How to Eat a Mountain - Episode 24

The Musers The Podcast

Cumulus Podcast Network

Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

December 10, 2025 - What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done? This episode centers on real difficulty, not highlight reels. Craig recounts chasing long-held endurance goals and what those experiences took out of him physically and mentally. The conversation widens to other kinds of hard. Physical labor that breaks you down. Career moments where fear is unavoidable. Grief that does not resolve on a timeline. And the small, personal risks that feel enormous when you are standing in them. There is humor where it naturally appears, but this is mostly a grounded discussion about persistence, fear, and why big challenges rarely feel heroic while you are inside them. Hard things are endured one piece at a time, whether you are racing, rebuilding, performing, or asking out the hottest girl in college. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	Why is she going out with another guy if she's, uh, well, why is she's going out with you and she's
0:34.6	got a boyfriend. Maybe she fell under the spell of one Craig Miller and she just could not resist.
0:44.4	Welcome to the Musers the podcast.
0:47.2	This is episode 24, How to Eat a Mountain.
0:51.5	Welcome to another edition of the Musers, the podcast.
0:55.2	I'm Craig.
0:56.0	I'm George.
0:56.8	I'm Gordon.
0:57.9	Your favorite.
0:59.5	This episode is sandwiched between our Thanksgiving episode of last week and our
1:04.6	upcoming Christmas episode next week.
1:07.1	And we should probably do a New Year's episode, a Valentine's episode, a St. Patrick's episode, a Boxing Day episode, et cetera. We'll keep you posted.
1:15.4	This week, we're going to talk about the hardest things we have ever done.
1:21.7	Now, this could be something physical, could be a relationship, it could be a puzzle, it could be a college course. I think we're going to have a lot of good stories to get to today. You guys like puzzles? I love puzzles. Really? Yeah. I do a lot now with my daughter. Well, those don't count. Those are the only ones I can do. The one that has the dog with the little label on it that you can put the foot on. Yeah, I can do those. She has some bigger ones. She has like 100 piece, 200 piece puzzles that we do. What about like
1:47.7	a thousand piece puzzle out? Those get a little overwhelming, but I still like them.
1:54.7	Man, we went through a kick recently, I'd say about a year ago doing these thousand piece puzzles.
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