 Oh dear, is this live? Is this really happening? Are you all out there listening on your computers or phones or whatever? I kind of just woke up. That's why I look a little tired. And my hair's a little messy, but that's how it goes. You've seen my early morning face when I wake up camping, filming myself. How you all doing? It's good to see you. Let's wait for a few people to jump in. But the whole point of this is just to say hi, to answer questions, to have fun. And you guys over here in the chat area can kind of go at it and build some community, make some friends, hopefully. And I will try my best to answer questions. These things kind of get hectic because I'm talking, but I'm also looking and scanning at questions at the same time. So we will see how it all goes. Happy Sunday, everybody. All right, we've got Anika from South Africa. That's so awesome. Tell me where you're all from. I saw somebody from Arizona, Michael P from Arizona. Looks like we've got PT from, that's probably Australia that says g'day, mate. PT trying, thank you. Hello, everybody. We've got some North Carolina, Misfits, NG, Pittsburgh. We've got the United Kingdom, Frosty Flame, Tucson, Autumn Vandenberg. We've got Denver, what's up? Denver just down the road, Angelica B. Happy Sunday from Ohio. What's up, Samuel? How you doing? Well, this is starting to get crazy. Oh, we got my sweetest friends. Come rock, Dennis. Hey ya, hey ya, Sferia. Y'all g'ell, Sferia. Did you all know that I lived in Sweden? I've talked about it enough, but you should know that I lived in Sweden as an exchange student. So I have a special place in my heart for Sweden. And we have Dennis here from Sweden in the live chat. We've got Littleton. We've got Jupiter, Florida. What's up, Paul? Aaron L from Maine. What else? We've got El Paso. Coach Newman, what's up? El Paso, how you doing? I love that little town. This is not that little, it's a pretty big city. Let's see what else. We've got Greenbrier Bragg from Arizona, UK. We've got Casey, Missouri. Man, there's some, oh, Lithuania, that's a new one. What's up, Lithuania. Right on, Carson City, Nevada. Thank you, Andrew, for being here. Navajo Area, New Mexico. Leandru, Cordova. Thank you for being here. Jeff Weinberg from Chicago. We've got the Netherlands, Motton. Karen from Winnipeg, Canada. We've got a lot of countries here. I love it. Los Angeles. We've got Norway. We've got Damir from Norway, which is pretty similar language to Swedish. So I can sometimes understand when Norwegians speak their language to me. We've got Jochen from Germany. This is so great. I know over in Europe it's early afternoon, early evening. Whoa, we've got Patagonia, Argentina, Pablo Morini. Awesome. Preston, England, Seattle. This makes me so happy. Like this is why I love you two, is because I get to connect with people all over the world. This is just blowing me away. There's people from all over the world here on this Sunday morning. Calgary, New Mexico, New Hampshire. What's up, Eric in New Hampshire? How you doing, buddy? Los Angeles, Honduras! Sam and Honduras. You all know that Honduras also holds a special place in my heart because I lived there for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. And that was really the start of my adventurous life when I decided in Honduras to not go home the traditional way, like everybody else in the Peace Corps. They give you a plane ticket to go home. I traded in that plane ticket and bought a bicycle and I rode my bike home back to Boulder and that started it all. And check it out, my friends. You know what this is right here? Look at that! Is it, isn't that cool? That's my book. That's my new book. And it's not quite out yet. This is the only one in existence. This is called A Proof. I finally got it to this point, went to the print of the other day and they've turned it into a book. Can you believe it? And this will be for sale hopefully in about a month. And it's my origin story, you know? Like a Marvel comic guy. This is how I became who I am today. And it was written off of many, many journal entries from when I rode my bike home. And it took me only 17 years to make this happen. And I'm really proud of it. I think you're gonna like it. It has photo pages of me and all my cute kids from Honduras. So you can follow the fun of my adventure as I rode my bike home to Honduras. And I really hope you like it. This is a lot of work. You know, making a YouTube video can be a lot of work. Writing a book is 10,000 times more work than making a YouTube video. Okay, I'm just gonna go back over here to the chat and say hi to people. We've got Jay from Tennessee. We've got Joss from Belgium. People are asking how to get the book. I will be posting like crazy whenever it's available. It is not yet so I can't like post a date or anything. I'm hoping in about a month the book will be available. And it will be available because of my good friends at Priority Bikes. They know how to send stuff out. Like I did, I was about, because this is self-published. So I was about to turn my tiny apartment into a bookstore and have stacks and stacks of books and get orders in and ride my bike to the post office every day. And I thought that sounded like a little bit too much work. So luckily my good friends at Priority said, hey, we will take care of all that. So you will be buying this book through the Priority website. So thank you so much Dave at Priority, which is so cool. It is printed locally here in Boulder. This is the most eco-friendly book you will ever find. That was really important to me. Printed here in Colorado, 100% recycled paper. The ink is algae-based ink. So it's not toxic like a lot of other inks in books. A lot of books are printed in China and shipped over and the carbon footprint is through the roof. So I'm trying my best to keep this eco-friendly. Is it perfect? No, sending this around the country and the world is gonna take some energy, right? So it's not a carbon zero book, but it's pretty going close. Okay, look at this. What's up from Austin, Texas? Somebody sent me five bucks. Thank you so much. Come ride the Sam Houston National Forest sometime. I definitely should. It looks like Gino Pulgar from Manila, Philippines. Love your adventures and vibe. Gino sent whatever your money is called, 249 of them. So thank you so much, Gino. I really appreciate it. Again, I've said this so many times in all of my videos, but it means the world to me that I have an audience, that I have friends like you around the world. I've met some of you in real life, but I don't know most of you in real life. I interact with as many of you as possible in the chat comments. It's really important to me to build that community and actually respond to your questions and your comments and you'll let you know that I'm a real person and that I really care about. When you ask me a question, yeah, I will be there and I will respond to you. Let's see, we got somebody from Katie, Texas. No, you won't have to. So one of the questions about the book is will you have to pre-order? No, no pre-orders. Once you order the book, you will get the book. So I'm printing all the books, hopefully in the next couple of weeks, then they will go to the priority headquarters and when you place the order, you will get the book. Boom. I don't know exactly how much it's gonna cost. It's gonna be a little bit more expensive because it is such an eco-friendly book and that costs a little bit more than the cheap way of doing things, but it's not gonna be crazy, so don't worry about it. What's up, Jay, Jay in Tennessee. Kindle, I don't have an E version yet and I don't have an audio version yet. The first version of the book will just come out as a book, but give me a little bit more time and I will try to do an audio version. And I was actually toying with the idea of just taking the book and reading it maybe here, get a little fake fireplace and just sitting here and reading the whole book and make a YouTube video. That would probably be five hours long. What do you guys think of that? That would be my audio version. We got Barry from the Grand Canyon. We've got Frank from the Netherlands. Let's see. Chris says he lives vicariously through my videos and now my book, hopefully you love it. I'm really proud of it. I think it's great. You'll get a look into the mind of 25 year old Ryan as I made my way through Central America and Mexico with my good friend, Jeff. I wasn't alone on that adventure and that adventure is essentially what inspired this life. It was so impactful in so many ways. When I rode through Mexico, so many people were kind and generous. They brought me into their homes. They fed me meals, truckers would stop on the side of the road and pull me over and be like, hey, this road's dangerous. Maybe you should think about this road. So people were looking out for me the entire time. Strangers, complete strangers who had no idea who I was. And that feeling of connection with humans really inspired me to want to continue doing this type of travel. And so I said to myself when I finished this adventure, how can I figure out a way to make a career doing this? How can I figure out a way to make money by traveling? And it's been a long, long, long, long road. For most of my career, I've barely made any money and that was okay because me, I only eat beans and rice and I ride a bike everywhere. So I didn't need a lot of money, but it really is truly a dream come true to be able to do what I do and share my stories with you on YouTube and now in a new book. Leandro Cordova just sent out 10 bucks. He says, dozer, I have a goal to lose some weight and ride with you one day. My knees are trash, but I like riding. Maybe one day you make biking more exciting for me as I get into it. Thank you so much, my friend. I wish you the best on your journey. Oh, Rene Acevedo, just sent five bucks. Amigo, como esta, aqui Rene, tu sabes, apoyando. Yeah, he is always supporting me. Rene is the, actually if you watched my very first ragged ride video from this summer, you met Rene in that video. He talked about how cycling saved his life, literally. And at the end of ragged ride, I actually gave him my priority, 600. So now he has an awesome bike to continue his journeys. And I know that he has dreamed some day of riding that thing across the country and I know that he'll make it happen. So go Rene, everybody send Rene Acevedo some love. Kim Caldwell says, have you done anything to develop your voice? You have a broadcaster's voice. I haven't, this is just how I talk. You know, a lot of people, you know, have you seen the movie Anchorman where they, you know, they get in front of the cameras and they kind of change their voice. And tonight at 6 p.m., we've got breaking news. I've, I just talked the way I talk. I'm just a natural guy. And I just luckily have a very low sounding, broadcasting voice, but I definitely don't change it. And I've never worked on it. And right now I have kind of like early morning, like raspy voice. Barry Smith says, seems all bike tours love Mexico. I agree, I definitely love riding my bike in Mexico. I love Mexico, I love the culture, I love the language. I love the food, obviously, burritos, yummy. And it's one of my favorite places. We've got Harry Grimley from Minnesota. Hey, Ryan, love your videos, your attitude. Thanks for sharing your work with us. No, thank you for watching my work. If I didn't have this audience, you know, who would watch my videos? My mom, you know, and that's great. I'm excited that my mom watches my videos, but I can't make a living off of my mom only watching my videos. So thank you for watching my stuff. Okay, I'm trying my best to go through all these comments and questions. There's a million of them. So I'm trying my best. Is there a place in Colorado to try or rent a priority 600X? So the thing with priority is they don't have stores. So there's not really a place you can try a priority if you live near Boulder, reach out to me. You can try mine, but I'm sorry about that. And the reason why priority cuts out the stores is it saves you money, essentially. There's no middleman, but there is some risk with that because you don't get to try the bike and it might not fit right, but priority does have a very generous return policy. I think you can have it for about 30 days. And if it doesn't fit right, you can return it. We got Fredrik Englund from Sweden. What was your canceled plan to Sweden this summer? What route did you plan to take? Or was it only going to be vacation? So a lot of you know that I was going to ride the length of Sweden from the tippy top of Sweden above the Arctic Circle, all the way down south to the bottom of Sweden to a town where I lived as an exchange student called Stadala. And that was gonna be about 1500 miles. It was all planned. It was a route that I essentially built on Komut one of my favorite mapping apps. And 24 hours before I was supposed to get on the airplane, Scandinavian Airlines went bankrupt because of a pilot strike and they canceled all their itineraries and they couldn't book me on another flight for like a week and a half. And so the dates weren't gonna work. And so my whole trip got destroyed. I was so bummed out. So I hope to get back at that another time. Maybe this summer we'll see. I love Sweden and I really wanna ride my bike at the length of Sweden. All right, let's see. Amara Eden, thank you for the 49.99. Thank you, you're amazing. Aspire to cycle. You and Lael Wilcox need to do a video ride. Whoa, is there a dog behind me? Yes, I would love to do a ride with Lael someday. She is amazing. Lael Wilcox is an inspiring woman and I love what she's doing for the bike world. Oh, do you see that head over there, everybody? Who is that? Do you guys see that? Hey, what's up? It's Amelia Boone. I don't just hire her for the videos. She is indeed actually my girlfriend now. Aren't I lucky? She's just coming back from a run. He pays really well. Yeah, that's right, I do. And that's her dog, Emmy. Emmy, come over here. She's eating a stuffed animal. Emmy is really cute. I don't think I'm gonna be taking Emmy out of the bike packing trips anytime soon. She's too big. She's a little big. But she's the second best thing to Mira. Y'all know Mira. I love Mira. I thought you were gonna say the second best thing to me, but thanks. Oh, well, I have to compare her to dogs. Oh, okay. You're the best thing. So anyway, Amelia, do you have anything to say? Amelia, a lot of you last Sunday saw Amelia ride the White Rim 100 miles, 100 off-road miles. Your first off-road 100 miler, how did that feel? I mean, we saw it in the video, but how you feel in a week out? I am stoked. I think if anybody watched it, you saw that it was probably like a tougher experience for me than I expected. Ryan, Ryan is really good at the stuff. And I think you see things, you're like, oh, that's super easy. I can do that. And so there are some tough moments, but now I'm like, oh, okay. Now I want to go back and do it. And like now they know better or do other things. So we have a question here, Amelia, from Rab. How is your butt after the 100 miler? My butt is fine now. It took a few days. I didn't get on a bike for like five or six days afterwards because it was pretty chaked up. Yep. We have a comment here from Jay Ghost, the great boon. Yes. Any other questions for Amelia while she's here? She might have to run downstairs and take a shower, I don't know. No, I don't. Can you hang out for a bit? I can hang out for a bit. Oh, she can hang and pull up a chair. Oh wait, I don't have another chair. You want my chair? No, I can pull up the stool for now. Go get a stool. Go get a stool. Enjoying Sunday morning with Ryan. You're a one strong lady, Amelia, somebody says. Thank you. Chris says, you too inspired me to try my first 100 kilometer. The 100 miler will wait. I just mapped it out this morning and it will be leading within an hour. Oh wow, have fun, Chris. Go get them. Joss Grotters. I'm guessing you're from Belgium or Netherlands. Ryan, Amelia, you are so inspiring, awesome. I hope to come to the U.S. one day for Raghbri. I hope to see you guys there. So speaking of Raghbri, you also did Raghbri. Maybe you can talk about your experience at Raghbri. I've talked enough on this channel. Let's have Amelia talk, okay? And ladies and gentlemen, Amelia Boone. Raghbri is like the greatest bike ride ever. I mean, in terms of just community, I think I was kind of scared at first because I was like, oh, road cyclist. And then I realized it's just basically a moving party on wheels. So you can go whatever pace, like no one cares. Everyone's out there for a good time. And I did never thought Iowa could be so fun. Sorry if there's any Iowans and that's kind of like that. Oh, everybody's from Iowa. You just offended the entire state. The entire state of Iowa. Way to go. Cornfields are the best bathrooms ever. Cornfields, yep. And yeah, we just, it was a phenomenal experience. I think there's so many ways to do it too. You know, you can be a bagger and pack all your stuff like we did. Or there's like the charters, which is super cool because you don't have to worry about all the logistics and somebody else does it for you. So many ways to do it. I want to get my parents out there actually. It's a good parent ride. You all know I brought my mom and Dan and Xanthe. It's good for everybody. So we're thinking of going back next year. We want to, it's the 50th anniversary. And if I do, excuse me, if I get it all together, I would be awesome to do a team. So stay tuned about all that. We'll have some sort of dozer team, maybe Amelia Booner team. I have, there's a funny question here from a guy named Greg. Where'd it go? Is it sometimes annoying with Ryan because he has too much energy? Honestly, I was kind of worried about that, but no, because I mean the first one, but because I feed off of other people's energy like everybody else. And I think Ryan inspires me to be more goofy. And like, I think I've always been a more serious person. So I've kind of like tamped down that side of me. And I've learned a lot from Ryan, just like embrace it. And you know, like you're able to be out there and doing this and it, you know, he brings my energy up. So I appreciate it. Well, here's a cool comment. Hey, Ryan, you are a true inspiration. It puts a smile on my face watching all your videos. I work with your dad here in Knoxville and he is extremely proud of you and talks about you all the time. So my dad lives in Knoxville, Tennessee. He moved away when I, after I graduated college, when I was like 22. So I know a lot of you haven't seen a lot of my dad on this channel. So he doesn't live in Boulder. But yeah, my dad is a good guy. And I would say that I get a lot of my goofy side from my dad for sure. No doubt about that. No doubt about that. Any other questions for Amelia while we- I think somebody asked how my hand held up. Oh, how's, how's your hand? I, it's like- Well, explain like what happened to your hand. Oh, okay. So a week before Rag Bride, we were biking around here in Boulder and I did a Superman off my bike and I hit this side of my hand, my scaphoid. And so it was like- The what foid? Sorry, I said it wrong. And so I really messed that up. The next week I went to Rag Bride. So I shifted all of my weight onto the outside of the hand. And I ended up with ulnar nerve compression right here from Rag Bride. So my hand was basically like clawed like this for a good eight weeks. It's better now. It's still not fully back. I've got some clawing still, but the white rim didn't make it anymore. So that's good. So I'm Kristaline 109, since broke my hand recently and can't ride watching through your back catalog again to keep my spirits up. Thank you so much for what you do. Bring Amelia on some of your epic rides. Well, I would, but Amelia has something called a nine to five job. So it's hard for her to get a lot of time off. So so far we've only been able to do like little things, but maybe someday we will ride across America. I mean, I can do like a week or 10 days, but anything beyond that is going to require sabbatical from work. So, but who needs work? This is work, right? I'm working right now, by the way, people. You have the best job ever. I do. We have a five bucks from Martin Swartz. Thank you so much, buddy. How about an organized dozer tour? So all of us can join you on a tour. That's why I'm thinking about doing Radbride as a team so we can all like do this thing together. And then that way, I don't have to be in charge of all the logistics like food and everything. Like Radbride takes care of all that. I can just like, we can have a fun loving group when we ride every day. And then everybody kind of spreads out in camps, wherever they want. And every morning we do something again. I would love to do this someday, but organizing a tour is very difficult in terms of insurance and rider abilities and making sure everybody's like on the same page and all that stuff. I would want everybody to have fun. That's the main goal. I want people to have fun and I don't want to push people too hard. So there's going to have to be like different levels and stuff. And he also said, can you explain the difference between the priority 600X and the Trek 1120? They're pretty different bikes. I mean, I created the 600X because the 1120 didn't have everything that I wanted. Of course, the 600X has the Pinyin and Gates drive train which is the best drive train I think in the world, super low maintenance. 600X also has front suspension which the Trek 1120 does not have. The 1120 has some really cool built-in racks but that's essentially the difference, you know? The 600X is a much better bike. There's no other way to put it. The 1120 is also a good bike but I will say that I rode the 1120 on Baja and broke lots of different parts on it pretty quickly. So, all right. I think somebody was referring to your peeing in the cornfields comment and somebody says, corn has been tasting pretty funny lately. Yeah, I know. Oh, everyone wants to know if I'll return to Barclay. If last minute, most of my audience does not know what Barclay is. Oh, sorry, then I won't answer. No, you can answer to explain what Barclay is. Okay, so if anybody's seen the documentary, if most people have seen the documentary The Barclay Marathons, it was on Netflix for a long time but it's basically this, like probably the hardest 100-ish mile foot race in the world where there is no map or there's no, well, there is a map but there's no course markings. There's no course. It's all off trail and you basically wander around the woods and try and find books and rip pages out of books. It's a crazy ultra marathon like treasure hunt and nobody really finishes it. Super hard. They've had 17 finishers in the past 35 years. No woman has ever finished it. Yeah. If Laz lets me back in, I will try. She will try. She's the queen of pain. Bear, thank you for the five bucks. I appreciate it. Glad you're doing well. We'll be praying for you. Glad you have a best friend there with you. I don't see it getting any better than that. Oh, that's very cool. All right, we're gonna try or make a way through some of these comments. Sean says he's getting on his bike, ready to go around town. What are the chances of talking priority into developing a full suspension EMTV version of the 600X, something to rival the Reese and Mueller? You know, priority is always developing new products. You know, they're a small company. They started in 2014 with a very simple commuter bike. Their whole mission is to make bikes that are low maintenance. So internal gearing and the carbon belt drive and, you know, premium parts. So, you know, they've gone from a $500 very simple bike to now they have quite a few bikes, you know, the 600X, the 600 and the Apollo. So a full suspension EMTB, maybe it's coming. Maybe it's not. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know, but I know that they're always developing new things. So it could definitely happen. And priority are the kind of people that take suggestions if you have an idea and you want to, you know, send it to them, send it to them. What do you point at? Dana's in the house. Dana's here? Where? Yeah, see, she wants to know if we want to get breakfast after that. Oh yeah, definitely. Let's go get breakfast, Dana. Dana, just come to my house right now and then you can be in the live stream and see everybody. Get on your bike right now. She can be here in 15 minutes. Come on, Dana. Get over here. I know you all love Dana. We need to get Dana in on another adventure as well. She just retired actually. She sold her cafe, the Walnut Cafe and she's just loving life now. You know, she created an epic restaurant here in Boulder and now she gets to just enjoy life. Okay, let's see, with Chris Connors. Whoa, 50 Canadian dollars. Thank you, Chris. That's a lot of money. You guys are so generous. I can't believe it. Like that's a lot of money. You're incredible. So I guess now breakfast is on me. Yes. Duke Lou says I want an electric beach cruiser from priority. I don't know if I can say this or not, but they're making one. So just chill. They're doing it. Okay, I don't know when it's gonna come out, but it's happening. We haven't seen Dana in forever. I know, Jay, we have not seen her since a little bit of the Leadville 100 race. Okay, here's one from Na Brytonian. When you're on tour, what percentage of the day do you spend filming? I would say at least an hour and a half to two hours of every day. Like let's say it's an eight hour day, stopping and filming and setting up shots and getting the drone out. And especially if I meet somebody and I interview them, that can take a long time. So I would say one and a half to two hours every day. You know, like with white rim for sure. We were out there for 14 and a half hours. Definitely two of them were filming. Although I did try to like keep the flow going because, you know, I didn't want us to finish at midnight. And I got it at RAGRA, I got used to your routine. I was kind of like, we would like bike out a little bit. He would stop, put his drone up. I would go pee and stretch and things like that and eat breakfast and so. Oh, Martin gave another five bucks. Amelia is the most perfect woman, intelligent, kind, caring, enthusiastic and positive. Does she have a twin sister? Do you have a twin sister? No, I don't. I have a sister, she's not a twin though, but she's actually cooler than me. So if you're in the Seattle area, she's single. Look up the last name Boone. That's all we're gonna give you. Lane Pilbin wants to know, do they still have the dozerito at the Walnut Cafe? Yes, they do. So at Dana's Cafe, like six or seven years ago, Dana and I created a new menu item called the dozerito. It's a bean burrito, of course, because, you know, I love my beans. And the best part about this burrito, besides it tasting amazing, is that a dollar from every sale of the dozerito goes toward Dana's foundation with the foundation gets kids on bikes. Isn't that awesome? All right, we've got Cloud and T-H-I-Tie looking to join your group at Ragbride. Thank you so much. Thanks for the 10 Canadian dollars. We got lots of Canadian dollars here happening in the house. And I guess I can attribute to the Canadian fans, maybe to John and Mira, right? Because they bring in a lot of the Northern folk. Oh, because Ian says, can you please give a shout out to my daughter, Carmen. She's 10 today. Carmen, happy birthday to you. Carmen, hope you have a wonderful day. I hope you're listening to Carmen because I'm looking right at you. Have a good day. Eat lots of ice cream and bean burrito. All right, what are those? Let's just see what else we got here. We've got somebody from Indonesia, Alphonsus Bayou. Wow, thank you. I love your energy, Ryan. You two are so cute together. My favorite videos are the Ride with John and Mira in Arizona when you camped by the Canyon Rim in Navajo land. Yeah, that was pretty incredible. That was definitely a highlight of my adventure life. We got to camp right on the edge of the canyon, which you usually cannot do, but we had a permit to be on Navajo land. It was absolutely incredible. If you wanna watch that video, it's in the series, John and Mira, where we do the Western Wildlands route. Oh, we got somebody from Jamaica. What's up, Roddy Shep? That's so cool. I've been to Jamaica. I love Jamaica. Maybe I should ride bikes down there someday. What else do we have here? Somebody, oh, we got another sweet. Tor Seldin, dude, you have the coolest voice. You mean my actual voice is cool. Thank you, man. I love Sweden. I have a special place in my heart for Sweden. And yeah. Well, do we have any more questions for Amelia while she's sitting here? Hit the like button, everyone. Sam says, hey, Ryan, I met you a couple of months ago at Dana's barn party. We just moved to Longmont. Yeah, Dana had a big raging retirement party. We had so much fun. Oh, wait, I got one. Question for Amelia. Does Ryan fart a lot because of all the beans? No! I don't understand if he's just trained. That dude never farts. Because I am a gentleman and I don't want to stink. Actually, when we were in Leadville together, we farted for not together at all. A little bit. Sorry, I'm doing my hair. I wanna look good for my people. I need to get a haircut, by the way. Yeah, you know, I think maybe my stomach is used to all the beans. So I don't fart. I mean, of course I fart every human farts. Okay, all of us fart. Nothing wrong with farting. It's okay. But I'm not like crazy fart guy that has really smelly farts. And now you know a little bit more about me. Right. Let's see. We got Russ Tru from the UK. Hey dude, love your videos. Reminds my tour down the west goes to France to Spain. Awesome days, met some amazing people. Yep, there's so many amazing people. That really is the highlight of my adventures are meeting people. I mean, I love the landscapes. I love pushing my body, you know, but I love running into interesting humans. That really is one of my favorite parts of traveling in general is connecting with awesome people. Where did Amelia grow up? Portland, Oregon. All right, tell us about Portland. Big city. Rain's a lot. I never understood why it's such a bike city when it rains all the time. Those are like the heartiest bikers out there because everyone is just, they're commuting in the rain. But Portland is lovely. And actually like I love to get out there and do some bike packing in Oregon. I think if there's a route in southeastern Oregon, that's like super, super remote that I really want Ryan to do so I can go with. I think he wants to do the timber trail. Oregon timber trail is high on my list. A little beyond my biking abilities, but I would come and like meet him for parts of it, I think, because Oregon is a great state. We have Lori Frazier here who is a park ranger, I think in Yosemite. Oh yeah, wait, did she have that Dana? And she met Dana and Xantha and it was so, they were random. Dana and Xantha were on a tour in Yosemite and Lori recognized them from my videos and then they FaceTime it was really cool. I see her in the chat here and her question is quite forward Amelia. Amelia is the one, question Mark. Ryan is Amelia the one? No pressure. Whoa, stay tuned to find out. We got Jeremy from South Africa, man. That's far away. I need to go to South Africa someday. We got somebody from Philly. Do you have any advice on cool ways to make money while bike touring as a broke 19 year old? Well, do you have any special talents? Maybe you could stop in each town and play music or you could work at a restaurant. You could be a bartender. You could, look up, you know like the vacation home sitting thing? So if you booked like a few gigs, how sitting in for people in various places you could bike between them and make a route. But I'm guessing he's asking, how did I get my start? I had the same dream when I was 19. I want to make money by traveling essentially. I was a journalist. I was trained as a journalist. So I had a blog, I was a travel blogger and that's how I made money. I would get little advertisements here and there on my blog because it was somewhat popular and I would write stories for tourism boards and stuff like that. But you just start small and have to be really humble knowing that you're not gonna make much money right off the bat, but you'll make enough to get by. And that is most of my adult life. I made enough to get by, you know, like I said earlier, like I have, I don't have a lot of expenses. I don't have, you know, a wife or I don't have kids. I don't have expensive things. I don't have cars. You know, I live a pretty simple life. So if you keep your expenses low, then you don't need to make a lot of money and you can travel and do what you love. And as a young person, I think there's no better time. So I hope that answers your question. We got Joffrey from Spain. Thank you. Who else do we have in here? Hey, Ryan and Amelia, my wife and I just crossed the Marine Corps marathon hand in hand and you and Amelia were part of our inspiration. Your enthusiasm was on my mind through the race. Congrats. Bebo's father's father. That's a great name here on YouTube. So congrats on the race that it's so cool. Running a marathon is incredible. You know, today is the New York City marathon. It's happening right now. I've done that before. And, you know, pushing your body any amount is a huge feat. Maybe you haven't run ever in your life and a five kilometer race is a big deal to you. And that's awesome. So it's not like, you know, somebody's tougher or cooler because they do a longer race. It's like everybody has their own goals and their own motivations. And I get inspired by people when I go to races and I look around and I look at everybody and I'm like, wow, everybody's here for a different reason and they've been training their butts off. And here we all are together to go out and do our best. And that energy is what gets me psyched up. People always ask me, Ryan, you know, you're always like bouncing off the walls in these, you know, long distance ultra marathons. And it's because of the people I'm around. It's really an inspiring atmosphere. You can probably speak to that, right? So Amelia, her fame is obstacle course racing. Maybe you can talk about that a little bit. Oh, so I got my start back in the day with like Tough Mudders and Spartans and won a few World Championships there. So that was kind of my wheelhouse for a long time. And then I realized I liked running without all the obstacles. I was like, oh, obstacles are, man. I was like, I like just the running. So I- And by obstacles, she means like crawling in through mud and barbed wire and over big fences and all stuff like that. Monkey bar type stuff. And so, yeah, transition to like ultra running stuff. There have been a few questions on there about my training and the bulk of my training is running. So I run probably 60, 70 miles a week. Oh, I can hear Dana. Oh, what? You're taking over. Oh God, this is a lot of, okay, now is the time to ask me all the questions about Ryan that you really want to know. I'm sorry, my dog is barking. But yeah, so that is my background. The first time I got, sorry about the dog. The first time I got on a mountain bike was in March. Thanks to Ryan actually. So it's been a transition for me, but it's been a lot of fun. So I like it. I, yeah. And now I'm like, I don't know what to say. Hey, everybody. Are you coming? Do I purposely run a race trail versus road? I actually have never run a road marathon. There's Dana, I like trail. Oh, I'm Dana. Hi. Ryan, I'll stand and you sit. Honey, it's a party. It's a Sunday morning party. Dana, you sit right here, Dana. I stand behind. You guys sit there. I have to pee, so I'm going to take care of that. Who else thinks that Emilia was amazing for doing that white rim 100? I saw on here, how did Emilia get the name the queen of pain? Well, that's how she kept it. Yeah, exactly. 100 miles of dirt. Yeah, exactly. Good to see you. So Dana and Xantha live. We're literally in bed. You were in bed? We totally were. I'm impressed. I'm just so happy. We were like, what? Let's go. There's like 500 of our closest friends on here. I know, and here they are all loving you. Look at all of us. Everybody's so excited to see you, Dana and Xantha. Ask Ryan when we're doing something again. Yeah. I know, everything's just been like, just like, you know, falling apart on plans. We've got to make it happen. We're going to make it happen. I want to organize Duzer Red Brite. Yeah, I've been talking about that. We should do the Red Brite. Let's do it. Let's make a team. Let's do it. Let's make it happen. Yeah, we think that's a great idea, and we're going to make Ryan make it happen. Like, how fun would that be? Like, think about those no cratchies, no flatties, like all those chants, like every morning we start. Ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole. In fact, a whole, if Team Duzer might be all of Red Brite. Well, okay, like maybe 25,000 of them. Okay, Jason, you're the first one that says you're in for Red Brite, so reach out to me. You're on a list. All right, all right, people are in. You're going to make it happen. Yeah, it's happening. We're going to have swag, like completely, like earth-sustainable, you know. Everything. Everything. It's going to be awesome. Looks like Les just gave 20 British pounds from Scotland. Thank you so much. His question is, any plans for some UK rides? Yes. So Dan and I were planning on riding the length of the UK, and then a little thing called the pandemic happened. Yeah, which was a real drag, and it was a real drag. Then, and then, Brian was going to do it again without me, like some harder loop, because I'm like the one that like, Brian goes out and crushes all these crazy things, like even Amelia was talking about, guy, it makes it look so easy, I know. But then I come in and I'm like, okay, it's time for you to chill out and have some real fun. I do like the one about riding in Tucson. There's something coming up with Team Hope or something, I can't really see it. Look, you know, Renee's down for the team. Yeah, Renee will be in it for sure. Do we have any, maybe I'll ask you a question, Dan and Zanta. We haven't seen you a while. What has been the biggest thing that's happened? Patrice, here's a Dana hug. Mmm. Yeah. Patrice wanted a Dana hug. Yes. I am so impressed that they jumped out of bed and rushed over here. That's so cool. That's the kind of friends they are. You guys, what's your favorite ice cream? It's from Haley H6. Oh. The one that's in front of me? No. You guys, I beat watch these two inhale ice cream. Okay, Brian is a super fan of coffee ice cream. Yeah. And I am just a super fan of coffee. Yes. I am like, I'm on coffee right now. She's definitely on coffee. By the way, look at this shirt. This is a walnut cafe shirt that's great in design. You've been rocking that shirt this week. Yeah, once I find a winner, I just keep going with it. You know, some people just wear one shirt and they throw it in the washing machine. I will wear this seven days in a row. Yeah, you had it on last night. Get real stanky before I wash it. Okay, wait, I want to address this question. No, ice cream. Oh, ice cream, keep going. Okay, this is my favorite ice cream. Long, hard ride. Whoa. Like just such a great, great day. And then like even like in Cuba, it doesn't even matter what it is, but it's just like comes out of some machine or someone scoops it up and you take that first. Yeah. Oh, it's so good. It just cools you down. It tastes so good. These guys really like soft serve. Like if you take them to those places and scooping, so it's soft serve and they usually both get the swirl. Yeah, that's right. The swirls for sure. The chocolate and the swirls for the girls. And do you like the facilitator logistics? Yeah. Like let me tell you what they like. Let me tell you what they like. What have you been doing the last year or so, Dana? What's a big thing that happened to you? Oh my God, I retired. It was so, so amazing. It's still so, so amazing. But these two younger women bought the Walnut cafes and they are doing so great and we're still supporting them and they're doing really great stuff. They still have the dozerito, of course. So back story, how long did you own this cafe? How long were you involved in the breakfast industry selling eggs and bacon? You know, like 35 years. 35 years of her life. Anyway, it was a good fit. Whenever you find a good fit, you know, if you can stick with it. And Dana created like a very beloved safe place here in Boulder, two cafes at 1.3 and where people could come together and feel loved and eat good food and see Dana and Zanta every Sunday for hugs and it was a very inspirational community that they created which also inspires me every day in many different ways but also creating a virtual community here on YouTube. I mean, you just gush out the love, both of you. Hi, you're so sweet. Everybody, so I want, you know, that's why, that's, that's what we need more of in the world, right people? That's so sweet. Yeah. Hey, I'm Hernandez. I see that you want to be on Team Dozer Rag Brie. You got it. You got it. Team Dozer Rag Brie. Zanta, where do these people need to eat? We'll figure that out. We'll figure that out. That's all you're away. Yeah, we're going to be put, she'll be putting something together for sure. Ride for life, fit for life. Dana is truly a caring person. Jay wants a Walnut Cafe and she- Yes, I care about you. I do. Have you ever done a triathlon or met any of the pro triathletes down here? Yes. I've never done, I've done one duathlon where that's just running and biking. Those are both sports that I can do. I'm not a strong swimmer. So I've never done a full-on triathlon. Yes, there are pro elite athletes here trading in Boulder and I have met some of them. Let's see, what else do we have? You could start Boulder Rag Brie. Boulder Brie, Boulder Brie, I like that. Where is Amelia? I'm downstairs. She's downstairs. Amelia, get back up here. She's bringing breakfast. Let's take this moment to promote my new book, ladies and gentlemen, The Long Way Home. I don't know, I talked about this at the beginning of the live stream, but I have a book coming out. I've been talking about it a little bit. It's called The Long Way Home because I took The Long Way Home from Honduras when I finished the Peace Corps. It will be for sale soon, hopefully in about a month it's being printed here locally in Boulder, super duper eco-friendly and Dana will sign every single book. That's funny. Everybody here, this is the only one that exists right now. This is like the sample proof copy. Can I touch it? Yeah, you want to touch it? Yeah, touch it. It's real. What kind of stuff can I do to make easy money? To buy a new bike and go outside? Easy money is, there's no such thing as easy money. It really isn't. House sitting? House sitting maybe. Dog sitting and dog sitting pays great money. Dog sitting, dog walking. It doesn't take a lot of money to go outside and to get a bike. Whatever it is that you're making, you can find a way to get a bike. I don't know what community you're in, but they're like yard sales and garage sales and things and places and check out your community for where you can get a bike and just get outside. And then you're going to feel like so incredible and you feel so much better that you're probably going to get a better job. And then you'll have more of that stuff. And then you'll be on the rat race. And then you'll be like, oh, I don't know. But anyway, it doesn't take a lot to get outside. That's true. And I think people think that they need top of the line bikes or anything, which is like, I mean, there's an entire idea in the bike community, like in plus one. And you've got to have the best, the best. But anything. And for example, in 2009, this was way before my channel was big. Most of you probably didn't see this stuff, but I rode a three speed cruiser bike across the United States, like a $300 bike, not expensive, not good quality parts. And I made it the whole way. And so you don't need the best of the best to do epic things. We read that one. Please share the ISBN number of your book. I would like to order it supporting my local bookstore. I don't even have one yet. I actually don't. I don't. This is only going to be available through priority bikes. They are going to be the ones selling and shipping it out. I appreciate you wanting to support your local bookstores. That's very important to me. We'll see how the book does. Maybe down the line, I will be able to have distribution. I am self-publishing this, so I don't have a publisher taking care of any of that. I'm essentially just banking on all of you buying this book, using my audience to buy this book, as my marketing. So yeah, that's the answer to that question. Dana and Xanthe, can you speak to this a little bit? You have a foundation. That gets kids on bikes. We've talked about it a little bit on this channel. We've had fundraisers. Tell us where the money goes and why that's been so important to you. Yeah. This foundation is in honor and memory of my brother. And long story short, I gave him a kidney. It saved his life. And during that time, one of his big things was getting outside, getting outside and especially on a bike. And so when he passed, you guys know this back story, but I was so brokenhearted, I needed to do something. So I came up with this foundation, the KRD, Kirk Rocky, Derrick's Filer Foundation. And we raised money to put kids on bikes, get kids outside. And Ryan has really, really helped since when COVID hit, the fundraisers or through the restaurants really fell through. We used to give all the money for a day at all the restaurants and everything and raise money throughout the year from the community. But that fell through. And then priority jumped in with donating a bike. And Ryan, using all of you in this channel. And yeah, we just end the Duzerito. Duzerito. And that raffle will probably happen in January. And it's so important like when you talk about saving a life, you can also save a life. I know it sounds different, but getting kids on bikes, like when you're young and you get a bike and you get that freedom, you get that confidence, you get that self-esteem of being able to get out there and what we all talk about, the wind and everything, it changes your life. And so I think it's really important to enable kids to do that. And also, we help other people that are challenged with, we helped an adaptive cycling group and different people with different abilities where they can get out and do day trips with their families and stuff. So I could talk forever about the KRD Foundation. Thank you. But I'm not going to end. Look for that raffle to happen in January. And we've had two of them previously. The past raffle this year, we raffled up a 600X. With your help, we raised $60,000, which is a ton of money. And so we've been able to give out $5,000, $10,000 to different organizations around Colorado and the United States, a Navajo Youth Bikepacking Group down in Arizona, Black Blood Nation up in Montana, and in lots of inner city groups here in Denver getting young kids on bikes. And Hernandez, thanks for the 20 bucks. Thank you. You know, it's in Danny's in right now. Danny's in there? Oh, he's riding with Danny USA. So you all remember Danny from the Radbride videos. He was surfing his bike. He's such an amazing guy. I interviewed him in the second Radbride video talking about his whole mission in life is a youth suicide prevention and awareness. And we've gotten to know him better after Radbride. He comes to the Thursday Night Boulder Cruiser ride. He lives in Denver. And he brings all this fun Denver friends. And we have a great time. So go look for Danny in here in the chat and say, what's up, Danny? You're doing good work. And he has a YouTube channel on Instagram. Go follow him. He's going to be giving bike surfing lessons. I'm not going to participate with her. I was riding next to him in the last cruiser ride to Halloween. And I was just like watching him like, dude, how do you do that? Yeah. Amazing. Also, Bessie, put out there that you had some family issues, but you're doing a ride today for 30 miles. Just take it in stride. Yeah. Put a number on it. Just go out. Enjoy. And you won't be sore tomorrow, I promise. Santa is not like what I think I could say this. She wouldn't say that she's like a cyclist, right? We ride together quite a bit now because she rides an e-bike, which is awesome. But I always remember this. When you get in bike groups and people start looking at your bike and talked about your gear, like, hey, what kind of hub is that? What kind of fork? What kind of travel, blah, blah. Someone once asked Santa like, what kind of bike is that? And she was like, red bike. It's a red bike. Like, it's a red bike. Like, she picked her bike by the collar. So I didn't talk about all the gear stuff. But you know, so when we were talking about how easy it is to get out, like, you can just, all that stuff's not important. What's important is that you're just, you know, Ryan, like, get out there. Get outside and just ride your bike Go for height. Go for walk. Do what you can do. And while we've been talking, I've seen some comments on the side here. People who also donate bikes looks like somebody donates bikes to the Philippines. That's so cool. I love, you know, sharing the love. And luckily, priority is super generous with me that I'm able to give bikes away. And so yes, you know, I have a kind heart. But it's really because of priority enabling me to constantly give away bikes that I'm able to do what I do. So whoop, whoop for pariah or a tey. Amelia, someone asked, do you prefer an e-bike? You know, I actually, e-bikes are great sometimes when you're super tired and whatnot. Don't want to sweat. Yeah, exactly. Though lately it's been kind of cold. So yesterday, like, we biked to the CU game. And I was like, I want my to power with my own feet and not an e-bike because then I'd stay warmer. But e-bikes are fantastic. I prefer their bike. They're great for like, yeah, you know, but. E-bikes are equalizers. Yeah, yeah. You've seen the videos of my mom riding an e-bike. We got her one or few years ago, Xanthe, when they met us on the cowboy trail. It allows people who don't necessarily have the physical ability to ride with strong riders. And all of a sudden, boom, they're right there with you and they can ride 50 miles. And so now my mom can join me, Xanthe can join us. Hey, you guys, squirrel rescue. Squad is late. Squirrel rescue squad is late, says peppermint. Thank you. He's in Germany, that guy. Something that just kind of caught me off guard. Okay, I wanna see another thing about e-bikes. Oh, yeah, say another thing, Dana. So, yes, they're awesome. Like when you just are commuting or you wanna get someplace or do something, but Amelia and I talked about this for a second last night. But, you know, I always have to train to do the things that I do with Ryan. Like that 100 mile thing, I would have been on the dirt, like for a couple of months before training. You know, I'm a couple of years older. Anyway, but to have someone with an e-bike and training is amazing because Xanthe, when I'm training, like she will just draft me. She'll like, we'll be on hills and we'll be doing like going up there and she'll just be right in front of me going, come on, Dana, come on, you can do it. So, if you have a partner or someone who will ride with you that has an e-bike, it can make you so much stronger. And also it's really good to be humbled. Like, you know, all your e-bike pals are like, just yeah, man up the hill and you're just like, so anyway. Dana, look at this one. Sarah's in the house. 400, 480 indigenous kids in Montana without your support. We wouldn't have gotten this done. So Sarah runs an amazing organization that gets these kids on the bikes. We give her the money and then she does all the work on the ground up there in Montana and I think we're in Wyoming. So thank you so much, Sarah. Yeah, the umbrella group there is Eat Essentials Distribution, EED. And yeah, we've done a lot of work with Sarah the last few years. Community cycles actually hooked us up together and Sarah, you do so much work to, you know, get kids out there in the indigenous groups and we thank you so much for that. Thank you, Sarah. Hey, Martin, I would just send a note to priority. There's a contact, I'm going to that one. Oh yeah, Martin asked the question. He's 6'4", he's wondering if the size large, 600X is too small. They're really good at sizing you. They can put up a camera and make, but it's really about your inseam. My friend, Scott Jurek, kind of a big deal. D6-4, he has a priority of 600X. The large version, it fits him fine. So it just depends on your inseam really. And if you really want to know if it fits, I would contact priority. Then we have $5. And the large is a very large large. So thank you, and thank you for the five bucks. Like Ryan and I ride the same size bike. Yeah, we both ride the same. But I belong, because I have a longer inseam. Yeah, she has long legs, ladies and gentlemen. Woo! And I want to add on to the, you know, the bikes and the nonprofits. I've gotten emails from people that say, you know, I have a garage and I have old bikes and I fix them up and I just give them to neighborhood kids. So you don't have to start like an entire nonprofit and do all that work, because it can be overwhelming. If you want to just help your community and you know how to work on bikes and you're a good mechanic, just give it a shot and just start fixing bikes and giving them away or find a local nonprofit that needs bikes. And that's essentially how Boulder's community bike shop started. It started just fixing up bikes and giving them away to people in need. So you can all do that, right? Woo, woo! All right, we're not gonna do this for a whole lot longer because we've been talking for 55 minutes. I say about five more minutes. And then it's time for breakfast. And then it's time for breakfast. Yeah, Xanthas hungry. Ryan doesn't drink coffee. I don't drink coffee. I know, I'm so hungry. Sorry. Yeah, sorry. We have any, oh, we got Gonzalo from Argentina. Thank you so much for being here. Let's see what else we have. E-Bike, people are giving love to E-Bikes. We've got Ken from Michigan who just finished a huge race yesterday. Good job, Ken. You were the man. Good job, Ken. Michael, six years old, age six. What is your favorite holiday? Oh, what? Oh, he's right. Santa! Santa! I know him! I know him. Yeah, I love Christmas. I love the season. It's just fun. I don't get into all the commercialization of it, but I love movies. I love the music. I love making cookies with Dan and Santa. Gingerbread houses. Gingerbread houses. Singing Christmas carols. Christmas turns me into a little kid even more than I already am. And so that would say that's my favorite holiday. I may or may not have put up a Christmas tree in my bedroom already. Already. She has a Christmas tree in her house. I totally know. Thank you, Matt, for the 10 bucks. Woo-hoo-hoo! Yeah. Yeah, I also love Halloween. Halloween's probably my second favorite. Yes, she will. I'm the priority headquarters for Books on You. Yes, so people keep asking about the books. There will be autographed copies available. I will work on all that business stuff here soon. The main effort with this the last year is to get this thing written and to get it done. And it looks so good. Look, I've got photo pages, high quality photos. Look at that. Those are all the people I met along the way. This book is my Marvel origin story. This will tell you how I got into doing what I do today. And I journaled like crazy when I was on the ride 17 years ago every day with hopes and dreams of someday turning it into a book. And here it is. It only took 17 years to write a book. So in another 17 years, I will have the book out about maybe one of our adventures. The Riding Bikes to Burning Man. Maybe. Who knows. A lot of people are asking about how will they hear about Team Doos, their own rag grind sound? We are not quiet. Yeah. You'll hear. You know me. If I'm promoting something, it'll be promoted through Instagram or Twitter and YouTube. Like I will let you all know and make it very easily. Team Doos are for rag grind. Team Doos are for rag grind. It seems like it's got to be a done deal. Wait, I need to answer a question. Eric asks, Amelia, is Ryan always in a good mood? And no, the funny thing is people are like, is Ryan really like how he's in videos? And the answer is yes. Like just has a very high baseline of happiness and it's fantastic. And, you know, I'm an impious of it too. But I'm human. I have bad days. I get bummed out. Things don't always go my way. I can get my hopes up about something and it doesn't happen and it sucks just like anything else. But yes, my baseline level is pretty jolly. And I attribute a lot of that to riding my bike every day. When you're on your bike, you can't not be happy, right? 99.8% of the time. Yeah. The other 0.2% is when you're on the ground crying. Crying or throwing a tire iron or something. But you sort of come really fast though. Like once you adjust and know it's changed, then you move on. So it's great. Hey, look, then you just do the next 20 bucks. ROF sent whatever CHF, 20 CHFs, is that Switzerland? Is that Switzerland or Czech Republic or who knows? Crashies, no flaties, no whammy. Everybody's asking if you're going to join John Mira. Oh, am I going to join John and Mira? I really hope so. They are down in southern Mexico right now. I will join them at some point. There's no doubt. I will see them again. You will see them again. And it will happen. I just don't know exactly where. When John was at the cafe, I remember people walking up and going, where's Mira? Mira is definitely. I met John, but not Mira. Mira is the highlight. She's the star of the show. We got another question here? No, but your girlfriend is hot. We got starting at Infinites. Your girlfriend is hot. Greetings from Mexico. Thank you. Yeah. Wait, so I'm talking about me, too, so thank you. I have to tell you what, just a minute. I want to revisit Candle and Lance for more exposure and immersion strength. Absolutely. So I think when you do something that is terrifying and then you think you're going to die, then you don't die, and then you're like, oh, that's not so bad. Now I want to do it again. So I think that I do it with two hands. I never do that. I almost died, and I want to go back and do it again. Never. Right. Now you're like, oh, it's not that bad. Like I'm not going to fall off a cliff. I know how to descend better. It's getting there. And this is not a bikepacking dog. She took up the whole screen. Somebody just asked a lot of bikepacking dogs. Here she is. Say hi, honey. $2 from Renee. Hey, Renee, thank you so much. This is my bikepacking dog. She does really chill out. She's so funny. She cracks me up. OK. All right. Question for Dana right there. I didn't read it though. Right, questions for Dana. Dun, dun, dun, dun. What's he doing? Right there. Up, up, that green. The green one. Nope, you passed it. Oh, no, no, no, no. It's from Benjamin. Dana. There you go. It seems like you have overcome lots of struggles. Well, read it out loud. It seems like you have overcome lots of struggles to write your life. It's trite, but you are advice on living a happy and full life. Oh, it's a good one. A full little life. And Dana. This is what would Dana do, question. We're rapping. We're rapping. Yeah, and we are rapping. Yeah, I totally can't talk. You know, I just live life daily. How's that? And I've never said that before, really. But Ryan knows, like, there's this Maya Angelou quote that I really do take to heart, which is like, you know, when I wake up and I see the day, I'm like, wow, I've never seen this one before. And you never know what it's going to be. And you also never know what other people are going through. I may be going through something. You may be going through something. So I think when we relate to people with kindness and with love, when we lead with love, like, we can get through things. And the other thing that I always do when I'm in Strugsville, because it can happen. And everyone knows this, but I always say, do the next right thing. So you find out what that is. Like, when you can't do anything else, do the next right thing. That's good advice. And real quickly, Martin wants to know how we met. I went into the Walnut Cafe one day. He hid on me. Yeah. And then I had him stuck in. And I was like, Ryan, I'm married. To a woman. I went into the Walnut Cafe. And she recognized me because I used to write adventure articles for the local newspaper. And she came up to the table just like she does with anybody. She's like, I know you. You've been to the pain cave. And that's how we started our friendship. And she invited me to dinner with Xantha. And that's how it all started back in 2009 or something. I think it was. 2000. It was a while ago. Yeah. So that's how I met Dana. I think I'm going to wrap this up by saying thank you all so much for being here today. Thank you for being here in general all the time watching my videos and leaving comments and supporting the channel. This really is a dream job. And it's a job because of you. Like I was saying earlier, if I didn't have an audience, this wouldn't be my job. It'd be only my mom watching my videos. And you can't make enough money off of that. Is your mom here? I haven't seen her pop up. But thank you all. Thank you all so much. It really is exciting. Stay tuned for more adventures with all of these people as time goes. And stay tuned for the book. I will be posting more about this in the next month or so. You're all wonderful humans. It's Sunday morning, at least in Colorado. Go out and have an awesome day. And I love you all. Ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole, ole. Thank you, Yoko for the 129 Sweetest Crowns. Pack so yes to meet there. Hello. You guys are all wonderful. I love you, love you, love you. Yep, OK, I'm ending it right now. I promise right now. And now. Now.