This is the outside podcast with Paddyo.

One of my favorite parts of Best Day ever is the scene where you're describing leaving rehab three months after your accident.

Being told that the rest of your life is going to be sedentary and you will be doing nothing except sitting in a power chair asking for help 24-7-365. Can you please tell us what you said to the people who told you that?

I basically was like, fuck you.

That's not going to happen.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but you seem kind of mild-mannered or like go-with-the-flow-ism is strong in you.

So like what inspired this like fiery in your face? F you, I'll show you

response. Oh, I'm sure my family could tell you I have a little bit of spitfire. Spitfire in me.

As someone who talks in public for a living, I really have to watch my words. So you might be surprised to learn that when I'm not on a hot mic, I have a bit of a potty mouth. More precisely, I'm a believer in the almost supernatural flexibility of the F word as the greatest filler of sentence holes in the English language.

My dad taught me this as a kid by deploying it liberally whenever he stubbed a toe or bumped his

head. So it's fitting that the first time I ever uttered the word out loud without getting in trouble

was when my dad shaved his mustache and I saw his upper lip for the first time in my 13 years.

I even remember the first time I thought the F word, which was while getting pummeled by waves in Wyoming's freezing cold Snake River during my first rafting trip when I was eight.

The F word is the keystone of my two most oft-repeated prayers.

Oh, F-word, help! And oh, F-word, yeah! And I consider myself a connoisseur of its usage.

And so, I tip my cap to a woman who deployed the F-word better than anyone I have ever heard.

That woman is Ali Bianchi.

Allie's world-beating use of the F-word is all the more impressive because, unlike me, she's a pretty soft-spoken and congenial type.

A born Vermonter, she has the state's ingrained, devoted, and determined outdoorsiness,

but also the mild manners of a career teacher. Allie grew up hiking and skiing and at 21 started

mountain biking. It was just two years later when a mountain biking accident left her quadriplegic

and confined to a wheelchair. Following the accident, she was told that the active outdoorsy life that she knew would no longer be possible.

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