Ep. 96 ~ Tales of the High Country
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 119 minutes
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Summary
Y'all probably know by now that I love Arkansas.
Last Tuesday evening I was sitting on my couch getting caught up on all the instagram-goings-ons when I came across a post i had forgotten about. Natural State Rock & Republic was going to be hosting "Tales of the High Country" the very next evening, and I knew I had to be there. The next morning I woke up early, threw some stuff in the van and pointed it in a northeastern direction for a 9 hour drive. When I got there I found out that they wanted me to co-moderate the evenings events. I had a solid 30 minutes to prepare questions for a live audience, so of course I agreed. Just two weeks ago I leant Lilly my bullhorn at Truffle Shuffle and now she leant me her microphone. I'd like to thank her personally for not only moderating one helluva event, but for allowing me to share in the experience.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to the Bikster Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, and I'm your |
| 0:06.0 | host. Yep, I'm still here. But I'm excited that on today's episode, I'm going to be co-moderating |
| 0:14.0 | a live discussion about the Arkansas High Country Race with my friend, Lily, who is part of Ozark Gravel Cyclist. |
| 0:24.8 | Now, this one deserves a little bit of a backstory. |
| 0:28.4 | First, you may notice that last week we didn't have an episode, and that's because I went |
| 0:34.3 | bikepacking with my buddies, and we were supposed to record an episode and we just didn't |
| 0:40.0 | feel like it. I took a me day, you know, a me trip and actually I quite enjoyed it. A lot of my |
| 0:46.1 | trips now around cycling involve work, which is wonderful. But this time it was nice to just |
| 0:52.9 | turn the mic off and enjoy a campfire with my friends. |
| 0:57.6 | And so it left me scrambling a little bit to fill that void. |
| 1:03.0 | Can't leave you guys hanging, you know. |
| 1:05.1 | So I get back and it's Tuesday night and I'm scrolling through Instagram. |
| 1:09.0 | And I'm reminded about this stories from the Arkansas |
| 1:13.1 | High Country that's being hosted by the Natural State Rock and Republic, which is owned by my |
| 1:20.1 | previous guest, Scotty Lachuga, and her husband Ernie. |
| 1:24.2 | If you don't know by now, I'm huge fan of both of them. Anyway, I was on Instagram and I see |
| 1:31.1 | this post and I'm like, man, I really want to go. And then I see a few comments about, hey, |
| 1:37.4 | is there going to be a podcast or a way to listen to this? And I'm like, ding, ding, ding. So, |
| 1:46.8 | you know, I go into planning mode and their spot is about eight and a half hour drive from where I live here in Texas and it was |
| 1:53.5 | Tuesday night and so I'm like all right well I can you know wake up a little early throw a bunch |
| 2:00.6 | of stuff in the van I I don't need much. |
| 2:02.6 | Pack a few clothes and all my recording equipment and head off to Arkansas. |
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