Hey folks, first off, apologies for getting the episode up late.

Yeah, it's crazy weekend, to say the least. I had to work, but my dog got injured, unfortunately,

and I, you know, spent the weekend really caring for her in the beginning of this week,

and then my kids are sick, and oh my my gosh I usually use the weekend time to work on Monday's episode but that was not going to happen this weekend so I'm getting it up late and this is a really long episode it's an unbelievable conversation with Craig Sawyer and how I know Craig which we don't get into until the very end of this episode, is that we met at the last paddler standing. If you remember me talking about that back in December, we have a 24-hour, basically a running clock adventure paddleboard race that goes around in this basically 5K loop around this lake until there's one person left standing and it lasts like 50 hours well Craig was one of those

competitors he dropped out and invited and he had helped to get a lot of video production set up

before the race so he was already helping with the IT stuff and getting stuff set up

and then you know we just started talking on camera because we're live streaming this whole race

and I do commentary for it and we quickly found out that Craig is like amazing at interviewing and at

hosting and just you know talking about the race and he knows everybody and has so much

experience, great communicator. It's like, dang, dude, you're perfect for this. So we basically

hung out for two straight days getting to know each other. And he had been, and we talked a little

bit about it on the live stream, but I wanted to hear more on the podcast, which was the Yukon 1,000, that he did

on paddleboard. It is a race, technically a race, but everybody's just trying to basically

complete it. It's a thousand miles on the Yukon River and the Yukon territory and Alaska,

and it is absolutely wild. And Craig and his good good friend Skip who by Craig's admission is much more

experienced much more talented much more prepared for this kind of thing they decided to do it on

paddleboard like I said it's 10 days so 100 miles a day on paddleboard in some of the most remote

areas of our continent it was pretty wild and as youoard in some of the most remote areas of our continent. It was pretty wild.

And as you'll hear, most of the adventure honestly happened beforehand with all the misadventures and everything that went on.

But if you listen, really listen to just how unprepared and how unfit they seemed that they were for this adventure.

Yet they went for it anyway, and amazing

things happened. And there's so many lessons in this story. It was such a pleasure to have Craig on.

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