So we're continuing to experiment with some kind of fun, different formats.
This is the first we're going to call a good life riff.
This is a shorter format, kind of a spoken word, just me thinking, telling a story, and talking about one particular topic.
And as always, it doesn't replace the in depth conversations that we'll be sharing with you every week.
We're just looking for ways to share a little bit more with you and potentially go to a more frequent format in a way.
Way that's totally digestible for you and that gives you great value and doesn't leave you feeling overwhelmed, like you have to catch up at any time.
So our first good life riff is something called the Killer app is you, and it's a bit of a spoken word piece, so here we go.
The ad said something like, this ride will very likely kill you, or at least seriously injure you and your ego.
The ride described, it was a week long guided mountain bike trek, and it started with the famed Coca Pelli Trail from Grand Junction, Colorado, to Moab, Utah.
And then it took you along the razor edge of elevated moonscapes and mesas.
It was massively technical, physically grueling, and there were points where one wrong move would have led to pretty perilous outcomes.
So there were six of us that came together for the first time at the trailhead and were, you know, sizing each other up.
And we did the usual hatch.
But the question on everybody's mind was, well, who can actually ride and who's most likely to get us killed?
And there's a lot that you can tell just by looking at a rider, you know, sort of like the first impressions thing.
And I kept things pretty low, mounting a pretty beat up specialized hardtail.
And that's kind of an old school version of a mountain bike that didn't absorb bumps that well, but it gave me pretty pinpoint control and hyper efficient power, and that's what I liked.
It was stripped down, bare minimum, nothing flashy.
And pretty much the same for my garb.
You know, ratty old bandana, beat up helmet, threadbare t shirt, and pretty broken in riding shorts and very battle tested shoes.