Ep. 688: The Metal Cowboy - Revisited - Joe Kurmaskie
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Cycling: Join the Metal Cowboy on an unforgettable journey through humorous and philosophical tales of human experience from the seat of a bicycle.
Originally aired October 19, 2018
Joe Kurmaskie, better known as The Metal Cowboy, is an award-winning author of eight non-fiction memoirs of his many travels and adventures. His books, as well as performances, are packed with humor, history, and philosophy of what it truly means to be a human on this crazy Earth. The one thing in Joe's stories that never changes is the fact that he sees, hears, and feels the details of his human experience through the seat of his trusty metal steed, the bicycle. Take it from us, reading his books is one heck of an unforgettable ride.
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| 0:00.0 | I said, so what you're saying, Robin, is that the bike saved your life. |
| 0:04.6 | And he did that good morning in Vietnam. |
| 0:06.3 | No, no, no, no. |
| 0:08.8 | No, Joe. |
| 0:10.2 | That's not what I'm saying. |
| 0:11.7 | He said, nothing in this world can save your life. |
| 0:15.5 | Because life is not meant to be saved, Joe. |
| 0:19.0 | It's meant to be spent. |
| 0:21.4 | And what you and I have to ask ourselves is how we're going to spend the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason Gravely. How awesome was that intro quote by Joe? Doesn't that get you excited? I know it gets me pretty pumped to get out there |
| 0:56.2 | and ride. A little background about this episode. It's from a few years ago because Thursdays are |
| 1:01.7 | our throwback Thursday episodes. One of the first shows I produced actually and hosted. And a little |
| 1:08.6 | history with Joe Kramasky. He's the author of Metal Cowboy, along with a bunch of other books, basically about these |
| 1:16.0 | incredibly unique, funny, insightful stories about biking around the world, bike touring, |
| 1:23.7 | that is. |
| 1:24.7 | And it's just super entertaining, and it was something that was a gift to me, |
| 1:29.6 | one of his books from my mom, I believe. Thanks, Mom. And I would stay up late reading it because I was |
| 1:36.6 | starting to get into cycling. And Joe's books encouraged me to get out there and do some adventures. |
| 1:42.9 | So it was really cool to talk to him. |
| 1:46.0 | We've become friends since this conversation. So Joe, if you're listening, thanks for doing |
| 1:50.8 | this again. We'll have to have you back on at some point. But for now, check out his new book |
| 1:55.7 | and enjoy this episode. And I hope that it inspires you to get out there and tell some stories, |
| 2:03.0 | do some things that are worth telling stories about. And something that's interesting about |
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