justin maker a couple of us are just making light of the fact that mountain biking is fun and it's uh

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it's uh fun to get out on a bike so it's really simple it's just that simple I mean uh it doesn't get more complicated

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than that that is that is a good good point yeah nice nicely said yeah nicely said and for the listeners out there if

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you aren't familiar with the Cali rattle kid uh you will be soon because he's on a For Better or Worse he's on track for

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a global famedom that's right uh with his what would you call those funny humorous mountain bike skit short form

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videos yeah I think in some long-form videos I think the trick has been like finding stuff that we can all relate to

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and putting it just kind of over exaggerating a bit for video form like so it's kind of fun in that regard because you can take something that we

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all deal with a flat tire or whatever else and you can just kind of make the joke out of it and everybody goes man I've had that happen to me before I

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think that's really the selling point on a lot of the content that we make and I make is uh we've all seen it before

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we've all done it before and so it's uh it's just bringing it to light and making fun of it and uh we've all had

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those problems so it's been fun awesome yeah it is good I mean uh you're mostly

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so YouTube Tick Tock Instagram all at Colorado kid and just just briefly

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looking at your YouTube channel and your shorts uh 7.4 million views on you

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crashed how's the bike uh 6.5 million views on what do you do with the old ones and you're holding a tire

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3.8 million views on buying your first mountain bike in 10 years and uh I caught him riding it

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I'm not sure I've actually seen that one yeah 2.3 million views on that

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this thing is sensitive 1.9 million views I could just go on yes really

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really a lot of thought went into naming all these videos short form content with millions and millions of users you know what's funny

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is I bet people are gonna some people are gonna listen to this and go I'm not actually from I don't know who this guy is and then they're gonna pull you up

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and be like oh I know this guy I've seen that that's such an interesting point because like a lot of okay so here's a funny story I wrote with a guy recently

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I think it was in Whistler actually we rode for about two days with this group of guys that were out of New York and uh

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some of the guys knew me some of them didn't but it wasn't until like the second day that the guy was like wait a minute you're the guy who dressed up as

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the fake wife and did that video huh you know so it's like I like that one that realization oftentimes The Voice like if

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we're on a trail system like people hear my voice first because I talk very loudly so my voice travels but uh yeah

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it's funny with that amount of exposure you're bound to at least see it if you're into mountain biking at some point you've probably seen one of these

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ridiculous videos yeah For Better or Worse yeah just just by the data if you

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add all this stuff up you might I mean covering half the US population at this point yeah right so incredible reach

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incred edible reach yeah that's that's pretty good stuff well we've got a batch of questions for you from the listeners

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that we're going to go through and then we're also going to you know implore into the mind of Colorado kid and see I

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don't know what I mean we hung out all day we rode some bikes and yeah I think I think there's some lessons you've

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learned about mountain biking because you've been riding for four years yeah right as a professional mountain biker

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yes yeah yeah what are you laughing at Jared oh you know okay sorry tell them about the sarcasm tell fans about the

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sarcasm he's got incredible sarcasm yeah it's off the charts it's amazing and the humor is great and that was sarcasm

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Jared I detected that no I'm just kidding uh so to clarify you weren't a

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professional mountain biker no no no I have no background of fighting at all yeah just to clarify uh

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my again my background is simple but I think what you said is we're going to get in a little bit later unless you want me to talk about it right now we'll

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Jump Right In no I mean I think I just wanted to more ask you yeah you know you

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got an mountain biking four years ago and seemingly out of nowhere yeah uh you've got just all of these hilarious

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short form videos on all these social media platforms and you've done a really good job at I guess what any good

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comedian does is getting into something and kind of seeing these funny little nuances and behaviors and communication

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and things and making these hilarious skits out of them how did you is this

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kind of just how you felt when you walked up to you know your first Trailhead and met some mountain bikers and started talking to people and then

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you're like man I could really make fun of this whole situation now it's funny because like the first time you go to a

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Trailhead you're terrified you don't know what to expect on a trail like an actual riding mechanics is like oh I'm just gonna die like the first year is

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like I'm probably just gonna die um but the humor stuff came in later because you know as you start to see more of the mountain bike culture and

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you fall in love with it you just see all those daily things that we all deal with it's like one of the videos I made is about like all the spare tires we

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keep in our garage despite never planning on using them again despite that we have a giant pile yeah and I

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thought of that because I went into my garage and I looked in there I was like I got this giant pile of tires like and I was like I know a bunch of people that

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have that and so I made this video buddy yeah we were going back and forth and the guys like really the premise is like

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oh man we get all these tires like he's like are you just gonna throw them away like are you crazy though like 90 a piece he's like yeah but they're all

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broken right like yeah he's like you're gonna use them no I'm gonna keep it up you know it's just that simple and that's really what we all do I've got

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plenty of tires sitting around for no reason yeah it's it is that it's very true so I

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I mean yeah how many tires you got there probably like a dozen in my garage it's almost half the amount of bikes you have

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just laying around right if I paired the back of the bikes a little bit he'd recently cleanse them a little bit yeah

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we're working on it the more I started to understand like the culture of mountain biking and the stuff we all deal with I just thought it was fun to

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like bring light to it and that evolved over time right the first thing I started doing was doing you know long-form YouTube ride videos which is

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kind of where all mountain bike YouTubers seem to start it's just hey let's go ride on the trail document the trail all that stuff but over time I was

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able to let my the humor flourish and evolve it and the short form stuff has been wildly successful because again

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it's easily consumable you know if you could tell a joke in 15 30 seconds that relates to everybody it seems to do

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really well and uh it's fun it's uh it's been really good man it's been really good yeah no I mean you've done an

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amazing job at it and and funny enough I was you know brought you up with uh Brian Kennedy bkxc I was I was talking

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to him he's one of the partners in trail one with us and talking to him about you and he's like he's like I know Joe Kitty

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went to high school with him he's like a good friend of mine I can introduce you guys I was like yeah we would love to meet Joe because he is hilarious yeah

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and uh we gotta just hang out with this guy because he's funny and we have an ongoing gag about you know here we are

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we're here I made it finally and it's funny because we've been talking about me making a road trip down here up in Northern Calif I'm in Sacramento

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Northern California it's not that far like a six hour drive but we've been talking about it for a while finally

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made it work which is awesome this is great we got to Ryan today and we have an ongoing gag of me like name-dropping

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Brian in my live streams and things like that so it's like if I say Brian's name more than three times we have to just

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start taking drinks so I'm not gonna talk about Brian at all tonight this is it that's it okay all right yeah that's

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it I mean I guess I technically name dropped him first yes so I only got two on under my belt yeah yeah so we're good

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but three combined yeah yeah who would you like to name drop uh gosh you

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I know Jeff yeah Jeff yeah yeah Jeff

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I don't know of another one I was just uh looking through your videos and you got one of them that says it's bigger

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than it looks and you got those big eyeball emojis that's one about the rock roll right no

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that's the tire one right yeah millions and millions oh that's a good one too but super relatable and the concept is like the concept is you go up to this

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rock roll with you if it's your first rock roll ever right you go up to it to you it looks like basically the Grand

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Canyon you look down this thing you're staring down the hillside you're like my God you know like I can't imagine doing

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this you know what I mean and then of course you're like you finally work up the nerves to do it and you roll down and you look up you're like oh that was

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like you know three feet you know it was like just this tiny yeah rock roll and the production that goes behind that is

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funny and it's interesting because like I find this giant rock slab that I can shoot and then I've got to go find this tiny Little Rock to shoot that has the

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same lighting the same angle of the sun this is how much I dive into this that people don't realize I spent like 20

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minutes riding around with all the camera gear on my back to find another rock that was similar looking and had Lighting in the same direction as the

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sun to film the second part which was me rolling down looking at it be like huh it looked bigger you know like this is

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what I do yeah this is I don't know oh that is more thought when I went into that little video I know and and I think maybe that's part of the reason why I've

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had success in it because like maybe I overthink some things uh but it's been good I don't know it's I have fun doing

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it so yeah I will say I mean I I noticed that you're you're always a lot of the stuff you can tell is not filmed on a

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phone you're using a proper camera yeah and then the audio is perfect yeah wow for better not messing around I know I

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know yeah there's clearly like a lot of effort you know put into it and it shows I mean it looks good yeah we did a shoot

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with Paul the punter recently and he was helping me shoot a video and we were out there shooting a 30 second video for

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four hours just just completely ridiculous this I was worth it I don't know but

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yeah anyways it's fine I'm able for thought what else could you have possibly done better with yourself maybe

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ride my bike yeah Jeff is uh concerned about the ROI yeah I know this it was not yeah although that video got two

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million views on YouTube within two weeks or within one week actually so that's not bad that's pretty good yeah oh yeah good some potentially uh

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tangible Roi that's like that I'll take it no qualitative quantitative

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debatable debatable oh that's awesome a seating change

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[Music]

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oh sorry we're back uh Joe had to do a little Mike Mike adjustment because he's

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not very familiar with audio equipment whatever Jeff I blame Liam he's had this

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set up the wrong way don't tell him I said that he's using Liam's mic yeah yeah he helped me with a bike so don't

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tell myself the audio equipment was was a was a dig because you actually do what what is your title are you actually an

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audio engineer to a certain degree so I work in broadcast the broadcast industry

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I used to do some TV work but mostly radio always been a radio engineer and

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that's uh that's my current trade so building radio stations maintaining them and a lot of your younger younger audience is gonna be like what's a radio

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station yeah I'm actually even sure I know I don't blame them at the end of the day it's like you know just building

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Studios like podcast Studios actually too is something I've done in my spare time it's helping people build podcast Studios and it's something that kind of

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fell to the Wayside when once I started doing the Colorado kid page because like I was actually making legitimate money

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at that and I was like I would rather go make no money and make funny videos so I've made a really a great decision I

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think on this whole Endeavors that's what I did yeah that's the choice

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I made that could honestly be another idea for a video because uh you out there filming a skit about mountain

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bikes and then your you know fake quote unquote wife comes out which you've impersonated before yeah I've got this

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yeah everybody says my wife has a great mustache because I just I've done a couple reels where I've got the towel

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wrapped over my head and by the way that robe is this road that's yours yeah no

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this kimono that has roses all over it apparently is like a family heirloom that I'm just destroying these stupid videos yeah it's just this is what we've

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done with our lives oh no she puts up with me yeah and she could she could walk out and ask why you've chosen to uh

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make these mountain bike skits rather than do audio Studio building and Consulting so

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wait is there ever a point where it's like Inception where she comes out in her kimono when you're in the kimono and

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she's like what are you doing and you're like oh I'm just filming a video and then I don't think she I don't think she would wear the kimono now for fear of

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that happening like it's really like it would just we that we would lock eyes and it would be about 30 minutes before we realized what happened oh my God it's

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just my thought yeah yeah but it's good yeah it's so funny like she she totally

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tolerates me she gets it and it's like there was only one time when the female like fake wife character actually came a

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little close to home and she was like that's a little close to home isn't that I was like No And it was the one where

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it was like me setting up the idea of like going on a road trip and you're like look honey you know we're gonna have a blast on this road trip with my

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friends but the truth of the matter is I'm just really gonna miss you you know and she's like uh oh thanks honey you're

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so sweet he's like no you're sweet you know like that sort of stuff it's like well have fun and call me when you get to the hotel like I will honey I miss

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you and then she closed the door and I started doing a celebration dance and she catches me yeah it's like yeah she's like that's a little close to home isn't

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it I was like no no you're right on the edge there dude

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right on the edge yeah but again like relatable content we've all like been stuck to go on a road trip and she's

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like you know they want to hear that you would rather be hanging out with them and sometimes you just want to ride

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she's gonna listen to this you guys got me in trouble oh let's backped I was trying to dig out of this one we can fix

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it so you kind of you kind of did answer this first listener question which is are you doing this Creator thing full

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time if so what's the story and if not what's your day job so you kind of answer that it's not full time it's not

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full-time yeah just you know the usual four hours for 30 second video on this on the weekends that sounds full-time to

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me and then your day job has something to do with the radio yeah yeah building audios Amos and monitoring and all that

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stuff again most of the crowd here probably won't even know what a radio station is but yeah it's good it's fun I've I've been doing it for years I'm

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good at it and and I enjoy it so it's it's good I don't have anything bad to say about it uh the content creation stuff is really interesting because it's

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another Avenue of creativity that you know it's it's a stretch of the brain it's it's a cool to think of the shots

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and how you can pull off and how what the best way to execute a joke is and it's engaging anybody that creates content kind of understand that or

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there's a lot of ways to think about it but it for me it's it's a spark and I'm always thinking about like I see

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something and how can I execute that and now I was explaining recently it's funny it's kind of ridiculous that I think in terms of shots like how am I going to

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pull off this video I know the joke I want to make now what are the shots I need to pull it off and so now in my

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head immediately like all those sequences are happening so I try to make notes of this stuff and and it helps me

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but yeah anyways let's I've gone I've gone way far down the rabbit hole way far down the rabbit hole one of the

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stories I told by the way last night seems like you're having fun though I know it is super fun one of those stories I told outside Brendan recently

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we were hanging out and crashing at his place is that another incredible content creator by the way um is that like when I first started

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this I went and I got to use Bronson because Brian the old bkxd there's a name drop okay it happens all the time

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but I didn't know anything about bikes so well he he was just riding a Bronson so I was like let me find a Bronson to

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me that's a great bike because he's riding it right um and so anyways I went and bought this used Bronson I didn't know it didn't

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come with pedal so I was a little frustrated I was like what do you mean it doesn't come with pedals how am I gonna ride the bike uh so this is my

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knowledge of bikes getting into the mountain biking sport all right and so this happens and uh geez yeah it's just

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all downhill from there but I told the guys at work I was like look when I get this mountain bike I'm a little concerned because I have a bit of an

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addictive personality like I did this with barbecue like I was like I really like barbecue and like brisket smoking

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briskets and all this stuff so I went and bought a thousand pound smoker from Texas that cost four grand and I just

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like every weekend was smoking 80 pounds of meat you know it was like so I just like I dove head first and so I told him

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when I got this bike I was like man I'm a little concerned that I might go a little too far with this they're like what do you mean and here we are like

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yeah it's just it's gone too far but I want to backped a little bit what do you do with all that meat like do you have

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parties every time yeah so all at one it's meal prep so like we could throw we could eat a big dinner have family over

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and all this stuff then I'll vacuum seal ribs and brisket and all that stuff and you just heat it up anytime especially when you get a family Jared oh he's over

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there thinking about meat but like like the smoker's so big that I might as well fill it up when I cook yeah I've already

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got the fire going on top of the wood I'm throwing the wood in there and so like I'll vacuum seal it or just when we have a barbecue I literally tell people

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like fill your plate as high as you can go and take it home with you wow because I don't care like I I whatever like

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certainly it's just sharing that's what it's all about I like the vacuum seal idea that's great yeah it's a good idea and it's meal prep when you got a family

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I got two kids and so we got a wife and we all work and it's like that way during the week you just vacuum seal it

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uh take it out you got you got dinner wow we got sidetracked but there it is Jared whatever you do with all of your extra meat well I usually eat it within

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like a couple days because I don't do a 80 pound brisket yeah but it's on an 80 pound brisket but I'll put like four

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briskets so they're like 20 pounds of peas plus you know six racks of ribs and I'll throw hot links and stuff in there

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too it's it's excessive wow yeah I've gone too I'm looking at Mike yeah

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sometimes I bring in my meat and I share it with the shop Jeff loves to me yep that is true I do enjoy when Jared comes

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in with some nice fancy Meats what were those little those pork belly burnt ends I've got some good pictures to show you

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later you should have had a snack before the

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podcast so we can just clearly make it obvious that we're all hungry yeah we were eating trail mix what were we doing we were just hammering some trail mix

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before the podcast I think we'll just grab dinner barbecue oh here we are just talking about meat even I'm talking

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about meat and I really don't care that much yeah you do don't I love to eat it and I'd certainly appreciate some

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well-cooked meat did I mention I'm a vegan can I tell you about it no okay sorry

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yeah that's not true oh man don't worry I I gave him the warning on the sarcasm okay good you

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don't have to tell him I'm pretty sure anybody listening is picked up on it that's why if not I apologize

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we were talking about beyond meat oh geez or impossible meat

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they are not paid sponsors so yeah let's not talk about it what the hell are you doing don't talk about that

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it's one thing I've learned as a content creator you never talk about anything that you're not getting paid for anymore yeah that's not true at all actually

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yeah yeah so yeah just kidding speaking of sponsors should

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we go to the next listener question go ahead Jared read it off what do you think is strange about Jeff Jared and

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the worldwide cycler crew now that you have met us in person what I think is strange about you guys uh if you could

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if you could just pick a couple things nothing look at me like listen to me I'm just a maniac so like to me like I'm as

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strange as it gets so nah it's fun like one of the things I talked about one of the reasons why I'm involved with you

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guys is because you have a sense of humor because you guys are producing content you get that side of things like to me it's more important than anything

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is people that get what I'm doing and I'm not gonna say appreciate it because you might not but what I will say is

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like I appreciate the fact that you guys know what it takes to make content you're involved with it and there's a face to the business so like for me and

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we talked about this earlier like people know you guys and that's a business but like there's other brands that I've

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never seen the face of anybody that works at that place yeah uh so it's cool man there's a personality behind the

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company and you know even the trail one stuff we talked about what talked about like the handlebars the grips you guys know Brian you know Jeff all these

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things have a face to them and you know the people involved with it it's like that's it it's at face value like so

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it's cool to me I really appreciate that so it's not that weird at all that's a weird one yeah it's like takes one or no

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one right yeah exactly yeah I'm used to it this is nothing none of this is unusual to me well that's amazing yeah

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cool awesome man you really could have just that was a good layup to really just lay into US you could have just thrown us under the bus yeah it's a nice

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compliment yeah we appreciate that it could happen plus he told me to keep it PG

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yeah that's awesome yeah I I do agree with you I part of the reason why you

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know I like that we create content and bring value with content and also show who we are and and make sure there's

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sort of a face in people and people can see who we are and who's running the brands um because I respect that myself like I

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like buying from other brands that I think oh those are good people and I relate to them and they're providing

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value and I see who they are and it's just transparent and relatable and and I enjoy that and I I enjoy like supporting

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Brands like that myself so yeah I always thought yeah I want to make sure that the brands I'm involved with people kind

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of know what's going on and it's clear and transparent what our motives are and who we are and what we care about and

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what our you know what we honor and our passions and all that sort of stuff so I think it resonates with people I think

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it does yeah I think it does I really do so it's uh it's a big thing to me it was

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like seeing who's doing it so it's cool yeah and I always you know saying uh you

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know in our various content Special YouTube videos that you can contact attacked any of us on Instagram and I'm

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at Jeff Kaley and Jared's at Jared beer man and uh just send us some slide into our DMS and I always send audio replies

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to people I think they're usually pretty uh surprised when they get that but also maybe nervous because they feel like

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maybe they have to reply back the audio yeah yeah yeah have you had any awkward audio replies yes definitely

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let's uh let's roll them right now you got it on the board over there let's just get it let's do it okay all right

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now maybe next time yeah but yeah I think it's important I think

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people should know who the heck are the people running brands that they're buying from the businesses they're working with yeah yeah it's nice all

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right well cool thanks Joe there you go thanks for not just telling us under the bus flattery will get me everywhere yeah

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is it okay if I take a new bike home

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this is a perfect question for you I'm not sure this is a great question yeah it's it this is right up your alley as

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your self-proclaimed uh professional mountain bike yeah just please explain why some bikes have linear suspension

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linkage ratios and why some have Progressive linkage ratios I mean I think it's obvious don't you oh yeah I

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think it's quite obvious like one it's a politician answer

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keep going keep going you don't even need to understand explain how everybody knows okay look you sing I mean like first things first you gotta account for

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gravitational forces right and plus if a solar flare is just going to kick up and throw your linkage out of line you

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really gotta account for that so I think having what was the question I think I think I think having the the know-it-all

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and the and the Fantastic knowledge that you would of of linkages that all it

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just all comes together you know I I think the first one's better than the second one yeah that's my knowledge is my specialty Jeff

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that's good like realistically again it's so funny like

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I do love riding bikes but I'm not a technical person like to

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like I couldn't tell you the difference between Kashima coding and non-kashita Kashima coding uh but I love riding

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bikes man and and I think that resonates with people because like a lot of people just get on the bike and want to ride there are the detail oriented there's

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nothing wrong with being detail-oriented in fact I learned a lot listening to you guys on this podcast occasionally when I feel like doing it but

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um you know it's still like the details sometimes to

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me like after about a minute of details I'm just zoned out so it's like I still love riding bikes and and I think there

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are people that like that which is maybe one of the reasons why my dumb content resonates with people too is because like there's a lot of people that don't

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know the details too and there's nothing wrong with that at the very least we can all kind of help each other learn and like I'm learning one day at a time

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usually by internet trolls just just right coming right after me yeah yeah when I say something wrong in the video

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that's how I learn everything I've known about mountain biking just like people calling me an idiot and I you know I'm I

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love it I love new knowledge yeah wherever it comes from yeah like a learning center of educational too

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mountain biking yeah the the the mountain bike itself is a pretty complicated piece of equipment but you

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know you get the right shop you get the right friends you can get on the thing and have a great time and you don't need to know anything and everything about it

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yeah um but if you want to it's also a really fun sport when you become an Enthusiast and you slowly go down the

25:04

path of bike nerdage and learn to learn more about it it's pretty fun and entertaining and doesn't really ever end because it's kind of endlessly complex

25:10

in that way it really is it really is think about like if somebody asked you to describe like a wheel to Someone Like

25:17

a Wheel set like how many things would you have to describe to someone to describe a simple wheel so right yeah

25:25

think about it for a second like how many objects spokes rims tubeless tire

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setups tires uh hubs pressure did you say hubs you know all these things like

25:35

there's so many elements like how many spokes like there's so many elements just to a wheel set it's like man have

25:42

we gone to too far so like not everybody knows that stuff it is a lot I remember when I was getting a custom wheel set

25:48

built they were like okay how many spokes do you want I'm like wait there's different levels you can get different numbers of spokes so and what's the

25:54

point of that I'd like to apologize to everybody in advance listening to this podcast here because yeah I'm certainly

25:59

not the most knowledgeable guy when it comes to bike parts but I think there's a big audience that doesn't know that too so it's like at the very least I

26:05

could be their Ambassador I don't know like but it's complicated and that's just a wheel set and then you apply

26:10

everything else the different yeah there's a lot so having people explain that and not be upset about the fact

26:16

that someone doesn't know is really important oh yeah and you guys provide a lot of good content like that I don't

26:22

want to fly to you guys all night long this is probably the last compliment I'm gonna deliver but you know we talk about the idea of Evergreen content like

26:28

actual information that's digestible and entertaining and doing that is hard there's only a few content creators that

26:34

can do it well so it's cool and there's people like me that need it because I just don't know oh I mean not everybody's born with a wealth of bike

26:40

knowledge right yeah everybody has a place where they art and yeah everybody has a certain you know place down that

26:46

rabbit hole they go and that's fine yep yep that is well said Jared thank you

26:51

said true appreciate it very eloquent thank you well done I think he needs more whiskey

27:00

oh that is nice uh this next question uh might be oh it's actually kind of

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related to the question after that too so oh yeah this one is you know I think we should ask these in a different order

27:12

so the first question okay is how often do you get mistaken for Jason sadakis AKA Ted lasso oh my God uh you know what

27:21

funny in person not so much on the internet quite a bit and here's the top The Front Runners okay on people that I

27:27

get confused with Ted lasso yeah um you have the same mustache same kind

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of bad jokes it's kind of been discerned between yeah there's also

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um God what's the actor's name from My Name Is Earl oh um I know the guy you're

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talking about Earl for My Name is Earl yeah in a certain number of videos Lelo

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Salamanca from uh Better Call Saul those are the Front Runners of the people that like constantly pop up as an alert comes

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in they're like is that Layla Salamanca riding a bike like or is that like My Name is Earl yeah Jason Lee is Jason Lee

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Earl hickey Jason Lee yeah My Name is Earl those are the Front Runners and I actually held a contest once not a

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contest but like a poll on Instagram once and I think Ted lasso won out I

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think Ted last one oh who you look like the most yeah I think I can see that I don't know why I didn't dress up as Ted lasso for

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Halloween actually ask you yeah if you did that I should have well so okay

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let me pulling up pictures of his head and looking at you it's 100 like uh dead

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ringer right I mean he's he is him here's the uh the participation time for

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the for the audience you know you guys go search it right now and you tell the worldwide cycler are you DM them or

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whatever and you say is it Ted lasso is it the guy from My Name is Earl or is it Lilo Salamanca I see Ted lasso now you

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know what you could even do is you could probably show up to the filming of the next episode just show up and be like

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just walk in there where's my trailer you know what it is I'll be a stunt double oh yeah for sure just tell him

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you're uh Ted lasso stunt double yeah Jason Sudeikis

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tell him you're Ted last one you mean Jason yeah get out of here guys

29:09

you bother me that's the Cali Rado kid

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I missed that one well how many chicks have slid into your DMs

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over the years oh my God every nun like so welcome to the mountain bike industry

29:28

oh it's listening all right no uh seriously none like it's so funny like uh I'm a big fan of getting more women

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on the trail okay that sounds inappropriate let me let me back this up okay I

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like so one of the things like I know there's been a lot of talk about like bro culture within mountain biking and

29:49

stuff like that like that's never been something that I've had to deal with a lot of the stuff that I deal with is very like you know just inclusive let's

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all hang out let's go riding let's have some fun trails and so like I think it's a I think of it as a very positive thing

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to get more people involved in mountain biking agreed yeah it's so cool and seeing creators like Jess the maker

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um and there's a bunch of creators I'm blanking right now but like seeing that come about and bringing more women into

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the sport that is rad and is one of my favorite things to do get Outdoors be on the bike it can only mean good things

30:20

man I'm not sure I hope some of the uh the Bros can behave themselves that's all I'm gonna say yeah I'm not actually

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sure that women do slide into DMS no not for me no it's just it's fun talking to

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audience like maybe if you're Ryan Reynolds or something or Zach or Ted lasso yeah yeah attack

30:40

Zac Efron yeah yeah yeah um I don't know why this what question

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is this Jared just says cheese oh yeah that's just a one word question is cheese question mark I assume they're

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asking you what kind of cheese you like uh or if you eat it and parmesan's the

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best because you can put parmesan on pasta and you can you can grate it fresh parmesan yeah and uh that's the best

31:01

nice uh I disagree what do you thinking well no I've recently become a fan of goat cheese

31:07

you know what the problem is with that I once had a pet goat and goat cheese tastes like how goats melt oh no that's

31:15

exactly what goat cheese is to me we had a pet goat and uh when you eat goat cheese it tastes like he smelt oh man

31:21

that's like uh you know once you see how sausage is made up yeah all you want to do is eat sausage yeah

31:27

what did you say to me [Laughter]

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I've been to a few not serious like factory farms but I've been to a few sort of small-scale farms and yeah the

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more I get close to animals and Farms it's just you know just not really appetizing across the board anything

31:51

yeah that being said like I have no problem eating goat cheese but it's like yeah it's just uh there's a little bit

31:56

of that in there it's about like the ones like the blueberries like mixed into it you know fancy cheese those are good yeah what about like a nice sharp

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cheddar yeah I do like cheese yeah yeah like an aged like a vintage sharp cheddar yeah I don't have any dice in

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this conversation no horse in the streets in this race

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yeah all right top five mustaches of all time my god

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um Tom Selleck's got to be at the top yeah and what's the guys uh Sam Elliott from Tombstone is probably one that the

32:29

greatest voice in voiceover history in acting history but he's got a pretty incredible mustache and after that it

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just falls off a cliff I mean there's nobody even close so that's all I can say there's probably more uh what's that

32:41

uh one NASCAR racer he had a great muscle they all have great mustaches now they've been a NASCAR guy hmm Richard

32:47

Petty is that who I'm thinking of that's a good question Dale Earnhardt Richard Petty's got a hell of a mustache look at

32:52

that yeah that's a pretty good mustache all right we're gonna put him in there all right I've given my top two and that's

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as many mustaches as I know we got Dale Earnhardt um yeah Tom said like you're right I

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think he is up there yeah it's good um gosh

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what about it yeah well we got one more um Pablo Escobar

33:16

oh yeah it's pretty decent now we're just throwing straws though I mean I really have to do some research on this if only you guys had asked me to be

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prepared which you did but I didn't that's it it's fine we'll keep moving yeah we'll keep it moving yeah I don't

33:28

think you need to be prepared for the next question no no no certainly not but a little bit of research wouldn't help sure it wouldn't hurt sure is farting

33:34

like yawning where once someone starts it becomes contagious no I can confirm that I've seen it

33:40

happen on a trail before you know yawn just just works its way through the crowds but uh that works yeah a fart

33:45

will spread the crowd so it's uh it's quite the opposite wow that's true yeah somewhat prophetic as well yeah

33:52

gosh yeah you know what's funny is even if someone like opens their mouth like they're gonna yawn like

33:57

sometimes that's enough to trigger it you can fake trigger a mass Exodus of yawning yeah you could I feel like I

34:04

need to know the usernames of who asked this whether you're they're your fans or my fans because I'm gonna find this out I'm gonna like I expect my fans to ask

34:11

very classy questions are you saying these questions aren't

34:17

classy or wow wow speaking of classy questions how

34:22

do you take your bib off when you need to poop ah who wears a bib well who doesn't no I no I have a taint of Steel

34:28

no I don't uh I don't know where uh I don't wear a bib I don't wear a chamois a Kate on big rides maybe like big

34:34

massive rides in Colorado sure but uh I don't think I've ever worn a bib is that the one you put over your shoulders like

34:40

oh yeah no no Chamois nope wow do you ever ride more than 15 miles what are you trying

34:47

to say Jeff or do you ever I told you I was a Pro mountain bike you ever ride 10 miles a day for four days in a row or

34:53

more no I have but uh now my writing schedule's

35:00

so hard because one just you know work and family it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of time so and then um you

35:07

know there's those occasional road trips where I will just be out every day when I did a whistle road trip I'm riding every day but you know it's just uh it's

35:14

just proper conditioning I guess is really what it was just grit like very like coarse grit sandpaper it will

35:20

really condition the regions you need it's like you can play guitar a lot and the tips of your uh fingers yeah callous

35:27

exactly right yeah just like sandpaper exactly right yeah yeah so I've never

35:33

worn a bib to answer your question wow so I can't relate so uh so then it's pretty easy for you to to go poop yeah

35:40

yeah exactly wow I'm gonna reprimand my audience that's

35:46

what's gonna happen all right yeah this is fair this uh podcast

35:52

content is definitely different than normal yeah and yeah did anybody ask about the laughs and less on the

35:58

Practical useful bike knowledge yeah we've got nothing wrong with that you could yeah here's what I know the one

36:04

question you asked about bike parts that was your audience [Laughter] that was actually from FBI Matt the

36:11

linkage ratio one yes yeah but I thought that you told him to ask that because it he put your initials afterwards like it

36:18

was some sort of signature are there any questions that aren't about farts or poop can I we just like um and that is

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the end of the episode

36:32

what we doing oh geez oh man well this one is actually not about poop or your

36:39

childhood okay that's good um what is your in your head ultimate bike quiver of three bikes what three

36:45

bikes would you pick that's actually a good question that is a good question because I mean really three is a good number

36:51

so okay you need a high travel bike all right you need a high travel bike for

36:56

riding gnarly stuff yep long travel High Travel you can't say High Travel

37:01

wait why can't you say hi Travelers short wait what long travel or short travel okay long travel bike yeah I

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would say okay so a long travel bike right in park days for Gnarly stuff all

37:14

right can we use the term gnarly is that appropriate yeah okay cool all right sweet and then uh I would say

37:20

I just want to correct his lingo a little bit I know this is what I'm here that's okay this is exactly what happened we're all learning this is the

37:27

only way to learn and then okay then you've got your low travel bike wait short short travel bike yeah yeah okay

37:33

and then you know there that way you can ride your normal XC stuff yeah which is stands for cross country

37:41

I like to establish that here and then you know it's arguable that an e-bike

37:46

needs to be in there I think at this point an e-bike must be in there and that's going to be controversial

37:52

yeah Cali riddle kid says e-bikes or a quiver bike cancel if you want like a

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long travel big battery e-bike or a mid travel here's my truck here's my

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take on the scenario okay for me the ultimate use of an e-bike because like I

38:10

don't mind it on the daily Trails like especially when you guys have these cool Trails where you can go up there and just session these quick rippable Trails

38:16

that's super cool I love the idea that it's so rad um so that's hard to say but for my rise

38:22

with the time frames that I have I would love the big battery the high travel long long travel okay

38:30

the long travel look I'm great at this don't worry I'll pick it up long travel

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because what I want to do is I want to go in the back why do you want the big battery though you're going over well

38:41

he's explaining right now yeah what I want to do and I love doing this every year we'll go rent an e-bike in

38:46

downeyville and we'll go on these Back Country rides that are 35 40 miles six to seven thousand feet of climbing just

38:53

these crazy Adventures yeah that's what I want I like adventure riding more than anything else like and I like doing Park

39:00

days those are fun I like doing that like right but whatever Adventure rides are my favorite thing in the world one

39:05

seeing something I've never seen but two like getting into trouble and like those Backcountry rides where there's they're

39:11

not quite trimmed right there's there's Thorns hitting you in the face like it's just like this crazy adventure to me

39:17

that's like the best thing in the world that's some some of the funnest stuff in the sport of mountain bike yeah for sure exactly subscribe I absolutely love it

39:24

and I don't get enough of it in my life you know it's it's hard to like make the time for those big trips and all that stuff but when they come man that's

39:31

that's what I would want a massive uh battery for and a uh long travel I was

39:38

gonna say hi again I got it okay third time's a charm long travel just because you don't know what you're gonna get

39:43

into yeah yeah and that makes that idea excites me the idea of like the battery running out and you're stranded like

39:49

just crazy like everything's going wrong A Bear's about to attack you you punch right in the face like that's the kind of stuff I want

39:55

that's not gonna happen oh you want the battery to die and get attacked by it I don't know maybe I made a solar panel we can engineer something

40:01

imagine the adventure you have like if you engineered a solar panel to tie in and like you know you I don't know like

40:06

Elon it's just not gonna happen yeah but I like that idea and like to me some of the biggest and funnest rides I've had

40:11

is just like these I don't know what I'm getting into and so it's just not your normal trail ride right yeah that's what

40:17

I see is like the most usable thing for me I would love to do that more of that nice but it's time you know that takes

40:23

time yeah that's what I mean but like you're talking about doing like bike packing

40:29

trips and it's like that takes time yeah especially if you want to do multi-day trips that's a weekend and that's time

40:35

away from the family so I have to plan all that stuff to because it's not fair to them that I just take off every weekend and ride bikes so yeah all those

40:41

things come into play but I like the idea of that I really do and I don't know quite know where the gravel bike fits into this whole situation because I

40:48

I haven't done a gravel bike ride so I I don't know like it might not count well

40:53

that's just like an extra bike yeah so those are my those are already naming your three bikes yeah yeah you so full

40:58

circle long travel either like long travel pedal bike for bike park gnarly stuff and a short travel XC

41:05

or trail bike yeah okay like Siege what's your three byte quiver

41:12

um I'll tell you well so my dream one or my current one all right your dream one okay

41:19

um I do love having a gravel bike that like doubles as a road bike just because I

41:24

like to do that every once in a while um yeah short travel bike and long travel

41:30

bike

41:35

160 170 Andro bike and uh yeah or or just a trail bike I don't think it needs

41:41

to be a cross-country bike or yeah like that 120 130 140 maybe range I don't

41:46

know can I tell you guys the story the line's blur so much yeah please I'm sorry yeah I've only had one bite for

41:51

the last four years and I've managed to create an empire

41:59

it's comical it's comical uh it's like I've had my SP 5.5 and that's the only

42:04

bike I've had for the last four years it's ridiculous Jeff is just like man how does yeah I've only had one bike for

42:10

the last five years we have like 80 000 bikes

42:16

I've got a few well Jeff what's your three bike quiver ah that that's such a

42:21

hard three well the short answer is three is not enough okay and this is limiting yeah and I

42:28

feel confined with that question yeah in this in this put me in a jail in this messed up confined Universe where you

42:34

have to have three bikes I'm Gonna Make You Pick Three you're on an island yeah and you can only bring three bikes with

42:40

you onto then Tom Hanks onto this island which may have the perfect mix of trails for all three bikes what are they going

42:46

to be ah okay well I'll tell you what I'm in between yeah uh sort of your your light

42:54

trail bike 115 120 will travel 29er that's that's you gotta have that yeah

42:59

I'm not getting rid of that no matter what yeah and uh so I'm in between Vince and and I also I think a downhill bike

43:06

oh just like a full-blown downhill bike for going to Whistler going to bike parks yeah you know as impractical as

43:13

they are you're gonna sacrifice one of your bikes for an impractical way also so so here's the thing and then and then

43:19

the third bike could be a what I consider a gravel bike yeah which is your flat handlebars salsa

43:26

Cutthroat that I have flat handlebars full original dropper post but still full rigid and Ultra lightweight yeah

43:32

um so that's kind of what I'm leaning towards those three bikes so full rigid

43:37

quasi-gravel mountain bike uh you know short travel trail bikey and then a

43:43

full-blown downhill bike but I'm also thinking maybe I'll sacrifice the downhill bike for a 150 mil travel and

43:51

yeah bike yeah but I don't know because I just when you go to a bike park and

43:57

you ride the gnarly stuff it's just so much more fun on a full-fledged downhill bike but what if this island

44:03

it has Trails you want to be able to pedal to the top and there's no chair lift on this island you never know

44:09

yeah so that's where you're in durability that's why three is not enough give me four all right I'm in

44:15

well okay if we're gonna talk like real bike stuff how would you okay so for example modern mountain bikes that are

44:21

Enduro bikes right versus downhill bikes yeah they're pretty capable of the bike park these days they 100 are yeah I

44:28

totally agree and and I fully understand why people can take 150 160 170 mil

44:34

travel bike yeah ride it at the bike park and be like this thing's as good as a downhill bike yeah and in many ways it

44:40

is but I I still would like to you know push nudge you to say okay just but also

44:47

compare it back to back with a full-fledged eight inch travel downhill bike with a dual Crown Fork yeah because

44:53

there is still a difference yeah well there's a reason why World Cup Downhill Racers obviously still racing yeah

45:00

exactly exactly yeah so yeah so I don't know so so you're right that can it

45:05

accomplish all of the same stuff absolutely but it doesn't accomplish it in the perfect way yeah we could say

45:11

that it's they're capable but not the perfect solution for the problem right right having the right

45:18

gear for what you're doing is important yeah and they're infinitely more capable than they ever have yeah exactly even

45:24

three four five years ago they were not even close to what a downhill bike can do now and now they're like right next

45:30

to it which is pretty cool yeah so I mean and that's why downhill bike sales have fallen off a cliff in the last 10

45:36

years because the emergence of Enduro bikes right yeah yeah I mean you think about it it makes so much more practical

45:41

sense to have a 150 160 mil travel Enduro bike and not have a downhill bike

45:47

anymore and then you just ride your Enduro bike anytime you ever go to a bike park and people are you know grinning or smiling so would you say

45:53

it's a bit like starting a fire with a lighter versus a flamethrower or is that a stretch uh

46:00

I'm sorry okay sorry we'll keep moving on yeah I mean I like the idea I'd love to have Flames flamethrower to

46:07

the bike park yeah now we're gonna sell tons of downhill bikes guys let's do it yeah are you looking for a sales job yeah

46:16

I should now who do we ride with imagine a customer walking into store yeah so I'm looking for a bike are you looking for a flamethrower yeah I got

46:22

one right over here uh Zach said he he was selling all kinds of bikes I'm like now I want to sell more bikes like I don't even sell bikes let's go I have

46:29

this natural competition yeah it's crazy oh man uh I I this is an

46:35

interesting question but it was asked so we're gonna ask it it's uh what is the circumference of your head perhaps in

46:42

centimeters wait what it's written right here my brain is so huge it's

46:48

immeasurable yeah that's all I can say that's all we need to say about this question right here it's immeasurable someone was interested enough where they

46:54

where they really just want to know the the number what is it there are so many bad jokes in my head it's immeasurable

47:01

this is one from your Crowd by the way definitely your the detail-oriented questions your crowd okay all right

47:06

let's move on all right this is a pretty good one yeah a scale

47:12

of one to ten how embarrassed are your kids when you use internet slang what do you mean internet slang or modern day

47:17

like sus like this is sus oh yeah that's perfect you know what like there or even when you tell them you're going out to

47:23

film tick-tocks it's so funny man like I just like I'm a

47:29

YouTuber you know like so I don't get shunned but my kids love it they they want to be featured in videos so bad but

47:34

it's really like as a parent it's kind of your responsibility to determine like is it appropriate to put your kids in front of the public eye yeah you know

47:41

right now it's just background stuff occasionally they'll shoot something they'll be in the corner of the frame or something like that and they'll help me but I'm very conscious we always have

47:47

been about like having our kids featured in a video and they don't know how to deal with that like so for example like

47:53

if they they're getting older now but if they were to be featured they started their own channel or something right how would they deal with somebody telling

47:59

them that they're just like complete crap an anonymous person to me I have no problem with that I get it all the time

48:05

like I'm grown up enough to understand what that means but for them they might take that personally it might weigh on them it's like this is a new world we

48:12

live in I don't know how to weigh all that stuff I I'm I'm learning I'm I'm a parent but like that's a crazy challenge

48:17

yeah it's so tricky no it's social media and their kids yeah and most parents like most parents are flying by the seat

48:23

of their pants as it is you know like so I don't know the right answer maybe the right answer is getting them involved

48:28

and having them more involved in Channel and stuff but no they're not cringed by what I do they really like what I do they watch my videos on repeat I've been

48:34

in the public situations where like my dad's a can I ride a kid I'm like don't don't tell anybody you know like it's

48:39

not the right place for this because like you know like it doesn't matter to most General people it's a very specific

48:45

audience but like yeah how do you how do you kind of I don't know it's a weird space yeah learning is like a it's a

48:51

tough balance to strike yeah but the kids my kids really dig it they're really stoked on it and I try to include them occasionally but sparingly like I

48:58

just think you're funny or they know thank you because you're their dad you know I'm funny all right I mean

49:06

no I get like there's a one point when your kids are growing up where they're like oh Dad's the funniest and then now

49:11

my daughter is just of course she turned seven she's like oh my god dad I'm like already I thought that was gonna happen

49:17

at like 13 14 teenager years or whatever right like nah she's already like Dad you know like Dad wow we're there

49:25

already yeah it's partially my fault my jokes are bad but what are you gonna do oh that's good other dad jokes yeah but

49:30

you know what makes sense is that you are a dad of two so your dad jokes it all just all just ties together it's

49:35

fine it's not as strange as as Jared for example who just cracks dad jokes left

49:41

right and Center no kids yeah yeah no kids fantastic dad joke teller evolves to my

49:48

final form already write a little short form book called uh the best dad jokes

49:53

from a guy who has yet to have kids wow and the restraining order will come really fast

50:01

I imagine the picture of the book is like you with like binoculars looking at a school no sorry oh my gosh

50:10

sorry no that's fine I love it on track that was great dad jokes are fantastic thank you I appreciate that and uh I'm

50:18

just trying to you know live up to I mean one of my one of my favorite dad jokes of Jared was it was in our

50:24

trending mountain bike products of March or April gosh 2022 and uh we're we're trying to think

50:33

oh let's make like a funny intro for this YouTube video like we usually do and and we we come up with the idea what

50:39

Jared does of uh was that what it was like are you tired oh it was like it was

50:45

so it was at the end of spring and it was are you tired and when you said Tire you like lifted up a tire as I said are

50:51

you tired and then you said of spring and then you like held up an orange box rear shock spring and then it's like

50:58

tired of spring well now it's summer time it's like something like that it sounds like ridiculous like this you

51:04

know probably people just stopped watching right there YouTube Dad I've ever been involved look at the analytics

51:10

they dropped off right there trust me I know yeah 100 yeah it's funny how some people like totally love even if like it

51:17

makes them cringe they're like oh that was great and then some are just like that was horrible you guys are awful not

51:23

the funny thing at all it's the nature of the Beast like if we get philosophical for a moment like it's interesting because like I've always

51:28

been a big proponent of like I like that people have different opinions and thoughts and things like that so I try

51:34

to teach this to my kids I'm like man like just realize that like it's okay that somebody different than you like say for example let's take a movie yeah

51:41

oh I like that movie I I didn't like that movie well you're stupid because you didn't like that movie like right versus like hey what'd you like about

51:47

the movie like okay let's talk about like I didn't really like it that much why did you like it like yeah we don't do that it's like it's um yes civil

51:54

discourse yeah where you can have a rational conversation where you can kind of have a different opinion and hold two

51:59

contrarian thoughts in your head it's simultaneously I know I I try to instill in them and it's cool like when people have different views because that's how

52:05

you learn like hey I've never even thought about that like let's talk like whatever like so yeah it's a it's a weird world we live in and so like when

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people appreciate Dad jokes and the people that will just call me cringy like I don't care either way like everybody has their own opinions it's

52:16

fine yeah none of it offends me it's fine it's all good has there ever been a video that you made that you thought oh

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this is going to be a banger and turned out nobody really liked like it just the algorithms didn't like it I don't know

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that I've had one that I thought was gonna be a banger per se but ones that I really enjoyed making that I thought was fun like and I still do like there's

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some of my favorite videos are the ones that get the least amount of views because it's a weird Creative Vision that people don't get and like I don't

52:41

have a problem with that at all like it doesn't resonate like and that's totally fine like I did one where I was like in

52:46

the Las Vegas desert like hallucinating that I couldn't pedal anymore like I was so tired that was a great one yeah and it loves that one that was yeah I could

52:54

see why some people would be like I don't get it it's totally different because it's like a fear Loathing in Las Vegas reference I got a wide angle lens

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I'm really like Dazed in the desert and I'm like oh is that an e-bike you know it was Dazed and Confused and I like

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stumble up to it I'm like wait a minute and I realize it's like an oasis it's not an eBay it's a regular bike yeah and

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so a general audience definitely doesn't get that because you guys know there's a motor versus not a motor yeah so it was

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an inside joke to a certain degree but I I really like making and that's the best part is having your own channel I can

53:23

make stupid stuff and things that I enjoy and also stuff that I think that other people enjoy like there's no right

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answer and so like there's ones that I kind of I thought maybe would resonate more but like to me I don't I'm still

53:34

proud that I made it and the benefit of making short form content is that you can churn one out and there's there's production value there's time that goes

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into it and thought that goes into it but then you get just make another one yeah so one thing one thing that's helped me do is originally when I

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started YouTube I was very invested in a video like I would spend a lot of time editing the video thumbnail title screw

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up screw that all up and release it and then I was so mentally invested in the performance of that video that it would

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stress me out to a certain degree right like where you're like oh man nobody's watching it like it becomes unhealth hated yeah your self-worth into your

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YouTube views yes yeah and so the benefit of transitioning to short form and now of course long form on YouTube

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as well or should I say High Travel form on YouTube [Laughter]

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all right so the benefit has been like the short form stuff has kind of eliminated that out of my life like now

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I just put stuff out and I I'm proud that I made it and I move on to the next thing and it's it's far less stressful

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and it's okay yeah it's all good full acceptance of the outcome yeah I just don't care like I'm I'm stoked that

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people did get and relate to it but it's like it doesn't stress me out anymore which has been very freeing into a

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certain degree I really like that it's been nice it's like it's one person likes it it made it all worth it it's one less thing to worry about even if

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it's yourself yeah just have fun making it yeah exactly or your mom yeah yeah my mom likes it like 300 000 times yeah I

54:52

do have some videos on YouTube that have like 300 000 likes it's incredible it's like what the hell that's awesome you're in a thousand plus like what right who

54:59

would have thought who are all these Bots yeah yeah

55:06

all right Joe we gotta address one one last question here before we go and uh I

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actually don't know the answer to this question oh wait I think I do are you from Cali and now live in Rado or are

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you from Rado and now live in Cali Ah that's a good question so I originally grew up in California and there was at

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one point in my uh Pro mountain biking career that I moved to Colorado okay that's not your quotes yeah yeah

55:33

um actually yeah I wasn't even mountain biking at the time so I grew up in California I moved to Colorado for a couple years

55:39

and then I came back to California so right now I'm in Northern California but you know to me during that transition

55:45

that's when our son was born so the back story is like we used to kind of jokingly call him the Cali Roto kicks he was born between the move basically

55:52

California and Colorado so as I was thinking of names of the channel like a bunch of stuff came in and that was like

55:57

it was just the front runner it's just catchy as hell man it's funny it is usually you stole your kid's name your

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son I gave him the name I could take it back all right yeah so that was like the

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inspiration but like to me it's like it's too damn catchy man it's it's it's good and uh it makes a lot of sense and it's funny because like that stems like

56:14

when you have basically like a a performance name to a certain degree like people don't know my name's Joe like a lot of people will be like hey

56:20

Kelly Rado like I get recognized all the time right but like they don't know my name I say it sparingly in videos because most of my videos some of them

56:26

don't even talk right so uh yeah it's it's interesting and there's some creators that have their full name on

56:31

display so everybody knows like Dustin Klein everybody knows who Dustin Klein is but like you know when they just call me Colorado so it's it's stuck there it

56:39

is I just wanted to tell you guys yeah yeah did you he's incredible man

56:45

he's got a great style he he's he was an inspiration at the start of the channel too like some of his camera angles and stuff that he does it's really cool on

56:51

it what it is it's different it's you know there's a lot of people just doing POV footage what you've got is style in

56:57

his videos different music all this stuff and it's just a very creative atmosphere the stuff that he creates is

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really fun to me nice Dustin Klein vice president the charters lodging group no

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that's different yeah totally different yeah but one of the things I really appreciate and I've always on the lookout for I told you guys this today

57:12

is like creators that are standing out and doing something different and how can I help like like I I love the idea

57:18

of scouting like talent and like seeing people pushing the boundaries of what we're doing and it's it's uh it's cool

57:24

man I love the idea that strip people are stretching their creative bounds to me it's been very rewarding I love people finding that like I wouldn't

57:31

consider myself an incredible success like I would say that I'm still working at it I'm still learning every day but

57:36

it's cool to see people trying and it's like okay okay well if I see that element of trying like how can I help

57:42

like what can I do like can I give you some tips yeah I don't know man I I like the idea of more people creating cool

57:48

content that's all I think more than anything yeah so yeah nice I think as long as you are enjoying it and other

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people are enjoying it then I would call it successful yeah yeah I've been lucky so far 80 luck uh 19 talent and one

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percent mustache I would increase the percentage of mustache yeah it's it's a lot yeah it's

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definitely 73 mustache I should have rethought that number yeah increase the percentage of social media algorithm we

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can go back to the analytics that's right we'll figure it out yeah we'll figure it out yeah well uh Joe also known as AKA Cali

58:20

rattle kid where can people reach you if they want to ask you other questions uh find your DMs yeah it's I'm pretty

58:27

receptive like a lot of people reach out on DMS and I do message people back like I think it's one of the funnest things and one of the side

58:33

um the side effects of this whole process has been like meeting people from all across the world and talking to them and getting New Perspectives and

58:39

meeting new people and it's been cool so like on Instagram it's just Cali Rado kid and it's funny because the

58:44

spelling's pretty straightforward it's Cali like California and Rado like Colorado so Cali Rado kid

58:51

um I don't promote Tick Tock that much it sounds like I'm too old for tick tock so I don't say that that much oh dude

58:56

your tick tock's blowing up it's the only good it's like yeah it's doing fine and then YouTube of course uh it's just Cali run a kid there as well but

59:02

Instagram's the most direct way to reach out and I usually try to message people back if I can and it's a good discourse

59:08

it's a good way to talk real time with people whereas YouTube doesn't have that you've got you'll leave a comment and I can leave a comment back but it's not

59:14

like a real-time conversation yeah so usually if people take the time to reach out and tell me like they're digging what I'm doing or they have a trail

59:20

suggestion and stuff like that like I usually respond back like it's cool like that's how I got through Galbraith when

59:25

I went up to you know up to the road trip to Canada like I had people show me around outside of Seattle I had people

59:30

show me around at Galbraith and that was so helpful for me because just sitting around looking at a map bores the hell out of me that's awesome though yeah

59:37

having people like hey let me show you these Trails I'm like man that that just took a weight off my shoulder you don't have to check every stop like every

59:43

split in the road I gotta check Trail Forks like show you the goods yeah show me the goods yeah yeah hey let me show

59:49

you this trail that nobody knows about oh yeah you know what I mean like yeah so I'm gonna take you back into the

59:55

woods where yeah it's so good yeah well that escalated quickly yeah real

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fast thanks Jared yeah you're welcome yeah now you're getting

1:00:09

into it yeah oh good man we need to go eat some food

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yeah well that's it that's all for this episode of the MTV podcast thank you very much for listening uh if you've

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listened to this long we love you we would really appreciate a review on Apple podcast app if you would like to

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do that oh might be the first time I've asked that no maybe one time I said Raiders were you like where's yeah where

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always listen to that uh Wall Street Journal what's News podcast every day and they have they have a little saying at the end which is something like uh

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like and follow us wherever you get your podcast or something like they say the same phrase in every episode and I remember I said that in one podcast that

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was funny yeah so hilarious I don't know anyone else yeah thanks thanks guys

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no it was good yeah no I mean last time you did that we got a bunch of uh reviews and people like asking for

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fenders and oh yeah so are you just patronizing me are you serious I am serious people like screenshotted their

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if you should we tell them they can get a fender yeah we well we should tell them yeah uh if you write a review on

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for the uh worldwide Cyclery site wow and you can buy your own fender with a

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discount code that's it that way doesn't have to input your shipping address because clearly he's jaded from that

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situation genius it was a logistic uh nightmare there's there's been a few

1:01:59

times as as our business has grown media presence has grown that I've seen Michael's laughing he's dealt with some

1:02:06

of this I've I've said things in YouTube videos like I'll just do this and you'll get a free this yeah and then you know

1:02:13

like at the video drops and there's hundreds of emails yeah yeah there was no thought process behind this people

1:02:19

are like shooting me messages like what are we gonna do how are we gonna ship these would you tell these people like what it was like oh yeah I didn't think

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that through guys I didn't think that many people would see that or do that and yeah yeah so so

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in the lower 48 no

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see that's where the codes you don't need disclaimers like you got a 15 off code that's that's it that's it give you

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a code and you do whatever you want you figure it out from there please yeah free shipping uh over fifty dollars yeah

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wow wow 45. yeah 45 sorry congratulations on your win pay us some

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money you could you could though get in-store pickup that's free or just buy a 10 item and then you get

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the whole thing for free usually get a nice water bottle and of course pay the one thousand dollar shipping for Jeff to

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hand deliver it oh yes yeah you've checked out on the site you've seen that I know exactly save your money on the

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product but just pay for the shipping to have Jeff come together can I pitch you an idea what if you had Colorado kid

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delivery that was one thousand and one dollars on the website that is edgy no it can't be higher than yours can it

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yeah it could be 9.99 then 9.99 in the local Sacramento area oh my

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God yeah yeah with the ZIP code limitation

1:03:39

oh man fantastic fantastic thank you very much for listening we appreciate it and we will talk to you guys on the next

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podcast cheers see you later