Just a lot of weight on my shoulders, just feeling trapped. If anything, it was it stopped being fun a long time ago.

It wasn't like, you know, Friday night,

you're just giving high-fives,

sinking beers, and you smoke your little drugs,

but it just came like that was life.

And it went like that for about three or four years and

you running around just in circles just going going and it wasn't until I just

got tired around like where I ended up I just get row know, and I'm just kind of like, you know, what am I doing here?

You know, I mean, I remember I was living on the streets and I wore the same clothes for a month just partying.

Hello everyone and welcome or welcome back to the Billyang podcast.

My name is Billyang of course your host and here we talk to all

manners of guests ranging from athletes, creatives, entrepreneurs, you name it and we certainly have a great one for you today so let's get rolling.

So I often think about the stories I want to share both on this platform and on my

YouTube channel and obviously the stories of the bigger and the more

established names are easier to dissect to read see here about but occasionally

a person's life's journey and story is so improbable and so fascinating.

I just had to talk to them.

Inter-Hoca Ambassador and U.S. Forest Firefighter Jerry Garcia and no not that Jerry Garcia smart

as is Jerry Garcia of Southern California he's been a fixture here in the ultra scene

for a few years now and it's certainly a guy that stands out at first glance with this big tatted up six foot two six foot three somewhere around there he's usually running around shirtless in the mountains

and he's really done some incredible things in running including most notably a win at the

2017 Angeles Crest 100 mile race here in Southern California, but it really was all the years and the life mileage that got him to this point that I was most fascinated by. From being a lost kid growing up here in the streets of LA,

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