 Hello everybody, and welcome to episode 4 of Rag Brie. In this episode, you'll see a lot of Amelia, Connor, the kid on a unicycle, Danny not surfing, me getting thrown off a mechanical bull, a dude cradling a cute little dog, escaping into a beer cooler, other Danny on his penny farthing, waterslides, waterslides, and of course, lots of wonderful humans. Let's do it! Is it just a dream, or is Amelia really here? I was brilliant enough to come. Yeah, you were. Rag Brie's awesome. It is, and you know, I didn't really know if I was going to be able to make it out. Wasn't sure how my body was going to hold up, so. Yeah, why's that? So I ran a hundred miler this past weekend, so last Saturday I ran a hundred miles through the Cascades in Washington, and I flew back on Sunday to Colorado and then got all my stuff together, and I am here now, hobbling around. Right on. Yeah. What place did you get in the race? I got second. Right on. Doss. But eighth overall, you beat all the boys pretty much. I beat all the boys. Good morning, Connor. How are you feeling today? I feel great. I slept like a champ. My watch is telling me that my readiness is poor, so I'm ready to fire it up today for 89 on the road. What's up with this little finger? I broke my pinky finger like a few weeks ago, so I have to keep it splinted. Oh, look at that little guy. I just want you to know that this 100% cotton Team Duzer shirt still smells like roses. You want to know why? Because I keep jumping in water. Ta-da. Don't I smell good, everybody? Yes. Yes. What's this stretch? This is called the roll your butt on a ball stretch. Got to get those legs limbered up. Got to get the legs limbered up. I'm still kind of limping around from this past weekend. What are you doing over there, Connor? I mean, normally I just wouldn't fly, but I feel like at Rackbride, people know what I'm doing. Sometimes you just got to get all the way in there and make sure you're safe for the day, you know? Safety first. Yeah, I'm telling you. It's not a pleasurable experience whatsoever, but I'm doing it. High five. Oh. I think they're calling for 100 degrees today. Is that right? 100 degrees today? 100 degrees. 100 degrees. Let's do it. Triple digits. I think the hottest day in Iowa so far. We're lucky to be riding on the roads of Iowa for what, 82 miles? 82 sounds good. 82 sounds good. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter. We're doing it. You two get some morning coffee? Yes, sir. Right on. Get that coffee. Let's go ride bikes. Go ride bikes. These people right here. You want to know another thing I always try to find at a campsite close proximity to the porta-potties, or as they call them here in Iowa, the Kaibo. I don't know why they call it that, but I like it. Kaibo. Do you know what kind of bug that is? It's a cicada. They're like the most, they're so ugly. But they make such a pretty noise. Oh, they make a noise like, yeah, yeah. So Amelia is riding the 600X, the best bike in the history of the world. And I'm riding the 600, which is also the best bike in the history of the world. Woo. And over here, Connor is riding the original prototype of the Apollo, also the best bike in the world. Yup. Oh, it always feels a little tender when you get on the bike for the first thing in the morning. Woo. Here's all of our friends. Look. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good morning. Riders on. Riders on. Amelia is here. What up? Oh my God. Let's go have the best day ever. What do you say? Best day ever. Best day ever. Best day ever. Best day ever. Best day ever. Best day ever. Best day ever. No flaties. No crashies. No whammies. Oh yeah, there he is. How you doing, my friend? Pretty good. Not horrible. Not horrible. Not the best. Not the best. You got this, my friend. Thank you. Thank you. You're amazing. You're amazing. I'm going to cycling the whole thing. I'm so glad I run into them every day. Here comes the sun. Doo doo doo doo. It is 6.54 a.m. I think this is our earliest start. And we are towards the back of Raghbri. Everybody's waking up early. Because it's hot. And they're freaked out. But not us. We like it hot. Amelia just reminded me that it's Thursday. So happy Thursday, everybody. You know, when I'm out on Raghbri, I have no idea what day it is. I have no idea what's going on in the world. Cell phones barely work. I'm not watching TV. This is just Raghbri world where you wake up. And you ride bikes every day. And everybody else is in the same boat. The same bicycle boat. And it's kind of fun to have this shared mission, shared goal where we're all in on it. Ah. Oh, that was epic. Woo. And it's time for little Casey's breakfast pizza. Yo Connor, have you ever had breakfast pizza? I can't say that I have, but it's changed my life. Yeah, it's good. I think it's going to become a staple. So good. I love it. And just the right amount of salt for today. It's fired up. Thank you, Casey's. Once again, you are awesome. You're 20 miles in. How do you feel? Good. How's the body holding up? Hips a little bit iffy, but it feels better biking than walking. So keep biking. Keep biking. Yeah. Are you really 97? Wow. That's amazing. You're an inspiration. And what's your name? Clarence. Clarence, nice to meet you. Wow. I want to be like you someday. And we are finally back out on the quiet country roads. The last 20 miles of yesterday and the first 10 miles of today we were, you know, not in the country. A lot of suburbia, a lot of buildings, a lot of houses. So it's kind of nice to be back out here in the peace and quiet. Hey Amelia, feel good to be back? It does. It's amazing. I forgot how much fun this is. I'm just, good times, all day long, just pedaling. Just pedaling. Just pedaling. All we got to do is pedal. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. I'm going to throw up now. Look at this. What a cute, you ride with her like this the whole way? Oh yeah. Really? Yeah. She rides me to work like this. I work at a running store. We can go in and hang out. Yep. She's having a ball. Hi Daisy. Hi. And she's just kind of cradled in your arms. Yep. Got a leash on her just in case I could see belt, you know. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. I love it. You guys have a good reg ride. You bet. No whammies. No whammies, no whammies. You know what I'm grateful for right now? These clouds. They are protecting us a bit from that hot sun. They're protecting pork smoke. Okay. I want to get horny. How do we do that? Get some helmet flair. Helmet flair is my buddy Sean from Formally Boulder. And he's going to put some horns on my helmet. We're based out of Lawrence, Kansas. We manufacture our product in Dayton, Ohio. And we've got a patent on this. So our mission is to increase helmet use by making them more awesome. Put it on. Oh yeah. Check it out. I got my horns. Thank you so much. All right, Amelia. You're 40 miles in. How's the body? You know, it feels better with every mile. So the key is just to keep riding. Connor, how you doing, bud? I'm great, man. Learning something with every mile that passes. Learning to drink a little bit earlier than I think. Learning to eat more than I think. And so we're just taking easy. It's going to be the hottest day. But I think it's going to be a good day. Yeah. We're going to Casey's. And on this specific Casey's run, I want to find the beer cooler. This is the best part about Casey's. Thank you. All day, man. All day. This is the beer cooler. Oh my God. This is amazing. Yeah. This is amazing. You're steaming. I am. Oh, this feels so good. It's incredible. We just walked into the Arctic. I love the steam coming off of it. Yeah, right? Yeah. Go in there. It's worth it. Oh. Thank you, Casey's. You're amazing. Oh, God, it's so hot out here. It's the complete opposite of the beer cooler. So a lot of my best rag bra interactions happen in a Casey's parking lot. And I just met this wonderful family. How you doing? Hello. Tell me the story. Well, we are from Michigan. And we decided to take the family of six on rag bra this year. And one of the goals was to break all of us from our luxuries of living at home and with, you know, showers and bathrooms and nice beds and get everyone away from the iPads and the iPhones and the computers and really interact with people for seven straight days. Right on. And how are you doing? You loving it? Yeah. What do you love the most? I love the people and the pools and slip-and-slides. The slip-and-slides? I love the slip-and-slides too. We have a birthday boy, right? Yeah, man. Sixteen. Yeah. You're not going to forget this birthday. No, not at all. No, that's a great time. Well, we love biking together as a family and we love camping. So we put it together and we... we're just doing it. You guys are awesome. Thank you. Have a great time. Thank you. Have a great time. Happy birthday. Thank you, man. See you later. So there are some definite heroes out here on rag bra. And I'm standing next to one. He's part of the Air Force team. How you doing? Hey, I'm doing great. This has been wonderful. I've been fixing a lot of flats, fixing a lot of tires, wheels, chains. So what do you do as the Air Force team? What's your mission here on rag ride? Well, we support the riders. We make sure that if they go down, if they need medical attention, we stay with them. We direct traffic and block traffic to make sure they're safe. And we just... We fix flats. We fix whatever... whatever anybody needs. I carry around practically a mobile bike shop here. So we've been able to use most of the tools that we have. And it's just been a blast. And how many of you are out here? There's 177 riders and 16 support personnel out here with the Air Force team this year. So we're quite a troop. We fill up a huge camping area. And... How long have you been doing this? How long has the team been doing this? The team has been doing this somewhere close to 27, 28 years. This is my first. My first year with the ride, Brian. My first year with the team. How does it feel? It feels wonderful. It's been great. The... You know, in your videos, you talk about the Iowa... Iowa NICE. The Iowa NICE. And it's just... It's all of that and more. And you just got to come out and experience it. So how does it feel to ride your bike 50 miles after running 100 miles? Oh, I've had better ideas in life. Not going to lie. I also picked a terrible day to start given all these hills, which is kind of sad coming from a girl from Colorado. But they're adding up. Everybody says this is the hardest day this year. Yeah, man, it's hard. It's hard. There's no doubt it's hard. Especially, I mean, after I run 100 miles, I don't do anything for a few weeks. So you're a champ! You were the one encouraging me to come out. It's my fault. I'll take it. There's Danny again. What's up, buddy? Yeah, I am. How you guys doing? How's life? Good, it's good. What's it like to ride this so many miles? It's just a long ride. You know, the hills are brutal. I'm from Florida, so it's flat. But it's fun going down. You know, you can be feeling tired and sluggish and hot and just uncomfortable. But once you hit that water and you submerge your body, or maybe not even submerge, you get a little sprinkler, it just makes the whole world better. It really does. I feel like a million bucks right now. It'll probably change in about 45 seconds. But right now, I'm psyched. Hey, look who I found. It's Danny! Yo! What's up? Taking it one pedal at a time for real today. We are cruising into Grinnell. And straight in front of us is the town pool. You know where we're going. There it is. Look at that slide. Look at the view up here. That's the slide we're going to do. It looks like a pretty much straight drop. Are you going first or what? No, you go first. I don't want to. I want to first. You go first. Lay first. There we go. There we go. Rag Bride really is about riding from pool to pool. And if you do that, you're going to be pretty comfortable and happy. I ran into a dream teamer. They are awesome. What's your name? I'm Drake. Winters from the dream team. This is my third year. My third Rag Bride on the dream team. Right on. How does the program work? It's a youth Rag Bride team. So we basically train for Rag Bride. We train for five months. We start in March. It's like we are sponsored by Rag Bride. The Des Moines Register Bike World and the YMCA. So our first month, which we start in March, is all indoor training at the Y. And we get in there for free. We run completely off donations. So even when we get to Rag Bride, the youth don't have to pay for anything. That's great. What do you love most about it? Oh, I love the food. And the people on the dream team are some of the best you'll meet. That's awesome. I love it. How long have you been riding bicycles? I actually did not know how to ride a bicycle before I got on the dream team. And now you're loving it? Yeah. I love Rag Bride. You know, on my first year, I was... The training was hard. It was very, very hard. I got close to quitting several times. More than I could probably count on my fingers. But as soon as I got to Rag Bride, I realized this is what the training is for. Because I love Rag Bride. Yeah. You are awesome. It's here for the dream team. Yeah. That's so cool. World's fastest Ole. Here we go. Ole! I'm hanging out with my new friend Charlene here. We're just struggling up these hills. How you doing? I'm tired as hell. Can I say hell? Yeah, you just did. You're all good. How's today been? Bro. But glad the sun is down. And we're almost done. Damn it. What brought you out here? My crazy friend from Washington, D.C. All right. What do you love most about Rag Bride? The people have been awesome. Islands know how to blow out the red carpet. It's been a great trip. However, I don't like sleeping in a tent. Sorry, Ryan. Well, I'm sorry for interviewing on a steep hill. My bad. But you are awesome Charlene. Thank you. You're doing it. We're almost there. Yeah. Yeah, bud. We're almost there. Almost there, man. We're almost there. We got this. Come on. Yeah. Everybody's usually always pretty psyched on Rag Bride. All you got to do is whoop and holler a little bit. And everybody else starts whooping and hollering. My kind of people. Even at mile 75. I keep on trying to catch up with Jack, but he's too fast. Jack, what's going on? You got rocket legs. Yeah. No problem, huh? No problem. No problem. And he smiles the whole time. I love this little dude. Go, Jack. Go. Amelia, we made it. Tatama Toledo 89 miles. Toledo. Yeah. Woo-hoo-hoo. It's only a vision time. Brian doesn't know I'm taking his camera. Filming. Okay, there's a lot of stuff going on around here. Especially this guy who's going to... This could be my favorite part of Rag Bride, which are the pools at the end of a long day. It's like the most fun part, for sure. Oh, look who I found is my man, Jaden Knuckles. Oh, too slow. Look, we're having a steamy picnic here. Everybody's having a great time. Eating all sorts of fruit. You know, this is hard to get on Rag Bride, fruit and vegetables. And we were lucky enough to have a very supportive... Crew. Sag mama getting us all the gifts from the grocery store. Thank you. This has been epic. It's been a lot of fun. It's been a good bonding experience with them and a lot of great memories stopping at the stops doing splash pads, doing, you know, getting pie, eating together. You really cherish those moments because they're not going to be a little long. Jaden, he's still really cute. I don't know if he'll be cute at 20. So I got to enjoy it. You got to enjoy it now. Enjoy your family. Get out there and don't wait. Because if you let life and work and every other competing prior to getting in the way, you blink and it's gone. And I saw that with my older kids, unfortunately. I've got, you know, four older kids. 25 through 18. And I wish I would have had a different mindset to capture that with them. And we've got some memories. But I mean, this is just really something special. And you can't, you can't beat it. It feels amazing. Like, I just think it's one of those things that people, most people don't know that this exists. They don't know how big the community is and how important it is for these towns and the people and how everybody comes out. I mean, if this, if Raghbriar, Raghbriar rolls through your town, I mean, it's one of the biggest days of the year. And so to be a part of that is tremendous. And even as hard as the riding portion is, like, you're never alone through it. You find community everywhere. You find little things that you haven't seen. People are so welcoming. And so it's just been amazing. Like, I'd say that my body is tired, but for sure, like, my spirit is very full from this. And so I think as soon as I forget a few things, particularly the way some of the hills feel, no joke, there are hills in Iowa. As soon as I forget that, I will be looking at this with nothing but amazing memories. And I'm gonna be excited to do it next year and excited to get more of the team out here. It's gonna be a lot of fun. How's it going, Amelia? I'm good. I'm just gonna brush my teeth. Oh, yeah. How was your day? Um, it was the hardest day I've had on Raghbri. I mean, it was the only day this year. But like, compared to last year, it was much harder. And I don't know if that's having 100 miles on my legs. I can guarantee that's a big part of it. I'm also blinding people. And or the heat or whatnot. But yeah, it was a tough day. So had some low moments, but made it through. So, yeah. Well, good work. Thank you. Yay. Bam. Scary. Where did Chase go? I don't know. Hey there. So first of all, thank you so much for watching this video. And second, do you want to join Team Dooser at next year's Raghbri 2024? I promise lots of Olays and good times and high fives. And as you can see, we are very inclusive of all ages and all abilities. We're all about fun. We're actually just a big bunch of dorks. Kind of like Revenge of the Nerd style on bikes. So if you want to join our team, go to the Raghbri website, sign up for Raghbri like you normally would. And there's a drop down menu to choose your team and choose Team Dooser. And then from there, we will be giving you some more information here in the upcoming weeks and months about how we're all going to stick together this year and all camp together as one family with some sort of a charter organization. So go sign up. We'll see you next summer and it's going to be so much fun. And also don't forget, it's time to get off your couch, get out there and start training.