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Full Spectrum Cycling #225 – Seeley Dave – Tour de Chequamegon – Telemark Trails – Osage – Biketoberfest · Full Spectrum Cycling

• 0:03
  [rock music] Welcome, welcome. [sighs] Thanks. I had to hold- [laughs]...
• 0:20
  I was holding my breath. [laughs] This is the, uh, this is the Full Spectrum Cycling show, number 225 today. [rock music] Across the hall from 224. Yeah, yeah. Listen- I think that's where the bathrooms are at...
• 0:33
  listening to some music now... on the second floor. Hey, everybody. How's it going out there? Big, uh, big change here in, uh, Milwaukee. Fall has hit us. Yeah, it hit us, like, overnight basically. Right.
• 0:47
  My furnace turned on. [laughs] I'm like, "What the hell?" Oh. Well, mine, mine didn't until Wendy pushed the button, but- Yeah. Yeah... I- it's a good time to check it anyway. I'm, I'm sure we'll get warm weather again.
• 0:58
  Mine, mine's all computator controlled, so I just, like, [laughs] forgot about it. Well, yours is new, too. Yeah, true. Ours isn't particularly new. It's, it's middle-aged, but it does... It is nice to get
• 1:09
  a couple of cool days to make sure it's gonna work when- Absolutely... when the cold hits... before the really cold stuff comes... because, uh, our good buddy, Marcus Downey,
• 1:17
  came back from his month-long working trip, and, you know, it's, like, cold or cool-ish and the house was probably at 55, and he turned his boiler on and it's not working, and he goes [laughs] down there and it's now leaking.
• 1:29
  Oh, that's expensive. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's a big deal. Yeah. That cost me- It's not-... a trip to Paris once. That's not something you wanna come home to. No.
• 1:38
  But, uh, fortunately, he just worked a good solid, nice money-making month- [laughs] Oh, there he goes... to pay for a new boiler. [laughs] So new bike for you, Marcus. Yes. No, well, yeah. He... Yeah, buy a bike, eh?
• 1:51
  Oh, boy. Uh, uh, so, well, what, what'd you get? I was gone, so we'll talk about Osage in a little bit. What'd you guys do over the weekend? Um, JK, you went to Bay Views. Twice actually. Wow.
• 2:05
  I rode down on Friday 'cause there was a, [smacks lips] there was a pop-up art show at the Alive and Fine, just to, like, kinda across the street from Rushmore-ish, in that little zone. Right. Right. Actually run by the
• 2:22
  lead s- former lead singer of Whips. Nice. I kind of forget about that, but it was all John Carpenter themed, so that was pretty badass. So they had the music going, you know, just, you know, atmospheric.
• 2:36
  Sounds like a pretty great event. Yeah, it was cool like that. And then a band, like a three-piece, came in and did, like, th- three or four John Carpenters. Wow.
• 2:47
  Yeah, with, like, well-done synthesizers and, like, a good hard guitar. Nice. Dun. You know, did Escape From New York and Halloween and, uh... I think there was a- Nice boots... what do you call it? In there.
• 3:00
  Big Trouble in Little China I think. Yeah. Yeah. And, yeah, I mean, it was just a... It was, it was worth it. And a, a z- good zesty ride- Yeah... all the way down there. Absolutely.
• 3:10
  The, the cool weather was following you? Yeah, it wasn't too bad. It really was. S- On Friday- Friday and Saturday were pretty nice. Yeah. It- Flannel season? Not even. Mm-mm. Oh, nice. Not even that far. It was nice.
• 3:21
  Yeah. So yeah, and then, you know, Saturday it- I-... started to turn on me. [laughs] I, I changed- Quite a b- Friday I changed from long to short sleeves. It was, like, a little too warm for long sleeves. Oh, nice.
• 3:35
  So yeah. I was driving Friday. Driving, driving, driving. Oh, nice. Driving through some rain. Got to Decorah and it was raining, raining, raining. Oh, no.
• 3:43
  Yeah, there wasn't any riding to be had because it was raining- Really?... in Decorah, but that was the overnight stop on the way to Osage. So we g- How far is Osage? Uh, well, Decorah's four hours.
• 3:54
  Osage is another hour and a half- Okay... so whatever the mileage is. Right. It's not that far. It's like a s- it's like going up to Schlabowski's house. Five and a half hours if you went to Osage.
• 4:05
  So, uh, Friday night we stayed at Spinner's house, which I hadn't been to before. It's the man cave from hell. Oh. He lives in, like, a three bedroom, two bath, [laughs] four-car garage house that- Wow...
• 4:17
  he's the only one in there, so there was room for Shannon and Chewy and me and all in separate bedrooms. And, uh, it was very nice. Thank you, Spinner. Also, also- Were they, were they themed? Were they...
• 4:27
  No, they weren't theme... Well, there's a big fireplace in the lower one. [laughs] Could be like- Did you get that one? "Hey, we got the fireplace going over there. Look at that thing." Yeah, we do. Yeah.
• 4:35
  Fireplace in the new, in the new podcast studio. I actually had the heat on just to check it out, 'cause my mom had that in her house, and in her
• 4:41
  complex they can't use the thing as a heater because it might tip over and burn the place down or something. Right. Right, right, right. Uh, allegedly. Why don't you just park an electric bike in her house?
• 4:50
  But she just u- so she just used the fire for the, uh, you know, the look. Ambience. And it was a little smelly, but it, the heater works. Nice. Which is nice. It has to burn off that dust and stuff first.
• 5:00
  Speaking of Spinner and at his house, he, he gave these things to us. Here's one for Tony. Whoa. These are, uh, these are from... These are actually... I think the company is based in Decorah. It's called, uh, Grip One.
• 5:11
  You may have one too there, JK. This one's for Sam. What is this? What is this? For strongman Sam, the other one. He said, "G- give that to Sam." Fuck that guy. [laughs] He never even shows up for a podcast anymore.
• 5:25
  Yeah, he's walking around now, too. He is actually functional. Oh, hear that? [plastic crinkling] Check those out. They're, uh, they're... What they are, folks, I'll get a picture. They're Single Speed USA, uh, overstock
• 5:38
  from when they had the event in Decorah, so. Nice. Yeah. They're kinda like a Yeti-style deal. Yeah. And they're made for putting your, uh, putting your cu- Mixed drinks...
• 5:47
  yeah, your cubes and your, and your whatever, your gin or tonic or whatever. Or as I read on the side of the box, you know, don't forget the kids and their ice cream. Right. You could I guess do that, too.
• 5:56
  [laughs] Fuck that. [laughs] So- Sorry, kids... I get... We can, uh, finish the actual Osage part of the trip in a little bit. I got a, I got a green light. I'm gonna push a button. [gasps] I pushed a button
• 6:07
  Hey, welcome to the radio program Caller. Who do we have on the line? Hey, guys. It's Sealy Dave. Sealy Dave. Sealy Dave. How's it going, Sealy Dave? Actually, part of the Osage t- Good. How are you guys doing?
• 6:19
  [laughs] Good. Uh, part of the Osage trip involved Sealy Dave to some minor extent. [laughs] Uh, we- Right... yeah, we did, I d- w- I was talking about the Decorah portion of the Iowa trip, but, uh, Osage was fun.
• 6:34
  I had to [smacks lips] uh, run a bike out that, that Sealy Dave sold to somebody in Iowa. He actually lives in Waverly, which is kinda south of Osage, I think. So it worked out really well- Ah...
• 6:46
  because he was at this event. Um, and, uh, was very appreciative that we got the bike to him, and super stoked.
• 6:54
  As fa- as a matter of fact, today's show beer when we get to it, he left 'cause I, he wanted to leave before I was done reveling in, in all the glory of riding those trails, so I gave him a combo to my lock, and then he left a four-pack of that beer.
• 7:07
  What is it? Oh, nice. [laughs] Whatever this beer is, it's from, uh, Limestone, which is right there in Osage. So the, you know, the, uh- Yeah... they're doing a good job.
• 7:14
  We were there in May for the, the clunker, uh, thing, and then, so what's it been? May, June, July, August, September, you know, five months or whatever. They've done a lot more work, a lot more features. Hm.
• 7:25
  And it's, it's really turning into kind of like a little destination. And I think the cool thing is it isn't like going up to Copper Harbor where you're doing, like, the mega rides.
• 7:34
  This is, this is a kind of river bottom, short, punchy little climbs and a lot of cool twisty stuff. It's not out of anybody's wheelhouse as far as, you know- Capabilities... capabilities and whatnot. Nice. Yeah, so.
• 7:46
  Uh- Br- bring your son, bring your daughter, bring your wife. I, you, they can probably all handle this, as long as they don't do the one drop that you don't wanna do. [laughs] Okay.
• 7:57
  [laughs] Yeah, for the most part it was, it was awesome. And then, you know,
• 8:02
  we were in Decorah Friday night, and, and my good buddy Gunner, who's one of the fastest guys in Decorah, was like, "Well, what do you wanna go over there for to ride? C- you know, Decorah's awesome."
• 8:09
  I'm like, "Yeah, but there, those people are over there. Well, you know, we're going for the people, too, not just the riding." [laughs] Yeah. You know, to, to hang out. And there was, like, 30 people at the event.
• 8:19
  Uh, it was- Oh... the weather was decent. It was, like, 55, perfect, you know, work into yourself a little bit fall weather. And- Yes... and so- Final season...
• 8:28
  I gotta get a picture of this thing that, um, one of the guys that does the trail maintenance has a bob trailer,
• 8:34
  and he's rigged up two steel, uh, leaf blowers on it that cross blow out the sides of the bob trailer and make a nice swath through the leaves. It's super awesome. [laughs] That's a great idea.
• 8:46
  [laughs] Yeah, it looks it. It's really cool. So anyway, yeah, it's, uh, Osage was a good time. That it, it, it does sound cool.
• 8:53
  Yeah, I gotta get a picture because it- And thanks for, thanks for getting that bike there for me. He said he was real happy with it, so. Yeah. Well, I m- mean, he got a heck of a deal. I noticed the handlebar on there.
• 9:02
  I go, "Whoa, that's a pretty fancy handlebar on that bike." Yeah.
• 9:06
  [laughs] He had an envy and- Yeah, it's a good deal, but it, you know, it's a good de- I, it was a good deal for a, you know, full carbon NX bike with a custom frame bag, for sure.
• 9:17
  But, you know, I kinda just wanted the bike to go away and, you know, I mean, it, it's a multi-year old, you know, I mean, I don't remember what even, 2017, is that what that was?
• 9:28
  You know, I mean, it's a six-year-old carbon bike, so- I, I thought-... there's no guarantees. I mean- I thought bikes appreciated. That's, that's how I look at them.
• 9:36
  [laughs] That's why, that's why none of them- I wish that were the case... [laughs] that's why I never sell any of them. It's like, "Oh, yeah, it's worth more this year than last year." Yeah. I wish that were the case.
• 9:47
  Right. But I'm glad he's happy. It, Liz, it was my old bike, and then I got the, you know, Milwaukee, um, Buckshot, um, last winter- [laughs]... thinking that would be Liz's fat bike then.
• 10:00
  But honestly, uh, she, she's not a cyclist cyclist, you know? So, like, for her, when winter comes, it's time to ski and snowshoe, and the bike can hang. So- Gotcha... she just wasn't using it enough. Right on. Yeah.
• 10:15
  Well, that was only- Yeah... that was, that was- But-... one third of the, uh, transporting back and forth of bike, bikes and bike parts.
• 10:22
  So Sealy Dave's Muck Luck, then I had to take out a Necromancer Pugsley frame to Chewy from Lunds, and then I had to pick up a K2 with a Girvin fork on for Lunds from Deke at Oneota River Cycles.
• 10:38
  So [laughs] it was a worthwhile trip for picking up- [laughs]... and dropping off all sorts of, uh, cycling gear. W- what does Lunds want with that, with that K2? I mean, it's way too small for him.
• 10:50
  Yeah, he mostly wants the fork because it's going on his clunker. It's green. It's not- Oh, okay. Got it. No, it's not green yet. Oh. So I think it's gonna become, my guess is it's gonna become green, though.
• 11:01
  Uh, but yeah, I mean, it's a- Right... the thing is in beautiful shape. I, those bikes were m- I saw a picture on his Facebook page. It looked nice. It's, like, a K2 Razorback or something like that.
• 11:10
  Right, and they were kinda notorious for breaking the frames, but, uh, the f- the Girvin forks were really nice for the time. And it just, it's gonna look cool on a clunker, I think. You know, it's s- so we'll see. Yeah.
• 11:22
  See you, see- I saw somebody else already gooped up the frame, I guess, but I don't know why anybody would really want that frame without the fork, you know? That's possible.
• 11:32
  Yeah, I don't, I don't either, but, uh, I, he's a Razorback fan. That's probably why. He's gonna hang it- Maybe. [laughs]... on his wall.
• 11:38
  So, you know, that's why, you know, this is Sealy Dave we're talking to, and, and putting a Girvin on your clunker is silly, Dave. [laughs] Right. Right on. What's going on with, uh- That's good. That's good...
• 11:50
  what's going on up with you, Dave? Uh, well, I just, uh, the, the ma- speaking of trails, which you guys were just talking about, I'm building the new trails in Osage.
• 11:59
  I wanted to call just to let folks know that the, um, Rock Solid, I think, is, is gonna be done with the, um- The first phase of the trails at Telemark Mountain.
• 12:11
  So the green through blacks are supposedly opening this weekend officially. So we will now have a gravity park. Um, and then next year will be phase two and more trail construction.
• 12:25
  But I believe right now they have one green up, um, which is a... I mean, it goes all the way up Telemark Mountain, so you know, it's a hike, but it's just gradual switchback climbs the whole way up.
• 12:38
  So pretty much anybody can do it, it just, you just take your time. Right. Um, and then there's a blue two-way, and, uh, so up and down, and I think there's a green down and a blue down and a black down, I think.
• 12:55
  Um, TJ's like, my buddy TJ who's working on a project has just been swamped trying to get it done by this weekend for the opening, so I- nobody's even seen him.
• 13:05
  [laughs] Um, but uh, I think he's been in the woods with Rock Solid in there, you know, night and day. But, um, but so that's kinda big news. Yeah, for sure.
• 13:14
  Uh, you know, new big gravity park in Wisconsin, professionally built by Rock Solid, so you know. And they're, they, they do stuff all over the country, if not the world, right? This Rock Solid outfit. They do. They do.
• 13:26
  They do, but I, I guess Aaron Rodgers is actually from somewhere around this area, like Stone Lake or Birchwood or some- something.
• 13:35
  So he did take a personal interest in, in the project and, um, so it's not just contract work, although I'm sure they do good work no matter where they are.
• 13:46
  But he helped design it, as did Josh Bloom, you know, uh, from La Crosse area, who had his own trail construction. He works for Rock Solid now.
• 13:56
  He also has that, um, pretty popular, um, podcast, Trail Effect, A-E F-F E-C-T, um, Trail Affect, Effect. Um, and uh, he interviews, you know, trail...
• 14:09
  It's all about trail c- communities, um, around the country, so he's, he's super knowledgeable, so he had a hand in the design as well. And then of course TJ and Joe Vadun Coeur as well, um, from, from this side.
• 14:22
  So yeah, I'm pretty stoked to go ride it. I've only ridden the green up. I haven't ridden much of anything else. I'm pretty stoked. Um, however, I will...
• 14:30
  This weekend I'm out of town at the Red Granite Grinder, the Iron Bowl Red Granite Grinder in Wausau, and it's supposed to rain all weekend it looks like. [laughs] Yeah, it's kinda looking like that down here too. Yep.
• 14:41
  Lord. Uh, so you, uh- Yeah, but- So Tou- I know Tour Chequamegon just happened last weekend, right? Yep. And, and- Yeah, we just wrapped that up too, yeah...
• 14:51
  And the, was it the weekend before that, uh, our buddy Quinn from down here came up there? I think he did at least part of- Yep...
• 14:58
  Uh, he had done the Tour de Chequamegon in the past, and then he went up and did it with a couple buddies, you know, remembering that he had had a good time on it. Yeah, Quinn. Yeah, Quinn. Yep.
• 15:07
  Quinn, um, yeah, Quinn, Trent from my, my old neighborhood, and uh, I think Jared had done it before. Um, so yeah, there was a crew of four or five of those guys riding their own route.
• 15:21
  Now, Quinn sort of after having ridden the Tour de Chequamegon, he now makes his own routes, and was riding kind of a modified version of the Tour de Chequamegon route, um, to hit a couple of different campgrounds that he prefers.
• 15:32
  So that was really cool to see them. Um, our organized ride just finished this last weekend. We had 50 people. Um, we had pretty heavy rain all day on the first day, Friday, which is also the hardest day.
• 15:48
  So we had lots of mechanicals that Wheel & Sprocket had to fix. Um, and we had quite a few people bail. Um- Mm. We had f- in, in two days we had 14 out of 50, I think, um, just bail.
• 16:03
  Just, get, get sagged back somewhere and- Bailed or finished? Yeah. We, either we took them back to, to cable or... We had one guy who had a, his daughter had a medical emergency, so he had to go.
• 16:16
  We had one person who was having his own health emergency, so he and his three friends left. So that was five.
• 16:26
  And then we had a, a handful of other people that bailed, I think, just because it, the, the first stage just sort of knocked the wind out of their sails with the cold rain and, and all the climbing, and gravel, and bike damage that is associated [laughs] with riding a long distance in gravel and rain.
• 16:46
  Right. Well, you know, what they say- But it was a good trip. It was good though. [laughs] We had fun. Every- everybody that stuck around had a lot of fun. It was- Sure... yeah, it was a nice... So- Oh, yeah...
• 16:55
  Wheel & Sprocket did another nice job. Right on. Not sure, though, if it'll happen a- again. Not sure if that, this may be the last year. We'll see. So you can't... Yeah, you, you...
• 17:05
  Was it because it's unpredictable that they're thinking of not doing it, or it's just it's been- No... kind of run its course?
• 17:11
  Um, their, their lead, Emma Elliot, who's just a rock star at Wheel & Sprocket, and is the, essentially, h- heads up all their events, is, um, moving to Montana. Oh, right on. To Bozeman. So, um, so they're losing her.
• 17:28
  And, um, they may be losing another staff member, I'm, I'm not sure, another key staff member. And, um, I'm not sure if... You know, part of the reason why, I'm supposed to be retired.
• 17:40
  Part of the reason why I keep doing it is just 'cause, you know, I've been working with Emma and, and, um, another guy, um, Ethan, at Wheel & Sprocket on events for, you know, for years and years, so I, I like working with those guys and that's part of the deal.
• 17:54
  But if, if the people I know go away, you know, I'm not sure I wanna keep... I don't need to do it for the cash. I do it kind of for fun, you know? So. Yeah. Well, I- I can go ride by m- I can do my own rides.
• 18:09
  [laughs] For sure. You guys can come up here and ride. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.
• 18:13
  Uh, speaking of that work- I would like to, it, I, I would like to get a, try that, um, ride from, uh, Grand Marais to Whitefish Point up in the UP, that beach ride. Definitely in for beach rides. Remember that?
• 18:28
  A cou- Yeah, we talked about it... a couple of salsa guys, yeah, the salsa thrilly guys that wrote up that story a long time ago or something. Um, it sounds like a really fun ride, though. Yeah.
• 18:40
  I'd love to do more beach riding. Hopefully we're gonna get a little bit- That's, that's not the hike bike one where they bring the inflatable kayaks, right? I don't think so.
• 18:50
  I don't think there was any pack rafting- Okay... involved in that one.
• 18:54
  Um, but yeah, you get a fat bike crew up here, maybe you guys and Lunz or something, and we should, we stop at Marquette and then go over to Grand Marais and ride that and- Yeah... ride back.
• 19:08
  Well, he's got o- Lunz has off all summer, so. Yeah. Uh, in, in honor of the completion- Right... of the, uh, the trail there at Telemark going up to the top [bell rings] of the hill or [bell rings]
• 19:17
  the green- We're gonna have-... the green trail. We're at, we're at the top of the hill oddly enough as well. Uh, did I... I'd said that [laughs]-- What is your, what is your Osage beer?
• 19:26
  This is from Limestone Brewing, which is in Osage. It's called Rope Swing IPA. It's, uh, 6.8% ABV. Uh, it gets a, you know, three and three quarter stars at Untapped. I, and I didn't have this when I was there.
• 19:43
  I was drinking another one that they make called Devonian IP- that's a hazy IPA, uh, 'cause it was a little less on the boozahol-y side. Uh, how do their beers compare to, uh, Toppling Goliath?
• 19:57
  Um, it's hard to compare it to Toppling Goliath. I, it's not this... I just took a swallow. I did too. It's not bad. It's- It's okay... it's sort of- It's brown-y.
• 20:06
  Yeah, and it's- Tastes way more like a brown ale than an IPA... it isn't, it doesn't really slap you around the face. Like- Mm... I mean, in, in- No...
• 20:12
  I, it, there's two breweries that I have to basically compare everything to, and one's like 100 feet away, Anamorphic, and the other one is, is TG in, in Decorah.
• 20:22
  That, that's 100 feet away if we walk out the building, around the corner, and over. Right. It's from a stone's throw [laughs] it's 20 feet away. Yeah.
• 20:29
  Yeah, we can look right in their window and- You guys need a zip line. Yeah. You need a zip line. Oh, we- No, we- Or a Tapper. Yeah, we- We just have them run a Tapper right from there to here...
• 20:36
  yeah, we could get it from- Yeah, could we drop right into the beer alley? From there to here. Right. Perfect. [laughs] JK's on his, uh, still doing the, uh, NA thing. Yeah. Kicking ass too.
• 20:45
  Some, some, some sort of- Well, I'm, I'm-... 69 nice days. Right on. I'm on the, I'm on the same page as JK today. I felt like I
• 20:55
  may be on the edge of getting a cold or something like that today, so I've been like trying to be as healthy as possible to, 'cause I gotta go work next weekend outside at Wausau for the,
• 21:08
  that race, that Iron Bowl, Red Granite Grinder. Um, so I'm just having a Zevia ginger root beer. Oh. Right on. Nothing too exciting. I'm on the- But-... I'm on the 7-Eleven version of, uh, Gatorade.
• 21:24
  It's called Replenish. Ah. [laughs] But it's cucumber mint, so it was intriguing to me, and it- Oh, that's a pretty fancy flavor... yeah, for a 7-Eleven. [laughs] And, and- Right...
• 21:35
  I'm chasing it down with wasabi soy peanuts- Ooh, nice... also from 7-Eleven. Delicious. Sometimes that place can just [smacks lips] yield miracles.
• 21:43
  You've got all the, all the fancy words in your, uh, your food and your drink. Yeah, yeah. I'm telling you, it feels so classy.
• 21:50
  [laughs] So Dave, the, uh, the, the event in Wausau, the Red Granite Grinder, is it a, is it a gravel race? Yeah, and they have 144 mile, um, course too. They have, they have- Wow...
• 22:03
  all distances, um, but their long one is 144 miles, and they've tried to make it kind of hard, like, like the, you know, Todd Pokett sort of stuff up, up in, you know, um, the UP.
• 22:18
  Like- Margie Gosek or whatever, yeah...
• 22:22
  you know, so it's not e- yeah, it doesn't have quite the, you know, finish, low finish rate that that one does, but it, but it's, there's a number of mandatory rocky, you know, hike or bike sections that not possible for, you know, maybe Danny MacAskill could ride it, but, um- [laughs]
• 22:40
  So, so I'm going up to photograph some spots that their local photographers haven't gotten to yet. And then, um, I am, uh, oh, uh, that Laura Weissman, I always pronounce her last name wrong.
• 22:56
  It's H-R-U-B-E-S, like Rubes I think. Um, she's, she's, uh, down in I- she might even be in Iowa, um, now. But I, the other side of like Viroqua or something like that.
• 23:12
  She's a ultra marathoner, and she is an Embark Maple ambassador, and she is running a women's clinic up there. So I'm photographing her doing the women's clinic, and then I hope to be able to do the podcast. Some
• 23:28
  recordings, I just got one of those, um, it's got some weird Chinese name, um, four wireless mic system, um, wow something or other. Um, uh, it,
• 23:46
  so it's got four wireless mics and one, one receiver. So, um, I can interview four people at the same time. Cool. So I'm just gonna have like my camera set up with that, and, and I might bring the Manitou suspension
• 24:01
  stool along- [laughs] That would be fun... and do some post race. Have like, you know, I have like five questions or three questions for people to answer post race and, and videotape a bunch of people.
• 24:11
  And sitting, sitting on the stool. [laughs] Sit down on that stool- Yeah... and answer this aft- Did you, did you, um, do any recordings in Osage? Uh, well- Did you bring your wireless? No.
• 24:19
  I, I did bring it and then- I was just having fun and not doing it, so- [laughs] I- it would, it would've been- You gotta do it to totally get it...
• 24:27
  I, yeah, it, so I brought my GO II along and was getting ready to, you know, be all productive, and it didn't happen. Chewy didn't bring his either. It's like, you know what? This is just a weekend to have fun, so.
• 24:39
  But yeah, it's definitely- Well-... on the plan to do more... well, these mics, they just tested them. They, they work great.
• 24:46
  I now have a, I have two wireless GO II systems, 'cause I was trying to figure out how to work a four mic system with the RODECaster, with the RODECaster Pro II, which Bluetooths directly to RODE Wireless GO IIs.
• 25:05
  But, and then I thought, "Well, I'll get another two of 'em, and I'll line in with those with the receiver." And you get, um, the Bluetooth screws with the cords in the
• 25:20
  wire, in the wired to mic, and you get weird noise. Okay. Yeah. Um, well- Yeah, it's kinda-... it does not work... it's like I've been seeing- But I got-... different, different ways-...
• 25:28
  if you know anybody that needs a wireless mic, I got 'em for sale. The one of the GO IIs? I have to put 'em up on Facebook soon. One- Yeah... yeah. Those I can ship. You won't have to take those to- [laughs]...
• 25:37
  to Iowa to take it. Yeah. [laughs] Well, and, but they are, I mean, for having a two mic system, they're awesome. I really like mine a lot. They are. Yeah.
• 25:45
  I, I like 'em, I like 'em a lot, and I love the fact that for the two mic system, they just Bluetooth right into that board, you know, without any wires or anything. It's, it's really nice. So- But- So you must have-...
• 25:58
  I have many situations where- You, you've got the newer- Where I'd like-... p- uh, RODECaster, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, 'cause it doesn't- Yeah... do it on the old one.
• 26:05
  That's why I popped, I know, that's why I popped for that. It just, the modern Bluetooth stuff was worth the extra couple hundred bucks I thought, but- Well- Anyway... the old s- Well, I'll let you guys go.
• 26:17
  I know you got the rest of your Osage story to tell, and I'll just listen, I'll listen on, on when it gets up on the interweb. Yep. Well, that'll be, uh, coming up here today. Yeah. Friday. Today and Friday. Right.
• 26:30
  [laughs] When it's raining. I'll listen later today. Yeah, right on. I'll listen later today. All right, Dave, good luck up at the Red- Okay, bye... Granite Grindr. Bye. Bye. Later. Okay. Adios, guys.
• 26:42
  That was Seely Dave, folks. He's up there in, well, Seely. [laughs] Wi- Wisconsin, up Cable Hayward way. So yeah, uh, and I think we kinda got through the Osage story. I mean- Yeah...
• 26:54
  there wasn't, I, it was- Were there any- It was fun... were there any, I don't know, barber chairs or...? No, there was a big- Salon chairs?... there was a, there was a dwarf cycle death race thing. Nice.
• 27:07
  Those are always fun. And the, uh, the campground right along, it's called, I think it's called Spring Park, it's right along the Little Cedar River, is just beautiful. Uh, it's somewhat rustic- Cool...
• 27:20
  if you know what I mean. Yeah. And there's only a, I think there's only eight sites, although you could camp in a lotta different spots in that area. But you're not like 15 feet from the other camper person next to you.
• 27:34
  You're like- Like that... uh, 300 feet away. Nice. Each, each of these sites is very- Remote... remote, and it's, all of them are either on the river or right across the little gravel road from it. Sounds great.
• 27:45
  So we had a pretty good sized one where there were several, you know, vehicles around, and sort of in a wagon circle campfire sort of a situation, and it worked out well. I, I camped in the van, and it w- it was great.
• 28:01
  That, that, you know- Although I need to be a little, I need some kind of like, uh, a bubble level so that I can make sure that it's level, because I kept kinda sliding, like put my head- [laughs]...
• 28:12
  I, I, I put my head by the, where the, the, the rear door is to open it up, 'cause it's easy in and easy out, and it's nice to have that thing up and just have a cover.
• 28:20
  Even if it's, you know, raining or something, you still got a nice little cover. But, uh, I kept sliding towards the passenger front seat.
• 28:27
  [laughs] Like I'd, I'd, I'd, I'd breathe in, and then I'd breathe out, and I'd be like, eh. And I'd just kinda just be like moving a little- Slowly moving over... slowly moving towards it.
• 28:35
  So yeah, I ended up putting my, uh, my, my gear bag in, in front of the seat, so- So you wouldn't roll any further? Nah, just kinda squished my feet into it. But it, it was as pretty close to level I thought.
• 28:45
  But I guess- Do you know what helps that? What? Dogs. A bubble level? Dogs. They won't let you move once you're in. [laughs] Oh. [laughs] They're like, "Screw it. You're not moving." Yeah.
• 28:54
  "You, you're rolling into me, I'm just gonna absorb you." Well, I don't know if it was all the, the dogs and, 'cause Spinner has a couple, and- Mm-hmm. They're cuties...
• 29:01
  and Chewy and Shannon had this, this little Italian, Italian Gray. It's really- Yeah, Greyhound?... small. Ta- Whippet? Like a Whippet? Yeah. Yeah. Really small, though. Like this- Yeah, they are. They're tiny...
• 29:11
  like, like a foot. They're fast as fuck. Yeah, so then, uh, just lots of dogs, and I, my eyes were itching and stuff, so. [laughs] I couldn't have my own dogs unless they were some oodle, oodle dogs.
• 29:21
  [laughs] But, uh- Snickerdoodles... hey, here's a sad thing about dogs. Oh. Our, our- Irwin... our good buddy Steven, a mechanic at, at the shop, uh, his, he, it was a, a Chihuahua- Chihuahua. Irwin the Chihuahua...
• 29:36
  with the long schlong. Um- I didn't wanna bring that up, but yes, it's true. Ugh. Well, he ha- You must long doubt...
• 29:42
  I guess he had a, he had a heart condition, and they thought, you know, that's gonna be not a great thing, but they thought it would be longer than it was, and he- He passed...
• 29:52
  passed away while they were sitting on their couch goofing around, and- Oh. Yeah, it's a bummer. I gotta, I loved Irwin. He was s- Irwin was a-... he was a nice dog... great dog. Good dog.
• 30:01
  Steve would carry him, and the best part was- Such a good dog... Steve would carry him around in his backpack and have ice packs. So he'd be hot as hell, and Irwin would be like chilling like a villain- [laughs]...
• 30:09
  'cause he's like, "Yeah, Irwin, it's great here. I got, you know, I got a bunch of ice on my ass." [laughs] Yeah. He was a great little guy. Gonna miss him immensely. Yeah. It's a sad day for that. Yeah.
• 30:21
  Not so s- well, yeah. Hopefully he's in doggy heaven, 'cause- He's definitely in doggy heaven... all dogs go to heaven. All go to heaven.
• 30:28
  Ah, it's- I don't get the rainbow bridge concept everyone talks about, but whatever. He's in heaven, doggy heaven. Uh, Biketoberfest tonight. Yeah. Yes. Rain or shine. Rain or stars. Stars, that's what it is. Thank you.
• 30:40
  Rain or stars. Yeah, let's hope- Rain or stars... let's hope the rain is not torrential and- No, it'll just be pockmarked here and there. Pock- yep. Yeah.
• 30:47
  Well, it's- It's for- Makes for good lily padding on the way there and back and such. [coughs] That's what I'm saying. Yes. That's what I'm hoping. [laughs] That's what I'm saying. Uh- Declaring. Yeah.
• 30:58
  Well, let's do this again next week, and, um, we can talk about what happened. [laughs] And I had a great time in Madison. Yeah, you did. Yeah. That was a great show, wasn't it? It was. Emil and the Sniffers. Yeah.
• 31:10
  I tell you, wow. I'm gonna tell you all about it next week. La, la, la. And there was- Sounds-... Thrill Kill Kults and all these other things in town that I missed, Mudhoney. Fucking Milwaukee.
• 31:19
  But yeah, I'm in the future- There's too much shit to do-... in the past... in a given day. [laughs] Yeah, that's just what happens in the big city. That's right. That's right. All right. Report back. Later, y'all. Yeah.
• 31:30
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