The Shorts: Year of Big Ideas Reprieve

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2008

⏱️ 7 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the Year of Big Ideas, my childhood friend Brad laid it out – he was going to climb El Cap in 2008. We planned and tried to convince others to join us, but in the end, Brad and I were on our own to wrestle with one very big – arguably bad – idea. A third of the way through 2008, where are you in your year of big ideas? We’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment and a little inspiration. What have you ticked off the list? What’s left?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the shorts, and you're listening to The Dirtbag Diaries.
0:20.4	Do you hear that?
0:22.4	Yeah, that.
0:24.4	Don't wait, neither do I.
0:26.2	That's because that's the sound a digital recorder makes when it dies.
0:30.8	What happened to the digital recorder?
0:32.3	I believe it was retired through a malfunction in the camelback.
0:38.2	Apparently, my college education did not teach me how to screw on a camelback properly.
0:46.6	You may remember my childhood friend Brad from our year of big ideas shows.
0:51.1	Brad is a special kind of person.
0:52.1	He's got this uncanny ability to realize his goals.
0:56.3	When he puts his mind to something, he does it.
0:58.9	And this year, that's something it's climbing a calf.
1:02.1	Don't worry about the fact that he's basically got no climbing experience or has no idea
1:06.7	what he's getting himself into.
1:11.0	We planned.
1:12.0	We skeamed.
1:13.0	I tried to recruit others so that Brad would always have someone else double checking
1:16.1	his systems.
1:17.1	It could also maybe help me out a little bit.
1:20.2	But the time came and Brad's flight arrived and it was just me and Brad.
1:25.2	Two old friends, one big, arguably bad idea and four days to pull it off.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Duct Tape Then Beer, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Duct Tape Then Beer and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.