Bonus Episode: Lake Okeechobee Crossing Recap
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Hey y’all! This is new for me, a recap of a personal adventure.
Although this trip was NOTHING compared to what some of our guests have done, it was a fun micro-adventure that got way more press and attention than I thought it would.
My good friend, Jordon, and I set out on New Year's Eve to be the first people (we know of) to paddle across the largest lake in Florida, Lake Okeechobee. The route was a straight shot from North to South for 35 miles, taking just under 12 hours.
Also, if you don’t have months off work and life to do something fun, take it from me, 11.5 hours is plenty of time to get all the same fulfillment and soul-filling adventure!
Thank you to Bluefin SUP for helping sponsor the trip! Check out their very high-quality paddlebaords at a great price at: https://bluefinsupboards.us/
Some of the press:
- Florida men paddleboard across alligator-infested lake to raise awareness for conservation efforts
- Frostproof Native Crosses Lake Okeechobee on Paddleboard
- Crossing Lake O: Duo With Polk County Ties Celebrate Paddle Across State’s Largest Lake
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | My name is Mason. |
| 0:05.5 | This is a very different episode. |
| 0:08.0 | It's going to be a monologue, just me talking. |
| 0:10.1 | We're not going to do an intro. |
| 0:11.4 | We're not going to do any mid-roll ads or anything like that. |
| 0:15.4 | We're just going to chat. |
| 0:16.8 | And the reason is I recently did my own adventure, and I'm going to give you a little rundown of it. |
| 0:23.0 | It's not a big adventure by any means, but it created quite a stir around here in central Florida. |
| 0:30.0 | And it got picked up by like a dozen news outlets and papers. |
| 0:35.2 | It was on the front page of newspapers. |
| 0:37.2 | It was on television. It was on the front page of newspapers. It was on television. It was |
| 0:39.2 | picked up on tons of lists and podcasts. And it's still coming in, the amount of impact that's |
| 0:48.5 | had. And kind of honestly blew me away. And I'm know, figure out what's so different about it and |
| 0:55.4 | why it's unique. But I wanted to talk a little bit about what it is as well as why I did it and |
| 1:02.2 | why I think the impact has been there. So put a little context. I'm talking to you after |
| 1:08.6 | full day of work and taking care of the kids. |
| 1:13.7 | It's currently 12.04 a.m. |
| 1:19.9 | And I might not like the way this sounds in the morning, but guess what? |
| 1:21.2 | I'm going to publish it anyway. |
| 1:32.9 | And, you know, when you host a show about podcasting, one of the misconceptions is, oh, sorry, not a show about podcasting. When you host a show about adventure, a podcast about adventure, one of the misconceptions is you're always getting out there doing this stuff too. |
| 1:41.5 | We talked to guests on this show that are just astonishingly, |
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