Today I'd like to welcome to the podcast, entrepreneur, actor, entertainer, stand-up comedian, and filmmaker.

He is best known for his work on rituals and resolutions.

Today we are here to talk about his love of the outdoors.

Michael Stein, welcome the proper bear hikes.

Thank you for having me, Martin.

I really appreciate it.

This is fun.

So Michael, you've got this very interesting bio, and I always love it when people's lives look like a journey instead of hey I got out of college

got married had my one my 2.5 kids bought a house and put up a picket fence etceter etc.

You've been on sort of a journey and your journey is included some

interesting outdoor endeavors. You now have your Bolitor podcast but I want to talk about what inspired that.

From what I understand that was was an adventure that might have gone sideways or became interesting.

Yeah, so I was in the TARP business for 22 years and actually at this point I think was just 20 years and I was already

we wanted to bring create a product you know we have I'm originally from LA, but I moved to Georgetown, Texas in 2010, and we became best friends with our neighbors across the street, the Mathises, and they,

Susie Mathis is from Tlingua, Texas.

Now those who don't know Tirling with Texas,

it is West Texas out in the middle of nowhere.

I mean everywhere somewhere,

but this place is like,'re talking desolate it's right near

Marfa which is famous for where Giant was filmed with James Dean and it's out in the middle

that's a crazy town it's just's just a very interesting area. So he said, you got to come out there. This is where I'm from.

It's where Shelby of the Shelby Cobra. He was he's from that area in Trelingua, but we're talking out in the middle of nowhere.

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