Every once in a while this show uncovers what I think is a hidden gym.

And, you know, sometimes we talk to adventures who are just larger than life.

They've been an interviewer a thousand times.

And by the way, keep your ears open because we've got a huge guest coming down the

line someone that everyone in this world knows very excited about it but this episode is the

opposite this episode is a throwback to 2020 when we had dana starkell on one of the most epic

adventures i've ever heard of in my life.

It's literally the longest canoe trip in history at 12,000 plus miles in two years.

But Dana and his dad, Don, started in when, and technically his brother, too, Jeff, all started on this epic journey back in 1980, June 1st, 1980 in Winnipeg. And they were going to

the mouth of the Amazon River from Winnipeg, Canada, yes. How you might ask? Well, listen to this

story and you're going to be absolutely blown away. It all started, by the way, when Dana at 10 years

old bought a book about Tarzan

rather than a candy bar with the dollar allowance that he got. And that got him fascinated with

the jungle and wanting to visit the jungle. And he told his dad he wants to go down to the Amazon

River. It's just amazing how seeds are planted. Well, 10 years later, Don, Dana, and his brother Jeff

would set out on this journey to the mouth of the Amazon River from Winnipeg, all on water,

through the Mississippi River, all the way around the Gulf of Mexico, up into South America,

and then out the Amazon. And it is a Guinness World Record. but just an unbelievable, larger than life, once in

a thousand lifetimes adventure, and I feel like hardly anyone knows about it. They do have a book.

I believe Don wrote the book, Paddle to the Amazon, published in 1987. There's also another one

Paddle to the Arctic written by Don as well.

Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy.

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